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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, 2008  http://www.infowars.com/?p=3468  Pat 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 catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join   The 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 Grove   In 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 the Prison 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 repla

[cia-drugs] James Norman, author of Oil Card on Radio Today 2 pm EDT

James Norman, author of Oil Card on Radio Today 2 pm Eastern

James Norman presents his controversial thesis as to why oil prices  
have been at record levels. Global Economic warfare. the oil company  
majors along with the connivence of the Saudis, the US government and  
other entities have driven up the price of oil to keep the Chinese  
economy down. The same players did similiar to USSR in the 80's, but  
then the players keep the price artificially low.

This is the same James Norman that wrote and broke the Fostergate  
story. And wrote the article that started the exposure of Enron.

http://www.carconcerns.blogspot.com/

On right hand side of page under picture of host Harry, Blue box says  
"Talk Shoe" Live at 2pm Eastern

Peace,
Kris

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush Blocks DOJ From Releasing CIA Leak Documents

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Date: July 19, 2008 4:01:08 AM PDT
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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

[cia-drugs] Chapter 16 : A conspiracy against ourselves

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

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Iraq's Falling Lig Leaf

2008-07-18 Thread RoadsEnd

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Subject: Iraq's Falling Lig Leaf
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The Bush administration's cool reaction to Iraq's call for a U.S.  
withdrawal timetable has stripped away some of the nice-sounding  
rationales for the war, as former CIA analyst Peter W. Dickson notes.

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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 M&M 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"
>>
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/message/44045
>>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/
>
> Please let us stay on topic and be civil.
>
> OM
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

[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 cours

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Video: The Most Evil Company on the Planet -- Monsanto

2008-07-10 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

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

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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: R.I.P. -- the 4th Amendment & the Rule of Law

Begin forwarded message:From: APFN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 9, 2008 3:12:51 PM PDTTo: APFN Yahoogroups <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, APFN GOOGLE GROUP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LEAK-GATE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: R.I.P. -- the 4th Amendment & the Rule of Law Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   R.I.P. -- the 4th Amendment & the Rule of Law  http://disc.yourwebapps.com/Indices/149495.html  The Great American Crash —  The Great American Crash "Off to Never, Neverland... " The party is over. The crash and destruction of  America is near at hand. Last year in 2007,  CLICK: YOUTUBE: V for Vendetta: I'm the Resister=

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Existentialist Cowboy: The Psychopathic Origins of Bush/GOP Wars, Torture, and Injustice

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Subject: [ctrl] The Existentialist Cowboy: The Psychopathic Origins  
of Bush/GOP Wars, Torture, and Injustice

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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 say J'accusewhich is French and so is agent provocateurs  Stephiblog reprints a letter (not French) from George Galloway to Jacqui Smith the kebab fetishist Home Secretary identifying an Inspector Chris Dreyfus as an agent provocateur at the anti Bush Rally described by Yasmin Whittaker-Khan in the Mail 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 course if 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 the Soaraway Sun printed 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 the Times raking over the ordure also carried the story of his "gay" lifestyle at the time. =
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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
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] The outsourcing of intelligence--US
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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) * -*  
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: [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
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Spying Started Before September 11 -- That's  
The Whole Point

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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: [narconews] Bricker: Miami-Based Company Led Torture Training for Mexican Police

2008-07-07 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: "David B. Briones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 7, 2008 9:44:53 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [narconews] Bricker: Miami-Based Company Led Torture  
Training for Mexican Police

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

 July 7, 2008
Please Distribute Widely

Last week Narco News reported on a private contracting firm –then  
identified as being from the US – leading the training of Mexican  
police in the techniques of torture. The Mexican government has  
denied any wrongdoing in the matter, and even defended the program.

Narco News’ Kristin Bricker has discovered more important details  
about the identity of the private contracting firm involved: Risks  
Incorporated of Miami, Florida and Great Britain. One of the  
trainers, Narco News has learned, is a member of the Cuban terrorist  
organization Comandos F4.

Bricker reports:

“Risks Incorporated has a Miami telephone number, which could  
explain why Mexican officials stated that the company they  
contracted to lead the torture training was a ‘US private security  
company.’ Both individuals, according to information obtained and  
confirmed by Narco News, are Risks Incorporated employees.

“…The man identified as Jerry Wilson… also appears in a Risks  
Incorporated promotional video available on its website. He wears  
the same clothing and sunglasses in both the Risks Incorporated  
promotional video and the leaked León torture training video…  
Furthermore, the very first still shot in the promotional video  
shows the exact same terrain and foliage that appears in the leaked  
torture video, and León police pick-up trucks appear in both videos.

“…Mexican authorities and media identified the second man  
responsible for the León torture trainings as Gerardo Arrechea, a  
Cuban-Mexican martial arts champion and soap opera stunt man who  
runs the Free Fight Academy with trainings available in Mexico  
state, Puebla, Morelos, and Chiapas. Free Fight Academy's website,  
which was removed from the internet after the torture training video  
scandal broke, bragged that, amongst other achievements, Arrechea is  
a third-degree black belt in Doce Pares Eskrima (a martial art  
focused on fighting with sticks), 1996 Eskrima Filipino WEKAF  
champion of Mexico, and 1999 May Thai (kickboxing) Association  
champion of Mexico.”

Bricker offers complete archives of all the connections of Wilson  
and Arrechea to Risks Inc., including photographs and other details  
about the company, online at Narco News. Also on Narco News, find  
other news on Latin America, including reports on the recent hostage  
rescue in Colombia:

http://www.narconews.com

From somewhere in a country called América,

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Federal Reserve may go belly up

2008-07-06 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 4, 2008 5:29:39 PM PDT
To: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Federal Reserve may go belly up

- Original Message -
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: The Federal Reserve may go belly up

Source:
SPIEGEL ONLINE
http://www.spiegel.de/

The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-562291,00.html

06/26/2008

By Gabor Steingart in Washington
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United  
States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation by the  
International Monetary Fund. Just one more example of the Fed losing  
its power.
The United States Federal Reserve Bank, or Fed, seems as much a part  
of America as Coca-Cola or Pizza Hut. But at least one difference  
has become apparent in recent days. While the pizza chain and soft- 
drink maker are likely to expand their scope of influence in the age  
of globalization, the US central bank is finding that its power is  
shrinking.
No Fed chief in US history has been forced to submit to the kind of  
humiliation that Ben Bernanke is facing.
This is partly down to circumstances. Inflation is going up and up,  
and this year's average will likely top 4 percent. But this time Mr.  
Dollar is also Mr. Powerless. He can raise interest rates in the  
fall, or he can pray, which would probably be the better choice. At  
least prayer would not prevent the US economy from growing, a highly  
likely outcome if interest rates go up.
After years of growth, the United States is now on the brink of a  
recession, one that is more likely to be deepened than softened by a  
tight money policy. Investments will automatically become more  
expensive, consumer spending will be curbed and economic growth will  
slow down, immediately affecting unemployment figures and wages.
The textbook conclusion is that this will stabilize the value of  
money, because no one will dare demand higher wages or higher  
prices. But the macroeconomics textbooks are no longer worth much in  
the age of globalization. Modern inflation is driven by the global  
scarcity of resources. Nowadays purchasing power exceeds purchasing  
opportunity. Most of all, there is not enough oil, and too few raw  
materials and food products. These increasingly scarce resources are  
becoming the focus of disputes among many people and billions of  
dollars are at stake.
This is why the price of a barrel of crude oil (159 liters) has  
increased from $25 (€16) in 2002 to $135 (€87) in 2008. And it is  
also why the price of corn has tripled in the same time period,  
while that of copper has almost quintupled.
If the inflation introduced in the United States is excluded, a  
small miracle is revealed, namely something approaching price  
stability. Adjusted for inflation, prices are in fact rising by only  
2.3 percent. If this were the extent of it, the Fed chief could  
simply blink like an old watchdog and go back to sleep. Instead, he  
is barking loudly, which is his job. But he has lost his bite,  
because the Fed's interest rate policy can do nothing about the  
scarcity of goods.

US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The entire US financial  
system is to come under the scrutiny of the IMF

Embarrassing Investigation

Some of Bernanke's personal adversaries are also contributing  
significantly to his current humiliation. In the past, the chairman  
of the Federal Reserve was a pope among the priests of the financial  
elite. But unlike his predecessor Alan Greenspan, Bernanke is  
finding that his policies are not universally accepted, even within  
the Fed.

The last seven decisions reached by the Federal Open Market  
Committee, which sets monetary policy, were accompanied by a growing  
number of dissenting votes. Bernanke's critics say that with his  
policy of cheap money -- in other words, recurring rate reductions  
-- he in fact helped fuel the inflation problem he is now trying to  
combat.

Another problem for Mr. Dollar is that it will be several months  
before his actions take effect. Officials with the International  
Monetary Fund (IMF) have informed Bernanke about a plan that would  
have been unheard-of in the past: a general examination of the US  
financial system. The IMF's board of directors has ruled that a so- 
called Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP) is to be carried  
out in the United States. It is nothing less than an X-ray of the  
entire US financial system.

As part of the assessment, the Fed, the Securities and Exchange  
Commission (SEC), the major investment banks, mortgage banks and  
hedge funds will be asked to hand over confidential documents to the  
IMF team. They will be required to answer the questions they are  
asked during interviews. Their databases will be subjected to so- 
called stress tests -- worst-case scenarios designed to simulate the  
broad

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] AlterNet: Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market

2008-07-06 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: Alamaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 6, 2008 12:17:47 PM PDT
To: CTRL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ctrl] AlterNet: Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring  
Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Big Pharma Is in a Frenzy to Bring Cannabis-Based Medicines to Market
By Paul Armentano, AlterNet
Posted on July 5, 2008, Printed on July 6, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/90469/

The US government's longstanding denial of medical marijuana  
research and
use is an irrational and morally bankrupt public policy. On this  
point,

few Americans disagree. As for the question of "why" federal officials
maintain this inflexible and inhumane policy, well that's another  
story

One of the more popular theories seeking to explain the Feds'  
seemingly
inexplicable ban on medical pot goes like this: Neither the US  
government

nor the pharmaceutical industry will allow for the use of medical
marijuana because they can't patent it or profit from it.

It's an appealing theory, yet I've found it to be neither accurate nor
persuasive. Here's why.

First, let me state the obvious. Big Pharma is busily applying for  
-- and

has already received -- multiple patents for the medical properties of
pot. These include patents for synthetic pot derivatives (such as  
the oral
THC pill Marinol), cannabinoid agonists (synthetic agents that bind  
to the
brain's endocannabinoid receptors) like HU-210 and cannabis  
antagonists

such as Rimonabant. This trend was most recently summarized in the NIH
paper (pdf), "The endocannabinoid system as an emerging target of
pharmacotherapy," which concluded, "The growing interest in the  
underlying
science has been matched by a growth in the number of cannabinoid  
drugs in

pharmaceutical development from two in 1995 to 27 in 2004." In other
words, at the same time the American Medical Association is  
proclaiming
that pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is in a frenzy to bring  
dozens

of new, cannabis-based medicines to market.

Not all of these medicines will be synthetic pills either. Most  
notably,

GW Pharmaceutical's oral marijuana spray, Sativex, is a patented
standardized dose of natural cannabis extracts. (The extracts,  
primarily
THC and the non-psychoactive, anxiolytic compound CBD, are taken  
directly

from marijuana plants grown at an undisclosed, company warehouse.)

Does Big Pharma's sudden and growing interest in the research and
development of pot-based medicines mean that the industry is  
proactively
supporting marijuana prohibition? Not if they know what's good for  
them.

Let me explain.

First, any and all cannabis-based medicines must be granted approval  
from
federal regulatory bodies such as the US Food and Drug  
Administration -- a

process that remains as much based on politics as it is on scientific
merit. Chances are that a government that is unreasonably hostile  
toward
the marijuana plant will also be unreasonably hostile toward  
sanctioning

cannabis-based pharmaceuticals.

A recent example of this may be found in the Medicine and Health  
Products
Regulatory Agency's recent denial of Sativex as a prescription drug  
in the
United Kingdom. (Sativex's parent company, GW Pharmaceuticals, is  
based in

London.) In recent years, British politicians have taken an atypically
hard-line against the recreational use of marijuana -- culminating in
Prime Minister Gordon Brown's declaration that today's pot is now of
"lethal quality." (Shortly thereafter, Parliament elected to stiffen
criminal penalties on the possession of the drug from a verbal  
warning to
up to five years in jail.) In such an environment is it any wonder  
that

British regulators have steadfastly refused to legalize a pot-based
medicine, even one with an impeccable safety record like Sativex?
Conversely, Canadian health regulators -- who take a much more liberal
view toward the use of natural cannabis and oversee its distribution  
to
authorized patients -- recently approved Sativex as a prescription  
drug.

Of course, gaining regulatory approval is only half the battle. The  
real
hurdle for Big Pharma is finding customers for its product. Here  
again, a
culture that is familiar with and educated to the use therapeutic  
cannabis
is likely going to be far more open to the use of pot-based  
medicines than

a population still stuck in the grip of "Reefer Madness."

Will those patients who already have first-hand experience with the  
use of

medical pot switch to a cannabis-based pharmaceutical if one becomes
legally available? Maybe not, but these individuals comprise only a
fraction of the US population. Certainly many others will -- including
many older patients who would never the desire to try or the access to
obtain natural cannabis. Bottom line: regardless of whether pot is  
legal
or not, cannabis-based pharmaceuticals will no doubt have a broad  
appeal.

But wouldn't the legal availability of pot encourage patient

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush-Cheney Crony Got Iraq Oil Deal

2008-07-06 Thread RoadsEnd

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From: "Consortiumnews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: July 5, 2008 8:32:04 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bush-Cheney Crony Got Iraq Oil Deal
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Oilman Ray Hunt had close ties to the Bush family and Dick Cheney  
dating back years, giving him an important leg up in landing a  
controversial oil deal with Iraq's Kurdistan regional government.

For the full story, go to Consortiumnews.com.

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[cia-drugs] MadCowMorningNews

2008-06-23 Thread RoadsEnd

http://madcowprod.com/

An American turbo-prop airplane went down in Venezuela last month, the  
second such incident in the past 45 days, the MadCowMorningNews has  
learned.

After making an emergency landing at the International Airport José  
Tadeo Monagas in Maturin, Venezuela, the pilot and co-pilot of the  
American-registered twin-engine Piper Cheyenne (N395CA) bailed out of  
the plane, leaving it sitting in the middle of a runway as they  
sprinted for the airport fence.  Onboard were 28 suitcases stuffed  
with 700 kilos of cocaine, and 14 empty cans of fuel.

The busted drug flight joined a second American plane, also suspected  
of drug trafficking, and registered to a Houston firm widely thought  
to serve as a front to hide CIA planes, which was involved in a fiery  
crash near Caracas on April 28 that made international headlines.

One of the dead passengers onboard was revealed to be Alfredo Anzola,  
a 34-year old software engineer for a controversial Chavez-connected  
election company whose election code remains embedded in thousands of  
electronic voting machines in the U.S.
Full story



The Guyanese pilot implicated by a former Customs agent as part of a  
ring of corrupt Customs officials being investigated by the Dept. of  
Homeland Security was in the news again recently as part of another  
scandal, this time in his native Guyana.

Michael Francis Brassington, whose name is a footnote in the 9/11  
investigation, was named in a procurement scandal over the disputed  
purchase by the Guyana Defense Forces of two antique 30-year old  
helicopters from a 'dummy' company in Delaware that sounds  
suspiciously like a front for the CIA, the ironically-named "Global X  
Group".

While researching pilot Brassington's involvement in the Guyana  
scandal, we were astonished to discover that Brassington's father  
(also named Michael Brassington) has close business ties with one of  
the most notorious oligarchs in the Russian Mob, Oleg Deripaska, the  
"last man standing" in the brutal Aluminum Wars in Russia during the  
1990's for control of that strategic resource.

This information is important to a full understanding of the 9/11  
attack. Brassington's name surfaced in connection with 9/11 because he  
had been the co-pilot on the drug-running Lear jet (N351WB) owned by  
Wallace J. Hilliard (right). Hilliard also—and not coincidentally— 
owned the Venice FL flight school where Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al- 
Shehhi were at the time learning to fly.
Full story

One week after the crash outside Caracas, Venezuela of a twin-engine  
Piper Navajo (N6463L), an air of intrigue surrounds almost everything  
about the flight, including the plane's ownership, passengers, and  
pilot.

Woven into one small story about a plane crash in Venezuela that  
killed seven people are visible threads from two perennial American  
cover-ups: one surrounding vote fraud, and one covering-up the CIA's  
role in drug trafficking.

For anyone interested in the news that gets left out of the newspaper,  
its' a Perfect Storm. The Mother of All Scandals.

The downed plane's relevance to the ongoing story of vote fraud in  
America involves the identity of it's passenger, Jose Alfredo Anzola,  
a 34-year old founder of Smartmatic, a Venezuela-based election  
company whose American subsidiary counted one in every three votes in  
the 2004 Presidential election, while engaged the whole time in heated  
controversy over allegations the firm counting America's votes had  
hidden ties to—of all people— Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.

The connection between last week's plane crash and the ongoing saga of  
CIA Drug trafficking begins 43-year old Mario Donadi Gafaro, the  
veteran drug pilot at the controls of the twin engine plane.
Full story


Reporter threatened with being "cluster-sued!"


The biggest fish busted so far in the laundered-drug-money-for- 
American-planes scheme used by Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel to  
purchase 100 airplanes in the U.S. has cut a secret deal with federal  
prosecutors in Miami, and agreed to testify against others involved,  
the MadCowMorningNews has learned.

The news is one of a series of recent developments in the scandal,  
which erupted in the wake of the massive drug hauls seized on two drug  
planes busted in Mexico’s Yucatan just eighteen months apart carrying,  
between them, more than ten tons of cocaine.

Also last week, a federal judge in Mexico City ordered the extradition  
to the U.S. of Pedro Alatorre Damy, identified by the DEA and the  
Attorney General of Mexico as the main money launderer for Joaquin  
Guzman, “El Chapo,” leader of the Sinaloa cartel.

And in another development which hits close to home (at least for this  
reporter) the MadCowMorningNews has been contacted by attorneys for  
two figures in the case.  Both are threatening lawsuits.

Imagine our surprise.

Full story



Republican Operative Led Organized Crime Ring

An organized crime r

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2008-06-20 Thread RoadsEnd

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Bush Pardons HIMSELF of all war crimes.

2008-06-19 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Ed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 19, 2008 8:19:38 PM PDT
To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@mx.terabolic.com>
Subject: [ctrl] Bush Pardons HIMSELF of all war crimes.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bush Pardons HIMSELF of all war crimes. The bill gives himself and  
his staff retroactive immunity for possible war crimes that date  
back to 9/11/2001...go figure

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[cia-drugs] Soros' destabilization of the Balkans: Creating a haven for drug trafficking

2008-06-18 Thread RoadsEnd

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080603

June 3, 2008 -- Soros' destabilization of the Balkans: Creating a  
haven for drug trafficking
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June 3, 2008 -- Soros' destabilization of the Balkans: Creating a  
haven for drug trafficking

George Soros, the multi-billionaire funder of progressive causes, has  
made no secret of his desire for drug legalization. The wish has made  
Soros a darling for not only progressives but libertarians as well.  
However, according to FBI sources, Soros' support for the  
destabilization of the Balkans, particularly the cause of Kosovo's  
independence, has enabled drug trafficking in the region to increase  
exponentially. FBI intercepts of Turkish and Albanian intercepts have  
shown collusion between certain Western "pro-democracy" non- 
governmental organizations (NGOs) and the Kosovo drug trade.

Soros' Open Society Institute (OSI) and his stewardship of Radio Free  
Europe/Radio Liberty helped elevate, with the help of then-Secretary  
of State Madeleine Albright, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader  
Hashim Thaci from terrorist thug and drug and arms smuggler to Prime  
Minister of an independent Kosovo. Kosovo, along with Israel and Greek  
Cyprus, now plays host to organized criminal syndicates from around  
the world, particularly elements of the Russian-Israeli mafia and its  
affiliates.

Independent Kosovo now serves as an important hub for the distribution  
of heroin from Afghanistan and cocaine from Colombia (mostly via  
Guinea-Bissau in West Africa). Afghanistan and Colombia are both  
surrogates of the United States and examples of the marquis  
"democratization" pushed by OSI and Freedom House and the  
International Crisis Group, other contrivances funded by Soros. The  
Albanian government, also enmeshed in drug smuggling, provides  
important diplomatic and political cover for the Kosovo criminal  
syndicates.

Kosovo-based narco-terrorists now threaten neighboring countries.  
Recent violence in Macedonia's election can be traced to Albanian  
Kosovo-based provocateurs who have been able to stir up Albanian  
minority passions thanks to Soros' insistence that Albanian be granted  
second official language status in largely Slavic Macedonia.  
Montenegro is similarly plagued by Kosovo Albanian smugglers who  
operate freely from the southern part of that nation.








Comments

2 tut anon (usa)
 If Soros supports "drug legalization", that's unusual for someone  
who's purportedly making money from the drug trade, which is usually  
thought to flourish only when drugs are illegal.

2 tut anon (usa)
 I've just skimmed through the previous posts and comments on the  
Soros story. Readers of this site might take a look at "A Brief  
History of Neoliberalism", by David Harvey. Neoliberalism is the  
theoretical under-pinning of a broad trend in capitalism over the last  
thirty years, which includes de-regulation of private business, trade  
and financial transactions, privatization of public resources,  
shrinking of government services and the social safety net, and many  
specific forms of "vulture capitalism", creative destruction,  
"disaster capitalism", etc. This global movement was a response to  
shrinking profits and markets that started in the seventies, was  
prompted by the squawks of individual business and financial  
interests, followed by the rationalizations of think tanks, and  
eventually melded together in an ideology which political figures  
could sell to their constituents (e.g., Thatcher and Reagan).

 As Kait and others point out, in this broad economic trend, Soros  
is simply one of many players (possibly an early one, an "innovator",  
or possibly just an opportunist, like Milken or the hedge-fund guys.)  
My point is, the phenomenon of neo-liberalism (or vulture capitalism)  
is a broad, economic one, not the creation of any individual.

Marlys (Seattle)
 and the rich get richer and somehow that means they know what's  
best for the rest of us.

nierika (San Diego, CA)

 George Soros on the US Greenback

 BBC - George Soros on the financial crisis March 2008

 Oil prices: George Soros warns that speculators could trigger  
stock market crash

 Guardian UK
 Graeme Wearden
 June 3 2008

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jun/03/commodities

 George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager, will warn later  
today that the oil price has become a bubble that could trigger a  
stock market crash

 The Financial Times reported today that Soros will tell the US  
Senate commerce committee that oil was pushed to its recent all-time  
peak of $135 a barrel by a new wave of speculators

 He believes that the doubling in the price over the last year is  
partly due to investment institutions, such as pension funds, who are  
pumping money into indexes that track the cost of crude

 According to the FT

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] U.S. banks may need $65 bln new capital: Goldman

2008-06-18 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Daniel Glover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 17, 2008 11:39:47 PM PDT
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>

Subject: [IPCUSA] U.S. banks may need $65 bln new capital: Goldman
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

U.S. banks may need $65 bln new capital: Goldman

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080617/bs_nm/banks_capital_goldman_dc_1

By Jonathan Stempel Tue Jun 17, 3:35 PM ET

BANGALORE (Reuters) - U.S. banks may need to raise $65 billion of  
additional
capital to cope with mounting losses from a global credit crisis  
that will
not peak until 2009, Goldman Sachs & Co (GS.N) analysts said on  
Tuesday.

ADVERTISEMENT

The new capital would be on top of $120 billion already raised by the
industry, analysts led by Richard Ramsden said.

"Banks will not turn until a peak in credit costs is in sight," the  
analysts
wrote. "Moreover, weaker banks are unlikely to benefit from  
consolidation as
bank deals always slow when credit is deteriorating and larger banks  
are
hamstrung by their own problem assets as well as accounting  
requirements."

Goldman said it lowered its price targets for 14 banking companies  
and cut

its 2008 earnings-per-share forecasts for 11.

Among the banks for which Goldman cut both are BB&T Corp (BBT.N), PNC
Financial Services Group Inc (PNC.N), SunTrust Banks Inc (STI.N), U.S.
Bancorp (USB.N) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N).

Goldman also lowered its price targets for Wachovia Corp (WB.N) and
Washington Mutual Inc (WM.N), and its earnings outlook for Bank of  
America

Corp (BAC.N).

In afternoon trading, the 24-member KBW Bank Index (.BKX) was down 3.2
percent, while the 50-member KBW Regional Bank Index (.KRX) dropped  
2.6
percent. These contributed to declines in broader market indexes as  
well.

Zions Bancorp (ZION.O), a Salt Lake City-based bank, fell as much as  
12.8
percent after projecting higher nonperforming assets and saying  
weakness in

residential construction and land values in the U.S. Southwest should
persist into 2009. Goldman also cut Zions' price target and earnings
forecast.

Lenders have raised capital to help combat a surge in problem loans.  
Among

those to raise the most were Citigroup Inc (C.N), Wachovia, Washington
Mutual and National City Corp (NCC.N), which this year each raised  
at least

$7 billion.

Problem loans were once concentrated in subprime mortgages. They have,
however, been spreading to other types of lending, including prime
mortgages, home equity loans, commercial real estate and  
construction loans,

auto loans and credit cards.

BANKS SET ASIDE $86 BILLION

The Goldman analysts estimated that U.S. banks and thrifts have set  
aside
$86 billion for loan losses in the three quarters since the credit  
crisis

began.

They said the weak housing market drove the deterioration and that  
home
prices will likely keep falling all year. It expects credit losses  
to peak
in the first quarter of 2009, when the rate of charge-offs may be 46  
percent

higher than a year earlier.

Worries about credit losses have driven down banks' share prices.  
This has

caused paper losses for many investors who infused capital into the
industry, including many private equity firms and sovereign wealth  
funds.

Much of this capital has come from offerings of common stock or  
convertible
preferred shares. Goldman said further attempts to raise capital may  
prove

even more costly for shareholders.

"Capital raising becomes harder," the analysts wrote. "Only four out  
of 42
deals we track are in-the-money so far. This will make the next  
round of

deals harder and more expensive."

Through Monday, the KBW bank and regional bank indexes were down a
respective 23.7 percent and 21 percent this year. The Standard &  
Poor's 500

index (.SPX) was down 7.4 percent.

(Editing by Andre Grenon, Phil Berlowitz)

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Jail Time for Tenet?

2008-06-11 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Consortiumnews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 11, 2008 10:26:05 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Jail Time for Tenet?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If the U.S. political landscape shifts next year, former CIA  
Director George Tenet may face legal questions about his service to  
George W. Bush, including -- as former CIA analyst Ray McGovern  
notes -- Tenet's cover-up of how Bush bungled the pre-9/11 warnings.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [truthabout911] Psychopathic Rule

2008-06-11 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "seveneasypeaces" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 11, 2008 6:40:03 AM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [truthabout911] Psychopathic Rule
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Leaders With No Conscience
By Rand Clifford
10 June, 2008
http://www.Countercurrents.org

As Osama bin Laden lay dying, December of 2001...might he have
imagined that seven years later he would be on bogeyman life-support,
still officially issuing messages as ruling poster boy for America's
mindless, force-fed terror obsession? The hammerlock on thoughts of
Americans by psychopathic leadership still depends on fairytale power
of Osama to help fuel the pathological War On Terror—could he have
foreseen this, Americans being so propagandized as to let the
lifeblood of their nation drip through their fingers, for lies?
Whatever Osama knew he'd accomplished surely pales in light of what
he has done since dying; if he had any inkling of this he must have
died smiling.

With characteristic deception our pathocracy implies that Osama has
somehow gotten vital dialysis treatments all these years at his
hideout in never-never (mind) land. Definition: pathocracy (n). A
system of government created by a small pathological minority that
takes control over a society of normal people (from Political
Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political
Purposes, by Andrew Lobaczewski).

The dialysis reality...a pesky detail easily smothered when reality
is yours for the creating.

Scott McClellan used the phrase "Culture of Deception" in the title
of his new book. In recent articles by Robert Parry, including,
Surprise, Surprise: Bush Lied, and, Losing the War for Reality, there
is much about the CIA's "perception management" really taking off
under Reagan, delivering more and more "politically desirable" data
to policy makers. Parry notes with usual incisive wisdom that a
crucial thing America's Founders did not anticipate: In an age of
overwhelming government secrecy combined with the sophisticated big-
money media we have today, that manipulation of
information...disconnect between policies founded on politically
desirable data (fully-cooked), and those rooted in the real world,
could kill the republic.

With lies getting up to our eyes, how much time remains to wake
up...?

Waffles of top-level Osama deception keep flopping from CIA Director
Michael Hayden; less than a year since warning of new threats from
resurgent al-Qaida, a recent Washington Post article by Joby Warrick
titled: CIA chief says al-Qaida's defeat looms, has Hayden
proclaiming that, "Osama bin Laden is losing the battle for hearts
and minds in the Islamic world and has largely forfeited his ability
to exploit the Iraq war to recruit adherents."

Seriously, Director Hayden, don't you think bin Laden's death in 2001
is a main factor in his recruitment drop-off? Death remains a
powerful inhibitor, no matter the official cooking. The entire Osama
bin Laden deception is a paradigm of our pathocracy's relationship
with truth.

Even more seriously, People, how can the CIA Director keep spewing
such outrageous, official deception without batting an eye? This is
our Central Intelligence Agency! If the entire agency were not privy
to bin Laden's death within weeks, same as everyone else in the world
involved in high-level intelligence...sounds akin to 19 Arab boys
with box cutters routing the defenses of the world's Superpower
And how can The People, more and more of whom are finally seeing
through the Osama Bogeyman fabrications, as well as the false flag
reality of 9-11, and the diabolical War On Terror (war on truth?) not
feel powerful compulsion to do more about it all than simply voting—
which has over and over again proved...SO? The same answer satisfies
these questions—at least regarding America's deepening nadir, where
every day the reigns of psychopathic control at highest levels of
government stretch tighter.

It's not so much that power corrupts; but that the corrupt seek
power

What about hope, a better future?

The forenamed book, Lobaczewski's seminal, Political Ponerology: A
Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes is
finally getting traction as a polestar of crucial truth. Articles
recently published that further cast illumination toward the shadowy
dominance of psychopaths—people without conscience—within
architectures of power, include Dr. Kevin Barrett's Twilight of the
Psychopaths. There's also Silvia Cattori's The Trick of the
Psychopath's Trade, with its exceptional interview of the editors of
Political Ponerology, Laura Knight-Jadcyck, and, Henry See. Then
there's Clinton Callahan's, Beware the Psychpaths, My Son, which
splendidly draws from both Barrett's and Cattori's articles. Also
essential reading for those seeking truth about the core problem
plaguing "civilization" from the beginning: Carolyn Baker's review of
Political Ponerology http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/440/

An advantage

Re: [cia-drugs] New member.

2008-06-10 Thread RoadsEnd

Absolutely.

The prohibition creates a black market which corrupts our society from  
the top on down and the from the bottom on up.

Peace,
K

On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:31 AM, dan rice wrote:

> Hello.  Do you believe in the legalization of (currrently criminal)
> drugs?  Thank you.  d
>
>
> 
>
> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/
>
> Please let us stay on topic and be civil.
>
> OM
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Obama's Office Won't Deny Senator Attended Bilderberg

2008-06-07 Thread RoadsEnd

Begin forwarded message:

From: "shane_digital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: June 6, 2008 10:55:53 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IPCUSA] Obama's Office Won't Deny Senator Attended  
Bilderberg

Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Obama's Office Won't Deny Senator Attended Bilderberg
Tight security around Westfields Marriott suggests Illinois Senator
and Hillary Clinton met at elite confab

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, June 6, 2008

Senator Barack Obama's office has refused to deny that the Democratic
nominee attended Bilderberg last night following reports that he and
Hillary Clinton were present at "an event in Northern Virginia."

As we reported earlier today, Obama's press entourage were not
informed of his secret meeting with Hillary Clinton in Northern
Virginia until they were literally locked inside a plane that was
taxiing down the runway on its way to Chicago.

Reporters were duped into believing that they were getting on a plane
back to the campaign headquarters in Chicago with the presumptive
nominee, while in reality Obama's motorcade instead sped off in
secrecy to Northern Virginia, which is also the scene of this week's
Bilderberg conference. The plane was stationed at Dulles
International, which is less than a 20 minute drive from Chantilly
Virginia as is shown below.

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Bilderberg sleuth Jim Tucker called Obama's office today to ask if he
had attended Bilderberg. A campaign spokeswoman refused to discuss the
matter but would not deny that Obama had attended Bilderberg.

(Article continues below)

According to Alex Jones, security is so tight around Bilderberg that
it does befit the visit of a potential future President.

Armored cars, men in suits hanging out of vehicles with guns and what
looked like Marines have all been spotted in the vicinity of the
Westfields Marriott.

Despite the controversy of Obama and Hillary's secret meeting and its
obvious link to the ongoing Bilderberg conference, not one U.S.
corporate media outlet, or any mainstream media outlet, has reported
on over a hundred of the world's most powerful people meeting in
secret on U.S. soil.

There was one reporter from the Fairfax Times who showed up today but
they were not completely confident that any such report would make it
to print.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/060608_wont_deny.htm

All the latest on Bilderberg, right on the front page of
http://www.prisonplanet.com/

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Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Barry and The Boys?

2008-06-06 Thread RoadsEnd

There is the paperback edition, which has  a new chapter and intro,  
and instead of ripping out a chapter and some pages, the "offending"  
names have been redacted.

Peace,
K

On Jun 6, 2008, at 10:15 AM, linminor wrote:

> My copy is 2001. I didn't realize Dan had a new edition out. Kris
> Millegan would be able to answer your question better than I.
>
> -- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Do you have the 2001 edition or the 2006 edition?
>> The index does not list a Fred Alvarez or Ralph Boger.  I think your
>> friend must have the wrong book. Robert Booth Nichols is not in the
>> index either. Casolara is just mentioned briefly on one page.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
>>
>> --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Rachel"  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I ran across this group based on a review on the book Barry and The
>>> Boys. I received an email today that said this book mentions the
>>> triple homicide my dad was murdered in-the Alvarez triple execution.
>>> Fred was my dad's best friend and they were about to expose what was
>>> going on at the Cabazon rez when my dad, Fred, and Patty were
> murdered.
>>> I'm also exposing all of what happened at the rez and all things
>>> surrounding it, as well as all the other murders that happened due  
>>> to
>>> people either looking into their murder or the things surrounding  
>>> it.
>>> Because of this, I've had multiple weird things happen to me while
>>> investigating this from having black helicopters circle my house and
>>> point a gun at me (it's on video), to being followed, receiving  
>>> weird
>>> phone calls, having my car lines cut, and having weird guys  
>>> peeking in
>>> my windows.
>>> I haven't read this book but I'm told it has many of the same  
>>> names of
>>> people I've been investigating and the person that told me about the
>>> book told me that RBN said in the book in an Inslaw document of some
>>> sort that someone in the CIA was sent to stop the FBI from looking
>>> into their murder. I'd like to verify this is true before getting  
>>> this
>>> book from anyone that has read it in this group.
>>> Also, from my investigation I've found that it was more than just  
>>> drug
>>> running and arms deals that was going on, other things such as the
>>> Iran-contra affair, Inslaw affair, child trafficking, biological
>>> weapon research etc were going on there.. not to mention that Osama
>>> was also a reg visitor at the time.
>>> I guess thats my intro and my questions so far.
>>> thanks,
>>> Rachel aka desertfae
>>> www.desertfae.com
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> 
>
> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/
>
> Please let us stay on topic and be civil.
>
> OM
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

[cia-drugs] Re: [political-research] Henry Kissinger's Role in Engineering the Iraq War

2008-05-28 Thread RoadsEnd

Gordon,

Debating "Sean" is a futile exercise.

For several reasons:

1. "Sean McBride" is not a real persona.
2. "Sean" is the internet handle of John Foster "Chip" Berlet.
3. Chip gets $750,000 a year from the foundations to pour this blather
on the net.

4. Chip is a spook.
5. His "rhetoric" is an op to spread false memes to ensnare folks with
ignorance and prejudice.

Peace,
Kris Millegan
Publisher
TrineDay
1.800.556.2012

On May 28, 2008, at 8:40 AM, Gordon Peltz wrote:

"sigh" - it's a good thing you're not a lawyer Sean. Kissinger's
views on the Iraq war - i.e. now that we're there, what should we
do, etc. - in his twighlight years somehow make him a "ring
leader?" You have a relatively well-known reputation for not
substantiating your arguments or corroborating your statements...and
this only goes to further hurt your credibility.

Don't get me wrong - I don't support the Iraq War and never have.
Of course, I also recognize the fact that:

1. The Mossad had nothing to do with 9-11.

2. Israel is here to stay whether folks like it or not

3. Henry Kissinger isn't a neo-conservative. His "realpolitik"
views are more than documented. His views on what do about Iraq
once we got there have little to do with how we should pursue
foreign policy.

4. He has no power or authority in the Bush administration.
Influence? Perhaps - Kissinger is a legend, for better or worse.
5. Regarding the Arab oil fields, as usual Sean, you miss the
context - based on your m.o., it appears to be deliberate. The
conversations about seizing oil fields happened during the embargo
and were discovered by Jack Anderson in 1975. Here is what ACTUALLY
transpired:

A call from Jack Anderson must have set off alarm signals in
Kissinger's mind. As writer of a widely-syndicated column,
Washington Merry Go Round (originally established decades earlier by
Drew Pearson), Anderson was famous for his assiduous and successful
efforts at developing governmental contacts that were often the
source of leaked documents. For example, Anderson's contacts
provided him with memcons of Washington Special Actions Group
deliberations during the 1971 South Asian war. While the call might
have worried Kissinger, rather than refusing it he tried to manage
the situation as best as he could. In this instance, Anderson had
gotten hold of a document about a 19 December 1973 meeting between
Kissinger and the former French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert,
where the two discussed oil prices, U.S. attitudes toward the Shah
of Iran, and the question of military action against the oil
producers. Kissinger provided his own spin on Anderson's account but
strongly denied that there had been any interest in military action,
"total nonsense," he argued. Kissinger vainly tried to get Anderson
to identify the source. Interestingly, a U.S. record of the Jobert-
Kissinger talk has been declassified among State Department records,
but it does not include specific discussion of the Shah and only
hints at a tough stance toward the oil producers. (Note 3a) While
Anderson mentions that he got some information from the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, one wonders where Committee members or
staffers got details on the talks. (In the available U.S. record,
Jobert refers to discussion in the car, so perhaps there was some
record of that). In any event, despite Kissinger's denial about the
use of force against Arab oil producers, recently declassified
British documents show that the Nixon administration had at least
considered the possibility of sending in troops to seize oil fields
in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi during the 1973-74 oil embargo. (Note 4)

Sean McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Keep in mind that this very same Henry Kissinger argued for seizing
Arab oil fields by force back in 1975, a policy idea that was
strongly opposed by American oil lobby leaders like James Akins and
James Baker.

Describing Henry Kissinger as a key ringleader of the Iraq War seems
fair and apt:

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/200601002_woodward_on_kissinger/

BEGIN ARTICLE

Woodward: Kissinger Re-Fighting Vietnam via Bush

Posted on Oct 2, 2006
Woodward and Wallace
From CBS

CBS’ Mike Wallace speaks to The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about
his new book, “State of Denial.”

In his “60 Minutes” interview, Bob Woodward said Henry Kissinger “is
almost like a member of the [Bush] family,” and that in his frequent
meetings with Bush and Cheney, Kissinger’s dogmatic ‘stay the
course’ advice on Iraq amounts to “fighting the Vietnam war again.”

Watch it
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/01/woodwards-60-minutes-interview-on-state-of-denial/

“60 Minutes” transcript via Crooks and Liars:

Wallace: Cheney stunned Woodward by revealing that a frequent
advisor to the Bush white house is former Secretary of State Henry
Kissinger, who served Presidents Nixon a

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Explainer: Drug trafficking gangs in Mexico | World news | The Guardian

2008-05-27 Thread RoadsEnd

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/27/mexico1/print

Explainer: Trafficking gangs
The Guardian, Tuesday May 27 2008

Mexico's drug traffickers control most of the cocaine grown in  
Colombia

and smuggled into the US and move marijuana, methamphetamines and some
heroin. They also supply expanding local markets and have branched out
into kidnapping. The main cartels are:

Sinaloa cartel
Named after the Pacific coast northern state of Sinaloa, this cartel  
has
spread throughout the country under Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman. It is  
now

Mexico's biggest trafficking organisation.

Gulf cartel and Zetas
Originally confined to states bordering the gulf of Mexico, this  
cartel

now has presence in much of the country. The group is largely under
control of the Zetas - the cartel's notoriously violent hit squad  
formed

from army deserters.

Arrellano Felix cartel
Based in the border city of Tijuana, the cartel has been weakened in
recent years by the arrest or death of numerous members. As well as
internal fighting, the cartel's main enemy is the Sinaloa cartel.

Milenio cartel
Traffickers of metamphetamines, this relatively new cartel's main  
rivals

are the Zetas.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008

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Americans Are Living (And Dying) In A Militarized Police State

Dave Gibson

Dave Gibson is a freelance writer living in Norfolk, Va.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/60717



Dave Gibson

May 05, 2008

Today, police departments across the United States more closely resemble  

an occupying army than they do public servants responding to calls for  

help. Police officers can now be seen wearing helmets and body armor and  

carrying AR-15's, just to deliver simple warrants. The militarization of  

our police departments not only gives the appearance of a military  

dictatorship but places the public at great risk.



No less than 70 percent of U.S. cities now have SWAT teams. In cities with  

a population of 50,000 or more, 90 percent have SWAT teams.



Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska told the Washington  

Post that SWAT teams are currently sent out 40,000 times a year in the  

U.S. During the 1980's, SWAT teams were only used 3,000 times a year. Most  

of the time, SWAT teams are being sent out to simply serve warrants on  

non-violent drug offenders.



Many municipalities are using Homeland Security grants to even purchase  

large armored vehicles. The Pittsburgh Police Department now uses their  

20-ton armored truck complete with rotating turret and gun ports to  

deliver many of their warrants. Pittsburgh Police Sgt. Barry Budd recently  

told the Associate Press: "We live on being prepared for 'what if'."



Our police departments now regularly receive free surplus equipment from  

the U.S. military, which they readily accept. The training being given at  

many police academies appears to be the type of tactics one would use in  

Baghdad, rather than Baltimore. It would seem that our police officers are  

being readied for war, with the American public as the enemy. In the last  

several years, there has been a transformation from community policing to  

pre-emptive assaults



On January 24, 2006, Dr. Salvatore Culosi was shot and killed outside his  

house by a Fairfax County SWAT officer. Police used the SWAT team to serve  

a documents search warrant, after Dr. Culosi came under suspicion for  

taking sports bets. The investigation began after Fairfax Detective David  

Baucom solicited a bet with Dr. Culosi at a local sports bar.



Dr. Culosi was standing outside his home while talking with Det. Baucom,  

when SWAT Officer Deval Bullock quickly approached with his gun drawn and  

fatally shot Dr. Culosi in the chest. Court documents report that Culosi  

never made any threatening movements and made no attempt to run as he  

watched the SWAT team move in around him.



Dr. Culosi had no history of violence nor any criminal history whatsoever.  

He operated two successful optometry clinics at Wal-Marts in Manassas and  

Warrenton, Va. His parents have filed a $12 million lawsuit against the  

county of Fairfax, Va.



On the night of January 17, 2008, a police SWAT team surrounded Ryan  

Frederick´s home in Chesapeake, Va. The police were there to serve a drug  

warrant based on a tip from a criminal informant.



As usual, 28 year-old Ryan Frederick had gone to sleep early in order to  

leave the house before dawn for his job with a soda distributor. He awoke  

to a commotion of screams and the distinct sound of someone breaking down  

his front door.



Frederick´s house had been broken into a few days earlier, being a slight  

man of only a little over 100 pounds, Frederick feared for his safety.  

After the break-in, he purchased a gun.



Understandably frightened, Frederick grabbed his gun and when he got to  

the front of his house, he saw a man trying to crawl through the bottom  

portion of his door. Terrified that the intruders had returned, he fired.



The man he shot was not an aggressive burglar, nor a drug-crazed murderer,  

he was Det. Jarrod Shivers. The police detective and military veteran died  

almost immediately. Frederick was charged with first-degree murder and now  

sits in a jail cell awaiting trial.



As for the marijuana-growing operation for which police were looking,  

nothing was found. Only a very small amount of marijuana was discovered on  

the Frederick property, only enough to charge him with misdemeanor  

possession. Frederick has admitted that he uses marijuana occasionally but  

has never been involved with producing nor selling the drug.



Ryan Frederick has no prior history of violence, nor any criminal history  

whatsoever. He took care of his grandmother until her death two years ago,  

had a full-time job, and recently became engaged. In his spare time, he  

worked in his yard and tended to his Koi pond

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all


 


 


 

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Sent: Tue, 13 May 2008 1:23 am
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http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886/print

Published on Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran  

(http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii)

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all

(CASMII)

Saturday, May 10, 2008



CASMII Press Release



10 May 2008



"US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all"



In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming  

militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet  

confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in  

Iran at all.



According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in  

Baghdad: “A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to  

journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was canceled after  

the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military  

spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged  

after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were  

of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they  

discovered they were not Iranian after all.”



The US , which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its  

allegations, finally handed over its “evidence” of the Iranian origin of  

these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to  

Iran presented the US “evidence” to Iranian officials. According to  

Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who  

was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted “training,  

financing and arming” militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi  

government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.



In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj.  

Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence  

in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his  

introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the  

large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala.



In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track  

of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in  

2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi  

streets today.



In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their  

charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the  

release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in  

December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these  

accusations have sharply intensified.



The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any  

threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter  

and the IAEA's continued supervision on Iran's uranium enrichment  

facilities means there is no justification for sanctions.



CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and  

unconditional negotiations with Iran.



For more information or to contact CASMII please visit  

http://www.campaigniran.org



[END]



Source URL:

http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/casmii/index.php?q=node/4886



Links:

[1]  

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/05/iraq-the-elusiv.html

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/05/03/iraq.iran/

[3]  

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19159&Itemid=131

[4]  

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pentagon-admits-19-weapons-missing-in-iraq-460551.html



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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Pentagons Propaganda Documents Go Online


 


 


 

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http://rinf.com/alt-news/media-news/pentagons-propaganda-documents-go-online/3402/
















  

  
 
Pentagon's Propaganda Documents Go Online  

  

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008



By John Stauber | Eight thousand pages of documents related to the Pentagon's 
illegal propaganda campaign, known as the Pentagon military analyst program,
are now online for the world to see, although in a format that makes it
impossible to easily search them and therefore difficult to read and
dissect. This trove includes the documents pried out of the Pentagon by
David Barstow and used as the basis for his stunning investigation that
appeared in the New York Times on April 20, 2008.


The Pentagon program, which clearly violated US law against covert government 
propaganda, embedded more than 75 retired military officers — most of them with 
financial ties to war contractors
— into the TV networks as "message surrogates" for the Bush
Administration. To date, every major commercial TV network has failed
to report this story, covering up their complicity and keeping the
existence of this scandal from their audiences.


News of the Pentagon's online posting of the documents came from Joe Trento of 
the National Security News Service, who notes that NSNS provided the New York 
Times "limited information about a military office early in the reporting 
process."


Here is the official Pentagon website
with the 8,000 pages of documents, the most interesting and revealing
of them previously secret and only available to the Pentagon and the New York 
Times:


http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/milanalysts/


More than two weeks after the New York Times reported on the Penatgon's 
military analyst program
to sell controversial policies such as the invasion of Iraq, the
broadcast television news outlets implicated in the program are hoping
to tough out the scandal by refusing to report it. Recently Media Matters of 
America (MMA) reported that, according to a search of the Nexis database, "the 
three major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — have still not mentioned 
the report at all."


The Pew Excellence in Journalism project has a chart showing that " there was 
virtually no mainstream media follow up to The Times' expose" with the only 
national TV coverage being the introduction segment and live debate featuring 
CMD's John Stauber on the PBS NewsHour.


Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro and three dozen colleagues have sent a letter
to the Department of Defense Inspector General calling for an
investigation of this "propaganda campaign aimed at deliberately
misleading the American public."

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The Surveillance Society Does Not Work


 


 


 

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Subject: [SPY NEWS] The Surveillance Society Does Not Work










http://rinf.com/alt-news/sicence-technology/the-surveillance-society-does-not-work/3386/
The Surveillance Society Does Not Work
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

By Mick Meaney – RINF | Costing in excess of billions of pounds each
year, every single area of the British surveillance society has been
proven ill effective when dealing with crime, fraud and terrorism –
the very reasons government officials implement such measures.

Which begs the question: How can the Government justify such spending
when it also imposes an increasing risk to our personal freedom and
privacy? What is more, as current technology has failed to live up to
the expectations of the British Government they still have widespread
plans to advance citizen surveillance like we have never seen before.

Passport Interrogations

The latest statistics are cause for concern. A procedure introduced in
2007 made it compulsory for all passport applicants to attend
face-to-face interviews.

We were told this was a necessary measure in fraud prevention but out
of 90,000 interviewees not a single criminal had been caught. The cost
of the network has run into the hundreds of millions.

DNA Database

More statistics show the DNA database, which contains the details of
over one million innocent people, has almost zero effect in solving
crimes. On average just 1 in every 800 crimes will be solved and the
cost runs into the millions, turning the innocent into suspects. Each
DNA sample added to the database cost £3,575 - last year the database
held 660,000 samples.

Phil Booth of NO2ID said: "This utterly blows away the myth that the
DNA database is the perfect detection tool. It is, in fact, creating-a
nation of suspects."

The British DNA database contains 4.5 million samples and is the
largest in the world yet it does not hold the information of terrorist
suspects or serious offenders currently in jail.

Police across the EU can access the database creating what civil
liberty advocates call a `Big Brother Europe'.

CCTV

Just this week it was revealed that only 3% of London street robberies
were solved using CCTV. Britain is the most monitored country in the
world with an average of one CCTV per ever 14 people.

"Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone
into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be
used in court. It's been an utter fiasco: only 3% of crimes were
solved by CCTV. There's no fear of CCTV. Why don't people fear it?
[They think] the cameras are not working," said Detective Chief
Inspector Mick Neville.

Still the development of a national facial recognition CCTV database
continues at the taxpayer's expense.

RIPA

What is more worrying still is the use of the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA), a spy law that was introduced in 2000
which gives the police and security services the power to monitor
people and their communications. In 2002 the act was extended to
include local councils allowing them to commit extensive surveillance
of its citizens.

The law was introduced to catch terrorists but is currently being used
to stop benefit cheats, anti-social behaviour, graffiti and even poor
parking.

The abuse of Government authority is abundantly clear as our privacy
and freedoms are needlessly stripped way while the taxpayer is forced
to pay for technology which fails to protect us from criminals or
terrorists.

A surveillance society simply does not work.





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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/12/terror.centre?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Revealed: torture centre linked to MI5
* Ian Cobain
* guardian.co.uk,
* Monday May 12 2008

This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Monday May 12
2008. It was last updated at 13:35 on May 12 2008.
Aerial photograph of Rawalpindi

http://image.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2008/05/12/rawalpindi460x276.jpg
An aerial photograph of Rawalpindi showing the interrogation centre.
Photograph: Getty Images

A secret interrogation centre in Pakistan where British terrorism
suspects are alleged to have been tortured after UK authorities had
them arrested has been found by the Guardian.

The centre, run by the country's Inter-Services Intelligence agency
(ISI), is in the Saddar district of Rawalpindi. It is surrounded by
high walls and watchtowers, and bristling with surveillance cameras.

So notorious is the ISI that local photographers are reluctant to take
pictures of the centre, although satellite images are readily available.

A British citizen says he was driven there in 2004, held for 10 months
and tortured. Salahuddin Amin, now aged 33, had moved to Pakistan
three years earlier from Luton, Bedfordshire.

Amin was eventually returned to the UK and successfully prosecuted.
His trial heard that he was interviewed by officers from the British
security service MI5 several times during his detention. His lawyers
allege ISI officers beat and whipped him, and threatened him with an
electric drill, in between the MI5 interviews, and that the British
officers must have known he was being mistreated.

A second British citizen, aged 33 and from Manchester, who was
arrested at the request of British authorities, is thought to have
been held at the same place. The man, who cannot be named for legal
reasons, has described being hooded and driven to a detention centre
that resembles Amin's account. He was deprived of sleep and whipped,
the man says, and an ISI officer used pliers to pull out three
fingernails from his left hand. He says he was then interviewed by two
British officials. His lawyers suspect they were from MI5.

Two other British citizens have said they were tortured by the ISI
before being questioned by British counter-terrorism officials.
Lawyers say there is evidence MI5 instigated the torture of British
citizens or, at very least, turned a blind eye to their mistreatment.
Last month, the Guardian disclosed how the allegations are to be aired
in forthcoming court cases, including a terrorism trial, a criminal
appeal and a civil action being pursued by one of the alleged victims.

MI5 declined to comment, but pointed to evidence given to the
all-party intelligence and security committee about training it gives
its agents regarding the possible mistreatment of detainees by foreign
intelligence agencies. Guidance for officers questioning detainees
held overseas states: "The security and intelligence agencies do not
participate in, solicit, encourage or condone the use of torture or
inhuman and degrading treatment."

Amin says he was one of several prisoners kept in an underground block
of 10 small cells, each with a mattress and a pillow. The torture, he
says, took place nearby in a carpeted room with bright overhead
lights, a table, several chairs and a small wooden stool where
prisoners were expected to sit. In one corner of the room was a
camera. He says that sometimes he would be hooded and driven for 20
minutes to meet two MI5 officers; on other occasions they would
question him in the room where he had been tortured.

Among other people thought to have been tortured at the Rawalpindi
centre is an innocent taxi driver who was caught up in the
investigation of Amin. Ezaj Rabanni, 38, was interrogated for several
days about the whereabouts of Amin, who had been his passenger several
times and whom the ISI had been unable to locate.

"They beat me for half an hour or so on the first day and they whipped
me with a leather belt," Rabanni said in a statement taken before Amin
was tried at the Old Bailey. "I couldn't see them because I had a hood
over my head the whole time. They kept asking me about Salahuddin,
asking me where he was. They beat me the second day and the third day.
I couldn't protect myself - my hands were shackled behind my back the
whole time.

"Then I heard the sound of an electric drill being switched on. I
could feel the drill touching my side and my clothes being wrapped
around it. I have never been so frightened in my life."

Rabanni gave evidence at the Old Bailey trial that ended with Amin and
four other men being jailed for life for conspiring to cause
explosions in the UK. The taxi driver now says he is too terrified to
return to Pakistan, because he fears

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Paul Krugman: The Oil Nonbubble

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2008/05/paul-krugman--1.htm
l

 

Is the high price of oil price due to fundamentals or speculation?: 

The
  Oil Nonbubble,
by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: "The Oil Bubble: Set to Burst?" That
was the headline of an October 2004 article in National Review, which argued
that oil prices, then $50 a barrel, would soon collapse. 

Ten months later, oil was selling for $70 a barrel. "It's a huge bubble,"
declared Steve Forbes... 

All through oil's five-year price surge, which has taken it from $25 a
barrel to last week's close above $125, there have been many voices
declaring that it's all a bubble, unsupported by the fundamentals of supply
and demand. 

So here are two questions: Are speculators mainly, or even largely,
responsible for high oil prices? And if they aren't, why have so many
commentators insisted, year after year, that there's an oil bubble? ...

Imagine what would happen if the oil market were humming along, with supply
and demand balanced at a price of $25 a barrel, and a bunch of speculators
came in and drove the price up to $100. ...

Faced with higher prices, drivers would cut back on their driving;
homeowners would turn down their thermostats; owners of marginal oil wells
would put them back into production. 

As a result, the initial balance between supply and demand would be broken,
replaced with a situation in which supply exceeded demand. This excess
supply would, in turn, drive prices back down again - unless someone were
willing to buy up the excess and take it off the market. 

The only way speculation can have a persistent effect on oil prices, then,
is if it leads to physical hoarding...But ... inventories have remained at
more or less normal levels. This tells us that the rise in oil prices isn't
the result of runaway speculation; it's the result of fundamental factors,
mainly the growing difficulty of finding oil and the rapid growth of
emerging economies like China. The rise in oil prices ... had to happen to
keep demand growth from exceeding supply growth. 

Saying that high-priced oil isn't a bubble doesn't mean that oil prices will
never decline. ... But it does mean that speculators aren't at the heart of
the story. 

Why, then, do we keep hearing assertions that they are? 

Part of the answer may be ... that many people are now investing in oil
futures - which feeds suspicion that speculators are running the show... But
there's also a political component. 

Traditionally, denunciations of speculators come from the left of the
political spectrum. In the case of oil prices, however, the most vociferous
proponents of the view that it's all the speculators' fault have been
conservatives - people who you wouldn't normally expect to see warning about
the nefarious activities of investment banks and hedge funds. 

The explanation of this seeming paradox is that wishful thinking has trumped
pro-market ideology. 

After all, a realistic view of what's happened over the past few years
suggests that we're heading into an era of increasingly scarce, costly oil. 

The ... odds are that we're looking at a future in which energy conservation
becomes increasingly important, in which many people may even - gasp - take
public transit to work. 

I don't find that vision particularly abhorrent, but a lot of people,
especially on the right, do. And so they want to believe that if only
Goldman Sachs would stop having such a negative attitude, we'd quickly
return to the good old days of abundant oil. 

Again, I wouldn't be shocked if oil prices dip in the near future - although
I also take seriously Goldman's recent warning that the price could go to
$200. But let's drop all the talk about an oil bubble.

 



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 Hmm…. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Hi ya Chipper!

Peace, 
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Chip Berlet on the Homegrown Terrorism Act

I am not Chip Berlet, and I never met or communicated with Chip Berlet.  I 
don't know much about Chip Berlet, and his writings don't particularly interest 
me.  But I just came across an excellent essay by Chip Berlet in opposition to 
the Homegrown Terrorism Act on The Huffington Post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-berlet/its-time-again-to-push-th_b_100905.html

Right on, Mr. Berlet -- hit it.

I really doubt, however, that Berlet has the guts to draw the obvious vector 
here:

VECTOR Israel lobby > Joseph Lieberman > Homegrown Terrorism Act > 
neoconservative dictatorship and police state

The Israel lobby is obviously the prime mover behind this atrocity and many 
other recent atrocities in American politics, including the disastrous Iraq War 
and the clamor to expand this
 disaster to Iran.

Grow a pair, Mr. Berlet, and start mentioning the "I" word when doing so is 
called for and fully appropriate.  There is indeed an elephant in the living 
room.

BEGIN ARTICLE

PUBLICATION The Huffington Post

AUTHOR Chip Berlet
 
TITLE Lieberman Gift To McCain: Senate Islamist Terrorism Report

DATE May 8, 2008

BODY

When a bipartisan Congressional committee issues a report on the threat of 
domestic terrorist violence during an election year, you can be sure that the 
centrist establishment is worried about the popular backlash against government 
repression and the threat to civil liberties.

That's nothing new.

Scholar William W. Keller argues that in times of wide-spread social unrest and 
tensions, some liberals retreat from their oversight function as protectors of 
civil liberties and allow authoritarian methods to be implemented in order to 
restore order and defend the state. Right
 now in Washington, DC, civil liberties activists have built a coalition that 
spans the political spectrum from left to right. This coalition recently 
managed to block legislation titled the "Violent Radicalization and Homegrown 
Terrorism Prevention Act." It was, as detailed here, lousy legislation and 
deserved to be squashed.

Many voters do not support the war in Iraq and are suspicious of Bush 
administration demands for even more erosions of civil liberties and 
Constitutional rights.This scares the bipartisan status quo brigade, and 
centrist Republicans and Democrats now rally behind the power of the state. 
Dissidents on the left and right already are all potential suspects in the "War 
on Terrorism." Who better to pick as the main target for the New Witch Hunt 
than Muslims in America? Is there a more vulnerable community for a new 
campaign based on fear?

So now comes a "series of reports by the Majority and Minority staff of the 
Senate Committee on Homeland
 Security and Governmental Affairs...on the threat of homegrown terrorism 
inspired by violent Islamist extremism." The first report, "Violent Islamist 
Extremism, The Internet, and the Homegrown Terrorist Threat," (PDF) was 
published today, 8 May 2008.

What's really amazing, is that this travesty of a "majority and minority" 
report is not even really "bipartisan." The committee authors include Sen. 
Susan Collins of Maine, the ranking Republican, and Committee Chairmen Joseph 
Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who has effectively lent himself to the 
McCain campaign for the last few months.

The ACLU has issued a press release: "ACLU Skeptical of Senate Report on 
'Homegrown' Terrorism," and a broad civil liberties coalition signed a letter 
of protest that was actually issued the day before the report was made public.

Online, there has been almost no comment since the report was issued, hours 
ago, but it's easy to imagine what the Republican spin doctors
 and neo-McCarthyites are already whipping up in order to attack Democrats in 
this election cycle as soft on terrorism. The blogosphere will soon pulsate 
with their purple prose. This series of reports is a readymade script for the 
Swift Boating of the Democratic Presidential nominee and a bludgeon with which 
to push all of the candidates-- Democratic and Republican-- into a corner where 
they will accept more government repression as the price for being elected.

I will be posting more details about the New Witch Hunt and how it intersects 
with election 2008 over the next few days. Tomorrow, the story of Debbie 
Almontaser, hounded out of a job as a school principal by bigoted fanatics.

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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20080507.aspx
The Secret Internet Simulator

May 7, 2008:  DARPA, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency, has been ordered (by the president and Congress) to develop
world-class offensive and defensive Cyber War capabilities. Initial
emphasis will be on defensive measures. This is a big deal. DARPA
hasn't been given this large a project since Russia launched the first
space satellite in 1957. This alarmed the U.S. government more than it
should have, and DARPA was ordered to catch up with the Soviet Union
as quickly as possible. Money was no object. Time was of the essence. 

Unlike the space program boost of half a century ago, the current
DARPA rush program will be highly secret. Cyber War is all about
secrets. Who has what and what can they do with it. But a major
problem with Cyber War is that it rarely makes the news, or at least
in any really coherent way. It's not that Cyber War isn't important,
it's just that all this geek stuff is hard to explain and just does
not sound all  that scary. In the competitive news business, Cyber War
is not good news. But to the intel and security people, the U.S. has
been under heavy assault for several years now. The losses of
information have been huge, and it's not certain just how much, and
what, has been stolen. All this will be big news in a decade or so
when more details emerge about the extent of the losses. But for now,
it's just one of those stories no one could wrap their heads around.
Senior members of the U.S. government have become alarmed, though,
which is why this new, top secret, "Manhattan Project" (as in the one
that built the atomic bomb during World War II) for Cyber War underway. 

Cyber War is all about finding flaws in Internet software and using
those flaws to infiltrate or take over other peoples computers. In
addition to the usual software flaws (that serve as exploits), there
is also a growing number "malware" type software. This stuff is best
known as "adware" programs that users, often unknowingly, download
onto their PCs. That results in more ads, or ads based on a careful
examination of what the user does, say, when using their browser.
There are hundreds of thousands of these little nasties out there, and
Cyber War operators have found this stuff to have military and
espionage use. 

In the middle of all this you have military users of exploits. These
are the shadowy organizations, particularly in China and the United
States, where exploits are stockpiled (and soon replaced as the
exploit is rendered ineffective via a software patch) for use in
wartime. China, and probably the United States, are already using
their exploits arsenals for espionage, and counter-espionage. Many
criminal gangs also do contract work, usually for espionage
operations. Some corporations have been caught doing this as well.
Only small players have been caught so far, with the possible
exception of News Corp. Any large corporation going this way would put
a premium on not getting caught. Chinese firms are particularly
energetic in stealing technology, and producing their own versions.
They are often quite blatant about it, especially if it's military
technology (which means government protection from retribution.) The
Russians are trying to force the Chinese government to crack down on
this, without much success so far. The United States, and many other
Western nations, are also going after China for the use of Internet
based espionage. Again, so far, the Chinese are refusing to admit to
it, much less slack off. Western Cyber War experts are urging some
retaliation in kind. That could get interesting. 

The first goal of the DARPA project is to try and determine just how
bad off we (as in the United States) are, and then what can be done to
prevent future damage. This involves building an Internet simulator.
Details on this are being kept secret, but it will apparently consist
of lots of hardware, and special software to simulate huge numbers of
users connected to this "virtual Internet" and able to respond
realistically to offensive, and defensive Cyber War operations. After
that comes more money for Cyber War weapons.






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http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/OPINION03/805080310/1039/OPINION03
CIA credibility suffers
May 8, 2008
By HAVILAND SMITH

Credibility is the lifeblood of any intelligence organization serving
a democracy. If the public, or any given administration, doesn't
believe it is getting told the truth, then the organization has lost
its purpose and effectiveness. It is the public perception of
credibility that matters most, and thanks to current White House
tasking of the agency, the CIA appears to be losing that battle today.

The role of any intelligence organization is to provide intelligence
information and estimates to policymakers in support of security and
foreign policy issues, based on known facts.

During the Cold War, the CIA did its best to do just that. It was not
always as effective as it might have been, but it was a principled
organization staffed by motivated, reputable people who did their best
to do their job and do it right. The Cold War CIA did not lie or
fabricate intelligence for policymakers or for public consumption.

CIA management occasionally suffered from poor judgment and did some
really stupid things, like providing disguises to a former employee
who was a member of the Watergate break-in team. However, with the
possible exception of Iran/Contra — who knows if Reagan knew and
approved? — the CIA never undertook covert activities without White
House direction. It was never the "rogue elephant" that its fiercest
critics persistently alleged it to have been.

Unfortunately, concerns about CIA credibility have grown since 9/11.
The role of the CIA in enabling the Iraq invasion is probably still
not fully understood, muddled as it is by the machinations of the Bush
administration. The persistent, unprecedented visits by Vice President
Cheney to CIA headquarters during the run-up to the invasion,
reportedly to seek changes in CIA estimates on Iraq that would support
such an invasion, have never been fully explained.

The "slam dunk" moment on Iraqi WMD; allegations of CIA waterboarding,
renditions, a gulag of prisons around the world and, most recently,
the question of why the waterboarding tapes were destroyed have all
added fuel to the credibility fire.

Structural changes have weakened CIA credibility, as well. The
post-9/11 creation of a new Office of the Director of National
Intelligence at the expense of the CIA was senseless and bureaucratic.
The persistent efforts of the Pentagon under Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld to usurp CIA functions and to denigrate the CIA, its
processes and its products have added further to an atmosphere in
which CIA credibility is routinely publicly questioned.

In early September 2007, Israeli jets flattened a structure in the
Syrian desert. Israel, Syria and America all acknowledged the act, but
none gave any explanation for it, that is, until recently. Now we see
pre-raid photos of the inside of the Syrian structure with virtually
identical companion pictures of North Korean nuclear sites. The Syria
photos presumably were obtained from the Israelis.

In the meantime, the Syrian ambassador in Washington, who can hardly
be viewed as impartial, claims the photos are CIA fabrications. This
claim has then become the object of speculation in the American media.

What's going on here? Why was this information held so tightly and
only released now, seven months later? Is the CIA lying about this
issue? Has the CIA fabricated these photos? Have the Israelis done the
fabrications and passed them on to us? All of these questions and more
are now under examination.

Ultimately what is true and what is false about this Syria incident is
of secondary importance to what the effect of a media examination of
the subject has already brought and will continue to bring. What will
matter is that further doubt will arise in Americans' minds about CIA
credibility.

The U.S. involvement in the "war on terror" and in Iraq has put
tremendous pressure from the White House on the CIA to undertake
activities which, even if not illegal, create in the public mind an
aura of mistrust. In today's world, no one is quite sure if the CIA is
on the "right" side of anything.

That may suit the needs of today's White House, but it creates a
legacy of mistrust in and lack of credibility for the CIA that will
continue for years after they are gone. This legacy may serve this
White House well, but it will disastrously serve its successors. The
U.S. can ill afford to have an intelligence service whose credibility
is publicly questioned.

Haviland Smith is a retired CIA station chief who served abroad in
Europe and the Middle East, as executive assistant in the director's
office and as chief of the counterterrorism staff. He lives in Williston.



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http://www.newsweek.com/id/136084?from=rss
Keeping Secrets From the CIA
Why was Langley cut out of clandestine meetings with Iranian informants?
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 6:20 PM ET May 8, 2008

The Senate Intelligence Committee is about to release a report that
sheds new light on "inappropriate" back-channel contacts between
Pentagon officials and a group of Iranian informants—including a key
figure from the Iran-contra affair.

In December 2001, two Pentagon Mideast experts—Larry Franklin and
Harold Rhode—secretly traveled to Rome. They met with a group of
Iranians who supposedly had information about plans by Iranian-backed
terrorists to attack Americans—including U.S. troops who were then
closing in on Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The meetings were approved by
high-level officials at the White House and the Pentagon. The CIA,
however, was kept in the dark. When the CIA and the State Department
found out about the meetings a few weeks later, they strenuously
protested to the White House and demanded that the contacts be
terminated immediately. At least officially, the White House complied.

Now, years later, the Senate Intelligence Committee is finally
producing a report on its investigation of those meetings. The
document is part of the panel's "phase two" investigation into the
misuse of pre-Iraq War intelligence. The report is not likely to
satisfy either the White House or the administration's most vocal
critics. While Intelligence Committee officials are keeping details of
the report under wraps, several sources familiar with its contents—who
asked for anonymity discussing an unpublished report—said that
congressional investigators found nothing illegal about the secret
contacts. The meetings were brokered by two Iran-contra figures:
Michael Ledeen, a Washington academic and prominent neoconservative
activist who was close to a number of senior Bush administration
officials at the time, and Manucher Ghorbanifar, a Paris-based Iranian
businessman who served as a middleman for arms deals in the 1980s and
was long ago branded a "fabricator" by the CIA. U.S. intelligence
agencies said at the time that Ghorbanifar had a history of offering
information that proved unreliable.

But in the report, the panel does conclude that senior Bush
administration officials (including then deputy Defense secretary Paul
Wolfowitz and deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley)
approved the meetings without informing the CIA or its director at the
time, George Tenet, thereby allowing intelligence gathering outside of
normal channels. The sources say the report also suggests that Ledeen
misled the National Security Council about the meetings--a charge that
Ledeen strongly denied this week in an e-mail exchange with NEWSWEEK.

The Rome meetings provoked controversy when they were first disclosed
in the summer of 2003. They seemed typical of the rocky relations
between the Pentagon and CIA during the early years of the Bush
administration. According to Ledeen, there was a reason the CIA was
excluded from the secret discussions: the Iranians, he said, wanted
nothing to do with the agency. That would not be surprising, given the
CIA's deep antipathy toward Ghorbanifar. Three intelligence sources
familiar with the investigation told NEWSWEEK that the Senate report
questions whether Ledeen, who first approached administration
officials about meeting with the Iranian informants, made up the claim
that the Iranians refused to deal with the CIA. The report, the
sources said, notes that the two Pentagon officials involved in the
discussions said the issue never came up. In an e-mail to NEWSWEEK,
however, Ledeen said he is sure he told senior officials who
authorized the contacts—including Hadley and Zalmay Khalilzad (now
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations)—that the Iranians "did not want
to talk to CIA people."

According to several accounts of the Rome meetings—including one
published by former CIA director Tenet in his memoir "At the Center of
the Storm"—Ledeen persuaded Wolfowitz and Hadley, now White House
national-security adviser, to allow him to set up the secret sessions.
Only later did it emerge that the Iranian informants were in fact
contacts of Ghorbanifar. (In his book, Tenet himself labeled
Ghorbanifar a "con man and fabricator.") "Steve, this whole operation
smells," Tenet wrote that he told Hadley after he learned about the
contacts. In 2003, administration officials close to Hadley told
NEWSWEEK that Hadley had become concerned that Ledeen and Ghorbanifar
might be dragging the Bush administration into a repeat performance of
the Iran-contra affair, and ordered that the contacts be cut off.

In an interview with NEWSWEEK in Paris in November 2003, Ghorbanifar
said that despite the off

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could/can easily "suicide" him!!)


 


 


 


 


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"He who would give up essential 
liberty in order to have a little security 
deserves neither liberty, nor 
security." -- Benjamin 
Franklin
 
   Terrorism is NO 
excuse for tyranny 
 
Truth is called Hate by those who Hate the 
Truth, therefore...
Hate Speech is: "Anything Jews Hate to Hear"
--- Edgar 
Steele, Esquire
 
"In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth 
is a revolutionary act."
---George Orwell 1984
 
"None are so 
hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe 
that they are free." -- 
Yohann W. vonGoethe
 

That 
Government Which Governs Least Governs Best !!

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ABC News Shielding Cheney after DC Madam Hanging?
  
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Florida police made public two notes handwritten by Deborah Jeane Palfrey this 
weekend, touching off debate on whether her hanging was in fact suicide
 or staged to look so. At least one reporter is claiming the DC Madam mentioned 
she'd kill herself before returning to prison, but another interviewer has 
aired recent audio of Palfrey warning that if she was found dead, it would be 
murder. 

Initial reports of Palfrey's death conclusively ruled it a suicide, a bit hasty 
considering the magnitude of the sensitive secrets she held. I first heard the 
news on an NPR broadcast Thursday afternoon which included an official's 
soundbyte on how relatives are victimized in suicides, a strange generalization 
that pointed blame at Palfrey for hurting her own mother before any other 
details of the case were released. This statement was attached to the breaking 
news by an "imbedded pundit", only raising suspicion of media manipulation in 
the earliest going.
  
 


Any intelligent debate is impossible with this lack of detail available so far. 
We're told the letters were penned a few days before her body was discovered 
hanged in her mother's shed, left on a nearby motel stand, though we don't know 
when investigators first saw them. Police say relatives confirmed her 
handwriting, but we know virtually nothing about their opinion on the letters, 
her physical condition or other clues. We are not told whether the shed or 
hotel room was forensically examined. Her autopsy was conducted quietly and 
quickly, though a final report is due this week after toxicology results come 
in. 

Palfrey's note used a number of clichéd expressions, strangely including 
"modern day lynching", referring to the extremely selective enforcement that 
found her guilty in federal court and a darkly ironic reference to her 
impending manner of death.  
 

  
In the note to her sister, she writes "With complete certainty, I believe Dad 
is standing watch - prepared to guide me into the light". Only a close relation 
would know if this echoed her true feelings and beliefs, or if the statement 
was coded to signal a forced hand. 
  
Among Palfrey's known clients were current Louisiana Senator Vitter, former 
AIDS Czar Randall Tobias, Dick Morris and military-industrial wonk Harlan 
Ullman, but Dick Cheney's McLean, VA phone number, reported earlier was 
summarily un-reported after a turnaround by ABC News. 

ABC anchor Sam Donaldson has also been a rumored client, along with a law 
partner of Rudy Giuliani, associates of Jack Abramoff and many more Pentagon, 
DC and corporate insiders on a list of over 10,000 numbers. 

According to early accounts, ABC News correspondent Brian Ross had the 
exclusive scoop because Palfrey turned over years-long call lists for his staff 
to verify. After Cheney turned
 up on the list, the story, already on the ABC website and poised to run on 
20/20, suddenly went away. 

No explanation has been offered as to why ABC reversed itself. Any mention of 
Cheney was scrubbed from their website and the 20/20 piece never ran. Vitter 
and Tobias had already admitted whoring, so the mainstream press continues to 
carry the DC Madam story without mentioning Cheney, excepting DC blogsman Wayne 
Madsen, who says his reporting is corroborated by multiple sources, all but 
daring Cheney to sue. The trial's verdict received little coverage and a 
scheduled Vitter was never subpoaened. 
  
Then, going into to a weekend news cycle we heard about the hanging, presented 
as a suicide from the first mention with no investigation. The public was left 
bereft of details - was it a full autopsy and inquest? Witness statements? Did 
the Madam check out without leaving behind anything
 critical of those who hounded her? No mentions left behind about the DOJ 
Attorney fired after investigating her case? 

So we've seen the handwritten notes, but many questions remain. Can Brian Ross 
(now elevated in the ABC ranks) answer the most basic inquiries about the DC 
Madam story that never was? 

We will, if Brian Ross' can say the words "journalistic integrity" while 
looking in a mirror. Mr. Ross may wonder himself if Palfrey's death was 
self-inflicted or a torturous mu

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Recent days have brought two major justice-related stories. Could they be 
connected? Let's take a look. 
  


First came a guilty plea from former Justice Department official Robert 
Coughlin on conflict-of-
interest charges connected to disgraced Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. 
  
 
  
 
  


Then came word that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, better known as the D.C. Madam, had 
apparently committed suicide at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Florida. 
  


In Legal Times splendid account of the Coughlin plea, an e-mail exchange 
between two Abramoff lobbyists is cited. The lobbyists are Kevin Ring and 
Padgett Wilson, and Ring is telling Wilson about a celebration to honor Justice 
Department officials who helped bring home $16 million for an Abramoff client, 
the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. "Come to the show, baby," Couglin 
says. Here is how Wilson responds: 

"Are there any tickets left?" asked Wilson, now director of governmental 
affairs for Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue. He then submitted: 
 
 
 
  
"And as for those DOJ staffers, those guys should get anything they want for 
the rest of the time they are in office -- opening day tickets, Skins v. 
Giants, oriental massages, hookers, whatever." 
  


So there you have it: One Abramoff associate indicating to another that 
prostitutes are to be part of the pay off for Justice Department officials who 
further the sleazy Team Abramoff cause. 
  


Then a few days later, we learn that Ms. Palfrey, who ran one of the most well 
known high-end prostitution services in the D.C. area, is found hanging in a 
shed behind her mother's mobile home. 
  


Does this
 prove that Palfrey's death was something other than a suicide, which is the 
official version from Tampa-area law enforcement? No. But could a reasonable 
mind take these two events and ask, "Is this one heck of a coincidence--
  
 
  
the public learns that Abramoff lackies evidently were plying Justice 
Department officials with hookers and then a few days later one of the D.C. 
areas most renowned practitioners of the prostitution trade is found dead?" 
  


Time magazine was first out with a story saying Palfrey had discussed the 
possibility of suicide with a writer named Dan Moldea. "She wasn't going to 
jail, she told me that very clearly," Moldea said. "She told me she would 
commit suicide." 
  


But Moldea's
 account does not square with Palfrey's own words. One Web site presents audio 
of Palfrey saying she would not commit suicide and that she probably would be a 
victim of a murder made to look like a suicide. 
  


The Coughlin case also brings to mind the case of former New York Governor 
Eliot Spitzer, who resigned after getting nabbed in a prostitution-related 
investigation. Is anyone investigating the possibility that Team Abramoff, and 
their "friendlies" in the Justice Department, violated federal law regarding 
the transport of prostitutes over state lines? That's apparently what got 
Spitzer into doo-doo. What about folks in the Justice Department, the very 
organization that led the Spitzer organization? 
 
 


A major theme of the Bush Justice Department scandal has to do with double 
standards. Actions that become federal crimes when "committed" by a Democrat 
are ignored when committed by Republicans, or people associated with GOP 
supporters. 
  


Could a serious investigation into the Coughlin case and the D.C. madam suicide 
unearth evidence of a particularly noxious double standard? 


  
Here is something else to keep in mind regarding the D.C. madam death: Hanging 
is a fairly unusual form of suicide for a woman. According to statistics at 
suicide.org, the two most common methods of suicide for women, by far, are 
poisons (overdosing, etc.) at 37.8 percent and firearms at 32.4 percent. 
Hanging, strangulation, and suffocation are grouped together and come in third 
at 19.7 percent.
 But if we can assume that true hanging makes up only one-third of that group, 
it seems that only a little more than 6 percent of female suicides use the 
method found in the D.C. Madam case. 
  


  
Note: In our first post on the Coughlin matter, we noted that one news source 
had identified Coughlin a

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Gangsters, guns and drugs - now tourists can see the 'real Rio'
Tom Phillips
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/07/brazil.drugstrade
The Guardian, Wednesday May 7 2008 Article history

You could be forgiven for imagining that a holiday in Rio de Janeiro  
involved stretching out on Ipanema beach, trekking up the Sugar Loaf  
mountain or attempting to dance the samba after a bellyful of caipirinha.  
This week, however, another attraction was added to the list: posing for  
photos alongside teenage drug traffickers clutching Russian machine guns  
and bags of Bolivian cocaine.

Rio's tourist police are investigating after a Brazilian reporter went  
"undercover" on one of the city's shantytown or favela tours. He claims to  
have witnessed the tour guide introducing witless gringos to a member of  
the drug faction that controls Rio's largest shantytown, Rocinha, and then  
watched as they posed for photos.

There are around 600 redbrick favelas in Rio de Janeiro, home to around a  
million of its poorest people. The slums are considered no-go zones by  
most Brazilians. Foreigners, however, have always shown more interest in  
Rio's impoverished underbelly. Since the 1980s, when guidebooks suggested  
cunning ways to sneak a peek at the favelas without actually going in,  
"poorism" has been a growing trend. Within a few years tour companies  
began offering visitors the chance to talk to locals, visit social  
projects and buy art from "authentic" (ie dirt poor) Brazilians. Today a  
new, less savoury, generation of "poor guides" has sprung up. For around  
£30 a head, they offer to transport thrill-seeking foreigners into a  
real-life version of City of God, the acclaimed film about Rio's gang  
culture.

Some years ago I was approached by a dishevelled-looking North American,  
who described himself as an "alternative tour guide". He claimed he was  
taking a young English couple to meet some gangsters. Would I like to come?

The next day, we were led up a steep concrete staircase towards the top of  
a shantytown in Copacabana. Halfway up the hillside we stopped to chat  
with a pair of traffickers and for the guide to fill his nostrils with  
cocaine. I asked the guide if he didn't think the tours, which included  
the opportunity to pose for photos holding the traffickers' weapons, a tad  
over the top. He shook his head wildly, a thick white ring now etched  
around his nostril.

It was important, he pontificated, for tourists to know the "real Rio".

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] YouTube - DC Madam: "They will make it look like suicide"

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey | World news | The Observer

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Subject: [ctrl] Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey | World news | 
The Observer










http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/04/turkey.thefarright/print


Mystery of a killer elite fuels unrest in Turkey

Arrest of 47 people over alleged coup plot sparks fears of hidden  
ultra-right network
Jason Burke in Istanbul
The Observer, Sunday May 4 2008

Supporters wave flags for Devlet Bahceli in Istanbul, Turkey. Photograph:  
Carsten Koall/AFP/Getty Images



It has the elements of a thriller: a shadowy group of right-wing former  
soldiers, a mafia don, extremist lawyers and politicians; hand-grenades in  
a rucksack; plots to kill the Prime Minister and a Nobel-prize winning  
writer; allegedly planted evidence and falsified wire taps.

Even the name of the villains - the Ergenekon network - has an airport  
paperback flavour, and the stakes involved are high: the stability of one  
of the world's most strategically important countries. This highly charged  
political reality is splitting Turkey.

In the coming days the Ergenekon investigation will reach its climax.  
According to newspaper reports, a long-awaited indictment will be issued  
by the state prosecutor. After successive waves of arrests, 47 people are  
in custody. They include senior figures in the ultra-right-wing Workers'  
Party, a dozen retired senior army officers, journalists and a lawyer  
accused of launching legal attacks that drove Nobel award-winning writer  
Orhan Pamuk from his homeland.

Crimes being blamed on Ergenekon include a series of murderous bomb  
blasts, a grenade attack on a newspaper, the murder of an Italian bishop  
and the killing last year of Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink - all  
aimed, investigators believe, at creating a climate of terror and chaos  
propitious to a military coup that would depose Turkey's moderate Islamist  
government.

The coup attempt has revealed deep divisions in Turkey's 73 million-strong  
population over the country's identity: pro-European or anti-European,  
fiercely nationalist, ethnically homogeneous and militaristic, or  
globalised and pro-Western, more or less Islamic, more or less sunk in  
historical bitterness and dark conspiracy theories.

'The cleavage is deep: every institution, every social class, everybody is  
divided,' said Professor Murat Belge of Bigli University, Istanbul, an  
analyst. 'I am deeply apprehensive about what is going on now and what  
might happen.'

But for Mehmet Demirlek, a lawyer defending a colleague accused of being a  
key member of Ergenekon, the allegations are 'imaginary'. 'There is not a  
shred of truth in them,' he said. 'This is 100 per cent political. It has  
all been cooked up by the government and by the imperialist powers, the  
CIA, Mossad and the Jewish lobby and the European Union to eliminate  
Turkish nationalism. There is no such thing as Ergenekon.' His imprisoned  
client, Kemal Kerincsiz, told The Observer in an interview prior to his  
arrest he was a 'patriot fighting the disintegration of the nation'.

For Fethiye Cetin, a lawyer representing Hrant Dink's family, Ergenekon  
has 'existed for years'. 'A small part of what has been previously hidden  
is being exposed. Call it the "deep state".'

An investigation was launched by state prosecutors after 27 hand-grenades,  
said to be the make used by the military, were found in a home in a  
rundown part of Istanbul last June. Investigators claim that they later  
uncovered an underground network dedicated to extremist nationalist  
agitation.

Wire taps led to further finds of explosives, weapons and documents  
listing security arrangements of senior political and military figures and  
death lists. The papers supposedly proving Ergenekon - the name of a  
mythic mountain in Asia where the ancestors of the Turkic peoples escaped  
the Mongols - was set up in 1999 as a clandestine and violent organisation  
aimed of maintaining a reactionary, purist vision of a strong,  
militaristic Turkey, the heritage, the extremists believed, of the founder  
of the nation, Kemal Ataturk.

The plotters tap 'into a psyche that is based on a new and extreme  
nationalism', said Cengiz Candar, one of Turkey's most prominent  
journalists. 'The idea is that to preserve Turkey it is necessary and  
legitimate to resist in any way. And anyone who is pro-European, liberal,  
who argues for increased rights for minorities and so on is a traitor.'

According to Candar, this new nationalism is the result of a coincidence  
of factors: the difficulties of Turkey's accession to the European Union,  
soul-searching over nation identity generated by the debate on Europe, the  
emergence of a strong, semi-autonomous Kurdish state in post-Saddam Iraq  
with all the potential implications that has for Turkey's large Kurdish  
population, and, pe

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Voices - London's Man Cheney Blows Up Iraq, To Trigger War on Iran

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London's Man Cheney Blows Up Iraq, To Trigger War on Iran
Jeffrey Steinberg
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/05/01/p25168


In the wake of the April 9-10 Capitol Hill testimony by Gen. David  
Petraeus and Ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker, the Bush Administration,  
according to senior U.S. intelligence sources, has ordered American forces  
inside Iraq, to escalate the military campaign against Shi'ite cleric  
Moqtada al-Sadr and his Madhi Army. Lyndon LaRouche promptly denounced  
this action as totally psychotic, and guaranteed to blow up the Iraqi  
situation, which is already fragile, at best.

According to the sources, U.S. military forces will increasingly take the  
lead in battling the Shi'ite militia in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood,  
and in the southern region of Basra. This, LaRouche warned, is guaranteed  
to throw Iraq into further chaos. "Is President Bush actually psychotic?"  
he asked.

Reliable sources in Baghdad and Washington trace the provocation against  
al-Sadr back to Vice President Dick Cheney's recent visit to Baghdad,  
during his ten-day tour of the region. In his meetings with Prime Minister  
Nouri al-Maliki, according to the sources, Cheney pressed for a military  
assault on the Madhi Army, even though a ceasefire between rival Shi'ite  
factions had been recently extended. U.S. intelligence sources report that  
the combined Iraqi-American-British military operations aim to crush  
al-Sadr's militia long before the scheduled provincial elections in  
October. Al-Sadr's forces are in control of Basra, and by all projections,  
would likely win the provincial vote, further undermining the Bush  
Administration-backed al-Maliki coalition, which also includes the  
al-Hakim SCIRI (Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq) group.  
All three Shi'ite factions-al-Maliki, al-Hakim, and al-Sadr-enjoy the  
backing of Iran.

Shifting Targets

The U.S. is counting on Saudi Arabia to continue pouring money into the  
Sunni tribes, in the Anbar and Diyala provinces, to prevent a new outbreak  
of anti-American insurgency in that part of the country. This was evident  
in the testimony of both General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker, who  
downplayed the threat coming from the Sunni al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), while  
focusing on the growing threat coming from Iran. However, this reliance on  
Saudi Arabia to maintain the calm in the Sunni regions of Iraq is fraught  
with danger. It is known, according to U.S. military and intelligence  
sources, that the Saudi support is not reliable, particularly as the  
Saudis view the U.S. support of the Shi'ite al-Maliki government as  
evidence that Washington will back a Shi'ite domination of Iraq.

Furthermore, as one senior U.S. intelligence official emphasized to EIR,  
the "900-pound gorilla in the room" is the role of Saudi intelligence in  
the 9/11 attacks, a role that the Bush Administration has gone to great  
lengths to hide from the public, but which is recognized among some  
leading American intelligence officials. They bristle at the idea that the  
U.S. can trust the Saudis to genuinely work for American interests, in  
bankrolling the Sunni tribes in Iraq. It is widely believed that, in  
response to continuing American support for a Shi'ite majority government  
in Baghdad, and a belief that a new U.S. administration will withdraw the  
majority of U.S. troops from Iraq, Saudi Arabia is building up a Sunni  
buffer state in the bordering areas of Iraq.

The sources add that, within the Pentagon, both Secretary of Defense  
Robert Gates, and a majority of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, oppose the  
acceleration of U.S. counterinsurgency operations against al-Sadr. For one  
thing, they are concerned about other threats to the stability of the  
larger region, including the prospects of a major escalation in fighting  
in Afghanistan and the bordering regions of Pakistan. In recent testimony  
before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, two retired U.S. Army  
generals, Barry McCaffrey and William Odom, had strongly asserted that the  
Iraq situation could not be settled militarily, and called for a U.S.  
troop withdrawal, accompanied by a new U.S. diplomatic initiative,  
including direct talks with Iran and Syria.

Gates has personally promoted diplomatic contact with al-Sadr, emphasizing  
that the cleric represents a large number of Shi'ites in the south of the  
country, and in major parts of the capital city of Baghdad. Al-Sadr's  
family is one of the leading Shi'ite families in Iraq; his father and  
uncle were revered clerics, and the political movement he leads has a long  
history there, including during the worst periods of the Saddam Hussein  
regime, w

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things - Democratic Underground

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List of Suicides by whistle blowers or those that knew things
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3232050

Edited on Thu May-01-08 02:37 PM by Ichingcarpenter
1 DC Madame: had clients with the Pentagon and Govt

2 Lt. Col. Marshall A. Gutierrez Iraqi/Kuwait procurement officer:  
http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/GutierrezMarshallA

3 Abdulrahman,US citizen, contractor whistle-blower:  
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmView...


4 Charles D. Riechers - Air Force- Ret. d: 10/07 suicide Boeing Tanker  
Deal: Still no autopsy report:
http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=9396

5 Col. Theodore S. Westhusing
General Dave Petraeus: http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/77313 /


6 Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil {re Westhusing letter to Maj. Gen. Fil on May 28,  
2005],: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_S._Westhusing


7 Darleen Druyun , http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1004/100104g1.htm

8 Brandy Britton who worked for the DC madam :  
http://www.examiner.com/a-714063~Accused_D_C__madam__Br...

9 Clifford Baxter, Enron executive:  
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/25/enron.suicide/ind...

10. David Kelly, British Weapons Expert on WMDs :  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly


11. James Hatfield, wrote book on George Bush and his crimes :  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hatfield


12 Gary Webb, a prize-winning American investigative journalist, on Iran  
Contra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

13 Margie Schoedinger (1965?-2003) was an American woman who filed a civil  
suit against former Texas governor and current U.S. President George W.  
Bush in 2002, alleging that Bush had sexually assaulted her.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Schoedinger

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=10236

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http://rawstory.com//printstory.php?story=10236

San Diego GOP chairman co-founded international piracy ring

04/29/2008 @ 10:55 am

Filed by Miriam Raftery



Any job applicant knows that background checks are routine – especially  

for jobs involving authority or oversight of money. So why didn’t the San  

Diego Republican Party do a simple Google search before naming Tony  

Krvaric as its chairman?

Advertisement



Online research reveals that Krvaric is the co-founder of Fairlight, a  

band of software crackers which later evolved into an international video  

and software piracy group that law enforcement authorities say is among  

the world’s largest such crime rings. After co-founding Fairlight in  

Sweden, Krvaric established U.S. operations for the organization,  

including an arm headquartered in Southern California—a major center for  

the computer and video game industry.



Krvaric has also been appointed by California Republican Party Chairman  

Ron Nehring to head up the state party’s budget committee. RAW STORY's  

investigation reveals the California GOP has put an alleged pirate in  

charge of its treasure trove.



An e-mail sent anonymously this week to a conservative listserv operator  

in San Diego County revealed an attached document titled “The Secret Life  

of Tony Krvaric.” The attachment alleged that Krvaric, using the alias  

“Strider,” founded Fairlight “to illegally crack and distribute  

copyrighted software.” Fairlight evolved from “an adolescent obsession  

into a full fledged multinational criminal enterprise,” the e-mail claimed.



These allegations come as no surprise to RAW STORY, which has been  

researching Krvaric’s ties to Fairlight for some time.



Krvaric, alias Strider



Currently a financial consultant and licensed securities broker, Tony  

Krvaric was born in Sweden in 1971 to a family of Croatian immigrants. He  

arrived in the United States in 1992 on an H1B visa, wanting to leave  

Swedish social democracy. Krvaric had been known even in his teens as a  

conservative; his motto was "Kill A Commie For Your Mommie." In his  

official Republican party biography, Krvaric claims that he was inspired  

by the legacy of Ronald Reagan and criticized the European system for not  

providing an economic climate that would “encourage free enterprise and  

competition.”



Krvaric obtained American citizenship in 2003 and joined the Republican  

Party, which welcomed him as a refutation of "those claiming the GOP is  

non-accepting and non-inclusive of immigrants." He made a meteoric rise  

through Republican party ranks, taking the helm of San Diego’s GOP just  

three years later. Krvaric "credits the man he succeeds, Ron Nehring with  

teaching him much about the functions of the Republican Party.”



However, behind this old-fashioned success story lies another and more  

shadowy version of Krvaric's life, his time spent as a video game pirate  

sporting the alias "Strider." In 1987, Strider and two buddies, using the  

names "Black Shadow" and "Gollum" founded Fairlight, devoted to "cracking"  

the copy protection on video games for the Commodore 64 and other early  

systems and redistributing them to acquaintances through electronic  

bulletin boards.



The "warez d00dz" of that time competed at being the first to get their  

hands on newly released games. Strider, who worked in a game store and  

would "borrow" new games to take home and crack, was one of the very best.  

According to an interview that a website claims was published in  

Scandinavian News in the 1980s, he quickly became "one of the most famous  

persons in cracking-scene ever seen: STRIDER of FAIRLIGHT."



A list of Commodore 64 games cracked by Strider is posted at a database of  

C-64 computer information -- complete with his photo, recent biographical  

details, and first name: Tony, described as a “coder, cracker, importer  

and organizer” for Fairlight. The listing confirms that Strider has since  

become a financial consultant and Republican in San Diego, married with  

four children. His impressive list of “accomplishments” includes cracking  

games ranging from PacMan to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. The  

site also lists Strider’s motto: "Kill a commie for your mommie."



This pirate site lists Strider’s accomplishments chronologically including  

all the games he cracked in his formative years. It identifies Strider as  

“Toni K. (No. 1)” residing at Hallstorpsv. 38a - 212 32 Malmoe – Sweden.  

It also lists numbers of people he apparently recruited into the cracking  

business.



Although game cracking was already seen by the Swedish police as illicit  

in the ‘80s, trading cracked so

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] CIA's John McCone & Western Bancorporation Westheimer Houston TEXAS !!!

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judson witham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  

  
http://www.westgate-ch.com/enabout.html
  
 
  
Throughout the 1980s, the assets of the holding company, Western 
Bancorporation, exceeded $1 billion and became the 4th largest bank of the 
Houston Metropolitan area.
  
    
POTHOLES & PROMISES/Montgomery County's crumbling
 subdivisions/ Investors mired in muddy mess of sub...  CATHY GORDON : Staff  
Clesson said officials at Western Bank-Westheimer in Houston, who financed the 
project, urged him to take it over in 1978 after Eikel went into default on a 
loan.  06/22/1987

  
 
  
Good Old Harreal Blackshear and 
  
CIA Director John McCone's  Western Bancorporation
  
 
  
The Pinewood Village MAFIA
  
 
  
POTHOLES & PROMISES/Montgomery County's crumbling subdivisions/ Investors mired 
in muddy mess of sub...  CATHY GORDON : Staff 
  
Pinewood Village resident Shelly Dayton said she lives for the day when she can 
travel Pinewood Village roads without battling potholes. 
  
06/22/1987 
  
 
  
Resident's crusading `fans fire'/Subdivision's
 critic outlines difficulties 
  
CATHY GORDON : Staff  I want to warn people about the Pinewood Villages of the 
world." But my only motivation is putting a stop to Pinewood Villages. 
  
06/22/1987 
  
 
  
Man charged in threat against Bush 
  
CATHY GORDON : Staff  Authorities said all the threats appear to stem from 
Witham's frustration at road, drainage and septic tank problems in Pinewood 
Village, the subdivision in which he lives.
 
  
11/21/1985 
  
Conroe man charged with threatening assistant county attorney's life 
  
CATHY GORDON : Staff The telephone call apparently stemmed from Witham's 
frustration over getting problems corrected in Pinewood Village, the 
subdivision in which he lives east of Conroe. 11/20/1985
  
 
  
Now Maybe We Should Look A Little CLOSER
  
at the Houston Posts Stories and that
  
CLOSED DOOR
 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Hearing
  
William Webster, Herman K. Beebe , Ollie North 
  
and the Houston Post
  
 
  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCone
  
 
  
http://www.namebase.org/mccone.html
  
 
  
After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy tried to appease the right-wing by 
appointing McCone as CIA director
  
 
  
Right up the street from the Galleria were North, Secord and B H Bush
  
took up one of their FIRST COLLECTIONS for Iran Contra and the
  
ENTERPRISES


  
  
  
  
  
  
Westgate Investments
  
 
  
Western Bancorporation is a private bank holding company owned by Swiss 
investor O.R. Lababedi.  Although the company's remaining banks will be sold, 
the Lababedi family will retain ownership of the holding company, Scogin said. 
  
 
  
  
Western bank failures largest in city's history 
  
SCOTT CLARK : Staff  Starting with the bank on Westheimer, Western built a 
group of five banks in the early 1980s. The North Wilcrest bank was opened in 
1983. 
  
10/02/1987 
  
 
  
The Billary and William J. Clinton
 
  
Gary Mauro Connection !!!
  
 
  
Authorities probing forgery allegations 
  
JAMES DRUMMOND, MARY C. BOUNDS : Staff 
  
Wright, who was a director at Western Bank-Downtown when the $850,000 loan was 
made, and Caraway launched a dozen real estate projects in the Clear Lake area 
in the early to mid-1980s. 
  
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Established in 2002, Westgate is the Swiss arm of RLG's Real Estates Division 
and its management has an important role in RLG's global real estates strategy. 
The Switzerland portfolio is to grow strongly over the next few years through 
acquisitions and developments. Westgate Investments aims to become one of the 
major players on the Swiss market by using RLG's now traditional investment 
method, based on a secure financial structure, irreprochable work ethics and 
excellent partner relations.
  
 
  
McCone, John A.   
McCone is a former CIA director, a member of the Bohemian Club, and a director 
of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance, United California Bank, Western
 Bancorporation, Standard Oil of California, ITT, and the Committee on the 
Present Danger. More on McCone 
  
 
  
King, Frank L. 
  
King is a director of Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. He has been a 
director of Litton Industries and the chairman of Western Bancorporation and 
United California Bank. 
  
 
  
Shumway, Forrest N. (Treasurer) 
  
Shumway is a director of United California Bank, president and chief executive 
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http://www.geheim-magazin.de
In Memoriam Philip Agee
by Die Geheim-Redaktion / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apr 23 2008 ? Ein guter Freund ist gestorben: Anfang Januar dieses Jahres 
verstarb im Alter von 72 Jahren auf Kuba der ehemalige CIA-Agent Philip Agee. 
Die Zeitung der kubanischen Kommunisten, „Granma“, würdigte ihn als 
„verlässlichen Freund Kubas und glühenden Verteidiger des Kampfes der Völker 
für 
eine bessere Welt“. 
Ja, das war Philip und so wird er in Erinnerung vieler bleiben, obwohl die 
Sätze 
aus „Granma“ eine stimmige, kurze Zusammenfassung eines stürmischen, 
kämpferischen Lebens sind. Philip Agee hat ganz bewusst und mit Konsequenz die 
Seiten gewechselt. Zunächst als Durchschnittsnordamerika-ner“, patriotisch und 
karriereorientiert, neugierig auf die große, weite Welt aufgewachsen, verschlug 
es ihn in den berüchtigten US-Geheimdienst CIA, wo er glaubte, all das erleben 
und erfüllen zu können. Diese Organisation des Staatsterrorismus schickte ihn 
als intelligenten, sprachbegabten Nachwuchs-agenten nach Lateinamerika, um die 
Dominanz des Imperiums in Lateinamerika mit allen Mitteln zu verteidigen. 
Dort erlebte Philip Agee jedoch mit eigenen Augen, was dies sehr konkret 
bedeutete: Folter, Mord, Staatsstreich, Mediendesinformation, Lüge, Verrat. 
Nichts blieb da mehr übrig von seinen Werten, die er einst geglaubt hatte, mit 
und in der Agency verteidigen zu können. Um sich treu zu bleiben, wurde er 
deshalb zu einem ihrer schärfsten und konsequentesten Kritiker.
Er brach mit der CIA 1968 und veröffentliche 1975 sein in viele Sprachen 
übersetztes Buch „Inside the Company“, indem er die schmutzigen Tricks der CIA 
sowie auch die Namen vieler für sie verantwortli-chen CIA-Agenten und 
Strukturen 
enthüllte. 
Seither wurde er von seinem ehemaligen Arbeitgeber gejagt, ihm der US-Pass 
entzogen; er war, wie einer seiner späteren Buchtitel lautete: „On The Run“ – 
auf der Flucht... 
Dennoch. Philip Agee blieb sich treu. Er veröffentlichte weiter, enthüllte 
viele 
weitere CIA-Operationen, so u.a. gegen Nikaragua, Grenada, Jamaika. Er blieb 
einer der konsequentesten und schärfsten Kritiker der CIA! 
So unterstützte er von Anfang an weitere nordamerikanische Kritiker der CIA, 
unter ihnen auch andere ehemalige CIA-Agenten, die von Beginn der 70er Jahre an 
in Büchern und Zeitschriften („Covert Ac-tion Information Bulletin“/später 
„Covert Action Quarterly“ sowie „The National Reporter“) eine weltwei-te 
Bewegung gegen die Terrororganisation CIA initiierten und damit alle Völker, 
Parteien, Organisatio-nen und Bewegungen sehr konkret unterstützten, die für 
Freiheit, sozialen wie politischen Fortschritt, für eine bessere Welt gegen das 
brutale Imperial kämpften. Diese Bewegung wurde schließlich so erfolgreich, 
dass 
einer der ersten Amtshandlung des 1980 neu gewählten US-Präsidenten Ronald 
Reagan war, das so genannte „Identities Protection Act“ zu verabschieden, mit 
dem es von nun an allen US-Bürgern – bei Androhung horrender Strafen – verboten 
war, wo und wie auch immer durch Veröffentlichungen zur Enthüllung aktiver, 
getarnter CIAAgenten und/oder geheimer CIAOperationen beizutragen, was 
angeblich 
zur Gefährdung der so genannten „nationalen Sicherheit“ des Yankee-Imperiums 
führen könne. Ein repressiver Gummiparagraf und ein schwerer Schlag gegen die 
Presse-freiheit in den USA, dem in den folgenden Jahrzehnten noch viele weitere 
folgen sollten... 
An diesem Punkt der Geschichte trafen sich unsere Wege – im revolutionären, 
sandinistischen Nika-ragua, das wir tatkräftig unterstützten. Unser Magazin 
GEHEIM wurde geboren, um jene Aspekte der Anti-CIA-Bewegung fortzuführen, unter 
anderem das NAMING NAMES, also die Enthüllung diploma-tisch getarnter 
CIAAgenten, die in den USA und für USBürger verboten worden war. Seither war 
uns 
Philip verbunden: ob als Autor oder Unterstützer. Deshalb versuchte die CIA 
auch, Veröffentlichungen in GEHEIM, die Furore machten, so u.a. 1988 die 
systematische Enthüllung von CIA-Agenten und Strukturen, ihm anzuhängen, um den 
weltweiten Druck auf Philip Agee weiter zu erhöhen. Die Terroristen im 
CIA-Hauptquartier in Langley störte es dabei nicht, dass er mit diesen Aspekten 
nichts zu tun hatte. Also wieder einmal ein klassischer Fall von 
Desinformation...
Ende der 90er Jahre zog Philip ganz nach Kuba und fand dort endlich einen 
ruhenden Pol ohne den Druck, ständig gejagt zu werden. 2000 gründete er in 
Havanna eine Reiseagentur, um vor allem nord-amerikanischen Staatsbürgern gegen 
das US-Embargo Reisen auf die revolutionäre Karibikinsel zu ermöglichen. Für 
ihn 
war dies ein konkreter, aktiver Schritt prinzipieller Solidarität mit der 
kubanischen Revolution, ein weiterer Schnittpunkt, den ihn mit uns verband.
Philip, wir werden Dich in vielerlei Hinsicht vermissen, ab

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/30/italy

Cries of 'Duce! Duce!' salute Rome's new mayor
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Wednesday April 30 2008

Supporters of Gianni Alemanno wave flags in Rome. Photograph: Dario  
Pignatelli/Reuters



Italy's new parliament met for the first time yesterday with applause for  
Rome's mayor-elect, Gianni Alemanno, a day after followers celebrated his  
triumph with straight-arm salutes and fascist-era chants.

Alemanno, a former neo-fascist youth leader, took 54% of the vote in a  
run-off on Sunday and Monday, crushing his rival, Francesco Rutelli, a  
deputy prime minister in the last, centre-left government.

Silvio Berlusconi, who won a general election earlier this month, welcomed  
the latest evidence of Italy's leap to the right by declaring: "We are the  
new Falange." Although he took care to wrap his remark in a classical  
context, his choice of words appeared to be a nod and a wink to his most  
extreme supporters.

The original Falange - the word means "phalanx" - was the Spanish fascist  
party, founded in the 1930s, which supplied Francisco Franco's  
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The prime minister-elect's closest ally, Umberto Bossi, the Northern  
League leader, kept up the intimidating rhetoric, arriving for the first  
session of Italy's parliament warning of violence if the centre-left did  
not go along with his plans for federalism.

"I don't know what the left wants [but] we are ready," he told reporters.  
"If they want conflicts, I have 300,000 men always on hand."

On Monday night, the area around Rome's city hall rang to chants of "Duce!  
Duce!", the term adopted by Italy's dictator, Benito Mussolini, equivalent  
to the German "Führer". Supporters of the new mayor gave the fascist Roman  
straight-arm salutes.

Alemanno, however, has promised to be the mayor of all Romans. He  
yesterday sent telegrams to both the Pope and the Chief Rabbi. Rome's  
Jewish community was shaken by the prospect of a mayor with Alemanno's  
record. During the campaign, there was a protest aimed at him in the  
city's old Jewish ghetto, where many of the city's Jews still live.
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Independent.co.uk

Drugs for guns: how the Afghan heroin trade is fuelling the Taliban  

insurgency

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/drugs-for-guns-how-the-afghan-heroin-trade-is-fuelling-the-taliban-insurgency-817230.html

By Jerome Starkey in Kunduz

Tuesday, 29 April 2008



The heroin flooding Britain's streets is threatening the lives of UK  

troops in Afghanistan, an Independent investigation can reveal.



Russian gangsters who smuggle drugs into Britain are buying cheap heroin  

 from Afghanistan and paying for it with guns. Smugglers told The  

Independent how Russian arms dealers meet Taliban drug lords at a bazaar  

near the old Afghan-Soviet border, deep in Tajikistan's desert. The bazaar  

exists solely to trade Afghan drugs for Russian guns – and sometimes a bit  

of sex on the side.



The drugs are destined for Britain's streets. The guns go straight to the  

Taliban front line. The weapons on sale include machine guns, sniper  

rifles and anti-aircraft weapons like the ones used in the attempt to  

assassinate the Afghan President Hamid Karzai last weekend.



"We never sell the drugs for money," boasted one of the smugglers. "We  

exchange them for ammunition and Kalashnikovs."



The drugs come mostly from Helmand, where most of Britain's 7,800 troops  

are based. The opium grown there is turned into heroin at factories inside  

Afghanistan, sold into Tajikistan and smuggled to Europe. The guns are  

broken down into parts, smuggled back into Afghanistan and delivered to  

the Taliban. One kilogram of heroin can buy about 30 AK-47 assault rifles  

at the bazaar.



Nato claims the Taliban get between 40 and 60 per cent of their income  

 from drugs. The smugglers' claims suggest the real cost could be far  

higher.



The smugglers described a bleak village with no homes, hidden in the  

desert near the border. Inside open-air courtyards up to 300 shopkeepers  

sit in small booths. They act as agents of the Russian mafia who supply  

the guns and spirit the drugs away. The Afghans are agents of corrupt  

officials in their government, said a mid-level lieutenant Daoud.



Around them lurk Tajik prostitutes, selling themselves for a few scraps of  

surplus heroin. "They will do anything. They just want some heroin and we  

always have some spare," said another smuggler.



We interviewed three smugglers in the lawless border areas north and east  

of Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanistan, as well as a Taliban go-between  

who was visiting from Helmand.



Speaking from his headquarters in Kunduz province, Daoud said Afghan  

smugglers lug sacks of grade-A heroin across the river Oxus, which marks  

the Tajik border. They drive pick-ups as far as they can, take motorbikes  

where the cars can't go, and finish the journey on foot. "We leave early  

in the evening and get there around 9am the next day," he said. "There  

aren't even any tracks because we never ride the motorbikes to the same  

place twice."



The heroin is harvested from opium farms across Afghanistan and taken to  

factories in the remote Pamir mountains in the Badakhshan region, where it  

is turned into heroin. It takes about 15kg of opium to make 1kg of heroin,  

said Daoud. From Badakhshan it is brought west to Kunduz, for the trip to  

Tajikistan. The weapons follow similar routes, but in the opposite  

direction, south and east to the fighting.



"We are like a company," said Daoud. "We have some big sponsors who  

support us in the government."



A kilogram of the best Afghan heroin is worth £600 in Afghanistan. It is  

worth twice as much at the bazaar in Tajikistan. But rather than take  

cash, they take weapon parts, because they double their value in  

Afghanistan. An AK-47 assault rifle costs £50 at the bazaar. It is worth  

up to £100 in northern Afghanistan, and even more in the south and east  

where demand for guns is higher, because of the fighting.



The Taliban go-between said fighters in Helmand expect to get six AK-47s  

for 1kg of good quality heroin, a similar number of rocket-propelled  

grenades or a dozen boxes of ammunition.



British special forces have arrested or killed drugs smugglers linked to  

the insurgency, alongside a secretive unit of the Afghan army called 333,  

but the bulk of the International Security Assistance Force is handicapped  

by its mandate which does not include counter-narcotics operations, unless  

they can be linked to the insurgency.



The smugglers claimed they are "untouchable" because their bosses include  

cabinet-level officials in the government. British officials suspect  

senior government insiders are involved in the drugs trade, but they have  

s

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Print Story: Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished on Yahoo! News

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080427/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/iraq_reconstruction



Investigators: Millions in Iraq contracts never finished



By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer

Sun Apr 27, 6:42 PM ET



Millions of dollars of lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts were never  

finished because of excessive delays, poor performance or other factors,  

including failed projects that are being falsely described by the U.S.  

government as complete, federal investigators say.



The audit released Sunday by Stuart Bowen Jr., the special inspector  

general for Iraq reconstruction, provides the latest snapshot of an uneven  

reconstruction effort that has cost U.S. taxpayers more than $100 billion.  

It also comes as several lawmakers have said they want the Iraqis to pick  

up more of the cost of reconstruction.



The special IG's review of 47,321 reconstruction projects worth billions  

of dollars found that at least 855 contracts were terminated by U.S.  

officials before their completion, primarily because of unforeseen factors  

such as violence and excessive costs. About 112 of those agreements were  

ended specifically because of the contractors' actual or anticipated poor  

performance.



In addition, the audit said many reconstruction projects were being  

described as complete or otherwise successful when they were not. In one  

case, the U.S. Agency for International Development contracted with  

Bechtel Corp. in 2004 to construct a $50 million children's hospital in  

Basra, only to "essentially terminate" the project in 2006 because of  

monthslong delays.



But rather than terminate the project, U.S. officials modified the  

contract to change the scope of the work. As a result, a U.S. database of  

Iraq reconstruction contracts shows the project as complete "when in fact  

the hospital was only 35 percent complete when work was stopped," said  

investigators in describing the practice of "descoping" as frequent.



"Descoping is an appropriate process but does mask problem projects to the  

extent they occur," the audit states.



Responding, USAID in the report said it disagreed that its descoping of  

the hospital project was "effectively a contract termination," but that it  

had changed the work because of escalating costs and security problems.  

Mark Tokola, the director of the Iraq transition assistance office, also  

responded that the database the IG's office reviewed of Iraq  

reconstruction contracts was incomplete.



Bowen's office said its review was preliminary and that it planned  

follow-up reviews to investigate descoping more closely. Investigators  

said they were also looking into whether contractors whose projects were  

terminated by the U.S. government due to inadequate performance might have  

been awarded new contracts later despite their poor records.



Investigators said the database they reviewed lacked full data on projects  

such as those done by USAID, the State Department, and those completed  

before 2006. But they said the figures cited in the report offered a  

baseline in terms of unfinished Iraq reconstruction contracts.



"Adding contract terminations from these (other) sources would certainly  

raise the number of terminated projects," the report states.



The audit comes amid renewed focus in recent months on potential abuse in  

contracting government-wide, such as Iraq reconstruction. Last year,  

congressional investigators said as much as $10 billion — or one in six  

dollars — charged by U.S. contractors for Iraq reconstruction were  

questionable or unsupported, and warned that significantly more taxpayer  

money was at risk.



In recent weeks, Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., has been working with Sen. Evan  

Bayh, D-Ind., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, on legislation that would  

restrict future reconstruction dollars to loans instead of grants; require  

that Baghdad pay for fuel used by American troops and take over U.S.  

payments to predominantly Sunni fighters in the Awakening movement.



Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on  

Government Oversight, said the latest audit report points to significant  

U.S. taxpayer waste in current reconstruction efforts.



"The report paints a depressing picture of money being poured into failed  

Iraq reconstruction projects — contractors are killed, projects are blown  

up just before being completed, or the contractor just stops doing the  

work," she said.



Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The  

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Bush Reaffirms North American Union Agenda At Leaders' Summit
  

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President Bush yesterday reaffirmed a commitment to progress the much maligned
 Security and Prosperity Partnership agenda, amid intensified opposition from 
commentators and critics concerned that the plan constitutes an undermining of 
national sovereignty. 
  
 
  
 
  
At a private party to open the fourth North American Leaders' Summit in New 
Orleans, Bush referred to recently encountered "setbacks" and told bureaucrats 
and business leaders "the meeting gives three friends the chance to come 
together to discuss our commitment to security and prosperity, to reconfirm the 
need for the three of us to work in harmony together for the good of our 
peoples. It's a chance to talk about how we can best protect our people and 
extend prosperity."   
   
   
Bush told leaders from Canada and Mexico "Tomorrow, we will be
 meeting with the business leaders of the North American Competitiveness 
Council to listen to their specific recommendations... The United States has an 
opportunity to continue the trading agenda."   
   
   
The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an advisory Council 
Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives of North American 
corporations that were selected by the American, Canadian and Mexican 
governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico.   
   
   
Recently
 uncovered documents detailed how these corporate representatives have been 
urged to "humanize" North American integration, promote NAFTA success stories 
to employees and unions and evolve the harmonization agenda "without fueling 
protectionism".   
   
   
The documentation consists of internal memos from Canada's Foreign Affairs and 
Internal Trade ministry, which were obtained by the World Net Daily reporter 
Jerome Corsi under an Access to Information Act request.   
Business leaders have been beseeched by bureaucratic working groups to launch 
public relations campaigns in order to counter critics of the secretive 
Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and to report back 
to senior government officials with advice on an ongoing basis.   
   
   
The memo highlighted how those advancing the North American integration agenda 
are concerned about the exposure and subsequent public backlash they have 
encountered recently.   

  
Meanwhile one prominent critic of the SPP agenda, Congressman Ron Paul has 
vowed to
 intensify opposition towards the alliance and the intrinsically linked 
Trans-Texas Corridor and proposed NAFTA ¡°Super Highway.¡±   
   
   
¡°As we all know, there have been significant moves recently to expand the 
Security and Prosperity Partnership initiated by President Bush and his Mexican 
and Canadian counterparts in 2005. One such plan is to construct a so-called 
¡°NAFTA Superhighway¡± running from Mexico, through Texas, and up eventually 
into Canada,¡± Paul said yesterday.   
   
   
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¡°I have opposed this project from the beginning, signing on as a co-sponsor of 
House Concurrent Resolution 40 expressing Congressional disapproval of
 the NAFTA
 Superhighway and any moves toward a North American Union.¡±

  

¡°More recently, I introduced an even stronger piece of legislation, H.R.5191, 
which would prohibit the use of federal funds to carry out this highway 
project. The federal government has no business being partner to this 
outrageous plan, according to which countless landowners would have their 
private property confiscated under eminent domain,¡± Paul said. 
  
 
  

 
  
¡°This prohibition of funds, if passed, would go a long way toward derailing 
this ill-conceived project and would send a clear message that further attempts 
to undermine U.S. sovereignty would not be unchallenged in Congress. It is long 
past time the United S

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Iraq war architect blames Powell for Iraq
04/25/2008 @ 8:54 am
Filed by John Byrne

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.htmlhttp://rawstory.com/news/2008/Feith_says_Iraq_war_not_my_0425.html

Blames Powell, Armitage, Bremer, Rumsfeld, Rice

The man who led the office that supplied the Bush Administration with "raw  
intelligence" on Iraq now says everyone else is to blame but himself.

Douglas Feith, President Bush's former Under Secretary of Defense for  
Policy, headed the Office of Special Plans, a secretive outfit which  
passed along unverified "alternative" intelligence to Administration  
decisionmakers in the run up to war.

A Senate Intelligence Committee report found that the Office "developed,  
produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on  
the Iraq and al Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that  
were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to  
senior decision-makers."

In other words, they passed on "intelligence" that was never vetted, much  
of which appeared to align with a hawkish Administration agenda.

On Thursday, Feith pointed his finger at everyone but himself regarding  
the war in Iraq. According to the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, at a  
book-launch party for his new book, "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon  
at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism," Feith blamed a laundry list of  
officials for failing "to challenge the logic of going to war."
Blames Bush, too

"He argued that former secretary of state Colin Powell and his deputy,  
Richard Armitage, were the ones who failed to challenge the logic of going  
to war -- not him," Milbank wrote. "He suggested that Powell, Armitage,  
Franks, former Iraq viceroy Jerry Bremer and even Feith's old boss, Donald  
Rumsfeld, should be blamed for the postwar chaos in Iraq -- not him. He  
blamed then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice for the way she  
operated ("fundamental differences were essentially papered over rather  
than resolved"). He accused the CIA of "improper" and unprofessional  
behavior. And he implicitly blamed President Bush for not cracking down on  
insubordinate behavior at the State Department."

"Yet at the same time, Feith told the... crowd that he disapproved of the  
"snide and shallow self-justification typical in memoirs of former  
officials," or what Feith cleverly called the "  
'I-was-surrounded-by-idiots' school of memoir writing," Milbank continues.  
"Feith pointed out that he supported his account with 140 pages of notes  
and documents. And yet, in his hour-long panel discussion, Feith seemed to  
be of the impression that he had, in fact, been surrounded by idiots."

Feith himself hasn't escaped accusations that he was aloof during his time  
at his Office of Special Plans.

According to Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack, then- Secretary of State Colin  
Powell referred to the Office as the "Gestapo" office. Former CIA director  
George Tenet called his work "total crap."

When Feith stepped in to back recruiting a brigade of "Free Iraqi Forces"  
to enter Iraq with Americans, according to the book Cobra II, "Franks  
turned to Feith in a Pentagon corridor, letting him know where he stood:  
'I don't have time for this fucking bullshit."

During his book launch party, Feith ironically remarked, "The CIA and the  
intelligence community should not be shading intelligence."

Milbank notes that Feith has been out of touch. Vaunting his book on "60  
Minutes," Feith asserted the Administration didn't need to claim Iraq had  
weapons of mass destruction to invade.

"Pointing so many fingers in so many directions, a man is bound to get  
confused -- as happened when Steve Kroft asked him on "60 Minutes" about  
his claim that the lack of troops contributed to looting in Baghdad," he  
adds. "'I don't believe I raised the troop-level issue in that  
connection," Feith replied. Then Kroft presented him with the passage.  
"That's a fair point,' Feith amended."

Remarked Milbank wryly, "It must have been very difficult being Doug  
Feith: correct all the time, and surrounded by idiots."

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] KNIGHTS of MALTA Secretly Elect New GRAND MASTER

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Knights of Malta secretly elect Englishman as new grand master
  
March 17, 2008 · 5 Comments
  
  
  

  
Frà Matthew Festing, 58, an Englishman, becomes the 79th Grand Master of the 
Sovereign Military Hospitaller
 Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
  
Until his final breath, Matthew Festing will carry the title “His Most Eminent 
Highness”.
  
Catholic News Service | Mar 11, 2008 
  
Leading Knights said the order is often depicted as secret society of the 
wealthy elite.
  
By John Thavis
  
ROME (CNS) — In a secret and swift election, the Knights of Malta elected an 
Englishman as their 79th grand master.
  
Matthew Festing, who had been the Knights’ grand prior of England, was chosen 
March 11 to replace Andrew W.N. Bertie, who died in February.
  
Festing, 59, will head the world’s oldest chivalric order, founded in the 11th 
century. He is only the second Englishman to hold the post of grand master; 
Bertie was the first.

  
Known officially as the
 Sovereign Military Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes 
and of Malta, the organization was established to care for pilgrims during the 
Crusades. It lives on today as a lay Catholic religious order and a worldwide 
humanitarian network.
  
The order is also a sovereign state, holding observer status at the United 
Nations and maintaining diplomatic relations with 100 countries.
  
Festing, an expert in art and history, joined the Knights in 1977 and in 1991 
became a “professed” knight, taking religious vows. He is a descendent of 
Blessed Adrian Fortescue, a Knight of Malta who was martyred in the 16th 
century.
  
As head of the English priory, Festing organized humanitarian assistance 
missions to Lebanon and Kosovo and led a delegation on the order’s annual 
pilgrimage with the sick to Lourdes.
  
In a statement issued after his election, the new grand master said he wanted 
to continue the work of his predecessor, who
 was credited with expanding the order’s humanitarian services and its 
diplomatic connections.
  
Pope Benedict XVI was informed of Festing’s election before it was announced to 
the world.
  
The election of a grand master is a major event in Rome. Fifty electors, 
representing the 12,500 male and female members of the order, filed into the 
Knights’ villa on Rome’s Aventine Hill, wearing their distinctive red robes 
decorated with the Maltese cross.
  
The election, which began with a Mass, had similarities to a papal conclave. 
The grand master had to be chosen from among the order’s approximately 50 
professed Knights.
  
The voting was done by a secret ballot, after nonvoters were asked to leave. No 
politicking was allowed, and the new grand master had to receive a “majority 
plus one” of the total votes — at least 27 out of 50.
  
At a press conference a few days before the election, leading Knights said the 
order is often wrongly
 depicted as an elite, wealthy secret society.
  
“In many ways, we are misunderstood,” said Winfried Henckel von Donnersmark, a 
member of the order’s sovereign council. In part, that’s because of the unusual 
nature of the organization, he said.
  
The Knights are a religious order, yet the vast majority of members are lay, he 
pointed out. It is a Catholic organization, but its humanitarian operations are 
open to people of all faiths. And while it does have some property and 
patrimony, it has to continually raise funds to support its annual $1 billion 
in charity works around the world, he said.
  
Membership in the order is by invitation. Knights and Dames are practicing 
Catholics and devote part of their time to doing works of mercy.
  
The professed members are all male, but women form an increasingly important 
part of the order, officials said.
  
According to Albrecht von Boeselager, one of the order’s chief officials, the
 Knights have about 80,000 local volunteers working in 120 countries throughout 
the world. The organization is welcomed by so many governments — even by the 
military regime in Myanmar, for example — because it adheres to strict 
neutrality on political issues, he said.
  
“We don’t consider ourselves a human rights organization. If making accusations 
on human rights issues would prevent us from assisting the needy, we would 
prefer to be silent,” von Boeselager said.
  
In the Middle East and Asia, however, the Knights’ neutrality has recently been 
called into question by extremist propaganda, he said.
  
“We have been accused of being part of a ‘new crusade,’ and even of having 
mercenaries fighting in Iraq. That is totally untrue, and it endangers our 
personnel in Muslim countries,” he said.
  
Noreen Falcone, president of the Knights’ U.S. federal association, said the 
order’s

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3802051.ece



>From The Times

April 24, 2008

'Disneyland' comes to Baghdad with multi-million pound entertainment park



The $1 million skateboard park will open in July. 200,000 skateboards will  

be shipped from the US and given away free to Iraqi children

Sonia Verma in Dubai



Llewellyn Werner admits he is facing obstacles most amusement park  

developers never have to deal with – insurgent attacks and looting.



When you are building an amusement park in downtown Baghdad, those risks  

come with the territory.



Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private  

equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad  

Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park  

that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a  

museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. “The  

people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge  

psychological impact,” Mr Werner said.



The 50-acre (20 hectare) swath of land sits adjacent to the Green Zone and  

encompasses Baghdad’s existing zoo, which was looted, left without power  

and abandoned after the American-led invasion in 2003. Only 35 of 700  

animals survived – some starved, some were stolen and some were killed by  

Iraqis fearing food shortages.



In the years that followed, the zoo and the surrounding al-Zawra park  

became an occasional target for insurgent attacks. But in recent months,  

families have begun to return cautiously for weekend picnics. Renovations  

have already begun on the zoo, with cages being repainted and new animals  

arriving, including ostriches, bears and a lion.



Mr Werner, who has been sold a 50-year lease on the site by the Mayor of  

Baghdad for an undisclosed sum, says that the time is ripe for the  

amusement park. “I think people will embrace it. They’ll see it as an  

opportunity for their children regardless if they’re Shia or Sunni.  

They’ll say their kids deserve a place to play and they’ll leave it alone.”



Ali al-Dabbagh, a spokesman for the Government, is equally optimistic:  

“There is a shortage of entertainment in the city. Cinemas can’t open.  

Playgrounds can’t open. The fun park is badly needed for Baghdad. Children  

don’t have any opportunities to enjoy their childhood.” Mr al-Dabbagh  

added that entry to the park would be strictly controlled.



The project will cost $500 million (£250 million) and will be managed by  

Iraqis. Under the terms of the lease, Mr Werner will retain exclusive  

rights to housing and hotel developments, which he says will be both  

culturally sensitive and enormously profitable. “I wouldn’t be doing this  

if I wasn’t making money,” he said. “I also have this wonderful sense that  

we’re doing the right thing – we’re going to employ thousands of Iraqis.  

But mostly everything here is for profit.”



A $1 million skateboard park, the first phase of the development, will  

open in July. Parts for 200,000 skateboards and materials to build ramps  

will be shipped from America to Iraq for assembly at state-owned factories  

and distributed free to Iraqi children along with helmets and knee pads.



The larger entertainment park, designed by Ride and Show Engineering Inc,  

will follow in phases, part of a strategy launched two years ago by the  

Iraqi Government and the US to attract private investment into the  

country’s 192 state-owned factories.



The factories were closed in 2003 by Paul Bremer, then the head of the  

Coalition Provisional Authority, who believed that private enterprise  

would take their place. Instead, industries withered and half a million  

skilled workers were left jobless.



A task force headed by Paul Brinkley, Deputy Under Secretary of Defence  

for Business Transformation, is now attempting to revive Iraq’s factories  

– a task undermined by persistent violence.



But Mr Werner, whose company manages several hundred million dollars of  

equity, sees Iraq as a great opportunity. “Iraq to me is an open field. I  

have never in my life seen an opportunity with the potential that Iraq has  

with its skilled workforce and oil reserves.” He has begun partnerships  

with several Iraqi factories in the last year, investing tens of millions  

of dollars in joint ventures. But the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment  

Experience could prove the most ambitious. General David Petraeus, head of  

US forces, is said to be a “big supporter” of the project, according to Mr  

Brinkley.



“There are all sorts of investment opportunities all over Iraq. But it’s  

not just hydrocarbons. Half the Iraqi population i

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?

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April 21, 2008

30 Years Ago Haiti Grew All the Rice It Needed. What Happened?

The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots

http://counterpunch.com/

By BILL QUIGLEY



Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the  lives  

of six people.  There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina   

Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico,  

Morocco,  Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.



The Economist, which calls the current crisis the silent tsunami, reports  

that  last year wheat prices rose 77% and rice 16%, but since January rice  

prices have  risen 141%. The reasons include rising fuel costs, weather  

problems, increased  demand in China and India, as well as the push to  

create biofuels from cereal  crops.



Hermite Joseph, a mother working in the markets of Port au Prince,  told  

journalist Nick Whalen that her two kids are “like toothpicks” they’ re  

not getting enough nourishment.  Before, if you had a dollar twenty-five   

cents, you could buy vegetables, some rice, 10 cents of charcoal and a  

little  cooking oil. Right now, a little can of rice alone costs 65 cents,  

and is not good rice at all.  Oil is 25 cents.  Charcoal  is 25 cents.   

With a dollar twenty-five, you can’t even make a plate of rice  for one  

child.”



The St. Claire’s Church Food program, in the Tiplas Kazo  neighborhood of  

Port au Prince, serves 1000 free meals a day, almost all to  hungry  

children -- five times a week in partnership with the What If   

Foundation.  Children from Cite Soleil have been known to walk the five  

miles to  the church for a meal. The cost of rice, beans, vegetables, a  

little meat,  spices, cooking oil, propane for the stoves, have gone up  

dramatically. Because  of the rise in the cost of food, the portions are  

now smaller.  But hunger is on  the rise and more and more children come  

for the free meal.  Hungry adults used  to be allowed to eat the leftovers  

once all the children were fed, but now there  are few leftovers.



The New York Times lectured Haiti on April 18 that “Haiti, its   

agriculture industry in shambles, needs to better feed itself.”   

Unfortunately, the article did not talk at all about one of  the main  

causes of the shortages -- the fact that the U.S. and other  international  

financial bodies destroyed Haitian rice farmers to create a major  market  

for the heavily subsidized rice from U.S. farmers.  This is not the only   

cause of hunger in Haiti and other poor countries, but it is a major force.



Thirty years ago, Haiti raised nearly all the rice it needed.  What  

happened?



In 1986, after the expulsion of Haitian dictator Jean Claude “Baby Doc”   

Duvalier the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loaned Haiti $24.6 million  

in  desperately needed funds (Baby Doc had raided the treasury on the way  

out).   But, in order to get the IMF loan, Haiti was required to reduce  

tariff  protections for their Haitian rice and other agricultural products  

and some  industries to open up the country’s markets to competition from  

outside  countries.  The U.S. has by far the largest voice in decisions of  

the IMF.



Doctor Paul Farmer was in Haiti then and saw what happened.  “Within less  

than  two years, it became impossible for Haitian farmers to compete with  

what they  called ‘Miami rice.’  The whole local rice market in Haiti fell  

apart as  cheap, U.S. subsidized rice, some of it in the form of ‘food  

aid,’ flooded  the market. There was violence, ‘rice wars,’ and lives were  

lost.”



“American rice invaded the country,” recalled Charles Suffrard,  a leading  

rice grower in Haiti in an interview with the Washington Post in 2000.

By 1987 and 1988, there was so much rice coming into the country that  

many  stopped working the land.



Fr. Gerard Jean-Juste, a Haitian priest who has been the pastor at  St.  

Claire and an outspoken human rights advocate, agrees.  “In the 1980s,   

imported rice poured into Haiti, below the cost of what our farmers could   

produce it.  Farmers lost their businesses.  People from the countryside  

started  losing their jobs and moving to the cities.  After a few years of  

cheap imported rice, local production went way down.”



Still the international business community was not satisfied.  In  1994,  

as a condition for U.S. assistance in returning to Haiti to resume his   

elected Presidency, Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced by the U.S., the  

IMF, and  the World Bank to open up the markets in Haiti even more.



But, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, what reason  

could  the U.S. have in destroying the rice market of this tiny country?

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Shocking Facts About the Pharmaceutical Industry 
  
 
  
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/04/19/shocking-facts-about-the-pharmaceutical-industry.aspx
  
 
  
 




  
  
  
  
  


  
  



  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
Big drug companies have been accused of putting profits above patients, 
spinning false PR campaigns and more. Here are some of the most shocking facts 
about the pharmaceutical industry.
  
 
  
 
  
The price of drugs is increasing faster than anything else a patient pays for: 
The prices of the most heavily prescribed drugs are routinely jacked up, 
sometimes several times a year. Some medications have a mark-up of 1,000 
percent over the cost of their ingredients.
  
 
  
 
  
Your doctor may have an ulterior motive behind your prescription: Drug reps 
often give gifts to convince doctors to prescribe the medications that they 
represent. These drug
 reps usually have no medical or science education.
  
 
  
Pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than research: Almost twice as 
much!
  
 
  
Guilty of Medicare fraud: Pharmaceutical companies are being tried in federal 
courts as a result of their exploitation of Medicare. AstraZeneca had to pay 
more than $340 million in penalties for coaching doctors to cheat Medicare.
  
 
  
The combined wealth of the top 5 pharmaceutical companies outweigh GNP of 
sub-Saharan Africa: In fact, the combined worth of the world¡¯s top five drug 
companies is twice the combined GNP of that entire region.
  
 
  
 
  
Americans pay more for prescription meds than anyone else in the world: $200 
billion in 2002 alone.
  
 
  
"New" Drugs aren't really new: Two-thirds of ¡°new¡± prescription drugs are
 identical to existing drugs or modified versions of them.
  
 
  
Drug companies are taking advantage of underdeveloped countries to perform 
clinical trials: In developing countries, government oversight is more lax.
  
 
  
For more shocking facts, click the link below.
  
  
Sources:
  
  
Nursing Online Education Database March 27, 2008




  

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
Dr. Mercola's Comments: 
  
 


  
  
  
 
  
According to Corporate Watch, Fortune magazine has declared the world¡¯s 
biggest drug company, Pfizer the ¡°fifth-best wealth-creator¡± in America.  
  
 
  
 
  
The question is: who benefits from this ¡°creation of wealth¡±? It¡¯s certainly
 not the Americans who pay a thousand percent markup for the drugs Pfizer pumps 
out. 
  
 
  
Americans pay far more for their drugs than any other nation. Take this, for 
example: according to PricewaterhouseCoopers fascinating report, Pharma 2020: 
The Vision, India spends $420 per diabetic patient per year. The U.S., in 
comparison, spends an average of $10,844 per year per patient.Their report also 
states: 
  
  
¡°The current pharmaceutical industry business model is both economically 
unsustainable and operationally incapable of acting quickly enough to produce 
the types of innovative treatments demanded by global markets. In order to make 
the most of these future growth opportunities, the industry must fundamentally 
change the way it operates. 
  
 
  
Some of the major
 changes PwC anticipates for the industry are: 
  
  
Health care will shift in focus from treatment to prevention.   

Pharmaceutical companies will provide total health care packages.   

  


The current linear phase research & development process will give way to 
in-life testing and live licensing, in collaboration with regulators and health 
care providers.   

  


The traditional blockbuster sales model will disappear.   

  


The supply chain function will become revenue generating as it becomes integral 
to the health care package and enables access to new channels.   

  


More sophisticated direct-to-consumer distribution channels will diminish the 
role of wholesalers.


  
Now, some of this has an encouraging ring to it, such as shifting the focus 
from treatment to prevention. Other ¡°predictions¡± are far more menacing,
 including the development of more sophisticated direct-to-consumer 
distribution channels for drugs.  
  
 
  
 
  
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People are Waking Up to the Truth About Health
  
 
  
Fortunately, more people are waking up to the illusion and deception of the 
drug industry

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http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/latest-news-at-a-glance 




NY Times Report: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand





In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave
of criticism over Guantánamo Bay. The detention center had just been
branded "the gulag of our times" by Amnesty International, there were
new allegations of abuse from United Nations human rights experts and
calls were mounting for its closure.





 The administration's
communications experts responded swiftly. Early one Friday morning,
they put a group of retired military officers on one of the jets
normally used by Vice President Dick Cheney and flew them to Cuba for a
carefully orchestrated tour of Guantánamo.





To the public, these
men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands
of times on television and radio as "military analysts" whose long
service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered
judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world.





Hidden
behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon
information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to
generate favorable news coverage of the administration's wartime
performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.





Link to full story and latest news - at - a - glance:


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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1063854.ece
Bay 8 sue MI5 & MI6 for millions
By ALEX WEST
Published: 19 Apr 2008
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EIGHT freed Guantanamo Bay prisoners are suing the British Secret
Service for millions, it was revealed last night.

The former terror suspects say MI5 and MI6 assisted in their
abduction, treatment and interrogation.

Five Brits and three foreign nationals living here say they were put
on CIA "torture flights" to the prison camp in Cuba.

Moazzam Begg – held for three years – said the case revolves around
MI5 and MI6's "complicity in the abuse of British citizens".

Two writs were served. The first, issued at London's High Court, names
Libyan Omar Deghayes, Jordanian Jamil el-Banna, and Iraqi Bisher al Rawi.

The second names Brits Begg, Richard Belmar and the so-called Tipton
Three – Rhuhell Ahmed, Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal.

The three men from Tipton had a case for £5million thrown out in the US. 





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EU to punish incitement to terrorism on Internet

A German police officer loads confiscated papers and computer
equipment into a police vehicle as part of an investigation into
Islamist militants in Ulm, September 5, 2007
EU states agreed on Friday on tight laws against incitement to
terrorism in order to clamp down on militant groups' use of the Internet.

EU justice and interior ministers also agreed in Luxembourg on an
action plan to try to stop groups getting explosives.

Police say the Internet has taken on huge importance for militants,
enabling them to share know-how, plan operations and spread propaganda
to a mass audience.

"The Internet is used to inspire and mobilize local terrorists ...
functioning as a virtual training camp," a text agreed by ministers said.

"Each member state shall take the necessary measures to ensure that
terrorist-linked offences include ... public provocation to commit a
terrorist offence, recruitment for terrorism, training for terrorism."

States may also consider attempts to train and recruit as terrorist
offences, but are not obliged to do so, an EU official said.

Spain's secretary of state for justice, Julio Perez Hernandez,
welcomed the move.

"The battle to anticipate (terrorist acts) is crucial for Spain," he
told reporters. "One should not wait for smoke to know there is
terrorism."

In an effort to assuage civil rights campaigners, the law says that
the new measure may not be used to restrict freedom of expression and
freedom of the press.

Before entering into force, the law still needs to be confirmed by
ministers after a number of national parliaments have discussed it.

A European Commission official said countries like Spain and Italy
already punish public provocation to terrorism but others, like
Scandinavian countries, would have to change their legislation to
apply the new EU text.

Under the plan to enhance the security of explosives, ministers agreed
to establish an early-warning system on stolen explosives and
detonators by the end of the year.

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Revealed: The Cartoonishly Racist Faked Memoir That Duped the NY Times
By John Gorenfeld, AlterNet
Posted on April 19, 2008, Printed on April 19, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/82615/

Last month, it was revealed that the New York Times and Manhattan  
publishing world were deceived by Love and Consequences, a faked memoir by  
a white girl who claimed to live the life you only hear about in Dr. Dre  
songs. The damage control was so good, the book never saw daylight, and we  
never knew how big of an embarrassment this cartoonishly racist gangster  
fantasy should have been. But last week a copy arrived at my doorstep.

Supposedly written by gangsta moll Margaret B. Jones, Love and  
Consequences turned out to be the work of middle-class liar Margaret  
Seltzer. She had invented the tale behind a laptop at Starbucks, tricking  
not only her publisher, but also her fans at the Times, which graced the  
memoir with repeated coverage.

After it was revealed her work was a forgery, the damage control was swift  
and successful. On March 5, with the book just out the door, the New York  
Times revealed the hoax, if not just how bad it was. Her agent, Faye  
Bender, told the paper, reassuringly, that "there was no reason to doubt  
her, ever." And that set the tone for the coverage. Love & Consequences,  
wrote the L.A. Times, must have seemed "edgy, sexy, cinematic."

Except it's not. As a true story, this book would have been less about  
"love" and more about crude racial stereotypes. As a hoax, it reads as  
easily the laziest forgery ever to receive a six-figure advance and a rave  
review in the Times.

In an important sense, the real scandal was never discovered. Thanks to  
the book's speedy recall, we missed what should worry everyone: the  
catastrophic failure of the New York Times's B.S. detectors, which we  
thought they tuned up after the twin factual fiascos of Jayson Blair and  
Judith Miller.

Copies are going for $78 online, but one slipped through the blockade. So  
here, for the first time, are the Cliffs Notes.

Chapter One: Lost

Year: Unknown. Margaret B. Jones watches her friend, "Kraziak," bite the  
dust in a hail of AK-47 bullets. This is what we call in media res-opening  
mid-story.

In this passage, which the Times excerpted, Seltzer places herself in a  
ghetto battlefield that could have been a video game mission in Grand  
Theft Auto: San Andreas. "We were smoking niggas," she concludes, after  
spilling a 40-ounce bottle of malt liquor for a dead comrade, "sending  
them to heaven every day."

Tipping the 40: almost every under-35 hipster, stoner, or frat boy on a  
liquor run has at one time trivialized important social problems by  
joshing about this fabled street rite. Here this Caucasian joke is made  
flesh, as the amber liquid burns Jones' throat. A "big homie smiled at  
me," she recalls, "and then slipped the remaining cups over the neck of  
the Hennessey bottle ..."

Easily the strongest writing. From here on it speeds downhill, and the  
story becomes less believable.

Chapter Two: The hand you are dealt

Flash back to around 1979. Jones is an innocent toddler in foster care who  
loves Make Way For Ducklings but is shell-shocked from dimly described  
sexual abuse. The transition into G-life is hazy. Here she introduces a  
major theme, an excuse for the oddly psychologically flat tone of the  
book, its lack of introspection. Turns out she has PTSD, and is too  
stunned by life! "If I couldn't feel it," she writes, "it couldn't hurt  
me."

Chapter Three: Start from scratch

1982. Margaret ticks off L.A. highways as she's driven to her new home in  
the vicinity of Slauson and Central avenues, but the journey sounds more  
Mapquest than memory. Then, with the arrival of Margaret's new caretaker,  
Big Mom, the narrative detours from N.W.A.'s Greatest Hits territory into  
the world of Aunt Jemima fantasies. It doesn't take an African-American  
Studies major to get bad vibes from the stereotypical treatment of the  
saintly mammy. Big Mom has no interests of her own; she wears an austere  
white dress on the book cover, calls everyone "child," and asks the Lord:  
"I know you don't give me more than I can handle, but please, sweet Jesus,  
help me with these youngstas."

Everyone else speaks in what Times critic Michiko Kakutani called  
"colorful, streetwise argot": nigga this, you'ze a punk-ass that. Kakutani  
also called the book "humane and deeply affecting."

By now, even on the book's own terms, it's barely working as a memoir, in  
which someone thinks about their life. Instead it's like a doll's house of  
African-Americans, displayed for us in supposedly authentic glory.

One night Margaret has been having a cute

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Imagine a world of streets lined with video cameras that alert authorities to 
any suspicious activity. A world where police officers can read the minds of 
potential criminals and arrest them before they commit any crimes. A world in 
which a suspect who lies under questioning gets nabbed immediately because his 
brain has given him away.



Though that may sound a lot like the plot of the 2002 movie "Minority Report," 
starring Tom Cruise and based on a Philip K. Dick novel, I'm not talking about 
science fiction here; it turns out we're not so far away from that world. But 
does it sound like a very safe place, or a very scary one?



It's a question I think we should be asking as the federal government invests 
millions of dollars in emerging technology aimed at detecting and decoding 
brain activity. And though government funding focuses on military uses for 
these new gizmos, they can and do end up in the hands of civilian law 
enforcement and in commercial applications. As spending continues and 
neurotechnology advances, that imagined world is no longer the stuff of science 
fiction or futuristic movies, and we postpone at our peril confronting the 
ethical and legal dilemmas it poses for a society that values not just personal 
safety but civil liberty as well.



Consider Cernium Corp.'s "Perceptrak" video surveillance and monitoring system, 
recently installed by Johns Hopkins University, among others. This technology 
grew out of a project funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency 
-- the central research and development organization for the Department of 
Defense -- to develop intelligent video analytics systems. Unlike simple video 
cameras monitored by security guards, Perceptrak integrates video cameras with 
an intelligent computer video. It uses algorithms to analyze streaming video 
and detect suspicious activities, such as people loitering in a secure area, a 
group converging or someone leaving a package unattended. Since installing 
Perceptrak, Johns Hopkins has reported a 25 percent reduction in crime.



But that's only the beginning. Police may soon be able to monitor suspicious 
brain activity from a distance as well. New neurotechnology soon may be able to 
detect a person who is particularly nervous, in possession of guilty knowledge 
or, in the more distant future, to detect a person thinking, "Only one hour 
until the bomb explodes." Today, the science of detecting and decoding brain 
activity is in its infancy. But various government agencies are funding the 
development of technology to detect brain activity remotely and are hoping to 
eventually decode what someone is thinking. Scientists, however, wildly 
disagree about the accuracy of brain imaging technology, what brain activity 
may mean and especially whether brain activity can be detected from afar.



Yet as the experts argue about the scientific limitations of remote brain 
detection, this chilling science fiction may already be a reality. In 2002, the 
Electronic Privacy Information Center reported that NASA was developing brain 
monitoring devices for airports and was seeking to use noninvasive sensors in 
passenger gates to collect the electronic signals emitted by passengers' 
brains. Scientists scoffed at the reports, arguing that to do what NASA was 
proposing required that an electroencephalogram (EEG) be physically attached to 
the scalp.



But that same year, scientists at the University of Sussex in England adapted 
the same technology they had been using to detect heart rates at distances of 
up to 1 meter, or a little more than three feet, to remotely detect changes in 
the brain. And while scientific limitations to remote EEG detection still 
exist, clearly the question is when, not if, these issues will be resolved.



Meanwhile, another remote brain-activity detector, which uses light beamed 
through the skull to measure changes in oxygen levels in the brain, may be on 
the way. Together with the EEG, it would enhance the power of brain scanning. 
Today the technology consists of a headband sensor worn by the subject, a 
control box to capture the data and a computer to analyze it. With the help of 
government funding, however, that is all becoming increasingly compact and 
portable, paving the way for more specific remote detection of brain activity.



But don't panic: The government can't read our minds -- yet. So far, these 
tools simply measure changes in the brain; they don't detect thoughts and 
intentions.



Scientists, though, are hard at work trying to decode how those signals relate 
to mental states such as perception and intention. Different EEG frequencies, 
for example, have been associated with fear, anger, joy a

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World Socialist Web Site www.wsws.org

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/nbe1-a16.shtml

WSWS : News & Analysis : World Economy

Shades of 1929: the global implications of the US banking collapse

Part 1

By Nick Beams

16 April 2008



Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author



The following is the first part of a report delivered by Nick Beams,  

national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Australia and  

a member of the World Socialist Web Site international editorial board, to  

public meetings in Sydney and Melbourne on April 9 and 15. Parts 2 and 3  

of the report will be published on April 17 and 18 respectively. Beams, an  

international authority on Marxist political economy, is the author of  

regular WSWS articles and analyses on globalisation and political economy.



The SEP and the International Students for Social Equality called the  

public meetings to discuss the global significance of the deepening crisis  

wracking the US financial and banking system. Both meetings were  

well-attended, with the audiences including workers and university  

students, a number of whom were international students. Following Beams’s  

report, there were animated discussions covering a wide range of issues  

about the causes and implications of the financial meltdown.



Audience members asked why mainstream economists had been unable to  

predict or explain the crisis, why the banks and finance houses had  

resorted to increasingly risky marginal lending, and what the financial  

failure meant for the world position of the US. Others raised the  

catastrophic impact of the economic breakdown on the jobs, homes, living  

standards and retirement funds of ordinary people. Questions also centred  

on the viability of a socialist perspective and how working people would  

take up the struggle for a socialist program.



March 14, 2008—the day it became public knowledge that Bear Stearns, the  

fifth largest investment bank in the US and one of the largest financial  

institutions in the world, had gone bankrupt—has already taken its place  

as one of the defining dates in the history of global capitalism.



On that day, the world changed in a fundamental way. The nostrums  

delivered day in day out by the various financial commentators, political  

leaders, academic economists and media pundits about the wonders and  

virtues of the “free market”—that it represented the highest, indeed the  

only possible form of social and economic organisation—were proven to be  

completely worthless.



Suddenly, not only was a crash on the scale of the Great Depression  

increasingly possible, it was on the verge of taking place.



Comments at the time and subsequent testimony by some of the major players  

involved in the Bear Stearns rescue operation make this clear.



For three days the US Federal Reserve Board, along with the US Treasury  

Department, worked round-the-clock to put together a rescue package. Time  

was of the essence, the fear being that if a package were not put in place  

by the time Asian markets opened for trading on Monday March 17, the world  

financial system would have gone into a meltdown that would have taken  

Wall Street with it when trading resumed there.



The key component of the rescue plan, which eventually saw Bear Stearns  

taken over by JP Morgan, was a guarantee that the Fed would assume  

responsibility for $30 billion worth of debts held by the failed bank—a  

decision without precedent in the annals of the US central bank.



As Wall Street economist Ed Yardeni commented in a note to his clients:  

“The Government of Last Resort is working with the Lender of Last Resort  

to shore up housing and credit markets to avoid Great Depression II.”



In his testimony to the US Congress, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke used more  

restrained language, but the message was essentially the same.



“On March 13,” he told the Congress, “Bear Stearns advised the Federal  

Reserve and other government agencies that its liquidity position had  

significantly deteriorated and that it would have to file for Chapter 11  

bankruptcy the next day unless alternative sources of funds became  

available.



“This news raised difficult questions of public policy. Normally, the  

market sorts out which companies survive and which fail, and that is as it  

should be. However, the issues raised here extended well beyond the fate  

of one company. Our financial system is extremely complex and  

interconnected, and Bear Stearns participated extensively in a range of  

critical markets. The sudden failure of Bear Stearns likely would have led  

to a c

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NYT: Retailer bankruptcies set to prompt thousands of store closings
04/14/2008 @ 9:48 pm
Filed by Mike Sheehan


A growing number of bankruptcies among US retailers is set to prompt  
thousands of store closings, the New York Times will report on the front  
page of its Tuesday edition.
Advertisement


"The consumer spending slump and tightening credit markets are triggering  
a wave of bankruptcies in American retailing," with ensuing store closures  
"expected to remake suburban malls and downtown shopping districts across  
the country," writes Michael Barbaro for the Times.

Barbaro notes that over half a dozen store chains have filed for  
bankruptcy in recent months amidst "mounting debt and plummeting sales"  
and warns that financial troubles are "quickly spreading to bigger  
national companies."

The Times articles comes amid a slew of reports underscoring America's  
economic woes. Even presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John  
McCain, who only months ago panned talk of a recession, admitted today  
that he thought the country was now in one.

Even relatively well-off retailers face troubles. Added Barbaro in the  
article, such store chains who can avoid bankruptcy "are shutting down  
stores to preserve cash through what could be a long economic downturn."

Excerpts from the Times article, available in full at this link, follow...
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among consumers. Figures released on Monday showed that spending on food  
and gasoline is crowding out other purchases, leaving people with less to  
spend on furniture, clothing and electronics. Consequently, chains  
specializing in those goods are proving vulnerable.

...

"You have the makings of a wave of significant bankruptcies," said Al  
Koch, who helped bring Kmart out of bankruptcy in 2003 as the company's  
interim chief financial officer and works at a corporate turnaround firm  
called AlixPartners. "For years, no deal was too ugly to finance," he  
said. "But now, nobody will throw money at these companies."

Because retailers rely on a broad network of suppliers, their bankruptcies  
are rippling across the economy. The cash-strapped chains are leaving  
behind tens of millions of dollars in unpaid bills to shipping companies,  
furniture manufacturers, mall owners and advertising agencies. Many are  
unlikely to be paid in full, spreading the economic pain.

...

In most cases, the collapses stemmed from a combination of factors: flawed  
business strategies, a souring economy and banks' unwillingness to issue  
cheap loans.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/15/italy1/print

Berlusconi sweeps back to power as left concedes defeat in Italian  
elections

· Government likely to be most rightwing in 14 years
· Two-party divide seen as basis for political stability
John Hooper in Rome
The Guardian, Tuesday April 15 2008

Silvio Berlusconi attends the centrist Margherita party national congress  
in Rome. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP



Silvio Berlusconi was last night set to return to power at the head of  
Italy's most rightwing government since he first came to office 14 years  
ago. Projections from the general election held yesterday and on Sunday  
gave his Freedom Folk movement a convincing victory over Walter Veltroni's  
centre-left Democratic Party (DP).

After Veltroni conceded defeat, an uncharacteristically subdued Berlusconi  
said: "I feel a great responsibility, because the months and years ahead  
will be difficult ones." They would, he said, be "decisive for the  
modernisation of the country".

Talking live to a television political chatshow, the media tycoon said he  
had already chosen his next cabinet, and it would include at least four  
women. Berlusconi said he appreciated Veltroni's good wishes, adding that  
his government would be open to suggestions from the opposition on  
"measures that affect the wellbeing of the country".

Early results indicated that he would be able to govern comfortably for  
the next five years with no help from the centre-left. In the senate,  
projections indicated that Freedom Folk and its allies would get 167 of  
the 315 seats - 25 more than the DP and its ally, the anti-graft Italy of  
Principles party. In the 630-seat chamber of deputies, Berlusconi's  
followers were forecast to have a majority of 63.

Italy's next government is likely to be more conservative even than the  
one that ruled the country for five tumultuous years to 2006. Berlusconi  
will no longer have to take into account the moderating influence of the  
centre-right Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC), which broke  
with him shortly before the campaign and was the only other party to win a  
significant representation in the lower house.

But he will have to take seriously the virulently anti-immigrant Northern  
League, led by Umberto Bossi. It scored a resounding triumph, more or less  
doubling its presence in parliament.

At the other end of the political spectrum, the vote for a new  
Marxist-Green alliance crumbled. Projections suggested the Rainbow Left  
would not get a single candidate into parliament.

For the first time since the second world war, Italy will have a  
parliament cleanly divided between two main groups, which should bring it  
stability. But Berlusconi's triumph will send a shiver of apprehension  
through Brussels, where memories are still fresh of the way his government  
let Italy's public finances run out of control, threatening the stability  
of the euro. Romano Prodi, the former European commission president and  
Italy's ex-prime minister who narrowly defeated Berlusconi two years ago,  
reversed the trend. But to cut the budget deficit, he made the centre-left  
deeply unpopular by raising taxes and clamping down on evasion.

Italy's next government faces an unenviable task in trying to reinvigorate  
a failing economy. That was reflected in the generally cautious rhetoric  
of both leading candidates in the campaign. Last year, the EU announced  
that the Italian economy had been overtaken by Spain's.

Other symptoms of Italy's failure are legion. They include a flag carrier  
airline, Alitalia, which is losing €1m a day, and a refuse crisis that  
engulfed Naples and the surrounding region of Campania and appeared to  
many Italians to embody their country's plight. Projections suggested the  
right had triumphed by an unusually large margin in Campania.

During the campaign, Berlusconi vowed to slash taxes and boost  
infrastructure spending in an effort to stimulate the economy. He insisted  
the budget deficit could nevertheless be contained by improving efficiency  
in the public administration and embarking on a huge programme of public  
asset sales.

The election turnout, usually high in Italy, was three points lower than  
at the last general election in 2006 - 82%, compared with 85%, according  
to initial data from the interior ministry. There was speculation that the  
drop reflected disillusion among the young at an ageing and cronyism-prone  
political class.

The country looks set for five years of government headed by a 71-year-old  
man who has a string of trials behind him for alleged financial  
wrongdoing. All his convictions have been overturned on appeal and other

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In May 2007, Bush signed executive new orders NSDP51 
  and HSDP20 to replace REX84. The older order REX84 was an older 
  directive to establish martial law in the event of a national 
  emergency. Everything done in government is done for a reason, and 
  these two new orders are no exception. 
  


  


These new directives surprised and alarmed many real 
  conservatives and true patriots at the time. These two orders 
  established that the White House administration would take over all 
  local governments under a national state of emergency, instead of 
  Homeland Security. 
  


  


In May 2007, The Washington Post apparently saw 
  nothing wrong with it and placed the story back on page 13 (a fitting 
  unlucky number for it), according to a CSPAN television interview 
with 
  well known author and writer Jerome Corsi: 
  


  



  



  


  


  



  



  
Page 13 of Washington Post from May 2007 reports 
  that Bush claims he will

  


  
run the "Shadow Government"

  


  



  
 

  


  


  


  
 

  


  
Close-up of page 13

  


  
 

  


  


A contradiction appears to exist here. It cites a 
  nuclear attack or a decapitating event in Washington as the reason 
for 
  this, according to security analysts. If all the leaders and the 
  administration in Washington are dead from a nuclear attack, who will 
  be left to take over leading the nation under executive orders NSDP51 
  and HSPD20?Who would be left to sign the martial law orders? This 
  implies that martial law must be activated BEFORE an attack takes 
  place while the administration is out of town, which clearly implies 
a 
  false-flag operation by traitors of the worst kind. The 
administration 
  was in Florida on 9-11, too. 
  


  


As of this writing in April 2008, we are coming up 
  on a year since these two directives was written and signed. There 
  have been many rumors of false-flag attacks being prepared for 2008. 
  Are these repeated rumors designed to destroy the credibility of 
  whistle blowers, so when the real event is announced by a 
  whistle-blower no one will listen? This question doesn't appear to 
  have been asked by anyone, but it must be. This many not be unlike 
the 
  proverbial story of the boy who cried wolf. But in this case the wolf 
  isn't coming - he's already inside. Now it's a question of when the 
  wolf will make his move. 
  


  


Hitler took power through completely legal means. 
  Laws were previously established in plain view of the German people 
  before he made his dictatorial power grab. We appear are witnessing 
  the very same thing happening today some seventy years later. 
  Apparently no one on Capitol Hill has learned a thing from history as 
  it repeats itself. They also have clearly forgotten Bush's words in 
  December 1999 - "This job would be a heck of a lot easier if this 
were 
  a dictatorship...just so long as I'm the dictator." He meant what he 
  said, he's acting exactly like one and it's happening right 
  now. 
  


  


America's case for a repeat of a Hitler type power 
  grab is clearly underway. First there was the infamous 1200 page 
  Patriot Act that appeared a few days after 9-11 but almost no one on 
  Capitol Hill took time to read, but almost everyone signed off on it 
  anyway. Some on Capitol Hill have said that soldiers with machine 
guns

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 Iraq vets seize National Archives in war protest

< http://www.total411.info/2008/04/iraq-vets-seize-national-archives-in.html >


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxGX4QdURCo]






Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) in a provocative action last week, 
captured by Gordon Sturrock available on YouTube: 

"IVAW members seize National Archives Building on March 19th, 2008 in front of 
hundreds of surprised museum visitors. Response from visitors including 
teachers, students, vacationers was highly positive though there were a few 
horrified faces in the crowd. IVAW read the terms of our Citizens Arrest 
Warrant and stood their ground for 90 minutes. They were allowed to leave 
without being arrested in one of the most spectacular CD events I've ever 
witnessed. Next stop was the Justice Department where the call for Bush and 
Cheney arrest was repeated, and then the White House where similar demands were 
made. This action comes on the heels of IVAW's Winter Soldier Investigation: 
Iraq and Afghanistan, held at the National Labor College in Silver Springs, 
M.D. on March 13-16, 2008, where these and many other vets from the Iraq and 
Afghanistan war testified about their experiences. Those testimonies may be 
heard by visiting their link here.


Additional videos of this days spectacular events may be seen by clicking on 
the owners profile, or this link.

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1. Radio - Bilderberg founder running Nazis to the USA
2. LATEST BILDERBERG 2008 POSSIBLE DATES - NO LOCATION AS YET - LEAKS,
WHISTLEBLOWERS NEEDED.
3. Interview with an Ex-Vampire
4. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the
window September the 11th.
5. My own appearances Audio and Television.



1. Radio - Bilderberg founder running Nazis to the USA
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/index.shtml
Nazis fleeing to Argentina
Monday 21 January 2008

Listen to this programme in full
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/rams/document_20080121.ram
http://www.bilderberg-mirror.org.uk/klm_nazis.mp3

Mike Thomson investigates claims that senior officials from the Swiss
police allowed Germans to travel to Argentina without the correct
paperwork during the Second World War. View a picture gallery of
images related to this edition.
It is well known that many senior Nazis escaped to Argentina after the
war.
The mystery has been how they managed to get there given that no
German was allowed to leave the country without an Allied approved
pass. The investigative history series, Document, returns with a
possible answer.
Records from the time reveal that in 1948 a representative of the
Dutch airline KLM asked Swiss police to ease travel restrictions for
Germans travelling to Argentina without the proper paperwork.
In the years that followed many wealthy Germans each spent the
equivalent of an average man's wages on luxury KLM flights to the
Argentine capital Buenos Aires.
It's suggested that this was all part of an elaborate covert plan to
help former Nazis flee from justice.
Sixty years on Dutch MPs are calling on KLM to open it's books and
allow an independent enquiry. Mike Thomson travels to the Netherlands
to investigate.




2. LATEST BILDERBERG 2008 POSSIBLE DATES - NO LOCATION AS YET - LEAKS,
WHISTLEBLOWERS NEEDED.

Dear Timuçin, Tony and others,

I don't give up easily.
I keep good hope to give what you expect.
But not a word upon the ways.

Following agenda will give us important information:
http://www.bilderberg.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=7003#7003
week april 7->13 nothing will happen
week April 14 -> 20 nothing will happen
week April 21 -> 27 possible and open
week April 28 -> May 4 nothing will happen in principle
week May 5 -> 11 possible and open
week May 12 -> 18 not possible
week May 19 -> 25 not possible
week May 26 -> June 1 possible

So we may keep the weeks April 21st to 27th, April 28th to May 4th,
May 5th to 11th and May 26th to June 1st open

I will not reveal the tricks I am using to get this sensitive
information. Check on the councelled hotel site of last year
( hotel.de) that you have now to subsribe. The IMF site and World bank
site are giving new info about their general directors WEEK BY WEEK.
And the NATO site is giving the Info after the event occured.

(Check it if you want).That is meaning that I have to keep my methods
SECRET FOR EVER.(not the revealed ones, of course)

Have a good evening


Marek Tysis





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Brilliant hour long interview.
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The reality of vampires and werewolves and the positions they hold in
the dark world of the occult.
The secret priesthood that helped him survive.
The lust and hunger of the true vampire and how it destroys its
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And much, more more!

Containing secret, first-hand information that has never before been
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4. This is World War III, there are no rules, the rules went out the
window September the 11th.
Ex US Staff Sargeant Jimmy Massey
Shocking confessions of a US Marine. "Why are we killing so many
civilians?"

Cowboys From Hell is a new book by Jimmy Massey
New book tells it how it is
http://www.ivaw.org/
About (600 active members that speak worldwide, 2000 members in
reserve waiting for the revolution many within the US military, only
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] 'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border

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Subject: [SPY NEWS] 'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border










http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23527383-954,00.html
'No al-Qaeda' found at US-Mexico border
Article from: Reuters
By Randall Mikkelsen in Washington
April 12, 2008 10:05am

US authorities have seen no signs of al-Qaeda trying to insert
operatives into the United States from Mexico, but the militant group
has considered doing so, a US intelligence official said.

The comments by Charles Allen, Homeland Security undersecretary for
intelligence and analysis, could undercut one argument by advocates in
and out of government for get-tough tactics to fight illegal crossings
at the southern US border - that they are needed to fight terrorism.

In contrast, at least one Islamist militant has been caught trying to
enter the United States from Canada by land to attempt an attack.

"We know of no trained al Qaeda operatives who have crossed over our
southern border," Mr Allen said.

"We do know that going back to 2004, the southern border is something
that al-Qaeda's central leadership has looked at. But we know of no
specifics of where al-Qaeda has really endeavored to cross our borders
in the south," he said.

The US Government is seeking to complete this year a planned 670-mile
(1080 km) border fence to fight illegal crossings from Mexico.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has cited the
anti-terrorism argument in waiving environmental laws and other legal
restrictions to quickly build the fence.

"The flow of illegal traffic through the border region imperils our
ability to fight terrorism by stopping the illegal entry of
terrorists," the Homeland Security department said earlier this month
in justifying the latest waivers, for 500 miles (805 km) of potential
fencing.

Mr Allen said there have been militant "sympathisers and fund-raisers
for Hizbollah" trying to cross from the south, but no trained
operatives have been discovered.

'Sufficient threats'

A Homeland Security Department official said those crossings, and the
potential for operatives to cross, are sufficient threats to help
justify the fence construction's urgency.

On the other hand, Vancouver-based militant Ahmeed Ressam, with
suspected links to al-Qaeda, was stopped with explosives in his car at
the US border with Canada in December 1999, foiling a suspected plot
to bomb Los Angeles.

The United States was working closely with Canadian authorities, Mr
Allen said, and he credited them with breaking up in 2006 a plot by
militants to carry out an "al-Qaeda-inspired" bombing campaign in the
Toronto area.

Mr Allen also said al-Qaeda is trying to recruit both white and
nonwhite people so it can train "western-looking" operatives to help
it carry out attacks in Europe and the United States.

No such suspects have yet been caught trying to enter the United
States, but the effort remains a concern.

"This is something to which we must pay a lot of attention," Mr Allen
said.

He said al-Qaeda shifted its strategy to seek Western-appearing
recruits after the December 2005 death of al -aeda external operations
chief Abu Hamza Rabia. Rabia recruited operatives who had little
experience with the West, he said.

 





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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' | UK news | The Guardian

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Subject: [ctrl] Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' | UK news | 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/11/ukcrime

Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy'
Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent
The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008

The wife of one of Britain's richest heirs has been arrested after trying  
to enter the US embassy in central London while allegedly carrying wraps  
of cocaine and heroin.

Eva Rausing was held outside the embassy in Mayfair, leading to a police  
raid on the couple's Chelsea home, where more than £1,500 of drugs are  
alleged to have been found. Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir  
to the £5bn Tetra Pak drink packaging empire, was then also arrested. They  
were released on bail until July while police continue their inquiries.

A spokesman for the US embassy said Mrs Rausing, who is a US citizen, had  
not entered the embassy, and had been due there for an appointment on  
Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday, Mrs Rausing, 44, said: "I have made a grave error and I  
consider myself to have taken a wrong turn in the course of my life. I am  
very sorry for the upset I have caused."

Mr Rausing's father, also called Hans, is a Swedish billionaire who built  
up the Tetra Pak empire with his late brother Gad. He has lived in England  
since the early 1980s and has donated £500,000 to the Conservatives.

Mrs Rausing is a financial supporter of Action on Addiction, a charity  
which helps people with drink and drugs problems. Nick Barton, its joint  
chief executive, said: "The E and HK Rausing Trust has been an extremely  
generous supporter of addiction charities for many years. Their support  
has resulted in a great many people and their families receiving help for  
their addiction problems."

Scotland Yard said: " At approximately 16:20 on Tuesday police officers  
arrested a woman in Mayfair on suspicion of possessing class A drugs.  
Following this arrest a search was conducted at a residential address in  
Chelsea and a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing  
class A drugs."
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Cash, contracts and crown princes | World news | The Guardian

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Subject: [ctrl] Cash, contracts and crown princes | World news | The Guardian










http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/11/bae.armstrade3

Cash, contracts and crown princes
David Leigh
The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008

The BAE Eurofighter Typhoon military jet plane leaves smoke trails at an  
air show in Paris. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP



Evidence of an allegedly corrupt relationship between BAE and the Saudi  
royal family began to emerge four years ago. Using documents obtained from  
whistleblowers and files in the National Archives, the Guardian began to  
build a picture of an arms company willing to provide anything from fleets  
of Rolls-Royces to mountains of offshore cash in order to promote  
lucrative deals with the Saudi regime.

As the allegations mounted, the British government tried to cover up the  
facts, not only about apparent arms company corruption but about the  
connivance of a succession of ministers, both Labour and Tory, in  
worldwide bribery on behalf of Great Britain plc.

The Guardian turned over its evidence to Robert Wardle, the head of the  
SFO, and he embarked on an investigation.

The UK, on paper at least, had promised to crackdown on corrupt practices.  
It had signed up to an international anti-bribery treaty, brokered by the  
OECD, and in 2002 the government passed a law making it clear that  
overseas bribery was a crime.

Labour ministers trumpeted their probity and the Foreign Office even  
produced a DVD with the title Crimes of the Establishment as part of their  
toolkit on the evils of corruption.

But Lord Justice Moses' judgment yesterday lays bare what actually  
happened. In doing so, he appears to accept allegations that have swirled  
round Whitehall since Wardle announced he was to drop his investigation 18  
months ago - although without hearing evidence from Bandar.

Wardle's inquiries were bearing fruit, and he was on the brink of  
obtaining bank records from Switzerland.

These belonged, among others, to the billionaire Syrian intermediary Wafic  
Said, who played a major role in brokering the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal  
back in the mid-80s. He is a confidant of Crown Prince Sultan, and of his  
son, Prince Bandar.

Prior to the investigation being halted, the SFO were looking into  
payments by BAE into Said's accounts.

Moses, who insisted on seeing privately the full version of government  
documents in the case, made clear what happened next. He detailed  
allegations that Bandar set out to have the inquiry stopped.

Yesterday's summary described reports of Bandar going to see Jonathan  
Powell, Blair's chief of staff. He is said to have told him and the  
British ambassador, Sherard Cowper-Cowles, that he would ensure Saudi  
intelligence links were cut unless he and his family were kept out of the  
case.

Bandar then flew to Paris and engaged in ostentatious negotiations with  
the French to buy a new batch of fighter jets - the contract BAE itself  
was after.

As the judge pointed out yesterday, Bandar was suspected of complicity  
with BAE, the target of the investigation.

He admits he received from BAE a present of a new Airbus commercial  
airliner, and payments totalling £1bn into his US account, although he  
says they were not improper.

Tony Blair's office told Wardle that "innocent British lives were at risk"  
because Saudi Arabia would no longer help prevent terrorist outrages if  
the investigation went ahead. BAE, and a number of MPs in whose  
constituencies the company has factories, joined in with claims that "jobs  
were at risk".

Moses made clear yesterday that he shared the suspicions of  
anti-corruption campaigners that much of this was a charade. The word the  
judge used was "pretext". He pointed out that Downing Street had rolled  
over with suspicious ease to Saudi threats. Getting the case dropped was  
convenient to the government, and convenient to BAE.

The high court's words about the importance of the rule of law and the  
need to stand up to attempts to pervert the course of justice could not  
have been put more stridently.

Moses' landmark judgment also produced a score sheet of how all the  
parties behaved during the SFO investigation.

BAE is shown to have tried to use backstairs political muscle to get the  
police off its back. But this did not succeed.

Peter Goldsmith, the attorney general, stood firm against pressure from  
fellow ministers for a considerable period.

Even at the last moment he met Blair and told him it would look terrible  
to cave in to threats. But he then succumbed to pressure from the then  
prime minister, and appeared to have agreed to try and sabotage the SFO  
inquiry by picking holes in its evidence. Wardle himself held out longest  
of all, but was eventually forced to cave in when Blair raised the stakes.

Moses made plai

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] "Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007"


 


 


 

-Original Message-
From: Mario Profaca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 5:46 pm
Subject: [SPY NEWS] "Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007"











*** Original message ***

On 4/7/2008 at 11:00 Steven Aftergood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2008, Issue No. 34
April 7, 2008

Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/


**  THE CASE OF MATTHEW DIAZ
**  THE CHANGING FACE OF ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA
**  MORE SUPPORT FOR STATE SECRETS REFORM
**  GOVT OPPOSES TESTIMONY OF ISOO'S LEONARD IN AIPAC CASE


THE CASE OF MATTHEW DIAZ

Last year, U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz was convicted of unlawfully
disclosing classified information to an unauthorized person, after he
provided the names of prisoners secretly held in military detention at
Guantanamo Bay to a civil rights organization.  He was sentenced to six
months in prison and ordered discharged from the Navy.

Last week, Diaz was honored as a "truth teller" at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC for the very same action.

He received the Ridenhour Award, named for the late Ron Ridenhour, who
revealed the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese at My Lai.

"Lt. Cmdr. Diaz demonstrated independent judgment, fidelity to the
Constitution, and uncommon courage," according to the Ridenhour Award
statement.

"By disclosing the names of prisoners secretly detained at Guantanamo,
he broke ranks and he violated the law, and for that he has paid a
serious price.  But we believe that he also demonstrated a profound
loyalty to the United States and its enduring constitutional
principles."

 http://www.ridenhour.org/prizes_03.shtml

The April 3 remarks of Matthew Diaz upon receiving the Ridenhour Award
may be found here:

   http://www.ridenhour.org/diaz_margulies_transcript.shtml

The award ceremony and some of the background to it were described by
Joe Conason in "A Truth Teller Who Deserves Justice," Salon.com, April
4:

 http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/04/04/diaz_gitmo/

A longer treatment of the Diaz case appeared in "Naming Names at Gitmo"
by Tim Golden, New York Times Magazine, October 21, 2007:

   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21Diaz-t.html

Remarkably, Diaz appears to be the first American ever convicted under
the espionage statutes for disclosing classified information to another
American rather than to a foreign person or government, according to a
new study of espionage in America.


THE CHANGING FACE OF ESPIONAGE IN AMERICA

Financial incentives and external coercion play a diminishing role in
motivating Americans to spy against the United States, according to a
new Defense Department study.  But divided loyalties are increasingly
evident in recent espionage cases.

"Two thirds of American spies since 1990 have volunteered.  Since 1990,
spying has not paid well: 80% of spies received no payment for
espionage, and since 2000 it appears no one was paid."

"Offenders since 1990 are more likely to be naturalized citizens, and
to have foreign attachments, connections, and ties, and therefore they
are more likely to be motivated to spy from divided loyalties."  Even
so, the majority (65%) of American spies are still native born.

The changing circumstances surrounding the practice of espionage today
require revision of the existing espionage laws, the study concludes.

"Recent espionage cases involving stateless transnational groups
illustrate the strain of how to sort out and apply ... ambiguities in
the current [espionage] statutues."

The new study was performed for the Defense Personnel Security Research
Center, with the support of the Counterintelligence Field Activity
(which reportedly may soon be dismantled).  A copy was obtained by
Secrecy News.

See "Changes in Espionage by Americans: 1947-2007," by Katherine L.
Herbig, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, March 2008:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/library/changes.pdf


MORE SUPPORT FOR STATE SECRETS REFORM

Pending legislation to reform the use of the state secrets privilege
received a wave of support last week from numerous public interest,
professional and civil liberties organizations.

While the bill is opposed by the Attorney General (Secrecy News,
04/03/07), it received strong endorsements from the American Bar
Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Brennan Center for
Justice, the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, the Constitution Project and others.  See their
statements and responses to the Attorney General's March 31 letter on
the subject here:

 http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/statesec/index.html#rel


GOVT OPPOSES TESTIMONY OF ISOO'S LEONARD IN AIPAC CASE

Prosecutors in the case of two former AIPAC lobbyists who are charged
with unlawful transmission of classified information last week asked a
court to prevent the former director of the Information Security
Oversight Offi

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money


 


 


 

-Original Message-
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Sent: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 4:57 pm
Subject: [SPY NEWS] Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money










http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Emerging_Threats/Analysis/2008/04/04/dogs_of_war_lawyers_guns_and_money/5502/
Dogs of War: Lawyers, guns and money
Published: April 4, 2008 at 4:48 PM
By DAVID ISENBERG

WASHINGTON, April 4 (UPI) -- The Pentagon recently issued a memorandum with the 
less-than-snappy title "Uniform Code of Military Justice Jurisdiction Over 
Department of Defense Civilian Employees, Department of Defense Contractor 
Personnel, and Other Persons Serving With or Accompanying the Armed Forces 
Overseas During Declared War and in Contingency Operations." 

Despite the cumbersome title, the memo, which gives military commanders 
authority over civilian contractors in their areas of operation, is an effort 
to 
close what many see as an accountability loophole for private military 
contractors.

Effectively, the new rules extend the Uniform Code of Military Justice -- the 
same military legal code U.S. forces personnel operate under -- to private 
contractors.

The memorandum outlines how commanders should respond to civilian contractors 
who break federal laws and grants them court-martial authority in cases where 
the Department of Justice declines to initiate criminal proceedings. 

The memo puts a little meat on the bones of a change to federal law.

On Oct. 17, 2006, the UCMJ was amended to extend its jurisdiction over persons 
serving with or accompanying U.S. armed forces in the field. Previously, 
contractors would only fall under the code if Congress declared war, but a 
one-sentence section of budget legislation passed that day replaced the word 
"war" with the phrase "declared war or a contingency operation."

Technically, this means that contractors, like U.S. personnel, can be 
disciplined not just for felony crimes like murder that exist in the general 
justice system, but for military offenses such as talking back to an officer, 
viewing pornography in a country where it is forbidden or even wearing a 
uniform 
incorrectly.

Whether giving the military the authority to prosecute contractors for mouthing 
off, surfing adult Web sites or being sartorially inelegant like millions of 
their fellow Americans back home will represent a victory for accountability 
remains to be seen.

More importantly, it is unclear how effective the change can be. In 2006 it was 
hailed by many advocates of greater regulation over the industry. Peter Singer 
of the Brookings Institution wrote that "contractors' 'get out of jail free' 
card may have been torn to shreds."

But the provision has not yet been tested in court, so whether it will hold up 
is anyone's guess. Even before the amendment passed, one military law journal 
noted: "Attempts to use the military justice system to try civilian contractors 
are incompatible with the tradition of status-based military jurisdiction as 
well as the current Supreme Court's interpretation of the Sixth Amendment."

The International Peace Operations Association, a PMC industry trade group, 
noted at the time: "The overwhelming majority of private sector employees 
supporting Department of Defense programs are not even American; they come from 
countries such as Afghanistan, India, Iraq, the United Kingdom and scores of 
others. Requiring all nationalities to be under U.S. military law could be 
internationally contentious, and even more difficult to apply. 

"Application of the UCMJ or any other disciplinary structure requires closer 
examination of the relationship to other applicable U.S., host nation, and 
international laws," the group concluded.

Indeed the wording of the Pentagon memo, which seeks to provide an alternative 
to prosecution by federal civilian authorities who are often not in a position 
to investigate war-zone incidents, shows the ambiguities inherent in allowing 
both processes to go forward side-by-side. 

"While the (Department of Justice) notification and decision process is 
pending, 
commanders and military criminal investigators should continue to address the 
alleged crime. Commanders should ensure that any preliminary military justice 
procedures that would be required in support of the exercise of UCMJ 
jurisdiction over civilians continue to be accomplished during the concurrent 
(Department of Justice) notification process. Commanders should be prepared to 
act, as appropriate, should possible U.S. federal criminal jurisdiction prove 
to 
be unavailable to address the alleged criminal behavior."

Commanders and investigators should indeed "be prepared to act." Considering 
that the current U.S. Justice Department appears unconcerned about past and 
ongoing federal offenses such as use of torture for interrogation or illegal 
wiretapping of American citizens, how likely is it that it will prosecute 
contractors if they commit

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Cites no evidence to substantiate claim,
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
CIA Boss Says New Al-Qaeda Are White Westerners
  

Cites no evidence to substantiate
 claim 
  
 
  
 





  
  
  
  
  
  
Paul Joseph Watson
  

Prison Planet
  
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/033108_white_westerners.htm
  
 
  

Monday, March 31, 2008

  
  
  

  
  







  
  
  
  
   
   
Citing absolutely no evidence whatsoever, CIA boss Michael Hayden told NBC's
 Meet The Press yesterday that Al-Qaeda is training new fighters that "look 
western" and could easily cross U.S. borders, in the latest attempt to re-focus 
the mammoth apparatus of anti-terror against the American people.   
   
   
"They are bringing operatives into that region for training -- operatives that 
wouldn't attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at 
Dulles (airport outside Washington) with you when you were coming back from 
overseas," Hayden said.   
   
   
"(They) look western (and) would be able to come into this country without 
attracting the kinds of attention that others might," he added, with Reuters 
forced to point out that Hayden offered nothing to substantiate his claim.   



  
The talking point that the new Al-Qaeda are
 white westerners has been circulating since at least the start of the year.   
   
On January 14th, Fox News interviewed ex-CIA spook Mike Baker, whose company 
Diligence LLC has close ties to the Bush administration and just happens to 
butter its bread with the aid of a steady supply of global unrest and terror 
hype.   
   
   
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Baker told Fox's Brian Kilmeade that al Qaeda looks for operatives who can fit 
in, just as the CIA does, saying, "If they can 
recruit a Scandinavian,
 that's the holy grail for them." He added, "They need people who can move 
around freely and do their bidding," apparently implying that blue-eyed blondes 
are the people who blend most seamlessly into Western society.   
   
   
However, Baker dismissed Kilmeade's suggestion that al Qaeda would be 
particularly interested in recruiting in US prisons. "To go into a prison and 
try to recruit individuals -- 
  
 
  
that person's already tainted. What they really need, they need people who 
haven't run afoul of law enforcement in the past. ... 
  
 
  
Their problems are extreme in trying to recruit someone who can go out there
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Even if you believe we are fighting a war against radical Muslims that want to 
wipe us off the planet, your intelligence agencies are working on the premise 
that the
 next likely suicide bombers are going to look like Ken and Barbie. Does that 
make you feel safe?   
   
   
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what the agenda is here. 
Just as we were told that there were reds under the bed during the cold war 
era, without the specter of potential terrorists running around our backyards, 
the war on terror itself and all the fearmongering attached to it is rendered 
impotent.   
   
   
So the new potential terrorists are our friends, our neighbors and even us - 
mandating that the whole police state apparatus that has been constructed since 
9/11 be swung around to target the American and British people.
  
Oh yeah, and if there are real terrorists planning devastating attacks, they 
won't be stopped because the CIA's foot soldiers have been trained to look for 
members of the 1970's Swedish pop group Abba. 
  
 
  
 
  
 




 



  


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The eugenics ideology,
  
 
  
 
  
What is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
  
 
  
Historical and Investigative Research, 4 March 2008
  

by Francisco Gil-White
  

http://www.hirhome.com/cfr.htm
  


  
History shows that the policies debated and proposed by the CFR almost always 
become US foreign policy. And yet, the CFR is supposed to be a private
 organization. Very little is known about it. And political scientists almost 
never investigate it. It pays to study the CFR, however, if we wish to 
understand how power works in the United States, and what ideology the US 
ruling elite answers to.

  
 
  
Table of Contents
  

( hyperlinked 
< )  

   
< The CFR: An Introduction
  
< Who is behind the CFR?
  
< The eugenics ideology of CFR leaders
  
  
< The Rockefellers
< Andrew Carnegie
< Henry Ford and J.P. Morgan
< Woodrow Wilson

  
< Now, what does this help us explain?
  
  
< US foreign policy in the years after the creation of the CFR
< Why don¡¯t political scientists investigate the CFR?
< A note about the stability of institutional ideology
< What does the future hold for Israel?

  

  
 
  
 
  
 
  
The CFR: An introduction
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
In 1977 political scientist Thomas Dye delivered his presidential address to 
the Southern Political Science Association at the University of California at 
Santa Cruz. His topic: the role of allegedly ¡®private¡¯ policy-making 
organizations in determining US policy. His address was then published in 1978 
as a research paper in The Journal of Politics, and much space was devoted to 
the
 importance of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in the making of United 
States foreign policy.[1]
  
 
  
 All around, this was a rare event that helped correct a failing identified by 
sociologist G. William Domhoff in his 1970 book, The Higher Circles: The 
Governing Class in America: ¡°there never has been any research paper on [the 
CFR] in any scholarly journal indexed in the Social Science and Humanities 
Index.¡±[2] 
  
 
  
Many political scientists, apparently, thought this was a proper state of 
affairs and wanted matters to remain thus, because Dye wrote in the first page: 
¡°I appreciate the assistance of G. William Domhoff, University of California, 
Santa Cruz. I apologize to those eminent political scientists who told me that 
[studying] the activities of private policymakers was not ¡®political 
science.¡¯¡±[3]
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
It is certainly curious that ¡°eminent political scientists¡± should be opposed 
to research on the Council on Foreign Relations and other supposedly 
¡®private¡¯ policy organizations. We shall return to these matters. First, 
however, let us get a sense for what the CFR is and give some context to 
evaluate Dye¡¯s use of the phrase ¡°private policymakers¡± in reference to this 
organization.
  
 
  
 
  
In his paper, Thomas Dye writes:
  
 
  
¡°Political scientist Lester Milbraith observes that the influence of [the] CFR 
throughout the government is so pervasive that it is difficult to distinguish 
CFR from government programs: ¡®The Council on Foreign Relations, while not 
financed by government, works so closely with it that it is difficult to 
distinguish Council actions stimulated by government from autonomous 
actions.¡¯¡±[4]
  
 
  
 
  
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You could say it in the reverse direction, as well: it is difficult to 
distinguish government actions stimulated by the Council from autonomous 
government action. Dye gives a list of quite major US foreign policy 
initiatives which the CFR led, ¡°including both the initial decision to 
intervene militarily in Vietnam and the later decision to withdraw.¡± Further, 
he points out that many important members of the CFR are simultaneously top 
government officeholders. For example, ¡°Council members in the Kennedy-Johnson 
Administration included Secretary of State Dean Rusk, National Security Advisor 
McGeorge P. Bundy, CIA Director John McCone, and Under-Secretary of State 
George Ball.¡±[5] A list of important figures in the CFR over the years up to 
1978, which Dye also provides, shows that many are former top officials in the

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 Such an erudite kickshaw.

Trying to quell backfires and or is it the bad performance reports? 

Peace, 
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Periodically the resident conspiracy theorists (of the mescaline-induced 
paranoid schizophrenia school) erupt with a rash of hysteria about Chip Berlet, 
and it's happened again.

So, how does one respond to crazies who are unable to engage in rational 
discussion and who are making false and defamatory charges?? With a message 
like this, I guess.

Normally one should be compassionate and understanding in handling broken 
minds, but there are limits.

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The Voice of the White House

http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a2829.htm



Washington , D.C. , April 4, 2008 :  “George Bush is a petty, vindictive  

creep. If he can’t have his way, he immediately thinks of ways to annoy  

people. He knows his days are numbered in the Oval Office and that he has  

no legacy to contemplate and is aware people hate him. He knows that the  

Texas university that is planned to house his sacred library, where he  

wants to have an elegant office, has most of their faculty opposing his  

presence and he knows his approval rating is down almost to single figures.



And what does he do? He decided to let rancher kill wolves in spite of the  

stink that made, or probably because of it, He had dredged up a slate of  

appointees that the Mexican parliament would jib at and now the word  

around this Monkey Palace is that George, with the encouragement of  

Cheney, wants to put a huge crimp in social security payments, cut  

Medicare way back and most important, cut food stamp issuance back 60%! He  

is looking for some Yoo character to tell him it’s legal to do this and  

then he will.



Why cut these vital lifelines? Because it looks like Obama might make it  

and Bush does not like blacks. The old phrase;, ‘Welfare Queens’ can be  

heard now and then and if it can be done, Bush will do it, He is a mean  

man but I have a nice joke I have been telling around here which I will  

pass on to all of you:



When George was a little boy, he saw a program on ice fishing. He decided  

he wanted to ice fish. As his family were out of town, he got a folding  

stool, an axe, a fishing pole and tackle from his father and his usual  

bottle of Jim Beam and off he went. It was winter and George knew right  

where the ice was. He put the stool down and began to chop a hole in the  

ice. Suddenly, a voice boomed out, ‘There are no fish under that ice!”  

George then picked up his stool and gear and walked a few dozen yards away  

and put everything down again. And again, when he started chopping a hole  

in the ice, the same voice boomed out again, ‘There are no fish under that  

ice”! This time George got angry. ‘Is that you, God?’ he asked in a weak  

voice. ‘No!’ came the reply. ‘It’s the skating rink manager!’



Now that’s just a story but it is true that the Bush family wouldn’t let  

little George play in their outdoor sandbox because when he did, the  

neighbor’s  cats tried to cover him up.”



-- 

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I'm trying to gather information for my recent and not-so-recent pages and 
would love suggestions of what to add to:
  
 
  
http://www.skewsme.com/chemical_warfare.html
  
 
  
http://www.skewsme.com/systematic_poisoning.html
  
 
  
http://www.skewsme.com/ritalin.html
  
 
  
And for free-energy and UFO researchers
  
 
  
http://www.skewsme.com/ufo.html
  
 
  
As always, I still need more information for
  
 
  
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IRS A Fraud
  
Grace Commission Showed IRS Is A Total Fraud
  
 
  
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  

  
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Message from
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"100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt 
... all  individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on 
the services taxpayers expect from government." 
  

-Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan - January 15, 
1984 
  
 
  

 
  
Ronald Reagan was promptly shot after he dared to criticize the Fed, on the 
same day that the Pope was shot. After recovering, he changed his mind and 
praised the Fed. About seven US Presidents have been assassinated for not 
cooperating with the Transatlantic Banking Dynasties 
  
 
  
(William Henry Harrison, poisoned, in 1841, Zachary Taylor, Lincoln, Garfield, 
McKinley
 and John F. Kennedy 1963; 7 if FDR's poisoning is counted). 

  
Most of us feel sick when we realize that Not one dime of IRS money goes to the 
US Gov't, according to Reagan's Grace Commission: it all goes to pay interest 
on a bogus debt to the Private Federal Reserve (FED), just to allow paper money 
to circulate as "Federal Reserve Notes". 
  
 
  
The Federal Reserve is a private Corporation eventually owned by the 
Rockefellers and Rothschilds Dynasties through intermediary agents, designed to 
suck the capital dry from the U.S., as the Rothschilds do in Europe. Read 
Billions for the   Bankers, 
Debts for the People More Links at DeepInfo.com on Jekyll Island 
  . 
  

 
  
The final report of the 1984 Grace Commission, convened under President Ronald 
Reagan, quietly admitted that none of the funds they collect from federal 
income taxes goes to pay for any federal government services. The Grace 
Commission found that those funds were being used to pay for interest on the 
federal debt, and income transfer payments to beneficiaries of entitlement 
programs like federal pension plans. 
  
 
  
 
  


  
These comments were presented at the Close of the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation 
Hearing.Washington D.C., February 27-28, 2002: IRS is a Trust 
  Headquartered in Puerto Rico Not 
a Federal Agency The IRS is technically not an "agency" of the federal 
government, as that term is defined in the Freedom of 
 Information Act and in the 
Administrative  Procedures Act. 
  
 
  
 
  
The governments of the federal territories are expressly excluded from 
the definition of "agency" in those Acts of Congress. See 5 U.S.C. 551
 
 (1)(C).  
  
 
  
 
  
All evidence indicates that they are a money laundry, extortion racket, and 
conspiracy to engage in a pattern of racketeering activity, in violation of 18 
U.S.C. 1951   and 1961 
  et seq. 
  
 
  
 
  
They appear to be laundering huge sums of money into foreign banks, mostly in 
Europe, and quite possibly into the Vatican. See the national policy on money 
laundering at 31   U.S.C. 5341 
. Do federal income tax revenues pay for any government services and, if so, 
which government services are funded by federal income taxes? 
  
 
  
Answer: No. 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
The money trail is very difficult to follow, in this instance, because the IRS 
is technically a trust with a domicile in Puerto 
  Rico. See 31 
  U.S.C. 1321(a)(62). As such, 
their records are protec

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Wow, I am not so sure this is a good thing 
what do you think?


High Court Rejects Bush Assertion on U.S. Treaties


by Nina 
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Morning 
Edition, March 26, 2008 · The Supreme Court 
justices by a 6-3 vote said Tuesday that President Bush overstepped his 
authority when he tried to order Texas to reopen the case of a Mexican man on 
death row for rape and murder. 


An international court had ordered President Bush to tell the states to 
review cases of some foreign defendants who were denied the right to contact 
their embassies when they were arrested. That was a right the United States had 
agreed to, and in fact insisted on, when negotiating a treaty. But now the 
justices say the president's executive power does not give him the authority to 
intervene in those state criminal cases.




Legal 
Affairs


States Not Subject to All Treaties, High Court Rules


by Nina 
Totenberg




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All Things 
Considered, March 25, 2008 · The U.S. Supreme 
Court delivered a major opinion on Tuesday that limits the force of many U.S. 
treaties and rejects President Bush's assertion that he can unilaterally order 
state governments to comply with treaties.




As the U.S. Constitution reads, "All Treaties made, or which shall be 
made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the 
Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby..." So when 
the Senate ratifies a treaty with a two-thirds vote, does that mean the treaty 
provisions are binding on the states?


The Supreme Court ruled that they are binding only if the treaty explicitly 
says so or if there is legislation to make that clear. For all of American 
history, many treaties have been deemed to be what is called "self-executing," 
meaning that their provisions are automatically binding. But not all treaties 
fall into this category. The Supreme Court's ruling set a bright line for which 
treaties are self-executing — namely, those that explicitly say so or have 
accompanying legislation that says so.


The court said the president, acting on his own, cannot make a treaty binding 
on the states.


The ruling came in a death penalty case involving a treaty enacted in 1969 
that guaranteed foreign nationals access to diplomats from their home countries 
if they are accused of crimes. Although the provision was inserted at the 
insistence of the United States to protect its citizens abroad, state and local 
governments in the U.S. were slow to honor it. In 2004, the Mexican government 
went to the International Court of Justice on behalf of 51 of its citizens on 
death row in the United States who had not been told of their right to consular 
access, and thus, did not have the benefit of the Mexican government's help at 
the time of their trials.


The international court ruled that the United States had violated its treaty 
obligations and ordered the U.S. to in some form reconsider the death 
sentences. 
Bush then withdrew from the part of the treaty subjecting the United States to 
the international court's jurisdiction.


But for those 51 individuals, he ordered the state courts to comply. His home 
state of Texas refused, asserting that the president's unilateral assertion of 
power was unconstitutional. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed by a 6-3 
majority.


Diplomats Dismayed


Writing for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts said that because the 
treaty did not explicitly say its provisions were binding, and because there 
was 
no legislation to make the treaty binding, the president could not on his own 
force the states to comply.


"There is no reason to believe that the president and the Senate signed up 
for such a result," he said.


The dissenting justices, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David 
Souter, said some 70 existing treaties are in jeopardy because of Tuesday's 
ruling.


Many U.S. diplomats were dismayed. Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, who 
served as a State Department official in the Clinton administration, said the 
decision would create havoc in diplomatic circles for some time to come.


"If our international allies have no assurance that we're actually going to 
keep our word, then they have much less incentive to keep their word when 
they're being obliged to do something," he said.


But Charles Cooper, a former Reagan administration official, said Bush had 
gone too far.


"The notion that the president can himself unilaterally determine that it 
shall be a binding domestic law, even to the point of preempting state laws 
dealing with criminal procedure, is a

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2008-04-05 Thread roadsend


 Just being a troublemaker?

The Swedish government said on Monday that it had sold the Vin &
Sprit group which owns Absolut vodka to the giant drinks group Pernod
Ricard of France for 5.626 billion euros. 

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Where is the sense of humor here?  Am sure laughing their heads off 'there'.
Absolut is a Russian company, lol.
Michael Donovan

> http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2008/04/mexico-reconque.html
>
>
>   *Mexico reconquers California? Absolut drinks to that!*
>
> The latest advertising campaign in Mexico from Swedish vodka maker
> Absolut promises to push all the right buttons south of the U.S. border,
> but it could ruffle a few feathers in El Norte.
>
> Absolut 
>
> The billboard and press campaign, created by advertising agency
> Teran\TBWA   and now running in Mexico, is
> a colorful map depicting what the Americas might look like in an
> "Absolut" -- i.e., perfect -- world.
>
> The U.S.-Mexico border lies where it was before the Mexican-American war
> of 1848  when
> California, as we now know it, was Mexican territory and known as Alta
> California.
>
> Following the war, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo saw the Mexican
> territories of Alta California and Santa Fé de Nuevo México ceded to the
> United States to become modern-day California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah,
> Colorado and Arizona. (Texas actually split from Mexico several years
> earlier to form a breakaway republic, and was voluntarily annexed by the
> United States in 1846.)
>
> The campaign taps into the national pride of Mexicans, according to
> Favio Ucedo, creative director of leading Latino advertising agency
> Grupo Gallegos in the U.S.
>
> Ucedo, who is from Argentina, said: "Mexicans talk about how the
> Americans stole their land, so this is their way of reclaiming it. It's
> very relevant and the Mexicans will love the idea."
>
> But he said that were the campaign to run in the United States, it might
> fall flat.
>
> "Many people aren't going to understand it here. Americans in the East
> and the North or in the center of the county -- I don't know if they
> know much about the history.
>
> "Probably Americans in Texas and California understand perfectly and I
> don't know how they'd take it."
>
> Meanwhile, the campaign has been circulating on the blogs and generating
> strong responses from people north of the border.
>
> "I find this ad deeply offensive, and needlessly divisive. I will now
> make a point of drinking other brands. And 'vodka and tonic' is my
> drink," said one visitor, called New Yorker, on MexicoReporter.com
> .
>
> Reader Paul Green goes into a discussion on the blog Gateway Pundit
> 
> of whether the U.S. territories ever belonged to Mexico in the first
> place, and the News12 Long island
> 
> site invited people to boycott Absolut, with one user, called
> LivingSmall, writing: "If you drink Absolut vodka, you can voice your
> approval or disapproval of this advertising campaign with your
> purchases. I know I will be switching to Grey Goose or Stoli and will
> never have another bottle of Absolut in my house.
>
> "Hey Absolut ... that's my form of social commentary."
>
> -- Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson in Mexico City
>
>
>




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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080403



April 3, 2008 -- Confidential document said to warn of

conflict or revolution ahead for America



WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources within the

US financial community that an alarming confidential

and limited distribution document is circulating among

senior members of Congress and their senior staff

members that is warning of a bleak future for the

United States if it does not quickly get its financial

house in order. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is among

those who have reportedly read the document.



The document is being called the "C & R" document

because it reportedly states that if the United States

defaults on loans and debt underwriting from China,

Japan, and Russia, all of which are propping up the

United States government financially, and the United

States unilaterally cancels the debts, America can

expect a war that will have disastrous results for the

United States and the world. "Conflict" is the "C

word" in the document.



The other scenario is that the federal government will

be forced to drastically raise taxes in order to pay

off debts to foreign countries to the point that the

American people will react with a popular revolution

against the government. "Revolution" is the document's

"R word."



The origin of the document is not known, however, its

alarming content matches up with previous warnings

from former Comptroller General David Walker who

abruptly resigned as head of the Government

Accountability Office (GAO) in February of this year

after repeatedly publicly warning of a "financial

meltdown" disaster if America's $9 trillion debt was

not addressed quickly. Financial experts have warned

that the national debt, corrected for inflation, could

reach $46 trillion in the next 20 years. A month

earlier, Walker warned the Senate Banking Committee

about the reaction of creditor nations in Asia and

Europe if the U.S. did not address its debt problem.



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DISEASE DEADLY TO BATS IS DISCOVERED IN CONNECTICUT

DISEASE DEADLY TO BATS IS DISCOVERED IN CONNECTICUT

By Judy Benson ,



Published on 3/29/2008 in Home »Main Photo

The mysterious disease that's been killing bats by the thousands in New  

York and other states in the Northeast has turned up in Connecticut, state  

wildlife officials announced Friday.



White-nose syndrome, an illness characterized by the growth of a white  

fungus on the nose and other areas of affected bats, has been found in a  

cave in northwestern Connecticut where colonies of little brown bats and  

northern long-eared bats, two of the most common of the eight species  

found in the state, hibernate.



Wildlife biologists are studying the illness and are not sure whether the  

fungal growth is the cause or whether it is an opportunistic infection  

taking advantage of bats weakened by a virus, bacteria or some other  

cause, said Jenny Dickson, supervising wildlife biologist for the DEP.



It is a “commonly occurring plant fungus,” she said, but one not found on  

healthy bats.



Since there is no evidence that it is transmittable to humans, there  

currently are no direct human-health implications of white-nose syndrome,  

said state DEP Commissioner Gina McCarthy.



But because bats consume large volumes of mosquitoes, moths and other  

flying insects, the decimation of the bat population could result in an  

explosion of those insect populations, officials warned.



Randall Nelson, state public health veterinarian, said the state's  

mosquito trapping and testing program will take on added importance this  

summer because of the bat problem.



Mosquitoes are trapped and tested for West Nile virus and Eastern equine  

encephalitis, which can be transmitted to humans.



Dickson said the decline of the bat population could also have  

implications for agriculture, since bats consume large amounts of moths  

and other insects that can damage crops. As a result, farmers could be  

forced to use more pesticides this summer, she said.



Many of the bats that live in Connecticut in the spring and summer  

hibernate in caves in New York or other nearby states, Dickson said, so  

even if the disease had not been found here, Connecticut could still have  

expected sharp declines in its summer bat population.



“A lot of New York bats come back to Connecticut,” she said.



“The discovery of this syndrome in Connecticut reminds us just how  

interconnected our environment is,” McCarthy said. “Nature does not  

recognize geopolitical boundaries, so we must remain aware of what's going  

on in the states around us.”



The syndrome was first documented in New York State in 2006. Since then,  

8,000 to 11,000 bats have died in the caves where they spend the winter,  

called hibernacula. That is more than half the winter hibernating  

population.



Connecticut has only eight large hibernacula, one of which houses an  

estimated 2,500 bats, along with several smaller sites, Dickson said.



Bats can live up to 35 years and reproduce slowly, Dickson said, meaning  

that it could take many years for the population to recover to normal  

levels.



The disease causes the bats to become emaciated and depletes the winter  

fat stores they depend on through hibernation, Dickson said.



Bats in New York have been found flying outside their caves in the daytime  

in the winter months in search of food, behavior that is not  

characteristic of healthy bats.



This winter, the syndrome was found among bats in hibernacula in  

southwestern Vermont and western Massachusetts.



Connecticut wildlife biologists have been checking this state's  

hibernacula periodically this winter, but had not found evidence of the  

disease until this week.



No mass die-offs of the infected bats were reported at the Connecticut  

site, which Dickson said is a hopeful sign that they might be able to  

survive the next two to three weeks until the end of their hibernation  

period and emerge from the cave and start rebuilding their fat stores and  

recover from the disease.



The DEP plans to continue working with other states where the disease has  

been found and will continue monitoring its bat population.



Swab samples of the fungus and some of the bats themselves were collected  

 from the Connecticut cave where the disease was found and sent to labs  

studying the disease, Diskson said.



The labs are at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and in Madison,  

Wis., at the U.S. Geological Service's wildlife disease facility.



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Written by Frank Morales ?? 



  


Thursday, 26 October 2006 


  



  


In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has 
  signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy 
  (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal 
  martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of 
  laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the 
  United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, 
  along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce 
  strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. 
  With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those 
  prohibitions. 

  
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 
  2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on 
  October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the 
  President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in 
  America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the 
  consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress 
public 
  disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the 
  very same day that he signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act 
  of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement one another. One allows for 
  torture and detention abroad, while the other seeks to enforce 
  acquiescence at home, preparing to order the military onto the streets of 
  America. Remember, the term for putting an area under military law 
  enforcement control is precise; the term is "martial law."

Section 
  1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon another 
  $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of 
the 
  Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major public 
  emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states that "the 
  President may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in 
  Federal service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the 
  United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other 
  serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other 
  condition in any State or possession of the United States, the President 
  determines that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the 
  constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of 
  ("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, 
  in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, 
  or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws 
  to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, 
  over the objections of local governmental, military and local police 
  entities; ship them off to another state; conscript them in a law 
  enforcement mode; and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry - 
  protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and 
  quarantines in the event of a bio-terror event.

The law also 
  facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so 
  called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" 
  for detention in facilities already contracted for and under construction 
  by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a trumped-up 
"immigration 
  emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the southern border, 
  detention camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps 
  designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the 
  Bush administration.

An article on "recent contract awards" in a 
  recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of Counterterrorism & 
  Homeland Security International" reported that "global engineering and 
  technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in 
  January 2006 that its Government and Infrastructure division was awarded 
  an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support 
U.S. 
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an 
  emergency." "With a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year 
  term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army 
  Corps of Engineers," "for establishing tempo

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