[cia-drugs] Fwd: Wayne Madsen Update -- Link Between the Berezovsky/Litvinenko Network and 9/11
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 2, 2007 7:33:25 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wayne Madsen Update -- Link Between the Berezovsky/ Litvinenko Network and 9/11 January 2, 2007 -- SPECIAL REPORT http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/. Scaramella-Berezovsky link to World Trade Center security firm emerges in Italian law enforcement investigation. Mario Scaramella, the Italian interlocutor for the poisoned Alexander Litvinenko and Russian-Israeli media/mobster tycoon Boris Berezovsky, is now under investigation by prosecutors in Rome, Naples, and Bologna for international arms smuggling, divulging official judicial secrets, conspiracy, international trafficking in radioactive materials, and the dumping of hazardous waste through unauthorized third parties. Scaramella was arrested last month by Italian police and his offices have been searched by police several times. The Italian media is reporting on transcripts of phone conversations between Scaramella and two former U.S. intelligence officers. One conversation, reported in La Repubblica, is a January 25, 2006 conversation between Scaramella and a mysterious ex-CIA agent from California who uses the name "Perry." In the conversation, Scaramella stresses to Perry that his activities are not "just my activity, but the activity of the organization.' It is becoming clear that the "organization" to which Scaramella is referring is a private and global intelligence organization involving former members of the KGB and Russian Federal Security Bureau (like Litvinenko), private military and intelligence companies, and ex-CIA and British intelligence officers. Scaramella discussed the political dirty “trick” they are preparing for Italian center-left leader Romano Prodi and it is clear from the conversation that Perry gives Scaramella his orders, though politely. When Scaramella goes into a tangent on his international activities, Perry merely replies, 'You must work on the Italian politics.' When Scaramella presents a list of the possible future options open to him, Perry very curtly suggests, “You could be part of the cabinet of the minister.” But Scaramella is pessimistic when he states, “most probably Prodi will win, even if we will launch our attack…" The "attack" is key to the conversation. WMR was the first media outlet to suggest that the Scaramella-Litvinenko affair was a dirty bomb plot gone bad and that the intelligence services of Russian President Vladimir Putin may have actually derailed the plot. Scaramella relates to Perry his conversation with then-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in which he asked the right-wing and now-indicted politician for a job, preferably at NATO or the United Nations. Scaramella claims that he was first offered a seat in the Italian parliament but declined because he feared a rough political campaign against him after he had made public his "KGB claims" against Prodi and that he "preferred a post outside Italy in an international organization." The Italian paper Corriere della Sera is also reporting on a telephone conversation between Scaramella and Paolo Guzzanti, the Miktrokhin Committee's chairman on 28 January 2006, three days after the phone conversation between Perry and Scaramella that Romani Prodi was "cultivated by the KGB" and cited ex-KGB Colonel Oleg Gordievsky as his source. Guzzanti responds, "in that case he is our man?" "Yes," replies Scaramella's." "That's enough. I don't want to know anything else", Guzzanti replies. It has also been revealed that while talking to Perry, Scaramella declared that he had obtained taped testimony against Prodi from Gordievski and that the testimony was given in the presence of "Lou Palumbo," who has now been identified as a 22-year veteran of the CIA. Gordievski, who is under the protection of the British intelligence services, has since denounced Scaramella as a fraud. It is also clear that Scaramella's mission was to seek out prominent Russian exiles and defectors in order to trick them into brining false charges against leftist politicians like Prodi. Previously, WMR reported that Scaramella was linked by Italian investigators to Filippo Marino, who is involved in the security business and founded the Special Research Monitoring Center (SRMC), claims he was a member of the elite Italian Army 131st Regiment and member of an Italian law enforcement organized crime task force targeting the mob in Naples. One of Marino's companies, Securitydirector LLC, is registered at P.O. Box 190487, Miami Beach, FL 33119-0487. According to La Stampa, a link has now been discovered between Marino and Hallandale, Florida-based Incident Management Group (IMG). Marino has been a senior consultant for IMG, according to La Stampa. IMG's Managing Partner is
[cia-drugs] Fwd: PROMIS and Al Qaeda
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 2, 2007 8:19:18 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PROMIS and Al Qaeda Al Qaeda -- the database By Wayne Madsen 11-19-2005 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/326565.shtml Shortly before his untimely death [very likely murder], former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence. "I first heard about Al-Qaida while I was attending the Command and Staff course in Jordan. I was a French officer at that time and the French Armed Forces had close contacts and cooperation with Jordan . . . "Two of my Jordanian colleagues were experts in computers. They were air defense officers. Using computer science slang, they introduced a series of jokes about students' punishment. "For example, when one of us was late at the bus stop to leave the Staff College, the two officers used to tell us: 'You'll be noted in 'Q eidat il-Maaloomaat' which meant 'You'll be logged in the information database.' Meaning 'You will receive a warning . . .' If the case was more severe, they would used to talk about 'Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.' Meaning 'the decision database.' It meant 'you will be punished.' For the worst cases they used to speak of logging in 'Al Qaida.' "In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development, which is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of the Islamic Conference Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope with its accounting and communication requirements. At the time the system was more sophisticated than necessary for their actual needs. "It was decided to use a part of the system's memory to host the Islamic Conference's database. It was possible for the countries attending to access the database by telephone: an Intranet, in modern language. The governments of the member-countries as well as some of their embassies in the world were connected to that network. "[According to a Pakistani major] the database was divided into two parts, the information file where the participants in the meetings could pick up and send information they needed, and the decision file where the decisions made during the previous sessions were recorded and stored. In Arabic, the files were called, 'Q eidat il- Maaloomaat' and 'Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.' Those two files were kept in one file called in Arabic 'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat' which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base." The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called 'q eidat 'riyadh al 'askariya.' Q eida means "a base" and "Al Qaida" means "the base." "In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference's secretariat. "In the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence officer in the Headquarters of the French Rapid Action Force. Because of my skills in Arabic my job was also to translate a lot of faxes and letters seized or intercepted by our intelligence services . . . We often got intercepted material sent by Islamic networks operating from the UK or from Belgium. "These documents contained directions sent to Islamic armed groups in Algeria or in France. The messages quoted the sources of statements to be exploited in the redaction of the tracts or leaflets, or to be introduced in video or tapes to be sent to the media. The most commonly quoted sources were the United Nations, the non-aligned countries, the UNHCR and . . . Al Qaida. "Al Qaida remained the data base of the Islamic Conference. Not all member countries of the Islamic Conference are 'rogue states' and many Islamic groups could pick up information from the databases. It was but natural for Osama Bin Laden to be connected to this network. He is a member of an important family in the banking and business world. "Because of the presence of 'rogue states,' it became easy for terrorist groups to use the email of the database. Hence, the email of Al Qaida was used, with some interface system, providing secrecy, for the families of the mujaheddin to keep links with their children undergoing training in Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon. Or in action anywhere in the battlefields where the extremists sponsored by all the 'rogue states' used to fight. And the 'rogue states' included Saudi
[cia-drugs] Fw: US Secretary of the Treasury, Arrested in Germany
Hey everyone, Is this TRUE? Give me the inside story on this. After I read it, I cilcked onto the Web site that you will see at the bottom. It does not match the story, something that I find discomforting as the stories always do match. Peace, Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemocracy.net To access my work, click on the icon that says Magazine. > > - Original Message - > From: Charles Vaught > To: Charles Vaught > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2006 8:11 AM > Subject: FW: US Secretary of the Treasury, Arrested In Germany > > This is almost too good to be true! > > - Original Message - > From: > To: Undisclosed-Recipient: > Sent: 12/30/2006 11:36:43 PM > Subject: Treasury Secretary Arrested In Germany > >We have been sitting on the precursers to this information for > about two weeks and have been very cautious with this one but this scandal is > about to blow wide open. This story is closely related to the bank holiday > story that we put out about a week ago. It looks like the Federal Reserve is > finally history after 93 years of fiat currency in the USA. >Cannot verify but it is reported that most banks and Post > Offices will be closed Monday AND Tuesday. There is NOTHING about any of this > on any of the mass media. Stay tuned. > > > Interesting -- If True > http://www.worldreports.org/news/38_paulson_and_cheney_s > U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY ARRESTED IN GERMANY > PAULSON AND CHENEY SUBPOENAED BY TRIBUNAL > Saturday 30 December 2006 20:05 > U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY HENRY M. PAULSON HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN > EUROPE > > SENTENCING INFLICTS EXTREME DISGRACE UPON THE UNITED STATES > GENERALLY > > U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY SEIZED AND BROUGHT BEFORE 'AD HOC' > TRIBUNAL IN GERMANY ON A SUBPOENA HANDED OUT BY THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF > JUSTICE [OR 'WORLD COURT'] ON CHARGES OF MONEY-LAUNDERING, NON-PAYMENT OF THE > WANTA $4.5 TRILLION AND FOR MISAPPROPRIATION AND/OR DIVERSION OF COLOSSAL $ > SUMS. > > VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY LIKEWISE AT THE RECEIVING END OF PARALLEL > SUBPOENA FOR SIMILAR CRIMINAL OFFENCE(S). > > GERMAN AUTHORITIES EXERCISED THE INTERNATIONAL SUBPOENA, BRINGING > PAULSON (AND CHENEY) UNDER GERMAN JURISDICTION, GIVEN THAT GERMAN BANKS > TRYING TO MAKE THE WANTA PAYMENT WERE TWICE PREVENTED BY MR PAULSON FROM > DOING SO. WHEN THIS HAPPENED THE SECOND TIME, PAULSON WAS ARRESTED. > > PAULSON CHARGED WITH DIVERSION OF FUNDS AND WITH NON-PERFORMANCE > OF WANTA?S $4.5 TRILLION: HE WAS ARRESTED AFTER SEEING MME ANGELA MERKEL, WHO > WOULD OTHERWISE BE COMPLICIT IN THE $4.5 TRILLION THEFT (WHICH OF COURSE SHE > IS NOT). BUT THAT WAS THE SITUATION. > > ARREST CONFIRMED BY SEVEN SOURCES: KEY U.S. TREASURY OFFICIAL > ORDERED TO GERMANY, SUBJECTED TO A GAG ORDER, AND INSTRUCTED TO TESTIFY > AGAINST HIS OWN U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY. HE HAS BEEN IN GERMANY FOR THE PAST > TWO WEEKS, TESTIFYING BEFORE THE TRIBUNAL, STAFF OF THE U.S. CONSULATE AND > THE GERMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL (EQUIVALENT) ABOUT THE ENDLESSLY FRUSTRATED > ATTEMPTS OF AMBASSADOR WANTA'S CORPORATION, TO OBTAIN RELEASE OF THE FUNDS, > AND ABOUT ALLEGED CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS BY PAULSON, GOLDMAN SACHS AND COMPANY, > ET AL. > > THE U.S. ?MAINSTREAM MEDIA? ARE WITHHOLDING THE BIGGEST SCANDAL > IN WORLD HISTORY FROM THE MUCH-ABUSED AMERICAN PEOPLE. (so what else is > new?-HE) > > By Christopher Story FRSA, Editor and Publisher, International > Currency Review, World Reports Limited, London and New York: > www.worldreports.org. Press CLICK HERE and the ARCHIVE Button on the > www.worldreports.org Home Page for Wanta Crisis reports since April 2006. > Note: Due to NSA/CIA et al interference, some US users may find they can > access worldreports.org directly, without the www. Mostly, > www.worldreports.org provides access to our website at once. > > US Treasury Secretary Paulson has been arrested by German > authorities on a subpoena issued by the International Court of Justice, and > brought before an 'ad hoc' Tribunal accused of money-laundering, > misappropriation/diversion of colossal amounts of money, and > non-payment/non-performance on the $4.5 trillion Wanta Plan Settlement. > > He has been sentenced to severe penalties [see below]. > > Henry M. Paulson's arrest by German authorities implementing the > 'World Court' subpoena, took place on 23rd or 24th of December 2006. > > Although we have been 'sitting on' this intelligence since the > Christmas weekend, pending further information, we now have very high-level > confirmations from both London and Washington, and a total of seven sources > for this intelligence. > > The basic
[cia-drugs] Fw: [GATA] NYTimes: Central banks tiptoeing away from the dollar
- Original Message - From: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:24 PM Subject: [GATA] NYTimes: Central banks tiptoeing away from the dollar NYTimes: Central banks tiptoeing away from the dollar Submitted by cpowell on 04:24PM ET Tuesday, January 2, 2007. Section: Daily Dispatches By Jeremy W. Peters The New York Times Tuesday, January 2, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/business/02cnd-dollar.html Countries with large holdings of dollars in their foreign-exchange reserves are showing a new willingness to dump the dollar in favor of the rising euro. The latest to make a major move is the United Arab Emirates, which joined Russia, Switzerland, Venezuela, and others late last month when it shifted a chunk of its reserves into euros. There have also been ambiguous signals from China about a possible pullback from the dollar, and recent word from Iran, the worldâ?Ts fourth largest oil producer, that it would prefer to be paid in euros rather than the usual dollars for its oil shipments. Still, currency experts say these moves are not likely to do any long-term damage to the dollar, for a number of reasons. First, the central banks that are adding other currencies to their reserves do not appear to be driven by a belief that the euro will eventually supplant the dollar as the worldâ?Ts key currency. Rather, they are doing what investors typically do to minimize risk: diversifying their portfolios. Moreover, the amounts moved so far have been relatively small in a global market that trades trillions of dollars a day -- only about $2 billion in the case of the United Arab Emirates, for example. â?oThere is some indication that central banks are moving to diversify reserves, but itâ?Ts at a very slow pace,â? said David Powell, a currency analyst with IDEAglobal. â?oIs it the start of a massive shift out of the dollar? I would say no.â? Moreover, experts say that the impact of such moves by central banks is generally fleeting at best. â?oMost people think it does not influence exchange rates for any long period of time,â? said Edwin M. Truman, a senior fellow at the Petersen Institute for International Economics, who served for more than two decades as the director of international finance for the Federal Reserve. â?oIt has some day-to-day effects but not any big effects.â? News of the United Arab Emirates' decision contributed to the dollarâ?Ts fall against the euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen last week. For all of 2006, the euro appreciated more than 11 percent against the dollar and the British pound rose nearly 14 percent. But those trends seem to be driven by other forces, including varying prospects for growth around the world and changes in interest rates in the United States and elsewhere. One reason that dollars are not likely to start pouring rapidly out of central bank vaults is that foreign countries risk devaluing their dollar-denominated investments, at least for a while, if they dump the currency. Even a slight suggestion that a central bank is thinking about swapping dollars for euros can push the dollar down in the spot markets, and in turn hurt all foreign investors in American securities. China, which holds more Treasury securities than any other foreign nation except Japan, offers an example. In October, the most recent month for which figures are available from the Treasury Department, China held $345 billion in Treasury securities. That was up from $301 billion a year earlier. Its currency reserves total $1 trillion, about $700 billion of it in dollars, economists estimate. So in many ways, it is in Chinaâ?Ts best interest not to let the dollarâ?Ts value slip. Heavy sales of the dollar could make it harder for the Peopleâ?Ts Bank of China to manage its gradual appreciation of the yuan against the dollar. Anything more abrupt, Beijing fears, would make Chinese goods less competitive in the United States and pose problems domestically for some of its state banks, limiting their ability to borrow. Nonetheless, the rising euro is not something the United States or foreign investors can afford to ignore. â?oYou have to start to thinking that the euro can be of some risk to the dollar,â? said Shaun Osbourne, chief currency strategist at TD Securities in Toronto. â?oOver the course of the next 5 or 10 years, I donâ?Tt think thereâ?Ts any danger that the dollarâ?Ts pre-eminence is threatened. But in the long run, there is certainly the risk that does happen.â? One major issue driving investors away from the dollar is the possibility that interest rates in the United States and Europe may move farther apart next year. The financial markets are currently expecting at least one interest-rate cut by the Federal Reserve sometime next year. That contrasts with predictions of further interest-rate increases by the European Central Bank. B
[cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: Buffet Gives Generously to Greenberg Charity
The 911 Commission was illegitimate if it did not answer in detail how Warren Buffett came to be at Offut AFB on 9/11/2001, instead of WTC the same day. Leads right into anthrax in the offices of the two Democrat leaders on Capitol Hill, Leahy and Daschle, and that larger picture of 911 is all of one operation to coerce us into a war to liberate Russell Opium Trust(ROT) poppies in Afghanistan and sell war toys in Iraq, while making us forget election fraud in 2000. Other starting points for investigation would be mayor of LA, and US attorney general Ashcroft, warned by precisely what chain of people not to fly? Did they fly on private charter planes at all? Follow the people chain to foreknowledge. Vague alerts do not put Buffett at an Air Force base and O'Neill at WTC, not a chance! -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "Eric Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: January 2, 2007 9:21:21 AM PST > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Buffet Gives Generously to Greenberg Charity > > > > > > Folks, I highly recommend swamii.com > > > > * > > > > http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1ad2c2bc-9161-11db- > > b71a-779e2340,_i_rssPage=5aedc804-2f7b-11da-8b51-0e2511c8.html > > > > Greenberg charitable fund could top $20bn > > By Brooke Masters in Washington > > Published: December 22 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2006 > > 02:00 > > > > Hank Greenberg and three other men who helped him build American > > International Group have created what could become one of the world's > > largest charitable foundations with a possible endowment of $20bn. > > > > The new Starr International Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, > > will > > focus on a broad range of international educational, medical and > > cultural causes. It yesterday announced its first grants of $4m to > > Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian > > organisation, and > > $1m to various charities in Switzerland. > > > > The new foundation owns all of the common equity of Starr > > International > > Company, known as SICO, the investment company that Mr Greenberg has > > focused his attention on since 2005, when he was ousted as AIG > > chairman. > > > > SICO, in turn, owns four specialised insurance agencies and more than > > 293m shares in AIG, valued at more than $20bn. However, AIG has > > challenged SICO's control of those shares in a lawsuit that > > contends the > > shares should be controlled by the insurance group and used as > > deferred > > compensation for AIG employees. > > > > If the foundation keeps control of the AIG shares, it will become > > one of > > the largest charitable foundations in the world in terms of assets. > > The > > Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation currently has an endowment of about > > $32bn, although a further $29bn will be passed to the charity over the > > coming years as a result of Warren Buffett donating the bulk of his > > fortune to the foundation in June. > > > > The new foundation intends to be a significant influence on the > > international scene. Sources familiar with the thinking of the > > foundation's leadership said it is open to co-ordinating its > > programmes > > with the efforts of the Gates Foundation and other big donors to > > tackle > > poverty and disease in the less developed world. > > > > Mr Greenberg intends to devote a percentage of SICO's profits to > > the new > > foundation's work and it expects to begin dispensing grants of at > > least > > $10m a year, officials said. > > > > The foundation's board has three members: Mr Greenberg, John > > Whitehead, > > the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs and Otto Saxer, former chief > > executive of Swiss Mobiliar, who will serve as president. > > > > "We are very happy to have the Foundation up and running and to > > support > > through this initiative the provision of the best medical care to > > impoverished communities, particularly in Africa and Asia," Mr Saxer > > said in a statement. Mr Greenberg's spokeswoman said he would not > > comment. The new foundation is distinct from the New York-based Starr > > Foundation, which Mr Greenberg chairs. That foundation, which was > > founded in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, founder of the company that > > became AIG, has $3bn in assets and tends to focus more on US causes. > > > > While the US charity was set up with assets from Mr Starr's estate, > > this > > new foundation is the successor to the Starr International Charitable > > Trust, > > > > Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006 > > > > -- > > http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. > > > > >
[cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: Stratfor Analysis: Israel's Proxy War on Russia
The otherwise obsolete AK47 assault rifle is the world's most reliable suicide weapon, a veritable Shoot Me sign, since it is not accurate at a hundred yards. Putin's best weapon is no weapon, but just to wait for sappers to look bad with Bush and Blair. Pravda predicted in spring of 2003 that US troops would be out-flanked by something like the cell-phone activated roadside bombs which drew blood from Americans, neutralizing the bully image and making it a war. Subsequently US airborne troops donated 380 tons of HMX super-high explosive to a hundred waiting Sunni trucks, and roadside bombs bloodied US troops and made it a war. Then British SAS special forces, who had many years ago taught Mao-Mao Countergang false flag ops to CIA, planted HMX bombs at Shiite mosques, and were caught and exposed in major mainflush print media. Predictably the Shiite majority won elections, took over policing, and Shiite interior police death-squadded Sunnis instead of British SAS troops. Civil war further justified US meddling, extending the window of opportunity for war profiteering by Dick Cheney's Halliburton and Sam Bush's Merchants of Death Bureau. Admittedly the speculative possibility that Barbara Bush may have been conceived by her mother's dalliance with Aleister Crowley must seem less interesting that the certainty that Sam and Prescott Bush conceived Adolf Hitler in the same year of 1924, but torpedoes away, damn the Bismarck. Konrad Adenauer was unable in the 1930's to block Sam and Prescott Bush's puppet Adolf from coming to absolute power in Germany. A few years later their machine placed Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq, and here we are. But it doesn't work. As oligarchy mercenary William Colby used to say,"We always fail". Just wait. Ethiopian proxies now in Somalia, and Israeli proxies in Lebanon in summer of 2006, knew they had to get out, not occupy, or they would be looking like Paul Bremer and Dub with Iraq and Afghanistan and Katrina and Vietnam. "We always fail". Just wait. No hurry. Hold on to deep drilling technology, the best weapon against the Peak Oil scam. It will fail, too, just don't help it too much to fail. A man drove two hundred miles on a cup of water in his gas tank, without centralized distribution of hydrogen by Rockefeller Bush Warco. Let them build hydrogen stations and the truth will cut them off at the knees. We may seem to bleed a lot before then, but less than the other way. "We ALWAYS fail". Thus crimes against nature are folly, Haman's Gallows. But tax the oligarchs, like taxing Al Capone. Oil was $16 a barrel when Putin came in. He would not really want to bust the Peak Oil myth then. And now he needs Venezuela, and Venezuela needs the Peak Oil myth to keep oil near thirty dollars a barrel, below which Venezuela does not supercede Saudi Arabia. Putin had to risk selling off Russian drilling to Israeli oligarchs. Lies are capital, too, right up to the brink of a Dark Age with Bush's nuclear stupidity. We could lose everything. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: January 2, 2007 12:02:36 PM PST > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Stratfor Analysis: Israel's Proxy War on Russia > > > > > > http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=242469 > > > > STRATFOR Analysis > > January 17, 2005 > > > > ... Even Putin's political offensive against Russian oligarchs, > > many of whom are Jews and Israeli citizens, has not spoiled the > > growing ties between Israel and Russia. Though Putin's government > > forced three oligarchs out of the country (Boris Berezovsky, > > Vladimir Gusinsky and Alexander Smolensky) and put the fourth on > > trial (Mikhail Khodorkovsky), a significantly larger number of > > oligarchs with Israeli citizenship continue to enjoy powerful > > business positions in Russia under Putin's patronage. > > > > However, when Israel started tacitly supporting anti-government > > political forces in Russia, Putin and the Russian Security Council > > saw it as a violation of Russia's developing trust in its new > > Israeli friends. Russian intelligence sources say Israel, acting > > through Israeli financiers born in the former Soviet Union (FSU) > > and consulting with Mossad, has given major financial and > > organizational support to anti-government groups in the FSU, mainly > > in Russia and Ukraine. At first Putin tolerated it, sources say, > > but events in Ukraine -- where the support of oligarchs with > > Israeli citizenship seemed to play a major role in the success of > > the anti-Russian "Orange Revolution" -- proved to be too much. > > > > Putin was told, for instance, that several thousand army tents and > > hundreds of portable ovens to warm up demonstrators were paid for > > by Semen Mogilevich, a Jewish Ukrainian > >
[cia-drugs] Hello Fiction Goodbye History
Paying for silver bullets, believing in magic bullets, now you will accept that libraries will store fiction and not history. Paying for silver bullets then traded for heroin to the wrong guy(Hekmatyar vs. Masud, Afghanistan, 1980's), believing in Senator Arlen Specter's JFK Magic Bullet, later called the Pristine Magic Bullet because after it made numerous right angle turns in the air and in flesh it landed on Governor Connolly's gurney at the hospital, without a scratch on it, moving on into dumb down. Are taxpayers paying libraries to stock books for the greater good, the average good, tyranny of the majority, or hierarchical expert librarian Brittany belly-button pointy-toe-shoe points? The answer to those questions will be found in George Mason University economics professor David Levy's Vanity of the Philosopher, which thoroughly documents the continuing evolution of hired gun pseudo scientist public policy Goebbels-Lansdale propagandists and the conspicuous overlap of the oligarchy's hired gun pseudo science with popular prejudice, almost as if the Vanity of the Philosopher could be explained by the mercenary pseudo-scientists' love of being hired by the love of money to use the neuro-linguistic superstitious mind handles of their time, as advertising, while posing as science. Ya think? Goebbels said so, and Lansdale's background was advertising. Used bookstores turn over more fiction than history, but history books cost much more there than fiction. At these Virginia libraries, fiction is more highly valued than history because the library is only using and abusing a pseudo market rhetoric for cover to stiff-arm reporters. And used bookstores will actually pay more for history and scientific books than for fiction, while public librarians pay nothing for books or shelf space. Used bookstores are not subject to the censorship that retail bookstores are, so compare the pseudo market propaganda rhetoric to used bookstore reality rather than to retail bookstore political correction. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100729_pf.html Hello, Grisham -- So Long, Hemingway? With Shelf Space Prized, Fairfax Libraries Cull Collections By Lisa Rein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A01 You can't find "Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings" at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or "The Education of Henry Adams" at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson's "Final Harvest"? Don't look to the Kingstowne branch. It's not that the books are checked out. They're just gone. No one was reading them, so librarians took them off the shelves and dumped them. Along with those classics, thousands of novels and nonfiction works have been eliminated from the Fairfax County collection after a new computer software program showed that no one had checked them out in at least 24 months. Public libraries have always weeded out old or unpopular books to make way for newer titles. But the region's largest library system is taking turnover to a new level. Like Borders and Barnes & Noble, Fairfax is responding aggressively to market preferences, calculating the system's return on its investment by each foot of space on the library shelves -- and figuring out which products will generate the biggest buzz. So books that people actually want are easy to find, but many books that no one is reading are gone -- even if they are classics. "We're being very ruthless," said Sam Clay, director of the 21-branch system since 1982. "A book is not forever. If you have 40 feet of shelf space taken up by books on tulips and you find that only one is checked out, that's a cost." That is the new reality for the Fairfax system and the future for other libraries. As books on tape, DVDs, computers and other electronic equipment crowd into branches, there is less room for plain old books. So librarians are making hard decisions and struggling with a new issue: whether the data-driven library of the future should cater to popular tastes or set a cultural standard, even as the demand for the classics wanes. Library officials say they will always stock Shakespeare's plays, "The Great Gatsby" and other venerable titles. And many of the books pulled from one Fairfax library can be found at another branch and delivered to a patron within a week. But in the effort to stay relevant in an age in which reference materials and novels can be found on the Internet and Oprah's Book Club helps set standards of popularity, libraries are not the cultural repositories they once were. "I think the days of libraries saying, 'We must have that, because it's good for people,' are beyond us," said Leslie Burger, president of the American Library Association and director of Princeton Public Library. "There is a sense in many public libraries that popular materials are what most of our communities desire. Everybody's got a favorite book they're trying to promote." That leaves some books endangered
[cia-drugs] Fwd: George Bush, Grandson of Satan
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 1, 2007 5:49:03 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: George Bush, Grandson of Satan Saturday, April 01, 2006 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/04/george-w-bush-barbara-bush- and.html George W. Bush, Barbara Bush, and Aleister Crowley Few people understand that one of the most notorious individuals in British history may have contributed to the lineage of our current president. Aleister Crowley, a.k.a., "The Great Beast 666" -- the infamous practitioner of "sex magick" whose motto was "Do What Thou Wilt" -- came to know a great many remarkable people, including the maternal grandmother of George W. Bush. "Know," in this case, may be taken in the Biblical sense. Evidence points to the disturbing possibility that he was the true father of Barbara Bush, the former First Lady and mother to George W. Bush. The story may seem difficult to believe at first, until one learns more about the social inter-relations that tied together these unlikely parties. Specifically, we must focus on a fascinating woman named Pauline Pierce, born Pauline Robinson -- whose third child was named Barbara. Most sources divulge little about this woman. We learn more about her husband Marvin Pierce, the president of the McCall Corporation, which published McCall's magazine and Redbook. He married Pauline, a beautiful young socialite, in 1919. Their first child, Martha, was born the next year; the second, James, was born in 1921. At this time, Aleister Crowley inhabited what must have seemed a very different world, as he embarked upon the great communal experiment of the Abbey of Thelema in Italy. Pauline, however, had a hidden side -- what we might call (without intending any judgment or insult) a wild side. We get a whiff of it from this Wikipedia entry: W magazine once described her as "beautiful, fabulous, critical, and meddling" and "a former beauty from Ohio with extravagant tastes"... Rumors that Pauline had an affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower have never been verified... Still, gossip tabloids from the '40s often associated her with prominent men in politics and film. I have not yet been able to acquire independent confirmation of the Eisenhower liaison, although I personally see no reason to doubt that it existed. However, we may well have reason to believe that she began her "experimental" period before the 1940s. A sixth-level initiate within the OTO (the Ordo Templi Orientis, the mystical society that Crowely came to head in the 1920s) first set me down this research path by revealing that Pauline Robinson had befriended an woman named Nellie O'Hara, an American adventuress who, at some point during her European travels, met the famed writer Frank Harris. Despite his advancing years, Harris still maintained a reputation for sexual excess that rivaled Crowley's. During this period (1919-1927), Nellie and Frank Harris lived as man and wife, although they could not actually wed because Harris' second wife was still alive and would not grant a divorce. Harris and Crowley were good friends. Not only that: At this time, and not for the last time, Crowley was very much the proverbial "friend in need." During the Abbey period, a Crowley follower had accidentally died during a magickal ceremony. The incident created a firestorm of unwanted publicity (the sensationalist British press labeled Crowley "The Wickedest Man in the World"), which prompted Mussolini's government to expel Crowley and his followers from Italian soil. By 1924, he lived in poverty in France, where Frank Harris kindly took him under his roof. This arrangement inevitably brought Crowley into contact with Nellie. Crowley's diaries, to which I have been given access, clearly indicate that he depended on Harris for financial assistance: January 3rd 1924 - "No luck about cash yet: but F.H. promises 500 fr to-morrow - so that I can bolt to Paris. One step onward to the Establishment of the Law of Thelema. The money soon ran out, and AC (as his associates called him) soon had to ask his friend for further assistance. At this time, Harris was writing his multi-volume "erotic autobiography," My Life and Loves; he also purchased a newspaper, The Evening Telegram. But he lacked the resources and management skills to make the enterprise a success, and soon found himself in a financial position no better than Crowley's. Despite his parlous economic circumstances, Crowley focused his attention on sex magick. Not many years previously, he and a follower named Jeanne Foster (a.k.a. Soror Hilarion) had conducted a sex-magickal rite designed to give birth to a child destined to carry on Crowley's work. I have not been able to determine whether he conducted similar experiments with Nellie, although given the poly
Re: [cia-drugs] The Zero Files: Shadowy realms of mind control and paranoia, all in the hands of the FBI
Sounds as if the Project Monarch mind controlled people are writing to their handlers in the FBI. norgesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: THE ZERO FILES Shadowy realms of mind control and paranoia, all in the hands of the FBI - Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, November 30, 2003 What I am about to write will sound like a total paranoid fantasy, I had even come to believe that myself and was about to take steps to get an evaluation for myself as I was frightened I was going mad. ... I ask you to help in any way you can. -- From the FBI's Zero Files, 11/19/96-- -- --. They are, in a way, the real-world equivalent of television's "X-Files," the fictional secret collection of FBI cases involving alien abductions and grand conspiracies that kept legions of fans entertained for nearly a decade. But while Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have long since retired to the compost bin of syndication, the FBI's Zero Files thrive in obscurity -- remaining, in their own way, very real. They exist on nondescript shelves deep in the archives of FBI offices in San Francisco and across the nation, within thick file folders tucked anonymously among thousands of manila clones. And until now, when The Chronicle received permission to examine the folders, the Zero Files had never been opened to public review. Most of the folders in the FBI archives contain the details of closed homicide cases and long-solved bank robberies, rarely seen as they await judgment day or the office shredder. But the Zero Files, each marked with a case number containing the digit "0" in its heart, are different -- very different. They are letters, faxes, e-mails and photographs, diagrams and maps, legal papers and photocopies. Some are a single scrap of scribbled paper, others reams of carefully typed explanation, replete with references and footnotes. Some were forwarded to the FBI by courts, police officers or businesses; most were submitted to the bureau by the authors themselves. Each describes a unique delusion, a single person's fantasy committed to paper and recorded for posterity. Conspiracy theories. Claims of paranormal abilities. Celebrity fantasies. To flip through the Zero Files is to peer into a palimpsest of lunacy, a travelogue of realms where the residents wish very much to leave.-- -- -- I had a visit yesterday from two gentlemen who said they were from the SECRET SERVICE! They were looking for the HAMBURGLAR who said the PRESIDENT might choke on a CHEESEBURGER on AIR FORCE ONE! No wonder they can't balance a TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET in DC, they have to check out all the MCDONALDS in AMERICA for the DEADLY CHEESEBURGER that might KILL the PRESIDENT! This is not a JOKE! -- From the Zero Files, 8/15/1995-- -- -- Almost anything can be a Zero File -- the phrase simply refers to items received by the FBI that are "non-actionable," and can include anything from cases handed off to local police to "attaboys" from other agencies. But when agents refer to the Zero Files amongst themselves, and joke about whose turn it is to feed the captive alien, they are almost always referring to a special category of report -- one that almost defies further description.-- -- -- Recently, before these terrorist acts, I made a usual request that you investigate the Necronomicon. I do not know if you took me seriously, as I realize you are still enslaved by the physical realm and refuse to open your mind to this spiritual war that is clearly discussed in Revelations, but in case you did, I wanted to add a little information. -- From the Zero Files, 10/22/2001-- -- -- Nobody within the bureau has an exact count of how many Zero Files the FBI has stashed away across the nation, but the agency's San Francisco office, a midsize bureau, has a database listing 17,000 items stretching back to the 1970s. And the files demand far more from the FBI than mere shelf space. Each Zero File item landed there only after passing across the desk of at least one agent who spent time making sure it did not relate to any active investigation, represent a threat or offer any avenues for future investigation. "A piece of paper was generated for each one of these, and somebody had to review it," said FBI special agent Pete LeFranchise. Most agents come to know repeat writers -- "frequent fliers" -- after a few shifts on the duty desk. A glance through the files shows that some agents found themselves acting as counselors of last resort. "It's almost like being a social worker when you're on the desk," LeFranchise said. "There's probably been at least three or four times . . . where I've just had to say, 'Look, sir, you need to seek clinical or psychiatric help.' "-- -- -- Jensen called resident agency with nonspecific complaints about surveillance and mind control. . . . Someone was communicati
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Stratfor Analysis: Israel's Proxy War on Russia
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 2, 2007 12:02:36 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Stratfor Analysis: Israel's Proxy War on Russia http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/print.php?storyId=242469 STRATFOR Analysis January 17, 2005 ... Even Putin's political offensive against Russian oligarchs, many of whom are Jews and Israeli citizens, has not spoiled the growing ties between Israel and Russia. Though Putin's government forced three oligarchs out of the country (Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky and Alexander Smolensky) and put the fourth on trial (Mikhail Khodorkovsky), a significantly larger number of oligarchs with Israeli citizenship continue to enjoy powerful business positions in Russia under Putin's patronage. However, when Israel started tacitly supporting anti-government political forces in Russia, Putin and the Russian Security Council saw it as a violation of Russia's developing trust in its new Israeli friends. Russian intelligence sources say Israel, acting through Israeli financiers born in the former Soviet Union (FSU) and consulting with Mossad, has given major financial and organizational support to anti-government groups in the FSU, mainly in Russia and Ukraine. At first Putin tolerated it, sources say, but events in Ukraine -- where the support of oligarchs with Israeli citizenship seemed to play a major role in the success of the anti-Russian "Orange Revolution" -- proved to be too much. Putin was told, for instance, that several thousand army tents and hundreds of portable ovens to warm up demonstrators were paid for by Semen Mogilevich, a Jewish Ukrainian oligarch with dual citizenship (Israel and Ukraine) and with strong ties to U.S. and Israeli financial and government circles. Putin's once arch-foe in Russia, Boris Berezovsky, an Israeli citizen enjoying refugee status in Britain, also has contributed organizationally and financially to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Happy with its success, Berezovsky -- who has never hidden his lifetime goal of removing Putin from power -- immediately landed in Kiev after the final round of voting to congratulate pro- West winner Viktor Yushchenko. Moreover, quoting Israeli government sources, Israeli television news reported Jan. 12 that Putin believes the Israeli government knew about funds provided by Israeli financiers to Yushchenko's campaign. Furthermore, according to media reports, sources close to Putin claimed the Israeli government also was backing elements in Russia's opposition movement. Finally, Putin was told by Russian intelligence that with the success of the pro-Western movement in Ukraine, the oligarchs -- Berezovsky, Mogilevich, and others with Israeli citizenships -- already were working with their allies in Israel, Britain and the United States in planning a similar "revolution" in Russia. Putin would be overthrown, and an openly pro-Western regime would be installed that would take good care of the oligarchs and their business interests. ... Sources in the Kremlin say Putin would expect Israel and the United States to stop what the Russian government perceives to be meddling in Russia's internal affairs. While Israel might give some assurance that it will lessen its contacts with Russian Jewish oligarchs, it is unrealistic to expect that oligarchs such as Berezovsky and Gusinsky, viewing Putin as their deadly foe, will stop their anti-Kremlin acvities. Nor would it be feasible to expect that the oligarchs, many of whom are Israeli citizens and investors in Israel's economy, would ever be deprived of Israeli support. It is even less likely that the second Bush administration, apparently set on continuing its geopolitical offensive against a weakened Russia, will change its course. Facing this reality, Putin will have to make a choice: Should he again go for unilateral concessions, which has been a pattern in his relations with the West, or should he finally strike back? Since it would not be a direct political move against the United States but rather against Israel, we expect he might still sanction some arms sales to [Israel's Arab enemies]. This is especially likely, given that Arab and Muslim states are actively courting Russia in hopes of obtaining some political support to offset U.S. policy in the Middle East.
[cia-drugs] The World's Reserve Currency
http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/01/worlds-reserve-currency.html Tuesday, January 2, 2007 The World's Reserve Currency January 1, 2007 By Ron Paul The financial press reported last week that the euro, the new currency created only five years ago and used by most European nations, has supplanted the U.S. dollar as the most widely used form of cash internationally. There are now more Euros in circulation worldwide than dollars. This alone is not necessarily troubling, as the dollar remains the world's most important reserve currency. About 65% of foreign central bank exchange reserves are still held in dollars, versus only about 25% in euros. And the European Central Bank faces the same inflationary pressures that our own Federal Reserve Bank Governors face, including a growing entitlement burden that threatens economic ruin as both societies age. European politicians want to spend money just as badly as American politicians, and undoubtedly will clamor to inflate-- and thus devalue-- the euro to fund their creaky social welfare systems. Still, the rise of the Euro internationally is another sign that the U.S. dollar is not what it used to be. There is increasing pressure on nations to buy and sell oil in euros, and anecdotal evidence suggests that drug dealers and money launderers now prefer euros to dollars. Historically, the underground cash economy has always sought the most stable and valuable paper currency to conduct business. More importantly, our greatest benefactors for the last twenty years-- Asian central banks-- have lost their appetite for holding U.S. dollars. China, Japan, and Asia in general have been happy to hold U.S. debt instruments in recent decades, but they will not prop up our spending habits forever. Foreign central banks understand that American leaders do not have the discipline to maintain a stable currency. When the rest of the world finally abandons the dollar as the global reserve currency, both Congress and American consumers will find borrowing money a more expensive proposition. Remember, America can maintain a large trade deficit only if foreign banks continue to hold large numbers of dollars as their reserve currency. Our entire consumption economy is based on the willingness of foreigners to hold U.S. debt. We face a reordering of the entire world economy if the federal government cannot print, borrow, and spend money at a rate that satisfies its endless appetite for deficit spending. At some point Americans must realize that Congress, and the Federal Reserve system that permits the creation of new money by fiat, are the real culprits in the erosion of your personal savings and buying power. Congress relentlessly spends more than the Treasury collects in taxes each year, which means the U.S. government must either borrow or print money to operate-- both of which cause the value of the dollar to drop. When we borrow a billion dollars every day simply to run the government, and when the Federal Reserve increases the money supply by trillions of dollars in just 15 years, we hardly can expect our dollars to increase in value.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Buffet Gives Generously to Greenberg Charity
Begin forwarded message: From: "Eric Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 2, 2007 9:21:21 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Buffet Gives Generously to Greenberg Charity Folks, I highly recommend swamii.com * http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1ad2c2bc-9161-11db- b71a-779e2340,_i_rssPage=5aedc804-2f7b-11da-8b51-0e2511c8.html Greenberg charitable fund could top $20bn By Brooke Masters in Washington Published: December 22 2006 02:00 | Last updated: December 22 2006 02:00 Hank Greenberg and three other men who helped him build American International Group have created what could become one of the world's largest charitable foundations with a possible endowment of $20bn. The new Starr International Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, will focus on a broad range of international educational, medical and cultural causes. It yesterday announced its first grants of $4m to Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, and $1m to various charities in Switzerland. The new foundation owns all of the common equity of Starr International Company, known as SICO, the investment company that Mr Greenberg has focused his attention on since 2005, when he was ousted as AIG chairman. SICO, in turn, owns four specialised insurance agencies and more than 293m shares in AIG, valued at more than $20bn. However, AIG has challenged SICO's control of those shares in a lawsuit that contends the shares should be controlled by the insurance group and used as deferred compensation for AIG employees. If the foundation keeps control of the AIG shares, it will become one of the largest charitable foundations in the world in terms of assets. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation currently has an endowment of about $32bn, although a further $29bn will be passed to the charity over the coming years as a result of Warren Buffett donating the bulk of his fortune to the foundation in June. The new foundation intends to be a significant influence on the international scene. Sources familiar with the thinking of the foundation's leadership said it is open to co-ordinating its programmes with the efforts of the Gates Foundation and other big donors to tackle poverty and disease in the less developed world. Mr Greenberg intends to devote a percentage of SICO's profits to the new foundation's work and it expects to begin dispensing grants of at least $10m a year, officials said. The foundation's board has three members: Mr Greenberg, John Whitehead, the former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs and Otto Saxer, former chief executive of Swiss Mobiliar, who will serve as president. "We are very happy to have the Foundation up and running and to support through this initiative the provision of the best medical care to impoverished communities, particularly in Africa and Asia," Mr Saxer said in a statement. Mr Greenberg's spokeswoman said he would not comment. The new foundation is distinct from the New York-based Starr Foundation, which Mr Greenberg chairs. That foundation, which was founded in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, founder of the company that became AIG, has $3bn in assets and tends to focus more on US causes. While the US charity was set up with assets from Mr Starr's estate, this new foundation is the successor to the Starr International Charitable Trust, Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2006 -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.
Re: [cia-drugs] EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS
thanks ole, i was wondering about that. with the dollar circling the shitter, i suspected that this article was propaganda. - Original Message - From: Ole Gerstrøm To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS Nope, the cost of living in the EU has not "sky rocketed." Look at the statistics. The EURO is not less popular than it was last year. Ole Gerstrom, Denmark - Original Message - From: Vigilius Haufniensis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS http://www.dallasblog.com/dallas-blogs/2007/1/1/euro-losing-popularity-among-europeans.html EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS While the Euro has gained substantial value against the dollar since its inception five years ago, those living in the euro zone are not particularly satisfied with the results of changing from their own national currencies to a single currency. As reported by the Daily Telegraph, a majority of people in Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and France are unhappy with the Euro. (Although Germany is not mentioned, I know firsthand that many Germans also have complained about the high cost of living since the initiation of the new currency.) As the Telegraph notes, 81% of those surveyed complained that the euro "has led to a rise in prices". The Telegraph describes the increasing internal dissatisfaction with the new currency: "A growing number of Europeans believe that the biggest monetary revolution in history has done more harm than good to national economic growth, the job market and standards of living." While the euro may be good for business, it was apparent to me on a recent trip to Spain that the cost of living in Europe has sky rocketed since the introduction of the euro. That can't be good for the average citizen. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.2/613 - Release Date: 1/1/2007 2:50 PM
[cia-drugs] Fwd: McDonaldization of Law Enforcement -- Rent-a-Cops Being Given Police Powers
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 2, 2007 9:33:20 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: McDonaldization of Law Enforcement -- Rent-a-Cops Being Given Police Powers The Private Arm of the Law Some Question the Granting of Police Power to Security Firms By Amy Goldstein Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 2, 2007; A04 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/ AR2007010100665.html RALEIGH, N.C. -- Kevin Watt crouched down to search the rusted Cadillac he had stopped for cruising the parking lot of a Raleigh apartment complex with a broken light. He pulled out two open Bud Light cans, an empty Corona bottle, rolling papers, a knife, a hammer, a stereo speaker, and a car radio with wires sprouting out. "Who's this belong to, man?" Watt asked the six young Latino men he had frisked and lined up behind the car. Five were too young to drink. None had a driver's license. One had under his hooded sweat shirt the tattoo of a Hispanic gang across his back. A gang initiation, Watt thought. With the sleeve patch on his black shirt, the 9mm gun on his hip and the blue light on his patrol car, he looked like an ordinary police officer as he stopped the car on a Friday night last month. Watt works, though, for a business called Capitol Special Police. It is one of dozens of private security companies given police powers by the state of North Carolina -- and part of a pattern across the United States in which public safety is shifting into private hands. Private firms with outright police powers have been proliferating in some places -- and trying to expand their terrain. The "company police agencies," as businesses such as Capitol Special Police are called here, are lobbying the state legislature to broaden their jurisdiction, currently limited to the private property of those who hire them, to adjacent streets. Elsewhere -- including wealthy gated communities in South Florida and the Tri-Rail commuter trains between Miami and West Palm Beach -- private security patrols without police authority carry weapons, sometimes dress like SWAT teams and make citizen's arrests. Private security guards have outnumbered police officers since the 1980s, predating the heightened concern about security brought on by the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. What is new is that police forces, including the Durham Police Department here in North Carolina's Research Triangle, are increasingly turning to private companies for help. Moreover, private-sector security is expanding into spheres -- complex criminal investigations and patrols of downtown districts and residential neighborhoods -- that used to be the province of law enforcement agencies alone. The more than 1 million contract security officers, and an equal number of guards estimated to work directly for U.S. corporations, dwarf the nearly 700,000 sworn law enforcement officers in the United States. The enormous Wackenhut Corp. guards the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia and screens visitors to the Statue of Liberty. "You can see the public police becoming like the public health system," said Thomas M. Seamon, a former deputy police commissioner for Philadelphia who is president of Hallcrest Systems Inc., a leading security consultant. "It's basically, the government provides a certain base level. If you want more than that, you pay for it yourself." The trend is triggering debate over whether the privatization of public safety is wise. Some police and many security officials say communities benefit from the extra eyes and ears. Yet civil libertarians, academics, tenants rights organizations and even a trade group that represents the nation's large security firms say some private security officers are not adequately trained or regulated. Ten states in the South and West do not regulate them at all. Some warn, too, that the constitutional safeguards that cover police questioning and searches do not apply in the private sector. In Boston, tenants groups have complained that "special police," hired by property managers to keep low-income apartment complexes orderly, were overstepping their bounds, arresting young men who lived there for trespassing. In 2005, three of the private officers were charged with assault after they approached a man talking on a cellphone outside his front door. They asked for identification and, when he refused, followed him inside and beat him in front of his wife and three children. Lisa Thurau-Gray, director of the Juvenile Justice Center at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, said private police "are focusing on the priority of their employer, rather than the priority of public safety and individual rights." But Boston police Sgt. Raymond Mosher, who oversees licensing of special police, says
[cia-drugs] [IN REVIEW] Jan. 1,'07, Apathy & Ignorance. (update)
Howdy, You heard about the old boy that was asked about the apathy and ignorance of most folks. He said, "I don't know and I don't care." Then there is the mature man that was told what a wonderful farm the good Lord had given him with orchards, gardens, deep well and rock house. Shaking his head, he replied, "You should have seen the place when the Lord had it to himself." Most believe we have the right to our opinions, I would argue that it is more important that our opinions be right. . As a nation, we have drifted very far from the principles upon which our country was founded. I doubt that Washington and Jefferson would even recognize what their posterity has done to what was once a constitutional republic. I am old enough to say that I don't even recognize my country anymore. We don't deserve God's protective hand, that is for sure. However, as God would have spared Sodom for the sake of ten righteous souls, I am praying that there are yet enough truly righteous men and women in these United States that God will be pleased to spare us. Pastor Chuck Baldwin Stop Blaming Theology For Your Apathy I know dispensationalists who will excuse their apathy by saying, "It's the last days, and there is nothing we can do about it." Or, "This is just prophecy being fulfilled; we can't stop it." http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin336.htm Maybe... The Best 911 Explanation Available Well, the end game was this: Flight 93 was to land on the Whitehouse. You see, under US law at the time, if that happened, it would be martial law in the US and under those conditions, the entire 911 plot could have been completely tidied up, all the evidence buried. http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41818&Disp=0#C0 http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=107154;title=APFN Pilots for 9/11 Truth We are focused on determining the truth of that fateful day since the United States Government doesn't seem to be very forthcoming with answers. We stand with the Scholars and Veterans for Truth along side family members of the victims. http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/ VIDEO: Bush Knew 9/11 Was Coming It's been categorically proven that the Bush Administration knew 9/11 was coming. They knew the exact date, the exact place, and the exact means, and still, even while it was in progress, did nothing to stop it. During and after 9/11, they told the public that the reason they took no action to halt the attacks or warn the people in tower 2 was that they were caught by surprise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXV73jFtTVk&NR VIDEO: Evidence Showing US Government Complicity in the 911 Attack This is a ten-minute clip from the new public domain documentary "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime". You can watch the whole thing at Google Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iswVPEZvFZM&mode=related&search VIDEO: Evidence that the U.S. Government Planned & Executed 9/11 Great set of interviews that outline the overwhelming evidence that 9/11 was an inside job. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzQfa_V1jw About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal Interviews with active-duty soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who have signed the Appeal for Redress reveal an array of motivations. http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41703 Appeal for Redress From the War in Iraq As a patriotic American proud to serve the nation in uniform, I respectfully urge my political leaders in Congress to support the prompt withdrawal of all American military forces and bases from Iraq. Staying in Iraq will not work and is not worth the price. It is time for U.S. troops to come home. http://www.appealforredress.org/php/appeal.php VIDEO: Daily Show on Bush's "We're Not Winning, We're Not Loosing" Jon Stewart tracks Bush's clear and consistent message on Iraq and throws in a Tony "I Don't Know" Snow instant classic for good measure. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/12/21/daily-show-on-bushs-were-not-winning-were-not-losing/ Iraq's Death Squads: An Instrument Of The Occupation The U.S. did not invade Iraq to establish "democracy" and "free Iraqis". The U.S. invaded and destroyed Iraq in order to humiliate and divide Muslims - Arabs in particular -, protect Israel's Zionist expansion and control Iraq's natural wealth. So, the U.S.-imposed democracy by force is fraud. 'Democracy is like a plant; it grows from bottom up, not from top down'. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=HAS20061207&articleId=4071 Video: Scarborough Sees The Light--"Bush is delusional" Scarborough has made a definite turn-around on Bush over the past year, but it hasn't been as evident as it was on Wednesday's Scarborough Country. Navy Vet Says He Was Tortured By U.S. Forces The 29-year-old Navy veteran was held at Camp Cropper, the United States military's maximum security detention site in Baghdad. To this day, Vance has no idea why the U
Re: [cia-drugs] EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS
Nope, the cost of living in the EU has not "sky rocketed." Look at the statistics. The EURO is not less popular than it was last year. Ole Gerstrom, Denmark - Original Message - From: Vigilius Haufniensis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 10:41 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS http://www.dallasblog.com/dallas-blogs/2007/1/1/euro-losing-popularity-among-europeans.html EURO LOSING POPULARITY AMONG EUROPEANS While the Euro has gained substantial value against the dollar since its inception five years ago, those living in the euro zone are not particularly satisfied with the results of changing from their own national currencies to a single currency. As reported by the Daily Telegraph, a majority of people in Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, and France are unhappy with the Euro. (Although Germany is not mentioned, I know firsthand that many Germans also have complained about the high cost of living since the initiation of the new currency.) As the Telegraph notes, 81% of those surveyed complained that the euro "has led to a rise in prices". The Telegraph describes the increasing internal dissatisfaction with the new currency: "A growing number of Europeans believe that the biggest monetary revolution in history has done more harm than good to national economic growth, the job market and standards of living." While the euro may be good for business, it was apparent to me on a recent trip to Spain that the cost of living in Europe has sky rocketed since the introduction of the euro. That can't be good for the average citizen.
[cia-drugs] Re: LET'S BE CLEAR: "SURGE" MEANS "TROOP INCREASE"
This is from the internet. Quite obserant I would say. We mus watch the language used in tryinf to fool us into something that really not many people want. this rings true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: LET'S BE CLEAR: "SURGE" MEANS "TROOP INCREASE" Posted by: "John Stroebel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnniewyoming Tue Jan 2, 2007 12:53 am (PST) PSand the word is *"KIDNAPPING" * *NOT **"EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION"* *(but man, it sure feels better on the ears, don't it?) * On 1/2/07, John Stroebel wrote: > > Please, don't let yourself be lulled into complacency or acceptance by > clever language. > > > "SURGE" is a word that some group of people, sitting around a table, came > up with. It was chosen because it was the least offensive, least > descriptive, softest word they could come up with to describe sending 40,000 > to 50,000 more troops to die maimed or have their legs blown off in Iraq. > That is, while adding to the 650,000 civilians we already either helped or > allowed to die. > > "SURGE" was a word that, it decided, you would swallow most readily, > without thinking much. > > You were measured and found to be both ignorant enough and worn out enough > to fall for this new term, hoping you would simply look past it and not > think on it much. When you heard "SURGE" and did nothing, you accepted that > we would now see troop increases. We USED to call it "escalating the war" > back during Vietnam. > > You are being played like a fish folks, considered idiots, children who > can be lead by specific language. > > This control of thought through language is nothing new. The Germans and > Japanese knew it very well. Back then, it was called "propaganda" . Karl Rove > is an expert. > > The truth is, this "SURGE" is bad news for EVERYONE, except the companies > and corporate heads/stockholders who have invested in the materials of war, > Carlyle group, Halliburten and of course the company making cardboard > coffins. Oh, let's not forget the air freight haulers who bring those > cardboard coffins home in the bellies of their cargo holds. > > "SURGE". Wake up folks, you are being played like a violin. > > If you are interested in a good investment, look into six foot American > flags and cardboard coffins. > > > -- > * * * * > "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of > men" > - Abe Lincoln > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[cia-drugs] Re: LET'S BE CLEAR: "SURGE" MEANS "TROOP INCREASE"
This is from the internet. Quite obserant I would say. We mus watch the language used in tryinf to fool us into something that really not many people want. this rings true. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: LET'S BE CLEAR: "SURGE" MEANS "TROOP INCREASE" Posted by: "John Stroebel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] johnniewyoming Tue Jan 2, 2007 12:53 am (PST) PSand the word is *"KIDNAPPING" * *NOT **"EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION"* *(but man, it sure feels better on the ears, don't it?) * On 1/2/07, John Stroebel wrote: > > Please, don't let yourself be lulled into complacency or acceptance by > clever language. > > > "SURGE" is a word that some group of people, sitting around a table, came > up with. It was chosen because it was the least offensive, least > descriptive, softest word they could come up with to describe sending 40,000 > to 50,000 more troops to die maimed or have their legs blown off in Iraq. > That is, while adding to the 650,000 civilians we already either helped or > allowed to die. > > "SURGE" was a word that, it decided, you would swallow most readily, > without thinking much. > > You were measured and found to be both ignorant enough and worn out enough > to fall for this new term, hoping you would simply look past it and not > think on it much. When you heard "SURGE" and did nothing, you accepted that > we would now see troop increases. We USED to call it "escalating the war" > back during Vietnam. > > You are being played like a fish folks, considered idiots, children who > can be lead by specific language. > > This control of thought through language is nothing new. The Germans and > Japanese knew it very well. Back then, it was called "propaganda" . Karl Rove > is an expert. > > The truth is, this "SURGE" is bad news for EVERYONE, except the companies > and corporate heads/stockholders who have invested in the materials of war, > Carlyle group, Halliburten and of course the company making cardboard > coffins. Oh, let's not forget the air freight haulers who bring those > cardboard coffins home in the bellies of their cargo holds. > > "SURGE". Wake up folks, you are being played like a violin. > > If you are interested in a good investment, look into six foot American > flags and cardboard coffins. > > > -- > * * * * > "To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of > men" > - Abe Lincoln > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[cia-drugs] Re: 9/11 and New Orleans: Ominous Parallels
Another parallel is that not investigating who left the MR-GO lock gate open so the storm surge could innundate New Orleans is on the order of not investigating what the captain of Exxon Valdez supertanker was doing when it ran aground and broke up. But Exxon Valdez WAS investigated, and slight penalties assessed. And another parallel, Army Corps of Engineers is one entity responsible for investigating and at least reporting out the environmental impact of asbestos and such in New York following 911. And whether the MR-GO canal should be closed or the gatekeeper just walked off the plank in blue water. -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" > wrote: > > > > > The storm surge came up the GO canal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > > > surge that came back around to the levee which failed MAY also have > > > been increased by that coming up the GO canal? At any rate half the > > > flooding, maybe more, came up the GO canal due to the gate being > > > intentionally left open, against all logic and precedent and formal > > > procedure. Two areas of New Orleans flooded, the white and the black > > > poor people's ares. The surge coming around from the back flooded the > > > black people's Lower Ninth Ward, and the GO canal aimed straight at > > > the white people's and a lot of cops' neighborhood with a french name, > > > was that Plaquemines Parish? -Bob > > > > > > VMANN: shortly after the supreme court gave its ruling allowing > private > > property to be seized via eminent domain and sold to developers. > > vigilius haufniensis > > > > I saw a TV documentary on other cities' deployment of that Supreme > Court decision. Police look the other way for years as drug dealers > attract addicts who finance their habits by crime, insiders buy up > real estate cheap, city government declares a blight zone, arbitrary > rules define existing housing as somehow wrong, home owners are > bypassed by hierarchical decision-making by divinas Darwinus turbo, > homes and businesses are condemned via eminent domain and demolished, > developers raise property values and taxes rise, squeezing out more > home-owners from affordable housing gone unaffordable. Another round > of gentrification. > > Oh, then the police arrest all the fifty year old heroin dealers that > the police and media have been saying don't exist for thirty years > while they partnered in devaluing real estate. > > -Bob >
[cia-drugs] Re: 9/11 and New Orleans: Ominous Parallels
eminent domain video-- http://www.allforthetaking.org/?cat=31 http://www.berkeleymedia.com/films/all_for_the_taking_21stcentury_urban_renewal --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" > wrote: > > > > > The storm surge came up the GO canal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the > > > surge that came back around to the levee which failed MAY also have > > > been increased by that coming up the GO canal? At any rate half the > > > flooding, maybe more, came up the GO canal due to the gate being > > > intentionally left open, against all logic and precedent and formal > > > procedure. Two areas of New Orleans flooded, the white and the black > > > poor people's ares. The surge coming around from the back flooded the > > > black people's Lower Ninth Ward, and the GO canal aimed straight at > > > the white people's and a lot of cops' neighborhood with a french name, > > > was that Plaquemines Parish? -Bob > > > > > > VMANN: shortly after the supreme court gave its ruling allowing > private > > property to be seized via eminent domain and sold to developers. > > vigilius haufniensis > > > > I saw a TV documentary on other cities' deployment of that Supreme > Court decision. Police look the other way for years as drug dealers > attract addicts who finance their habits by crime, insiders buy up > real estate cheap, city government declares a blight zone, arbitrary > rules define existing housing as somehow wrong, home owners are > bypassed by hierarchical decision-making by divinas Darwinus turbo, > homes and businesses are condemned via eminent domain and demolished, > developers raise property values and taxes rise, squeezing out more > home-owners from affordable housing gone unaffordable. Another round > of gentrification. > > Oh, then the police arrest all the fifty year old heroin dealers that > the police and media have been saying don't exist for thirty years > while they partnered in devaluing real estate. > > -Bob >
[cia-drugs] HAARP video
fifty minutes http://www.mercola.com/2007/jan/2/angels-dont-play-this-haarp.htm
