[cia-drugs] Pentagon drops charges against 20th Hijacker
Link to full article: http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/131807.htmlAfter being held at Guantanamo for over 6 years, Pentagon drops charges against 20th Hijacker May. 13th, 2008 at 8:19 AM Related Chicago Tribune: Cheney approved the shooting down of United Flight 93 on 9/11 * May 12, 2008 11:10 pm US/Eastern Pentagon Drops Charges Against '20th Hijacker' SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) #8213; The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo who was alleged to have been the so-called 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11 attacks, his U.S. military defense lawyer said Monday. Mohammed al-Qahtani was one of six men charged by the military in February with murder and war crimes for their alleged roles in the 2001 attacks. Authorities say al-Qahtani missed out on taking part in the attacks because he was denied entry to the U.S. by an immigration agent. But in reviewing the case, the convening authority for military commissions, Susan Crawford, decided to dismiss the charges against al-Qahtani and proceed with the arraignment for the other five, said Army Lt. Col. Bryan Broyles, the Saudi's military lawyer. --MORE-- Tags: 9/11, detainees, guantanamo, pentagonLink to full article: http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/131807.html MARC PARENT, mparent, mparent, ccnwon CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] The Oil Nonbubble
-Original Message- From: Daniel Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 11:34 pm Subject: [IPCUSA] The Oil Nonbubble Paul Krugman: The Oil Nonbubble http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/05/paul-krugman--1.htm l Is the high price of oil price due to fundamentals or speculation?: The http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12krugman.html?ex=1368244800en=c 899176fff63fce4ei=5124partner=permalinkexprod=permalink Oil Nonbubble, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: The Oil Bubble: Set to Burst? That was the headline of an October 2004 article in National Review, which argued that oil prices, then $50 a barrel, would soon collapse. Ten months later, oil was selling for $70 a barrel. It's a huge bubble, declared Steve Forbes... All through oil's five-year price surge, which has taken it from $25 a barrel to last week's close above $125, there have been many voices declaring that it's all a bubble, unsupported by the fundamentals of supply and demand. So here are two questions: Are speculators mainly, or even largely, responsible for high oil prices? And if they aren't, why have so many commentators insisted, year after year, that there's an oil bubble? ... Imagine what would happen if the oil market were humming along, with supply and demand balanced at a price of $25 a barrel, and a bunch of speculators came in and drove the price up to $100. ... Faced with higher prices, drivers would cut back on their driving; homeowners would turn down their thermostats; owners of marginal oil wells would put them back into production. As a result, the initial balance between supply and demand would be broken, replaced with a situation in which supply exceeded demand. This excess supply would, in turn, drive prices back down again - unless someone were willing to buy up the excess and take it off the market. The only way speculation can have a persistent effect on oil prices, then, is if it leads to physical hoarding...But ... inventories have remained at more or less normal levels. This tells us that the rise in oil prices isn't the result of runaway speculation; it's the result of fundamental factors, mainly the growing difficulty of finding oil and the rapid growth of emerging economies like China. The rise in oil prices ... had to happen to keep demand growth from exceeding supply growth. Saying that high-priced oil isn't a bubble doesn't mean that oil prices will never decline. ... But it does mean that speculators aren't at the heart of the story. Why, then, do we keep hearing assertions that they are? Part of the answer may be ... that many people are now investing in oil futures - which feeds suspicion that speculators are running the show... But there's also a political component. Traditionally, denunciations of speculators come from the left of the political spectrum. In the case of oil prices, however, the most vociferous proponents of the view that it's all the speculators' fault have been conservatives - people who you wouldn't normally expect to see warning about the nefarious activities of investment banks and hedge funds. The explanation of this seeming paradox is that wishful thinking has trumped pro-market ideology. After all, a realistic view of what's happened over the past few years suggests that we're heading into an era of increasingly scarce, costly oil. The ... odds are that we're looking at a future in which energy conservation becomes increasingly important, in which many people may even - gasp - take public transit to work. I don't find that vision particularly abhorrent, but a lot of people, especially on the right, do. And so they want to believe that if only Goldman Sachs would stop having such a negative attitude, we'd quickly return to the good old days of abundant oil. Again, I wouldn't be shocked if oil prices dip in the near future - although I also take seriously Goldman's recent warning that the price could go to $200. But let's drop all the talk about an oil bubble. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[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] Re: Fwd: [ctrl] US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all
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 Saddam Hussein honored a UN seal on those 380 tons of WMD, HMX super-high explosive, not using it for roadside bombs during Bush Shock-and-Awe blitzkrieg. No flipping of US main battle tanks for Saddam, no, that would be cheating. US airborne troops liberated HMX, cutting the UN seal wire for idling Iraqi Nationalist Resistance trucks. Poppy Bush had sold that HMX to Iraq for the defense of Iraq, and a deal's a deal to Sam and Prescott Bush's Merchants of Death Bureau which sold to both sides of WW2, and fueled the U-boats through WW2. Who did you think you were allowing to take over without an election in 2000 and 2004? You might want to check the track record of the Bush family for the last four generations before pretending to be surprised, or failing to notice history repeating. In April of 2003, 380 tons of George HW Bush's finest Chilean HMX super high explosive was released by Merchants of Death Bureau's beguiled willing to 100 waiting Iraqi Nationalist Resistance military trucks to make it a war by bloodying US troops with roadside bombs that could flip a 50-ton tank. The bully image of US troops was replaced with one of a hero with a bloody nose. Milton Friedman's privatization of formerly oil-financed cooking oil factories, telephone service, electrical grid, resulted in none of those anymore. The US military occupation resisted democratic elections but after Milton Friedman's privatization had trashed hospitals, electricity, cooking oil, gasoline, and gasoline had to be imported by Halliburton for one of the top three oil producing nations in the world, finally, elections were allowed by neocon de-democratizers. George HW Bush had not only imported Chilean HMX but Chilean HMX manufacturer Carlos Cardoen to build an HMX factory in Iraq. WMD, weapons of mass destruction? HMX is labelled WMD because of its obsolete role in the first atomic bomb dropped by..Iraq?...Iran?...Palestinians?...no, the US in WW2. And the US, not Iran, put HMX under US 50-ton tanks and blew them up in Iraq, from April 2003 on. There's your WMD, and of course the US did 911, too, partnering with Saudi and Pak intel and Lebanese heroin families in Porter Goss' hometown. Personnel were from Prescott Bush's WW2 nazi Muslim Brotherhood, as was Saddam Hussein but only through the Bush family's org, Muslim Brotherhood. Lead hijacker Atta's father was Muslim Brotherhood, a Prescott Bush WW2 asset like Adolf Hitler himself. Bush: HMX, Muslim Brotherhood, Lebanese heroin families financing 911, al-CIA-duh the [personnel data-]base [of political islamist assets inherited from the British], it's a scam. The scam is being called military keynesianism, covered over by Milton Friedman's huffing against keynesianism on behalf of corporate welfare and oligarchy-corporate LOOTING. LOOTING is the new colonoialism, more about taxpayer rape than resource rape. If it does resource rape, old colonial style, it is more about keeping oil in the ground than lowering gas prices, have you noticed? -Bob -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 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 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: âA 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.â The US , which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its âevidenceâ of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US âevidenceâ to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who
[cia-drugs] Feds to Collect Millions of DNA Profiles Yearly, Stay Out if You Can
The feds will soon be collecting about one million DNA samples a year under a new program that lets federal agents collect cheek swabs from citizens merely arrested for any federal crime or from any non-citizen detained by federal agents -- including visitors to the country who have visas. The intent is build a massive database of DNA samples (.pdf) that police can use to catch rapists and murderers, but even the innocent should fear being in the database, due to the vagaries of how cold case DNA searches can easily pinpoint an innocent person. Thanks to an amendment in the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 that was sponsored by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), the feds now have the authority to immediately take DNA from any arrestee or 'detained' non-citizen and immediately upload it to the FBI's CODIS database. That database is currently fed by federal law enforcement agencies and all 50 states, a few of which collect and upload DNA samples from people arrested, but not convicted of a crime. DNA profiles are composed of 13 genetic markers that are meant not to reveal genetic makeup or disease. Like fingerprints, DNA are very powerful and scientifically sound evidence, when used to connect a known suspect to evidence found at the scene of the crime. Jurors are easily persuaded to accept the DNA link for someone who had already been suspected of a crime scene when told the odds against a false identification are 1 in millions or billions. But DNA is far less certain when you compare one sample against all of the profiles in the database typically known as one-to-many. In that case the chances that a match between a DNA sample -- especially an incomplete one -- and a person in a DNA database could nab an innocent person has different math. Very different math. So if you have a probability of 1 in 1.1 million chance of people having a certain sequence of DNA markers and you have a database of 550,000 people, you have a 50% chance of making a match. That's great, if you know that the perpetrator is in that database. But what it also means is that as you start testing DNA profiles against more and more people, the chances that you will match an innocent person to a DNA profile from a crime scene gets higher. A recent L.A. Times story about a cold case prosecution of a 1972 rape and murder in California, where 30 years later, police matched a DNA sample from the scene to that of a convicted rapist in its 338,000 profile strong DNA database. Given the number of markers that were used there was a one in three chance that some profile in the database would match. In this case, it matched John Puckett, who lived in the same city. The jury however, wasn't told about the probability that someone in the database would match against the profile (The L.A. Times story erroneously says that there was a 1/3 chance that someone innocent would be fingered in such a search. If one knew for a fact that every person in the database were innocent, then there was a 1 in 3 chance that an innocent person would get fingered, but in Puckett's case, one simply knows that there was a one in three chance someone in the California criminal database would be fingered.) And that's a problem when the government starts collecting millions of DNA samples, sticking them in a massive database and finding 'cold hits.' Imagine the innocent man facing down a jury of his peers, hoping that they understand something about statistics. The Justice Department is taking comments on the proposed DNA rules until Monday, May 19. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/feds-to-collect.html Let the people do what they want, you get Woodstock. Let the government do what it wants, you get WACO!Mary. - Now with a new friend-happy design! Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messengerimage/jpeg
[cia-drugs] China bloggers cook up quake conspiracies
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3925096.ece China bloggers cook up quake conspiracies Hannah Fletcher As the death toll in China's Sichuan province climbs, the nation's bloggers have joined together in the search for a scapegoat. Broadband connections across the country are pulsing with rumours of earthquake omens involving toads or butterflies - all allegedly ignored by the authorities. Some even talk of a vast pre-Olympic conspiracy. One blogger from Shandong province, in eastern China, wrote that more than a month ago, he went to his local earthquake resesarch centre several times to report that his animals had been disturbed and restless. But, he wrote: They not only ridiculed me, they accused me of making up stories. Other blogs link to Chinese newspaper reports of bizarre natural occurrences in the past few weeks. The Chutian Metropolis Daily reported that on April 26, 80,000 tonnes of water suddenly drained from a large pond in Enshi, Hubei province. The province shares a border with Chongqing Municipality, which was devastated by the earthquake on Monday. On May 10, a Sichuan-based newspaper, the West China Metropolis Daily, reported that hundreds of migrating toads descended upon the streets of Mianyang, the second largest city in the province which neighbours Wenchuan County, the epicentre of the earthquake. The Chinese state news agency reported today that 18,645 people were buried under the city's collapsed buildings and 3,629 people confirmed dead. In the city of Mianzhu, 60 miles from the epicentre, bloggers pointed to reports just weeks before the earthquake of a mass migration of more than one million butterflies. Other bloggers seized upon an as yet unsubstantiated rumour that a Chinese geologist had predicted the earthquake in advance but had been stifled by the authorities, and by fear. On the seventh of May, a geologist predicted this [earthquake], wrote one blogger. But he didn't dare make it public. Another blogger from Beijing wrote: Everyone is talking about the rescue effort but they are not actually joining it. So, instead we should turn our thoughts to why [the authorities] didn't forecast the earthquake and evacuate the people... Could it be that it was out of a desire for a peaceful Olympics? In an editorial in the Southern Metropolis Daily, the established journalist and commentator, Chang Ping, cited the growing tide of rumours and speculation surrounding the earthquake as evidence of the need for greater freedom of information in China. He wrote: As the phone lines went down, rumours multiplied...I understood that the vast majority of this information could not be verified and that the police regarded it as the transmission of rumours punishable by criminal detention. But as someone with relatives in the affected area, I could not stop myself from seeking whatever information I could ... He added: The information was clearly unreliable, and it was difficult to tell what was true or false. Together it all spoke of a single problem, and that is the people's fierce appetite for information when faced with a public incident.
