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THE GROUP OF TWENTY  THE EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE





By Joan Veon
September 28, 2009


In 1994 when I covered my first global meeting, there was a press briefing by 
the Commission on Global Governance on their forthcoming report, Our Global 
Neighborhood. The man giving the briefing was one of the co-chairs, Sir 
Shridath Ramphal who was not only president of Guyana but also president of the 
(British) Commonwealth Association. As I read the glossy brochure, I thought he 
meant “global government” to which he replied “No, no, no we mean global 
governance.” When I asked about a global currency, he laughed and said, “No, 
not for a long time.”

The meeting recently held n Pittsburgh comprised the third meeting of the heads 
of state and finance ministers from the Group of Twenty nations: the developed 
countries led by the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy, 
Japan, Russia and Germany and the top developing countries: Argentina, 
Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, 
South Korea, and Turkey, as well as the European Union. Together, they 
represent 85% of the world’s Gross Domestic Product-GDP and 80% of world trade. 

The Group of Eight-G8 began meeting in 1973 when Richard Nixon called together 
the leaders of four countries to determine how the world would be run 
economically now that he had put the world currencies on a floating basis when 
he removed the last ties the dollar had to gold in 1971. A formal meeting was 
held in 1975 in France with five countries and soon it was seven countries 
known as the Group of Seven until 1998 when Russia was officially admitted. 
Since 1975, whatever decision these seven or eight countries came to was law 
and if the rest of the countries of the world knew what was good for them, they 
would follow suit. In short, the Group of Eight acted as a “Global Board of 
Directors” for the world. Over the years, they expanded their purview to 
include every facet of government: labor, education, transportation, trade, 
housing, finance and the environment. 

Under their auspices, the floating exchange between countries was perfected to 
the point where it was easy to raid any countries currency which did not do 
what they were suppose to do as mandated by the strong countries, there was the 
oil crises of the 1970s, and the fall of the shah of Iran who was the 
peacekeeper of the Middle East. The final pieces were added to the 
international infrastructure: the World Trade Organization, the regional groups 
like the European Union and the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, the 
International Criminal Court, and the tearing down of economic barriers between 
the countries of the world by calling on the U.S. to repeal the Glass-Steagall 
Act in 1999. 

In 1998, the Group of Eight decided to become more integrated as they deviated 
from just economic concerns to the daily concerns that each country faces: 
health, education, growth, trade, etc. Tony Blair talked about the need to work 
together on all these issues so that each country could help each other and 
they could learn from one another. This is called integration, not advice. The 
final Communiqué which the G8 issued (then the G5) in 1975 was just a few pages 
to over one thousand pages in some years. Indeed they became a venue of “global 
governance.”

As a result of the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis, it was former President George Bush 
who called together the leaders of the developing countries to meet with the 
leaders of the developed countries last November. They instantaneously became 
their own powerhouse. At the second meeting in London this past April, they 
empowered the International Monetary Fund with $1.1T including a new offering 
of Special Drawing Rights-SDRs and they changed the Financial Stability Forum 
to the Financial Stability Board and greatly empowered its structure by giving 
them a plenary structure and several Steering Committees. The Financial 
Stability Board is part of the growing architectural pieces at the Bank for 
International Settlement in Basel, Switzerland. 

In an interview with Professor John Kirton of the University of Toronto who 
heads up the unofficial secretariat of the Group of Eight and Twenty, he said 
of global governance, “It has come to mean, steering, shaping the global order 
through processes. Not only government of nation-states assisted by 
intergovernmental organizations, but a broad array of actors that have an 
important and legitimate place.” When I asked about how they and their roles 
had changed, he responded that the G20 had “institutionalized itself in an 
integrated way with the G8 so that next year in Canada, there would be a coming 
together of the two global governance institutions.” It was announced in 
Pittsburgh, that next year the G20 would meet at the same time that the G8 
meets on economic issues. The G8 will continue their oversight of all other 
issues they currently govern. This

[cia-drugs] Food Safety Bills- Misdiagnosis Strikes Again

FOOD SAFETY BILLS - MISDIAGNOSIS STRIKES AGAIN

By Doreen Hannes
September 2, 2009


Houston, We DO Have a Problem…… 

Is there a problem in our food supply? Most people would hazard to guess that 
yes, there are more issues now than in the past several decades. And they would 
be correct. So how has this happened?

That's where it gets a bit more tricky. What has changed in the past twenty 
years in the food chain? Aside from the tremendous increase in imports, the FDA 
and the USDA have begun to implement HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical 
Control Point plans) instead of literal inspections on processing plants. HACCP 
is an international standard that goes along with 'risk-analysis', and 'risk 
management' and international standards applied through the Sanitary 
Phyto-Sanitary Agreement of the World Trade Organization. It is supposed to 
increase food safety by having people who operate these plants design and plan 
protocols to follow that are then submitted to certifiers for approval and 
judged to be sufficient or insufficient by the certifier. Then inspections are 
conducted, but not nearly as frequently nor with as much rigor as they once 
were, but with lots of paperwork added to non-productive overhead and less in 
the way of actual physical inspections.

Now the march is on to bring HACCP to the farm itself. But the question is, do 
these problems originate on the farm? Not usually. The problems with e-coli in 
meat stem from sloppy slaughtering at slaughter plants where they are 
reportedly running cattle through so fast that they sometimes still moo as they 
are being skinned. When intestinal material gets on the meat, this can cause 
the meat to be contaminated with e-coli that occurs naturally in the 
intestines. The answer to this problem is to slow the line down and do a better 
job of being careful in the butchering process. Not to audit farms for the 
prevalence of e-coli in the intestinal tracts of cattle, or any other animal. 

The issue becomes one of industrialized agribusiness in direct opposition to 
agriculturalists. People who raise animals and eat the meat at their own dinner 
table are not in the least interested in eating antibiotic residues or steroid 
filled meat themselves. Those who run giant feed lots to bring animals up to 
slaughter weight as quickly as possible have more of an interest in using the 
steroids and needing the antibiotics to keep the animals alive, yet they don't 
all implant steroids or feed antibiotics either. Even the largest feedlots are 
subservient to the dwindling number of meat packing plants. Five plants control 
over 80% of slaughter now.

It's the same with the vegetables and other produce. The processing is where 
contamination becomes the issue. There is no way to raise crops in a vacuum 
without contact with any wildlife or birds that may off load their alimentary 
canals as they do flyovers catching bugs and the like. Trying to run a 
completely 'pest free area', as international standards instruct, is 
antithetical to reality. If you want serious food scarcity, try to keep life 
from playing its part in the production of food. Washing the produce before 
eating it is simply the responsibility of whoever is preparing the food. Not 
something to be micromanaged by bureaucrats swarming over farms with check 
lists 20 plus pages long and a penchant for sterility that rivals Howard 
Hughes. 

The food safety bills that have been put forward in the US Congress all have 
three things in common that will not address the problems of real food safety 
in the least. Instead they create new revenue avenues for more bureaucrats and 
add several layers of paperwork onto those who would like to continue to fight 
the weather, wildlife, multinational corporate consolidation and government 
regulators to continue to feed the nation and themselves. 

The three top issues that appear in all these so-called food safety bills are 
as follows:

1- ascribe international standards to fulfill obligations to international 
agreements
2- make food grown domestically captive supply for export 
3- bring certification and auditing to production and all processing 

Understanding that 'international standards' are a mix of guidelines from Codex 
Alimentarius, The World Animal Health Organization (OIE), and the IPPC 
(International Plant Protection Convention) that, when piled together, become 
Good Agricultural Practices and require full traceability back to the farm of 
origin along with all processes being certified, verified, audited and 
documented along the way on every article of food world wide should give one 
pause to consider the level of scrutiny and enormous bureaucracy that would be 
involved in such a system.


The fastest growing segment of agriculture in the United States is the local 
food movement. These international standards will bury those on the production 
side of this movement in paperwork that would choke an IRS agent, and people 
simply

[cia-drugs] When Malthusians Become Messiahs

WHEN MALTHUSIANS BECOME MESSIAHS

by Phillip D. Collins
September 6, 2009


Nowadays, anyone and everyone who raises a disparaging word about the Obama 
Administration’s policies is immediately assigned the stigma of “alarmist,” 
“scaremonger,” or “paranoid.” Perhaps such stigmas are actually applicable in 
some cases, like Genesis Communications Network radio talk show host Alex Jones 
and Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck. In both of these cases, there are, no 
doubt, serious sanity issues involved. However, those who have familiarized 
themselves with the résumé of President Obama’s recently appointed Science 
Czar, John Holdren, have good reason to be afraid.

Before I proceed any further, allow me to dissuade readers from ascribing any 
sort of partisan biases to me. I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. 
Foreign policy commentator Robert Kagan once observed that this false dichotomy 
represents “two variations of the same worldview.” The dialectical 
commonalities exhibited by Republicans and Democrats bear out this contention. 
Neither party is interested in dismantling the labyrinthine machinations of Big 
Government or restoring the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. Both 
are merely committed to the maintenance of their two-party political cartel.

‘Nuff said.

Having dispelled any accusations of partisan prejudices, allow me to provide a 
brief overview of Holdren’s résumé. In 1977, Holdren co-authored Ecoscience 
with Paul and Anne Ehrlich. Of course, Paul Ehrlich was the environmental 
scientist who published The Population Bomb in 1968.

This hyperbolic collection of demographic doomsday prophecies foolhardily 
predicted, “The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will 
undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in 
spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.”

Of course, the arrival of the 70s banished such forecasts to the realm of 
Chicken Little eschatology. Yet, Ehrlich wasn’t done embarrassing himself. In 
1980, the wannabe demographer bet University of Maryland economist Julian Simon 
that an impending era of scarcity would lead to rising prices among various 
commodities. Ehrlich bought five different metals for $1,000 on the condition 
that Simon would have to pay him the difference should their combined value be 
higher in 1990. A decade later, the combined price of the metals had actually 
fallen and Ehrlich had to pay Simon $576.

It comes as little surprise that Ehrlich’s prophecies never materialized. His 
views were heavily influenced by the 19th century Anglican clergyman Thomas 
Malthus. Malthus authored Essay on the Principle of Population, a treatise 
premised upon the spurious thesis: “Population, when unchecked, increases in a 
geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetic ratio.” Although 
Malthus articulated his observations in succinct mathematical equations, the 
complexities of the natural order typically defy such numerical reductionism. 
Nevertheless, Malthus concluded that society should adopt certain social 
policies to prevent the human population from growing disproportionately larger 
than the food supply.

Malthus’ genocidal policies specifically targeted the poor. Through the 
promotion of hygienically unsound practices amongst impoverished populations, 
Malthus believed that the “undesirable elements” of the human herd could be 
naturally culled by various maladies. The spread of disease could be further 
assisted through discriminative vaccination and zoning programs. Worse still, 
Malthus promoted infanticide for illegitimate children, a practice that is 
still advocated by many bioethicists today. Peter Singer is one case in point. 
Ominously enough, Singer recently argued for the rationing of health care in a 
New York Times editorial.

Ehrlich’s prescriptions for the alleged “population bomb” were equally 
draconian. They included “compulsory birth regulation… (through) the addition 
of temporary sterilants to water supplies or staple food. Doses of the antidote 
would be carefully rationed by the government to produce the desired family 
size.”

Given his failed predictions, one would think that people would have stopped 
listening to Ehrlich a long time ago. Unfortunately, fools abound, as is 
evidenced by Obama’s appointment of Holdren to the position of Science Czar. 
Holdren merely reiterates Ehrlich’s core normative contention: “Population 
control is the only answer.”

In fact, on page 786 of Ecoscience, Holdren writes, “Indeed, it has been 
concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws 
requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing 
Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger 
the society.”

On pages 786-87, Holdren endorses “sterilizing women after their second or 
third child” and administering a “long-term sterilizing capsule that could be 
implanted under the skin” for

[cia-drugs] 9/11 Eighth Anniversary

9-11 EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY





By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
September 7, 2009


With the 8th anniversary with 9/11 only a few days away, increasing attention 
will probably be paid to the several groups who continue to claim that the 
government has not revealed the complete truth about what transpired relevant 
to that tragic event. Unfortunately, most of these groups spend their time 
investigating such things as the possible use of Thermate/Thermite in 
collapsing the World Trade Center (WTC) towers. It’s fine that they investigate 
this, but what if they prove it was used? That won’t answer the questions of 
who or why, and a poll already has shown people don’t believe the government 
has told them the complete truth about what really happened. 

In the articles and books (September 11 Prior Knowledge and Cover-Up: 
Government Spin or Truth?) I’ve written on the subject of 9/11, I raised many 
questions which have yet to be answered, and the several groups dedicated to 
investigating 9/11 seem not to have spent much time pursuing answers to my 
questions either. 

(1) Has anyone interviewed all the children who brought cameras to school that 
day (to take pictures of the event) to find out how they knew something was 
going to happen? A boy at New Utrecht High School in Brooklyn on September 6, 
2001 said, “Do you see those two buildings [WTC towers]? They won’t be standing 
there next week.”

(2) Has anyone pursued the question of how two almost pristine passports of the 
hijackers in New York and Pennsylvania survived when nearly everything else 
from the planes was incinerated or vaporized? 

(3) Has anyone asked the government how they were able to have complete bios of 
all the hijackers shortly after the event, unless the government already had 
files on them and would therefore have been monitoring them to some degree?

(4) Has anyone filed a Freedom of Information request with the government to 
see if they were monitoring hijack ringleader Mohamed Atta in the U.S. prior to 
the event, as German intelligence believed we were (the INS allowed Atta to 
enter the U.S. three times on a tourist visa in 2001 even though officials knew 
the visa had expired in 2000)?

(5) Has anyone asked how government agents knew the details of a conversation 
between terrorist hijackers a week before 9/11 unless they were already being 
monitored (see Congressional testimony by Kristin Breitweiser)? 

(6) Has anyone asked authorities to explain how so much debris from the plane 
that supposedly nose-dived in Pennsylvania could be found so many miles from 
the crash site?

(7) Has anyone pursued authorities for an explanation of how such a large plane 
could disappear into such a small hole in the Pentagon wall with no major 
debris (e.g., plane’s tail) left on the lawn?

(8) Why has then Vice-President Dick Cheney been allowed to get away with 
saying they thought the terrorist attack against the U.S. would probably come 
overseas, when our government received numerous warnings (e.g., from Britain, 
Russia, France, Morocco, etc.) before 9/11 that an attack would occur in the 
U.S. (the Senate Intelligence Committee found that between March and September 
2001 there were eleven specific intelligence indicators of an imminent attack 
within the U.S.)?

(9) Has anyone asked government officials why there were not plans to prevent 
air attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. when between December 1994 
and September 2001 there were twelve specific intelligence indicators that 
Al-Qaeda was planning to use aircraft to attack U.S. targets, particularly in 
New York City and Washington, D.C.? 

(10) Has anyone pressed then Attorney-General John Ashcroft as to why he didn’t 
develop a plan to prevent a land or air attack on the WTC when terrorists had 
already attacked it in 1993, and when one of the subjects of the FBI’s 31-month 
Operation Diamondback (ending June 2001) said on July 14, 1999 “those towers 
are coming down”?

(11) Has anyone asked the FBI if it knew in advance where the Al-Qaeda training 
camp was in Pakistan, and that’s why it didn’t bother to ask passenger plane 
hijack trainee-turned-informant Niaz Khan (who came to the FBI office in 
Newark, New Jersey April 2000) where the camp was either before or after the 
attack? Because of our success working with tribal leaders in Iraq’s “Anbar 
Awakening,” the Taliban in northwest Pakistan have now killed any tribal 
leaders there not willing to be allied with them.

(12) Has anyone asked the government why it hasn’t demanded Pakistan turn over 
to us General Mahmood Ahmad, their intelligence chief who had $100,000 wired to 
Mohamad Atta on August 1, 2001? 

(13) Has anyone pursued who the top Pentagon officials were who suddenly 
canceled their travel plans for the morning of 9/11 only a few days after 
General Ahmad visited the Pentagon?

(14) Since San Francisco’s mayor Willie Brown on September 10, 2001 received a 
late night warning about air travel

[cia-drugs] Globalists Will Not Give Up on Takeover of US Roads

2009-09-22 Thread Norgesen

Globalists Will Not Give Up on Takeover of US Roads

  By Mark Anderson

AFP is continually monitoring the proposed North American Union. This not only 
involves the dynamics surrounding the “border fence” issue; it also involves 
watching the efforts of “NAFTA Superhighway” profiteers to install small 
“piecemeal” infrastructure projects, even while opponents throw legislative 
roadblocks in front of the much larger, more obvious stretches of 
super-tollways that are part of the proposed international highway scheme that 
could consolidate the U.S., Mexico and Canada.  

Such a three-part union must have an international mega-tollway network for 
even more free trade, a common currency and other physical and political 
tangibles—not just policy papers and books written by people like American 
University professor Robert Pastor that call for a “North American Community.”

Much of the Trans-Texas Corridor part of the NAFTA Superhighway—whose two main 
branches are TTC-69 and TTC-35—has been set back by vigilant citizens. They 
worked overtime in the spring of 2009 shadowing their state legislators and 
getting them to oppose the TTC plan that could carve up many large Texas 
ranches held by the same families for generations. But some smaller highway 
projects that seem to fit into the TTC schematic indeed have taken root.

An especially notable project is the State Highway 130 tollway around Austin, 
Tex., which is so devoid of motorists at times that a plane landed on it during 
“peak traffic” and did not have to be rushed out of the way, although 
transportation crews closed part of the tollway for a time once they reached 
the scene. The pilot, 24-year-old Lindsey Moreland, told investigators she took 
off from an airstrip at Austin-Bergstrom Airport and was headed to Georgetown 
when she had engine trouble. SH 130 was closed while crews moved the single 
engine Cessna to the shoulder of the southbound lane. At 4:30 p.m. the highway 
was shut down again so the plane’s owner could take off and fly to Temple.

An Aug. 17 Austin American-Statesman article included the sub-headline “New 
section will offer less congested route to Houston.” But “less congested” is a 
major understatement when traffic is sparse enough for a pilot to land there 
during peak time. Thus, will SH 130 fail like another under-used private Texas 
toll route (Camino-Columbia) near Laredo that went belly-up?  

Citing the Austin newspaper piece, the San Antonio Toll Party (SATP) activist 
group, which has helped slow the TTC onslaught over several years, issued a 
news bulletin that commented: “This article bills this leg of the Trans Texas 
Corridor/TTC-35 project as a way to avoid congestion to Houston when the 
original sales pitch for the loop was to relieve traffic on I-35 (which the 
segment from Georgetown to the airport has not done). However, the first leg of 
SH 130 . . . is ‘sooo’ empty, that a plane landed on it during peak traffic. It 
begs the question: if no one can afford [to drive on it], then why build it?” 

A major aspect of this development, according to SATP, is that SH 130—though 
not completely finished but is partly operational—is the first Texas road under 
foreign control if and when new sections are added. It is slated to remain 
under that control for the next 50 years.  

A consortium called SH 130 Concession Co., led by private Spanish toll road 
operator Cintra—partnering with the huge San Antonio-based Zachry Construction 
Co.—is financing the $1.35 billion project. It will operate the toll road and 
hopes to profit from it over the next 50 years.  

Noting the NAFTA connection, Wikipedia’s listing for SH 130 describes it as 
follows: “A tollway from Interstate 35 (I-35) in Georgetown to U.S. 183 and SH 
45 at Mustang Ridge. Portions south of Mustang Ridge will soon be under 
construction. When completed, SH 130 will run in an 89-mile corridor east and 
south of Austin. It parallels I-35 and is intended to relieve the Interstate’s 
traffic volume through the Austin-San Antonio corridor by serving as an 
alternate route. The northern terminus of State Highway 130 is I-35 north of 
Georgetown. Its eventual southern terminus is Interstate 10 near Seguin. The 
highway was developed in response to the tremendous surge in truck traffic on 
the I-35 corridor brought on by the North American Free Trade Agreement during 
the late 1990s, especially truck traffic originating from Laredo, where the 
Texas Department of Transportation reported 150 trucks entering the United 
States every hour.” SH 130 will eventually be six lanes. Ground was first 
broken for SH 130 on Oct. 3, 2003.  

On June 28, 2006, Cintra-Zachry, the Trans-Texas Corridor developer, reached a 
$1.3 billion agreement with the state to build segments 5 and 6 from U.S. 183 
to I-10 in Seguin. 

“In exchange for their investment, Cintra-Zachry will receive the right to 
collect tolls for 50 years in a revenue sharing agreement with the state. The

[cia-drugs] VeriTrace System In Kentucky, Featuring Human-Implantable RFID Chips

2009-08-19 Thread norgesen

VeriTrace System In Kentucky, Featuring Human-Implantable RFID Chips 

By John Burnell

08-17-2009 

The Green River District Health Department in Kentucky has purchased the 
VeriTrace emergency management system from VeriChip 



which features human-implantable RFID chips that are used to identify people in 
a disaster or mass evacuation situation. See the announcement.



http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_viewnewsId=20090810005084newsLang=en

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VeriChip Corporation Announces Sale of VeriTrace System to Kentucky’s Green 
River District Health Department 
Second VeriTrace System Sale in Last 30 Days 

DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--VeriChip Corporation (NASDAQ:CHIP) 
(“VeriChip”), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for 
healthcare and patient-related needs, announced today that it has sold the 
VeriTrace™ system, including 1,000 RFID microchips, for disaster preparedness 
and emergency management needs to Kentucky’s Green River District Health 
Department. 

VeriTrace, created in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina where it was used by 
the Federal Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, was designed to assist 
in the management of emergency situations and disaster recovery using 
implantable RFID technology. The VeriTrace system includes a unique implantable 
RFID microchip, a VeriTrace Bluetooth(TM) handheld reader, a customized Ricoh 
500SE Digital Camera capable of receiving both RFID scanned data and GPS data 
wirelessly, and a Web-enabled database for gathering and storing information 
and images captured during emergency response operations. This database ensures 
the precise collection, storage and inventory of all data and images related to 
remains and the associated evidentiary items. This also allows the recreation 
of an accurate and complete reconstruction of a disaster setting, crime scene 
or similar setting where recreation is necessary. 

Marc Poulshock, Vice President of VeriChip’s Implantable and Emergency 
Management divisions, said, “Our continued outreach helps health care 
organizations and various levels of government recognize the role the VeriTrace 
System, the only end-to-end solution to use implantable RFID tags for disaster 
preparedness and emergency response, plays in meeting their needs.” 

About VeriChip Corporation 

VeriChip Corporation, headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida, has developed the 
VeriMed™ Health Link System for rapidly and accurately identifying people who 
arrive in an emergency room and are unable to communicate. This system uses the 
first human-implantable passive RFID microchip, cleared for medical use in 
October 2004 by the United States Food and Drug Administration. To complement 
its healthcare division, VeriChip Corporation established VeriGreen Energy 
Corporation in March 2009 to focus and invest in the clean and alternative 
energy sector. 

For more information on VeriChip, please call 1-800-970-2447, or e-mail 
i...@verichipcorp.com. Additional information can be found online at 
www.verichipcorp.com. 
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[cia-drugs] Defense Groups Eye Drones for War and Policing

2009-08-19 Thread norgesen

Defense Groups Eye Drones for War and Policing

By MIKE BRODY

08-17-2009

Baitullah Mehsud was said to have been having a leg massage from his wife when 
two Hellfire missiles killed the Taleban leader ten days ago. 




He had been staying at his father-in-law’s house in the border area of 
Afghanistan and Pakistan and was on the roof relaxing, unaware that a Predator 
B drone was silently tracking him.

Once the drone’s electro-optic sensors had identified him, the aircraft 
launched its missiles.

Such attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming increasingly 
common in Afghanistan. One report has identified 42 UAV attacks in the past 18 
months, in which 360 people have died and the ability of Taleban commanders to 
operate in the open has been seriously hampered.

UAVs are favoured for such missions because they can stay airborne for long 
periods — often more than 24 hours at a time — and are much quieter than 
fighter jets or helicopters. UAVs also have the advantage of removing pilots 
from danger because the drones are controlled by satellite from bases miles 
away, even continents away.

The UAVs deployed by British and American forces in Afghanistan are used for 
intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (Istar) 
missions. They vary in size from a handheld remote controlled aircraft used by 
troops to determine what is behind a hill to the $35 million (£21 million) 
Global Hawk, built by Northrup Grumman.

Britain uses Hermes 450 drones and also leases Reapers, or Predator Bs, from 
General Atomics, of the United States. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) will 
introduce Watchkeeper, which is built by Thales, next year as Britain’s main 
UAV. Among its tasks, Watchkeeper will be able to spot whether terrain changes 
from hour to hour, so that troops can be alerted to possible explosive devices 
hidden at the side of the road.

Although details of UAVs’ capabilities are secret, they are widely understood 
to carry video and highresolution cameras capable of daytime surveillance 
ranging up to ten kilometres (six miles). They also have infrared systems for 
night surveillance and some of the larger models have ground-monitoring radar, 
which increases their range to about 30 kilometres.

Some of the large UAVs, such as Predator, also carry missiles. This is a 
rapidly growing area of development, with suppliers building smaller weapons 
systems capable of launching from unmanned platforms.

The potential for the next generation of UAVs is even greater and British 
defence companies are developing the technology that will be required. The MoD 
called together seven such companies two weeks ago to lay out rules and 
requirements for developing the next generation of UAVs.

BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defence company, is hoping that the future lies 
in autonomous UAVs, which would follow a set of instructions rather than be 
controlled by a pilot. This would open many new applications because the 
aircraft could operate without constant attention. For example, a UAV could 
patrol a border and alert ground troops or civilian police if people were seen 
crossing.

BAE is working with some British police forces on how UAVs could aid crime 
prevention. They may be used at the 2012 Olympic Games to aid crowd control and 
anti-terrorist surveillance.

The main problem to be solved before UAVs can be deployed outside regions such 
as Afghanistan is integrating them into busy airspace and teaching them to 
avoid other aircraft.

Another area of research is the creation of combat UAVs (called UCAVs), which 
may one day replace fighter pilots. BAE is developing a model for the MoD 
called Taranis. The advantage of UCAVs is that they can be smaller, stealthier 
and more manoeuvrable because they do not have to be built around a human being.

BAE is sponsoring research at several British universities to develop advanced 
technologies that could be used in a future UCAV, including moulding all 
components into one skin. This would allow the UCAV to do away with flaps and 
rudders and its movement would be controlled by deforming sections of its skin.

David Kershaw, BAE’s director of strategy for UAVs, said: “The key to the next 
generation of UAVs and UCAVs will be autonomy, because every time you 
communicate with it, you alert the enemy to where it is. But autonomy requires 
a high level of decision-making by the UAV and that is not easy.”

UK groups doing UAV research

BAE Systems Developing Herti semi-autonomous UAV for low-level reconnaissance. 
Also developing Mantis, a much larger UAV that may be able to carry missile 
systems, and Taranis — a combat UAV 

Rolls-Royce Engine research for a number of UAV projects 

QinetiQ Developing Zephyr, an ultra-lightweight UAV that will act as a mobile 
satellite. Recently set record for longest UAV flight at 54 hours 

Thales UK Has an £800 million contract from the Ministry of Defence to supply 
54 Watchkeeper UAVs from next year

[cia-drugs] Europe: Scientists Used Mosquitoes as Fying Vaccine Needles

2009-08-16 Thread norgesen

Mosquitoes deliver malaria vaccine through bites

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE

07-29-2009

In a daring experiment in Europe, scientists used mosquitoes as flying needles
to deliver a vaccine of live malaria parasites through their bites.

The results were astounding: Everyone in the vaccine group acquired immunity to
malaria; everyone in a non-vaccinated comparison group did not, and developed
malaria when exposed to the parasites later.

The study was only a small proof-of-principle test, and its approach is not
practical on a large scale. However, it shows that scientists may finally be on
the right track to developing an effective vaccine against one of mankind's top
killers. A vaccine that uses modified live parasites just entered human testing.

Malaria vaccines are moving from the laboratory into the real world, Dr.
Carlos Campbell wrote in an editorial accompanying the study in Thursday's New
England Journal of Medicine. He works for PATH, the Program for Appropriate
Technology in Health, a Seattle-based global health foundation.

The new study reminds us that the whole malaria parasite is the most potent
immunizing agent, even though it is harder to develop a vaccine this way and
other leading candidates take a different approach, he wrote.

Malaria kills nearly a million people each year, mostly children under 5 and
especially in Africa. Infected mosquitoes inject immature malaria parasites
into the skin when they bite; these travel to the liver where they mature and
multiply. From there, they enter the bloodstream and attack red blood cells —
the phase that makes people sick.

People can develop immunity to malaria if exposed to it many times. The drug
chloroquine can kill parasites in the final bloodstream phase, when they are
most dangerous.

Scientists tried to take advantage of these two factors, by using chloroquine
to protect people while gradually exposing them to malaria parasites and
letting immunity develop.

They assigned 10 volunteers to a vaccine group and five others to a
comparison group. All were given chloroquine for three months, and exposed once
a month to about a dozen mosquitoes — malaria-infected ones in the vaccine
group and non-infected mosquitoes in the comparison group.

That was to allow the vaccine effect to develop. Next came a test to see if
it was working.

All 15 stopped taking chloroquine. Two months later, all were bitten by
malaria-infected mosquitoes. None of the 10 in the vaccine group developed
parasites in their bloodstreams; all five in the comparison group did.

The study was done in a lab at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands,
and was funded by two foundations and a French government grant.

This is not a vaccine as in a commercial product, but a way to show how whole
parasites can be used like a vaccine to protect against disease, said one of
the Dutch researchers, Dr. Robert Sauerwein.

It's more of an in-depth study of the immune factors that might be able to
generate a very protective type of response, said Dr. John Treanor, a vaccine
specialist at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, N.Y.,
who had no role in the study.

The concept already is in commercial development. A company in Rockville, Md. —
Sanaria Inc. — is testing a vaccine using whole parasites that have been
irradiated to weaken them, hopefully keeping them in an immature stage in the
liver to generate immunity but not cause illness.

Two other reports in the New England Journal show that resistance is growing to
artemisinin, the main drug used against malaria in the many areas where
chloroquine is no longer effective. Studies in Thailand and Cambodia found the
malaria parasite is less susceptible to artemisinin, underscoring the urgent
need to develop a vaccine.

On the Net:
a.. New England Journal: http://www.nejm.org
b.. WHO report: http://apps.who.int/malaria/wmr2008/malaria2008.pdf
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[cia-drugs] Marine Mammals Other Sea Life to be Decimated

2009-08-12 Thread norgesen

MARINE MAMMALS AND OTHER SEA LIFE TO BE DECIMATED



By Rosalind Peterson
August 11, 2009


The United States Navy will be decimating millions of marine mammals and other 
aquatic life, each year, for the next five years, under their Warfare Testing 
Range Complex Expansions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico. The 
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS under NOAA), has already approved the 
“taking” of marine mammals in more than a dozen Navy Range Warfare Testing 
Complexes (6), and is preparing to issue another permit for 11.7 millions 
marine mammals (32 Separate Species), to be decimated along the Northern, 
California, Oregon and Washington areas of the Pacific Ocean (7).

U.S. Department of Commerce – NOAA (NMFS) Definition: “TAKE” Defined under the 
MMPA as harass, hunt, capture, kill or collect, or attempt to harass, hunt, 
capture, kill or collect. Defined under the ESA as to harass, harm, pursue, 
hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in 
any such conduct. Definition: Incidental Taking: An unintentional, but not 
unexpected taking (12).

The total number of marine mammals that will be decimated in the Atlantic, 
Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico for the next five years is unknown. The NMFS 
approvals will have a devastating impact upon the marine mammal populations 
worldwide and this last Navy permit, which is expected to be issued in February 
2010, for the “taking” of more than 11.7 million marine mammals in the Pacific 
will be the final nail in the coffin for any healthy populations of sea life to 
survive.

Now with ever-increasing numbers of permits being issued for sonar programs in 
more than twelve ranges in the Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic 
regions of the United States, our marine mammals and other sea life are facing 
complete devastation. When you add bomb blasts to this list, warfare testing of 
all types, future war testing practice, and the toxic chemicals which are both 
airborne and to be used underwater, there is little chance that most marine 
life will survive in any significant numbers. Our U.S. Senators and U.S. 
Congressmen refuse to postpone these disastrous “takings” or hold U.S. 
Congressional Hearings while pretending to be ocean environment friendly in 
their re-election speeches. 

Earlier this year, June 8th through June 16, 2009, a delegation from 
Connecticut and California spent time walking the halls of the U.S. Senate and 
U.S. House of Representatives. We left petitions, color fliers, and information 
about saving our marine mammals, requested a postponement and U.S. 
Congressional Hearings. Ninety-nine senate offices were visited and 2/3 of 
offices in the U.S. House of Representatives. The silent response from our 
elected officials regarding these two requests has been zero…one U.S. 
Congressman even stated that citizens would be “laughed out of the halls of the 
U.S. Congress for suggesting that we protect our marine mammals”. Corporate 
paid “Lobbyists”, who hand out money by the $Millions, on the other hand, are 
always accepted at hearings, give testimony, and are welcomed in the halls of 
Congress…apparently the voices of citizens of the United States are not given 
the same status.

These virtually unregulated Navy Warfare Testing Programs already approved are 
now taking a toll on marine mammals, the fishing and ocean tourism industries, 
and on all aquatic life. Many U.S. Senators and Congressmen are ignoring these 
issues by pretending that they doesn’t exist even though they have been 
informed in advance of these programs. 

A brief history of the Navy Warfare Testing Program is needed to understand the 
full implications of this Pentagon/Navy Warfare Testing Program. In 2004, the 
Bush Administration signed a bill weakening U.S. Environmental Laws (1), with 
regard to the U.S. Navy. And then in 2008, President Bush signed an executive 
order allowing the Navy to be exempt from environmental laws which protects 
endangered and threatened species (2-4). The Navy Southern California Complex 
was the first one to benefit from this executive order. Soon other Navy Range 
Complexes were obtaining exemptions from the NMFS with little or no oversight 
or significant mitigation measures (5).

A partial listing of known Navy Range Complexes (6), shows the amazing scope of 
the disaster. According to U.S. Congressman Waxman in a letter dated March 12, 
2009: “…The Navy estimates that its sonar training activities will “take” 
marine mammals more than 11.7 million times over the course of a five-year 
permit…The sonar exercises at issue would take place off the Atlantic and 
Pacific coasts, Hawaii, Alaska and in the Gulf of Mexico – affecting literally 
every coastal state. In many regions, the Navy plans to increase the number of 
training exercises or expand the areas in which they may occur. Of particular 
concern are biologically sensitive marine habitats off our coasts, such as 
National

[cia-drugs] MIT develops camera-like fabric

MIT develops camera-like fabric

By Stephen Shankland

07-07-2009

And you thought it was a problem when folks went into the locker room toting
cell phones with cameras.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a
fabric made of a mesh of light-sensitive fibers that collectively act like a
rudimentary camera. The fibers, which each can detect two frequencies of light,
produced signals that when amplified and processed by a computer reproduced an
image of a smiley face near the mesh.

This is the first time that anybody has demonstrated that a single plane of
fibers, or 'fabric,' can collect images just like a camera but without a lens,
said Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science, who along with
colleagues described the approach in a the journal Nano Letters.

MIT suggested that the technology, if developed further, could give a soldier a
uniform that would help him see threats in all directions. Optical fiber webs,
by distributing the chore across a large area, would be less susceptible to
damage in one area.

The technology uses fibers less than a millimeter in diameter, stretched into
thin form from a thicker cylinder. Within the fibers are two cylindrical shells
of semiconductor material, each connected to the outside world with four
built-in metal electrodes.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-10281376-39.html

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[cia-drugs] Full Spectrum Dominance and the NWO

Full Spectrum Dominance and the NWO

By The Real News

07-07-2009

William Engdahl on his book Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in 
the New World Order 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmpcDlube2k

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PART 2

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[cia-drugs] US may create terror interrogation unit

US may create terror interrogation unit



Official: US may create terror interrogation unit

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
July 19th, 2009
WASHINGTON, AP – The Obama administration is considering creating a special 
unit of professional interrogators to handle key terror suspects, focusing on 
intelligence-gathering rather than building criminal cases for prosecution, a 
government official said Saturday.

The recommendation is expected from a presidential task force on interrogation 
methods that plans to send some findings to the White House on Tuesday.

The official said the panel, which has not completed its work, has concluded 
that the unit of intelligence and law enforcement agencies should be created. 
The task force is unsure which agencies should have a role, though the CIA and 
FBI are expected to be important players, according to the official. He was not 
authorized to publicly discuss the panel’s work and spoke on condition of 
anonymity.

Ben LaBolt, a White House spokesman, said President Barack Obama has not 
reviewed the task force’s recommendations. LaBolt declined to discuss any 
findings. The recommendation about the new unit was first reported in 
Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.

The unit’s structure would depart significantly from such work under the Bush 
administration, when the CIA had the lead and sometimes exclusive role in 
questioning al-Qaida suspects. The task force has not reached a conclusion as 
to which agency should lead the unit or where it should be based, the official 
said.

Such a unit would not alter the Obama administration’s decision banning harsh 
interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, which simulates drowning, that 
were authorized by the Bush administration. The Obama task force is examining 
what other techniques could be used, the official said.

Obama signed executive orders when he took office in January calling for 
government task forces to recommend future policies for interrogating and 
detaining suspected terrorists. The deadline for those recommendations is 
Tuesday, but the work will take more time than that.

The coming week also marks the halfway point to Obama’s deadline to close the 
Guantanamo Bay detention center: During his first week in office, he ordered 
the military-run center shuttered within a year.

That goal has been complicated by reluctance of U.S. allies, particularly in 
Europe, to take significant numbers of the remaining detainees. In addition, 
Congress, wary of transferring detainees to this country, even to maximum 
security prisons, has voted to withhold money to pay for the shutdown until the 
administration produces what it considers an acceptable relocation plan.

More than 90 percent of the detainees held at the U.S. military base in Cuba 
when he signed that order remain there. To its critics, “Gitmo” is a 
concrete-and-steel symbol of an American gulag; to supporters, it is as a 
critical safeguard against terrorism.

Guantanamo’s detractors and defenders both say the administration’s efforts so 
far suggest that deadline may lapse.

LaBolt said the administration is “making steady progress in reviewing the 
status of each Guantanamo detainee and in strengthening the military commission 
system to ensure that the detainees are brought to swift and certain justice.”

He noted that Bush administration “succeeded in prosecuting only three 
detainees in more than seven years.”

When Obama became president in January, there were about 245 inmates at the 
facility. After six months, the U.S. has relocated fewer than 20. Most of those 
were sent to other countries; one has been brought to U.S. to face trial in a 
civilian criminal court.

The administration has reviewed more than half of the remaining 229 detainee 
cases at Guantanamo.

The government hopes to transfer many of the detainees — including up to 100 
Yemenis — to other nations for rehabilitation or release. A much smaller number 
is expected to be brought to trial by the Justice Department, and a separate 
group will be tried in military commissions.

A final group probably will be held without formal charges, subject to some 
form of regular judicial review.

The Bush administration created the Guantanamo facility after the Sept. 11 
attacks. The intent was to deal with what U.S. officials called “the worst of 
the worst” among suspected terrorists. But over the years the U.S. released or 
transferred more than 500 of the inmates once held, including a number who 
clearly didn’t fit that description.

Obama campaigned on a pledge to close Guantanamo. As president, he has seen 
members of his own party abandon him on he issue when Republicans mounted vocal 
opposition.

Democrats and Republicans alike voted joined in the vote to withhold funding — 
the first serious legislative setback of Obama’s presidency.

“It demonstrates the president’s first executive order was a fundamentally 
flawed judgment,” said Rep. Peter King, the senior

[cia-drugs] Towards a Global Currency?

Towards a Global Currency? 
Towards the integration of the Dollar and the Euro? 

by Michel Chossudovsky



Global Research, July 20, 2009
With a view to restoring financial stability, World leaders have called upon 
the Group of 20 countries (G-20) to instigate a new global currency based on 
the IMF's  Special Drawing Rights (SDRs). 

The media has presented the global currency initiative as a consensus building 
process, in which BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) would 
participate in the revamping of the international monetary system. 

Russia and China have put forth proposals which have been highlighted as 
possible alternatives to the dollar.  China has proposed the formation of a new 
global currency based on a reform of SDR system:  

  It is a feasible plan to reform the present SDR and make it into a real 
settlement currency, a universally accepted 'currency basket' that would 
replace the dollar at the heart of the monetary system,  (Li Ruogu, chairman 
of the Export-Import Bank of China, Reuters, 6  July 2009) 

China's proposal does not imply a major shift in global banking arrangements, 
nor does it open up a window of debate regarding monetary reform. 

On the other hand, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has explicitly questioned 
the composition of the SDR basket and has called upon the IMF to expand the 
currency basket of SDRs to include the Chinese yuan, commodity currencies and 
gold in order that it matures into  a reserve currency.

Geopolitics

Global Geopolitics bears a relationship to the international monetary system. 
Control over money creation is an instrument of economic conquest.  

The invasion and occupation of Iraq was to exclude rival Russian and Chinese 
interests from the Middle-East and Central Asian oil fields. 

The reform of the international monetary system is a project of the dominant 
financial elites, which is discussed behind closed doors. It is unlikely that 
Russia and China, which in large part remain subordinate to Western banking 
interests, will perform a significant role in central banking functions at a 
global level. 

Moreover, this initiative occurs at a time of East West confrontation, amidst 
veiled US-NATO threats directed against Russia as well China.  The 
establishment of a new global currency and central banking system is an 
instrument of global economic domination which is intimately related to the 
broader US-NATO military agenda. 

While the SDR basket composition could be modified or revised, it is unlikely 
that the Yuan and the Ruble would be allowed to perform a role as major reserve 
currencies. What is more likely to occur is the formation of a global proxy 
currency predicated largely on the Euro and the US dollar. In response to the 
Dollar-Euro hegemony, Russia, China and the member states of the Shanghai 
Cooperation Organization (SCO) may decide to develop bilateral trading 
arrangements in Rubles or Yuan (renminbi). 

Special Drawing Rights

SDRs are a composite accounting unit used by the IMF and the World Bank in loan 
agreements with member countries. The SDR is a basket of essentially four major 
currencies: the US dollar, the Euro, the British pound and the Japanese Yen. 

  Composition of basket (value of 1 XDR) Period ?USD ?DEM ?FRF ?JPY ?GBP 
  1981–1985 0.540 (42%) 0.460 (19%) 0.740 (13%) 34.0 (13%) 0.0710 (13%) 
  1986–1990 0.452 (42%) 0.527 (19%) 1.020 (12%) 33.4 (15%) 0.0893 (12%) 
  1991–1995 0.572 (40%) 0.453 (21%) 0.800 (11%) 31.8 (17%) 0.0812 (11%) 
  1996–1998 0.582 (39%) 0.446 (21%) 0.813 (11%) 27.2 (18%) 0.1050 (11%) 
  Period ?USD ?EUR ?JPY ?GBP 
  1999–2000 0.5820 (39%) 0.3519 (32%) 27.2 (18%) 0.1050 (11%) 
  2001–2005 0.5770 (45%) 0.4260 (29%) 21.0 (15%) 0.0984 (11%) 
  2006–2010 0.6320 (44%) 0.4100 (34%) 18.4 (11%) 0.0903 (11%) 

Source Wikipedia

The IMF has recently presented a plan for issuing debt denominated in SDRs 
rather than US dollars. The media has heralded this decision as a major 
innovation, when in fact the Bretton Woods institutions have, for many years, 
been issuing debt denominated in SDRs.  

  Today, the SDR has only limited use as a reserve asset, and its main 
function is to serve as the unit of account of the IMF and some other 
international organizations. The SDR is neither a currency, nor a claim on the 
IMF. Rather, it is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF 
members. (IMF Fact Sheet on SDRs)  

What would happen if a new global currency were to be devised using the 
existing SDR framework?  

SDRs would no longer be an accounting unit but a unit of currency in a basket. 
Actual central banking functions, however, would not necessarily be transferred 
to the IMF, they would remain in the hands of four constituent central banks:  
The US Federal  Reserve, the European Central Bank based in Frankfurt, the Bank 
of England and the Bank of Japan. I

The IMF is a bureaucracy which serves the interests of major

[cia-drugs] H1N1 Pandemic: Pentagon Planning Deployment of Troops in Support of Nationwide Vaccination

H1N1 Pandemic: Pentagon Planning Deployment of Troops in Support of Nationwide 
Vaccination
Militarization of public health in the case of emergency is now official

by Michel Chossudovsky



Global Research, July 31, 2009
According to CNN, the Pentagon is to establish regional teams of military 
personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak 
of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials. 

The proposal is awaiting final approval from Defense Secretary Robert 
Gates. 

The officials would not be identified because the proposal from U.S. 
Northern Command's Gen. Victor Renuart has not been approved by the secretary. 

The plan calls for military task forces to work in conjunction with the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency. There is no final decision on how the 
military effort would be manned, but one source said it would likely include 
personnel from all branches of the military. 

It has yet to be determined how many troops would be needed and whether 
they would come from the active duty or the National Guard and Reserve forces. 

Civilian authorities would lead any relief efforts in the event of a major 
outbreak, the official said. The military, as they would for a natural disaster 
or other significant emergency situation, could provide support and fulfill any 
tasks that civilian authorities could not, such as air transport or testing of 
large numbers of viral samples from infected patients. 

As a first step, Gates is being asked to sign a so-called execution order 
that would authorize the military to begin to conduct the detailed planning to 
execute the proposed plan. 

Orders to deploy actual forces would be reviewed later, depending on how 
much of a health threat the flu poses this fall, the officials said. (CNN, 
Military planning for possible H1N1 outbreak, July 2009, emphasis added)  

The implications are far-reaching. 

The decision points towards the militarization of civilian institutions, 
including law enforcement and public health. 

A nationwide vaccination program is already planned for the Fall. 

The pharmaceutical industry is slated to deliver 160 million vaccine doses by 
the Fall, enough doses to vaccinate more than half of America's population. 

The Pentagon is already planning on the number of troops to be deployed,. with 
a view to supporting a mass vaccinaiton program. 

It is worth noting that this involvement of the military is not being decided 
by the President, but by the Secretary of Defense, which suggests that the 
Pentagon is, in a key issue of of national interest, overriding the President 
and Commander in Chief. The US Congress has not been consulted on the issue. 

This decision to mobilise the Armed Forces in the vaccination campaign is taken 
in anticipation of a national emergency. Although no national emergency has 
been called, the presumption is that a national public health emergency will 
occur, using the WHO Level 6 Pandemic as a pretext and a justification. 

Other countries, including Canada, the UK and France may follow suit, calling 
upon their Armed Forces to play a role in support of the H1N1 vaccination 
program. 

US Northern Command

Much of the groundwork for the intervention of the military has already been 
established. There are indications that these regional teams have already 
been established under USNORTHCOM, which has been involved in preparedness 
training and planning in the case of a flu pandemic (See U.S. Northern Command 
- Avian Flu. USNORTHCOM website).  

Within the broader framework of Disaster Relief, Northern Command has, in the 
course of the last two years, defined a mandate in the eventuality of a public 
health emergency or a flu pandemic. The emphasis is on the militarization of 
public health whereby NORTHCOM would oversee the activities of civilian 
institutions involved in health related services. 

According Brig. Gen. Robert Felderman, deputy director of USNORTHCOM’s Plans, 
Policy and Strategy Directorate: “USNORTHCOM is the global synchronizer – the 
global coordinator – for pandemic influenza across the combatant 
commands”(emphasis added)  (See Gail Braymen, USNORTHCOM contributes pandemic 
flu contingency planning expertise to trilateral workshop, USNORTHCOM, April 
14, 2008, See also  USNORTHCOM. Pandemic Influenza Chain Training (U) pdf)

   “Also, the United States in 1918 had the Spanish influenza. We were the ones 
who had the largest response to [a pandemic] in more recent history. So I 
discussed what we did then, what we expect to have happen now and the numbers 
that we would expect in a pandemic influenza.” 

  The potential number of fatalities in the United States in a modern pandemic 
influenza could reach nearly two million, according to Felderman. Not only 
would the nation’s economy suffer, but the Department of Defense would still 
have to be ready and able to protect and defend the country and

[cia-drugs] Computers may be able to �read� thoughts

2009-07-30 Thread norgesen

Computers may be able to ‘read’ thoughts

By Liz Stoever

07-06-2009 

It sounds like something from a science fiction movie: Sensors are surgically 
inserted in the brain to understand what you're thinking. Machines that can 
speak, move or process information — based on the fleeting thoughts in a 
person's imagination. 





But it's not completely fictional. The technology is out there. A researcher in 
Wisconsin recently announced the ability to think updates onto the Twitter 
website. Locally, researchers at Washington University have developed even 
deeper ways of tying humans and computers together.

For Eric Leuthardt, 36, a neurologist at Washington University Medical School, 
it's about taking our relationship with computers to the next level.

The idea is to basically connect people with devices and machines through 
their thoughts directly, he said.

Leuthardt's latest research involves giving computers the ability to understand 
speech imagined in the mind. 

The research is a component of Brain-Computer Interface Technology, which 
decodes brainwaves in a certain part of the brain. Computers are then 
programmed to understand those signals and perform an action accordingly.

But so far, only signals for imagined actions have been decoded. Moving on to 
decoding speech will make communication to computers from the mind easier.

Ultimately, Leuthardt said, the technology will better connect humans and 
machines. For those with disabilities, it will connect them more closely to the 
world.

They can have a cognitive version of a mouse click that they could not 
otherwise control with their arms or their hands, he said. 

Leuthardt began BCI technology related research in 2002. Just two years later, 
Leuthardt along with Daniel Moran, a biological engineer at Washington 
University, used the technology to develop video games that can be played with 
the mind.

Players control the game by imagining an action. For example, imagining the 
movement of the left hand may mean moving left, whereas imagining the movement 
of the tongue may mean to move up. 

The Space Invaders video game has been tested on only 15-20 people so far 
because the sensors that read those brain signals go directly on or in the 
brain through surgery. Because patient testing would require surgery, children 
with epilepsy are given the chance to participate because they already have 
similar equipment placed in their brains that also locate electric signals in 
the brain.

Leuthardt is not alone. He is one of many researchers nationwide who are all 
collaborating to make this mind-reading technology available for home use in 
five to 10 years. 

Since the introduction of BCI technology in the late 1980s, researchers have 
been thinking of practical applications for BCI technology though they are 
still in the process of making them available.

Research that will give people better control of prosthetic limbs is being 
conducted at Washington University's Computer Engineering Department by 
professor Bill Smart, who is researching the brain signals that predict finger 
movement. 

We're looking for electrical activity that predicts more relatively clean 
signals, he said.

Smart said this application of BCI technology would be available in about 10 
years and would allow people with prosthetic arms to better grasp items.

A biomedical engineering doctoral student at the University of 
Wisconsin-Madison, Adam Wilson, 28, has already adapted the existing BCI 
technology to allow people to use Twitter without their hands. Justin Williams, 
a UW-Madison assistant professor of biomedical engineering, was involved in the 
project and was Wilson's adviser.

It took Wilson one day to combine the BCI technology with the simple interface 
for Twitter, a social networking website that features 140-character updates 
from users.

I just brought two existing technologies together in an exciting way, he 
said. Updates are online at twitter.com/uwbci. Wilson said he decided to 
combine the two so people would know that the technology is out there. 

The Twitter application, however, is less invasive than what Washington U. 
researchers are using. Unlike the implanted brain sensors, the ones Wilson used 
are less sensitive to brain signals, but can be placed atop the head like a 
swim cap. Those sensors are being tested by five to 10 people with disabilities 
at home, allowing them to tell their caretakers that the room is too hot, for 
example, Wilson said.

Researchers are still attacking some obstacles in their research. Leuthardt 
said they needed to make the implant in the brain much smaller. Researchers 
also have to figure out how to teach caretakers to use the system and get the 
cost down. The equipment used in labs currently costs tens of thousands of 
dollars, Wilson said. 

BCIs are very sophisticated systems, Wilson said. They still need to be 
simplified to work in a home setting.

[cia-drugs] Perverse Corruption as Doctors are Paid to Sell Drugs

2009-07-03 Thread norgesen

Perverse Corruption as Doctors are Paid to Sell Drugs

 Friday, June 20, 2008 - Byron J. Richards, CCN 
The British Medical Journal is helping everyone understand just how deep the 
rabbit hole goes.  Key doctors are paid big money to promote and sell drugs.  
An interview with a superstar drug rep reveals exactly how Big Pharma recruits 
and trains key doctors, and then pays them to make presentations about the 
company’s drugs with information and slides prepared by the company – and never 
do the doctors disclose the financial relationship.  Just unbelievable. 

Click on this link if you would like to read the whole article and watch the 
video interview with the drug rep.

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7658/1402

http://www.wellnessresources.com/freedom/articles/perverse_corruption_as_doctors_are_paid_to_sell_drugs/

[cia-drugs] Can DARPA Teach Machines to Read?

2009-06-29 Thread norgesen

Can DARPA Teach Machines to Read?

By Defense Industry Daily

06-22-2009

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched the Machine
Reading program to develop a revolutionary, automated reading system that
bridges the gap between naturally occurring text and the artificial
intelligence (AI) reasoning systems that need such knowledge.

AI systems continue to grow in use by the US military as there is a consistent
emphasis on using high technology as a strategic advantage and reducing
reliance on humans. DID has more on the military applications of AI…

Situation awareness, diagnostics, prognostics, planning, logistics – all are
areas in which AI systems are used or applicable. A great deal of the
militarily relevant knowledge that these systems need is presently expressed as
natural-language text, unusable for AI systems. This knowledge may range from
local political and militant groups to infrastructure and food supplies. The
DARPA program intends to enable AI systems to use the vast amount of
information available in text formats.

Although this intelligent learning system would initially be used for military
purposes, it could also enable a variety of civilian applications. For example,
as more and more of the world’s libraries are converted to digital text, the
system could provide unprecedented analysis using AI systems of this vast
storehouse of knowledge.

As part of this effort, BBN Technologies recently received $29.7 million in
DARPA funding under a contract (FA8750-09-C-0179) awarded by the Air Force
Research Laboratory (AFRL). Under this contract, BBN will develop a universal
text engine that captures knowledge from text and transforms it into the formal
representations used by AI systems. A central goal of the research effort is to
develop techniques that can generalize across the linguistic structure and
content of documents to extract relations and axioms directly from text, rather
than relying on a person to encode such information. A related goal is to
develop techniques capable of performing automatic extraction of text on the
Web. Over the course of the five-year program, BBN’s system will be tested
against increasingly complex targets, including its ability to learn axioms
from text and to read and digest vast quantities of Web text.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Can-DARPA-Teach-Machines-to-Read-05533/

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[cia-drugs] World Globalization of the Banking and Regulatory Structure, Part 1

2009-06-29 Thread norgesen

WORLD GLOBALIZATION OF THE BANKING  REGULATORY STRUCTURE






By Joan Veon
June 29, 2009


BASEL, SWITZERLAND -The power base of the world has shifted…it is no longer in 
London, New York City, Washington D. C., or Tokyo. Neither is it in Beijing or 
Moscow. It is Basel, Switzerland. In 1930, the Bank for International 
Settlements-BIS was set up as a result of the Young Plan which was named after 
the man who presided over the Allied Reparation Committee, Owen D Young. 

Basel was chosen as its location because everyone could get on a train from 
anywhere in Europe to attend its meetings. When you walk out of the main train 
station, the BIS is within easy walking distance of one block. A modern 18 
story high building belies the power it extends globally. There is nothing 
about the building that calls anyone’s attention to it other than the plaque 
near the glass front doors that basically says it is private property. The 
world’s power brokers walk to the BIS without fanfare and are set apart from 
the citizenry by their business suit and ID pass. 

Yet within its walls the world’s monetary system is being designing and 
directed by many illuminated and brilliant people from inside and from without, 
those who visit regularly from all over the world include: central bank 
ministers, treasury secretaries, regulators, insurance supervisors, deposit 
insurers and accountants. Truly the BIS is all powerful. Dr. Carroll Quigley in 
his book, Tragedy and Hope, wrote that,

  The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less 
than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to 
dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a 
whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalistic fashion by the central 
banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreement, arrived at in 
frequent meetings and conferences. The apex was to be the Bank for 
International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland (pp. 324-25).

If this power was not evident before, it is in the process of becoming greater 
and more immense. While the BIS has always been the focal point of central bank 
activity globally, it now is finalizing the structure Dr. Quigley wrote about. 
Bi-monthly, the Group of Ten central bankers, along with those from majoring 
developing nations come together to discuss global monetary policy, among other 
things. Over the years it has expanded to the point that every aspect of 
banking, finance, insurance, deposit insurance, and regulation now constitute 
its core workings. 

In the mid-1990s the word “globalization” came into our vocabularies as we were 
faced with naming the process whereby the barriers between the countries of the 
world started to fall. Beginning with the establishment of the International 
Monetary Fund and World Bank in 1944, the financial barriers between countries 
fell; with the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, the political 
barriers fell; with the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1994, 
the trade barriers fell; with the establishment of the International Criminal 
Court in 1998, the legal barriers fell; and with the September 11, 2001 attack 
on the World Trade Center, the military and intelligence barriers fell. 

Similarly, during the 1990s, the Bank for International Settlements started to 
set up its own level of globalization. In1998, the International Association of 
Insurance Supervisors was set up and is comprised of insurance supervisors from 
all over the world. In 1999, the Financial Stability Forum was set up which was 
comprised of the Group of Seven treasury secretaries, central bankers, and 
regulatory agencies. Recently this organization was expanded to include the 
Group of Twenty. Then in 2002 the International Association of Deposit Insurers 
was set up. This organization is comprised of the “FDICs” of the world. Another 
organization which was set up in 1973 and then reconfigured in 1984 is the 
International Organization of Security Commissions-IOSCO which is basically a 
global “security and exchange” commission which has facilitated a global stock 
exchange.

What the 2008 Credit Crisis has provided is an opportunity to further enhance 
and empower these organizations which will and are in the process of 
transferring respective responsibilities from the national level to the global 
level, thus completing the process of banking, insurance, auditing, accounting, 
and regulatory globalization. It should be mentioned that in order for the 
United States to play its role in this process, the Obama Administration will 
have to set up a single national regulator over our seven different regulators 
that currently work independently. This is so important a step that the 
Financial Times recently ran an editorial on June 20 that warned America,

  The need for thorough regulatory reform is still pressing. One concern stands 
out: the risk of the whole financial

[cia-drugs] Boeing launches unmanned drone division

Boeing launches unmanned drone division

By Associated Press

06-16-2009

Boeing’s defense business announced on Monday the launch of a new Unmanned
Airborne Systems division, which will group all the company’s drone projects to
better compete for military contracts.

The formation of the new division reflects the growing interest by various air
forces in unmanned aerial vehicles for everything from high-altitude
surveillance and coastal patrols to tracking natural disasters.

The new division establishes a single team focused on implementing a common
strategy for unmanned systems and services, said Jim Albaugh, president of
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS).

The new Seattle-based unit will have roughly $400 million in revenues in its
first year, Albaugh said. He forecast double-digit growth for the business in
the future.

Boeing’s UAVs include the ScanEagle, a small low-cost drone for battlefield
reconnaissance, the Phantom Ray, an unmanned aircraft meant for surveillance
and aerial attack, and the A160 Hummingbird, a long-endurance helicopter drone.

Despite interest from the U.S. military, none of these projects has yet won a
major Pentagon contract.

Boeing IDS is one of the world’s largest manufacturer’s of military aircraft.
The business, headquartered in St. Louis, has 70,000 employees worldwide.

http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view/2009_06_15_Boeing_launches_unmanned_drone_division/srvc=homeposition=also

http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1158Itemid=121
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[cia-drugs] Obama Leads The Green Global Revolution With Major Shift In U.S. Policy

Obama Leads The Green Global Revolution With Major Shift In U.S. Policy
Irish Times
13.06.2009
By FRANK McDONALD

Major shift in US climate policy sparks hope for global treaty

THE UNITED States is no longer insisting that China and other large developing 
countries must make cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions under proposals 
tabled by the Obama administration for a new global treaty to combat climate 
change.

In a major shift in US policy, reflecting the views of President Obama, Dr 
Jonathan Pershing – who was in Beijing this week for talks with Chinese 
officials – made it clear that this would not require countries such as China 
to make cuts, merely to carry out “actions”.

Dr Pershing, who is head of the US delegation at the UN climate talks in Bonn, 
said yesterday that the large “emerging economies” would be required to take 
actions aimed at curtailing the growth in their emissions, rather than having 
to make actual cuts.

The US proposals, which call for the adoption of a new legal instrument under 
the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to supplement or even supplant 
any agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol, are being studied closely by the EU.

“The US is of the view that we need a new agreement, to frame what comes next,” 
Dr Pershing said.

“This would call for all countries to take action, but the US and other 
developed countries would take additional action in line with their historical 
responsibility and capacity.”

Under the US proposals, a legally binding “implementing agreement” – in effect, 
a new treaty – all developed countries would have to make “significant and 
substantial reductions” in their emissions, while large developing countries 
undertook commitments to change course.

Dr Pershing said he anticipated that this would be enough to satisfy sceptical 
US senators, who have insisted that China in particular should make a 
“comparable effort” to reduce its carbon footprint.

Related:

Mikhail Gorbachev calls for a Global Revolution *

The First Global Revolution - Green Agenda *

The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its 
environment? *

World Bank Climate Profiteering *

1974 Time Magazine Article on Global Cooling and More *

74 Years Since Oct Snowfalls - Deprogramming Global Warming *

Reuters: China Promotes Abortion To Reduce CO2 - People Are Enemy #1 *

Telegraph: Global Warming survey team now safe from freezing Arctic - Arctic 
warmer in the 1940s *

UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made 
Global Warming Claims *



http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=958

[cia-drugs] Reporter: NSA analysts spied on own wives and girlfriends


Reporter: NSA analysts spied on own wives and girlfriends

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane 
June 18, 2009 

According to the reporter who first broke the NSA wiretapping story, there is 
no proof the agency has scaled back its interception of the personal phone 
calls and email messages of American citizens as promised by the Obama 
administration or even that it is being straight with Congress about its 
activities.
James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed the NSA’s over-collection of data in an 
article for the New York Times on Tuesday, noting that one NSA analyst was even 
found to have been reading the private email of former President Bill Clinton.

Risen told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann the next day that he knew of no other cases 
like the Clinton incident but that many NSA analysts had been abusing their 
powers in other ways. “It sounded like, from the former NSA analyst that we 
interviewed, that it was rare to access the emails of celebrities or famous 
people,” Risen stated, “but that it was fairly routine, according to him, for 
people to access the emails of girlfriends or wives or other people that they 
might know.”

Risen further addressed the more serious question of whether the Obama 
administration is complying with its promise to scale back NSA data collection. 
He said that Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), who is the chairman of an intelligence 
oversight committee, “told us that he is not convinced that the NSA … has put 
an end to it. … He believes that it’s not inadvertent and that … this may be a 
flagrant problem that is continuing.”

Risen did acknowledge, however, that “other people on the Hill seem to disagree 
with that.”

Risen also pointed out there’s “a division within Congress” on whether or not 
they’re getting straight answers from the NSA. “Senator Feinstein said today 
that she believes the NSA is following the law. … Congressman Holt disagrees 
with that. … It’s unclear where the oversight is right now.”

Risen concluded by noting that “there was a very interesting exchange today in 
Congress between Attorney General Holder and Senator Russ Feingold. Feingold 
tried to get Attorney General Holder to agree that the Bush warrantless 
wiretapping program had been illegal, and Attorney General Holder refused now 
to use that word ‘illegal.’ … That was very interesting. … It represented a 
change from the Obama campaign’s position on that.”

This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast June 17, 2009.

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[cia-drugs] Challenging gentrification and corporatisation in Brighton

RESISTING THE CORPORATIONS 

June 18, 2009

Challenging gentrification and corporatisation in Brighton 

Grassroots campaigners have been challenging corporate power in a series of 
campaigns across Brighton. Here is a summary of what's been going on. 

Challenging Tesco on London Road 

Campaign group Another London Road has been campaigning against the 
gentrification and corporatisation of the London Road area of Brighton, whilst 
the St James Investment (SJI) consortium has been tendering for a 
comprehensive retail development. In essence this would mean another huge 
Tesco store surrounded by a housing development. 

However, SJI and Tesco have now pulled out of the development after London Road 
residents issued the Council with a 1,000-signature petition against their 
plans. James Hepburn, SJI's project leader for the London Road scheme, said in 
an interview with local Brighton newspaper, The Argus, I can confirm that St 
James's Investments have listened, and will continue to listen, to Brighton and 
are no longer working with Tesco in relation to the London Road site. 

Tesco and SJI's decision may have had more to do with the economic crisis than 
'listening' to the public but the Council can be in no doubt that the 
gentrification of London Road will meet with robust opposition. Brighton and 
Hove Council also plans to demolish the Open Market, one of the cheapest 
sources of fresh food in the area and home to everything from organic food 
cooperatives to peddlers of legal psychedelic products. The market will be 
replaced by a glitzy new market with higher rents and, potentially, a housing 
development. 

No to Starbucks on Saint James Street 

Campaigners have been picketing Starbucks on St James Street in Brighton every 
week for the last year (see this Corporate Watch article). 

In May 2009, Starbucks opened their eighth new store on St James Street without 
obtaining proper planning permission. A coalition of local businesses and 
grassroots campaigners immediately joined forces to close the store down. The 
group, Brighton Against Starbucks, stresses that it is not simply concerned 
with a planning issue but is campaigning to draw attention to Starbucks’ ethos 
of profit before people; corporation before community. 3,000 signatures were 
gathered on a petition calling for the Council to enforce the planning 
regulations. As a result, the Council, at a meeting in December 2008 and after 
representations from Brighton against Starbucks, made an order requiring 
Starbucks to quit operating as a cafe by February 2009. 

In February 2009, Starbucks appealed against the decision, leading to a 
three-day hearing in June. At the hearing, with echoes of the epic McLibel 
battle, Starbucks based much of their case on the disruption to their business 
caused by protesters and ignored the fact that they had broken the law opening 
the shop in the first place. Stephen Morgan of Landmark Chambers, representing 
Starbucks, complained of the disrupting effect of pickets, broken windows and 
superglued locks over the last year, concluding his speech by saying, We do 
genuinely wonder what all the fuss is about in this case of a straightforward 
coffee shop. 

In his witness statement, the manager of the store said that, on the day the 
store opened, the staff arrived to find the locks superglued shut. The manager 
went to a local locksmith and, apparently, was subjected to a torrent of 
'abuse' and a refusal to fix his locks. 

Brighton Against Starbucks is awaiting the verdict of the hearing, which should 
be in about a month. The group, however, has vowed to continue campaigning 
against Starbucks in Brighton whatever the verdict. 

Guerilla gardening on Lewes Road 

The Guerilla Gardening project on Lewes Road has reclaimed a piece of land that 
had been derelict for several years. The plot, previously leased by Esso, may 
be remembered by people who were involved in the Brighton anti-war movement as 
the site of several angry protests. Local residents claim that the garage was 
closed down due to health and safety concerns (petrol leaking into the water 
system). In May this year, local residents began a community garden project on 
the site, planting flowers and shrubs and holding community events. 

Last Thursday King Sturge, a firm acting for the site's owners, moved in to 
secure the site and lock the community out. However, local residents quickly 
lifted the gate off its hinges and broke their way back into the site. 

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3390

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Resistance against Shell continues in Rossport 

June 18, 2009

About 150 people travelled to County Mayo, Ireland, last weekend for the 
Rossport summer gathering against a Shell-led consortium's attempts to build 
and operate a high pressure gas pipeline and refinery in the remote and 
ecologically sensitive region. Workshops included direct action training, tours 
of the local area, a talk from the women of Erris and

[cia-drugs] Obama Asks Congress for the Power to Punish

Obama Asks Congress for the Power to Punish

By Mike 'Mish' Shedlock

06-16-2009

Obama wants to extend the powers of the Fed. Then again he wants to take some
powers away from the Fed. It's hard to know what he is thinking until you boil
it down to its essence. Being president is not enough, Obama wants to become
the Czar of Czars with the Power to Punish.

Shades of Roosevelt, Obama to Create Consumer Financial Agency With Power to
Punish.

President Barack Obama will propose creating an agency to protect consumers
of financial products with the power to punish offending firms and stripping
the Federal Reserve of some of its powers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Agency, to be announced tomorrow in the
overhaul of financial regulations, will have the authority to ban “unfair terms
and practices,” said a document obtained by Bloomberg News. Those powers now
rest with Fed.

“We’ve got to make sure that we have somebody who is focused and responsible
for protecting consumers, whether it’s on subprime loans, for their mortgages,
for their credit cards,” Obama said today in an interview with Bloomberg
Television.

Lawmakers, including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, have
faulted the Fed for not using its authority to ban “unfair or deceptive acts”
in consumer lending, and have opposed expanding the Fed’s power to act as a
systemic-risk regulator for financial markets. The Fed has responded by writing
rules strengthening consumer protections in credit-card and mortgage lending.

“In some cases, we’re expanding modestly the Fed’s powers,” Obama said. “In
other circumstances, we’re actually going to relieve them of some
responsibilities, for example, on the consumer side.”

Fed spokeswoman Michelle Smith declined to comment.

Obama’s plan will let the agency set mortgage rules, write rules for banks
and non-bank companies, supervise and examine institutions for compliance, and
set fines and penalties for offenders, according to the document.
That may sound good on paper or in soundbites delivered by the great orator.
However, I suspect it will end up doing nothing more than extending government
control over every aspect of our lives to the point of sheer ridiculousness,
all for political gain.

No one, and I mean NO ONE in any position of authority has placed the blame
where it belongs. And the onus of that blame should be placed squarely on the
very existence of the Fed in conjunction with the free lunch policies of
Congress.

Unless and until the root cause of this mess is addressed, nothing good can
possibly come from all this meddling no matter how good it sounds at first
glance.

Now instead of reducing the powers of the Fed, Obama wants to increase them
while at the same time threatening businesses with a whole new bureaucratic
nightmare with the Power to Punish.

I have a better idea, and it's far simpler: Let's eliminate the Fed and balance
the budget. The rest of the problems will then easily cure themselves.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-asks-congress-for-power-to-punish.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=aY004TTBuCAA

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Obama to Create Consumer Financial Agency With Power to Punish

By Alison Vekshin

June 16 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama will propose creating an agency
to protect consumers of financial products with the power to punish offending
firms and stripping the Federal Reserve of some of its powers.

Fed spokeswoman Michelle Smith declined to comment.

“You’re separating out the regulation of the entity from the regulation of the
products,” Scott Talbott, senior vice president of government affairs at the
Financial Services Roundtable, said in a telephone interview. “Under this

[cia-drugs] Abuse of Power Backfire

2009-06-15 Thread norgesen

ABUSE OF POWER BACKFIRE

By Geoff Metcalf

June 14, 2009



“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” --Edmund Burke

Golden Boy U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is having a hissy fit over a book, 
Triple Cross, How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, 
and the FBI, a 2006 by Peter Lance. Lance had the temerity (and documentation) 
to question the fiction of Fitzie’s infallibility. Fitzgerald calls the book a 
deliberate lie masquerading as truth.

Bullfeathers!

Fitzgerald’s efforts to kill the publication of the paperback version of Triple 
Cross crescendoed when he most recently wrote Harper Collins, “…if in fact you 
publish the book this month and it defames me or casts me in a false light, 
HarperCollins will be sued.”

Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Illinois’s Northern District, is a 
prosecutorial stud:

  • People Magazine list him as one of their “sexiest men alive” in 2005 
  o In the company of Sean Connery, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, and John Kennedy.
  • Took down a couple of Governors, including Rod Blagojevich 
  • Had New York Times’ Judith Miller imprisoned during the investigation 
  • Scored a conviction of Scooter Libby (and flipped off Dick Cheney in the 
process).
Now he’s threatening Lance with defamation and ¬libel charges. However, he 
supposedly is fighting as a private citizen defending his public 
reputation…wink-wink/nudge-nudge…

“What Patrick Fitzgerald tried to do,” says Lance, “is virtually unprecedented. 
Understand that this is arguably the most powerful Federal prosecutor in 
America combing through the book and writing 32 pages of threat letters, none 
of which make a viable claim for defamation. Triple Cross has become Patrick 
Fitzgerald’s obsession.”

I have read all of Lance’s 9/11 work (www.peterlance.com) and find it detailed, 
compelling and serious journalism. Lance is an adherent of the Metcalf axiom 
“it is not a question of WHO is right or wrong but WHAT is right or wrong that 
counts”. Fitzgerald apparently disagrees and accuses Lance of being 
“outrageously dishonest”. Although the threatening letters have been sent from 
a U.S. Attorney (and at least one faxed and time stamped from the U.S. 
Attorney’s office), the feud has taken on a school yard echo: “Did not! Did to! 
Oh yeah! In your face! Neener neener…”

HarperCollins has ‘polished’/tweaked the paperback version and added a new 
introduction…which is mostly about the U.S. Attorney’s efforts to kill the book 
(and will probably get more attention than “How bin Laden's Master Spy 
Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI”…which is the too long 
subtitle of ‘Triple Cross’). 

Notwithstanding the ire and angst of Fitzgerald to Triple Cross: that 
Fitzgerald mucked up handling a key FBI informant who doubled as an Al Qaeda 
spy; a bogus sworn affirmation dissing Intel from an inmate snitch; and an 
alleged cover up involving an FBI agent and a mobbed up player, there are two 
key overlooked elements to this soap opera: 1) Abuse of Power; and 2) 
Unintended consequences.

Abuse of power under the color of authority is a big deal and Fitzgerald’s over 
the top efforts to kibosh an investigative book about 9/11is open to such a 
charge. Lord Chesterfield once observed, “An injury is much sooner forgotten 
than an insult.” The perceived insults in Triple Cross probably would have 
faded away into the shadows of conspiracy folklore without the itching and 
moaning and gnashing of teeth exhibited by the star U.S. Attorney.

The hardcover version of Triple Cross is ranked 15,918 by Amazon. Pre-sales of 
the paperback version is ranked 47,000 by Amazon. In the wake of Mike Isikoff’s 
Newsweek story, the Chicago Sun and Wall Street Journal ink, Lance and Harper 
Collins should be getting early Christmas presents this year…all thanks to the 
excessive protestations of their harshest critic.

“That’s the ultimate irony,” Lance says. “It wasn’t reviewed by a single U.S. 
publication. If Patrick Fitzgerald had not attempted to kill it, it would have 
just gone off into publishing obscurity. This is the true lesson of censorship.”

HarperCollins says, We believe the book fairly raises issues of public 
concern, a spokesman said. Their press release for the book, added, what 
should be obvious to anyone who reads will know, that Triple Cross “stands as 
an important work of investigative journalism.”


Lance says, “Patrick Fitzgerald accuses me of making charges in the book that I 
never made….At the same time, he continually fails to respond to the 
substantive allegations documented in 604 pages, 1,425 end notes and 32 pages 
of documentary appendices.”

Fitzgerald has selectively been using “no comment” to some reporters, adding 
that on this personal matter, he could be reached only through a P.O. Box 
(unless the moon is in a certain phase and he arbitrarily chooses to talk to 
certain people).


Maybe Fitzgerald is refusing to respond to allegations and press

[cia-drugs] 1984 published 60 years ago today

1984 published 60 years ago today



Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author George Orwell
Publisher Secker and Warburg (London)
Publication date 8 June 1949

Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes abbreviated to 1984) is a classic  
dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it  
is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a repressive, totalitarian  
regime. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man,  
Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of perpetuating the  
regime's propaganda by falsifying records and political literature.  
Smith grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins a  
rebellion against the system that leads to his arrest and torture.

The novel has become famous for its portrayal of pervasive government  
surveillance and control, and government's increasing encroachment on  
the rights of the individual. Since its publication, many of its terms  
and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, and Newspeak  
have entered the popular vernacular. The word Orwellian itself has  
come to refer to anything reminiscent of the book's fictional regime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

[cia-drugs] New type of cloud found - exactly what is causing them?

New type of cloud found - exactly what is causing them?
Telegraph
30.05.2009
By Richard Gray

New type of cloud found

Meteorologists believe they have discovered a new classification of cloud after 
the unique formation has been spotted in skies around the world.

Experts at the Royal Meteorological Society are now attempting to have the new 
cloud type, which has been named “Asperatus” after the Latin word for rough, 
officially added to the international nomenclature scheme used by forecasters 
to identify clouds.

If successful, it will be the first variety of cloud to be classified since 
1953.

The new type of cloud forms a dark, lumpy blanket across the sky and has been 
sighted in locations all over the world,

“It is a bit like looking at the surface of a choppy sea from below,” said 
Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society, who first 
identified the asperatus cloud from photographs that were being sent in by 
members of the society.

“We try to identify and classify all of the images of clouds we get in, but 
there were some that just didn’t seem to fit in any of the other categories, so 
I began to think it might be a unique type of cloud.

“The underside of the clouds are quite rough and choppy. It looks very stormy, 
but some of the reports we have been getting suggest that they tend to break up 
without actually turning into a storm.”

The Royal Meteorological Society is now gathering detailed weather data for the 
days and locations where the asperatus clouds have been seen in an attempt to 
understand exactly what is causing them.

Among the worldwide locations where asperatus clouds have been spotted are 
above the flat plains of Iowa and Australia and also over the arctic sea just 
off the coast of Greenland. 

The undulating and lumpy underside, however, is thought to be caused by warm 
and cold air meeting a the boundary between the lower and middle atmosphere 
creating a transition effect similar to those seen when oil and vinegar mix. 

Officials will then apply to the UN's World Meteorological Organisation in 
Geneva to have the new cloud type considered for addition into the 
International Cloud Atlas, which is used as the worldwide standard for 
meteorologists. 

Professor Paul Hardaker, the Chief Executive of the Royal Meteorological 
Society, said: The process is a long and convoluted one to get through, but we 
believe there is a good case for this cloud to be added. 

There would probably need to be quite a lot of heat around to produce the 
energy needed to generate such dramatic cloud formations. They are quite dark 
structures so there must be a lot of water vapour condensing in the cloud. 

Clouds are classified in an internationally recognised way that identifies 
where in the atmosphere they form, the amount of moisture they hold, their 
shape and appearance. 

Luke Howard, a British pharmacist, first proposed a nomenclature system for 
clouds at the start of the 19th century, which was adopted as the standardised 
way of categorising cloud types. 

The system, which is governed by the WMO, uses three layers of classification 
and was developed to help forecasters predict oncoming weather conditions from 
the cloud cover in the sky. 

There are 10 basic cloud forms, or genera, that describe where in the sky they 
form and their approximate appearance, including stratus, cumulus and cirrus 
clouds. 

The genres are subdivided into cloud species, which describe shape and internal 
structure, and cloud variety, which describes the transparency and arrangement 
of clouds. 

Mr Pretor-Pinney is to publish a new book, The Cloudspotter's Guide, next week 
which provides detailed descriptions and photographs of all the different cloud 
types. It comes at a time when clouds are taking on a new importance in 
meteorological work after falling out of fashion as forecasters used satellite 
images and radar to help their predications rather than using cloud formations. 

Professor Hardaker said: Clouds are very important in the Earth's climate as 
depending where they are in the atmosphere they will either reflect heat or 
absorb and trap heat. We are only just starting to understand that role. 

The Met Office is also to release another book later in the month, called 
Extraordinary Clouds, which features dramatic photographs of clouds. 

Richard Hamblyn, from the environmental institute at University College London 
and author of the Met Office book, added: Clouds are beautiful things that 
have volume, form and shadow, yet they float in the sky. 

There can't be many people who have not wondered at some point how they stay 
up there, as nothing else in our world behaves in that way. 


To see more examples of unusual types of clouds, visit 
www.cloudappreciationsociety.org 

Full article

Related:

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CNN states, “China now boasts it is the world’s leading rainmaker. It has 
created

[cia-drugs] Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan

Cyberwar
Privacy May Be a Victim in Cyberdefense Plan 

By THOM SHANKER and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: June 12, 2009 


WASHINGTON — A plan to create a new Pentagon cybercommand is raising 
significant privacy and diplomatic concerns, as the Obama administration moves 
ahead on efforts to protect the nation from cyberattack and to prepare for 
possible offensive operations against adversaries’ computer networks. 

President Obama has said that the new cyberdefense strategy he unveiled last 
month will provide protections for personal privacy and civil liberties. But 
senior Pentagon and military officials say that Mr. Obama’s assurances may be 
challenging to guarantee in practice, particularly in trying to monitor the 
thousands of daily attacks on security systems in the United States that have 
set off a race to develop better cyberweapons. 

Much of the new military command’s work is expected to be carried out by the 
National Security Agency, whose role in intercepting the domestic end of 
international calls and e-mail messages after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, 
under secret orders issued by the Bush administration, has already generated 
intense controversy. 

There is simply no way, the officials say, to effectively conduct computer 
operations without entering networks inside the United States, where the 
military is prohibited from operating, or traveling electronic paths through 
countries that are not themselves American targets.

The cybersecurity effort, Mr. Obama said at the White House last month, “will 
not — I repeat, will not — include monitoring private sector networks or 
Internet traffic.”

But foreign adversaries often mount their attacks through computer network hubs 
inside the United States, and military officials and outside experts say that 
threat confronts the Pentagon and the administration with difficult questions. 

Military officials say there may be a need to intercept and examine some e-mail 
messages sent from other countries to guard against computer viruses or 
potential terrorist action. Advocates say the process could ultimately be 
accepted as the digital equivalent of customs inspections, in which passengers 
arriving from overseas consent to have their luggage opened for security, tax 
and health reasons. 

“The government is in a quandary,” said Maren Leed, a defense expert at the 
bipartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies who was a Pentagon 
special assistant on cyberoperations from 2005 to 2008. 

Ms. Leed said a broad debate was needed “about what constitutes an intrusion 
that violates privacy and, at the other extreme, what is an intrusion that may 
be acceptable in the face of an act of war.”

In a recent speech, Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff and a chief architect of the new cyberstrategy, acknowledged that a 
major unresolved issue was how the military — which would include the National 
Security Agency, where much of the cyberwar expertise resides — could legally 
set up an early warning system.

Unlike a missile attack, which would show up on the Pentagon’s screens long 
before reaching American territory, a cyberattack may be visible only after it 
has been launched in the United States. 

“How do you understand sovereignty in the cyberdomain?” General Cartwright 
asked. “It doesn’t tend to pay a lot of attention to geographic boundaries.”

For example, the daily attacks on the Pentagon’s own computer systems, or 
probes sent from Russia, China and Eastern Europe seeking chinks in the 
computer systems of corporations and financial institutions, are rarely seen 
before their effect is felt inside the United States.

Some administration officials have begun to discuss whether laws or regulations 
must be changed to allow law enforcement, the military or intelligence agencies 
greater access to networks or Internet providers when significant evidence of a 
national security threat was found.

Ms. Leed said that while the Defense Department and related intelligence 
agencies were the only organizations that had the ability to protect against 
such cyberattacks, “they are not the best suited, from a civil liberties 
perspective, to take on that responsibility.”

Under plans being completed at the Pentagon, the new cybercommand will be run 
by a four-star general, much the way Gen. David H. Petraeus runs the wars in 
Afghanistan and Iraq from Central Command in Tampa, Fla. But the expectation is 
that whoever is in charge of the new command will also direct the National 
Security Agency, an effort to solve the turf war between the spy agency and the 
military over who is in charge of conducting offensive operations. 

While the N.S.A.’s job is chiefly one of detection and monitoring, the agency 
also possesses what Michael D. McConnell, the former director of national 
intelligence, called “the critical skill set” to respond quickly to 
cyberattacks. Yet the Defense Department views cyberspace as its

[cia-drugs] �Orwellian language� used in schools harm children, finds damning report

Daily Mail: ‘Orwellian language’ used in schools harm children, finds damning 
report
Daily Mail
09.06.2009
By Laura Clark

‘Orwellian language’ in schools turns pupils into ‘customers’, finds damning 
report

Schools using the ‘Orwellian language of performance management’ are 
undermining teenagers’ education by turning them into ‘customers’ rather than 
students, a landmark report says today.

Teachers who are forced to use phrases such as ‘performance indicator’ and 
‘curriculum delivery’ lack enthusiam for the job, the six-year investigation 
found.

The Oxford-based Nuffield Review, the most comprehensive study of secondary 
education in 50 years, said that ‘the words we use shape our thinking’.

It notes: ‘As the language of performance and management has advanced, so we 
have proportionately lost a language of education which recognises the 
intrinsic value of pursuing certain sorts of question … of seeking 
understanding [and] of exploring through literature and the arts what it means 
to be human.’

Teachers are inundated with the language of measurable ‘inputs’ and ‘outputs’, 
‘performance indicators’ and ‘audits’, ‘targets’, ‘customers’, ‘deliverers’, 
‘efficiency gains’ and ‘bottom lines’, the  report continues.

In a damning indictment, the report said that a culture of hitting targets, 
where ‘cuts in resources are euphemistically called ‘efficiency gains’, has led 
to ‘the consumer or client’ replacing ‘the learner’.

Among the jargon were such baffling phrases as ‘performativity’ (the emphasis 
that government monitoring has on achieving targets) and ‘level descriptor’ 
(the outcomes that a learner should reach).

‘Dialogic teaching’ (an emphasis on speaking and listening between teachers and 
pupils) and ‘articulated progression’ (allowing pupils options for their next 
step in the qualification system) were also singled out in the report for 
censure.

And the report’s authors accused the ‘micro management’ of education by 
minsters for forcing schools ‘to teach to the test’ and called for ‘a return to 
an educational language’.

The report also said that hundreds of thousands of youngsters better suited to 
practical work leave with poor qualifications because their skills go 
unrecognised.

Woodwork, metalwork and home economics have all but disappeared while geography 
field-work and science experiments are in decline.

Instead, a culture of testing has brought about a narrow focus on written exams 
at GCSE and A-level. This has consigned a generation of pupils to an 
‘impoverished’ education.

The study said school attainment remained ‘low’ despite unprecedented 
investment in education.

The Government’s school diplomas covering 14 industry areas do little to 
improve matters, because they put greater emphasis on ‘learning about the world 
of work’ than on practical learning, the review warns.

It says the entire system needs to be overhauled because it has suffered years 
of tinkering and piecemeal changes.

Universities now have so little confidence in A-levels that 45 are setting 
their own admissions tests to help them distinguish between the most able 
candidates.

Professor Richard Pring, who led the review team of academics from Oxford, 
London’s Institute of Education and Cardiff University, said concern about the 
achievement of young people was ‘not new’.

A generation ago, hands-on lessons were ‘very much part of the learning 
experience at school’, he said. But the introduction of the national curriculum 
in 1988 had hastened the ‘demise’ of practical learning.

‘We now have a rather narrow view of success in learning,’ he said.

Full article

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[cia-drugs] Waterboarding was 'well done,' Cheney says

Waterboarding was ‘well done,’ Cheney says

By John Byrne 
Published: June 1, 2009 

On Iraq and 9/11: ‘That’s not something I made up’

Former Vice President Dick Cheney is usually very careful at choosing his words.

Perhaps not so today. In a speech Monday at the National Press Club, continuing 
along familiar themes of terrorism, Guantanamo and his hatred for The New York 
Times, Cheney spoke defensively of the administration’s practice of 
water-boarding detainees.

“I don’t believe we tortured,” Cheney remarked, noting that the interrogation 
techniques approved by the Bush administration were vetted by White House 
lawyers. They didn’t cross a “red line,” he said.

And then he delivered the whopper: “There were three people who were 
water-boarded…. It was well-done.”

The former vice president also made an odd comment about detainees being held 
at Guantanamo Bay.

He framed their detention as a choice between two options: either we imprison 
them, or we kill them.

“We need Guantanamo… If we didn’t have it, we’d need to (invent) it,” Cheney 
remarked. “If you don’t have a place to hold these people, the only other 
option is to kill them.”

“We don’t operate that way,” he added.

Cheney’s comments were transcribed by The Swamp, the blog of the Chicago 
Tribune.

“If I had it to do all over again, I would do exactly the same thing,” he 
continued. “I don’t have much tolerance or patience for those who have the 
benefit of hindsight eight years later and have forgotten what happened on 
9/11…. Just imagine, what would happen if you had 19 men in one of our cities… 
armed with a nuclear weapon or (a biological weapon).”

He also laid it thick on The New York Times:

  “We found ourselves in a situation where The New York Times received a leak - 
we called them into the Oval Office,” Cheney said. “The publisher, the editor 
and the Washington Bureau chief… all came down to the Oval Office and talked to 
the president,” where they were told that writing about the program would let 
terrorists know the U.S. is reading their mail and would break some laws.) 
“They went ahead and they published it anyway, and their award for doing it was 
they won the Pulitzer.”

  “My own personal view is that damaged our security,” he said.

  “I think it’s going to be very difficult to close Guantanamo,” Cheney said. 
“The New York Times again, one of my favorite publications… referred to the 
prisoners at Guantanamo as abductees… These are bad actors…. The ones that are 
left, these are the worst of the worst… There is not a lot of great demand out 
around the country to have those folks shipped to the nearest facility.” 

And about Iraq and 9/11: “That’s not something I made up.”

“The prime source of information on the relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda 
was George Tenet,” the former CIA director, Cheney said. “There was a 
relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back 10 years. That’s not 
something I made up… That’s something the director of the CIA was telling us.

He added: “We know that he was making $25,000 payments to the families of 
suicide bombers… We know there were other terrorists… who had found safe harbor 
in Iraq over the years. I do not believe, and I have never seen any evidence to 
confirm, that he was involved in 9/11… But the fact of Saddam Hussein being a 
terrorist-sponsoring state… was, I think, a fact.”

What he didn’t say was that the Times held their story about the 
Administration’s warrantless wiretapping program for a year after they first 
had it — which meant the story stayed out of the news in 2004, when Cheney and 
President Bush were running for reelection. 

This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast June 1, 2009.

http://216.87.173.33/fvp/flvplayer.swf

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[cia-drugs] Equip your vehicle with a Smoke Screen, Armor

Equip your vehicle with a Smoke Screen, Armor.

June 8, 2009
Have a dense smoke fog eject from your vehicles exhaust pipe, without damaging
your engine. I saw this in a show called “Ultimate Bulletproof Car”. It’s quite
simple and cheap by my estimation.

The concept is simple: add a 2nd sort of windshield washer fluid tank under
your hood, fill it with everyday radiator ‘antifreeze’, and hook it the exhaust
manifold with copper piping. In-line you’ll need either an electronic valve, or
perhaps a pump, but I’m not sure; 12 volt either way. The kit this site sells
only uses a valve to release, but their pricey can of smoke solution is
aerosol, so a pump might be the more likely part needed in an antifreeze setup.
For you big screen TV pillaging survivalists: ‘antifreeze’ primarily consists
of ethylene glycol, the same nasty fluid found inside the 3 projector lenses,
in high grade form, which happens to be the largest problem in waste disposal
from scrapping out rear projection TV’s. BTW: projector lens coolant costs
about 10 times as much as vehicle radiator fluid.

To hook into the exhaust manifold I recommend using a brass flare fitting, and
you’ll need a matching “Tap and Die” bit to create the threads. I haven’t yet
done any this, so it’s possible the manifold walls are too thin to tap proper
threads into. In this case a ‘bulkhead’ method might be required which could
suck, requiring removal of the manifold. I’m also unsure of whether or not a
sprayer nozzle is required inside the manifold chamber, but if so a salvaged
fuel injector sprayer would likely be ideal.

Without major complication, I can see this project being completed in a Sunday
afternoon for less than a hundred dollars. I also see where people experienced
in this practice could make some decent side cash by outfitting others vehicles
after showing off with this ‘James Bond’ tech. I imagine there might be several
sites containing more detailed info on the process, but the one I linked above
is the best one I found in about 5 minutes of searching.

Vehicle Armor: I’ve seen some episodes from the new show “Weaponizers”. In one
episode they do armor tests using plate steel. I can’t remember if it was 1/4?
or 1/2? plating, but the results weren’t too impressive using 30 cal. rounds,
especially not for the weight added to the vehicle. But this reminded me of a
show I watched many years ago on ‘Armored Cars’, the type used for cash
transportation between banks and so on.They don’t use steel. Instead they use
several layers of thin aluminum, and achieve better results using less weight.
The bullet resistance is dramatically higher than if they were t use a solid
thick aluminum layer of the same thickness.

A key form of bulletproof glass also uses layering (of actual glass), but
higher grade bulletproof glass is one thick layer of polycarbonate. So with
these lessons I figure that stacking thin layers of steel, aluminum and
polycarbonate might get the best weight vs. bullet resistance, especially if
tough adhesives (2 part adhesives and paints are always the best) are used to
stack the layers together. Without proper adhesives, the metals might work
better by using all idenitcal materials, and ‘weld-riveting’ them together, as
welds are typically stronger than than the materials themselves. The main point
is the more layers the better, which gives true samurai swords their ‘edge’
over other swords of the same thickness.

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[cia-drugs] WSJ: The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction

WSJ: The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction

By WILLIAM MCGURN

06-09-2009

Tony Fratto is envious.

Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior
member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult it
can be to deal with a press corps skeptical about presidential economic claims.
It now appears, however, that Mr. Fratto's problem was that he simply lacked
the magic words -- jobs saved or created.

Saved or created has become the signature phrase for Barack Obama as he
describes what his stimulus is doing for American jobs. His latest invocation
came yesterday, when the president declared that the stimulus had already saved
or created at least 150,000 American jobs -- and announced he was ramping up
some of the stimulus spending so he could save or create an additional
600,000 jobs this summer. These numbers come in the context of an earlier Obama
promise that his recovery plan will save or create three to four million jobs
over the next two years.

Mr. Fratto sees a double standard at play. We would never have used a formula
like 'save or create,' he tells me. To begin with, the number is pure fiction
-- the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being
'saved.' And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would
never have let us get away with it.

Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama's jobs formula is part of its
attraction. Never mind that no one -- not the Labor Department, not the
Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- actually measures jobs saved.
As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama's jobs claims are based on
macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs. Nice work if you can
get away with it.

And get away with it he has. However dubious it may be as an economic measure,
as a political formula save or create allows the president to invoke numbers
that convey an illusion of precision. Harvard economist and former Bush
economic adviser Greg Mankiw calls it a non-measurable metric. And on his
blog, he acknowledges the political attraction.

The expression 'create or save,' which has been used regularly by the
President and his economic team, is an act of political genius, writes Mr.
Mankiw. You can measure how many jobs are created between two points in time.
But there is no way to measure how many jobs are saved. Even if things get
much, much worse, the President can say that there would have been 4 million
fewer jobs without the stimulus.

Mr. Obama's comments yesterday are a perfect illustration of just such a claim.
In the months since Congress approved the stimulus, our economy has lost nearly
1.6 million jobs and unemployment has hit 9.4%. Invoke the magic words,
however, and -- presto! -- you have the president claiming he has saved or
created 150,000 jobs. It all makes for a much nicer spin, and helps you forget
this is the same team that only a few months ago promised us that passing the
stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising over 8%.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124451592762396883.html

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[cia-drugs] Margaret Sanger's Case For Eugenics

Margaret Sanger's Case For Eugenics

By Amy de Miceli
06-07-2009

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is
practically identical with the final aims of eugenics. Birth Control Review,
1921

As the Founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger is considered a hero to
many for bringing choice to women in America. However, it becomes obvious from
Sanger's own words and publications that she did not care about freedom of
choice, but cared only for a superior race, and she had a plan to prevent
multiplication of this bad stock.

Sanger was a member of the American Eugenics Society. She was a eugenicist who
wanted to forcefully sterilize people, she wrote many articles and books on the
subject. In 1922 she wrote The Pivot of Civilization, (HG Wells wrote the
introduction) and she refers to people as human weeds and morons who did not
deserve to have children. In The Case for Birth Control she offers a vague list
of random reasons that would justify sterilization, it included anyone that was
poor and people with children that are not normal. With such ambiguous
standards, virtually anyone could be labeled as unfit.

The US Supreme Court authorized forced sterilization of undesirables for over
40 years in America, and by 1933 most states had adopted Eugenics Sterilization
Laws, before Hitler began Eugenics in Germany.
Hitler admired the work of Margaret Sanger, and modeled many of his Eugenics
Laws after America's. Coincidentally, Hilter's director of the Racial Hygiene
Society, Ernst Rudin was the same man that Sanger had previously commissioned
for her own agenda, publishing his work in her magazine, the Birth Control
Review.

In 1939 Margaret Sanger began The Negro Projectand to bring people along
willingly she enlisted black preachers to support sterilization. She outlined
the deceitful plan in a letter to Clarence Gamble of the Procter and Gamble
Empire,

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with
social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most
successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We
don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.

Sanger's personal Plan for Peace outlines what she really thought of our
human rights.

The second step of her plan would be to take an inventory of the secondary
group such as illiterates, paupers, unemployable, criminals, prostitutes,
dope-fiends; classify them in special departments under government medical
protection, and segregate them on farms and open spaces as long as necessary
for the strengthening and development of moral conduct.

Margaret Sanger has been paraded around as an advocate for women's rights,
her historic value has been overinflated, and her dark history has been, (and
is being) rewritten by the main stream media. Life Magazine for example, has
even placed Margaret Sanger as one of the most important people of the
century which may be true... if you are a eugenicist.

The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant
members is to kill it.

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[cia-drugs] Venezuela bans Coke Zero, cites danger to health

Venezuela bans Coke Zero, cites danger to health

By Reuters

06-11-2009

The Venezuelan government of U.S.-critic President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday
ordered Coca-Cola Co KO.N to withdraw its Coke Zero beverage from the South
American nation, citing unspecified dangers to health.

The decision follows a wave of nationalizations and increased scrutiny of
businesses in South America's top oil exporter.

Health Minister Jesus Mantilla said the zero-calorie Coke Zero should no longer
be sold and stocks of the drink removed from store shelves.

The product should be withdrawn from circulation to preserve the health of
Venezuelans, the minister said in comments reported by the government's news
agency.

Despite Chavez's anti-capitalist policies and rhetoric against consumerism,
oil-exporting Venezuela remains one of Latin America's most Americanized
cultures, with U.S. fast-food chains, shopping malls and baseball all highly
popular.

Mantilla did not say what health risks Coke Zero, which contains artificial
sweeteners, posed to the population.

Coke Zero was launched in Venezuela in April and Coca-Cola Femsa
KOF.NKOFL.MX, the Mexico-based company that bottles Coke products locally,
said at the time it aimed to increase its market share for low calorie drinks
by 200 percent.

Neither Coca-Cola nor the bottler responded to requests for comment on
Wednesday.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N10470891.htm

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[cia-drugs] Blackwater operating illegally in Iraq after contract

Blackwater operating illegally in Iraq after contract

By Bill Sizemore

06-11-2009

The latest in a series of war-crimes lawsuits against Blackwater and its
affiliated companies alleges that they continue to operate illegally in Iraq a
month after the expiration of their lucrative security contract with the U.S.
State Department.

The new lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, says
Blackwater is still providing armed protection services in Iraq under the name
Greystone Ltd. for the International Republican Institute, a nonprofit
organization funded by the U.S. government.

That work is illegal, the lawsuit says, because the Iraqi government has
refused to grant Blackwater licenses to do business or carry weapons in the
country.

The company denied that it is operating illegally.

Iraqi anger over alleged unprovoked killings of civilians by Blackwater
contractors was a key factor in the State Department's decision not to renew
the company's contract to protect U.S. diplomatic personnel in Iraq.

That contract, which earned the Moyock, N.C.-based company hundreds of millions
of dollars, expired in May.

But Blackwater, which changed its name to Xe in February, continues to work for
IRI, the lawsuit alleges: Xe-Blackwater, seeking to obscure its continued
illegal operations in Iraq, directed its employees to enter into new contracts
under the Greystone name rather than the Blackwater name.

According to its Web site, IRI advances freedom and democracy worldwide by
developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, good
governance and the rule of law. The organization was established in 1983.
Although it bills itself as nonpartisan, prominent Republicans occupy many of
its leadership positions.

Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, is chairman of the
board.

IRI's Iraq operation is funded by the State Department.

According to the organization's three most recent tax returns, for 2005 through
2007, Blackwater was paid $17 million a year for security services - nearly a
quarter of IRI's $75 million annual budget.

Lisa Gates, an IRI spokeswoman, confirmed that the organization has an ongoing
security contract with Blackwater and added, As a U.S. State Department
grantee, should Blackwater not be able to operate legally in Iraq, IRI would
hire a new security firm.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed Wednesday are the estate of Husain Salih
Rabea, a 72-year-old Iraqi, and Ali Kareem Fakhri, a college student, both of
whom were allegedly fired upon by Blackwater shooters for no reason as they
drove on a public roadway in Hilla, Iraq, on Aug. 13, 2007.

The Blackwater contractors left the scene without stopping to offer any medical
aid, the lawsuit says.

Rabea died from his wounds, leaving five sons and three daughters.

They are among 50 Iraqi plaintiffs named in a flurry of lawsuits filed this
month in Alexandria alleging war crimes committed by Blackwater contractors in
five separate incidents. Susan Burke, a Washington lawyer working on all the
cases, said Wednesday that more are on the way.

Anne Tyrrell, a Xe spokeswoman, called the latest lawsuit riddled with error.
She said another Xe affiliate, not Greystone, was operating in Hilla in August
2007 under a State Department contract.

She said the terms of that contract preclude her from discussing operational
details, but added, Xe and all of our affiliated companies respect U.S. and
local laws, and we work closely with local governments to ensure that we are
meeting all local requirements.

The lawsuits name Erik Prince, Xe's chairman, and 11 affiliated companies as
defendants.

Characterizing Prince and his companies as modern-day merchants of death, the
lawsuits also allege that Xe employs shooters who have been found to use
steroids or other judgment-altering substances and that the company has
destroyed tapes of reckless and dangerous behavior by its contractors.

Tyrrell said Xe has a zero-tolerance drug policy and strong internal and
external document preservation controls.

Several of the new lawsuits are consolidations of cases filed previously in
Washington and California, including the fatal shooting of an Iraqi vice
president's bodyguard on Christmas Eve 2006 and the Sept. 16, 2007, shootings
in Baghdad's Nisoor Square that left 17 Iraqis dead.

http://hamptonroads.com/2009/06/suit-blackwater-operating-illegally-iraq-after-contract

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[cia-drugs] Antipsychotics for Children

Antipsychotics for Children

By Mike Adams

06-11-2009

Today an FDA advisory panel approved the prescribing of powerful mind-altering
chemicals for children. Seroquel, Zyprexa and Goedon have now been approved by
the advisory panel to be prescribed to children as young as 10 years old to
treat a fictitious disease invented by psychiatrists and given the name
bipolar disorder. (There is no such thing as a bipolar disorder disease. It
is merely a name assigned to children demonstrating the predictable side
effects of correctable dietary imbalances.)

In light of this disturbing decision, it is instructive to remember the history
of pharmaceutical medicine and children. One hundred and ten years ago, Bayer
marketed heroin to children as a non-addictive alternative to morphine. Did I
say non-addictive? Yes, it's right from the company's own marketing
materials. It just goes to show you that drug companies have been lying to the
public (and poisoning the children) for well over one hundred years.

Much like the FDA's present-day endorsement of antipsychotic drugs for
children, the American Medical Association endorsed Bayer Heroin for kids,
touting its ability to ease coughs. Heroin definitely eases coughs. And so does
smoking meth! In offering this endorsement, the AMA apparently borrowed some of
the FDA's screwy logic, which claims The benefits outweigh the risks.

This means, of course, that the benefits to the drug companies outweigh the
risks to the children!

During all this, of course, the AMA utterly failed to inform parents that
heroin was a highly addictive narcotic drug. So parents were dosing their
babies with heroin -- all with the full approval of the American Medical
Association!

Today, the FDA spearheads the promotion of drugs to children, doing its best to
promote toxic synthetic chemicals that artificially alter brain chemistry while
outlawing any mention of natural remedies that work much better (like omega-3
oils, which are natural brain chemistry stabilizers). The FDA also utterly
fails to ban toxic chemical food ingredients known to destroy healthy brain
chemistry (like MSG and artificial food coloring).

Thus, in one hundred and ten years, western medicine has learned nothing! It
still poisons the children with the full approval of health authorities all
while enriching the powerful drug companies.

Big Pharma's ties to Nazi Germany
In remembering the endorsement by the AMA of heroin treatments for children,
it's helpful to consider a bit more of the history of Big Pharma:

The name Heroin comes from the German word heroisch, which means heroic. Take
enough heroin, and you might feel heroic, too. (At least until the high is
gone.)

Bayer, of course, is a German pharmaceutical company with all sorts of
interesting ties to Nazi Germany and the medical experiments conducted on
Jewish prisoners during World War II. In 1956, for example, Fritz ter Meer
became the chairman of Bayer. What's so interesting about that? This was after
he served seven years in prison for carrying out experiments on Jewish
prisoners at Auschwitz.

http://www.naturalnews.com/026429_heroin_drugs_Bayer.html

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[cia-drugs] Re: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] In Pursuit of Hidden Truth: Kris Millegan - Publisher works to clear what he sees as government smokescreens

2009-06-09 Thread norgesen

- Original Message - 
From: Cathy Lewis 
To: norgesen 
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] In Pursuit of Hidden Truth: Kris Millegan - 
Publisher works to clear what he sees as government smokescreens

  Thank you for sending this article. There are words contained therein 
words I have been saying for years. One of my alters was there and carried the 
message of an unconditional surrender if we would keep the influx of drugs 
coming our way. There is no proof and to my knowledge there is no documentation 
to prove any of what my alter did or said. There's lots more that I dare not 
put in a book--no one would believe it and it would probably end up on one of 
your shelves. 

  Again, we thank you!

  Catherine Lewis

  Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that 
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness, that 
frightens us.  Nelson Mandela

  --- On Sat, 1/24/09, norgesen norge...@hotmail.com wrote:

From: norgesen norge...@hotmail.com
Subject: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] In Pursuit of Hidden Truth: Kris 
Millegan - Publisher works to clear what he sees as government smokescreens
To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 7:29 AM

In Pursuit of Hidden Truth
Publisher works to clear what he sees as government smokescreens
Marc Dadigan - Jan 22, 2009
WALTERVILLE — It was the late ’60s, and like many teenagers at the 
time, Kris Millegan had let his hair grow long and was smoking a little weed.

And like many fathers, Lloyd Millegan disapproved of his son’s drug 
use, although the way he justified that disapproval was hardly the norm.

“I just remember one day we’re arguing, and I say that I smoke some 
pot,” Kris Millegan, 59, of Walterville recalled. “And he says, ‘Well, you’re 
just making money for them!’ ”

Lloyd Millegan was a former CIA operative who had left the agency in 
1959. He later moved the family to the Eugene area, where he worked as a middle 
school teacher.

Mostly silent about his intelligence work through Millegan’s childhood, 
he began telling his son in his teen years that the Vietnam War was fueled by 
the drug trade and orchestrated by secret societies. Later, he told Millegan 
the government was conspiring “to opiate” the nation’s youth with marijuana to 
dull their wits.
It was basically “them” — the powerful — against “us” — the 
unsuspecting masses.

Millegan at first assumed it was just his father’s creative attempt to 
discourage his smoking habits. But something about the way he said “them” on 
this occasion just shook him.

Such hatred.

“The way he spit that out,” Millegan says. “I’ll just never forget it.”

Thus was the seed planted for Millegan’s TrineDay publishing house, 
which to date has produced more than 20 books considered to fall under the 
conspiracy theory genre. (Millegan prefers the term “suppressed”).

The lessons imparted by his father have led to an enterprise that, at 
its core, is a tireless search for the unvarnished truth. In Millegan’s eyes, 
this is a more difficult quest than most realize. In his world, there are 
sinister forces, secret societies and insidious collusions between government 
and the elite that constantly veil the truth from an unwitting populace. These 
shadowy figures’ only friend is the oligarchy they’re working to maintain — the 
enemy of social justice.

Sitting recently in the trailer he uses as his office, Millegan is 
easily roused to outrage as he speaks about the clandestine conspiracies his 
books investigate.

“It’s just amazing, the real history that’s out there and 
documentable,” he said. “And how it contradicts what we’ve been told.”

The long hair he first grew as a teenager is now tied neatly in a 
ponytail. He sports a fuzzy moustache with just a hint of gray, and his frame 
is trim and wiry, like a coil ready to spring on the next purveyor of deception.

“I think it’s a heartfelt endeavor,” says his wife of 20 years, 
Johanna. “It’s what he lives and breathes. It’s his passion.”

But a winding path led Millegan to this passion.

From those teenage conversations with his father, TrineDay wouldn’t 
bloom for another circuitous 30 years. During that time, Millegan said he 
started several businesses, wrote songs for a couple of rock bands, was ruined 
by a fire and even approached by mobsters looking to cut him in on some scams.

After studying for two years at Portland State University, he opened 
his own music store, Long Hair Records, in 1968 in Portland. He even met Fred 
Meyer to discuss record pricing.

“We were just a bunch of hippies,” he said. “We didn’t know

[cia-drugs] Big Increases for Intelligence and Pentagon Black Programs in 2010

2009-05-23 Thread norgesen

Big Increases for Intelligence and Pentagon Black Programs in 2010 

by Tom Burghardt



Global Research, May 13, 2009

Antifascist Calling... 


Continuing along the dark path marked out by his predecessors in the Oval 
Office, President Barack Obama's Defense and Intelligence budget for Fiscal 
Year 2010 will greatly expand the reach of unaccountable agencies--and the 
corporate grifters whom they serve.

According to Aviation Week, the Pentagon's 'black' operations, including the 
intelligence budgets nested inside it, are roughly equal in magnitude to the 
entire defense budgets of the UK, France or Japan, and 10 per cent of the 
total.

Yes, you read that correctly. The black or secret portions of the budget are 
almost as large as the entire defense outlays of America's allies, hardly 
slouches when it comes to feeding their own militarist beasts. The U.S. Air 
Force alone intends to spend approximately $12 billion on black programs in 
2010 or 36 percent of its entire research and development budget. Aviation Week 
reveals:

  Black-world procurement remains dominated by the single line item that used 
to be called Selected Activities, resident in the USAF's other procurement 
section. This year's number stands just above $16 billion. In 
inflation-adjusted terms, that's 240 per cent more than it was ten years ago.

  On the operations side, secret spending has risen 8 per cent over last year, 
to just over $15 billion--equivalent to more than a third of Air Force 
operating costs.

  What does it all go for? In simple terms, we don't know. It is apparent that 
much if not all of the intelligence community is funded through the black 
budget: for example, an $850 million USAF line item is clearly linked to 
reconnaissance satellites. But even so, the numbers are startling--and get more 
so year by year. (Bill Sweetman, Black budget blows by $50 billion mark, 
Aviation Week, May 7, 2009)

How's that for change! The Register gives a break down of the numbers for added 
emphasis:

  1) Mainstream US armed forces $490bn-odd 
  2) UK armed forces $60bn
  3) Chinese armed forces $58bn
  4) French armed forces $54bn
  5) Black US forces $50bn+
  6) Japanese Self-Defence forces $44bn


While the American government refuses to disclose the CIA or NSA's budget, 
both the Agency and other non-military spooks do get money of their own. Some 
of this is spent on military or quasi-military activities, The Register 
reports.

Toss in the world-wide deployment of CIA and U.S. Special Operations Command 
(USSOCOM) paramilitary operatives hidden among a welter of Special Access 
Programs (SAPs) classified above top secret and pretty soon we're talking real 
money!

One such program may have been Dick Cheney's executive assassination ring 
disclosed by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh during a Great 
Conversations event at the University of Minnesota in March.

And should pesky investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) 
have the temerity to probe said executive assassination ring, or other DoD 
black programs well, their Inspector General's had better think again!

According to the whistleblowing security and intelligence website Cryptome, a 
May 8, 2009 letter from Susan Ragland, GAO Director of Financial Management and 
Assurance to Diane Watson (D-CA), Chairwoman of the House Committee on 
Government Management, Organization and Procurement, lays down the law in no 
uncertain terms to Congress.

Ms. Ragland wrote: the IG Act authorizes the heads of six agencies to prohibit 
their respective IGs from carrying out or completing an audit or investigation, 
or from issuing any subpoena if the head determines that such prohibition is 
necessary to prevent either the disclosure of certain sensitive information or 
significant harm to certain national interests.

Neat, isn't it! Under statutory authority granted the Executive Branch by 
congressional grifters, Congress amended the IG Act to establish the 
Department of Defense (DOD) IG and placed the IG under the authority, 
direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense with respect to audits or 
investigations or the issuance of subpoenas that require access to certain 
information.

What information may be withheld from public scrutiny? Ms. Ragland informs us: 
Specifically, the Secretary of Defense may prohibit the DOD IG from 
initiating, carrying out, or completing such audits or investigations or from 
issuing a subpoena if the Secretary determines that the prohibition is 
necessary to preserve the national security interests of the United States. 
(emphasis added)

The same restrictions to the IG Act that apply to the Defense Department are 
similarly operative for the Departments of the Treasury, Homeland Security, 
Justice, the U.S. Postal Service (!), the Federal Reserve Board, and the 
Central Intelligence Agency. Talk about veritable mountains of dirty 
laundry--and black programs--that can be hidden here!

Space-Based Spies

[cia-drugs] Judith Miller's 'jailer' appointed to spy court...

2009-05-19 Thread norgesen

Judge who ordered journalist jailed appointed to spy court

By John Byrne 

May 19, 2009 

Justice who jailed Whitewater witness also picked


The judge who ordered former New York Times journalist Judith Miller jailed for 
refusing to reveal her sources has been appointed to the Foreign Intelligence 
Surveillance Court.

Thomas F. Hogan, a federal judge serving on the District of Columbia District 
Court, was tapped Monday by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Roberts 
is allowed to choose judges for the secret court, which oversees the National 
Security Agency’s wiretapping program.

Hogan attracted controversy when he ordered Miller jailed for refusing to 
disclose a confidential source to a grand jury. Prior to the case, reporters’ 
sources were generally seen as protected, even though not formally codified by 
law. Miller is pictured above right.

The judge said that the rights of journalists to protect confidential sources 
must be weighed against prosecutors’ power to demand testimony and investigate 
crimes.

“I have a person in front of me who is defying the law and may be obstructing 
justice,” Hogan said when pronouncing judgment on Miller in 2005. He averred 
that allowing Miller to avoid testifying could put the judicial system “on a 
slippery slope to anarchy.”

Another major decision Hogan ruled on is also controversial, and may have 
bearing in the current climate about eavesdropping. In 2006, the DC judge 
signed a search warrant allowing the FBI to search the offices of then Rep. 
William Jefferson (D-LA), the only time in history a sitting member of 
Congress’ office has been raided.

That decision may take on new meaning in light of the recent revelation that a 
prominent California congresswoman was caught on a wiretap allegedly promising 
to aid an Israeli national. That wiretap, purportedly conducted by the FBI as a 
part of an espionage investigation, raised hackles in Congress over the 
possibility that members of Congress have been wiretapped.

Roberts also appointed a second justice to the FISA court. That judge, 
Republican Susan Webber Wright of Arkansas, made headlines in 1998 when she 
dismissed a sexual harassment lawsuit by Paula Jones against then-President 
Bill Clinton. Before dismissing the case, Wright allowed part of the suit to go 
forward, rejecting Clinton’s claim that the president had absolute immunity 
against the suit. Her decision was upheld on appeal.

Wright also had a hand in rulings surrounding Whitewater and then-special 
prosecutor Kenneth Starr, who investigated President Clinton in 1994 over 
failed real estate deals in the 1970s and 1980s. She imprisoned one witness for 
contempt of court when she refused to answer questions about whether Clinton 
had lied in his testimony.

Susan McDougal served 22 months in prison. She was granted a full presidential 
pardon by Clinton in 2001.

FISA court judges serve seven year terms. Hogan and Wright will replace 
District of Columbia District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and Arizona District 
Judge Robert Broomfield.

News of the two judges’ appointments were first reported by Secrecy News.

Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly referred to a 
congressman being tapped. It was in fact Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA).

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[cia-drugs] A Lethal Mixture: Swine and Bird Flu. Can We Trust Baxter, GSK and the WHO?

2009-05-19 Thread norgesen

A Lethal Mixture: Swine and Bird Flu. Can We Trust Baxter, GSK and the WHO?
By John Stone

May 17, 2009

The most recent paroxysm in the swine flu saga begs some interesting questions
which scarcely ought to be swept aside. Last week veteran Australian
scientist, Adrian Gibbs, author of 250 peer review studies raised the issue
whether H1N1 virus could have been created in a lab error. Of course, denials
were rapid. ABC News reported (HERE.)

“Technically it's plausible but not likely, (said) Christopher Ohl, an
associate professor of medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
and a specialist in infectious diseases.

“In this case I'm not concerned that this virus represents anything other than
a naturally occurring mixture of viruses happening in nature, concluded Dr.
Julie Gerberding, an infectious disease expert and the former director of the
CDC...

“Regardless of the validity of Gibb's claims, he and several experts say that
just bringing the idea of laboratory security to the public's attention is
important.

“ There are lives at risk, Gibbs said. The sooner this idea gets out, the
better.

“In 2001, foot-and-mouth disease led to the slaughter of more than 6 million
animals, all after a vial went missing from a research laboratory in the United
Kingdom.

“Since then, however, experts said lab security and regulations have been
getting tighter and better.

“Laboratories have a lot of security from having this happen, and it's very
unlikely, Ohl said of the new theory about swine flu's origin.”

But have things improved since 2001? Probably the scariest story this year has
so far been overlooked by the media at large. On February 27 an article
appeared in the Toronto Sun by Helen Branwell, ‘Baxter: Product contained live
bird flu virus’ (HERE.)

“The company that released contaminated flu virus material from a plant in
Austria confirmed Friday that the experimental product contained live H5N1
avian flu viruses.
“And an official of the World Health Organization’s European operation said the
body is closely monitoring the investigation into the events that took place at
Baxter International’s research facility in Orth-Donau, Austria.

““At this juncture we are confident in saying that public health and
occupational risk is minimal at present,” medical officer Roberta Andraghetti
said from Copenhagen, Denmark.

““But what remains unanswered are the circumstances surrounding the incident in
the Baxter facility in Orth-Donau.”

“The contaminated product, a mix of H3N2 seasonal flu viruses and unlabelled
H5N1 viruses, was supplied to an Austrian research company. The Austrian firm,
Avir Green Hills Biotechnology, then sent portions of it to sub-contractors in
the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Germany.

“The contamination incident, which is being investigated by the four European
countries, came to light when the subcontractor in the Czech Republic
inoculated ferrets with the product and they died. Ferrets shouldn’t die from
exposure to human H3N2 flu viruses...”
According to science columnist Mark Henderson writing in the London Times on
May 4, the real danger from the new swine flu virus H1N1 would be if it
combined with the previous big viral scare, avian flu H5N1:

The biggest worry would be if a person or a pig became infected with both
swine flu and H5N1 avian flu at the same time. As the former is highly
transmissible but does not appear to be particularly lethal, while the latter
is highly virulent but does not spread easily, a reassortment between the two
could generate a very dangerous strain.

Of course, it would not be wise on its own to take anything Henderson says too
seriously, bearing in mind his boss is a director of pharmaceutical giant
GlaxoSmithKline (HERE) and he is associated with the pharmaceutical lobby
organisation Sense About Science (HERE.) However, bearing in mind the Toronto
Sun story of February it is not exactly encouraging that WHO and the CDC have
chosen Baxter as well as GlaxoSmithKline to develop a vaccine against H1N1
(HERE.)

So many aspects of these stories are not re-assuring. There have been no
further reports on the Baxter bird flu fiasco since February, which at best
sounds like criminal negligence of a high order – meanwhile the WHO and CDC
remain silent. Health officials have failed to deny that the swine flu virus
could have been created in a laboratory, but merely claim that such a security
lapse is unlikely, when we know a much worse one occurred within the last 3
months. And Julie Gerberding, out-going director of CDC, fails to deny that
swine flu is man-made but only tells us that she is “not concerned”.

John Stone, based in London, is a Contributing Editor to Age of Autism.

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[cia-drugs] S.E.C. Lawyers Investigated for Insider Trading

2009-05-18 Thread norgesen

S.E.C. Lawyers Investigated for Insider Trading

By BERNIE BECKER

05-17-2009

Two enforcement lawyers at the Securities and Exchange Commission are under
investigation for possible criminal violations of insider trading laws after an
inquiry by the agency’s inspector general.

The investigation “revealed suspicious activity, appearances of improprieties
and evidence of possible trading on nonpublic information and/or potential
insider trading,” the report said. It also found that the agency had
“essentially no compliance system in place to ensure” that its employees did
not engage in insider trading.

The S.E.C.’s inspector general, H. David Kotz, referred the matter to the
United States attorney’s office in Washington, which, along with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, is investigating the two lawyers.

Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman of the S.E.C., was informed of the
investigation in a March 3 memo from Mr. Kotz.

A spokesman for the S.E.C., John Heine, said in a statement that the inspector
general report “neither accuses any S.E.C. employee of insider trading nor
concludes that any such conduct took place,” but added that the agency took
“seriously even the suggestion that any S.E.C. employee would engage in insider
trading.”

Mr. Kotz’s office analyzed more than two years’ worth of brokerage and e-mail
records for the enforcement lawyers, a man and a woman whose names were not
released.

The woman was found to have spent much of her workday sending e-mail messages
and scouring the Internet for information about stocks, while the man sent
stock tips — sometimes from the female lawyer — to his brother and
sister-in-law from his agency e-mail account.

Neither Mr. Kotz nor a spokesman for the F.B.I. would comment on the
investigation.

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[cia-drugs] Authorities investigating the attempted fraud of 50 billion U.S. dollars for Portugal

2009-05-18 Thread norgesen

Authorities investigating the attempted fraud of 50 billion U.S. dollars for 
Portugal 

By Lusa

05-17-2009

 
  The operation was attempted by an unidentified woman, who presented a 
bank in Lisbon an interbank transfer contract  

The Portuguese authorities are investigating an attempted transfer of 50 
billion dollars (36.6 billion) from JP Morgan Chase, U.S., to Canada, what, 
where result would be the biggest fraud ever in the country.




The operation was attempted by an unidentified woman, who presented a bank in 
Lisbon an interbank transfer contract, which the Lusa had access, which 
provides a movement of 36.4 million euros in the first tranche.
The document raised strong suspicions about the legality of the operation that 
was to materialize, either by the mode of action of the woman or, especially, 
the large amount involved.


Official source of the prosecutor told the Lusa that the Central Department of 
Investigation and Penal Action (DCIAP) is to collect information on the matter.


The Bank of Canada is also investigating the case, according to official 
sources, which indicated that the process followed for the department of 
supervision of the institution led by Vitor Constâncio, confirming also that 
the way the case is similar to other attempts at fraud detected by the 
authorities in Portugal.


The Financial Information Unit of the Judicial Police (PJ) is also aware of the 
process. Contacted by Lusa, PJ's official source said, however, is not 
considered appropriate to comment on specific situations, goes to disclose 
data on situations of the kind found in recent years in Portugal.


As the amount involved, 50 billion dollars (36.6 billion), is far superior to 
any other similar case ever found in Portugal, confirmed to the Lusa the 
supervisor of banks.


Even if there is a limit to transfers of money from abroad to Ireland and vice 
versa, the amount is so high that it would do for five lines of high-speed 
train in Portugal or ten airports in Lisbon.


If the operation was carried out, would be transferred to Portugal twice the 
value of the 20 largest Portuguese stock exchange.An amount ever seen, is in 
the Portuguese market or in any place of reference of the world, said a 
banking source to Lusa. Indeed, it is not every day that are transferred 50 
billion dollars from one country to another and, as another source of market, 
seems to play. The value is completely abnormal.


The contract 'Swift' [direct exchange between banks] provide for the transfer 
of that amount between the North American bank, the JP Morgan Chase Manhattan 
Bank, and the Portuguese institution, with a pre-set exchange rate and fixed at 
85 euros for each $ 100 (euro in evaluating each $ 1.17 - below the $ 1.36 to 
the euro has traded in the foreign exchange market).


The transaction would be held in several tranches, with the first set at 49.5 
million dollars (36.4 million). 
In terms of commissions, the lead bank to accept the transfer operation of the 
money received 2.5 percent of the total amount, ie 1.25 billion dollars (nearly 
one billion euros - twice the market value of the Banif stock exchange, for 
example).


On page four of the contract read that the parties have to follow the 
coordinates given by the rules of the banks on the Anti-Terrorist Act and the 
Patriotic Act I and II. The purchaser [bank that accepts to receive the money 
coming from the U.S.] will not held responsible for any money laundering 
harmful. 

Editor's note: Translated from Google, read original in Portuguese here.

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[cia-drugs] Species Control: D.C.-Style

2009-05-16 Thread norgesen

Peace is not in the game plan. War remains the game plan. Keep that in mind all 
you multi-cultural NATO-ers. Invasiveness (translation: invasion) is key.

SPECIES CONTROL: D.C. -STYLE

By Nancy Levant
May 16, 2009


The control freaks in D.C. have a new idea. We, the rabble, are no longer to 
have birds, snakes, fish, guinea pigs, and other non-native critters as our 
pets of choice. I refer you to H.R. 669. Equally, other control mongers have 
stated that the domestic cat is no longer to be allowed as our pet due to its 
vicious attacks upon wild birds. Hmmm - one wonders who kills more animals….the 
Humane Society and PETAA or cats? And do these humane organizations eat their 
prey or make boo-coo bucks with their prey?

So, fine - let's talk non-native species. Let's talk Asians of every flavor, 
Caucasians of every flavor, African-Americans, Latinos, Russian-Americans, 
Middle-Easterners, India(n)-Americans, Eskimo/Inuits, and every other 
American of every original ancestry. Are we not all non-natives occupying 
American soil that only in recent history belonged solely to Native American 
peoples?

If my guinea pig is an illegal alien terrorist on American soil, and my cat is 
a domestic terrorist in my back yard, are we all not non-native terrorists in 
the former united States? Perhaps we need to manufacture a new island for 
American mutts - a place to dump them as the globally invasive species they 
have become. Perhaps we should create a Humane Organization to euthanize all 
non-native humans who have, themselves, become completely and globally invasive.

Is there not something…let us say…hypocritical about ft foreigners calling 
foreigners foreigners on foreign soil? And who decides which species are to be 
eradicated or relocated for the good of nature? How sad that nature is such a 
damsel in distress, but how fortunate and marvelous that D.C. is the knight in 
shining armor and the purveyor of omnipotent wisdom of the natural world. Thank 
goodness for politicians.

So, let us therefore go back to the lands of our original descendents. Surely 
mandatory DNA collections and the corporate patenting of human genes will aid 
in this relocation process. Let us stop polluting America the Beautiful with 
our occupation of this non-native territory. In fact, let us make all of the 
North American continent a Biosphere Reserve solely for nature's chipped 
animals, and let's get serious about non-native corruption. Let us think only 
in terms of pure naturalism and natural utopia. Perhaps only pure-bred people 
should exist. Perhaps multi-culturalism is non-native by definition. Are we 
not, as human beings, a species, and are not above nor below the level of other 
animals? Are we non-native terrorists that should only exist in the lands of 
our original origin?

As the genetically mixed mutts of America, where exactly do we belong? If a 
guinea, born in America, is a terrorist non-native and illegal alien, and a 
domestic cat terrorist, killer of birds, and who I assume is of Egyptian 
ancestry, cannot be an American cat - even though it was born to American cat 
parents, grand-parents, and great grand-parents - then how can any immigrant of 
any species be permitted to pollute American soil?

It's a funny thing how time passes and changes perception. In ancient Egypt, 
cats were revered because they killed other species. Today, they are domestic 
terrorists because they kill other species. This used to be called a food 
chain. And, a guinea pig, an imported laboratory research animal who has been 
the target of real corporate abuse for decades, is now an illegal alien if it 
is loved and cared for by a family.

Perhaps the eco-freaks are right. Mankind is simply the bane of nature's 
existence and too stupid to exist. Perhaps everything should be eliminated or 
reduced minus the D.C.-ers who obviously are the moral aristocrats of the 
human race and so full of inherent wisdom and honesty that they simply intuit 
that guinea pigs must go. Surely they must make them illegal species. They 
simply must pass another law!

Now, with such silliness aside, such D.C. B.S. arguments fall flat as they tend 
to do - dialectically speaking. Sorry, folks, but globalism is the very 
antithesis, or shall we say dialectic, of non-native arguments. The pinnacle of 
this D.C. contradiction is global invasiveness - the kingpin of invasiveness. 
Perhaps governance is the invasive species that must go. Perhaps we, the 
people, should make a few laws, too.

And one must wonder if the actual reason for H.R. 669 and other such garbage is 
the problematic reality of the sheer numbers of pets kept by the American 
people. When relocation into human settlements is in the game plan, perhaps 
pets present a problem to all relocating purposes and intents. In our existing 
and multiple states of emergency, martial laws (many of them) and 
relocate-able/mobile civilian work forces/details/national-universal servants - 
so

[cia-drugs] Guardian of What? The Guardian, the Science Lobby, and the Rise of Scientific Corporatism

2009-05-16 Thread norgesen

Guardian of What? The Guardian, the Science Lobby, and the Rise of Scientific 
Corporatism.

 By Martin J Walker 

May 12, 2009

 Denis Campbell was a sports reporter on the Observer newspaper, before he got 
the opportunity to write about health. In July 2007, he favoured a friend and 
interviewed Dr Andrew Wakefield, the consultant gastroenterologist at the 
centre of the MMR-autism controversy, the week prior to his GMC 
fitness-to-practice hearing.  It was Campbell’s intention to present Dr 
Wakefield in the same way as any other pre-trial defendant, exploring his fears 
and feelings about slipping from a professional life into that of an infamous 
malefactor.  In creating the article, however, Campbell, who had never entered 
the territory before, made the most serious mistake. Hearing of a paper 
produced by a department of Cambridge University that cited a considerable 
growth in cases of autism spectrum disorder, he linked this to Wakefield’s 
research work, which described a number of specific cases where the parents had 
pointed to the MMR vaccination as being key in the onset of a very particular 
form of regressive autism. 

This article analyses what can happen when journalists blunder into the case of 
Dr Andrew Wakefield, without understanding the complex context of the media, 
health and New Labour; ioncreasing pressure is being brought to bear on the 
British media to report only stories that agree with corporate science. When 
training interpreters, teachers place considerable emphasis on the student’s 
all-round knowledge of the culture into which they are translating. This is 
unfortunately not true of the post-industrial journalists, who tend to imagine 
that they are presenting titbits of disconnected information, rarely conceiving 
that their newspapers and others are pursuing political agendas.

Denis Campbell evidently had no idea that by trying to present a broad social 
defence for Dr Wakefield, he was about to place his professional career as a 
journalist in jeopardy. Like many other people involved in the media, although 
he knew that New Labour was somehow involved in spin, he did not know that a 
group of erstwhile revolutionary communist, corporate scientists, Liberal peers 
and members of the New Labour administration had banded together to draw up a 
censorship code for the British media.

In fact, Campbell was to find out on the publication of his Observer article, 
not only that the editors of the sister papers the Guardian and the Observer, 
both owned by the Scott Trust, had long been involved in an acrimonious 
argument, but that the Guardian was not the paper it had previously been. Since 
2003, it seems to have passed from the stables of the free press into some 
Orwellian stew, where the news is consistently rewritten to fit a corporate 
view of science held by a handful of corporately-funded lobbyists. 


* * *


MMR, the mumps, measles and rubella vaccination, was introduced to Britain in 
1988. Its original introduction was seriously marred by adverse reaction to the 
Urabi mumps strain in the vaccination. It was not until 1992 that the 
Department of Health, downplaying the serious adverse events that had occurred 
using this particular strain, took two of the MMR vaccines off the market while 
making low-key and somewhat mumbled explanations to the public. Following this 
major problem, the Department of Health and  successive governments were 
determined not to admit to any other problems in relation to this vaccination.

Dr Wakefield, a senior researcher in experimental gastroenterology at the Royal 
Free Hospital, was approached by a gathering number of parents, after 1988, who 
claimed that their children had been adversely affected by the triple vaccine. 
These cases were brought to the Royal Free because often the first signs of 
adverse reaction to the vaccination were gastrointestinal. Initially, Dr 
Wakefield was sceptical about the department’s authority to deal with these 
cases. As well as reporting gastrointestinal conditions in their children, in 
the majority of cases that were brought to the Royal Free, parents reported 
signs of autism spectrum disorder. Dr Wakefield’s main area of expertise had, 
until the early 1990s been Crohn’s disease, a gastrointestinal condition that 
had markedly increased in recent years. 

Initially Dr Wakefield protested that he knew nothing about autism spectrum 
disorders, and suggested that perhaps the Royal Free was not the best place to 
bring these children. However, as the rest of the team carried out more tests 
and observations on the gastrointestinal conditions presented by the children, 
superficial case review conclusions became inevitable; either the children had 
all developed autism spectrum disorders ‘naturally’ and biologically 
inevitably, or the condition, together with the intestinal condition, had been 
triggered or exacerbated by environmental factors. 

After work over the next

[cia-drugs] James Randerson and the Guardian�s Deus-ex-Machina

James Randerson and the Guardian’s Deus-ex-Machina
 By John Stone

May 11, 2009

In ancient Greek tragedy, particularly that of Euripides, it was a frequent 
ruse in order to bring the play to a proper conclusion and sort out the plot, 
to lower an actor playing one of the gods from a crane (HERE ). I was recently 
reminded of this creaking mechanism in a Guardian blog by environment editor 
(and former New Scientist deputy news editor), James Randerson. Randerson was 
complaining about irresponsible neighbouring parents whose refusal to vaccinate 
their children had led to his 11 month-old daughter contracting measles and 
being unwell for a few days. Of course, he displayed all the lack of knowledge 
of the subject we have come expect from senior science journalists in the UK, 
and made all the ritual ill-informed comments about Andy Wakefield (HERE).  
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“The sorry MMR saga began in 1998 with a tiny study (since partially retracted) 
in the Lancet. Andrew Wakefield and his team described 12 children with both 
bowel and behavioural problems who underwent various blood tests, 
gastrointestinal biopsies and lumbar punctures. It was, frankly, a deeply 
unimpressive piece of science which came to the less than stunning conclusion, 
Further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome and its possible 
relation to this vaccine.

“Instead, Wakefield himself is now being investigated by the General Medical 
Council over the research, because of alleged breaches of medical ethics and 
financial conflicts of interest. But what followed was a prolonged and shameful 
journalistic episode, in which Wakefield's speculation and misinformation was 
spread via flimsy news stories and scandalous comment pieces.” 

Anyhow, on the third day -  by which time the blog was not exactly going 
Randerson’s way – something mildly remarkable happened. There was post from a 
hitherto unknown poster to the Guardian ‘Comment is Free’ styled  “Intervenor”, 
defending Randerson’s position,  after which the blog was swiftly closed (more 
than six hours ahead of schedule). This curious and minor incident would not 
have perhaps been worth revisiting if it had not been for the interesting turn 
the particular debate had taken. 

Several posters had by stage pointed out that their children had been damaged 
by vaccine, including myself – I post under the name “Pluralist” – the most 
notable being “Seeing is Believing” (Elaine Butler). Elaine’s post is worth 
quoting in full (HERE ):

“Speaking from firsthand experience as parents of a child damaged by the MMR, 
like so many others affected in the same way, we are far more concerned with 
the 24/7 demands inflicted upon our existence then to read such nonsense 
however we will make an exception in this case, so incensed as we are with 
those contributors who show such disregard for humanity. 

“Far from being anti-vaccine or MMR refuseniks, although we wish that we had 
been every minute of every waking day ever since, instead we were responsible 
parents who wanted to do what we thought was the very best for our child. In 
doing so we lost out on the Russian Roulette game better known as the childhood 
vaccine programme and to the detriment of our son, we proved that one size 
cannot possibly fit all!

“Our perfectly healthy and happy baby, who far exceeded all developmental 
milestones, had an immediate and extreme reaction to the MMR before our very 
eyes, so no amount of scaremongering or emotional blackmail will ever convince 
us that such a lethal cocktail of vaccines is safe. He is brain damaged, 
inflicted with a life sentence for the sake of herd immunity or the greater 
good…of what or whom we ask? certainly not the life he has lost with this 
living dead existence he suffers or this disgraceful, offensive, 
self-opinionated article and the misguided blind faith that supports it.

“The high-pitched scream persisted as the urabe Mumps strain shot his brain to 
pieces and he lost all senses as a result, this remains as vivid as the green 
gunge he discharged and the projectile vomiting that occurred in the instant 
destruction of his gut from the live Measles virus that poisoned his system 
from within, not forgetting how the Rubella virus attacked his joints and limbs 
before he lapsed into unconsciousness and was given the last rites.

“Our sacrificial lamb pulled through but in a vegetative state and is it really 
any wonder, for the barbaric and inhumane man-made attack on an underdeveloped 
vulnerable body it was, by three live viruses cultivated through foreign hosts 
that range from Tissue Culture; Embryonated Eggs; Live Animals and Humans. Not 
satisfied such practise is dangerous enough, this concoction also contains a 
vast range of the hidden undisclosed viruses; biological contaminants; polluted 
fragments of RNA, DNA with cellular degradation products; toxic heavy metals; 
along with the added chemicals, additives, preservatives, proteins and enzymes, 
so how

[cia-drugs] Goldman Sachs - Dictatorship, Conspiracy or Just Plain Vanilla Criminals

 
Goldman Sachs Links for May 6, 2009 from www.GoldmanSachs666.com 


All of the links below discuss Goldman Sachs, even if the headline might not 
indicate that.



'Goldman Conspiracy:' Bogle's 'pathological mutation?' - Market Watch

Machinations on Wall Street, in government give rise to 13-episode TV plot



Goldman Sachs Makes the Rules - The Wall Street Journal Video

Senator Criticizes NY Fed Chairman - The Wall Street Journal
Goldman Sachs Cronie - Stephen Friedman 



Goldman Sachs - Public Enemy #1 - Behind-the-Matrix



Cashing in on 'Government Sachs' - The Huffington Post



Fed Directors' Ties to Banks Spur Calls for Changes - The Wall Street Journal
And if you believe that, I have a bridge for sale.



Bankers Own Congress - Senator Dick Durbin

So what are you going to do about it Senator?



Berkshire's Munger Says 'Venal' Banks May Evade Needed Reform - Bloomberg

This is an enormously influential group of people, and 90 percent of that 
influence is being spent to gain powers and practices that the world would be 
better off without,

- Charlie Munger is Warren Buffet's partner!



Goldman Sachs - A Bad Gangster Movie - Bloomberg



Some Dark Truths About Goldman Sachs - Canada Broadcasting Corporation



QUESTIONS ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS' ROLE IN MARKET - New York Post

SOMETHING smells fishy in the market.  And the aroma seems to be coming from 
Goldman Sachs.

[cia-drugs] DARPA still trying to see thru walls.

DARPA still trying to see thru walls.

May 10, 2009 - Posted by ignoranceisntbliss 
SEE ALSO:
-Darpa Wants to See Thru Your Walls and Into Your House.

c|net:

Hiding and fightingfrom within civilian structures gives insurgents an edge. 
The U.S. military wants to negate this home field advantage with technology 
that would allow soldiers to look through concrete walls and give them a 
detailed picture of a building’s interior–right down to the fixtures.

DARPA has asked companies to propose a suite of multiple sensing technologies 
that could, upon development, deliver “complete situational awareness” above 
and below ground that would “reverse the adversaries’ advantage of urban 
familiarity.”

The Comprehensive Interior Reconnaissance program sponsored by DARPA describes 
a scenario in which an area would be cordoned off, and specific buildings 
identified as deserving closer scrutiny.

In addition to aiding in hostage rescues and other urban combat operations, 
this “no-knock” technology could have some “hearts and minds” collateral 
benefits, as it could mean fewer doors kicked in.

An ubervision system would be brought in to scan and kick out floor plans on up 
to a 10-story building, including basements and the structural and 
infrastructure systems such as electrical, plumbing, and ventilation; all 
accurate to within one yard.

Sensing may be accomplished through passive or active means, as long as it’s 
from outside the building or through an “exterior umbilical,” according to the 
DARPA announcement. This could be done from a passing vehicle, an aircraft, or 
from a clandestine operation’s compatible backpack-size unit. The crown jewel 
for special ops would be a “head-mounted multispectral imaging device”.

A combination of optical and microwave satellite sensors have reportedly been 
used to successfully map subsurface archaeological sites, but there’s no hint 
yet on how this ability will be brought down to earth  External, 
through-the-wall radar is already in the works at DARPA, so companies are 
encouraged to look elsewhere for solutions.

Although the DARPA solicitation carefully specifies that this is intended for 
“overseas urban building interior awareness,” it’s not hard to imagine the 
technology being adapted to drive-by inspections by your local building 
department. Time to legalize that “granny” unit.



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[cia-drugs] FBI has yet to claim that Bin Laden ordered the 9/11 attacks

FBI has yet to claim that Bin Laden ordered the 9/11 attacks

By David Kramer

05-08-2009

Apropos the lying Holbrooke's comment about how they (Al Qaeda) attacked us,
here is the text from the rap sheet of the Usama Bin Laden poster from the
FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.

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.
Notice any particular event missing from the above? Here are the two dates of
the poster's posting:

June 1999
Poster Revised November 2001 [emphasis mine]

Do you think that in November 2001 when the poster was being revised that 9/11
might have still been on the minds of the folks who work at the FBI? If it is
to be inferred that he is just a suspect in 9/11 (yet the poster doesn't even
mention that), then why have we been fighting wars in which thousands of people
(both Americans and foreigners) have been killed and wasting billions of
dollars on a suspicion?

I know! Perhaps in the same way it took EIGHT YEARS FOR the FDA to do a
follow-up visit to the problematic peanut factory in Georgia, it's taking EIGHT
YEARS for the FBI to update the Bin Laden poster.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/026658.html

http://www.noonehastodietomorrow.com//index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1096Itemid=114
binladen.jpg

[cia-drugs] Culture of Terror, I

2009-05-05 Thread norgesen

We live in a twilight time ruled by baronial oligarchs whose arguments are 
settled in ways that extend their own power by culling the herds they 
respectively manage in the name of security.



CULTURE OF TERROR, I





Dr. Eugene Narrett, Ph.D
May 2, 2009


[The following lines are from the preface of book, Culture of Terror: the 
Collapse of America forthcoming in June].

Writing in 1927, Julien Benda termed his era “the age of the intellectual 
organization of political hatreds” marked by preaching “the cult of the strong 
State.” By intellectuals (he used the French word, clercs) Benda meant 
journalists and other media, artists, academics and independent scholars and 
critics who together were responsible for what he termed, “the great 
betrayal...the divinizing of politics,”[1] a development that grew from 
Enlightenment plans of ‘perfectibility,’ grew during the increasingly 
tumultuous 19th -20th centuries, dominated the latter and now defines the 21st 
century in the West, the era of political correctness and secular inquisition. 
Benda noted, “they preach that the State should be strong and [though they do 
not now say so explicitly] “contemptuous of justice.” That is a precise 
description of the ‘group justice’ and ‘equity’ doled out to those whom the 
State wishes to empower, planting seeds of bitterness, resentment and despair 
in everyone else; and, not incidentally, advancing an agenda of “group think” 
and “group consciousness” that displaces individual integrity, responsibility 
and understanding of free will. This great betrayal has taken our “progressive” 
culture, with “the giant” of applied science lurking over everyone’s sense of 
the possible and turned it to fatalism.[2]

These betrayals have led to “multiculturalism” and the balkanization both of 
nations, and families, the better to centralize power and to scramble all 
states into a World “Commonwealth” where power, control and resources are 
monopolized by an oligarchy; those closer to the labyrinth’s center having 
greater amounts of all material and social perks and greater immunity from 
“law.” The dogma of “relativism,” gussied up as “situational ethics” means in 
effect that the law is the will of those with most power and that reason is an 
instrument of will and thus of appetites; that the rationales of this new State 
are thus insane, acts of wanton atrocity, to quote Melville in the epigraph. 
This deification of the will is a radical subversion of the principles of law, 
justice and righteousness, as well as charity rooted in Scripture; its supreme 
arrogance also is a form of mass murder by suicide, a pattern of “social 
relations” that defines many aspects of the Modern and post Modern world. As a 
result, Western civilization has regressed to the authoritarianism that 
distinguishes other parts of the world, and western elites, “sordid buccaneers” 
to borrow a phrase from Conrad, have gutted its house as if to showcase their 
Gothic sensibility and piquant taste for ruins. The contrived collapse of the 
West is indeed “the bankruptcy of Hellenism” in a sense more profound than 
Benda suggested for the West’s pagan essence has been sloughing off its 
Scriptural dress as it grew; this is the story of its growth, -- and its 
decline into a system of world feudalism and spectacles managed ever more 
precisely to bedazzle the audience and make them forget what is being lost.

We live in a twilight time ruled by baronial oligarchs whose arguments are 
settled in ways that extend their own power by culling the herds they 
respectively manage in the name of security. Like a wolf pack their method is 
terror and only the most deeply rooted of human beings will survive this night 
to the next era’s dawn. As “the superb blond beast searches for prey and 
carnage” it consumes itself, regressing to animalism, to “a cult of success and 
contempt for misfortune” that is pitiless, sterile, and in love with death.[3]

I write this book, Culture of Terror: the Collapse of America prompted by 
shattering changes forced into the fabric of our lives since the 1960s even as 
study shows that that watershed decade was only the precipitate of 
utilitarian-utopian ideologies dating from the Renaissance and accelerated 
mightily by the Enlightenment and its Romantic sequel. These in turn are rooted 
in mystical and cultic principles and dreams of great antiquity. While the 
specific planning and social engineering dates to the mid-nineteenth century 
when Romanticism was developing through its grim later stage (the ‘Victorian’ 
age) into Modernism via Utilitarians, Hegelians, Marxists, Positivists, the 
Round Table group and its world commonwealth successors, the imperial 
principles and drive for power and expression are rooted in the West, and not 
simply in the Enlightenment with its drive to ‘perfect’ society and human 
beings through reason and nature. Like the Renaissance, the Enlightenment was a 
phase of Greco-Roman resurgence and

[cia-drugs] DHS �s Domestic Extremism Lexicon

2009-05-05 Thread norgesen

DHS ’s Domestic Extremism Lexicon
May 4th, 2009
(U//FOUO) Domestic Extremism Lexicon –This product provides definitions for key 
terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature 
and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the 
United States.

(dhs.gov) 26 Mar 2009 (U) Prepared by the Strategic Analysis Group and the 
Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis 
Division. (U//FOUO) Homeland Security Reference Aids–prepared by the DHS/Office 
of Intelligence and Analysis (IA)–provide baseline information on a variety of 
homeland security issues… DHS/IA intends this background information to assist 
federal, state, local, and tribal homeland security and law enforcement 
officials in conducting analytic activities… alternative media (U//FOUO) 

A term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for 
interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented 
in mass media products and outlets. 

Read More Click Here

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[cia-drugs] What is the Role of Iran? Part 5

2009-05-05 Thread norgesen

Recently ZB has been an advisor to Barack Obama and has defended the 
President’s decision to meet with Iranian officials in the future. This, of 
course, will be welcomed by the Iranians and used as part of their delaying 
tactics until they achieve a nuclear weapon.



WHAT IS THE ROLE OF IRAN?
PART 5





By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
May 4, 2009


[NOTE: Relevant to Barack Obama’s candidacy for the presidency being scripted, 
on September 5, 2008, Saul Alinsky’s son, David, wrote a letter to the Boston 
Globe stating: “The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the 
perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style.” Saul Alinsky wrote Rules For 
Radicals (which has an acknowledgement to Lucifer at the front), and David 
Alinsky’s letter said “Obama learned his lesson well” as a follower of Saul 
Alinsky’s model for organizing. Interestingly, Kyle-Anne Shiver in “Obama’s 
Alinsky Jujitsu” (American Thinker, January 8, 2008) earlier noted: “Alinsky 
saw the already formed church communities as being the perfect springboards for 
agitation and creating bonds for demanding goods and services.” Does this have 
the ring of any church growth movement leaders today?

Shortly after Obama became president, Fox News host Greta van Susteren’s “On 
the Record” (March 27, 2009) began with her stating: “Tonight, a dictatorship? 
A power grab? Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says President Obama is 
making the biggest power grab in American history and moving America towards a 
dictatorship.” Later, she recounted that U.S. Senator Robert Byrd wrote on 
February 23 a letter to the President complaining essentially of a power grab 
when Obama named health czars or urban affairs policy experts at the White 
House. Gingrich said the stimulus package/appropriations bill “was written in 
the House under what is, in effect, a dictatorship” by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 
who “is the most powerful person in the government today. President Obama is 
the second most powerful.” 

Concerning Power Elite (PE) agent Henry Kissinger, very few people in the 
audience at the Munich Conference on Security Policy on February 8, 2009 
laughed when U.S. National Security Advisor James Jones said to them: “I take 
my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through General Brent 
Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the 
National Security Council that exists today.” Could it be that most didn’t 
laugh because Jones’ remarks had some ring of truth? Recently, Kissinger has 
been talking about the emerging “new world order,” and on CNBC World’s “Squawk 
Box Europe” (April 1, 2009), Financial Times editor Lionel Barber declared 
we’re now living in a “new world order” where G20 countries will mainly focus 
on what China rather than the U.S. will do to solve the global financial 
crisis.]

Part 4 of this series ended with my giving examples of terrorist activities by 
“some agitated Moslems,” whom Zbigniew Brzezinski (ZB) had said were less 
important than the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War. 
“Some agitated Moslems” also included the training of suicide pilots at Busher 
Air Base in Iran in the early 1980s. According to Yossef Bodansky (Director of 
the U.S. House of Representatives Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional 
Warfare) in Target America: Terrorism in the U.S. Today (1993), one of the 
exercises of the suicide pilots (according to a former trainee) “included 
having an Islamic jihad detachment seize [or hijack] a transport aircraft. 
Then, trained air crews from among the terrorists would crash the airliner with 
its passengers into a selected objective.” Sound like training for the attack 
of September 11, 2001? 

ZB was no idiot. As an agent of the PE, he knew perfectly well the consequences 
of what he set in motion. In his The Grand Chessboard (1997), ZB explained: 
“How the United Stated both manipulates and manages Eurasia’s key geopolitical 
pivots will be critical to the longevity and stability of America’s global 
primacy…. A possible challenge to American primacy from Islamic fundamentalism 
could be part of the problem in this unstable region… and would be likely to 
express itself through diffuse violence…. The pursuit of power is not a goal 
that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or 
challenge to the public’s sense of domestic well-being…. America may find it 
more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in 
circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat.”

The “direct external threat” that was “widely perceived” after 9/11 brought 
about the “foreign policy consensus” desired by the PE, along with their 
desired freedom-infringing Patriot Act and Homeland Security Act. And that the 
U.S. is the PE’s primary military enforcer in this regard can be seen in ZB’s 
statement in his book “that America’s primary interest is to help ensure that 
no

[cia-drugs] Government compensation for vaccine-damaged children

2009-05-02 Thread norgesen

Government compensation for vaccine-damaged children 
Wise Up Journal
28.04.2009
By Gabriel O’Hara

The article below from the Irish Examiner stated that the government was 
willing to pay parents for a vaccine the state promoted (as they do with most 
corporation’s vaccines) that damaged children. A government unit was 
established to handle this problem, yet if you speak with Government employees 
about the warnings raised today by parents whose children stopped talking after 
receiving vaccines they will tell you “as far as I can tell” there are no 
doubts on the safety of vaccines. With statements similar to “as far as I can 
tell” it takes legal responsibility off of them as they are simply informing 
you of “their” belief/opinion/spin of the information they are willing to admit 
having read.

The name of the government unit is telling, the Vaccine Damage Steering Group. 
With a name like that it is no surprise it steers parents to “no-fault” 
compensation. The article below was publish in July 2007 and the submissions 
deadline for parents with vaccine-damaged children was one month later. The 
issue makes you think, maybe the public should not trust bureaucrats and 
corporations. Do western societies trust bureaucrats running their country 
financially? Do western societies trust them with their children’s bodies and 
minds? But rest assured if you ever do discover vaccinations limited the 
potential of your child’s intellect (you won’t notice a few IQ points) or long 
term immune system and the government are ever forced decades later to 
partially admit to ruining your child they might pay you a few month’s salary. 
But if you refuse that pay-off and if you live long enough you might have a 
little higher chance than no chance of suing the corporation who manufactured 
the vaccine and you could get more money, but I doubt it. Best to trust 
yourself, yourself with knowledge and discernment.



Irish Examiner
14.07.2007

Submissions sought on vaccine damage compensation scheme 

A STATE-APPOINTED group charged with drafting a compensation scheme for 
vaccine-damaged children is seeking submissions from the public and interested 
groups on the issue.

The Vaccine Damage Steering Group was established by the Department of Health 
and Children earlier this year. Five years ago the Joint Oireachtas Committee 
on Health and Children recommended that a no-fault compensation scheme be 
established for the “small number of children” who experienced serious 
reactions to vaccinations.

Members of the Vaccine Damage Steering Group include representatives from the 
Department of Health and Children, the Health Service Executive, the Irish 
Medicines Board and the State Claims Agency.

Fine Gael’s Denis Naughton is delighted that the first step has finally been 
taken to support vaccine- damaged children.

“It is about time that we lived up to the moral responsibility of taking care 
of those who were damaged by State-promoted vaccination programmes rather than 
trying to hide them away in a dark corner,” he said.

He hoped the public consultation process would lead to the introduction, in the 
near future, of a system that supported rather than ignored some of the most 
vulnerable people in society.

“This is the first positive step taken to support vaccine-damaged children in 
over 25 years and it will hopefully lead to the provision of proper support 
services for these people, many of whom are now adults, and their elderly 
parents,” said Mr Naughton, who pointed out that the British government had 
already established a no-fault compensation scheme for children damaged by 
State vaccination programmes.

“While the Irish Government did offer a once-off ex-gratia payment of £10,000 
(€12,700) to 16 parents of vaccine-damaged children in 1982 and 1984, this is 
totally inadequate for the long-term needs of children who were literally 
damaged by the State itself,” he pointed out.

Mr Naughton said that in one of the 16 cases acknowledged by the State, the 
parents planned to sue the State and manufacturers.

“After waiting years for their legal team to instigate proceedings, the family 
was devastated when told before Christmas that their legal team is not prepared 
to go through with the case.”

He pointed out that the legal route was the last avenue left open to the family 
to ensure that their severely disabled son would be adequately provided for 
should anything happen to his elderly parents. “Why should parents have to face 
another year with such uncertainty due to the lack of progress by a Government 
department?” he asked.

Closing date for receipt of submissions is August 10.



Irish Times
02.02.2002

UUP man tells of autistic son during MMR debate

A member of the Stormont Health Committee last night revealed that his child 
stopped speaking after receiving the controversial MMR vaccine. The Rev Robert 
Coulter (UUP, North Antrim) made his comments during questioning of

[cia-drugs] What is the Role of Iran? Part 4

2009-04-22 Thread norgesen

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF IRAN?
PART 4

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
April 20, 2009

[NOTE: Who said the following? “This state of mind, which subordinates the
interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first
premise for every truly human culture…. The basic attitude from which such
activity arises, we call – to distinguish it from egoism and
selfishness-idealism. By this we understand only the individual’s capacity to
make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.” Doesn’t this sound like
the Communitarian philosophy of today? Actually, it was Hitler who wrote the
quoted words in Mein Kampf (July 18, 1925). Further relevant to what is
occurring today, Leonard Peikoff in Ominous Parallels (1982) wrote: “Contrary
to the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of
production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation’s
economy.

The issue of legal ownership, they explained, is secondary; what counts is the
issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to
property – so long as the state reserves to itself the unqualified right to
regulate the use of their property…. But the Nazis defended their policies, and
the country did not rebel; it accepted the Nazi argument. Selfish individuals
may be unhappy, the Nazis said, but what we have established in Germany is the
ideal system, socialism. In its Nazi usage this term is not restricted to a
theory of economics; it is to be understood in a fundamental sense. ‘Socialism’
for the Nazis denotes the principle of collectivism as such and its corollary,
statism – in every field of human action, including but not limited to
economics. ‘To be a socialist,’ says Goebbels, ‘is to submit the I to the thou;
socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.’”]

The British “Power Elite” (PE) members didn’t like any strong national leaders.
These included Egypt’s Gamal Abdal Nasser (who nationalized the Suez Canal on
July 26, 1956) and Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh, who nationalized that country’s
oil industry at the expense of the British. In Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Ben Bagdikian’s The Media Monopoly, one reads about “when Kermit
Roosevelt, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, wrote a book
called Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran. It was the author’s
inside version of how intelligence agencies overthrew a left-leaning Iranian
premier, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953 and reinstated the Shah. The issue was
control of oil. The plot was called ‘Ajax,’ of which Roosevelt wrote: ‘The
original proposal for Ajax came from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) after
its expulsion from Iran nine months earlier.’ The book was published by
McGraw-Hill in early 1979. Books were on sale in bookstores and reviewer copies
were already in the mail when British Petroleum, successor corporation to AIOC,
persuaded McGraw-Hill to recall all the books – from the stores and from
reviewers.”

As I indicated in Part 3 of this series, the British PE Milner Group didn’t
want a strong Israel. Thus, during the Carter administration, according to
Morton Klein, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (member of Yale University’s
secret society Scroll Key) “once revealed that if Carter had won a second
term, he intended to sell Israel down the river.”

Today, the PE uses the terrorist acts of radical Muslims against Israel as a
means of pressuring Israelis to make compromises that will lead to an eventual
acceptance of a World Socialist Government. I’ve quoted in the past Lincoln
Bloomfield’s Study Memorandum No. 7 for Rhodes scholar Secretary of State Dean
Rusk in 1962: “If the communist dynamic was greatly abated, the West might lose
whatever incentive it has for world government.” So just substitute the words
“radical Muslim” for “communist” and “Israel” for “the West,” and you will
understand the PE’s mechanism at work today.

But it’s not as though no Israeli could anticipate the future, because Look
magazine (January 16, 1962) published Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s
prediction of what the world would look like in 25 years: “The Cold War will be
a thing of the past… a gradual democratization of the Soviet Union…. On the
other hand, the United States [will be transformed] into a welfare state with a
planned economy. Western and Eastern Europe will become a federation of
autonomous states having a Socialist and democratic regime. With the exception
of the USSR as a federated Eurasian state, all other continents will become
united in a world alliance, at whose disposal will be an international police
force…. A pill to

[cia-drugs] Re: The Waco Butchers Are Back

Bob,

Here is the point:

 The media slavishly pushed war propaganda in Bush's first term, but they will
prove even more sycophantic of Obama. Fair-weather left-liberals who often
criticize the most violent side of the Republican state look the other way as
their leader jails people without trial, builds civilian surveillance systems,
and kills innocents.

As I think I've shown over many years of posting here and elsewhere, I am 
opposed to the police state whether coming from left or right.

I get criticisms of posts which skew right, and likewise those that skew left.
Must be doing something right.

Take the point of the post, and ignore the particular political stream from 
which its author adheres.

You can assume that your points made below are understood by me and everyone 
else on this particular list.


Norgesen

-===

Re: The Waco Butchers Are Back 


I didn't know that Lon Horiuchi of Ruby Ridge and Waco was a left-liberal
Democrat. Waco's Janet Reno was a Bushie from Florida, corresponding to JFK
admin traitor Boneser McGeorge Bundy leveraging the pre-planned Bay of Pigs
failure by calling off air support. Waco, Bay of Pigs, and recently Hugo Chavez
of Venezuela kept a short rein on his military and prevented a Waco during
rightwing protests over a TV station. Later in the Clinton admin Reno refrained
from making another Waco slaughter ought of another rightwing cult standoff.

For that matter, Mena and the Arkansas Train Deaths and Casualties of Bill were
more about Bush than Clinton, and Lon Horiuchi was at Ruby Ridge shooting more
civilians. Waco was not about liberal gun-control. It was a Bay of Pigs, first
JFK assassination by Skull and Bones. October Surprise, Waco, WTCbomb, Enron,
911, anthrax 2001 and Mena anthrax mailing to Arkansas state police investigator
Russell Welch, both anthrax mailing incidents by CIA and the rightwing Bushies.
The newtist colony is talking about wiping out an American city this time, like
Hurricane Katrina but worse. Don't make it easy for the American terror lords!

-Bob

--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, norgesen norge...@... wrote:

 The Waco Butchers Are Back

 By Anthony Gregory

 04-19-2009

 Sixteen years ago we were reminded of the deadly danger of having the
left-liberals in charge of the police state. The largest massacre of American
civilians by the US government since Wounded Knee climaxed on April 19, 1993.



 The siege that had begun on February 28 with a botched ATF publicity stunt
ended when the Branch Davidian church and home went up in flames, after an
FBI-operated tank on lease from the military was driven through the building,
pumping flammable CS gas for six hours into the place where women and children
were cowering in fear. Chemistry professor George Uhlig later testified that the
high concentration of the gas combined with poor ventilation subjected the women
and children to conditions similar to… the gas chambers used by the Nazis in
Auschwitz.

 On April 12, the FBI had ruled out using gas because it was dangerous to
children. A week later, Bob Ricks, FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge, said
the gassing was to make their environment as uncomfortable as possible until
they do exit the compound. This excuse came after weeks of throwing flash-bang
grenades at the building when people tried to leave.

 Attorney General Janet Reno said the gas attack was not meant to be D-Day.
This was just a step forward in trying to bring about a peaceful resolution by
constantly exerting further pressure to shrink the perimeter. This militaristic
lingo was characteristic of the feds' approach throughout the siege. The
government had waged psychological warfare by blaring obnoxious music, shining
glaring lights and cutting the Davidians off water, electricity, their friends,
attorneys and the press. Firefighters were not permitted near the scene as the
flames continued engulfing the home. When it was all over, the ATF stuck its
flag up on the building to declare victory.

 At a press conference on April 20, a day after the FBI gassed American
civilians, President Clinton said he did not believe the Attorney General
should resign because some religious fanatics murdered themselves. The press
corps, in an unusually naked expression of solidarity with the government,
applauded Clinton's statement.

 This underscores the dynamic of having this crop in power. If even the
liberals are for a show of force, it must have been necessary. The blame was put
on the religious fanatics, not the government fanatics, and the press and most
Americans ate it all up.

 The media slavishly pushed war propaganda in Bush's first term, but they will
prove even more sycophantic of Obama. Fair-weather left-liberals who often
criticize the most violent side of the Republican state look the other way as
their leader jails people without trial, builds civilian surveillance systems,
and kills innocents.

 Over the last eight years, muckraking liberal journalists dissected

[cia-drugs] Cultural Marxism Corporate Fascism Merge to Destroy Free-Enterprise Capitalism

Cultural Marxism  Corporate Fascism
Merge to Destroy Free-Enterprise Capitalism


by James Jaeger
Originated: 21 September 2008
Revised: 24 September 2008
Revised: 15 October 2008


The Class Struggle Has Never Ended: 
Any city, however small, is divided into two; one the city of the poor, the 
other of the rich; these are at war with one another.
- Plato 


The class struggle that has gone on from Plato's time to present has never 
ended, it has simply been ignored, renamed or made politically incorrect or 
taboo to discuss. But today, you can see the same divides, only they are 
referred to as ideologies in the hope that at least one will remedy the war. 

The two most extreme ideologies that have emerged on either side of yet another 
ideology known as capitalism, are Marxism and Fascism. Westerners supposedly 
know what capitalism is, but fascism and Marxism may be more illusive. 

Fascism is a merger of state and corporate power. In Nazi Germany, the state 
took over industry and merged. It does not matter if the state takes over 
corporate power or corporate power takes over the state; once they have merged 
their power, you have a fascist entity or regime. 

Marxism is a merger of the workforce into a collective power. In Pre-World War 
I Russia, Karl Marx attempted to unite the workers of the world to rise up and 
fight the evil capitalists of the world. Ultimately it does not matter if 
Communism, the end goal of Marxist philosophy comes through the door opened by 
socialism or cultural Marxism; once the heat-shield of traditional family 
values, the middle class and Christian culture have been destroyed, you have a 
Marxist regime in operation. 

The U.S. is going fascist, however it's also going Marxist at the same time. 
Multinational corporations have taken over Congress and merged interests. The 
military-industrial-banking complex is a spin-off of this merger. At the same 
time cultural institutions have been taken over by a new flavor of Marxism, 
known as cultural Marxism. The welfare, nanny-state and violence-oriented, 
anti-Christian media/film business are spin-offs of this take-over. 

Here's how this is happening as one can see from a study of Left-wing writers 
assaulting Right-wing writers AND Right-wing writers assaulting Left-wing 
writers (e.g., Rothkopf vs. Marrs, or Napolitano vs. Moore, for instance). 

Marxism is basically a movement of the workers, the employees of Earth. 
Generally the poor. Fascism is basically a movement of the elite, the employers 
of Earth. Generally the rich. 

Usually one gets rich faster by being an employer than an employee, however the 
salaries being paid by Fortune 500 corporations to their CEOs in recent years 
seems to challenge this assumption. 

Nevertheless, BOTH Marxists and fascists seek government power to help them 
with their objectives. 

Marxists want the government to regulate the big greedy corporate fascists. 

Corporate fascists want the government to stay out of their business except 
when they need a special privilege, BAILOUT or accommodating law passed. 

It is NOT an oversimplification to say this is the classic struggle between 
rich and poor, the haves and the have-nots. Those who own the means of 
production and those who merely operate the means of production. Those who own 
the means of production are generally rich and those who don't are generally 
poor. 

This can be expanded to describe a war between the employees and the employers, 
the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, the debtors and lenders, beauracrats and 
plutocrats and the left and the right, the Democrats and the Republicans. 
Although these words have shades of differing meaning, have been used 
differently in different times and been employed by different factions for 
propaganda purposes -- they all come down to the same basic dilemma: homo 
Sapiens's struggle to survive in a wilderness universe on a planet of limited 
resources, if only temporarily limited. This struggle is intensified or 
mitigated by the simple fact of whether an individual has access to technology 
or not. 


The Means of Production and Distribution Still Rule: 

Technology is really the means of production AND distribution referred to by 
economists like Adam Smith. Those that have this technology have the means to 
create wealth as they have the means of production and distribution. Those that 
do not have these means, usually remain poor. Thus the present-day class 
struggle could be said to be between those with technology and those without 
technology. But as technology gives greater numbers of people the means of 
PRODUCTION, the only way the plutocrats can maintain a stratification and 
wealth disparity is by dominating the means of DISTRIBUTION or destroying the 
production of the poor through perpetual war. Hence the sudden high prices for 
oil and gasoline. The energy crises destroys distribution and endless wars 
destroy production. Thus the constant assault on the free

[cia-drugs] The Mother's Act - Mandatory Screening of Moms for Depression is Like a Bad Movie Rerun

The Mother's Act - Mandatory Screening of Moms for Depression is Like a Bad 
Movie Rerun

Evelyn Pringle

April 20, 2009


The promotion of the Mother's Act is like a rewind of a bad movie dating back 
to the 1960's when rock stars were singing songs about mother's little 
helpers.

Women fought for years to gain acceptance of the fact that many female health 
problems were real and not symptoms of hypochondria. The psycho-pharmaceutical 
cartel's profit-driven invention of an epidemic of pregnancy-related mental 
disorders will wipe out a century of work toward that acceptance.

Sadly, the end result of this latest marketing scheme will be that the 
relatively few women who truly do suffer from postpartum depression will not be 
taken seriously.

The Mother's Act legislation has already passed in the US House of 
Representatives. A majority vote in the Senate would represent a major coup for 
a multibillion dollar industry.

Like many of the acts of Congress, the real beneficiary will not be the 
mothers and their children but the mental health workers who will be 
handsomely paid and the drug companies that are behind this legislation, says 
Steve Hayes, the director of he Novus Medical Detox Center, in the center's 
July 31, 2008 newsletter. 

The drug store chains will expand more because more people will be hooked on 
these dangerous drugs, he points out.

Doctor's offices will be more crowded because we know that these dangerous 
drugs often lead to serious health side effects that will require medical 
treatment, he writes.
The advocacy groups battling against passage of the Mother's Act are nearly 
equal in number to the Act's supporters, and include Unite for Life, AbleChild, 
the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology; Alliance 
for Human Research Protection; International Coalition For Drug Awareness; Law 
Project for Psychiatric Rights, Mindfreedom International, and the Citizens 
Commission on Human Rights.

Same old song and dance
The Mother's Act technique has been used again and again in this country. A new 
sub-group of people is identified as not receiving enough treatment for mental 
disorders and the drug makers funnel money to front groups to fund the disease 
marketing campaign and set up screening programs. 

The internet is now flooded with reports about the rise in pregnancy related 
disorders and the places to find treatment. Websites with names like 
Postpartum Progress and PerinatalPro, provide links to programs that claim 
women need screening for postpartum depression, bipolar disorder, 
schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, 
post traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders. 

However, nowhere to be found, are reports about the sub-groups targeted in the 
past and all the depressed and anxious patients who became mentally healthy as 
a result of being screened and treated. 

Dr David Cohen, a professor of Social Work at Florida International University 
and co-author with Dr Peter Breggin of the book, Your Drug May Be Your 
Problem, gave a keynote address titled, Needed: Critical Thinking About 
Psychiatric Medications, at the International Conference on Social Work in 
Health and Mental Health, in Quebec City, Canada in May 2004, and noted the 
following: 

For the past 50 years, physicians in the West have been prescribing
psychotropic drugs systematically to hundreds of millions of people to alter 
undesirable and disruptive emotions and behavior. 

For the treatment of every single psychological affliction in men and women, 
in all ethnic groups, from the toddler to the aged, taking psychotropic drugs 
is now the cornerstone remedy, all other efforts secondary.

Despite the reliance on psychopharmaceuticals, however, not even modest 
improvements in the incidence, prevalence, relapse rate, duration, or long-term 
outcome of any condition routinely treated today with psychotropics, such as 
depression and schizophrenia, can be discerned.


Childbearing years represent huge market
Childbearing years cover women from roughly sixteen to fifty and the Mother's 
Act proves the drug makers will go to any lengths to hold onto this market. 

The labels for antidepressants warn of the increased risk of SSRI-induced 
suicidality in youth and young adults, the women most likely to become 
pregnant, Dr Breggin, author of the new book, Medication Madness, points 
out. So the drugs not only threaten to cause the death of the mother through 
suicide but the death of the child through lethal birth defects as well, he 
advises.

The exposed fetus is at risk for a variety of potentially serious disorders, 
from cardiovascular anomalies to withdrawal symptoms at birth, Dr Breggin 
warns.

If pregnant women feel anxious or sad, he says, they should seek counseling 
or family therapy with the child's father involved, along with other sources of 
emotional support. 

In February, with little to no fanfare, the FDA said it

[cia-drugs] Obama's Transparency Promise: We're Still Waiting

Obama's Transparency Promise: We're Still Waiting

Legal Analysis by David L. Sobel 

April 19th, 2009

When President Obama – in one of his first official acts – committed his new 
administration to an unprecedented level of transparency, EFF applauded the 
change in policy. Likewise, when Attorney General Holder, at the President's 
direction, issued new guidelines liberalizing agency implementation of the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), we welcomed it as a particularly promising 
development. But we also noted that it remained to be seen whether reality 
would match the rhetoric as the new policy was applied, particularly in the 
context of pending lawsuits – several of which EFF is pursuing – that challenge 
Bush-era decisions to withhold requested information.

Unfortunately, the early indicators are not encouraging. Last week, the Justice 
Department told a federal judge (PDF) in Washington that the FBI – despite the 
new Holder FOIA guidelines – will not be altering its previous decision to 
withhold a substantial amount of information concerning its massive 
Investigative Data Warehouse (IDW), which the Bureau describes as the FBI’s 
single largest repository of operational and intelligence information. The 
database contains hundreds of millions of records and has been characterized as 
an uber-Google.

The FBI's refusal in the IDW case to release even one additional word under the 
Obama administration's highly-touted transparency policy is troubling for 
several reasons. First, Attorney General Holder expressly directed that the new 
FOIA guidelines should be taken into account and applied in pending lawsuits, 
and the judge in the IDW case had ordered the Bureau to say whether [its] 
position has changed in light of the new Obama policy. So the FBI is clearly 
and unequivocally saying that the Holder guidelines don't change a thing.

Second, the reasons the FBI has cited (PDF) for withholding much of the 
disputed information are precisely the ones that the Justice Department claims 
are particularly appropriate for agencies to forego in favor of discretionary 
releases. Thus, the FBI continues to rely upon the so-called low-2 exemption 
to withhold material deemed to be routine matters of merely internal 
interest, despite the fact that DOJ's Office of Information Policy (OIP) has 
recently issued guidance on the new policy directing that where the low-2 
exemption might technically apply, discretionary release should be the general 
rule. Even more significantly, the Bureau extensively invokes Exemption 5 to 
withhold material under the deliberative process privilege, despite OIP's 
determination that [t]here is no doubt that records protected by Exemption 5 
hold the greatest promise for increased discretionary release under the 
Attorney General's Guidelines. It is truly remarkable that, in the face of the 
stated policy encouraging discretionary releases of requested information, 
the FBI has now seen fit to continue to withhold every single word it withheld 
prior to the new administration's purported change in direction.

Finally, it is worth noting that the FBI’s announcement of no change in the 
IDW case came just days before the Obama administration's high-profile release 
of the so-called torture memos. While the administration deserves praise for 
that decision, and the American Civil Liberties Union should be thanked for its 
long and persistent fight to gain the release of that material, the torture 
memos appear to be a special case. The President himself recognized that 
exceptional circumstances surround these memos and require their release and 
noted that the interrogation techniques described in these memos have already 
been widely reported. So the release of that material was not part of the 
routine, systemic presumption of openness that the President and Attorney 
General have promised; rather, it was an exceptional decision made at the 
highest levels of the government in the face of enormous public pressure and in 
recognition of the fact that most of the details are already known.

The FBI's failure to change course in the IDW case is not the only situation in 
which EFF has found that the administration's actions are not yet living up to 
its pro-transparency rhetoric. We have clearly noted our disappointment in 
finding that the Obama administration has adopted the Bush policy with respect 
to the state secrets privilege in the context of illegal wiretapping. And the 
White House has not even bothered to respond to EFF's formal requests for 
information concerning the use of cookies (PDF) at whitehouse.gov and the 
policies governing records created on White House BlackBerries and similar 
devices (PDF). For an administration that promised on Day One that it was 
committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government, the 
early track record leaves a great deal to be desired. It's now time to start 
delivering on that promise.

[cia-drugs] September 11 Clues

From: eyeswideoo...@yahoo.com 
September 11 Clues



  What a most unusual coincidence that Vivek Kundra was in Arlington 
Virginia being interviewed for the Director of Infrastructure Technology on 
September 11, 2001.   Interview 8:30 am.  Somebody knocks on the door and said, 
we're in a national emergency.   And the (sounds like he's saying CIA )  
hires him right then and there?  What we need is interoperability.  
doyoiyoiyoinng... doesn't sound right to me. 

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amTdg8eGoyk

  Who is Vivek Kundra?He was appointed as Obama's Chief Technology 
Officer
  
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Names-Vivek-Kundra-Chief-Information-Officer/

  Here's a profile -  
  
http://www.sorenseninstitute.org/newsroom/entry/political-leaders-2007-profile-vivek-kundra
  
http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/mar/05vivek-kundra-appointed-as-obamas-cio.htm

  What else is there to know about Vivek Kundra?  

  Obama's CIO temporarily steps down after FBI raids ex-employer
  http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10194925-38.html


  As Vivek Kundra, President Obama's choice for U.S. chief information 
officer, was speaking about government transparency at the Washington, D.C., 
convention center on Thursday morning, his former offices a few blocks away 
were being raided by the FBI. 
  Until Obama's appointment last week, Kundra was the District of 
Columbia's chief technology officer. The FBI raid coincided with two arrests as 
part of a bribery sting--Yusuf Acar, 40, and Sushil Bansal, 41. 

  An administration official tells our sister news organization, CBS News, 
that Kundra has taken a leave of absence from his new position as the federal 
government's CIO until the FBI investigation is sorted out. 

  At an arraignment in federal court Thursday afternoon, Acar was charged 
with conspiracy to commit bribery, wire fraud, conflict of interest, and 
conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. He was ordered to be held without 
bond until a hearing Tuesday because prosecutors said he posed a flight risk. 

  Bansal was charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and conspiracy to 
launder monetary instruments

  Click the link for the rest of the article - 
  __

  Here is the link to the AITC website.  Notice the SBA connection - 
  http://www.aitc.net/


  Here is are some audio recordings of Vivek in an interview - PLEASE NOTE  
that he talks about the ideas for the national Health IT system  and he 
mentions the Human Genome project 

  http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/vivek-kundra-federal-cio-in-hi.html


  Vivek is the 3rd foreigner that I'm aware of to be involved with the 
redesign of the American Health care system.  And the 2nd one of be hired 
immediately after 9-11.  The other was John Agwunobi from Nigeria - hired by 
the State of Florida.  Vivek's menion mention of the Human Genome Project sent 
a chill down my spine. 

  The third foreigner was Dr. Elias Zerhouni from Algeria.  He was the 
Director of NIH.  He got the ball rolling on remote medicine - American X-Rays 
transmitted offshore to be read in places like India.  

  Please pay more attention to what they intend to do with our health 
care system because what they are doing is setting up the American people for 
eugenics, eldercide - and maybe even genocide.  An invading army doesn't have 
to wear uniforms and carry guns.  Sometimes they come through infiltration and 
stealth.  And that's what's happening here.  

  And do watch the Daniel Hopsicker video again.   He was on to them... he 
just didn't know it.

[cia-drugs] CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

From: Vicky Davis 

  --- On Tue, 4/7/09, Joann wrote:

Subject: CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 10:09 PM

The Document!  See:  
http://www.cfr.org/content/thinktank/CFR_Global%20_Governance_%20Program.pdf 

This is a Keeper, check out the link above first.

Joann

CFR Unveils Global Governance Agenda

Old-Thinker News | March 31, 2009

By Daniel Taylor

The Council on Foreign Relations, often described as the real state 
department, has launched an initiative to promote and implement a system of 
effective world governance.

The program, titled The International Institutions and Global 
Governance Program, utilizes the resources of the ...David Rockefeller 
Studies Program to assess existing regional and global governance 
mechanisms... The initial funding for the program came with a $6 million grant 
from the Robina Foundation, which claims that the grant is ...one of the 
largest operating grants ever received in Council history.

The IIGG program, launched on May 1st, 2008, is the latest 
manifestation of an agenda that has existed since and before the founding of 
the Council on Foreign Relations. Former CFR member, Rear Admiral Chester Ward, 
stated regarding the group,

  The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective 
in common - they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the 
national independence of the United States. A second clique of international 
members in the CFR comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their 
key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power 
ends up in the control of global government.

The International Institutions and Global Governance Program identifies 
several global issues that require a system of world governance. 
Environmental issues, terrorism, the global economy and energy are all 
mentioned. The project then states that a system of universal membership 
could be pursued, or alternatively a regional organization, such as the 
European Union model.

  In each of these spheres, the program will consider whether the most 
promising framework for governance is a formal organization with universal 
membership (e.g., the United Nations); a regional or sub-regional organization; 
a narrower, informal coalition of like-minded countries; or some combination of 
all three.

The program calls for the Re-conceptualizing of national sovereignty, 
citing the European Union's pooling of sovereignty as a model. The CFR 
project recognizes that historically, the United States has been resistant to 
the ideals of global governance. The project states, Among the most important 
factors determining the future of global governance will be the attitude of the 
United States...

The IIGG program continues, ...few countries have been as sensitive as 
the United States to restrictions on their freedom of action or as jealous in 
guarding their sovereign prerogatives. The program then states that the 
separation of powers as stated in the Constitution, along with the U.S. 
Congress, stand in the way of the United States assuming new international 
obligations.

As stated,

  ...the country’s longstanding tradition of liberal “exceptionalism” 
inspires U.S. vigilance in protecting the domestic sovereignty and institutions 
from the perceived incursions of international bodies. Finally, the separation 
of powers enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress a critical 
voice in the ratification of treaties and endorsement of global institutions, 
complicates U.S. assumptions of new international obligations.

The actions of the Military Industrial Complex under the Bush 
Administration have served globalist interests well. Global structures are 
now presented as the mechanism to prevent such atrocities. America's 
demonization is central to building a system of world governance. Patrick M. 
Stewart, who is currently the director of the CFR IIGG program, is anticipating 
the Obama administration ...to seek to turn the page on what many perceived to 
be 'cowboy unilateralism' of the Bush years, by embracing multilateral 
cooperation, re-kindling U.S. alliances and partnerships, and engaging in 
sustained diplomacy within the UN framework, as reported by Xinhua. The IIGG 
project itself stated in May of 2008 that, Regardless of whether the 
administration that takes office in January 2009 is Democratic or Republican, 
the thrust of U.S. foreign policy is likely to be multilateral to a significant 
degree.

Globalist forces are hard at work in the economic and political realms 
in an attempt to shape the future of the world, furthering the dominance of the 
global elite. Calls for a global currency in response to the economic crisis 
are regularly occurring, drawing the tacit support of

[cia-drugs] Obama gets euphoric CIA welcome

Obama gets euphoric CIA welcome

Agence France-Presse

April 20, 2009

LANGLEY, Virginia – President Barack Obama Monday heaped praise on the CIA,
telling employees not to be discouraged by his release of stunning details on
the agency's harsh terror interrogations.

The president got an enthusiastic reception as he gave a speech at the agency's
headquarters, just days after releasing secret memos on Bush-era questioning of
terror suspects derided by critics as torture.

Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks. Don't be
discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we have made some mistakes
-- that's how we learn, Obama said.

But the fact that we are willing to acknowledge them and then move forward,
that is precisely why I am proud to be president of the United States and
that's why you should be proud to be members of the CIA.

Obama's visit coincided with fresh revelations about the repeated use of
waterboarding, or near drowning, on up to 266 occasions by CIA interrogators
against two top Al-Qaeda terror suspects.

Last week, the president released a series of Justice Department memos
detailing harsh techniques, including waterboarding, sleep deprivation and even
the use of insects, endorsed by the previous administration of George W. Bush.

The move, in line with a court order, exposed Obama to fierce attacks from
across the political spectrum.

Former Bush administration officials warned he had tied the hands of the agency
for the future, damaged individual agents who carried out the questioning or
offered a propaganda tool to US enemies.

Human rights groups were furious though that Obama simultaneously ruled out
prosecutions of CIA operatives who carried out interrogations that they view as
torture, by reasoning agents were acting on orders to defend their country.

The former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Michael Hayden, warned on
Sunday that the release of the documents could still leave agents vulnerable to
civil lawsuits or congressional probes targeting CIA operatives who relied on
the Bush-era memos to carry out harsh interrogations.

There will be more revelations. There will be more commissions. There will be
more investigations, he told the TV program Fox News Sunday.

This is an agency, he added, that is at war and is on the frontlines of
defending America.

The harsh interrogation techniques, Hayden insisted, had succeeded in combating
Al-Qaeda and saving American lives, something he characterized as an
inconvenient truth.

Obama showered praise on the agency operatives who operate in the shadows and
have played a new and more vital role since the September 11 attacks in 2001.

I want you to know how much the American people appreciate your service,
Obama said.

Sometimes it's hard to acknowledge sacrifices made by the people whose work or
even identity must remain secret, and that's part of the enormous burden that
you carry when you sign up.

Obama's visit coincided with revelations that CIA interrogators waterboarded
Al-Qaeda's September 11 attack mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and another
top suspect, Abu Zubaydah, on multiple occasions.

The use of the near-drowning technique on the two suspects was contained in the
small print of a Bush-era Justice Department memo released by Obama last week
and highlighted by the New York Times Monday.

The document, dated May 30, 2005, revealed that waterboarding was used 183
times on Mohammed during March 2003 and at least 83 times on Zubaydah in August
2002.

Those totals amount to far greater use of waterboarding than has originally
been reported and may give further ammunition to those who see the technique as
torture and an ineffective way of eliciting information.

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[cia-drugs] Washington Post Highlights Agenda For �Bank Of The World�

Washington Post Highlights Agenda For ‘Bank Of The World’

By Steve Watson | Infowars.net

Apr. 20, 2009

The Washington Post today carries a revealing article that highlights the
ongoing agenda to forge a new economic world order with a vastly empowered
IMF acting as a 'bank of the world'.

Under the headline A Bigger, Bolder Role Is Imagined For the IMF -
Changes Suggest Shift in How Global Economy Is Run, Anthony Faiola describes
how the IMF is on course to be transformed into a veritable United Nations for
the global economy.

Faiola envisages a scenario where central bankers and finance ministers would
meet to convene a financial security council of sorts.

Serving almost as ambassadors to the IMF, they would debate ways to put out
the world's economic fires and stifle reckless policies before they ignite new
ones. he continues.

Bowing to a new economic world order, the IMF would grant fresh powers to the
likes of China, India and Brazil. It would have vastly expanded authority to
act as a global banker to governments rich and poor. And with more flexibility
to effectively print its own money, it would have the ability to inject
liquidity into global markets in a way once limited to major central banks,
including the U.S. Federal Reserve

The article then explains that this imagined scenario is taken directly from
internal IMF documents, interviews and think-tank reports. The details were
thrashed out at the recent G20 summit, and though they may take years to fully
implement, this model represents the global financial elite's blueprint for the
near future.

The IMF will discuss it's role in the new world order at it's biannual assembly
in Washington this weekend.

The Post article essentially describes the ongoing agenda to empower a group of
unelected central bankers with the authority to usurp state sovereignty by
overseeing benchmarks for national financial governance and setting regulations
for financial institutions all over the globe.

The Post's description echoes that of World Bank President and Bilderberg
elitist Robert Zoellick, who earlier this month openly spoke of using the
economic crisis to give global financial bodies the power to regulate national
policy as part of the larger creation of global government.

“If leaders are serious about creating new global responsibilities or
governance, let them start by modernising multilateralism to empower the WTO,
the IMF, and the World Bank Group to monitor national policies.” Zoellick
stated.

Of course, The Washington Post can openly announce this, as can every other
major media outlet in the world. However if you or I discuss it, it is still
dismissed as a conspiracy theory by the unwitting majority of the population.

As we have previously reported, both the IMF and the United Nations have thrown
their weight behind proposals to implement a de-facto global financial
dictatorship. Both bodies have expressed support for new world reserve currency
system to replace the dollar as part of the acceleration towards a new economic
world order.

Earlier this month after the G20 summit, the London Telegraph's international
business editor also highlighted the agenda, noting that under a clause in
Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders, the IMF's power to create
money outside the control of any sovereign body was activated.

The new reserve currency would be formed from Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), a
synthetic paper currency issued by the IMF that has lain dormant for half a
century.

The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central
bank, running monetary policy for all humanity. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote.

As we have repeatedly warned, the introduction of a new global currency system,
with an overarching regulatory body, is a key cornerstone in the move towards
global government, centralized control and more power being concentrated into
fewer unaccountable hands.

http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2009/200409Post.htm

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[cia-drugs] Bush Administration authorized use of insects in interrogations

2009-04-18 Thread norgesen

Bush Administration authorized use of insects in interrogations

John Byrne


Thursday April 16, 2009



The Bush Administration Office of Legal Counsel authorized the Central 
Intelligence Agency to put insects inside a confinement box as part of the 
Administration's harsh interrogation practice, as well as throwing detainees 
into walls, according to memos released by President Barack Obama on Thursday.

Read the full memos here.

You would like to place Zubadayah in a cramped confinement box with an insect. 
You have informed us he has a fear of insects, the Bush White House said.

As we understand it, no actually harmful insect will be placed in the box. 
Thus, though the introduction of an insect may produce trepidation in Zubaydah 
(which we discuss below), it certainly does not cause physical pain.

But, the memo cautioned, to comply with the law, the CIA must inform him that 
the insects will not have a sting that would produce death or severe pain.

Part of the text beneath a description of the insect torture was redacted.

Time's Michael Scherer notes, The insect interrogation technique, as it turned 
out, was never used by the CIA, according to a second declassified memo 
released Thursday. 'We understand that — for reasons unrelated to any concerns 
that it might violate the [criminal] statute — the CIA never used the technique 
and has removed it from the list of authorized interrogation techniques,' wrote 
Steven Bradbury, a principal deputy assistant attorney general, in the footnote 
to a on May 10, 2005 document.


Detailed description of 'walling' detainees
It also provides a detailed description of walling, a practice in which 
detainees were thrown against walls as part of the interrogation process (one 
detainee said his neck was tied with a towel and thrown against a plywood wall 
in a recently leaked Red Cross report).

For walling, a flexible false wall will be constructed. The individual is 
placed with his heels touching the wall. The interrogator pulls the individual 
forward and then quickly and firmly pushes the individual into the wall. It is 
the individual's shoulder blades that hit the wall. 

During this motion, the head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or 
towel that provides a c-collar effect to help prevent whiplash. To further 
reduce the probability of injury, the individual is allowed to rebound from the 
flexible wall. You have orally informed us that the false wall is in part 
constructed to create a loud sound when the individual hits it, which will 
further shock or surprise in the individual. In part, the idea is to create a 
sound that will make the impact seem far worse than it is and that will be far 
worse than any injury that might result from the action.

The White House lawyers characterized this practice as rough handling.

While walling involves what might be characterized as rough handling, it does 
not involve the threat of imminent death or, as discussed above, the infliction 
of severe physical pain. Moreover, once again we understand that use of this 
technique will not be accompanied by any specific verbal threat that violence 
will ensue absent cooperation. Thus, like the facial slap, walling can only 
constitute a threat of severe physical pain if a reasonable person would infer 
such a threat from the use of the technique itself. Walling does not in and of 
itself inflict severe pain or suffering.

As part of the release of the memos Thursday, the Justice Department said they 
would provide attorneys to any CIA interrogator who engaged in the practice 
thinking it was lawful under the aegis of the memo.

According to Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, writing earlier this year, former Bush 
officials may find themselves in hot water over one of the memos released 
Thursday.

An internal Justice Department report on the conduct of senior lawyers who 
approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics is causing anxiety 
among former Bush administration officials, Isikoff wrote. H. Marshall 
Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of 
Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating 
whether the legal advice in crucial interrogation memos 'was consistent with 
the professional standards that apply to Department of Justice attorneys.' 
According to two knowledgeable sources who asked not to be identified 
discussing sensitive matters, a draft of the report was submitted in the final 
weeks of the Bush administration. It sharply criticized the legal work of two 
former top officials—Jay Bybee and John Yoo—as well as that of Steven Bradbury, 
who was chief of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the time the report was 
submitted, the sources said. (Bybee, Yoo and Bradbury did not respond to 
multiple requests for comment.)

The matter is under review, Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller is 
quoted as saying.

Read the full memos here.

[cia-drugs] The Final Plucking of America's Financial and Economic Sovereignty

2009-04-13 Thread norgesen

The Federal Reserve is not federal and it has no reserves. Money is printed on 
demand to lend to the American government. The Feds maintain their rights to 
charge us interest on the newly printed Federal Reserve Notes.



THE FINAL PLUCKING OF AMERICA’S FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY






By Joan Veon
April 13, 2009


Believe as you will about the 2008 Credit Crisis but if you fail to recognize 
that the final pieces of America’s financial and economic sovereignty are being 
transferred in the name of finding a global solution to the crisis, then you 
will have believed those who intend to steal your assets next, as well as your 
freedom.

How could America’s financial sovereignty be plucked from her both at the 
domestic and international levels? It is not because of a five or even 
twenty-five year plan but one that may be hundreds of years old. This plan, I’m 
sure, did not happen all at once but took time to evolve. It is a diabolically 
brilliant strategy in its scheming. In order to understand, we need to review 
how the credit crisis will lead to the total transfer of America’s sovereignty.

  [Read The Coming Battle published in 1899, written by a man born before the 
civil war, predicting a battle between the people and the moneypower for 
freedom]

First came the rise of a novel idea whereby the government would borrow from a 
private corporation, and pay a perpetual interest. The private corporation, 
known as a central bank, got its roots in 1688 from the Swedish, and then went 
to the Dutch and then the British. The core of the idea was for governments to 
borrow indefinitely without having to pay down the principal. When the newly 
founded colonies broke from the British, it was Alexander Hamilton who 
convinced George Washington that a central bank would be good for America, 
also. Years later, in 1833, President Andrew Jackson closed the Second National 
Bank (America’s central bank) routing out the power of its foreign investors 
and returning our government to sound money. It was not until 1913 that a 
central bank would be reestablished in America transferring the power to coin 
money from Congress to the Federal Reserve.

Not without its own amount of chicanery and deceit did the Federal Reserve Bank 
come to pass. Other central banks were created as well. No one really knows who 
owns the Federal Reserve or the other central banks of the world. However, 
thanks to Prince Andrew’s series of documentaries about his forefathers, we now 
have proof that King William was the largest investor, £10,000, in the Bank of 
England in 1694. Might it be presumptuous to consider that if the British royal 
family invested in the Bank of England, they have probably invested in many 
other central banks since then to increase their wealth? 

The Federal Reserve is not federal and it has no reserves. Money is printed on 
demand to lend to the American government. The Feds maintain their rights to 
charge us interest on the newly printed Federal Reserve Notes. 

Secondly, we have to understand that all the barriers between the countries of 
the world have fallen except one; the regulatory barrier. In 1944, the economic 
and financial barriers between countries fell with the establishment of the 
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The political barriers fell 
with the creation of the United Nations in 1945; the trade barriers were 
removed in 1944 with the creation of the World Trade Organization; the legal 
barriers came down with the creation of the International Criminal Court in 
1998; the military and intelligence barriers fell on September 11, 2001 with 
the attack on the World Trade Center in NYC. We are connected just as 
Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama have said. It should be noted that each of 
the global institutions have been busy setting up an infrastructure of their 
own since their respective inceptions. Please visit their websites.

Thirdly, to integrate the world from a regulatory standpoint does not make 
sense if there was no reason, to. The 1994 United Nations Development Programme 
Report explains all of the missing pieces of world government, which include an 
Economic Security Council, a World Central Bank, new credit facilities for the 
World Bank, increased Special Drawing Rights for the IMF, and a World 
Anti-Monopoly Authority. They specifically state: “It will probably take some 
time and probably some international financial crisis—before a full-scale World 
Central Bank can be created” (p.84). The last three were created at the G20 
meeting.

Fourthly, we need to understand that the Treasury Blueprint for a Modernized 
Financial Regulatory System introduced by former Treasury Secretary Hank 
Paulson in March, 2007, calls for the complete shift of America’s financial and 
economic national sovereignty to the care and oversight of the Federal Reserve, 
independent of Congress. The Blueprint, when issued, received the approval of 
then New York Federal

[cia-drugs] White House: Obama 'absolutely' supports move to dismiss wiretapping suit

2009-04-10 Thread norgesen

White House: Obama 'absolutely' stands behind effort to throw out warrantless
wiretapping suit

Eric Brewer

April 10, 2009

President Barack Obama endorsed a Justice Department move to dismiss a case in
which the National Security Agency is being sued over its warrantless
wiretapping program, because he believes the case presents a risk to national
security, the White House told Raw Story Thursday.

In response to a question at Thursday’s press briefing, White House Press
Secretary Robert Gibbs said that President Obama stands firmly behind a Justice
Department brief filed last week which aims to have a civil liberties group’s
lawsuit dismissed.

He “absolutely does,” Gibbs said. “Obviously, these are programs that have been
debated and discussed, but the President does support that viewpoint.”

The Electronic Frontier foundation is suing the NSA for damages over a program
in which the government tracked the phone calls and emails of thousands of
Americans following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

In their filing Friday, the Justice Department argued that the case should be
dismissed because information surrounding the program was a “state secret” and
therefore couldn’t be litigated or discussed. It also proposed that the
government was protected by “sovereign immunity” under federal wiretapping
statutes and the Patriot Act, arguing that the United States could only face
lawsuits if they willfully elected to disclose intelligence obtained by
wiretapping.

In other words, the motion posited that government agencies couldn’t be sued
for spying because they never intentionally told anyone they were engaged in
warrantless wiretaps, even if such a program violated the law.
During his presidential campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama criticized the Bush
Administration for its use of “state secrets” as a legal argument to prevent
lawsuits from moving forward. His campaign website listed state secrets under
the headline “Problems.”

“The Bush administration has ignored public disclosure and has invoked a legal
tool known as the ‘state secrets’ privilege more than any other previous
administration to get cases thrown out of court,” his campaign site said.

Raw Story questioned Gibbs about the apparent contradiction.

“Before he was elected, the President said that the Bush administration had
abused the state secrets privilege,” this reporter asked. “Has he changed his
mind?”

“No,” Gibbs replied. “I mean, obviously, we're dealing with some suits, and the
President will -- and the Justice Department will make determinations based on
protecting our national security.”

“So he still thinks that the Bush administration abused the state secrets
privilege?” Raw Story asked.

“Yes,” Gibbs said.

The invocation of state secrets privilege as a means of derailing suits against
the government is nothing new. The Obama Justice Department made this claim in
February, in response to a suit brought by victims of extraordinary rendition.
But the Department’s “sovereign immunity” argument is unexpected.

A close review of the Department's brief suggests that the Justice Department
took a quote out of context in an effort to bolster their case.

The Department asserts that the United States can’t be sued because it’s
specifically excluded under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. “In
the Wiretap Act and ECPA, Congress expressly preserved sovereign immunity
against claims for damages and equitable relief, permitting such claims against
only a 'person or entity, other than the United States,'” the Department wrote.

In that section of the law, however, the phrase “other than the United States”
is there only because those sections specify the penalties to be used in cases
in which the law is violated by someone other than the United States. In
contrast, another section of the law specifies penalties for violations of the
law by the United States. (More on the law can be read at section 2520 (in
chapter 119) and section 2707.)

Some legal scholars have raised eyebrows at the claim.

Orin Kerr, professor at George Washington School of Law, believes that the
Administration's argument they can't be prosecuted unless they willfully
provide wiretapping intelligence seems spurious.

The statute itself says 'any willful violation,' and it expressly covers all
of Chapter 121 (the Stored Communications Act), all of Chapter 119 (the Wiretap
Act), and those explicit sections of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Act], Kerr wrote.

The preceding article was a White House report from Eric Brewer, who
periodically attends White House press briefings for Raw Story. Brewer is also
a contributor at BTC News. He was the first person to ask about the Downing
Street memo at a White House briefing.

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[cia-drugs] Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program: Wants case against NSA dismissed

2009-04-06 Thread norgesen

Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
John Byrne
April 6, 2009

Wants case against NSA dismissed

President Barack Obama invoked state secrets to prevent a court from
reviewing the legality of the National Security Agency's warantless wiretapping
program, moving late Friday to have a lawsuit that challenged the program
dismissed.

The move -- which holds that information surrounding the massive eavesdropping
program should be kept from the public because of its sensitivity -- follows an
earlier decision in March to block handover of documents relating to the Bush
Administration's decision to spy on a charity. The arguments also mirror the
Bush Administration's efforts to dismiss an earlier suit against ATT.

The Friday brief involves a lawsuit filed by the civil liberties group
Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is suing the NSA for the wiretapping
program. The agency monitored the telephone calls and emails of thousands of
people within the United States without a court's approval in an effort to
thwart terrorist attacks.

In attempting to block a San Fransisco court from reviewing documents relating
to the NSA program, the Obama Administration is also protecting other
individuals named as defendants in the suit: Vice President Dick Cheney, former
Cheney chief of staff David Addington and former Bush Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales. The Friday brief responded to the government agencies being sued; the
individual defendants have asked for more time to prepare their response.

It also stands firmly behind the telecommunications giant ATT. ATT
whistleblower Mark Klein revealed that the company allowed the agency to
install network monitoring hardware to spy on American citizens.

The Director of National Intelligence, the Justice Department says, has set
forth a more than reasonable basis to conclude that harm to national security
would result from the disclosure of whether the NSA has worked with any
telecommunications carrier. ATT is specifically mentioned. Public reports
have fingered ATT, Verizon, MCI and Sprint as participating in the
government's eavesdropping efforts.

Acting Assistant Attorney General Michael Hertz penned the brief on behalf of
the Obama Justice Department.

The grounds for this motion [to dismiss] are that the Court lacks subject
matter jurisdiction with respect to plaintiffs' statutory claims against the
United States because Congress has not waived sovereign immunity, and summary
judgment for the Government on all of plaintiffs' remaining claims against all
parties... is required because information necessary to litigate plantiffs'
claims is property subject to and excluded from use in this case by the state
secrets privilege and related statutory privileges, Hertz and other trial
attorneys for the Justice Department wrote.

The Justice Department also holds that the lawsuit can't proceed because of the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. They assert that the US government has
sovereign immunity against statutory claims that it illegally wiretapped or
accessed communications data.

Congress expanded the wiretapping program in 2008 with passage of amendments to
the Act, which gave telecom companies immunity for past and future
participation in the program and expanded the legal use of warrantless wiretaps
from 48 hours to seven days. The revised Act also allowed the government to
destroy records of previous taps.

Obama voted for the revised Act while a senator last year.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation fired off a scathing press release Monday.

President Obama promised the American people a new era of transparency,
accountability, and respect for civil liberties, said EFF Senior Staff
Attorney Kevin Bankston in the release. But with the Obama Justice Department
continuing the Bush administration's cover-up of the National Security Agency's
dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans, and insisting that the
much-publicized warrantless wiretapping program is still a 'secret' that cannot
be reviewed by the courts, it feels like deja vu all over again.

The Obama Administration's full motion to dismiss can be read here (PDF).

This article has been updated from its original version.

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[cia-drugs] G20 - Brown: A NEW WORLD ORDER Is Being Born

2009-04-04 Thread norgesen

G20 - Brown: A NEW WORLD ORDER Is Being Born 

By AGI

04-03-2009 



From the G20 in London, a new world order is emerging.




So announced the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, to a press conference. 
First of all, for the first time, we have together fixed the principles for a 
reform of the global banking system, Brown said, This is a vast programme of 
measures which for the first time brings the shadow banking system, including 
hedge funds, within the network of global reglulation. We have agreed on the 
need to set international accountancy standards, we shall set rules for the 
rating agencies to eliminate conflicts of interest; we have arrived at an 
agreement to put an end to tax havens which do not supply information upon 
request. This is the beginning of the end for tax havens.

http://www.agi.it/business/news/200904021939-eco-ren0067-art.html

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[cia-drugs] Fingerprints Replaces PIN-codes and Passwords at Corporations

2009-04-04 Thread norgesen

Fingerprints Replaces PIN-codes and Passwords at Corporations 
- Precise Biometrics and Gemalto Release Match-on-Card for Microsoft Windows
LUND, SWEDEN--(By Marketwire - April 2, 2009) - 

SOURCE: Precise Biometrics AB



Gemalto and Precise Biometrics today introduce Gemalto .NET Bio. This 
innovative solution enables organizations to enhance network security and 
protect online identities by replacing weak, static passwords, with strong 
authentication. Gemalto .NET Bio includes Precise Biometrics' fingerprint 
technology, Precise Match-on-Card™, and is easy to deploy and manage. The 
solution also integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Windows environments. 




The Precise Match-on-Card™ technology stores and verifies users' fingerprint 
information directly on a smart card, in this case a Gemalto NET card. The 
fingerprint information never leaves the card and is never stored in a 
database, thus protecting their digital identities and privacy. 

Organizations employ Gemalto smart cards and tokens for strong user 
authentication to their networks, as well as for data encryption and digital 
signature services. Traditionally, smart cards are protected by a PIN to verify 
the holder of the device is its legitimate owner. 

With Gemalto .NET Bio, organizations benefit from the convenience of 
fingerprint authentication and the portability and security of smart card 
devices, all seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Windows operating systems and 
applications. 

Gemalto and Precise Biometrics have done a great job integrating smart cards 
and biometrics within the security layer of Windows Operating systems. said 
Dustin Ingalls, Director of Program Management: Windows Core Operating System 
Division, Microsoft. 

Thomas Marschall, Precise Biometrics' CEO, is very pleased with the cooperation 
with Gemalto for the product development and comments: 

- This solution creates a major volume market opportunity for Precise 
Match-on-Card in the employee ID segment due to its simplicity and 
user-friendliness, as it eliminates the need for any additional middleware and 
installation. In combination with the wide availability of fingerprint readers 
in laptops, there is a clear business case for cost-savings and increased 
security for any organization. We count on a number of projects to start up 
already this year. 

Gemalto .NET Bio works seamlessly with a wide range of applications for Windows 
and provides a very familiar user experience. The solution has an intuitive 
interface and users can enroll their fingerprints on the cards themselves, 
making it straightforward and cost-effective for both IT administrators and 
employees. 

The solution will be demonstrated by Gemalto at the 2009 RSA Conference in San 
Francisco, US 20-24 April 2009. 

For more information on .NET Bio, please visit 
www.gemalto.com/products/dotnet_bio/ 



About .NET Bio and Microsoft Compatibility 

Gemalto and Precise Biometrics succeeded in making the solution work seamlessly 
with Microsoft product ecosystem. In addition, the Gemalto NET card minidriver 
is integrated with Microsoft's Windows Smart Card Framework. It is included in 
the box with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 and packaged as part of a 
Windows update for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. 

About Gemalto 

Gemalto (Euronext NL 400653 GTO) is the leader in digital security with 
annual revenues of over EUR 1.6 billion, more than 75 offices in 40 countries 
and about 10,000 employees including 1,300 RD engineers. In a world where the 
digital revolution is increasingly transforming our lives, Gemalto's solutions 
are designed to make personal digital interactions more convenient, secure and 
enjoyable. 

Gemalto provides end-to-end digital security solutions, from the development of 
software applications through design and production of secure personal devices 
such as smart cards, SIMs, e-passports and tokens to the deployment of managed 
services for its customers. More than a billion people worldwide use the 
company's products and services for telecommunications, financial services, 
e-government, identity management, multimedia content, digital rights 
management, IT security, mass transit and many other applications. 

As the use of Gemalto's software and secure devices increases with the number 
of people interacting in the digital and wireless world, the company is poised 
to thrive over the coming years. For more information, please visit 
www.gemalto.com. 


For further information, please contact
Thomas Marschall, CEO, Precise Biometrics AB
Tel: +46 46 31 11 10 or +46 734 35 11 10
E-mail thomas.marsch...@precisebiometrics.com
Precise Biometrics is a market-leading provider of solutions for fingerprint 
recognition to prove people's identities. With top-of-the-line expertise in 
fingerprint verification, Precise Biometrics offers fast, accurate and secure 
authentication of a person. 

Its core product, Precise Match-on-Card™,

[cia-drugs] Gordon Brown calls for EU-US Global Rule at the European Parliament (video)

2009-03-29 Thread norgesen

Gordon Brown calls for EU-US Global Rule at the European Parliament (video) 
Europarl
27.03.2009



European Parliament, Strasbourg - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses 
the European Parliament, 24 March 2009, in preparation to the G-20 Summit on 
April 2.

Gordon Brown calls for EU-US global rule. But he got his fair share of a 
grilling, especially from Nigel Farage and Dan Hannan. This collage provides 
snippets from speeches that afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1WlpzvgciY

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=848

[cia-drugs] Idaho House: Private Arms Will Not be Seized During a State of Martial Law

2009-03-28 Thread norgesen

State shouldn't take your guns or ammo under martial law, Idaho House says

By Kathleen Kreller 

03-25-2009

State government could not seize private arms or ammunition during a state of 
martial law under a bill approved Tuesday by the Idaho House. 




Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, sponsored the bill. He cited Hurricane 
Katrina and the bedlam that developed in the aftermath in New Orleans and other 
Gulf Coast cities as an example of a time when people needed their arms and 
ammo.

Even in those instances, we should have the right to keep our Second Amendment 
right and keep our arms and ammunition, Nielsen said.

Rep. Grant Burgoyne, D-Boise, said the bill takes power away from Idaho's 
governor to seize arms and ammunition in the case of a rebellion or 
insurrection.

House Bill 229 passed 61-9 and now goes to the Senate.



http://www.idahostatesman.com/Legislature/story/708872.html

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[cia-drugs] Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act

2009-03-28 Thread norgesen

Director of FBI Urges Renewal of Patriot Act

Portions of Law to Expire This Year

By Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 26, 2009; A08 



FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III urged lawmakers yesterday to renew 
intelligence-gathering measures in the USA Patriot Act that are set to expire 
in December, calling them exceptional tools to help protect national 
security. 

The law, passed shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, created 
divisions between proponents, who said it was necessary to deter terrorism, and 
privacy advocates warning that it tramples on Americans' civil liberties. 
Portions of the law are up for reauthorization this year. 

Mueller told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee he hopes that the 
reauthorization of two provisions would be far less controversial than in 
previous years. One of those provisions, which helps authorities secure access 
to business records, has been exceptionally helpful in our national security 
investigations, he said. 

In response to a question from Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.), Mueller said 
that his agents had used the provision about 220 times between 2004 and 2007. 
Data for last year were not yet available, he said. 

The measure allows investigators probing terrorism to seek a suspect's records 
from third parties such as financial services and travel and telephone 
companies without notifying the suspect. The American Civil Liberties Union has 
criticized the provision, saying it violates the First Amendment rights of U.S. 
citizens. 

Another provision, permitting roving wiretaps of terrorism suspects, was used 
147 times and has helped eliminate an awful lot of paperwork, Mueller said. 
In the past, authorities had to seek court approval for each electronic device 
carried by a suspect, from a cellphone and a BlackBerry to a home computer. But 
under the provision, one warrant can cover all of those machines. 

The ACLU issued a report this month describing widespread abuse of government 
authority under the Patriot Act. 

The Patriot Act has been disastrous for Americans' rights, said Caroline 
Frederickson, the director of the ACLU's Washington Legislative Office. 
Congress should use this year's Patriot Act reauthorization as an opportunity 
to reexamine all of our surveillance laws. 

Agents' use of the Patriot Act and other sensitive investigative tools has been 
a source of friction between FBI officials and Democratic lawmakers. 

Mueller said he has not had a chance to meet with new Justice Department or 
White House officials regarding their views on the Patriot Act. But at the 
Senate confirmation hearing for Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in January, 
Mueller expressed at least moderate support for renewing the provisions that 
will sunset in December. 

David Kris, an expert on intelligence laws, won unanimous Senate confirmation 
yesterday as the new leader of the Justice Department's National Security 
Division. He will play an important role in the Patriot Act reauthorization and 
in supervising the FBI's national security operations. 

It is important that [Congress] examine more specifics, Cardin told the FBI 
director. We want to make sure you have the tools that you need and that you 
have appropriate oversight. There may need to be modifications . . . a 
fine-tuning of these provisions to make sure they are effective and used as 
intended by Congress. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/25/AR2009032501862_pf.html

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Neo-Cons Want Patriot Act Extended

24 GOP members of Congress approve of legislation extending worst aspects of 
reviled Patriot Acts

  

REPUBLICAN MEMBERS in Congress introduced legislation in early March to 
reauthorize some of the most controversial portions of the misnamed Patriot 
Act, which are set to expire this year.

Reps. Eric Cantor (Va.), John Boehner (Ohio), Mike Pence (Ind.), Lamar Smith 
(Tex.) and 20 other neo-conservative congressmen signed onto the Safe and 
Secure America Act of 2009, which seeks to extend for an additional 10 years 
provisions that allow federal authorities to conduct warrantless surveillance, 
to access library patron information and to bypass privacy protections in the 
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

“The Patriot Act is a part of helping to keep America safe,” Boehner told 
reporters during a press conference on March 12, “and we’ve got to do 
everything we can in this time of economic crisis to protect our citizens from 
those who’d want to harm us.”


When the Patriot Act was first passed by Congress one month after the Sept. 11, 
2001 attacks, privacy groups objected to the freedom-robbing measure. At the 
time, legislators claimed that the bill would only be temporary following 9-11. 
Eight years later, the most troubling portions of the legislation are still law 
even though the provisions were set to expire at the end of 2005. That year, 
Congress hastily passed legislation which

[cia-drugs] Re: ACL's Non-Fiction Studies of Communitarianism

2009-03-26 Thread norgesen

Try the home page here: http://nord.twu.net/acl/index.html

Niki Raapana has scads of information on Communitarianism/Third Way etc...

---


--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, micha...@... wrote:

 Norgeson,
 Whatever is going on?  Links in Communitarianism do not work.  Did hear of
 this and followed a link to George Washington University.  But did not
 know of any association of something called The Third Way.
 In the mid nineties The Third Way was hot and many sites on Internet. 
 This was for areas to have own government, sustainable and very adoptable
 to own area/problems.  If there was any international organization it was
 only for a few international problems, population etc.  The Third Way had
 things such as peek-a-boo banking where any ‘aid’ to an area would be
 tracked on Internet to the penny, no possibility of corruption.
 
 Then, within a few years, say 1999 to 2001, all this wiped from Internet
 and replaced with another Third Way which seemed contrived on the spot to
 replace/bury the first Third Way.
 
 What is this?
 Do you know more?
 Michael Donovan

[cia-drugs] The Geopolitical Great Game: Turkey and Russia Moving Closer

2009-03-23 Thread norgesen

The Geopolitical Great Game: Turkey and Russia Moving Closer

by F. William Engdahl
Global Research, February 26, 2009



Despite the problems of the ruble and the weak oil price in recent months for 
the Russian economy, the Russian Government is pursuing a very active foreign 
policy strategy. Its elements focus on countering the continuing NATO 
encirclement policy of Washington, with often clever diplomatic initiatives on 
its Eurasian periphery. Taking advantage of the cool relations between 
Washington and longtime NATO ally, Turkey, Moscow has now invited Turkish 
President Abdullah Gul to a four day state visit to discuss a wide array of 
economic and political cooperation issues. 

In addition to opening to Turkey, a vital transit route for natural gas to 
western Europe, Russia is also working to firm an economic space with Belarus 
and other former Soviet republics to firm its alliances. Moscow delivered a 
major blow to the US military encirclement strategy in Central Asia when it 
succeeded earlier this month in convincing Kyrgystan, with the help of major 
financial aid, to cancel US military airbase rights at Manas, a major blow to 
US escalation plans in Afghanistan. 

In short, Moscow is demonstrating it is far from out of the new Great Game for 
influence over Eurasia.

Warmer Turkish relations

The Government of Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has shown increasing impatience 
with not only Washington policies in the Middle East, but also the refusal of 
the European Union to seriously consider Turkey’s bid to join the EU. In the 
situation, it’s natural that Turkey would seek some counterweight to what had 
been since the Cold War overwhelming US influence in Turkish politics. Russia’s 
Putin and Medvedev have no problem opening such a dialogue, much to 
Washington’s dismay. 

Turkish President Abdullah Gul paid a four-day visit to the Russian Federation 
from February 12 to 15, where he met with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, 
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and also travelled to Kazan, the capital of 
Tatarstan, where he discussed joint investments. Gul was accompanied by his 
state minister responsible for foreign trade, and Minister of Energy, as well 
as a large delegation of Turkish businessmen. Foreign Minister Ali Babacan 
joined the delegation. 

Visit to Tatarstan 

The fact that Gul’s Moscow visit also included a stop in Tatarstan, the largest 
autonomous republic in Russian Federation whose population mainly consists of 
Muslim Tatar Turks, is a sign how much relations between Ankara and Moscow have 
improved in recent months as Turkey has cooled to Washington foreign policy. In 
previous years, Moscow was convinced that Turkey was trying to establish 
Pan-Turanism in the Caucasus and Central Asia and inside the Russian 
Federation, a huge concern in Moscow. Today clearly Turkish relations with Turk 
entities inside the Russian Federation are not considered suspicious as it was 
once, confirming a new mood of mutual trust.

Russia elevated Gul's trip from the previously announced status of an ‘official 
visit’ to a ‘state visit,’ the highest level of state protocol, indicating the 
value Moscow now attaches to Turkey. Gul and Medvedev signed a joint 
declaration announcing their commitment to deepening mutual friendship and 
multi-dimensional cooperation. The declaration mirrors a previous ‘Joint 
Declaration on the Intensification of Friendship and Multidimensional 
Partnership,’ signed during a 2004 visit by then-President Putin. 

Turkish-Russian economic ties have greatly expanded over the past decade, with 
trade volume reaching $32 billion in 2008, making Russia Turkey's number one 
partner. Given this background, bilateral economic ties were a major item on 
Gul's agenda and both leaders expressed their satisfaction with the growing 
commerce between their countries. 

Cooperation in energy is the major area. Turkey's gas and oil imports from 
Russia account for most of the trade volume. Russian press reports indicate 
that the two sides are interested in improving cooperation in energy 
transportation lines carrying Russian gas to European markets through Turkey, 
the project known as Blue Stream-2. Previously Ankara had been cool to the 
proposal. The recent completion of the Russian Blue Stream gas pipeline under 
Black Sea increased Turkey’s dependence on Russian natural gas from 66 percent 
up to 80 percent. Furthermore, Russia is beginning to see Turkey as a transit 
country for its energy resources rather than simply an export market, the 
significance of Blue Stream 2.

Russia is also eager to play a major part in Turkey's attempts to diversify its 
energy sources. A Russian-led consortium won the tender for the construction of 
Turkey's first nuclear plant recently, but as the price offered for electricity 
was above world prices, the future of the project, awaiting parliamentary 
approval, remains unclear. Prior to Gul's Moscow trip, the Russian consortium

[cia-drugs] Rothschild: Economic crisis will leave governments with �enormous public debt�

2009-03-23 Thread norgesen

Rothschild: Economic crisis will leave governments with “enormous public debt” 


EMportal
Press release
March 20, 2009

World renowned French banker and Chairmanof the Rothschild Group, David René 
James de Rothschild delivered a lecture titled “What Economic Crisis Teaches 
Us” on March 16, as part of the Megaron Plus series of events hosted by the 
Athens Concert Hall.

David de Rothschild estimated that the global economic crisis will come to an 
end in 2010. 

He also stressed that the first signs of recovery will be stock markets rising, 
but he warned that the crisis will leave the governments’ coffers with enormous 
public debt.

As far as the countries of Southeast Europe are concerned, Rothschild said that 
they are going to overcome today’s financial difficulties and continue to 
develop, emphasising the strategic importance of Greece’s investments in the 
region.

On the occasion of his visit in Athens, David de Rothschild also had a meeting 
with Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. 

Research related links

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  2.. Lord Rothschild Backs John McCain 
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governance 
  4.. Eastern European currencies crumble as fears of debt crisis grow 
  5.. The Climate Change Adventures of David de Rothschild 
  6.. Economic Crisis Hits Florida Families and Elderly 
  7.. Rothschild Investment Banking Posts Record Results 
  8.. Economic crisis has put the world “on the road to serious social 
instability” 
  9.. IMF Chief Warns Of Riots In Response To Economic Crisis 
  10.. IMF Says U.S. In Worst Economic Crisis Since Great Depression 
  11.. Bankers Want World Economic Government To Solve Financial Crisis They 
Created 
  12.. Mayor Bloomberg Fears National Debt Crisis
http://www.infowars.com/rothschild-economic-crisis-will-leave-governments-with-enormous-public-debt/



===

David René James de Rothschild delivered a lecture on global crisis
19. March 2009. | 08:16

Source: EMportal


As far as the countries of Southeast Europe are concerned, Rothschild said that 
they are going to overcome today’s financial difficulties and continue to 
develop, emphasising the strategic importance of Greece’s investments in the 
region.

World renowned French banker and Chairmanof the Rothschild Group, David René 
James de Rothschild delivered a lecture titled What Economic Crisis Teaches 
Us on March 16, as part of the Megaron Plus series of events hosted by the 
Athens Concert Hall. 

David de Rothschild estimated that the global economic crisis will come to an 
end in 2010. 

He also stressed that the first signs of recovery will be stock markets rising, 
but he warned that the crisis will leave the governments’ coffers with enormous 
public debt. 

As far as the countries of Southeast Europe are concerned, Rothschild said that 
they are going to overcome today’s financial difficulties and continue to 
develop, emphasising the strategic importance of Greece’s investments in the 
region.

On the occasion of his visit in Athens, David de Rothschild also had a meeting 
with Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis. 

http://www.emportal.rs/en/news/region/82708.html

[cia-drugs] Death, sickness following Rubella vaccination

2009-03-23 Thread norgesen

Death, sickness following Rubella vaccination :
Ministry orders full probe 
By Uditha KUMARASINGHE and Irangika RANGE 

03-22-2009 


Peshala Hansani 

Leader of the House, Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told parliament 
yesterday a full scale investigation will be conducted to probe into the death 
of a student and another 26 students of St. Thomas' Girls' School, Matara who 
fell sick after the Rubella vaccination. 




Following the investigations, Health Ministry officials will take stern action 
against doctors and Ministry officials if they are found to be at fault. 

The Minister said that he has also requested the WHO to conduct an immediate 
investigation to find out the scientific reasons for this student's death while 
making another 26 students ill after Rubella vaccination. 

The Minister was responding to a question raised by the JVP Parliamentary Group 
Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Dissanayake said one student died and 26 
others taken seriously ill after they were vaccinated by the MOH officials of 
Matara on Thursday. 

He said It has become a habit and practice of some health officials to release 
some stocks of out dated medicines during the last couple of days of any audit 
year so that they could complete their documents with the targeted figures by 
clearing the old stocks. 

The issue of these expired medicines has become a serious threat against the 
public health. 

The MP queried whether this vaccination project was initiated by the school 
authorities or Health Ministry officials. 

Health Minister de Silva said Thursday's vaccination project was done as a part 
of a countrywide program introduced by the Health Ministry to vaccinate 
schoolchildren. This vaccine given for the prevention of German Measles had 
been given to many other students of the same age group. However, there were no 
reports of such adverse ill effects. 

The Minister requested Opposition MPs not to capitalise an unfortunate incident 
like this because it would instill fear in parents who may not send their 
children for vaccination of which the consequences were more dangerous. 

Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said this vaccination project was done 
by trained nurses under the supervision of a doctor. 

It had been organised by the MOH office in Matara. After some students reported 
allergic symptoms, it was stopped. 

Arrangements had been made to give the vaccine to 300 students of St. Thomas' 
Girls' School, Matara. 

He requested the Health Minister to suspend the Rubella vaccination project in 
schools until a probe is done and its reports are released to the public. 




President orders: 

Suspension of Rubella vaccination 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday ordered an immediate probe into the death 
of a student Peshala Hansani of St. Thomas Girls High School at the Matara 
hospital, consequent to an infection caused by the Rubella vaccination has 
zalso directed the Health officials to suspend the Rubella vaccination program 
with immediate effect, a communique from the President's Media said. 

President Rajapaksa had ordered a full-scale inquiry at Health Ministry level, 
to ascertain the cause and those responsible for the demise of the child. He 
had directed the Ministry to handover a full report to him, at their 
earliest.He had also instructed the relevant officials to take necessary 
measures to grant a compensation of rupees 500,000 on behalf of the victim from 
the Presidential Fund, the communique further said. 




President directs compensation payment 
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed Secretary to the President Lalith 
Weeratunga to pay Rs.500, 000 compensation to the parents of Peshala Hansini, 
the Year 8 student of St. Thomas' Girls School, Matara who died after she was 
administered the Rubella vaccine. 

The President has instructed Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena to ensure 
that this compensation is paid before the funeral of the student. 




Medical team ignored dead girl's mother's plea 
Peshala Hansini's mother R.V. Kalyani has sent a letter to the medical team 
that was handling the vaccination program to first find out whether it was 
advisable to administer the Rubella vaccine on her daughter as she was allergic 
to certain types of food and is unable to take any food containing cow milk. 
St. Thomas Girls School Principal R. S. Pathirana confirms that Hansini had 
handed over her mother's letter to the medical team before she was vaccinated. 




Vaccine specialist here 
Two vaccines experts are due to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow on a request by 
Healthcare and Nutrition Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva from the

[cia-drugs] Barack Obama will back a federal Europe


Obama backs a federal Europe as part of the continuing march into global 
government based on the model of collectivism.


Barack Obama will back a federal Europe

America's support for a more united Europe betrays both US and British 
interests, says Nile Gardiner. 

By Nile Gardiner

18 Mar 2009
 Barack Obama heads to Britain and Europe in two weeks’ time as the leader of 
the first U.S. Administration to wholeheartedly back the creation of a federal 
Europe. In contrast to earlier U.S. administrations, including those of George 
W. Bush and Bill Clinton, the Obama administration is avowedly Euro-federalist 
in outlook, and is keen to help build a European Union defense identity as well 
as support the foundations of a European superstate in Brussels. 

This dangerous shift in U.S. policy is a betrayal of both U.S. and British 
interests that will threaten the long-term future of the Anglo-American Special 
Relationship, weaken the NATO alliance, and undermine the defence of British 
sovereignty in Europe. It will also undercut opposition across the EU to the 
Treaty of Lisbon, including in countries such as Ireland, Poland and the Czech 
Republic, and may set the scene for a major confrontation between the Obama 
White House and a future Conservative administration in London. 

A Eurosceptic Conservative government led by David Cameron, committed to 
halting further European integration, will find itself increasingly at odds 
with a left-of-centre U.S. administration that is actively working against the 
principle of national sovereignty in Europe. In light of this, the current 
enthusiasm of many British conservatives for the changing of the guard at the 
White House is hugely misplaced. 

The Bush Administration was sharply divided over Europe, with then Secretary of 
State Condoleezza Rice backing the European Constitution, but her pro-Brussels 
instincts were strongly opposed by key figures in the White House and the 
Pentagon. Bush himself was no supporter of a Franco-German dominated Europe, 
and worked hard to build up a counterweight of pro-American nations among the 
new EU members from eastern and central Europe. 

In contrast, President Obama’s government will strongly back the European 
Security and Defence Policy, the Lisbon Treaty and the Common Foreign and 
Security Policy, and will seek to strengthen French and German leadership at 
the heart of a united European Union. It has appointed several prominent 
supporters of European federalism to key positions in the Pentagon and State 
Department, including the new Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michèle 
Flournoy, and Philip H. Gordon, the next Assistant Secretary of State for 
European and Eurasian Affairs. 

Flournoy, who holds one of the most powerful positions in the Pentagon, is a 
leading supporter of U.S. backing for an EU defence policy, and co-authored a 
major 2005 study strongly advocating American support for a unified European 
defence structure. Gordon, who will be the most senior administration official 
on Europe, has written that America must “support the European project”, and 
that “the challenge for U.S. policy is to encourage Europe to develop the 
cohesion and capability to become a true transatlantic partner.” He is also a 
prominent backer of the defeated EU Constitution, and has pushed in the past 
for British membership of the Euro, warning the UK that “fully in Europe, 
Britain has every chance to remain America’s preferred and privileged partner. 
Marginalized from the EU, Britain could find itself less influential in 
Washington as well.” 

The Obama Administration has already made major concessions to Paris over 
President Sarkozy’s decision for France to rejoin the NATO integrated command 
structure. The French have been given two major positions at the helm of the 
Alliance, a move that will significantly enhance the drive towards a European 
defence component within NATO. Vice President Joe Biden has clearly indicated 
that the United States will support “the further strengthening of European 
defense” and an “increased role for the European Union in preserving peace and 
security.” When he travels to Europe, President Obama is expected to deliver 
the same message. 

Significantly, while wooing both continental Europe and Russia, the new U.S. 
administration has been largely indifferent to the Anglo-American alliance, 
with an appallingly handled reception for the British Prime Minister when he 
visited the White House earlier this month, and the recalibration of the 
special relationship as a “special partnership”. Even a bust of Sir Winston 
Churchill has been unceremoniously thrown out of the Oval Office. A distinctly 
undiplomatic State Department official involved in the planning of the 
Obama-Brown meeting was quoted by The Sunday Telegraph as saying that “there’s 
nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries 
in the world.” 

There is a chance the Obama

[cia-drugs] U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar

U.N. panel says world should ditch dollar

 The stage is being set for a new regional currencies which are the next step 
toward the loss of national sovereignty and the building of the New World 
Order. 

By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent
Mar 18, 2009

LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - A U.N. panel will next week recommend that the world 
ditch the dollar as its reserve currency in favor of a shared basket of 
currencies, a member of the panel said on Wednesday, adding to pressure on the 
dollar.

Currency specialist Avinash Persaud, a member of the panel of experts, told a 
Reuters Funds Summit in Luxembourg that the proposal was to create something 
like the old Ecu, or European currency unit, that was a hard-traded, weighted 
basket.

Persaud, chairman of consultants Intelligence Capital and a former currency 
chief at JPMorgan, said the recommendation would be one of a number delivered 
to the United Nations on March 25 by the U.N. Commission of Experts on 
International Financial Reform.

It is a good moment to move to a shared reserve currency, he said.

Central banks hold their reserves in a variety of currencies and gold, but the 
dollar has dominated as the most convincing store of value -- though its rate 
has wavered in recent years as the United States ran up huge twin budget and 
external deficits.

Some analysts said news of the U.N. panel's recommendation extended dollar 
losses because it fed into concerns about the future of the greenback as the 
main global reserve currency, raising the chances of central bank sales of 
dollar holdings.

Speculation that major central banks would begin rebalancing their FX reserves 
has risen since the intensification of the dollar's slide between 2002 and 
mid-2008, CMC Markets said in a note.

Russia is also planning to propose the creation of a new reserve currency, to 
be issued by international financial institutions, at the April G20 meeting, 
according to the text of its proposals published on Monday.

It has significantly reduced the dollar's share in its own reserves in recent 
years.

GOOD TIME

Persaud said that the United States was concerned that holding the reserve 
currency made it impossible to run policy, while the rest of world was also 
unhappy with the generally declining dollar.

There is a moment that can be grasped for change, he said.

Today the Americans complain that when the world wants to save, it means a 
deficit. A shared (reserve) would reduce the possibility of global imbalances.

Persaud said the panel had been looking at using something like an expanded 
Special Drawing Right, originally created by the International Monetary Fund in 
1969 but now used mainly as an accounting unit within similar organizations.

The SDR and the old Ecu are essentially combinations of currencies, weighted to 
a constituent's economic clout, which can be valued against other currencies 
and indeed against those inside the basket.

Persaud said there were two main reasons why policymakers might consider such a 
move, one being the current desire for a change from the dollar.

The other reason, he said, was the success of the euro, which incorporated a 
number of currencies but roughly speaking held on to the stability of the old 
German deutschemark compared with, say, the Greek drachma.

Persaud has long argued that the dollar would give way to the Chinese yuan as a 
global reserve currency within decades.

A shared reserve currency might negate this move, he said, but he believed that 
China would still like to take on the role.

(To read Reuters Global Investing Blog click here; for the MacroScope Blog 
click on blogs.reuters.com/macroscope; for Hedge Fund Hub click on 
blogs.reuters.com/hedgehub)

(editing by Patrick Graham)

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE52H2CY20090318

[cia-drugs] The Paradox of Roads and Bridges

THE PARADOX OF ROADS AND BRIDGES

By Nancy Levant
March 21, 2009


We are told that the building of roads and bridges will “stimulate” the 
economy. Isn’t that something…? In America’s new five and six county “regions,” 
only one or two cities in these regions are slated to receive “development” or 
growth dollars according to the Grand Visions of the regional councils of 
appointed leaders. These new multi-county regions, and in all 50 states, tell 
us that development will not include money to build or maintain roads except 
for those in the one or two target regional hubs or cities.

Now, these designated multi-regional, multi-county hubs also mandate pedestrian 
walkways and bicycle paths to very purposefully discourage automobile travel. 
In fact, all multi-regional cities who receive stimulus dollars mandate the 
building of pedestrian and bicycle paths. Let us add to this equation, the 
failing auto industry, governmental leans on the failing auto industry, and the 
fact that jobless Americans cannot afford to drive nor insure automobiles. Let 
us also include the road removals in America’s rural and wilderness areas, 
which, of course also makes impossible travel and mobility. And we know where 
the eco-community stands on our use of filthy automobiles.

Clearly, we find another governmental paradox of dialectic proportions. 
Therefore, let us ponder road building in a new governmental era that prefers 
us not to drive, clearly limits and discourages mobility and tells us it is 
unconscionable to pollute with automobiles when obese Americans should be 
walking and biking our way to governmentally-imposed weight standards, or else 
charged with a personal pollution tax (carbon credits) to drive and only in 
designated and very limited areas.

Clearly, our days of the free and wonderful use of automobiles, specifically as 
a reflection of a very free society, are over. As with everything else, 
including the groceries, healthcare, and education, “highly limited” are the 
keywords of the New American way of controlled life. And still, the 
governmental answer to our (their) economy is “the building of roads and 
bridges.” Well, you can pretty much guarantee that this stimulus plan ties 
directly into the new international transportation system, the super-highway 
and rail systems which will primarily serve corporate and military interests. 

We, however, won’t be served by these new transportation systems minus our 
forced-to-pay for high-speed rails which will be for the full purpose of 
transporting you and myself back and forth to our tax-generating, 
corporate-serving job or civilian service details. After all, universal 
service, I assume, means universal service. I don’t think it will be voluntary 
service but more like mandatory civilian labor.

One of the greatest expressions of freedom in America was our ability to 
travel, to move to other locations, to choose other jobs, and to drive into and 
through the country at will, to drive into the farmland, the wilderness areas — 
deep into the forest and to experience the beauty of the nation through the 
freedom of mobility. This freedom connected us to our nation as nothing else 
could — to experience its beauty, its natural diversity, and to meet and 
experience people all over our nation, their dialect, their cultures and arts, 
and to enjoy and cherish the joy of our multiculturalism, instead of the forced 
politics of government multiculturalism.

The nation was so much better prior to Washington D.C.’s takeover and 
governmental polluting of America. Now they tell us they can fix this country 
with more controls, more laws, more land confiscations, more oversight of 
people and property, more taxes, more national debt, and a homeland military. 
Don’t forget the Real (national) ID. I’m sure they hope you will forget.

One cannot help but wonder, when the world has experienced and continues to 
experience wars all over the planet, if it’s not America’s turn to keep the war 
economy wheels turning. Europe had their turn which made billionaires of many. 
The mid-east experiences their turn also creating billions in corporate 
rebuilding wealth. Asia has experienced their turn, which forced them into the 
industrial and technological business models. And now America, I fear, faces 
her turn to comply with something new and surely forced down her throat.


Roads and bridges? The curtailing of mobility? The failing auto industry to 
assist in the curtailing of mobility and yet we are to fix the economy with 
roads and bridges? You tell me what is wrong with this picture. You tell me why 
the government, and how “the world” owns our wilderness areas making us 
trespassers in our nation. The question we must ask is, to where do these roads 
and bridges lead?


Join us this week on Govern America as our guest will be former talk show host 
Chris Gerner of Amerikan Expose. Chris has spent years documenting the 
implementation of the United Nations

[cia-drugs] Chinese spy who defected from the Communist Party tells all.

Chinese spy who defected tells all
Says mission is to 'control'

Bill Gertz

March 19, 2009

Li Fengzhi, who worked for years as a Ministry of State Security intelligence
officer inside China, is in the U.S. awaiting political asylum.

EXCLUSIVE:

A veteran Chinese intelligence officer who defected to the United States says
that his country's civilian spy service spends most of its time trying to steal
secrets overseas but also works to bolster Beijing's Communist Party rule by
repressing religious and political dissent internally.

In some sense you can say that intelligence work between two countries is just
like war but without the fire, Li Fengzhi told The Washington Times in an
interview aided by an interpreter.

Mr. Li worked for years as an Ministry of State Security intelligence officer
inside China before defecting to the United States, where is he awaiting a
response to his request for political asylum. He gave a rare, detailed
interview to The Times on Sunday regarding the activities of the MSS, China's
Communist-controlled civilian spy agency.

His prior work as a Chinese spy was confirmed to The Times by a Western
government source familiar with his defection. The source spoke on the
condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of Mr. Li's case.

Mr. Li told The Times that the MSS focuses on both counterintelligence -
working against foreign intelligence agencies - and the collection of secrets
and technology.

http://www.thenewsroom.com/mash/swf/voxant_player.js?a=V3655034amp;m=807227amp;w=420amp;h=375amp;v=2

The MSS, however, is unique from other nations' intelligence services in that
it is patterned after the former Soviet Union's KGB political police. Its most
important mission is to control the Chinese people to maintain the rule of the
Communist Party, he added.

Wang Baodong, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, did not
address Mr. Li's comments directly but repeated past Chinese government
statements regarding its intelligence activities.

Allegations of China conducting spying activities against the United States
are groundless and unwarranted, he said Wednesday. China never engages itself
in activities that will harm other countries' national interests.

Mr. Wang said communist rule in China produced historic economic and social
progress and that China has contributed to a more secure world. This is a fact
no one can deny, Mr. Wang said.

On those who leave the party, Mr. Wang said there are also a handful of people
who betray their faith and leave the party, whose acts as well as some people's
political lies will never shadow the great feats of the party.

Mr. Li said he left China's intelligence services to protest the agency's role
in government repression of political dissidents and religious groups that are
outside of the ruling communist system.

The MSS, mainly a foreign intelligence service, is deeply involved in
domestic repression of nonofficial Christian churches and the outlawed Falun
Gong religious group, Mr. Li said.

The Ministry of State Security is actually not doing things for the security
of the country, but rather they spend a lot of effort to control the people,
the dissidents, the lower-class Chinese people, and make these people suffer
and also make their life miserable, he said.

In the interview, he also said:

• China's spy agency is focused on sending spies to infiltrate the U.S.
intelligence community, and also on collecting secrets and technology from the
United States. China spends a tremendous effort to send out spies to important
countries like the U.S. to collect information, Mr. Li said.

• China is censoring the Internet to prevent the population from knowing about
what occurs outside the country.
• An internal MSS manual that is kept secret from most officers outlines the
primary role of the service as the promotion of Communist Party's interests.

• Ongoing cooperation between the CIA and FBI and the MSS in countering
international terrorism can be constructive, but U.S. agencies need to be
cautious because the MSS is mainly an organ of the Chinese Communist Party, and
does not directly serve the interests of the Chinese nation or people, he said.

Mr. Li said he worked in the MSS department in charge of gathering economic,
political and technical information in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Some of
the work involved targeting and recruiting foreign nationals who visit China.

He was born in 1968 in northern China and was first recruited into a provincial
Chinese intelligence service before being promoted to the MSS in Beijing after
several years.

Two groups in China that are a main focus of the MSS are unofficial Christian
churches and the outlawed Falun Gong religious group, he said.

The MSS also has targeted pro-democracy activists, like those who were involved
in the mass demonstrations in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989, he said.

The MSS is

[cia-drugs] Flying people to torture and death

2009-03-20 Thread norgesen

WATCHING THE CORPORATIONS 

Flying people to torture and death 

February 27, 2009

A Brighton family was forcibly deported to Algeria last week on an Air Algérie 
flight from Heathrow. The first attempt to deport them on a British Airways 
flight three days before had failed, allegedly because there was 'a problem 
with their tickets.' Both times campaigners from Brighton and London gathered 
at the airport and leafleted crew members and passengers to try and get them to 
protest on board, which may explain why the deportation was cancelled the first 
time. Earlier that week, about 50 Iraqi refugees refused asylum were not so 
lucky to have 'tickets with problems' or protesters leafleting at the airport. 
Instead, they were surreptitiously taken through the VIP entrance at Stansted 
airport and put on a special 'ethnic charter flight' operated by a Czech 
airline, which carried them to Erbil in northern Iraq. A few deportees were 
taken off the plane, just before it took off, after last-minute interventions 
by solicitors and MPs. One deportee was flown back to London after winning a 
High Court injunction. 


Safe as death 

Until last week, Assia Souhalia and her husband, Athmane, had been living in 
the UK for seven years. Their two-year-old daughter, Nouha, was born in 
Brighton in 2006 and had lived there all her life. Assia fled Algeria in 2002 
in fear of her life after her family had suffered years of violence. Two of her 
brothers were murdered in two separate and premeditated shootings in 1993 and 
1994, despite having no involvement in political activities. Upon hearing of 
the death of her eldest son, their mother suffered a heart attack and died. 
Since then, Assia's family have repeatedly received death threats and, in 1994, 
another brother was murdered. In 2007, her sister was badly wounded in a bomb 
attack. Only one man has been arrested in relation to these murders. Two of 
Assia's remaining brothers and sisters have also fled the country. 

The Home Office's policy of deporting 'failed asylum seekers' to Algeria has 
been highly controversial, to say the least. In 1997, an Algerian policeman was 
deported from the UK. Upon arrival at Algiers airport, he was arrested by 
Algerian security forces and murdered. In 2007, the Appeal Court halted the 
deportation of three Algerians after judges ruled that the government could 
not be certain that they would be safe from torture. 

Technical problem or effective campaigning? 

Nevertheless, Assia and her family were 'snatched' from their home in Hove 
early in the morning of 11th February and taken to Yarl's Wood detention centre 
in Bedfordshire pending deportation. The Home Office booked a British Airways 
flight (BA895) at 8:40am on 17th February to carry them to Algiers. A group of 
anti-deportation campaigners from Brighton and London gathered in Heathrow's 
Terminal 5 that morning and leafleted passengers and crew members, trying to 
persuade them to complain to the pilot about the deportation, in the hope that 
the family would be taken off the plane before takeoff. The family, however, 
never boarded the plane and were taken back to Yarl's Wood detention centre, 
allegedly because there was a problem with their tickets, as they were told. 

One of the campaigners leafleting at the airport told Corporate Watch that most 
of them were stopped-and-searched by police under airport bylaws for 
leafleting. An independent journalist who was also there was stop-and-searched 
under the Terrorism Act for taking photos of the protesters being searched. 

Two days later, the family were told they were due to be deported the following 
day, 20th February. The family were not given 'removal directions' until the 
evening before the flight but campaigners deduced that it was Air Algérie 
flight number AH2055, which was to leave Heathrow's Terminal 2 at 14:05. 
Indeed, they went to the airport again and leafleted and spoke to most 
passengers but, unfortunately, that did not stop the deportation going ahead 
this time. 

'Responsible air travel'?! 

Airlines such as British Airways and Air Algérie, which are happy to carry 
deportees to their possible death and torture as long as they sell tickets, 
have repeatedly been the subject of complaints and protests from 
anti-deportation campaigners. Last year, more than 1,000 Nigerians backed a 
call to boycott BA unless it apologised to the 136 passengers who were ordered 
off a flight to Lagos after they complained about the forced deportation of a 
man on board. In 2005, the United Network of Detained Zimbabweans called for 
boycotting BA and daily pickets at BA offices in London and Manchester were 
held as campaigners accused the airline of playing a leading role in the 
deportation of failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe when other airlines had 
refused to be dragged into [such a] public relations nightmare. 

Operation Con-similar 

On Monday, 16th February, between 50 and 55 Iraqi refugees were

[cia-drugs] Corporate Watch: ID Cards

2009-03-20 Thread norgesen

CORPORATE IDENTITY 
A critical analysis of private companies' engagement with the identity cards 
scheme. 

Introduction 

There has been considerable criticism of the Identity Cards Bill on the grounds 
of erosion of civil liberties, ineffectiveness in its intended aims and lack of 
clarity around cost, but relatively little attention seems to have been paid to 
the significant practical problems of implementing ID cards and the National 
Identity Register (NIR). There is considerable unease within the information 
technology (IT) industry around both the government's record on IT procurement 
and the technologies - especially biometrics and database security - proposed 
for use in the ID cards scheme. 

Most of the implementation of the scheme is likely to be done by private 
companies, some of which have already been meeting and lobbying government. 
These include companies with previous poor records in outsourced public sector 
work. Corporate Watch decided to investigate and bring to public attention 
which companies have shown interest in the ID cards scheme and (where relevant) 
their records in public-sector projects. We have also provided a brief overview 
of some of the opinions of industry and official bodies on the IT procurement 
process and ID card technologies. 

ID CARDS 
  a.. 1 - Introduction 
  b.. 2 - Company Profiles 
  c.. 3 - IT procurement - the government's record 
  d.. 4 - ID Card Technology 
  e.. 5 - Conclusion
Download 
ID CARDS

Format: PDF 

External Links No2ID DefyID


http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=2298

[cia-drugs] The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement

2009-03-19 Thread norgesen

The Radical Polarization of Law Enforcement

by Patrick Wood, Editor
March 18, 2009

Patriots, Christians and concerned citizens are increasingly in the cross hairs 
of the U.S. intelligence community, and battle lines are being quietly drawn 
that could soon pit our own law enforcement and military forces against us. 

A February 20 report entitled The Modern Militia Movement was issued by the 
Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) that paints mainstream patriotic 
Americans as dangerous threats to law enforcement and to the country. Operating 
under the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the MIAC is listed as a Fusion Center 
that was established in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security 
and the Department of Justice. 

Because authenticity of the report was questioned by some, this writer 
contacted Missouri state Representative Jim Guest (R-King City) who had 
personally verified that the report had indeed been issued. Rep. Guest is 
chairman of the Personal Privacy Committee and is a prominent leader in the 
national Blowback against the Real ID Act of 2005 that requires states to issue 
uniform driver's licenses containing personal biometric data. (See Guest warns 
against Big Brother, Real ID)

Rep. Guest stated that he was shocked and outraged at the report, which 
clearly paints him and many other elected state leaders, as a potential threats 
to law enforcement.

Instead of focusing on actual criminal incidents of home-grown terrorism, the 
MAIC report instead lists issues that it believes are common to the threats it 
perceives. Thus, Americans involved with the following issues are highly 
suspect:

  -- Ammunition Accountability Act - requiring each bullet to to be 
serialized and registered to the purchaser. 

  -- Anticipation of the economic collapse of the US Government - Prominent 
scholars and economists are openly debating the bankruptcy and insolvency of 
the United States government. 

  -- Possible Constitutional Convention (Con Con) - 32 states have called for 
a Constitutional Convention to force Congress and the Executive Branch into a 
balanced budget, but many are concerned that if called, Con Con would be taken 
over by hostile interests who would introduce Amendments that are harmful to 
national Sovereignty. 

  -- North American Union - MIAC states that Conspiracy theorists claim that 
this union would link Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The NAU would 
unify its monetary system and trade the dollar for the AMERO. Associated with 
this theory is concern over a NAFTA Superhighway, which would Fast Track trade 
between the three nations. There is additional concern that the NAU would open 
up the border causing security risks and free movement for immigrants.

  -- Universal Service Program - Statements made by President Elect Obama 
and his chief of staff have led extremists to fear the creation of a Civilian 
Defense Force. This theory requires all citizens between the age of 18 and 25 
to be forced to attend three months of mandatory training. (This is exactly 
what Obama and Rahm Emmanuel have repeatedly stated on national TV, and thus is 
hardly a theory.)

  -- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - This includes human 
implantation, but the larger concern is universal id cards and personal 
property identification that can be read electronically without the bearer's 
knowledge.

Citizens who are concerned about the above issues are then lumped into radical 
ideologies such as Christian Identity, White Nationalists (e.g., neo-Nazi, 
Skinheads, etc.) and anti-Semites. Tax Resisters and Anti-Immigration advocates 
are thrown into the same category.

The MIAC report then sternly warns law enforcement personnel,

  You are the Enemy: The militia subscribes to an antigovernment and NWO mind 
set, which creates a threat to law enforcement officers. They view the 
military, National Guard, and law enforcement as a force that will confiscate 
their firearms and place them in FEMA concentration camps. [Bold emphasis 
appears in original]

On the last page of the MIAC report, a section listing Political Paraphernalia 
(flags and symbols) states, 

  Militia members most commonly associate with 3rd party political groups. It 
is not uncommon for militia members to display Constitutional Party, Campaign 
for Liberty, or Libertarian material. These members are usually supporters of 
former Presidential Candidate: Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr.

  Militia members commonly display picture, cartoons, bumper stickers that 
contain anti-government rhetoric. Most of this material will depict the FRS, 
IRS, FBI, ATF, CIA, UN, Law Enforcement, and the 'New World Order' in a 
derogatory manor (sic). Additionally, Racial, anti-immigration, and 
anti-abortion, material may be displayed by militia members.

What was the ostensible genesis of all these threats to law enforcement? The 
report explains it this way... 

  Academics contend that female and minority

[cia-drugs] Bank gags Guardian news paper over elaborate money switching

Bank gags Guardian news paper over elaborate money switching
Barclays gags Guardian over tax
Injunction forces news website to remove seven leaked memos showing how bank 
avoided hundreds of millions of pounds in tax

The Guardian
17.03.2009

Barclays Bank obtained a court order early today banning the Guardian from 
publishing documents which showed how the bank set up companies to avoid 
hundreds of millions of pounds in tax.

The gagging order was granted by Mr Justice Ouseley after Barclays complained 
about seven documents on the Guardian's website which had been leaked to the 
Liberal Democrats' deputy leader, Vince Cable.

The internal Barclays memos – leaked by a Barclays whistleblower – showed 
executives from SCM, Barclays's structured capital markets division, seeking 
approval for a 2007 plan to sink more than $16bn (£11.4bn) into US loans.

Tax benefits were to be generated by an elaborate circuit of Cayman islands 
companies, US partnerships and Luxembourg subsidiaries.

The documents had been leaked to Cable by a former employee of the bank, who 
wrote a long account of how the bank works.

The anonymous whistleblower wrote to Cable: The last year has seen the global 
taxpayer having to rescue the global financial system. The taxpayer has already 
had a gun put to their head and been told to pay up or watch the financial 
system and life as we know it disappear into a black hole.

It is a commonly held view that no agency in the US or the UK has the 
resources or the commitment to challenge SCM. SCM has huge amounts of 
resources, the best minds rewarded by millions of pounds. Compare this with 
HMRC [Her Majesty's Revenue  Customs] recently advertising for a tax and 
accounting expert with the pay at £45,000.

Through the use of lawyers and client confidentiality SCM regularly 
circumvents these rules, just one example of why HMRC will never, in its 
current state, be up to the job of combating this business.

The Guardian's decision to publish the documents came on a day when the 
chancellor, Alistair Darling, told parliament he had asked HMRC to publish 
shortly a draft code of practice on taxation for banks so that banks will 
comply not just with the letter of the law but the spirit of the law.

Barclays's lawyers, Freshfields, worked into the early hours to force the 
Guardian to remove the documents from the website. They argued that the 
documents were the property of Barclays and could only have been leaked by 
someone who acquired them wrongfully and in breach of confidentiality 
agreements.

The Guardian's solicitor, Geraldine Proudler, was woken by the judge at 2am and 
asked to argue the Guardian's case by telephone. Around 2.31am, Mr Justice 
Ouseley issued an order for the documents to be removed from the Guardian's 
website.

Cable said it was both incongruous and offensive that banks that rely on 
state support should avoid paying tax and therefore be selling the taxpayer 
short. Although the taxpayer has not had to directly support Barclays by 
taking an equity stake, the bank had relied on the government's special 
liquidity scheme to provide funding for loans.

The banks are able to organise their activities in such a way that they can 
run rings around the Inland Revenue, he told the Telegraph. It serves no 
other purpose than to reduce tax. The fundamental point is that it is 
incongruous and offensive that banks which are either directly or indirectly 
dependent on the government should be systematically finding ways to avoid tax.

Cable, who passed the documents to HMRC and the Financial Services Authority, 
told the Sunday Times this week: The documents suggest a deeply ingrained 
culture of tax avoidance. The Barclays team looks like the spider at the centre 
of a highly artificial web of non-transparent transactions through tax havens. 
Reputable banks don't turn tax avoidance into a profit machine.

A Guardian spokesman said this morning that the paper would appeal against the 
order. Tax avoidance is a matter of high public and political interest. These 
documents showed for the first time how major banks set up artificial schemes 
with the aim of earning hundreds of millions in tax-free money, which is why 
the Barclays whistleblower leaked them.

All decisions about tax are taken in secret, hidden from public view. It is 
not right for a judge to prevent daylight from shining on the few documents 
ever to have emerged which graphically demonstrate what HMRC is up against.



Related:

Documents can be viewed here on wikileaks

Irish Police Protest And Call The Government A Criminal Accessory (video) 



http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/mar/17/barclays-guardian-injunction-tax

http://www.wiseupjournal.com/?p=836

[cia-drugs] Herald: Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day

Herald: Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
The Sydney Morning Herald
17.03.2009
By Asher Moses

The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink 
to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several 
pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.

Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document 
containing Denmark’s list of banned websites.

The move by the Australian Communications and Media Authority comes after it 
threatened the host of online broadband discussion forum Whirlpool last week 
with a $11,000-a-day fine over a link published in its forum to another page 
blacklisted by ACMA - an anti-abortion website.

ACMA’s blacklist does not have a significant impact on web browsing by 
Australians today but sites contained on it will be blocked for everyone if the 
Federal Government implements its mandatory internet filtering censorship 
scheme.

But even without the mandatory censorship scheme, as is evident in the 
Whirlpool case, ACMA can force sites hosted in Australia to remove “prohibited” 
pages and even links to prohibited pages.

Online civil liberties campaigners have seized on the move by ACMA as evidence 
of how casually the regulator adds to its list of blacklisted sites. It also 
confirmed fears that the scope of the Government’s censorship plan could easily 
be expanded to encompass sites that are not illegal.

“The first rule of censorship is that you cannot talk about censorship,” 
Wikileaks said on its website in response to the ACMA ban.

The site has also published Thailand’s internet censorship list and noted that, 
in both the Thai and Danish cases, the scope of the blacklist had been rapidly 
expanded from child porn to other material including political discussions.

Already, a significant portion of the 1370-site Australian blacklist - 506 
sites - would be classified R18+ and X18+, which are legal to view but would be 
blocked for everyone under the proposal. The Government has said it was 
considering expanding the blacklist to 10,000 sites and beyond.

Electronic Frontiers Australia said the leak of the Danish blacklist and ACMA’s 
subsequent attempts to block people from viewing it showed how easy it would be 
for ACMA’s own blacklist - which is secret - to be leaked onto the web once it 
is handed to ISPs for filtering.

“We note that, not only do these incidents show that the ACMA censors are more 
than willing to interpret their broad guidelines to include a discussion forum 
and document repository, it is demonstrably inevitable that the Government’s 
own list is bound to be exposed itself at some point in the future,” EFA said.

“The Government would serve the country well by sparing themselves, and us, 
this embarrassment.”

Last week, Reporters Without Borders, in its regular report on enemies of 
internet freedom, placed Australia on its “watch list” of countries imposing 
anti-democratic internet restrictions that could open the way for abuses of 
power and control of information.

The main issue raised was the Government’s proposed internet censorship regime.

“This report demolished the Communications Minister’s contention that Australia 
is just following other comparable democracies,” Greens communications 
spokesman Senator Scott Ludlam said.

“We are not. The Government is embarking on a deeply unpopular and troubling 
experiment to fine-tune its ability to censor the internet.

“I agree with Reporters Without Borders. If you consider this kind of net 
censorship in the context of Australia’s anti-terror laws, it paints a 
disturbing picture indeed.”

EFA said the Government’s “spin is starting to wear thin” and it could no 
longer be denied that the ACMA blacklist targets a huge range of material that 
is legal and even uncontroversial.

The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has repeatedly claimed his 
proposed mandatory filters would target only “illegal” content - predominantly 
child pornography.

“As time goes on, pressure will only mount on the Government to expand the 
list, while money and effort are poured into an enormous black box that will 
neither help kids nor stem the flow of illegal material,” EFA said.

“If the minister truly believes that children are seeking out, or being 
bombarded with, child pornography, then there’s a dearth of both common sense 
and proper research in the ministerial suites.”

Already, the head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Jim Wallace, has said he 
hopes the sex industry will go broke as a result of the censorship scheme.

Independent Senator Nick Xenophon previous expressed his desire to have online 
gambling sites added to the blacklist but has since withdrawn his support for 
the scheme, saying it was dangerous and could be “counter-productive”.

The Greens and Opposition also oppose the scheme, meaning any legislation to 
implement it will be blocked.

The Opposition has obtained legal advice that

[cia-drugs] Wall Street Journal: How realistic is a North American currency?

How realistic is a North American currency? 
Uniting U.S., Canada, Mexico money could result from crisis
Market Watch / The Wall Street Journal
28.01.2009
By Todd Harrison



NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Thomas Jefferson once said: “When you reach the end of 
your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” As the global financial system pushes 
on a string, investors are desperately trying to hold tight.The New World Order 
is upon us, full of hope, promise and a fair amount of fear. In our recent 
discussion regarding the direction of our country, we noted the risks of 
catering to conventional wisdom and the implications for the U.S. dollar. See 
MarketWatch column on New World Order.

World, hold on. Instead of messing with our future, open up inside. -- Bob 
Sinclair

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Thomas Jefferson once said: When you reach the end 
of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on. As the global financial system 
pushes on a string, investors are desperately trying to hold tight. 

The New World Order is upon us, full of hope, promise and a fair amount of 
fear. In our recent discussion regarding the direction of our country, we noted 
the risks of catering to conventional wisdom and the implications for the U.S. 
dollar. See MarketWatch column on New World Order. 

The Minyanville mantra is to provide financial news you need to know before you 
know you need it. That's a fine line to walk, as foresight often flies in the 
face of mainstream acceptance. 
In 2006, it seemed counterintuitive to forecast a prolonged socioeconomic 
malaise entirely more depressing than a recession. See Minyanville column. 

For years, the notion of an invisible hand was conspiracy theory until we 
learned that the Working Group on Financial Markets was a central policy tool. 
See Minyanville column. 

And now, as we gaze across our historically significant horizon, we must open 
our minds to thoughts and ideas that may seem foreign to folks conditioned by 
the past and stunned by the present. 

Currency crossroads

As governments take on more risk -- as they price assets on behalf of the 
market and transfer debt from private to public -- the common denominator, or 
release valve, becomes the currency.
If our economic condition is allowed to take medicine in the form of debt 
destruction, the greenback will appreciate, and asset classes as a whole will 
deflate. If we continue to inject drugs that mask symptoms rather than address 
the disease, the likelihood of a seismic readjustment increases in kind. 

The deflationary forces in the marketplace are pervasive, and the other side 
of our current equation, hyperinflation, may be years away. Given the 
magnitude, breadth and pace of the global financial epidemic, however, we must 
explore each side of the twisted ride. 

Years ago, the Federal Reserve wrote a solution paper regarding the need to 
combat zero-bound interest rates. The concern was the flight of capital from 
the U.S. and an option discussed was a two-tiered currency, one for U.S 
citizens and one for foreigners. 

Canadian economist Herbert Grubel first introduced a potential manifestation of 
this concept in 1999. The North American Currency -- called the Amero in 
select circles -- would effectively comingle the Canadian dollar, U.S. dollar 
and Mexican peso. 

On its face, while difficult to imagine, it makes intuitive sense. The ability 
to combine Canadian natural resources, American ingenuity and cheap Mexican 
labor would allow North America to compete better on a global stage. 

Experience has taught us, however, that perceived solutions introduced by 
policy makers and politicians don't always have the desired effect. 

Unintended consequences

I've long contended that, much like the Internet prophecy proved true -- but 
not before the tech crash -- so too would globalization, albeit not without 
painful-yet-necessary debt destruction. 
To get through this, we need to go through this. If we're not allowed to go 
through it, foreigners will seek alternative avenues. Remember, for holders of 
dollar-denominated assets, seeds of discontent have been sowing under the 
surface for years, with the greenback off 30% since 2002. 

More likely than not, global leaders will watch how our new administration 
attempts to tackle the financial crisis before taking drastic steps. They 
understand that co-dependent risk exists as a function of the derivatives that 
interweave our financial infrastructure. If they could disassociate from our 
economic ecosystem without inflicting massive damage on themselves, they would 
have done so long ago. 
If forward policy attempts to induce more debt rather than allowing savings and 
obligations to align, we must respect the potential for a system shock. We may 
need to let a two-tier currency gain traction if the dollar meaningfully 
debases from current levels. 

If this dynamic plays out -- and I've got no insight that it will -- the global 
balance of powers would fragment

[cia-drugs] Will The SPP Rise Again?