Tim Russert died last week as I'm sure you all know.  While I have nothing against him as a person and I sympathize with his family for their loss, the loss to honest journalism will be minimal at best. His contribution to keeping the public informed about issues vital to our national interests was, to put it mildly, disappointing. Tim was monumentally silent on a huge number of issues, as this commentator disgustedly notes . Regardless of his lack of vigilance on our behalf, the criminally complicit media is beating its collective chest in  a paroxysm  of public grief such as we haven't  seen since Ronnie Reagan said his good-byes.

Perhaps all this noise is meant to distract us from things such as this story about the USS Liberty and the buried truth about the Israeli attack on an American ship during the Six Day War in 1967, in which at least 30 crewmen died.  According to this author, on that day, Lyndon Johnson, then president,  callously sacrificed the men on that ship in order to appease our  Israeli "friends". Johnson actually forbid  other ships to come to the crew's rescue for fear that word would get out that the false flag attack was indeed staged by Israel. The heroic surviving crew and captain of that ship are at last breaking their  decades of government enforced silence  in which they were threatened with imprisonment if they revealed the truth. As our Japanese friend Yukihisa Fujita, Japanese lawmaker and fearless truth teller, said in his recent press conference in Berlin about the attacks of 911, "things can't be hidden anymore". People are increasingly getting their news and information from the internet and not from the criminals who have been running our media and controlling what we know.  They can't keep the truth from us now: we are unstoppable.

 

My favorite news story that Tim Russert did NOT cover was the one about Dov Zakheim and the missing pentagon trillions.  It was, however, briefly touched upon by the NY Times on Sept 10, 2001 in a press conference given by Donald Rumsfeld in which he announced to the world that 2.1 trillion dollars could not be accounted for in the pentagon's books. They lost it. That's around $8,000 for every man, woman and child in the entire country. To see  an actual video of Rumsfeld making this announcement go to this video to around the 5:30 point. This stupendous piece of news was completely buried in the gory chaos and dark days that followed the attacks on the WTC and the pentagon on Sept 11.

In the meantime, Dov Zakheim, on whose watch the 2.1 trillion disappeared, stayed on as comptroller in the pentagon until sometime in 2004 when it was quietly announced that another trillion or so was again missing. At this time the good rabbi moved on to a firm later accused of having as its client a charity funded by Osama bin Laden, Booz Allen.  http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/sns-worldtrade-kadi-ct,1,2512541,full.story. 911 researchers have discovered that many of those who died at the pentagon on 9/11 were accountants and office workers in the pentagon accounting office.  The plane and/or missile which punched a hole into the facade and then pierced through three inner concrete walls with its aluminum nose (if you believe that story....I've got some very hot real estate for you)  just happened to hit the Pentagon's accounting department, killing many of the staff and destroying numerous records and files. And only a day after Rummy announced that something had gone terribly wrong with the books.  Luckily for him, Dov Zahkeim was away from the office that morning. In order to hit the accounting office which was on the other side of his direct flight path, the alleged pilot of that alleged plane had to make a 270 degree turn while banking steeply as he descended towards his destination.  This feat of aviation was considered difficult-- if not impossible-- by many seasoned commercial pilots.  Our attacker, while being denied permission to rent a Cesna because of incompetence, was able to flawlessly complete this performance on his very first flight of a large commercial jet. Recently, Zakheim returned to the scene of the crime like the proverbial serial killer and in an act of seemingly amazing audacity, has dedicated a shrine which includes a Talmud at the exact site where so many of his coworkers perished so unexpectedly (for them) Sept 11.
While all this has strayed far from the original topic, these facts taken altogether reveal an insidious and ongoing assault on our nation that Tim Russert (and all the others like him) have ignored and continue to ignore, AT OUR PERIL.

To get back to my opener about the sadly missed Tim Russert, though he did provide us with hours of entertainment, distraction and false leads, he failed miserably to deliver to us the message we most needed to know concerning a brutal, imperialistic and self-destructive war that has damaged our military (perhaps permanently), and destroyed our morale as well as our standing in the world.It was a very simple message really and could have saved us a world of grief. A journalist half worthy of the name would have moved heaven and earth to get the message through. I couldn't put it better or with fewer words than Mark Yanonne here  An excerpt follows:  "the United States federal government's activity in the Middle East is largely driven by its need to tie the Federal Reserve Note to something of value, namely petroleum. It has nothing to do with the "liberation" of Iraqis, terrorism, democracy, or religion. Iraqis do not consider themselves liberated, nor did they ask to be "liberated," the United States federal government are the terrorists, democracy is a form of government that no one wants -- including Americans --............... The fatal decision was ours, when we Americans decided to allow our United States federal government to violate the Constitution by substituting a fiat currency for our lawful money."

These are oil wars, alright.

The wars, the coming financial tsunami and the destruction of America all will have resulted from the illegal activities of a private enterprise known as The Federal Reserve. Their accumulated debt was the driving force behind our need to attack Iraq and now Iran. It was these corporate criminal bankers who constructed the giant ponzi scheme-- the bill for which is now coming due and for which we will pay with our blood and with the futures of our children. Tim Russert didn't tell us this, nor did the NY Times or the Chicago Tribune or the LA Times. And they aren't telling us now.

Will we ever wake up?