[cia-drugs] Who owned drug plane that crashed in Mexico?

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. 
But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a 
mystery.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/20060.html
Who owned drug plane that crashed in Mexico?
By Jay Root and Kevin G. Hall | McClatchy Newspapers 
MEXICO CITY - U.S. authorities are assisting the Mexican government in the 
investigation of an American business jet that crashed in Cancun this week with 
four tons of cocaine on board, officials said Thursday.

One of the men listed as the registered owners of the plane, Joao Luiz Malago, 
said in a telephone interview from Brazil that his Florida-based company sold 
the aircraft for $2 million on Sept. 16 to a Lakeland, Fla., man and his 
partner, who Malago believed was from Miami.

Malago said he feared the man was dead because he hasn't been picking up the 
phone.

Officials at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico had no information on any American 
citizens being killed or arrested in connection with the aircraft, a 1975 model 
Gulfstream II.

"We're in the process of a judicial investigation that the Mexican government 
is conducting and we are providing information,'' said an embassy official, who 
wasn't authorized to speak on the record. "Part of that investigation is to 
find out more about where this plane came from and who had it before.''

Some news reports have linked the plane to the transport of terrorist suspects 
to the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but those reports cite 
logs that indicate only that the plane flew twice between Washington, D.C., and 
Guantanamo and once between Oxford, Conn., and Guantanamo. No terrorist 
suspects are known to have been transferred to Guantanamo directly from the 
United States.

The jet, carrying the tail number N987SA, changed hands twice in recent weeks. 
But how it ended up in the hands of suspected drug traffickers remains a 
mystery.

The Mexican attorney general's office said the blue and white Gulfstream II 
crashed on Monday in a remote jungle area on the Yucatan Peninsula. Authorities 
seized 132 bags of cocaine weighing four tons. Two men were arrested and jailed 
on drug trafficking charges in Merida, officials said. They declined to 
identify the men, however.

The aircraft was sold on Aug. 30 to Donna Blue Aircraft, owned by two 
Brazilians: Malago and his partner Eduardo Dias Guimaraes. In separate 
telephone interviews from different parts of Brazil, both men said they'd sold 
the aircraft to two Florida men on Sept. 16.

"We are not the owners of the plane," said Guimaraes, reached in Goiania in 
central Brazil.

He deferred most questions to his partner, Malago, who said from Sao Paulo that 
Donna Blue purchased the aircraft in July from a company that had owned it for 
10 years, and then flipped it quickly to two Florida businessmen who paid for 
it in full.

McClatchy is withholding the names of the alleged new owners of the plane 
because they couldn't be reached for confirmation.

The Gulfstream was awaiting documentation when it departed on Sept. 18 at 5:10 
pm from Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport to Toluca, outside Mexico City, 
Malago said. He said he learned of Monday's crash after receiving a call from 
an insurance company, but had been unable to reach the new owner by phone and 
feared he was dead.

He said he knew nothing of the plane's history or what use it had been put to 
previously. He said he'd been a pilot for 25 years and had bought and sold 
planes throughout Latin America. "Generally you don't know the history of the 
plane," he said.

At the time of the Guantanamo flights, the plane's operation was managed by Air 
Rutter International, a California-based air charter service, but was owned by 
someone else. Air Rutter's owner, Bill Cripe, refused to identify that owner, 
except to say he was a reputable businessman. Cripe also said he didn't know 
about any flights to Guantanamo.

(Root, of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, reported from Mexico City. Hall 
reported from Washington.)

McClatchy Newspapers 2007

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[Useful Idiot]

  
  Airforce Personnel Comment on Flying Nukes
  http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/236
   
  Command Override: How Chinese Military Hackers 
  Took Over a Nuclear Armed B-52 ›

  http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/234

   
  http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/?q=node/245
B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran,   Not For Decommissioning:   Airforce Refused   
   -- SPECIAL REPORT -- 
Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater

  By Wayne Madsen
Sept. 24, 2007
Author's website
   
  WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources 
  that the B-52 transporting 6 Stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise 
  Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, 
  on August 30, were destined for the Middle East 
  via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
   
  However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence 
  agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination 
  of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted 
  due to internal opposition within the Air Force 
  and U.S. Intelligence Community.
   
  Yesterday, the Washington Post attempted to explain away 
  the fact that America's nuclear command and control system 
  broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting 
  that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." 
  >>>
  It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, 
  reported as a BENT SPEAR incident 
  to the Secretary of Defense and White House, 
  - was NOT the result of a 
  command and control chain-of-command "failures" 
  but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons 
  within the Air Force and intelligence agencies 
  against a planned U.S. attack on Iran 
  using nuclear and conventional weapons.
  >>>
  The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually 
  been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. 
   
  WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that 
  - One of the 6 Nuclear-Armed Cruise Missiles was, 
  and may still be, unaccounted for. 
  In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone 
  far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert 
  known as EMPTY QUIVER, 
  with the special classification of PINNACLE.
   
  Just as this report was being prepared, Newsweek reported 
  that Vice President Dick Cheney's recently-departed 
  Middle East adviser, David Wurmser, told a small group of advisers 
  some months ago that Cheney had considered asking Israel 
  to launch a missile attack on the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. 
   
  Cheney reasoned that after an Iranian retaliatory strike, the U.S. 
  would have ample reasons to launch its own massive attack on Iran. 
   
  However, plans for Israel to attack Iran directly 
  were altered to an Israeli attack on a supposed 
  Syrian-Iranian-North Korean nuclear installation in northern Syria.
   
  WMR has learned that a U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear 
  and conventional weapons was scheduled to coincide 
  with Israel's September 6 air attack on a reputed Syrian 
  nuclear facility in Dayr az-Zwar, near the village of Tal Abyad, 
  in northern Syria, near the Turkish border. 
   
  Israel's attack, code named OPERATION ORCHARD, 
  was to provide a reason for the U.S. to strike Iran. 
  The neo-conservative propaganda onslaught was to cite 
  the cooperation of the George Bush's three remaining 
  "Axis of Evil" states -- Syria, Iran, and North Korea -
  - to justify a sustained Israeli attack on Syria 
  and a massive U.S. military attack on Iran.
   
  WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic 
  that there was a definite connection between Israel's 
  OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving 
  the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles 
  from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale. 
   
  There is also a connection between these two events 
  as the Pentagon's highly-classified PROJECT CHECKMATE, 
  a compartmented U.S. Air Force program that has been working 
  on an attack plan for Iran since June 2007, around the same time 
  that Cheney was working on the joint Israeli-U.S. 
  attack scenario on Iran.
   
  PROJECT CHECKMATE was leaked in an article by military analyst 
  Eric Margolis in the Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper, 
  the /Times of London/, is a program that involves over 2 dozen 
  Air Force officers and is headed by Brig. Gen. Lawrence Stutzriem 
  and his chief civilian adviser, Dr. Lani Kass, a former Israeli 
  military intelligence officer who, astoundingly, is now involved 
  in planning a joint U.S.-Israeli massive military attack on Iran 
  that involves a "decapitating" blow on Iran by hitting between 
  three to four thousand targets in the country. 
   
  Stutzriem and Kass report directly to the Air Force Chief of Staff, 
  General Michael Moseley, who has also been charged 
  with preparing a report on the B-52/nuclear weapons incident.
   
  Kass' area of speciality is cyber-warfare, whi

[cia-drugs] Chicago Video Surveillance Gets Smarter

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RTSNE84&show_article=1

  Chicago Video Surveillance Gets Smarter  
 
  Sep 27 11:24 AM US/Eastern
  By DON BABWIN
  Associated Press Writer  
 


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  CHICAGO (AP) - A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a 
backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that 
could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would 
recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look. 
  On Thursday, the city and IBM Corp. are announcing the initial phase of 
what officials say could be the most advanced video security network in any 
U.S. city. The City of Broad Shoulders is getting eyes in the back of its head. 

  "Chicago is really light years ahead of any metropolitan area in the U.S. 
now," said Sam Docknevich, who heads video-surveillance consulting for IBM. 

  Chicago already has thousands of security cameras in use by businesses 
and police-including some equipped with devices that recognize the sound of a 
gunshot, turn the cameras toward the source and place a 911 call. But the new 
system would let cameras analyze images in real time 24 hours a day. 

  "You're talking about creating (something) that knows no fatigue, no 
boredom and is absolutely focused," said Kevin Smith, spokesman for the city's 
Office of Emergency Management and Communications. 

  For example, the system could be programmed to alert the city's emergency 
center whenever a camera spots a vehicle matching the description of one being 
sought by authorities. 

  The system could be programmed to recognize license plates. It could 
alert emergency officials if the same car or truck circles the Sears Tower 
three times or if nobody picks up a backpack in Grant Park for, say, 30 
seconds. 

  IBM says this approach might be more effective than relying on a 
bleary-eyed employee to monitor video screens. "Studies have shown people fall 
asleep," Docknevich said. 

  It is unclear when the system will be fully operational. Existing cameras 
could be equipped with the new software, but additional cameras probably will 
be added as well, Smith said. 

  "The complexity of the software is going to define how quickly we are 
able to do this," he said. 

  Chicago's announcement comes as it is vying to bring the 2016 games to 
town. A purportedly security-enhancing surveillance system is something city 
officials could trumpet to International Olympic Committee. 

  "The eventual goal is to have elaborate video surveillance well in 
advance of the 2016 Olympics," said Bo Larsson, CEO of Firetide Inc., the 
company providing the wireless connectivity for the project. 

  Neither Smith nor IBM would reveal the cost of the network, but Smith 
said much of it would be paid by the Department of Homeland Security. The cost 
of previous surveillance efforts has run into the millions of dollars. Just 
adding devices that allow surveillance cameras to turn toward the sound of 
gunfire was as much as $10,000 per unit. 

  Some critics question whether such systems are effective and whether they 
could lead to an unwarranted invasion of privacy. 

  Jonathan Schachter, a public policy lecturer at Northwestern University, 
said there are no studies that show cameras reduce crime. And the idea that 
placing cameras near "strategic assets" would prevent a terrorist attack is 
"absurd," he said. 

  Ed Yohnka, spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, 
said he was concerned that more cameras and more sophisticated technology would 
lead to abuses of authority. 

  "It is incumbent on the city to ensure that there are practices and 
procedures in place to sort of watch the watchers," he said. 


 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning

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Subject: Fwd: The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning


When you add it all up, a single dollar of "real" capital supports  
$20 to $30 of loans.  This spiral of borrowing on an increasingly  
thin base of real assets, writ large and in nearly infinite variety,
ultimately created a world in which derivatives outstanding earlier  
this year stood at $485 trillion -- or eight times total global  
gross domestic product of $60 trillion.


Without a central governmental authority keeping tabs on these  
cross-border flows and ensuring a standard of record-keeping and  
quality, investors increasingly didn't know what they were buying  
or what any given security was really worth.


That is why the current market volatility is much more profound  
than a simple "correction" in prices.  It's a gigantic liquidity  
bubble unwinding -- a process that could take generations ...





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From: "Jim S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 27, 2007 4:02:28 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they  
don't have

any."-- Alice Walker


http://www.thestreet.com/s/the-credit-crisis-could-be-just- 
beginning/newsanalysis/investing/10380613.html?puc=_tscana


*The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning*
By Jon D. Markman
Special to TheStreet.com
9/21/2007 6:40 AM EDT

Satyajit Das is laughing.  It appears I have said something very  
funny, but I
have no idea what it was.  My only clue is that the laugh sounds  
somewhat pitying.


Trading Center

One of the world's leading experts on credit derivatives (financial  
instruments
that transfer credit risk from one party to another), Das is the  
author of a
4,200-page reference work on the subject, among a half-dozen other  
tomes.  As a
developer and marketer of the exotic instruments himself over the  
past 30 years,
he seemed like the ideal industry insider to help us get to the  
bottom of the
recent debt crunch -- and I expected him to defend and explain the  
practice.


I started by asking the Calcutta-born Australian whether the credit  
crisis was in
what Americans would call the "third inning."  This was pretty  
amusing, it
seemed, judging from the laughter.  So I tried again. "Second  
inning?"  More

laughter. "First?"  Still too optimistic.

Das, who knows as much about global money flows as anyone in the  
world, stopped
chuckling long enough to suggest that we're actually still in the  
middle of the
national anthem before a game destined to go into extra innings.   
And it won't

end well for the global economy.

Ursa Major

Das is pretty droll for a math whiz, but his message is dead  
serious.  He thinks

we're on the verge of a bear market of epic proportions.

The cause:  Massive levels of debt underlying the world economic  
system are about

to unwind in a profound and persistent way.

He's not sure if it will play out like the 13-year decline of 90%  
in Japan from
1990 to 2003 that followed the bursting of a credit bubble there,  
or like the
15-year flat spot in the U.S. market from 1960 to 1975.  But either  
way, he
foresees hard times as an optimistic era of too much liquidity, too  
much leverage

and too much financial engineering slowly and inevitably deflates.

Like an ex-mobster turning state's witness, Das has turned his back  
on his old
pals in the derivatives biz to warn anyone who will listen --  
mostly banks and

hedge funds that pay him consulting fees -- that the jig is up.

Rather than joining the crowd that blames the mess on American  
slobs who took on
more mortgage debt than they could afford and have endangered the  
world by
stiffing lenders, he points a finger at three parties: regulators  
who stood by as
U.S. banks developed ingenious but dangerous ways of shifting  
trillions of

dollars of credit risk off their balance sheets and into the hands of
unsophisticated foreign investors, hedge and pension fund managers  
who gorged on
high-yield debt instruments they didn't understand and financial  
engineers who
built towers of "securitized" debt with math models that were  
fundamentally flawed.


 "Defaulting middle-class U.S. homeowners are blamed, but they are  
merely a pawn
in the game," he says. "Those loans were invented so that hedge  
funds would have

high-yield debt to buy."

The Liquidity Factory

Das' view sounds cynical, but it makes sense if you stop thinking  
about mortgages
as a way for people to finance houses and think about them instead  
as a way for
lenders to generate cash flow and to create collateral during an  
era of a flat

interest rate curve.

Although subprime U.S. loans seem like small change in the context  
of t

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[mark urban]

Jon Stewart does a better job interviewing a head of state than Charlie
Rose.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/270907Stewart.htm




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[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden

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Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: September 27, 2007 10:10:23 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden  See larger image Share your own customer imagesPublisher: learn how customers can search inside this book.The Art of Cloaking Ownership: The Secret Collaboration and Protection of the German War Industry by the Neutrals: The Case of Sweden (Paperback) by Gerard Aalders (Author), Cees Wiebes (Author)  No customer reviews yet. Be the first.                                                                                                                                                 List Price:$26.00Price:$26.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. DetailsAvailability: Usually ships within 11 to 14 days. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.Keep connected to what's happening in the world of books by signing up for Amazon.com Books Delivers, our monthly subscription e-mail newsletters. Discover new releases in your favorite categories, popular pre-orders and bestsellers, exclusive author interviews and podcasts, special sales, and more.Editorial ReviewsBook DescriptionAfter years of intensive research in archives throughout Europe and the U.S., the authors of The Art of Cloaking Ownership discovered that firms located in 'neutral' Sweden supported the Nazis' financial and industrial leadership. The case of Enskilda, a bank owned by the still powerful Wallenberg family, proved to be particularly interesting. Among other things, Enskilda acted as a cloak for the Nazi regime and helped important German corporations like Bosch, IG Farben and Krupp to hide their foreign subsidiaries in order to avoid confiscation by the Allied governments.This fascinating book, offers a dramatic picture of the tangled web of relationships connecting capitalism, power and politics during the Second World War. Product DetailsPaperback: 264 pagesPublisher: Amsterdam University Press (June 1, 1996)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 905356179XISBN-13: 978-9053561799Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.3 x 0.6 inchesShipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)Amazon.com Sales Rank: #389,962 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)Popular in this category: (What's this?)#40 in Books > History > Europe > Sweden(Publishers and authors: Improve Your Sales) Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images? (We'll ask you to sign in so we can get back to you)Citations (learn more)1 book cites this book: European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War by Neville Wylie on page 323==

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Nazi Looting

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Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: September 27, 2007 10:07:19 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Nazi Looting  http://www.bergpublishers.com/us/book_page.asp?BKTitle=Nazi%20LootingNazi Looting The Plunder of Dutch Jewry during the Second World WarJanuary 2004288ppbibliog indexGerard AaldersPaperback $29.95 ISBN 9781859737279Reviews'Nazi Looting does endure as a testament to the far reaching, systematic exploitation and robbery of the Dutch Jews, whose savings and propety were plundered by German officials and Dutch fellow citizens alike...It has also proved invaluable for countless Dutch Survivors seeking to investigate the plight of their families' property during "the greatest looting in Dutch history"... Aalder's work has served as a vital reference tool for commissions charged with investigating the extent of the wartime looting and the effectiveness of the post-war recovery process. It has also proved invaluable for countless Dutch survivors seeking to investigate the plight of their families' property'H-Net Book Review by Jennifer L. Foray, Department of History, Columbia University'Nazi Looting provides the first in-depth and accessible study of the multiplicity of ways in which the Nazis stole Jewish property in the wartime Netherlands. Gerard Aalders' meticulous and exhaustive research brings out all the political and economic facets of this contentious and topical subject. Essential reading for a true understanding of Nazi policies in occupied Western Europe.'Bob Moore, University of Sheffield A comprehensive account of the pillage of Jewish properties during the occupation of the Netherlands. Holocaust and Genocide StudiesThe book's value lies primarily in Aalders' attempt to write the missing standard work on the pilfering of Jewish property. NRC HandelsbladAalders' great achievement is his detailed reconstruction and, wherever possible, quantification of all those discreet and less-discreet regulations and actions aimed at separating Jews from their property. Vrij Nederland Book DescriptionTranslated by Arnold Pomerans with Erica PomeransThe Nazi looting machine was notoriously efficient during the Second World War. In the Netherlands, 8.5 million citizens suffered losses estimated at 3.6 billion guilders. Approximately one-third of these losses were borne by Jews, who comprised only 1.6% of the total population. In todays terms, the German occupiers stripped the Jewish population of assets worth $7 billion.Nazi Looting offers a comprehensive history of the Dutch experience and demonstrates how reputable indigenous institutions acted as willing collaborators. Beginning with a survey of international law and various definitions of 'looting', the author shows how the Germans systematically robbed Dutch Jewry through a variety of means that gave the outward appearance of honest trading. Forced to sell under duress and at unreasonably low prices, few dared refuse the German on the doorstep when threatened with prison or incarceration in a camp.The plundering was total and systematic. In May 1940, a team of highly trained art historians, linguists, musicologists and literary experts arrived immediately behind the victorious German troops to catalogue the vast collections for Hitler. From 1941, Jews were compelled to deposit all their money into a bank called Lippmann, Rosenthal Co. The name of the bank itself was a cynical ploy since it was taken from a respected, Jewish-owned Amsterdam bank and presented as a new branch. This bank, however, simply channelled money into the Third Reich with the help of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, insurance brokers and other well-established Dutch banks. Once the Jews were deported, their houses were emptied and the contents used to re-furnish bombed out areas of the Reich. In common with many other formerly Nazi-occupied countries in Europe, the Netherlands has been unable to retrieve many of its pre-war assets. More than fifty years after the wars end, 20% of its most important pre-war museum exhibits and approximately 80% of the less important works remain untraced. Painstakingly researched, Nazi Looting exposes a chillingly calculating and brutally destructive process that reverberates to this day.About the author(s)Gerard Aalders Senior Researcher,Netherlands Institute for War Documentation==

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Ray McGovern: Bush, Oil -- and Moral Bankruptcy

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Behind the bloody war in Iraq and the looming war with Iran is an  
amoral determination by the Bush administration to dominate the  
region's vast oil reserves.


As much as George W. Bush's defenders continue to deny this  
reality, the truth seeps out. In this guest essay, former CIA  
analyst Ray McGovern explores the policy's moral bankruptcy.



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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Blackwater-Gate -- Our Fuehrer May Have to Purge His Storm Troopers

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Troopers


Blackwater ‘worse than Abu Ghraib’

Posted September 26th, 2007 at 8:15 am
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13008.html

To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a  
dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which  
private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi  
civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing  
between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State  
stonewalling a congressional investigation.


A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department  
is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting  
deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to  
the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and  
private security companies in Iraq, according to U.S. military and  
government officials.


In high-level meetings over the past several days, U.S. military  
officials have pressed State Department officials to assert more  
control over Blackwater, which operates under the department’s  
authority, said a U.S. government official with knowledge of the  
discussions.


“The military is very sensitive to its relationship that they’ve  
built with the Iraqis being altered or even severely degraded by  
actions such as this event,” the official said.


“This is a nightmare,” said a senior U.S. military official. “We  
had guys who saw the aftermath, and it was very bad. This is going  
to hurt us badly. It may be worse than Abu Ghraib, and it comes at  
a time when we’re trying to have an impact for the long term.”


At this point, the State Department seems to be treating Blackwater  
contractors as the agency’s own private army, accountable to no one  
outside the department. The Maliki government believes Blackwater  
is a criminal enterprise, the Iraqi people resent Blackwater’s  
presence, the Pentagon believes Blackwater is lying about the Sept.  
16 incident in Nisoor Square, and congressional Democrats have  
questions about what has transpired — which the State Department  
refuses to answer.


This is a debacle so severe and humiliating, only the Bush  
administration could pull it off.


David Kurtz offers this helpful timeline of events that sets the  
stage for where we are now.


Sun, Sept. 16: Blackwater incident in which 11 Iraqi civilians are  
killed after State Department convoy reportedly comes under fire,  
an account disputed by the Iraqis.


Mon, Sept. 17: Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Government  
Reform Committee announces his committee will investigate the  
Blackwater incident.


Tue, Sept. 18: The American Embassy in Baghdad suspends diplomatic  
convoys outside the Green Zone.


Wed, Sept. 19: In a phone call, Acting Assistant Secretary of State  
William Moser warns Blackwater that no information regarding the  
Blackwater contract can be released without State’s prior written  
approval.


Thu, Sept. 20: Moser repeats the warning in a second call to  
Blackwater, and State sends Blackwater a follow-up letter again  
asserting again that the information possessed by Blackwater  
belongs to State and cannot be disclosed.


Fri, Sept. 21: The four-day suspension of State Department convoys  
ends and Blackwater resumes business. Secretary of State Condi Rice  
announces that her department will undertake a “full and complete  
review” of diplomatic security in Iraq.


And while it’s certainly nice of Rice to suddenly take an interest  
in accountability, Congress, which has oversight responsibility and  
is paying the bills for all of this, believes a bipartisan review  
on Capitol Hill will produce a more accurate picture of what’s  
transpired.


Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice not only refuses to cooperate,  
her office has also ordered Blackwater not to answer any questions  
from lawmakers.


The State Department has interceded in a congressional  
investigation of Blackwater USA, the private security firm accused  
of killing Iraqi civilians last week, ordering the company not to  
disclose information about its Iraq operations without approval  
from the Bush administration, according to documents revealed Tuesday.


In a letter sent to a senior Blackwater executive Thursday, a State  
Department contracting official ordered the company “to make no  
disclosure of the documents or information” about its work in Iraq  
without permission.


I appreciate the fact that outrage fatigue is inevitable when  
dealing with the Bush gang, but this is truly ridiculous. We have  
American taxpayers financing a private security army, whose members  
stand accused of slaughtering civilians. The Secretary of State  
believes no one should ask any ques

[cia-drugs] Fwd: If You Enjoy Having a GPS in Your Cell Phone, You'll Love THIS ...

[RoadsEnd]

Begin forwarded message:


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 27, 2007 4:11:54 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: If You Enjoy Having a GPS in Your Cell Phone, You'll Love  
THIS ...


THE GOVERNMENT AND COMPUTER MANUFACTURERS HAVE INSTALLED

HARD-WIRED KEYSTROKE LOGGERS

IN ALL NEW LAPTOP COMPUTERS!

Turner Radio Network | October 4, 2005

http://fearthegovernment.com/keystroke_logger.html

Devices capturing everything you ever type can send it via your  
ethernet card to the Dept. of Homeland Security without your  
knowledge, consent or a search warrant, each time you log onto the  
internet!


Freedom of Information Act Requests for Explanation refused.



I was opening up my almost brand new laptop, to replace a broken  
PCMCIA slot riser on the motherboard. As soon as I got the keyboard  
off, I noticed a small cable running from the keyboard connection  
underneath a piece of metal protecting the motherboard.


I figured "No Big Deal", and continued with the dissasembly. But  
when I got the metal panels off, I saw a small white heatshink- 
wrapped package. Being ever-curious, I sliced the heatshrink open.  
I found a little circuit board inside.





Being an EE by trade, this piqued my curiosity considerably. On one  
side of the board, one Atmel AT45D041A four megabit Flash memory chip.





On the other side, one Microchip Technology PIC16F876 Programmable  
Interrupt Controller, along with a little Fairchild Semiconductor  
CD4066BCM quad bilateral switch.


Looking further, I saw that the other end of the cable was  
connected to the integrated ethernet board.


What could this mean? I called the manufacturer's tech support  
about it, and they said, and I quote, "The intregrated service tag  
identifier is there for assisting customers in the event of lost or  
misplaced personal information." He then hung up.


A little more research, and I found that that board spliced in  
between the keyboard and the ethernet chip is little more than a  
Keyghost hardware keylogger .


The reasons a computer manufacturer would put this in their laptops  
can only be left up to your imagination. It would be very  
impractical to hand-anylze the logs, and very CPU-intensive to do  
so on a computer for every person that purchased a laptop. Why are  
these keyloggers here? I recently almost found out.


I called the police, as having a keylogger unknown to me in my  
laptop is a serious offense. They told me to call the Department of  
Homeland Security. At this point, I am in disbelief. Why would the  
DHS have a keylogger in my laptop? It was surreal.


So I called them, and they told me to submit a Freedom of  
Information Act request. This is what I got back:

.



Under the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) the only items exempt  
from public disclosure are items relating to "law enforcement tools  
and techniques" and "items relating to national security."


The real life implications of this are plain: Computer  
manufacturers appear to be cooperating with the Department of  
Homeland Security to make every person who buys a new computer  
subject to immediate, unrestricted government recording of  
everything they do on those computers!  EVERYTHING !


This information can be sent to DHS, online, without your knowledge  
or consent, without a search warrant or even probable cause!   
That's why this device is hard-wired directly into the ethernet  
card, which communicates over the internet!


I am not certain how long this information will be permitted to  
remain online for all the world to see before the government takes  
some type of action to attempt to have it removed from public view.  
I URGE you to take copy of this page immediately and spread this  
information to everyone you know immediately! The more people who  
find out about this, the more can protect themselves and raise a  
HUGE outcry to force government and computer manufacturers to  
immediately CEASE installing these devices in new computers!





See what's new at AOL.com and Make AOL Your Homepage.

Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: New Test Analyzes Sewer for Drugs

[james Karl]

So, are they going to go into our outlet pipes to piss test the toilet water, 
and then do COPS style searches of apartments and homes as a follow-up?  That's 
my idea of a shit government, and it looks like we lead the world.I hope 
they enjoy sniffing our shit.  

muckblit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Fortunately sewage and surface and 
ground water and animal and plants
are also analysed to monitor dangerous substances like mercury, MTBE,
estrogen, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides. Man-made fluorine
compounds are able to free poisonous metals from safe oxides in soil
and make them water soluble, ruining water for drinking.

Unfortunately the government draws fewer conclusions about dangerous
substances than what at that point are harmless substances. Street
drugs are harmless at that point, but new environmental diseases are
caused by the other substances.

Estrogen is another substance which can like fluoride dumb down and
pacify the population, so you could expect that to be viewed as a
positive by the people who seized on AZT as the drug of choice to make
freely available to HIV+ persons although it did not work as well as
two other drugs but it did kill people faster than any other HIV drug,
though all poison RED blood cells and suffocate people to death.

Another perverse capability of estrogen is to increase profits of the
medical and insurance hegemon. Some of the many sexual dysfunctions
caused by estrogen serve to sell drugs like viagra, even the purely
physical problems inspiring wishful thinking and for those who can
afford it, surgery.

I don't remember any sources on estrogen attacking frogs and fish, but
a source on estrogen and humans and what to do about the problems
would be Ori Hofmekler. On environmental illness caused by pollution
and public health officials being in bed with poisoners, try Dr.
Richie Shoemaker of Maryland. Pfisteria is caused by corporatism and
king's charter trojaned as regulatory watchdog(or gift wooden
watch-horse on wheels with a lying mouth we ought to look at!).

-Bob

--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> > From: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: September 25, 2007 7:57:16 PM PDT
> > To: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: New Test Analyzes Sewer for Drugs
> >
> > New Test Analyzes Sewer for Drugs
> > By Sara Goudarzi, Special to LiveScience
> >
> > posted: 21 August 2007 02:54 pm ET
> >
> > Share this story
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Email
> > Clues to illicit drug use can be found in the pee and poop of sewer 
> > pipes, according to a new screening test that analyzes what is 
> > flushed down the toilet.
> >
> > The test, which identifies drugs such as methamphetamine, morphine 
> > and cocaine, could help public health officials identify high-risk 
> > communities and develop preventive drug-use measures. This 
> > assessment method could also eliminate reliance on surveys and 
> > personal information such as medical and criminal records.
> >
> > “This approach provides information at the community level and not 
> > at the individual level in order to obtain useful information that 
> > does not raise concerns about individual privacy,” said lead 
> > researcher Jennifer Field, an environmental chemist at Oregon State 
> > University.
> >
> > Field and her colleagues take samples at the point where wastewater 
> > enters a treatment plant, also known as the influent. Influent of 
> > treatment plants is flow-normalizedâ€"meaning flow variation is 
> > controlled by holding wastewater in a tank before it enters the 
> > plant. This helps achieve a nearly constant flow rate at all times.
> >
> > “[This] enables us to capture the concentrations of illicit drugs 
> > over a 24-hour period for the community or portion of a 
> > municipality served by wastewater treatment plants,” Field told 
> > LiveScience.
> >
> > Once the information is gathered, the sampling data will be entered 
> > into a geographic information system (GIS) database that also 
> > includes spatial statistics on drug poisoning incidents and 
> > fatalities.
> >
> > “These spatial data will be analyzed to determine whether there is 
> > a spatial correlation between wastewater measurements and incidents 
> > relating to methamphetamine throughout the state,” Field said. 
> > “In addition, parallel analyses will be conducted for other 
> > substances.”
> >
> > “These data may also be useful in assessing the effectiveness of 
> > interventions, through prospective monitoring and the assessment of 
> > temporal clusters over time,” she added.
> >
> > Field and her team have conducted preliminary tests in 10 cities 
> > around the nation and are currently working in the lab to refine 
> > the technique for extremely low concentrations, on the order of 
> > billionths of a gram per liter.
> >
> > Study team member Aurea Chiaia, a graduate student at Oregon State 
> > University, de

[cia-drugs] Fixed: Ellsberg - "A Coup Has Occurred" - non-ASCII characters replaced

[Mark S Bilk]

I've replaced the non-ASCII punctuation characters with
their ASCII equivalents.  -- Mark

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html
http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2007/092607a.html

'A Coup Has Occurred'

By Daniel Ellsberg September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech
delivered September 20, 2007)

Editor's Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense
Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers
history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming
war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at
an American University symposium on Sept. 20.

Below is an edited transcript of Ellsberg's remarkable
speech:

I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on
Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change
in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us
into what I would call a police state.

If there's another 9/11 under this regime ... it means
that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police
state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at
first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the
Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

Will there be anything left for NSA to increase its surveillance
of us? ...  They may be to the limit of their technical
capability now, or they may not. But if they're not now
they will be after another 9/11.

And I would say after the Iranian retaliation to an American
attack on Iran, you will then see an increased attack on Iran
 --  an escalation  --  which will be also accompanied
by a total suppression of dissent in this country, including
detention camps.

It's a little hard for me to distinguish the two
contingencies; they could come together. Another 9/11 or an
Iranian attack in which Iran's reaction against Israel,
against our shipping, against our troops in Iraq above all,
possibly in this country, will justify the full panoply of
measures that have been prepared now, legitimized, and to some
extent written into law.  ...

This is an unusual gang, even for Republicans. [But] I think
that the successors to this regime are not likely to roll back
the assault on the Constitution. They will take advantage of
it, they will exploit it.

Will Hillary Clinton as president decide to turn off NSA after
the last five years of illegal surveillance? Will she deprive
her administration her ability to protect United States citizens
from possible terrorism by blinding herself and deafening
herself to all that NSA can provide? I don't think so.

Unless this somehow, by a change in our political climate,
of a radical change, unless this gets rolled back in the next
year or two before a new administration comes in  --  and
there's no move to do this at this point  --  unless
that happens I don't see it happening under the next
administration, whether Republican or Democratic.

The Next Coup

Let me simplify this and not just to be rhetorical: A coup
has occurred. I woke up the other day realizing, coming out of
sleep, that a coup has occurred. It's not just a question
that a coup lies ahead with the next 9/11. That's the
next coup, that completes the first.

The last five years have seen a steady assault on every
fundamental of our Constitution, ... what the rest of the
world looked at for the last 200 years as a model and experiment
to the rest of the world  --  in checks and balances, limited
government, Bill of Rights, individual rights protected from
majority infringement by the Congress, an independent judiciary,
the possibility of impeachment.

There have been violations of these principles by many
presidents before. Most of the specific things that Bush has
done in the way of illegal surveillance and other matters
were done under my boss Lyndon Johnson in the Vietnam War:
the use of CIA, FBI, NSA against Americans.

I could go through a list going back before this century
to Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil
War, and before that the Alien and Sedition Acts in the 18th
century. I think that none of those presidents were in fact
what I would call quite precisely the current administration:
domestic enemies of the Constitution.

I think that none of these presidents with all their violations,
which were impeachable had they been found out at the time
and in nearly every case their violations were not found out
until they were out of office so we didn't have the exact
challenge that we have today.

That was true with the first term of Nixon and certainly
of Johnson, Kennedy and others. They were impeachable, they
weren't found out in time, but I think it was not their
intention to in the crisis situations that they felt justified
their actions, to change our form of government.

It is increasingly clear with each new book and each new leak
that comes out, that Richard Cheney and his now chief of staff
David Addington have had precisely that in mind since at least
the early 70s. Not just since 1992, not since 2001, but have
believed in Execu

[cia-drugs] The Autumn People

[norgesen]

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The Autumn People 
http://www.youtube.com/v/kocPwRVIfsM

"Who'd believe us?"
"I believe you."
"You do? But we're not grown ups!"
"That's why I believe you."

Learning about the Autumn People in Something Wicked This Way Comes





The autumn months are never a calm time in America. Autumn is a very 
Traditional period, a time of strong Rituals and the celebrating of strange 
annual holidays like Halloween and Satanism and the fateful Harvest Moon, which 
can have ominous implications for some people There is always a rash of 
kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of 
both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of 
organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other 
to be personal sex slaves and playthings.

So wrote Hunter S Thompson in Hey, Rube, his final collection before his sudden 
death after one more football season. Autumn's always been the favoured time 
for nature and unnatural men to give the planet a radical makeover through 
contagion, flood and war. The seasonal decay and its vectors of disease just 
makes best sense of our Will to Catastrophe, and we're more inclined to believe 
the worst, because we feel ourselves most vulnerable to those who could do 
their worst. If the world appears to be falling apart faster than usual, and 
our bodies with it, then it must be back-to-school time.

Because it's Autumn, I'm still ill, and the longer post I want to write will 
have to wait. But here's what I'm thinking about, when I'm not thinking about 
how crappy I feel.

Ahmadinejad's rise and role in Target: Iran reminds me of the drive to 
privatize water in a city like Detroit. Seemingly oddly so, but not actually, 
as both have been directed by much the same interests.

Would there be such fatalist expectation of a strike on Iran if Mohammad 
Khatami were still president? Try as Fox might, the reformist advocate of a 
"Dialogue Among Civilizations" could not be made to put on the Hitler mustache. 
If the United States wanted a diplomatic solution and a rapprochement with 
Tehran, he was their man. But it didn't, and he wasn't. In 2003 the Swiss 
ambassador to the US carried a proposal from Khatami to negotiate a resolution 
to all outstanding issues, including Iran's nuclear program and a two-state 
solution to Israel and Palestine. Washington's reaction was to censure the 
Swiss ambassador.

In Detroit, as in many cities and nations ruled by kleptocrats who are aliens 
to their own citizens, infrastructure has been starved of public funds, and 
tens of thousands have found themselves without water. Why? To make 
circumstances so dire that any solution offered will be taken as an escape from 
institutionalized misery. And the only solution the rulers offer is 
privatization.

Spurning Khatami's overtures and the season of conciliation from Iran toughened 
its hardliners, but it wasn't a missed opportunity for Washington. It was the 
last thing they wanted, while Ahmadinejad is just the devil they needed. ("US 
Focus on Ahmadinejad Puzzles Iranians," reads a New York Times headline today. 
“The United States pays too much attention to Ahmadinejad," an Iranian 
political scientist is quoted. “He is not that consequential.”) Why? To sharpen 
the tensions to such a point that opinion makers determine the situation cannot 
be allowed to continue. And the only solution the rulers offer is violence.

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2007/09/whod-believe-us-i-believe-you.html