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PROGRESSIVE  REFERENCE CONSERVATIVE*
  • BushWatch, Bush Dictionary
  • Evangelical Right
  • Evolving in Kansas, blog
  • ExChristian Southern Baptist Foundation Scheme in Arizona  When the foundation collapsed in 1999, 11,000 victims collectively lost $585 million in one of the largest affinity frauds in the nation. 
  • Guardian "Nestling deep in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, in the heart of America's Bible Belt, this is the first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective. Already thousands of people have flocked to its top-quality exhibits which mix high science with fundamentalist theology that few serious scientists accept." search terms: NewsNight, investigated miracles, some could be real, 
  • JesusCamptheMovie A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in ...
  • Jesus Camp trailer YouTube
  • Pam's House Blend LGBT blog
  • Indymedia, Portland, Texas Bush, Sutton, Rove pedophilia 
  • Rogues Gallery, database of anti-gay people 
  • Sharp, Thomas  Mineralogist, University of Arizona
  •  YouTube  Night at the Creation Museum. ... very funny.  and YouTube
  • CreationTheory Young Earth
  • Dallas Morning News Gov. Rick Perry ... Texas Gov. Rick Perry: Non-Christians Going Straight to Hell ...
  • Notes: "It was built in co-operation with the 'New Holy Land' theme park which re-created the biblical Middle East in the Ozarks. A huge statue of Christ, the largest in North America, looms over Eureka Springs. The site is the setting for The Great Passion Play, where each night in a 4,500-strong arena the last days of Christ are acted out. The play has attracted more than 7.2 million people.
  • Rose, Geog  G. Thomas Sharp
  • Yahoo, Mars oceans
  • ZoomInfo
  • Nearly 80% of Christian Fundamentalists voted for Bush in 2000, 2004, 2006...and Republican presidential hopefuls are shunning Bush at every turn.  Without the Christian Right Bush could not have started the Iraq War.
  • Wikipedia, Jesus Camp the Movie
  • Not all Republicans believe in Creationism, Thank God.
  • Acton Institute Theocracy manual, "Business for the Glory of God: The Bible’s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business"
  • Branson, MO  and VeteransMemorialBranson
  • Conservative Christian Party?  Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
  • Creationist Worldview Ministries, The Rapid formation of coal and oil, more search terms: 
  • Creation Truth Foundation G. Thomas Sharp: "Thus we are experiencing a devastating departure from the Biblical view of life, especially among America’s Christian youth. Why is this so? Because Jesus, Himself, said, in John 5:45-47, “I will not accuse you to the Father.  There is one who accuses you—Moses in whom you trust. For if you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote of Me. But if you can't believe his writings, you will not believe My words.” There you have it! Jesus said, in effect, if you can't believe Genesis, you couldn't believe Me."
  • Family Research Council, Tony Perkins
  • Focus on the Family Family  ... radio broadcast that said the sons of single moms were at greater risk of turning gay
  • GodHatesFags, God Hates Fags, 
  • Institute of Biblical Worldview Ministries, (IBWS), Noble, Oklahoma, 
  • Linsell, Harold
  • Museum of Earth History, Eureka Springs, Arkansas, 
  • New Holy Land The Great Passion Play, thegreatpassionplay, 
  • Time  "Dinosaurs for Creationists ... Museum of Earth History,  nine replicas of dinosaur skeletons, doesn't quite measure up, most literal view of creationism, close to Christ of the Arks statue, theme park established by Gerald K. Smith in the 70's, Tower of Babel, Dinosaurs extinct because of human pressure and habitat loss
  • Thomas Sharp, University of Arizona, "Thomas Sharp is a mineralogist interested in mineral reactions, phase transitions and deformation and how these can be used to understand processes that occur within and on the surface of Earth and other planetary bodies. This research combines experimental mineralogy and petrology with detailed physical and chemical characterization of rocks and minerals with transmission and scanning electron microscopy, SIMS, thermal emission infrared spectroscopy and other techniques. Applications include: Phase transitions in Earth's deep mantle; High-pressure minerals in meteorites as indicators of impact history; and Chemical weathering of basalt and its implications for the remote sensing of Mars. In addition to his research, Professor Sharp is the ASU Associate Director of the NASA Arizona Space Grant Consortium. This program provides undergraduate internships and graduate fellowships for ASU students to participate in NASA related research and outreach." Go Thomas.  No fraud here.
  • G. Thomas Sharp, search terms: Christian educator, business man, author, founder, chairman CTF, and (IBWS), Purdue University, South Florida Bible College, Ph. D., The West has become a Pagan, scientific-based mind set, evolutionary materialism, book, The New Paganism,   "if we lose Genesis as a legitimate scientific and historical explanation for man, then we lose the validity of Christianity. Period." ZoomInfo

 

Bush, The Christian Right and  the 'Just War Theory", and Iraq
  • Global Policy, Telecom, Tangled in its own web....Joseph P. Nacchio, chairman of Qwest, and Philip P. Anschutz, the co-chairman, have sold shares worth almost $2.3 billion since 1998
  • Enron, Big Picture
  • SEC "SEC Charges Qwest Communications International Inc. with Multi-Faceted Accounting and Financial Reporting Fraud"
  • Joseph Nacchio indictment.txt AP, BizJournals, search: QWest Nacchio Anschutz 2002. James Kozlowski is no relation to Dennis Kozlowski of Worldcom scandal CFO
  • Media Transparency, Anschutz backing of Colorado anti-gay amendment, Chronicles of Narnia

  • Jerry Falwell, Teletubaphobic? You Go Phil

  • New Jersey Qwest Civil Action Complaint local file

  • Barbie Myth, Socarides dead,

  • CounterPunch KKK David Duke, GOP, Jindal, Blanco, xenophobes, racists, and Christian fundies who have seized control of the 'Party of Lincoln'

  • Colorado businessman Philip Anschutz, the owner of the Washington Examiner, helped fund that state’s campaign for Amendment 2, which would ban any law seeking to protect gay residents from discrimination  Washington Blade

  • Richard Land 
  • "Specifically, we believe that your (Bush) stated policies concerning Saddam Hussein and his headlong pursuit and development of biochemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction are prudent and fall well within the time-honored criteria of just war theory as developed by Christian theologians in the late fourth and early fifth centuries A.D.," Land said, along with co-signers including Chuck Colson, Bill Bright and D. James Kennedy."  Baptist Briefing
  • KKK.biz "Christian Books and Things-Your Source for Christian, Confederate, and KKK Souvenirs, Thomas Robb Ministries, for international news Affecting White Christians
  • White Christian Heritage Festival
  • Max Weber, Wikipedia
The Corporate - Congressional - Presidential - Religious - Military   Complex
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  • AllSpinZone
  • Alternet: "Republican operative Nathan Sproul's company is under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration forms signed by Democrats (KLAS-TV)
  • Arthur Andersen, Accenture, was the accounting firm for Baptist Foundation of Arizona  ExChristian
  • Atheists, on Ralph Reed, Christian Coalition, corruption, Century Strategies, "powerful D.C. lobbyists and a campaign hit-man named Ralph Reed who oozed a religious wholesomeness but quietly talked about body-bags and worldly political power."
  • BradBlog, Sproul "Regular readers of The BRAD BLOG will recall that Sproul & Associates were given buckets of unreported RNC cash before, during and after the 2004 election. For some reason or another. Sproul is also reported to be an organizer for the Christian Coalition. Natch.  

  • Common Dreams
  • DailyKos, Sproul, Arizona
  • DailyKos Sproul, GOP  "Sproul is connected with the Republican National Committee-funded voter registration organization, Voter Outreach, Inc., a group that used paid registrars to register voters in a number of states including Nevada, Oregon, Arizona and perhaps more, including Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maine and Missouri. (Others states pending, particularly swing states.) Sproul's organization also recruited registrars by fraudulently telling recruits that they would be working for America Votes, a legitimate nonpartisan GOTV operation!"
  • Democratic Underground Top 10 Conservative Idiots
  • ExChristian Southern Baptist Foundation Scheme in Arizona  When the foundation collapsed in 1999, 11,000 victims collectively lost $585 million in one of the largest affinity frauds in the nation. In such frauds, members of a group are defrauded by members of the same group. Church-based affinity fraud, fueled by the last decade's resurgence of interest in Christianity and other faiths, presents a growing crime problem for regulators, said Joseph P. Borg, president of the North American Association of Securities Administrators, an association of state securities regulators.
  • Guardian "A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".
  • Marxist.com Germany, CDU, Christian Democratic Party,1999, corruption, money laundering
  • Nader / Sproul ??
  • OpenSecrets  
  • Pandagon, Sleazy, corrupt Baptists going to the clink
  • ReligiousTolerance Agudath, Israel,  Christian Coalition  Clarence Thomas supporters list  Republican conservative orgs
  • SourceWatch Sproul & Associates
  • TheocracyWatch  Christian Coalition created to take over the Republican Party from the bottom up.
  • TopDog08 search Sproul & Associates  links which all seem to point to the same company that is suspected of tearing up Democratic voter registration forms in Las Vegas. It has set up registration drives in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, Florida and Nevada and is accused of the same things in most if not all of these states. Sproul & Associates is a Republican consulting firm run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Republican party and Arizona Christian Coalition.
  • TPMCafe Crotts, Grabinski, Century Financial Services
  • Truthout, Sproul, RNC 
  • Tr
  • About.com Atheism, Religious News, search: Crotts, Grabinski, Christian Coalition, Sproul
  • Alabama Securities Commission Crotts, Grabinski, Hoover
  • Arizona, Attorney General Terry Goddard, Victims of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona
  • AZCentral  Nathan Sproul ... "is the president of the local political consulting firm Sproul & Associates. He is the former head of the Arizona Republican Party and the state's Christian Coalition. He has worked for a number of Arizona politicians. His company was paid about half a million dollars by the Republican National (RNC) Committee to increase ..."
  • AZCentral  "Nathan Sproul, who helped spearhead the GOP's successful plan for political redistricting"
  • Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel "Team Bush Paid Millions to Nathan Sproul—and Tried to Hide It ...  
  • Blog for Arizona Sproul background
  • Boston College, Alan Wolfe
  • Capital Hill Blue  "A long Congressional history of protecting sexual predators
  • DebateBothSides Grabinski, Sproul, voter fraud
  • Evangelical Right
  • FindArticles Lawrence Dwain Hoover
  • STATE OF ARIZONA, Plaintiff, vs. WILLIAM PIERRE CROTTS (A), THOMAS DALE GRABINSKI (B), LAWRENCE DWAIN HOOVER (C), HAROLD DEWAYNE FRIEND (D), AND RICHARD LEE ROLFES (E), Defendants. PDF doc
  • Phoenix New Times  file 1998, Crotts, Grabinski, , $585 million stolen from 11,000 investors, Grabinski head of Arizona Christian Coalition ??
  • Rick Ross, search RNC Republican National Convention
  • SecInfo New Century BFA Liquidation Trust.
  • Starnet, Arizona, Terry Goddard
  • Washington Post  BFA ..."The foundation was an official agency of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, which is affiliated with the national Southern Baptist Convention. The foundation's accounting firm was Arthur Andersen LLP, which collapsed after allegations that it had helped Enron Corp. conceal its mounting business problems. In 2002, Arthur Andersen (Accenture) agreed to pay the state of Arizona $217 million to settle a lawsuit over its work for the Baptist foundation."
  • Wikipedia Christian Coalition of America.  search terms:  Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed control in 1989, distributed 'non-partisan' voter guides to conservative Christian Churches, 
  • Wikipedia, Nathan Sproul "In 1997, as a member of the Arizona Christian Coalition, Sproul worked to end sex education.  He served as the Executive Director of the Arizona Republican Party from 1999-2002.  In 2004, he worked with the effort of removing the Arizona Clean Elections law formed in the spring by Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican. The ballot initiative would have essentially repealed Arizona's Clean Elections campaign finance system. Sproul, was hired by No Taxpayer Money for Politicians to conduct a signature drive to get the anti-Clean Elections bill on the ballot... "
  • Wikipedia Agudath Israel of America
  • Wikipedia, Abramoff, Indian lobbying, Christian Coalition, corruption
  • ABC News
  • Acton Institute
  • AgapeRevolution "...  is a forum for Christian intellectuals who are passionately driven toward a more authentic Christian" links
  • Agudath, Christian Coalition  Clarence Thomas supporters list  Republican conservative organizations, Israel
  • Arthur Andersen, Accenture, was the accounting firm for Baptist Foundation of Arizona
  • Arizona Christian Coalition, Thomas Grabinski, head of Arizona CC.  file some who's who, Arizona Corporation Commission, Tony West supporters.
  • Arizona Republic, Crotts, Grabinski, Baptist Foundation of Arizona
  • Associated Baptist Press  "Former Arizona foundation executives convicted of fraud, await sentencing ... Steve Bass, the chief executive officer of the Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, expressed optimism in reaction to the verdicts ... "
  • Baptist Foundation of Arizona
  • Barclay New Mexico Associates
  • Century Strategies, Ralph Reed
  • Christian Coalition, Pat Robertson, 
  • CC, Kleptocracy, Corruption by High level government officials, ...amazing!
  • ChristianNet.com, Christian business directory
  • The son of Arizona State Senator Ken Bennett MORE  
  • Christianity Today
  • Crotts, William Pierre
  • Eagle Forum
  • Family Research Council
  • Grabinski, Thomas Dale, 
  • Groscost, Jeff, AZ House Speaker, Sproul, alternate fuels deals.
  • Lee Petitions, Sproul
  • No Child Left Behind, Sproul connection, 
  • OffShoreBusiness Andersen, Arizona Baptist Foundation
  • Reading First 
  • Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter
  • Sayfie Review
  • Sproul, Nathan - Sproul and Associates "Republican operative Nathan Sproul's company is under investigation for allegedly destroying voter registration forms signed by Democrats (KLAS-TV) . Now comes new evidence about Sproul's connections to the Bush-Cheney campaign ..." search terms: Bush Cheney campaign, Gordon C. James Public Relations (GCJPR), Sproul as former director of Christian Coalition, effort to get Ralph Nader on Arizona ballots, Lisa James, No Taxpayer Money For Politicians ballot initiative, Meghan Rose, Voter Outreach of America,  and see Oregon investigations  and Nevada investigations  and file  and Alternet  and Sproul voter fraud file
  • Voter Outreach Inc, Sproul
  • Voyager Learning, Sproul
  • Washington Post "James D. Porter, a foundation investor and Crotts family friend, said he believes that Crotts is innocent despite the verdict. ... 
  • Pandagon "Two former executives of a failed Southern Baptist foundation were convicted here Monday in what prosecutors said was the nation’s largest fraud ever targeting members of a religious group.  William Pierre Crotts, who was president of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, and Thomas Dale Grabinski, the group’s former chief legal counsel, were each convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of conducting an illegal enterprise in a scheme that lasted decades and cheated 11,000 investors across the country of about $585 million."   STATE OF ARIZONA, Plaintiff, vs. WILLIAM PIERRE CROTTS (A), THOMAS DALE GRABINSKI (B), LAWRENCE DWAIN HOOVER (C), HAROLD DEWAYNE FRIEND (D), AND RICHARD LEE ROLFES (E), Defendants. PDF doc
  • Phoenix New Times "Chartered to raise funds for religious charities, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona and its web of subsidiaries have neglected good works in favor of financing real-estate empires for insiders, investing in highly speculative land deals and lavishing generous salaries, offices and automobiles on staff. While giving a pittance in philanthropic donations to Southern Baptist causes, the Baptist Foundation of Arizona loaned companies controlled by one sitting director and two former directors nearly $140 million, which the insiders plowed into real estate. BFA records are clouded by a complex web of 63 interlocking companies--a maze that allowed BFA to insulate the transactions even from members of its own board of directors. Despite the veil of secrecy, records examined by New Times during the past six months show that BFA ledgers have been inflated by improbable stock transactions and blue-sky real-estate appraisals. While BFA claims it has never missed a payment to its religious investors, its current liabilities suggest a day of reckoning is at hand."  more search terms: bottomless pool of capital for a cadre of insiders, labyrinth of 63 companies to hide transactions, self-dealing, IRS violation, Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, spent $329,000 on automobiles, charities suffered, in 50 years only received $1.3 million, Insiders: Jalma Hunsinger, L. Dwain Hoover, Harold Friend, Richard Lee Rolfes, Arizona Southern Baptist Convention, New Church Ventures, Grabinski president of Arizona Christian Coalition, Christian Wills, New Century Financial, flipping.
  • DebateBothSides "In particular, the FEC cited the campaign of J.D. Hayworth in 1994, the sportscaster's first run at Congress. The FEC determined that it was improper for Thomas Grabinski, who was head of the Arizona Christian Coalition, to also work for Hayworth's campaign. Especially because the Coalition was preparing voters guides to hand out at churches - guides that were fairly blatant endorsements of Republicans like Hayworth and Kyl."
  • Blog for Arizona "a private educational company focusing on literacy programming that was founded to take advantage of NCLB's over $1.0 billion in funding for the Reading First Initiative, and which has been implicated in political kick-backs to election officials. Sproul also has ownsership interests in several corporations that now run charter schools in Arizona under the Franklin tradename, busily indoctrinating children with character and civic values education (and which don't apparently teach science courses, btw) on the taxpayer's dime.
  • Father.ca "The news about Doyle broke after Clifton Bennett, the 19-year old son of Arizona's GOP Senate President Ken Bennett, was charged with sodomizing 18 boys who were between the ages of 11 and 14 at an Arizona youth camp. Bennett and a friend were charged with sodomizing the youths with broom sticks and flashlights. WMR has previously reported that similar abuse of underage teens at Abu Ghraib was videotaped and the tapes were made available to senior White House staff for "entertainment" purposes. The Taguba Report mentions that prisoners at Abu Ghraib were sodomized by glow sticks." Zelphblog  AZCentral and file   Senate President Ken Bennett, R-Prescott son is Clifton Bennett.
  • From WMR, Nov. 18, 2005: There is good reason for the embarrassment of the Pentagon in the affair. The orders to take the sexually-oriented photos and videos, some of which involve teenage Iraqi boys and girls and sodomization by their guards, came directly from a pedophile and closeted male homosexual ring operating in the White House, according to the intelligence sources. Copies of the tapes and photos were sent directly to the White House for the entertainment of senior members of the Bush White House, including officials in the Vice President's office and the Executive Office of the President.  When the photos at Abu Ghraib became public, the senior military command structure in Iraq "went nuts," according to an individual who witnessed the cover-up of the affair. "They ordered an immediate policy of denial about details of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib," said the source. The source added that senior officers were disgusted that lower ranking guards were prosecuted and jailed when the order for the mistreatment came directly from the White House WMR
  • Guardian "A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity".  ... As if that was not enough to get Republican blood boiling, the report's four authors linked Hitler, Mussolini, Ronald Reagan and the rightwing talkshow host, Rush Limbaugh, arguing they all suffered from the same affliction.  All of them "preached a return to an idealised past and condoned inequality".  Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,  ...  
  • Baptist Foundation of Arizona / Bush Connections 

    Arizona  Bush / Washington Connection
    William Pierre Crotts
    Christian Coalition Pat Robertson, Nathan Sproul, 
    Arizona Christian Coalition Sproul -fmr Exec Dir, 
    Thomas Dale Grabinski wip
    Baptist Foundation of Arizona William Crotts, Thomas Grabinski
    Southern Baptist Conference, AZ
    Southern Baptist Conference SBC, Richard Land
    Jalma Hunsinger BFA land deals with Friend, First Mortgage Co., 
    Lawrence Dwain Hoover wip
    Harold Dewayne Friend BFA land deals with Hunsinger
    Richard Lee Rolfes wip
    Arizona Corporation Commission wip
    Nathan Sproul Known as the Karl Rove of
    Republican National Committee RNC paid Sproul $8.4 million,  Sproul Exec Dir AZ Republican Party, GOP redistricting, 
    Arizona Republican Party Sproul -fmr Exec Dir, 
    White House Sproul and White House social event attendance 
'Intelligent Design':  How do corporate fraud, Christian allegory movies and support for Bush's Iraq invasion fit together?
  • SEC: $250 Million penalty: Qwest and the overstatement of $1 billion in revenue, Nacchio indictment
  • Chronicles of Narnia, Violent themes, war solutions, inevitability.
  • Anschutz, Ahmanson, Gibson, Discovery Institute....all Bush / Iraq war supporters?
  • Corporate - Religious - Military Complex
Exerpts from New Jersey Public Safety Office filing:  ........"Plaintiff New Jersey brings this action to recover the damages it incurred purchasing over 4 million shares of common stock issued by Qwest Communications International, Inc. (“Qwest” or the “Company”) during the period November 2000 through November 2001 at prices artificially inflated by defendants’ wrongful acts. The defendants, which include Qwest, its top officers and directors, and its former auditor, Arthur Andersen LLP, caused Qwest’s stock to trade at artificially inflated prices by employing improper accounting practices, and by issuing false statements about Qwest’s business, revenues and profits, all as alleged more fully below. As a result, New Jersey purchased its Qwest stock at prices as high as $54.40 per share. On and after September 22, 2002 the truth began to emerge and Qwest ultimately admitted to having committed accounting violations, and that it would restate nearly $1 billion in revenues it previously recognized. Qwest stock plummeted to just over $1.00 per share, causing New Jersey to incur tens of millions of dollars in losses. In September and October 2002, Qwest acknowledged its accounting fraud to the market by posting restatements of prior years’ and quarters’ revenues and earnings, and acknowledged that more restatements would be forthcoming."

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Ratzinger and the Catholic vote, 2004 election,  Washington Post  & file    Catholic Church Pedophelia cover-up  NewsFollowUp page
James Petras: Israel and the Neocons, The Libby Affair and the Internal WarThe CIA is deeply offended by the neocon usurpation of their intelligence role, their direct channels to the President and their loyalty to Israel.

By James Petras  PalestineChronicle.com

The national debate, which the indictment of Irving Lewis Libby for perjury and obstruction of justice has aroused in the mass media, has failed to address the most basic questions concerning the deep structural context, which influenced his felonious behavior. The most superficial explanation was that Libby, by exposing Valerie Plame (a CIA employee), acted out of revenge to punish her husband Wilson for exposing the lies put forth by Bush about Iraq's "importation" of uranium from Niger. Other journalists claim that Libby acted to cover up the fabrications to go to war. The assertion however raises a deeper question -- who were the fabricators of war propaganda, who was Libby protecting? And not only the "fabricators of war", but the strategic planners, speech-makers and architects of war who acted hand in hand with the propagandists and the journalists who disseminated the propaganda? What is the link between all these high- level functionaries, propagandists and journalists?

Equally important given the positions of power which this cabal occupied, and the influence they exercised in the mass media as well as in designing strategic policy, what forces were engaged in bringing criminal charges against a key operative of the cabal?

Libby's rise to power was part and parcel of the ascendancy of the neo-conservatives to the summits of US policymaking. Libby was a student, protégé, and collaborator with Paul Wolfowitz for over 25 years. Libby along with Wolfowitz, Elliot Abrams, Douglas Feith, Kagan, Cohen, Rubin, Pollack, Chertoff, Fleisher, Kristol, Marc Grossman, Shumsky and a host of other political operators were long term believers and aggressive proponents of a virulently militaristic tendency of Zionism linked with the rightwing Likud Party of Israel. Early in the 1980's, Wolfowitz and Feith were charged with passing confidential documents to Israel, the latter temporarily losing his security clearance.

The ideologues begin their "Long March" through the institutions of the state. In some cases, advisers to rightwing pro-Israel congressmen, others in the lower levels of the Pentagon and State Department, in other cases as academics or leaders of conservative think tanks in Washington during the Reagan and Bush senior regimes. With the election of Bush in 2001, they moved into major strategic positions in the government, and as the principal ideologues and propagandists for a sequence of wars against Arab adversaries of the Israeli State. Leading neocons, like Libby, drew up a war strategy for the Likud government in 1996, and then recycled the document for the US war against Iraq before and immediately after 9/11/01. Along with their rise to the most influential positions of power in the Bush administration, the neocons attracted new recruits, like New York Times reporter Judith Miller.

What is striking about the operations of the 'cabal' is the very open and direct way in which they operated: former Director of the National Security Agency (under Reagan) Lt. General William Odom, retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson (former chief of staff of Powell), retired Air Force Lt. Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, National Security Adviser to President George Bush (the First) Brent Scowcroft, and numerous disenchanted officials, including veterans of the intelligence agencies, high level observers, and former diplomats openly criticized the neocon takeover of US policy and the close relationship between them and Israeli officials.

In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, Wolfowitz and Libby were the architects of the military strategy for Rumsfeld and Cheney, their bosses. Douglas Feith established the "Office of Special Planning" to fabricate the lies to justify the war. Judith Miller, David Frum and Ari Fleisher served to disseminate the lies and war propaganda through articles, interviews, press conferences, and speechwriting for President Bush.

The neocons pushed to manipulate and marginalize many of the key institutions in the US imperial state. To circumvent intelligence from the CIA that didn't promote the Israeli agenda of war with Iraq, neocon Douglas Feith (number 3 in the Pentagon) established the Office of Special Planning, which fabricated propaganda and channeled it directly to the President's Office bypassing and marginalizing any critical review from the CIA. Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld marginalized the leading generals, promoting nondescript "loyalists" and outsiders to the top positions, and discarding any advice which opposed or conflicted with their plans for war with Iraq. The Secretary of State referred to a speech prepared for him by Libby as "bullshit" because of its falsehoods. His chief aide, Colonel Wilkerson has written disparagingly of the cabal, which marginalized the State Department including his boss Powell.

The prosecution of Libby however reveals the intense internal struggle over the control of the US imperial state between the neocons and the traditional leaders of its major institutions. Along with the indictment of Libby by a grand jury at the request of the special prosecutor, the FBI has arrested the two leading policy makers of the most influential pro-Israeli lobby (AIPAC) for spying for the State of Israel. These are not simply isolated actions by individual officials or investigators. To have proceeded against Libby and AIPAC leaders , they had to have powerful institutional backing; otherwise the investigations would have been terminated even before they began.

The CIA is deeply offended by the neocon usurpation of their intelligence role, their direct channels to the President, their loyalty to Israel. The military is extremely angry at their exclusion from the councils of government over questions of war, the disastrous war policy which have depleted the armed forces of recruits, devastated troop morale, and the neocons' grotesque ignorance of the costs of a colonial occupation. It is no wonder that General Tommy Frank referred to Douglas Feith as "the stupidest bastard I have ever met."

The current institutional war recalls an earlier conflict between the rightwing Senator Joseph McCarthy and the Defense Department. At the time during the mid 1950's, Senator McCarty was accumulating power first by purging trade unions, Hollywood, the universities, and promoting likeminded conservative officials. He successfully extended his investigations and purges to the State Department and finally tried to do the same to the military. It was here that Senator McCarthy met his Waterloo, his attack backfired, the Army stood its ground, refuted his accusations and discredited his fabrications and grab for power.

In the meantime, the neocons are not at all daunted by the trials of their colleagues in AIPAC and the Vice President's office: they are pressing straight ahead for the US to attack Syria and Iran, via economic sanctions and military bombing. On October 30, 2005 the former head of the Israel Secret Police (Shin Bet) told AIPAC to escalate their campaign to pressure in the US to attack Iran (Israel National News.com). There was a near unanimous vote in the US Congress in favor of economic sanctions against Syria. Despite mass demonstrations, and because of a 'captured' congress, it appears paradoxically that the only force capable of defeating the neocon juggernaut, like the earlier Joe McCarthy, are powerful voices in the state threatened by new disastrous wars not of their making.

-James Petras, a former Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, owns a 50 year membership in the class struggle, is an adviser to the landless and jobless in brazil and argentina and is co-author of Globalization Unmasked (Zed). His new book with Henry Veltmeyer, Social Movements and the State: Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia and Argentina, will be published in October 2005. He can be reached at: jpetras@binghamton.edu

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Harvard: TheCrimson  Intelligent Design Debate Continues  By ANDREW D. FINE  
New Courses, Uof K  

1.  Anthropology 210, “Archaeological Myths and Realities and Religion.”   

2.  Religion 602,  Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and Other Religious Mythologies.”  (word: mythologies removed)..       OOPS.....Uof K  canceled the class...A 'SLAP IN THE FAT FACE'  email by Mirecki the culprit.  12/01/05. ABC News.

 “These two courses are just a joke. A theologian (page 3) and an anthropologist have no place in teaching intelligent design,” Calvert said. hmm..

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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION  Litigation Release No. 19134 / March 15, 2005  Accounting And auditing Enforcement     Release No. 2207 / March 15, 2005

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION v. MARK A. SCHUMACHER, Civ. No. 05-N-483 (OES)(USDC D. Colorado).  The United States Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") announced that on March 15, 2005, it filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against Mark A. Schumacher, the former controller of Qwest Communications International, Inc. ("Qwest"). Schumacher consented to the issuance of a Final Judgment ordering him to pay a $40,000 civil penalty, without admitting or denying any of the allegations in the complaint.

The Commission's complaint alleged that Schumacher violated Section 13(b)(5) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") and Exchange Act Rule 13b2-1, and caused Qwest's violations of Sections 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Rules 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-11 and 13a-13 in connection with Qwest's: (1) improper recognition of revenue from sales of irrevocable rights of use (IRUs) for the company's fiber optic cable and capacity during fiscal year 2001; and (2) improper disclosures concerning revenues from the company's telephone directories in Qwest's annual report filed with the Commission for the fiscal year 2000 and quarterly reports filed with the Commission for the first three quarters of 2001.

In a related matter, a cease-and-desist order ("Order") was issued against Schumacher, ordering him to cease and desist from committing or causing any violations and any future violations of Section 13(b)(5) of the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Rule 13b2-1, and from causing any violations and any future violations of Sections 13(a), 13(b)(2)(A) and 13(b)(2)(B) of the Exchange Act and Exchange Act Rules 12b-20, 13a-1, 13a-11 and 13a-13. Schumacher undertakes to cooperate in any related judicial or administrative proceeding or investigation commenced by the Commission or to which the Commission is a party. Schumacher consented to the issuance of the Order without admitting or denying any of the findings in the Order. [In the Matter of Mark A. Schumacher, Sec. Exch. Act Rel. No. 34-51373.]

SEC Complaint in this matter

 

The Religious Wing of the U.S. Military Congressional Industrial Complex

•Acton Institute

Alpha & Omega Ministries [EMNR member]

•American Family Foundation & old CAN/Cult Awareness Network

•Apologia/AR-talk/Apologetics Index [EMNR member]

•Association of Theological Schools/ATS—Rockefeller affiliated/The Fund

•Canadian Institute of Theology, Law and Public Policy

•Campus Crusade for Christ [Bill Bright, CNP]

•Campus Crusade for Christ Leadership U

•Campus Crusade for Christ, Int’l School of Theology/ISOT [Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools member]

•Council for Christian Colleges & Universities/CCCU––CUGN/Christian University GlobalNet –– Hanegraaff’s Equip University is affiliated to CUGN

•Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

•CAPO/Center for the Advancement of Paleo Orthodoxy

•Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity/CBHD

•Christian Action Council/CAC [O.J. Harold Brown & C. Everett Koop]

Christianity Today

•Christianity Today International Institute

•Coalition on Revival/COR

•Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

•Discovery Institute, Center for Renewal of Science & Culture Fellows

[Hudson Institute/ RAND Corporation/Council on Foreign Relations/CFR/John Templeton Foundation affiliations]

•English Standard Version/ESV Translation Committee

Eternity Magazine

•European Centre for Law and Justice/ECLJ––affiliate of ACLJ [Pat Robertson/CNP, John Warwick Montgomery]

•Evangelical Theological Society/ETS

•Evangelicals & Catholics Together II

•Family Research Council

•Focus on the Family

•Fuller Theological Seminary [Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools member]

•Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary—Walter Martin on advisory board with Billy Graham and Harold Ockenga

   [Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools member]

ICA/Institute for Christian Apologetics

•International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France

     interfaces with the United Nations––U.N. human rights experts teach in the seminars

•International Fellowship of Evangelical Students [John Stott & Lindsay Brown]

•International Institute of Christian Studies/IICS—associate member of the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF

•International Students, Inc. [Tom Phillips––Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn.]

•InterVarsity Press/IVP

•Lausanne Consultation

•Jesus Film––a project of Campus Crusade as promo for Lausanne

•John Ankerberg Theological Institute [member of the secret CNP]

•National Association of Evangelicals/NAE [organ of WEF/World Evangelical Fellowship—NGO of the United Nations] 

•Nevada Policy Research Institute––Heritage Foundation state affiliate http://www.npri.org/

•Personal Freedom Outreach/PFO [EMNR member]

•Probe Ministries––affiliated with Campus Crusade

•Reformed Theological Seminary [member of Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools member] 

•Rockford Conference on Discernment and Evangelism, 1989

•Rockford Institute>>Howard Center>>World Congress of Families—NGO of the United Nations  [influenced by Hudson Institute, Brigham Young University/BYU and Focus on the Family; an alliance with other world religions––Mormons, Buddhists, Muslims et al]

•Society of Christian Philosophers

•Southern Evangelical Seminary [Norman Geisler]

•Spiritual Counterfeits Project

•Summit Ministries Conference and Curriculum [David Noebel, CNP]

•Summit's Worldview Weekends [Brandon Howse]

•Trinity Evangelical Divinity Schools/TEDS [Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools member

•Trinity Int'l University Graduate School

•Trinity Law School [one of 3 Trinity Int'l University/TIU campuses; Trinity Evangelical Divinity School/TEDS is a member of the Rockefeller-affiliated Assn. of Theological Schools/ATS]

•Wilberforce Forum

•World Journalism Institute/WJI [with CATO Institute, Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times et al]

•World Vision—NGO of the United Nations 

•Worldwide Church of God [Joseph Tkach]

   CRI personnel acted as apologists on behalf of the WCG––Hanegraaff, Paul Carden, Passantinos, Alan Gomes

•Zondervan Publishers [publishers of the New International Version/NIV]

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