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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is contempt prior to investigation.
– Herbert Spencer

The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account. – Walter Lippman

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.– Carl Jung

The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.– Herbert Spencer

The biggest part of reporting the truth is the news agenda itself. What we choose to put on the air, what we think is a page one story, what our priorities are. I would not be fooled by the old myth that reporting is about objectivity. Deciding what is news is the most subjective of acts and it is probably the most important thing that we do. – Carl Bernstein

There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it… The business of the Journalist is to destroy truth; To lie outright; To pervert; To vilify; To fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals for rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and or lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
– John Swinton, former Chief of Staff, The New York Times, circa 1880

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. – Thomas Paine, "The Rights of Man", circa 1792

Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. – Julius Caesar

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one. – Machiavelli – 1513

Now I understood for the first time that all these problems are caused by a race asleep and thrashing about in its panicked nightmares. There will be wars and holocausts and genocides as long as God is portrayed and thought of as a tight-minded legislator, a feudal lord, an offended King, a hypersensitive Artisan – even if church managers condescendingly tack onto that ridiculous list the not-very-convincing footnote that He is also loving. As long as people dream that they are insecure and needy in some sort of eternal jeopardy, there will be atrocities. But as the human race grows up spiritually, and as individuals gain a personal experience of the God they have been worshipping in fear, they will recognize that much of their theology and philosophy is built on nightmares. That will be the day of peace. I suddenly found myself unwilling to sit it out in the mountains of Utah. I wanted to play an active role in the process of the world’s awakening. – George Fowler, "Dance of a Fallen Monk"

“From The Wilderness” MILESTONES

- Exclusive print coverage of the March, 1998 surprise House hearings on CIA and cocaine in Los Angeles

- Broke a Story that Texas Governor George W. Bush flew regularly in a state-owned airplane once owned by drug smuggler Barry Seal. This story was picked up by the Associated Press.

- The first publication in the world to print the entire deposition of Admiral Thomas Moorer in the Tailwind (CNN) lawsuits showing that the U.S. government, on authorization of Henry Kissinger, has used the nerve gas Sarin in actions in Laos during the Vietnam War. This story was later picked up by several news agencies.

- The first (and possibly only) news organization to read the entire text of the CIA Inspector General’s report dated Oct 8, 1998 and produce actual CIA records showing direct criminal involvement in drug smuggling. Later, published extracts and commentary on these documents which have been made required reading in at least one college course.

- In an April, 2000 story entitled “The Democratic Party’s Presidential Drug Money Pipeline,” produced confidential intelligence documents on the Dominican Drug trade. Revealed Al Gore’s campaign had received donations from Dominican drug dealers and that former DNC Charles Mannatt had taken the post of Ambassador to the Dominican Republic to protect that trade. This story has been reprinted in a major Mexican newspaper.

- Broke a story linking the CEO and Board of the Bank of New York to Russian money laundering showing how the Russian criminal funds had been used to boost BoNY’s stock prices and resulted in higher compensation for BoNY execs.

- Broke an exclusive story, “The Bush-Cheney Drug Empire” linking the CIA to Halliburton’s Brown and Root and from there to documented drug smuggling across Russia and the Far East.

- Four years of groundbreaking coverage on the role of drug cash in supporting the US economy.

- Two plus years of coverage of the CIA’s involvement in the Colombian drug trade, Plan Colombia, and the preparations for a war in Colombia to control both the drug trade and oil reserves on rebel-held territory. Heavy reportage connecting CIA and US contractors like DynCorp to criminal activities and drugs.

- Broke a story on an American investigation by Canadian members of the RCMP National Security Staff into highly secretive PROMIS software. FTW Editor Mike Ruppert was interviewed by the RCMP investigators during their investigation.

- World Exclusive – Broke a story linking documented 9-11 connected insider stock trading to a firm, A.B. Brown/Deutschebank, once headed by A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard who is now the Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

- Broke an exclusive story showing that Arthur Andersen, Enron’s auditor, had contracts to audit FBI and other secret intelligence operations while being investigated by the DoJ and the FBI.

- In a two-part exclusive series obtained quotes from a former US Attorney and other credible sources supporting claims that convicted drug lord Carlos Lehder had been secretly released from a US prison and that his wife was an executive with AIG, the world’s largest insurance company. Part II of the series established links between AIG and the drug trade from pre WWII China to the present day.

- Broke an exclusive story showing that Attorney General John Ashcroft faces potential criminal conflict of interest charges for his failure to recuse from oversight of two sitting grand juries involving ExxonMobil and BP Amoco. Both companies were admitted to the still secretive energy task force of Dick Cheney. Ashcroft promptly recused from Enron investigations because they had donated to his 2000 Senate race. Yet both ExxonMobil and BP were also donors with Exxon having given Ashcroft more money than Enron.

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