[cia-drugs] Because something is happening here
http://milleganstews.com/?p=37 Publisher’s Foreword -- A Terrible Mistake Because something is happening here But you don’t know what it is Do you, Mister Jones? —Bob Dylan The week after high school graduation, I “ran-away” from home. It was 1967, and I was 17 and had barely made the pomp walk, not because of grades, but hair. Late in my senior year my “Modern Problems” teacher kicked me out of his class. I thought, “Great … don’t have to come to school till third period.” Soon I was in the principal’s office watching my mother cry. I wasn’t going to be allowed to graduate because my hair was over my ears. I cut my hair. A few days after tossing the tassel, I wrote a note to the folks, said I was taking off for some time on my own, and hitchhiked down to Southern California to see an old grade school buddy. Whoa, what a culture shock, small-town Oregon versus Los Angeles. Now, I had been in the big city before as a visitor, but never to run with the locals. My friend’s school was still in session, so I went along with him for several days, celebrated his graduation, and went out on the town. California kids were wild, betting hundreds of dollars on street races in their cars, sneaking into strip clubs and on to private beaches, drinking and carousing, heck they even had their own drunk tank at their high school’s graduation dance. My folks had contacted my friend’s parents before I even got there — it was decided I was simply taking a “vacation.” After a week or so, it was time to start heading home. Light My Fire by the Doors was all over the radio, and the DJs were talking about an event, with a bunch of bands, up the road. I said goodbye to my friend and stuck out my thumb. There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear —Buffalo Springfield I had stumbled upon the Monterey International Pop Music Festival. My friend had jokingly told me about some of his old drinking buddies who wore nothing but white sheets and hung out at an esoteric bookstore. I didn’t visit, but Monterey more than introduced me to a new phenomenon then booming through my generation. By the time I got to the Monterey County Fairgrounds, I was broke and hungry, and began searching the ground for a dime to buy an orange or an apple (the cheapest food I could see for sale). My eyes spied a white envelope, I picked it up, written on the envelope was “Jones,” inside was a ticket to get into the arena, and in I went. Blues Project started the show, Mammas Papas closed the night, with Hendrix, Joplin, the Who, the Grateful Dead, and others sprinkled in between. It may have been the music, or maybe the fact that I never found that dime, no matter, I got a “contact” high. Something was definitely happening here … LSD. Published reports have Augustus Owsley Stanley III giving out 14,000 tabs, free. And they thought it couldn’t happen here They knew it couldn’t happen here They were so sure it couldn’t happen here But … —Mothers of Invention A Terrible Mistake, presents the hidden history of government activity with LSD, and of other covert initiatives that were coordinated by a small secretive cadre. Their actions have affected many, many people … dramatically. “They” even lost lives — some cry “murder!” — and covered up the deeds. Bureaucracies are like that. In the Machiavellian hubris of our day, power is dealt from the shadows, laying waste to our Constitution, while tricks and games enthrall an increasingly scratching populace. People are forced to the ground, allowed only to raise their heads to squabble on cue. Ours is a debased dysfunctional Republic, where our people are obese, our prisons are full, our schoolchildren do with less (some even homeless), our coins have slugs in them, our wars fought more and more by mercenaries, and our free press isn’t — all while asking our children and those yet to be born … to foot the bill. Is this just the way of the world? Or are we seeing consequences from dark actions taken by a few — in secret, beyond supervision and reproach? My father, a repentent “spook,” in a 1979 interview, said: “It’s a far more constructive experience to work for the church than to work for the Central Intelligence Agency. When you work for the CIA, the end justifies the means.” LSD was seen as a means to an end. Operations Bluebird, MKULTRA and all the other secret projects were seen as means to an end. The shattered and dead people were means to an end. The lies, secrecy and cover-ups were means to an end. Have we arrived at the “ends” desired? TrineDay is amazed and pleased to be publishing A Terrible Mistake, a work while examining the veiled forecasted ends, exposes many of the wayward shoddy means, and at last — through the author’s perseverance plus a little kismet — puts to rest an old official lie with the simple, mundane … truth. Oh, what’s going on What’s going on Ya, what’s going on Ah, what’s going on —Marvin Gaye
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Skull and Bones Broken Into! 'Dauphin' Releases Video of The Tomb [1 Attachment]
-Original Message- From: Sardar sar...@spiritone.com To: Sardar recon1968br...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, Dec 15, 2009 6:42 pm Subject: Skull and Bones Broken Into! 'Dauphin' Releases Video of The Tomb Skull and Bones Broken Into! 'Dauphin' Releases Video of The Tomb Gawker Tuesday, Dec 15th, 2009 A Yale freshman who called himself the Dauphin is believed to have terrorized his peers with death threats, ritualistic vandalism, and a hit and run accident. Among his rumored loot: Secret society video footage, which has since surfaced on YouTube. The video, uploaded by new YouTube user Dauphinish and caught first by IvyGate, looks like it could belong the vaunted secret society that counts three generations of Bushes as its members. Unfortunately, vaunted secret societies don't really have publicists, so it's hard to confirm. (Yalies, take a stab in comments?) There are gothic arches, dust, skull imagery, and a stray coffin lying around. Dauphinish has tracked his video with what can only be described as conspiracy theory electronica: From the Complete News Archive Released by Core of Corruption, see other news reports on Bohemian Grove, 9/11, Iran Contra, BCCI, CIA Drug Running and more here: Complete News Archive from Core of Corruption http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=5FDFE0354D392DA7 If you are unfamiliar with the older break in, this is video from 2001 released in April of 2001 by ABC: But here's the rub: Though Dauphinish claims he is a 58-year-old Syrian, he sounds an awful lot like a certain Yale frosh who used to call himself the Dauphin. A Yale Daily News article from November 2007 says a mysterious Branford frosh-thought to be responsible for vandalism, death threats, and vehicular assault-withdrew from the University for medical reasons. This paragraph, however, becomes the money shot, in retrospect: Those who considered the student a friend said he told them he had broken into the tomb of Skull and Bones and shown them video footage to prove it. He also showed them books he had stolen from Scroll and Key and had chalked the word Dauphin on walls throughout Yale's campus. The Dauphin's identity was never confirmed or made public. His YouTube upload was on December 4, 2009. Points of query: a.. 1. Is the Dauphin back? b.. 2. Who was the Dauphin, anyway? Did his paranoid Yale fantasies exist before he got there? And, does admissions screen for that? c.. 3. Unless, of course, Dauphinish is actually a 58-year-old Syrian, which could actually be a good thing: If the Skull Bones mythos has reached the Muslim world, perhaps we can convince them that the failed international policies of the Presidents Bush were not symptomatic of an actual strain of political thought in America, but some peculiar Skull Bones mating ritual. (Little known hazing task: Destroy the economy of a third-world nation of your choosing.) Then all we have to do is nuke the tomb, and radical Islam will go away. Hooray, Dauphin solved terrorism! d.. 4. Or, what if Dauphin was actually innocent, and it was all a frame, because he knew too much? Check out this commenter at the Yale Herald: Conspiracy theorists, start your engines. e.. 5. Should someone alert the Dauphin's parents that their kid might be in the midst of a second manic episode or something? Here are older reports on Skull and Bones. A 60 Minutes piece on Skull and Bones is no longer available from CBS for some reason, but you can still find a transcript of the episode. Prison Planet.tv Members Can Watch Fall Of The Republic Right Now Online - Don't Miss Out! Get Your Subscription Today! http://www.prisonplanet.com/skull-and-bones-broken-into-dauphin-releases-video-of-the-tomb.html
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bernie Madoff, Mini-M, Mohamed Atta
Begin forwarded message: From: MadCow Morning News madcown...@gmail.com Date: March 20, 2009 3:40:19 PM PDT To: roads...@aol.com Subject: Bernie Madoff, Mini-M, Mohamed Atta Reply-To: madcown...@gmail.com Having trouble viewing this email? Click here Bernie Madoff, Mini-M, Mohamed Atta New Owner of 'Terror' Flight School in Huge Ponzi Scheme World Exclusive March 20, 2009 http://www.madcowprod.com/03202009.html Another owner of the flight school in Venice, Florida that trained Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi to fly is in trouble with the law; current owner Arthur G. Nadel, 75, was arrested recently for running a Ponzi scheme which methodically looted investors in his Sarasota- based hedge funds of more than $300 million. New York tabloids, already in overdrive on the story of Bernard Madoff, instantly dubbed Nadel Mini-M, for Mini-Madoff. Nadel's arrest marks the second time in recent years that the owner of Huffman Aviation, the FBO (fixed base of operations) at the Venice Airport has been involved in crimes traditionally associated with the Mob. Ponzi schemes, of course, are a trademark Mafia specialty. So, too, is the crime of heroin trafficking in which previous owner Wally Hilliard was implicated. How did city officials in Venice allow the airport's mission-critical FBO to fall into the hands--not once but twice--of people otherwise engaged in organized crime? Why is it that shadowy underworld figures seem to enjoy the permanent run of the airport in Venice, Florida? Read the full story at: http://www.madcowprod.com/03202009.html For story press inquiries Contact: madcownews [at] gmail.com Mr. Hopsicker has been on the ground investigating Florida's drug smuggling, the financial fronts government corruption shielding the money movers for a decade. He has written two books on his investigation into the shadowy underworld of the druglords of America and their ties to terrorists around the globe and in Venice, Florida on 9/11. He is currently working on a new book delving deeper into what and who has blocked real investigation and prosecution of these underworld figures in America. Forward email This email was sent to roads...@aol.com by madcown...@gmail.com. Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe™ | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Madcow Morning News | PO Box 314 | Venice | FL | 34284
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [PEPIS] PEPIS#104 CBS News scrutinises Obama cabinet/Bilderberg links
Begin forwarded message: From: Tony Gosling t...@tlio.org.uk Date: March 16, 2009 12:17:06 PM PDT To: PEPIS pe...@googlegroups.com Subject: [PEPIS] PEPIS#104 CBS News scrutinises Obama cabinet/ Bilderberg links Reply-To: pe...@googlegroups.com 1. New York We Are Change voxpopping about Bilderberg in Times Square. 2. CBS News scrutinises Obama cabinet's Bilderberg links 3. My post about preventing violence and Agents Provocateurs at the forthcoming G20 summit demo 1. New York We Are Change voxpopping about Bilderberg in Times Square. New York We Are Change voxpopping about Bilderberg in Times Square. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIcOdmCvuk This video was premiered on our new live video show http://www.mogulus.com/wearechangelive its rebroadcasting right now Tune in every Sunday 3pm Eastern US time to get the latest CHANGE news from Robert Wanik and Luke Rudkowski live. WeAreChange hits the streets to talk to people in Time Square about the current states of America. keep spreading this video - people need to see it and realize how dumbed down society is and how to educate people.! Rate it, Email it, Favorite it, Message it, and Share it. don't be silent get the word out! http://www.wearechange.org http://www.nwoalert.com http://www.infowars.com WeAreChange would like to acknowledge that we do not support or endorse Spotlight' magazine.The views described by the people being interviewed represent themselves and not the wearechange organization part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnLmWHKK4TY 2. CBS News scrutinises Obama cabinet's Bilderberg links Politico: Many Of The President's Nominees Are Part Of A Secret Elite International Group Known As Bilderbergers 'It turns out that Sebelius - like top administration economists Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker, as well as leading Obama diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross - is a Bilderberger. That is, she is someone who has participated in the annual invitation- only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group. The group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs. It doesn’t issue policy statements or resolutions, nor does it hold any events other than an annual meeting.' Conspiracy Theorists Scrutinize Obama Ties Politico: Many Of The President's Nominees Are Part Of A Secret Elite International Group Known As Bilderbergers WASHINGTON March 15, 2009 (The Politico) This story was written by Kenneth P. Vogel. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/15/politics/politico/main4866504.shtml The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of a shadowy, elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people. It sounds crazy, but that’s what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama’s nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest piece of evidence supporting their claims. It turns out that Sebelius - like top administration economists Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker, as well as leading Obama diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross - is a Bilderberger. That is, she is someone who has participated in the annual invitation- only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group. The group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs. It doesn’t issue policy statements or resolutions, nor does it hold any events other than an annual meeting. Past participants have included Margaret Thatcher, who attended the 1975 meeting at Turkey’s Golden Dolphin Hotel, former media mogul Conrad Black, who has been to more than a dozen conferences, and Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Juan Carlos of Spain and top officials of BP, IBM, Barclays and the Bank of England. It is precisely that exclusive roster of globally influential figures that has captured the interest of an international network of conspiracists, who for decades have viewed the Bilderberg conference as a devious corporate-globalist scheme. The fulminating is aggravated by Obama's preference for surrounding himself with well-credentialed, well-connected, and well-traveled elites. His personnel choices have touched a populist, even paranoid nerve among those who are convinced powerful elites and secret societies are moving the planet toward a new world order. Their worldview,
[cia-drugs] The True Story of the Bilderberg Group - North American Union edition
http://bilderbergbook.com/ North American Union edition Seventy-two new pages, bringing a timeline of overt and covert actions greasing the skids towards a North American Union, where our sovereignty is put aside in the name of economic efficiency.Available for shipment March 20 from TRINEDAY — In book stores and at Amazon early April '09 Publisher’s Foreword North American Union Edition The True Story of the Bilderberg Group How do you get from here to there? Sometimes, you must first find out where you are. This book gives us true understanding of the nature of the corruption we must deal with as we strive for a better, a more honest, a more open, real and caring tomorrow. Initially written to inform a European audience, the first English edition was published with a stateside audience in mind, but the volume lacked information about the hidden “international planning” directly affecting Americans. This new edition contains revealing details concerning the covert and overt machinations silently propelling us towards a North American Union. An insidious idea proposing to do away with our sovereignty for the sake of economic efficiency, expanded horizons and state security. Author Daniel Estulin saw it happen in Europe, where flags, currencies and constitutions fell by the wayside with the creation of the European Union, all in the name of peace, progress, and prosperity. Similar to the promises given at the creation of the Federal Reserve — that it would control disastrous economic swings — time has shown these pledges are simply smokescreens, moving decisions and oversight farther away from citizens and into the hands of technocrats, bureaucrats and oligarchal forces such as the Bilderberg Group. TrineDay brought Daniel to the United States twice to promote his book, and to talk with the people and the press. I watched and listened in the fall of 2007 as he told everyone about the upcoming financial turmoil and housing mess, how many folks would soon owe more than their homes were worth, and then in the spring of 2008, when he told audiences that we were just a few months from economic calamity. The people responded, they bought books, asked questions and wanted to know more, but the press was a no-show. Then the same press also “failed” to report the year’s largest gathering of elites: the royalty, bankers, CEOs, media big-wigs and high government officials at the 57th annual Bilderberg meeting in June 2008. But at the end of the day it is not about them, it is about us — we the people. Much has been written about what is to be, but the dark of night brings within it the salvation of sunshine. Ardent actions and new understandings do create fresh possibilities, and hope — for our world, our children … ourselves. Onward to the utmost of futures! Kris Millegan, Publisher = 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:cia-drugs-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:cia-drugs-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: cia-drugs-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bilderbergers Excite Conspiracists
Begin forwarded message: From: Sardar sar...@spiritone.com Date: March 15, 2009 4:18:20 PM PDT To: Sardar recon1968br...@yahoo.com Subject: Bilderbergers Excite Conspiracists Bilderbergers Excite Conspiracists Kenneth P. Vogel Politico Sunday, March 15, 2009 CLICK HERE for our forum coverage of this story and a similar story currently running on AOL. The highest levels of the Obama administration are infested with members of a shadowy, elitist cabal intent on installing a one-world government that subverts the will of the American people. It sounds crazy, but that's what a group of very persistent conspiracy theorists insists, and they point to President Obama's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as the latest piece of evidence supporting their claims. It turns out that Sebelius - like top administration economists Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker, as well as leading Obama diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross - is a Bilderberger. That is, she is someone who has participated in the annual invitation- only conference held by an elite international organization known as the Bilderberg group. The group, which takes its name from the Dutch hotel where it held its first meeting in 1954, exists solely to bring together between 100 and 150 titans of politics, finance, military, industry, academia and media from North America and Western Europe once a year to discuss world affairs. It doesn't issue policy statements or resolutions, nor does it hold any events other than an annual meeting. (ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW) Past participants have included Margaret Thatcher, who attended the 1975 meeting at Turkey's Golden Dolphin Hotel, former media mogul Conrad Black, who has been to more than a dozen conferences, and Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, King Juan Carlos of Spain and top officials of BP, IBM, Barclays and the Bank of England. It is precisely that exclusive roster of globally influential figures that has captured the interest of an international network of conspiracists, who for decades have viewed the Bilderberg conference as a devious corporate-globalist scheme. The fulminating is aggravated by Obama's preference for surrounding himself with well-credentialed, well-connected, and well-traveled elites. His personnel choices have touched a populist, even paranoid nerve among those who are convinced powerful elites and secret societies are moving the planet toward a new world order. Their worldview, characterized by a deep and angry suspicion of the ruling class rather than any prevailing partisan or ideological affiliation, is widely articulated on overnight AM radio shows and a collection of Internet websites. The video sharing website YouTube alone is home to thousands of Bilderberg-related videos. I don't laugh at the people who claim that they understand the connections, but I've never really spent much time tracing that through, said Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), a former presidential candidate whose libertarian sensibilities have made him a darling of the Bilderberg conspiracists. The one thing that concerns me is that the people who surround Obama or Bush generally come from the same philosophic viewpoint and they have their organizations - they have the Trilateral Commission, the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations] and the Bilderbergers, and they've been around a long time. And my biggest concern is what they preach: Keynesian economics and interventionism and world planning, he said. While it's easy to dismiss the Bilder-busters as cranks, these voices have a way of making themselves heard on the margins of the debate in ways that can prove to be a real, if minor, distraction to Obama's political team. Bill Clinton had trouble shaking rumors that he was behind a shady criminal syndicate operating out of the Mena airport. George W. Bush was sometimes portrayed as the puppet of clandestine Middle Eastern oil interests. Obama's selection of numerous Bilderbergers for key posts certainly would verify their suspicions, said Paul, referring to fears of the group's influence. And I don't think it's just Obama. Whether it's the Republicans or the Democrats - Goldman Sachs generally has somebody in treasury. And the big banks generally have somebody in the Federal Reserve. And they're international people, too. And they're probably working very hard this weekend, with the G20. And they get involved in the IMF. But that is their stated goal. They do believe in a powerful centralized government and we believe in the opposite. Full story here. Research related articles: 1.. Hillary Clinton 'to be U.S. foreign chief': Obama poised to pick his former rival for powerful role on world stage 2.. Obama Picks Bilderberger for
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Raw Story | Hersh: 'Executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: March 11, 2009 4:42:42 PM PDT To: CTRL c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] The Raw Story | Hersh: 'Executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com [Several hot linques @ site. R] Hersh: 'Executive assassination ring' reported directly to CheneyMuriel Kane Published: Wednesday March 11, 2009 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Hersh_US_has_been_running_executive_0311.html Print This Email This Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an executive assassination ring throughout the Bush years which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The remark came out seemingly inadvertently when Hersh was asked by the moderator of a public discussion of America's Constitutional Crisis whether abuses of executive power, like those which occurred under Richard Nixon, continue to this day. Hersh replied, After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. Hersh then went on to describe a second area of extra-legal operations: the Joint Special Operations Command. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently, he explained. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. ... Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on, Hersh stated. Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us. Hersh told MinnPost.com blogger Eric Black in an email exchange after the event that the subject was not something I wanted to dwell about in public. He is looking into it for a book, but he believes it may be a year or two before he has enough evidence for even the most skeptical. Stories have been coming out about covert Pentagon assassination squads for the last several years. In 2003, Hersh himself reported on Task Force 121, which operated chiefly out of the Joint Special Operations Command. Others stories spoke of a proposed Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group. As Hersh noted in Minnesota, the New York Times on Monday described the Joint Special Operations Command as overseeing the secret commando units in Afghanistan whose missions were temporarily ordered halted last month because of growing concerns over excessive civilian deaths. However, it appears that Hersh is now on the trail of some fresh revelation about these squads and their connection to Vice-President Cheney that goes well beyond anything that has previously been reported. Eric Black's blog posting, which includes an hour-long audio recording of the full University of Minnesota colloquy, is available here. http://www.minnpost.com/ericblackblog/2009/03/11/7310/investigative_reporter_seymour_hersh_describes_executive_assassination_ring -- ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Alamaine, IVe The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half- truths, mis-directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, c...@yahoogroups and c...@listserv.aol.com, c...@yahoogroups has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. c...@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Mike Trace: The global drug charade | Comment is free | The Guardian
Begin forwarded message: From: Sardar sar...@spiritone.com Date: March 12, 2009 6:31:00 PM PDT To: Sardar recon1968br...@yahoo.com Subject: Mike Trace: The global drug charade | Comment is free | The Guardian The global drug charade Flying in the face of all the evidence, the UN is about to recommit to the tried and failed approach Comments (133) a.. b.. a.. Mike Trace b.. The Guardian, Wednesday 11 March 2009 c.. Article history Ten years ago, I represented Britain at a UN general assembly special session in New York, where political leaders reviewed progress in tackling the illegal drug market, and set out a 10-year plan to eliminate the illicit production and use of drugs such as cannabis, heroin and cocaine. Fast forward to this week in Vienna - where a similar gathering is tasked with reviewing progress and setting out a framework for international drug controls for the decade to come - and the lack of headway is striking. Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So far in Vienna, the meeting appears to have been struck by a similar affliction. Yes, it is every politician's nightmare: a controversial subject that the electorate cares about and that the media write about (some might say) obsessively. But evidence of the failure of policy is overwhelming. All credible studies conclude that there has been no overall reduction in the scale of production or use, and that in many parts of the world the problem has got significantly worse. There are at least 200 million users of controlled drugs. The illegal market generates an estimated $300bn turnover for organised crime. Overall rates of addiction are probably rising, as is transmission of the Aids virus through shared needles. States as diverse as Mexico, Afghanistan and Guinea-Bissau struggle to maintain control as profits from trafficking foment violence and disorder. Thirty countries still have the death penalty for drug offences and many continue to use it despite clear advice that this breaches the UN charter.. The forced eradication of crops in countries such as Colombia condemns whole communities to poverty and ill health. Legal clampdowns increase drug users' marginalisation, and the social and health risks of their behaviour. Perhaps all this collateral damage would be justified if the drug market was being reduced. The inconvenient truth is, it is not. How will the international community respond? Well, the head of the UN drugs agency, Antonio Maria Costa, has issued a report claiming undeniable success, and governments are on the verge of signing a political declaration that meekly reports: Some progress has been made. The declaration is essentially a reiteration of the objectives and activities agreed in 1998 - no recognition of a decade's evidence; no new ideas or initiatives. Privately, delegates are acutely aware of the weaknesses and divisions, but have no answers to offer. Some countries have tried to push for a more honest assessment. Britain is one - we may still be prone to rhetorical posturing and have tied ourselves in legislative knots over cannabis classification, but we do not send lots of people to prison for using drugs. We prioritise treatment for addiction and promote harm reduction approaches to improve the life chances of drug users and to prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses. We also accept that our law enforcement agencies cannot save the country from drugs. This is modern, pragmatic thinking. It will be drowned out in Vienna by a series of exhortations for tougher action in the war on drugs. Tomorrow, representatives of all UN member states will adopt a declaration that commits them to another decade of the same strategy, in the hope of achieving different results. Einstein's definition seems to ring true. We're about to witness another walk up the political and diplomatic path of least resistance. It will do nothing to help the millions whose lives are destroyed by drug markets and drug use - and, depressingly, we can all book our seats for 2019, to go through this charade again. ... Mike Trace is the chairman of the International Drug Policy Consortium and the former deputy UK drug tsar Idpc.info a.. Printable version b.. Send to a friend c.. Share d.. Clip e.. Contact us f.. larger | smaller Email Close Recipient's email address Your first name Your surname Add a note (optional) Your IP address will be logged Share Close a.. Digg b.. reddit c.. Google Bookmarks d.. Yahoo! My Web e.. del.icio.us f.. StumbleUpon g.. Newsvine h.. livejournal i.. Facebook j.. BlinkList Contact us Close a.. Report errors or inaccuracies: rea...@guardian.co.uk b.. Letters for publication should be sent to: lett...@guardian.co.uk a.. If you need help using the site: userh...@guardian.co.uk b.. Call the main Guardian and Observer
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Cocaine production surge unleashes wave of violence in Latin America
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: March 9, 2009 5:33:23 AM PDT To: CTRL c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] Cocaine production surge unleashes wave of violence in Latin America Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/09/cocaine-production-united-nations-summit Cocaine production surge unleashes wave of violence in Latin America Rory Carroll in Caracas The Guardian, Monday 9 March 2009 Article history Cocaine production has surged across Latin America and unleashed a wave of violence, population displacements and corruption, prompting urgent calls to rethink the drug war. More than 750 tonnes of cocaine are shipped annually from the Andes in a multi-billion pound industry which has forced peasants off land, triggered gang wars and perverted state institutions. A Guardian investigation based on dozens of interviews with law enforcement officials, coca farmers, refugees and policymakers has yielded a bleak picture of the war on the eve of a crucial United Nations drug summit. Almost 6,000 people died in drug-related violence in Mexico last year alone, an unprecedented level of mayhem that is showing signs of spilling northwards into the United States. More than 1,000 have been killed already this year in Mexico. A new trafficking route between South America and west Africa has grown so quickly that the 10th latitude corridor connecting the continents has been dubbed Interstate 10. Almost all those interviewed agreed that insatiable demand for cocaine in Europe and north America had thwarted US-led efforts to choke supply and inflicted enormous damage on Latin America. We consider the war on drugs a failure because the objectives have never been achieved, said César Gaviria, Colombia's former president and co-chair of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy. Prohibitionist policies based on eradication, interdiction and criminalisation have not yielded the expected results. We are today farther than ever from the goal of eradicating drugs. The commission is urging a paradigm shift from repression to a public health approach, including decriminalisation of marijuana. Dismal statistics about coca cultivation, cocaine exports and murder rates have amplified calls to replace a policy which dates back to Nixon with one which focuses on curbing demand. The strategy of the US here, in Colombia and Peru was to attack the raw material and it has not worked, said Colonel René Sanabria, head of Bolivia's anti-narcotic police force. A report by the Brookings Institution, and a separate study by Harvard economist Jeffrey Miron which was endorsed by 500 economists, have joined the chorus demanding change. The debate comes to a head on Wednesday when ministers from across the world convene in Vienna to forge a new UN approach to drugs. The European Union and some Latin American countries hope to shape a strategy based on harm reduction measures, such as needle exchanges. But holdovers from the Bush administration are lobbying Barack Obama to stick with traditional US emphasis on supply. Even Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe, who backs Washington's drug war, has sounded the alarm. Organised crime could destroy us all if we do not come together to fight it, he told regional leaders recently. The crucible is Colombia, the world's main cocaine exporter. Since 2000 it has received $6bn in mostly military aid from the US for the drug war. But despite the fumigation of 1.15m hectares of coca, the plant from which the drug is derived, production has not fallen. Across the whole of South America it has spiked 16%, thanks to increases in supply from Bolivia and Peru. Defenders of the drug war point out that the military-led strategy clawed back territory from armed groups and stabilised Colombia. It's not fair to say there has been no progress, said Aldo Lale-Demoz, head of the Bogota headquarters of the UN Office on Drug and Crime. We are not winning and we are not losing. We are controlling. Successive US drug czars put a brave face on the results but Washington's patience has frayed. A recent report by the Government Accountability Office concluded the war had failed in Colombia. It was commissioned by Joe Biden, then a senator, now the vice president. A spokesman for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which spearheads Washington's approach, hinted the new administration may switch tack. http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2009/03/08/DRUG_MAP.gif -- ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Alamaine, IVe The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Who got AIG's bailout billions? | Reuters.com
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: March 9, 2009 5:23:20 AM PDT To: CTRL c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] Who got AIG's bailout billions? | Reuters.com Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52624P20090308?feedType=RSSfeedName=topNews Who got AIG's bailout billions? Sun Mar 8, 2009 8:30am EDT By Toni Reinhold NEW YORK (Reuters) - Where, oh where, did AIG's bailout billions go? That question may reverberate even louder through the halls of government in the week ahead now that a partial list of beneficiaries has been published. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that about $50 billion of more than $173 billion that the U.S. government has poured into American International Group Inc since last fall has been paid to at least two dozen U.S. and foreign financial institutions. The newspaper reported that some of the banks paid by AIG since the insurer started getting taxpayer funds were: Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Deutsche Bank AG, Merrill Lynch, Societe Generale, Calyon, Barclays Plc, Rabobank, Danske, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Banco Santander, Morgan Stanley, Wachovia, Bank of America, and Lloyds Banking Group. Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs declined to comment when contacted by Reuters. Bank of America, Calyon, and Wells Fargo, which has absorbed Wachovia, could not be reached for comment. The U.S. Federal Reserve has refused to publicize a list of AIG's derivative counterparties and what they have been paid since the bailout, riling the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Donald Kohn testified before that committee on Thursday that revealing names risked jeopardizing AIG's continuing business. Kohn said there were millions of counterparties around the globe, including pension funds and U.S. households. He said the intention was not to protect AIG or its counterparties, but to prevent the spread of AIG's infection. The Wall Street Journal, citing a confidential document and people familiar with the matter, reported that Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank each got about $6 billion in payments between the middle of September and December last year. Once the world's largest insurer, AIG has been described by the United States as being too extensively intertwined with the global financial system to be allowed to fail. The Federal Reserve first rode to AIG's rescue in September with an $85 billion credit line after losses from toxic investments, many of which were mortgage related, and collateral demands from banks, left AIG staring down bankruptcy. Late last year, the rescue packaged was increased to $150 billion. The bailout was overhauled again a week ago to offer the insurer an additional $30 billion in equity. AIG was first bailed out shortly after investment bank Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail and brokerage Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America Corp. Bankruptcy for AIG would have led to complications and losses for financial institutions around the world doing business with the company and policy holders that AIG insured against losses. Representative Paul Kanjorski told Reuters on Thursday that he had been informed that a large number of AIG's counterparties were European. That's why we could not allow AIG to fail as we allowed Lehman to fail, because that would have precipitated the failure of the European banking system, said Kanjorski, a Democrat from Pennsylvania who chairs the House Insurance Subcommittee. TOXIC ASSETS/TOXIC WASTE As part of its business, AIG insured counterparties on mortgage-backed securities and other assets. The collapse of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, which triggered a global financial crisis, left the insurer and some of its policy holders facing possible ruin as the value of assets declined. U.S. regulators failed to recognize how much risk AIG was piling on in credit-default swaps, and by the time they understood, they had no choice but to pour in billions of public dollars, Kohn and other officials told the Senate panel. Senators were outraged by the lack of details about where the bailout money has gone. That we find ourselves in this situation at all is ... quite frankly, sickening, said Senator Christopher Dodd, the Democrat who chairs the committee. The lack of transparency and accountability in this process has been rather stunning. Eric Dinallo, superintendent of New York State's Insurance Department, railed on Friday against AIG's failed business model, likening its insuring credit-default swaps as gambling with somebody else's money. It's like taking insurance on your neighbor's house and even maybe contributing to blowing it up, he said at a panel sponsored by New York University's Stern School of Business. U.S. lawmakers have said they are running out of patience with regulators' refusal to identify AIG's counterparties. On Thursday, Richard Shelby, the top Republican
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Caroline Sourt: Drug cartels in Guinea-Bissau are reminiscent of the country's former colonisers |
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: March 9, 2009 5:38:23 AM PDT To: CTRL c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] Caroline Sourt: Drug cartels in Guinea-Bissau are reminiscent of the country's former colonisers | Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com Africa's first narco-state? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/06/guinea-bissau-drugs-trade Guinea-Bissau hasn't seen much political stability since independence, and drug barons are making things even worse Comments (3) Caroline Sourt guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 March 2009 07.00 GMT Article history The political turmoil in Guinea-Bissau cannot be blamed directly or even indirectly on the west and its hunger for natural resources. Contrary to some of the comments posted on Norrie MacQueen's recent Cif blog, Guinea-Bissau does not have oil, or anything else of great value to industrial nations. Its biggest export is cashew nuts. Sadly, what lies at the source of Guinea's problems is shared by many countries on the African continent. Guinea-Bissau has been independent for 34 years and during that time it has had minimal political stability. Civil war and numerous coups have left the economy of this small west African nation in ruin and the country is listed as the fifth poorest in the world by the UN. It is an old story. Once in power, Guinea's leaders – President João Bernardo Nino Vieira and the army chief, General Tagme Na Waie – jostled to shore up what they had and if possible, obtain more. In 1999, Na Waie was one of the soldiers who removed Vieira from office and forced him into exile. But Vieira returned to Guinea and won elections in 2005, and the subsequent divisions between the president and the army kept Guinea- Bissau in a permanent state of instability. But there now emerges a much more sinister aspect to the tit-for-tat assassinations of Vieira and Na Waie in February. The timed bomb used to blow up the army chief points to outside influences, specifically the Latin American drug cartels who are using Guinea as a transit point to ship cocaine to Europe. It is always tempting to blame former colonial powers (in Guinea- Bissau's case, Portugal) for the woes of the African countries they occupied, but this acknowledges only part of the problem. Colonisers used ancient tribal feuds and the weakness they cause to their advantage with a divide and rule strategy, and when they left, the divisons and fighting were often on a greater scale than before. Tribalism has been a factor in wars since populations first began to divide themselves into specific groups. Africa is by no means the only place where people associate themselves with their community first and their nationality second: some second- and third-generation Americans still do so, even in a country with a strong sense of collective identity and nationhood. During the colonial period, the violence was suppressed or at least controlled. After independence, few countries – and certainly not Guinea – managed to pacify these antagonisms. Tribalism certainly played a role in the Vieira-Na Waie feud. Vieira came from the minority Pepel, coastal community. Waie and the majority of fighters in Guinea's war for independance who are now in the army, belong to the majority Balante ethnic group that dominate Guinea's hinterland. There are growing fears that Guinea-Bissau may become Africa's first narco-state and the arrival of South America's drug barons – who are using the divide and rule tactics to great effect, as seen in February – has been immensely damaging to the country's emerging democratic credentials. These tactics are unfortunately reminiscent of those used by Guinea's European former colonisers. Hope for Guinea-Bissau's future now lies on the shoulders of Raimundo Pereira, the former speaker of parliament who was sworn in as the country's interim president on 3 March. With international aid and support, he has promised to hold presidential elections within 60 days. With soldiers ever-present on the streets of Bissau, there is increasing pressure for Pereira to begin reforms in the army, where 3,000 of the 4,500 soldiers are officers. But if Guinea-Bissau is to see any kind of stability in the long term, the real battle will be to put an end to the complicit drug trade. -- ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Alamaine, IVe The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . In accordance with Title 17 USC Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Hedge fund hotel yields up secrets |
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: March 7, 2009 6:22:51 AM PST To: CTRL c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] Hedge fund hotel yields up secrets | Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com Hedge fund hotel yields up secrets http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/07/aig-insurance-us-economy • Wheeler-dealing in UK led to US insurer's record loss • 'Acts of Satan' ripped black hole in financial system Andrew Clark The Guardian, Saturday 7 March 2009 Article history It is Mayfair's house of financial horrors. Owned by the Abu Dhabi royal family, One Curzon Street is among London's flashiest office blocks. But behind the elegant curves, polished white stone, sweeping windows and panoramic atrium lie billions of dollars in losses that have threatened the global financial system. Popular with financial enterprises, the building is known as a hedge fund hotel. Its tenants include GLG Partners, one of the City's star funds, which has fallen on hard times, and the struggling Swiss bank UBS, but on the fifth floor can be found the most notorious of the property's troubled tenants - a formerly obscure financial products division of the sprawling American International Group (AIG). It was in this London office of AIG that big-brained financial whiz-kids created a casino offshoot of the once-mighty insurer that spectacularly wrecked the company, racking up billions of dollars in losses on arcane derivatives, swaps and contracts. Fatally undermined by the unit's wheeler-dealing culture, AIG crashed to the US's biggest corporate loss of $61.7bn (£43bn) for the final quarter of 2008 and is limping along the brink of oblivion, saved from bankruptcy by an eye-watering $150bn of emergency aid from US taxpayers. The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, wasted few words in condemning the division's antics, telling Congress this week: This was a hedge fund, basically, that was attached to a large and stable insurance company. The Serious Fraud Office is examining exactly what type of business took place on the fifth floor of One Curzon Street, where a team of some 225 staff were managed by a policeman's son from New York, Joseph Cassano, who boasted a degree in politics from Brooklyn College and lived in a company flat behind Harrods. He was scorned by one California congressman, Jackie Speier, as the golden boy of the casino in London. The division dates back to 1987, when a small group of former traders from the junk bond firm Drexel Burnham Lambert persuaded AIG's then chairman, Hank Greenberg, that there was a highly lucrative opportunity in offering insurance that would protect banks against default on debt or against fluctuations in the value of derivatives. AIG had a sought-after selling point: a triple-A credit rating. For a fee, it would stand behind lesser institutions' credit obligations. By lending its gilt-edged rating, it could give clients' investments a higher value and make them easier to trade. Headquartered in Connecticut but largely run from London, the division transacted billions in credit default swaps (CDS) - instruments trading financial risk - which have been dubbed acts of Satan by a leading US credit analyst, Christopher Whalen. These people were deluded, says Whalen, who views the CDS as a phenomenon dreamt up by those whose obsession with the free market has caused them to lose their grip on reality. In a world where people believe in market efficiency, in total market completion, things like CDSs make sense. It goes back to Milton Friedman. Whalen views London's light-touch regulatory regime as enabling such ill-conceived shenanigans to run out of control: A lot of this kind of structured product came out of London. CDSs are priced on historical models. Lulled by rising property prices and relatively predictable economic cycles, the AIG bankers were convinced they had hit on a gold mine. Tom Savage, the financial products division's former president, told the Washington Post recently: The models suggested that the risk was so remote that the fees were almost free money. They were wrong. A collapse in the US property market, which began in 2007, left AIG's clients with portfolios of toxic mortgage-related securities, and calls on the insurer's guarantees against default rocketed. AIG lost its triple-A credit rating, triggering contractual requirements forcing it to provide billions of dollars in extra collateral it simply did not have. The unit exploded in a mass of red ink, recrimination and buck-passing. So how did they misjudge the market so badly? Insiders say AIG has always pushed its people to the limit, some seeing Greenberg's legacy as part of the problem. Ron Shelp, a former AIG executive whose book, Fallen Giant, chronicles the insurer's rise and fall, describes AIG as an intense environment where staff were expected to devote much of their lives to business. Success bred
[cia-drugs] The Oil Card
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=3newsID=87316 Friday, January 30, 2009 Opinion Friday, January 30, 2009 The Oil Card Ed Stephens Jr. By Ed Stephens Jr. Special to the Saipan Tribune Seeing gasoline under $3 a gallon ($2.829) is a welcome state of affairs for Saipan, so what better time to take a breather and wonder why oil had such a drastic run up in recent times. What made it go up? What made it fall (mostly) back down? As for the going up part, my take, in my April 25, 2008, column, was this: I think we're seeing a huge Middle East worry premium, for the simple and elegant reason that I can't think of anything else to explain what's going on. More recently, the glaring flaw in my theory, of course, was that oil prices collapsed without an apparent change in the Middle East situation and its related worry premium. Well, I’m out of answers. But seasoned business and energy reporter James R. Norman has a few answers of his own. He’s the author of The Oil Card (TrineDay, $14.95, 244 pages). This is a bold, original, and, frankly, conspiratorial take on the wacky swings we’ve seen in oil and gasoline prices. Hey, if we’re paying all that money for gasoline, we might as well try to find out why. Norman’s theory is that the U.S. government, via its various levers in both public and private sectors, does, indeed, set, or at least strongly influence, oil prices. Why would Uncle Sam do this? Because, Norman believes, it is economic muscle that can either punish, or reward, Russia and China, who are, of course, the main strategic rivals to the U.S. As a major oil exporter, Russia benefits from high prices. China, on the other hand, which imports oil to feed its thirsty industrial machine, is hurt by high oil prices. Taking the reverse case (low oil prices), Norman spells out how, as the sun set on the U.S.S.R., the U.S. was working to keep oil prices low so it could presumably put the zap on Ivan’s wallet. The higher prices of 2008 and the immediate years before, by contrast, flooded Russia’s coffers with money, but may have also been a swipe at China. In a chapter on China titled From Ally to Adversary, Norman says: Well before Clinton left office, and with or without his involvement, the U.S. security establishment appears to have been moving toward a ’Plan B’ to deal head-on with the China threat. Norman then describes various geopolitical matters that seem to show that America is thwarting China’s efforts to improve its international oil access and development assets. Norman manages to pack most pages full of market data, company information, transaction figures, and other pertinent facts. His hands- on time as a reporter in the industry certainly pays off here. There’s not much, if any, slick summarization or distillation of this data, it’s presented in a constant stream of prices, facts, figures, names, and events. It’s up to you to connect the dots. The meatiest concept of Norman’s outlook is that the futures market in oil is subject to U.S. manipulation, and the modern epoch’s influx of pension funds, for example, gives the powers behind the curtain extra weight to throw around. Do I buy the idea that Uncle Sam can substantially set the price of oil in this manner? No, I don’t, not that I’m an expert in oil futures, but the case has not been proven to me. The book (published in 2008) did not predict the recent collapse in oil prices. By contrast, Norman accentuates a future where prices climb ever upward from $100/bbl to $120, $150 or even $200...the reason is economic warfare waged by the U.S against China. Well, that’s a far, far cry from today’s price of $42/bbl. Of course, prices might yet zoom back up; I have no idea what will happen. Still, wherever prices go, I give Norman (who has written for Forbes and Business Week) credit for laying his cards on the table, which is very rare in this era of generally gutless, mealy-mouthed economics writing. The Oil Card, also to its credit, pooh-poohs the Peak Oil hysteria, as do the couple of experts I’ve discussed the topic with. This is an interesting book with a lot of international intrigue, and, though I don’t connect the dots the same way as the author does, I learned a lot from reading it. If you're interested in China, as many Saipan residents are, the book has quite a few interesting economic observations. Also, the detailed, eight-page index does justice to the hundreds (probably thousands) of facts that the book presents; that’s a nice touch. Ed is a pilot, economist, and writer. He holds a degree in economics from UCLA and is a former U.S. naval officer. His column runs every Friday. Visit Ed at TropicalEd.com and SaipanBlog.com. = Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Conspiracy Theories
Begin forwarded message: From: Kris Millegan roads...@aol.com Date: January 22, 2009 9:25:29 AM PST To: c...@yahoogroups.com, CTRL ctrl c...@listserv.aol.com Subject: [ctrl] Conspiracy Theories Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com A few mistakes, but all in all not bad. Peace, K http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/springfieldextra/5641366-41/story.csp CONSPIRACY THEORIES CONSPIRACY THEORIES BY MARC DADIGAN For The Register-Guard Published: Jan 22, 2009 09:16AM Home: Springfield Extra: Story WALTERVILLE — It was the late ’60s, and like many teenagers at the time, Kris Millegan had let his hair grow long and was smoking a little weed. And like many fathers, Lloyd Millegan disapproved of his son’s drug use, although the way he justified that disapproval was hardly the norm. “I just remember one day we’re arguing, and I say that I smoke some pot,” Kris Millegan, 59, of Walterville recalled. “And he says, ‘Well, you’re just making money for them!’ ” Lloyd Millegan was a former CIA operative who had left the agency in 1959. He later moved the family to the Eugene area, where he worked as a middle school teacher. Mostly silent about his intelligence work through Millegan’s childhood, he began telling his son in his teen years that the Vietnam War was fueled by the drug trade and orchestrated by secret societies. Later, he told Millegan the government was conspiring “to opiate” the nation’s youth with marijuana to dull their wits. It was basically “them” — the powerful — against “us” — the unsuspecting masses. Millegan at first assumed it was just his father’s creative attempt to discourage his smoking habits. But something about the way he said “them” on this occasion just shook him. Such hatred. “The way he spit that out,” Millegan says. “I’ll just never forget it.” Thus was the seed planted for Millegan’s TrineDay publishing house, which to date has produced more than 20 books considered to fall under the conspiracy theory genre. (Millegan prefers the term “suppressed”). The lessons imparted by his father have led to an enterprise that, at its core, is a tireless search for the unvarnished truth. In Millegan’s eyes, this is a more difficult quest than most realize. In his world, there are sinister forces, secret societies and insidious collusions between government and the elite that constantly veil the truth from an unwitting populace. These shadowy figures’ only friend is the oligarchy they’re working to maintain — the enemy of social justice. Sitting recently in the trailer he uses as his office, Millegan is easily roused to outrage as he speaks about the clandestine conspiracies his books investigate. “It’s just amazing, the real history that’s out there and documentable,” he said. “And how it contradicts what we’ve been told.” The long hair he first grew as a teenager is now tied neatly in a ponytail. He sports a fuzzy moustache with just a hint of gray, and his frame is trim and wiry, like a coil ready to spring on the next purveyor of deception. “I think it’s a heartfelt endeavor,” says his wife of 20 years, Johanna. “It’s what he lives and breathes. It’s his passion.” But a winding path led Millegan to this passion. From those teenage conversations with his father, TrineDay wouldn’t bloom for another circuitous 30 years. During that time, Millegan said he started several businesses, wrote songs for a couple of rock bands, was ruined by a fire and even approached by mobsters looking to cut him in on some scams. After studying for two years at Portland State University, he opened his own music store, Long Hair Records, in 1968 in Portland. He even met Fred Meyer to discuss record pricing. “We were just a bunch of hippies,” he said. “We didn’t know anything about profit cycling.” Millegan was forced to sell the store two years later when the house he was renting burned down with all of his musical instruments, records and other belongings. “A fireman asked about how much I’d lost, and I figured it was about $15,000,” he said. “He took one look at us and wrote down $3,000.” Mired in penury for the next few years, Milligan worked odd jobs before getting in on the bottom floor of the prerecorded video business. He owned his own video store for a while on West 11th Avenue in Eugene, and he helped set up shop for others in the area. It was during his years in video that he says the mob approached him twice, in an effort to recruit him for some video piracy scams. Why did he turn them down? “You only tell the mob ‘yes’ once,” he says. TrineDay’s Web site welcomes visitors to its “little library of dangerous books,” a collection with such provocative titles as “Sinister Forces” and “How to Overthrow a Fascist Regime for $15 a Day.” Although he’s told constantly his offerings “aren’t real books,” some of the authors have worked in the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Obama Frees Bush Historical Records
Begin forwarded message: From: Consortiumnews.com consortiumn...@mail.democracyinaction.org Date: January 22, 2009 10:50:42 AM PST To: roads...@aol.com Subject: Obama Frees Bush Historical Records Reply-To: consortiumn...@mail.democracyinaction.org On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama revoked the Bush Family's authority to control documents relating to 20 years of American history, writes Robert Parry. For the full story, go to http://www.consortiumnews.com . In our year-end fundraiser, we raised a little more than half of our goal of $50,000. That will put tight constraints on the journalism we can do at this important juncture of American history. If you want to help us -- either with a one-time donation or with a monthly contribution -- you can do so either by credit card online or by mailing a check to: Consortium for Independent Journalism (CIJ); Suite 102-231; 2200 Wilson Blvd.; Arlington, VA 22201. (For readers wanting to use PayPal, you can address contributions to our account, which is named consort...@aol.com). Since CIJ is a 501-c-3 tax-exempt organization, your donations are tax- deductible. (You also can direct donations to us through your company's charitible-giving programs.) If you can't donate right now, please help by forwarding our e-mail alerts to friends who might be interested in what we do. As always, thanks for your support. To remove yourself from this list, click here: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/consortiumnews/unsubscribe.jsp?remove
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca mario.prof...@zg.htnet.hr Date: January 3, 2009 6:40:36 PM PST To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPY NEWS] More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying Reply-To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/03/AR2009010301993.html More Groups Than Thought Monitored in Police Spying New Documents Reveal Md. Program's Reach By Lisa Rein and Josh White Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, January 4, 2009; A01 The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers monitored -- and labeled as terrorists -- activists devoted to such wide-ranging causes as promoting human rights and establishing bike lanes. Intelligence officers created a voluminous file on Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, calling the group a security threat because of concerns that members would disrupt the circus. Angry consumers fighting a 72 percent electricity rate increase in 2006 were targeted. The DC Anti-War Network, which opposes the Iraq war, was designated a white supremacist group, without explanation. One of the possible crimes in the file police opened on Amnesty International, a world-renowned human rights group: civil rights. According to hundreds of pages of newly obtained police documents, the groups were swept into a broad surveillance operation that started in 2005 with routine preparations for the scheduled executions of two men on death row. The operation has been called a waste of resources by the current police superintendent and undemocratic by the governor. Police have acknowledged that the monitoring, which took place during the administration of then-Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), spiraled out of control, with an undercover trooper spending 14 months infiltrating peaceful protest groups. Troopers have said they inappropriately labeled 53 individuals as terrorists in their database, information that was shared with federal authorities. But the new documents reveal a far more expansive set of police targets and indicate that police did not close some files until late 2007. The surveillance ended with no arrests and no evidence of violent sedition. Instead, troopers are preparing to purge files and say they are expecting lawsuits. The effort, made public in July, confirmed the fears of civil liberties groups that have warned about domestic spying since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Interviews, e-mails, public records and an independent state review reveal that police in Maryland were motivated by something far narrower: a query about death penalty activism directed to a police antiterrorism unit that was searching for a mission. But some observers say Sept. 11 opened the door. No one was thinking this was al-Qaeda, said Stephen H. Sachs, a former U.S. attorney and state attorney general appointed by Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) to review the case. But 9/11 created an atmosphere where cutting corners was easier. Maryland has not been alone. The FBI and police departments in several cities, including Denver in 2002 and New York before the 2004 Republican National Convention, also responded to the threat of terrorism by spying on activists. Sachs's review, released in October, condemned the Maryland spying as a severe lapse in judgment. No one has been reprimanded or fired, and the undercover trooper has been promoted twice. To date, the activists listed as terrorists are not known to have experienced any related limits in their travel, employment or financial transactions. State police officials have provided only glimpses of their intelligence-gathering and have defended some of it as necessary to ensure public safety at potentially contentious protests. Although they have provided related documents to the American Civil Liberties Union and Maryland lawmakers, they have not given the same records to The Washington Post under the Public Information Act. The department declined to make the officers involved available to answer questions. Some sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the case's sensitivity. Ehrlich also has declined to comment; senior police officials say he was never briefed on the program. The newly discovered documents do, however, reveal for the first time the stated purpose of the operation: To assess the threat to public safety by various protest groups, and identify high threat groups for continued monitoring. * * * The documents and law enforcement sources say the operation began in 2005 with a simple request from Maj. Jack Simpson, a field commander in special operations. In late February, he called Lt. Greg Mazzella in the intelligence division and asked for a threat assessment of protests expected before the scheduled execution dates for two men on Maryland's death row. After trawling the Internet, an analyst reported a potential for disruption at both
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] It was horrible knowing I was being snooped on
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca mario.prof...@zg.htnet.hr Date: January 3, 2009 6:44:40 PM PST To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPY NEWS] It was horrible knowing I was being snooped on Reply-To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5437929.ece From The Sunday Times January 4, 2009 It was horrible knowing I was being snooped on Harriet Rudd I had been informed that Matt was testing spy kit for the newspaper (I'm used to him using me as a guinea pig for his job) but he didn't tell me when he intended to start the test, or about all the kit he was going to use. A week after he mentioned it, I was happily going about my private business, so I was rather taken aback when he telephoned to say he'd just been listening to one of my phone conversations . . . even though he was at work. It was a horrible sensation to know I'd been snooped on. Really weird. I kept on running the conversation through my mind, in spite of having nothing to hide. Even though it was just a test, it made me start to question the trust I assumed we had. Then came the car tracker and the horrible, horrible computer keystroke recorder. Even though I wasn't having an affair, it's terrifying how easy even a technologically incompetent fool like my dear husband managed to plug straight into my life. I started to rethink what I'd done that day and saw how easy it would be for perfectly innocent things to be misinterpreted. Such as if I'd written love at the end of an e-mail. Or had a brief, harmless whinge about husbands to a friend on the phone. Or snogged the TV repair man . . . You can see why people on Big Brother go so mad so quickly. Even though they know they're being spied on, it's a huge pressure. While Matt had his gadgets, I felt totally self-conscious . . . I started to behave as though I were being monitored. Not a nice feeling. If I ever do conduct an illicit relationship with a man called Geoff, which, despite this little saga, is unlikely, I now know not to do it by e-mail or phone or at home or by car. So we shall meet in the woods that are walking distance away on Sunday mornings when the kids are with Nana and Matt goes for his bike ride. There are ways of getting your own back on an overly inquisitive husband, of course. I did my own research in the wake of Massagegate and it turns out that you can employ a few quite simple counter-espionage measures. The internet offers bug detectors, machines that interfere with hidden voice recorders and mobile phones with inbuilt encryption. For £122, you can buy a small sweeper that alerts you to hidden bedroom cameras. And there's another little box that produces white noise to mask sweet nothings. Frankly, though, if things have got that bad, you're probably better off cutting your losses and running off with Geoff. Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-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:spynews-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] James Norman on Coast to Coast AM night of Jan 6
James Norman, author of The Oil Card and Fostergate will be on with George Noory the night of Jan6/7. Peace, Kris Millegan
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Royal Accounting
Begin forwarded message: From: William Gallagher luxefa...@gmail.com Date: December 27, 2008 5:29:55 PM PST To: luxefa...@gmail.com Subject: Royal Accounting Wow, between policies like this, and carbon credits, amerikkkas economy will be perfect under the black slave of israelb LABOUR MARKET: Millions of Africans could get the green light to head to Europe in search of jobs Saturday October 11,2008 By Nick Fagge in Mali MORE than 50 million African workers are to be invited to Europe in a far-reaching secretive migration deal, the Daily Express can reveal today. A controversial taxpayer-funded job centre opened in Mali this week is just the first step towards promoting free movement of people in Africa and the EU . Brussels economists claim Britain and other EU states will need 56 million immigrant workers between them by 2050 to make up for the demographic decline due to falling birth rates and rising death rates across‚Europe. The report, by the EU statistical agency Eurostat, warns that vast numbers of migrants could be needed to meet the shortfall in two years if Europe is to have a hope of funding the pension and health needs of its growing elderly population. It states: Countries with low fertility rates could require a significant number of immigrants over the coming dec ades if they want ‚to maintain the existing number of people of working age. Having sufficient people of working age is vital for the economy and for tax ‚revenue. The report, by French MEP Francoise Castex, calls for immigrants to be given legal rights and access to social welfare provision such ‚as benefits. Ms Castex said: It is urgent that member states have a is not a‚calm approach to immigration. To say ˜yes™, we need immigration ¦ it ‚new development, we must accept it. The proposals include the creation of a blue card system, based on the American green card, that provides full working and welfare rights. Blue card holders would be entitled to move freely across ‚the EU, setting up home in any of the 27 member states. Last night Sir Andrew Green, of Mig rationWatchUK said: Eng land, with Holland, is al ready the most crowded country in Europe. As it is, we have to build the equivalent of seven cities the size of Birmingham over 25 years for the ‚immigrants the Government already expects. Yet again the These would be‚˜one-size-fits-all™ policy of the EU produces absurd results. ‚ridiculous proposals if they were applied to the Britain. The Government must ensure that these work permits are not valid for the UK. Higher levels of immigration are the last thing we need with a ‚recession approaching. And Shadow Home Sec retary Dominic Grieve said: When ministers are talking tough about efforts to control immigration, they need to provide a clear explanation that national policy is not being undermined ‚through the backdoor in Brussels. The UK Indepen dence Party leader Nigel Farage attacked the move as an outrage . He said: The sooner Britain gets back control of immigration policy, the better. The proposals part of the Africa-EU Partnership signed in Portugal last December also warns of the negative effects of mass immigration and calls for better integration of African migrants . It calls too for a compassionate approach to the ‚eight million illegal immigrants already living in the EU. It states: Irregular migrants must not be treated like criminals. Many risk their lives seeking freedom or the means of subsistence in Europe. As long as the EU has a higher standard of living than those countries to its south and east, the temptation to come will exist especially if there are jobs to be had. The declaration calls on the EU to assist African governments to set up migration information centres to better manage labour mobility bet ween Africa and the EU . The first was the job centre opened in Bamako, capital of Other centres are expected to open soon in other west African‚Mali, on Monday. states and later in north Africa. Yesterday the Daily Express revealed that, in an apparent contradiction of immigration policy, thousands of migrants like Kanoute Tieny from Mali are being given up to £5,500 in grants by the EU to return home to Africa. French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to implement an EU-wide immigration plan by the end of the year when he stands down as head of the Council of the European Union. This body implements policy proposed by the European Commission and discussed by the European Parliament. French immigration minis ter Brice Hortefeux has represented all the 27 EU states, including Britain, in a succession of whirlwind tours through west Africa to help create a strategy. Last night the Home Office said the UK had nothing to do with this EU plan. A Border Agency spokesperson said the initiative is aimed at promoting legal migration routes in the Schengen area of the EU which the UK opted out of. The area includes most but not all member states.
[cia-drugs] Poor Iraqi security helps drug smugglers - 22 Dec 08
Poor Iraqi security helps drug smugglers - 22 Dec 08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIcuI9SQcgw
[cia-drugs] Prescription Drug Abuse Rises Among Iraqi Troops
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/world/middleeast/21drugs.html?_r=1em Prescription Drug Abuse Rises Among Iraqi Troops Max Becherer/Polaris, for The New York Times Mustafah Saleh went to a doctor’s office in Baghdad for Artane. He said he became addicted after being prescribed the drug to combat the side effects of schizophrenia medicine. Article Tools Sponsored By By MUDHAFER AL-HUSAINI and ERICA GOODE Published: December 20, 2008 BAGHDAD — For an Iraqi Army soldier patrolling Baghdad’s unpredictable streets, each 12-hour shift is an exercise in terror and uncertainty. Skip to next paragraph Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage » Baghdad Bureau A blog looking at daily life inside Iraq, produced by The Times’s Baghdad bureau. Go to the Blog » So Ahmed Qasim pops a small white tablet called Artane to help him through his duties. “For me, it helps me to get the job done,” he said. “I can’t bear working without taking Artane. It makes me happy and high, but I still can control myself.” The abuse of prescription drugs, widely available in Iraq on the black market and through private pharmacies, has significantly increased since 2003, doctors and other health specialists say, nourished by the stresses of the war and the lack of strict government regulation. Dealers do a brisk business in tranquilizers, painkillers and other drugs, specialists say, and drug abuse is a problem in the prisons and among Iraqis who live in poor neighborhoods or who are unemployed. But in recent years, Iraqi soldiers and police officers have also turned to drugs to ease the stresses of their jobs. In particular, they are abusing Artane, a medication that is used to treat Parkinson’s disease and that can have euphoric effects when used in high doses. “They believe that this Artane allows them to become courageous, to become brave,” said one doctor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. about the issue. “They take it so that there is no anxiety, no fear,” he said, “so they can break down doors and enter houses with no shame.” No clear evidence exists that the misuse of prescription drugs has a significant effect on how soldiers and police officers perform their duties. Nor are any figures available on how widespread drug abuse is in the security forces or whether most of those who use the drugs do so daily. But Mr. Qasim, 26, estimated that one out of three soldiers in his army unit take Artane or other drugs while on duty. Jalal Ammar, 45, an Iraqi police officer, said “probably 30 percent” of the police officers he worked with used Artane and other medications. Dr. Amir al- Haidari, the manager of drug addiction programs for the Ministry of Health of Iraq, said that alcohol abuse was once a bigger problem than prescription drug abuse, “but after the American invasion of Iraq, alcohol became limited because of the security situation and religious restraints.” Now, he said, “the long duties, the suicide attacks and the killing are all factors that drive the security forces members toward Artane and other drugs.” Dr. Haidari added that the Health Ministry had begun a campaign to close private pharmacies that sell drugs illegally and to place more restrictions on prescriptions. He said the problem was no worse in the security forces than among civilians. The ministry, Dr. Haidari said, is also trying to open more treatment centers for addicts. Only one hospital in Iraq, Ibn Rushid psychiatric hospital in central Baghdad, has a ward devoted to treating alcohol and drug abuse. Gen. Ahmed al-Khafaji, an official at the Interior Ministry concerned with police affairs, denied that drug abuse was a significant issue among Iraqi police officers. “We don’t accept any kind of addiction within the security forces or our troops from the police,” he said, adding that any police officer who was found to abuse drugs “will be dismissed from our ministry forever.” Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta of the Iraqi military said that the soldiers in Baghdad “have very good mental health and high spirits.” Asked about the abuse of prescription drugs, he said, “Maybe there are some negative points here and there, but you cannot generalize based on such cases.” On the street, Artane, Valium and other drugs are known by nicknames, including “the capsule,” “the eyebrow” and “the cross.” Mr. Ammar said that when police officers talked among themselves about the drugs, they referred to them as “appetizers” or “takeout.” Drug use is forbidden in the Iraqi security forces, but Mr. Qasim said that soldiers took drugs discreetly and that “everyone in the army knows about it.” Still, he said, “you can’t take them clearly in front of the officers.” Qais, the owner of a private drugstore who would give only his first name because his activities are illegal, says that he sells Artane and other
[cia-drugs] Camels crucial to Iraqi drugs trafficking - 23 Dec 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Fv6qsitjM
[cia-drugs] Fwd: THE SANTA CLAUSE = is it in the constitution?
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands astrol...@earthlink.net Date: December 20, 2008 5:40:21 PM PST To: anita astrol...@earthlink.net Subject: THE SANTA CLAUSE = is it in the constitution? THE GOVERNMENT GAVE THE PEOPLE'S MONEY TO THESE GUYS, ALL OF WHOM RAN THEIR BIZ INTO THE GROUND, STEALING FROM IT. WHEN THERE IS NO FOOD ON YOUR CHILDREN'S PLATE, TRY KNOCKING ON ONE OF THESE DOORS! Wells Fargo Company San Francisco CA $25,000,000,000 JPMorgan Chase Co. New York NY $25,000,000,000 Citigroup Inc. New York NY $25,000,000,000 Bank of America Corporation Charlotte NC $15,000,000,000 The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. New York NY $10,000,000,000 Morgan Stanley New York NY $10,000,000,000 Merrill Lynch Co., Inc. New York NY $10,000,000,000 U.S. Bancorp Minneapolis MN $6,599,000,000 Capital One Financial Corporation McLean VA $3,555,199,000 SunTrust Banks, Inc. Atlanta GA $3,500,000,000 Regions Financial Corp. Birmingham AL $3,500,000,000 BBT Corp. Winston-Salem NC $3,133,640,000 Bank of New York Mellon Corporation New York NY $3,000,000,000 KeyCorp Cleveland OH $2,500,000,000 Comerica Inc. Dallas TX $2,250,000,000 State Street Corporation Boston MA $2,000,000,000 Marshall Ilsley Corporation Milwaukee WI $1,715,000,000 Northern Trust Corporation Chicago IL $1,576,000,000 Zions Bancorporation Salt Lake City UT $1,400,000,000 Huntington Bancshares Columbus OH $1,398,071,000 Popular, Inc. San Juan PR $935,000,000 First Horizon National Corporation Memphis TN $866,540,000 Associated Banc-Corp Green Bay WI $525,000,000 Webster Financial Corporation Waterbury CT $400,000,000 City National Corporation Beverly Hills CA $400,000,000 TCF Financial Corporation Wayzata MN $361,172,000 South Financial Group, Inc. Greenville SC $347,000,000 Wilmington Trust Corporation Wilmington DE $330,000,000 East West Bancorp Pasadena CA $306,546,000 Sterling Financial Corporation Spokane WA $303,000,000 Valley National Bancorp Wayne NJ $300,000,000 Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc Lititz PA $300,000,000 Citizens Republic Bancorp, Inc. Flint MI $300,000,000 UCBH Holdings, Inc. San Francisco CA $298,737,000 Cathay General Bancorp Los Angeles CA $258,000,000 SVB Financial Group Santa Clara CA $235,000,000 Trustmark Corporation Jackson MS $215,000,000 Umpqua Holdings Corp. Portland OR $214,181,000 Washington Federal Inc. Seattle WA $200,000,000 MB Financial Inc. Chicago IL $196,000,000 First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. Itasca IL $193,000,000 First Niagara Financial Group Lockport NY $184,011,000 Pacific Capital Bancorp Santa Barbara CA $180,634,000 United Community Banks, Inc. Blairsville GA $180,000,000 Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc. Boston MA $154,000,000 Provident Bancshares Corp. Baltimore MD $151,500,000 National Penn Bancshares, Inc. Boyertown PA $150,000,000 Western Alliance Bancorporation Las Vegas NV $140,000,000 CVB Financial Corp Ontario CA $130,000,000 Sterling Bancshares, Inc. Houston TX $125,198,000 Banner Corporation Walla Walla WA $124,000,000 Signature Bank New York NY $120,000,000 Taylor Capital Group Rosemont IL $104,823,000 Old National Bancorp Evansville IN $100,000,000 Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc. Nashville TN $95,000,000 Iberiabank Corporation Lafayette LA $90,000,000 Midwest Banc Holdings, Inc. Melrose Park IL $84,784,000 Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc. Olney MD $83,094,000 Columbia Banking System, Inc. Tacoma WA $76,898,000 TowneBank Portsmouth VA $76,458,000 Wesbanco Bank Inc. Wheeling WV $75,000,000 Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. Little Rock AR $75,000,000 Independent Bank Corporation Ionia MI $72,000,000 Virginia Commerce Bancorp Arlington VA $71,000,000 Southwest Bancorp, Inc. Stillwater OK $70,000,000 Superior Bancorp Inc. Birmingham AL $69,000,000 Nara Bancorp, Inc. Los Angeles CA $67,000,000 First Financial Holdings Inc. Charleston SC $65,000,000 Wilshire Bancorp, Inc. Los Angeles CA $62,158,000 Great Southern Bancorp Springfield MO $58,000,000 Center Financial Corporation Los Angeles CA $55,000,000 NewBridge Bancorp Greensboro NC $52,372,000 Ameris Bancorp Moultrie GA $52,000,000 The Bancorp, Inc. Wilmington DE $45,220,000 Southern Community Financial Corp. Winston-Salem NC $42,750,000 First Community Bankshares Inc. Bluefield VA $41,500,000 Capital Bank Corporation Raliegh NC $41,279,000 Heritage Commerce Corp. San Jose CA $40,000,000 Cascade Financial Corporation Everett WA $38,970,000 Eagle Bancorp, Inc. Bethesda MD $38,235,000 TIB Financial Corp Naples FL $37,000,000 First Defiance Financial Corp. Defiance OH $37,000,000 State Bancorp, Inc. Jericho NY $36,842,000 Porter Bancorp Inc. Louisville KY $35,000,000 Encore Bancshares Inc. Houston TX $34,000,000 Bank of North Carolina Thomasville NC $31,260,000 Bank of Marin Bancorp Novato CA $28,000,000 Centerstate Banks of Florida Inc. Davenport FL $27,875,000 LNB Bancorp Inc. Lorain OH $25,223,000 HF Financial Corp. Sioux Falls SD $25,000,000 Heritage Financial Corporation Olympia WA $24,000,000 Severn Bancorp, Inc. Annapolis MD $23,393,000 Blue
[cia-drugs] Fwd: madoff ponzi hits so called survivors
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands astrol...@earthlink.net Date: December 17, 2008 1:17:14 AM PST To: anita astrol...@earthlink.net Subject: madoff ponzi hits so called survivors Madoff fraud could burn early pullouts BOSTON (Reuters) - Disgraced money manager Bernard Madoff's suspected $50 billion (33 billion pound) fraud scheme looks set to burn even those who pulled their investments out long before the scandal rippled into the global financial system. Such investors may have counted themselves fortunate, withdrawing their money years ago to buy a house or to pay for a daughter's education, and may have even sighed with relief because they ended ties with Madoff long before the scandal erupted late last week. But they, too, could face trouble, lawyers say. Because of a legal concept known as fraudulent conveyance, they could be forced to return their profits and even some of their initial investments to help offset losses incurred by others entangled in the long-running Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an illegal investment vehicle that pays off old investors with money from new ones, and relies on a constant stream of new investment. Such schemes eventually collapse under their own weight. There were no profits. It was just other people's money, said Brad Alford, who runs investment adviser Alpha Capital Management LLC in Atlanta. Alford is well versed in fraudulent conveyance after one of his clients withdrew money from a $450 million scheme by Connecticut hedge-fund company Bayou Group LLC a year before it collapsed in scandal. We ended up settling with the estate, giving back all the profits and half of our principal. Bankruptcy-receivership practices make all investors vulnerable, he added. Once they can go into bankruptcy they can go back six years. Anything past your principal, I'm guessing, is fair game to be brought back in. Philip Bentley, a lawyer at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis Frankel LLP, who defended investors sued in 2006 by lawyers representing the Bayou estate, said he expected the court-appointed trustee now in control of Madoff's U.S. operations to look hard at who withdrew money from Madoff. The trustee is going to look very closely at redemptions and seriously consider bringing suits just because the trustee's job is to bring in assets any way he can, Bentley said. Potentially the numbers are enormous. 'STAGGERING' LAWSUITS But the judge could decide to limit how many years back the estate can demand investors return their money, said Jay Gould, a former investment-management attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission who heads the hedge-fund practice at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw and Pittman LLP. In this case, because of the magnitude of the losses and the scope of the great number of people who were defrauded, this could be a situation where people say 'you know we are just going to draw the line here at six months or at one year or at this,' he said. But that's not certain. You really are working with people who have obligations, he said. The receiver has an obligation under the law to pursue all the assets wherever they happen to be within the bounds of the law. The law could shock investors who innocently entrusted their money with Madoff, a 70-year-old Wall Street legend, long before he was accused of defrauding banks, charities and rich individuals whose assets he managed at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, which he launched in 1960. I'm sure it will be a surprise to those who had no idea about his position but wanted to buy a house, and took the money out, said Tamar Frankel, who teaches securities law, corporate governance and legal ethics at Boston University. Alford said he expects several types of lawsuits, including one focused on fraudulent conveyance and another against so-called feeder funds, or hedge funds set up by outside investment advisory firms that marketed Madoff's investments to high net-worth individuals and pension funds. And he expects a third group of lawsuits to focus on litigation against advisers for entrusting 50 to 100 percent of their money with one manager. He said this could defy the prudent man rule that enjoins money managers to handle investors' money as they would their own. I think the lawsuits are going to be staggering. This is going to go on for years and years, he said. (Reporting by Jason Szep; Editing by Gary
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Zombie Spooks Ravage Pakistan
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca mario.prof...@zg.htnet.hr Date: December 16, 2008 3:20:34 AM PST To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [SPY NEWS] Zombie Spooks Ravage Pakistan Reply-To: spyn...@yahoogroups.com http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20081215.aspx Zombie Spooks Ravage Pakistan December 15, 2008: The newly elected civilian government in Pakistan is trying to dismantle the pro-Islamic radical elements in the ISI (a combination of military intelligence and CIA). It's not certain that this effort will work, even though it began several months ago, not in the wake of the recent Mumbai attack. Last July, the U.S. accused the Pakistani ISI (Inter Service Intelligence agency) of being directly involved in a recent terror bombing of the Indian embassy in Afghanistan. The accusation not only involved CIA representatives going to Pakistan to present intelligence information directly to Pakistani leaders, but also leaking the event to the media. This was one of many instances where ISI has supported Islamic terrorists, and this time Pakistan reacted by saying they would root out Taliban spies in the ISI. The problem is that these Islamic radicals have been operating openly in the ISI for three decades, and were put there by the government in the late 1970s, when it was decided that Islamic conservatism was the solution for Pakistan's problems (corruption and religious/ethnic conflicts.) These guys are not just Taliban spies, but Pakistani intelligence professionals that believe in Islamic radicalism. The ISI itself was created in 1948 as a reaction to the inability of the IB (Intelligence Bureau, which collected intelligence on foreign countries in general) and MI (Military Intelligence, which collected intel on military matters) to work together and provide useful information. The ISI was supposed to take intel from IB and MI, analyze it and present it to senior government officials. But in the 1950s, the government began to use the ISI to collect intel on Pakistanis, especially those suspected of opposing the current government. This backfired eventually, and in the 1970s, the ISI was much reduced by a civilian government. But when another coup took place in 1977, and the new military government decided that religion was the cure for what ailed the country. Typically, the Pakistani generals seized control of the government every decade or so, when the corruption and incompetence of elected officials becomes too much for the military men to tolerate. The generals never did much better, and eventually there were elections, and the cycle continued. The latest iteration began in 1999, when the army took over, and was only voted out of power last year. Civilian governments tend to be hostile to the ISI, and apparently they are going to make a real effort to clear out many of the Islamic radicals in the ISI this time around. Then again, recent attempts by the government to take control of the ISI backfired when the generals said they would not allow it. Nothing is simple in Pakistan. The ISI grew particularly strong during the 1980s, when billions of dollars, most of it in the form of military and economic aid, arrived from the oil-rich Arab governments of the Persian Gulf. All this was to support the Afghans who were resisting a Russian invasion (in support of Afghan communists who had taken control of the government, and triggered a revolt of the tribes). The Afghan communists were atheists, and this greatly offended Saudi Arabia, and other Arab countries, who feared that Russia would encourage Arab communists to rebel elsewhere. So the resistance to the Russians in Afghanistan was declared a holy war which, after a fashion, it was. After about nine years of fighting the tribes, the Russians got tired of their slow progress (and more pressing problems back home, like the collapse of their economy from decades of communist mismanagement) and went home. The Russians were gone by 1989 (and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later), but the Afghans promptly fell upon each other and the civil war seemed never-ending. This upset Pakistan, which wanted to send millions of Afghan refugees back home. Few of the refugees were interested, as long as Afghans were still fighting each other. So the ISI created its own faction, the Taliban, by recruiting teachers and students from a network of religious schools that had been established (with the help of Saudi Arabian religious charities) in the 1980s. The most eager recruits were young Afghans from the refugee camps. The Taliban were fanatical, and most Afghans were willing to support them because they brought peace and justice. But the Taliban never conquered all of Afghanistan, especially in the north, where there were few Pushtun tribes (most Taliban were Pushtuns, from tribes in southern Afghanistan). The Pushtuns were about 40 percent of the population, and had always been the most prominent faction in Afghanistan (the king of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Madoff scandal
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe fratl...@gra.midco.net Date: December 16, 2008 6:56:28 AM PST To: c...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ctrl] The Madoff scandal Reply-To: c...@yahoogroups.com http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/dec2008/pers-d16.shtml World Socialist Web Site wsws.org The Madoff scandal 16 December 2008 The repercussions from the collapse of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, whose founder and owner was arrested last Thursday after admitting that his $17 billion investment advisory business was a giant Ponzi scheme, continue to widen. According to a criminal complaint filed by the FBI and a civil action brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the elderly Madoff estimated that the losses from his fraud exceeded $50 billion. The tally of losses already reported by banks, hedge funds and wealthy investors climbed over the weekend to nearly $20 billion. Banks and hedge funds around the world-in the US, Britain, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland and Japan-are reporting hundreds of millions and even billions in losses. University endowments, charities and other institutions that entrusted their money to Madoff or to hedge funds that invested in Madoff's company are reeling from the news that their investments are worthless. Prominent and wealthy individuals-including J. Ezra Merkin, the chairman of GMAC, Fred Wilpon, the principal owner of the New York Mets, Norman Braman, the former owner of the Philadelphia Eagles professional football team, Frank Lautenberg, the multimillionaire Democratic senator from New Jersey, and Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner of the New York Daily News-are among those who have lost millions. Among the thousands and even tens of thousands of individuals likely to be affected is no small number of retirees of relatively modest means whose life savings were tied into Madoff's operation. The fallout from the Madoff scandal will inevitably result in the failure of other investment firms, impacting thousands more individuals and hundreds more businesses. Madoff's scam could not have been carried out without the complicity of the highest echelons of the financial elite and the government. US officials now allege that Madoff was engaged in a Ponzi scheme- using new revenues from investors to meet payments due to existing investors-at least since 2005. As of yet, no one really knows how long Madoff, a former chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market and current member of the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers, was paying his old clients with money obtained from new ones. The scheme collapsed after clients requested some $7 billion in redemptions. As the New York Times reported Saturday, There is fragmentary evidence that Mr. Madoff's alleged scam may have lasted for years or even decades... It is not even clear whether Mr. Madoff actually made any of the trades he reported to investors. One thing is clear, Madoff, known as a Wall Street legend, was a man with many connections in high places. Since 2000, he has given at least $100,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and more than $23,000 to the party's candidates, including Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the chairman of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and Senator Lautenberg. His legal defense team includes Mark Mukasey, the son of the current attorney general. There were ample signs that Madoff's operation was fraudulent. He made his reputation and his millions by delivering solid returns of 1 or 2 percent a month to his investors month in and month out from the day he launched his investment advisory business as an adjunct to his brokerage firm. Wealthy investors and hedge fund operators marveled as Madoff worked his magic in bull markets and bear markets alike, regardless of the gyrations on the stock market. But there were also those who realized that such consistent returns could not be achieved through legal means. They looked at Madoff's amazing record, the secretive nature of his investment funds and the fact that his auditing firm was an obscure one-room operation based in New City, New York, and concluded that Madoff was working a scam. One executive in the securities industry, beginning in 1999, repeatedly urged the SEC to investigate Madoff. Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme, he wrote in one letter to the SEC. Other investment firms steered their clients away from Madoff. The SEC, which had investigated and cleared Madoff in 1992, refused to intervene. On the contrary, he was appointed to a committee of academics, regulators and executives formed in 2000 by former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to advise the agency on new stock market rules in response to the growth of electronic trading. The role of the SEC epitomizes the transformation of government regulatory agencies into the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Bush reported to be drinking heavily
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 6, 2008 10:42:47 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Bush reported to be drinking heavily Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.prisonplanet.com/bush-reported-to-be-drinking-heavily.html/print/ Bush reported to be drinking heavily admin Prison Planet December 5, 2008 Wayne Madsen [1] Online Journal Friday, Dec 05, 2008 With less than two months remaining in office, George W. Bush, witnessing a devastating defeat for the Republican Party, worse favorability ratings than those of Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, and the most devastating economic situation since the Great Depression, is reported by a number of well-placed sources in Washington as drinking heavily. After having tried to explain away the collapse of several Wall Street brokerage houses by saying, Wall Street got drunk, it appears that it is Bush who is suffering from bouts of drunkenness. According to informed sources who spoke to WMR, Bush was visibly drunk at the recent G-20 economic summit in Washington and at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima, Peru. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Chinese President Hu Jintao, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper were among the world leaders who had the chance to witness an inebriated Bush both at the G-20 and APEC summits. WMR has long reported on Bush´s heavy drinking. On July 31, 2007, WMR reported: WMR has learned that the January 13, 2002, incident in which President Bush claimed to have choked on a pretzel and passed out briefly was a cover story designed to divert the media´s attention away from Bush´s heavy drinking. A well-placed White House source has confirmed a previous account of another well- connected White House source that Bush had been drinking while watching a Sunday NFL playoff game between Baltimore and Miami. (ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW) The White House nurse on duty examined Bush after he passed out from drinking at around 5:35 pm and took a blood sample ostensibly to check his blood sugar levels. The blood sample reportedly showed Bush´s blood alcohol content at a level considered to be legal intoxication. Bush fell from his couch bruising his cheek and cutting his lip. His eyeglasses also cut the side of his face. Bush blamed the incident on his failure to heed his mother´s advice and chew all his food before he swallowed. On June 6, 2005, WMR reported: A well-heeled Republican donor to the Republican Party was very frank about George W. Bush´s mental and physical condition. Attending a May 17 Republican National Committee $1500 a ticket fundraiser at Washington´s Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Bush supporter commented that he and others in attendance were talking the entire evening about Bush´s strange appearance. The donor and GOP supporter said that Bush `looked like he was on crystal meth,´ a reference to the illegal drug crystal methamphetamine, a hallucinogenic stimulant. On September 22, 2005, WMR reported: The White House press corps has been whispering about Bush´s drinking over the past few years. None dare write or speak about it lest their credentials are lifted and further access cut off by the most vindictive White House in American history. On March 13, 2007, WMR reported: Our White House Press Corps sources report further disturbing news about President George W. Bush. Our sources have witnessed a clearly inebriated Bush approaching members of the press corps and making rude comments, including one particularly crude remark about First Lady Laura Bush. In that case, Bush, nodding toward Laura, called her a `c**t.´ While Bush´s drinking is no secret to the White House press contingent, that particular comment was reportedly the worst they have heard uttered by Bush. Our sources also report that Laura Bush´s stays at the White House are less frequent and that her overnight trips to the Mayflower Hotel often coincide with the president´s drunken binges. Click here to print. Copyright © 2008 PrisonPlanet.com. All rights reserved. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion
[cia-drugs] Fwd: SPITZER SHOULD KNOW...his article against bailouts
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 5, 2008 1:34:58 AM PST To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SPITZER SHOULD KNOW...his article against bailouts THIS IS THE MESSAGE THAT WAS INTERRUPTED BY HIS BUST. THEY BUSTED him to STOP HIM. RARELY do we ever get a politico who picks up the pieces. Too Big Not To Fail We need to stop using the bailouts to rebuild gigantic financial institutions. By Eliot Spitzer Posted Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, at 5:59 PM ET Last month, as the financial crisis and the government rescue plan dominated headlines, almost everyone overlooked a news item that could have enormous long-term impact: GE Capital announced the acquisition of five mid-size airplanes—with an option to buy 20 more—produced by CACC, a new, Chinese-government-sponsored airline manufacturer. Why is that so significant? Two reasons: First, just as small steps signaled the Asian entry into our now essentially bankrupt auto sector 50 years ago, so the GE acquisition signals Asia's entry into one of our few remaining dominant manufacturing sectors. Boeing is still the world's leading commercial aviation company. CACC's emergence—and its particular advantage selling to Asian markets—means that Boeing now faces the rigors of an entirely new competitive playing field and that our commercial airplane sector is likely to suffer enormously over the coming decades. But the second implication is even bigger. The CACC story highlights the risk that current bailouts—a remarkable $7.8 trillion in equity, loans, and guarantees so far—may merely perpetuate a fundamentally flawed status quo. So far, at least, we are simply rebuilding the same edifice that just collapsed. None of the investments has even begun to address the underlying structural problems that are causing economic power to shift away from the United States, sector by sector: * Our trade deficit has ballooned from about $100 billion to more than $700 billion annually in the past decade, and our federal deficit now approaches $1 trillion. These twin deficits leave us at the mercy of foreign-capital inflows that may diminish as Asian nations, in particular, invest increasingly at home. * Our household savings rate has been close to zero—and even negative in some years—not permitting the long-term capital accumulation required for the investments we need; China's savings rate, by comparison, is an astonishing 30 percent of household income. * U.S. middle class income has stagnated over the past decade, while the middle class in China—granted, starting from a lower base—has seen its income growing at about 10 percent annually. * Our intellectual advantage could soon turn into a new third deficit, as hundreds of thousands of engineers are being created annually in China. * We are realizing that the service sector—all the lawyers, investment bankers, advertising agencies, and accountants—follows its clients and wealth creation. This, not over-regulation, is the reason investment-banking activity has begun to migrate overseas. The great irony is that our new place in the global economy is a direct consequence of our grand victory over the past 60 years. We have, indeed, converted virtually the entire world into one integrated capitalist economy, and we must now bear the brunt of serious and vigorous competition. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States was essentially the only nation with financial capital, intellectual capital, skilled labor, a growing middle class generating consumer demand, and a rule of law permitting safe investment. Now we are one of many nations with these critical advantages. This long-term change frames the question we should be asking ourselves: What are we getting for the trillions of dollars in rescue funds? If we are merely extending a fatally flawed status quo, we should invest those dollars elsewhere. Nobody disputes that radical action was needed to forestall total collapse. But we are creating the significant systemic risk not just of rewarding imprudent behavior by private actors but of preventing, through bailouts and subsidies, the process of creative destruction that capitalism depends on. A more sensible approach would focus not just on rescuing pre-existing financial institutions but, instead, on creating a structure for more contained and competitive ones. For years, we have accepted a theory of financial concentration—not only across all lines of previously differentiated sectors (insurance, commercial banking, investment banking, retail brokerage, etc.) but in terms of sheer size. The theory was that capital depth would permit the various entities, dubbed financial supermarkets, to compete and provide full service to customers while cross-marketing various products. That model has failed. The failure shows in gargantuan losses, bloated overhead, enormous inefficiencies, dramatic and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Iceland Riots Precursor To U.S. Civil Unrest?
Begin forwarded message: From: GeorgiaAnn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 25, 2008 9:29:57 AM PST To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: [ctrl] Iceland Riots Precursor To U.S. Civil Unrest? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iceland Riots Precursor To U.S. Civil Unrest? Demonstrators call for government to resign in wake of financial collapse Paul Joseph Watson, November 25, 2008 Riots and protests in Reykjavik calling for the government of Iceland to resign have increased following a financial catastrophe that has wiped out half of the krona’s value and put one third of the population at risk of losing their homes and life savings. Could similar scenes of civil unrest be repeated in the United States as the economy continues to implode? “It was the latest in a series of protests in the capital since October’s banking collapse crippled the island’s economy. At least five people were injured and Hordur Torfason, a well-known singer in Iceland and the main organiser of the protests, said the protests would continue until the government stepped down,” reports the Scotsman. As crowds gathered in the drizzle before the Althing, the Icelandic parliament, on Saturday, Mr Torfason said: “They don’t have our trust and they are no longer legitimate.” Hundreds more gathered in front of a local police station, pelting eggs at the windows, using a bettering ram to force the doors open and demanding the release of a protester. A banner hung from a government building read “Iceland for Sale: $2,100,000,000,” the amount of the loan the country will receive from the IMF. Gudrun Jonsdottir, a 36-year-old office worker, said: “I’ve just had enough of this whole thing. I don’t trust the government, I don’t trust the banks, I don’t trust the political parties, and I don’t trust the IMF. “We had a good country and they ruined it.” These aren’t the actions of unwieldy mobs in third world countries, we’re talking about a country that had one of the highest living standards in Europe and a relatively wealthy and sedate population, the vast majority of whom are now in revolt over mass redundancies and the fast disappearing values of their paychecks and savings. More peaceful protests against the Federal Reserve during the End the Fed events over the weekend were largely ignored by the U.S. corporate media, but the potential for wider chaos exists should the dollar finally cave in to the hyperinflationary bubble that is being created by the ceaseless printing of money to fund the multi-trillion dollar bailout. Those who continue to assert, “It can’t happen here,” only need to look at the scenes in Reykjavik to realize that similar events could unfold across the U.S., where the reaction of militarized riot cops and even the military itself may be a little more heavy handed to say the least. With top Russian analysts predicting the breakup of the U.S. into different parts, allied with people like deadly accurate trends forecaster Gerald Celente warning of food riots and tax rebellions, the scenes in Reykjavik may be amplified in the U.S. should a significant portion of the public wake up to the monumental fraud of the bailout and begin to feel the impact of its consequences as we enter 2009. WATCH VIDEO Do you know what Sharia (Islamic) Law is? Obama does...Change one step at a time? *Islamic Law, known as Shariah: primary source of persecution for Christians in Muslim States *American Thinker: Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies - in each of the lengthy supporting article (or articles), a Biblical view on these infractions of moral law (or sometimes civil law or personal injuries) is presented. One of the reasons we all sense that these Islamic punishments are harsh and excessive is that Christianity has also filled the globe. Revelation 17:17: For God has put it into their hearts [final 10 kings of verse 13] to carry out His own purpose by acting in harmony in surrendering their royal power and authority to the beast ... [Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible Commentary] JOIN! SOLDIERS4JESUStalk DISCUSSION GROUP [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you haven't yet checked us out, you could be missing some good info JOIN! SOLDIERS4JESUS2 News Updates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Antichrist will soon be making an appearance. Keep up with the most recent updates that are leading to his arrival on the scene. Posted Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri's Private members who wish to unsub may contact me [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo members may mail in at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] US drones seen flying over Bannu and Waziristan
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 22, 2008 4:33:27 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] US drones seen flying over Bannu and Waziristan Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp? page=2008\11\22\story_22-11-2008_pg7_10 Saturday, November 22, 2008 US drones seen flying over Bannu and Waziristan LAHORE: Suspected US drones violated Pakistani airspace on Friday, as they were reportedly seen flying over various areas of North and South Waziristan agencies, a private TV channel reported. According to the channel, the US spy planes made low flights over Razmak, Makain and Ladha areas of the two tribal agencies. However, they returned to Afghanistan after tribesmen fired at them. According to another TV channel, US drones also made flights over Bannu Frontier Region, creating panic among the locals. daily times monitor -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 22, 2008 4:22:53 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456384,00.html Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots Friday, November 21, 2008 AP Nov. 21: This photo taken from computer animation video shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles. DAYTON, Ohio — If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons? That kind of James Bond-style fantasy is actually on the drawing board. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives. The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm, said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. If we know there's a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think this would fill that void. In essence, the research seeks to miniaturize the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan for surveillance and reconnaissance. The next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs, could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. By identifying and assaulting adversaries more precisely, the robots would also help reduce or avoid civilian casualties, the military says. Parker and his colleagues plan to start by developing a bird-sized robot as soon as 2015, followed by the insect-sized models by 2030. The vehicles could be useful on battlefields where the biggest challenge is collecting reliable intelligence about enemies. If we could get inside the buildings and inside the rooms where their activities are unfolding, we would be able to get the kind of intelligence we need to shut them down, said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va. Philip Coyle, senior adviser with the Center for Defense Information in Washington D.C., said a major hurdle would be enabling the vehicles to carry the weight of cameras and microphones. If you make the robot so small that it's like a bumblebee and then you ask the bumblebee to carry a video camera and everything else, it may not be able to get off the ground, Coyle said. Parker envisions the bird-sized vehicles as being able to spy on adversaries by flying into cities and perching on building ledges or power lines. The vehicles would have flappable wings as a disguise but use a separate propulsion system to fly. We think the flapping is more so people don't notice it, he said. They think it's a bird. Unlike the bird-sized vehicles, the insect-sized ones would actually use flappable wings to fly, Parker said. He said engineers want to build a vehicle with a 1-inch wingspan, possibly made of an elastic material. The vehicle would have sensors to help avoid slamming into buildings or other objects. Existing airborne robots are flown by a ground-based pilot, but the smaller versions would fly independently, relying on preprogrammed instructions. Parker said the tiny vehicles should also be able to withstand bumps. If you look at insects, they can bounce off of walls and keep flying, he said. You can't do that with a big airplane, but I don't see any reason we can't do that with a small one. An Air Force video describing the vehicles said they could possibly carry chemicals or explosives for use in attacks. Once prototypes are developed, they will be flight-tested in a new building at Wright-Patterson dubbed the micro aviary forMicro Air Vehicle Integration Application Research Institute. This type of technology is really the wave of the future, Thompson said. More and more military research is going into things that are small, that are precise and that are extremely focused on particular types of missions or activities.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 22, 2008 4:22:53 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456384,00.html Bug-Sized Spies: U.S. Develops Tiny Flying Robots Friday, November 21, 2008 AP Nov. 21: This photo taken from computer animation video shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles. DAYTON, Ohio — If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons? That kind of James Bond-style fantasy is actually on the drawing board. U.S. military engineers are trying to design flying robots disguised as insects that could one day spy on enemies and conduct dangerous missions without risking lives. The way we envision it is, there would be a bunch of these sent out in a swarm, said Greg Parker, who helps lead the research project at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton. If we know there's a possibility of bad guys in a certain building, how do we find out? We think this would fill that void. In essence, the research seeks to miniaturize the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle drones used in Iraq and Afghanistan for surveillance and reconnaissance. The next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs, could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. By identifying and assaulting adversaries more precisely, the robots would also help reduce or avoid civilian casualties, the military says. Parker and his colleagues plan to start by developing a bird-sized robot as soon as 2015, followed by the insect-sized models by 2030. The vehicles could be useful on battlefields where the biggest challenge is collecting reliable intelligence about enemies. If we could get inside the buildings and inside the rooms where their activities are unfolding, we would be able to get the kind of intelligence we need to shut them down, said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the Lexington Institute in Arlington, Va. Philip Coyle, senior adviser with the Center for Defense Information in Washington D.C., said a major hurdle would be enabling the vehicles to carry the weight of cameras and microphones. If you make the robot so small that it's like a bumblebee and then you ask the bumblebee to carry a video camera and everything else, it may not be able to get off the ground, Coyle said. Parker envisions the bird-sized vehicles as being able to spy on adversaries by flying into cities and perching on building ledges or power lines. The vehicles would have flappable wings as a disguise but use a separate propulsion system to fly. We think the flapping is more so people don't notice it, he said. They think it's a bird. Unlike the bird-sized vehicles, the insect-sized ones would actually use flappable wings to fly, Parker said. He said engineers want to build a vehicle with a 1-inch wingspan, possibly made of an elastic material. The vehicle would have sensors to help avoid slamming into buildings or other objects. Existing airborne robots are flown by a ground-based pilot, but the smaller versions would fly independently, relying on preprogrammed instructions. Parker said the tiny vehicles should also be able to withstand bumps. If you look at insects, they can bounce off of walls and keep flying, he said. You can't do that with a big airplane, but I don't see any reason we can't do that with a small one. An Air Force video describing the vehicles said they could possibly carry chemicals or explosives for use in attacks. Once prototypes are developed, they will be flight-tested in a new building at Wright-Patterson dubbed the micro aviary forMicro Air Vehicle Integration Application Research Institute. This type of technology is really the wave of the future, Thompson said. More and more military research is going into things that are small, that are precise and that are extremely focused on particular types of missions or activities.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Re: Re: ~9/11 Numerologist~ Re: Mysticism the FEDeral 'reserve'
Begin forwarded message: From: ~One~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 21, 2008 12:09:53 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Re: Re: ~9/11 Numerologist~ Re: Mysticism the FEDeral 'reserve' Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear ~One~ These ones certainly all know. One large faction built of many small factions with different agendas. They all think that they are the greater of the powers that be, but most of these soldiers are too compartmentalized to know all the agendas. The soldiers don't know what the capos know, and those don't know what the dons know, etc. The Rothschilds know too, or at least a few of them. David Rockefeller knows, he IS JP Morgan after all, as well as the prime handler for the House of Saud and almost certainly the prime manipulator of the CIA hidden corporate structure. Prince Phillip seems to know as much as any but his hand is very well hidden and he may be just part duffer finger puppet for the Rothschilds. Comment #49 Posted by: Michael M. | November 20, 2008 04:09 PM http://www.ojaipost.com/2008/11/the_end_of_the_federal_reserve.shtml -- on 20/11/08, Millennium Twain wrote: Dean, any educated guesses, or talk, about who was the numerologist who suggested the 9/11 date to end the JP Morgan Gold Antitrust lawsuit by bringing down their towers? Alan Greenspan, David Rockefeller, Arthur Levitt, Harvey Pitt who was selected to preside over the market takeover? Bush senior, Dick Cheney, Bush junior, Al Gore? who is The Man with the all-seeing, pyramid high, eye? Robert Rubin or Stephen Friedman of Goldman Sachs, or Henry Paulson of same lineage? Rubin, who served as Treasury Secretary under Clinton and Gore, certainly would know. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Council of Foreign Relations. They ALL would know ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Corzine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rubin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Scowcroft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Friedman_(PFIAB) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Foreign_Intelligence_Advisory_Board all and all seems a VERY small and incestuous group of 'intelligence' and banking (spook and bankster) insider/traders in Washington. perhaps the new Obama administration will lock them all up, until they spill the (their) beans? Millennium Twain MI7 Shadow UnderSecretary Global Intelligence Group -- In CliffordPickover, on 20/11/08, Dean Lett wrote: You're almost as aloof as Greenspan: As for mystique, at the Fed it is a well developed art form. It has had no better practitioner than its former chairman, the celebrated Alan Greenspan, chief priest at the temple from 1987 to 2006. Like many central bank chiefs around the world, he has cultivated an impenetrable linquistic style for use in public. His first technique is inaccessibility. He has never given a media interview since taking the chairmanship, or at least not since a TV faux pas in 1987. He does give journalist background briefings, where his thoughts may be reported but not directly attributed to him, but these are highly selective and keenly sought. By keeping himself scarce, he raises his value in the market of opinion and influence. His second technique is to create a sense of superiority, not through arrogance or condescension, but by preserving a formal manner and a lofty, abstract style of speech. His third is to convey depth by preserving ambiguity. He draws on an obscure vocabulary, circular construction, economic jargon and the heavy use of qualifiers to acheive this. To illustrate this point, an economist, Jeremy Gluck, wrote: When Alan Greenspan dies his headstone could read: 'I am guardedly optimistic about the next world, but remain cognisant of the downside risk.' He quietly rejoices in his oracular aloofness. The former chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, recalled bumping into him at a party and asking him how he was. Greenspan replied: I'm not allowed to say. Okay people--something is very wrong here!!! d Comment #48 Posted by:
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke On Global Currency Plans
Begin forwarded message: From: shane_digital [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 18, 2008 9:52:28 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IPCUSA] Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke On Global Currency Plans Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ron Paul Confronts Bernanke On Global Currency Plans Congressman demands to know if discussions regarding new reserve system to replace dollar have taken place Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Tuesday, November 18, 2008 Congressman Ron Paul confronted Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke this morning about plans to replace the dollar with a new global currency during the House Financial Services Committee meeting on Capitol Hill. Already we see talk….about a new international world reserve currency and to me that's pretty important because the fiat dollar reserve system is not gonna work anymore, said the Congressman, adding that currencies have failed throughout history. Paul asked Bernanke, In your meetings with other central bankers, does this thought come up about a new international world reserve currency and if so, does the subject of gold ever come up….is there a move on to replace the dollar system? I don't think the dollar system is dead, I think the dollar remains the premiere international currency….I think the dollar system remains quite strong, responded Bernanke. Bernanke failed to address the issue of a new system of currency so Paul repeated the question of whether the subject ever came up, to which the Federal Reserve chairman responded, no it doesn't. (Article continues below) Asked if the subject of whether such a currency, or indeed the dollar itself, would ever be backed by gold and if gold ever came up in conversation, Bernanke responded, only in terms of the sales that banks are planning. Despite Bernanke's dismissal of talk about a new world currency system, such speculation has been rife and indeed French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly called for the dollar to be demoted as the premiere currency. French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde has also called for the dollar to be replaced by the Euro as the world reserve currency, so to believe that such proposals have not emerged in meetings between central banks is stupidly naive. In September, the Chinese state media, the official voice of the ruling Communist Party, called for the creation of a new currency system following the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The recent G20 meeting was itself billed as Bretton Woods II in reference to the first Bretton woods conference at which the dollar was established as the world reserve currency in the summer of1944. Nobel prize-winning economist and former World Bank chief Joseph Stiglitz has also called for a new global currency, as have scores of other top economic analysts. Bernanke's claim that such talk has not cropped up during central bank meetings is dubious to say the least. Watch the clip below: http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/articles/november2008/181108-ron-confronts.html Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Stanford University Press Publishes The CIA and the Culture of Failure
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 17, 2008 4:39:22 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Stanford University Press Publishes The CIA and the Culture of Failure Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20081117005495newsLang=en November 17, 2008 12:48 PM Eastern Time Stanford University Press Publishes The CIA and the Culture of Failure Diamond has put together a sequence of long, trenchant, truly eclectic essays on the CIA's internal workings, consistently stressing its tendency to outsmart itself. —BookForum PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--One of the most pressing tasks confronting the new Obama administration is rebuilding and redirecting the nation's intelligence system. From closing Guantanamo Bay to ending the abusive treatment of terrorist detainees to halting warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, Obama has promised major and rapid changes in the way our intelligence community does business. He has also pledged to do everything possible to capture Osama bin Laden, who remains at large. How U.S. intelligence reached its current troubled state is the subject of John Diamond's new book, The CIA and the Culture of Failure: U.S. Intelligence from the End of the Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq. Diamond focuses on U.S. intelligence during the dozen years from the end of the Cold War in 1990-91 to the invasion of Iraq in early 2003 as a defining period in CIA history. In a story of political tension as well as intelligence judgment and misjudgment, Diamond writes, The short distance between the White House and the CIA appears greater when measured in other ways. And the tension between these two power centers during the course of just over a decade—from about the time that unpainted slab of the Berlin Wall arrived at Langley to the day when Colin Powell and a room full of harried intelligence analysts assembled a case for war in Iraq—is the subject of this book. The CIA which President Barack Obama will inherit on January 20, 2009 is in many ways a product of the events recounted by Diamond. The questions raised about whether we even need a CIA following the Soviet collapse; the Agency's miscues prior to the Persian Gulf War that contributed to even greater intelligence failures prior to the invasion of Iraq; the Aldrich Ames spy scandal; the halting attempts to find and attack Osama bin Laden in the years prior to the 9/11 attacks – all these are recounted in fresh detail, based on original reporting and interviews with scores of current and former intelligence professionals, and on recently declassified documents. A major underlying theme of the book, one the new administration would do well to heed, is the impact of political pressure on the quality of intelligence information put on the president's desk every morning. Political pressure – from the right during the Reagan years over the scope of the Soviet threat, from the left during the Clinton years over CIA ties with repressive Latin American regimes – constantly threatened to distort the intelligence used by the government to shape its foreign policy. Diamond contends that a series of intelligence lapses (both real and alleged) in the decade following the Soviet collapse led to a `culture of failure'…a fatal cycle of error, criticism, overcorrection, distraction, and politicization that undermined the quality and quantity of information provided to decision-makers who compounded these failings with major misjudgments of their own. The book breaks new ground in several areas: * Shows how a deliberate undermining of the CIA was critical to the neo-conservative push for the defense build-up in the 1970s and 80s, national missile defense in the 1990s and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. * Shows how the chance arrest by Pakistan of a suspect, Mohammed Sadeeq Odeh, in the U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya tipped off bin Laden and caused al-Qaeda to change its plans for a leadership meeting, rendering the Clinton administration's retaliatory strike an embarrassing miss. * Explains how the Iraq/WMD failure, one of the most consequential in CIA history, stemmed from one of the Agency's most notable successes. The great misjudgment prior to the Iraq invasion was the failure – by the White House, Congress, and the CIA itself – to even consider the possibility that this combined effort to disarm Iraq had, in fact, succeeded. The political and foreign policy agendas of new administrations and new majorities in Congress have led the CIA astray in the past, and can do so again, Diamond warns. The CIA and the Culture of Failure offers a persuasive case for learning from past failures and spelling out what is at stake, intelligence disasters surrounding 9/11 and the war in Iraq did two things simultaneously: they undermined public confidence in the CIA, and they underscored how much the nation depends on quality
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] New Law Establishes Warehouse for US Citizens' DNA
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 17, 2008 4:44:29 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] New Law Establishes Warehouse for US Citizens' DNA Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=96contentid=5155 New Law Establishes Warehouse for US Citizens' DNA by CONSPIRACY PLANET New Law Establishes Warehouse for US Citizens' DNA (PHOTO shows Jessica Alba who portrayed a genetically-enhanced super warrior in the TV series Dark Angel.) (May 23, 2008) BIG BROTHER, a/k/a the U.S. Federal Government wants your newborn's DNA. With the signing into law of S. 1858, the Orwellian-named benign-sounding Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007, every newborn baby in the United States will be genetically sampled in preparation for a national database of DNA.(Read it here: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1858) The bill's mandate is for the federal government to maintain a central clearinghouse of current information on newborn screening... ensuring that the clearinghouse is available on the Internet and is updated at least quarterly. With shades of Atlantean genetic engineering, the law makes it clear that once the parents have given permission for this testing, they and the testee relinquish all ownership rights to the genetic material itself. This implies that the DNA can then be used in in genetic research experiments and further diddling by so-called scientists. Will the whackos running the Pentagon use this DNA database to try to create so-called super-warriors as depicted in the TV series Dark Angel starring Jessica Alba, or the 1998 movie called Soldier starring Kurt Russell? You can make book on it. In opposition to this latest revolting development, Twila Brase, president of Citizens' Council on Health Care (CCHC), a non-profit, independent free-market health care policy organization that supports patient and doctor freedom, medical innovation, and the right to a confidential patient-doctor relationship has written -- Congress has voted to strip citizens of genetic privacy rights and DNA property rights. The bill also violates research ethics and the Nuremberg Code. Soon, under this bill, the DNA of all citizens will be housed in government genomic biobanks and considered government property for government research. The DNA taken at birth from every citizen is essentially owned by the government, and every citizen becomes a potential subject of government-sponsored genetic research. The public is clueless. S. 1858 imposes a federal agenda of DNA databanking and population-wide genetic research. It does not require consent and there are no requirements to fully inform parents about the warehousing of their child's DNA for the purpose of genetic research. Already, in Minnesota, the state health department reports that 42,210 children of the 780,000 whose DNA is housed in the Minnesota 'DNA warehouse' have been subjected to genetic research without their parent's knowledge or consent. (http://www.cchconline.org/pr/pr040908.php) New mothers have already begun telling their stories of being intimidated by hospital personnel to give up their newborn baby's DNA. In a piece called You Should See What They Do At The Hospital When You Refuse! published on Rumor Mill News -- (http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=124874) My pediatrician resigned, as she said she didn't want to work with a patient that didn't comply. (But first she grilled me, and when I would not cave into the pressure, she quit) The nurse came to my room three times to aggressively ask me if I wanted to change my mind. The other mother in the same room began to have serious doubts about going through with the screening merely due to the undue stress they were placing me under attempting to enforce the Newborn Screening Test. It was ugly, and it was very, very strange. Here is some of the information from the paperwork I saved from this atrocious battle to steal my child's DNA. INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETION OF FORM NEWBORNS NAME MOTHERS NAME: Please include Mother's maiden name and social security number. If there is no social security number enter 999-99-) NEWBORNS PHYSICIAN LICENSE NUMBER RACE/ETHNICITY: As entered for both parents on Birth Certificate. These data required by Government code 8310.5. Check all that apply. NEWBORNS BIRTHDATE AND HOUR (TIME) DATE SPECIMEN COLLECTED TYPE OF SPECIMEN INITIALS OF COLLECTOR MEDICAL RECORD NUMBER DISTRIBUTION: original MUST accompany specimen. Facicilty drawing specimen should retain file goldenrod copy. Also: Can I say No to the test? You can ONLY say no for religious reasons. If you say 'no you must sign a special form that says your hospital, doctor and the clinic staff are not responsible if your baby develops problems from these disorders. (My pediatrician asked what religion are you? I answered which religion I was. She said my other patients
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] U.S. Downplays Bhutto Claim Against bin Laden Kin
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 17, 2008 4:54:43 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] U.S. Downplays Bhutto Claim Against bin Laden Kin Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.usnews.com/blogs/news-desk/2008/2/4/us-downplays-bhutto-claim-against-bin-laden-kin.html U.S. Downplays Bhutto Claim Against bin Laden Kin February 04, 2008 04:44 PM ET In her upcoming posthumous autobiography, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has fingered Hamza bin Laden, a 16-year-old son of the al Qaeda mastermind, as one of the designated assassins who was trying to kill her. The accusation sparked some speculation in the press that Hamza was being groomed for an al Qaeda leadership role. But in Washington, the theory appears to be gaining little traction. He is too young to be calling the shots on any sort of operation, says one U.S. official. Hamza is Osama bin Laden's youngest of six sons and was born to his father's most recent wife, placing him low in the family hierarchy. While he is believed to have spent time with his father in hiding somewhere in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, he is not believed to have much influence. U.S. and Pakistani officials continue to say that Baitullah Mehsud, a leading Pakistani tribal militant and Taliban ally, remains the top suspect in the Bhutto attack. Bhutto did also name Mehsud as a suspect in her book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy the West, which will be published on February 12. Excerpts from the book appeared in the Sunday Times of London over the weekend. — Kevin Whitelaw -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Nov 13, 2008 Osama bin Laden is Dead Bob Moriarty 321gold ...s
Begin forwarded message: From: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 14, 2008 5:47:18 PM PST To: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nov 13, 2008 Osama bin Laden is Dead Bob Moriarty 321gold ...s Osama bin Laden is Dead Bob Moriarty Archives Nov 13, 2008 I'm pleased to see Barak Obama hit the ground running after his election on the 4th. The US needs change. I'd like to see him announce the death of Osama bin Laden as one of his first official duties. Bin Laden often better known as bin Forgotten died in December of 2001. There is nothing I am saying that is news to anyone who has actually spent any time thinking. Osama bin Laden had serous kidney disease that required him to have dialysis treatment twice a week. There aren't any dialysis machines floating around in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan. A few months back a reporter finally asked the question that should have been asked years ago at a White House press conference. How is it that a guy who was seriously ill seven years ago is getting treatment for end-stage renal disease in some cave in Afghanistan? The woman conducting the press conference panicked at the thought of answering that most basic question and immediately canceled the rest of the briefing. The United States does not need a boogieman living in a cave in Asia. Osama bin Laden is dead. Barak Obama should be honest enough with the American people to declare him dead. Here are the facts. 1.. The last intelligence intercept of Osama bin Laden was on December 14 of 2001. He has not been heard from since. 2.. President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld hinted in late December of 2001 that they knew Osama bin Laden was dead. 3.. President Musharraf of Pakistan announced in January of 2002 that Osama bin Laden was probably dead of kidney disease. 4.. President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was quoted in October of 2002 as saying, The more we don't hear of him, and the more time passes, there is the likelihood that he probably is either dead or seriously wounded somewhere. 5.. But the actions of the US Military are the most telling. There isn't a single soldier, sailor or Marine tasked with chasing down Osama bin Laden, dead or alive. Because we know exactly where he is. He's dead. So the US military is either totally or absolutely incompetent or Osama bin Laden died years ago and we've been fighting the boogieman. 6.. As early as July of 2002, even the FBI's counterterrorism chief was quoted as saying; Osama bin Laden is probably dead. The US does not need a boogieman; we have real challenges ahead of us. We need a President who will not lie to us on a constant basis. While you are at it Mr President Elect, you may want to mention that Iran never threatened to wipe Israel off the map and 16 US Intelligence agencies all agree [pdf] Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program. But you knew that, didn't you? Iran is neither the enemy of the United States nor Israel. Nov 12, 2008 Bob Moriarty President: 321gold Archives 321gold Ltd http://www.321gold.com/editorials/moriarty/moriarty111308.html
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Americans Believe Obama Will Turn the Economy Around
Begin forwarded message: From: GeorgiaAnn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 12, 2008 7:47:49 AM PST To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: [ctrl] Americans Believe Obama Will Turn the Economy Around Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Americans Believe Obama Will Turn the Economy Around Kurt Nimmo Infowars Nov 12, 2008 Question: how can the banker’s president turn the economy around? Answer: he can’t and he is under specific orders not to turn it around. But don’t tell the American people. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup combined gave the Barack Obama campaign over three million dollars, according to OpenSecrets.org. UBS and the private-equity firms Blackstone Group and the Carlyle Group sweetened the pot with hundreds of thousands more (see Obama Top Fundraiser on Wall Street). Do you think they gave all this money because they are liberals with a soft spot and want an African-American as president? Hardly. For the bankers and the financial elite, it would not matter if Barack Obama had green skin with yellow polka dots and he babbled about aliens making midnight visitations in levitating tea cups. Goldman Sachs and company gave all that money — and they gave a likewise amount to McCain — to make sure their man made it to the Oval Office. Now that he is there they can commence with the plan. Here’s the plan… destroy the American economy by way of an engineered economic depression, reduce the population to groveling serfdom, and buy up all the goodies for pennies on the dollar. As Congressman Charles A. Lindberg Sr. predicted after the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, henceforth depressions will be scientifically created. “Using a central bank to create alternate periods of inflation and deflation, and thus whipsawing the public for vast profits, had been worked out by the international bankers to an exact science,” writes Gary Allen. To think that the scientifically engineered Crash of 1929 was an accident or the result of stupidity defies all logic. The international bankers who promoted the inflationary policies and pushed the propaganda which pumped up the stock market represented too many generations of accumulated expertise to have blundered into “the great depression.” “World events do not occur by accident: They are made to happen, whether it is to do with national issues or commerce; and most of them are staged and managed by those who hold the purse strings,” said insider Denis Healey. As the Great Depression version 1.0 was intentionally created, so will be version 2.0, the greater depression. Not only do the international bankers and their minions in the government want to create a situation where the bankers can easily consolidate all wealth, they also want to impose a high-tech control system on the masses. As Aldous Huxley once noted, the masses must learn to accept their slavery as liberation. It’s a process well underway thanks to the corporate media. According to our leaders, the only way out of this “crisis” is to create a new global financial architecture while never mentioning the fact that whole mess was contrived by fractional reserve banking, intentionally pumping up various debt bubbles, and allowing the Federal Reserve to inflate the money supply. You’d think people would smell something rotten when the supposed maestro of the “bailout” is a former Goldman Sachs crony. You’d think they’d scream bloody murder when the “bailout” — upward estimated in the trillions, not billions — gets diverted into the pockets of the bankers and there is nothing left over to break up the financial glacier. During the Great Depression version 1.0, the bankers held off on credit and loans too. As evidence that Huxley’s observation is working like a charm, consider a recent AP poll. “An Associated Press-GfK poll shows that when it comes to the economy, most people are voicing the hope Barack Obama made a touchstone of his presidential campaign. Seven in 10 people in the survey are voicing confidence that the president-elect will be able to turn the stalling economy around when he takes office in January. Nearly all Democrats and even four in 10 Republicans say so. Almost as many people also think Obama will be able to push his overall agenda through as well.” Obama will indeed “push his overall agenda through.” But it is not his agenda. It’s the bankers agenda and it has nothing to do with turning the economy around. It has to do with turning the United States into a third world cesspool. Do you know what Sharia (Islamic) Law is? Obama does...Change one step at a time? *Islamic Law, known as Shariah: primary source of persecution for Christians in Muslim States *American Thinker: Top ten reasons why sharia is bad for all societies - in each of the lengthy supporting article (or articles), a Biblical view on these infractions of
[cia-drugs] The Voice Oil Industry Insiders are Heeding
http://www.prweb.com/releases/JamesNorman/Oil/prweb1605014.htmThe Voice Oil Industry Insiders are HeedingLongtime journalist and author James Norman is speaking to groups across North America and is available for interviews to talk about the dynamics of global oil pricing as it relates to US National Policy.(Vocus/PRWEB) November 12, 2008 -- Veteran journalist James Norman has created a buzz in the oil patch with his keynote addresses at recent oil industry gatherings in Midland, Houston, and Calgary. Industry insiders whose fortunes are tied to the dynamics of oil prices have been very attentive to, and appreciative of, this provocative and revelatory view of market dynamics. His book,The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century, has become required reading for those who truly need to understand how our markets and our geopolitical world really work.James Norman, author and journalistYou can't really understand the dynamics of global oil pricing without a keen appreciation for US national security policyThis thorough-going and unusual analysis of historical oil price movements lays out in powerful detail the mechanics by which the US and its allies drove down crude prices in the 1980s in a stunningly successful and bloodless effort to bankrupt the former Soviet Union. It then goes on to look at how a reversal of those tactics appears to have been at work from 1998 to mid-2008 to wage similar economic warfare against the fast-rising People's Republic of China.Though it went to the printer just beforeoil pricespeaked in July 2008 at almost $150/bbl, amid forecasts of oil hitting $200 or even $300/bbl, the book presciently warned crude could tumble again if Russia were to become belligerent or re-align with China. That indeed came to pass in August 2008 with Russia's invasion of Georgia, and subsequent moves by the Kremlin to mend fences with BeijingWith oil back down to around $60/bbl, Norman's basic premise has been vindicated. Namely: that macro-level oil pricing lately has had relatively little to do with the "fundamentals" of oil supply and demand.There is ample crude available globally despite much-hyped fears of shortages, now requiring draconian cutbacks by OPEC to prevent a free-fall in pricing. Rather, as repeatedly noted by ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond in Congressional hearings, oil prices have been largely a function of geopolitics."You can't really understand the dynamics of global oil pricing without a keen appreciation for US national security policy," Norman states.This will remain true regardless of the outcome of the recent US presidential election.Oil Card Book: Jim Norman has a long and distinguished career as a journalist covering the oil industry and corporate America, including 10 years at BusinessWeek and five years at Forbes magazine.Until retiring in 2007, he spent 10 years as a senior writer in New York for McGraw-Hill's respected daily oil industry newsletter, Platts Oilgram News. At Platts he was noted for his detailed and "prophetic" warnings as early as 1998 that the UN Oil-For-Food program was ripe for money laundering by the Saddam Hussein regime, which became a damning indictment of UN officials in the "Volcker Report" of the UN Independent Inquiry Committee.His detailed critique of Enron accounting and governance in August 2001 helped trigger a few days later the SEC investigation which led to the collapse of Enron's market value and creditworthiness when that probe was disclosed.The Oil Card applies this same methodical reporting and analysis to cut through the fog and cant of conventional wisdom about oil economics. Though packed with a wealth of detail, I think you will find the book quite readable and accessible to any non oil-industry readers who seriously seek to understand the murky macro forces driving world markets and events.As noted on the back cover by former top-rated Bear Stearns oil analyst Frederick Leuffer: "This book is a must-read for consumers and investors alike. After reading The Oil Card, you will never feel the same about 'free' markets again. Once you start reading, you won't be able to put it down."For interviews, a review copy, or more information, contact:Kris Millegan800.556.2012 • 541.744.0090 • publicity @ trineday.netwww.theoilcard.comwww.trineday.com###Post Comment:Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/SW5zZS1Mb3ZlLUZhbHUtTWFnbi1UaGlyLVNpbmctWmVybw==james normanprice of oilus national securityus national policyunited states national securityworld wide gas pricesgas pricesreason for high gas pricesreason for raising gas costsraising oil pricesBookmark -Del.icio.us|Digg|Furl It|Spurl|RawSugar|Simpy|Shadows|Blink It|My Web=
[cia-drugs] Peter Dale Scott's 5-star review of new 9/11 book
http://www.amazon.com/11-Mystery-Plane-Vanishing-America/dp/0979988608/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_i 5.0 out of 5 stars A new dimension to the 9/11 mystery, November 10, 2008 By Peter D. Scott - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) By focusing on the E-4B Doomsday seen over the White House on 9/11,at about the time of the attack on the Pentagon, Mark Gaffney discusses important new evidence, not previously revealed, of government foreknowledge of events on that day . How was the plane in the air after a National Ground Stop? Why did the E-4B not save lives by warning people at the Pentagon of the visible incoming plane? Why was it, in a prohibited area, not shot down by White House defenses? Here are many new issues for Cheney and the plane's passengers to explain. Everyone trying to get to the bottom of 9/11 should read this book, and add their voices to the demand that the new Administration launch a new and genuine investigation. http://www.the911mysteryplane.com/
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 10, 2008 1:06:50 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/washington/10military.html?_r=1oref=sloginref=middleeastpagewanted=print November 10, 2008 Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials. These military raids, typically carried out by Special Operations forces, were authorized by a classified order that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed in the spring of 2004 with the approval of President Bush, the officials said. The secret order gave the military new authority to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world, and a more sweeping mandate to conduct operations in countries not at war with the United States. In 2006, for example, a Navy Seal team raided a suspected militants' compound in the Bajaur region of Pakistan, according to a former top official of the Central Intelligence Agency. Officials watched the entire mission — captured by the video camera of a remotely piloted Predator aircraft — in real time in the C.I.A.'s Counterterrorist Center at the agency's headquarters in Virginia 7,000 miles away. Some of the military missions have been conducted in close coordination with the C.I.A., according to senior American officials, who said that in others, like the Special Operations raid in Syria on Oct. 26 of this year, the military commandos acted in support of C.I.A.-directed operations. But as many as a dozen additional operations have been canceled in the past four years, often to the dismay of military commanders, senior military officials said. They said senior administration officials had decided in these cases that the missions were too risky, were too diplomatically explosive or relied on insufficient evidence. More than a half-dozen officials, including current and former military and intelligence officials as well as senior Bush administration policy makers, described details of the 2004 military order on the condition of anonymity because of its politically delicate nature. Spokesmen for the White House, the Defense Department and the military declined to comment. Apart from the 2006 raid into Pakistan, the American officials refused to describe in detail what they said had been nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks, except to say they had been carried out in Syria, Pakistan and other countries. They made clear that there had been no raids into Iran using that authority, but they suggested that American forces had carried out reconnaissance missions in Iran using other classified directives. According to a senior administration official, the new authority was spelled out in a classified document called Al Qaeda Network Exord, or execute order, that streamlined the approval process for the military to act outside officially declared war zones. Where in the past the Pentagon needed to get approval for missions on a case-by-case basis, which could take days when there were only hours to act, the new order specified a way for Pentagon planners to get the green light for a mission far more quickly, the official said. It also allowed senior officials to think through how the United States would respond if a mission went badly. If that helicopter goes down in Syria en route to a target, a former senior military official said, the American response would not have to be worked out on the fly. The 2004 order was a step in the evolution of how the American government sought to kill or capture Qaeda terrorists around the world. It was issued after the Bush administration had already granted America's intelligence agencies sweeping power to secretly detain and interrogate terrorism suspects in overseas prisons and to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on telephone and electronic communications. Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Bush issued a classified order authorizing the C.I.A. to kill or capture Qaeda militants around the globe. By 2003, American intelligence agencies and the military had developed a much deeper understanding of Al Qaeda's extensive global network, and Mr. Rumsfeld pressed hard to unleash the military's vast firepower against militants outside the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan. The 2004 order identifies 15 to 20 countries, including Syria, Pakistan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and several other Persian Gulf states, where Qaeda militants were believed to be operating or to have sought sanctuary, a senior administration official said. Even with the order, each specific mission requires high-level government approval. Targets in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] End the Federal 'reserve'! Nationwidel Rally for Real Money, November 22nd
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[cia-drugs] Deutsche Bank sees GM shares as likely worthless
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Deutsche-Bank-cuts-GM-sell/story.aspx?guid=
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THE RATINGS GAME
Deutsche Bank sees GM shares as likely worthless
Automotive giant may have trouble funding past December, broker warns
By Simon Kennedy Christopher Hinton, MarketWatch
Last update: 4:37 p.m. EST Nov. 10, 2008
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A Deutsche Bank analyst on Monday downgraded
shares of General Motors Corp. to sell from hold, saying the automaker
was on the path to bankruptcy before the end of the year unless the
U.S. government agrees to a bailout.
In a note to investors, Deutsche Bank said Detroit-based GM's cash
position will likely fall below $5 billion by late December, leaving
its operations underfunded for payables due in early January. To keep
operations going and assist in restructuring, the U.S. would have to
provide as much as $25 billion and at least $10 billion in loans to
keep the company (GM:
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GM 3.36, -1.00, -22.9%) afloat through next year.
Chart of GM
Even if GM succeeds in averting a bankruptcy, we believe that the
company's future path is likely to be bankruptcy-like, analyst Rod
Lache said in a research note, essentially calling the company's
shares worthless with a price target of $0, reduced from $4.
Shares of GM, part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, closed down
23% to $3.36 after falling as low as $3.02 earlier in the session. The
stock has been trading at its lowest point on record after record-high
gasoline prices pinched sales of its large sport-utility vehicles,
followed by the recent credit crisis and general economic malaise
across the country.
Lache said the near-term outlook for all automakers is negative,
particularly for the so-called Big Three, which also includes Ford
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F 1.93, -0.09, -4.5%) and closely held Chrysler. Also facing major
risks are parts suppliers Lear Corp. (LEA:
Lear Corporation
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LEA 1.67, -0.31, -15.7%) American Axle Manufacturing (AXL:
american axle mfg hldgs in com
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AXL 1.93, -0.22, -10.2%) and Magna International (MGA:
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MGA 32.55, -0.32, -1.0%) .
Shares of Ford fell more than 4% to $1.93, while Lear traded down 14%
to $1.71, American Axle lost nearly 10% to $1.94 and Magna shed a
fraction to $32.75.
Separately, Barclays Capital downgraded its rating on General Motors
to underweight from equal weight, also citing the potential for
bankruptcy.
'As part of GM's restructuring, we are also convinced that a
large number of stakeholders who are senior to GM's equity will have
to settle for pennies on the dollar.'
— Rod Lache, Deutsche Bank
U.S. intervention looks likely, but political pressure to protect
taxpayers could lead to concessions from debt holders, labor,
suppliers and managers, similar to the 1979 Chrysler bailout, Barclays
wrote in a note.
In the Chrysler-like approach, potentially 98% of the
recapitalization company's equity would be transferred to the UAW,
VEBA, existing GM debt holders and the government, Barclays' analysts
noted. VEBA is short for voluntary employees beneficiary association,
a trust set up for managing health-care benefits to be overseen by the
United Auto Workers of America.
That would leave little for shareholders.
Biting the bullet
But without government assistance, GM's collapse would be inevitable,
added Deutsche Bank. That could lead to a systemic risk that would be
difficult for automakers, suppliers, retailers, and other sectors of
the U.S. economy to overcome.
Last week, a report by the Center for Automotive Research estimated
that the economy could lose $156 billion over three years through lost
wages as well as lower receipts from social security and income taxes.
Nonetheless, motor vehicles, bodies, trailers, and parts represented
less than 1% of the country's entire gross domestic production in
2007, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. While jobs in
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Colombia's coca cultivation increases despite $5bn US anti-drugs package
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 6, 2008 5:39:50 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Colombia's coca cultivation increases despite $5bn US anti-drugs package Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/06/colombia-drugs-cocaine Colombia's coca cultivation increases despite $5bn US anti-drugs package Coca cultivation up 15% between 2000 and 2006 despite military aid package from US, congressional report finds Matthew Weaver and agencies guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 06 2008 12.04 GMT larger | smaller larger | smaller Colombia's coca cultivation increased 15% between 2000 and 2006 despite a $5bn (£3.1bn) aid package aimed at halving illegal drug production, a US congressional report has found. The programme reached its target for cuts in opium and heroin production, but its failure to make inroads in to cocaine production has led to questions about its future. While coca cultivation increased, growers were forced to disperse their crops more widely, so yields were lower. As a result, cocaine production rose by just under 4%. The report from the US General Accounting Office, a congressional body that audits and investigates US government spending, does acknowledge that the mostly military aid package, known as Plan Colombia, did help tackle violent crime. It reported a fall in kidnapping and murder rates and a reduction in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) [to about 8,000 fighters. The release of the report, which was published yesterday, comes after US officials suggested that aid for Colombia would be cut because of the US financial crisis. The President-elect, Barack Obama, is among the US Democrats who have expressed concern over state involvement in human rights violations in Colombia's drug conflicts. This week the army chief in Colombia, Mario Montoya, was forced to resign over a scandal involving the killings of civilians to boost body counts in the drive against drug gangs. Amnesty International has urged the US and other nations to halt military aid to Colombia until security forces stem the rise in civilian killings. Adam Isacson, of the Centre for International Policy, said the US congressional report marked a watershed. I think it's very, very important that a US agency has now said that the US drug war has failed in Colombia, he said. Colombia remains the source of 90% of the cocaine in the US and most of the heroin consumed east of the Mississippi. The GAO report was requested by the vice-president-elect, Joseph Biden, who chairs the senate foreign relations committee. It offers recommendations for aid cuts including turning over to the Colombians operation of key military aviation units. Over what period that should happen remains unclear, and the report cautions that Colombia's security gains are not irreversible as long as rebels remain a threat. Plan Colombia was announced in 1999 and was an initiative of the then- president, Andres Pastrana, and the then-US president, Bill Clinton. Pastrana said he was worried about the prospect of crippling aid cuts. Obama is going to have to think about the fact that we're combating a common enemy, which is narco-terrorism and that he can't leave Colombia alone. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half- truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] How Wrong They Were
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 6, 2008 5:33:58 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] How Wrong They Were Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,588819,00.html 11/06/2008 12:10 PM THE ELECTION PROGNOSTICATORS How Wrong They Were He cannot win, and other chestnuts. Remembering an election season full of fabulously wrongheaded predictions. Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday -- Dec. 17, 2006 If (Hillary Clinton)gets a race against John Edwards and Barack Obama, she's going to be the nominee. Gore is the only threat to her ... Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now. AFP Banking on a Bradley effect turned out to be a disappointing strategy. Karl Rove, Fox News Sunday -- Aug. 19, 2007 On Hillary Clinton: The Democrats are going to choose a nominee. I believe it's going to be her. That's their business...But I think she's going to be the nominee. Peter Mulhern, Real Clear Politics -- Oct. 1, 2007 In this case conventional wisdom is not just wrong but comically so. (Fred)Thompson will win the Republican nomination for two reasons. First, he's a very impressive candidate. Second, there's no realistic alternative. He will win the general election for the same two reasons. Ann Coulter, Hannity Colmes on Fox News -- Dec. 20, 2007 I think it's probably going to be Romney for the Republicans, Hillary for the Democrats. Jonah Goldberg, National Review -- Jan. 4, 2008 I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee -- and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008. Forget Hillary's inevitability. Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid. Rudy Giuliani, the Washington Post -- Jan. 12, 2008 We'll win Florida. It's an unconventional strategy, but I've never followed conventional wisdom before; it's always worked. Hillary Clinton, ABC News -- April 3, 2008 A source with direct knowledge of Hillary to Bill Richardson concerning Obama: He cannot win, Bill. He cannot win. Pat Buchanan, MSNBC's Hardball With Chris Matthews -- May 21, 2008 On McCain's vice-presidential choice: My guess is he's going to win Florida by himself. And Charlie Crist, of course, would seal it, but McCain will win it by himself. Jindal is a tremendously popular figure with conservatives. He's a traditionalist Catholic, Chris. But I just don't see McCain going to Louisiana. I agree with Norah on that. I think Romney is somewhat more likely because I think McCain is going to go north. Rudy Giuliani, MSNBC's Road to the White House -- Aug. 6, 2008 And when you look at the serious questions that face us, whether it's energy or the economy, or the war on terror, I think John McCain's experience ends up being something that will win the race for him. President Bush, Republican National Convention -- Sept. 2, 2008 We live in a dangerous world. And we need a president who understands the lessons of September 11, 2001: that to protect America, we must stay on the offense, stop attacks before they happen, and not wait to be hit again. The man we need is John McCain ... When the debates have ended and all the ads have run and it is time to vote, Americans will look closely at the judgment, the experience, and the policies of the candidates -- and they will cast their ballots for the McCain-Palin ticket. George Allen, the Today show -- Sept. 24, 2008 I think Virginians are really getting fired up for this ticket of McCain and Palin ... but the key issues of Virginia: national security, energy security, lower taxes, and that's why I think ultimately John McCain will win here in Virginia. Hugh Hewitt, Townhall.com -- Oct. 3, 2008 So, despite the rapture of college students and the registration of the homeless in Ohio, the common sense of Americans will override curiosity about Barack Obama and infatuation with his celebrity, and trust John McCain to pilot the country for the next four years ... America is a great and good nation, and it will not turn itself over to a party in the grip of its hardest left cadres, its most corrupt machine and its least experienced nominee ever. Especially not when it has a man of enormous courage and proven devotion and sacrifice at the ready to lead through difficult times. Tom Ridge, CNN -- Oct. 28, 2008 I believe we need to prevail in Pennsylvania for John to win. And I think we will ... I think John made an excellent choice. I've been with Gov. Palin.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Nine marijuana initiative victories yesterday
Begin forwarded message: From: Marijuana Policy Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 5, 2008 8:50:47 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Nine marijuana initiative victories yesterday Reply-To: Marijuana Policy Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marijuana Policy Project Alert November 5, 2008 Dear Kris Millegan: MPP and our allies across the country passed nine out of 10 marijuana- related ballot initiatives yesterday ... and also defeated a bad initiative. This makes yesterday the most successful day in MPP's 14- year history. MICHIGAN: MPP's medical marijuana initiative passed by 63% to 37% in Michigan, making it the 13th state to protect medical marijuana patients from arrest and jail. While any new medical marijuana law is a great victory, this one is especially notable, since Michigan is now the first medical marijuana state in the Midwest, and the second largest medical marijuana state in the country (with California being the largest). Seehttp://www.stoparrestingpatients.org/ for details. MASSACHUSETTS: MPP's landmark initiative to decriminalize marijuana in Massachusetts passed by 65% to 35%. The measure removes the threat of arrest and jail for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana, replacing it with a $100 fine, which can be paid through the mail without lawyers or court appearances, just like a speeding ticket. This is the first time in history that voters have passed a statewide initiative to decriminalize marijuana! Seehttp://www.sensiblemarijuanapolicy.org/ for details. CALIFORNIA: A measure that would have required the loss of public housing benefits for recent drug convictions lost by a 70% to 30% margin. (The measure would have also increased spending on prisons and law enforcement, as well as increased penalties for gang-related activities and other crimes.) CALIFORNIA: A measure that would have expanded the number of drug offenders diverted from prison into treatment — as well as improving the marijuana decriminalization law that was originally enacted by the state legislature in 1975 — lost by 60% to 40%. Seehttp://www.prop5yes.com/ for details. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA: A measure (which received $5,000 from the MPP grants program) to expand the non-residential zones where medical marijuana dispensaries can locate, issue zoning certificates, and bring Berkeley marijuana possession limits in line with recent court rulings passed by 62% to 38%. Seehttp://www.yesonjj.com/ for details. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS: A measure (which received $3,972 from the MPP grants program) to make adult marijuana offenses the lowest priority for local law enforcement passed by 66% to 34%. See http://www.sensiblefayetteville.com/ for details. HAWAII COUNTY, HAWAII: A measure (which received $19,800 from the MPP grants program) to make adult marijuana offenses the lowest priority for local law enforcement passed by 53% to 39%. See http://www.projectpeacefulsky.org/ for details. FOUR DISTRICTS IN MASSACHUSETTS: Voters in four out of four state House districts passed four nonbinding public policy questions directing each district's state representative to vote in favor of legislation that would allow seriously ill patients to use medical marijuana if they have the approval of their physicians. Seehttp://www.dpfma.org/ for details. ___ Yesterday was the most successful day in MPP's 14-year history. Of the 100,000 subscribers on this e-mail list, only 6,600 have donated to MPP's work so far this year. If you and the other 93,400 people who haven't yet donated this year each donate only $10 right now, that would generate nearly $1,000,000 in just one day. And raising $1,000,000 right now is essential, because ... In order to win in Michigan and Massachusetts, our campaign committees had to spend $400,000 and $700,000 on advertising, respectively, in these two states. To be sure, $1,100,000 is a lot of money, but the good news is that these two campaigns cost far less than what the pundits were saying it would take to spend to win. At the same time, spending $1,100,000 in the past month means that we're essentially now broke. If you're feeling good right now and want to help MPP finish the year strong — so that we can start swinging as soon as the California, Illinois, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont legislatures convene in January — please consider donating today. Before Election Day, we were asking MPP members and allies across the country to fund the possibility of success on Election Day. Now that we're looking back on Election Day, I'd like to respectfully ask that you fund proven success. Thank you in advance for anything you can give to keep our momentum going. Sincerely, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. P.S. As I've mentioned in previous alerts, a major
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] 'Lebanese working for Mossad' may have played role in Mughniyeh hit
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 4, 2008 3:24:41 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] 'Lebanese working for Mossad' may have played role in Mughniyeh hit Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleId=426805ChannelId=4 'Lebanese working for Mossad' may have played role in Mughniyeh hit 04/11/2008 7:53:00 AM The alleged leader of a Mossad spy network arrested by Lebanese authorities monitored the Kfar Sousa neighborhood in Damascus a few months before senior Hizbullah military commander Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated by a car bomb last February, according to a report published by As-Safir newspaper on Monday. As-Safir identified the spy leader as Ali Jarrah. It said the other suspect arrested was his brother, Youssef. The daily said investigations into Ali Jarrah indicated that Israel's Mossad intelligence service had tasked him with carrying out surveillance in Kfar Sousa a few months before Mughniyeh's assassination. Did Jarrah know why the survey was conducted? Or was he ordered to just monitor the area? the newspaper asked. And did he play a role in the summer 2006 war? The Lebanese Army announced over the weekend that it had arrested two people in the Bekaa Valley linked to an Israeli espionage network. A senior Palestinian official in the Bekaa told As-Safir that Ali Jarrah has, since quitting Fatah al-Intifada and joining Ahmed Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, obtained a special military pass that allowed him to cross the Syrian-Lebanese border without being searched by authorities. The Palestinian source added that Jarrah had moved freely in Damascus and frequently visited the homes of Palestinian officials and Palestinian centers. During the 34-day war in July and August of 2006, Jarrah was seen with a video camera moving at some sensitive areas that included relief centers known to be connected to parties supporting Hizbullah, As-Safir reported. Was he pinpointing security targets at the Bekaa? the daily asked. According to the newspaper, investigators working on the case are attempting to determine whether a video camera fixed inside his four-wheel drive was connected via satellite to his controllers in Israel - as a GPS navigational system in his vehicle reportedly was. As-Safir also asked whether the breaking up of the network would ultimately lead to the uncovering of other spy rings in the country. Security sources connected to the investigation told the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat that details could not be released because the investigation was sensitive and confidential. The sources stressed that the suspect had confessed to working for the Mossad, that he has monitored certain political party centers and the movements of certain party leaders for Israel. They said that Jarrah, who is in his 50s, was previously detained in Damascus by elements of Syrian State Security, and accused with being a member of Fatah-Intifada, a group officially labeled as terrorist by Syrian authorities. In Syria, Jarrah was questioned for days concerning his relationship to Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker al-Abssi, who is wanted in Lebanon for his role in the 2007 fighting at the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp. Sources added that Jarrah was subject to intensive interrogation by Syrian authorities in Damascus that went beyond his connection to Abssi and Fatah al-Intifada members. They said that Syrian authorities later released him. According to the Al-Hayat sources, Jarrah later returned to his hometown of Al-Marj in the western Bekaa and continued with his normal life up to his disappearance a month ago while on his way from the Bekaa to Beirut. Sources in his hometown refused to comment to Al-Hayat on news that a certain political party had placed Jarrah under intense watch and later detained him under suspicion of spying for Israel. Meanwhile, Jarrah's family sought the help of Lebanese police to locate him, according to the daily. Sources following up on the investigation told Al-Hayat that the political party that had arrested Jarrah soon delivered him to Lebanese Army Intelligence. Residents of al-Marj told As-Safir on Saturday that late in October an army unit raided Jarrah's home, confiscated his four-wheel-drive and arrested his brother. Residents said the army also searched his uncle's home without taking further action. - The Daily Star, with Naharnet -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-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
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Leader of the Mossad ring, related to 9/11 bomber
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 4, 2008 3:18:24 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Leader of the Mossad ring, related to 9/11 bomber Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.roadstoiraq.com/2008/11/03/leader-of-the-mossad-ring-related-to-911-bomber/ Leader of the Mossad ring, related to 9/11 bomber Newspaper Al-Rai revealed that the leader of the Israeli-spy cell arrested in Lebanon, already imprisoned by Syria 15 days before his arrest in Lebanon 3 months ago. The newspaper added that that his arrest was joint cooperation between the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services. Lebanese newspaper Daily Star says that the leader of the spy ring Ali Al-Jarrah is related to the Lebanese 9/11 suicide operationZiad Al- Jarrah. Members of Israeli spy ring 'related to 9/11 hijacker' 'Lebanon is an open theater for espionage' By Andrew Wander Daily Star staff Monday, November 03, 2008 Listen to the Article - Powered by BEIRUT: Two men arrested for running an Israeli spy ring in the Bekaa Valley are relatives of a suicide hijacker who piloted a plane in the September 11, 2001, attacks, a security source told The Daily Star on Sunday. The Lebanese Army announced on Saturday that it had arrested two people suspected of involvement with a spy network that gathered information for Israel's intelligence services. The army said that the men had been arrested on Friday, but the source said that they were actually captured two weeks ago and the discovery of the arrests by the media prompted the army to announce their capture. The army said the men had admitted gathering information on political party offices and monitoring the movements of party figures for the enemy. The statement added that the men had been found with communications devices and other sophisticated equipment, which they used to gather information and transmit it to Mossad agents. Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source said the men are relatives of Ziad Jarrah, the Lebanese who helped commandeer United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed into a Pennsylvania field on September 11, 2001, killing everyone on board. Jarrah's family is from the town of Al-Marej in the Bekaa Valley, where the arrests took place. The Jarrah family have repeatedly denied that Ziad was part of the September 11 plot, claiming he was instead a innocent passenger on the plane, but an official investigation concluded that he was a senior member of the hijacking team who had undergone flight training in order to carry out the attacks. Residents of Al-Marej told As-Safir newspaper that the men were arrested when security forces raided a home in the town and seized equipment from a car. The newspaper said investigators had found documents which prove that the men had been in contact with Israeli intelligence agents. Investigators said that the men had passed information about the location of Lebanese and Syrian army outposts to the Israelis. One of the two men arrested, identified only by his initials A.D.J., is believed to have been the head of the spy ring. Security sources told The Daily Star that the man was a member of the Palestinian militant group Fatah al-Intifadah, which is known to be active along the Syrian border. The other man who was arrested is said to be a relative of A.D.J. and was allegedly involved in conducting reconnaissance work for Mossad in the Bekaa Valley. Investigators said that the spy ring had been active in the area since the late 1980s. Retired General Elias Hanna told The Daily Star that Lebanon provided the perfect environment for spies to operate. Lebanon is an open theater for espionage and counter-espionage, he said. It has all the elements that are needed in international and regional conflict. But he said that if the group had been operating since the 1980s it would be surprising. That's 20 years, he said. That's a long period of time. The timing of the arrests was also surprising, he said, given that senior officials in the Lebanese Army had recently been replaced, disrupting the continuity needed for counter-espionage operations. You have to work on these cases for a long period of time. It requires information and long periods of monitoring, Hanna said. The previous period was chaotic in Lebanon, so I don't know how the arrests happened, he added. He said the group were probably trying to gather information about Hizbullah, but would not have been able to infiltrate the group. Hizbullah is an intelligence-proof entity, he said. It operates with a very high level of secrecy. If you cannot get inside it, you study its environment. This is what we are seeing. Investigators say the men were tasked with monitoring the movements of senior political figures in the Bekaa region, which lies on the main route between Beirut and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Mercenary Firm Offers to 'Detain Troublemakers' on Election Day
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 4, 2008 3:13:31 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Mercenary Firm Offers to 'Detain Troublemakers' on Election Day Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/11/spooky-defense.html Mercenary Firm Offers to 'Detain Troublemakers' on Election Day (Updated) By Nathan Hodge November 03, 2008 | 11:39:00 AM CIA-linked private military contractor Evergreen Defense Security Services offered to post sentries at Oregon election offices on Tuesday, detaining troublemakers and making sure voters do not get out of control. In an e-mail to local election supervisors, obtained by the McMinnville, Oregon News Register, Evergreen president Tom Wiggins said he recognized the potential conflict that could occur on November 4th. Never has there been a more heated battle in the race for president. The company, he said, 'proposes to post sentries at each voting center on November 4th to assure that disputes amongst citizens do not get out of control. All guards will be unarmed, but capable of stopping any violence that may occur and detaining troublemakers until law enforcement arrives.' Evergreen's website describes its security arm as having nearly five decades of experience working with the U.S. Armed Forces, the Department of Defense, the Department of Interior, the United Nations, NASA, and the U.S. Air Mobility Command. Many of our contracts include highly sensitive work-scope, and take place in locations ranging from the deserts of the Middle East to the jungles of South America to the highest peaks of Mt. McKinley in Alaska. According to the News Register, Evergreen exudes the gung-ho patriotism that is associated with the company founder, a political conservative who enjoys close ties with the federal government and military. No kidding. Back in the late '80s, the company acknowledged one agreement under which his companies provide occasional jobs and cover to foreign nationals the CIA wants taken out of other countries or brought into the United States. More recently, Evergreen's parent company flew Bill O'Reilly into Kuwait in 2006, according to SourceWatch. But rest easy: The Oregonian reports that the company struck out with its sales pitch. UPDATE: As several commenters have pointed out, Evergreen's offer is particularly weird, since the state does its voting by mail. Voters get ballots sent to them, and can then return them to county election offices by 8pm on Tuesday. Perhaps that's where Evergreen was looking to keep the peace.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Espionage puts a lock on your data
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 4, 2008 3:34:17 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Espionage puts a lock on your data Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.macuser.co.uk/news/233997/espionage-puts-a-lock-on-your-data.html Monday 3rd November 2008 Espionage puts a lock on your data 12:03PM, Monday 3rd November 2008 OS X's built-in File Vault technology is a powerful option for anyone who wants to protect their entire home folder, but until now there has been no one-stop alternative for Mac users who just want to encrypt specific folders. Espionage, a new application from Tao Effects, promises to change that. The software can encrypt individual folders using the same encryption methods that File Vault employs: AES-128 bit or AES-256 bit encryption that meets the standards of the US National Security Agency for protecting classified information. To access the encrypted data, simply double-click the folder and enter the password. Espionage's developers stress that its approach differs significantly from other encryption applications that rely on disk images to protect data. Disk images have many limitations. While they allow you to securely protect data, they are difficult to use, and can't be used to seamlessly protect application data on an individual ADVERTISEMENT basis, that is, until now, said Tao Effects founder Greg Slepak. Some applications have tried to make disk images easier to use by referring to them as `vaults' and giving you a `one-click' method for creating them. But the problem with this approach is that you still have to use a separate application to manage the vault, and you can't use it to protect important application data (like email). The software also has the ability to grant other applications access to encrypted data, but the process of encryption does have some drawbacks. Backup applications such as Apple's Time Machine and Spotlight need to be able to access files on a regular basis. So by default Espionage will automatically allow those applications to access - but not read - encrypted data. The user can then add applications to this whitelist, or specifically deny access if required. So Time Machine, for example, will be able to backup the encrypted data, but Spotlight will not be able to index its content, only the name of the encrypted folder. Naturally, this ensures that anyone who gets hold of the encrypted content, will not be able to use Spotlight to expose its contents. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Marijuana initiatives win in Michigan and Massachusetts!
Begin forwarded message: From: Marijuana Policy Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 4, 2008 6:56:55 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Marijuana initiatives win in Michigan and Massachusetts! Reply-To: Marijuana Policy Project [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marijuana Policy Project Alert November 4, 2008 Dear Kris Millegan: Huge news — we did it. Today, voters in Michigan and Massachusetts passed MPP's landmark ballot initiatives to change marijuana policy in their states. Of the 13 marijuana policy statewide initiative victories in the history of the country, we just scored the second and third most important. (The first was California's medical marijuana law in 1996.) MPP's Massachusetts initiative was the first time in history that a decriminalization initiative appeared on any statewide ballot, and voters passed it by what appears to be an overwhelming majority. The measure removes all criminal penalties for possessing an ounce or less of marijuana — replacing it with a $100 fine, which can be paid through the mail without lawyers or court appearances, just like a speeding ticket. And Michigan voters passed MPP's medical marijuana initiative, making Michigan the first Midwestern state to permit medical marijuana use by seriously ill patients (and the 13th in the U.S.). Michigan now becomes the second largest medical marijuana state in the country (second only to California). And as a result of tonight's victory, almost one quarter of the nation now resides in states with medical marijuana laws. Despite formidable opposition (including lies and dirty tricks from our opponents), common sense won — in large part because of thousands of MPP supporters who donated as generously as they could to both campaign committees. The majority of these donors don't even live in Michigan or Massachusetts but donated because this is what the movement for changing marijuana laws is all about — a partnership between people across the country, giving whatever they can afford in order to push change forward. The people of Michigan and Massachusetts owe a debt of gratitude to thousands of people in the other 48 states and Washington, D.C., who donated money for victories that they won't personally see in their own states. And this is exactly how it works: In the upcoming two-year cycle, we're going to be choosing a new slate of states, and we'll all pitch in nationwide to pass those too ... which includes passing bills through state legislatures too. I'll have more on our upcoming plans for you soon. But for now, please join me in celebrating two incredible victories. Sincerely, Rob Kampia Executive Director Marijuana Policy Project Washington, D.C. Donor Profile: Kris Millegan Thank you for supporting MPP's efforts to end marijuana prohibition. According to our records, you have never made a financial donation to MPP. Would you please joinMPP today? (If you have contributed financially, please contact us here so we can correct our records.) If you make a one-time donation of $10 today, your ranking for this year would move from the bottom to 5,928. Support the Marijuana Policy Project Raised in '08 $2,208,439 Goal in '08 $3,000,000 MPP will be able to tackle all of the projects in our 2008 strategic plan if you and other allies help us meet this challenge. We are required by federal law to tell you that any donations you make to MPP may be used for political purposes, such as supporting or opposing candidates for federal office. View this message in your browser | Forward this message | Change your e-mail preferences
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Greg Palast and Bobby Kennedy say Steal Back Your Vote! in a Rolling Stone Magazine report.
Begin forwarded message: From: sasha karlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 2, 2008 1:36:55 AM PST To: sasha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NewPacifica] Greg Palast and Bobby Kennedy say Steal Back Your Vote! in a Rolling Stone Magazine report. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please forward--- http://www.stealbackyourvote.org/ http://www.gregpalast.com/sbyv/ New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Joe Scarborough Cites Risk of Ghost in the Machine on Election Day -- Rove/GOP IT Contractor Michael Connell May Have Answers
Begin forwarded message: From: Kyle Hence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 2, 2008 6:40:16 AM PST To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Joe Scarborough Cites Risk of Ghost in the Machine on Election Day -- Rove/GOP IT Contractor Michael Connell May Have Answers */MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Cites Risk of Ghost in the Machine on Election Day -- Rove/GOP IT contractor Michael Connell may have answers -- / === Just now at top of the show on Morning Joe on MSNBC, here is a **rush transcript:* MB (Bzrezinksi): Polls are getting hard to read at this point. JS (Scarborough): Well, they are because they're all, almost all in Barack Obama's corner at this point so if you are the Barack Obama campaign you really only have two things to worry about. One, complacency on part of your supporters which can be very, very damaging impact on the campaign or number two, that *there's a ghost in the machine*. That somehow these polls are going to be incorrect like the polls that assured Barack Obama was going to lock up the Democratic nomination after New Hampshire. Of course we know that didn't happen. So... Outside of that though, the landscape looks awefully blue for Tuesday. It looks like possible a Barack Obama landslide, again, unless those polls are off three, four, five points. MB: Hard to say at this point but we are getting close. = What sort of /ghost/ might lurk in the election machinery? Perhaps we should all look to 2000 and 2004 for answers or clues? Does top /Rove/GOP IT contractor Michael Connell have answers?/ See: /*2004 Ohio votes were re-routed through pro-GOP servers *DIGG this story... /http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Documents_reveal_how_Ohio_routed_2004_1031.html The GOP's and Karl Rove's go-to IT Guru, Michael Connell, might have answers...* * */Federal Judge Compels Testimony from Mike Connell/* By John Michael Spinelli -- Saturday, 01 November 2008 12:46 * *http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/205-federal-judge-compels-testimony-from-bushmccain-computer-expert-monday* /BREAKING: Federal Judge Compels GOP IT Guru Mike Connell To Give Deposition in Ohio '04 Election Case/ *http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6600* /Mike Connell, Rove's IT fixer, ordered to testify on Monday/ *http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mike-Connell-Rove-s-IT-fi-by-Press-Release-081101-733.html
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Slump in stockmarkets wipes out two-thirds of China's billionaires
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 1, 2008 7:14:13 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Slump in stockmarkets wipes out two-thirds of China's billionaires Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/01/china-recession-super-rich- billionaire Slump in stockmarkets wipes out two-thirds of China's billionaires Tania Branigan in Beijing The Guardian, Saturday November 1 2008 larger | smaller larger | smaller Who wants to be a billionaire? More than 40 impoverished Chinese tycoons, who have lost their platinum status thanks to the world's financial turmoil. Louis Vuitton, Cartier and Bentley should perhaps be bracing themselves for leaner times. The combined worth of the country's 400 richest people has plummeted by 40% to a mere $173bn (£100bn) since last year, new research has shown. That has slashed the number of Chinese billionaires from 66 in 2007 to just 24. It would have been even lower without the yuan's rise against the dollar. A 60% plunge in the Chinese stockmarket, and a 50% drop in Hong Kong shares, has wiped hundreds of millions of dollars off the biggest fortunes. The top 40 lost an even larger proportion - $68bn, or 57% - according to Forbes magazine, which compiles the annual rich list. Yang Huiyuan, the property heiress who topped last year's list, is the biggest loser. Her net worth dropped a staggering $14bn, leaving her with $2.2bn - merely enough to scrape in at third place. Property magnates dominated 2007's list. But the sales have slumped this year - wiping out 98% of Cheung Chung Kiu's fortune. Last year, the boss of the developer CC Land stood at number 26. Now he is outside the top 400. You can't really believe it, said Zhang Xin, who runs another well- known property firm, Soho China. She lost two-thirds of her fortune but clung on to billionaire status with her remaining $1.2bn. Yet, like many, she was optimistic about the future: We'll ride with the next wave, she told Forbes. Manufacturing businesses have also suffered, cutting the fortune of Yan Cheung to only $265m. The head of Nine Dragons Paper, China's largest packaging maker, was previously one of only 10 self-made female billionaires in the world. And Larry Yung of Citic Pacific lost more than $500m in a single day. But Zhou Chengjian bucked the trend by climbing 351 places to fifth spot after his fashion firm boosted his wealth to $2bn. More bad news may be on its way for the newly impecunious - yesterday the benchmark Shanghai composite index slid again. guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Alamaine, IVe Grand Forks, ND, US of A ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) Being ignorant is not such a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758 (Benjamin Franklin) ~~~ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half- truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. OmYahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Follow the M3 money to hell
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3923.shtml AnalysisLast Updated: Oct 27th, 2008 - 00:04:34 Follow the M3 money to hell By Jerry Mazza Online Journal Associate Editor Oct 27, 2008, 00:21 Email this article Printer friendly page Let me not keep you in the dark. As Wikipedia states, our money supply has three large components. M1 is physical currency circulating in the economy plus demand deposits (checking accounts). This measure is used by economists to try and quantify the amount of money in circulation. M1 is the most liquid measure of money supply since it only contains cash and assets quickly usable for conversion to currency. Hang in. M2 is MI + time deposits, savings deposits and non-institutional money- market funds. M2 is a wider category of money than M1. It’s also used to quantify the volume of money in circulation and to explain economic conditions. M3 is the biggie. It’s M2 + M1 + large deposits, institutional money-market funds, short-term repurchase agreements, and other larger liquid assets. It’s the broadest measure of money used to estimate total supply of money in the economy. The Fed used to publish data on all three money descriptors. But for some strange reason (couldn’t be saving money as they claimed because they never save money), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve discontinued publishing data on M3 (which contain all data on M1 + M2 =M3) on March 23, 2006. M3 also included balances in institutional money funds, repurchase liabilities issued by depository institutions and Eurodollars held by US residents at foreign branches of US banks, in fact at all banks in the United Kingdom and Canada. In other words, M3 tracked what the fat cats were doing with their bucks. You have to think, why would the Fed do this? Of all three categories, M3 was your best bet to track inflation, i.e., to monitor what the Free-Market’s “Invisible Hand” was picking from your pocket through inflation, sometimes called “the hidden tax” because that’s just what it is. When the government runs off some extra funny money rest assured it’s to spend it. And you get the tab. It would be, as InflationData.com editor Tim McMahon described it, “like writing checks from an account that was empty.” You would end up in the slammer. Nevertheless, that’s what the criminal Fed (and the government) is doing when it creates money out of air. To see the result, go back to Wiki’s Money Supply and scroll down to “Money Supplies Around the World,” the United States chart for M1, M2, M3 since 1959. You will see the widest expansion of dollars is in M3. You might ask yourself where were all the big bucks going. Also of interest at Wikipedia’s Money Supply is to scroll down to “Bank Reserves at Central Bank,” which discusses how a central bank can ease the flow of money by purchasing government securities in the open market, or tightening the flow by selling securities on the open market and pulling in money. Also, along with that control, up until the 1970s, the government said that banks had to keep a fraction on deposit of what they loaned out. Let’s say that would be $1 on every $10 dollars. This was to prevent a total freeze-up in case of a run on banks, like the one in 1929. “However,” as Wiki says, “in the 1970s [the Nixon Era] the reserve requirements on deposits started to fall with the emergence of money market funds, which require no reserves. Then in the early 1990s [the GHW Bush era], reserve requirements were dropped to zero on savings deposits, CDs, and Eurodollar deposits. At present, reserve requirements apply only to “transactions deposits“ -- essentially checking accounts. The vast majority of funding sources used by private banks to create loans are not limited by bank reserves. Most commercial and industrial loans are financed by issuing large denomination CDs. Money market deposits are largely used to lend to corporations who issue commercial paper. Consumer loans are also made using savings deposits, which are not subject to reserve requirements. These loans can be bunched into securities and sold to somebody else, taking them off of the bank’s books.” Call that the beginning of the end. “Therefore, neither commercial nor consumer loans are any longer limited by bank reserves. Since 1995 the amount of consumer loans has steadily increased, while bank reserves have generally remained constant . . .” Here, too we find the blueprint for disaster, which actually occurred in the Savings and Loan debacle,” beginning in the Reagan Era, 1981, ending in the GHW Bush era, 91-92. I leave that fiasco for your perusal. The point of it all has to do with Free Market deregulation of bank lending rules and the lack of lending transparency. Hiding the growing debt Returning to March of 2006, McMahon points out the US Trade deficit was running about
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Three British evangelicals cast blame on each other
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 26, 2008 5:20:06 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Three British evangelicals cast blame on each other Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/oct/27/tirana-orphanage-child-abuse- trial Three British evangelicals cast blame on each other in trials over child abuse at Albanian orphanage o Edinburgh charity worker set up home for refugees o Ten boys aged four to 13 testify against Britons Paul Lewis in Tirana The Guardian, Monday October 27 2008 Article history The orphanage, a large brick house in Tirana's old quarter, promised shelter to the city's abandoned street children, who came barefoot and clutching siblings in search of a place to rebuild their lives. For five years, dozens of boy and girls passed through the gates of 32 Dervish Hekali Street, run by British missionaries in Albania's capital. But what should have been a sanctuary for vulnerable boys and girls became the site of one of eastern Europe's most shocking child sex abuse scandals. Three evangelical Britons, including the director of the orphanage, David Brown, have been accused of abusing children in their care. The trials of Brown, 57, and two helpers at his shelter - Dino Christodoulou, 45, a social therapy nurse from Blackburn in Lancashire, and Robin Arnold, 56, a salesman from Cromer in Norfolk - have barely been reported outside Albania. But disturbing testimony from children delivered by video link to a small Tirana court will have far-reaching repercussions for child protection mechanisms between the UK and other countries. Who knew what about the abuse, how and when, are questions that have yet to be fully answered. The men themselves, in interviews with the Guardian inside their prison, did not deny that the abuse took place; instead they blamed each other for acts that have horrified Albania. But there are some facts about the story that has been unfolding in district court one that nobody disputes. It was in early 2000 that Brown, a charity worker from Edinburgh, travelled to Albania to help refugees who had crossed the border, fleeing the conflict in Kosovo. He encountered neglected Gypsy children begging on the streets and supported them with food and money. The following year, with support from churches in Albania and the UK, he set about opening an orphanage which, claiming to be receiving instructions from God, Brown named His Children. Missionaries affiliated with churches as far away as Oklahoma travelled to Tirana to care for the children and give Bible lessons. Brown became a well- known figure in Tirana; a tall man with a thick, white beard, he was often seen scouring the city's streets for children in need. He bought me biscuits, a coke and gave me 500 lek [£3.20], said one of Brown's first recruits to the orphanage, Nazmi Tatushi, now 21. I had no shoes. No haircut. Stinking. One of four young men who live in an apartment paid for by Brown, and have testified in his favour in court, Tatushi added: David said to me: my son, why don't you come to my house? He was a good man for the street kids in Albania. Only ever did we see love in that house. That, according to the testimony of other children, would soon change. By 2004 Brown, who worked with children for 35 years in Scotland, had developed a tense relationship with Albanian social workers, who complained his home lacked the facilities for 40 children and babies. By his own admission he failed to check the backgrounds of all the missionary volunteers who were given unsupervised access to children. He also allowed two young boys into his bed when they complained of nightmares, something he later described as naive. When, in October that year, children began to speak about being sexually abused at the home, Brown, who was at first not named by the children as a perpetrator, devised a plan with the help of a close-knit group of evangelical Christians to keep the complaints secret from the Albanian authorities. Brown said he concealed the sexual abuse suffered by children at his orphanage from the Albanian authorities because he feared they would close the shelter, and now regretted doing so. Christodoulou and Arnold were banned from the orphanage after Brown said children had identified them as abusers. Eighteen months later, in May 2006, the scandal made headline news across the country after Albanian police and social services raided the orphanage and arrested Brown following a tip-off about allegations of sexual abuse. Ten boys, aged between four and 13, eventually told police they had been sexually abused by one or more of the three Britons, who have been charged with homosexual relations with minors. Christodoulou and Arnold were extradited to Albania in May. In some cases the children claimed to have been bound to a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The SAS: Prince Philip's manager of terrorism
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 22, 2008 6:11:05 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The SAS: Prince Philip's manager of terrorism This article appears in the October 13, 1995 issue of Executive Intelligence Review. The SAS: Prince Philip's manager of terrorism by Joseph Brewda On the eve of the first of six scheduled French nuclear weapons tests in the South Pacific atoll of Mururoa in September, Greenpeace, an offshoot of Prince Philip's World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), carried out a series of violent protests. A Greenpeace team somehow managed to penetrate the highly militarized nuclear test zone. French authorities revealed that the team was led by two highly trained retired professionals from the British Army's Special Air Services (SAS), its elite paratrooper and commando arm. "They are people used to operations which have nothing to do with ecology," commented the French Security Services commander on the scene. The incident points to the fact that SAS is active in international terrorism today, and that the motives behind its deployment are different than those of its patsies. As this report will show, SAS deployment is a key component of the "afghansi." SAS has a special role derived from the fact that it operates outside the British government command structure, and is directly beholden to the Sovereign. Formed in 1941 by Lt. Col. David Stirling, it has always drawn on the highest levels of the Scottish oligarchical families for its officer corps. Stirling himself was from the Fraser family (the Lords Lovat), one of the oldest and wealthiest of the Scottish Highland families. Closely associated with the royal family throughout his career, Stirling served as the "Goldstick" at Queen Elizabeth's 1952 coronation. The Goldstick is the royal household official solemnly mandated with securing the Sovereign's protection. Until his death in 1990, Stirling was a principal military adviser for Prince Philip's World Wide Fund for Nature, the royal family's most important private intelligence agency, and an organization bankrolled by his uncle, Lord Lovat, and his cousin, the Hongkong banker Henry Keswick. Together with its numerous private security company spinoffs, SAS is the military arm of the WWF. SAS methods and procedures According to the British Army handbook, the SAS is "particularly suited, trained, and equipped for counter-revolutionary operations," with a specialization in "infiltration," "sabotage," "assassination," as well as "liaison with, organization, training, and control of friendly guerrilla forces operating against the common enemy." From its inception in World War II, Special Air Services was detailed to run sabotage behind enemy lines and to organize popular revolt, at first in North Africa, and then in the Balkans, where another Stirling cousin, Fitzroy Maclean, ran British operations. At the end of the war, SAS was disbanded, but it was soon revived to crush the Malay insurgency in Malaysia, and the Mau Mau insurgency in Kenya. The principle employed was to take over the insurgency from within, and use it to destroy the native population. In his 1960 book Gangs and Countergangs, Col. Frank Kitson boasted that the British were covertly leading several large-scale Mau Mau units, and that many, if not all Mau Mau units had been synthetically created by the colonial authorities. As a result of this practice, 22 whites were killed during the insurgency, as compared to 20,000 natives. Based on this principle, SAS emphasized recruitment of natives, as it received increasing responsibilities for overseeing counterinsurgency within the postwar empire, as well as organizing insurgencies elsewhere. In New Zealand, 30% of SAS was drawn from the indigenous Maori tribes, later supplemented by Sarawak tribesmen from Indonesia. By the 1960s, New Zealand SAS was active throughout Southeast Asia, organizing tribal revolts against the Burmese government, and stirring similar movements in Northeast India. Similarly, SAS squadrons based in Rhodesia ran the 1960s tribal separatist insurgency in Zaire. They later recruited and deployed natives in terrorist raids in Mozambique and Zambia. Today, there are three known SAS regiments, comprising 4,500 highly trained commandos in total. Training exercises for 15-man teams simulate terrorist assaults, in order, it is said, to "know the mind of the terrorist." Such teams are often sent abroad, to train British Commonwealth and other military units in the techniques of terrorist assault, as well as the use of tribal auxiliaries in covert warfare. Through such means, SAS has built an extensive terrorist control capability, especially in its former colonies. Its soldiers currently serve officially in some 30 countries. 'Private' means 'Her Majesty's' In order to facilitate its role as a disavowable arm of royal household covert operations, SAS has spun off a series of private security and mercenary recruitment firms
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Stocks fall as investors weigh corporate forecasts
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 22, 2008 1:09:02 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Stocks fall as investors weigh corporate forecasts - Original Message - Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 11:26 AMSubject: Stocks fall as investors weigh corporate forecastsNEW YORK – Wall Street tumbled again Wednesday as investors shifted theirfocus from improving credit markets to worrisome corporate profit forecaststhat are raising fears of a deep economic slowdown. The major indexes fellmore than 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lostabout 350 points.While reduced strains in world credit markets have eased some investors'nervousness about the economy, market anxiety remains high as hundreds ofcompanies this week release third-quarter results and in some casesfourth-quarter forecasts that offer a glimpse of the rough conditions thatmay lay ahead.Wachovia Corp., which is being bought by Wells Fargo Co., said it swung toa huge loss in the third quarter while the drugmaker Merck Co. said itsquarterly profit fell 28 percent and that it would cut more than 10 percentof its work force.Commercial and personal property insurer Travelers Cos. saidhurricane-related losses pushed its third-quarter profit down 82 percent andforced it to lower its full-year forecast.John Thornton, co-portfolio manager at Stephens Investment Management GroupLLC in Houston, said investors' fear has shifted from the immediate concernsabout tightness in credit and the resulting difficulty in borrowing to thebroader economy as companies come out with their quarterly numbers."Even if it weren't for the credit crisis we'd probably be looking toward apretty tough recession anyway," he said. "The third-quarter earnings arekind of uninspiring but third quarter hasn't been the real concern ofpeople. I think the concern is the depth and duration of the downturn andthe effect it's going to have on earnings."In early afternoon trading, the Dow fell 357.14, or 3.95 percent, to8,676.52 after being down 412 points in the early going. On Tuesday, the Dowretreated 231 points after forecasts from DuPont Co., Sun Microsystems Inc.and Texas Instruments Inc. raised fears about the economy.Broader stock indicators also fell. The Standard Poor's 500 index fell40.25, or 4.21 percent, to 914.80, and the Nasdaq composite index fell44.07, or 2.60 percent, to 1,652.61.Meanwhile, credit markets showed more signs of improvement after virtuallyfreezing up last week. Bank-to-bank lending rates fell sharply overnight,indicating that credit is becoming easier to obtain. The London InterbankOffered Rate, or Libor, on three-month loans in dollars fell to 3.54 percentfrom 3.83 percent, dropping for an eighth straight day.Demand for Treasury bills, regarded as the safest assets around, grewslightly compared to the previous day as economic worries led investors toshun risky assets in favor of government bonds.The three-month Treasury bill yielded 0.99 percent, down from 1.07 percentlate Tuesday. The levels are a notable improvement from the 0.20 percentseen last Wednesday, when investors were willing to take the slimmest ofreturns in exchange for a safe place to keep their money.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite itsprice, fell to 3.62 percent from 3.74 percent late Tuesday. The dollar wassharply higher against other major currencies, while gold prices fell."We're making slow progress and confidence is returning but we're still notthere yet," said Christopher Cordaro, chief investment officer atRegentAtlantic Capital LLC in Chatham, N.J.He said the latest batch of quarterly results, which cover results throughSept. 30, don't reflect the full brunt of the credit freeze-up felt thismonth and the nervousness among some consumers following the stock market'sswoon. While he expects corporate results will continue to worsen he alsosaid the markets remain "in panic mode" and that investors are perhaps beingoverly dour in their assessment of how the economy will perform in the nextfew years."When you look at the fundamentals of equities around the world stocks areselling for very cheap prices," he said. "Behaviorally people projecttoday's current bad news much further out into the future than they should."In corporate news, ATT Inc. said its third-quarter earnings rose 5.5percent but missed analyst expectations in part because of strong sales ofiPhones, which the carrier subsidizes. The stock fell $1.59, or 6.2 percent,to $24.14.37.90 +1.57 +4.32Other companies reporting results were mixed. Travelers rose $1.57, or 4.3percent, to $37.90, while Wachovia fell 20 cents, or 3.3 percent, to $5.89.Merck slid $1.14, or 3.8 percent, to $28.83.Thornton said the latest corporate forecasts are difficult to rely onbecause companies are grappling with many of the same unknowns thatinvestors are struggling with about the extent of weakness in the economy."These markets are making it
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Treasury Blacks Out Key Parts of Private Bailout Contracts
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 22, 2008 1:53:47 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Treasury Blacks Out Key Parts of Private Bailout Contracts Treasury Blacks Out Key Parts of Private Bailout ContractsDavid SirotaHuffington PostOctober 22, 2008Remember how Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson promised full transparency in spending the $700 billion bailout money? And remember how bailout opponents predicted that the failure to mandate such transparency would allow all sorts of Halliburton-style shenanigans? From the looks of the first private contracts issued by the Treasury Department, it looks like the bailout opponents were correct.As flagged by BailoutSleuth.com, Paulson is blacking out the sections of government contracts that spell out how much private firms will be paid for their services in administering taxpayer money. Here’s a page from the compensation part of a contract with Bank of New York, which has been hired to do some of the bookkeeping (because, of course, the Bush administration is happy to privatize that function):And here’s a page from the compensation part of a Treasury contract with law firm Simpson Thatcher Bartlett - a firm being hired to provide "legal advice" to the government:Think these are doctored images? Check them out yourself on Treasury’s website - the first contract is here (blacked out section on page 25 of the PDF) and the second contract is here (blacked out section on page 5 of the PDF). a.. A d v e r t i s e m e n t b..So, just to review - within just a few weeks of the bailout passing, our government is blacking out the parts of public contracts that explain how much taxpayer cash private contractors are going to be paid. Perhaps this is what Paulson meant when he promised transparency - by posting these blacked out contracts on the Treasury website, the government is being transparent about exactly where it is being secretive. But I don’t think that definition of transparency really flies, do you?Of course, I wish I was surprised about this - but one of the major reasons I was opposed to this bailout from the beginning was because (as I and others repeatedly wrote) there is no real transparency at all. Now we know what "no transparency at all" really means.The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.infowars.com/?p=5466Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = www.infowars.com.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Holy Roman Empire end as the United States of Belgium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire Holy Roman Empire[1] ← 962 – 1806 ↓ FlagCoat of arms Banner of the Holy Roman EmperorCoat of arms of Maximilian II Location of Holy Roman Empire The extent of the Holy Roman Empire around 1600, superimposed over modern European state borders. Capital Varied over time Language(s) Latin, Germanic, Romance and Slavic dialects ReligionRoman Catholicism Government Monarchy Emperor For the full list of Holy Roman Emperors, see Holy Roman Emperor. Legislature Reichstag Historical era Middle Ages - Otto I crowned Emperor of Italy 2 February, 962 - Conrad II assumes crown of Burgundy 1034 - Peace of Augsburg 25 September 1555 - Peace of Westphalia 24 October 1648 - Disestablished 6 August 1806 Preceded by Succeeded by East Francia Old Swiss Confederacy Dutch Republic Confederation of the Rhine Austrian Empire First French Empire Kingdom of Prussia United States of Belgium=
Fwd: [cia-drugs] Luciferianism: The Religion of Apotheosis
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 14, 2008 2:52:21 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] Luciferianism: The Religion of Apotheosis This argument, ethnically Judeocentric and fundamentally ignorant of ancient history, ascribes malicious intent to philosophers where there was none. The Luciferian mystery religions of the classical age owe their existence to the 1st Millennium BC Indo-European myth of the Titan (old god) Prometheus, CREATOR of mankind -- man's teacher and benefactor who stole fire [=crafts] from heaven, thereby incurring the wrath of rival younger wannabe gods, who punished him for that misdeed with a CRUCIFIXION, chaining him to a rock atop the mountain at the center of the world, i.e., the celestial pole). That event -- the theft of fire and the subsequent curse placed on the Titans Prometheus, his brother Epimetheus, and Prometheus' or Epimetheus' wife [depending on the version] Pandora for their love for the ape species Homo sapiens-- occurred within the larger context of a war in Heaven, the revolt of jealous second-generation gods (the Olympians) against the original gods, the Titans, who governed Nature, until violently overthrown by Zeus, who initiated his coup d'etat by castrating his father Cronus (who had presided over what the classical era described as the Golden Age') and imprisoning him and his fellow Titans in Tartarus, in the bowels of the earth. The Olympian gods' only powers were gained SECOND-HAND, from inheritance (being children of those Titans) and ultimately by theft, through their rebellion against the laws of Nature -- a CRIME whose GUILT left Zeus, a Johnny-come-lately king of the gods, perpetually paranoid, fearing that HIS son would rob HIM of power in exactly the same way. (That is not a conjecture; it is implicit in the oldest form of the myths recounted by Homer and Hesiod and explicit in classic Greek tragedy.) Hence the only legacy inherited by any of Zeus' sons and potential heirs was a Prometheus-like punishment, being cast out of Heaven (as were both Hephaestus and Hercules, originally the same character) by their own father, a jealous god (meaning, just as in Hebrew, jealously guarding his own power). Zeus must have looked on with horror as Hercules, in exile on earth, began to express sympathy for the Titans, first by relieving Atlas (supporting the earth on his shoulders) of his burden and then by journeying to meet Prometheus himself, his great uncle ... In short, the oldest creation myths of civilization itself are centered on a human-friendly Luciferian god at odd with a usurper deity who became king of the gods through a coup d'etat, an act of treason attended by other crimes that resulted in the loss of a Golden Age and brought us all into our modern age of misery. The archaic Greek mythology of Prometheus and the Olympians' war with the Titans is just a more fully explicated version of themes present more anciently (ca. 1000 BC) in Indo-European theology, traces of it found for example in Hindu and Persian myth, which likewise attest to a cosmic dualism (cf. Daevas vs Asuras, analogous to the Scandinavian/Germanic Vanir vs. Aesir) fundamentally rooted NOT in good versus evil so much as new versus old, with the new gods viewed as good by a (foreign, colonial?) ELITE but as evil by the god-oppressed masses. In short, its Dualism is fundamentally a product of CLASS-CONSCIOUSNESS -- a projection of socioeconomic inequity and conflict into the divine realm. The same dualism of upper and lower (class) deities expressed in Indo-European religion is found also in Hittite and Canaanite myth in Asia Minor, the Near East, which must be viewed as originally the colonial frontier of of older civilizations in the Middle East, Akkadian and Sumerian. There too, even millennia earlier, we find the same cosmic dualism with the identical class division of ruling-class vs peasant-friendly deities. Indeed, in the oldest theology known to man, the Sumerian, government of the cosmos was divided more or less equally between two gods, Enki and Enlil, who were always at odds about what to do with the trivial human species. The titular supreme god, Enlil (precursor of El [Yahweh] and Allah) of Heaven (the sky), was a raging storm god, strong in battle, who despised human beings and tried to destroy the species with a Great Flood, whereas his rival Enki the ancient one, the god of fertile nature, was wise, compassionate, and always mankind's friend and benefactor (by trickery he helped a few humans survive Enlil's Flood). But Enlil was the god worshipped by the warrior-kings and their sacrificial priests, so it was he who went on to become the only God as those warrior-kings spread their power across the Near East into Canaan, where he was
[cia-drugs] Fwd: StepFather bank
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 14, 2008 11:31:24 PM PDT To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: StepFather bank IS THIS THE START OF THE BANK RUNNING EVERYTHING? A SUPERCONGLOMERATE IS HATCHING WE WILL BE LED into a one world financial system? EVERYBODY IN HOCK TO Stepfather Bank* Steve Watson Infowars.net Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008 Like him or loathe him, last night CNN’s Glenn Beck became the only mainstream media source thus far to address on national TV the reality of the situation Americans are facing with the manufactured financial implosion - the direct threat of domestic martial law and a global financial dictatorship. Beck’s guest, Peter Schiff, respected author of “Crash Proof” and president of the brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital, joined him in outlining that martial law, the use of armed troops on the streets to quell dissent, is a real possibility should the economic crisis not improve or worsen to the point where civil unrest is fomented. The following exchange between Beck and Schiff, who was also economic adviser to Ron Paul during his presidential campaign, is from the CNN transcript of last night’s show: SCHIFF: You know, what`s going to happen, of course, is as inflation starts running out of control and prices start going through the roof, the government again is going to focus on the symptoms and not the disease. And they`re going to impose price controls on energy, on food, on a lot of other things that are vital, which means shortages, which means long lines, black markets, civil unrest. All this stuff is coming if we don`t stop. BECK: Peter, let`s talk a little bit about martial law. Why would that even be a consideration? SCHIFF: Well, I don`t think it was a threat if they had rejected the bailout Bill, but I think it is a possibility a few years down the line. We just spoke a little bit about price controls and the effect that they`re going to have. If we have shortages of food, if we have rolling blackouts. And people are upset, and they`re hungry, and they`re cold, there could be civil unrest. There could be looting, rioting, and that might be the impetus for the government to declare martial law. BECK: You know, I don`t think you`re a couple of years away from something like that. I mean, honestly, Peter, I mean, look at what`s happening. In a half hour, I`ve got a congressman on about — about the racism cries. I mean, there are people that are right now so disenfranchised, and I think being encouraged to be disenfranchised on both sides, that at any time this damn thing could break apart. SCHIFF: Yes. And we`re giving the government so much power. And you know, you give up a lot more civil liberties. When you have martial law and you`ve got the military policing our streets, when you`ve got suspension of habeas corpus, you`ve got curfews, you can`t be out of your house after dark, and they can just pick you up and put you in prison and keep you there indefinitely without charges, and there`s nothing you can do about it? I mean, we`re giving up one liberty after another, all to protect ourselves from this economic crisis, which needs to happen anyway, but it doesn`t need to be nearly this bad. BECK: Peter, this is — I mean, we`re in Crazytown, USA. But my gut tells me that, two years down the road — let`s just use that number — this country is not going to look anything like it does today. Our world has changed; it just hasn`t caught up. During the ten minute segment, Beck and Schiff also pointed out that America is headed for Weimar Republic style hyperinflation at the hands of global bankers, stated that the financial implosion has been manufactured by design, warned that the Treasury has been given dictatorial powers and raised the question of whether the end game is a one world currency and one world financial governance. Beck also played the now infamous clip of Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman from October 2nd stating that several members of Congress were threatened before the bailout vote that martial law would be instigated in America if the legislation was not passed. Though Beck was unable to bring Rep. Sherman on to his show, the Congressman did appear exclusively on the Alex Jones show on October 3rd to discuss the threat of martial law. Peter Schiff also appeared on the Alex Jones show recently to discuss this important issue. WHEN THE BANKING SYSTEM CAN DEMAND ALL OF A COUNTRY's MONEY to pay back the malfeasances of some gambling Capitalists who don't go to jail, who can continue their practices, , we have the EMERGENCE of a BANK MONSTER from its cocoon --- STEPFATHER BANK * * Title of a book by Author Dave Poyer where in a near future time, everyone is employed, chipped and there is no actual money in circulation. You work fiched or you don't work. = BACK TO THE EMERGENCE OF
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [narconews] Berger: Video Report: Mexican Army Attacks Civilians in the Indigenous Town of Xoxocotla
Begin forwarded message: From: David B. Briones [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 15, 2008 9:49:00 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [narconews] Berger: Video Report: Mexican Army Attacks Civilians in the Indigenous Town of Xoxocotla Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] October 15, 2008 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, Ever since the passage of the US-spending bill, The Merida Initiative (better knows as “Plan Mexico”), Mexican President Felipe Calderón has increasingly mobilized the Army to repress social movements. Narco News has documented this growing wave of abuses – in Chiapas, in Atenco, in Oaxaca and elsewhere – and now an emboldened and violent government has turned its guns, tanks and helicopters on unions and community organizations in Morelos. Last week, Indigenous residents of Xoxocotla, Morelos raised roadblocks in solidarity with a teacher strike that is approaching its second month: Greg Berger reports: “The teachers of Morelos and the townspeople of Xoxocotla are united in a common struggle to stop the rapid privatization of public resources. Teachers on strike in Morelos are trying to halt a new set of educational reforms they say would open the doors to the participation of private capital in the public education system. Xoxocotla, on the other hand, is desperately trying to save the aquifer which feeds its municipal water system from being sucked dry from private condominium developers who skirt local zoning laws. “…Later that night, between 500 and 1000 members of the Mexican Army from the 24th Military Zone barracks in Cuernavaca were given the order from the National Defense Secretary to assist police in their efforts to dislodge protesters in Xoxocotla. Accompanying these soldiers was a vast mobile arsenal, including humvees, tanks, and helicopters. It is important to note that such use of force can only take place under authorization from the executive branch of the Federal government.” “…Demonstrating the short-sighted nature of the government's strategy, another woman whose brother is among the missing echoed a sentiment I heard many times. ‘Before today many of us didn't even support the teachers' strike. But now we are all with them.’” Read the entirety of Berger’s report, along with a corresponding video report, online at Narco News: http://www.narconews.com From somewhere in a country called América, David B. Briones Webmaster The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 241 Natick, MA 01760 http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page: http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here: http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscribete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en espanol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandes Inscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do ultimo minuto em portugues brasileiro: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasil
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bones Law Firm of Simpson Thacher Chosen By Treasury
Begin forwarded message: From: Aaron Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 13, 2008 7:45:47 AM PDT To: Kris Milligen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linda Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bones Law Firm of Simpson Thacher Chosen By Treasury WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department tapped law firm Simpson Thatcher to provide advice on taking equity stakes in banks as part of its $700 billion rescue plan for the financial sector, Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Neel Kashkari said in a speech Monday. The Treasury is also moving fast on the plan's provision for buying illiquid assets from financial institutions, according to Mr. Kashkari, choosing consultancy Ennis Knupp to help select asset managers for the program. Speaking to an international banking group, Mr. Kashkari detailed several steps the Treasury had taken to ramp up the so-called Troubled Asset Relief Program in the last 10 days, conveying that it is working with utmost speed on the rescue effort. A program as large and complex as this would normally take months -- or even years -- to establish. We don't have months or years, Mr. Kashkari said. Hence, we are moving to implement the TARP as quickly as possible while working to ensure high quality execution. (See the full text of Mr. Kashkari's remarks.) Mr. Kashkari said the Treasury has received more than 200 applications from firms seeking to manage securities or whole loans under the program. He said the winning vendors will be chosen in the next few days. Meanwhile, the Treasury has narrowed its choice of firms to serve as custodian from 70 to 10 and will make a decision within the next 24 hours, he said. Treasury announced early last week that it was seeking bids to help run its asset-purchase program, giving firms 48 hours to apply. Since then, the idea of buying stakes in banks to shore up their capital has quickly gained traction. Mr. Kashkari said Treasury had leeway under the $700 billion plan, which had been sold to lawmakers as a plan to buy bad assets from Wall Street, to buy equity in firms. Treasury worked hard with Congress to build in this flexibility because the one constant throughout the credit crisis has been its unpredictability, Mr. Kashkari said. No formal request of bids was posted by Treasury to oversee such an effort. According to Mr. Kashkari, the Treasury asked six specialist law firms to advise on the equity stakes and received only two proposals. On Friday, it selected Simpson Thatcher, which will begin work this week. The Treasury also asked six firms to apply to help in choosing asset managers. Ennis Knupp was selected from only three firms that submitted proposals. The firm will also begin work immediately. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122390023840728367.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Neel Kashkari Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability and Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economics and Development Neel Kashkari was designated as the Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability on October 6, 2008. In this capacity, Mr. Kashkari oversees the Office of Financial Stability including the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Mr. Kashkari also continues to hold the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Economics and Development, but his International Affairs responsibilities are delegated to Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Clay Lowery while Mr. Kashkari serves as Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability. Mr. Kashkari joined the Treasury Department in July 2006 as Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. In that role, he was responsible for developing the President’s Twenty in Ten energy security plan, enhancing Treasury’s engagement with India, particularly in the area of infrastructure development, and developing and executing the Department’s response to the housing crisis, including the formation of the HOPE NOW Alliance, the development of the subprime fast-track loan modification plan, and Treasury’s initiative to kick-start a covered bond market in the United States. Prior to joining the Treasury Department, Mr. Kashkari was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs Co. in San Francisco, where he led Goldman's IT Security Investment Banking practice, advising public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions and financial transactions. Prior to his career in finance, Mr. Kashkari was a RD Principal Investigator at TRW in Redondo Beach, California where he developed technology for NASA space science missions such as the James Webb Space Telescope. Bachelor's degree, Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; Master's degrees, Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; MBA, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
[cia-drugs] Fwd: JUMP! YOU WALL STREET CRIMINALS
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 13, 2008 3:28:49 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: JUMP! YOU WALL STREET CRIMINALS JUMP! YOU WALL STREET CRIMINALS By Frosty Wooldridge October 13, 2008 NewsWithViews.com A popular picture racing across the Internet last week depicted a man carrying a placard while demonstrating on Wall Street: “Jump you F**!” During the 1929 crash, a number of them leaped to their much deserved deaths! When AIG gorged on an $85 billion bailout, their executives spent $442,000.00 on a weekend retreat to celebrate their fleecing of the American taxpayer. Soon after, Congress passed a whopping $700,000 billion bailout for the rest of the banking industry criminals who wrote five million fraudulent mortgage loans to illegal aliens at no money down. Amazingly enough, both presidential candidates don’t know their financial butts from a gopher hole in the ground, but they, too, voted for the bailout using your money! While in Washington, DC last week attending population-immigration conferences, I listened to a presentation by James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Long Emergency". If I wasn’t sobered at our economic meltdown, I’m down right depressed after hearing him. He said we face an inexorable decline within 36 months. And, he showed the symptoms affecting us today that map our slide into a dangerous future. To make any understanding out of it, I talked to Mike Folkerth, author of "The Biggest Lie Every Believed." He said, “I have received the same e-mail no less than six times that reveals detailed plan which suggests that government should have taken the $85 Billion that was used to bailout AIG and instead to have distributed equally to all American families. “On about line three of the plan; it states that there are approximately 200 Million households in the U.S., each of which would receive $425,000. The plan then goes on to list all of the benefits of such a division. People could pay off their credit cards, pay off their homes, send their kids to college, and so on. The end results would be that all of our problems would be fixed in on slick move. “I only read to line three of the plan before I realized that the author had made a 100,000% error in his math. In reality, each family would have received $425.00. When numbers get into the billions and trillions, it’s hard to keep track of the decimal points and our government is depending on that. But then, using the simplified discipline of Mikemathics, it gets much easier to decipher. “The real point I’m trying to make with the above example, is that if one sets out with a flawed plan, regardless of the intention, the results will not only be flawed, but terribly disappointing. America has a flawed plan. “The collapse of the world monetary system was not a random event caused by pitiable U.S. home lending practices; it was the predictable results of a mathematically defective man-made monetary system that promised something for nothing. “Stop and think for just a moment about what I just said. Do you personally believe that lax mortgage lending standards in the U.S. was capable of bringing down the world economy? If you do, you probably also believe that you can divide 85 billion by 200 million and come up with 425,000. “So then, if mortgage lending didn’t bring down the world, what did?” I’m so happy that you asked. I was dying to tell you. “I know that you get weary of seeing the word “exponential growth” in my writing, so I’ll change it for just today to “geometric growth.” Remember the old horror movie, “The Blob?” For those who don’t, the Blob came to earth from outer-space and looked like a small piece of gooey liver. “The little Blob began eating everything in sight including people and continued to grow larger and larger. Nothing could stop the Blob and it was poised to eat up the whole world as it grew geometrically every day. “Finally, the hero of the show determined that they could freeze the big sucker and put him out of action. As I remember, they flew the frozen Blob to Antarctica where it is un-thawing today due to global warming. Coming soon; BLOB-2. “I’m pretty sure that the writer who invented “The Blog” got his idea from the FED. The FED (or our central banking system) was created in 1913 along with the IRS and they have been consuming everything in sight since that date…including people. “In 1971, the FED-IRS BLOB couldn’t find enough to engulf under the feeding restrictions posed under the existing gold standard, so the Blob handlers (Congress) turned him loose on the world by closing the gold window forever. The un-tethered “FED-IRS Blob” was set free to consume the entire planet; which he did. “Money, by virtue of compounding interest, grows geometrically, like the Blob. Interest is earned and money to pay the interest is then created by the FED and then taken away from us by the IRS. “The newly created interest is then reinvested along with the original
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [eugenecannabistv] Fw: FREE EDDY LEPP! please forward...
Begin forwarded message: From: chris werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 8, 2008 7:50:41 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [eugenecannabistv] Fw: FREE EDDY LEPP! please forward... Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Tue, 10/7/08, O.M.C.C.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: O.M.C.C.C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FREE EDDY LEPP! please forward... To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 12:32 AM want to help? Join us in our effort to FREE EDDY LEPP! Eddy is scheduled to appear in court Dec.2, 2008 to face possibly two life sentences. We hope you will take the time to write the judge and ask for leniency in Eddy's sentencing. Here is a sample letter that we ask all concerned to please sign or write your own and send to Judge Patel. This only takes a few minutes and costs you only 42 cents. Please help. . Your Name Your Address Your City, State and Zip Honorable Judge Marilyn Hall Patel United States District Court Northern District of California Philip E. Burton Courthouse and Federal Building 450 Golden Gate Ave San Francisco, Ca 94102 Re: Federal Sentencing of Reverend Charles Eddy Lepp Dear Judge Patel, I am writing to ask for leniency in the sentencing for Reverend Charles Eddy Lepp, which is scheduled for December 1, 2008 Reverend Charles Eddy Lepp is a Rastafarian Minister, and as such is compelled to provide land assistance to his flock for the cultivation of the sacred herb. Reverend Lepp notified many local, state and federal agencies that he was cultivating cannabis for his ministry based on federal law (RFRA) and California State Law (Proposistion 215), which clearly allow for medical and religious use of cannabis in spite of any DEA classifications. We pray that you treat Reverend Charles Eddy Lepp with leniency, as he was merely allowing others to grow cannabis fr medical and religious use on Church property with no evidence of personal profit; we pray that you remeber his good character and the honor of his word by his compliance of your court orders; and the sincerity of his beliefs that he was allowed to do this under the previously mentioned law. Presently there is a great unfairness with State versus Federal Law concerning cannabis, and good people are getting put in precarious situations and facing criminal records and unfair sentences in Federal Prison for merely growing medicine. Sign your name here and send it in the mail or type up your own letter showing your support. Thank you One Love ~ With care and respect, The O.M.C.C.C. On Sun Oct 5 11:57 , chris werner sent: I called and left a message about coming up today (oct 5th) to talk things over, please give me a call or email to confirm the meeting is happening before I take the drive up from eugene Thanks Chris 541-485-9321 --- On Tue, 9/9/08, O.M.C.C.C. wrote: From: O.M.C.C.C. Subject: Re: Eugene OMCCC and COCT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 12:43 PM Chris, Again I appologies for the wait. Things are very busy on this end. We would love to get together with you at our next OMCCC meeting and discuss what we can do to help you in your endeavors. We've been looking into starting a recomendation clinic up and anything we can do to support this idea. Our next meeting is Sunday Sept. 21st from 4pm to 8 pm. This would be a great time to meet up and further discuss our services and better explain what our Ministry is about. We're excited to work with you, and are willing to help with whatever you need. We have some used supplies right now we can get ahold of if you need some equipment soon. just let us know... If you need a faster way to get in touch with us, feel free to call our business number. (503) 995-6604. if we dont answer we'll get back to you within 24 hours. Thanks for your patience and support. ~ With care and respect, The O.M.C.C.C. On Sun Aug 24 11:32 , chris werner sent: I also noticed a mention of wholesale equipment... Can you tell me a little more about that, I'm about to get a few major things and some savings would be wonderful. I heard the Compassion Center closed due to internal conflict, but the woman who ran the support services that managed donations coming in and out mentioned the doctors are willing to work in a new clinic if she can get it organized. I attended the Willamette Valley Norml meeting yesterday and the compassion center was on the agenda. Someone from MercyCenters was there also and they have been trying to set up a recommendation clinic for some time now, but haven't had any doctor support or a location to hold it. It also look like VoterPower will no longer be holding clinics, meaning no remote clinics in Eugene, so I think THCF is the only place that holds a remote clinic in eugene anymore,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Hold Your Breath! Pelosi says $150B economic stimulus plan needed
Begin forwarded message: From: Kevin White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 8, 2008 1:36:34 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NewPacifica] Hold Your Breath! Pelosi says $150B economic stimulus plan needed Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pelosi says $150B economic stimulus plan needed By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press Writer1 minute ago House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that a $150 billion economic stimulus plan is needed now because of the faltering economy and she may call the House into session after the election to pass it. Pelosi told reporters that the stock market meltdown, which has caused an estimated $2 trillion loss from pension funds, was a factor in her recommendation for a second stimulus bill. The first relief plan sent out $600-$1,200 tax rebate checks to most individuals and couples this year. The House did pass a $61 billion economic aid proposal last month before lawmakers left Capitol Hill ahead of the Nov. 4 election. But a similar plan failed to pass the Senate. President Bush had promised a veto anyway. If Democratic nominee Barack Obama wins the White House and if Capitol Hill Democrats make gains in the elections as well, it might be easier to pass a stimulus measure over dispirited Republicans, especially if the economy remains in big trouble. The Senate is expected to be back at work after Election Day to complete a public lands bill and perhaps deal with other matters, such as a measure to extend unemployment benefits. The House also could return to consider a stimulus plan and additional issues in a lame- duck session before the newly elected Congress takes over in January. We may have to go back into session before the next Congress, Pelosi said. Pelosi said a stimulus package would create jobs by investing in public works, increasing food stamps benefits and extending unemployment insurance for the long-term jobless. She said lawmakers need to hunker down and look closely at the federal budget for possible savings, and reconsider whether the U.S. can afford to fight a war without end in Iraq. We have some very harsh decisions to make and some of them can't wait until January, said Pelosi, D-Calif. What we can't wait for is a stimulus package, Pelosi added. We may have to go back into session before the next Congress. New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!'Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush, Rockefeller and Citibank!!
Begin forwarded message: From: Aaron Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 6, 2008 12:42:17 PM PDT To: Kris Milligen [EMAIL PROTECTED], Linda Minor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush, Rockefeller and Citibank!! When asking yourself why George W. Bush was involved with the brokering of a bank merger between Citibank and (part of)Wachovia, even though the U.S. Government knew that Wells Fargo was preparing what would very likely be a superior deal(limiting taxpayer risk, increasing Wachovia shareholder value and providing a home for all Wachovia lines-of-business and employees). Perhaps it has something to do with close relationship between the Bush and Rockefeller families, and preserving their families' fortunes in Citibank stock!! Percy Avery Rockefeller (1878–1934) was the son of William Rockefeller and his wife, Almira Geraldine Goodsell. He attendedYale University from 1897 to 1900, where he was also a member of the 1900 class of Skull Bones. Rockefeller was founder and Vice President of Owenoke Corporation; a board director of Air Reduction Company, American International Corporation, Atlantic Fruit Company, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, BowmanBiltmore Hotels Company, Cuba Company, Chile Copper Company, Consolidated Gas Company, Greenwich Trust Company, W. A. Harriman Co. Brown Brothers Harriman Company, Mesabi Iron Company, National City Bank of New York, National City Company, New York Edison Company, North American Reassurance Company, National Surety Company, Provident Loan Society, Remington Arms Company, United Electric Light Power Company, Western Union Telegraph Company; and a trustee of John Sterling, Yale-1863. He married Isabel Goodrich Stillman, daughter of First National City Bank president James Stillman (now known as Citibank), onApril 23, 1901. Their daughter Isabel Stillman (Rockefeller) Lincoln was a bride's maid at the wedding of Dorothy Walker andPrescott Sheldon Bush. Isabel Rockefeller Lincoln was born in Ardsley-on-the-Hudson, New York on 23 June 1902. Her father, Percy Avery Rockefeller, was one of the richest financiers and industrialists of his time. Percy was the son of William Rockefeller, who made a fortune from the Standard Oil Co. Isabel's maternal grandfather, James Jewett Stillman, was an immensely wealthy banker and President of theNational City Bank. She attended Westover School. Isabel was a member of Junior League, of which she took an active part. She became a member of the advisory board and helped produce a play called Ready Made. She also performed singing and dancing numbers. She studied bacteriology at Columbia University for three years, and then went to Europe for 5 months with her mother. She was a frequent face in New York high society since her introduction in 1920. In January 1925, a false rumor was spread that she was to marry Alexander Thayer, son of Russell Thayer of Philadelphia. In June 1925, it was announced that she would marry Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr. Her cousin William Avery Rockefeller II was married to a sister of Frederick Lincoln, Jr. The day before Isabel's marriage to Mr. Lincoln, a large party was held in their honour by William Avery Rockefeller II. The wedding was held on 26 September 1925 at Christ Episcopal Church in Greenwich, Connecticut by Rev. John Lewis. The day after the wedding, the newlyweds were again honoured at a large function at the Field Club of Greenwich. A week-long honeymoon in Buenos Aires followed in November. As with many of her relatives, she all but disappeared from social life after her marriage. She died on 23 March 1980. Frederic Walker Lincoln, Jr. (15 October 1898, New York City - 7 April 1968, Greenwich, Connecticut) was born the son ofFrederic Walker Lincoln, Sr. and was married into the Rockefeller family. He was educated at Pomfret School, and graduated fromPrinceton University in 1921. Prior to graduation he served as a sergeant in the aviation section of the Army Signal Corps. Upon graduation, Lincoln joined the export-import firm H.W. Peabody Co. He fought in World War II in the Naval Air Reserve, retiring with the rank of commander. Lincoln was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the New York Medical College and the Fowler and Fifth Avenue Hospital, until 1965. In the same year he was awarded an honorary degree from the New York Medical College. He was married to Isabel, daughter of Percy Avery Rockefeller, and granddaughter of William Rockefeller and James Jewett Stillman. His children were Florence (married William Rockefeller, George Sloane, Bartow Farr), twins Frederic and Isabel, Hope (married Reginald Gorton Coombe), and Mary Polly (married to Sidney Linier) * Hope Lincoln was also a bride's maid at the wedding of Dorothy Walker and Prescott Sheldon Bush. James Stillman
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Bankruptcy of the United States
Begin forwarded message: From: APFN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 6, 2008 4:08:52 PM PDT To: APFN Yahoogroups [EMAIL PROTECTED], APFN GOOGLE GROUP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: _Fox News [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Gertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] , charles goyette [EMAIL PROTECTED], CNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] , Hardball [EMAIL PROTECTED], Helen Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lou Dobbs Tonight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Bankruptcy of the United States Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Bankruptcy of the United States http://www.apfn.net/DOC-100_bankruptcy.htm 9/11 Was Big. This Is Bigger. The Bankruptcy of The United States The Income Tax is Illegal Why We Must Form a New Nation... SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT RALLY THE OKLAHOMA PROTEST Meet The IRS, America's Enemy From Within... The fast is over! Redress of grievances Refusal of Govt Officials to answer questions About Fort Knox Gold FOLLOW THE MONEY! Schult'z Letter to the IRS.. The Hard Facts Nobody Knows About The Federal Reserve and the National Debt Why You Should Start A Bank Of Your Own The Declining Dollar The Fed Wilson Dear We The People-Taxes The Recalcitrant IRS Recent IRS announcement to ban recording at appeals hearings The 16th Amendment was not ratified! The Income Tax is therefore illegal Reference the Money Trust Investigation conducted prior to 1913 'Tax Honesty' Forum Opens In DC Congress has been put on formal notice Truth-In-Taxation Hearing Questions Part 1 Truth-In-Taxation Hearing Questions Part 2 Restoration of Fiscal Integrity to our monetary system The Sad Story Of The Privately Owned Federal Reserve Bank Congressman McFadden's Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 1 Congressman McFadden's Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 2 Congressman McFadden's Speech Before the Attempts on His Life, Part 3 President John F. Kennedy More Congressmen Respond. More of same: Insolence! MY REMONSTRANCE Chester L McWhorter What is needed to restore our Nations Fiscal Integrity A Plan Chief Justice Admits No Failure to File Income Tax Law Exists! Together, With Force A Monetary Trail---Follow the Bread Crumbs The Injustice of Income Tax...Alan Keyes 9/11 Was Big. This Is Bigger. = Ron Paul: Bailout Unconstitutional THE PLAN MY SUGGESTIONS ARE THAT: http://www.apfn.net/Doc-100_bankruptcy35.htm 1..You, President Bush, in a public address via TV/Radio, discuss the state of whatever,, and during the course of your discussions calmly comment on the congressional hearings that were coming up in February. Then announce that you were rescheduling the meetings yourself, and then continue on to other subjects; 2..You, President Bush, cause the Sec of the Treasury to comment, via some media or other, the fact that the Bush Administration is unhappy with the income tax provisions as they stand and, that the Republican members of Congress have scheduled future hearings to determine the legality of such tax; 3..You, President Bush, issue an Executive Order to the Secretary of the Treasury directing him to direct the IRS to cease and desist any and all activities regarding the taking of peoples or business's real or personal property [see the 4th and 5th amendments to The Constitution] pending the results of these hearings; 4..You, President Bush, issue an Executive Order to the Sec of the Treasury placing any and all Federal income taxes collected to date, and to be collected for the year 2002, into an escrow account with all monies to be returned to the source of such taxes if the results of this Congressional Hearing does in fact prove to the Government and more importantly TO THE PEOPLE, repeat, TO THE PEOPLE, that such taxes as now being collected are indeed illegal. Right now we have a government of the CFR, by the CFR, and for the CFR; 5..You, President Bush, after the hearings are terminated, and BEFORE Congress has a chance to publish its findings, (which would probably end up in the Congressional Register which no one including Members of Congress ever read anyway), issue an Executive Order declaring that after serious, and very detailed study by members of your staff,( repeat, your staff, not the staff of the Socialist Democrats ), of all the evidence presented during the Congressional hearings, you have determined that the Federal Income Tax is in fact an illegal tax, that the 16th Amendment was not legally ratified, therefore the collection of such tax is denied pending resolution of the dilemma by Congress; 6..You, President Bush, issue a request to Congress to initiate action to establish a National Sales Tax, so-called Value Tax, TO BE PAID DIRECTLY TO THE UNITED STATES TREASURY, (repeat, TO BE PAID DIRECTLY TO THE U. S. TREASURY, Not one of the so called banks of the Federal Reserve, Not to the IRS which is just a funnel to the IMF and the Bankers), of 7.0% on the sales of any and everything except,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Fwd: [NewPacifica] She's read them all -- But can't name a single one...
Begin forwarded message: From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 1, 2008 7:29:08 AM PDT To: CTRL ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] Fwd: [NewPacifica] She's read them all -- But can't name a single one... Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message: From: CraigGingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 1, 2008 6:48:08 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NewPacifica] She's read them all -- But can't name a single one... Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't make this stuff up! This woman is so clueless, she makes Dan Quayle look like an intellectual giant by comparison. snip Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world? Palin: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. Couric: What, specifically? Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years. Couric: Can you name a few? Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska? Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America. snip There was *lots* more great stuff that has to be heard to be believed. (And she's so much fun to listen to!) Palin Opens Up On Controversial Issues (article w/links to CBS videos, etc.) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490618.shtml *** [== If you're not part of the solution... you're part of the problem ==] *** New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!'Yahoo! Groups Links =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: independent video maker has OSCAR WORTHY UTUBE movie on the MELTDOWN!
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 30, 2008 6:12:18 AM PDT To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: independent video maker has OSCAR WORTHY UTUBE movie on the MELTDOWN! I'm told by a yoga teacher this U-TUBE video COMING COLLAPSE OF THE MIDDLE CLASS is Excellent A must watch. takes about an hour. Listen while cooking, cleaning, doing yoga, etcperhaps not during meditation... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A YOGA TEACHERS MAKE BETTER FILM CRITICS THEIR HAMSTRINGS ARE IN SUCH GREAT SHAPE.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: U.S. Heading for Slump, With or Without Bailout
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 30, 2008 3:14:31 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: U.S. Heading for Slump, With or Without Bailout U.S. Heading for Slump, With or Without BailoutRich MillerBloombergTuesday, Sept 30, 2008The U.S. may face its longest recession in a quarter century no matter what action Congress takes on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion plan to rescue the battered banking industry.Economists including Joseph Lavorgna of Deutsche Bank Securities and David Greenlaw of Morgan Stanley said it now appears the economy shrank in the third quarter as credit- crimped consumers cut spending for the first time since 1991. A further contraction is likely in the next two quarters, some economists predicted, which would make the recession the longest since 1981-82.“This has been a body blow to consumer and business confidence,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Economy.com in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “The next six months are going to be very difficult.”(Article continues below)How bad it gets depends on whether Congress passes some form of assistance for the banks. The Standard Poor’s 500 index plunged 8.8 percent yesterday, its biggest fall since 1987, after the House of Representatives rejected the rescue package. The stock-market rout wiped out a record $1.3 trillion of wealth.The defeat of the measure — and the steep price decline that accompanied it — set off a scramble among the plan’s backers for additional support before another vote, which likely won’t come until later in the week.Full article here a.. b.. Social bookmarks c.. d.. Email this article e.. f.. Print this page13 Responses to “U.S. Heading for Slump, With or WithoutThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.prisonplanet.com/us-heading-for-slump-with-or-without-bailout.htmlNote: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = us-heading-for-slump-with-or-without-bailout.url Description: Binary data No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1700 - Release Date: 9/30/2008 11:03 AM
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA executive admits to multi-million dollar fraud
Begin forwarded message:From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 30, 2008 2:41:01 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA executive admits to multi-million dollar fraudReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2455213.0.CIA_executive_admits_to_multimillion_dollar_fraud.php CIA executive admits to multi-million dollar fraud WILLIAM TINNING October 01 2008Comment A former high-ranking CIA official has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after admitting that he steered tens of millions of dollars in lucrative US government contracts to his best friend.Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, 53, who was third in charge when he resigned as executive director of the CIA in 2006, in return, accepted tens of thousands of dollars in meals, trips and "sexual companionship", along with a standing offer for a high-paying job at his friend Brendan Wilkes's firm.The trips included a holiday in Scotland costing more than £35,000 which included a helicopter ride, a round of golf at a championship course and a stay at an exclusive country estate. advertisement Wilkes, the former boss of a defence contractor firm, is already serving a 12-year sentence for bribing former Republican Congressman Randall "Duke" Cunningham.The US Justice Department in Washington said Wilkes and Foggo hid their relationship from the CIA using false cover stories - "straw men" - and shell companies to conceal the manipulation of the CIA contracts.Part of the indictment against Foggo said that on or about August 3, 2003, Wilkes paid for Foggo and his family to join him for a holiday in Scotland. It included more than £7000 in private jet flights, more than £2000 for a helicopter ride to Carnoustie for a round of golf, and more than £25,000 for a stay at the Pitcastle estate in Perthshire which provides salmon fishing, archery and clay pigeon shooting.On its website, the owners of the estate in Strathtay say it offers "the discerning traveller, businessman or sporting enthusiast all that's needed to turn the average break into an experience of a lifetime".The indictment against Foggo also states that on or about September 10, 2003, he sent Wilkes an e-mail entitled "Scotland and Cigars" stating in part: "I'll work the water thing with (Foggo's water contact) - but you sending a follow-up e-mail is a good idea. I want to insure (sic) that B-connection is not forgotten ... Group W is in this deal."Foggo and Wilkes later took a £18,000 vacation to Hawaii, the indictment said.Foggo graduated from San Diego University before he began a 23-year career with the CIA. He became the agency's executive director in November 2004.He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a £140,000 fine and three years of supervised release, following his guilty plea to one count of defrauding the United States.He is at present free on bond with sentencing scheduled for January 8.The longtime friends were originally indicted in California in February 2007.A year later federal prosecutors chose to try the case against Foggo in Virginia where they alleged that most of the crimes were committed. Wilkes was also dropped from the case at that time.In May a new indictment was filed against Foggo alleging that he pushed a proposed £56m government contract for Wilkes in return for lavish vacations, private jet flights and a lucrative job offer.The indictment alleged that Foggo provided Wilkes with "sensitive, internal information related to (US) national security," including classified information, to help him prepare proposals for providing undercover flights for the CIA under the guise of a civil aviation company.Prosecutors also alleged that Foggo pushed his CIA colleagues to hire Wilkes's companies without disclosing their friendship. It was also alleged that Foggo received bribes in the form of "sexual companionship" in exchange for helping his best friend.Foggo pled guilty to a bribery charge under this indictment.Last November, a jury convicted Wilkes of 13 counts of bribery, conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison in February. © All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited.=
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Government has the tools to tackle cyber-crime
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 30, 2008 2:51:57 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Government has the tools to tackle cyber-crime Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/09/30/232500/government-has-the-tools-to-tackle-cyber-crime.htm Government has the tools to tackle cyber-crime Author: Ionut Ionescu, a member of (ISC)2’s European Advisory Board and EMEA director of security services for Nor http://www.computerweekly.com/authors/articleauthor.aspx?liArticleID=232500 Posted: 15:06 30 Sep 2008 Topics: ISPs | http://www.computerweekly.com/Home/RefinedSearch.aspx?cat=IT%2fInternet%2fISPskey=ISPsct=NewsAndBlogssort=Relevanceft=0 Network Infrastructure | http://www.computerweekly.com/Home/RefinedSearch.aspx?cat=IT%2fNetworking%2fNetwork+Infrastructurekey=Network+Infrastructurect=NewsAndBlogssort=Relevanceft=0 Business Continuity http://www.computerweekly.com/Home/RefinedSearch.aspx?cat=IT%2fIT+Management%2fBusiness+Continuitykey=Business+Continuityct=NewsAndBlogssort=Relevanceft=0 *In view of the cyber-warfare dimension to the Russia-Georgia conflict, and the Chinese cyber-espionage ongoing against the west since c.2003 (Titan Rain, and so on), how concerned should we in the UK be about state-sponsored hacking?* Cyber-espionage and cyber-warfare http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/09/26/232466/how-concerned-should-the-uk-be-about-cyber-terrorism.htm are just expressions of a millenia old problem onto a new medium (cyber space). The general public in the UK should be concerned, and the UK government should be concerned, but only to the same extent that they were concerned before about state sponsored espionage and warfare in general. Meaning, the public does not need to panic and the government does not need to just throw money at the problem. Governments have had electronic espionage and warfare concerns for most of the last century. The main thing about cyber is the connectivity that the internet brought to us, which has obvious advantages for doing business, but perhaps not so obvious, but frightening, consequences for governments in terms of critical national infrastructure (CNI). ADVERTISEMENT Espionage is by definition a form of asymmetric warfare, because relatively small amounts of resources committed could bring huge benefits (ie, high return on investment in business speak). State sponsored espionage should be worrying for any state targeted by it, because it implies unlimited resources being invested by a foreign hostile power to try to disrupt, corrupt or uncover information. Since it is asymmetric, the answer for a government targeted by state-sponsored hacking is to apply good, age-old, security principles, such as: value at risk, separation of duties, disaster recovery planning and so on. For example, most utilities installations in a country (eg, power plants, water purification facilities, etc) are ran by SCADA systems not connected to the internet. So, the security of those isolated systems needs to be investigated, not just from a hacking perspective, but from a technology-people-process perspective. Hacking (state-sponsored or not) is a concern and should be even more of a concern if these systems get connected to the internet or to other systems, which could themselves be hacked, etc. A bigger worry could be a government's or a country's infrastructure moving more and more to being delivered by commercial providers, with shared infrastructure and more connections to the internet. In this case, the threat assessments need to include these commercial suppliers, the technology they use, where it was developed, how are their people recruited, are their work processes safe enough for the informaton at risk, etc? Governments are usually pretty astute at evaluating and mitigating such risks. In brief: yes, it is a worry, but we generally know how to tackle it. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-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
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pak gets new spy chief
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 30, 2008 2:54:02 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Pak gets new spy chief Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=5ed928fd-9a2b-4e92-b45d-1cbe56bae4a8* http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=5ed928fd-9a2b-4e92-b45d-1cbe56bae4a8# *Masroor Gilani http://www.hindustantimes.com/Search/Search.aspx?q=Masroor%20Gilaninodate=1 , Agence France-Presse* Email Author mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Islamabad, September 30, 2008 First Published: 23:35 IST(30/9/2008) Last Updated: 23:38 IST(30/9/2008) Pak gets new spy chief Pakistan has replaced the head of its powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in an apparent bid to clean up the military spy agency amid western claims that it secretly backs the Taliban. Lieutenant General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha, formerly head of military operations, was appointed director general of the ISI late on Monday, a terse military statement announced. He replaces Lieutenant General Nadeem Taj. The move was part of a major shake-up of the army’s top brass after US, Afghan and Indian officials alleged in recent months that the shadowy organisation was complicit in Taliban insurgency wracking the region. Pasha is considered to be a close aide to Pakistani military chief Ashfaq Kayani, who ran the ISI until October last year. Taj, his predecessor, was a key lieutenant of former president Pervez Musharraf. The army insisted the 14 new appointments announced on Monday were routine. But movements in Pakistan’s military and intelligence services are closely watched by the United States and other allies for signs of the nuclear-armed nation's stability and commitment to war on terror. “The change comes at a time when there was a lot of talk about ISI in the Western media,” security analyst Talat Masood, a former Pakistan army general, told AFP. “With the new ISI chief, General Kayani has completed a team of his choice. He will be able to now lead the army with greater confidence.” The ISI has helped capture or kill hundreds of senior Al Qaeda militants in Pakistan including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed 9/11 mastermind. The ISI is feared at home as it plays a central, although covert, political role in a country that has spent more than half of its 61-year history under military rule. The change in the ISI comes after the government led by President Asif Ali Zardari tried to put the elite agency under the control of the interior ministry in July. That move was withdrawn after a protest by Pakistan’s military establishment. *http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=5ed928fd-9a2b-4e92-b45d-1cbe56bae4a8* http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=5ed928fd-9a2b-4e92-b45d-1cbe56bae4a8# © Copyright 2007 Hindustan Times -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: cia to bail out fed with cocaine money?
Begin forwarded message: From: William Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 30, 2008 3:34:40 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cia to bail out fed with cocaine money? Suitcase-Gate, CIA Drug Plane Scandals Meet in Miami full article: http://www.madcowprod.com/09302008.html 'Player overlap' visible in trial Corruption laid bare; or, at least, bare-naked. Tuesday Sept 30, 2008 by Daniel Hopsicker The luxury business jet carrying a suitcase filled with $800,000 in bribes whose discovery last August kicked off the Suitcase-Gate Scandal had the same American registration, or N number, as that of a plane flying for a CIA contractor in Iraq, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. The so-called Suitcase-Gate Scandal is playing out in a trial currently underway in a Federal courtroom in Miami. Newspaper photos taken of the Citation X top-of-the-line business jet right after the ill-fated suitcase flight show 'N' number N5113S on the tail. But a Florida-based CIA air contractor called Air-Scan Inc. is assigned that tail number, according to FAA records, for a Cessna 182 flying in Iraq. Air-Scan Inc. is an American military contractor which has—even for an American military contractor—a checkered past. Still, there has been no mention during the trial so far of the murky provenance of the plane. Corruption Laid Bare...Or bare-Naked Testimony in the trial indicated that the $800,000 in the suitcase, discovered by a rookie Customs Agent in Argentina, as well as $4.5 million in cash in a second suitcase which wasn't discovered, was a bribe from Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez to the much more at: http://www.madcowprod.com/09302008.html
[cia-drugs] The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century
http://www.amazon.com/Oil-Card-Economic-Warfare-Century/dp/097779539X/ref=pd_rhf_p_1 * THE OIL CARD, September 30, 2008 By J. Richard Perkins (Old Saybrook, CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME) The Oil Card: Global Economic Warfare in the 21st Century The author has done an excellent job of researching an incredibly complex subject and committing it to paper...He shows a real depth of knowledge and perception of not only the mechanics of the energy markets, but also the history and politics behind them. He daylights the government's strategy against Russia starting during the Reagan administration ...He documents and proves beyond doubt the point that the US government and its allies artificially kept oil prices low for years to starve the Soviets of income, an important tactic that was essential to winning the Cold War. The contrarian thesis of this book is that the government is now attempting to do the same to China by weakening China's economy by keeping energy (and other commodity) prices high. Showing the background and illuminating the methods employed in the futures/derivatives markets and by controlling the physical oil market supply itself, the author makes a compelling argument that is entirely believable. He very accurately and completely portrays the genesis and the implementation of the energy price manipulation activities in the futures/OTC markets that many of us firmly believe is exactly what has occurred. For years many of my colleagues and former major players in the energy market have critically discussed the Wall Streeters and hedge funds involvement and tactics of bringing non-oil players into the energy markets. The net result is these players are driving market prices and ignoring traditional market fundamentals, artificially driving oil prices upward based upon self generated bogus risk factors and alleged technical analysis. This is definitely not a book for amatuers however...Because of the detailed information provided, it takes considerable energy market knowledge and experience to understand what he is saying, not an easy read, more like a text book and a great primer for market players. Certainly many will find the chapter on China itself interesting and informative. However if you want to read a fascinating story of how and why we got to $146/bbl crude oil, this is the book for you. Richard Perkins
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Investigation of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and Lilith Aquino involving SRA claims
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 28, 2008 8:32:09 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IPCUSA] Investigation of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and Lilith Aquino involving SRA claims Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Investigation of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and Lilith Aquino involving SRA claims Investigation of Lt. Col. Michael Aquino and Lilith Aquino involving claims of Satanic Ritual Abuse - Criminal Investigative Division of the Army/ Child Interview Dated March 15, 1989 3:31 pm to 5:42 pm TRANSCRIPT - _http://members.cox.net/courtfeddocs/cidtape.pdf_ (http://members.cox.net/courtfeddocs/cidtape.pdf) **Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall0001) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: the BRADLEY EFFECT will win OBAMA the election
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 29, 2008 8:25:56 AM PDT To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: the BRADLEY EFFECT will win OBAMA the election This takes your helping out. Creating the BRADLEY EFFECT! Let's DO A BRADLEY!! I have a great and high-larious political story to tell you! It's about Tom Bradley who was our black, L.A. Calif POLICE CHIEF. Six foot five, Lincolnesque, a Tall Texan straight as a pine tree. It was said of him 20 yrs a cop and never pulled his gun. He was a fair justice, equality, conservatively frugal fellow, never taxed anybody, a conservative DEMOCRAT. In 1969, TOM was iconic enough as a cop to face ole pol Sam Yorty to run for Mayor and he beat the white guy and served 5 terms as MAYOR thru the SLA crisis, Olympics, the Riots. So naturally, and I'm getting to the point of this story is, in 1982, he ran for GOVERNOR. The Thick Plottens. He was a shoo-in according to the POLLS. Trouble was, when they were polled, polite bigots wouldn't admit they were anti-Black, so they told polls, oh yeah, I'm voting for Bradley. So BRADLEY was so far ahead in the polls, guess what? He didn't scramble. DEUKMEJIAN did scramble cuz he was behind and THE DUKE WON! Most forgettable Gov in our history! So here's the point: POLLS can cause the LOSS of an election for even a favored candidate. I heard this story on KPFK-FM RADICAL RADIO this morning (You can get it on your PC all day archives etc) and hearing it, my tricky Hungarian brain (How to make a goulash? First you steal a chicken,) goes, 'WOW wouldn't it be fabulous if all us TRICKEY SERF TAXPAYERS were to HIT THE ONLINE ABC, CBS CNN voting polls heavily, really load up there CLICKING THE BOX that says we LOVE SARAH PALIN and clicking the one that says We are VOTING FOR MCCAIN! Skew things a little. Cause OBAMA to scramble cause GOP to slide. I know it's tricky but better a white lie that hurts no one than a truth that hurts ANY! And McCain winning and continuing BUSH policy would KILL MANY. READ ABOUT THIS Bradley phenomena online, ever since memorialized as THE BRADLEY EFFECT.
[cia-drugs] 33 Liberty Street
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank_of_New_York33 Liberty StreetMain article:33 Liberty StreetA publiccompetition for design of the buildingwas held and the architectural firm ofYork and Sawyersubmitted the winning design.[citation needed]The bank moved to its current location in 1928.The Federal Reserve Bank of New York maintains a vault that lies 86 feet (26m) below sea level, resting on Manhattan bedrock. By 1927, the vault contained ten percent of the world'sofficial gold reserves. Currently, it is reputedly the largestgoldrepository in the world (though this cannot be confirmed as Swiss Banks do not report their gold stocks) and holds approximately 5,000metric tonsof gold bullion ($160 billion as of March, 2008), more thanFort Knox. The gold is owned by many foreign nations, central banks and international organizations. The Federal Reserve Bank does not own the gold but serves as guardian of the precious metal, which it protects at no charge as a gesture of good will to other nations.=
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bloomberg Analyst: $700 Billion Bailout Could Balloon to $5 Trillion
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 27, 2008 2:08:32 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Bloomberg Analyst: $700 Billion Bailout Could Balloon to $5 Trillion Bloomberg Analyst: $700 Billion Bailout Could Balloon to $5 Trillion “So now they try to solve the problem by having this credit bubble actually extended and I think the $700 billion will be like a drop in the bucket because the total credit market in the U.S. is something close to $60 trillion, then you have the CDS market – credit default swap – of around $62 trillion. Then you have the whole derivatives worldwide worth about a notional $1,300 trillion. So the $700 billion is really nothing and the Treasury is just giving out this figure when actually the end figure may be $5 trillion.” 40 comments Source: Bloomberg TV 09-26-2008 11:35 am RELATED LINKS • Business and Media Institute: Bloomberg Analyst: $700 Billion Bailout Could Balloon to $5 TrillionThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=182363Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = www.breitbart.tv.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bank Borrowing From Fed Already Exceeded Bailout Total in Last Week
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 26, 2008 2:22:15 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Bank Borrowing From Fed Already Exceeded Bailout Total in Last Week Bank Borrowing From Fed Already Exceeded Bailout Total in Last Week$700 billion figure means nothingSteve WatsonInfowars.netFriday, Sept 26, 2008U.S. banks borrowed $188 billion per day on average in the latest week from the Federal Reserve, meaning that the Fed loaned out more money than the Treasury’s proposed bailout in just one week, still barely managing to keep the economy afloat.Federal Reserve data showed on Thursday the total amount banks borrowed nearly quadrupled the previous record of $47.97 billion per day notched just the week before, Reuters reports.$188 billion per day on average over the course of five days means that the total amount borrowed from the Fed in the week ending the 24th September stood at $940 billion - a figure that easily eclipses the proposed $700 billion bailout.As we have already reported, the $700 billion number was simply pulled out of thin air by the Treasury.The Treasury’s fact sheet about the bailout states, “The Secretary will have the discretion, in consultation with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to purchase other assets, as deemed necessary to effectively stabilize financial markets.”(Article continues below)This gives the government and the Federal Reserve carte blanche to do whatever they want to long as it is done in the name of stabilizing financial markets, they can nationalize any company or industry and use taxpayer money, above and beyond the initial $700 billion, for whatever purpose is deemed necessary, without any oversight. Paulson’s bailout plan is also unreviewable by any court, it will remain in perpetuity.Paulson’s draft bailout plans says: “The Secretary’s authority to purchase mortgage-related assets under this Act shall be limited to $700,000,000,000 outstanding at any one time.”As Chris Martenson writes, “This means that $700 billion is NOT the cost of this dangerous legislation, it is only the amount that can be outstanding at any one time. After, say, $100 billion of bad mortgages are disposed of, another $100 billion can be bought. In short, these four little words assure that there is NO LIMIT to the potential size of this bailout. This means that $700 billion is a rolling amount, not a ceiling.”If the bailout bill passes it is just the beginning of something much larger. $700 billion is a meaningless figure that will do nothing to shore up the economy. It is not a bailout, it is a giveaway that will allow insiders to purge themselves of bad bets and free to continue where they left off. The real reason for the bill is the unprecedented transfer of power to the Executive Branch and into the hands of the global corporate elite. a.. b.. Social bookmarks c.. d.. Email this article e.. f.. Print this page4 Responses to “Bank Borrowing From Fed Already Exceeded Bailout Total in Last Week” 1.. 4 beijingyank Says: September 26th, 2008 at 1:48 pm Alex, Reports state that the U.S. gold inventory has not been auditedThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.prisonplanet.com/bank-borrowing-from-fed-already-exceeded-bailout-total-in-last-week.htmlNote: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = bank-borrowing-from-fed-already-exceeded-bailout-total-in-last-week.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Stand by for Black Monday: Britain braced for meltdown
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 26, 2008 2:37:43 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Stand by for Black Monday: Britain braced for meltdown Stand by for Black Monday: Britain braced for meltdownDAILYMAILFriday, September 26, 2008The U.S. President today admitted he has failed to land a bank bail-out deal, leaving the world on the brink of a global financial catastrophe.President Bush was forced to admit he had not yet been able to persuade senior Republicans to back his $700 billion rescue plan.Experts predict the London Stock Exchange could fall by up to 1,000 points when it opens next week if the deal is not signed.It would be a ‘Black Monday’ meltdown similar to the financial crash of 1987. Other world markets would also be sure to fall dramatically.(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)In a terse statement from in front of the White House, the President conceded this afternoon: ‘We’ve got a big problem and we’ve got to move quickly.’He admitted there were still disagreements about the plan which saw a summit descend into a ’slanging match’ last night but insisted the U.S. would deliver.‘The legislative process is sometimes not very pretty but we are going to get a passage passed. We will rise to the occasion - Republicans and Democrats will come together to pass a substantial rescue plan,’ he said.However, his candid statement that the rescue deal masterminded by U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson had still not been approved - interpreted as a fresh plea to Congress to sign up to it - leaves the global economy on the brink of disaster.American politicians now effectively have three days of frantic negotiations to save the world’s financial system from a seizure that could cast it into a deep recession.FULL STORY CLICK HERE a.. b.. Social bookmarks c.. d.. Email this article e.. f.. Print this page7 Responses to “Stand by for Black Monday: Britain braced for meltdown” 1.. 7 DNBriittani Says: September 26th, 2008 at 1:23 pm HAHAHA I HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR 2 MONTHS NOW I PREDICT THE STOCKThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.prisonplanet.com/stand-by-for-black-monday-britain-braced-for-meltdown.htmlNote: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = stand-by-for-black-monday-britain-braced-for-meltdown.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Secretary Paulson’s taxpayer hedge fund
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 3:56:08 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Secretary Paulson’s taxpayer hedge fund Secretary Paulson’s taxpayer hedge fundKarl S. OkamotoPhiladelphia InquirerSeptember 24, 2008Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion bailout of Wall Street essentially places the federal government at the helm of the world’s biggest hedge fund.After all, isn’t that what this bailout is proposing to do with taxpayers’ money?Under the plan, Paulson will invest $700 billion - at his discretion, with no strings - into so-called mortgage-related assets.That sure sounds like a hedge fund.So shouldn’t we - or the fiduciaries we’ve elected to Congress - ask some of the same questions an investor would ask before putting his or her money into a hedge fund?For example: Secretary Paulson, how do you plan to make money?Apparently, the plan is to buy mortgage-related securities and hold them until the current crisis passes. Everyone understands that a buy-and-hold strategy can make money provided that you buy low and sell higher.But since the purpose of this new fund is to allow banks to unload inflated securities in order to avoid significant further write-downs, Secretary Paulson is looking to launch his new hedge fund by buying in at prices that are higher than the prevailing market price.In other words, Paulson seems to be overpaying.Of course, it may well turn out that in time, as markets stabilize, he still may recover his costs and even earn a profit.But Paulson is certainly not starting out with the goal of making money.Read article 9/11 Chronicles Part One: Truth Rising Get the DVD and make copies or watch the high quality streaming and download version online at Prison Planet.tv. Click here to read more about the film and view sample trailers.The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.infowars.com/?p=4809Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = www.infowars.com.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Paulson Seeks Mortgage Value That Eluded Bear, Lehman (Update1)
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 4:05:05 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Paulson Seeks Mortgage Value That Eluded Bear, Lehman (Update1) Paulson Seeks Mortgage Value That Eluded Bear, Lehman (Update1)By Bob IvrySept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's bailout plan hinges on answering the question that has vexed global markets for more than a year and sunk two securities firms: What's a bad mortgage worth?Pay too much for hard-to-value mortgage debt held by banks and recouping taxpayers' $700 billion investment becomes less likely, Merrill Lynch Co. analysts led by Akiva Dickstein wrote in a Sept. 22 report. Pay too little and the banks may either refuse to sell or be forced to hoard cash to make up for losses, the analysts said.``This pricing thing is the 800-pound gorilla, the absolute core of the whole plan,'' said Bert Ely, a banking industry consultant in Alexandria, Virginia. ``If the government takes an aggressive posture, it benefits taxpayers but it means some of the banks will have serious capital problems. This has the potential of politically being very troubling.''Paulson said an economic recovery in the U.S. depends on stabilizing home prices, which were down 18.8 percent in June from their peak two years ago, according to the SP/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. That rebound is impossible without mortgage financing, and it's unclear how the government bailout will make credit more available, said New York-based UBS AG analyst David Goldberg.Helps Balance Sheets``This plan clearly helps bank balance sheets, but to what end?'' Goldberg said in an interview. ``Why do we make the assumption that it will lead to looser lending standards? It's conceivable it might be exactly the opposite. So I'm not sure this helps that much.''To ensure bank solvency, regulators require institutions to keep a minimum amount of cash on hand based on the loans they've made, said Gary Gordon, an analyst at Portales Partners LLC in New York.Some banks have set aside money to cover losses on mortgage assets and some haven't, Gordon said. Those that haven't will lend less because they have to keep their cash to meet loss reserves, he said.``If banks don't have loss provisions, they'll need to shore up their capital and that might cause a contraction of credit,'' Nouriel Roubini, chairman of Roubini Global Economics and professor of economics at New York University's Stern School of Business, said in an interview. ``We're still in the process of a severe housing recession, with or without this plan.''Proposed BailoutThe proposed bailout, being debated in Congress, comes in the wake of the Sept. 15 bankruptcy filing of New York-based Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the biggest U.S. underwriter of mortgage- backed securities, and the Sept. 7 nationalization of the two biggest U.S. mortgage finance companies, Washington-based Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, based in McLean, Virginia.Credit markets froze in August 2007 after two hedge funds run by New York-based Bear Stearns Cos., the fifth-largest U.S. securities firm, collapsed due to the deteriorating value of its mortgage-related holdings. An inability to set a price on such securities has frozen the market, said Joshua Rosner, managing director at Graham Fisher Co. in New York.``It's not a liquidity problem, it's a valuation problem,'' Rosner said.After its value fell 93 percent in a week, Bear Stearns was bought by New York-based JPMorgan Chase Co., the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, in a bailout orchestrated in March by the Federal Reserve.Residential MortgagesThe Paulson plan would focus on $6 trillion of residential mortgages not currently owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration, and $3.4 trillion in commercial and multifamily loans and mortgage-backed securities, according to the analysts at New York-based Merrill Lynch.Officials have discussed holding a reverse auction, Paulson said, meaning that firms holding the distressed assets would submit bids on the prices at which they were willing to sell. The Treasury might then buy the assets that are offered at the lowest prices.In testimony yesterday to the Senate Banking Committee, Paulson called his troubled-asset relief program the ``single most effective thing we can do to help homeowners'' and the overall economy.In a Sept. 11 report, the Washington-based Mortgage Bankers Association estimated that 20 percent fewer residential mortgage loans would be made this year than in 2007. Home-loan borrowing was at a 26-year low in the second quarter, according to the Federal Reserve's Sept. 18 Flow of Funds report.SubprimeThe number of available mortgages will fall even further, said William Isaac, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. from 1981 to 1985.``I doubt the banks that got burned in subprime mortgages will start lending anytime soon,'' Isaac said. ``I wouldn't expect a rapid
[cia-drugs] Fwd: China Shuns Paulson's Free Market Push as Meltdown Burns U.S.
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 4:06:22 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: China Shuns Paulson's Free Market Push as Meltdown Burns U.S. China Shuns Paulson's Free Market Push as Meltdown Burns U.S.By Zhao Yidi and Kevin HamlinSept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Eighteen months ago, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told an audience at the Shanghai Futures Exchange that China risked trillions of dollars in lost economic potential unless it freed up its capital markets.``An open, competitive, and liberalized financial market can effectively allocate scarce resources in a manner that promotes stability and prosperity far better than governmental intervention,'' Paulson said.That advice rings hollow in China as Paulson plans a $700 billion rescue for U.S. financial institutions and the Securities and Exchange Commission bans short sales of insurers, banks and securities firms. Regulators in the fastest-growing major economy say they may ditch plans to introduce derivatives, and some company bosses are rethinking U.S. business models.``The U.S. financial system was regarded as a model, and we tried our best to copy whatever we could,'' said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to China's central bank. ``Suddenly we find our teacher is not that excellent, so the next time when we're designing our financial system we will use our own mind more.''The recent moves by Paulson, the former chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., contradict what the U.S. told Asian governments over the past decade. Thailand, South Korea and Indonesia were urged to let unviable banks fail during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.`Turning Left'``It's the end of an era,'' said Shanghai-based Andy Xie, a independent analyst who was formerly Morgan Stanley's chief Asia economist. ``In 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell, socialism was discredited and the whole world turned right. Now financial capital has been discredited and the whole world, including the U.S., is turning left.''China's economy has grown an average of 9.9 percent a year since former leader Deng Xiaoping ditched hard-line Communist policies and began moving toward a free market in 1978.Since joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, China has gradually opened its markets to foreign competition, allowing international investment banks to form joint ventures with local partners and permitting the biggest state banks to sell shares on overseas stock exchanges. In the past three years, China dropped a decade-old currency peg to the dollar, introduced foreign- exchange swaps and forwards that allow investors to hedge or bet on currency fluctuations, and expanded the bond market.China has yet to allow margin trading -- where investors borrow money to buy shares -- or futures contracts based on equity indexes.`It's Ironic'Since China permitted securities backed by assets such as mortgages in 2005, only 14 such instruments have been approved for sale, according to the Web site run by China Government Securities Depository Trust and Clearing Co., the country's biggest debt clearing house.China's financial institutions were slow to buy the mortgage-related securities that triggered the U.S. meltdown, incurring just $4.3 billion in losses and writedowns, according to data compiled Bloomberg.Globally, banks have written down more than $520 billion as the credit crisis led to the demise or makeover of Wall Street's five biggest investment banks. In response, the U.S. government nationalized insurer American International Group Inc., as well as mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.``It's ironic Paulson has become the manager of many large financial institutions,'' said Wang Jun, a finance specialist at the World Bank in Beijing. ``He will have to ask the Chinese leaders about their experience of managing state-owned assets.''`Double-Edged Sword'Plans to introduce many financial products, including derivatives, may be shelved as China focuses on improving risk- management, said Fan Wenzhong, deputy head of research at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, at an industry conference Sept. 18 in Beijing.``Financial innovation is a double-edged sword,'' Fan said. ``We can't just concentrate on product innovation and overlook the need to build the financial system.''Derivatives are contracts whose value is derived from stocks, bonds, loans, currencies and commodities, or linked to specific events such as changes in interest rates or the weather.Eventually, China's leaders will have to take a cue from the U.S. and western Europe by allowing more competition to provide cheaper funding for companies and consumers, said Fraser Howie, co-author of ``Privatizing China: The Stock Markets and Their Role in Corporate Reform'' (Wiley 2003).Rethinking Strategies``China doesn't have any choice except to continue with the U.S. model because there is no competing system,'' he said. ``More people die in cars than they did on horses, but are
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Ron Paul on the Current Financial Crisis
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 4:22:33 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Ron Paul on the Current Financial Crisis A must watch if you want the truth about this mess. SardarThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/22/le.ron.paul.financial.crisis.cnnNote: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled. = video.url Description: Binary data
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Democrats to Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire, Conceding Defeat in Battle With GOP
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 4:26:28 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Democrats to Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire, Conceding Defeat in Battle With GOP Democrats to Let Offshore Drilling Ban Expire, Conceding Defeat in Battle With GOPTuesday, September 23, 2008 a.. E-Mail b.. Print a.. Share: a.. b.. c.. d.. e.. f.. WASHINGTON — Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week, conceding defeat in a months-long battle with the White House and Republicans set off by $4 a gallon gasoline prices this summer.House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wis., told reporters Tuesday that a provision continuing the moratorium will be dropped this year from a stopgap spending bill to keep the government running after Congress recesses for the election.Republicans have made lifting the ban a key campaign issue after gasoline prices spiked this summer and public opinion turned in favor of more drilling. President Bush lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling in July."If true, this capitulation by Democrats following months of Republican pressure is a big victory for Americans struggling with record gasoline prices," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio.Democrats had clung to the hope of only a partial repeal of the drilling moratorium, but the White House had promised a veto, Obey said.The House is expected to act on the spending bill Wednesday. The Senate is likely to go along with the House."The White House has made it clear they will not accept anything with a drilling moratorium, and Democrats know we cannot afford to shut down the government over this," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. "We look forward to working with the next president to hammer out a final resolution of this issue."While the House would lift the long-standing drilling moratoriums for both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, a drilling ban in waters within 125 miles of Florida's western coast would remain in force under a law passed by Congress in 2006 that opened some new areas of the east-central Gulf to drilling.Just last week, the House passed legislation to open waters off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to oil and gas drilling but only 50 or more miles out to sea and only if a state agrees to energy development off its shore. It quickly became clear that measure would not get the 60 votes needed in the Senate.Republicans called that effort a sham that would have left almost 90 percent of offshore reserves effectively off-limits.The Interior Department estimates there are 18 billion barrels of recoverable oil beneath the Outer Continental Shelf, about half of it off California.While the ban on energy development will be lifted if the Senate goes along with the House action, it doesn't mean any federal sale of oil and gas leases in the offshore waters -- much less actual drilling -- would be imminent.The Interior Department's current five-year leasing plan includes potential leases off the Virginia coast but probably would not be pursued unless the state agrees to energy development. And the state is unlikely to do so without Congress agreeing to share federal royalties with the state.The congressional battle over offshore drilling is far from over. Democrats are expected to press for broader energy legislation, probably next year, that would put limits on any drilling off most of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Republicans, meanwhile, are likely to fight any resumption of the drilling bans that have been in place since 1981.John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, has promised to make offshore oil drilling a priority if elected president. He has called for developing the oil and gas resources along all of Outer Continental Shelf and for the federal government to share royalties with states who go along with drilling.Democratic presidential rival Barack Obama has said he would support limited drilling in certain areas -- possibly the South Atlantic region -- if it is part of a broader energy plan to shift the U.S. away from oil to alternative fuels and more energy efficiency.The debate over offshore drilling is not expected to subside in the first months of the next presidency -- no matter who sits in the White House.Lifting the drilling ban gives considerable momentum to the underlying bill, which includes the Pentagon budget, $24 billion in aid for flood and hurricane victims and $25 billion in loans for Detroit automakers in addition to keeping the government open past the Oct. 1 start of the 2009 budget year.But Democrats decided not to use the must-pass measure as a battering ram to carry an extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless past White House veto promises, prompting grumbling among some lawmakers. Efforts to boost food stamps and give states billions of dollars to help with Medicaid bills also fell
[cia-drugs] Fwd: ZINGALES WEIGHS IN: PAULSON IS WRONG
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 25, 2008 1:10:57 AM PDT To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ZINGALES WEIGHS IN: PAULSON IS WRONG Like Nouri Roublini, the foreign economists understand USA best, better than the CHICAGO TRICKLE DOWN GROUP, MILTON FRIEDMAN et cie. Luigi Zingales writes on 21 September 2008 This weekend’s decisions will shape the type of capitalism we live with for the next fifty years. Here one of the world’s leading financial scholars, Chicago Business School Professor Luigi Zingales, argues that bailing out the financial system with taxpayers’ money is wrong. He discusses an alternative – forced debt-for-equity swap or debt-forgiveness. --- When a profitable company is hit by a very large liability, as was the case in 1985 when Texaco lost a $12 billion court case against Pennzoil, the solution is not to have the government buy its assets at inflated prices – the solution is Chapter 11. In Chapter 11, companies with a solid underlying business generally swap debt for equity. The old equity holders are wiped out and the old debt claims are transformed into equity claims in the new entity which continues operating with a new capital structure. Alternatively, the debt holders can agree to trim the face value of debt in exchange for some warrants. Even before Chapter 11, these procedures were the solutions adopted to deal with the large railroad bankruptcies at the turn of the twentieth century. So why is this well-established approach not used to solve the financial sectors current problems? No time for bankruptcy procedures The obvious answer is that we do not have time. Chapter 11 procedures are generally long and complex, and the crisis has reached a point where time is of the essence. The negotiations would take months, and we do not have this luxury. However, we are in extraordinary times, and the government has taken and is prepared to take unprecedented measures. As if rescuing AIG and prohibiting all short-selling of financial stocks was not enough, now Treasury Secretary Paulson proposes a sort of Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) that will buy out (with taxpayers’ money) the distressed assets of the financial sector. But at what price? If banks and financial institutions find it difficult to recapitalise (i.e., issue new equity), it is because the private sector is uncertain about the value of the assets they have in their portfolio and does not want to overpay. Would the government be better in valuing those assets? No. In a negotiation between a government official and banker with a bonus at risk, who will have more clout in determining the price? The Paulson RTC will buy toxic assets at inflated prices thereby creating a charitable institution that provides welfare to the rich – at the taxpayers’ expense. If this subsidy is large enough, it will succeed in stopping the crisis. But, again, at what price? The answer: billions of dollars in taxpayer money and, even worse, the violation of the fundamental capitalist principle that she who reaps the gains also bears the losses. Remember that in the Savings and Loan crisis, the government had to bail out those institutions because the deposits were federally insured. But in this case the government does not have do bail out the debtholders of Bear Sterns, AIG, or any of the other financial institutions that will benefit from the Paulson RTC. An Alternative to Paulson’s RTC Since we do not have time for a Chapter 11 and we do not want to bail out all the creditors, the lesser evil is to do what judges do in contentious and overextended bankruptcy processes. They force a restructuring plan on creditors, where part of the debt is forgiven in exchange for some equity or some warrants. And there is a precedent for such a bold move. During the Great Depression, many debt contracts were indexed to gold. So when the dollar convertibility into gold was suspended, the value of that debt soared, threatening the survival of many institutions. The Roosevelt Administration declared the clause invalid, de facto forcing debt forgiveness. Furthermore, the Supreme Court maintained this decision. My colleague and current Fed Governor Randall Koszner studied this episode and showed that not only stock prices but bond prices as well soared after the Supreme Court upheld the decision. How is that possible? As corporate finance experts have been saying for the last thirty years, there are real costs from having too much debt and too little equity in the capital structure, and a reduction in the face value of debt can benefit not only the equity holders, but also the debt holders. If debt forgiveness benefits both equity and debt holders, why do debt holders not voluntarily agree to it? · First of all, there is a coordination problem. Even if each individual debtholder benefits from a reduction in the face
[cia-drugs] Fwd: A 700 Billion Bailout With No Review or Oversight Whatsoever
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 25, 2008 2:41:44 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: A 700 Billion Bailout With No Review or Oversight Whatsoever A 700 Billion Bailout With No Review or Oversight Whatsoever Posted: September 24 2008 Please add us to your social network StumbleUpon Yahoo! MyWeb Del.icio.us Technorati Seed NewsVine Rss Feed FaceBook What is this? The unbelievable breakdown in American lending standards, market instruments no more than a worthless pile of paper, note how market elitists are using the market crash to put pressure on Congress, the plan to bail out fraudsters, the vicious circle of printing more and more currency, more wiled speculation to come after a bailout, As it turns out, all the foreign nations holding dollar-denominated foreign exchange surplus reserves in the form of treasury paper realized that we were going to inflate them into oblivion, what with all the bailouts and such, and it appears, well, that they all ran for the door at once, if you catch my drift. We wore out all the printing presses trying to cash in their bonds for them, and all we had left was a huge pile of treasury paper, which we decided to throw out of my helicopter instead of cash. They're in pretty big denominations, so the people should be quite impressed. In any case, we couldn't print any more Federal Reserve notes on account of the printing press issue, and besides, the notes wouldn't have been good for anything but heating fuel, "furnace fodder" if you will, so why go through all the expense to print more? We have to be fiscally responsible, you know. MM: Yeah, right. Gee, I know this may sound odd, but now that your helicopter's engines have shut down, I could swear that I hear -- could it be -- the sound of marching jackboots, doing a goose-step, in the background? HP: Ahem, well, after Ben and I consulted with our Gestapo, oh, I mean our Department of Homeland Security, they decided to send in the foreign storm-troopers, er, our soldiers, as a follow-up to our helicopter drop. They were apparently concerned that there might be mass social upheaval, and possibly even a revolution, after the sheople, I mean our citizens, discovered that the treasury bills we just dropped were nothing but "worthless paper." Well, Ben, we better get going. We barely have time to pack and get ready to flee to our bunkers and safe-houses with the rest of our "comrades." Hey, see ya, wouldn't wanta be ya!!! Oh, and by the way: Sich Heil! MM: I have a bad feeling about this! After over 40 years of financial reporting and analysis, we can say, without hesitation, that the 700 billion bailout plan proposed by Fed Chairman Buck-Busting Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hanky Panky Paulson, on behalf of the Caligula Administration, is the most abusive and piggish fascist scheme we have ever heard proposed. This is the living, freaking, end. We sit hear stunned and stupefied at the sheer arrogance of a corporatist, fascist plan, so saturated with moral hazard, that it can only be described, to use the words of Jean-Pierre Roth, president of the Swiss National Bank, in his description of the breakdown in American lending standards, as "unbelievable!" First, note how the elitists have allowed the stock markets to crash over the past two days in order to put pressure on Congress to adopt their plan. They have withdrawn PPT support in an effort to stuff this plan down Congress's throat. And this pressure will continue until they get their way. This is what Congress gets for letting the Illuminati run our country. Now, they will have to face their constituents in a no-win situation. If they adopt the plan, they will be accused of bailing out the fraudsters, and of privatizing the profits from the sheople's hard work in evil elitist corporations, while socializing the losses from yet another bankers' Ponzi-scheme in the sheople as is their custom. If they don't adopt the plan, and as a result, the credit markets freeze up and the US economy goes down in flames, they will be blamed for that as well, even though that is our best solution at this point (i.e. purging the system of its excesses). The fact that our Congress has sat on their collective duffs and allowed this financial debacle to happen, when it was quite easily avoidable with even the slightest amount of regulation and oversight, gives you every reason to vote out every one of these reprobates and sociopaths ,which we like to refer to as "incumbent scum." The only exceptions to the coming ouster of incumbents, as far as we are concerned, are Ron Paul, and perhaps Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky. Congress appears to be balking, and rightly so, claiming that they need more time to deliberate over this situation, to ponder potential alternative plans, or at the very least to modify the current proposal to make it more palatable to voters, which is impossible, at least in our humble opinion. But is this just more
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] The modern trojan horse - the banksters' invasion and control of us all
Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 24, 2008 12:03:22 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IPCUSA] The modern trojan horse - the banksters' invasion and control of us all Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The modern trojan horse - the banksters' invasion and control of us all From http://www.321gold.com/editorials/schoon/schoon092308.html Excerpt THE BUTLER DIDN'T DO IT THE BANKERS DID It is bankers such as Henry Paulson who are responsible for America's disintegrating and imploding economy. Since 1913 America has allowed private bankers to control the issuance of America's money and now, in the very midst of the problems they themselves created, the bankers through Paulson's plan are seeking unsupervised control over America's economy complete with immunity from any future criminal prosecution. This is because the bankers not only want America to bail them out, they are planning to steal their assets back in the process. TREASURY SEEKS ASSET-BUYING POWER UNCHECKED BY COURTS (Update2) By Alison Fitzgerald and John Brinsley Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration sought unchecked power from Congress to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from financial companies in what would be an unprecedented government intrusion into the markets. Through his plan, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson aims to avert a credit freeze that would bring the financial system and the world's largest economy to a standstill. The bill would prevent courts from reviewing actions taken under its authority. [bold, mine] He's asking for a huge amount of power,'' said Nouriel Roubini, an economist at New York University. He's saying, 'Trust me, I'm going to do it right if you give me absolute control.' This is not a monarchy.'' The investment banks are even now intending to violate the law in Paulson's proposed government takeover and redistribution of bank assets. It is in the redistribution and sale of bank assets where the crimes will occur - crimes which will be granted pre-existing immunity from judicial prosecution under Paulson's proposal. This same caveat - immunity from subsequent criminal prosecution - was also written into the authorization of the original Resolution Trust Corporation which disposed of government seized property after the Savings Loan crisis. The reason no one remembers the hundreds of billions of dollars of seized property from Savings Loans listed for sale by the RTC is because it never happened. The greatest wealth transfer in recent history happened when taxpayer money was used to liquidate SL properties which were then sold to well-connected insiders in transactions immune from criminal prosecution for literally pennies on the dollar. The soon-to-be owned bank assets under Paulson's plan will not be sold to the highest bidders in an open and fair auction, they will be disposed of again to pools of the wealthy and well-connected at highly discounted insider valuations. The people will pay, the rich will profit. QUI CUSTODIAT CUSTODES WHO WILL GUARD THE GUARDIANS No, this isn't a monarchy. This is fascism. THE FOX IS IN THE HENHOUSE Today, investment banker Henry Paulson, former CEO of investment bank Goldman Sachs is US Secretary of the Treasury. This is no coincidence. Thomas Jefferson would not be surprised. Paulson's plan to bail out the banks is being presented to American citizens as a fait accompli, as a necessary step to prevent the complete meltdown of our financial system. Paulson's plan is exactly what every venal, opportunistic and self-serving banker would propose as a solution to America's problems in such circumstances. INVESTMENT BANKERS DON'T NEED TO BE BAILED OUT INVESTMENT BANKERS NEED TO BE THROWN OUT The answer to America's problems is clear. Thomas Jefferson said it two hundred years ago. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. Let's do what has to be done, America - or do you still want to blame Muslim terrorists and illegal immigrants for America's problems; or maybe you are still hoping that somehow maybe somehow Paulson's proposed trillion dollar government bailout of the rich and well-connected will somehow trickle down to you and save you and your family from being tossed out onto the streets when your house is foreclosed on by the banks he is going to save. The majority will always willing pay the price of fascism When this is all over - and someday it will be - it is my hope that we will have learned the lessons that we have now forgotten. That bankers, like vicious dogs, must always be kept on short leashes for the public safety and public good (neutering should also be a requirement); and, that gold and silver, not credit and debt, are the only foundation of sound money. PREDICTIONS (1) Paulson's
[cia-drugs] Fwd: abject servility by banking committee to HANK!
Begin forwarded message: From: anita sands [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 23, 2008 11:40:18 PM PDT To: anita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: abject servility by banking committee to HANK! The ties that bind: Dodd, Schumer and Wall Street By Barry Grey 24 September 2008 There is nothing mysterious about the abject servility exhibited by the members of the Senate Banking Committee toward Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke at Tuesday’s hearing on the Bush administration’s bailout plan for Wall Street. All of them have a stake, personal and financial as well as political, in rescuing the financial elite at the expense of the American people. This applies no less to the Democrats than to the Republicans. About half of the Senate’s 100 members were millionaires in 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (CPR), with an average net worth of $8.9 million. The two leading Democrats on the Banking Committee, Chairman Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and Charles Schumer of New York, are among the most favored recipients of campaign cash from big Wall Street interests. Senator Schumer raised $12,928,000 in the 2003-2008 election cycle, according to the CPR. His top five industries for campaign cash were securities and investment, lawyers and law firms, real estate, miscellaneous finance and commercial banks, from which he netted a total of $3,937,000. His top five contributing firms were Citigroup, UBS, Paul Weiss et al, Kasowitz, Benson et al and Metlife, which funneled a total of $271,000 to his campaigns. In the course of his political career, Senator Dodd has raised $43,344,000. In the 2003-2008 election cycle his top five industries for campaign funds were securities and investment ($4,268,000), lawyers and law firms, insurance, real estate and commercial banks, for a total of $9,826,000. His top five contributing firms were Citigroup, SAC Capital Partners, United Technologies, Royal Bank of Scotland and the insurance giant (taken over by the government earlier this month) American International Group. His total take from these firms was $1,315,000. Dodd, who presents himself as the champion of homeowners victimized by the subprime mortgage racket, proposed a housing bill in June of this year that would assist subprime lenders such as Countrywide Financial, the biggest purveyor of such home loans. Countrywide, on the brink of collapse, was bought out by Bank of America earlier this year. Condé Nast Portfolio reported that in 2003 Dodd refinanced the mortgages on his homes in Washington DC and Connecticut through Countrywide and received below-market rates due to his having been placed in a “Friends of Angelo” program (named for CEO Angelo Mozilo).
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] US dollar set to be major casualty of Hank Paulson's bailout
Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 24, 2008 12:05:25 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IPCUSA] US dollar set to be major casualty of Hank Paulson's bailout Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US dollar set to be major casualty of Hank Paulson's bailout http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/3062121/US-dollar-set-to-be-maj or-casualty-of-Hank-Paulsons-bailout.html “This may prove to be the dollar’s epochal moment – the moment historians look back at as its major turning point.” By Edmund Conway Last Updated: 10:47PM BST 22 Sep 2008 Comments 89 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/3062121/US-dollar-set-to-be-ma jor-casualty-of-Hank-Paulsons-bailout.html#comments#comments | Comment on this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/3062121/US-dollar-set-to-be-ma jor-casualty-of-Hank-Paulsons-bailout.html#postComment#postComment The dollar could be at a major turning point The dollar could be at a major turning point Photo: AP Whether or not tomorrow’s accounts of today’s turmoil prove David Owen of Dresdner Kleinwort right; whether or not this is the beginning of the end of the dollar’s pre-eminence in the world’s central banks and foreign exchanges, the economic landscape has undoubtedly changed forever. The US taxpayer bail-out of America’s banking sector is an event whose significance will reverberate for many years. What it means for free markets, for the way Western economies are run, for the prosperity of the world economy, must remain to be seen. But as investors scrambled to make sense of last week’s events, already one conclusion was all but irrefutable – the US dollar will have to take another major fall. The dollar rally that began in July and pushed the pound’s value against the greenback significantly lower has come to an abrupt end as markets face up to the fact that the currency will have to absorb the effects of a sudden shocking increase in America’s budget deficit. When Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announced that the world’s biggest economy was about to embark on the world’s biggest bail-out for its financial sector, the first concern economists had was about the long- term prospects for the nation’s finances and its currency. Might the dollar now be vulnerable to a run? In the longer term, might this signal the beginning of the end for the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency? The US Treasury was already planning to borrow $438bn (£237bn) next year to shore up its budget deficit. That could now rise to $1 trillion or more after the cost of the $700bn mortgage rescue fund is taken into account. Budget deficits of that kind are usually enough to scare many foreign investors away, and indeed the dollar slumped 1.1 cents to $1.8441 against the pound yesterday, and in late trading was down almost two cents against the euro at $1.46880. Ironically, despite the pound’s comparative strength against the dollar – having risen from just above $1.75 in the past few weeks – it remains extremely weak against other world currencies, due to investors’ fears about the UK’s own home-grown problems. “The magic trillion-dollar deficit is within sight,” says Simon Derrick, of Bank of New York Mellon, “The combination of the fiscal position and loose monetary policy is likely to be significantly dollar-negative. With an expanding supply of US paper they might want to hold something else as their safe haven, which might mean other currencies and might just as easily mean commodities such as gold.” When a government opens the spending taps and borrows more, investors invariably take flight, fearing that assets denominated in those currencies will lose their value as inflation rises and the currency weakens. However, with the Treasury still reluctant to spell out precisely how the rescue package, modelled on the late 1980s’ Resolution Trust Corporation, will work, analysts are still unclear about how far the dollar has to fall. It is likewise still unknown precisely what effect the quasi- nationalisation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will have for the nation’s finances, though the implications will again almost certainly be negative. According to Mr Derrick, “the sums have changed so quickly on the fiscal side within the space of two weeks, and clearly the outlook for the US economy relative to where people were forecasting before Freddie and Fannie. Investors will also have a radically different outlook for the future.” The biggest question, however, is whether the reserve managers in central banks in China and elsewhere will treat this as a justification for selling off some of their massive mountain of dollar-denominated investments. If this were to happen, it could cause a catastrophic drop in the US currency, potentially compromising its status as the world’s reserve
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] [Fwd: New Free Book Online: ELECTION 2000: Lipstick on the Pig]
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 24, 2008 12:27:48 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] [Fwd: New Free Book Online: ELECTION 2000: Lipstick on the Pig] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Original Message Subject:New Free Book Online: ELECTION 2000: Lipstick on the Pig Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:30:20 -0400 From: Robert Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Robert Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] For information. I have just published this. It is free online. I urge you to make it your own and post it elsewhere so as to reduce the load on our humble website in Sweden. If you do, this notice can be reused, just change the URL in the last line--or not, pass it on as is. This can also be translated. Time to kill the pig. Semper Fidelis, Robert Steele *New Book, free online and also at Amazon in hard copy wire bound.* ** *ELECTION 2000: Lipstick on the Pig by Robert David STEELE Vivas, Citizen Intelligence Minuteman.* This full color wire bound letter size book, 137 pages with provocative illustrations and informative graphics, is free for online reading or individual download or printing. The author encourages uploading to other websites so as to reduce the load on his Sweden-based humble website. A devastingly blunt forward places the current financial crisis in perspective, as the THIRD of our clear and present dangers. The first is the massive electoral fraud now going on, and the prevention of other parties from being included in the debates and in the public dialog. The second is the growing desire for secession by over two dozen movements, with Vermont, elements of the South, and the Pacific Northwest having the strongest proponency at this time. Chapters on The Substance of Governance; Legitimate Grievances (Part I on Secessionists, Part II on Anti-Americanism); Candidates on the Issues; Balanced Budget 101; and Call to Arms: Fund We Not Them, arouse, inspire, annoy, and provoke. An annotated bibliography with active links to over 500 books spanning over twenty-five topics from Anti-Americanism and Betrayal of the Public Trust to Collective Intelligence, Democracy in Decline, Innovation 21st Century Leadership, and Philosophy, Pyschology, and Religion from Faith to Fascism, will provide many hours of free direct access to the most recent noni-fiction relevant to determining whether the two political parties are the pig and this election is the lipstick. As the author concludes, let's lose the lopstick, eat the pig, and move on. Enjoy. The book is free online at www.oss.net/PIG http://www.oss.net/PIG. Pass it on -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSI newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net http://spynews.byethost13.com Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected and posted to Spy News for OSI purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/profaca.html e-mail: mario.profaca[at]zg.t-com.hr SPY NEWS owner editor Yahoo! Groups Links
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Michael Parenti Speaking at Scripps College in Claremont - Wednesday, September 24th at 7:30 PM - GLOBAL MEDIA: METHODS OF MEDIA MANIPULATON - Free Event
Begin forwarded message:From: sasha karlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 24, 2008 3:53:58 AM PDTTo: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [NewPacifica] Michael Parenti Speaking at Scripps College in Claremont - Wednesday, September 24th at 7:30 PM - "GLOBAL MEDIA: METHODS OF MEDIA MANIPULATON" - Free EventReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Parenti Michael Parenti is an internationally known award-winning author and lecturer. He is one of the nation’s leading progressive political analysts. Speaking at ScrippsCollege Wednesday, September 24th 7:30 PM - Free Event "GLOBAL MEDIA:METHODS OF MEDIA MANIPULATON" Scripps College Garrison Theater 231 East 10thStreet, Claremont, 91711 (909)621-8326 http://www.collegescalendar.org Map this Address =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker
Begin forwarded message: From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 21, 2008 4:33:39 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SPY NEWS] Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-39405-108.html Proxy server trail leads FBI to Palin email hacker Security By Humphrey Cheung Friday, September 19, 2008 21:44 Anchorage (Alaska) – FBI agents are using proxy server logs to track down the hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account. The hacker gained access to the Republican Vice Presidential candidate's account by resetting the password. He then posted details of his adventures up on a popular online forum, but that information is now leading reporters and federal investigators to the suspect – a Tennessee university college student and son of state democratic representative Mike Kernell. A few days ago, someone going by the name of Rubico gloated on 4chan.org that he managed to hack into Sarah Palin's Yahoo account. He forced a password reset by answering questions about Palin's birthdate, zip code and where she met her spouse, Wasilla High School. Of course, by being the Republican candidate for Vice President, this information is all very easily found on the Internet. After answering the questions, Rubico reset the password to popcorn and read through Palin's emails. And it seems he was pretty thorough, saying he read, ALL OF THEM on the boards. He even posted up screenshots of the Yahoo email page, complete with the full URL (we'll talk about that later). Rubico says he didn't find anything incriminating and the emails were actually fairly mundane family pictures and correspondence. But his jubilation turned into horror as he realized that he didn't take proper precautions in covering his tracks. Rubico used a proxy server that shields the source IP address from website logging scripts. While this sounds great, Rubico posted, Yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this sh** ever got to the FBI I was FU In his gloating, Rubico posted up screenshots of the Yahoo account complete with the full URL which included the proxy server url (ctunnel.com) appended with a unique identifier. For example, we used ctunnel.com to surf to YouTube and the URL reads - http://ctunnel.com/index.php/1010110A/58a5cd1e8ab47088982c83282fd768456ebe14f44221026 . So it doesn't take a genius to go through the logs and match up the ID to the appropriate IP address and BAM, you got the hacker. But aren't proxy servers supposed to anonymize your information? Yes and no. Dan Goodin over at The Register talked to Gabriel Ramuglia, the owner of the ctunnel.com proxy server that Rubico allegedly used. Ramuglia is upset about the ordeal because his service was never meant to be used for illegal activies and says Rubico definitely broke his site's terms of service. Ramuglia added that every incoming IP address is logged with the time and destination website. Ramuglia told Goodin that he hasn't a chance yet to examine his logs, but added that there is a good chance that it will lead to the hacker. Since the interview, he's received a call from the Anchorage Alaska FBI field office and agents there are highly suggesting that he not lose the logs. But it gets even better. White hat hackers didn't even need proxy information to find the culprit because they discovered that the Rubico forum handle was linked to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it A few searches on Google and YouTube further links this email address to 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. His father is Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell. As you can expect, the Yahoo account has been frozen and all the incriminating forum posts on 4chan.org have been deleted. But this didn't stop Wired.com from printing some of the posts. Don't you just love it when hackers brag about the leet skills? -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-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
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Paulson Commits Trillions of Tax Payer Dollars to the Mother of All Bailouts
Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 20, 2008 5:01:24 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Paulson Commits Trillions of Tax Payer Dollars to the Mother of All Bailouts Paulson Commits Trillions of Tax Payer Dollars to the Mother of All BailoutsStock-Markets / Government Intervention Sep 19, 2008 - 12:28 PMBy: Peter_SchiffJust three days ago, after looking at the prospect of bailing a string of distressed financial institution in the country, the government seemingly drew a line in the sand, and refused to bail out Lehman Brothers. The authorities clearly saw Lehman’s demise as a trial balloon to see how the markets would react if the government stayed on the sidelines. That trial balloon quickly turned into the Hindenburg. Immediately reversing course, the Government has decided to go “all in” and bail out every institution with financial exposure to U.S. mortgages.Simply put, Americans will not be allowed to visibly suffer losses after the greatest asset bubble in U.S. history. But make no mistake, the losses are real and Americans will pay one way or another.Moving beyond the guided munitions of selective bailouts, the Government is now trying the financial equivalent of carpet bombing (for AIG, Merrill Lynch, and especially Lehman Brothers, this gives new meaning to being a day late and a dollar short). To continue with the military analogies, Paulson's bazooka turned out to be a nuclear tipped ballistic missile.By committing trillions of tax payer dollars (not the “hundreds of billions” that Paulson predicts), the plan will save commercial and investment banks from certain bankruptcy. In his statement today, Paulson made clear that Congress must pass new legislation to allow the Government to acquire even those loans too poorly collateralized to currently qualify for GSE or FHA absorption. The losses baked into these mortgage products, which Wall Street has been reluctant to even estimate, will now be borne wholly by taxpayers.In his press conference, Paulson assured us that this plan was designed to safeguard our savings. But in typical government fashion, the plan will have the reverse effect as savings is wiped out through inflation. He also claims that the plan will safeguard home equity by keeping real estate prices high. Since when did high home prices become a strategic national priority? If the plan succeeds, the gains for home sellers will simply be matched by losses for homebuyers, who end up paying inflated prices, and taxpayers, who get stuck with the losses when those buyers default.Paulson’s distress and confusion was clearly evident when he fielded questions from reporters. The first asked Paulson to describe his fears regarding the probable economic consequences of government inaction. Paulson provided no answer and promptly exited stage right.When the U.S. government owns all mortgages, the real estate market will be completely subject to political, rather than financial, concerns. Will foreclosures be outlawed? Will loan term easements and principal reductions become standard campaign issues?While it is dizzying to predict how this plan will be implemented, it is fairly simple to foresee the macroeconomic consequences. The U.S. dollar will be shattered beyond repair. The government simply has no means to make good on the trillions of new liabilities. Interestingly, while both Paulson and President Bush acknowledge that the plan will put “significant amounts of taxpayer dollars on the line,” they did not mention any tax increases. Given the politics, no such move is forthcoming. The printing press is their only solution.The government has also decided to insure all money market funds, adding trillions more in unfunded liabilities to the Federal balance sheet in the blink of an eye. Of course, since bad real estate loans are not the only toxic assets on the balance sheets of financial institution, we will also need to absorb other classes of asset-backed securities, such as those backed by credit card debt and auto loans. So while the move ensures that depositors will not lose money, is does insure that the money itself will lose value. Is the trade-off really worth it? Washington thinks so.Further, since I assume the plan will apply to all mortgage debt, U.S. taxpayers will also be on the hook to bail out foreign institutions that loaded up on the financial sludge. However, once the government takes them off the hook, do not expect them to re-invest the windfall back into other U.S. dollar denominated assets. This get-out-of-jail free card will likely scare them straight. The global mass exodus from the U.S. dollar and Treasury debt is about to begin: do not get caught in the stampede.Although gold initially sold off as the apparent need for a financial safe haven ebbed, look for a spectacular rally to commence as its traditional role as an inflation hedge returns with a vengeance.For a more in depth analysis of our financial problems and the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Power of Political Misinformation
Begin forwarded message: From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 19, 2008 7:34:02 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ctrl] The Power of Political Misinformation Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEWS | OPINIONS | SPORTS | ARTS LIVING | Discussions | Photos Video | City Guide | CLASSIFIEDS | JOBS | CARS | REAL ESTATE http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402375_pf.html The Power of Political Misinformation By Shankar Vedantam Monday, September 15, 2008; A06 Have you seen the photo of Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin brandishing a rifle while wearing a U.S. flag bikini? Have you read the e-mail saying Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was sworn into the U.S. Senate with his hand placed on the Koran? Both are fabricated -- and are among the hottest pieces of misinformation in circulation. As the presidential campaign heats up, intense efforts are underway to debunk rumors and misinformation. Nearly all these efforts rest on the assumption that good information is the antidote to misinformation. But a series of new experiments show that misinformation can exercise a ghostly influence on people's minds after it has been debunked -- even among people who recognize it as misinformation. In some cases, correcting misinformation serves to increase the power of bad information. In experiments conducted by political scientist John Bullock at Yale University, volunteers were given various items of political misinformation from real life. One group of volunteers was shown a transcript of an ad created by NARAL Pro-Choice America that accused John G. Roberts Jr., President Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court at the time, of supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber. A variety of psychological experiments have shown that political misinformation primarily works by feeding into people's preexisting views. People who did not like Roberts to begin with, then, ought to have been most receptive to the damaging allegation, and this is exactly what Bullock found. Democrats were far more likely than Republicans to disapprove of Roberts after hearing the allegation. Bullock then showed volunteers a refutation of the ad by abortion-rights supporters. He also told the volunteers that the advocacy group had withdrawn the ad. Although 56 percent of Democrats had originally disapproved of Roberts before hearing the misinformation, 80 percent of Democrats disapproved of the Supreme Court nominee afterward. Upon hearing the refutation, Democratic disapproval of Roberts dropped only to 72 percent. Republican disapproval of Roberts rose after hearing the misinformation but vanished upon hearing the correct information. The damaging charge, in other words, continued to have an effect even after it was debunked among precisely those people predisposed to buy the bad information in the first place. Bullock found a similar effect when it came to misinformation about abuses at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Volunteers were shown a Newsweek report that suggested a Koran had been flushed down a toilet, followed by a retraction by the magazine. Where 56 percent of Democrats had disapproved of detainee treatment before they were misinformed about the Koran incident, 78 percent disapproved afterward. Upon hearing the refutation, Democratic disapproval dropped back only to 68 percent -- showing that misinformation continued to affect the attitudes of Democrats even after they knew the information was false. Bullock and others have also shown that some refutations can strengthen misinformation, especially among conservatives. Political scientists Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler provided two groups of volunteers with the Bush administration's prewar claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. One group was given a refutation -- the comprehensive 2004 Duelfer report that concluded that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction before the United States invaded in 2003. Thirty-four percent of conservatives told only about the Bush administration's claims thought Iraq had hidden or destroyed its weapons before the U.S. invasion, but 64 percent of conservatives who heard both claim and refutation thought that Iraq really did have the weapons. The refutation, in other words, made the misinformation worse. A similar backfire effect also influenced conservatives told about Bush administration assertions that tax cuts increase federal revenue. One group was offered a refutation by prominent economists that included current and former Bush administration officials. About 35 percent of conservatives told about the Bush claim believed it; 67 percent of those provided with both assertion and refutation believed that tax cuts increase revenue. In a paper approaching publication, Nyhan, a PhD student at Duke University, and Reifler, at Georgia State University, suggest that Republicans might be
[cia-drugs] The Faces of the Financial Crisis
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