Presidents, U.S. and other, are placed into power buy the Banks, Corporations, Insurance Companies and the oil companies. These presidents  get selected because of their bloodlines that all lead back to British Royalty. The people,  have been fooled into believing the votes we cast, have some power.  The fact is, we have no power, decisions are made for us. They have been for quite some time, and gone unchecked, always will be.

The two party system is a creation of the elites that control this country. They have created the illusion of offering us two options, and created these platforms and ideologies that further foster division among us. They give us candidates and anti-candidates.

The global elite are the ones who make the decisions of what happens, not only nationwide but world wide…

In the past, people in various positions of authority,  have warned us of this.. perhaps we should take heed.

“The U.S. must carry out some act somewhere in the world which shows its determination to continue to be a world power.” — Henry Kissinger

“Today Americans would be outraged if  U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.” — Henry Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992

“We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller Baden-Baden, Germany 1991

“This new and complete Revolution we contemplate can be defined in a very few words. It is (a) outright world-socialism, scientifically planned and directed, plus (b) a sustained insistence upon law, law based on a fuller, more jealously conceived restatement of the personal Rights of Man, plus (c) the completest freedom of speech, criticism, and publication, and a sedulous expansion of the educational organization to the ever growing demands of the new order…. Putting it at its compactest, it is the triangle of Socialism, Law, and Knowledge which frames the Revolution that may yet save the world.”
H.G. Wells The New World Order 1939

“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.” David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations

“In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all.” Strobe Talbot, President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in Time, July 20th, 1992.

“We shall have world government whether or not you like it, by conquest or consent.” Statement by Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member James Warburg to The Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 17th, 1950

“The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments plans. ” British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1876

“The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the Government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson.” A letter written by FDR to Colonel House, November 21st, l933

“The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.” Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952

“Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times.

“Today the path of total dictatorship in the United States can be laid by strictly legal means, unseen and unheard by the Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system, another body representing another form of government – a bureaucratic elite.” Senator William Jenner, 1954

“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.” Senator William Fulbright, Former chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, stated at a 1963 symposium entitled: The Elite and the Electorate – Is Government by the People Possible?

“The Trilateral Commission is intended to be the vehicle for multinational consolidation of the commercial and banking interests by seizing control of the political government of the United States. The Trilateral Commission represents a skillful, coordinated effort to seize control and consolidate the four centers of power political, monetary, intellectual and ecclesiastical. What the Trilateral Commission intends is to create a worldwide economic power superior to the political governments of the nation states involved. As managers and creators of the system, they will rule the future.” U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater in his l964 book: With No Apologies.

“The directors of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) make up a sort of Presidium for that part of the Establishment that guides our destiny as a nation.” The Christian Science Monitor, September 1, 1961

J.F. Kennedy warns us.

John Kerry artfully doges a question about his membership in the Skull & Bones

Thanks to Jessie’s Cafe Americain for the source material.

An uncanny echo from times gone by…

Charlie Chaplin, The Great Dictator, October 1940

Mohandas K. Gandhi, The Power of Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Ephesians 6:12

Beware the will to power, for madness has no master. We become what we hate, what we have sworn to destroy, and take up its methods, and serve it faithfully on this earth, thinking we are serving ourselves, forswearing all others, in defiance and expediency even God, to our own inevitable destruction. The beast prospers none, consuming all.

“Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One’s desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.” Denis de Rougemont

HERE IS A LINK TO THE STORY Petroleum Petroleum, by Gustav Meyrink
in English…

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In 1903, Austrian banker, writer and occultist Gustav Meyrink 1868-1932 wrote a novella, “Petroleum, Petroleum”

From Article:

After the last detonation, the oil was to flow from the underground deposit in Mexico into the ocean and form a glass surface, which continues to grow, taken by the gulf stream, soon covering the entire Atlantic surface. The coasts were barren and the population retreated into the interior of the land.

Instead of being arrested, in Meyrink’s story, Jessegrim is hired as a consultant. He says: “If the oil continues to spill as it does, it will have covered the oceans of the world in 27 to 29 weeks and there will be no more rains, ever, as water can not evaporate anymore. At best, it will rain petroleum.”

In Meyrink’s story, the perpetrator is motivated by blind hatred of humanity: The destruction of the “crowd” was seen by Meyrink/Jessegrim as possible only through a “god-given scourge” – meaning, the oil apocalypse.

Meyrink was frequenting such circles. Not only the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but also the “Germania” lodge, the first lodge of the Theosophist Society. It was founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who also founded the magazine “Lucifer”.

Goldman Sachs, The Joyce Foundation, Bill Ayers’ brother John, Al Gore….and more…..
A must watch!

I have resisted the temptation of writing any commentary of the “Disaster” in the Gulf Of Mexico. And it is, exactly that, a disaster that is overshadowing the Exxon Valdez disaster of 1979.

I have resisted writing anything, because , I wanted to be fair to BP. After all, I don’t know jack, about oil drilling…period. Especially at depths of 4900 feet plus.

But Today, June 8 2010, the catastrophe is in it’s 50th day, and I am now at a point where I  have grown angry. Angry at BP for not taking the necessary precautions they should have, to prevent something like this from occurring. Angry that they are acting to this day, in what appears to be a haphazard, and relaxed manner.

For days the rumors have been swirling about, mismanagement, rushed work, safety systems that had mechanical and or electrical issues that were not addressed, flagrant disregard for procedure, finger pointing between BP and the owner of the Rig Trans Ocean,  oh and let us not forget the 11 People killed, and an environment damaged  to a point that is nightmarish.

Clean up crews, that appear to be minimalistic , are already getting ill from the inhalation of Methane, Benzene. Rumors are also circulating that these crews, most of which are privately contracted, are not being issued sufficient HazMat gear. BP has determined that situation is under control, and that Hazardous Material equipment is not needed.

Today once again, June 8, BP  claims they have capped the flow, and claim to be catching an estimated 5000 barrels of oil a day from the gargantuan flow. I have seen the live video of the flow, and I have to admit, that the estimates that up to 100,000 barrels a day are spewing forth, are unfortunately appearing to be an accurate estimation. If the estimate of 100,000 barrle estimate is correct, than BP is capturing 5% of it!!

I’m saddened every time I watch the live video, saddened, and angered.

Now if you haven’t seen the video of the flow, you can see it here.

http://www.jtnog.org/

The rate at which oil is gushing from this well, is substantial. even more so since BP cut the broken and bent, riser pipe  which was to a degree, restricting the flow.

So the first in a series of questions that should be asked:

1. Why did BP wait 40+ days to cap this well?
BP’s first concern should be the environmental damage that is being wreaked upon the gulf. However their activity seems to support the theory that they are working not on the premise of damage control, but on the premise of saving the well  first, and placing disaster control in the second spot.

2. I have looked closely at the broken Deep water Horizon riser as well as the supporting structure (Blow Out Preventer) for it. Another good question would be” Why doesn’t the BOP have a manual valve shutoff  in place, designed to be used in a disaster scenario such as this one?” Something simple, that could be turned by an ROV? This more than anything amazes me. If you are going to drill a well like this at this depth, why would not have redundant and generous safety systems in place?

3. The Russians in the early stages of this disaster, offered assistance in blowing the well up, completely cutting the flow. They claimed to have done it a few times successfully. in the past, but this offer of assistance was turned down by BP and the administration in D.C. Why?

4. Today On June 8, Reports are now coming in from Grande Isle LA. Reports of a substantial military presence, a presence that is restricting media, reporters, photographers. This leads one to believe that perhaps the situation is alot worse than BP and or the administration would have us believe. Why is there a military presence? Why aren’t they assisting in a massive cleanup effort?

Broadcast: http://www.manticoregroup.com/radio/2010/06jun/jamesfox2010.mp3

Solutions have been offered to BP, to stop the flow of oil, all of which have been turned down. Why?

The Van Den Noort Solution:
http://www.poketheeye.org/documents/VanDenNoort.pdf

The Alia Sabur Solution
http://www.lemondrop.com/2010/06/03/genius-21-year-old-offers-oil-crisis-solution/

I have to admit, and yes you can call me conspiracy theorist, but something smells  about this entire disaster, and it isn’t the smell of Crude I’m talking about.

BP Has done very little for all intent and purposes, with the exception of cutting the riser, which increased the flow of oil, and has sprayed massive amounts of oil dispersant into the water which is toxic in itself.  Can anyone argue that BP is intentionally either, dragging their feet in resolving this, or has lost complete control of the situation and will not admit it.

In addition, The Obama administration, also seems to have left BP to their own devices  in solving this disaster. One has to ask why the Federal Government is not more involved, especially at this stage 50 days into the disaster. Where is the Corps Of Engineers, why aren’t other oil companies involved in a solution?

This well, it has been stated by BP, as well as noted scientists, that if something is not done, will flow for 9000 days! The relief well solution, which BP claims will stop the flow, cannot be fully implemented until August. Take a look at the flow of oil in the live cams above. Can you imagine this flow running until August? And August is an optimistic estimate.

I Pray for the people in the gulf. I pray that a solution presents itself very soon. I suspect, and it is intuition, that if this continues even in the near term, the consequences will be dire.

PatriotG

The Catalan police are refreshingly friendly. But if the time for action comes, whose side will they be on?

The enormous bald detective in beach shorts took the camera from my wife. “Let me see.” He scrolled through the photographs, just taken, of me being detained at the campsite gates. He scrolled past, to see a photo of a limousine convoy, whooshing up the hill to Bilderberg. “I don’t like this,” he said, and waved a huge, disgruntled hand towards the conference hotel.

“Do you know how much this is costing?” asked Hannah. “Do you think the Spanish economy can afford all this?” Grimly, the enormous bald detective started deleting images of his comrades with his giant thumb. “Your opinion,” he growled, “is right.”

He handed the camera back to Hannah. “But you’ve deleted my best shots!” The detective whistled to his comrades, who were busy sniffing a jar of salted olives they had found in my car boot. He had them turn around, facing away from the camera. “Go head,” he rumbled. “Take photographs.”

What a difference a year makes. Last year in Vouliagmeni when I tried covering the 2009 Bilderberg meeting, I had Greek policemen yelling “No fotografia!” at me at every turn. I was arrested, tailed, harassed, rearrested, yelled at, bundled into squad cars, lied to, intimidated, wrestled with and hounded round Athens like I was John Dillinger.

This year, the police have been deployed in the same extraordinary numbers, but they are smiling, rolling their eyes at the rigmarole; the riot police are giving the thumbs-up to protesters and honking their horns as they come round the “awareness roundabout” at the foot of the hotel.

“The police have been laughing and chatting,” says Daniel Turon, a Spanish psycho-sociologist, here in Sitges to psycho-sociologise Bilderberg. “One of them said he had read a book about Bilderberg; another said, ‘Yes, we understand.’” The Catalan police, he says, “have a different sensibility” from what you may expect. “They are Catalan. Their minds are independent.”

Their minds, perhaps, have been focused by recent pay disputes. Two days ago, the police were on strike in Barcelona: they are facing a pay cut next month, as part of Spain’s “austerity measures” (what the IMF calls “fiscal consolidation”) – and disgruntlement abounds.

Yesterday, the Spanish newspaper El Público quoted the Catalan police union’s estimate, that “the mere deployment of the Mossos d’Esquadra entails costs of €150,000 for each of the four days of the Bilderberg meeting”. This union has lodged a formal complaint about the misuse of resources in guarding Bilderberg.

El Público shares the union’s concern: “The members of the Bilderberg club have not been elected by the citizens [of this country] in a democratic process, but the costs of the meeting is being met by them.”

Ageing Bilderberg sleuth, Jim Tucker, says the Bilderberg group always reimburses the host nation for costs incurred. But if that’s the case, the police are simply an army for hire.

Turon is keen to humanise the officers facing him: “Look at the eyes of the police,” he says. “Look at the person who is there. They want to be with us.”

“Your position is hyper-naive,” laughs his friend, one of the organisers of the Spanish protests, Dídac S.-Costa. “They are puppets. They are nothing. They are a distraction. They are the cashiers at the supermarket; we need to confront the supermarket itself. This is a systemic problem.” Dídac is a sociologist.

“We need to use the tools of the system against it. We need a brave judge, a brave lawyer. We need another Garzón” (Baltasar Garzón is the Spanish judge who issued the extradition request for General Pinochet). “We need to use the legal weapons at our disposal; to find a way, as the Spanish say, between the sword and the wall.”

Ivan Torres, from Maresme (whom we met yesterday, near his roundabout bed), found himself caught last night between the sword and the wall, up in the hills above the Hotel Dolce Sitges. He was out with Rafa Palacios, the founder of the Stop Secrets Movement, trying to stop some secrets. A spotter on the hotel roof saw them crawling along; minutes later a police helicopter arrived, and officers swarmed the hills to arrest them. The policemen looked at the cameras, looked at the footage, then handed it back undeleted.

Ivan and Rafa were brought before the comisario of the Sitges police. The comisario told them frankly what he thought of them. “We admire you,” he said. “We are really sad because we don’t want to have a confrontation here.” And, like his giant bald underling from earlier, he gestured to the hotel. “I don’t like these people. All I want is a smooth operation in Sitges. The people up there,” said the comisario, “I really don’t like.”

Rafa says that on Thursday, as police and activists squared off for the first time and as Rafa took the megaphone, it was this same comisario who stood in front of the cordon. “You have a heart under your badge”, cried Rafa, “you have a brain under your hat. You are the ones we will be drinking with after the football, not the ones up the hill!”

Rafa reached out his hands towards the cordon. People who witnessed his speech say this moment defined the subsequent dynamic between the protesters and the police. “You should be protecting us, not them!” Rafa implored. “We are the people. You are the people. You are one of us!”

Rafa says he spoke directly to the comisario when he said: “A time is coming when you may be asked to use violence against us. A time is coming when you will have to choose sides. You will have to decide.” And Rafa says he saw tears in the eyes of the comisario.

“I think, my friend, that I touched his heart.”
www.guardian.co.uk

George Carlin – It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. the REAL OWNERS of America.

It appears that according to this analyst, they created a clearing house to speculate in stocks. After the launch of this clearing house, stock markets and euro started going down.  Watch the charts in the articles. It appears to be a very complex financial fraud.

The European Central Counter-party (EuroCCP) has created a service offering central counter party clearing of trades in US stocks and US exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to European trading firms.

EuroCCP’s new service gives European trading firms an opportunity to trade US securities on a variety of pan-European platforms during European trading hours and to settle those trades in DTC. By offering a service where US securities settle directly at the US CSD, EuroCCP provides European trading firms with cost-effective post-trade solution.

Its clearing service for US issues allows EuroCCP to extend the efficiency, cost-saving and counterparty risk protection benefits it already provides to clients’ European-listed securities transactions to US stock and US ETF transactions.

Initially, the US securities eligible for clearing through EuroCCP include approximately 100 stock issues and 50 ETFs. EuroCCP expects over time to expand the scope of eligible instruments to further equities, ETFs, and to ADRs.

EuroCCP’s clearing service for eligible US issues is open to any trading venue cleared by EuroCCP that offers trading in the securities. Trading will be against US dollars. The new service increases the number of markets cleared by EuroCCP to 19.

Full Article: MarketSkeptics

It was bound to happen eventually, but the question is: How far will the current SEC charges against GS  go?  We know already that GS is in bed with the congress, the senate, Obama, Bush and what have you. Is this a dog and pony show? It’s seems rather coincidental that this probe happened just when Barack Obama  is ushering in his his “Bank Reform“.

The antics of Goldman Sachs have been getting by on a ‘wink and a nod’ from the regulators and the market for some time. Why? Because they are powerful, and because like Lehman and their off balance sheet frauds, they are almost ALL doing it on Wall Street as part of the franchise. Goldman has just been a pig about it, and probably burned some insiders and powerful investors in their fraudulent Abacus trade.

In this video, Max Keiser speaks the basic truth about GS and the banking system in general. And the host states that his comments are “abrasive”.  Yes sir, the truth usually is.

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Stewart Rhodes does not seem like an extremist. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former U.S. Army paratrooper and congressional staffer. He is not at all secretive. In February he was sitting at a table at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at a fancy downtown hotel in Washington, handing out fliers and selling T shirts for his organization, the Oath Keepers. Rhodes says he has 6,000 dues-paying members, active and retired police and military, who promise never to take orders to disarm U.S. citizens or herd them into concentration camps. Rhodes told a NEWSWEEK reporter, “We’re not a militia.” Oath Keepers do not run around the woods on the weekend shooting weapons or threatening the violent overthrow of the government. Their oath is to uphold the Constitution and defend the American people from dictatorship.

But by conjuring up the specter of revolution—or counterrevolution—is Rhodes adding to the threat of real violence? Oath Keepers are “a particularly worrisome example of the ‘patriot’ revival,” according to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate speech and extremist organizations. “Patriot” groups—described by the SPLC as outfits “that see the federal government as part of a plot to impose ‘one-world government’ on liberty-loving Americans”—are “roaring back” after years out of the limelight, according to Potok. Notorious in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the patriot groups seemed to fade away under the shadow of 9/11, but hard times and the nation’s first African-American president seem to have brought about a revival—from 149 groups in 2008 to 512 (127 of them militias) in 2009, according to the SPLC.

It is easy to exaggerate the numbers of these groups or the threat they pose, especially if you are an organization, like the SPLC, dedicated to exposing such things. Extremist outfits have come and gone over the years. With their preening and prancing about in Nazi garb or white robes, skinheads and white supremacists are often more about showing off than committing acts of violence.

Law-enforcement experts worry more about “lone wolves,” disturbed loners with military training, like Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, than they do about loudmouth militia groups. But the feds and local authorities will be watching closely on April 19, when the Oath Keepers mark their first anniversary and join a Second Amendment March on Washington to celebrate the right to bear arms. The Oath Keepers say they are commemorating the first shots of the Revolutionary War fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, but April 19 is also the anniversary of the end of the FBI siege at Waco, Texas, in 1993, as well as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

This is a season, or perhaps an era, when politics seem more intense than usual, and the domestic extremist threat seems more real. Partisan disputes are rarely pretty, but lately they have taken a particularly ugly, menacing turn. Last week the FBI arrested individuals for making death threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington for their votes on health-care reform. A series of expletive-strewn voice-mail messages left for Senator Murray were particularly creepy: “You’re gonna have a target on your back for the rest of your life,” the caller warned. “How long do you think you can hide?”

Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance W. Gainer said last week that serious threats to members of Congress had nearly tripled, from 15 in the last three months of 2009 to 42 in the first quarter of 2010, with most of them coming in March during the height of the health-care debate. Some of the calls and e-mails were “very vicious” and included threats to members’ homes and families. “You had people saying, ‘I’m going to get your kids, I’m going to get your wife,’ ” says Gainer. “It was very disturbing to members.”

After the health-reform vote, a tea-party activist in Lynchburg, Va., posted an address for Rep. Tom Perriello on his blog and encouraged readers to “drop by” and express their anger over Perriello’s vote for the bill. The blogger got the address wrong. Perriello’s brother returned home that day to find that someone had cut the line to a -propane-gas tank behind his home. The fact that haters are sometimes incompetent renders them only marginally less frightening. Some threats come from people who are truly unhinged. Federal authorities have charged a man with multiple-personality disorder with threatening in a YouTube video to kill Rep. Eric Cantor; the suspect is not competent to stand trial.

Economic distress and social change make for fear, and fear makes for anger, now and always. Night riders terrorized the defenseless after the Civil War. During the Great Depression, two demagogues in particular whipped up conspiracy theories against Jewish bankers and the rich elites to arouse angry mass movements. Huey Long, governor of Louisiana, later a U.S. senator who wanted to soak the rich, and Father Charles Coughlin, an anti-Semitic Catholic priest whose radio show reached 40 million people, seemed a political threat to FDR, until Long was assassinated and Coughlin became increasingly unhinged.

“There was a lot of hatred in the 1930s,” says Alan Brinkley, the Columbia University historian and expert on populist movements. But the currentsurge of fear and loathing toward Obama is “scary,” he says. “There’s a big dose of race behind the real crazies, the ones who take their guns to public meetings. I can’t see this happening if McCain were president, or [any] white male.” (Secret Service spokespeople reported spikes in threats against Obama after his election and inauguration, but they’ve also said the president generally receives about the same number of threats as did Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. They’ve declined to comment on whether there’s been a spike in threats related to health-care reform.)

Fear of “the other” has long fueled hate crimes, from the torture and lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan beginning in the late 1800s, to the violence of the 1950s and ’60s, to the virulent anti-immigrant groups today. In 2008 the Census Bureau announced that whites will make up only half the U.S. population in 2050. “That was a big deal,” says the SPLC’s Potok. In recent years white-power groups mushroomed and the Klan reversed declining membership.

The Internet has made it easy to express hatred, and may act as a kind of safety valve. But the Internet can also abet twisted minds with vitriol and practical tips, like how to make a bomb.

Middle-aged guys sitting around their basements fantasizing are one thing; addled war veterans with weapons training are another. Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War veteran who read white-supremacist literature and the sort of books that predict a takeover by one-world government agents flying black helicopters.

He has, or had, some potential heirs apparent in a recently indicted group called the Hutaree, a Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio-based militia. According to the Hutaree Web site, the group ranked its followers with weird sci-fi titles like “Radok” and “Arkon.” The Hutaree militiamen speculate that the Antichrist is Javier Solana, a former NATO secretary-general and senior official of the European Union. The evidence? “There is a virtual media blackout on this man,” writes John Reynolds, author of a screed on Solana and the Antichrist on the Hutaree Web site. “I see Jacques Chirac and Silvio Burlusconi [sic], Tony Blair, and Prince Charles on the TV all of the time, yet not a word one regarding Solana. Why not?” (“Mr. Solana has now retired and is an elderly private gentleman. This is quite insane,” says a spokesman for the European Union’s Washington diplomatic mission.)

The rambling rants of the Hutaree might seem funny, in a sick sort of way, but they are far from harmless. The FBI busted nine members last month for allegedly plotting to trigger an “uprising” against the government by assassinating a local police officer and then ambushing colleagues who attended the funeral by blowing up improvised explosive devices. They may have had some professional instruction: one of the men in the group, Michael Meeks, is a Persian Gulf War veteran who served four years in the Marines and was a decorated rifle expert, according to Marine Corps records. Another member, Kristopher Sickles, is an Army vet (discharged “under other than honorable conditions,” according to prosecutors). William Swor, the lawyer for Hutaree leader David Brian Stone, says there is no evidence the group was doing anything other than exercising its First Amendment rights.

The Internet offers a dark social network for militiamen and real soldiers. A July 2008 FBI intelligence report by the bureau’s counterterrorism division warned that white-supremacist leaders were encouraging followers to “infiltrate the military as ‘ghost skins’ in order to recruit and receive training for the benefit of the extremist movement.” (The report said the hate-group leaders were especially interested in planting moles without any documented history with neo-Nazi groups or “overt racist insignia such as tattoos” so they could more easily slip by military recruiters. The FBI identified 203 people with confirmed or claimed military service who were active in ex-tremist groups.

On the NewSaxon.org Web site for white supremacists, a blogger called “shadowman” posted a photo of a U.S. Army enlisted man in camouflage carrying a weapon with the boast “i am a professional killer?.?.?.?a soldier born of war.” The Defense Department has long had a “zero tolerance” policy for membership in extremist groups, but last November the Pentagon quietly tightened its regulations governing such activity, a Pentagon official confirmed to newsweek. Not only are service members barred from “active participation” in such groups, they also may not “actively advocate supremacist doctrine, ideology, or causes,” according to a copy of the Pentagon regulation.

It is hard to know how much such grim fantasies are stirred by the steady stream of conspiracy theories pushed by talk-radio hosts. Rush Limbaugh talks about the Democrats planning to “kill you” with health-care reform and suggests (agreeing with black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan, of all people) that it “seems perfectly within the realm of reality” that the H1N1 vaccine was “developed to kill people.” Like many talk-show hosts, he uses martial language to rouse the faithful: “The enemy camp is the White House right now,” he says.

Former Alaska governor turned media star Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page a list of House Democrats who voted for health-care reform with crosshairs aimed at their home districts, while tweeting to her followers, “Don’t Retreat, Instead—RELOAD!” She strongly denied any intent to incite violence.

Other conservative talkers insist their foes are preparing violent attacks on them. Glenn Beck of Fox News is the master purveyor of this particular brand of sly paranoia. He suggests that he will be the victim of violence. “I’d better start wearing a [bulletproof] vest” to guard against White House attacks, he says, and warns that the Democrats will sic goons on him to break his kneecaps. Some talk-show hosts see the risk of going too far.

Bill O’Reilly, the top-rated talker on Fox News, interviewed Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers in February and treated him coolly. After the interview O’Reilly said to his audience, “We have a system to uphold the Constitution. It is called the judicial branch. The Supreme Court. The Oath Keepers are not the system.”

Wise words, but it’s a sign of disturbing times that O’Reilly felt required to say them.