[CTRL] Raytheon Connection to 9-11

[Eric Stewart]

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Raytheon Connection to 9-11
From RINF
http://www.rinf.com/

How long has the United States and Big Oil conspired to take over the  
Caspian Basin? It all started before 1988 and what was expected to be  
a breakup of the USSR.


They have been conspiring, working, maneuvering and lying since at  
least since 1989 during the George H W Bush Administration. While  
things were heating up around Iraq, Kuwait theft of Iraq oil, and  
leading up to Desert Shield, then Desert Storm, the GHWB  
Administration implemented another ?shield? in the form of Operation  
Steppe Shield. It was targeted at Kazakhstan and was named for the  
vast oil and gas reserves in the Kazakh Steppe region of Kazakhstan.  
This was at the end of the Russia ? Afghanistan war and the purported  
fear of civil war in the southern provinces of what was the USSR,  
exactly where all of that oil and gas is located.


That is where Dick Cheney got himself appointed to the Kazakhstan Oil  
Advisory Board and later a gentleman you may not have heard of, but  
will read about below, found himself in a bit of a pickle regarding an  
oil company bribery schemes. My bet is, he picked up where Cheney left  
off.


Then the book titled The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its  
Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski came out in 1997,  
which just happens to coincide with when Clinton ? Gore came out with  
PDD #39 to initiate the Patriot Act-type policies, the 20 Year war  
Plan was conceived and targeted first at the Caspian Basin, and the  
CIA renditions started.


You can count on it ? they were not interested at all in civil war or  
what could have been many dead Russians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, and Turkmen,  
only the trillions of dollars in oil and natural gas in that region of  
the world. It was The Grand Chessboard, don?t you see!


You can also count on it that The Grand Chessboard, CIA renditions, Al  
Qaeda, the Patriot Act, the 20 Year war Plan are all interrelated and  
part of the Grand Scheme to play out The Grand Chessboard.


Most have heard about the Presidential Daily Briefing [the PDB] dated  
August 6, 2001 that was reviewed by Bush while on vacation at his  
Crawford, TX mini-ranch. (In Texas anything under 2500 acres is a  
hobby farm or mini-ranch. I know several that have 100,000 plus acre  
ranches in Texas.)


Less known is this, sent by one of the Email Update Members:

On August 2, 2001 the Federal Reserve Board of Governors issued a  
supervisory letter to the Reserve Banks emphasizing the importance of  
scrutinizing suspicious activity reports, which are filed by financial  
institutions under money laundering law and regulation. That letter  
did not mention Terrorism or its financing explicitly, but they were  
known if not emphasized as an important realm of ?suspicious  
activity.? Four days later, the August 6 PDB cited ?patterns of  
suspicious activity.?


If you recall the previous email and the Bridas / Afghanistan  
timeline, the Bush White House issued an ultimatum to the Taliban on  
August 2, 2001 while at the same time advising all Federal Reserve  
Banks to be on the lookout for money laundering and ties to Terrorism  
without officially using the word Terrorism. The ultimatum was in  
regards to the pipeline and U.S. control of it, even while we were  
already planning to attack them. In fact, the decision had already  
been made in early 2001 when the military was ordered to procure,  
train and be ready to deploy for an attack on Afghanistan well in  
advance of 9-11.


Most have heard about The Lie Factory [Office of Special Plans] being  
run by the Pentagon regarding Iraq intelligence and fabricating the  
reasons to justify invasion. Less known is that the Bush White House  
has been a Lie Factory since its being sworn into office.


For those of you who have kept up with the Sibel D. Edmonds story, the  
FBI translator who speaks English, Farsi, Azeri and Turkish, she  
uncovered money laundering activity within the FBI dating back to 1998  
and ongoing drug investigations during the Clinton Administration. The  
Bush White House and Attorney General John Ashcroft did not want her  
to ever speak before Congress or a Court of Law so they put a gag  
order on her to keep her from disclosing the foreign names and  
American names she found involved in the financing of 9-11.


Some of you may have read the article I wrote and appeared on  
OnlineJournal.com as part of the Pop Goes the Bush Mythology Bubble  
series, the particular one being Part V. Or you may have heard me on  
one of the 159 radio shows I have done since August 27, 2004 and on  
some have addressed what you are about to read. Or, you may have seen  
one of the many articles done by a researcher affiliated with our  
group named Jon Carlson and has been posted on http://www.rense.com/.


You can see the Part V article of Pop Goes the Bush Mythology Bubble  
at this link on my website.


So, how did 

[CTRL] 3 Minutes of Slow Motion Footage of the Pentagon on 9/11

[Eric Stewart]

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This is footage of American Airlines Flight 77 (yeah...right) hitting  
the Pentagon obtained by public interest group, Judicial Watch.


3 Minutes of Slow Motion Footage of the Pentagon on 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HrwTONo4k

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[CTRL] A Thinker's Guide to Conspiracy Theories

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http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/09/10/658.aspx

President Woodrow Wilson wrote in 1913: Some of the biggest men in  
the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are  
afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know there is a  
power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked,  
so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their  
breath when they speak in condemnation of it.



A thinker's guide to conspiracy theories
by Sam Smith

- A conspiracy does not have to be illegal; it can merely be wrongful  
or harmful.


- The term 'conspiracy theory' was invented by elite media and  
politicians to denigrate questions or critical presumptions about  
events about which important facts remain unrevealed.


- The intelligent response to such events is to remain agnostic,  
skeptical, and curious. Theories may be suggested - just as they are  
every day about less complex and more open matters on news broadcasts  
and op ed pages - but such theories should not stray too far from  
available evidence. Conversely, as long as serious anomalies remain,  
dismissing questions and doubts as a conspiracy theory is a highly  
unintelligent response. It is also ironic as those ridiculing the  
questions and doubts typically consider themselves intellectually  
superior to the doubters. But they aren't because they stopped  
thinking the moment someone in power told them a superficially  
plausible answer. Further, to ridicule those still with doubts about  
such matters is intellectually dishonest.


- There is the further irony that many who ridicule doubts about the  
official version of events were typically trained at elite colleges  
where, in political science and history, theories often take precedent  
over facts and in which substantive decisions affecting politics and  
history are presumed to be the work of a small number of wise men  
(sic). They are trained, in effect, to trust in (1) theories and (2)  
benign confederacies. Most major media political coverage is based on  
the great man theory of history. This pattern can be found in  
everything from Skull  Bones to the Washington Post editorial board  
to the Council on Foreign Relations. You might even call them  
conspiracy theorists.


- Other fields - such as social history or anthropology - posit that  
change for better or evil can come as cultural change or choices and  
not just as the decisions of great men. This is why one of the  
biggest stories in modern American history was never well covered: the  
declining birth rate. No great men decided it should happen.


- Homicide detectives and investigative reporters, among others, are  
inductive thinkers who start with evidence rather than with theories  
and aren't happy when the evidence is weak, conflicting or lacking.  
They keep working the case until a solid answer appears. This is alien  
to the well-educated newspaper editor who has been trained to trust  
official answers and conventional theories.


- The unresolved major event is largely a modern phenomenon that  
coincides with the collapse of America's constitutional government and  
the decline of its culture. Beginning with the Kennedy assassination,  
the number of inadequately explained major events has been mounting  
steadily and with them a steady decline in the trust between he people  
and their government. The refusal of American elites to take these  
doubts seriously has been a major disservice to the republic.


- You don't need a conspiracy to lie, do something illegal or to be stupid.

SOURCE: Progressive Review

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[CTRL] 9/11: Controlled Demo Proven in 19 Seconds [VIDEO]

[Eric Stewart]

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This video is powerful not only because of just how visible the  
charges are that go off all the way down the building and how audible  
but also because of its brevity. In an age of low attention spans,  
this helps and it is why much trouble was endured to bring this video  
to the general public.


Controlled Demo Proven in 19 Seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8g23fBkLA

Site Hacked to Keep BBC 911 Anniversary Video Off Web
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/11/site-hacked-to-keep-bbc-911.html

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[CTRL] 9/11: Controlled Demo Proven in 18 Seconds

[Eric Stewart]

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This video is powerful not only because of just how visible the  
charges are that go off all the way down the building and how audible  
but also because of its brevity. In an age of low attention spans,  
this helps and it is why much trouble was endured to bring this video  
to the general public.


Controlled Demo Proven in 18 Seconds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8g23fBkLA

Site Hacked to Keep BBC 911 Anniversary Video Off Web
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/11/site-hacked-to-keep-bbc-911.html

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[CTRL] Adam Gorightly, UFO's, and Beings from Beyond

[Eric Stewart]

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This item is chock full of relevant hyperlinks.  To check them out, go  
to EENG here:

http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/09/11/665.aspx

I first discovered Adam Gorightly's work when I happened upon this  
piece, entitled Ritual Magic, Mind Control and the UFO Phenomenon. I  
find his take on the UFO phenomenon to be refreshing and intriguing.  
Pure speculations on my part over the years led me many similar  
conclusions, namely that when we speak of unidentified flying objects,  
we may indeed be talking about apples and oranges. For my part, I am  
quite sure that saucer shaped aircraft, which made their widespread  
debut in the wake of Project Paperclip and the National Security Act  
of 1947, are indeed merely an attempt to create some of the first  
stealth aircraft ever. While the Horten brothers developed the first  
flying wing, in Goettingen, Germany, others, it seems, were working on  
the saucer shape as a means of offering a very low radar profile to  
enemy receivers. This would explain why Hitler devoted so little time  
to the development of radar: he was certain he had radar beat. In  
fact, if you look at the B-2 bomber from any other angle than from  
below or above (front view here), what one encounters is a definite  
saucer shape and if one looks at it from above or below, we have the  
boomerang shape endlessly reported for years around Area 51.


What Gorightly tackles, however, are entirely different phenomena. In  
his work on UFOs, we hear about the mind of humans superimposing its  
own reality constructs on what are, essentially, extradimensional  
visitations. I believe this kind of thing accounts for a majority of  
UFO encounters. In the extremlely hard to find film known as From  
Beyond, we see a story of a man who engages in a kind of  
electrostatic, plasma experiment, altering the field around his  
equipment with generators and transformers that can only be described  
as Teslian. In this field, manifest a variety of entities that almost  
seem to swim in from beyond, as if they can only exist in certain  
electrical environments.


In lieu of all of this, I consider it especially auspicous that H.P.  
Lovecraft, whom Nikola Tesla knew when Howard was a boy, wrote much  
about beings coming into Earthly reality via scientific experiments  
and ritual. While it is not generally purported that Tesla was much of  
an occultist, Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard, it is attested  
widely, were and both of them spoke of welcoming beings into this  
world from beyond. I for one, am open to the existence of subtle forms  
of telekinesis, such as the ability to affect the energetic fields  
surrounding one, especially when done with a group.


As is particular to these kinds of speculations, they often pose more  
questions than they answer but this should not discourage. After all,  
only the kinds of questioning that inspire further questions are  
likely to break new ground, whatever the topic or vectors of inquiry.


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[CTRL] Did the driver shoot JFK?

[Eric Stewart]

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William Cooper himself speaks on this video and various experts are  
consulted. I corresponded with Cooper, personally, in the days before  
he was shot to death outside his home by police and whatever you may  
think about his views, I believe he had integrity. In other words, he  
was capable of making mistakes but not of deliberately misleading  
people about the truth of our own military industrial complex.


Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rB4mZv3sg

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[CTRL] Cattle are the biggest source of global warming, producing more greenhouse gases than cars!

[Eric Stewart]

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Summary: This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock  
sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and  
policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most  
recent and complete data available, taking into account direct  
impacts, along with the impacts of feed crop agriculture required for  
livestock production.


The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most  
significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems,  
at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report  
suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with  
problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water  
shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.


Livestock?s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive  
scale and its potential contribution to their solution is equally  
large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with  
urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable  
cost.


Livestock's Long Shadow
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

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Re: [CTRL] Cattle are the biggest source of global warming, producing more greenhouse gases than cars!

[Eric Stewart]

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Quoting Ole Gerstrøm [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


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Man made global warming is a hoax.

The sun makes the variation.

Sooner or later we shall have a new ice age.

Yours, Ole Gerstrom, Denmark


In order for global warming to not be related to human activity, one  
of the following must be true:


A) Gases we typically call greenhouse gases do not, in fact, trap heat.

B) Human industry does not emit greenhouse gases.

Either is easily proven.  So, which is it?

Sun 'not to blame' for global warming
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12917584.700.html

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Re: [CTRL] Cattle are the biggest source of global warming

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Consider, also, how much of our land is being used to grow corn for  
these animals.  Factor in, on top of that, just how much deforestation  
has taken place to make room for cows or for corn for cows (I am not  
going to even go into the my biofuel tirade).


I'll remind all that trees turn carbon dioxide INTO oxygen via their  
natural metabolic function.


There are bacteria, you know, that grow in a petry dish until they run  
into the outer ring which is composed of their waste.  When they reach  
it, they choke on it.


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Re: [CTRL] Fwd: Atmosphere of Secrecy Surrounds Scientists' Revelation of What's Killing Bees

[Eric Stewart]

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I posted this to my blog some weeks ago:

No ORGANIC Bee Losses
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/05/451.aspx

Within 24 hours, an old high school friend who is on one of my mailing  
lists contacted me, stating that her sister owned an organic  
beekeeping business and that they had, as well, discussed this very  
FACT.


Of course there is also this:

Millions of Bees Die - Are Electromagnetic Signals To Blame?
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/04/08/322.aspx

 what would make them disoriented? Perhaps it is the 250 HZ  
signals being pumped out of GWEN stations all over America signal  
will induce a misdirection of up to 10 degrees in the navigation  
ability of the honeybee. They go away from the hive and never come  
back because they can no longer find it. That’s why it’s only  
happening in the US.


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[CTRL] Fencing the Border: Boeing's High-Tech Plan Falters

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Fencing the Border: Boeing's High-Tech Plan Falters
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July 9th, 2007

Boeing is behind schedule in building a high-tech virtual fence on the
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ENVIRONMENT
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US: Buying Into the Green Movement
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[CTRL] Federal police will gain access to military spy satellites [priv]

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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, below, that Homeland
Security and other federal police will gain access to military spy
satellites.

This is akin to what I wrote about last year, which is police agencies
trying to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for surveillance over U.S.
cities:
http://news.com.com/2100-11746_3-6055658.html

Both raise important privacy concerns. But if the people being
surveilled are walking or driving on a public street, current precedent
says police surveillance, even aggressive police surveillance, is just
fine...

-Declan

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http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118714764716998275.html

U.S. to Expand Domestic Use Of Spy Satellites
By ROBERT BLOCK
August 15, 2007; Page A1

The U.S.'s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of
federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the
nation's vast network of spy satellites in the U.S.

The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence
Michael McConnell, places for the first time some of the U.S.'s most
powerful intelligence-gathering tools at the disposal of domestic
security officials. The move was authorized in a May 25 memo sent to
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff asking his department to
facilitate access to the spy network on behalf of civilian agencies and
law enforcement.

Until now, only a handful of federal civilian agencies, such as the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Geological
Survey, have had access to the most basic spy-satellite imagery, and
only for the purpose of scientific and environmental study.

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[CTRL] Second Iraqi governor killed as Shiite rifts deepen

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070820/twl-iraq-575b600.html

Second Iraqi governor killed as Shiite rifts deepen
AFP - Monday, August 20

SAMAWA, Iraq (AFP) - - Bombers killed a provincial governor on Monday  
-- the second assassinated in two weeks -- amid mounting tension  
between rival Shiite armed factions in Iraq's southern cities.


Brigadier General Kadhim al-Jayashi, chief of police in the city of  
Samawa, said the governor of the southern province of Muthanna,  
Mohammed Ali al-Hassani, was killed by a roadside bomb on his way to  
work.


Police leaders have imposed a curfew on Samawa after the  
assassination, Jayashi told AFP. We have formed a committee to  
investigate.


Hassani was the second Shiite governor to be killed within a  
fortnight, amid growing signs of conflict between rival political and  
militia factions within the country's majority community.


On August 11, the governor of neighbouring Qadisiyah province, Khalil  
Jamil Hamza, was killed in a multiple bomb attack as his convoy passed  
through his capital Diwaniyah.


Both Hamza and Hassani were members of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic  
Council (SIIC), one of the country's most powerful parties and a  
bitter rival of another Shiite movement led by radical cleric Moqtada  
al-Sadr.


The governor's vehicle was thrown 10 metres (yards) by the blast  
before falling into a stream by the side of the road, said witness  
Hussein Kadhim from the Rumaitha neighbourhood of Samawa.


The whole city is paralysed after the attack. There is no movement,  
no shops are open and everybody is staying indoors.


Sectarian violence between Shiite and Sunni factions has dominated the  
headlines since the US-led invasion of March 2003, but tensions inside  
both rival communities have also sometimes erupted in bloodshed.


Recent months have seen mounting reports of intra-Shiite violence  
between SIIC's militia, the Badr Organisation, and Sadr's Mahdi Army.  
Fighting broke out between the factions in Samawa in July.


Many Badr fighters have been recruited into Iraq's new security  
forces, while the Mahdi Army is a loosely controlled militia which can  
field tens of thousands of gunmen drawn from the Shiite underclass.


Sadr's movement denied any involvement in killing the governors.

We condemn this assassination and also the previous one too, Sheikh  
Ahmed al-Shaibani, spokesman for Sadr's movement in the holy city of  
Najaf, told AFP. We want to assure that we have no links with the two  
assassinations.


Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki received news of Hassani's martyrdom  
with sadness and warned of an attempt to destabilise our beloved  
southern Iraq.


We call on our people in Muthanna province to exercise self-control  
and avoid falling into the trap of this painful experience, he said.


Hamid Al-Saedi, a SIIC member of parliament, blamed Monday's killing  
on former members of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's ruling party and  
parties hostile to Iraq.


The two top US officials in Iraq, military commander General David  
Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, also condemned the death of a  
governor they said represented the strength of the Iraqi people in  
the face of terrorism.


In July 2006, Muthanna was the first province to be handed back to the  
control of Iraqi security forces as British and Australian troops  
scaled back their operations in the relatively peaceful south.


Since then, however, local power struggles have triggered occasional  
violent clashes in many Shiite cities, leaving hundreds dead.


Violence between rival Shiite militias is now rife in Iraq's second  
city, Basra, from which British troops deployed since the invasion are  
preparing to withdraw to a desert airbase.


US commanders say the situation has been exacerbated by Iranian agents  
training and arming hardline Shiite militias known as Special Groups  
to carry out kidnappings and attack US-led forces.


Tehran has always vehemently denied trying to destabilise Iraq, and  
Maliki's government maintains close ties with its larger Shiite  
neighbour.


The slain governors' party, formerly known as the Supreme Council for  
the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was founded in Tehran under the  
auspices of the Iranian government as an Iraqi opposition force in  
exile.


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is planning to make his first  
visit to Iraq, the ISNA news agency reported. Meanwhile, Maliki  
arrived in Syria for a visit to another US foe and ally of Iran.


In other attacks on Monday, including a car bombing in Baghdad's Sadr  
City and an ambush on police north of the capital, at least 13 more  
Iraqis were killed, security and medical officials said.


The latest political violence coincided with meetings between French  
Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and the country's divided political  
leaders.


Kouchner's Baghdad visit is the first by a senior French official  
since the invasion, and while he 

[CTRL] Pentagon's New Drug Weapons

[Eric Stewart]

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  http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/drugs-r-us.html[1]

  They?ve got Skunk[2], they?ve got Special K[3], they?ve got Angel  
Dust[4], they?ve got Aced[5]?.and they?ve also got a whole  
pharmacy of extra special stuff that they?re not going to tell anyone  
about. They?re heavily armed, and the law can?t touch them. Because  
they?re the Pentagon?s own nonlethal chemical weapons developers.


  While the CIA and military drug experiments[6] of the 50s and 60s  
might be written off as just a phase they were going through, a new  
report [7]from the Bradford Nonlethal Weapons Research Project  
[8]shows that the interest in psychoactive substances has continued  
right up until the present day. It?s called ?Off the Rocker? and ?On  
the Floor?: The Continued Development of Biochemical Incapacitating  
Weapons. [9]


  Author Neil Davison explains the title:

  Broadly speaking agents were colloquially divided into ?off the  
rocker? agents having psychotropic effects and ?on the floor? agents  
causing incapacitation through effects on other physiological  
processes. ?Off the rocker? agents prevailed since the safety margins  
for other agents, including anaesthetic agents, sedatives, and opiate  
analgesics, were not considered sufficiently wide for them to perform  
as ?safe? military incapacitating agents. Writing in 1971,  
Perry-Robinson noted:


  /?The psychomimetics in fact seem to be one of the very few classes  
of incapacitating drug which have sufficient selectivity to give a  
wide enough margin of safety. Some of them are sufficiently potent for  
CW purposes.? /


  In fact, it looks like the military are all set to start deploying  
a new generation of ? well, as the report points out, they carefully  
avoid calling them chemical weapons. The preferred terms are nonlethal  
techniques, riot control agents, or, more commonly, /calmatives/.


  How?s that? Calmative originally meant something quite specific,  
but researchers at the Army?s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center[10]  
have started using their own definition:


  /A calmative agent can be defined as an antipersonnel chemical that  
leaves the victim awake and mobile but without the will or ability to  
meet military objectives or carry out criminal activity./


  So anything from tear gas to LSD to a dozen tequilas would count as  
a calmative. However, although the report describes work looking at a  
whole range of substances including THC (the active ingredient in  
cannabis), LSD, PCP, Valium and Ketamine - as well as 'selected club  
drugs' - the biggest development recently seems to have been in the  
area of Fentanyl[11] derivatives.


  Fentanyl is an opiate which was used as an intravenous analgesic in  
the 1960?s. It?s classified as a narcotic in the US, with effects said  
to be similar to heroin. It?s first known use a weapon was in the  
Moscow Theater siege[12] , when a Fentanyl derivative called Kolokol-1  
(believed to be carfentanil[13]) was pumped into the building. All of  
the terrorists were overpowered without firing a shot, but over a  
hundred hostages died as a result of respiratory depression.


  US work is said to involve a Fentanyl derivative combined with an  
antagonist which will counter the respiratory depression. According to  
the Bradford report, it may already be in use:


  /Since the 2003 National Research Council (NRC) report confirming  
renewed US Military research on incapacitating agents there has been  
no further openly available information on the programme, due to  
likely classification of the ongoing work?.It is unclear whether these  
types of chemical weapons can now be accessed for US military  
operations. Two unconfirmed reports in 2003 quoted Rear Admiral  
Stephen Baker, the Navy's former Chief of Operational Testing and  
Evaluation, as saying that US Special Forces had ?knock-out? gases  
available for use in Iraq./


  By a bizarre coincidence, the report comes outjust as we're getting  
stories of campers being rendered unconscious[14] by thieves using  
some sort of gas, but that's probably just a silly season story. Any  
such gas is probably in (fairly) safe hands.  Stay calmbut don't  
overdo it.


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[1] http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/08/drugs-r-us.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_weed
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phencyclidine
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide
[6] http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/04/the_secrets_of_.html
[7]  
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BDRC_ST_Report_No_8.pdf

[8] http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/
[9]  
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/nlw/research_reports/docs/BDRC_ST_Report_No_8.pdf

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[11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl
[12] 

[CTRL] ?Behavior detection officers? are keeping a close eye on travelers

[Eric Stewart]

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http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/08/21/627.aspx

?Behavior detection officers? are keeping a close eye on travelers
By KAITLIN DIRRIG
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON | Next time you go to the airport, more eyes may be  
following you than you notice.


Reading your body language. Studying the facial cues of the passenger  
in front of you. Scanning for signs of bad intentions, the watcher  
could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the  
one standing behind the ticket checker. Or even curbside with the  
baggage attendants.


Called behavior detection officers, they are part of recent security  
upgrades, Transportation Security Administrator Kip Hawley told an  
aviation industry group in Washington last month, ?a wonderful tool to  
be able to identify and do risk management prior to somebody coming  
into the airport or approaching the crowded checkpoint.?


The officers are working in more than a dozen airports already, said  
Paul Ekman, a former professor at the University of California-San  
Francisco who has advised Hawley?s agency.


Amy Kudwa, a Transportation Security Administration public affairs  
specialist, said the agency hopes to have 500 behavior detection  
officers in place by the end of 2008.


Kudwa described the effort, which began as a pilot program in 2006, as  
?very successful? at identifying suspicious airline passengers.  
Terrorism suspects have been apprehended, two independent sources said.


At the heart of the new screening system is a theory that when people  
try to conceal their emotions, they reveal their feelings in flashes  
that Ekman calls ?micro-expressions.? Fear and disgust are the key  
ones, he said, because they are associated with deception.


Behavior detection officers work in pairs. Typically, one officer  
sizes up passengers openly while the other seems to be performing a  
routine security duty. A passenger who arouses suspicion, whether by  
micro-expressions, social interaction or body language, gets more  
serious scrutiny.


A behavior specialist may decide to move in to help the suspicious  
passenger recover belongings that have passed through the baggage  
X-ray. Or he may ask where the traveler is going. If more alarms go  
off, officers will ?refer? the person to law enforcement officials for  
further questioning.


The strategy is based on a time-tested and successful Israeli model,  
but in the United States the scrutiny is much less invasive, Ekman  
said. American officers receive 56 hours of training.


The use of ?micro-expressions? to identify hidden emotions began  
nearly 30 years ago when Ekman and colleague Maureen O?Sullivan began  
studying videotapes of people telling lies. When they slowed the  
videotapes, they noticed distinct facial movements and began to  
catalog them.


The Department of Homeland Security hopes to dramatically enhance such  
security practices.


Jay M. Cohen, undersecretary of homeland security for science and  
technology, said in May that he wants to automate passenger screening  
by using video cameras and computers to measure and analyze heart  
rate, respiration, body temperature and verbal responses, as well as  
facial micro-expressions.


Homeland Security is seeking proposals from scientists to develop such  
technology. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 31.


It faces hurdles, however.

Different cultures express themselves differently. Expressions and  
body language are easy to misread, and no one has cataloged them all.  
Ekman noted that each culture has its own specific body language, but  
that little has been done to study each individually.


Also, automation won?t be easy, especially for the multiple variables  
a computer needs to size up people.


Finally, the extensive data-gathering will raise civil-liberties concerns.

?If you discover that someone is at risk for heart disease, what  
happens to that information?? Ekman asked. ?How can we be certain that  
it?s not sold to third parties??


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[CTRL] Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

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[VIDEO] Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire
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[CTRL] Catholic Priests STILL Manning Concentration Camps

[Eric Stewart]

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http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/08/16/624.aspx

A much awaited human rights abuse trial is underway in Argentina. The  
accused is a catholic priest charged with carrying out human rights  
abuses while working in several clandestine detention centers during  
the nation's 1976-1983 military dictatorship. The priest was arrested  
four years ago while living under an alias in Chile. This is the  
latest human rights trial of accused torturers since the landmark  
conviction of a former police officer for genocide in 2006.



Clergyman to Stand Trial for Dirty War Crimes in Argentina
by Marie Trigona | July 25, 2007

Former Chaplin Christian Von Wernich wore a priest's collar and  
bulletproof vest as he sat behind reinforced glass in a federal court.  
The court clerk read charges accusing him of collaborating with state  
security agents and covering up crimes in seven deaths, 31 cases of  
torture, and 42 cases of illegal imprisonment. He answered basic court  
questions but refused to testify in the case, stating, Following the  
advice of Dr. Jerollini who is my lawyer. I am not going to make a  
declaration. And I am not going to accept questions.


An estimated 30,000 people were killed during the military junta's  
reign of terror. As his trial began, hundreds of human rights  
activists stood outside the courtroom in the city of La Plata to decry  
Von Wernich as a murderer. President Nestor Kirchner traveled to La  
Plata and said during a speech that Von Wernich brought dishonor to  
the Church, to poor people, and to human rights.


At least 120 witnesses are slated to testify against Von Wernich and  
the court has taken precautions to protect their safety, putting up  
police fences around the courthouse and installing metal detectors. In  
the front row of the courtroom's audience, representatives from the  
human rights organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo sat with their  
white headscarves listening to the court's accusations.


According to Nora Cortinas, president of the Mothers of Plaza de  
Mayo's founding chapter, the Catholic Church supported the crimes  
committed during the dictatorship.


The heads of the Catholic Church participated in the dictatorship.  
Many priests were chaplains inside the barracks of the concentration  
camps. We want to point out that there is a sector from the church  
that didn't have anything to do with the dictatorship, on the contrary  
they supported us and reported the crimes committed at the time. But  
most of the representatives from the church participated in the  
celebration of death and torture, explains Cortinas.



The Church's Role in the Dictatorship

Journalist Horacio Verbitsky recently published a book on the Catholic  
Church's involvement with the military dictatorship. In his book, El  
Silencio (The Silence), he reports that the Catholic Church actively  
participated in the 1976-1983 dictatorship while having full knowledge  
of the human rights violations being committed at the time.


In the days leading up to the coup, representatives from the Catholic  
Church met with leaders of Argentina's armed forced and witnesses  
report they left each of these meetings smiling. On the eve of the  
March 24, 1976 coup, military leaders Jorge Videla and Ramón Agosti  
visited Archbishop Paraná Adolfo Tortolo and Monsignor Victorio  
Bonamín at the Catholic Church's Vicariato Castrense headquarters. A  
week later, Tortolo reported that, General Videla adheres to the  
principles and morals of Christian conduct. As a military leader he is  
first class, as a Catholic he is extraordinarily sincere and loyal to  
his faith. He also said that when confronting subversion, the  
military should take on hard and violent measures.


However, it was during interviews in 1995 with former Marine captain  
Adolfo Scilingo in which he confessed to Verbitsky having led the  
Vuelos de Muerte or death flights, that Verbitsky realized the  
gravity of the Catholic Church's complicity with the military's human  
rights crimes. Scilingo, who was sentenced to 645 years in prison by a  
Spanish court, reported that the catholic hierarchy approved drugging  
dissidents and dropping them from planes into the Atlantic Ocean  
during the vuelos de muerte, as a Christian form of death. When  
Scilingo felt anguished after directing these death flights, he would  
seek counseling from military chaplains at the ESMA Navy Mechanics  
School, the largest clandestine detention center in Buenos Aires.


During the dictatorship, there were representatives from the church  
who provided refuge for people fleeing from being kidnapped by  
commando groups and reported the crimes being committed by security  
commandos. At the same time, they risked their own lives. French nuns,  
Alice Domon and Léonie Duque, were disappeared and murdered in 1977  
for their organizing activities with the poor. Ex-navy captain Alfredo  
Astiz, also 

[CTRL] Life found in inorganic interstellar dust

[Eric Stewart]

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http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/mycall_et_al/archive/2007/08/10/quot-life-quot-found-in-inorganic-interstellar-dust.aspx

Life found in inorganic interstellar dust
by Vidura Panditaratne

Physicists have found evidence that inorganic dust with life-like  
qualities exists in interstellar space, according to new research  
published in New Journal of Physics that hint at the possibility that  
life beyond earth may not necessarily use carbon-based molecules as  
its building blocks and also offer a possible new explanation for the  
origin of life on Earth.


An international team has discovered that under the right conditions,  
particles of inorganic dust can become organised into helical  
structures which can then interact with each other in ways that are  
usually associated with organic compounds and life itself.


V.N. Tsytovich of the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of  
Science, in Moscow, working with colleagues there and at the  
Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany  
and the University of Sydney, Australia, studied the behaviour of  
complex mixtures of inorganic materials in a plasma, the fourth state  
of matter beyond solid, liquid and gas, in which electrons are torn  
from atoms leaving behind a miasma of charged particles.


The researchers showed using a computer model of molecular dynamics,  
that particles in a plasma can undergo self-organization as electronic  
charges become separated and the plasma becomes polarized resulting in  
microscopic strands of solid particles that twist into corkscrew  
shapes, or helical structures which are electronically charged and are  
attracted to each other.


Not only do these helical strands interact in a counterintuitive way  
in which like can attract like, but they also undergo changes that are  
normally associated with biological molecules, such as DNA and  
proteins, according to Tsytovich and his colleagues.


They can divide, or bifurcate, to form two copies of the original  
structure and can also interact to induce changes in their neighbours  
and can even evolve into yet more structures as less stable ones break  
down, leaving behind only the fittest structures in the plasma.


These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the  
necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic  
living matter, says Tsytovich, they are autonomous, they reproduce  
and they evolve.


The plasma conditions needed to form these helical structures are  
common in outer space, he added.


Plasmas can also form under more down to earth conditions such as the  
point of a lightning strike and the researchers hint that perhaps an  
inorganic form of life emerged on the primordial Earth, which then  
acted as the template for the more familiar organic molecules we know  
today.


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[CTRL] NEW WARNING ABOUT CHEMICAL IN PLASTIC

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/08/03/sciplastic103.xml

NEW WARNING ABOUT CHEMICAL IN PLASTIC
by Roger Highfield
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 03/08/2007


A warning about a possible link with breast and prostate cancers from  
a hormone-like chemical found in everyday plastic products such as  
food containers and water bottles has been issued by an international  
expert group.


Earlier this week a study of animals concluded that exposure within  
the womb to bisphenol A (BPA), a bulk chemical used in the production  
of plastics and resins, could cause changes in offspring linked with  
diseases such as obesity, cancer and diabetes.


Now new evidence has been published linking the chemical to possible  
health effects as an expert group of 38 researchers from around the  
world studying BPA issued a consensus statement in the journal  
Reproductive Toxicology based on more than 700 studies.


The statement was on the potential human impact of this ubiquitous  
chemical, one that has effects similar to those of the female sex  
hormone oestrogen, drawn up after a meeting sponsored in part by the  
US Government.


Lead author, Prof Fred vom Saal of the University of Missouri,  
Columbia, said this work marks the first expert verdict on the impact,  
enough to warn the public: BPA has become a chemical of high  
concern only in recent years, even though BPA was shown to stimulate  
the reproductive system in female rats and thus to be an  
environmental oestrogen in 1936, long before it was first used in  
plastics and resins in the early 1950s.


Animal studies in recent decades have raised concerns about the  
potential for a relationship between BPA and a spectrum of illness,  
from abnormal development of reproductive organs to early sexual  
maturation in females, behavioural problems such as attention deficit  
hyperactivity disorder and autism, an increase in childhood and adult  
obesity and type 2 diabetes, decrease in sperm count, and an increase  
in hormonally-influenced cancers, such as prostate and breast cancers.


BPA does not persist in the environment but, due to the large amounts  
in use, exposure as a result of it leaching out of food and beverage  
containers is continuous and within the range that is predicted to be  
biologically active in over 95% of people sampled.


The chemical industry has said that levels are too low to cause  
concern but Prof vom Saal said that some effects are seen at extremely  
low doses in animal studies - even below one part per trillion - and  
there are particular concerns about the unborn and newborn child,  
where epigenetic effects may be the cause of harm by changes, not to  
genes themselves but the way they are used in the body.


A new study published in the journal by a team including Laura  
Vandenberg of Tufts University, Boston for the first time, concludes  
that the levels of BPA measured in people are higher than levels  
sufficient to cause a range of adverse effects in laboratory animals.


A second study by Retha Newbold of the US National Institute of  
Environmental Health Sciences likened the effects of BPA to another  
hormone-like chemical diethylstilbestrol (DES) in women some years  
ago, notably uterine fibroids, cystic ovaries, and excessive growth of  
the lining of the uterus. These data suggest that BPA causes  
long-term adverse effects if exposure occurs during critical periods  
early in life.


The consensus group concludes from a broad survey of these and other  
data in a workshop that exposure is widespread and may increase  
susceptibility to development of cancers in some organs, such as the  
prostate and mammary glands?, that exposure early in life may result  
in persistent adverse effects in humans and that the function of the  
immune system can be altered following adult exposure to BPA.


However, they did highlight areas of uncertainty and suggestions for  
future research on uptake of BPA and whether it can accumulate in the  
body, the effects down generations, among other things. There is also  
a lack of human data and now studies have to be done to hunt for links  
between BPA exposure and ill health.


The fact that very few epidemiological studies have been conducted to  
address the issue of the potential for BPA to impact human health is a  
concern, and more research is clearly needed. This also applies to  
wildlife, both aquatic and terrestrial.


The latest opinion of the European Food Standards Authority - January  
2007 - is that BPA is not an issue at trace levels i.e. that which  
could potentially be consumed from food and drink intake, commented a  
spokesman for the Chemical Industries Association in the UK. We think  
they are right.


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[CTRL] US military needs ?image makeover? in Iraq: study

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http://www.buyitordie.com/us-military-needs-image-makeover-in-iraq-study-12350.html

US military needs ?image makeover? in Iraq: study
IC Publications
Agence France Presse

21 July 2007

The US military could take a hint from the advertising world when it  
comes to building a better image in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to  
a study for the Pentagon released this week.


?Just as people think ?safety? when they think of Volvo automobiles,  
the US military needs to establish a strong brand identity that is  
consistently communicated through all US force actions and messages,?  
said the study by the independent RAND Corporation.


Instead of sending a positive message, the ?show of force? brand that  
has been touted by the US military in its operations has had a  
negative effect on local populations, undermining potential support,  
it said.


?The central feature of consumer marketing is: know your target  
audience so you can satisfy their needs,? said RAND associate  
behavioral scientist Todd Helmus, a lead author of the report.


?The US armed forces need to know who the civilian populations of Iraq  
and Afghanistan are, apply that knowledge through day-to-day  
operations, and monitor how those civilian populations perceive US  
operations ? Then the military can adjust operations to get more  
civilian support.?


The research study analyzes marketing techniques including branding,  
customer satisfaction, and ?harnessing the power of ?influencers.?? It  
found that the same techniques could be applied to ?help shape Afghan  
and Iraqi perceptions of American forces.?


It also based its findings on dozens of interviews with marketing  
professionals as well as active and retired military personnel.


However, Helmus stressed that while image may be everything in the  
advertising world, making progress in a war zone would require the  
right kind of concrete action.


?It?s not just a matter of putting the right spin? on US military  
actions, because words alone won?t win public support,? he said.


?Instead, US forces need to take the right actions if they want to get  
the local support that?s crucial to America?s counterinsurgency  
efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.?


Among the study?s recommendations for the armed forces were ?manage  
civilian expectations by not making promises they can?t keep,? and  
?monitor civilian satisfaction through town hall meetings.?


It also recommended ?social marketing? to encourage civilians to  
cooperate with coalition forces.


?The US military needs to identify and emphasize the benefits of doing  
so in a way that motivates the population. For example, providing tips  
on insurgents can improve civilians? safety, if safety is a motivating  
benefit.?


Some of the United States? missteps were also detailed in the report.

?Certain things do not translate well,? the study said. ?Danger lies  
behind assumptions of similarity.?


For instance, one psychological operations pamphlet bearing an image  
of a pair of eyes and a message that US forces would ?find you and  
bring you to justice? was air-dropped to intimidate Iraqi insurgents  
but reached civilians in the area as well, giving ?everyone who picked  
it up the ?evil eye.??


In another example, ?as coalition helicopters fly over urban areas,  
the gunners, whose feet hang from the aircraft, have inadvertently  
offended thousands of Iraqis who gaze above,? because in Arab culture  
it is offensive to show the sole of one?s foot to another person.


The study also noted a Department of Defense study that highlighted  
how the use of words can be interpreted differently across cultures.


?When American public diplomacy talks about bringing democracy to  
Islamic societies, this is seen as no more than self-serving  
hypocrisy,? it said.


?Moreover, saying that ?freedom is the future of the Middle East? is  
seen as patronizing, suggesting that Arabs are like the enslaved  
peoples of the old Communist World ? but Muslims do not feel this way:  
they feel oppressed, but not enslaved.?


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[CTRL] The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=SHO20070603articleId=5868

The corporate takeover of U.S. intelligence
by Tim Shorrock

Global Research, June 3, 2007
Salon.com - 2007-06-01

The U.S. government now outsources a vast portion of its spying  
operations to private firms -- with zero public accountability.


More than five years into the global war on terror, spying has  
become one of the fastest-growing private industries in the United  
States. The federal government relies more than ever on outsourcing  
for some of its most sensitive work, though it has kept details about  
its use of private contractors a closely guarded secret. Intelligence  
experts, and even the government itself, have warned of a critical  
lack of oversight for the booming intelligence business.


On May 14, at an industry conference in Colorado sponsored by the  
Defense Intelligence Agency, the U.S. government revealed for the  
first time how much of its classified intelligence budget is spent on  
private contracts: a whopping 70 percent. Based on this year?s  
estimated budget of at least $48 billion, that would come to at least  
$34 billion in contracts. The figure was disclosed by Terri Everett, a  
senior procurement executive in the Office of the Director of National  
Intelligence, the agency established by Congress in 2004 to oversee  
the 16 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence infrastructure. A  
copy of Everett's unclassified PowerPoint slide presentation, titled  
Procuring the Future and dated May 25, was obtained by Salon. (It  
has since become available on the DIA's Web site.) We can't spy ...  
If we can't buy! one of the slides proclaims, underscoring the  
enormous dependence of U.S. intelligence agencies on private sector  
contracts.


The DNI figures show that the aggregate number of private contracts  
awarded by intelligence agencies rose by about 38 percent from the  
mid-1990s to 2005. But the surge in outsourcing has been far more  
dramatic measured in dollars: Over the same period of time, the total  
value of intelligence contracts more than doubled, from about $18  
billion in 1995 to about $42 billion in 2005.


Those numbers are startling, said Steven Aftergood, the director of  
the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American  
Scientists and an expert on the U.S. intelligence budget. They  
represent a transformation of the Cold War intelligence bureaucracy  
into something new and different that is literally dominated by  
contractor interests.


Because of the cloak of secrecy thrown over the intelligence budgets,  
there is no way for the American public, or even much of Congress, to  
know how those contractors are getting the money, what they are doing  
with it, or how effectively they are using it. The explosion in  
outsourcing has taken place against a backdrop of intelligence  
failures for which the Bush administration has been hammered by  
critics, from Saddam Hussein's fictional weapons of mass destruction  
to abusive interrogations that have involved employees of private  
contractors operating in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.  
Aftergood and other experts also warn that the lack of transparency  
creates conditions ripe for corruption.


Trey Brown, a DNI press officer, told Salon that the 70 percent figure  
disclosed by Everett refers to everything that U.S. intelligence  
agencies buy, from pencils to buildings to whatever devices we use to  
collect intelligence. Asked how much of the money doled out goes  
toward big-ticket items like military spy satellites, he replied, We  
can't really talk about those kinds of things.


The media has reported on some contracting figures for individual  
agencies, but never before for the entire U.S. intelligence  
enterprise. In 2006, the Washington Post reported that a significant  
majority of the employees at two key agencies, the National  
Counterterrrorism Center and the Pentagon's Counter-Intelligence Field  
Activity office, were contractors (at CIFA, the number was more than  
70 percent). More recently, former officers with the Central  
Intelligence Agency have said the CIA's workforce is about 60 percent  
contractors.


But the statistics alone don't even show the degree to which  
outsourcing has penetrated U.S. intelligence -- many tasks and  
services once reserved exclusively for government employees are being  
handled by civilians. For example, private contractors analyze much of  
the intelligence collected by satellites and low-flying unmanned  
aerial vehicles, and they write reports that are passed up to the line  
to high-ranking government officials. They supply and maintain  
software programs that can manipulate and depict data used to track  
terrorist suspects, both at home and abroad, and determine what  
targets to hit in hot spots in Iraq and Afghanistan. Such data is also  
at the heart of the National Security 

[CTRL] Loose Change producer arrested for allegedly deserting the Army

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http://www.thedailystar.com/news/stories/2007/07/25/jprowearrest0722.html

7-25-2007

Movie creator charged

By Jake Palmateer

Staff Writer

ONEONTA _ An Oneonta man who helped produce a 9/11 conspiracy documentary that
became an Internet hit was arrested Monday for allegedly deserting the Army.

Korey Rowe, 24, a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq, was picked up by deputies
at about 10:45 p.m. Monday, Otsego County Sheriff Richard Devlin Jr. said.

Rowe, along with Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, are members of Louder Than
Words, a production company that is working on a third edition of the movie
Loose Change, which contends the U.S. government was involved in the 9/11
terrorist attacks. That edition is intended to be a theatrical release.

Rowe and the other members of Louder Than Words have appeared on radio shows
including The Alex Jones Show and have been mentioned in Time magazine. Vanity
Fair magazine published a feature story on the group last August.

Since 2002, Rowe was interviewed by The Daily Star several times about Loose
Change and his experiences in the military.

We developed information that he was at a county Route 47 residence in
Oneonta last night, Devlin said Tuesday.

Rowe was arrested on a military warrant that Devlin said was brought to the
attention of deputies by the Oneonta Police Department, who received
information from a source outside of that department.

Rowe was living at the Route 47 home, Devlin said.

City police officials who were able to comment on the case were unavailable
Tuesday night.

After deputies received the information from Oneonta police, they reached out
to the Army, and officials from Fort Knox faxed a copy of the warrant,
deputies said.

Rowe previously told The Daily Star he enlisted in August 2001. He left the
Army in June 2005, according to the Louder Than Words website.

He is being held without bail in the Otsego County jail and is waiting to be
picked up by U.S. Army officials, Devlin said.

The Associated Press reported last month that deserters are rarely
court-martialed by the Army.

Although 3,301 soldiers deserted in the 2006 fiscal year, there were just 174
troops court-martialed.

The AP report said some deserters are returned to their units, while others
are discharged in non-criminal proceedings.

Desertion rates have been rising since 2004, but the Army does little to seek
out deserters and instead relies on a database that can be cross-checked by
local law-enforcement agencies during encounters such as traffic stops, the
report states.

The Department of Defense public-affairs office did not immediately return a
call for comment Tuesday.

A woman who answered Rowes cell phone Tuesday and identified herself only as
Kristy said Rowe was taken from a house Monday night.

The Louder Than Words website lists a Kristy Kissner as an administrative
assistant for the group.

All we know is that he has been arrested, the woman said. We know nothing.
We just hope that whatever happened comes out.

Rowes parents did not immediately return a message left Tuesday.

In media interviews, Rowe has criticized the Iraq war and the Bush
administration.

Desertion is defined under Article 85 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice
as being when a soldier leaves his or her unit or place of duty with the
intent to remain away from there permanently or quits his or her unit with the
intent to avoid hazardous duty. It is considered a felony.


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[CTRL] Do antivirus apps ignore US government spyware?

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  http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/07/29/572.aspx[1]

DO ANTIVIRUS APPS IGNORE US GOVERNMENT SPYWARE?

   Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com[2]

  18 July 2007 08:18 AM

  COMPANIES THAT PRODUCE SECURITY SOFTWARE MAY SOON BE IGNORING  
CERTAIN SPYWARE, AND POTENTIALLY EVEN INFECTING THEIR CUSTOMERS  
THROUGH AUTO UPDATES, UNDER ORDERS FROM US GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.


  In the case decided earlier this month by the 9th US Circuit Court  
of Appeals, federal agents used spyware with a keystroke logger --  
call it fedware -- to record the typing of a suspected Ecstasy  
manufacturer who used encryption to thwart the police.


  A CNET News.com survey of 13 leading antispyware vendors[3] found  
that not one company acknowledged cooperating unofficially with  
government agencies. Some, however, indicated that they would not  
alert customers to the presence of fedware if they were ordered by a  
court to remain quiet.


  Most of the companies surveyed, which covered the range from tiny  
firms to Symantec and IBM, said they never had received such a court  
order. The full list of companies surveyed: AVG/Grisoft, Computer  
Associates, Check Point, eEye, IBM, Kaspersky Lab, McAfee, Microsoft,  
Sana Security, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro and Websense. Only McAfee  
and Microsoft flatly declined to answer that question.


  Because only two known criminal prosecutions in the United States  
involve police use of key loggers, important legal rules remain  
unsettled. But key logger makers say that police and investigative  
agencies are frequent customers, in part because recording keystrokes  
can bypass the increasingly common use of encryption to scramble  
communications and hard drives.


  Some companies that responded to the survey were vehemently  
pro-privacy. Our customers are paying us for a service, to protect  
them from all forms of malicious code, said Marc Maiffret, eEye  
Digital Security's co-founder and chief technology officer. It is not  
up to us to do law enforcement's job for them so we do not, and will  
not, make any exceptions for law enforcement malware or other tools.  
eEye sells Blink Personal for US$25, which includes antivirus and  
antispyware features.


  Others were more conciliatory. Check Point, which makes the popular  
ZoneAlarm utility, said it would offer federal police the same  
courtesy that it extends to legitimate third-party vendors that  
request to be whitelisted. A Check Point representative said, though,  
that the company had never been in that situation.


  This isn't exactly a new question. After the last high-profile case  
in which federal agents turned to a key logger, some security  
companies allegedly volunteered to ignore fedware. The Associated  
Press reported in 2001 that McAfee contacted the FBI... to ensure its  
software wouldn't inadvertently detect the bureau's snooping  
software. McAfee subsequently said the report was inaccurate.


  Later that year, the FBI confirmed that it was creating spy  
software called Magic Lantern that would allow agents to inject  
keystroke loggers remotely through a virus without having physical  
access to the computer. (In both the recent Ecstasy case and the  
earlier key logging case involving an alleged mobster, federal agents  
obtained court orders authorising them to break into buildings to  
install key loggers.)


  Government agencies and backdoors in technology products have a  
long and frequently clandestine relationship. One 1995 expose by the  
Baltimore Sun described how the National Security Agency persuaded a  
Swiss firm, Crypto, to build backdoors into its encryption devices.


  In his 1982 book, The Puzzle Palace, author James Bamford described  
how the NSA's predecessor in 1945 coerced Western Union, RCA and ITT  
Communications to turn over telegraph traffic to the feds.


  More recently, after the BBC reported last year on supposed talks  
between the British government and Microsoft, the software maker  
pledged not to build backdoors into Windows Vista's encryption  
functions.


  Even if the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration or other  
federal police haven't tried to compel security companies to whitelist  
fedware, security experts predict that such a court order is just a  
matter of time.


  What remains unclear, however, is whether police have the legal  
authority to do so under current law. The government would be pushing  
the boundaries of the law if it attempted to obtain such an order,  
said Kevin Bankston, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier  
Foundation who has litigated wiretapping cases. There's simply no  
precedent for this sort of thing.


  One possibility is a section of the Wiretap Act that says courts  
can direct that a provider of wire or electronic communication  
service, landlord, custodian or other person to help with electronic  
surveillance.


  There is some breadth in that language that is of 

[CTRL] Ward Churchill dismissed as U of Colorado prof.

[Eric Stewart]

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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:00:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: MichaelP [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Subject: Ward Churchill dismissed as U of Colorado prof.

U. of Colorado Board of Governors claims firing necessary to uphold the
integrity of the University's research  !!

It's a payback for free speech, ..It sends a message out to the academic
community generally that if you stick your neck out and make politically
inflammatory comments, you will be dragged through the mud for two years
and you will ultimately have your tenure terminated.

#

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6803182,00.html

UP

The Guardian (London) Wednesday July 25, 2007 3:16 AM

BOULDER,  Colo. (AP) - The University of Colorado's governing board on
Tuesday  fired  a professor whose essay likening some Sept. 11 victims to
a Nazi leader provoked national outrage and led to an investigation of
research misconduct.

Ward  Churchill vowed to sue, saying ``New game, new game,'' after the
Board of Regents' 8-1 vote was announced.

Three   faculty   committees  had  accused  Churchill  of  plagiarism,
falsification and other misconduct. The research allegations stem from
some  of  Churchill's other writings, although the investigation began
after the controversy over his Sept. 11 essay.

``The  decision  was  really pretty basic,'' said university President
Hank  Brown,  adding  that  the  school  had little choice but to fire
Churchill to protect the integrity of the university's research.

``The  individual  did  not express regret, did not apologize, did not
indicate  a  willingness to refrain from this type of falsification in the
future,'' Brown said.

Churchill's  essay  mentioning  Sept. 11 victims and Nazi leader Adolf
Eichmann  prompted  a chorus of demands for his firing, but university
officials concluded it was protected speech under the First Amendment.

But  Brown  recommended  in  May that the regents fire Churchill after
faculty  committees  accused him of misconduct in some of his academic
writing.  The  allegations  included  misrepresenting  the  effects of
federal  laws  on American Indians, fabricating evidence that the Army
deliberately  spread  smallpox to Mandan Indians in 1837, and claiming the
work of a Canadian environmental group as his own.

But  the  essay  that  thrust  Churchill  into the national spotlight,
titled ``Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens,'' was
not part of the investigation.

That  essay  and  a  follow-up  book  argued  that the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist  attacks  were  a response to a long history of U.S. abuses.
Churchill  said  those  killed in the World Trade Center collapse were ``a
technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial
empire'' and called them ``little Eichmanns.''

Churchill  has said Eichmann was a bureaucrat who carried out policies
like  the  Holocaust  that  were  planned  by  others  but  was  still
responsible for his own actions.

Churchill  wrote  the  piece  shortly  after  the attacks, but it drew
little  notice  until  2005,  when  a professor at Hamilton College in
upstate  New York called attention to it when Churchill was invited to
speak there.

In   the  uproar  that  followed,  the  regents  apologized  to  ``all
Americans''  for  the  essay,  and  the  Colorado  Legislature labeled
Churchill's remarks ``evil and inflammatory.''

Bill Owens, then governor of Colorado, said Churchill should be fired, and
George  Pataki,  then  governor  of  New York, called Churchill a
``bigoted terrorist supporter.''

Churchill  remained  on the university payroll but had been out of the
classroom  since  spring 2006, first because he was on leave and later
because  the  school relieved him of teaching duties after the interim
chancellor recommended he be fired.

The lone no vote on Tuesday came from Regent Cindy Carlisle, who could not
be located for comment.

``I am going nowhere,'' Churchill told reporters, calling the academic
investigation ``a farce'' and ``a fraud.''

Churchill's   attorney,   David  Lane,  said  that  the  decision  was
retribution  for  Churchill's  Sept. 11 remarks and that he would file
suit on Wednesday.

``For  the public at large, the message is there will be a payback for
free  speech,''  Lane  said.  ``It sends a message out to the academic
community  generally  that  if  you  stick  your  neck  out  and  make
politically inflammatory comments, you will be dragged through the mud for
two years and you will ultimately have your tenure terminated.''


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[CTRL] The Real Deal on Bohemian Grove

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Recently, I was asked for my take on Alex Jones and Michael Aquino,
famous names in the conspiracy sphere of cyberspace. I was also asked to
elaborate on hints I had given about Bohemian Grove, in a conversation I
was involved in.  Check it out.

The Real Deal on Bohemian Grove
http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/07/12/543.aspx

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[CTRL] 9/11: Controlled Demo Proven in 19 Seconds

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[1]http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/07/07/535.a
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 9/11: Controlled Demo Proven in 19 Seconds

 Folks, here I have included a series of comments that were added in
 the days ensuing my blogging this item last year. The video, perhaps
 the most important video in the public pursuit of truth regarding
 9/11 not only because of its brevity but, as well, because of the
 sheerly indisputable content! The video is [2]here.

[3]Check it out!

7 Comments:
At [4]November 10, 2006 1:49 AM, [5]Eric Stewart said...

Folks, Google has yanked my access to their videos. Of course,
Google owns Blogger so this is not entirely unforseen. First they
changed the url of the video I was accessing and THEN yanked all
access from this blog to their vids.
This was easily the most useful 9/11 controlled demo out there.
It was from a BBC special and nothing anywhere I have seen comes
close to providing EXTREMELY CLEAR shots and audio of rapid
explosions, charges going off one floor after another.
They have implicated themselves. If Google continues to deny me
access to their videos, then I will be forced to mount a serious
campaign against their censorship tactics. If Google thinks that
they can get away with this I will remind them what happened when
I decided that Echelon no longer needed to be a conspiracy
theory. The National Security Agency couldn't shut me up. What
makes you think you can?
You had better get with it Google or I'm coming after you.
  At [6]November 10, 2006 6:43 AM, [7]Eric Stewart said...

That's better. Threatening these guys with bad press usually
works.
  At [8]November 10, 2006 7:15 AM, [9]Eric Stewart said...

Of course, since Google is now allowing linkage to my blog, the
inevitable wave of naysayers, claiming that I am off my rocker
for observing a CONSISTENT pattern, has begun. For those of you
and for others that would like just a little more information on
all of this, here is something I sent to someone today:
Google has never let me upload vids and whenever I have tried to
use their service that automatically blogs items, it simply
hasn't worked. Let me be clear here: certain online outfits and
well known intelligence outfits have a long and rocky history
with me. I could give you examples but I'd rather not toot my own
horn so much. I am known in national security issues. Have you
ever heard of Echelon?
As well, every time I try to download anything from Google, I get
multiple megs of information that, if it does anything at all, is
doing so invisibly. In other words, I never get a video but I am
suspicious of what exactly that code was.
At any rate, recently I was sent the embed code by someone and
began to use it and yesterday I found a video that is the single
most explosive video ever in regards to the 9/11 controlled
demolition. Several people emailed me incredulously (veteran
researchers), calling it a long awaited smoking gun. It is
undeniable. Multiple, orderly explosions are seen going off,
floor by floor and they are easily heard.
Suddenly - BAM! My history in dealing with such situations is to
wait. My experience is that when I happen upon something
revelatory and SUDDENLY get problems, that there is good reason
to be suspicious. Still, in the past I have reserved judgement.
More often than not, such problems persist without end until I
raise a whole lot of hell about it and the pattern is that my
problems miraculously stop when I do so.
Glitches are not sensitive to complaints, though some have
seemingly implied such.
I have, in the past, waited for hours and sometimes even days
before I did anything, waiting to see of such a glitch resolves
itself. My batting average for CAUSING such glitches to go away
by merely drawing attention to them is well over .500 - this over
about a hundred at bats, if you know what I mean.
I threatened Google and they responded. This time the threat
(with deserved bad press) was issued almost immediately by
myself, which is rare. I usually wait but this time I thought the
subject matter too important to let slide and the timing,
coinciding with the most revelatory thing I have blogged ever,
was too suspicious. These people I spoke of that know me and of
me, these elites, are quite aware of my capability to reach
several thousand influential people quickly and without warning.
I'm really glad people are beginning to take on the issue of
Google and its memetic support of the fascist state. As for
myself, I have been all over Yahoo for similar things.
  At [10]November 11, 2006 6:43 AM, [11]Eric Stewart said...

FYI : While attempting to view a video at YouTube on the LAPD's
brutal ways, my anti-virus program picked up a trojan. This kind
of thing ought to be able to be proven.
  At [12]November 11, 2006 6:53 AM, [13]Eric Stewart said...

I just picked up an incoming virus at a YouTube vid on LAPD
brutality (I was backing my browser up when it happened so I
don't know which one did it - I had to shut it down

[CTRL] Tobacco giants ‘targeted African children to boost flagging profits’

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2022928.ece

Tobacco giants ‘targeted African children to boost flagging profits’
by Tosin Sulaiman

British American Tobacco (BAT) and Philip Morris face allegations that
they targeted young and underage smokers in Nigeria to increase smoking
rates in developing countries as sales decline in the West.

Lawyers for Nigeria’s largest state, Kano, will argue today that the
tobacco companies sponsored pop concerts and sporting events and, in
some instances, gave away free cigarettes, to recruit minors to smoking.

Kano is one of four Nigerian states suing BAT Nigeria, its parent
company in Britain and Philip Morris International to recover the costs
of treating smoking-related diseases.

They are seeking damages of at least $38.6 billion (£19.1 billion). 

Kano’s first hearing is today and cases in Gombe and Oyo begin tomorrow
and Monday respectively. The Lagos case began in May and more states are
expected to join.

“They want to prepare for a problem they know has already been created,
as well as restrict the distribution of tobacco to young people,” said
Babatunde Irukera, a lawyer representing the state governments. “The
public health facilities are overtasked.”

The biggest increase in smoking in Nigeria has been among young people.
The number of young women smokers grew tenfold between 1990 and 2001,
according to the World Health Organisation.

A large part of the plaintiffs’ evidence will come from the tobacco
companies’ internal documents, which were released as part of a
multibillion-dollar settlement that the US tobacco industry reached with
state governments in the 1990s. The documents, some of which have been
seen by The Times, show the companies’ attempts to reach younger smokers
by sponsoring well-known musicians, and their efforts to fight tobacco
control initiatives.

Although there are laws banning tobacco advertising on billboards and on
television and radio, there is no explicit legislation restricting the
sale of cigarettes to underage smokers.

The plaintiffs argue that the youth market was and still is important to
the tobacco industry, citing a Philip Morris USA report dated March 31,
1981, which says: “Today’s teenager is tomorrow’s potential regular
customer, and the overwhelming majority of smokers first begin to smoke
while still in their teens.”

A similar document prepared for BAT, dated July 25, 1991, discusses the
habits of younger smokers in Nigeria. “New smokers enter the market at a
very early age in many cases: as young as 8 or 9 years seems to be quite
common,” according to the report, entitled The Cigarette Market in
Nigeria.

A report prepared by the tobacco industry’s lobbying group in Nigeria,
TACON, on October 18, 1981, detailed its strategy to defeat a Private
Member’s Bill introduced in the House of Representatives to make
provisions for warning cigarette smokers of the adverse health effects
of smoking.

“It was decided that TACON’s main strategy should be to play down the
health argument and concentrate instead on the economic,” the report
said. “This proved to be the correct approach especially as Nigeria’s
economy has been suffering . . . from the world recession.”

In an internal memo dated May 13, 1991, BAT talked about the use of
Nigerian artists to promote its Benson  Hedges (BH) brand, saying:
“The young adult music platform of the BH label is the type of image
enhancement we need in Nigeria.”

Stephen Swedlow, an American lawyer who is advising the Nigerian state
governments, told The Times: “The international tobacco companies have
to develop these . . . markets because the smoking rates in the US and
the UK have consistently dropped, based on litigation in the US and
public health pressures in the UK.”

A spokeswoman for BAT said that the allegations were completely
unfounded. “We don’t market to children and we have never attempted to
do so,” she said. “We also actively lobby governments to raise the age
at which people are allowed to buy tobacco to 18.”

A spokesman for Philip Morris said: “Philip Morris International and its
affiliates do not currently sell cigarettes in Nigeria.” 

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[CTRL] Our Militarized Police Departments

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[1]http://www.reason.com/news/show/121169.html

 Our Militarized Police Departments

Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Crime

[2]Radley Balko | July 2, 2007

Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the committee, thank you
for inviting me to speak today.
I’m here to talk about police militarization, a troubling trend
that’s been on the rise in America’s police departments over the
last 25 years.
Militarization is a broad term that refers to using
military-style weapons, tactics, training, uniforms, and even
heavy equipment by civilian police departments.
It’s a troubling trend because the military has a very different
and distinct role than our domestic peace officers. The
military’s job is to annihilate a foreign enemy. The police are
supposed to protect us while upholding our constitutional rights.
It’s dangerous to conflate the two.
But that’s exactly what we’re doing. Since the late 1980s, Mr.
Chairman, thanks to acts passed by the U.S. Congress, millions of
pieces of surplus military equipment have been given to local
police departments across the country.
We’re not talking just about computers and office equipment.
Military-grade semi-automatic weapons, armored personnel
vehicles, tanks, helicopters, airplanes, and all manner of other
equipment designed for use on the battlefield is now being used
on American streets, against American citizens.
Academic criminologists credit these transfers with the dramatic
rise in paramilitary SWAT teams over the last quarter century.
SWAT teams were originally designed to be used in violent,
emergency situations like hostage takings, acts of terrorism, or
bank robberies. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, that’s
primarily how they were used, and they performed marvelously.
But beginning in the early 1980s, they’ve been increasingly used
for routine warrant service in drug cases and other nonviolent
crimes. And thanks to the Pentagon transfer programs, there are
now a lot more of them.
This is troubling because paramilitary police actions are
extremely volatile, necessarily violent, overly confrontational,
and leave very little margin for error. These are acceptable
risks when you’re dealing with an already violent situation
featuring a suspect who is an eminent threat to the community.
But when you’re dealing with nonviolent drug offenders,
paramilitary police actions create violence instead of defusing
it. Whether you’re an innocent family startled by a police
invasion that inadvertently targeted the wrong home or a drug
dealer who mistakes raiding police officers for a rival drug
dealer, forced entry into someone’s home creates confrontation.
It rouses the basest, most fundamental instincts we have in us –
those of self-preservation – to fight when flight isn’t an
option.
Peter Kraska, a criminologist at the University of Eastern
Kentucky, estimates we’ve seen a startling 1,500 percent increase
in the use of SWAT teams in this country from the early 80s until
the early 2000s. And the vast majority of these SWAT raids are
for routine warrant service.
These violent raids on American homes, when coupled with the
imperfect, often ugly methods used in drug policing, have set the
stage for disturbingly frequent cases of police raiding the homes
not only of recreational, nonviolent drug users, but the homes of
people completely innocent of any crime at all.
Take a look at the map on the monitor
([3]http://www.cato.org/raidmap). This is a map of the botched
paramilitary police raids I found while researching a paper for
the Cato Institute last summer. It is by no means inclusive. It
only includes those cases for which I was able to find a
newspaper account or court record. Based on my research, I’m
convinced that the vast majority of victims of mistaken raids are
to afraid, intimidated, embarrassed, or concerned about
retaliation to report what happened to them.
Pay particular attention to the red markers on the map. Those are
the approximately 40 cases where a mistaken raid resulted in the
death of a completely innocent American citizen.
The most recent example of course is the drug raid in Atlanta
last fall that killed 92-year old Kathryn Johnston. Ms. Johnston
mistook the raiding police officers for criminal intruders. When
she met them with a gun, they opened fire and killed her. The
police were acting on an uncorroborated tip from a convicted
felon.
I’d estimate I find news reports of mistaken raids on Americans
homes about once a week. If you’re wondering, yes, there was one
just this week. This past Saturday, in Durango, Colorado, police
raided the home of 77-year-old Virginia Herrick. Ms. Herrick, who
takes oxygen, was forced to the ground and handcuffed at gunpoint
while officers ravaged through her home.
They had the wrong address. In just the last month, there have
been mistaken raids in New York City; Annapolis, Maryland;
Hendersonville, North Carolina; Bonner County, Idaho; and
Stockton, California.
In each 

[CTRL] USAF Psyops: The Neurobiology of Dread

[Eric Stewart]

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[1]http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/05/16/418.a
spx

   USAF Psyops: The Neurobiology of Dread

A study last year on the neurobiology of dread gives an idea of
what our military Psychological Operations folks are paying
attention to. A link on this [2]Air Force Psychological
Operations web site is to this article on a recent study on the
neurobiology of dread: [3]The Real Pain of Dread with this
intrguing subtitle: According to brain-imaging studies, the
anticipation of pain can be just as agonizing as the experience
of it.

While this research appears to be benign in intention, having
been funded by the [4]National Institute on Drug Abuse, it sure
is interesting that it is one of a very few research papers
[5]cited by the Air Force PSYOPS folks. After all, creating an
anticipation of pain is a central element in the United States”
[6]psychological torture paradigm.

It also makes one wonder what the calls for [7]increased
neurobiological research into interrogation strategies may
actually be about.


SOURCE: [8]Psyche, Science, and Society
[300px-Guantanamo-dog.jpg]

References

1. http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/05/16/418.aspx
2. http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/psyops.htm
3. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/16887/page1/
4. http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/may2006/nida-11.htm
5. http://www.au.af.mil/info-ops/psyops.htm#papers
6. 
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/05/14/air-force-psychological-operations-interested-in-neurobiology-of-dread-anticipation-of-pain/:%20According%20to%20brain-imaging%20studies,%20the%20anticipation%20of%20pain%20can%20be%20just%20as%20agonizing%20as%20the%20experience%20of%20it
7. http://www.fas.org/irp/dni/educing.pdf
8. 
http://psychoanalystsopposewar.org/blog/2007/05/14/air-force-psychological-operations-interested-in-neurobiology-of-dread-anticipation-of-pain/

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[1]http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/05/451.a
spx

...no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial
beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. The
problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides
in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed
antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all
over the place to make more money with pollination services,
which stresses the colonies.

No ORGANIC Bee losses

2007 05 06

Received from Lancifer | [2]redicecreations.com

I am quite involved with many alternative agriculture
groups, and I received this email from a trusted
friend...you might want to check it out for your news
section...
[973organicbee.jpg] Sharon Labchuk is a longtime environmental
activist and part-time organic beekeeper from Prince Edward
Island. She has twice run for a seat in Ottawa's House of
Commons, making strong showings around 5% for Canada's fledgling
Green Party. She is also leader of the provincial wing of her
party. In a widely circulated email, she wrote:
I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly
Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including
commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list.
The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put
pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they
feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck
all over the place to make more money with pollination services,
which stresses the colonies.
Her email recommends a visit to the Bush Bees Web site at
[3]Here, Michael Bush felt compelled to put a message to the
beekeeping world right on the top page:
Most of us beekeepers are fighting with the Varroa mites. I'm
happy to say my biggest problems are things like trying to get
nucs through the winter and coming up with hives that won't hurt
my back from lifting or better ways to feed the bees.
This change from fighting the mites is mostly because I've gone
to natural sized cells. In case you weren't aware, and I wasn't
for a long time, the foundation in common usage results in much
larger bees than what you would find in a natural hive. I've
measured sections of natural worker brood comb that are 4.6mm in
diameter. What most people use for worker brood is foundation
that is 5.4mm in diameter. If you translate that into three
dimensions instead of one, it produces a bee that is about half
as large again as is natural. By letting the bees build natural
sized cells, I have virtually eliminated my Varroa and Tracheal
mite problems. One cause of this is shorter capping times by one
day, and shorter post-capping times by one day. This means less
Varroa get into the cells, and less Varroa reproduce in the
cells.
Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to
tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties
that we coax into a larger than normal body size? It sounds just
like the beef industry. And, have we here a solution to the
vanishing bee problem? Is it one that the CCD Working Group, or
indeed, the scientific world at large, will support? Will media
coverage affect government action in dealing with this issue?
These are important questions to ask. It is not an uncommonly
held opinion that, although this new pattern of bee colony
collapse seems to have struck from out of the blue (which
suggests a triggering agent), it is likely that some biological
limit in the bees has been crossed. There is no shortage of
evidence that we have been fast approaching this limit for some
time.
We've been pushing them too hard, Dr. Peter Kevan, an associate
professor of environmental biology at the University of Guelph in
Ontario, told the CBC. And we're starving them out by feeding
them artificially and moving them great distances. Given the
stress commercial bees are under, Kevan suggests CCD might be
caused by parasitic mites, or long cold winters, or long wet
springs, or pesticides, or genetically modified crops. Maybe it's
all of the above...


SOURCE: [4]Red Ice Creations

References

1. http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/05/451.aspx
2. http://www.redicecreations.com/
3. http://bushfarms.com/bees.htm
4. http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=974

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[CTRL] NSA 'Spy Room' at ATT Exposed

[Eric Stewart]

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[1]http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/19/471.a
spx

The room, described as secret and secure, houses surveillance
equipment used to spy on ATT customers. Investigations could
include web use, email and voice communications.


NSA 'spy room' at ATT exposed

Agency can spy on email and web use with impunity
Iain Thomson, [2]vnunet.com, 13 Jun 2007

Documents obtained by the [3]Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
claim to show that US telco [4]ATT allowed the [5]National
Security Agency (NSA) to set up a 'secret room' in its offices to
monitor internet traffic.


The documents were handed over as part of an EFF legal case
against ATT for alleged violation of user privacy. The US
government has asked the courts to dismiss the case, claiming
that the lawsuit could expose state secrets.

The district court rejected the government's attempt to sweep
this case under the rug, said EFF senior staff attorney Kurt
Opsahl.

This country has a long tradition of open court proceedings, and
we are pleased that, as we present our case to the Court of
Appeals, the millions of affected ATT customers will be able to
see our arguments and evidence and judge for themselves.

The room, described as secret and secure, houses surveillance
equipment used to spy on ATT customers. Investigations could
include web use, email and voice communications.

This is critical evidence supporting our claim that ATT is
cooperating with the NSA in the illegal dragnet surveillance of
millions of ordinary Americans, said EFF legal director Cindy
Cohn.

This surveillance is under debate in Congress and across the
nation, as well as in the courts.

The public has a right to see these important documents, the
declarations from our witnesses and our legal arguments, and we
are very pleased to release them.


SOURCE: [6]IT Week

Also see [7]Watching What You Say

References

1. http://eeng.net/CS/blogs/smileycoyote/archive/2007/06/19/471.aspx
2. http://www.vnunet.com/
3. http://www.eff.org/
4. http://www.att.com/
5. http://www.nsa.gov/
6. http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2191993/nsa-spy-room
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My Blog
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[CTRL] Govt Will Appeal FOIA Ruling on NRO Budget Docs

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Govt Will Appeal FOIA Ruling on NRO Budget Docs 



The U.S. Department of Justice said (pdf) that it will seek to overturn a federal court ruling requiring the National Reconnaissance Office to process a request from the Federation of American Scientists for release of NRO budget documents.
In a July 24, 2006 decision (pdf), Judge Reggie B. Walton had ruled that the NRO's refusal to process the FAS Freedom of Information Act request was unlawful.
Judge Walton ordered the intelligence agency to move forward with the request, which was limited to unclassified budget records. The NRO promptly advised FAS that it would comply with the order.
But instead, the Justice Department indicated on September 20 that it would challenge the decision in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
The action is consistent with the Bush Administration's restrictive Freedom of Information Act policy, which encourages agencies to withhold information whenever possible and promises to support them when they do.
"When you carefully consider FOIA requests and decide to withhold records, in whole or in part, you can be assured that the Department of Justice will defend your decisions," Attorney General John Ashcroft told executive branch agencies in the October 12, 2001 policy.
In other FOIA news, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved bipartisan legislation sponsored by Senators Cornyn and Leahy that would make certain procedural improvements in the FOIA.
Senator Leahy itemized the proposed changes in a September 21 news release.
While the Cornyn-Leahy changes would be welcome, none of them could substitute for an official commitment to open government or a rational disclosure policy.
Nor would they dissuade the Justice Department from working to overturn judicial decisions in favor of FOIA plaintiffs like that of Judge Walton.
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[CTRL] Free anonymous browsing

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By Kelly Fiveash 
A modified version of Mozilla Firefox that lets users browse the web anonymously has been released.
The Torpark browser can be stored on and run from a flash USB memory stick, which can effectively turn a PC into an anonymous terminal.
Hacktivismo - an eclectic bunch of lawyers, artists, hackers and human rights activists - has created the modified portable web browser.
On its website the group claims to be "committed to developing technologies in support of the highest standards of human rights."

Explaining the motivation behind Torpack, Hacktivismo founder Oxblood Ruffin said: "We live in a time where acquisition technologies are cherry picking and collating every aspect of our online lives - so it seems that it's a browser attempting to redress that supposed imbalance."No installation is required to run Torpark but the two folders generated from its free download website have to stay together for the browser to run.Working in conjunction with The Onion Router (TOR) network, the tool anonymises a user's connection through encryption and constantly changing net addresses. This makes it incredibly difficult for ISPs to track an individuals web-related activity and location.The Torpark website details instructions on what limitations to expect if using the browser, as surfing the net anonymously has several drawbacks including a slower browsing speed and individual websites not storing a users login details.Torpark is being released under the GNU General Public License and is dedicated "to the Panchen Lama". ®SOURCE

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[CTRL] Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism

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Bush Shields Dad on Chile Terrorism 


By Robert ParrySeptember 22, 2006Chilean investigators say the Bush administration is undercutting their case against former dictator Augusto Pinochet for his alleged role in the terrorist assassination of a political rival on the streets of Washington three decades ago, a crime that then-CIA Director George H.W. Bush appears to have tolerated and then helped cover-up.Now, George W. Bush has picked up the mantle from his father for protecting the 90-year-old Pinochet from ever facing justice for the murder of former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American co-worker, Ronni Moffitt, who were killed by a car bomb on Sept. 21, 1976, as Letelier drove down Massachusetts Avenue.Six years ago, near the end of the Clinton administration, an FBI team reviewed new evidence that had become available in the case and recommended the indictment of Pinochet. But the final decision was left to the incoming Bush administration, which has failed to act while also withholding relevant documents from Chilean investigators.“Every day it is clearer that Pinochet ordered my brother’s death,” human rights lawyer Fabiola Letelier told the New York Times. “But for a proper and complete investigation to take place we need access to the appropriate records and evidence.” [NYT, Sept. 21, 2006]By frustrating the Chilean investigation, the Bush administration also is protecting former President George H.W. Bush against possibly being implicated in this act of terrorism, conceivably as an accessory after the fact for diverting suspicion away from Pinochet.The Letelier-Moffitt murder is considered the worst act of state-sponsored terrorism in the history of Washington, D.C. At minimum, George H.W. Bush’s CIA operated with extraordinary incompetence and negligence in failing to act on explicit warnings about the assassination plot.Thirty-Year TaleThe case dates back to 1976 when the elder George Bush was running the CIA and right-wing military dictatorships – many with close CIA ties – were striking out at political adversaries through a cross-border assassination project known as Operation Condor.At the time, one of the most eloquent voices making the case against Pinochet’s regime was Orlando Letelier, who was living in exile and operating out of a liberal think tank in Washington, the Institute for Policy Studies.Earlier in their government careers, when Letelier was briefly defense minister in the leftist government of Salvador Allende, Pinochet had been Letelier’s subordinate. In 1973, after Pinochet took power in a military coup that killed Allende, Pinochet imprisoned Letelier at a desolate concentration camp on Dawson Island off Chile’s south Pacific coast. International pressure won Letelier release a year later.By 1976, however, Pinochet was chafing under Letelier’s criticism of the regime’s human rights record. Letelier was doubly infuriating to Pinochet because Letelier was regarded as a man of intellect and charm, even impressing CIA officers who observed him as “a personable, socially pleasant man” and “a reasonable, mature democrat,” according to CIA biographical sketches.Pinochet fumed to U.S. officials, including to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, that Letelier was spreading lies and causing trouble with the U.S. Congress. Soon, Pinochet was plotting with Manuel Contreras, chief of Chile’s feared DINA secret service, on how to silence Letelier for good.By summer 1976, Bush’s CIA was hearing a lot about Operation Condor from South American sources who had attended a second organizational conference of Southern Cone intelligence services.These CIA sources reported that the military regimes were preparing “to engage in ‘executive action’ outside the territory of member countries.” In intelligence circles, “executive action” is a euphemism for assassination.On July 30, 1976, a CIA official briefed State Department officials about these “disturbing developments in [Condor’s] operational attitudes.” The information was passed to Kissinger in a “secret” report on August 3, 1976.The 14-page report from Assistant Secretary of State Harry Shlaudeman said the military regimes were “joining forces to eradicate ‘subversion,’ a word which increasingly translates into non-violent dissent from the left and center left.” [See Peter Kornbluh’s The Pinochet File.]Targeting LetelierWhile information about the larger Condor strategy was spreading through the upper levels of the Ford administration, Pinochet and Contreras were putting in motion an audacious plan to eliminate Orlando Letelier in his safe haven in Washington, D.C.In July 1976, two DINA operatives – Michael Townley and Armando Fernandez Larios – went to Paraguay where DINA had arranged for them to get false passports and visas for a trip to the United States.Townley and Larios were using the false names Juan Williams and 

[CTRL] Bush and bin Laden's Shared Political Goals Are Enough To Freak Out Anybody

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Bush and bin Laden's Shared Political Goals Are Enough To Freak Out Anybody 


by A. Alexander, September 20th, 2006Okay, now I'm freaked out. Look, nobody is suggesting the President of the United States and bin Laden trade phone calls, emails, and wish to be friends but it is beginning to become clear that each, for their own reasons, share similar political goals and agendas. Politically they need one another.The al Qaeda leader, bin Laden, is a lot things but stupid isn't one of them. During the 2004 Presidential campaign, bin Laden displayed a skillful knack for releasing tapes just when the Bush campaign appeared to need them most. He is well aware of his dark prince-like rock star status here in the United States. Bin Laden knows the press will never pass up an opportunity to garner market share by exploiting anything he says or in which he plays the lead role. If he releases an audio or video tape, he gets airtime just like the President.The President has been in a world of political hurt throughout 2006. In a fruitless attempt to try and push up his slumping approval ratings, George W. Bush has embarked upon a number of campaign-like tours across the country. Somewhere in the midst of each of these campaigns, bin Laden has been certain to release either an audio or video tape.Recently a poll found that approximately 40% of the American people believe there is more to 9/11 than the Bush administration has been conceding. Whether it is based in reality or born out of an extreme distrust of the administration, having people questioning the responsibility for 9/11 isn't helpful to the President, Republican election chances or, for that matter, bin Laden's "terror mastermind" street cred.If the American people are beginning to openly question the entire 9/11 story, that circumstance would serve to undermine the entire Rove 2006 campaign strategy. Can't scare the daylights out of people over terrorism, if they think the President might have somehow been involved in either knowing about and doing nothing to stop the attacks, or if they distrust Republicans enough in general to question their sincerity. And bin Laden certainly doesn't want people wondering if he really was the guy behind the devastating attacks. Such conditions undermine that entire "Islamic Jihad Warrior" persona that he's been so careful to cultivate.Generally speaking bin Laden needs the President and Republicans running America, because they are good for the terror recruitment business. They, as no other organization has or can, have played quite wonderfully into bin Laden's hands. The al Qaeda leader, long before 9/11, said the United States' only objective regarding the Middle East was to control their natural resources. The moment George W. Bush gave the order to invade Iraq, home to the world's second largest oil reserves, even moderate members of the Islamic faith said, "Hmmm...Binnie Boy is a nut-job, but he sure had that one pegged!" And every moderate leaning toward fanaticism said, "That's it for me! I'm all in on the Jihad movement!"Ever since 9/11, the President and Republicans have been devising ways to snoop on U.S. citizens, imprison -- without trial -- citizen and non-citizen alike, constructing and running secret prisons and, sadly, engaging in torture. These reactions to 9/11 have served two more goals espoused by bin Laden: First, to drive a wedge between the American people and second, to isolate the United States from the rest of the world...especially our historical allies. Bizarre as it may seem, bin Laden couldn't have himself written the script any better. Whether the American people can admit it or not, the President and Republicans have been good for bin Laden. And as everyone knows now, bin Laden, politically speaking, has been very good for George W. Bush and his Party. So good in fact, that Karl Rove has engineered three straight election strategies around the specter of bin Laden.All that finally brings me to the thing that has suddenly freaked me out: Very soon after that poll was released that showed so many Americans beginning to question the official story surrounding 9/11 and, too, just as the President began his big push toward altering the Geneva Conventions, bin Laden released a video showing the rituals and interviews of those who carried out the attacks on 9/11.They may not be pals, but the President and bin Laden certainly do share common political goals and objectives, and that is enough to freak anybody out!SOURCERelevant links:Al-Qaeda are the US govts greatest allyDoes al-Qaeda exist?Al Qaeda does not exist and never hasIsrael 'faked al-Qaeda presence'

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[CTRL] Control the Dictionary, Control the World

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Control the Dictionary, Control the World 


By Bernard WeinerCo-Editor, The Crisis PapersSeptember 19, 2006Clinton tried to fudge the truth when he claimed he'd "never had sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," but he felt he could get away with that language because, in his mind, he defined "sexual relations" as referring to vaginal intercourse.Bush, with a straight face, tells us that he has never authorized torture, and he thinks he can get away with that lie because the public is mostly unaware that his administration has totally altered the definition of "torture."According to the infamous 2002 torture memos, which effectively set the policy, torture no longer means what we all understand that term to mean (physical beatings, shoving suspects under water to "drown" them unless they give up secrets, electric shocks to the genitals, unbearable stress, sexual abuse and humiliation, etc.). No, those internationally-understood definitions have become, under BushCo., "quaint" remnants from an earlier era.Under the leadership of Alberto Gonzales and other lawyers -- mainly from the White House, Rumsfeld's office, and Cheney's office -- the Bush Administration went through all sorts of moral gyrations and emerged with new definitions of what constituted torture. Basically, it's not torture if it doesn't kill you or if the excruciating pain and injuries don't lead to organ failure.You think I'm exaggerating? Check it out for yourself. The Justice Department's August 1, 2002, legal memo concluded that "the ban on torture is limited to only the most extreme forms of physical and mental harm," which the memo defined as akin to "death or organ failure." (See also "Bush's Torture Deceit: What 'Is' Is," and "Gonzales Grilled on Role in Torture at Confirmation Hearing").So when Bush says the U.S. doesn't torture and he would never authorize torture, in a sense he believes himself to be telling the truth, since he totally transformed the meaning of "torture" to give it a totally different, exceedingly narrow, interpretation. The Administration apparently believes that as a result of interrogations under what Bush calls its "alternative set of procedures," only if the detainees die or are the victims of organ failure could officials rightfully be accused of authorizing torture. (Actually, it's estimated that perhaps as many as 100 detainees have died while in U.S. custody, scores of them directly from torture.)A FEW "EXCEPTIONS" FROM TORTURE LAWSFurthermore, Bush is asserting that U.S. laws against torture, and Congressional oversight of such activity, should only apply to interrogations that take place on American soil. If the CIA uses the "alternative procedures" in Iraq, or Afghanistan, or in the secret CIA prisons abroad, those don't count. Plus, the Administration has moved to shield those who authorized and carry out "harsh" interrogations from national and international laws against mistreatment of prisoners. Meanwhile, of course, a few lower-level, enlisted "bad apples" have been tried, convicted, and sent to prison.Likewise, according to the Bush Administration, the "extraordinary rendition" of especially recalcitrant prisoners to friendly countries abroad that are notorious for extreme physical torture does not count as the U.S. cooperating in the administration of torture. The Bush crew play variations on: "They were tortured there? Really? We are shocked, shocked! We don't approve of torture and had no idea it was used on prisoners entrusted to their care." Yeah, sure.But recently, in making the case to Congress that it should pass the Administration's draconian laws permitting such "alternative procedures," Bush let the cat out of the bag and admitted that several al-Qaida suspects gave up a good deal of valuable information while being interrogated in those secret CIA prisons abroad. But he still denies that his administration carried out "torture" there. Does he think we're stupid?Do you see how it works? And the ramifications of how it works? In short, BushCo. have simply rewritten the dictionary to remove their legal liability for such crimes, and in the process have re-written the rules under which they, and their subordinates, act. When reality doesn't meet their needs, they don't consider making alterations to their policies; they just change the definition of what's "real."BUSH DESPERATE FOR TORTURE VICTORYIn a sign of how desperate Bush is to maintain complete control of the torture definition -- and thus keep himself and other top U.S. officials out of the war-crimes court in The Hague -- Bush took a rare visit to Congress last week to try to forestall defeat of his torture/military tribunals bill. It was a definition struggle again.The Geneva Convention on the treatment of captured prisoners is quite clear and specific; no country is permitted to use "cruel" treatment or "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment" on prisoners 

[CTRL] Debunking a 911 Debunker

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I just posted this item to my blog and I encourage anyone that wishes to 
comment on it, at the blog.  I do not agree with the post but it is so full of 
holes, for an accomplished journalists, that it begs scrutiny.  I hope 911 
researchers will check it out.

Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracies, Already
http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/09/enough-of-911-conspiracies-already.html

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Re: [CTRL] Fighting Over the Kids - Battered spouses take aim at a controversial custody st

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So these states are ruling that coaching and insinuating what is essentially 
propaganda into the minds of children simply does not happen or that it is 
acceptable?  Can you say OVERKILL?  I mean, to not allow a defense that may be 
legitimate because others have abused it is wrong, misguided, and has serious 
potential to put kids in the hands of the best talker.  This kind of 
over-compensation is destructive.

The article states:

Under the theory, children fear or reject one parent because they have been 
corrupted or coached to lie by the other. Parental alienation is now the 
leading defense for parents accused of abuse in custody cases, according to 
domestic-violence advocates.

Has anyone here ever been 'feared or rejected' by someone because that person 
had been lied to?  If you say 'no' then I can only assume that you are able to 
spread the truth about the national security state with the greatest of ease, 
never encountering a propagandized mind.

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[CTRL] We Are Conducting Military Operations Inside Iran Right Now.

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Wednesday, September 20, 2006

"We Are Conducting Military Operations Inside Iran Right Now." 


Just now on CNN, Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.) said, “We are conducting military operations inside Iran right now. The evidence is overwhelming.”Gardiner, who taught at the U.S. Army’s National War College, has previously suggested that U.S. forces were already on the ground in Iran. Today he added several additional new points:1) The House Committee on Emerging Threats recently called on State and Defense Department officials to testify on whether U.S. forces were in Iran. The officials didn’t come to the hearing.2) “We have learned from Time magazine today that some U.S. naval forces had been alerted for deployment. That is a major step.”3) “The plan has gone to the White House. That’s not normal planning. When the plan goes to the White House, that means we’ve gone to a different state.”More here.Deja vu!

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[CTRL] Ten anti-Castro journalists in South Florida on US government payroll

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By Luciana BohneOnline Journal Contributing WriterSep 15, 2006, 00:48During the Mercosur summit in Argentina, WJAN-TV South Florida reporter, Manuel Cao, asked Cuban President Fidel Castro why his government didn't allow a prominent doctor and dissident to leave the country. Quick as lightning, Castro shot back, "Who pays you?"Now we find that Cao's paymaster was the US government: he received $10,400 in payments so far this year. Cao is one among 10 South Florida journalists to have been found accepting money in exchange for touting propaganda intended to undermine the Cuban government via Radio and TV Marti (both bankrolled by the US government to the tune of $37 million to broadcast anti-Cuban propaganda from the States onto Cuban soil).The news mercenaries' covert employer was exposed by documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Three were fired from El Nuevo Herald, the Spanish-language sister paper of the Miami Herald: columnist Pablo Alfonso, staff reporter Wilfredo Cancio and freelancer Olga Connor.Pablo Alfonso, who wrote an opinion column, received $175,000 since 2001.Perusing Alfonso's columns in Spanish, I found them to be concerned with trivial and titillating gossip of possible interest only to resentful exiles. The columns whispered about an alleged dairy farm, maintained solely for private catering to Castro's taste for the freshest strawberry yogurt and camembert cheeses.Other fluff items included speculations on the "secrecy" -- perhaps nepotism -- surrounding the professional activities of Castro's tribe of grandchildren (all apparently respectably employed in Cuba or abroad in various non-subversive scientific fields).Another provocation to outrage included Castro's alleged failure to effect a promised "energy revolution" because a power outage of four hours had crippled three provinces in June. My hunch is that Castro's "energy revolution" might have been referring to the one promised by ongoing off-shore, deep-sea explorations for oil and gas effected through an agreement with an Indian oil exploration company.The most ironic of Alfonso's silly charges was the one stating that the newspaper, Granma, acted as a stenographer for Raul Castro's recent "declarations" and "interviews," upon assuming leadership of the Cuban nation, absent the convalescing Fidel Castro.Of the bribed journalists mentioned by the US national media this morning (11 September 2006) -- the names of all 10 were reported by the Miami Herald. El Nuevo Herald's Olga Connor, a freelance journalist, received $71,000 from the US Office of Cuba Broadcasting since 2001; Nuevo Herald staff reporter Wilfredo Cancio Isla received $15,000 for the same period. Additional US news mercenaries were opinion page editor for Diario Las Americas Helen Aguirre Ferre and reporter/columnist Ariel Remos.What struck me about this news coverage, however, was the absence of detailed coverage for Carlos Alberto Montaner, surely one of the most world-prominent of the Miami 10. A militant anti-Castroist, sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment by the Cuban revolutionary government in 1960 for "conspiring against the power of the state," Montaner has lived two-thirds of his life in exile. Now residing in Spain, he's founder and president of the Unión Liberal Cubana (Cuban Liberal Union). In Spain, he writes for ABC (the former mouthpiece for Francisco Franco, the Falangist Spanish dictator). An admiring website claimed that "his syndicated column is read by six million readers. His opinions make politician[s] in Spain and Latin America tremble. . . . He maintains his position as one of the regions most respected journalists."Perhaps, but now he'll have to maintain it in the face of this recent exposure of his being in the pay of the US government. When he claims that Fidel Castro's "cancer will deliver justice," as he does in his columns, the alleged cancer's war on Fidel might suggest that it is diagnosed by a close collaborator of the US government. If Caracas indeed "will shiver with Castro's death," as Montaner predicts, readers might wonder with whom this drivel of wishful thinking is intended to curry favor. "The [Cuban]army's loyalty ends with Fidel's life" makes you wonder if another Bay of Pigs US debacle fueled by anti-revolutionary, out-of-touch, diehards in exile is in the offing -- or if the myth of a military coup is the result of too many years of mojito drinking, coupled with frustrated hopes among US-supported Cuban exiles' intriguers and illusionists."Democracy can arrive on the island via a pact with reformists," Montaner opines. Which "reformists"? The former Cuban estate landlords and clients of US multi-national exploiters in Miami? Or the "reformists" generated and proliferated by the $10 million initiative to foment "dissidence" in Cuba by the US Special Interests Office in Havana?Actually, Cuban government officials have been arguing for decades that Montaner is far from a liberal paladin 

[CTRL] ANOTHER Judge Replaced in Saddam's Trial

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Judge expels Saddam from court, defense walk outBy Ahmed Rasheed and Ibon VillelabeitiaBAGHDAD (Reuters) - A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defense lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil.The Iraqi government removed judge Abdullah al-Amiri overnight saying he had abandoned his neutrality for stating last week that Saddam was "not a dictator." International legal groups and the U.N. said it eroded the court's legitimacy."Take him out of the courtroom," the new judge, Mohammed al-Ureybi, told guards after Saddam launched a tirade and refused to sit down. Saddam accused the new judge of being the son of a government spy before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003."Your father was a security agent!" Saddam said. "I knew him. He had an operation here," he added, gesturing at his own abdomen."I challenge you to prove that to the public," the judge said dismissively as Saddam was being escorted out.The U.S.-backed tribunal is trying Saddam, his cousin Ali Hassan al-Majeed, known as "Chemical Ali," and five others for war crimes and crimes against humanity for their role in the 1988 Anfal campaign against Kurds. Saddam and Majeed also face the graver charge of genocide. All could be hanged if convicted.Wadood Fawzi, a lawyer for Saddam and Majeed, said government pressure was keeping counsel from performing its job."The sacking of the judge confirmed our fears that this court lacks the conditions to hold a fair trial," Fawzi said."If you wish to leave, that's fine. Then go," the judge said. The defense lawyers filed out of the courtroom.Ureybi ordered the defendants to be represented by court-appointed lawyers and continued proceedings. After listening to five witnesses recount how their villages were attacked with chemical weapons, he adjourned the court until September 25.Saddam's six co-defendants remained in the marble courtroom."LACK OF INDEPENDENCE"Government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters the decision to sack Amiri was made by the cabinet in accordance with the Iraqi High Criminal Court Law, which allows the government to transfer judges from the court for "any reason."But legal rights groups said Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's decision to replace the judge a month after the case opened hurt its legitimacy. Some legal analysts say sectarian passions makes it impossible to give Saddam a fair trial."(It) confirms the lack of (legal) guarantees and the lack of independence of that court," Leandro Despouy, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers told the U.N. Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.Richard Dicker, who has been observing the court for Human Rights Watch, said: "The transfer effectively sends a chilling message to all judges: toe the line or risk removal."In an earlier trial this year, the chief judge quit in protest at government interference. That first case, for killings in a Shi'ite village in the 1980s, was marred by repeated interruptions including hunger strikes by Saddam and defense boycotts. A verdict is expected next month.The Iraqi High Criminal Court was set up by U.S. forces but is now run by Iraqis with American advisers. Its first two cases have centred on crimes against Shi'ites and Kurds, oppressed under Saddam's Sunni-led rule but empowered after his fall.The Anfal trial is intended to turn the page on one of the darkest chapters of Saddam's rule. Prosecutors say 180,000 villagers were killed in the 1988 campaign against Kurdish militants, including thousands poisoned by chemical gas.A team of U.S.-led forensic experts has worked for years unearthing mass graves to assist prosecutors with evidence.Last week, prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon demanded the judge resign for being too soft, saying he had let Saddam make political speeches and threaten witnesses. Saddam had threatened in court to "crush the heads" of his accusers.SOURCEThis is at least the fourth judge in said trial. More here

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[CTRL] IAEA: U.S. Report on Iran 'Dishonest'

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IAEA Complains of 'Outrageous' Inaccuracies in U.S. House Committee Report on IranBy GEORGE JAHN VIENNA, Austria Sep 14, 2006 (AP)— A recent House of Representatives committee report on Iran's nuclear capability is "outrageous and dishonest" in trying to make a case that Tehran's program is geared toward making weapons, a senior official of the U.N. nuclear watchdog has said. The letter, obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday outside a 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency, says the report is false in saying Iran is making weapons-grade uranium at an experimental enrichment site, when it has in fact produced material only in small quantities that is far below the level that can be used in nuclear arms. The letter, which was first reported on by The Washington Post, also says the report erroneously says that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei removed a senior nuclear inspector from the team investigating Iran's nuclear program "for concluding that the purpose of Iran's nuclear program is to construct weapons." In fact, the inspector was sidelined on Tehran's request, and the Islamic republic had a right to ask for a replacement under agreements that govern all states relationships with the agency, said the letter, calling the report's version "incorrect and misleading." "In addition," says the letter, "the report contains an outrageous and dishonest suggestion that such removal might have been for 'not having adhered to an unstated IAEA policy barring IAEA officials from telling the whole truth about the Iranian nuclear program.'" Dated Aug. 12, the letter was addressed to Rep. Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was signed by Vilmos Cserveny, a senior director of the Vienna-based agency. An IAEA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment on the letter, said it was written "to set the record straight." Jamal Ware, a spokesman for the House committee, confirmed they had received the letter and said the chairman had referred it to Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Rep. Rush Hold, D-N.J. They will review it and issue a formal response if necessary, he said. "All IAEA complains about is a photo caption. If you read the report, it's very clear that what it is saying is that Iran is working to develop the capability to enrich uranium to weapons grade, not that they have done so," Ware said. "They use a string of adjectives, while not pointing to any substantive criticism of the report. There are areas where we would disagree with them. A disagreement does not make what we say erroneous." The dispute was reminiscent of the clashes between the IAEA and Washington over whether Saddam Hussein was trying to make weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear arms. American arguments that Saddam had such covert arms programs were given as the chief reason for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam. ElBaradei's criticism of the U.S. standpoint on Iraq and subsequent perceptions that he was soft on Iran in his staff's investigation of suspicions Tehran's nuclear activities may be a cover for a weapons program led to a failed attempt last year by Washington to prevent his re-election.SOURCE

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[CTRL] Banned spy novel published on net

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Banned spy novel published on net 



Ex-MI6 officer defies UK government on blogBy Kieren McCarthySacked spy Richard Tomlinson has defied the UK's secret services by posting the first chapter of his spy novel online.The ex-MI6 officer was fired in 1995 after four years in the foreign arm of British secret intelligence and spent a year in a maximum security prison for publishing a book about his time in the organisation. But he has fought back against what he claims is intimidation by his old employees with the publication of chapter one of The Golden Chain on his blog.Tomlinson had his house and boat in France raided earlier this year after MI6 claimed he was responsible for releasing a list of alleged active MI6 agents on the internet. Even though Tomlinson now links to the list from his blog, he swears he wasn't behind the list. Since the raid, he has fought with the UK government, including MI6 and Special Branch, for the return of his possessions, publishing copies of emails and letters sent to him over the matter online.Recently, the UK authorities confirmed that they were retaining ownership of his possessions because he had "made a number of references to writing a novel or book to be based in whole or in part on information falling within the terms of the Order". That order was the terms of Tomlinson's release and he was effectively accused of breaking the Official Secrets Act a second time. Tomlinson's response has been to publish the first chapter of his book on his blog, presumably with the threat of releasing further chapters until his possessions are returned.The online battle has been going on since March this year, when Tomlinson discovered blogging and set about trying to force MI6 to respond to his endless requests for his sacking to be reviewed by a tribunal.He soon gained the ire of MI6 chief John Scarlett by accusing him of having blood on his hands thanks to his part in the production of the now-discredited Iraq war dossiers. Tomlinson also threatened to expose what he knew, including the names of MI6 agents, online. His house was raided and in August his Typepad blog was shut down at the request of Special Branch. Tomlinson opened up a Blogger account immediately afterwards with the title " Tomlinson v MI6 (it's back!)".Tomlinson gained some notoriety in 1998 when he published The Big Breach, an account of his time with MI6. He made the book available online from a server in Russia, and then used the defence created by another famous SIS book, Spycatcher by Peter Wright, to argue that the book should be published in the UK since all the harm that could be done by its publication had already happened. The book is now readily available. Tomlinson also found notoriety, if not credibility, in his claim that MI6 may have been behind the death of Princess Diana.®Related links:Chapter One of The Golden ChainTomlinson's blogTomlinson's old blogThe Big BreachMirror of this blogMirror of old Typepad blogMI6 DirectoryMI6 Official SiteTreasury Solicitor make threats about my novelReply from Pink on missing legal papersMissing legal papers..Police investigating me for writing a novel...Reply from police about my complaint to the IPCCArchivesAugust 2006September 2006

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[CTRL] Fun with Microsoft's Terra Server

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Check it out. Here are a few shots of intereste:Dugway Proving Grounds (for a little history on this area click here)Rachel, Nevada - nearest town to Area 51 (note the area that will not come through - those circles are NOT silos...those circles are thousands of feet across - I have flown over this area and it is exactly as shown - click here for info)Barstow, California (note the similar visual readouts to Area 51 - there happens to be a bombing range in the region of these circles)Offut AFB (more stuff blocked out - to the west) - on Offut, or USSTRATCOM)Snowflake, AZ (home to militias, methamphetamine production, and the location of the story Fire in the Sky)Similar structures as near Barstow and Rachel (this time near Bend, Oregon)Region of Spahn Ranch, home of the Manson family (is that a nearby military installation? - note the items resembling those near Area 51)THE FOLLOWING LINKS ARE TO VIEWS AROUND AREA 51:Somewhere between Death Valley and Area 51 (what the hell is it? If you have the time, the deserts are the best places to look for things)Hmmm...More of the sameA little further east

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Re: [CTRL] Forgotten History - Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception

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Here is another good item on this isse:


Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor
by Shadia B. Drury

There is a certain irony in the fact that the chief guru of the 
neoconservatives is a thinker who regarded religion merely as a political tool 
intended for the masses but not for the superior few. Leo Strauss, the German 
Jewish émigré who taught at the University of Chicago almost until his death in 
1973, did not dissent from Marx’s view that religion is the opium of the 
people; but he believed that the people need their opium. He therefore taught 
that those in power must invent noble lies and pious frauds to keep the people 
in the stupor for which they are supremely fit.

Not all the neoconservatives have read Strauss. And those who have rarely 
understand him, for he was a very secretive thinker who expressed his ideas 
with utmost circumspection. But there is one thing that he made very clear: 
liberal secular society is untenable. Religion is necessary to provide 
political society with moral order and stability. Of course, this is a highly 
questionable claim. History makes it abundantly clear that religion has been a 
most destabilizing force in politics—a source of conflict, strife, and endless 
wars. But neoconservatives dogmatically accept the view of religion as a 
panacea for everything that ails America.

Using religion as a political tool has two equally unsavory consequences. 
First, when religious beliefs become the guide for public policy, the social 
virtues of tolerance, freedom, and plurality are undermined, if they are not 
extinguished altogether. Second, the use of religion as a political tool 
encourages the cultivation of an elite of liars and frauds who exempt 
themselves from the rules they apply to the rest of humanity. And this is a 
recipe for tyranny, not freedom or democracy.

There have always been those who deluded themselves into thinking that they 
were akin to gods who are entitled to rule over ordinary mortals. But no one 
has described this mentality more brilliantly than Dostoevsky, when he created 
the figure of the Grand Inquisitor. In his short story of the same title, 
Dostoevsky imagined that Jesus has returned to face a decadent and corrupt 
Church. As head of the Church, the Grand Inquisitor condemns Jesus to death, 
but not before having a long and interesting conversation with the condemned 
man. Jesus naively clings to the belief that what man needs above all else is 
freedom from the oppressive yoke of the Mosaic law, so that he can choose 
between good and evil freely according to the dictates of his conscience. But 
the Inquisitor explains to him that truth and freedom are the sources of 
humanity’s greatest anguish and that people will never be free because “they 
are weak, vicious, worthless, and rebellious.” He declares that people can!
  be happy only if they surrender their freedom and bow before miracle, 
mystery, and authority. Only then can people live and die peacefully, “and 
beyond the grave, they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the 
secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven 
and eternity.” The Inquisitor explains that the “deception will be our 
suffering, for we shall be forced to lie.” But in the end, “they will marvel at 
us and look on us as gods.”

To say that Strauss’s elitism surpasses that of the Grand Inquisitor is an 
understatement. Undeniably, there are strong similarities. Like the Grand 
Inquisitor, Strauss thought that society must be governed by a pious elite 
(George Bush the second and the Christian fundamentalists who support him fit 
this role perfectly). Like the Grand Inquisitor, Strauss thought of religion as 
a pious fraud (something that would alarm the Christian fundamentalists who are 
allied with the

neoconservatives). And even though Strauss was sympathetic to Judaism, he 
nevertheless described it as a “heroic delusion” and a “noble dream.” Like the 
Grand Inquisitor, he thought that it was better for human beings to be victims 
of this noble delusion than to “wallow” in the “sordid” truth. And like the 
Grand Inquisitor, Strauss thought that the superior few should shoulder the 
burden of truth and in so doing, protect humanity from the “terror and 
hopelessness of life.”

All the similarities between Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor notwithstanding, 
the Straussian position surpasses the Grand Inquisitor in its delusional 
elitism as well as in its misanthropy. This shows that while one need not be a 
religious thinker to be misanthropic, religion is an excellent vehicle for 
implementing misanthropic policies in public life.

The Grand Inquisitor presents his ruling elite as suffering under the burden of 
truth for the sake of humanity. So, despite his rejection of Christ, the Grand 
Inquisitor is modeled on the Christian conception of a suffering God who bears 
the burden for humanity. In contrast, Strauss represents his ruling elite as 

[CTRL] More on Strauss

[Eric Stewart]

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Shadia B. Drury is Canada Research Chair in Social Justice at the University of Regina, where she is professor of philosophy and political science. Her most recent book is Terror and Civilization: Christianity, Politics, and the Western Psyche (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004).
Books Terror and Civilization book releaseLeo Strauss and the American RightAlexandre Kojève: The Roots of Postmodern PoliticsThe Political Ideas of Leo StraussRecent Essays on Leo Strauss and the Neoconservatives"The making of a Straussian""Noble Lies and Perpetual War""Saving America""Film: "Hijacking Catastrophe"Selected ArticlesGurus of the Right



Shadia Drury examines Saul Bellow's Ravelstein from the Literary Review of Canada"Leo Strauss"



From Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy"Alexandre Kojève"



From A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical TheoryReply to my Critics



From The Vital NexusSelections from the Calgary Herald"The Scourge of Populism""Demise of Tory Tradition""Social Capital Overrated as basis of healthysociety" "There can be life beyond econnomics and politics" OR "A short history of civil society""Creative Lying in politics eats away at democracy"Selected Reviews The Rebirth of Classical Political RationalismThe Spirit of Modern RepublicanismThe Crisis of Liberal DemocracyLocke's Education for LibertyJew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought ofLeo StraussWhat Sort of People Should There Be?Between Philosophy and PoliticsAgainst LiberalismCharacter, Virtue Theories, and the Vices

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[CTRL] War on Hippies?

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War on Hippies 


What follows is copied from a friend's blog and at the bottom you will find the source link:Tuesday, August 22, 2006War on HippiesHat tip to commentor Luna_C at Mickey Z's for this story:DHS runs anti-cyber-hippie wargameThe Department of Homeland Security recently ran a cyber-wargame in which the US defended itself against an adversary consisting of anti-war groups, labor activists, vegans -- but not Al Quaeda.At the top of the pyramid is the Worldwide Anti-Globalization Alliance, which sets things off by calling for cyber sit-ins and denial-of-service attacks against U.S. interests. WAGA's radical arm, the villainous Black Hood Society, ratchets up the tension on day one by probing SCADA computerized control systems and military networks, eventually (spoiler warning) claiming responsibility for a commuter rail outage and the heat going out in government buildings.The Black Hoods are a faction of Freedom Not Bombs, whose name is suspiciously similar to the real Food Not Bombs, which provides vegan meals to the homeless.Another allied lefty-group called the Peoples Pact joins in, crashing portions of the power grid. Things get confusing when the "Tricky Trio," three evil hackers who are 50 percent more devious than the Deceptive Duo, hacks the FAA, issues false Amber Alerts, and manipulates the communications system of the U.S. Northern Command.Then someone posts the No-Fly List to a public website (third act shocker: it's all nuns and Massachusetts Democrats), and opportunistic cyber thieves raid a medical database looking for identity theft targets. Logic bombs explode, wireless communications devices are corrupted, DNS caches are poisoned.LinkThere's some superthriller ideas here, no?We'll take the El Gigante meat burrito, pleaseSource: War on Hippies

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[CTRL] Junk Culture Killing Childhood

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Published on Tuesday, September 12, 2006 by ReutersJunk Culture Killing Childhood: Expertsby Kate KellandLONDON - Britain's children are being poisoned by a "junk culture" of processed food, computer games and over-competitive education, an influential group of authors and experts warned on Tuesday.
In an open letter to the Daily Telegraph, 110 teachers, psychologists and children's authors -- including the internationally acclaimed Philip Pullman and Penelope Leach, a leading childcare expert -- called on the government to act now to prevent childhood being killed off altogether.
Forced "to act and dress like mini-adults", children are becoming increasingly depressed and experiencing growing levels of behavioral and developmental problems, they said.
"Since children's brains are still developing, they cannot adjust as full-grown adults can, to the effects of ever more rapid technological and cultural change," the letter said.
"They need what developing human beings have always needed, including real food (as opposed to processed "junk"), real play (as opposed to sedentary, screen-based entertainment), first hand experience of the world they live in and regular interaction with the real-life significant adults in their lives."
The letter was circulated by Sue Palmer, an ex-head teacher and author of a book entitled "Toxic Childhood", and Dr Richard House, a senior lecturer at the Research Center for Therapeutic Education at Roehampton University in London.
"Children's development is being drastically affected by the kind of world they are brought up in," Palmer told the Daily Telegraph. "It is shocking."
"A child's physical and psychological growth cannot be accelerated. It changes in biological time, not at electrical speed. Childhood is not a race."
The experts condemned Britain's increasingly "target-driven" education system and urged the government to recognize children's need for more time and space to develop, demanding an urgent public debate on child-rearing in the 21st century.
Award-winning children's author Michael Morpurgo, who also signed the letter, said there was a "drip, drip, drip effect" of academic pressure and marketing which was killing childhood.
"It's gradually soaking like a poison into the culture," he told BBC radio. "There is less room for reading, for dreaming, for music, for drama, for art, and simply for playing."
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[CTRL] Psychological Operations

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Psychological Operations 


"The mind of the enemy and the will of his leaders is a target of far more importance than the bodies of his troops."Brigadier General S.B. Griffith, II, USMC"To seduce the enemy’s soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter."Flavius Vegetius Renatus, c. 378 AD"For a strong adversary (corps) the opposition of twenty-four squadrons and twelve guns ought not to have appeared very serious, but in war the psychological factors are often decisive. An adversary who feels inferior is in reality so."Field Marshal Carl Gustav Baron Von Mannerheim, 1953"In most campaigns the dislocation of the enemy's psychological and physical balance has been the vital prelude to a successful attempt at his overthrow."Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart, 1944"Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws."President Abraham Lincoln"The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to have its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards."Sir William Francis Butler"Without a doubt, psychological warfare has proven its right to a place of dignity in our military arsenal."General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower"If we do go to war, psychological operations are going to be absolutely a critical, critical part of any campaign that we must get involved in."General H. Norman Schwarzkopf III, Operations DesertShield - 1990"One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."General Douglas MacArthur"If you are going to win any battle, you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do... the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."General George S. Patton"By way of deception, thou shalt do war."Israel's Mossad"If you give a man the correct information for seven years, he may believe the incorrect information on the first day of the eighth year when it is necessary, from your point of view, that he should do so. Your first job is to build the credibility and the authenticity of your propaganda, and persuade the enemy to trust you although you are his enemy."A Psychological Warfare Casebook Operations ResearchOffice Johns Hopkins University Baltimore (1958)"Psychological Warfare has always rested as an uneasy activity in democracies, even in wartime. It is partly to do with the suspicion that using the mind to influence the mind is somehow unacceptable. But is it more unacceptable to shoot someone's brains out rather than to persuade that brain to drop down their weapon and live?"Dr. Phillip M. Taylor, Author of "Munitions of theMind", Manchester University Press, 1995"Psychological warfare employs age-old ideas in twentieth century dress."D. Lincoln Harter and John Sullivan, PropagandaHandbook, 20th Century Publishing Co., 1953, p. 198"Strategic PSYOP proved to be the instrument through which the U.S. and Coalition Forces were successfully able to isolate the enemy and deny him acceptance by the world community."General Carl Stiner, Former CINCSOC"There's a war out there old friend, a world war, and it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information: about how we think, how we see and hear, how we work. It's all about information"."Sneakers", MCA Universal Pictures, 1992SOURCE

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[CTRL] House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet

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House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet 


Today the House Energy and Commerce Committee struck a blow to Internet freedom by voting down a proposal to protect Network Neutrality from attacks by companies like ATT, Verizon, and Comcast.[...]The “Markey Amendment” supporting Net Neutrality was voted down by a vote of 34 to 22. The “Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act” telecom law, or COPE Act, passed out of the committee without any meaningful protection for Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality means all online activity must be treated equally, and companies like ATT must allow Internet users to view the smallest blog just as easily as the largest corporate Web site.“The Commerce Committee is headed in the opposite direction of where the American public wants to go,” said Columbia Law Professor Timothy Wu, a pro-market advocate and one of the intellectual architects of the Net Neutrality principle.”Most people favor an open and neutral Internet and don’t want Internet gatekeepers taxing and tollboothing innovation.”Major telecom companies like ATT and Verizon are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to get Congress to change the rules to let them discriminate on the Internet — forcing Web sites to pay “protection money” to ensure their sites will work properly.Go to SaveTheInternet.com to get active in preserving a level Internet playing field. Don't let the corporate beast swallow our most effective tool for grassroots participatory community organizing.Source: Calling All Corporate Shills

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[CTRL] apologies re: House Ignores Public, Sells Out the Internet

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Re: [CTRL] 9/11 Shoot-Down Orders, The FAA, And 20/20 Hindsight

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Damning Evidence of Warren Buffet 9-11 Role
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/buffet.html

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Re: [CTRL] US 9/11 air defence was 'chaotic'

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The attacks also caused disruption for satellite and space companies across
the USA.

The previous has been snipped from:

Terrorist Attacks on USA
http://www.spacenewsfeed.co.uk/2001/16September2001.html

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Someone had access to classified frequencies.  This also indicates that, as
per some theories, Global Hawk (a system of remote pilotting) was employed
that day as it is the kind of thing that is a wireless system and in order
to make sure signal clarity and strength was on par, or that other
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Re: [CTRL] Commission finds no evidence of Saudi funding of Sept. 11 hijackers

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That's because investigation of Saudi connections to 9-11 are illegal, as
per GW's executive order.

This commission BEGAN with testimonies from John Schlesinger and John
Deutch, both formerly allied with Mitre Corporation.

See:

9-11, John Deutch, Mitre Corp., and the NRO
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2102

The Real Saudi Ties are U.S. Ties
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2115

Industry Experts Can’t Explain Pentagon Photo Evidence
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2137

More on Falls Church, VA and 9-11
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2254

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Re: [CTRL] Commission finds no evidence of Saudi funding of Sept. 11 hijackers

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Quoting Eric Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 This commission BEGAN with testimonies from John Schlesinger and John
 Deutch, both formerly allied with Mitre Corporation.


This is important because two people that should have been on hot irons SET
THE PARAMETERS for investigation.

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 9-11, John Deutch, Mitre Corp., and the NRO
 http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2102

 The Real Saudi Ties are U.S. Ties
 http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=2115

 Industry Experts Can’t Explain Pentagon Photo Evidence
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[CTRL] Plasma Physics

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Plasma Physics -- (a short) History
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/whplasma.html

When blood is cleared of its various corpuscles there remains a clear
liquid, named plasma by the great Czech medical scientist, Johannes
Purkinje (1787-1869). The use of the term plasma for an ionized gas
started in 1927 with Irving Langmuir (1881-1957), an American whose
achievements ranged from the chemistry of surfaces to cloud seeding for
promoting rain, and who in 1932 won the Nobel prize for chemistry. Langmuir

worked for the General Electric Co., studying electronic devices based on
ionized gases, and the way the electrified fluid carried high velocity
electrons, ions and impurities reminded him of the way blood plasma carried

red and white corpuscles and germs.

Irving Langmuir


As a result of those studies, carried out on relatively cool and dense
plasmas, scientists nowadays can talk of Langmuir waves and fly Langmuir

probes aboard satellites. Gradually plasma research spread in other
directions, of which three were particularly significant.

First, the development of radio led to the discovery of the ionosphere, the
natural plasma roof above the atmosphere, which bounces back radio waves
and sometimes absorbs them. Starting with the study of the propagation of
radio waves in the ionosphere, a wide variety of plasma waves was
identified, in general spreading differently along magnetic field lines
than perpendicular to them.

Second, astrophysicists recognized that much of the universe consisted of
plasmas, and that understanding astrophysical processes required a better
grasp on plasma physics. This was particularly true for the Sun, whose
intensely magnetic sunspots produced many intricate plasma phenomena (e.g.
solar flares).

Finally, the creation of the atomic bomb raised great interest in nuclear
energy as a possible source of power for the future. The Sun releases its
energy by combining hydrogen nuclei to form helium, but this thermonuclear
fusion process needs enormous temperatures and pressures, like those found
at the center of the Sun. The process is easier in a gas consisting of the
heavy forms (isotopes) of hydrogen, but even there, such enormous
temperatures are needed that no laboratory container could hold the
gas--either the container would vaporize, or (more likely) it would cool
the gas to where all nuclear fusion stopped.

However, since gas at such a temperature becomes a plasma, the idea arose
to hold it trapped inside a magnetic field, without it actually touching
any material walls. The effort to produce such controlled thermonuclear
fusion started with Project Sherwood of the early 1950s and has grown
into a great international undertaking, with thousands of scientists and
huge, sophisticated machines. Gradually ways were found to foil the
different modes by which the magnetic field rapidly spilled its plasma, and
both the temperature and density of the plasma were slowly increased.
Recently a fusion experiment managed to extract as much fusion energy as
was
invested in the plasma, but we are still a long way from commercial use of
such energy.

When satellites discovered the radiation belt and began exploring the
magnetosphere, a fourth direction opened, space plasma physics. From fusion

research, space scientists borrowed the theory of plasma trapping by a
magnetic field, and from ionospheric physics, the theory of plasma waves.
Astrophysics provided, among other things, notions of magnetic processes
for energy release and particle acceleration. Today space plasma physics is
an active field, contributing to the understanding of not just observations
in space but also of plasmas in general.



Further reading:

Irving Langmuir's coining of plasma was described by Harold M. Mott-Smith

in a letter to Nature, vol. 233, p. 219, 17 September 1971.

The founding of Project Sherwood is described on p. 217-220 of the
autobiography of John Archibald Wheeler, Geons, Black Holes and Quantum
Foam (Norton and Co., 1998). The book itself tells a fascinating and
inspiring story, the life of a scientist who was involved in many frontier
areas of physics.

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State of the Art Plasma Physics
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/arson-salvage/message/32

Historical Background of Scalar EM Weapons
http://www.cheniere.org/books/analysis/history.htm

Military Applications of Advanced Tesla Technology
http://www.sumeria.net/phys/apps.html

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Former national security advisor to Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, in
1970: Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations,
techniques for conducting secret warfare of which only a bare minimum of
the security forces need be appraised…Technology of weather modification
could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.

See:

Weather Modification
http://twm.co.nz/wxwar.html

~

Chemtrails: The government says they don't exist, but Kucinich wants
Congress to take action.  See:

Chemtrails outlaw

[CTRL] The Direct Application of Mechanical and Conventional Power

[Eric Stewart]

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The single most important feature of guerrilla warfare in a predominantly
rural setting, he (Sir Robert Thompson, a veteran of Britain’s colonial
wars
of the 1950s) pronounced, “is its immunity to the direct application of
mechanical and conventional power”. This was a chastening appraisal, but it
only provoked the political theorist Samuel Huntington to add what he
thought was an important qualification: “If ‘the direct application of
mechanical and conventional’ power takes place on such a massive scale as
to
produce a massive migration from countryside to city, the basic assumptions
underlying the doctrine of revolutionary war no longer operate. The
Maoist-inspired rural revolution is undercut by the American-sponsored
urban
revolution.”

See:

Iraq — ‘Terror Bombing’, Starvation and Mechanical Force
http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/terrorbombing.html

~

Now I know. It was Samuel P Huntington who helped create the rationale for
saturation bombing of the Vietnamese countryside. The argument was simple.
In South Vietnam the Viet Cong were finding support amongst the peasantry
of
a peasant country. This made them 'a powerful force that cannot be
dislodged
from its constituency so long as the constituency continues to exist'.
These
are weasel words. The 'constituency' was the Vietnamese countryside and
people. Never mind, said Huntington: 'We can ensure that the constituency
ceases to exist by direct application of mechanical and conventional
power
on such a massive scale as to produce a massive migration from countryside
to cities.' A forced 'urban revolution' would stop the Viet Cong in their
tracks. Of course it didn't. But this was the logic of carpet bombing,
napalm, Agent Orange and the hundreds of thousands of deaths that followed.
The justification flowed from the pen of 'Civilisation Huntington'. If
there
are war criminals aiding and abetting state terrorism then Samuel P
Huntington is surely one.

See:

Stop this war
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr256/haynes.htm

~

In this context, logging becomes a tool to continue the cold war.  Do the
alliances between some special interest groups and some others seem clearer
now?

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[CTRL] Checking back in..

[Eric Stewart]

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Unfortunately, I have been unable to view any of the posts of the past few
days because Yahoogroups insists that my mailbox was full and bouncing.  It
was nowhere near full.  Geez-o-peets, the problems I have with Yahoo!

Am I the most censored person on the WWW?
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O29912D46

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[CTRL] Aeronet

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The following is snipped from:
http://aeronet.gsfc.nasa.gov/

The AERONET (AErosol RObotic NETwork) program is an inclusive federation of
ground-based remote sensing aerosol networks established by AERONET and
PHOTONS and greatly expanded by AEROCAN and other agency, institute, and
university partners. The goal is to assess aerosol optical properties and
validate satellite retrievals of aerosol optical properties. The network
imposes standardization of instruments, calibration, and processing. Data
from this collaboration provides globally distributed observations of
spectral aerosol optical depths, inversion products, and precipitable water
in geographically diverse aerosol regimes. Three levels of data are
available from this website: Level 1.0 (unscreened), Level 1.5
(cloud-screened), and Level 2.0 (Cloud-screened and quality-assured).
Descriptions may be found of program objectives, affiliations, the
instrumentation, operational issues, data products, database browser
demonstrat, research activities, links to similar data sets, NASA EOS
links and personnel involved in AERONET.

See also this Google search for 'Aeronet' and UAV (unmanned aerial
vehicles)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8q=aeronet%2Cuav

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Sundogs and the Aurora Borealis are examples of ambient plasmas.  So
are 'artificial ionospheric mirrors' to employ the USAF's terminology.
Those would be CHEMTRAILS.

Catching you up to my research (in a nutshell) the barium (the light,
extremely conductive ambient plasma key ingredient) has
something to do with duplicating the auroral effect (sundogs) of the
aurora borealis and it seems probable that the experiments with HAARP
triggered this line of thinking.  Considering that we are dealing
with the magnetoshpere, I am guessing that the pole shifts have been
affected by the most powerful transmitter ever created (HAARP).

The auroral effect itself is the key in that we see that clouds with
enough barium compounds ionized in them reflect DIFFERENT parts of
the spectrums of light and these different freqencies MUST be
indicative of what frequencies we are dealing with explaining why the
National Imagery and Mapping Agency's connection to OPTICS.  NIMA is
now the NGIA - the National Geophysical Intelligence Agency.

See Chemtrail Schemes
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/chemtrails.html

~

As early as 1939, radio amateurs found auroral ionization useful for
communication purposes. Such ionization makes hf and vhf propagation
possible over paths as great as several hundred kilometers when other more
normal ionospheric propagation modes do not exist. The geometry of
reflection is investigated for a variety of transmitter locations based
upon the assumption of specular reflection from columnar ionization aligned

with the earth's magnetic field lines. The results of the investigations
outline the region of useful auroral ionization and the regions on the
earth within which the auroral propagation is possible. The probability has

been determined of obtaining propagation from a particular transmitter
location to any receiver location within the region of propagation. These
geometrical studies allow the communicator to predict the most useful
transmitter and receiver locations in utilizing auroral ionization for
communication purposes. The studies also may suggest methods of minimizing
the effects of auroral propagation when it is considered a detrimental
propagating mode, for example, when it results in undesirable multipath
effects.

See:
R. L. Leadabrand and I. Yabroff, The geometry of auroral communications,
IRE Trans. Antennas Propagat., vol. 6, pp. 80 - 87, January 1958.

~

The Division of Plasma Physics is one of three divisions at the Alfvén
Laboratory. The main theme of the Division's activity is research on
fundamental properties of matter in the plasma state, especially its
electrodynamic properties, such as ability to carry electric current, to
support electric fields, and to rapidly release magnetically stored energy.

Their web site is here:
http://www.plasma.kth.se/

The following is snipped from their annual 1995 report.

~snip~

The main theme of the research is the electrodynamic properties of matter
in the plasma state. The research program is characterized by intense
international collaboration.

~snip~

The electric fields are particularly interesting because they are
intimately associated with acceleration processes that cause auroras,
magnetic storms and associated plasma phenomena. Such acceleration
processes have a wide relevance to many important problems in space and
astrophysical plasmas and also have important technological connections, e.

g. to the prevention of harmful electrostatic charging of geostationary
satellites. Recently, a discovery was made by members of the space group of

low-altitude positive electric potential structures that cause upward
acceleration of ionospheric electrons in regions adjacent to auroral field
lines which 

[CTRL] Archaeology and Climate

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

The following is an excerpt from the article:

The most tantalizing recent discovery, however, was made when scientists
made a high-resolution study of dust deposition from Kajemarum Oasis in
north-eastern Nigeria. The study conclusively revealed that a pronounced
shift in atmospheric circulation occurred in around 2150 BC. This data
indicates that an abrupt, short-lived event of cold climate led to less
rainfall and a reduction of water flow in a vast area extending from Tibet
to Italy. This had catastrophic effects on such early state societies as the
Egyptian Old Kingdom.


..and here is the whole piece:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/apocalypse_egypt_01.shtml

The Fall of the Egyptian Old Kingdom
By Professor Fekri Hassan

Professor Hassan discovers the true cause behind the collapse of the
Egyptian Old Kingdom.



End of a dynasty

Nothing prepared Egypt for the eclipse of royal power and poverty that came
after Pepy II (Neferkare). He had ruled for more than 90 years (2246 - 2152
BC) as the fourth king of the 6th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Within the
span of 20 years, fragmentary records indicate that no less than 18 kings
and possibly one queen ascended the throne with nominal control over the
country. This was the entire length of the 7th and 8th Dynasties (2150 -
2134 BC). In the last few years of the 6th Dynasty, the erosion of power of
the centralized state was offset by that of provincial governors and
officials who became hereditary holders of their posts and treated their
regions as their own property.

Egypt, to be sure, survived the disastrous collapse of the monarchy. Within
a century, Egyptians had re-invented centralized government. They
refurbished the image of kings so that they were not merely rulers by virtue
of their divine descent but more importantly had to uphold order and
justice, care for the dispossessed and show mercy and compassion. The crisis
that shook Egyptian society thus heralded the most dramatic transformation
in the royal institution, which was destined never to be separated from this
social function.

The crisis not only reformed the monarchy but also instilled the spirit of
social justice and laid the foundation for mercy and compassion as
fundamental virtues. It was these concepts that were later to infuse
Christianity and Islam. It was these same concepts that eventually led to
the overthrowing of monarchs who repeatedly usurped their powers and denied
people their religious rights.


Fragmented rule

Some Egyptologists attribute the sudden collapse of the Old Kingdom to the
long reign of Pepy II. However, a reign which lasted for more than 90 years
suggests, if anything, stability and strength. Even if the collapse was due
to Pepy II's long reign, the struggle for power among the sons of Pepy II at
the end of his rule is not a reason for the dissolution of the monarchy.
Moreover, it is misleading to speak of his successors as being 'weak' kings
without giving any reasons as to how such divine rulers of absolute power
could have become so. Under such conditions, even imbeciles and children
could rule with no threat to the royal institution.

Historically, this has always been the case because kingship is less about
the king in person than the institution whose beneficiaries - the royal
court, nobles, regional governors and priests - gain from its presence. They
suffer to lose everything if the intuition is compromised or handed over to
another royal personage. For this reason, the principle of divine kingship
was maintained even when the king was replaced by rulers drawn from outside
the family of the enthroned king.

We have no indication at the end of the 6th Dynasty that there was a bid for
power by the local governors. It is only after the initial breakdown that
power was wielded by the kings of a province in Middle Egypt, later called
Herakleopolis. The capital was approximately 15 km west of Beni Suef on the
right bank of Bahr Yusuf. According to Manetho, Herakleopolis became the
capital of Egypt during the 9th and 10th Dynasties and the town played a
major role after the end of the Old Kingdom. Evidence for this account comes
from inscriptions in the tombs of a vassal prince at Asyut. These reveal
that war broke out between the kings of Herakleopolis and Theban kings. The
war lasted for several years and ended when the Theban king Mentuhotep II
Nebhepetre (2061 - 2010 BC) defeated Herakleopolis before re-unifying the
country.

Contrary to what some Egyptologists claim, the stability of the long reign
of Pepy II was most likely due to the decentralization of the government.
This is one of the most successful strategies in managing complex
organizations. The ambitions of local governors in such a system are
primarily curtailed by the economic and defence rewards of being a vassal.
In addition, there is the strong likelihood of failure in staging an
uprising because the king can count on many more loyalists. Only when the

Re: [CTRL] CSI: 9/11 HIJACKERS-how in the world did the FBI determine the NINETEEN names of the purported hijackers in so short a period of time?

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

HOW many have been determined to be alive?  I think it was at least four
while some sources claiming as many as seven.  If SEVEN of those people on
that list are alive then they weren't there and given that the 'nineteen
arab hijackers theory' was PROVIDED by GW, a rational investigator would
have no choice but to seek alternative explanations.

Why follow a 9-11 lead provided by GW?
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/34504

Resurrecting the Ptech story
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/34085

I HAVE LOST MY 40TH OR SO ADDY DUE TO NWO NET FORCE / COINTELPRO OPS
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/34003

9-11, John Deutch, Mitre Corp., and the NRO
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B2B512646

(1 of 6) AI, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), Mitre Corp., Lincoln
Laboratories, Wetware, and Star Wars
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33859

(2 of 6) AI, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), Mitre Corp., Lincoln
Laboratories, Wetware, and Star Wars
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33860

(3 of 6) AI, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), Mitre Corp., Lincoln
Laboratories, Wetware, and Star Wars
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33861

(4 of 6) AI, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), Mitre Corp., Lincoln
Laboratories, Wetware, and Star Wars
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33862

(5 of 6) Mitre Corp., UAV's, Offut AFB, and September
11http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33863

(6 of 6) Other Research
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/33864



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[CTRL] STRATCOM Honored By Satellite Industry

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Re: [CTRL] question: Re Northern Alaska

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

If we had to rely on oil drilled here, we might be a little more prone to
using less as we wade in its muck.

*

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 This question refers specifically to Northern Alaska where tremendous
 oil
 and gas reserves are located. This area is artic wasteland for at least
 nine months out of the year, the wildlife there are able to survive the
 horribly cold winter. Could someone explain how development of the oil
 and natural gas resources possibly affect the wildlife in Northern
 Alaska?

  There is an existing oil production operation at
 Prudhoe
 bay(Check my energy web page at A
 HREF=http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Energy.html; My Energy web
 page/A) with no evidence of negative effect on the wildlife
 population,
 in fact the elk population has actually increased!

 So what's the basis of the alleged fear that the wildlife population
 would be negatively affected? Remember, this is the basis the self
 appointed environmental militants are using to
  deny the United States badly needed oil and gas resources which would
 under the political control of the United States not somebody in the
 volatile middle east. Could this simply be a pre-text for a hidden
 agenda?
 If not, why not?





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[CTRL] China Pledges to Use More Alternatives to Oil and Coal

[Eric Stewart]

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http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z2B713B78


China Pledges to Use More Alternatives to Oil and Coal
By MARK LANDLER

Published: June 5, 2004


ONN, June 4 - China, which has rattled energy markets with its
ravenous appetite for oil, declared on Friday that it would generate
10 percent of its power through renewable sources by 2010.

The pledge, made at a conference on renewable energy held here,
surprised experts with its ambition. If China achieves its goal, they
said, it will become a world leader in developing alternatives to
fossil fuels, rather than just a world-class consumer.

The Chinese want to do this on a massive scale, said Christopher
Flavin, the president of the Worldwatch Institute, an environmental
research organization in Washington. They're very serious about it.

China faces an urgent need to diversify beyond oil and coal, he said.
There are already sporadic power shortages in its teeming cities. The
bill for Chinese oil imports is skyrocketing, as its economy grows at
nearly double-digit rates and cars and trucks choke Chinese streets.

China is saying that it sees the rapid development of renewable
energy as being in its strategic interest, Mr. Flavin said.

China's initiative is part of a draft law on the use of renewable
energy. In setting a numeric goal, Beijing has lined up with the
European Union, which has pledged to generate 22 percent of its
electricity, and 12 percent of all its energy, from renewable sources
by 2010.

The United States rejects benchmarks for the adoption of renewable
energy, and the Bush administration has rejected the Kyoto Protocol,
the environmental treaty that imposes strict reductions on greenhouse
gas emissions linked to global warming.

Critics note that these targets are purely voluntary, with no
sanctions if they are missed and no well-established review process
to determine how well they are being met. The European Union warned
recently that its 25 member states might fall short of their target
for 2010.

Moreover, energy consumption in China is rising so rapidly that even
a national campaign to build windmills or solar-powered houses will
barely reduce the country's dependence on fossil fuels.

The Chinese government said it planned to generate 60 gigawatts of
energy from renewable sources by 2010 - most from small-scale
hydroelectric projects - and 121 gigawatts by 2020. But the share of
total electricity from renewable sources will rise to only 12
percent, from 10 percent.

This is a problem in all industrializing countries, said Janet L.
Sawin, a research associate at Worldwatch. We haven't been doing as
much with energy efficiency as with energy production.

Still, China's announcement allowed the German officials who played
host at the conference to claim a victory.

This commitment was amazing, said the minister for economic
cooperation and development, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul.

The timing of the conference could not have been more propitious.
Crude oil prices surged to highs this week after a terrorist attack
in Saudi Arabia, while ministers from the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries held an emergency meeting to lift
production quotas.

But amid a recognition that renewable energy ought to be a priority
again, there were troubling signs. The International Energy Agency
released a study that showed renewable energy actually lost ground,
as a percentage of the total supply of power, from 1970 to 2001.

And while some countries, notably Denmark and Germany, have made big
strides in wind energy, the progress has not spread widely. In 2001,
about 86 percent of the world's capacity for wind generation was in
Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States, the report said.

The German chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, announced 500 million euros
($610 million) in low-interest loans to support renewable-energy
projects and energy efficiency in developing countries. The World
Bank said it would increase lending for projects by 20 percent a year
over the next five years.

The United States kept a low profile, sending an assistant energy
secretary, while most countries sent ministers. It promised research
money to make solar and geothermal energy more cost-efficient.

If the United States is not a favored guest at such gatherings,
however, it is also no longer a pariah. Most delegates avoided
criticizing the Bush administration - at least outside of hallway
chatter - and German officials said the American delegation played
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[CTRL] Massive oxygen-starved zones are developing along the world's coasts

[Eric Stewart]

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world's coasts
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Week of June 5, 2004; Vol. 165, No. 23 , p. 360
Dead WatersMassive oxygen-starved zones are developing along the world's
coasts
Janet Raloff

First in a two part series on dead zones in coastal waters
Summer tourists cruising the waters off Louisiana or Texas in the Gulf of
Mexico take in gorgeous vistas as they pull in red snappers and blue
marlins. Few realize that the lower half of the water column below them may
lack fish, despite the piscine bounty near the surface. For many years now,
an annual dead zone has developed in the Gulf, beginning as early as
February and sometimes lasting until mid-fall. This zone—water where the
oxygen content is so low that denizens can't survive—tends to leave no
surface clue.

SUFFOCATING STRETCH. Map depicts 20,700 square kilometers of the dead zone
in the 2001 Gulf of Mexico. The zone probably extends farther west, but
researchers ran out of money before they could finish charting that area.
S. Norcross, adapted from Rabalais/LUMCON




Although the precise timing and size of the Gulf's dead zone varies with the
weather, in many years it encompasses 22,000 square kilometers, a parcel of
underwater real estate roughly the size of New Jersey. Fish that can
evacuate as oxygen drops do so—although abandoning their home habitat may
render them vulnerable to predators. Crustaceans and other seafloor life
that can't leave fast enough simply die.
There's no mystery as to what triggers this annual hypoxic zone, as the
oxygen-starved region is formally termed. Into the Gulf of Mexico, the
Mississippi River deposits water that is heavily enriched with plant
nutrients, principally nitrate. This pollutant fertilizes the abundant
growth of tiny, floating algae. As blooms of the algae go through their
natural life cycles and die, they fall to the bottom and create a feast for
bacteria. Growing in unnatural abundance, the bacteria use up most of the
oxygen from the bottom water.
Dead zones tend to develop in quiet, deep water a few km offshore.
Typically, they appear where a river spews rich plumes of nutrients into
water that's stratified because of either temperature or salinity
differences between the bottom and the top of the water column. If the water
doesn't mix, oxygen isn't replenished in the lower half.
The good news is that the Gulf's dead zone disappears each winter, observes
Fred Wulff of the University of Stockholm. In the eastern Baltic Sea, where
he works, a permanent dead zone covers up to 100,000 square km. Nasty blooms
of blue-green algae in the Baltic also lead to regular beach closures and
fish kills.
Caused almost exclusively by human activities, coastal dead zones are
becoming increasingly common and recurrent, observes Robert J. Diaz of the
Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences in Gloucester Point. His group finds
that the number of major dead zones has been roughly doubling every decade
since the 1960s.
On March 29, the United Nations Environment Program issued its first Global
Environment Outlook Year Book, a volume highlighting issues requiring urgent
attention. The report drew notice to the increase in major coastal dead
zones. After examining unpublished data by Diaz' team, the U.N. body
concluded that there are some 150 recurring and permanent dead zones in seas
worldwide.
Over the past century, overfishing was the leading environmental issue
affecting our seas, Diaz says. In the new millennium, it's going to be
oxygen.
How low?
Fully oxygenated waters contain as much as 10 parts per million of oxygen.
Once oxygen falls to 5 ppm, fish and other aquatic animals have trouble
breathing. Sharks begin vacating areas with 3 ppm of oxygen, while most
other fish can hold out until about 2 ppm. Sediment dwellers that can't
leave a hypoxic zone begin dying at around 1.5 ppm.
In some dead zones, oxygen hovers at 0.5 ppm or lower for months.

SHELL SHOCKED. Carcass of crab that didn't escape a hypoxic event in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Rabalais


Marine ecologists have documented both large and small dead zones in U.S.
coastal waters throughout the past decade. Diaz and his coworkers wanted to
extend the findings worldwide. During the past several years, they scoured
many years of marine-science reports for indications of large dead zones.
Sixty-eight large, persistent, and recurring dead zones spanning the world's
seas were reported for the first time during the 1990s. Most, Diaz says,
appear to be ecosystems that had at that time just reached their breaking
point. The problem of dead zones is escalating rapidly and globally, he
concludes.
His team is now investigating whether recurring dead zones are mushrooming
in size or impact. Making such assessments won't be 

Re: [CTRL] new information from Michael Ruppert -- there wasn't a stand down on Sept 11, it was the WAR GAMES on 9/11 which paralyzed NORAD's air defenses

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

Ahh, Michael Ruppert: the man that shouted me off the CIA-Drugs list for
mentioning current MKULTRA-LSD-methampetine ops.  The man that carries on
GW's story like a loyal dog: that nineteen Arab hijackers pulled off 9-11
(four at least are known to be alive - i.e. were not part of any suicide
mission).

The man that has threatened me with lawsuits for stating that he attempts to
ban me from every forum he and I happen to co-inhabit, for recalling the
record; the man that got two years of my critical research on Warren
Buffet's involvement in 9-11 removed from Indymedia.org.

The man is a fake.

Operation Two Towers
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/conspiracies.html

*

This was written several months ago:

Mike Ruppert is a man that I know to be quick to threaten unfounded
lawsuits and fail to deliver my desire to have Mike on the stand yet the
only thing that he seems to actually ACCOMPLISH in his strivings against
independent research is to get people censored.  The pattern has remained
exactly the same for some time.  I have spoken of it loudly for quite a
good long while and the pattern, miraculously some would claim, remains
intact.

Indymedia knows, I am sure, that they have sabotaged one of the only
independently arrived at, comprehensive investigation into the events of 9-
11 as a GREAT DEAL of it was archived there.  I guess the piece
entitled Does Al Qaeda Exist? was the last straw.  Indymedia AND Mike
Ruppert have worked very hard to maintain the story as it was essentially
provided by George W. Bush, the lead that says that nineteen Arab hijackers

pulled off 9-11.

Now we see how pervasive is the conspiracy.  It is not everywhere but it
DOES exist at some key positions.

Al-Qaeda are the US govts greatest ally
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/alqaeda.html

Does al-Qaeda exist?
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0006DFED.htm

Israel 'faked al-Qaeda presence'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm

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[CTRL] Brookhaven National Laboratories on Climate Modification

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.tap.bnl.gov/

In relation to this see:
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/chemtrails.html

Unfortunately, the last web site's backing documentation is largely gone as
Indymedia.org has censored a ton of unique research that I did.  I never
thought I would ever have to say that about Indymedia.  However,
radarmatrix.com is a good one too.

Here is an excerpt from the Brookhaven site:

Much of the science that had been planned for the Tropospheric Aerosol
Program (TAP) will in the future be conducted under the Department of
Energy's Atmospheric Science Program, which, beginning in Fiscal Year 2005,
will focus on radiative forcing of climate change by atmospheric aerosols.

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[CTRL] Fwd: [PC] End game

[Eric Stewart]

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Most of us know the root causes of global warming and
understand the great upheaval that it will cause. I have seen few
proposals that would reverse the effects of the greenhouse
gasses or deal with the problems created by the sudden drop in
the use of fossil fuels. In addition to global warming we face the
Malthusian population explosion that will only tend to increase
the use of fossil fuels but will reduce the land area of plant life
that take carbon out of the atmosphere.

The solution to these twin problems must not only include
reducing the use of fossil fuels but must also address the
shortages of arable land, declining potable water and rain forest
destruction. We can take unlimited clean energy from space but
the policies of short term gain practiced by the oil corporations
and supported by the governments that they control prevent this.
The oil corporations have trillions of dollars of infrastructure that
would be worthless in the face of a new energy supply. They will
do whatever it takes to protect that investment.

I contend that if we are going to reverse the damage to the
biosphere we must do it ourselves and not expect any help from
the entrenched power brokers. We must form our own
corporation to build an orbiting solar furnace that includes all of
the people of earth, it must have an ironclad agreement that the
focus cannot be changed no matter what. The secret to defeating
the energy companies is to undercut their price, if they cannot
compete they will go bankrupt.

A solar furnace in geosyncrous orbit could provide all of the
energy required by earth. It would convert sunlight and seawater
into hydrogen fuel, when the fuel is burned it would provide pure
water to irrigate the deserts. With plant life filling the deserts the
carbon cycle would be reversed. An added benefit of the solar
furnace would be that it can be used to remove
chloroflourocarbons and other pollutants from the atmosphere.

I believe in the solar furnace and in the interest of getting it built I
am willing to let the people of the world have it free, if they form
the corporation that I mentioned earlier. The solar furnace
pictured in the website at http://www.solarfurnace.netfirms.com/
is the original from my 8th grade science project and the solar
orbit furnace has been abandoned as no suitable solar orbit
could be found. The rest of the information is scientifically sound.

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[CTRL] Global Climate Change and Coal's Future

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Global Climate Change and Coal's Future

Remarks by Eileen Claussen
President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change

Spring Coal Forum 2004 - American Coal Council

MAY 18, 2004

It is a pleasure to be here in Dallas.  And I want to thank the
American Coal Council for inviting me to address this forum.

I thought I would open my remarks today with some commentary on the
upcoming FOX movie about climate change—it is entitled The Day After
Tomorrow.  It is not often, after all, that I get to talk about the
movies in my speeches.  And I suppose that's because there are not a
lot of movies on the topic of climate change—of course, I am not
counting Some Like It Hot.

In case you haven't already heard, The Day After Tomorrow comes out
Memorial Day weekend.  It is a movie that tries to show the
consequences of climate change by letting loose tornadoes in Los
Angeles, dropping grapefruit-sized hail on Tokyo, and subjecting New
York City to a one-day shift from sweltering-to-freezing temperatures.

The only thing I can say is it's a dream scenario for the people at
The Weather Channel.

Actually, the reason I bring this up is because we are bound to be
hearing a great deal about the issue of climate change over the next
several weeks.  This is a major motion picture with a major marketing
push behind it.

And, while I know of no one in the scientific community who believes
climate change will unfold in the way it is portrayed in the film, I
also know this: If this movie sounds far-fetched, it is frankly less
of a distortion—much less—than the argument that climate change is a
bunch of nonsense.  It is not.  Climate change is a very real problem
with very real consequences for our way of life, our economy and our
ability to ensure that future generations inherit a world not
appreciably different from our own.

I strongly believe it is time for some straight talk about the problem
of climate change and what it means for you  - the coal industry.   So
while my remarks here today are also relevant to the oil and gas
industry, I believe coal to be in a more precarious position, and I
believe that for 2 reasons:  1) I think coal is an easier target
politically and 2) oil and gas are already involved in the policy
process.So despite the current outlook for coal in the United
States, I am here to say that a robust future for coal is not a sure
thing, particularly if we do not find environmentally acceptable and
cost-effective ways to use it.

So let's look at some facts.

Here in this country, as all of you know very well, coal provides 52
percent of all electricity, more than double the amount of any other
fuel source and five times more than gas, oil or hydro-electric power.
 Coal is the most abundant energy source today, it is dispersed
throughout the world, and it is available at a relatively low cost.
Worldwide coal consumption, according to the U.S. Energy Information
Administration, is expected to grow by more than 40 percent between
2001 and 2025, with China and India accounting for three-fourths of
that increase.

Given these facts, a scenario in which we meet the world's various
energy challenges without coal seems to me highly unlikely.

At the same time, however, I cannot imagine—or, rather, I fear to
imagine—what will happen if over the next 50 years we do not get
serious about reducing worldwide emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases that we know contribute to climate change.

Coal alone is responsible for 37 percent of CO2 emissions in the
United States.  Thirty-seven percent.  Worldwide, the EIA projects
that coal will continue as the second largest source of carbon dioxide
emissions after petroleum, accounting for 34 percent of the total in
2025.

Coal's dominant role in the global energy mix, together with its
responsibility for a large share of CO2 emissions, suggests it is high
time to figure out how to continue using coal in a way that results in
the least amount of harm to the global climate.

I am not going to tell you that we can address this problem with no
costs.  Our goal must be to ensure that the costs themselves do not
become a barrier to action.  I believe we can manage those costs in a
way that enables continued economic growth and, equally important, in
a way that causes the least amount of harm to the environment.

And finally, we must acknowledge the very real costs of not acting to
address the problem of climate change.  I will talk more about that
later.

And so today I want to lay out for you how important it is for this
industry—your industry—to become a part of the solution to climate
change.  I also want to talk about your role in helping to shape the
policies and in developing the technologies that will allow 

[CTRL] Warming happening too fast to cause anything but extinction

[Eric Stewart]

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...climate changes like the global warming we are seeing today are
probably happening too fast to cause anything but extinction.

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Source:   University Of California - Berkeley
Date:   2003-10-31

Pack Rat Middens Give Unique View On Evolution And Climate Change In
Past Million Years

Berkeley - For at least a million years, owls throughout the West
have been snapping up sagebrush voles and reducing them to gray
pellets of fur, bones and teeth littering the foot of the roost.

Thanks to pack rats, however, these voles have not been forgotten.

In one Colorado cave, a pack rat collection of teeth and bones has
yielded a layered slice of vole history between 600,000 and a million
years ago, providing an unprecedented picture of how a species
changes and evolves, and how its evolution is affected by climate
change.

Everything in the cave has been nicely preserved at a controlled
temperature and humidity, like putting the stuff in a refrigerator
for 750,000 years, said Tony Barnosky, a University of California,
Berkeley, paleobiologist.

He and his former graduate student Chris J. Bell, now associate
professor of geological sciences at the University of Texas at
Austin, detail their study of fossil sagebrush voles, a rat-like
rodent of the arid West, in a paper published online Oct. 21 in the
Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

This is the first study where we've actually taken a living species
and looked back almost a million years at the population level to see
how it changes through time, said Barnosky, an associate professor
of integrative biology and associate curator at UC Berkeley's Museum
of Paleontology.

We've got a snapshot very early in the history of the species,
around 750,000 years ago in the middle Pleistocene, in which we can
trace details of what happens in time, plus a snapshot at 10,000
years and a modern snapshot. Together, these snapshots show very
gradual change in the sagebrush vole, Lemmiscus curtatus, as the
climate goes through one of many periodic cycles of glacial advance
and retreat, with the original vole population coexisting and
probably interbreeding with its evolving cousins.

However, a major climate alteration about 800,000 years ago
dramatically shifted the population balance toward the evolving vole
and away from the original vole population.

The original vole population still took about 800,000 years to die
out, because it lived as recently as 9,500 years ago. Sediments of
that age in a Nevada cave still contain the animals' fossilized
teeth. In the last 10,000 years, however, the original vole has
disappeared entirely, leaving the new variant that continues to
evolve away from the original.

There is debate about the role of climate change and the
glacial/interglacial transitions in driving speciation, that is, the
evolution of a new species, Barnosky said. Our study suggests that
species adapt to handle routine climate change, and only something
out of the ordinary initiates significant evolutionary change. It
takes a long time for a species to change, and even the major
climatic change 800,000 years ago wasn't dramatic enough to cause the
origin of a new species.

At least for small mammals, there may not have been much speciation
in response to climate change in the Pleistocene.

Though the million-year-old voles and today's sagebrush voles are
distinctly different based on the shape of their teeth, they probably
would be considered the same species, Barnosky and Bell concluded.
They acknowledge, however, that other biologists might view the two
voles coexisting some 800,000 years ago as two separate species, one
of which went extinct.

The species concept is an especially challenging problem for
paleontologists, who work with only bones and teeth, Bell
said. Here we are working with fossilized remains of a species that
in the modern biota only has one species, and have shown that,
through time, the morphological patterns within that species have
changed.

But we think we're looking at change within a species, not
necessarily a speciation event.

This study shows that, while we can draw a firm boundary around a
species we see today in the landscape, we can't draw a firm boundary
around species through time - the definition gets fuzzy, Barnosky
added. In our study, we see species change at the population level,
but not change from one species into another.

In light of the slow pace of speciation and today's rapid climate
change, these findings hold a sobering lesson, Barnosky said.

It's likely that speciation takes place over a longer time interval
than extinction, Barnosky said. So, climate changes like the global
warming we are seeing today are 

[CTRL] Get Ready To Invade Iran!

[Eric Stewart]

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 AP Exclusive: Top Iraqi Scientist Flees
 By DAFNA LINZER, Associated Press Writer

 The Iraqi scientist who headed Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s
 long-range missile program has fled to neighboring Iran, a country
 identified as a state sponsor of terrorism with a successful missile
 program and nuclear ambitions, U.S. officers involved in the weapons
 hunt told The Associated Press.

 Dr. Modher Sadeq-Saba al-Tamimi's departure comes as top weapons
 makers from Saddam's deposed regime find themselves eight months out
 of work but with skills that could be lucrative to militaries or
 terrorist organizations in neighboring countries. U.S. officials have
 said some are already in Syria and Jordan.

 Experts long feared the collapse of Saddam's rule could lead to the
 kind of scientific brain-drain the United States tried to prevent as
 the former Soviet Union collapsed. But the Bush administration had no
 plan for Iraqi scientists and instead officials suggested they could
 be tried for war crimes.

 There are a couple hundred Iraqis who are really good scientists,
 particularly in the missile area, said Jonathan Tucker, a former
 U.N. inspector now with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at
 the Monterey Institute in California. In the chemical and biological
 areas, their work wasn't state of the art but it was good enough to
 be of interest to other countries.

 Only now is the State Department exploring the possibility of a
 government-funded program to block a scientific exodus and prevent
 Iraqis from doing future research in weapons of mass destruction.
 Initial cost estimates for the program run about $16 million,
 according to a Nov. 3 draft proposal obtained by AP.

 Two members of the Pentagon (news - web sites)'s Defense Intelligence
 Agency involved in questioning scientists in custody told AP the
 Iraqis continue to deny the existence of illicit weapons programs in
 Iraq (news - web sites). Dozens of Iraqi scientists have been
 questioned and less than 30 remain in custody. All of them, including
 senior members of Saddam's regime, have been subjected to lie-
 detector tests, which have come up clean on weapons questioning, the
 DIA officers said.

 But U.S. scientists and weapons experts, who all spoke on condition
 of anonymity, said they're having trouble finding some Iraqi experts
 in Iraq and have no way of tracking ones they've met.

 They could leave Baghdad tomorrow and we'd never know, said one
 senior official involved in the hunt. Very few are obligated to tell
 us where they're going or what they're up to.

 U.N. inspectors spoke with Dr. Modher in Baghdad a week before the
 U.S.-led war began on March 20. Two U.S. weapons investigators say
 they believe he crossed the Iraq-Iran border on foot at least two
 months after U.S. forces took Baghdad.

 His activities in Iran are unclear and may explain why his
 disappearance hasn't been publicly disclosed. The CIA (news - web
 sites) declined to discuss its efforts with Iraqi scientists or
 identify individuals.

 Thought to be in his mid-50's, the Czech-educated scientist
 specialized in missile engines. He met numerous times with U.N.
 inspectors during the 1990s and earlier this year when he argued that
 the Al-Samoud missile system under his command wasn't in violation of
 a U.N. range limit. The inspectors determined otherwise when tests
 showed it could fly more than 93 miles. They quickly began destroying
 the Iraqi stock, much to his frustration.

 Dr. Modher was declared by Iraq to have been one of the principal
 figures in their missile programs, said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for
 the U.N. inspectors.

 In the late 1980s, Modher headed up the Iraqi military's Project
 1728, part of an effort to produce engines for longer-range missiles.

 He was the protege and favored colleague of Iraqi Lt. Gen. Hussein
 Kamel, Saddam's right-hand man and son-in-law who briefly defected to
 Jordan in 1995. There, Kamel told U.N. inspectors during
 interrogations about his work and Dr. Modher's efforts to build a
 missile powerful enough to strike most major European cities.

 According to the interrogation transcripts, Kamel said Modher and a
 nuclear physicist named Mahdi Obeidi both took work and documents
 from their offices. U.N. inspectors investigated the claim but found
 nothing.

 In July of this year, Obeidi gave the CIA a stack of papers and a
 piece of equipment that had been buried in his backyard for 12 years.
 In return, he has become the only Iraqi scientist allowed to move to
 the United States since the beginning of the U.S. occupation.

 Other than Obeidi, who is living along the East Coast with his
 family, another scientist known to have left the country is Jaffar al-
 Jaffer who founded Iraq's nuclear program in the 1980s. He's in the
 United Arab Emirates, where U.S. troops are stationed, and has been
 questioned by U.S. and British intelligence officials.

 But Jaffar, like a handful of 

[CTRL] Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could

[Eric Stewart]

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Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
 Public release date: 17-Nov-2003

Contact: Todd McLeish
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University of Rhode Island

Bush Administration plan to reduce global warming could devastate sea life
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/uori-bap111703.php

URI marine biologist says CO2 injection in deep sea would alter ocean
chemistry, affect numerous creatures
KINGSTON, R.I. -- November 17, 2003 -- A Bush Administration proposal to
mitigate the effects of global warming by capturing carbon dioxide emissions
from power plants and injecting it into the deep sea could have disastrous
effects on sea life, according to a University of Rhode Island researcher.
Brad Seibel, assistant professor of marine biology at URI, said that while
the Administration's plan is still in the experimental stage, enough is
already known about the biology of marine organisms to say with certainty
that the plan will harm the marine environment in significant ways.
Increased CO2 in the oceans would result in decreases in the pH levels (the
measure of acidity) of seawater, resulting in dramatic physiological effects
on many species, Seibel said. Shallow-living organisms like shelled mollusks
and corals are already being affected by the growing levels of CO2 in the
atmosphere. As atmospheric CO2 diffuses into the upper layers of the water,
it inhibits the ability of shellfish to form shells and causes coral reefs
to dissolve.
Deep-sea creatures are even more sensitive to environmental changes, he
said. In some species, their metabolism would become suppressed and lead to
retarded growth and reproduction, while others would be unable to transport
oxygen in their blood.
CO2 injection would be detrimental to a great many organisms, said the URI
biologist. It would kill everything that can't swim fast enough to get out
of the way, because in concentrated form it's highly toxic, even to humans.
But the Department of Energy seems willing to sacrifice the animals of the
deep sea if it will stop global warming. That's not entirely unreasonable
considering that if we keep stalling on taking serious measures to reduce
global warming, we won't be able to do anything about it. But I'd still like
to see that we're doing everything else possible to reduce emissions before
we begin polluting the deep-sea.
The government's carbon sequestration plan is designed to collect carbon
dioxide emissions that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere and
store them in underground geologic formations or deep in the ocean. Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham announced in September the creation of seven
regional partnerships to establish the framework needed to develop the
necessary technologies and put them into action. In addition, the Bush
Administration convened a Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum last June
where energy ministers from 13 countries discussed the potential for CO2
injections around the globe.
In the new book Climate Change and Biodiversity, published in August, Seibel
and co-author Victoria Fabry wrote: From the perspective of marine
organisms, deep-ocean sequestration means concentrating an otherwise dilute
toxin to well above lethal levels, and placing it in an environment where
the organisms are less tolerant of environmental fluctuation in general and
CO2 in particular.Localized devastation of biological communities at the
injection sites is certain.
As seawater becomes acidified, growth rates of calcareous phytoplankton
(those with calcium carbonate shells) will be reduced as a result of the
effects of CO2 on the process of calcification. Metabolism in some animal
species may also be depressed by increased acidity. Furthermore, some fish,
squids, and shrimps will have a diminished capacity for oxygen uptake at the
gill and transportation through their bloodstream, leading to asphyxiation.
Seibel said that there is typically a natural exchange of CO2 between the
sea and the atmosphere, but increases of atmospheric CO2 are already
affecting the equilibrium. Intentional injections of CO2 will further
disrupt the ecosystem.
The carbon dioxide-carbonate system is arguably the most important chemical
equilibria in the ocean, Seibel and Fabry wrote. It influences nearly
every aspect of marine science, including ecology and, ultimately, the
biodiversity of the oceans.
Brad Seibel, assistant professor of marine biology in the University of
Rhode Island's Department of Biological Sciences, joined the URI faculty in
the summer of 2003 after having worked as a marine ecologist at the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey, Calif. for several years. He
received undergraduate and 

[CTRL] Voiding the Palestinians

[Eric Stewart]

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On October 29, 2003, a leading Israeli daily, Ha’aretz, reported a rape-
murder that occurred more than fifty years ago at Nirim, an Israeli
military outpost in the Negev. The victim was a Palestinian girl, in her
early or mid-teens, or younger; the perpetrators of this crime were members
of the Israeli Defense Force. Six days later, The Guardian also reported
this crime, but US papers did not think this was news that is fit for
print. In the United States, the media prefers to shield Israel from
adverse notice. What is the significance of a single rape-murder in the
long and tortuous history of the dispossession of one people by another?

See:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles9/Alam_Voiding-Palestinians.htm

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[CTRL] Utilities, Oil Companies Stand to Benefit from GOP Energy Bill

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1116-01.htm

Published on Sunday, November 16, 2003 by Knight-Ridder Newspapers
Utilities, Oil Companies Stand to Benefit from GOP Energy Bill
by Seth Borenstein and Sumana Chatterjee

WASHINGTON - Electric utilities, especially southeastern ones, and oil
companies that make a gasoline additive that taints drinking water are some
of the biggest winners in the new energy bill that Republican leadership
released Saturday.

Oil and gas companies are thought to be huge recipients of massive tax
breaks, worth about $22 billion, but that part of the energy deal was not
made public late Saturday afternoon.

The bill is so comprehensive that there are parts of the bill for every
member of Congress to be uncomfortable with and for every member of
Congress to support strongly, said energy industry lobbyist Scott Segal.

Consumers may not notice a direct benefit from the energy deal except an
eventual stabilization of skyrocketing natural gas prices in at least five
years when an Alaska-to-Chicago natural gas pipeline is built, said Severin
Borenstein, a business professor who is director of the University of
California Energy Institute.

For consumers I think this will have a pretty minimal effect on the energy
picture, Borenstein said Saturday.

The bill provides $18 billion in loan guarantees to private companies to
build a natural gas pipeline from Alaska, where there is an abundance of
natural gas but no way currently to get it to the lower 48 states.

The first major energy legislation in about a decade was spurred on by
August's massive Northeast blackout. Utility industry officials and
Republican leaders who crafted this bill said this would help fix some of
the causes for the blackout, which started in northeastern Ohio and spread
quickly north and east.

The bill, a Republican-crafted combination of House and Senate energy
legislation, gives authority to a new Electric Reliability Organization
that will oversee the technical aspects of running and interconnecting
America's electrical grid.

It becomes a traffic cop who can write tickets to enforce technical
standards that have been only voluntary, said Jim Owen, spokesman for the
Edison Electric Institute, a utility lobby.

At the same time, marketing and business aspects will get only voluntary
oversight and less regulation than the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) had planned.

The bill delays until the year 2007 a FERC plan, called standard market
design, that could have shared the power supply and loads more evenly
between regions. The FERC plan would have benefited western and
northeastern utilities and forced southeastern utilities to share more, the
University of California's Borenstein said.

FERC's plan could have fixed many of the causes of the blackout, said Paul
Joskow, director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy
Research. The legislative language banning FERC's plan until 2007 is most
unfortunate, he said.

Bill-drafters bowed to powerful southern lawmakers who worried that their
constituents and local power companies would bear costs of power sharing
with other regions. Established utilities get to charge newer power plants
costs associated with hooking them up to existing grids, a provision that
southern utilities wanted.

States and FERC will get a long-sought ability to force landowners to sell
property so that new powerlines could be built.

The makers of MTBE, an additive designed to make gasoline burn cleaner but
that has ended up tainting public water supplies around the country, would
benefit from a nearly unprecedented ban on product liability lawsuits. More
than $100 million in lawsuits have been settled on the tainted water issue
with many more pending. Almost all of the additives are made in Texas and
Louisiana, where three powerful House members who crafted the bill live.

The legislation would protect those companies from product liability
lawsuits filed after Sept. 5, which includes a massive one from the state
of New Hampshire and more than 20 other suits filed Sept. 30.

It also eventually would ban MTBE from gasoline, but allow the president to
lift that ban. And the MTBE-makers would get $2 billion to phase out of the
business.

It's a raw deal for the public, said Katie McGinty, Pennsylvania's
environment secretary.

Segal, who represents MTBE makers, said this was a way to hasten the
transition of MTBE manufacturing to other products.

There are handouts of $2 billion to build so-called clean coal power
plants, that scientists and environmentalists say don't work that well.

The nuclear industry gets the renewal of a multi-billion dollar federally
subsidized catastrophic insurance plan. There are also tax credits to build
three to six new plants.

California, Alaska and states along the Gulf of Mexico would get $1 billion
over ten years to fight erosion from oil and gas drilling.

The legislation would make it easier for oil and gas 

[CTRL] 9-11 NOT POSSIBLE w/o chemtrails

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

Since what is in the skies these days manifests entirely different physical
properties they must be different sets of compounds and with this statement
I hope to make clear the line between contrail and chemtrail: contrails,
according to a meteorologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Adminstration (NOAA), are formed at minus seventy-six degrees fahrenheit.
This ought to be a good guage when you are watching a plane spray. If the
plane is not more than five thousand feet off the ground (i.e. you can
still see it) and your ground temperature is above twenty, ANYTHING in the
skies cannot be a contrail. What is this substance with observably
different physical properties than contrails?

If you search the net for these items - SkyNet, Global Hawk, SIGINT,
weather modification, climate engineering, ROTH - you invariably end up
sorting through discussions, some rather obscure yet revealing, involving
electrostatics and barium and whenever the local biggies are out at play
(NOAA, NCAR, LASP) here in the Boulder, CO area, computer connections are
extremely unpredictable, making this a static weapon if generally un-
aimable. Barium has been found in air samples taken in areas that are
heavily sprayed. Barium is said to be light AND extremely conductive.

There is a reason there is an USAF term called artificial ionospheric
mirror.

Please see:

9-11 NOT POSSIBLE w/o chemtrails
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/chemtrails.html

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[CTRL] Why didn't the FBI act on Ptech tips?

[Eric Stewart]

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsoftheForce/message/1297

FBI REPORTEDLY DIDN'T ACT ON P-TECH TIPS
by Ralph Ranalli, Boston Globe Staff
Dec 8, 2002


   The Boston FBI office received two reports that a Quincy software
company had financial ties to a suspected terrorist financier but acted on
neither, according to law enforcement and government officials and a
televised report.

   A whistle-blower from Ptech, Inc., told the Boston FBI in October
2001 that the company was being financially backed by Yasin al-Qadi, a
Saudi businessman whose US assets were frozen after the Sept. 11 attacks
amid allegations that he has funded terrorist groups, including al-Qaida
and Hamas, a Bush administration official and a former Clinton
administration official involved in the case said yesterday.

   WBZ-TV reported Friday night that a second whistle-blower went to
the Boston FBI office this past June with allegations that the company had
financial ties to the suspected terrorist financier.

   A spokeswoman from the FBI's Boston office denied that it had failed
to follow up on leads about Ptech's financial backing. ''That is not
accurate,'' spokeswoman Gail Marcinkiewicz said. ''This investigation has
been going on for quite some time, and it was jointly decided by the FBI
and Customs that Customs would take the lead.''

   WBZ reported that a former Ptech consultant named Indira Singh came
forward this past June. Singh said Friday night in an interview on WBZ that
she told the FBI ''in no uncertain terms'' about the connection between
Ptech and Qadi. She said that weeks after talking to the Boston FBI, she
was ''shocked'' and ''frustrated'' to learn that the FBI still had not
alerted any of the government agencies using Ptech software that there were
questions about the company's ties to suspected terrorist fund-raisers.

   Ptech has sold information management software to a range of
government agencies, including the Army, Air Force, Congress, the White
House, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the FBI.

   The FBI, the officials said, didn't aggressively pursue the initial
October 2001 tip, prompting that whistle-blower to go to other government
officials this past summer. The US Customs Service ended up leading the
investigation, and the search Thursday night and yesterday of Ptech's
headquarters.

   News that the FBI may have ignored the tips comes after a recent
scathing memo from top FBI officials to the bureau's field offices
complaining that not enough is being done to combat terrorism.

   The New York Times reported last month that Bruce Gebhardt, the
FBI's deputy director, sent a memo to the FBI's 56 field offices, saying he
was ''amazed and astounded'' that field supervisors were not committing
essential resources to fighting terrorism.

   The allegation is the latest in a series of embarrassments for the
Boston FBI office, including a failure to follow up on bank robber Gary
Sampson's offer to surrender before he went on a killing spree, and the
scandal over the agency's coddling of murderous organized crime informants.

   Documents provided to the Boston Globe by The Investigative Project,
a Washington, DC-based terrorism research organization, show that two of
Ptech's founding directors were former employees of BMI, a now-defunct
collection of Islamic finance companies that was targeted in an
investigation by the FBI's Chicago office.

   ''BMI was an Islamic financial institution that would loan money in
an Islamically permissible manner,'' said Matthew Epstein, director of
research for The Investigative Project.' 'According to the FBI, they were
involved in Hamas financing activities and potentially involved in the 1998
US Embassy bombings in Africa,'' he said.

   BMI was targeted by the FBI's Chicago office in a probe of alleged
money laundering and funneling of funds to terrorist groups like Hamas.

   BMI also shared office space in Secaucus, NJ, with Qadi
International, an organization controlled by Qadi.

   According to state records, two of Ptech's founding directors were
former officials with BMI. One of the directors, Soliman Biheiri, was
quoted in Management Review magazine as the ''president of BMI Leasing'' in
an article about financial institutions that adhered to Islamic law.

   Another director, Hussein Ibrahim, is currently listed as Ptech's
vice president and chief scientist. Ibrahim's resume, filed with the US
General Services Administration as part of the company's application to do
business with the US government, lists his prior employment from 1989 to
1995 as a vice president of BMI.

See:

Resurrecting the Ptech story
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=356997group=webcast



http://www.ptechinc.com/01/supp/supp.faqs.asp

~snip~

What is a KnowledgeBase?

The KnowledgeBase is Ptech's proprietary central repository, 

[CTRL] More on Mitre Corporation (IEEE search results)

[Eric Stewart]

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[CTRL] Restoration or Exploitation? Post-fire Logging in America's National Forests

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

- Forwarded message from Katie Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:36:44 -0600 (CST)
From: Katie Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Katie Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Restoration or Exploitation?  Post-fire Logging in America's

To:  All Activists

From:  American Lands Alliance
Date:   November 14, 2003

Restoration or Exploitation?  Post-fire Logging in America's National
Forests

American Lands has released a new report, Restoration or Exploitation?
Post-fire Salvage Logging in America's National Forests.  The report sheds
light on the myriad ecological impacts this damaging form of logging causes
to our natural heritage, as well as significant economic costs to the
American taxpayer.

The report is available at:
http://www.americanlands.org/SALVAGE_REPORT_FOR_WEB.pdf
A printable version of the report is available at:
http://www.americanlands.org/SALVAGE_REPORT_FOR_WEB.pdf

The report is timed to coincide with the release of the Biscuit Fire
Recovery Project Draft EIS, which has proposed record-breaking logging for
forests affected by the 2002 Biscuit fire.

The Biscuit Fire in southern Oregon burned through one of the largest
expanses of roadless wildlands left along the West coast.  The fire burned
through much of the Siskiyou National Forest, a hotspot of biodiversity
recently proposed as a World Heritage site and a National Monument.  Now,
the Biscuit Fire Recovery Project is becoming the largest Forest Service
timber sale proposal in U.S. history.   The preferred alternative for the
Biscuit would log 518 million board feet  which is approximately half of
the post-fire timber volume nation wide.  The proposed timber sale could
result in irreversible loss of 57,000 acres in the North and South
Kalmiopisis Inventoried Roadless areas, making this one of the largest
roadless area logging assaults in all 50 states.

The report not only highlights the significant ecological and economic
costs
associated with post-fire logging, but also provides current examples of
ten
of the most devastating post-fire timber sale proposals being developed by
the U.S. Forest Service following the Bitterroot, Biscuit, Hayman, McNally,
Missionary Ridge, Red Star, Rodeo-Chediski, Tiller /Apple, and Toolbox
fires.

Below is a link to a media tip sheet about the report that you can modify
and send to your reporter contacts to generate stories about post-fire
logging and sales that you are fighting. Also available are talking points
on post-fire logging that can be used when talking to press.

We hope that this report will be a useful tool for your work and will help
you educate press and elected officials about the destructive impacts of
post-fire logging.

For the media tip sheet template click here.
http://www.americanlands.org/Press%20tipsheet-%20FINAL.doc

To view the Executive Summary of the report click here
http://www.americanlands.org/Executive_Summary.pdf .

For post-fire logging talking points click here.
http://www.americanlands.org/Message%20Talking%20Points%20on%20Post-fire%
20
Salvage%20Logging.doc

For more information contact Anne Martin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , 509-624-5657 or Tim Ingalsbee,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 541-302-6218.
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Big Medicine: Setting Dissent Afire
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/environment.html

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[CTRL] GLOBAL WARMING DETECTED IN THE U.S.

[Eric Stewart]

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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:28:58 -0600 (CST)
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 Subject: ! GLOBAL WARMING DETECTED IN THE U.S.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3267775.stm

Global warming 'detected' in the US

Climate change caused by human activity has been detected on a local
level, an international group of scientists says.

The researchers compared temperatures in North America between 1900
and 1999 with what one might expect if man had - and had not - had an
influence.

And In the last 50 years, the rise in temperature is just what one
would predict if man-made greenhouse gases were having an impact, they
claim.

The research is published in this week's edition of the journal
Science.

Computer models

It is getting warmer in North America. Since 1900, the average
temperature has risen by one degree Celsius, and 80% of that increase
has happened since 1970.

What is not certain, is why this has happened. Some blame the
greenhouse gases produced by humans [some meaning the overwhelming
majority of sciencitsts, as you well know BBC, shame on you -ED] ;
others [almost all of whom are either non-scientists or scientists who
are receiving paychecks from industry -ED] say it is all part of a
natural fluctuation.  [In fact the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change was set up by the UN at the request of none other
than the National Academy of Science, no less, and is one of the
largest, perhaps the largest and most transparent peer review and
collaboration in the history of science -ED]

Peter Stott from the Met Office in the UK, and his colleagues, used
sophisticated computer models to address the question.

They created several virtual 20th Century North Americas, complete
with sea, trees, mountains, volcanoes, clouds and weather systems. The
model North Americas were capable of accurately mimicking the climate
of the real-life version.

Then the researchers introduced different influences to each model, to
see how they affected the climate.

To some, they introduced lots of volcanic action and solar activity,
which can cause natural climate change. And to others, they introduced
greenhouse gases, ozone and sulphate aerosols - all of which
contribute to man-made climate change.

Close match

Each of the models predicted what the climate of North America should
have looked like, under a particular set of influences.

Then they looked at what really happened to the climate of North
America over the past century, and measured how well the models
matched up.

The idea was that if a particular model of North America closely
matched the real thing, one could assume it did so because the
influences at play in the real and virtual world were the same.

In the second half of the century - 1950-1999 - the climate change of
North America closely matched the human influence model. But in the
first half of the century, the climate change matched the natural
influence model.

So the models were suggesting that North America warmed up for natural
reasons during the first half of the century but, in the second half,
man caused the climate change.

The model that included greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols agreed
with what we really saw in the second half of the century, said Dr
Stott. But when we looked at the models that didn't include these
things, they didn't fit.

Human fingerprint

The researchers also compared the air temperature above the land with
that on the surface of the ocean. They found that the air above the
land was heating up much quicker.

This is inconsistent with what we might expect if we were witnessing a
natural fluctuation, the researchers say, because they are usually
characterised by a rise in ocean temperature.

The fact the land is warming faster on land than on the ocean surface
bares the human finger-print, Dr Stott told BBC News Online. That is
because normal fluctuations are often caused by changes in the ocean
systems.

Previous studies on the possible causes of 20th Century warming have
generally concentrated on global-scale patterns of climate change.

There is a whole body of evidence for global climate change, said Dr
Stott, but now we have found it locally.

= = = =
STILL FEELING LIKE THE MAINSTREAM U.S. CORPORATE MEDIA
IS GIVING A FULL HONEST PICTURE OF WHAT'S GOING ON?
= = = =

Daily online radio show, news reporting: www.DemocracyNow.org

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Sorry we cannot read/reply to most usenet posts but welcome email

For more information: http://EconomicDemocracy.org/wtc/ (peace)
And http://EconomicDemocracy.org/ (general)

ANTI-SPAM EMAIL NOTE: For email info and map don't work. Email
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[CTRL] HEADLINES - In Iraq, America and Iran Vie for Empire

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

In Iraq, America and Iran Vie for Empire
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?
article_id=b302d6b5473da12fd01bfea9693d7d6c

Millions of High-Tech Jobs May Follow Hundreds of Thousands Already in India
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1113-06.htm

Scientists create virus in 2 weeks
http://www.sunspot.net/news/health/bal-te.virus14nov14,0,473772.story?
coll=bal-health-headlines

Israel on Road to Ruin, Warn Former Shin Bet Chiefs
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1115-03.htm

New Poll Shows Green Candidate Out in Front in San Francisco Mayor's Race
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1115-06.htm

Shrinking Ice in Antarctic Sea 'Exposes Global Warming'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1115-04.htm

Economic Plans for Iraq May Violate International Law
http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1654mode=threadorder=0

What are the obstacles to Arab-Israeli peace?
http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1657mode=threadorder=0

Billions Missing from U.S.-Controlled Development Fund
http://yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1659mode=threadorder=0

A True 'Revolution': Indian Americans Enter the Matrix
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?
article_id=de05b5d002253839a0aa483ffc80d8f1

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[CTRL] Boeing: Missile Defense System misguided

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24078

Published Wednesday, November 12, 2003
Missile Defense System misguided

With the recent $823 million Boeing Co. Missile Defense System contract and
Congressional approval of $9.1 billion for missile defense in the fiscal
year 2004 budget, it appears that the construction of a National Missile
Defense (NMD) system in the United States is now just a matter of time.

With a Pentagon-projected price tag of $50 billion over the next five
years, one wonders whether such a system would be worth the cost and to
what degree it would increase the security of the United States. Officials
have given a variety of justifications for building an NMD system, ranging
from scenarios of nuclear war with North Korea to a ballistic missile
attack from a terrorist organization.

The efficacy of the proposed NMD system is called into serious question
after examining its history of deficiencies. Replete with failed tests and
unproven technology, the ground-based midcourse intercept system scheduled
to be built in Alaska is doomed to fail. With a self-set deadline of
October 2004, officials are scrambling to begin construction. To expedite
the process, the Pentagon has decided to use old satellites and to deploy
radar systems without adequate testing.

It is absolutely necessary to test and modify these technologies, for
hitting a supersonic projectile is by no means an easy task. When speaking
about the feasibility of destroying missiles in flight, most policymakers
seem to have in mind a false image close to Atari's classic video
game Missile Command -- where stopping a nuclear missile is as easy as
moving a cursor in its path. Even if general targeting obstacles can be
overcome, there still exists the issues of debris, decoys and bad weather
conditions -- all impediments that have confused existing radars.
Furthermore, successful tests of the system have been performed under
impractical conditions: pre-programmed trajectories and targets, low speeds
and low altitudes. If an attacker varied a missile's velocity, sent out
multiple warheads or decoys, or launched at night, an NMD system would be
hard-pressed to neutralize those targets.

To this date, no government figure has given an adequate reason as to why
deterrence policy is not enough to prevent a nuclear conflict in the
future. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction has worked to preserve
peace among the traditional nuclear rivals for the past half-century, even
in the midst of more precarious situations than the current one. Assuming
that North Korea or Iran (or any other newly United States-identified
threat) gains the capability to strike U.S. soil, the threat of a
devastating retaliatory strike by the United States would be more than
enough to discourage such action.

The most recent, and arguably most important, threat to United States
interests comes in the form of terrorism. In the rare instance that
terrorists gain possession of a nuclear weapon, it is difficult to imagine
the use of a ballistic missile. A terrorist organization would, most
likely, employ a simpler and more discreet means of detonation, such as
steering a boat into the harbor of a major city. More probable, however, is
the non-nuclear detonation of radioactive material (i.e. a dirty bomb) on
U.S. soil. Which of these attacks is more lethal is not important, but what
is significant is to realize that an NMD system would do nothing to prevent
these more plausible events from occurring.

Perhaps the strongest argument of NMD proponents is that while a system may
not be successful 100 percent of the time, it may be successful part of the
time. Why not proceed with construction so that there is at least a chance
of stopping incoming attacks? The answer to this question is that there is
a unique disadvantage to building a missile defense system: it would
decrease the security of the United States. From a global perspective, it
is easy to understand other countries' reservations about a U.S. defense
system. Deterrence prevents nuclear attack by threatening complete and
utter retaliation; every player in the game essentially has a gun and does
not fire at another player for fear of being shot in return. Thus, a stable
balance results in which firearms are possessed but no casualties result.
In a world where the United States builds a successful NMD system, the
United States would possess both a gun and a bullet-proof vest, undermining
deterrence. The international tension that would result could take form in
refusal by other countries to cooperate on issues of non-proliferation and
attempts to build new nuclear weapons in order to strengthen one's
deterrent.

In the midst of all its deficiencies and failures, a national missile
defense may indeed have the chance of being successful for a fraction of
the time. The central question we are faced with today is whether this
chance of a solution is worth the hefty price tag of an NMD 

[CTRL] HAARP To Quadruple Its Power

[Eric Stewart]

-Caveat Lector-

http://www.rense.com/general44/haarp.htm

HAARP To Quadruple Its Power
From The ARRL Letter, Vol 22, No 43
http://www.arrl.org/
on October 31, 2003
11-11-3

From The ARRL Letter, Vol 22, No 43 http://www.arrl.org/ on October 31,
2003

Technical Specialist Richard Lampe, KL1DA, represented the League at the
2003 High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project (HAARP)
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/ RFI meeting September 24 at the HAARP site
near Gakona, Alaska.

Joint funding through DARPA will allow HAARP to quadruple in size from its
current 960 kW output to 3.6 MW, Lampe says.

When completed in 2006, HAARP will then be the premier ionospheric
research facility with beam-steering capabilities that other similar arrays
worldwide don't have.

Under terms of its experimental license, HAARP must transmit on a non-
interference basis, and Lampe--who is ARRL liaison to HAARP--says the staff
at the control center immediately shut down the transmitters when harmonics
were detected on 75/80 meters during experiments last year.

Alaska hams monitor the bands and aid HAARP engineers by reporting RFI
issues as soon as they happen, Lampe said.

Source: The ARRL Letter Vol. 22, No. 43 October 31, 2003

http://www.eham.net/articles/6890?ehamsid=c2919d06454cbe83801d5551c910add7

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[CTRL] Asia's 14-billion-dollar naval defence market a magnet for global firms

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http://www.spacewar.com/2003/03094945.m5uqyfw0.html

Asia's 14-billion-dollar naval defence market a magnet for global firms
SINGAPORE (AFP) Nov 11, 2003

The world's top defence companies are moving to make a big splash in the
Asia-Pacific's naval arms market which is seen doubling to 14 billion US
dollars in the next six years, industry experts said Tuesday.
Frigates with stealth capabilities, patrol vessels, submarines, seaborne
surveillance systems as well as command and control facilities are in
demand as governments upgrade capabilities to deal with a growing terrorist
threat, piracy and environmental concerns.

Top defence firms from Europe and the United States participating at the
International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference which opened here
Tuesday agreed the Asia Pacific would become the world's biggest market by

Singapore Defence Minister Teo Chee Hean told the conference the threat of
maritime terrorism is not theoretical but real.

He warned of horrific consequences such as a disruption of the global
economy if terrorists turned oil supertankers and chemical carriers into
floating bombs in such choke points at the Straits of Malacca or the Suez
Canal.

Mark Ritson, director for marketing and public affairs at British defence
firm BAE Systems, said that after Asian governments complete modernising
their air forces, they are likely to shift to equipping their navies.

Primarily, if you look at the Pacific Rim, the requirement is to protect
borders and to deal with piracy, illegal immigration, coastal pollution and
patrolling coastlines, he told AFP on the sidelines of the conference.

Thus, there is a demand for patrol boats like frigates and offshore patrol
vessels and to a point submarines.

It seems that countries are moving away from the key combat aircraft
competition more and more towards naval requirements.

BAE Systems senior vice president for Singapore Tony Harrison said the
essence of Asia is that it's a trading area, and so vast amounts of the
world's shipping goes through this area.

And the rising terrorist threat has meant that any ship, any cargo has to
be looked at with a degree of suspicion.

BAE Systems can provide surveillance capabilities onshore as well as on
board frigates to detect suspicious cargo. The company can also offer
command and control systems for the region's navies.

Compared with 10 years ago when naval doctrines were shaped by the Cold
War, the dynamics have changed to focus more on the emerging terrorist
threat to shipping, Harrison said.

BAE Systems has supplied frigates to Malaysia and patrol vessels to Brunei
and hopes to secure a deal to sell frigates to Thailand.

Armaris, a joint venture between French naval shipbuilder DCN and Thales,
is another company that has already established a beach-head in the region.

In July last year, Armaris signed a contract to build two Scorpene Class
submarines for the Malaysian navy to be delivered in 2008.

This year, the firm signed another contract to train more than 150
Malaysian sailors to man the submarines.

An old French submarine will be put into service in the next few months to
train the Malaysian sailors, said Armaris communications director Jean-
Marie Daviron.

He said the company also expects to participate in the construction of a
naval facility for the submarines.

It's an entire package, Daviron said.

DCN itself has a contract with Singapore to build six stealth frigates for
the city-state's navy, and Daviron said he hopes Singapore would express an
interest in its submarines.

Armaris is also negotiating with India to help build six Scorpene Class
submarines for the Indian navy.

While the Middle East remained Armaris' biggest market, Asia is seen a
major growth area.

China's growing military influence is another reason why some Asian
countries are modernising their navies, a defence expert who who asked not
to be named said.

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[CTRL] Texas governor's office sues to keep Boeing documents secret

[Eric Stewart]

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Texas governor's office sues to keep Boeing documents secret
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?
category=6420slug=FOI%20Boeing%20Incentives

Monday, November 10, 2003 · Last updated 10:50 a.m. PT

Texas governor's office sues to keep Boeing documents secret

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry's office has filed a lawsuit seeking to keep
secret the financial incentives offered to Boeing Co. to build a plant in
Texas.

The lawsuit filed Thursday was in response to a request from Alfred Ehm, a
member of the Texas Central Rail-Corridor Coalition of San Antonio, for
details of the possible tax breaks that were being offered to the airplane
maker.

I'm trying to make a point that the government cannot receive and spend
taxpayer money and claim they're not a public agency, Ehm told the Austin
American-Statesman.

The state's Department of Economic Development, run by the governor's
office, is negotiating with Chicago-based Boeing to build a manufacturing
plant in Texas.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott's office ruled in October that some of
the information about the incentives must be released.

But the economic development department contends the incentive package
Texas offered Boeing should not be open to the public because it contains
confidential commercial and financial information. Exposing the information
would jeopardize the state's ability to attract businesses, the department
said in an August letter to the attorney general.

If businesses believe that communications with the state during the site
selection process cannot be kept confidential, then Texas will be put at a
severe competitive disadvantage and it will not be considered a business
location, the letter said.

The attorney general's office ruled that the economic development
department had not demonstrated that the submitted information is
protected trade secret information or commercial or financial information
of a business prospect.

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[CTRL] Big Medicine: On Chemtrail Schemes

[Eric Stewart]

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Since what is in the skies these days manifests entirely different physical
properties than what was in the skies years ago (contrails 'used to'
disappear i a few minutes) they must be different sets of compounds and
with this statement I hope to make clear the line between contrail and
chemtrail: contrails, according to a meteorologist at the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA), are formed at minus seventy-six
degrees fahrenheit. This ought to be a good guage when you are watching a
plane spray. If the plane is not more than five thousand feet off the
ground (i.e. you can still see it) and your ground temperature is above
twenty, ANYTHING in the skies cannot be a contrail. What is this substance
with observably different physical properties than contrails?

See:

Big Medicine: On Chemtrail Schemes
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/chemtrails.html

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[CTRL] U.S. Soldiers Shoot Dead Iraqi Council Leader

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U.S. Soldiers Shoot Dead Iraqi Council Leader
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7,500 Soldiers Wounded Since April
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Al Gore | Freedom and Security
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U.S. Soldier Killed in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/03D.shtml

Talk of Draft Heats Up
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/03E.shtml

Not Enough Soldiers for Veterans Day Parades
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/03F.shtml

Matt Condon | A Soldier's Story
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/03G.shtml

Bush Takes Quiet Aim at 'Green' Laws
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/03H.shtml

Rumsfeld's WMD Denials Prove False
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William Rivers Pitt | Without Honor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003A.shtml

New York Times | The Fruits of Secrecy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003B.shtml

Report Claims Bush Team Has Bungled Peace
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003C.shtml

Top U.S. Officials: Case For War Confected
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003D.shtml

Support For War Softening in Fort Campbell Community
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003E.shtml

Two POWs, One an American Icon, the Other Ignored
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/111003F.shtml

States Planning Their Own Suits on Power Plants
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James Ridgeway | Star Wars Makes Defense Secretary Space Out
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Appeal for Draft Board Volunteers Revives Memories of Vietnam Era
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t r u t h o u t | 11.09

20 to 30 Killed as Three Explosions Rock Saudi Capital
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110903A.shtml

A Bloody Week in Iraq as 2 More Soldiers are Killed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110903B.shtml

GOP Stonewalling Iraq and 9/11 Investigations
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New York Times | Rush to War, Revisited
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California AG Calls for Arnold Groping Investigation
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Fury at Bush's Civil Rights Policing of Abortion Ban
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110903F.shtml

Senators and Attorneys General Seek Investigation Into E.P.A. Rules Change
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110903G.shtml

White House Puts Limits on Queries from Democrats
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/110903H.shtml

Frida Berrigan | Progress in Iraq?
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Black Hawk Down as U.S. Death Toll for Week Reaches 32
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Senator Byrd | The GOP Energy Bill: An Infinite Mirage and a Boundless
Facade
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85,000 GIs Told They're Heading to Iraq
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Is Bechtel Getting Special Deals in Rebuilding Iraq?
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L.A. Times Bans 'Resistance Fighters' in Iraq News
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Paul Krugman | Flags Versus Dollars
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U.S. Toxic 'Ghost Fleet' Not Wanted in the U.K.
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New York Times : 'White House Ignored 

[CTRL] British Firm Purchases HAARP

[Eric Stewart]

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Michel Chossudovsky on H.A.A.R.P.
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1628


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17 February 2003

BAE SYSTEMS TO PURCHASE ADVANCED POWER TECHNOLOGIES, INC

BAE SYSTEMS North America has reached a definitive agreement with Advanced
Power
Technologies, Inc. (APTI), to purchase the corporation for $27 million in
cash.

APTI, a private company with headquarters in Washington, D.C., focuses on
intelligence,
surveillance, reconnaissance exploitation and information processing for
defence, civil
and commercial uses. APTI's core competencies include radio frequency (RF)
and optical
engineering, communications and networking, signal and data exploitation
and knowledge
creation.

Other disciplines include microwave engineering; antenna design and
development; optical
sensors, plasma and shock physics; advanced ordnance systems; non-
destructive testing;
signal and image processing; and digital control systems, including
industrial-based
process controls.

The 17-year-old company also has facilities in Virginia, Maryland and
Alaska. APTI
employs more than 100 people and had 2002 revenues of approximately $26
million.

Mark Ronald, president and chief executive officer, BAE SYSTEMS North
America said,
APTI's demonstrated performance, growth and high quality technical
workforce align well
with BAE SYSTEMS growth strategy in network centric warfare and information
operations.
APTI's strengths and core competencies are important elements within the
Command,
Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and
Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
market.

Closing of the transaction is expected to occur within 45 days and is
subject to
completion of certain regulatory reviews and approvals.

About BAE SYSTEMS: BAE SYSTEMS is a systems company, innovating for a safer
world. BAE
SYSTEMS employs nearly 100,000 people including joint ventures, and has
annual sales of
around $19 billion. The company offers a global capability in air, sea,
land and space
with a world-class prime contracting ability supported by a range of key
skills. BAE
SYSTEMS designs, manufactures and supports military aircraft, surface
ships, submarines,
radar, avionics, communications, electronics, guided weapon systems and a
range of other
defence products.

BAE SYSTEMS is dedicated to making the intelligent connections needed to
deliver
innovative solutions.

BAE SYSTEMS North America is a high-technology U.S. company employing more
than 22,000
Americans who live and work in some 30 states and the District of Columbia.
The company
is dedicated to solving its customers' needs with both highly innovative
and leading-edge
solutions across the defence electronics, systems, information technology
and services
arenas.

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BAE SYSTEMS
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[CTRL] CALIFORNIA HALTS DIEBOLD CERTIFICATION

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,61068,00.html

Calif. Halts E-Vote Certification
By Kim Zetter
05:49 PM Nov. 03, 2003 PT

SACRAMENTO, California -- Uncertified software may have been installed on
electronic voting machines used in one California county, according to the
secretary of state's office.

Marc Carrel, assistant secretary of state for policy and planning, told
attendees Thursday at a panel on voting systems that California was halting
the certification process for new voting machines manufactured by Diebold
Election Systems.

The reason, Carrel said, was that his office had recently
received disconcerting information that Diebold may have installed
uncertified software on its touch-screen machines used in one county.

He did not say which county was involved. However, secretary of state
spokesman Douglas Stone later told Wired News that the county in question
is Alameda.

Alameda County, a Democratic stronghold that includes the cities of
Berkeley and Oakland, converted to all-electronic voting last year at a
cost of more than $12 million. The county used the machines in state
elections last year and in last month's gubernatorial recall election. The
machines will also be used in tomorrow's municipal election in Alameda.

The only other California county currently using the Diebold touch-screen
machines on election days is Plumas. Los Angeles County uses a limited
number of the machines for early voting. No one was available for comment
on whether uncertified software may have been installed on machines used in
Plumas or Los Angeles.

The Diebold machines slated for state certification, known as the AccuVote
TSx, are a modified version of the machines used in Alameda and Plumas. The
new machine is said to be a lighter, more compact version.

At the meeting, Carrel delayed indefinitely the certification of the new
machines until the secretary of state's office can investigate the matter.

Diebold officials, who were attending the meeting, seemed surprised by the
announcement and expressed displeasure to several panelists afterward that
it had been introduced in a public forum. They were unavailable for
comment.

Also present at the meeting were representatives from Solano, San Diego and
San Joaquin counties, where officials are waiting for state certification
to begin using the new machines.

Officials from Alameda County's registrar of voters were unavailable for
comment.

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[CTRL] Soros, Israel, Wesley Clark, the Draft, Cuba, Rumsfield, Michael Moore (on E-Voting), and Jessica Lynch

[Eric Stewart]

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Financier Soros puts millions into ousting Bush
http://www.radiofreeusa.net/modules.php?
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Israel's New War Machine Opens the Abyss
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/

The Awful Truth About General Wesley Clark
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles8/DVNS_Wesley-Clark.htm

Will U.S. Bring Back the Draft?
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1105-01.htm

U.S. Launches Crackdown on Cuba Travel
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1108-07.htm

Talk of a Draft Grows Despite Denials by White House
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1108-05.htm

Bush Takes Quiet Aim at 'Green' Laws
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1108-10.htm

Critics Fear Energy Plan Will Tame a Wild Land
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1109-03.htm

Rumsfeld Retreats, Disclaims Earlier Rhetoric
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1109-11.htm

Michael Moore Attacks E-Voting
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1110-09.htm

Farmers Put Down Plows to Take Up Arms Against US
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/-09.htm

Private Military Contractor released Al-Qaeda Study
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/0744220

Military Families Against War
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/08/2127232

Jessica Lynch: Military manipulated her story
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/08/1443200

Peacewatchers: Increased US Air Force in Scotland
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/11/07/2354213

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Re: [CTRL] Parallels Between Iraq and Vietnam (Georgie Anne Geyer)

[Eric Stewart]

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If it takes some 500,000 armed personnel to keep peace in Bosnia and
Serbia, why only deploy 130,000 to a much harder campaign, against a much
larger force, namely in Iraq?  Sounds like just the kind of toke presence
to make a showing but not really piss off the sheiks, just the kind of
presence necessary to sell some bombs and distract Americans from the
systematic dismantling of environmental protections, among other things.

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 http://www.uexpress.com/printable/print.html?
uc_full_date=20031104uc_comic=gg




   VIETNAM AND IRAQ HAVE MORE SIMILARITIES THAN DIFFERENCES

   CHICAGO -- To my immense surprise, I recently ran into the American
 scholar who, for many correspondents in Vietnam, offered the most
 fair-minded analysis of the war.
   Suddenly, there was Gerald Gerry Hickey at the Chicago Public
 Library, a little grayer after 35 years, but still much the same, with a
 big smile on his face and a welcome Hello!

   I remembered well how Gerry, then the Rand Corp.'s top man in
 Vietnam, had meticulously explained for us the cultures and behavior of
 highland tribes such as the Montagnards, but also the Viet Cong and the
 pro-American Saigon government.

   And now we're doing the same thing all over again, he said as we
 talked about Iraq. First, we suffer from the same invincible ignorance
 about Iraq that we suffered over Vietnamese culture. Second, in Vietnam
 we set the military impact with no concern about our effect on South
 Vietnamese culture. By the time we left in 1975, they were just
 exhausted. They were just tired out -- and so was I.

   It is so sad now that I can see the same mistakes being made in
 Iraq. The GIs busting down the doors, breaking into homes, doing
 everything wrong. But, you know something, he went on, sadness outlining
 his voice, I'm shocked at much of what we are seeing in Iraq: The
 Americans are much crueler than they were in Vietnam. Remember, when
 American correspondents found American troops burning down houses -- that
 was remarkable then; today it's the norm.

   Gerry and I talked a long time that day, mulling over our common
 experiences, wondering primarily why the United States can't ever pause
 to analyze a country correctly, and above all comparing the two
 conflicts.

   Despite the myriad voices in the press insisting, Iraq is not a
 Vietnam! the indisputable fact is that, if you consider the passions and
 principles applied there, it really IS another Vietnam. Among the causes
 for the war are obscurantist theories about foreign threats that have
 little basis in reality; civilians at the top who play with the soldiers
 they have never been; and the underlying lies that give credence to
 special interests (the Bay of Tonkin pretense in Vietnam, the supposed
 weapons of mass destruction in Iraq).

   In Vietnam, we were following the bizarre notion of the domino
 theory, the idea that a communist Vietnam would mean that all of
 Southeast Asia would fall to communism. The Johnson administration
 refused to realize that it was a colonial war, and that in colonial wars,
 people fight forever.

   With Iraq, the second Bush administration accepted the idea,
 perfervidly pushed by civilian neoconservatives, that Iraq was the center
 of terrorism, the cause of 9/11 and an immediate threat, ignoring the
 Greek chorus of voices warning against such intellectual, military and
 moral folly.

   Curiosly, in both cases it was civilian ideological fanatics in the
 Pentagon, enamored of American technology and with no knowledge of
 history or culture, and not the U.S. military, who pressed for the wars.
 (It was Robert McNamara and his whiz kids then; now it's Paul
 Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle and others.)

   Perhaps the old American maxim of civilian control of the military
 might be changed, with what we are seeing, to military control of the
 civilians.

   Other comparisons of the two wars:

   Today, one hears a doublespeak that almost echoes the communists of
 the old days. In Vietnam, it was, We had to destroy the village to save
 it. With Iraq, it is President Bush's statement of last week that the
 more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react!


   Today, it's called Iraqization. In Vietnam, it was called
 Vietnamization -- late-hour attempts to make everything look as though
 it's working. As military historian William Lind wryly remarked to me of
 Iraqization, It presumes that because you pay someone, he's yours.

   In 1967 in Vietnam, I spent a lot of time interviewing officers and
 troops all over the country, and I wrote a series of articles that my
 paper, the Chicago Daily News, headlined with: The GI Who Asks 'Why?'
 Today's GIs are beginning to ask that same question.

   America needs to look seriously at these two wars and analyze why
 it repeatedly gets 

[CTRL] Fwd: Re: Big Brother Alive and Well at Yahoo Booz-Allen

[Eric Stewart]

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Who the hell is Booz, Allen, and Hamilton ?!?
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1962

Big Brother Alive and Well at Yahoo
http://www.crazyjeff.net/yahoobug.html

~

From: Agent Souljah Smiley's Last Stand
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1921

Oct 22, 2003: The internet as a medium, as is, has failed activism and in
retrospect, the reasons for this seem obvious. Ever since we were young,
with public education and with television, we have been encouraged to sit
down, stare straight ahead, and merely absorb. Marshall MacLuhan said, The
medium is the message. By this he meant that no matter what the content of
the information, the very dynamics of absorbing information in this way
demean, even defeat the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, making spectators
of us all in our own lives. The Situationists knew this.

We have, for years dear activists, been trying to reach a passive crowd,
engaged in a passive activity, with a message of activism: self-defeating
to say the least.

Bob: Want to go fishing Joe?

Joe: Naw...I gotta get together with the global village.

Little Joey: Want to play ball Dad?

Joe: Cantcha see I'm communing with the world? Leave me alone.

Consider this: the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), which would
later become the DEFENSE Advanced Research Projects Agency, developed the
internet. It was a DOD project before it was a public forum, which would
later be turned over to the private sector for management. DARPA it is
that houses the Information Awareness Office which, in turn spawned TIA,
the Total Information Awareness effort, headed by one John Poindexter, an
Iran-Contra Felon that, like so many others, escaped retribution and now
sits high up on the pyramid, under George W. Bush. Now that DARPA's spying
apparatus has been perfected, it too will pass into corporate hands though
it is publicly subsidized.  We have been handed the gun and we seem only
too happy to pull the trigger.  In relation to this, you may wish to check
out the following:

Agent Souljah Smiley's Last Stand
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1921

Silicon Valley's Spy Game
http://cryptome.org/sv-spy-game.htm

Total Information Awareness Relies on Private Sector to Track Americans
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1458

DARPA's Information Awareness Office (IAO) to shut down (but TIA will march
on)
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modloadname=Newsfile=articlesid=1995

~

For more on Booz, Allen,  Hamilton, see the following links.

Resurrecting the Ptech story (9-11)
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=356997group=webcast

Booz Allen Hamilton secures Saudi Arabia naval contract potentially worth
$95.3 million
http://www.consultant-news.com/Article_Display.asp?ID=627

Some Big Medicine
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=357114group=webcast

The real Saudi Ties are U.S. Ties
http://new.globalfreepress.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/30/229223

Falls Church, VA and 9-11
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/FallsChurch.html


- Original Message -
From: gparty4u [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 01:12:05 -

 this explains a lot.
 myself and several others i have talked to, many in my group
 (King George), have had their emails and yahoo ID's hijacked.

 It was bad for a while several months ago when the last big virus was
 around. it stopped for a while, now its back. There was a definate
 attack on liberal yahoo groups. i am in the moderators yahoo group
 and had brought up the topic, and only left politiacl groups were
 affected.

 I now have had to close my group to not accept outside members, and
 also had to impliment tighter controls on group settings.

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[CTRL] US makes 'weather control powder'

[Eric Stewart]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1469610.stm

Thursday, 2 August, 2001, 01:45 GMT 02:45 UK
US makes 'weather control powder'
By BBC Science's Julian Siddle


A company in the United States claims it has invented a powder that can be
used to remove clouds from the sky and even stop the development of
hurricanes.

They say the new product could help many areas of the world that are
subject to extreme weather conditions.

The Florida based company, Dyn-o-mat, used a military aircraft to drop four
tonnes of its powder on to a developing storm cloud.

The cloud disappeared from radar screens, which were monitoring the
experiment.

Officials from the company, which produces materials to absorb pollutants
such as oil and acids, say they used a specially developed powder that
absorbs large quantities of water.

'Completely safe'

The water is then turned into a gel before falling out of the sky.

The company says the gel is completely safe, bio-degradable, and breaks
down in seawater - though they refuse to say exactly what is in it.

Among the applications that it envisages for the powder are clearing away
clouds before sports fixtures and constraining the development hurricanes.

The company believes that a tightly controlled jet of the powder aimed at
the hurricane would cut it into smaller pieces, making it far less
threatening.

The US Government has already expressed interest in the new product, and
the company says it could be useful worldwide.


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[CTRL] December 8, 2002

[Eric Stewart]

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2550513.stm

Sunday, 8 December, 2002, 01:22 GMT
Israel 'faked al-Qaeda presence'

Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy
agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell
in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas.

Raanan Gissin, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, called
the allegation sheer nonsense.

On Thursday Mr Sharon said that members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda
terror network were at work in the Gaza Strip, aiming to attack Israel.

Israel has named al-Qaeda as the prime suspect in a suicide bombing at a
hotel in Mombasa, Kenya that killed 16 people last week and an unsuccessful
missile attack on a nearby Israeli passenger jet.

It is a big, big, big lie to cover (Sharon's) attacks and his crimes
against our people everywhere, Mr Arafat said at his headquarters in the
West Bank city of Ramallah.

Communications traced

Colonel Rashid Abu-Shbak, the Palestinian head of preventative security,
said eight Palestinians had been approached from outside Gaza, and had been
asked by Israeli agents to work for al-Qaeda with offers of money and
weapons.

Colonel Abu-Shbak said the first approaches were made in March this year,
and that all communications had been traced back to Israeli intelligence.

He cited the case of one Palestinian militant who had been approached and
had been supplied with guns, and who was killed on his way to collect a
second consignment of weapons.

We are sure that Israel is behind this and that there are absolutely no
groups such as al-Qaeda operating here, Colonel Abu-Shbak said.

We can't say there will never be al-Qaeda here, but at least not for now,
he added.

Mr Gissin said that the Palestinian accusations were propaganda and
disinformation put out by officials trying to exonerate themselves from
the allegations they are collaborating and participating with terrorists.

US accusations

On Friday American media reported that al-Qaeda has set up a branch to help
Palestinian militant groups fight Israel, according to a website US
officials believe is linked to the organisation.

The new group has called for an end to inter-Palestinian feuding and has
vowed to launch suicide attacks against Israeli and American targets in the
Middle East, it said in a statement on the website, mojahedoon.net.

The Washington Post newspaper said United States officials believe the
website speaks for al-Qaeda, and that it is being monitored by US
intelligence agencies.

The Arabic-language website said al-Qaeda took responsibility for the
attacks in Kenya.

The website carried a statement purportedly from the new al-Qaeda branch -
the Islamic al-Qaeda in Palestine - pledging allegiance to Osama Bin Laden.

The group said it rejected any peace talks between Israel and the
Palestinian Authority, declaring it would accept nothing but the full
liberation of the Palestinian land.

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[CTRL] Hierarchy

[Eric Stewart]

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In The Beginning

In the Beginning was The Plan.
And then came the Assumptions.
And the Assumptions were without form.
And the Plan was completely without substance.
And the darkness was upon the face of the faithful.
And they spoke among themselves, saying
It is a crock of shit, and it stinketh.
And the faithful went unto their Pastors and sayeth,
It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof.
And the Pastors went unto their Vicars and sayeth unto them,
It is a container of excrement and it is very strong.
Such that none may abide by it.
And the Vicars went unto their Secretariats and sayeth,
It is a vessel of fertilizer, and none may abide its strength.
And the Secretariats spoke amongst themselves, saying to one another,
It contains that which aids plant growth, and it is very strong.
And the Secretariats went unto the Vicar for Administration and sayeth unto
him,
It promotes growth and is very powerful.
And the Vicar for Administration went unto the Archbishop and sayeth unto
him,
This new plan will actively promote the growth and efficiency
Of this Archdiocese, and in these Areas in particular.
And the Archbishop looked upon The Plan,
And saw that it was good, and The Plan became Policy.

This is How Shit Happens.

Big Medicine: More on Falls Church, VA and 9-11
http://www.angelfire.com/mi/smilinks/FallsChurch.html

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[CTRL] 179 countries vote against the blockade of Cuba in the UN

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Subject: [Activist_List] 179 countries vote against the blockade of Cuba in
the UN

 http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2003/noviembre03/mier5/44votac.html

 179 countries vote against the blockade of Cuba in the
 UN = Havana. November 5, 2003

 • Only three votes against the resolution presented by
 the island: the United States, Israel and the Marshall
 Islands

 United Nations (PL).—The UN General Assembly voted by
 an overwhelming majority this November 4 to end the
 economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on
 Cuba by the United States.

 A resolution adopted here in that respect obtained the
 record total of 179 votes in favor, just the United
 States, Israel and the Marshall Islands against, and
 only two abstentions.

 The vote recalls declarations made by the heads of
 state and government at Ibero-American Summits in
 relation to the need to eliminate the unilateral
 application of measures of an economic and commercial
 nature affecting the unfettered development of
 international trade.

 It also expresses concern at the continued
 promulgation and application of laws and regulations
 such as the U.S. Helm-Burton Act that affect the
 sovereignty of other states, the legitimate interests
 of entities and persons under their jurisdiction, and
 freedom of trade and navigation.

 In consequence it reiterates its exhortation on all
 states to abstain from undertaking actions of this
 kind, and urges the most rapid repeal or annulment
 possible of those in existence.

 The UN secretary general is asked to prepare a report
 on the present resolution in the light of the aims
 and principles of the organization’s Charter and
 international law for presentation to the General
 Assembly in its next period of sessions.

 In that way the issue remains on the program of
 debates for next year as a question of constant
 interest.

 EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE CUBAN RESOLUTION

 Cuba received the express support of important groups
 of countries for its demand for an end to the
 blockade.

 When the General Assembly session on the issue was
 opened, the Mexican representative was the first to
 speak in favor of the anti-blockade resolution.

 In succession so did Morocco, on behalf of the Group
 of 77 plus China; Jamaica, for the Caribbean Community
 (CARICOM); and Malaysia, which presides over the
 Non-Aligned Movement.

 Each of them firmly expressed their opposition to the
 prolonged policy of harassment in violation of the UN
 Charter, international law and freedom of trade and
 navigation.

 Viet Nam referred to interference in the sovereignty
 of states and the non-justification of a blockade that
 has been unable to force Cubans to give up their
 efforts to construct a more just society.

 After Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque‘s speech,
 received with an ovation, representatives from other
 countries added their words of support to the
 resolution presented by Cuba.

 The first to do so was the Namibian representative,
 who maintained that the application of that policy of
 hostility constitutes an obstacle to the millennium
 development goals.

 South Africa lamented that the issue had to be
 discussed yet again, despite reiterated calls from the
 international community to the United States and
 stated that it was no surprise that the overwhelming
 majority continues to support the resolution under
 debate.

 For his part the Tanzanian speaker spoke of the
 violations to freedom of trade and how this has
 worsened with the Torricelli and Helms-Burton Acts,
 which have caused fresh damage to the Cuban economy
 and that of third countries.

 Venezuela shared the general condemnation of the U.S.
 measures, which constitute a flagrant violation of
 Cubans’ human rights. It called on the General
 Assembly to adopt measures to repeal legislation such
 as the Torricelli and Helms-Burton Acts.

 Sudan reiterated the right of nations to their
 self-determination and urged a rejection of any
 attempt to impose unilateral decisions against states.

 Iran called on the international community to demand
 an end to the blockade and to prevent the utilization
 of food and medicine as instruments of political
 pressure.

 Guinea noted how the continuity of the proposal in the
 UN symbolizes cohesive world opposition to the U.S.
 hostile measures against Cuba.

 The representatives of Zambia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar,
 Syria, Indonesia and Laos spoke in similar terms.

 Given the number of countries that had asked to speak
 and the length of the debate, the president of the
 General 

[CTRL] DAMNING EVIDENCE OF WARREN BUFFETT 911 ROLE

[Eric Stewart]

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DAMNING EVIDENCE OF WARREN BUFFETT 911 ROLE
http://indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=361124group=webcast

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[CTRL] Sept. 11 panel to subpoena NORAD

[Eric Stewart]

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http://www.msnbc.com/news/990850.asp?pne=msntv

Sept. 11 panel to subpoena NORAD
Air defense command promised records but didn’t deliver


WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 — The national commission investigating the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks voted Friday to subpoena the records of the North
American Aerospace Defense Command for information it promised but did not
deliver.

IT WOULD be the second subpoena issued by the commission, which has
complained of delays by some government agencies in providing information
needed to complete the investigation by a May deadline.

   The commission subpoenaed the Federal Aviation Administration in
October, accusing it of slowing the probe by not providing timely and
complete information.

   The panel in May requested information on air traffic control
tracking of hijacked aircraft and the agency’s communication with NORAD,
the U.S.-Canadian military alliance that scrambled fighter jets during the
attacks.

   Some members of the commission are interested in the time sequence
for notifying the jets that headed to Washington where one of the hijacked
planes struck the Pentagon.

   “The commission has encountered some serious delays in obtaining
needed documents from the Department of Defense,” the panel said in a
statement.

Stephen Cambone, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence,
said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld expected the department to comply
with schedules for document submissions.

   “The commission has a statutory deadline it must meet,” Cambone
said. “And the secretary has directed that the department be responsive to
help ensure the commission can meet its deadlines.”

   The 10-member National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the
United States is examining lapses in national security related to the Sept.
11 attacks, which killed about 3,000 people in New York, suburban
Washington and Pennsylvania.

   The commission has previously said it might subpoena the White House
to gain access to intelligence reports given to the president if that
information was not turned over.

   President Bush said last week that he was willing to give the
commission limited access to at least part of the daily intelligence
reports given to him before the attacks.



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Will Iran Be Next?
by Mark Gaffney:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

05/08/03: (Information Clearing House) Those who have hoped that a U.S.
military victory in Iraq would somehow bring about a more peaceful world
are in for a rude awakening. The final resolution of this war and the U.S.
occupation of Iraq will likely not be the end, rather, only the prelude to
a succession of future crises: in Kashmir, Syria, North Korea, and Iran.
This article will focus primarily on the latter case.

In the coming months the United States and its ally Israel will either
accede to the existence of an Iranian nuclear power program, or take steps
to prevent it. At the eye of the storm is Iran’s nuclear power plant at
Bushehr, on the Gulf coast, currently under construction. The reactor is
scheduled for completion later this year. Its nuclear fuel rods will then
be delivered. By June 2004 it should be fully operational. The
controversial project has been in the works for more than a quarter
century. As it nears completion, tensions between Iran and the U.S./Israel
are sure to rise. Iran is a signatory of the Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT),
which affirms the right of states in good standing to develop nuclear power
for peaceful use. Although there is no evidence Iran has yet violated the
NPT, the U.S. and Israel believe that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons. This
is the crux of the problem. And two recently discovered Iranian nuclear
sites, at Arak and at Natanz, have only heightened suspicions.

It is very possible--some would say probable--that the U.S., possibly in
conjunction with Israel, will launch a preventive raid and destroy the
Bushehr reactor before it goes on line. Such a raid would be fateful for
the region and the world. It would trigger another Mideast war, and
possibly a confrontation with Russia, with effects that are difficult to
predict. A war with Iran might bring about the collapse of the NPT, lead to
a new arms race, and plunge the world into nuclear chaos. Such a crisis
holds the potential to bring the world to the nuclear brink. This article
will review the background, and provide an analysis. I will discuss the
reactor at Bushehr first, then the other suspect sites.

The Reactor at Bushehr

The Bushehr nuclear plant has a long history. Launched in 1974, the project
was the showcase of the late Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. The original plan
called for the construction of two 1200-1300 megawatt reactors on the
southern Iran coast, side by side. The contractor was the Siemens company,
a well-known German firm. The project was 85% finished at the time of the
1979 Iranian revolution, when work was halted. During Iran’s subsequent war
with Iraq the unfinished reactors were bombed repeatedly, and severely
damaged. After the war Iran attempted to persuade Siemens to finish the
project, without success, due to increased proliferation concerns and heavy
U.S. pressure on Germany.

U.S. support for the Shah’s dictatorial regime undoubtedly set the stage
for the 1979 Islamic revolution, when radical students, backed by the
Ayatollah Khomeini, seized the U.S. embassy and held American diplomats
hostage for 444 days. The resulting break in U.S.-Iran relations has never
healed. During the 1981-1988 Iran-Iraq war the U.S. supported Saddam
Hussein, who was perceived as a bulwark against revolutionary Shi’ism, just
as Hitler, many years before, was mistakenly perceived by some in the West
as a bulwark against Soviet communism. Nevertheless, the U.S. supplied both
sides with arms. During the war, the U.S. policy was: let them destroy each
other--a policy that was unworthy of a Christian nation.

At the start of the Bush Presidency there were signs that relations with
Tehran might improve. Positive statements by Secretary of State Colin
Powell were reciprocated by Iran’s foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi. Then
came Bush’s axis of evil speech, which dashed hopes of a thaw. The
current U.S. policy of vilification has been attributed to Pentagon hawks
and to Israeli PM Ariel Sharon’s supporters in the Bush administration.
Last November, Sharon called upon the U.S. to bring about regime change in
Tehran, after first dealing with Iraq. (Mansour Farhang, A Triangle of
Realpolitik The Nation, March 17, 2003) And similar statements have been
made by rightist commentators in the U.S. press.

The U.S. blocked several attempts by Iran to enlist a contractor to
complete the Bushehr reactor; until, finally, in 1995, after ten years of
shopping, Iran signed a $800 million deal with Victor Mikhailov, chief of
Minatom, the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy. The Russians agreed to
finish reactor-1, and have been on site ever since. The project has been
plagued by technical problems and repeated delays. The Russian engineers
were compelled to modify the original German design. But, apparently, all
of the problems have now been overcome, and reactor-1, slightly downsized
to 1000