THE PEARL HARBOR SMOKING GUN

MCCOLLUM'S MEMO: EIGHT POINTS TO TOTAL WAR

In his research for Day of Deceit, the Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor, Robert Stinnett was assisted greatly by the Freedom of Information Act (explicitly thanking the act's author, Rep. John Moss) and by Oliver Stone, whose film JFK had put public pressure on President Clinton to declassify sheaves of secret files in the mid-1990s. Some of these apparently went back well before Kennedy's time, entering Stinnett's radar field – the Pearl Harbor attack. He describes receiving bundles of documents not seen since 1941, "covered with dust, tightly bunched together in the boxes and tied with unusual waxed twine." [1]

Stinnett's prime discovery was a top-secret October 7, 1940 memo by Lt. Commander Arthur H. McCollum, head of the Far East Division at the Office of Naval Intelligence. Written less than two weeks after Japan signed its mutual defense pact with Italy and Germany, this memo was the source of Roosevelt's provocation policy. McCollum saw in the new tripartite pact a way into the European war, and besides, as Stinnett explained it, McCollum "felt that war with Japan was inevitable and that the United States should provoke it at a time which suited US interests." [2] McCollum's memo advocated eight specific actions that he predicted would lead to a Japanese "mistake:" These were listed as:

A. Make an arrangement with Britain for the use of British bases in the pacific, particularly Singapore.
B. Make an arrangement with Holland for use of base facilities and acquisition of supplies in the Dutch East Indies.
C. Give all possible aid to the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-shek.
D. Send a division of long-range heavy cruisers to the Orient, Philippines, or Singapore.
E. Send two divisions of submarines to the Orient.
F. Keep the main strength of the US Fleet, now in the Pacific, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands.
G. Insist that the Dutch refuse to grant Japanese demands for undue economic concessions, particularly oil.
H. Completely embargo all trade with Japan, in collaboration with a similar embargo imposed by the British Empire." [3]

Read the entire memo at the excellent Wikipedia pageon the subject.

Lt. Commander Arthur H. McCollum, author of Roosevelt's Japan provocation policy

Most of the recommended actions were basically provocation, signaling a U.S. encroachment on Japan's emerging Pacific empire. The embargo would leave Japan strangulated and desperate, especially for oil, which the US had already embargoed in July. Basing talk would be seen as a threat of belligerence. But point "F" is particularly interesting; "keep the main strength of the US Fleet… in the vicinity of the Hawaiian islands." They would then be within striking range of Japan, which is a two-way street - it would be seen by Japan as a real threat, and it would put the fleet in the range of pre-emptive strikes by Japan. It meant putting U.S. sailors in harm's way, which was of course the key to the provocation working.

The plan was apparently premised on provoking Japan to carry out a well-known tactic of theirs. In 1905, Japan had found itself at war with Russia over disputes in the Pacific – Japan won the conflict by wiping out Russia's weak naval forces at Port Arthur with a surprise naval raid before hostilities officially opened. It was underhanded but it worked, handing Japan the first victory of an Asian over a European power. Port Arthur signaled the rise of the "rising sun" which was at its zenith as McCollum wrote his eight points.

Stinnett explained the memo was that very evening forwarded to "two of Roosevelt's most trusted military advisers." FDR was apparently impressed with the memo, and the next day set to implementing the pivotal point "F." This was his October 8 meeting with Admiral Richardson that led to the great falling out. After a year of such moves, as predicted, Japan decided to respond to the U.S. provocation policy with a Port Arthur-type surprise attack to cripple America's navy a the outset. Top Japanese commanders felt this was the only way to survive war with the U.S., which by then seemed unavoidable.

Whatever the case regarding the old arguments - like the aircraft carriers - this memo proves that provoking and allowing the Japanese attack really was the plan. It has shifted the debate entirely, turning the old "smoking guns" into newly relevant supporting evidence. What's truly odd, therefore, is that shortly after 9/11 Stinnett stopped using the memo in his arguemtns, essentially gutting his own case and conceding the field to the 12/7 coverup apologists.

Sources:
[1] Stinnett, Robert B. "The Pearl Harbor Deception." Presentation at the Independent Institute. December 2, 2002. http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=127
[2] Stinnett, Robert B. Day of Deciet: The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor. New York. Touchstone. 2000. bid. Stinnett. Page 8.
[2] Stinnett. Page 8.

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THE BLUE TARP SMUGGLING OP EXOSED

The Blue Tarp Smuggling Op Exposed
Adam Larson
Caustic Logic / The Frustrating Fraud
December 18 2006

The 'movers' with their box shrouded in blue mystery

I recall near the end of my days at LetsRoll 911 Made Simple running across the story of what I'll call the "blue tarp smuggling op" .. A member at LetsRoll 911 posted in December 2004 a thread titled "coffin with Blue Tarp Takin Away from Pentagon," with a link that alerted me to the above picture. [1] After I left, others there looked to recent "news reports" to clarify that this was indeed a Pentagon team removing a large crate filled with some evidence .. perhaps the chassis of the attack craft. I missed a later LetsRoll thread started by member "Sinister Dick Cheney" in September 2005: "What's Under the Blue Tarp in Crate?" SDC showed the picture and offered some guesses: "A cruise missile that turned out to be a dud? An engine from an F-16 or an A-3 Skyhawk? Rummy's super-electric nuclear-powered toothbrush?" [2]

The "news reports" leading to this conclusion seem to have been from Karl Schwarz, Jon Carlson, and Tom Flocco, all of whom have their history with controversial and downright boneheaded theories. In April 2005, Karl Schwarz told radio listeners that "there's a lot you can tell about the shape of that wing even though it is underneath that blue tarp. That wing is a configuration of an A3, not a 757." The following month Flocco in weighed in with an implausible narrowing of the case to: "a group of military personnel and federal officials in suits tightly covered the piece of wreckage with a blue tarp and carried it away to a waiting truck. No reporters or independent aircraft experts have been permitted to examine any of the recovered aircraft parts and no subpoenas have been issued to hear public grand jury testimony from the 'movers.'" [3]

Jon Carlson had been running pieces on Rense.com arguing along with Schwarz for an A3 Sky Warrior as the Pentagon attack vehicle. On April 24 2006 he too mentioned the photo that "was first posted on a military server but NOW even it is gone as the link to it is dead." Carlson wondered "can this small group of men, some middle-aged and paunchy, carry the entire wing end of an A-3 over their shoulders like this? Or, could they be carrying something else entirely...perhaps some debris with human remains or blood all over it? Or some piece of classified material? We may never know the truth." [4]

I didn't look into the issue at all, although I passed it on in largely the LetsRoll context on my early blog in 2005. But the mystery was resolved to my standards at least by a certain Russell Pickering at the Pentagon Research website, whose work deserves a post of its own here soon. On a page created in late 2004 but that I just recently discovered, he summed up a refreshingly verifiable and amusingly simple explanation.

"The first clue" Pickering cited that the photo would prove irrelevant to any conspiracy theory "is that the photo was taken by the military, reviewed and then "RELEASED" to the public." Looking at it now, I see it's by Tech Sgt. Jim Varhegyi, USAF, taken at an unknown time on September 11. By the sun I'd say AM, probably about 11:00. How on earth could they have dug the plane/missile out of the wreckage within two hours, while fire was still raging inside, boxed it up, and hauled it across the lawn to the moving truck? Referring to the picture above, Pickering broke his analysis down into points:

"1) Notice that there is no significant weight on their arms.
2) Look carefully inside to see that it is hollow.
3) They are inside the guardrail carrying towards the grass.
4) There are only two trees on the Pentagon grounds. You can see one of them in the background which helps locate this shot.
5) The grass, lamp pole, guardrail and the concrete divider also provide clues to locating this shot."

Here I represent with full respects Pickering's photo analysis:

"1) See that the grass, tree, lamp pole, guardrail and the concrete divider are in the exact positions they would be in photo 1.
2) See that other tents are being used on the grounds.
3) The tent right next to the guardrail may be the one they are placing in photo 1." [5]

He re-argued his case again in April 2006 at Rense.com - the day after Carlson's piece was run - explaining the mysterious blue box was merely a service tent, this one used for decontamination of rescue and cleanup workers. [6] Also note that The two-layer blue-gray tarp is there, the white top, the right size, the right location. Only an idiot or a fool could not see - after looking at hese two pictures - that the photo that started the ruckus is of the team ten feet and one second away from setting down that tent at lower left. Any other conclusion is laughable, and all this was known and available on the internet well before 2006 when Dylan Avery ignored the facts to note vaguely in Loose Change Second Edition "employees of the Pentagon were seen carrying away a large box shrouded in blue tarp. Why the mystery?"

This was also available before the September 2005 thread at LetsRoll started by Sinister Dick Cheney. One sharp poster "Hybrid EB" responded "unless everyone is walking backwards, the blue tarp is being carried TO the Pentagon, not away from it. [..] the tarp could be a makeshift tent or covering of some sort that's completely hollow inside. So responding to your question, if all I'm given is this picture, my money goes on absolutely nothing." SDC responded: "No sorry news reports clearly said they were taking wreckage away from the Pentagon. [..] I was thinking it's something that would clearly be from a vehicle other than Flight 77. It'll remain a mystery forever we'll never know for sure." member Vodalus weighed in "whatever it is, it is very lightweight, from the way they are carrying it, so I doubt it's an engine. [..] I'd speculate on it being the remnants of the fuselage of some kind of UAV made out of a lightweight composite instead of metal. I'd also suppose that we're never going to know what it was." [7]

Hybrid responded with a brief, well-put post featuring photos like Pickering's and summarizing his explanation to show his precisely correct case. SDC was totally convinced: "Well done HybridEB! You seem to have solved a mystery just one of many mind you. Now please find for us the actual surveillance video!" Vodalus changed course as well. "the tents in the overhead shot in Hybrid's post have got to be what the guys are carrying." But luckily site administrator and grand poobah Phil Jayhan stepped in, unmoved and unconvinced. He'd been happy with the one photo and the news reports, but now that more pictures had been added, he wanted more yet. "Not enough photos to prove your point Hybrid! Good enough for Dickboy cheney, not good enough for me or us; More photo proof please!" [8]

Sources:
[1] "Coffin with Blue Tarp Takin Away from Pentagon." Posted by Snidley Whiplash, December 19 2004. LetsRoll Forum. Pentagon. http://letsrollforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4399
[2] "What's Under the Blue Tarp in Crate?" Posted by "Sinister Dick Cheney," September 4 2005. LetsRoll Forum. Pentagon. http://letsrollforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10112
[3] Flocco, Tom. "Missile & remote control systems added to small jets before 9-11; same parts found at Pentagon." May 26, 2005 http://www.tomflocco.com/fs/WitnessesLink.htm
[4] Carlson, Jon. "Pentagon 911 Blue Tarp Photo Uncovered." Rense.com. April 24 2006. http://www.rense.com/general70/tarp.htm
[5] http://www.pentagonresearch.com/090.html
[6] Pickering, Russell. "The Blue "Tarp" Is A Service Tent." April 27 2006 http://www.rense.com/general70/bluett.htm
[7], [8] See [2]. Various responses.

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MYERS, WHEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING

MYERS, WHEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING
ACTING CHAIRMAN ACTING AS IF NOTHING'S AMISS
Adam Larson
Caustic Logic/They Let It Happen
January 10 2007
Original Post

Gen. Richard Myers, CJCS from Sept. 2001-Sept. 2005

In September 2001 Air Force General Richard Myers was Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, scheduled on the 13th to be promoted and replace outgoing Chairman Henry Shelton. Myers was able to get a slight head start, taking over as acting JCS Chairman on the morning of September 11th as Shelton left on a trip to Europe on prearranged but unspecified business. [1] It was supposed to be a routine day, of course, but the nation's top military officer, and the optional number three link in the National Defense Chain of Command was filled at the last moment by Myers, who took the spot just as the day's JCS/NORAD war games, and the 9/11 hijackings, began.

But he while he was, perhaps unwittingly, caught in a ready-made conspiracy theory crossfire, Myers was not in the thick of things during the battle of the World Trade Center or even the Pentagon strike. According to American Forces Press Service, Myers:

"was on Capitol Hill that morning in the offices of Georgia Sen. Max Cleland to discuss his confirmation hearing to become chairman. While in an outer office, he said, he saw a television report that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. "They thought it was a small plane or something like that," Myers said. So the two men went ahead with the office call. Meanwhile, the second World Trade Center tower was hit by another jet. "Nobody informed us of that," Myers said. "But when we came out, that was obvious. Then, right at that time, somebody said the Pentagon had been hit." [2]

Myers' recollection, then, was that his fifty-minute meeting with Cleland (apparently from about 8:50 to 9:40) just sort of eclipsed the whole attack for him. Are we to believe that no one would bother to interrupt the Acting JCS Chairman, perhaps legally required to coordinate the defense, for over a half an hour after the second plane hit? This was the point at which everybody else, even President Bush, realized we were under attack. It was bigger and uglier and closer to home than Pearl Harbor by far, and Myers says nobody pulled his head out of the sand for him at all, that he just stumbled into awareness after his meeting had run its course, at the moment the third plane hit.

Myers then drove across town to the NMCC beneath the wounded Pentagon, which he later described as "essentially my battle station when things are happening." [3] Or in this case, as things just got done happening. The 9/11 Commission says he arrived and joined the conference in session just before 10:00. [4] The last plane, Flight 93, crashed at 10:06 and the attack was over.

Sources:
[1] Balz, Dan and Bob Woodward. "America's Chaotic Road to War: Bush's Global Strategy Began to Take Shape in First Frantic Hours After Attack." Washington Post. January 27, 2002. Page A01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42754-2002Jan26
[2] Rhem, Kathleen, Sgt. 1st Class. "Myers and Sept. 11: "We Hadn't Thought About This."" American Forces Press Service. October 23, 2001 Accessed November 6, 2004 at: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2001/n10232001_200110236.html
[3] General Richard B. Myers, Senate Confirmation Hearing. Senate Armed Services Committee. September 13, 2001. Accessed August 5, 2005 at: http://www.attackonamerica.net/genrichardbmyerssenateconfirmationhearing9132001.htm
[4] 9/11 Commission Final Report. Page 38.

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Caustic Logic
Current mood: okay

Okay, this is a follow-up to that post about my book to let anyone who cares know it's now up as a website, along with most of my 9/11 research and some other stuff on four big blogsites at Blogger. The "Caustic Logc Hub" is where you can link to all four. It's good stuff, 101-301 level stuff for people who'd seriously like an insight into what's goin on the world and what has come before. And thanks to Myra for her suuport and linking to it from her Myspace page as well.

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Me Big Brain Write Pretentious Book

Hey everybody! I've not been on here much lately as I'm busy working on a book called "Weaponized Nonviolence in the New Cold War: The Western Use of Civil Insurgency in the Post-Soviet Space, 2003-2006." It's fascinating stuff, and should be done before the summer is over. Following is a working table of contents - if these headings don't intrigue you, the book probably won't. Anybody who's interested, lemme know and I'll put you on the list to get a copy when it's done. (It'll be self-published via photocopier until someone picks it up)
I Bloodless War, from One Cold War to the Next ----------------------- 1
Union vs. Union at the end of the Cold War
Turn of the Century: The Stage is set
Nonviolent Warfare: Gene Sharp and Colonel Helvey
The Support Networks: A Bi-Partisan Effort
Its All in the Timing
II Breaking the Fear: Yugoslavia and the Otpor Precedent ------------ 9
The Wests Strategy for Yugoslavia: Divide and Conquer
A Capitalist Conspiracy?
The Limits of Air Power
The Fist of the Young and the Bulldozer Revolution
Helping Hands Behind the Fist: The Hungary Connection
Aftermath: Fallout, Radioactive and Political
A New Direction for Otpor: Eastward
III No Saddam, No to Peace -------------------------------------------- 18
The Limits of Nonviolence
No to Saddam
No to Peace
IV A Bold First Move: Georgia and the Rose Revolution ----------- 22
Georgias Place on the Chessboard
The Opposition: Saakashvili
The Movement: Kmara and Liberty Institute
The revolution and the New Order
V The Big Prize: Ukraine and the Orange Sunrise --------------- 28
The Big Prize on the Eurasian Chessboard
Pora: High Time for a revolution
Yushchenko: The Scarred Face of the Future
The Orange revolution Begins
Help from Inside and Out
Bridgehead over Troubled Waters
VI The Bridgehead Meets the Bulkhead in Central Asia -------- 38
Power Plays in Central Asia: Shanghai and Kabul
Russias Grip on Kyrgyzstan
The Opposition Gathers / the Tulip Revolution
Insurrection: An Uglier Revolution
Uzbekistan: Terror vs. Terror
Lock-Down Uprising The Andijan Massacre
A Victory for the Eurasian Bloc: July 5 and After
VII The Revolutions that Were Not --------------------------------- 50
The Soviet Sphere: where Next?
Belarus: Eastward Pull, Failed Western Parries
Zubr and the Attempted Jeans Revolution
The Moldovan Dilemma
VIII Bloodless for How Long? The Dangers and Downfalls of the Utopian Model --- 58
So far unorganized summary chapter

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Satellite Communications
Current mood: accomplished
Category: Life

Okay, so Addicted says blogs are fun (more fun than school work obviously) amd Shannon says they're good stress relief. Well I'm not stressed at the moment but i was yesterday so in case anyone cares here's the story of my phone. Once I had a nice cell phone that I dropped in the toilet and it died. I bought the cheapest replacement Cricket had, a huge old green thing that would barely hold a charge. But now that i'm trying to hang out with people and impress the ladies that was inadequate so I took an old but better phone a friend sent me up to the Cricket store where they told me they couldn't work with it becuase it wasn't a Cricket phone but a Sprint one. So I went to the Sprint store and they said it wasn't a Sprint phone either but for some company that doesn't exist on this coast. So I went ahead and set up a brand new account with a free phone - with a COLOR screen! Wow! I walked all the way home excited and then found the phone wasn't in the box! Sooo... I walked all the way back, then to work to walk around all night emptying garbages. I now have sore legs and a working, reliable phone tho my daytime calling is limited. So... anybody want my phone number just ask.

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Why I'm not doing the blog thing

I'm not bored and I'm not here to kill time.

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