[cia-drugs] The four days that shook the world
THE FOUR DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD By Joan Veon February 4, 2007 The most recent market turmoil has been called by some, “The Four Days that Shook the World.” Literally that is no exaggeration. But it is not the whole story. Some have called the world “flat” because all of the political, economic, trade, legal, military, and intelligence barriers have been torn down. Some call it “interdependence” while others term the fall of the old barriers separating nation-states as “globalization.” In the 25 years that I have spent in the investment world, I have studied trends, market moves, and have been, above all, a witness to the emergence of a global stock market which supports a world governmental structure. Up until 1980 when President Jimmy Carter passed the Monetary De-Regulation Act, Americans were not allowed to invest outside of the United States. About the time the U.S. passed this regulation, a number of other countries that were Group of Seven members, passed similar legislation, thus beginning the integration of markets, finances, economies, and business. As a result of the barriers falling between nation-states and pro-global investment measures, a world market has been birthed. This world market is now supported by free trade, further changes in country laws to accommodate new regulations and oversight between countries. A new system has emerged: global accounting, global corporate taxation, the ability of foreign companies to list on American exchanges through the “American Depository Receipt”-ADR system, new ways of trading such as converting to dollars and cents instead of percentages, new electronic systems, and new types of investments. This global market is in the process of being under-girded by a global stock exchange. In the past seven years, many of the world’s various stock exchanges have converted from being privately owned to being listed companies. Within the last few years, the New York Stock Exchange-NYX, the NASDAQ-NDAQ, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange-CME, the Chicago Board of Trade-CBOT have all gone public. The NYX is in the process of buying Europe’s stock exchange, the Euronext. The NDAQ has acquired over 25% interest in the London Stock Exchange but has not been successful in buying it and the Japanese are interested in American tie-ups. All of this signals a changing world. A number of years ago the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation created stock exchanges in many third world countries such as Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, Korea, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, etc. Interestingly, in order for those countries to have companies to list on their exchanges, they were encouraged to privatize state assets and list them on their newly created exchanges. The World Bank helped out by buying 25% of whatever asset they sold and listed on the new exchange. China has been the darling of investors for the last 18 years or so. Many people have been instrumental in helping to transition China from a closed economic system to a capitalistic one. Here in America we are fully aware of the American firms that have gone to China in order to “stay competitive” by employing slave labor over American workers. We are told this is to help them increase their profits for their shareholders. Imagine that. At the heart of the capitalistic system is the destruction of the old American capitalistic system which is now too expensive. Furthermore, the architects of the global markets have created “market-based democracy” which means every conceivable asset that could be put into the market is there: automobile and credit card debt, mortgages, all kinds of derivatives, futures and options, stocks from every kind of privatized asset: water companies, electric companies, toll roads, etc. In a globalized world, it is possible for those with the most money to control key assets in every country that were formerly government assets. You know, “He who controls the most stock, bonds, currency, mortgages, controls the world.” In the years that I have studied the various market moves, I have never been bored as I have tried to keep up with the “why’s” of what the market was doing and what it meant for investors. Every time I think I understand the market, I find that I don’t. This is because the market by its very nature is dynamic and it is constantly changing as a result of new investment products, new companies, new markets, and new buyers. In an open market, no one can control the ability of those with means to take advantage of everyone else, regardless of the hardship created. Still, there are other reasons that are mystical in nature which no one talks about. What I have figured out is that when the barriers between the countries came down between the nation-states, that it created a LEVEL playing field for those with great economic power. The Rockefellers, Rothschilds, JP Morgans, Schiffs, and those of their magnitude,
[cia-drugs] Homeland Security revives supersnoop
Homeland Security revives supersnoop By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published March 8, 2007 Homeland Security officials are testing a supersnoop computer system that sifts through personal information on U.S. citizens to detect possible terrorist attacks, prompting concerns from lawmakers who have called for investigations. The system uses the same data-mining process that was developed by the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) project that was banned by Congress in 2003 because of vast privacy violations. A Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigation of the project called ADVISE -- Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement -- was requested by Rep. David R. Obey, Wisconsin Democrat and chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The investigation focuses on whether the program violates privacy laws, and the findings will be released after completion of the Iraq war supplemental spending bill, possibly as early as this week, a panel aide said. The ADVISE and TIA data-mining projects rely on personal data to track individual behavior and consumer transactions to develop computer algorithms that create a pattern that some behavioral scientists say can predict terrorist behavior. Data can include credit-card purchases, telephone or Internet details, medical records, travel and banking information. Privacy concerns prompted lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to introduce legislation in January to require that government agencies disclose data-mining practices in regular reports to Congress. A serious discussion on the implications of data-mining programs is long overdue, Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat and a sponsor of the bill, said yesterday. Sen. John E. Sununu, New Hampshire Republican, is also a bill sponsor. Many Americans are understandably concerned about the idea of secret government programs analyzing their personal information. Congress needs to know more about the operational aspects and privacy implications of data-mining programs before these programs are allowed to go forward, Mr. Feingold said. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security did not return a call for comment. Congress also tucked language inside Homeland Security's spending bill in September requiring an investigation by the agency's inspector general, but allowed $40 million in funding to go forward in this year's budget. The ADVISE program is designed to extract relationships and correlations from large amounts of data to produce actionable intelligence on terrorists, the spending bill said. A prototype is currently available to analysts in Intelligence and Analysis using departmental and other data, including some on U.S. citizens. According to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report in March 2003, TIA planned to use data mining technologies to sift through personal transactions in electronic data to find patterns and associations connected to terrorist threats and activities. Recent increased awareness about the existence of the TIA project provoked expressions of concern about the potential for the invasion of privacy of law-abiding citizens by the government, and about the direction of the project by John Poindexter, a central figure in the Iran-Contra affair, the CRS report said. While the law enforcement and intelligence communities argue that more sophisticated information gathering techniques are essential to combat today's sophisticated terrorists, civil libertarians worry that the government's increased capability to assemble information will result in increased and unchecked government power, and the erosion of individual privacy, the report said. ADVISE was initiated in 2003 following the demise of the TIA project. The new system includes data-mining tools to digest massive quantities of information from many different sources to find hidden relationships in the data, according to a 2004 report by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on a Homeland Security workshop that outlined this and other technology under development. The technology is expected to analyze more than 3 million relationships or connections per hour, says the report, which included an example of how friends, family members, locations and workplaces can be linked by pinging the data. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070308-124323-4382r.htm
[cia-drugs] Sean Morton is Getting it Right!!!
Sean Morton predicted in 2006 that Cheney would be replaced!!! It looks like the Setup is happening now!!! Cheney is too corupt!!! This is probably a cover story about his health problems and etc. and etc.!!! Sean Morton predicted that for the 2008 Elections, he sees Jeb Bush running against Hiliary Clinton!!! This makes sense because the 2 most powerful Political Machines out there are the Bush Family and the Clintons!!! That means the Bush family is not just going to roll over and let some other Republican just take over!!! Sean Morton was saying MAYBE, (this is based on speculation not Remote Viewing), that with the removal of Cheney, Jeb Bush might be put in as the Vice President!!! This will give him alot of Coverage and etc. and etc.!!! Don't forget, Jeb Bush is a Catholic!!! And he is married to a Hispanic lady!!! George
Re: [cia-drugs] HEART LIST HATES POT
Fuck! Go get a second opinion. We have 1,000's of quacks from the most respected schools in the world saying this bullshit. Do you remember the CIA passing out leaflets saying cannabis was deadly? Harvard doctors are why people all over the country are dropping dead because cannabis is illegal. Use some common sense. Re-read your letter. And don't play football if you have a bad heart and smoke cannabis. kaylee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received the following from a patient on a heart bypass list I'm on in response to my use of cannabis following heart surgery. Are there any valid argument to be made? Wasn't there a study showing smoking marijuana shortly after a stroke resulted in less damage? Wasn't there a heart study done recently on the effect of cannabis on the heart? I am really at a loss as to how to respond except that I'd rather risk my heart than to live in the kind of depression I used to have. Quality instead of quantity thing, but if there is any defense on the heart issue, I'd like to share it with the group who are totally uneducated on the subject (they are also a bunch of old folks who apparently hearing all the discussion). Thank you for your help. Kay Lee I saw my cardiologist recently and mentioned your position on cannabis. Wanted the opinion of a Harvard Medical School Graduate, a former co-chair of the American Heart Association's Women and Heart Disease committee and a frequently published author and lecturer. This is what I found out: Anyone who smokes cannabis, even those that are doing it for pain, are taking an additional health risk in that it will increase the heart rate about 45% on average in the first hour after smoking. Thus a normal heart rate of 70 may increase to about 100. This increases labor and thus oxygen demand (or oxygen need) on the heart muscle. If your heart is already fighting CAD depriving it of additional oxygen it could have serious consequences. So some heart patients it may do nothing to and for others it could be quite risky. So, why take the risk? It would be like taking up cigarettes, eating fatty foods and sitting on the couch and hoping that by taking a risk nothing will happen again. A diagnosed CAD patient must do everything that will help them fight the disease. Most people with heart issues concentrate on how hard their heart needs to work and how much oxygen is getting to it. They won't take risks since they want their bypasses to last as long as possible and so they don't have to undergo the painful surgery again. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001 - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games.
[cia-drugs] ADVANCE IN UTAH: Marijuana Odor Insufficient for Warrantless Search
Marijuana Odor Insufficient for Warrantless Search http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_5397956 Posted by CN Staff on March 09, 2007 at 11:45:52 PT By Pamela Manson, The Salt Lake Tribune Source: Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com Utah -- The odor of burning marijuana is insufficient to allow police to enter a residence without a warrant, the Utah Supreme Court ruled Friday. In a 4-1 decision, the court said only a limited number of circumstances create an exception to the warrant requirement, such as preventing the imminent destruction of evidence. Smelling pot is not one of them, the ruling says. The aroma of marijuana must be accompanied by some evidence that the suspects are disposing of the evidence, as opposed to casually consuming it, Justice Ronald Nehring wrote for the majority. Associate Chief Justice Michael Wilkins dissented, saying that detecting the odor of marijuana can at times justify police entry into a home without a warrant. In a case where illegal drugs are being burned out of sight but not out of smell, and where the quantity of drugs is unknown to the officers, a presumption that the drugs are being destroyed rather than merely consumed is not unreasonable, Wilkins wrote. The decision stems from the case of Bernadette Duran, who was charged in 7th District Court in Price with three drug counts and one count of possession of a dangerous weapon. A trial judge denied Duran's motion to throw out evidence but the Utah Court of Appeals reversed, saying the police officers were not justified in entering the residence. The case then went to the Supreme Court, which upheld the Court of Appeals decision. According to court documents, police were called to a trailer in April 2003 by the brother and mother of the tenant. The two reported that people inside the trailer, which was located on the mother's property, were smoking marijuana while the tenant was away. They also said the tenant kept guns there. Officers later testified they could smell the faint but unmistakable odor of marijuana leakin' out of the cracks of the trailer and decided the occupants were smoking up the evidence. They entered and allegedly found controlled substances, several firearms and three people, including Duran. Complete Title: Court: Marijuana Odor Insufficient for Warrantless Search Burning pot smell does not justify police entry 03/10/07The odor of burning marijuana isn't enough...exception for getting a...aroma of marijuana must be accompanied...detecting the odor of marijuana can at times...unmistakable odor of marijuana leakin' out... open in new window | similar resultsBy Pamela Manson The Salt Lake Tribune
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[cia-drugs] Global Realignment and the Decline of the Superpower
http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/03/global-realignment-and-decline-of.html Saturday, March 10, 2007 Global Realignment and the Decline of the Superpower March 10, 2007 By Mike Whitney The United States has been defeated in Iraq. That doesn't mean that there'll be a troop withdrawal anytime soon, but it does mean that there's no chance of achieving the mission's political objectives. Iraq will not be a democracy, reconstruction will be minimal, and the security situation will continue to deteriorate into the foreseeable future. The real goals of the invasion are equally unachievable. While the US has established a number of military bases at the heart of the world's energy-center; oil output has dwindled to 1.6 million barrels per day, nearly half of post-war production. More importantly, the administration has no clear strategy for protecting pipelines, oil tankers and major facilities. Oil production will be spotty for years to come even if security improves. This will have grave effects on oil futures; triggering erratic spikes in prices and roiling the world energy markets. If the contagion spreads to the other Gulf States, as many political analysts now expect, many of the world's oil-dependent countries will go through an agonizing cycle of recession/depression. America's failure in Iraq is not merely a defeat for the Bush administration. It is also a defeat for the unipolar-model of world order. Iraq proves that that the superpower model cannot provide the stability, security or guarantee of human rights that are essential for garnering the support of the 6 billion people who now occupy the planet. The mushrooming of armed groups in Iraq, Afghanistan and, now, Somalia foreshadows a broader and more violent confrontation between the over-stretched American legions and their increasingly adaptable and lethal enemies. Resistance to the imperial order is on the rise everywhere. The United States does not have the resources or the public support to prevail in such a conflict. Nor does it have the moral authority to persuade the world of the merit of its cause. The Bush administration's extra-legal actions have galvanized the majority of people against the United States. America has become a threat to the very human rights and civil liberties with which it used to be identified. There's little popular support for imprisoning enemies without charges, for torturing suspects with impunity, for kidnapping people off the streets of foreign capitals, or for invading unarmed sovereign nations without the approval of the United Nations. These are fundamental violations to international law as well as commonly held principles of human decency. The Bush administration defends its illegal activities as an essential part of the new world order; a model of global governance which allows Washington to police the world according to its own discretion. The vast majority of people have rejected this model and polls clearly indicate declining support for US policies nearly everywhere. As former Jimmy Carter National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski noted: American power may be greater in 2006 than in 1991, (but) the country's capacity to mobilize, inspire, point in a shared direction and thus shape global realities has significantly declined. Fifteen years after its coronation as global leader, America is becoming a fearful and lonely democracy in a politically antagonistic world. The United States is a nation in a state of irreversible decline; its foundational principles have been abandoned and its center of political power is a moral swamp. The Bush presidency represents the ethical low point in American history. The U.S. now faces a decades-long struggle which will engulf the Middle East and Central Asia leading to the steady and predictable erosion of America's military, political and economic power. This is not the new century that Bush and his fellows envisioned. There are still dead-enders within the Bush administration who believe that we are winning the war. Vice President Dick Cheney has celebrated the enormous success of the Iraqi occupation, but he finds himself increasingly isolated in his views. Reasonable people agree that the war has been a strategic and moral catastrophe. The US has paid a heavy price for its recklessness; losing over 3,000 servicemen while seriously undermining its standing in the world. A small cadre of Iraqi guerillas has demonstrated that it can frustrate the efforts of best-equipped, best-trained, high-tech military in the world. They have made Iraq an ungovernable quagmire which, by the standards of asymmetrical warfare, is the very definition of success. But what if Bush's plans had succeeded? What if his dark vision of victory had been realized and the US was able to subjugate the Iraqi people, control their resources, and create an Arab façade through which the administration could carry out its
Re: [cia-drugs] HEART LIST HATES POT
Raising your static heart rate is call exercise and is prescribed by all Dr as a good way to extend your life by providing more O2 not less to the internal organs including the heart. Yes smoking pot and excercise combined are not the best combination as you will find out if you ever compete stoned. If you are having open heart surgery you will not die from the pot, but you might die from the Dr. and the medication he prescribes. james Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fuck! Go get a second opinion. We have 1,000's of quacks from the most respected schools in the world saying this bullshit. Do you remember the CIA passing out leaflets saying cannabis was deadly? Harvard doctors are why people all over the country are dropping dead because cannabis is illegal. Use some common sense. Re-read your letter. And don't play football if you have a bad heart and smoke cannabis. kaylee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I received the following from a patient on a heart bypass list I'm on in response to my use of cannabis following heart surgery. Are there any valid argument to be made? Wasn't there a study showing smoking marijuana shortly after a stroke resulted in less damage? Wasn't there a heart study done recently on the effect of cannabis on the heart? I am really at a loss as to how to respond except that I'd rather risk my heart than to live in the kind of depression I used to have. Quality instead of quantity thing, but if there is any defense on the heart issue, I'd like to share it with the group who are totally uneducated on the subject (they are also a bunch of old folks who apparently hearing all the discussion). Thank you for your help. Kay Lee I saw my cardiologist recently and mentioned your position on cannabis. Wanted the opinion of a Harvard Medical School Graduate, a former co-chair of the American Heart Association's Women and Heart Disease committee and a frequently published author and lecturer. This is what I found out: Anyone who smokes cannabis, even those that are doing it for pain, are taking an additional health risk in that it will increase the heart rate about 45% on average in the first hour after smoking. Thus a normal heart rate of 70 may increase to about 100. This increases labor and thus oxygen demand (or oxygen need) on the heart muscle. If your heart is already fighting CAD depriving it of additional oxygen it could have serious consequences. So some heart patients it may do nothing to and for others it could be quite risky. So, why take the risk? It would be like taking up cigarettes, eating fatty foods and sitting on the couch and hoping that by taking a risk nothing will happen again. A diagnosed CAD patient must do everything that will help them fight the disease. Most people with heart issues concentrate on how hard their heart needs to work and how much oxygen is getting to it. They won't take risks since they want their bypasses to last as long as possible and so they don't have to undergo the painful surgery again. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001 - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. - Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.
