John Kaminski
Mike Ruppert's dalliance with Delmart "Mike" Vreeland
Fri Sep 20 17:30:07 2002
208.152.73.69

Mike Ruppert's dalliance with Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, who seems (?)
to be a notable con-man

John Kaminski - skylax@comcast.net  wrote:
>
> Cheryl, ( CHERDAV44@aol.com  )
> Heck, I think that call is cut-and-dried. Reminds me of the site I got the
> other day, the Homeland Security Cultural Bureau! Really. And it looked good,
> too. Very professional. Was it real? My God, I hope not. But who would fake
> something like that? Who knows? Are the Fascists that out in the open? Maybe.
> But I still thought it was a fake (which of course it is even if it isn't).
> Paranoia and deception are rampant on the Web these days. Some of us (Will
> Thomas, to name one) are still trying to puzzle out Mike Ruppert's dalliance
> with Delmart "Mike" Vreeland, who seems (?) to be a notable con-man. That
> whole episode knocked him off the top of my site list for awhile (but he's
> back up there now). I found his (well, not his, but he put it on his website)
> exposé of the Ford Foundation/CIA connections with most of the left spectrum
> to be tragically true and disheartening. I'm an old leftie myself but most of
> my web friends these days seem to be Patriot righties. Actually they come from
> all over the spectrum, but the one overrriding characteristic they have seems
> to be eyes wide open, eyebrows way up in a state of permanent incredulity at
> the lies that are being told from all corners, especially from the corporate
> center.
> It's gotten so bad that I even lost my best web friend the other day.
> Heck, we had even exchanged pictures. She'd send me bulletins from the
> Smirking Chimp and all these great environmental sites, and I'd respond with
> the latest from Jared Israel, or Sumeria or Serendipity. It was great. Then
> out of nowhere, I sent her this one piece I received analyzing the Pentagon
> crash from the point of view of a group called the Cassiopaeans — I sent it as
> a joke; the analysis was great, but its conclusion was stunningly insane,
> something about the people on those planes being sucked into the Fourth
> Density — and she wrote back and said I was an infidel and Bush was really a
> "walk-in". So disappointing. Several years back, I wrote that mass madness was
> setting in and would ultimately do the world in, and I think I was right.
> Your question also reminds me of a recent Waco decision I had to make. I
> was getting three streams of input relative to Waco: Carol Valentine's great
> and staunchly anti-Israel site, as well as two others, one called "Freedom
> News Network" (which was mostly an interesting rehash of World Net Daily) and
> something from someone named Carol Moore, which seemed to me clearly to be for
> feeble-minded partisans. I quickly dumped the last but listened to the second
> for awhile, because it had interesting stories, until it started regularly
> calling Palestinians "terrorists" and then I knew it was time to depart.
> I am not immune from the malaise and depression caused by all this
> deception. I started the post-9/11 era by getting a piece published on
> commondreams.org about the Patriot Act, and that really beefed up my mailing
> list. But commondreams didn't want anymore of me after I started writing
> William Blum-style recountings of U.S. history, and I soon realized the entire
> left was refusing to even entertain the notion that the attacks were not just
> permitted or condoned, but created, by the highest levels of corporate world
> government. The Patriot right has never had trouble embracing that idea but
> all too often they seem to sink back into that comfortable anti-Communist
> rhetoric that Bush himself uses to rip off the populations of the world.
> So it has been difficult for me to find my niche in all this. Tomorrow
> night I'm going to Tampa to hear Greg Palast and see the movie "Unprecedented"
> about the Florida election fiasco, but I'm sure all the time I'm there I'll be
> thinking, did the Ford Foundation fund this too?
> Which end is up? I'm not sure I know.
> The only thing I know for sure is that about ten minutes after I watched
> that second plane slam into the WTC, I realized that this could not be a
> strictly foreign attack. There's no way the logistics could have been gotten
> together by student radicals in Hamburg with ties to a cave in Afghanistan
> without the knowing complicity of air defense commanders and cynical political
> operatives at the highest levels of the American government, no freaking way,
> and that's the course I've been following ever since. Actually, that course
> was set back in 1990 when I did reap some credit for being one of those in the
> media who was greatly incensed at the notion that the Gulf War was an honest
> endeavor.
> Everything is just topsy-turvy these days. Who would have guessed even a
> few years ago that it would be Russia playing a key role for peace in trying
> to stop the war-mongering United States from unjustly invading one country
> after another?
> Best wishes and keep in touch,
> John
>
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> CHERDAV44@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Hi, John,
> > Re: the media infiltration - it's definitely for real and at all levels. I
> > think the Libertarians have recently started being targeted, too because
> > they are bolder than most liberals. I will try to find the example someone
> > sent me recently of that - it was a site called "the minuteman brigade,"
> > wanting people to sign up to become part of the "patriotic national militia"
> > supporting Bush...supposedly nonpartisan, but when you go through the site,
> > you notice all the Bush party line stuff - support the president no matter
> > what..etc. I got the feeling it was a clumbsy attempt, also to draw
> > Libertarians in (even wants people to sign the form!).. I did some snooping
> > beneath the "covers" and found that the site was registered to a George
> > Harris, who gave a CA address, yet lives in Nevada and is a rightwing
> > Republican who goes around pretending to lean toward libertarianism. I
> > found an article on him - seems he and his colleagues are going around
> > buying up the domain names of opposition candidates with
> > Found my rough draft!! (see below)
> > I haven't posted it yet, because when I wrote to the webmaster of the site,
> > they wrote back, refusing to give me the names of the people behind the
> > site, but then when I asked point blank if it was George Harris, she wrote
> > back and said no, but admitted that SHE was based in Nevada (not a little
> > fishy, eh?) But since I can't get a definitive answer on whether it is the
> > same George Harris, I don't want to risk posting it just in case it is some
> > other person (I doubt it, though).
> > What's your take?
> > Best, Cheryl
> >
> > Republican Party Makes Sneak Play with Bogus 'Minuteman Brigade'
> >
> > The "Minuteman Brigade," an organization that was invented about two
> > months ago, now has a slick, professionally generated website that is being
> > circulated far and wide by the GOP. Check it out and you will find no
> > mention of founders, webmasters, members, or even links. Under "sponsor" you
> > will find another bogus org. that cannot be found anywhere, not even an
> > extensive google search: "American Association for a Better America." See
> > http://www.aabaminuteman.com/ for the link from the Minuteman site. It is a
> > single page plugging a bumper sticker from the AABA. This outfits sole
> > purpose for being appears to be to appear to exist (if you can follow
> > that!), for the sake of making this whole setup look legitimate and
> > established. Beneath the bumper sticker is a photo of Bush with a Bush buzz
> > phrase: "We must stand up to the terrorists."
> > If you search through the Minuteman Brigade site, the astute reader
> > will quickly recognize that it is all a ploy to whip up support for the "war
> > on terrorism" and, more specifically, to change the definition of militia
> > from groups dedicated to local safety to groups pledged to defend G. W.
> > Bush.
> > The site tries to disguise this agenda, however, and works hard to look
> > non-rightwing Bushy on the surface - it is sprinked with quotes from people
> > like JFK and Ralph Waldo Emerson. But the wording has a very "your with us
> > or against us" tone and hints strongly at an underlying agenda: the "right
> > to bear arms":
> > "Our purpose is to the take action to bring all Americans into full
> > participation in the war on terrorism, exercising all the privileges and
> > responsibilities of our liberties and our freedom."
> >
> > http://www.aabaminuteman.com/
> >
> > Now here's the final kicker: When I did a domain search of the site, I
> > found that it was registered to one George Harris, who gave an address in
> > California. The same address is given on the MMB site as being the address
> > for the AABA - the address to which those wanting patriotic bumper stickers
> > are directed to send their checks. Do a google search of George Harris, and
> > you will discsover that he is a major figure in the ultrarightwing ranks of
> > the Western GOP. Although he gives the address as CA, he is in fact Nevada
> > Republican Liberty Caucus Chairman. When he isn't bashing Democrats, Harris
> > is bashing moderate Republicans. Here are some comments from and about Mr.
> > Harris:
> >
> > Snippet From Chuck Muth's GOPNEWSANDVIEWS:
> >
> > Nevada Republican Liberty Caucus Chairman George Harris is getting into
> > thegame of changing the words to the Pledge of Allegiance. His suggestion:
> > "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the
> > REPUBLICANS WHO MAKE IT STAND, one nation, under God."
> > Gotta nice ring to it, don't ya think?
> >
> >
> > Here is an excerpt from a scathing letter to John McCain posted at the Keep
> > and Bear Arms site - I think this is the same Harris, judging from the tone,
> > style and content of the letter, but Harris puts his address as Phoenix AZ -
> > no doubt so he could appear to be a "concerned constituent."
> >
> > "How does it feel to have hillary rodham as the ONLY co-sponsor of your
> > un-American, unconstitutional anti-gun bill (S890), in which you
> > collaborated with the openly leftist Senator Lieberman? I can't imagine a
> > greater embarrassment! To deny American citizens their right to life,
> > property and security, including the defense of these along with that of
> > family and loved ones in concert with two of the most known left wing
> > extremists in Congress is a disgrace to your State, your constituents, and
> > your country. What could you have possibly been thinking?"
> >
> > Here's a column By Las Vegas Review writer John L. Smith that refers to the
> > sneaky domain name shuffling that is being perpetrated by Harris and his pal
> > Chuck Muth, another ultrarightwing Repug: It seems that Harris not only is
> > setting up rightwing front sites that try to appear nonpartisan, he is also
> > guilty of buying up domain names of opposing political candidates in Nevada
> > "presumably for the purposes of delivering damaging material," says Smith.
> > What a great guy, eh?
> > http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2002/Feb-06-Wed-2002/news/18032750.html

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