Allison Bricker

THE REGION, INDIANA – The old-media’s faux-liberty shill, Glenn Beck has attempted yet again to tie Constitutionalists, Ron Paul supporters, those calling for a second 9/11 investigation, opposition to the FEDERAL RESERVE, and liberty activists to the likes of domestic terrorists and Al-Qaeda. Mr. Beck made the statement on his show Wednesday evening after self-described white supremacist, James von Brunn went on a shooting spree¹ at the “United States Holocaust Memorial Museum”.

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Without offering any source, i.e. the Associated Press, Reuters, etcetera Mr. Beck reported on air unsubstantiated innuendo² as a means to forward his personal dislike for anyone who dare question the government story on 9/11. It is worthy to note Mr. Becks’s utter contempt for those calling for a second more thorough investigation is well documented.  During a broadcast on his radio show in 2005, he tore off into a tirade over the hatred he feels towards families of 9/11 victims due to their constant “complaining”.³

Regardless of where one comes down on the issue, and subsequently following President Obama’s admission in his Cairo, Egypt speech regarding the successful C.I.A. led overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iran in 1953, there is no justification in attempting to connect those requesting a second 9/11 investigation to terrorists.

For a man who has just recently been caught  lying⁴, it is but another example of the unprofessional shills in lieu of actual reporters now employed by the old-media.

However, this is not the first time Mr. Beck has lied or reported erroneously, as just this past January when he was hell-bent on insinuating that President Obama was somehow anti-God for failing to use a Bible during a second swearing in ceremony, he fictitiously stated that he researched the issue and did not find one single President who did not use the Bible.⁵

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Unfortunately for Glenn Beck, a cursory check of history shows that Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in during a hastily arranged ceremony shortly after the death of President McKinley⁶ and thus did not use a Bible. However even more devastating to Glenn Beck’s haphazardly constructed insinuation of “no Bible = UnAmerican” is the fact that our sixth President, John Quincy Adams, an outspoken religious man, stated that he felt the Bible should be solely reserved for religious ceremonies, and thus was sworn in by Chief Justice Marshall with his hand upon an American Constitutional Law book⁷.

Consequently, perhaps the only bit of truth recently spoken by Glenn Beck came during an exchange with Barbara Walters of “The View” when he stated that he is not an investigative or any other type of reporter⁴ and that he does not check his facts prior to offering commentary upon a story. (see video)

Similarly to the old-media “M.I.A.C.-like” tactics displayed by Glenn Beck, anonymous screen name only tabloid blogger, “Left coaster” writing for the “Daily Kos” attempts to infer a link between Ron Paul and those opposed to the FEDERAL RESERVE to  the murderous antisemite  James von Brunn⁸.

Utilizing a standard so circumstantial that it would be laughed out of any court in the union, even taking into account the most liberal interpretation possible for rules of evidentiary procedure, “Left Coaster” attempts to conjoin criticizing the FEDERAL RESERVE with a sociopath  by offering up a lone comment left in a Yahoo Ron Paul for President group.

Thus, if we at “The Smoking Argus Daily” desired to stoop to either of the very low bars set by Glenn Beck or “Left Coaster” in order to rile up a small group of unsophisticated, intellectually void readers, we too could make such spurious connections in our reporting and editorializing.

Whereby, since my personal feelings on abortion could be classified as “local rule” pro-choice, should I have crafted a scathing editorial insinuating a link between all Mormons, Christians, and other opponents of abortion as packs of wild blood thirsty homicidal gun wielding maniacs, due to the cold calculated shooting of Dr. Tiller?

Alternatively, since President Obama is viewed by me as just another government puppet, then it might be possible to score some brownie points by connecting him via an official press release⁹ supporting the administration’s pick for N.O.A.A. issued by the “Sea Shepherd Conservation Society”. After all, the organization is headed up by environmental extremist, Captain Paul Watson who as the video to the left indicates, thinks that in order to “protect” the rain forest, fellow environmentalists should “rise up and rip loggers limb from limb”.

Would it somehow prove that all abortion opponents approve of murdering doctors in order to “spread” the pro-life message, or that all environmentalists support Mr. Watson’s demented desire to tear apart fellow humans¹⁰ as a rational way to protect the environment?

Therefore, this is purely a myopic tactic employed by those who see collective group-think as an effective strategy to keep us divided in to neat and manageable “people-groups”, thereby tethered ad infinitum to the false left/right paradigm. It is not now, nor shall it ever be as long as “The Smoking Argus Daily” remains edited and published by me, to allow any post to strive for the lowest common denominator, nor view our loyal readers in such an unsophisticated contemptuous manner.

Finally, with both “Fox News” and “Daily-Kos” attempting to pigeonhole the freedom movement as “dangerous”, “radical”, or somehow equated to lunatics like James von Brunn, it can only really mean one thing. Those of us who desire to see the Constitution/Republic Restored, the abolition of the FEDERAL RESERVE, et al are making progress to a degree which has risen to rattling the cages of the status quo.

Thus with H.R. 1207 “The FEDERAL RESERVE Transparency Act of 2009″ currently sitting at 218 222 co-sponsors¹¹ and with Chairman Bernake & Co. opting to hire a public relations firm¹² to combat mounting scrutiny over their deviousness, individuals are beginning to see through the transparent “plastic-wrap” shills of the old-media for what they truly are; agents of division.

Source(s): ¹AP NEWS BRIEF: “Gunman, 88, opens fire at crowded Holocaust Museum and kills guard before being shot himself”, published June 10, 2009 • ²Fox News “Glenn Beck” aired June 10th, 2009 • ³Premiere Radio Networks “The Glenn Beck Program” aired September 2005 • ⁴ ABC “The View” aired May 20, 2009 • ⁵ Fox News “Glenn Beck” aired January 22, 2009 • ⁶ Foreign Press Centers, U.S. Department of State “Presidential Inaugurations Past and Present: A Look at the History Behind the Pomp and Circumstance”, January 13, 2005 • ⁷ “The Statesman’s Manual” by Edwin Williams, pg. 649, published by Edward Walker, 1846 • ⁸ Daily Kos “NeoNazi Killer’s Racist Rant in Ron Paul Yahoo Group” by “Left Coaster”, published June 10, 2009 • ⁹ Sea Shepherd News “NOAA Is On The Right Track With Obama”, published March 20, 2009 • ¹⁰ 2003 Los Angeles Animal Rights Convention, speech by Cptn. Paul Watson • ¹¹ Campaign For Liberty “H.R. 1207 Passes 218 Co-sponsors” published June 11, 2009 • ¹² Reuters “Fed hiring veteran lobbyist: source” By Mark Felsenthal, published June 5, 2009•

Jeff Lewis

In his speech at Cairo University this past Thursday, June 4, 2009, President Obama openly admitted that the United States was responsible for the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Iran in 1953. He also announced an aggressive policy initiative designed to produce creation of a separate state for the Palestinians, who have been under occupation by Israel for the past sixty plus years. President Obama stated that the agreement to be reached would contain all issues in writing and not have any “sub rosa” agreements, like the previous  “Roadmap to Peace”, agreement in 2002, between the Israelis and Palestinians.² In that accord, Israel agreed not to build any additional settlements in the occupied West Bank region, however it was recently revealed by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that President Bush promised orally he would disregard that condition in the peace agreement.¹

These stunning revelations were given almost no attention during the Sunday morning’s battery of old media corporate news summaries. On “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace”, William Cristal and Charles Krauthammer criticized President Obama for talking nice to the Palestinians and ignoring Iran’s alleged plans for nuclear weapons capability. For the record, President Obama’s speech to his Arabic audience was interrupted thirty times with applause, primarily because he was the first American President to speak to them with respect and cultural deference.

The preoccupation with Iran’s nuclear development program concerns, of course, the possibility that they will expand their technology from peaceful energy production into ballistic missle tchnology. The assumption of many Western leaders is that Iran would then use that nuclear weapon against Israel. No opponent of Iran’s nuclear program has broached the question, “Why would they risk the certain retaliation that would destroy their own country?” The only person on the planet that fits that scenario is Kim Jong-il, of North Korea. A nuclear bomb dropped on Tel Aviv would take out millions of neighboring Arabs, as well. As goofy as Iranian President Ahmadinejad is, can he be in a position to unilaterally cause the destruction of his own country? To believe that the Iranians are pathologically suicidal is a real stretch, for me. Do not get me wrong, I do not feel that Iran having a nuclear weapon bodes well for anyone. However, could they present a more precarious possibility than currently exists in Pakistan, a country with an estimated 60 nuclear warheads at its disposal? Can the C.I.A. be relied upon to steer the U.S. through this perilous situation with sufficient intelligence? If so, they are going to have to get better in a hurry.

The C.I.A. has conducted covert foreign policy since its inception following W.W.II. Notably, most of their activity was in the Western Hemisphere, early on. In Guatemala in the ’50s, the C.I.A. was responsible for changing governments to please the United Fruit Company’s Guatamalan operations³. In the ’60s, they were involved in the Dominican Republic and were responsible for the demise of Che Guevara, a Castro revolutionary contemporary that attempted to export Cuban Communism to the South American continent. In the ’70s, they were behind the ouster of democratically elected socialist leader of Chile, Salvador Allende and replaced him with the brutal right wing Augusto Pinochet as dictator.

The recent flap with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, over whether the C.I.A. lied to her is not a stretch to the imagination, based on history, at least. The C.I.A.’s credibility became an issue most recently in former Vice President Dick Cheney’s vigorous attempt to rewrite the history of his involvement in urging the Bush administration to go to war in Iraq, as he now contends that C.I.A. director George Tenet, mislead them with false intelligence. In denouncing Tenet, Cheney went so far as to recant his consistent claim that Al-Qeada was involved directly with Saddam Hussein⁴ and said, in a complete reversal, that the C.I.A. never produced any evidence that such was the case. It makes one wonder if former Vice-President Cheney is aware that his statements are all recorded on video tape. “How could a man lie so?” you ask? The result of practice, no doubt.

For his part, President Obama put himself all the way out there on delivering a substantive peace initiative between the Israelis and the Palestinians. This conflict is the root cause of the accumulated hatred of the U.S, among Arabic countries. The favorability ratings of public opinion toward the U.S. among indigenous Arabs are in single digits, according to a 2007 Pew Research survey⁵. The American public is pitifully ignorant of the history of that region, which is the cause of Arab enmity toward us. In his speech, Obama stated the suffering of European Jews at the hands of Hitler’s holocaust and historical persecution are the basis of American sympathy and support for the Jewish homeland in the Middle East. For their part, Arab sentiment regarding that view is generally, “Yes, the Holocaust was terrible, but we had nothing to do with that”.

The state of Israel was created after WWII when several hundred thousand European Jewish refugees immigrated to Palestine, which had been a British Protectorate, as a result of the Sykes-Picot Agreement⁶ between England and France. The agreement divided the Middle East territory, which was formerly the domain of the Turkish Ottoman Empire following WWI, between the two European powers. As the Jewish immigrant population mushroomed, fighting broke out between the indigenous Palestinians. British authorities grew tired and frustrated of trying to maintain the civil order, and pulled out in 1948. In this power vacuum, the state of Israel was created and was attacked from virtually all sides. An atmosphere of peace has never existed since then. Wars, conflicts, and peace attempts have only served to make the situation increasingly complicated and polarized.

President Obama has committed his entire foreign policy A Team: Secretary of State Clinton, former Senator and successful negotiator of peace in Northern Ireland, George Mitchell, and former Bosnian negotiator and current US Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard C. Holbroke to the task. The paucity of leadership from the Palestinians and the fragile coalition of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government make the goal of two coexistent states daunting, at best. President Obama has managed to fill his foreign plate as full as his domestic plate in the short time span of less than five months. He has wasted no time in bringing change, as promised. However, is it, “Change We Can Believe In?” Time will tell, soon enough.

Source(s): ¹The U.K. Independent “Netanyahu cites secret deal with Bush to justify more settlements” published, June 3rd, 2009 • ²BBC “The Road Map: Full Text”, published April 30, 2003 • ³“Beneath the United States”, by Lars Shoultz,page 340. Harvard University Press, 1998 • ⁴CNN “Cheney: No Link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11″ published June 1, 2009 • ⁵Pew Research Center Publications: Foreign Policy, Not Public Diplomacy Mostly Determines How the World Views America” published November 1, 2007 •⁶ Department of State, “International Boundary Study No. 94 – December 30, 1969″ •

Allison Bricker

CAIRO, EGYPT -  In his speech today, President Obama acknowledged and apologized for the United States’ role in the 1953 CIA/British backed overthrow of the democratically elected Iranian government. This marks the first time in history that a United States President has ever publicly spoken about U.S. involvement of the 1953 coup. The operation codenamed, Operation Ajax, was a classified CIA mission headed up by Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of former President Theodore Roosevelt tasked with carrying out  a covert regime change of then Prime Minister Mossaddeq’s government. The overthrow came shortly after he [Mossaddeq] nationalized Iranian oil fields which had formerly been under the control of British Petroleum. Operation Ajax would be the first among several successful CIA backed coup d’états.

Former Presidential Candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, spoke to this type of aggressive foreign policy during the 2008 Republican Presidential Primaries. In a now infamous exchange between Dr. Paul and former New York Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, Dr. Paul educated Mayor Giuliani on the 9/11 Commission report’s sentiments and the CIA definition of the word ‘blowback’ as consequences to the continued practice of  suc imperial interventionism.

Source(s): Breitbart “Obama admits US involvement in Iran coup in 1953″ •  CIA.gov “All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror”