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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 16, 2008 9:34:27 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Analysis: Classifying open source intel?
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http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/09/16/analysis_classifying_open_source_intel/d166/
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/09/16/analysis_classifying_open_source_intel/d166/ 

*Analysis: Classifying open source intel?*
http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/09/16/analysis_classifying_open_source_intel/d166/ 

By SHAUN WATERMAN
(UPI Homeland and National Security Editor)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- Intelligence from open sources like the
Internet is now recognized as an essential part of the work of U.S.
agencies -- but one leading expert in the field says much more of it
should be secret.

Open source intelligence is widely recognized as both an essential
capability and a formidable asset in our national security
infrastructure, CIA Director and retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden
told a conference in Washington Friday.

Hayden quoted the strategic plan issued this year by Director of
National Intelligence Michael McConnell: No aspect of (intelligence)
collection requires greater consideration or holds more promise than
open source information.

But the conference, organized by the DNI's Open Source Center, the
agency based at the CIA that provides analysis of open sources for U.S.
intelligence, also heard counterintuitive calls for more of its product
to be classified.

Jennifer Sims, director of intelligence studies at Georgetown
University, told United Press International there was another rationale
for classifying intelligence reports, other than the traditional one of
protecting sources and methods.

She said under the definition of classified information -- data the
release of which would damage the national security of the United States
-- intelligence could, and should, be classified even when the source 
was open, because of the insights you derive for the decision-maker

from that source.

That requires classification because the release of it tells people
what decision-makers find insightful about the open source analysis.

In other words, if it is worth knowing, it is worth preventing
adversaries from knowing.

If you don't classify open source intelligence products, she argued,
what you're saying is that you're not providing any particular insights
that matter to the competition.

Sims also cited the DNI's strategic plan, which defined the key role of
the sprawling collection of U.S. agencies known as the Intelligence
Community as providing decision advantage in a dangerous and quickly
changing world.

What's new and exciting about the use of the term 'decision advantage'
is that it reminds everybody that the core business of intelligence is
not gathering secrets. The core business of intelligence is providing
insights for decision-makers who are engaged in life-or-death
competitions, and those insights require classification wholly apart
from any need to protect sources and methods.

But Sims also argues against the widely held assumption that open source
intelligence gathering requires no protection of sources and methods.

All intelligence collection involves at least five elements, she
explained: command and control, sensors, platforms, processing and
exploitation, and finally data exfiltration.

Even in open source, she said, You will want to classify your command
and control, because you don't want people to know what your
requirements are. Processing and exploitation should also be secret at
least in part … because you want to keep your methods for deriving
insights from the data away from anybody else.

Steven Aftergood, a government-transparency advocate at the Federation
of American Scientists, said Sims made the most coherent argument for
open source secrecy I have heard.

But, he said, in actual fact, very few of the analyses produced by the
Open Source Center fitted Sims' picture of material that conferred a
vital advantage over the country's adversaries.

Only a small minority of OSC analytical products fits that
description, he told UPI. The overwhelming bulk have no operational
relevance. They are at best contextual, he added, comparing them to the
research backgrounders prepared by the Congressional Research Service.

They are not inputs into strategic decision-making.

According to Aftergood, Sims' argument was misleading to the extent
that it presented the exception as the rule.

Aftergood's conclusion was echoed by Kim Robson, the center's deputy
director, who told UPI that the vast majority of what we produce is not
classified … and doesn't have to be.

In some cases, Robson added, OSC reports end up being classified
because of the sensitive nature of their conclusions.

If the information will … reveal intentions and capabilities, then it
ought to be protected in some way, even if the (underlying) information
is unclassified, she explained.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] War à la carte

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 16, 2008 10:00:07 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] War à la carte
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http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=183:eric-walbergcatid=13:north-americaItemid=36
http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=183:eric-walbergcatid=13:north-americaItemid=36 

*War à la carte*

Eric WalbergThe US is inventing wars aplenty these days. Will it be Iran
or Ossetia this month? asks Eric Walberg

Last week, Georgia launched a major military offensive against the rebel
province South Ossetia , just hours after President Mikheil Saakashvili
had announced a unilateral ceasefire. Close to 1,500 have been killed,
Russian officials say. Thirty thousand refugees, mostly women and
children, streamed across the border into the North Ossetian capital
Vladikavkaz in Russia .

The timing — and subterfuge — suggest the unscrupulous Saakashvili was
counting on surprise. “Most decision makers have gone for the holidays,”
he said in an interview with CNN. “Brilliant moment to attack a small
country.” Apparently he was referring to Russia invading Georgia ,
despite the fact that it was Georgia which had just launched a
full-scale invasion of the “small country” South Ossetia, while Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in Beijing for the Olympics.
Twenty-seven Russian peacekeepers and troops have been killed and 150
wounded so far, many when their barracks were shelled by Georgian forces
at the start of the invasion. Georgian State Minister for Reintegration
Temur Yakobashvili rushed to announce that their mini-blitzkreig had
destroyed ten Russian combat planes ( Russia says two) and that Georgian
troops were in full control of the capital Tskhinvali.

Russia’s Defense Ministry denounced the Georgian attack as a “dirty
adventure.” From Beijing , Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said,
“It is regrettable that on the day before the opening of the Olympic
Games, the Georgian authorities have undertaken aggressive actions in
South Ossetia .” He later added, “War has started.” Russian President
Dmitry Medvedev vowed that Moscow will protect Russian citizens — most
South Ossetians hold Russian passports. The offensive prompted Moscow to
send in 150 tanks, to launch air strikes on nearby Gori and military
sites, and to order warships to Georgia ’s Black Sea coast.

Georgia’s national security council declared a state of war with Russia
and a full military mobilisation. US military planes are already flying
Georgia ’s 2,000 troops in Iraq — the third-largest force after the
United States and Britain — back to confront the Russians. By Sunday,
despite early claims of victory, Georgian troops had retreated from
South Ossetia , leaving diplomatic rubble behind which will be very hard
to clear. Truth is stranger than fiction in Georgia .

The writing has been on the wall for months. Georgian President
Saakashvili’s fawning over Western leaders at the “emergency” NATO
meeting in April and his pre-election anti-Russian bluster in May made
it clear to all that Georgia is the more-than-willing canary in the
Eastern mine shaft. The Georgian attack on South Ossetia’s capital
Tskhinvali — I repeat — just hours after Saakashvili declared a
cease-fire, looks very much like an attempt to reincorporate the rebel
province into Georgia unilaterally. But whoever is advising the brash
young president ignores the postscript — no pasaran! South Ossetia has
been independent for 16 years and is not likely to drape flowers on
invading Georgia tanks. It also just happens to have Russia as patron.

The aftershocks of this wild gamble by Saakashvili are just beginning.
This is Russia ’s most serious altercation with a foreign country since
the collapse of the Soviet Union and could escalate into an all-out war
engulfing much of the Caucasus region. Russian warships are not planning
to block shipments of oil from Georgia 's Black Sea port of Poti ,
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin said on Sunday, but
reserve the right to search ships coming to and from it. Another source
naval source said, “The crews are assigned the task to not allow arms
and military hardware supplies to reach Georgia by sea.” The Russians
have already sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack
Russian ships. Upping the ante, Ukraine said it reserved the right to
bar Russian warships from returning to their nominally Ukrainian —
formerly Russian — base of Sevastopol , on the Crimean peninsula. On
Saturday, Russia accused Ukraine of “arming the Georgians to the teeth.”

Georgia's other separatist region, Abkhazia, was mobilising its forces
for a push into the Kodori Gorge, the only part of Abkhazia controlled
by Georgia . “No dialogue is possible with the current Georgian
leadership,” said Abkhazia’s President Sergei Bagapsh. “They are state
criminals who must be tried for the crimes committed in

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] NATO Secret Armies Linked to Terrorism?

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 16, 2008 10:09:11 AM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] NATO Secret Armies Linked to Terrorism?
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http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/3025/2/
NATO Secret Armies Linked to Terrorism? PDF
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By Dr. Daniele Ganser

At a time when experts are debating whether NATO is suited to deal with
the global “war on terror”, new research suggests that the alliance’s
own secret history has links to terrorism.

ISN Editor’s Note:

This report written by Daniele Ganser is based on excerpts from his
newly released book, _“NATO’s Secret Armies. Operation Gladio and
Terrorism in Western Europe”_, released this week by Frank Cass in  
London.

The book describes NATO’s clandestine operations during the Cold War.
The research was prompted by a story that made world headlines in 1990
but quickly disappeared, ensuring that even today, NATO’s secret armies
remain just that - secret.

Until now, a full investigation of NATO’s secret armies had not been
carried out - a task that Ganser has taken on single-handedly and quite
successfully.

In Italy, on 3 August 1990, then-prime minister Giulio Andreotti
confirmed the existence of a secret army code-named “Gladio” - the Latin
word for “sword” - within the state. His testimony before the Senate
subcommittee investigating terrorism in Italy sent shockwaves through
the Italian parliament and the public, as speculation arose that the
secret army had possibly manipulated Italian politics through acts of
terrorism.

Andreotti revealed that the secret Gladio army had been hidden within
the Defense Ministry as a subsection of the military secret service,
SISMI. General Vito Miceli, a former director of the Italian military
secret service, could hardly believe that Andreotti had lifted the
secret, and protested:

   I have gone to prison because I did not want to reveal the
existence of this super secret organization. And now Andreotti comes
along and tells it to parliament! According to a document compiled by
the Italian military secret service in 1959, the secret armies had a
two-fold strategic purpose: firstly, to operate as a so-called
“stay-behind” group in the case of a Soviet invasion and to carry out a
guerrilla war in occupied territories; secondly, to carry out domestic
operations in case of “emergency situations”.

The military secret services’ perceptions of what constituted an
“emergency” was well defined in Cold War Italy and focused on the
increasing strength of the Italian Communist and the Socialist parties,
both of which were tasked with weakening NATO “from within”. Felice
Casson, an Italian judge who during his investigations into right-wing
terrorism had first discovered the secret Gladio army and had forced
Andreotti to take a stand, found that the secret army had linked up with
right-wing terrorists in order to confront “emergency situations”. The
terrorists, supplied by the secret army, carried out bomb attacks in
public places, blamed them on the Italian left, and were thereafter
protected from prosecution by the military secret service. You had to
attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown
people far removed from any political game,” right-wing terrorist
Vincezo Vinciguerra explained the so-called “strategy of tension” to  
Casson.

   “The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these
people, the Italian public, to turn to the state to ask for greater
security. This is the political logic that lies behind all the massacres
and the bombings which remain unpunished, because the state cannot
convict itself or declare itself responsible for what happened.

No comment from NATO or the CIA

How strongly NATO and US intelligence backed and supported the use of
terror in Italy in order to discredit the political left during the Cold
War remains subject of ongoing research. General Gerardo Serravalle, who
had commanded the Italian Gladio secret army from 1971 to 1974,
confirmed that the secret army “could pass from a defensive,
post-invasion logic, to one of attack, of civil war”.

The Italian Senate chose to be more explicit and concluded in its
investigation in 2000: Those massacres, those bombs, those military
actions had been organized or promoted or supported by men inside
Italian state institutions and, as has been discovered more recently, by
men linked to the structures of United States intelligence. Ever since
the discovery of the secret NATO armies in 1990, research into
stay-behind armies has progressed only very slowly, due to very limited
access to primary documents and the refusal of both NATO and the CIA to
comment. On 5

[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Corruption Inside Fannie Mae by Byron York - Article written September 9, 2008

Begin forwarded message:

From: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 16, 2008 1:57:40 PM PDT
To: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Corruption Inside Fannie Mae by Byron York -  Article  
written September 9, 2008

- Original Message -
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:54 AM
Subject: The Corruption Inside Fannie Mae by Byron York - Article  
written September 9, 2008

Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, Sampath Rajappa (head of the Office  
of Auditing to his accounting team) as well as others connected to  
their corruption at Fannie Mae

NEED TO GO TO PRISON!

( Please note that this article was written on September 9, 2008.  
Quite a lot has happened to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since this  
article was written.)

September 09, 2008, 5:30 a.m.

Politics and the Fannie Mae Piggy Bank
Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, and some very cooked books.

By Byron York

Editor’s note — The impending federal bailout of Fannie Mae and  
Freddie Mac has shed light not only on the seriousness of current  
housing market conditions but also on the mismanagement and corruption  
that helped cripple the mortgage giants. Although political figures  
from both parties have profited mightily from Fannie Mae, it has been  
a particular favorite of former officials of Democratic  
administrations, as NR’s Byron York found out when he looked into the  
situation in the summer of 2006.

On May 23, 2006, as a jury in Houston deliberated the case against top  
Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, a little-known  
regulatory agency in Washington, the Office of Federal Housing  
Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO), released a study with the dryly  
bureaucratic title “Report of the Special Examination of Fannie Mae.”  
The document received far less attention than the news from Enron, but  
its conclusions were stunning. In meticulous detail, it outlined a  
culture of corruption at the Federal National Mortgage Association —  
better known as Fannie Mae — that rivals the most serious corporate  
scandals in recent years. In this case, however, the main players are  
Washington insiders — some of them prominent veterans of the Clinton  
administration — and the scandal’s effects could ripple through  
Congress for years.

Fannie Mae is the biggest single source of money for mortgages in the  
United States. From 1998 to 2004, the years covered by the OFHEO  
investigation, it was headed by former Clinton budget director  
Franklin Raines, whose top management team included former Clinton  
Justice Department official Jamie Gorelick, sometimes mentioned as a  
future attorney general in a Democratic administration. During that  
period, the report says, Raines and his team grossly overstated Fannie  
Mae’s earnings — to the tune of $10.6 billion — for the purpose of  
paying themselves big bonuses. “By deliberately and intentionally  
manipulating accounting to hit earnings targets,” the report says,  
“senior management maximized the bonuses and other executive  
compensation they received, at the expense of shareholders.”

In doing so, the report says, Raines and his team steered Fannie Mae  
far afield from its original mission, transforming it from a stable  
business into a risky one. Fannie Mae has its roots in the New Deal,  
when it was established to increase the amount of money available for  
mortgages. Over the years, its main business has been to issue debt  
and then use the proceeds to buy mortgages from lenders, allowing  
those lenders to give out new mortgages. Originally a government  
agency, Fannie Mae went private in 1968, with the goal of “increasing  
the availability and affordability of homeownership for low-,  
moderate-, and middle-income Americans,” according to its mission  
statement.

But Fannie Mae is not just any private institution. It is  
congressionally chartered, meaning its existence is established in  
law, it does not have to pay state and local income taxes, and it is  
not subject to bankruptcy laws. It can borrow money at a lower rate  
than anyone else except the federal government itself. Given all that,  
there is a public perception that Fannie Mae is a rock-solid  
government institution. “There is an implied guarantee,” says Sen.  
John Sununu, a member of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban  
Affairs Committee who has sponsored legislation to reform Fannie Mae.  
“Investors think they are the next best thing to Treasuries.”

There’s no doubt that Fannie Mae succeeded in its original mission of  
increasing the amount of money available for mortgages. In the 1980s,  
it went a step further, essentially creating a new product when it  
bought up mortgages and bundled them for sale to investors as mortgage- 
backed securities. It was an extraordinarily profitable move for  
Fannie Mae, and good for the housing market, too.

But in the 1990s, the company moved in a much riskier direction.  
Fannie Mae used its borrowing power to buy up

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Fed to loan AIG $85 billion and take 80% stake in rescue

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From: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 16, 2008 7:33:25 PM PDT
To: Sardar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fed to loan AIG $85 billion and take 80% stake in rescue

This is the central banks taking over US assets little by little till  
they own our whole country. That is why our forefathers told us not to  
allow a central bank that is attached to the International banking  
cartel.

  Sardar
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Subject: Fed to loan AIG $85 billion and take 80% stake in rescue

Source:
International Herald Tribune
http://www.iht.com/

Fed to loan AIG $85 billion and take 80% stake in rescue
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/17/business/17insure.php

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Re: [cia-drugs] FREUD, BERNAYS AND REICH


Tis very good.

Peace,
K

On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote:

Haven't seen this yet, but it looks good.  -Vmann


http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1777

The Century Of The Self - Part 1of4
Happiness Machines

The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American  
nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations  
profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas  
to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they  
could make people want things they didn't need by systematically  
linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.


Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of  
mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from  
celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the  
motorcar.


His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by  
persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and  
freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way  
of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to  
control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that  
his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.


It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate  
today's world.


http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1778

The Century Of The Self - Part 2of4
The Engineering of Consent

The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used  
Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.


Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise -  
that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational  
desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of  
these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop  
it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this  
hidden enemy within the human mind.


Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays,  
provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business,  
and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and  
control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical  
exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to  
make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the  
savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American  
life.


http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1779

The Century Of The Self - Part 3of4
There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed

In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the  
influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the  
ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him  
and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did  
not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to  
express itself.


Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings  
free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in  
people's minds by business and politics.


This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through  
self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training -  
into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.


But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not  
a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to  
encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell  
them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to  
techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner  
desires of the new self.


http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1780

The Century Of The Self - Part 4of4
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and  
America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and  
fulfil the inner desires of the self.


Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill  
Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by  
psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their  
policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism  
had learnt to do with products.


Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in  
politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was  
Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward  
Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.


The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of  
democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of  
individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who  
had originally created these techniques

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Battling the tyranny of drugs in Iran

2008-09-12 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Alamaine, IVe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 12, 2008 3:57:55 AM PDT
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Subject: [ctrl] Battling the tyranny of drugs in Iran
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/12/iran.drugstrade/print

Battling the tyranny of drugs in Iran

Sanctions, the situation in Afghanistan and the legacy of war all
conspire to draw Iranian women into addiction
Soraya Tehrani
guardian.co.uk, Friday September 12 2008 11:00 BST

As reported in the Guardian yesterday, the failure of policies to curb
drug production in Afghanistan is effecting Iran in a catastrophic way.

Western attempts to tackle opium production have failed dismally, so  
much

so that our country has become the main route for the opium trade from
Afghanistan, with cheap drugs now widely available on every street  
corner

to people in desperate situations.

The result is an already vulnerable population is put at greater risk.
The high number of male deaths from the Iran-Iraq war has resulted in
many women struggling to earn enough to survive. Some of them become  
drug

dealers and users. The Islamic Republic has to find better and more
effective ways to support these women, most of whom are single mothers  
in

desperate situations.

Poverty in Iran has been aggravated by the global economic crisis and
rising food prices, worsened still by western sanctions that are hitting
ordinary people hard.

I am going to tell you the stories of two unfortunate sisters whom I  
have

known very closely and have tried to help regularly for many years:
Layla, a 38-year-old divorcee and Sahar, a 33-year-old single mother  
from

downtown Tehran with three teenage sons. Layla and Sahar's father died
from cancer when they were teenagers, and were raised by their mother in
a single parent family.

Because of the family's dire poverty, Layla was forced by her mother to
marry an Afghani refugee in Iran in the late 1980s. After Layla's
daughter Mina was born, Layla's husband was jailed for drug trafficking,
which led not only to a decrease in family income but to a lack of  
family

support. Almost immediately after her husband's arrest, Layla turned to
soft drugs and eventually to opium, crack, and heroin. As her addictions
worsened, she turned to prostitution to support them. After serving six
years in prison, Layla's husband returned home. Upon his release, he  
took

their daughter Mina without Layla's permission and returned to
Afghanistan. Layla has not seen nor heard from her daughter since 1995
and has no information regarding her whereabouts.

Sahar's dilemma on the other hand started when her ex-husband, Hussein,
was arrested in Zahedan in Sistan and Baluchistan province for smuggling
heroin in 1999. He was caught with one kilogram of heroin and was
sentenced to eight years in jail. As a desperate single mother with low
self-esteem and no education, Sahar struggled to bring up her children  
on

her own. Eventually, just like Layla, she turned to drugs to ease her
pain and desperation. She then turned to prostitution to support her  
drug

addiction and to provide for her three very young sons.

Sahar tells me:

Due to my own lack of proper education, finance and family support, I  
was
desperate to make some money to provide for my children. I didn't want  
my

children to end up in jail just like their father did. I had no choice
but to turn to prostitution and gradually started dealing in drugs to
make ends meet. As the punishment for adultery is very severe in Iran, I
had no choice but to apply for divorce while my husband was serving his
jail sentence.

Since smoking hashish did not make any difference to my state of mind, I
gradually turned to harder drugs like opium and then to crack and  
heroin.

On many occasions I have been abused while working as a prostitute and
dealing in drugs.

The recent sanctions imposed on Iran have caused the cost of food and
housing to hit the roof. Regrettably, I had no choice but to pull out my
elder son from school, who was on his final year at high school, to  
start

a job in a bakery shop in south Tehran.

There are many others in Iran in the same situation as Layla and Sahar,
living in daily despair and pain.

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the Iranian government  
has

always tried to curb addiction's huge social costs and has been more
supportive of drug treatment than any other government in the Islamic
world.

Even with these measures, the rate of addiction and suffering is not
decreasing. Despite the supportive stance of the government, having a
border with Afghanistan has, of course, not helped the situation. The
authorities have set up many drug rehabilitation and prevention
programmes all over Iran, especially in Tehran. Congress 60 in central
Tehran is one of 600 centres that provide drug treatment across the
country with help from government money. As Nazila Fathi has reported,
there are also over 1200

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Taliban kill 'spy' tribesmen in Pakistani tribal area

2008-09-11 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 11, 2008 6:24:35 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Taliban kill 'spy' tribesmen in Pakistani tribal  
area

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print.aspx?Id=5cf355c5-bccb-4a09-821e-e6461948ed51
Agence France-Presse
Pakistan, September 11, 2008
First Published: 15:00 IST(11/9/2008)
Last Updated: 15:05 IST(11/9/2008)
Taliban kill 'spy' tribesmen in Pakistani tribal area

Taliban militants shot dead three pro-government tribesmen in a
restive Pakistani tribal area, accusing the victims of spying against
them, officials said on Thursday.

The bodies of the tribesmen, aged 30-40 years old, were found on
Thursday morning near a road in the Tally area of Bajaur tribal region
which borders Afghanistan, a local government official told AFP.

They were shot in the neck and a note found with their bodies said
all those indulging in activities against Taliban and cooperating with
the government will suffer the same fate, the official said.

Militants have killed several tribesmen, accusing them of spying on
their activities on behalf of the Pakistani government and US forces
operating across the border in Afghanistan.

Tribal regions have been wracked by violence since hundreds of Taliban
and Al-Qaeda rebels fled there after the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan in late 2001.

US and Afghan officials have repeatedly claimed the rugged tribal
region is used by militants to launch cross-border attacks on
international coalition troops deployed in Afghanistan.

Violence linked to Pakistan's role in the war on terror has claimed
the lives of nearly 1,200 people in suicide and bomb attacks across
the country in the past year.

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[cia-drugs] Carrol Quigley interviews

2008-09-08 Thread RoadsEnd

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=122_1213880495

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Secret Service confiscates books buttons from Ron Paul delegates - Updated

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 5, 2008 5:13:31 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Secret Service confiscates books  buttons from Ron Paul delegates - Updated Secret Service confiscates books  buttons from Ron Paul delegates - UpdatedSeptember 4th, 2008 | Breaking News, Constitutional Crisis, Minneapolis RNC, Ron PaulBy: D. H. Williams @ 7:29 PM - ESTToday at the Republican National Convention, as the Ron Paul Delegates were taking a picture in front of the model White House inside the Convention Center, they were surrounded by Secret Service which proceeded to search the bags of all the delegates. They took any and everything related to Ron Paul including signs, buttons, videos, slim jims, cards, even books.Alternate Delegate Dennis Rothacker from Florida said “We were done taking the picture when Secret Service started walking into the room and surrounded us. There were about 30 of them. When they searched my bags they took my Ron Paul sign and turned a deaf ear to my complains, they just walked away.”Delegate Ron Warner from Fairbanks Alaska added that as he was walking into the convention center today with about 15 Revolution Manifesto books, 20 DVD’s for Delegates, 20 Ron Paul buttons and a handful of other things, we was stopped by security which called on an obviously important higher up, who directed all the materials to be confiscated. She told him, and I quote “You can’t bring that in here, this is Mc Cain territory”Dennis, Ron and the other delegates report being openly followed by secret service. He says that they had been monitored from the beginning of the convention, but that now they are being shadowed constantly.There are also reports of delegates being approached by security and told that they will be summarily thrown out if they leave their assigned chair.Updated: @ 7:37 PM - ESTThe alarm was sounded at 6:07 PM - EST when a text message was hurriedly sent from the convention floor by Republican delegate Dennis Rothacker to ‘Boris in Miami’.“We just had a group shot of all the RP delegates and alternates, the secret service came and started searching everyone and took anything RP related. We got it on video though…”Updated @ 8:18 PM - ESTRon Paul delegates report that they have been shadowed by Secret Service since the beginning of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Center, following the confiscation of their political materials they are now being surveilled openly with an agent assigned to each delegate. When one of the delegates asked if they could retrieve their property after the convention they were told, “No.” not satisfied with that answer the delegate tried to follow the agent to make additional inquiries, he was told this action was causing a disturbance and a security agent was told to stay with him for the rest of the evening. For their safety the Ron Paul delegation have decided to stick together as a group while approaching the media with their story.Updated @ 9:32 PM - ESTMcCain delegates at large have approached Ron Paul delegates throughout the day in attempts to seperate them from their all important delegate credentials. Adam Weigold, delegate from Minnesota, reported he has been approached at least five times by other Republican delegates supporting McCain-Palin who asked him to borrow his pass to go the bathroom. Nathan Hanson (MN) delegate and attorney suspects this is an organized effort by the GOP establishment.The Ron Paul delegation will be staying at the Xcel Center until the end of the nights events around 11:00 PM - EST.Updated: @ 1:08 AM - ESTSeveral Republicans attending the convention have reported to Daily Newscaster mass confiscation of bumper stickers, literature and paper signs such as, “Calling the GOP back to its Roots.” The GOP has put together an organized machine of federal security forces, McCain operatives, delegates, floor monitors and other staff creating an effective political ministry.Updated: Friday the 5th @ 10:08 AM - ESTThe GOP’s left leaning wing known as the neo-conservatives are using extreme measures to put, “Country First.”Neocon loyalist for McCain are hounding any Republican delegate known to support the conservative priniciples of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). Delegates for Ron Paul are being kept silent, if they dare approach one of the microphones it is turned off and any attempt to discuss Ron Paul results in a threat of removal from the convention floor.Related Article(s):- The Washington Times reports the GOP using “Black Hats” to suppress the 260 delegates identified as supporting Ron Paul.Read more Daily Newscaster stories.=


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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Palin Is Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 5, 2008 6:28:38 PM PDT
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mx.terabolic.com
Subject: [ctrl] Palin Is Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean
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http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/05/alaskans-speak-in-a-frightened-whisper-palin-is-%E2%80%9Cracist-sexist-vindictive-and-mean%E2%80%9D/

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist,  
Vindictive, And Mean”

September 5, 2008

by Charley James –

“So Sambo beat the bitch!”

This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described  
Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a  
restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party  
presidential nomination.

According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and  
who asked that her last name not be used, Gov. Palin was eating lunch  
with five or six people when the subject of the Democrat’s primary  
battle came up. The governor, seemingly not caring that people at  
nearby tables would likely hear her, uttered the slur and then laughed  
loudly as her meal mates joined in appreciatively.

“It was kind of disgusting,” Lucille, who is part Aboriginal, said in  
a phone interview after admitting that she is frightened of being  
discovered telling folks in the “lower 48” about life near the North  
Pole.

Then, almost with a sigh, she added, “But that’s just Alaska.”

Racial and ethnic slurs may be “just Alaska” and, clearly, they are  
common, everyday chatter for Palin.

Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical”  
swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s  
Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two  
apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as  
the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative  
“f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians  
interviewed for this article.

But being openly racist is only the tip of the Palin iceberg.  
According to Alaskans interviewed for this article, she is also  
vindictive and mean. We’re talking Rove mean and Nixon vindictive.

No wonder the vast sea of white, cheering faces at the Republican  
Convention went wild for Sarah: They adore the type, it’s in their  
genetic code. So much for McCain’s pledge of a “high road” campaign;  
Palin is incapable of being part of one.

Tough Getting People Who Know Her to Talk
It’s not easy getting people in the 49th state to speak critically  
about Palin – especially people in Wasilla, where she was mayor. For  
one thing, with every journalist in the world calling, phone lines  
into Alaska have been mostly jammed since Friday; as often as not, a  
recording told me that “all circuits are busy” or numbers just  
wouldn’t ring. I should think a state that’s been made richer than God  
by oil could afford telephone lines and cell towers for everyone.

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly  
Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re  
afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine.  
Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent  
in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and  
arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals  
with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if  
they have to.”

“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that  
inner circle.”

Like most other people interviewed, he didn’t want his name used out  
of fear of retribution. Maybe it’s the long winter nights where you  
don’t see the sun for months that makes people feel as if they’re  
under constant danger from “the authorities.” As I interviewed  
residents it began sounding as if living in Alaska controlled by the  
state Republican Party is like living in the old Soviet Union: See  
nothing that’s happening, say nothing offensive, and the political  
commissars leave you alone. But speak out and you get disappeared into  
a gulag north of the Arctic Circle for who-knows-how-long.

Alright, that’s an exaggeration brought on by my getting too little  
sleep and building too much anger as I worked this article. But  
there’s ample evidence of Palin’s vindictive willingness to destroy  
people she sees as opponents. Just ask the Wasilla town administrator  
she hired before firing him because he rebelled against the way Palin  
demanded he do his job, or the town librarian who refused to hold the  
book burning Walpurgisnach Mayor Palin demanded.

Ironically, Palin was pushed into hiring the administrator by the  
party poobahs who helped get her elected after she got herself into  
trouble over a number of precipitous firings which gave rise to a  
recall campaign.

“People who fought her attempt to oust the

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again

Begin forwarded message:

From: sasha karlik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 5, 2008 11:11:35 PM PDT
To: Greens-Cal-Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NewPacifica] Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bush Extends 9/11 National Emergency Yet Again

By Peter Dale Scott

Global Research, September 4, 2008

Though few Americans realize it, Cheney and Rumsfeld worked through  
the 1980s and 1990s on emergency nuclear-response plans which  
allegedly suspended the American constitution and also Congress.[1]  
(Through these decades Rumsfeld was CEO of a major pharmaceutical  
firm, and in the later 1990s Cheney was CEO of Halliburton; but their  
private status did not deter them from continuing to exercise a supra- 
constitutional planning power conferred on them by Ronald Reagan.)

Even fewer Americans know that these rules, originally dealing with a  
nuclear attack on America, were extended by Reagan Executive Order  
12656 to cover any occurrence, including natural disaster, military  
attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously  
degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United  
States.[2] And few Americans realize that at least some of these  
rules, known technically as Continuity of Government or COG rules,  
were invoked before 10:00 AM on September 11, 2001.[3]

As he did in 2007, President Bush has again, on August 28, 2008,  
continued for another year the national emergency first officially  
proclaimed on September 14, 2001, along with the powers and  
authorities adopted to deal with that emergency:

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain  
Terrorist Attacks

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50  
U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency I  
declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to  
the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York,  
the Pentagon, and aboard United Airlines flight 93, and the continuing  
and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency  
declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted  
to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September  
14, 2008. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an additional year  
the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, with respect  
to the terrorist threat.

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted  
to the Congress.

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 28, 2008.[4]

Once again appropriate personnel in Congress should learn and review  
what those powers and authorities are, since almost certainly they  
include COG (Continuity of Government) rules. In 2007 National  
Security Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD 51), issued by the White  
House, also extended for one year the emergency proclaimed in 2001;  
and it empowered the President to personally ensure continuity of  
government.[5]

NSPD 51 also contained classified Continuity Annexes to be  
protected from unauthorized disclosure. Congressman DeFazio twice  
requested to see these Annexes, the second time in a letter cosigned  
by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson and  
Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Christopher Carney. The White House  
denied these requests, claiming that the congressmen lacked the  
requisite clearances. But as I wrote earlier this year,

Congress has a right to be concerned about Continuity of Government  
(COG) plans refined by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld over the past  
quarter century….The story, ignored by the mainstream press, involved  
more than the usual tussle between the legislative and executive  
branches of the U.S. Government. What was at stake was a contest  
between Congress's constitutional powers of oversight, and a set of  
policy plans that could be used to suspend or modify the  
constitution.[6]

Oliver North, who worked on COG planning with Rumsfeld and Cheney in  
the 1980s, was asked in the Iran-Contra Hearings about his work on an  
emergency plan that would suspend the American constitution.  
Democratic Senator Inouye, who was presiding, pounded his gavel and  
interjected that this was a highly sensitive and classified matter,  
not to be dealt with in an open hearing.[7] Congress has never  
discussed COG plans publicly since that time.

According to Wikipedia, The National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.  
1601-1651) is a United States federal law passed in 1976 to stop open- 
ended states of national emergency and formalize Congressional checks  
and balances on Presidential emergency powers. The act sets a limit of  
two years on states of national emergency. It also imposes certain  
procedural formalities on the President when invoking such powers,  
and provides a means for Congress to countermand a Presidential

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] George Bush and the Queen

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From: rich martin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 5, 2008 11:56:46 PM PDT
To: 3 Politics [EMAIL PROTECTED], 3.0 ArtBell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
, 3.0 Catapult [EMAIL PROTECTED], 3.0 ctrl  
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 3.0 Freedom of Information [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
, 3.0 IPCUSA [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cc: 3.6 The_Power_Hour_II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IPCUSA] George Bush and the Queen
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George Bush and the Queen
Aug 11, 2001 11:19 PDT

While visiting England , George Bush is invited to tea with the Queen.  
He
asks her what her leadership philosophy is. She says that it is to  
surround

herself with intelligent people.

He asks how she knows if they're intelligent. I do so by asking them  
the

right questions, says the Queen. Allow me to demonstrate.

She phones Tony Blair and says, Mr. Prime Minister. Please answer this
question:

Your mother has a child, and your father has a child, and this child  
is not

your brother or sister. Who is it?

Tony Blair responds, It's me, ma'am.

Correct. Thank you and good-bye, sir, says the Queen. She hangs up and
says, Did you get that, Mr. Bush?

Yes ma'am. Thanks a lot. I'll definitely be using that!

Upon returning to Washington , he decides he'd better put the Chairman  
of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee to the test. He summons Jesse Helms  
to

the White House and says, Senator Helms, I wonder if you can answer a
question for me.

Why, of course, sir. What's on your mind? Uhh, your mother has a  
child,

and your father has a child, and this child is not your brother or your
sister. Who is it?

Helms hems and haws and finally asks, Can I think about it and get  
back to

you? Bush agrees, and Helms leaves.

Helms immediately calls a meeting of other senior Republican senators,  
and
they puzzle over the question for several hours, but nobody can come  
up with
an answer. Finally, in desperation, Helms calls Colin Powell at the  
State

Department and explains his problem.

Now lookee here, son, your mother has a child, and your father has a  
child,

and this child is not your brother or your sister. Who is it? Powell
answers immediately, It's me, of course, you dumb cracker.

Much relieved, Helms rushes back to the White House and exclaims, I  
know

the answer, sir! I know who it is! It's Colin Powell!

And Bush replies in disgust, Wrong, it's Tony Blair.

The only thing worse than Waco is the ongoing cover-up.

http://www.documentarywire.com/waco-the-big-lie/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4298137966377572665
http://www.myspace.com/bdsda
http://www.movie-forumz.org/showthread.php?t=35645highlight=waco

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 6, 2008 4:44:01 AM PDT
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mx.terabolic.com
Subject: [ctrl] Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers  
likely to follow

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

thats the end of downloading movies, even if you purchase them online  
from amazon or netflicks

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=9837tag=rbxccnbzd1

August 28th, 2008

Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow

Posted by Larry Dignan @ 3:09 pm

Categories: General, Wired  Wireless, Telecommunications, Broadband

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Customer, Broadband Internet, Network  
Technology,Telecommunications, Strategy, Networking, Management, Larry  
Dignan

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Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting  
Oct. 1.

The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast  
today (Techmeme). On its site, Comcast posted its amended user policy:

We’ve listened to feedback from our customers who asked that we  
provide a specific threshold for data usage and this would help them  
understand the amount of usage that would qualify as excessive. Today,  
we’re announcing that beginning on October 1, 2008, we will amend our  
Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) available at http://www.comcast.net/terms/use/ 
 and establish a specific monthly data usage threshold of 250 GB/ 
month per account for all residential customers.

250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of data, much more than a  
typical residential customer uses on a monthly basis. Currently, the  
median monthly data usage by our residential customers is  
approximately 2 - 3 GB. To put 250 GB of monthly usage in perspective,  
a customer would have to do any one of the following:

* Send 50 million emails (at 0.05 KB/email)
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
* Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
* Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)

This is the same system we have in place today. The only difference is  
that we will now provide a limit by which a customer may be contacted.  
As part of our pre-existing policy, we will continue to contact the  
top users of our high-speed Internet service and ask them to curb  
their usage. If a customer uses more than 250 GB and is one of the top  
users of our service, he or she may be contacted by Comcast to notify  
them of excessive use.

And industry move to broadband caps was mentioned by Qwest CTO Pieter  
Poll last week. Poll maintained that caps are likely to become an  
industry norm. While Comcast’s move is going to raise hackles in some  
quarters, 250 GB is pretty generous for an average retail customer.  
Meanwhile, I’d rather have a cap that’s high than be nickel and dimed  
with metered access.With Comcast implementing a broadband cap you can  
rest assured that other carriers will quickly follow.

Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and Editorial Director of  
ZDNet sister site TechRepublic. See his full profile and disclosure of  
his industry affiliations.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Google CEO: We Need Gov’t Regulation of Internet Service Providers

2008-09-04 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 4, 2008 1:46:38 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Google CEO: We Need Gov’t Regulation of Internet Service Providers Google CEO: We Need Gov’t Regulation of Internet Service ProvidersWhat he is really saying is that Big Brother needs to come in and shut down free thought and be like China where the net is government controlled. Any thinking person knows that the last thing we need is more government control. We need to gut all government control both federal and state and get them out of our lives like the Founding Fathers intended. Sardar a.. Email page b.. Print c.. Share SubscribeDiggdel.icio.usFacebookFurlStumbleUponJeff PoorBusiness Media InstituteThursday, September 4, 2008Google CEO Eric Schmidt says government regulation of Internet service providers (ISPs) is necessary. In fact, he said he thinks the entire concept of the Internet marketplace relies on it.Schmidt spoke to conservative bloggers at the Republican National Convention on September 3 in St. Paul, Minn. He warned that if an Internet service provider were too large, it could use its size to create a “protected structure within the Internet” and suggested that would restrict competition – giving some content favorable treatment within its network.“Let’s imagine the following scenario – who’s the largest Internet provider in the United States today, numerically? Let’s pick Comcast – whoever is the largest,” Schmidt said. “And let’s imagine that they were 80 percent of the market. They would be able to start to do proprietary extensions of protocols and they could eventually use a withholding of information to create a protected substructure within the Internet.”(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)He reflected on Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) as example of how that could happen. Schmidt’s comments about Microsoft come in the wake of Google’s launch of its own browser, Chrome – meant to compete with the newly launched versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla’s Firefox.“Now you have to decide if you think that’s an okay outcome,” Schmidt said. “The Internet was based on the principle that that could not happen. You all know and this may also be controversial with this group – I’ve spent 25 years … with Microsoft, which has of course a very large platform market share – who did those kinds of techniques. We can debate whether they were correct or not, but where you come out on that often I think predicts your view on this.”Opponents of Schmidt’s point of view argue such corporate control hasn’t occurred, and therefore the government should remain hands-off. However, Schmidt argued it is still necessary and justified for the government to intervene just in case a company was able to “get that level of control” over the Internet.“So the issue is not – there’s no current behavior,” Schmidt said. “So Comcast for example, is not doing the scenario I’m describing. But you worry that when any company – including Google by the way – gets that level of control over something, it can do proprietary extensions. They can make it impossible for competition to occur.”Last month, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell warned that government involvement with ISPs and their networks could have a chilling effect and could even mean the possibility of an expansion of the Fairness Doctrine to the Internet. a.. b.. c.. Seven years after the attacks of 9/11, a global awakening has taken place, the likes of which the world has never seen. As the corporate-controlled media dwindles into extinction, a new breed of journalists and activists has emerged. Click here to watch 9/11 Chronicles Part One: Truth Rising online in high quality now! d..The message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.prisonplanet.com/google-ceo-we-need-govt-regulation-of-internet-service-providers.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. =

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Dr. Ron Paul What an Amazing Speech!!!

2008-09-03 Thread RoadsEnd




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From: APFN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Dr. Ron Paul What an Amazing Speech!!!
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What an Amazing Speech!!!
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: US tries to create an 'iron curtain' around Russia

2008-09-03 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 3, 2008 5:30:25 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: US tries to create an 'iron curtain' around Russia US tries to create an 'iron curtain' around Russia F William Engdahl: US in decline as Russia asserts its rising power The US provoked Russia to respond militarily and the US as the dominant power is beginning to stumble and "to look desperately for ways to hold on to that power." Video - 03/09/08 President Dimitri Medvedev criticized the European Union for having a biased approach in regards to the Georgian conflict. Medvedev however stated that the EU acted in a rational manner by not implementing sanctions against the Russian Federation. F William Engdahl believes the EU response mirrors its dependence on Russian oil and gas. Engdahl goes on to further state that the US provoked Russia to respond militarily and the US as the dominant power is beginning to stumble and "to look desperately for ways to hold on to that power." Bio F William Engdahl is an economist and author and the writer of the best selling book "A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order." Mr Engdhahl has written on issues of energy, politics and economics for more than 30 years, beginning with the first oil shock in the early 1970s. Mr. Engdahl contributes regularly to a number of publications including Asia Times Online, Asia, Inc, Japan's Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Foresight magazine; Freitag and ZeitFragen newspapers in Germany and Switzerland respectively. He is based in Germany. Click on "comments" below to read or post comments Comments (14) Comment (0) Comment Guidelines Be succinct, constructive and relevant to the story. We encourage engaging, diverse and meaningful commentary. Do not include personal information such as names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. Comments falling outside our guidelines – those including personal attacks and profanity – are not permitted. See our complete Comment Policy and use this link to notify us if you have concerns about a comment. We’ll promptly review and remove any inappropriate postings. Send Page To a Friend In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Information Clearing House has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is Information ClearingHouse endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) Sign up for our Daily Email Newsletter HOME COPYRIGHT NOTICEVideoThe message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:Shortcut to: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20682.htmNote: 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. =

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] CIA, Contras, Gangs, and Crack

2008-09-02 Thread RoadsEnd

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In my 30 yr history in the DEA  related agencies,
the major targets of my investigations almost in-
variably turned out to be working for the CIA.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade

2008-09-02 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 2, 2008 12:49:15 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade The Real Drug Lords: A brief history of CIA involvement in the Drug Trade by William Blum Global Research, August 31, 2008 revolutionradio.org Email this article to a friend Print this article 1947 to 1951, FRANCE According to Alfred W. McCoy in The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia, CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party. The Corsicans gained political influence and control over the docks — ideal conditions for cementing a long-term partnership with mafia drug distributors, which turned Marseille into the postwar heroin capital of the Western world. Marseille’s first heroin laboratones were opened in 1951, only months after the Corsicans took over the waterfront. EARLY 1950s, SOUTHEAST ASIA The Nationalist Chinese army, organized by the CIA to wage war against Communist China, became the opium barons of The Golden Triangle (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos), the world’s largest source of opium and heroin. Air America, the ClA’s principal airline proprietary, flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia. (See Christopher Robbins, Air America, Avon Books, 1985, chapter 9) 1950s to early 1970s, INDOCHINA During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many Gl’s in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention, Southeast Asia had become the source of 70 percent of the world’s illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America’s booming heroin market. 1973-80, AUSTRALIA The Nugan Hand Bank of Sydney was a CIA bank in all but name. Among its officers were a network of US generals, admirals and CIA men, including fommer CIA Director William Colby, who was also one of its lawyers. With branches in Saudi Arabia, Europe, Southeast Asia, South America and the U.S., Nugan Hand Bank financed drug trafficking, money laundering and international arms dealings. In 1980, amidst several mysterious deaths, the bank collapsed, $50 million in debt. (See Jonathan Kwitny, The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money and the CIA, W.W. Norton Co., 1 987.) 1970s and 1980s, PANAMA For more than a decade, Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was a highly paid CIA asset and collaborator, despite knowledge by U.S. drug authorities as early as 1971 that the general was heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. Noriega facilitated ”guns-for-drugs” flights for the contras, providing protection and pilots, as well as safe havens for drug cartel otficials, and discreet banking facilities. U.S. officials, including then-ClA Director William Webster and several DEA officers, sent Noriega letters of praise for efforts to thwart drug trafficking (albeit only against competitors of his Medellin Cartel patrons). The U.S. government only turned against Noriega, invading Panama in December 1989 and kidnapping the general once they discovered he was providing intelligence and services to the Cubans and Sandinistas. Ironically drug trafficking through Panama increased after the US invasion. (John Dinges, Our Man in Panama, Random House, 1991; National Security Archive Documentation Packet The Contras, Cocaine, and Covert Operations.) 1980s, CENTRAL AMERICA The San Jose Mercury News series documents just one thread of the interwoven operations linking the CIA, the contras and the cocaine cartels. Obsessed with overthrowing the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua, Reagan administration officials tolerated drug trafficking as long as the traffickers gave support to the contras. In 1989, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations (the Kerry committee) concluded a three-year investigation by stating: “There was substantial evidence of drug smuggling through the war zones on the part of individual Contras, Contra suppliers, Contra pilots mercenaries who worked with the Contras, and Contra supporters throughout the region…. U.S. officials involved in Central America failed to address the drug issue for fear of jeopardizing the war efforts against Nicaragua…. In each case, one or another agency of the U.S. govemment had intormation regarding the involvement either while it was occurring, or immediately thereafter…. Senior U S policy makers were nit immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras’ funding problems.” (Drugs, Law Enforcement and Foreign Policy, a Report of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and Intemational Operations, 1989) In Costa Rica, which served as the “Southern Front” for the contras

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Flashback: the New COINTELPRO

2008-09-02 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 2, 2008 1:52:08 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Flashback: the New COINTELPRO Flashback: the New COINTELPROCamille T. TaiaraSan Fransisco Bay GuardianSeptember 2, 2008originally published October 22, 2004Editor’s note: Considering the FBI’s involvement in coordinated attacks against organizations demonstrating at the RNC this week — including raids on media centers and the arrest of journalists — we re-post an article on the “October Plan,” published prior to the 2004 election.Early this month the federal government launched the latest crude offensive in its so-called war on terror. Titled the October Plan, the program called for “aggressive - even obvious - surveillance” of a wide range of individuals (regardless of whether or not they’re suspected of any criminal wrongdoing) until the Nov. 2 presidential election, according to an internal document leaked to the press.The plan - a collaboration between the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and other agencies - involves renewed scrutiny of mosques and interrogations of people whose national origin, religious faith, or political leanings might, in the eyes of the feds, indicate even the most far-flung relationship to “terrorism.”Immigrants and others interviewed by the FBI have been “questioned about immigration status - theirs and others’ - and about their political and religious views,” the National Lawyers Guild’s Stacey Tolchin said at an emergency press conference called by the San Francisco branch of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Bay Area Association of Muslim Lawyers, the NLG, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.For staffers at these organizations, responding to these kinds of crackdowns has become alarmingly routine. This is the fifth round of FBI “informal interviews” targeting immigrants based on their national origin, religion, and, increasingly, their political views.No one knows just how many have been deported as a result of the interviews or of the various dragnets conducted over the past three years. Local NLG attorney Nancy Hormachae reported that at least 13,000 people were forced into deportation hearings as the result of the notorious Special Registration program alone. And the fact that none of these campaigns has proffered a single al-Qaeda operative hasn’t deterred the Bush administration a bit.So far, immigrant Muslims and those from the Middle East and Central Asia have suffered the brunt of the Bush administration’s attacks on civil liberties. But as NLG immigration attorney Mark Van Der Hout told me, “Going after immigrants is just the first step towards going after U.S. citizens.”Indeed, a look at the past three years shows that Attorney General John Ashcroft’s offensive has widened to include a range of citizens whose only real crime is their opposition to the Bush administration’s policies.The FBI Comes CallingPresident George W. Bush, Aschroft, and company have made it easier to spy on everyday citizens without probable cause of criminal activity, even allowing for the indefinite detention of Americans dubbed “enemy combatants,” without charges or access to a lawyer. They’ve eviscerated laws meant to keep a wall between the CIA and the FBI and erected an extensive domestic-spying infrastructure, enlisting private citizens and relying on private industry to a degree never seen before. Today federal agencies are maintaining a grand total of 10 domestic watch lists.The Bush administration has shifted federal funding away from traditional law enforcement and toward domestic spying, explained John Crew, an attorney with the ACLU of Northern California specializing in police practices and surveillance issues. “A lot of this activity is, in fact, being carried out by local police working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force,” he told me, explaining that those agents are considered “federalized.” They report to the FBI. Local city officials - even local police chiefs - are often not aware of what these “special officers” are doing.As the Bush administration loosened professional standards for law enforcement, it simultaneously increased financial incentives for conducting surveillance, Crew continued. “To qualify for grants, [local law enforcement] must have organizations in their locale that are threats,” he said. “They have to justify their own budget by amplifying the threat factor.”Here in San Francisco, the FBI was to assign 27 special agents - two with supervisory powers - to the San Francisco Police Department, according to a November 2002 agreement between the two agencies. The SFPD was to assign one investigator from its Intelligence Unit to coordinate supervision of the special agents alongside the FBI’s two supervisory special agents.“We usually don’t know what they’re really up to until many years later, if ever,” Crew said.Details of just how law

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Contractors account for a quarter of U.S. spy operations

2008-09-01 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-cia28-2008aug28,0,2730742.story
Contractors account for a quarter of U.S. spy operations
The reliance on contractors, which surged after Sept. 11, has been a
source of controversy. Some worry that temporary employees could be
less trustworthy.
By Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
August 28, 2008

WASHINGTON -- Private contractors account for more than one-quarter of
the core workforce at U.S. intelligence agencies, according to newly
released government figures that underscore how much of the nation's
spying work has been outsourced since the Sept. 11 attacks.

The CIA and other spy agencies employ about 36,000 contractors in
espionage-related jobs, in addition to approximately 100,000 full-time
government workers, said Ronald Sanders, head of personnel for the
U.S. intelligence community.

Contractors carry out missions including collecting intelligence in
Iraq and Afghanistan as well as operating classified computer networks
for the 16 spy agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.

Sanders said the number of contractors remained steady over the last
year, after surging in the years following the Sept. 11 attacks.

As you may know, we've been hiring a great deal since Sept. 11,
2001, Sanders said in a conference call with reporters Wednesday,
discussing the results of a survey.

The growing reliance on contractors has been a source of controversy
for the spy agencies, in part because of concerns that temporary
employees might not be as trustworthy as career workers in handling
some of the most sensitive national security work.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has criticized the CIA for using
contractors in interrogations of terrorism suspects, and many
lawmakers favor barring the agency from doing so.

The total budget for the nation's spy agencies is roughly $43 billion.
The use of contractors has been criticized for driving up costs, with
senior U.S. intelligence officials acknowledging that talented
employees have been lured away to take higher-paying positions with
private companies.

Sanders said the spy agencies spend about $125,000 a year for a
government employee, compared with about $207,000 for a contract
worker. The numbers reflect salaries, retirement benefits and other  
costs.

But officials have said that contractors also help agencies control
costs by enabling spy services to hire workers for short-term  
assignments.

Sanders said 27% of contractors were involved in intelligence
collection and operations, 19% work in analysis jobs, and 22% manage
computer networks or perform other information technology functions.

He said those figures did not include workers at companies that build
spy satellites and computer equipment, cafeteria staffers or security
guards.

If such non-core functions are counted, Sanders said, contractors
would account for about 70% of the U.S. intelligence workforce.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Obituary: Yuri Nosenko

2008-09-01 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 1, 2008 5:44:38 AM PDT
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/01/russia
Yuri Nosenko
KGB agent and defector at the centre of a dramatic cold war episode
   * Michael Carlson
   * The Guardian,
   * Monday September 1 2008

James Jesus Angleton, aficionado of poetry and former director of
counterintelligence for the CIA, quoted TS Eliot to describe the
ambiguous world of espionage as a wilderness of mirrors. But
Angleton himself got trapped in the infinite reflections of paranoia
implicit in his trade by the defection of the KGB agent Yuri Nosenko,
who has died aged 80.

The argument about whether Nosenko was bona fide or a KGB plant would,
according to David Wise's Molehunt (1992), split the agency into two
camps, creating scars that had yet to heal decades later. Indeed,
just last year, in his book Spy Wars, Tennent Pete Bagley, Nosenko's
original CIA handler, continued to argue that Nosenko was a KGB
provocateur and dissembler, which caused the CIA director Michael
Hayden to visit Nosenko just a month before his death, bringing a
ceremonial flag and official letter of thanks.

The CIA's apologies actually began in 1969, after they'd held Nosenko
in solitary confinement for 3½ years. He was subjected to many of the
interrogation techniques now familiar to the public from Guantánamo
and Abu Ghraib. Eventually cleared, he would be exonerated by the then
director Stansfield Turner in 1978, long after internal reports about
his treatment had become part of the so-called family jewels
documents that prompted congressional investigations by the Pike and
Church committees.

Another defector, Oleg Kalugin, said that anyone who doubted Nosenko
showed a complete ignorance of the KGB, a view confirmed by Oleg
Gordievsky, a KGB agent who worked for British intelligence, and now
lives in Britain. I was a young officer when Nosenko defected, he
says, and it hit like a nuclear bomb. It was so unusual that someone
so high-ranking would defect. He was genuine, and gave the Americans
40% of their information about our counterintelligence; it is such
stupidity to believe he was 'sent'.

Yuri Ivanovich Nosenko was born in the Black Sea port of Nikolaev. His
father was, for nearly 20 years, the Soviet minister of shipbuilding.
His mother hired private tutors to teach Yuri western literature: he
graduated from the state institute of international relations, and,
after three years in naval intelligence, joined the KGB in 1953.

In 1961, as a member of the Soviet delegation to disarmament talks in
Geneva, Nosenko was robbed of $200 by a prostitute. Desperate to repay
the money before his KGB expenses were due, he approached a US
official he knew from Moscow, offering to sell secrets. Nosenko
claimed to be a lieutenant colonel in the second chief directorate, or
counterintelligence, in Moscow. Bagley, who spoke no Russian, was
rushed to Geneva, along with a Russian-speaker from headquarters in
Langley, Virginia, whose tape recorder malfunctioned. Nosenko told
them about listening devices at the US embassy in Moscow, and
confirmed the identities of the British Admiralty clerk John Vassall,
the Canadian ambassador John Watkins and the CIA agent Edward Ellis
Smith, all compromised in KGB honeytrap stings, which had been
revealed by an earlier defector, Anatoliy Golitsin.

But Nosenko denied Golitsin's claim of another Soviet mole higher up
in the Admiralty, and refused to defect on the grounds he would not
leave his wife and children behind. Still, Bagley characterised
Nosenko as totally convincing.

Angleton, however, had suffered a string of reverses, not least when
his drinking chum Kim Philby was revealed to be a Soviet agent. His
two top CIA assets within the KGB had been executed, and Angleton's
West German counterpart, Heinz Felfe, turned out to be a Soviet spy.
Golitsin was his major success. Gordievsky, however, describes
Golitsin as a young and inexperienced officer. In order to protect
his status, Golitsin warned that the KGB might send a second defector
to discredit him, and Angleton convinced Bagley that Nosenko was a  
fraud.

Then, in February 1964, as the Warren commission into the
assassination of John F Kennedy began hearing witnesses, Nosenko,
again in Geneva, suddenly announced that he would defect, claiming
Moscow had recalled him. He said he had personally handled Lee Harvey
Oswald's KGB file, but rejected him as too unstable. This was
potential dynamite, confirming the lone, crazed assassin thesis that
the Warren commission set out to prove, but Angleton and Bagley were
unmoved. They argued that Nosenko had inflated his rank, and that
intercepts revealed no order to recall him. They believed Nosenko was
a fake and would reveal the truth of all Golitsin's claims, including
the identification of Harold Wilson as a Soviet asset. But

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Contractors Augment Intelligence Agencies

2008-09-01 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 1, 2008 5:57:31 AM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] Contractors Augment Intelligence Agencies
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082703142.html
Contractors Augment Intelligence Agencies
Private Workers Cost More

By Robert O'Harrow Jr.
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, August 28, 2008; D01

About a quarter of the nation's core intelligence workers are
contractors, perhaps as many as 37,000 private employees who work
side-by-side with civil servants as analysts, technology specialists
and mission managers, according to a report about government
outsourcing by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

The vast majority of those private spies work in the Washington
region. Many of them have been hired since the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks to augment what had been an intelligence community
depleted by deep cuts in the 1990s, officials from the national
intelligence office said yesterday. There are about 100,000 government
intelligence workers, the officials said.

Contract workers each cost the government about $207,000 annually,
compared with about $125,000 for a civilian government employee's
salary and benefits, officials said.

The intelligence world rarely shares such fine-grained detail about
national security activity usually blanketed in secrecy. Officials
said yesterday that they did so as part of an annual survey begun last
year to help assuage concerns among lawmakers and others about the
surging use of relatively costly contract workers in recent years,
oftentimes in jobs that once were reserved for government employees.

The proportion of contractor workers was essentially the same in last
year's report.

These figures are pretty stunning, said Tim Shorrock, author of
Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. It
shows that private contractors are operating in the most sensitive
areas of intelligence.

Intelligence contracting has become a growing source of revenue for
businesses in the region. Over the past several years, big defense
contractors have expanded divisions involved in providing intelligence
consultants and services, while smaller businesses have flourished
supplying classified consultants and technology support.

Ronald Sanders, the chief human capital officer at the national
intelligence office, said his survey and the disclosure of
unclassified findings will help improve the management of the contract
workers, who have provided valuable service in recent years.
Contractors have offered flexibility at a time of great need, he said.

We need to manage this year in and year out, Sanders said of the
contract workforce. It's something we do owe the American taxpayer.

The survey examined the national intelligence program's use of core
contract personnel who were involved in intelligence activities
during fiscal 2007. It does not include such workers as food-service
employees or contract guards.

It found that about 27 percent of the contract workers were involved
in intelligence collection and operations. Just under a quarter were
involved in information technology services. About one in five worked
in analysis and production, and about the same proportion helped with
administrative and support functions.

As for why contractors were hired, agency officials reported that they
most often needed unique expertise that could not be found in the
government.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Big jump in gold sale spurs manipulation talk

2008-08-31 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 31, 2008 12:26:54 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Big jump in gold sale spurs manipulation talk Big jump in gold sale spurs manipulation talkSome analysts say only manipulation is government's attempt to take down oilBy Moming Zhou, MarketWatchLast update: 7:54 p.m. EDT Aug. 29, 2008NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Recent heat from Congress and regulators, along with public speculation, over whether commodity prices are being manipulated has also reached gold pits, where the debate was stirred by a surge in bets last month that gold prices would fall."Congress is already investigating allegations of manipulation in the oil market, and it seems likely that it is only a matter of time before a similar investigation will be required in the precious metal markets," said Mark O'Byrne, executive director at Gold and Silver Investment.Three unidentified U.S. banks held 86,398 short positions, or bets that gold prices will fall, in the COMEX gold market as of Aug. 5 -- 10 times more short positions than a month earlier, a government report showed.The report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which regulates U.S. futures markets, also showed short positions held by three U.S. banks in silver futures had increased more than four times during the same period."The data in the bank participation report is so clear and compelling that it is hard to conclude anything but manipulation," said Theodore Butler, a precious metals analyst, in a note.The sudden jump in short positions coincided with a slide in silver and gold prices, which fell $12.30 an ounce in July and another $89.20 in August, their biggest monthly loss since at least 1984, according to Factset.Manipulation vs. speculationTaking a short position, even large amounts, however, doesn't equate to manipulation, which would imply collusion between several big players to influence prices one way or the other.But the fact that three big banks were singled out in the CFTC report is nothing new. The regulator's reports always show the largest three players in futures markets in any given month."One can take any data and make it suit their argument," said Jon Nadler, senior analyst at Kitco Bullion Dealers."The theory that the market is somehow sinisterly manipulated, especially as it comes at a time when U.S. regulators are keeping a keen eye on the goings-on in the commodities and financial markets for just such type of evidence, is simply ludicrous and totally out of touch with market reality."The talk of manipulation in metals markets follows similar allegations that crude oil and agricultural commodities prices were bid up by speculators, and were not the result of fundamental demand and supply situations.As oil surged this year and almost reached $150 a barrel in early July, while food prices also kept on rising, cries grew louder in Congress that something had to be done.The CFTC took steps to stamp out "excessive speculation" in the oil markets, while Congress also held numerous hearings and investigations into other futures market.In July, the CFTC charged Dutch company Optiver Holding BV with manipulation of crude oil and of other energy futures. In at least five out of 19 attempts, the defendants successfully manipulated certain energy futures contracts, causing artificial prices, the CFTC alleged. See related story.Of oil and electionsSome analysts say the surge in oil and gasoline prices earlier this year caused many worries in Washington, where all eyes were already turned toward the presidential elections in November."My gut feeling is that the Republicans wouldn't mind taking oil back down under $100 before the elections," said Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services.Mendelsohn said he believes the government has tried to make the U.S. economy, oil, and markets appear in better shape and also to temporarily curb the immediate effects of the slumping housing market, of bad home loans and of the credit crisis.In July, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the stock market regulator, limited so-called "naked" short selling of shares in Fannie Mae (FNM:Fannie MaeNews, chart, profile, moreLast: 6.84-1.11-13.96%4:02pm 08/29/2008Delayed quote data Add to portfolioAnalystCreate alertInsiderDiscussFinancialsSponsored by:FNM 6.84, -1.11, -14.0%) , Freddie Mac (FRE:Freddie MacNews, chart, profile, moreLast: 4.51-0.77-14.58%4:04pm 08/29/2008Delayed quote data Add to portfolioAnalystCreate alertInsiderDiscussFinancialsSponsored by:FRE 4.51, -0.77, -14.6%) and 17 other financial firms. See related story.E-mailPrintDisable Live QuotesSubscribe to RSSYahoo! BuzzRecommend this story : 30Save and tag this storyComments: 278"Congress is already investigating allegations of manipulation in the oil market, and it seems likely that it is only a matter of time before a similar investigation will be required in the precious metal markets,"What a joke...-

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] +Cartel Figure Charges DEA with 'Selective Prosecution-

2008-08-27 Thread RoadsEnd

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Subject: [IPCUSA] +Cartel Figure Charges DEA with 'Selective  
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Cartel Figure Charges DEA
with 'Selective Prosecution

http://www.madcowprod.com/08272008.html

As the political conventions dominate our consciousness,
remember that a major international trafficking operation,
like this one, kicks off vast amounts of fungible cash,
day-by-day, month-by-month, year-by-year...

If there is an arena where the a battle is being waged
for the soul of America, as Joe Biden suggested last week...
it is here.

AUG 25 2008
by Daniel Hopsicker

The exclusive Cocaine One series of investigative reports by this  
reporter appearing on this website for the past  two years made the  
news, finally...  not in the U.S., but in Mexico City, where it was  
cited by a principal in the drug trafficking scandal in  newspaper  
interviews to support his allegation of selective prosecution against  
the DEA.
It is one of several recent new developments in the scandal, which  
began two years ago with the capture in the Yucatan  by the Mexican  
military of two American-registered airplanes.
Both planes had taken off from St. Petersburg FL., flown to Colombia  
and Venezuela, and then were busted

when they stopped in the Yucatan to refuel
on the way back to Florida. They were caught carrying
an astonishing cumulative total of ten tons of cocaine,
as well as a still-undisclosed amount of heroin.

Total immunity as a perk of employment

Carlos Gutiérrez de Velasco is the paterfamilias of the influential
Veracruz-based family which owned the Casa de Cambio Puebla
currency exchange, accused of laundering enough drug money
through U.S. banks to buy as many as 100 American planes
for use in drug-running.
In a recent interview  with Mexico Citys Reforma newspaper,
Gutierrez, who is also the father of a fugitive from prosecution
in the case, claimed his family is the victim of selective prosecution,
 and alleged a cover-up of the involvement of influential Americans.

He called on Mexicos President Felipe Calderon
to become personally involved in forcing the DEA
to explain why only Mexicans are being tracked down and jailed.

The Americans who sold planes to the Sinaloa Cartel buyers
enjoy official immunity from prosecution, Gutierrez suggested,
while people like his fugitive son, José Antonio Gutiérrez,
were being tracked down and hung out to dry.
Mexican authorities acted based only on information from the United  
States, Gutierrez told Reforma, pointing to evidence unearthed by  
this reporters investigation, which revealed the high-level  
Republican connections of the people

selling planes to the Sinaloa Cartel.

Ricardo Ravelo, a reporter for Mexico City' Proceso, has already  
picked up our evidence of the interlocking ownership

of the two American drug-running airplanes
 ( a DC9 and a Gulfstream business jet)  busted in the Yucatan.
The owners of both planes were also in business together
in a massive ($300 million) financial fraud,
we have previously reported, along with CIA fixer
and Saudi arms merchant Adnan Khashoggi.

'Facts that will never see the light of day'
for $500, Alex.

Gutierrez told Reforma,
The U.S. is offering a deal if my son turns himself in.
But if he does, the complicity of the aircraft owners in the U.S.
will never come up at trial. We need to corroborate and include
information uncovered by journalist Daniel Hopsicker
 and get to the truth.
Mexicans are being punished for

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili

2008-08-26 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 25, 2008 2:23:56 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President  
Saakashvili

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http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/08/21/the_puppet_masters_behind_georgia_presid
08/21/08

 08:24:39 am, Categories: Voices, 1705 words
The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili

F. William Engdahl

Illustration: Spica Stolfus

The controversy over the Georgian surprise military attacks on South  
Ossetia and Abkhazia on 8.8.08 makes a closer look at the  
controversial Georgian President and his puppet masters important. An  
examination shows 41 year old Mikhail Saakashvili to be a ruthless and  
corrupt totalitarian who is tied to not only the US NATO  
establishment, but also to the Israeli military and intelligence  
establishment. The famous `Rose Revolution of November 2003 that  
forced the ageing Edouard Shevardnadze from power and swept the then  
36 year old US university graduate into power was run and financed by  
the US State Department, the Soros Foundations, and agencies tied to  
the Pentagon and US intelligence community.

Mihkail Saakashvili was deliberately placed in power in one of the  
most sophisticated US regime change operations, using ostensibly  
private NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) to create an atmosphere  
of popular protest against the existing regime of former Soviet  
Foreign Minister Edouard Shevardnadze, who was no longer useful to  
Washington when he began to make a deal with Moscow over energy  
pipelines and privatizations.

Saakashvili was brought to power in a US-engineered coup run on the  
ground by US-funded NGO's, in an application of a new method of US  
destabilization of regimes it considered hostile to its foreign policy  
agenda. The November 24 2003 Wall Street Journal explicitly credited  
the toppling of Shevardnadze's regime to the operations of a raft of  
non-governmental organizations . . . supported by American and other  
Western foundations. These NGOs, said the Journal, had spawned a  
class of young, English-speaking intellectuals hungry for pro-Western  
reforms who were instrumental laying the groundwork for a bloodless  
coup.

Coup by NGO

But there is more. The NGOs were coordinated by the US Ambassador to  
Georgia, Richard Miles, who had just arrived in Tbilisi fresh from  
success in orchestrating the CIA-backed toppling of Slobodan Milosevic  
in Belgrade, using the same NGOs. Miles, who is believed to be an  
undercover intelligence specialist, supervised the Saakashvili coup.

It involved US billionaire George Soros' Open Society Georgia  
Foundation. It involved the Washington-based Freedom House whose  
chairman was former CIA chief James Woolsey. It involved generous  
financing from the US Congress-financed National Endowment for  
Democracy, an agency created by Ronald Reagan in the 1980's to do  
privately what the CIA used to do, namely coups against regimes the  
US Government finds unfriendly.

George Soros' foundations have been forced to leave numerous eastern  
European countries including Russia as well as China after the 1989  
student Tiananmen Square uprising. Soros is also the financier  
together with the US State Department of the Human Rights Watch, a US- 
based and run propaganda arm of the entire NGO apparatus of regime  
coups such as Georgia and Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution. Some  
analysts believe Soros is a high-level operative of the US State  
Department or intelligence services using his private foundations as  
cover.

The US State Department funded the Georgia Liberty Institute headed by  
Saakashvili, US approved candidate to succeed the no-longer  
cooperative Shevardnadze. The Liberty Institute in turn created  
Kmara! which translates Enough! According to a BBC report at the  
time, Kmara! Was organized in spring of 2003 when Saakashvili along  
with hand-picked Georgia student activists were paid by the Soros  
Foundation to go to Belgrade to learn from the US-financed Otpor  
activists that toppled Milosevic. They were trained in Gene Sharp's  
non-violence as a method of warfare by the Belgrade Center for  
Nonviolent Resistance.

Saakashvili as mafioso President

Once he was in place in January 2004 as Georgia's new President,  
Saakashvili proceeded to pack the regime with his cronies and kinsmen.  
The death of Zurab Zhvania, his prime minister in February, 2005,  
remains a mystery. The official version—poisoning by faulty gas heater— 
was adopted by American FBI investigators within two weeks of the  
killing. That has never seemed credible to those familiar with  
Georgia's gangland slayings, crime, and other manifestations of social  
decay. Zhvania's death was followed closely by a functionary of the  
Premier's apparat, Georgi Khelashvili, who allegedly shot himself the  
day after his chief's

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in Poland

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 23, 2008 1:58:52 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in  
Poland

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http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=257945n=33
2008/08/23
Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in Poland
07:45:51 #222;.#217;
Poland's judiciary has launched an investigation over the existence of
secret CIA jails in Poland, media reports said Friday.

According to the Spokesman of the Polish prosecutor's office, Maciej
Kujaweski, the probe is only in its early phase.

He did not reveal any further details, citing confidentiality.

Poland's Chief Prosecutor, Marek Staszak is reportedly heading the
three week-old investigation, the private Polish radio Zet said.

International human rights groups have accused Poland and Romania of
tolerating secret CIA jails on their territories.

Based on a report published by the lead investigator for the Council
of Europe, Dick Marty, the existence of CIA prisons in Eastern Europe
had been proven.

Marty's 100-page report said the prisons were operated exclusively by
Americans in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2006.

The report relied primarily on testimony from CIA operatives.

Poland has strongly denied the charges.

mk

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Greenback Blues: Something’s gotta g ive

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 23, 2008 2:23:49 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The Greenback Blues: Something’s gotta give The Greenback Blues: Something’s gotta giveMike WhitneyThe Intelligence Daily News ServiceAugust 23, 2008 As Greenspan’s massive equity bubble continues to lose gas, balance sheets will have to be mended and lending will slow to a crawl.In a matter of weeks, the euro has been pounded into pulp while the dollar has regained much of its former glory. The mighty greenback has surged 6% in the last month alone. Wow. Apparently, the early reports of the dollar’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. The euro, on the other hand, has been caught in the same recessionary-downdraft that is buffeting a number of other currencies, all of which are unwinding at the same time although unevenly. Currency markets don’t move in straight lines. But don’t be fooled, most paper money is steadily losing value due to the unprecedented expansion of credit which started at the Federal Reserve. Investors are moving to cash and hunkering down; the stock and bond markets are just too risky and real estate is in a shambles. As Greenspan’s massive equity bubble continues to lose gas, balance sheets will have to be mended and lending will slow to a crawl. At present, Germany’s slowdown and Spain’s housing crash are drawing most of the attention but, the spotlight is shifting fast. Next week it could be shining down on the America’s failing banking system or poor corporate-earnings reports in the US. Then it will be the dollar marching off to the gallows.Europe’s troubles have put to rest to idea that other countries can “decouple” from the US and prosper without the help of the US consumer. That might be true in the long-term, but falling demand is already visible everywhere. Retail and auto sales are taking a thumping and 2009 is shaping up to be even tougher. It’s looking more and more like the European Central Bank was faked-out by the early signs of inflation and missed the deflationary sledgehammer that was about to come crashing down. It was a rookie error by European Central Bank (ECB) chief Jean Claude Trichet and it could cost him his job. Raising interest rates while sliding into the jaws of recession is madness. Now all of Europe is headed for a hard landing and there’s no way to soften the blow. The ECB doesn’t have the same tools as the Fed; Trichet can’t simply backstop the whole system with green paper and T-Bills like Bernanke. He can either slash rates or sit on his hands and hope for the best.The UK Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, sums up Europe’s woes in last week’s article “ECB Slammed as Europe Crumbles”:“The economies of Germany, France and Italy all contracted in the first quarter and may now be in full recession, shattering assumptions that Europe would prove able to shrug off the effects of the credit crunch….The picture is darkening so fast in Spain that Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero canceled holidays and called his cabinet back to Madrid yesterday for the first emergency session of its kind since the Franco dictatorship.Growth has turned negative in Ireland, Denmark, Latvia, and Estonia, while grinding to a halt in Sweden and The Netherlands. Iceland contracted by a staggering 3.7pc. The grim data from Eurostat follows a recession warning in Britain, and shock news that the Japanese economy had shrunk 0.6pc in the second quarter. Almost the entire bloc of rich Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries - still two thirds of the world economy - are now in the grip of a major downturn.”Evans-Pritchard’s article reads like a chapter from the Book of Revelation all that’s missing is the plague of locusts. The ECB is in a pickle and will have to allow the economy to cool off so the credit excesses can work themselves out. It’s like a pig passing through the belly of the boa; it takes time. As a result, deficits are expected to soar in the south (particularly Spain, Greece and Italy) while growth in the industrial north, Germany, will continue to shrink. Also, Spain, Ireland and England are undergoing the biggest housing meltdown in history after indulging in the same mortgage hanky-panky that took place in the US. Billions of dollars of low interest loans, that were issued to unqualified mortgage applicants, are gumming up the whole system and sending foreclosures skyrocketing. Now the losses have to be written down and thousands of unoccupied houses sold at auction. It’s a disaster.The problem is so big that the future of the EU and the euro are now very much in doubt. Currency traders are expecting the ECB to lower rates (and weaken the euro) just as the future’s market is wagering that the Fed will raise rates to fight inflation. But don’t bet on it. Interest rates are going down not up, regardless of the Fed’s impressive PR campaign. Bernanke is just waiting for Trichet to make his move before he

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Report: British MI5 criticized for involvement in torture, rendition

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 23, 2008 2:07:57 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Report: British MI5 criticized for involvement in  
torture, rendition

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/22/content_9617109.htm
Report: British MI5 criticized for involvement in torture, rendition
www.chinaview.cn 2008-08-22 18:49:49Print

   LONDON, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- British secret service MI5 was
criticized for its involvement in torture, rendition of a British
resident now held in Guantanamo Bay, British newspaper The Guardian
revealed in a report on Friday.

   The report said that British high court found in a judgment that
MI5 participated in the unlawful interrogation of a British resident,
Binyam Mohamed, 30, an Ethiopian national, which raised the serious
questions about the conduct of British secret services.

   One MI5 officer, who was so concerned about incriminating himself
that he initially declined to answer questions from the judges even in
private, was later questioned about alleged war crimes under the
international criminal court act, including torture, said the
judgment. But the full evidence surrounding the officer's evidence,
and the judges' findings, remain secret.

   The MI5 officer interrogated Mohamed while he was being held in
Pakistan in 2002, and he was later secretly rendered to Morocco, where
he was tortured by having his penis cut with a razor blade, said the
report.

   And the U.S. subsequently flew him to Afghanistan, and in
September 2004, he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

   The conduct of the security service facilitated interviews by or
on behalf of the United States when [Mohamed] was being detained by
the United States incommunicado and without access to a lawyer. Lord
Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Lloyd Jones said in the judgment,
adding, Under the law of Pakistan, that detention was unlawful.

   In their ruling, the judges found that MI5 continued to
facilitate the interviewing of Mohamed at the behest of the U.S. even
after he was secretly flown out of Pakistan.

   It did so by providing information to America although its
officers must also have appreciated he was being detained and
questioned in a facility which was that of a foreign government, and
that government is believed to be Morocco, said the judges.

   The report said that the Home Office last month declined the use
of torture or inhumane treatment.

   All security service staff have an awareness of the Human Rights
Act 1998, and are fully committed to complying with the requirements
of the law when working in the UK and overseas. the ministry said on
behalf of the MI5.

   It added that the security and intelligence agencies do not
participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the use of torture or
inhumane or degrading treatment.

   According to the report, Mohamed is due to be tried for terrorist
offenses before a U.S. military commission in Guantanamo Bay as a
result of confessions he said were extracted by torture. And he would
face the death penalty if found guilty.

   Without information held by the British government, he could not
have a fair trial as he will not be able to try to establish the only
answer he has to the confessions - namely that they were involuntary
and abstracted from him by wrongful treatment, the judges said.

   The judges will decide which documents about the case must be
released after a private court hearing next week, said the report.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] A New Rush to Spy

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 23, 2008 2:05:08 PM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] A New Rush to Spy
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/opinion/22fri2.html?ref=opinion
The New York Times
August 22, 2008
Editorial
A New Rush to Spy

There is apparently no limit to the Bush administration's desire to
invade Americans' privacy in the name of national security. According
to members of Congress, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is preparing
to give the F.B.I. broad new authority to investigate Americans —
without any clear basis for suspicion that they are committing a crime.

Opening the door to sweeping investigations of this kind would be an
invitation to the government to spy on people based on their race,
religion or political activities. Before Mr. Mukasey goes any further,
Congress should insist that the guidelines be fully vetted, and it
should make certain that they do not pose a further threat to
Americans' civil liberties.

Mr. Mukasey has not revealed the new guidelines. But according to
senators whose staff have been given limited briefings, the rules may
also authorize the F.B.I. to use an array of problematic investigative
techniques. Among these are pretext interviews, in which agents do not
honestly represent themselves while questioning a subject's neighbors
and work colleagues.

Four Democratic Senators — Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, Sheldon
Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Edward
Kennedy of Massachusetts — have written to Mr. Mukasey and urged him
not to sign the guidelines until they are publicly announced and
national security and civil liberties experts have had a chance to
analyze them.

We concur, and we would add that there should be full Congressional
hearings so Americans can learn what new powers the government intends
to take on.

The F.B.I. has a long history of abusing its authority to spy on
domestic groups, including civil rights and anti-war activists, and
there is a real danger that the new rules would revive those dark days.

Clearly, the Bush administration cannot be trusted to get the balance
between law enforcement and civil liberties right. It has repeatedly
engaged in improper and illegal domestic spying — notably in the
National Security Agency's warrantless eavesdropping program.

The F.B.I. and the White House no doubt want to push the changes
through before a new president is elected. There is no reason to rush
to adopt rules that have such important civil liberties implications.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection

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Date: August 24, 2008 1:53:13 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms  
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http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/019120.html#19120
August 22, 2008
 A Life in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection
CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room: This collection of material [A Life  
in Intelligence - The Richard Helms Collection]  http://www.foia.cia.gov/helms.asp 
   by and about Richard Helms as Director of Central Intelligence  
(DCI) and Ambassador to Iran comprises the largest single release of  
Helms-related information to date. The documents, historical works and  
essays offer an unprecedented, wide-ranging look at the man and his  
career as the United States' top intelligence official and one of its  
most important diplomats during a crucial decade of the Cold War. From  
mid-1966, when he became DCI, to late 1976, when he left Iran, Helms  
dealt directly with numerous events whose impact remains evident today  
and which are covered in the release.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in Poland

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 23, 2008 1:58:52 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in  
Poland

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http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=257945n=33
2008/08/23
Poland probes existence of secret CIA jails in Poland
07:45:51 #222;.#217;
Poland's judiciary has launched an investigation over the existence of
secret CIA jails in Poland, media reports said Friday.

According to the Spokesman of the Polish prosecutor's office, Maciej
Kujaweski, the probe is only in its early phase.

He did not reveal any further details, citing confidentiality.

Poland's Chief Prosecutor, Marek Staszak is reportedly heading the
three week-old investigation, the private Polish radio Zet said.

International human rights groups have accused Poland and Romania of
tolerating secret CIA jails on their territories.

Based on a report published by the lead investigator for the Council
of Europe, Dick Marty, the existence of CIA prisons in Eastern Europe
had been proven.

Marty's 100-page report said the prisons were operated exclusively by
Americans in Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2006.

The report relied primarily on testimony from CIA operatives.

Poland has strongly denied the charges.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 9/11 CONNECTION FYI: Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court (Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency) by Phillip Berg - 9/11 Truth Attorney for William Rodriguez

2008-08-22 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 21, 2008 9:57:47 PM PDT
To: CAMPAIGN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ctrl] 9/11 CONNECTION FYI: Obama Sued in Philadelphia  
Federal Court (Constitutionally Ineligible for the Presidency) by  
Phillip Berg - 9/11 Truth Attorney for William Rodriguez

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Obama Sued in Philadelphia Federal Court (Constitutionally Ineligible  
for the Presidency)by Phillip Berg - 9/11 Truth Attorney for William  
Rodriguez

AmericaRight.com ^ | 8/21/08 | Jeff Schreiber
Posted on Thu Aug 21 17:00:24 2008 by LdSentinal

A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed  
suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern  
District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the  
Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction  
preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order  
enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that  
Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the  
office of President of the United States.

Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a former gubernatorial and  
senatorial candidate, former chair of the Democratic Party in  
Montgomery (PA) County, former member of the Democratic State  
Committee, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania.  
According to Berg, he filed the suit--just days before the DNC is to  
hold its nominating convention in Denver--for the health of the  
Democratic Party.

I filed this action at this time, Berg stated, to avoid the obvious  
problems that will occur when the Republican Party raises these issues  
after Obama is nominated..

Berg cited a number of unanswered questions regarding the Illinois  
senator's background, and in today's lawsuit maintained that Sen.  
Obama is not a naturalized U.S. citizen or that, if he ever was, he  
lost his citizenship when he was adopted in Indonesia. Berg also cites  
what he calls dual loyalties due to his citizenship and ties with  
Kenya and Indonesia.

Even if Sen. Obama can prove his U.S. citizenship, Berg stated, citing  
the senator's use of a birth certificate from the state of Hawaii  
verified as a forgery by three independent document forensic experts,  
the issue of multi-citizenship with responsibilities owed to and  
allegiance to other countries remains on the table.

In the lawsuit, Berg states that Sen. Obama was born in Kenya, and not  
in Hawaii as the senator maintains. Before giving birth, according to  
the lawsuit, Obama's mother traveled to Kenya with his father but was  
prevented from flying back to Hawaii because of the late stage of her  
pregnancy, apparently a normal restriction to avoid births during a  
flight. As Sen. Obama's own paternal grandmother, half-brother and  
half-sister have also claimed, Berg maintains that Stanley Ann Dunham-- 
Obama's mother--gave birth to little Barack in Kenya and subsequently  
flew to Hawaii to register the birth.

Berg cites inconsistent accounts of Sen. Obama's birth, including  
reports that he was born at two separate hospitals--Kapiolani Hospital  
and Queens Hospital--in Honolulu, as well a profound lack of birthing  
records for Stanley Ann Dunham, though simple registry of birth  
records for Barack Obama are available in a Hawaiian public records  
office.

Should Sen. Obama truly have been born in Kenya, Berg writes, the laws  
on the books at the time of his birth hold that U.S. citizenship may  
only pass to a child born overseas to a U.S. citizen parent and non- 
citizen parent if the former was at least 19 years of age. Sen.  
Obama's mother was only 18 at the time. Therefore, because U.S.  
citizenship could not legally be passed on to him, Obama could not be  
registered as a natural born citizen and would therefore be  
ineligible to seek the presidency pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of  
the United States Constitution.

Moreover, even if Sen. Obama could have somehow been deemed natural  
born, that citizenship was lost in or around 1967 when he and his  
mother took up residency in Indonesia, where Stanley Ann Dunham  
married Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian citizen. Berg also states that he  
possesses copies of Sen. Obama's registration to Fransiskus Assisi  
School In Jakarta, Indonesia which clearly show that he was registered  
under the name Barry Soetoro and his citizenship listed as Indonesian.

The Hawaiian birth certificate, Berg says, is a forgery. In the suit,  
the attorney states that the birth certificate on record is a forgery,  
has been identified as such by three independent document forensic  
experts, and actually belonged to Maya Kasandra Soetoro, Sen. Obama's  
half-sister.

Voters donated money, goods and services to elect a nominee and were  
defrauded by Sen. Obama's lies and obfuscations, Berg stated. If the  
DNC officers ... had performed one ounce of due diligence we would not  
find

[cia-drugs] Fwd: L.A. Program to Give $2.2 Billion to Mexican Trucking Firms

2008-08-21 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 20, 2008 7:12:53 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: L.A. Program to Give $2.2 Billion to Mexican Trucking Firms L.A. Program to Give $2.2 Billion to Mexican Trucking FirmsLand Line MagazineAugust 16, 2008he Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach boast of bringing in 40 percent of the nation’s imported goods, and plans to cut emissions at each port have been highlighted in mainstream news programs and the cable TV show “America’s Port.”A Land Line investigation into the ports’ multibillion-dollar clean truck program, however, shows that the $2.2 billion program could pay for the replacement of trucks owned by Mexican trucking companies while it excludes U.S. trucks that run any miles outside of California.The Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles each have adopted clean trucks programs that phase out all pre-2007 emissions level trucks by December 2012, and phase in requirements that all trucks be operated by licensed concessionaires approved by the port. The Port of Los Angeles adopted further restrictions that eventually require all drivers to be company employees.On page five of the Clean Trucks Program application – which features logos of each port – the form asks applicants to check one of three types of operating authority numbers.1. MC for motor carrier2. FF for freight forwarder3. MX for Mexican companies with federal authority to operate beyond commercial zonesThe MX stands for “carriers that are based in Mexico,” said Art Wong, a spokesman for the Port of Long Beach.Theresa Adams-Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Port of Los Angeles, also confirmed the Mexican truck classification in a statement but said it was “merely an inquiry during the application process.”“An MX-registered truck probably won’t be automatically excluded from getting grant funding,” Adams-Lopez said. “However, it will need to meet all the standard criteria. Be assured that no truck will be funded under either port’s funds unless it can be shown to meet all program requirements, as a legitimate frequent tripper and contributor to the ports’ air quality programs.”The potential for hundreds of millions of dollars to be given to companies domiciled in Mexico concerns the Missouri-based Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said Rick Craig, OOIDA’s director of regulatory affairs.“It appears that certain Mexican trucking companies could meet the requirements of this program,” Craig said.The truck replacement funding form requires applicants to be plated in California with no International Registration Plan license, and applicants must promise not to run any miles outside of the Golden State for at least seven years.The ports plan to use container fees to finance a portion of the $2.2 billion truck replacement program, which can fund up to 80 percent of the cost of replacing the oldest trucks among the estimated 16,000 drayage trucks that operate daily in the ports.The program, however, isn’t fully funded by container fees. The state of California is kicking in a large share of money needed for truck replacement.Proposition 1B – which includes a total of $20 billion for transportation infrastructure and $1 billion specifically for air quality programs – also will fund $98 million worth of truck replacement funds at the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.Applicants can try to obtain grants for a portion of the cost of a new truck, or to a “subsidized lease or grant using a combination of port and Proposition 1B funds,” according to a joint announcement issued by the ports on Aug. 1.Many Mexican carriers run trucks in California with license plates from Mexico and California, or with an International Registration Plan license plate, each examples that would prevent their application from being considered for the truck replacement program. Foreign owned and operated carriers also must deal with a variety of customs and immigration regulations.Theoretically, a Mexican carrier could purchase a truck in the U.S., run only California miles and employ an American driver to meet immigration standards, Craig said.Craig pointed out the drayage economy in Los Angeles and Long Beach has been profitable for port trucking companies but not for owner-operators, who can’t afford to buy their own new trucks or to maintain existing ones.“If not for the perverted economic model that has developed in the ports, there would be no need to subsidize port replacement trucks in the first place,” Craig said. “Our people are complying without public funding.”Joe Rajkovacz, OOIDA’s regulatory affairs specialist, has addressed the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Commission and spoken to several port officials about the Association’s concerns.Rajkovacz said the American Trucking Association’s recent lawsuit seeking an injunction against the port’s clean truck program doesn’t argue against carriers receiving billions in truck replacement funds.“The most

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Audio: Alex Jones On Pre-9/11 Symbolism

2008-08-20 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: shane_digital [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 20, 2008 10:27:08 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IPCUSA] Audio: Alex Jones On Pre-9/11 Symbolism
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Audio: Alex Jones On Pre-9/11 Symbolism

TheAlexJonesShow.com
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Alex covers the latest on the Matrix and other Hollywood pre-9/11
symbolism.
http://www.thealexjonesshow.com/articles/august2008/200808-alex-911-symbolism.html

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Britain's Spy Service Recruiting Gays

2008-08-19 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 18, 2008 10:26:44 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Britain's Spy Service Recruiting Gays
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid59548.asp
August 19, 2008
Britain's Spy Service Recruiting Gays

Britain's domestic spy agency wants gay recruits to know: It's time to
come out of the closet.

After shunning them for decades over worries of blackmail, MI5 is now
asking gay and lesbian people to consider a career as a spy, promising
the chance to fight terrorists, protect their country -- and earn a
decent salary, plus benefits.

As part of an ongoing recruitment drive, MI5 is already wooing women,
minorities, and people with language skills. The fact that they're now
reaching out to Britain's gay community is long overdue, said Peter
Tatchell, a London-based gay rights activist.

Until a decade ago, gay people were seen as a security threat, and as
recently as two decades ago, they were being witch-hunted and sacked
from the security services, he said Monday.

It was part of the Cold War mentality that saw security threats,
traitors, and spies everywhere, he said. Gay people were regarded as
vulnerable to blackmail, even if they were open and out about their
sexuality.

Britain had some infamous gay agents during that era, such as Guy
Burgess and Anthony Blunt. The two men were caught spying for the
Soviet Union.

The spy agency is shaking off its clubby image and becoming more
representative of the community it serves, said Ben Summerskill, chief
executive officer the gay rights group Stonewall, which publishes a
job hunting guide that includes the spy agency as a prospective  
employer.

My recent experience of them is that they're not John le Carre,
Graham Greene -- it's not that sort of tableau anymore, Summerskill
said Monday.

Stonewall also is working with MI5 to create a workplace environment
that is supportive of gay people.

Currently, MI5 has about 3,500 staff, twice what it had in 2001. The
new drive comes two years after MI5 began publicly targeting women for
recruitment, placing posters in gyms and advertisements in sports
magazines that featured a black woman.

MI6, which collects Britain's foreign intelligence, also is looking
for new hires, and in particular is encouraging applications from
women and minorities.

According to MI5's website, intelligence officers earn a starting
salary of about 23,000 pounds ($45,000) plus benefits. Applicants have
to be British citizens and must pass a lengthy vetting process.

As an intelligence officer at MI5, you'll be faced with some of the
most challenging issues affecting national security today, the site
says. The decisions you make will play a major part in our efforts to
counter terrorism, espionage, the spread of weapons of mass
destruction and in protecting the U.K.'s critical national
infrastructure.

Garry Hindle, the head of security and counterintelligence at the
Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, said
MI5's inclusion in the gay and lesbian job guide is about inclusion,
but it's also about image.

They're trying to portray themselves as an open, inclusive
organization that's working for the good of the community, Hindle
said. But it does need diverse members of society to be able to
access the diverse members of society that they may have interest in.

The agency would say only that the service seeks to reflect the broad
range of U.K. society which it serves.

Available jobs include translators, computer specialists, and
surveillance officers. (AP)
© 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be
published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Breaking up big banks questioned as losses mount

2008-08-19 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Daniel Glover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 18, 2008 11:56:29 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],  
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Subject: [IPCUSA] Breaking up big banks questioned as losses mount
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Breaking up big banks questioned as losses mount

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_bi_ge/wall___main_2

By JOE BEL BRUNO, AP Business Writer Sat Aug 16, 1:11 AM ET

NEW YORK - America's biggest banks have suffered unprecedented losses  
from
the ongoing credit crisis, and that's made some investors question  
whether

the big financial conglomerates should be broken up in order to survive.

ADVERTISEMENT

e

Break-up advocates, who for months have been clamoring for Citigroup  
Inc. to

be dismantled, got some validation of their viewpoint this past week.
Europe's UBS AG - created through the combination of Swiss Bank Corp.  
and
Union Bank of Switzerland in 1997 - on Wednesday laid the groundwork  
to tear

up its business model after another quarter of steep losses.

Though the UBS announcement was expected, it was nonetheless a departure
from what executives promised during a wave of big bank deals that  
began in
the late 1990s. The creators of global banks like Citigroup, JPMorgan  
Chase
 Co., and HSBC Holdings PLC had promised customers and shareholders  
that a

diverse set of businesses would shield them from economic volatility.

But, those models haven't sheltered the banks from the subprime mortgage
crisis that turned into a dislocation of the credit markets. Major  
global

banks have taken more than $300 billion in asset write-downs, and
organizations like the International Monetary Fund believe that amount  
could

reach $1 trillion.

The whole idea was, 'let's be so unbelievably diversified that we  
won't be

affected,' but when the credit markets seize up, no matter what kind of
financial company you are, everything seizes up, said William Smith,
president of New York-based Smith Asset Management. The UBS statement
basically shows the model is a failure.

That's not what former Citigroup Chief Executive Sanford Weill  
envisioned

when the company was created in 1998 by the combination of Citicorp and
Travelers Group. He maintained that offering a mix of financial  
products -
such as investment banking at Salomon Brothers, brokerage services  
through
Smith Barney, and Citibank's retail and consumer banking - would  
protect the

company.

Critics like Smith believe that Citigroup is worth more split up.  
Current
CEO Vikram Pandit has rejected the idea, believing the company should  
come

through the credit crisis in one piece.

But, John Reed, who as head of Citicorp forged the deal with Weill's
Travelers Group, commented recently that the universal bank model didn't
work. That's only been highlighted by Citigroup's stock price, down 71
percent from its 52-week high of $49.

Talk about how Citigroup and others should be structured will only  
intensify

now that UBS appears to have turned its back on its one bank strategy.
Switzerland's largest bank posted a hefty $5.1 billion write-down for  
the
second quarter, and disclosed plans to separate its ailing investment  
bank

from healthier businesses.

And, concerns about the execution of the business model are spreading,  
even

among those who support the idea of financial conglomerates.

Ladenburg Thalmann's Richard X. Bove, one of the most outspoken banking
analysts since the credit crisis began last year, wrote in a note that  
the

concept behind the creation of JPMorgan Chase has broken down.

Bove said JPMorgan's acquisition of Chicago's Bank One in 2004 was  
intended
to beef up its consumer business, including banking and credit cards.  
That
would help offset problems if the capital markets, like investment  
banking

and related areas, were to falter. The problem is that both markets are
currently weak.

He said JPMorgan's exposure was hurt further by the acquisition of  
crippled

Bear Stearns in March. Still, despite all this, Bove feels the model is
viable - and that JPMorgan can work through the troubles over a number  
of

years by cutting costs and refining its businesses.

No steel company can sell steel when auto manufacturers aren't selling
cars, and no bank can make big profits when there's a weakness in the
housing and credit markets, he said. They have to ride out the cycle,
minimize the losses, and maximize profits when the cycle returns. You  
can't

restructure a company to avoid that cycle.

In 1985, there were 14,500 banks in the U.S. - and now there's  
7,200, he

said. For the past 23 years, six of them went away each week. The big
universal banks might get hit, but they

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] US spying guidelines

2008-08-18 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 16, 2008 4:55:26 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] US spying guidelines
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://news.iafrica.com/worldnews/1085440.htm
US spying guidelines
Article By:
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:04

The administration of President George W. Bush has drafted a set of
guidelines for state and local police agencies that would make it
easier to collect intelligence on ordinary citizens, The Washington
Post reported Saturday.

The newspaper said the proposal, prepared by the US Justice
Department, allows law enforcement agencies to launch a criminal
intelligence investigation based on the suspicion that a person or a
group is engaged in terrorism or providing material support to  
terrorists.

According to the report, local police would share results of their
investigations with the federal government.

Under the proposal, intelligence information could be obtained from
public records, the Internet, law enforcement databases and
confidential and undercover sources.

The rules would apply to the nation's 18 000 state and local police
agencies that would receive about $1.6-billion a year to help cover
the costs of their implementation.

AFP

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and interior designers

2008-08-18 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 16, 2008 4:53:27 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] The CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and  
interior designers

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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2008/08/15/the-cia-is-training-landscapers-poolmen-and-interior-designers/

The CIA is training landscapers, poolmen, and interior designers

August 15, 2008
by Tim Swanson

The US military recently accused Iran of training death squads whose
primary goal is carrying out assassinations.  The information is being
made public to supposedly pressure Iranian leadership into halting
these operations.

So if Iranian assassins are called death squads what are similarly
trained operatives from the CIA or Army called?

Perhaps the euphemisms that Pentagon officials use are: customer
service representatives, safety patrol officers, personal assistants,
and make-over specialists.

While the actions of both sides are essentially premeditated murder,
the CIA and Army special forces should also come clean about their
decades old operations involving the execution of foreign nationals.
Come clean on operations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Vietnam, and even
Iran itself.

Contemporaneously, after deafening calls to reinstate the official
sanctioning of assassinations, the legacy of director Richard Helms
continues unabated,as the Pentagon continues to fund and operate the
notorious School of the Americas at Fort Bragg which has trained
hundreds of foreign nationals with assassination tactics.

Furthermore, despite being banned in the 1970s — after revelations
disclosed by the Church and Pike committees — with the assistance of
Israeli Defense Forces, the US Army has been actively training
hunter-killer squads in Iraq under a program called Operation Gray  
Fox.

And the latest act of bellicosity: this hypocritical condemnation
comes a month after an exposé showed that last year, Congress
appropriated $400 million for the CIA to conduct clandestine
operations in Iran.

While the exact nature of the operations are undisclosed, it is
difficult to fathom that the funds are financing more plumbers,
carpenters, and electricians in a covert attempt to build new homes
and infrastructure for local residents.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] In China, Looks Are Everything

2008-08-18 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 17, 2008 12:06:19 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] In China, Looks Are Everything
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http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7197763c18e7c5216bc4078bb19eda39
In China, Looks Are Everything

New America Media, News Analysis, Jun Wang , Posted: Aug 15, 2008

Editor's Note: The controversy over little Miaoke Lin lip-synching  
during the Olympic opening ceremony has split the Chinese blogosphere  
and shocked the West. Jun Wang is a Los Angeles-based reporter for New  
America Media.

In China, everything has to look perfectly good, especially if it's  
related to the Beijing Olympics. The opening ceremony did look  
magnificently grand. However, it has set off serious arguments around  
the world.

Everyone knows now that Miaoke Lin, the nine-year-old girl who  
appeared to be singing the Hymn to the Motherland in the Olympics  
opening ceremony, was not the singer at all. The voice belonged to  
Peiyi Yang, a seven-year-old girl, who sang from backstage.

Video: Miaoke Lin at the opening ceremony

Download video!

The switch was revealed by Qigang Chen, music director of the Olympics  
opening ceremony, days after the event. He said directors didn't let  
Yang perform on the stage because they were concerned about her  
appearance. This is a matter of national interest. The girl must look  
good and perform good, Chen said.

The remark provoked many Chinese to post comments on the Internet.  
Wrote one: Why not put Huan Liu, China's top singer without a popular  
face, singing behind the stage and bring some handsome face to move  
his mouth beside Sarah Brightman on the stage to boost China's  
national interest?

Xi Lin, a famous Chinese composer said that for him, fake-singing is  
not a problem at all. But Chen's explanation makes him angry. Lin said  
he doesn't see much difference between the two girls in terms of  
appealing faces. But he believes the national image of China must be  
incredibly easy to shake if it's based on a performer's looks.

The Chinese are split over the two-girl issue.

Supporters of the opening director Yimou Zhang say all the  
performances at the opening were teamwork. Nobody thinks Ning Li, the  
legendary gymnast, actually flew around the bird-nest stadium to light  
the Olympic torch all by himself. It's very clear that there are tons  
of people working unseen behind him. Nobody asks to list all their  
names after Li.

Pretty Corn argued back on the same website: I don't oppose fake  
singing or so-called cooperation, but Yang didn't get her credit.

The playbill handed out at the opening ceremony is criticized as  
misleading. It shows Actress A: Peiyi Yang, Actress B: Miaoke Lin.  
Translated, that would indicate that Lin would be Yang's substitute if  
Yang can't make the show. A post by ysy ysy asks Why not put  
singer: Peiyi Yang, performer Miaoke Lin? Why (didn't anyone) bring  
this up in the press conference immediately after the opening ceremony?

Giving credit might not be a big problem in China, but most people, on  
both sides of the issue, worry about what effect all this will have on  
the little girls, especially on Peiyi Yang. Her appearance has been  
officially evaluated as negatively affecting China's national image.

The girls' experience has no doubt taught them that outward  
appearances, if superior, can definitely give them more opportunities  
and glory.

Lin and her parents received so many interview requests from the media  
that the little girl had to suggest to her mother that she turn off  
her cell phone and tell the media it's out of battery power.

Lin told the media, Uncle Zhang (the Olympic opening director) said  
my voice is splendid. According to the Wuhan Evening News, Lin's new  
job was to perform for three minutes in a movie, for which she  
reportedly got paid 600,000 RMB (about 90,000 USD).

Before the Olympics show, Lin had shot dozens of TV ads and performed  
in many shows. Her journalist father and celebrity grandfather are  
believed to have worked hard to promote Lin in the entertainment  
industry.

Family backgrounds are investigated as a tangible clue for Lin and  
some other kids who won in the nationwide competition to perform at  
the opening ceremony.

Muzi Li, the little girl sitting beside pianist Lang Lang while he was  
playing in the opening, is also at the center of a controversy. She  
was found to have a real estate magnate mother, who's from a high  
level Chinese government leader's family. Li's mother went to Harvard  
University. Rumors circulating on the Internet say she is married to  
the son of Qinghong Zen, the mysteriously low-profile former Chinese  
Vice President.

Ironically, an online post on Wenxuecity by Registration Info 123  
points out, All the faults belong to Peiyi Yang. She stirred up the  
conflicts. Why wasn't she

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] War in the Caucasus isthe product of an American imperial drive

2008-08-15 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 15, 2008 7:36:29 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NewPacifica] War in the Caucasus isthe product of an  
American imperial drive

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/14/russia.georgia

This is a tale of US expansion not Russian aggression

War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial  
drive as local conflicts. It's likely to be a taste of things to come

Seumas Milne
The Guardian,
Thursday August 14 2008

The outcome of six grim days of bloodshed in the Caucasus has  
triggered an outpouring of the most nauseating hypocrisy from western  
politicians and their captive media. As talking heads thundered  
against Russian imperialism and brutal disproportionality, US vice- 
president Dick Cheney, faithfully echoed by Gordon Brown and David  
Miliband, declared that Russian aggression must not go unanswered.  
George Bush denounced Russia for having invaded a sovereign  
neighbouring state and threatening a democratic government. Such an  
action, he insisted, is unacceptable in the 21st century.

Could these by any chance be the leaders of the same governments that  
in 2003 invaded and occupied - along with Georgia, as luck would have  
it - the sovereign state of Iraq on a false pretext at the cost of  
hundreds of thousands of lives? Or even the two governments that  
blocked a ceasefire in the summer of 2006 as Israel pulverised  
Lebanon's infrastructure and killed more than a thousand civilians in  
retaliation for the capture or killing of five soldiers?

You'd be hard put to recall after all the fury over Russian aggression  
that it was actually Georgia that began the war last Thursday with an  
all-out attack on South Ossetia to restore constitutional order - in  
other words, rule over an area it has never controlled since the  
collapse of the Soviet Union. Nor, amid the outrage at Russian  
bombardments, have there been much more than the briefest references  
to the atrocities committed by Georgian forces against citizens it  
claims as its own in South Ossetia's capital Tskhinvali. Several  
hundred civilians were killed there by Georgian troops last week,  
along with Russian soldiers operating under a 1990s peace agreement:  
I saw a Georgian soldier throw a grenade into a basement full of  
women and children, one Tskhinvali resident, Saramat Tskhovredov,  
told reporters on Tuesday.

Might it be because Georgia is what Jim Murphy, Britain's minister for  
Europe, called a small beautiful democracy. Well it's certainly  
small and beautiful, but both the current president, Mikheil  
Saakashvili, and his predecessor came to power in western-backed  
coups, the most recent prettified as a Rose revolution. Saakashvili  
was then initially rubber-stamped into office with 96% of the vote  
before establishing what the International Crisis Group recently  
described as an increasingly authoritarian government, violently  
cracking down on opposition dissent and independent media last  
November. Democratic simply seems to mean pro-western in these  
cases.

The long-running dispute over South Ossetia - as well as Abkhazia, the  
other contested region of Georgia - is the inevitable consequence of  
the breakup of the Soviet Union. As in the case of Yugoslavia,  
minorities who were happy enough to live on either side of an internal  
boundary that made little difference to their lives feel quite  
differently when they find themselves on the wrong side of an  
international state border.

Such problems would be hard enough to settle through negotiation in  
any circumstances. But add in the tireless US promotion of Georgia as  
a pro-western, anti-Russian forward base in the region, its efforts to  
bring Georgia into Nato, the routing of a key Caspian oil pipeline  
through its territory aimed at weakening Russia's control of energy  
supplies, and the US-sponsored recognition of the independence of  
Kosovo - whose status Russia had explicitly linked to that of South  
Ossetia and Abkhazia - and conflict was only a matter of time.

The CIA has in fact been closely involved in Georgia since the Soviet  
collapse. But under the Bush administration, Georgia has become a  
fully fledged US satellite. Georgia's forces are armed and trained by  
the US and Israel. It has the third-largest military contingent in  
Iraq - hence the US need to airlift 800 of them back to fight the  
Russians at the weekend. Saakashvili's links with the neoconservatives  
in Washington are particularly close: the lobbying firm headed by US  
Republican candidate John McCain's top foreign policy adviser, Randy  
Scheunemann, has been paid nearly $900,000 by the Georgian government  
since 2004.

But underlying the conflict of the past week has also been the Bush  
administration's wider, explicit determination to enforce

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Business Week: U.S. oil companies lose as Russia flexes its muscles in Georgia

2008-08-15 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 15, 2008 7:34:35 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NewPacifica] Business Week: U.S. oil companies lose as  
Russia flexes its muscles in Georgia

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_34/b4097000700662.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_global+business

News: August 13, 2008, 7:21PM EST

Georgia: A Blow to U.S. Energy

The plans of the U.S. and Western oil companies for expanded pipelines  
in

the Caspian region may well be a casualty of Russia's attack

by Steve LeVine

The sudden war in the Caucasus brought Georgia to heel, reasserted  
Russia's

claim as the dominant force in the region, and dealt a blow to U.S.
prestige. But in this part of the world, diplomacy and war are about  
oil and
gas as much as they are about hegemony and the tragic loss of human  
life.
Victory in Georgia now gives Russia the edge in the struggle over  
access to
the Caspian's 35 billion barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of  
gas.
The probable losers: the U.S. and those Western oil companies that  
have bet

heavily on the Caspian as one of the few regions where they could still
operate with relative freedom.

At the core of the struggle is a vast network of actual and planned
pipelines for shipping Caspian Sea oil to the world market from  
countries
that were once part of the Soviet empire. American policymakers  
working with
a BP-led consortium had already helped build oil and natural gas  
pipelines

across Georgia to the Turkish coast. Next on the drawing board: another
pipeline through Georgia to carry natural gas from the eastern shore  
of the
Caspian Sea to Austria—offering an alternate supply to Western Europe,  
which

now depends on Russia for a third of its energy.

But after the mauling Georgia got, any chance of a new non-Russian  
pipeline
out of Central Asia and into Europe is pretty much dead, says Chris  
Ruppel,
an energy analyst at Execution, a brokerage in Greenwich, Conn. The  
risk of
building a pipeline through countries vulnerable to the wrath of  
Russia is

just too high.

The Russia-Georgia war thus may have dealt a blow to 15 years of  
American
economic diplomacy. Back in the mid-1990s, Clinton Administration  
officials
looking at a map of the recently dismantled Soviet Union grasped a  
singular

fact about its southern perimeter: The newly independent countries there
were overflowing with oil and natural gas but had to ship it via  
Russia to
reach customers. Without pipelines of their own, the Caspian states  
would
never fully develop their energy industries, or be politically  
independent

of Russia. The lack of pipelines also curbed the export potential of
companies like Chevron, which owns half of Tengiz, the giant Kazakhstan
oilfield. After first resisting, BP (BP) and Chevron (CVX) backed the
American pipeline strategy.

Moscow's Anger

Georgia was a key transit point for any line to the West. John Wolf, a
former U.S. ambassador and now head of the Eisenhower Fellowship  
program in

Philadelphia, was in the thick of the bargaining and arm-twisting that
created the so-called East-West Energy Corridor. Wolf recalls  
powwowing with
the leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey on the construction of  
what

would become the 1,000-mile-long Baku-Ceyhan, the Caspian's first
independent oil export pipeline. These leaders knew they risked  
provoking
Russia's wrath but figured the gamble was worth it, Wolf says. Now  
almost 1

million barrels a day normally course through the pipeline. For Georgia,
it's not the fees it collects from pipeline transit—about $60 million
annually—that are important. Instead, the pipeline's presence signaled
Georgia's stability and encouraged a flood of foreign investment.

That stability, of course, has proved illusory. Yet the Russians won't
interfere with the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline directly, analysts say. Moscow's
strategy depends on not spooking the Europeans, who might then be  
encouraged
to back the construction of other non-Russian energy pipelines. Since  
there
have been no confirmed attacks on the pipelines running through  
Georgia, no

European leader has called for a reconsideration of energy policy.

Besides, the Russians may not need to shut down the Baku-Ceyhan line  
to win
the advantage in the energy wars. There's no doubt that what's  
happening
has increased the investment risk within the region, says Nick  
Butler, a
former senior executive at BP who directs the Cambridge Centre for  
Energy
Studies at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School.  
Already, on
Aug. 12, BP shut down a secondary oil pipeline that ends at Georgia's  
Black

Sea port of Supsa, saying there could be a risk of attack on the line.

Russia's Pipeline Plans

Both Chevron and ExxonMobil (XOM) had also planned to ship hundreds of
thousands of additional barrels a day along the

[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Lies About Obama

2008-08-12 Thread RoadsEnd


Polarization express

peace,
K


Begin forwarded message:

From: Consortiumnews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 12, 2008 7:04:54 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Lies About Obama
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

John McCain has settled on a campaign strategy of sustained personal  
attack on Barack Obama. In this guest essay, Brent Budowsky asks the  
press for some fact-checking on the lies.


For the full story, go to Consortiumnews.com.



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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 2008 Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Conf CDs, Mineola case, Jersey Case

2008-08-11 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 10, 2008 9:42:47 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ctrl] 2008 Ritual Abuse/Mind Control Conf CDs, Mineola case,  
Jersey Case

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

The CD Order Form for The Eleventh Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive  
Organizations and Mind Control Conference - 2008 is now available at http://members.aol.com/smartnews/smart-2008-conference.htm

describes violence and crimes

Testimony Continues In Mineola Swingers' Club Trial By Casey Knaupp  
8/7/08 Child Protective Services workers testified Wednesday that the  
sexual abuse three siblings and their young aunt endured in the  
Mineola Swingers' Club case was the worst of the worst.  Patrick  
Booger Red Kelly, 41, Tyler, is on trial for engaging in organized  
criminal activity - forcing two of the siblings to have sex with each  
other for his financial gain - on Aug. 1, 2004. He could face five  
years to life in prison if convicted by the seven-woman, five-man  
Smith County jury in 241st District Judge Jack Skeen Jr.'s court. The  
oldest of the three sibling victims, who is now 11, testified for  
another three hours on Wednesday. She answered questions, mostly posed  
by defense attorneys, for nearly six hours on Tuesday. Two foster  
parents and two CPS workers involved with the children also testified.  
The 11-year-old girl said Kelly, whom she knows as Booger Red, was  
part of a group, which included her mother, who taught her and other  
children how to dance and perform sex acts in kindergarten,  
beginning at age 5, at Kelly's house. The children then were allegedly  
forced to perform sex acts at the club in Mineola for an audience and  
the adults made money while they children wouldn't get fed if they  
didn't perform, she said. The children were also given silly pills  
before they danced and were threatened not to tell, she saidShe  
was asked by defense about acts the kids allegedly performed at the  
club, including her and her brother playing doctor and having sex  
with each other, an act where Jamie Pittman shot and killed her  
brother's dog and an act where Pittman hanged chickens. She circled  
the rooms of the club where the acts and dancing took place on a  
diagram she drew earlier for Ranger Kemp. She said there were pictures  
of the children, sometimes in their costumes and sometimes nude,  
hanging on the walls of the club. The victim said Kelly told her he  
would hang her by the tree next to his house if she ever told anyone  
anything. She said Kelly told her little sister he would put her in a  
cave if she toldShe said they burned videos of the children and  
their costumes at Kelly's house because they didn't want to get  
caught. The sexual abuse occurred four or five years ago, when the  
girl was 5, 6 and 7 years old, she said, adding that some things she  
doesn't remember. She said she wasn't making up the story and she  
wasn't lying; she was telling exactly what happened.The victims  
in the case are the 11-year-old girl, her 9-year-old brother and her 7- 
year-old sister, as well as their 10-year-old aunt. A 15-year-old  
daughter of one of the co-defendants was also allegedly sexually  
abused.  Although the club is in Wood County, the defendants were  
charged in Smith County because they lived here and reportedly held  
kindergarten at their houses. Prosecutors claim the offenses began  
and ended in Smith County when the children left and returned to the  
homes. Ms. Mayo and Jamie Pittman have been convicted and sentenced to  
life in prison and face additional charges. Dennis Boyd Pittman,  
Rebecca Pittman, Shelia Darlene Sones and Jimmy Dale Sones, await  
trials.   http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20080807/NEWS08/808070339

Jersey abuse case: 'Old boy network' is obstructing police  
investigation  - An old boy network of officials is deliberately  
obstructing police investigating decades of alleged abuse at care  
homes in Jersey, according to the police officer who spearheaded the  
inquiry. By Gordon Rayner, Chief Reporter 8/9/08 Deputy Chief Officer  
Lenny Harper angrily hit out at the figures who he says have engaged  
in a day by day attack on the inquiry team and the alleged victims  
of abuse at Haut de la Garenne and other island institutions.  In his  
most outspoken criticism of the Jersey authorities, Mr Harper told the  
Telegraph: I can quite clearly say that the investigation is being  
held up. There are people on the island who just don't want us going  
down the route of this inquiry.Police currently have 80 names of  
people suspected of physical and sexual abuse at Haut de la Garenne,  
three of whom have been charged and are awaiting trial.  More suspects  
would have been charged by now, said Mr Harper, if it hadn't been for  
delays in the island's legal system.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Fabled Enemies Trailer

2008-08-11 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: shane_digital [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [IPCUSA] Fabled Enemies Trailer
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Fabled Enemies Trailer

Infowars
August 11, 2008

Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhBpmC6T9IQ

Fabled Enemies is unlike any 9/11documentary ever put together. Rather
than focusing on the physical anomalies at the World Trade Center and
Pentagon, this film follows the intelligence ties of Osama Bin Laden,
the alleged hijackers, and those who were actually detained on 9/11.

The movie delves deeply into the roles of seperate Nations that were
involved in supporting the 9/11 attacks. From Israel to Saudi Arabia
to Pakistan, and even the United States itself, no one is spared in
this scathing expose that pulls no punches. Sit back and get ready to
learn how members of the FBI had their investigations into Bin Laden
obstructed and shut down, how the hijackers were trained at US bases,
that military drills crippled our defense and facilitated the attacks,
how the Shadow Government was actually activated that day, and much
much more.

Join Alex Jones productions and Jason Bermas one of the creators of
Loose Change, in his Directorial debut on September 1st , as he loads
new ammo for the Infowar.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=3891

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[cia-drugs] NO PLANER COINTELPRO Operation Becoming Transparen

2008-08-10 Thread RoadsEnd

Gee, Imagine that.

Peace,
K


http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=52388.msg246950#msg246950

NO Planers/Nico Haupt/Paula Gloria Exposed for Fraud---Links to NSC
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NO PLANER COINTELPRO Operation Becoming Transparent
Morgan Rose
WeAreChangeColorado
8/1/08

COINTELPRO, an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program, was a series of
covert operations conducted by the FBI starting in the mid 50’s and
continuing until 1976 when it was exposed by the investigations The  
Church
Committee. One of the primary methods of COINTELPRO consisted of forging
pseudo-movement groups as a means of conducting Psychological Warfare
operations to spread disinformation, disrupt, and divide existing
movements.  These ‘psy-ops’ tended to foment suspicions among the  
targeted
movements and try to dissuade sympathies from people outside the  
targeted
movement.

Today, COINTELPRO has reared its ugly head again, with infiltrations
popping up everywhere from Anti-War activism groups to peaceful gun  
owners
and militias. Provocations have become more and more conspicuous to the
public as the Seattle World Trade Organization protests and Ontario  
Security
and Prosperity Partnership protests successfully exposed provocateur
operations.  Of course, something as dangerous to the establishment  
*body
politic* as 9/11 has not been without its alleged incidents of  
COINTELPRO
action. Allegations of government disinformation have been swirling  
around
certain figures in the movement, such as former Bush Administration  
official
Morgan Reynolds, who has recently proposed that “no planes hit the World
Trade Center”, has alleged “TV Fakery”, and submitted that the towers  
were
brought down by “Directed Energy Weapons” a.k.a. “Laser Beams”.

While the government has spent innumerable resources trying to  
contradict
eyewitness statements regarding reported explosions in the towers,  
Morgan
Reynolds and his “mockingbirds” expect the 9/11 truth movement to put  
their
energy into further contradicting even more numerous eyewitness  
statements .
See a problem here?

Typical of the above outlined methods, “No Planers” have become a
pseudo-movement, adding lunacy, deception, and division to the  
legitimate
questions emanating from 9/11 families, first responders, government
officials, intelligence experts, scientists, engineers, architects,
academics, entertainment personalities, and so many others.

Perhaps the more visible purveyors of this pseudo-movement are  
supported by
Paula Gloria’s “Concordia Foundation”. The “Concordia Foundation”  
claims 501
(c) 3, or “nonprofit” status,  However, recent investigations  
conducted by
concerned donors have uncovered that her “foundation” does not retain
“nonprofit” status with the IRS.  In fact, more rigorous  inquires have
obtained that no records of the “Concordia Foundation” even exist in its
home state of New York. Funding of Paula Gloria’s “foundation”  
originates
solely from an information technology firm, Bit By Bit Computer  
Consultants.
“Donations” to the “Concordia Foundation” are actually billed directly  
to
Bit By Bit. The apparent fraud has appropriately prompted multiple
complaints with the FTC and IRS.

Bit By Bit, and its subsidiary 3BDigital, admittedly list among their
portfolio Bloomberg LLC, Chase Bank, The National Football League,
Citigroup, and The National Security Council.  3BDigital boasts to have
partnerships with Nokia, Cisco Systems, IBM, Compaq, Microsoft, Goldman
Sachs, and Level (3) Communications. Level (3) Communications, a defense
contractor doing business, primarily, with US and UK interests, is the
developer of the WESCAM system said to be the delivery mechanism for the
supposed “TV Fakery”. Of course this is nonsense, but it is  
fascinating that
these harlequins would incorporate their partnerships into their own
theories.

The “Concordia Foundation” numbers among its surrogates Nico Haupt,” a  
man
who exhibits *prima facie *schizophrenic behavior. Allegations  of
COINTELPRO surrounding Haupt have, in the past, seemed to be justified.
WeAreChange recently had two unprovoked incidents with Haupt, where he
assaulted the groups members, only to be ignored by onlooking NYPD.

Haupt continuously spreads disinformation, even abject lies, surrounding
the 9/11 truth movement. From calling legitimate 9/11 truthers “Plane
Huggers”, to claiming “Alex Jones works for ABC” and is “covering up  
for the
media”, Haupt’s tactics and behavior exhibit classic COINTELPRO methods.
Haupt even advocates “waterboarding Plane Huggers”.

So a “foundation” with intimate ties to international defense  
contractors,
major Wall Street banks, prominent telecommunications firms, and The
National Security council is a driving force behind the “No Plane”
pseudo-movement?

The information promulgated by Paula Gloria, Nico Haupt, Morgan  
Reynolds,
and others is clearly suspect in light of these new revelations.

[cia-drugs] Skull Boner leads flase-charge against Obama at Wash. Post

2008-08-10 Thread RoadsEnd

  Dana Milbank is a member of Yale's Order of Skull  Bones.

Peace,
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WPost Calls Out 'Uppity' Obama

By Robert Parry
July 31, 2008

At this pivotal moment in American history, the major U.S. news media  
is back to its old game of drawing sweeping character judgments about  
a presidential candidate based on misleading “quotes,” a sickening  
replay of other recent elections.
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The latest example of this wearisome gamesmanship was a column by the  
Washington Post’s Dana Milbank, who distorted a reported quote from  
Sen. Barack Obama at a closed Democratic caucus and used it to prove  
Obama was a “presumptuous nominee.”

Milbank’s colleague from the Washington Post’s neoconservative  
editorial page, Jonathan Capehart, then took the point a step further  
on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show, citing the misleading quote to  
establish that Obama is an “uppity” black man.

Yet, the true meaning of the Obama quote at the core of Milbank’s  
snarky column appears to have been almost the opposite of how Milbank  
used it.

Milbank wrote: “Inside [the caucus], according to a witness, [Obama]  
told the House members, ‘This is the moment . . . that the world is  
waiting for,’ adding: ‘I have become a symbol of the possibility of  
America returning to our best traditions.’

However, other people who attended the caucus complained that Milbank  
had yanked the words out of context to support his “presumptuous”  
thesis, not to reflect what Obama actually was saying.

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-South Carolina, said Obama’s comment was “in  
response to what one of the [House] members prefaced the question by,”  
a reference to the crowd of 200,000 that turned out to hear Obama  
speak last week in Berlin.

According to Clyburn, Obama “said, ‘I wish I could take credit for  
that, but I can't. Because it's not about me. It's about America. It's  
about the people of Germany and the people of Europe looking for a new  
hope, new relationships, as we go forward in the world.’ So, he  
expressly said that it's not about me.”

A House Democratic aide sent an e-mail to Fox News saying, “Lots of  
people are reading the quote about Obama being a symbol and getting it  
wrong. His entire point of that riff was that the campaign IS NOT  
about him.

“The Post left out the important first half of the sentence, which was  
something along the lines of: ‘It has become increasingly clear in my  
travel, the campaign, that the crowds, the enthusiasm, 200,000 people  
in Berlin, is not about me at all. It’s about America. I have just  
become a symbol …’”

So, it appears that Obama’s attempt to show humility was transformed  
into its opposite – what is fast becoming a powerful attack theme  
against him, that he is too big for his britches, that he is coming  
across, as Capehart put it, as an “uppity” black man. [Capehart  
himself is black.]

Milbank’s Lens

But the out-of-context quote was only part of Milbank’s case.  
Virtually everything in the column was viewed through the lens of  
trying to prove Obama’s arrogance.

When Washington police and the Secret Service block off roads for  
Obama’s motorcade, that was not simply prudence in the face of  
extraordinary security concerns for Obama’s life; it was proof that  
Obama already sees himself as a head of state.

When Obama had a phone conversation with Treasury Secretary Henry  
Paulson and met with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani,  
these weren’t just routine matters for a U.S. Senator or the  
presumptive nominee of a major party; they were further evidence of  
Obama’s “uppity” behavior.

Milbank wrote that Obama “ordered up a teleconference with the  
(current President's) Treasury secretary, granted an audience to the  
Pakistani prime minister. … Then, he went up to Capitol Hill to be  
adored by House Democrats in a presidential-style pep rally.

“Along the way, he traveled in a bubble more insulating than the  
actual President's. Traffic was shut down for him as he zoomed about  
town in a long, presidential-style motorcade, while the public and  
most of the press were kept in the dark about his activities.”

Milbank groused, too, about the tight security that the police put  
around Obama’s movements on Capitol Hill.

“Capitol Police cleared the halls -- just as they do for the actual  
President. The Secret Service hustled him in through a side door --  
just as they do for the actual President,” Milbank wrote.

While Milbank portrayed these security steps as further evidence of  
Obama’s hubris, there is no reason to believe that Obama had any say  
in the decisions of his security detail to protect the candidate.

One has to wonder: Doesn’t Dana Milbank have any idea of the physical  
danger that surrounds the first African-American to have a serious  
chance to be elected President of the United States? Does Milbank  
really want to heighten the political pressure on Obama to take

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Wiki-spy

2008-08-09 Thread RoadsEnd

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http://www.cio-weblog.com/50226711/wikispy.php
Wiki-spy

Filed in archive Enterprise Software

by Scott Wilson on August 09, 2008

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Angel Herrero de Frutos

Speaking of Enterprise 2.0, it seems that the CIA is well on board  
with the trend. I don't know if the director filled out the recent  
McKinsey survey or not. But the organization seems to be ahead of the  
pack when it comes to wiki implementations

The intelligence community reportedly suffered a considerable shake-up  
in the wake of 9/11 and the tools and techniques for information  
sharing within the various agencies were among the factors identified  
by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks as contributing to the  
failure to prevent the attacks. Accordingly, organizational changes  
were made to reduce the difficulty of secure information sharing. That  
was difficult enough to accomplish in the face of determined  
opposition from the old guard operators, but the technical changes are  
even longer in coming.

A series of articles in CIO magazine has been chronicling the agency's  
progression in technology adoption, providing an unusually candid look  
behind the scenes. One of the more interesting systems they have  
described is the Intellipedia, a wiki product accessible to 40,000  
users in the intelligence community which serves all the traditional  
purposes of a wiki, only instead of contributing and reviewing  
articles about Paris Hilton, staffers presumably surf the net gleaning  
details about Osama Bin Laden's latest styles and trends.

One advantage the CIA has over commercial enterprise in the adoption  
of such new technology is the relative youth of its workforce: half  
the agency's staff are new, spurred in by the combined impetus of 9/11  
and a renewed focus on intelligence funding. While convincing existing  
staff to adopt newfangled widgets like wikis can be a chore, new staff  
coming in can be trained on just about anything-and younger users are  
more comfortable with Web 2.0 concepts and tools.

Unfortunately, it's even more difficult to determine the results of  
such projects in the classified world than in the enterprise... leaks  
don't just get you fired, but can result in jail time. But according  
to the CIO, Al Tarasiuk, things are working well, and the tech  
transition is helping keep us safer.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Olympics: Know thy enemy with France's spy software

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http://www.postchronicle.com/news/breakingnews/article_212162927.shtml
Know thy enemy with France's spy software
by Sophie Hardach

Intricate spy software has helped France's handballers improve their
game and head coach Philippe Bana was hoping to see the dividends at
the upcoming Olympics.

The French started using software combining videos of all the players
in the world with match statistics to train their teams after
Scandinavian handballers successfully incorporated the technology into
their training program.

Studying their opponents' every move, strength and weakness, is meant
to help players devise the perfect counter-attack.

Bana, speaking with Reuters Thursday during a men's practice session,
said the female team is now able to destroy their (opponents') attack
and defense systems.

Similar software is already widely used by footballers and rugby
players, but it is still relatively new in handball.

France used a rudimentary version of the current system for the Sydney
Games in 2000 but only applied the current software, called
Dartfish, for the Athens Olympics.

It's a completely different approach, we have video specialists as
part of the team so now there is this culture of the video statistic,
Bana said, kicking a stray ball back into the field.

France's women will play the first handball match of the Olympics on
Saturday morning against Angola, while the men's first game is against
Brazil on Sunday afternoon.

In Athens, France narrowly lost to Ukraine and finished fourth,
missing the bronze medal.

Despite the elaborate technology, Bana said the game is ultimately won
on the court.

It's not a videogame, at the end the player is playing. In the end,
you are alone in the court, Bana said. This is a human game so you
can't go too far in this (software) direction because the player is
not a robot.

The Beijing Olympics begin Friday.

(Editing by Steve Ginsburg)

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pakistan funded terror: Spy agency

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http://www.torontosun.com/News/World/2008/08/07/6373001-sun.html
Pakistan funded terror: Spy agency
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL -- Afghanistan's spy agency alleged yesterday that a Pakistani
diplomat directed and funded terrorist activities carried out by a
Taliban commander.

The National Directorate of Security said that a diplomat at the
Pakistani consulate in Kandahar gave orders and money to Mullah
Rahmatullah.

Rahmatullah was captured by Afghan intelligence agents on Tuesday in
Kandahar city, and the information linking the official with the
militants was gleaned during the questioning, the NDS said in a
statement, which did not name the diplomat.

Rahmatullah was responsible for kidnappings of influential elders in
the province, extortion, guerrilla attacks and some other terror
activities, the statement said.

After the arrest, Mullah Rahmatullah confessed to his crimes and said
he received orders and money for all terror activities and for the
kidnappings from one of the members of Pakistan's consulate in
Kandahar, the statement said.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Inside the CIA's extreme technology makeover, part 3

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/080608-inside-the-cias-extreme-technology.html
Inside the CIA's extreme technology makeover, part 3
By Thomas Wailgum , CIO , 08/06/2008
Sponsored by:

The CIA is undergoing a major transformation, and IT is playing a
leading role. In Part 3 of our inside look at the agency, we examine
how CIO Al Tarasiuk got both high-level and low-level CIA employees to
think about critical intelligence-sharing processes and showed that IT
can be a valued partner.

You will sit at the table

Al Tarasiuk's appointment as the CIA's CIO took place on Oct. 1, 2005
(former Director Porter Goss appointed Tarasiuk). In his first year,
however, Tarasiuk was seemingly handcuffed. I had ideas [about
transforming IT] when I first became CIO, he says, but the
environment wasn't aligned in a way where I could launch on these  
ideas.

Since CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden took over in May 2006, the
transformation theme of the Tarasiuk era has not been subtle or kept
quiet inside IT on a mission statement: Cut the bureaucracy and be
more businesslike via stronger IT governance, more disciplined project
management, greater data sharing and more openness to try new
technologies. Hayden has demanded as much.

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What we had prior to that was some configurations of corporate [IT
structure], but we didn't have the business side-what we call the
mission side-really fully engaged in big decisions about how we spent
our money on IT, how we deal with information policies and things like
that, says Tarasiuk, whom Hayden realigned to a direct report when he
took over. My role was to do that.

Tarasiuk created and chairs an Information Governance Board, which
meets quarterly or as needed to make the strategic IT decisions for
the agency. Hayden demanded that because of the problems we've had in
the past, because of who actually participated [in making IT
decisions], he said to the business leaders, the mission managers,
'You will sit at the table,' Tarasiuk says. So the support of the
top leadership has been very important in making sure that board is
effective.

The four divisions inside the CIA are: Directorate of Intelligence
(the analysis arm); the National Clandestine Service (the spies);
Directorate of Science  Technology (which develops technologies to
support the mission-think Q from James Bond movies); and the
Directorate of Support (HR, finance, logistics, legal and other
functions). For the most part, these CIA leaders appreciate being
involved in the IT decision-making processes, Tarasiuk claims, even
though not all of the decisions go their way.

For example, Tarasiuk forged what he calls an enterprise data layer
strategy that enables those who have need and permission to access CIA
data can do so. One part of the strategy is IT-related: Tarasiuk notes
that service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology has been one key
piece.

The other, and much more difficult, part has been process change.
We're making corporate policies on how data is going to be managed,
and we're not going to allow little fiefdoms anymore, he says, where
data is managed and protected and policy and regulations are set by
some local manager at the lowest levels of the organization.

It's not surprising that there's been resistance. A lot of things are
related to turf and how much you own and control, Tarasiuk says.
What we're doing, in effect, is we're taking some of that control
away. And that always hurts, and that's why it makes it difficult
because you are pushing out a culture that existed for many years.

One result of the enterprise data layer strategy is Trident, a new
research and analysis application for CIA analysts that links a set of
a dozen or so (Tarasiuk won't be specific) logical data repositories
and has tiered access (depending on a user's need to access the data)
and single access control to all the databases.

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Trident debuted in 2007, and it manages the voluminous amount of
information flowing into the CIA and allows analysts to organize and
comb through the intelligence most critical to their specialty.
Trident provides a multitude of capabilities for them: tools for
search, foldering, knowledge management, sharing, information
extraction, link analysis, mapping and data visualization.

Trident allows analysts to spend less time trying to find relevant
information and more time analyzing, Tarasiuk notes. He says that
Trident has given many of the analysts an extra hour a day to perform
more analysis.

The number of people looking over your shoulder is staggering

Next on Tarasiuk's agenda has been to fix project management. Ken
Westbrook, chief of business information strategy in the CIA's
intelligence directorate (the agency's intelligence

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Under Surveillance: How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

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Under Surveillance: How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

Regular polygraphs, constant network monitoring and annual  
investigations are just some of the checks and balances that CIA  
workers have to face.

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By Thomas Wailgum

August 07, 2008 — CIO — Be prepared to go through a lot of scrutiny if  
you want to work in the Central Intelligence Agency's IT department,  
says CIO Al Tarasiuk. And it doesn't stop after you get your top  
secret clearance. Once you're in, there are frequent  
reinvestigations, but it's just part of process here, says Tarasiuk,  
who also gets polygraphed regularly, though he won't be more specific.

CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia
For those senior IT managers who are the privileged users, meaning  
system administrators, there is certainly more scrutiny on you,  
Tarasiuk says. It's interesting: there's so much scrutiny that a  
normal person might not want to put up with that. But it's part of the  
mission.

There's so much top secret information contained within the CIA's  
systems that IT plays a key infosecurity role in making sure that CIA  
employees are not doing anything nefarious. There's also the  
persistent threat of foreign government intelligence agencies trying  
to break into the CIA's networks and databases. We have a  
counterintelligence center that helps us with that, Tarasiuk says.  
They are very concerned about foreign intelligence services that are  
interested in penetrating the CIA. Because of that we pay particular  
attention to the kinds of things we put on our network.

The CIA's networks aren't directly connected to the Internet. We have  
a very closed network that's connected to an intelligence community  
enterprise, Tarasiuk says, so I don't necessarily have the worries  
about the hackers from the Internet trying to break through.

What he does have to be concerned with is those who are allowed on the  
CIA's networks: whether it's a simple computing oversight by a CIA  
analyst or a disgruntled spy intent on selling top secret intel to  
Chinese government officials. Anyone who logs into any one of our  
systems knows they are being audited, and we look for anomalies, he  
says. We always have some worries about a rogue person on a network  
doing this. But we can catch them.

So you have caught people? We catch people getting into places they  
shouldn't go, from time to time, Tarasiuk responds.

When asked about the fact that human beings are typically the weakest  
link in any IT system, Tarasiuk concurs. Nothing's perfect. The  
system's not perfect, he says. Some of [the infosec alerts] might be  
legitimate results of why they are doing it; some might be false  
positives. But for the most part we feel very strongly that we can  
detect when someone is doing something of a malicious nature.

See Part 1 (8/4/08): A business-IT alignment project like few others

See Part 2 (8/5/08): How IT moved to center stage at the CIA in the  
wake of 9/11

See Part 3 (8/6/08): The CIA's CIO navigates a tense line between  
making data visible and keeping secrets

See Part 4 (8/7/08): The CIA's efforts to use new applications and Web  
2.0 technologies

Also see: What It's Like to Work Overseas for the CIA's IT Group

Other stories by Thomas Wailgum

© 2008 CXO Media Inc.

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 4

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http://www.cio.com/article/print/441819
Inside the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 4

– Thomas Wailgum , CIO

August 07, 2008

The CIA is undergoing a major transformation, and IT is playing a  
leading role. In Part 4 of our inside look at the agency, we look at  
how the CIA is working to play nicely with the 15 other intelligence  
agencies. We also describe the IT department that CIO Al Tarasiuk  
leads and why he's protective of them and their efforts. (See Inside  
the CIA's Extreme Technology Makeover, Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, to  
read the first three parts in our series.)

How to entice people to play

Until 2004, the CIA was the de facto lead intelligence agency—the CIA  
director briefed the president every day. The CIA fiercely opposed  
the creation of the Directorate of National Intelligence (DNI) in 2004  
before the CIA became just another one of the 16 agencies reporting  
into DNI, just as the U.S. Coast Guard's intel division does,  
according to a New Yorker profile of DNI chief Mike McConnell.

Other organizations that are a part of the DNI and are now required to  
share intelligence among the community include: the FBI, the  
Pentagon'sDefense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security  
Agency (NSA), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the  
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). CIA CIO Al Tarasiuk  
says that he meets with the CIOs of those five agencies regularly to  
talk about building out the connectivity tissue to each other as  
well as share ideas on how to entice people to play and share more  
information.

One of the more notable successes that the CIA has delivered to the  
intel community is the Intellipedia product, which was introduced in  
2006. Based on wiki software, Intellipedia allows analysts in all 16  
organizations in the intelligence community to share Web-based  
information on critical topics and search for intel expertise on a  
wide range of subjects, such as who's got expertise on Burundi. Unlike  
Wikipedia, there is no anonymity: Everyone is authenticated onto the  
system and quality control is high, reports Ken Westbrook, chief of  
business information strategy in the CIA's intelligence directorate.

So far, there are more than 40,000 registered users who have made 1.8  
million page edits on more than 300,000 pages in the system. (Before  
Intellipedia, Westbrook says, you'd have to send e-mails through lots  
of people and hope that they read them.) Still, not everyone has  
rushed out to embrace Intellipedia, and the difficulties of the  
change, note CIA officials, have been more cultural than technological  
due to the long-standing rivalries.

Half of the CIA's workforce is relatively new to the agency  
(applications poured in after 9/11) and many old-schoolers are getting  
ready to retire. The CIA is trying to get those ready to depart to  
dump their intellectual capital into systems like Intellipedia. In  
fact, Westbrook claims that one of the most prolific users of the  
system has been a 69-year-old employee preparing to retire. (CIA IT  
also uses wikis to keep track of project management.)

Other efforts rolled out or revamped within the past year show that  
the CIA is, at the very least, opening up the network connections to  
other agencies and offering more CIA product, as Tarasiuk terms it.

One of these efforts is called CIA Wire. CIA Wire is a communications  
conduit the agency uses to disseminate its intelligence (through  
private networks) to the JWICS, or Joint Worldwide Intelligence  
Communications System, and the Department of Defense's secret-level  
network called SIPRNet (or Secret Internet Protocol Router Network).

We now have a single agency-branded presence on those two sites, and  
that's how we disseminate—very much like a news outlet—fresh  
information, managed content and also some of our traditionally  
disseminated products, Tarasiuk says. It's a huge deal for us. He  
says users can click on categories that contain intelligence and  
analysis on specific regions, such as Southeast Asia.

We put the analysts in a room with the developers to work this out

The CIA also boasts of grassroots Web-driven efforts that are  
sprouting up inside the intel community. One such effort is called  
Samizdat (which is a Russian word for self-publishing) and is a  
collaboration among the intelligence community analysts who follow  
Russian affairs that the CIA funded and provides the networking  
capabilities. The website incorporates Web 2.0 technologies, like  
blogs and wikis, breaking news intel and video.

Westbrook notes that the idea bubbled up from the analysts themselves  
and was funded from a special CIA budget for just such a thing, and

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Exclusive: âPentagon Beh ind Karadzic Immunity Dealâ, Expert

2008-08-06 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 6, 2008 1:42:29 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS]  Exclusive: âPentagon Behind Karadzic Immunity  
Dealâ, Expert

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/investigations/12277/
Exclusive: â•˘Pentagon Behind Karadzic Immunity Dealâ•˙, Expert
06 August 2008
Balkan scholar says State Department insiders have revealed how
Holbrooke came under pressure to pledge Bosnian Serb chiefâ•˙s  
liberty.

By Nidzara Ahmetasevic in Sarajevo

The former US Envoy in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Richard Holbrooke, did
strike an unofficial deal with Radovan Karadzic, guaranteeing his
freedom, an expert has revealed to Balkan Insight.

Charles Ingrao, a US history professor heading a documentation group
on the Balkan wars, told Balkan Insight that Holbrooke â•˛promised
Karadzic he would not be arrested if he withdrew from politicsâ•ˇ.

Ingrao says that through mediators, Holbrooke made a deal with the
former Bosnian Serb leader in order to remove him from the political
stage in the Republica Srpska, RS, the Bosnian Serb entity established
at the 1995 Dayton, Ohio, peace talks.

He warned that written evidence of the agreement was unlikely to
emerge, however. â•˛Holbrooke is not stupid,â•ˇ Ingrao said.  
â•˛There is

nothing written.â•ˇ

Ingrao said his information came from four independent sources in the
US State Department whose names he could not divulge. â•˛We cannot
reveal their identities, since they are still very active and would,
in some cases, suffer professionally,â•ˇ he said.

Ingrao said Holbrooke had been given no option but to offer key
concessions to Karadzic regarding his future liberty.

â•˛A top State Department official with intimate knowledge of
Holbrookeâ•˙s activities has confirmed that the Ambassador  
explicitly

assured Karadzic that he would not be arrested, a concession known to
several others at the State Department who have remained silent,â•ˇ  
he said.

â•˛It was the Pentagon, backed by [then President Bill] Clinton,  
that
presented Holbrooke with a â•˘fait accompliâ•˙ that US forces  
would not

seize ICTY indictees,â•ˇ he continued.

Ingraoâ•˙s statements come after the International Criminal  
Tribunal for

ex-Yugoslavia, ICTY, published a letter written by Karadzic in which
he referred to an agreement struck with Holbrooke in 1996.

According to Karadzicâ•˙s letter, Holbrooke promised the Bosnian  
Serb

chief would not be hunted down or arrested as long as he withdrew from
the political scene and public life.

Holbrooke has strongly denied Karadzicâ•˙s claims that he offered  
him

immunity from arrest while negotiating Karadzicâ•˙s withdrawal from
public life.

I'm tired of hearing to this piece of crap which is put up by
Karadzic, Holbrooke said in an interview given to BIRN Kosovo
Director Jeta Xharra, in November 2006.

â•˛The fact is that we made no deal with Karadzic,â•ˇ he said.

The US State Department has also denied allegations that Holbrooke
struck a deal underwriting Karadzicâ•˙s freedom.

â•˛Ambassador Holbrooke and we have repeatedly made clear that no
agreement was ever made in which Radovan Karadzic was provided
immunity from prosecution or arrest,â•ˇ a statement issued on July  
31 read.

â•˛No commitments granting Karadzic immunity were offered in return  
[for

stepping down],â•ˇ it continued.

Reports of a Holbrookeâ•Karadzic deal first surfaced in the Bosnian
weekly, Slobodna Bosna, several years ago. One of the sources it cited
was Aleksa Buha, foreign minister in Karadzicâ•˙s government and his
successor as a head of Serbian Democratic Party, SDS, in 1996.

Buha claimed he knew of the agreement, and even possessed a copy of it
in written form, though he did not produce written evidence for the
weeklyâ•˙s benefit.

Ingrao heads â•˛The Scholarâ•˙s Initiativeâ•ˇ, a programme  
involving about

300 scholars worldwide, working to establish the facts about the fall
of Yugoslavia.

A former NATO commander in Bosnia in 1995 and 1996, General William
Nash, meanwhile told Radio Netherlands Worldwide that â•˛no specific
orders were given for the arrest of the war crimes suspects Radovan
Karadzic and General Ratko Mladicâ•ˇ.

He added: â•˛It was feared that it would destabilize the situation  
after

the Dayton agreements.â•ˇ

Holbrooke was sent to Belgrade in mid-July 1996 to negotiate
Karadzicâ•˙s withdrawal with the then Serbian leader, Slobodan
Milosevic. At the time, the media said that following ten hours of
talks, Holbrooke appeared before reporters, triumphant, with a
statement about an agreement. â•˛As of this morning, Karadzic is no
longer president of Republica Srpska,â•ˇ Holbrooke is quoted to  
have said.

Ingrao said it was time the complete truth emerged. As the  
Scholarsâ•˙
projectâ•˙s American director, he said, he felt â•˛a special  
obligation to

hold the US government to account for its share of the responsibility
for what happened in

[cia-drugs] Fwd: We Don't Need a 'War on Terror'

2008-08-04 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Consortiumnews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 4, 2008 7:40:35 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: We Don't Need a 'War on Terror'
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A new RAND study says the best way to defeat al-Qaeda is to treat the  
band like criminals and to kill its leaders, not mount a grand war on  
terror, as Ivan Eland notes in this guest essay.

For the full story, go to Consortiumnews.com.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Study America's first line of defense: Online Homeland Security degrees

2008-08-03 Thread RoadsEnd

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] My MI5 husband DID set up Max Mosley, admits whip-wielding dominatrix

2008-08-03 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 3, 2008 8:07:47 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] My MI5 husband DID set up Max Mosley, admits whip- 
wielding dominatrix

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23525337-details/article.do?ito=newsnow;
My MI5 husband DID set up Max Mosley, admits whip-wielding dominatrix

Last updated at 10:39am on 03.08.08

They are perhaps the most intriguing and unconventional couple in  
Britain – the crisply correct MI5 man and his wife, a whip-wielding  
dominatrix who purveys sado-masochistic sex to the suburbs.

But here they are, in the sedate surroundings of a London tearoom,  
describing in matter-of-fact terms how an attempt by them to combine  
their careers ended in high farce, personal disaster and national  
scandal, with consequences that are genuinely destined to resonate  
down the ages.

One half of the couple is the sex worker who, at the behest of the  
News of the World, smuggled a camera into the now-notorious SM orgy  
convened at the request of Max Mosley, the president of world motor  
racing.

Michelle - 'Woman E' has broken cover to reveal her extraordinary life  
as a suburban mistress

Mosley launched a court action over the resultant article, claiming  
his privacy had been invaded, and secured a victory that has profound  
implications for free speech in Britain.

The dominatrix, referred to in court as Woman E, had been due to give  
key evidence at the trial, but in the event went into hiding.

Now, in an exclusive interview with The Mail on Sunday, the dominatrix  
and her husband describe the background to the Mosley `sting' for the  
first time.

And they have a revelation, too, that will deepen suspicion that  
Mosley was the victim of forces beyond those of a greedy sex worker  
and a scandal-hungry tabloid.

Motor racing boss Max Mosley leaves the Royal Courts of Justice, after  
winning a privacy-invasion lawsuit over a British tabloid's claims he  
took part in a Nazi-themed orgy

For they disclose that the News of the World  was initially contacted  
and tipped off not by the dominatrix, but by her husband – a serving  
officer in MI5, remember – who then negotiated a deal with the  
newspaper.

Mosley himself is said to believe that his public shaming was brought  
about by shadowy, unspecified enemies.

The dominatrix Michelle – we cannot publish her full name or that of  
her husband for both legal and security reasons – told The Mail on  
Sunday: `I was pleased to leave it up to him.

'I might be bossy when I am working, but I'm not in my normal life. In  
any case, he is much better on the phone than I am.'

Dominatrix Michelle strikes a pose on her website

And the MI5 man admits: `I am the one who rang the News of the World  
offering to sell my wife's story and sorted out the deal before she  
got involved.'

The couple are at pains to insist that he was acting without the  
knowledge of MI5. There is no evidence to the contrary. But as the  
pair go on to describe their extraordinary, head-spinning story, the  
questions mount up rather than go away.

Certainly, the couple make an unlikely match. Although Michelle, at  
38, is two years younger than him, she looks older and is taller. Born  
in Birmingham, she left school at 16.

Her first job was as a hairdresser, but it quickly bored her and she  
moved on to selling windows for conservatories.

Michelle's husband, who has quit MI5. His face has been obscured for  
security reasons.

Her career path changed abruptly when she was about 30 after a short  
relationship.

`I became a submissive – a woman who gives up control to a man – which  
I really enjoyed,' she says.

`When the relationship ended I went on the internet and found other  
people in the scene.

`There are so many websites it was really easy. I also switched from  
being submissive to being in charge, and realised about seven years  
ago that I could make a career out of it.'

So Michelle entered a world of leather, pretend chains and seedy  
basement `dungeons'. She gives a stern look, of the kind that must be  
worth good money at one of her parties.

`Let me make one thing clear,' she says.

`I give out punishment or correction services, but I am not a hooker  
or a prostitute. I always refer anyone who contacts me to my website  
so they know what my rules are. Domination is a professional business.'

Professional is a word she uses like a mantra. `I don't offer a sexual  
service. Clients are not allowed to touch me. They must have total  
respect and once they come through the door I am in charge because  
that is what they want.

`My clients have high-class careers – they are doctors, solicitors and  
bankers – and want no responsibility for an hour or two.

'What I do for them sets off endorphins – the feelgood hormones  
released when people exercise – and it's very relaxing.'

At times

[cia-drugs] McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to control inner city crime.

2008-08-02 Thread RoadsEnd

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/01/mccain-suggests-military-style-invasion-modeled-on-the-surge-to-control-inner-city-crime/

McCain suggests military-style invasion modeled on the surge to  
control inner city crime.»

Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) spoke to the National Urban League, a  
group “devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic  
and social mainstream.” When an audience member asked him how he  
planned to reduce urban crime, McCain praised Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s  
efforts in New York Cirty before invoking the military’s tactics in  
Iraq as the model for crime-fighting:

 MCCAIN: And some of those tactics — you mention the war in Iraq —  
are like that we use in the military. You go into neighborhoods, you  
clamp down, you provide a secure environment for the people that live  
there, and you make sure that the known criminals are kept under  
control. And you provide them with a stable environment and then they  
cooperate with law enforcement, etc, etc.

Listen here:

Now that our military experts advocate approaching the “war on terror”  
with more policing and intelligence gathering, McCain wants to  
approach urban policing with more military power. (HT: Political Radar)
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[cia-drugs] Lindsey Williams Shock Oil Back to $50 / USA to collapse

2008-08-02 Thread RoadsEnd

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911TruthAction/message/38183

Lindsey Williams Shock Oil Back to $50 / USA to collapse

In this shocking interview, Lindsey Williams makes some incredible
claims after a conversation with a high level oil executive. Before you
laugh at what you are about to read - Lindsey Williams accurately
predicted Gasoline going to $3 / gallon back when it was worth 60 cents.

* Crude Oil is going back to $50 a barrel.
* McCain is selected to be the next President of the United States,
and everything in their power will be done to prevent Barack, OR HILLARY
from having any chance of gaining the presidency.
* Two giant oil fields will be 'released as new found discoveries' -
namely a 90 Billion Barrel Deposit in Russia, and a second one in
Indonesia.
* A fresh cold war will be started with Russia regaining superpower
status.
* Iran, and several middle east nations will be deliberately and
financially ruined.
* The world will be flooded with cheap oil.
* Iran will not be attacked, but starved out financially - do note
that financial institutions around the world have been forced to stop
trading and exchanging with Iranian banks. This isolation of currency
inhibits their ability to buy and sell their oil in a practical and
efficient manner.
* Lindsey Williams has been the author of several DVDs, and books,
which are no longer availble on the market, this is under death threat
to himself and his family.
* Prudhoe Bay Alaska, and Gull Island Alaska have enough oil to break
dependency on foreign imports, this is not counting the massive oil
reserves under Montana.

Listen to the MP3 yourself and copy and send everywhere. It has been
uploaded to three different hosting services to prevent any form of
censorship of this information.

http://www.mediafire.com/? 
sharekey=6074186bc692943a19747bd91027d4ddfd559\
a4421a32d9c
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If you do not think that this is possible please study the following,
and BELIEVE NONE OF IT UNTIL YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3209608/abioticoil
In this shocking interview, Lindsey Williams makes some incredible
claims after a conversation with a high level oil executive. Before you
laugh at what you are about to read - Lindsey Williams accurately
predicted Gasoline going to $3 / gallon back when it was worth 60 cents.

* Crude Oil is going back to $50 a barrel.
* McCain is selected to be the next President of the United States,
and everything in their power will be done to prevent Barack, OR HILLARY
from having any chance of gaining the presidency.
* Two giant oil fields will be 'released as new found discoveries' -
namely a 90 Billion Barrel Deposit in Russia, and a second one in
Indonesia.
* A fresh cold war will be started with Russia regaining superpower
status.
* Iran, and several middle east nations will be deliberately and
financially ruined.
* The world will be flooded with cheap oil.
* Iran will not be attacked, but starved out financially - do note
that financial institutions around the world have been forced to stop
trading and exchanging with Iranian banks. This isolation of currency
inhibits their ability to buy and sell their oil in a practical and
efficient manner.
* Lindsey Williams has been the author of several DVDs, and books,
which are no longer availble on the market, this is under death threat
to himself and his family.
* Prudhoe Bay Alaska, and Gull Island Alaska have enough oil to break
dependency on foreign imports, this is not counting the massive oil
reserves under Montana.

Listen to the MP3 yourself and copy and send everywhere. It has been
uploaded to three different hosting services to prevent any form of
censorship of this information.

http://www.mediafire.com/? 
sharekey=6074186bc692943a19747bd91027d4ddfd559\
a4421a32d9c
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/96fb5a1f87_5.35MB
http://www.savefile.com/files/1703648

If you do not think that this is possible please study the following,
and BELIEVE NONE OF IT UNTIL YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3209608/abioticoil

[cia-drugs] Fwd: american tortured by govt drug lords

2008-08-02 Thread RoadsEnd




Begin forwarded message:

From: William Gallagher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: August 2, 2008 11:19:43 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: american tortured by govt drug lords

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVHCPtuY3d8

[cia-drugs] Jim Norman on radio

2008-07-31 Thread RoadsEnd


Enjoy.

http://www.wrjmfm.com/show4/audio/index.php?file=Jack_Wed_pm_Hr1_07-30-08.mp3

Peace,
K

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Are You On the Terror Watch List? Good Luck Getting Off It

2008-07-28 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 28, 2008 5:55:09 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Are You On the Terror Watch List? Good Luck  
Getting Off It

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.alternet.org/story/92545/
Are You On the Terror Watch List? Good Luck Getting Off It
By Ivan Eland, Consortium News
Posted on July 24, 2008, Printed on July 28, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/92545/

After having begun a series of investigative stories criticizing the
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in May 2008, CNN reporter
Drew Griffin reports being placed with more than a million other names
on TSA's swollen terrorism watch list.

Although TSA insists Griffin's name is not on the list and pooh-poohs
any possibility of retaliation for Griffin's negative reporting, the
reporter has been hassled by various airlines on 11 flights since May.
The airlines insist that Griffin's name is on the list.

Congress has asked TSA to look into the tribulations of this prominent
passenger.

In a recent op-ed in the Washington Post, probably responding to the
controversy over Griffin, Leonard Boyle, the director of the Terrorist
Screening Center, defended the watch list, claiming that because
terrorists have multiple aliases, the names on the list boiled down to
only about 400,000 actual people.

If there are 400,000 terrorists lying in wait to attack the United
States, we are all in trouble.

But wait a minute. There has been no major terrorist attack on U.S.
soil since 9/11 -- almost seven years ago. Where are all these
nefarious evildoers?

Boyle says 95 percent of these people are not American citizens or
legal residents and the vast majority aren't even in the United
States. He rather sheepishly defends the size of the list by writing,
Its size corresponds to the threat. It's a big world.

That brings up a very important issue. The U.S. government regularly
tries to police the world and combat threats to other nations -- in
the process, usually generating more enemies.

Examining the 44 organizations on the State Department's highly
politicized list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), one finds
that only a very few currently focus their efforts on U.S. targets.
And the U.S. government has even flirted with one anti-Iranian group,
the Mujahedin-e Khalq, which was put on the FTO list long ago.

Similarly, the State Department's list of five state sponsors of
terrorism has included Cuba and North Korea -- neither of which has
actively participated in terrorist attacks in decades. These two
countries continued to be on the list for other reasons -- namely U.S.
government aversion to them.

On its Web site, the State Department even admits that, The
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) was not known to have
sponsored any terrorist acts since the bombing of a Korean Airlines
flight in 1987.

The Web site also contains an implicit admission that keeping selected
countries on the state sponsors list can reap ulterior political
benefits for the United States. The Web site notes that under the
umbrella of the Six-Party Talks, the United States intends to remove
North Korea from the list as that nation takes actions toward getting
rid of its nuclear weapons program.

Even the remaining three nations on the list that do sponsor terrorism
-- Syria, Iran and Sudan -- don't support groups that focus their
attacks on the U.S. Thus, the humongous terrorist watch list for
airline travel and the excessively large FTO and state sponsors lists
are a few more examples of the United States taking on other nations'
security burdens.

Trying to be the big man on (the world) campus, however, comes at a
horrendous cost to American freedom at home.

The terrorist watch list is downright unconstitutional. Under the
Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, no warrants shall be issued
unless there is probable cause that a crime has been committed.

If the government has such probable cause that a passenger is
conspiring to commit a terrorist act on an airplane, it should not
hassle that person at the airport when trying to fly or ban him or her
from flying; it should arrest them.

But of course the government does not have the evidence to do that for
the vast majority of the 400,000 people on the watch list.

And it's apparently not easy to get yourself off the list once you are
on it. Although Boyle claims that the TSA constantly scrubs the list
for possible mistaken identities of people who have frequent
encounters with the list, even if they don't file a complaint,
Griffin uncovered an innocent passenger with a common name -- James
Robinson -- who has complained endlessly and has received no
resolution of his case.

Senator Edward Kennedy -- also with a common name -- experienced
endless hassles and red tape trying to get his name off the list. If
such a well-known figure has such problems, the average misidentified
traveler is in big trouble.

And as the economists would

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pak flip-flop on ISI creates confusion

2008-07-28 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 28, 2008 5:59:05 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Pak flip-flop on ISI creates confusion
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.asianage.com/presentation/leftnavigation/news/international/pak-flip-flop-on-isi-creates-confusion.aspx
Pak flip-flop on ISI creates confusion
BY MUHAMMAD NAJEEB
Islamabad

July 27: The Pakistan government's notification on Sunday, reversing
an announcement made a day before to place the two top intelligence
agencies under the interior ministry, has led to further confusion
with a former top spy saying a conspiracy was foiled.

The government on Saturday issued a notification saying the Prime
Minister has approved giving the interior ministry control of the
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Agency and the Intelligence Bureau  
(IB).

The notification, issued on a day Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
left for a crucial meeting with President George W. Bush, was seen
mostly as a positive step and a move towards complete civilian rule.

It said: In terms of Rule 3(3) of the Rules of Business of 1973, the
Prime Minister has approved the placement of the Intelligence Bureau
and the Inter-Services Intelligence under the administrative,
financial and operational control of the interior division with
immediate effect.

However, early Sunday morning the government issued another
notification saying that the earlier order was misunderstood and the
ISI would remain under the Prime Minister.

Traditionally and according to the government record, the ISI has been
under financial and administrative control of the defence ministry but
was answerable to the Prime Minister.

This may be in papers but everyone knows the reality from where the
ISI takes orders and who heads it, Lt. Gen. (retd) Talat Masood said.

He said it was an excellent move to bring the ISI under the complete
civilian rule. But let's see what happens now.

The early morning notification by the information ministry stressed
extending cooperation between the interior ministry and the ISI in
matters like war against terror and internal security.

It said that more details in this regard will be given in a detailed
notification, creating more confusion and the media was left guessing
what the third notification can be.

Many politicians, civil society representatives and intelligentsia
termed the earlier notification a right step in the right direction.

—IANS

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] USA threatens with anti-missile rockets in Lithuania

2008-07-28 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 28, 2008 6:34:45 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] USA threatens with anti-missile rockets in Lithuania
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http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=l8635
USA threatens with anti-missile rockets in Lithuania
8 May 2008 | 17:33 | RBK Daily

Today in Warsaw, new Poland-American negotiations on the issue of
disposing elements from the USA anti-missile system on the territory
of Poland have started.
Poland, demanding from USA to release funds for the modernization of
states' armed forces, declared that the sum of $ 20 million, offered
by USA is offensive. Americans, by other party, threatened to stop
disposition of anti-missile rockets on the area of Poland and to
transfer them to Lithuania. At the beginning of negotiations, which
delayed for almost a month, both parties showed mutual irritation.
Poland should not feel as USA client', considering the matter of
anti-missile rockets' disposition, vice-president and minister of
Internal Affairs emphasized. Opposition will state its opinion later.
Warsaw considers that USA has not accomplished the obligations it has
undertaken for supporting Poland in its armed forces modernization, in
exchange to gaining Polish country's agreement for disposing
anti-missile rockets on the area of Poland. Data have showed that
Poland has been expecting material support of $14 to $20 billion,
while USA has offered only $20 million.
The real sum would be somewhere in the middle of the both countries'
offers, Alexander Hramchihin, from the Institute of Political and
Military Analysis in Moscow, considers. Poland should modernize its
system for anti-missile and first it should equipped by Patriot
rockets, he emphasizes. The anti-missile rocket system is necessary
for the anti-missile rocket's complex protection, in case the
hypothetical rocket attack transfers into a target of a first strike.
USA is interested in disposition of modern anti-missile rockets on
the territory of Poland, Hramchihin explained. There will be of USA
interest if contemporary anti-missile rockets are situated on area of
Poland, in order to take up the first strike, if it is necessary.
Neither Pentagon, nor Bush's administration would succeed to insure 1
billion dollars, which Poland needs to its Patriot rockets' equipping.
Warsaw realizes that if the new USA president is a democrat, the
project for anti-missile rockets disposition in Eastern Europe will be
canceled. That is why Poland does not hide that it is interested in
obtaining real help fro USA, as soon as possible. The irritation comes
from the information, released in medias before the beginning of
negotiations that USA can find another country for disposing its
anti-missile rockets. This is probably Lithuania.
Alexei Vlasov, deputy director of the Centre for examination of public
political processes of the post-Soviet Union time in Poland, considers
that negotiations between USA and Lithuania have already begun. He
thinks that the negotiations with Lithuania purpose to make Poland
drawing back from its firm position. Disposition of anti-missile
rockets on the territory of ex-Soviet Union's republic would mean
definite break in relationships with Russia. USA will not make this
step, Vlasov thinks.

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[cia-drugs] July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in Kazakhgate

2008-07-25 Thread RoadsEnd

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080718

July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in Kazakhgate
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July 18-20, 2008 -- Cheney continues to be embroiled in Kazakhgate

There is a major scandal still haunting Vice President Dick Cheney.  
However, the mainstream media is studiously avoiding it, save for the  
Sunday Times of London, which continues to delve into largely verboten  
areas, a rare occurrence in corporate journalism that Sunday Times  
owner, Rupert Murdoch, appears willing to support.

The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus wrote about the scandal in the  
paper's July 16th Op-Ed page with the caveat that the scandal, one  
amounting to bribery, is perfectly legal. Not so fast.

The scandal surrounds Republican fix-it man, fundraiser, and lobbyist  
Stephen Payne of Houston, the owner of Worldwide Strategic Partners.  
Payne was recently caught in a secret videotaped sting by the Sunday  
Times. Payne offered one Eric Dos, a purported exiled political leader  
from Kazakhstan, meetings with Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza  
Rice, or National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley for a payment of  
$700,000. The George W. Bush Presidential Library would receive  
$250,000 of the amount. In return, Payne would ensure that ousted  
Kyrgyzstan President Askar Akayev's sponsors would receive personal  
attention in his attempt to regain power in Kyrgyzstan with senior  
Bush administration officials, including Cheney. Akayev lives in exile  
and teaches mathematics at Moscow State University.

The only problem for Payne was that Dos was not an exiled Kazakh  
politician an but a Sunday Times reporter. The smoking gun documents  
revealed by the Sunday Times include a July 9, 2008, email from Dos to  
Payne stating that Money can be tomorrow . . . They [Akayev's  
sponsors] can give the Bush donation in cash as I told them that the  
Bush library still to be created. Do you want me to bring cash to  
London to simplify things? Payne wrote back the same day, That's  
Great news  . . . cash is very hard to deal with in and can't be  
easily brought to USA — a wire transfer for 700 to cover everything at  
once is best way (but we can discuss options if it's a problem).

Options in dealing in cash has never been a problem for the Houston  
GOP cabal that surrounds the Bush family. They have, over the years,  
enriched themselves with cash and gold from Saudi Arabia, the  
Philippines, and other countries thanks to various off-shore  
contrivances, including accounts the UBS bank in Switzerland, now the  
subject of a major tax evasion investigation of wealthy Americans by  
the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, and a U.S. Senate investigative  
committee.

In an email reply, Dos refers to a Cheney trip to Kazakhstan in 2006:  
OK. I'm telling them that transfer can do as well. It did work when  
you successfully brought VP Cheaney [sic] to Kazakhstan in 2006.  
Correct me if I said wrong. The last time the Kazakh govt through KMG  
or whatever entity transferred directly to Worldwide Strategic and  
then some of it was transferred to Bush's people? Was it to Bush Sr  
library or foundation? or did your company just pass it on to  
Cheaney's people.

Perhaps smelling a rat in Dos' reference to a payment directly from  
the Kazakh government of dictator Nursultan Nazarbayev or KMG, the  
state-owned Kazakh oil company to Payne and possibly Bush and  
Cheaney's people, Payne responds to Dos by stating that Cheney's  
people were not paid anything for his trip to Kazakhstan and that  
donations to the George W. Bush Library are not tied to any  
specific request or Govt. action. Right, and a $700,000 payment to  
Payne, with $250,000 of it going to the Bush Library is not a quid pro  
quo?

Turning back the clock to Cheney's 2006 visit to Kazakhstan is trip  
down corporate malfeasance memory lane. On Aug 26 2005, WMR reported:

More details concerning illegal Bush enterprises are coming out in the  
trial of former lobbyist for the oil industry and the Kazakhstan  
government, Jim Giffen, a New York investment banker. Giffen was  
indicted for bribing Kazakhstan government leaders with some $84  
million in return for lucrative oil drilling rights for Amoco, Mobil,  
Phillips Petroleum, and Texaco in the years immediately following the  
fall of the USSR and the independence of Kazakhstan under the rule of  
Nursultan Nazarbayev, a former Soviet Communist Party leader. Giffen  
also represented the interests of Chevron in the former USSR.  
Kazakhstan's Tengiz oil fields rank among the world's largest reserves.

Giffen is accused of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act,  
which prohibits American businessmen from bribing foreign officials.  
However, Giffen's attorneys are contending that their client's actions  
and those of his bank, Mercator, were carried out with the knowledge  
and encouragement of the CIA under

[cia-drugs] The Boston Globe Admits U.S. Economy Being Destroyed on Purpose

2008-07-23 Thread RoadsEnd


http://rockthetruth.blogspot.com/2008/06/boston-globe-admits-us-economy-being.html

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
The Boston Globe Admits U.S. Economy Being Destroyed on Purpose
I saw Daniel Estulin on the I.N.N. network (which local cable access  
picks up), and he described part of the economic plan currently  
underway as being that as demand destruction.


The idea is that you destroy the world economy and make every one  
poorer, among other things.


And WHAT DO YOU KNOW, here are the terms appearing in my Globalist,  
Agenda-Pushing War Daily.


signs of demand destruction in the US. -- David Begleiter, a New  
York-based analyst at Deutsche Bank AG.


seeing demand deterioration in the US -- Jim Ritterbusch, president  
of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena, Ill.


Dow Chemical raises prices 2d time in 4 weeks by Bloomberg News | 
June 25, 2008
Dow Chemical Co. may continue raising prices after implementing  
consecutive record increases because of surging raw material and  
energy costs, chief executive Andrew Liveris said.


Dow, the largest US chemical producer, disclosed price increases  
yesterday of as much as 25 percent effective in July. A 20 percent  
increase for June resulted in double-digit price gains, Liveris  
said. He said prices for some products will be as much as 35 percent  
higher after the two increases.


Dow is also implementing a shipping surcharge and closing plants in  
North America and Europe because of weak demand and rising energy and  
raw-material expenses. Declining demand may prompt Dow to close even  
more factories, particularly in higher-cost regions such as the United  
States, Liveris said.


Where they moving them to?

David Begleiter, a New York-based analyst at Deutsche Bank AG, reduced  
his second-quarter and full-year earnings estimates for Dow because of  
rising costs and signs of demand destruction in the US.


Dow's 3,200 products are used in thousands of consumer products,  
including diapers, sneaker soles, carpets, and plastic bottles.


Dow plans to idle 20 percent of capacity for making Styrofoam  
insulation in Europe and to shut three factories that make emulsion  
polymers, used in paints, adhesives, and carpets. The emulsion plants  
represent 25 percent of Dow capacity in North America and 10 percent  
in Europe.


Three factories in the Dow Automotive unit will be permanently shut  
because of declining North American sales, the company said. Details  
on specific plant closures, job cuts, and related charges haven't been  
determined, said a company spokesman.


--MORE--

Of course, this next story is on page A6, lower left corner.

I rest my case on the MSM and their active concealing of the declining  
dollar.


Oil prices climb on weaker dollar, unrest in Nigeria by Associated  
Press | June 25, 2008
NEW YORK - Oil futures ended an uneven session with a modest gain  
yesterday as traders awaited news that could help the market break out  
of a trading range that has lasted for more than two weeks.


Retail gas prices, meanwhile, slipped to a national average of $4.07 a  
gallon. At the pump, the average price of a gallon of regular gas  
slipped 0.3 cent overnight to $4.07 a gallon, according to a survey of  
stations by AAA, the Oil Price Information Service, and Wright Express.


We're seeing demand deterioration in the US, said Jim Ritterbusch,  
president of energy consultancy Ritterbusch and Associates in Galena,  
Ill.


Many analysts believe the dollar's protracted decline has been one of  
the main reasons oil has nearly doubled in the past year.


MSM sure does a good job of deemphasizing that one!

OPEC president Chakib Khelil insisted yesterday that oil producers saw  
no need to raise supply, blaming high prices on factors such as US  
pressure on Iran over its nuclear program and the weak dollar.


Yeah, THANKS ISRAEL!!

Thanks a WHOLE TON, you fucking assholes!

What kind of friend bends you over a damn barrel, readers -- and  
SPIES ON YOU to boot?


Khelil's comments came days after Saudi Arabia disappointed the crude  
futures market by saying it would boost production less than many had  
hoped.


Another support for prices came from new sanctions against Iran  
approved by European Union nations, imposing additional financial and  
travel restrictions on a list of Iranian companies and experts  
including the country's largest bank. The 27-nation bloc stopped short  
of banning oil and gas exports from Iran, OPEC's second-largest  
producer, in response to its nuclear program plans.


--MORE--

Un-fucking-REAL

Tells you a) that the E.U. is just another Zionist tool and pawn, and  
b) this is ALL A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT!!!


Yeah, DON'T CUT OFF the OIL and GAS -- but bomb the place to the ground!

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE WAR-MONGERS!!!

Posted by Rocker at 4:49 PM
Labels: Business, Neo-Con Plan

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Beijing's red spider's web

2008-07-22 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 22, 2008 1:44:08 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Beijing's red spider's web
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/JG22Ad01.html
Greater China
Jul 22, 2008
Beijing's red spider's web
By Dan Verton

The fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War had a
profound impact not only on how security and intelligence
professionals viewed the world of espionage but also on the
motivations of the players and the targets of their espionage  
activities.

Global rivalries centered on technology development and intellectual
capital replaced the old divides of East versus West and communism
versus capitalism as the primary driver of the new espionage war; in
this globalized competitive economy the

battlefield has widened to include private companies and corporate  
spies.

During the height of the Cold War, no other nation could match the
desire and ability of the Soviet Union's KGB to steal American
corporate and military secrets, particularly technology secrets. That
has since changed, however. In today's information age, the People's
Republic of China (PRC) has replaced and even improved on the KGB
methods of industrial espionage to the point that the PRC now presents
one of the most capable threats to US technology leadership and by
extension its national security.

What we know, and don't know
What we know thus far about China's espionage activities against US
weapons laboratories and other technology development programs is
cause enough for concern. The US intelligence community's official
damage assessment of Chinese espionage targeting America's nuclear
technology secrets tells us this much:

What we know:
# China obtained by espionage classified US nuclear weapons
information that probably accelerated its program to develop future
nuclear weapons. This collection program allowed China to focus
successfully on critical paths and avoid less promising approaches to
nuclear weapon designs.
# China obtained at least basic design information on several modern
US nuclear re-entry vehicles, including the Trident II (W88).
# China also obtained information on a variety of US weapon design
concepts and weaponization features, including those of the neutron  
bomb.

What we don't know:
# We cannot determine the full extent of weapons information obtained.
For example, we do not know whether any weapon design documentation or
blueprints were acquired.
# We believe it is more likely that the Chinese used US design
information to inform their own program than to replicate US weapon
designs.

Yet there is much more to China's quest for US technology. China has
obtained a major advantage that the former KGB did not enjoy during
the Cold War: unprecedented access to American academic institutions
and industry. At any given time there are more than 100,000 PRC
nationals in the United States attending universities and working
throughout US industries. It is important to note here that these
individuals are not assumed to be spies, but given their status as PRC
nationals they remain at higher risks of being a major component of
the PRC's nebulous industrial intelligence collection operation.

In fact, there are very few professional PRC intelligence operatives
actively working on collecting US technology secrets compared to the
number of PRC civilians who are actively recruited (either by
appealing to their sense of patriotism or through other more coercive
means) to routinely gather technology secrets and deliver those
secrets to the PRC. Thus, the PRC employs a wide range of people and
organizations to serve as its white glove, and do its dirty work
abroad, including scientists, students, business executives and even
phony front companies or acquired subsidiaries of US companies as
evidenced by a string of recent high profile cases.

Beijing's 16-character policy
Nowhere is the nexus of the military-industrial complex in the PRC
more evident than in the codification of the 1997 16-character
policy, which makes it official PRC policy to deliberately intertwine
state-run and commercial organizations for casting a cloud of
ambiguity over PRC military modernization. In their literal
translation, the 16 characters mean as follows:

Jun-min jiehe (Combine the military and civil);
Ping-zhan jiehe (Combine peace and war);
Jun-pin youxian (Give priority to military products);
Yi min yan jun (Let the civil support the military).

The 16-character policy is important because of what it does for the
strategic development of the PRC's industrial and economic espionage
program: it provides commercial cover for military industrial
companies to acquire dual-use technology through purchase or
joint-venture business dealings, and at the same time for trained
spies who work directly for the PRC's military establishment, whose
operational mandate is then to gain access to and steal the high-tech
tools and systems

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Laotian Hmong immigrants honour CIA 'secret war' pilot

2008-07-22 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 22, 2008 1:45:29 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Laotian Hmong immigrants honour CIA 'secret war'  
pilot

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/21/usa2
4.30pm BST / 11.30am ET
Laotian Hmong immigrants honour CIA 'secret war' pilot

   * McClatchy newspapers
   * guardian.co.uk,
   * Monday July 21, 2008

More than 600 people paid their respects yesterday to captain David
Harold Kouba, an Iowa man whose dangerous life led him from
crop-dusting in Mississippi and Australia to flying missions from 1968
to 1975 during the Central Intelligence Agency's secret war in Laos.

It was Kouba who flew general Vang Pao, the CIA's top Hmong leader,
out of the agency's embattled headquarters at Long Cheng. A program
distributed with services explained:
On May 14, 1975, among few of the remaining American civilian pilots
in south-east Asia, Kouba and chopper pilot Jack Knotts flew the last
'up-country' special assignment to evacuate Jerry Daniels (Hog), who
was a CIA case officer, and major general Vang Pao.

The written program cited words it said were apparently from Kouba in
his log book: Arrived at Long Chieng [the spelling is different] at
dawn to evacuate general Vang Pao and head customer 'Hog'. All was in
turmoil. Danang, Vietnam, all over. Meos [tribes people] were
beginning to mob aircraft. We took off at 10:47, and this ended the
Secret CIA base of Long Chieng, Laos.

Kouba died of cancer peacefully at home in Las Vegas on April 24.

The Sunday service in the Clovis Memorial Building attracted Kouba's
family from Iowa, hundreds of Hmong families living in the San Joaquin
Valley, military and, at least one speaker hinted, possibly
unidentified CIA agents.

The memorial was organized by Thua Va of Sacramento, California. He
drew on contacts in Sacramento, Fresno and Oroville, and chose to hold
the observance in the Fresno area because Kouba had stopped in town
last year to reacquaint himself with community people he had helped.

Thua Va had hoped that general Vang Pao, 78, would attend, but said
his health prevented it.

Much of the service was spoken in Hmong, but former American fliers
who supported the Hmong cause with supplies and other services spoke
of their memories in English.

John Lear, who worked with Kouba in Laos, called him my special  
friend.

When they put us here on earth, there's only one thing to do: live
our lives without hate and with integrity, and Dave Kouba did that,
Lear said.

Comments reflected the murky combat during war in Laos.

Kouba grew up in Iowa, graduated from high school there and got his
pilot's license during a year at Texas Christian College. He left
college, crop-dusted then hired on with Continental Air Services, Inc
(CASI).

Kathy Sankey and Rick Langguth, Kouba's half-brother and half-sister,
travelled from Iowa to attend the Hmong community's homage to Kouba.
Sankey, who was 11 years younger than Kouba, said in an interview that
she, like most Americans, had known little about his exploits during
the secret war. He returned to Iowa in 2004, but her account Sunday
was still sketchy. This was, after all, a secret war.

We didn't know he was in the secret war, she said. We were aware he
was dropping food and supplies for the people.

Sankey said her brother always had been adventurous. She looked at the
predominantly Hmong assembly and said, The Hmong people were his
second family. He watched over them, there and here. He made sure
specific Hmong people got out safe.

Langguth's comments reflected the intrigue and the lack of most
Americans' knowledge about the secret war:

We went in and recruited these people to help us. They are brave,
courageous. We promised them we would take care of them, but we left
them high and dry, he said in an interview.

Langguth said more Americans need to know how Hmong-Americans became
Americans. The American government needs to do more to assist Hmong
people, whom the United States recruited into its wars. Hmong fighters
helped American pilots and fought to sever the Ho Chi Minh trail
leading fighters and supplies from North Vietnam into South Vietnam.

Blong Xiong, Fresno city council president, said the occasion offered
opportunity to remember that thousands of Hmong still suffer in
refugee camps. He commended legislation introduced by assembly member
Juan Arambula to assure that the south-east Asian story, including the
secret war in Laos, continues to be told, at least in California.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] A CIA lesson from the field: Never trust another spy

2008-07-22 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 22, 2008 1:54:38 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] A CIA lesson from the field: Never trust another  
spy

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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/20/asia/spy.php
A CIA lesson from the field: Never trust another spy
By Mark Mazzetti
Sunday, July 20, 2008

WASHINGTON: As they complete their training at The Farm, the CIA's
base in the Virginia Tidewater, young agency recruits are taught a
lesson they are expected never to forget during assignments overseas:
There is no such thing as a friendly intelligence service.

Foreign spy services, even those of America's closest allies, will try
to manipulate you. So you had better learn how to manipulate them  
back.

But most CIA veterans agree that no relationship between the spy
agency and a foreign intelligence service is quite as byzantine, or as
maddening, as that between the CIA and the Pakistani Directorate for
Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI.

It is like a bad marriage in which both spouses have long stopped
trusting each other but would never think of breaking up because they
have become so mutually dependent.

Without the ISI's help, U.S. spies in Pakistan would be incapable of
carrying out their primary mission in the country: hunting Islamic
militants, including top members of Al Qaeda. Without the millions of
covert U.S. dollars sent annually to Pakistan, the ISI would have
trouble competing with the spy service of its archrival, India.

But the relationship is complicated by a web of competing interests.
First off, the top U.S. goal in the region is to shore up the Afghan
government and security services to better fight the ISI's traditional
proxies, the Taliban, there.

Inside Pakistan, the primary U.S. interest is to dismantle a Taliban
and Qaeda haven in the mountainous tribal lands.

Throughout the 1990s, Pakistan, and especially the ISI, used the
Taliban and militants from those areas to exert power in Afghanistan
and block India from gaining influence there. The ISI has also
supported other militant groups that carried out operations against
Indian troops in Kashmir, something that complicates Washington's
efforts to stabilize the region.

Of course, there are few examples in history of spy services really
trusting one another. After all, people who earn their salaries by
lying and assuming false identities probably don't make the most
reliable business partners. Moreover, spies know that the best way to
steal secrets is to penetrate the ranks of another spy service.

But circumstances have for years forced successful, if ephemeral,
partnerships among spies. The Office of Strategic Services, the
predecessor to the CIA, worked with the predecessors of the KGB to
hunt Nazis during World War II, even as the United States and the
Soviet Union were quickly becoming adversaries.

These days, the relationship between Moscow and Washington is turning
frosty again, over a number of issues. But, quietly, U.S. and Russian
spies continue to collaborate to combat drug trafficking and organized
crime, and to secure nuclear arsenals.

The relationship between the CIA and the ISI was far less complicated
when the United States and Pakistan were intently focused on one
common goal: kicking the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. For years in
the 1980s, the CIA used the ISI as the conduit to funnel arms and
money to Afghan rebels fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

But even in those good old days, the two spy services were far from
trusting of each other - in particular over the Pakistani quest for
nuclear weapons. In his book Ghost Wars, the journalist Steve Coll
recounts how the ISI chief in the early 1980s, General Akhtar Abdur
Rahman, banned all social contact between his ISI officers and CIA
operatives in Pakistan. He was also convinced that the CIA had set up
an elaborate bugging network, so he had his officers speak in code on
the telephone.

When the general and his aides were invited by the CIA to visit agency
training sites in the United States, the Pakistanis were forced to
wear blindfolds on the flights into the facilities.

Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, CIA officers have arrived in
Islamabad knowing that they will probably depend on the ISI at least
as much as they have depended on any liaison spy service in the past.
Unlike spying in the capitals of Europe, where agency operatives can
blend in to develop a network of informants, only a tiny fraction of
CIA officers can walk the streets of Peshawar unnoticed.

And an even smaller fraction could move freely through the tribal
areas to scoop up useful information about militant networks there.

Even the powerful ISI, which is dominated by Punjabis, the largest
ethnic group in Pakistan, has difficulties collecting information in
the tribal lands, the home of fiercely independent Pashtun tribes. For
this reason, the ISI has long been forced to rely on Pashtun tribal
leaders

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Synthetic Pot: Army's Secret Weapon | Rove Should Go to Jail | Naomi Klein on Of

2008-07-21 Thread RoadsEnd

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Subject: [ctrl] Synthetic Pot: Army's Secret Weapon | Rove Should Go  
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 7/7 Mastermind Allegedly Worked for British Intelligence

2008-07-20 Thread RoadsEnd

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Subject: [ctrl] 7/7 Mastermind Allegedly Worked for British  
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http://www.911blogger.com/node/16727

7/7 Mastermind Allegedly Worked for British Intelligence, Deena
Burnett – Additions to the 9/11 Timeline as of July 20, 2008
( Home » blogs » Kevin Fenton's blog » 7/7 Mastermind... )
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Submitted by Kevin Fenton on Sun, 07/20/2008 - 8:24am.
7/7 London bombings | Deena Burnett | Haroon Rashid Aswat | Mohammad
Sidique Khan

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Most of the new entries in the 9/11 Timeline this week are about the
7/7 London bombings, and in particular the alleged mastermind, Haroon
Rashid Aswat. Aswat recruited militant fighters in London in the late
1990s, when his activities were known to British intelligence. He also
attempted to set up terrorist training camps in the US, but the
Justice Department blocked his indictment on these charges in 2002. He
was falsely thought to have been killed in Afghanistan in 2003,
monitored meeting the leaders of another British plot in 2004, and the
British prevented the US from capturing him in South Africa in 2005.

He called the bombers shortly before the attacks, and the US may have
monitored these calls. Some reports, apparently incorrect, said he had
been arrested in Pakistan following the bombings, although he was
actually captured in Zambia shortly after, at which point the British
authorities showed a surprising lack of interest in him. A
counterterrorism expert then said he had been a long-term British
intelligence asset, and the British failed to charge him upon his
return to Britain, although a British court approved his extradition
to the US in 2006.

Other entries about the London bombings cover Mohammad Sidique Khan,
the lead bomber, who worked with al-Qaeda leaders and received
explosives training in Southeast Asia in 2001, when another of the
bombers was reportedly monitored by the FBI on a visit to the US. Khan
was allegedly stopped from entering the US in 2003, but there is some
dispute over this, and he talked to a key alleged al-Qaeda operative
shortly after. British intelligence monitored Khan and another of the
bombers meeting with another al-Qaeda operative, and Khan again
attended a militant training camp in Pakistan in the winter of 2004-5.

British intelligence investigated Khan again in early 2005, and an FBI
informer urged the bureau to check him out. After the attacks, he was
reported to have received explosives training from al-Qaeda, and his
video will surfaced. Another of the bombers' video wills appeared on
the first anniversary of the attacks, when it was reported that a
mysterious wealthy Briton introduced the bombers to al-Qaeda.

Most of the new day of 9/11 entries focus on calls made by Tom Burnett
from Flight 93 to his wife Deena, who immediately alerted the FBI to
the situation on the plane. The FBI interviewed her in the early
afternoon, but she soon disregarded their instruction not to talk to
the media. United Airlines told her that they did not know whether
Flight 93 had crashed at about 1:30 p.m., although they had publicly
confirmed it had done so shortly before midday.

Otherwise on 9/11, Condoleezza Rice told President Bush not to return
to Washington shortly before 10:00 a.m., and went to the White House
bunker at about 9:45 a.m.. Fifteen minutes after Flight 175 crashed,
United Airlines issued an advisory saying it was an accident, and
American Airlines announced the loss of its two planes after 11:00  
a.m..

Miscellaneous entries cover demands by Vice President Cheney that the
9/11 Commission report be altered shortly before publication and its
subsequent watering down. Osama bin Laden sent a quarter of a million
dollars to the US in the early 1990s, when the CIA was monitoring his
banking operations, the CIA prevented Justice Department investigators
from talking to Abu Zubaida in 2007, and Larry Silverstein wanted over
billion in damages for the WTC in 2008. Finally, the FBI was told to
curtail its 9/11 investigation in early October 2001, DNA tests
indicated the hijackers could be Middle Eastern or possibly European
in 2004, and Karl Rove hinted at using the war of terrorism as a
partisan weapon in 2002.

Originally posted here. Please also bear in mind that the History
Commons

[cia-drugs] Chapter 16 : A conspiracy against ourselves

2008-07-19 Thread RoadsEnd

http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/16a.htm

Chapter 16 : A conspiracy against ourselves

 A lower middle class which has received secondary or even  
university education without being given any corresponding outlet for  
its trained abilities was the backbone of the twentieth century  
Fascist Party in Italy and the National Socialist Party in Germany.  
The demoniac driving force which carried Mussolini and Hitler to power  
was generated out of this intellectual proletariat’s exasperation at  
finding its painful efforts at self-improvement were not sufficient
 — Arnold Toynbee, MA Study of History

Two Social Revolutions Become One

Solve this problem and school will heal itself: children know that  
schooling is not fair, not honest, not driven by integrity. They know  
they are devalued in classes and grades,1 that the institution is  
indifferent to them as individuals. The rhetoric of caring contradicts  
what school procedure and content say, that many children have no  
tolerable future and most have a sharply proscribed one. The problem  
is structural. School has been built to serve a society of  
associations: corporations, institutions, and agencies. Kids know this  
instinctively. How should they feel about it? How should we?

As soon as you break free of the orbit of received wisdom you have  
little trouble figuring out why, in the nature of things, government  
schools and those private schools which imitate the government model  
have to make most children dumb, allowing only a few to escape the  
trap. The problem stems from the structure of our economy and social  
organization. When you start with such pyramid-shaped givens and then  
ask yourself what kind of schooling they would require to maintain  
themselves, any mystery dissipates—these things are inhuman  
conspiracies all right, but not conspiracies of people against people,  
although circumstances make them appear so. School is a conflict  
pitting the needs of social machinery against the needs of the human  
spirit. It is a war of mechanism against flesh and blood, self- 
maintaining social mechanisms that only require human architects to  
get launched.

I’ll bring this down to earth. Try to see that an intricately  
subordinated industrial/commercial system has only limited use for  
hundreds of millions of self-reliant, resourceful readers and critical  
thinkers. In an egalitarian, entrepreneurially based economy of  
confederated families like the one the Amish have or the Mondragon  
folk in the Basque region of Spain, any number of self-reliant people  
can be accommodated usefully, but not in a concentrated command-type  
economy like our own. Where on earth would they fit? In a great  
fanfare of moral fervor some years back, the Ford Motor Company opened  
the world’s most productive auto engine plant in Chihuahua, Mexico. It  
insisted on hiring employees with 50 percent more school training than  
the Mexican norm of six years, but as time passed Ford removed its  
requirements and began to hire school dropouts, training them quite  
well in four to twelve weeks. The hype that education is essential to  
robot-like work was quietly abandoned. Our economy has no adequate  
outlet of expression for its artists, dancers, poets, painters,  
farmers, filmmakers, wildcat business people, handcraft workers,  
whiskey makers, intellectuals, or a thousand other useful human  
enterprises—no outlet except corporate work or fringe slots on the  
periphery of things. Unless you do creative work the company way,  
you run afoul of a host of laws and regulations put on the books to  
control the dangerous products of imagination which can never be  
safely tolerated by a centralized command system.

Before you can reach a point of effectiveness in defending your own  
children or your principles against the assault of blind social  
machinery, you have to stop conspiring against yourself by attempting  
to negotiate with a set of abstract principles and rules which, by its  
nature, cannot respond. Under all its disguises, that is what  
institutional schooling is, an abstraction which has escaped its  
handlers. Nobody can reform it. First you have to realize that human  
values are the stuff of madness to a system; in systems-logic the  
schools we have are already the schools the system needs; the only way  
they could be much improved is to have kids eat, sleep, live, and die  
there.

Schools got the way they were at the start of the twentieth century as  
part of a vast, intensely engineered social revolution in which all  
major institutions were overhauled to work together in harmonious  
managerial efficiency. Ours was to be an improvement on the British  
system, which once depended on a shared upper-class culture for its  
coherence. Ours would be subject to a rational framework of science,  
law, instruction, and mathematically derived merit. When Morgan  
reorganized the American marketplace into a

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents

2008-07-19 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 19, 2008 4:01:08 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bush Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0807/S00187.htm
Bush Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents
Saturday, 19 July 2008, 4:34 pm
Column: Jason Leopold

Bush Asserts Exec Privilege; Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak  
Documents

By Jason Leopold
The Public Record

In the latest twist in the Plame-gate scandal, President George W.
Bush has asserted executive privilege to block release of Vice
President Dick Cheney's interview with a special prosecutor about
possible criminal violations in the leaking of a CIA officer's covert
identity.

Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, promptly
denounced the White House legal reasoning as ludicrous, noting that
executive privilege covers advice that an aide gives the President,
not responses to legal questions posed by a prosecutor about a
possible crime.

Bush applied his broad assertion of executive privilege Wednesday at
the request of Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who earlier had
rebuffed congressional requests for interviews conducted with both
Cheney and Bush about the disclosure of CIA officer Valerie Plame
Wilson's identity.

I am greatly concerned about the chilling effect that compliance with
the [House Oversight] Committee's subpoena would have on future White
House deliberations and White House cooperation with future Justice
Department investigations, Mukasey wrote in a letter to Bush on  
Tuesday.

According to the letter Mukasey sent to Bush, the documents Waxman
subpoenaed from the Justice Department includes Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) reports of the Special Counsel's interviews with
the Vice President and senior White House staff, as well as
handwritten notes taken by FBI agents during some of these interviews.

The subpoena also seeks notes taken by the Deputy National Security
Advisor during conversations with the Vice President and senior White
House officials and other documents provided by the White House to the
Special Counsel during the count of the investigation. Many of the
subpoenaed materials reflect frank and candid deliberations among
senior presidential advisers, including the Vice President, the White
House Chief of Staff, the National Security Advisor, and the White
House Press Secretary.

The deliberations concern a number of sensitive issues, including the
preparation of your January 2003 State of the Union Address, possible
responses to public assertions challenging the accuracy of a statement
in the address, and the decision to send Ms. Plame's husband,
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, to Niger in 2002 to investigate Iraqi
efforts to acquire yellowcake uranium. Some of the subpoenaed
documents also contain information about communications between you
and senior White House officials, Mukasey's letter says.

Since becoming Attorney General in December 2007, Mukasey has balked
at investigating crimes allegedly committed earlier by Bush
administration officials – from torturing detainees to arranging
political prosecutions – a no-look-back approach that drew criticism
from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

In reaction to Bush's assertion of executive privilege, Waxman said
we are not seeking access to the communications between the Vice
President and the President. We are seeking access to the
communications between the Vice President and FBI investigators.

The California Democrat also noted that special prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald told the committee in a July 3 letter that Cheney had met
with the FBI voluntarily and knew his answers could be disclosed at a
public trial.

Mr. Fitzgerald told us that `there were no agreements, conditions and
understandings' that limited Mr. Fitzgerald's use of the interview in
any way, Waxman said. This unfounded assertion of executive
privilege does not protect a principle; it protects a person.

Waxman also accused Mukasey of applying a different standard for a
Republican administration than was applied to its Democratic  
predecessors.

Ten years ago, Waxman said, Attorney General Janet Reno, provided
the Committee the FBI interviews of both President Clinton and Vice
President Gore. Mr. Mukasey decided that a different rule should apply
to Republican presidents than to Democratic presidents.

Actually, the Bush administration's resistance to releasing the
responses from a President and a Vice President in a criminal
proceeding contrasts with precedents for both parties, including the
appearances of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton before
various special prosecutors.

Waxman's committee was scheduled to vote Wednesday to hold Mukasey in
contempt for refusing to comply with the Cheney subpoena. However,
Waxman postponed the vote after Bush's assertion of executive  
privilege.

Long-running Scandal

The Plame-gate affair

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Vanity Fair Editor Arrested at Bohemian Grove

2008-07-19 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:From: Elvo Him [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 19, 2008 8:55:03 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Vanity Fair Editor Arrested at Bohemian GroveReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Police photo of Alex Shoumatoff, Vanity Fair editor and writer, after his arrest earlier this week for trespassing at Bohemian Grove.Vanity Fair Editor Arrested at Bohemian GroveKurt NimmoInfowarsJuly 18, 2008http://www.infowars.com/?p=3468Pat Murphy, San Francisco Sentinel editor and publisher, reports that Vanity Fair writer and editor Alex Shoumatoff was arrested earlier this week for trespassing at “the world famous Bohemian Grove, the exclusive getaway of some of the world’s most powerful men who gather there every year in July for two weeks.” Mr. Murphy pokes fun at Shoumatoff — making light of his weight and Pebble Beach sweater —and then tells us Shoumatoff was writing a story about “the Club’s plans to thin its Douglas fir and diseased oak trees to help prevent the type of forest fires that have swept Big Sur and Northern California,” an assignment he apparently accepted at the behest of Jock Hooper, described by Murphy as “a disgruntled former member of the Bohemian Club.”Mr. Murphy makes a big deal out of Hooper’s “eccentric” concern for trees while completely ignoring a far larger story — the very existence of the “Bohemian Club,” who attends, and what happens there.“Bohemian Grove, a secluded campground in California’s Sonoma County, is the site of an annual two-week gathering of a highly select, all-male club, whose members have included every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge. Current participants include George Bush, Henry Kissinger, James Baker and David Rockefeller —a virtual who’s who of the most powerful men in business and government,” writesFairness  Accuracy In Reporting. “Few journalists have gotten into the Grove and been allowed to tell the tale(one exception is Philip Weiss, whose November 1989 Spy piece provides the most detailed inside account),and members maintain that the goings-on there are not newsworthy events, merely private fun. In fact, official business is conducted there: Policy speeches are regularly made by members and guests, and the club privately boasts that the Manhattan Project was conceived on its grounds.”However, as Alex Jones has starkly revealed, far more sinister things other than “policy speeches” go on at the Grove and that is why journalists such as Dirk Mathison, San Francisco bureau chief for People magazine, are removed. “Mathison’s entree into the secret world of the Grove was cut short on July 20 [1991]…when he was recognized by two of the participants in the festivities — executives from Time Warner, People’s publisher. More loyal to the Grove than to journalistic endeavor, they had the reporter removed from the premises….Time Warner is not the only media corporation with Bohemian connections.Click to join catapultthepropagandahttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenewshttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/joinThe list of Fourth Estate bigwigs who have been members or guests is extensive: Franklin Murphy, the former CEO of the Times Mirror corporation;William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; Jack Howard and Charles Scripps of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain; Tom Johnson, president of CNN and former publisher of the Los Angeles Times.”Clip from Alex Jones’Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian GroveIn other words, a wide array of corporate media bigwigs participate in the “festivities” —which include worship of Luciferianism, the sacrifice of human effigies, arcane Druid ceremonies held before a large stone owl, mystery religion incantations, and other rituals, apparently including sodomy —and that is why journalists are not allowed. For a more in-depth examination of what happens at Bohemian Grove, see the clip here from Alex Jones’Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove.Mathison, however, was lucky to have been simply removed. Chris Jones, webmaster for radio talk show host Jack McLamb, was imprisoned after he infiltrated the Grove as an employee and filmed the facilities. The film footage was used in Alex Jones’ The Order of Death video. “Chris is currently in California jail for showing his neighbors the videos Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove and The Order of Death by Alex Jones. Some of the neighbors were minors which the court ruled as justification for imprisonment,” notes a post on thePrison Planet forum. “Chris was sentenced for three years in the Theo Lacy jail in Orange California. He has been transfered to the Wasco State Prison in California where his life could be in danger.” Obviously, the elite were not amused by Chris Jones’ attempt to reveal the Grove from the inside out.“Outgoing President George W. Bush and both of his presumptive replacements John McCain and Barack Obama are rumored to

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Iraq's Falling Lig Leaf

2008-07-18 Thread RoadsEnd

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Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Please Express Your Opinion

2008-07-14 Thread RoadsEnd

The op ran its course and had its effect. Now it is in the  
background. Might be dredged back up during the current polarization  
cycle.

Peace,
K

On Jul 14, 2008, at 10:18 PM, muckblit wrote:

 Still a bit confusing, sorry. She saw MM at the bank, in the parking
 lot, but she said that SUNOCO is on that same parking lot in the same
 shopping center, but SUNOCO is one mile away, neither bank or SUNOCO
 is in any shopping center at all, and the two businesses are on
 opposite sides of the highway. So much for placing Muhamad at the
 scene. Your opinion so far?

 --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, muckblit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I would like to hear your opinion on one idea.

 John Muhamad of Muhamad and Malvo, DC-area snipers during Iraqwar
 voting, was only tried for one murder, that of Dean Meyers.

 Muhamad only represented himself for part of that trial. While he was
 representing himself, a witness perjured herself to place him at the
 scene of the crime. Muhamad did not attack her testimony.

 What do you think of that?

 The witness was a woman who worked at First Virginia Bank. I put the
 mapquest map in cia-drugs photos, showing that the bank is a mile  
 from
 the crime scene. Why play lawyer yet pass up the opportunity to crush
 a softball and send it over the outfield fence as Matlock or Perry
 Mason?

 By crush a softball, I mean it was this easy. Matlock: You say your
 bank is in the same shopping center as SUNOCO. What is the name of  
 the
 shopping center?

 The bank is not actually in a shopping center

 What is the name of the shopping center SUNOCO is in then?

 SUNOCO is not actually in a shopping center either.

 You said they were in the same shopping center, and then you said
 that neither is actually in any shopping center. Are they in the same
 parking lot?

 No

 Do you realize that your bank is exactly one mile from SUNOCO?

 If you say so

 Your bank and SUNOCO are on opposite sides of six lanes of  
 highway, a
 grass median strip, two sidewalks, and two parking lots. Neither is  
 in
 a shopping center. Did you tell the prosecution before this trial  
 that
 you saw the defendant in the same shopping center where you worked?

 No, they told me to say that

 The prosecution suborned you to perjure yourself by claiming to have
 seen the defendant at the scene of the crime?

 Exactly, yes.

 Were your two co-workers lying here today when they called you a  
 liar
 about events the day of the murder?

 I guess not

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Video: The Most Evil Company on the Planet -- Monsanto

2008-07-10 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: shane_digital [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 9, 2008 9:16:14 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IPCUSA] Video: The Most Evil Company on the Planet --  
Monsanto

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Video: The Most Evil Company on the Planet -- Monsanto

In an interview with The Real News Network, filmmaker Marie-Monique
Robin discussed her recent film 'The World According to Monsanto.' The
documentary exposes Monsanto's controversial practices, which range
from concealing knowledge of toxicity of PCBs to producing genetically
modified seeds and related herbicides.

A Monsanto declassified file stated that we can't afford to lose one
dollar to worries about PCB toxicity. This, Robin says, sums up
Monsanto's philosophy rather well.

Video:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/07/08/tthe-most-evil-company-on-the-planet-monsanto.aspx?source=nl

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Jordan Times: Why the US cannot attack Iran

2008-07-10 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 10, 2008 1:55:33 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Jordan Times: Why the US cannot attack Iran
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20080710033239/SecMain/pagHomepage/chnFeatures%2C%20Analysis%20%26%20Interviews/objC5C3675B-FF61-11D4-867D00D0B74A0D7C/
Why the US cannot attack Iran
Jordan Times
10 July 2008

Iran's Revolutionary Guards conducted military exercises and test
fired medium-range missiles this week after warning that Tel Aviv and
the US naval armada in the Gulf would be targeted if Iran's nuclear
facilities are attacked.

It is significant that the person to issue the warning was Ali
Shirazi, the envoy to the Guards of Supreme Guide, Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, rather than President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has a habit
of making harsh pronouncements.

Khamenei seems to switch between hard- and soft-line comments.
Recently, former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, a close adviser
of Khamenei', called for negotiations with the West on the nuclear
issue. Velayati said that since Iran has secured de facto recognition
of its right to enrich uranium, it can now negotiate from a position
of strength on the proposal put to Tehran by European Union policy
chief Javier Solana. According to this formula, Iran would suspend
enrichment for six weeks while the sides - including the US, which
would join talks at this stage - would reach a deal for a permanent
halt to enrichment and the provision of fuel for Iranian power plants.

It is also important that Guards units took part in the exercises.
Over the past two years, the force, Tehran's elite military formation,
has been playing an increasingly influential and independent role in
Iranian political life. Although the regular military and irregular
groupings like the Basij youth corps and Hizbollah are said to be
aligned with Ahmadinejad, the Guards seem to shift allegiances
according to issues.

While the US and Israel have not ruled out the military option as a
means of preventing Iran from achieving a nuclear weapons capability,
the Bush administration - which has just six months in office - seems
to be cooling to the possibility. Last week, during a visit to Israel,
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made it
clear to Tel Aviv that Israel does not have a US green light to
strike Iran. On his return to Washington, Mullen also stated openly
that an Israeli attack on Iran would be dangerous and could
destabilise the region.

According to Anthony Cordesman, a senior US defence analyst, Mullen
also told Israel it would not have US support if it took military
action. Cordesman said during a visit to Israel that while the US has
contingency plans for attacking Iran, it is unlikely that these plans
would be put into action until a new administration takes office. In
other words, Bush seems to have lost his taste for warfare.

However, Elizabeth Cheney, former principal deputy assistant secretary
of state for Middle East affairs, argued that it is essential for
Tehran to believe the US will use force. Speaking to the conference of
the hawkish American Israel Public Affairs Committee, she said that
the time for diplomacy is rapidly coming to an end. She all too
clearly remains in the threat mode. Apropos Mullen's pronouncement,
she criticised as counterproductive statements by those who say that
force is not an option. However, regional analysts argue that the US
public, deeply disturbed by the ongoing Iraq war, is not prepared to
bomb or invade Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon
which Tehran says is not the object of its enrichment programme.

The Iranian position is backed up by last December's National
Intelligence Estimate, which revealed that Iran is not at present
trying to enrich uranium to the high levels required by nuclear  
weapons.

Clearly Cheney Junior, who follows closely in the footsteps of her
neoconservative father, Vice President Dick Cheney, is ignoring the
risks of either a US or Israeli attack on Iran. Tehran would be likely
to retaliate by cutting its oil exports, now at 2 million barrels a
day, and closing the Hormuz Strait, thereby disrupting the flow of 40
per cent of the world's oil from the Gulf to markets. This would send
the price of a barrel of oil soaring over the current $144 per barrel
and, perhaps, even double it. A spike of such magnitude could plunge
the global economy into a steep recession which would take a serious
toll on the wealthy West, as well as the impoverished east and south.
The dollar would fall further than it has already. Developing
countries would be thrown into major economic crisis, which could have
negative long-term repercussions for the international community.

While the Cheneys and their ilk remain influential in the Bush
administration, they would have to persuade George W. Bush of the
wisdom of the malign and destabilising course they

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The Spying Started Before September 11 -- That's The Whole Point

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 8, 2008 7:43:44 AM PDT
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Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Spying Started Before September 11 -- That's  
The Whole Point

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080706/cm_huffpost/111023;_ylt=A0WTUZRAi3JIPQQAAB_9wxIF

 The Spying Started /Before/ September 11 -- That's The Whole /Point/

Dave Johnson/Sun Jul 6, 7:30 PM ET/

In the LA Times today, A Good-Enough Spy Law says,
In the aftermath of Sept. 11, the White House directed
telecommunications carriers to cooperate with its efforts to bolster
intelligence gathering and surveillance -- the administration's effort
to do a better job of connecting the dots to prevent terrorist  
attacks.

No, it started a few weeks after Bush took office -- a time when the
Bush administration was ignoring the terrorist threat. So it was about
something else, and was a high enough priority to plan out during the
transition. (Can you say political spying?)

One telecom company, Qwest, refused because it was flat-out illegal.  
The
Bush administration punished them, blocked federal contracts, and in  
an

early indicator of what was to come from the politicized Bush Justice
Department, they prosecuted Qwest's CEO on trumped-up charges.

The combination of the telecoms letting Bush illegally spy on us  
BEFORE
September 11, and the politicized Bush Justice Department punishing  
the
company that refused -- refused because it was illegal -- is the  
reason
so many of us are so adamant that Democrats should not be passing a  
law

giving these companies immunity. The president can't spy on people
without warrants, and the telecoms knew that. They knew it was illegal
to spy on us without warrants but they went along with it. Why? Why
didn't they ask the Bush administration to just get warrants? And why
would Democrats vote to let them off the hook?

Don't forget that Watergate was about Republicans illegally  
wiretapping

Democrats. Don 't think they don't do it.

[note- NY Times link added after posting]

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The outsourcing of intelligence--US

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From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: July 8, 2008 7:49:09 AM PDT
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http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_27481.shtml
The outsourcing of intelligence--US
By Tim Shorrock
Jul 7, 2008, 12:20

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(FederalTimes.com) http://federaltimes.com/index.php?M=aboutus* -*  
In

the aftermath of Sept.11, Vice President Dick Cheney famously warned
that the war on terrorism would be fought on “the dark side, if you
will,” using “sources and methods that are available to our  
intelligence

agencies.” Few expected those tactics would include torture, secret
prisons and the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of
U.S. persons. And fewer had any idea this work would be carried out by
private corporations working under contract to the U.S. government.

As I’ve reported in a new book, an astounding 70 percent of the U.S.
intelligence budget is spent on private contracts. With the post-Sept.
11 hikes in intelligence spending, spying for hire has become an
industry worth nearly $50 billion a year. Contractors perform a  
range of
classified activities once reserved for government employees,  
including

running covert operations, analyzing intercepted telephone calls and
writing reports that are passed up the line to the president and his
security advisers.

Contractors are essential personnel at many agencies, ranging from 35
percent of the work force at the Defense Intelligence Agency to 95
percent at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), the super-secret
agency that operates military spy satellites and the ground stations
that analyze satellite intelligence and imagery.
Among the recent migrants to the spy business are former CIA Director
George Tenet and Stephen Cambone, the former undersecretary of Defense
for intelligence. Below them are thousands of former operatives who  
have

gone into industry, where many perform the same tasks they once
performed for government.

In May, the Government Accountability Office reported that 2,435  
former

senior Pentagon officials had gone to work for 52 defense contractors,
with 65 percent of them landing at seven key intelligence contractors:
Science Applications International Corp., Northrop Grumman, Booz Allen
Hamilton, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and
Raytheon. Of that total, GAO said, 422, or nearly a third, handle
contracts related to their former agencies, while nine work on  
contracts

over which they held oversight and decision-making authority while in
government. Such a system is ripe for conflicts of interest and  
corruption.

But as outsourcing has expanded, oversight has fallen behind.  
According

to a 2007 report from the House Intelligence Committee, the Bush
administration has yet to develop a “clear definition of what  
functions

are ‘inherently governmental’ and which ones can be safely outsourced
without endangering national security. That helps explain what went
wrong at Abu Ghraib, where information technology contractors were
deeply involved in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners — a role in which they
should never have been placed.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General recently told
Congress that as defense spending has risen, the number of IG auditors
has dropped from one for every $642 million in spending to one for  
every
$2 billion. As a result, the IG’s ability to provide oversight has  
been

significantly reduced at key collection agencies, which are highly
dependent on contractors.

Intelligence spending bills before the House and Senate require that
contracting be cut back significantly and, for the first time,  
establish

guidelines for tasks that should remain in government hands. Under the
bills, for example, contractors would be banned from involvement in  
CIA

interrogations of enemy prisoners.

These measures, while important, barely begin to deal with the  
problems

posed by outsourcing. Congress should use its investigative powers to
determine what contractors have done for controversial intelligence
programs. What role did intelligence contractors play in the National
Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping program, which lasted from
2001 to 2007? Who is responsible for the huge cost overruns at NSA?  
The
American people deserve to know, particularly in the era of the  
“dark side.”

*/Tim Shorrock/*/ is the author of “Spies for Hire: The Secret World  
of

Intelligence Outsourcing,” published by Simon  Schuster./

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Busted:British Police Agent Provocateur at Anti-Bush Rally

Begin forwarded message:From: elvis oner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 8, 2008 9:27:28 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Busted:British Police Agent Provocateur at Anti-Bush RallyReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Busted: British Police Agent Provocateur at Anti-Bush Rallyhttp://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2008/07/laffair-dreyfus-gorgeous-george-doesnt.htmlL'affair Dreyfus, Gorgeous George doesn't sayJ'accusewhich is French and so isagent provocateursStephiblogreprints a letter (not French) fromGeorge GallowaytoJacqui Smiththe kebab fetishist Home Secretary identifying anInspector Chris Dreyfusas anagent provocateurat the anti Bush Rally described byYasmin Whittaker-Khanin theMail on Sunday 22nd June . "Was 'friend' who yelled abuse at police on anti-war demo a stooge or a thug, asks writer""This man" , says George, showing his age by the changing fashions of street argot,"This man, to my direct knowledge, committed four criminal offences during the 30 minutes or so he stood next to me. First, he repeatedly chanted the arcane, antiquated Americana, “Kill the pigs!” This is a clear incitement etc ., etc.,which you can read for yourself.He concludes ..."It now seems that what happened was a deliberate conspiracy to bring about scenes of violent disorder, seen around the world and for purposes on which we can only speculate." ... cause enough to lock him up and spend the next 28 days assembling a case of terrorism, utlising the whole range of Police still photographs and video taken by Police evidence gatherersbut then of courseif he isn't a policeman... the IPCC couldn't possibly investigate.Not all men who have truncheons and helmets in their trousers are Policemen.Curious how the national Press have remained silent on this one, or is the Lord Patel worldwide news gathering service falling down again.?They were not previously silent when theSoaraway Sunprinted news of this wonderful Plod revealing his Face book page and invitations for gay sex and for people to “bite, grope, lick or spank” him.Remarkably (in the light of his activities in Whitehall on the anti-bush march) the Sun says this chappie , "Insp Dreyfus used to head the Transport Police’s Counter-Terrorism Proactive Unit.He was in charge of 30 officers and was on the frontline at King’s Cross during the July 7 suicide attacks in 2005. " Stable paper theTimesraking over the ordure also carried the story of his "gay" lifestyle at the time.=
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Existentialist Cowboy: The Psychopathic Origins of Bush/GOP Wars, Torture, and Injustice

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