[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pakistan: Revealed: torture centre linked to MI5
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 7:15 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] Pakistan: Revealed: torture centre linked to MI5 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/12/terror.centre?gusrc=rssfeed=networkfront Revealed: torture centre linked to MI5 * Ian Cobain * guardian.co.uk, * Monday May 12 2008 This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday May 12 2008. It was last updated at 13:35 on May 12 2008. Aerial photograph of Rawalpindi http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/05/12/rawalpindi460x276.jpg An aerial photograph of Rawalpindi showing the interrogation centre. Photograph: Getty Images A secret interrogation centre in Pakistan where British terrorism suspects are alleged to have been tortured after UK authorities had them arrested has been found by the Guardian. The centre, run by the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), is in the Saddar district of Rawalpindi. It is surrounded by high walls and watchtowers, and bristling with surveillance cameras. So notorious is the ISI that local photographers are reluctant to take pictures of the centre, although satellite images are readily available. A British citizen says he was driven there in 2004, held for 10 months and tortured. Salahuddin Amin, now aged 33, had moved to Pakistan three years earlier from Luton, Bedfordshire. Amin was eventually returned to the UK and successfully prosecuted. His trial heard that he was interviewed by officers from the British security service MI5 several times during his detention. His lawyers allege ISI officers beat and whipped him, and threatened him with an electric drill, in between the MI5 interviews, and that the British officers must have known he was being mistreated. A second British citizen, aged 33 and from Manchester, who was arrested at the request of British authorities, is thought to have been held at the same place. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, has described being hooded and driven to a detention centre that resembles Amin's account. He was deprived of sleep and whipped, the man says, and an ISI officer used pliers to pull out three fingernails from his left hand. He says he was then interviewed by two British officials. His lawyers suspect they were from MI5. Two other British citizens have said they were tortured by the ISI before being questioned by British counter-terrorism officials. Lawyers say there is evidence MI5 instigated the torture of British citizens or, at very least, turned a blind eye to their mistreatment. Last month, the Guardian disclosed how the allegations are to be aired in forthcoming court cases, including a terrorism trial, a criminal appeal and a civil action being pursued by one of the alleged victims. MI5 declined to comment, but pointed to evidence given to the all-party intelligence and security committee about training it gives its agents regarding the possible mistreatment of detainees by foreign intelligence agencies. Guidance for officers questioning detainees held overseas states: The security and intelligence agencies do not participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the use of torture or inhuman and degrading treatment. Amin says he was one of several prisoners kept in an underground block of 10 small cells, each with a mattress and a pillow. The torture, he says, took place nearby in a carpeted room with bright overhead lights, a table, several chairs and a small wooden stool where prisoners were expected to sit. In one corner of the room was a camera. He says that sometimes he would be hooded and driven for 20 minutes to meet two MI5 officers; on other occasions they would question him in the room where he had been tortured. Among other people thought to have been tortured at the Rawalpindi centre is an innocent taxi driver who was caught up in the investigation of Amin. Ezaj Rabanni, 38, was interrogated for several days about the whereabouts of Amin, who had been his passenger several times and whom the ISI had been unable to locate. They beat me for half an hour or so on the first day and they whipped me with a leather belt, Rabanni said in a statement taken before Amin was tried at the Old Bailey. I couldn't see them because I had a hood over my head the whole time. They kept asking me about Salahuddin, asking me where he was. They beat me the second day and the third day. I couldn't protect myself - my hands were shackled behind my back the whole time. Then I heard the sound of an electric drill being switched on. I could feel the drill touching my side and my clothes being wrapped around it. I have never been so frightened in my life. Rabanni gave evidence at the Old Bailey trial that ended with Amin and four other men being jailed for life for conspiring to cause explosions in the UK. The taxi driver now says he is too terrified to return to Pakistan, because he fears he may be
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 1:49 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Surveillance Society Does Not Work http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/the-surveillance-society-does-not-work/3386/ The Surveillance Society Does Not Work Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism – the very reasons government officials implement such measures. Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal freedom and privacy? What is more, as current technology has failed to live up to the expectations of the British Government they still have widespread plans to advance citizen surveillance like we have never seen before. Passport Interrogations The latest statistics are cause for concern. A procedure introduced in 2007 made it compulsory for all passport applicants to attend face-to-face interviews. We were told this was a necessary measure in fraud prevention but out of 90,000 interviewees not a single criminal had been caught. The cost of the network has run into the hundreds of millions. DNA Database More statistics show the DNA database, which contains the details of over one million innocent people, has almost zero effect in solving crimes. On average just 1 in every 800 crimes will be solved and the cost runs into the millions, turning the innocent into suspects. Each DNA sample added to the database cost £3,575 - last year the database held 660,000 samples. Phil Booth of NO2ID said: This utterly blows away the myth that the DNA database is the perfect detection tool. It is, in fact, creating-a nation of suspects. The British DNA database contains 4.5 million samples and is the largest in the world yet it does not hold the information of terrorist suspects or serious offenders currently in jail. Police across the EU can access the database creating what civil liberty advocates call a `Big Brother Europe'. CCTV Just this week it was revealed that only 3% of London street robberies were solved using CCTV. Britain is the most monitored country in the world with an average of one CCTV per ever 14 people. Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in court. It's been an utter fiasco: only 3% of crimes were solved by CCTV. There's no fear of CCTV. Why don't people fear it? [They think] the cameras are not working, said Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville. Still the development of a national facial recognition CCTV database continues at the taxpayer's expense. RIPA What is more worrying still is the use of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a spy law that was introduced in 2000 which gives the police and security services the power to monitor people and their communications. In 2002 the act was extended to include local councils allowing them to commit extensive surveillance of its citizens. The law was introduced to catch terrorists but is currently being used to stop benefit cheats, anti-social behaviour, graffiti and even poor parking. The abuse of Government authority is abundantly clear as our privacy and freedoms are needlessly stripped way while the taxpayer is forced to pay for technology which fails to protect us from criminals or terrorists. A surveillance society simply does not work. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pentagons Propaganda Documents Go Online
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 1:39 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] Pentagons Propaganda Documents Go Online http://rinf.com/alt-news/media-news/pentagons-propaganda-documents-go-online/3402/ Pentagon's Propaganda Documents Go Online Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program, are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008. The Pentagon program, which clearly violated US law against covert government propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers — most of them with financial ties to war contractors — into the TV networks as message surrogates for the Bush Administration. To date, every major commercial TV network has failed to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the existence of this scandal from their audiences. News of the Pentagon's online posting of the documents came from Joe Trento of the National Security News Service, who notes that NSNS provided the New York Times limited information about a military office early in the reporting process. Here is the official Pentagon website with the 8,000 pages of documents, the most interesting and revealing of them previously secret and only available to the Pentagon and the New York Times: http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/ More than two weeks after the New York Times reported on the Penatgon's military analyst program to sell controversial policies such as the invasion of Iraq, the broadcast television news outlets implicated in the program are hoping to tough out the scandal by refusing to report it. Recently Media Matters of America (MMA) reported that, according to a search of the Nexis database, the three major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — have still not mentioned the report at all. The Pew Excellence in Journalism project has a chart showing that there was virtually no mainstream media follow up to The Times' expose with the only national TV coverage being the introduction segment and live debate featuring CMD's John Stauber on the PBS NewsHour. Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro and three dozen colleagues have sent a letter to the Department of Defense Inspector General calling for an investigation of this propaganda campaign aimed at deliberately misleading the American public.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 13 May 2008 1:23 am Subject: [ctrl] US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886/print Published on Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii) US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all (CASMII) Saturday, May 10, 2008 CASMII Press Release 10 May 2008 US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: “A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all.” The US , which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its “evidence” of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US “evidence” to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted “training, financing and arming” militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran. In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala. In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in 2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi streets today. In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these accusations have sharply intensified. The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter and the IAEA's continued supervision on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities means there is no justification for sanctions. CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and unconditional negotiations with Iran. For more information or to contact CASMII please visit http://www.campaigniran.org [END] Source URL: http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886 Links: [1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html [2] http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.iran/ [3] http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=19159Itemid=131 [4] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pentagon-admits-19-weapons-missing-in-iraq-460551.html -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:02 pm Subject: [ctrl] American Chronicle | Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State Dave Gibson Dave Gibson is a freelance writer living in Norfolk, Va. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/60717 Dave Gibson May 05, 2008 Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and carrying AR-15's, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military dictatorship but places the public at great risk. No less than 70 percent of U.S. cities now have SWAT teams. In cities with a population of 50,000 or more, 90 percent have SWAT teams. Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska told the Washington Post that SWAT teams are currently sent out 40,000 times a year in the U.S. During the 1980's, SWAT teams were only used 3,000 times a year. Most of the time, SWAT teams are being sent out to simply serve warrants on non-violent drug offenders. Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their 20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently told the Associate Press: We live on being prepared for 'what if'. Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to pre-emptive assaults On January 24, 2006, Dr. Salvatore Culosi was shot and killed outside his house by a Fairfax County SWAT officer. Police used the SWAT team to serve a documents search warrant, after Dr. Culosi came under suspicion for taking sports bets. The investigation began after Fairfax Detective David Baucom solicited a bet with Dr. Culosi at a local sports bar. Dr. Culosi was standing outside his home while talking with Det. Baucom, when SWAT Officer Deval Bullock quickly approached with his gun drawn and fatally shot Dr. Culosi in the chest. Court documents report that Culosi never made any threatening movements and made no attempt to run as he watched the SWAT team move in around him. Dr. Culosi had no history of violence nor any criminal history whatsoever. He operated two successful optometry clinics at Wal-Marts in Manassas and Warrenton, Va. His parents have filed a $12 million lawsuit against the county of Fairfax, Va. On the night of January 17, 2008, a police SWAT team surrounded Ryan Frederick´s home in Chesapeake, Va. The police were there to serve a drug warrant based on a tip from a criminal informant. As usual, 28 year-old Ryan Frederick had gone to sleep early in order to leave the house before dawn for his job with a soda distributor. He awoke to a commotion of screams and the distinct sound of someone breaking down his front door. Frederick´s house had been broken into a few days earlier, being a slight man of only a little over 100 pounds, Frederick feared for his safety. After the break-in, he purchased a gun. Understandably frightened, Frederick grabbed his gun and when he got to the front of his house, he saw a man trying to crawl through the bottom portion of his door. Terrified that the intruders had returned, he fired. The man he shot was not an aggressive burglar, nor a drug-crazed murderer, he was Det. Jarrod Shivers. The police detective and military veteran died almost immediately. Frederick was charged with first-degree murder and now sits in a jail cell awaiting trial. As for the marijuana-growing operation for which police were looking, nothing was found. Only a very small amount of marijuana was discovered on the Frederick property, only enough to charge him with misdemeanor possession. Frederick has admitted that he uses marijuana occasionally but has never been involved with producing nor selling the drug. Ryan Frederick has no prior history of violence, nor any criminal history whatsoever. He took care of his grandmother until her death two years ago, had a full-time job, and recently became engaged. In his spare time, he worked in his yard and tended to his Koi pond…Not
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [political-research] Chip Berlet on the Homegrown Terrorism Act
Hmm…. Methinks he doth protest too much. Hi ya Chipper! Peace, Kris Millegan -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 10 May 2008 11:08 am Subject: [political-research] Chip Berlet on the Homegrown Terrorism Act Chip Berlet on the Homegrown Terrorism Act I am not Chip Berlet, and I never met or communicated with Chip Berlet. I don't know much about Chip Berlet, and his writings don't particularly interest me. But I just came across an excellent essay by Chip Berlet in opposition to the Homegrown Terrorism Act on The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/its-time-again-to-push-th_b_100905.html Right on, Mr. Berlet -- hit it. I really doubt, however, that Berlet has the guts to draw the obvious vector here: VECTOR Israel lobby Joseph Lieberman Homegrown Terrorism Act neoconservative dictatorship and police state The Israel lobby is obviously the prime mover behind this atrocity and many other recent atrocities in American politics, including the disastrous Iraq War and the clamor to expand this disaster to Iran. Grow a pair, Mr. Berlet, and start mentioning the I word when doing so is called for and fully appropriate. There is indeed an elephant in the living room. BEGIN ARTICLE PUBLICATION The Huffington Post AUTHOR Chip Berlet TITLE Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report DATE May 8, 2008 BODY When a bipartisan Congressional committee issues a report on the threat of domestic terrorist violence during an election year, you can be sure that the centrist establishment is worried about the popular backlash against government repression and the threat to civil liberties. That's nothing new. Scholar William W. Keller argues that in times of wide-spread social unrest and tensions, some liberals retreat from their oversight function as protectors of civil liberties and allow authoritarian methods to be implemented in order to restore order and defend the state. Right now in Washington, DC, civil liberties activists have built a coalition that spans the political spectrum from left to right. This coalition recently managed to block legislation titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. It was, as detailed here, lousy legislation and deserved to be squashed. Many voters do not support the war in Iraq and are suspicious of Bush administration demands for even more erosions of civil liberties and Constitutional rights.This scares the bipartisan status quo brigade, and centrist Republicans and Democrats now rally behind the power of the state. Dissidents on the left and right already are all potential suspects in the War on Terrorism. Who better to pick as the main target for the New Witch Hunt than Muslims in America? Is there a more vulnerable community for a new campaign based on fear? So now comes a series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs...on the threat of homegrown terrorism inspired by violent Islamist extremism. The first report, Violent Islamist Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat, (PDF) was published today, 8 May 2008. What's really amazing, is that this travesty of a majority and minority report is not even really bipartisan. The committee authors include Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican, and Committee Chairmen Joseph Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who has effectively lent himself to the McCain campaign for the last few months. The ACLU has issued a press release: ACLU Skeptical of Senate Report on 'Homegrown' Terrorism, and a broad civil liberties coalition signed a letter of protest that was actually issued the day before the report was made public. Online, there has been almost no comment since the report was issued, hours ago, but it's easy to imagine what the Republican spin doctors and neo-McCarthyites are already whipping up in order to attack Democrats in this election cycle as soft on terrorism. The blogosphere will soon pulsate with their purple prose. This series of reports is a readymade script for the Swift Boating of the Democratic Presidential nominee and a bludgeon with which to push all of the candidates-- Democratic and Republican-- into a corner where they will accept more government repression as the price for being elected. I will be posting more details about the New Witch Hunt and how it intersects with election 2008 over the next few days. Tomorrow, the story of Debbie Almontaser, hounded out of a job as a school principal by bigoted fanatics. END ARTICLE
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Researcher's Discovery could end energy crisis
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:31 am Subject: [ctrl] Researcher's Discovery could end energy crisis Researcher's Discovery could end energy crisis http://fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/science_technology/new_technologies_and_inventions/news.php?q=1210090425 (I hope he has an army of body guards surrounding him, because the powers that be do not like competition and could/can easily suicide him!!) *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Signature File *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The Isagenix™ Cleansing Fat Burning System! http://www.deonm.isagenix.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* He who would give up essential liberty in order to have a little security deserves neither liberty, nor security. -- Benjamin Franklin Terrorism is NO excuse for tyranny Truth is called Hate by those who Hate the Truth, therefore... Hate Speech is: Anything Jews Hate to Hear --- Edgar Steele, Esquire In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. ---George Orwell 1984 None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free. -- Yohann W. vonGoethe That Government Which Governs Least Governs Best !!
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Keeping Secrets From the CIA
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 9:05 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] Keeping Secrets From the CIA http://www.newsweek.com/id/136084?from=rss Keeping Secrets From the CIA Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants? Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek Web Exclusive Updated: 6:20 PM ET May 8, 2008 The Senate Intelligence Committee is about to release a report that sheds new light on inappropriate back-channel contacts between Pentagon officials and a group of Iranian informants—including a key figure from the Iran-contra affair. In December 2001, two Pentagon Mideast experts—Larry Franklin and Harold Rhode—secretly traveled to Rome. They met with a group of Iranians who supposedly had information about plans by Iranian-backed terrorists to attack Americans—including U.S. troops who were then closing in on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The meetings were approved by high-level officials at the White House and the Pentagon. The CIA, however, was kept in the dark. When the CIA and the State Department found out about the meetings a few weeks later, they strenuously protested to the White House and demanded that the contacts be terminated immediately. At least officially, the White House complied. Now, years later, the Senate Intelligence Committee is finally producing a report on its investigation of those meetings. The document is part of the panel's phase two investigation into the misuse of pre-Iraq War intelligence. The report is not likely to satisfy either the White House or the administration's most vocal critics. While Intelligence Committee officials are keeping details of the report under wraps, several sources familiar with its contents—who asked for anonymity discussing an unpublished report—said that congressional investigators found nothing illegal about the secret contacts. The meetings were brokered by two Iran-contra figures: Michael Ledeen, a Washington academic and prominent neoconservative activist who was close to a number of senior Bush administration officials at the time, and Manucher Ghorbanifar, a Paris-based Iranian businessman who served as a middleman for arms deals in the 1980s and was long ago branded a fabricator by the CIA. U.S. intelligence agencies said at the time that Ghorbanifar had a history of offering information that proved unreliable. But in the report, the panel does conclude that senior Bush administration officials (including then deputy Defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz and deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley) approved the meetings without informing the CIA or its director at the time, George Tenet, thereby allowing intelligence gathering outside of normal channels. The sources say the report also suggests that Ledeen misled the National Security Council about the meetings--a charge that Ledeen strongly denied this week in an e-mail exchange with NEWSWEEK. The Rome meetings provoked controversy when they were first disclosed in the summer of 2003. They seemed typical of the rocky relations between the Pentagon and CIA during the early years of the Bush administration. According to Ledeen, there was a reason the CIA was excluded from the secret discussions: the Iranians, he said, wanted nothing to do with the agency. That would not be surprising, given the CIA's deep antipathy toward Ghorbanifar. Three intelligence sources familiar with the investigation told NEWSWEEK that the Senate report questions whether Ledeen, who first approached administration officials about meeting with the Iranian informants, made up the claim that the Iranians refused to deal with the CIA. The report, the sources said, notes that the two Pentagon officials involved in the discussions said the issue never came up. In an e-mail to NEWSWEEK, however, Ledeen said he is sure he told senior officials who authorized the contacts—including Hadley and Zalmay Khalilzad (now U.S. ambassador to the United Nations)—that the Iranians did not want to talk to CIA people. According to several accounts of the Rome meetings—including one published by former CIA director Tenet in his memoir At the Center of the Storm—Ledeen persuaded Wolfowitz and Hadley, now White House national-security adviser, to allow him to set up the secret sessions. Only later did it emerge that the Iranian informants were in fact contacts of Ghorbanifar. (In his book, Tenet himself labeled Ghorbanifar a con man and fabricator.) Steve, this whole operation smells, Tenet wrote that he told Hadley after he learned about the contacts. In 2003, administration officials close to Hadley told NEWSWEEK that Hadley had become concerned that Ledeen and Ghorbanifar might be dragging the Bush administration into a repeat performance of the Iran-contra affair, and ordered that the contacts be cut off. In an interview with NEWSWEEK in Paris in November 2003, Ghorbanifar said that despite the official
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA credibility suffers
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 9:04 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA credibility suffers http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/OPINION03/805080310/1039/OPINION03 CIA credibility suffers May 8, 2008 By HAVILAND SMITH Credibility is the lifeblood of any intelligence organization serving a democracy. If the public, or any given administration, doesn't believe it is getting told the truth, then the organization has lost its purpose and effectiveness. It is the public perception of credibility that matters most, and thanks to current White House tasking of the agency, the CIA appears to be losing that battle today. The role of any intelligence organization is to provide intelligence information and estimates to policymakers in support of security and foreign policy issues, based on known facts. During the Cold War, the CIA did its best to do just that. It was not always as effective as it might have been, but it was a principled organization staffed by motivated, reputable people who did their best to do their job and do it right. The Cold War CIA did not lie or fabricate intelligence for policymakers or for public consumption. CIA management occasionally suffered from poor judgment and did some really stupid things, like providing disguises to a former employee who was a member of the Watergate break-in team. However, with the possible exception of Iran/Contra — who knows if Reagan knew and approved? — the CIA never undertook covert activities without White House direction. It was never the rogue elephant that its fiercest critics persistently alleged it to have been. Unfortunately, concerns about CIA credibility have grown since 9/11. The role of the CIA in enabling the Iraq invasion is probably still not fully understood, muddled as it is by the machinations of the Bush administration. The persistent, unprecedented visits by Vice President Cheney to CIA headquarters during the run-up to the invasion, reportedly to seek changes in CIA estimates on Iraq that would support such an invasion, have never been fully explained. The slam dunk moment on Iraqi WMD; allegations of CIA waterboarding, renditions, a gulag of prisons around the world and, most recently, the question of why the waterboarding tapes were destroyed have all added fuel to the credibility fire. Structural changes have weakened CIA credibility, as well. The post-9/11 creation of a new Office of the Director of National Intelligence at the expense of the CIA was senseless and bureaucratic. The persistent efforts of the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to usurp CIA functions and to denigrate the CIA, its processes and its products have added further to an atmosphere in which CIA credibility is routinely publicly questioned. In early September 2007, Israeli jets flattened a structure in the Syrian desert. Israel, Syria and America all acknowledged the act, but none gave any explanation for it, that is, until recently. Now we see pre-raid photos of the inside of the Syrian structure with virtually identical companion pictures of North Korean nuclear sites. The Syria photos presumably were obtained from the Israelis. In the meantime, the Syrian ambassador in Washington, who can hardly be viewed as impartial, claims the photos are CIA fabrications. This claim has then become the object of speculation in the American media. What's going on here? Why was this information held so tightly and only released now, seven months later? Is the CIA lying about this issue? Has the CIA fabricated these photos? Have the Israelis done the fabrications and passed them on to us? All of these questions and more are now under examination. Ultimately what is true and what is false about this Syria incident is of secondary importance to what the effect of a media examination of the subject has already brought and will continue to bring. What will matter is that further doubt will arise in Americans' minds about CIA credibility. The U.S. involvement in the war on terror and in Iraq has put tremendous pressure from the White House on the CIA to undertake activities which, even if not illegal, create in the public mind an aura of mistrust. In today's world, no one is quite sure if the CIA is on the right side of anything. That may suit the needs of today's White House, but it creates a legacy of mistrust in and lack of credibility for the CIA that will continue for years after they are gone. This legacy may serve this White House well, but it will disastrously serve its successors. The U.S. can ill afford to have an intelligence service whose credibility is publicly questioned. Haviland Smith is a retired CIA station chief who served abroad in Europe and the Middle East, as executive assistant in the director's office and as chief of the counterterrorism staff. He lives in Williston.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The Secret Internet Simulator
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 9:00 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Secret Internet Simulator http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20080507.aspx The Secret Internet Simulator May 7, 2008: DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has been ordered (by the president and Congress) to develop world-class offensive and defensive Cyber War capabilities. Initial emphasis will be on defensive measures. This is a big deal. DARPA hasn't been given this large a project since Russia launched the first space satellite in 1957. This alarmed the U.S. government more than it should have, and DARPA was ordered to catch up with the Soviet Union as quickly as possible. Money was no object. Time was of the essence. Unlike the space program boost of half a century ago, the current DARPA rush program will be highly secret. Cyber War is all about secrets. Who has what and what can they do with it. But a major problem with Cyber War is that it rarely makes the news, or at least in any really coherent way. It's not that Cyber War isn't important, it's just that all this geek stuff is hard to explain and just does not sound all that scary. In the competitive news business, Cyber War is not good news. But to the intel and security people, the U.S. has been under heavy assault for several years now. The losses of information have been huge, and it's not certain just how much, and what, has been stolen. All this will be big news in a decade or so when more details emerge about the extent of the losses. But for now, it's just one of those stories no one could wrap their heads around. Senior members of the U.S. government have become alarmed, though, which is why this new, top secret, Manhattan Project (as in the one that built the atomic bomb during World War II) for Cyber War underway. Cyber War is all about finding flaws in Internet software and using those flaws to infiltrate or take over other peoples computers. In addition to the usual software flaws (that serve as exploits), there is also a growing number malware type software. This stuff is best known as adware programs that users, often unknowingly, download onto their PCs. That results in more ads, or ads based on a careful examination of what the user does, say, when using their browser. There are hundreds of thousands of these little nasties out there, and Cyber War operators have found this stuff to have military and espionage use. In the middle of all this you have military users of exploits. These are the shadowy organizations, particularly in China and the United States, where exploits are stockpiled (and soon replaced as the exploit is rendered ineffective via a software patch) for use in wartime. China, and probably the United States, are already using their exploits arsenals for espionage, and counter-espionage. Many criminal gangs also do contract work, usually for espionage operations. Some corporations have been caught doing this as well. Only small players have been caught so far, with the possible exception of News Corp. Any large corporation going this way would put a premium on not getting caught. Chinese firms are particularly energetic in stealing technology, and producing their own versions. They are often quite blatant about it, especially if it's military technology (which means government protection from retribution.) The Russians are trying to force the Chinese government to crack down on this, without much success so far. The United States, and many other Western nations, are also going after China for the use of Internet based espionage. Again, so far, the Chinese are refusing to admit to it, much less slack off. Western Cyber War experts are urging some retaliation in kind. That could get interesting. The first goal of the DARPA project is to try and determine just how bad off we (as in the United States) are, and then what can be done to prevent future damage. This involves building an Internet simulator. Details on this are being kept secret, but it will apparently consist of lots of hardware, and special software to simulate huge numbers of users connected to this virtual Internet and able to respond realistically to offensive, and defensive Cyber War operations. After that comes more money for Cyber War weapons. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Love Connection? Abramoff and the D.C. Madam
-Original Message- From: Our bill of rights [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 8:29 pm Subject: [ctrl] Love Connection? Abramoff and the D.C. Madam Love Connection? Abramoff and the D.C. Madam by Roger Shuler Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Recent days have brought two major justice-related stories. Could they be connected? Let's take a look. First came a guilty plea from former Justice Department official Robert Coughlin on conflict-of- interest charges connected to disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Then came word that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, better known as the D.C. Madam, had apparently committed suicide at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Florida. In Legal Times splendid account of the Coughlin plea, an e-mail exchange between two Abramoff lobbyists is cited. The lobbyists are Kevin Ring and Padgett Wilson, and Ring is telling Wilson about a celebration to honor Justice Department officials who helped bring home $16 million for an Abramoff client, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. Come to the show, baby, Couglin says. Here is how Wilson responds: Are there any tickets left? asked Wilson, now director of governmental affairs for Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. He then submitted: And as for those DOJ staffers, those guys should get anything they want for the rest of the time they are in office -- opening day tickets, Skins v. Giants, oriental massages, hookers, whatever. So there you have it: One Abramoff associate indicating to another that prostitutes are to be part of the pay off for Justice Department officials who further the sleazy Team Abramoff cause. Then a few days later, we learn that Ms. Palfrey, who ran one of the most well known high-end prostitution services in the D.C. area, is found hanging in a shed behind her mother's mobile home. Does this prove that Palfrey's death was something other than a suicide, which is the official version from Tampa-area law enforcement? No. But could a reasonable mind take these two events and ask, Is this one heck of a coincidence-- the public learns that Abramoff lackies evidently were plying Justice Department officials with hookers and then a few days later one of the D.C. areas most renowned practitioners of the prostitution trade is found dead? Time magazine was first out with a story saying Palfrey had discussed the possibility of suicide with a writer named Dan Moldea. She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly, Moldea said. She told me she would commit suicide. But Moldea's account does not square with Palfrey's own words. One Web site presents audio of Palfrey saying she would not commit suicide and that she probably would be a victim of a murder made to look like a suicide. The Coughlin case also brings to mind the case of former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after getting nabbed in a prostitution-related investigation. Is anyone investigating the possibility that Team Abramoff, and their friendlies in the Justice Department, violated federal law regarding the transport of prostitutes over state lines? That's apparently what got Spitzer into doo-doo. What about folks in the Justice Department, the very organization that led the Spitzer organization? A major theme of the Bush Justice Department scandal has to do with double standards. Actions that become federal crimes when committed by a Democrat are ignored when committed by Republicans, or people associated with GOP supporters. Could a serious investigation into the Coughlin case and the D.C. madam suicide unearth evidence of a particularly noxious double standard? Here is something else to keep in mind regarding the D.C. madam death: Hanging is a fairly unusual form of suicide for a woman. According to statistics at suicide.org, the two most common methods of suicide for women, by far, are poisons (overdosing, etc.) at 37.8 percent and firearms at 32.4 percent. Hanging, strangulation, and suffocation are grouped together and come in third at 19.7 percent. But if we can assume that true hanging makes up only one-third of that group, it seems that only a little more than 6 percent of female suicides use the method found in the D.C. Madam case. Note: In our first post on the Coughlin matter, we noted that one news source had identified Coughlin as a member of the Justice
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging?
-Original Message- From: Our bill of rights [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 8:27 pm Subject: [ctrl] ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging? ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging? by Gustav Wynn Page 1 of 1 page(s) http://www.opednews.com Florida police made public two notes handwritten by Deborah Jeane Palfrey this weekend, touching off debate on whether her hanging was in fact suicide or staged to look so. At least one reporter is claiming the DC Madam mentioned she'd kill herself before returning to prison, but another interviewer has aired recent audio of Palfrey warning that if she was found dead, it would be murder. Initial reports of Palfrey's death conclusively ruled it a suicide, a bit hasty considering the magnitude of the sensitive secrets she held. I first heard the news on an NPR broadcast Thursday afternoon which included an official's soundbyte on how relatives are victimized in suicides, a strange generalization that pointed blame at Palfrey for hurting her own mother before any other details of the case were released. This statement was attached to the breaking news by an imbedded pundit, only raising suspicion of media manipulation in the earliest going. Any intelligent debate is impossible with this lack of detail available so far. We're told the letters were penned a few days before her body was discovered hanged in her mother's shed, left on a nearby motel stand, though we don't know when investigators first saw them. Police say relatives confirmed her handwriting, but we know virtually nothing about their opinion on the letters, her physical condition or other clues. We are not told whether the shed or hotel room was forensically examined. Her autopsy was conducted quietly and quickly, though a final report is due this week after toxicology results come in. Palfrey's note used a number of clichéd expressions, strangely including modern day lynching, referring to the extremely selective enforcement that found her guilty in federal court and a darkly ironic reference to her impending manner of death. In the note to her sister, she writes With complete certainty, I believe Dad is standing watch - prepared to guide me into the light. Only a close relation would know if this echoed her true feelings and beliefs, or if the statement was coded to signal a forced hand. Among Palfrey's known clients were current Louisiana Senator Vitter, former AIDS Czar Randall Tobias, Dick Morris and military-industrial wonk Harlan Ullman, but Dick Cheney's McLean, VA phone number, reported earlier was summarily un-reported after a turnaround by ABC News. ABC anchor Sam Donaldson has also been a rumored client, along with a law partner of Rudy Giuliani, associates of Jack Abramoff and many more Pentagon, DC and corporate insiders on a list of over 10,000 numbers. According to early accounts, ABC News correspondent Brian Ross had the exclusive scoop because Palfrey turned over years-long call lists for his staff to verify. After Cheney turned up on the list, the story, already on the ABC website and poised to run on 20/20, suddenly went away. No explanation has been offered as to why ABC reversed itself. Any mention of Cheney was scrubbed from their website and the 20/20 piece never ran. Vitter and Tobias had already admitted whoring, so the mainstream press continues to carry the DC Madam story without mentioning Cheney, excepting DC blogsman Wayne Madsen, who says his reporting is corroborated by multiple sources, all but daring Cheney to sue. The trial's verdict received little coverage and a scheduled Vitter was never subpoaened. Then, going into to a weekend news cycle we heard about the hanging, presented as a suicide from the first mention with no investigation. The public was left bereft of details - was it a full autopsy and inquest? Witness statements? Did the Madam check out without leaving behind anything critical of those who hounded her? No mentions left behind about the DOJ Attorney fired after investigating her case? So we've seen the handwritten notes, but many questions remain. Can Brian Ross (now elevated in the ABC ranks) answer the most basic inquiries about the DC Madam story that never was? We will, if Brian Ross' can say the words journalistic integrity while looking in a mirror. Mr. Ross may wonder himself if Palfrey's death was self-inflicted or a torturous murder, but as long as he
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Tom Phillips: Gangsters, guns and drugs - now tourists can see the 'real Rio' | World news | The Guardian
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 1:30 am Subject: [ctrl] Tom Phillips: Gangsters, guns and drugs - now tourists can see the 'real Rio' | World news | The Guardian Gangsters, guns and drugs - now tourists can see the 'real Rio' Tom Phillips http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/07/brazil.drugstrade The Guardian, Wednesday May 7 2008 Article history You could be forgiven for imagining that a holiday in Rio de Janeiro involved stretching out on Ipanema beach, trekking up the Sugar Loaf mountain or attempting to dance the samba after a bellyful of caipirinha. This week, however, another attraction was added to the list: posing for photos alongside teenage drug traffickers clutching Russian machine guns and bags of Bolivian cocaine. Rio's tourist police are investigating after a Brazilian reporter went undercover on one of the city's shantytown or favela tours. He claims to have witnessed the tour guide introducing witless gringos to a member of the drug faction that controls Rio's largest shantytown, Rocinha, and then watched as they posed for photos. There are around 600 redbrick favelas in Rio de Janeiro, home to around a million of its poorest people. The slums are considered no-go zones by most Brazilians. Foreigners, however, have always shown more interest in Rio's impoverished underbelly. Since the 1980s, when guidebooks suggested cunning ways to sneak a peek at the favelas without actually going in, poorism has been a growing trend. Within a few years tour companies began offering visitors the chance to talk to locals, visit social projects and buy art from authentic (ie dirt poor) Brazilians. Today a new, less savoury, generation of poor guides has sprung up. For around £30 a head, they offer to transport thrill-seeking foreigners into a real-life version of City of God, the acclaimed film about Rio's gang culture. Some years ago I was approached by a dishevelled-looking North American, who described himself as an alternative tour guide. He claimed he was taking a young English couple to meet some gangsters. Would I like to come? The next day, we were led up a steep concrete staircase towards the top of a shantytown in Copacabana. Halfway up the hillside we stopped to chat with a pair of traffickers and for the guide to fill his nostrils with cocaine. I asked the guide if he didn't think the tours, which included the opportunity to pose for photos holding the traffickers' weapons, a tad over the top. He shook his head wildly, a thick white ring now etched around his nostril. It was important, he pontificated, for tourists to know the real Rio. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey | World news | The Observer
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 4 May 2008 7:57 am Subject: [ctrl] Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey | World news | The Observer http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/04/turkey.thefarright/print Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey Arrest of 47 people over alleged coup plot sparks fears of hidden ultra-right network Jason Burke in Istanbul The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008 Supporters wave flags for Devlet Bahceli in Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph: Carsten Koall/AFP/Getty Images It has the elements of a thriller: a shadowy group of right-wing former soldiers, a mafia don, extremist lawyers and politicians; hand-grenades in a rucksack; plots to kill the Prime Minister and a Nobel-prize winning writer; allegedly planted evidence and falsified wire taps. Even the name of the villains - the Ergenekon network - has an airport paperback flavour, and the stakes involved are high: the stability of one of the world's most strategically important countries. This highly charged political reality is splitting Turkey. In the coming days the Ergenekon investigation will reach its climax. According to newspaper reports, a long-awaited indictment will be issued by the state prosecutor. After successive waves of arrests, 47 people are in custody. They include senior figures in the ultra-right-wing Workers' Party, a dozen retired senior army officers, journalists and a lawyer accused of launching legal attacks that drove Nobel award-winning writer Orhan Pamuk from his homeland. Crimes being blamed on Ergenekon include a series of murderous bomb blasts, a grenade attack on a newspaper, the murder of an Italian bishop and the killing last year of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink - all aimed, investigators believe, at creating a climate of terror and chaos propitious to a military coup that would depose Turkey's moderate Islamist government. The coup attempt has revealed deep divisions in Turkey's 73 million-strong population over the country's identity: pro-European or anti-European, fiercely nationalist, ethnically homogeneous and militaristic, or globalised and pro-Western, more or less Islamic, more or less sunk in historical bitterness and dark conspiracy theories. 'The cleavage is deep: every institution, every social class, everybody is divided,' said Professor Murat Belge of Bigli University, Istanbul, an analyst. 'I am deeply apprehensive about what is going on now and what might happen.' But for Mehmet Demirlek, a lawyer defending a colleague accused of being a key member of Ergenekon, the allegations are 'imaginary'. 'There is not a shred of truth in them,' he said. 'This is 100 per cent political. It has all been cooked up by the government and by the imperialist powers, the CIA, Mossad and the Jewish lobby and the European Union to eliminate Turkish nationalism. There is no such thing as Ergenekon.' His imprisoned client, Kemal Kerincsiz, told The Observer in an interview prior to his arrest he was a 'patriot fighting the disintegration of the nation'. For Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer representing Hrant Dink's family, Ergenekon has 'existed for years'. 'A small part of what has been previously hidden is being exposed. Call it the deep state.' An investigation was launched by state prosecutors after 27 hand-grenades, said to be the make used by the military, were found in a home in a rundown part of Istanbul last June. Investigators claim that they later uncovered an underground network dedicated to extremist nationalist agitation. Wire taps led to further finds of explosives, weapons and documents listing security arrangements of senior political and military figures and death lists. The papers supposedly proving Ergenekon - the name of a mythic mountain in Asia where the ancestors of the Turkic peoples escaped the Mongols - was set up in 1999 as a clandestine and violent organisation aimed of maintaining a reactionary, purist vision of a strong, militaristic Turkey, the heritage, the extremists believed, of the founder of the nation, Kemal Ataturk. The plotters tap 'into a psyche that is based on a new and extreme nationalism', said Cengiz Candar, one of Turkey's most prominent journalists. 'The idea is that to preserve Turkey it is necessary and legitimate to resist in any way. And anyone who is pro-European, liberal, who argues for increased rights for minorities and so on is a traitor.' According to Candar, this new nationalism is the result of a coincidence of factors: the difficulties of Turkey's accession to the European Union, soul-searching over nation identity generated by the debate on Europe, the emergence of a strong, semi-autonomous Kurdish state in post-Saddam Iraq with all the potential implications that has for Turkey's large Kurdish population, and, perhaps
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] YouTube - DC Madam: They will make it look like suicide
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 2 May 2008 4:49 pm Subject: [ctrl] YouTube - DC Madam: They will make it look like suicide URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzvrgQ5hOM4 -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things - Democratic Underground
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List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things
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Edited on Thu May-01-08 02:37 PM by Ichingcarpenter
1 DC Madame: had clients with the Pentagon and Govt
2 Lt. Col. Marshall A. Gutierrez Iraqi/Kuwait procurement officer:
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/GutierrezMarshallA
3 Abdulrahman,US citizen, contractor whistle-blower:
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmView...
4 Charles D. Riechers - Air Force- Ret. d: 10/07 suicide Boeing Tanker
Deal: Still no autopsy report:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9396
5 Col. Theodore S. Westhusing
General Dave Petraeus: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/77313 /
6 Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil {re Westhusing letter to Maj. Gen. Fil on May 28,
2005],: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_S._Westhusing
7 Darleen Druyun , http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1004/100104g1.htm
8 Brandy Britton who worked for the DC madam :
http://www.examiner.com/a-714063~Accused_D_C__madam__Br...
9 Clifford Baxter, Enron executive:
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/25/enron.suicide/ind...
10. David Kelly, British Weapons Expert on WMDs :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly
11. James Hatfield, wrote book on George Bush and his crimes :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hatfield
12 Gary Webb, a prize-winning American investigative journalist, on Iran
Contra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb
13 Margie Schoedinger (1965?-2003) was an American woman who filed a civil
suit against former Texas governor and current U.S. President George W.
Bush in 2002, alleging that Bush had sexually assaulted her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Schoedinger
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor | World news | The Guardian
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:52 pm Subject: [ctrl] Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor | World news | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/italy Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor John Hooper in Rome The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008 Supporters of Gianni Alemanno wave flags in Rome. Photograph: Dario Pignatelli/Reuters Italy's new parliament met for the first time yesterday with applause for Rome's mayor-elect, Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants. Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, took 54% of the vote in a run-off on Sunday and Monday, crushing his rival, Francesco Rutelli, a deputy prime minister in the last, centre-left government. Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed the latest evidence of Italy's leap to the right by declaring: We are the new Falange. Although he took care to wrap his remark in a classical context, his choice of words appeared to be a nod and a wink to his most extreme supporters. The original Falange - the word means phalanx - was the Spanish fascist party, founded in the 1930s, which supplied Francisco Franco's dictatorship with its ideological underpinning. The prime minister-elect's closest ally, Umberto Bossi, the Northern League leader, kept up the intimidating rhetoric, arriving for the first session of Italy's parliament warning of violence if the centre-left did not go along with his plans for federalism. I don't know what the left wants [but] we are ready, he told reporters. If they want conflicts, I have 300,000 men always on hand. On Monday night, the area around Rome's city hall rang to chants of Duce! Duce!, the term adopted by Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, equivalent to the German Führer. Supporters of the new mayor gave the fascist Roman straight-arm salutes. Alemanno, however, has promised to be the mayor of all Romans. He yesterday sent telegrams to both the Pope and the Chief Rabbi. Rome's Jewish community was shaken by the prospect of a mayor with Alemanno's record. During the campaign, there was a protest aimed at him in the city's old Jewish ghetto, where many of the city's Jews still live. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] In Memoriam Philip Agee
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 9:01 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] In Memoriam Philip Agee http://www.geheim-magazin.de In Memoriam Philip Agee by Die Geheim-Redaktion / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apr 23 2008 ? Ein guter Freund ist gestorben: Anfang Januar dieses Jahres verstarb im Alter von 72 Jahren auf Kuba der ehemalige CIA-Agent Philip Agee. Die Zeitung der kubanischen Kommunisten, „Granma“, würdigte ihn als „verlässlichen Freund Kubas und glühenden Verteidiger des Kampfes der Völker für eine bessere Welt“. Ja, das war Philip und so wird er in Erinnerung vieler bleiben, obwohl die Sätze aus „Granma“ eine stimmige, kurze Zusammenfassung eines stürmischen, kämpferischen Lebens sind. Philip Agee hat ganz bewusst und mit Konsequenz die Seiten gewechselt. Zunächst als Durchschnittsnordamerika-ner“, patriotisch und karriereorientiert, neugierig auf die große, weite Welt aufgewachsen, verschlug es ihn in den berüchtigten US-Geheimdienst CIA, wo er glaubte, all das erleben und erfüllen zu können. Diese Organisation des Staatsterrorismus schickte ihn als intelligenten, sprachbegabten Nachwuchs-agenten nach Lateinamerika, um die Dominanz des Imperiums in Lateinamerika mit allen Mitteln zu verteidigen. Dort erlebte Philip Agee jedoch mit eigenen Augen, was dies sehr konkret bedeutete: Folter, Mord, Staatsstreich, Mediendesinformation, Lüge, Verrat. Nichts blieb da mehr übrig von seinen Werten, die er einst geglaubt hatte, mit und in der Agency verteidigen zu können. Um sich treu zu bleiben, wurde er deshalb zu einem ihrer schärfsten und konsequentesten Kritiker. Er brach mit der CIA 1968 und veröffentliche 1975 sein in viele Sprachen übersetztes Buch „Inside the Company“, indem er die schmutzigen Tricks der CIA sowie auch die Namen vieler für sie verantwortli-chen CIA-Agenten und Strukturen enthüllte. Seither wurde er von seinem ehemaligen Arbeitgeber gejagt, ihm der US-Pass entzogen; er war, wie einer seiner späteren Buchtitel lautete: „On The Run“ – auf der Flucht... Dennoch. Philip Agee blieb sich treu. Er veröffentlichte weiter, enthüllte viele weitere CIA-Operationen, so u.a. gegen Nikaragua, Grenada, Jamaika. Er blieb einer der konsequentesten und schärfsten Kritiker der CIA! So unterstützte er von Anfang an weitere nordamerikanische Kritiker der CIA, unter ihnen auch andere ehemalige CIA-Agenten, die von Beginn der 70er Jahre an in Büchern und Zeitschriften („Covert Ac-tion Information Bulletin“/später „Covert Action Quarterly“ sowie „The National Reporter“) eine weltwei-te Bewegung gegen die Terrororganisation CIA initiierten und damit alle Völker, Parteien, Organisatio-nen und Bewegungen sehr konkret unterstützten, die für Freiheit, sozialen wie politischen Fortschritt, für eine bessere Welt gegen das brutale Imperial kämpften. Diese Bewegung wurde schließlich so erfolgreich, dass einer der ersten Amtshandlung des 1980 neu gewählten US-Präsidenten Ronald Reagan war, das so genannte „Identities Protection Act“ zu verabschieden, mit dem es von nun an allen US-Bürgern – bei Androhung horrender Strafen – verboten war, wo und wie auch immer durch Veröffentlichungen zur Enthüllung aktiver, getarnter CIAAgenten und/oder geheimer CIAOperationen beizutragen, was angeblich zur Gefährdung der so genannten „nationalen Sicherheit“ des Yankee-Imperiums führen könne. Ein repressiver Gummiparagraf und ein schwerer Schlag gegen die Presse-freiheit in den USA, dem in den folgenden Jahrzehnten noch viele weitere folgen sollten... An diesem Punkt der Geschichte trafen sich unsere Wege – im revolutionären, sandinistischen Nika-ragua, das wir tatkräftig unterstützten. Unser Magazin GEHEIM wurde geboren, um jene Aspekte der Anti-CIA-Bewegung fortzuführen, unter anderem das NAMING NAMES, also die Enthüllung diploma-tisch getarnter CIAAgenten, die in den USA und für USBürger verboten worden war. Seither war uns Philip verbunden: ob als Autor oder Unterstützer. Deshalb versuchte die CIA auch, Veröffentlichungen in GEHEIM, die Furore machten, so u.a. 1988 die systematische Enthüllung von CIA-Agenten und Strukturen, ihm anzuhängen, um den weltweiten Druck auf Philip Agee weiter zu erhöhen. Die Terroristen im CIA-Hauptquartier in Langley störte es dabei nicht, dass er mit diesen Aspekten nichts zu tun hatte. Also wieder einmal ein klassischer Fall von Desinformation... Ende der 90er Jahre zog Philip ganz nach Kuba und fand dort endlich einen ruhenden Pol ohne den Druck, ständig gejagt zu werden. 2000 gründete er in Havanna eine Reiseagentur, um vor allem nord-amerikanischen Staatsbürgern gegen das US-Embargo Reisen auf die revolutionäre Karibikinsel zu ermöglichen. Für ihn war dies ein konkreter, aktiver Schritt prinzipieller Solidarität mit der kubanischen Revolution, ein weiterer Schnittpunkt, den ihn mit uns verband. Philip, wir werden Dich in vielerlei Hinsicht vermissen,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] CIA's John McCone Western Bancorporation Westheimer Houston TEXAS !!!
-Original Message- From: judson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Meno Slither [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 6:18 pm Subject: [ctrl] CIA's John McCone Western Bancorporation Westheimer Houston TEXAS !!! judson witham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.westgate-ch.com/enabout.html Throughout the 1980s, the assets of the holding company, Western Bancorporation, exceeded $1 billion and became the 4th largest bank of the Houston Metropolitan area. POTHOLES PROMISES/Montgomery County's crumbling subdivisions/ Investors mired in muddy mess of sub... CATHY GORDON : Staff Clesson said officials at Western Bank-Westheimer in Houston, who financed the project, urged him to take it over in 1978 after Eikel went into default on a loan. 06/22/1987 Good Old Harreal Blackshear and CIA Director John McCone's Western Bancorporation The Pinewood Village MAFIA POTHOLES PROMISES/Montgomery County's crumbling subdivisions/ Investors mired in muddy mess of sub... CATHY GORDON : Staff Pinewood Village resident Shelly Dayton said she lives for the day when she can travel Pinewood Village roads without battling potholes. 06/22/1987 Resident's crusading `fans fire'/Subdivision's critic outlines difficulties CATHY GORDON : Staff I want to warn people about the Pinewood Villages of the world. But my only motivation is putting a stop to Pinewood Villages. 06/22/1987 Man charged in threat against Bush CATHY GORDON : Staff Authorities said all the threats appear to stem from Witham's frustration at road, drainage and septic tank problems in Pinewood Village, the subdivision in which he lives. 11/21/1985 Conroe man charged with threatening assistant county attorney's life CATHY GORDON : Staff The telephone call apparently stemmed from Witham's frustration over getting problems corrected in Pinewood Village, the subdivision in which he lives east of Conroe. 11/20/1985 Now Maybe We Should Look A Little CLOSER at the Houston Posts Stories and that CLOSED DOOR Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing William Webster, Herman K. Beebe , Ollie North and the Houston Post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCone http://www.namebase.org/mccone.html After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy tried to appease the right-wing by appointing McCone as CIA director Right up the street from the Galleria were North, Secord and B H Bush took up one of their FIRST COLLECTIONS for Iran Contra and the ENTERPRISES Westgate Investments Western Bancorporation is a private bank holding company owned by Swiss investor O.R. Lababedi. Although the company's remaining banks will be sold, the Lababedi family will retain ownership of the holding company, Scogin said. Western bank failures largest in city's history SCOTT CLARK : Staff Starting with the bank on Westheimer, Western built a group of five banks in the early 1980s. The North Wilcrest bank was opened in 1983. 10/02/1987 The Billary and William J. Clinton Gary Mauro Connection !!! Authorities probing forgery allegations JAMES DRUMMOND, MARY C. BOUNDS : Staff Wright, who was a director at Western Bank-Downtown when the $850,000 loan was made, and Caraway launched a dozen real estate projects in the Clear Lake area in the early to mid-1980s. 01/29/1988 Established in 2002, Westgate is the Swiss arm of RLG's Real Estates Division and its management has an important role in RLG's global real estates strategy. The Switzerland portfolio is to grow strongly over the next few years through acquisitions and developments. Westgate Investments aims to become one of the major players on the Swiss market by using RLG's now traditional investment method, based on a secure financial structure, irreprochable work ethics and excellent partner relations. McCone, John A. McCone is a former CIA director, a member of the Bohemian Club, and a director of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance, United California Bank, Western Bancorporation, Standard Oil of California, ITT, and the Committee on the Present Danger. More on McCone King, Frank L. King is a director of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has been a director of Litton Industries and the chairman of Western Bancorporation and United California Bank. Shumway, Forrest N. (Treasurer) Shumway is a director of United California Bank, president and chief executive of The Signal Companies, Inc.,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 8:51 am Subject: [ctrl] Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency Independent.co.uk Drugs for guns: how the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban insurgency http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/drugs-for-guns-how-the-afghan-heroin-trade-is-fuelling-the-taliban-insurgency-817230.html By Jerome Starkey in Kunduz Tuesday, 29 April 2008 The heroin flooding Britain's streets is threatening the lives of UK troops in Afghanistan, an Independent investigation can reveal. Russian gangsters who smuggle drugs into Britain are buying cheap heroin from Afghanistan and paying for it with guns. Smugglers told The Independent how Russian arms dealers meet Taliban drug lords at a bazaar near the old Afghan-Soviet border, deep in Tajikistan's desert. The bazaar exists solely to trade Afghan drugs for Russian guns – and sometimes a bit of sex on the side. The drugs are destined for Britain's streets. The guns go straight to the Taliban front line. The weapons on sale include machine guns, sniper rifles and anti-aircraft weapons like the ones used in the attempt to assassinate the Afghan President Hamid Karzai last weekend. We never sell the drugs for money, boasted one of the smugglers. We exchange them for ammunition and Kalashnikovs. The drugs come mostly from Helmand, where most of Britain's 7,800 troops are based. The opium grown there is turned into heroin at factories inside Afghanistan, sold into Tajikistan and smuggled to Europe. The guns are broken down into parts, smuggled back into Afghanistan and delivered to the Taliban. One kilogram of heroin can buy about 30 AK-47 assault rifles at the bazaar. Nato claims the Taliban get between 40 and 60 per cent of their income from drugs. The smugglers' claims suggest the real cost could be far higher. The smugglers described a bleak village with no homes, hidden in the desert near the border. Inside open-air courtyards up to 300 shopkeepers sit in small booths. They act as agents of the Russian mafia who supply the guns and spirit the drugs away. The Afghans are agents of corrupt officials in their government, said a mid-level lieutenant Daoud. Around them lurk Tajik prostitutes, selling themselves for a few scraps of surplus heroin. They will do anything. They just want some heroin and we always have some spare, said another smuggler. We interviewed three smugglers in the lawless border areas north and east of Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanistan, as well as a Taliban go-between who was visiting from Helmand. Speaking from his headquarters in Kunduz province, Daoud said Afghan smugglers lug sacks of grade-A heroin across the river Oxus, which marks the Tajik border. They drive pick-ups as far as they can, take motorbikes where the cars can't go, and finish the journey on foot. We leave early in the evening and get there around 9am the next day, he said. There aren't even any tracks because we never ride the motorbikes to the same place twice. The heroin is harvested from opium farms across Afghanistan and taken to factories in the remote Pamir mountains in the Badakhshan region, where it is turned into heroin. It takes about 15kg of opium to make 1kg of heroin, said Daoud. From Badakhshan it is brought west to Kunduz, for the trip to Tajikistan. The weapons follow similar routes, but in the opposite direction, south and east to the fighting. We are like a company, said Daoud. We have some big sponsors who support us in the government. A kilogram of the best Afghan heroin is worth £600 in Afghanistan. It is worth twice as much at the bazaar in Tajikistan. But rather than take cash, they take weapon parts, because they double their value in Afghanistan. An AK-47 assault rifle costs £50 at the bazaar. It is worth up to £100 in northern Afghanistan, and even more in the south and east where demand for guns is higher, because of the fighting. The Taliban go-between said fighters in Helmand expect to get six AK-47s for 1kg of good quality heroin, a similar number of rocket-propelled grenades or a dozen boxes of ammunition. British special forces have arrested or killed drugs smugglers linked to the insurgency, alongside a secretive unit of the Afghan army called 333, but the bulk of the International Security Assistance Force is handicapped by its mandate which does not include counter-narcotics operations, unless they can be linked to the insurgency. The smugglers claimed they are untouchable because their bosses include cabinet-level officials in the government. British officials suspect senior government insiders are involved in the drugs trade, but they have struggled to get the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Print Story: Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished on Yahoo! News
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:37 am Subject: [ctrl] Print Story: Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished on Yahoo! News Back to Story - Help http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080427/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_reconstruction Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 27, 6:42 PM ET Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors, including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S. government as complete, federal investigators say. The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion. It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick up more of the cost of reconstruction. The special IG's review of 47,321 reconstruction projects worth billions of dollars found that at least 855 contracts were terminated by U.S. officials before their completion, primarily because of unforeseen factors such as violence and excessive costs. About 112 of those agreements were ended specifically because of the contractors' actual or anticipated poor performance. In addition, the audit said many reconstruction projects were being described as complete or otherwise successful when they were not. In one case, the U.S. Agency for International Development contracted with Bechtel Corp. in 2004 to construct a $50 million children's hospital in Basra, only to essentially terminate the project in 2006 because of monthslong delays. But rather than terminate the project, U.S. officials modified the contract to change the scope of the work. As a result, a U.S. database of Iraq reconstruction contracts shows the project as complete when in fact the hospital was only 35 percent complete when work was stopped, said investigators in describing the practice of descoping as frequent. Descoping is an appropriate process but does mask problem projects to the extent they occur, the audit states. Responding, USAID in the report said it disagreed that its descoping of the hospital project was effectively a contract termination, but that it had changed the work because of escalating costs and security problems. Mark Tokola, the director of the Iraq transition assistance office, also responded that the database the IG's office reviewed of Iraq reconstruction contracts was incomplete. Bowen's office said its review was preliminary and that it planned follow-up reviews to investigate descoping more closely. Investigators said they were also looking into whether contractors whose projects were terminated by the U.S. government due to inadequate performance might have been awarded new contracts later despite their poor records. Investigators said the database they reviewed lacked full data on projects such as those done by USAID, the State Department, and those completed before 2006. But they said the figures cited in the report offered a baseline in terms of unfinished Iraq reconstruction contracts. Adding contract terminations from these (other) sources would certainly raise the number of terminated projects, the report states. The audit comes amid renewed focus in recent months on potential abuse in contracting government-wide, such as Iraq reconstruction. Last year, congressional investigators said as much as $10 billion — or one in six dollars — charged by U.S. contractors for Iraq reconstruction were questionable or unsupported, and warned that significantly more taxpayer money was at risk. In recent weeks, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has been working with Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, on legislation that would restrict future reconstruction dollars to loans instead of grants; require that Baghdad pay for fuel used by American troops and take over U.S. payments to predominantly Sunni fighters in the Awakening movement. Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight, said the latest audit report points to significant U.S. taxpayer waste in current reconstruction efforts. The report paints a depressing picture of money being poured into failed Iraq reconstruction projects — contractors are killed, projects are blown up just before being completed, or the contractor just stops doing the work, she said. Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] [C]orrect all the time, and surrounded by idiots.
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 4:06 pm Subject: [ctrl] [C]orrect all the time, and surrounded by idiots. Iraq war architect blames Powell for Iraq 04/25/2008 @ 8:54 am Filed by John Byrne http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.htmlhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.html Blames Powell, Armitage, Bremer, Rumsfeld, Rice The man who led the office that supplied the Bush Administration with raw intelligence on Iraq now says everyone else is to blame but himself. Douglas Feith, President Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, headed the Office of Special Plans, a secretive outfit which passed along unverified alternative intelligence to Administration decisionmakers in the run up to war. A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the Office developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers. In other words, they passed on intelligence that was never vetted, much of which appeared to align with a hawkish Administration agenda. On Thursday, Feith pointed his finger at everyone but himself regarding the war in Iraq. According to the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, at a book-launch party for his new book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, Feith blamed a laundry list of officials for failing to challenge the logic of going to war. Blames Bush, too He argued that former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy, Richard Armitage, were the ones who failed to challenge the logic of going to war -- not him, Milbank wrote. He suggested that Powell, Armitage, Franks, former Iraq viceroy Jerry Bremer and even Feith's old boss, Donald Rumsfeld, should be blamed for the postwar chaos in Iraq -- not him. He blamed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for the way she operated (fundamental differences were essentially papered over rather than resolved). He accused the CIA of improper and unprofessional behavior. And he implicitly blamed President Bush for not cracking down on insubordinate behavior at the State Department. Yet at the same time, Feith told the... crowd that he disapproved of the snide and shallow self-justification typical in memoirs of former officials, or what Feith cleverly called the 'I-was-surrounded-by-idiots' school of memoir writing, Milbank continues. Feith pointed out that he supported his account with 140 pages of notes and documents. And yet, in his hour-long panel discussion, Feith seemed to be of the impression that he had, in fact, been surrounded by idiots. Feith himself hasn't escaped accusations that he was aloof during his time at his Office of Special Plans. According to Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, then- Secretary of State Colin Powell referred to the Office as the Gestapo office. Former CIA director George Tenet called his work total crap. When Feith stepped in to back recruiting a brigade of Free Iraqi Forces to enter Iraq with Americans, according to the book Cobra II, Franks turned to Feith in a Pentagon corridor, letting him know where he stood: 'I don't have time for this fucking bullshit. During his book launch party, Feith ironically remarked, The CIA and the intelligence community should not be shading intelligence. Milbank notes that Feith has been out of touch. Vaunting his book on 60 Minutes, Feith asserted the Administration didn't need to claim Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to invade. Pointing so many fingers in so many directions, a man is bound to get confused -- as happened when Steve Kroft asked him on 60 Minutes about his claim that the lack of troops contributed to looting in Baghdad, he adds. 'I don't believe I raised the troop-level issue in that connection, Feith replied. Then Kroft presented him with the passage. That's a fair point,' Feith amended. Remarked Milbank wryly, It must have been very difficult being Doug Feith: correct all the time, and surrounded by idiots. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 8:35 am Subject: [ctrl] 'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3802051.ece From The Times April 24, 2008 'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad with multi-million pound entertainment park The $1 million skateboard park will open in July. 200,000 skateboards will be shipped from the US and given away free to Iraqi children Sonia Verma in Dubai Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting. When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks come with the territory. Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. “The people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge psychological impact,” Mr Werner said. The 50-acre (20 hectare) swath of land sits adjacent to the Green Zone and encompasses Baghdad’s existing zoo, which was looted, left without power and abandoned after the American-led invasion in 2003. Only 35 of 700 animals survived – some starved, some were stolen and some were killed by Iraqis fearing food shortages. In the years that followed, the zoo and the surrounding al-Zawra park became an occasional target for insurgent attacks. But in recent months, families have begun to return cautiously for weekend picnics. Renovations have already begun on the zoo, with cages being repainted and new animals arriving, including ostriches, bears and a lion. Mr Werner, who has been sold a 50-year lease on the site by the Mayor of Baghdad for an undisclosed sum, says that the time is ripe for the amusement park. “I think people will embrace it. They’ll see it as an opportunity for their children regardless if they’re Shia or Sunni. They’ll say their kids deserve a place to play and they’ll leave it alone.” Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Government, is equally optimistic: “There is a shortage of entertainment in the city. Cinemas can’t open. Playgrounds can’t open. The fun park is badly needed for Baghdad. Children don’t have any opportunities to enjoy their childhood.” Mr al-Dabbagh added that entry to the park would be strictly controlled. The project will cost $500 million (£250 million) and will be managed by Iraqis. Under the terms of the lease, Mr Werner will retain exclusive rights to housing and hotel developments, which he says will be both culturally sensitive and enormously profitable. “I wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t making money,” he said. “I also have this wonderful sense that we’re doing the right thing – we’re going to employ thousands of Iraqis. But mostly everything here is for profit.” A $1 million skateboard park, the first phase of the development, will open in July. Parts for 200,000 skateboards and materials to build ramps will be shipped from America to Iraq for assembly at state-owned factories and distributed free to Iraqi children along with helmets and knee pads. The larger entertainment park, designed by Ride and Show Engineering Inc, will follow in phases, part of a strategy launched two years ago by the Iraqi Government and the US to attract private investment into the country’s 192 state-owned factories. The factories were closed in 2003 by Paul Bremer, then the head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, who believed that private enterprise would take their place. Instead, industries withered and half a million skilled workers were left jobless. A task force headed by Paul Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Business Transformation, is now attempting to revive Iraq’s factories – a task undermined by persistent violence. But Mr Werner, whose company manages several hundred million dollars of equity, sees Iraq as a great opportunity. “Iraq to me is an open field. I have never in my life seen an opportunity with the potential that Iraq has with its skilled workforce and oil reserves.” He has begun partnerships with several Iraqi factories in the last year, investing tens of millions of dollars in joint ventures. But the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience could prove the most ambitious. General David Petraeus, head of US forces, is said to be a “big supporter” of the project, according to Mr Brinkley. “There are all sorts of investment opportunities all over Iraq. But it’s not just hydrocarbons. Half the Iraqi population is
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] KNIGHTS of MALTA Secretly Elect New GRAND MASTER
-Original Message- From: radar runner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 8:45 pm Subject: [ctrl] KNIGHTS of MALTA Secretly Elect New GRAND MASTER Knights of Malta secretly elect Englishman as new grand master March 17, 2008 · 5 Comments Frà Matthew Festing, 58, an Englishman, becomes the 79th Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta. Until his final breath, Matthew Festing will carry the title “His Most Eminent Highness”. Catholic News Service | Mar 11, 2008 Leading Knights said the order is often depicted as secret society of the wealthy elite. By John Thavis ROME (CNS) — In a secret and swift election, the Knights of Malta elected an Englishman as their 79th grand master. Matthew Festing, who had been the Knights’ grand prior of England, was chosen March 11 to replace Andrew W.N. Bertie, who died in February. Festing, 59, will head the world’s oldest chivalric order, founded in the 11th century. He is only the second Englishman to hold the post of grand master; Bertie was the first. Known officially as the Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, the organization was established to care for pilgrims during the Crusades. It lives on today as a lay Catholic religious order and a worldwide humanitarian network. The order is also a sovereign state, holding observer status at the United Nations and maintaining diplomatic relations with 100 countries. Festing, an expert in art and history, joined the Knights in 1977 and in 1991 became a “professed” knight, taking religious vows. He is a descendent of Blessed Adrian Fortescue, a Knight of Malta who was martyred in the 16th century. As head of the English priory, Festing organized humanitarian assistance missions to Lebanon and Kosovo and led a delegation on the order’s annual pilgrimage with the sick to Lourdes. In a statement issued after his election, the new grand master said he wanted to continue the work of his predecessor, who was credited with expanding the order’s humanitarian services and its diplomatic connections. Pope Benedict XVI was informed of Festing’s election before it was announced to the world. The election of a grand master is a major event in Rome. Fifty electors, representing the 12,500 male and female members of the order, filed into the Knights’ villa on Rome’s Aventine Hill, wearing their distinctive red robes decorated with the Maltese cross. The election, which began with a Mass, had similarities to a papal conclave. The grand master had to be chosen from among the order’s approximately 50 professed Knights. The voting was done by a secret ballot, after nonvoters were asked to leave. No politicking was allowed, and the new grand master had to receive a “majority plus one” of the total votes — at least 27 out of 50. At a press conference a few days before the election, leading Knights said the order is often wrongly depicted as an elite, wealthy secret society. “In many ways, we are misunderstood,” said Winfried Henckel von Donnersmark, a member of the order’s sovereign council. In part, that’s because of the unusual nature of the organization, he said. The Knights are a religious order, yet the vast majority of members are lay, he pointed out. It is a Catholic organization, but its humanitarian operations are open to people of all faiths. And while it does have some property and patrimony, it has to continually raise funds to support its annual $1 billion in charity works around the world, he said. Membership in the order is by invitation. Knights and Dames are practicing Catholics and devote part of their time to doing works of mercy. The professed members are all male, but women form an increasingly important part of the order, officials said. According to Albrecht von Boeselager, one of the order’s chief officials, the Knights have about 80,000 local volunteers working in 120 countries throughout the world. The organization is welcomed by so many governments — even by the military regime in Myanmar, for example — because it adheres to strict neutrality on political issues, he said. “We don’t consider ourselves a human rights organization. If making accusations on human rights issues would prevent us from assisting the needy, we would prefer to be silent,” von Boeselager said. In the Middle East and Asia, however, the Knights’ neutrality has recently been called into question by extremist propaganda, he said. “We have been accused of being part of a ‘new crusade,’ and even of having mercenaries fighting in Iraq. That is totally untrue, and it endangers our personnel in Muslim countries,” he said. Noreen Falcone, president of the Knights’ U.S. federal association, said the order’s
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:10 am Subject: [ctrl] 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened? April 21, 2008 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened? The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots http://counterpunch.com/ By BILL QUIGLEY Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. The Economist, which calls the current crisis the silent tsunami, reports that last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16%, but since January rice prices have risen 141%. The reasons include rising fuel costs, weather problems, increased demand in China and India, as well as the push to create biofuels from cereal crops. Hermite Joseph, a mother working in the markets of Port au Prince, told journalist Nick Whalen that her two kids are “like toothpicks” they’ re not getting enough nourishment. Before, if you had a dollar twenty-five cents, you could buy vegetables, some rice, 10 cents of charcoal and a little cooking oil. Right now, a little can of rice alone costs 65 cents, and is not good rice at all. Oil is 25 cents. Charcoal is 25 cents. With a dollar twenty-five, you can’t even make a plate of rice for one child.” The St. Claire’s Church Food program, in the Tiplas Kazo neighborhood of Port au Prince, serves 1000 free meals a day, almost all to hungry children -- five times a week in partnership with the What If Foundation. Children from Cite Soleil have been known to walk the five miles to the church for a meal. The cost of rice, beans, vegetables, a little meat, spices, cooking oil, propane for the stoves, have gone up dramatically. Because of the rise in the cost of food, the portions are now smaller. But hunger is on the rise and more and more children come for the free meal. Hungry adults used to be allowed to eat the leftovers once all the children were fed, but now there are few leftovers. The New York Times lectured Haiti on April 18 that “Haiti, its agriculture industry in shambles, needs to better feed itself.” Unfortunately, the article did not talk at all about one of the main causes of the shortages -- the fact that the U.S. and other international financial bodies destroyed Haitian rice farmers to create a major market for the heavily subsidized rice from U.S. farmers. This is not the only cause of hunger in Haiti and other poor countries, but it is a major force. Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly all the rice it needed. What happened? In 1986, after the expulsion of Haitian dictator Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loaned Haiti $24.6 million in desperately needed funds (Baby Doc had raided the treasury on the way out). But, in order to get the IMF loan, Haiti was required to reduce tariff protections for their Haitian rice and other agricultural products and some industries to open up the country’s markets to competition from outside countries. The U.S. has by far the largest voice in decisions of the IMF. Doctor Paul Farmer was in Haiti then and saw what happened. “Within less than two years, it became impossible for Haitian farmers to compete with what they called ‘Miami rice.’ The whole local rice market in Haiti fell apart as cheap, U.S. subsidized rice, some of it in the form of ‘food aid,’ flooded the market. There was violence, ‘rice wars,’ and lives were lost.” “American rice invaded the country,” recalled Charles Suffrard, a leading rice grower in Haiti in an interview with the Washington Post in 2000. By 1987 and 1988, there was so much rice coming into the country that many stopped working the land. Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste, a Haitian priest who has been the pastor at St. Claire and an outspoken human rights advocate, agrees. “In the 1980s, imported rice poured into Haiti, below the cost of what our farmers could produce it. Farmers lost their businesses. People from the countryside started losing their jobs and moving to the cities. After a few years of cheap imported rice, local production went way down.” Still the international business community was not satisfied. In 1994, as a condition for U.S. assistance in returning to Haiti to resume his elected Presidency, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced by the U.S., the IMF, and the World Bank to open up the markets in Haiti even more. But, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, what reason could the U.S. have in destroying the rice market of this tiny country?
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Shocking Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry
-Original Message- From: Meno Slither [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 8:38 pm Subject: [ctrl] Shocking Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry Shocking Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/19/shocking-facts-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry.aspx Big drug companies have been accused of putting profits above patients, spinning false PR campaigns and more. Here are some of the most shocking facts about the pharmaceutical industry. The price of drugs is increasing faster than anything else a patient pays for: The prices of the most heavily prescribed drugs are routinely jacked up, sometimes several times a year. Some medications have a mark-up of 1,000 percent over the cost of their ingredients. Your doctor may have an ulterior motive behind your prescription: Drug reps often give gifts to convince doctors to prescribe the medications that they represent. These drug reps usually have no medical or science education. Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research: Almost twice as much! Guilty of Medicare fraud: Pharmaceutical companies are being tried in federal courts as a result of their exploitation of Medicare. AstraZeneca had to pay more than $340 million in penalties for coaching doctors to cheat Medicare. The combined wealth of the top 5 pharmaceutical companies outweigh GNP of sub-Saharan Africa: In fact, the combined worth of the world¡¯s top five drug companies is twice the combined GNP of that entire region. Americans pay more for prescription meds than anyone else in the world: $200 billion in 2002 alone. New Drugs aren't really new: Two-thirds of ¡°new¡± prescription drugs are identical to existing drugs or modified versions of them. Drug companies are taking advantage of underdeveloped countries to perform clinical trials: In developing countries, government oversight is more lax. For more shocking facts, click the link below. Sources: Nursing Online Education Database March 27, 2008 Dr. Mercola's Comments: According to Corporate Watch, Fortune magazine has declared the world¡¯s biggest drug company, Pfizer the ¡°fifth-best wealth-creator¡± in America. The question is: who benefits from this ¡°creation of wealth¡±? It¡¯s certainly not the Americans who pay a thousand percent markup for the drugs Pfizer pumps out. Americans pay far more for their drugs than any other nation. Take this, for example: according to PricewaterhouseCoopers fascinating report, Pharma 2020: The Vision, India spends $420 per diabetic patient per year. The U.S., in comparison, spends an average of $10,844 per year per patient.Their report also states: ¡°The current pharmaceutical industry business model is both economically unsustainable and operationally incapable of acting quickly enough to produce the types of innovative treatments demanded by global markets. In order to make the most of these future growth opportunities, the industry must fundamentally change the way it operates. Some of the major changes PwC anticipates for the industry are: Health care will shift in focus from treatment to prevention. Pharmaceutical companies will provide total health care packages. The current linear phase research development process will give way to in-life testing and live licensing, in collaboration with regulators and health care providers. The traditional blockbuster sales model will disappear. The supply chain function will become revenue generating as it becomes integral to the health care package and enables access to new channels. More sophisticated direct-to-consumer distribution channels will diminish the role of wholesalers. Now, some of this has an encouraging ring to it, such as shifting the focus from treatment to prevention. Other ¡°predictions¡± are far more menacing, including the development of more sophisticated direct-to-consumer distribution channels for drugs. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join People are Waking Up to the Truth About Health Fortunately, more people are waking up to the illusion and deception of the drug industry as a whole, and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] AlterNet: Revealed: The Cartoonishly Racist Faked Memoir That Duped the NY Times
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 3:05 pm Subject: [ctrl] AlterNet: Revealed: The Cartoonishly Racist Faked Memoir That Duped the NY Times Revealed: The Cartoonishly Racist Faked Memoir That Duped the NY Times By John Gorenfeld, AlterNet Posted on April 19, 2008, Printed on April 19, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/82615/ Last month, it was revealed that the New York Times and Manhattan publishing world were deceived by Love and Consequences, a faked memoir by a white girl who claimed to live the life you only hear about in Dr. Dre songs. The damage control was so good, the book never saw daylight, and we never knew how big of an embarrassment this cartoonishly racist gangster fantasy should have been. But last week a copy arrived at my doorstep. Supposedly written by gangsta moll Margaret B. Jones, Love and Consequences turned out to be the work of middle-class liar Margaret Seltzer. She had invented the tale behind a laptop at Starbucks, tricking not only her publisher, but also her fans at the Times, which graced the memoir with repeated coverage. After it was revealed her work was a forgery, the damage control was swift and successful. On March 5, with the book just out the door, the New York Times revealed the hoax, if not just how bad it was. Her agent, Faye Bender, told the paper, reassuringly, that there was no reason to doubt her, ever. And that set the tone for the coverage. Love Consequences, wrote the L.A. Times, must have seemed edgy, sexy, cinematic. Except it's not. As a true story, this book would have been less about love and more about crude racial stereotypes. As a hoax, it reads as easily the laziest forgery ever to receive a six-figure advance and a rave review in the Times. In an important sense, the real scandal was never discovered. Thanks to the book's speedy recall, we missed what should worry everyone: the catastrophic failure of the New York Times's B.S. detectors, which we thought they tuned up after the twin factual fiascos of Jayson Blair and Judith Miller. Copies are going for $78 online, but one slipped through the blockade. So here, for the first time, are the Cliffs Notes. Chapter One: Lost Year: Unknown. Margaret B. Jones watches her friend, Kraziak, bite the dust in a hail of AK-47 bullets. This is what we call in media res-opening mid-story. In this passage, which the Times excerpted, Seltzer places herself in a ghetto battlefield that could have been a video game mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. We were smoking niggas, she concludes, after spilling a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor for a dead comrade, sending them to heaven every day. Tipping the 40: almost every under-35 hipster, stoner, or frat boy on a liquor run has at one time trivialized important social problems by joshing about this fabled street rite. Here this Caucasian joke is made flesh, as the amber liquid burns Jones' throat. A big homie smiled at me, she recalls, and then slipped the remaining cups over the neck of the Hennessey bottle ... Easily the strongest writing. From here on it speeds downhill, and the story becomes less believable. Chapter Two: The hand you are dealt Flash back to around 1979. Jones is an innocent toddler in foster care who loves Make Way For Ducklings but is shell-shocked from dimly described sexual abuse. The transition into G-life is hazy. Here she introduces a major theme, an excuse for the oddly psychologically flat tone of the book, its lack of introspection. Turns out she has PTSD, and is too stunned by life! If I couldn't feel it, she writes, it couldn't hurt me. Chapter Three: Start from scratch 1982. Margaret ticks off L.A. highways as she's driven to her new home in the vicinity of Slauson and Central avenues, but the journey sounds more Mapquest than memory. Then, with the arrival of Margaret's new caretaker, Big Mom, the narrative detours from N.W.A.'s Greatest Hits territory into the world of Aunt Jemima fantasies. It doesn't take an African-American Studies major to get bad vibes from the stereotypical treatment of the saintly mammy. Big Mom has no interests of her own; she wears an austere white dress on the book cover, calls everyone child, and asks the Lord: I know you don't give me more than I can handle, but please, sweet Jesus, help me with these youngstas. Everyone else speaks in what Times critic Michiko Kakutani called colorful, streetwise argot: nigga this, you'ze a punk-ass that. Kakutani also called the book humane and deeply affecting. By now, even on the book's own terms, it's barely working as a memoir, in which someone thinks about their life. Instead it's like a doll's house of African-Americans, displayed for us in supposedly authentic glory. One night Margaret has been having a cutesy conversation with God, when
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] EU to punish incitement to terrorism on Internet
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 9:43 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] EU to punish incitement to terrorism on Internet http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9newsid=37795 EU to punish incitement to terrorism on Internet A German police officer loads confiscated papers and computer equipment into a police vehicle as part of an investigation into Islamist militants in Ulm, September 5, 2007 EU states agreed on Friday on tight laws against incitement to terrorism in order to clamp down on militant groups' use of the Internet. EU justice and interior ministers also agreed in Luxembourg on an action plan to try to stop groups getting explosives. Police say the Internet has taken on huge importance for militants, enabling them to share know-how, plan operations and spread propaganda to a mass audience. The Internet is used to inspire and mobilize local terrorists ... functioning as a virtual training camp, a text agreed by ministers said. Each member state shall take the necessary measures to ensure that terrorist-linked offences include ... public provocation to commit a terrorist offence, recruitment for terrorism, training for terrorism. States may also consider attempts to train and recruit as terrorist offences, but are not obliged to do so, an EU official said. Spain's secretary of state for justice, Julio Perez Hernandez, welcomed the move. The battle to anticipate (terrorist acts) is crucial for Spain, he told reporters. One should not wait for smoke to know there is terrorism. In an effort to assuage civil rights campaigners, the law says that the new measure may not be used to restrict freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Before entering into force, the law still needs to be confirmed by ministers after a number of national parliaments have discussed it. A European Commission official said countries like Spain and Italy already punish public provocation to terrorism but others, like Scandinavian countries, would have to change their legislation to apply the new EU text. Under the plan to enhance the security of explosives, ministers agreed to establish an early-warning system on stolen explosives and detonators by the end of the year. They also agreed to create by the year-end a European Bomb Data System that would give police and governments permanent access to information on incidents involving explosive devices. Source: Reuters -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bay 8 sue MI5 MI6 for millions
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 9:31 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bay 8 sue MI5 MI6 for millions http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1063854.ece Bay 8 sue MI5 MI6 for millions By ALEX WEST Published: 19 Apr 2008 rigTeaserImage EIGHT freed Guantanamo Bay prisoners are suing the British Secret Service for millions, it was revealed last night. The former terror suspects say MI5 and MI6 assisted in their abduction, treatment and interrogation. Five Brits and three foreign nationals living here say they were put on CIA torture flights to the prison camp in Cuba. Moazzam Begg – held for three years – said the case revolves around MI5 and MI6's complicity in the abuse of British citizens. Two writs were served. The first, issued at London's High Court, names Libyan Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna, and Iraqi Bisher al Rawi. The second names Brits Begg, Richard Belmar and the so-called Tipton Three – Rhuhell Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal. The three men from Tipton had a case for #163;5million thrown out in the US. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Pentagon manipulated TV war analysts! TVNL
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?_r=1hporef=slogin -Original Message- From: reggie501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 8:13 pm Subject: [ctrl] Pentagon manipulated TV war analysts!TVNL http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/latest-news-at-a-glance NY Times Report: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded the gulag of our times by Amnesty International, there were new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and calls were mounting for its closure. The administration's communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning, they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo. To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as military analysts whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. Link to full story and latest news - at - a - glance: jttp://Tvnewslies.org/tvnl
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours
-Original Message- From: Doctor Plum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Doctor Plum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:18 am Subject: [ctrl] The Government Is Trying to Wrap Its Mind Around Yours Imagine a world of streets lined with video cameras that alert authorities to any suspicious activity. A world where police officers can read the minds of potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes. A world in which a suspect who lies under questioning gets nabbed immediately because his brain has given him away. Though that may sound a lot like the plot of the 2002 movie Minority Report, starring Tom Cruise and based on a Philip K. Dick novel, I'm not talking about science fiction here; it turns out we're not so far away from that world. But does it sound like a very safe place, or a very scary one? It's a question I think we should be asking as the federal government invests millions of dollars in emerging technology aimed at detecting and decoding brain activity. And though government funding focuses on military uses for these new gizmos, they can and do end up in the hands of civilian law enforcement and in commercial applications. As spending continues and neurotechnology advances, that imagined world is no longer the stuff of science fiction or futuristic movies, and we postpone at our peril confronting the ethical and legal dilemmas it poses for a society that values not just personal safety but civil liberty as well. Consider Cernium Corp.'s Perceptrak video surveillance and monitoring system, recently installed by Johns Hopkins University, among others. This technology grew out of a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense -- to develop intelligent video analytics systems. Unlike simple video cameras monitored by security guards, Perceptrak integrates video cameras with an intelligent computer video. It uses algorithms to analyze streaming video and detect suspicious activities, such as people loitering in a secure area, a group converging or someone leaving a package unattended. Since installing Perceptrak, Johns Hopkins has reported a 25 percent reduction in crime. But that's only the beginning. Police may soon be able to monitor suspicious brain activity from a distance as well. New neurotechnology soon may be able to detect a person who is particularly nervous, in possession of guilty knowledge or, in the more distant future, to detect a person thinking, Only one hour until the bomb explodes. Today, the science of detecting and decoding brain activity is in its infancy. But various government agencies are funding the development of technology to detect brain activity remotely and are hoping to eventually decode what someone is thinking. Scientists, however, wildly disagree about the accuracy of brain imaging technology, what brain activity may mean and especially whether brain activity can be detected from afar. Yet as the experts argue about the scientific limitations of remote brain detection, this chilling science fiction may already be a reality. In 2002, the Electronic Privacy Information Center reported that NASA was developing brain monitoring devices for airports and was seeking to use noninvasive sensors in passenger gates to collect the electronic signals emitted by passengers' brains. Scientists scoffed at the reports, arguing that to do what NASA was proposing required that an electroencephalogram (EEG) be physically attached to the scalp. But that same year, scientists at the University of Sussex in England adapted the same technology they had been using to detect heart rates at distances of up to 1 meter, or a little more than three feet, to remotely detect changes in the brain. And while scientific limitations to remote EEG detection still exist, clearly the question is when, not if, these issues will be resolved. Meanwhile, another remote brain-activity detector, which uses light beamed through the skull to measure changes in oxygen levels in the brain, may be on the way. Together with the EEG, it would enhance the power of brain scanning. Today the technology consists of a headband sensor worn by the subject, a control box to capture the data and a computer to analyze it. With the help of government funding, however, that is all becoming increasingly compact and portable, paving the way for more specific remote detection of brain activity. But don't panic: The government can't read our minds -- yet. So far, these tools simply measure changes in the brain; they don't detect thoughts and intentions. Scientists, though, are hard at work trying to decode how those signals relate to mental states such as perception and intention. Different EEG frequencies, for example, have been associated with fear, anger, joy and sorrow
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse Part 1
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 3:04 am Subject: [ctrl] Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse Part 1 World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/nbe1-a16.shtml WSWS : News Analysis : World Economy Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse Part 1 By Nick Beams 16 April 2008 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author The following is the first part of a report delivered by Nick Beams, national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia and a member of the World Socialist Web Site international editorial board, to public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on April 9 and 15. Parts 2 and 3 of the report will be published on April 17 and 18 respectively. Beams, an international authority on Marxist political economy, is the author of regular WSWS articles and analyses on globalisation and political economy. The SEP and the International Students for Social Equality called the public meetings to discuss the global significance of the deepening crisis wracking the US financial and banking system. Both meetings were well-attended, with the audiences including workers and university students, a number of whom were international students. Following Beams’s report, there were animated discussions covering a wide range of issues about the causes and implications of the financial meltdown. Audience members asked why mainstream economists had been unable to predict or explain the crisis, why the banks and finance houses had resorted to increasingly risky marginal lending, and what the financial failure meant for the world position of the US. Others raised the catastrophic impact of the economic breakdown on the jobs, homes, living standards and retirement funds of ordinary people. Questions also centred on the viability of a socialist perspective and how working people would take up the struggle for a socialist program. March 14, 2008—the day it became public knowledge that Bear Stearns, the fifth largest investment bank in the US and one of the largest financial institutions in the world, had gone bankrupt—has already taken its place as one of the defining dates in the history of global capitalism. On that day, the world changed in a fundamental way. The nostrums delivered day in day out by the various financial commentators, political leaders, academic economists and media pundits about the wonders and virtues of the “free market”—that it represented the highest, indeed the only possible form of social and economic organisation—were proven to be completely worthless. Suddenly, not only was a crash on the scale of the Great Depression increasingly possible, it was on the verge of taking place. Comments at the time and subsequent testimony by some of the major players involved in the Bear Stearns rescue operation make this clear. For three days the US Federal Reserve Board, along with the US Treasury Department, worked round-the-clock to put together a rescue package. Time was of the essence, the fear being that if a package were not put in place by the time Asian markets opened for trading on Monday March 17, the world financial system would have gone into a meltdown that would have taken Wall Street with it when trading resumed there. The key component of the rescue plan, which eventually saw Bear Stearns taken over by JP Morgan, was a guarantee that the Fed would assume responsibility for $30 billion worth of debts held by the failed bank—a decision without precedent in the annals of the US central bank. As Wall Street economist Ed Yardeni commented in a note to his clients: “The Government of Last Resort is working with the Lender of Last Resort to shore up housing and credit markets to avoid Great Depression II.” In his testimony to the US Congress, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke used more restrained language, but the message was essentially the same. “On March 13,” he told the Congress, “Bear Stearns advised the Federal Reserve and other government agencies that its liquidity position had significantly deteriorated and that it would have to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy the next day unless alternative sources of funds became available. “This news raised difficult questions of public policy. Normally, the market sorts out which companies survive and which fail, and that is as it should be. However, the issues raised here extended well beyond the fate of one company. Our financial system is extremely complex and interconnected, and Bear Stearns participated extensively in a range of critical markets. The sudden failure of Bear Stearns likely would have led to a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 1:18 am Subject: [ctrl] NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=10117 NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings 04/14/2008 @ 9:48 pm Filed by Mike Sheehan A growing number of bankruptcies among US retailers is set to prompt thousands of store closings, the New York Times will report on the front page of its Tuesday edition. Advertisement The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing, with ensuing store closures expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across the country, writes Michael Barbaro for the Times. Barbaro notes that over half a dozen store chains have filed for bankruptcy in recent months amidst mounting debt and plummeting sales and warns that financial troubles are quickly spreading to bigger national companies. The Times articles comes amid a slew of reports underscoring America's economic woes. Even presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain, who only months ago panned talk of a recession, admitted today that he thought the country was now in one. Even relatively well-off retailers face troubles. Added Barbaro in the article, such store chains who can avoid bankruptcy are shutting down stores to preserve cash through what could be a long economic downturn. Excerpts from the Times article, available in full at this link, follow... # The surging cost of necessities has led to a national belt-tightening among consumers. Figures released on Monday showed that spending on food and gasoline is crowding out other purchases, leaving people with less to spend on furniture, clothing and electronics. Consequently, chains specializing in those goods are proving vulnerable. ... You have the makings of a wave of significant bankruptcies, said Al Koch, who helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy in 2003 as the company's interim chief financial officer and works at a corporate turnaround firm called AlixPartners. For years, no deal was too ugly to finance, he said. But now, nobody will throw money at these companies. Because retailers rely on a broad network of suppliers, their bankruptcies are rippling across the economy. The cash-strapped chains are leaving behind tens of millions of dollars in unpaid bills to shipping companies, furniture manufacturers, mall owners and advertising agencies. Many are unlikely to be paid in full, spreading the economic pain. ... In most cases, the collapses stemmed from a combination of factors: flawed business strategies, a souring economy and banks' unwillingness to issue cheap loans. # -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] 'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:10 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] 'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23527383-954,00.html 'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border Article from: Reuters By Randall Mikkelsen in Washington April 12, 2008 10:05am US authorities have seen no signs of al-Qaeda trying to insert operatives into the United States from Mexico, but the militant group has considered doing so, a US intelligence official said. The comments by Charles Allen, Homeland Security undersecretary for intelligence and analysis, could undercut one argument by advocates in and out of government for get-tough tactics to fight illegal crossings at the southern US border - that they are needed to fight terrorism. In contrast, at least one Islamist militant has been caught trying to enter the United States from Canada by land to attempt an attack. We know of no trained al Qaeda operatives who have crossed over our southern border, Mr Allen said. We do know that going back to 2004, the southern border is something that al-Qaeda's central leadership has looked at. But we know of no specifics of where al-Qaeda has really endeavored to cross our borders in the south, he said. The US Government is seeking to complete this year a planned 670-mile (1080 km) border fence to fight illegal crossings from Mexico. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has cited the anti-terrorism argument in waiving environmental laws and other legal restrictions to quickly build the fence. The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of terrorists, the Homeland Security department said earlier this month in justifying the latest waivers, for 500 miles (805 km) of potential fencing. Mr Allen said there have been militant sympathisers and fund-raisers for Hizbollah trying to cross from the south, but no trained operatives have been discovered. 'Sufficient threats' A Homeland Security Department official said those crossings, and the potential for operatives to cross, are sufficient threats to help justify the fence construction's urgency. On the other hand, Vancouver-based militant Ahmeed Ressam, with suspected links to al-Qaeda, was stopped with explosives in his car at the US border with Canada in December 1999, foiling a suspected plot to bomb Los Angeles. The United States was working closely with Canadian authorities, Mr Allen said, and he credited them with breaking up in 2006 a plot by militants to carry out an al-Qaeda-inspired bombing campaign in the Toronto area. Mr Allen also said al-Qaeda is trying to recruit both white and nonwhite people so it can train western-looking operatives to help it carry out attacks in Europe and the United States. No such suspects have yet been caught trying to enter the United States, but the effort remains a concern. This is something to which we must pay a lot of attention, Mr Allen said. He said al-Qaeda shifted its strategy to seek Western-appearing recruits after the December 2005 death of al -aeda external operations chief Abu Hamza Rabia. Rabia recruited operatives who had little experience with the West, he said. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [PEPIS] PEPIS #95 - BBC: Bilderberg founder who helped Nazi war criminals to escape
-Original Message- From: Tony Gosling [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEPIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 2:19 pm Subject: [PEPIS] PEPIS #95 - BBC: Bilderberg founder who helped Nazi war criminals to escape 1. Radio - Bilderberg founder running Nazis to the USA 2. LATEST BILDERBERG 2008 POSSIBLE DATES - NO LOCATION AS YET - LEAKS, WHISTLEBLOWERS NEEDED. 3. Interview with an Ex-Vampire 4. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the window September the 11th. 5. My own appearances Audio and Television. 1. Radio - Bilderberg founder running Nazis to the USA http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/index.shtml Nazis fleeing to Argentina Monday 21 January 2008 Listen to this programme in full http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/rams/document_20080121.ram http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/klm_nazis.mp3 Mike Thomson investigates claims that senior officials from the Swiss police allowed Germans to travel to Argentina without the correct paperwork during the Second World War. View a picture gallery of images related to this edition. It is well known that many senior Nazis escaped to Argentina after the war. The mystery has been how they managed to get there given that no German was allowed to leave the country without an Allied approved pass. The investigative history series, Document, returns with a possible answer. Records from the time reveal that in 1948 a representative of the Dutch airline KLM asked Swiss police to ease travel restrictions for Germans travelling to Argentina without the proper paperwork. In the years that followed many wealthy Germans each spent the equivalent of an average man's wages on luxury KLM flights to the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. It's suggested that this was all part of an elaborate covert plan to help former Nazis flee from justice. Sixty years on Dutch MPs are calling on KLM to open it's books and allow an independent enquiry. Mike Thomson travels to the Netherlands to investigate. 2. LATEST BILDERBERG 2008 POSSIBLE DATES - NO LOCATION AS YET - LEAKS, WHISTLEBLOWERS NEEDED. Dear Timuçin, Tony and others, I don't give up easily. I keep good hope to give what you expect. But not a word upon the ways. Following agenda will give us important information: http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7003#7003 week april 7-13 nothing will happen week April 14 - 20 nothing will happen week April 21 - 27 possible and open week April 28 - May 4 nothing will happen in principle week May 5 - 11 possible and open week May 12 - 18 not possible week May 19 - 25 not possible week May 26 - June 1 possible So we may keep the weeks April 21st to 27th, April 28th to May 4th, May 5th to 11th and May 26th to June 1st open I will not reveal the tricks I am using to get this sensitive information. Check on the councelled hotel site of last year ( hotel.de) that you have now to subsribe. The IMF site and World bank site are giving new info about their general directors WEEK BY WEEK. And the NATO site is giving the Info after the event occured. (Check it if you want).That is meaning that I have to keep my methods SECRET FOR EVER.(not the revealed ones, of course) Have a good evening Marek Tysis 3. Interview with an Ex-Vampire Brilliant hour long interview. If you believe in the supernatural this might just blow your socks off! http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=7672003660947890622 Bill Schnoebelen - Interview with an ExVampire: A True Story - Part 1 1 hr 0 min 38 sec - 16 Jun 2006 http://www.ExVampire.com Vampires are REAL! Forbidden Knowledge, Occult Rituals, Secret Priesthoods, Spells, Luciferian Initiation, Illuminism, Ceremonial Magick, Vampirism. This was his world : Adept, Occultist, Satanic Priest, Black Magician, Vampire. Lured into the occult with the quest for knowledge, this nine hour video chronicles the life of an adept in service to the darkest powers of planet earth until saved from a horrible fate. Discover the preparation, initiation and the bringing over of the initiate into the world of true vampirism. The other-worldly initiation by a being of immense power that claimed him for its own. The reality of vampires and werewolves and the positions they hold in the dark world of the occult. The secret priesthood that helped him survive. The lust and hunger of the true vampire and how it destroys its victims. And much, more more! Containing secret, first-hand information that has never before been revealed to the public. 4. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the window September the 11th. Ex US Staff Sargeant Jimmy Massey Shocking confessions of a US Marine. Why are we killing so many civilians? Cowboys From Hell is a new book by Jimmy Massey New book tells it how it is http://www.ivaw.org/ About (600 active members that speak worldwide, 2000 members in reserve waiting for the revolution many within the US military, only question is when are we
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Cash, contracts and crown princes | World news | The Guardian
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 6:53 am Subject: [ctrl] Cash, contracts and crown princes | World news | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/11/bae.armstrade3 Cash, contracts and crown princes David Leigh The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008 The BAE Eurofighter Typhoon military jet plane leaves smoke trails at an air show in Paris. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP Evidence of an allegedly corrupt relationship between BAE and the Saudi royal family began to emerge four years ago. Using documents obtained from whistleblowers and files in the National Archives, the Guardian began to build a picture of an arms company willing to provide anything from fleets of Rolls-Royces to mountains of offshore cash in order to promote lucrative deals with the Saudi regime. As the allegations mounted, the British government tried to cover up the facts, not only about apparent arms company corruption but about the connivance of a succession of ministers, both Labour and Tory, in worldwide bribery on behalf of Great Britain plc. The Guardian turned over its evidence to Robert Wardle, the head of the SFO, and he embarked on an investigation. The UK, on paper at least, had promised to crackdown on corrupt practices. It had signed up to an international anti-bribery treaty, brokered by the OECD, and in 2002 the government passed a law making it clear that overseas bribery was a crime. Labour ministers trumpeted their probity and the Foreign Office even produced a DVD with the title Crimes of the Establishment as part of their toolkit on the evils of corruption. But Lord Justice Moses' judgment yesterday lays bare what actually happened. In doing so, he appears to accept allegations that have swirled round Whitehall since Wardle announced he was to drop his investigation 18 months ago - although without hearing evidence from Bandar. Wardle's inquiries were bearing fruit, and he was on the brink of obtaining bank records from Switzerland. These belonged, among others, to the billionaire Syrian intermediary Wafic Said, who played a major role in brokering the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal back in the mid-80s. He is a confidant of Crown Prince Sultan, and of his son, Prince Bandar. Prior to the investigation being halted, the SFO were looking into payments by BAE into Said's accounts. Moses, who insisted on seeing privately the full version of government documents in the case, made clear what happened next. He detailed allegations that Bandar set out to have the inquiry stopped. Yesterday's summary described reports of Bandar going to see Jonathan Powell, Blair's chief of staff. He is said to have told him and the British ambassador, Sherard Cowper-Cowles, that he would ensure Saudi intelligence links were cut unless he and his family were kept out of the case. Bandar then flew to Paris and engaged in ostentatious negotiations with the French to buy a new batch of fighter jets - the contract BAE itself was after. As the judge pointed out yesterday, Bandar was suspected of complicity with BAE, the target of the investigation. He admits he received from BAE a present of a new Airbus commercial airliner, and payments totalling £1bn into his US account, although he says they were not improper. Tony Blair's office told Wardle that innocent British lives were at risk because Saudi Arabia would no longer help prevent terrorist outrages if the investigation went ahead. BAE, and a number of MPs in whose constituencies the company has factories, joined in with claims that jobs were at risk. Moses made clear yesterday that he shared the suspicions of anti-corruption campaigners that much of this was a charade. The word the judge used was pretext. He pointed out that Downing Street had rolled over with suspicious ease to Saudi threats. Getting the case dropped was convenient to the government, and convenient to BAE. The high court's words about the importance of the rule of law and the need to stand up to attempts to pervert the course of justice could not have been put more stridently. Moses' landmark judgment also produced a score sheet of how all the parties behaved during the SFO investigation. BAE is shown to have tried to use backstairs political muscle to get the police off its back. But this did not succeed. Peter Goldsmith, the attorney general, stood firm against pressure from fellow ministers for a considerable period. Even at the last moment he met Blair and told him it would look terrible to cave in to threats. But he then succumbed to pressure from the then prime minister, and appeared to have agreed to try and sabotage the SFO inquiry by picking holes in its evidence. Wardle himself held out longest of all, but was eventually forced to cave in when Blair raised the stakes. Moses made plain by his
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' | UK news | The Guardian
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 6:53 am Subject: [ctrl] Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' | UK news | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/11/ukcrime Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008 The wife of one of Britain's richest heirs has been arrested after trying to enter the US embassy in central London while allegedly carrying wraps of cocaine and heroin. Eva Rausing was held outside the embassy in Mayfair, leading to a police raid on the couple's Chelsea home, where more than £1,500 of drugs are alleged to have been found. Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the £5bn Tetra Pak drink packaging empire, was then also arrested. They were released on bail until July while police continue their inquiries. A spokesman for the US embassy said Mrs Rausing, who is a US citizen, had not entered the embassy, and had been due there for an appointment on Tuesday afternoon. Yesterday, Mrs Rausing, 44, said: I have made a grave error and I consider myself to have taken a wrong turn in the course of my life. I am very sorry for the upset I have caused. Mr Rausing's father, also called Hans, is a Swedish billionaire who built up the Tetra Pak empire with his late brother Gad. He has lived in England since the early 1980s and has donated £500,000 to the Conservatives. Mrs Rausing is a financial supporter of Action on Addiction, a charity which helps people with drink and drugs problems. Nick Barton, its joint chief executive, said: The E and HK Rausing Trust has been an extremely generous supporter of addiction charities for many years. Their support has resulted in a great many people and their families receiving help for their addiction problems. Scotland Yard said: At approximately 16:20 on Tuesday police officers arrested a woman in Mayfair on suspicion of possessing class A drugs. Following this arrest a search was conducted at a residential address in Chelsea and a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing class A drugs. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
-Original Message- From: intruthwetrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DavidIcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:13 pm Subject: [ctrl] What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? The eugenics ideology, What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? Historical and Investigative Research, 4 March 2008 by Francisco Gil-White http://www.hirhome.com/cfr.htm History shows that the policies debated and proposed by the CFR almost always become US foreign policy. And yet, the CFR is supposed to be a private organization. Very little is known about it. And political scientists almost never investigate it. It pays to study the CFR, however, if we wish to understand how power works in the United States, and what ideology the US ruling elite answers to. Table of Contents ( hyperlinked ) The CFR: An Introduction Who is behind the CFR? The eugenics ideology of CFR leaders The Rockefellers Andrew Carnegie Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan Woodrow Wilson Now, what does this help us explain? US foreign policy in the years after the creation of the CFR Why don¡¯t political scientists investigate the CFR? A note about the stability of institutional ideology What does the future hold for Israel? The CFR: An introduction In 1977 political scientist Thomas Dye delivered his presidential address to the Southern Political Science Association at the University of California at Santa Cruz. His topic: the role of allegedly ¡®private¡¯ policy-making organizations in determining US policy. His address was then published in 1978 as a research paper in The Journal of Politics, and much space was devoted to the importance of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the making of United States foreign policy.[1] All around, this was a rare event that helped correct a failing identified by sociologist G. William Domhoff in his 1970 book, The Higher Circles: The Governing Class in America: ¡°there never has been any research paper on [the CFR] in any scholarly journal indexed in the Social Science and Humanities Index.¡±[2] Many political scientists, apparently, thought this was a proper state of affairs and wanted matters to remain thus, because Dye wrote in the first page: ¡°I appreciate the assistance of G. William Domhoff, University of California, Santa Cruz. I apologize to those eminent political scientists who told me that [studying] the activities of private policymakers was not ¡®political science.¡¯¡±[3] It is certainly curious that ¡°eminent political scientists¡± should be opposed to research on the Council on Foreign Relations and other supposedly ¡®private¡¯ policy organizations. We shall return to these matters. First, however, let us get a sense for what the CFR is and give some context to evaluate Dye¡¯s use of the phrase ¡°private policymakers¡± in reference to this organization. In his paper, Thomas Dye writes: ¡°Political scientist Lester Milbraith observes that the influence of [the] CFR throughout the government is so pervasive that it is difficult to distinguish CFR from government programs: ¡®The Council on Foreign Relations, while not financed by government, works so closely with it that it is difficult to distinguish Council actions stimulated by government from autonomous actions.¡¯¡±[4] Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join You could say it in the reverse direction, as well: it is difficult to distinguish government actions stimulated by the Council from autonomous government action. Dye gives a list of quite major US foreign policy initiatives which the CFR led, ¡°including both the initial decision to intervene militarily in Vietnam and the later decision to withdraw.¡± Further, he points out that many important members of the CFR are simultaneously top government officeholders. For example, ¡°Council members in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration included Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor McGeorge P. Bundy, CIA Director John McCone, and Under-Secretary of State George Ball.¡±[5] A list of important figures in the CFR over the years up to 1978, which Dye also provides, shows that many are former top officials in the United States
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Most Gullible Senator | The Wacky Fed. | Control Oil and Water: Control the
-Original Message- From: catalaunum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 3:17 am Subject: [ctrl] The Most Gullible Senator | The Wacky Fed. | Control Oil and Water: Control the Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet April 7th, 2008 http://www.alternet.org __ JAY ROCKEFELLER: THE MOST GULLIBLE SHEEP IN THE SENATE? By Alexander Zaitchik, AlterNet The Dem senator is an advocate for Bush's domestic spying efforts and cheerleader for telecom immunity: is he a clownish dupe, or is his brain addled? http://www.alternet.org/rights/80987/ 'STOP LOSS': PATRIOTIC BLUSTER AND DELUSION DRESSED UP AS A PROTEST MOVIE By Eileen Jones, The eXile 'Ah signed up thinkin' Ah was goin' there fer mah country.' Hayseed accents can't hide the film's glamorization of war. http://www.alternet.org/movies/81161/ OVER THE TOP FED ACTIONS FEED CONSPIRACY THINKING By Scott Thill, AlterNet By rewarding the criminals and screwing the victims, the Federal Reserve's behavior feeds into rumors and conspiracy about its true function. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/80501/ THOSE WHO CONTROL OIL AND WATER WILL CONTROL THE WORLD By John Gray, Comment Is Free New superpowers are competing for diminishing resources. The outcome could be deadly. http://www.alternet.org/water/80855/ SEXUAL ABUSE FUELED BY ABUSIVE IMMIGRATION LANGUAGE By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check Describing immigrants in dehumanizing terms like illegals turns immigrant women into targets for sexist oppressors, from anti-choicers to rapists. http://www.alternet.org/rights/81275/ YOUR ASPHALT PARKING SPOT CAN BECOME A BLOOMING GARDEN PLOT By Ruben Anderson, The Tyee We can pave our streets green: Wouldn't you give up your extra parking spot for a garden plot? http://www.alternet.org/environment/80579/ __ AlterNet Blogs: GUANT#65533;AMO DEFENSE LAWYERS: STATEMENTS OBTAINED BY TORTURE SHOULD BE BARRED By Nick Fiske, Jurist Legal News and Research Lawyers for Guant#65533;amo Bay prisoner Salim Ahmed Hamdan want a military tribunal to bar statements that were tortured out of him. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/rights/81492/ CHARLTON HESTON -- ARE YOU GOD? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Today marked the passing of a great, tacky charismatic giant who graced some of the best cheesy flicks of all time. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/81498/ __ These stories, videos, blog posts, and more are available on AlterNet. http://www.alternet.org/ === Donate: Visit https://www.alternet.org/donate/ to support AlterNet and independent journalism.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] CIA Boss Says New Al-Qaeda Are White Westerners
-Original Message- From: intruthwetrust [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DavidIcke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 9:58 pm Subject: [ctrl] CIA Boss Says New Al-Qaeda Are White Westerners Cites no evidence to substantiate claim, CIA Boss Says New Al-Qaeda Are White Westerners Cites no evidence to substantiate claim Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/033108_white_westerners.htm Monday, March 31, 2008 Citing absolutely no evidence whatsoever, CIA boss Michael Hayden told NBC's Meet The Press yesterday that Al-Qaeda is training new fighters that look western and could easily cross U.S. borders, in the latest attempt to re-focus the mammoth apparatus of anti-terror against the American people. They are bringing operatives into that region for training -- operatives that wouldn't attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles (airport outside Washington) with you when you were coming back from overseas, Hayden said. (They) look western (and) would be able to come into this country without attracting the kinds of attention that others might, he added, with Reuters forced to point out that Hayden offered nothing to substantiate his claim. The talking point that the new Al-Qaeda are white westerners has been circulating since at least the start of the year. On January 14th, Fox News interviewed ex-CIA spook Mike Baker, whose company Diligence LLC has close ties to the Bush administration and just happens to butter its bread with the aid of a steady supply of global unrest and terror hype. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join Baker told Fox's Brian Kilmeade that al Qaeda looks for operatives who can fit in, just as the CIA does, saying, If they can recruit a Scandinavian, that's the holy grail for them. He added, They need people who can move around freely and do their bidding, apparently implying that blue-eyed blondes are the people who blend most seamlessly into Western society. However, Baker dismissed Kilmeade's suggestion that al Qaeda would be particularly interested in recruiting in US prisons. To go into a prison and try to recruit individuals -- that person's already tainted. What they really need, they need people who haven't run afoul of law enforcement in the past. ... Their problems are extreme in trying to recruit someone who can go out there and carry out their business. -- PRISON PLANET.TV - A FACTORY OF RESISTANCE! Download ENDGAME now to understand what's coming after the economic crash. -- Even if you believe we are fighting a war against radical Muslims that want to wipe us off the planet, your intelligence agencies are working on the premise that the next likely suicide bombers are going to look like Ken and Barbie. Does that make you feel safe? You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what the agenda is here. Just as we were told that there were reds under the bed during the cold war era, without the specter of potential terrorists running around our backyards, the war on terror itself and all the fearmongering attached to it is rendered impotent. So the new potential terrorists are our friends, our neighbors and even us - mandating that the whole police state apparatus that has been constructed since 9/11 be swung around to target the American and British people. Oh yeah, and if there are real terrorists planning devastating attacks, they won't be stopped because the CIA's foot soldiers have been trained to look for members of the 1970's Swedish pop group Abba. You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 4:57 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/04/04/dogs_of_war_lawyers_guns_and_money/5502/ Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money Published: April 4, 2008 at 4:48 PM By DAVID ISENBERG WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- The Pentagon recently issued a memorandum with the less-than-snappy title Uniform Code of Military Justice Jurisdiction Over Department of Defense Civilian Employees, Department of Defense Contractor Personnel, and Other Persons Serving With or Accompanying the Armed Forces Overseas During Declared War and in Contingency Operations. Despite the cumbersome title, the memo, which gives military commanders authority over civilian contractors in their areas of operation, is an effort to close what many see as an accountability loophole for private military contractors. Effectively, the new rules extend the Uniform Code of Military Justice -- the same military legal code U.S. forces personnel operate under -- to private contractors. The memorandum outlines how commanders should respond to civilian contractors who break federal laws and grants them court-martial authority in cases where the Department of Justice declines to initiate criminal proceedings. The memo puts a little meat on the bones of a change to federal law. On Oct. 17, 2006, the UCMJ was amended to extend its jurisdiction over persons serving with or accompanying U.S. armed forces in the field. Previously, contractors would only fall under the code if Congress declared war, but a one-sentence section of budget legislation passed that day replaced the word war with the phrase declared war or a contingency operation. Technically, this means that contractors, like U.S. personnel, can be disciplined not just for felony crimes like murder that exist in the general justice system, but for military offenses such as talking back to an officer, viewing pornography in a country where it is forbidden or even wearing a uniform incorrectly. Whether giving the military the authority to prosecute contractors for mouthing off, surfing adult Web sites or being sartorially inelegant like millions of their fellow Americans back home will represent a victory for accountability remains to be seen. More importantly, it is unclear how effective the change can be. In 2006 it was hailed by many advocates of greater regulation over the industry. Peter Singer of the Brookings Institution wrote that contractors' 'get out of jail free' card may have been torn to shreds. But the provision has not yet been tested in court, so whether it will hold up is anyone's guess. Even before the amendment passed, one military law journal noted: Attempts to use the military justice system to try civilian contractors are incompatible with the tradition of status-based military jurisdiction as well as the current Supreme Court's interpretation of the Sixth Amendment. The International Peace Operations Association, a PMC industry trade group, noted at the time: The overwhelming majority of private sector employees supporting Department of Defense programs are not even American; they come from countries such as Afghanistan, India, Iraq, the United Kingdom and scores of others. Requiring all nationalities to be under U.S. military law could be internationally contentious, and even more difficult to apply. Application of the UCMJ or any other disciplinary structure requires closer examination of the relationship to other applicable U.S., host nation, and international laws, the group concluded. Indeed the wording of the Pentagon memo, which seeks to provide an alternative to prosecution by federal civilian authorities who are often not in a position to investigate war-zone incidents, shows the ambiguities inherent in allowing both processes to go forward side-by-side. While the (Department of Justice) notification and decision process is pending, commanders and military criminal investigators should continue to address the alleged crime. Commanders should ensure that any preliminary military justice procedures that would be required in support of the exercise of UCMJ jurisdiction over civilians continue to be accomplished during the concurrent (Department of Justice) notification process. Commanders should be prepared to act, as appropriate, should possible U.S. federal criminal jurisdiction prove to be unavailable to address the alleged criminal behavior. Commanders and investigators should indeed be prepared to act. Considering that the current U.S. Justice Department appears unconcerned about past and ongoing federal offenses such as use of torture for interrogation or illegal wiretapping of American citizens, how likely is it that it will prosecute contractors if they commit a federal-level
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 5:46 pm Subject: [SPY NEWS] Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007 *** Original message *** On 4/7/2008 at 11:00 Steven Aftergood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2008, Issue No. 34 April 7, 2008 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** THE CASE OF MATTHEW DIAZ ** THE CHANGING FACE OF ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA ** MORE SUPPORT FOR STATE SECRETS REFORM ** GOVT OPPOSES TESTIMONY OF ISOO'S LEONARD IN AIPAC CASE THE CASE OF MATTHEW DIAZ Last year, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz was convicted of unlawfully disclosing classified information to an unauthorized person, after he provided the names of prisoners secretly held in military detention at Guantanamo Bay to a civil rights organization. He was sentenced to six months in prison and ordered discharged from the Navy. Last week, Diaz was honored as a truth teller at the National Press Club in Washington, DC for the very same action. He received the Ridenhour Award, named for the late Ron Ridenhour, who revealed the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai. Lt. Cmdr. Diaz demonstrated independent judgment, fidelity to the Constitution, and uncommon courage, according to the Ridenhour Award statement. By disclosing the names of prisoners secretly detained at Guantanamo, he broke ranks and he violated the law, and for that he has paid a serious price. But we believe that he also demonstrated a profound loyalty to the United States and its enduring constitutional principles. http://www.ridenhour.org/prizes_03.shtml The April 3 remarks of Matthew Diaz upon receiving the Ridenhour Award may be found here: http://www.ridenhour.org/diaz_margulies_transcript.shtml The award ceremony and some of the background to it were described by Joe Conason in A Truth Teller Who Deserves Justice, Salon.com, April 4: http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/04/04/diaz_gitmo/ A longer treatment of the Diaz case appeared in Naming Names at Gitmo by Tim Golden, New York Times Magazine, October 21, 2007: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21Diaz-t.html Remarkably, Diaz appears to be the first American ever convicted under the espionage statutes for disclosing classified information to another American rather than to a foreign person or government, according to a new study of espionage in America. THE CHANGING FACE OF ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA Financial incentives and external coercion play a diminishing role in motivating Americans to spy against the United States, according to a new Defense Department study. But divided loyalties are increasingly evident in recent espionage cases. Two thirds of American spies since 1990 have volunteered. Since 1990, spying has not paid well: 80% of spies received no payment for espionage, and since 2000 it appears no one was paid. Offenders since 1990 are more likely to be naturalized citizens, and to have foreign attachments, connections, and ties, and therefore they are more likely to be motivated to spy from divided loyalties. Even so, the majority (65%) of American spies are still native born. The changing circumstances surrounding the practice of espionage today require revision of the existing espionage laws, the study concludes. Recent espionage cases involving stateless transnational groups illustrate the strain of how to sort out and apply ... ambiguities in the current [espionage] statutues. The new study was performed for the Defense Personnel Security Research Center, with the support of the Counterintelligence Field Activity (which reportedly may soon be dismantled). A copy was obtained by Secrecy News. See Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007, by Katherine L. Herbig, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, March 2008: http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/changes.pdf MORE SUPPORT FOR STATE SECRETS REFORM Pending legislation to reform the use of the state secrets privilege received a wave of support last week from numerous public interest, professional and civil liberties organizations. While the bill is opposed by the Attorney General (Secrecy News, 04/03/07), it received strong endorsements from the American Bar Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Constitution Project and others. See their statements and responses to the Attorney General's March 31 letter on the subject here: http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/statesec/index.html#rel GOVT OPPOSES TESTIMONY OF ISOO'S LEONARD IN AIPAC CASE Prosecutors in the case of two former AIPAC lobbyists who are charged with unlawful transmission of classified information last week asked a court to prevent the former director of the Information Security Oversight Office, J. William Leonard,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Little help fellow researchers?
http://www.skewsme.com/mind_control.html -Original Message- From: Skews Me [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 6:32 pm Subject: [ctrl] Little help fellow researchers? I'm trying to gather information for my recent and not-so-recent pages and would love suggestions of what to add to: http://www.skewsme.com/chemical_warfare.html http://www.skewsme.com/systematic_poisoning.html http://www.skewsme.com/ritalin.html And for free-energy and UFO researchers http://www.skewsme.com/ufo.html As always, I still need more information for http://www.skewsme.com/mind_control.html
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] [T]he neighbor’s cats tried to cover him up.”
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 3:01 pm Subject: [ctrl] [T]he neighbor’s cats tried to cover him up.” The Voice of the White House http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2829.htm Washington , D.C. , April 4, 2008 : “George Bush is a petty, vindictive creep. If he can’t have his way, he immediately thinks of ways to annoy people. He knows his days are numbered in the Oval Office and that he has no legacy to contemplate and is aware people hate him. He knows that the Texas university that is planned to house his sacred library, where he wants to have an elegant office, has most of their faculty opposing his presence and he knows his approval rating is down almost to single figures. And what does he do? He decided to let rancher kill wolves in spite of the stink that made, or probably because of it, He had dredged up a slate of appointees that the Mexican parliament would jib at and now the word around this Monkey Palace is that George, with the encouragement of Cheney, wants to put a huge crimp in social security payments, cut Medicare way back and most important, cut food stamp issuance back 60%! He is looking for some Yoo character to tell him it’s legal to do this and then he will. Why cut these vital lifelines? Because it looks like Obama might make it and Bush does not like blacks. The old phrase;, ‘Welfare Queens’ can be heard now and then and if it can be done, Bush will do it, He is a mean man but I have a nice joke I have been telling around here which I will pass on to all of you: When George was a little boy, he saw a program on ice fishing. He decided he wanted to ice fish. As his family were out of town, he got a folding stool, an axe, a fishing pole and tackle from his father and his usual bottle of Jim Beam and off he went. It was winter and George knew right where the ice was. He put the stool down and began to chop a hole in the ice. Suddenly, a voice boomed out, ‘There are no fish under that ice!” George then picked up his stool and gear and walked a few dozen yards away and put everything down again. And again, when he started chopping a hole in the ice, the same voice boomed out again, ‘There are no fish under that ice”! This time George got angry. ‘Is that you, God?’ he asked in a weak voice. ‘No!’ came the reply. ‘It’s the skating rink manager!’ Now that’s just a story but it is true that the Bush family wouldn’t let little George play in their outdoor sandbox because when he did, the neighbor’s cats tried to cover him up.” -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [political-research] Another Psychotic Eruption at cia-drugs
Such an erudite kickshaw. Trying to quell backfires and or is it the bad performance reports? Peace, K -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 4:00 pm Subject: [political-research] Another Psychotic Eruption at cia-drugs Periodically the resident conspiracy theorists (of the mescaline-induced paranoid schizophrenia school) erupt with a rash of hysteria about Chip Berlet, and it's happened again. So, how does one respond to crazies who are unable to engage in rational discussion and who are making false and defamatory charges?? With a message like this, I guess. Normally one should be compassionate and understanding in handling broken minds, but there are limits.
Re: [cia-drugs] Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!
Just being a troublemaker? The Swedish government said on Monday that it had sold the Vin Sprit group which owns Absolut vodka to the giant drinks group Pernod Ricard of France for 5.626 billion euros. http://www.breitbart.com/image.php?id=iafp080331075806.fi7xz7iup0show_article=1catnum=0ch=BNImagesAll Peace, K -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 7:15 pm Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that! Where is the sense of humor here? Am sure laughing their heads off 'there'. Absolut is a Russian company, lol. Michael Donovan http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html *Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!* The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border, but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte. Absolut http://www.flickr.com/photos/newcorrespondent/2383371667/ The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency Teran\TBWA http://www.terantbwa.com.mx/ and now running in Mexico, is a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an Absolut -- i.e., perfect -- world. The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war of 1848 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican-American_War when California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta California. Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the United States in 1846.) The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency Grupo Gallegos in the U.S. Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: Mexicans talk about how the Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It's very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea. But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might fall flat. Many people aren't going to understand it here. Americans in the East and the North or in the center of the county -- I don't know if they know much about the history. Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I don't know how they'd take it. Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and generating strong responses from people north of the border. I find this ad deeply offensive, and needlessly divisive. I will now make a point of drinking other brands. And 'vodka and tonic' is my drink, said one visitor, called New Yorker, on MexicoReporter.com http://mexicoreporter.com/2008/04/03/california-reclaimed-by-mexico-thats-the-absolut-truth/#comments. Reader Paul Green goes into a discussion on the blog Gateway Pundit http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/04/absolut-ly-outrageous-ad-in-mexico-city.html of whether the U.S. territories ever belonged to Mexico in the first place, and the News12 Long island http://forum.news12.com//ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=0Number=928151page=0 site invited people to boycott Absolut, with one user, called LivingSmall, writing: If you drink Absolut vodka, you can voice your approval or disapproval of this advertising campaign with your purchases. I know I will be switching to Grey Goose or Stoli and will never have another bottle of Absolut in my house. Hey Absolut ... that's my form of social commentary. -- Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson in Mexico City Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] High Court Rejects Bush Assertion on U.S. Treaties
-Original Message- From: Alberta Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:17 pm Subject: [ctrl] High Court Rejects Bush Assertion on U.S. Treaties Wow, I am not so sure this is a good thing what do you think? High Court Rejects Bush Assertion on U.S. Treaties by Nina Totenberg Listen Now [4 min 31 sec] add to playlist Morning Edition, March 26, 2008 · The Supreme Court justices by a 6-3 vote said Tuesday that President Bush overstepped his authority when he tried to order Texas to reopen the case of a Mexican man on death row for rape and murder. An international court had ordered President Bush to tell the states to review cases of some foreign defendants who were denied the right to contact their embassies when they were arrested. That was a right the United States had agreed to, and in fact insisted on, when negotiating a treaty. But now the justices say the president's executive power does not give him the authority to intervene in those state criminal cases. Legal Affairs States Not Subject to All Treaties, High Court Rules by Nina Totenberg Listen Now [6 min 13 sec] add to playlist All Things Considered, March 25, 2008 · The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major opinion on Tuesday that limits the force of many U.S. treaties and rejects President Bush's assertion that he can unilaterally order state governments to comply with treaties. As the U.S. Constitution reads, All Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby... So when the Senate ratifies a treaty with a two-thirds vote, does that mean the treaty provisions are binding on the states? The Supreme Court ruled that they are binding only if the treaty explicitly says so or if there is legislation to make that clear. For all of American history, many treaties have been deemed to be what is called self-executing, meaning that their provisions are automatically binding. But not all treaties fall into this category. The Supreme Court's ruling set a bright line for which treaties are self-executing — namely, those that explicitly say so or have accompanying legislation that says so. The court said the president, acting on his own, cannot make a treaty binding on the states. The ruling came in a death penalty case involving a treaty enacted in 1969 that guaranteed foreign nationals access to diplomats from their home countries if they are accused of crimes. Although the provision was inserted at the insistence of the United States to protect its citizens abroad, state and local governments in the U.S. were slow to honor it. In 2004, the Mexican government went to the International Court of Justice on behalf of 51 of its citizens on death row in the United States who had not been told of their right to consular access, and thus, did not have the benefit of the Mexican government's help at the time of their trials. The international court ruled that the United States had violated its treaty obligations and ordered the U.S. to in some form reconsider the death sentences. Bush then withdrew from the part of the treaty subjecting the United States to the international court's jurisdiction. But for those 51 individuals, he ordered the state courts to comply. His home state of Texas refused, asserting that the president's unilateral assertion of power was unconstitutional. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed by a 6-3 majority. Diplomats Dismayed Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that because the treaty did not explicitly say its provisions were binding, and because there was no legislation to make the treaty binding, the president could not on his own force the states to comply. There is no reason to believe that the president and the Senate signed up for such a result, he said. The dissenting justices, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, said some 70 existing treaties are in jeopardy because of Tuesday's ruling. Many U.S. diplomats were dismayed. Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who served as a State Department official in the Clinton administration, said the decision would create havoc in diplomatic circles for some time to come. If our international allies have no assurance that we're actually going to keep our word, then they have much less incentive to keep their word when they're being obliged to do something, he said. But Charles Cooper, a former Reagan administration official, said Bush had gone too far. The notion that the president can himself unilaterally determine that it shall be a binding domestic law, even to the point of preempting state laws dealing with criminal procedure, is a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] IRS A Fraud-Grace Commission Showed IRS Is A Total Fraud-'84
-Original Message- From: Elvo Him [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:44 pm Subject: [ctrl] IRS A Fraud-Grace Commission Showed IRS Is A Total Fraud-'84 IRS A Fraud Grace Commission Showed IRS Is A Total Fraud total_truth_sciences Message from discussion 1984: Grace Commission Report under Ronald Reagan showed IRS is a fraud that collects taxes for the Banking Dynasties Alex James View profile More options Mar 21, 3:25 am From: Alex James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:25:44 +0300 Local: Fri, Mar 21 2008 3:25 am Subject: 1984: Grace Commission Report under Ronald Reagan showed IRS is a fraud that collects taxes for the Banking Dynasties Reply | Reply to author | Forward | Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. -Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan - January 15, 1984 Ronald Reagan was promptly shot after he dared to criticize the Fed, on the same day that the Pope was shot. After recovering, he changed his mind and praised the Fed. About seven US Presidents have been assassinated for not cooperating with the Transatlantic Banking Dynasties (William Henry Harrison, poisoned, in 1841, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and John F. Kennedy 1963; 7 if FDR's poisoning is counted). Most of us feel sick when we realize that Not one dime of IRS money goes to the US Gov't, according to Reagan's Grace Commission: it all goes to pay interest on a bogus debt to the Private Federal Reserve (FED), just to allow paper money to circulate as Federal Reserve Notes. The Federal Reserve is a private Corporation eventually owned by the Rockefellers and Rothschilds Dynasties through intermediary agents, designed to suck the capital dry from the U.S., as the Rothschilds do in Europe. Read Billions for the http://www.deepinfo.com/email/Billions4Bankers.htm Bankers, Debts for the People More Links at DeepInfo.com on Jekyll Island http://www.deepinfo.com/more/jekyll.htm . The final report of the 1984 Grace Commission, convened under President Ronald Reagan, quietly admitted that none of the funds they collect from federal income taxes goes to pay for any federal government services. The Grace Commission found that those funds were being used to pay for interest on the federal debt, and income transfer payments to beneficiaries of entitlement programs like federal pension plans. These comments were presented at the Close of the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing.Washington D.C., February 27-28, 2002: IRS is a Trust http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm Headquartered in Puerto Rico Not a Federal Agency The IRS is technically not an agency of the federal government, as that term is defined in the Freedom of http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/552.html Information Act and in the Administrative http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/551.html Procedures Act. The governments of the federal territories are expressly excluded from the definition of agency in those Acts of Congress. See 5 U.S.C. 551 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/5/551.html (1)(C). All evidence indicates that they are a money laundry, extortion racket, and conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1951 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1951.html and 1961 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1961.html et seq. They appear to be laundering huge sums of money into foreign banks, mostly in Europe, and quite possibly into the Vatican. See the national policy on money laundering at 31 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/5341.html U.S.C. 5341 . Do federal income tax revenues pay for any government services and, if so, which government services are funded by federal income taxes? Answer: No. The money trail is very difficult to follow, in this instance, because the IRS is technically a trust with a domicile in Puerto http://www.supremelaw.org/authors/cooper/cooper.htm Rico. See 31 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/31/1321.html U.S.C. 1321(a)(62). As such, their records are protected by laws which guarantee the privacy of trust
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] hemp links
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
-Original Message- From: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 6:39 pm Subject: Bush Moves Toward Martial Law ? - Original Message - Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:12 AM Subject: Bush Moves Toward Martial Law Bush Moves Toward Martial Law ? Written by Frank Morales ?? Thursday, 26 October 2006 In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. Public Law 109-364, or the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare a public emergency and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to suppress public disorder. President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the term is martial law. Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies. Section 333, Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law states that the President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of (refuse or fail in) maintaining public order, in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy. For the current President, enforcement of the laws to restore public order means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them loose against disorderly citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event. The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called illegal aliens, potential terrorists and other undesirables for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up immigration emergency and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush administration. An article on recent contract awards in a recent issue of the slick, insider Journal of Counterterrorism Homeland Security International reported that global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency. With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year term, the report notes, the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for establishing temporary detention and processing
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Confidential document said to warn of conflict or revolution ahead for America
-Original Message- From: Leticia Martinez/Nierika [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 9:14 am Subject: [ctrl] Confidential document said to warn of conflict or revolution ahead for America http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080403 April 3, 2008 -- Confidential document said to warn of conflict or revolution ahead for America WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the US financial community that an alarming confidential and limited distribution document is circulating among senior members of Congress and their senior staff members that is warning of a bleak future for the United States if it does not quickly get its financial house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among those who have reportedly read the document. The document is being called the C R document because it reportedly states that if the United States defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China, Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the United States government financially, and the United States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can expect a war that will have disastrous results for the United States and the world. Conflict is the C word in the document. The other scenario is that the federal government will be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay off debts to foreign countries to the point that the American people will react with a popular revolution against the government. Revolution is the document's R word. The origin of the document is not known, however, its alarming content matches up with previous warnings from former Comptroller General David Walker who abruptly resigned as head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in February of this year after repeatedly publicly warning of a financial meltdown disaster if America's $9 trillion debt was not addressed quickly. Financial experts have warned that the national debt, corrected for inflation, could reach $46 trillion in the next 20 years. A month earlier, Walker warned the Senate Banking Committee about the reaction of creditor nations in Asia and Europe if the U.S. did not address its debt problem. __ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Conspiracy Planet - 9-11: Who Benefits? - Italian Who Revealed Gladio Says 9-11 Solved
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 1:13 am Subject: [ctrl] Conspiracy Planet - 9-11: Who Benefits? - Italian Who Revealed Gladio Says 9-11 Solved URL: http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?ChannelID=79 -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Embarrassed US Starts to Disown Basra Operation
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 1:13 am Subject: [ctrl] Embarrassed US Starts to Disown Basra Operation http://www.antiwar.com/porter/?articleid=12613 April 1, 2008 Embarrassed US Starts to Disown Basra Operation by Gareth Porter As it became clear last week that the Operation Knights Assault in Basra was in serious trouble, the George W. Bush administration began to claim in off-the-record statements to journalists that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had launched the operation without consulting Washington. The effort to disclaim U.S. responsibility for the operation is an indication that it was viewed as a major embarrassment just as top commander Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker are about to testify before Congress. Behind this furious backpedaling is a major Bush administration miscalculation about Moqtada al-Sadr and the Mahdi Army, which the administration believed was no longer capable of a coordinated military operation. It is now apparent that Sadr and the Mahdi Army were holding back because they were still in the process of retraining and reorganization, not because Sadr had given up the military option or had lost control of the Mahdi Army. The process of the administration distancing itself from the Basra operation began on March 27, when the Washington Post reported that administration officials, speaking anonymously, said that al-Maliki had decided to launch the offensive without consulting his U.S. allies. One official claimed, [W]e can't quite decipher what is going on, adding that it was a question of who's got the best conspiracy theory about why Maliki acted when he did. On March 30, the New York Times reported from Baghdad that few observers in Iraq seem to believe that al-Maliki intended such a bold stroke, and that many say the notoriously cautious politician stumbled into a major assault. The Times quoted a senior Western official in Baghdad – the term usually used for the ambassador or senior military commander – as saying, Maliki miscalculated, adding, From all I hear, al-Maliki's trip was not intended to be the start of major combat operations right there, but a show of force. The official claimed there were some heated exchanges between him and the generals, who out of hurt pride or out of calculation or both then insisted on him taking responsibility. These suggestions that it was Maliki who miscalculated in Basra are clearly false. No significant Iraqi military action can be planned without a range of military support functions being undertaken by the U.S. command. On March 25, just as the operation was getting under way in Basra, U.S. military spokesman Col. Bill Buckner said coalition forces were providing intelligence, surveillance, and support aircraft for the operation. Furthermore, the embedded role of the U.S. Military Transition Teams (MTTs) makes it impossible that any Iraqi military operation could be planned without their full involvement. A U.S. adviser to the Iraqi security forces involved in the operation told a Washington Post reporter by telephone on March 25 he expected the operation to take a week to 10 days. Operation Knights Assault also involved actual U.S.-Iraqi joint combat operations. U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner denied on March 26 that there were any conventional U.S. forces involved in the operation. Only on March 30 did the U.S. command confirm that a joint raid by Iraqi and U.S. special forces units had killed 22 suspected militants in Basra. Some observers have expressed doubt that the Bush administration would have chosen to have Maliki launch such a risky campaign against well-entrenched Shi'ite militiamen in Basra until after the Petraeus-Crocker testimony had been completed. But that assumes that Vice President Dick Cheney and the Pentagon recognized the potential danger of a large-scale effort to eliminate or severely weaken the Mahdi Army in Basra. In fact, the Bush administration and the Iraqi military were clearly taken by surprise when the Mahdi Army in Basra attacked security forces on March 25, initiating a major battle for the city. For many months the Bush administration, encouraged by Moqtada al-Sadr's unilateral cease-fire of last August, had been testing Sadr and the Mahdi Army to see if they would respond to piecemeal repression by striking back. The U.S. command and Iraqi security forces had carried out constant cordon and search operations which had resulted in the detention of at least 2,000 Mahdi Army militiamen since the August cease-fire, according to a Sadrist legislator. Resistance to such operations by the Mahdi Army had been minimal, and Bush
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 1:13 am Subject: [ctrl] Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior Dan Calabrese Read Dan's bio and previous columns here http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm March 31, 2008 Watergate-Era Judiciary Chief of Staff: Hillary Clinton Fired For Lies, Unethical Behavior As Hillary Clinton came under increasing scrutiny for her story about facing sniper fire in Bosnia, one question that arose was whether she has engaged in a pattern of lying. The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes. Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career. Why? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.” How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel (and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right to counsel during the investigation. Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro. The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. Zeifman says that Hillary, along with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon. And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception. The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment attempt in 1970. “As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman said. The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public files. So what did Hillary do? “Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,” Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred. The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge. Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded, members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon. Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Today's spies find secrets in plain sight
-Original Message- From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 3:43 am Subject: [SPY NEWS] Today's spies find secrets in plain sight http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2008-03-31-internet-spies_N.htm Today's spies find secrets in plain sight By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2008/04/01/natanzx-large.jpg Public media photos of equipment at Iran's Natanz uranium-enrichment facility helped lead U.S. officials to change their view of Iran's nuclear program. WASHINGTON — For 40 years, U.S. presidents have begun each day with a top-secret, personal briefing on security threats and global affairs obtained largely from covert spy missions, clandestine satellite surveillance and other highly classified intelligence sources. Now, however, the President's Daily Brief and other crucial intelligence reports often rely less on secrets from risky espionage missions than on material that's available to just about anyone. Intelligence officers have gleaned insights on Iran's nuclear capabilities from photos on the Internet. They've scooped up documents, including a terrorist training manual, at international conferences and public forums. They've found information in foreign university libraries and newscasts. Such material is known as open-source intelligence or, in the acronym-laden parlance of the 16 federal agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, OSINT. The explosion of information available via the Internet and other public sources has pushed the collection and analysis of that material to the top of the official priority list in the spy world, intelligence officials say. The change hasn't been easy in a bureaucracy that often measures success by its ability to steal secrets. Federal commissions repeatedly have criticized the intelligence community for not moving more quickly and aggressively to exploit open-source information. It's a challenging task, given the mountains of material to sift through. Every potentially useful nugget must be vetted because enemy states and terror groups, such as al-Qaeda, sometimes use the Internet and other open channels to put out misleading information. Yet officials say agencies are overcoming such obstacles and unearthing increasingly valuable troves of intelligence. It's no longer unusual to see open-source material in the President's Daily Brief … (and) it's often a very important component of the information that's incorporated into our intelligence analyses, says Frances Townsend, who until January was President Bush's assistant national security adviser for homeland security and counterterrorism. Whether it's developments in Russian politics, the spread of avian flu, the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Asia or the technological capacity of enemy states, there's been a significant shift toward relying more on open-source information, Townsend adds. And a lot of what we know about our (terrorist) adversaries comes from statements and videos they put on the Internet. The intelligence community is investing heavily to improve its collection of open-source information. The CIA has set up an Open Source Center, based in a nondescript office building in suburban Washington, where officers pore over everything from al-Qaeda-backed websites to papers distributed at science and technology symposiums, says Douglas Naquin, the center's director. Other agencies, such as the FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, are training scores of analysts to mine open sources and giving many of them desktop Internet access. That's a big change in a world in which computers in such agencies have long been designed to prevent data from flowing to or from the public realm. At the same time, national security officials also are grappling with the flip side of the open-source phenomenon: making sure sensitive information held by the government, businesses and even individuals doesn't slip into the same sort of public outlets that U.S. intelligence agencies are scrutinizing. Intelligence officials see it all as a necessary evolution. Open sources can provide up to 90% of the information needed to meet most U.S. intelligence needs, Deputy Director of National Intelligence Thomas Fingar said in a recent speech. Harnessing that information is terribly important, he said. It ought to be a normal part of what we do, not being fixated on secrets dribbling into the computer's in-box. But progress has been slow. Robert David Steele, a former CIA and Marine Corps intelligence officer, gives the intelligence community a D+ for its use of information available from the Internet, commercial satellite imagery and other open sources. There's still a cult of secrecy — nothing is seen as important unless it's classified, says Steele, founder of OSS.Net, a commercial intelligence provider for private companies and the government. Agencies still aren't investing enough in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - Nazi Sex Video Scandal: Formula One Boss Mosley Under Pressure to Resign - International
Formula One -Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 1:37 pm Subject: [ctrl] SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - Nazi Sex Video Scandal: Formula One Boss Mosley Under Pressure to Resign - International http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,544388,00.html 03/31/2008 02:23 PM NAZI SEX VIDEO SCANDAL Formula One Boss Mosley Under Pressure to Resign A British tabloid claims to have obtained a video showing the president of Formula One's governing body, Max Mosley, engaging in an orgy involving Nazi role-playing. Jewish leaders are calling on Mosley, the son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, to resign. AFP FIA president Max Mosley is under pressure over sex allegations. The president of Formula One's governing body FIA is under pressure to resign over sex allegations made by a British tabloid newspaper. The News of the World reported Sunday that Max Mosley, 67, had taken part in a sick Nazi orgy with five prostitutes involving Nazi role-playing. The allegations are based on a five-hour video obtained by the newspaper, which shows a man identified as Max Mosley acting out various sadomasochistic role-plays in a London apartment. One prostitute inspects the man's genitals and searches his hair for lice in an obscene parody of the treatment of concentration camp inmates during the Third Reich. The man is whipped by one dominatrix before himself whipping two prostitutes wearing concentration camp-style striped uniforms. The man also addresses the prostitutes in German during the role-plays, although one girl reportedly confesses in the video to not understanding what he is saying. The man also reportedly engages in sex acts with the prostitutes before finishing off the sex session with a cup of tea. Jewish leaders in the UK have condemned the video. “This is sick and depraved,” Karen Pollock, chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told the London Times. “I am absolutely appalled.” This is an insult to millions of victims, survivors and their families, Stephen Smith, director of the Holocaust Centre, also told the newspaper. He should apologize. He should resign from the sport.” Formula One chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who is a personal friend of Mosley, defended the reputation of the FIA president. I find it difficult to believe. It's his business but it sounds to me like a set up, he told the Daily Mail. Knowing Max it might be all a bit of a joke rather than anything against Jewish people. A FIA spokesman said Sunday that the organization had no comment: This is a matter between Mr. Mosley and the newspaper. Max Mosley is the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the founder of the British Union of Fascists, and the society beauty Diana Mitford. The couple married in 1936 at the family home of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in Berlin. Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was among the guests. Max Mosley was educated partly at an elite boarding school in Germany and later studied at Oxford University. He is a multi-millionaire, having inherited a fortune from his father who died in 1980, and has been married to his wife Jean since 1960. He has been president of FIA since 1993. dgs/ap/reuters URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,544388,00.html © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2008 All Rights Reserved Reproduction only allowed with the permission of SPIEGELnet GmbH -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides - Times Online
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 7:37 am Subject: [ctrl] Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides - Times Online March 28, 2008 Iraqi police in Basra shed their uniforms, kept their rifles and switched sides http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3635838.ece James Hider in Baghdad Abu Iman barely flinched when the Iraqi Government ordered his unit of special police to move against al-Mahdi Army fighters in Basra. His response, while swift, was not what British and US military trainers who have spent the past five years schooling the Iraqi security forces would have hoped for. He and 15 of his comrades took off their uniforms, kept their government-issued rifles and went over to the other side without a second thought. Such turncoats are the thread that could unravel the British Army’s policy in southern Iraq. The military hoped that local forces would be able to combat extremists and allow the Army to withdraw gradually from the battle-scarred and untamed oil city that has fallen under the sway of Islamic fundamentalists, oil smugglers and petty tribal warlords. But if the British taught the police to shoot straight, they failed to instil a sense of unwavering loyalty to the State. “We know the outcome of the fighting in advance because we already defeated the British in the streets of Basra and forced them to withdraw to their base,” Abu Iman told The Times. Related Links Basra crisis leaves British withdrawal in ruins Analysis: Britain must now fight or fail Iraqi troops take on Shia militia in Basra clash “If we go back a bit, everyone remembers the fight with the US in Najaf and the damage and defeat we inflicted on them. Do you think the Iraqi Army is better than those armies? We are right and the Government is wrong. [Nouri al] Maliki [the Iraqi Prime Minister] is driving his Government into the ground.” The reason for his apparent switch of sides was simple: the 36-year-old was already a member of the al-Mahdi Army which, like other militias, has massively infiltrated the British-trained police force in the southern oil city. He claimed that hundreds of others from the 16,000-strong force have also defected to the rebels’ ranks.Abu Iman joined the new Iraqi police force after the invasion, joining the Mugawil, a special police unit infamous for brutality, kidnapping and sectarian murders. “We already heard two weeks ago that we were going to attack the Mahdi Army, so we were ready,” he said. “I decided to take off my uniform and join my brothers and friends in the Mahdi Army. All these years, we were like a scream in the face of the dictator and the occupation.” He said: “I joined the police because I believed we have to protect Basra and save it with our own hands. You can see we were the first fighters to take on Sadd-am and his regime, the best example being the Shabaniya uprising.” Abu Iman said that the fighting raging in Basra yesterday was intense because the al-Mahdi Army was operating on its own turf. He was confident that the Shia militia would prevail because its cause was just. “The Iraqi Army is already defeated from within. They come to Basra with fear in their hearts, knowing they have to fight their brothers, the sons of Iraq, because of an order from Bush and his friends in the Iraq Government. For this reason, all of the battles are going in the Mahdi Army’s favour.” Major-General Abdelaziz Moham-med Jassim, the director of operations at the Ministry of Defence, played down reports of defections in the Basra police force. “The problem of one policeman doesn’t make up for the whole of the force,” he said. In recent months Major-General Abdul Jalil Khalaf, Basra’s police chief, has tried to shake up the force and drive out militia infiltrators, who have wrought havoc in the past, often turning police stations into torture cells in which factions settled vendettas and power struggles with murder and abuse. But he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday when a suicide car bomb attack in Basra killed three of his policemen. A local tribal leader said the police directorate building was later gutted by fire. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse?
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:58 pm Subject: [ctrl] Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse? - Original Message - From: Flo Hoffman To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:28 AM Subject: [RonPaulforPresident] Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse? Is Cheney betting on Economic Collapse? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13851.htm No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.0/1344 - Release Date: 3/26/2008 8:52 AM
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant//TRUTH is ,this is how most everything is done ...fact.......
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:27 pm Subject: [ctrl] Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant//TRUTH is ,this is how most everything is done ...fact... - Original Message - From: Deon M. To: ddDeon Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:23 PM Subject: Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant//TRUTH is ,this is how most everything is done ...fact... - Original Message - From: hawke To: pastor Brown Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 9:26 PM Subject: - Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant//TRUTH is ,this is how most everything is done ...fact... http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=20317
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] E.U. TREATIES PROCURED BY PAYOLA CORRUPTION
-Original Message- From: civl ecco [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:18 pm Subject: [ctrl] E.U. TREATIES PROCURED BY PAYOLA CORRUPTION European Union Treaties Procured By Corruption 'The European Union Collective is illegal and so extensively criminalised that it has become all but indistinguishable from a criminal organisation. It is illegal because key EU treaties were procured by means of slush fund payments. It is corrupt because, being born in corruption, its procedures are designed to mask the corrupt activities of many of its officials, while it publishes false accounts. These findings are published today in the latest issue of International Currency Review, the London-based Journal of the International Financial Community.' Read ... E.U. TREATIES PROCURED BY PAYOLA CORRUPTION BRUSSELS ACCOUNTS ARE FRAUDULENT: E.C. CREDIT RATING AT RISK Wednesday 12 October 2005 00:16 Back to Archive Print Send email link to this report By Christopher Story, Editor, International Currency Review: www.worldreports.org BRITAIN CAN LEAVE THIS ILLEGAL ‘FESTERING DUSTBIN OF CORRUPTION’ TOMORROW • Note: Intelligence on EC/EU fraud and corruption in this report was supplied by and derived from research by Ashley Mote MEP, Paul Buitenen MEP, Marta Andreasen, and Christopher Arkell. The intelligence on Edward Heath, Geoffrey Rippon, et al, and on the EU practice of making corrupt 'payola' payments to key negotiators and signatories of specified EU Collective and Accession Treaties in exchange for their perverted ongoing cooperation was not obtained from them, but was provided inter alia by several intelligence agencies and was cross- checked prior to publication in International Currency Review and on this website. It is noteworthy that one month after publication of this report and of the journal, not a single statement contained herein had been challenged, denied, or commented upon by the officials, journalists and others to whom the journal and this report were sent. All hope this will 'go away', so that everyone will forget about it – but it won't. The European Union Collective is illegal and so extensively criminalised that it has become all but indistinguishable from a criminal organisation. It is illegal because key EU treaties were procured by means of slush fund payments. It is corrupt because, being born in corruption, its procedures are designed to mask the corrupt activities of many of its officials, while it publishes false accounts. These findings are published today in the latest issue of International Currency Review, the London-based Journal of the International Financial Community. The fraudulence of the European Commission's accounts necessitates urgent reconsideration of its Triple-A Credit Rating by the leading Rating Agencies. Precise evidence of the fraudulence of the EC’s accounts is presented in the issue. International Currency Review has advised the agencies accordingly, and anticipates that they will carry out the necessary overdue reassessment of the EC’s ‘integrity’. In the event that no action is taken, given the extreme gravity of the evidence of institutionalised accounting fraud presented in the journal, the integrity of the Credit Rating Agencies themselves may be called into question – not least by International Currency Review. This may have repercussions for the International Financial Community generally. WHY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS ILLEGAL AND ILLEGITIMATE But first things first. The illegitimacy and illegality of the European Union – and thus of ALL its constituent structures, including the European Central Bank – arises from the following facts: • The British Treaty of Accession was signed by two agents of the German ‘Black’ Nazi intelligence continuum, DVD [•see below], based in Dachau, near Munich. The two signatories, both of whom received substantial financial rewards for their ‘cooperation’, were: Edward Heath and Geoffrey Rippon. Together with the late Roy Jenkins, they were recruited/compromised by the German Abwehr while studying at Balliol College, Oxford. • THE E.U. TREATIES ARE ROUTINELY PROCURED BY FRAUDULENT MEANS: That is to say, official signatories and senior policymakers/operatives have received, and routinely receive, substantial corrupt payments, remitted to their secret offshore bank accounts, in exchange for their ‘cooperation’ in pushing through successive EU treaties. The bribery funds are derived from
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Plug-in Drug by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 1:17 pm Subject: [ctrl] The Plug-in Drug by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers - Original Message - From: T.A. Long To: T A Long Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:13 PM Subject: The Plug-in Drug by Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers If you have children or plan to have children and want them to think critically, or you want to start thinking critically, read this and smash the video toilet! http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers215.html
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Why the US is collapsing
-Original Message- From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mx.terabolic.com Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 6:06 pm Subject: [ctrl] Why the US is collapsing http://falkvinge.com/2008/03/why-us-is-collapsing.html the US went bankrupt in 1971, and has been covering it up through an accelerating whack-a-mole borrowing frenzy that is bursting right now.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Print - Boom in Locally Grown Drugs: Cannabis Factories in Germany Growing Like Weeds - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:03 am Subject: [ctrl] Print - Boom in Locally Grown Drugs: Cannabis Factories in Germany Growing Like Weeds - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News SPIEGEL ONLINE - March 5, 2008, 04:10 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,539502,00.html BOOM IN LOCALLY GROWN DRUGS Cannabis Factories in Germany Growing Like Weeds Criminals are increasingly cultivating cannabis in Germany to get around stricter border controls. Experts warn that locally produced weed can be four times as potent as conventionally grown drugs. DPA Hamburg police raiding a cannabis factory last month: Officers discovered 1,200 plants in the backroom of a workshop. The number of cannabis factories in Germany has exploded, drug experts warned in a report released this week. In the study the International Narcotics Control Board, which monitors the implementation of the United Nations international drug conventions, said cannabis was increasingly being grown in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. According to INCB, the increase in home-grown cannabis is a result of tighter border controls. In the past, illicit drugs were smuggled into Europe from the Caribbean, but less porous borders have forced those in the drug business to set up local cultivating operations. Since 2002 in Germany the illegal production of cannabis in professionally set up green houses has increased frighteningly, Carola Lander, a member of the INCB, warned during a presentation of the organization's 2007 report in Berlin on Tuesday. Increased Potency The hike in locally grown weed has had a marked effect on the strength of drugs discovered in Germany, as cannabis grown in green houses can be four times as potent as conventionally produced weed, criminal investigators in North Rhine-Westphalia recently said. Increased potency is the result of professional cultivation and gene-manipulated seeds. Earlier this week the head of a German drugs clinic warned that cannabis users were getting younger and one out of twenty 18 to 24-year-old in Germany needed treatment for a condition arising out of their cannabis consumption. Professor Rainer Thomasius, of the University Hospital in Hamburg's Eppendorf neighborhood, said the average age children first tried cannabis fell from 17 years a decade ago to 15 years today. He added: In big cities it stands at 14 years, with children who live in difficult circumstances at 12 or 13 years. According to the INCB report there has been a rise in the use of other drugs as well: cocaine consumption in Europe has increased, as have cocaine parcels sent specifically to Germany. And the use of heroin shows no signs of slowing down, with experts estimating 3.3 million Europeans are addicted to the drug. Almost all of the heroin flooding the European market comes from Afghanistan, which, despite international efforts to eradicate poppy production, last year produced a record drug harvest, growing 17 per cent more opium. It comes via three routes across Europe -- either through Turkey, Russia or Pakistan, using planes or ships. Though most countries in Western Europe are reporting fewer incidents of seizing heroin shipments, Spain and Germany both reporter more cases in the past year. maw/ap/dpa © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2008 All Rights Reserved Reproduction only allowed with the permission of SPIEGELnet GmbH Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links: Cannabis in the Cathedral: German Church Officer Arrested on Drug Dealing Charges (06/07/2007) http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,487246,00.html Marijuana Malcontent: Germany's McDope Problem (08/17/2006) http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,432078,00.html -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] VERY important: Forwarded: Numbers don't add up in Texas...
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:40 am Subject: [ctrl] VERY important: Forwarded: Numbers don't add up in Texas... - Original Message - From: Virginia Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:29 AM Subject: [FIREBASEVOICE] VERY important: Forwarded: Numbers don't add up in Texas... Of course it is fraud, no other answer to this, when you read about Ron Paul's own district in TxVirginia (I am forwarding to all CD captains, and as many Ohio groups as possible): Very Important on this thread: so keep the thread moving through the groups. _I had a Gentleman call me when I got Home from the Kent Meeting last night from New York. _ He happens to be publishing a book with photos of all of the 2004 Election Fraud Evidence, that was supposed to be published by a company in Kent State? He literally has the photographs of burned and otherwise mutilated, destroyed ballots. He is very familiar with how to follow the fraud, due to his research in the book. I would call him an investigative Journalist, in Election Fraud. I don't know him from Adam. _He called me last night, from New York, upset about huge numbers of precincts in Texas, where there were thousands of registered voters, and ZERO votes at all, with 100 of the Precincts reporting in_. He repeated so I understood. He is saying there are precincts with over 2000 registered voters, and the official count is saying NO one voted at all in that precinct after the precinct has reported in officially!! He said he has been studying elections now, for years. He has NEVER seen anything like this. He said the number of zero precincts, are especially High in the Panhandle of Texas. He also mentioned what Ron here is saying in this post. Ron Paul got more votes in his precinct for Congressman, than he did for president in the same precinct. He said, by huge amounts. Even More important, and possibly something we can all do to help... with this Ron Paul Fraud. This investigative Journalist is just about to publish the research on the fraud, and now, the company that was going to print with his book, has suddenly pulled out, and refusing to publish. He was supposed to be doing a book signing at Kent on the anniversary of the shootings, that happens annually there... I guess. He now has to self publish, which, given the situation, and the fact that he is the only one with his manual, puts him in a great deal of danger. Maybe I am a little paranoid for him, because of my past experience with revolution researchers and publishers that have suddenly gone missing, or suddenly commit suicide, over the past ten years. But while we were on the phone, we were getting echoes, then, three or four voice cut outs for ten, then 20 then 30 seconds. Finally, we were disconnected, and could not get reconnected. I did ask him to write to me so I could foreword the Texas research he did to all, and let you hear about the Ron Paul Information, since I know all of you would care a lot. I explained to him how to get a hold of the Ron Paul Texas Meetups, so they could investigate, and move on the situation, if they chose. I am hoping for an email from him this morning. I will be trying to call him back all day today. So please to the degree you can, keep an eye on this thread. If I get him on the phone, I will let you know. He needs some help getting his information out, and wants to investigate the Ron Paul campaign and election fraud, on a larger scale. Will follow up and if he does send an email, I will be sure to post it to you all Linda Ron wrote: They want us to believe that McCain won Texas in a landslide. A place where I have never heard anyone mention his name, never seen so much as a bumper sticker, and clearly a state that is covered by Ron Paul signs. Just for the sake of discussion let's say it's possible. What I find seriously hard to believe is this: * Ron Paul got 70% of the vote in his district for Congress-37,220 votes. * In that same district they want us to believe he only got 6,697 votes for president. * That equates to approximately ONLY 1 in 5 people that voted for him for Congress supported him for President. They can't be serious. Don't lie to me!! Please don't take my word for it. Look at the numbers yourself. Congressional District 14 Results - http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race4.htm Presidential Race District 14 Results - http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race64.htm Please pass it on. Our votes are not counted people. Restore the Republic! Ron Paul 2008, the Revolution has begun! -- Please Note: If you hit REPLY, your message will be sent to everyone on this mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://ronpaul.meetup.com/519 This message was sent
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore - The Boston Globe
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 9:50 am Subject: [ctrl] Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore - The Boston Globe THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/03/06/top_iraq_contractor_skirts_us_taxes_offshore/ Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore Shell companies in Cayman Islands allow KBR to avoid Medicare, Social Security deductions By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | March 6, 2008 CAYMAN ISLANDS - Kellogg Brown Root, the nation's top Iraq war contractor and until last year a subsidiary of Halliburton Corp., has avoided paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal Medicare and Social Security taxes by hiring workers through shell companies based in this tropical tax haven. More than 21,000 people working for KBR in Iraq - including about 10,500 Americans - are listed as employees of two companies that exist in a computer file on the fourth floor of a building on a palm-studded boulevard here in the Caribbean. Neither company has an office or phone number in the Cayman Islands. The Defense Department has known since at least 2004 that KBR was avoiding taxes by declaring its American workers as employees of Cayman Islands shell companies, and officials said the move allowed KBR to perform the work more cheaply, saving Defense dollars. But the use of the loophole results in a significantly greater loss of revenue to the government as a whole, particularly to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds. And the creation of shell companies in places such as the Cayman Islands to avoid taxes has long been attacked by members of Congress. A Globe survey found that the practice is unusual enough that only one other ma jor contractor in Iraq said it does something similar. Failing to contribute to Social Security and Medicare thousands of times over isn't shielding the taxpayers they claim to protect, it's costing our citizens in the name of short-term corporate greed, said Senator John F. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee who has introduced legislation to close loopholes for companies registering overseas. With an estimated $16 billion in contracts, KBR is by far the largest contractor in Iraq, with eight times the work of its nearest competitor. The no-bid contract it received in 2002 to rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure and a multibillion-dollar contract to provide support services to troops have long drawn scrutiny because Vice President Dick Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive from 1995 until he joined the Republican ticket with President Bush in 2000. The largest of the Cayman Islands shell companies - called Service Employers International Inc., which is now listed as having more than 20,000 workers in Iraq, according to KBR - was created two years before Cheney became Halliburton's chief executive. But a second Cayman Islands company called Overseas Administrative Services, which now is listed as the employer of 1,020 mostly managerial workers in Iraq, was established two months after Cheney's appointment. Cheney's office at the White House referred questions to his personal lawyer, who did not return phone calls. Heather Browne, a spokeswoman for KBR, acknowledged via e-mail that the two Cayman Islands companies were set up in order to allow us to reduce certain tax obligations of the company and its employees. Social Security and Medicare taxes amount to 15.3 percent of each employees' salary, split evenly between the worker and the employer. While KBR's use of the shell companies saves workers their half of the taxes, it deprives them of future retirement benefits. In addition, the practice enables KBR to avoid paying unemployment taxes in Texas, where the company is registered, amounting to between $20 and $559 per American employee per year, depending on the company's rate of turnover. As a result, workers hired through the Cayman Island companies cannot receive unemployment assistance should they lose their jobs. In interviews with more than a dozen KBR workers registered through the Cayman Islands companies, most said they did not realize that they had been employed by a foreign firm until they arrived in Iraq and were told by their foremen, or until they returned home and applied for unemployment benefits. They never explained it to us, said Arthur Faust, 57, who got a job loading convoys in Iraq in 2004 after putting his resume on KBRcareers.com and going to orientation with KBR officials in Houston. But there is one circumstance in which KBR does claim the workers as its own: when it comes to receiving the legal immunity extended to employers working in Iraq. In one previously unreported case, a group of Service Employers International workers accused KBR of knowingly
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] [ Entire Counties Disenfranchised in Texas
-Original Message- From: Deon M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 10:34 am Subject: [ctrl] [ Entire Counties Disenfranchised in Texas] - Original Message - From: Virginia Brooks To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 5:41 AM Subject: [ Entire Counties Disenfranchised in Texas] Election Fraud at its extreme This is a detailed report on the Tx. count. Check it out, I wonder if citizens groups did exit polls? Virginia Brooks FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Richard Hayes Phillips, Ph.D. March 5, 2008 Didn’t anybody notice this? It is now 24 hours after the polls closed in Texas. In 21 counties, with 100% of precincts reporting, nobody voted in the Republican presidential primary. In three counties, with 100% of precincts reporting, nobody voted in the Democratic presidential primary. In the 21 counties with no Republican voters, there were 87,919 registered voters, and 36,239 ballots cast, all of them Democratic. In the three counties with no Democratic voters, there were 5,212 registered voters, and 1,865 ballots cast, all of them Republican. In Maverick County, all 9,661 ballots cast were Democratic. In Hansford County, all 1,235 ballots cast were Republican. ONE-PARTY TEXAS COUNTIES, PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY, 2008 County RegisteredRepublican Democratic Voters Votes Votes Armstrong 1404 369 0 Borden 432 0 139 Brooks 6385 0 3185 Cottle 1230 0 471 Crockett 2654 0 1166 Culberson 1959 0 526 Dickens 1410 0 612 Duval 9331 0 5053 Foard 1043 0 432 Hall 2110 0 813 Hansford 3101 1235 0 Hardeman 2969 0 1086 Hudspeth 1557 0 476 Kent 665 0 250 La Salle 4071 0 1392 Loving 116 0 22 Maverick 26224 0 9661 Reeves 6337 0 2228 Roberts 707 261 0 Stonewall 1087 0 483 Throckmorton 1175 0 513 Upton 2139 0 823 Zapata 7148 0 3190 Zavala 7877 0 3718 But don’t take my word for it. See for yourself. http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_135_race0.htm http://enr.sos.state.tx.us/enr/mar04_136_race0.htm http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/state/#TX Election officials in the State of Texas have some explaining to do. Richard Hayes Phillips is the author of the definitive book on the 2004 presidential election in Ohio – “Witness to a Crime: A Citizens’ Audit of an American Election.” For more information: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1313 - Release Date: 3/5/2008 9:50 AM
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Rudolph Diesel and Hemp oil
-Original Message- From: luxefaire [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 7:13 am Subject: Rudolph Diesel and Hemp oil Rudolph Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, designed the diesel to operate on Hemp oil. The Hemp tree produces four times more oxygen than a tree, thereby solving the greenhouse effect, produces no toxic exhaust, only Co-2 and water. The plants use carbon dioxide, Co-2 to make oxygen. IT is estimated that less than 20 million acres of farmland would supply Americas fuel requirements annually. It costs just pennies to refine Hemp oil into Hemp fuel. Smog devices would no longer be needed on engines. To pump and go, all that is necessary is a simple computer mapping change on fuel injected cars and trucks, and a small carburetor jet change for older models and we would be set to operate an efficient, nontoxic and inexpensive alternate energy source. Do your own research and you will find this message to be quite factual as well. -- How DID True Hemp ( Cannabis sativa, sub-species sativa ) disappear from American family-hemp-farms? Starting in the late 1920's, forest-products, cotton, oil, petrochemical, steel, and perhaps even aluminum industries feared COMPETITION from a very innovative new technology; the HEMP DECORTICATOR. HEMP DECORTICATORS were just becoming commercially-available on True Hemp farms. This key technology would have allowed family farmers to create a carbohydrate economy to replace what is now a system dominated by hydrocarbons (oil, coal, and natural-gas). In fact, in the February, 1938 edition of Popular Mechanics, hemp was heralded as a 'New Billion Dollar Crop'. Exactly what caused the demise of True Hemp commodity farming? Well, in 1917 George W. Schlicten pulled off a sort of Eli-Whitney-cotton-gin stunt, only way betterhe patented the HEMP DECORTICATOR; a farm-machine that mechanically seperates the fiber in the True Hemp stalk. This labor-saving device was just barely beginning to kick some centralized-polluting-corporate-butt in the late 1920's. Coincidentally, this is exactly when a deliberate smear campaign was launched (by print, newsreel, and radio) to discredit what was THEN a very new and mysterious word: marijuana. A negative image was assigned to that now-dreaded M-word. Non-drug, True Hemp simply had to be stopped (if you were a wealthy industrialist, that is) Although the indica sub-species may or may not compete with patented, synthetic, man-made-chemicals that can be centrally controlled by pharmaceutical corporations, I do believe that sativa sub-species-non-drug-True-Hemp commodity COMPETITION is what very big business actually stopped (by clever deception). Gary Thomas Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material by Lyster Hoxie Dewey and Jason L. Merrill Creator Dewey, Lyster Hoxie, 1865-1944 Creator Merrill, Jason L. Title Hemp Hurds as Paper-Making Material United States Department of Agriculture, Bulletin No. 404 Language English EText-No. 17855 Release?Date 2006-02-25 Copyright Status Not copyrighted in the United States. If you live elsewhere check the laws of your country before downloading this ebook. Base?Directory /files/17855/ Download this ebook for free Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Oil money is coming - and there is little the west can do about it | Business | The Guardian
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:36 pm Subject: [ctrl] Oil money is coming - and there is little the west can do about it | Business | The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/01/oil.globaleconomy1 Oil money is coming - and there is little the west can do about it Energy producing countries are buying global power after decades of subjugation Larry Elliott, economics editor The Guardian, Saturday March 1 2008 Larry Summers was in full flow. Addressing a packed meeting on sovereign wealth funds at the Davos gathering of the World Economic Forum in January, the former US treasury secretary told the investment arms of foreign governments they should sign up to a code of conduct and be more transparent. In a telling sign of the shift in the balance of global economic power, the sovereign wealth funds told Summers to get lost. The Saudis accused him of double standards: hedge funds were not being regulated despite causing mayhem in the financial markets, so why pick on SWFs? The Russians - revelling in Washington's discomfort - said American attempts to restrict investment were not helpful. This week the fears resurfaced. José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, said Brussels could not allow non-European funds to be run in an opaque manner or used as an implement of geopolitical strategy. Barroso's main worry is that Russia - which set up an official SWF last month - is planning to relaunch the cold war, only this time with oil and gas receipts rather than with the Red Army. Some western governments are suspicious about the motives of sovereign funds that have been buying up assets in developed countries. Washington, which has launched talks with funds in Abu Dhabi and Singapore, has concerns over Russia's one-time rival communist superpower China, which has grown weary of stockpiling US Treasury bonds and has started to size up physical assets in the west. However, the EU and the US are in a weak position. They would like all such funds to follow the example of Norway, which has banked its North Sea receipts from the past 30 years in a £300bn-plus long-term investment fund, and the International Monetary Fund is finalising a voluntary code of practice. This will be revealed in the coming weeks, but if the SWFs choose not to abide by it, there is little Brussels and Washington can do. The fivefold increase in the price of crude oil to more than $100 a barrel has provided a windfall for the coffers of oil and gas producing countries, while the nations of east Asia have amassed huge holdings as a result of export-led growth. Britain, as a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers pointed out this week, could have built up a £450bn sovereign wealth fund had it not spent its North Sea bonanza on politically expedient tax cuts and higher public spending. Elsewhere, sovereign funds are rich, they are growing in size and they have been bailing out the west's tottering banks after ill-advised speculation saw their assets slashed in value by the American sub-prime mortgage crisis. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority - the world's biggest SWF - has taken a $7.5bn (£3.8bn) stake in Citigroup; one of Singapore's funds has injected $11bn into the Swiss bank UBS, the other has invested $5bn into Morgan Stanley. China has ploughed $5bn into Merrill Lynch. Train wreck A study by one of the biggest banks, HSBC, noted: The owners of emerging SWFs look unlikely just to roll over. They are enjoying the boot being on the other foot after an awfully long time. The train wreck that was the 1990s, when they had to go cap-in-hand to the developed world, was bad enough. Going back further, western jibes about state capitalism would, perhaps, have more power had they themselves not ruled many of these countries for years via state-licensed companies. Gerard Lyons, chief economist at Standard Chartered, said: Sovereign wealth funds have existed since 1953 and are here to stay. Their size and influence is set to grow. Already valued at $2.2tn, on current trends they could reach $13.4tn in a decade. There is a serious likelihood of western governments and SWFs clashing over what they can buy and where. A protectionist backlash against strategic investments is real and threatens global trade. The growing tension erupted in 2006 when the US prevented Dubai Ports from taking control of six American ports on grounds of national security. Lyons believes that western governments will seek to protect national champions and strategic sectors, but that SWFs are also likely to take a tough line. Many governments will argue that it is their money and why should they be so transparent when other areas of the financial markets are not, he said. Western countries may need to accept the rise of SWFs as a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] White House column was copied | The Journal Gazette
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 1:18 pm Subject: [ctrl] White House column was copied | The Journal Gazette Last updated: February 29, 2008 2:38 p.m. Hide photos White House column was copied By Sylvia A. Smith Washington editor http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080229/NEWS/194943667/1002/LOCAL File Tim Goeglein WASHINGTON - A Fort Wayne native and White House official acknowledged Friday he copied large portions of an essay that appeared in a Dartmouth College publication and presented them as his own in a News-Sentinel column. It is true, Tim Goeglein wrote to The Journal Gazette in an e-mail. I am entirely at fault. It was wrong of me. There are no excuses. He said he wrote to the author of the essay, Jeffrey Hart to apologize, and do so categorically and without exception. Nancy Nall, a former News-Sentinel columnist who writes a blog from her home in Michigan, detailed the nearly word-for-word similarities of eight paragraphs of Goeglein's 16-pargraph essay about college education, which appeared in the News-Sentinel on Thursday, and Hart's column, which was written about a decade ago. Kerry Hubartt, editor of the News-Sentinel, said his newspaper learned of the apparent plagiarism Friday when Nall wrote about it. He said the newspaper had removed Goeglein's column from its Web site and that editors were checking Goeglein's past columns for any other examples of copying. He said when the paper's investigation is complete, readers will be notified. If we think it's warranted, we will certainly apologize to our readers, Hubartt said, adding that if the investigation substantiates that Goeglein copied Hart's writings, we would not use any columns (of Goeglein's) in the future. Goeglein has worked in the Bush White House since 2001 as the Bush administration's liaison to religious organizations. He formerly worked for then-Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind. Copyright © 2008 The Journal Gazette. All rights reserved. News service copy is used with permission. The information contained in the report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Journal Gazette or granting news service. -- Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Om Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Print - Up, Up and Away: What's Really Driving the Price of Oil? - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News
-Original Message- From: Alamaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:47 pm Subject: [ctrl] Print - Up, Up and Away: What's Really Driving the Price of Oil? - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News SPIEGEL ONLINE - February 28, 2008, 04:50 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,538412,00.html UP, UP AND AWAY What's Really Driving the Price of Oil? By Beat Balzli and Frank Hornig The price of crude oil has doubled, from $50 to $100, within months. The increase cannot be attributed to the fundamental data, which have hardly changed. And the looming recession ought to drive the price down. So why is oil getting more expensive? DPA Pumps in Oklahoma are less important to the price of oil than pension-fund managers. Cushing is the kind of place where you'd expect to see a cowboy ride around the corner and tie his horse to a rail in front of the Buckhorn Bar. This sleepy town of 8,000 on the Oklahoma prairie comes complete with a main street that could double for a set in a Western. Its biggest attractions include a defunct train station and a run-down movie theater, where the price of admission is $1.50. Robert Felts, a friendly old man who works for the Cushing Industrial Authority, likes to show visitors the historic oil pump in the middle of town. He tells the story of how, in 1912, a giant oil field was discovered nearby that placed Cushing on the map and showered it with more than two decades of prosperity. Up to 50 million barrels of oil bubbled out of the ground each year in those days. Our refineries could hardly keep up, says Felts. To solve the problem, the oil barons of the day had large storage tanks installed in the surrounding prairieland. FROM THE MAGAZINE Find out how you can reprint this DER SPIEGEL article in your publication. There isn't much to talk about besides oil in this small Oklahoma town. But reports on the situation in Cushing get global markets moving at 10:30 every Wednesday morning. That's when US government officials publish a figure that reflects the amount of oil stored in the hundreds of tanks which now stretch for miles along the horizon. Located at a key intersection in the North American pipeline system, Cushing is home to the largest oil storage facility in the United States. Oil traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange literally changes owners here in Cushing. If the tanks are full, prices sink. But if levels in these tanks fall, prices rise. A rule of thumb for traders: Supply and demand control the market. Normally, at any rate. But in recent months the conventional wisdom has flip-flopped. Within a year the price of a barrel of crude has doubled, from $50 to last week's high of $100. Nothing seems impossible now. Some analysts see prices rising to between $120 and $150, which would have dramatic consequences for the world economy. Similarly spectacular price developments have only occurred four times in the last few decades: in 1973, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) imposed an embargo for the first time; in 1979, as a consequence of the Iranian revolution; a year later, when Iraq invaded Iran; and in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Which leads to one the most provocative questions being asked about the world economy today: Why are oil prices soaring again? It's All Speculation There are plenty of answers. Some hold the crisis in the Middle East and constantly growing demand in China responsible. Others blame producing countries for keeping the oil spigot half-closed. But none of it's very convincing. Supply and demand cannot explain the high prices, says Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer Co., a leading commodities analyst. Like many in his profession, Gheit believes financial investors are driving up prices. He's reminded of the Internet bubble around the turn of the millennium. According to Gheit, oil is also seeing excessive speculation at the moment. OPEC arrives at the same conclusion. The fundamentals are right, says OPEC President Mohammed al-Hamli. In fact, the cartel has expected excess supply on markets since early February -- a result of the American economic crisis. This excess supply would normally cause the price per barrel to fall. Instead, dealers have now broken through the magic $100 threshold for the second time in only a few weeks. The mood is festive among oil barons, who seem to be unimpressed by global recession fears. Exxon Mobil recently reported its profits for 2007: $40.6 billion, a record for the world's largest energy company, and in international economic history. A company has never made so much money in a year. Enormous amounts of money are currently changing hands in the business of oil contracts. With the American real estate debacle infecting ever larger segments of the capital markets, from stocks to
#43646 [NEW]: incorrect error message on recursive interface implementation error
From: weyrick at roadsend dot com
Operating system: all
PHP version: 5.2.5
PHP Bug Type: Unknown/Other Function
Bug description: incorrect error message on recursive interface implementation
error
Description:
A simple typo in the error message. This is originally from bug #30922,
and the regression test will have to be changed as well.
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Crusades vs Jihad -- Bernard Lewis, Neocon Forefather
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- _http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421_ (http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421) Until that September 11, 2001, the two men most responsible for popularizing the idea of a clash of civilizations, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, were regarded as curiosities by mainstream national security and foreign policy experts. Their Ivy League credentials and access to prestigious publications such as Foreign Affairs, and the edgy radicalism of their theories, guaranteed that they would generate controversy, and they did. But few took their ideas seriously, except for a scattered array of neoconservatives, who, in the 1990s, resided on the fringe themselves. The Lewis-Huntington thesis was hit by a withering salvo of counterattacks from many journalists, academics, and foreign policy gurus. Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book The Clash of Civilizations amounted to a neoconservative declaration of war, wrote that the enemy was not the Islamic right, but the religion of the Koran itself: The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the U.S. Department of Defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world. What followed from Huntington's manifesto, of course, was that the Judeo-Christian world and the Muslim world were locked in a state of permanent cultural war. The terrorists--such as Al Qaeda, which was still taking shape when Huntington's book came out--were not just a gang of fanatics with a political agenda, but the manifestation of a civilizational conflict. Like a modern oracle of Delphi, Huntington suggested that the gods had foreordained the collision, and mere humans could not stop it. Huntington acknowledged--without mentioning the role of the United States--that Islam had been a potent force against the left during the Cold War. At one time or another during the Cold War many governments, including those of Algeria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Israel, encouraged and supported Islamists as a counter to communist or hostile nationalist movements, he wrote. At least until the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states provided massive funding to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups in a variety of countries. But he had a neat explanation of how the alliance between the West and the Islamists unraveled. The collapse of communism removed a common enemy of the West and Islam and left each the perceived major threat to the other, he wrote. In the 1990s many saw a `civilizational cold war' again developing between Islam and the West. Huntington, who is not an expert on Islam, observed a connection between Islam and militarism, and he asserted: Islam has from the start been a religion of the sword and it glorifies military virtues. Just to make sure that no one could miss his point, he quoted an unnamed U.S. army officer who said, The southern tier--i.e., the border between Europe and the Middle East--is rapidly becoming NATO's new front line. Huntington quotes his guru on matters Islamic, Bernard Lewis, in order to prove that Islam presents an existential threat to the very survival of the West: `For almost a thousand years,' Bernard Lewis observes, `from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second Turkish siege of Vienna, Europe was under constant threat from Islam.' Islam is the only civilization which has put the survival of the West in doubt, and it has done that at least twice. How exactly the weak, impoverished, and fragmented countries of the Middle East and south Asia could put the survival of the West in doubt was not explained. But it was a thesis that Bernard Lewis had been refining since the 1950s. Lewis, a former British intelligence officer and long-time supporter of the Israeli right, has been a propagandist and apologist for imperialism and Israeli expansionism for more than half a century. He first used the term clash of civilizations in 1956, in an article that appeared in the Middle East Journal, in which he endeavored to explain the present anti-Western mood of the Arab states. Lewis asserted then that Arab anger was not the result of the Palestine problem, nor was it related to the struggle against imperialism. Instead, he argued, it was something deeper and vaster: What we are seeing in our time is not less than a clash between civilizations -- more specifically, a revolt of the world of Islam against the shattering impact of Western civilization
[CTRL] Fwd: [GATA] Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- 05:52PM ET Sunday, November 4, 2007 Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars By Bo Nielsen and Adriana Brasileiro Bloomberg News Service Monday, November 5, 2007 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aCs.keWwNdiYrefer=home Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar. Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans, led by President George W. Bush, are living beyond their means. Even after the dollar lost 34 percent since 2001, the biggest investors and most accurate forecasters say it will weaken further as home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. The dollar plummeted to its lowest ever last week against the euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan, and the cheapest in 26 years against the British pound. We've told all our clients that if you had only one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a non-dollar currency, said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, and manager of the world's biggest bond fund. That should be on top of the list, said Gross, whose firm is a unit of Munich-based insurer Allianz SE. The dollar fell 0.8 percent last week to $1.4505, the weakest since the euro started trading in 1999. It lost 2.8 percent against the Canadian dollar to 93.51 cents and 1.8 percent versus the pound to $2.09. The Fed's U.S. Trade Weighted Major Currency Dollar index tumbled to 76.3, from 112.89 in January 2004. ...Bundchen's Demands BNP Paribas chief currency strategist Hans-Guenter Redeker, the most accurate foreign-exchange forecaster last quarter in a Bloomberg survey, said the dollar may drop to $1.50 per euro by year-end. The median estimate of 44 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg is for the currency to end the year at $1.43. Among those surveyed last week, the forecast ranges from $1.42 to $1.50. When Bundchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Cincinnati-based Procter Gamble Co., she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil's biggest weekly magazine. She'll also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce Gabbana SpA in Milan to promote the Italian designer's new fragrance, The One, Veja reported. Bundchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July. Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don't know what will happen to the dollar, Patricia Bundchen, the model's twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in a telephone interview in September from Sao Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week, as did Anne Nelson, Bundchen's agent in New York at IMG Models. ...Dollar Support Procter Gamble's Sao Paulo-based external relations director for Brazil, Andre Quadra, said he couldn't give details of the Pantene contract because of a confidentiality agreement. Analysts in a Bloomberg survey expect the dollar to strengthen in coming months as stronger-than-forecast reports suggest U.S. consumers will keep the economy out of recession. Payrolls grew by 166,000 in October, double the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey. The dollar will rise to $1.43 per euro this year and $1.35 by the end of 2008, according to the median estimate in the survey. So far the data has shown the
[CTRL] Fwd: [ctrl] Armageddonites Push for More War | Good Grief! Imus Is Back on AIr
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Top Stories, Video and Blog Posts for AlterNet November 3rd, 2007 http://www.alternet.org ___ SHOCKING BUT TRUE: IMUS RETURNS TO RADIO By Rory O'Connor, AlterNet The Rasputin of radio is back, ready to beat down the defenseless for more cheap laughs. http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/66814/ BUSH IS RIGHT TO WORRY IF WATERBOARDING IS DEFINED AS TORTURE By Jane Smiley, HuffingtonPost.com We should take the criminality of the Bush administration's torture policy seriously, and that means making sure they are not above the law. (Also: A waterboarding simulation photoseries.) http://www.alternet.org/rights/66831/ AMERICA'S ARMAGEDDONITES PUSH FOR MORE WAR By Jon Basil Utley, Foreign Policy in Focus Some fundamentalist evangelicals have moved from forecasting Armageddon to actually trying to bring it about. http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/65845/ RAPTURE RESCUE 911: DISASTER RESPONSE FOR THE CHOSEN By Naomi Klein, The Nation With disaster services being privatized, the rich are buying their way out of catastrophe. http://www.alternet.org/stories/66743/ WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE U.S. By Kenny Ausubel, AlterNet We must imagine a new way of life in order to avoid the devastating environmental crises that face humanity, argues the visionary founder of the Bioneers conference. http://www.alternet.org/environment/66725/ BRING ON THE RECESSION By George Monbiot, Monbiot.com How else will the destructive effects of growth be stopped? http://www.alternet.org/workplace/66629/ ___ AlterNet Blogs: THE DAILY SHOW: IS AMERICA READY FOR A FLILF? [VIDEO] By Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones lusts after the wives of Fred Thompson and Dennis Kucinich with hilarious results. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/video/66827/ GIULIANI'S HEALTH CARE LIES COME BACK TO HAUNT HIM By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Giuliani has been using false figures about Europe to attack the universal health care on the campaign trail. http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/66822/ ___ These stories, videos, blog posts, and more are available on AlterNet. http://www.alternet.org/ === Donate: Visit https://www.alternet.org www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: Scorecard for Past Skirmishes between Israeli and American Interests
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- SKIRMISHES BETWEEN THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND OTHER ELITES WHICH ZIONISTS WON _http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605lists=newslog_ (http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?id=1605lists=newslog) - 1930's: Career British diplomats issued a government backed white paper suggesting tying Jewish immigration to Palestine to Palestinian economic interests, not just the Yishuv capacity. Weissman and other British Zionists mobilized their forces en masse and the effort succeeded in reversing this policy quickly (well discussed in Tom Segev’s excellent book on this period). -1940-1945: When there was strong sentiment in the US to help European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, the Zionist lobby both in Britain and the US lobbied to limit Jewish immigration to the west and keep the door open only for one destination: Palestine (see Naeim Giladi’s book “Ben Gurion Scandals” and Lenni Brenner’s “51 Documents: History of the Nazi-Zionist collaboration). - 1948: When the State Department, the Pentagon, and all major career diplomats in the US stood against support for the establishment of Israel, President Truman explained his decision to his cabinet (privately) very clearly as relating to the lobby and voting adding that “I have no Arab constituency” (Truman papers and many history books). The US went on to twist the arms of other countries to support partition and the imposing of a Jewish state on Palestine. - June 1967: Israeli forces attacked the USS Liberty in international waters. Naval demands of an investigation were immediately attacked by the lobby in Congress. Senior Navy officers (and all survivors of the attack) were angry, but could do nothing in the face of a concerted media silencing campaign. Even in 2003 when new evidence emerged, little was reported on it (see _http://www.ussliberty.org/_ (http://www.ussliberty.org/) ) - 1980's: Israel uses US technology and financing to develop its own arms export industry competing with US arms exporters but also giving advanced technologies to US competitors. Many US arms industry leaders are unhappy, and some even complain openly, and Israeli-made Python II missiles now arm Chinese warplanes and in one instance threatened US planes. (see _http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html_ (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/p-krane.html) ). - May 1987: The Reagan administration notified Congress of its intention to sell 1600 Maverick anti-tank missiles to Saudi Arabia. According to the NY Times: Within half an hour, lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the only group registered to lobby Congress on legislation affecting Israel, were on the telephone to lawmakers about the proposal. Over the next 13 days, the committee mobilized its nationwide network of supporters with a series of memorandums and telephone calls urging them to lobby Congress. Though it is unclear whether the committee, known as AIPAC, can take all the credit, more than 260 members of Congress co-sponsored resolutions to block the sale, prompting President Reagan to withdraw it. _http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html_ (http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/pg-nyt2.html) - Early 1991: Israel asked the US for $10 billion in loan guarantees to settle Russian Jews. George HW Bush told Shamir that Israel could have the guarantees if it freezes settlement building and promises that no Russian Jews would be settled in the occupied areas. Shamir simply called the lobby leaders to help. Mobilization was so swift and powerful that Bush received a barrage of media questions in a Press conference in 1991.. Bush uttered
[CTRL] Fwd: Neofeudalism
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Neofeudalism _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Unbalanced_scales.svg) The _neutrality_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view) of this article is _disputed_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV_dispute) . Please see the discussion on the _talk page_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Neofeudalism) . Please do not remove this message until the _dispute is resolved._ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:NPOVD#What_is_an_NPOV_dispute.3F) Neofeudalism literally means New _Feudalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism) and implies a contemporary rebirth of policies of _governance_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance) and _economy_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy) reminiscent of those present in many _pre-industrial_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-industrial) feudal societies. The concept is one in which government policies are instituted with the effect (deliberate or otherwise) of systematically increasing the _wealth_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth) _gap_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_distribution) between the rich and the poor while increasing the power of the rich and decreasing the power of the poor (also see _wealth condensation_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_condensation) ). This effect is considered to be similar to the effects of traditional feudalism. The precise meaning of the term is in question and can be employed as a _pejorative term_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pejorative_term) to attack _political_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political) opponents. General Among the concerns of those who perceive (correctly or otherwise) an emergence of neofeudalism in contemporary society are class stratification, _globalization_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalization) , _multinational corporations_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation) , and _corporatism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism) ._[1]_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofeudalism#_note-0) Neofeudalism is part of the controversy over _income redistribution_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_redistribution) born out of massive societal shifts during the _industrial revolution_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_revolution) . At the time the issue was wealth disparity between _classes_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class) , landholders, entrepreneurs, peasants, workers, and other economic and social groups. Neofeudalism encompasses the current debate over globalization to include entire societies, countries, regions (North versus South, Western versus non-Western), and supra-national non-state actors. Unlike other _geopolitical_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopolitics) issues such as _environmentalism_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmentalism) and _security_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security) , the charge of neofeudalism largely focuses on _economics_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics) . In a party-neutral definition of the term, the traits ascribed to a supposedly emerging neofeudalism would not belong to one political party alone but are emergent throughout the whole political system in all or at least several major parties. Under this description the common factor linking neofeudal characteristics could best be described as the business interests catered to by a given party which describes a version of neofeudalism with its origin squarely in the realm of business interests and the interests of business owners advancing agendas that benefit them personally through
[CTRL] Fwd: Crusades vs Jihad -- Bernard Lewis, Neocon Forefather
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- _http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421_ (http://bookclub.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/16/12635/421) Until that September 11, 2001, the two men most responsible for popularizing the idea of a clash of civilizations, Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington, were regarded as curiosities by mainstream national security and foreign policy experts. Their Ivy League credentials and access to prestigious publications such as Foreign Affairs, and the edgy radicalism of their theories, guaranteed that they would generate controversy, and they did. But few took their ideas seriously, except for a scattered array of neoconservatives, who, in the 1990s, resided on the fringe themselves. The Lewis-Huntington thesis was hit by a withering salvo of counterattacks from many journalists, academics, and foreign policy gurus. Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book The Clash of Civilizations amounted to a neoconservative declaration of war, wrote that the enemy was not the Islamic right, but the religion of the Koran itself: The underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power. The problem for Islam is not the CIA or the U.S. Department of Defense. It is the West, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the universality of their culture and believe that their superior, if declining power imposes on them the obligation to extend that culture throughout the world. What followed from Huntington's manifesto, of course, was that the Judeo-Christian world and the Muslim world were locked in a state of permanent cultural war. The terrorists--such as Al Qaeda, which was still taking shape when Huntington's book came out--were not just a gang of fanatics with a political agenda, but the manifestation of a civilizational conflict. Like a modern oracle of Delphi, Huntington suggested that the gods had foreordained the collision, and mere humans could not stop it. Huntington acknowledged--without mentioning the role of the United States--that Islam had been a potent force against the left during the Cold War. At one time or another during the Cold War many governments, including those of Algeria, Turkey, Jordan, Egypt and Israel, encouraged and supported Islamists as a counter to communist or hostile nationalist movements, he wrote. At least until the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states provided massive funding to the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups in a variety of countries. But he had a neat explanation of how the alliance between the West and the Islamists unraveled. The collapse of communism removed a common enemy of the West and Islam and left each the perceived major threat to the other, he wrote. In the 1990s many saw a `civilizational cold war' again developing between Islam and the West. Huntington, who is not an expert on Islam, observed a connection between Islam and militarism, and he asserted: Islam has from the start been a religion of the sword and it glorifies military virtues. Just to make sure that no one could miss his point, he quoted an unnamed U.S. army officer who said, The southern tier--i.e., the border between Europe and the Middle East--is rapidly becoming NATO's new front line. Huntington quotes his guru on matters Islamic, Bernard Lewis, in order to prove that Islam presents an existential threat to the very survival of the West: `For almost a thousand years,' Bernard Lewis observes, `from the first Moorish landing in Spain to the second
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Les ROOTS -- Sarkozy, Israeli Mole
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- Furl the flag _Gamal Nkrumah_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]::%20Furl%20the%20flag) _http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/in2.htm_ (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/in2.htm) (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/_in2.htm)Sarkozy As if his marital challenges were not enough cause for concern, Sarco the Sayan has suddenly emerged as the most infamous accolade of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The influential French daily Le Figaro last week revealed that the French leader once worked for -- and perhaps still does, it hinted -- Israeli intelligence as a sayan (Hebrew for helper), one of the thousands of Jewish citizens of countries other than Israel who cooperate with the katsas (Mossad case-officers). A letter dispatched to French police officials late last winter -- long before the presidential election but somehow kept secret -- revealed that Sarkozy was recruited as an Israeli spy. The French police is currently investigating documents concerning Sarkozy's alleged espionage activities on behalf of Mossad, which Le Figaro claims dated as far back as 1983. According to the author of the message, in 1978, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin ordered the infiltration of the French ruling Gaullist Party, Union pour un Mouvement Populaire. Originally targeted were Patrick Balkany, Patrick Devedjian and Pierre Lellouche. In 1983, they recruited the young and promising Sarkozy, the fourth man. Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky describes how sayanim function in By Way Of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer. They are usually reached through relatives in Israel. An Israeli with a relative in France, for instance, might be asked to draft a letter saying the person bearing the letter represents an organisation whose main goal is to help save Jewish people in the Diaspora. Could the French relative help in any way? They perform many different roles. A car sayan, for example, running a rental car agency, could help the Mossad rent a car without having to complete the usual documentation. An apartment sayan would find accommodation without raising suspicions, a bank sayan could fund someone in the middle of the night if needs be, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police. And, a political sayan ? It's rather obvious what this could mean. The sayanim are a pool of people at the ready who will keep quiet about their actions out of loyalty to the cause, a non-risk recruitment system that draws from the millions of Jewish people outside Israel. Such talk sends chills down spines, especially Arab and Muslim ones. Indeed, the revelation did not go unnoticed in Arab capitals or come as much of a surprise. Paris can be a sunny place for shady people. When it comes to intelligence gathering on behalf of Israel, a question mark is immediately raised on the moral calibre of the person in question. But, how does this scandal influence France's foreign and domestic politics? It is of symbolic significance that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was on a state visit to France in the immediate aftermath of Le Figaro 's exposé -- ostensibly to discuss Iran's nuclear agenda and the Palestinian question. Proud and prickly France under its supposedly savvy new president hopes to play a more prominent role in the perplexing world of Middle Eastern politics. On Monday, Sarkozy flew to Morocco, the ancestral home of many of France's Jewry, soon after his Mossad connection was made public. There is no clear evidence that the revelation is to make France any more unpopular in the Arab world than it already is, especially not in official circles. On the domestic front, however, there are many conflicting considerations. The Jews of France now display a touch of the vapours, in sharp contrast to the conceited triumphalism with which they greeted his election: we are persuaded that the new president will continue eradicating anti-Israeli resistance, Sammy Ghozlan, president of the Jewish Community of Paris pontificated soon after Sarkozy's election. France is home to 500,000 Jews, mostly Sephardic Jews originally from North Africa and Mediterranean countries. Sarkozy's own [Jewish] maternal grandfather Aron Mallah, hailed from Salonika, Greece, and is said to have exercised considerable influence on his grandson. Even though raised as a Roman Catholic, Sarkozy played a critical role in moving the French government to do what is necessary to address the ill winds that threaten the largest Jewish community in Western Europe, noted David Harris, the executive director of the American Jewish Committee. Sarkozy, after all, was a political product of the predominantly Jewish elite neighbourhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he long
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301153.html?hpid=topnews NEWS | OPINIONS | SPORTS | ARTS LIVING | Discussions | Photos Video | City Guide | CLASSIFIEDS | JOBS | CARS | REAL ESTATE Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 4, 2007; A01 Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing. Thompson selected the businessman, Philip Martin, to raise seed money for his White House bid. Martin is one of four campaign co-chairmen and the head of a group called the first day founders. Campaign aides jokingly began to refer to Martin, who has been friends with Thompson since the early 1990s, as the head of Thompson's Airforce. Thompson's frequent flights aboard Martin's twin-engine Cessna 560 Citation have saved him more than $100,000, because until the law changed in September, campaign-finance rules allowed presidential candidates to reimburse private jet owners for just a fraction of the true cost of flights. Martin entered a plea of guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979; the court withheld judgment pending completion of his probation. He was charged in 1983 with violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded no contest to the cocaine-trafficking and conspiracy charges, which stemmed from a plan to sell $30,000 worth of the drug, and was continued on probation. Thompson's campaign said the candidate was not aware of the multiple criminal cases, for which Martin served no jail time. All are described in public court records. Karen Hanretty, Thompson's deputy communications director, said yesterday that Senator Thompson was unaware of the information until this afternoon. Phil Martin has been a friend of the senator since the mid- 1990s and remains so today. Thompson communications director Todd Harris added that Martin was not subjected to the campaign's standard vetting process because he's a longtime friend. There's not a campaign in the world that has the ability to research every one of its supporters going back more than 20 years, Harris said. Martin could not be reached in the past week, and lawyers for him in Tennessee and Florida declined to comment on the criminal cases. Hanretty said she forwarded detailed questions from The Washington Post to Martin yesterday afternoon. Martin, 49, is one of several top political fundraisers with a criminal past to gain access this year to a presidential contender. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton decided in September to return more than $800,000 raised by Norman Hsu, one of her top bundlers, after newspapers disclosed that he had been convicted of fraud and had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Martin has been more than just a key fundraiser to Thompson, though. The use of his plane eases a major logistical burden stemming from the intense demands on presidential candidates this year for appearances in more than 20 states holding early primaries. It also may have saved the campaign at least $120,000, given that Federal Election Commission rules allowed Thompson to reimburse Martin for the use of the private jet at the commercial ticket rate until Congress changed the rules in September. Thompson has reported reimbursing Martin $102,330, without specifying precisely where he flew on the plane, or when. But a comparison of flight records for the plane, kept by the tracking firm FlightAware, and news accounts of Thompson's campaign appearances this year shows that since June the plane has made more than two dozen stops that coincided with Thompson campaign events. The destinations included a GOP fundraising luncheon in South Carolina, rallies in Houston and Dallas, a leadership conference in Indianapolis, and the Minnesota State Fair. The most recent trip was on Thursday, when the plane left Las Vegas with Thompson on board, bound for Washington, where Thompson has long been an industry lobbyist. The Web site JetTrip.com estimates that the hourly charter rate for use of a plane similar to Martin's would be between $1,500 and $2,400, which means these flights would normally cost at least $220,000, more than double what Thompson paid. Several other presidential candidates use private aircraft supplied by key political supporters. Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, for instance, has paid $279,000 to Elliott Asset Management, a firm headed by campaign adviser and New York financier Paul Singer, to reimburse the firm for using an airplane. Democrat John Edwards has paid $628,052 to longtime backer Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer, for the use of his plane.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] More Good Things about Blackwater
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- - Original Message - From: Barbara Cox To: Angels group Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 6:44 PM Subject: [DiscerningAngels] More Good Things about Blackwater California Fires, Blackwater involved? By http://redpill8.blogspot.com/2007/10/who-is-responsible-for-california-fires.html Oct 28, 2007, 20:09 Email this article Printer friendly page Are the fires in Southern California a result of terrorism as some on Fox News have suggested? Fox News quoted a 2003 FBI memo that alerted law enforcement agencies that an al-Qaeda terrorist being held in detention had taled of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. Of course, al Qaeda is always the operative word when Fox refers to terrorism, but what if there is someone else behind these fires, someone who could clearly benefit from getting rid of problematic neighbors and getting big government contracts from disaster relief operations? I recently got two emails that are pretty disturbing. The first one links to the National Terror Alert Response Center and is sourced from ChicoER (although ChicoER's link is now down). It describes suspicious activity by men with cameras visiting various Northern California Fire Stations and running off when detected. see www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2007/09/20/suspicious-activity-at-california-fire-stations-terrorism-center-issue-watch-request The second one is about the town of Potrero where the citizens were planning a major fight against Blackwater, the mercenary company that is planning to build a 824-acre facility in in their community. This article describes how the citizens of Potrero saw no firetrucks until long after their houses burned down, found all roads blocked, and heard no reverse 911 calls warning them to evacuate. Obviously, we don't have enough information to come to any conclusions as to what this might mean, maybe we never will, but these are very suspicious stories that need some examination. Here's the first story: SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY AT CALIFORNIA FIRE STATIONS Posted on September 20th, 2007 During the last week of July, fire officials in the Bay Area city of Campbell reported that two men had been seen videotaping routine activities at a fire station. The men were reportedly in their 20s or early 30s, and one was using a sophisticated news media-style camera. When firefighters attempted to talk with the men, they reportedly jumped into a waiting car and sped off. The incident prompted the Sacramento Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center to send out a request for Northern California fire stations to watch for similar incidents, and report them immediately. The day the request went out, Sept. 6, a second, similar incident was reported at a fire station in Yuba City. According to officials, a fire captain encountered two men parked outside the city's main fire station. One of the men got out and allegedly began taking pictures of the fire station's administration building. When the captain approached the men, to tell them they were in a no-parking zone, the photographer jumped in the vehicle and the men left. The man who took the photos was described as being between 30 and 40 years of age. On Sept. 12, Fresno Fire Department officials spotted two men in a vehicle allegedly observing activities at a fire training center. When questioned, the driver reportedly said they were just checking things out, then left immediately. Two days later, on Sept. 14, personnel from the Sacramento Metro Fire Department noticed two men taking photos of a fire station. A third man sat in the back of a car, and appeared to be drawing or taking notes. When fire officials walked toward them, the two taking pictures jumped in the vehicle and sped away. The men allegedly took pictures in front of the station, and in the rear. They ranged in age from late teens to about 60, officials recalled. Tim Johnstone, a commander with the threat assessment center in Sacramento, said all of the incidents are being investigated, but there is no indication they might be related. We aren't considering this a specific threat at this time; we're just asking our public safety partners to be on the watch for suspicious activity, he said. He said the threat assessment center was formed to act as a collection point for homeland security intelligence, and disseminate it appropriately. Jay Alan, deputy director of communication for the Governor's Office of Homeland Security, said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is concerned about security agencies sharing information, and has made it a top priority. Local officials said no suspicious incidents involving videotaping or photos have been reported at fire stations. Fire department
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Wall Street Resorting to DEATH THREATS to Prop Up Public Confidence in System
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- Top US analyst hits back after death threats over Citigroup downgrade (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece) Tom Bawden in New York November 3, 2007, The Times (UK) _http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece) _Meredith Whitney: The $360bn analyst_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2793366.ece) | _Citigroup fears send Wall Street reeling _ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article2783520.ece) | _Citigroup chief is about to quit amid mounting woes_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article27 96487.ece) | _Wall St braced for $10bn more credit crunch hits_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2790862.ece) Meredith Whitney, the analyst who prompted a $369 billion (£177 billion) plunge in the value of US shares on Thursday by issuing a negative note on Citigroup, hit out at Wall Street’s culture of intimidation yesterday after receiving several death threats from investors in the bank. Ms Whitney, a CIBC analyst who is married to the former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Death Mask, prompted a near 7 per cent drop in Citigroup’s shares on Thursday, after suggesting that the bank needed to raise more than $30 billion to restore its capital cushion. She also downgraded her recommendation on Citigroup’s shares to “market underperform” in the note that set off America’s biggest stock market decline since August. Ms Whitney, Forbes’s second-highest ranked stock picker for 2007, told The Times: “People are scared to be negative, especially when a company has such a wide holding. Clients are not pleased with my call and I have had several death threats. “But it was the most straightforward call I’ve made in my career and I am surprised my peer analysts have been resistant. It’s so straightforward, it’s indisputable.” Ms Whitney, whose marriage to John Charles Layfield, the wrestler, 2½ years ago was detailed in The New York Times, said that she has never felt any pressure from the Wall Street firms themselves to be positive. But she said investors could be “nasty and belligerent” if they felt you had lost them a lot of money by influencing the price of their shares. “No one had the moxie to put in print what I put in print,” she said. Ms Whitney’s note came two weeks after Citigroup reported a 57 per cent drop in its third-quarter profits, following a $6.5 billion writedown, much of which related to the credit crunch. That writedown intensified recurring calls for Chuck Prince, Citigroup’s head, to stand down, although he remains at the helm of the world’s biggest bank. But in a move that will fuel speculation about his position, Mr Prince yesterday cancelled a speech he had been due to give tomorrow at the US Japan Business Conference. A Citigroup spokesman said he had cancelled the appearance to prepare for the company’s new listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. Ms Whitney, 37, met Mr Layfield in 2003 when they were panelists on Bulls Bears, a programme on Fox News. Mr Layfield credits Ms Whitney with helping to make him more sophisticated. The New York Times reported him saying at their wedding: “She took a country boy like me and kind of refined me. I know what fork to use now at the dinner table, and I drink my beer from a glass.” Fed has biggest day of injections since Sept 2001 Thu Nov 1, 2007 9:43am ET _http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?NewsstoryID=2007-11-01T1 44304Z_01_N01419222_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-FEDOPS-WRAPUP.XML_ (http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?NewsstoryID=2007-11-01T144304Z_01_N01419222_R TRIDST_0_MARKETS-FEDOPS-WRAPUP.XML) NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve added a total of $41 billion in temporary reserves to the banking system on Thursday, the biggest single day of such injections since September 2001. The Fed's infusions may reflect the central bank's efforts to bring the federal funds rate down nearer to its target just one day after a widely expected rate cut. Fed funds last traded at 4.625 percent on the open market, above the Fed's target rate of 4.50 percent. A Fed spokesman would not comment on the total size of the operations, but did say it was the largest single day of operations since a total of $50.35 billion was injected on Sept. 19, 2001, following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. On Thursday, the central bank conducted $8 billion of 14-day repurchases, $21 billion of seven-day repurchases and $12 billion of overnight repurchase agreements. The total on Thursday surpassed the $38 billion the Fed injected on Aug. 10, which
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Straying Partner Leaves White House in a Lurch
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/world/asia/04assess.html?_r=1hp=oref=s loginpagewanted=print November 4, 2007 News Analysis Straying Partner Leaves White House in a Lurch By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and HELENE COOPER WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 - For more than five months the United States has been trying to orchestrate a political transition in Pakistan that would manage to somehow keep Gen. Pervez Musharraf in power without making a mockery of President Bush´s promotion of democracy in the Muslim world. On Saturday, those carefully laid plans fell apart spectacularly. Now the White House is stuck in wait-and-see mode, with limited options and a lack of clarity about the way forward. General Musharraf´s move to seize emergency powers and abandon the Constitution left Bush administration officials close to their nightmare: an American-backed military dictator who is risking civil instability in a country with nuclear weapons and an increasingly alienated public. Mr. Bush entered a delicate dance with Pakistan immediately after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when General Musharraf pledged his cooperation in the fight against Al Qaeda, whose top leaders, including Osama bin Laden, are believed to be hiding out in the mountainous border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan. The United States has given Pakistan more than $10 billion in aid, mostly to the military, since 2001. Now, if the state of emergency drags on, the administration will be faced with the difficult decision of whether to cut off that aid and risk undermining Pakistan´s efforts to pursue terrorists - a move the White House believes could endanger the security of the United States. Adm. William J. Fallon, the senior American military commander in the Middle East, told General Musharraf and his top generals in Islamabad on Friday that he would put that aid at risk if he seized emergency powers. But after the declaration on Saturday, there was no immediate action by the administration to accompany the tough talk, as officials monitored developments in Pakistan. Inside the White House the hope is that the state of emergency will be short-lived and that General Musharraf will fulfill his promise to abandon his post as Army chief of staff and hold elections by Jan. 15. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, traveling in the Middle East, called Mr. Musharraf´s move highly regrettable, while her spokesman, Sean D. McCormack, said the United States was deeply disturbed. Teresita Schaffer, an expert on Pakistan at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, called General Musharraf´s action a big embarrassment for the administration. But she said there was not much the United States could do. There´s going to be a lot of visible wringing of hands, and urging Musharraf to declare his intentions, she said. But I don´t really see any alternative to continuing to work with him. They can´t just decide they´re going to blow off the whole country of Pakistan, because it sits right next to Afghanistan, where there are some 26,000 U.S. and NATO troops. The hand-wringing began even before General Musharraf imposed military rule. Ms. Rice said she has had several conversations with General Musharraf in the past few weeks - the last one two days ago - in which she appealed to him not to declare emergency powers. The American ambassador to Pakistan, Anne W. Patterson, had also been exhorting General Musharraf and his top deputies against making that step, Ms. Rice said. We were clear that we did not support it, Ms. Rice said, speaking to reporters aboard a flight from Istanbul to Israel, where she is traveling for regional talks. We were clear that we didn´t support it because it would take Pakistan away from the path of democratic rule. But even as she criticized General Musharraf´s power grab, Ms. Rice stopped short of outright condemnation of General Musharraf himself, even going so far as to credit him for doing a lot - in the past - toward preparing Pakistan for what she called a path to democratic rule. That seeming contradiction highlights the quandary in which the Bush administration now finds itself. There has long been a deep fear within the administration, particularly among intelligence officials, that an imperfect General Musharraf is better for American interests than an unknown in a volatile country that is central to the administration´s fight against terrorism. In recent months the White House had been hoping that a power-sharing alliance between General Musharraf and Pakistan´s former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, would help the general cling to power while putting a democratic face on his regime. Now, experts predict that the United States will be watching Pakistan closely in the coming days to see how hard General Musharraf cracks down on his opponents
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [GATA] Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- 05:52PM ET Sunday, November 4, 2007 Supermodel joins hedge fund managers in dumping dollars By Bo Nielsen and Adriana Brasileiro Bloomberg News Service Monday, November 5, 2007 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aCs.keWwNdiYrefer=home Gisele Bundchen wants to remain the world's richest model and is insisting that she be paid in almost any currency but the U.S. dollar. Like billionaire investors Warren Buffett and Bill Gross, the Brazilian supermodel, who Forbes magazine says earns more than anyone in her industry, is at the top of a growing list of rich people who have concluded that the currency can only depreciate because Americans, led by President George W. Bush, are living beyond their means. Even after the dollar lost 34 percent since 2001, the biggest investors and most accurate forecasters say it will weaken further as home sales fall and the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates. The dollar plummeted to its lowest ever last week against the euro, Canadian dollar, Chinese yuan, and the cheapest in 26 years against the British pound. We've told all our clients that if you had only one idea, one investment, it would be to buy an investment in a non-dollar currency, said Gross, the chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. in Newport Beach, California, and manager of the world's biggest bond fund. That should be on top of the list, said Gross, whose firm is a unit of Munich-based insurer Allianz SE. The dollar fell 0.8 percent last week to $1.4505, the weakest since the euro started trading in 1999. It lost 2.8 percent against the Canadian dollar to 93.51 cents and 1.8 percent versus the pound to $2.09. The Fed's U.S. Trade Weighted Major Currency Dollar index tumbled to 76.3, from 112.89 in January 2004. ...Bundchen's Demands BNP Paribas chief currency strategist Hans-Guenter Redeker, the most accurate foreign-exchange forecaster last quarter in a Bloomberg survey, said the dollar may drop to $1.50 per euro by year-end. The median estimate of 44 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg is for the currency to end the year at $1.43. Among those surveyed last week, the forecast ranges from $1.42 to $1.50. When Bundchen, 27, signed a contract in August to represent Pantene hair products for Cincinnati-based Procter Gamble Co., she demanded payment in euros, according to Veja, Brazil's biggest weekly magazine. She'll also get euros for the deal she reached last October with Dolce Gabbana SpA in Milan to promote the Italian designer's new fragrance, The One, Veja reported. Bundchen earned $33 million in the year through June, Forbes reported in July. Contracts starting now are more attractive in euros because we don't know what will happen to the dollar, Patricia Bundchen, the model's twin sister and manager in Brazil, said in a telephone interview in September from Sao Paulo. She declined to discuss details of the arrangements last week, as did Anne Nelson, Bundchen's agent in New York at IMG Models. ...Dollar Support Procter Gamble's Sao Paulo-based external relations director for Brazil, Andre Quadra, said he couldn't give details of the Pantene contract because of a confidentiality agreement. Analysts in a Bloomberg survey expect the dollar to strengthen in coming months as stronger-than-forecast reports suggest U.S. consumers will keep the economy out of recession. Payrolls grew by 166,000 in October, double the median forecast of economists in a Bloomberg survey. The dollar will rise to $1.43 per euro this year and $1.35 by the end of 2008, according to the median estimate in the survey. So far the data has shown the U.S. economy may not be slowing to the extent the majority of the market had expected, said Omer Esiner, an analyst at currency-trading company Ruesch International Inc. in Washington who expects the U.S. currency to strengthen to as much as $1.38 per euro. That could temper policy easing down the road and lend support for the dollar. ...'Moving to Asia' Buffett, whom Forbes in April ranked as the world's third-richest person behind Bill Gates and Carlos Slim, told reporters in South Korea last month that he is bearish on the U.S. currency. We still are negative on the dollar relative to most major currencies, so we bought stocks in companies that earn their money in other currencies, Buffett said Oct. 25. Buffett, 77, is chairman of Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Jim Rogers, a former partner of investor George Soros, said last month he's selling his house and all his possessions in the U.S. currency to buy China's yuan. The dollar is collapsing, Rogers said last week in an interview. 'I'm moving to Asia because moving to Asia now is like moving to New York in 1907 or London in 1807. It's the wave of the future. ...Better Returns The dollar is falling
[CTRL] Fwd: Rice, Hadley, Wolfowitz, other Neocons to be subpoenaed in AIPAC/Israel spy case
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Rice, Hadley to be subpoenaed in Israel lobby spy case _http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfqsMUGt_xLUPtGJWuJBhG2dOpCA_ (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfqsMUGt_xLUPtGJWuJBhG2dOpCA) WASHINGTON (AFP) — A judge ruled Friday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and White House National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley can be subpoenaed to testify in a sensitive spying case that has focused attention on Israel's powerful US lobbying. Federal court judge T.S. Ellis ruled to allow the request by lawyers for Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman, former employees of the influential pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to subpoena Rice, Hadley and 13 other current and former top government officials to testify in the case, according to court documents. Rosen and Weissman, accused of passing secret US defense information to unauthorized people while they worked for AIPAC, hope the testimony of the government officials will support their defense that they were not engaged in spying. The defendants claim that testimony from these current and former officials will tend to show that the overt acts reflect nothing more than the well-established official Washington practice of engaging in 'back-channel' communication, according to Friday's ruling issued in Alexandria, Virginia. The White House and the State Department declined to comment on the ruling, which rejected government arguments that the officials' testimony in the case, which involves key issues of national security, would be immaterial and even harmful to the defendants. We are aware of the order authorizing the potential issuance of subpoenas in the Rosen and Weissman case should the case go to trial, said National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe. It is our understanding that no subpoenas have been issued at this time. We cannot comment further because this is an ongoing criminal prosecution. We are not going to comment on an ongoing legal matter, said State Department spokesman Tom Casey. Rosen and Weissman and Department of Defense official Lawrence Franklin were charged in 2005 under the Espionage Act with conspiracy to communicate national defense information after they were documented in a lengthy FBI investigation sharing sensitive US intelligence with each other and with Israel. US officials alleged that between 1999 and 2004 Franklin passed secrets to Israel using AIPAC as the conduit; at the time Rosen was the lobby's policy director and Weissman an analyst on Iran. The sealed indictments, according to court documents, record 57 overt acts in the mishandling of the secrets, including meetings and telephone calls involving communicating the information with both US and foreign nationals. The intelligence involved terrorist activities in Central Asia, US intelligence and policy regarding Middle Eastern countries, and Al Qaeda, according to the court documents. Rosen and Weissman maintain that the secrets were not closely held by the US government and their disclosure did no damage to the country, the court documents said. Franklin, a former assistant to former undersecretary of defense Douglas Feith, pleaded guilty after a series of closed hearings and was sentenced in January 2006 to 12 years and seven months in prison and a 10,000 dollar fine. The pre-trial ruling will allow Rosen and Weissman's lawyers to proceed with subpoenas for Rice, Hadley, former senior State Department officials Richard Armitage, Marc Grossman, Matthew Bryza and William Burns, former top defense department officials Feith and Paul Wolfowitz, and others from US defense, diplomatic and
[CTRL] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom could have helped U.S. prevent 9/11
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudiarabia.terrorism/index.html Ex-Saudi ambassador: Kingdom could have helped U.S. prevent 9/11 http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/WORLD/meast/11/01/saudiarabia.terrorism/art.binsultan.afp.gi.jpg * Story Highlights * Prince Bandar bin Sultan: U.S. did not engage Saudis in serious, credible way * All but four of September 11 hijackers were Saudi nationals * U.S. official: Bandar's comments should be taken with a grain of salt * Bandar was the Saudi ambassador to Washington for nearly 22 years (CNN) -- Saudi Arabia could have helped the United States prevent al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington if American officials had consulted Saudi authorities in a credible way, the kingdom's former ambassador said in a documentary aired Thursday. art.binsultan.afp.gi.jpg Prince Bandar said that Saudi intelligence was actively following most of the 9/11 plotters with precision. The comments by Prince Bandar bin Sultan are similar to the remarks this week by Saudi King Abdullah that suggested Britain could have prevented the July 2005 train bombings in London if it had heeded warnings from Riyadh. Speaking to the Arabic satellite network Al-Arabiya on Thursday, Bandar -- now Abdullah's national security adviser -- said Saudi intelligence was actively following most of the September 11, 2001, plotters with precision. If U.S. security authorities had engaged their Saudi counterparts in a serious and credible manner, in my opinion, we would have avoided what happened, he said. Video Watch Bandar's comments » Bandar was the Saudi ambassador to Washington for nearly 22 years before he was replaced in 2005. A knowledgeable U.S. official told CNN that Bandar's comments should be taken with a grain of salt. On Monday, Abdullah told the BBC that Saudi Arabia had sent warnings to British authorities before the London subway bombings that killed 52 people -- the city's bloodiest day since World War II. We have sent information to Great Britain before the terrorist attacks in Britain, Abdullah said. But unfortunately, no action was taken, and it may have been able to avert the tragedy. The September 11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. All but four of the suicide hijackers who carried out the plot were Saudi nationals, and after the attacks, the kingdom was widely criticized for having tolerated Islamic militancy. The Saudis have called the criticism unfair, pointing out that al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden's original grievance was against the country's ruling family, which invited U.S. troops into the kingdom after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. advertisement A string of attacks on Western compounds, oil installations and Saudi institutions between 2003 and 2006 were blamed on al Qaeda's followers. And Saudi officials say that since 9/11, they have taken steps to ensure charitable donations do not fall into the hands of al Qaeda. All About http://topics.cnn.com/topics/September_11_Attacks September 11 Attacks http://topics.cnn.com/topics/Al_Qaeda Al Qaeda -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://marioprofaca.iifree.net Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSINT
[CTRL] Fwd: Planned American Dictatorship Has Started Creation of Their Thought Police
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- - Original Message - Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:03 AM Subject: Planned American Dictatorship Has Started Creation of Their Thought Police :; Title: Planned American Dictatorship Has Started Creation of Their Thought Police Subtitle: We have expected this type of law since the attacks of 9/11. While California was burning, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a Thought Crime bill which will classify Patriot and/or Christian dissidents as Homegrown Terrorists! Since the 9/11 attacks, Cutting Edge has been warning that the Illuminati was planning to use the attacks as cover for implementing a severe dictatorship upon America. Gradually, and always operating under the guise of saving American freedom, Skull Bones President Bush has cooperated with an equally committed Illuminist Congress, has consistently passed laws which remove all our freedoms and Constitutional protections. If you have ever actually read Patriot Acts 1 and 2, you will realize that our government can arrest anyone on any pretense, without specific charges, with no right to a lawyer, no right for a public jury trial, and no right to appeal any sentence. Furthermore, the victim can be jailed at a secret location, his family has no right to know where he is, and he can be executed secretly and buried just as secretly, with the government under no requirement to notify the family that he was executed. The only reason we Americans still think we are free is that our government leaders have decided to not implement any of these draconian laws right away. Following the example set by Adolf Hitler, our leaders are gradually setting these dictatorial laws in place but not implementing them until the total Plan is ready to set in motion. When the time has come for the next terrorist attack and/or the next environmental disaster to occur, FEMA and/or Homeland Security can totally dissolve our Constitutional government, and start arresting dissidents, completely protected by law. Again, this is the path traveled by Adolf Hitler The Horror of H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 NEWS BRIEF: House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill, BY Lee Rogers, Rogue Government.com, 10-25-2007 The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet, and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Please note the following troubling provisions: 1) Civilian populations of the United States -- American citizens -- are targeted. Starting in late, 2001, Cutting Edge warned repeatedly that the danger in disallowing non-citizens their normal rights under American law was that the day would soon come when native-born American citizens would be disallowed their Constitutional rights. But, because the targets following 9/11 were Islamic terrorists, the average American on the street uttered not one word of protest. Now this bill substantiates the truth of the Cutting Edge position: American citizens were the ultimate targets after all! 2) Vague language is always the friend of the dictator, and always proves the complete undoing of the dissident. 3) American citizens who are
[CTRL] Fwd: Les ROOTS -- Sarkozy, Israeli Mole
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Furl the flag _Gamal Nkrumah_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]::%20Furl%20the%20flag) _http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/in2.htm_ (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/in2.htm) (http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/868/_in2.htm)Sarkozy As if his marital challenges were not enough cause for concern, Sarco the Sayan has suddenly emerged as the most infamous accolade of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The influential French daily Le Figaro last week revealed that the French leader once worked for -- and perhaps still does, it hinted -- Israeli intelligence as a sayan (Hebrew for helper), one of the thousands of Jewish citizens of countries other than Israel who cooperate with the katsas (Mossad case-officers). A letter dispatched to French police officials late last winter -- long before the presidential election but somehow kept secret -- revealed that Sarkozy was recruited as an Israeli spy. The French police is currently investigating documents concerning Sarkozy's alleged espionage activities on behalf of Mossad, which Le Figaro claims dated as far back as 1983. According to the author of the message, in 1978, Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin ordered the infiltration of the French ruling Gaullist Party, Union pour un Mouvement Populaire. Originally targeted were Patrick Balkany, Patrick Devedjian and Pierre Lellouche. In 1983, they recruited the young and promising Sarkozy, the fourth man. Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky describes how sayanim function in By Way Of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer. They are usually reached through relatives in Israel. An Israeli with a relative in France, for instance, might be asked to draft a letter saying the person bearing the letter represents an organisation whose main goal is to help save Jewish people in the Diaspora. Could the French relative help in any way? They perform many different roles. A car sayan, for example, running a rental car agency, could help the Mossad rent a car without having to complete the usual documentation. An apartment sayan would find accommodation without raising suspicions, a bank sayan could fund someone in the middle of the night if needs be, a doctor sayan would treat a bullet wound without reporting it to the police. And, a political sayan ? It's rather obvious what this could mean. The sayanim are a pool of people at the ready who will keep quiet about their actions out of loyalty to the cause, a non-risk recruitment system that draws from the millions of Jewish people outside Israel. Such talk sends chills down spines, especially Arab and Muslim ones. Indeed, the revelation did not go unnoticed in Arab capitals or come as much of a surprise. Paris can be a sunny place for shady people. When it comes to intelligence gathering on behalf of Israel, a question mark is immediately raised on the moral calibre of the person in question. But, how does this scandal influence France's foreign and domestic politics? It is of symbolic significance that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was on a state visit to France in the immediate aftermath of Le Figaro 's exposé -- ostensibly to discuss Iran's nuclear agenda and the Palestinian question. Proud and prickly France under its supposedly savvy new president hopes to play a more prominent role in the perplexing world of Middle Eastern politics. On Monday, Sarkozy flew to Morocco, the ancestral home of many of France's Jewry, soon after his Mossad connection was made public. There is no clear evidence that the revelation is to make France
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] The Parts Left Out of the Good Shepherd
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- http://ctrl.org/boodleboys/goodshepherd.html from: High Times November 2007 The Parts Left Out of the Good Shepherd Hollywood recently released the first behind-the-curtain account of the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency and its relationship with a secret society at Yale University known as Skull and Bones. HIGH TIMES asked the world's leading authority on the group to help us separate truth from fiction. By Kris Millegan I hope you are lucky enough to meet someone you trust. I regret to say. I haven't. —Dr, Fredricks [Michael Gambon] in The Good Shepherd The Good Shepherd is Robert De Niro's effort to mine the dramatic materials at the very real-life nexus of secret societies, intelligence agencies and recorded history, apparently in an attempt to forge a Godfather-style franchise. But one is left wincing at the thought of The Good Shepherd. Part II, given that the film begins and ends with the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and its aftermath, with the assassination of JFK and its attendant wilderness of conspiracy lurking just over the horizon, Will the right people end up washing the blood off their hands in a sequel, laying the action off on some mob operation gone rogue, which then had to be covered up for the good of the country? All just an honest mistake But I seem to be getting ahead of myself. I have often been asked. 'What do you think of the movie The Good Shepherd? And the best response I could usually offer was: Well. I haven't seen it yet. I'd been aware of the film for several years, and followed its progress to the silver screen, but I don't get out much. Then, finally, the DVD version of the film wound its way to our local store, and I picked up a copy to see what I could find. My first viewing brought up a host of indignant furies, all riled at the historical hubris of the tale and the simple fact that most of the characters in it and even the film's central story of betrayal are amalgamations at best, and total confabulations at worst. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying that you shouldn't watch this movie, As a matter of fact. I recommend it highly — but with caveats, as will soon become clear. Similar emotions were probably experienced by the relatives of Mafia members when The Godfather came out: contempt for its errors, but still a satisfaction at seeing a film with some semblance of reality, accurately portraying the Mafia's attitudes, atmosphere and activities while, at the same time, exposing a very tragic and very real group that plays by its own rules and affects us all … immensely. Being an intelligence brat. I can only speak about The Good Shepherd, but if you're interested in the views of Mafia whelps. I suggest reading Mafia Princess by Antoinette Giancana, or maybe watching some Growing Up Gotti on AE. But then, my own dad wasn't a big boss; he was just a lesser boss, someone who had been in some very interesting places at some very interesting times, which had given him an overview of the agency beyond the standard compartmentalization. The last overt job that my father, Lloyd S. Millegan, had with the CIA was serving as a branch chief, the head of the East Asia Research Analysis Office. Before that, he'd been in the Office of Strategic Services (0SS) and a few of the other alpha-named agencies that eventually morphed into the CIA. After his initial contact with the intelligence community in 1936. as an 18-year-old exchange student at the University of Shanghai. He joined the OSS before World War II. In 1943, he entered the world of deep politics, monitoring Gen, Douglas MacArthur and his staff for
[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] CIA Scofflaw Fred Thompson
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- As a deep Iran-Contra operative Thompson is himself linked with megalithic CIA cocaine smuggling, which is mostly what CIA trojan horse Iran-Contra fake support for the Nicaraguan contras was about. The contras did not receive half a percent of drug proceeds, or else they would have had Stinger missiles and helicopters instead of cheap Chinese rifles that can't hit the side of a barn. This about a Thompson aide smuggling a few pounds of marijunana seems like a limited hangout in comparison of Thompson's support for CIA cocaine smuggling, and Republican links to two recently captured CIA cocaine flights in Mexico involving tons of cocaine, and Republican links to 911 heroin smuggling and quid pro quo liberation of Lebanese and Afghan-Pak poppies as payback for 911 heroin funding for Porter Goss and Air America CIA. -Bob http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/03/AR2007110301153_pf.html Thompson Adviser Has Criminal Past By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 4, 2007; A01 Republican presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson has been crisscrossing the country since early this summer on a private jet lent to him by a businessman and close adviser who has a criminal record for drug dealing. Thompson selected the businessman, Philip Martin, to raise seed money for his White House bid. Martin is one of four campaign co-chairmen and the head of a group called the first day founders. Campaign aides jokingly began to refer to Martin, who has been friends with Thompson since the early 1990s, as the head of Thompson's Airforce. Thompson's frequent flights aboard Martin's twin-engine Cessna 560 Citation have saved him more than $100,000, because until the law changed in September, campaign-finance rules allowed presidential candidates to reimburse private jet owners for just a fraction of the true cost of flights. Martin entered a plea of guilty to the sale of 11 pounds of marijuana in 1979; the court withheld judgment pending completion of his probation. He was charged in 1983 with violating his probation and with multiple counts of felony bookmaking, cocaine trafficking and conspiracy. He pleaded no contest to the cocaine-trafficking and conspiracy charges, which stemmed from a plan to sell $30,000 worth of the drug, and was continued on probation. Thompson's campaign said the candidate was not aware of the multiple criminal cases, for which Martin served no jail time. All are described in public court records. Karen Hanretty, Thompson's deputy communications director, said yesterday that Senator Thompson was unaware of the information until this afternoon. Phil Martin has been a friend of the senator since the mid-1990s and remains so today. Thompson communications director Todd Harris added that Martin was not subjected to the campaign's standard vetting process because he's a longtime friend. There's not a campaign in the world that has the ability to research every one of its supporters going back more than 20 years, Harris said. Martin could not be reached in the past week, and lawyers for him in Tennessee and Florida declined to comment on the criminal cases. Hanretty said she forwarded detailed questions from The Washington Post to Martin yesterday afternoon. Martin, 49, is one of several top political fundraisers with a criminal past to gain access this year to a presidential contender. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton decided in September to return more than $800,000 raised by Norman Hsu, one of her top bundlers, after newspapers disclosed that he had been convicted of fraud and had an outstanding warrant for his arrest. Martin has been more than just a key fundraiser
[CTRL] Daniel Estulin, Bilderberg Group author to be on Coast to Coast, Tues. 11/6
-Caveat Lector- http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/schedule.html Hosted by George Noory Guest(s) Daniel Estulin Tuesday, November 6 Investigative journalist Daniel Estulin has been researching the Bilderberg Group for more than 14 years. He'll discuss the far-reaching influence the group has over domestic and world affairs. ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] Fwd: Wall Street Resorting to DEATH THREATS to Prop Up Public Confidence in System
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Top US analyst hits back after death threats over Citigroup downgrade (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece) Tom Bawden in New York November 3, 2007, The Times (UK) _http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2796774.ece) _Meredith Whitney: The $360bn analyst_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2793366.ece) | _Citigroup fears send Wall Street reeling _ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article2783520.ece) | _Citigroup chief is about to quit amid mounting woes_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/banking_and_finance/article27 96487.ece) | _Wall St braced for $10bn more credit crunch hits_ (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2790862.ece) Meredith Whitney, the analyst who prompted a $369 billion (£177 billion) plunge in the value of US shares on Thursday by issuing a negative note on Citigroup, hit out at Wall Street’s culture of intimidation yesterday after receiving several death threats from investors in the bank. Ms Whitney, a CIBC analyst who is married to the former World Wrestling Entertainment champion Death Mask, prompted a near 7 per cent drop in Citigroup’s shares on Thursday, after suggesting that the bank needed to raise more than $30 billion to restore its capital cushion. She also downgraded her recommendation on Citigroup’s shares to “market underperform” in the note that set off America’s biggest stock market decline since August. Ms Whitney, Forbes’s second-highest ranked stock picker for 2007, told The Times: “People are scared to be negative, especially when a company has such a wide holding. Clients are not pleased with my call and I have had several death threats. “But it was the most straightforward call I’ve made in my career and I am surprised my peer analysts have been resistant. It’s so straightforward, it’s indisputable.” Ms Whitney, whose marriage to John Charles Layfield, the wrestler, 2½ years ago was detailed in The New York Times, said that she has never felt any pressure from the Wall Street firms themselves to be positive. But she said investors could be “nasty and belligerent” if they felt you had lost them a lot of money by influencing the price of their shares. “No one had the moxie to put in print what I put in print,” she said. Ms Whitney’s note came two weeks after Citigroup reported a 57 per cent drop in its third-quarter profits, following a $6.5 billion writedown, much of which related to the credit crunch. That writedown intensified recurring calls for Chuck Prince, Citigroup’s head, to stand down, although he remains at the helm of the world’s biggest bank. But in a move that will fuel speculation about his position, Mr Prince yesterday cancelled a speech he had been due to give tomorrow at the US Japan Business Conference. A Citigroup spokesman said he had cancelled the appearance to prepare for the company’s new listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. Ms Whitney, 37, met Mr Layfield in 2003 when they were panelists on Bulls Bears, a programme on Fox News. Mr Layfield credits Ms Whitney with helping to make him more sophisticated. The New York Times reported him saying at their wedding: “She took a country boy like me and kind of refined me. I know what fork to use now at the dinner table, and I drink my beer from a glass.” Fed has biggest day of injections since Sept 2001 Thu Nov 1, 2007 9:43am ET
[CTRL] Fwd: Sibel Edmonds Promises to Tell All, but No One in the MSM Wants to Hear It
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Tell All Now -- and Face Charges if Necessary -- to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her She's Prepared to Name Names, Including Those of Two 'Well-Known' Congress Members Involved in Criminal Corruption The 'Most Gagged Person in U.S. History' Tells The BRAD BLOG She's Now Exhausted All Other Channels... -- By Brad Friedman _http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197_ (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5197) Attention CBS 60 Minutes: we've got a huge scoop for you. If you want it. Remember the _exclusive story you aired on Sibel Edmonds_ (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml) , originally on October 27th, 2002, when she was not allowed to tell you everything that she heard while serving as an FBI translator after 9/11 because she was gagged by the rarely-invoked States Secret Privilege? Well, she's still gagged. In fact, as the ACLU first described her, she's the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America. But if you'll sit down and talk with her for an unedited interview, she has now told _The BRAD BLOG_ (http://www.bradblog.com/) during an exclusive interview, she will now tell you everything she knows. Everything she hasn't been allowed to tell since 2002, about the criminal penetration of the FBI where she worked, and at the Departments of State and Defense; everything she heard concerning the corruption and illegal activities of several well-known members of Congress; everything she's aware of concerning information omitted and/or covered up in relation to 9/11. All of the information gleaned from her time listening to and translating wire-taps made prior to 9/11 at the FBI. Here's a _handy bullet-point list_ (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2498) , as we ran it in March of 2006, for reference, of what she's now willing to tell you about. People say, 'why doesn't she just come forward and spill the beans?' I have gone all the way to the Supreme Court and was shut down, I went to Congress and now consider that shut down, she told _The BRAD BLOG_ (http://www.bradblog.com/) last week when we spoke with her for comments in relation to _our story_ (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5163) on former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's original attempt to move a resolution through the U.S. House in 2000 declaring the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million ethnic Armenians in Turkey as genocide. Here's my promise to the American Public: If anyone of the major networks --- ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, FOX --- promise to air the entire segment, without editing, I promise to tell them everything that I know, about everything mentioned above, she told us. I can tell the American public exactly what it is, and what it is that they are covering up, she continued. I'm not compromising ongoing investigations, Edmonds explained, because they've all been shut down since. She's Very Credible She has, in fact, spent years taking every reasonable step to see that the information she has goes through the proper channels. The Supreme Court refused to hear her whistleblower lawsuit, even in light of the Department of Justice forcing the removal of both her and her own attorneys from the courtroom when they made their arguments concerning why it was that she still had to remain gagged under the States Secrets Privilege. On the morning that the SCOTUS refused to hear her case, the _facade cracked_ (http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2086) on the front of the building. In a ridiculously ironic metaphor which would have been rejected by any credible screen-writer, a chunk of marble --- just above an allegorical statue
[CTRL] Fwd: Oilogarch Flees Russia with $3 Billion, Seeks Political Asylum in UK
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- New rift looms with Putin as Russia's 'most wanted' oligarch seeks asylum in Britain By WILL STEWART and JASON LEWIS - Last updated at 22:08pm on 27th October 2007 _http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4 90168in_page_id=1770in_a_source_ (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490168in_page_id=1770in_a_source) =One of Russia's richest and most wanted men has secretly applied for political asylum in Britain, fuelling the ongoing row between president Putin and Gordon Brown. Mikhail Gutseriyev, former head of massive oil and gas firm Russneft, is understood to be in hiding in the UK and appealing for Government protection. He fled Russia with a reputed £1.5 billion after a warrant was issued for his arrest on major fraud and tax evasion charges. But the 49-year-old billionaire - a bitter rival of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich - claims he was hounded out of his business by the Kremlin for political reasons. In hiding: Gutseriyev claims he was hounded by the Kremlin A former member of the Russian parliament, Mr Gutseriyev disappeared from Russia several weeks ago and is understood to have been smuggled to Britain where, Whitehall sources said, he has made an asylum application to the Home Office. The Government received the paperwork in the past two weeks and it is understood that it is being rushed through. His presence in Britain is likely to deepen the rift with Russia. Relations are already at a low over Moscow's decision to block the extradition of the prime suspect in the murder of former KGB man Alexander Litvinenko in London last year and Britain's protection of Boris Berezovsky, who has declared he wants to oust Mr Putin. The Russian interior ministry says Mr Gutseriyev was involved in illegal activities committed by an organised group on a grand scale. He was charged by a Russian court on May 4 after a ten month investigation into his firm. Now the Moscow-based prosecutor general's office says it has applied to put Mr Gutseriyev's name on Interpol's international wanted list. Interpol is understood to be considering the case. Last week his Moscow lawyer Alla Yaminskaya said: Gutseriyev is an honest man who follows the law, an upstanding person. All court decisions relating to this issue are illegal and will be appealed. Mr Gutseriyev apparently incurred the Kremlin's wrath by buying assets from Yukos, a rival oil company, before its bankruptcy last year and by refusing to sell his own company to Mr Putin's allies. Mr Putin has used Yukos's assets to build Rosneft, the state-run petroleum company, into the country's largest producer of crude oil. Yukos, the one-time market leader, was bankrupted and dismantled through a series of forced auctions after the state claimed more than £15billion in back taxes. Its former owner, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, was jailed for fraud and tax evasion. He has said he was punished for opposing Mr Putin. Mr Gutseriyev has been labelled the second Khodorkovsky. The latest twist comes after the mysterious death of Mr Gutseriyev's Harrow-educated son Chingiskhan, 22, in Moscow last August, after crashing his Ferrari. Forensic tests for the family are said to have concluded that his death was not accidental. Friends say Mr Gutseriyev was unable to attend his son's funeral for fear he would be arrested. Last night the Home Office refused to confirm or deny that Mr Gutseriyev was in Britain and asking for asylum. But a spokesman added: The Government is committed to providing protection for those individuals
[CTRL] Fwd: Welcome to Stalin's America: Cruel Unusual Punishment for Antiwar Protestors
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Since when has it become accepted U.S. legal procedure to CONTINUE to PUNISH those convicted of misdemeanors --AFTER they've served their sentence and been released-- by placing long-term (1-year to 10-year) legal restrictions on any exercise of freedom guaranteed by the Constitution: freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement? Theoretically, then, the US government can deny you, for a lifetime, every freedom granted by the Bill of Rights for ... a DUI conviction. Banned From Canada for a Year for War Protest By Ann Wright _http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007A.shtml_ (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007A.shtml) Tuesday 30 October 2007 _http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007A.shtml_ (http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007A.shtml) The invitation said six members of the Canadian Parliament were to speak October 25 on Canada's Parliament Hill as members of a panel called Peacebuilders Without Borders: Challenging the Post-9/11 Canada-US Security Agenda. I arrived at the Ottawa airport on the morning of October 25 expecting to be met by three members of Parliament and to hold a press conference at the airport. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Codepink Women for Peace and Global Exchange, was also invited by the Parliamentarians, but the previous day had been arrested for holding up two fingers in the form of a peace sign during the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing in which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice testified on Iraq, Iran and Israel-Palestinian issues. The October 24 committee hearing began with Codepink peace activist Desiree Fairooz holding up her red, paint-stained hands to Rice and shouting, The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands. As Capitol Hill police took her out of the House hearing, Fairooz yelled over her shoulder, War criminal, take her to the Hague. Shortly thereafter, two Codepinkers were arrested for just being in the room, and brutally hauled out of the hearing by Capitol police. An hour later, Medea and a male Codepinker were arrested for no reason. Four of the five had to stay overnight in the District of Columbia jail; Medea was one of those and missed the trip to Ottawa. I presented immigration officials our letter of invitation from the Parliamentarians that explained Medea and I had been denied entry to Canada at the Niagara Falls border crossing on October 3, 2007, because we had been convicted in the United States of peaceful, non-violent protests against the war on Iraq, including sitting on the sidewalk in front of the White House with 400 others, speaking out against torture during Congressional hearings, and other misdemeanors. The Canadian government knew of these offenses as they now have access to the FBI's National Crime Information database on which we are listed. The database was created to identify members of violent gangs and terrorist organizations, foreign fugitives, patrol violators and sex offenders -- not for [misdemeanors by] peace activists peacefully protesting illegal actions of their government. The immigration officer directed me to a secondary screening, where my request to call the members of Parliament waiting outside the customs' doors was denied. My suggestion that the letter of invitation from the Parliamentarians might be valuable in assessing the need for me to be in Canada was dismissed with the comment that members of Parliament do not have a role in determining who enters Canada. I suggested the laws enacted by the Parliament were the basis of that determination. I added that the reason I had been invited to Ottawa by
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Check out Federal Contracts to BLACKWATER USA, FY 2000-2007, summary
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Konformist: Greg Bishop Lawyers Silence Konformist With Lawsuit
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- Please send as far and wide as possible. Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com Robalini's Note: After speaking to high-powered lawyers this week retained by Greg Bishop, alleged CIA disinformation agent, I regret to inform all Konformist readers that I am unfortunately unable to currently provide the evidence of his ties to the CIA until I retain counsel over the legal proceedings which are currently being launched against me. Hopefully, this matter will be taken care of soon. In the meantime, here is a piece from Adam Gorightly's wonderful blog on the story. Enjoy it before legal shenanigans force him to take it down as well... http://gorightly.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/greg-bishop-outed-on- untamed-dimensions/ Greg Bishop Outed on Untamed Dimensions October 27, 2007 A truly great and courageous American citizen, Robert Sterling of The Konformist, appeared on my show today and revealed the shocking evidence he has uncovered which provesbeyond a shadow of a doubtthat Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta, is a CIA disinfomation agent. The interview can be listened to, in its entirety, at the following link: http://gorightly.podomatic.com/entry/2007-10-26T19_10_22-07_00 I commend Mr Sterling for having the fortitude to step forward and blow the whistle on an individual I once considered a dear friend, but who it now has been revealed was pulling the wool over ALL of our eyes. And although Mr Sterling is not one to toot is own horn, I want to publicly note that not only has he put his own life on the line by outing Bishop, but that he also oversees his own ministry, which helps wayward young women to get right with the lord, and set themselves upon the path of salvation. Below are just a few photos featuring Rev. Sterling with some of the women he has helped shepard back into good graces of our heavenly father. http://gorightly.podomatic.com/entry/2007-10-26T19_10_22-07_00 The Konformist must make a request for donations via Paypal, at Paypal.com. If you can and desire, please feel free to send money to help The Konformist through the following email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: I NEED 2 KONFORM!!! (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klubkonformist Yahoo! Groups Links ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Fed Up with Congress, Decides to Rule by Fiat
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ---BeginMessage--- To Implement Policy, Bush to Turn to Administrative Orders By Michael Abramowitz and Jonathan Weisman Washington Post, October 31, 2007; A03 _http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR20071030005 58_pf.html_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103000558_pf.html) _The White House_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/The+White+House?tid=informline) plans to try implementing as much new policy as it can by administrative order while stepping up its confrontational rhetoric with Congress after concluding that _President Bush_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/George+W.+Bush?tid=informline) cannot do much business with the Democratic leadership, administration officials said. According to those officials, Bush and his advisers blame Democrats for the holdup of _Judge Michael B. Mukasey_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Michael+Mukasey?tid=informline) 's nomination to be attorney general, the failure to pass any of the 12 annual spending bills, and what they see as their refusal to involve the White House in any meaningful negotiations over the stalemated children's health-care legislation. White House aides say the only way Bush seems to be able to influence the process is by vetoing legislation or by issuing administrative orders, as he has in recent weeks on veterans' health care, air-traffic congestion, protecting endangered fish and immigration. They say they expect Bush to issue more of such orders in the next several months, even as he speaks out on the need to limit spending and resist any tax increases. The events of recent weeks have crystallized that the chances of these leaders meeting the administration halfway are becoming increasingly remote, said White House spokesman _Tony Fratto_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Tony+Fratto?tid=informline) . Bush himself has been complaining more and more bitterly about congressional Democrats in recent weeks. In a private meeting yesterday with House Republicans in the East Room of the White House, Bush recalled how he had been able to work with Democrats when he was _Texas_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Texas?tid=informline) governor and said he had hoped to find the same relationships in Washington. He sort of longs for those days, when both sides were genuinely interested in getting along and getting a deal, said _Rep. Adam H. Putnam_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/p000586/) (R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Republican Conference, who helped organize yesterday's White House meeting, attended by about 150 Republicans. The president offered more criticism after the session. Congress is not getting its work done, Bush said. We're near the end of the year, and there really isn't much to show for it. House Democratic leaders fired back at Bush with strong rhetoric of their own. The president wants the same complacent, complicit Congress that was a co-conspirator in a coverup of what was going on in this country, said House _Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/h000874/) (D-Md.). Both sides have their own political calculations for digging in, with the White House and Republicans seeking to reestablish their credentials as fiscal conservatives and with Democrats concluding that they are on the right side politically on children's health care and other issues. On some issues, the White House has become increasingly left out of the legislative process. Bush's objection to any tax increases, for instance, has pushed Republicans in the House and the Senate to pursue their own negotiations over an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), concluding that a final bill must include a significant tobacco tax increase to offset its cost. Even as they offer the president public support, some Republicans on the Hill are hinting that they might break with Bush if the price is right. Asked yesterday whether he could support an SCHIP bill that Bush opposes, House _Minority Leader John A. Boehner_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/b000589/) (R-Ohio) suggested that is a possibility. He has his position. House Republicans have theirs, Boehner said. While Bush castigated Democrats for lack of productivity, congressional Republicans have had their own reasons for moving slowly. On SCHIP, for example, they have said that both sides could reach a deal if the Democratic leadership would slow down and let negotiations proceed. GOP _Sens. Charles E. Grassley_ (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/g000386/) (_Iowa_ (http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/related/topic/Iowa?tid=informline) ) and _Orrin G. Hatch_
[CTRL] Fwd: Check out Federal Contracts to BLACKWATER USA, FY 2000-2007, summary
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- _Click here: Federal Contracts to BLACKWATER USA, FY 2000-2007, summary_ (http://www.fedspending.org/fpds/fpds.php?parent_id=38113sortby=udetail=-1datype =Treptype=rdatabase=fpdsfiscal_year=) ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
[CTRL] Fwd: Superpowers Meet to Debate Iran Strategy This Week
-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- Major powers to meet on Iran this week Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:06am GMT _http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL3013165820071031?sp=true_ (http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL3013165820071031?sp=true) (javascript:launchArticleSlideshow();) (javascript:launchArticleSlideshow();) By Fredrik Dahl TEHRAN (Reuters) - Major powers plan to meet in London this week to discuss new sanctions on Iran amid a spat between Washington and the U.N. atomic energy watchdog over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, U.S. officials said. The officials in Washington, who asked not to be named because they were not authorised to discuss the matter in public, said they expected the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany to meet towards the end of the week. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who left Tehran on Wednesday after a short visit, suggested a unified approach was a way off, telling reporters economic unilateral sanctions ... will not help the continued collective effort, an apparent reference to new U.S. punitive measures announced last week. The Iranian news agency IRNA, reporting Lavrov's departure, gave no further details of his talks. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a speech on Tuesday that Iran would not retreat in the dispute and dismissed U.S. offers of broader negotiations if Iran suspends its most sensitive atomic activities. This nation will not negotiate with anyone over its obvious and legal rights, he said. ... the Iranian nation does not need America. This week's meeting of the so-called P5+1 -- the United States, Great Britain, France and Germany, Russia and China-- was to have taken place two weeks ago, but China pulled out in protest against the U.S. Congress' plan to honour the Dalai Lama. Its purpose is to discuss a possible third U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment. It was unclear whether the London meeting would take place on Thursday or on Friday. The world's major powers agreed in late September to delay a vote on tougher sanctions on Iran until late November at the earliest, depending on reports by the U.N. nuclear watchdog and a European Union negotiator. GIVE IRAN MORE TIME Russia and China opposed an early move to tighten economic sanctions, saying Tehran should be given more time to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to shed light on its past activities. Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei has annoyed Washington by suggesting its sometimes harsh stance toward Tehran was counter-productive. On Sunday, he urged Iran's critics to stop spinning and hyping the Iranian issue. Washington slapped new sanctions on Iran last week and recent months have seen somewhat belligerent rhetoric that has prompted speculation of possible U.S. military action before President George W. Bush steps down in January 2009. Bush recently suggested a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three, but a White House spokeswoman said on Tuesday that was a hypothetical situation and the president was determined to resolve the standoff through diplomacy. There is no intention of bombing Iran, Dana Perino told reporters. We are on a diplomatic track. We are working with our partners in the U.N. Security Council. Visiting Tehran two weeks ago, President Vladimir Putin said Russia would not accept military strikes against Iran. Russia says dialogue is the way to ease tensions. The Lavrov visit coincides with a crucial round of talks in Tehran between officials from Iran and the U.N. International Atomic Energy
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-Caveat Lector- ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---BeginMessage--- -Caveat Lector- _http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1792035.0.0.php_ (http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/foreign/display.var.1792035.0.0.php) The US is secretly upgrading special stealth bomber hangars on the British island protectorate of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to military sources. Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention _http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3101949.ece_ (http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3101949.ece) The army major has said that in the rare circumstances in which it was decided that the detainees were no longer enemy combatants, senior commanders ordered another panel to reverse the decision. ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substanceânot soap-boxingâplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'âwith its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsâis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/;ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om ---End Message---
