-Caveat Lector- also includes protesters sued (NYC), military spending, rich and enron
Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban --May 22, 2001 - US financial support of the Taliban this last May for their attempted destruction of their poppy fields. http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm ""It is absolutely essential that the U.S. make the pipeline the centerpiece of rebuilding Afghanistan," says S. Rob Sobhani, a professor of foreign relations at Georgetown University and the head of Caspian Energy Consulting. The State Department thinks it's a great idea, too." These may be heavy for survivors of abuse. Tough call ahead for Swift on Amirault commutation By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff, 2/11/02 - "With major legal and political issues at stake, Acting Governor Jane Swift is preparing in the next few weeks to make a final decision on convicted child molester Gerald Amirault's request for a commutation of his sentence." http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/042/metro/Tough_call_ahead_for_Swift_on_Amir ault_commutation+.shtml 144 sex-trade workers missing - Salim Jiwa - The Province - 2/13/02 - B.C. is a killing field for sex- trade workers. Community organizations have tallied more than 110 missing and murdered sex- trade workers in the Lower Mainland in the last two decades. And RCMP figures released to The Province show the numbers may be even higher when the entire B.C.-wide sex-trade worker death toll is included. http://www.canada.com/vancouver/story.asp?id={85E206A9-2214-4E28-8DBD-DAD50EE7 1693} http://www.aclu.org/action/id107.html Oppose Backdoor Attempts to Institute a National ID! One reaction to the terrible events of September 11 has been a renewed discussion about instituting a national ID card as a counter-terrorism measure. Direct passage of a national ID card, however, is only one possible path to such a system. A national ID is much more likely to evolve bureaucratically through existing forms of ID, such as state drivers' licenses....Once government databases are integrated through a uniform ID, access to and uses of sensitive personal information would inevitably expand. Law enforcement, tax collectors, and other government agencies would want use of the data. Employers, landlords, insurers, credit agencies, mortgage brokers, direct mailers, private investigators, civil litigants and a long list of other private parties would also begin using the ID and even the database, further eroding the privacy that Americans rightly expect in their personal lives..... A national ID would not prevent terrorism. An identity card is only as good as the information that establishes identity in the first place. Terrorists and criminals will continue to be able to obtain -- by legal and illegal means -- the documents needed to get a government ID, such as birth certificates and social security numbers http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=1749 Afghanistian: Oil Execs Revive Pipeline From Hell Oil companies have dreamed of a trans-Afghan pipeline. Are they crazy enough to pull it off now? By Daniel Fisher Forbes.com February 4, 2002 It has been called the pipeline from hell, to hell, through hell. It's a 1,270-kilometer conduit, 1.2 meters in diameter, that would snake across Afghanistan to carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan--with 700 billion cubic meters of proven reserves--to energy-hungry Pakistan and beyond. Unocal of the U.S. and Bridas Petroleum of Argentina vied for the $1.9 billion project in the 1990s. Now, with the collapse of the Taliban, oil executives are suddenly talking again about building it. "It is absolutely essential that the U.S. make the pipeline the centerpiece of rebuilding Afghanistan," says S. Rob Sobhani, a professor of foreign relations at Georgetown University and the head of Caspian Energy Consulting. The State Department thinks it's a great idea, too. Routing the gas through Iran would be avoided, and Central Asian republics wouldn't have to ship through Russian pipelines. http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/2654727.htm Posted on Tue, Feb. 12, 2002 - Boca Raton family volunteers to be first for microchip implants FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (AP) -- A family in Boca Raton have volunteered to be implanted with microchips, which would make them the first family imbedded with the identification devices. Derek Jacobs, a 14-year-old computer whiz, is poised to become the first child to receive the implant, which can be scanned for identification and medical information. http://nyc.indymedia.org/ Activists Plan To Sue Police After WEF Demo A week after the NYPD arrested 200 peaceful protesters, activists are considering filing a class-action lawsuit against the police for unlawful arrest and brutality. On Sunday, Manhattan Neighborhood Network will rebroadcast a press conference held by activists and journalists who were wrongfully arrested. It has been a tough week for New York's finest. On Thursday, the city agreed to a $469,000 settlement with 12 activists who sued for mistreatment after their arrest at a protest. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/page.cfm?objectid=11574035&method=full THE COLDER WAR By John Pilger LAST week, the US government announced that it was building the biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to $379billion, of which $50billion will pay for its "war on terrorism". There will be special funding for new, refined weapons of mass slaughter and for "military operations" - invasions of other countries. Of all the extraordinary news since September 11, this is the most alarming. It is time to break our silence. http://www.skolnicksreport.com/tebm5.html all accusations are alleged : 5] ENRON and MARC RICH. About 1985, the Reagan/Bush Justice Department, controlled primarily actually by Bush, permitted and condoned the international swindler Marc Rich to be allowed to flee the U.S. and have his headquarters in Zug, Switzerland. Marc Rich, real name Reich, was thus corruptly arranged to escape federal criminal prosecution for some 40 Billion Dollars of tax cheating and other federal criminal offenses. 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