TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

America's leading tabloid publisher, which last year reached a lucrative business deal with one of Schwarzenegger's earliest business partners, has filled checkout stands not with salacious tales of alleged womanizing -- but with a glowing tribute to the Republican candidate and Hollywood star.
American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer and Star tabloids, has produced a 120-page glossy magazine called "Arnold, the American Dream.'' The $4.95 magazine is crammed with flattering photographs . . .

Last year, American Media reached a lucrative deal with Schwarzenegger business partner Joe Weider to buy his muscle-and-fitness publishing empire -- which includes Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness magazines -- for $350 million. Weider, one of the actor's mentors, brought Schwarzenegger to America from Austria in the late '60s and helped make the aspiring star a bodybuilding icon. Schwarzenegger still writes an ``Ask Arnold'' column for Muscle and Fitness, and Weider is supporting his longtime friend's campaign.

Last month, Weider told the New York Daily News that American Media owner David Pecker assured him last winter that the tabloids were going to ``lay off'' Schwarzenegger and not dig up any dirt . . .

Since the actor has entered the race, Schwarzenegger has been virtually absent from the pages of American Media's top-selling tabloids. The Enquirer and Star have run no negative stories on the actor . . .

Instead, one American Media tabloid, the Weekly World News, this week ran an ``exclusive'' about a politically savvy space alien throwing his otherworldly support behind Schwarzenegger. Under the screaming headline ``Alien backs Arnold for governor!'' the extraterrestrial not only lauds the actor, but vows to help amend the U.S. Constitution so the Austrian-born candidate can someday run for president.

It is possible to produce the appearance of a terrorist attack on the United States by means that do not employ terrorists, as such, but by the simple substitution of one aircraft for another, particularly when the transponders of the aircraft involved are turned off. The only people who need to be deceived by such an operation are the radar operators at air traffic control (ATC) centers.

The scenario explored here, called Operation Pearl (after Pearl Harbor), has been described in sufficient operational detail that sound judgments can be made about a) feasibility and b) consistency with evidence on the ground. At the time of this writing it is probably the best available description of what probably took place on September 11, 2001.

Under the Operation Pearl scenario, the passengers of all four flights died in an aerial explosion over Shanksville, PA and the remaining three airliners are at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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3 The Evidence Filter
Any scenario constructed to account for the events of September 11 2001 must pass a graduated test, as embodied in the following items. These fall into three classes:

Suspicious circumstances

• Four of the named hijackers were not in the United States.
  
• The WTC towers collapsed without adequate heat stress.
  
• Smaller aircraft accompanied Flights 77 and 93.
  
• Most of the alleged hijackers were rather poor pilots.
  
• Evidence of the alleged hijackers developed too quickly.
  
• Westward excursion of Flights UA93 and AA77 are inexplicable as terrorists hurrying to targets."

Anomalies

• The US Air Force failed to intercept any of the flights.
  
• The hijackers' names did not show up on passenger lists.
  
• The hijackers' faces did not appear on boarding gate videos.
  
• Black boxes were missing from all but one flight.

Contradictions

• The Pentagon was not struck by a large passenger aircraft.
  
• Cellphone calls alleged to have been made by passengers were essentially impossible.
  
• A successful scenario must at least explain the contradictions and account for a majority of the anomalies. It is of course desirable that it also account for the suspicious circumstances, but no scenario need stand or fall in this regard.

It must be remarked that the only scenario ever supplied to the public via the official media was the Bush-Cheney scenario, that Arab hijackers seized control of the four aircraft and proceeded to pilot them into national landmarks, killing both themselves and their passengers. Clearly, the Bush-Cheney scenario, considered in detail, explains none of the suspicious circumstances, none of the anomalies and is directly contradicted by the facts adduced in the third category. As scenarios go, it is a distinct failure.
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4.1 Radar Substitution . . .
4.2 Aircraft transponders. . .
4.3 Remote Control . . .
4.4 Electronic towing. . .
5.2 Swapping aircraft . . .

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I was the bi-coastal lover of the notoriously gay Robert Mapplethorpe who photographed Arnold Schwarzenegger. (In a national scandal in 1989-1990, Senator Jesse Helms denounced Mapplethorpe on the floor of the US Senate and took away government funding of art, virtually destroying the National Endowment for the Arts.) . . .

The next very personal item (which was given directly to me by Mapplethorpe) is extremely rare, and, after all these years, probably one of a kind. It is an original Schwarzenegger-Mapplethorpe photo postcard, approximately 3x5, featuring a black-and-white photograph of Arnold titled: Robert Mapplethorpe “Torso” 1978.

Arnold’s 240 pounds appear in a 5-ounce posing brief artfully tinted a subdued red. (Do the math!)

The postcard is surrounded by a red border. (The photo was exhibited at the Smithsonian in 1978.) On the reverse side of this historical card from the wild “Titanic 1970s” is an invitation, handwritten in black ink by Robert Mapplethorpe, to a “Hot Dirty Man” sex party at 652 Hudson Street, with arrival “required before 11:30" when the doors closed. The postcard, signifying Arnold’s gay sex appeal, is in excellent condition. . . .

I am also including from my personal collection my VERY RARE AND VERY COLLECTIBLE FEBRUARY, 1977, ISSUE OF AFTER DARK MAGAZINE. I have carefully stored this 26-year-old treasure to keep it in excellent condition. The photo layout features 22 photographs (including the full-color cover of Arnold) selected by After Dark who combined the very exhibitionist photos for maximum sex appeal to its gay demographic.

Two color photos shot by George Butler are outstanding CANDID NUDE PORTRAITS in the frank style of the free-wheeling 1970s:

1) a color FULL-FRONTAL NUDE of Arnold Schwarzenegger and

2) a color NUDE BUTT-SHOT taken from Arnold’s left side.

The photo layout’s 22 photographs, some of them full page, include . . . , Arnold is reclined, like painter Ingres’ Grande Odalisque, toward the camera in what can only be reviewed in a randy gay magazine as “a delirious shoulder-and-pec-loaded crotch shot.”

Yet another gorgeous photo, formally posed by Arnold and formally composed by Pumping Iron’s George Butler, glorifies Arnold standing majestically outdoors (in the “archer” pose) with three young black adolescents sitting, I myself think, very Suddenly Last Summer at his feet; one reaches his hand up to the top of Arnold’s striated thigh. . . .

[A] far-reaching database is quietly taking shape with the participation of more than a dozen states -- and $12 million in federal funds . . .

Dubbed Matrix, the database has been in use for a year and a half in Florida . . . It cross-references the state's driving records and restricted police files with billions of pieces of public and private data, including credit and property records. ...

Matrix houses restricted police and government files on a colossal database that sits in the offices of Seisint, a Boca Raton, Fla., company founded by millionaire Hank Asher, who police say flew planeloads of drugs into the country in the early 1980s.

"It's federally funded, it's guarded by state police but it's on private property... very interesting," said Christopher Slobogin, a University of Florida law professor and expert in privacy issues. "If it's federally funded, the federal government obviously has a huge interest in it."
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As a dozen more states pool their criminal and government files with Florida's, the Matrix database is expanding in size and power. Organizers hope to coax more states to join. . .

California and Texas dropped out, citing, among other things, worries over housing sensitive files at Seisint. . . .

[T]he project is billed as a tool for state and local police, but organizers are considering giving access to the Central Intelligence Agency, said Phil Ramer, special agent in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's intelligence office.

In the 1970s, Congress barred the CIA from scanning files on average Americans.

-- Last December, assistant attorney general Daniel Bryant said information had been sought from libraries on a voluntary basis and under traditional legal authorities, possibly including national security letters.

-- In March 2003, Justice Department spokesperson Mark Corallo said libraries had become a logical target of surveillance.

-- In May 2003, in testimony before members of Congress, assistant attorney general Viet Dinh said federal agents had visited about 50 libraries.

the government employs "National Security Letters" - signed by Attorney General Ashcroft or a delegate and with no judicial approval - to "compel the production of a substantial amount of relevant information." The government can use this power to obtain records about people living in the United States, including American citizens, without probable cause that the person has committed any crime. Entities that are forced to turn over records are prohibited from disclosing to their customers - or to anyone else - that the FBI has demanded the records. . . .

[U]nder the Patriot Act, the letters have become a far more invasive and nefarious tool. Before the Patriot Act. . . National Security Letters could be issued only against people who were reasonably suspected of espionage. The Patriot Act allows the Attorney General to issue National Security Letters even against people who are not suspected of criminal activity or of acting on behalf of a foreign power.

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Retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark helped an Arkansas information company win a contract to assist development of an airline passenger screening system, one of the largest surveillance programs ever devised by the government.

Starting just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Clark sought out dozens of government and industry officials on behalf of Acxiom Corp., a data powerhouse that maintains names, addresses and a wide array of personal details about nearly every adult in the United States and their households, according to interviews and documents.

Clark, a Democrat who declared himself a presidential candidate 10 days ago, joined Acxiom's board of directors in December 2001. He earned $300,000 from Acxiom last year and was set to receive $150,000, plus potential commissions, this year, according to financial disclosure records. He owns several thousand shares of Acxiom stock worth more than $67,000. . .

he helped the company win a government contract worth an undisclosed amount to provide data and consulting services to the CAPPS II program. CAPPS II is the second-generation computer-assisted passenger screening system, a network that Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta once described as "the foundation" on which all other, far more public aviation security measures depend. . . .

Acxiom is a data integrator that manages billions of records for some of the nation's top banks, retailers and marketers. The company said it has "the largest collection of U.S. consumer and telephone data available in one source" -- data that is used in part to enhance others' records and authenticate identities.

After joining the company's board in December 2001, Clark quickly arranged for executives to talk with officials at FinCEN, a Treasury Department agency responsible for financial intelligence and initiatives to combat money-laundering.

Clark also has met on the company's behalf with officials at the Department of Justice, the CIA, the Department of Transportation, the Transportation Security Administration and Lockheed Martin Corp., the defense contractor that is heading up CAPPS II. . . .

In a meeting at the Department of Transportation in January 2002, according to participants, Clark described a system that would combine personal data from Acxiom with information about the reservations and seating records of every U.S. airline passenger.

[I]mages posted on the website www.BarrMcClellan.com, identify fourteen match points to a finger print found at the Texas Schoolbook Depository with that of a known assassin, Mac Wallace. The website also matches a police composite of a suspect involved in an earlier murder with a photograph of Wallace.

The most compelling evidence. . . is presented in [McClellan']s book [Blood, Money & Power: How L. B. J. Killed J. F. K.], due Sept. 30th . . . Photographs, personal memos and other legal records in the book document the payments and maneuvers orchestrated by Texas power broker Ed Clark Law Firm to compensate Wallace and others for their part in the assassination of [JFK]. The book also identifies the money-laundering corporation used by Johnson. The Clark Law Firm handled most of the personal, business and political transactions for [LBJ].

Barr McClellan represented President Lyndon Johnson and his interests from 1966 through 1971. He served primarily through Texas power attorney Edward Clark . . . was also personal attorney for Clark in seeking an assassination bonus from Big Oil interests in Dallas, an effort that included two major lawsuits.