Below are web-sites that provide information on Veterans benefits and how to file/ask for them. Accordingly, there are many sites that explain how to obtain books, military/medical records, information and how to appeal a denied claim with the VA. Please pass this information on to every Veteran you know. Nearly 100% of this information is free and available for all veterans, the only catch is: you have to ask for it, because they won't tell you about a specific benefit unless you ask for it. You need to know what questions to ask so the right doors open for you -- and then be ready to have an advocate who is willing to work with and for you, stay in the process, and press for your rights and your best interests.
here's my long list of websites-
Appeals http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch05.doc
Board of Veteran's(tm) Appeals
http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Commission
http://www.va.gov/vbs/bva/
CARES Draft National Plan
http://www1.va.gov/cares/page.cfm?pg=105
Center for Minority Veterans http://www1.va.gov/centerforminorityveterans/
Center for Veterans Enterprise
http://www.vetbiz.gov/default2.htm
Center for Women Veterans
http://www1.va.gov/womenvet/
Clarification on the changes in VA healthcare for Gulf War Veterans
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/000016.html
Classified Records - American Gulf War Veterans Assoc
http://www.gulfwarvets.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000011.html
Compensation for Disabilities Associated with! the Gulf War Service
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/part6/ch07.doc
Compensation Rate Tables, 12-1-03
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/comp01.htm
Department of Veterans Affairs Home Page
http://www.va.gov/
Directory of Veterans Service Organizations
http://www1.va.gov/vso/index.cfm?template=view
Disability Examination Worksheets Index, Comp
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Benefits/exams/index.htm
Due Process http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch02.doc
Duty to Assist http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch01.doc
Electronic Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr/
Emergency, Non-emergency, and Fee Basis Care
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
Environmental Agents
http://www1.va.gov/environagents/
Environmental Agents M10
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1002
Establishing Combat Veteran Eligibility
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=315
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR GULF WAR AND IRAQI FREEDOM VETERANS
WITH POTENTIAL EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU)
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHandbook1303122304.DOC
and
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/Vie!%20wPublication.asp?pub_ID=1158
See also,
Depleted Uranium Fact Sheet
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DepletedUraniumFAQSheet.doc
EVALUATION PROTOCOL FOR NON-GULF WAR VETERANS WITH POTENTIAL
EXPOSURE TO DEPLETED URANIUM (DU)
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/DUHANDBOOKNONGW130340304..DOC
Fee Basis, PRIORITY FOR OUTPATIENT MEDICAL SERVICES
AND INPATIENT HOSPITAL CARE
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=206
Federal Benefits for Veterans and Dependants 2005
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/fedben.pdf
OR,
http://www1.va.gov/opa/vadocs/current_benefits.htm
Forms and Records Request
http://www.va.gov/vaforms/
General Compensation Provisions
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter11_subchaptervi_.html
Geriatrics and Extended Care
http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/
Guideline for Chronic Pain and Fatigue MUS-CPG
http://www.oqp.med.va.gov/cpg/cpgn/mus/mus_base.htm
Guide to Gulf War Veteran's(tm) Health
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/VHIgulfwar.pdf
Gulf War Subject Index
http://www1.va.gov/GulfWar/page.cfm?pg=7&template=main&letter=A
Gulf War Veteran's(tm) Illnesses Q&As
http://www1.va.gov/gulfwar/docs/GWIllnessesQandAsIB1041.pdf
Hearings http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch04.doc
Homeless Veterans
http://www1.va.gov/homeless/
HSR&D Home
http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/
Index to Disability Examination Worksheets C&P exams
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/benefits/exams/index.htm
Ionizing Radiation
http://www1.va.gov/irad/
Iraqi Freedom/Enduring Freedom Veterans VBA http://www.vba.va.gov/EFIF/
M10 for spouses and children
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1007
M10 Part III Change 1
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1008
M21-1 Table of Contents
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/M21_1.html
Mental Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38CFR/BOOKC/PART4/S4_130.DOC
Mental Health Program Guidelines
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1094
Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Centers
http://www.mirecc.med.va.gov/
MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Centers of Excellence http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
My Health e Vet
http://www.myhealth.va.gov/
NASDVA.COM b" National Association of State Directors http://www.nasdva.com/
National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
http://www.nchpdp.med.va.gov/postdeploymentlinks.asp
Neurological Conditions and Convulsive Disorders, Schedule of Ratings
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/regs/38cfr/bookc/part4/s4_124a.doc
OMI (Office of Medical Inspector)
http://www.omi.cio.med.va.gov/
Online VA Form 10-10EZ
https://www.1010ez.med.va.gov/sec/vha/1010ez/
Parkinson's Disease and Related Neurodegenerative Disorders
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/funding/solicitations/docs/parkinsons.pdf
and,
http://www1.va.gov/padrecc/
Peacetime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cit
e:+38USC1131
for Non-Service-Connected Disability or Death
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteri_.html
and,
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapterii_.html
and,
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partii_chapter15_subchapteriii_.html
Persian Gulf Registry
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1003
This program is now referred to as Gulf War Registry Program (to include
Operation Iraqi Freedom) as of March 7, 2005:
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1232
Persian Gulf Registry Referral Centers
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1006
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 1999, Annual Report To Congress
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/1999_Gulf_War_Veterans'_Illnesses_Appendices.doc
Persian Gulf Veterans' Illnesses Research 2002, Annual Report To Congress
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/gulf_war_2002/GulfWarRpt02.pdf
Phase I PGR
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp!%20?pub_ID=1004
Phase II PGR
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=1005
Policy Manual Index
http://www.va.gov/publ/direc/eds/edsmps.htm
Power of Attorney http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/admin21/m21_1/mr/part1/ch03.doc
Project 112 (Including Project SHAD)
http://www1.va.gov/shad/
Prosthetics Eligibility
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/ViewPublication.asp?pub_ID=337
Public Health and Environmental Hazards Home Page
http://www.vethealth.cio.med.va.gov/
Public Health/SARS http://www.publichealth.va.gov/SARS/
Publications b" Manuals
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/publications.cfm?Pub=4
Publications and Reports
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/prt/pubs_individual.cfm?webpage=gulf_war.htm
Records Center and Vault Homepage http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/default.html
Records Center and Vault Site Map http://www.aac.va.gov/vault/sitemap.html
REQUEST FOR AND CONSENT TO RELEASE OF INFORMATION
FROM CLAIMANT'S RECORDS
http://www.forms.va.gov/va/Internet/VARF/getformharness.asp?formName=3288-form
.xft
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses April 11, 2002
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/Minutes_April112002.doc
Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses
http://www1.va.gov/rac-gwvi/docs/ReportandRecommendations_2004.pdf
Research and Development
http://www.appc1.va.gov/resdev/programs/all_programs.cfm
Survivor's and Dependents' Educational Assistance
http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title38/partiii_chapter35_.html
Title 38
Index Parts 0-17
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f8801bc9
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(also B' 3.317 Compensation for certain disabilities due to undiagnosed
illnesses found here)
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Subpart Ab"General Policy in Rating
http://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=1b0c269b510d3157fbf8f88\
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U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
http://www.vetapp.gov/
VA Best Practice Manual for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
http://www.avapl.org/pub/PTSD%20Manual%20final%206.pdf
VA Fact Sheet
http://www1.va.gov/opa/fact/gwfs.html
VA Health Care Eligibility
http://www.va.gov/healtheligibility/home/hecmain.asp
VA INSTITUTING GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTION (GAF)
http://www.avapl.org/gaf/gaf.html
VA Life Insurance Handbook b" Chapter 3
http://www.insurance.va.gov/inForceGliSite/GLIhandbook/glibookletch3.htm#310
VA Loan Lending Limits and Jumbo Loans http://valoans.com/va_facts_limits.cfm
VA MS Research
http://www.va.gov/ms/about.asp
VA National Hepatitis C Program
http://www.hepatitis.va.gov/
VA Office of Research and Development
http://www1.va.gov/resdev/
VA Trainee Pocket Card on Gulf War
http://www.va.gov/OAA/pocketcard/gulfwar.asp
VA WMD EMSHG
http://www1.va.gov/emshg/
V! A WRIISC-DC
http://www.va.gov/WRIISC-DC/
VAOIG Hotline Telephone Number and Address
http://www.va.gov/oig/hotline/hotline3.htm
Vet Center Eligibility - Readjustment Counseling Service
http://www.va.gov/rcs/Eligibility.htm
Veterans Benefits Administration Main Web Page
http://www.vba.va.gov/
Veterans Legal and Benefits Information
http://valaw.org/
VHA Forms, Publications, Manuals
http://www1.va.gov/vhapublications/
VHA Programs - Clinical Programs & ; Initiatives
http://www1.va.gov/health_benefits/page.cfm?pg=13
VHA Public Health Strategic Health Care Group Home Page
http://www.publichealth.va.gov/
VHI Guide to Gulf War Veteransb(tm) Health
http://www1.va.gov/vhi_ind_study/gulfwar/istudy/index.asp
Vocational Rehabilitation
http://www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/
Vocational Rehabilitation Subsistence
http:/!/www.vba.va.gov/bln/vre/InterSubsistencefy04.doc
VONAPP online
http://vabenefits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
WARMS - 38 CFR Book C
http://www.warms.vba.va.gov/bookc.html
Wartime Disability Compensation
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=browse_usc&docid=Cite:\
+38USC1110
War-Related Illness and Injury Study Center - New Jersey
http://www.wri.med.va.gov/
Welcome to the GI Bill Web Site
http://www.gibill.va.gov/
What VA Social Workers Do
http://www1.va.gov/socialwork/page.cfm?pg=3
WRIISC Patient Eligibility
http://www.illegion.org/va1.html
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
God and mystuffs
In my dream one night God
appeared. He seemed puzzled.
He spoke to me in a gentle
voice and asked me why I
didn't have faith in him.
I'm sure I looked shocked.
My expression must have
been complete awe.
I looked at him and smiled
and shared that I thought
HE knew every thought I had.
He grinned and admitted that
HE had a lot on His plate and
didn't always know everything
running thru the minds of the
billions of people on earth.
I laughed and looked HIM
straight in the eye. BTW,
HE has wonderfully caring eyes
and indeed the old saying that
the eyes are the mirrors of the
soul IS TWUE. I've gazed into
similar eyes when I've gazed into
my children's and g'kids
and this
time I knew that they did indeed
get their eyes from their FATHER.
Anyways, back on topic here. I
still have a hard time believing
that HE didn't realize my faith.
(I'm still pretty sure HE knows
all and was just testing me earlier.)
I teared up a bit and trembled as I shared with
HIM.
SIR, I have never doubted, I
have always had complete and
total faith in YOU. It was me
that I didn't trust, it was me
that I questioned.I always knew
that YOU were there.I always
knew that YOU loved me especially
after YOU sent me my first born.
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McBride Martina- In my daughter's eyes (With lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUP9EUCE74
I always knew that I would one
day do YOUR work when YOU were
ready to give my stuffs over to me,
when I had learned that I could
trust me to know YOU well enough
to do YOUR stuffs.I had to learn
first how to trust YOUR faith in me.
appeared. He seemed puzzled.
He spoke to me in a gentle
voice and asked me why I
didn't have faith in him.
I'm sure I looked shocked.
My expression must have
been complete awe.
I looked at him and smiled
and shared that I thought
HE knew every thought I had.
He grinned and admitted that
HE had a lot on His plate and
didn't always know everything
running thru the minds of the
billions of people on earth.
I laughed and looked HIM
straight in the eye. BTW,
HE has wonderfully caring eyes
and indeed the old saying that
the eyes are the mirrors of the
soul IS TWUE. I've gazed into
similar eyes when I've gazed into
my children's and g'kids
and this
time I knew that they did indeed
get their eyes from their FATHER.
Anyways, back on topic here. I
still have a hard time believing
that HE didn't realize my faith.
(I'm still pretty sure HE knows
all and was just testing me earlier.)
I teared up a bit and trembled as I shared with
HIM.
SIR, I have never doubted, I
have always had complete and
total faith in YOU. It was me
that I didn't trust, it was me
that I questioned.I always knew
that YOU were there.I always
knew that YOU loved me especially
after YOU sent me my first born.
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McBride Martina- In my daughter's eyes (With lyrics)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUP9EUCE74
I always knew that I would one
day do YOUR work when YOU were
ready to give my stuffs over to me,
when I had learned that I could
trust me to know YOU well enough
to do YOUR stuffs.I had to learn
first how to trust YOUR faith in me.
A Glossary of Persons & Groups Associated w/Neo-Conservatism
http://www.holology.com/neocon.html
A Glossary of Persons and Groups Associated with Neo-Conservatism:
Aboul-Enein, Youssef
Navy Lt. Commander, U.S. intelligence officer and Arabic specialist, a special assistant and translator to Luti.
Abrams, Elliott
[Jewish]
President Bush’s chief Middle East adviser on the National Security Council (NSC); unofficial White House liaison to Jewish community on Mid East issues; worked as legal counsel to senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson (1912-83); convicted for false testimony in Iran Contra scandal; conservative views on Jewish identity, once stated: "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart - except in Israel - from the rest of the population." [25] Condi Rice put Abrams in charge of Middle East policy, now deputy national security adviser 'in charge of the Middle East and democracy promotion'.
Addington, David
Long time staffer for Cheney; close associate of John Bolton; against international law while promoting United States' unilateralism. [18]
Adelson, Sheldon
[Jewish]
Billionaire casino mogul who owns Sands and Venetian casino/hotels, describes self as “the richest Jew in the world”, funds Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, placed on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to the U.S. Trade Representative by President Bush in December 2007. [51], founder and financial backer of Freedom’s Watch, major supporter of AIPAC’s Israel tours for U.S. lawmakers, litigious, hates unions, on Board of Directors for the Republican Jewish Coalition, council member for US Holocaust Memorial Museum. [50]
American Center for Democracy
An office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story; Rachel Ehrenfeld president. [23]
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
“…consistently has ranked among the most powerful special-interest groups in the United States,” [2], alleged site of latest meeting and secrets transfer was Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Umbrella organization for multiple neo-conservative persons and projects including recruitment and propaganda; sponsors 'NGOWatch'.
Arad, Uzi
[Jewish]
Former senior Israeli intelligence official interviewed by FBI in Franklin case.
Benador, Eleana
Founder and CEO of Benador Associates, a public relations and media propaganda company; markets neo-cons to the public; works with the Middle East Forum; Her clients include some the nation's most fervid hawks, including Michael Ledeen, CharIes Krauthammer, Al Haig, Max Boot, Daniel Pipes, Richard Perle, and Judith Miller. During the Iraq war, Benador's assignment was to embed this squadron of pro-war zealots into the national media, on talk shows, and op-ed pages." [49]
Bolton, John R.
[Christian]
Worked to block Iran-Contra criminal investigations; was in charge of the State Department's disarmament, proliferation, and WMD office; vociferous critic of the United Nations; nominated by W Bush to be American ambassador to the UN; senior vice-president of AEI; activist in the Federalist Society; frequently criticized for politicizing intelligence. [10] On Iran, June 2007: "we have to look at: 1, overthrowing the regime and getting in a new one that won't pursue nuclear weapons; 2, a last-resort use of force."
Boot, Max
Boot is a prolific writer that feeds his extreme jingoistic neo-con view to the opinion-editorial pages of major newspapers, signed the PNAC, Council on Foreign Relations member.
Colonel Bruner
Former military aide to Newt Gingrich, brought in by Luti, funneled in bad info from Chalabi, acted as Chalabi’s handler.
Bryen, Dr. Stephen
[Jewish]
Worked as consultant to AIPAC, staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but forced to resign after caught transferring secrets to AIPAC and a Mossad agent [8], worked with Perle. “Served as head of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a group dedicated to promoting strategic ties between the US and Israel and one in which Perle, Feith and Ledeen have long been active.” [1]
Campus Watch
Campus Watch is an operation connected to the Middle East Forum that seeks to expose criticism of Israel and Israeli government policies in academia.
Center for Security Policy (CSP)
Created by Frank Gaffney in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]
Chalabi, Ahmad
Ran Iraqi National Congress (INC) exile group, accused of siphoning information off to Iran and cut-out of the loop, fled Baghdad at the age of 13, in 1958, accused of bank fraud, embezzlement, and currency manipulation, invited by Perle to address the Defense Policy Board.
Cheney, Dick
[Christian]
Vice President, had ties to OSP through Luti
Cheney, Elizabeth (Liz)
Dick Cheney's daughter, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, expressed militant neo-con views and fervent desire of U.S. government to launch attack on Iran as soon as possible at AIPAC conference June 2008, 'Visiting Fellow' at AEI.
Christians United for Israel (CUFI)
A Christian Zionist lobbying group started in 2006 by Pastor John Hagee of Texas.
Cohen, Ariel
[Jewish]
Primarily a self-proclaimed expert on Russia and Central Asia issues at the conservative Heritage Foundation but he's also vocal on Arab/Palestinian issues always with the typical neo-con slant: pro-war, pro-empire, pro-Israel.
Cohen, Eliot A.
Associated with the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Project for the New American Century, and the Defense Policy Board.
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD)
Neo-conservative lobby group
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Israel Lobby umbrella group that coordinates actions for manipulating U.S. government and social policy to favor the opinions and goals of right-wing Israeli interests. Revealing list:
Counter - terrorism Evaluation Group
[see entry under Douglas Feith]
Crouch II, Dr. J.D.
[Christian ?]
Hawkish, low-visibility but influential on Bush and Cheney serving as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser, specializes in evading and undermining arms-control agreements, advocated military action against Cuba and nuclear strikes against North Korea, promotes U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, consistent supporter of Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.
Ehrenfeld, Rachel
President of the American Center for Democracy, an office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story. [23]
Federalist Society
Association of ultra-conservative lawyers working to undermine International law as it applies to the United States; sponsors 'NGOWatch'. [10]
Feith, Douglas
[Jewish]
Lawyer, Under Secretary, Pentagon #3, consultant for Likud party of Israel, “Feith's office enjoyed especially close links with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I Lewis Libby, to whom it "stovepiped" its analyses without having them vetted by professional intelligence analysts in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the DIA, or the State Department Bureau for Intelligence of Research (INR).” and “…served as a Middle East analyst in the National Security Council in the administration of former president Ronald Reagan (1981-89).” [1] Publicly opposed the Biological Weapons Convention, CW, ABM and nuclear weapons treaties and Oslo accord. [8] Feith was once described by General Tommie Franks as "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth." Oversaw the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group that produced a classified report linking Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, a conclusion debunked by reputable analysts. [21]
Fishman, Richard
AIPAC's managing director, under FBI investigation in the Franklin case. [13]
Forbes, Steve
[Christian]
Operates business magazine Forbes, ran for President in 1996 and 2000, has promoted harsh conservative social and economic policies, worth nearly half a billion dollars, constantly pushes his ‘flat-tax’ plan, supports expanded U.S. military that acts unilaterally, and of course an emphatic supporter of Israel. The neo-con viewpoint matches very closely with Forbes’ explaining why he is a founding member of the Project for the New American Century.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Created September 13, 2001, as the twin towers were still smoldering, FDD claims to be a non-partisan 'think tank' acting to preserve American democracy. Yet, as is so often the case with these groups despite the noble ideals on the masthead the actual agenda is of the Neo-conservative flavor as indicated by a slavishly pro-Israel stance (particularly favoring Israel's Likud party), distinctive anti-Islam discourse, and a tendency to package everything they dislike under the loaded term 'terrorism'. Despite the hollow platitudes FDD is simply yet another public relations office working to boost support for Israel in the United States.Senator Joseph Lieberman, recently defeated in the Connecticut primary election, is listed on the FDD biographies webpage as a "distinguished adviser", while other people on the list include Kirkpatrick, Kristol, Perle, and many more.
Foxman, Abraham
[Jewish]
National director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “…one of the largest Jewish organizations in North America.” and "The one clear fact that can be agreed upon is that there was a malicious and targeted leak that is more damaging than the actual allegations of Israeli spying - allegations that in all likelihood are baseless," Abraham Foxman. [3]
Franklin, Lawrence A.
[Christian]
Accused spy under investigation by FBI, desk officer at Near East and South Asia office of the Pentagon, “devout Christian” [4] Currently on trial for passing secrets to Israel.
Freedom's Watch
Propaganda machine started in August 2007 to maintain political support for continuing the war on Iraq, on “terrorism”, Iran, etc.; works closely with the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and AEI. Key founder and financial backer: billionaire Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation; key operators include Matt Brooks, head of the RJC, and Ari Fleischer, former mouthpiece for W. Bush administration. [48] As a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization can legally spend unlimited amounts of money in an election if promoting an issue and not a candidate. [51]
Freilich, Chuck
[Jewish]
Former Israeli deputy national security adviser, senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center on Science and Int’l Affairs, pushes for U.S. war on Iran.
Frum, David
[Jewish]
Former speechwriter for George W. Bush; notable accomplishments include the ‘Axis of Evil’ speech lumping three disparate nations into one singular threat to America; member of AEI; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Perle. Frum’s vision for a new world order is startling to say the least, he’s recommend that Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore join NATO and that Japan should build nuclear weapons to scare China into submission. [26]
Gaffney, Frank
Worked as an aide to Richard Perle undermining arms control agreements, among other things. Referred to as “Perle's Bulldog” in the Dep’t of Defense. Gaffney is a prolific writer who feverishly pushes the need to expand the United States’ military and to use that force against countries that oppose American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East. Founded the Center for Security Policy (CSP) in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]
Ghorbanifar, Manichur
Iranian Arms dealer, “In December 2001, Rhode and Franklin met in Europe with a shadowy Iranian arms dealer, Manichur Ghorbanifar, who, along with Ledeen, played a central role in the arms-for-hostages deal involving the Reagan administration, Israel and Iran in the mid-1980s that became known as the "Iran-Contra Affair." [1]
Gilon, Naor
[Jewish]
Accused of receiving classified information from Franklin; number two diplomat at the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Gingrich, Newt
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, often had meetings with Luti, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, former member of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies member.
Hagee, Pastor John
[Christian]
Israel boosting apocalypse seeking preacher, Hagee leads the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, founded lobbyist group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has stated that "The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching," and "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation [...] and [the] Second Coming of Christ." [41]
Hannah, John P.
Main White House contact with Ahmad Chalabi's INC, worked closely with Harold Rhode, senior fellow and deputy director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy a group founded by AIPAC to influence policy-makers. [18]
The Heritage Foundation
Founded by Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner with the financial backing of beer baron Joseph Coors, major supporter of Reagan and Bush W administrations and associated panoply of social and military crusades, pioneered a new role for think-tanks by dropping objective research in favor of partisan rhetoric and active manipulation of government policy, called a ‘propaganda mill’ that spends half its $40 million budget on marketing, corporate donors are reported to include Scaife, GM, Ford, Proctor & Gamble, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical, Mobil Oil, and Smith Kline.
Horowitz, David
[Jewish]
Horowitz is the classic neocon; supported radical leftists during social turmoil of 60s then did a whiplash inducing shift in ideology to the far right beginning in the 70s. Regardless of the rhetoric the continuing theme throughout Horowitz’s career is an unquestioning support for Israel using whatever means most popular at the moment to push a Zionist agenda. His hot-buttons include supposed censorship of conservative (meaning pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian) speech at U.S. universities; uses DiscoverTheNetworks.com to attack hated leftists (unions, anti-war activists, etc.); cofounder of Horowitz Freedom Center; editor or NewsMax and FrontPage mag, collected 2005 salary of $352,647 from his Horowitz Center sponsored by Sarah Scaife, Bradley, and Olin foundations. More at: David Horowitz Profile.
The Hudson Institute
Founded by Herman Kahn, an infamous and enthusiastic advocate for nuclear warfare, The Hudson Institute has now been eclipsed in influence by AEI but was once the equivalent neo-con factor in U.S. politics, currently focuses on security issues, leadership has ties to right-wing pro-Israel groups such as Hudson’s chairman of the board Walter P. Stern who is vice president of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.
Indyk, Martin
Jewish
Influential Middle East adviser to President Bill Clinton, founded Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), research director for AIPAC, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking’s Institute [51].
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS)
IASPS is a think-tank based in Jerusalem, most famous for producing notorious 1996 document ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ that pressured the Israeli government to dump the peace process and adopt an aggressive posture in favor of attacking neighboring states like Syria and Iraq, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped write the 'Clean Break' paper.
Iraqi National Congress
Founded in 1992 with the help of a CIA-connected public-relations firm called the Rendon Group. [5]
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
JINSA is an advocacy group for military cooperation and sponsorship of Israel by the United States, started by Stephen and Shoshana Bryen, Michael Ledeen was the first executive director, Richard Perle is a member of JINSA’s Board of Advisers and a spokesman.
Kagan, Frederick W.
[Jewish]
Associated with PNAC's production, promotes American sponsored wars and a vastly expanded military for the United States as well as the federal spending to go along with it, brother of Robert Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.
Kagan, Robert
[Jewish]
Analyst at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; started Project for the New American Century with William Kristol in 1997 [22], appointed by Elliott Abrams to lead Office of Public Diplomacy in mid 80s to promote support for the Contras in Nicaragua, brother of Frederick Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
[Christian]
Works for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Kohr, Howard
AIPAC's executive director, under FBI investigation in the Franklin case. [13]
Kovner, Bruce
[Jewish]
Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute, chairman of the hedge fund Caxton Associates, Forbes ranked as 85th richest American [42], uses wealth to support the New York Sun newspaper, AEI, influence politicians, and bankroll special interest groups.
Kristol, William (Bill)
[Jewish]
Weekly Standard editor; started Project for the New American Century with Robert Kagan in 1997 [22]; board of trustees member at Manhattan Institute.
Ledeen, Michael
[Jewish]
Member of American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has consulting firm 'Benador Associates', on JINSA Board of Advisors with Bryen, consultant for OSP [8] “Since the Iraq war, Feith's office has also lobbied hard within the US government for a confrontational posture vis-a-vis Iran and Syria, including actions aimed at destabilizing both governments - policies which, in addition to the ousting of Saddam, have been strongly and publicly urged by prominent, hardline neo-conservatives, such as Perle, Feith and Perle's associate at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Michael Ledeen, among others.” [1]
Libby (Liebowitz), Lewis 'Scooter'
[Jewish]
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, worked as a liaison between Feith's Pentagon policy office that extracted one-sided, unverified intelligence, and VP Dick Cheney via the White House. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice but had his prison sentence commuted by President George W. Bush. Libby is suspected of being an intelligence agent working for Israel's Mossad.
Lieberman, Senator Joe
[Jewish]
Vocal advocate for military action against Iraq and Iran, labeled the neo-conservative Democrat but aligns with Republicans on foreign policy, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, adviser to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Lipsky, Seth
[Jewish]
Neo-con, runs the New York Sun “a paper that functions as a journalistic SWAT team against individuals and institutions seen as hostile to Israel and Jews,” supposedly a popular read in the ‘think-tank’ crowd. The Sun loses $1 million a month but continuous funding is provided by rich backers. Lipsky’s heroes include Ronald Reagan, “Ze'ev Jabotinsky (the militant Zionist who admired Mussolini), Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon”, founding editor of the Forward newspaper called “the bible for the Yiddish-speaking masses of Manhattan's Lower East Side.” [42]
Lowell, Abbe
DC lawyer hired to defend AIPAC, defends Rosen in Franklin case.
Luti, William
Protégé of Newt and aide in 1996, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East affairs, ran cell Office of Special Plans, or OSP inside Pentagon with Wolfowitz and Feith, Luti came to the Pentagon from the office of Vice President Cheney, retired Navy captain.
Luttwak, Edward
[Jewish]
Currently a Senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), served as a consultant to Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council, Department of State, and the U.S. military. Edward Luttwak is a notorious freestyle historian and another ‘expert’ on war and international relations, a real piece of work even for the genre with plenty of ‘solutions’ that are great for everyone else but would never apply to anyone he cared about. Luttwak displays the startlingly misapplied intelligence so characteristic of many neo-cons and think-tank spawned advisors that morph from obscure bookish analysts into outspoken advocates that write op-ed pieces and haunt the Sunday morning TV talk-shows to sell the public and the politicians on self-defeating policies. Luttwak is currently promoting the incitement of ethnic strife and internal divisions inside Iran as a 'solution' to regional problems for the U.S. government. [39]
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Funds the Project for the New American Century , the American Enterprise Institute, and the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). [14]
Maloof, F. Michael
Former aide to Perle in 1980s Pentagon, twice stripped of security clearance.
Manhattan Institute
‘Think tank’ for influencing political decision-making to favor conservative policies; heavy influence of lawyers and wealthy investors; writes policy script for presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani; see also William Kristol, Paul Singer.
Middle East Forum
The Middle East Forum is a self-described think tank that crafts information to direct the Middle East foreign policy of the United States towards serving the interests of Israel; “a fanatically pro-Zionist white paper mill”. [49] See also: Eleana Benador.
Moskowitz, Irving
[Jewish]
Irving Moskowitz is a millionaire and ardent Zionist who gained riches buying and selling hospitals and running bingo gambling halls; converted gambling business into tax-free charitable organ that uses cash to fund neo-con organizations in the US like the Hudson Institute, AEI, JINSA, and CSP, and illegal settlement groups in Israel; wife Cherna promoted assassination of ‘pro-peace’ Israeli leaders.
Office of Special Plans (OSP)
Rogue planning cell; not officially part of the intelligence community and is thus immune to congressional oversight.
Perle, Richard
[Jewish]
Worked as chairman of Defense Policy Board (DPB); Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during Reagan era; worked at AEI; once aide to Senator Henry Jackson; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Frum.
Pipes, Daniel
[Jewish]
Rabid and prolific pro-Israel, anti-Islam writer and speaker; connected to the Middle East Forum; advises Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Middle East affairs.
Pletka, Danielle
Prominent and outspoken member of AEI, continually promoting war on Iraq, aggression against Iran, torture as state policy, and similar neo-con views. Australian born, member of Committee on the Present Danger, gained experience manipulating U.S. Middle East foreign policy working with Senator Jesse Helms on Senate Intelligence Committee, signatory member of Project for the New American Century.
Podhoretz, Norman
[Jewish]
Described as the godfather of neo-conservativism
Project for the New American Century(PNAC)
Center for the neo-conservative vision. Sets out plans for expanding and exploiting United States military power to further the neo-con agenda around the world. [15]
Rhode, Harold
Colleague of Feith, ”… once described himself as Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz's chief adviser on Islam.” [1] speaks Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi.
Rice, Condoleeza
[Christian]
Secretary of State, has close ties to AIPAC and speaks at their meetings.
Rosen, Steven
[Jewish]
Former director of foreign policy issues at AIPAC. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Rosen from staff.
Rosenberg, Joel C.
[Christian, Jewish background]
Has worked with Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Natan Sharansky, the Heritage Foundation, and many other neo-cons, Formed the consulting company November Communications, written several novels about events in the Middle East based on Biblical prophecies, popular with Christians and Jews, see Epicenter book review below.
Rumsfeld, Donald
[Christian]
Former Secretary of Defense responsible for the actions of the Defense Department.
Sharansky, Natan
[Jewish]
Dedicated Zionist, idolized by neo-cons, Carter and Reagan got Sharansky out of the USSR in spy deal, immediately goes to Israel and becomes active with extreme views and multiple roles in Israeli government, advocates sole Jewish control over Jerusalem and no peace deals with neighbors, wrote book: The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror, calls U.S. policy a continuum with his friends Abrams, Perle, Feith, Libby, and Wolfowitz all connected through either Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson or the Reagan administration, Bush’s terrorism speech rhetoric drawn from Sharansky’s own words, board member at Peace Watch, chairman of Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism (CFCA), more <>.
Schmitt‚ Gary
Executive director of the Project for the New American Century, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Shulsky.
Shulsky,Abram N.
[Jewish]
Director of OSP, Senate intelligence committee staffer for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Schmitt.
Singer, Paul E.
[Jewish]
Former corporate lawyer, now the secretive billionaire owner of Elliott Associates hedge fund, started ‘vulture’ style investment funds buying up debt from poor countries and then through lawsuits and interest payments collecting more than the original amount of the loan; funds Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign; Giuliani’s senior policy adviser on the Middle East; advocates bombing Iran, active use of U.S. military force and supporting Israel; JINSA board member [47]; Manhattan Institute trustee.
Stern, Walter P.
[Jewish]
Chairman of the Hudson Institute, Vice President of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.
The Israel Project (TIP)
Founded by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, The Israel Project (TIP) is yet another front organization manipulating U.S. policy-makers with its donor-based cash machine while promoting Israel as a paragon of peace, equality, and … you know the routine; headquarters in Jerusalem and Washington DC; TIP slogan: “We fight the war of words and images to make our global Jewish family safer.” What’s notable about TIP is the board of advisors that includes Senators Chambliss (R-GA), Coleman, (R-MN), Nelson (D-FL), Santorum (R-PA), Spector (R-PA), Wyden (D-OR), and Representatives Andrews (D-NJ), Berkley (D-NV), Davis (R-VA), Engel (D-NY), Pallone (D-NJ), Porter (R-NV), Saxton (R-NJ), Sherman (D-CA), Wilson (R-SC). Robert and Yadelle Sklare are listed as funding TIP Jerusalem.
Washington Institute for Near EastPolicy
A 'think tank' founded by Martin Indyke and AIPAC in the mid 1980s to influence federal policy-makers. See also: John P. Hannah [18] and the Hudson Institute.
Weissman, Keith
Senior Middle East analyst at AIPAC and Iran specialist. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Weissman from staff.
Wolfowitz, Paul
[Jewish]
Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defense in Bush administration, created Pentagon unit to manage all military counter-intelligence operations called Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) later accused of domestic spying [20], moved into position as President of World Bank. “[I]t is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army - hard to imagine." - Paul Wolfowitz to a Congressional committee in 2003.
Woolsey, James
[Christian]
Former CIA director, co-chairs the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), member of and advisor to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Chairman of Freedom House. advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), advocates war on Iraq, Iran and Syria, pro-nuclear weapons and U.S. missile dominance, multiple business interests like Benador Associates, is the VP for defense industry consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
Wurmser, David
[Jewish]
Director of Middle East studies for AEI, recruited by Feith and Rhode to be Pentagon consultant, wanted U.S. support for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), “spent years calling for a pre-emptive invasion of Baghdad” senior adviser to Undersecretary of State John Bolton [5], wrote 1999 book: ‘Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein’, married to Meyrav Wurmser.
Wurmser, Meyrav
[Jewish]
Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Hudson Institute, stated that neo-cons used their influence in the Bush administration to block UN pressure to halt Israel's attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanon during the short 2006 war that ultimately ended in retreat after Israel failed to achieve the publicly stated military and political objectives: "The neo-cons are responsible for the fact that Israel got a lot of time and space ... They believed that Israel should be allowed to win." [35], married to David Wurmser.
Zakheim, Dr. Dov
[Jewish]
The Pentagon's chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004, signed Project for the New American Century, currently (2006) a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. ''In 2003, I don't think anybody predicted it [the war on Iraq] would go as long as World War II and the wear and tear on equipment would be as intense.'' [32]
Zell, L. Marc
Former law partner with Feith, served as a spokesman in Israel for the Jewish settler movement on the occupied West Bank.
Zionist Organization of America
Self description: “fighting for the Jewish people and the Land of Israel”; works to expunge criticism of Israel and Zionism from public discourse while expanding ties between Israel and the United States, billionaire Sheldon Adelson a major funder.
Zoellick, Robert
[Jewish]
Bush W. administration’s deputy secretary of state, former U.S. trade representative, vice chairman of international operations at investment bank Goldman Sachs, former consultant for the Enron corporation, current president of World Bank; pushes hard for ‘free trade’ agreements with particular focus on poor and developing countries.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~Herm Albright~
A Glossary of Persons and Groups Associated with Neo-Conservatism:
Aboul-Enein, Youssef
Navy Lt. Commander, U.S. intelligence officer and Arabic specialist, a special assistant and translator to Luti.
Abrams, Elliott
[Jewish]
President Bush’s chief Middle East adviser on the National Security Council (NSC); unofficial White House liaison to Jewish community on Mid East issues; worked as legal counsel to senator Henry 'Scoop' Jackson (1912-83); convicted for false testimony in Iran Contra scandal; conservative views on Jewish identity, once stated: "Outside the land of Israel, there can be no doubt that Jews, faithful to the covenant between God and Abraham, are to stand apart from the nation in which they live. It is the very nature of being Jewish to be apart - except in Israel - from the rest of the population." [25] Condi Rice put Abrams in charge of Middle East policy, now deputy national security adviser 'in charge of the Middle East and democracy promotion'.
Addington, David
Long time staffer for Cheney; close associate of John Bolton; against international law while promoting United States' unilateralism. [18]
Adelson, Sheldon
[Jewish]
Billionaire casino mogul who owns Sands and Venetian casino/hotels, describes self as “the richest Jew in the world”, funds Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, placed on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations to the U.S. Trade Representative by President Bush in December 2007. [51], founder and financial backer of Freedom’s Watch, major supporter of AIPAC’s Israel tours for U.S. lawmakers, litigious, hates unions, on Board of Directors for the Republican Jewish Coalition, council member for US Holocaust Memorial Museum. [50]
American Center for Democracy
An office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story; Rachel Ehrenfeld president. [23]
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
“…consistently has ranked among the most powerful special-interest groups in the United States,” [2], alleged site of latest meeting and secrets transfer was Israeli embassy in Washington DC.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Umbrella organization for multiple neo-conservative persons and projects including recruitment and propaganda; sponsors 'NGOWatch'.
Arad, Uzi
[Jewish]
Former senior Israeli intelligence official interviewed by FBI in Franklin case.
Benador, Eleana
Founder and CEO of Benador Associates, a public relations and media propaganda company; markets neo-cons to the public; works with the Middle East Forum; Her clients include some the nation's most fervid hawks, including Michael Ledeen, CharIes Krauthammer, Al Haig, Max Boot, Daniel Pipes, Richard Perle, and Judith Miller. During the Iraq war, Benador's assignment was to embed this squadron of pro-war zealots into the national media, on talk shows, and op-ed pages." [49]
Bolton, John R.
[Christian]
Worked to block Iran-Contra criminal investigations; was in charge of the State Department's disarmament, proliferation, and WMD office; vociferous critic of the United Nations; nominated by W Bush to be American ambassador to the UN; senior vice-president of AEI; activist in the Federalist Society; frequently criticized for politicizing intelligence. [10] On Iran, June 2007: "we have to look at: 1, overthrowing the regime and getting in a new one that won't pursue nuclear weapons; 2, a last-resort use of force."
Boot, Max
Boot is a prolific writer that feeds his extreme jingoistic neo-con view to the opinion-editorial pages of major newspapers, signed the PNAC, Council on Foreign Relations member.
Colonel Bruner
Former military aide to Newt Gingrich, brought in by Luti, funneled in bad info from Chalabi, acted as Chalabi’s handler.
Bryen, Dr. Stephen
[Jewish]
Worked as consultant to AIPAC, staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee but forced to resign after caught transferring secrets to AIPAC and a Mossad agent [8], worked with Perle. “Served as head of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a group dedicated to promoting strategic ties between the US and Israel and one in which Perle, Feith and Ledeen have long been active.” [1]
Campus Watch
Campus Watch is an operation connected to the Middle East Forum that seeks to expose criticism of Israel and Israeli government policies in academia.
Center for Security Policy (CSP)
Created by Frank Gaffney in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]
Chalabi, Ahmad
Ran Iraqi National Congress (INC) exile group, accused of siphoning information off to Iran and cut-out of the loop, fled Baghdad at the age of 13, in 1958, accused of bank fraud, embezzlement, and currency manipulation, invited by Perle to address the Defense Policy Board.
Cheney, Dick
[Christian]
Vice President, had ties to OSP through Luti
Cheney, Elizabeth (Liz)
Dick Cheney's daughter, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs, expressed militant neo-con views and fervent desire of U.S. government to launch attack on Iran as soon as possible at AIPAC conference June 2008, 'Visiting Fellow' at AEI.
Christians United for Israel (CUFI)
A Christian Zionist lobbying group started in 2006 by Pastor John Hagee of Texas.
Cohen, Ariel
[Jewish]
Primarily a self-proclaimed expert on Russia and Central Asia issues at the conservative Heritage Foundation but he's also vocal on Arab/Palestinian issues always with the typical neo-con slant: pro-war, pro-empire, pro-Israel.
Cohen, Eliot A.
Associated with the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Project for the New American Century, and the Defense Policy Board.
Committee on the Present Danger (CPD)
Neo-conservative lobby group
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
Israel Lobby umbrella group that coordinates actions for manipulating U.S. government and social policy to favor the opinions and goals of right-wing Israeli interests. Revealing list:
Counter - terrorism Evaluation Group
[see entry under Douglas Feith]
Crouch II, Dr. J.D.
[Christian ?]
Hawkish, low-visibility but influential on Bush and Cheney serving as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser, specializes in evading and undermining arms-control agreements, advocated military action against Cuba and nuclear strikes against North Korea, promotes U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, consistent supporter of Frank Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy.
Ehrenfeld, Rachel
President of the American Center for Democracy, an office that seeks to align the foreign policy of the United States with that of Israel by using the establishment of ‘democracy’ as a cover story. [23]
Federalist Society
Association of ultra-conservative lawyers working to undermine International law as it applies to the United States; sponsors 'NGOWatch'. [10]
Feith, Douglas
[Jewish]
Lawyer, Under Secretary, Pentagon #3, consultant for Likud party of Israel, “Feith's office enjoyed especially close links with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I Lewis Libby, to whom it "stovepiped" its analyses without having them vetted by professional intelligence analysts in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the DIA, or the State Department Bureau for Intelligence of Research (INR).” and “…served as a Middle East analyst in the National Security Council in the administration of former president Ronald Reagan (1981-89).” [1] Publicly opposed the Biological Weapons Convention, CW, ABM and nuclear weapons treaties and Oslo accord. [8] Feith was once described by General Tommie Franks as "the fucking stupidest guy on the face of the Earth." Oversaw the Counterterrorism Evaluation Group that produced a classified report linking Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, a conclusion debunked by reputable analysts. [21]
Fishman, Richard
AIPAC's managing director, under FBI investigation in the Franklin case. [13]
Forbes, Steve
[Christian]
Operates business magazine Forbes, ran for President in 1996 and 2000, has promoted harsh conservative social and economic policies, worth nearly half a billion dollars, constantly pushes his ‘flat-tax’ plan, supports expanded U.S. military that acts unilaterally, and of course an emphatic supporter of Israel. The neo-con viewpoint matches very closely with Forbes’ explaining why he is a founding member of the Project for the New American Century.
Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Created September 13, 2001, as the twin towers were still smoldering, FDD claims to be a non-partisan 'think tank' acting to preserve American democracy. Yet, as is so often the case with these groups despite the noble ideals on the masthead the actual agenda is of the Neo-conservative flavor as indicated by a slavishly pro-Israel stance (particularly favoring Israel's Likud party), distinctive anti-Islam discourse, and a tendency to package everything they dislike under the loaded term 'terrorism'. Despite the hollow platitudes FDD is simply yet another public relations office working to boost support for Israel in the United States.Senator Joseph Lieberman, recently defeated in the Connecticut primary election, is listed on the FDD biographies webpage as a "distinguished adviser", while other people on the list include Kirkpatrick, Kristol, Perle, and many more.
Foxman, Abraham
[Jewish]
National director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) “…one of the largest Jewish organizations in North America.” and "The one clear fact that can be agreed upon is that there was a malicious and targeted leak that is more damaging than the actual allegations of Israeli spying - allegations that in all likelihood are baseless," Abraham Foxman. [3]
Franklin, Lawrence A.
[Christian]
Accused spy under investigation by FBI, desk officer at Near East and South Asia office of the Pentagon, “devout Christian” [4] Currently on trial for passing secrets to Israel.
Freedom's Watch
Propaganda machine started in August 2007 to maintain political support for continuing the war on Iraq, on “terrorism”, Iran, etc.; works closely with the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) and AEI. Key founder and financial backer: billionaire Sheldon Adelson, CEO of Las Vegas Sands Corporation; key operators include Matt Brooks, head of the RJC, and Ari Fleischer, former mouthpiece for W. Bush administration. [48] As a nonprofit 501(c)(4) organization can legally spend unlimited amounts of money in an election if promoting an issue and not a candidate. [51]
Freilich, Chuck
[Jewish]
Former Israeli deputy national security adviser, senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center on Science and Int’l Affairs, pushes for U.S. war on Iran.
Frum, David
[Jewish]
Former speechwriter for George W. Bush; notable accomplishments include the ‘Axis of Evil’ speech lumping three disparate nations into one singular threat to America; member of AEI; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Perle. Frum’s vision for a new world order is startling to say the least, he’s recommend that Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore join NATO and that Japan should build nuclear weapons to scare China into submission. [26]
Gaffney, Frank
Worked as an aide to Richard Perle undermining arms control agreements, among other things. Referred to as “Perle's Bulldog” in the Dep’t of Defense. Gaffney is a prolific writer who feverishly pushes the need to expand the United States’ military and to use that force against countries that oppose American interests throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East. Founded the Center for Security Policy (CSP) in 1988 with the slogan “To promote world peace through American strength”. [24]
Ghorbanifar, Manichur
Iranian Arms dealer, “In December 2001, Rhode and Franklin met in Europe with a shadowy Iranian arms dealer, Manichur Ghorbanifar, who, along with Ledeen, played a central role in the arms-for-hostages deal involving the Reagan administration, Israel and Iran in the mid-1980s that became known as the "Iran-Contra Affair." [1]
Gilon, Naor
[Jewish]
Accused of receiving classified information from Franklin; number two diplomat at the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Gingrich, Newt
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, often had meetings with Luti, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, former member of Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies member.
Hagee, Pastor John
[Christian]
Israel boosting apocalypse seeking preacher, Hagee leads the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio Texas, founded lobbyist group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has stated that "The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching," and "The United States must join Israel in a pre-emptive military strike against Iran to fulfill God's plan for both Israel and the West... a biblically prophesied end-time confrontation with Iran, which will lead to the Rapture, Tribulation [...] and [the] Second Coming of Christ." [41]
Hannah, John P.
Main White House contact with Ahmad Chalabi's INC, worked closely with Harold Rhode, senior fellow and deputy director at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy a group founded by AIPAC to influence policy-makers. [18]
The Heritage Foundation
Founded by Paul Weyrich and Edwin Feulner with the financial backing of beer baron Joseph Coors, major supporter of Reagan and Bush W administrations and associated panoply of social and military crusades, pioneered a new role for think-tanks by dropping objective research in favor of partisan rhetoric and active manipulation of government policy, called a ‘propaganda mill’ that spends half its $40 million budget on marketing, corporate donors are reported to include Scaife, GM, Ford, Proctor & Gamble, Chase Manhattan Bank, Dow Chemical, Mobil Oil, and Smith Kline.
Horowitz, David
[Jewish]
Horowitz is the classic neocon; supported radical leftists during social turmoil of 60s then did a whiplash inducing shift in ideology to the far right beginning in the 70s. Regardless of the rhetoric the continuing theme throughout Horowitz’s career is an unquestioning support for Israel using whatever means most popular at the moment to push a Zionist agenda. His hot-buttons include supposed censorship of conservative (meaning pro-Zionist and anti-Palestinian) speech at U.S. universities; uses DiscoverTheNetworks.com to attack hated leftists (unions, anti-war activists, etc.); cofounder of Horowitz Freedom Center; editor or NewsMax and FrontPage mag, collected 2005 salary of $352,647 from his Horowitz Center sponsored by Sarah Scaife, Bradley, and Olin foundations. More at: David Horowitz Profile.
The Hudson Institute
Founded by Herman Kahn, an infamous and enthusiastic advocate for nuclear warfare, The Hudson Institute has now been eclipsed in influence by AEI but was once the equivalent neo-con factor in U.S. politics, currently focuses on security issues, leadership has ties to right-wing pro-Israel groups such as Hudson’s chairman of the board Walter P. Stern who is vice president of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.
Indyk, Martin
Jewish
Influential Middle East adviser to President Bill Clinton, founded Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), research director for AIPAC, director of Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brooking’s Institute [51].
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS)
IASPS is a think-tank based in Jerusalem, most famous for producing notorious 1996 document ‘A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm’ that pressured the Israeli government to dump the peace process and adopt an aggressive posture in favor of attacking neighboring states like Syria and Iraq, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle helped write the 'Clean Break' paper.
Iraqi National Congress
Founded in 1992 with the help of a CIA-connected public-relations firm called the Rendon Group. [5]
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA)
JINSA is an advocacy group for military cooperation and sponsorship of Israel by the United States, started by Stephen and Shoshana Bryen, Michael Ledeen was the first executive director, Richard Perle is a member of JINSA’s Board of Advisers and a spokesman.
Kagan, Frederick W.
[Jewish]
Associated with PNAC's production, promotes American sponsored wars and a vastly expanded military for the United States as well as the federal spending to go along with it, brother of Robert Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.
Kagan, Robert
[Jewish]
Analyst at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; started Project for the New American Century with William Kristol in 1997 [22], appointed by Elliott Abrams to lead Office of Public Diplomacy in mid 80s to promote support for the Contras in Nicaragua, brother of Frederick Kagan, ‘Kagan’ is the Russian equivalent for ‘Cohen’ in English.
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
[Christian]
Works for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Kohr, Howard
AIPAC's executive director, under FBI investigation in the Franklin case. [13]
Kovner, Bruce
[Jewish]
Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute, chairman of the hedge fund Caxton Associates, Forbes ranked as 85th richest American [42], uses wealth to support the New York Sun newspaper, AEI, influence politicians, and bankroll special interest groups.
Kristol, William (Bill)
[Jewish]
Weekly Standard editor; started Project for the New American Century with Robert Kagan in 1997 [22]; board of trustees member at Manhattan Institute.
Ledeen, Michael
[Jewish]
Member of American Enterprise Institute (AEI), has consulting firm 'Benador Associates', on JINSA Board of Advisors with Bryen, consultant for OSP [8] “Since the Iraq war, Feith's office has also lobbied hard within the US government for a confrontational posture vis-a-vis Iran and Syria, including actions aimed at destabilizing both governments - policies which, in addition to the ousting of Saddam, have been strongly and publicly urged by prominent, hardline neo-conservatives, such as Perle, Feith and Perle's associate at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Michael Ledeen, among others.” [1]
Libby (Liebowitz), Lewis 'Scooter'
[Jewish]
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, worked as a liaison between Feith's Pentagon policy office that extracted one-sided, unverified intelligence, and VP Dick Cheney via the White House. Libby was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice but had his prison sentence commuted by President George W. Bush. Libby is suspected of being an intelligence agent working for Israel's Mossad.
Lieberman, Senator Joe
[Jewish]
Vocal advocate for military action against Iraq and Iran, labeled the neo-conservative Democrat but aligns with Republicans on foreign policy, member of the Committee on the Present Danger, the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, adviser to the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Lipsky, Seth
[Jewish]
Neo-con, runs the New York Sun “a paper that functions as a journalistic SWAT team against individuals and institutions seen as hostile to Israel and Jews,” supposedly a popular read in the ‘think-tank’ crowd. The Sun loses $1 million a month but continuous funding is provided by rich backers. Lipsky’s heroes include Ronald Reagan, “Ze'ev Jabotinsky (the militant Zionist who admired Mussolini), Menachem Begin and Ariel Sharon”, founding editor of the Forward newspaper called “the bible for the Yiddish-speaking masses of Manhattan's Lower East Side.” [42]
Lowell, Abbe
DC lawyer hired to defend AIPAC, defends Rosen in Franklin case.
Luti, William
Protégé of Newt and aide in 1996, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Near East affairs, ran cell Office of Special Plans, or OSP inside Pentagon with Wolfowitz and Feith, Luti came to the Pentagon from the office of Vice President Cheney, retired Navy captain.
Luttwak, Edward
[Jewish]
Currently a Senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), served as a consultant to Office of the Secretary of Defense, National Security Council, Department of State, and the U.S. military. Edward Luttwak is a notorious freestyle historian and another ‘expert’ on war and international relations, a real piece of work even for the genre with plenty of ‘solutions’ that are great for everyone else but would never apply to anyone he cared about. Luttwak displays the startlingly misapplied intelligence so characteristic of many neo-cons and think-tank spawned advisors that morph from obscure bookish analysts into outspoken advocates that write op-ed pieces and haunt the Sunday morning TV talk-shows to sell the public and the politicians on self-defeating policies. Luttwak is currently promoting the incitement of ethnic strife and internal divisions inside Iran as a 'solution' to regional problems for the U.S. government. [39]
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
Funds the Project for the New American Century , the American Enterprise Institute, and the American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC). [14]
Maloof, F. Michael
Former aide to Perle in 1980s Pentagon, twice stripped of security clearance.
Manhattan Institute
‘Think tank’ for influencing political decision-making to favor conservative policies; heavy influence of lawyers and wealthy investors; writes policy script for presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani; see also William Kristol, Paul Singer.
Middle East Forum
The Middle East Forum is a self-described think tank that crafts information to direct the Middle East foreign policy of the United States towards serving the interests of Israel; “a fanatically pro-Zionist white paper mill”. [49] See also: Eleana Benador.
Moskowitz, Irving
[Jewish]
Irving Moskowitz is a millionaire and ardent Zionist who gained riches buying and selling hospitals and running bingo gambling halls; converted gambling business into tax-free charitable organ that uses cash to fund neo-con organizations in the US like the Hudson Institute, AEI, JINSA, and CSP, and illegal settlement groups in Israel; wife Cherna promoted assassination of ‘pro-peace’ Israeli leaders.
Office of Special Plans (OSP)
Rogue planning cell; not officially part of the intelligence community and is thus immune to congressional oversight.
Perle, Richard
[Jewish]
Worked as chairman of Defense Policy Board (DPB); Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy during Reagan era; worked at AEI; once aide to Senator Henry Jackson; in 2003 co-authored book An End to Evil with Frum.
Pipes, Daniel
[Jewish]
Rabid and prolific pro-Israel, anti-Islam writer and speaker; connected to the Middle East Forum; advises Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Middle East affairs.
Pletka, Danielle
Prominent and outspoken member of AEI, continually promoting war on Iraq, aggression against Iran, torture as state policy, and similar neo-con views. Australian born, member of Committee on the Present Danger, gained experience manipulating U.S. Middle East foreign policy working with Senator Jesse Helms on Senate Intelligence Committee, signatory member of Project for the New American Century.
Podhoretz, Norman
[Jewish]
Described as the godfather of neo-conservativism
Project for the New American Century(PNAC)
Center for the neo-conservative vision. Sets out plans for expanding and exploiting United States military power to further the neo-con agenda around the world. [15]
Rhode, Harold
Colleague of Feith, ”… once described himself as Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz's chief adviser on Islam.” [1] speaks Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish, and Farsi.
Rice, Condoleeza
[Christian]
Secretary of State, has close ties to AIPAC and speaks at their meetings.
Rosen, Steven
[Jewish]
Former director of foreign policy issues at AIPAC. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Rosen from staff.
Rosenberg, Joel C.
[Christian, Jewish background]
Has worked with Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Natan Sharansky, the Heritage Foundation, and many other neo-cons, Formed the consulting company November Communications, written several novels about events in the Middle East based on Biblical prophecies, popular with Christians and Jews, see Epicenter book review below.
Rumsfeld, Donald
[Christian]
Former Secretary of Defense responsible for the actions of the Defense Department.
Sharansky, Natan
[Jewish]
Dedicated Zionist, idolized by neo-cons, Carter and Reagan got Sharansky out of the USSR in spy deal, immediately goes to Israel and becomes active with extreme views and multiple roles in Israeli government, advocates sole Jewish control over Jerusalem and no peace deals with neighbors, wrote book: The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny & Terror, calls U.S. policy a continuum with his friends Abrams, Perle, Feith, Libby, and Wolfowitz all connected through either Senator ‘Scoop’ Jackson or the Reagan administration, Bush’s terrorism speech rhetoric drawn from Sharansky’s own words, board member at Peace Watch, chairman of Coordination Forum for Countering Anti-Semitism (CFCA), more <>.
Schmitt‚ Gary
Executive director of the Project for the New American Century, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Shulsky.
Shulsky,Abram N.
[Jewish]
Director of OSP, Senate intelligence committee staffer for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, wrote book called Silent Warfare with Schmitt.
Singer, Paul E.
[Jewish]
Former corporate lawyer, now the secretive billionaire owner of Elliott Associates hedge fund, started ‘vulture’ style investment funds buying up debt from poor countries and then through lawsuits and interest payments collecting more than the original amount of the loan; funds Rudolph Giuliani’s presidential campaign; Giuliani’s senior policy adviser on the Middle East; advocates bombing Iran, active use of U.S. military force and supporting Israel; JINSA board member [47]; Manhattan Institute trustee.
Stern, Walter P.
[Jewish]
Chairman of the Hudson Institute, Vice President of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a director of the America-Israel Friendship League.
The Israel Project (TIP)
Founded by Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, The Israel Project (TIP) is yet another front organization manipulating U.S. policy-makers with its donor-based cash machine while promoting Israel as a paragon of peace, equality, and … you know the routine; headquarters in Jerusalem and Washington DC; TIP slogan: “We fight the war of words and images to make our global Jewish family safer.” What’s notable about TIP is the board of advisors that includes Senators Chambliss (R-GA), Coleman, (R-MN), Nelson (D-FL), Santorum (R-PA), Spector (R-PA), Wyden (D-OR), and Representatives Andrews (D-NJ), Berkley (D-NV), Davis (R-VA), Engel (D-NY), Pallone (D-NJ), Porter (R-NV), Saxton (R-NJ), Sherman (D-CA), Wilson (R-SC). Robert and Yadelle Sklare are listed as funding TIP Jerusalem.
Washington Institute for Near EastPolicy
A 'think tank' founded by Martin Indyke and AIPAC in the mid 1980s to influence federal policy-makers. See also: John P. Hannah [18] and the Hudson Institute.
Weissman, Keith
Senior Middle East analyst at AIPAC and Iran specialist. Public scrutiny forced AIPAC to cut Weissman from staff.
Wolfowitz, Paul
[Jewish]
Former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Defense in Bush administration, created Pentagon unit to manage all military counter-intelligence operations called Counter Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) later accused of domestic spying [20], moved into position as President of World Bank. “[I]t is hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces and his army - hard to imagine." - Paul Wolfowitz to a Congressional committee in 2003.
Woolsey, James
[Christian]
Former CIA director, co-chairs the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), member of and advisor to Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Chairman of Freedom House. advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), advocates war on Iraq, Iran and Syria, pro-nuclear weapons and U.S. missile dominance, multiple business interests like Benador Associates, is the VP for defense industry consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton.
Wurmser, David
[Jewish]
Director of Middle East studies for AEI, recruited by Feith and Rhode to be Pentagon consultant, wanted U.S. support for the Iraqi National Congress (INC), “spent years calling for a pre-emptive invasion of Baghdad” senior adviser to Undersecretary of State John Bolton [5], wrote 1999 book: ‘Tyranny's Ally: America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein’, married to Meyrav Wurmser.
Wurmser, Meyrav
[Jewish]
Director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Hudson Institute, stated that neo-cons used their influence in the Bush administration to block UN pressure to halt Israel's attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanon during the short 2006 war that ultimately ended in retreat after Israel failed to achieve the publicly stated military and political objectives: "The neo-cons are responsible for the fact that Israel got a lot of time and space ... They believed that Israel should be allowed to win." [35], married to David Wurmser.
Zakheim, Dr. Dov
[Jewish]
The Pentagon's chief financial officer from 2001 to 2004, signed Project for the New American Century, currently (2006) a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. ''In 2003, I don't think anybody predicted it [the war on Iraq] would go as long as World War II and the wear and tear on equipment would be as intense.'' [32]
Zell, L. Marc
Former law partner with Feith, served as a spokesman in Israel for the Jewish settler movement on the occupied West Bank.
Zionist Organization of America
Self description: “fighting for the Jewish people and the Land of Israel”; works to expunge criticism of Israel and Zionism from public discourse while expanding ties between Israel and the United States, billionaire Sheldon Adelson a major funder.
Zoellick, Robert
[Jewish]
Bush W. administration’s deputy secretary of state, former U.S. trade representative, vice chairman of international operations at investment bank Goldman Sachs, former consultant for the Enron corporation, current president of World Bank; pushes hard for ‘free trade’ agreements with particular focus on poor and developing countries.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.~Herm Albright~
Monday, November 17, 2008
Why marijuana is illegal/Harry Anslinger and DuPont
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 — August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.
Why marijuana is illegal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwsuW834K4&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger (Mellon's nephew-in law)
Some of his critics allege that Anslinger, DuPont petrochemical interests and William Randolph Hearst together created the highly sensational anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor. Hemp was not however so competitive in the real world, oil was cheap in the 1930s; more about that in article hemp. Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure (1934), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign, aimed at alarming the public, became his primary focus as part of the government's broader push to outlaw all drugs.[6]
Members of the League of Nations had already implemented restrictions for marijuana in the beginning of the 1930s and restrictions started in many states in U.S years before Anslinger was appointed. Both president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Attorney General publicly supported this development in 1935.[6]
http://www.reefermadness.org/propaganda/essay.html
In the early days of our nation, the hemp plant (a.k.a. cannabis) proved a valuable resource for hundreds of years, instrumental in the making of fabric, paper and other necessities. This changed during the Industrial Revolution, which rendered tree-pulp papermaking and synthetic fibers more cost-effective through the rise of assembly line manufacturing methods. A more efficient way of utilizing hemp was a bit slower in coming.It was not until the early 1930's that a new technique for using hemp pulp for papermaking was developed by the Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the patenting of the hemp decorticator (a machine that revolutionized the harvesting of hemp). These innovations promised to reduce the cost of producing hemp-pulp paper to less than half the cost of tree-pulp paper. Since hemp is an annually renewable source, which requires minimal chemical treatment to process, the advent of hemp pulp paper would allegedly have been better for the environment than the sulfuric acid wood-pulping process. Hemp had many champions, who predicted that its abundance and versatility would soon revitalize the American economy. William Randolph Hearst, media mogul, billionaire and real-life model for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, had different ideas. His aggressive efforts to demonize cannabis were so effective, they continue to color popular opinion today.In the early 1930's, Hearst owned a good deal of timber acreage; one might say that he had the monopoly on this market. The threatened advent of mass hemp production proved a considerable threat to his massive paper-mill holdings -- he stood to lose many, many millions of dollars to the lowly hemp plant. Hearst cleverly utilized his immense national network of newspapers and magazines to spread wildly inaccurate and sensational stories of the evils of cannabis or "marihuana," a phrase brought into the common parlance, in part due to frequent mentions in his publications.
The sheer number of newspapers, tabloids, magazines and film reels that Hearst controlled enabled him to quickly and to effectively inundate American media with this propaganda. Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who threatened to steal American jobs and African-Americans who had long been the subject of white American venom (see accompanying articles). An ironic side-note: much of this racism had already been perpetrated by the propaganda of Hearst, an unabashed racist. The American people had already developed irrational hatred for these racial groups, and so readily accepted the ridiculous stories of their crazed crimes incited by marihuana use.
Hearst was not alone in his scheme to destroy hemp production. The new techniques also made hemp a viable option for fabric and plastics, two areas of manufacturing which together with paper seriously threatened DuPont chemicals, which at this time specialized in the chemical manufacturing of synthetic fiber and plastics, and the process of pulping paper. In fact, Hearst and Lammont DuPont had a multi-million dollar deal in the works for joint papermaking. So these two moguls, together with DuPont's banker, Andrew Mellon, bravely joined forces to stave off the bitter onrush of bankruptcy. They combined Hearst's yellow journalism campaign (so called because the paper developed through his and DuPont's methods aged prematurely) and the appointment of Mellon's nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to Commissioner of the newly created Federal Bureau of Narcotics in order to successfully stamp out the threat of hemp production.This document may be reproduced whole or in part for "Reefer Madness" promotional purposes.
Andrew William Mellon (March 24, 1855 — August 27, 1937) was an American banker, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector and Secretary of the Treasury from March 4, 1921 until February 12, 1932.
Why marijuana is illegal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzwsuW834K4&feature=related
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Anslinger (Mellon's nephew-in law)
Some of his critics allege that Anslinger, DuPont petrochemical interests and William Randolph Hearst together created the highly sensational anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor. Hemp was not however so competitive in the real world, oil was cheap in the 1930s; more about that in article hemp. Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure (1934), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign, aimed at alarming the public, became his primary focus as part of the government's broader push to outlaw all drugs.[6]
Members of the League of Nations had already implemented restrictions for marijuana in the beginning of the 1930s and restrictions started in many states in U.S years before Anslinger was appointed. Both president Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Attorney General publicly supported this development in 1935.[6]
http://www.reefermadness.org/propaganda/essay.html
In the early days of our nation, the hemp plant (a.k.a. cannabis) proved a valuable resource for hundreds of years, instrumental in the making of fabric, paper and other necessities. This changed during the Industrial Revolution, which rendered tree-pulp papermaking and synthetic fibers more cost-effective through the rise of assembly line manufacturing methods. A more efficient way of utilizing hemp was a bit slower in coming.It was not until the early 1930's that a new technique for using hemp pulp for papermaking was developed by the Department of Agriculture, in conjunction with the patenting of the hemp decorticator (a machine that revolutionized the harvesting of hemp). These innovations promised to reduce the cost of producing hemp-pulp paper to less than half the cost of tree-pulp paper. Since hemp is an annually renewable source, which requires minimal chemical treatment to process, the advent of hemp pulp paper would allegedly have been better for the environment than the sulfuric acid wood-pulping process. Hemp had many champions, who predicted that its abundance and versatility would soon revitalize the American economy. William Randolph Hearst, media mogul, billionaire and real-life model for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, had different ideas. His aggressive efforts to demonize cannabis were so effective, they continue to color popular opinion today.In the early 1930's, Hearst owned a good deal of timber acreage; one might say that he had the monopoly on this market. The threatened advent of mass hemp production proved a considerable threat to his massive paper-mill holdings -- he stood to lose many, many millions of dollars to the lowly hemp plant. Hearst cleverly utilized his immense national network of newspapers and magazines to spread wildly inaccurate and sensational stories of the evils of cannabis or "marihuana," a phrase brought into the common parlance, in part due to frequent mentions in his publications.
The sheer number of newspapers, tabloids, magazines and film reels that Hearst controlled enabled him to quickly and to effectively inundate American media with this propaganda. Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who threatened to steal American jobs and African-Americans who had long been the subject of white American venom (see accompanying articles). An ironic side-note: much of this racism had already been perpetrated by the propaganda of Hearst, an unabashed racist. The American people had already developed irrational hatred for these racial groups, and so readily accepted the ridiculous stories of their crazed crimes incited by marihuana use.
Hearst was not alone in his scheme to destroy hemp production. The new techniques also made hemp a viable option for fabric and plastics, two areas of manufacturing which together with paper seriously threatened DuPont chemicals, which at this time specialized in the chemical manufacturing of synthetic fiber and plastics, and the process of pulping paper. In fact, Hearst and Lammont DuPont had a multi-million dollar deal in the works for joint papermaking. So these two moguls, together with DuPont's banker, Andrew Mellon, bravely joined forces to stave off the bitter onrush of bankruptcy. They combined Hearst's yellow journalism campaign (so called because the paper developed through his and DuPont's methods aged prematurely) and the appointment of Mellon's nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to Commissioner of the newly created Federal Bureau of Narcotics in order to successfully stamp out the threat of hemp production.This document may be reproduced whole or in part for "Reefer Madness" promotional purposes.
Medical Marijuana Meet-up group
http://medmarijuana.meetup.com/126/
Welcome, Colorado Springs Medical Marijuana Advocates!
Location
Colorado Springs, CO 38.92-104.77 80918US
Meetups
25 so far
Members
144 Medical Marijuana Advocates
Rating
Meetup topics
Medical Marijuana, Gardening, Alternative Health, Hemp
Founded
November 30, 2006
With 2008 comes a new name, new volunteers, and a new positive spirit of learning available.
We are an educational gathering, bringing the public, medical marijuana patients, caregivers, interested parties, and others together for the purpose of discussing answers to questions about medical marijuana in Colorado.
If you are considering the option of medical marijuana as a more reasonable alternative to narcotic and prescription medication, then this group will help provide access to other like-minded individuals. Our educational messageboard continues to provide cutting-edge information about the evolving COLORADO Medical Marijuana COMMUNITY.
If you are a Legal patient through the Colorado Department of Health's Medical Marijuana Registry and are looking for orientation, our group meetings can be of significant benefit to you. Patients helping patients in a comfortable college library atmosphere where safety is NOT anissue.
Local legal patients in the ColoradoSprings area have expressed an interest in developing a local chapter for the compassionate coalition, a national non-profit for medical marijuana. This effort is not associated with any one dispensary concern
Learn more about this Meetup Group
The Organizer has made this Meetup Group private
Its content is only available to members.
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Welcome, Colorado Springs Medical Marijuana Advocates!
Location
Colorado Springs, CO 38.92-104.77 80918US
Meetups
25 so far
Members
144 Medical Marijuana Advocates
Rating
Meetup topics
Medical Marijuana, Gardening, Alternative Health, Hemp
Founded
November 30, 2006
With 2008 comes a new name, new volunteers, and a new positive spirit of learning available.
We are an educational gathering, bringing the public, medical marijuana patients, caregivers, interested parties, and others together for the purpose of discussing answers to questions about medical marijuana in Colorado.
If you are considering the option of medical marijuana as a more reasonable alternative to narcotic and prescription medication, then this group will help provide access to other like-minded individuals. Our educational messageboard continues to provide cutting-edge information about the evolving COLORADO Medical Marijuana COMMUNITY.
If you are a Legal patient through the Colorado Department of Health's Medical Marijuana Registry and are looking for orientation, our group meetings can be of significant benefit to you. Patients helping patients in a comfortable college library atmosphere where safety is NOT anissue.
Local legal patients in the ColoradoSprings area have expressed an interest in developing a local chapter for the compassionate coalition, a national non-profit for medical marijuana. This effort is not associated with any one dispensary concern
Learn more about this Meetup Group
The Organizer has made this Meetup Group private
Its content is only available to members.
To learn more, contact the organizer directly, or you can go ahead and join the group.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Hemp Foods
http://www.hempfoods.com.au/
Planting only 6 percent of the continental United States with biomass crops such as hemp would supply all current domestic demands for oil and gas.
id you know the average American spends 33 of 40 working hours to support their need for energy? It's true; 80 percent of the total monetary living expense for everything we do is ultimately wrapped up in energy costs; from the energy it takes to make the food we eat, to fuel for the cars we drive, to the manufacturing, storage and transportation of the products we buy. And 80 percent of solid and airborne pollution in our environment can be blamed on fossil energy sources. It is estimated that America has already exhausted 80 percent of its fossil fuel reserves. Isn’t this a recipe for disaster?
Industrial hemp is the number one biomass producer on earth, meaning an actual contender for an economically competitive, clean burning fuel. Hemp has four times the biomass and cellulose potential and eight times the methanol potential of its closest competing crop - corn. Burning coal and oil are the greatest sources of acid rain; biomass fuels burn clean and contain no sulphur and produce no ash during combustion. The cycle of growing and burning biomass crops keeps the world’s carbon dioxide level at perfect equilibrium, which means that we are less likely to experience the global climactic changes (greenhouse effect) brought about by excess carbon dioxide and water vapors after burning fossil fuels. Think of all the economic opportunities that could be created by producing clean energy instead of endangering our health and safety with the last remains of an unsustainable and dirty source.
For further information on products made from 100% Hemp including homeware, lighting, bowls, jewellery and musical instruments such as didgeridoos and other eco green environmentally friendly products visit www.zeo-international.com .
For further information on Hemp Plastics visit www.hempplastic.com.
For a chart on how to produce BioDiesel from Hemp click here.
To purchase your own safe, easy to use Biodiesel production unit CONTACT US.
Planting only 6 percent of the continental United States with biomass crops such as hemp would supply all current domestic demands for oil and gas.
id you know the average American spends 33 of 40 working hours to support their need for energy? It's true; 80 percent of the total monetary living expense for everything we do is ultimately wrapped up in energy costs; from the energy it takes to make the food we eat, to fuel for the cars we drive, to the manufacturing, storage and transportation of the products we buy. And 80 percent of solid and airborne pollution in our environment can be blamed on fossil energy sources. It is estimated that America has already exhausted 80 percent of its fossil fuel reserves. Isn’t this a recipe for disaster?
Industrial hemp is the number one biomass producer on earth, meaning an actual contender for an economically competitive, clean burning fuel. Hemp has four times the biomass and cellulose potential and eight times the methanol potential of its closest competing crop - corn. Burning coal and oil are the greatest sources of acid rain; biomass fuels burn clean and contain no sulphur and produce no ash during combustion. The cycle of growing and burning biomass crops keeps the world’s carbon dioxide level at perfect equilibrium, which means that we are less likely to experience the global climactic changes (greenhouse effect) brought about by excess carbon dioxide and water vapors after burning fossil fuels. Think of all the economic opportunities that could be created by producing clean energy instead of endangering our health and safety with the last remains of an unsustainable and dirty source.
For further information on products made from 100% Hemp including homeware, lighting, bowls, jewellery and musical instruments such as didgeridoos and other eco green environmentally friendly products visit www.zeo-international.com .
For further information on Hemp Plastics visit www.hempplastic.com.
For a chart on how to produce BioDiesel from Hemp click here.
To purchase your own safe, easy to use Biodiesel production unit CONTACT US.
Marijuana Recipes
Marijuana Recipes
Most people think of marijuana as a simple drug that is meant only to be smoked in a cigar or a pipe. This is not necessarily true, however. Marijuana is a fat soluble substance, meaning that its contents (THC) get absorbed into the fat cells, which also applies to fatty things like butter and oil. This makes marijuana recipes a great idea, because the plant can be eaten in a number of ways.
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Perhaps the most popular of all marijuana recipes is the “pot brownie”. It’s important to realize that the marijuana bud is not actually an ingredient itself, but the product that is released into the butter which is a key ingredient in the brownies is. Essentially, the marijuana is cooked in the butter, and then the butter is strained thoroughly with a fine sifter, so that all of the THC has been absorbed into it. Another well know marijuana recipe is called Bhang. Bhang is a yogurt drink that is very popular in India and incorporates marijuana into the recipe.
Marijuana recipes don’t just stretch as far as using the actual buds. In fact, hemp seeds are a popular health food that a lot of people enjoy cooking with. You can purchase hemp seed energy bars, snack mixes, and other interesting food items. Marijuana can be included in a wide variety of desserts, pasta dishes, and anything that uses either butter or oil. The versatility of the plant is wide, and it can be used in all kinds of things to eat and drink. Look for some marijuana recipes online and you’ll be really surprised at what you will find. There are also people who have written entire cookbooks on the subject of cooking with marijuana. Try out a few different dishes and you’ll be a real creative cook in no time!
Copyright 1999-2006 HempNut, Inc. All rights reserved. "HempNut" is a trademark of HempNut, Inc. and is a registered trademark in California, New York and Canada. "Hempeh" is a registered trademark.HempNut, Inc.: Fine zero-THC hempseed foods since 1994.
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Most people think of marijuana as a simple drug that is meant only to be smoked in a cigar or a pipe. This is not necessarily true, however. Marijuana is a fat soluble substance, meaning that its contents (THC) get absorbed into the fat cells, which also applies to fatty things like butter and oil. This makes marijuana recipes a great idea, because the plant can be eaten in a number of ways.
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Perhaps the most popular of all marijuana recipes is the “pot brownie”. It’s important to realize that the marijuana bud is not actually an ingredient itself, but the product that is released into the butter which is a key ingredient in the brownies is. Essentially, the marijuana is cooked in the butter, and then the butter is strained thoroughly with a fine sifter, so that all of the THC has been absorbed into it. Another well know marijuana recipe is called Bhang. Bhang is a yogurt drink that is very popular in India and incorporates marijuana into the recipe.
Marijuana recipes don’t just stretch as far as using the actual buds. In fact, hemp seeds are a popular health food that a lot of people enjoy cooking with. You can purchase hemp seed energy bars, snack mixes, and other interesting food items. Marijuana can be included in a wide variety of desserts, pasta dishes, and anything that uses either butter or oil. The versatility of the plant is wide, and it can be used in all kinds of things to eat and drink. Look for some marijuana recipes online and you’ll be really surprised at what you will find. There are also people who have written entire cookbooks on the subject of cooking with marijuana. Try out a few different dishes and you’ll be a real creative cook in no time!
Copyright 1999-2006 HempNut, Inc. All rights reserved. "HempNut" is a trademark of HempNut, Inc. and is a registered trademark in California, New York and Canada. "Hempeh" is a registered trademark.HempNut, Inc.: Fine zero-THC hempseed foods since 1994.
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