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Have you seen Syriana? I saw it last night. It makes you want to believe in conspiracies. I mean there is no doubt and these bastards take out people like it was some kind of geopolitical video game and those aren't real people who are dying. It should turn anyone's stomach. Robert Baer was the inspiration for the movie. Bob in the movie was not so lucky... It was an awesome movie. See it. Hank On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, warren greer wrote: > http://pnews.org/ > Progressive News & Views (since 1982) > ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > > > It worked to get the Shah into the government of > Iran, to replace Sukarno with Sukharto in Indonesia, > to overthrow Arbenz in Guatemala, to put Pinochet in > for 13 years of dictatorship in Chile, all the > rainbow-colored 'revolutions' in ex-socialist > republics, and to steal the U.S. elections in 2004 in > Florida and Ohio, but the upset election of bush's > rightist buddy in Mexico was COMPLETELY DEMOCRATIC AND > THE WILL OF THE MEXICAN MASOCHIST ELECTORATE, AND > STEALING THE COMPUTER HACKING INSTRUCTIONS HAD NOTHING > TO DO WITH IT! > If the world is with bush, who needs the CIA? > They went to all that trouble FOR NOTHING! What a > waste! Pull out the CIA's influence and let's depend > on the rest of the world wanting the bushistas to lead > them into the future! > Hurraaaaaaay!!!!! > Warren > > Stealing Mexico > By Greg Palast > GregPalast.com > > Friday 30 June 2006 > > Bush team helps ruling party "Floridize" Mexican > presidential election. > George Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with > the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the > November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans > for that, too). I'm talking about the election this > Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency. > > It begins with an FBI document marked, > "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence > Collection" and "Secret." Date: "9/17/2001," six days > after the attack on the World Trade towers. It's nice > to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little > late. > > What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico's > election? Hold that thought. > > This document is what's called a "guidance" memo > for using a private contractor to provide databases on > dangerous foreigners. Good idea. We know the 19 > hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the > Persian Gulf Emirates. So you'd think the > "Intelligence Collection" would be aimed at getting > info on the guys in the Gulf. > > No so. When we received the document, we obtained > as well its classified appendix. The target nations > for "foreign counterterrorism investigation" were > nowhere near the Persian Gulf. Every one was in Latin > America - Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and a handful > of others. > > Latin America?! Was there a terror cell about to > cross into San Diego with exploding enchiladas? > > All the target nations had one thing in common > besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning > presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in > office. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, bete noir > of the Bush Administration, was facing a recall vote. > In Mexico, the anti-Bush Mayor of Mexico City, Andres > Manuel Lopez Obrador was (and is) leading the race for > the Presidency. > > Most provocative is the contractor to whom this > no-bid contract was handed: ChoicePoint Inc. of > Alpharetta, Georgia. ChoicePoint is the database > company that created a list for Governor Jeb Bush of > Florida of voters to scrub from voter rolls before the > 2000 election. ChoicePoint's list (94,000 names in > all) contained few felons. Most of those on the list > were guilty of no crime except Voting While Black. The > disenfranchisement of these voters cost Al Gore the > presidency. > > Having chosen our President for us, our > President's men chose ChoicePoint for this sweet War > on Terror database gathering. The use of the > Venezuela's and Mexico's voter registry files to fight > terror is not visible - but the use of the lists to > manipulate elections is as obvious as the make-up on > Katherine Harris' cheeks. > > In Venezuela, leading up to the August 2004 vote > on whether to re-call President Chavez, I saw his > opposition pouring over the voter rolls in laptops, > claiming the right to challenge voters as Jeb's crew > did to voters in Florida. It turns out this operation > was partly funded by the International Republican > Institute of Washington, an arm of the GOP. Where did > they get the voter info from? > > In that case, access to Venezuela's voter rolls > didn't help the Republican-assisted drive against > Chavez, who won by a crushing plurality. > > In Mexico this Sunday, we can expect to see the > same: challenges of Obrador voters in a race, the > polls say, is too close to call. Not that Mexico's > rulers need lessons from the Bush Administration on > how to mess with elections. > > In 1988, the candidate for Obrador's Party of the > Democratic Revolution (PDR), who opinion polls showed > as a certain winner, somehow came up short against the > incumbent party of the ruling elite. Some of the > electoral tricks were far from subtle. In the state of > Guerrero, the PDR was leading on official tally sheets > by 359,369. Oddly, the official final count was > 309,202 for the ruling party, only 182,874 for the > PDR. Challenging the vote would have been dangerous. > Two top officials of Obrador's party were assassinated > during the campaign. > > Crucial to the surprise victory of the ruling > party was the introduction of computer voting machines > and the centralization of voter databases. Observer > Andrew Reding of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs > reported that ruling party operatives had special > access codes denied the opposition. > > Whether the US "War on Terror" lists will find a > use in Sunday's election, we cannot know. But the use > of American government resources to interfere in > south-of-the-border campaigns is an open secret. The > GOP's International Republican Institute has run > training sessions for the PAN youth wing, funded by US > taxpayers through the "National Endowment for > Democracy." > > Foreign - that is, American - interference in > political campaigns is a crime. That didn't stop Team > Bush. However, when the theft of its citizen files was > discovered, Argentina threatened to arrest ChoicePoint > contractors until the company returned the tapes - and > Mexico's attorney general did in fact arrest the > ChoicePoint data thieves to avoid his party from > looking too much the stooge of its Washington patron. > Whether George Bush gave back his copy, no one will > say. > > Wholesale theft is expected on Sunday in forms > both subtle and brutal. How the US' purloined > "counterterrorism" lists will be used, we don't know. > We are certain however, that the Administration did > not siphon off these Latin voter files to fight a War > on Terror. It appears, rather, part of the Bush > Administration's and GOP's hemispheric War on > Democracy - along a battle line which runs from > Florida to Ohio to Juarez. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > For as-it-happens reporting on the Mexican > election, check www.GregPalast.com for dispatches from > our team investigator Special Correspondent Matt > Pascarella with video journalist Rick Rowley in Mexico > City. > Special thanks to the Electronic Privacy > Information Center, Washington. DC, which received and > passed on to our team the FBI ChoicePoint files and > other foreign intelligence documentation. > > Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times > bestseller, ARMED MADHOUSE: Who's Afraid of Osama > Wolf?, China Floats Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal > '08, No Child's Behind Left and Other Dispatches From > the Front Lines of the Class War. > > Get your copy of PalastÂ’s new book, Armed > Madhouse, at www.GregPalast.com. > > > I > > > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" > in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info > pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" > as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ > > > ---------------- > Don't Miss This: http://tinyurl.com/m2uah > --------------------------------------------- > NEVER pay for a podcast again: > Check this out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r > ----- > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ ---------------- Don't Miss This: http://tinyurl.com/m2uah --------------------------------------------- NEVER pay for a podcast again: Check this out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r -----
