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now that we are in all this mess. I would like to see a vid on how the USA should get out of Iraq. I know we want the troops home and Bush has a new plan . But WHAT should the plan be?? Your thoughts?
Warren – Rent “An Inconvenient Truth” excellent Doc on global warming. a must watch
There’s been record sunspot activity over this past decade. Maybe it’s just us watching more closely, but it’s there. The Sun goes through 11 year cyclic activity. The politicians have spread all sorts of lies about the environment in a vain attempt to justify their eggregious policies.
Yes, such as that Solar Tsunami that went off on December 6th, 2006.
Also, Read the Farmer’s Almanac. They made 30 year predictions about the weather getting every avenue correct … read what the Almanac tells about climate changes and how they predicted them. Don’t be sheep to political games, find sh!t out yourself.
If you go back 15 years or so Keith Olbermann was a sportscaster on a local news channel here in Los Angeles. The same sense of humor, but covering only inane sports stories. Maybe 15 years from now when you’re on CNN we’ll say about you, “Yeah, I remember that guy when he was on YouTube…man, he’s really sold out!”
I like this non screaming format, your arguments are much clearer. I was just going to say on the hypersonic weapon, the main reason “why?” is they want as small a window as possible between target identification and a strike on it, so the target has less time to escape and the added benefit is possibly a cheaper way into space.
No, you are the stupid one, brainwashed by the worldwide socialist propaganda machine…Hussein was a mass-murderer and liar, and would have gladly armed and funded terrorists. Saddam had terrorist training camps, had a relationship with al qaeda and funded Palestinian murder/suicide bombers.
“The US embargos absolutely strangled the Iraq”???
No, Warren. The embargos were as corrupt as the governing body that oversaw them. Through-and-through corrupt. Many countries (including the loudest anti-invasion countries) were making BILLIONS from Saddam, as was Saddam…Saddam was building massive palaces and stock piling money…Embargos were a failure.
Yawn mulhollanddose. Point specifically to the corruptions in the sanctions. They were devastating to the nation, far from what you claim.
Next, Salman Pak was NOT a terrorist training camp, it was an anti-terrorist training came set up with British help. The only terrorist Saddam supported in the last 15 years were the Mujahedin-e Khalq which the U.S. and UK currently SUPPORT.
And the money sent to Palestine was to the family of ANYONE killed for ANY reason in the conflict.
Salman Pak was one of many connections to terrorism. It was NOT set up by the British, it was setup in cooperation with terrorists. Saddam had more than a few examples of connections to terrorism.
The sanctions WERE NOT devastating to Iraq. Saddam was starving his people to death. Saddam was devastating to Iraq…What is it with you apologists for the murderous brutal dictator, Saddam Hussein?
No, Salman Pak was NOT a terrorist training camp. As Warren has pointed out, the sanctions were responsible for premature morbidity numbering about 1,000,000. And Saddam’s connection (now just the U.S. UK connection) to terrorism I mentioned above.
Finally, calling you on straight facts is not doing the work the U.S. government used to do (i.e. apologis[ing] for the murderous brutal dictator).
Salman Pak was held up as an al Qaeda camp in Iraq but it was no such thing.. Scott Ritter on Salman Pak:
“I’ve been to that terrorist training camp. It’s not a terrorist training camp, it’s a hostage rescue camp put in place in the 1980s by by the British government to support Saddam Hussein because any nation that has a national airlines has an assault force capable of conducting hostage rescue of aircraft that have been subject to hijacking. We have it. Iraq has it.”
Regarding Mohammed Abdul (Abu) Abbas, i.e. the Achille Lauro hijacker, he was allowed by the Israeli government to travel into Gaza long after the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, so by his victims, he was considered no great terrorist mastermind.
Pubby, regarding Sabri al-Banna, he lived in Baghdad after being expelled from Libya and Egypt. He was not involved in terrorist acts since 1994 at least (along with the rest of the Abu Nidal network), and could not be held or prosecuted by Israel under Israel’s agreement with the Palestine Authority..
Oh my God. That clip of Scarborough Country is ridiculous. Who is that crackpot talking head on the right? I really thought that asking offensive and irrelevant questions was an Internet thing these days. Maybe he needs to get off the messageboards for a bit. 
“..Saddam…a secular force for peace…”
Killed a million Iranians in an invasion, countless Kuwaitis in an invasion, attacked Saudi Arabia and Israel with missiles and supported palestinian terrorists? Abbu Abbas and other terrorists? Really, you’ve topped yourself with this latest drivel.
Shortsighted, you keep saying that … but Philip I’m being realistic. My god I would hope for the world to see the power we have with the internet, but hell no I haven’t the faith in people to use this forum for anything other than entertainment. So I recognize completely that internet appeal will go the exact direction as television in it’s value, because the world made the same proclamations about tv when it was introduced.
For 8 years the US suported their man Saddam in the war against Iran to halt the spread of Islamic states,when he looked like loosing Donald R gave him gas when he used it London ,Washington said nothing.Now the feble minded neo-cons and their mad wars have given Iran everything.Fly the burning sky fly Air-Pollution.
Wow Mulhollanddose you really are a stupid fucking individual. It is not a conspiracy, but an admitted fact that we sold Hussein WMD’s to fight Iran. IDIOT!
Why don’t you spend some time on The Google and stop making a fool of yourself on here.
I’m going to subscribe your videos. I don’t agree with you on everything but i do like the fact that you keep track of whats going on in the world around you.
As for the cursing, it doesn’t really bother me. Gets alittle annoying on some vids when it makes up 70% of the dialog but still doesn’t offend me or anything.
BTW i’m curious as to your view on the death penalty?
Salman Pak was held up as an al Qaeda camp in Iraq but it was no such thing. Scott Ritter on Salman Pak:
“I’ve been to that terrorist training camp. It’s not a terrorist training camp, it’s a hostage rescue camp put in place in the 1980s by by the British government to support Saddam Hussein because any nation that has a national airlines has an assault force capable of conducting hostage rescue of aircraft that have been subject to hijacking. We have it. Iraq has it.”
Pubby, regarding Sabri al-Banna, he lived in Baghdad after being expelled from Libya and Egypt. He was not involved in terrorist acts since 1994 at least (along with the rest of the Abu Nidal network), and could not be held or prosecuted by Israel under Israel’s agreement with the Palestine Authority.
Look up “Jim Channon” – he has 6 videos up on youtube and he is a VISIONARY who had the balls to challenge the US Military back in 1979 after surviving as a platoon leader in Viet Nam. He first conceived of The First Earth Battalion as a Peace Making force. He would be delighted to see what you young people are doing on youtube. Check him out – Jim Channon !!!
you tube might be fully controlled soon, to stop anti war, anti Israel, anti Bush truths, etc getting out. The zionists and neo cons have the mainstream media under control, but are desperate to halt the flow of truth the internet has allowed.
Warren25 you are part of the revolution for real justice in this world
TO BOOK EDITOR: press release
Hello,
We are writing to inform you about a book related to what is happening now in the Middle East released by Olive Grove Books entitled THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY. This book takes place in Beirut.
Because the region of Palestine and the repercussions it holds for peace in the Middle East between the PLO and Israel are critically important, the issues discussed via this spy-thriller makes it interesting and informative so that people all over the world can understand exactly how both sides think and how that thinking has led to continual violence in the Middle East.
If these issues had been understood and discussed 18 years ago, perhaps two wars in the Persian Gulf, the Sept. 11th catastrophe and this new Beirut War would not have happened.
That aside, it is never too late for peace.
With your consideration, we at Olive Grove Books hope you give THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY its rightful place in history and on your web site and store book shelves.
It is a book, which has come of age, and is so timely that it is a must read for everyone who wants to understand what is going on in the Middle East.
With appreciation and gratitude,
Sincerely, from the publisher,
THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY
Robert Spirko, author
ISBN: 0-9752508-0-9
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MENTOR, Ohio – THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY, a genre spy-thriller by Robert Spirko, was fourth on the September best-seller list at Atlasbooks, Inc., a national book distributor.
“It is time for the Israelis and Palestinians to return to the Camp David Peace Talks, resume where they left off and “freeze in place” the already-agreed-upon negotiating points,” Spirko says.
“The Iraq Study Group should make this recommendation a top priority before trying to put-in-place a new strategy for Iraq – mainly because ramifications of a peace agreement between both sides will resonate deeply throughout the Muslim world in the way Jews and Muslims interact toward each other. It could have a profound ripple effect including how the United States is perceived by Islamists.” he emphasizes.
“I have communicated that first step to the James Baker III and Lee Hamilton study group. It is important that both sides in the Middle East region are willing to come to their senses,” Spirko reiterates.
He uses the following analogy for peace. “The Camp David accords have precedent and continuity through previous agreements. It’s like a marriage where both spouses in an argument storm away mad. They don’t divorce and then try to resume their relationship; rather, they come back together, settle their differences, and resume the marriage where they left off. It must be the same for the Middle East Peace talks.”
Spirko’s book predicted terrorism against the United States & Israel in his book which takes place in Lebanon. It is eerily similar to the Beirut War which took place last summer between Hezbollah and Israel.
Spirko says if these issues had been understood and discussed 18 years ago, perhaps two wars in the Persian Gulf, the Sept. 11th catastrophe and the new Beirut War would not have happened.
“That aside,” he says, “It is never too late for peace.”
MEDINA, Ohio – When it comes to spy novels and Middle East intrigue, after 16 spell-binding years, the gripping story behind the Middle East quagmire – its issues of nuclear weapons and the quest for a Palestinian State – is finally being told in a ground-breaking new book entitled, THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY.
Author Robert Spirko created the work in such a way that every reader in the world will understand all the intricate issues in the Middle East and how close the region actually came to the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
Mr. Spirko has a unique way of holding the reader in his grasp as the plot of THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY unfolds. He literally takes you from your armchair and immerses you into the lifestyle of the Bedouin, the Israeli, the PLO and the mindset of the Middle-Easterner.
THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY is not just another spy-novel; it is the quintessential spy-thriller because it forces the reader to understand how both sides “think” and why that thinking ultimately led to repeated wars in the Middle East.
Spirko, a financial and geo-political analyst, turned his attention to the Middle East in 1987, after discovering several common elements related to the Middle East question. In working for peace, and after several frustrating years, he put down his analysis in writing and when he was finished, he not only had a solution to the quagmire, he had a story to tell.
But, nobody was listening.
Today, all that has changed, thanks to Olive Grove Publishers who decided to give his book a chance.
When the Palestinian question came to a festering crisis in 1990, he had already predicted several of the actual events before they occurred. For instance, Spirko predicted the Intifada and Persian Gulf War, missing the actual invasion date of Kuwait by only one week. He did this through spectacular supposition, analysis and prediction based on what he was “seeing” in the region.
When Spirko typed his manuscript, he set the work to fiction, about what he thought might occur soon in the Middle East involving weapons of mass destruction, nuclear proliferation, the Palestinian uprising before it occurred, and how the Palestinian question begged to be answered, little did he realize that every event he described in the book would eventually transpire.
His story of what was really happening behind the scenes in the Middle East is truly astounding and remarkable, and his contribution to the Camp David Peace Talks in 2000, formulated a solution to the Jerusalem question. When the BBC got wind of it, they termed it “as nothing short of brilliant” – Jerusalem becoming the simultaneous capitals of both Israel and Palestine in congruous or concentric zones.
Spirko originally copyrighted his book on October 20, 1987, in the U. S.
Library of Congress where intelligence agencies reviewed his work.
Today, finally, somebody is listening.
Spirko feels that both sides must return to the Camp David Peace Talks and resume where they left off and “freeze in place” the already-agreed-upon negotiating points.
“It’s like a marriage where both spouses storm away mad in an argument.
They don’t divorce and then try to resume their relationship, they come back together, settle their differences, and resume their marriage. It must be the same for the Middle East Peace talks,” Spirko says.
The story begins in Beirut, Lebanon, once a great financial capital of the Middle East, which lay in ruin, having been systematically blasted to rubble during 20 years of inexhaustible civil war and siege by Israel, the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah and Lebanese factions. Soon, the quest for a Palestinian State would be framed by these events; namely, the invasion of Kuwait by a neighboring rogue state, Iraq, with Saddam Hussein’s goal of seeking nuclear parity with Israel.
In Mr. Spirko’s story, Rick Waite, a forgotten UPI correspondent, and Adrienne Waters, a Pulitzer Prize journalist from the London Times, meet-up in Beirut with a PLO operative named Ahmed, who discovers a secret intelligence memo about a secret plan to destroy Israel.
In the ensuing chase to find the answer to this secret communiqué and what it means, a deadly race against time begins as the unlikely trio tries to halt the launch of a secret weapon from a hidden PLO base camp in the Syrian Desert. U. S. and British intelligence operatives have their own agenda, and attempt to stop whatever is going on to save the entire region from a nuclear holocaust.
Spirko weaves a tale of chilling duplicity and thrilling action, as the characters evade and devise a method to announce the discovery of nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles to the rest of the world – all while United Nations’ delegates bicker endlessly.
An executive at BookMasters, Inc., says, “The book is absolutely stunning in the manner in which Mr. Spirko, tells his tale. He is truly a master as an analyst, and it’s totally unlike anything else we’ve ever read in a spy-thriller. It keeps you turning pages and won’t let you quit – until the very end. And, what an ending it is! If you crave twisting plots, thrilling spy-action and intriguing characters, then this is the book for you.”
Spirko, whose own background includes a stint in the U. S. Air Force and has given his advice to the National Security Council in Washington, D. C., has a degree in journalism and knows first-hand about the newsroom and what it takes to be an intelligence field agent. His knowledge of the trade makes the story real, daunting, and strikingly similar to “The Year of Living Dangerously.”
“THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY drips with reality,” quips a book reviewer from Olive Grove Publishers. “If books were rated by Siskel & Roeper, it would be given a two-thumbs up.”
Not since, Casablanca, do characters as earthy as Rick Waite, or as beautifully mysterious as London Times reporter, Adrienne Waters, or as desperate as PLO operative, Ahmed, bring fresh characters to a story that will be remembered by readers for a long time.
The novel is a mass market paperback produced by Olive Grove Publishers, and can be purchased at area bookstores through Ingram Book Group, New Leaf Distribution, and Baker and Taylor, priced at $14.99, ISBN 0-9752508-0-9. THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY can also be ordered on the web at http://www.atlasbooks.com, or email orders from: order@bookmasters.com, or from Barnes & Nobles, Border’s, Dalton’s, efollett.com & Follett bookstores at colleges and universities, WaldenBooks, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com and other popular retail bookstores. Or, readers and store managers can call 1-800-BOOKLOG, or 800-247-6553 direct, to order.
For readers who want to know what was really going on in the Middle East prior to the Persian Gulf War, Sept. 11th, and Iraq War, THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY, is a must read.
WARREN, Ohio – When both sides walked away from the peace table at Camp David in 2000, Robert Spirko, author of THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY warned negotiators Ehud Barak of Israel and Chairman Yasser Arafat that they would descend into the abyss of hell.
“And, they did,” Spirko says, “and, so have we.” Spirko is a native of Warren and a former Tribune staff writer.
That warning came after both sides had already agreed upon Jerusalem as the simultaneous capital of both Israel and Palestine, according to Spirko.
“When both parties agreed on Jerusalem, an issue they both said they could never agree on, then left the peace table over reparations and the right of return, 8,000 lives were lost in the ensuing four years, including America’s 9/11 catastrophe,” Spirko reveals. “Chairman Arafat should have taken the deal. He had 90% of what he wanted. The Israelis offered to build upon that later if Arafat would stop the suicide bombers.
Chairman Arafat would take the same deal today if it was offered, but it may be too late.”
He explains, “The failed talks were a catastrophe for both the Middle East, and the United States, and the only way out is to resurrect the peace talks at Camp David, freeze the already agreed upon points, and resume where both parties left off.”
Spirko has given his advice to the National Security Council in Washington, D. C. over the years, and is a 1965 graduate of the Kent State University School of Journalism. He studied for his MBA at Kent State University and currently analyzes geo-political trends as an investment advisor.
He wrote the book as a spy-thriller detailing what and how the quest for a Palestinian State turned into an ongoing disaster predicting Iraq and Iran would seek to develop weapons of mass destruction. The yet-to-be-resolved “right of return” and reparations were ignored by both sides at the 2000 Camp David Peace Talks. Those issues could have been negotiated later. Ideas presented by Mr. Spirko at those peace talks included letting both sides have the right to name Jerusalem as each nation’s capital, an idea that the BBC in Great Britain termed as “brilliant.”.
“The idea was to create simultaneous capitals for both countries-Palestine and Israel-with Jerusalem as the capital of each using congruous zones and a neutral governing district involving representatives from both sides with God as the central sovereign because they both believe in the same God, whether He is called Allah or Jehovah,” Spirko reiterates.
“As we speak, Israel’s Ariel Sharon lies in a coma and Yasser Arafat is dead. Israel agreed to a withdrawal from Israeli settlements in Gaza, and a partial withdrawal in the West Bank. That could have been achieved six years ago at Camp David. Now, Hezbollah and Hamas have thrown a monkey-wrench into the scenario which could lead the United States and the world into World War III.”
Spirko’s book takes place in Beirut, Lebanon. It details what he thought would occur in the Middle East before the actual events; namely, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, the Intifada, and other events leading up to Sept. 11. His analysis, written as a novel in 1987 and copyrighted in the U.S. Library of Congress that year, warned that the Middle East was heading toward nuclear Armageddon if a rogue Arab state, Iraq or Iran, obtained nuclear weapons. For 17 years publishers refused to publish the book because they told Mr. Spirko that the events he described in his book “couldn’t possibly happen.”
MEDINA, Ohio – “The Middle East is heading toward a new World War if Syria and Iran continue to aid and abet terrorism and try to develop nuclear weapons to threaten both Israel and the United States,” says Robert Spirko, author of THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY, a book which predicted both wars in the region.
He says both Iran and Syria are treading on dangerous ground in their quest to continue the war in Palestine and in attempting to enrich uranium for use in an atomic bomb.
Spirko, a financial and geo-political analyst, turned his attention to the Middle East in 1987, after discovering several common elements related to the Middle East question. He wrote down his analysis, and when he was finished, he not only had a solution to the quagmire, he had a story to tell.
THE PALESTINE CONSPIRACY predicted many of the events that occurred three years later, even the firing of missiles which hit Israel.
“The United States, Great Britain, France, Russia, and China will never allow them to obtain enough nuclear technology to construct weapons of mass destruction,” says Spirko.
Spirko, whose book foreshadowed the Persian Gulf War by three years, and the resultant Iraq War following the Sept. 11 attack, warned the consequences would be catastrophic for those Muslim nations who insist on continuing down that nuclear path.
“The chief threat in the region I see right now is the threat to Saudi Arabia by Al Quaida. If Al Quaida were to overthrow the present royal family in Saudi Arabia, cutting off the oil supply to the western nations including Japan and China, it would bring down entire world economies.
France and Germany would be begging us to go to war to retake those oil wells. It would be World War III,” he emphasizes.
If such a scenario were to occur, France and the European economies could collapse in a matter of weeks.
“And, it’s all related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict which I said back in 1987 that is the crux of my book. It always has been, and always will be until it’s settled. That linkage is exactly what Osama Bin Laden stated in a taped message aired the weekend before the election in November. Whether you believe him or not is beside the point. That’s what’s he told us, and we’d better take that into account.”
“We are again on the threshold of peace in the Middle East. But, we’re also on the threshold of World War III. We better get it right this time, ” Spirko emphasizes.
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