[cia-drugs] Sentimental Depopulation
Sentimental Depopulation | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:21:53 -0300 | Source: www.timboucher.com Found via RigInt: an article entitled Oil and People: Reducing Population in step with Oil Depletion by William Stanton. His argument is that as oil runs out, we will have to reduce to population levels before the Industrial Revolution, in which oil allowed us to boost our population upwards. The funnest part of the whole thing though is that he claims that people who will resist the “cold logic” of his active depopulation scenario are nothing but “sentimentalists.” He knows however that his viewpoint is not altogether popular: If, in this article, I discuss ways in which a global population reduction of some 6 billion people is likely to take place during the 21st Century, precedent suggests that nearly everyone will ignore me. “He must be mad”, media reviewers concluded when they read my first probes into the subject two years ago and effectively blacklisted the book But I would suggest that these types of views are actually gaining traction little by little lately, courtesy of a bump upward in visibility of primitivist philosophy. Not that I think any primitivists are yet actively promoting depopulation, but they certainly do seem all agree that its ecologically “necessary” if not specifically desirable. In any event, Stanton also raises the possibility of, essentially, merciful genocide as food begins to run out: It may well be that, in the West, the same argument will affect the thinking of militarily powerful nations. “If billions must die, and we have the technology to ensure that they are others, not us, why should we hold back”? Instantaneous nuclear elimination of population centres might even be considered merciful, compared to starvation and massacres prolonged over decades. He sees that as a “worst case” scenario though, unless “enlightened governments and their peoples” figure out something better. I would wager that as discussion of these topics heats up, we are bound to see more and more people crossing the line of what was previously moral indignation over ideas like this, and see an increase in active discussions of this kind. He then begins to analyze what he probably sees as harsh truths and which he believes that he is one of the few people man enough to engage in this kind of thinking: Probably the greatest obstacle to the [more peaceful “natural” population reduction] scenario with the best chance of success (in my opinion) is the Western world’s unintelligent devotion to political correctness, human rights and the sanctity of human life. In the Darwinian world that preceded and will follow the fossil fuel era, these concepts were and will be meaningless. Survival in a Darwinian resource-poor world depends on the ruthless elimination of rivals, not the acquisition of moral kudos by cherishing them when they are weak. See also eliminative materialism and positivism, which all have their roots in this same Enlightenment/Industrial Revolution period that Stanton suggests we need to move, in spirit, back beyond. It has, as far as I can tell, only ever been the “masses” who were fed the line about human rights and the sanctity of human life. The master caste, big brother, has never really adhered to any of these airy-fairy “sentimental” principles because they have greater freedoms which we do not have. But it is in their interest and the interest of social cohesion to foist these “sentimental” ideals on us. He continues: So the population reduction scenario with the best chance of success has to be Darwinian in all its aspects, with none of the sentimentality that shrouded the second half of the 20th Century in a dense fog of political correctness (Stanton 2003 page 193). It is best examined at the nation-state scale. The United Kingdom will serve as the model. To those sentimentalists who cannot understand the need to reduce UK population from 60 million to about 2 million over 150 years, and who are outraged at the proposed replacement of human rights by cold logic, I would say “You have had your day, in which your woolly thinking has messed up not just the Western world but the whole planet, which could, if Homo sapiens had been truly intelligent, have supported a small population enjoying a wonderful quality of life almost for ever. You have thrown away that opportunity.” The Darwinian approach, in this planned population reduction scenario, is to maximise the well-being of the UK as a nation-state. Individual citizens, and aliens, must expect to be seriously inconvenienced by the single-minded drive to reduce population ahead of resource shortage. The consolation is that the alternative, letting Nature take its course, would be so much worse. So in other words, he is saying that it’s our fault - yours and mine - that our sappy sentimentalism, belief in
[cia-drugs] Senate Puts Another Nail in the Coffin of the 4th
Senate Puts Another Nail in the Coffin of the 4th Thursday September 14th 2006, 9:07 am The National Security Surveillance Act, currently working its way through the rubberstamp halls of Congress, is simply remarkable in its fascist depth and breadth. But what is nearly as remarkable is the lack of response and outrage to this bit of authoritarian legislation that effectively kills the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure. “[Senator Arlen] Specter’s bill concedes the government’s right to wiretap Americans without warrants, and allows the U.S. Attorney General to authorize, on his own, dragnet surveillance of Americans so long as the stated purpose of the surveillance is to monitor suspected terrorists or spies,” reports Wired. Not only does the bill allow “the attorney general, or anyone he or she designates, to authorize widespread domestic spying, such as monitoring all instant-messaging systems in the country, so long as the government promises to delete anything not terrorism-related,” it also allows “unfettered wiretapping and physical searches without warrants.” If you believe the government deletes “anything not terrorism-related” and does not feed this data into its massive and long-standing matrix of snoop databases, I have a bridge to sell you. Our government, unchecked for decades, has kept a staggering pile of data on millions of citizens, particularly “terrorist” Americans opposed to the government. As noted here on numerous occasions, the government has snooped in earnest on Americans for decades, beginning officially with the creation of the National Security state on November 4, 1952, and authorized earlier in a letter written by President Harry S. Truman in June of 1952. From the beginning, the NSA and the CIA have worked closely with telecoms, a fact highlighted recently with NSA snooping revelations. Now we are told Verizon executive vice president and general counsel William P. Barr began his career as a CIA “analyst” in the 1970s and went “on to become an assistant legislative counsel for the agency,” according to Brian Beutler, writing for Raw Story. “He has also held a number of other public positions since then, including those of domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and even U.S. Attorney General under George Herbert Walker Bush.” When that position expired after Bill Clinton became President in 1993, Barr went to work as general counsel for GTE, the company that would later merge with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon Communications, where he now serves as executive vice president and general counsel. In those capacities, though, he has maintained ties with officials in Washington who have repeatedly called upon his testimony when crafting anti-terror legislation. That testimony reveals a record of sympathy with the sorts of legally contentious activities the NSA is alleged to be conducting with its wiretapping and data mining programs. After “everything changed” following nine eleven—that is to say, when the Constitution and the Bill of Rights became even more irrelevant than previously to our rulers—Barr “defended executive-branch war-time actions before the Senate Judiciary Committee, including controversial measures such as: the use of military tribunals to try suspected members of al Qaeda; suspension of criminal justice procedures which, he noted, ‘will frustrate our fight against al Qaeda’; and the withholding of operational details by the Attorney General of ongoing criminal investigations. The USA PATRIOT Act ultimately codified powers that closely mirror his suggestions, and he has since gone on record in support of that legislation as well…. President Bush’s chief rationale for ignoring FISA has been a contention, strikingly similar to Barr’s, that the urgency of terror cases does not allow enough time for the acquisition of surveillance warrants,” in other words the Fourth Amendment is a dead letter. Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter and the Senate Judiciary Committee are in the process of embalming the Fourth Amendment once and for all, as the point here is not to monitor “al-Qaeda,” a documented intelligence contrivance, but snoop all opposition to the emergent fascist state. http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=563 __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change
[cia-drugs] Progress or Regress? : PAUL KRUGMAN - Middle Class; Torture Bill Update, Call for Action
Progress or Regress? : PAUL KRUGMAN - Middle Class; Torture Bill Update, Call for Actionby PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times Friday Sep 15th, 2006 - Krugman: Middle Class - Why has technological and economic progress done so little for most Americans? - Torture Bill Update: The Good, the Bad, and A Call for Action and more OP-ED COLUMNIST Progress or Regress? By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: September 15, 2006 Is the typical American family better off than it was a generation ago? Thats the subject of an intense debate these days, as commentators try to understand the sour mood of the American public. But its the wrong debate. For one thing, there probably isnt a right answer. Most Americans are better off in some ways, worse off in others, than they were in the early 1970s. Its a subjective judgment whether the good outweighs the bad. And as Ill explain, that ambiguity is actually the real message. Heres what the numbers say. Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/12397854.html U.N. Inspectors Dispute Iran Report By House Panel http://mparent.livejournal.com/12360662.html U.N.: U.S. report on Iran's nuclear plan 'outrageous and dishonest' http://mparent.livejournal.com/12359123.html BUSH WANTS TO GUT GENEVA CONVENTIONS http://mparent.livejournal.com/12397717.html Torture Bill Update: The Good, the Bad, and A Call for Action http://mparent.livejournal.com/12397120.html And More on Today's Newswire http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/09/14/ MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ Homepage http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 Archived http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon Archived Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger with Voice __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Venezuela's Chavez Pledges To Help Iran Against Attackers
http://www.easybourse.com/Website/dynamic/News.php?NewsID=5lang=fraNewsRubrique=2 Venezuela's Chavez Pledges To Help Iran Against AttackersFriday September 15th, 2006 / 0h31 HAVANA (AP)--Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez pledged Thursday that Venezuela will support Iran if it is invaded as a result of the Middle Eastern nation's high-stakes nuclear standoff with the U.N. Security Council. "Iran is under threat; there are plans to invade Iran, hopefully it won't happen, but we are with you," Chavez told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a meeting of the Group of 15 developing nations. The U.N. has demanded that Iran suspend uranium enrichment amid concerns by some nations that it could be used for nuclear weapons. Iran insists that its enrichment efforts are peaceful, aimed solely at producing electrical energy. Chavez said Venezuela stands with Iran in this time of crisis, just as it has with Cuba, where Fidel Castro handed over power to Raul while recovering from intestinal surgery. If they don't defend each other, no one else will, Chavez said. "Under any scenario we are with you just like we are with Cuba," Chavez said. "If the United States invades Cuba, blood will run ... We will not have our arms crossed while bombs are falling in Havana or they carry Raul off in a plane." __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay?
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/09/14/p10792 What is the U.S. Military Doing in Paraguay? Benjamin Dangl From "Upside Down World" The U.S. military is conducting secretive operations in Paraguay and reportedly building a new base there. Human rights groups and military analysts in the region believe trouble is brewing. However, the U.S. embassy in Paraguay denies the base exists and describes the military activity as routine. [More:] According to an article in the Bolivian newspaper, El Deber, a U.S. base is being developed in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, 200 kilometers from the border with Bolivia. The base will permit the landing of large aircraft and is capable of housing up to 16,000 troops. A contingent of 500 U.S. troops arrived in Paraguay on July 1st with planes, weapons, equipment and ammunition. (1) With Bolivias recent uprisings, their enormous gas reserves, and a presidential election on the way, this questionable activity could pave the way for a U.S. intervention. Rumors of Al Qaeda training grounds near Paraguay may also work to the Bush administrations advantage as it makes a case for military operations in the region. On May 26, 2005 the Paraguayan senate approved the entrance of the troops, granting them total immunity, free from Paraguayan and International Criminal Court jurisdiction. The legislature is due to expire in December 2006, but is automatically extendable. Since December 2004, the U.S. has been pressuring Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Paraguay into signing a deal which would grant immunity to U.S. military. The Bush administration threatened to deny the countries up to $24.5 million in economic and military aid if they refused to sign the deal. Paraguay was the only country to accept the offer. (2) US Embassy Denies Base Claims, Rumsfeld Looks Forward to Military Cooperation A statement issued from the U.S. embassy in Paraguay explained that the military exercises in question involve humanitarian and medical assistance to poor communities as well as military training. The embassy maintained that the U.S. has absolutely no intention of establishing a military base anywhere in Paraguay and has no intention to station soldiers for a lengthy period in Paraguay. (3) The Pentagon used this same rhetoric when describing its actions in Manta, Ecuador, now the home of an $80 million U.S. military base. First they said the facility was an archaic dirt strip which would be used for weather monitoring and would not permanently house U.S. personnel. Days later, the Pentagon stated that Manta was to serve as a major military base tasked with a variety of security-related missions. Human rights groups have linked the U.S. base in Manta to the 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. (4) Before the arrival of U.S. troops in Paraguay, Luis Castiglioni, the Vice President of Paraguay, visited Washington D.C. where he met with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. During the visit, they discussed defense and security in South America and the international war on terrorism. Rumsfeld said the U.S. would be sending experts to Paraguay from the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, (an institution similar to the infamous School of the Americas) in order to develop a planning seminar on systems for national security. Rumsfeld promised to visit the country and expressed his full support for the coming exercises between the American and Paraguayan armed forces. (5) If history is any lesson, Paraguayans are right to be wary. Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ), a human rights group in the country, warned that the terms of the deal struck between the U.S. and Paraguay are very dangerous to us, especially taking into account that it was U.S. soldiers who taught torture and other forms of human rights violations in courses at the School of the Americas under the National Security Doctrine." (6) Orlando Castillo of SERPAJ stated, The U.S. has strong aspirations to convert Paraguay into another Panama for their troops, and theyre not far from controlling the southern cone and extending the war in Colombia. A U.S. military base operated in Panama for nearly 90 years. (7) Possible US Military Intervention in Bolivia If the new U.S. base does in fact exist, its location makes sense. It will put U.S. troops within easy striking distance of the Bolivian provinces of Santa Cruz and Tarija, home to the second largest gas reserves in South America. Bolivian business leaders interested in privatizing and exporting the countrys gas have spearheaded a move in these resource rich provinces for a secessionist referendum, which will take place on August 12th. If the region votes for autonomy, its likely the gas will be privatized, an unpopular plan thats generated massive protests in the country since 2003. If new civil unrest occurs over the gas issue, the U.S. military will be in a strategic
[cia-drugs] Embassy Attack in Syria Debated
- Original Message - From: Bruce Tefft [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bruce Tefft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 11:48 AM Subject: [osint] Embassy Attack in Syria Debated Embassy Attack in Syria Debated http://rapidrecon.threatswatch.org/2006/09/embassy-attack-in-syria-debate/ Almost immediately after the attack occurred, the finger pointing began. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood claimed that Assad's usual suspects were behind the attack while some within the Syrian regime suggested that America herself was behind the attacks. Interestingly, few give much credence to the independent capabilities of Jund al-Sham, the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group - once led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - that claimed responsibility. Sami Moubayed writes in the Asia Times' http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HI15Ak01.html Syria, US shrouded in the fog of war: One would be on safe ground to dismiss the theory of a US plot out of hand. Baynouni's accusation of Syrian complicity, though, bears closer scrutiny. Baynouni points out that the Rawda district is a heavily guarded neighborhood because it borders the Presidential Palace and the homes of high-level officials in the Ba'ath regime, in addition to several foreign embassies. It would be very difficult for armed terrorists to penetrate a security zone like Rawda, he said, had they not been helped by Syrian security. This argument, popular among some in the Syrian opposition, is difficult to believe for a variety of reasons. Terrorists can, and have, previously infiltrated heavily guarded compounds not only in Syria but all over the world. In Syria, during the heyday of tight security in the 1970s and 1980s, the Muslim Brotherhood carried out a series of armed attacks in similar heavily guarded neighborhoods of Damascus, assassinating prominent members of the Ba'athist regime. The most famous Brotherhood attack was on army headquarters in Omayyad Square in central Damascus, and another on the Azbakiyye neighborhood, both conducted in the 1980s. On the other hand, is it not possible that the Syrian faction of Jund al-Sham is so heavily infiltrated by Syrian intelligence that the Syrian infiltrator(s) know of planned attacks - if not plan and/or even approve them - alerting Syrian intelligence long before hand? Following this scenario for sake of discussion, it is illogical to believe that the four gunmen/car bombers knew they were playing on a Syrian Intel stage, only to be killed by a waiting Syrian security team before they had even infiltrated their target. To them, in such a scenario, the attack was real. While stopping short of being convinced of Syrian regime complicity, said one counterterrorism official in a phone conversation Wednesday, I would challenge anyone to find a successful Jund al-Sham attack. Indeed, in 2005 a Jund al-Sham bomb placed under the car of a Lebanese pro-Hariri journalist, Ali Tu'mah, failed to kill or injure its target or anyone else. Outside Syrian control, a Jund al-Sham attack earlier that year in Doha, Qatar, netted 16 injuries, but the only fatality was that of the Jund al-Sham suicide car bomber as he rammed his weapon into a Doha theater. Pondering whether or not Syrian intelligence was behind the US embassy attack in Damamscus for the purpose of international consumption is pure speculation, to be sure. But there is much to be said for the credence the idea is lent by Syria's own sponsorship of terrorism. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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 THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT
[cia-drugs] Iran's oil bourse to be launched
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=380656 Irans oil bourse to be launched TEHRAN, Sept. 15 (MNA) -- Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said here on Friday that all preparatory requirements were arranged for launching the oil stock market in the country. Speaking to the reporters at the Mehrabad International Airport upon arriving in Tehran from an OPEC conference in Vienna, Vaziri-Hamaneh said that all un-subsidized oil products can be offered in this stock market. He also rejected rumors about the preparation of a plan to gradually increase the gasoline price, but added that the cabinet had submitted a bill to the Majlis for importing gasoline. If the bill is ratified, the present condition will continue and rationing will be put into practice later. Hamaneh further noted that the plan to issue fuel debit cards will be finalized within three months. As for the decisions made during that OPEC conference, the minister said that the member countries were quite concerned for the downward trend of oil price, and so decided to maintain the present oil production ceiling. Elsewhere in his remarks, Vaziri-Hamaneh referred to the development of the Azadegan oilfield and said that an agreement has been inked with the Japanese, granting to them a 15-day opening to meet their commitments. He explained the Total Company anyway stresses cooperating with the Japanese and is interested in starting the conduction of project after the cooperation contract is finalized with the Japanese contractor. Answering a question about the development of the Arash oilfield, Iranian oil minister said that an Iranian delegation will head for Kuwait within 7 to10 days, adding that however, Iran and Kuwait are determined to jointly develop their joint oilfield. Hamaneh said that a two-month opening has been also granted to the Chinese contractor to develop Yadavaran oilfield. Elaborating on the development process of the Peace Pipeline, he said the consultant party is supposed to estimate and submit the gas price as soon as possible so that Iran can negotiate it with the Indian and Pakistani ministers. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Europe's freedom threatened
http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/150920064.html Europe's freedom threatened "...Europe must be free, democratic and prosperous. It will not be achieved by democratic deficit, supranationalism, statism, or an increase in legislating, monitoring, and regulating..." Lord William Rees-Mogg - Other articles Fri 15 Sep, 2006 I have been a reader of the European Journal for many years. Occasionally I have written articles for it. I admire its approach of rational and scholarly euro-scepticism. I even have a family connection, as our youngest daughter, Annunziata, edited the magazine for three years. There are many people who would enjoy reading it, thereby supporting the cause of European independence. If you want to subscribe you should visit this website. The September issue has a particularly important article written by Vaclav Klaus, who is the President of the Czech Republic. He lists six objectives for Europe. I would myself accept these six objectives as a programme for the new Europe, infinitely preferable to the Constitutional Treaty which was drafted by Giscard dEstaing, the ex-President of France. This is the Klaus programme: Europe must be free, democratic and prosperous. It will not be achieved by democratic deficit, supranationalism, statism, or an increase in legislating, monitoring, and regulating. Europe needs a system of ideas which must be based on freedom, personal responsibility, individualism, natural caring for others and a genuinely moral conduct of life. Europe needs a political system which must not be destroyed by a post-modern interpretation of human rights (with its emphasis on positive rights, with its dominance of group rights and entitlements over individual rights and responsibilities and with its denationalisation of citizenship), by the weakening of democratic institutions which have irreplaceable roots exclusively in the territory of the states, by the multiculturality brought about by the loss of a needed coherence inside countries, and by the continental-wide rent-seeking or various NGOs. Europe needs an economic system which must not be damaged by excessive government regulation, by fiscal deficits, by heavy bureaucratic control, by attempts to perfect markets by means of constructing optimal market structures, by huge subsidies to privileged or protected industries and firms, and by heavy labour market legislation. Europe needs a social system which must not be wrecked by all imaginable kinds of disincentives, by more than generous welfare payments, by large-scale income redistribution, by all other forms of government paternalism. Europe needs a system of relations and relationships of individual countries which must not be based on false internationalism, on supranational organisations and on a misunderstanding of globalisation and of externalities, but on the good neighbourliness of free, sovereign countries and on international pacts and agreements. The federalist programme unfortunately still has the backing of Germany, and of the French, Italian and Spanish Governments. The Constitution was rejected by the voters of France and the Netherlands, but has been silently implemented by the Commission. In January 2007, Germany will take the Chair of the European Union of six months. It is Angela Merkels ambition to use that period to revive the Constitution. Under the proposed Constitution, Germany would have become the predominant power in a European Federation. The model which Germany supports is the federation of German states which the German statesman Bismarck established in the 1860s and 1870s. Just as Abraham Lincoln forcibly reunited the United States by war in the 1860s, Bismarck reunited Germany, defeating Austria and France, and bullying Bavaria. Naturally the Czechs, who are not a German people, do not now want to join a Germanic federation of Europe. Nor do the British. Such a federation would certainly be an unreliable ally for the United States. In my view, we all need to compare the Klaus plan for Europe it is not a Constitution and the Franco-Germany Constitution. I know which one I prefer. Chancellor Merkels attempt to impose a federal system will, in my view, destroy the liberty of Europe if it succeeds, and will risk splitting the European Union if it fails. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual
[cia-drugs] Russian Central Bank Official Murdered
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=economyalt=trh=20060915hn=36534 Russian Central Bank Official Murdered By Faruk Akkan, Moscow Friday, September 15, 2006 zaman.com Andrei Kozlov, the deputy chairman of the Russian Central Bank, was killed by two gunmen on Wednesday night. Kozlov , responsible for regulating the nation's banking system, was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery for wounds to his head and chest. The 41-year-old later died from his injuries. Dr. Inna Sigeyeva, an official from the hospital in Moscow, announced, The patient died early in the morning without regaining consciousness. Security authorities assert the murder was committed by hired assassins. The deputy chairman was highly regarded for his efforts against money-laundering and financial crimes. There are nearly 1,200 banks in Russia, most of which operate with a small amount of capital. Many banks controlled by illicit interest groups are charged with performing unofficial and unrecorded banking transactions. The central bank supervises banks to prevent money laundering and money transfers to terrorist organizations. Russias Vice Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov praised Kozlov as a very courageous and honest person, and said the murder could have been sparked by Kozlovs efforts to clean up the Russian banking system. Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said Kozlov had "more than once stepped on the toes of unscrupulous financiers. Kozlov chaired the Russian Standard Bank from 1999 to 2000 and the Bank of Russia in 2002. He also worked on tax reductions and customs duties to support the business sector. Contract murders were a hallmark of business life in Moscow in the early 1990s, but had become less common in recent years. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, who noted that it was the first time a high-level bureaucrat such as Kozlov had been murdered, assured they would investigate the incident and apprehend the perpetrators. In a statement to Reuters, Chairman of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin claimed that because he was an important figure in the finance and business sector and the government, it would not be hard to find the assassins. Two gunmen shot Kozlov while he was exiting the Spartak sports complex Wednesday night. He had been there to take part in a game with other bank employees. According to media reports, the assassins fired their guns at least four times, killing Kozlovs driver Alexander Semyonov on the spot. The assassination has not affected ties between developing countries. James Croft from Commerzbank in London said that the murder did not have a direct effect on assets. Stating that Kozlov was in Putins close company, Croft further explained that Putin might use the murder as a pretext to deepen reforms. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] China Sinopec Set For 51% Stake In Iran Oil Field -Report
http://www.easybourse.com/Website/dynamic/News.php?NewsID=56912lang=fraNewsRubrique=2 China Sinopec Set For 51% Stake In Iran Oil Field -ReportFriday September 15th, 2006 / 11h56 BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- China Petrochemical Corp., better known as Sinopec Group, is close to signing a deal with Iran to develop the Yadavaran oil field in the southern area of the Middle Eastern country, the Shanghai Securities News reported Friday. Sinopec will secure a 51% stake in Yadavaran, with India's state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (500312.BY) taking a 29% interest and local Iranian companies holding the remainder, the report said. A deal would not only grant China access to a field with estimated reserves of more than 30 billion barrels of oil, but also represent the latest alliance between Sinopec and India's ONGC. Last month, the two companies teamed up to buy a 50% stake in Omimex de Colombia Ltd., which has oil and gas-producing assets in the South American country and is owned by U.S.-based Omimex Resources Inc. China and India are often seen as rivals in the race to secure energy supplies as their domestic consumption climbs, with state-owned firms bidding against each other for assets in Africa and central Asia. However, they have recently embarked on working together, with officials from the two countries signing a framework agreement for cooperation in January. In 2004, Iran and China signed a memorandum of understanding in which Iran would allow Sinopec Group to develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field. In exchange, China signed an agreement to buy 10 million metric tons a year of Iranian liquefied natural gas for 25 years, although it didn't say when the first deliveries would be made. According to the report, talks have recently involved Sinopec agreeing to provide equipment and services as part of the development of Yadavaran. -By David Winning, Dow Jones Newswires; 8610-65885848; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Edited by Tracy Gan __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Re: Iran's oil bourse to be launched
-I believe this has more to do with why bush and the neocons want to bomb the shit out of iran than terrorism. -- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=380656 Iran's oil bourse to be launched TEHRAN, Sept. 15 (MNA) -- Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh said here on Friday that all preparatory requirements were arranged for launching the oil stock market in the country. Speaking to the reporters at the Mehrabad International Airport upon arriving in Tehran from an OPEC conference in Vienna, Vaziri-Hamaneh said that all un-subsidized oil products can be offered in this stock market. He also rejected rumors about the preparation of a plan to gradually increase the gasoline price, but added that the cabinet had submitted a bill to the Majlis for importing gasoline. If the bill is ratified, the present condition will continue and rationing will be put into practice later. Hamaneh further noted that the plan to issue fuel debit cards will be finalized within three months. As for the decisions made during that OPEC conference, the minister said that the member countries were quite concerned for the downward trend of oil price, and so decided to maintain the present oil production ceiling. Elsewhere in his remarks, Vaziri-Hamaneh referred to the development of the Azadegan oilfield and said that an agreement has been inked with the Japanese, granting to them a 15-day opening to meet their commitments. He explained the Total Company anyway stresses cooperating with the Japanese and is interested in starting the conduction of project after the cooperation contract is finalized with the Japanese contractor. Answering a question about the development of the Arash oilfield, Iranian oil minister said that an Iranian delegation will head for Kuwait within 7 to10 days, adding that however, Iran and Kuwait are determined to jointly develop their joint oilfield. Hamaneh said that a two-month opening has been also granted to the Chinese contractor to develop Yadavaran oilfield. Elaborating on the development process of the Peace Pipeline, he said the consultant party is supposed to estimate and submit the gas price as soon as possible so that Iran can negotiate it with the Indian and Pakistani ministers. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
