Affidavit of Daniel W. Hanley for Inclusion as Part of Public Congressional
Record for Hearing Conducted by Senate Aviation Operations, Safety, and
Security Subcommittee Chairman Senator Byron Dorgan of June 17, 2009
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I, Daniel W. Hanley, being first duly sworn, on oath, states as follows:
1. I am of legal age and competent. This affidavit is made on my personal knowledge of all matters set forth and referenced herein. If sworn and called as a witness in this case, I could, and I would, testify competently as to each fact set forth and incorporated herein by reference.
2. The alleged facts supported with evidence are true and correct to the best of my personal knowledge of the facts, evidence, information and belief.
3. On June 9, 2009 at 11 a.m., I was advised by Mr. Rich Swayze, a staff member on the Senate Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee, that I would not be permitted to testify in either open or closed session of said committee, hence this affidavit is being provided for inclusion as part of public congressional record for this hearing.
4. I am of information and belief that in October 2003, I was ushered through the United Airlines Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at United Airlines directly as a result of my submission of federally-mandated Aviation Safety Awareness Reports which, among other issues, addressed concerns regarding crew fatigue, reckless scheduling of aircrews, aircrew morale issues, and alleged stonewalling of communication processes within the company, that included the Federal Aviation Administration Principle Operation Inspector.
5. I currently possess documentation, mental health records, prior military flight and health records, and availability of credible witnesses in support of what I state herein. I allege that, in 35-years of flying civil, naval, and commercial jet aircraft, I have never failed a check ride, flight physical, or any psychological screening and have an untarnished record with no flight violations. I estimate to have flown over 20,000 flight hours in numerous civilian and naval aircraft including the P-3 Orion, as well as the B-737, B-727, A-320, B-757/767, and B-777 commercial jet aircraft at United Airlines.
6. My U.S. Navy service record is available on request, which demonstrates that I consistently ranked in the top 1% of my peer group throughout my ten years as a Naval Officer and aviator, and was recommended for accelerated promotion on all but one or two officer evaluation reports in 10 years. In 1978, I was selected for the Operations Research Program at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California and was nominated for the Navy Weapon System Acquisition Management Program (WSAM), but declined these tempting assignments to pursue a career in commercial aviation.
7. Upon graduation from Primary Flight Training at NAS Saufley Field in Pensacola, Florida in 1973 while flying the T-34B, I was selected as ‘Student of the Week’ out of 228 graduating students. Upon graduation from Advanced Flight Training at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas flying the TS-2A Tracker, I was selected as ‘Student of the Month’. Upon graduating from Replacement Air Group Training Squadron flying the P-3 Orion, I was ranked number one in my class. In my fleet squadron, I became the youngest and only Lt (jg) Plane Commander/Mission Commander well in advance of schedule and of that of my contemporaries. Additionally, I was the youngest and junior ranked instructor pilot in the squadron, as well as a NATOPS Safety Instructor and maintenance functional check pilot. Additionally, I served as a P-3 Subject Matter Expert in development of a training syllabus for fleet wide use for the P-3C Update II Project. In 1984, I received a Navy Achievement Medal serving as Operations Officer while attached to Patrol Squadron Sixty at NAS Glenview, Illinois.
8. I was on the Dean’s List at Southern Illinois University and graduated in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics. Upon expulsion as a United Airlines B-777 Captain, during the time frame 2004-2006, I attended Georgia State University full-time while majoring in Psychology and World Religious Studies and maintained a near straight-A average. I am a few hours short of receipt of a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, and have reenrolled for the fall 2009 semester for continuance of my education.
9. The Air Line Pilots Association motto is “Schedule with Safety”. I allege, based on my own perceptions and personal experiences, as well as inputs received from many other aircrew members at United Airlines in 2003, that United Airlines Flight Operations management personnel engaged in a crew scheduling process during bankruptcy that may have endangered the lives of the travelling public, due to crew fatigue, poor morale, inadequate and unconcerned management leadership, massive problematic downgrade of pilots, and many other issues. These situations were precipitated by the alleged leveraged position of management in making outrageous concession demands of employees in an effort to receive an ATSB loan guarantee that was never granted, and which propelled United Airlines into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It was these and other legal, financial, and political pressures that greatly diminished the ability of ALPA to adequately address safety issues and legally support those pilots who did via appropriate federal communicative processes. This perception was gained by me from actual statements made at the time by both my JFK Chief Pilot, ALPA council chairman, and others.
10. I allege that commercial aviation safety must necessarily be maintained in a vacuum without external financial, legal, and political pressures and influences exerted on aircrew members wishing to report known safety deficiencies for fear of undue recriminations.
11. The first sentences of the Air Line Pilots Association Code of Ethics are thus stated:
AN AIRLINE PILOT will keep uppermost in his mind that the safety, comfort, and well-being of the passengers who entrust their lives to him are his first and greatest responsibility.
He will never permit external pressures or personal desires to influence his judgment, nor will he knowingly do anything that could jeopardize flight safety.
He will remember that an act of omission can be as hazardous as a deliberate act of commission, and he will not neglect any detail that contributes to the safety of flight, or perform any operation in a careless or reckless manner.
Consistent with flight safety, he will at all times operate his aircraft in manner that will contribute to the comfort, peace of mind, and well-being of his passengers, instilling trust in him and the airline he represents.
Once he has discharged his primary responsibility for the safety and comfort of his passengers, he will remember that they depend upon him to do all that is possible to deliver them to their destination at the scheduled time.
If a disaster should strike, he will take whatever action he deems necessary to protect the lives of his crew and his passengers.
12. The Federal Aviation Administration website states:
Our Mission
Our continuing mission is to provide the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world.
Our Vision
We continue to improve safety and efficiency of flight. We are responsive to our customers and are accountable to the taxpayer and the flying public.
Our Values
• Safety is our passion. We are the world leaders in aerospace safety.
• Quality is our trademark. We serve our stakeholders, our customers, and each other.
• Integrity is our character. We do the right thing, even when no one is looking.
• People are our strength. We treat people as we want to be treated.
13. I allege that beginning in 2002 until July 12, 2003 when I wrote my first formal letter of complaint to Captain Paul Whiteford, United ALPA MEC Chairman, I had countless face-to-face and phone conversations and email exchanges with both United flight management and ALPA representatives regarding a whole host of safety concerns, many of which had been expressed to me by other aircrew members, but were not being adequately addressed by company management personnel. It must be emphasized that throughout this ordeal that ended in December 2003, I was attempting to be most cautious not to draw media attention or initiate litigation of any sort, as I feared that such actions might compromise the success of United’s emergence from bankruptcy, since the company was allegedly teetering on the brink of Chapter 7 liquidation.
14. I further allege that my actions and conduct were commensurate with the stated Air Line Pilots Association motto and Code of Ethics, in consonance with the Federal Aviation Administration Mission statement, and was in keeping with the highest standards of United Airlines stated number one priority of safety. I genuinely believed that what I was doing was in keeping with every legal, moral, and ethical principle engrained in me as a pilot since I first took flight in a Cessna-150 in 1968 and carried throughout my entire Naval flying experiences, and through my career at United Airlines. I honestly believed that I would have the full support of ALPA and the FAA since I was sustaining the legal, moral, and ethical high ground in reporting this to United Airlines management and the FAA Principle Operation Inspector assigned to the airline.
15. On the ground while at the gate, aircraft security is coordinated by the captainand the ground security coordinator with the final decision made by the captain regarding continuance of a flight. Shortly after 9/11, United Airlines senior management authorized flight crew members, who felt they were at risk due to security concerns, to deplane with pay protection for that segment of their schedule. In 2003, due to a security breach on my flight at the gate in London, wherein the flight attendants perhaps averted a north Atlantic diversion due to advisement to me of a passenger condition, I happened to notice flight attendant supervisors who had boarded the plane that was being inspected without passengers onboard that were badgering my cabin crew for allegedly delaying the flight. I asked them to step aside so that I could explain just how helpful this crew was to me in my making the decision to have the aircraft inspected (most of the passengers told me that if this passenger remained on board, they weren’t going to take the flight). I then asked them a hypothetical question regarding what their actions would be if both I and the ground security coordinator were agreeable to taking the flight but had flight attendants who still experienced consternation and wanted to deplane. They responded that they would give the flight attendant in question a direct order to take the flight and, if she refused, she would be terminated from employment at United Airlines. I asked them both if this was stated United Airlines upper-management policy, and they both agreed that it was. Believing that this might just be a local London base policy, I queried both the Newark and JFK in-flight offices and actually saw the intimidating policy in writing. A Newark-based in-flight supervisor wrote a stinging letter to my JFK Chief Pilot just because I asked to see this policy in writing, which I felt impinged on the CLR concepts that include effective cockpit-cabin communications.
16. To keep this matter in house, I filed a Captain’s Report to address my concerns, as the flight attendants serve as the eyes and ears in the back of the cabin since the promised TV cameras were never installed. A week or so later, I received a call from an ALPA safety representative telling me that management and ALPA had reviewed my report, and although they agreed with what I stated, felt that ALPA was somewhat restricted due to the fact that United Airlines was in the midst of attempting to receive post-9/11 ATSB loan monies. Paraphrasing, he remarked, “C’mon Dan, be a team player…we’re in bankruptcy and need this loan. Why don’t you just drop this issue? Management thinks that you’re just being a big-mouthed whistleblower. How do you want me to dispose of this report?” I told him what he could do with the report, but only after querying him as to where ALPA was drawing the distinction between aviation safety and airline financial survival concerns. I emphasized to him that I wasn’t willing to compromise my principles as a captain with regard to safety issues in spite of the financial condition of United Airlines and the unfavorable negotiating position that ALPA found itself in at present. Subsequent discussions with numerous chief pilots and ALPA officials indicated to me that the entire bankruptcy process was impinging on aviation safety issues, hence, after repeated stonewalls of all issues, I intended to write CEO Glenn Tilton a letter addressing this concern. The remaining tragic conclusion of my aviation career may be found in the previously submitted affidavit.
17. Since 2006, I have been contacted by numerous airline pilots from all carriers who have shared their similar stories with me. Additionally, other pilots who have not personally had such experiences, but are knowledgeable of the EAP process for removing ‘dissident’ pilots have provided much information and insight and are willing to provide sworn testimony.
18. In light of ASAP program cancellations last year at Delta, UsAir, and American, with the current pending litigation hanging over the head of United pilots, coupled with the exposure of whistleblower suppression at Colgan Air that could have possibly prevented that air disaster, other pilots and myself feel morally and ethically compelled to speak out. We already have and will continue to do so until this problem is rectified by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.
19. I could have turned my back on aviation and walked away from all of these concerns five years ago, but my conscience would not allow it. I may have been retired from the left seat in 2003, but I will always be a captain in my heart and in my soul, just as I will always be a Naval Aviator. It does count just how many times an airline pilot walks down the jet way with regard to airline safety. Poor pay and working conditions do very much contribute to poor morale, which also adds stress and distraction into the safety equation, which hasn’t been addressed by the Transportation subcommittee.
20. While concerns are being expressed regarding the impact of commuting on airline safety, please be advised that it has come to my attention that most first officers at the trunk carriers are working full-time outside the airline as their primary source of income. Many have told me that once they get their business established, that they are going to resign from their airline jobs, as the continued hassle is no longer worth it. Additionally, many line captains that I’ve talked to are working absolute minimum hours to keep the job since their pensions were stolen from them in bankruptcy. Apathy and poor morale in the airline industry amongst pilots is a cancer to safety more insidious than most of the issues addressed by the committee to date.
21. For airline CEOs who recently stated that pilot pay has no impact on the level of safety in flight operations, I would suggest that they try living on $25,000 for a year without access to any other financial assets, and see what ‘happy campers’ and just how effective and focused they are at their jobs.
22. Further affiant sayeth naught.
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DANIEL W. HANLEY
SWORN before me on
This day of June 2009
_______________________________
NOTARY PUBLIC
Friday, May 13, 2011
9/11 Was an Inside Job; aircraft were 'droned' and no Muslims involved
May 9, 2011
Islamabad, Pakistan
9/11: Was it Osama and his Cavemen or QRS-11 Microchip-Equipped ‘Droned’ Aircraft?
The lips of the ‘ghosts of bin Laden’ are still moving
Captain Dan Hanley
International Public Spokesperson
Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association International
As much of the world applauds President Obama for his courageous decision to unilaterally abrogate the sovereignty of Pakistan through the daring U.S. Navy Seal commando raid at Abbotabad, Pakistan, many are questioning the validity of the ‘evidence’ offered in proving the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Perhaps the critical issue that global journalist should really be focused on is whether or not bin Laden was truly responsible for the events of 9/11, the pretext for the original invasion of Afghanistan and launch of the global war on terror.
Reflecting back on the weak evidence offered and bizarre conclusions drawn in the 9/11 Commission final report, we are being asked yet another time to accept frail evidence as statement of facts from this same government. If Osama did not plan and execute the events of 9/11, perhaps his extrajudicial murder will explain the U.S. desire to assassinate him and dump his body in the ocean. The corpses of many mob informants wishing to testify before a grand jury lie beneath the East River in New York and the Chicago River before ever being given the chance to take the witness stand.
Just weeks prior to the illegal incursion of Pakistan airspace, in a peculiarly timely manner, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced to the world that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad would be tried by a highly-secretive military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay vice a public jury trial in the United States. Having been illegally water boarded 198 times to extract his testimony that he, and not bin Laden, was responsible for the planning and execution of 9/11, we might surmise that even President Obama would testify that he was a legal citizen of Nigeria vice the United States if he were to endure similar illegal torture in direct violation of the Geneva accords.
98% of All U.S. Federal Whistleblowers Silenced
In his 2008 campaign for the Oval Office, President Obama promised voters a ‘greater openness of government’ with ‘enhanced protection for federal whistleblowers’,a promise that he has not yet kept. Over the past ten years, a full 98% of U.S. federal whistleblowers have failed in their attempt to expose fraud, waste and abuse in government and business. Of those willing to step forth with disclosures, the ratio of failure of aviation community whistleblowers to all others is ten to one.
This dismal failure rate coupled with observed harsh whistleblower retaliation sends a chilling signal down the spine of other would-be whistleblowers that consequently have remained silent. Many whistleblower victims are fighting back.
Is it any wonder why many silenced whistleblowers have sought refuge in such remote regions of the world such as Iceland, South America, Pakistan, and elsewhere as political safe havens? Wikileak’s founder Julian Assange serves as a prime example as millions across the planet funnel information to this site outside the jurisdiction and control of the U.S. corporate-owned and controlled mainstream media and government.
Considering the 9/11 Commission Report, it must be noted that with the exception of former FAA/TSA Red Team Leader Bogdan Dzakovic, one of the world’s foremost experts on aviation security, who provided 9/11 congressional testimony that was largely ignored in the final report before his retaliatory demotion at TSA, not one single airline pilot was permitted to provide testimony before the commission regarding the feasibility of the seemingly impossible aerial feats performed that fateful day by an alleged small group of Arab private pilots with minimal flying experience.
In a recent episode of former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura’s acclaimed ‘Conspiracy Theory’ program aired on TruTv, it was demonstrated in an aircraft simulator by veteran airline pilots with countless years and many flying hours of experience in numerous commercial jet aircraft, the physical impossibility of hand-flying the profile of the ‘aircraft’ that impacted the Navy Intelligence Center of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Identical questions have been raised by many knowledgeable sources regarding this same issue and the WTC attacks, but have been suppressed by the U.S. media as merely ‘wild theories’ without basis of fact when quite the contrary is true.
One may ask at what point in time do these ‘theories’ become facts. The age-old scientific method relies on physical evidence and statistical data proof to establish and accept a theory as fact. In the case of 9/11 all conclusions drawn from all available evidence points to the same fact: 9/11 was an inside job and, with the exception of a few patsies, no Muslims were involved in the planning or execution of that mission…not even Osama bin Laden…in spite of alleged CIA-planted evidence at the crime scenes.
Given that 9/11 was the most horrific crime ever committed on U.S. soil, it seems bizarre that not one molecule of forensic evidence was ever analyzed of the World Trade Center debris before being hauled off and buried in the Fresh Kills Land Fill on Staten Island and elsewhere around the world. And why didn’t Osama’s name ever appear on the FBI’s Most Wanted list?
FBI Director Robert Mueller and others in government have intimated in past public remarks that U.S. whistleblowers are ‘traitors’ for compromising the national security of the United States with their whistleblower disclosures of sensitive information that places citizens and soldiers in harm’s way. Given the solid evidence and facts at hand, perhaps the real traitors to the United States and the global community lies within the confines of the DC beltway, the ‘City of London’, and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East.
All rational thinking human beings must therefore ask ‘Did Osama and his cave dwellers in fact plan 9/11 from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan or was it a complex and deceitful ‘inside job’ perpetrated by global criminals? The resulting pretext for the illegal invasion of Afghanistan in search of bin Laden and the pretext for the subsequent ‘Shock and Awe’ illegal invasion of Iraq would then both involve abrogation of the sovereignty of foreign nations in violation of international law.
Once the latter is proven to be true, and it will, then those guilty and complicit individuals from various countries must stand trial for heinous crimes against humanity in violation of international law as traitors against the United States and humankind in general.
9/11 Aircraft Were Droned
As exemplified with the phenomenally accurate drone strikes in the northern regions of Pakistan and more recently in Libya and Yemen, the U.S., as the world’s only superpower, holds the military monopoly in the mastery of drone technology for pilotless attack aircraft. Recent revelations by an international grassroots group called ‘ABEL DANGER’ headed by former Northwest Airlines Captain and distinguished military veteran Field McConnell and his team have provided critical answers to 9/11 with the QRS-11 microprocessor, a computer chip installed on aircraft autopilot systems resulting in an uninterruptible autopilot transforming any aircraft into a remotely-controlled “drone”.
On September 11, 2001, Captain McConnell’s F-16 unit stationed out of Fargo, North Dakota stood the ‘ready alert’ NORAD watch at Langley AFB just south of Washington, DC. Two of his squadron mates had been launched that day in pursuit of an airborne target inbound to Washington, DC, but were vectored due east over the Atlantic Ocean even though the inbound hostile target had been acquired on Air Traffic Control and AWACS aircraft radar.
Meanwhile, in the rear seat of another dual seat F-16, already airborne from the same Fargo North Dakota Air National Guard squadron, sat the New York State Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and this before any aircraft had struck any targets that day. Concurrently, a FEMA AWACS aircraft orbited overhead New England as a supposed participant in a joint military exercise.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton had transferred the military AWACS aircraft from the U.S. Air Force inventory to FEMA. This same pilotless technology was available on September 11, 2001 and in 2006, the Boeing Aircraft Corporation quietly settled a suit with a $650-million settlement with the Department of Justice for integrating this technology into the autopilot systems of their aircraft.
AWACS aircraft are fully capable of jamming airborne communications systems and disappearing/appearing/replacing radar contacts on air traffic controllers’ radar screens. It has been conclusively proven with evidence that the FEMA AWACS aircraft orbiting overhead Washington DC and New York City on 9/11 was employed to ‘disappear’ American flight 77 that departed Washington Dulles Airport and replace the radar signature with the inbound Navy A-3 Skywarrior aircraft adorn with an American Airlines paint job that struck the Pentagon that day, which contained explosive materials.
Supporting evidence of secretly obtained of copied encrypted Nextel text messages emanating on 9/11 from the City of London to the city of Chicago and NASA further strengthen allegations of collusion, deceit, and traitorous deeds by numerous agencies and governments.
QRS-11 Microchip History: Was it bin Laden's cave dwellers or the QRS-11 chip?
During the early 1980s, Captain McConnell’s sister, Kristine Marcy, holding a very senior position in the Clinton Justice Department, helped create an internal agency known as the Senior Executive Service (SES). During this time frame, facing the threat of aircraft hijackings, the Department of Justice was challenged with the potential of an aircraft carrying high-threat federal prisoners from the state of Hawaii to the U.S. mainland for incarceration and future trial of being hijacked by prisoners, as the state of Hawaii had no federal detention facilities for this purpose.
Having many years of experience as a distinguished and decorated U.S. Air Force F-4 pilot, Captain McConnell had assisted in the earlier development of droning mothballed military aircraft for airborne fighter pilot target practice on these ‘droned’ pilotless aircraft targets. In response to his sister’s innocent query, Captain McConnell suggested the ‘droning’ of these prisoner-carrying aircraft that, if hijacked, would be guided by external sources without pilot control as the cockpit was secured and the hijacked aircraft safely guided to a secure location for landing.
Out of this suggestion and offer of associated technology specifications, the famed ConAir, portrayed in a Hollywood movie of the same name, was created. At the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a patent attorney at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Another global grassroots organization, the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association’, whose mission is in full support of the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security in making the U.S. airspace ‘the safest, most efficient airspace system in the world’, further supports suppressed aviation whistleblowers in providing information and direction to appropriate organizations, including government and whistleblower agencies and news services.
A radio interview including Captain McConnell’s first-hand account may be heard on the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Blog Talk Radio Program’.
The entire ABEL Danger global team has produced an entire YouTube video series entitled “Is It Live…or Is It Livery?”, which provides ample evidence of global complicity in this horrific criminal cover-up.
As stated on their website homepage, (which has been temporarily disabled), their special interests are the millions who travel by commercial air and not the ‘special interests’ of Wall Street bankers and their K-Street lobbyist. Captain McConnell’s ABEL DANGER organization is an affiliate/consultant of this grassroots organization, as are organizations such as ‘Pilots for 9/11 Truth’, Scientists for 9/11 Truth, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and many others identified on the ‘Team Members’ page of their website all of which possess elements of evidence pointing to the same conclusion: “9/11 was an inside job”.
Enhanced Protection for U.S. Federal Whistleblowers?
With 98% suppression of U.S. federal whistleblowers the past decade, President Obama is still promising a ‘greater openness of government’ with ‘enhanced protection of federal whistleblowers’ and encouraging the global community to give praise to the demise of Osama as the purported perpetrator of 9/11 with minimal evidence while also condemning Pakistan for alleged
harboring the most wanted criminal.
In all fairness to the global citizenry, would it not now be the most opportune time to permit those individuals and organizations with proof to the contrary to step forward to refute the judgment that condemned Osama bin Laden to an extrajudicial murder to silence him forever without trial? In the U.S. judicial system, an individual is innocent until proven guilty in a trial that produces evidence and witness testimony to condemn him to prison or death.
The United States population of 300-million comprises but 5% of the global population of 6-billion. There are roughly 1-billion Muslims in the world whose global image has been tarnished by the Bush label of the ‘Islamofascist’ associated with Osama bin Laden.
Why must 95% of the world population allow a miniscule percentage of the 5% of U.S. citizenry to destroy the lives of so many foreigners while ethnocentrically demanding that all nations embrace western values and the rights to freedom of speech in exposing corruption such as that of 40-year U.S. friend Hosni Mubarak and others when it doesn’t exist 98% of the time in America for honest federal whistleblowers attempting to achieve identical goals?
The U.S. Navy Seal Team may have forever sealed the lips of a potential ‘whistleblower informant’ who knew too much, but wasn’t allowed to testify in a court of law. There are many ‘ghosts of bin Laden’ surviving his death who also know the truth concerning 9/11 whose lips are still moving.
Do we continue to allow the sentencing and condemnation of a man to death without a jury trial on the words and judgment of a few Washington DC politicians whose verdict in 2001 condemned to death over 30,000 Pakistanis at a cost in billions to an already impoverished nation during their supposed ‘war on terror’?
On behalf of Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John McCain recently introduced a bill entitled the “Enemy Billigerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” that potentially places every American citizen in danger of becoming an ‘enemy of the state’. Does this typify the ‘greater openness of government’ that President Obama has promised us? If so, then perhaps like the U.S.A. Patriot Act, its passage will zoom through congress to the president’s desk for signing in the aftermath of another ‘9/11-type false flag’ event inside the United States such as we saw that 2009 Christmas Day on Northwest 253 or elsewhere that may well be blamed on other ‘Islamofascists’ of the Bush era.
We must each ask ourselves who the real terrorist in the world are these days as similar ‘terrorist drone strikes’ that murdered 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11 continue to rain down terror on Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen causing unnecessary death and destruction while violating the national sovereignty of foreign nations without warrant under the guise of NATO human rights abuse violations and in the name of in suppressing international terrorism.
The placement of a wreath at the former World Trade Center site in New York City by President Obama may provide comfort and closure for the next-of-kin and some citizens of America as a result of the extrajudicial murder of a man without trial and jury, but will not symbolize closure to continued investigation and exposure of the crimes committed by real global gangsters on September 11, 2001. 9/11 is a provable ‘inside job’ and not the work of Osama bin Laden and a small group of cavemen. The absolute truth lies with the complete proof provided by ABEL DANGER and other grassroots efforts.
Not a single male or female airline pilot of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the largest airline pilot union in the world comprised of over 50,000 pilots on the North American continent, could have successfully flown the profiles of the collision jets of 9/11 and they each know this. And yet, for almost ten years, most have remained selfishly and fearfully silent. As a direct result of their continued passivity, millions of fellow citizens of the planet earth have died, been wounded, or geographically displaced. The blood of these victims will be forever stained on the hands of the ALPA leadership and its members for their moral cowardice.
Perhaps the Arab League of Nations, a unified Muslim League, or the good citizens of Pakistan that have paid a very high price for the supposed ‘war on terror’ should consider reconvening their own ‘9/11 Commission’ so that those truly responsible for heinous crimes can be brought to justice through available evidence provided by global whistleblower organizations and individuals who have fled to foreign countries for physical protection through diplomatic asylum. To be certain, the United Nations will not revisit these issues, nor will the U.S. government and many of its ill-informed citizens.
This press release has been disseminated to major media outlets across North Africa and Southern Asia, as well as to other interested and concerned agencies across the European Union and beyond.
Captain Dan Hanley is a former 35-year career U.S. naval aviator and United Airlines B-777 Captain and serves as the International Public Spokesperson for the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association International’. He currently resides in self-imposed exile in Islamabad, Pakistan with his Pakistani wife, Huma, performing charity work for the ‘forgotten ones’ in the flooded regions of Pakistan.
Islamabad, Pakistan
9/11: Was it Osama and his Cavemen or QRS-11 Microchip-Equipped ‘Droned’ Aircraft?
The lips of the ‘ghosts of bin Laden’ are still moving
Captain Dan Hanley
International Public Spokesperson
Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association International
As much of the world applauds President Obama for his courageous decision to unilaterally abrogate the sovereignty of Pakistan through the daring U.S. Navy Seal commando raid at Abbotabad, Pakistan, many are questioning the validity of the ‘evidence’ offered in proving the assassination of Osama bin Laden. Perhaps the critical issue that global journalist should really be focused on is whether or not bin Laden was truly responsible for the events of 9/11, the pretext for the original invasion of Afghanistan and launch of the global war on terror.
Reflecting back on the weak evidence offered and bizarre conclusions drawn in the 9/11 Commission final report, we are being asked yet another time to accept frail evidence as statement of facts from this same government. If Osama did not plan and execute the events of 9/11, perhaps his extrajudicial murder will explain the U.S. desire to assassinate him and dump his body in the ocean. The corpses of many mob informants wishing to testify before a grand jury lie beneath the East River in New York and the Chicago River before ever being given the chance to take the witness stand.
Just weeks prior to the illegal incursion of Pakistan airspace, in a peculiarly timely manner, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced to the world that Khalid Sheikh Mohammad would be tried by a highly-secretive military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay vice a public jury trial in the United States. Having been illegally water boarded 198 times to extract his testimony that he, and not bin Laden, was responsible for the planning and execution of 9/11, we might surmise that even President Obama would testify that he was a legal citizen of Nigeria vice the United States if he were to endure similar illegal torture in direct violation of the Geneva accords.
98% of All U.S. Federal Whistleblowers Silenced
In his 2008 campaign for the Oval Office, President Obama promised voters a ‘greater openness of government’ with ‘enhanced protection for federal whistleblowers’,a promise that he has not yet kept. Over the past ten years, a full 98% of U.S. federal whistleblowers have failed in their attempt to expose fraud, waste and abuse in government and business. Of those willing to step forth with disclosures, the ratio of failure of aviation community whistleblowers to all others is ten to one.
This dismal failure rate coupled with observed harsh whistleblower retaliation sends a chilling signal down the spine of other would-be whistleblowers that consequently have remained silent. Many whistleblower victims are fighting back.
Is it any wonder why many silenced whistleblowers have sought refuge in such remote regions of the world such as Iceland, South America, Pakistan, and elsewhere as political safe havens? Wikileak’s founder Julian Assange serves as a prime example as millions across the planet funnel information to this site outside the jurisdiction and control of the U.S. corporate-owned and controlled mainstream media and government.
Considering the 9/11 Commission Report, it must be noted that with the exception of former FAA/TSA Red Team Leader Bogdan Dzakovic, one of the world’s foremost experts on aviation security, who provided 9/11 congressional testimony that was largely ignored in the final report before his retaliatory demotion at TSA, not one single airline pilot was permitted to provide testimony before the commission regarding the feasibility of the seemingly impossible aerial feats performed that fateful day by an alleged small group of Arab private pilots with minimal flying experience.
In a recent episode of former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura’s acclaimed ‘Conspiracy Theory’ program aired on TruTv, it was demonstrated in an aircraft simulator by veteran airline pilots with countless years and many flying hours of experience in numerous commercial jet aircraft, the physical impossibility of hand-flying the profile of the ‘aircraft’ that impacted the Navy Intelligence Center of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Identical questions have been raised by many knowledgeable sources regarding this same issue and the WTC attacks, but have been suppressed by the U.S. media as merely ‘wild theories’ without basis of fact when quite the contrary is true.
One may ask at what point in time do these ‘theories’ become facts. The age-old scientific method relies on physical evidence and statistical data proof to establish and accept a theory as fact. In the case of 9/11 all conclusions drawn from all available evidence points to the same fact: 9/11 was an inside job and, with the exception of a few patsies, no Muslims were involved in the planning or execution of that mission…not even Osama bin Laden…in spite of alleged CIA-planted evidence at the crime scenes.
Given that 9/11 was the most horrific crime ever committed on U.S. soil, it seems bizarre that not one molecule of forensic evidence was ever analyzed of the World Trade Center debris before being hauled off and buried in the Fresh Kills Land Fill on Staten Island and elsewhere around the world. And why didn’t Osama’s name ever appear on the FBI’s Most Wanted list?
FBI Director Robert Mueller and others in government have intimated in past public remarks that U.S. whistleblowers are ‘traitors’ for compromising the national security of the United States with their whistleblower disclosures of sensitive information that places citizens and soldiers in harm’s way. Given the solid evidence and facts at hand, perhaps the real traitors to the United States and the global community lies within the confines of the DC beltway, the ‘City of London’, and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East.
All rational thinking human beings must therefore ask ‘Did Osama and his cave dwellers in fact plan 9/11 from the mountainous regions of Afghanistan or was it a complex and deceitful ‘inside job’ perpetrated by global criminals? The resulting pretext for the illegal invasion of Afghanistan in search of bin Laden and the pretext for the subsequent ‘Shock and Awe’ illegal invasion of Iraq would then both involve abrogation of the sovereignty of foreign nations in violation of international law.
Once the latter is proven to be true, and it will, then those guilty and complicit individuals from various countries must stand trial for heinous crimes against humanity in violation of international law as traitors against the United States and humankind in general.
9/11 Aircraft Were Droned
As exemplified with the phenomenally accurate drone strikes in the northern regions of Pakistan and more recently in Libya and Yemen, the U.S., as the world’s only superpower, holds the military monopoly in the mastery of drone technology for pilotless attack aircraft. Recent revelations by an international grassroots group called ‘ABEL DANGER’ headed by former Northwest Airlines Captain and distinguished military veteran Field McConnell and his team have provided critical answers to 9/11 with the QRS-11 microprocessor, a computer chip installed on aircraft autopilot systems resulting in an uninterruptible autopilot transforming any aircraft into a remotely-controlled “drone”.
On September 11, 2001, Captain McConnell’s F-16 unit stationed out of Fargo, North Dakota stood the ‘ready alert’ NORAD watch at Langley AFB just south of Washington, DC. Two of his squadron mates had been launched that day in pursuit of an airborne target inbound to Washington, DC, but were vectored due east over the Atlantic Ocean even though the inbound hostile target had been acquired on Air Traffic Control and AWACS aircraft radar.
Meanwhile, in the rear seat of another dual seat F-16, already airborne from the same Fargo North Dakota Air National Guard squadron, sat the New York State Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and this before any aircraft had struck any targets that day. Concurrently, a FEMA AWACS aircraft orbited overhead New England as a supposed participant in a joint military exercise.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton had transferred the military AWACS aircraft from the U.S. Air Force inventory to FEMA. This same pilotless technology was available on September 11, 2001 and in 2006, the Boeing Aircraft Corporation quietly settled a suit with a $650-million settlement with the Department of Justice for integrating this technology into the autopilot systems of their aircraft.
AWACS aircraft are fully capable of jamming airborne communications systems and disappearing/appearing/replacing radar contacts on air traffic controllers’ radar screens. It has been conclusively proven with evidence that the FEMA AWACS aircraft orbiting overhead Washington DC and New York City on 9/11 was employed to ‘disappear’ American flight 77 that departed Washington Dulles Airport and replace the radar signature with the inbound Navy A-3 Skywarrior aircraft adorn with an American Airlines paint job that struck the Pentagon that day, which contained explosive materials.
Supporting evidence of secretly obtained of copied encrypted Nextel text messages emanating on 9/11 from the City of London to the city of Chicago and NASA further strengthen allegations of collusion, deceit, and traitorous deeds by numerous agencies and governments.
QRS-11 Microchip History: Was it bin Laden's cave dwellers or the QRS-11 chip?
During the early 1980s, Captain McConnell’s sister, Kristine Marcy, holding a very senior position in the Clinton Justice Department, helped create an internal agency known as the Senior Executive Service (SES). During this time frame, facing the threat of aircraft hijackings, the Department of Justice was challenged with the potential of an aircraft carrying high-threat federal prisoners from the state of Hawaii to the U.S. mainland for incarceration and future trial of being hijacked by prisoners, as the state of Hawaii had no federal detention facilities for this purpose.
Having many years of experience as a distinguished and decorated U.S. Air Force F-4 pilot, Captain McConnell had assisted in the earlier development of droning mothballed military aircraft for airborne fighter pilot target practice on these ‘droned’ pilotless aircraft targets. In response to his sister’s innocent query, Captain McConnell suggested the ‘droning’ of these prisoner-carrying aircraft that, if hijacked, would be guided by external sources without pilot control as the cockpit was secured and the hijacked aircraft safely guided to a secure location for landing.
Out of this suggestion and offer of associated technology specifications, the famed ConAir, portrayed in a Hollywood movie of the same name, was created. At the time, Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a patent attorney at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Another global grassroots organization, the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association’, whose mission is in full support of the Departments of Transportation and Homeland Security in making the U.S. airspace ‘the safest, most efficient airspace system in the world’, further supports suppressed aviation whistleblowers in providing information and direction to appropriate organizations, including government and whistleblower agencies and news services.
A radio interview including Captain McConnell’s first-hand account may be heard on the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Blog Talk Radio Program’.
The entire ABEL Danger global team has produced an entire YouTube video series entitled “Is It Live…or Is It Livery?”, which provides ample evidence of global complicity in this horrific criminal cover-up.
As stated on their website homepage, (which has been temporarily disabled), their special interests are the millions who travel by commercial air and not the ‘special interests’ of Wall Street bankers and their K-Street lobbyist. Captain McConnell’s ABEL DANGER organization is an affiliate/consultant of this grassroots organization, as are organizations such as ‘Pilots for 9/11 Truth’, Scientists for 9/11 Truth, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and many others identified on the ‘Team Members’ page of their website all of which possess elements of evidence pointing to the same conclusion: “9/11 was an inside job”.
Enhanced Protection for U.S. Federal Whistleblowers?
With 98% suppression of U.S. federal whistleblowers the past decade, President Obama is still promising a ‘greater openness of government’ with ‘enhanced protection of federal whistleblowers’ and encouraging the global community to give praise to the demise of Osama as the purported perpetrator of 9/11 with minimal evidence while also condemning Pakistan for alleged
harboring the most wanted criminal.
In all fairness to the global citizenry, would it not now be the most opportune time to permit those individuals and organizations with proof to the contrary to step forward to refute the judgment that condemned Osama bin Laden to an extrajudicial murder to silence him forever without trial? In the U.S. judicial system, an individual is innocent until proven guilty in a trial that produces evidence and witness testimony to condemn him to prison or death.
The United States population of 300-million comprises but 5% of the global population of 6-billion. There are roughly 1-billion Muslims in the world whose global image has been tarnished by the Bush label of the ‘Islamofascist’ associated with Osama bin Laden.
Why must 95% of the world population allow a miniscule percentage of the 5% of U.S. citizenry to destroy the lives of so many foreigners while ethnocentrically demanding that all nations embrace western values and the rights to freedom of speech in exposing corruption such as that of 40-year U.S. friend Hosni Mubarak and others when it doesn’t exist 98% of the time in America for honest federal whistleblowers attempting to achieve identical goals?
The U.S. Navy Seal Team may have forever sealed the lips of a potential ‘whistleblower informant’ who knew too much, but wasn’t allowed to testify in a court of law. There are many ‘ghosts of bin Laden’ surviving his death who also know the truth concerning 9/11 whose lips are still moving.
Do we continue to allow the sentencing and condemnation of a man to death without a jury trial on the words and judgment of a few Washington DC politicians whose verdict in 2001 condemned to death over 30,000 Pakistanis at a cost in billions to an already impoverished nation during their supposed ‘war on terror’?
On behalf of Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator John McCain recently introduced a bill entitled the “Enemy Billigerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010” that potentially places every American citizen in danger of becoming an ‘enemy of the state’. Does this typify the ‘greater openness of government’ that President Obama has promised us? If so, then perhaps like the U.S.A. Patriot Act, its passage will zoom through congress to the president’s desk for signing in the aftermath of another ‘9/11-type false flag’ event inside the United States such as we saw that 2009 Christmas Day on Northwest 253 or elsewhere that may well be blamed on other ‘Islamofascists’ of the Bush era.
We must each ask ourselves who the real terrorist in the world are these days as similar ‘terrorist drone strikes’ that murdered 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11 continue to rain down terror on Pakistan, Libya, and Yemen causing unnecessary death and destruction while violating the national sovereignty of foreign nations without warrant under the guise of NATO human rights abuse violations and in the name of in suppressing international terrorism.
The placement of a wreath at the former World Trade Center site in New York City by President Obama may provide comfort and closure for the next-of-kin and some citizens of America as a result of the extrajudicial murder of a man without trial and jury, but will not symbolize closure to continued investigation and exposure of the crimes committed by real global gangsters on September 11, 2001. 9/11 is a provable ‘inside job’ and not the work of Osama bin Laden and a small group of cavemen. The absolute truth lies with the complete proof provided by ABEL DANGER and other grassroots efforts.
Not a single male or female airline pilot of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the largest airline pilot union in the world comprised of over 50,000 pilots on the North American continent, could have successfully flown the profiles of the collision jets of 9/11 and they each know this. And yet, for almost ten years, most have remained selfishly and fearfully silent. As a direct result of their continued passivity, millions of fellow citizens of the planet earth have died, been wounded, or geographically displaced. The blood of these victims will be forever stained on the hands of the ALPA leadership and its members for their moral cowardice.
Perhaps the Arab League of Nations, a unified Muslim League, or the good citizens of Pakistan that have paid a very high price for the supposed ‘war on terror’ should consider reconvening their own ‘9/11 Commission’ so that those truly responsible for heinous crimes can be brought to justice through available evidence provided by global whistleblower organizations and individuals who have fled to foreign countries for physical protection through diplomatic asylum. To be certain, the United Nations will not revisit these issues, nor will the U.S. government and many of its ill-informed citizens.
This press release has been disseminated to major media outlets across North Africa and Southern Asia, as well as to other interested and concerned agencies across the European Union and beyond.
Captain Dan Hanley is a former 35-year career U.S. naval aviator and United Airlines B-777 Captain and serves as the International Public Spokesperson for the ‘Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association International’. He currently resides in self-imposed exile in Islamabad, Pakistan with his Pakistani wife, Huma, performing charity work for the ‘forgotten ones’ in the flooded regions of Pakistan.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
A peek into one of the deepest little cesspits in Europe - Golem XIV's blog today
A squib from Bloomberg, quoting the German Newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung,
So the Bloomberg headline is a thing to behold. The only other thing the article says is that Beyerishe LB lost 3.7 billion euros as a result of acquiring, in 2007, the Austrian bank, Hypo Alpe Adria. Which economy of reporting covers over a manhole which leads down into what is one of the deepest little cesspits in Europe. I say 'one of' because only a congenital regulator would imagine that Beyerishe is the only entrance into the sewer of European banking that ran a river of financial and political corruption, money laundering and dangerously shady arms deals from Croatia and Serbia to Austria, Bavaria, Italy and on to Ireland.
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And lest it seem that the taste for Austrian banks was limited to some axis of corrupt Mitteleuropa imbeciles let's not forget Anglo Irish also had its own Austrian subsidiary. A subsidiary which, thanks to Kathleen Barrington's work, we know had in it 600 million in cash deposits which Anglo sold for just 141 million to Valartis bank which needed a loan of 24 million euros in order to make the purchase. A loan Valartis got from...Anglo. Hmmm!
My question is if any other authorities or regulators will feel emboldened and feel they too can belatedly start questioning the bankers they are supposed to regulate. I know questions have been asked in the Austrian parliament. Will they be taken further than mere questions? Will someone in Austria have the moral rectitude to lift the lid on their sewer and see where it leads? Will the German's pressure them to do so or force them to do the opposite if it looks like some of the dirt has ended up in German banks being bailed out by German tax payers?
And what about the Irish? So far the Irish regulator has been a stand out disgrace. When Senator Norris tried manfully to read the list of Anglo's bond holders which I wrote about, in to the public and parliamentary record he was shut up.
There is a trail of disturbing facts, like crumbs of dry excrement, running from bank to bank, country to country. All it would take is courage and honesty to follow the trail.
So many of the details of the dishonesty and bottom feeding are already known but scattered in different countries, that it cries out for a prosecutor with Europe wide powers and authority to be charged with joining the dots. Will it happen? Of course not. We will have do it ourselves - with the courageous help of the few honest men and women such as WhistleblowerIRL who have spoken up and who may just give others the courage to do the same.
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011/05/peek-into-one-of-deepest-little.html
"Munich prosecutors plan to file embezzlement charges against all members of Bayerische Landesbank’s former board...."Having the words "all former members" and "embezzlement charges" in the same sentence just makes my day. Ever since the worlds' banks told us they were suddenly short of liquidity, the authorities who were supposed to oversee them, have been even shorter on balls than the banks were on cash. In fact regulators in several countries appeared to have had theirs removed almost as a requirement for getting the job.
So the Bloomberg headline is a thing to behold. The only other thing the article says is that Beyerishe LB lost 3.7 billion euros as a result of acquiring, in 2007, the Austrian bank, Hypo Alpe Adria. Which economy of reporting covers over a manhole which leads down into what is one of the deepest little cesspits in Europe. I say 'one of' because only a congenital regulator would imagine that Beyerishe is the only entrance into the sewer of European banking that ran a river of financial and political corruption, money laundering and dangerously shady arms deals from Croatia and Serbia to Austria, Bavaria, Italy and on to Ireland.
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And lest it seem that the taste for Austrian banks was limited to some axis of corrupt Mitteleuropa imbeciles let's not forget Anglo Irish also had its own Austrian subsidiary. A subsidiary which, thanks to Kathleen Barrington's work, we know had in it 600 million in cash deposits which Anglo sold for just 141 million to Valartis bank which needed a loan of 24 million euros in order to make the purchase. A loan Valartis got from...Anglo. Hmmm!
My question is if any other authorities or regulators will feel emboldened and feel they too can belatedly start questioning the bankers they are supposed to regulate. I know questions have been asked in the Austrian parliament. Will they be taken further than mere questions? Will someone in Austria have the moral rectitude to lift the lid on their sewer and see where it leads? Will the German's pressure them to do so or force them to do the opposite if it looks like some of the dirt has ended up in German banks being bailed out by German tax payers?
And what about the Irish? So far the Irish regulator has been a stand out disgrace. When Senator Norris tried manfully to read the list of Anglo's bond holders which I wrote about, in to the public and parliamentary record he was shut up.
"The names are Aberdeen Asset Management (London) Limited, AGICAM, Aktia Asset Management, Aletti Gestielle SGR, AllianceBernstein (UK) Limited, Allianz Global Investors France, AmpegaGerling Investment, Anima SGR..."was as far as he got before he was interrupted and told what he had to say was not relevant. He continued anyway adding, "One Swiss bondholder owns 40% of the bonds and will get millions of euro from us.." at which point the debate was terminated.
There is a trail of disturbing facts, like crumbs of dry excrement, running from bank to bank, country to country. All it would take is courage and honesty to follow the trail.
So many of the details of the dishonesty and bottom feeding are already known but scattered in different countries, that it cries out for a prosecutor with Europe wide powers and authority to be charged with joining the dots. Will it happen? Of course not. We will have do it ourselves - with the courageous help of the few honest men and women such as WhistleblowerIRL who have spoken up and who may just give others the courage to do the same.
http://golemxiv-credo.blogspot.com/2011/05/peek-into-one-of-deepest-little.html
Sunday, April 24, 2011
A reader's comment that made my day!
Thank you 'Fungus' for taking the time to write your comment yesterday morning. Judging by the number of emails I received subsequently, you touched and alarmed many many people...
On 24 April 2011 04:32, Fungus FitzJuggler III left a new comment on your post "Brian Lenihan, Irish Ex-Minister of Finance confes...":
Ireland sometimes seems like a perfect vacuum! No matter how much you and I and others shout, nothing ever happens in return, not even an echo.
There is no accountability. Criminals are elected to the Dail simply because they are "indispensable". Their voters are loyal to him because they share in an unequal allocation of patronage even though equality is supposedly guaranteed by law.
Ireland knows what it has done and is content to appear discontented! There are no riots as in Greece. There is an old tradition in both countries of emigration, a shameful indictment of the lack of opportunity for those outside the nomenklatura.
You are to be commended for trying to remind them of their collective dishonesty.
Those who take a long view, consider that the lesson is actually lost on them. You and I and the Rothschilds should set them up, if we are around in forty years or so? They will fall for it again...... The idea of checks and balances escapes them!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Brian Lenihan, Irish Ex-Minister of Finance confesses in today's Irish Times. Allow me to confuse you with some facts, Mr. Lenihan.
[Ex Finance Minister] Lenihan Says ECB Forced Ireland to Seek Bailout - Bloomberg
By Joe Brennan - Apr 23, 2011 10:46 AM GMT+0200"Ireland was forced by the European Central Bank into seeking an international bailout in November, the Irish Times cited Brian Lenihan, then finance minister, as saying in an interview.Lenihan said that it was “damaging” and a “betrayal” how some ECB governing council members briefed some media about Ireland, the paper said in a report published today.Ajai Chopra, deputy director for Europe at the International Monetary Fund, said external authorities were “trying to avoid a situation where you had a fully fledged bank run” as the IMF and European Union shaped the aid package, the Irish Times cites Chopra as saying in an interview."Well, well, Mr. Lenihan, how times have changed. It would seem that you are suffering from the same condition of 'Convenient Amnesia' that your successor in office - Minister Noon, is suffering from. Allow me to remind you what Deputy Brady said on your behalf to Senator Norris in the Seanad just over a year ago:"The Financial Regulator imposes quantitative and qualitative standards for liquidity for all credit institutions that it supervises, be they credit institutions operating in the domestic market or those operating in international markets...The Financial Regulator also has a role in monitoring the functioning of liquidity within branches of credit institutions operating in Ireland where these are supervised by their home country regulator. The Financial Regulator maintains close communication with the regulators of other member states for this purpose.....The importance of good liquidity management to the soundness of individual institutions and the financial system as a whole has been made abundantly clear from events throughout the recent financial crisis. The crisis clearly highlighted that, without good liquidity management principles and practices, financial institutions would quickly find themselves under stress and unable to meet their obligations. Internationally, the ample supply of liquidity in the years preceding the onset of the financial crisis in 2007 left many credit institutions unprepared for the shocks that occurred and many credit institutions struggled to maintain adequate liquidity throughout the financial crisis. For this reason, the European Central Bank and other central banks have been providing extraordinary liquidity support for financial institutions throughout the eurozone during the current financial crisis. These measures were introduced at the discretion of the ECB to deal with the liquidity crisis affecting the European-wide banking system. Irish credit institutions and many European credit institutions have obtained liquidity support [47]provided by the bank. However, dependence on ECB lending has been significantly reduced, indicating that conditions in international financial markets have improved substantially and Irish credit institutions have benefited from improved funding conditions which has been reflected in reduced recourse by Irish banks to Eurosystem funding. The ECB has indicated publicly that it is engaging in the progressive, timely and gradual phasing out of the non-conventional measures which were introduced in response to the financial crisis but that, notwithstanding this, liquidity support will remain for months to come. As such, there are no negative implications in the medium term from the announced “phasing out” measures. "So, Mr. Lenihan, apart for the fact that the "phasing out" of liquidity assistance was reversed, full-speed, into trying to plug the hemorrhaging condition of the Irish banks by the ECB/IMF only NINE months after you made this statement that "Irish credit institutions have benefited from improved funding conditions", how come you're 'not friends any-more' with your ECB mates? Why have you waited this long to make this confession? Could you not make it while still in office? Who was stopping you? Brian Cowen? Ollie Rehn?
Is there anything else you would like to come clean about?
Thursday, April 21, 2011
To my readers in Finland
Lukijoilleni Suomessa:
Olen iloinen voidessani todeta, että viime viikollaminulla on ollut monia lukijoita maasi
Toivotan teille kaikille oikein hyvää pääsiäistä,
WhistleblowerIRL
Olen iloinen voidessani todeta, että viime viikollaminulla on ollut monia lukijoita maasi
Toivotan teille kaikille oikein hyvää pääsiäistä,
WhistleblowerIRL
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
The Nyberg Report. Minister Noonan, allow me to confuse you with the facts.
RTÉ - Noonan demands shake-up of bank boards
Updated: 18:56, Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The Government is to hold a referendum later this year to enable Oireachtas committees to compel witnesses to attend hearings. The development follows the publication of the Nyberg Report into the Irish banking crisis.
At a press conference this afternoon, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said the previous Government had failed to deal with the Abbeylara court decision which had limited the powers of investigation of committees...
http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0419/banks2-business.html
REALLY?!? Minister Noonan, the Mr. Nyberg was was appointed on Sept 22nd. 2010, seven months after Senator David Norris raised the issue of the liquidity catastrophe at UniCredit Ireland which was ignored by the Financial Regulator.
Sepetmber 2010 was FOUR months after I met with a senior Fine Gael deputy at a law firm in Ballsbridge. This is the meeting you allegedly know nothing about, why else would you have issued such a sweeping denial of the fact that Fine Gael had had any dealings with me?
Sepetmber 2010 was also two years after the entire Irish banking sector ran dry of liquidity which was why the 'blanket gurantee' was put in place. Now you want to "compel witnesses to attend hearings"? I volutarily provided Fine Gael with an account of the liquidity breaches at UniCredit Ireland, and this was evidenced by a very senior banker. What more could you have wanted?
Please Minister Noonan, spare us the drama. We will be paying for the Fianna Fail saga for generations to come. We expected more of our new government.
PS
If it is the 'honest truth' that you are after, how do you explain the fact that Kathleen Barrington of the Sunday Business Post can not get a straight answer from anyone in official Dublin in regard of Anglo's austrian deposists? Let us not forget that Anglo is now headed by a FG man.
http://kathleenbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-fitzpatrick-sent-600m-deposit-book.html
http://kathleenbarrington.blogspot.com/2011/01/600m-anglo-deposits-that-got-away.html
All we want to know is:
Are we bailing out via NAMA and/or other schemes people who are allegedly bankcrupt, but actually have millions stashed away in a bank which is now Swiss-owned? We do not want names, just a simple Yes/No answer will suffice. Surely now that we, the people of Ireland, own Anglo-Irish Bank, we are entiteled to know what it got up to in the 'good old days'.
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