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[CTRL] Fwd: Rumsfeld's Number Two: OUR God, Jesus, Will Kick YOUR God's Ass

2006-11-16 Thread Kris Millegan

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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2006/11/the_coming_purge_at_defense_in.html

 William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security 
 The Coming Purge at Defense Intelligence 
 Appointed Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Warfighting 
Support on July 23, 2003, Lt. Gen. William G. (Jerry) Boykin has surely got 
to be the longest serving military officer in any posting anywhere.
 Boykin's three and a half years on the job as putative number 2 man to Under 
Secretary Stephen A. Cambone is highly unusual for a military that moves 
general officers from assignment to assignment every 18 months or less. 
 But ever since Boykin was outed as a fundamentalist Christian by yours truly 
in the Los Angeles Times in October, 2003, he has been stuck in his current 
job, unpromotable and unmovable.
 Now there is speculation that with Boykin's protector leaving the Pentagon, 
the new Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates will clean house, focusing on 
defense intelligence and the Rumsfeldian encroachment into the territory of the 
civilian agencies.
 Boykin should go, but I'm not so sure that the conventional wisdom on military 
intelligence is on the mark. 
 In October, 2003, I wrote an article in the Los Angeles Times and worked with 
NBC News to expose what I thought were the extremist views of Boykin, who had 
recently been promoted and assigned to the Pentagon as the man in charge of 
intelligence and warfighting policy with regard to the war against terrorism. 
 In a variety of speeches at evangelical churches around America, Boykin, often 
wearing his military uniform, opined that Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, 
Somali warlords, even Kim Jung Il of North Korea hated America because it was a 
Christian nation, a nation of believers.
 This spiritual enemy, Boykin said in one talk, will only be defeated if we 
come against them in the name of Jesus.
 Boykin praised the leadership of President George W. Bush, saying that God 
appointed Bush as president for such a time as this.
 George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United 
States, Boykin said. He was appointed by God.
  It was Boykin's view, though, that his belief in Christianity had trumped 
Muslims in battle that became the focus of the international media. Describing 
his experience in Somalia, Boykin said that he knew that my god was a real 
god and that the god of his Islamic opponents was an idol. The general's 
personal beliefs seemed to form a world view that undermined and contradicted 
the arguments of the administration that it was not engaged in a clash of 
civilizations, that it was indeed not fighting Islam at all. 
 On Oct. 17, after the Los Angeles Times and NBC revelations, the Pentagon 
issued a statement in which Boykin said he was not anti-Islam and apologized 
to those who have been offended.  
 The chairman and minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. 
John W. Warner of Virginia and Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, wrote to Rumsfeld 
that public statements by a senior military official of an inflammatory, 
offensive nature that would denigrate another religion and which could be 
construed as bigotry may easily be exploited by enemies of the United States. 
 Boykin was defended for his personal beliefs, and though the administration, 
including Rumsfeld, were blindsided with the news of his many church 
appearances, characteristically the pugnacious defense secretary decided not to 
yield to public opinion, and a subsequent Inspector General report as to 
whether Boykin had violated any regulations or laws delivered a scant slap on 
the wrist. 
 In Washington, the Boykin scandal went away, but out there in the world, 
Boykin continues to symbolize the war against Islam that the propagandists of 
the other extreme claim the United States is waging. 
 Jerry Boykin continued on as the top defense policy-maker in charge of the 
global war on terrorism, specifically the hunt for high value targets. Yet 
despite the fact that the Pentagon defended Boykin's right to preach and hold 
whatever personals views he wanted, Boykin also went silent. Since 2003, Boykin 
has appeared very seldom in public, has given few speeches and has granted 
fewer interviews. He has become invisible. 
 Now General Boykin will likely become the public face of any purge, and if and 
when he leaves, the act will be seen as reigning in defense intelligence. 
 When Boykin leaves though, if he leaves, it should just be seen as the end of 
an assignment for a Rumsfeld guy and not the end of some era of defense 
intelligence.Bob Gates no doubt will want to have his own people and set 
his own agenda, but much of the criticism of what the

[CTRL] Fwd: Victory of the Bland

2006-11-16 Thread Kris Millegan

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  To Hell with Centrism:  We Must Reclaim the Edge   by Phil Rockstroh  
November 15, 2006  http://www.opednews.com
 During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary 
act. 
 --George Orwell

 I don't want to be part of your revolution if I can't dance.
 --Emma Goldman

 Rumsfeld is gone. Mehlman is gone. Delay is gone. Yet -- let's not have our 
progressives' version of a strutting on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier 
moment. Because mission has not been accomplished. 

 For those who haven't noticed: While we were busy with other concerns, many of 
our rights and liberties went missing. Moreover, along with them, have went or 
are going fast: our planet's polar ice caps; accountability of the corporate 
sector (our nation's true power brokers); as well as, a sense of place, 
history, and even a cursory understanding, among a large percent of the 
populace of the US, of the precepts of civilization and of democratic 
discourse. 

 These circumstances, like the melting of the polar ice caps, have transpired, 
incrementally, and have been going on for longer than that Reign of Terror in 
Tiny Town known as the Bush presidency. For example, regarding the increasingly 
authoritarian terrain we negotiate our way through daily: In American work 
places, bosses routinely snoop into underlings' personal e-mails and monitor 
our web-surfing practices. How did it come about that so many Americans have 
grown to accept such demeaning intrusions into our privacy?

 In such a repressive societal milieu, there is no need to threaten would-be 
dissidents with old school totalitarian measures such as forced deportment to 
Siberian labor camps. Threats, overt and covert, to one's economic security and 
social standing serve to dissuade most of us from political and social dissent. 
In the class stratified structure of the US work force, where the personal 
consequences borne of financial upheaval are swift, punitive and severe, the 
implicit threat of being deported to America's urban gulag archipelago of 
homelessness renders most of us compliant to the exploitive dictates of 
corporate oligarchy.

 Where did this all begin? How did it all get away from us? Furthermore -- why 
do we stand for it -- when these practices are antithetical to everything we 
claim to believe in as a nation? 

 In part, the proto-fascistic transgressions of corporate rule have made these 
circumstances all but inevitable, because our concept of what it means to be a 
human being has been incrementally defined downward. There has been much 
discussion of the dumbing down of American life. And these assessments are 
accurate and unnerving. (How else does one explain that 37% of those 
Connecticut voters who cast ballots for Joe Lieberman did so believing he was 
the peace candidate?) But there has been little discourse given to the 
pervasive corporate blandification of American life -- the manner in which its 
criteria both numbs out the personality of an individual and renders the 
nation's landscape monotonous and ugly. 

 The effects of corporatism are insidious. In such an environment, there is no 
need for mass rallies replete with bon fires blazing against the totalitarian 
darkness: Corporatism establishes an authoritarian order by way of a series of 
overt bribes and tacit threats. This social and cultural criteria causes an 
individual to become fearful and cautious -- and, after a time, flattens out 
one's inner drives and longings. As a result, a Triumph of the Bland comes to 
pass, internally and externally. 

 Ergo, the oligarchs atop the present order have no need for reeducation camps 
nor the ever-vigilant gaze of neighborhood block captains. We have become our 
own, ever-vigilant minders; within us, we have in place vast networks of secret 
police informers -- our own personal bully boy enforcers of blandness who leave 
us as passionless and empty as the architecture of the corporate nothingscape 
that surrounds us. 

 In addition, corporatism demands employees render themselves fecklessly 
pleasant. One doesn't want to be caught being negative nor be accused of the 
treachery of not being a team player. Such accusations bring to an individual 
a similar decree of ignominy as being denounced as a counterrevolutionary under 
the fallen regime of the former Soviet Union. 

 Accordingly, despite their midterm election victory, this problem remains 
mirrored in the leadership of the Democratic party -- most of whom are the 
bought and sold products of corporatist rule and, therefore, have been trained 
to act with the kind of ersatz public congeniality demanded of all underlings 
in the corporate state. Apropos, the odd combination of fecklessness and

[CTRL] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Myth Busters - US TV propaganda attack on implant and mind control victims

2006-09-18 Thread Kris Millegan

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Hello IPCUSA,
 I just watched a propaganda spiel on Myth Busters on tv against 
the notion there are implant or mind control victims in the US.
 Myth Busters in general are weak on science, and fairly strong on 
lab work. This production was noticably different than their usual 
work, and very weak and limited on lab and field work, and with 
nothing remotely scientific in the rpesentation. The hatchet job was 
relatively quick and cheaply produced, a poor quality shoprt 
rpesentation obviously biased from start to finish, versus looking for 
the truth or making any effort to find evidence claims of US mind 
control or unconsensual implantations might sometimes or often be 
true. 
   In typical large state propaganda, serious issues are avoided, 
and things which the state sees as weaknesses of the group being 
attacked are focused upon. For example, the nazis fixated on the 
semitic nose structure in their attacks on jews (and Cheech and Chong 
used the exact same nazi parody of a semitic nose in their movie which 
presented a low ethnic attack on Arabs, one Arab having had a camel 
wife before etc...). 
  This Myth Busters presentation was true to form in this sense 
for attacking minority groups with state sponsored or directed 
propaganda machines. As alledged victims of high technology human 
rights abuses in the US, we are in fact an opressed minority. This was 
the first major television propaganda attack upon us I am aware of, 
there have been some talk show and serial attacks already, but nothing 
like this I know of until now on US network television. I think this 
is even like an admission by US government criminals, that as a 
movement, we are starting to get into the big leagues politically in 
the US (and we are in the big league already in the former USSR). 
  Many fragments were pulled from various internet sources, 
and presented as being representative. All the common points the 
public (already well brain washed by the mass media from 1930's nazi 
radio to present), would see as indicating the victims movement is not 
credible. Whoever was behind this, has paid someone to do a lot of 
reading on the internet, to produce so many diverse claims which could 
be presented as not credible, and rolling them into one ball and 
painting us all with this ball of distortions and lies with one brush 
stroke. 
  One of the regulars on Myth Busters said his source was some 
male he found on the internet, the impression was given this single 
source was the source for the data of the program about the victims 
movement on the internet. There were victims movements before there 
was anything on the internet. The Moscow Zombies, even a few small 
groups in the US, and the large victims movement of the army radiation 
experiments. e US army radiation xperiments are now admitted to by the 
US government. Previous to this confession the army radiation 
experiment victims were given the same treatment we are given now, 
shared delusional complexes etc... 
   I do not believe any one internet source makes all the claims 
they gave in this Myth Busters production. In science one is supposed 
to reference ones sources, not just state UCLA library or the 
internet. Exactly because there can be intentional or accidental 
distortion, misrepresentation etc... 
  In this spiel they stated something like it must be true 
because it was on the internet, meaning it must not be true because 
it was on the internet. There is plenty of false information on the 
net, just as there is on tv. Much of the true information on the 
internet, is data and evidence the American people still are not 
allowed to see on American television. 
   The Russian Federation has now confessed to massive high 
technology human rights abuses

[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] This revealing 911 truth video will convince any skeptic of demolition and much more...(Like what was in building seven?)...Please forward everywhere you think skeptics might b

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This revealing 911 truth video will convince any skeptic of demolition and much more...(Like what was in building seven?)...Please forward everywhere you think skeptics might behttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3249714675910247150"We The People United Movement"We are many Political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help right the wrongs in America..."United We Will Stand"To find our page on the net, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WETHEPEOPLE_UNITED/?yguid=119988730If you are receiving this communication in a private mailing it can't be considered spam not being intended for profit and as long as it includes contact information and a method to opt out. To be removed or to subscribe please put unsub or sub in the in subject box and send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[CTRL] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Shaikh Nasrallah the new symbol of resistance against the West

2006-08-27 Thread Kris Millegan

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*Shaikh Nasrallah the new symbol of resistance against the West*
*Iqbal Siddiqi, Muslimedia.com*
http://www.muslimedia.com/persp200b.htm



The protests that have erupted around the Muslim world in support of the 
Muslims of Lebanon and in protest at the Israelis' war on the country 
have been dominated by placards of Hizbullah's leader, Sayyid Hassan 
Nasrallah.

Muslims have always looked for symbols of their struggle against Western 
imperialism and hegemony. In the past, figures such as Gamal Abdul 
Nasser and Yasser Arafat have filled this role, only to be exposed as 
offering nothing of substance to the Ummah. Imam Khomeini filled this 
position for some short years after the Islamic Revolution, and unlike 
secular leaders was never discredited. Unfortunately he died in 1989, 
and his position as an icon of Islamic leadership and anti-western 
resistance gradually faded. Usama bin Laden filled it for a while, but 
too many Muslims were too ambivalent about the problems in the 
salafist-jihadist approach, and elements of his methodology, to be 
influenced by Western attempts to promote it as the real (and deeply 
unpleasant) face of the Islamic movement.

The sight of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah being accepted as a symbol of the 
Islamic struggle by Muslims around the world is welcome for many 
reasons. For one thing, it proves that most Muslims remain unaffected by 
the poison of sectarianism that has been spread in the Ummah. Beyond 
that, Shaikh Nasrallah and Hizbullah offer models of Islamic leadership, 
methodology and struggle that are genuine examples for all Muslims, 
unlike some of those whom they have taken as symbols and leaders in the 
past. We can only hope and pray that Muslims will make the most of his 
leadership and example; if so, the US may come to regret rallying Muslim 
support for Shaikh Nasrallah and Hizbullah while trying to destroy it.


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[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Dynasty Ancestors: Treacherous, Greedy and Power-Mad

2006-08-27 Thread Kris Millegan

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Scion of traitors and warlords:
why Bush is coy about his Irish links Tapestry artist reveals ancestors of US president as murderous bunch Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondentThe Guardian(UK), January 27, 2005
It is perhaps not the best omen for US foreign affairs. Local historians in Wexford have discovered that George Bush is a descendant of Strongbow, the power-hungry warlord who led the Norman invasion of Ireland thus heralding 800 years of mutual misery. With a long line of Scots Irish presidents including Woodrow Wilson, the Irish are normally quick to claim US leaders as their own. But, despite President Bush's large Ulster Scots vote in the American Bible belt, Ireland had let his family escape the genealogical microscope.

But now Ann Griffin Bernstorff, an artist working on a tapestry to commemorate Ireland's Norman heritage, has discovered what she claims is the Bushs' missing Irish link.
Ms Griffin Bernstorff was researching Strongbow's son-in-law, William Marshal, when she discovered the connection. A descendant of Marshal married Anne Marbury Hutchinson, a famous 16th century religious dissenter who had already been linked to Mr Bush.
"It is one of those bizarre developments," she said. "We traced the Bush genealogy through a Republican source in Chicago and found it was correct. People here are absolutely shocked. I'm not sure what the wider reaction will be, Bush has not been seen as a great friend of the Irish."
Indeed, when Mr Bush visited a County Clare castle last year, radio talk-show hosts asked: "Is this the most hated American ever to set foot on Irish soil?"
The US president's now apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke - known as Strongbow for his arrow skills - is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations. Shunned by Henry II, he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century invasion of Wexford in exchange for power and land. When he eventually died of a festering ulcer in his foot, his enemies said it was the revenge of Irish saints whose shrines he had violated.
The Bush clan - who pride themselves on a distinguished New England family history that can be traced back to the first English in America - may well be looking for a healthy spin on the news. But it seems that Strongbow is not the worst of Bush's newfound ancestors.
The genetic line can also be traced to Dermot MacMurrough, the Gaelic king of Leinster reviled in history books as the man who sold Ireland for personal gain.
Even before MacMurrough earned the title of Ireland's worst traitor by inviting Strongbow's invasion to save himself from a local feud, the Irish chieftain had a reputation for gore. One English chronicler told how MacMurrough, recognising the features of a personal enemy poking from a pile of severed heads after a battle, snatched up the rotting flesh and tore it with his teeth in a "hideous frenzy".
As if it were not enough to be related to two of the most notorious figures in Irish history, Mr Bush's ancestors are also thought to have founded the settlement of New Ross, in County Wexford. A quiet place, New Ross has a stunning Norman church and another claim to fame: it is the ancestral home of John F Kennedy.
During his first election campaign in 2000, English genealogists found that Mr Bush was descended from Essex yeomanry. But unlike many US presidents keen to impress the Irish-American voters, he never before claimed an Irish link.
In the recent election campaign, the Democrat John Kerry had to deny rumours he was Irish. But Ronald Reagan and John F Kennedy played the Irish card. And Bill Clinton, perhaps aware that portraits of JFK hung beside the Pope above rural Irish fireplaces, once punched the air at a St

[CTRL] Fwd: Master Race-ism

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Israel’s Foes:
“They’re Not Human Beings,They are Arabs!”

By PUNYAPRIYA DASGUPTA
Counterpunch, August 23, 2006
http://www.counterpunch.org/dasgupta07292006.html
Israel’s ambassador in New Delhi, David Danieli, sees Hezbollah as something akin to a scorpion (Times of India, 28 July). His is not much of a new invention. Other Israelis in responsible positions have made similar statements before.
A few days earlier, Dan Gillerman, Israeli representative at UN, regretted Kofi Annan’s failure to mention that the Hezbollah was a bunch of “ruthless, indiscriminate animals”.
During its First Lebanon War in 1982 Israel’s chief of staff Rafael Eitan was gleeful that he had shoved the Palestinian ”cockroaches” into a bottle.
To Menahem Begin, chief author of the Deir Yassin massacre, who went on to become Israel’s prime minister and get a Nobel peace prize, the Palestinians were “two-legged beasts”.
Immediately after the 1967 war Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, a British Conservative, recounted in the House of Commons a conversation he had with David Hacohen, one-time Israeli ambassador to Burma. As related by Maxwell-Hyslop, Hacohen “spoke with great intemperance and at great length about the Arabs.
"When he drew breath I was constrained to say: “Dr Hacohen, I am profoundly shocked that you should speak of other human beings in terms similar to those in which Julius Streicher [notorious Nazi propagandist] spoke of the Jews. Have you learned nothing?”
"I shall remember his reply to my dying day.
"He smote the table with both hands and said: “But they are not human beings, they are not people, they are Arabs”.”
One of the many things Israeli spokesmen seem incapable of realizing is that abuse is no substitute for reason. Israel has amassed much military prowess but remains very poor in logic.
Facts cry out against Israel. The root cause of the present war in Lebanon is, according to the Israelis and Americans, in the capture of one Israeli soldier by Hamas and two by Hezbollah.
Not true. It is in the original sin of the partition of Palestine by UN against all moral, historical, demographic, legal reasons. The General Assembly’s non-binding Resolution 181 envisaged an astonishingly intricate carving of Palestine into seven pieces to make 608,000 (half of them illegal immigrants) of a total population of 1,935,000 the majority in the biggest possible area. This was the warrant the Israelis needed to begin their relentless drive to restoration of their “historical frontiers” i.e., from the Mediterranean to the Jordan river through the instrumentality of calculated massacres and wars and incredible mendacity.
Had Israel stopped even at the pre-June 1967 lines there would have been no 1973 war, no Lebanon wars, no Hezbollah, no intifadas. Hezbollah was born of the need for an effective resistance to the Israeli juggernaut after the Arab armies had repeatedly failed. Hezbollah ran the Israelis off from Lebanon, excepting Shaaba Farms, a tiny patch Israel treats as a part of the Syrian Golan Heights it conquered and annexed. To the people in the Arab world Hezbollah is their David confronting the Israeli Goliath. Hezbollah’s standing firm and inflicting substantial losses on the world’s fourth mightiest force this time has heightened Arab expectations.
Mr Danieli’s many accusations against Hezbollah include “inventing” the Israeli enemy. The wrong end of the stick. Political invention is an Israeli art.
Remember Golda Meir’s statement that there was no such thing as a Palestinian people: “They did not exist”? Hezbollah was reckoning with unceasing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty Israel’s peace activists say they had watched with alarm the deliberateness behind the Israel’s latest war and soldiers admit they had rehearsed the offensives .
Mr

[CTRL] Fwd: Secret Senate Maneuvers Derail Move to Make Govt Bidding Process Transparent

2006-08-27 Thread Kris Millegan

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Our political system is broken
and can never be "repaired"

Not only is Americaruled
by a "secret government,"
itspowernow can be seen in
decisions madeIN SECRET
by Congressand the Senate
--
Obama-Coburn Accountability Bill
Put on "Secret Hold"
by SusanG
Sat Aug 26, 2006 at 02:34:07 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/8/26/17347/5684
Here's a no-brainer, zero-cost, pure people-power issue for Democrats to latch onto for November: Get rid of this "secret hold" crap in the Senate:

[Identity of] Senator who put 'secret hold' on bill to open federal records is a secret, too

By REBECCA CARRHouston Chronicle, August23, 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4137637.html

WASHINGTON - In an ironic twist, legislation that would open up the murky world of government contracting to public scrutiny has been derailed by a secret parliamentary maneuver.
An unidentified senator placed a "secret hold" on legislation introduced by Sens. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., that would create a searchable database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans and financial assistance, worth $2.5 trillion last year. The database would bring transparency to federal spending and be as simple to use as conducting a Google search.
... Now the bill is in political limbo. Under Senate rules, unless the senator who placed the hold decides to lift it, the bill will not be brought up for a vote.

The measure in question had passed out of committee unanimously and was on the fast track for floor action until the hold was placed by one man.
This is an incredible accountability measure, especially for Internet researchers like those who abound here at Daily Kos and other websites. Here's a description of what the mysterious hold is preventing, from Obama's site:

This bill would require the Office of Management and Budget to establish and maintain a single public Web site that lists all entities receiving federal funds, including the name of each entity, the amount of federal funds the entity has received annually by program, and the location of the entity. All federal assistance must be posted within 30 days of such funding being awarded to an organization.

Holds are not uncommon; in fact, they were used to great effect recently by Clinton and Murray, who held up approval on Bush's new FDA nominee until Plan B was okayed. But anonymous holds are nothing more than cowardly attempts at obfuscation, undermining as they do the underlying assumption of representative democracy - that legislators will be held accountable by voters for their actions. Clinton and Murray took that risk. This senator did not.
I'd really like to see the duly elected objector -- never mind if it's a Democrat or Republican -- stand up and say: I think it's a really, really bad idea to have $300 billion worth of government contracts available for public scrutiny. And then we can hope he or she is facing re-election this cycle.
Update: It looks like Porkbusters has already begun a campaign to have constituents call their senators and deny the secret hold. Join that effort and keep checking in there to see who’s still on the suspect list next week.
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[CTRL] Fwd: C-Span2 Book TV: The Case for Impeachment

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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006. An excerpt from an essay in
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[CTRL] Fwd: [ENWL-eng] Earth Policy News: Katrina's Second Wave: Climate Refugees

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ClimateRefugees Eco-Economy Update 2006-7
For Immediate Release August 16, 2006 GLOBAL WARMING
FORCING U.S. COASTAL POPULATION TO MOVE INLAND An Estimated 250,000
Katrina Evacuees Are Now Climate Refugees http://www.earthpolicy.org/Updates/2006/Update57.htm
Lester R. Brown Those of us who track the effects of global
warming had assumed that the first large flow of climate refugees would
likely be in the South Pacific with the abandonment of Tuvalu or other
low-lying islands. We were wrong. The first massive movement of climate
refugees has been that of people away from the Gulf Coast of the United
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evacuees are finding new homes. In this respect, the U.S. hurricane
season of 2005 was different. Record-high temperatures in the Gulf of
Mexico surface waters helped make Hurricane Katrina the most financially
destructive hurricane ever to make landfall anywhere. In some
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surge (8.5 meters) did not leave a single structure standing. There was
nothing for evacuees to return to. The destruction of housing and
infrastructure in St. Bernard Parish, a low-lying 40-mile-long peninsula
(64 kilometers) extending southeast from New Orleans, rendered most of
it uninhabitable. The Katrina storm surge that raised the water level in
Lake Pontchartrain so high that it breached the levees and flooded New
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in Mississippi had lost a total of 375,000 residents because of
destruction from Katrina. Some evacuees are still returning, but the
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[CTRL] Fwd: Oliver Stone Silverstein ?????

2006-08-19 Thread Kris Millegan

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Oliver Stone;

When I was doing research on Stone being in the same class at Yale as Willem 
Oltman's I could not find his name.  Yet I remember reading in his biography 
that he changed his name from Silverstein or something similiar to that 
name, is it not Silverstein who owned the World Trade Center Towers?


I don't know if this is just a coincidence or not.  Anyone can straighten me 
out if I  have misspelled Oliver Stone's real name.


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[CTRL] Fwd: Insurgents of America, Unite!

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[Neocon] Newt Gingrich Considers 
Political Opposition, American Citizens, 
to Be''Insurgency''!


A. Alexander
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Some have expressed concern over Newt Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency", while referring to Ned Lamont supporters in Connecticut. From a personal perspective, Gingrich was correct in obliquely referring to America's blogosphere and directly Lamont supporters, as being an "insurgency". 
Gingrich, of course, meant the term to be derogatory and a means of linking those that oppose Bush's war follies with terrorists. 
Still, Crazy Newt the serial divorcer was correct in more ways than he fully understands and, too, revealed the Neo-Conservative agenda in a clear and yet, unintended way.
That Gingrich would openly refer to those who oppose Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative madness as being an "insurgency" is, in a very real sense, the first public admission that the Bush regime and Republicans are at war with the American people. 
It is a blatant confession of the ultimate Neo-Conservative agenda, i.e. a deliberate and swift movement toward a very real Executive dictatorship wherein those who dissent or disagree are "the enemy" or members of an "insurgency". Gingrich's use of the term "insurgency" when referring to fellow Americans reveals in no uncertain terms the reality that the Neo-Cons recognize a movement forming that consists of the American people and that is designed to directly challenge their drive toward a nationalist imperialistic dictatorship. 
Open and truly democratic governments don't view their political opponents as "enemies" whose opposition is looked upon as an "insurgency", and they certainly don't feel a need to be at war with the people they govern. For Gingrich, Bush, Republicans and the entire Neo-Conservative movement; however, the reality is that the American people are increasingly questioning their "right to rule" and are, therefore, considered enemies or, as Newt Gingrich more aptly said, an "insurgency".
The fact of the matter is that Newt Gingrich is right! There is no better way of defining and describing those American citizens who have formed and continue forming a direct and spirited opposition to the Neo-Conservatives' madness, as being anything other than an "insurgency". Bush and Republicans have busied themselves at the task of disregarding American laws; International laws; have committed war crimes; lied to the American people in order to engage in war with Iraq; unilaterally exempted themselves from the Constitution; committed treason by revealing an undercover CIA agent's name; undermined a free press; illegally spied upon American citizens; instituted a policy of merging church and state; stacked the courts with nefarious individuals that would knowingly and willingly support an Executive dictatorship; provided their crony pals with government appointments and large government contracts that have resulted in grotesque profits without services being provided; raped the nation's treasury; supported big oils' obscene profit taking at the expense of the American people; left New Orleans to rot and refused to help while more than 1,300 citizens perished, and through stygian deception refused to hold anyone to account. 
Bush-Republican Neo-Conservatives have consolidated all the government's powers and have used that power as a tool to undermine America's democracy, to viciously assail any citizen who openly disagrees with their policies, and to cow their opposition. As such, the people have no effective systematic recourse or resources through which to oppose their government, other than through the formation of an internet "insurgency". 
The Bush-Republican Neo-Conservative form of

[CTRL] Fwd: Who Knew?

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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1225453,00.html

"Britain's MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past two weeks had the plotters' planning begun to crystallize, senior U.S. officials tell TIME.

"Inthe two or three days before the arrests, the cell was going operational, and authorities were pressed into action.

"MI5 and Scotland Yard agents tracked the plotters from the ground, while a knowledgeable American official says U.S. intelligence provided London authorities with intercepts of the group's communications. "

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060811.wterror-trail0811/BNStory/Front/home

"After the first arrests in Pakistan some days ago, word went from Pakistan to the London plotters to move ahead quickly, a message intercepted by 'an unidentified intelligence agency,' a U.S. official disclosed on condition of anonymity. That prompted British police to move in ..."

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,20097656-910,00.html

OPERATION Overt was not supposed to come to the public's attention quite so soon.British security agents had spent almost a year secretly monitoring the group of young Muslims accused of planning mass murder in the sky.
The targets had been narrowed from a "watch list" of more than 1000 potential terrorists.
Investigators silently watched as some of the men communicated via internet cafes and planted listening devices in at least four of the suspects' cars. An anti-terror squad trawled telephone records, emails and bank records.
Dozens of officers assigned to follow the suspects kept up an "unprecedented level of surveillance", Scotland Yard said.
...

"There were suggestions American authorities, tipped off to impending raids in Britain and chasing leads in the US, jumped the gun and forced the hand of investigators in the UK.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/10/AR2006081001654_2.html

"Some U.S. counterterrorism officials said plans originally were to allow the conspiracy to develop even further. But U.S. and British investigators made a sudden decision this week to close down the operation after they became increasingly worried that there were other bombers they had been unable to locate or identify, U.S. officials said.

http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage_c.php?leftnm=11bKeyFlag=INautono=4147
The Bush administration today remained tight-lipped on the role played by US intelligence agencies in busting the suspected Al Qaeda plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic and its Pakistani links.Washington also refused to comment on media reports that pressure was applied on Islamabad to make a "key arrest" that would eventually lead to a number of arrests in Britain."One of the things that we're doing, of course, is we're cooperating with the British authorities, and they're the lead in the investigation and subsequent prosecution and I dont want to say anything that might in any ways adversely affect the ongoning investigation. I'll wait for the British authorities to get that information out to the public," US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a TV interview.Elaborating on the co-operation between the US and British intelligence agencies, Gonzales said, "there were information, tips and leads within the US that the FBI, the Department of Justice, other law enforcement and intelligence agencies followed up on. The FBI had over 20 agents running down each of these leads,"
"It is true, after doing all of that work, that we don't believe, based on what we know, that there is an ongoing plot here in the US, but we shared everything that we learned about this plot with the British authorities. And we believe that our efforts were

[CTRL] Fwd: the Complete No Planes on 9/11 Timeline

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[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] UK: Our leaders do a vanishing act

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Our leaders do a vanishing act
By TIM SHIPMAN 00:19am 11th August 2006

Tony Blair's judgment and John Prescott's credibility came under fire for their
distant roles in the Government's response to the terror plot.

The Prime Minister faced questions over why he went on holiday despite
briefings from intelligence chiefs that their operation was reaching a critical
stage.

His deputy, meanwhile, was the object of derision after Home Secretary John
Reid seized control of the crisis, sidelining Mr Prescott who is supposed to be
running the country.

It was Mr Reid who chaired two key meetings of the Cobra committee - convened
at times of national emergency - late on Wednesday and again at 5am on Thursday.

Mr Prescott did not even attend the meetings and was merely informed about the
situation. He was branded a messenger boy after spending yesterday busying
himself with calls to the MPs in areas where terror suspects were arrested.

Humiliatingly, Mr Prescott was later seen knocking on the door of No 10 as he
arrived for further meetings in the afternoon. He did attend a third Cobra
gathering but Mr Reid was still in the chair.

Number 10 said the anti-terror operation had been undertaken with the full
support of Mr Blair, who is on holiday in the Caribbean. But it was Mr Reid
who took charge of liaison with intelligence chiefs and the police
anti-terrorist branch.

Mr Blair, who flew out of Britain on Tuesday, had a comprehensive briefing on
Monday on the latest MI5 intelligence.

The Daily Mail understands he had received at least two other briefings in
recent days about the plot, which security services had been monitoring for
months.

Senior Government sources claimed that the details had sharpened and
suddenly went operational after the Premier left the UK. One said: If he had
known on Monday night what he knew on Wednesday night he would not have gone
away.

Asked if Mr Blair might fly home to deal with the crisis, however, a Downing
Street spokesman said only: We're keeping it under review.

Downing Street also denied reports that Mr Blair had briefed Mr Bush about the
plot when he visited Washington two weeks ago. The spokesman said only that Mr
Blair spoke to the President 'overnight' on Wednesday.

'Mr Blair can obviously stay in touch while he is away but it doesn't look good
that he decided to go when he did'

But White House sources claimed that the President was kept informed over a
period of days and U.S. intelligence services were also in the picture.

Security official and MPs last night questioned why the Prime Minister decided
to leave the UK at such a critical time - and mocked the fact that Mr Prescott
was not trusted to take charge in his absence.

A senior security source, close to Cobra, said: If he were here, the Prime
Minister would have chaired Cobra. It is very odd that he disappeared when he
did since it was known this was all coming to the crunch.

Both Mr Reid and Mr Prescott's spokesman insisted it was the Home Secretary's
job to chair the meetings since he is the minister responsible.

Mr Prescott's spokesman added: John has been in No 10 this morning and this
afternoon. He was briefed through the night. He was speaking to John Reid over
the operational decisions made at Cobra. He has been on the phone updating
cabinet ministers and talking to MPs from the constituencies were concerned.

Only a week ago, when he was preparing to take charge of the nation, allies of
Mr Prescott said he would chair Cobra meetings while the Prime Minister is
away. He chaired Whitehall anti-terror meetings last August.

Tory MP Philip Davies questioned why taxpayers should continue to fork out

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Terror Plot Mirrors Bojinka: Run By US Government Agent

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http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/100806terrorplot.htm


Terror Plot Mirrors Bojinka: 
Run By US Government Agent 
Prison Planet | August 10 
2006
Associated Press 
reports that the dastardly new terror plot is a re-hash of 
Operation Bojinka - a 1995 plot to blow up 10 Western airliners simultaneously. 
What they don't report is that its ringleader - Ramzi Youssef - was protected by 
the US government in 1992.
In September 
of 1992 Youssef entered the US with Ahmad Ajaj. Ajaj's luggage 
contained documents on how to make bombs and was stuffed with fake passports and 
ID's.
Ajaj was arrested - amazingly Youssef was 
released.
Youssef later masterminded the WTC '93 bombing 
after FBI 
agents provided the terrorists with real explosives under cover of 
a supposed sting operation.
Ramzi Youssef is a US government agent and his 
Bojinka plot - supposedly foiled by his intelligence agency bosses - is now 
being used as the latest monster under the bed to scare US and UK citizens into 
surrendering what's left of their rights.
Isn't it amazing that US government officials 
claimed ignorance of any Bojinka style plans before 9/11 and yet now they 
re-hash one for a faux terror alert.
Government enforcers and frightened slaves are 
all hot and bothered about the latest supposed terror plot targeting UK flights 
inbound to the US. 
Ridiculous restrictions have been slapped on 
travelers, with mother's having to taste baby milk before they board planes and 
all hand luggage, including liquid drinks, being banned.
The new alert arrives with the 9/11 truth 
movement on the cusp of a wave of media exposure.
Evidence of government sponsored terror and how 
they use the fear of terror to control society is bursting out at the seams as 
editorials nationwide in the US are uniform in attempting to debunk research 
that questions the official version of 9/11.

Statistical analysis has proven that every time 
Blair and Bush sag in approval ratings, a fresh terror alert gives them a bounce 
back up the charts.
Every single major terror alert 
issued by either the US, Canadian or UK governments has proven to be either a 
manufactured facade, an entrapment sting or an outright hoax.
Recently, a supposed plan to hijack planes and 
fly them into London landmarks was 
exposed as a concoction of UK government lobbyists and news 
chiefs.
The July 2005 London 
bombings were a British intelligence operation. The alleged 
ringleader, Mohammed Siddique Khan, was working 
for MI5.
Here is a compendium list of other reports where 
the role of governments and security agencies in manufacturing artificial terror 
plots is exposed - within these stories are links to even more.
Seven 
Morons In A Warehouse
Sears 
Tower: US Government Creates Another Al-Qaeda Cell
Cooked 
Canary Wharf Terror Plot Recycled
Canadian 
'Terror Plot' Begins To Unravel
Hyped 
Terror Raid Proves To Be Paper Tiger
Toledo 
Terrorists and Government Entrapment
Twenty-Three 
Intel Experts Say LA Terror Plot a Sham
Bush 
Plays Terror Card With Bogus LA Attack Plot
NYC 
Subway "Plot": Just Another Fake Terror Alert
ALSO 
SEE: FAKE TERROR ALERTS ARCHIVE

BBC: 'Plot to blow up planes' 
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[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Petty officer held in secret for 4 months

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Petty officer held in secret for 4 months
By TIM MCGLONE, The Virginian-Pilot
© August 4, 2006
Last updated: 12:56 AM

NORFOLK  A petty officer has been in the Norfolk Naval Station brig
for more than four months facing espionage, desertion and other
charges, but the Navy has refused to release details of the case.

The case against Fire Control Technician 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann
is indicative of the secrecy surrounding the Navy military court here,
where public affairs and trial court officials have denied access to
basic information including the court docket  a listing of cases to
be heard.

After months of requests, the Navy this week provided The
Virginian-Pilot with Weinmann's name, rank and the charges he faces.

In an e-mail, Theodore Brown, a spokesman for Fleet Forces Command,
said, It is sometimes a challenge to balance the desires of the
media, the public's right to know, and the rights of an individual
accused of a crime.

In this case, he concluded, the command is attempting to provide as
much unclassified information as is reasonable, while maintaining an
appropriate concern for the privacy of the individual involved. 

A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment Thursday.

The Navy's position was challenged by military legal affairs experts
and First Amendment advocates who say the nation's courts, whether
civilian or military, historically have been open to the press and public.

A docket listing Weinmann's preliminary hearing, called an Article 32,
was never produced. The Navy would not disclose when the hearing was held.

That's hogwash, said Eugene R. Fidell, president of The National
Institute of Military Justice and a Washington lawyer .

I know of no authority to keep the proceeding closed, he said. I've
never seen an Article 32 classified.

The command's e-mail to The Pilot this week said that Weinmann was
arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on March 26 after
he had been listed as a deserter. Fleet Forces officials refused to
release the so-called charge sheet, which would detail the accusations
against the sailor.

Weinmann had been serving aboard the submarine Albuquerque until he
deserted in July 2005, according to Brown. Weinmann enlisted in July
2003, he said.

The enlisted man could face a court-martial. An investigative officer
who presided over the Article 32 is expected to release a report to
Weinmann's command in the coming weeks. Besides espionage and
desertion, Weinmann is charged with failure to obey an order and acts
prejudicial to good order and discipline, according to Brown.

Espionage is defined, in part, by the Uniform Code of Military Justice
as the communication to a foreign government of any information
relating to U.S. national defense. It carries a maximum punishment of
death.

Military defense lawyers say secret military hearings and the refusal
to release basic charge information have become more common since the
beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Court precedents and federal laws have established the right of public
access to court-martial proceedings, including Article 32 hearings,
the lawyers and First Amendment advocates say.

The Army Court of Criminal Appeals said in a 1997 case involving an
attempt to close a criminal proceeding, We believe that public
confidence in matters of military justice would quickly erode if
courts-martial were arbitrarily closed to the public.

The court said the public and the media have a right to attend
military court proceedings, absent extraordinary circumstances.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the closure of a court proceeding or
the sealing of any criminal case must be decided by a judge on a
case-by-case basis.

Lucy Dalglish, executive director of The

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RADIO YOUR WAY
8/11/06 "TODAY'S
CRISIS" SKY TERROR...MIDDLE EAST WAR
Sat Aug 12, 2006 01:36
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=103684;title=APFN

8/11/06 "TODAY'S CRISIS" SKY TERROR...MIDDLE EAST WAR
Homeland Security.Flying is safe...
CLIPS...CNN 'IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OBL
FOXNEWS: ISREAL LARGE FORCE
AUDIO:
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L001I060811-middleeast1.MP3

8/11/06 "TODAY'S CRISIS" SKY TERROR...MIDDLE EAST WAR
AUDIO:
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L002I060811-middleeast2.MP3

AUDIO: RE: UN RESOLUTION 1701 "CEASE FIRE"
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L001I060811-unResolution1701.MP3

SKY TERROR Project
Bojinka

http://www.apfn.org/APFN/SKY_TERROR.HTM

MISC AUDIO...
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[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Navy says sailor in brig stole laptop, gave out classified info

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http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=108896ran=82404
Navy says sailor in brig stole laptop, gave out classified info
By KATE WILTROUT, The Virginian-Pilot
August 9, 2006



 NORFOLK - After refusing to release full details on a pending
espionage case involving a petty officer held in the Norfolk brig, the
Navy on Tuesday provided some specifics about the charges.

The Navy's charges depict Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann as
a sailor who stole a Navy laptop computer, deserted his ship for more
than eight months and traveled the globe, both attempting to give and
actually delivering classified defense information to an undisclosed
foreign government.

Weinmann, a fire control technician previously assigned to the
submarine Albuquerque, had an Article 32 hearing July 26 in Norfolk,
said Ted Brown, a spokesman for the Navy's Fleet Forces Command in
Norfolk.

Brown said Weinmann is represented by two Navy attorneys, Lt. Cmdr.
Karen Somers and Lt. William Tansey.

At this point in the proceedings, it is not in my client's best
interest to comment on the case, Somers said Tuesday through a
spokeswoman.

Brown's supervisor, Capt. James Taylor, the command's public affairs
officer, on Tuesday provided a copy of the six charges Weinmann faced
at his Article 32 hearing, the military equivalent of a preliminary
hearing.

Arguably the most serious charges are three counts of espionage in
violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The first count
alleges that in March 2005, in or near Manama, Bahrain, Weinmann did
attempt to communicate, deliver or transmit classified information
relating to national defense to a representative, officer, agent or
employee of a foreign government.

The two subsequent charges allege that months later - after
purportedly deserting his Connecticut-based submarine - Weinmann did
communicate, deliver or transmit information classified as
confidential and secret to a representative of a foreign government.

According to the charges, those events occurred in Vienna, Austria,
around Oct. 19, 2005, and around March 19, near Mexico City, Mexico.

Weinmann was picked up at the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
days after the incident in Mexico, according to the charges. Brown
said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was involved in the case.

It is not known to whom Weinmann is believed to have given classified
information; Brown said he could not comment on further specifics.

Brown said Weinmann is a native of Oregon who enlisted in July 2003.

The Navy has also charged Weinmann with failing to properly safeguard
and store classified information, making an electronic copy of
classified information related to national defense, communicating
classified information to a person not entitled to receive it, and
stealing and destroying a government computer.

While espionage carries a maximum punishment of death, it's too soon
to know whether Weinmann will be court-martialed on the charges.

As is standard in the Navy court system, an investigating officer who
attended the Article 32 hearing must first issue a recommendation on
whether there is enough evidence to refer the charges to court- martial.

That report is then sent to the convening authority - in this case,
Adm. John B. Nathman, Fleet Forces commander - who ultimately decides
how to proceed.

The Navy had refused to release specifics of the charges against
Weinmann or even the date of his hearing.

An article published in The Virginian-Pilot on Friday highlighted the
lack of public information about Weinmann's case.

In that article, Brown was quoted as saying that the command is
attempting to provide as much unclassified information as is
reasonable, while maintaining an appropriate concern for the privacy
of the individual involved.

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060811/ap_on_go_ot/terror_explosives_detection
Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved
By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer Fri Aug 11, 7:38 PM ET 

WASHINGTON - While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the 
Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that 
was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection 
technology. 

Congressional leaders rejected the idea, the latest in a series of steps by the 
  Homeland Security Department that has left lawmakers and some of the 
department's own experts questioning the commitment to create better 
anti-terror technologies.
Homeland Security's research arm, called the Sciences  Technology Directorate, 
is a rudderless ship without a clear way to get back on course, Republican 
and Democratic senators on the Appropriations Committee declared recently.

The committee is extremely disappointed with the manner in which ST is being 
managed within the Department of Homeland Security, the panel wrote June 29 in 
a bipartisan report accompanying the agency's 2007 budget.

Rep. Martin Sabo, D-Minn., who joined Republicans to block the administration's 
recent diversion of explosives detection money, said research and development 
is crucial to thwarting future attacks and there is bipartisan agreement that 
Homeland Security has fallen short.

They clearly have been given lots of resources that they haven't been using, 
Sabo said.

Homeland Security said Friday its research arm has just gotten a new leader, 
former Navy research chief Rear Adm. Jay Cohen, and there is strong optimism 
for developing new detection technologies in the future.

I don't have any criticisms of anyone, said Kip Hawley, the assistant 
secretary for transportation security. I have great hope for the future. There 
is tremendous intensity on this issue among the senior management of this 
department to make this area a strength.

Lawmakers and recently retired Homeland Security officials say they are 
concerned the department's research and development effort is bogged down by 
bureaucracy, lack of strategic planning and failure to use money wisely.

The department failed to spend $200 million in research and development money 
from past years, forcing lawmakers to rescind the money this summer.

The administration also was slow to start testing a new liquid explosives 
detector that the Japanese government provided to the United States earlier 
this year.

The British plot to blow up as many as 10 American airlines on trans-Atlantic 
flights was to involve liquid explosives.

Hawley said Homeland Security now is going to test the detector in six American 
airports. It is very promising technology and we are extremely interested in 
it to help us operationally in the next several years, he said.

Japan has been using the liquid explosive detectors in its Narita International 
Airport in Tokyo and demonstrated the technology to U.S. officials at a 
conference in January, the Japanese Embassy in Washington said.

Homeland Security is spending a total of $732 million this year on various 
explosives deterrents and has tested several commercial liquid explosive 
detectors over the past few years but hasn't been satisfied enough with the 
results to deploy them.
Hawley said current liquid detectors that can scan only individual containers 
aren't suitable for wide deployment because they would bring security check 
lines to a crawl.

For more than four years, officials inside Homeland Security also have debated 
whether to deploy smaller trace explosive detectors  already in most American 
airports  to foreign airports to help stop any bomb chemicals or devices from 
making it onto U.S.-destined flights.

A 2002 Homeland report

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bojinka II: The Pakistani Connections

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http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2006/08/bojinka-ii-the-pakistani-conne/
Bojinka II: The Pakistani Connections
Funds Wired to Britain from Pakistan, LeT Founder Placed Under House Arrest
By Steve Schippert

From ABC News, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report that British 
Intelligence had a man on the inside of the 30-man cell that sought to blow up 
US-bound airliners in a plot becoming known as Bojinka II, nearly identical 
in scope and method to Operation Bojinka I in 1995. In British Penetrate 
Terror Cell, it is also detailed that an arrest in Pakistan two days earlier 
caused the British operation  Operation Overt  to descend upon the cell 
before they learned of the individual arrested. A link between the deep mole 
and the arrested would have apparently tipped the cell to the British 
operation.

Also, the BBC reports that a Pakistan arrest several weeks ago originally 
unearthed the plot, which Pakistan claims uncovered the plot and led to the 
British investigation.

While it was feared that the Pakistani arrest on the Afghan border days ago 
would jeopardize the British operation, it is worth noting that the five 
ringleaders of the 30-man terror cell are not among the apprehended and on the 
loose, presumably still in Britain. Word from Pakistan would logically reach 
the leaders first. Did they take immediate evasive action and run aground in 
haste without informing the 24 who were eventually arrested?

With regard to the nature and connectedness of the terrorists in the Bojinka II 
cell, the ABC report characterizes the cell members in a fashion that is sure 
to be echoed by far too many. Referring to the plot as homegrown and the 
British cells members as young, longtime residents or citizens, inspired by 
al Qaeda and perhaps loosely linked to the old hierarchical terror group 
misses the mark.

At the end of the day, these young, longtime residents or citizens of Britain 
must be recognized as no more British than they are Mexican. Most of the cell 
members were of Pakistani origin or descent. They clearly did not identify with 
their host nation nor hold any affinity for it.

It is difficult to imagine the condition as loosely linked to al-Qaeda, 
certainly with an operation of this ambition and scale. As the foot soldiers 
that they were, their plot was either guided and/or funded by al-Qaeda or it 
was not. But, as should be increasingly clear, the name of the label  al-Qaeda 
or otherwise  should matter far less than is popularly perceived. There is an 
ever increasing trend among terror groups to shelve their ideological and 
religious differences and focus on the common enemy, Israel and America - Jews 
and Crusaders - and all that ally with them in the West, including Britain.

Further, make no mistake; the old hierarchical terror group is alive and well 
and not a new, busted-up decentralized mess as the chosen descriptor implies. 
Consider the quality of al-Zawahiris latest messages and one must conclude 
that funding is still adequate and that command and control is still effective. 
al-Qaeda leadership, bruised and pursued, is not remanded to the dark recesses 
of a cave in Pakistan, cut off from the rest of the world and the rest of their 
terrorist organization.

Heres the rub: If the plot was homegrown, as asserted, and the terrorists 
merely al-Qaeda-inspired as opposed to al-Qaeda-led, why would a terrorist 
arrest in Pakistan cause the cell to scatter? This expected reaction is not 
consistent with loose links to an arrested terrorist(s) in Pakistan. What 
prompted these arrests in Pakistan?

But more importantly, where did the money for the complex operation come from? 
Who was funding the airline tickets for dry runs and the six to ten actual 
attack flights? Who was funding

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bojinka II: The Pakistani Connections

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http://analysis.threatswatch.org/2006/08/bojinka-ii-the-pakistani-conne/
Bojinka II: The Pakistani Connections
Funds Wired to Britain from Pakistan, LeT Founder Placed Under House Arrest
By Steve Schippert

From ABC News, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito report that British 
Intelligence had a man on the inside of the 30-man cell that sought to blow up 
US-bound airliners in a plot becoming known as Bojinka II, nearly identical 
in scope and method to Operation Bojinka I in 1995. In British Penetrate 
Terror Cell, it is also detailed that an arrest in Pakistan two days earlier 
caused the British operation  Operation Overt  to descend upon the cell 
before they learned of the individual arrested. A link between the deep mole 
and the arrested would have apparently tipped the cell to the British 
operation.

Also, the BBC reports that a Pakistan arrest several weeks ago originally 
unearthed the plot, which Pakistan claims uncovered the plot and led to the 
British investigation.

While it was feared that the Pakistani arrest on the Afghan border days ago 
would jeopardize the British operation, it is worth noting that the five 
ringleaders of the 30-man terror cell are not among the apprehended and on the 
loose, presumably still in Britain. Word from Pakistan would logically reach 
the leaders first. Did they take immediate evasive action and run aground in 
haste without informing the 24 who were eventually arrested?

With regard to the nature and connectedness of the terrorists in the Bojinka II 
cell, the ABC report characterizes the cell members in a fashion that is sure 
to be echoed by far too many. Referring to the plot as homegrown and the 
British cells members as young, longtime residents or citizens, inspired by 
al Qaeda and perhaps loosely linked to the old hierarchical terror group 
misses the mark.

At the end of the day, these young, longtime residents or citizens of Britain 
must be recognized as no more British than they are Mexican. Most of the cell 
members were of Pakistani origin or descent. They clearly did not identify with 
their host nation nor hold any affinity for it.

It is difficult to imagine the condition as loosely linked to al-Qaeda, 
certainly with an operation of this ambition and scale. As the foot soldiers 
that they were, their plot was either guided and/or funded by al-Qaeda or it 
was not. But, as should be increasingly clear, the name of the label  al-Qaeda 
or otherwise  should matter far less than is popularly perceived. There is an 
ever increasing trend among terror groups to shelve their ideological and 
religious differences and focus on the common enemy, Israel and America - Jews 
and Crusaders - and all that ally with them in the West, including Britain.

Further, make no mistake; the old hierarchical terror group is alive and well 
and not a new, busted-up decentralized mess as the chosen descriptor implies. 
Consider the quality of al-Zawahiris latest messages and one must conclude 
that funding is still adequate and that command and control is still effective. 
al-Qaeda leadership, bruised and pursued, is not remanded to the dark recesses 
of a cave in Pakistan, cut off from the rest of the world and the rest of their 
terrorist organization.

Heres the rub: If the plot was homegrown, as asserted, and the terrorists 
merely al-Qaeda-inspired as opposed to al-Qaeda-led, why would a terrorist 
arrest in Pakistan cause the cell to scatter? This expected reaction is not 
consistent with loose links to an arrested terrorist(s) in Pakistan. What 
prompted these arrests in Pakistan?

But more importantly, where did the money for the complex operation come from? 
Who was funding the airline tickets for dry runs and the six to ten actual 
attack flights? Who was funding

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Liquid terror: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves

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  LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient 
  SlavesTerrorists planned to 
  mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport 
  bins?
  Steve Watson / Infowars.net | August 
  11 2006
  The latest terror plot facade is nothing 
  more than an exercise to assess how subservient the general population has 
  become and a primer to making permanent the panicked and ridiculous 
  freedom crushing security measures we are seeing being rushed into 
  implementation at the moment.
  Whilst the government is saying there is 
  no going back on these measures and that they will become 
  permanent, the media is bleating about rushing in biometric 
  retina scanners and Orwellian behaviour 
  sensing technology. This is the only way they can do these 
  things without backlash and protest, just have a major terror alert and 
  rush them through.
  How is it that people can still deny that 
  our governments are forwarding a big brother control agenda? ID cards, 
  Biometric databases, retina scanners, face scanning cameras, behaviour 
  sensing machines. The list goes on. It has been proven over and over that 
  these measures will not help prevent terrorism, the government itself has 
  even admitted this, so why do they relentlessly push them?
  The latest mind bending terror stupidity 
  has every passenger at airports pouring their potentially explosive 
  liquids into bins inside the airports. 
  How stupid can things get? How far does it 
  have to go before people start asking simple questions about what they are 
  being made to do in the name of security?
  If these liquids are potentially explosive 
  what the hell is the good in pouring them all into large bins inside 
  overcrowded airports and mixing them all together?
  The Asheville 
  Citizen Times interviewed a mother who was forced to pour 
  away her baby's milk:
  "I have mixed feelings about all this," 
  Leoni said as she waited to board a flight for Miami at Asheville Regional 
  Airport. "On the one side, Im fine with the safety measures and the 
  effects, but on the other hand, I had to pour out my babys milk this 
  morning. They said I couldn't take it on board."
  
  And here she is pouring the potentially 
  deadly milk into a vat of other potentially explosive dangerous 
  liquids.
  The official counterterrorism statement 
  told us that the plan involved mixing a sports drink with a gel-like 
  substance to concoct explosives that could be ignited with an MP3 player 
  or cell phone. The sports drink could be combined with a peroxide-based 
  paste to form a potent explosive cocktail, counterterrorism officials 
  said. 
  If you believe the dodgy science that 
  suggests that these liquids can be ignited by calling up your mom or 
  whacking on a bit of Led Zeppelin on your MP3 player then they better 
  clear the airports pretty smartish because those bins full liquids could 
  go up any second. unless they are just bins full of baby milk and Dr 
  Pepper that is.
  The Scientific 
  American states: 
  Furthermore, some chemicals can be 
  mixed to create a toxic gas capable of killing people in an enclosed space 
  such as an airplane.
  Great, marvelous, lets get mixing them in 
  bins then!
  
  The XOPL blogger here is bang on the money and I

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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17495
Bill Berkowitz
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08.19.04
Bush's dubious terror alerts
Is administration's political agenda driving warnings of terrorism?

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has discovered no evidence of imminent 
plans by terrorists to attack U.S. financial buildings, nearly two weeks after 
the government issued startling warnings about such possible threats, a White 
House official said. -- Associated Press, August 12, 2004.

When the going gets tough, the tough get to issuing terrorist alerts, 
announcing high profile arrests, and raising the terrorism threat level. Since 
January 2002, according to JuliusBlog, an Internet web log, there have been at 
least fifteen incidents where Team Bush, responding to adverse news or dipping 
presidential poll numbers, turned either Attorney General John Ashcroft or 
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge loose to ramp up talk of terrorism and 
terrorist attacks.

The latest episode aired on August 1, shortly after the conclusion of the 
Democratic National Convention, when Secretary Ridge raised the Homeland 
Security Department's terrorist level to Code Orange -- high threat of 
terrorist attacks -- claiming that there was ample information about 
terrorists targeting the financial services sector in New York City, northern 
New Jersey and Washington, D.C. to warrant the action. In prepared remarks, 
Ridge told the press: ...reports indicate that al-Qaeda is targeting several 
specific buildings, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in 
the District of Columbia; Prudential Financial in Northern New Jersey; and 
Citigroup buildings and the New York Stock Exchange in New York. The rest of 
the country remained at Code Yellow -- significant risk of terrorist attacks.

One week later, the New York Times reported that Pakistan had warned the United 
States that Al Qaeda has considered using tourist helicopters in terror 
attacks in New York City. Within hours reporters were on the scene 
interviewing heliport personnel and scaring the bejeezus out of tourists coming 
off their flights.

In the run-up to the Republican Party Convention in New York City later this 
month, terrorist alerts are rolling out of the Dept. of Homeland Security 
faster than the grounds crew rolls out the Yankee Stadium tarp during a sudden 
summer shower.

With each real or perceived threat, the American people are reminded of the 
president's belief that we live in the age of the permanent war against 
terrorism, a stance he spelled out in a November 2002 document titled Securing 
the Homeland, Strengthening the Nation. While outlining his budget priorities, 
Bush maintained that the threat of terrorism is an inescapable reality of life 
in the 21st century and a permanent condition to which America and the entire 
world must adjust. The president also said:

Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with a wide 
variety of weapons. The most urgent terrorist threat to America is the Al Qaeda 
network. We will prosecute our war with these terrorists until they are routed 
from the Earth. But we will not let our guard down after we defeat Al Qaeda. 
The terrorist threat to America takes many forms, has many places to hide, and 
is often invisible. We can never be sure that we have defeated all of our 
terrorist enemies, and therefore we can never again allow ourselves to become 
overconfident about the security of our homeland.

Ramping up the Homeland Security Dept.'s threat level may result in greater 
vigilance amongst both law enforcement and the public, and it is conceivable 
that a terrorist attack may have been prevented. The cranking-up of the threat 
level, however, also drives the panic-mongers, most notably the 24/7

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Toying With Terror Alerts?

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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1211369,00.html
Toying With Terror Alerts?
In the Bush era, the timing and quality of "arrests" and 
"warnings" have a suspicious ring
By JOSHUA MICAH MARSHALL 
Posted Friday, Jul. 07, 2006
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In these perilous days, we must be ready to think the unthinkable. No, I 
don't mean the possibility of a catastrophic terrorist attack. After 9/11, 
that's all too easy to imagine. No, I'm talking about a thought that even now 
seldom forces its way into respectable conversation: the quite reasonable 
suspicion that the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and 
arrests to goose the GOP's poll numbers. 
Now, I'm a respectable columnist. I don't want to draw rolled eyes. But think 
about it. 
The 18 months prior to the 2004 presidential election witnessed a barrage of 
those ridiculous color-coded terror alerts, quashed-plot headlines and 
breathless press conferences from Administration officials. Warnings of terror 
attacks over the Christmas 2003 holidays, warnings over summer terror attacks at 
the 2004 political conventions, then a whole slew of warnings of terror attacks 
to disrupt the election itself. Even the timing of the alerts seemed to fall 
with odd regularity right on the heels of major political events. One of 
Department of Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge's terror warnings came two days 
after John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate; another came three 
days after the end of the Democratic convention. 
So it went right through the 2004 election. And then not long after the 
champagne corks stopped popping at Bush campaign headquarters, terror alerts 
seemed to go out of style. The color codes became yesterday's news. With the 
exception of one warning about mass-transit facilities in response to the London 
bombing on July 7, 2005, that was pretty much it until this summer. I live in 
lower Manhattan and my wife works in a building overlooking Ground Zero. So I 
want to know when something's really up and not worry that I'm getting 
bamboozled to amp the President's approval rating. 
Can I prove any of this was politically motivated? Of course not. But that's 
the magic of the terror-alert song and dance. There's no way to know. All the 
key facts are veiled in secrecy, as they must be. So it's impossible to know 
from the outside whether it's on the level or not. But with another election 
looming, it seems we're about to get a bunch of new chances to wonder. 
On June 23, cable-news channels went gonzo over a raid on a homegrown terror 
cell in Miami that foiled an alleged plot to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower. 
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales held a press conference to announce the 
arrests. Even Vice President Dick Cheney weighed in and called the group a "very 
real threat." He did so at a political fundraiser. 
But as often is the case in these announcements, it turned out to be a lot 
less than advertised, unless you were a writer for Saturday Night Live. 
When the FBI raided the abandoned warehouse where the group hung out in Miami's 
impoverished Liberty City neighborhood, they found no weapons, no money and no 
evidence of ties to any terrorist group anywhere. Indeed, these would-be jihadis 
were so early in their planning for jihad that they hadn't yet set aside time to 
become Muslims. The group, according to a follow-up report from Reuters, "mixes 
Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Freemasonry, Gnosticism and Taoism." Their covert 
methods included taking turns guarding the abandoned warehouse (which served as 
their clubhouse) wearing black uniforms, ski masks and combat boots in the hot 
Florida summer. Their leader, Narseal Batiste,

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For what it's worth (not a 9-11 researcher? click "delete" - note: no further messages of this kind will follow). Of course, ALL information released by our government is The Uncensored Truth, especially five-year-old documents released only on demand.Government Releases DetailedInformation on 9/11 Crasheshttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/index.htmComplete Air-Ground Transcripts of Hijacked9/11 Flight Recordings DeclassifiedNational Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 196Edited by Barbara EliasFor more information contact:Barbara Elias - 202/994-7000Posted - August 11, 2006(See also: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/sept11/index.html) Washington, DC - August 11, 2006 - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week released full transcripts of the air traffic control recordings from the four flights hijacked on September 11, 2001, and meticulous Flight Path Studies for three of the flights, in response to a Freedom of Information request by the National Security Archive. The studies provide the most detailed technical information available to date related to the hijackings, and the transcripts of the aircraft-to-ground communications are the first complete government disclosure of each flight's air traffic control recordings. The documents are cited extensively in the 9/11 Commission Report to establish key facts and basic timelines for each hijacked flight. The NTSB Web site references the documents but does not provide copies, claiming "the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 are under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Safety Board provided requested technical assistance to the FBI, and any material generated by the NTSB is under the control of the FBI. The Safety Board does not plan to issue a report or open a public docket." The documents were released in their entirety to the National Security Archive and were received directly from the NTSB. The transcripts provide additional details to the information summarized in the 9/11 Commission Report. For example, the NTSB transcript differs slightly from the Commission's text of the warning that United Airlines Flight 93 received only minutes before the hijackers attacked. At 9:23am, the Aircraft Communications

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Arms Buildup Enriches Firm Staffed by Big Guns
Ex-president and other elites are behind weapon-boosting Carlyle Group
By MARK FINEMAN, NYTimes,January 10 2002
http://www.truthout.org/docs_01/01.11F.Arms.Carlyle.htm
WASHINGTON -- Even by Washington standards, the Carlyle Group has some serious clout.
President George W. Bush's father works for Carlyle; so does former Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci, whose close friend Donald H. Rumsfeld now runs the Pentagon; and so does a stellar cast of retired generals and Cabinet secretaries, including former Secretary of State James A. Baker III.
And even by Wall Street standards, the Carlyle Group has some serious money: $12.5 billion in investments at last count. The Washington-based private equity firm, which advises and invests for wealthy clients and institutions, has shown returns of more than 34% through the last decade, particularly through timely defense and aerospace investments.
So when President Bush declared war on terrorism in September, few were better poised than Carlyle to know how and when to make money.
On a single day last month, Carlyle earned $237 million selling shares in United Defense Industries, the Army's fifth-largest contractor. The stock offering was well timed: Carlyle officials say they decided to take the company public only after the Sept. 11 attacks. The stock sale cashed in on increased congressional support for hefty defense spending, including one of United Defense's cornerstone weapon programs.
Carlyle's windfall is a result of astute business decisions, excellent connections, strategic lobbying, good timing and a bit of luck. It is also a prime example of how defense contractors got well in a hurry after the Sept. 11 attacks, in a year when the Bush administration already was planning steep hikes in defense spending.
For several years in the late 1990s, United Defense's Crusader Advanced Field Artillery System--a massive high-tech cannon that could fire faster and with more impact than any before it--was in trouble at the Pentagon. The system clashed with the vision many military planners and analysts have for a lighter, more mobile Army. And its high price tag--originally $20 billion--endangered it in times of tight defense budgets.
But the suicide attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center freed up tens of billions of dollars in new defense spending. United Defense already had modified the Crusader, making it 20 tons lighter. And the Army had cut its order by more than half to make it more palatable to budget cutters.
On Sept. 26, the Army signed a $665-million modified contract with United Defense through April 2003 to complete the Crusader's development phase. In October, the company listed the Crusader, and the attacks themselves, as selling points for its stock offering.
Then Congress fully funded the system in the defense authorization bill that passed the House and Senate on Dec. 13, the day before Carlyle's stock sale. And President Bush is scheduled to open the funding spigot today, when he signs a defense appropriation bill that includes $487.3 million for the Crusader in 2002.
The ties that bind the president's family and close advisors to Carlyle have helped draw the confidence of its investors--and the criticism of outsiders.
"It's the first time the president of the United States' father is on the payroll of one of the largest U.S. defense contractors," said Charles Lewis, director of the Center for Public Policy and one of Carlyle's most ardent critics.
"Between Baker and Carlucci, not to mention dear old dad, the relationship of the president with this particular company is as tight and close as, well, anyone can imagine."
Carlyle officials bristle at such talk. They described their recent stock sale as just plain good

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[CTRL] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House

2006-05-10 Thread Kris Millegan

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[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the Brothels

2006-05-09 Thread Kris Millegan

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Begin forwarded message:From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 8:41:56 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the BrothelsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 9, 2006OP-ED COLUMNISTBush Takes On the BrothelsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFI'm guessing that President Bush's foreign policy will stand up about as well to the assessments of future historians as a baby gazelle to a pack of cheetahs.Yet there is one area where Mr. Bush is making a historic contribution: he is devoting much more money and attention to human trafficking than his predecessors. Just as one of Jimmy Carter's great legacies was putting human rights squarely on the international agenda, Mr. Bush is doing the same for slave labor.We don't tend to think of trafficking as a top concern, so Mr. Bush hasn't gotten much credit. But it's difficult to think of a human rights issue that could be more important than sex trafficking and the other kinds of neo-slavery that engulf millions of people around the world, leaving many of them dead of AIDS by their early 20's.My own epiphany came in 1989, when my wife and I lived in China and covered the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Arrests of dissidents were front-page news, but no one paid any attention as many tens of thousands of Chinese women and girls were kidnapped and sold each year by traffickers to become the unwilling wives of peasants.Since then, I've seen the peddling of humans in many countries: the 8-year-old Filipino girl whose mother used to pull her out of school to rent to pedophiles; the terrified 14-year-old Vietnamese girl imprisoned in a brothel pending the sale of her virginity; the Pakistani teenager whose brothel's owner dealt with her resistance by drugging her into a stupor. The U.N. has estimated that 12.3 million people worldwide are caught in forced labor of one kind or another.In an age of H.I.V., sex trafficking is particularly lethal. And for every political dissident who is locked up in a prison cell, hundreds of teenage girls are locked up in brothels and, in effect, sentenced to death by AIDS.In 2000, Congress passed landmark anti-trafficking legislation, backed by an unlikely coalition of evangelical Republicans and feminist Democrats. Even today, the Congressional leaders against trafficking include a conservative Republican, Senator Sam Brownback, and a liberal Democrat, Representative Carolyn Maloney.But the heaviest lifting has been done by the State Department's tiny office on trafficking — for my money, one of the most effective units in the U.S. government. The office, led by a former Republican congressman, John Miller, is viewed with suspicion by some career diplomats who fear that simple-minded conservative nuts are mucking up relations with countries over a peripheral issue.Yet Mr. Miller and his office wield their spotlight shrewdly. With firm backing from the White House (Mr. Bush made Mr. Miller an ambassador partly to help him in his bureaucratic battles), the office puts out an annual report that shames and bullies foreign governments into taking action against forced labor of all kinds.Under pressure from the report, Cambodia prosecuted some traffickers (albeit while protecting brothels owned by government officials) and largely closed down the Svay Pak red-light district, where 10-year-olds used to be openly sold. Ecuador stepped up arrests of pimps and started a national public awareness campaign. Israel trained police to go after traffickers and worked with victims' home countries, like Belarus and Ukraine. And so on, country by country.Some liberals object to the administration's requirement that aid groups declare their opposition to prostitution before they can get anti-trafficking funds. But in the past, without that requirement, U.S. funds occasionally went to groups promoting prostitution. And in any case, the requirement doesn't seem to have caused many problems on the ground (partly because aid groups sometimes dissemble to get money). In Zambia, India and Cambodia, I've seen U.S.-financed programs work closely with prostitutes and brothel owners when that is needed to get the job done.Moreover, Ambassador Miller and his staff aren't squeamish prudes. Mr. Miller is sympathetic to the Swedish model: stop punishing prostitutes, but crack down on pimps and customers. He says that approach seems to have reduced more forced prostitution than just about any other strategy.The backdrop is a ridiculously divisive debate among anti-trafficking activists about whether prostitution should be legalized. Whatever one thinks of that question, it's peripheral to the central challenge: vast numbers of underage girls are forced into brothels against their will, and many die of AIDS. On that crucial issue, Mr. Bush is leaving a legacy that he and America can be proud of.Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company =
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[CTRL] Fwd: A Boot Stomping on the Ballot Box, Forever

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White HouseTied To
Criminal Vote Suppression Scheme
by Scott Shields,
Apr 11, 2006
http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/4/11/1335/03255

While many of us have understandably been preoccupied for the past few years with the scandals of Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, the Ohio Republicans, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby, Duke Cunningham, and Bill Frist, Josh Marshall may have been quite prescient in watching the progress of perhaps the most damaging scandal of all. As far back as February of 2003, Talking Points Memo was covering the slow-motion train wreck that eventually came to be known as the New Hampshire phone-jamming scandal.
In 2002, high-level Republican operative James Tobin, working with the New Hampshire Republican Party, hired a phone-banking company to crash the phones of the state's Democrats and Manchester's firefighters' union while both groups were working on get-out-the-vote efforts. Though games of 'what-if' rarely produce any meaningful analysis, it's important to note that Governor Jeanne Shaheen, the Democratic candidate, only lost the race to Republican John Sununu by a margin of 51% to 46%.
Admittedly, this is all old news. Tobin was convicted last December for his role in the scandal, after being testified against by former NH GOP head Chuck McGee and Allen Raymond, the president of GOP Marketplace, the firm Tobin contracted with for the phone-jamming. Both McGee and Raymond also pled guilty. It was not clear when the story was first broken how high the scandal went. With McGee the one-time head of the state party and Tobin the New England chairman for Bush-Cheney 2004, it was clear even on the surface that it was always pretty high. But now new analysis suggests that the responsibility for this dirty tricks campaign went all the way to the top.

Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

The records show that Bush campaign operative James Tobin, who recently was convicted in the case, made two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day 2002 -- as the phone jamming operation was finalized, carried out and then abruptly shut down
A Democratic analysis of phone records introduced at Tobin's criminal trial show he made 115 outgoing calls -- mostly to the same number in the White House political affairs office -- between Sept. 17 and Nov. 22, 2002. Two dozen of the calls were made from 9:28 a.m. the day before the election through 2:17 a.m. the night after the voting
Virtually all the calls to the White House went to the same number, which currently rings inside the political affairs office. In 2002, White House political affairs was led by now-RNC chairman Ken Mehlman. The White House declined to say which staffer was assigned that phone number in 2002.

Couple this with Josh Marshall's assertion that TPM's "reporting (and, from what we can tell, the DOJ's too) strongly suggests there's a nexus between the phone-jamming case and the Abramoff scandal," and this story gets even hotter. The national Republican Party has provided millions of dollars in legal fees to protect Tobin, indicating that they have had a serious stake in making sure the truth about what really happened in New Hampshire in 2002 does not come out.
Republican corruption is a huge knot that ties together their entire party. Until it's untangled, I'm afraid that voters will be left scratching their heads, trying to make sense of it all, without really understanding the connections. But it seems to me that this developing story could go a long way in answering at least a few questions.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] P Planet-Bush's Bogus Theory of Absolute Power

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Bush's Bogus Theory of AbsolutePower by James Bovardby James Bovard http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard26.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2006/080406_b_Bogus.htm The Bush administration has a theory to explain why the Founding Fathers secretly intended for the president to have boundless power. Even though the new unitary executive theory is nowhere in the Constitution, White House officials continually invoke it to justify scorning federal law. The fact that the administration is getting away with this charade symbolizes how docile much of the American media and political opposition have become. Earlier this year, members of Congress anguished publicly over how many of the original USA PATRIOT Act surveillance powers should be renewed. A bipartisan agreement was finally reached, giving the White House almost everything it wanted. As part of the deal to renew the Patriot Act, Bush administration officials agreed to provide Congress more details on how the new powers were being used. However, Bush reneged in a signing statement quietly released after a heavily hyped White House signing ceremony on March 9. He decreed that he was entitled to withhold any information that would impair foreign relations, national security,
the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executives constitutional duties. He announced that he would interpret any provision in the law obliging notifying Congress in a manner consistent with the presidents constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information. In other words, any provision of the law that requires disclosure is presumptively null and void. The crux of the unitary executive is that all power rests in the president, and that checks and balances are an archaic relic. This is the same principle the Bush administration invoked to deny Congress everything from Iraqi war plans to the records of the Cheney Energy Task Force. Bush has invoked the unitary executive doctrine almost a hundred
times since taking office, according to a study by Miami University professor Christopher Kelley. One of the starkest statements of this theory came in the confidential August2002 Justice Department/White House memo justifying torture. That memo revealed, In light of the presidents complete authority over the conduct of war, without a clear statement otherwise, criminal statutes are not read as infringing on the presidents ultimate authority in these areas. And even if Congress did try to explicitly restrain executive power, any such law would be unconstitutional because of the inherent power vested in the presidency, according to the memo. When he was White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales spoke of a commander-in-chief override to justify scorning the Anti-Torture Act.
The Bush administrations sense of entitlement is obvious from the ongoing controversy over warrantless National Security Agency wiretaps of Americans. Such wiretaps are clearly prohibited by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Yet Bush declared that he is entitled to order such wiretaps because of the inherent authority of the presidency. The administrations attitude toward both the law and Congress was stark in the responses recently delivered to congressional questions on the scope and nature of the NSA warrantless
wiretap program. The basic answer to almost all the questions was, None of your business. Again and again, the White House declared that decisions about what communications to intercept are made by professional intelligence officers. Apparently, the job titles of the NSA officials automatically negate the Fourth Amendments

[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Top Mafia boss arrested after decades

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http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNewsstoryID=2006-04-11T104112Z_01_L119041_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-ITALY-MAFIA-ARREST-COL.XMLarchived=FalseTop Mafia boss arrested after
decadesTue Apr 11, 2006 6:41 AM EDT
By Wladimir Pantaleone

The last known photograph of mafia boss Bernardo
Provenzano taken in 1959. Provenzano, the head of the Sicilian Mafia who
has been on the run for more than four decades and was Italy's most wanted
man, was arrested in Sicily on April 11, 2006, the Interior Ministry said.
It was the state's biggest success against the Mafia in more than 10
years.
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PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Bernardo Provenzano, the chief of
the Sicilian Mafia who has been on the run for more than four decades and was
Italy's most wanted man, was arrested near Corleone in Sicily on Tuesday,
officials said.
It was the state's biggest success against the Mafia in more
than 13 years.
Provenzano, known as the "Phantom of Corleone" after the hill
town in Sicily made famous by the Godfather films, has been running the Mafia
since 1993, when former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina was arrested in the Sicilian
capital Palermo.
President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi expressed his delight over the
arrest to Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu, a statement from the presidential
palace said. The news bumped even national election results off the top spot of
television news bulletins.
Provenzano, 73, has been wanted since 1963 and was known as
Italy's "super-fugitive." The last picture police had of him before his arrest
was taken in 1959 when he was 25.
He has been sentenced in absentia to life in prison in
connection with the Mafia's most notorious crimes over the past decades,
including the killings in 1992 of top anti-Mafia magistrates Giovanni Falcone
and Paolo Borsellino.
Provenzano was arrested in a farmhouse in the countryside near
Corleone and was due to be taken to a jail in Palermo later on Tuesday, police
said.
As a young man he was known as "Binnu the tractor" because of
the way he mowed down the enemies of the Corleone clan.
His ability to evade capture for so many years while remaining
in Sicily had become legendary.
Last year, Italy's national anti-Mafia prosecutor, Pietro
Grasso, caused a storm by saying Provenzano had been protected by politicians
and policemen.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Homeland Insecurity: Government Gestapo Complex Strikes Again

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Local Teacher's Run-In With
Homeland Security Creates Insecurities

Thu Apr 6, 5:29 PM ET
http://news.yahoo.com/s/wjxt/20060406/lo_wjxt/3379371

A local school employee said a rough run-in with a couple ofHomeland Security officers has left him with a strong sense of insecurity.
Leander Pickett, a teacher's assistant at Englewood Elementary, said he was manhandled and handcuffed by two plain clothed Homeland Security officers in front of the school Tuesday for no reason at all.
"I would like to treat people the way I would want to be treated, and yesterday I wasn't treated that way," Pickett said.
Pickett has been working at Englewood for two years, and his principal and colleagues told Channel 4 they have never met a harder worker or nicer guy.
"He's well loved by everyone because he's willing to do anything to help children," said the Englewood Elementary Principal Gail Brinson.
However, Tuesday afternoon Pickett's niceness turned to anger, disappointment, and betrayal when, as Pickett was directing bus traffic, he said he was handcuffed and roughed up and humiliated by the very people that were supposed to protect him.
"I walked up to him and said, 'Sir, you need to move.' That's when he said 'I'm a police officer. I'm with Homeland Security ... I'll move it when I want to.' That's when he started grabbing me on my arm," Pickett said.
However, Homeland Security tells a different story.
The department said the only reason the officers were at the school was because they pulled over to look at a map.
The department also said it's looking into what happened, and that Pickett's version is wrong. It claims he was antagonizing the officers.
Several people were outside of the school, watching the incident take place, and those witnesses agree with Pickett's story.
"Mr. Pickett asked the guy blocking the bus loading zone to move, and the guy told him he would move his car when he got ready to move it," said Englewood coach Alton Jackson.
"At that point I intervened and I went up to the gentleman and said, 'Mr. Pickett is an employee here,' and they said that didn't matter," said Englewood media specialist, Terri Dreisonstok.
"'We're with Homeland Security,' and on and on they went, and pretty soon, before you know it, he's handcuffed and slammed against a car," Brinson said. "All the children are watching, they're all upset."
After about 30 minutes, the men released Pickett.
"The part that really upsets me is all these students were watching, and that and it isn't good," Jackson said.
Pickett said he plans to sue.
"You now you hear these stories everyday and say, 'This will never happen to me,' but yesterday it happened to me," Pickett said.
"If this is Homeland Security, I think we ought to be a little afraid," Brinson said.
The central office of Homeland Security contacted Channel 4 about the incident and stated that it considers all allegations seriously and the matter has been referred to a neutral investigative entity.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Money for Nothing -- Down the Bush Rabbit Hole, Predictably

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4/6/2006 6:42:00 PM Audit: Money From Abroad for Katrina Lost By WILLIAM C. MANN Associated Press Writer Federal auditors on Thursday laid out a scenario of omissions, missteps and bureaucratic nightmares that caused a loss of money and other donations sent from abroad to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.Lawmakers at a congressional hearing on the subject reacted harshly to a Government Accountability Office report that attributed the errors, which involved as many as eight government agencies, to the United States' lack of experience as a recipient of huge amounts of aid from others.Rep. Henry Waxman, the House Government Reform Committee's top Democrat, said, "This is bureaucracy at its worse, and the citizens of the Gulf Coast are suffering for it."The GAO said in remarks prepared for delivery before the committee, "Given that the U.S. government had never before received such substantial amounts of international disaster assistance, ad hoc procedures were developed to manage the acceptance and distribution of the cash and in-kind assistance.""It is understandable that not all procedures would be in place at the outset."Rep. Tom Davis, the Republican chairman of the committee, said that it "appears that policies and procedures were lacking, simply because no one in the federal government anticipated needing or receiving this assistance."The GAO said that $126 million in cash came in from 36 countries after the Aug. 29 hurricane devastated New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi along the U.S. Gulf Coast.With plans lacking for dealing with such a large-scale influx, legal restrictions kicked in that required almost half the cash to be held in accounts that paid no interest, resulting in a loss of almost $1 million and diminished buying power for eventual hurricane relief.Because $400 million more has been pledged but not yet received, the GAO is urging that instructions be put in place quickly to handle the money.Davis said, "It does no good to be offered money, or water, or food, or potentially lifesaving medical supplies if we don't get those donations into the hands of the people who need them."Money was not the only shortcoming of the response to one of the nation's most costly and deadly natural disasters, which killed almost 1,100 in Louisiana alone and hundreds more elsewhere. At least 1,900 people are listed as missing.Typical of the misadventures was the failure to enlist government quality-control experts from the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration.This resulted in importation of medical items and military food packages that should not have been allowed into the country; because they were, the government had to pay for storing them. The auditors were told of one shipment of military meals-ready-to-eat, however, that was delivered directly to a U.S. base whose personnel distributed the unknowingly banned MREs to hurricane victims.The report, which will be published later, is the latest of a series of papers that have documented widespread mistakes and incompetence at all levels of government in the response to Katrina. 
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[CTRL] Fwd: Free Speech No More in UK

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Campaigner faces jail for
anti-war tea party outside Parliament

By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Corresponent
The Independent (UK), 07 April 2006
A peace activist who organised an anti-war tea party that took place opposite the House of Commons faces prison.
Mark Barrett, a tour guide, was convicted under recent legislation banning demonstrations near Parliament and was fined £500 including costs.
He is one of a group of activists who meet every week to drink tea and eat cake on Parliament Square in protest at "an attack on freedom of _expression_".
After being found guilty of unlawful protest by Bow Street magistrates, Mr Barrett insisted he would not pay the fine.
He said: "If it means I will go to prison, then I am prepared. I may be breaking the law but it is a law I don't believe in. I don't believe peaceful protesters who have a disagreement with the way the state operates should ask permission to make their views known, particularly in this location." Mr Barrett, 36, was arrested in August under section 132 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act, which requires protesters to obtain police permission before demonstrating within a kilometre of Parliament.
He said: "We were sitting down, sharing food, and a police inspector told us he believed we were having an unauthorised protest and if we didn't break up we would be arrested. When I refused to go away, I was picked up and bundled into a police van."
Maya Evans, 25, a chef, became the first person to be convicted under the legislation last year. She received a conditional discharge with costs of £200.
She was given a conditional discharge after she was arrested at the Cenotaph in Whitehall reading out the names of British soldiers killed in Iraq.
The legislation was drawn up in an unsuccessful attempt to evict Brian Haw from Parliament Square. Mr Haw has staged a protest outside the Commons for more than four years. Critics have denounced the law for undermining free speech and have accused police of inconsistency in its application.

Last Sunday, 150 demonstrators with banners, including the actress Joanna Lumley, gathered in Parliament Square to listen to a list of civilians killed in the Iraq war. Only one protester was reported for a potent summons.
Nor were any arrests made four days before Christmas when 150 people gathered in the square for a carol service in memory of "those who have died and suffered as a result of conflict".
Milan Rai, who was standing alongside Ms Evans when she was arrested, said: "It is such a stupid law. They do not have any clear guidelines on when to come down hard and when to go easy and use discretion." Mr Rai will learn next week whether he will be prosecuted for organising the Cenotaph protest.
James Welch, the legal director for Liberty, which is representing Mr Rai, said: "Of course the work of parliamentarians and Government must be safe from threat but how can arresting and banging up someone for peacefully honouring British soldiers possibly be proportionate?"
There have been 11 convictions for unauthorised demonstrations near Parliament. People who want to protest in the area have to apply to the Metropolitan Police six days in advance or, if not "reasonably practicable", 24 hours in advance.
The Independent disclosed yesterday that the first two arrests have been made under a separate section of the Act, which curtails protests at military and nuclear sites. Helen John, 68, and Sylvia Boyes, 62, face up to 51 weeks in jail or a fine of £5,000 after entering Menwith Hill, a US base in North Yorkshire.
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[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] 9/11: a 7-Man Job

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9/11: a 7-Man Job A common objection to the argument that 9/11 was an inside job is that the conspiracy would be too big to keep quiet. In other words, the argument is that it is impossible that so many people could have kept quiet for so long. SOMEONE would have talked or made a mistake, so that the conspiracy would have been discovered. Is that true? Maybe.But anyone who's seen a Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum movie, or even watched enough Stargate, Star Trek or Alias, knows that a handful of bad guys can pull off big conspiracies, especially when they've got a high-level military or government person on
board. Moreover, to anyone who knows how covert military operations work, it is obvious that segmentation on a "need-to-know basis", along with deference to command hierarchy, means that a couple of top dogs can call the shots and most people helping won't even know the big picture.I Can't Hear YouIt has now been shown that a handful of people were responsible for willfully ignoring the evidence that Iraq lacked weapons of mass destruction. See, for, example this article. Indeed, Iraq was not the first time the U.S. has ignored or faked intelligence in order to justify war. The facts are also clear that it was also obvious to U.S. intelligence that 9/11 was going to happen on or around the date it happened. So how many people would it have taken to ignore the intelligence that hijackers were going to attack? How hard would it have been for a handful of top-level administration officials to stick their fingers in their ears, say "nah nah nah" (like kids do when they don't want to hear what you're saying), and let it happen?Its Happened Before As confirmed by a former Italian Prime Minister, an Italian judge, and the

former head of Italian counterintelligence, NATO, with the help of U.S. and foreign special forces, carried out terror bombings in Italy and blamed the communists, in order to rally peoples support for their governments in Europe in their fight against communism. As one participant in this formerly-secret program stated: "You had to attack civilians, people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater
security."In the early 1950s, agents of an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind "evidence" implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers). Israel's Defense Minister was brought down by the scandal, along with the entire Israeli government. See also this confirmation. But not in the U.S., right? Well, recently
declassified documents show that in the 1960's, the American Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to blow up AMERICAN airplanes (using an elaborate plan involving the switching of airplanes), and also to commit terrorist acts on American soil, and then to blame it on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion of Cuba. See this ABC news report, the official documents, and watch this interview with the former Washington Investigative Producer for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings (click link entitled "Joint Chiefs
Guilty-Northwoods").Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/joinBut that was a plan that while it would have involved a large conspiracy - was never carried out, right? True. But as shown by this BBC special (which contains interviews with some of

[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Son Shines Bright From This Old West Texas Home

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Son Shines Bright From This Old West Texas Home

George W. Bush and his blue-blood family lived in a modest Midland house in the 1950s. Now, local leaders and family friends have restored it.

By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
April 11, 2006

MIDLAND, Texas — Virginia has George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation. New York has the Hyde Park estate of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Yorba Linda embraces the modest farmhouse that was Richard Nixon's childhood home. And Hodgenville, Ky., has Sinking Spring Farm, where Abraham Lincoln was born.

Today, this dry, dusty town in the aging heart of the West Texas oil patch is bidding to join the select list of communities that bask in the glow of history — and in the golden tide of tourist dollars that may come with it. Midland, after all, was the home of not one but two American presidents: George W. Bush and his father, George H.W. Bush.

Yet the local leaders and Bush family friends behind Midland's bid for the spotlight are struggling with a problem: Just what, exactly, is the story they want to tell?

Most sites associated with the early lives of future presidents have unmistakable story lines, clear symbolic messages that help visitors understand the figures associated with them. The rude log cabin at Lincoln's birthplace — one cramped room with a dirt floor — underscores the humble origins of one of America's greatest presidents. The classical lines of Mount Vernon suggest the Roman virtues of the man who became the father of his country. The stateliness of Hyde Park bespeaks the noblesse oblige that moved sons of aristocrats to public service.

The house at 1412 W. Ohio Ave. in Midland is certainly a landmark. A half-century ago, it was home to the future 41st president and his wife, Barbara, the future first lady; their eldest son, George W. Bush, who became the 43rd president after serving as governor of Texas; and their second son, Jeb Bush, now governor of Florida.

And the Midland house was modest: 1,400 square feet, three bedrooms, no garage — just a shed in back.

But promoters of the house as a historic landmark acknowledge that defining its particular story line has not been easy. Although the house itself suggests modest beginnings, the young couple that occupied it belonged to one of the most powerful families in contemporary American history, combining the wealth and power of Wall Street with a record of high public office.

George H.W. Bush's father, Prescott Bush, had been a U.S. senator from Connecticut, for instance, and the family tree included an original partner of financier J.P. Morgan. In some ways, the family compound on the ocean at Kennebunkport, Maine, may be a more authentic symbol of who the Bushes are.

"We've understood throughout the project that we cannot portray them as coming from a lifting-yourselves-by-the-bootstraps background with no resources," said Bill Scott, a Midland real estate broker and one of the organizers of the Bush home project. "We do not want to portray them as coming from humble backgrounds."

Instead, in addition to honoring the family that — perhaps more than even oil and high school football — put Midland on the map, developers suggest that this is where the Bush family may have learned Heartland values.

Though he had been educated at Andover and Yale, returned from World War II a hero and had Wall Street behind him, George H.W. Bush was one of thousands of young veterans striving to build a family and make his fortune in the booming oil fields of the Permian Basin.

And although the elder Bush became vastly more successful than most, his early years in Texas suggested the kind of 1950s family portrayed in "Leave It to Beaver"

[CTRL] Fwd: Debunking of Official Story of UK's 7-7 Attack Raises More Serious Questions

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Leak reveals official story of London bombings · Al-Qaeda not linked, says government · Internet used to plan 7/7 attack Mark TownsendThe Observer(UK), April 9, 2006
The official inquiry into the 7 July London bombings will say the attack was planned on a shoestring budget from information on the internet, that there was no 'fifth-bomber' and no direct support from al-Qaeda, although two of the bombers had visited Pakistan.
The first forensic account of the atrocity that claimed the lives of 52 people, which will be published in the next few weeks, will say that attacks were the product of a 'simple and inexpensive' plot hatched by four British suicide bombers bent on martyrdom.
Far from being the work of an international terror network, as originally suspected, the attack was carried out by four men who had scoured terror sites on the internet. Their knapsack bombs cost only a few hundred pounds, according to the first completed draft of the government's definitive report into the blasts.
The Home Office account, compiled by a senior civil servant at the behest of Home Secretary Charles Clarke, also discounts the existence of a fifth bomber. After the bombings, police found an unused rucksack of explosives in the bombers' abandoned car at Luton station, which led to a manhunt for a missing suspect. Similarly, it found nothing to support the theory that an al-Qaeda fixer, presumed to be from Pakistan, was instrumental in planning the attacks.
A Whitehall source said: 'The London attacks were a modest, simple affair by four seemingly normal men using the internet.'
Confirmation of the nature of the attacks will raise fresh concerns over the vulnerability of Britain to an attack by small, unsophisticated groups. A fortnight after 7 July, an unconnected group of four tried to duplicate the attack, but their devices failed to detonate.
However, the findings will draw criticism for failing to address concerns as to why no action was taken against the bombers despite the fact that one of them, Mohammed Siddique Khan, was identified by intelligence officers months before the attack.
A report into the attack by the Commons intelligence and security committee, which could be published alongside the official narrative, will question why MI5 called off surveillance of the ringleader of the 7 July bombings.
Patrick Mercer, shadow homeland security spokesman, said the official narrative's findings would only lead to calls for an independent inquiry to answer further questions surrounding 7 July.
He said: 'A series of reports such as this narrative simply does not answer questions such as the reduced terror alert before the attack, the apparent involvement of al-Qaeda and links to earlier or later terrorist plots.'
The official Home Office report into the attacks does, however, decide that the four suicide bombers - Siddique Khan, Hasib Hussain, Shehzad Tanweer and Jermaine Lindsay - were partly inspired by Khan's trips to Pakistan, though the meeting between the four men and known militants in Pakistan is seen as ideological, rather than fact-finding.
A videotape of Mohammed Siddique Khan released after the attacks also featured footage of Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Home Office believes the tape was edited after the suicide attacks and dismisses it as evidence of al-Qaeda's involvement in the attack.
Khan is confirmed as ringleader of the attacks, though the Yorkshire-born bomber's apparent links to other suspected terrorists are not discussed for legal reasons.
The report also investigates the psychological make-up and behaviour of the four bombers during the run-up to the attack. Using intelligence compiled in the nine months since, the account paints a portrait of four British men who in effect led double lives.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Iran

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April 09, 2006
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Seymour Hersh on CNN:
Bush is "Messianic"about Iran
Seymour Hersh, whose new article on Bush formulating a plan to attack Iran I wrote about yesterday, was on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer this morning.
Crooks and Liars has the video.
Check out these transcript highlights (received by e-mail from the show):
Why Hersh believes Bush feels compelled to attack Iran

HERSH: The word I hear is messianic. He thinks, as I wrote, that he's the only one now who will have the courage to do it. He's politically free. I don't think he's overwhelmingly concerned about the '06 elections, congressional elections. I think he really thinks he has a chance, and this is going to be his mission.
Is the U.S. capable of attacking Iran now?

BLITZER: Well, what do you think? Given the enormous military headaches the United States now has in Iraq, does the U.S. military have the wherewithal to launch another preemptive strike, this time against Iran?
HERSH: Oh, sure. We have plenty of air power. We can do it. We have great precision bombings. There's been a lot of planning going on. It's more than planning, it's operational planning. It's beyond contingency planning. There's serious, specific plans. Nobody's made a decision yet. There hasn't been a warning order or an execute order. But the planning's gotten much more intense and much more focused.
Some members of Bush's Administration may resign over Iran plans:

BLITZER: And you're saying that some senior military officers are prepared to resign?
HERSH: I'm saying that, if this isn't walked back and if the president isn't told that you cannot do it -- and once the chairman of the joint chiefs or some senior members of the military say to the president, let's get this nuclear option off the table, it will be taken off. He will not defy the military in a formal report. Unless something specific is told to the White House that you've got to drop this dream of a nuclear option -- and that's exactly the issue I'm talking about -- people have said to me that they would resign.
When pressed for names, Hersh refused:

HERSH: You know why? Because this is a punitive government right now. This is a government that pretty much has its back against the wall, as you've been saying all morning, in Iraq.
And in the military -- you know, one thing about our military is they're very loyal to the president, but they're getting to the edge. They're getting to the edge with not only Rumsfeld but also with Cheney and the president.
What we should be doing instead:

HERSH: The critical point, it seems to me, is that we're not talking. This president is not talking to the Iranians. They are trying very hard to make contact, I can assure you of that, in many different forms.
And there's no public pressure on the White House to start bilateral talks. And that's what amazes everybody. When I was in Vienna, seeing officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the one thing they all said is everybody knows Iran is trying to do something. They're cheating. They're not near. There's plenty of time. And instead of talking about bombing, let's talk about talking.
Update: Here's a briefing paper on the consequences of war in Iraq .http://www.iranbodycount.org/ The conclusion:

A US military attack on Iranian nuclear infrastructure would be the start of a protracted military confrontation that would probably involve Iraq, Israel and Lebanon as well as the United States and Iran, with the possibility of west Gulf states being involved as well. An attack by Israel, although initially on a smaller scale, would almost certainly escalate to involve the United States, and would also mark the start of a protracted conflict.
Although an attack by either state could

[CTRL] Fwd: More Predators in High Places

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Child porn charge against DoD director dropped;Investigation continues
By Patience Wait
GCN, April 6, 2006
http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40341-1.html

(Updated) Two weeks after a Defense Information Systems Agency official was arrested on a charge of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney’s office handling the case dropped the charge. But a spokeswoman in the U.S. Attorney’s Office said the investigation is continuing. “This is an ongoing investigation, so we don’t have any comments,” the spokeswoman said. Charles Lynch, director of DISA’s IP version 6 transition program, was arrested March 8 and indicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia the next day on one count of possessing child pornography. According to a statement by the DOD Inspector General’s Office, court documents alleged that Lynch had been operating a peer-to-peer file-sharing program on a computer in his office at DISA. Agents confiscated several computers and more than 1,000 CDs from Lynch’s office. Lynch, 44, is on leave without pay from DISA. The investigation is being conducted by the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, the FBI and the DISA OIG. Joseph McMillan, special agent in charge of the DCIS Mid-Atlantic Field Office, would not elaborate on why the charge was dismissed. “It’s our policy neither to deny nor confirm the existence of an ongoing criminal investigation,” McMillan said. In apparently unrelated cases, a Homeland Security Department official was arrested earlier this week for soliciting sex with a minor.

And last week, federal agents seized computer equipment from the desk of a NASA official, based on information developed during a U.S. Postal Inspection Service undercover investigation of Internet trafficking in child pornography.
EDITOR’S NOTE: The original version of this story, posted April 6, reported Lynch’s arrest and indictment, but did not report that the charge had been dismissed. The U.S. Attorney’s Office, when contacted April 6 about the arrest, said only that the investigation is continuing, but not that the charge had been dismissed.
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March 31, 2006
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/31/national/main1459872.shtml

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Using the alias "Jim Saron," Robinson allegedly responded to six undercover agents' inquiries about trading digital child pornography files, according to the search warrant affidavit by Special Agent Paul R. Danley.

(CBS)Federal agents raided a NASA office in Washington on Wednesday during a child pornography probe, accusing an agency executive of viewing and trading illicit images and videos from his home and work computers, according to a court affidavit obtained by an investigative Web site. Agents seized a laptop, a hard drive and other materials from the office of NASA program executive James Robinson, The Smoking Gun reports. Robinson, 42, was contacted last year by undercover postal agents after an online operation pointed to Robinson as a purveyor of illegal images. According to The Smoking Gun, he wrote to undercover agents citing his pornography desires as "probably priority right now would be boy-on-boy or boy-with-Man, and girl-on-girl. But really, anything is of interest." Using the alias "Jim Saron," Robinson allegedly responded to six undercover agents' inquiries about trading digital child pornography files, according to the search warrant affidavit by Special Agent Paul R. Danley. In some of the e-mail exchanges that Danley details in the court document, Robinson (aka "Saron") writes that he obtained his illegal files through popular download program Kazaa or various usergroups online. To locate Robinson through his alias, agents contacted Yahoo, but it is unclear whether the company

[CTRL] Fwd: As Fitzgerald Looks More Closely at Nigergate, Neocons Trumpet Disinfo Louder

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'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named
Michael Smith**
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The Sunday Times, April 9, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2125630_1,00.html

Two employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war, an official investigation has allegedly found.
According to NATO sources, the investigation has evidence that Niger’s consul and its ambassador’s personal assistant faked a contract to show Saddam Hussein had bought uranium ore from the impoverished west African country.

The documents, which emerged in 2002, were used in a US State Department fact sheet on Iraq’s weapons programme to build the case for war. They were denounced as forgeries by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shortly before the 2003 invasion.
The revelation spawned a series of conspiracy theories, most alleging that the British, Italians, or even Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, had had a hand in forging them to back the case for war.
The story was still reverberating around Washington last week, with claims that President George W Bush had authorised the leaking of the identity of a CIA agent whose husband cast doubt on the Niger link ...
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http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/April 09, 2006
A new article on the Niger forgeries is now up online in Sunday London Times.

The claim actually isn't a new one. It's been rattling around Italy for at least a year, and reported in a few Italian publications aligned with the current government. The basic argument is that the Niger forgeries were the work of two employees at the Nigerien embassy in Rome, the consul, Adam Maiga Zakariaou and Laura Montini, his assistant. And the motive was money.

How did these two come to forge the documents?

According to the story in the Times, Montini was put together with ex-Italian intelligence gent Rocco Martino by a serving SISMI Colonel named Antonio Nucera. After putting the two together, Nucera fades from the scene. But Montini goes to work for Martino providing purloined documents from her place of work.

Then Montini and her boss, the Nigerien consul, learn that Martino works for the French and there's a lot of money in it for everyone involved if they can 'find' documents shedding light on Iraqi efforts to acquire uranium from Niger. Thus the forging begins and the rest, as they say, is history.

That is, needless to say, a very condensed version of the story. So read the piece in the Times for the full details.

Now, remember, this version of events is the work of an Italian government 'investigation'. And all evidence suggests that the Italian government has very dirty hands in this whole affair, acting at least as the purveyor of the forgeries and possibly their creator as well.

There are a slew of holes in this story; and you don't need to be too deep into the arcana of the story to see them.

First, consider Nucera's role. He's a colonel in SISMI, Italian military intelligence. He puts the two key players together. They're also former SISMI employees. But that's just a coincidence. Neither Nucera nor SISMI have any role in what happened. He was just trying to help out a couple old friends ...

Montini actually says different. She gave an as-yet-unpublished interview in which she alleges that Nucera provided her with the forgeries, with the instructions to turn them over to Martino.

Here's another point to consider. If the Italians really have this all figured out, and if the Italian government isn't implicated in any way, why have Montini, the Nigerien consul and Martino never been arrested or accused of any crime? Each is now in Italy. No charges have ever been brought against any of

[CTRL] Fwd: [IPCUSA] G.W. Bush the T'I ???

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Is George W Bush a target of Electronic Harassment?
  'I'm driven with a mission from God. 
  I feel God's words coming to me. 
  
  Bush hearing Voices ?  

  God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. 
And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq 
 And I did. And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, Go get the 
Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in 
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Feel words/feel driven   = SUBLIMINAL MESSAGES 
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[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] US Dollar Tanking? Gold, Chinese Claims in Play

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US Dollar Tanking? Gold, Chinese Claims in Play
Can Anyone Explain This to Normal People?
Thursday April 6, 11:06 am ET

WASHINGTON, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert David STEELE Vivas, international
proponent for Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), has posted a report that the
Bush Administration has secretly ordered the printing of two trillion
dollars in money that is not backed up by gold or any other resources.

The material, originally from Sterling Seagrave, one of the investigative
authors of Gold Warriors, which recounts how the US recovered a great deal
of the gold and other loot stolen from China by the Japanese and from Europe
by the Nazis, appears to be moderately confirmed by other sources, with
links to those sources at the original posting, the top headline today at
http://www.oss.net. The book, which has been translated into two forms of
Chinese and rocked China, appears to have moved the looted gold and US
financial vulnerabilities to the forefront of Chinese strategy.

The US economy appears to be tanking for four reasons: the double deficit,
the importation of poverty in the form of illegal immigrants, and the export
of middle class and solid blue collar jobs that used to provide economic
continuity and stability.

In combination, the resignations of Alan Greenspan and Paul O'Neil, the
proclivity of the Fed to print money behind the scenes (with M3 now removed
as a data point), the fact that the Chinese did not sign the treaty in San
Francisco and have all rights to the restoration of the gold (and may also
have blackmail material over the incumbent President from his time as a
drunken teen-ager in Beijing), all cause us concern.

Can anyone explain this to normal people? Should Congress be investigating?
Should the public be alarmed?

Note: Steele, a former Marine Corps infantry officer and former clandestine
case officer, has two graduate degrees and two advanced certificates. He is
the #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction pertaining to global issues and
national security. His global intelligence company specializes in helping
governments nail bad guys and corporations reduce risk and increase profit
through Information Arbitrage(TM). He is an advocate for a national Open
Source Agency that can provide unclassified intelligence to Congress and the
public as a means of benchmarking Executive claims based on secret
intelligence, and to ensure the Executive is held accountable for sound
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[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] TapDay at Yale

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Published Thursday, April 6, 2006
Societies find their secret niche

BY ALLISON BATTEY AND KANYA BALAKRISHNA
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The mysteries of the secret societies’ “tombs” (shown here: Book and Snake) will be disclosed to newly initiated juniors after the chosen few are tapped tonight. (NATHAN LAUGHTON/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER)

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This week, they are hard to ignore. Cloaked figures huddle at the doors of Au Bon Pain; blindfolded juniors hunch in the drizzly Swing Space courtyard; a boy stands with a megaphone on Broadway and tells a girl across the street to "Swing on that pole. Come on. You're not gonna get in like that." The madness is everywhere: It is secret society tap week at Yale, and tonight is tap night.

Among the elite organizations that populate Princeton, Harvard and Yale, Yale's secret societies are perhaps the best known. With movies like "The Skulls," bestsellers like "Secrets of the Tomb," and alums including the current president of the United States, secret societies are part of a national myth of Ivy League elitism. But compared to Princeton's eating clubs and Harvard's final clubs, students and administrators say Yale's secret societies actually play a much smaller role in life at the University. Though the societies may be hard to ignore during tap week, they maintain a relatively low profile otherwise.

Kate Gasner '09 said she had no idea prior to this week that secret society tapping was such a spectacle. She said she has been surprised by the prevalence of inductees on campus.

"I thought it was all supposed to be secret, so I'm sort of perplexed," she said. "But it seems like a good excuse to have fun."

Yale's tradition of secret societies began in 1832, when seniors Alphonso Taft, Class of 1833, and William Huntington Russell, Class of 1833, founded the Order of Skull and Bones. Scroll and Key, which is still considered by many Yale students to be the next most illustrious society, was founded in opposition to its predecessor in 1841. At least seven other societies -- Berzelius, Book and Snake, Elihu, St. Elmo, Wolf's Head, Mace and Chain, and Manuscript -- were founded at Yale in the 19th century. Today, the "tomb societies" -- so called because they are housed in windowless "tombs" that dot campus -- are complimented by an unknown number of newer and less-formal societies, such as Fork and Knife or D.S.G., or "Drunk Senior Girls."

While a few societies have both junior and senior members, the majority of societies tap students at the end of their junior year and admit them as full members as seniors. Each tomb society admits approximately 15 students per year, so at any one time, only a small percentage of Yalies are full members of the major societies.

Like administrators at Princeton and Harvard, Yale administrators said these private clubs have no official relationship to the University. Yale President Richard Levin said he does not think societies play a large role in the experience of most Yale students.

"My impression is that some societies have a major impact on the individuals who are members," Levin said. "They do not appear to have much impact on the wider Yale community."

The impact of secret societies on Yale, Levin said, is more similar to that of final clubs on Harvard than eating clubs on Princeton. More than 75 percent of Princeton upperclassmen are members of eating clubs, and because the clubs act as dining halls and study spaces, not just social spaces, they play a much larger part in students' daily lives. Both eating clubs and final clubs admit students in their sophomore year, giving them a longer-term presence in students' lives than secret societies.

[CTRL] Fwd: Department of Homeland Perversity

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Porn activity detected at DHS (maybe)By Alice Lipowicz, Washington Technology, January 27, 2006
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The Homeland Security Department’s internal computer network generated 65 million security alerts during a three-month period and 6.5 million of those [10%] may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to a report today from DHS inspector general Richard Skinner. Nearly three-quarters of the automated “security event messages” and “detect.misuse.porn” alerts originated from 16 devices on the department’s wide area network, according to the report. However, DHS could not identify the specific workstations that had generated the messages, the inspector general found. Under DHS policy, employees are forbidden to access pornographic materials from workstations. However, the “detect.misuse.porn” message may not necessarily indicate pornography, the IG report explains in a footnote. DHS’ automated network security tools are programmed to look for pornographic keywords such as “oral.” But sometimes alerts are generated when the keywords are embedded in other words, such as in “behavioral,” the report said. The security warnings are generated automatically by network security tools and are intended to help secure IT systems and detect hacking attempts and viruses. DHS is not using those tools effectively, the audit found. The number of security events increased dramatically in the last year. In July 2004, DHS was receiving about 5.4 millionmessages per month. In February, March and April 2005, the months in which the audit took place, there were 65 millionmessages, the report said.
Now that "everything changed, after 9/11," why is Homeland Security and the FBI diverting resources from defending all Americans against terrorism to preventing American adultsfromfindingFREE sexually-stimulating materialon the Internet? See last item posted below onthe Bush Administration's "war on porn" (primarily legal adult porn,specifically Internet porn --NOT, contrary to public claims, JUSTillegal kiddie porn).
Onereally has towonder if theREAL motive forthe Bush family's"War on Porn"is the same ascanbe inferredfrom the conduct ofits earlier "War on Drugs" ... Like drugs, pornography is also amulti-billion-dollarindustry ["kiddie porn" alone reportedly generates $40 billion a year in profits,untaxed!] within an international"underground economy"that includes traditional Bush/CIA/Octopus"hobbies"likemoney-laundering, "mass-murder for hire," andillegal arms-smuggling and -dealing. Nothing like the US government's global intelligence and international police powers to give oneanedge in efforts to eliminate competitors and "corner the market," toabsorb"black markets"into the"black budget"availablefor the funding ofpossibly even more sinister "black ops" ...

Department of Homeland Perversion
Wayne Madsen Report,April 6, 2006
Doyle wasn't the only child predator. In the Department of Homeland Security deputy Press Secretary Brian Doyle, arrested in Maryland for soliciting sex from a Florida undercover detective posing as a 14-year old girl, had company.
On October 25, 2005, Tampa-based Homeland Security Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Frank Figueroa was arrested at Orlando's Mall at Millenia for exposing himself and masturbating in front of a 16-year old girl. Figueroa used his federal law enforcement badge in an attempt to avoid arrest.
Figueroa had been in charge of the Homeland Security Department's Operation Predator --designed to curb child sexual exploitation and child pornography.
It is clear that as reported yesterday by WMR, the Bush administration and the GOP are chock full of pedophiles, sexual harassers, male prostitutes and their

[CTRL] Fwd: Gorbachev: The US [Meaning the Bush Administration] is Drunk with Power

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US 'intoxicated' by power: Gorbachev
Published: 4/2/2006
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WASHINGTON - Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who triggered the demise of the Soviet Union's Communist empire, said in an interview published Sunday that the United States was "intoxicated" by its power and should not impose its will on others.
"This talk of pre-emptive strikes, of ignoring the UN Security Council and international legal obligations -- all this is leading toward a dark night," Gorbachev told Time magazine.
"I think some people may be pushing president Bush in the wrong direction," he said of the US leader.
"America is intoxicated by its position as the world's only superpower. It wants to impose its will. But America needs to get over that. It has responsibilities as well as power. I say this as a good friend of America," said Gorbachev, who considered his US contemporary, president Ronald Reagan, a friend as well, and attended his funeral.
The former Soviet president, 75, was in the United States last week to promote his book on the history of his government's reforms.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Reverse Monroe Doctrine: Bush, Hands Off Latin America

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Analysis: How the US 'lost' Latin America

As the BBC begins a special series on Latin America, Newsnight presenter Gavin Esler gives his view on the region's leftward trend and its changing relationship with the US.
There is trouble ahead for Uncle Sam in his own backyard. Big trouble.

It is one of the most important and yet largely untold stories of our world in 2006. George W Bush has lost Latin America.
While the Bush administration has been fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America have become a festering sore - the worst for years.
Virtually anyone paying attention to events in Venezuela and Nicaragua in the north to Peru and Bolivia further south, plus in different ways Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, comes to the same conclusion: there is a wave of profound anti-American feeling stretching from the Texas border to the Antarctic.
And almost everyone believes it will get worse.
President Bush came into office declaring that Latin America was a priority. That's hardly surprising. It's been a priority for every American president since James Monroe in 1823 whose "Monroe Doctrine" told European nations to keep out of Latin American affairs.
In pursuit of American interests, the US has overthrown or undermined around 40 Latin American governments in the 20th Century.
For his part, President Bush even suggested that the United States had no more important ally than... wait for it... Mexico.
None of that survived the attacks of 9/11.
More ulcers?
Mr Bush launched his War on Terror and re-discovered the usefulness of allies like Britain.
While Washington's attention turned to al-Qaeda, the Taleban, Iraq and now Iran, in country after county in Latin America voters chose governments of the left, sometimes the implacably "anti-gringo" left, loudly out of sympathy with George Bush's vision of the world, and reflecting a continent with the world's greatest gulf between rich and poor.

[Violeta Chamorro] told me that Washington politicians could always find money for wars in Latin America - but rarely for peace
The next country to fall to a strongly anti-American populist politician could be Peru.
Voters there go to the polls on 9 April to elect a president and Congress.
The presidential frontrunner is Ollanta Humala, a retired army commander who led a failed military uprising in October 2000 and who is now ahead in the opinion polls.
Now, opinion polls in Peru are not especially reliable. They under-represent poor voters in the countryside.
But that is the point. The rural poor form the backbone of Mr Humala's support. If he is ahead even in the flawed opinion polls which tend to under-count his key constituency, Mr Humala is confident he can take the presidency.
And if he does, there will be more ulcers in George Bush's White House.
Shades of red
Like President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and President Evo Morales in Bolivia, Mr Humala talks of the evils of what he calls "the neo-liberal economic model that has failed to benefit our nation".
He dismisses the role of multinational companies that "offer no benefits" to the people of Peru, and he speaks of a new division in the world.

Where once Cuba's Fidel Castro could harangue the US with talk of the colonisers and the colonised, Ollanta Humala attacks globalisation as a plot to undermine Peru's national sovereignty and benefit only the rich on the backs of Latin America's poor.
"Some countries globalise, and others are globalised," is how he puts it. "The Third World belongs in the latter category."
All this may discourage foreign investment, but it is mild compared to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
He compares President Bush to Hitler.
"The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the US president

[CTRL] Fwd: Russian Presidential Candidate on Condi Rice: Desperately Needs to Get Laid

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Condoleezza Rice's anti-Russian stance based on sexual problems

Pravda, January 11, 2006

The US Secretary of Stateissued a coarse anti-Russian statement. Maybe because she'snever been marriedand hasborneno children
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, openly criticized the Russian government in connection with the gas conflict with Ukraine. Ms. Rice used quite a trivial technique of psychological pressure,mostly practiced by "schoolmarms" in the field of education.
According to Condoleezza Rice, Russia's actions towards the Ukraine were not those to be expected froma respectable member of the Group of Eight. The statement from the high-ranking US official sounded like a reprimand from a strict babysitterteaching a child to behave.
It goes without saying that the largest Eurasian power is not a child. In addition, the world geopolitical system has undergone dramatic changes since the 1990s. The US Secretary of State, however, has apparently lost her bearings inhistory, as well as inreality. Ms. Rice's wish to exercise her political powercame asasurprise toboth the Russian Ministry for Foreign Affairs and proponents of traditional liberal values.
Ms. Rice's criticism can be explained by heridiosyncracies as a politician. Why is sheso fond ofplaying a“disciplinarian” role? Is it atechnique she uses to remain in the spotlightof political attention?
The leader of the Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, expressed his opinion on the matter in an exclusive interview with Pravda.Ru.
”Condoleezza Rice hasmade a heavy-handed anti-Russian statement. Thiscan only bebecause she is a single, childlesswoman. She has lost her rationality because of her unmarried status late in life. Nature fights back.
”Such women are very tough. They are all workaholics --public workaholics whoare happy only when they are talked about and written up everywhere: 'Oh, Condoleezza, what a remarkable woman, what a charming Afro-American lady! How well she can play the piano and speak Russian! What a courageous, tough and strongwoman she is!'
”This is the only remaining wayshe cansatisfyher feminine needs. She derives pleasure from it. If, at her age,there's still no manforher,such a manwill never appear. Even if she had a whole selection of men to choose from, she wouldremain single, because her heart has hardened.Like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, or Alexander the Great,Ms. Rice needs to bebelligerent on aglobal scale. She needs to be on top of the world.
”Ms. Rice was always interested in Russia. Now sheis trying to prove to us that she is knowledgeableabout the country. But her primary goalwill always betolook out for American interests. If Russia gains,that means the USA loses. But Europe isunited, China is progressing rapidly, and in terms of its fuel resources, Russia still possesses immense power -- and heradministration can't do a thing about it.
”The US is experiencing a crisisin moral values. Americans talk a lot about positive 'family values,'whenthereal state ofaffairs is abysmal. Sopeople needto be on their guard against [hypocritical] characters like Condoleezza Rice whoonly derive pleasure from creating political turmoil.
”One day the civilized world needs to decidewhetherunmarried politiciansshould beallowed toexercise power. In Soviet times that was common. But the field of international relations issubtle and exquisite --a single word or phrase canhaveextremely important effects. International diplomacyis not the placeto try to sublimatepersonal sexual problems.
”Complex-prone women are especially dangerous. They are like malicious mothers-in-law who evokeanimosity and irritation ineveryone. Everybody tries toget rid of such women asquicklyas possible. But even a mother-in-law is better than an

[CTRL] Fwd: British Sources: US Attack on Iran Inevitable

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Government in secret talks
about strike against Iran
By Sean Rayment, Defence CorrespondentThe Telegraph (UK), April 2,2006
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The [British] Government is to hold secret talks with defence chiefs tomorrow to discuss possible military strikes against Iran.
A high-level meeting will take place in the Ministry of Defence at which senior defence chiefs and government officials will consider the consequences of an attack on Iran.
It is believed that an American-led attack, designed to destroy Iran's ability to develop a nuclear bomb, is "inevitable" if Teheran's leaders fail to comply with United Nations demands to freeze their uranium enrichment programme.
Tomorrow's meeting will be attended by Gen Sir Michael Walker, the chief of the defence staff, Lt Gen Andrew Ridgway, the chief of defence intelligence and Maj Gen Bill Rollo, the assistant chief of the general staff, together with officials from the Foreign Office and Downing Street.
The International Atomic Energy Authority, the nuclear watchdog, believes that much of Iran's programme is now devoted to uranium enrichment and plutonium separation, technologies that could provide material for nuclear bombs to be developed in the next three years.
The United States government is hopeful that the military operation will be a multinational mission, but defence chiefs believe that the Bush administration is prepared to launch the attack on its own or with the assistance of Israel, if there is little international support. British military chiefs believe an attack would be limited to a series of air strikes against nuclear plants - a land assault is not being considered at the moment.
But confirmation that Britain has started contingency planning will undermine the claim last month by Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, that a military attack against Iran was "inconceivable".
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, insisted, during a visit to Blackburn yesterday, that all negotiating options - including the use of force - remained open in an attempt to resolve the crisis.
Tactical Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from US navy ships and submarines in the Gulf would, it is believed, target Iran's air defence systems at the nuclear installations.
That would enable attacks by B2 stealth bombers equipped with eight 4,500lb enhanced BLU-28 satellite-guided bunker-busting bombs, flying from Diego Garcia, the isolated US Navy base in the Indian Ocean, RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire and Whiteman USAF base in Missouri.
It is understood that any direct British involvement in an attack would be limited but may extend to the use of the RAF's highly secret airborne early warning aircraft.
At the centre of the crisis is Washington's fear that an Iranian nuclear weapon could be used against Israel or US forces in the region, such as the American air base at Incirlik in Turkey.
The UN also believes that the production of a bomb could also lead to further destabilisation in the Middle East, which would result in Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia all developing nuclear weapons programmes.
A senior Foreign Office source said: "Monday's meeting will set out to address the consequences for Britain in the event of an attack against Iran. The CDS [chiefs of defence staff] will want to know what the impact will be on British interests in Iraq and Afghanistan which both border Iran. The CDS will then brief the Prime Minister and the Cabinet on their conclusions in the next few days.
"If Iran makes another strategic mistake, such as ignoring demands by the UN or future resolutions, then the thinking among the chiefs is that military action could be taken to bring an end to the crisis. The belief in some areas of

[CTRL] Fwd: Journalist Caught Committing Thoughtcrime, Forced to Make Public Confession of Guilt

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Our Unbrave Media World Continued: ABCNEWS SUSPENDS PRODUCER FOR WRITING PRIVATE ANTI-BUSH EMAIL
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTIONby Danny Schechter, Mediachannel.orgBuzzFlash, April 3, 2006http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/06/04/con06120.html
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New York: Readers of my current BuzzFlash commentary on the unbrave world of media ("The Fear is in the Room") will note that I reference a DRUDGE REPORT "expose" of a private e-mail sent by an ABC GMA producer expressing his personal disgust with our President's way of communicating.
Guess what's happened since that was published? The producer has been silenced!
The Washington Post reports that the ABC producer in question, John Green, a 12-year ABC News Veteran, was suspended and forced to make a groveling apology to the White House, a gesture that sounds straight outta Stalinist Russia.
"ABC News suspended the executive producer of the weekend edition of 'Good Morning America' yesterday over a pair of leaked e-mails in which he used inflammatory language to slam President Bush and Madeleine Albright.
"John Green, whose unpaid suspension will last one month, apologized to the White House in a call to communications director Nicolle Wallace, while two ABC executives called the former secretary of state to apologize."
The White House reportedly was "pleased" receiving the face-saving gesture.
Talk about a chilling effect on personal expressions by any and all network producers. You can't even have a personal opinion and work in news anymore. One of two emails Green is being punished for was written back in 2004.
Kerry Marash, ABC's executive in charge of editorial standards and a former colleague I once admired did the dirty deed of "disciplining" Green.
This same VEEP of Editorial Standards was unwilling to discuss editorial standards in war coverage when asked for a meeting by anti-war and media reform activists on the third anniversary of the war. The request ended up on Kerry Marash's desk. She did not call back. Perhaps, ABC needs a new vice-president of viewer accountability.
News employees should be entitled to personal opinions, and being open-minded doesn't mean being empty-minded. Yet these days, you can lose your right to free speech if someone leaks what you have to say. Walter Cronkite speaks out about the chilling of media speech in a statement on Mediachannel.org. He says: "Journalists shouldn't have to check their consciences at the door when they go to work for a media company. It ought to be just the reverse."
Rather than stand behind their producer's right to free speech, ABC pushed him into an embarrassing public apology, the kind of "confession" that the Chinese Communists demand of their dissidents.
Howard Kurtz reports in the Washington Post: "... two ABC executives called the former secretary of state to apologize."
He adds, "No one is sorrier than John for the embarrassment that these albeit private e-mails caused to his colleagues and to the people who were the subjects of those comments," said ABC News spokesman Jeffrey Schneider. "John would be the first to say this has been a real lesson to him. John is abjectly sorry for all the comments that have come to light, and that's appropriate."
In one of the e-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004 and leaked to the Drudge Report, Green wrote to a colleague on his BlackBerry: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke."
Reporters could not speak to Green directly as Kurtz explains."
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[CTRL] Fwd: Konformist: VoteScam in California

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Blogged by Brad on 3/29/2006
DEMOCRACY CRUMBLING: New Electronic Voter Registration Database 
Rejects 43% of New Los Angeles Voter Applications! 26% Rejected 
State-Wide in California!
Applications That Don't Match EXACTLY With DMV Records are 
Automatically Dumped by New System!
California's League of Women Voters Sends Letter of Objection to 
Secretary of State

We've been dreading this. And you're not gonna like it either. It's 
an entirely new can of worms in the Electronic Rape of American 
Electoral Democracy. The next wave -... 

We've been dreading this. And you're not gonna like it either.

It's an entirely new can of worms in the Electronic Rape of American 
Electoral Democracy. The next wave -- beyond the electronic voting 
machines, and perhaps even more alarming -- in the arsenal of those 
out to game the system for partisan advantage.

No matter what we do, no matter how many successes, the Bad Guys -- 
those who hate Democracy and American Values -- are always one step 
ahead of us, it seems.

The horrifically written and, of course, ironically named Help 
America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 requires, as of January 1, 2006, 
each state to implement a single, uniform, official, centralized, 
interactive computerized statewide voter registration list.

And guess who's writing the software for it, in California, Ohio and 
elsewhere? That's right...our old friends at Diebold, Inc.

While we've put off reporting on much of this until now -- as 
prompted by story out today (in the MSM of all places!) -- we've 
been working on an extremely disturbing part of this story for some 
time relating directly to all of this out in, you guessed it, Ohio. 
We've yet to run the story for a number of reasons. But we hope to 
have much more on it, in all its troubling detail, in the not-too-
distant future.

For today, however, we'll stick to the report coming out of 
California in this morning's Los Angeles Times which says that, 
since the first of year, when California's new computerized Voter 
Registration Database has gone state-wide, Los Angeles County 
has rejected 14,629 people  43% of those who registered from Jan. 
1 to March 15.

The rejections occur, amongst other reasons, due to failures of 
exact matching between voter applications and the state's motor 
vehicle registration (DMV) database to which they are now auto-
magically compared. So, if a voter registers (or re-registers after 
moving to a new location) as Brad Friedman but has Bradley 
Friedman on his driver's license, he'll be auto-kicked out of the 
voter registration system and may not find out until he shows up at 
the polls on Election Day! That is, if he even knows where to show 
up since he may no longer receive sample ballots and poll location 
information etc. in the mail!...

Jacqueline Jacobberger, the president of the League of Women Voters 
in California sent a letter yesterday (posted in full at the end of 
this article) to California's Sec. of State Bruce McPherson -- who 
is credited in the LA Times story as being behind the design and 
installation of the new system -- objecting to the new Voter 
Registration Database and the way it's being implemented.

In her letter, Jacobberger writes: We must object. Our procedures 
should guard against inappropriate elimination of legitimate voters 
from the system. It is not enough to allow them to cast a 
provisional ballot if they make it to the polls. Being excluded from 
the registration list means that they will not receive a sample 
ballot or a ballot pamphlet, they will not receive notice of the 
location of their polling places, and they will not be permitted to 
request an absentee

[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] John Towers Productions

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Jonathan David Powers is founder and head of John Towers Productions  ( http://www.towersproductions.com/index.htm) was a Skull and Boner at Yale (1982) http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/3/skullroster.htm .  The guest (defending the govt. story) on Showbiz tonight on Wed. (March 22) was his employee, acting as a Senior Producer for the "Natl Geo" Inside 9/11 Video.
 Powers Productions has also created other propaganda video, including a segment that has aired on the History Channel International with the subject matter of the Pentagon on 9/11.
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America's war on the web
http://www.sundayherald.com/54975

 
While the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now 
taking 
the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being 
deployed 
to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through 
mobile 
phones. Investigations editor Neil Mackay reports

 

IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts 
and 
newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and 
where 
a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.

In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of 
information 
warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on 
the 
planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, 
commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen 
by the 
Sunday Herald.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the 
documents 
recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of a 
revolution in the concept of warfare. The report orders three new developments 
in 
Americas approach to warfare:

lFirstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to 
dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its 
allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

lSecondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the 
heart 
of future military action. Psyops involve using any media  from newspapers, 
books 
and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants 
(PDAs)  to put out black propaganda to assist government and military 
strategy. 
Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing 
information 
to wrong-foot the enemy.

lThirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earths electromagnetic spectrum, 
allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV 
and 
other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied 
access 
to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America.

Freedom of speech advocates are horrified at this new doctrine, but military 
planners and members of the intelligence community embrace the idea as a 
necessary 
development in modern combat.

Human rights lawyer John Scott, who chairs the Scottish Centre for Human 
Rights, 
said: This is an unwelcome but natural development of what we have seen. I 
find 
what is said in this document to be frightening, and it needs serious 
parliamentary 
scrutiny.

Crispin Black  who has worked for the Joint Intelligence Committee, and has 
been an 
Army lieutenant colonel, a military intelligence officer, a member of the 
Defence 
Intelligence Staff and a Cabinet Office intelligence analyst who briefed Number 
10  
said he broadly supported the report as it tallied with the Pentagons 
over-arching 
vision for full spectrum dominance in all military matters.

Im all for taking down al-Qaeda websites. Shutting down enemy propaganda is a 
reasonable course of action. Al-Qaeda is very good at [information warfare on 
the 
internet], so we need to catch up. The US needs to lift its game, he said.

This revolution in information warfare is merely an extension of the politics 
of the 
neoconservative Bush White House. Even before getting into power, key players 
in 
Team Bush were planning total military and political domination of the globe. 
In 
September 2000, the now notorious document Rebuilding Americas Defences  
written 
by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think-tank staffed by 
some of 
the Bush presidencys leading

[CTRL] America's war on the web

2006-04-03 Thread Kris Millegan

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http://www.sundayherald.com/54975

America's war on the web

While the US remains committed to hunting down al-Qaeda operatives, it is now taking the battle to new fronts. Deep within the Pentagon, technologies are being deployed to wage the war on terror on the internet, in newspapers and even through mobile phones. Investigations editor Neil Mackay reports

IMAGINE a world where wars are fought over the internet; where TV broadcasts and newspaper reports are designed by the military to confuse the population; and where a foreign armed power can shut down your computer, phone, radio or TV at will.

In 2006, we are just about to enter such a world. This is the age of information warfare, and details of how this new military doctrine will affect everyone on the planet are contained in a report, entitled The Information Operations Roadmap, commissioned and approved by US secretary of defence Donald Rumsfeld and seen by the Sunday Herald.

The Pentagon has already signed off $383 million to force through the document’s recommendations by 2009. Military and intelligence sources in the US talk of “a revolution in the concept of warfare”. The report orders three new developments in America’s approach to warfare:

lFirstly, the Pentagon says it will wage war against the internet in order to dominate the realm of communications, prevent digital attacks on the US and its allies, and to have the upper hand when launching cyber-attacks against enemies.

lSecondly, psychological military operations, known as psyops, will be at the heart of future military action. Psyops involve using any media – from newspapers, books and posters to the internet, music, Blackberrys and personal digital assistants (PDAs) – to put out black propaganda to assist government and military strategy. Psyops involve the dissemination of lies and fake stories and releasing information to wrong-foot the enemy.

lThirdly, the US wants to take control of the Earth’s electromagnetic spectrum, allowing US war planners to dominate mobile phones, PDAs, the web, radio, TV and other forms of modern communication. That could see entire countries denied access to telecommunications at the flick of a switch by America.

Freedom of speech advocates are horrified at this new doctrine, but military planners and members of the intelligence community embrace the idea as a necessary development in modern combat.

Human rights lawyer John Scott, who chairs the Scottish Centre for Human Rights, said: “This is an unwelcome but natural development of what we have seen. I find what is said in this document to be frightening, and it needs serious parliamentary scrutiny.”

Crispin Black – who has worked for the Joint Intelligence Committee, and has been an Army lieutenant colonel, a military intelligence officer, a member of the Defence Intelligence Staff and a Cabinet Office intelligence analyst who briefed Number 10 – said he broadly supported the report as it tallied with the Pentagon’s over-arching vision for “full spectrum dominance” in all military matters.

“I’m all for taking down al-Qaeda websites. Shutting down enemy propaganda is a reasonable course of action. Al-Qaeda is very good at [information warfare on the internet], so we need to catch up. The US needs to lift its game,” he said.

This revolution in information warfare is merely an extension of the politics of the “neoconservative” Bush White House. Even before getting into power, key players in Team Bush were planning total military and political domination of the globe. In September 2000, the now notorious document Rebuilding America’s Defences – written by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), a think-tank staffed by some of the Bush presidency’s leading lights – said that America needed a “blueprint for maintaining US global pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power-rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests”.

The PNAC was founded by Dick Cheney, the vice-president; Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary; Bush’s younger brother, Jeb; Paul Wolfowitz, once Rumsfeld’s deputy and now head of the World Bank; and Lewis Libby, Cheney’s former chief of staff, now indicted for perjury in America.

Rebuilding America’s Defences also spoke of taking control of the internet. A heavily censored version of the document was released under Freedom of Information legislation to the National Security Archive at George Washington University in the US.

The report admits the US is vulnerable to electronic warfare. “Networks are growing faster than we can defend them,” the report notes. “The sophistication and capability of … nation states to degrade system and network operations are rapidly increasing.”

T he report says the US military’s first priority is that the “department [of defence] must be prepared to ‘fight the net’”. The internet is seen in much the same way as an enemy state by the Pentagon because of

[CTRL] Fwd: Were Israeli Patriots (Terrorist Assassins of Allied Diplomats) Soviet Agents?

2006-04-03 Thread Kris Millegan

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See: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/releases/2006/march/intro.htm
MI5 Archives Reveal Link Between Israeli PM and Soviet Inteligence
MosNews, 31.03.2006
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/03/31/israelipm.shtml

British MI5 counter-espionage archives reveal a link between Soviet intelligence and the sixth prime Minister of Israel Menahem Begin, the Axis Information and Analysis agency reported Friday.The archives reveal that back in 1947 MI5 analysts suspected that Begin was receiving or asking the Soviet secret services for financial help for his Zionist organization. Soviet intelligence archives confirm the fears of British counter-espionage, the agency adds. Menahem Begin, Israeli PM from 1977 to 1983, first joined the ranks of Beitar— a right-wing Zionist youth organization— in Poland in 1929. He eventually became its head. He was arrested for staging mass demonstrations near the embassy of Great Britain in Warsaw, protesting against limits set on Jewish immigration, then released as the German army approached. Begin fled to Lithuania, and when in 1940 Lithuania became part of the Soviet Union, he was arrested again on political grounds, and banished for 8 years to Siberia. However, after the German attack on the USSR, he was unexpectedly released in the winter of 1941, ostensibly as part of an initiative to form a “new Polish army”, a formation that was initially under the control of the Soviet People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD). In the ranks of one of its units Begin arrived in Palestine. Begin served in the army until 1943, then moved to the radical grouping “Irgun Tzvai Leumi” (National Military Organization— ETZEL). He took over the running of Beitar in all of Palestine. Then Begin with his wife and children went underground until 1947, frequently changing his appearance and using false documents. The authorities of the British Mandate of Palestine offered a reward of $30,000 for his life. Following an ETZEL attack on the British headquarters in Jerusalem, Begin allegedly underwent plastic surgery. During the period prior to the creation of Israel, secret services of the USSR conducted vigorous activity in Palestine and had a well-established agent network there. In his memoirs, head of Soviet intelligence in the Middle East in 1929 Georgy Agabekov noted that the main task regarding Palestine consisted at that time in “careful studying of all class and mutual national relations and finding-out on whom the Soviets could stake in case of war with Great Britain— on the Jews or on the Arabs. Moscow saw a big strategic significance in Palestine”.At first the Soviet secret service network in Palestine was formed of Jews, ex-citizens of the former Russian empire. In their activity in the Mandate of Palestine the USSR’s secret services used activists of the local Communist Party (established on the Kremlin’s initiative in 1929), and members of Zionist organizations, including right-wing radicals. However, if the communists did not hide their connections with Moscow, Zionists tried to avoid publicity regarding such contacts.At the end of 1923 an illegal Soviet intelligence headquarters began to operate in Palestine. According to Russian sources, Soviet intelligence had agents in the ranks of the Zionist right-wing radical organization ETZEL since 1937.

Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London
Peter Day
Sunday Times, March 5, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2069967,00.html

Jewish terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the [British] foreign secretary, in 1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel

[CTRL] Fwd: [IPCUSA] — Abramoff’s Del i - Could persuade a Judge to order “S ummary Execution, not Leniency,”— Al Kamen (Wash. Post)

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3 Jewish Satanists: Cloyd, Debusk Mosley Burn 9 Churches
http://judicial-inc.biz/church_fires_in_alabama_supplement.htm#Shot_cows
Will they get 39 years like White Supremacist Sean Gillespie, 21,
for firebombing A Jewish temple in April 2004.
http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/-White_Supremacy/Gillespie+Oklahoma+Firebombing.htm
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3 from Jewish Times
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=2027

Kosher Deli appeal in Abramoff sentencing

One of the letters that successfully sought leniency
for Jack Abramoff, noted that he ran a kosher deli at a loss.
A letter from Nathan Lewin, a prominent Washington lawyer
who is an Orthodox Jew appealed to the Florida judge who sentenced
Abramoff this week by saying that the disgraced lobbyists
ran Stacks at great personal sacrifice.

Paul Huck, the federal judge, apparently took 262 letters appealing
for leniency to heart and sentenced Abramoff to the minimum 5 years
10 months for his role in a fraudulent scheme to purchase a casino boat.

Stacks and another kosher enterprise Abramoff ran, Archives,
closed last year as his role in a major cash-for-legislation scandal
in Washington emerged. He has yet to be sentenced in that case.

Washington Post columnist Al Kamen suggested that
Abramoffs friends keep away from the kosher restaurant argument,
noting that Stacks food was not up to par: knishes were
microwaved so much that the potato filling was liquefied,
he recalled. That could persuade a judge to order
Summary Execution, not Leniency, Kamen said.

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http://jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16468intcategoryid=3

Paper on Israel Lobby raises hackles,
but fails to gain traction in Congress
(I wonder why?)

By Ron Kampeas

WASHINGTON, March 29 (JTA)
Two weeks after two prominent political science professors published
a paper that they promised would expose the pro-Israel lobby in the
U.S., the collective reaction so far suggests they get a D for impact.

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,
by John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University
of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at
Harvards John. F. Kennedy School of Government, has been the subject
of numerous Op-Eds which generally have discredited it
but has been all but ignored in the halls of Congress, its purported
target.

Among other assertions, the paper suggests that the pro-Israel lobby
and particularly the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
have helped make the United States more vulnerable to terrorist attacks,
steered the country into the Iraq war,
silenced debate on campuses and in the media,
cost the United States friends throughout the world
and corrupted U.S. moral standing.

The papers disagreement is not with
Americas pro-Israel lobby, but with the American people,
who overwhelmingly support our relationship with Israel,
said an official with a pro-Israel lobbying organization in Washington.
The Anti-Defamation League called the paper
an amateurish and biased critique of Israel,
American Jews, American policy.

Especially outrageous, some said, are the papers insinuations
that Jewish officials in government are somehow suspect.
Not only are these charges wildly at variance with what I have
personally witnessed in the Oval Office, but they also impugn
the unstinting service to Americas national security
by public figures like Dennis Ross, Martin Indyk and many others,

David Gergen, Walts fellow academic at the Kennedy School and a veteran
of four

[CTRL] Fwd: [Politech] Sexist, racist comments on police message board cause political flap [fs]

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Subject: Message board censorship
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 18:55:04 -0500
From: Paul Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: declan@well.com

There has been a brewing controversy here in the DC area about Internet 
anonymity and message board censorship, fomented by the Washington Post. 
 Last week, the Post broke the story that some of the messages posted 
by police officers in Montgomery County, participating on a message 
board under the aegis of the local of the Fraternal Order of Police that 
represents police officers, were racist or sexist.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032202525.html 

Copies of postings on the password-protected site were furnished to the 
Post which reprinted several of them.   Hello-o-o-o, yes, individual 
cops can be just as obnoxious as any one else.


The next day, the police chief was reported as demanding that the 
message board be shut down, and the union fought back, insisting that 
the bnoard provided a useful forum for the expression of member opinion, 
and besides, isn't it better to KNOW what people are thinking by 
allowing them to express their opinions?  And one county board member 
was quoted as saying, Chief Manger must take immediate action to remove 
any police officer who hides behind the anonymity of the Internet to 
attack the immigrants, the minorities and women they are hired to 
protect.  The local NAACP joined the call for disciplining any police 
office found to have said offensive things anonymously.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/23/AR2006032302112.html 




Then, earlier this week, it was announced that Montgomery County had 
blocked its officers' access to the bulletin board from their work 
computers because of the destructive effects these anonymous postings 
have had. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701658.html 



Then, in today's story, more messages are reprinted from the message 
board, incuding officers' reaction to the controversy.  We hear that 
public officials are threatening that unless the police union does 
something about the bulletin board, there will be repercussions in 
collective bargaining ths fall. 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/30/AR2006033001911.html. 
 So, the union is caving into the pressure, agreeing to monitor the 
bulletin board and remove statements deemed offensive, as well as block 
access to members who post racist, sexist or other inappropriate 
remarks.  The union's president also will outline the types of 
messages that will not be allowed on the board.  We're drawing a line 
at any racist, bigoted, sexist or inappropriate comment, [the union's 
lawyer said.


Not clear how many censors they will have working on the bowdlerization 
project, or what standards will be applied to decide what gets censored.


Or course, like any other private group, the union has the right to 
decide what lines to draw about what gets said on its own message board. 
 And, assuming that this local represents ONLY public employees union, 
the FOP is free from the free speech requirements of the Labor 
Management Reporting and Disclosure Act.  But the use of public funds 
(or the threat of withholding raises) to threaten the union unless it 
engages in censorship is troubling indeed.  And you would think a 
newspaper might know better than to campaign for cutbacks in  speech rights.


Paul Alan Levy
Public Citizen Litigation Group
1600 - 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 588-1000
http://www.citizen.org/litigation


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[CTRL] Fwd: [IPCUSA] — “Three Mugs, and a Moll,” — ABRAMOFF Link to Boulis MURDER — Threat to Compromise Curr ent Operations

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STUFF WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW ABOUT !!!
  ALL - PICS at:
  http://www.madcowprod.com
  
   
Abramoff Link to Boulis Murder Called
   Threat to Compromise Current Operations

  U.S. didn't need Able Danger to locate terrorist ringleader 
MAR 30 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker 
   
   On a day which saw Zacharias Moussaoui's death penalty trial 
  go to the jury in Washington D.C., Jack Abramoff getting sentenced i
  n Florida, and George W Bush joining college kids on spring break 
  in Cancun, the only bright spot all day on Wednesday was provided 
  by a total eclipse of the Sun.  
   
  Taking a tip from an old playbookrecall Al Capone ensconced 
  at his South Florida mansion when the St. Valentines Day Massacre 
  rocked Chicago Bush slipped out of D.C. just as his erstwhile buddy 
   Abramoff was facing the music in a Miami Federal courthouse. 
   
  For Bush it was clearly a smart move. But it also held eerie echoes 
  of the circumstances surrounding the murder of Sun Cruz Casino gambling 
  line czar Gus Boulis, which conveniently occurred while his chief 
  antagonists Abramoff and Kidan were safely out of the country, 
  and presumably innocent, by virtue of geographic distance. 
   
  It was fuzzy logic, as if the Age of Specialization had never happened 
  to humanity, and we still lived in a world where everyone 
  grew their own food and Mob Bosss did their own hits. 
   
  But be that as it mayand thank God for small favors
  there was Jack Abramoff, looking sheepish and properly humbled, 
  standing before a U.S. District Court Judge being sentenced to federal 
prison. 
  So thats where well begin 
  
We (hardly) ever stoop to saying 'We told you so.
Over nine months ago a story in the The MadCowMorningNews 
  revealed that disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoffs 
  biggest legal worries concerned neither the fraudulent takeover 
  of the SunCruz gambling ships, nor the Indian casino lollapalooza 
  in which Casino Jack skimmed tens of millions of dollars 
  off the take from casinos on Indian reservations across the U.S.
   
  Abramoffs big fear, we reported in a story in June of 2005 headlined
   Terrorists Torpedoes and Republican Muscle, centered on his potential
   exposure in the gangland-style assassination of Boulis, 
  a murder which figures prominently in his rise to power. 
  This week, with a vengeance, that prediction began to come true, 
  when defense attorneys for reputed Gambino associates accused 
  of the hit on Gus Boulis announced plans to subpoena 
  both Abramoff and his former business partner Adam Kidan.
   
  They want to question the two men, court documents showed, about their 
  purchase of SunCruz, alleged to be at the heart of the murder case. 
  Abramoff and Kidan's testimony is critical, the lawyers alleged, 
  in showing the bitter feelings and power struggle that followed 
  their purchase of SunCruz from Boulis in September 2000.  
   
  In plain English, they want to ask Jack Abramoff and Adam Kidan 
  what they know personally about the subject of murder for hire. 
   
  Murder for hire. Maybe its a new Neo-Con Principle.
  
When did newspapers stop reporting what happens every day?
While going to court for sentencing is probably nobody's idea of fun, 
  Wednesday actually turned out to be an exceptionally good day 
  for disgraced Republican lobbyist Abramoff and co-defendant Adam Kidan.
   
  It was 'high fives' all around, as U.S. District Judge Paul Huck 
  accepted the plea of Abramoff's lawyers and gave him 
  the shortest possible prison time. 
  How odd that news clips weren't reflecting this fact. 
   
  They made it sound, in fact, as if he'd gotten his just desserts:
  U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck sentenced Jack

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Bush Okayed Warrantless Searches - Oregon Lawyer Says His Office Was 
Illegally Searched 
Posted by Jon Ponder | Mar. 19, 2006
http://www.pensitoreview.com

NSA Is Being Sued for Alleged Illegal Surveillance

US News says President Bush's authorization of warrantless domestic 
spying went beyond wiretapping to include physical searches of 
businesses and residences inside the United States  an apparent 
violation of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable 
searches and seizures by the government.

Call me suspicious, but knowing the high fivin' frat boys at the 
White House, it's hard to imagine they haven't used this powerful 
tool to gather intelligence on their political enemies as well.The 
decision to authorize so-called black bag jobs was made by 
President Bush's lawyers in the months after the September 11, 2001, 
terror attacks  at the same time the president authorized the 
National Security Agency (NSA) to wiretap phones of American 
citizens without obtaining warrants. 

An attorney in Oregon told the magazine that he believes someone, 
probably the FBI, has conducted multiple warrantless searches of his 
law offices and possibly his home:

At least one defense attorney representing a subject of a terrorism 
investigation believes he was the target of warrantless clandestine 
searches. On Sept. 23, 2005nearly three months before the Times 
broke the NSA storyThomas Nelson wrote to U.S. Attorney Karin 
Immergut in Oregon that in the previous nine months, I and others 
have seen strong indications that my office and my home have been 
the target of clandestine searches. In an interview, Nelson said he 
believes that the searches resulted from the fact that FBI agents 
accidentally gave his client classified documents and were trying to 
retrieve them. Nelson's wife and son, meanwhile, repeatedly called 
their home security company asking why their alarm system seemed to 
keep malfunctioning. The company could find no fault with the 
system. 

Nelson said the classified documents appear to show that his client 
was the subject of warrantless eavesdropping by the NSA. He filed a 
lawsuit against the NSA on March 2 in Portland:


[The suit alleges that] the NSA illegally wiretapped electronic 
communications between the chapter and Wendell Belew and Asim 
Ghafoor, both attorneys in Washington, D.C.

The complaint, which also names President Bush as a defendant, 
seeks an order that would require defendants and their agents to 
halt an illegal and unconstitutional program of electronic 
surveillance of United States citizens and entities.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the two Washington attorneys and 
the Al-Haramain chapter by three Portland civil rights lawyers: 
Steven Goldberg, Zaha Hassan and Thomas Nelson.

This case will show how the illegal program was implemented and 
used to the injury of United States citizens and charities, Nelson 
said.

Two unidentified officials told US News that lawyers from the White 
House and the Justice Department approached the FBI about conducting 
the physical searches, but that top officials at the Bureau appeared 
to have been worried the scheme:

There was a fair amount of discussion at Justice on the warrantless 
physical search issue, says a former senior FBI 
official. Discussions aboutif [the searches] happenedwhere would 
the information go, and would it taint cases.

The FBI had good cause to be worried. It has been down this road 
before:

For the FBI, the very mention of the term black-bag jobs prompts a 
bad case of the heebie-jeebies. In 1975 and 1976, an investigative 
committee led by then Sen. Frank Church documented how the FBI 
engaged in broad

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) supports Dr. Rex Curry's discovery that 
the Nazi salute originated in the United States. Dr. Curry showed that the 
USA's early pledge of allegiance to the flag (1892) used a straight-arm 
salute and it was the source of the salute of the monstrous National 
Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis). The salute of German Socialists has 
sometimes been labeled an ancient Roman salute.  Dr. Curry helped to 
establish that it was not an ancient Roman salute, and that the ancient 
Roman salute is a modern myth that grew during and after the lives of 
Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) and Francis Bellamy (1855-1931).

http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

The earliest OED reference to Roman salute is a 1959 reference to the 
Chambers's Encyclopedia. The OED states: Chambers's Encycl. XII. 173/2 
Special forms of salute, the clenched fist salute of the Communists, the 
'Roman salute' of the Fascists and the Hitler salute, have been a feature of 
modern political life.


Chambers's Encyclopedia puts the Roman reference in quotation marks, as if 
to indicate that it is the so-called Roman salute and that the phrase is 
not historically accurate.  The Chambers Encyclopedia thus supports Dr. 
Curry's discoveries.


An earlier OED reference exists for raised-arm salute in a 1943 reference 
to a David Gascoyne poem. The poem states, ...the centurions wear 
riding-boots, Black shirts and badges and peaked caps, Greet one another 
with raised-arm salutes   Gascoyne did not use the term Roman salute, 
and that may suggest that the gesture was not widely known by that name at 
that time.  Gascoyne's poem shows how the Roman salute myth spread. 
Gascoyne was a surrealist and his poem mixes images from a Roman crucifixion 
with images under the National Socialist German Workers' Party.  Gascoyne 
had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1936 and broadcast some 
radio talks for the Barcelona-based propaganda ministry. However, he soon 
became disillusioned and left the party.


Dr. Curry knows of two other uses of Roman salute that pre-date the OED 
reference.  The earliest of the two uses is 1937, and the other is 1938, and 
the references are by different authors.


Even the author of the Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy,

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Springtime for Atta

You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny
Wait until they've got you running to the Night Rally - Elvis Costello

A recurring and seemingly fabulist theme in the literature of cult and mind control survivors is the perseverence of a criminal Nazi underground in America, surviving on bonds of blood and symbology and enjoying the protection of high power. Eight-year old Rhonda, drawing pictures of her torture depicting swastikas and ceremonial daggers. Kathleen Sullivan writing in Unshackled of being shuffled between porn shoots and "secret Nazi meetings" by her father and grandfather. It's all a bit too rich for most palates, even now, when the Nazi is little more than a stock villain or comic foil. It's hard to get exercised about an enemy if you believe him buried beneath 60 years of history.

We know of Paperclip and the Ghelen Org, and how Nazis came to guide US government science and intelligence (and unacknowledged yet no less real, the covert trafficking of arms and drugs), finding the patronage of their stateside fellow travellers and eugenicists. Not as well known is how many others came to follow.

Between 1948 and 1952, America's Displaced Persons Commission arranged for nearly a half-million Europeans to emigrate to the United States. For two years it barred those who had been members of organizations sympathetic or collaborative to the Nazis. In 1950 that began to change, when first the "Baltic Legion" was removed from the list of "hostile" movements, though the Baltic Legion was also known as the Baltic Waffen SS.

The change of policy was strategic: the CIA was subsidizing the immigration of European Nazis and fascists in order to build a far-right power bloc as a hedge against communism. Its primary vehicle became the Republican Party. In the year the Commission completed its work, the Republican National Committee formed an "Ethnic Division" to mobilize for elections, which became the permanent standing body called the Republican Heritage Groups Council in 1969.

In his 1988 book Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party, Russ Bellant writes that "it eventually became clear that it wasn't an accident or a fluke that people with Nazi associations were in the Republican Heritage Groups Council. In some cases more mainstream ethnic organizations were passed over in favor of smaller but more extremists groups. [And] the Republican National Committee knows with whom they are dealing."

The leaders of the Republican "heritage" groups included men like Nicholas Nazarenko, who fought as an officer in an SS Cossack unit before going to work for the US Army's Counter Intelligence Corp. The evening after a Reagan speech praising the heritage groups, Nazarenko insisted on opening for Bellant his huge suitcase of political materials, filled with German war memorabilia and literature on the "Jewish problem." He said he was still "in touch" with various "Nazi" organizations: "They respect me because I was a former German army officer. Sometimes when I meet these guys, they say 'Heil Hitler.'"

Bellant again: "in a sense...the foundation of the Republican Heritage Groups Council lay in Hitler's networks into East Europe before World War II. In each of those Eastern European countries, the German SS set up or funded political action organizations that helped form SS militias during the war."

The heritage groups accounted for 86,000 volunteers in the 1988 election of George HW Bush, though several of their leaders were compelled to resign from campaign positions on account of collaboration. One was Romanian priest and member of the pro-Nazi Iron Guard Florian Galdau, who boasted of having files on 15,000 Romanians he helped emigrate in the US with the aid of

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Left Margin

Arab Stock Market Tumbles; But Who Knows It?

By Carl Bloice
published by portside, March 28, 2006

Think people in the Emirates don't stage street
demonstrations? Think again. On March 8, hundreds of
protestors gathered in front of the Kuwait City stock
exchange. They weren't anti-globalization protesters,
but stockholders who had seen their net worth plummet
over the preceding month, culminating the previous day
when the market fell 400 points.

It didn't get any better. On March 14, the Kuwaiti
investor-demonstrators hit the streets again, this time
marching on the parliament demanding the government take
action to stop the slide. The market had just registered
its largest one-day loss and closed at a six-month low.

Still it didn't stop. Two weeks later, on March 26,
after analysts had begun expressing a positive outlook,
the Kuwaiti exchange cascaded again, shedding 239.8
points.

According to press reports, the Kuwait protesters
accused the big money traders on the exchange of
manipulating the market for various financial and
political motives. A member of parliament, Abdulwahid
Al-Awadi said, someone is playing with the stock market
in an attempt to monopolize it. However it soon became
clear that the crisis was not limited to the Emirate of
Kuwait. That same day, in the United Arab Emirates, the
market plunged to its lowest level in 11 months and
observers began referring to the fall as Black
Tuesday. The stock markets fell 11.7 percent in Dubai
and 4.74 percent in Saudi Arabia.

The Saudi stock market accounts for half of the value of
all Arab exchanges, with a capitalization of around $650
billion. Over a two week period, the capital value of
the Saudi market slid by more than 30 percent. By March
16, the Financial Times was reporting that the main
Saudi index was down 21 percent from its all-time high,
but Dubai, where the collapse began earlier, was 51
percent off. On March 26, in defiance of optimistic
forecasts, the Saudi stock market fell 626.65 points. Of
the 79 listed companies, 72 saw their price drop. A lot
of wealth is disappearing overnight, Shahid Hameed,
head of asset management at Manama-Bahrain-based
Securities  Investment Co, told Bloomberg news.

How strange it is that in an area of the world that has
been officially named a strategic priority for the
United States since the 1970s, an economic meltdown is
underway and shows no signs of slowing any time soon and
yet people in our country are almost totally unaware it
is happening.

Why the stock markets across the region are being
shattered is not clear; international observers and
analysts on the scene admit it remains somewhat a
mystery. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that
the panic behind the rout is interrelated with the
political and military situation in the Middle East and
Gulf region, the U.S. conflict with Iran and the
continuing costly and destabilizing war in Iraq. It
cannot bode well for the political or economic security
of the international community.

The total combined value of the stock exchanges in the
Gulf countries fell March 14 to just under one trillion
dollars, down some $159 billion from their in 2005 value
and more than $250 billion below their all-time high.

'Collapse,' 'Domino effect,' 'Bleeding' screamed
headlines in Arab newspapers, reported the Financial
Times, as Arab investors tried to come to terms with the
region-wide collapse in stock market prices.

It is pure panic and its snowballing effect on investor
sentiment which are triggering the fall. We cannot any
more call it a correction as it is a crash, Dhaheer
Quraish, general manager of Essham Securities, told the
Dubai-based Khaleej Times.

Evidently there were no street demos in the Saudi
capital, but Saudi politicians demanded state action to
stop the

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NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN


Illegal Workers: the Cons' Secret Weapon 

By Thom Hartmann 

03/29/06 Baltimore Chronicle -- -- Conservatives are all atwitter about 
illegal 
immigrants. Some want to give them amnesty. Others want to reinstitute the old 
Bracero program. Others want to build a wall around America, like the 
communists did 
around East Berlin. Some advocate all of the above. 
But none will tell Americans the truth about why we have eleven million illegal 
aliens in this nation now (when it was fewer than 2 million when Reagan came 
into 
office), why they're staying, or why they keep coming. In a word, it's jobs. 
In 
conservative lexicon, it's cheap labor to increase corporate profits. 

Recently George W. Bush insulted working Americans by saying that we need 
eleven 
million illegal immigrants here in the United States because (in a slightly 
cleaned-
up version of the more blatantly racist comments of Vicente Fox) there are some 
jobs 
that American's won't do. As the modern-day Sago miners, and the 1950s Ed 
Norton 
character Art Carney played on the old Jackie Gleason show (who worked in the 
sewers 
of NYC) prove, the reality is that there are virtually no jobs Americans won't 
do - 
for an appropriate paycheck. 

It's really all about breaking the back of the most democratic (and Democratic) 
of 
American institutions - the American middle class. 

One of the tools conservatives have used very successfully over the past 25 
years to 
drive down wages, bust unions, and increase CEO salaries has been to encourage 
illegal immigrant labor in the US. Their technique is transparently simple. 

Conservatives well understand supply and demand. If there's more of something, 
its 
price goes down. If it becomes scarce, its price goes up. 

They also understand that this applies just as readily to labor as it does to 
houses, cars, soybeans, or oil. While the history of much of the progressive 
movement in the United States has been to control the supply of labor (mostly 
through pushing for maximum-hour, right-to-strike, and child-labor laws) to 
thus be 
able to bargain decent wages for working people, the history of conservative 
America 
has, from its earliest days grounded in slavery and indentured workers from 
Europe, 
been to increase the supply of labor and drive down its cost. 

In the 1980s, for example, the increasing supply of labor (both from 
Reagan-allowed 
consolidations eliminating redundant jobs, and from illegal immigration, which 
was 
around 3 million illegals by the time Reagan left office) fed massive 
union-busting 
in industry sectors from those directly hit with illegal immigrant labor (like 
construction and agriculture) to those who only felt its fallout but 
nonetheless 
were pressed (like coal mining). In part, because of these national downward 
pressures on organized labor, the miners who died in the International Coal 
Group's 
Sago Mine didn't have union protection. 

Indeed, as the International Coal Group's June 2005 form S-A/1 filing notes 
about 
one of their other recent mine acquisitions: .assets are high quality reserves 
strategically located in Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, are union free, 
have 
limited reclamation liabilities and are substantially free of other legacy 
liabilities. Similarly, it's estimated that the construction industry enhanced 
their profits last year by over a billion dollars because the availability of 
illegal immigrant labor has so significantly pushed down the price of 
construction 
labor. 

Union free is good for the CEOs and stockholders of giant corporations. 
Reagan 
helped make it possible by reducing enforcement of the Sherman Anti-Trust and 
similar acts, by making the Labor Department hostile

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The Times   March 29, 2006  

Result could spell end of US role in pushing for peace
By Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor



THIRTY years of intense US-led diplomacy, aimed at finding a peaceful solution 
to 
the Arab-Israeli conflict, could draw to an end in the wake of yesterdays 
Israeli 
elections and the confirmation of a new militant Palestinian government. 

Ever since Washington brokered the Camp David agreement in 1979, successive US 
administrations have despatched envoys to the region and produced dozens of 
plans in 
the search for an elusive peace. 

Now, however, the peace process, as this tortuous brand of diplomacy is 
known, 
could be coming to a end. Yesterdays election victory in Israel for the 
centrist 
Kadima party has given Ehud Olmert, the man forming the new government, a 
strong 
mandate to carry out territorial moves that would see Israel setting out 
unilaterally what it regards as its future borders. 

Last year Ariel Sharon, the former Prime Minister who is in a coma after 
suffering a 
stroke, executed a similar move in the Gaza Strip. 

That operation, which involved the removal of 8,000 Jewish settlers, was widely 
welcomed internationally since it conformed to demands that Israel vacate all 
land 
it captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. 

Mr Olmerts proposed pullout from the West Bank is far more controversial. 
While he 
also plans to remove thousands of Jewish settlers, he would incorporate Arab 
East 
Jerusalem and three large chunks of occupied territory, where the bulk of 
Jewish 
settlements are located. 

With the erection of a security fence to protect this new frontier, Israel 
will de 
facto have redrawn an international border. The move is likely to produce an 
outcry 
internationally, but that in itself will not deter a new Government which has 
the 
clear backing of the Israeli people. 

On the Palestinian side the situation is even more complex. Yesterday the new 
Palestinian parliament confirmed the appointment of ministers belonging to 
Hamas, 
the militant Islamic group which has waged a bloody campaign against Israel. 

For the time being there is no question of direct official contact between the 
new 
Palestinian government and the West at any senior level until the movement 
fundamentally changes its policies. America and the EU insist that Hamas 
recognise 
Israels right to exist and abandons the use of violence. 

Senior British officials insisted yesterday that there is still the possibility 
of 
bringing both parties back into an international framework. The Quartet group, 
made 
up of America, Russia, the United Nations and the European Union, will continue 
to 
meet and discuss Middle East issues and give its support to the road map, a 
plan 
which envisages the creation of a Palestinian state living side by side with 
Israel. 


But Western diplomats concede that in the present climate the chance of any 
real 
negotiations is virtually nil. 

As ever in the Middle East, the US remains the only outside player that can 
exert 
real pressure on the parties. 

But the Bush Administration has time and again shown itself reluctant to get 
involved and certainly does not intend to challenge Israel. Washington is 
already 
struggling with the war in Iraq and other regional crises, without taking on 
one 
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Argentina  Uruguay abandon School of the Americas 

www.SOAW.org |202-234-3440

SOA Watch Update, March 28, 2006

Read this update on the web

SOA Watch Breaking News  Update March 28, 2006

Argentina  Uruguay abandon SOA! Critical victory for
human rights organizations across the Americas

We are thrilled to tell you that, after meeting with
representatives of human rights organizations and the
three SOA Watch activists Carlos Mauricio, Lisa
Sullivan and Fr. Roy Bourgeois, the governments of
Argentina and Uruguay have agreed to stop sending
soldiers to train at the School of the Americas (SOA/
WHINSEC)!

These decisions are a critical victory for all those
struggling for human rights, justice and military
accountability across the Americas! Argentina and
Uruguay are the second and third countries to take this
vital step; they join Venezuela, which announced in
January of 2004 that they would no longer send soldiers
to the school.

This past Friday, Roy, Carlos and Lisa met with the
Defense Minister of Uruguay, Azucena Berrutti. Minister
Berrutti is a former human rights lawyer. During the
long dictatorship in Uruguay she defended numerous
political prisoners.

Lisa Sullivan writes: From the beginning of the
conversation, Minister Berrutti told us that there was
no need to explain the atrocities of the SOA, as she,
and the people of Uruguay, were fully aware of this
reality, having experienced first hand the horrors of
the tortures, detentions, imprisonments and
'disappearances' caused by its graduates. Over and over
here in Latin America we have been humbled and realize
that we do not need to explain these things to our
public, but rather they have much to tell us, to put
faces and emotions on the statistics which we have
memorized so efficientlyMinister Berrutti shared
with Carlos, Lisa and Roy some very good news: during
the year President Tabareacute; Vaacute;zquez has
been in office, no military personnel from Uruguay have
been sent to the SOA, and none will be sent under this
current administration.

Yesterday, the three SOA Watch activists and the head
of the Mothers of the Disappeared met with the defense
minister, Nilda Garreacute;, whose husband was
disappeared during the repression in Argentina.
Minister Garreacute; agreed that after the one
Argentinean soldier currently at the SOA/ WHINSEC
finishes his classes, no more Argentinean soldiers will
be sent to the School of the Americas. Read the whole
update from Lisa, Carlos  Roy.

The tide is turning in Latin America! All across
Central and South America, governments and citizens are
rejecting SOA-style military solutions to social
problems. Across the Americas, support for the School
of the Americas is eroding every day. Add your voice to
this movement for justice! March, rally and lobby to
close the SOA in Washington, DC April 23-25!  (see
below for more info).

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Hundreds of thousands mobilize in support of immigrant rights

Yesterday tens of thousands of students walked out of
school in California and other states in a second week
of massive protests across the United States against
legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and supporters
participated in enormous and energetic marches in Los
Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Boulder,
Washington, DC and other cities to protest a bill that
would make it a felony to be in this country illegally
and would make it crime to dispense aid to those
without legal documents. Broad-based coalitions of
faith, labor, business and community leaders have come
together to oppose this bill and to call for the
creation of a path to citizenship for immigrants.

In several U.S. cities, the massive marches of the past
two weeks are the largest

[CTRL] Black Athena

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starroute said...

Jeff raises one crucial issue -- but I see an even deeper issue behind that.

The first issue is one of epistomology -- what can we know and how do we know it? When I was growing up, Western culture was still clinging to the remains of 17th century empiricism -- the idea that a newborn baby is a blank slate and all we can know is what we ourselves have experienced or learned.

However, that was already changing. By the time I studied linguistics in college in the 60's, the hot new idea was that perhaps certain kinds of knowledge (like the rules of grammar) might be hard-wired into the brain.

By the end of the 60's, I was starting to run into the further suggestion that the human mind was actually able to tap into something outside itself. That the quantum field, or the Akashic Records, or the "Universal Tablet" of the Rumi quote on Jeff's front page is a great repository of all the information in the universe, which we can access to the extent of our understanding and our necessity.

However, being the good modern Westerners that we are, we still tend to see this repository as a passive substance, like a computer hard drive, that we can draw upon and even manipulate at will.

But what if it isn't? What if it has a will and purpose of its own?

At this point, I'm going to quote a few paragraphs from Martin Bernal's "Black Athena," which I've been re-reading lately. They have to do with a crucial philosophical turning in the development of modern science -- the choice of "passive" matter over "active" matter -- and its political implications, and they raise a number of interesting issues:

By the 1680s a new, equally radical intellectual force had emerged in England from the Hermetic and Rosicrucian traditions. The new movement argued for a twofold philosophy, for transcendence by the elite of the religious squabbles of the masses. The masses should be given toleration to practise their particular superstition, but political and intellectual power should be firmly in the hands of the enlightened few.

This general attitude was perfectly compatible with 18th-century English society. The Radical Enlightenment, however, contained thinkers like John Toland, who not only drew from the Rosicrucian and Masonic traditions the notion of a prisca theologia, but also read Bruno. Toland had absorbed many of Bruno's cosmological Hermetic and Egyptian ideas of animate matter and a world spirit, ideas which lead to pantheism or even atheism. Long before this Newton himself had hesitated, in private, on the question of the activity or passivity of matter, but Newtonianism was not merely scientific. It had a consequent political and theological doctrine which depended on the passivity of matter, with motion coming only from outside. Otherwise, theologically, the universe would need no crdeator or 'Grand Architect', let alone a 'clock-minder'; while politically, England would need no king -- Toland was fully aware of the republican implications of his ideas.

John Toland was a central figure in the establishment ofc the legends, rituals and theology of speculative Masonry, much of which was standardized and canonized by the fusion of various Masonic and Rosicrucian groups in 1717. By that time, however, the movement had been taken over by respectable Newtonians. Even bold figures like Newton's deputy and successor at Cambridge, William Whiston, who unlike his mentor openly proclaimed his Arianism -- disbelief in the divinity of Christ -- 'despised and actively combated' Toland and his ideas.

These paragraphs are not as clear as I'd like -- largely because they contain too many ideas tangled up in a small space. But the points I take from them are these:

1) As radical new scientific and philosophical ideas advanced in the 17th century, the elite in general tended to argue that they could handle them, but that the masses should be kept ignorant and encouraged to adhere to their traditional superstitions. (This is, quite explicitly, still the position of the Straussians, and may explain a lot about the power of fundamentalism in this country today.)

2) Beyond that general elitism, there was an ongoing dispute between the Newtonian position of passive matter -- which justified both belief in a God to keep things running and, by analogy, in a powerful monarch -- and Toland's position of active matter, which leads to far more pantheistic, democratic, and open source concepts of the universe and of society.

3) The debate between active and passive matter may have been confined to the elite at the time. It's not clear from the quote whether Toland thought the masses could be trusted with his ideas or not. But either way, the concept of active matter must ultimately be subversive of all forms of superimposed power and external control.

4) This dispute played a central role in

[CTRL] Fwd: Summer of Uncle Sam, 1981

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The Council on National Policy (CNP), at the heart of the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy," was founded in 1981, but (typically, for its secrecy and dissimulation) thereseem to beseveral different stories of exactly when, in what circumstances, and with whom present.
As best as I can determine, however,the formal organization took place in the summer of 1981 --not long after the March 30 almost-assassination of Ronald Reagan, after which George HW Bush was virtual President and Bush's "Octopus" network of Moonies/Arab terrorists/Nazis/Yakuza wasactive in the Iran-Contra, P2 in Europe, and in the Vatican.

Thus, there's something incongruous, or disingenuous, in the descriptions by Gary North and others ("outer circle" members) of the CNP's founding "in elation at Reagan's election," without anyreference to thestill-freshmemory of theattempted assassination ofReagan.
The absence of any reaction is even stranger if the founding of the CNP occurredafter the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II, reputedly by a "Communist conspiracy" --guaranteed to exarcerbate the paranoiaof the John Birchers who were their coworkers-- because that, too,occurred in the same monthwhen theagendafor the CNP was set.

All the more curious because the CNPwas founded --in being funded--byNelson Bunker Hunt, who, two decades earlier,had paid for theinflammatory anti-Kennedy billboards in Dallas that set the mood for the assassination of John F Kennedy andis thought to have been, with his father HL Hunt,one of the mastermindsofthe assassination itself -- andthe vice president who assumed the reins of government now during Reagan's incapacity was GeorgeHW Bush,likewise implicated in the JFK assassination (judgingbyanFBI memo dated November 22, 1963). The same "Octopus"typeshad beenpresent in 1963 as well, in orbit around HL Hunt and his Texas oil brethtren, the CIA's Howard Hunt (no relation), and the Mafia underworld of Miamiprotected and profited from by Republicans like Dick Nixon.

So, this raisessome intriguing questions. Waspolitically naive populist Ronald Reagan
targeted for assassination by the same group that executed the Kennedy assassination, in the hopes ofstirring up public outrageagainstan"Communist Conspiracy," to be blamed (as Castro was, unsuccessfully,forJFK's death) for the murder ofAmerica'spresident?
The much-publicized "KGB plot" to kill the Pope would have lent credence to that claim.
Reagan, however, "dodged the bullet" andsurvived theassassination attempt. Was that an unforeseen, unintendedresult --pulling the rug out from under an otherwise well-laid plan?
WereVice President George HW Bush's actions,temporarily assuming the powers of the presidency,not part of "Plan A"but more of a "clean-up" operation, as "damage control"?

After all, it was Nelson Bunker Hunt who,inpartnership with his WACL friends andCIA covertops pals, bankrolleda number of "Christian missionary" organizationsthat were in factCIA fronts used for psychological warfare operations to shore up local dictatorships and, that failing, as conduits for mercenaries tosystematically terrorizethe native population.
One of these "evangelical" groups funded by Nelson Bunker Hunt was "World Vision," which has an interesting record ...

World Vision ran the refugee camps where the CIA recruited Cubans for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. "Lone nut assassin" Lee Harvey Oswald worked with these groups. So did Claw Bertrand (Clay Shaw). Many of the people Jim Garrison investigated about the Kennedy assasination had been recruited at World Vision camps. 

World Vision had a lot to do with identifying targets for the Army's "Operation Phoenix" civilian assassination campaign in Vietnam. 
Still later, World Vision ran the refugee camps where the CIA recruitedNicaraguans and El Salvadoreans for the

[CTRL] Fwd: Weinberger, Bushes Iran-Contra

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The death of Caspar Weinberger is prompting warm eulogies for Ronald Reagan's 
former Defense Secretary. But more significant to U.S. history was the lost 
opportunity to learn the secrets of Reagan-Bush arms shipments to Iran and Iraq 
in the 1980s that might have been revealed if Weinberger had faced trial for 
Iran-Contra crimes in 1993. But George H.W. Bush blocked those disclosures -- 
and potentially spared his family political damage -- by pardoning Weinberger 
and five other Iran-Contra defendants on Christmas Eve 1992. 

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[CTRL] Fwd: Abramoff Gets Prison Sentence, Still Helping Bring Down Capitol Hill Pals

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Abramoff Gets Almost 6 Years in Prison
Abramoff, Former Partner Get Almost 6 Years Each in Prison on Florida Fraud Conviction
By CURT ANDERSON
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MIAMI - Disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in federal prison, the minimum they faced for fraud related to their 2000 purchase of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet.
Abramoff and Adam Kidan both pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud, but they won't have to report to prison immediately.

The judge postponed their reporting date for at least 90 days so the two can continue cooperating in a Washington corruption investigation and a Florida probe into the killing of former SunCruz owner Konstantinos Boulis. Both deny roles in the killing. Abramoff pleaded guilty in connection with the corruption probe but has yet to be sentenced.

In court Wednesday, Abramoff said the fraud case was "incredibly painful" for himself, his family and his friends.

"In the past two years I have started the process of becoming a new man," he said.

Under their plea agreement, both men had faced a sentence of between five years, 10 months, and seven years, three months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck also ordered them Wednesday to pay restitution of more than $21 million.

Abramoff and Kidan admitted concocting a fake $23 million wire transfer to make it appear they had made a large cash contribution to the $147.5 million purchase of SunCruz Casinos. Based on that fake transfer, lenders provided the pair with $60 million in financing.

The same week Abramoff pleaded guilty to the SunCruz fraud, he entered guilty pleas to three federal charges as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe that could involve up to 20 members of Congress and aides, including former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

In addition to assisting in that investigation, Abramoff, 47, and Kidan, 41, are expected to give statements in the investigation into the Feb. 6, 2001, slaying of Boulis, who was gunned down at the wheel of his car amid a power struggle over the gambling fleet. Three men face murder charges, including one who worked for Kidan as a consultant at SunCruz and who allegedly has ties to New York's Gambino crime family.

Both Abramoff and Kidan have repeatedly denied any role in or knowledge of the Boulis murder. But prosecutors say Kidan has not been ruled out as a suspect and defense attorneys say Abramoff could provide critical inside information about the dispute with Boulis, who also founded the Miami Subs restaurant chain.

Ultimately, cooperation in those investigations could reduce Abramoff's and Kidan's sentences.

Abramoff, who was wearing a tan baseball-style cap, didn't speak to reporters as he and his lawyers left court after the sentencing.

Before the hearing, more than 260 people including rabbis, military officers and even a professional hockey referee wrote letters on the men's behalf asking the judge for leniency.

The letters, obtained by The Associated Press, put a new spin on the foibles and crimes of a man who became the face of Washington's latest corruption scandal.

"Jack is a good person, who in his quest to be successful, lost sight of the rules," National Hockey League referee Dave Jackson wrote, describing the time Abramoff brought 14 youngsters to his dressing room before a game.

Kidan, in his own letter to the judge, said he knew the SunCruz deal was wrong but said he "was very caught up in the fast paced world of my partner and the high profile that came along with it." He added, "I am not the horrible person that the media has written about."

Associated Press writer John Solomon in Washington contributed to this report.

[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Treasure Hunting!

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/diplomatic/foreign.htm
March 28, 2006 --

SPECIAL TO WMR from ROME AND WASHINGTON, DC

Play the Neo-cons Treasure Hunting!

By Burt Scully

Deploying the Right, Penetrating the Left, How the Discrediting Committee 
Works:

Salon, NYT, and Ledeen, The Real Scandal of the Abu Ghraib Picture

One of the most bizarre media tricks  over the last weeks was the little 
psychological warfare drama organized around the issue of torture in Abu 
Ghraib, The 
New York Times published an interview with one of the many prisoners tortured 
in Abu 
Ghraib, Ali Shalal Qaissi, now living in Jordan. Qaissi is the leader of an 
association of the former prisoners of Abu Ghraib and he is trying to have at 
least 
a little part of the truth about the torture of prisoners in Iraq come out.  
Susan 
Burke, The Philadelphia lawyer who is representing Mr. Qaissi and other former 
prisoners in a lawsuit against civilian interrogators and translators, has 
explained 
in great and compelling details how this interview really worked  ( 
http://www.rainews24.rai.it/ ran24/ inchieste/ video_abughraib/ 
abughraib_itvburque_eng.wmv) . And, of course there are official documents 
confirming the paper work used to set up the tortures, here, here, and here. 
[1] 

And for a background including documents, pictures and films go here and here.

This initial timid attempt to claim the right to speak for those who were 
tortured 
and degraded by the whitened sepulchers that had claimed to the world they were 
invading Iraq to stop torture and to bring democracy did not go unpunished. 
Indeed, 
in a situation of generalized lies supported by an enormous media apparatus 
which 
has sold out or been intimidated by the dictatorial power of the US government 
and 
elite, the simple affirmation of basic truths is, rightly, considered dangerous 
and 
intolerable.

Such a power is so arrogant and overwhelming that it has established that the 
truth 
is what it says is the truth. This is not an exaggeration, it is a the 
statement of 
a fact. And in order to enforce this official truth, the dictatorial power has 
created an enormous, unprecedented,  apparatus of propaganda, intimidation, and 
distortion that has been progressively taking over even the servile news of 
just a 
few years ago.  By implementing what fascism had only tried, this arrogant 
power has 
organized a large network of mignons which is capable of being deployed  in a 
swarming (SWARMING) fashion against those who threaten to break the wall of the 
big 
lie. 

And so, we have today Fox news et similia in the US; and we have  the creation 
of 
similar operations in many countries. Media that fill their mouths with the 
words 
democracy, freedom, and truth while being their paid executioner. A population 
that 
is obviously against the war, against torture, against dictatorship, and 
against 
invasions has been intimidated and has lost the most fundamental  precondition 
for 
democracy and freedom: the ability to express  in a meaningful and  concrete 
way 
what they think. This population has been, intentionally, persuaded that what 
they 
think is of no consequence and that what they want has no effect.  As in any 
fascist 
system, the purpose is to break the resistance of the population and to force 
them 
to go to whoever seems the strongest for protection.  And the strongest appears 
to 
be, for the moment, the likes of OReilly and other demagogical liars with the 
license to intimidate. 

This, however, is only a part of the story. The fact is that no Fascism has 
magic 
power to control a victim population forever. A spontaneous and, in fact, 
insuppressible resistance has emerged. It has emerged  without, and actually 
despite, what is presented officially as the institutions of the

[CTRL] Fwd: Family Tree Link Linking Bush, Hinckley, JP Morgan and the Mormons

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Samuel Hinckley m. Sarah Soole.John Hinckley m. Bethiah Lathrop|.Gershom Hinckley m. Mary Buel||.Anne Hinckley m. Joseph Tracy||| .Jared Tracy m. Margaret Grant||| .William Gedney Tracy m. Rachel Huntington||| .Charles Tracy m. Louisa Kirkland||| .Frances Louise Tracy m. John Pierpont Morgan||| .JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN JR. (1867-1943), banker...|.Samuel Hinckley m. Martha Lathrop| .Samuel Hinckley m. Zerviah Breed| .Abel Hinckley m. Sarah Hubbard| |.Abel Hinckley m. Elizabeth Wheeler| | .Alfred Hinckley m. Elizabeth Stanley| | .Francis Edward Hinckley m. Amelia Smith| | .Percy Porter Hinckley m. Katherine Arvilla Warnock| | .John Warnock Hinckley** m. Jo Anne Moore **head of World Vision, Bush friend| | .JOHN WARNOCK HINCKLEY (b. 1955), attempted assassin of ReaganMary Hinckley m. Samuel Bangs|.Joseph Bangs m. Thankful Hamlin| .Lemuel Bangs m. Rebecca Keeler| .Elijah Keeler Bangs m. Esther Stackhouse| .Mary Ann Bangs m. Joseph Ambrose Beaky| .Martha Adela Beaky m. David Davis Walker| .George Herbert Walker m. Lucretia Wear| .Dorothy Walker m. Prescott Sheldon Bush| .GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH (b. 1924), US President, m. Barbara Pierce| |.GEORGE WALKER BUSH (b. 1946), US President| |.JOHN ELLIS "Jeb" BUSH (b. 1953), Governor of Florida| |.Neil Mallon Bush m. Sharon Smith| | .LAUREN BUSH (b. 1984), model| .Jonathan James Bush m. Josephine Bradley| .William Hall "BILLY" BUSH (b. 1972), entertainment reporter.Thomas Hinckley m. Mercy .Thomas Hinckley m. Ruth Merrick.Nathaniel Hinckley m. Mercy Nickerson.Nathaniel Hinckley m. Rhoda Barber.Nathaniel Hinckley m. Lois Judd.Ira Nathaniel Hinckley m. Angeline Wilcox Noble.Bryant Stringham Hinckley m. Ada Bitner.GORDON BITNER HINCKLEY (b. 1910), president of the Mormon church) 


Wikipedia:

In the early 1980s the ill health of both Church President Spencer W. Kimball and his aging Counselors N. Eldon Tanner and Marion G. Romney led the Church leadership to resort to the occasional practice of adding an additional Counselor to the First Presidency, which Hinckley became on July 23, 1981. At the time of Tanner's death in 1982, Romney succeeded him as First Counselor and Hinckley succeeded Romney as Second Counselor.

During this time period, there were a number of questionable, new Mormon historical documents that began to surface, and Hinckley oversaw the purchase of some of these documents. Later, most of the newly-surfaced documents turned out to be forgeries of Mark Hofmann, including the Salamander Letter. Because of his prominence in the Church and his responsibility to oversee the purchase of historical documents, Hinckley became a key figure in the investigation of Hofmann.

By this time, however, Hinckley was largely shouldering the burdens of the First Presidency himself. Though he officially remained Second Counselor, he was informally referred to in the press as "acting President of the Church." Kimball and Romney remained largely out of the public eye until President Kimball died in November 1985.

Longtime President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, Ezra Taft Benson** became Church President [in 1985] and named Hinckley First Counselor. Romney succeeded Benson as President of the Twelve, though he never exercised the duties of this position. Thomas S. Monson became Second Counselor, and, for a while, all three members of the First Presidency were able to perform their duties.

In the early 1990s however, Ezra Taft Benson developed serious health problems that removed him from public view, and First Counselor Hinckley again carried out many of the duties of the President of the Church until Benson died in 1994 [and]Howard W. Hunter became Church President... And when Hunter died after a presidency of only

[CTRL] Fwd: Not So Bush-Friendly Supreme Court Will Rule on President's Wartime Powers

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High court test in terror panel case:
U.S. justices won't duck
Bush military commissions issue

Charles Lane
Washington Post,March 29, 2006
Washington -- A long-awaited test of the judiciary's power during wartime came to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, and, contrary to the urging of the Bush administration, the justices do not seem inclined to duck it.

During a 90-minute oral argument on the legality of the military commissions President Bush has set up to try suspected terrorists, most members of the court resisted -- sometimes sharply -- the administration's request to dismiss the case because of a new federal law circumscribing appeals by suspected terrorists.
Justice Anthony Kennedy told Solicitor General Paul Clement that he has "trouble with the argument" that, because of the new law, court challenges to the commissions must wait until the trials are over.
"I had thought that the historic function of habeas corpus is to ... test the jurisdiction and legitimacy of a court," Kennedy said. Habeas corpus is the legal vehicle through which prisoners challenge the lawfulness of their detention by the executive.
The court's defense of its own turf does not bode well for the Bush administration's arguments in defense of the military commissions, but it was still unclear how the justices might ultimately rule.
Kennedy pitched one approach, under which the court might uphold the military commissions, as the administration wants, but require that they proceed in accordance with the Geneva Convention, an international treaty that protects war detainees, as its opponents urge. Then, he suggested, the court could "just remand it for (a lower court) to go into all these arguments."
Other members of the court seemed attracted to invoking the Geneva Convention, saying that the administration's position creates a double standard because it accuses alleged terrorists of violating the laws of war while denying them the protections of international law.
"I don't see how you can have it both ways," Justice David Souter told Clement.
Chief Justice John Roberts is not participating in the case because, as an appeals court judge, he was part of the panel whose ruling in favor of the commissions is under review at the Supreme Court now. If the remaining eight members of the court split 4-4 on the merits, the lower court's ruling would be affirmed.
In a Nov. 13, 2001, military order, Bush declared that military commissions would try and sentence foreign terrorism suspects for alleged war crimes.
The commissions immediately came under fire from civil libertarians and other critics who argued that the president's order was not properly authorized by Congress, violates the Geneva Convention, and provides for no effective appeals.
The case before the court Tuesday arises from a petition for habeas corpus brought by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a former chauffeur for Osama bin Laden. He is one of 10 Guantanamo detainees scheduled to face military trials so far. No commission has yet reached a judgment in any case.
The Bush administration argues that military commissions are a time-honored instrument of warfare, amply authorized by the president's constitutional powers as commander in chief, laws on military justice and a Sept. 14, 2001, congressional resolution sanctioning war in response to the al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11.
A decision in the case is expected by July.

The case is Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld, No. 05-184.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Test of Supreme Court Credibility -- All Eyes on Republicans Scalia and Alito

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Supreme Court: Detainees' Rights — Scalia Speaks His Mind

Newsweek, April 3, 2006

The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees in special military tribunals with limited rights for the accused.

But Justice Antonin Scalia has already spoken his mind about some of the issues in the matter. During an unpublicized March 8 talk at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, Scalia dismissed the idea that the detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution or international conventions, adding he was "astounded" at the "hypocritical" reaction in Europe to Gitmo.

"War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts," he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. "Give me a break."

Challenged by one audience member about whether the Gitmo detainees don't have protections under the Geneva or human-rights conventions, Scalia shot back: "If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at my son and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full jury trial. I mean it's crazy." Scalia was apparently referring to his son Matthew, who served with the U.S. Army in Iraq.

Scalia did say, though, that he was concerned "there may be no end to this war."

The comments provoked "quite an uproar," said Samantha Besson, a member of the Freiburg law faculty who had invited Scalia to give his talk, which was mostly about his "originalist" interpretation of the Constitution.
This isn't the first time Scalia has commented on matters before the court: two years ago he recused himself from a Pledge of Allegiance case after making public comments about the matter.
"This is clearly grounds for recusal," said Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a human-rights group that has filed a brief in behalf of the Gitmo detainees. "I can't recall an instance where I've heard a judge speak so openly about a case that's in front of him—without hearing the arguments."
Other experts said it was a closer call. Scalia didn't refer directly to this week's case, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, though issues at stake hinge in part on whether the detainees deserve legal protections that make the military tribunals unfair.
"As these things mount, a legitimate question could be asked about whether he is compromising the credibility of the court," said Stephen Gillers, a legal-ethics expert.
A Scalia recusal (it's entirely up to him) would create problems; Chief Justice John Roberts has already done so in Hamdan because he ruled on it as an appellate judge.
A Supreme Courtspokeswoman said Scalia has no comment.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Eisenhower's Shadow Government (Putting CBS in Charge of Censorship)

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"You may recall that in late May, I wrote advising of the existence of classified letters from President Eisenhower to ten private citizens giving them authority over various parts of the economy and total society in the event of a declaration of a national emergency...
"I would appreciate notification by you as to whether that outstanding authority should be terminated, as I recommend [or]continued ...This matterrelates to cleaning up prior conditional operations in the field of national security "
— Excerpt from August 19, 1961 memorandum toNational Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy fromJohn F. Kennedy's Presidential Assistant
Frederick G. Dutton [ 1 ]
It is something of a tradition in Washington for staffers from a Presidential administration exiting office to leave a few surprises for the incoming administration of the opposing party. In 2001, for example, Democratic White House office workers removed the letter "W" from computer keyboards in an effort to annoy President-elect Bush's people.
Of course, the "W" prank sounds pretty innocuous when compared to the ten letters President Eisenhower issued to (mostly) private citizens in 1958 and 1959 granting them unprecedented power in the event of a "national emergency" (read: A-Bomb attack). What no doubt caught the eye of Mr. Dutton (as quoted above) is the fact that these extraordinary missives had no expiration dates on them. One can only imagine President Kennedy's reaction to this news in light of the fact that he was also dealing with other surprises left for him by those irrepressible Dulles brothers.
In terms of gauging how the Kennedy administration felt about the General's Shadow Government appointments, historians are left, for now at least, with Dutton's follow-up letter to McGeorge Bundy calling attention to the Eisenhower Ten (E-10). It is a truly remarkable document in that it is written in a controlled bureaucratic style, but one that only half-masks the author's indignation over the fact that (a.) there are citizens roaming the country with authority to take over the government the day after World War III and (b.) Bundy hasn't even replied to his first letter!
While Dutton's consternation is understandable, CONELRAD, in reviewing copies of the actual Eisenhower letters, has discovered a couple of mitigating factors that the peeved Presidential Assistant was, evidently, unaware of. [ 2 ]
First of all, there were only nine post-war job openings. There were ten letters because one person quit his non-job a year after accepting, prompting the need for a replacement, hence the tenth letter. Secondly, of the nine, two of the positions were filled by Eisenhower cabinet secretaries and another slot was filled by the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. The remaining six were very accomplished captains of industry who, as time has proven, could keep a secret to the grave. [ 3 ] It should be noted that the sheer impressiveness of the Emergency Administrator roster caused Eisenhower Staff Secretary Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster (USA, Ret.) to gush, some 46 years later, "that list is absolutely glittering in terms of its quality." In his interview with CONELRAD, the retired general also emphasized how seriously the President took the issue of Continuity of Government: "It was deeply on his mind."
It should be pointed out that not all of President Eisenhower's thoughts on civil defense were uniformly positive. In a declassified White House memo dated July 25, 1956, the President is quoted rebuking Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks' assessment that, during the Operation Alert 1956 civil defense drill, his agency had evacuated 450 people "rather smoothly" to a relocation site. The memo offers the

[CTRL] Fwd: The Persistence of Bad Habits

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The NextRepublican CorruptionScandal?
Gay GOP "Chickenhawks"Given Cover inKaren Hughes' Closet

Wayne Madsen Report, March 23, 2006

White House insiders report that an influential group of extreme right-wing gay Latino power brokers has been given almost total control over U.S. foreign and business policy decisions affecting Latin America. A number of members of the Young Hispanic Republican Association report that they have been sexually preyed upon by the influential Latino power brokers after accepting Administration appointments, including positions on the White House staff.

The gay Latino group, led by an individual nicknamed "El Padrino" (the godfather) and which has close ties, including gay relationships, with top GOP officials in the Republican National Committee [e.g., Ken Mehlman?], Small Business Administration, the Department of State, State of Texas, and thePresident's Office, has been tasked with ensuring that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez does not successfully bid on the sale of Univision, the largest Spanish language TV network in North America. Senior White House officials have provided hundreds of millions of dollars, through CIA and State Department conduits, to the Latino group to ensure that Chavez does not gain control of Univision.

The group has also prevailed upon the government of Panama and particularly senior gay members of the Panamanian government, to ensure that President Martin Torrijos backs out of a regional energy treaty signed between Panama, Venezuela, and Colombia. The deal would see Panama's transisthmian Petroterminales de Panama (PTP) pipeline between Puerto Armuelles on the Pacific to Chiriqui Grande on the Caribbean reverse its flow from east to west to permit the export of Venezuelan oil to China. However, since the Panamanian government only owns a 30 percent stake in the pipeline, the GOP Latino power brokers have applied pressure on a New York-based family-owned firm that owns 60 percent of the pipeline to sink the deal. The law firm that represents the interests of the New York family is reportedly owned by the family of the Panamanian ambassador to the United States and Panama's ambassador to the United Nations. Ten percent of the pipeline is owned by a shadowy Swiss-based firm, the shares of which are held by anonymous parties, that is reportedly connected to the CIA and senior members of the Panamanian government.

The other part of the Venezuelan-Colombian-Panamanian deal that is being targeted by the GOP Latino group for cancellation is a natural gas pipeline from Colombia through Panama and Central America to southern Mexico. 

Katin Vasquez, Panama's Economy and Finance Minister and a former Panama Canal Commissioner, is also being lobbied heavily by GOP-connected Wachovia to ensure the bank gets the contract to handle the funding for the $7 billion Panama Canal Expansion Project. The canal expansion is tied to the fact that with the increased use of supertankers, which cannot currently transit the canal, the canal must be quickly expanded to handle what are known as "Post-Panamax" vessels. "Panamax" is standard code for the maximum size vessel that can currently transit the canal. With the thirty-day advance payment requirement, Panama could easily issue bonds to finance the expansion. 

However, the gay Latino group tied to the Bush administration is using its influence with senior Panamanian government officials, sweetened with cash payments, to ensure that Wachovia gets the financing and Halliburton/Kellogg, Brown  Root gets the lion's share of construction contracts for the canal's expansion.

Vasquez has reportedly been flown to North Carolina in Wachovia's private corporate jet for golf outings. However, observers point out that Panama does not require Wachovia's involvement

[CTRL] Fwd: Iraqi Govt Accuses US of Atrocities, Demands Freedom from US Control

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Iraq parties demand U.S. cede control

Mar 27, 2006
By Omar al-Ibadi
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's ruling parties demanded U.S. forces cede control of security on Monday as the government launched an inquiry into a raid on a Shi'ite mosque that ministers said saw "cold blooded" killings by U.S.-led troops.
As Shi'ite militiamen fulminated over Sunday's deaths of 20 or more people in Baghdad, an al Qaeda-led group said it carried out one of the bloodiest Sunni insurgent attacks in months. A suicide bomber killed 40 Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq.
The Iraqi Defence Ministry said a suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt also wounded 30 at a base near Mosul.
After a confusing 24 hours following the bloodshed around Baghdad's Mustafa mosque in which the U.S. military restricted itself to issuing one somewhat opaque statement, U.S. officials distanced themselves from the operation, calling it Iraqi-led.
Officials in Baghdad appeared to wait for input from Washington, underlining the sensitivity of the confrontation between Iraq's Iranian-linked Shi'ite Islamist leaders and the U.S. forces at a time when Washington is pressing them to forge a unity government with minority Sunnis to avert civil war.
A day later, three broad versions of the events that led to the deaths of some 20 -- or possibly more -- people persisted.
Iraq's security minister accused U.S. and Iraqi forces of killing 37 unarmed civilians in the mosque after tying them up.
Residents and police, who put the death toll among the troops' opponents at around 20, spoke of a fierce battle between the soldiers and gunmen from the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose followers ran the mosque.
And U.S. officials, finally confirming they were describing the same incident, stuck by a statement saying Iraqi special forces, advised by U.S. troops, killed 16 "insurgents" who fired on them first. They also insisted no troops entered any mosque and had freed an Iraqi being held prisoner.
CONFUSION
Several Iraqi officials said the raid may have targeted a site used by militiamen to hold illegal courts and executions, part of efforts to impose Islamic law in parts of Baghdad.
One source of confusion over the site may be that the mosque in question, close to Sadr's Sadr City stronghold in northeast Baghdad, was not a traditional religious building but a compound of former Baath party offices converted by Sadr followers.
A State Department official said in Washington: "This was an Iraqi planned and led operation and U.S. forces were only in an advisory capacity."
While U.S. officials refused to acknowledge that the targets of the operation were Shi'ites, and the sectarian affiliations of the Iraqi troops involved was unclear, the State Department official said the incident underlined what he called the need for Iraq's security forces to be free of sectarian bias.
One thing was certain: Shi'ite leaders were up in arms against the U.S. forces who effectively brought them to power by overthrowing Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated Baathist regime.
"The Alliance calls for a rapid restoration of (control of) security matters to the Iraqi government," Jawad al-Maliki, a senior spokesman of the Shi'ite Islamist Alliance and ally of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, told a news conference.
The United States handed over formal sovereignty in 2004 but 133,000 troops in the country give it the main say in security.
Government-run television repeated lengthy footage of the bodies of men in civilian clothes with no weapons in sight.
Baghdad provincial governor Hussein al-Tahan said he would halt all cooperation with U.S. forces.
Aides to Sadr denied any Mehdi Army fighters were present.
But witnesses spoke of a lengthy gun battle: "The shooting lasted for more than an hour," shopkeeper

[CTRL] Fwd: Republican Supreme Court Justice Gives Critics the Mafia Finger

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Scalia has hand gesture for critics
BOSTON, March 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia startled reporters in Boston just minutes after attending a mass, by making a hand gesture some consider obscene.
A Boston Herald reporter asked the 70-year-old conservative Roman Catholic if he faces much questioning over impartiality when it comes to issues separating church and state.
"You know what I say to those people?" Scalia replied, making the gesture and explaining "That's Sicilian."
The 20-year veteran of the high court was caught making the gesture by a photographer with The Pilot, the Archdiocese of Boston's newspaper.
"Don't publish that," Scalia told the photographer, the Herald said.
He was attending a special mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, and afterward was the keynote speaker at the Catholic Lawyers' Guild luncheon.

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[CTRL] Fwd: Russian Spy Leaked US War Plans to Saddam -- Or So the NEOCONS Say ...

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Madsen Report, March 26, 2006
Putin and Russian government:
Latest targets of the neo-cons,
[again] withforged documents
the Pentagon has issued an "unclassified report" stating that in the lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Russia obtained war plans and planned U.S. troop movements from “inside the American Central Command.” The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) denied the charge, stating that "similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia’s intelligence have been made more than once."
The Pentagon cited as its source two captured Iraqi documents that describe Russian penetration of the US Central Command in Qatar. However, the Pentagon's story later changed. The revised story stated the Russian obtained the war plans from signals intelligence intercepts of pre-war U.S. military communications.
In either case, the citing of "captured" Iraqi documents has been used in the past to falsely implicate various anti-Iraq-war international politicians with being in league with Saddam's "Oil for Food" program. Many of these "captured" documents were forgeries emanating from notorious Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi. Bogus Niger government documents were forged by a neo-con cabal based in Rome, Washington, and Jerusalem to justify an attack on Iraq based on non-existent weapons of mass destruction. The information contained in the two "secret" Iraqi documents could have been obtained from any number of open sources, including Jane's Defence Weekly.
The "sic" appearing next to "special forces unit 'Papa'" in the purported Iraqi documents is a clue to a forgery. The standard NATO/DoD phonetic code for the letter "P" is "Papa." Why the authors would indicate a possible misspelling of Papa in the document is curious unless its because the real authors include some of our most noted neo-con draft dodgers who are unfamiliar with U.S. and NATO military nomenclatures.
The two secret Iraqi documents are handwritten and contain no official government seal or stamps, another clear indication of a forgery.
Update: The memo dated March 25, 2003 is also a likely forgery because of the use of the Western calendar and not the lunar Muslim Hijri calendar used in many Arab and other predominantly Muslim countries. The Muslim date would have been 16 Muharram 1424.
The neo-con stranglehold on the Pentagon continues to permit this cabal of provocateurs and dual loyalists to pump out false charges in an attempt to damage relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin as Russia continues to push for negotiations with Iran and lay the possible groundwork for Russian casualties at Iranian nuclear facilities in the event of war with Iran. Neo-cons would argue that such casualties were legitimate considering previous Russian support for Saddam against the United States.
In fact, the Pentagon neo-cons now have more power than ever considering the current presence of anti-Russian neo-con-influenced governments in Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, an AEI alum and colleague of Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen, is married to the Washington Post's Anne Applebaum.
All four are virulently anti-Putin, especially since Putin began cracking down on the Russian [-Jewish]oligarchs e.g., Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky** who looted the USSR's treasury and resources and made themselves instant billionaires, at the expense of the peoples of the former Soviet Union.
Over 70 percent of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs carry Israeli passports.
Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko's wife, Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko, is an American citizen and held positions in the Reagan White House that were directed against "the evil empire." She was, and remains, close to the leading neo-con war hawks of the Reagan years, including Perle, Ledeen, Douglas

[CTRL] Fwd: Bush Response to the Appalachian Mine Disasters

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"Joe Spadaro, head ofthe National Mine Health and Safety Academy,in 2000 investigated for the federal government a major environmental coal processing disaster until, he says, a Bush appointee told him to quash his report because it was critical of a mining company.
"Spadaro told Congress: "I don't see, out of this administration, the will to enforce the law and to do the tough things that are necessary to make the industry comply with the law."
"President Bush's [recently appointed] nominee to head the agency that oversees mine safety, Richard Stickler,toldthe Senate committee that he will review the [Bush] administration's decision to withdraw a number of safety regulations proposed during the Clinton era. He also said enforcement of existing laws could be improved."
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Latinos Sought as Mining's Next Generation

The industry is lobbying in Kentucky to bring in [Mexican illegal? immigrants]
to fill jobs. Miners fear the move may degrade safety and wages.
by Jenny JarvieLos Angeles Times,20 February 2006

Sidney, Kentucky - At age 15, Ricky Mullins followed his father and his grandfather into the mines. For years, they scraped and shoveled coal to put food on the table. But Mullins, now 48, fears that the family tradition will end with his son.
Despite the inherent hazards of being a miner, Mullins and others in the area consider it the best job opportunity available to them - and are proud of the work they do.
"All we have is coal mining," Mullins said. "But the companies don't want to hire local - not when they can get the Hispanics to work cheaper." The local mine company here, Sidney Coal Co., is seeking to change Kentucky mining legislation so it can hire non-English-speaking Latino workers.
Kentucky law requires that miners be fluent in English for safety reasons, but Sidney Coal, a subsidiary of Massey Energy Inc., has claimed that it cannot find enough local workers.
"It is common knowledge that the work ethic of the eastern Kentucky worker has declined from where it once was," the president of Sidney Coal, Charlie Bearse, wrote to the Kentucky Mining Board. "Attitudes have changed among the existing workforce, which affects attendance, drug use and, ultimately, productivity."
Bearse's comments have unsettled many in this region of steep mountains and thin hollows, where the descendants of English, German and Scotch-Irish settlers have struggled as the coal industry has declined in recent years.
"It's insulting to the men and women who want to work here and stay here," said Kentucky state Rep. Robin Webb, a former miner. "Mining is their way of life." Although migrant workers are already a presence in Kentucky's tobacco fields and thoroughbred horse farms, they scarcely penetrated the Appalachian coal fields.
Many eastern Kentucky miners worry that bringing non-English-speaking Latinos underground would force them to accept lower wages and lead to a decline in mine safety.
Already, there have been 19 deaths in Appalachian mines this year. In January, an explosion that killed 12 miners at the Sago Mine in West Virginia sparked a national debate about mine safety reform.
"I wouldn't want my son working with a bunch of Hispanics who couldn't understand him," said Mullins, who was huddled next to a gas heater in the local Citgo gas station, smoking Marlboro cigarettes. "It's dangerous enough down there."
Mullins worked underground for more than 18 years, until he suffered an electrical shock picking a cable out of the water. When he tried to go back into the mines, he had a minor stroke and his doctor advised him not to return. He has drawn Social Security and disability payments for the last 14 years.
Mullins is far from unusual in Sidney. According to

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] Raich Brings Marijuana Case Back to Appeals Court

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Pubdate: Mon, 27 Mar 2006
Source: Daily Review, The (Hayward, CA)
Copyright: 2006 ANG Newspapers
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Website: http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1410
Author: Josh Richman, Staff Writer
Cited: http://www.angeljustice.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Angel+Raich (Angel Raich)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Cannabis - Medicinal)

RAICH BRINGS MARIJUANA CASE BACK TO APPEALS COURT

Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against her,
Oakland medical marijuana patient and advocate Angel Raich will go
back before a federal appeals court today with a different legal argument.

Her lawyers will try to persuade a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Pasadena, that keeping her from
using marijuana as medicine unduly burdens her fundamental rights to
life and freedom from pain, as protected by the Fifth Amendment's Due
Process Clause and the Ninth Amendment.

The government argues there's no constitutionally protected
fundamental right to obtain and use marijuana in defiance of the
federal ban on the drug.

Nor can plaintiffs establish that the use of any particular drug,
free of a regulatory scheme designed to protect the public health and
safety, is a fundamental right that is deeply rooted in our nation's
history, legal traditions and practices, wrote Assistant U.S.
Attorney Mark Quinlivan in his January brief to the appeals court.

Each side will have 30 minutes to argue its case. It will probably be
months before the court rules.

Raich and Diane Monson of Oroville plus two unnamed providers sued
the government in October 2002 to prevent any interference with their
medical marijuana use, but this case's seeds actually were sown in
the Supreme Court's May 2001 decision on the Oakland Cannabis Buyers
Cooperative's case.

The court in that case ruled there's no collective medical necessity
exception to the federal ban, which defines marijuana as having no
valid medical use. But it didn't rule on constitutional questions
underlying the medical marijuana debate, so Raich, Monson and their
lawyers tailor-made a case raising exactly those issues.

A federal judge in San Francisco rejected their arguments in March
2003, but a 9th Circuit appeal panel reversed that ruling nine months later.

That panel believed the plaintiffs could prevail at trial on their
claim that the Constitution's Commerce Clause lets Congress regulate
only interstate commerce, and that Californians' medical marijuana
use neither crosses state lines nor involves money changing hands.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard the case in November 2004 and in June
2005 ruled 6-3 to uphold the federal ban, finding that even marijuana
grown in back yards for personal medical use can affect or contribute
to the illegal interstate market for marijuana and so is within
Congress' constitutional reach.

But the 9th Circuit panel and the Supreme Court dealt only with the
Commerce Clause argument, not the other constitutional issues. With
the case remanded back to the 9th Circuit, Raich's attorneys now are
pursuing the remaining arguments; Monson dropped out of the case late
last year.

Besides the Fifth- and Ninth-Amendment arguments, Raich's lawyers
also claim the common-law doctrine of necessity -- the idea that it's
OK to break the law when forces beyond one's control compel it and
there's no reasonable, legal alternative -- bars the government from
applying the Controlled Substances Act to ban medically necessary
activities. The government argues the Supreme Court's decision in the
Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative case already ruled out a
medical-necessity argument.

And Raich's lawyers claim the Tenth Amendment protects against
federal interference with state regulation

[CTRL] Fwd: National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corporate Media

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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National Impeachment Movement Ignored by Corporate Media 
by Peter Phillips

Published on Monday, March 27, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0327-29.htm

If a national movement calling for the impeachment of
the President is rapidly emerging and the corporate
media are not covering it, is there really a national
movement for the impeachment of the President?

Impeachment advocates are widely mobilizing in the U.S.
Over 1,000 letters to the editors of major newspapers
have been printed in the past six months asking for
impeachment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette letter writer
George Matus says, I am still enraged over unasked
questions about exit polls, touch-screen voting, Iraq,
the cost of the new Medicarewho formulated our energy
policy, Jack Abramoff, the Downing Street Memos, and
impeachment. David Anderson in McMinnville, Oregon
pens to the Oregonian, Where are the members of our
congressional delegation now in demanding the current
president's actions be investigated to see if
impeachment or censure are appropriate actions?
William Dwyer's letter in the Charleston Gazette says,
Congress will never have the courage to start the
impeachment process without a groundswell of outrage
from the people.

City councils, boards of supervisors, and local and
state level Democrat central committees have voted for
impeachment. Arcata, California voted for impeachment
on January 6. The City and County of San Francisco,
voted Yes on February 28. The Sonoma County Democrat
Central Committee (CA) voted for Impeachment on March
16. The townships of Newfane, Brookfield, Dummerston,
Marlboro and Putney in Vermont all voted for
impeachment the first week of March. The New Mexico
State Democrat party convention rallied on March 18 for
the impeachment of George Bush and his lawful removal
from office. The national Green Party called for
impeachment on January 3. Op-ed writers at the St.
Petersburg Times, Newsday, Yale Daily News, Barrons,
Detroit Free Press, and the Boston Globe have called
for impeachment. The Nation (1/30/06) and Harpers
(3/06) magazines published cover articles calling for
impeachment. Garrison Keillor, and Richard Dreyfuss
both have come out for impeachment. As of March 16,
thirty-two US House of Representatives have signed on
as co-sponsors to House Resolution 635, which would
create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for
recommending President Bush's impeachment.

Polls show that nearly a majority of Americans favor
impeachment. In October of 2005, Public Affairs
Research found that 50% of Americans said that
President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the
war in Iraq. A Zogby International poll from early
November 2005 found that 53% of Americans say, If
President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons
for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider
holding him accountable through impeachment. A March
16, 2006 poll by American Research Group showed that
42% of Americans favored impeaching Bush.

Despite all this advocacy and sentiment for
impeachment, corporate media have yet to cover this
emerging mass movement. The Bangor Daily News simply
reported on March 17 that former US Attorney General
Ramsey Clark has set up the website Votetoimpeach.org
and that other groups are using the internet to push
impeachment. The Wall Street Journal, on March 16,
editorialized about how it is just the loony left
seeking impeachment, but perhaps some Democrats in
Congress will join in feeding on the bile of the
censure/impeachment brigades.

The corporate media is ignoring the broadening call for
impeachment - wishing perhaps it will just go away.
Television news and talk shows have mentioned
impeachment over 100 times in the past 30 days, mostly
however in the context of Senator Russ Feingold's
censure

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] 'War Is War': No Legal Rights for Enemy Combatants, Scalia Says

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12510.htm

No Legal Rights for Enemy Combatants, Scalia Says

'War Is War,' Justice Tells Audience
Associated Press

03/27/06 Washington Post -- -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 
reportedly told an overseas audience this month that the Constitution does 
not protect foreigners held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba.


He also told the audience at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland that 
he was astounded by the hypocritical reaction in Europe to the prison, 
this week's issue of Newsweek magazine reported.


The comments came just weeks before the justices are to take up an appeal 
from a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The court will hear arguments tomorrow 
on Salim Ahmed Hamdan's assertion that President Bush overstepped his 
constitutional authority in ordering a military trial for the former driver 
of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Hamdan has been held at the prison for 
nearly four years.


Two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that the detainees could use U.S. 
courts to challenge their detention. Scalia disagreed with that ruling, and 
in the recent speech repeated his beliefs that enemy combatants have no 
legal rights.


War is war, and it has never been the case that when you captured a 
combatant you have to give them a jury trial in your civil courts, 
Newsweek quoted Scalia as saying. Give me a break.


Scalia's dissent in the Rasul v. Bush case in 2004 said: The consequence 
of this holding, as applied to aliens outside the country, is breathtaking. 
It permits an alien captured in a foreign theater of active combat to bring 
a petition against the secretary of defense. . . . Each detainee (at 
Guantanamo) undoubtedly has complaints -- real or contrived -- about those 
terms and circumstances. . . . From this point forward, federal courts will 
entertain petitions from these prisoners, and others like them around the 
world, challenging actions and events far away, and forcing the courts to 
oversee one aspect of the executive's conduct of a foreign war.


Newsweek said Scalia was challenged by an audience member in Switzerland 
about whether Guantanamo Bay detainees have protection under the Geneva or 
human rights conventions.


Scalia replied: If he was captured by my army on a battlefield, that is 
where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and they were shooting at 
my son, and I'm not about to give this man who was captured in a war a full 
jury trial. I mean it's crazy, Newsweek reported.


Scalia's son Matthew served in Iraq.

© 2006 The Washington Post Company
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Supreme Court: Detainees' RightsScalia Speaks His Mind

By Michael Isikoff

03/27/06 Newsweek -- -- April 3, 2006 issue - The Supreme Court this week 
will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration 
to try Guantánamo detainees in special military tribunals with limited 
rights for the accused. But Justice Antonin Scalia has already spoken his 
mind about some of the issues in the matter. During an unpublicized March 8 
talk at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, Scalia dismissed the 
idea that the detainees have rights under the U.S. Constitution or 
international conventions, adding he was astounded at the hypocritical 
reaction in Europe to Gitmo. War is war, and it has never been the case 
that when you captured a combatant you have to give them a jury trial in 
your civil courts, he says on a tape of the talk reviewed by NEWSWEEK. 
Give me a break. Challenged by one audience member about whether the 
Gitmo detainees don't have protections under the Geneva or human-rights 
conventions, Scalia shot back: If he was captured by my army on a 
battlefield, that is where he belongs. I had a son on that battlefield and

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] Twilight Zone / 'Are we finished having our children killed?'

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/697894.html

Twilight Zone / 'Are we finished having our children killed?'

By Gideon Levy

A bullet in the head from a distance of a few meters, fired suddenly and 
without warning shots aimed at the wheels, which the Israel Defense Forces 
claims there were. This is the way undercover soldiers from the Border 
Police killed Akaber Zaid, an eight-and-a-half year-old, who was on her way 
to the doctor, according to her uncle, who was with her and was also wounded.


Little Akaber was going to the doctor and he did indeed see her, but there 
was no longer a reason for him to do so. She had been on the way to have 
him remove stitches from her chin, but instead arrived dead at the same 
doctor's office, with her head smashed and her skull gaping.


Soldiers from the Border Police's undercover unit, known by the Hebrew 
acronym Yamas, shot at her uncle's taxi at close range as he was parking 
the vehicle next to the doctor's office. All the soldiers' claims, as 
presented to the media by the IDF, to the effect that they had shot at the 
taxi's wheels in accordance with the regulations for arresting a suspect, 
were nothing but lies, says the girl's uncle, who was sitting next to her. 
The car was sprayed from the right and from behind with bullets, which 
entered through its windows. The shots were fired from just a few meters 
away, the uncle stresses, in the light of a street lamp.


We saw the taxi this week: All its wheels are intact. However, those who 
carried out the investigations on behalf of the IDF and the Border Police 
did not even bother to examine the vehicle, or to question the man who had 
driven it. He was also wounded and is hospitalized. We also took testimony 
from him and could not find a single fact on the ground that contradicts 
what he reports: The undercover soldiers shot at the girl from two 
directions, from nearby and, the uncle says, without warning. No soldier 
with a gun, certainly not an expert sharpshooter from the Yamas, would aim 
at close range at wheels and hit someone in the head instead.


Down the road, hundreds of meters from the shooting, are the remaining 
signs of the destruction wreaked by the Border Police. Not one wanted man 
was detained, but a five-story apartment block was badly damaged and there 
are wrecks of cars that were completely crushed, one after the other, still 
standing in the street.


Why did the undercover soldiers shoot at a young girl? How could they dare 
claim they aimed at the wheels? Why did they have to shoot at innocent 
people in a taxi in the first place? Why did they wreak such havoc? Why did 
they crush vehicles that were the last source of income for their owners? 
What is the difference between this action on the soldiers' part and a 
terrorist attack? And why are these questions not being asked?


The father did not accompany his daughter to Dr. Samara. He said he could 
not bear to see the doctor removing the stitches from her little chin. 
Akaber was a second-grade pupil from the village of Al-Yamoun, northwest of 
Jenin. In her picture from kindergarten, she can be seen wearing a square 
black graduation cap, like those worn by university graduates and people 
receiving doctorates. That is the custom in the Al-Yamoun kindergarten: The 
children who excel are photographed with the special hat. That is how she 
will remain in the collective consciousness of that town, whose sons once 
worked in Israel.


Akaber is not the first girl they are burying. How many children were 
killed in Al-Yamoun in the past few years? The school principal, who came 
to pay his condolences to the family, begins to list them, one by one, but 
stops suddenly and asks: Why should I count them? Are we finished having 
our children killed?


The father

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] How American Contractors With The Help Of U.S. Government Raped Iraq

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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Exposed: How American Contractors With The Help Of U.S. Government Raped Iraq

Iraq's Missing Billions

Dispatches/GuardianFilms

A shocking story of fraud, incompetence and corruption, unscrupulous 
foreign contractors who made millions from dodgy contracts, and literally 
billions of dollars which cannot be properly accounted for.


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[CTRL] Fwd: War Is Hell, Until You Begin to Enjoy It

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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Former CIA Analyst: 
Western Intelligence May Be Behind 
[Al-Askariya] Mosque Bombing
Prison Planet | February 26 2006
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2006/260206mosquebombing.htm
Former CIA analyst a and presidential advisor Ray McGovern does not rule out Western involvement in this week's Askariya mosque bombing in light of previous false flag operations that have advanced hidden agendas of the ruling elite.
During the mid-eighties, McGovern was one of the senior analysts conducting early morning briefings of the PDB one-on-one with the Vice President, the Secretaries of State and Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.
He joined Alex Jones to discuss many topics from martial law to government false flag terrorism and provocation tactics.
McGovern firstly suggested that Posse Comitatus, the law that forbids the military to take on a policing role within the US, is being systematically overthrown.
"Not only have the top ranks of the intelligence community been politicized and corrupted, so has the army. The military establishment is goose stepping around, saluting the President and saying whatever the President wants them to." 
A former officer himself, McGovern declared that the unprecedented movement towards a martial law mentality within government and military is a deeply unsettling one and that the US is hurtling toward a dictatorship.
"As I look at the top Pentagon brass, I have to conclude that unlike my days as a US army officer, those folks have been so politicized that if the US President told them to go ahead and exercise police functions in this country they would go ahead and salute and they would do it, and that's really scary."
Moving on to the "war on terror", 27 year veteran McGovern concurred that staged terror has long been used by our governments in order to forward their own agendas at home and elsewhere:
"There's lots of evidence that the government in the past has used these things for its own purposes, for overthrowing governments, as it did in Iran in 1953 and in Guatemala in 1954. The Gulf of Tonkin was a little different ... LBJ did deceive Congress and the war went on for seven years."
Concerning 9/11, McGovern declared that although he is still in two minds, he is deeply suspicious of the official version of events and "there is certainly a cover up." The amount of unanswered questions and blatant lies told by Cheney and the Neocons makes it very easy for him to believe the government was involved. 
Moving on to the recent Askariya mosque bombing in Samarra, Iraq McGovern commented;
"The main question is Cui Bono? Who benefits from this kind of thing? You don't have to be very conspiratorial or even paranoid to suggest that there are a whole bunch of likely suspects out there and not only the Sunnis. You know,British officers were arrested, dressed up in Arab garb, riding around in a car[full of bomb materials], so this stuff goes on."
Ray McGovern is part of a collective of former Intelligence officers who call themselves Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Their writing can be found on www.truthout.com 
Prison Planet.tv subscribers look out for the full interview to be posted soon.
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The Shiites in Power Accuse the US of "Organized Crime"
Le Figaro with AFP
27 March 2006
Argument swells in Baghdad the day after a raid conducted against Shiites that left twenty of them dead. While the American Army denies any involvement, the Governor of Baghdad announces the suspension of his cooperation with the United States. The Shiite alliance in power demands a transfer of responsibility for the maintenance of order in the country.
The bloody raid conducted Sunday in north Baghdad against Shiites

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] !!!!! Helen Thomas Asks President Bush Why He Went to War

2006-03-28 Thread Kris Millegan

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Helen Thomas Asks President Bush Why He Went to War

Veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas asked President Bush what 
some analysts called the most direct questioning he's ever received on his 
reasons for invading Iraq.


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AMY GOODMAN: We return to President Bush's news conference. Veteran White 
House correspondent Helen Thomas asked President Bush what some analysts 
called the most direct questioning he's ever received on his reasons for 
invading Iraq.


HELEN THOMAS: I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade 
Iraq has caused the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis, wounds of 
Americans and Iraqis for a lifetime. Every reason given, publicly at least, 
has turned out not to be true. My question is, why did you really want to 
go to war? From the moment you stepped into the White House, from your 
Cabinet -- your Cabinet officers, intelligence people, and so forth -- what 
was your real reason? You have said it wasn't oil -- quest for oil, it 
hasn't been Israel, or anything else. What was it?


PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I think your premise, in all due respect to your 
question and to you as a lifelong journalist, is that, you know, I didn't 
want war. To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong, Helen, in all due 
respect --


HELEN THOMAS: Everything --

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Hold on for a second, please.

HELEN THOMAS: -- everything I've heard --

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Excuse me, excuse me. No president wants war. 
Everything you may have heard is that, but it's just simply not true. My 
attitude about the defense of this country changed on September the 11th. 
We -- when we got attacked, I vowed then and there to use every asset at my 
disposal to protect the American people. Our foreign policy changed on that 
day, Helen. You know, we used to think we were secure because of oceans and 
previous diplomacy, but we realized on September the 11th, 2001, that 
killers could destroy innocent life. And I'm never going to forget it. And 
I'm never going to forget the vow I made to the American people that we 
will do everything in our power to protect our people.


Part of that meant to make sure that we didn't allow people to provide safe 
haven to an enemy. And that's why I went into Iraq -- hold on for a second --


HELEN THOMAS: They didn't do anything to you or to our country.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Look -- excuse me for a second, please. Excuse me 
for a second. They did. The Taliban provided safe haven for al-Qaeda. 
That's where al-Qaeda trained --


HELEN THOMAS: I'm talking about Iraq --

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Helen, excuse me. That's where -- Afghanistan 
provided safe haven for al-Qaeda. That's where they trained. That's where 
they plotted. That's where they planned the attacks that killed thousands 
of innocent Americans.


I also saw a threat in Iraq. I was hoping to solve this problem 
diplomatically. That's why I went to the Security Council; that's why it 
was important to pass 1441, which was unanimously passed. And the world 
said, 'Disarm, disclose, or face serious consequences' --


HELEN THOMAS: -- go to war --

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: -- and therefore, we worked with the world, we 
worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And 
when he chose to deny inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had 
the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did, and the world is 
safer for it.


AMY GOODMAN: That was President Bush answering Helen Thomas at the White 
House on Tuesday. Commonly referred to as the First Lady of the Press, 
Helen Thomas is the most senior member

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032806Z.shtml

Fitzgerald Will Seek New White House Indictments
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Tuesday 28 March 2006

It may seem as though it's been moving along at a snail's pace, but 
the second part of the federal investigation into the leak of covert CIA 
agent Valerie Plame Wilson is nearly complete, with attorneys and 
government officials who have remained close to the probe saying that a 
grand jury will likely return an indictment against one or two senior Bush 
administration officials.


These sources work or worked at the State Department, the CIA and the 
National Security Council. Some of these sources are attorneys close to the 
case. They requested anonymity because they were not permitted to speak 
publicly about the details of the investigation.


In lengthy interviews over the weekend and on Monday, they said that 
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has started to prepare the paperwork 
to present to the grand jury seeking an indictment against White House 
Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.


Although the situation remains fluid, it's possible, these sources 
said, that Fitzgerald may seek to indict both Rove and Hadley, charging 
them with perjury, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy related to their 
roles in the leak of Plame Wilson's identity and their effort to cover up 
their involvement following a Justice Department investigation.


The sources said late Monday that it may take more than a month before 
Fitzgerald presents the paperwork outlining the government's case against 
one or both of the officials and asks the grand jury to return an 
indictment, because he is currently juggling quite a few high-profile 
criminal cases and will need to carve out time to write up the indictment 
and prepare the evidence.


In addition to responding to discovery requests from Libby's defense 
team and appearing in court with his attorneys, who are trying to obtain 
additional evidence, such as top-secret documents, from Fitzgerald's probe, 
the special prosecutor is also prosecuting Lord Conrad Black, the newspaper 
magnate, has recently charged numerous individuals in a child pornography 
ring, and is wrestling with other lawsuits in his home city of Chicago.


Details about the latest stage of the investigation began to take 
shape a few weeks ago when the lead FBI investigator on the leak case, John 
C. Eckenrode, retired from the agency and indicated to several colleagues 
that the investigation is about to wrap up with indictments handed up by 
the grand jury against Rove or Hadley or both officials, the sources said.


The Philadelphia-based Eckenrode is finished with his work on the 
case; however, he is expected to testify as a witness for the prosecution 
next year against I. Lewis Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's 
former chief of staff who was indicted in October on five counts of 
perjury, obstruction of justice, and lying to investigators regarding his 
role in the leak.


Hadley and Rove remain under intense scrutiny, but sources said 
Fitzgerald has not yet decided whether to seek charges against one or both 
of them.


Libby and other officials in Cheney's office used the information they 
obtained about Plame Wilson to undermine the credibility of her husband, 
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson. Wilson was an outspoken critic of the Iraq 
war. He had alleged that President Bush misspoke when he said, in his 
January 2003 State of the Union address, that Iraq had tried to acquire 
yellow-cake uranium, the key component used to build a nuclear bomb, from 
Niger.


The uranium claim was the silver bullet in getting Congress to support 
military action two

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Pubdate: Fri, 24 Mar 2006
Source: Hamilton Spectator (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006 The Washington Post Company
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Website: http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/181
Author: Doug Struck
Cited: Marijuana Policy Project http://www.mpp.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/people/Marc+Emery
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization)

A BAGGIE FULL OF TROUBLE

Marc Emery's Arrest for Extradition on U.S. Drug Kingpin Charges,
Carrying a Minimum Sentence of 10 Years to Life in Prison, Outraged
Many in Canada. They Resented the Long Reach of U.S. Law and What They
Saw As the United States' Fevered Preoccupation With Pot.

Sweet marijuana smoke tumbles down the steps from the Vapor Lounge,
a corner of Marc Emery's bookstore where customers toke up at will.

We get high with everybody, Emery says, shrugging. This is a
pilgrimage spot, and people come here from all over the world. We get
high.

Illegal? Yes.

So were the seeds he used to keep in a case in the store, with exotic names
such as Afghan Dream and Chemo Grizzly. So was the booming business he ran,
complete with glossy seed catalogues describing the varieties' subtle and
sublime nuances. (Nebula: Fruity flavour and scent. Transcendental buzz.
Harvest outdoor.) So, for that matter, are the other marijuana businesses
that have sprouted in the block around his bookstore. The street is
nicknamed Vansterdam, with pot-hazy cafes, head shops filled with pipes
and bongs and neon signs advertising illegal seed sales.

Until recently, nobody much cared, it seemed. The police hadn't
bothered to come around for eight years. Before that, they busted
Emery for seed sales and raided him four times. But he just got fined,
and the police stopped trying.

In truth, Emery hated being ignored. He tried to stir up notoriety.
Every year, he filled out his income taxes listing his occupation as
Marijuana Seed Vendor, paying heftily and honestly, he says, on his
multimillion-dollar business. The Canadian Revenue Service never
questioned him.

He told Canada Post he was getting and sending seeds through the mail.
They never stopped delivery. He started the B.C. Marijuana Party,
fielded 79 candidates in 2001, and ran repeatedly for local and
federal offices. He never won.

He broadcast Pot-TV on the Internet, entertained politicians and
openly funded marches, lawsuits and marijuana-legalization drives from
Arizona to Israel to Washington, D.C.

When it was too quiet, he would rattle up a pro-pot demonstration. He
would light up a fat joint in front of a police station, daring the
cops to arrest him.

Twenty-one times they did. Usually he got off or was released after a
night in jail or fined. His longest stretch was 61 days in jail in
2004.

Then came the DEA.

Emery figured something was up when a strange young woman pestered him
to buy 10 pounds of pot. He refused. She bought seeds at his store,
asked for tips about how to hide them to go to the States, and left.

Eight days later, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and
Vancouver police tromped into his store and began hauling out
computers and files. Emery, speaking at the Atlantic Hemp Festival on
the other side of Canada, was grabbed by policemen while leaving a
restaurant.

Emery is one of the attorney general's most wanted international drug
trafficking targets, the DEA in Washington crowed on July 29, 2005,
announcing an extradition request for Emery and two employees. The DEA
said Emery's bust was a significant blow not only to the marijuana
trafficking trade but also to the marijuana legalization movement.

And he thought trying to change the law was legal, Emery
muses.

So did lots of other Canadians, it turned out.

[CTRL] Fwd: [THS] !!!! Paul Craig Roberts: What ’s Become of Americans?

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http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12434.htm

Whats Become of Americans?

By Paul Craig Roberts

03/22/06 LewRockwell -- -- Imagine knocking on Americas door and being 
told, Americans dont live here any longer. They have gone away.


But isnt that what we are hearing, that Americans have gone away? Alan 
Shore told us so on ABCs Boston Legal on March 14:


When the weapons of mass destruction thing turned out not to be true, I 
expected the American people to rise up. They didn't.


Then, when the Abu Ghraib torture thing surfaced and it was revealed that 
our government participated in rendition, a practice where we kidnap people 
and turn them over to régimes who specialize in torture, I was sure then 
the American people would be heard from. We stood mute.


Then came the news that we jailed thousands of so-called terrorist 
suspects, locked them up without the right to a trial or even the right to 
confront their accusers. Certainly, we would never stand for that. We did.


And now, it's been discovered the executive branch has been conducting 
massive, illegal, domestic surveillance on its own citizens. You and me. 
And I at least consoled myself that finally, finally the American people 
will have had enough. Evidently, we haven't.


In fact, if the people of this country have spoken, the message is we're 
okay with it all. Torture, warrantless search and seizure, illegal 
wiretappings, prison without a fair trial or any trial, war on false 
pretenses. We, as a citizenry, are apparently not offended.


There are no demonstrations on college campuses. In fact, there's no clear 
indication that young people even seem to notice. . . .


The Secret Service can now declare free speech zones to contain, control 
and, in effect, criminalize protest. Stop for a second and try to fathom 
that. At a presidential rally, parade or appearance, if you have on a 
supportive t-shirt, you can be there. If youre wearing or carrying 
something in protest, you can be removed.


This! In the United States of America.

Readers tell me that Americans dont live here any more. They ask what 
responsible American citizenry would put up with the trashing of the Bill 
of Rights and the separation of powers, with wars based on deception, and 
with pathological liars in control of their government? One reader recently 
wrote that he believes that no element of the U.S. government has been 
left untainted by the lies and manipulations that have driven away 
accountability. So-called leaders, he wrote, talk a great story of 
American pride and patriotism, but in their hands patriotism is merely a 
device for cynical manipulation and fraud.


The Bush regime acknowledges that 30,000 Iraqi civilians, largely women and 
children, have been killed as a result of Bushs invasion. Others who have 
looked at civilian casualties with greater attention have come up with 
numbers three to six times as large. The Johns Hopkins study accounted for 
98,000 civilian deaths. Patrick Cockburn, using more sophisticated 
statistical analysis, concluded that 180,000 Iraqis died as a result of 
Bushs invasion. The former prime minister Iyad Allawi says that Iraqi 
sectarian violence alone is claiming 5060 deaths per day, or 18,00022,000 
annually, a figure that could quickly worsen.


Some were killed by smart bombs that werent very smart and dropped on 
hospitals, schools, and weddings. Others were mistaken for resistance 
fighters and killed. Still others were killed by spooked, trigger-happy 
U.S. troops. And many died due to the breakdown of the Iraqi health system.


Now comes a report in the online edition of Time magazine that U.S. Marines 
went on a rampage in the village of Haditha and deliberately slaughtered 15 
unarmed Iraqis in their homes. The Iraqis

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[CTRL] Fwd: FEDERAL RESERVE ORDERS TWO T RILLION DOLLARS TO BE PRINTED AND PUT INTO CIRCULATION!

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Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:58 AM
Subject: Presses Get Cranked


From HalTurnerShow.com
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:27 AM EST
TWO TRILLION $
FEDERAL RESERVE ORDERS TWO TRILLION DOLLARS TO BE PRINTED AND PUT INTO 
CIRCULATION! SOURCES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES TREASURY ARE FLABBERGASTED!
INFO CORROBORATED BY THREE SEPARATE U.S. TREASURY SOURCES
Six months ago, the Federal Reserve quietly announced that as of March 20, 
2006, they would no longer publish "M3" Data. The "M3" was the amount of cash 
the government printed to put into circulation, propping-up the U.S. 
economy.As of eight days ago, M3 data is no longer being reported, so 
there is no way for the public, investors or bond holders to know how much 
currency exists - and no way to gauge how much a "dollar" is truly 
worth.Three separate sources in the U.S. Treasury have told me that this 
week, the federal reserve ordered TWO TRILLION dollars to be printed! The U.S. 
Treasury is allegedly running printing presses 24/7 to accommodate that order. 
Treasury employees were specifically ORDERED not to talk about this to anyone 
because it could cause economic collapse.Even worse, I was also told 
that the whole Immigration Amnesty Debate (especially the well-funded 
well-attended protests) was deliberately scheduled to take place now, to 
divert attention from this massive printing/devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. 
The feds allegedly figured that by the time anyone found out, they could smooth 
things over. They figured wrong. Surprise, boys, you've been 
exposed!Watch for Gold and silver to skyrocket in price within days as 
the world wises up and begins dumping the U.S. Dollar.UPDATE: 
As of 9:05 AM this morning, Silver is at a ten year high and Gold is within a 
few dollars of a 25 year high. The U.S. Dollar is falling against all major 
world currencies. . More details as they become 
available.
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[CTRL] Fwd: Money for Nothing, World War for Free

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US TO ISRAEL, Part II

Jon Rappoport
August 24, 2004

From the December 9, 2002, edition of the Christian Science Monitor --- stats on what aid to Israel costs the US --- a controversial assessment by Thomas Stauffer is cited: Economist tallies swelling cost of Israel to US
by David R. Francis (Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor) Since 1973, Israel has cost the United States about $1.6 trillion. If divided by today's [US] population, that is more than $5,700 per person [American]. This is an estimate by Thomas Stauffer, a consulting economist in Washington. For decades, his analyses of the Middle East scene have made him a frequent thorn in the side of the Israel lobby...[jr: okay let's say Stauffer is so far off it's incredible, and the real aid figure is not even close to 1.6 trillionlet's say it's, oh, 130 billion...] "...Considering Israel's deep economic troubles, Stauffer doubts the Israel bonds covered by the loan guarantees will ever be repaid [to the US]..." ..."There are approximately 9,500 pension funds, 3,500 banks, 1,500 labor unions, and 500 insurance companies in the United States that invest in Israel Bonds. School districts, municipalities, and other large institutions also purchase them. One of the largest sources of institutional investment capital in Israel is from U.S. pension funds through the purchase of Israeli government bonds..." Assuming the figures in the above paragraph are close to correct, think about the size and range of the ongoing effort to get these organizations to buy bonds and, in effect, give support to the government of Israel and its policies. Okay. Here is an excerpt from a piece found at the site, Global Exchange: "Here are just a few reasons why it's time to divest from Israel Bonds: U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact" "Summary Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997) Foreign Aid Grants and Loans $74,157,600,000 "Other U.S. Aid (12.2% of Foreign Aid) $9,047,227,200 "Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments $1,650,000,000" "Grand Total $84,854,827,200 "Total Benefits per Israeli $14,630 "Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S.Aid to Israel Grand Total $84,854,827,200 "Interest Costs Borne by U.S.$49,936,680,000 [jr: hello? this means the US government is borrowing in order to pay $$ to Israel, and must then pay interest on that borrowing] "Total Cost to U.S. Taxpayers $134,791,507,200 [$134.7 billion] "Total [US] Taxpayer Cost per Israeli $23,240" And finally, here is a tidbit from the WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS: Special Reports: Congress Watch:
A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion- and Counting "...Congressional researchers have disclosed that between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants [outright gifts] and that this was the understanding from the beginning. Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has undoubtedly helped Israel's often-touted claim that they have never defaulted on a U.S. government loan..." Forgiving loans? Borrowing in order to make loans? 134 billion? And, as far major US media are concerned, all this is mostly flying under the radar. There is virtually no debate in Congress about these billions in gifts to Israel. Poof. Gone.
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[CTRL] Fwd: The Neocon End of the World Script

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January 16, 2006



World War IV:A realistic scenario 



by Justin Raimondo




The neocons have insistedfor years that the first shots of what they call "World War IV" have already been fired, and we are in for a new cold war (the previous one was WWIII) that is bound to turn hot. Now Niall Ferguson, the British exponent of a new American Empire, has come up with a scenario in which he envisions how the heavy fire might begin – one that reveals, in its fictionalization of entirely plausible events, all the assumptions and arrogance of a superpower infected with a fatal hubris.
Ferguson's future history begins as the clouds of war gather on the horizon, and premonitory flashes of lightning illuminate the troubled landscape of the Middle East:
"With every passing year after the turn of the century, the instability of the Gulf region grew. By the beginning of 2006, nearly all the combustible ingredients for a conflict – far bigger in its scale and scope than the wars of 1991 or 2003 – were in place."
So what caused this eruption? The word "Iraq" is not mentioned until we are well into the middle of Ferguson's fantasy, and then only to explain why Americans have gone wobbly:
"The invasion of Iraq in 2003 had been discredited by the failure to find the weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein had supposedly possessed and by the failure of the U.S.-led coalition to quell a bloody insurgency. Americans did not want to increase their military commitments overseas; they wanted to reduce them."
Yes, those weak-willed, loose-upper-lip Yankees, who lack the skills – the calculated cruelty, the toffy nosed hypocrisy, the ability to "go native" [.pdf] – to build and maintain an imperial infrastructure: they're just lazy, and cheapskates to boot. For Ferguson, the roots of this future conflagration have nothing to do with the implosion of the Iraqi state and the outbreak of civil war based on sectarian divisions: it's only that we "failed to quell" the insurgency, presumably due to a lack of resolve and the requisite bloodthirstiness. Aside from that, the insurgency is a mere detail in Ferguson's grand mosaic of the Great War's genesis, which has to do with such macro-economic and geopolitical mega-concepts as the growing importance of petroleum, the inevitable ebb and flow of demographics, and the ideological fervor of "Islamism."
The effect of all this is to impart an air of inevitability to this coming Great War: after all, the rise in oil prices is due, for the most part, to its growing scarcity. In trying to prevent this war's outbreak, therefore, one may as well attempt to cap a volcano. So, too, the demography of the Arab world – which imparts to it, according to Ferguson, a potentially deadly and threateningly youthful "vitality," as opposed to the "senescent" West. The belligerence of those combative Middle Eastern folk – Israel, of course, excepted – is due to a primitive animal vitality, rather like that of the savages depicted in Kipling's panegyrics to the British imperium, on whose behalf "the white man's burden" must be taken up.
Even the "Islamist" angle is depicted as if it were a force of nature, some inherent energy that emanates out of the very soil of the Middle East and insinuates itself into the minds of the people, like a poisonous mist. Absent from this analysis is any concept of cause and effect, of Islamic radicalism as a reaction to Western colonialism and interventionism. Certainly the British, in Ferguson's view, are completely blameless, although they ruled the region (excepting Syria) since the fall of the Ottomans up until their own inevitable decline into post-imperial "senescence." One would never know from this little essay how ruthlessly the British army suppressed the Iraqi revolt of 1920, although Ferguson, in

[CTRL] Fwd: Delta Force Founder Says Bush Responsible for World War Three

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Delta Force founder:
Bush may have started World War III
RAW STORY, 03/24/2006
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Delta_Force_founder_Bush_started_WWIII_0324.html
A founding member of the elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force, suggested that President Bush's invasion of Iraq may have started World War III, according to the Los Angeles Daily News, RAW STORY has learned. The article, acquired by RAW STORY Friday night, is expected in Sunday editions of the paper.

Retired Command Sergeant Major Eric Haney's book "Inside Delta Force" became the basis for the CBS drama "The Unit," where he now assumes technical adviser and executive producer duties.
Excerpts from the forthcoming article written by David Kronke:
Q: What's your assessment of the war in Iraq?
A: Utter debacle. But it had to be from the very first. The reasons were wrong. The reasons of this administration for taking this nation to war were not what they stated. (Army Gen.) Tommy Franks was brow-beaten and ... pursued warfare that he knew strategically was wrong in the long term. That's why he retired immediately afterward. His own staff could tell him what was going to happen afterward.
We have fomented civil war in Iraq. We have probably fomented internecine war in the Muslim world between the Shias and the Sunnis, and I think Bush may well have started the third world war, all for his own personal policies.

Q: What do you make of the torture debate? Cheney ...
A: (Interrupting) That's Cheney's pursuit. The only reason anyone tortures is because they like to do it. It's about vengeance, it's about revenge, or it's about cover-up. You don't gain intelligence that way. Everyone in the world knows that. It's worse than small-minded, and look what it does

Correction: The first edition of this article said Kronke's article would appear in Saturday's editions of the Los Angeles Daily News. It did not, and is instead expected Sunday.
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Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: BBC agrees the Cold War was a another sham brought to you by...

Hyping Terror For Fun, Profit - And Power
by Thom Hartmann

What if there really was no need for much -- or even most -- of the Cold 
War?  What if, in fact, the Cold War had been kept alive for two decades 
based on phony WMD threats?


What if, similarly, the War On Terror was largely a scam, and the 
administration was hyping it to seem larger-than-life?  What if our 
enemy represented a real but relatively small threat posed by rogue 
and criminal groups well outside the mainstream of Islam?  What if that 
hype was done largely to enhance the power, electability, and stature of 
George W. Bush and Tony Blair?


And what if the world was to discover the most shocking dimensions of 
these twin deceits -- that the same men promulgated them in the 1970s 
and today?


It happened.

The myth-shattering event took place in England the first three weeks of 
October, when the BBC aired a three-hour documentary written and 
produced by Adam Curtis, titled The Power of Nightmares.

   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/3755686.stm

[See The Guardian,
   http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1327904,00.html.
According to this carefully researched and well-vetted BBC documentary, 
Richard Nixon, following in the steps of his mentor and former boss 
Dwight D. Eisenhower, believed it was possible to end the Cold War and 
eliminate fear from the national psyche.  The nation need no longer be 
afraid of communism or the Soviet Union.  Nixon worked out a truce with 
the Soviets, meeting their demands for safety as well as the U.S. needs 
for security, and then announced to Americans that they need no longer 
be afraid.


In 1972, President Richard Nixon returned from the Soviet Union with a 
treaty worked out by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the beginning 
of a process Kissinger called détente.  On June 1, 1972, Nixon gave a 
speech in which he said, Last Friday, in Moscow, we witnessed the 
beginning of the end of that era which began in 1945.  With this step, 
we have enhanced the security of both nations.  We have begun to reduce 
the level of fear, by reducing the causes of fear-for our two peoples, 
and for all peoples in the world.


But Nixon left amid scandal and Ford came in, and Ford's Secretary of 
Defense (Donald Rumsfeld) and Chief of Staff (Dick Cheney) believed it 
was intolerable that Americans might no longer be bound by fear.  
Without fear, how could Americans be manipulated?


Rumsfeld and Cheney began a concerted effort -- first secretly and then

[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Neil Bush's Investors

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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000181.php#more
Neil Bush's Investors
By Paul Kiel - March 24, 2006, 6:31 PM 

Yesterday, Josh pointed out that the business model for Neil Bush's education 
company Ignite! seems to be that Neil goes around the world finding 
international 
statesmen, bigwigs and criminals who want to 'invest' in Ignite! as a way to 
curry 
favor with the brother in the White House.

But just who are those statesmen, bigwigs and criminals? 

The company declines to name private investors, but documents filed with the 
SEC 
show that it raised $7.1 million from 53 investors. There are a number of 
unnamed 
investors from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the British Virgin Islands. 

Here are the ones we do know about. It's quite an international grab bag:

-- Hamza El Khouli, an associate of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and 
chairman of 
First Arabian Development and Investment Company (Lawrence Journal World)

-- Les and Anne Csorba, Bush contributors who worked in the first Bush White 
House 
in the White House Personnel Office and the Office of Personnel Management 
(Houston 
Chronicle).

-- Former Iranian Ambassador Hushang Ansary, a Houston businessman (Houston 
Chronicle).

-- Sofidiv Inc., a division of the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton luxury goods 
company 
(Houston Chronicle)

-- Mohammed Al Saddah of the Ultra Horizon Co. in Kuwait (Houston Chronicle).

-- Winston Wong (alternately, Winston Wang), a Taiwan businessman who started 
the 
Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. with the eldest son of China's 
president, 
Jiang Zemin (Washington Post)

-- Joseph Peacock, company secretary at Crest Investment, where Neil Bush was 
co-
chairman; they specialize in the energy sector. Peacock is also involved with 
many 
companies owned by Jamal Daniel - Daniel is a Syrian-American businessman with 
business ties to the Bush family (St. Petersburg Times)

-- Boris Berezovky, a Russian billionaire living in London with ties to many 
Russian 
politicians, including Boris Yeltsin. He is sought by Russian prosecutors and 
Interpol for fraud (Moscow Times, Washington Post)

-- Knowledge Universe, a company chaired by former junk bond king Michael 
Milken 
(Philadelphia Inquirer, AP)

-- The Nagase Brothers education company in Japan (AP, NY Times)

-- Timothy Bridgewater, the chief executive of Interlink Management, the 
venture 
capital firm he and Neil started, also one of the Republican âPioneersâ? who 
helped raise $100,000 for George W. Bush during the 2000 campaign (Philadelphia 
Inquirer)

and finally,

-- Bush's parents
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given to those free of delusion bears great fruit.  Fields are spoiled 
by weeds; people by longing.  So what's given to those free of longing
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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49435

'Satanic' art in Catholic Church exposed
Documentary links clergy sex abuse with occult imagery


Posted: March 25, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


Could the Roman Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis be
tied to embedded Satanic and occultic imagery in its
artwork  some of it hundreds of years old? 

That is the seemingly incredible thesis of a new
documentary, Rape of the Soul, made not by
anti-Catholic bigots, but by devout followers of the
Church. 

Rape of the Soul is in theatrical release in major
cities, including New York and Los Angeles. 

The documentary explores the prevalent use of satanic,
sexual, occult and anti-Catholic images in historical
and contemporary religious artwork. The film also
discusses the mysterious acceptance of the artwork at
the highest and most trusted levels of the Catholic
Church. 

Rape of the Soul is rated R because of the
disturbing content involving demonic, violent and
sexual imagery. 

The film, which is being released by Silver Sword
International, contends a major cause of sexual abuse
in the Catholic Church could be due to prolonged
exposure to sexual and satanic images being
incorporated into the religious art. 

Experts are featured in the film to offer detailed
accounts of the subconscious programming effects of
the sex and occult images on the human brain and how
it promotes sex, Satanism and the occult. Religious
education materials, songbooks, children's story
books, devotionals and the Sunday Missals all have
been found to contain embedded imagery. 

The 140-minute film shows a compilation of the events,
investigations, discovery and exposure of implanted
imagery in religious art. Then it shows the
devastating affects of the artwork that is primarily
aimed at children and the clergy. 

Five experts speak on the different aspects of the
artwork, including Michael A. Calace, an Italian
director, actor, writer and producer who is also a
devout Roman Catholic. 

Calace embarked on a mission of Merging Media with
Morality to create family-oriented films of true life
drama for Silver Sword International, his production
company. While doing so, he uncovered a series of
religious scandals. Calace puts to use his experiences
of more than 20 years of expertise to discover a huge
amount of offensive images of carefully embedded
sexual and occult horror. He explains the techniques
used to embed the images, and he presents discoveries
from his investigations. 

The deeper I dug, the more I discovered, not just in
regard to contemporary art, but works dating back more
than 500 years, from some well-known and respected
artists. Sex and horror is the fuel that promotes the
scandalous behavior in the Church. This is the answer
why, and Church leaders don't have to look very far,
because the problem is coming from within the Church
itself, said Calace of his research. 

Other experts include Wilson Bryan Key, an American
recognized internationally for over 30 years of
embedded-imagery expertise. He also was a professor at
the University of Western Ontario. 

Stanley Monteith, another expert in the film, is an
author and radio talk show host who has spent more
than 30 years researching the causes of America's
moral decline. Monteith also has extensively studied
the Vatican's history and politics and has interviewed
Malachi Martin, the former Jesuit priest on many
different occasions. 

Marc Oster contributes his expertise in psychology and
hypnosis. Judith Reisman, the final expert featured in
Rape of the Soul, is a world-renowned author, who
specializes in child psychology and the harmful
effects of pornography. She is also president of The
Institute for Media Education and author

[CTRL] Fwd: Law Enforcement's War on Civilians

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Death raises concern at police tactics

By Matthew Davis BBC News, March 21, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4803570.stm

The recent killing of an unarmed Virginia doctor has raised concerns about what some say is an explosion in the use of military-style police Swat teams in the United States.
Armed with assault rifles, stun grenades - even armoured personnel carriers - units once used only in highly volatile situations are increasingly being deployed on more routine police missions.
Dr Salvatore Culosi Jr had come out of his townhouse to meet an undercover policeman when he was shot through the chest by a Special Weapons and Tactics force.
It was about 2135 on a chilly January evening. The 37-year-old optometrist was unarmed, he had no history of violence and displayed no threatening behaviour.
But he had been under investigation for illegal gambling and in line with a local police policy on "organised crime" raids, the heavily armed team was there to serve a search warrant.

As officers approached with their weapons drawn, tragedy struck. A handgun was accidentally discharged, fatally wounding Dr Culosi.
Two months on, investigations into the incident are still continuing, a delay which Dr Culosi's family says is compounding the "horror and burden of it all".
Salvatore Culosi Sr, the dead man's father, told the BBC: "I never knew him to carry so much as a pocket knife so it bewilders me how a detective could spend three months investigating my son and not know he is a pussy cat.
"If anything comes out of this it must be that another family does not experience this pain and anguish for absolutely no reason.
"Policy needs to change so these kinds of accidents never occur again."
'Excessive force'
Professor Peter Kraska, an expert on police militarisation from Eastern Kentucky University, says that in the 1980s there were about 3,000 Swat team deployments annually across the US, but says now there are at least 40,000 per year.

"What we find is that when Swat teams go out, shootings go down" John Gnagey National Tactical Officers Association

"I have no problem with using these paramilitary style squads to go after known violent, armed criminals, but it is an extreme tactic to use against other sorts of suspects," he said.
Dr Kraska believes there has been an explosion of units in smaller towns and cities, where training and operational standards may not be as high as large cities - a growth he attributes to "the hysteria" of the country's war on drugs.
"I get several calls a month from people asking about local incidents - wrong address raids, excessive use of force, wrongful shootings - this stuff is happening all the time," he adds.
Every wrongful death of a civilian, or criminal killing of a police officer, fuels the complex and emotive argument over the way the United States is policed.
Those who reject criticism of the use of Swat teams argue that the presence of the units actually prevents violence through the credible threat of overwhelming force.
John Gnagey, executive director of the National Tactical Officers Association, told the BBC: "What we find is that when Swat teams go out, shootings go down.
"We don't see it as escalating anything. We see it as reducing violence."
The NTOA rejects Dr Kraska's figures and says the actual number of deployments is far lower, but says there is a need for national training standards.
An NTOA study of 759 Swat team deployments across the US, found half were for warrant service and a third for incidents where suspects had barricaded themselves in a building - 50 were for hostage situations.
When criminology professor David Klinger looked at 12 years of data on Swat teams in 1998, he also found the most common reason for calling out teams was serving

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US envoy urges crackdown
on Iraq militias

By Nick Olivari
Mar 25, 2006
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador urged Iraq's divided leaders to rein in militias on Saturday as political blocs failed again to break a deadlock on forming a unity government that they hope can avert civil war.
Zalmay Khalilzad, who is pressing hard for a government more than three months after elections, issued a tough warning about the militias, many of which have ties to powerful Shi'ite leaders and are entrenched in Iraqi security forces and police.
"More Iraqis are dying from the militia violence than from the terrorists," he told reporters during a visit to a Baghdad youth center newly renovated with U.S. funds.
"The militias need to be under control."
Iraq's Shi'ite, Kurdish and Sunni leaders held another round of talks aimed at resolving differences holding up formation of post-war Iraq's first full-term government.
Politicians told a news conference they were optimistic about forming a government.
Sunni politician Tareq al-Hashemi said talks focused on ways of building a solid political foundation for the new government.
The destruction of a Shi'ite shrine a month ago sparked a wave of reprisals that raised the prospect of pro-government Shi'ite militias pushing Iraq into civil war, nearly three years after insurgents from the once-dominant Sunni Arab minority began a campaign against the U.S.-backed authorities.
The crisis has increased pressure to form a cabinet that can avert an all-out sectarian conflict.
Police found 10 more bodies, apparent victims of sectarian violence, in different parts of Baghdad on Saturday. Many of them showed signs of torture, including some that were garrotted.
Gunmen killed a traffic policeman in central Baghdad then placed a bomb inside his booth which killed four civilians in a minibus and wounded four others, police said.
In Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, mortar bombs hit houses, killing four people and wounding 13, police said.
Khalilzad said the government would face the daunting task of easing a Sunni Arab insurgency while dealing with militias, which have flourished since Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003.
Shi'ite militias have melded into Iraqi security forces and police and they are unlikely to want to give up their weapons at a time of raging sectarian violence.
Khalilzad renewed accusations on Friday that Iran is training, supplying and funding Shi'ite violence in Iraq.
IRANIAN HELP
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday the United States -- probably Khalilzad -- will talk to Iran about Washington's accusations of Iranian destabilization of Iraq, in the first public acceptance of an Iranian offer to meet.
In Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he supported talks with the United States about Iraq but was suspicious of U.S. motives.
Washington is eager for Iraqi leaders to stabilize Iraq so that U.S. troops can go home. But a withdrawal is contingent upon the performance of Iraqi troops, who have watched Sunni insurgents kill thousands of their comrades.
Several U.S. senators visiting Iraq on Saturday said U.S. patience was running thin over Iraq, with some suggesting a continued military presence would only fuel the insurgency.
Senator John McCain, the head of the delegation, said he was guardedly optimistic that a new government would be formed "in weeks". But he suggested the conflict would drag on.
"We all acknowledge, particularly after visiting here, that this is a very long, tough enterprise and challenge that we are facing and I think the best way to treat it is to tell the American people exactly that," he told reporters.
Some Sunni Arabs have

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