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Begin forwarded message:From: "Consortiumnews\.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: November 3, 2006 9:15:15 PM PSTTo: "List Member" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Bush Will Say AnythingReply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the final days before the pivotal Nov. 7 elections, George W. Bush is rallying Republicans with stump speeches that are remarkable -- even by today's standards -- in their disdain for facts and logic.Bush's performance has added another question that may be answered in the voting -- have most of the American people lost the ability to differentiate between spin and reality? For the full story about how President Bush is fighting to protect one-party rule in Washington, go to Consortiumnews.com at http://www.consortiumnews.com .___Powered by Microsoft Small BusinessTo unsubscribe follow the link:http://lb.bcentral.com/ex/sp?c=13595&s=A71B82774A98294E&m=563 =
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[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in Iraq

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Begin forwarded message:From: Linda Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: November 4, 2006 6:44:23 AM PSTTo: "cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com" Subject: [cia-drugs] Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in IraqReply-To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com   The lobbying firm that hired and failed to supervise Abramoff is the same firm hired to keep contractors in Iraq from being accountable and having to return the money made off the war.  Could it be that Abramoff was working for the shareholders of the major contracting firms?  My guess is that the banks which control the Federal Reserve are the biggest shareholders in Halliburton, Blackwater, Parsons, et al. Linda ~  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/03/AR2006110301585_2.html?referrer=email Contractors Rarely Held Responsible for Misdeeds in Iraq  *** A similar case against the private military firm Blackwater USA has been allowed to proceed in North Carolina. But Blackwater has fought the case to the Supreme Court, enlisting high-caliber legal talent along the way -- including former Pentagon inspector general Joseph E. Schmitz and Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr.One contractor that had its day in court was Custer Battles LLC. Whistle-blowers claimed the firm used an elaborate string of shell companies to drive up profits, and last year a jury returned a $10 million verdict against the firm. But in August, a federal judge in Virginia overturned the ruling, saying the court did not have jurisdiction. Critics think that many cases are never raised because of spotty oversight. The Pentagon has spent about $250 billion in Iraq, yet the Defense Department's inspector general's office has only two investigators and a half-dozen auditors working there. As recently as last year, it had none. "There's never been a time in our country's history when we've shoved so much money out the door with so little oversight," said Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-N.D.), who blames Republican indifference for the lack of accountability.The special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, Stuart W. Bowen Jr., has nearly 60 auditors and investigators based in Baghdad and has won bipartisan praise for his work. But the office, which was set up to be temporary, has an October 1, 2007, deadline for completing its mission. A group of Democratic and Republican senators have said they think the office should remain open beyond then, and they say they intend to push legislation after Tuesday's elections that would make that happen.Bowen, a Republican, has overseen investigations resulting in the convictions of several people in connection with a bribery scheme. His office estimates that its audits have saved the government more than $400 million.For example, auditors reviewed 14 projects by one contractor, Parsons Corp., and found that 13 had serious defects. Among the problem contracts was one to build 142 health clinics. Only six have opened.Yet Parsons will not have to return any of its profit, nor is it likely to face any kind of formal punishment. Its contracts were what are called "cost-plus" deals, widespread in Iraq, in which the government bears much of the risk.Bowen said the government should have been willing to fire contractors when it realized that projects were going awry. "I started pushing for terminations for default, which is how you hold underperforming contractors responsible, in the summer of 2005," Bowen said.But his calls were rarely heeded. The reason? "Litigation fear," he said. "It was viewed as too much trouble."Frederick F. Shaheen, an attorney with the firm Greenberg Traurig LLP who represents contractors, said firing a contractor is difficult because the military is so dependent on them.If an official were to try to cancel a meal-service contract, for example, "some colonel is going to be on the phone to you ripping your lips off saying, 'Why aren't my troops being fed?' " Shaheen said.The threat of canceling a contract "is normally the sharpest quiver in the bag of the contracting officer. But there's no arrowhead on it any more," Shaheen said. "So the checks and balances are gone. The system is broken."   __._,_.___Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/  Please let us stay on topic and be civil.   OM   SPONSORED LINKS  Independent broker dealer  Independent director  Central intelligence agency  Central intelligence agency employment   Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional   Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)   Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully FeaturedVisit Your Group|  Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use   | Unsubscribe __,_._,___  =
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[CTRL] Fwd: [cia-drugs] Don't blame me. It's THEIR fault

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Begin forwarded message:From: Linda Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: November 4, 2006 6:15:58 AM PSTTo: "cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com" Subject: [cia-drugs] Don't blame me. It's THEIR faultReply-To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com   http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612?currentPage=3  ...Richard Perle: "Huge mistakes were made, and I want to be very clear on this: They were not made by neoconservatives, who had almost no voice in what happened, and certainly almost no voice in what happened after the downfall of the regime in Baghdad. I'm getting damn tired of being described as an architect of the war. I was in favor of bringing down Saddam. Nobody said, 'Go design the campaign to do that.' I had no responsibility for that."Kenneth Adelman: "The problem here is not a selling job. The problem is a performance job.… Rumsfeld has said that the war could never be lost in Iraq, it could only be lost in Washington. I don't think that's true at all. We're losing in Iraq.… I've worked with [Rumsfeld] three times in my life. I've been to each of his houses, in Chicago, Taos, Santa Fe, Santo Domingo, and Las Vegas. I'm very, very fond of him, but I'm crushed by his performance. Did he change, or were we wrong in the past? Or is it that he was never really challenged before? I don't know. He certainly fooled me."Eliot Cohen, director of the strategic-studies program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and member of the Defense Policy Board: "I wouldn't be surprised if what we end up drifting toward is some sort of withdrawal on some sort of timetable and leaving the place in a pretty ghastly mess.… I do think it's going to end up encouraging various strands of Islamism, both Shia and Sunni, and probably will bring de-stabilization of some regimes of a more traditional kind, which already have their problems.… The best news is that the United States remains a healthy, vibrant, vigorous society. So in a real pinch, we can still pull ourselves together. Unfortunately, it will probably take another big hit. And a very different quality of leadership. Maybe we'll get it." __._,_.___Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/  Please let us stay on topic and be civil.   OM   SPONSORED LINKS  Independent broker dealer  Independent director  Central intelligence agency  Central intelligence agency employment   Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional   Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)   Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully FeaturedVisit Your Group|  Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use   | Unsubscribe __,_._,___  =
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[CTRL] Fwd: PROPAGANDA AND SOCIAL CONTROL

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Begin forwarded message:From: "Eric Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: November 4, 2006 7:27:07 AM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: PROPAGANDA AND SOCIAL CONTROL  http://destabilize.blogspot.com/2006/11/propaganda-and-social-control.htmlPROPAGANDA AND SOCIAL CONTROL A Panel Discussion featuring:John JudgeLori BradfordSteve HassnaBrett McCabe: I'd like to introduce our first panel,Steve Hassna is a former Staff Sergeant, US Army and a Vietnam Veteran. He lives in Berkeley and is an activist for Veterans rights and against war. A poet and public speaker, he is also part of the Vietnam Speaker's Alliance and the National Committee Against Registration and the Draft.Steve Hassna: I'm going to talk about the military as far as an apparatus for controlling people. One of the jobs I had when I returned from Vietnam was I was issued this hat. Army Drill Sergeant. I was trained, by the US Army, in various tactics of psychological control to get 40 people at a time to do what they're told without them thinking about it.I'm going to talk about the military as far as its control and how it's used to manipulate people and get them to do things they normally wouldn't do. I left Vietnam, I was with the 101st Airborne division, as an Infantry Paratrooper, pointman, squad leader, tunnel rat. I was there in 1967-'68, I went through the Tet Offensive, returned here, and was issued this hat [Army Drill Sergeant] OK? The United States Army has what is called i's Drill Sergeant School. It's a 6 week course . . .Lori Bradford: [half in jest] It's mind control.Steve Hassna: OK . . . Drill Sergeant school is a six week course where you are trained to give instruction for basic training. Now, mentioned here today, has been an historical process of, if you don't know the historical process of what happened before, you have a tendency to repeat it over and over again. I did not know the historical process that got us into the Vietnam conflict and consequently enlisted in the United States Army in l966. Later, I got out of the army and started looking at what I had endured and how I had been manipulated as a trainee and then controlled as a soldier in the field in Vietnam and then came back and was put through a school to then train people to go and do exactly what I had done a year prior.I did not know when I went into the army that we had trained and financed Ho Chi Minh's forces during WWII to fight the common enemy, the Japanese. And one of the tactics we had trained Ho Chi Minh's people in was Colonel Robert Rogers Rules of Order which is the basic Army Ranger tactics that were developed by Colonel Robert Rogers during the French and Indian Wars in the 1700s here in the United States. These tactics were taught to Ho Chi Minh's people, aside from what they already knew about fighting in their own country.I did not know this. I did not know or read the books, or study (because I was a child growing up, in the 50s), the different manipulative factors that we did as far as Southeast Asia to control the economy, the political atmosphere, the military atmosphere, and everything else.And consequently I participated in that war, and then, like I said, trained 1200 young men to go and do exactly what I did.And what did I train them in? I trained them in patriotism, in love of country, in amplifying the feeling of worth for your country by serving your country as it's a noble cause. And I also trained them in very . . . um . . . it's embarrassing to me, it . . . it's shameful, but . . . tactics of hating the Vietnamese. I'll just use the Vietnamese as an example. But an American soldier was supposed to be in Vietnam to help the Vietnamese decide their own political destiny, as an ally. And yet in training, the Vietnamese were referred to as "gooks" and "slopes" and "dinks" and "zipperheads" and everything else that you could think of to make the Vietnamese look subhuman and less than intelligent. So that when you killed them, you really weren't killing a human being, you were killing this subhuman creature. And that was my job.That was not why I went into the military to serve my country. But that was the job that I did. And today, 20 years later, I still have a hard time sleeping at night.Now, why would a country that is supposedly based on the foundations of freedom, democracy, and equality for people, train their soldiers in such tactics? Because if you're going to employ your troops in such an inhuman fashion, you have to have them operate against people and not look at them as being human.We would have silhouette targets. Little pop-up silhouette targets at the rifle range. You'd shoot at them, the bullet would hit it and they'd fall down and then come back up. Electronically controlled. Human shaped. In the close range combat courses these silhouette targets were actual, you know, with a . . . a life-like figure was painted onto the silhouette target. And usually it was of a Viet Cong. The typical Viet Cong: the conica

[CTRL] Fwd: Propaganda in a Democratic Society - Aldous Huxley

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Begin forwarded message:From: "Eric Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: November 4, 2006 7:23:13 AM PSTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Propaganda in a Democratic Society - Aldous Huxley http://justanotherblowback.blogspot.com/2006/11/propaganda-in-democratic-society.htmlPropaganda in a Democratic Society by Aldous Huxley"The doctrines of Europe," Jefferson wrote, "were that men in numerousassociations cannot be restrained within the limits of order andjustice, except by forces physical and moral wielded over them byauthorities independent of their will. . . . We (the founders of the newAmerican democracy) believe that man was a rational animal, endowed bynature with rights, and with an innate sense of justice, and that hecould be restrained from wrong, and protected in right, by moderatepowers, confided to persons of his own choice and held to their dutiesby dependence on his own will." To post-Freudian ears, this kind oflanguage seems touchingly quaint and ingenuous. Human beings are a gooddeal less rational and innately just than the optimists of theeighteenth century supposed. On the other hand they are neither somorally blind nor so hopelessly unreasonable as the pessimists of thetwentienth would have us believe. In spite of the Id and theUnconscious, in spite of endemic neurosis and the prevalence of lowIQ's, most men and women are probably decent enough and sensible enoughto be trusted with the direction of their own destinies.Democratic institutions are devices for reconciling social order withindividual freedom and initiative, and for making the immediate power ofa country's rulers subject to the ultimate power of the ruled. The factthat, in Western Europe and America, these devices have worked, allthings considered, not too badly is proof enough that the eighteenthcentury optimists were not entirely wrong. Given a fair chance, Irepeat; for the fair chance is an indispensible prerequisite. No peoplethat passes abruptly from a state of subservience under the rule of adespot to the completely unfamiliar state of political independence canbe said to have a fair chance of being able to govern itselfdemocratically. Liberalism flourishes in an atmosphere of prosperity anddeclines as declining prosperity makes it necessary for the governmentto intervene ever more frequently and drastically in the affairs of itssubjects. Over-population and over-organization are two conditions which... deprive a society of a fair chance of making democratic institutionswork effectively. We see, then, that there are certain historical,economic, demographic and technological conditions which make it veryhard for Jefferson's rational animals, endowed by nature withinalienable rights and an innate sense of justice, to exercise theirreason, claim their rights and act justly within a democraticallyorganized society. We in the West have been supremely fortunate inhaving been given a fair chance of making the great experiment inself-government. Unfortunately, it now looks as though , owing to recentchanges in our circumstances, this infinitely precious fair chance werebeing, little by little, taken away from us. And this, of course, is notthe whole story. These blind impersonal forces are not the only enemiesof individual liberty and democratic institutions. There are also forcesof another, less abstract character, forces that can be deliberatelyused by power-seeking individuals whose aim is to establish partial orcomplete control over their fellows. Fifty years ago, when I was a boy,it seemed completely self-evident that the bad old days were over, thattorture and massacre, slavery, and the persecution of heretics, werethings of the past. Among people who wore top hats, traveled in trains,and took a bath every morning such horrors were simply out of thequestion. After all, we were living in the twentieth century. A fewyears later these people who took daily baths and went to church in tophats were committing atrocities on a scale undreamed of by the benightedAfricans and Asiatics. In the light of recent history it would befoolish to suppose that this sort of thing cannot happen again. It canand, no doubt, it will. But in the immediate future there is some reasonto believe that the punitive measures of 1984 will give place to thereinforcements and manipulations of Brave New World.There are two kinds of propaganda - rational propaganda in favor ofaction that is consonant with the enlightened self-interest of those whomake it and those to whom it is addressed, and non-rational propagandathat is not consonant with anybody's enlightened self-interest, but isdictated by, and appeals to, passion. Were the actions of individualsare concerned there are motives more exhalted than enlightenedself-interest, but where collective action has to be taken in the fieldsof politics and economics, enlightened self-interest is probably thehighest of effective motives. If politicians and their constituentsalways acted to promote their own