Re: [cia-drugs] The Empire Strikes Back
Shades of New Orleans after Katrina: The couple, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued Nethercott. And a judge recently awarded the couple Nethercott's 70-acre ranch near Douglas, Texas. "What they did is they waited until I was in jail," Nethercott said. "And then they sued me with a default judgment. Im in jail, I couldnt show up for court." norgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friday, December 02, 2005 The Empire Strikes Back This comes courtesy of Cal S. Anyone who becomes a threat to the Powers-That-Be or their effort to dissolve the borders of this country by taking direct action and making headway is now clearly a target. Note the involvement of the superwealthy "Southern Poverty Law Center." Man fighting for closed borders loses battle 08:55 PM Mountain Standard Time on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 By Mike Watkiss / 3TV reporterCasey Nethercott, 38, founded the anti-immigration group, Ranch Rescue. "If I had my way, Id put a concrete wall down the border, put gun powder on it and say, 'America is closed,'" Nethercott said. Some people call Nethercott an American hero, a patriot wronged by the country that he loves. "Hes a hero. My son is a good man," said Nethercott's mother, Margaret. "He would never, ever hurt anyone." "I cant help that Im 250 pounds," Nethercott said. "I cant help the way my eyes look. Or that I lift weights. But Im not a criminal." Nethercott sits today in a Texas prison because there are others who say he is a criminal. A law-breaking vigilante. "[The government] is lying to you," Nethercott said. "The borders are wide open and, damn it, something is going to happen." Nethercott, a one-time bounty hunter, has made it his business to try to curb illegal immigration by starting an armed militia group on his 70-acre ranch near Douglas, Texas. He would tell reporters that he and men were willing to step in where the government had failed. He said he'd use machine guns to monitor the border. In early 2003, Nethercott, and a couple of men from Ranch Rescue, detained and allegedly abused two illegal immigrants. Nethercott allegedly detained the immigrants, Fatima Leiva and Edwin Mancia, both Salvadorans, as they were crossing the border near Hebbronville, Texas. "The one guy was dehydrated so I gave him water," Nethercott said. I gave his girlfriend some power bars and it was two miles from the end of the property so we drove 'em off the property." But the couple says Nethercott threatened them both and pistol-whipped Mancia. "I never even had a gun with me that night. Theyre absolutely lying about it," Nethercott said. Nethercott was charged with assault and while Texas jury deadlocked on that charge, Nethercott, who is a convicted felon, was found guilty of possessing a weapon and thrown into prison. The couple, with the help of the Southern Poverty Law Center, sued Nethercott. And a judge recently awarded the couple Nethercott's 70-acre ranch near Douglas, Texas. "What they did is they waited until I was in jail," Nethercott said. "And then they sued me with a default judgment. Im in jail, I couldnt show up for court." Nethercott claims that all he did was detain the couple until border agents could arrive. He says that when agents didnt show, the immigrants were released. "If he was not found guilty of that, how could they take his ranch? We work so hard for this country and theyre giving it away to anybody who wants to come in," Margaret said. "America right now is more concerned about their SUVs and their cell phones," Nethercott said. "They aren't watching their country being eroded out from under them." Fatima Leiva and Edwin Mancia refused an interview for this story. Nethercott is serving 5 years on the weapons violation. http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/KTVKLNews20051130.2794ad9d.htmlhttp://itshappeninghere.blogspot.com/2005/12/empire-strikes-backhtml Yahoo! Personals Skip the bars and set-ups and start using Yahoo! Personals for free Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Press Release of Prison Ministry Press
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Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: Dark Armies, Secret Bases Rummy, oh my!
Some thoughts on the subjects. It seems that possibly the controlled 'illegal' drug trade, mostly opiates and cocaine, seem to be generally under particular aegises, ie: opiates Bpnes Company and Shanghai Clique (Green Gang) and cocaine German/South American with strong support from Greeks on both items. I have had some very interesting conservations with gentlemen that tell stories about special schools starting in the late forties as teens then US military Special forces/SOG, deployment to SE Asia, then to SA ... and there in the field paired wit Nazi troops. Was it actual Nazi military units in SA and some attempted horriffic cleansing action in Boliva highlands that sent Col. Cutolo over the edge? Quién Sabe? Just some thoughts, Peace, Om K On Dec 3, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote: 'Privatizing' war is not only the logical extension of the Bush Administration's mania for contracting everything out to the private sector; it also shields the White House's activities from the U.S. Congress. 'My complaint about the use of private contractors,' says U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsy (D-Il), 'is their ability to fly under the radar to avoid accountability.' VMANN: and these 'mercenaries' are cia agents too. like mohammed atta and the boys. According to William Pope, U.S. State Department Counterterrorist Coordinator, the U.S. has evidence that 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed spent several months in the area in 1995. The U.S. military also says it seized documents in Afghanistan with pictures of Paraguay and letters from Arabs living in Cuidad del Este, a city of some 150,000 people in the tri-border region. The Defense Department has not revealed what the letters contained, and claims that the area is a hotbed of Middle East terrorism have been widely debunked. VMANN: heh. maybe they were training him at the US military base there. When U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld visited Paraguay this past August, he told reporters that, 'There certainly is evidence that both Cuba and Venezuela have been involved in the situation in Bolivia in unhelpful ways.' VMANN: what by privatising the water resources? oh wait... vigilius haufniensis Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- FONT COLOR=#99AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. /FONTA HREF=http://us.click.yahoo.com/X6CDDD/lzNLAA/cUmLAA/ vseplB/TMBClick Here!/B/A ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- AIDS in India: A lurking bomb. Click and help stop AIDS now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/X6CDDD/lzNLAA/cUmLAA/vseplB/TM ~- Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Our Mission: Exposing the Truth About Globalism
Our Mission: Exposing the Truth About Globalism The Global Elite: Who are they? Who are the central/core perpetrators of globalistion and the New World Order? To truly understand globalization you must have a firm grasp on who the real movers and shakers are... and pass by myriads of wannabe big-shots. Members of the elite core are not hard to spot, once you know what to look for. Global Banking: The Bank for International Settlements (NOTE: Ben Bernanke will replace Alan Greenspan as a director of the BIS) Who controls global monetary affairs? The BIS! Based in Basle, Switzerland, the BIS is central bank to central banks. The BIS has greater immunity than a sovereign nation, is accountable to no one, runs global monetary affairs and is privately owned. This is a must-read report to understand the globalization process. --- The August Review provides a single, comprehensive and scholarly source of information on Globalism, sometimes referred to as Elitism, Internationalism, World Federalism, One World Order or the New World Order. We make it simple for you to understand by giving you the big picture, connecting the dots between global elitists and their corporations, foundations and policy groups who are acting in concert to bring about this New World Order. Truth is only defensible when you have the documented facts on an issue. Opinions you hold may be accurate, but without precise facts at your fingertips, you cannot intellectually defend your position.Our Credo: "Follow the Money, Follow the Power" This principle has been true throughout history, but is too easily forgotten. Most people and analysts miss the big picture of globalism because they are too busy chasing irrelevant information. Our focus on money and power keep us relevant, accurate and pointedly effective at exposing the truth. Our History: Building on the foundational research of Wood and Sutton The August Review builds on the original research of Patrick M. Wood and the late Dr. Antony C. Sutton, formerly a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution for War, Peace and Revolution at Stanford University. Their 1977-1982 newsletter, Trilateral Observer, was the original critique on the New International Economic Order spearheaded by members of the Trilateral Commission. Their highly regarded two-volume book, Trilaterals Over Washington, became a standard reference on global elitism. http://www.augustreview.com/index.php The August Review News Maytag, Unocal Falling to China? Clinton to Use Religion to Achieve Goals CAFTA: The Passion of George Bush CAFTA: Why the Urgency? Bush Signs $286 Billion Highway Bill Jim Chilton: True American Hero Clinton Reveals Globalist Methodology International Bankers Invading China? Bush Off Base With Plan to Federalize Emergencies Bush' Second Push to Federalize Emergencies Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Intel Stew
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 3, 2005 2:13:40 PM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Intel StewReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/December 3, 2005 -- EXCLUSIVE -- Intelligence "cooking" and retaliation also plagues IMINT (Imagery intelligence) community but with a healthy dose of contract fraud. WMR has already reported on tainted intelligence being created on the orders of the Bush administration in the SIGINT (signals intelligence) and HUMINT (human intelligence) communities. Largely ignored has been the effect of this policy in the IMINT (imagery intelligence) community. IMINT analysts carefully scan spy satellite and air reconnaissance photos taken of foreign airfields, weapons labs, shipyards, government office complexes, and other strategic and tactical sites.MZM, the company involved in paying bribes to former California GOP Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, was also part of the cooking of intelligence on Iraq years prior to the US invasion, according to a former weapons expert at the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in Charlottesville, Virginia. MZM was sold by owner Mitchell Wade to Veritas Capital and is now known as Athena Innovative Solutions, Inc. According to a former IMINT and weapons analyst, who worked since 1988 for various intelligence agencies looking closely at Iraq, NGIC, which is comprised of US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) intelligence analysts and personnel detailed from the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), had an all-too-cozy relationship with MZM. The firm's single source, non-competitive contract with NGIC paved the way for the cooking of some of the intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq.After NGIC's deputy director, Bill Rich, Sr., retired, he was quickly hired by MZM, which had replaced Battelle as the prime contractor for NGIC. Soon after taking the job with MZM, Rich's son, who had no prior intelligence experience, was also hired by MZM, according to the former analyst. In addition, NGIC's retired Sergeant Major was also hired by the firm, according to the same source. The links between MZM and Cunningham were so close, members of Wade's family also reportedly steered money to Duke Cunningham's campaign coffers. Since the MZM-Cunningham scandal broke, the firm has been cut off from all work at NGIC. However, according to NGIC sources that has not affected Rich, who continues to work for a new NGIC contractor, Sparta, Inc., which, like MZM, is conveniently located in the University of Virginia Research Park, across the street from NGIC.The weapons analyst said that NGIC purposely altered figures on the number of Russian helicopters in order to justify the Crusade gun system, which, the the time, was being built by United Defense, which, in turn, was owned by The Carlyle Group. After the analyst objected to the inflation by NGIC management of the numbers of working helicopters in Russia, he found himself subject to a security clearance investigation by US Investigations Services (USIS), a firm in which the Carlyle Group has a major financial stake, USIS's Iraq operations were under investigation by US Army Col. Ted Westhusing last June. During that investigation, Westhusing was reported to have shot himself in the head while in a trailer near Baghdad. In a manner reminiscent of how the National Security Agency (NSA) treats whistleblowers, the NGIC analyst was forced to see the center's sole psychologist, someone who was on good terms with Deputy Director Bill Rich. The psychologist determined that the analyst suffered from a psychiatric problem even though his own HMO contradicted that evaluation. In June 2001, the analyst had his security clearance revoked and was terminated in 2002. In August 2001, the analyst arranged to have some of his NGIC paperwork sent to him at home by NGIC security. However, when a clasped and taped enveloped arrived at his home, there were clear indications that sometime during the passage of the documents through four levels of NGIC management, including NGIC security, something was inserted into the files: a SECRET NOFORN WINTEL document [NOFORN is "no foreign dissemination" and WINTEL is "Warning - Intelligence Sources and Methods Revealed']. The analyst dutifully informed the FBI and the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) at Fort Monroe, Virginia about the incident. However, the analyst was never asked to sign his statement about the incident. This is eerily similar to the planting of two boxes of classified documents in the home of former NSA analyst Kenneth Ford, who is currently on trial after being charged with the possession of classified material.NGIC -- The Intelligence Cooking KitchenThe intelligence cooking on Russian military aviation was so bad, according to the analyst, that NGIC plagiarized a September 1984 Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document and tried to post it in an intelligence
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Predictably, GOP Leaders Stonewalling on Phase II
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: December 3, 2005 8:26:20 AM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Predictably, GOP Leaders Stonewalling on "Phase II" Senate Intelligence Committee stalling pre-war intelligence report http://www.minstrelboy.blogspot.com/ "Phase II, the follow-up to the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation into pre-war intelligence on Iraq, is still facing opposition from administration officials and has seen little action from the committee's chairman, Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), RAW STORY has learned.Following a surprising move early last month by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D -NV), in which he shut down the Senate in an effort to force discussion on the inquiry, the Senate leadership established a six member bipartisan task force and set a Nov. 15 deadline for a progress report.The six task force members selected were Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Carl Levin (D-MI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Trent Lott (R-MS) and Kit Bond (R-MO)."A week later, on Nov. 8, the Senate Intelligence Committee staff briefed task force members on the investigative work done thus far.The full Intelligence Committee met Nov. 9 for a briefing from staff, but according to Senate sources close to the Intel Committee, the task force is “unable to provide a timeline for Phase II completion.”To date, there has been no Phase II report. Senior Democratic Senate aides familiar with the task force’s activities say Republicans are stonewalling. One aide, who asked not to be named citing the secrecy of the investigation, explained that without the power of subpoena, Democrats are left with few options. “Phase II is dead,” the staffer said.Others familiar with the task force say some progress is being made, citing draft reports on two areas of focus:-The postwar findings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and weapons programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments.-Prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq.Exactly who has seen these drafts and what is in them remains a mystery. “Everything remains to be seen,” one source said.Key Areas of FocusPhase II is the second part of a larger investigation into pre-war planning and post-invasion failures. Phase I focused primarily on intelligence failures by the CIA, while Phase II focuses on five specific areas of inquiry:-Whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information;-The postwar findings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and weapons programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments;-Prewar intelligence assessments about conditions to be expected in postwar Iraq;-Any intelligence activities relating to Iraq conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group (PCTEG) and the Office of Special Plans within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy; and-The use by the Intelligence Community of information provided by the Iraqi National Congress (INC).Feith and the Office of Special PlansPart of the delay is due to resistance from the Pentagon regarding its ultra-secretive Office of Special Plans (OSP). The group was set up by then Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Doug Feith. OSP was considered by many Defense Department officers and staff to be highly paranoid, secretive cabal of ideologues bent on creating a war with Iraq.The group was tasked with finding intelligence that fit the administration’s anti-Iraq policy. The Pentagon has specifically refused to address Feith's role and the activities of OSP.Members of OSP included Larry Franklin, now charged with conspiracy to leak classified and defense information to a Washington pro-Israel lobby; Iran Contra player Michael Ledeen, hired by Feith as a consultant; and Harold Rhode, a staunch anti-Muslim said to have been directly involved in purging the DOD of anyone opposing the anti-Iraq policy who Feith also brought on as a consultant.Other, “visiting,” players in the group included the now-discredited German intelligence source , “Curveball”; Ahmed Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, who fed bogus intelligence to the Pentagon and U.S. papers; and New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who conveyed Chalabi’s falsehoods to the American body politic.Under orders from Feith, Ledeen, Rhode and Franklin made un-authorized trips to meet with Manucher Ghorbanifar, another Iran Contra figure, in Rome and Paris in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The meetings have yet to be explained, but some suspect they are linked to the Niger forgeries. More documents are neededDemocratic senators on the Phase II task force have requested interviews and documents from Feith’s office regarding Chalabi, the Iraqi National
[cia-drugs] Fight against terrorism to figure in Indo-Russian summit
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=181353n_date=20051205cat=India Fight against terrorism to figure in Indo-Russian summitOn Board Special Aircraft | December 05, 2005 12:35:16 AM ISTPrime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that, along with cooperation in the areas of energy and defence, the global fight against terrorism would also figure prominently at his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on December 6. "Terrorism constitutes a threat to the civilised way of living, anywhere and everywhere. There is a meeting of minds between India and Russia on this issue," Dr Singh told the mediapersons accompanying him to Moscow. Referring to the Iran nuclear issue, he said, ''Our concern has been to find a solution to this problem and not to allow it to go to the UN Security Council.'' Dr Singh pointed out that ''India's strategy to resolve the issue within the IAEA itself seems to be working.'' Asked if there was any consensus between India and Russia on the Iran nuclear issue, Dr Singh said '' We have been in discussions with all major parties. We are talking to the European Union, Russia and China.'' ''I am glad to say that our strategy, as of now, seems to be working'', he said. To a question on the proposed Iran-India gas pipeline, he said India and Russia would discuss "regional and multi-regional cooperation" to tackle the issue of energy security and resolve the problem of energy scarcity. ''Energy security is very high on my agenda. We have already invested in Sakhalin-I (gas and oil project in Russia) and we are looking at how to enlarge cooperation in the field of energy,'' he said. On the strategic cooperation between India, Russia and China, Dr Singh said the major area of concern was peace and security in Central Asia. "We would like to work with like-minded parties to promote security and peace in Central Asia and this region." On WTO, Dr Singh admitted that there were some problems with procedures. "We have a few concerns with regard to geographical indicators. These are not significant obstacles. We have to resolve them." UNI SH SA PM PM2325 Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] An Urgent Appeal: Please Release Our Friends in Iraq
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[cia-drugs] 'I was paid to blame Syria'
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1841934,00.html 'I was paid to blame Syria'28/11/2005 15:46-(SA) Beirut - A man has claimed on Syrian state TV that he was bribed to accuse top Syrian officials of the murder of Rafiq Hariri in his testimony to the United Nations commission into the former Lebanese premier's assassination. Husam Taher Husam, a former conscript in the Syrian army, alleged in a 75-minute interview on Sunday night that Saad Hariri, the son of the slain Hariri, met him several months ago and offered him $1.3m to testify against top Syrian officials. The spokesperson for the Syrian inquiry into Hariri's murder, Ibrahim Daraji, said on Monday that if Husam is the unidentified key witness quoted in the UN commission's interim report, then the United Nations' case "has completely collapsed." Daraji spoke at a press conference in Damascus on Monday at which Husam reiterated the allegations he had made on Syrian television the night before. Syria criticised UN report Husam told the television that UN officials told him what to say when he gave evidence to the UN commission, in particular that he was "close to" Brigadier General Assef Shawkat, the chief of Syrian military intelligence and brother-in-law of Syria's president, who was named in the commission's interim report last month. "But I've never seen him in my whole life," Husam said of Shawkat in the television interview. It was not possibly to reach Saad Hariri for a response on Monday as he was travelling in South America. News bulletins on Hariri's own Future TV station did not refer to Husam's claims. The UN commission rarely responds to media reports about the investigation. Husam's allegations came days before five senior Syrian officials were due to appear before the UN commission in Vienna. The officials, who have not been named either by the commission or Syria, will be questioned in the UN headquarters in the Austrian capital as part of an agreement reached after more than two weeks of negotiations over where and how their evidence would be taken. In its interim report, the commission implicated the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services in the Beirut bombing that killed Hariri and 20 others on February 14. Lebanon welcomed the report, but Syria rejected it as politicised and unfounded on evidence. Syrian officials have for weeks tried to discredit the UN investigation as biased against Syria. Previously, another Syrian, Mohammed Zuhair Siddiq, gave evidence to the commission but was later discredited. At the commission's recommendation, he was arrested in France in October and extradited to Lebanon where he is being held as a suspect in the murder. Hariri's assassination, which many Lebanese blame on Syria, was the catalyst for mass anti-Syrian street protests and intensified international pressure that forced Syria to withdraw its army from Lebanon, ending nearly three decades of domination. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
