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Rex Tom, FBI Director of Investigative Publicity, stated the FBI's position in 2006:
“The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.”

5/2/11 after heroically killing deadman again
Obama To 9/11 Victims: 'Justice Has Been Done'
Crowds Of People Sing National Anthem, Chant 'USA'

Obama rallies support linking bin laden/al qaeda to 911
(excerpt from full text of Obama announcement)
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/140071/20110502/obama-announces-obama-s-...
We quickly learned the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda - an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies...For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda's leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al Qaeda. Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort...And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.

US National Security Information Operations: Obama’s Bin Laden Kill Sets Precedent

(posted a day late - neither servers' could connect to the digest website)

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.”
James Baldwin, Biography

“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger

MAY 1, INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY, 'MAYDAY' FOR CAPITALISTS

4/30/12 US officials claim terrorists might attack aircraft with bombs surgically ...
Reported by Brian Ross of ABC News ... authorities told ABC News today they fear al Qaeda may soon try ... Middle East has been substantially stepped up, with a focus on U.S. carriers. ... in the stomach area of the body for surgically implante

7/6/11 Implanted suicide bombs: Al Qaeda looks into surgically implanting ...
Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen recently discussed surgically implanting ... get past airport detectors and blow up a U.S.-bound passenger plane ...

Seattle mayor issues May Day warning

digest note:
Now we officially know the 'news' is part of a systemic 'information war' strategy ** 'public diplomacy' or 'strategic information' (http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/386}
it's clearer than ever that geostrategic documents and analyses not intended for public consumption, are essential: below, two by Obama adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Brzezinski National Security memorandum below followed the COINTELPRO which destroyed the ability of the Black national liberation movement led by the Black Panther Party [BPP] to function by years of dirty tricks and murdering more than 30 of its leaders. But this gangster op. was unable to kill the struggle against national oppression and passion for liberation. * Resistance and revolution of its savagely oppressed subjects everywhere in the world it dominates is the white supremacist capitalist system's greatest fear. The revolutionary movement against it stunned and terrified its arrogant rulers because the BPP message and actions mobilized millions far beyond the US ghetto and barrio reservations.
Brzezinski's strategy spells out tactics you'll read about below, including putting 'Black faces in high places', creating a Black pacification army with the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton etc., and a bourgeois intellectual academic and cultural army including Manning Marable, Cornell West, to reach beyond the usual 'turn the cheek' ministers, to intensify hostile class divisions within the US Black nation, as well as exacerbate racist divisions especially in the working class.
This strategy reached full-bloom with Obama, 'house negro' supreme hired to execute the bipartisan US National Security Strategy for global domination necessitating the conquest or cooptation of major capitalist rivals and political resistance (aka"terrorism") - whom Brzezinski 'advises'.

NB: Framework for Krony story and all US domestic and foreign news, in the context of US NSS strategy:

Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy Foreign Policy Analysis (2006) 2, 157–176 (brief excerpt)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2006.00025.x/abstract
http://www.burbankdigest.com/node/386
‘‘Public diplomacy’’ and ‘‘propaganda’’ are used interchangeably in this paper...the influence of the information revolution is not restricted to the developed world,
as evidenced even in the resistance it meets from some non-democratic governments. Furthermore, one should not underestimate the exploitation of new technologies in third-world public diplomacy that is aimed at the developed world, especially at the U.S. All this should not obscure the continuing relevance of force ( hard power) to many interstate relations and increasingly terrorism which presents governments with a grand-strategic challenge: how to combine effectively soft and hard national means to obtain desired political outcomes... especially in the current international system, depends on the government’s ability to manage the complicated balances and tradeoffs that inhere in the relationship between hard force and soft diplomacy... the traditional and time-honored concern of statecraft; however experience can be drawn on with respect to newer forms of force and of communications, such as fighting terrorism in the age of global, real-time television and the Internet...

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The White House congratulated Invisible Children, makers of the Kony 2012 video.
www.thereporteronline.com/ apps/ pbcs.dll/ article?AID=/ 20120308/ NEWS04/ 120309692/ video-white-house-congratulates-kony-video-makers
President Obama talks about Joseph Kony. Jake Tapper of ABC News posted video in which he asks the president about the LRA. The exchange is below.

SMART POWER: 'PUBLIC DIPLOMACY' & 'STRATEGIC INFORMATION' WARFARE
“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
Henry Kissinger

" Public diplomacy and propaganda are used interchangeably in this paper..."
Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy Foreign Policy Analysis (2006) 2, 157–176
‘‘Public diplomacy’’ and ‘‘propaganda’’ are used interchangeably in this paper...the influence of the information revolution is not restricted to the developed world, as
is evidenced even in the resistance it meets from some non-democratic governments.11 Furthermore, one should not underestimate the exploitation of new technologies in third-world public diplomacy that is aimed at the developed world, especially at the U.S. (Manheim 1990).
All this should not obscure the continuing relevance of force (or hard power) to many interstate relations and increasingly terrorism which presents governments with a grand-strategic challenge: how to combine effectively soft and hard national means to obtain desired political outcomes.... the realization of desired political outcomes, especially in the current international system, depends on the government’s ability to manage the complicated balances and tradeoffs that inhere in the relationship between hard force and soft diplomacy.... the traditional and time-honored concern of statecraft; however experience can be drawn on with respect to the newer forms of force and of communications, such as fighting terrorism in the age of global, real-time television and the Internet....

NB comments, emphases and most 'US' abbreviations are by the digest

comment: HONDURAS: HELL ON EARTH FROM DECADES OF DOMINATION BY U.S. GLOBAL SOVEREIGNTY
DEATH BY DIPLOMACY, DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT, DEFENSE

HONDURAS AND ITS CARIBBEAN NEIGHBORS, HAVE LIVED AND DIED UNDER RELENTLESS IMPERIALIST ASSAULT FOR CENTURIES.
THE I998 HURRICANE MITCH BROUGHT U.S. ASSAULT ARMED IN 'HUMANITARIAN' SOFT POWER MERGED WITH HARD POWER. CALLED 'SMART POWER, THIS IS NOW U.S. CONQUEST M.O., FROM R2P, 'RIGHT TO PROTECT BY 'HUMANITARIAN BOMBING' IN LIBYA, TO IN 'NATURAL DISASTER AID' FROM HAITI, CHINA, INDONESIA, PAKISTAN TO NEW ORLEANS, INSTALLING ITS MILITARY TAKEOVER UNDER SOFT USAID/NGOS COVER. BILL CLINTON, ON BEHALF OF HIS IMPERIALIST FOUNDATION , DARED DECLARE THAT 'BUILDING BACK BETTER' WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR HAITI. OVER $5BILLION DONATIONS LATER, MILLIONS OF HAITIANS ARE STILL STARVING IN RUBBLE, DYING FROM CHOLERA AS U.S. DIPLOMACY, DEMOCRACY, DEVELOPMENT & DEFENSE DO WHAT IT'S DESIGNED TO DO.

The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin,1963
"At the center of this dreadful storm, this vast confusion, stand the black people of this nation, who must share the fate of a nation that has never accepted them, to which they were brought in chains. Well, if this is so, one has no choice but to do all in one’s power to change that fate, and at no matter what risk—eviction, imprisonment, torture, death."
“The Negroes of this country may never rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream”

2/2 PROBLEM: This issue's incomplete because today, am unable to copy-paste, to add additional important collected materials,Also cannot copy/paste it onto www.burbankdigest.com, or to local addresses.
Readers: please post this as far & wide as possible!

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Day of Mass Action to Stop U.S. War on Iran
NO war! NO sanctions! NO intervention! NO assassinations!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1170/p/salsa/event/common/public/in...

Seattle:
February 4, 2012: Rally 1:30 PM Westlake Center, 400 Pine St. march to military entrance processing station at 2901 3rd. ave. sea. 98121.
Facebook for February 4th

Street protests, other events and outreach will happen in many places around the world: in Ireland at Shannon Air Base (forward NATO base); in London; in Dacca, Bangaldesh; in Calcutta and other cities in India. Search this page for actions in Canada.
Endorsers include (not too late to join endorsers):

digest intro: OTHER VOICES
Arthur Silber fearlessly rips the mask off US injustice and hypocrisy. Silber doesn't claim to be a revolutionary. As 'recovering' left liberal ('recovering' since while righteously denouncing the US political system & its major electoral arms, shredding 'hopeful' liberal illusions its politicians could make systemic changes, he also suggests that libertarian Ron Paul might, if allowed). A passionate, instructive radical libertarian, Silber is a 'fa real' ally. A few brief edited excerpts from his "Once Upon a Time: Power of Narrative" blogspot:

The Nightmare Made Real: Torture, Murder and Endless Horror Institutionalized and Normalized -- by Democrats
5/3/08 http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2008/05/nightmare-made-real-torture...
I didn't want to write this post. It gives me no pleasure finally to have to make certain judgments, and to recognize it is almost impossible there will ever be any reason to revise or amend them. I have been very harsh in my evaluation of the Democrats and those who ceaselessly work for Democratic electoral victory...Nonetheless, I still had clung to an exceedingly slim thread of hope that at least a few of the Democrats and/or their supporters would act on behalf of the sanctity of human life, of civilization, of the most basic sense of decency. That hope is now gone, probably forever.

digest intro: Why MLK gets bigger & better:

Things were going very badly for the US after unleashing state terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, while declaring justified resistance 'terrorism'. Most of the world turned against US 'global war on terror' and its frontman GWB who added fuel to the fire, and new tactics were called for to advance its bipartisan 'national security' strategy for global domination. After analysis ad debate in all the usual think-tanks, military & otherwise, NGOs, academies and foundations, it was decided then heralded by State Dept. diplomat-in-chief Clinton, that soft power would 'resurge', elevated now to equal-partner with 'hard' power, as 'smart power. The first major trial run was US AFRICOM vs. Libya, in this administration's MENA version of the failed Bush administrations BMENA campaign to conquer the African continent, essential for US global supremacy. (see previous digest issues on 'the Arab Spring' as part of the newly energized and militarized 'strategic non-violence')
Here's why MLK non-violence is more important than ever -- especially opposed to revolutionaries like Malcolm X. Finally there's a 1978 analysis by Carter's Secty. of State, now Obama 'consultant', Zbigniew Brzezinski, of the vital connection to US 'interests' between 'Black Africa and the U.S. Black Movement".

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. Observed for the first time on January 20, 1986, it is called Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Following President George H. W. Bush's 1992 proclamation, the holiday is observed on the third Monday of January each year, near the time of King's birthday.On January 17, 2000, for the first time, Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially observed in all fifty U.S. states...

'CHEEKY' TEACHER AN INSPIRATION, HE DARES TO STRUGGLE AND WIN!
CELEBRATE HAWKING, LIVING LIFE PASSIONATELY, TO THE FULLEST, FOR HUMANITY AND THE FUTURE

Stephen Hawking dismisses belief in God: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'
In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
Ian Sample, science correspondent
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen-hawking-interview-...
Photograph: Solar & Heliospheric Observatory/Discovery Channel
In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist [and Director of Research in Physics at Cambridge University] said there was nothing beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.
Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, shares his thoughts on death, human purpose and our chance existence in an exclusive interview with the Guardian today. The incurable illness was expected to kill Hawking within a few years of its symptoms arising, an outlook that turned the young scientist to Wagner, but ultimately led him to enjoy life more, he has said, despite the cloud hanging over his future. "I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he said. "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".