[cia-drugs] Hinduism Quantum Physics
http://www.hinduism.co.za/newpage1.htm Pages TOP==UNDERSTANDING HINDUISM Hinduism Quantum Physics Click on underscored words to open paragraph BELL'S THEOREM - VEDANTA AND QUANTUM PHYSICS TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION LOWERS CHOLESTEROL HURRY SICKNESS Vedanta as the synthesis of Science and Religion Modern Physics and Philosophical Reason The basic oneness of the universe is not only the central characteristic of the mystical experience, but is also one of the most important revelations of modern physics. __ THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE-Prof.Henry Stapp, Quantum physicist. BELL'S THEOREM - VEDANTA AND QUANTUM PHYSICS HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD 'Om Isha vasyam idam sarvam, yat kincha jagatyam jagat' All this- whatever exists in this changing universe, is pervaded by God -Isa Upanishad Om purnamadah purnamidam purnaat purnamudachyate, purnasya purnamadaya purnamevaavashishyate That (pure consciousness) is full(perfect); this(the manifest universe of matter; of names and forms being maya) is full. This fullness has been projected from that fullness. When this fullness merges in that fullness, all that remains is fullness. -Peace invocation- Isa Upanishad The Supreme Brahman(God) is the only Reality. The idea of the phenomenal universe is falsely superimposed upon it. Swami Nikhilananda of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Centre, New York. THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS THEOREM ARE STAGGERING In recent years physicists have had to address the interplay of consciousness and the physical world. In Quantum Physics much has been made over Bell's Theorem. The implications of this theorem and the experimental findings that flow from it are staggering. They force us to consider that the entire notion of a purely objective world is in conflict not only with the theory of quantum mechanics, but with the facts drawn from actual experiments. These findings point insistently to a profound interaction between conscious mental activity and the physical world itself. THE RISHI'S VISION The Rishi's vision of a world in which man participates in a seamless existence, indivisibly united with the universe around him, resonates through a discovery called BELL'S THEOREM. This discovery, first proposed in 1964 by the physicist John S. Bell was first confirmed by experiment in 1972 by Professor John Clauser at Berkley. It is an almost unbelievable result - unbelievable because the logical mind has great difficulty in comprehending how it can be true. Its impact on the physics community has been enormous. Professor Henry Stapp, a physicist at Berkley and an authority on the implications of Bell's Theorem, has called it THE MOST IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE. A description of the proof of Bell's theory, as given by Stapp reads: If the statistical predictions of quantum theory are true, an objective universe is incompatible with the law of local causes. Although formidable at first glance, Bell's Theorem seems simpler once key terms are understood. First, an objective universe is simply one that exists apart from our consciousness. Secondly, the law of local causes refers to the fact that events in the universe happen at a speed that does not exceed the speed of light. Things happen, in other words, always at the speed of light or less.This limitation is imposed by Einstein's special theory of relativity, and is a mainstay of modern physical theory. To be accurate, in actual experimental situations, it is not Bell's Theorem that is tested, but the predictions of Quantum Mechanics. In 1935, Albert Einstein, together with Nathan Rosen and Boris Podolsky proposed through flawless mathematical reasoning that if the quantum theory were correct, then 'A change in the spin of one particle in a two particle system would affect its twin simultaneously, even if the two had been widely separated in the meantime'. And 'simultaneous' is a dirty word in the theory of special relativity, which forbids the transmission of any signal faster than the speed of light. Obviously, a signal telling the particle 'what to do' would have to travel faster than the speed of light if instantaneous changes were to occur between the two particles. The dilemma into which Einstein, Rosen and Podolsky dragged the quantum theory was a profound one, coming to be known as THE ERP EFFECT. In 1964 Bell's Theorem emerged as a proof that Einstein's impossible proposition did in fact hold true: instantaneous changes in widely separated systems did occur. In 1972, Clauser confirmed the statistical predictions of quantum mechanics, working with an elaborate system involving photons, calcite crystals, and photo multiplier tubes The experiment has since been run several times with the same
[cia-drugs] Upcoming Book On Gary Webb Hits Critics of CIA Series
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002952140Upcoming Book On Gary Webb Hits Critics of CIA SeriesGary WebbBy Joe Strupp Published: August 08, 2006 12:15 PM ET NEW YORK Nearly two years after the death of former San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb, uncertainties remain over exactly what drove him to suicide, who was to blame for the problems with his controversial CIA/crack series, how much of the reporting was accurate, and how the harsh reactions to the series affected its impact. An upcoming book by a veteran investigative reporter who knew Webb and reported on many of the same drug-related issues seeks to clear up some of the uncertainties, while defending much of Webb's reporting, criticizing the major newspapers that attacked him, and pointing out several new facts related to his infamous series and tragic death. Webb, who died Dec. 10, 2004, from a gunshot wound to the head after a long-running bout of depression, is known to most as the hard-driving veteran investigative reporter who overstepped some facts in the three-part series that the Mercury News ran in 1996, titled "Dark Alliance." The series sought to link the CIA and its Nicaraguan Contra supporters of the mid-1980's to the burgeoning crack epidemic that exploded, at first, in Los Angeles. Soon after the series ran, three of the country's major newspapers sought to debunk Webb's assertions of a strong CIA link to the crack scourge, while The Mercury News eventually admitted mistakes and all but hung Webb out to dry. After leaving the paper when he was banished to a bureau police beat, and failing to find a reporting job at any other major news outlet over several years, Webb took his own life, amid other personal problems. Since his death, Webb's story has often been seen as a simple case of a reporter going too far in a complicated story, being knocked down by critics, and succumbing to a dark depression that followed. But according to author Nick Schou, and his book, "Kill the Messenger," which is due out in October via Nation Books, the truth is not as clear. While Schou admits major mistakes on the part of Webb and his editors, he saves his harshest vitriol for The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, which severely criticized the series in the months after it ran. "So much of the reporting was personal and an attack on Gary Webb, it was unbelievable," Schou tells EP. Among the revelations or claims by Schou in the book: • Mercury News editors, allegedly against Webb's request, focused the series and its lead more on the CIA link to the crack epidemic in Los Angeles than the reporter had wanted. In general, Schou suggests, editors let Webb down in not being more vigilant before the series saw the light of day. • After attacking the series for allegedly failing to prove its premise -- that the CIA, via Nicaraguan contra-supported covert operations, had helped boost the crack epidemic in the Los Angeles area -- other newspapers under-covered a CIA Inspector General's report in 1998 that admitted certain CIA connections to drug trafficking. • Webb told a former girlfriend just weeks before his death that he had planned to commit suicide, claiming in a phone call to her that he was holding a gun to his head and had already bought a cremation ticket. • Dawn Garcia, the former Mercury News' state editor who worked closest with Webb on the stories, spoke publicly for the first time on the series, telling Schou that the basic premise of the series was solid, but its presentation was poor. "The core of the series was correct," she says in the book. "But the conclusions Gary drew were too sweeping. We could have had almost as strong or stronger a story by being more explanatory in what we thought and why we thought so." Schou, an investigative reporter with OC Weekly in Orange County Calif., also seeks to debunk the conspiracy theories that Webb was murdered. Because he had to shoot himself twice in the head to end his life, speculation has surfaced in many corners that Webb might have been bumped off. But Schou raises various pieces of evidence to kill that theory. Finally, Schou spends an entire chapter essentially backing up Webb's reporting on several figures in Los Angeles with ties to the crack trade and the CIA, most notably a former police officer and convicted drug dealer, Ronald Lister. "Lister's business deals with powerful Salvadoran officials, his role in supplying the contras with arms, his relationship to retired CIA officials and his ties to [two prominent Nicaraguan drug smugglers] all suggest that the 'Dark Alliance' drug ring had closer ties to the CIA than even Webb could have known," Schou writes. In all, the book paints Webb's career as that of a dogged investigative reporter, but with the occasional over-reach or mistake. His personal life, meanwhile, included a broken marriage and a history of both affairs and emotional problems. "Nobody really
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Liquid terror: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves
__._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ ---BeginMessage--- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/infowarsnews/message/1015 LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient Slaves Message List LIQUID TERROR: Training People To Act Like Subservient SlavesTerrorists planned to mix liquids so why are they all being poured into airport bins? Steve Watson / Infowars.net | August 11 2006 The latest terror plot facade is nothing more than an exercise to assess how subservient the general population has become and a primer to making permanent the panicked and ridiculous freedom crushing security measures we are seeing being rushed into implementation at the moment. Whilst the government is saying there is no going back on these measures and that they will become permanent, the media is bleating about rushing in biometric retina scanners and Orwellian behaviour sensing technology. This is the only way they can do these things without backlash and protest, just have a major terror alert and rush them through. How is it that people can still deny that our governments are forwarding a big brother control agenda? ID cards, Biometric databases, retina scanners, face scanning cameras, behaviour sensing machines. The list goes on. It has been proven over and over that these measures will not help prevent terrorism, the government itself has even admitted this, so why do they relentlessly push them? The latest mind bending terror stupidity has every passenger at airports pouring their potentially explosive liquids into bins inside the airports. How stupid can things get? How far does it have to go before people start asking simple questions about what they are being made to do in the name of security? If these liquids are potentially explosive what the hell is the good in pouring them all into large bins inside overcrowded airports and mixing them all together? The Asheville Citizen Times interviewed a mother who was forced to pour away her baby's milk: "I have mixed feelings about all this," Leoni said as she waited to board a flight for Miami at Asheville Regional Airport. "On the one side, Im fine with the safety measures and the effects, but on the other hand, I had to pour out my babys milk this morning. They said I couldn't take it on board." And here she is pouring the potentially deadly milk into a vat of other potentially explosive dangerous liquids. The official counterterrorism statement told us that the plan involved mixing a sports drink with a gel-like substance to concoct explosives that could be ignited with an MP3 player or cell phone. The sports drink could be combined with a peroxide-based paste to form a potent explosive cocktail, counterterrorism officials said. If you believe the dodgy science that suggests that these liquids can be ignited by calling up your mom or whacking on a bit of Led Zeppelin on your MP3 player then they better clear the airports pretty smartish because those bins full liquids could go up any second. unless they are just bins full of baby milk and Dr Pepper that is. The Scientific American states: Furthermore, some chemicals can be mixed to create a toxic gas capable of killing people in an enclosed space such as an airplane. Great, marvelous, lets get mixing them in bins then! The XOPL blogger here is bang on the money and I couldn't put it any better: Sir, I'm going to have to take this bottle of water away from you since it might be a liquid explosive, and I'm going to have to mix it with all of these other bottles of possibly liquid explosive, and I'm going to have to dump them all in this trash can... together. Nevermind that the plot specifically mentions mixing chemicals and/or nitroglycerin... which explodes if handled too roughly. The only conclusion you can reach here is that airport security are not looking for terrorists because if they truly believed terrorists were attempting to board planes with liquids they wouldn't be mishandling the liquids in this way.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush's dubious terror alerts
__._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ ---BeginMessage--- http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17495 Bill Berkowitz WorkingForChange 08.19.04 Bush's dubious terror alerts Is administration's political agenda driving warnings of terrorism? WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration has discovered no evidence of imminent plans by terrorists to attack U.S. financial buildings, nearly two weeks after the government issued startling warnings about such possible threats, a White House official said. -- Associated Press, August 12, 2004. When the going gets tough, the tough get to issuing terrorist alerts, announcing high profile arrests, and raising the terrorism threat level. Since January 2002, according to JuliusBlog, an Internet web log, there have been at least fifteen incidents where Team Bush, responding to adverse news or dipping presidential poll numbers, turned either Attorney General John Ashcroft or Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge loose to ramp up talk of terrorism and terrorist attacks. The latest episode aired on August 1, shortly after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention, when Secretary Ridge raised the Homeland Security Department's terrorist level to Code Orange -- high threat of terrorist attacks -- claiming that there was ample information about terrorists targeting the financial services sector in New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C. to warrant the action. In prepared remarks, Ridge told the press: ...reports indicate that al-Qaeda is targeting several specific buildings, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in the District of Columbia; Prudential Financial in Northern New Jersey; and Citigroup buildings and the New York Stock Exchange in New York. The rest of the country remained at Code Yellow -- significant risk of terrorist attacks. One week later, the New York Times reported that Pakistan had warned the United States that Al Qaeda has considered using tourist helicopters in terror attacks in New York City. Within hours reporters were on the scene interviewing heliport personnel and scaring the bejeezus out of tourists coming off their flights. In the run-up to the Republican Party Convention in New York City later this month, terrorist alerts are rolling out of the Dept. of Homeland Security faster than the grounds crew rolls out the Yankee Stadium tarp during a sudden summer shower. With each real or perceived threat, the American people are reminded of the president's belief that we live in the age of the permanent war against terrorism, a stance he spelled out in a November 2002 document titled Securing the Homeland, Strengthening the Nation. While outlining his budget priorities, Bush maintained that the threat of terrorism is an inescapable reality of life in the 21st century and a permanent condition to which America and the entire world must adjust. The president also said: Today's terrorists can strike at any place, at any time, and with a wide variety of weapons. The most urgent terrorist threat to America is the Al Qaeda network. We will prosecute our war with these terrorists until they are routed from the Earth. But we will not let our guard down after we defeat Al Qaeda. The terrorist threat to America takes many forms, has many places to hide, and is often invisible. We can never be sure that we have defeated all of our terrorist enemies, and therefore we can never again allow ourselves to become overconfident about the security of our homeland. Ramping up the Homeland Security Dept.'s threat level may result in greater vigilance amongst both law enforcement and the public, and it is conceivable that a terrorist attack may have been prevented. The cranking-up of the threat level, however, also drives the panic-mongers, most notably the 24/7 cable news networks: Terrorist Alert banners drape the screen, crawls get creepier, and terrorist experts are trucked out to provide wall-to-wall commentary. After several years of warnings, and no major terrorist incident, some are questioning the accuracy and timing of these alerts: Are they based on new information or old information? Is the information reliable? How great is the threat? Should we take for granted the administration's oft-heard mantra that Al Qaeda wants to disrupt the November elections? With the presidential election less than three months away, there are those with the temerity to question these warnings: Are there other stories -- the continued fighting in Iraq, the mounting death toll of U.S. service personnel, more Abu Ghraib revelations -- that
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Pentagon's Domestic Spying Arm, CIFA, Collapsing Under Corruption Charges
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 11, 2006 10:29:57 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Pentagon's Domestic Spying Arm, CIFA, Collapsing Under Corruption Charges Counterintelligence Officials Resign By Walter PincusWashington Post, August 10, 2006 David A. Burtt II, director of the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Defense Department's newest intelligence agency whose contracts are under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors, told his staff yesterday that he and his deputy director will resign at the end of the month.In an internal message, Burtt said, "I do not make this decision without trepidation, but the time is right to move on to the next phase of my career." He said he had been privileged to serve as CIFA director and was "especially proud of all of you and what you have accomplished for the CI [counterintelligence] community and for the overall CI mission."Joseph Hefferon "has also decided to retire, after over 31 years of federal service," according to Burtt's message. A Pentagon spokesman yesterday confirmed they were leaving and said it was "a personal decision that they both made together."Burtt, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for counterintelligence at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, developed the concept for CIFA. It was established in September 2002, originally to coordinate policy and oversee the counterintelligence activities of units within the armed services and Pentagon agencies.Over the past three years, it has grown to become an analytic and operation organization with nine directorates and widening authority focused primarily on protecting defense facilities and personnel from terrorist attacks. CIFA's size and budget are classified, but according to congressional sources the agency has spent more than $1 billion over the past four years, mostly for outsourced services. One counterintelligence official yesterday estimated that CIFA had 400 full-time employees and 800 to 900 contractors working for it.The agency was criticized in December after it was revealed that a database managed by CIFA contained unverified threat information on Americans who were peacefully protesting the war in Iraq at defense facilities, including recruiting offices.Last March, as a result of the continuing federal investigations arising out of charges against former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.), prosecutors said they were reviewing CIFA contracts that went to MZM Inc., a company run by Mitchell J. Wade, who had pleaded guilty in February to conspiring to bribe Cunningham.Cunningham, now serving an eight-year prison term, in January 2004 sought about $16.5 million to be added to the defense authorization bill for a CIFA "collaboration center." A month later, he wrote Burtt a thank-you note about the center, adding, according to prosecutors' documents: "I wish to endorse and support MZM, Inc.'s work."One of the consultants to Burtt, when he was formulating CIFA in 2002, was retired Lt. Gen. James C. King, then an MZM senior vice president who had recently retired as director of the Pentagon-based National Imagery and Mapping Agency.In late 2002, Cunningham, who received campaign contributions from Wade and other MZM officials, made contracts for Wade's company one of "his top priorities," according to prosecutors' documents. One result, according to prosecutors' documents, was $6 million spent for a data storage system, supposedly for CIFA, that included almost $5.4 million in profit for MZM and a subcontractor.Following disclosures in Cunningham's case, Undersecretary of Defense Stephen A. Cambone last March ordered an internal study of how funding earmarked in defense bills led to CIFA contracts for MZM. The Defense Information Systems Agency, which has been given responsibility for the inquiry, said in a statement yesterday that "the investigation is still ongoing." __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Govt's 9/11 Facade is Crumbling
__._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ ---BeginMessage--- The Government's 9/11 Facade is CrumblingJohn Perry / Oped News | August 11 2006First things first:Any time two or more people are knowingly involved in the commission of a crime, there is, by definition, a conspiracy. This is not a theory, folks. It's a stone-cold, undeniable fact. So the real question about 9/11 is not whether there was a conspiracy, but indeed exactly who the conspirators are. It really is this simple: 1) Either 19 guys with box cutters, led by a guy hiding in a cave in Afghanistan, were able to hijack four major airliners, fly them with expert precision (even though flight instructors say they could barely even fly Cessnas), avoid the most sophisticated air defense system in the history of the world and hit three of four targets in New York and Washington, killing nearly 3000 people and thus pulling off history's most spectacular terrorist attack, Or: 2) A rouge criminal element within our own government, with the means, motive and standing to benefit tremendously, both financially and politically, either helped to make it happen or fully orchestrated it themselves. By the way, about that guy hiding in the cave in Afghanistan that supposedly led the hijackers: In June of this year, when questioned about why Osama bin Laden's wanted poster did not mention the 9/11 attacks, an official from the FBI stated that they had "no hard evidence" of his involvement (Google "FBI no hard evidence").9/11 Truth Movement Gaining SteamNineteenth century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said the following about truth:"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."Similarly, Gandhi said this: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."The importance of America and the world accepting and reacting accordingly to the horrible truth about 9/11 cannot be overstated. If you think it doesn't affect you because you didn't lose anybody on 9/11, or you don't have any loved ones (civilians or military) in the midst of George W. Bush's subsequent and utterly bogus "war on terror", I would urge you in the strongest possible terms to rethink your position. We must not only be concerned with exacting proper justice for the mass murder of 9/11. We must also be concerned with ending the tide of tyranny that has begun to wash over us as a result of that tragic day, threatening freedom, democracy, and the world as we know it. They who seek to rule us with an iron fist, pretending to protect us by destroying our liberty, must be told in no uncertain terms that we the people thoroughly reject their despotism, in favor of the constitutional democracy that our country has lived by for more than 200 years.Thankfully, many more are beginning to awaken to the truth of 9/11, and that can only be good. But we have a long way to go. There are, as you might imagine, many websites dedicated to this issue. If I could recommend a single site to point people to in the effort to grow our movement, it would be Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Bookmark it and refer to it often. You will also reach many other sites from there. The single most influential voice of the 9/11 truth movement is unquestionably Alex Jones. Visit his sites here and here. In June of this year, Jones conducted a 9/11 symposium that was broadcast multiple times on CSPAN. Put 90 minutes aside and watch it here. In addition to the Jones symposium and its multiple broadcasts on CSPAN, two national polls have recently come out (one just last week) that show very significant doubt of the "official story" of 9/11 among the American people, indicating rapid mainstream growth of the 9/11 truth movement.A Scripps Howard / Ohio University poll, released last week, reveals that 36 percent of Americans now believe it is either "somewhat likely" or "very likely" that the government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. Additionally, a Zogby International Poll,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The PHOENIX Program:Spooky Psychic-Spy War or Dis-informed Spooks?
__._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ ---BeginMessage--- Counter-intelligence and the Power of Remote Influence The PHOENIX Program: Spooky Psychic-Spy War or Dis-informed Spooks? by Gary S. Bekkum Part One: ResurrectionMore than ten years ago, the U.S. Government revealed official interest in the use of mind-over-matter during the height of the cold war. STAR GATE was the culmination of a series of various programs involving psychic spies and mental influencing, run under the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA, and armed services including the Army. USAF, the Navy, and their intelligence divisions.Buried deep within the eighty-thousand plus pages of released STAR GATE documentation was a reference to a "Phoenix Program." The reference came near the end-time of STAR GATE, suggesting that somewhere in the remaining fifty-thousand plus pages of unreleased material were secrets still considered vital to the national security. If STAR GATE was a failed attempt, a twenty-year plus search for non-existent pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo, then what of the unreleased material? What hidden secrets remain of a program said to have been one of the biggest embarrassments in the history of the intelligence world? Why were so many other nations conducting their own psychic mind research behind closed doors? What about the letter to the Pentagon's leader of Net Assessment, Andy Marshall, and memo's about briefing Marshall on psychotronics and STAR GATE?What we know to be true:Several letters in the STAR GATE files, and a couple of documents discuss a program called PHOENIX, with reference to "psychotronics," a cold-war term for doing mind-to-mind battle with the enemy by means of weird science and paranormal phenomenology.In a letter dated September 22, 1994, from Jay Sloan, former officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency we learn that, "Lin Wells has asked us to set up a meeting with himself and Andy Marshall for the purpose of briefing Andy on Stargate ... Focus of the briefing is substantive rundown to include the Phenix [PHOENIX] program. To get Andy familiar with the activity, the need to monitor, and an item of interest/concern from a DOD [Department of Defense] perspective. Why? Among other things, because Andy might have some money he would be willing to allocate to keep the contract DIA has had going -- the contract that allowed for those unique contacts and sourcing leads." Why is this so important? STAR GATE was shut down shortly after this letter was written, in 1995, but this letter mentions the importance of monitoring psychotronics foreign research efforts in paraphysics and phenomenology. Sloan also mentions that, "This should be done ASAP, because Lin is orchestrating interest in this subject in OSD prior to the Yeltsin visit." In a letter sent to Sloan a few hours later, an undisclosed party "came down a couple of weeks ago and briefed Marshall on 'psychotronic weapons' - foreign program etc. (talked a bit about PHOENIX). This was in response to his query about what the weapons were. The session went very well ... however the briefing did not formally talk about SG [STAR GATE] or any other related programs/efforts."Is this confirmation that "other related programs/efforts" existed outside of the STAR GATE program? It certainly suggests compartmentalization of psycho-paraphysical efforts at the Pentagon. Writer and humorist Jon Ronson has written about other alleged efforts, some which are said to continue today as part of the war on terror. Starstream Research has learned of at least one former intelligence officer looking for financing to engage in advanced mind-brain research experiments. What of the official 'black' work taking place behind the closed door of national security?As for the so-called PHOENIX program, clues remain sparse, but are sprinkled within STAR GATE documents.One clue can be found in a monthly activity report from December, 1993. Mundane aspects of personnel vacancies and program administration are followed by heavily redacted operational details.An undisclosed (redacted) party "volunteered his services to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] U.S. raises threat level to re d for first time
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 10, 2006 7:58:30 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] U.S. raises threat level to ‘red’ for first timeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14280416/Chertoff: Threat ‘suggestive of an al-Qaida plot’Highest threat level issued for commercial flights from Britain to U.S.Updated: 10:15 a.m. ET Aug. 10, 2006WASHINGTON - The terror scheme disrupted in London is “suggestive of an al-Qaida plot,” the Bush administration said Thursday as it issued its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States and raised the threat level for all domestic and international flights.Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said there was no indication of plotting in the United States but said officials cannot assume that the terror operation in Britain had been completely thwarted.The administration raised the threat level for flights from Britain to “red,” designating a severe risk of terrorist attacks. All other flights, including all domestic flights in the United States, were put under an “orange,” alert — one step below the highest level.Story continues below ? advertisementThe U.S. government banned all liquids and gels from flights, including toothpaste, makeup, suntan lotion. Baby formula and medicines were exempted.‘Suggestive of an al-Qaida plot’Chertoff said the alleged plot appeared to be engineered by al-Qaida, the terrorist group that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attack against the United States.“It was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope,” said Chertoff. “It was in some respects suggestive of an al Qaida plot.”He added, however, that “because the investigation is still underway we cannot yet form a definitive conclusion.” No U.S. arrestsA U.S. law enforcement official said there have been no arrests in the United States connected to the plot.A senior U.S. counterterrorism official said authorities believe dozens of people and as many as 50 were involved or connected to the overseas plot that was unraveled Wednesday evening. The plan “had a footprint to al-Qaida back to it,” said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.It was not believed to be connected to the Egyptian students who disappeared in the United States more than a week ago before reaching a college they were supposed to attend in Montana. Three of the 11 have since been found and the FBI has said neither they nor the still-missing eight are believed to be a threat.The plan involved airline passengers hiding masked explosives in carryon luggage, the official said. “They were not yet sitting on an airplane,” but were very close to traveling, the official said, calling the plot “the real deal.”Not all suspects detainedU.S. intelligence has been working closely with the British on the investigation, which has been ongoing for months, the second official said.Authorities have not yet arrested or detained all suspects who are believed to be involved in the plot, the official said, prompting Chertoff’s alarm.“Consistent with these higher threat levels, the Transportation Security Administration is coordinating with federal partners, airport authorities and commercial airlines on expanding the intensity of existing security requirements,” Chertoff said.“Due to the nature of the threat revealed by this investigation, we are prohibiting any liquids, including beverages, hair gels, and lotions from being carried on the airplane.”He said the changes take effect at 4 a.m. local time across the United States and will be undated as warranted.The metal detector and X-ray machines at airport security checkpoints cannot detect explosives. At many, but not all airport checkpoints, the TSA has deployed walkthrough “sniffer” or “puffer” machines that can detect explosives residue.As part of the foiled Bojinka Plot to blow up 12 Western airliners simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean in the mid-1990s, terrorist mastermind Ramzi Youssef planned to put together an improvised bomb using liquid in a contact lens solution container.Chertoff said travelers in the United States “should also anticipate additional security measures within the airport and at screening checkpoints.”Multiple airlines with flights to multiple U.S. airports were at risk, according to a western counterterrorism official. Another official refused to identify the airlines because they were still being notified of the threat but referred to them as the “usual suspects.” In the past, U.S. cities with terrorism threats or plots have included Washington, New York, Boston and Los Angeles. Airlines whose planes were hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, were United Airlines and American Airlines. British Airways has also dealt with numerous threats in recent years.“These measures will continue to assure that our aviation system remains safe and secure,” Chertoff added. “Travelers
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] From Communist Master Spy To American Corporate Executive
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 9, 2006 3:35:03 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] From Communist Master Spy To American Corporate ExecutiveReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/generic_nomedia.html?d=102939FROM COMMUNIST MASTER SPY TO AMERICAN CORPORATE EXECUTIVEBook: Always Ready - From Communist KGB Master Spy to CIA Operative and American Corporate Executive / by Alexander von Locknerwww.Xlibris.com. Publisher: Xlibris / (888) 795-4274 x. 472 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]Primezone Media NetworkJul 28. From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Cold War devastated the world by means of ideological and socio-economic polarization. Direct hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union, NATO and the Warsaw Pact were waged through arms races, economic competition and political propaganda. As an American CIA operative in this historic conflict, Alexander von Lockner contributed to the destruction of the nefarious KGB. His tireless efforts aided the Western cause and contributed to the final collapse of Soviet communism. This stunning account is set to begin as Xlibris releases von Lockner's compelling new book, Always Ready. The credible story depicts the struggle of the United States against Soviet intelligence and communist doctrine. Its portrayal of thrilling CIA operations within the sanctum sanctorum of the Soviet and East European communist institutions provide for a poignant understanding of the totalitarian demise. Readers will discover how the bravery and determination of a few nameless heroes paved the way to what is remembered as the peaceful conclusion of the Cold War. Von Lockner's work exhibits the immeasurable power that a well-placed CIA spy can posses in fulfilling the strategic interests of the United States of America. Richly-layered and informative, Always Ready will engross a wide audience of readers with its burning content. University students, educators, historians, journalists, political analysts, members of the intelligence community and military personnel will likewise benefit from reading this historically accurate and CIA Review Board verified account. To purchase a copy of Alexander von Lockner's book Always Ready online, visit Xlibris.com, Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, or visit your local bookstore today! About the Author Alex von Lockner, GPI, was born into a prominent anti-fascist family in Moscow. Majoring in modern history and diplomacy, von Lockner graduated from the St. Climent of Ohrid University in Sofia. He later attended numerous Soviet and West European high-learning institutions where he earned a Ph.D. in Industrial History. Continuing his education in the United States, von Lockner attended the prestigious Thunderbird -- American Graduate School of International Management, and Harvard Business School, earning an MBA in International Finance and Global Commerce. For fifteen years, von Lockner was a communist KGB State Security intelligence officer and communist party official. In this capacity, he recruited and directed the academic elite of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. They worked to stealthily penetrate advanced western research institutions and corporate facilities. Along with Kim Philby, Robert Maxwell and other KGB trained generals, von Lockner attempted to enhance the Soviet developed socialist economy by means of cunning industrial espionage, high technology thieveries from the West, narcotic smugglings, and weapons trade. Disgruntled by the socio-economic realities of communism, von Lockner came to embrace western pluralism and for years worked as an "agent-in-place" for the CIA. Risking his life in the name of democracy, von Lockner dedicated himself to the American fight against communist malevolence, thereby contributing to the annihilation of Leninist totalitarianism. Craftily exfiltrated from behind the communist Iron Curtain, von Lockner continues to work with the American government in the fight against industrial espionage, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and terrorism. By steadily moving up the senior corporate ladder, von Lockner has recently been guiding and managing leading American corporations in conducting successful international business. Alexander von Lockner resides in southern California with his wife Dominique and their three outstanding children. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portalhttp://mprofaca.cro.netSince you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] IntellNet is back
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 9, 2006 3:47:32 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] IntellNet is backReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org/IntellNet is back! After a nearly 24 month hiatus, it is with great pride and honor that I announce the re-launch of IntellNet.org (http://www.intellnet.org).Founded in early 2000 as a private project to more easily disseminate information, during the 4 years since its creation IntellNet proved itself to be a great source of knowledge. With today's re-launch, The Intelligence Network will stand upon the shoulders of giants in order to see further and push higher; expanding upon the very foundations of the U.S. Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) community. Our potential knows no boundaries and can only ever be limited by our imaginations.It is by no means a mere figure of speech that I referenced Sir Isaac Newton. It is with both humility and courage that we acknowledge those that not only came before, but after as well in what has become a global effort to achieve synergy with the flow of information. In the coming months, we will unveil initiatives designed to enhance and develop current and new capabilities as well as extend our reach into both existing and un-chartered territories. In line with these developments, I have placed the IntellNet website and The OSINT Group under the umbrella of The Intelligence Network where they will be autonomous divisions with similar methods and common goals. New divisions will be created as more initiatives are deployed and we will be increasingly in need of intelligent, savvy and thoughtful individuals to staff them. Additionally, The Intelligence Network will maintain an open door policy to any similar organizations willing to collaborate, on any level in order to further our common goals.If there is anyone who wishes to contribute to the organization or has any questions or comments, please contact me. Finally, it is with those predictions and self-imposed challenges, that we invite you all to become loyal viewers and to make IntellNet what it once was.Contributors Needed!We are desperately looking for contributors who are willing to take some time to post news articles to Intellnet. If you enjoy scouring the internet looking for news articles in obscure places and have a little extra time, please email us and we will be happy to have you. Perks include your name on the site and an @intellnet.org email address.New Al-Qaeda video's releasedIn our continued effort to secure materials for public consumption, IntellNet has found and is hosting the latest Al-Qaeda video's, as described by MSNBC. The new tape levies further threats of terrorism against the United States and shows CQB style practice raids by Mujahideen as well as a Sept 11th video, which, according to MSNBC, has been closely held by the US government and Intelligence Community.The Intelligence Network's home on IRCWe have found a new medium on which to plant our flag; Internet Relay Chat (IRC). The events of September 11, 2001 proved that in times of extreme crisis alternate means of communication and information dissemination are needed. With cellular networks bogged down, landlines blocked to allow for emergency communications, mainstream news websites shut down, etc., there needs to be a maximization of what resources are left to the general population. Since that day, I have made it a primary goal of this organization to seek out better ways of disseminating information. Given the distributed nature of IRC, this was quite clearly the logical next step. The way we intend to enhance our dissemination capabilities is with a "robot" that will sit in the channel 24/7/365 to both allow users to interact with the website through the robot and to keep people in the channel up-to-date on breaking news. This functionality isn't yet built into the bot, however we are working on it. We are looking for programmers familiar with TCL and databasing who are willing to donate some time into building this functionality. If you have those skills and feel you have some extra time, please feel free to email us [EMAIL PROTECTED].For more information on what IRC is and how to use it, please see IRC Help or mIRC IRC Frequently Asked Questions.We are located on the Suidnet IRC network. They offer a secure means of communication via IRC, however you are not required to make use of the added security. For more information on the network and how to enable the added security, please see their homepage at http://www.suidnet.org. We recommend connecting with irc.munchkins.net. Our channel is #intellnet. We hope to see you there!Intellnet back up!We finally found a hosting provider, albeit one that we are paying for. I just wanted to let everyone who gave us their support (either financially or verbally in the form of appreciation) know that it really meant a lot. It was a strong factor in my taking time to search for a new
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Death squads push Baghdad to the brink
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 9, 2006 6:19:13 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Death squads push Baghdad to the brinkReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2item_no=101644version=1template_id=46parent_id=26Death squads push Baghdad to the brinkPublished: Wednesday, 9 August, 2006, 01:06 PM Doha TimeBy Patrick FortBAGHDAD: In a network of secret torture cells and ad-hoc religious courts, Iraqi death squads are carrying out scores of punishment killings a week and filling Baghdad’s canals and sewers with the dead.Tit-for-tat murders have set Shia versus Sunni on the streets of the city, pushing Iraq towards a sectarian civil war that could sound the death knell for attempts to rebuild the country as a united, stable democracy.After a few false starts, Iraqi and US forces have responded to the menace with a beefed-up security plan and reinforced their troops in the capital. On Sunday night they raided an alleged torture cell in Shia east Baghdad.But Iraqi and US officials warn that the death squad networks are extensive, enjoy the backing of some religious leaders and are hard to track.They operate with the support of the militias, which control large tracts of the city, and with the complicity of corrupt or terrified Iraqi police units.When Iraqi troops and US advisers attempted to storm the suspected hideout in the impoverished Shia district of Sadr City late on Sunday, they came under fire from radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s militia."Many police sympathise with the death squads, but mainly it’s that many live in Sadr City. If they they close their eyes, they’re well thought of, sometimes even paid," an Iraqi military intelligence officer told AFP."If they try to do their jobs, they put themselves in danger and their families are threatened," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity.Some of the death squads’ targets are political.Shia gangs target former members of ousted president Saddam Hussain’s hated Baath party or security services. Sunni extremists kill those who are seen as collaborators with US-led coalition forces or Iraq’s coalition.Other killings are more purely sectarian. The numbers of dead and tortured corpses turning up in the streets of Baghdad have spiralled since February 22 when suspected Sunni bombers destroyed a revered Shia mosque in Samarra.Many of the bodies are thrown in giant sewer that crosses Sadr’s territory in Sadr City. From there they float, many of them in a terrible state following beatings and torture, towards a treatment plant near a US base in Rustamiya.Lieutenant Colonel Mark Bertolini, who commands the US base Camp Rustamiya, said: "There was a significant increase after the Samarra shrine bombing." In April, Bertolini ordered some access channels to the sewer to be sealed off. "It doesn’t stop people from killing each other but at least it isn’t as easy to get rid of them and it doesn’t go completely unnoticed," he told AFP.Many of the bodies are found bound and blindfolded. Some are decapitated or have their throats cut, others burned or mutilated with power tools.Nevertheless, many of the gangs follow what they regard as a proper trial process before doing away with their victims."They target someone – and kill them if there is a difficulty in the kidnapping – but they usually bring the person to a safe place to be interrogated before the execution," the Iraqi intelligence officer said."A sheikh or imam comes and listens briefly to what the accused and accusers have to say and then gives his decision - usually death. It only lasts a few minutes. They kill the victim minutes later," he said.Many of the killings carried out by Shia gangs are seen by them as reprisals for attacks – such the Samarra bombing or suicide car bombs in crowded Baghdad markets – carried out by Sunni extremists.Mainstream Shia parties have won power since a US-led invasion in 2003 toppled Saddam’s Sunni-dominated regime, and foreign fighters inspired by the Al Qaeda Islamist network have stirred the resentment of Iraqi Sunnis.Observers fear, however, that the death squads’ reign of terror has now developed a self-sustaining logic of attack and response all of its own."People are angry because of the car bombs and suicide attacks on the markets. But you have to face the facts: Sadr city is controlled by the Mehdi Army and the Iraqi police are their accomplices," the Iraqi officer said.Checkpoints have been set up around Sadr City’s sprawling slum, but an American officer patrolling the area agreed with his Iraqi colleague, noting: "The Iraqi police are not doing their job".If Sunday night’s raid is any guide, the security forces are now more determined and able to take on the death squads. But until they succeed, Baghdadis will pull corpses out of their waterways every day. – AFP-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\
[cia-drugs] Fwd: FEAR: North Carolina: US Attys nab law enforcement big time
Begin forwarded message:From: Jody Neal-Post [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 8, 2006 6:43:52 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FEAR: North Carolina: US Attys nab law enforcement big timeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surprising account of US Attys getting the major bad guys- law enforcement abusing the drug and forfeiture laws and getting time for it.Former deputy pleads guilty http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=239090Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USARALEIGH -- A former Robeson County deputy pleaded guilty Friday in US District Court to stealing about $25,000 in federal drug forfeiture money. ...See all stories on this topic http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8oe=utf8persist=1hl=enclient=googlencl=http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article%3Fid%3D239090 ---Attachment: http://mapinc.org/temp/part488.html**FEAR also offers an unmoderated discussion list and digests for all listsList unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Swap to digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]** __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] 1] Fwd: [ctrl] Re: [political-research] Re: chip berlet II
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 5, 2006 9:28:14 AM PDTTo: political-research@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Re: [political-research] Re: chip berlet IIReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Foxhall, I have never said or implied that you were a part an organized conspiracy. Please post where I have ever said that. What I have said is some "real" people will be caught up these troll operations. That part and parcel of the operation, because then the slighted folks then may become the troll's allies. No, "Foxhall" I tossed you off the day after I tossed the trolls off. You were creating a lot of noise, shouting and posting screeds. The only persons, that I have named as a troll is "Sean," and his helpers Eastman and Webfairy. Whether the others are dogs or useful idiots, I dunna know or care. Fox, I notice that in your posts you do not think much of the ADL. Well, spook Berlet works with them. I guess you don't care being led down a "controlled dialectic rabbit hole by your prejudicial or ignorant short-hairs.Peace, Kris MilleganOn Aug 5, 2006, at 6:24 AM, foxhallgeorgetwn wrote:Mr. McBride,looks like I just got booted off ctrl. apparently, or sticking up for you! as a whole, I seem to generally agree with the gist of your presentations, one reason why I don't read your posts; preaching to the choir, as the saying goes. Now that kris millegan has seen fit to include me in his paranoid conspiracy theory about your internet use, well, I am tempted to fight back with some anti-millegan posts elsewhere. I don't care if your name is chip berlet, which I doubt it is, millegan cannot prove his points, he is substituting insubstantial conjecture for facts. That is the sign of an immaturethinker. chip berlet? well, if he was a great thinker, then I would be familiar with him, I am unfamiliar with him, and to me that means he has nothing to address to my personal quest. if you have anything to fill me in on about millegan, please feel free. I am an individual and my work is my own responsibility, I am not part of an organized 'troll conspiracy' as millegan implies.fox= __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
Fwd: [cia-drugs] Military Legal Establishment Resists Total Presidency
Begin forwarded message:From: "muckblit" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 4, 2006 2:10:46 AM PDTTo: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.comSubject: [cia-drugs] Military Legal Establishment Resists Total PresidencyReply-To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/02/AR2006080201652.htmlBench Conference, by Andrew CohenIt was the most encouraging news yet to come out of the political and legal debate over the use of military commissions to try terror detainees. There they were in crisp splendor. Uniformed military officers, lawyers, sitting before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday and having the courage and honor to tell the world (and their boss, the Commander-in-Chief) that they do not agree with the political operatives in the White House who keep trying to push forward an unconstitutional, unfair, and short-sighted set of rules governing how these special suspects should get their day in court.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/27/AR2006072701635_pf.htmlOn Prosecuting DetaineesDraft Bill Waives Due Process for Enemy CombatantsBy R. Jeffrey SmithWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, July 28, 2006; A23The Bush administration likes to keep its work under wraps until it's finished, but that proved impossible with a draft bill detailing procedures the administration is considering for bringing to trial those it captures in the war on terrorism, including some stark diversions from regular trial procedures.A copy of the draft, obtained this week by The Washington Post and others, explains how the government would create commissions of U.S. military personnel who could impose a penalty of life imprisonment or death based on evidence never disclosed to the accused. Military judges could also exclude defendants from their trials whenever "necessary to protect the national security."The copy, which is paraphrased below, is marked "For Discussion Purposes Only" and did not reflect the comments of uniformed military lawyers. Those lawyers have privately criticized the Bush administration's policies on detainees, arguing that Washington should set higher standards to ensure that others treat captured U.S. soldiers fairly.Their views are being solicited only now. But even after the administration reaches accord, the trial procedures still must pass a gantlet of senators from both parties who have criticized the administration for mistreating detainees. And the Supreme Court, which last month declared an earlier plan for the trials illegal, may eventually weigh in again if defendants challenge the new "military commissions" and appeal the verdicts.RationaleThe draft states that using the federal courts or existing military court-martial procedures to try suspects in the war on terrorism -- described formally as "alien enemy combatants" -- is "impracticable" because they are committed to destroying the country and abusing its legal processes. Routine trial procedures would not work, it states, because suspects cannot be given access to classified information or tried speedily. Service members involved in collecting evidence cannot be diverted from the battlefield to attend trials, and hearsay evidence from "fellow terrorists" is often needed to establish guilt.Formation of Military CommissionsThe commissions are to be established under existing presidential authorities but appointed by the Secretary of Defense or his designees. The jurors will be any commissioned, active-duty military officers considered qualified because of "age, education, training, experience, length of service, and judicial temperament." The head of each commission will be a military officer with legal credentials.Covered Crimes and PersonsThe draft initially said that only "alien enemy combatants" who are not U.S. citizens can be tried by military commissions. That phrase is crossed off in the text of this copy, and instead it appears to cover anyone "engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners" who violate the laws of war or provisions of this bill.The commissions have jurisdiction over 19 offenses considered violations of the laws of war, ranging from attacking civilians and protected property to using persons and property as shields and torture, maiming, mistreating dead bodies, rape and conspiracy. The commissions also can be used to try those who -- in the context of armed conflict -- hijack vessels or aircraft, destroy property, aid an enemy, or commit acts of terrorism, murder or spying.Trial Procedures"A person charged with an offense under this Act may be tried and punished at any time without limitations," the bill states. Speedy trials are not required. Defendants are entitled to two principal lawyers -- one drawn from U.S. military ranks and a civilian cleared to read materials classified as "Secret."Hearsay information is admissible at the discretion of the military lawyer presiding over the commission, unless circumstances render it
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Anatomy of a troll operation - modus operandi
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 4, 2006 12:17:28 PM PDTTo: ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], political-research@yahoogroups.comCc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Anatomy of a troll operation - modus operandi Anatomy of an Internet troll operation - modus operandi Again, we will start off with "Sean" own very authoritative words. spoken like one who knows …From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [cia-drugs] On Some Recent Weird Goings-on in This List Date: June 29, 2003 8:42:24 PM PDTTo: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com"There is something very important you must understand: the bad guys have been trying to control dissident Internet political forums for years now. They go about this in several ways. "One way is to start and control a new dissident forum, pretending to be dissidents themselves. They use their control of the forum to collect sensitive information on dissidents, and to control the direction of discussion on the forum. Naturally they try to steer discussion away from the areas they most want to hide. "Another method they use is to try to take over existing forums. If they can't manage to take over the forum, they will often flood the forum with junk in an attempt to destroy the forum. "These guys usually operate in teams of 3 or 4, to give each other backup, and to have the means to gang up on the strongest real dissidents."I have had several major tussles with "Sean" on three of my lists. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and finally here on [EMAIL PROTECTED] The result of these actions has been that cia-drugs went from a free and rarely moderated list to one that needs both moderation in both membership and posting. [EMAIL PROTECTED] had earlier been attacked by many nazis and was on a 5-post a day moderation (A moderation unavailable at yahoogroups), and amazing spam and virus attacks attacks so that finally we had to go to make employ a method where posters must confirm their posting by visting a link or replying to an email. At the end of each tussle, "Sean" loudly declares the demise of the list. These "events" have always started with a bunch of emotional noise, a flame war between some the more "agitated" posters, tthen I a become the focus, either I am censoring folks or letting folks talk to much, etc. The last brouhaha as June noted included a big "discussion" about circumcision, etc that rose the level of debate and attacks up, getting the forum in the right mood for imposition of the controlled dialectic and/or destruction.Zombie Trolls, while claiming superior intellect, debating chops, have selected memory loss. I contend "Sean" to be John Foster "Chip" Berlet, a spook. And it would be very advantageous for Berlet to be "Sean." For then Berlet could do his day job, denigrating Sutton and others as wrong, paranoid and crazy, and do his night job collecting all the info on all the little nazis. I mean Berlet does work with SLPC, you guys heard of them haven't you?Like I said Trolls have amnesia and you know sometimes in different situations the poor trolls have a problem keeping their stories straight, because they are a lie. Even a troll's name is a lie. When you live a real life you have a foundation for your truth.During this latest tussle here is what Sean says about Berlet:Dick Eastman Has Completely Reverted To Nazism Message #78886 of 82528Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:46 pm On Chip Berletsnip I am not Chip Berlet. I have never met or communicated with Chip Berlet. I have long disliked most of the writings by him I have read, but I have lately been impressed by his (and Andrew Sullivan's) critiques of Christian fundamentalism.---Here is what he said in his very next message:Message #78891 of 82528Fri Jun 16, 2006 7:30 pmRe: [ctrl] On Chip BerletsnipWhat is Berlet up to these days anyways? I haven't seen one of his essays for over two years now. I had completely forgotten about him until you mentioned him. Berlet is not on my list of interesting minds to attend to. He's mainly a sophistical defender of the status quo.---Here is "Sean" in October 2004 when I first asked if "Sean" was Berlet.A $10,000 Challenge for Kris Millegan Wed Oct 6, 2004 6:07 pmMessage #7511 of 20669 snipThanks for passing along this latest bit of dementia from Millegan -- it's hilarious! For the record: I am not John Foster "Chip" Berlet. I have never met Berlet. I have never communicated or had any dealings with Berlet. I am familiar with some of Berlet's writings, and strongly disagree with him on nearly every issue he addresses.Here is what "Sean" said in 2001 before I ever had any notion that "Sean" may be Berlet.Subject: [CIA-DRUGS] Chip Berlet in ContextDate: 11/24/01 2:07 PMReceived: 11/27/01 8:51 AMFrom: Sean McBride, [
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Eleven (11) Questions Avoided by the Media in Recent Reporting of Department of Defense Violations of Law
Begin forwarded message:From: "Kyle F. Hence" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 3, 2006 9:36:35 AM PDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: Eleven (11) Questions Avoided by the Media in Recent Reporting of Department of Defense Violations of Law Recent articles in corporate media examine deception and lying by the Department of Defense relative to the attacks of September 11th 2001. They shed light on an effective cover-up by the 9/11 Commission in its refusal to bring Government deception to the American people by way of their now discredited 9/11 Report. Links to these articles follow as do 11 questions which these revelations and NORAD tapes beg to be asked and which must be answered:/Washington Post/*9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon*Allegations Brought to Inspectors Generalhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300_pf.html/Vanity Fair/*9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes*http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01/The New York Times/*New Tapes Disclose Confusion Within the Military on Sept. 11*http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/03/us/03norad.html===The real and problematic confusion and fog is one which is seemingly preventing the corporate media from grappling with any of the following pressing questions which have been advanced for years by the 9/11 families, advocates and independent researchers.Here are* Eleven Questions* that the corporate media have thus far refused to raise or attempt to answer in their examination of the NORAD tapes and related issues:*Who was responsible for scheduling multiple war games and terror exercises involving aircraft for Sept. 11thWho moved "Global Guardian" normally scheduled for October to September?Who designed the war games to involve 'hijackings'?Who planned and scheduled the movement of Airforce aircraft north to Canada, Alaska and Greenland?Who planned the terror exercise at the NSA involving an evacuation in response to threat from the air?Who was "hands-on" responsible for coordinating all the war games the morning of September 11th?Who would have been responsible for turning off the war games to enable a timely real world response to the attacks?How were as many as 21 false radar blips or possible targets (per Jane Garvey) inserted into FAA radar screens?Who was responsible for the identification of ghost flight 11 which allegedly continued to fly south past Manhattan and which may have caused NORAD's Langley intercept jets to vector North toward NYC rather than D.C.?*[NOTE: John Farmer of the 9/11 Commission said to me personally that the 9/11 Commission was never able to identify the individual for this information--to resolve this anomaly.]*Why was there no reference to the pattern of 9/11 Commission cover-up including that of Able Danger as revealed by Capt. Scott Philpott?=*The bottom line question that corporate media refuse to answer and which the 9/11 Commission ignored is who, specifically, would have been responsible for creating the circumstances that led to the confusion or fog the morning of 9/11 and who should have immediately ceased any and all war gaming activity and deceptive radar data?To begin to answer these questions journalists intent on getting answers to questions long asked by the families and others should visit:*Center for Cooperative Research: Essay -- "U.S. Military Exercises up to 9/11"*http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timelinebefore_9/11=militaryExercises http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timelinebefore_9/11=militaryExercises*Randi Rhodes interview with Complete 9/11 Timeline author, Paul Thompson on Air America*http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/RandiRhodes_PaulThompson_NORAD_080206.mp3Enough with excusing those responsible by pointing to 'confusion' or 'fog'. The real and dangerous 'fog' here is that which prevents journalists from doing their jobs and asking and answering the hard questions about 9/11 including those posed above and those surrounding the growing evidence for controlled demolition of the World Trade Center towers and WTC #7. [Google Dr. Steven Jones World Trade Center]Kyle F. HenceExecutive Director9/11 CitizensWatchhttp://www.911citizenswatch.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]401-935-7715 __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Italy's Watergate
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 5:28:28 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Italy's WatergateReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=RAD20060730articleId=2865Italy's WatergateEspionage, secrecy, and corruption: Lessons for the Bush administration.by Patrick Radden Keefe July 30, 2006 slate.com/ - 2006-07-27 When Italian prosecutor Armando Spataro issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA officers last November, for the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan, it seemed like a hollow gesture. Spataro claimed that American operatives had snatched the imam, who is known as Abu Omar, and transported him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. But there was no way the United States would extradite its spies, and it appeared that the Italian investigation of the murky practice of extraordinary rendition would go the way of similar cases in this country: nowhere.But Spataro wasn't hampered by the sort of pervasive official secrecy that prevails in the United States, and his team turned up revealing details of the abduction. The more they dug, the more dirt they found. Before long, the investigation blossomed into a full-blown spy scandal, replete with domestic wiretapping and the mysterious death of one of the investigators. By early July, two of Italy's top spymasters were under arrest. We haven't heard much about the story on this side of the Atlantic. (When asked whether he had discussed it at the G8 summit with President Bush, Italy's new Prime Minister Romano Prodi quipped that Bush probably doesn't even know "the initials" of Italy's spy agency, Sismi.) But this is Italy's Watergate. It has already revealed in unprecedented detail the anatomy of an extraordinary rendition. And it raises serious doubts about the Bush administration's "just trust us" insistence that behind the veil of secrecy, espionage is an honest, upstanding business. In February 2003, Abu Omar (whose full name is Hasan Mustafa Osama Nasr) was under surveillance by Italy's special branch police force, the Digos, on suspicion of recruiting terrorists. Walking to mosque one day, he was whisked into a CIA van. The Digos didn't witness the event and wondered why the guy they had been tailing had suddenly disappeared. CIA officials told them that Omar was headed to the Balkans, when in fact he was being interrogated in an Egyptian prison. When they learned of this deception more than a year later, prosecutors in Milan were outraged at the CIA's apparent violation of Italian sovereignty. The Americans had unquestionably strayed a bit outside their jurisdiction. And they'd carried out the rendition with a minimum of subtlety. In the weeks surrounding the abduction, they stayed at fine hotels, including Milan's Principe di Savoia (single room: $588 a night), eventually racking up $158,000 in room charges. The Rolling Stones keep a lower profile when they swing through Milan. The American operatives also used easy-to-tap, unsecure cell phones to coordinate their plans with headquarters in Langley, Va. And when the supposed architect of the mission, CIA Milan Chief Robert Seldon Lady, blew town, he forgot to pack a surveillance photo of Abu Omar. He left it (oops) in his apartment for the Digos to find. The message seemed to be: Not only will we swoop into your country, screw your investigation, and steal your suspect—we're going to do it in broad daylight and leave a trail of clues, just because we can. But that wasn't exactly the message, because the Italian government had given permission for the CIA's mission. When the story first broke, representatives of Silvio Berlusconi's government denied knowing anything about the rendition. But when Spataro's investigators questioned a Sismi operative, he said he had been told "in explicit terms" that the rendition was a joint operation between Sismi and the CIA. Suddenly this was no longer a story about Italian sovereignty. It was a turf battle between different security agencies—the Digos and Sismi—that were both after the same guy. Which explains the peculiar thing that happened next: At the prosecutors' behest, Italian cops started wiretapping Italian spies. It's hard to say which is stranger—that cops would monitor the calls of their own country's spies, or that the spies would be foolish enough to say anything sensitive on an unencrypted line. In Italy prosecutors enjoy a great deal of institutional autonomy, and suspicion that Italian spooks had aided a crime was grounds enough for Spataro's team to start watching the watchers. Wiretapping is a favorite tactic in Italy—police and spies tap 100,000 phones every year—and the prosecutors who had pieced together the CIA's movements by looking at phone records began doing the same with the Sismi brass. Tracing the phone of Marco Mancini, Sismi's No. 2, led them to a penthouse apartment on Via Nazionale, a popular shopping thoroughfare in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] India: Top civil servant was C IA spy
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 3:01:44 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] India: Top civil servant ‘was CIA spy’Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2item_no=99708version=1template_id=40parent_id=22 Top civil servant ‘was CIA spy’ Published: Saturday, 29 July, 2006, 11:27 AM Doha Time Former foreign affairs minister Jaswant Singh posing with his book A Call to Honour: In Service of Emergent India during the release in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Moles, nuclear secrets, espionage in high places are all essential ingredients for a racy spy thriller – but they have also ensured the memoirs of India’s former foreign minister will be a runaway publishing success. In ‘A Call to Honour,’ published this week, soldier-statesmen Jaswant Singh claims one of India’s top civil servants was in the pay of the CIA and leaked secrets to the US about India’s nuclear programme in the early 1990s.In a country where conspiracy theories abound about the penetration of the establishment by foreign intelligence services, the book is said to be on course to sell 50,000 copies – 10 times the normal level of a bestseller in India.The memoirs have sparked furious denials from retired mandarins, and the country’s prime minister, Manmohan Singh, has asked Mr Singh to reveal the name of the mole.It is all a far cry from Mr Singh’s days in power. Friendly with Bill Clinton and an admirer of Charles de Gaulle, he was seen as a tough nationalist who bargained hard with the Chinese.In a seemingly deft display of public relations, the former minister has teased journalists with details of the mole’s identity. He was a civil servant “in such a high position that he was privy to a lot of information”. Then it was revealed that he was no longer in office. Next that he lived abroad.Retired intelligence officials say Mr Singh is right. “We know the Americans had somebody inside. They knew about plans to test nuclear weapons and stopped us in the early 90s,” said B Raman, who worked for the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external espionage agency, until 1994. “The question is, was the American information from a paid informant or from an official who liked to talk too much?” During the 1971 war between India and Pakistan that culminated in the independence of Bangladesh it was claimed the CIA had a spy in the Indian cabinet. In the past few weeks one of India’s former intelligence officials who ended up working for Microsoft has been arrested, prompting the departure of a senior US embassy official from Delhi.However, some of Singh’s friends say he would be aghast to find himself at the centre of a spying scandal. – Guardian Newspapers LimitedGulf Times Newspaper, 2006 __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazis
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 3:05:31 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Declassified archives document ties between CIA and NazisReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticlecode=DAM20060728articleId=2851Declassified archives document ties between CIA and Nazisby Andre DamonJuly 28, 2006World Socialist Web SiteOn June 6, the US national archives released some 27,000 pages of secret records documenting the CIA’s Cold War relations with former German Nazi Party members and officials.The files reveal numerous cases of German Nazis, some clearly guilty of war crimes, receiving funds, weapons and employment from the CIA. They also demonstrate that US intelligence agencies deliberately refrained from disclosing information about the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann in order to protect Washington’s allies in the post-war West German government headed by Christian Democratic leader Konrad Adenauer.Eichmann, who had sent millions to their deaths while coordinating the Nazis’ “final solution” campaign to exterminate European Jewry, went into hiding in Buenos Aires after the fall of the Third Reich. Utilizing friendly contacts in the Catholic Church and the Peron government in Argentina, Eichmann was able to reside in the South American country for 10 years under the alias of Ricardo Klement. He was abducted in 1960 by Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, put on trial in Israel and executed in 1962.The documents show that the CIA was in possession of Eichmann’s pseudonym two years before the Mossad raid. The CIA received this information in 1958 from the West German government, which learned of Eichmann’s alias in 1952. Both the CIA and the Bonn government chose not to disclose this information to Israel because they were concerned that Eichmann might reveal the identities of Nazi war criminals holding high office in the West German government, particularly Adenauer’s national security adviser Hans Globke.When Eichmann was finally brought to trial, the US government used all available means to protect its West German allies from what he might reveal. According to the declassified documents, the CIA pressured Life magazine into deleting references to Globke in portions of Eichmann’s memoirs that it chose to publish.In addition to the revelations regarding Eichmann, the documents chronicle the CIA’s creation of “stay-behind” intelligence networks in southwestern Germany and Berlin, labeled “Kibitz” and “Pastime,” respectively. The Kibitz ring involved several former SS members. In the early 1950s, the CIA provided these groups with money, communications equipment and ammunition so that they could serve as intelligence assets in the event of a Soviet invasion of West Germany.The CIA documents were reviewed by Timothy Naftali, a historian with the National Archives Interagency Working Group, the government body that oversaw their declassification and release. According to an article published by Naftali, the stay-behind program was dissolved “in the wake of public concerns in West Germany about the resurgence of Neo-Nazi Groups.” Specifically, the Kibitz-15 group, led by an “unreconstructed Nazi,” became a potential source of public embarrassment for the US, as its members were broadly involved in Neo-Nazi activity. [1]The CIA terminated the program by 1955 and arranged for many of its contacts to be resettled in Canada and Australia. According to the documents, Australia provided funds for relocation while the CIA provided its ex-assets with a “resettlement bonus.”The CIA employed Gustav Hilger, a former adviser to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. As an employee of the German foreign office, Hilger was present at the negotiation of the Stalin-Hitler pact in 1939. The CIA deemed his experience with the USSR sufficiently valuable to free him from incarceration at Fort Meade in Maryland and employ him as an intelligence evaluator in West Germany.In 1948, Hilger moved to the United States and obtained a position at the CIA’s K Street building in Washington as a researcher and expert on the USSR. Hilger eventually left the CIA to work for the West German foreign office.According to a paper analyzing the CIA documents published by Robert Wolfe, a former senior archivist at the US National Archives, “it is beyond dispute that Hilger criminally assisted in the genocide of Italy’s Jews During the roundup of Italian Jews in late 1943, a note signed ‘Hilger’ recorded Ribbentrop’s concurrence that the Italians be asked to intern the Jews in concentration camps in Northern Italy, in lieu of immediate deportation. The SS intended thereby that the Italian Jews and their potential Italian protectors should believe that internment in Italy was the final destination, rather than eventual deportation to the murder mills in Poland to be immediately murdered or gradually worked to death. The stated purpose of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent says
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 2:51:44 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15160128.htmPosted on Sun, Jul. 30, 2006CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysBy John CrewdsonChicago Tribune(MCT)WASHINGTON - Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan.Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA's previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.The testimony about the CIA's target list was given in June by Gen. Gustavo Pignero, a senior official of the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, to prosecutors investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian-born imam, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.Pignero's testimony is the first indication the CIA may have made far more extensive use than previously known of its paramilitary Special Operations Group to seize people suspected of terrorist links and render them without trial to Egypt and other Mideast countries for detention and interrogation.In addition to the CIA list, which Pignero recalled included "certainly more than 10" residents of Milan, Turin and Naples, Pignero said he was told by the then-chief of the CIA's Rome station that similar clandestine abductions were planned for Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.No unexplained disappearances have been reported in Belgium or the Netherlands. But the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Sunday that Gamal El-Minshawy, an Egyptian living in Austria, vanished in early 2003 from Mecca.Pignero's testimony was excerpted in an Italian arrest warrant issued this month for the former CIA station chief, who CIA sources say is now assigned to the agency's headquarters in Virginia.A Milan court last week asked the Italian justice minister to formally request that the Bush administration extradite the former station chief and two dozen other CIA operatives to Italy to stand trial for Abu Omar's alleged kidnapping.Prosecutors also have charged two senior SISMI officials with aiding the CIA's "unlawful restraint" of Abu Omar.Accusations that SISMI knew of the CIA's plan to snatch Abu Omar, and revelations that the agency was paying reporters to spy and tapping the phones of the politically powerful, has produced a furor in Italy.Pignero's disclosure has refocused prosecutors' attention on Morgan, who disappeared from Vigevano, Italy, near Milan, eight months after Abu Omar allegedly was abducted in early 2003.Pignero didn't say whether Morgan was on the CIA's "black list." But official documents show that Morgan, a regular at the Milan mosque where Abu Omar often preached, was being monitored by Italian police at the time he vanished.Two years ago, the religious chief of that mosque, Arman Ahmed El Hissiny Helmy, told Milan prosecutors he believed Morgan was in the same Egyptian prison as Abu Omar.A former Vigevano prosecutor, Carmen Manfredda, recalled in a telephone interview Friday that an investigation of the Morgan case had been initiated but lapsed.Prosecution sources in Milan said the case was closed after the discovery that Morgan had booked a commercial airline ticket to Egypt, leading prosecutors to believe he had traveled voluntarily.But some sources close to the Abu Omar investigation now question whether the commercial airline booking may have been an attempt to mask Morgan's possible abduction.A key piece of potential evidence is U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records showing that a Gulfstream jet - the same kind the CIA allegedly used to fly Abu Omar to Egypt - left Cairo on Oct. 31, 2003, en route to its home base at Fort Bragg, N.C.The Gulfstream is registered to Braxon Management Services of Great Falls, Mont., which shares the address of a law firm, Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams.An attorney with the firm, who is also listed as Braxton's agent, has not responded to repeated inquiries from the Chicago Tribune over the past year about the nature of Braxton's business.Several aircraft known to have been used by the CIA in other "renditions" are registered to front companies.---© 2006, Chicago Tribune.Visit the Chicago Tribune on the Internet at http://www.chicagotribune.comDistributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.Alessandra Maggiorani in Rome contributed to this report.Click here to find out more!-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent says
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 31, 2006 12:07:04 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15160128.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jspPosted on Sun, Jul. 30, 2006 CIA targeted `more than 10' in Italy for kidnap, agent saysBy John CrewdsonChicago Tribune(MCT)WASHINGTON - Shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, the CIA targeted for abduction and rendition nearly a dozen Muslims living in Italy whom it suspected of having ties to al-Qaida, a senior Italian intelligence official has told prosecutors in Milan.Meanwhile, aircraft flight records suggest the possibility of the CIA's previously unsuspected involvement in the disappearance of Mohamed Morgan, an Islamist militant living in Milan now believed to be in an Egyptian prison.The testimony about the CIA's target list was given in June by Gen. Gustavo Pignero, a senior official of the Italian intelligence agency, SISMI, to prosecutors investigating the disappearance of an Egyptian-born imam, Osama Mustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar.Pignero's testimony is the first indication the CIA may have made far more extensive use than previously known of its paramilitary Special Operations Group to seize people suspected of terrorist links and render them without trial to Egypt and other Mideast countries for detention and interrogation.In addition to the CIA list, which Pignero recalled included "certainly more than 10" residents of Milan, Turin and Naples, Pignero said he was told by the then-chief of the CIA's Rome station that similar clandestine abductions were planned for Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands.No unexplained disappearances have been reported in Belgium or the Netherlands. But the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reported Sunday that Gamal El-Minshawy, an Egyptian living in Austria, vanished in early 2003 from Mecca.Pignero's testimony was excerpted in an Italian arrest warrant issued this month for the former CIA station chief, who CIA sources say is now assigned to the agency's headquarters in Virginia.A Milan court last week asked the Italian justice minister to formally request that the Bush administration extradite the former station chief and two dozen other CIA operatives to Italy to stand trial for Abu Omar's alleged kidnapping.Prosecutors also have charged two senior SISMI officials with aiding the CIA's "unlawful restraint" of Abu Omar.Accusations that SISMI knew of the CIA's plan to snatch Abu Omar, and revelations that the agency was paying reporters to spy and tapping the phones of the politically powerful, has produced a furor in Italy.Pignero's disclosure has refocused prosecutors' attention on Morgan, who disappeared from Vigevano, Italy, near Milan, eight months after Abu Omar allegedly was abducted in early 2003.Pignero didn't say whether Morgan was on the CIA's "black list." But official documents show that Morgan, a regular at the Milan mosque where Abu Omar often preached, was being monitored by Italian police at the time he vanished.Two years ago, the religious chief of that mosque, Arman Ahmed El Hissiny Helmy, told Milan prosecutors he believed Morgan was in the same Egyptian prison as Abu Omar.A former Vigevano prosecutor, Carmen Manfredda, recalled in a telephone interview Friday that an investigation of the Morgan case had been initiated but lapsed.Prosecution sources in Milan said the case was closed after the discovery that Morgan had booked a commercial airline ticket to Egypt, leading prosecutors to believe he had traveled voluntarily.But some sources close to the Abu Omar investigation now question whether the commercial airline booking may have been an attempt to mask Morgan's possible abduction.A key piece of potential evidence is U.S. Federal Aviation Administration records showing that a Gulfstream jet - the same kind the CIA allegedly used to fly Abu Omar to Egypt - left Cairo on Oct. 31, 2003, en route to its home base at Fort Bragg, N.C.The Gulfstream is registered to Braxon Management Services of Great Falls, Mont., which shares the address of a law firm, Church, Harris, Johnson and Williams.An attorney with the firm, who is also listed as Braxton's agent, has not responded to repeated inquiries from the Chicago Tribune over the past year about the nature of Braxton's business.Several aircraft known to have been used by the CIA in other "renditions" are registered to front companies.---© 2006, Chicago Tribune.Visit the Chicago Tribune on the Internet at http://www.chicagotribune.comDistributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.Alessandra Maggiorani in Rome contributed to this report.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station -
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Re: Be Aware, Sean McBride Internet toll
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 29, 2006 11:05:42 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COMCc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ctrl] Re: Be Aware, Sean McBride Internet toll Now, let me understand things right so I don't make a mistake, But in an earlier email to confess to sometimes being a relapsed neo-nazi? Is there a check-box for that on census forms? / ;-) I love your bit of psycho analysis. Yeah that it's, Chip spent years and still does denigrates and lies about my good friend Antony Sutton, because to accept Chip's spook-assumed positional worldview, Tony must be marginalized And Chip has attacked myself and other friends.. Gee, now who were the first folks to marginalize my good friend Tony Sutton and "take away his rice bowl?"The Hoover Institute and the same old secret societal network that has its members in top positions. Why because Tony published his research findings that the Soviet Union was a fraud as an enemy and was being propped up by then it didn't know, but later after much study and a dissident Bones family member sent him a secret membership book or we wouldn't even know that Edward Lampert is a member. For the last publicly available membership list is from the early 1970s.And now "Sean" is attacking myself and my friends like Tony but from a different spook-assumed positional world view.You can believe or no, I dunna care. My record stands for itself.I have and have for, available to whomever wishes to download the most comprehensive, the most accurate database of Bones members, their jobs, their wife's, the deaths, etc. But you know what "Sean", you want up to date info, it is not there. Now how powerful is that , "Sean?" You at least know the names of your of your "story-line." I have no idea who 200 or so Bonesman even are,let alone what they do, have done or own and its not just Bones, there are at least six others with 200 each and several more that pop up and down. This secret societal system is unique to Yale, it is a historical fact. It is also a historical fact that they have since the early 1900s unless something needed to be real secret like working with the Nazis, the birth of the Federal Reserve and events like 911 operations that are so sensitive that those are generally only done by direct members or at least very trusted employees of the Order. Other than those very special and sensitive operations they operate through proxies. Was it by chance that 9-11 happened with a Bonesman as president? Who pulled off 9-11, Sean? I say it was this same old secret societal system playing their same long-playing script. the Neo-cons are thow-away proxies. Court-Jews, easily disposed. It is historical.Who pulled off 911, Sean?And "Sean," please show me any evidence of Dick Cheny's religious conversion and subsquent actions.You are basically repackaging the conspiracy theory that was sold to the world through bigotry, ignorance and manpulations about 9-11, - that a bunch of religoius nuts blew up the WTC. etc. You trying to peddle that a bunch of religious nuts are going to destroy the world and the US.It's classic chicken little "shit" (sorry, couldn't resist)These guys use proxies to take the heat,been doing it for years.The play is the name of the game not in whose name the play is made.But then I guess Sean the troll is just to smart to understand stuff like Sun Tse, or Machiavelli or even basic statecraft.Just an "elite" university-trained bigoted troll with money to burn.Sean is just a spook Internet Troll.Actually, Sean is a Zombie spook Internet Vampire Troll, with reversed Ever-ready batteries.Cause I have "staked" him many times, but he keeps coming and coming.Sean, are you a masochistic Zombie spook Internet Vampire Troll?Or are you just a cowardly bigot?Or is it built into your script?Or …Peace,Kris MilleganTrine Day800.556.2012Because I haveOn Jul 29, 2006, at 8:44 PM, LeaNder wrote: So you live in Germany and you can confirm that "Sean" is not Berlet?Yes or No?Peace,Kris Kris,yes I still live in Cologne Germany, I do not know Sean* personally -that is materially - but I noticed that Chip Berlet was your enemylong before you decided to conflate him with Sean on whimsicalevidence. I was completely puzzled when you suggested it a couple ofyears ago after the supposed list take-over. And I am still puzzled now.I've been to the political-research site of Chip Berlet a couple oftimes and read some articles there. I think their studies of theextreme right in Europe, and that they tend to be forced to get a bitmore moderate when elected and adopt to structures should have beencarefully read by the Israeli goverment.Plainly, I do not think that Chip Berlet has the time to study thesethings, would be that constantly present and available, spending hourson his topic even on the weekends. E
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] CIA MIND CONTROL CULTS Connected BY Neil Bush: Scientology and the MOONIES
Begin forwarded message:From: "foxhallgeorgetwn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 30, 2006 7:57:55 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] CIA MIND CONTROL CULTS Connected BY Neil Bush: Scientology and the MOONIESReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CIA MIND CONTROL CULTS Connected BY Neil Bush: Scientology and the MOONIESMoon's Eternal Peace Kingdom = Totalitarian Mind Control Global Statehttp://iapprovethismessiah.com/2005/12/neil-bush-travels-with-moon-as-peace.html12/2/2005Neil Bush travels with Moon as "peace leader"So that's what he's been up to since his divorce (see also "miscellaneous consulting services"). And another Bush joins the Reverend Moon world tour? Brother Neil's journey with Washington Times owner and possible Messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon is reported in the Manila Bulletin. The occasion: promoting Moon's idea for a Universal Peace Federation. According to Moon's promotional videos, his organizations are prophecied to kick off his "Eternal Peace Kingdom," in which all religions and countries would become one under his guidance. To the casual observer, a surprising cause for a Bush to get behind... World peace advocate and staunch supporter of interfaith cooperation Rev. Sun Myung Moon yesterday praised President Arroyo and Speaker Jose de Venecia for their pioneering efforts in pushing global interfaith dialogue that has won the approval of the United Nations. Moon is in the country to open the inaugural convocation of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) in Manila. Together with peace leaders that included Neil Bush, younger brother of US President George W. Bush, Moon arrived yesterday as part of a 100-day tour that is taking him to 100 cities in 67 nations and covering a journey of almost 100,000 miles. Moon said the UN global interfaith dialogue has now led to major regional dialogues in various parts of the world, complementing serious peacemaking efforts in conflict areas whether in Mindanao, Aceh in Indonesia, Nepal, Chechnya and others. De Venecia first brought up the proposal for an interfaith dialogue when he joined President Arroyo during her call on Bush at the White House two years ago. Bush had reportedly called the proposal "a brilliant idea." As part of this tour -- which hasn't been fully embraced by the real U.N., contrary to the reporter's assertion -- Moon is also calling for a tunnel linking Alaska and Russia, with help from the chairman of the Arizona GOP and various metropolitan leaders of different political stripes. As regular readers of this blog know, attending to these groups is a Bush family tradition. Barbara and George H.W. Bush have long attended Moon's lucrative and stately peace festivities, which stress the Reverend's mastery of family values as God's path to world peace. It's unclear whether wayward son Neil, who romped with prostitutes in Asia, has any special expertise in this area. Lately Neil Bush has also been jogging with a fugitive Russian tycoon and lobbying Capitol Hill for Scientology. www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] FLIP-FLOPPER IN CHIEF REVERSES TROOP PULLOUT PLANS
Begin forwarded message:From: "foxhallgeorgetwn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 30, 2006 8:13:11 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] FLIP-FLOPPER IN CHIEF REVERSES TROOP PULLOUT PLANSReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d236d48c-1e63-11db-9877-779e2340.htmlFLIP-FLOPPER IN CHIEF REVERSES TROOP PULLOUT PLANSUS in quiet U-turn on Iraq troop numbersBy Edward Luce and Caroline Daniel in WashingtonThe US administration has quietly reversed its goal from whittling down troop numbers in Iraq before the mid-term congressional elections in November. A Pentagon spokesman on Friday confirmed that US troop levels in Iraq rose to 132,000 during the past week – the highest since late May – from 127,000 at the start of the week. The spokesman said troop numbers often fluctuated and "there might be temporary spikes during periods of troop rotation". However, analysts said an increase in troop numbers was more likely than a reduction because the number of sectarian killings in Iraq had almost doubled since the start of the year. The rise will prompt fears that the US is becoming increasingly bogged down in an unwinnable conflict.On Thursday, the Pentagon said it would extend for up to 120 days the 3,700-strong deployment of the 172nd Stryker brigade in Iraq, among other rotations. There were 3,169 Iraqis killed in June, compared with 1,778 in January. Richard Armitage, who was US deputy secretary of state until January 2005, said: "The US has almost totally reversed the troop situation from two months ago. The danger is that this is too little and too late and that the US will turn into a bystander in an Iraqi civil war it does not have sufficient resources to prevent." The rise in US troop levels comes as the world's attention is on Lebanon but also coincides with a reported upsurge in anti-US sentiment in Baghdad's Shia neighbourhoods following the launch of the US-backed Israeli campaign against Hizbollah.This week Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi prime minister, agreed to a joint US-Iraq military operation to regain control of Baghdad. George W. Bush, US president, also faces growing difficulties with Iraq's new government, which is making anti-US noises to shore up its credibility with Iraqis. Mr Maliki is under domestic pressure to demand that trials of US soldiers take place in Iraq. The US says this is not possible. However, US officials deny that the new campaign to stabilise Baghdad undermines Mr Bush's promise that "as the Iraqis stand up we will stand down" – a phrase he has almost stopped using. In a departure from Mr Bush's normally upbeat language, he this week said the violence in Baghdad was "terrible".Although the violence has shifted from an anti-US insurgency to a sectarian conflict between Sunni and Shia groups, Iraq experts fear Shia militias will see US troops as an easy target. There are also concerns that the combined US-Iraqi force of 75,000 will be insufficient to regain control of Baghdad.Kenneth Pollack, a former US National Security Council official, said: "The numbers should probably be roughly double what they are. We are seeing the right plan but completely inadequate resources to make it work." Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent
[cia-drugs] Fwd: As Halliburton Goes, So Goes Bechtel
Begin forwarded message: Series of Woes Mar Iraq Project Hailed as Model By James Glanz The New York Times Friday 28 July 2006 Baghdad, Iraq - The United States is dropping Bechtel, the American construction giant, from a project to build a high-tech children's hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after the project fell nearly a year behind schedule and exceeded its expected cost by as much as 150 percent. Called the Basra Children's Hospital, the project has been consistently championed by the first lady, Laura Bush, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and was designed to house sophisticated equipment for treating childhood cancer. Now it becomes the latest in a series of American taxpayer- financed projects in Iraq to face overruns, delays and cancellations. Earlier this year, the Army Corps of Engineers canceled more than $300 million in contracts held by Parsons, another American contractor, to build and refurbish hospitals and clinics across Iraq. American and Iraqi government officials described the move to drop Bechtel in interviews on Thursday, and Ammar al-Saffar, a deputy health minister in Baghdad, allowed a reporter to take notes on briefing papers on the subject he said he had recently been given by the State Department. The United States will disengage Bechtel and transfer program and project management to the Army Corps of Engineers, the papers say. Bechtel, the State Department agency in charge of the work and the Health Department in Basra all confirmed that the company would be leaving the project, but the reasons are a matter of deep disagreement. The Iraqis assert that management blunders by the company have caused the project to teeter on the verge of collapse; the American government says Bechtel did the best it could as it faced everything from worsening security to difficult soil conditions. A senior company official said Thursday that for its part Bechtel recommended that the work be mothballed and in essence volunteered to leave the project because the security problems had become intolerable. He also disputed the American government's calculation of cost overruns, saying that accounting rules had recently been changed in a way that inflated the figures. The official, Cliff Mumm, who is president of the Bechtel infrastructure division, predicted that the project would fail if the government pressed ahead, as the briefing papers indicate that it would. Because of the rise of sectarian militias in southern Iraq, Mr. Mumm said, it is not a good use of the government's money to try to finish the project. And we do not think it can be finished, he said. Beyond the consequences for health care in southern Iraq, abandoning the project could be tricky politically because of the high-profile support from Mrs. Bush and Ms Rice. Congress allocated $50 million to the Basra Children's Hospital in late 2003 as part of an $18.4 billion reconstruction package for Iraq. Now the government estimates that the cost overruns are so great that the project will cost as much as $120 million to complete and will not be finished before September 2007, nearly a year later than planned. Some other estimates put the overruns even higher. Kadhim Hassan, general director of the Basra Health Department, said the project would be no more than 40 percent complete once the original $50 million, much of which is going to subcontractors, had been used up. He said little work had been done for months. While Bechtel pointed to security problems in delaying the project and increasing its cost, the Iraqis generally rejected that view. The pretexts given by Bechtel to the Iraqi government to justify its failure in finishing the project are untrue and unacceptable, especially the ones regarding the rise in security expenses, said Sheik Abu Salam al- Saedi, a member of the Basra provincial council. Western engineers were seldom seen at the project, Mr. Saedi said, adding that it was simply mismanaged. Mr. Saffar, of the Health Ministry in Baghdad, and an Iraqi contractor in Basra both asserted that Bechtel's use of a complicated chain of subcontractors was part of the problem. Bechtel hired a Jordanian company, for example, to oversee work by local Iraqi construction companies. The American government wasted money by going through such a complex chain of companies rather than working directly with the Iraqis who would do the work anyway, Mr. Saffar said. Our counterparts should have full faith in the Iraqi companies, Mr. Saffar said. That kind of turmoil was far from the minds of planners and supporters when the hospital project was conceived and promoted. Mrs. Bush and Ms. Rice were unwavering supporters, and Project HOPE, a
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] C-SPAN to Air Historic 9/11 Exposé JULY 29th, SATURDAY
Begin forwarded message:From: Zany Mystic [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 29, 2006 10:49:16 AM PDTTo: Awakening Cosmic Consciousness [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: USA Pacifist [EMAIL PROTECTED], CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ghost Troop [EMAIL PROTECTED], Conspiracy Theory Politics [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] C-SPAN to Air Historic 9/11 Exposé JULY 29th, SATURDAYReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]C-SPAN to Air Historic 9/11 Exposé 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Panel Discussion to Run on Saturday, July 29th at 8PM (EST) Infowars | July 27, 2006 C-SPAN has confirmed that their coverage of the 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda Panel Discussion will air on C-SPAN 1 on July 29th at 8PM (EST). The panel features incredible presentations by 9/11 Scholars for Truth founder James Fetzer, BYU Physics Professor Steven Jones, President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., Filmmaker and Radio Broadcaster Alex Jones, and Terrorism Expert Webster Tarpley. The appearance of this discussion on the nation’s premiere public affairs cable network is an incredible boon to the 9/11 Truth Movement. None of the 9/11 Truth events that C-SPAN has covered in the past are as hard-hitting as the 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda program. This panel discussion cuts to the heart of the issue and exposes the events of September 11th, 2001 as a complex premeditated plot carried out by criminal elements within the U.S. Government as a pretext for launching the endless “War on Terror” in which the globe is currently embroiled. C-SPAN’s coverage of this pivotal information will bring considerable national attention to the 9/11 Truth Movement. It will also lend further credibility to the Scholars for 9/11 Truth, the premiere organization within the movement for peer-reviewed scientific research on 9/11 issues. MORE INFO If you don't have cable, you can watch online by clicking here See the four-camera Infowars coverage of the Panel Discussion right now by becoming a member of Prisonplanet.tv Each member of the panel brought their own particular perspective and expertise to the discussion while each maintained throughout their comments that 9/11 was an “inside job.” Alex Jones, a progenitor of the 9/11 Truth Movement introduced the panel and acted as moderator. Professor Steven E. Jones, an expert in Physics, re-capped his vital new research which has conclusively proven that demolition incendiaries were used to bring down World Trade Center and could have only been placed there in advance of 9/11. As a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and a former Marine Corps officer, James Fetzer cut through the myths surrounding the 9/11 hijackers. Former Air Force Interceptor Pilot Robert Bowman brought up the lack of air defense on the day of 9/11 and shed light on the slough of drills conducted on 9/11 to distract the military and prevent Flights 11 77 from being shot down. Finally Author and Historian Webster Tarpley tied all of the information together to paint a picture of 9/11. He described the drills, Bush’s actions and the blow-by-blow details of that fateful day that revealed what could only be called the horrible truth of a conspiracy fact. It is crucial that everyone see this historic panel discussion on C-SPAN. Tell your friends and family, email colleagues, and post links on message boards. This is an incredible step in spreading the truth about 9/11. The program will air on C-SPAN 1 at 8PM EST (7PM CST) on Saturday, July 29th and then air again for the West Coast at 11pm EST (10pm CST). http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/cspan_runs_symposium_panel.htm Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] THE SECRET HISTORY OF 'COCAINE ONE'
http://madcowprod.com/ THE SECRET HISTORY OF 'COCAINE ONE' In Search of the American Drug Lords WORLD EXCLUSIVE JULY 28, 2006--Venice,FL. by Daniel Hopsicker Court documents obtained by the MadCowMorningNews shed new light in the murky tale of an American-registered DC9 caught carrying an astonishing 5.5 tons of pure cocaine in Mexico in early April. The company which owned the seized Cocaine One DC9, SkyWay Aircraft of St. Petersburg FL, leased a 70,000 square foot “repair” facility at DFW Airport in Dallas for more than $20,000 a month...in a building owned by a man called “George W. Bush’s biggest supporter” and “the power behind the throne” during Bush’s first Presidential campaign. SkyWay, a company with no products, and thus nothing needing repair, nonetheless announced in July 2003 “their newly established Part 145 repair station” in a building owned by LIT Industrial Texas Limited Partnership, a venture of Texas real estate giant Trammel Crow, the flagship corporation in the far-flung empire of billionaire speculator Richard Rainwater. Ranked among the 100 wealthiest Americans, Rainwater backed George W. Bush in four separate business ventures, including the Texas Rangers baseball team from which Bush, who had been drilling “dry holes” until then, profited handsomely. In a heated 1994 Governor’s race, Texas Democratic Governor Ann Richards charged Rainwater “owned her Republican opponent Bush. SkyWay TV repair shop rent: $20,000 a month complete story at http://madcowprod.com/ Peace, K Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Intelligence chiefs urge easing of spy rules
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 27, 2006 8:03:58 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Intelligence chiefs urge easing of spy rulesReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060726/pl_nm/security_eavesdropping_dc_3Intelligence chiefs urge easing of spy rulesBy David Morgan Wed Jul 26, 2:26 PM ETWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities could not track al Qaeda effectively if required to obtain court warrants before eavesdropping on telephone conversations involving U.S. callers, top intelligence officials said on Wednesday.Three administration officials, including CIA Director Michael Hayden, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to press lawmakers to ease warrant requirements for the surveillance of al Qaeda suspects."Why should our laws make it more difficult to target al Qaeda communications that are most important to us -- those entering or leaving this country," Hayden said.The four-star Air Force general set up President George W. Bush's warrantless surveillance program in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks while he was director of the National Security Agency.The program allows the government to eavesdrop on the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant, if in pursuit of al Qaeda.Hayden said most of the phone calls involve al Qaeda suspects overseas calling people inside the United States.Democrats and some Republicans say the program could overstep Bush's authority as commander in chief and appears to violate the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. FISA requires warrants for individual eavesdropping suspects inside the United States.CIVIL LIBERTIES QUESTIONBut the administration officials called FISA impractical and ineffective for tracking al Qaeda, saying the law would require separate warrants for each U.S.-bound phone call placed by an overseas suspect."It would cause a tremendous burden," said NSA Director Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander."You'd be so far behind the target if you were in hot pursuit, with the number of applications that you'd have to make and the time to make those, that you'd never catch up."Hayden backed compromise legislation between the White House and Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania that would allow a secret FISA court to review the NSA program to determine its legality."The chairman's bill will allow NSA to use all the tools that it has," the CIA director said.But critics including Sen. Diane Feinstein, a California Democrat, say the compromise bill could endanger civil liberties because it allows the FISA court to approve entire surveillance programs rather than separate warrants."It opens a Pandora's box of all kinds of games that can be played," said Feinstein, who has been briefed on the NSA program as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.Stephen Bradley, acting assistant attorney general, stressed that the program was tightly focused on militant activities.Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told Specter's committee that Bush blocked a Justice Department investigation of the NSA program.Gonzales said the president refused to give the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility access to the classified program. The office announced in May it was unable to conduct an investigation into the role department lawyers had in developing the eavesdropping program.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] America's credibility will be a casualty of Israel's war
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 27, 2006 8:16:12 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] America's credibility will be a casualty of Israel's warReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dailystar.com.lb//article.asp?edition_id=1categ_id=1article_id=74278America's credibility will be a casualty of Israel's warWhatever reasons arabs ever had to trust washington are going up in smokeBy Marc J SiroisDaily Star staffThursday, July 27, 2006America's credibility will be a casualty of Israel's warFirst person Marc J. SiroisLebanon is being systematically dismantled by one of the world's most fearsome military machines, and the bombs are not just wrecking Lebanese infrastructure and killing Lebanese children: They are also making a shambles of US credibility in the Middle East. Washington's effort to pose as an even-handed broker in the Arab-Israeli conflict has always been a ridiculous affectation, but George W. Bush's reaction to the war that started on July 12 has set new standards for a public fiction that no one likes to mention. In essence, Bush and his administration have decided that the primary goal of US policy at this juncture should be to buy time for Israel so it can keep pummeling its hapless neighbor. At the same time, however, the United States claims an unshakable commitment to the Lebanese people and professes to be concerned about the survival of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora's government. This self-evident contradiction is just the latest permutation of America's long history of trying to have it both ways, so it has not exposed a sinister "secret angle" of US policy. It has intensified speculation, however, as to precisely what that policy is.Bush's drive to "democratize" the Middle East has largely been reduced to obligatory rhetoric, which is a good thing because his linguistic deficiencies are not nearly so deadly as some of his other failings. The misbegotten project in Iraq has plunged that country into a maelstrom of sectarian bloodshed, but it has had the salutary effect of demonstrating the folly of neoconservative ideas about reordering the region according to fancy instead of managing it based on fact. It must not have dawned on Bush (not much does) that while Saddam Hussein was no teddy bear, he was to Iraq what Josip Broz Tito was to Yugoslavia: someone strong enough - and, yes, brutal enough - to keep disparate ethnic and religious communities from going for each other's throats. He likely never imagined, either, that Iraq's Shiite population might not be especially trusting of him after they were encouraged to rise up against Saddam in 1991 and then left to twist in the wind. He seems at least and at last to understand that knocking off the government of a sovereign nation is not an endeavor into which even an unrivaled superpower can enter lightly.This is unfortunate from the Bushian perspective, because two of its leading candidates for "regime change," Iran and Syria, are still guided by leaderships that refuse to acquiesce in US/Israeli hegemony over the region. The ease with which Saddam was dislodged had to be unsettling to both Tehran and Damascus, but they breathe easier now in the belief that the subsequent spectacle of national disintegration in Iraq has had a chastening effect on Bush's grand plans. What remains to be seen is how far the standoff over Iran's nuclear program can go before the unpleasantness in Iraq is no longer sufficient to keep America's horns drawn in.This brings us back to Lebanon, where scenarios for a possible flare-up between Israel and Hizbullah have been bandied about for months. One burning question was whether, in the event of an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Hizbullah would come to the aid of its sponsor by lashing out at the Jewish state with its arsenal of rockets and mostly crude missiles. This led thoughtful observers to ponder another possibility: Might the Israelis try to eliminate Hizbullah beforehand so as not to be distracted when and if they decided it was time to deal with Iran? One theory was that a pretext would be desirable so that pre-emption could be made to look like retribution.Enter a squad of Israeli reservists sent to patrol a border within spitting distance of a resistance movement that had sworn to capture more Israeli soldiers in hopes of exchanging them for a Lebanese militant whose release was part of a previous deal on which the Jewish state partially reneged at the last minute. Hizbullah snatched two of them, and within minutes the Israelis began the massive display of firepower that continues to ravage Lebanon and the Lebanese.As it turns out, Israeli strategy has failed several times over. The captured troops are no closer to being released, northern Israel has sustained more damage than ever before, and Hizbullah has so far understood clearly - and wielded skillfully - the fact that in order to win, all it has to do is not lose. Israeli Prime
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Watching the Watchers: An Intelligence Official Works to Keep Agencies in Bounds
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 27, 2006 8:36:29 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Watching the Watchers: An Intelligence Official Works to Keep Agencies in BoundsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/washington/25protect.html?ref=usWatching the Watchers: An Intelligence Official Works to Keep Agencies in BoundsBy SCOTT SHANEPublished: July 25, 2006WASHINGTON, July 24 — The United States’ spy agencies employ 100,000 people and a global eavesdropping network to keep Americans safe from terrorists and other threats. Alexander W. Joel’s job is to keep Americans safe from the agencies.Mr. Joel, a former Central Intelligence Agency lawyer, was formally appointed last Dec. 8 as the first civil liberties protection officer for the office of the director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte. A week later, The New York Times reported that the National Security Agency was eavesdropping in the United States without court warrants, setting off the most sweeping debate about privacy, security and intelligence in three decades.“It was not propitious timing,” Mr. Joel said in an interview at the intelligence director’s temporary offices at Bolling Air Force Base in Southeast Washington.Mr. Joel, 41, projects an earnest dedication to bedrock American principles, carrying in his pocket a small booklet containing the Constitution, with the federal employee’s oath to defend it taped inside.“We can’t do our job without the trust of the American people,” Mr. Joel said. And winning trust is not easy for agencies that operate in secret and wield technology with formidable power to collect, sort and store information, he said.So, just what does the civil liberties protection officer think about the much-debated N.S.A. program?Alas, he cannot say. “It’s being handled directly by the president and the attorney general,” Mr. Joel said. “It’s not my job to tell the president what the rules are.”Caroline Fredrickson, director of the Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said Mr. Joel’s cautious stance reflected an inherent problem with such posts, which were recommended by the Sept. 11 commission and have also been created at the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.“Those offices are crippled by their lack of authority,” Ms. Fredrickson said. “They are directly under the supervision of whoever’s running their agency.”But Mr. Joel said he had the clout he needed. He has worked closely with another new enterprise, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, since it first met in March. The board was established by the intelligence reform act of 2004, but it took months for President Bush to appoint its five members and more months for the Senate to confirm its chairwoman, Carol E. Dinkins, a Texas lawyer and a former deputy United States attorney general.Ms. Dinkins said neither her board nor the civil liberties officers needed immense legal powers to do their work. “We’re able to bring a strong power of suasion in saying, ‘Here’s what needs to be considered and here’s why,’ ” she said. Among other issues, the board has been discussing the government’s terror watch lists and how people can get off them, she said.The amiable but cautious Mr. Joel made a splash last month by hiring a former colleague of Ms. Fredrickson’s, Timothy H. Edgar, who had been the A.C.L.U.’s top national security lobbyist for five years. Given the organization’s outspoken attacks on Bush administration intelligence policies, including those regarding its treatment of detainees and domestic surveillance, it was an unexpected move. “He’s been working the same issues from the other side,” Mr. Joel said of Mr. Edgar.Mr. Joel was born in Laos and grew up in Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama and Jamaica as his father traveled for the United States Agency for International Development. His father, a German-born Jew whose family fled the Nazis, met his mother, a Korean, while both were working for the United Nations during the Korean War, Mr. Joel said.Mr. Joel worked as a privacy and technology lawyer for the Marriott Corporation before being prompted by the Sept. 11 attacks to join the general counsel’s office at the C.I.A.There he worked on the legal rules governing American spies when they encounter American citizens in their work. He was part of what he called the “civil liberties infrastructure” created by the intelligence reforms of the 1970’s, which established inspectors general, Congressional oversight committees and new laws like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.“These rules were developed to try to avoid the mistakes that led to the abuses” exposed by the Church Committee in the Senate in the 1970’s, he said. That history of invasions of privacy is part of his standard slide show at training sessions, he said.Now, as the government pushes for greater sharing of information on terrorist threats among federal, state and
[cia-drugs] yahoo-groups active spam-blocking is blocking members emails ...
I will admit I do not visit the administration page of my email groups often. some months ago a spam=blocked folder appeared. At the beginning it seemed to contain 98% spam and a few stray subscriber email. Having visited today, I notice 6 emails in the spam folder and they are all subscriber emails, even including some of my own, and I am a list owner. Well, I liberated them, will I check more often, probably not, sorry, I get busy at times. So be aware. Peace, K Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Afghan opium: License to kill
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HB01Df02.html South Asia Feb 1, 2006 Afghan opium: License to kill By Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy Editor's note: More than 60 delegations, mostly countries but also some multilateral agencies such as the World Bank, meet in London for two days this week to tackle development issues for Afghanistan. One of the more controversial topics to be tabled is how to deal with Afghanistan's opium fields, which last year produced about 4,200 tonnes of raw opium. In June 1906, Charles Henry Brent, the first Protestant Episcopal Church bishop of the Philippines and a staunch opponent of the opium trade, wrote to president Theodore Roosevelt to ask for the United States to call an international conference to enforce anti- opium measures in China. The conference was held in Shanghai in 1909. One hundred years after Bishop Brent's letter, the global prohibition of opium and certain other drugs has largely failed, in spite of, or maybe because of, more than 30 years of the war on drugs launched in 1971 by the administration of US president Richard Nixon. This is what was stressed at a conference on Drug Production and State Stability recently held in Paris, when Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and author of The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, explained that, after fighting five drug wars in 30 years at a cost of US$150 billion, Washington has presided over a [fivefold] increase in the world illicit-opium supply, from 1,000 tonnes in 1970 to between 5,000 and 6,000 tonnes in the mid-2000s. This was exemplified in late 2005 when the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) confirmed that Afghanistan was still and by far the world's first producing country of illicit opium, despite alternative development efforts, eradication measures, and widely lauded achievements in democracy and state-building in the country. Clearly, as has now been stated by many observers and analysts, the danger for Afghanistan is that a hastened suppression or eradication program will, in the absence of alternative livelihoods being widely promoted, damage the fragile rural economy, prove counterproductive in the mid-term, and impede sustainable solutions to the Afghan crisis. Indeed, in a 2004 interview, Doris Buddenberg, the head of UNODC in Afghanistan, said, Eradication usually does not bring about a sustainable reduction of poppy crop - it is a one-time, short-term effort. Also eradication usually pushes the prices up. As we have seen from the Taliban period, the one-year ban on opium-poppy cultivation increased prices enormously the following year and it became extremely attractive for farmers to cultivate poppy. However, in December 2005, only a few weeks after having lauded the largest decrease [of opium-poppy cultivation] ever recorded in a single year in any country, Buddenberg said there were signs cultivation may increase next year in many areas, in part because of pressure on farmers to grow opium poppies and their own concerns about making a living, thus without clearly acknowledging that the so-called success in reducing opium-poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in 2004-05 had already been and was still to be largely counterproductive. In such a context, where both interdiction and development have failed to solve the opium problem in Afghanistan, because interdiction without development amounts to further deteriorating the livelihoods of opium farmers, and alternative development is far from having been implemented with adequate economic means and political determination, a rather new, but unrealistic, proposal has emerged: the licensing of Afghan opium for production of pharmaceutical morphine. Described as a truly winning solution by many, the proposal of the Senlis Council, an international drug-policy think-tank based in Paris, consists of licensing Afghan opium for the production of legal medicines such as morphine and codeine as a way to respond to the urgent need to significantly reduce Afghanistan's illegal opium production and trade, but also as a way to overcome the significant global shortage of opium-based medicines such as morphine and codeine, a problem felt most acutely in the developing world. This proposal, however, is based on false or inexact premises, on at least two levels: regarding the world market on the one hand, and national and local opium-farming communities on the other hand. Supply and demand of opioid analgesics According to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which is in charge of examining on a regular basis issues affecting the supply of and demand for opiates used for medical purposes, the supply of such opiates has for years been at levels well in excess of global demand. In fact, as stocks continue to be more than sufficient to cover
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] On the Relative Power of Skull and Bones
More of the same …Peace, KBegin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 27, 2006 9:13:50 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [ctrl] On the Relative Power of Skull and BonesReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gee, Chip, Jay Gould had "nothing" do at all with Skull Bones. He helped to put together Union Pacific, which was taken over by EH. Harriman and run by Bonesman for years. His big partner was Russel Sage, whose foundation was incorporated by Bonesman Daniel Coit Gilman, and there are many Sages and Goulds in the Order of Skull Bones. Also Jay Gould worked with many Bones, WC Whitney, the Dodges, the Stokes, etc. You really are an ignorant troll.Here is the Chip's hero from wiki"In his lifetime and for a century after, Gould had a firm reputation as the most unethical of the 19th century American businessmen known as robber barons. Many times he allowed his rivals to believe that he was beaten, then sprang some legal or contractual loophole on them that completely reversed the situation and gave him the advantage. He pioneered the practice, now commonplace, of declaring bankruptcy as a strategic maneuver. He had no opposition to using stock manipulation and insider trading (which were then legal but frowned upon) to build capital and to execute or prevent hostile takeover attempts. As a result, many contemporary businessmen did not trust Gould and often expressed contempt for his approach to business"How come you never answer my questions troll? What's a matter are you just too …How about Eddie Lampert?How about your notes and flowcharts?Peace, Kris MilleganOn Jul 27, 2006, at 7:50 PM, Sean McBride wrote: Kris, I've never read Berlet's writings on Sutton -- in fact, I've read few of his writings, and wasn't impressed by much of what I read. My views converge with Berlet's on the subject of Christian fundamentalism, and little else. If you read me carefully, you will notice that I said Sutton did highly valuable research for his time. He took a snapshot of the power elite at his moment in history, from a particular angle. I don't find that his world model explains the contemporary scene of global power elite politics very effectively. There is a single law in this research: follow the money to the top of the food chain. Most of the self-made billionaires who dominate cutting-edge high tech, especially curtting-edge information technology, are not Skull and Bones members, nor could they give a damn about belonging to such organizations. They would find the members of those organizations to be incredibly slow-witted and boring, not even worth getting into a conversation with. Of course, they wouldn't hesitate to hire and use these people for their various ventures, much in the way that Larry Ellison recently hired former attorney general John Ashcroft to work for Oracle. Politicians are front men and hirelings for powerful economic interests. Yalies, like Joseph Lieberman, who occupy political office are for the most part simply window dressing and tools and nothing more. Which four Skull and Bones members would you argue are more powerful than Rupert Murdoch, Mort Zuckerman, Larry Ellison and Bruce Kovner? Certainly not George W. Bush, John Kerry or Robert Kagan, all of whom who are essentially brainless from the standpoint of the self-made billionaires who have established themselves as overlords of the new information empire. Stanford University is also a major player -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google and Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo are all Stanford products. I just read a biography of Jay Gould by Edward J. Renahan which provides a wonderful window into understanding the social processes by which power elites form in America. Do you know it? Gould did not need to rely on infantile fraternities like Skull and Bones to take command of the world. The kind of person who gravitates to such props is usually unlikely to possess the kind of genius to rise to the top of the food chain.RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chip Berlet makes the same claims as Sean about Sutton. Berlet has spent years denigrating Sutton and his works. Can you truly discuss Sutton and his works? What do you think of "Western Technology and Soviet Economic development, 1945 to 1965?" How about "Energy the created Crisis?" Or "The View from 4-space?" Can you comment about those works?Care to share your note taking and flow charts or are you too scared of the MOSSAD?Sutton's world model of secret societies and alliances, where an elite are conspiring against us hoi polloi, is invalid? Chip, you keep using your rhetorical tricks and putting words in my and Sutton's mouth. Neither of us say that Bones is all powerful, but that they are part of a secret network. Since you are so familiar with Sutton's work, you must have read his two works on the Tri-Late
[cia-drugs] Fwd: So I don't want to talk about it. I was a member way back when I was in college and so was the President. That's all I want to say.
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 26, 2006 9:18:27 AM PDTTo: ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "So I don't want to talk about it. I was a member way back when I was in college and so was the President. That's all I want to say." http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/new-us-diplomat-eager-to-start-role/2006/07/26/1153816254839.htmlNew US diplomat eager to start roleEmailPrintNormal fontLarge fontMichael Gawenda Herald Correspondent in WashingtonJuly 27, 2006AdvertisementAdvertisementROBERT McCALLUM, fielding questions for the first time about the US-Australia relationship is wary, formal and a little nervous.He sits in a small, nondescript room in the State Department, his hands clasped together in front of him, and a small pin of crossed flags - those of Australia and the US - in the lapel of his blue-striped suit.Having been finally confirmed by the US Senate, Mr McCallum, the new ambassador to Australia, will arrive in Canberra on August 18 to start work."I recognise that there has not been an ambassador in Australia since January 2005, so I'm very eager indeed," he says. "I want to get there as soon as possible."The process of replacing Tom Schieffer, now the US ambassador to Japan, had been rocky.The President, George Bush, had approached two other friends to take the post, but initial checks by the State Department, uncovered issues that would have made the confirmation process difficult.When Mr McCallum was approached by Mr Bush to take the ambassador's job in March, he was at the centre of a controversy involving a landmark damages case, brought by the Justice Department against American tobacco companies.He was accused of reducing claims against tobacco companies for political reasons, but an investigation concluded that he had acted ethically.Mr McCallum, 60, is happier talking about his relationship with Mr Bush, whom he met when they were both first-year students at Yale."We were close friends at college," he says."And when he finished college and he was driving back to Texas, he stayed with my family at my parents' house in Memphis."More often than not in the past three or four decades, American presidents have appointed old friends or major donors to the ambassador's post in Australia, so Mr McCallum's appointment, even though he has had no foreign affairs experience, is not all that surprising."I think I still have a lot to learn, but I think the two top priorities for me will be, firstly, continuing and enhancing the very important military and intelligence relationship between the two countries," he said."The second priority is the implementation of the Free Trade Agreement.This represents an enormous opportunity for both our countries, but also great opportunities for Australia and the US to spread economic prosperity throughout the region."And the only time Mr McCallum really clams up is when he is asked about the very secretive Skull and Bones Society, of which both he and Mr Bush were members while at Yale.Many people have suggested the society is a sort of secret old boys network, through which Yale graduates from well-heeled and influential families help each other in business and politics."It's termed a secret society, but I'd term it a private society," he says."So I don't want to talk about it. I was a member way back when I was in college and so was the President. That's all I want to say."= __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] “Turkish DeepState Gate”
Begin forwarded message:http://waynemadsenreport.com/A recent article published in the U.K. Guardian about the well-connected Kurdish Baybasin clan also gives important backing to the former translator’s story. The article details how Europe’s “Pablo Escobar”, Huseyin Baybasin, has “alleged that he had received the assistance of Turkish embassies and consulates while moving huge consignments of drugs around Europe, and that Turkish army officers serving with NATO in Belgium were also involved." This information, of course, dovetails most precisely with what Sibel Edmonds has been hinting at for over 3 years now; that targets of FBI investigations linked with the Turkish embassy and Turkish organizations were involved in narcotics trafficking. It is clear the Baybasin gang and the secular factions in Turkey had a seemingly symbiotic relationship, with the government providing the traffickers diplomatic passports and thus free reign to travel around the world without fear of prosecution. Also involved in the scandalous Turkish drug running are the very notorious, Pope-killing Grey Wolves, a fascist organization connected to human rights abuses in Turkey. As for who else besides Hastert might have been on the payroll of Mr. Baybasin and friends- we turn next to the Executive Branch. In an interview with Chris Deliso of antiwar.com, Edmonds hinted at key roles played by some powerful unelected officials-important Neoconservatives like Marc Grossman of the State Department, and Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, formerly of the Defense Department. If we hit the rewind button and go back to a CBS 60 Minutes’ interview in October, 2002, we remember the ex-contract linguist stated that Turkish targets of FBI investigation had spies inside the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in order to “obtain the United States military and intelligence secrets.” It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that Grossman, Feith and Perle might have been the persons to whom she was referring in 2002. Furthermore, the language specialist has repeatedly stated in past interviews that investigations into pre-9/11 terrorist financing activities were blocked “per State Department request”, leaving open the question whether it was Mr. Grossman, then Undersecretary of State for European Affairs, who actively hindered investigations into the Turkey-Bin Laden link.Perle and Feith are an interesting case in this hidden scandal. Their consultancy, International Advisors (IA), has done extensive work for the Republic of Turkey, though it is questionable who is paying the invoices. Ms. Edmonds rhetorically asked the question of Phoenix radio personality Charles Goyette in January 2006, “For what [were they paid]? One could imagine, hypothetically, that passing state secrets might be one “service” provided to the Turkish mafia/government by IA. But would Perle and Feith have gone beyond that? Would they have introduced the Turkish mafia types to Denny Hastert, and counseled “deep state” interests in how to skirt U.S. campaign finance laws? After all, the Turks were reported to have made their initial payments from 1996-1998 through “unitemized (less than $200) contributions”, after which they allegedly delivered suitcases of cash to the Speaker’s front door. Someone had to teach them the intricacies of campaign finance law: was it IA? What we do know is that Perle was a key architect of the Israeli/Turkish alliance forged in the late 90s, and that Edmonds case also is connected to the AIPAC spy scandal- leaving lots of room for speculation on how the rest of the story pans out.As messy and ugly as this, for lack of a better phrase, “Turkish DeepState Gate” scandal appears, the consequences of continuing to do nothing about it- of allowing the government’s outrageous use of ‘state secrets’ to insure Dennis Hastert, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Marc Grossman and others are never investigated, could be horrific. Ms. Edmonds plans to take petitions to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the coming months to finally force full and open hearings on her case. She will try to do the type of lobbying that does not involve foreign bribery or ill-gotten gains. This will be the simple type of petitioning guaranteed of every citizen in the Constitution under the First Amendment, a long forgotten portion of the Bill of Rights. Americans aware of the situation can only hope, and do everything in their power to insure, that Ms. Edmonds’ type of lobbying prevails.Mike Mejia is a freelance writer with a Master’s in International Policy Studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he specialized in International Trade and Arms Proliferation. He currently resides in an undisclosed location in the American Heartland and can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Blog on torture costs CIA contractor
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 23, 2006 6:48:30 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Blog on torture costs CIA contractorReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15104650.htmPosted on Sun, Jul. 23, 2006Blog on torture costs CIA contractorWoman loses her job as software tester for agency after top-secret musing about interrogation tacticsBy Dana PriestWASHINGTON POSTWASHINGTON - Christine Axsmith, a software contractor for the CIA, considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it.Only people with top-secret security clearances could read her musings, which were posted on Intelink, the intelligence community's classified intranet. Writing as Covert Communications, CC for short, she opined in her online journal on such national security conundrums as stagflation, the war of ideas in the Middle East and -- in her most popular post -- bad food in the CIA cafeteria.But the hundreds of blog readers who responded to her irreverent entries with titles such as "Morale Equals Food" won't be joining her ever again.On July 13, after she posted her views on torture and the Geneva Conventions, her blog was taken down and her security badge was revoked. On Monday, Axsmith was terminated by her employer, BAE Systems, which was helping the CIA test software.As a traveler in the classified blogosphere, Axsmith was not alone. Hundreds of blog posts appear on Intelink. The CIA says blogs and other electronic tools are used by people working on the same issue to exchange information and ideas.CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano declined to comment on Axsmith's case but said the policy on blogs is that "postings should relate directly to the official business of the author and readers of the site, and that managers should be informed of online projects that use government resources. CIA expects contractors to do the work they are paid to do."A BAE Systems spokesman declined to comment.Axsmith, 42, said in an interview this week that she thinks of herself as the Erma Bombeck of the intel world, a "generalist" writing about lunch meat one day, the war on terrorism the next. She said she first posted her classified blog in May and no one said a thing.When she asked, managers even agreed to give her the statistics on how many people were entering the site. Her column on food pulled in 890 readers, and people sent her reviews from other intelligence agency canteens.The day of the last post, Axsmith said, after reading a newspaper report that the CIA would join the rest of the U.S. government in according Geneva Conventions rights to prisoners, she posted her views on the subject.It started, she said, something like this: "Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong."And it continued, she added, with something like this: "CC had the sad occasion to read interrogation transcripts in an assignment that should not be made public. And, let's just say, European lives were not saved." (That was a jab at Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's trip to Europe late last year when she defended U.S. policy on secret detentions and interrogations.)A self-described "opinionated loudmouth with a knack for writing a catchy headline," Axsmith also wrote how it was important to "empower grunts and paper pushers" because, she explained in the interview, "I'm a big believer in educating people at the bottom, and that's how you strengthen an infrastructure."In her job as a contractor at the CIA's software-development shop, Axsmith said, she conducted "performance and stress testing" on computer programs, and that as a computer engineer she had nothing to do with interrogations. She said she did read some reports she thought were interrogation-related while performing her job as a trainer in one counterterrorism office.Her opinion, Axsmith added, was based on newspaper reports of torture and waterboarding as an interrogation method used to induce prisoners to cooperate."I thought it would be OK" to write about the Geneva Conventions, she said, "because it's the policy."In recounting the events of her last day as an Intelink blogger, Axsmith said she didn't hold up well when the corporate security officers grilled her, seized her badge and put her in a frigid conference room. "I'm shaking. I'm cold, staring at the wall," she recalled. "And worse, people are using the room as a shortcut, so I have no dignity in this crisis."She said BAE officials told her that the blog implied a specific knowledge of interrogations and that it worried "the seventh floor" at CIA, where the offices of the director and his management team are.She said she apologized right away and figured she would get reprimanded and her blog would be eliminated. She never dreamed she would be fired. Now, Axsmith said, "I'm scared, terrified really" of being criminally prosecuted for unauthorized use of a government computer system, something one of the security
[cia-drugs] Fwd: If old loves die hard, then ancient hatreds must be about immortal.
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 24, 2006 9:36:45 AM PDTTo: ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: If old loves die hard, then ancient hatreds must be about immortal. http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/painting-passports-brown.html#commentsIridescent cuttlefish said... Shrubageddon (and the quiet little post on nanotech riding to the rescue) reminded me of my own overarching POV--that 9/11 and the imperial adventures in the Middle East are basically pretexts and diversions in late-stage capitalism’s final assault/last gasp before the façade maintained by technological suppression and artificial scarcity crumbles--which somewhat escaped my focus as I read Jeff’s water hijinks post, because something else was ‘clicking’ for me. It involves, as S intimated, quite a few of the ideas running through the recent threads here (the Vatican pedophilia cover-up, the issue of fake antisemitism, etc) as well as my own current reading. It’s actually only a sort of fuzzy epiphany, as it raises more questions than it answers, and yet something feels vaguely right about it. Here’s how it happened: I’m plowing through a hugely fat, rather dry and overly careful historical analysis called “The Third Reich in Power,” the 2nd volume in the unfinished trilogy by Cambridge prof Richard J. Evans, who is solid, stolid and definitely not in any sense “radical”. In fact, I had been getting a bit annoyed at the short shrift he gave to the role of the transnational corporations in Hitler’s ascension, when suddenly bells started ringing in his treatment of how the Nazis dealt with the threat they perceived the Catholic Church to be. Evans’ take was that Goebbels personally took over after an earlier effort to emasculate the Church by restricting parochial school attendance and Catholic youth group membership (which were seen as competition for fascist state indoctrination and the Hitler Youth respectively) completely backfired, sending many thousands of pissed off Catholics into the streets of Oldenburg, as well as swastika flags into the gutters and even a wave resignations from the Nazi Party, which had never happened before. Hitler was apparently so angry that he wanted to round up all the priests and send them to Sachsenhausen with Martin Niemoeller (author of the famous “When they came for the Communists I did nothing..” speech), but Goebbels was nervous about such a move because Niemoeller was already getting them very negative international press and because they still hadn’t annexed Austria, which was nearly universally Catholic. So, in a brilliantly calculated maneuver, Goebbels dug up a few cases of alleged pedophilia, combined them with rumors of rampant homosexuality in the German monastaries, inflated the numbers involved and cooked up a prodigious scandal where none had been before. He also utilized photo op field trips where kids who weren’t even Catholic were whipped into a Salem-style hysteria, screaming (in front of reporters) not to let the sex fiends get their hands on them. Within a few months parochial attendance went from 95% in Oldenburg to 5%, the local Hitler Youth group mushroomed overnight, Catholic monastaries, lay buildings and finances were confiscated, and many hundreds of priests and monks were (quietly) led off to various concentration camps. I’m not in any way saying that the story of the pedophilia cover-up in recent discussions is related, but hysterical denunciations and faked repressed memories do happen occasionally, in wave-like patterns. The question this raises is who could be orchestrating the faked ones and why? I once knew a teacher who was Salem-ed, the very strictest teacher in my grade school, and even though the kid recanted (her father was later charged with the identical crimes) the teacher was broken, shamed out of the profession. Innocent, even. There’s tremendous power in the mob. The other mob I thought of was the current wave of real and/or imagined antisemitism. Evans also touched on this, describing the Propaganda Ministry’s efforts to inflame the nascent and deeply-rooted antisemitism in Germany into a force which could be reliably used to intimidate, cajole and generally brainwash segments of the population which weren’t quite down with the program enough for Goebbels. In this case, Evans’ account immediately caused me to understand what’s been happening at the site where I used to be a regular (Information Clearinghouse). I had already been challenging some of the more rabid Jew-biters for their obvious manipulation by the likes of Rense and others of his ilk, but the owner of that site, the good and homorable Tom Feely had to shut his comment field down before I really realized what was going on there. It wasn’t just the same phrases and vitriol lifted from Rense that sank ICH—it was precisely the same stuff that Goebbels cooked 70 years ago. Today I
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Opus Dei, Vatican Bank, $14 Billion Missing,Person of Interest Dismembered
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 22, 2006 6:12:06 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Opus Dei, Vatican Bank, $14 Billion "Missing,""Person of Interest" Dismembered "Roveraro had been questioned over a huge corporatescandal involving Parmalat SpA ..."---http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1183229.php/3_held_in_Italian_banker%60s_kidnap-murderMILAN, Italy (UPI) -- Three men have been charged in the murder of a banker after he left a meeting of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei, Italian media reported Saturday.The men -- financial consultant Filippo Botteri, computer expert Emilio Toscani, and workman Marco Baldi -- were charged with kidnapping banker Gianmario Roveraro, 70, as he was going home from an Opus Dei meeting July 5, and later killing and dismembering him.Roveraro's body was found Friday, chopped into pieces and hidden in a hut beneath a highway overpass about 18 miles from Parma, Italy, news agencies RadioCor and ANSA reported Saturday.The kidnapping and murder are alleged to have stemmed from a failed property transaction in which the Botteri lost a substantial amount of money, the news agencies said.Roveraro had been questioned over a huge corporate scandal involving Parmalat SpA, the now-bankrupt Italian dairy and food corporation, which in 2003 reported a nearly $18 billion hole in its accounting records in one of the biggest corporate scandals in history.Roveraro had close ties with Opus Dei, ANSA said, but police have made no link between his disappearance and the secretive organization.Following the discovery of Roveraro's dismembered body, a spokesman for Opus Dei said: "We want to express our closeness to the upset family. This death has hit Opus Dei very hard." - http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1190540.ece Opus Dei Financier Is Found Dismembered Under Bridge By John Phillips in RomePublished: 22 July 2006The badly beaten and mutilated corpse of Gianmario Roveraro, one of Italy's reputedly most pious financiers, was discovered "cut to pieces" under a motorway overpass near Parma yesterday, some two weeks after he was kidnapped while returning home from a meeting of the conservative Roman Catholic group Opus Dei.Three people were arrested on suspicion of the kidnapping and macabre murder of Mr. Roveraro, a banker who had been questioned by investigators in connection with the spectacular ($?)14bn (£9.5bn) collapse of the Parmalat food empire in 2003.He was a founder of Akros Finanziaria, a financial services group, and had helped Parmalat list its stock on the market a decade ago.The killing recalled the murder of Roberto Calvi, the Italian financier known as "God's Banker" for his links to the Vatican, who was found hanged from Blackfriars Bridge in London in 1982.Police suspect Mr Roveraro's kidnapping and murder was related to a business dispute over a ($?)500,000 property deal.The purportedly devout Mr. Roveraro vanished on 5 July on his way from attending an evening meeting of the local Milan branch of Opus Dei, of which he, along with many other top-level Italian financiers, was a member.Despite involvement of some its members in a series of financial scandals, Opus Dei enjoyed favour under the late Pope John Paul II, who elevated it to the privileged status of a "personal prelature" within the Church and controversially gave its Spanish founder, Josemaria Escriva, a "fast track" beatification and then canonisation as a saint.The three arrested men were identified as Emilio Toscani, 43, from Collechio, a storekeeper; Marco Baldi, 50, a native of Bologna; and Mr. Botteri, 43, a financial consultant from Parma.Mr. Botteri was quoted as saying he couldn't recall any more about the murder. Police suspect Mr. Roveraro may have been killed several days ago.Mr. Toscani led police to the financier's body, cut up into several parts and decomposing in the summer heat, yesterday morning, police sources said.Since 5 July, Mr Roveraro made several telephone calls within 48 hours, to his wife Silvana and to his business assistants who he asked to sell ($?)1m of shares in a family company. Carabinieri paramilitary police traced the alleged gang by following the signature of public telephone cards used to make calls during ransom negotiations, the sources said. Mr. Roveraro was one of 64 people under investigation in the Parmalat affair and prosecutors had asked for him to be indicted on charges of belonging to a criminal organisation conspiring in fraudulent bankruptcy.He had been on the board of Parmalat's finance subsidiary from 1990 to 1998.A spokesman for Opus Dei said: "Gianmario is not suffering any more now and is receiving the reward for what he was -- an intelligent, gentle, noble, and generous person." - "This testimony and the findings of auditors are beginning to tell a story that is much bigger than the tale of a multinational firm that managed
[cia-drugs] Fwd: We’re constructing the dystopian nightma re that Orwell and Huxley prophesied, but we co uld just as easily be building an equally brill iant utopia, the cornerstone of which is free
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 21, 2006 8:37:18 AM PDTTo: ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: We’re constructing the dystopian nightmare that Orwell and Huxley prophesied, but we could just as easily be building an equally brilliant utopia, the cornerstone of which is free energ http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/monotony-of-evil.html#commentsSo here’s where I seem to be pissing you off so severely: the whole eternal, evil Jew thing, which, you have to admit, is a staple of the Rense Icke Show, seems, I don’t know, too easy, too stupid, too pat, too much like a vindication of fucking Hitler. I don’t like Nazis. It also seems sort of contrived—how is it possible that Netanyahu, or Silverstein for that matter, could be off-script on televised interviews? Freudian slips happen when people are talking to each other, not history. I have more to say on the topic of Zionists letting themselves be used as patsies, but I want to hurry up and get to my central point here before everyone falls asleep: 9/11 isn’t The Big Lie. Just as the pod and the Jews are diversions, I’m convinced that 9/11 itself is a smaller lie than keeps us from considering The Really Big Lie.Very quickly then (sorry!), here it is: America is also a lie. Our entire history is fake, more so than Howard Zinn ever dreamed. George Washington was the richest man in America, as well as the author of the original organized plan to steal the Indians’ land. Manifest Destiny is the polite _expression_, not of American exceptionalism, but of brutal, planet-fucking American imperialism, except that it’s not really American at all. Transnational means just that; the corporotacracy’s only allegiance is to itself. Now, maybe you’re right about who’s behind the corporotacracy—the 13 families and all—but it doesn’t matter in the end because it’s The Real Conspiracy, or better yet, What’s Really Being Hidden that is where our focus should be.We’re constructing the dystopian nightmare that Orwell and Huxley prophesied, but we could just as easily be building an equally brilliant utopia, the cornerstone of which is free energy. Free, locally-generated, decentralized autonomy-ensuring, unlimited, ecologically-safe energy. We also are being denied antigravitational technology which would revolutionize transport, architecture, space flight and more. We have the capacity to fix our dying biosphere, but instead we’re pouring more poison into it. And why? Because the power-mad are greedy, and if they weren’t suppressing all this stuff, we’d soon discover that the whole economy of scarcity that is the foundation of their wealth and the world’s poverty is also a lie. We could practice economies of abundance, right here and right now without disturbing the environment or wasting our dwindling natural resources. The problem is that we would all be rich and free, and that is a picture that sickens and frightens those sick bastards as much as it brightens our hopes and imaginations.As you know, big lies work because no one believes that the ruling classes could be so evil as to do such a thing—they’re still human, right? Maybe. The Big Lie also works by diverting attention away from itself with “smaller” horrors. Consider this: the best and brightest minds on the planet don’t believe the official 9/11 story. To the extent that they also believe that if those responsible were effectively neutralized, removed, then the world could function smoothly again, right? Who’s got time for utopian conspiracies when they’re busy thinking about who made some buildings fall down as a pretext for a worldwide police state? And if the whistle-blowers were ungagged? And if some thugs came forward and confessed? If BushCo were impeached? Would the money be taken out of politics? Would Ted Stevens, next in the line of succession, make a better president? Would the spineless whores masquerading as the opposition party ever do anything counter to “American interests”? I find it most telling that even after 60 years of fascist propaganda, including its centerpiece, the discrediting of Socialism (the “failure of Socialism,” and “how we won the Cold War”) and the complete marginalization of the Left, the so-called political discourse in the US has been moved so far to the right that Nixon’s policies can only be viewed as “liberal” by today’s standards. And consider the phrases in circulation again, this time in the “9/11 movement”. It’s not just at Rense that you see “Jewish bolshevism” and “godless communism.” The right wing has infiltrated everything because, to paraphrase the famous phrase, the Germans lost the war, but the Nazis won the world. This is why Jeff linked that Nazi Hydra thing http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.htmlLastly, Anonymous, consider one more scenario: if your favorite conspiracy, which is, not to be too boastful about it (really, I can see you’ve got some
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush Blair Raw Uncut
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 18, 2006 1:35:43 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bush Blair Raw UncutReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.albasrah.net/pages/mod.php?mod=artlapage=../ar_articles_2006/0706/buush_170706.htm Bush Blair RawUncut Adam Boulton, Sky NewJuly 17, 2006http://www.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,31200-bush_170706,00.htmlIn full: Bush and Blair's unguarded chatClose your mouth (and mic) while you mouth turd. (click on Launch CNN video Player, if popup blocker appears) A fascinating conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush has been caught by the microphones at the G8, when the two men didn’t think they were being overheard. It tells us a lot about the relationship between the two men, about the US-UK special relationship and the two men’s views on the Middle East. Here’s a transcript as best as we can make out.Bush: Yo Blair How are you doing?Blair: I’m just…Bush: You’re leaving?Blair: No, no, no not yet. On this trade thingy…[inaudible]Bush: yeah I told that to the manBlair: Are you planning to say that here or not?Bush: If you want me toBlair: Well, it’s just that if the discussion arises…Bush: I just want some movement.Blair: YeahBush: Yesterday we didn’t see much movementBlair: No, no, it may be that it’s not, it maybe that it’s impossibleBush: I am prepared to say itBlair: But it’s just I think what we need to be an oppositionBush: Who is introducing the tradeBlair: AngelaBush: Tell her to call 'emBlair: YesBush: Tell her to put him on them on the spot.Thanks for [inaudbible] it’s awfully thoughtful of youBlair: It’s a pleasureBush: I know you picked it out yourselfBlair: Oh, absoultely, in fact [inaudble]Bush: What about Kofi [inaudible] his attitude to ceasefire and everything else … happensBlair: Yeah, no I think the [inaudible] is really difficult. We can’t stop this unless you get this international business agreed.Bush: YeahBlair: I don’t know what you guys have talked about but as I say I am perfectly happy to try and see what the lie of the land is but you need that done quickly because otherwise it will spiralBush: I think Condi is going to go pretty soonBlair: But that’s that’s that’s all that matters. But if you, you see it will take some time to get that togetherBush: Yeah, yeahBlair: But at least it gives people…Bush: It’s a process, I agree. I told her your offer to…Blair: Well…it’s only if I mean… you know. If she’s got a…, or if she needs the ground prepared as it were… Because obviously if she goes out, she’s got to succeed, if it were, whereas I can go out and just talkBush: You see, the … thing is what they need to do is to get Syria, to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s overBlair: [inaudible]Bush: [inadubile]Blair: SyriaBush: Why?Blair: Because I think this is all part of the same thingBush: Yeah.Blair: What does he think? He thinks if Lebanon turns out fine, if we get a solution in Israel and Palestine, Iraq goes in the right way…Bush: Yeah, yeah, he is sweetBlair: He is honey. And that’s what the whole thing is about. It’s the same with Thanks to Adam Cottam, Julia Alasheyeva, James Rubin and Barny Green for help compiling this.IraqBush: I felt like telling Kofi to call, to get on the phone to Bashad [Bashir Assad](9a and make something happenBlair: YeahBush: [inaudible]Blair:Bush: We are not blaming the Lebanese governmentBlair: Is this…? (at this point Blair taps the microphone in front of him and the sound is cut.) __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this
Fwd: [cia-drugs] Venezuela has paid off 70% of the US$220 million owed to the World Bank
Begin forwarded message:From: "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 16, 2006 12:14:33 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [cia-drugs] Venezuela has paid off 70% of the US$220 million owed to the World BankReply-To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=63504Published: Sunday, July 16, 2006Bylined to: Bob ChapmanVenezuela has paid off 70% of the US$220 million owed to the World BankTHE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Work is in progress with the World Bank on US$200 million in projects involving water and sanitation in urban areas, environmental protection, improving conditions in the slums and community development for indigenous groups.Recently Brazil, Argentina and Mexico have paid back billions of dollars in loans from the IMF and other lenders with the help of strong export earnings.Venezuelan oil shipments to the US fell 6% in the first four months of the year as President Chavez Frias follows his plan to diversify Venezuela’s customer lease. More oil is going to China and India, markets 7 times more distant than the US. The switch costs Venezuela an additional $3 a barrel ... but higher prices take up the difference.The situation of Venezuelan supply is very important to the US. Our administration in Washington has tried to assassinate President Chavez and has twice tried to keep him from winning office.Quite frankly the neocons are getting exactly what they deserve.Unfortunately, it is the American people who have to suffer ... we expect over the next four years that Venezuela will phase out a majority of oil sales to the US and they will sell off CITGO.The Senate Foreign Relations Committee met last month to discuss Venezuela’s reliability as an oil supplier ... they are concerned and they should be. Our foreign policy is simply dreadful.The GAO says a six-month loss of Venezuelan crude would raise oil prices $11.00 a barrel. We see that as almost inevitable. Senator McCain says find alternative oil supplies ... we say where?The Chinese have already been there and done that while our elitist lunatics have been invading and occupying countries to steal their oil. The problem is not the oil producers; the problem is our whacko government run amok. Venezuela can sell its oil to whomever it pleases and that now includes new clients such as China, India, Jamaica, Haiti, Paraguay and Bolivia.What else are we to expect when the Bush administration seeks to overthrow a democratically duly-elected government? Talk about a destabilizing force. Venezuela’s moves alone over the next few years will take oil over $100 a barrel.President Chavez’ idea to build a $4.7 billion pipeline across Colombia would cut 10 days off the trip to Asia and make for higher profits. It makes lots of sense.Talks over supplies of military aircraft for Venezuela are underway with Russia. Russia delivered 3 out of 15 MI-17V5 H1P-H multipurpose helicopters in March and supplied 30,000 of 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles under a $59 million contract in June.They are now negotiating the sales of several dozen of SU-30MK Flanker C Air superiority fighters to replace US F-16s.Venezuela will increase oil exports to China by 300,000 barrels a day, up from 168,000 presently. Oil production is expected to rise to 2 million bpd.Bob ChapmanTHE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USAhttp://www.vheadline.com/chapman __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Official heroin production versus official heroin usuage
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/ducks-head- soup.html#115299294873092658 Kris Millegan said... Well, we will try again, Someday I may take a typing class. And here are the changes according to populatin and ages. The CIA World Fact book is where the population numbers come from. Kris Millegan said... I find very little reality in official drug stats or officially related history. Much mis and dis-information. I have found that the most reliable information comes from much earlier and untainted information. One may read at: http://www.rand.org/commentary/050405UPI.html that The Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran used some of the same police-state tactics as China to eliminate the large production and consumption of opium that had prevailed under the rule of the shah of Iran. A canard if I ever heard one. We have all been told that in all aspects that Red China and Islamist fundie Iran are or have been evil. And then we are also told that that have both eradicated their opium crops and do not use heroin as historical documented by most major countries to facilitate black ops and other agendas. According to: www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/heroin.htm Worldwide heroin production was estimated at 426.9 metric tons in 2003. 472 tonnes in 2005 according to UN http://www.unodc.org/unodc/ en/world_drug_report.html . A metric tonne equals 2,204.622 pounds According to the UN, ( http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ world_drug_report.html ) Russia has the highest heroin usage rate 2.0% of the population aged 15 to 65 or about 2,000,000 folks. Let us round down to 1,800,000 daily addicts. Well, that is over 1.8 metric tonnes a day and over 665 tonnes a year. The USA's figures are all over the map most US official figures are from 600,000 to 1,000,000 users. The UN says 0.6% of the population or around 1,200,000 users. Again rounded down to 1,000,000 daily users is over 1 tonnes a day, around 369 tonnes a year. These numbers are figured with average use at a gram per day, which is supported by most research and anecdotal reports. So as you see there seems to be a supply problem … Now one may say that well, maybe most users are just casual. That has not been my personal observation of users. And even if you cut my figures in half, just those two countries would still consume more than the official figures of production. It behooves those running the shit to keep the official numbers down and untrue. I mean who can check. It is an illegal and unregulated industry. And considering that they generally run or at the very least have big influence on interference and bean counting, its a rigged play. If you will notice many of the heroin production records will put a big NA in the columns for Iran and China and then follow conventional wisdom of saying both countries used ruthless methods to eradicate, etc. I find the contention unconvincing. Opium became the largest commodity on earth in the 1830s and has been there ever since. A very good book on the dynamics From Carl A Trocki’s excellent book, Opium, Empire and the Global Economy(1999): The trade in such drugs usually results in some form of monopoly which not only centralizes the drug traffic, but also restructures much of the affiliated social and economic terrain in the process. In particular two major effects are the creation of mass markets and the generation of enormous, in fact unprecedented, cash flows. The existence of monopoly results in the concentrated accumulation of vast pools of wealth. The accumulations of wealth created by a succession of historic drug trades have been among the primary foundations of global capitalism and the modern nation-state itself. Indeed, it may be argued that the entire rise of the west, from 1500 to 1900, depended on a series of drug trades. . . . the image of the opium empire, a metaphor first offered by Joseph Conrad. It takes up the early history of opium and other traditional drugs such as tobacco and sugar and develops the paradigm of commercialized drug trades and ties that to the growth of European colonialism in the Americas and Asia . . . . . . links between drug trades, European colonial expansion, the creation of the global capitalist system and the creation of the modern state. Drug trades destabilized existing societies not merely because they destroyed individual human beings but also, and perhaps more importantly, because they have the power to undercut the existing political economy of any state. They have created new forms of capital; and they have redistributed wealth in radically new ways. Opium thus created a succession of new political and economic orders in Asia during the past two centuries. These included the state of the East India
[cia-drugs] More on official production versus consumption of opiates
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/ducks-head-soup.html#comments Howdy, In refering back to my source material, let me correct, refine Iran's position in worldwide opium production. Again refering to the CIA World Fact book and the 2006 UN World Drug Report. Iran has the highest percentage of it's adult (15-65) population as opiate users, 2.8% (that's where that number floating 'round my head came from). Now with an adult population of 47,379,174 gives us around 1,300,000 users, rounding down to a million again about 370 tonnes a year. Now this is figuring heroin and so the model must be refined some more because much of the use in Pakistan is strictly opium use. But there is also a heroin using population in Pakistan. If one looks at the figures of usage versus production one sees that there is a disconnect. With one tonne of heroin production requiring about ten tonnes of opium. Which is reflected in the UN figures of 4620 tonnes of opium and 472 potential production in 2005. So let us say Iran has 250,000 heroin addicts and 750,000 opium addicts, each figuring a gram a day of their substance a day yeilds: Heroin about .25 tonnes of heroin a day and 93 tonnes of heroin a year. For the 750,000 opium addicts, they need ,75 tonnes of opium a day or 277 tonnes of opium a year. So taking the ten percent rule of thumb. Iran uses 930 plus 277 or around 1200 tonnes of opium just to take care of its, according to official UN report, internal opiated population. So where does it come from? In looking at a Dutch report from 1935 here is the listing of opium production leaders 1931-1935. With limited information on Afghanistan and none at all from French Indo-Chiina. 1. China 2. India (Reported production dropping fast) 3. Iran 4. Asia Minor 5. USSR 6. Yugoslavia 7. Japan 8. Korea 9. Bulgaria If Afghanistan kept up with the one year reported it would be fourth. According to this report in 1931 the production was 2291 metric tonnes and that is without reporting. China, Afghanistan and French Indo-China. That year Iran produced 890 metric tonnes So, again just going back to the current usage and production numbers. There does seem to be a disconnect that would benefit the illegal drug trade. 6:36 PM Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report - heroin
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/heroin.htm Skip navigation. To Contents To Previous Page To Next Page To Publications Page To Home Page To Home Page. National Drug Intelligence Center National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report February 2005 Heroin Key Findings Trends and Developments Availability Demand Production Transportation Distribution While the demand for heroin is significantly lower than for other drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana, the consequences of heroin abuse are such that its abuse poses a significant drug threat. Slightly more than 310,000 persons aged 12 or older report past year heroin use in 2003, considerably lower than the number of individuals who report past year use of marijuana (25.2 million), cocaine (5.9 million), and methamphetamine (1.3 million). Figure 8. Numbers of Persons Aged 12 or Older Reporting Past Year Use in Millions, 2003 Chart showing the number of persons aged 12 or older who reported past year use of illicit drugs. d-link Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Key Findings * The availability of Southwest Asian heroin appears to have increased slightly in 2003, attributable partly to participation by certain groups (for example, Nigerian and Russian traffickers) in heroin transportation and wholesale distribution. However, compared with other types of heroin available in domestic markets, relatively little Southwest Asian heroin is destined for the United States, and preliminary 2004 data indicate that availability of Southwest Asian heroin may be declining to pre-2003 levels. * Despite stable demand for heroin in the United States, the number of primary heroin treatment admissions continues to increase. Because heroin abusers typically abuse the drug for several years before seeking treatment, the increase likely is due to individuals seeking treatment who began abusing the drug in the mid- to late 1990s, when the demand for heroin increased significantly in the United States. * In 2003 potential worldwide opium production and heroin production increased significantly, attributable overwhelmingly to increases in production in Afghanistan. Potential worldwide illicit opium production in 2003 was estimated at 3,757 metric tons, compared with 2,237 metric tons in 2002. Worldwide heroin production was estimated at 426.9 metric tons in 2003, compared with 244.7 metric tons in 2002. Moreover, 2004 estimates indicate a significant increase in illicit opium production and potential heroin production. (See Table 8.) Figure 9. Heroin Admissions to Publicly Funded Treatment Facilities, 1992-2002 Graph showing number of heroin-related admissions to publicly funded treatment facilities for the years 1992-2002. d-link Source: Treatment Episode Data Set. To Top To Contents Table 8. Potential Worldwide Heroin Production, in Metric Tons, 1999-2003 199920002001200220032004 Mexico 8.8 4.5 10.76.8 11.9NA* Colombia8.7 8.711.48.5 7.8 NA* Afghanistan 218.0 365.0 7.0 150.0 337.0 582.0 Burma 104.0 103.0 82.060.046.028.0 Laos13.020.019.017.019.05.0 Pakistan4.0 19.00.5 0.5 5.2 NA* Thailand0.6 0.6 0.6 0.9 NA NA* Vietnam 1.0 1.4 1.4 1.0 NA NA* Total 358.1 522.2 132.6 244.7 426.9 NA* Source: Crime and Narcotics Center. * Estimates for 2004 are not completed. * The smuggling of South American heroin across the Southwest Border--particularly through Texas--increased significantly in 2003. According to EPIC data, the amount of South American heroin seized in the U.S. Arrival Zone in Texas surpassed the amount seized in New Jersey, historically the state reporting the third highest amount of South American heroin seized, after New York and Florida. * Heroin use in Chicago suburban areas has increased, resulting in a rise in the consequences of heroin abuse in Chicago, a PMA for multiple types of heroin. This increase is most evident among suburban users, particularly those under 25 years of age, who are experimenting with and becoming addicted to heroin. To Top To Contents Trends and Developments Availability The availability of Southwest Asian heroin in the United States appears to have increased slightly in 2003. According to EPIC, wholesale Southwest Asian heroin seizures in the U.S. Arrival Zone in FY2003 exceeded the amount of Mexican heroin seizures, making Southwest Asian heroin second only to South American heroin in the amount seized within the U.S. Arrival Zone--an indication of the increased availability of Southwest Asian heroin. However, anecdotal law
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 'Baghdad is in meltdown'
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 14, 2006 10:44:47 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] 'Baghdad is in meltdown'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content/2006/07/baghdad_is_in_meltdown.html'Baghdad is in meltdown'July 14, 2006 5:07 AM / FUBAR .The standard line of political bullshit from the Bush Administration and the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill is that the situation is improving in Iraq. But journalists on the ground in Baghdad, the ones who aren't brain dead from U.S. propaganda, report otherwise. Reports James Hider of The London Times:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2268585_1,00.htmlAs I hung up the phone, I wondered if I would ever see my friend Ali alive again. Ali, The Times translator for the past three years, lives in west Baghdad, an area that is now in meltdown as a bitter civil war rages between Sunni insurgents and Shia militias. It is, quite simply, out of control. I returned to Baghdad on Monday after a break of several months, during which I too was guilty of glazing over every time I read another story of Iraqi violence. But two nights on the telephone, listening to my lost and frightened Iraqi staff facing death at any moment, persuaded me that Baghdad is now verging on total collapse.The U.S. may be staying but Iraqis are getting out as fast as they can: Those that can are leaving the country. At Baghdad airport, throngs of Iraqis jostle for places on the flights out - testimony to the breakdown in Iraqi society. One woman said that she and her three children were fleeing Mansour, once the most stylish part of the capital. "Every day there is fighting and killing," she said as she boarded a plane for Damascus in Syria to sit out the horrors of Baghdad.A neurologist, who was heading to Jordan with his wife, said that he would seek work abroad and hoped that he would never have to return. "We were so happy on April 9, 2003 when the Americans came. But I´ve given up. Iraq isn´t ready for democracy," he said, sitting in a chair with a view of the airport runway.Fares al-Mufti, an official with the Iraqi Airways booking office, told The Times that the national carrier had had to lay on an extra flight a day, all fully booked. Flights to Damascus have gone up from three a week to eight to cope with the panicked exodus.Muhammad al-Ani, who runs fleets of Suburban cars to Jordan, said that the service to Amman was so oversubscribed that that prices had rocketed from $200 (£108) to $750 per trip in the past two weeks.Despite the huge risks of driving through the Sunni Triangle, the number of buses to Jordan has mushroomed from 2 a day to as many as 40 or 50.Abu Ahmed, a Sunni who was leaving Ghazaliya with his family and belongings, said that he was ready to pay the exorbitant prices being charged because his wife had received a death threat at the hospital in a Shia area where she worked."We can´t cope, we have to take the children out for a while," he said.In one of the few comprehensive surveys of how many Iraqis have fled their country since the US invasion, the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants said last month that there were 644,500 refugees in Syria and Jordan in 2005 - about 2.5 per cent of Iraq´s population. In total, 889,000 Iraqis had moved abroad, creating "the biggest new flow of refugees in the world", according to Lavinia Limon, the committee´s president.And the exodus may only just be starting.© Copyright 2006 by Capitol Hill BlueAlamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design.http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: America: from Freedom to Fascism
Begin forwarded message:From: "Tom Bratland" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 14, 2006 11:37:39 AM PDTTo: "Tom Bratland" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: America: from Freedom to Fascism -- Forwarded message --From: Ken Nestler [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Jul 14, 2006 7:37 AM Subject: America: from Freedom to FascismTo: Undisclosed Recipients [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aaron Russo's new film America: Freedom to Fascism opens July 28th in selected regions below.Go here to this link to download/view a 14 minute clip: http://www.freedomtofascism.com/downloads/downloads.html Can't find a theater near you? Help get this film booked across America by calling, emailing or faxing your local theater and ask them to book America: Freedom to Fascism by contacting Cinema Libre Studio (Tell them to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more information.New York Download the flyer for New York City Cinemas Village East181 2nd AvenueNew York, NY 10003(212) 529-6998Purchase tickets at: www.moviefone.com Chicago Area Download the flyer for Chicago Landmark Century Centre CinemaCentury Shopping Centre2828 N. Clark St.Chicago, IL 60657(773) 509-4949Purchase Tickets: www.landmarktheatres.comAMC Loews Esquire 658 East Oak StreetChicago, IL 60611312-280-1205Purchase tickets: www.movietickets.comAMC Cantera 3028250 Diehl Rd.Warrenville, IL 60555(847) 765-7AMCPurchase tickets: www.movietickets.com AMC Loews Streets Of Woodfield 20601 North Martingale RoadSuite 105 in the Streets of Woodfield MallSchaumburg, IL 60173847-330-0720Purchase tickets: www.movietickets.com Kansas City Area Download the flyer for Kansas City AMC Studio 30Olathe 12075 So Strang Line Rd.Olathe, KS 66062(816) 363-4AMCPurchase tickets: www.movietickets.com Austin Area Download the flyer for Austin AMC Barton Creek Square 142901 Capital Of Texas Hwy.Austin, TX 78746(512) 306-9190Purchase tickets: www.movietickets.com Tampa Area Download the flyer for Tampa AMC Woodlands 203128 Tampa RoadOldsmar, FL 34677(727) 771-2883Purchase tickets: www.movietickets.comAMC Veterans 249302 Anderson RoadTampa, FL 33634(813) 243-4955Purchase tickets: www.movietickets.com =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] How Much Do You Want the Establishment to Know?
Begin forwarded message:From: Doctor Plum [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 12, 2006 11:40:19 PM PDTTo: Doctor Plum [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] How Much Do You Want the Establishment to Know?Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Savvy shoppers use their customer loyalty cards at supermarkets, drugstores, and many other retailers. Doing so offers them benefits such as discounts on selected items or periodic rebates. There's something in it for the merchant, too. Early on, that something was competitive advantage. An incentive for clientele to keep coming back. Why shop where goods and services were the same but rewards for spending the money were absent? Over time, as the cards became ubiquitous, this became a lesser factor. Businesses ultimately pay for perks given to patrons. So they must have another impetus to support these programs. Otherwise, the cards would go the way of those yellow, green, and other trading stamps people used to paste into little books and redeem for toasters or blenders. The cards, along with information about what's being bought, let suppliers build extensive data bases describing particular consumers. These, in turn, help them rate individuals as to their revenue potential and act accordingly. Maybe you received a personalized offer, say, for discounts on the brands of shampoo and catsup you usually buy. It came just as you were running out. This was not a coincidence. The computer projected that you'd need to replenish your stock, and spit out a coupon so you'd be encouraged to get these items you-know-where. This, since your shopping habit data indicated that any money lost on the bait would be covered by your other purchases. Astute solid citizens will have made a connection between shoppers' loyalty cards and those they shove into the slot machines or hand to the pit bosses at the casinos. To players, they're the keys to coveted amenities from free meals and show tickets to invitational tournaments and membership in hoity-toity clubs. To casinos, they're means of tracking patrons' activity. When a card is in a slot machine, a person's data base is continually updated to show the amount bet, at what rate, and for how long a duration. Combining this with the edge on the machine tells the casino the bettor's profit potential. To determine not only the comp credit to issue, but also how much it's justifiable spending to attract that person for another visit. The cards are also used at the tables. Right now, mainly to facilitate identification because the gambling data are largely still gathered and input manually. Pit personnel estimate or use standard figures for bet size, speed of play, and in games like blackjack or craps where edge depends on strategy house advantage. The result is that players fuss about comped too little while casinos fret over giving away too much. This situation is changing. Technologies are being tested to let casinos monitor every relevant parameter of play, not only bet sizes but also factors such as strategy decisions at blackjack or wagers selected at craps. This information yields accurate ratings along with deep insights into gambling patterns. One of these technologies involves miniature "radio frequency identification" (RFID) equipment in the chips, cards, and table tops. The transponders are similar to the E-Z Pass devices that let drivers roll through toll booths on the highway. Another approach uses optics and works something like bar code systems. Is capacity for data collection and processing all sweetness and light? The public today accepts it, mainly or exclusively for the benefits received. But privacy issues loom when comprehensive data are readily accessible to private organizations and governments alike. We could do worse than wonder about the current relevance of Charlie Chaplin's admonition in "The Great Dictator," the 1939 film: "We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives us abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity." The poet, Sumner A Ingmark, may be anticlimactic after Chaplin. But here he is, anyway. Be careful what you ask for, you may get it. And having what you asked for, may regret it. http://krigman.casinocitytimes.com/articles/28139.html __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials Says Bush as Guilty as Nazi War Criminals
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 11, 2006 11:01:34 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials Says Bush as Guilty as Nazi War Criminals Could Bush Be Prosecuted for War Crimes?By Jan FrelAlterNet, July 10, 2006 A Nuremberg chief prosecutor says there is a case for trying Bush for the 'supreme crime against humanity, an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation.' The extent to which American exceptionalism is embedded in the national psyche is awesome to behold. While the United States is a country like any other, its citizens no more special than any others on the planet, Americans still react with surprise at the suggestion that their country could be held responsible for something as heinous as a war crime.From the massacre of more than 100,000 people in the Philippines to the first nuclear attack ever at Hiroshima to the unprovoked invasion of Baghdad, U.S.-sponsored violence doesn't feel as wrong and worthy of prosecution in internationally sanctioned criminal courts as the gory, bload-soaked atrocities of Congo, Darfur, Rwanda, and most certainly not the Nazis -- most certainly not. Howard Zinn recently described this as our "inability to think outside the boundaries of nationalism. We are penned in by the arrogant idea that this country is the center of the universe, exceptionally virtuous, admirable, superior."Most Americans firmly believe there is nothing the United States or its political leadership could possibly do that could equate to the crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. The Nazis are our "gold standard of evil," as author John Dolan once put it.But the truth is that we can, and we have -- most recently and significantly in Iraq. Perhaps no person on the planet is better equipped to identify and describe our crimes in Iraq than Benjamin Ferenccz, a former chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials who successfully convicted 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating death squads that killed more than one million people in the famous Einsatzgruppen Case. Ferencz, now 87, has gone on to become a founding father of the basis behind international law regarding war crimes, and his essays and legal work drawing from the Nuremberg trials and later the commission that established the International Criminal Court remain a lasting influence in that realm.Ferencz's biggest contribution to the war crimes field is his assertion that an unprovoked or "aggressive" war is the highest crime against mankind. It was the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 that made possible the horrors of Abu Ghraib, the destruction of Fallouja and Ramadi, the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, civilian massacres like Haditha, and on and on. Ferencz believes that a "prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation."Interviewed from his home in New York, Ferencz laid out a simple summary of the case:"The United Nations charter has a provision which was agreed to by the United States formulated by the United States in fact, after World War II. Its says that from now on, no nation can use armed force without the permission of the U.N. Security Council. They can use force in connection with self-defense, but a country can't use force in anticipation of self-defense. Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, 'Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure out what we're going to do. The U.S. was impatient, and decided to invade Iraq -- which was all pre-arranged of course. So, the United States went to war, in violation of the charter."It's that simple. Ferencz called the invasion a "clear breach of law," and dismissed the Bush administration's legal defense that previous U.N. Security Council resolutions dating back to the first Gulf War justified an invasion in 2003. Ferencz notes that the first Bush president believed that the United States didn't have a U.N. mandate to go into Iraq and take out Saddam Hussein; that authorization was simply to eject Hussein from Kuwait. Ferencz asked, "So how do we get authorization more than a decade later to finish the job? The arguments made to defend this are not persuasive."Writing for the United Kingdom's Guardian, shortly before the 2003 invasion, international law expert Mark Littman echoed Ferencz: "The threatened war against Iraq will be a breach of the United Nations Charter and hence of international law unless it is authorized by a new and unambiguous resolution of the Security Council. The Charter is clear. No such war is permitted unless it is in self-defense or authorized by the Security Council."Challenges to the legality of this war can also be found at the ground level. First Lt. Ehren Watada, the first U.S. commissioned officer to refuse
[cia-drugs] Fwd: cia slc
Begin forwarded message:From: tiger1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 11, 2006 5:52:49 PM PDTTo: trine [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: cia slc Some insider tips for the new CIA directorBy Garrett JonesSpecial to the Los Angeles Times(Because this is the season for gratuitous and unsolicited advice, I thoughtI would offer some thoughts for former Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, whorecently took over as CIA director. I am sure many people are sharing theirwisdom on the "big picture," so I will confine myself to advice on the careand feeding of the denizens of the building where I once worked.) They are an odd bunch at the Central Intelligence Agency, and yourpredecessor, Porter Goss, did not adapt well. He seemed unable to make itout of the lobby each morning without starting a fistfight. You can dobetter. For starters, resist any impulse to "demonstrate who is in charge." Thepeople at the agency have never had any problem understanding who is incharge; they have on occasion had trouble believing that the person incharge knew what he was doing. As CIA director, Goss said he did not "do" personnel, and inside theagency, it was easily the most resented remark he ever made. You havetalented people working for you. Use them, and do not go to the retireeslooking for the "perfect" person. They don't make them like they used to,and that's probably a good thing. Do not try to undo all the personnel changes made by Goss. Some peopleneeded to be pushed out. You're trying to hire back Stephen Kappes, theformer field operations boss, as your deputy, and this is good and bad. Manyofficers respect his operational judgment, and many are angry about hisalleged leaks to the media. On your team, he should keep his mouth shut. Goss let his entourage alienate the entire building before he ever gotthere. Get your assistants under control. It's better to make your ownenemies. You probably brought some military aides with you. Remind them thathalf the agency does not know the difference between a full colonel and amilkshake; those who do know don't care. Don't ask anyone to dumb down their work for you. The CIA has a jargonthat you need to learn. Before you change anything about agency culture,first you need to understand it. The executive dining room is a bad idea. You and your staff should be inthe cafeteria meeting people, not huddled up in a bunker wondering whatfolks think. Listen to people. They are smart and sophisticated and willusually tell you what is wrong if you give them a chance. The RUMINT (rumor intelligence) on you is that you like "corporatespeak" and prefer large, impersonal gatherings to one-on-one encounters.Work on that. Blunt, plain speech will get you further with those in theagency than anything else. If something is going to happen to them, tellthem before they see it in the Los Angeles Times. "I do not know" or "Icannot tell you" are statements that spooks accept as sometimes necessary,but they will always find out if you lie to them. You are working with abunch of spies, so you should not be surprised that RUMINT travels quicklyand is surprisingly accurate. Yes, you are busy, but your first job is to make people motivated andeffective. Screw this up and you are doomed. The directorate of operations is where all the spies live. Frankly, thisis a tough room. Your best move is to pick someone whom they respect to leadthem -- lead them, not manage them. When they are in some sand-blownflyspeck in Iraq with their lives on the line, they want a leader who caresabout them and their mission, not a nice guy who is good at managing hispaperwork. Once you get them a leader, you need to expect the impossiblefrom them. Right now, everyone is afraid to make mistakes. Make it clearthat you have confidence in them and will back them even if they do notsucceed. This directorate exists to run high-risk, high-payoff operations;otherwise, it could be replaced by Al-Jazeera. The directorate of intelligence is where the analysts live and where theNational Intelligence Estimates are produced. This place is a mess. Sincethe fiasco over Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, it has been full of deadmen walking, paralyzed with fear of making another mistake. Start over.Anyone associated with the WMD mess -- and there are such people still there-- needs to be retired, kicked upstairs or otherwise moved on. It may not befair, just or efficient, but you must do it to blow the smell of failure outof the organization. Then appoint a pit bull as the quality-control officerfor analysis. Your job is one of the most important in Washington, and one of thetoughest. You are playing "bet your country's future" every day. History hasnot been kind to your immediate predecessors. They got famous in the worstways. Good luck. You're going to need it. Jones served as a case officer with the CIA in Africa, Europe and theMiddle East for 17 years before retiring in 1997. A longer version of thisarticle
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Bush is blasted over secrecy
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 10, 2006 6:40:01 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Bush is blasted over secrecyReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/10/MNGQ6JSFL11.DTLfeed=rss.newsBush is blasted over secrecyRanking GOP lawmaker says White House keeps intelligence panels in the darkJim Puzzanghera, T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles TimesMonday, July 10, 2006(07-10) 04:00 PDT Washington -- A high-ranking Republican lashed out at President Bush on Sunday, suggesting the White House may have broken the law by failing to inform Congress of a "major" intelligence program and other undercover activities.Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, complained that he had received a briefing from the Bush administration on several intelligence programs only after learning of them from a whistle-blower."It is not optional for this president, or any president or people in the executive community, not to keep the intelligence committees fully informed of what they are doing," said Hoekstra, who revealed no details of the intelligence efforts during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."Alex Conant, a White House spokesman, declined to comment on the programs, but said the administration would "continue to work closely with the chairman and other congressional leaders on important national-security issues."Hoekstra's charges follow months of controversy over the public disclosure of key administration intelligence efforts in suspected terrorism cases, such as the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping of people in the United States and the monitoring of international bank transfers.Although Hoekstra had been informed of those initiatives, he wrote a letter to Bush in May in which he complained of being kept in the dark on several undisclosed programs.A close White House ally, Hoekstra told Bush that the failure to disclose the information "may represent a breach of responsibility by the administration, a violation of law and, just as importantly, a direct affront to me and the members of this committee.""The U.S. Congress simply should not have to play 'Twenty Questions' to get the information that it deserves under the Constitution," Hoekstra wrote in the letter, which was first disclosed by the New York Times.Hoekstra also used the letter to complain about the selection of the new No. 2 official at the CIA, Stephen Kappes and about the growing size of the office of the director of national intelligence, which is supposed to coordinate U.S. intelligence-gathering activities."I am concerned that the current implementation is creating a large, bureaucratic and hierarchical structure that will be less flexible and agile than our adversaries," Hoekstra wrote.Hoekstra said Sunday that a whistle-blower had stepped forward to alert the committee about the intelligence efforts. He said he then asked for the briefing by referring to the programs' code names."There are lots of programs going on in the intelligence community. You know, we can't be briefed on every little thing that they are doing," Hoekstra said. "But in this case, there was at least one major -- what I consider significant -- activity that we had not been briefed on."Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County), the ranking minority member of the intelligence panel, said that Republicans had not shared their concerns with Democrats, and she criticized Bush for not disclosing the existence of the programs sooner."Vigorous congressional oversight is impossible unless the administration shares critical information with the appropriate committees of Congress," she said in a written statement. "No one is above the law, and the law requires that the intelligence committees be fully and currently briefed on all intelligence programs of our government."Page A - 3-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance
[cia-drugs] Fwd: dissidnet cia
Begin forwarded message:From: tiger1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 11, 2006 5:49:28 PM PDTTo: trine [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: dissidnet cia Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:17 am Post subject: ‘Dissident’ CIA factionexposed by lawmaker ‘Dissident’ CIA faction exposed by lawmakerPublished: Tuesday, 11 July, 2006, 11:07 AM Doha TimeWASHINGTON: A high-ranking Republican lawmaker, in a letter made public onSunday, exposed what he sees as a dissident faction within the CIA that hesays “intentionally undermined” the policies of President George W Bush.Rumours about the existence of such a group have circulated in the UScapital for a long time, but the comments by Representative Peter Hoekstra,chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, mark the first time they wereconfirmed by an official with intimate knowledge of the intelligencecommunity. “In fact, I have been long concerned that a strong and well-positioned groupwithin the agency intentionally undermined the administration and itspolicies,” Hoekstra wrote in a letter to Bush dated May 18.The CIA declined to comment on the charge when queried by AFP.The document has been obtained by The New York Times and posted on itswebsite in its entirety. Hoekstra confirmed its authenticity in a televisioninterview on Sunday, but did not elaborate on his concerns..He was quoted as saying the CIA was engaged in a “perverted war” overthe war in Iraq and resorted to “selective leaking” of information in orderto drive its point home.He also insisted that Wilson had been sent to Niger by people within the CIAwithout the knowledge of George Tenet, the then-director of centralintelligence, or the White House.Hoekstra, whose letter was never intended for publication, said his argumentabout the faction was supported by the Plame affair “as well as by thestring of unauthorised disclosures from an organisation that prides itselfwith being able to keep secrets.”In another first, the chairman went on to name some names.They included Stephen Kappes, a former CIA director of operations, who isnow slated to become deputy director of the whole agency.Hoekstra expressed concern that Kappes, who quit the agency in 2004 afterPorter Goss became its director, “may have been part of this group,” notingthat it was suspicious that Democrats on his committees “now publiclysupport Mr Kappes’s return.”A close associate of Kappes, Michael Sulick, was named in the letter asanother dissident suspect.“Every day we suffer from the consequences of individuals promoting theirpersonal agendas,” Hoekstra complained about the situation at the CIA. “Thisis clearly a place at which we do not want or need to be.”Hoekstra publicly opposed the appointment of the current agency director,General Michael Hayden, calling him “the wrong man at the wrong place at thewrong time.” – AFP http://tinyurl.com/gj6np_ IndiaField Op Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:21 am Post subject: Insider tips for the new director:http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4033701check it out!_ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Rove finally outed for CIA agent leak
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 12, 2006 8:26:31 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Rove finally outed for CIA agent leakReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19772262-2703,00.htmlRove finally outed for CIA agent leakJuly 13, 2006WASHINGTON: US newspaper columnist Robert Novak has said publicly for the first time that White House political adviser Karl Rove was a source for his story outing the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame.In a column, Novak also said his recollection of his conversation with Mr Rove differs from what the Rove camp has said."I have revealed Rove's name because his attorney has divulged the substance of our conversation, though in a form different from my recollection," Novak wrote.He did not elaborate.Novak said he was talking now because chief investigator Patrick Fitzgerald told the columnist's lawyer that after 2 1/2 years his probe into the CIA leak case concerning matters related to Novak had been concluded.Triggering the criminal investigation, Novak revealed Ms Plame's CIA employment on July 14, 2003, eight days after her husband, White House critic and former US ambassador Joseph Wilson, accused the Bush administration of manipulating prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from weapons of mass destruction.Novak's secret co-operation with prosecutors while maintaining a public silence about his role kept him out of legal danger and had the effect of providing protection for the Bush White House during the 2004 presidential campaign.The White House denied Mr Rove played any role in the leak of Ms Plame's CIA identity and Novak, with his decision to talk to prosecutors, steered clear of potentially being held in contempt of court and jailed. Novak said he had declined to go public at Mr Fitzgerald's request.In a syndicated column, Novak said he told Mr Fitzgerald in early 2004 that Mr Rove and then-CIA spokesman Bill Harlow had confirmed information about Ms Plame.Contacted yesterday, Mr Harlow declined to comment. But a US intelligence official familiar with the matter denied that Mr Harlow had been a confirming source for Novak on the story.The official said Mr Harlow repeatedly tried to talk Novak out of running the information about Ms Plame and that Mr Harlow's efforts did not in any way constitute confirming Ms Plame's CIA identity.Mr Harlow may end up being a witness in a separate part of Mr Fitzgerald's investigation, the upcoming criminal trial of Vice-President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.In his column, Novak said he also told Mr Fitzgerald about another senior administration official who originally provided him with information about Ms Plame. Novak said he could not publicly reveal the identity of that source even now."I have co-operated in the investigation while trying to protect journalistic privileges under the First Amendment and shield sources who have not revealed themselves," Novak said."I have been subpoenaed by and testified to a federal grand jury. Published reports that I took the Fifth Amendment, made a plea bargain with the prosecutors or was a prosecutorial target were all untrue."Mr Rove's role in the scandal was not revealed until last year when Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper disclosed that Mr Rove had leaked to him the CIA identity of Mr Wilson's wife.Cooper co-operated with prosecutors only after all his legal appeals were exhausted and he faced jail.AP Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design.http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM~- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities,
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] Sphinx Radio Interview: Paul Krassner
Begin forwarded message:From: William Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 10, 2006 5:10:41 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [IPCUSA] Sphinx Radio Interview: Paul KrassnerReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Writer and comic Paul Krassner joins Sphinx Radio to discuss Timothy Leary and the counter-culter. Listen at www.sphinxradio.com -Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Make PC-to-Phone Calls to the US (and 30+ countries) for 2¢/min or less.[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IPCUSA/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] The Stolen Election of 2004 by Michael Parenti
Begin forwarded message: The Stolen Election of 2004 by Michael Parenti The 2004 presidential contest between Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry and the Republican incumbent, President Bush Jr., amounted to another stolen election. This has been well documented by such investigators as Rep. John Conyers, Mark Crispin Miller, Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, Bev Harris, and others. Here is an overview of what they have reported, along with observations of my own. Some 105 million citizens voted in 2000, but in 2004 the turnout climbed to at least 122 million. Pre-election surveys indicated that among the record 16.8 million new voters Kerry was a heavy favorite, a fact that went largely unreported by the press. In addition, there were about two million progressives who had voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 who switched to Kerry in 2004. Yet the official 2004 tallies showed Bush with 62 million votes, about 11.6 million more than he got in 2000. Meanwhile Kerry showed only eight million more votes than Gore received in 2000. To have achieved his remarkable 2004 tally, Bush would needed to have kept all his 50.4 million from 2000, plus a majority of the new voters, plus a large share of the very liberal Nader defectors. Nothing in the campaign and in the opinion polls suggest such a mass crossover. The numbers simply do not add up. In key states like Ohio, the Democrats achieved immense success at registering new voters, outdoing the Republicans by as much as five to one. Moreover the Democratic party was unusually united around its candidate—or certainly against the incumbent president. In contrast, prominent elements within the GOP displayed open disaffection, publicly voicing serious misgivings about the Bush administration’s huge budget deficits, reckless foreign policy, theocratic tendencies, and threats to individual liberties. Sixty newspapers that had endorsed Bush in 2000 refused to do so in 2004; forty of them endorsed Kerry. All through election day 2004, exit polls showed Kerry ahead by 53 to 47 percent, giving him a nationwide edge of about 1.5 million votes, and a solid victory in the electoral college. Yet strangely enough, the official tally gave Bush the election. Here are some examples of how the GOP “victory” was secured. ---In some places large numbers of Democratic registration forms disappeared, along with absentee ballots and provisional ballots. Sometimes absentee ballots were mailed out to voters just before election day, too late to be returned on time, or they were never mailed at all. ---Overseas ballots normally reliably distributed by the State Department were for some reason distributed by the Pentagon in 2004. Nearly half of the six million American voters living abroad---a noticeable number of whom formed anti-Bush organizations---never received their ballots or got them too late to vote. Military personnel, usually more inclined toward supporting the president, encountered no such problems with their overseas ballots. ---Voter Outreach of America, a company funded by the Republican National Committee, collected thousands of voter registration forms in Nevada, promising to turn them in to public officials, but then systematically destroyed the ones belonging to Democrats. --- Tens of thousands of Democratic voters were stricken from the rolls in several states because of “felonies” never committed, or committed by someone else, or for no given reason. Registration books in Democratic precincts were frequently out-of-date or incomplete. ---Democratic precincts---enjoying record turnouts---were deprived of sufficient numbers of polling stations and voting machines, and many of the machines they had kept breaking down. After waiting long hours many people went home without voting. Pro-Bush precincts almost always had enough voting machines, all working well to make voting quick and convenient. ---A similar pattern was observed with student populations in several states: students at conservative Christian colleges had little or no wait at the polls, while students from liberal arts colleges were forced to line up for as long as ten hours, causing many to give up. ---In Lucas County, Ohio, one polling place never opened; the voting machines were locked in an office and no one could find the key. In Hamilton County many absentee voters could not cast a Democratic vote for president because John Kerry’s name had been “accidentally” removed when Ralph Nader was taken off the ballot. ---A polling station in a conservative evangelical church in Miami County, Ohio, recorded an impossibly high turnout of 98 percent, while a polling place in Democratic inner-city Cleveland recorded an impossibly low turnout of 7 percent. ---Latino, Native American, and African American voters in New Mexico who favored Kerry by two to one were five
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Limbaugh's dysfunction
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 10, 2006 2:44:24 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Limbaugh's dysfunctionReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Limbaugh's dysfunctionPalm Beach Post Editorialhttp://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2006/07/09/m2e_limbaugh_edit_0709.htmlSunday, July 09, 2006The criminal justice system continues to treat Rush Limbaugh with the fairness that he claims the system denies him.Last week, the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office correctly concluded that Mr. Limbaugh broke no law by having 29 Viagra pills that were for him but had been prescribed in someone else's name. That decision spares the talk-show host any problems related to his earlier deal with the state attorney's office on a doctor-shopping charge for prescription pain relievers. In both cases, prosecutors stuck to the law and acted professionally.Mr. Limbaugh, though, remains a serial offender when it comes to hypocrisy. On his show, he will embellish or invent any presumed weakness that might embarrass someone he dislikes. But he didn't want it on the record that he needs an erectile-dysfunction drug. Similarly, when he entered treatment for drug addiction in October 2003, he told his audience that he had tried to "always be honest with you and open about my life." Yet, he had gone through rehab twice before that without being "open about my life." Finally, the Palm Beach resident filed his December 2004 divorce in Key West, 220 miles from the Palm Beach County Courthouse, because it was "more convenient" and tried to keep the case sealed.On Wednesday, the self-absorbed Mr. Limbaugh was blaming the federal agents for confiscating the Viagra as part of some vast left-wing conspiracy tied to the 2006 and 2008 elections. The self-proclaimed "truth detector" would rather tell a good story than "be honest."Alamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email.http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: FEAR: TX: Kenneth Lay's death probably means no forfeiture of his assets
Begin forwarded message:From: Brenda Grantland [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 5, 2006 7:00:31 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FEAR: TX: Kenneth Lay's death probably means no forfeiture of his assetsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The following article predicts that the federal government will not be able to forfeit Kenneth Lay's assets. The analysis is not quite correct, though. Lay had not been sentenced yet. A criminal conviction abates at the death of the defendant, and because criminal forfeiture is "in personam" (punishment against the person), there is case law saying a criminal forfeiture verdict dies with the person. It's clear that an in personam criminal case cannot proceed after the defendant dies. They could still use civil forfeiture, though, if the statute of limitations has not run. Maybe it has. The government has 5 years after discovery of the offense to bring the civil forfeiture action. Maybe they knew he was doing this more than 5 years ago. There are some exceptions to the statute of limitations -- a continuing criminal offense extends the statute of limitations until it ends. Also, the doctrine of equitable estoppel often allows a party to bring an action after the statute of limitations expires if they had a good reason for the delay. Although I have no sympathy for Lay and his evil minions -- who manipulated the power grid in California by causing power outages in order to extort huge rises in energy prices -- I'm glad the federal government won't get his ill-gotten gains. This will leave Lay's assets for the civil suits by his victims, including one by the state of California I believe, and may actually result in restitution for those of us harmed by Lay's criminal actions. His extortionary tactics practically bankrupted California, as former governor Gray Davis was forced to enter extortionate contracts for electricity in order to turn the power back on. Gray Davis was soon removed from office by the Schwartzenegger recall coup -- largely because of Davis' agreement to sign the extortionate energy contracts. Although I was not too fond of Gray Davis, I'm much less fond of extortion -- especially on such a huge scale. Can you imagine trying to get work done when the electricity would suddenly go off in the middle of the work day, when you are working on a motion or brief? Sometimes it was off for hours, causing us to miss key deadlines, and the computer crash often damaged the files we were working on. We should never be forced to live with criminals like that controlling our resources for their personal gain. I can't think of anyone in my lifetime who did so much damage to our image of the corporation as benevolent(or, at least, relatively harmless) entities.The cynics among us are already thinking Lay faked his death and is yukking it up in some tropical isle with no extradition treaty, enjoying the millions he had stashed away. I wouldn't be surprised. Watch to see whether there is an open casket.BrendaPetrocelli: Skilling Distraught Over Lay's Death http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1152090320327Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA... from Enron's 2001 collapse will be vacated because of his death July 5, and it's unlikely federal prosecutors will succeed in seeking forfeiture of Lay's assets ...**FEAR also offers an unmoderated discussion list and digests for all listsList unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Swap to digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]** __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: gee i wonder what this means
Begin forwarded message:From: "Bill Gallagher" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 3, 2006 7:02:08 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: gee i wonder what this means horhay loves haysoosheh heh he...Bush urged to intervene after Castro's death03 July 2006By David Usborne in New YorkA new high-level report due for publication later this week urges theUnited States government to begin preparations to intervene in Cuba inthe event President Fidel Castro's death. The goal is to help spawn aspeedy transition on the island towards "democracy and politicalfreedom".The recommendations, which include the creation of an $80m (£43m) fundto promote democracy in Cuba, are contained in the latest reportcompiled by the Commission for Assitance to a Free Cuba, created byPresident George Bush three years ago. The group is co-chaired by theUS Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, and by the US CommerceSecretary, Carlos Gutierrez, a Cuban-American.A classified annexe to the document lists future measures the USshould consider further to undermine the regime of Mr Castro, who hasled the island since 1959. The report's release, probably thisWednesday, is certain further to aggravate already tense relationsbetween the two governments.The president of the Cuban parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, condemned thereport over the weekend, describing its publication as an act of war."What's most important is that they admit to a secret plan tooverthrow another government," Mr Alarcon told reporters. "What onearth could the secret part say when the public part violates allkinds of international law?"Speculation as to the future of Cuba has been building for months withMr Castro preparing to celebrate his 80th birthday in August. There isno evidence of the Cuban leader suffering from serious ill health,however, and he has already signalled his intention to pass power tohis brother, Raul.The report focuses on the possibility that the death of Mr Castro willnonetheless mark the beginning of a process of transition towardsdemocracy, however gradual. It argues that the US should be ready togive a transitional government any assistance it requests, forinstance in maintaining health care or power supplies, or trainingjudges and police."The US government will need to be prepared well in advance to help inthe event assistance is requested by the Cuban transition government,"it says, noting that the US should "provide technical assistance inthe first two weeks after a determination that a Cuban transition isunder way".In addition to the two-year $80m fund, the US should also be ready tospend $20m a year on pro-democracy programmes, the panel said.To what degree the US can expect to influence events is open toquestion given its efforts over the past four decades to isolate andpunish Cuba's leaders. In recent years, Mr Bush has moved to tighten aUS embargo, for instance by limiting the amount of money Cuban exilescan send to family back home.The US Coast Guard is reporting a dramatic rise in would-be Cubanasylum-seekers taking a perilous new route to American soil. Itinvolves Cubans flying to the Dominican Republic - a journey that canonly be undertaken with permission from the Cuban government - andthen boarding boats for tiny Mona Island, between the Republic andPuerto Rico. The island belongs to Puerto Rico and so is consideredAmerican soil. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] FYI: 500 Rainbow Tribe Members Detained In The Name Of Homeland Security!!!!
Begin forwarded message:From: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 30, 2006 11:16:26 PM PDTTo: ICIS-Institute for Cooperation in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] FYI: 500 Rainbow Tribe Members Detained In The Name Of Homeland SecurityReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Begin forwarded message:From: Bea Bernhausen [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 30, 2006 10:49:51 PM PDT (CA)To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: 500 Rainbow Tribe Members Detained In The Name Of Homeland Security Rainbow Children Detained In The Name Of Homeland Securityhttp://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/27/18283162.php -snip-They are arresting EVERYONE! Any one on road or in area are being taken to a round up point to be taken to Detention camps! The family has been determined to be a threat to Homeland Security" snipPlease take the time to read this and do your part to help. Details are at the bottom on how to help.Thanks: The Freedom Files w Heretic.XI Have Woken UP!Corporations_Ate_My_BABY!Summary:Since 1972 people from all over the US and the world make a trek to the National Forests for something called "The Gathering Of The Tribes" to express activism mixed with alternative spiritual practices and prayer.The Bush Administration has spent millions of dollars trying to stop the Rainbow Gatherings. 500 people who have been issued citations, are then being herded into "trials" like none anyone has seen before in America.These pseudo trials are likely prototypes for what Homeland Security will use in the cases of insurrection or even a plague. Defendants inexplicably lose the right to a public hearing (this year these hearings are being held behind closed doors in a firehouse garage near the site.)Attorneys and legal observers have been denied the right to even view these trials. The defendants are not explained their rights nor afforded the right to an attorney, the right to summon witnesses, the right to a jury trial, even fresh water!We must understand that if these citizens lose their constitutional right to gather, we all lose such rights. This year the Rainbow Gathering is being used to set precedents that will be turned against drug policy, civil liberty, anti-war or other activists in the near future. Phone Numbers and A list Of Actions You Can Take Are listed at the end of the full story posted below and marked with **asterisks**.Original Post From:- Bulletin Message -From: Fight American FascismEVERYONE!. This is serious businesss. This is not a joke, or anytime to ignore what is really going on. I am posting this again in an attempt to get EVERYONE involved. These people are having all of their rights violated and being thrown into all of those nice prison camps that we have heard so much about. It is your American duty to help these people. I have inclosed latest letter that I recieved right below. PLEASE help in every way possible so we can show the department of Homeland Security that we are not afraid and that they can not do this!From: LEXXMy Original post has been deleted and they will not let me post this any more.At last contact, there are about 2-300 sites on other side of Roadblock. They are arresting EVERYONE! Any one on road or in area are being taken to a round up point to be taken to Detention camps! The family has been determined to be a threat to Homeland Security, so begins the first MASS ARRESTS!THIS NEEDS TO GET OUT VERY SERIOUSLY! THIS IS A WACO TYPE SCENARIO ABOUT TO HAPPEN!PLEASE GET THIS OUT TO EVERY ONE YOU KNOWTHANKS,LEXX==I don't care who you are, or what you're beliefs are, you NEED to help with this in order to protect our freedoms. Please read this article and voice you're support by calling you're representatives and everyone else. I know most of you don't read or act on what I post but PLEASE do it this time. We have now lost our free internet because we didn't do enough, let's not lose our right to assemble.From: LEXXDear Friends and Family,I need your help to protect my family, the collective efforts of tens of thousands of citizens known as the "Rainbow Family." This week, near Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service has taken illegal action to stop this annual assembly for _expression and prayer, in gross violation of the participants essential Constitutional rights.The 'Rainbow' Gatherings have borne a legacy of spiritual cultural pilgrimage to the National Forests since 1972, the purest exercise of open consensual assembly in our time. The annual 'Gathering of the Tribes' draws thousands over the first week of July, focusing on the 4th as a holy day of prayer for peace and freedom. In recent years small regional events in this mode have emerged, and such gatherings have taken place in many nations around the world.THE GATHERING EXPERIENCE --Some say the "Rainbow" Gathering is the continuation of the idealism
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists, LSD case, animals mutilated
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2006 5:15:22 PM PDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: [ctrl] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists, LSD case, animals mutilatedReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists - data on ritual abuse is at http://www.morningcomequickly.com/RA%20Proof.htm San Francisco - Ex-marshal's appeal in LSD case is denied by Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer 6/27/06 "A federal appeals court, with misgivings, ruled Monday that a former deputy marshal failed to prove he had been drugged with LSD as part of a then-secret CIA mind-control program before trying to hold up a San Francisco bar in 1957." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/27/BAG2FJKN641.DTLfeed=rss.bayarea fwd from L Moss Sharman describes crimes Dog, other animals mutilated - Investigators say a religious link is possible Victoria E. Freile 6/28/06 "Several recent animal beheadings in Rochester may be linked to a religious ritual, Humane Society officials believe. Tuesday morning a passerby found three deceased animals --- a mutilated goat and three beheaded chickens --- bundled together in a white sack and left at the corner of North Clinton Avenue and Avenue D. The goat's front legs, head and intestines had been removed. Over the weekend, someone apparently killed a white goat and five chickens and left their beheaded bodies — along with three pennies." http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/NEWS01/606280405/1002/NEWStemplate=printart __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] '[H]oney trap' that made spy of Vassall
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 30, 2006 2:44:03 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] '[H]oney trap' that made spy of VassallReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1147231.ece30 June 2006 04:41 Home News UK This Britain Secrets revealed of gay 'honey trap' that made spy of Vassall By Cahal Milmo Published: 30 June 2006 Both the brandy and the lighting were unusually strong and it all took place in a restaurant close to the Bolshoi Theatre equipped with a large divan bed. The official account of the gay "honey trap" set by the KGB in 1955 to blackmail a British naval attaché into revealing defence secrets for seven years is revealed for the first time today in government papers.John Vassall, the son of an Anglican vicar who became a junior official in the British embassy in Moscow and subsequently one of the KGB's most useful Cold War spies, was photographed taking part in a gay orgy after he was befriended by a Soviet agent working inside the diplomatic mission as a young man.In return for regular payments, the naval clerk, whose codename was Miss Mary, then passed a succession of classified papers to his KGB minders after he returned to London, including details of British torpedoes and anti-submarine devices, until he was finally arrested at his Westminster flat in September 1962.In a statement provided to Special Branch after officers raided his flat in Dolphin Square, the exclusive Thameside apartment complex favoured by politicians and for several years Princess Anne, Vassall explained how he had become friends with a Russian interpreter, Sigmund Mikhailsky, shortly after he arrived in Moscow in 1954.After three months, Mikhailsky, who was a KGB plant, one night introduced Vassall, then aged 30, to a group of male friends who invited the Briton to join them for dinner in a private room at a restaurant two streets from the Bolshoi Theatre.Vassall said: "We had drinks, a large dinner and I was plied with very strong brandy and after half an hour I remember everybody taking off their jackets and somebody assisted me to take off mine. In one corner there was a large divan."I remember the lighting was very strong and gradually most of my clothes were removed. I remember two or three people getting on to the bed with me, all in a state of undress. Then certain compromising sexual actions took place. I remember someone in the party taking photographs."The documents released at the National Archives in Kew, west London, come from Vassall's Old Bailey trial, which was partly heard behind closed doors to protect state secrets.Vassall was later approached by more KGB agents who threatened him with being stripped of his diplomatic immunity and put on trial for breaking Russian laws banning homosexuality. After giving into the Soviet blackmail, the civil servant led a double life while working at the Ministry of Defence as secretary to a junior minister, Thomas Galbraith, the son of a Scottish peer who eventually successfully sued for libel over claims that he was one of Vassall's lovers.In return for his services, which were suspended in 1961 after the discovery of another Soviet spy ring in London, Vassall was paid by the KGB between £500 and £700 a year (equivalent to £8,000 to £10,000 today) in bundles of £5 notes.The arrest of Vassall following a tip off to MI6 by Soviet defectors embarrassed the government and an inquiry was held into how he had managed to operate undetected for so long. The civil servant was sentenced to 18 years after pleaded guilty to espionage offences under the Official Secrets Act. He died in 1996.For his part, Vassall, who insisted he had no Communist sympathies, told Special Branch that he regretted his actions but insisted he had been trying to avert conflict between the West and the Soviet bloc.Alamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Videos. War Corporatism, The New Fascism.
Begin forwarded message:From: Eco Man [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2006 1:20:47 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Videos. War Corporatism, The New Fascism.Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iraq war, Drug War, and more. Please forward widely. While you still can. :)Google search for corporatism and war corporatism:http://www.google.com/search?q=corporatism http://www.google.com/search?q=war+corporatism Great video on Iraq war corporatism: Flash video version here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12017.htm QuickTime video version here: http://www.knife-party.net/flash/barry.html --- Another great video. This one is about the drug war. Multiple video formats: http://leap.cc/audiovideo/LEAPpromo.htm "Anyone concerned about the failure of our $69 billion-a-year War on Drugs should watch this 12-minute program. You will meet front line, ranking police officers who give us a devastating report on why it cannot work. It is a must-see for any journalist or public official dealing with this issue." -- Walter Cronkite It is a good video to download and to listen to in the background while surfing the web. - http://gallery.marihemp.com/mmm War Corporatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Corporatism War Corporatism is the belief that a country engaged in warfare for a considerable period creates a corporate reliance upon war. (Also referred to as the Military-industrial complex.) The arms and related industries therefore end up attempting to control the outbreak of war in order to increase profits for their shareholders, large investors, and top corporate executives. War corporatism implies that companies who reap the benefits of war will constantly fight to keep the economy on a war footing in order to continue to profit and balance the economics of society as a whole. People critical of the US arms industry claim that the United States has become a prime example of war corporatism as it has been involved in near-constant warfare in some part of the globe since 1950, and point to the close ties of the political and industrial elites in the US. The links between Vice-President Dick Cheney and Halliburton are often used as an example.See alsoSmedley Butler and War is a Racket Military-industrial complex Profiteering War economy -- Military-industrial complex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Military-Industrial_Complex_Speech Military-industrial complexFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term military-industrial complex (MIC) usually refers to the combination of the U.S. armed forces, arms industry and associated political and commercial interests, which grew rapidly in scale and influence in the wake of World War II. The term may also be used for militarism, in reference to any such business partnership between industry and military. As pejorative terms, the "MIC" or the "Iron Triangle" refer to an institutionalised collusion among defense contractors (industry), The Pentagon (military), and the United States government (Congress, Executive branch), as being against the public interest, and driven by profiteering. Origin The term was first used publicly by President of the United States (and former General of the Army) Dwight D. Eisenhower in his Farewell Address to the Nation on January 17, 1961:A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction... This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society. In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
[cia-drugs] Fwd: North Korea's Nuclear Threat: Made in America
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2006 11:00:30 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: North Korea's Nuclear Threat: "Made in America" http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105sid=1648385 Rumsfeld was on ABB board during deal with North Korea One of two reactors currently under contruction in North Korea. (Keystone Archive) Related story Swiss stand sentinel on last Cold War divide Donald Rumsfeld, the US secretary of defence, was on the board of technology giant ABB when it won a deal to supply North Korea with two nuclear power plants.Weapons experts say waste material from the two reactors could be used for so-called “dirty bombs”.The Swiss-based ABB on Friday told swissinfo that Rumsfeld was involved with the company in early 2000, when it netted a $200 million (SFr270million) contract with Pyongyang.The ABB contract was to deliver equipment and services for two nuclear power stations at Kumho, on North Korea’s east coast.Rumsfeld – who is one of the Bush administration’s most strident “hardliners” on North Korea – was a member of ABB’s board between 1990 and February 2001, when he left to take up his current post.Wolfram Eberhardt, a spokesman for ABB, told swissinfo that Rumsfeld “was at nearly all the board meetings” during his decade-long involvement with the company. Maybe this was a discussion point of the board, maybe not. Wolfram Eberhardt, spokesman ABB Maybe, maybe not However, he declined to indicate whether Rumsfeld was made aware of the nuclear contract with North Korea.“This is a good question, but I couldn’t comment on that because we never disclose the protocols of the board meetings,” Eberhardt said.“Maybe this was a discussion point of the board, maybe not.”The defence secretary’s role at ABB during the late 1990s has become a bone of contention in Washington.The ABB contract was a consequence of a 1994 deal between the US and Pyongyang to allow construction of two reactors in exchange for a freeze on the North’s nuclear weapons programme.North Korea revealed last year that it had secretly continued its nuclear weapons programme, despite its obligations under the deal with Washington.The Bush government has repeatedly used the agreement to criticise the former Clinton administration for being too soft on North Korea. Rumsfeld’s deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, has been among the most vocal critics of the 1994 weapons accord. Dirty bombs Weapons experts have also speculated that waste material from the two reactors could be used for so-called “dirty bombs”.Rumsfeld’s position at ABB could prove embarrassing for the Bush administration since while he was a director he was also active on issues of weapons proliferation, chairing the 1998 congressional Ballistic Missile Threat commission.The commission suggested the Clinton-era deal with Pyongyang gave too much away because “North Korea maintains an active weapons of mass destruction programme, including a nuclear weapons programme”. "Rumsfeld does not recall it being brought before the board at any time." Pentagon spokeswoman From Zurich to Pyongyang At the same time, Rumsfeld was travelling to Zurich for ABB’s quarterly board-meetings.Eberhardt said it was possible that the North Korea deal never crossed the ABB boardroom desk.“At the time, we generated a lot of big orders in the power generation business [worth] around $1 billion…[so] a $200 million contract was, so to speak, a smaller one.”When asked whether a deal with a country such as North Korea – a communist state with declared nuclear intentions – should have been brought to the ABB board’s attention, Eberhardt told swissinfo:“Yes, maybe. But so far we haven’t any evidence for that because the protocols were never disclosed. So maybe it was a discussion point, maybe not,” says Eberhardt.A Pentagon spokeswoman, Victoria Clark, recently told “Newsweek” magazine that “Secretary Rumsfeld does not recall it being brought before the board at any time”. It was a long time ago Today, ABB says it no longer has any involvement with the North Korean power plants, due to come on line in 2007 and 2008.The company finalised the sale of its nuclear business in early 2000 to the British-based BNFL group.swissinfo, Jacob Greber Print this story Send this story Send us your thoughts on this story KEY FACTS US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, was a member of the ABB board from 1990 to 2001. In January 2000, ABB signed a $200 million deal for two nuclear power stations in North Korea. ABB says Rumsfeld “may, or may not have” known about the deal. The Pentagon says Rumsfeld “does not recall it being brought before the board”. The power plants were allowed under a 1994 anti-nuclear weapons proliferation deal between the US and North Korea. The US-North Korean agreement collapsed last month when Pyongyang announced it had reactivated its mothballed nuclear
[cia-drugs] Fwd: It's Only Money
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 28, 2006 11:13:25 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: It's Only Money Overcharging taxpayers -- by mistake or outright fraud -- is a frequent occurrence. A Congressional report identifies 118 federal contracts worth $745.5 billion that have been found to include significant waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement Federal contracts up 86% under Bush; Halliburton profits rise 600% 06/19/2006 @ 1:02 pm Filed by RAW STORY http://www.rawstory.com/admin/dbscripts/printstory.php?story=2247 Top contractor Lockheed got contracts larger than budget of Congress, Dept. of Interior WASHINGTON -- A new report claims that a "shadow government" of federal contractors has exploded in size over the last five years.The document, compiled at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and distributed to RAW STORY, indicates that procurement spending increased by over $175 billion between 2000 and 2005, making federal contracts the fastest growing component of federal discretionary spending. 500 reports, audits and investigations by government and independent bodies, including the Government Accountability Office and the Defense Contract Audit Agency, were used to compile the data. That spending increase -- an astonishing 86 percent -- puts total US federal procurement at $377.5 billion annually. The increase means spending on federal contracts has grown more than two times as fast as other forms of discretionary government spending.Nearly $800b in contracts questionedWaxman claims that overcharging -- by mistake or outright fraud -- has been a frequent occurrance. In all, the report identifies 118 federal contracts worth $745.5 billion that have been found by government officials to include significant waste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement. Each of the Bush Administration's three signature initiatives -- Homeland Security, the Iraq war and reconstruction in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina recovery -- has been linked to wasteful contract spending. Spending is categorized in the report as highly concentrated on a few large contractors, with the five largest contractors receiving over 20 percent of contract dollars awarded in 2005. Last year, the largest federal contractor, Lockheed Martin, received contracts worth more than the total combined budgets of the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Congress. But the fastest growing contractor under the Bush Administration has been Halliburton. Federal spending on Halliburton contracts shot up an astonishing 600% between 2000 and 2005.Waxman plans to make all 118 "problem contracts" available on the Internet as part of a searchable database with Internet links to government audits.READ THE FULL DOCUMENT HERE. === GOP Kills Bill to Police HalliburtonBy Bob Geiger, AlterNet. Posted June 20, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/37849/ Republicans in Congress have made it clear they're willing to fight for military contractors' right to lie, cheat and defraud taxpayers. I suppose it's old news at this point that the Bush administration lied us into the Iraq war, and that the cost of this mess will be fully realized by the next generation when Bush leaves office with the biggest budget deficit in U.S. history.And, while Democrats have been complaining for years about the GOP-led Congress abandoning its oversight of the executive branch's wrongdoing, a vote that took place in the Senate last week shows how the Republican desire to ignore fraud and abuse extends right into killing legislation that would help stop defense contractors from ripping off the American people.In an effort to stop companies like Halliburton and its subsidiaries from cheating our troops and stealing from Americans, Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., introduced S.AMDT.4230 and attached it to the Defense Authorization bill currently being debated in the Senate. The bill was intended to improve contracting "by eliminating fraud and abuse and improving competition in contracting and procurement.""I think when you are at war, when a massive quantity of money is being pushed out the door, that we ought to decide to get tough on those who would be engaged in war profiteering," said Dorgan in fighting for his amendment last week. "I dare say that never in the history of this country has so much money been wasted so quickly. And, yes, there is fraud involved, there is abuse involved, and it is the case that there is a dramatic amount of taxpayers' money that is now being wasted."Dorgan's bill -- cosponsored by 17 Democrats and called the Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2006 -- was tabled by a roll call vote of 55-43, effectively rejecting the amendment. Every single Senate Republican voted against the measure to make the contracting process honest and impose penalties on those who break the law.And just what were the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Police raid Riviera home
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2006 12:40:31 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Police raid Riviera homeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1808393,00.htmlPolice raid Riviera home of former MI6 officerRichard Norton-TaylorThursday June 29, 2006GuardianBritish and French police raided the Riviera house of the former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson, arrested him, and seized all his computer equipment and personal papers.Mr Tomlinson, who has been engaged in cat and mouse operations with his former employer ever since he was released from jail in 1999, told the Guardian yesterday: "At 6.27am on Tuesday, 12 police were outside my home with an EU arrest warrant."They took every bit of computer equipment, all my phones, my emails, all my personal files, my Psion organiser with my bank account details. It is a complete and utter catastrophe," he said.They then searched his boat. British police wanted to take away the files in his office and both his passports - he has dual UK-New Zealand nationality - but their French colleagues prevented them, he said.Mr Tomlinson and MI6 have not been in touch since he published The Big Breach, an account of his life as a British secret agent, in 2001. He is now employed as a yacht broker, selling and chartering boats from an Antibes-based company, BCR Yachts. He lives in nearby Cannes.He has set up an internet blog, with the provocative title of "Tomlinson v MI6". It is this which seems to be worrying Britain's intelligence agency.He has posted an aerial photograph of MI6's training facility at Fort Monckton in Hampshire. He wrote: "This is where new recruits undertake their IONEC [a six-month training course]. It is also where pre-posting refresher training takes place, as well as courses for liaison officers from other friendly intelligence services." MI6 is particularly worried Mr Tomlinson will reveal names of its officers on his website.Government lawyers recently asked him to take the names of two MI6 officers off his site. He agreed and wrote: "It is a most encouraging first response from MI6 and the Treasury solicitor. If they had approached things as sensibly as this 11 years ago, the dispute between us need never have happened."After his arrest in 1997 under the Official Secrets Act, Mr Tomlinson was accused of placing lists of alleged MI6 officers on websites. He said yesterday the police accused him of placing new lists on known subversive sites last year. "It was absolutely nothing to do with me whatsoever," he said yesterday. "It's so easy to prove it wasn't me. It absolutely wasn't me. It's causing me enormous hardship and distress." He said the police insisted the list was genuine. The list is apparently concocted from the official British diplomatic list. As a list purporting to be one of MI6 officers, it is inaccurate.Mr Tomlinson, 42, described on his blog how he was arrested and held in Cannes police station. "I am having to write this blog from work now, as MI6 have again confiscated all my computer gear with trumped-up and invented charges," he wrote.He said the police would not show him the lists while he was being questioned. Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2006Alamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email.http://us.click.yahoo.com/2pRQfA/bOaOAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] UK's Afghan mission is failing
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2006 1:15:30 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] UK's Afghan mission is failingReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1129709.ece29 June 2006 03:13 Home News World Asia UK's Afghan mission is failing, says drugs body By Kim Sengupta and Gustavo Montes Published: 29 June 2006 The UK mission in Afghanistan is in danger of failing because of "misguided" support for American military and drug-eradication policies, an international think-tank has claimed. Instead of taking part in the reconstruction of the country shattered by decades of war, British forces find themselves "at war" with a resurgent Taliban and alienated from an increasingly hostile population.The report came as Tony Blair led tributes in the Commons to the two special forces soldiers killed in Helmand on Tuesday. He said: "They were fighting the Taliban. They were brave and committed soldiers. This country can be very proud of the work they were doing."The study by the Senlis Council, a drug policy think-tank, predicts that the violence in the south will escalate. The Taliban and their allies have been exploiting the anger felt by farmers at the destruction of opium crops and by civilians who have suffered in US-led operations.Lt-Gen David Richards, the British officer who is due to take over all Nato operations in Afghanistan with US troops under his command, warned the crop eradication programme was driving farmers into the hands of the Taliban and the Western forces are creating new enemies.Last week Hamid Karzai, the President, levelled unprecedented criticism at the US-led coalition'stactics, deploring the deaths of hundreds of his countrymen and women while the Taliban grows in strength. About 600 people have been killedthis year.UK and other Nato forces in Afghanistan are supposedly on a different mission from the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom, which is engaging in war-fighting operations against Taliban and al-Qa'ida fighters. The Senlis Council says villagers cannot differentiate between foreign troops. One researcher said that when she tried to explain the difference at a village shura (council) in Helmand, one elder said: "You cannot tell the difference between our tribes, so how can you expect us to tell the difference between yours. As far as we are concerned, they are all foreign soldiers who are Christians and they are in our country."The Taliban and their Islamist allies have forced more than 200 schools and colleges to close. The campaign is aimed, say educationalists and human rights groups, to terrorise families into keeping children uneducated, unemployable, and to become a recruiting pool for the Islamists.Jamilai Nassi, the headmistress of a girls' school in Lashkar Gar, the capital of Helmand province, received letters warning her to shut down the school. One read: "In this school they are teaching infidel books to girls and we don't want these girls to become infidels..."I don't want you or the students to die at this young age. This is the last warning. If you are tired of life then come and your blood will be on your hands." Armed men also visited Ms Nassi's home at night. When an international organisation reported what was happening to the British base at Lashkar Gar, an officer said that it was a matter for the Afghan authorities.The Senlis report stated "the unbalanced approach of the international community, which has mainly been directed towards counter-narcotics and counter-insurgency, has not only been ineffective and indirectly responsible for the growing state of war, it has also ignored the ... needs of the Afghan people."Emmanuel Reinert, the council's executive director, said: "There is no peace to keep, there is no peace at all. It is a war mission, but it is not a mission that can be won with a military approach or otherwise you will be seen as invaders."Alamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email.http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Sir Riley BECHTEL
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 19, 2006 7:17:52 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "Sir" Riley BECHTEL [U.S. corporate war profiteer in Iraq] secretly awarded honours by Britain Antony Barnett, investigations editorThe Observer (UK), June 18, 2006 The government has been secretly awarding honours to senior figures in the US military and foreign businessmen with lucrative public sector contracts. The Observer has obtained a Foreign Office list detailing all non-British citizens who have been awarded honours since 2003 - the first time the complete three-year dossier has been released. It has emerged that Riley Bechtel, billionaire boss of the US-based Bechtel Corporation, which has won big transport and nuclear contracts in Britain and made a fortune from the Iraq war, was secretly awarded a CBE in 2003. This award has never been made public either by the British government or Bechtel. At the time Jack Straw, now Leader of the House of Commons, was Foreign Secretary. Although there is no suggestion of any wrongdoing, questions are being asked about whether the Foreign Office kept the awards quiet for fear of a political backlash. But the Foreign Office says this is normal practice. On releasing the information, the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, said: 'Honorary awards to citizens where Her Majesty the Queen is not head of state are not formally announced.' According to the Foreign Office list the Queen approved Bechtel's honour for 'services to UK-American commercial relations' on 25 April 2003 - just a week after the company won a bumper £430m contract to rebuild Iraq's infrastructure after the invasion. The honour to one of America's wealthiest citizens, a man with intimate ties to the Bush administration, will reignite the row over the secretive honours process. The list shows that under Straw the Foreign Office awarded honours to several senior US military personnel involved in the Iraq invasion. These included the US military commander General Tommy Franks, known as 'Mr Shock and Awe' for his role in devising the battle plan for the 2003 invasion. Others include Vice-Admiral Timothy Keating, who was in charge of all maritime forces involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom; Rear Admiral Barry Costello, commander of the Third Fleet and Task Force 55 during the Iraq invasion; Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Childress; and General Tad Moseley, chief of staff to the US Air Force. The row comes as protests mount at the CBE given to Andy Hayman, the head of Scotland Yard's anti-terror operations who is at the centre of investigations into the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell tube station last July and the raid at Forest Gate, east London, earlier this month. Bechtel, who has a personal fortune of more than $3bn (£1.62bn), is 50th on America's rich list. British ministers have awarded his company contracts for the London Underground, the upgrade of the west coast main line, the Channel Tunnel rail link and the Jubilee Line extension. Bechtel's nuclear subsidiary has received almost £30m to help set up the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Bechtel's contracts for US reconstruction work in Iraq have caused the most controversy. One of the firm's key board members is George Schultz, who was secretary of state under Ronald Reagan and who, as chairman of the Committee to Liberate Iraq, was one of the loudest cheerleaders for regime change. The full list of awards to non-British citizens was only disclosed after Beckett agreed to place the details in the House of Commons Library following a series of parliamentary questions by the Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker. Baker said: 'This shows that what matters in Tony Blair's Britain is those with power, money and a US accent. These awards are supposed to be for good works and those that have helped Britain. Instead it seems they are being handed out to those who have supported Blair's misguided policies at home and overseas.' A spokesman for the Foreign Office confirmed that Bechtel had been awarded a CBE but said he could not give any details about the nomination process. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Heroin Kills Hundreds
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 18, 2006 3:46:48 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Heroin Kills HundredsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Actually, any thought I *may* have ever had about this sort of thing evaporated when I read about the GIs returning from VietNam and, while incarcerated in a military medical treatment facility, scored some "smack" that turned out to be processed battery terminal acid residue. Injected, it tends to make the body do quite unusual things. R] Fentanyl-laced Heroin Kills Hundreds Of Addicts In USAMain Category: Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs NewsArticle Date: 16 Jun 2006 - 16:00pm (PDT) http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=45391Fentanyl-laced herion has killed hundreds of addicts from Chicago to Philadelphia. Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic drug, a prescription painkiller. It is 80 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and can kill humans in small doses. Most likely, the fentanyl is not pharmaceutical grade - it is probably made in illicit labs. Just 125 micrograms is enough to kill an adult - the equivalent of a few grains of salt. According to Chicago police, a West Side gang member has been arrested. The police say the arrest will hopefully lead them to the main supplier of the deadly heroin cocktail. More than 100 alleged drug dealers have been arrested over the last two months in an attempt to get the main dealer. None of the arrests helped the investigators get any nearer to their objective. Hopefully, this West Side arrest will. The gang member was selling fentanyl-laced heroin, lab tests showed. Police say the killer heroin is also being sold in Ohio. Over the last month three cases of heroin with fentanyl have been found. Of more concern is that addicts are not heeding the police warnings. When laced heroin was found in one street corner, the police warned all the addicts in the area. Rather than move elsewhere, many stayed in the hope of getting some free giveaways. Written by: Christian NordqvistEditor: Medical News TodayAlamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design.http://us.click.yahoo.com/zHUd1C/gOaOAA/cUmLAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_912.shtml
Begin forwarded message:Osama must be a wreck, wherever he is. He’s busted down to a non-entity and here’s Zarqawi coverage up the whazoo. In fact, Rex Tomb (love the name) of the FBI’s public affairs unit is said to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama (he says Usama, I say Osama, let’s call the whole thing off), Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." What? No hard evidence? __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_912.shtml
Osama must be a wreck, wherever he is. He’s busted down to a non-entity and here’s Zarqawi coverage up the whazoo. In fact, Rex Tomb (love the name) of the FBI’s public affairs unit is said to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama (he says Usama, I say Osama, let’s call the whole thing off), Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." What? No hard evidence?Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 18, 2006 1:24:24 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_912.shtmlReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_912.shtmlZarqawi the scourge defeated, Osama not wanted for 9/11?Jerry Mazza, Online Journal Associate EditorJune 17, 2006As everyone and his brother, including Jordanian intelligence, rushes in to claim a piece of the Zarqawi kill, his fellow-Afghanistan-Mujihadeen and super-star terror-meister, Osama bin Laden, fade into Not Wanted by FBI for 9/11 status, that is, the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to an article by Enver Masud. What?What’s going on here? I thought that’s why Bush declared The War on Terror in the first place and went to Afghanistan to "smoke him out." But hey, what do I know, what do we know? We only live here.In fact, Masud writes, "The FBI page states: "Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world." What, first the FBI suppressed the warnings he and his boys were about to make the hit," according to whistleblowers Kathleen Rowley and agent Robert Wright to name a few, and now the Federal Bureau of Instigation is retracting his being the central bogeyman of 9/11 and TWOT?. Did anybody tell Bush? Check if he’s operating on the old or new scenario.Osama must be a wreck, wherever he is. He’s busted down to a non-entity and here’s Zarqawi coverage up the whazoo. In fact, Rex Tomb (love the name) of the FBI’s public affairs unit is said to have said, "The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama (he says Usama, I say Osama, let’s call the whole thing off), Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11." What? No hard evidence?I feel like the comic Lawrence Black, screaming "Then what the fuck did you send an army there for and blow up a country and kills thousands of Afghans and American soldiers? Was it really all about securing territory for the Unocal pipelines and kicking the Taliban out of the way? I mean all those bearded beauties are crawling back and the dope production is back up . . . arrrgh!!!"Excuse me. Then, who is the Number One Suspect for 9/11? Don’t tell me you, too, think that it could be Dick Cheney and George Bush? After Osama or along with him, they’re the ones most mentioned, along with Secretary of War Donald Rumsfeld, General Richard Myers and General Ralph Eberhart, the unholy group of conspirators.And don’t tell me you’re going to knock down Osama’s bounty next (25 million bucks, right?), so you don’t have to shell that out. Hey, the guy might even be dead, and somebody’s doing his voice for the cassettes, maybe the chubby guy from the first tape. Meanwhile, Zarqawi’s reward still stands at $25 million, right? Oh boy, I’d love to follow the money on that baby to some finks in his organization, or the Jordanian network, or the CIA Easter Bunny. Never know.I mean Osama was the MVP of terrorists. Now, there’s no hard evidence connecting him. Is that why you were trying to hang it on Moussaoui, even though he was in jail at the time and couldn’t fly a plane. But the FBI did turn down some 70 requests from Agent Samet, who arrested Moussaoui for immigration violations, when he wanted to look into the latter’s laptop and such and build a case against him. Then, all of a sudden, a big 180, Moussaoui’s on trial, gets life in the Scorch House, and narrowly misses the Big Needle. Wow, what a movie!I mean, Zarqawi didn’t do 9/11, did he? You’re not going to pin that on him too? Because I read Michael Chossudovsky’s "Who was Abu Musab al Zarqawi" and it seems the CIA built quite a mythic dosier on Zarqawi offenses. So, you know you ,FBI/CIA guys and gals could find a few more documents. As Chossudovsky stated, "The evidence suggests, however, that Zarqawi was part of a Pentagon disinformation campaign launched in 2003, which was initially intended to justify the US led invasion of Iraq. This central role of Zarqawi as an instrument of war propaganda was recently confirmed by leaked military documents revealed by the Washington Post."The Pentagon had set up a 'Zarqawi program.’ Military documents confirm that the role of Zarqawi had been deliberately 'magnified’ with a view to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD
Begin forwarded message:From: "foxhallgeorgetwn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 17, 2006 7:07:58 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOODReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOODBREAKING NEWSGEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOODCrawford, Texas (AP) - A tragic flood this morning destroyedthe personal library of President George W. Bush. The floodbegan in the presidential bathroom where the books were kept.Both books have been lost. A presidential spokesman said thepresident was devastated as he had almost finished coloringthe second oneThe White House tried to call FEMA but there was no answer. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- See what's inside the new Yahoo! Groups email.http://us.click.yahoo.com/XmUd6C/bOaOAA/cUmLAA/zgSolB/TM~- www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.That being said, ctrl gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. ctrl gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.There are two list running, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and CTRL@listserv.aol.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has unlimited posting and is more for discussion. CTRL@listserv.aol.com is more for informational exchange and has limited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Omimited posting abilities. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.Om Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Alex Jones clip... Bullhorns to Bilderbergs!
Begin forwarded message:From: Zany Mystic [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 14, 2006 2:13:35 PM PDTTo: CTRL [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Conspiracy Theory Politics [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ghost Troop [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Alex Jones clip... Bullhorns to Bilderbergs!Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Posted By: Karen/OhioDate: Tuesday, 13 June 2006, at 10:32 p.m. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/110606Bullhorns.htm Wow, Watch this short video, of Alex Jones, Bullhorns The Bilberg Group. This Guy has a lot of guts. This video, Just blew me away, In a good way. Watching This made my day * Maybe now, more Whistle Blowers, will do the Same, and Wake, the sleeping humanity up * Enjoy, and Please Pass this on, Far Wide * Love Light, Krystalena http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/110606Bullhorns.htm Forwarding this from a friend. © “If it’s not mainstream it’s on BBSRadio.com™” "Fireside Chat with Zany Mystic" Friday at Six! http://www.bloginservice.com/ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] The CIA Loses a Major Customer
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 25, 2006 1:56:46 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] The CIA Loses a Major CustomerReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20060525.aspxThe CIA Loses a Major CustomerMay 25, 2006: Without much publicity, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have gotten a divorce. For over half a century, the Department of Defense depended on the CIA for a lot of the intelligence it needed. No more, or at least less-and-less. DoD recently created the post of undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, and made it one of the top four positions in the department. DoD is being coy about exactly what the new arrangements are, given the new Director of National Intelligence and plans for "making intelligence more efficient." For DoD, plans aren't enough, as the major issue is that the troops are out there fighting the war on terror, and they need good intel now. So DoD is grabbing as much raw intel (from NRO satellites) as they can, and whatever else the CIA will give up. In the meantime, DoD has its own growing force of agents on the ground, many of them from the Special Forces. This sort of thing isn't new for the Special Forces, they have been going in to foreign regions, dressed as civilians, for decades. Some of this was in cooperation with the CIA, which still hires lots of retired Special Forces troopers, for another career as CIA operatives. DoD is overhauling its entire intelligence apparatus, right down to the individual soldier on patrol in Iraq and Afghanistan. The plans are pretty ambitious, and are partially implemented. The basic idea is to take advantage of abundant computer power, and affordable networking, to tie together as many troops, vehicles and warships as possible into one giant information gathering system. Computer software is used to do an initial filtering of lots of the data, leaving human analysts to deal with a much smaller amount of relevant information identified by the software. DoD has, for years, been aghast at the huge amounts of data that NRO, CIA and NSA collected, but never had the analyst resources to do anything with. The new DoD system is much more oriented towards solving immediate intel problems with all possible dispatch. No more waiting days for satellite photos, when the information was needed in hours, or minutes, to be useful. DoD is buying billions of dollars worth of UAVs, and installing communications equipment that will allow troops in combat to get the images when they are needed, not much later, after they have been "analyzed and cleared." Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- FONT COLOR="#99"Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives/FONTA HREF=""http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM">http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A~- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor and discussion moderatorYahoo! Groups Links* To visit
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Sherman_H_Skolnick_Obituary
Begin forwarded message:From: Neo Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 22, 2006 11:04:07 AM PDTTo: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Sherman_H_Skolnick_ObituaryReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cloakanddagger.de sadly reports: http://cloakanddagger.de/media/S_284_S/OBIT/Sherman_H_Skolnick_Obituary.htm For 48 years, a key focus of Sherman Skolnick’s investigative reporting was the rampant judicial corruption in the courts of law in U.S.A., specifically in Chicago and in the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. Judges on the take, some of them termed "banksters” or "banker-judges”, drew the attention not only of Skolnick’s seasoned Jewish humor but also of his relentless and feared public exposure mechanisms. The robed mafiosi had him in jail eight times during his long life but could never stick anything of substance on him. Twenty judges and over forty attorneys went behind bars, from 1969 to 1993 alone, through America’s leading judge-buster who has now passed on. Skolnick started in his late twenties using his superb mental powers and writing skills as reflected in his reporting on judicial and political corruption. Since 1958 he was a court reformer. In 1963 he founded the Citizen’s Committee to Clean Up the Courts, a public interest group researching and disclosing certain instances of judicial bribery and political murders. Starting in 1971 his comments were on a recorded phone message that he called Hotline News. Since 1991 he was a regular participant and producer, and since 1995 he was producer/moderator of „BROADSIDES“, a one hour weekly taped public access Cable TV Show on in Chicago Monday evening, 9 p.m., Channel 21 Cable, reaching an audience of 400,000 viewers. Sherman H. Skolnick was elevated to national prominence when a mafia of corrupt Illinois judges swindled his parents out of their lifetime savings. Time Magazine reported on the scandal in August 1969 and depicted Skolnick in his wheelchair on the cover. Law school professor Kenneth A. Manaster reviews this judicial bribery scandal in his 2001 book "Illinois Justice, The Scandal of 1969 and the Rise of John Paul Stevens”, http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/14280.ctl Since 2003, the learned Sherman H. Skolnick found a home for the last years of his investigative reporting in the Toronto-based internet talk radio and magazine http://www.cloakanddagger.de (http://www.cloakanddagger.ca). He also contributed to http://www.rense.com and his reports appeared on many other sites. The great series of his last years was the ongoing "Overthrow of the American Republic” series. Together with Cloak and Dagger host Lenny Bloom, Sherman Skolnick further penned the "Middle Finger News” series. Some of the hot trails of his last years were the judicial corruption of five judges of the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore in December 2000, election frauds, the 9-11 inside attacks, theft of trillions of $$ through the Bush-Clinton crime syndicate, the infiltration of the American government by gangsters and foreign agents (mainly British, Chinese, Israeli, Jesuit), and the overthrow of the Republic. Every one of his words was a considered appeal to avoid the temptation of the Big Lie. Now, the scrutinous eye of Sherman H. Skolnick no longer peers through the magnifying glass. That was his chosen symbol on his web site, www.skolnicksreport.com, like a Sherlock Holmes of American investigative journalism. A paraplegic since childhood, this militating dove passed on peacefully during sleep in his 75th year to a higher perch. He helped his students, readers and listeners to find clarity of perception in a world of confusion and deception. We will keep our deceased friend a loving memory. Black Nobility Numerology Report 5/22 is the next harmonic of 9/11, 322 ET AL "COME OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!WITH YOUR HANDS UP! "HOW DARE YOU! " YOU TYRANTS AND CONSPIRATORIAL KINGS" SAYS A FAMOUS NATIONAL ANTHEM THE BIGGEST NEWS STORY UNTOLD IN AMERICA BANNED BY THE MASS MEDIA ARE GEORGE W. BUSH'S COHORTS' UNPARDONABLE CRIMES. :: THE UNPARDONABLE CRIMES OF TREASON TYRANNY. HOW DARE YOU! YOU TYRANTS CONSPIRATORIAL KINGS. THE REAL BUSH LEGACY IS, BY DESIGN, HE SCREWED THE DOLLAR! AND AMERICA TOO! IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OFTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21st CENTURY© WITH TOM HENEGHANMAY 21, 2006 Guantanamo Bay riots have been linked to Saudi narcotics traffickers who were released from Guantanamo Bay before they could be subpoened by a joint Dept. of Justice /Drug Enforcement
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [narconews] Ross: The Dirty War Returns to Mexico
Begin forwarded message:From: "Daniel A. Feder" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 19, 2006 9:24:06 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [narconews] Ross: The "Dirty War" Returns to MexicoReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- FONT COLOR="#99"Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives/FONTA HREF=""http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM">http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/KlSolB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A~- May 19, 2006Please Distribute WidelyDear Colleague,The great chronicler of Mexico John Ross reports in The Narco News Bulletin that the violence earlier this month in Texcoco and San Salvador Atenco bears a striking resemblance to the "dirty war" tactics of the 1970s. Details on this period of terror, particularly bloody in the state of Guerrero where hundreds of peasant farmers were killed in anti-insurgency campaigns but also felt in Mexico City and elsewhere, are just now beginning to come out as new government documents are revealed.In a report that first appeared in his "Blindman's Bluff" newsletter, Ross writes, citing leading scholar of that period Carlos Montemayor:"According to Montemayor's description, first an overwhelming force is assembled with the primary mission of totally subjugating a recalcitrant population. Then informers are introduced into the village to identify and eliminate rebel community leaders and those associated with them. If the leaders evade capture, their families are held hostage. Young men are rounded up and selectively tortured to extract information and to turn them into 'soplones' (informers)."Meanwhile, shock troops terrorize the civilian population into submission. Indiscriminate beatings, home invasions, the theft of personal items of value, and the systematic destruction of property are encouraged by police commanders. Women are raped and sexually abused to underscore the occupation force's total domination over the rebellious villagers."Virtually all of these dirty war characteristics were on display in San Salvador Atenco May 4th when 3000 armed state police and elements of the Federal Preventative Police (PFP), a force largely extracted from the Mexican military, slammed into that dirt-poor town of 30,000 out on the dried lake beds east of the capital, killing one 14-year- old, leaving a 20-year-old student hovering between life and death, and arresting 209, all of whom required hospitalization from the beatings they received under security force batons - although only some prisoners actually received it (and they were chained to their hospital beds.) Of 47 women arrested, 23 reported that they had been raped or were otherwise sexually abused. One 53 year-old mother who had gone to a local store to buy a birthday present for her son was forced to perform oral sex on three police 'officers' to avoid arrest."Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin's continuing coverage of the Zapatista Other Campaign:http://www.narconews.com/otroperiodismo/en.html From somewhere in a country called América,Dan FederManaging EditorThe Narco News Bulletinhttp://www.narconews.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]Narco News is supported by:The Fund for Authentic JournalismP.O. Box 241Natick, MA 01760http://www.authenticjournalism.orgThe Fund receives online donations at this web page:http://www.authenticjournalism.orgApply for your co-publisher's account, here:http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.phpSubscribe for free alerts of new reports:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsSuscríbete gratis para alertas de nuevos reportajes en español:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsandesInscreva-se para alertas gratuitos de reportagens do último minuto emportuguês brasileiro:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconewsbrasilYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups
[cia-drugs] Fwd: D.E.A. and Colombian Drug Traffickers, Business Partners]
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 19, 2006 8:28:09 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: D.E.A. and Colombian Drug Traffickers, Business Partners] -Original Message-From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: undisclosed-recipients:;Sent: Thu, 18 May 2006 21:05:57 -0700Subject: [Fw: D.E.A. and Colombian Drug Traffickers, Business Partners]From: "Daniel A. Feder" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue May 16, 2006 2:40pm(PDT) Subject: Conroy: Leaked Report Says Drug Traffickers Obtained Classified D.E.A. http://by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/compose?curmbox=----0001a=d80bc75c9edcd2aaa98eb0bcaf000666cd3b113251c625c2b7ff6c74e096c620mailto=1[EMAIL PROTECTED]msg=495E98DE-9838-4863-A482-64E5B210055Bstart=0len=6308src=""> May 16, 2006 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, A major piece of the puzzle of U.S. law enforcement in Colombia corruption has fallen into place. An anonymous source has leaked to Narco News correspondent Bill Conroy a report from the Drug Enforcement Administration that further strengthens allegations of D.E.A. and other agents collaborating with Colombian drug traffickers and paramilitaries. It also makes some surprising claims about the U.S.-sponsored drug crop fumigation program. http://www.narconews.com The report summarizes the results of a lie detector test performed on a narco-trafficker who worked as an informant for the D.E.A. The narco told the D.E.A. that he received dozens of confidential documents from the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá. Among the most startling revelations in the document, which is available for download from Narco News, is this: "One of the charges leveled in this recently uncovered document is that 'narco-traffickers knew a day in advance, with coordinates, when D.E.A./C.N.P. [Colombian National Police] were going to fumigate the marijuana/coca fields. Thus, they were always prepared to protect the fields'." While poor peasants in the Colombian countryside watch their livelihoods destroyed as U.S. and Colombian government planes fumigate entire rural communities, U.S. government agents were apparently helping the rich, powerful mafia leaders to protect their own interests. Conroy had already reported in a previous story that such a report existed, but sources had told him that D.E.A. superiors hid the results and told the staffer who performed the test not to speak of his findings. Indeed, in the report itself, man who performed the test writes that he believes more questioning of the drug trafficker is in order, but that the DEA "decided not to conduct any further polygraph testing." In the wake of Narco News' publishing of the orignal "Kent Memo" -- which blew the lid off the D.E.A.'s cover-up of corruption allegations -- an agency spokesman called the accusations "unfounded." Well, Conroy continues to lay that foundation brick by brick, and the Washington spin doctors are having a harder and harder time trying to pretend that such overwhelming evidence does not exist. Read the full report online, here: http://www.narconews.com From somewhere in a country called América, Dan Feder Managing Editor The Narco News Bulletin "When you have ruled out the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, is the truth." -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.0/342 - Release Date: 5/17/06 Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] CIA 'carried out up to 50 renditions'
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 18, 2006 4:29:29 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] CIA 'carried out up to 50 renditions'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19175329-38200,00.htmlCIA 'carried out up to 50 renditions'From: Agence France-PresseFrom correspondents in StrasbourgMay 18, 2006 THE US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has sent up to 50 suspects since 2001 to countries where they could face torture, a European Union investigator probing the CIA's actions in Europe said today.Claudio Fava, an Italian member of the European Parliament, said members of his team were given the information by US intelligence officials during a visit to the United States last week.The sources also had said the agency ran secret prisons in Europe, Asia and Africa.The United States has come under intense fire over the last year following press reports that the CIA has flown suspects in the US "war on terror" across European airspace since the September 11, 2001, attacks.The prisoners were reported mainly to have been taken through Europe to third countries in a process known as "rendition", in which the transfers take place outside the legal framework of an extradition agreement."More than one source in the CIA, senior officials, explained to us that there were 30 to 50 renditions, not including people arrested and taken to Guantanamo Bay," the US naval base prison in Cuba, Mr Fava said.Advertisement:He could not say whether the suspects had been picked up in Europe, were flown through the continent's airspace or transported through its territory, or if any were of European origin.He said the intelligence officials told investigators that the renditions were acceptable in that they were part of the "war on terror".Indeed senior US officials have acknowledged that a few renditions have taken place.The Italian deputy said the officials were asked about the secret prisons in Europe - in particular facilities, now thought closed, in Poland and Romania - and that "they told us there were prisons in Europe, Asia and Africa".Mr Fava also accused the White House of putting pressure on the US media - an editor of the Washington Post and television stations - not to make public the names of countries suspected of allowing secret CIA prisons on their territory.The head of the inquiry, Portuguese MP Carlos Coelho, said information gathered in the United States showed that the "transfer program would not have been possible without the help of European governments". Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- FONT COLOR="#99"Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free./FONTA HREF=""http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM">http://us.click.yahoo.com/97bhrC/LGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM"BClick Here!/B/A~- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portalhttp://mprofaca.cro.net/ Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor and discussion mod Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/* To unsubscribe from this
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Yahoo! News Story - Pentagon to Release 9/11 Security Video - Yahoo! News
Begin forwarded message:From: Rich Scheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 16, 2006 11:00:37 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Yahoo! News Story - Pentagon to Release 9/11 Security Video - Yahoo! NewsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rich Scheck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has sent you a news article. (Email address has not been verified.)Personal message:FYI. Probably fake but worth looking at.Pentagon to Release 9/11 Security Video - Yahoo! Newshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060516/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/sept_11_videoYahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Skull Bones 2006 according to Rumpus
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 12, 2006 10:20:50 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl CTRL CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Skull Bones 2006 according to Rumpus http://www.yale.edu/rumpus/Skull Bones 2006 according to RumpusPaige AustinSatya BabhaOwen DalbyBrandon DychesCaroline EdsallJessica FeiAnson FrericksA. J. HopkinsNazneen MehtaJacob LiebenluftDon PhanGul RazaCrissaris SarnelliDiala ShamesAndre Thomas Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Boston Tee Party
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 7, 2006 6:25:30 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Boston Tee Party Our monarch, above the lawBy Scot LehighBoston Globe | May 2, 2006Has George W. Bush come to believe he's king?That's the question that springs to mind upon reading Charlie Savage's front-page report in Sunday's Globe detailing the president's sotto voce assertion that he can disregard laws if he thinks they impinge on his constitutional powers.That novel claim resides in the ''signing statements" the administration issues outlining its legal interpretation of laws the president has signed -- interpretations that often run contrary to the statute's clear intent.As Savage reports, Bush has registered hundreds of those reservations, adding them to statutes on subjects ranging from military rules and regulations to affirmative action language to congressionally mandated reporting requirements to protections Congress has passed for whistle-blowers to legal assurances against political meddling in government-funded research.Bush's position reduces to this: The president needn't execute the laws as they are written and passed, but rather, has the right to implement -- or ignore -- them as he sees fit. (Were it not for our pesky written Constitution, perhaps George II could take his cue from Charles I, dismiss Congress, and rule -- ah, govern -- without any legislative interference whatsoever.)Even members of the president's own party have balked at that claim.After Republican Senator John McCain succeeded in passing a ban on the torture of detainees in US custody, forcing it upon an unwilling White House, the president's signing statement made it clear he thought he could disregard the law if he deemed it necessary. That brought a pointed rebuke from McCain and fellow Republican Senator John Warner.Other presidents have periodically appended signing statements to legislation, setting the objectionable precedent that Bush has followed here. But as Savage reports, this president has taken it to a new level, issuing such statements on more than 750 laws, or on more than 10 percent of the bills he has signed.Rendering Bush's assertion more worrisome is this reality: Because so much of what this administration does is shrouded in secrecy, it's hard to know which laws are being followed and which are being ignored.That makes it difficult for matters to ripen into a court challenge, notes Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate. ''He is setting it up so that the people hurt by what this administration is doing are unable to get to court, because it is secret," Silverglate says.We certainly do know that this president is ready to ignore even established laws if he finds them too cumbersome. Although the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 prohibits warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, Bush has authorized such snooping. In trying to justify that, the administration has claimed that Congress's post-Sept. 11 resolution authorizing force against terrorists somehow imparted the authority for warrantless wiretapping.That's farfetched, and members of the president's own party have said as much.Congressional figures of both parties have signaled a willingness to consider the president's concerns with a wiretap-approval process that is already all but pro forma.The White House, however, has displayed little interest in meaningful compromise.Bush has a recourse if he doesn't agree with a newly passed law, of course: He can veto it. (So far he hasn't exercised that prerogative even once.)But the president shouldn't be allowed to quietly disregard or reinterpret provisions of a law he dislikes, for in doing so, he is not protecting his own authority, but rather usurping the legitimate power of Congress. Further, his assumption that it is within his purview to decide whether a law is constitutional treads on ground that is the clear province of the Supreme Court.Thus far, the Republican congressional leadership has been dismayingly compliant. But one Republican unwilling to let Bush interpret the law as he sees fit is Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Specter, who is pushing legislation to have the closed-door FISA court rule on the constitutionality of Bush's wiretapping program, noted last week that he had filed -- but would not seek an immediate vote on -- an amendment to block funding for any domestic eavesdropping until the administration provides Congress with much more information.It speaks volumes about the attitude of this White House that a member of the president's own party would have to make such a move to protect bedrock constitutional principles.Yet it will probably take something much more dramatic than Specter's tentative threat to remind George W. Bush that he's president, and not king. Scot Lehigh's e-mail address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]. © Copyright 2005 The New York Times
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The Phony War on Drugs the US Gulag System
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- The Phony War on Drugs and the US Gulag System by STEPHEN LENDMAN No, not the one you think, outrageous as it is.I'm referring to the US prison system that's with no exaggeration about as shockingly abusive as the gulag abroad. It qualifies for that label by its size alone - more than 2.1 million as of June, 2004 and growing larger by about 900 new inmates every week. Blacks (mostly poor and disadvantaged) especially are affected. While they make up just 12.3% of the population, they account for half the prison population, and their numbers there have grown fivefold in the last 25 years. Hispanics (also poor) account for another 15%.About half of those incarcerated are there for non-violent offenses, and half of those (500,000) are drug related. But while blacks make up 15% of ilicit drug users, they account for 37% of drug arrests, 42% of drug offenders in federal prison and 62% in state prisons. And Human Rights Watch reported in 2000 that in one third of the states 75% of all prisoners for drug-related offenses are black. In my home state of Illinois they reported the number to be an astonishing 89%, a total exceed by only one other state. Further, in a so-called free society, below the radar are hundreds of political prisoners, mostly people of color, there only because they represent a threat to the state from their pursuit of justice for their people if they were free. Today the US shamelessly has more people behind bars than any other nation including China with over 4 times our population. And things have become especially repressive against those in society least able to defend themselves including immigrants of color and our newest head of the queue demon - Muslims. The Bush administration has made a bad situation far worse taking full advantage of their fear-induced "permanent state of war" and sham "global war on terrorism" to target all those seen as a potential threat to their plan for global dominance and full control at home.Taken as a whole, this is a national disgrace and outrage, but the effect on those targeted is pretty much below the radar, unreported and undiscussed in the mainstream. Who cares about a couple of million mostly poor, mostly people of color (including immigrants, many of whom are undocumented and have no legal rights at all) languishing behind bars out of sight and out of mind. When any of this is discussed, it's to let the (voter eligible) public know our political leaders are "tough on crime" and working to keep us safe. Safe from whom or what? In the words of a great world class journalist, that kind of talk is "what comes out of the rear end of a bull." What's really going on has little to do with public safety but lots to do with controlling a justifiably restive population of poor and desperate people, the inability of those people to afford a proper defense in our so-called criminal justice system stacked against them, and a growing opportunity for big business to profit on human misery.It's a kind of modern day slavery - a growing state and privately run criminal injustice and prison industry using human beings as their product. In this land of opportunity and the "free market", all things (and people) are commodities to be exploited for profit.A GROWTH MARKET OF POOR AND DESPERATE PEOPLE, MOSTLY BLACK AND HISPANIC - A READY RESOURCE FOR THE PRISON GROWTH INDUSTRY The way this country has always treated its least advantaged throughout its history is shameful. British historian Arnold J. Toynbee perceptively understood this in his quote made 46 years ago when he said: "America is today the leader of a world-wide anti-revolutionary movement in the defence of vested interests.? She now stands for what Rome stood for.Rome consistently supported the rich against the poor. and since the poor, so far, have always and everywhere been far more numerous than the rich, Rome's policy made for inequality, for injustice, and for the least happiness of the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Yale-Lilly Experiment: Adolescents Rx Toxic Drug for Presumed Mental Illness They Do Not Have
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Yale-Lilly Experiment: Adolescents Rx Toxic Drug for Presumed Mental Illness They Do Not Have AHRP | May 4 2006 When the Times refers to an experiment as bold and controversial the reporter is sanitizing the fact that the experiment is UNETHICAL—it violates medicine's cardinal rule First, do no harm. The New York Times reports: In recent years, psychiatric researchers have been experimenting with a bold and controversial treatment strategy: they are prescribing drugs to young people at risk for schizophrenia who have not yet developed the full-blown disorder. The article goes on to describe an experiment reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) in which adolescents were treated with a toxic drug for a mental disorder that they did not actually have. [1] This experiment is akin to performing mastectomies on women who are at risk of—but do not have—breast cancer. Because the treatment involves risk, great care must be taken to ensure the risk of the disease exceeds the risk of treatment. The risk of breast cancer in women has been quantified, and patients are able to weigh this risk against the risks and benefits of surgery. Despite the fact that antipsychotic drugs entail serious risks of irreversible harm, no such assessment is offered for this trial. The experiment, sponsored by Eli Lilly, was conducted at Yale University (and 3 added sites, 1997-2003). Sixty adolescents who did not meet any criteria for a diagnosis of mental illness, were prescribed the antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa (olanzapine), raising serious ethical concerns. The speculative premise underlying this experiment is not supported by ANY scientific evidence. The principle investigators, led by Dr. Thomas McGlashan of Yale, speculated—without evidence and without a validated tool for detecting schizophrenia in unsymptomatic individuals--that Zyprexa would be effective in delaying or preventing presumed psychosis and symptoms of schizophrenia. Indeed, the authors of this belated report obliquely acknowledge this limitation: “the study addressed an essentially new clinical entity, which required designing new “prodromal” assessment instruments and a new definition of psychosis onset.” [1, p.797] However, the authors neglect to inform readers what their “new definition of psychosis onset” is. They acknowledge recruitment problems compounded by “the variable fraction of patients with true versus false positive prodromes.” In other words, many adolescents were falsely assessed as at risk of psychosis. The investigators don’t disclose what the inclusion / exclusion criteria were. We would venture to guess that no journal other than in psychiatry would publish a clinical trial report that failed to provide such fundamental information. The report lags three years behind completion of this (admittedly) underpowered, small trial, most likely because the sponsor was reluctant to publish the negative finding: the experiment failed to demonstrate a significant benefit of Zyprexa, and 54.8% of adolescents prescribed Zyprexa compared to 34.5% on placebo refused to complete the study (the 20% difference indicating substantial intolerable safety problems with the drug). [1] The investigators fail to report the adverse events. Disclosing only that adolescents on Zyprexa had acute weight gain—averaging 13% increase in body weight in one year—which they acknowledge may pose a long-term risk for “metabolic syndrome.” (See below American Heart Association) Another highly significant reported finding: “It is striking that all of the olanzapine patients whose symptoms converted to psychosis did so within the first weeks of the clinical trial. These patients were among the most symptomatic.” [1, p. 798] But the authors demonstrate feats of mental acrobatics when they offer implausible explanations for this disturbing finding in an effort to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] WORLD MONEY POWER III
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=17905 WORLD MONEY POWER III Copyright February 2005 Charles Savoie “Moore has the fastest financial mind in existence. He can take a complex financial problem and do it in his head without drawing a breath while talking.” This was spoken by second-generation Pilgrim Society member Walter Bigelow Wriston, chairman of Citibank-Citicorp, 1970-1984, about Pilgrim Society member George Stevens Moore, his predecessor as chairman of the huge bank. The quotation appeared in Fortune, January 1976, page 123. At that time Citicorp had branches in 104 countries. Moore was a director of Credit Suisse White Weld, and of the Harriman-Rockefeller Union Pacific Railroad. Wriston was a director of General Electric; Rand Corporation; Chubb Corporation (insurance); United Meridian Corporation; Fremont Group; York International; ICOS Corporation; AEA Investors; Sequoia Ventures and others. Wriston’s father, who was president of Brown University from 1937-1955, was a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1943-1954, and president of the Pilgrim Society run Council on Foreign Relations, 1953-1964. I would have no definite way to establish membership of any of these three in The Pilgrims, save for the leaked 1969 list! Two of the biggest bankers on planet earth were important enough to hold membership in this organization, and it was too blasted secret for the public to know about! And we know how these megabankers detest metallic money, since they cannot create it! There is far more to be detailed about The Pilgrims---London and New York, than can be done in 2 dozen lengthy articles. However it won’t take so long to examine the most relevant points. If you read the first two articles, you understand that The Pilgrim Society came about as an alliance of big monopolistic rich in the United States and Great Britain. The driving force for the creation of the Society appears to be the British Crown. If you saw “Braveheart” (1995) by Mel Gibson, you saw the King of England reaching out to powerful nobles to make secret alliances with them. England used to own the American Colonies. The fact is it has never given up a disgusting dream of bringing us back under Crown rule. The world is currently locked in a struggle between the forces of “created” money issued by central banks, and a movement to return to the use of true money---gold and silver. The Pilgrims surely own huge amounts of physical gold and in the case of Warren Buffet---very likely a member---physical silver, so that no matter which way the outcome goes, they expect to dominate. The industrial base of the United States has suffered tremendous erosion especially since 1990. China is becoming the new powerhouse in terms of manufacturing capacity. But this is largely due to low labor costs. I suggest that the industrial and financial decline of the United States represents no decline in the wealth and power of members of the Society. Since they wish to abolish all borders, their assets are everywhere. My belief is that Chinese leadership is under direct covert control from New York and London; or, there is a cooperation taking place. The British exploited China for centuries and their desire to maintain control never ends. Baron Beresford, Admiral Charles William de la Poer Beresford (born 1846), a founder of The Pilgrims and close personal friend of King Edward VII (2002 book, page 14), who bombarded Alexandria, Egypt in 1882, authored “The Break-up of China” (1899). His brother, who attended a prep school appropriately located in Stabbington, England, was Military Attaché at the British Embassy in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1898-1903. The financial powers whose base originated in North America joined the British Empire plan before the founding of the Society. Members of The Pilgrims have been active since the very beginning first in bringing the Bolsheviks to power in Russia, in the formation of the U.S.S.R., in its industrial development and its break-up, and in the transition of China first to Communist rule, now mutating into a semi-capitalistic state. Below, Pilgrim Society member William A. Hewitt, who married into the Deere fortune (chairman Deere Company, heavy agricultural machinery), who had close ties to the governments of both the Soviet Union and Red China in that he was a director of both the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade Economic Council and the National Council for U.S.-China Trade--- --cont--- at site ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Fiefdom of the Press
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- In leak cases, new pressure on journalists By ADAM LIPTAK The New York Times, APRIL 30, 2006 http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/30/america/web.0430leak.php## Earlier administrations have fired and prosecuted government officials who provided classified information to the press. They have also tried to force reporters to identify their sources. But the Bush administration is exploring a more radical measure to protect information it says is vital to national security: the criminal prosecution of reporters under the espionage laws.Such an approach would signal a thorough revision of the informal rules of engagement that have governed the relationship between the press and the government for many decades. Leaking in Washington is commonplace and typically entails tolerable risks for government officials and, at worst, the possibility of subpoenas to journalists seeking the identities of sources.But the Bush administration is putting pressure on the press as never before, and it is operating in a judicial climate that seems increasingly receptive to constraints on journalists.In the last year alone, a reporter for The New York Times was jailed for refusing to testify about a confidential source; her source, a White House aide, was prosecuted on charges that he lied about his contacts with reporters; a C.I.A. analyst was dismissed for unauthorized contacts with reporters; and a raft of subpoenas to reporters were largely upheld by the courts.It is not easy to gauge whether the administration will move beyond these efforts to criminal prosecutions of reporters. In public statements and court papers, administration officials have said the law allows such prosecutions and that they will use their prosecutorial discretion in this area judiciously. But there is no indication that a decision to begin such a prosecution has been made. A Justice Department spokeswoman, Tasia Scolinos, declined to comment on Friday.Because such prosecutions of reporters are unknown, they are widely thought inconceivable. But legal experts say that existing laws may well allow holding the press to account criminally. Should the administration pursue the matter, these experts say, it could gain a tool that would thoroughly alter the balance of power between the government and the press.The administration and its allies say that all avenues must be explored to ensure that vital national security information does not fall into the hands of the nation's enemies.In February, Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, asked Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales whether the government's investigation into The Times's disclosure of a National Security Agency eavesdropping program included "any potential violation for publishing that information."Mr. Gonzales responded: "Obviously, our prosecutors are going to look to see all the laws that have been violated. And if the evidence is there, they're going to prosecute those violations."Recent articles in conservative opinion magazines have been even more forceful."The press can and should be held to account for publishing military secrets in wartime," Gabriel Schoenfeld wrote in Commentary magazine last month.Surprising Move by F.B.I.One example of the administration's new approach is the F.B.I.'s recent effort to reclaim classified documents in the files of the late columnist Jack Anderson, a move that legal experts say was surprising if not unheard of."Under the law," Bill Carter, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said earlier this month, "no private person may possess classified documents that were illegally provided to them."Critics of the administration position say that altering the conventional understanding between the press and government could have dire consequences."Once you make the press the defendant rather than the leaker," said David Rudenstine, the dean of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York and a First Amendment scholar, "you really shut down the flow of information because the government will always know who the defendant is."The administration's
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Secret Government Classifies Itself
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Cheney exempts his own office from reporting on classified material BY MARK SILVA Chicago Tribune, April 29, 2006 http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/14462039.htm WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. A standing executive order, strengthened by President Bush in 2003, requires all agencies and "any other entity within the executive branch" to provide an annual accounting of their classification of documents. More than 80 agencies have collectively reported to the National Archives that they made 15.6 million decisions in 2004 to classify information, nearly double the number in 2001, but Cheney continues to insist he is exempt. Explaining why the vice president has withheld even a tally of his office's secrecy when such offices as the National Security Council routinely report theirs, a spokeswoman said Cheney is "not under any duty" to provide it. That is only one way the Bush administration, from its opening weeks in 2001, has asserted control over information. By keeping secret so many directives and actions, the administration has precluded the public - and often members of Congress - from knowing about some of the most significant decisions and acts of the White House. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the administration has based much of its need for confidentiality on the imperative of protecting national security at a time of war. Yet experts say Bush and his closest advisers demonstrated their proclivity for privacy well before Sept. 11: Starting in the early weeks of his administration with a move to protect the papers of former presidents, Bush has clamped down on the release of government documents. That includes tougher standards for what the public can obtain under the Freedom of Information Act and the creation of a broad new category of "sensitive but unclassified information." Not only has the administration reported a dramatic increase in the number of documents deemed "top secret," "secret" or "confidential," the president has authorized the reclassification of information that was public for years. An audit by a National Archives office recently found that the CIA acted in a "clearly inappropriate" way regarding about one-third of the documents it reclassified last year. The White House has resisted efforts by Congress to gain information, starting with a White House energy task force headed by Cheney and continuing with the president's secret authorization of warrantless surveillance of people inside the United States suspected of communicating with terrorists abroad. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., recently threatened to withhold funding for the surveillance program unless the White House starts providing information. The administration has withheld the identities of, and accusations against, detainees held in its war on terror, and it censored the findings of a joint House-Senate committee that investigated the events leading to Sept. 11, including a 27-page blackout of Saudi Arabia's alleged connections to the terrorists. While maintaining a disciplined and virtually leakproof White House, senior members of the administration have been accused of leaking information to punish a critic of the war in Iraq. The grand jury testimony of a former White House aide reportedly asserts that Bush himself selectively authorized release of once-classified information to counter criticism. A tension has always existed between the presidency and the public, with concerns about security and confidentiality competing with the public's right to know about its government. But the balance seems to be tipping toward secrecy in a more pronounced way than at any time in the past three decades. "Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their government," Bush said in his executive order on classified
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Moussaoui a Psychotic Patsy under FBI Control; Show Trial is Unconstitutional, Experts Say
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Moussaoui a Psychotic Patsy under FBI Control; Show Trial is Unconstitutional, Experts Say Download this press release as an Adobe PDF document.Witness tampering, faked evidence, inflammatory testimony display political motives and confirm Charlie Sheen's concerns, experts claim. Washington, DC (PRWEB) April 21, 2006 -- The trial holding Zacarias Moussaoui responsible for the horrors of 9/11 has all the marks of a political charade, according to Scholars for 9/11 Truth, a society of experts devoted to exposing falsehoods and establishing truths about the events of that day. "Even the most basic elements of due process have been violated," according to James H. Fetzer, its founder and co-chair, "by failing to prove that the accused had anything to do with 9/11. What we are seeing here tends to substantiate Charlie Sheen's allegations."Fetzer insists there has been a clever ruse to confuse the jury by using a confession to one plot as though it were evidence of complicity in another. As The New York Times (April 27, 2005) reported, Moussaoui "confessed" to having been involved in a plot to fly a plane into the White House to free Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who is serving a life sentence for terrorist acts. He denied that he was part of the 9/11 attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. A Judicial "Shell Game"The mentally instable Moussaoui has now "confessed" that he and shoe-bomber Richard Reid were going to hijack a fifth aircraft and fly it into the White House, which was not the plot of which he was convicted. The Scholars believe government prosecutors have been playing a deceptive "shell game" by tying him to 9/11. Even the FBI has expressed doubts about Moussaoui's new version of events, since Reid left a will naming Moussaoui as his beneficiary, which was very odd if they were going to participate in a suicide mission together. The government claims Moussaoui should be put to death for failing to report everything he knew about 9/11, which it claims would have saved lives. "This is blatantly unconstitutional," says 9/11 Truth Scholar Webster Tarpley. "Under the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, nobody can be prosecuted for a failure to incriminate themselves.'" "This entire trial has been a farce," says Fetzer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. "Government prosecutors have contaminated witnesses, elicited testimony they cannot corroborate, and -- according to multiple reports -- even forced Moussaoui to wear a 'stun belt'. 50,000 volts should be enough to keep anyone from straying from the script," he said. "It is very difficult to imagine how testimony taken under duress is admissible."The 9/11 Truth MovementThe fast-growing, over 200-member strong society is only the tip of an iceberg of a "9/11 Truth" movement which has produced dozens of books and scores of websites assailing the official version of 9/11. According to those involved, it's an uphill battle. John Leonard, a member of S9/11T and the publisher of several books on 9/11, including one by Webster Tarpley, insists that at least one basic element of the "9/11 Truth" idea can be conveyed in less than a minute, but he finds most Americans have psychological barriers to it. "When we hit a fact that contradicts our world view, we usually pause, rationalize it and keep going. But sometimes we stumble onto something and want to dig deeper. That's where 9/11 researchers get started." Psychologists describe the resistance to ideas that threaten our sense of security as "cognitive dissonance", which can occur when, for example, a mother discovers evidence her husband has been molesting their daughter. To demonstrate his position, Leonard asks people to consider three points: First, as the video-clip on this page (wtc7.gif) reveals, when WTC-7, a 47-story building that was not hit by any airplane, collapsed at 5:20 PM on 9/11, it displayed all of the signs of a controlled demolition, including sudden and complete collapse at virtually the rate
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Reefer madnessMarijuana, the medical miracle
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Reefer madness Apr 27th 2006From The Economist print edition Marijuana is medically useful, whether politicians like it or not Getty ImagesIF CANNABIS were unknown, and bioprospectors were suddenly to find it in some remote mountain crevice, its discovery would no doubt be hailed as a medical breakthrough. Scientists would praise its potential for treating everything from pain to cancer, and marvel at its rich pharmacopoeiamany of whose chemicals mimic vital molecules in the human body. In reality, cannabis has been with humanity for thousands of years and is considered by many governments (notably America's) to be a dangerous drug without utility. Any suggestion that the plant might be medically useful is politically controversial, whatever the science says. It is in this context that, on April 20th, America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement saying that smoked marijuana has no accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. The statement is curious in a number of ways. For one thing, it overlooks a report made in 1999 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the National Academy of Sciences, which came to a different conclusion. John Benson, a professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska who co-chaired the committee that drew up the report, found some sound scientific information that supports the medical use of marijuana for certain patients for short periodseven for smoked marijuana. This is important, because one of the objections to marijuana is that, when burned, its smoke contains many of the harmful things found in tobacco smoke, such as carcinogenic tar, cyanide and carbon monoxide. Yet the IOM report supports what some patients suffering from multiple sclerosis, AIDS and cancerand their doctorshave known for a long time. This is that the drug gives them medicinal benefits over and above the medications they are already receiving, and despite the fact that the smoke has risks. That is probably why several studies show that many doctors recommend smoking cannabis to their patients, even though they are unable to prescribe it. Patients then turn to the black market for their supply. Another reason the FDA statement is odd is that it seems to lack common sense. Cannabis has been used as a medicinal plant for millennia. In fact, the American government actually supplied cannabis as a medicine for some time, before the scheme was shut down in the early 1990s. Today, cannabis is used all over the world, despite its illegality, to relieve pain and anxiety, to aid sleep, and to prevent seizures and muscle spasms. For example, two of its long-advocated benefits are that it suppresses vomiting and enhances appetitequalities that AIDS patients and those on anti-cancer chemotherapy find useful. So useful, in fact, that the FDA has licensed a drug called Marinol, a synthetic version of one of the active ingredients of marijuanadelta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Unfortunately, many users of Marinol complain that it gets them high (which isn't what they actually want) and is not nearly as effective, nor cheap, as the real weed itself. This may be because Marinol is ingested into the stomach, meaning that it is metabolised before being absorbed. Or it may be because the medicinal benefits of cannabis come from the synergistic effect of the multiplicity of chemicals it contains. Just what have you been smoking? THC is the best known active ingredient of cannabis, but by no means the only one. At the last count, marijuana was known to contain nearly 70 different cannabinoids, as THC and its cousins are collectively known. These chemicals activate receptor molecules in the human body, particularly the cannabinoid receptors on the surfaces of some nerve cells in the brain, and stimulate changes in biochemical activity. But the details often remain vaguein particular, the details of which molecules are having which clinical
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Damaged US National Security
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- MSNBC: Plame Leak Hurt Ability to Spy on Iran for WMD Includes Newest Video of Valerie Plame-Wilson http://www.bradblog.com/archives/2764.htm Includes Newest Video of Valerie Plame-WilsonGuest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format... Video in Windows Media format... Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.comVideo in Streaming Flash format...Video in Windows Media format...Shuster attended the White House Correspondent's Dinner. He was able to get a short interview with Joe Wilson. Republican operatives have renewed their baseless claim that Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity was not classified. For her part, Valerie Plame-Wilson stood silently by as her husband rejected the well used right-wing talking point.More importantly, David Shuster reports that sources have told him how National Security was damaged when Valerie Plame-Wilson's identity was leaked by the White House. His sources say that she worked with gathering intelligence on Weapons of Mass Destruction. The outing of her name specifically damaged the ability to collect intelligence on Iran's nuclear capabilities. ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Denmark: Two journalist s indicted for reporting on Iraq intellige nce
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- http://www.cpj.org/news/2006/europe/denmark01may06na.html DENMARK: Two journalists indicted for reporting on Iraq intelligence New York, May 1, 2006The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by the criminal charges brought against two Danish reporters accused of leaking state secrets by publishing intelligence reports that questioned the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Danish journalists say it is the first time that reporters have been indicted in their country for leaking state secrets, Agence France-Presse reported. A state prosecutor announced April 27 that Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen of the conservative Copenhagen daily Berlingske Tidende had been charged in connection with a series of articles published between February and March of 2004 that said the Danish Intelligence Service had found no evidence that ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The articles embarrassed Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen by showing that he had ignored the assessments of his own intelligence service to support the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Bjerre and Larsen face up to two years in prison if convicted, AFP said. Journalists have a duty to publish information of such obvious public interest, and should not be criminally charged for leaks from government agencies, said CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper. We call on the state prosecutor to drop all charges against our colleagues Michael Bjerre and Jesper Larsen immediately. Berlingske Tidende editor-in-chief Niels Lunde said the newspaper had the right to publish the classified information, and he expects his reporters to be acquitted, the state broadcaster Danmarks Radio reported. Frank Grevil, an intelligence officer who admitted leaking the reports to Bjerre and Jesper, spent four months in prison after being convicted in November 2004. © 2006 Committee to Protect Journalists. http://www.cpj.org E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net/ Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected by Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy News for OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor and discussion mod Yahoo! Groups Links ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] White House: Secret S ervice logs on Abramoff visits may not show all
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4848461 White House: Secret Service logs on Abramoff visits may not show all WHITE HOUSE The White House says Secret Service records may not reveal all of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff's contact with Bush administration officials. The agency has agreed to turn over White House visitor logs showing when Abramoff met officials and who he met. White House spokesman Scott McClellan says he wouldn't view it as a complete historical record. He says he doesn't know exactly what the records will reveal. McClellan says Abramoff attended holiday receptions at the White House in 2001 and 2002 and some other staff-level meetings. But he says there might be other large events the lobbyist attended. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net/ Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories, comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) reliable sources, but also a lot of possible misinformation collected by Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy News for OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly to journalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for their story writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace. To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor and discussion mod Yahoo! Groups Links ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The GOPranos: Thug Rule
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- May 01, 2006 http://ostroyreport.blogspot.com/2006/05/al-gores-daughter-says-rethuglican-mob.html Al Gore's Daughter Says ReTHUGlican Mob Harassed Family at VP Mansion in 2000 Remember the ugly "Brooks Brothers riot" of 2000, where ReTHUGlicans from out-of-state waved fists, chanted "Stop the fraud!" and pounded windows to intimidate officials in the Florida recount effort? According to Monday's NY Post Page Six column, former vice-president Al Gore's daughter Karenna said that similar aggressive intimidation tactics were perpetrated outside the veep's mansion that same year. In an interview she gave in the May issue of Avenue Magazine, Gore said "the rancor was overwhelming at times...There was this horrible mob outside the vice president's house that was recruited by political operatives. They just kept yelling 'Get out of Cheney's house.' That was really painful and rude." It's astounding that the harassment of these disruptive mobs was allowed unchecked. I'd like to know what the Democratic leadership is doing to prevent a repeat performance. Regarding his daughter, when told by the mag's editor Pamela Gross that she'd be gracing the cover, Gore quipped "If I had half the communications skills of Karenna, I'd be halfway through my second term right now." ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Mad Hatters Content at the Fed; US Dollar Down the Rabbit-Hole
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Is the US dollar's shift the start of something nasty? By Graham Searjeant, Financial Editor The Times (UK), April 25, 2006 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2150322,00.html THE dollar lurched sideways on the foreign exchanges yesterday in what optimists hope will herald a smooth adjustment but pessimists fear could be the start of something nasty. The US currency slid 1.4 per cent against the yen, but slipped only marginally and fitfully against other main currencies. The imbalance threatening the world economy, all agreed at the IMF’s weekend meetings, is between America and China. The former’s imports top its exports by the largest margin in history. China has accumulated the biggest pile of currency reserves ever known in less time than it takes to train a doctor. To cajole China into resolving this syndrome by allowing the yuan to rise meaningfully, the IMF talked of the dollar needing to fall against Asian surplus currencies rather than just the people’s yuan. The dollar cannot move against the yuan more than the fingers in a glove without a specific order from Beijing. So it moved against the yen, which acted as both a proxy and a hint. Japan’s recovery is still provisional, so sharp yen gains could still hurt. But the dollar fell below 104 yen at the start of 2005 so yesterday’s 114.5 yen is well outside the danger zone. Against sterling, the dollar was infinitesimally off in London, though more discernibly later in New York. It fell to a seven-month low against the euro. Unless the yuan rises by a large multiple of such movements, imbalances will be untouched. And if the dollar starts rolling downhill, it could set off capital movements that would drive financial markets and commodity speculation into paroxysm. Officials hope for a tai chi dollar devaluation, not a kung fu collapse. --- Dollar falls as Fed chief speaks out By Gary Duncan The Times (UK), April 28, 2006 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2155194,00.html THE dollar tumbled and American shares and bonds leapt yesterday after the Chairman of the Federal Reserve reinforced market confidence that it would stop pushing for rises in interest rates. Ben Bernanke gave his first clear signal that the Fed, at its meeting on May 10, is set to pause in its 22-month drive to keeping US interest rates moving upwards. Speaking to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress, he said: “At some point in the future, the (Fed)may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interests of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.” While the Fed chief was careful to emphasise that any pause “does no preclude action at subsequent meetings”, his remarks left markets betting on an early rate peak. In early trading the Dow Jones industrial average jumped to a new six-year high while the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained more than 1 per cent. US Treasury bonds also rose sharply, triggering the steepest fall in yields on the two-year note since last August. The dollar succumbed to a renewed sell-off, pushing both the euro and the pound to their highest levels since last September, with sterling climbing above $1.80. -- Dollar slides despite boom in US growth By Gary Duncan, Economics Editor The Times (UK), April 29, 2006http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2156590,00.html THE US economy roared back from a lacklustre year-end in 2005 to grow at its fastest pace in 2½ years during the first quarter, in an expansion fuelled by booming government spending and business investment. The strength of the figures failed to prevent a renewed dollar sell-off, however, as the 4.8 per cent annual pace of growth in the first three months of the year fell short of forecasts, fuelling expectations that the Federal Reserve will soon call a halt to its campaign of interest-rate rises. The dollar dropped to an 11-month low against the euro, and also fell further against the pound and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Big Lies
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lie THE BIG LIE The phrase Big Lie refers to a propaganda technique which entered mass consciousness with Adolf Hitler's 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf. In that book Hitler wrote that people came to believe that Germany lost World War I in the field due to a propaganda technique used by Jews who were influential in the German press. This technique, he believed, consisted of telling a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe anyone "could have the[audacity] to distort the truth so infamously". The first documented use of the phrase "big lie" is in the corresponding passage: "in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility".¹ Later, Joseph Goebbels put forth a slightly different theory which has come to be more commonly associated with the phrase big lie. In this theory, the English are attributed with using a propaganda technique wherein they had the mendacity to "lie big" and "stick to it".² There is an uncited rumor to the effect that Goebbels also offered up his version of the big lie technique without attributing it to either Jewish or Allied propaganda. That uncited quote is the most wide-spread attribution of the big lie, and it is usually given in a context where the implication is that the propaganda technique was invented by Goebbels, who was the propaganda minister for the Third Reich.³ The phrase was also used (on page 51) in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological profile [1] His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it. -- OSS report page 51 [2] Mein Kampf extract Hitler wrote in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf (James Murphy translation, page 134): "All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because themassesare always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down --a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes. ..." Churchill's Lie Factory extract Goebbels wrote the following paragraph in an article dated 12 January 1941, 16 years after Hitler's first use of the phrase big lie, entitled "Aus Churchills Lügenfabrik," translated "From Churchill's Lie Factory." It was published in Die Zeit ohne Beispiel (Munich: Zentralverlag der NSDAP., 1941), pp. 364-369. An excellent on-line resource for Nazi propaganda is the German Propaganda Archive of Calvin College [4]. The following speech excerpt is referenced from the GPA. "That is of course rather painful for those involved. One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend onintelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Sudden Increase in Number of Cases of FBI Spying on US Citizens
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- FBI Investigated 3,501 People Without Warrants Received Details From Banks, Credit Card, Telephone and Internet Companies By MARK SHERMAN, AP WASHINGTON (April 29) - The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday. It was the first time the Bush administration has publicly disclosed how often it uses the administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter, which allows the executive branch of government to obtain records about people in terrorism and espionage investigations without a judge's approval or a grand jury subpoena. Friday's disclosure was mandated as part of the renewal of the Patriot Act, the administration's sweeping anti-terror law. The FBI delivered a total of 9,254 NSLs relating to 3,501 people in 2005, according to a report submitted late Friday to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and Senate. In some cases, the bureau demanded information about one person from several companies. The numbers from previous years remain classified, officials said. The department also reported it received a secret court's approval for 155 warrants to examine business records last year under a Patriot Act provision that includes library records. However, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said the department has never used the provision to ask for library records. The number was a significant jump over past use of the warrant for business records. A year ago, Gonzales told Congress there had been [only] 35 warrants approved between November 2003 and April 2005.The spike [may be] because the Patriot Act renewal signed in March has made it easier for authorities to obtain subscriber information on telephone numbers captured through certain wiretaps. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the same panel that signs off on applications for business records warrants, also approved 2,072 special warrants last year for secret wiretaps and searches of suspected terrorists and spies. The record number is more than twice as many as were issued in 2000, the last full year before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The FBI security letters have been the subject of legal battles in two federal courts because, until the Patriot Act changes, recipients were barred from telling anyone about them. Ann Beeson, the associate legal counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said the report to Congress "confirms our fear all along that National Security Letters are being used to get the records of thousands of innocent Americans without court approval." The number disclosed Friday excludes requests for subscriber information, an exception written into the law. It was unclear how many FBI letters were not counted for that reason. ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Looking for Some Heroin? Talk to Your Guest Worker
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Mexico to decriminalize pot, cocaine and heroin By Noel Randewich Fri Apr 28, 6:51 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060428/ts_nm/mexico_drugs_dc; _ylt=Auatrizkr4ElioARi.weNk3fB2YD;_ylu=X3oDMTA4b3FrcXQ0BHNlYwMxNjkz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Possessing marijuana, cocaine and even heroin will no longer be a crime in Mexico if the drugs are carried in small amounts for personal use, under legislation passed by Congress. The measure given final passage by senators in a late night session on Thursday allows police to focus on their battle against major drug dealers, the government says, and President Vicente Fox is expected to sign it into law. "This law provides more judicial tools for authorities to fight crime," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said on Friday. The measure was approved earlier by the lower house. Under the legislation, police will not penalize people for possessing up to 5 grams of marijuana, 5 grams of opium, 25 milligrams of heroin or 500 milligrams of cocaine. People caught with larger quantities of drugs will be treated as narcotics dealers and face increased jail terms under the plan. The legal changes will also decriminalize the possession of limited quantities of other drugs, including LSD, hallucinogenic mushrooms, amphetamines and peyote -- a psychotropic cactus found in Mexico's northern deserts. The legislation came as a surprise to Washington, which counts on Mexico's support in its war against drug smuggling gangs who move massive quantities of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamines through Mexico to U.S. consumers. A delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives visited Mexico last week and met with senior officials to discuss drug control issues, but was told nothing of the planned legislative changes, said Michelle Gress, a House subcommittee counsel who was part of the visiting team. "We were not informed," she told Reuters. HARDENED CRIMINALS Hundreds of people, including many police officers, have been killed in Mexico in the past year as drug cartels battle for control of lucrative smuggling routes into the United States. The violence has raged mostly in northern Mexico but in recent months has spread south to cities like vacation resort Acapulco. Under current law, it is up to local judges and police to decide on a case-by-case basis whether people should be prosecuted for possessing small quantities of drugs, a source at the Senate's health commission told Reuters. "The object of this law is to not put consumers in jail, but rather those who sell and poison," said Sen. Jorge Zermeno of the ruling National Action Party. Fifty-three senators voted for the bill with 26 votes against. Hector Michel Camarena, an opposition senator from the Institutional Revolutionary Party, warned that although well intentioned, the law may go too far. "There are serious questions we have to carefully analyze so that through our spirit of fighting drug dealing, we don't end up legalizing," he said. "We have to get rid of the concept of the (drug) consumer." (Additional reporting by Anahi Rama) ---End Message---
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Post Scandal Reflects The Murdoch Method
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- Post Scandal Reflects The Murdoch Method http://www.issuesandalibis.org/On the remarkable videotape that shows Jared Paul Stern allegedly trying to shake down California billionaire Ronald Burkle, the New York Post gossip writer explains succinctly to his prospective client how his world works. If you make "friends" with the powerful gossips who operate Page Six by paying them or their loved ones, then your future will include fewer bad items and more good items. "It's a little bit like the Mafia," says Mr. Stern on the soundtrack, echoing a similar remark made last year by a fired Page Six reporter. Such preening babble lacks subtlety but still points toward a significant truth. Whether the Post is as corruptible as the Stern tape sensationally suggests or not, there can be no doubt that proprietor Rupert Murdoch has long used the News Corporation's assets to reward his friends and punish his enemies. His company isn't a criminal enterprise, but he has often skirted the appearance of sleaze and worse. So any wayward tough guys who have worked for him may only be emulating the godfather's dubious example. To comprehend Mr. Murdoch's unsavory stewardship of his media empire, it is worth looking back to the earliest years following his arrival in the United States. From the very beginning, he shamelessly abused the Post's pages to promote politicians he liked and denigrate those he didn't, as he still does today with all his news outlets. The first inkling of something even worse came during the late winter of 1980. Jimmy Carter, the incumbent President challenged by the insurgent liberal candidacy of Senator Edward Kennedy, badly needed to win the critical Democratic primary in New York. Mr. Murdoch, owner of Ansett Airlines, a troubled Australian aviation company, badly needed a cheap government loan to buy new planes from Boeing. On Feb. 19, 1980, Mr. Murdoch visited Washington, D.C., to meet with the chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a federal agency that loans money to finance foreign purchases of American products. (That was well before the Australian-born press lord sought U.S. citizenship so that he could legally buy up American broadcasting properties.) After pleading his case for corporate welfare, he went to the White House for lunch with Mr. Carter. Three days later, on Feb. 22, the Post endorsed the Democratic President on the front page (a decision abruptly rescinded in the fall when the paper rudely dumped Mr. Carter and backed Ronald Reagan.) And six days after that endorsement appeared, the Ex-Im Bank approved a $290 million loan to Ansett Airlines on easy terms. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join That happy series of coincidences soon drew the attention of the Senate Banking Committee, where Mr. Murdoch and other witnesses swore that the loan had nothing to do with the endorsement. The Post publisher conceded that the circumstances could be "misconstrued," however, and said he would avoid such mistakes in the future. It was a touching vow, made with the same sincerity as a promise by Tony Soprano to quit loan-sharking. A long list of prominent politicians have benefited from the largesse of the Murdoch empire since that embarrassing day so long ago. In the world capitals where the Post endorsement doesn't mean much, and where Mr. Murdoch seeks tax breaks, regulatory favors and broadcasting licenses, the media mogul can bestow other reciprocal rewards. Over the years, his companies have handed out lucrative book contracts to such political eminences as Margaret Thatcher, Newt Gingrich, Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev (for separate his-and-hers memoirs), and Boris Yeltsin. The Thatcher government coddled him by overlooking potential regulatory restrictions on two of News Corp.'s most important acquisitions, The Times of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 'Jack Bauer' Bush Rummy By Robert Parry
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- 'Jack Bauer' Bush Rummy By Robert Parry Like the plot from this year's TV terrorism drama "24," suspicions over who's at fault for a real-life string of U.S. military and political disasters have swirled around top administration officials before settling on the ultimate culprit: an arrogant, self-centered President who has put in motion dangerous forces that he can't control. This season's "24" may not be an intentional case of art imitating life. But there are striking similarities between the fictional President Charles Logan and President George W. Bush - as well as in the dilemma the nation faces containing the damage caused by an in-over-his-head Chief Executive. But there are differences, too. In the "24" plot, counter-terrorism agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) turns over evidence to Defense Secretary James Heller in a bid to thwart President Logan. In real America, a half dozen retired generals call for the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld when the preponderance of blame should land on Bush. The real-life generals fault Rumsfeld for invading Iraq without a coherent strategy for achieving a reasonable result, without sufficient force levels to secure the country, and without enough body armor and protective vehicles for U.S. troops to withstand the favorite insurgent tactic of using improvised explosive devices along roadways.Some of the retired generals also say the stalemate in Iraq - and the anger it has stirred throughout the Middle East - have undermined the global war on terrorism. "I do not believe Secretary Rumsfeld is the right person to fight that war based on his absolute failures in managing the war against Saddam (Hussein) in Iraq," retired Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack Jr. told the New York Times. [NYT, April 14, 2006] In seeking Rumsfeld's ouster, Swannack joined five other retired generals who all served in the Bush administration: Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, Lt. Gen. Gregory Newbold, Maj. Gen. John Batiste, Maj. Gen. John Riggs, and Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni. So far, Bush has refused to consider replacing Rumsfeld.The revolt of the generals also reveals broader fears about Bush's proclivity to use the military to resolve tricky diplomatic problems. Bush, who like many of his top advisers avoided military service in Vietnam, tends to see the world in cinematic black-and-white - "good versus evil" - rather than in the subtler grays of real life. In an essay in Time magazine, Gen. Newbold said the decision to invade Iraq, a country peripheral to the War on Terror, "was done with a casualness and swagger that are the special province of those who have never had to execute these missions - or bury the results." Time, dated April 15, 2006. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/joinClick to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join Iran Subtext But beyond the retired generals' disgust over how the Iraq War was waged, their extraordinary complaints have another unstated subtext - the Pentagon's growing alarm over Bush's rapidly advancing plans for attacking Iran. Those plans reportedly include an option for using tactical nuclear weapons. As investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reported in The New Yorker, a number of senior U.S. officers are troubled by administration war planners who believe "bunker-busting" tactical nuclear weapons, known as B61-11s, are the only way to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities buried deep underground. "Every other option, in the view of the nuclear weaponeers, would leave a gap," a former senior intelligence official told Hersh. "'Decisive' is the key word of the Air Force's planning. It's a tough decision. But we made it in Japan."This former official said the White House has refused to remove the nuclear option from the plans despite objections from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "Whenever anybody tries to get it out, they're shouted down," the ex-official told Hersh. New Yorker, dated April 17, 2006. Indeed, the six retired generals may have demonstrated as much frankness as can be expected in seeking Rumfeld's resignation. In Washington, political scapegoating is a time-honored tradition because demanding that the President take responsibility for national catastrophes is often viewed as too extreme or too disruptive. So, instead of fingering Bush and other policy architects like Vice President Dick Cheney, the retired generals
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Mary O the 98s
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ THE NEWS April 24, 2006 -- WMR has received information from a veteran member of the U.S. Intelligence Community that the firing of CIA Inspector General (IG) officer, 61-year old CIA veteran Mary O. McCarthy, was the result of a White House-launched political vendetta designed to ferret out pro- Democrats in the CIA. The source also revealed that McCarthy, who was fired rather than being permitted to resign, is almost certain to write a tell-all book that will reveal even more misconduct and illegal activity, in addition to secret prisons and rendition flights, on the part of the Bush administration and CIA director Porter Goss. These may include CIA drug smuggling activities to support off-the-books operations and targeted assassinations. McCarthy, as an IG officer, would have known about all CIA misdeeds reported through her office. Inside sources report that McCarthy must have ran afoul of the Bush administration early on. After serving as a National Intelligence Officer and liaison to the White House National Security Council, it was clear that McCarthy was purposely kept out of clandestine operations, science and technology operations, and analysis. Instead of being assigned to writing CIA histories or arranging for special guest visits, where she could have been kept under surveillance by security, McCarthy was placed within the IG. However, if retaliation against McCarthy was the goal of the White House, assigning McCarthy to the IG turned out to be the worst thing the Bush team could have done. There, McCarthy was able to amass complaints about abuse and other activities from scores of CIA agents -- information that was later leaked to the media. There is still no confirmation that McCarthy was the leaker, however, the fact that she had already been reassigned from mainstream CIA operations and supposedly failed a polygraph, made her a convenient target for the Bush administration. Politicizing the CIA for Bush -- professionals counter-attack with leaks and stories linking Bush, Sr. and Goss to past drug smuggling. An intelligence professional who knows McCarthy reports that she discovered sensational illegal activities by the CIA and was stymied by the Inspector General senior management. McCarthy is said by a colleague to be a devout Catholic who must have bent the rules only out of religious impulses and a high degree of frustration. The intelligence community source also confirmed past CIA activities in drug smuggling, which have now been resumed by Porter Goss. Three CIA proprietary airlines that flew in Laos during the Indochina war flew heroin from the Golden Triangle in Burma to South Vietnamese and American intermediaries for street distribution to U.S. troops in South Vietnam. The CIA proprietary airlines involved were Air America, Byrd and Sons, and Continental Air Services, Inc. (CASI). CASI, based in Vientiane, Laos, flew the most lucrative aircraft for hauling large amounts of heroin -- ironically, the Swiss-built Pilatus Porter -- which could haul large amounts of drugs, 15 armed men, and land uphill on remote airstrips in Laos. Porter Goss was a clandestine CIA officer in Latin America during the height of the CIA's illegal drug smuggling activities. The current leaks of information about renewed CIA drug smuggling activities are clearly an attempt by some CIA professionals to link Goss to past illegal activities. April 24, 2006 -- Iraq war architect Paul Wolfowitz, who helped craft the suspension of military aid to countries that refused to exempt U.S. military personnel from prosecution by the International Criminal Court, has used his position as World Bank President to reward with debt relief those nations that signed the exemption agreements, so-called Bilateral Immunity Agreements, or Article 98s, with the United States. Wolfowitz was the subject of a puff piece in yesterday's Washington Post as part of a campaign to makeover his war hawk image. But Wolfowitz's actions at the World Bank demonstrate he still takes his orders from his right-wing neocon friends in the White House and Pentagon. The countries granted debt relief that signed the Article 98s with the United States, include Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guyana, Honduras, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia. Three countries that have not signed Article 98s with the United States -- Mali, Niger, and Tanzania -- are under intense pressure to do so and the Wolfowitz debt relief action may be a tool to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Potheads and Sudafed
Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. ---BeginMessage--- April 25, 2006OP-ED COLUMNISTPotheads and SudafedBy JOHN TIERNEYPolice officers in the 1960's were fond of bumper stickers reading: "The next time you get mugged, call a hippie." Doctors today could use a variation: "The next time you're in pain, call a narc."Washington's latest prescription for patients in pain is the statement issued last week by the Food and Drug Administration on the supposed evils of medical marijuana. The F.D.A. is being lambasted, rightly, by scientists for ignoring some evidence that marijuana can help severely ill patients. But it's the kind of statement given by a hostage trying to please his captors, who in this case are a coalition of Republican narcs on Capitol Hill, in the White House and at the Drug Enforcement Administration.They've been engaged in a long-running war to get the F.D.A. to abandon some of its quaint principles, like the notion that it's not fair to deny a useful drug to patients just because a few criminals might abuse it. The agency has also dared to suggest that there should be a division of labor when it comes to drugs: scientists and doctors should figure out which ones work for patients, and narcotics agents should catch people who break drug laws.The drug cops want everyone to share their mission. They think that doctors and pharmacists should catch patients who abuse painkillers — and that if the doctors or pharmacists aren't good enough detectives, they should go to jail for their naïveté.This month, pharmacists across the country are being forced to lock up another menace to society: cold medicine. Allergy and cold remedies containing pseudoephedrine, a chemical that can illegally be used to make meth, must now be locked behind the counter under a provision in the new Patriot Act.Don't ask what meth has to do with the war on terror. Not even the most ardent drug warriors have been able to establish an Osama-Sudafed link.The F.D.A. opposed these restrictions for pharmacies because they'll drive up health care costs and effectively prevent medicine from reaching huge numbers of people (Americans suffer a billion colds per year). These costs are undeniable, but it's unclear that there are any net benefits.In states that previously enacted their own restrictions, the police report that meth users simply switched from making their own to buying imported drugs that were stronger — and more expensive, so meth users commit more crimes to pay for their habit.The Sudafed law gives you a preview of what's in store if Representative Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, succeeds in giving the D.E.A. a role in deciding which new drugs get approved. So far, despite a temporary success last year, he hasn't been able to impose this policy, but the F.D.A.'s biggest fear is that Congress will let the drug police veto new medications. In that case, who would ever develop a better painkiller? The benefits to patients would never outweigh the potential inconvenience to the police.Officially, the D.E.A. says it wants patients to get the best medicine. But look at what it's done to scientists trying to study medical marijuana. They've gotten approval for their experiments from the F.D.A., but they can't get the high-quality marijuana they need because the D.E.A. won't allow it to be grown. The F.D.A. actually wants to know if the drug works, but the D.E.A. is following the just-say-know-nothing strategy: as long as researchers can't study marijuana, they can't come up with evidence that it's effective.And as long as there's no conclusive evidence that medical marijuana works, the D.E.A. and its allies on Capitol Hill can go on blindly fighting it. Representative Mark Souder, the Indiana Republican who's the most rabid drug warrior in Congress, has been pressuring the F.D.A. to crack down on medical marijuana. Last week the agency finally relented: in return for not having to start busting anyone, it issued a statement stressing the potential dangers and lack of extensive clinical trials establishing medical marijuana's effectiveness.The statement was denounced as a victory of politics over science, but it's hard to see what political good it does the Republican Party.Locking up crack and meth dealers is popular, but voters take a different view of cancer patients who swear by marijuana. Medical marijuana has been approved in referendums in four states that went red in 2004: Nevada, Montana, Colorado and Alaska. For G.O.P. voters fed up with their party's current big-government philosophy, the latest medical treatment from Washington's narcs is one more reason to stay home this November.Copyright 2006 The New York Times
[cia-drugs] Mexican writer's book on pedophiles exposes abuses, and puts her in peril
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2006/04/wont-you-come-home-reno-harnish.html#comments Anonymous said... Repressed sexually society exhibits these traits Russian psychologist, Ivan Pavlov conducted a series of experiments on dogs. Most of us are familiar with the theory of conditioning, taught in Psychology 1001. Dogs were given food after a bell was rung. The bell, after several times, caused the dog to salivate (anticipate food), whether or not the food followed. The sound produced hunger in the dog. Two separate stimuli, applied within seconds of each other will create an involuntary response in the brain. Many of his experiments went beyond the conditioning. He was able to produce nervous breakdowns in dogs and other animals, again, by association. The hungry animal would go for the food and he would apply painful shocks, extremely loud noises, blasts of scorching heat or other stimuli creating a survival verses fear/pain situation. This created neurosis and mental illness in the animals, in the same way ALL societys has ruined the mental health of billions by enforcing the abstinence of sexual intercourse and denying other normal and natural needs. Sexuality is equal to the life force; abstinence creates neuroticism. That is why it everywhere. Mexican writer's book on pedophiles exposes abuses, and puts her in peril By S. Lynne Walker COPLEY NEWS SERVICE April 4, 2006 CANCUN, Mexico – The moment that changed journalist Lydia Cacho's life came on a humid, moonless night in the tropical resort of Cancun. A 19-year-old, her voice broken by sobs, repeated to Cacho what she had told police. A Cancun businessman had sexually abused her for years, she said, and her younger sister had been molested at the man's oceanfront villa, too. LUIS J. JIMÉNEZ / Copley News Service Journalist Lydia Cacho left a Cancun jail last month, followed by a federal agent assigned to protect her. Cacho must register often to show she has not skipped bail on libel charges. The girl's accusations – and Cacho's response – set into motion a series of events that has exposed a tangled web of wealth and power reaching across Mexico. The Cancun businessman, Jean Succar Kuri, has been jailed for two years in Arizona, fighting extradition to Mexico. The governor of Puebla state is being pressured to resign. And Cacho is facing criminal libel charges that could send her to prison. Cacho, the 42-year-old author of a book published last year about a network of pedophiles, has become as much a part of the story as the children she set out to save. The founder of a battered women's shelter in Cancun, Cacho found herself in a harsh and unwelcome spotlight when she published allegations of rape and child pornography against Succar, 61, a Lebanese national who is a legal U.S. resident and owns three homes in Southern California. Cacho, who studied at the Sorbonne and speaks four languages, included graphic interviews with Succar's alleged victims. Some said they met Succar when they were as young as 5 years old. Her book, “The Demons of Eden,” also detailed a covertly filmed conversation released by Mexican law enforcement in which Succar acknowledges to one of his alleged victims that fondling little girls is his “vice.” Cacho's work sparked a nationwide controversy and a strong denial from Succar's San Diego attorney, Charles Goldberg, who said, “There's an awful lot of evidence to indicate that the charges were fabricated, or exaggerated.” Six of the seven alleged victims have since retracted their accusations, he said. Succar's next hearing was scheduled for today before a federal judge in Phoenix. In December, Cacho was arrested on libel charges outside her Cancun office and driven 1,000 miles to a jail in Puebla. During the harrowing, 20-hour ride, she said, police officers tormented her by hinting of a plan to rape and kill her. Although she was released unharmed on $7,000 bail, Cacho's experience underscores the physical and legal dangers faced by Mexican journalists. Under Mexico's antiquated libel laws, truth is not an absolute defense because reporters must also prove they did not intend to damage the image of their subject. Conviction can result in a prison sentence. Isabel Arvide, 54, was given a suspended one-year sentence in March and ordered to pay $19,000 in punitive damages after a judge in the northern state of Chihuahua convicted her of libeling a former Chihuahua state attorney general. Mexico's libel law “totally limits the freedom of _expression_, not just of journalists, but of any Mexican citizen,” said Guillermo Cuen, a Mexico City attorney representing Cacho. Lured to a villa The girls told Mexican authorities that it was in Villa 1 at the Solymar condominium in Cancun's posh hotel zone where they were photographed, filmed and sexually molested. LUIS J. JIMÉNEZ / Copley News Service Cancun attorney Verónica Acacio held up a tabloid with a photo of a woman called Emma, an alleged victim
