[cia-drugs] What do you think about this?
Alex Bennett - Check out this item: 2007-10-17 After an exhaustive scientific study the National Institute for Standards and Technology admitted that the total free-fall collapse of the twin towers cannot be explained. In a recent letter to 9/11 victim's family representatives Bill Doyle and Bob McIlvaine, the NIST stated, We are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse. A 10,000 page scientific study only offers theories as to how the collapse initiation proceeded and fails to address how it was possible for part of a World Trade Center structure to fall through the path of most resistance at freefall speed, violating the laws of physics. http://www.innworldreport.net/archives/fromthestudio/index.html The government may not have the answers here, but whatever they make up, we know that you and Bill O'Reilly will back it 100% and lampoon anyone who doesn't agree with the two of you. You keep asking your guests if they are scientists (strawmanning them, Bill O'Reilly style). Here are some scientists, if you really mean business about wondering what they might actually have to say: http://www.physics911.net/ Bryant in Texas *** Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex.com/aspartame
[cia-drugs] Steel Ignores Jet Fuel
http://www.physics911.net/mitchell Steel Ignores Jet Fuel by Edward Mitchell I am not a scientist, nor a physicist, nor structural engineer. I am a Boilermaker, Shipbuilder, and Blacksmith Forger. Union. Now a contractor on military facilities. I build steel storage tanks for jet fuel. A few years ago, a typhoon blew through, and I got to watch a Mobil AST, with 1,000,000 gallons of diesel in it, get hit with lightning. The grounding failed, and the million gallons blew up. Well, for a diesel fire that is. It didn't blow up. It simply caught fire, burned itself out after 4 days, blackened the steel. Catch that? One million gallons of diesel fuel, burned for 4 days, and didn't melt a thing. The tank, 1/4?-thick steel, never melted. Yet the 47 HUGE box-section core columns, the main structural supports of the WTC towers, are said to have melted? Stop, I'll wet my britches laughing. I've melted, welded, forged, bent, twisted, repaired, sheared, punched, formed, plated, blasted and coated just about every metal you see used commonly in industry and construction, for over 32 years. I've welded many a steel I-beam: purlin clips, joining plates, you name it. Do you recall the explosion you see after the second plane hits the tower? What caused that? It was the JP-8 [jet fuel] contained in the aircraft's tanks. Did you see that huge fireball? What was that? It was the kerosene (JP-8 is nothing more than refined kerosene, the same stuff you use in your camping stove). It burned OUTSIDE the towers! How could this fuel then have reconstituted itself after exploding, and put itself back inside the building? And then? It ran down 90 floors to melt the un-insulated I-beams? What? Shook the insulation off by jet impact? Are you kidding me? When the jet hit, it did not even knock folks down in the building below it! What nonsense! Because I KNOW the dimensions of a 14,000 gallon fuel tank. It's about 11'x11'x11' - About the size on one of the many small offices on the floor that got hit. That's all. The size of one little office the size of a 11-foot-cube. Let's look at this another way: The volume of each of the towers was roughly 50 MILLION CUBIC FEET. The volume of the fuel was a relatively insignificant 1,300 cubic feet, about 0.003 percent! Yet, you would have me believe NOT my own eyes, that see an explosion of huge proportions caused by the impact of the jet plane, but rather a tale that says exploded fuel turned back into liquid form, and less than 14,000 gallons, a ridiculously small amount of fuel, ran 90 stories down the stairways (the stairwells the firefighters used to come up to see small fires) and caused the beams to melt because the impact knocked off the insulation. I have only one reply to that: What about WTC 7. Not hit. there goes THAT THEORY. Steel at higher temperatures may bend, but it NEVER melts or turns to dust. Never. No, not ever. Say, how about this for an argument: From now on, Controlled Demolition, Inc. never needs to use sophisticated computer analysis on where to place the explosives, amounts, sequences.oh no. We can simply pour 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel in the basement, stand back, and watch a PERFECTLY SIMULATED controlled demolition. Right? *** Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex.com/aspartame
[cia-drugs] Bhutto's aid asks Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver request to Bush
Press Release For Immediate Release November 9, 2007 Contacts: Hadi Jawad 214-392-2939 or Johnny Wolf 469-879-2227 Bhutto's aid asks Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver request to Bush Pakistani-Americans say Pakistan's crisis result of bad US foreign policy Crawford, Texas -- Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, through one of her aids, has asked The Crawford Texas Peace House to deliver a request to President George Bush to demand that Musharraf restore the Constitution, lift the emergency rule and hold elections as scheduled, said Hadi Jawad, a founder of the Peace House in Crawford. ABC Australia news reported late Thursday night that it appears Bhutto is now under house arrest. Musharraf, who President Bush calls his friend, has received billions of dollars worth of arms and military training for his security forces in the past several years from the United States. Some of those arms, that include F-16 fighter jets, tens of thousands of parts for the M-113 armored personnel carrier, rifles, pistols, and revolvers are now being used by Musharraf's army against peaceful demonstrators including lawyers, judges and supreme court justices, reported Ali Gharib in the Inter Press Service. With an additional, nearly $1.5 billion US military aid package proposed for Pakistan in 2008, President Bush must use more than soft rhetoric against Musharraf's recent human rights violations.The strong reservations of the administration to take decisive steps to punish Musharraf and help end the crisis in Pakistan stand in stark contrast to its declared foreign policy principles in the so-called freedom agenda,said Gharib. The current crisis in Pakistan is a direct result of bad US foreign policy and the misguided war on terrorism,said Syed Hassan, a Pakistani-American. Supporting dictatorships will not produce positive results. Currently, Pakistan's constitution is in abeyance, Judges are detained, media is curbed, military chief is the ruler, political workers are in jails and all political institutions are in shambles, while US is perceived as the backer and supporter of the dictator,Hassan continued. This is a perfect storm against American interest in this region and certainly a big setback to war on terrorism. John Negroponte's statement in which he termed Musharraf as 'indispensable' is deplorable. We would urge the US administration to handle it in similar manner as we recently had with Myanmar, Hassan said. Hassan will speak at a press conference on Saturday, November 10, in Crawford, Texas at The Crawford Texas Peace House. Aftab Siddiqui, Vice President of Texas Muslim Democratic Caucus and a member of Texas Muslim Political Task Force who recently founded Pakistan Democracy Watch, will also speak. (See details below.) President Bush has a special obligation to stand up to General Musharraf's actions, given that nations' dependence on aid and arms supplies from the US, said John Wolf, founder of the Crawford Texas Peace House. He strongly cautions President Bush from being inspired by Musharraf's actions. Press Conference: 2:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 10 Crawford Texas Peace House 9142 5th Street, Crawford Texas Phone: 254-486-0099 *** Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex.com/aspartame
[cia-drugs] Airport security murder woman and cover it up with ridiculous story
(authored by Mike Adams) Arguing with airport security officials is now apparently risky to your life. Carol Anne Gotbaum, a 45-year-old mother who was arrested at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport after becoming irate over a missed flight, was later found dead in a law enforcement holding cell. The official story now appearing in the mainstream media -- for those people gullible enough to believe it -- is that the woman choked herself to death with her own handcuffs even though her hands were cuffed behind her back! I've never actually seen anyone try to choke themselves to death with their own handcuffs, but I imagine it would be impossible to succeed at the effort. For one thing, even if you managed to grasp your own neck and choke off your blood supply until you lost consciousness, your arms would go limp and you'd no longer be able to continue choking yourself. Blood flow would be restored and you'd regain consciousness in a few seconds. Read more at http://www.newstarget.com/022083.html *** Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex.com/aspartame
[cia-drugs] Jane's - Israel armed Myamar regime
Jane's Intelligence Review March 1, 2000 Myanmar and Israel develop military pact By William Ashton HIGHLIGHT Although allegations of a secret military partnership between Myanmar and Israel continue to be denied by both sides, reports suggest that Israel is aiding Myanmar's military modernisation.William Ashton examines the commercial and strategic links between the two countries. BODY: EVER SINCE the Myanmar armed forces (or Tatmadaw) formed the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) in 1988, and took back direct control of the country, there have been persistent rumours throughout the Asia-Pacific region attesting to a secret military partnership developing between Israel and Myanmar (Burma). Despite repeated denials by Israeli officials in Yangon, Bangkok and Singapore, reports continue to surface that Israel is closely involved in the military regime's ambitious programme to expand and modernise Myanmar's armed forces. According to some of these reports, certain aspects of Israel's current relationship with the Tatmadaw come close to assisting the military regime (known since November 1997 as the State Peace and Development Council -- SPDC) to retain its hold on power. Military ties 1948-88 Myanmar's military ties with Israel are long-standing. Israel was one of the few countries to which Myanmar turned for assistance and advice after it regained its independence from the UK in 1948. As a former British mandate, Israel shared a certain identity with Myanmar. It had similar administrative procedures, educational methods and public service organisation. The fledgling government of Prime Minister U Nu related closely to Israel's attempts to build up a modern state from diverse peoples, with limited resources, surrounded by enemies, but united by a common religion. Both governments had strong socialist and democratic ideals. (At the Asian Socialist Conference held in Yangon in 1953, Myanmar and Israel were the only two countries in Asia in which a Socialist Party was in power.) Also attractive to Yangon was Tel Aviv's 'non-aligned' status in world affairs. For its part, Israel, threatened on all sides by Arab countries, was anxious to find allies who could provide diplomatic support in international forums like the UN. Close bilateral ties had developed by the mid-1950s. While Myanmar was keen to obtain Israeli advice and technical assistance in areas like agriculture and construction, its initial interest centred on Israel's armed forces. In 1954 a military mission from Myanmar visited Israel to study the most suitable structure for a national defence force that utilised reserve forces. In particular, the delegation looked at Israel's national service scheme, with a view to its introduction into Myanmar. That did not occur but, during a visit to Israel the following year, Prime Minister U Nu took a great interest in the kibbutz system of self-defended frontier settlements. Four villages modelled on this system were later built in the Shan State, west of the Salween River, about 200km from the sensitive Chinese border. The Pyu Saw Hti town and village defence scheme (introduced in 1955) also borrowed several features from the defence of collective settlements in Israel. This scheme later evolved into the People's Militia. Myanmar copied the structure of the Israeli women's auxiliary force, and the Defence Services Institute, an independent commercial organisation run by the Tatmadaw to supplement the official defence budget, established a number of joint projects in Myanmar with Israeli construction and housing companies. Other military links between the two countries were more direct. During the mid-1950s, for example, Israel sold Myanmar 30 second- hand Supermarine Spitfire fighters with related equipment, machine gun ammunition, bombs, rockets and spare engine parts. Israel's Air Force also trained (in Israel) six Myanmar Air Force pilots in the operation of these aircraft and sent a technical team to Myanmar to show Myanmar Air Force mechanics how to maintain them. Israel also sent officers and materiel to Myanmar to help modernise the Myanmar Army. It is believed that some of the training courses provided by Israel covered aspects of military intelligence. So close was the relationship that, in 1958, Israeli Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces Major General Moshe Dayan and Director General of the Defence Ministry Shimon Peres visited Myanmar. The following year General Ne Win paid an official visit to Israel, both as prime minister of Myanmar's 'caretaker' government and as chief of the country's defence forces. Despite these contacts, bilateral ties declined significantly under the Revolutionary Government which seized power in Yangon in 1962. They further diminished after 1974, as Ne Win's ostensibly civilian Burma Socialist Programme Party government continued to shun most contacts with the outside world. Because of its earlier defence assistance, however, Israel enjoyed
[cia-drugs] Arms flowing into Mexico from US leads to waves of killings
Flow of U.S. arms alarms Mexico Drug gangs use powerful guns to kill cops, soldiers The Associated Press Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.16.2007 advertisementMEXICO CITY - Authorities are sounding the alarm about an influx of assault rifles, armor-piercing pistols and fragmentation grenades from the United States - weapons they say are increasingly being used to kill police and soldiers fighting drug cartels. U.S. and Mexican law-enforcement officials report a sharp increase in both the flow and the firepower of U.S. weapons crossing the border. Particularly worrisome are assault rifles and cop killer pistols. Mexico has strict firearms laws, few gun stores and a mere 4,300 private licensed gun holders among its 105 million people. The United States, with nearly as many guns as people, has more than 100,000 licensed gun sellers, an industry that makes about 2.8 million small arms a year, and gun laws so loose that arms traffickers easily pick up any weapons they need. Despite Mexico's gun-control laws, criminals have long smuggled guns in from the United States. The problem is getting bigger because the illegal possession of arms, and their clandestine introduction to our country, combines with narcotics trafficking, said a June government report to Mexico's Senate. It said 99.4 percent of the weapons in the hands of Mexican criminals are suspected of coming from the United States. At least 11,752 U.S.-sold guns have been found in Mexico since January 2003 - a tiny fraction of what remains on the streets, according to the report. It did not give figures for previous years. But one indicator of a new gun glut is the fact that hit men drop their guns at crime scenes rather than be caught with them afterward, knowing they are easily replaced, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official in Mexico said on condition of anonymity for security reasons. Particularly worrisome are U.S. sales of Belgian-made FN-57 pistols. These fire bullets that will defeat most body armor in military service around the world today, according to the Remtek weapons Web site. They sell for $800 to $1,000 each at dozens of gun stores within a day's drive of the border. The weapons were unheard of in Mexico until they were used to kill at least a half-dozen police officers this year. Among them were Mexico City policemen Felix Perez and Jose Rodriguez, slain in May when a car full of suspected mobsters fired FN-57s whose bullets sliced right through the officers' body armor. In all, about 100 Mexican officers have been killed since President Felipe Calderón launched an ambitious nationwide crackdown on the drug trade this year. U.S. laws allow citizens to have guns that are authentically warlike, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora complained at a recent news conference. We have to find a more effective way of stopping these arms from flowing into the country and giving these gangs such significant firepower. The U.S. Congress so far has resisted these calls. . On Wednesday, 20 gunmen attacked a house in Cananea, triggering a shootout that left two people dead, said a spokesman for the Sonoran city, which is about 30 miles south of the U.S. border. Thirteen people have been detained by police. One suspected assailant was found dead. Sonora Gov. Eduardo Bours said human-smuggling organizations, or polleros, and not drug-smuggling gangs, or narco-traficantes, were involved, according to El Imparcial newspaper. (See story in Tucson Region section) . On May 16, a group of about 50 armed men drove into Cananea and killed five policemen and two residents. The assailants then fled to the hills, pursued by police and soldiers, and 24 assailants were killed in the ensuing gunbattles, according to government officials. Arizona Daily Star http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/85635/196604.php *** Aspartame Victims Support Group is the largest and oldest such group of its kind in the world, at http://presidiotex.com/aspartame
[cia-drugs] Digna Ochoa and Eloy Vallina
Link between the developers of the project to destroy the Segundo Barrio in El Paso and the murder of Digna Ochoa: The Carlos Vigueras article in Indymedia Mexico makes it clear that the main protagonist in the investment package which is being added to the mass of funds which will be used in the building of a ritzy shopping district on the slated-to-be-bulldozed historic Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Eloy Vallina, was involved up to his gills in the destruction of the forests of the Sierra Tarahumara through illegal logging. In this article, it is pointed out that the famous Mexican human rights lawyer, Digna Ochoa, was assassinated during the height of her defence of the Tarahumara Indian activists who had been illegally tortured and jailed for resisting these narco/oligarchs: http://www.nmsu.edu/~frontera/apr-may03/feat2.html Tarahumara Community Activists Jailed: Another Montiel-Cabrera Embarrassment for Mexico? by Greg Bloom, FNS Editor My community has always been called Coloradas de la Virgen, Isidro Baldenegro told Frontera NorteSur in a March 5, 2003 interview. A Tarahumara activist fighting for the survival of his community and its virgin pine forests, Baldenegro was in Chihuahua City to visit his brother Trinidad Baldenegro and another man, Gabriel Palma López, that were in a prison in the state capitol. According to Baldenegro, the two men were jailed on bogus charges of weapons possession. Despite his brother's imprisonment days away from their mountain community, Baldenegro was calm and even-toned in discussing Trinidad's situation. According to Randall Gingrich of the Sierra Madre Alliance, this has always been one of Baldenegro's traits. Gingrich says that Baldenegro has the noble characteristics that are required of great indigenous leaders, characteristics that have left international forums speechless after hearing him speak about his life and community. While some indigenous people in the Sierra Tarahumara/Copper Canyon region have been reduced to alcohol dependency by their poverty and the events of their lives, Baldenegro has persisted and grown as an activist despite having lived through the assassination of his father, Julio Baldenegro, and the murders of 35 other Tarahumara between 1986 and 1994. Baldenegro's father was also a community and forest activist when he died in 1984 after being shot by a high-power rifle allegedly fired by a contract killer working for a local, well-known narco-logging family. Other Tarahumara in the area were killed for doing the same sort of organizing against illegal forest cutting. Another Montiel-Cabrera Embarrassment for Mexico? Now, in a situation reminiscent of the high-profile case against indigenous activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, Isidro Baldenegro and another man, Hermenegildo Rivas Carrillo, were arrested on March 29, 2003 for the possession of illegal weapons. According to Gingrich, Baldenegro is innocent of the charges and Isidro and three others sit in jail, fearing for their lives, in disbelief that the government wants to imprison them for twelve years or more while the people who spread terror through indigenous communities are free. In a summation of the Montiel-Cabrera case, the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights (LCHR) wrote that in May 1999 Montiel and Cabrera were pursued and detained by a convoy of soldiers who had burst into their community in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Targeted by local authorities because they opposed wildcat logging, they were held and tortured over several days until they 'confessed' to marijuana cultivation and illegal arms possession. Despite clear evidence that the men were forced to confess and that remaining evidence was planted, they were convicted of narcotics and weapons charges and sentenced to prison where they remained for over two years in spite of court appeals and other legal interventions. They were kept in jail even after Mexico's own official human rights commission found over a year ago that soldiers illegally detained and tortured them, and planted evidence. Montiel and Cabrera were finally released in November 2001 just days after their high-profile lawyer, Digna Ochoa, was found dead in her office. One particular conclusion that the LCHR reached was that Montiel and Cabrera's case illustrates how Mexican criminal justice can be used to put a façade of legality on injustices against persons targeted by authorities for political or other illegitimate reasons. Sadly, many others remain in Mexico's prisons under similar circumstances. Having taken an important step in releasing the environmentalists, President Fox should now turn his attention to examining and resolving other outstanding cases, ensuring those responsible for misdeeds in these cases are prosecuted, and taking urgent measures to reform Mexican criminal
[cia-drugs] Re: [zapatista email group] Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy
Jones really messed up this time. It is time that the 911 truth movement disassociate itself with him as much as possible. He has outlived his usefulness and is becoming a big embarrassment to everyone. - Original Message - From: Vigilius Haufniensis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 4:25 PM Subject: [zapatista email group] Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy - Original Message - From: Paul Joseph Watson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 12:58 PM Subject: [infowarsnews] Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy Military Analyst: West Needs More Terror To Save Doomed Foreign Policy Only attacks on scale of 9/11, 7/7 can save bolster resolve according to war studies head Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Tuesday, July 10, 2007 The West needs more terror attacks on the scale of 9/11 and 7/7 in order to save a failing foreign policy, according to Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/100707moreterror.htm - Prison Planet.tv: The Premier Multimedia Subscription Package: Download and Share the Truth! -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.2/893 - Release Date: 7/9/2007 5:22 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[cia-drugs] Homeland Security raids Voz de Aztlan
If anyone belongs to the activist list, would they please forward this there for me because the list owner banned me from the group. Bryant - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: E Bryant Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:18 PM Subject: URGENT: La Voz de Aztlan Legal Defense Fund RE: La Voz de Aztlan Legal Defense Fund URGENT Our news and information service is in danger of being shut down and permanently silenced. It is difficult to believe that this could occur in the land of the First Amendment but unfortunately for certain people here in America Freedom of the Press is rapidly becoming only a myth. Our readership worldwide is aware of the unwarranted raid of our office by 4 Special Agents of Homeland Security on December 24, 2006 in which the hard disk of our computer was copied. This was just one example of how our 1st Amendment Right to freedom of expression has been chilled. Today, those who want to destroy La Voz de Aztlan are abusing the judicial system to accomplish their goal. We are sending an urgent call to our friends around the globe to help our news and information service survive. We need you to donate any amount to La Voz de Aztlan Legal Defense Fund. For detailed information on what we are facing please send your inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Donations should be sent to: Project Amigos #265 10820 Beverly Blvd. Suite A5 Whittier, CA 90601-2570 Checks should be made payable to La Voz de Aztlan http://www.aztlan.net/legal_defense.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * La Voz de Aztlan Website http:/www.aztlan.net
[cia-drugs] The US is the Worst Place in the World to Get Cancer Treatment...
The US is the Worst Place in the World to Get Cancer Treatment... Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen http://www.bolenreport.net/feature_articles/feature_article065.htm Monday, May 21st, 2007 Everyone in the know knows that if they, or a loved one, gets diagnosed with Cancer, that it's time to get their Passport out of the safety deposit box, and start checking with those who keep track, to find out just exactly where to go, right now, for the best Cancer cure. For, if you stay in the US, and take the conventional variety of Cancer treatment, your chances of survival are slim to none. The conventional US Cancer community is a murderous rip-off that generates shiploads of money. It provides the most horrible death imaginable, with the most suffering, the least hope, and the highest price paid. Europe, Asia, Mexico, the Islands, Central America all offer solutions that work. In most of the US, all that's available of any real use is underground, provided by practitioners under constant threat of law enforcement raid, for plying those things that work. California, where I live, actually has a law making it illegal to treat Cancer with anything but chemotherapy, radiation or surgery. That's why there are so many excellent clinics just across the border in Mexico. It's only an hour-and-a-half drive from anywhere in the Los Angeles/ San Bernadino/Orange County metropolitan complex. And, just a few minutes from San Diego. The United States has a health care system that has, literally, failed the American public, to the point where it is pulling down the US economy. The system did so with absolute intent, focusing on draining the last dollar out of Americans desperate for real health care. It is a system that has, methodically, over time, come to represent the largest problem Americans have ever faced. Larger than World War II. Larger than the war on terror. Larger than global warming. Larger than the cost of oil. Health care in America is not based on the idea How can we help you get better? It is based on How much money is available to us from your insurance, your co-pay, and your net worth? The very first thing that happens when you go to a conventional health care practitioner is for you to hand them your insurance card. They then call your insurer and get the information on the limits of your policy. At that moment your fate, as a patient, has been sealed. Frankly, if you are diagnosed with Cancer, or some other major disease, you're on the slippery slope. You, and/or yours, are going to die horribly. And, there's going to be nothing left of your net worth. More than half of all personal US bankruptcies are over health care issues - and almost all of those people thought insurance would cover them. It didn't - and it won't cover you, either. The top three killers of Americans are the US health care system - period. The system is designed that way. The Death by Medicine study showed us, in 2001, that: It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251. In other words, 2,036,884 Americans die each year, unnecessarily, in our health care system. And no one running the system cares. No one. They only care that the dollars keep flowing. The System is designed to stop innovation in Health Care... Virtually every health care leader that offered solutions to the system has been attacked over the last fifty years. Many have ended up in prison. Most have been impoverished for their efforts, and have had their reputations ruined. The system is a cruel master, and it controls the regulatory system that is supposed to regulate it, twisting those regulatory bodies to get rid of those that want change. There is no argument against this. It happens every day. The system is so bad that even conventional media is beginning to notice, and write about it. Below is an excerpt form a recent Reuters release: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans get the poorest health care and yet pay the most compared to five other rich countries, according to a report released on Tuesday. Germany, Britain, Australia and Canada all provide better care for less money, the Commonwealth Fund report found. The U.S. health care system ranks last compared with five other nations on measures of quality, access, efficiency, equity, and outcomes, the non-profit group which studies health care issues said in a statement. The American Public has had enough. Change is in the air. Radical change. Health care is the biggest issue in the US right now - far more important than terrorism. So, what else is happening? US Television News is a wasteland, designed, I think, to keep the American Public unaware of what's really going on in the world.
[cia-drugs] undocumenteds contribute more in taxes than they cost in social services
Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation by Professor Francine J. Lipman School of Law Chapman University Also published in Tax Lawyer (Spring 2006) and Harvard Latino Law Review (Spring 2006) Americans believe that undocumented immigrants are exploiting the United States' economy. The widespread belief is that illegal aliens cost more in government services than they contribute to the economy. This belief is undeniably false. [E]very empirical study of illegals' economic impact demonstrates the opposite . . .: undocumenteds actually contribute more to public coffers in taxes than they cost in social services. Moreover, undocumented immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy through their investments and consumption of goods and services; filling of millions of essential worker positions resulting in subsidiary job creation, increased productivity and lower costs of goods and services; and unrequited contributions to Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance programs. Eighty-five percent of eminent economists surveyed have concluded that undocumented immigrants have had a positive (seventy-four percent) or neutral (eleven percent) impact on the U.S. economy. Undocumented immigrants, like all U.S. citizens and residents, are required to pay taxes. Despite the historic and strong American opposition to taxation without representation, undocumented immigrants (except in rare and unusual cases) have not enjoyed the right to vote on any local, state or federal tax or other matter for almost eighty years. Nevertheless, each year undocumented immigrants add billions of dollars in sales, excise, property, income and payroll taxes, including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment taxes, to federal, state and local coffers. Hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants go out of their way to file annual federal and state income tax returns. Yet undocumented immigrants are barred from almost all government benefits, including food stamps, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid, federal housing programs, Supplemental Security Income, Unemployment Insurance, Social Security, Medicare, and the earned income tax credit (EITC). Generally, the only benefits federally required for undocumented immigrants are emergency medical care, subject to financial and category eligibility, and elementary and secondary public education. Many undocumented immigrants will not even access these few critical government services because of their ever-present fear of government officials and deportation. Undocumented immigrants living in the United States are subject to the same income tax laws as documented immigrants and U.S. citizens. However, because of their status most unauthorized workers pay a higher effective tax rate than similarly situated documented or U.S. citizens. Yet, these workers and their families use fewer government services than similarly situated documented immigrants or U.S. citizens. Moreover, unauthorized workers have been denied remedies by the U.S. Supreme Court under the National Labor Relations Act and may be challenged to receive protection under wage and hour, anti-discrimination and workers' compensation laws. As a result, undocumented immigrants provide a fiscal windfall and may be the most fiscally beneficial of all immigrants. Despite their net positive contribution to public coffers, hundreds of thousands of immigrants enter the U.S. each year without documents because of impracticable quota and labor certification requirements. These immigration restrictions combined with the additional tax or tariff on undocumented immigrants are inconsistent with economically efficient immigration policy. Moreover, the high effective tax rate imposed on the poorest undocumented working families relative to their less unfortunate friends and neighbors is inconsistent with fundamental tax policy. My recently published article describes and analyzes the separate, unequal and unrepresented federal taxation of undocumented immigrants. You may access this article in full for free at http://ssrn.com/abstract=881584 as well as a companion piece titled Bearing Witness to Economic Injustices of Undocumented Immigrant Families: A New Class of 'Undeserving' Working Poor (Nevada Law Journal, Spring 2007) at http://ssrn.com/abstract=951567 . Francine J. Lipman is a Professor of Law at Chapman University in Orange, California. She is the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in scholarship, teaching and research. Professor Lipman graduated from N.Y.U. School of Law with an LL.M. in Taxation and from U.C. Davis with a J.D.
[cia-drugs] Center Urges CNN to Retract False Reporting by Lou Dobbs
Center Urges CNN to Retract False Reporting by Lou Dobbs 'Advocacy Journalist' cites bogus data linking leprosy to undocumented immigrants Letter to CNN http://www.splcenter.org/images/dynamic/main/dobbsnew.pdf Immigration: Getting the Facts Straight http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1aid=255 May 9, 2007 - The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today urged CNN to acknowledge that anchor Lou Dobbs has been spreading false information about the prevalence of leprosy and its supposed links to undocumented immigrants. We're not talking about a newscaster who simply made a mistake - we're talking about someone with a national platform who cites wildly inaccurate data to demean an entire group of people and who, when confronted with the truth, simply repeats the lie, said SPLC President Richard Cohen. It's outrageous, and CNN should do something about it immediately. In a letter sent today, Cohen asked CNN/U.S. President Jonathan Klein to take prompt action to correct the misinformation. On Lou Dobbs Tonight this past Monday, Dobbs said he stands 100 percent behind his show's claim that there had been 7,000 new cases of leprosy in the United States over a recent three-year period, and he further suggested that an increase in leprosy was due in part to unscreened illegal immigrants coming into this country. Dobbs' endorsement of the claim came after CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl challenged the leprosy figure during a profile of Dobbs on 60 Minutes this past Sunday. Stahl cited a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services document that reported 7,029 cases over the past 30 years - not three. The dispute highlights the SPLC's concern that Dobbs and some others in the media are regularly using discredited and inaccurate information about immigrants - material that often originates with far-right ideologues and organizations dominated by white supremacists and nativists. Dobbs and CNN reporter Christine Romans said they had gotten the information from the late Madeleine Cosman, who was described by Romans as a respected medical lawyer - but who, in fact, was a woman who repeatedly ranted about Latino men raping boys, girls and nuns. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that the number of leprosy cases diagnosed in the United States peaked at 361 in 1985. The figure reported on Dobbs' show is easily refuted with just a few minutes of research on the Internet. It is highly irresponsible of Mr. Dobbs to rely on disreputable sources while ignoring credible information that does not support his views, Cohen wrote in the letter. And given the current anti-immigrant climate, it is dangerous to present such false claims about a serious public health issue and demonize an entire group of people in the process. In the 60 Minutes piece, Mark Potok, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, was quoted as criticizing Dobbs' characterization of undocumented immigrants. The SPLC also has challenged Dobbs for having extremists as guests, and giving them legitimacy, without fully disclosing their affiliations. http://www.youtube.com/v/u42ueyKDq4Q On Dobbs' show Monday, during a conversation with Romans, Dobbs said: Following one of your reports, I told Lesley Stahl, we don't make up numbers, and I will tell everybody here again tonight, I stand 100 percent behind what you said. He later added, And the fact that it [the number of leprosy cases] rose was because - one assumes, because we don't know for sure - but two basic influences: unscreened illegal immigrants coming into this country primarily from South Asia, and secondly, far better reporting. In addition to writing about the prevalence of leprosy, Cosman, who died in March 2006, told an anti-immigrant conference in 2005 that most Latino immigrant men molest girls under 12, although some specialize in boys, and some in nuns, a variation on a speech she has given elsewhere. The Winter 2005 issue of the SPLC's quarterly magazine Intelligence Report also contained a profile of Cosman http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=1257 , a lawyer who advised wealthy doctors on how to sell their medical practices and a member of the far-right Jews for the Preservation of Firearms. The piece pointed out that Cosman had lied about having a 1976 book she wrote nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In the 60 Minutes piece, Dobbs told Stahl, Well, I can tell you this. If we report it, it's a fact. How can you guarantee that to me? Stahl asked. Because I'm the managing editor, and that's the way we do business, Dobbs replied. We don't make up numbers, Lesley. Do we? The Facts Behind the Leprosy Claim Madeleine Cosman's false claim that there were 7,000 cases of leprosy diagnosed in the United States from 2001 to 2004 was included in her article, Illegal Aliens and American Medicine. More than once, Lou Dobbs
[cia-drugs] Michael Moore Responds to Treasury Secretary's Investigation Threat
Michael Moore Responds to Treasury Secretary's Investigation Threat By Michael Moore, AlterNet. Posted May 12, 2007. Under investigation by the Bush administration for taking ill 9/11 clean up workers to Cuba for better treatment than they received in America, Moore answers, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide. Open Letter from Michael Moore to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Secretary Henry Paulson Department of the Treasury Secretary Paulson, I am contacting you in light of the document sent to me dated May 2, 2007, which was received May 7, 2007 indicating that an investigation has been opened up with regards to a trip I took to Cuba with a group of Americans that included some 9/11 heroes in March 2007 related to the filming of my next documentary, on the American Healthcare system. SiCKO, which will be seen in theaters this summer, will expose the health care industry's greed and control over America's political processes. I believe that the decision to conduct this investigation represents the latest example of the Bush Administration abusing the federal government for raw, crass, political purposes. Over the last seven years of the Bush Presidency, we have seen the abuse of government to promote a political agenda designed to benefit the conservative base of the Republican Party, special interests and major financial contributors. From holding secret meetings for the energy industry to re-writing science findings to cooking the books on intelligence to the firing of U.S. Attorneys, this Administration has shown time and time again that it will abuse its power and authority. There are a number of specific facts that have led me to conclude that politics could very well be driving this Bush Administration investigation of me and my film. First, the Bush Administration has been aware of this matter for months (since October 2006) and never took any action until less than two weeks before SiCKO is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and a little more than a month before it is scheduled to open in the United States. Second, the health care and insurance industry, which is exposed in the movie and has expressed concerns about the impact of the movie on their industries, is a major corporate underwriter of President George W. Bush and the Republican Party, having contributed over $13 million to the Bush presidential campaign in 2004 and more than $180 million to Republican candidates over the last two campaign cycles. It is well documented that the industry is very concerned about the impact of SiCKO. They have threatened their employees if they talk to me. They have set up special internal crises lines should I show up at their headquarters. Employees have been warned about the consequences of participating in SiCKO. Despite this, some employees, at great risk to themselves, have gone on camera to tell the American people the truth about the health care industry. I can understand why that industry's main recipient of its contributions -- President Bush -- would want to harass, intimidate and potentially prevent this film from having its widest possible audience. And, third, this investigation is being opened in the wake of misleading attacks on the purpose of the Cuba trip from a possible leading Republican candidate for president, Fred Thompson, a major conservative newspaper, The New York Post, and various right wing blogs. For five and a half years, the Bush administration has ignored and neglected the heroes of the 9/11 community. These heroic first responders have been left to fend for themselves, without coverage and without care. I understand why the Bush administration is coming after me -- I have tried to help the very people they refuse to help, but until George W. Bush outlaws helping your fellow man, I have broken no laws and I have nothing to hide. I demand that the Bush Administration immediately end this investigation and spend its time and resources trying to support some of the real heroes of 9/11. Sincerely, Michael Moore
[cia-drugs] Obama is a pro-Isreal hawk - so wake up, America
My Lingering Doubts about Obama's Foreign Policy By Bill Fletcher, Jr., The Black Commentator. Posted May 12, 2007. From his uncritical stance of Israel's treatment of Palestinians to his statements about Iran, Barack Obama seems to be trying to prove his hawkish credentials. Senator Barack Obama has become a major celebrity, a truth that is now almost a cliché. His campaign has raised massive amounts of funding. He draws large and enthusiastic crowds when he appears. Often described as charismatic, he is more importantly smart and well spoken. Yet before I jump into his campaign, I have a few questions that I first want to share with you and which I hope he will address in the not-too-distant future. There is a way in which I cannot tell who is the real Senator Obama. For one, he has not carved out -- at least as of this writing -- any cutting edge issues where he is taking the lead and defining the terrain. Second, and to some extent more troubling, he permits people to see and assume in him what they want to see and assume. I have said to many of my friends that this situation reminds me of an episode from the original Star Trek series where there was a creature that appears to the viewer the way the viewer would like to see it. I am, to add to this, very uneasy about some of the Senator's foreign policy pronouncements, particularly with regard to the Middle East. To his credit, he opposed the Iraq invasion and had the courage to say so. Yet over the last year, he has displayed a peculiarly uncritical stance when it comes to Israel and has all-but-ignored the plight of the Palestinians. This past summer, when Israel launched its massive and deadly assault on Lebanon, the Senator was quite vocal in his support. He seemed to miss the Israeli use of illegal cluster bombs and the lies the Israelis offered for their unapologetic destruction of entire Lebanese civilian communities. Further, the Senator seems to ignore the atrocious conditions being faced by the Palestinians who, after all, are occupied by the Israelis in violation of United Nations' resolutions. This occupation is worsening with the creation of what some people describe as the apartheid wall, and what I simply call the wall of death, that the Israelis are building as they carve out the land they wish to control in perpetuity. Compounding this odd situation, the Senator seems to want to be a hawk when it comes to Iran, describing that country as a threat to Israel and the USA. Here again I remain perplexed. Iran does not have the military capability to hit the USA. There is absolutely no proof of Iran advancing military nuclear ambitions. It is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Everything else is speculation. Israel, on the other hand, has not signed the treaty, possesses nuclear weapons but will not acknowledge that fact, and has assisted apartheid South Africa in developing weapons of mass destruction. India, to use another example, has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has nuclear weapons, has those weapons pointed at Pakistan (which has its own weapons pointed at India), has fought several wars with Pakistan, and yet received nuclear support from President Bush and the US Congress. I cannot find any record of Senator Obama suggesting a tough stand against either of these countries, irrespective of his particular concerns with the Indian nuclear deal. Perhaps I did not Google long enough? So, I think we need to understand the Senator's thinking. After having what many observers described as a friendly relationship with Arab Americans over the years, the Senator appears to have yelled, abandon ship and jumped into an anti-Palestinian and anti-Iranian lifeboat. The uncritical support for Israel displayed by most US administrations since, at least, the June 1967 Arab/Israeli War has not only cost the USA global credibility but undermined most prospects for peace in the Middle East. The hope for many of us has been the rise of a Presidential candidate committed to seeing the world as it is, and transforming the relationship of the USA from being a global bully into being a global partner. I am not ready to write off the inspiring Senator from the great State of Illinois, but no matter how hard I try, I keep thinking about that creature from Star Trek. http://www.alternet.org/stories/51754/
[cia-drugs] Why are boneheads from the Right AND the Left attacking environmentalism?
http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/51566/ Wake Up, Global Warming Conspiracy Theorists By Sean Gonsalves, AlterNet. Posted May 7, 2007. Why is it that conspiracy theories are almost always regarded as nutty, paranoid fantasies until right-wing America starts talking about global warming? From the assassination of JFK to 9/11, conspiracy theories are almost always regarded as nutty paranoid fantasies imagined by those hopelessly out-of-touch with reality; unworthy of serious debate ... unless, of course, we're talking about the global warming conspiracy theories circulating around right-wing America. No sooner did the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) hit the news, calling on the world's leading industrial nations -- especially the U.S. and China -- to curb greenhouse gas emissions now, while something can still be done (on the relative cheap to boot!), than all the junk-science detectors come out of the woodwork to warn all of us poor idiots to beware of the global warming conspiracy. Two of the more prominent examples include CNN's Glenn Beck, who recently did an hour-long segment called Exposed: The Climate of Fear, in which he predictably evoked Hitler and Nazism to smear anyone concerned about the environment. (For civics sake, enough with the Hitler references already!) On the other side of the political spectrum, we have Alexander Cockburn offering a leftist contrarian climate change argument, disputing the existence of any link between CO2 emissions and rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. For the record, I didn't see, nor do I intend to see, Inconvenient Truth. I was never subjected to any save the earth curriculum that my kids now receive. I do not belong to any environmental organization and, frankly, the upper-class, granola-bar-eating, healthier-than-thou, eco-fundamentalism characteristic of some liberals is about as attractive to me as growing up female under the Taliban. I'm not a scientist -- just like most people reading this right now. But like Bertrand Russell said: Clearly, if you are going to believe anything outside your own experience, you should have some reason for believing it. Usually, the reason is authority... . It is true that most of us must inevitably depend upon (authority) for most of our knowledge. When it comes to global warming I make Pascal's Wager and put it on. It's better to believe the warnings of global warming scientists and adhere to the precautionary principle than not believe and suffer the consequences. I'll put my money on the IPCC -- the most authoritative body of climate scientists in the world, whose work is peer reviewed; unlike the mutterings of nonscientist ideologues who dismiss the work of real scientists who, we're told, secretly want to destroy capitalism, halt technological progress and keep the poor, poor. Apparently, with the global warming conspiracy crowd, climate science is filled with a bunch of Unabombers; a collection of Ted Kaczynskis. But instead of getting the koo-koo treatment, they get prime time? And I don't buy the they're-in-it-for-the-government-money argument, either. Everyone knows that the real research money is in defense. And it's just absurd to think that corporations and governments want to give millions of dollars to scientists whose research indicates our entire way of living is a global threat. But, when it comes down to it: a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it, as Max Planck wrote in his autobiography. So I don't care to argue much about global warming. I mean, John Maynard Keynes had a point -- in the long run, we're all dead. But for me and my kids, when the climate change contrarians are dead, it's us who'll be caught up in the long run. That's why recent polls have shown that young Americans -- the long runners -- are particularly sensitive to environmental issues, with 77 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds saying they favor the U.S. signing an international treaty requiring less emissions from power plants and cars, compared to just 48 percent of those 65 and older, as Benjamin Page and Marshall Bouton discuss in their book The Foreign Policy Dis*Connect. What we've gotta do, young America, is take over the environmental conversation and policy in this country. Matter of fact, the environmental opinions of anyone whose average life expectancy comes in, say, the next 20 years or so, should be considered irrelevant. I remember being admonished sometimes by older folks to mind my business when grown folks are talking. Well, on global warming and the environment, here's where we flip the script. This is the one conversation where we need to say: mind your business when young folks are talking.
[cia-drugs] Countries vying to claim land emrging from under retreating ice caps
While flat-earthers continue claiming that global warming does not exist, countries are claiming emerging land from under the retreating ice caps. Will somebody please tell these Alex Jones and his bunch to pull their heads out and stop undermining the credibility of the 911truth movement by glomming on this nonsense onto their message? * The New Land Rush By Robert J. Miller, TomPaine.com. Posted May 7, 2007. Recent news reports state that global warming and the shrinking Arctic icecaps are opening new sea lanes and making barren islands suddenly very valuable. In fact, the international community might experience a new race of exploration, conquest and acquisition for this new world -- these newly available lands and sea routes. Conflicts could arise over shipping lanes, islands, fish stocks, minerals and oil that are now becoming accessible and commercially exploitable. Governments are even now engaged in asserting their sovereignty over these areas and assets. Canada, Denmark and the United States are already involved in diplomatic disputes over these issues. For example, Canada and Denmark have sent diplomats and warships to plant their flags on tiny Hans Island near northwestern Greenland. In 1984, Denmark's Minister for Greenland Affairs landed on the island in a helicopter and raised the Danish flag, buried a bottle of brandy, and left a note that said Welcome to the Danish Island. Canada was not amused by this assertion of Danish sovereignty. In 2005, the Canadian Defense Minister and troops landed on the island and hoisted the Canadian flag. Denmark lodged an official protest. In addition, Canada, Russia and Denmark are claiming waters all the way to the North Pole. Moreover, the United States and Canada are disputing Canadian claims that the emerging Northwest Passage sea route is in its territory. The U.S. insists the waters are neutral and open to all but Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper states that he will place military icebreakers in the area to assert our sovereignty and take action to protect our territorial integrity. This kind of conduct is nothing new. It mirrors exactly the actions taken by European and American governments in the 15th -- 20th centuries in their race to claim the lands and the assets of the New World of the Americas, Africa, and other areas. That race was conducted under the international legal principle known today as the Doctrine of Discovery. Under various papal bulls, Spain and Portugal could establish claims to the lands of indigenous, non-Christian, non-European peoples by merely discovering the lands. Spanish, Portuguese, and later English and French explorers engaged in numerous types of Discovery rituals upon encountering new lands. The hoisting of their flag and the cross and leaving evidence that they had been there was part of the Discovery process. In 1776-78, for example, Captain Cook established English claims to British Columbia by leaving English coins in buried bottles. In 1774, he erased Spanish marks of ownership and possession in Tahiti and replaced them with English ones. Upon learning of this, Spain dispatched explorers to restore its marks of possession. Furthermore, in 1742-49, French military expeditions buried lead plates throughout the Ohio country to reassert the French claims of discovery dating from 1643. The plates stated that they were a renewal of possession. Americans also engaged in discovery rituals. The Lewis Clark expedition marked and branded trees and rocks in the Pacific Northwest to prove the American presence and claim to the region. They also left a memorial or memo at Fort Clatsop in March 1806 and gave copies to Indians to deliver to any whites that might arrive to prove the U.S. presence and claim to the Northwest. The memorial stated that its object was that through the medium of some civilized person ... it may be made known to the informed world that Lewis Clark had crossed the continent and lived at the mouth of the Columbia River on the Pacific Ocean. This was nothing less than a claim of discovery and possession of the region and a claim of ownership under the Doctrine of Discovery. A decade later, as the U.S. and England argued over the Pacific Northwest and the possession of Fort Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams and President James Monroe took actions based directly upon the principles of Discovery. In 1817, as they despaired that England would voluntarily return Fort Astoria, Adams and Monroe ordered an American diplomat and naval captain to sail to Astoria to assert the [American] claim of territorial possession at the mouth of Columbia River. Adams wrote that this mission was designed to resume possession of that post, and in some appropriate manner to reassert the title of the United States. Accordingly, Monroe and Adams ordered the American diplomat John Prevost and
[cia-drugs] 28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly
NewsTarget Insider Alert (www.NewsTarget.com http://www.NewsTarget.com ) http://www.consumerwellness.org Dear Readers, Rather than working to protect the interests of their constituents, 28 U.S. senators are actively voting to maintain a Big Pharma monopoly in the United States -- the country where consumers pay the highest prices in the world for drugs. These 28 senators apparently do not believe in free trade or even free market competition when it comes to medicines, but they do believe in protecting the powerful corporations that give them money for reelection campaigns. The issue at hand is the Dorgan amendment to S.1082 (the hotly-debated FDA act). Dorgan proposed an amendment last week that would break Big Pharma's monopoly and allow consumers, cities, states and businesses to price shop for medicines imported from Canada, Europe, Japan and other approved countries. But 28 senators opposed it, voting to defend the current Big Pharma monopoly where some drugs are marked up more than 500,000% over the cost of their ingredients. (That's not a typo.) Our feature article today lists the names of these 28 senators who voted against the free trade amendment along with the names of 9 who didn't vote at all. Plus, you'll read comments explaining why this amendment is so dangerous to the profiteering drug racket currently operated by Big Pharma and the FDA. Click the headline below for the full story... http://www.newstarget.com/021831.html Health: 28 Senators vote to maintain Big Pharma monopoly over U.S. consumers; Republicans oppose free trade for medicine http://www.newstarget.com/021831.html On May 3rd, 2007, U.S. Senators voted on an amendment to the 2007 Prescription Drug User Fee bill that aims to reform the FDA and enhance drug safety. This amendment, known as the Dorgan Amendment No. 990, threatened to break Big Pharma's monopoly over... To your health and freedom, - Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
[cia-drugs] Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination
Brothers The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief. David Talbot, Salon May. 02, 2007 http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/02/brothers/ One of the most intriguing mysteries about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, that darkest of American labyrinths, is why his brother Robert F. Kennedy apparently did nothing to investigate the crime. Bobby Kennedy was, after all, not just the attorney general of the United States at the time of the assassination -- he was his brother's devoted partner, the man who took on the administration's most grueling assignments, from civil rights to organized crime to Cuba, the hottest Cold War flashpoint of its day. But after the burst of gunfire in downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, ended this unique partnership, Bobby Kennedy seemed lost in a fog of grief, refusing to discuss the assassination with the Warren Commission, and telling friends he had no heart for an aggressive investigation. What difference does it make? he would say. It won't bring him back. But Bobby Kennedy was a complex man, and his years in Washington had taught him to keep his own counsel and proceed in a subterranean fashion. What he said in public about Dallas was not the full story. Privately, RFK -- who had made his name in the 1950s as a relentless investigator of the underside of American power -- was consumed by the need to know the real story about his brother's assassination. This fire seized him on the afternoon of Nov. 22, as soon as FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, a bitter political enemy, phoned to say -- almost with pleasure, thought Bobby -- that the president had been shot. And the question of who killed his brother continued to haunt Kennedy until the day he too was gunned down, on June 5, 1968. Because of his proclivity for operating in secret, RFK did not leave behind a documentary record of his inquiries into his brother's assassination. But it is possible to retrace his investigative trail, beginning with the afternoon of Nov. 22, when he frantically worked the phones at Hickory Hill -- his Civil War-era mansion in McLean, Va. -- and summoned aides and government officials to his home. Lit up with the clarity of shock, the electricity of adrenaline, Bobby Kennedy constructed the outlines of the crime that day -- a crime, he immediately concluded, that went far beyond Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old ex-Marine arrested shortly after the assassination. Robert Kennedy was America's first assassination conspiracy theorist. CIA sources began disseminating their own conspiratorial view of Kennedy's murder within hours of the crime, spotlighting Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union and his public support for Fidel Castro. In New Orleans, an anti-Castro news organization released a tape of Oswald defending the bearded dictator. In Miami, the Cuban Student Directorate -- an exile group funded secretly by a CIA program code-named AMSPELL -- told reporters about Oswald's connections to the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba Committee. But Robert Kennedy never believed the assassination was a communist plot. Instead, he looked in the opposite direction, focusing his suspicions on the CIA's secretive anti-Castro operations, a murky underworld he had navigated as his brother's point man on Cuba. Ironically, RFK's suspicions were shared by Castro himself, whom he had sought to overthrow throughout the Kennedy presidency. The attorney general was supposed to be in charge of the clandestine war on Castro -- another daunting assignment JFK gave him, after the spy agency's disastrous performance at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961. But as he tried to establish control over CIA operations and to herd the rambunctious Cuban exile groups into a unified progressive front, Bobby learned what a swamp of intrigue the anti-Castro world was. Working out of a sprawling Miami station code-named JM/WAVE that was second in size only to the CIA's Langley, Va., headquarters, the agency had recruited an unruly army of Cuban militants to launch raids on the island and even contracted Mafia henchmen to kill Castro -- including mob bosses Johnny Rosselli, Santo Trafficante and Sam Giancana, whom Kennedy, as chief counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee in the late 1950s, had targeted. It was an overheated ecosystem that was united not just by its fevered opposition to the Castro regime, but by its hatred for the Kennedys, who were regarded as traitors for failing to use the full military might of the United States against the communist outpost in the Caribbean. This Miami netherworld of spies, gangsters and Cuban militants is where Robert Kennedy immediately cast his suspicions on Nov. 22. In the years since RFK's own assassination, an impressive body of evidence has accumulated that suggests why Kennedy felt compelled
[cia-drugs] E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession about Kennedy Assassination
Son Of JFK Conspirator Drops New Bombshell Revelations Costner was set to make documentary on Hunt's confession, before Miami mafia stepped in, E. Howard believed government had sabotaged his wife's plane Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet Thursday, May 3, 2007 http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/030507jfkconspirator.htm As the explosive revelation of E. Howard Hunt's deathbed confession, in which the former CIA agent and Watergate conspirator admits that he was part of a CIA conspiracy to assassinate JFK, continues to rage across the Internet, the establishment media remains almost mute on what is undoubtedly one of the biggest stories of the decade. Saint John Hunt, E. Howard Hunt's oldest son, joined Alex Jones yesterday to drop new bombshells about his father's story. Click here to listen. http://prisonplanet.tv/audio/020507hunt.mp3 Hunt was first made aware of what his father knew about the events of November 22nd 1963 when he came into receipt of hand-written memos that outlined the birth of the plot to kill JFK in Miami where it was discussed that a coup needed to take place in order to topple Kennedy and save the CIA from being splintered into a thousand pieces, as JFK had promised. Saint John then opened his mailbox one January morning in 2004 to discover an unlabeled cassette tape on which his father details the identity of the individuals that were involved in the actual assassination of JFK. E. Howard Hunt names numerous individuals with both direct and indirect CIA connections as having played a role in the assassination of Kennedy, while describing himself as a bench warmer in the plot. Saint John Hunt agreed that the use of this term indicates that Hunt was willing to play a larger role in the murder conspiracy had he been required, but was primarily used in an oversight role. Hunt alleges on the tape that then Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the planning of the assassination and in the cover-up, stating that LBJ, Had an almost maniacal urge to become president, he regarded JFK as an obstacle to achieving that. Saint John Hunt. http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/may2007/030507hunt.jpg In the Alex Jones Show interview, Hunt reveals how Kevin Costner, star of the JFK movie, had shared a mutual friend with E. Howard Hunt and had subsequently visited Hunt in Miami in the interests of producing a documentary film based on Hunt's knowledge of the plot. Kevin Costner flies down and is introduced to my father by this mutual friend and Kevin just blurted out, 'so who killed JFK'? My father's jaw dropped and he turned around and looked at his wife and said, 'what did he say'? So the whole thing just kind of blew up in its face and that was the end of that, said Hunt. Hunt said that Costner had become somewhat of a conspiracy enthusiast after having made the JFK movie and was very interested in starting a project based on E. Howard Hunt's revelations. What my father devised was a code and a key to give Mr. Costner the relevant information without naming the names, said Hunt, He listed out a chain of command and a timeline series of events and things that took place along with the most important players in the plot. Costner considered the information to be dynamite stuff, but elements of the Miami mafia derailed the project and the documentary never got off the ground. Saint John Hunt also revealed for the first time that E. Howard Hunt thought that the Chicago plane crash that killed his wife in 1972 was not an accident. Investigators discovered at least $10,000 dollars in Dorothy Hunt's luggage, money that Saint John Hunt alleges was Nixon campaign funds used to payoff the families of the Watergate burglars to keep them quiet about the involvement of the Nixon White House in the Watergate break-in and cover-up. Later on in his life at one of these bedside confessionstears started welling up in his eyes and he said, 'you know Saint I was so deeply concerned that what they did to your mother they could have done to you children' and that caused the hair on my neck to stand up - that was the first disclosure from my father that he thought there was something else going on besides sheer pilot error, said Hunt. Eyewitnesses reported that the plane exploded above treetop level before it had even hit the runway. Hunt said that at least 20-25 FBI members, as well as numerous DIA agents were at the scene of the crash within minutes before rescue personnel had even arrived, and that this fact was attested to in a letter sent by the head of the Chicago FBI to investigator Sherman Skolnick. Hunt cited numerous coincidences surrounding the aftermath of the crash, including Nixon's appointment of his henchman, Egil Krough, to the National Transportation Safety Board which investigates plane crashes, the very day after the incident. When asked about the photos of the three tramps that were arrested on the scene of
[cia-drugs] Airing Gonzales' Dirty Laundry
Airing Gonzales' Dirty Laundry By Bill Boyarsky, Truthdig. Posted May 2, 2007. A look at one of the real reasons eight U.S. attorneys were fired -- the Republican effort to stop voter registration campaigns in poor neighborhoods. http://www.alternet.org/rights/51317/ Since Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' inept stonewalling before the Senate Judiciary Committee shed no light on the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, let's dig into one of the real reasons -- the Republican effort to stop voter registration campaigns in poor neighborhoods. The assault is an early battle of the 2008 presidential campaign. Republicans are trying to limit registration of African-Americans and Latinos in a number of states that Democrats have a chance of carrying. It's not the only reason that attorneys were fired, but it is the most reprehensible. U.S. attorneys are political appointees. When a new president and his party take power, the old are swept out for the new. But once in office, the attorneys usually work with local law enforcement and lawyers and are not often micro-managed from Washington. There have been exceptions to this. The power of local segregationists sent Kennedy administration lawyers into action to take over some law enforcement in the South during the civil rights movement. This operation is different. The Kennedys wanted to give African-Americans rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The Bush crowd is trying to exclude African-Americans and Latinos. One of the fired attorneys is David Iglesias of New Mexico, who was dismissed after state Republican officials complained that he wouldn't prosecute registration fraud allegations. (The state produced another, unrelated, example of Republicans using the Justice Department to win elections. Republican Sen. Peter Domenici complained that Iglesias was too slow in prosecuting a political corruption case that would have helped the campaign of Rep. Heather Wilson, a Republican who eventually won a tight race.) In 2004, President Bush beat Sen. John Kerry in New Mexico by just a single percentage point, 50 percent to 49 percent. In 2008, the state's five electoral votes are within Democratic grasp. Although that's not a lot of votes, the Democrats' near success in 2004 reflects the party's hopes of big gains throughout the Southwest and Rockies next year. Another U.S. attorney firing was linked to efforts to stop a Democratic registration drive in Washington state. Kerry carried it in 2004, but a Republican came within 129 votes of the Democratic winner in last year's election for governor. U.S. Attorney John McKay, who was appointed by Bush, was dumped by Gonzales after Republican officials complained he would not investigate supposed registration fraud. The Republicans' main target in New Mexico, Washington and other states is a progressive grass-roots group, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN. It has chapters in more than 100 cities engaged in organizing the poor for a living wage, improved housing, jobs, healthcare, better schools and child care. What angers the Republicans are ACORN's voter registration efforts, mostly in poor African-American and Latino neighborhoods. In the last few years, it has registered about 500,000 voters in poor communities. ACORN members tend to be tough and focused. They organize poor families ignored by the politicians, the big contributors and the reporters and pundits who dominate today's political dialogue. While political writers report on the so-called money primary -- the contribution competition among the top contenders -- ACORN is signing up voters in neighborhoods where the major candidates and journalists seldom venture. It's the hardest kind of political organizing. The organizers -- invariably low paid -- must convince the overworked and poor to give up a portion of their limited time to activities such as staging marches, visiting city halls and state capitols and organizing registration drives. Professor Peter Dreier, director of the Urban and Environmental Policy Program at Occidental College in Los Angeles, told me that of all the organizations in the country that represent the poor, except for the labor unions, ACORN is the most effective. With a good political research operation and a grasp of local, state and national politics, ACORN targets its work in swing districts, registering voters who are likely to be Democrats, Dreier said. ACORN's success woke up New Mexico State Republican Chairman Allen Weh and other state party officials. They accused ACORN of fraud in the 2004 drive that registered 35,000 potential voters, according to The Albuquerque Tribune. U.S. Attorney Iglesias investigated the complaints. He formed a task force that took a close look at more than 300 of them. In fact, some ACORN workers, who were paid for each person they registered, weren't too fussy about whom they signed up. ACORN fired a
[cia-drugs] Barrett Heading to Morocco to Apprehend Suicide Hijacker
http://911blogger.com/node/8162 Barrett Heading to Morocco to Apprehend Suicide Hijacker ( Home » Barrett Heading to... ) Submitted by GeorgeWashington on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 6:34pm. Kevin Barrett An email from Kevin Barrett. (Press Conference outside the office of Wisconsin Rep. Steve Nass, Room 12 West State Capitol, Madison, Wisconsin, Thursday, May 3rd, 10:30 a.m.) Dr. Kevin Barrett, the University of Wisconsin lecturer who was denied a tenure-track position at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, hounded by Steve Nass and 61 state legislators, and handed a death threat by Bill O'Reilly-all because of his political opinions and religious identity-has opted for a new career: Fugitive Recovery Agent specializing in the apprehension of still-living 9/11 suicide hijackers. Dr. Barrett will be traveling to Morocco May 6th to apprehend accused 9/11 hijacker Waleed al-Shehri, who, after allegedly stabbing a stewardess on a flight that crashed into the World Trade Center, returned to Casablanca and has reportedly been working as a pilot there ever since. Barrett voiced his outrage that such a brutal, ruthless terrorist has been allowed to commit mass murder and suicide-and walk away scot free. Waleed al-Shehri, I'm coming to get you! Barrett vowed. I don't know how you got out of that plane alive, but that was the last miraculous escape you'll ever make. You're coming back to the US in handcuffs with me to face charges of mass murder and terrorism. According to the BBC and other sources, al-Shehri visited the US embassy in Rabat, Morocco after the 9/11 attacks and protested his innocence, while admitting that the photo and biography of the accused suicide hijacker were indeed his. But Barrett isn't buying it. What a lame alibi, Barrett scoffed. The 9/11 Commission Report says Waleed al-Shehri is the guy who, along with his brother Wail, 'stabbed two unarmed flight attendants' shortly before Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower. Alive or dead, if the 9/11 Commission says he did it, this guy should be apprehended, tried, and, if guilty, convicted of his crimes. As a badge-toting Fugitive Recovery Agent, Dr. Barrett is authorized to carry unusual weapons and use reasonable force to apprehend and deliver fugitives from justice. (Note: Wisconsin requires Fugitive Recovery Agents to be licensed, but no law prevents unlicensed agents like Dr. Barrett from working in other states or apprehending fugitives in foreign countries.) Dr. Barrett says he will use no weapons in Morocco. He intends to apprehend Waleed al-Shehri nonviolently and persuade him to return to the US to have his day in court and try to clear his name. I will tell him that he has a very good chance of convincing a jury that he has stabbed no stewardesses and flown no planes into any buildings. Hopefully he'd like to see this whole thing cleared up, rather than spending his life under the cloud of an act of suicide terrorism that he says he didn't commit. Questions Linger About Alleged Hijackers' Identities According to Dr. Barrett, strong evidence indicates that the accused hijackers Waleed al-Shehri and Wail al-Shehri are indeed the sons of the Ahmed al-Shehri (alternative Roman alphabet spellings include Alshehri, al-Shri, etc.) who is a senior Saudi diplomat in Bombay, India. One of Ahmed's sons is Waleed al-Shehri who has been protesting his innocence from Casablanca. This Waleed says he, like the alleged 9/11 suicide hijacker, has a brother named Wail, attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida-and that the picture of the alleged suicide hijacker offered by the 9/11 Commission is indeed a picture of him. These facts, Dr. Barrett says, makes mincemeat of the report that the actual suicide hijackers were a different pair of brothers named Waleed and Wail al-Shehri. Excuse me, but I think this guy knows his own photo, Dr. Barrett said. And what are the odds that there were two guys with identical photos who not only had the same name, but also had brothers named Wail, and who trained at the same flight school at the same time? And what are the odds that, if this were true, the situation would not even be mentioned, much less investigated, by the 9/11 Commission? Anyone who believes the BS about a second pair of brothers might as well blame 9/11 on Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Barrett went further, calling the reports blaming a second Waleed and Wail al-Shehri among the lamest disinformation efforts ever produced by any intelligence agency, anywhere. A brief, extremely general story about the allegedly guilty second pair of brothers surfaced in the Saudi media following September 11th. It reads like an intelligence agency press release, Barrett said. No biographical details, no extensive interviews, nada. Just a couple of paragraphs replete with generalities. The report citing the second pair of al-Shehri brothers was never looked
[cia-drugs] Pelosi's office is taking calls for Impeachment of Bush/Cheney
From the Code Pink list: PLEASE CALL Nancy Pelosi's office right now. Here's the deal as forwarded to me: House Speaker Pelosi's office is taking calls voting for Impeachment of Bush/Cheney at 202-225-0100. Folks, each of you who have been wanting Impeachment, need to commit right now to ask at least 10 others to call and ask each person to commit to asking 10 others to call and so on. It needs to happen fast and NOW. Let's BLITZKREIG the Speaker's office with demands for Impeachment of Bush AND Cheney. Please make a call, and thanks so very much.
[cia-drugs] What is happening to the Israeli Defense Forces?!
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3390706,00.html Anti-Semitism at IDF base French immigrant attacked during basic training by group of Russian-speaking soldiers demonstrating anti-Semitic behavior Yossi Yehoshua Published: 04.22.07, 10:13 / Israel News Soldiers in an IDF base drew swastikas and yelled 'Heil Hitler', hurting a soldier who had emigrated from France to Israel in order to escape anti-Semitism. The affair was exposed after the soldier, age 21, submitted a suit to the Ministry of Defense. When the soldier enlisted in the IDF, he had the highest possible physical profile. He was recently discharged, after only six months of service, after developing severe diabetes. According to the soldier, he decided to move to Israel from France after suffering years of anti-Semitism in the country. Last August, he enlisted in the IDF and was sent to the 'Mihveh Alon' base, where new recruits receive intensive Hebrew courses, in addition to undergoing basic training. While on base, I witnessed appalling and scary incidents, carried out by a group of Russian immigrants who behaved like neo-Nazis. They would draw swastikas, do the fascist salute, and yell 'Heil Hitler'. This behavior brought back the fear I had felt as a Jew in France, and reminded me of the anti-Semitism I had left behind - anti-Semitism to which I had not expected to be exposed in Israel, and specifically in the military, said the soldier. His advocate, Eli Saban, stated that the soldier's appeals to his commanders on the base did not help, and the anti-Semitism merely worsened, eventually even manifesting as physical violence. Diagnosed with diabetes In September, the soldier and one of his friends were attacked by the group of Russian soldiers. This led to a group fight on the base between Russian-speakers and French-speakers. Following the fight, the Russian-speaking soldiers were sent to military prison. After they finished their prison sentence, the Russian-speakers returned to the base and continued their threatening and anti-Semitic behavior, reads the petition to the Ministry of Defense. Three weeks before the end of basic training, the soldier began to suffer from symptoms of constant thirst and urination. After being hospitalized, he was diagnosed with diabetes. Due to the disease, he was discharged from the military. I have no doubt that the conditions in 'Mihveh Alon', which created extreme tension and fear, are what caused the onset of the disease, claimed the soldier in his suit to the ministry.
[cia-drugs] Popular Mechanics unmasked and debunked decisively
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Re: [cia-drugs] Left Gatekeepers
This is false. Those who attacking Chomsky and Goodman - who are they? They are the ones who are doing damage to the Left. Looks like a black op to me. Goodman had Dylan Avery on her show and let him debate the people from that magazine (Popular Mechanics, I think it was) who had attacked him. So this charge about her and the 911truth movement and scurilous and false, and this attack is very likely a REAL CIA black op - and not a bogus one like what they are claing Chomsky and Goodman are part of. Bryant On Sun Dec 30 9:06 , 'norgesen' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Left Gatekeepers Exposing the Left Gatekeepers, along with their sponsors like the Ford Foundation Carnegie Endowment, and individuals like George Soros Felix Rohatyn. For example, why does Noam Chomsky continue to claim that questions about 9-11 “will damage the Left”, while simultaneous arguing that evidence of a controlled demolition and NORAD stand down are not significant? Why does Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow continue to ignore the burgeoning 9-11 truth effort, while repeating the official 9-11 myth of 19 hijackers with boxcutters? Find the answers here. Mike Malloy Fired By Left Gatekeepers (From Kurt Nimmo)http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=543 List of Ford Foundation grant recipients for 2005: Media gatekeepers like NPR, PBS, etchttp://www.current.org/funding/funding0509ford.shtml Mike Malloy Fired from Air America Radio (because he discussed the 9-11 inside job)http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/31/18304956 MacArthur Foundation gives $3.4 million in grants to nine nonprofits (follow the money trail!)http://philanthropy.com/free/update/2006/08/2006082401.htm Small Charities Win Grants From a Big Foundation By Nicole Lewis in Chicago, today awarded $3.4-million to nine nonprofit groups, each with budgets of less than $2. Left Gatekeeper Conference Camp Democracy DC from Sept 5-20- Chance to expose the gatekeepers!(FFN: I hate to publicize this event, which is just a love-fest of phony peace groups and the various splintered Leftist fronts masquerading as a social movement. But this is a chance for those close to DC to pamphlet and expose people to the truth about 9-11. Bill Moyers, Schumman Foundation: Scaife of the Left?http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/01/bill-moyers-scaife-of-the-left/ Big Chart of Left Gatekeepers and the money trailhttp://www.leftgatekeepers.com/chart.htm Ford Foundation funded World Social Forum (major world-government leftist front)http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-summits/article_1678.jsp The Top 10 Corporate Democrats-For-Hirehttp://www.alternet.org/story/40482/ DNC Chair Dean To Host Fundraiser At Soros Mansionhttp://www.pipelinenews.org/bbs/viewpost.cfm?id=10139 Ford, Kaiser Foundations to fund HIV Global campaignhttp://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060816/sfw019.html Ford Foundation, 2 others create a fund to aid public radio (FFN Editors note: Here we see it in plain site. The Ford Foundation, a major Globalist arm for the one-world government, is funding public radio. Ever wonder why your local NPR station uses the same myths, lies, and propaganda as the neocon outlets like FoxNews? Who pays their bills?) Md. charity, 2 others create a fund to aid public radio By Nick Madigan Sun reporter Originally published August 10, 2006 The Maryland-based Calvert Foundation and two other organizations unveiled yesterday an investment program to provide help for public radio stations, some of which are financially strapped, as well as money to acquire new ones. Advertisement Click here to find out more! The Public Radio Fund will be the largest capital-raising effort ever attempted for noncommercial radio, said a statement announcing its launch. Other backers of the fund are New York's Ford Foundation and Public Radio Capital, a nonprofit in Denver. The Calvert Foundation, which has its headquarters in Bethesda, has primarily focused on helping disadvantaged communities. Marc Hand, Public Radio Capital's managing director, said in a statement that beginning this fall, the fund will help public broadcasters all over the U.S. gain access to short-term capital on an affordable basis, and move more quickly and aggressively when an opportunity to compete for a valuable channel comes on the market. The fund's target for the next six to 12 months is $15 million, starting with $4.5 million in loans already committed; $1.5 million from the Ford Foundation; and $3 million from investors around the country, channeled through the Calvert Foundation. Tim Freundlich, director of strategic development for the Calvert Foundation, said in a conference call that the fund was being launched to counter growing concern about over-concentration of media ownership, according to a transcript of his remarks. More public radio in more places in the United States is the goal of the Public Radio Fund,
Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member.
All one has to do to subscribe an e-mail address is to take the invitation html code from any group, substitute the name of the group you want to subscribe to, and publish it as an html file on your own computer using Windows Notepad, and then type in any e-mail address you want and send it in. It is easy a falling off a log. Bryant - Original Message - From: Bob To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. RoadsEnd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]is a member. Requested to join in Jan of 04. I approved in May when I approved 30 or so one day. Interesting. There has been no activity from the address but some times it grabs my outgoing mails and then presents them to the list. ship-confirm is moderated so they don't go directly to list and I generally do not let post. I have known for awhile that it was redirecting my emails but hvae been busy. Strange. Peace, Om KThe only reason to allow that address to besubscribed is forensics.The way to subscribe that address would be toforge a subscription with insider amazon.compriveleges or by very sophisticated hackerspoofing.Any legitimate mail for that address would qualifyas spam for the list. Only illegitimate mail for thataddress would qualify, either sending or receiving.I think amazon.com would be more capable ofdoing the required forensic work than we would.-Bob Send Message Edit Membership -name- -age- -gender- -location- (Request Profile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Moderated] Jan22,2004 = Date Member Activity May31,20048:18 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership request approved by ramillegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web Jan22,200411:44 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership requested via email Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member.
This is the code I am talking about: formmethod="get"action=""tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="2"border="0"bgcolor="#cc"trtdcolspan="2"align="center"emSubscribetoDay_of_the_Dead/em/td/trtrtdinputtype="text"name="user"value="enteremailaddress"size="20"/tdtdinputtype="image"border="0"alt="ClickheretojoinDay_of_the_Dead"name="ClickheretojoinDay_of_the_Dead"src=""/td/trtralign="center"tdcolspan="2"Poweredbynbsp;ahref=""groups.yahoo.com/a/td/tr/table/form This is for the Day of the Dead group, just substitute "cia-drugs"for "Day_of_the_Dead" and you are all set. So you don't even have to be a Yahoo member or log onto the web server or anything. I could subscribe anyone I wanted to any group with this method. The only way of keeping people off is for the moderator to have it set up where he has to approve memberships and not to approve those that seem dubious for some reason. So Amazon.com would have no control over this, and no liability either, and in addition, there is no great mystery either and nothing at all sophisticated about this. - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. All one has to do to subscribe an e-mail address is to take the invitation html code from any group, substitute the name of the group you want to subscribe to, and publish it as an html file on your own computer using Windows Notepad, and then type in any e-mail address you want and send it in. It is easy a falling off a log. Bryant - Original Message - From: Bob To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. RoadsEnd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]is a member. Requested to join in Jan of 04. I approved in May when I approved 30 or so one day. Interesting. There has been no activity from the address but some times it grabs my outgoing mails and then presents them to the list. ship-confirm is moderated so they don't go directly to list and I generally do not let post. I have known for awhile that it was redirecting my emails but hvae been busy. Strange. Peace, Om KThe only reason to allow that address to besubscribed is forensics.The way to subscribe that address would be toforge a subscription with insider amazon.compriveleges or by very sophisticated hackerspoofing.Any legitimate mail for that address would qualifyas spam for the list. Only illegitimate mail for thataddress would qualify, either sending or receiving.I think amazon.com would be more capable ofdoing the required forensic work than we would.-Bob Send Message Edit Membership -name- -age- -gender- -location- (Request Profile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Moderated] Jan22,2004 = Date Member Activity May31,20048:18 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership request approved by ramillegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web Jan22,200411:44 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership requested via email Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member.
I just used this method to subscribe a member of this group to my Day of the Dead group. Please, that person, just delete the mail and let it expire (unless you really want to join, of course). I just did this to show how easy it was. Bryant - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. This is the code I am talking about: formmethod="get"action=""http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Day_of_the_Dead">http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Day_of_the_Dead"tablecellspacing="0"cellpadding="2"border="0"bgcolor="#cc"trtdcolspan="2"align="center"emSubscribetoDay_of_the_Dead/em/td/trtrtdinputtype="text"name="user"value="enteremailaddress"size="20"/tdtdinputtype="image"border="0"alt="ClickheretojoinDay_of_the_Dead"name="ClickheretojoinDay_of_the_Dead"src=""/td/trtralign="center"tdcolspan="2"Poweredbynbsp;ahref=""groups.yahoo.com/a/td/tr/table/form This is for the Day of the Dead group, just substitute "cia-drugs"for "Day_of_the_Dead" and you are all set. So you don't even have to be a Yahoo member or log onto the web server or anything. I could subscribe anyone I wanted to any group with this method. The only way of keeping people off is for the moderator to have it set up where he has to approve memberships and not to approve those that seem dubious for some reason. So Amazon.com would have no control over this, and no liability either, and in addition, there is no great mystery either and nothing at all sophisticated about this. - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. All one has to do to subscribe an e-mail address is to take the invitation html code from any group, substitute the name of the group you want to subscribe to, and publish it as an html file on your own computer using Windows Notepad, and then type in any e-mail address you want and send it in. It is easy a falling off a log. Bryant - Original Message - From: Bob To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:14 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. RoadsEnd wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]is a member. Requested to join in Jan of 04. I approved in May when I approved 30 or so one day. Interesting. There has been no activity from the address but some times it grabs my outgoing mails and then presents them to the list. ship-confirm is moderated so they don't go directly to list and I generally do not let post. I have known for awhile that it was redirecting my emails but hvae been busy. Strange. Peace, Om KThe only reason to allow that address to besubscribed is forensics.The way to subscribe that address would be toforge a subscription with insider amazon.compriveleges or by very sophisticated hackerspoofing.Any legitimate mail for that address would qualifyas spam for the list. Only illegitimate mail for thataddress would qualify, either sending or receiving.I think amazon.com would be more capable ofdoing the required forensic work than we would.-Bob Send Message Edit Membership -name- -age- -gender- -location- (Request Profile) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Moderated] Jan22,2004 = Date Member Activity May31,20048:18 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership request approved by ramillegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] via web Jan22,200411:44 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] Membership requested via email Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member.
If it is a member of the group, all messages that are sent to the group go to that address, and they go back to the address where they originated, which is that of the person who posts a message. - Original Message - From: RoadsEnd To: Cia-drugs Cia-drugs Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a member. So how do my out emails go to that address? Peace, Om K On Oct 2, 2005, at 8:13 PM, E Bryant Holman wrote: This is for the Day of the Dead group, just substitute "cia-drugs"for "Day_of_the_Dead" and you are all set. So you don't even have to be a Yahoo member or log onto the web server or anything. I could subscribe anyone I wanted to any group with this method. The only way of keeping people off is for the moderator to have it set up where he has to approve memberships and not to approve those that seem dubious for some reason. So Amazon.com would have no control over this, and no liability either, and in addition, there is no great mystery either and nothing at all sophisticated about this. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] British special forces caught pretending to be Iraqi 'insurgents'
British special forces caught pretending to be Iraqi 'insurgents' http://www.theinsider.org/news/article.asp?id=1556 the gig is up If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Re: [zapatista email group] Re: [wausaulist] Cindy Arrested
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/20/nyregion/20sheehan.html Looks like she was definitely not arrested. She got away. - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Activist List [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 1zapatista [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: El Paso Greens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:18 AM Subject: [zapatista email group] Re: [wausaulist] Cindy Arrested http://www.antiwar.com/blog/comments.php?id=2378_0_1_0_C Unclear if she was arrested or not. Justin Raimondo is following the story closely - Original Message - From: AM Hecht To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 11:14 PM Subject: Re: [wausaulist] Cindy Arrested his account is wrong close but no cigar http://villagevoice.com/news/0538,fergusonshee,67983,2.html --- Dash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan arrested in Manhattan by Five of Diamonds Mon Sep 19th, 2005 at 12:42:39 PDT I witnessed this with my own eyes. Here is my account. Cindy Sheehan was arrested moments ago in Union Square, Manhattan for allegedly speaking in the square without the proper permit. A small group of police began to congregate around 2:00 on the south east corner of Union Square. Cindy and her peace entourage were slightly late to the event, contending with public transportation. Upon her arrival, applause and cheers filled the crowd awaiting her speech. A few other members of the tour movement spoke. Afterward, about 2:50, Cindy began her speech. It was friendly and empowering. She was grateful for the support and urged everyone to go to Washington DC on the 24th of September for a march on Washington. At the conclusion of her speech, from my perspective, a few loud and impassioned boos erupted, then I saw a hand come from behind Cindy and grab her shoulder-strap on her backpack. The arm jerked her backwards, with such force as to snap her head forward, and she fell from my view. The crowd erupted in booing and jeering. The crowd rushed the elevated park where she once stood, not to fight but to witness what was happening. People crowded the police, who had formed a semi-circle around what was happening to Cindy (which I could not witness from my vantage point). Nazis, Gestapo, free speech, burn the constitution, traitors, you can't have her, could be heard from all sides of the angry crowd. The police stood shoulder-to-shoulder with emotionless looks on their faces. One woman from the tour, I did not see who, urged everyone to that it is a waste of energy to yell at the police, we can't stop it from happening, but what we can do is trumpet this event to the rest of the United States. Many media cameras were there. One New York Times reporter was also there (at least), and she was moving around the crowd asking questions. Upon the arrest, she inserted herself into the middle of the screaming, recording it all with her mini-recorder. I'm not sure the details of the permit situation. The announcer said they sought a permit for weeks with no response from the city government. Spread the word Kossaks! More as it unfolds. UPDATE: Details prompted by comments There was no violence, no violent rhetoric, and the spirit of the event was positive and strong. She was only there for about 10 minutes before she spoke, and spoke for about 5 minutes. The crowd was respectful and peaceful. Cindy and the other speakers were using a microphone and speakers, which may have caused the problem with the permits. The announcer told the crowd that they had been officially warned before Cindy got there. I'm trying to find out the permit stuff right now. She was speaking at Camp Casey NYC in Union Square. It was a planned event, advertised in the newspaper. And from what I heard (Union Square is a noisy place), they tried to get a permit but did not get a response from city government after many messages were left. My view was not the best, so I did not see if it was a cop behind her that jerked her away. The immediate booing and rushing of the stage (a! large part of the park raised by about 3 steps) made me believe it was the police. I could not see if she resisted or not. Sorry for the bad view...I wish I had more. Watch the wires, this will be out soon. http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/2913402.html visit the blog at http://www.hechtmail.com/amrants __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com Respect one another. Respect self. We are all ONE human family, each with a unique perspective. Please keep this in mind when posting. Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPONSORED LINKS Wisconsin life insurance quote Wisconsin attorney Wisconsin mortgage lender Wisconsin home loan
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Mice infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J.
In New Mexico they have about 10 cases of plague a year. It is usually arrested before it turns into bubonic plague, and they keep it hushed up in order to prevent panic from spreading. This has been going on for decades. The animals that spread it are rabbits, and the problem is that they are overpopulated because of ranchers poisoning the coyotes. - Original Message - From: FONEBONE To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 9:02 PM Subject: RE: [cia-drugs] Re: Mice infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J. UPSET MY WORLD VIEW EH ? H --- I'm a fone tech Mark and for the last 35 years I've visited about every basement in the Greater Newark New Jersey area, jersey city. paterson just to name a few - I well know the feeling generated upon shining a flash light out into the darkness of a tenement sub-basement and see nothing but hundreds of bright red glowing eyes staring back at you - As you walk towards the darkness the red beady eyes can be seen 360 degrees. Port Newark hasRATS the size of RACCOONS and SHOW ABSOLUTELY NO FEAR of MAN unless approached directly In the PROJECTS RATS infest the halls and walls of entire buildings and can readily be seen scampering day and night across the court-yards and playgrounds Telephone men working in the New York City report RATSbrazenly but routinely run across their work areas PUBLIC SCHOOLS have RATS -RESTAURANTS have RATS HOSPITAL BASEMENTS HAVE RATS I live in the COUNTRY Mark -In the WOODS near a LAKE I LIVE WITH 4 CATS and every autumn my house welcomes multiple field mice that magically reappear half digested in hairballs all winter long - Thirty five years ago in Viet-Nam my unit manned a tiny outpost in the jungle up in the central highlands on the LAOTIAN border The daily and nightly mortar / rocket attacks of the NVA forced us to move into underground bunkers 24/7 for 93 days - These bunkers soon became infested with hundreds of aggressive RATS added additional terror to the exploding ordinance and whizzing bullets The Rats DID play a POSITIVE FUNCTIONthough -- A soldier posted nightly at the bunker entrance to guard against the occasional sapper that would manage to penetrate our perimeter with satchel charges The guys asleep inside the bunker slept better knowing the guard was afraid to fall asleep because as soon as he would the rats would scramble past and over him to startle NO Mark I don't think you can upset my "world view " --at least as it pertains to RATS and where you have RATS you have FLEAS In a large city like NEWARK this couldbe DEADLY ONLY the GREAT FIRE in London in 1666 halted the plague -Fonebone -Original Message-From: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of mark urbanSent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 10:20 PMTo: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.comSubject: [cia-drugs] Re: Mice infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J.I do not want to upset your world view; however, proper pest control should obviate the need to treat this as anything more than a very very minor thing.Unless you and your family have a lot of dealings with flea infested animals, I think you can leave the house without worrying too much about this.--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "FONEBONE" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES The fleas BITE the PLAGUE INFECTED RATS --- They then jump to other nearby warm blooded creatures to feast upon and thereby spreading the PLAGUE epidemic through flea-bites FEMA DOES HAVE SECRET EMERGENCY PLAN for COMBATING a PLAGUE EPIDEMIC using BIOLOGICAL WARFARE --- HALATOSIS subsidiary KILLUM BROWNE ROTTONROOT was just awarded a NO-BID $ 2.2 BILLION "cost plus " contract to implement this comprehensive three pronged attack -dubbed OPERATION NUTNHUNNY is based on "lessons learned" from historical precedent in past agues -Fonebone -Original Message- From: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cia-[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of mark urban Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:16 PM To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Mice infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J. If you read any history at all you would know that bubonic plague is spread by fleas. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Rarey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOPS. If the mice were caught by their traditional enemy, do we now have some infected cats? JR http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_news/v- pfriendly/story/346674p-295865c.html New York Daily News - Mice infected with deadly plague are missing in N.J. ASSOCIATED PRESS Thursday, September 15th, 2005 NEWARK, N.J. - Authorities are searching for three mice infected with bubonic plague that disappeared from a research laboratory about two weeks ago. While health experts say the risk to the public is slim to none, the
[cia-drugs] FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals Miriam Rafteryhttp://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.htmlThe Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned. Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses. Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked a contract with the firm after talks between FEMA and the firm broke down. In other words, FEMA and then Blanco outsourced the body count from Hurricane Katrina -- which many believe the worst natural disaster in U.S. history -- to a firm whose parent company is known for its "experience" at hiding and dumping bodies. The Menorah Gardens cemetery chain, owned by SCI, desecrated vaults, removed hundreds of bodies from two cemeteries in Florida and dumped the gruesome remains in woods frequented by wild hogs, investigators discovered in 2001. In one case, a backhoe was used to crack open a vault, remove corpses and make room for more dead bodies. SCI paid $100 million to settle a lawsuit filed by outraged family members of the deceased. A secretary at the lawfirm that sued SCI over the Florida cemetery scandals gasped when informed that FEMA had outsourced handling of Katrina victims' bodies to an SCI subsidiary. "Oh, good lord!" she said. Peter Hartmann, general manager of the Menorah Gardens Cemetery chain, was later found dead in his car from carbon monoxide poisoning outside his parents' home in an apparent suicide. RAW STORY calls to FEMA were not returned. Waltrip, chairman of SCI, is a longtime friend of Bush's father, former President George Herbert Walker Bush. The firm's political action committee donated $45,000 to George W. Bush's 1994 gubernatorial campaign. The company also contributed more than $100,000 for construction of the George H.W. Bush presidential library. "It is appalling that the Bush administration - which has already badly bungled its response to hurricane Katrina - would hire a company with a record of gross mismanagement of mortuary services," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a Washington D.C.-based watchdog group. "I can only imagine that this decision was made because of President Bush's long-time friendship with the head of SCI, Robert Waltrip." SCI also owned fifteen funeral homes named as defendants in a lawsuit filed on behalf of family members alleging "macabre mishandling, abuse and desecration of bodies" by Tri-State Crematory in Georgia. The lawsuit accused SCI-owned funeral homes of sending bodies to the unlicensed, unregulated crematorium, where never-incinerated corpses were found piled outdoors and stuffed in sheds in 2000. Some vaults designed to hold one body each had 67 sets of human remains stuffed inside, investigators discovered. SCI was among the companies ordered to pay settlement fees to family members, a legal source has confirmed to RAW STORY. Kenyon bills itself as the world's leading disaster management company. It provided morgue support services following the 9/11 plane crash in Pennsylvania and the Asian tsunami. As North America's largest funeral and cemetery company, SCI operates 1,500 mortuaries and cemeteries nationwide. The company's website claims the firm is dedicated to "compassionately supporting families at difficult times, celebrating the significance of lives that have been lived, and preserving memories that transcend generations, with dignity and honor." SCI was also involved in an earlier scandal in Texas. Eliza May, former Texas Funeral Service Commission Director, filed a lawsuit accusing George W. Bush, then Governor, of obstructing an investigation into SCI license violations. May was fired following a dispute with Waltrip. Waltrip and an SCI lobbyist met with Governor Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh (Allbaugh was later appointed head of FEMA after Bush became President, but left to become a lobbyist representing Halliburton, among other corporate clients). According to Newsweek, Bush stopped by and said to Waltrip, "Hey, Bobby, are those people still messing with you?" May, a Democrat, sought to force Bush to testify in the case, but in August 1999, a Texas judge tossed out a subpoena issued by May's lawyers for Bush to give a deposition. Bush, who was not a defendant, called May's claims "frivolous" and denied knowing the circumstances of her ouster. In 1999, when Bush was gearing up to run for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry approved a settlement for May. SCI paid $55,000; the state of Texas shelled
[cia-drugs] Skull Bonesman to oversee Valerie Plame case?
Skull Bonesman to oversee Valerie Plame case?By Bill WeinbergCreated 08/08/2005 - 22:54 An interesting development in the extremely contentious [1] Valerie Plame affair: Deputy Attorney General James Comey, the only Justice Department official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the leak scandal, is leaving to take a job in the private sector. And his likely successor, Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum, islike the incumbent president whose administration may be responsible for the leaka Yale Skull Bonesman! Via TruthOut [2]: Leak Investigation: An Oversight Issue? By Michael Isikoff Newsweek 15 August 2005 Issue The departure this week of Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who has accepted the post of general counsel at Lockheed Martin, leaves a question mark in the probe into who leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Comey was the only official overseeing special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's leak investigation. With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recused, department officials say they are still trying to resolve whom Fitzgerald will now report to. Associate Attorney General Robert McCallum is "likely" to be named as acting deputy A.G., a DOJ official who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter tells NEWSWEEK. But McCallum may be seen as having his own conflicts: he is an old friend of President Bush's and a member of his Skull and Bones class at Yale. One question: how much authority Comey's successor will have over Fitzgerald. When Comey appointed Fitzgerald in 2003, the deputy granted him extraordinary powers to act however he saw fit-but noted he still had the right to revoke Fitzgerald's authority. The questions are pertinent because lawyers close to the case believe the probe is in its final stages. Fitzgerald recently called White House aide Karl Rove's secretary and his former top aide to testify before the grand jury. They were asked why there was no record of a phone call from Time reporter Matt Cooper, with whom Rove discussed the CIA agent, says a source close to Rove who requested anonymity because the FBI asked participants not to comment. The source says the call went through the White House switchboard, not directly to Rove. Note: It was also James Comey, then Manhattan US Attorney, who threatened to subpoena [3] WW4 REPORT in 2003 over our interview with activist attorney and terror war defendant Lynne Stewart [4]. If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage, Groups Say
This message is available on the Internet at http://www.WantToKnow.info/050911hurricanekatrinacoverup Below are one paragraph excerpts of important Hurricane Katrina news stories in the mainstream media which show clear censorship and suggest a major cover-up. Links are provided to the full stories on the original media websites. If any link fails to function, click here. By choosing to educate ourselves and to spread the word to our friends and colleagues, we can and will build a brighter future. U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage, Groups SaySeptember 8, 2005, Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702126.html When U.S. officials asked the news media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free-speech watchdogs said yesterday. The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors charged in separate telephone interviews. On Tuesday, FEMA refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas, saying they would take up valuable space needed in the recovery effort and asked them not to take pictures of the dead. A FEMA spokeswoman wrote: "The recovery of victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost respect and we have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media." FEMA's policy of excluding media from recovery expeditions in New Orleans is "an invitation to chaos," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a part of Columbia University's journalism school. U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans deadSeptember 6, 2005, Reutershttp://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNewsstoryID=2005-09-07T005629Z_01_N06101601_RTRIDST_0_KATRINA-PHOTOGRAPHS.XML The U.S. government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims. "We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the spokeswoman said in an e-mailed response to a Reuters inquiry. Note: Though the previous Washington Post article mentioned this news a couple days later, no major media picked up this important Reuters story. Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMASeptember 6, 2005, Salt Lake Tribunehttp://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3004197 Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?" As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. On Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to represent the federal agency. As specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas. A Compilation of FEMA's Rejections of Qualified Help FEMA refuses hundreds of personnel, dozens of vehicles - Chicago Tribune, 9/2/05http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,1,2011979.story FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/3/05http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board - Chicago Tribune, 9/4/05http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story FEMA turns away state-of-the-art mobile hospital from Univ. of North Carolina - CNN, 9/5/05http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/04/katrina.sick.redtape.ap/ FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations - Financial Times, 9/5/05http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-0e FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks - New York Times,
Re: [cia-drugs] MEXICO AND TROOPS
I looked at the picture and I don't see any arms - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] MEXICO AND TROOPS CHECK THIS OUT LOVE IT WHAT A JOKE OF A NON NATION.see attachment. mexican troops with arms inside the so called usa, what next bin laden helping with a plan and a bomb?do you remember when mexican troops blocked the path of u.s. marines who were carrying two replica ceremonial riflers? and wanted to arrested the marines? by the way the mexican troops wait inside the city and stopped for 12 hrs to pick up something? in nuevo laredo and had something to do with the los zetas gang, wish i knew what was really happening., in n/oFred Dawes[EMAIL PROTECTED] Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Mexican army convoys bringing aid to U.S
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102slug=Katrina%20Mexico LATIN AMERICA/CARIBBEAN Tuesday, September 6, 2005 · Last updated 9:26 p.m. PT Mexican army convoys bringing aid to U.S. By MARK STEVENSONASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER MEXICO CITY -- A Mexican army aid convoy set out for the U.S. border Tuesday, carrying water treatment plants, mobile kitchens and supplies to feed the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Large Mexican flags were taped to many of the 35 green-painted Mexican army trucks and tractor trailers as they rumbled northward, in what apparently will be the first Mexican military unit to operate on U.S. soil since 1846. The trucks, carrying 195 unarmed soldiers, officers and specialists, were expected to arrive in Laredo, Texas, sometime early Thursday, the president's office said. From there they are to proceed to Houston, where they will apparently be used to produce water and hot meals. The convoy included two mobile kitchens that can feed 7,000 people each per day, three flatbed trucks carrying mobile water treatment plants, and 15 trailers of bottled water, blankets and applesauce. It also includes military engineers, doctors and nurses. In 1846, Mexican troops briefly advanced just north of the Rio Grande in Texas, which had then recently joined the United States. Mexico, however, did not then recognize the Rio Grande as the U.S. border. The two countries quickly became mired in the Mexican-American War, which led to the loss of half of Mexico's territory in 1848. Mexico sent a squadron of pilots to train in the United States in the 1940s, but they served outside the United States - in the Philippines - in World War II. In 1916, the revolutionary leader Pancho Villa led a group of irregular fighters in a brief raid into Columbus, N.M., in what is considered the last battle against foreign forces on U.S. soil. Mexico was planning another 12-vehicle aid convoy to leave Tuesday or Wednesday and already has a Mexican navy ship steaming toward the Mississippi coast with rescue vehicles and helicopters. Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has said Mexico is setting up consular offices in trailers around the disaster zone to help some of the estimated 140,000 Mexicans who live in the region, 10,000 of them in New Orleans. In addition, help was offered by a search-and-rescue group called "topos" - which translates as "moles" - organized by youths who dug through collapsed buildings after Mexico City's 1985 earthquake. If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FEMA Chief Sent Help Only After Storm Hit
The declared themselve in charge on Aug 27! How did this get overlooked? ** As of 8/27/05, the feds were responsible for coordinating all state, and local disaster and recovery operations for hurricane Katrina. For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryAugust 27, 2005 Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing. The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives, protect property and public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in the parishes of Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, De Soto, East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Livingston, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Pointe Coupee, Ouachita, Rapides, Red River, Richland, Sabine, St. Helena, St. Landry, Tensas, Union, Vernon, Webster, West Carroll, West Feliciana, and Winn. Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency. Debris removal and emergency protective measures, including direct Federal assistance, will be provided at 75 percent Federal funding. Representing FEMA, Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency Preparedness and Response, Department of Homeland Security, named William Lokey as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: FEMA (202) 646-4600. - Original Message - From: norgesen To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 8:54 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: FEMA Chief Sent Help Only After Storm Hit The spin is this isn't the time to point fingers, even as the regime apologists say there is much blame to go around, all the way from the mayor of New Orleans to the Governor of Louisiana. The limited hang-out is FEMA's "incompetence," which may, eventually, cost Michael Brown his job. And they will make it so hard to wrest it from him that it will seem like a tremendous accomplishment when he's promoted sideways. But it's not incompetence that bars relief, declines to drop supplies, turns back evacuees and cuts lines of communication."Culling," a document of The Order of Nine Angles, states that "The time is now right - both strategically and tactically - to reveal the Satanic truth, the whole Satanic truth and nothing but the Satanic truth in clear, precise terms which are not open to mis-interpretation."There are no masks anymore. The whole Satanic truth is on display, from the disdain of mercy to the piling of horror upon horror. But the more grotesque the vision, the greater the need of those yet in denial to avert their eyes. This is the challenge before Americans at which the world holds its breath: Can they see, this time? Have they had enough, yet? http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/09/last-refuge.html ~~~ --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Rarey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Katrina-Disaster-Response.html?pagewanted=print September 7, 2005 FEMA Chief Sent Help Only After Storm Hit By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 11:58 a.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top U.S. disaster official waited hours after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast before he proposed to his boss sending at least 1,000 Homeland Security workers into the region to support rescuers, internal documents show. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is
[cia-drugs] Military moves in, not to help but to repress
"After Bush's much-publicized photo-op, where he played hero and hugged two young Black women in Louisiana, the German television station ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open-air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after he and the herd of "news people" had left. Others that were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time. The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF. " http://www.workers.org/2005/us/update-0904/ New Orleans crisis continuesMilitary moves in, not to help but to repressBy Deirdre GriswoldPublished Sep 4, 2005 11:29 PM Sept. 4As the world watches in horror, the life-and-death crisis continues to grow for thousands of distressed people, most of them African American, stranded in New Orleans. Enduring intense heat, they lack food, water and medical help and are surrounded by putrid water, garbage and corpses. Detroit residents protesting the Iraqwar at their own Camp Caseycondemn Washington for abandoningthe people of New Orleans whilespending billions to conquer Iraq.WW photo: Cheryl LaBash CNN reports today from Louisiana: "Time is running out for thousands of people awaiting rescue six days after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, rescuers say. Officials say they do not have the manpower, the resources or enough time to save everyone." The report quotes a Coast Guard captain, Bruce Jones: "My guys are coming back and telling me, 'Sir, I went into a house, and there are three elderly people in their beds, and they're gasping, and they're dying.' And we got calls today, 'We need you ... to go to a place in St. Bernard Parish. It's a hospice, ... and there are 10 dead and there are 10 dying.' But those people were probably alive yesterday or the day before." The CNN report concludes: "For every person plucked from the flood, there are hundreds still waiting, rescuers say." The authorities have released no figures on the death toll so far, but the Louisiana governor says it will be "in the thousands." Meanwhile, stories keep coming out about how the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other local and federal authorities have been turning back skilled volunteers who want to help in this worst disaster ever suffered in U.S. history. A Virginia newspaper writes: "Loudoun Sheriff's deputies and emergency personnel were on their way to hurricane-stricken Louisiana Thursday night but had to turn around when the federal government failed to come up with the required paperwork." (Loudon Times-Mirror, Sept. 2) The Daily News of Jacksonville, N.C., wrote today: "[Sherri] Gabel, an emergency medical technician from Jacksonville, is one of thousands of trained health-care providers and emergency personnel who have flocked toward the ruined Gulf Coast in hopes of helping the thousands who have been stranded without food, water or medical care in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "But many are being turned away, said Gabel, a move she believes will cost more lives. In fact, she said the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] tried to turn her away when she called them earlier this week. ... "Gabel said she has watched authorities turn away both emergency workers and trucks loaded with supplies. ... 'Everyone saw this storm coming in,' she said. 'Everyone knew this storm was going to be a catastrophe. Here it is Friday and these people are crying and dying on the middle of the road because they don't have a single bottle of water. There's a lot of people not doing anything because they've been told not to.' " Even people with the Red Cross are complaining that they cannot get into New Orleans. The organization's website says this on its FAQ page: "The state Homeland Security Department had requestedand continues to requestthat the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would 'keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.' "People are still trapped, starving and dying in New Orleans, but tragically, the Red Cross is not permitted to help them. Orders of Homeland Security." Venezuela's offer of help Offers of help from other countries are also getting a polite "Thank you, we'll see about it" from Washington, even as hundreds are still dying every day. Venezuela was the first country to offer help to the afflicted in the Gulf area, saying it could immediately send fuel and emergency workers. CITGO, a company in the U.S. owned by the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA, has a network of refineries and gas stations in the United States. One of these is based in Lake Charles, La., and was opened to give shelter and aid to some 2,000 residents of the area. But the U.S. government has not given the go-ahead for this to happen. Its attitude toward the ongoing revolution in Venezuela is
[cia-drugs] Fw: [hurricane_katrina_disaster] New Orleans is Sealed; No One Permitted to Walk Out
Did Rivera find out what the parents of the 10 month old did for a living to support the baby? Why didn't the parents leave when told to, instead of not helping themselves. This is the kind of post that the freepers on this group are sending out, with the apparant approval by the freepers who run it. This sort of racist, blame-the-victim even extends to children. Why does the moderator remain silent when these statements are made, but actually contribute to the trashing of Rivera and Sheehan and anyone else that contradicts the line that Rove is now orchestrating in order to trash everyone who criticizes Bush for his role in this disaster? People should join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hurricane_katrina_disaster/ and express some opinions that are a little different from what is being promoted there, because this is the largest group that is set up to talk about the disaster, and it is being used as nothing more than a bully pulpit to attack the victims and anyone who speaks up on their behalf. They are sitting astride a group that was supposedly set up to invite everyone on Yahoo to participate in a way that is supposed to offer a free exchange of information, luring people in there who might be expecting to either hear the truth or at least a fair exchange of ideas, and to share information on how to help the victims, and what they get is threats and flaming from right wing bullies who want everything to express the opinions aired by the likes of the rich drug addict Rush Limbaugh. I should say that anyone who does join and speak up will likely be kicked off pretty quickly, and I am not asking anyone to go in there and flame anyone else, either. But if you are not a freeper, you will get flamed and maybe even kicked off before it is all over. Bryant - Original Message - From: Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:03 AM Subject: RE: [hurricane_katrina_disaster] New Orleans is Sealed; No One Permitted to Walk Out Did Rivera find out what the parents of the 10 month old did for a living to support the baby? Why didn't the parents leave when told to, instead of not helping themselves. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of E Bryant Holman Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [hurricane_katrina_disaster] New Orleans is Sealed; No One Permitted to Walk Out Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit New Orleans is Sealed; No One Permitted to Walk Out Geraldo Rivera Reports the Superdome Surivors have been LOCKED IN [FOX News has Geraldo Rivera inside the now-locked Superdome, on camera, showing the victims of the USA's criminal negligence for the world to see. He holds up a 10-month-old baby and asks WHY are these people LOCKED IN, six days after the hurricane? Why are they sealed in with dead bodies without medicine, without food? Why not let them go? What the HELL is going on? It's been SIX DAYS. Rivera is in tears. The director switches to another reporter outside on a highway above the Superdome, who says they have now set up a checkpoint, and nyone attempting to leave the city for Jefferson County across the river -- whre there is electricity, food, and clean water -- is being TURNED BACK. No one is being permitted to LEAVE. WHY? Why are these hundreds and hundreds of people still stuck sitting on an overpass not being permitted to leave? he asks. Where is the food that they are brining in? We saw the convoys coe in with food and medicine. Where is it? These people have been here for 6 days, they have not been told where to go. They have only triked to get to evacuation points, and were told to leave the area of the Superdome. But no one told them where they should go. The reporters run out of words to express their anger, bewilderment, and frustration. The Bush-league anchor tries to calm them, saying let's put this in perspective... -- he is cut off by Rivera: You want perspective? Look into the face of this baby with no food for 6 days. The bodies arfe piled up on the 2nd level of this locked superdome. That's perspective. That's reality. AP via MSNBC - Sep 3, 2005 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9175611/ Putrid conditions worsen for up to 5,000 remaining refugees The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS - Several thousand people still trapped in squalor at the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday morning as evacuations resumed after an overnight disruption. Evacuations were halted before dawn Saturday as authorities diverted buses to help some 25,000 refugees at the New Orleans Convention Center, where officials said people had been waiting longer. The Texas Air National Guard estimated that between 2,000 and 5,000 people remained at the Superdome, a frightening scene of filth, violence and despair. Lt. Kevin Cowan of the state Office
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: MANY Oil Platforms Missing, Years Before Return to Production
Not all of them are. The ones in the North Sea are, but they are tremendously expensive as compared to one that is more light duty. This is like thinking that all vehicles are the same. There is quite a bit of difference between a Volkswagen and a Peterbuilt. - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 9:01 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: MANY Oil Platforms Missing, Years Before Return to Production I think this is disinfo. oil platforms are specifically designed towithstand hurricanes and 100 foot swells.--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Date: September 4, 2005 6:36:27 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]..., [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Subject: Fwd: MANY Oil Platforms Missing, Years Before Return to Production From: Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 3, 2005 11:29:37 PM PDT To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: MANY Oil Platforms Missing, Years Before Return to Production Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. From: "Mark Graffis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MANY Oil Platforms Missing, Years Before Return to Production Date: 1 Sep 2005 http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/8/31/83553/8973#more http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/8/31/83553/8973 Newest (very informative and very scary) report from an anonymous insider: Posted by Prof. Goose in Supply/Production: http:// www.theoildrum.com/?op=searchtopic=oil_supply August 31 at . This is from an oil industry insider I consider quite credible. She was definitely right about everything in her last post. If she's right about this one, we may finally start to get a true picture of what's going on. All below the fold. __ _ There are MANY production platforms missing (as in not visible from the air). This means they have been totally lost. I am talking about 10's of platforms, not single digit numbers. Each platform can have from 4 to 100+ wells on it. Most larger ones have 20-30 wells in this area, with numerous caisson wells. They are on their sides, on the bottom of the gulf - they will likely be left as reef material, provided we can get permission. MMS regulations require us to plug each of the wells that were on these platforms -- HUGE cost now, as the platforms are gone... Hopefully, MMS will grant 'abandon in place' status for these wiped out structures. We also set individual wells as satellites and pipe them back to existing platforms. These stand-alone wells are called caisson wells. 90% of those in the storm path are bent over, rendering them a total loss. We would have to remove the existing bent structure and drill a new well, as bent pipe is basically unusable. We utilize platforms as gathering hubs. We pipe the raw oil/water to them and then send it on for separation, or separate it there and send finished oil on. Damage to a hub means everything going to the hub is offline indefinitely. There are +/- 15 HUBS missing. MISSING!! As in we cannot find them from the air. Thus even if the wells feeding the hub are ok, we have nowhere to pump the oil to... The jackup drilling rigs appear to be in various stages of damage, but most rode the storm out with minimal problems. However, each of them has shifted position. When we jack the rig up, it is carefully positioned directly over the well slot where we are working. The derrick has rails that allow us to slide it in 4 directions to get the derrick directly over the well or slot. If the rig moves (right/left, or from level to uneven), it has to be jacked back down to the waterline and repositioned with tugboats, then jacked back up. After it is back up and level, the derrick is slid on the 2 sets of rails, and bolted into position over the well or slot again. Thus we have to reset each of the drilling rigs, which requires getting OUT of the well, tugboats and a move, then getting back into the well. The open hole we have drilled (what is not enclosed in cemented casing) is likely to be lost, and if the wellhead or the casing is bent, then the well will have to be redrilled. This is an exploration setback of at least a month, but we don't yet know the boat situation. Boats are usually brought into harbor to weather storms. We do not have a boat count yet, but from the initial reports, we may have lost or grounded 30% of the Gulf of Mexico fleet. This means everything will cost more, take longer -- repairs, repositioning, everything. In short, the Gulf area hit by the storm is basically in about the same shape as Biloxi. The damage numbers you have gotten from the government and analysts are, in my opinion, much too low. We are
[cia-drugs] High resolution satellite photo of NOLA taken Aug 31
High resolution satellite photo of NOLA: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/specials/interactives/_national/neworleanssatellite/index.html Pensacola News Journal headlines: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=FLPEJSECTION=HOME 11:28 p.m. EDT New Orleans begins counting its dead States struggling with Katrina refugees * Jefferson Parish President, Aaron Broussard, Meet the Press interview: http://videos.informationclearinghouse.info/JeffersonParrishMTP.wmv If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] NEW ORLEANIANS CALL FOR ACTION- PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
NEW ORLEANIANS CALL FOR ACTION- PLEASE FORWARD WIDELYDisplaced New Orleans Community Demands Action,Accountability andInitiates A People's Hurricane FundNot until the fifth day of the federal government'sinept and inadequate emergency response to the NewOrleans' disaster did George Bush even acknowledge itwas 'unacceptable.' 'Unacceptable' doesn't begin todescribe the depth of the neglect, racism and classismshown to the people of New Orleans. The government'sactions and inactions were criminal. New Orleans, acity whose population is almost 70% percent black, 40%illiterate, and many are poor, was left day after dayto drown, to starve and to die of disease and thirst.The people of New Orleans will not go quietly into thenight, scattering across this country to becomehomeless in countless other cities while federal relieffunds are funneled into rebuilding casinos, hotels,chemical plants and the wealthy white districts of NewOrleans like the French Quarter and the GardenDistrict. We will not stand idly by while this disasteris used as an opportunity to replace our homes withnewly built mansions and condos in a gentrified NewOrleans.Community Labor United (CLU), a coalition of theprogressive organizations throughout New Orleans, hasbrought community members together for eight years todiscuss socio-economic issues. We have beencommunicating with people from The Quality Education asa Civil Right Campaign, the Algebra Project, the YoungPeople's Project and the Louisiana Research Institutefor Community Empowerment. We are preparing a pressrelease and framing document that will be out as adraft later today for comments.Here is what we are calling for:* We are calling for all New Orleanians remaining inthe city to be evacuated immediately.* We are calling for information about where everyevacuee was taken. We are calling for black andprogressive leadership to come together to meet inBaton Rouge to initiate the formation of a CommunityOversight Committee of evacuees from all the sites.This committee will demand to oversee FEMA, the RedCross and other organizations collecting resources onbehalf of our people.* We are calling for volunteers to enter the shelterswhere our people are and to assist parents withhousing, food, water, health care and access to aid.* We are calling for teachers and educators to carveout some time to come to evacuation sites and teach ourchildren.* We are calling for city schools and universities nearevacuation sites to open their doors for our childrento go to school.* We are calling for health care workers and mentalhealth workers to come to evacuation sites tovolunteer.* We are calling for lawyers to investigate thewrongful death of those who died, to protect the landof the displaced, to investigate whether the leviesbroke due to natural and other related matters.* We are calling for evacuees from our community toactively participate in the rebuilding of New Orleans.* We are calling for the addresses of all the relevantlist serves and press contacts to send our information.We are in the process of setting up a central commandpost in Jackson, MS, where we will have phone lines,fax, email and a web page to centralize information.We will need volunteers to staff this office.We have set up a People's Hurricane Fund that will bedirected and administered by New Orleanian evacuees.The Young People's Project, a 501(c)3 organizationformed by graduates of the Algebra Project, has agreedto accept donations on behalf of this fund. Donationscan be mailed to:The People's Hurricane Fund c/o The Young People'sProject 99 Bishop Allen Drive Cambridge, MA 02139If you have comments of how to proceed or need moreinformation, please email them to Curtis Muhammad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Becky Belcore([EMAIL PROTECTED]).Thank you. If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Bush Cut Hurricane, Flood Protection Funding to New Orleans
From: "CLG News" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CLG News" [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Cut Hurricane, Flood Protection Funding to New Orleans Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 21:51:45 -0400 News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government 28 August 2005 http://www.legitgov.org/ http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news Bush Cut Hurricane, Flood Protection Funding to New Orleans 06 June 2005 In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said. I've been here over 30 years and I've never seen this level of reduction, said Al Naomi, project manager for the New Orleans district... The cuts mean major hurricane and flood protection projects will not be awarded to local engineering firms. Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now. [Please forward this news item to every media outlet and listserve.] U.S. oil surges $4 to record above $70 28 Aug 2005 U.S. crude oil futures surged more than $4 in opening trade on Monday, hitting a new record high above $70 a barrel after Hurricane Katrina [US corpora-terrorists] forced Gulf of Mexico producers to shut in more than a third of their output. Address to receive newsletter: http://www.legitgov.org/#subscribe_clg Please write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] for inquiries. lrp/mdr CLG Newsletter editor: Lori Price, General Manager. Copyright © 2005, Citizens For Legitimate Government ® All rights reserved. CLG Founder and Chair is Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D. If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Bush Privatized Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans
http://www.legitgov.org/ Bush Privatized Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans, Southeast Louisiana in 2004 --IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans Southeast Louisiana 03 June 2004 (IEM, Inc. Press Release) "IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November." [James Lee Witt Associates, LLC, established in 2001 by the former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a leader in public safety and crisis management. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in Atlanta, Chicago and Sacramento... nice reward for covering up Bush's 9/11 terrorist attacks, etc..] Experts expect Katrina to turn New Orleans into Atlantis 28 Aug 2005 Experts have warned for years that the levees and pumps that usually keep New Orleans dry have no chance against a direct hit by a Category 5 storm. That's exactly what Hurricane Katrina was as it churned toward the city. With top winds of 165 mph and the power to lift sea level by as much as 28 feet above normal, the storm threatened an environmental disaster of biblical proportions, one that could leave more than 1 million people homeless. "All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario,'' Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon. Get out of the city, go now! 29 Aug 2005 More than two million people were battling to escape from New Orleans last night as the city braced itself for a direct hit by the strongest storm in its history. Hurricane Katrina, a top Category 5 monster on the Saffir-Simpson scale, with sustained winds of 175mph, was set to strike early this morning, threatening catastrophic damage and a devastating storm surge that could leave the city under 20ft (6m) of floodwater. Poor, homeless, frail flock to the safety of Superdome 28 Aug 2005 For thousands of this city's poor, homeless and frail, just getting into the massive Louisiana Superdome and hunkering down was the hardest part. "This is a military process." -MSNBC commentator, on Louisiana Superdome's National Guard and security presence. In Camille's Deadly 1969 Solo, A Grim Prologue to Katrina 29 Aug 2005 The real news was the National Hurricane Center's chilling declaration that, at 902 millibars of internal barometric pressure -- the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico -- Katrina was "comparable in intensity to Hurricane Camille of 1969 . . . only larger." With Few Warning Signs, an Unpredictable Behemoth Grew 29 Aug 2005 Forecasters then watched in wonder as a series of conditions, many of them poorly understood, caused the storm to do what no one wanted: intensify, expand and maintain a terrifying trajectory. The energy, the near-record low pressure in the storm's core and its huge dimensions added up to an inevitable disaster, Mr. Read said. "That's why they're basically forecasting Armageddon when it goes inland," he said. Category 5 Katrina heads to Gulf Coast 28 Aug 2005 Monstrous Hurricane Katrina barreled toward the Big Easy on Sunday with 165-mph wind and a threat of a 28-foot storm surge, forcing a mandatory evacuation, a last-ditch Superdome shelter and prayers for those left to face the doomsday scenario this below-sea-level city has long dreaded. Katrina, a top-strength hurricane, aims for U.S. 28 Aug 2005 ...Hurricane Katrina grew into a Category 5 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale by 7:05 a.m. EDT (1105 GMT), with winds of 160 mph (260 kph) capable of causing catastrophic damage. Katrina swells to Category 5 status on approach to Gulf Coast 28 Aug 2005 Hurricane Katrina strengthened to a dangerous Category 5 on Sunday with 175 mph sustained wind as residents of south Louisiana jammed freeways in a rush to get out of the way of the powerful storm. Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph 28 Aug 2005 The mayor ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revving up to nearly 175 mph and threats of a massive storm surge. "This is a once in a lifetime event," Mayor Ray Nagin said. "The city of New Orleans has never seen a hurricane of this magnitude hit it directly." Katrina could inundate New
[cia-drugs] Zapatistas initiate dialog with other groups in Mexico
August 23, 2005Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,Al Giordano reports today from Chiapas, Mexico on the series of historic encounters between the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) and groups from around Mexico and the world. The meetings are the beginning of the process outlined in the Zapatistas' Sixth Declaration from the Lacandon Jungle and their proposal to create, as Mexico begins another presidential election cycle, "The Other Campaign."Giordano gives a glimpse of what the formation of a new kind of power, "from below," looks like in its early stages, as Mexicans from all walks of life - workers, neighborhood activists, student radicals, peasant organizers, and more, all "of the left" but many having been at odds for years - come together to try to join forces in a meaningful, revolutionary way, for the first time. And as one young participant, from the state of Veracruz, puts it, "There is nobody with the moral authority better to lead this fight than the EZLN."Giordano reports:"Most of the organizations present were formed in the past five years by sectors of Mexican society that have been ravaged by the privatization of government tasks as imposed by the rules of the market. Their demands have been ignored and their people made into outcasts by political parties and institutional organizations and leaders, including those of the Old Left that, according to some of younger folks like Morita, they sounded like. They are at the margins. And it is through the margins and the marginalized - who together in this country and this work make for a majority of minorities - that the Zapatistas have begun to arm a kind of bomb and a corresponding explosion to come. The bomb under construction is, among other qualities, inter-generational. That is one difficult bomb to arm. But - lookey here - it is yet a more difficult one for the powerful to deactivate once it begins ticking."..."All day and for much of the night, the word kept being spoken: The workers from metallurgy factories in the Pacific port of Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán took the microphone and told the history of their organizing as workers, their current strike, and the strong repression against them. They invited the Zapatistas - who've announced that they're coming out so we'd better get the party started - to their factories to visit and speak with the workers. Then came an organization of small business salespersons, inviting the Zapatistas to come to the largest wholesale marketplace in Mexico City, known as La Merced."A jovial, bearded fisherman from Manzanillo, Colima got his turn. 'We are struggling against very rich and important men.' He received an especially roaring applause when he cut his presentation short, allowing others to speak. (Later, Zapatista Subcomandante Marcos, after listening to more than 100 such presentations, mentioned, specifically, the desire of the out-coming Zapatista delegations to join the fishermen on their boats.)"Read the full report here:http://www.narconews.comAnd keep reading Narco News as this story, this history, continues. "Those who look only to the powers from above - to the Commercial Media, to the owning-class, to its politicians and parties," writes Giordano, "will be the last to see that great wave rolling over what they mistakenly thought to be real, static and permanent."From somewhere in a country called América,Dan FederManaging EditorThe Narco News Bulletinhttp://www.narconews.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]Narco News is supported by:The Fund for Authentic JournalismP.O. Box 241Natick, MA 01760http://www.authenticjournalism.orgThe Fund receives online donations at this web page:http://www.authenticjournalism.orgApply for your co-publisher's account, here:http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.phpSubscribe for free alerts of new reports:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsSuscríbete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en español:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandesInscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do último minuto em português brasileiro:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state patent United state army United state flag United state navy flag United states patent office Central intelligence agency
[cia-drugs] black helicopters
caveat lector - This guy Robert Bienenfeld is pretty nutty, but he lives on Long Island and I think he has actually seen the helicopters. Has anyone else seen them there lately? *** Many People have witnessed the black helicopters in the Contintental Long Island/NYC with a mounted gizmo, in front. That Gizmo, is a highly selective neutron detector, which can detect very high moving neutrons from a high radioactive source from either Uranium 235 or Plutonium 239. There is some controversial about a new type of nuclear bomb called a red mercury nuclear bomb repesenting 1/10 the needed mass for critical to supercritical explosion. Many people in the CIA claim the Soviet Union developed this new type of Nuclear Bomb and it is now in small briefcases, and attache' cases. The only problem with the neutron detectors, to which the Feds know, is the proximity to the neutron detector to the source of highly radioactive mass. The proximity has to be within 200 feet, for any subtle detection of the radioactive critical mass and subcritical mass. Long Island/NYC is being sweeped recently with Feds, but its like finding a needle in a haystack.Robert Bienenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Neutron Detectors being Flown over Long Island/NYC area. The Helicopters are now flying neutron detectors fitted to Helicopters, over the Long Island/NYC region. Only thing is its like finding a needle in a haystack as far as finding a nuclear briefcase. Many people observing these black helicopters with flying low and hovering and fitted with the neutron detector in front. The Feds expect something to hit the Contintental Long Island/NYC area very soon. Robert Bienenfeld If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Journalists Stop Investigating Organized Crime
http://mediachannel.org/blog/node/717 Journalists Stop Investigating Organized Crime Submitted by editor on August 22, 2005 - 1:58pm. By Susana HaywardSource: Philadelphia Inquirer NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - A drug war is ripping apart northern Mexico, but you won't find many details about who's behind it in the local newspapers. Journalists - after their colleagues have been killed, kidnapped, and threatened with death - have stopped investigating organized crime. "It's the new trend of drug gangs: Journalists are warned, paid off or killed," said Daniel Rosas, the managing editor of the daily El Mañana, the oldest newspaper in this border city south of Laredo, Texas. "Drug battles have become bloodier, and gangs have no code of ethics. They don't respect human life; why should they respect reporters?" El Mañana, founded in 1932 after the Mexican revolution with a motto to promote freedom of _expression_, has been self-censoring itself since its editor, Roberto Javier Mora García, was stabbed to death on March 19, 2004. Earlier this year, a former El Mañana reporter, Dolores Guadalupe García Escamilla, died after being shot outside her home. She'd gone to work for a radio station and had named some officials as involved in the drug trade before she was killed. El Mañana, whose walls are covered with images of past front pages, now reports only official news, its editors said. Other major newspapers along the northern frontier followed suit after their reporters were killed, kidnapped or threatened. They said corruption, impunity, and lack of police support made it almost impossible for journalists to research rampant violence accurately. That means they don't follow up on the 173 people who've disappeared since last fall throughout the state of Tamaulipas, deemed by journalism organizations the most dangerous place for reporters to work in Mexico. Twenty-three others missing are Americans from Texas. There have been at least 108 murders since January. "We still inform the community of what's happening but are more careful of what we say. It's a painful decision. We are hostages to self-censorship, and it's worse than censorship," said El Mañana's publisher, Ramón Cantú Deandar. Cantú, 39, has grown cynical about covering organized crime in this city of nearly half a million people. "What's the point of investigating? We can't win. Drug mafias have billions and billions of dollars. They own this city: They buy police, government officials, investigators, you name it," he said. "It's better to write a crime novel." The only newspaper that's still digging into the drug underworld is the Tijuana weekly Zeta, whose owner, Jesus Blancornelas, is something of a legend in Mexico and travels with bodyguards and bulletproof cars. Zeta's editor, Francisco Javier Ortíz Franco, was killed June 22, 2004, after the paper published the names and photos of people it said were members of the Tijuana drug-trafficking cartel. Blancornelas said he understood the reticence of his fellow journalists. "They are unprotected, without security," he said. "You can't blame them." According to Mexico's nongovernmental National Center for Social Communication, the country ranks first in Latin America in reports of attacks on journalists, surpassing Colombia. Journalism organizations are calling for an independent prosecutor to investigate crimes against reporters here. In the last 18 months, six journalists have been killed along the border: four in 2004 and two in 2005. Two other journalists have been killed elsewhere in Mexico. Their editors regarded the six as hard-core investigators of the prolific violence that has erupted since 2003, when the leader of the Gulf Cartel, Osiel Cárdenas, was jailed, sparking a battle for control of Nuevo Laredo, the largest land port to the United States and the crucial crossing point to Interstate 35, which runs north across the United States to Canada. "We're completely alone in this business. We don't trust any state or federal authorities, and crime keeps on growing. It's more visible, and there's seldom any punishment," said Jorge Morales, the editor of El Imparcial, in the Sonora state capital of Hermosillo, south of Arizona. The company also owns two papers in Baja California. Morales dismantled El Imparcial's investigative team after one of its crime reporters, José Alfredo Jiménez Mota, disappeared April 2 after telling colleagues he had to meet a source he was afraid of. In the newsroom of El Mañana, a memorial to Mora was taken down long ago. Cantú said it was simply too sad for the staff to be reminded every day of what had happened. Police now guard the entrances to the paper's two-story headquarters, though there are few other signs of stepped-up security. It wasn't till early this month that a new editor took Mora's place. "I have to live up to Mora's reputation as a moral, ethical and probing journalist," said
[cia-drugs] Iraqi women betrayed - will lose rights enjoyed under Saddam now
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1550651,00.html Chewing on meaningless words The battle over the constitution is regarded by most Iraqi women, confined to their homes by the occupation, as an irrelevance Haifa ZanganaWednesday August 17, 2005The Guardian A prominent group of Iraqi women who backed the US-British invasion recently met the American ambassador in an effort to pressure the politicians drawing up Iraq's constitution not to limit women's rights. Western feminist groups and some Iraqi women activists fear that Islamic law, if enshrined as a main source of legislation, will be used to restrict their rights, particularly in relation to marriage, divorce and inheritance. The US claims to share this concern. Iraqi women generally do not. To understand why, perhaps we need to remember that this constitution is being written in a war zone, in a country on the verge of a civil war. This process is designed not to represent the Iraqi people's need for a constitution but to comply with an imposed timetable aimed at legitimising the occupation. The drafting process has increasingly proved a dividing, rather than a unifying, process. Under Saddam Hussein, we had a constitution described as "progressive and secular". It did not stop him violating human rights, women's included. The same is happening now. The militias of the parties heading the interim government are involved in daily violations of Iraqis' human rights, women's in particular, with the US-led occupation's blessing. Will the new constitution put an end to this violence? Most Iraqi women try to cope sensitively with the predicament of dealing with the occupation and the rise of reactionary practices affecting their rights and way of life. This applies across the political and class spectrum, to the secular left as much as to moderate Islamists and nationalists. Most also feel that the constitution is not their priority, and that those writing such a crucial document should be able to think clearly, to think of tomorrow. To do that one must be free of today's fears and able to enjoy basic human rights, such as walking safely in the streets. Iraqi women cannot. Despite all the rhetoric of "building a new democracy", Iraqis are buckling under the burdens and abuse of the US-led occupation and its local Iraqi sub-contractors. Daily life for most Iraqis is still a struggle for survival. Human rights under occupation have proved, like weapons of mass destruction, to be a mirage. Torture and ill-treatment - even the torture of children in adult facilities - is widespread. Depleted uranium and other banned weapons have been used against Iraqi cities by occupying troops. Iraqi women were long the most liberated in the Middle East. Occupation has largely confined them to their homes. A typical Iraqi woman's day begins with the struggle to get the basics: electricity, petrol or a cylinder of gas, water, food and medication. It ends with a sigh of relief at surviving death threats and violent attacks. For most women, simply to venture on to the street is to risk being attacked or kidnapped for profit or revenge. Young girls are sold to neighbouring countries for prostitution. In a land awash with oil, 16 million Iraqis rely on monthly food rations for survival. None has been received since May. Privatisation threatens free public services. Acute malnutrition among children has doubled. Unemployment, at 70%, has fuelled poverty, prostitution, backstreet abortions and honour killings. Corruption and nepotism are rampant in the interim government. Gender is no obstacle: Layla Abdul-Latif, the minister of transport in Ayad Allawi's administration, is under investigation for corruption. A quota system imposed by Paul Bremer, the former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, ensures women's participation in the interim government, the national assembly and the committee appointed to write the constitution. Iraqi women's historical struggle against colonial domination, and for national unity, social justice and legal equality, has been reduced to bickering among a handful of "women leaders" over nominal political posts. Powerless, holed up in guarded areas, venturing out in daylight only with armed escorts, and lacking any credibility among Iraqi women, the failure of these "leaders" is catastrophic. Like their male colleagues, they have adopted a selective, largely US-oriented approach to human rights. The suffering of their sisters in cities showered with napalm, phosphorus and cluster bombs by US jets, the death of an estimated 100,000 Iraqis (half of them women and children), is met with rhetoric about training women for leadership and democracy. Documents released in March by the American Civil Liberties Union highlight more than a dozen cases of rape and abuse of female detainees, and reveal that no action was taken against any soldier or civilian official as
Re: [cia-drugs] Secular Pen-Pals vs. Pen-Pal ministry
Are Buddhists allowed to join this? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:52 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] Secular Pen-Pals vs. Pen-Pal ministry Dear Saints! After our first publication How To Do a Pen-Pal Ministry I received many letters. As we have announced, we will go through the entire article together, paragraph-by-paragraph, discussing it, giving feedback and bringing samples from our experience to prove the point. But first we have to clarify one issue. Much of first-wave mail came criticizing Church-based approach to Pen-Pal ministry. I deeply respect all opinions, as they have come from concerned people who took their time to share a thought. I really appreciate all the mail. I think we have a mixture of opinions coming from two perspectives. (There are values in both!) Let's have a subject for our discussion in the upcoming week - What is the difference between Secular Pen-Pal letter-writing and Pen-Pal Ministry? All opinions, even controversial ones, will be published! It will be conducted here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pen-Pal a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pen-Pal; (AOL) Agape! Elena, Moderator http://PrisonMinistry.net/ng Suggested Prison Ministry newsgroups: http://www.prison-ministries.com a href=http://www.prison-ministries.com; (AOL) PS. If you are reading this message and not a part of Pen-Pal Ministry group (maybe you simply have a loved one in chains!), listen to your heart - it might be God, Who is calling you to contribute to this conversation and be heard! You are much welcomed to join us! You can subscribe by going to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pen-Pal a href=http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pen-Pal; (AOL) or send blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I pray to our Lord Jesus right now, as I type this message: Father, make this discussion available to a broad audience, bring new people, let us be guided, sharpened as Your tools as we learn from You, through mail from participants, how to do a Pen-Pal ministry - not our humanistic way, but Your way! Show us how to reveal Your Good News of Salvation, Your forgiveness and mercy to lonely astonished hearts in remote forgotten cells! Give us knowledge how to speak in Love to someone who did a horrible crime, as well as to an innocent, who is behind a barbed wire fence by mistake or circumstances. Teach us how to be helpful as You bring back home inmates not as criminals who have served time, but as new creatures in Christ, as new law-abiding citizens of this society and saints of Your Kingdom! Amen! Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- font face=arial size=-1a href=http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hgcqibm/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705372463:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124179499/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!/a./font ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Border emergency declared in New Mexico
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/12/newmexico/index.html Border emergency declared in New MexicoGovernor says area 'devastated' by human and drug smuggling Saturday, August 13, 2005; Posted: 1:39 p.m. EDT (17:39 GMT) (CNN) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency Friday in four counties along the Mexican border that he said have been "devastated" by crimes such as the smuggling of drugs and illegal immigrants. The declaration said the region "has been devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, destruction of property and the death of livestock. ... "[It] is in an extreme state of disrepair and is inadequately funded or safeguarded to protect the lives and property of New Mexican citizens." New Mexico shares 180 miles of border with the Mexican state of Chihuahua. "The situation is out of hand," Richardson said Friday night on CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," noting that one 54-mile stretch is particularly bad. The Mexican government issued a statement in which it acknowledged the problems along the border, but said it continues to make consistent efforts to target them along with U.S. authorities. It said some of Richardson's views stem from "generalizations that do not correspond to the spirit of cooperation and understanding that are required for dealing with problems of common concern along the border." Richardson's declaration makes $750,000 in state emergency funds available to Dona Ana, Luna, Grant and Hidalgo counties. Richardson pledged an additional $1 million in assistance for the area, his office said in a news release. He said on CNN that the funds will be used to hire additional law enforcement personnel and pay officers overtime. In announcing the state of emergency, Richardson -- a Democrat who served in President Clinton's Cabinet -- criticized the "total inaction and lack of resources from the federal government and Congress" in helping protect his state's residents along the border. "There's very little response from the Border Patrol," he said on CNN. "They're doing a good job, but they don't have the resources." The governor announced the move after a helicopter and ground tour of the border near Columbus, New Mexico, the statement said. He said on CNN that he "saw the trails where these illegal routes take place" as well as fenced areas along the border where the fence is "literally nonexistent." According to Richardson's statement announcing the declaration, "Recent developments have convinced me this action is necessary -- including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling, and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants." He called on Mexico to "bulldoze the abandoned town of Las Chepas, which is directly over the border from Columbus." The statement went on to say that "Las Chepas is a notorious staging and resting area for those who smuggle drugs and immigrants into the United States." Some of the pledged funds will be used to create a field office for the New Mexico Office of Homeland Security to focus specifically on the border. There will also be new efforts to protect livestock in the area near Columbus, "along a favorite path for illegal immigration where a number of livestock have been stolen and killed," the statement said. Richardson said he wanted residents of the four counties "to know my administration is doing everything it can to protect them." Alejandro Cano, secretary of industrial development for the Mexican state of Chihuahua -- which borders New Mexico -- pledged to support Richardson's efforts, the statement said. Richardson told CNN he met with Mexican governors several weeks ago on border security. "My people on my side asked me to take this step, and I've done so reluctantly," Richardson told CNN. "As governor, I have to protect the people I represent." He noted he is the nation's only Hispanic governor, and "we're a state that's been very good to legal migrants. ... This action, I believe, had to be taken." The Mexican Foreign Ministry sent Richardson a letter Friday saying it has requested that Mexican consuls in Albuquerque and El Paso, Texas, meet "as soon as possible" with New Mexico officials "to promote pertinent action by the authorities of both countries in the framework of existing institutional mechanisms." If you or someone you knowdrinks diet soda check out the Aspartame Victims Support Group athttp://presidiotex.com/aspartameREADING LIST:http://aspartametruth.com/books/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE
It may be that this is a honey bucket operation. Here is what another person posted on the same board: ** Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: VERY IMPORTANT!!! The person Tom Flocco cites in his post "Thomas Heneghan" works with a KNOWN FBI COINTELPRO FRAUD named Stew Webb. Webb yields partial truths on Bush mixed with LIES! He has attacked good patriots, Ted Gunderson and others as part of a government SMOKESCREEN agenda. He and Heneghan ran a bogus campaign for pres. Webb and a CIA perp. named Barbara Hartwell LIED in April 2003 when they SAID they filed a court case against Bush. THEY LIED! There was NO case filed yet they solicited MONEY for it! They then said they filed one against Bush in July 2003. This information appears as one poster said to prop up people's hopes only to dash them later and DISCREDITED ALL material against Bush as has been done in the past. I have more extensive documentation on Webb for those interested. Email me at: hitech1@ bluemarble.net [IN THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS, WE WENT TO STEWWEBB.COM SEEKING A RESPONSE FROM WEBB ABOUT GUNDERSON AND THIS IS THE INCREDIBLE INFO WE FOUND ON WEBB'S TED GUNDERSON PAGE: Stew Webb's "Ted Gunderson Page"Ed] Heneghan HAS LIED Webb's LIES on the radio so he's NOT a 'credible' source. He's what's called 'RAT POISON' giving partial truth so you'll swallow the LIES! THIS IS BIG FOLKS! This is DESIGNED to discredit more dirt on Bush. Larry Lawson * - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: Flocco is walking around his neighborhood with a "kick me" sign taped to his back. I'll bet he doesn't swallow all of Heneghen's bullshit so readily next time. Flocco, unfortunately, has ruined himself as far as being an alternative news source. VMANN: not really. to me, he's just building a reputation for 'running' with the story. like when he ran that story about katheryn harris's plane crashing. all journalists have to make corrections. flocco puts out plenty of good info. vigilius haufniensis Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE
Skolnick confirms the story: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=76042 - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE It may be that this is a honey bucket operation. Here is what another person posted on the same board: ** Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: VERY IMPORTANT!!! The person Tom Flocco cites in his post "Thomas Heneghan" works with a KNOWN FBI COINTELPRO FRAUD named Stew Webb. Webb yields partial truths on Bush mixed with LIES! He has attacked good patriots, Ted Gunderson and others as part of a government SMOKESCREEN agenda. He and Heneghan ran a bogus campaign for pres. Webb and a CIA perp. named Barbara Hartwell LIED in April 2003 when they SAID they filed a court case against Bush. THEY LIED! There was NO case filed yet they solicited MONEY for it! They then said they filed one against Bush in July 2003. This information appears as one poster said to prop up people's hopes only to dash them later and DISCREDITED ALL material against Bush as has been done in the past. I have more extensive documentation on Webb for those interested. Email me at: hitech1@ bluemarble.net [IN THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS, WE WENT TO STEWWEBB.COM SEEKING A RESPONSE FROM WEBB ABOUT GUNDERSON AND THIS IS THE INCREDIBLE INFO WE FOUND ON WEBB'S TED GUNDERSON PAGE: Stew Webb's "Ted Gunderson Page"Ed] Heneghan HAS LIED Webb's LIES on the radio so he's NOT a 'credible' source. He's what's called 'RAT POISON' giving partial truth so you'll swallow the LIES! THIS IS BIG FOLKS! This is DESIGNED to discredit more dirt on Bush. Larry Lawson * - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]... wrote: Flocco is walking around his neighborhood with a "kick me" sign taped to his back. I'll bet he doesn't swallow all of Heneghen's bullshit so readily next time. Flocco, unfortunately, has ruined himself as far as being an alternative news source. VMANN: not really. to me, he's just building a reputation for 'running' with the story. like when he ran that story about katheryn harris's plane crashing. all journalists have to make corrections. flocco puts out plenty of good info. vigilius haufniensis Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] Nice comment by a poster to Flocco's website re: INDICTMENTS
More from http://citizenspook.blogspot.com : "Assuming for the moment, that the quote is accurate, the words must be examined carefully in the context of grand jury linguistics and rules of procedure because they tell us that the US Attorney does not "issue" indictments. So when Randy Sanborn's office issued official statement to me this morning, "on the record", which said, "This office has not issued any indictments," the US Attorney was telling the truth, and was no in violation of the Federal secrecy law. As you will see, the statement in no way denies Tom Flocco's report that the "grand jury" has issued indictments. " - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:39 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] Nice comment by a poster to Flocco's website re: INDICTMENTS Earlier today, the Prosecutor's office was called a monumental amount of times and the spokesman for the Chicago Attorney issued "No Comment" as the official response. However, later that afternoon someone was able to reach in and directly interview the Spokeswoman for Legal director Dirsken. The conversation below I am specifically interested in, CS: "I know, but there's reports coming out on the internet that this office has denied issuing the indictments and I'm trying to clear the record." Duty paralegal: "You need to speak to Randy Sanborn's office. He's in charge of press relations. Just call the switchboard back and they will transfer you." I have the duty paralegal's name, but he asked for it not to be used. I called the main number again at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse and asked for Randy Sanborn's office. I was transferred to his office and a woman picked up: CS: "May I speak to Mr. Sanborn?" Female assistant: "What is this about." CS: "I'm calling to verify the story about Patirck Fitzgerald's grand jury returning indictments agsinst the White House." Female assistant: "That story did not originate from this office." CS: "But people are spreading comments from your office." Female assistant: "We have no comment." CS: "But there are reports that your office denied executing the indictments." Female assistant: "No indictments have been issued from this office." http://citizenspook.blogspot.com Mr. Flocco, I want to ascertain specifically what these comments mean in relationship that the indictments issued by the Grand Jury, in specific the legal terms that the prosecutor is not allowed to comment on indictments. In this instance, I would like a direct answer from you, does the way Mr. Sanborn's legal office respond indicate that the Grand Jury has in fact issued the indictments? And if this is the case, is the reason they say the indictments were not issued from this office, because only the Grand Jury finished issuing the indictments? Is it clear then sir, that Mr. Sanborn's office is abiding by the legal law clause of the Attorney Justice Department rules of the bar but also alluding to the fact that there have been indictments already issued, and the Grand Jury is handling the convictions? If all answers point to yes, then does this mean that the Vice President can and has in fact been indicted, even though he still holds office, and did not testify under oath, but rather testifed before Congress instead on numerous other breaches of the oath of office. And if so, can the Vice President legally be indicted along with his trustees? I request a direct response. Doug Eldritch[/b] Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state patent United state army United state flag United state navy flag United states patent office Central intelligence agency YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [Educate-Yourself_Forum] Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE
Ruppert dismisses it as a distraction: " There is also desperation in the bogus stories we're seeing because even the slightest attempt at verification leads to instant discredit (e.g., Bush-Cheney secretly indicted; ." - Original Message - From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:49 AM Subject: [Educate-Yourself_Forum] Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE Skolnick confirms the story:http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?noframes;read=76042 - Original Message ----- From: E Bryant Holman To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:45 AM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE It may be that this is a honey bucket operation. Here is what another person posted on the same board: ** Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:32 am Post subject: VERY IMPORTANT!!! The person Tom Flocco cites in his post "Thomas Heneghan" works with a KNOWN FBI COINTELPRO FRAUD named Stew Webb. Webb yields partial truths on Bush mixed with LIES! He has attacked good patriots, Ted Gunderson and others as part of a government SMOKESCREEN agenda. He and Heneghan ran a bogus campaign for pres. Webb and a CIA perp. named Barbara Hartwell LIED in April 2003 when they SAID they filed a court case against Bush. THEY LIED! There was NO case filed yet they solicited MONEY for it! They then said they filed one against Bush in July 2003. This information appears as one poster said to prop up people's hopes only to dash them later and DISCREDITED ALL material against Bush as has been done in the past. I have more extensive documentation on Webb for those interested. Email me at: hitech1@ bluemarble.net [IN THE INTEREST OF FAIRNESS, WE WENT TO STEWWEBB.COM SEEKING A RESPONSE FROM WEBB ABOUT GUNDERSON AND THIS IS THE INCREDIBLE INFO WE FOUND ON WEBB'S TED GUNDERSON PAGE: Stew Webb's "Ted Gunderson Page"Ed] Heneghan HAS LIED Webb's LIES on the radio so he's NOT a 'credible' source. He's what's called 'RAT POISON' giving partial truth so you'll swallow the LIES! THIS IS BIG FOLKS! This is DESIGNED to discredit more dirt on Bush. Larry Lawson * - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 2:29 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: FLOCCO OFFLINE --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flocco is walking around his neighborhood with a "kick me" sign taped to his back. I'll bet he doesn't swallow all of Heneghen's bullshit so readily next time. Flocco, unfortunately, has ruined himself as far as being an alternative news source. VMANN: not really. to me, he's just building a reputation for 'running' with the story. like when he ran that story about katheryn harris's plane crashing. all journalists have to make corrections. flocco puts out plenty of good info. vigilius haufniensis Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS a.. Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] FLOCCO OFFLINE
it is down - Original Message - From: Vigilius Haufniensis To: new patriots Cc: cia drugs ; a political debate ; global humanity ; rm counsel ; evolving thought ; cia tradecraft ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:47 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] FLOCCO OFFLINE http://www.tomflocco.com/ does tom flocco's site come up for anyone? vigilius haufniensis Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [cia-drugs] Tom Heneghen report on July 17
No he can't. Why didn't Clinton just fire Starr? No one can fire a special
prosecutor. He was hired just for that reason.
- Original Message -
From:
james Karl
To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 11:36
AM
Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Tom Heneghen
report on July 17
Bullshit. Bush as President can fire any US
Attorney.Linda Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This show aired before the disclosure about the actual
indictments reported by Flocco.===http://www.total911.info/2005/07/tenet-under-investigation-for-pre-911.htmlTom
Heneghen reports to Cloak Dagger
Internet Radio (late of 50,000-watt blowtorch CFMJ-AM) that a trusted
"source close to the Fitzgerald investigation" says the independent
prosecutor is looking into former CIA Director George Tenet's role in
pre-9/11 put options placed on American Airlines.Previous editions
of Cloak Dagger reported that the special prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald has taken his investigation beyond who named Valerie Plame as a
CIA agent into who frauded up claims that Saddam Hussien was seeking
yellowcake uranium and, ultimately, the 9/11 scam. CD
correspondent Tom Heneghen reported on the July 17
show that Fitzgerald is looking into insider trading on airline stocks
before 9/11. Heneghen reports that over the three trading days before 9/11
on the Chicago Board of Options 4,516 put options (bets the price would
tank) were placed on American Airlines stock vs only 748 call options (bets
the price would go up).According to CD, Fitzgerald is
investigating Tenet's role in connection to Buzzy Krongard, a former No. 3
at the CIA, and that man's relation to the 2,157 airline options placed
through Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, located on 22 floors of the
WTC.Texas money laundering operation
involving HuntsPhilippinesV.K. Durham trustBeverly Enterprises
and Stephens, Inc.--45 nursing home associates--Mena, Ark.bogus gold
cert.Brady Bond fraudWachovia Bankassassinations--William
Doonesbury and ?offshoot of Muslim Brotherhoodfinancial and
operational terrorist fraudleaker to Judith MillerBolton cables and
intercepts with Uzbekistanhedge fund in London involving two "suicides"
in NYJames Warren at Chicago Trib is obstructing justiceChicago
MercantileRoger Morris, NSC--Air Force One signal of Bush and Cheney
talking about Valerie PlameLeo Wanta letter to Dick Cheney about
Philippine money --linked to Wachovia BankMarc RichRussian
MafiyaArrest of "E.P" in London, money laundered through DenmarkIf
Bush fires Patrick Fitzgerald, it will set P.F. free to
talk.white-skinned Moslems in TexasArrests in London are the same as
what went on in NY after 9/11 to shut up people who knew too muchSubway
bombs were underneath the trains and could not have been planted by the
youths they arrested.Private company, mock drill, piggy-backed with
actual bombing.P-2 and Calipari, who was assassinated in
Iraq.Niger's embassy broken into and papers stolenBush is desperate
to fire Fitz., but can't. Indictments will open up the whole money
laundering network.Throughout the tape, there has been no mention of any
sources for the information--where any leaks are coming from other than
documents submitted by Tom Heneghen.===http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/dissent/documents/health/beverly_arkansas.html
A Rose Law Firm Deal, RevisitedThe Wall
Street Journal PAGE A20 - - - 03/15/1994Jonathan Roos(Copyright (c)
1994, Dow Jones Co., Inc.)
The following is reprinted with permission from the
Des Moines Register of June 13, 1993. A related editorial appears nearby
{see related editorial: "Review Outlook (Editorial): Who Was Webster
Hubbell? -- I" -- WSJ March 15, 1994}.
When Hillary Rodham Clinton complained in a recent
speech about profiteering in the health care industry, she could have found
a ready example in the role one of her former Arkansas law partners played
in an Iowa nursing-homes deal that made millions for the deal
makers.
William H. Kennedy III, a partner in the Rose Law Firm
of Little Rock and now associate counsel to President Clinton, shepherded
the deal for Beverly Enterprises, a giant nursing-home company that paired
up with a Texas banker to sell its Iowa and Arkansas nursing
homes.
Forty-one Iowa homes were acquired four years ago by a
nonprofit corporation, now known as Care Initiatives, that was
effectively controlled by the banker, Bruce Whitehead. The deal was
financed by $86 million in tax-exempt revenue bonds.
Whitehead and the bond underwriters took up-front
profits exceeding $15 million.
Beverly, which needed cash to reduce its crippling
debt, made about $10 million.
Re: [cia-drugs] OT? Four blasts shake London in chilling replay - New York to start random searches
To prevent this, log onto my site and read to your heart's content. Wait a minute! You are saying that by reading stuff on your website to our heart's content we are going to prevent the NWO from attaining its goals? That sort of assertion in itself would seem to be reason to take whatever is written there with a grain of salt... - Original Message - From: Arlene Johnson To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:07 AM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] OT? Four blasts shake London in chilling replay - New York to start random searches Right on Madd Maxx. They're doing this to rattle the people sothey can impliment more NWO goals.To prevent this, log onto my site and read to your heart's content.In peace and solidarity,Arlene Johnson Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state patent United state army United state flag United state navy flag United states patent office Central intelligence agency YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] McKinney blasts Homeland Security over Narconews case
July 5, 2005Please Distribute WidelyU.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney blasts Johnny Sutton in letter to Attorney General and Homeland Security Czar:June 29, 2005The Honorable Michael Chertoff, SecretaryU.S. Department of Homeland SecurityWashington, D.C. 20528Attorney General Alberto R. GonzalesU.S. Department of Justice950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20530-0001Dear Secretary Chertoff and General Gonzales:Recent behavior by agents of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division - acting in the jurisdiction of U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton - constituted a violation of the U.S. Constitutional right of a free press.I write you to plead that you put a stop to this kind of outrageous activity in each of your departments and to take measures to prevent such actions from occurring in the future.On May 24, 2005, Agents Carlos Salazar and Steve White of ICE's Office of Professional Responsibility unit visited the San Antonio, Texas, workplace of journalist Bill Conroy in a very unprofessional attempt to intimidate Mr. Conroy into revealing sources of non-classified information and documents embarrassing to the Department and to the U.S. Attorney's office for the San Antonio, Texas, region. Agent Salazar, with another agent, additionally went to the home of Mr. Conroy and behaved in an intimidating manner toward the journalist's wife and children.More troubling, still, is that the agents attempted to intimidate his employer at a business newspaper that had nothing to do with Mr. Conroy's reports for the Internet newspaper Narco News.I attach, for your information, printouts of reports from the San Antonio Current and Narco News about those incidents: "Unwelcome Guests," by Lisa Sorg (San Antonio Current, June 9), and "Customs Cops Visit Journalist Bill Conroy in an Attack on Press Freedom," by Al Giordano (Narco News, May 24). Also included in the attachment are additional news stories on the incidents published by the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and a June 3 letter from the Federal Hispanic Law Enforcement Officers Association to Secretary Chertoff protesting these activities.In particular, General Gonzales, I address this letter to you because many eyebrows have been raised here in Congress by the confluence of facts that demonstrate that Mr. Conroy, as a journalist, has reported a series of stories involving the "House of Death" case in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in which an undercover informant in the process of seeking to make a drug case for U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton's office, allegedly committed numerous homicides while under the protection of that office.Since it is well known throughout Washington that federal agents do not, as a rule, visit journalists in attempts to discover sources without authorization from the U.S. Attorney with jurisdiction, the behavior of the agents is seen as an attempt by U.S. Attorney Sutton to intimidate a journalist who has reported facts that are embarrassing to him.According to Mr. Conroy's publisher at the San Antonio Business Journal, agents Salazar and White told him that a document published by Mr. Conroy on Narco News, embarrassing to the Department of Homeland Security, was not classified but that the agents were seeking to find out the identity of the source out of a purely speculative fear that Mr. Conroy's source "might leak classified documents in the future."This kind of speculative fishing expedition on the part of federal agents would be troubling under most circumstances. When it involves a transparent attempt to pressure an employer to fire his reporter for what the journalist reported for any publication (much more for a distinct publication) the threat to the First Amendment, which I know that both of you gentlemen have sworn to uphold, is clear, and it makes a mockery of the important work that both of your offices are doing in law enforcement.The Internet publication for which Mr. Conroy reports, The Narco News Bulletin (www.narconews.com) is one of the most widely respected international news sources reporting on U.S. policy on the Mexican border and throughout Latin America. In December 2001, the New York Supreme Court ruled that: "Narco News, its website, and the writers who post information, are entitled to all the First Amendment protections accorded a newspaper-magazine or journalist."Thus, if U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton or the ICE agents were under a misimpression that Internet journalists do not enjoy the same First Amendment protections as commercial newspapers, I hope you will educate them to this new reality under law.Thank you for your attention to this matter of deep concern.Sincerely,Cynthia McKinneyU.S. Representative, Fourth District GeorgiaCC: Michael J. GarciaAssistant SecretaryU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement425 I St.,
