[cia-drugs] Plunge Protection Team Now in Hyperactive, Preemptive Mode
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=14898 May Wednesday 23 2007 (21h20) : Plunge Protection Team Now in Hyperactive, Preemptive Mode The market is the place set apart where men may deceive each other. Anacharsis How odd it is that over the past 20 years Deconstructionists and lingusitic experts have rendered much of philosophy - other than analytical variations - impotent based on the premise that the imprecise language used in speculative and metaphysical strains invalidates their significance. OK. So Plato's innate ideas, Spinoza's pantheism, Hegel's dialectics, and most of existentialism, for instance, are not empirically verifiable. Still, there's a treasure trove of concepts in those ideas, but, granted, ones that can't be empirically asserted. But in a world stripped to its unreflective essence, where presidential candidates are elected to a great extent based on 30-second ads, charges of linguistic inadequacy are not groundless. Now that the art of philosophy has been ruined to a great extent, leaving the door open for Neocon strategists supported by lengthy white papers substantiating neoimperialism, the Deconstructionists/lingusitic experts ahould move onto another fertile field of study: the common vernacular of everyday people. Begin, for instance, with the word, democracy or freedom. Are these words in reality the same as they are on paper? The same as Jefferson intended them to be? Or are they, like some amorphous, metaphysical philosophy, misrepresenting actuality? Are they now merely tools for deception used by ideologues manipulating the general masses? Freedom in Iraq? Really? Or, take for instance, the term, free market - that cherished system so many still believe exists, that so many are willing to die for. Of course, most ideologically inclined adherents of free markets would agree that free was always a relative term due to changing rates in tariffs, taxes, interest rates, and inflation, if not a million other considerations such as commodities, investment vehicles, natural disasters, etc. Nonetheless, those adherents would say, the West's markets are far more free than any in history and in any other part of the world. Old fashioned conservatives, like Goldwater and Scoop Jackson, tied their anticommunist campaigns to the preservation of markets that were not controlled by the state. Their view was that Adam Smith's Let it Be philosophy would produce a continuum of prosperity. But times have changed. It appears that the well heeled don't like losing their gadgets and assets, as they did in 1987. They like their 28-room mansions, Hummers, and 3rd and 4th homes even if the market isn't kept free. Apparently, the captains of industry, while preaching Free Markets to the common investors and the rest of the world, have been following a policy of market manipulation. Note: Here you rabid Deconstructionists, have a field day where you'll be able to illustrate the enormous gap between language and reality, between promises made and bargains broken. Consider the dialectic, Free Market vs. Plunge Protection. America has reached a quiet 20th anniversary of Plunge Protection, which has recently gone into an offensive mode propping up stock markets, hedge funds and selected capital markets around the world. Ever wonder how stock prices in the midst of a sluggish GDP, massive credit and bank failures, and a crippled housing market continue to rise nearly every single day without a correction or selloff? Ever wonder how experienced critics such as Greenspan predict a recession and then, presto, the markets seem to go wicked good? Ever wonder about those short critiques on the networks (Markets are humming today Sally due to a steep rise in pork bellies in Manilla.) that seem to encapsulate market complexities as if such immediate understanding were possible? Ever wonder, Hey, maybe something else is going on? An Invisble Hand, no, make that an Invisble Group stepping in to shift valuation in order to fortify the notion that America, as W. insists, is really doing quite well, thank you. It's no wonder that W. and co. would control markets in the same way he's controlled Justice, or as it's now commonly known, Just Us. For the unitiated, the following sites have ample proof that what you see is not what you get in Free Markets, that there are words like Freedom, Democracy, Capitalism, Free Markets, and Liquidity that actually have entirely different meanings. And more and more people around the world, including Kuwait, which recently unleashed its monetary tie to the dollar, are waking up to the disparities. What are Americans waiting for? A memo? NOTE: This is a lengthy but illumintaing PDF, http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache... http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Artic... http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorial... http://registeredrep.com/mag/financ... http://www.financialsense.com/edito... rien.gif
[cia-drugs] Moscow, Idaho Shooter: US Government Agent?
http://revisionistreview.blogspot.com/2007/05/moscow-idaho-shooter-us-government.html Wednesday, May 23, 2007 Moscow, Idaho Shooter: US Government Agent? According to an article in the Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review newspaper, Jason Hamilton, the shooter who killed three people and himself in Moscow, Idaho last weekend was a card-carrying member of the heavily government-infiltrated Aryan Nations group, as well as a criminal with a long arrest record and someone who was licensed by the federal government to possess fully automatic weapons, including a military-style machine gun... While automatic weapons were not used by Hamilton during his killing spree, it is nevertheless true that an automatic weapons license issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is very difficult to obtain and persons who apply for the license are closely scrutinized by government agents. Hamilton had been affiliated with the Aryan Nations group for the past seven years. He had an extensive criminal record in Idaho, Arizona, California and Oklahoma. He was convicted of domestic battery in 2006, aggravated assault in 1992 and marijuana possession in 1996. It seems possible that Hamilton was a government agent or informant who had infiltrated Aryan Nations, otherwise how would he ever have been granted the coveted fully automatic weapons license? Note well this quote from the Spokesman-Review: ...shortly ...after (he) became a member of the Aryan Nations...Hamilton was arrested in Latah County for shooting at a building or a car, but the charge was reduced through a plea bargain, incomplete court records show. So what was the plea bargain? Having him turn government informant on Aryan Nations and then eventually moving him higher up the shadow government's ladder, to the point of privileged possession of automatic weapons? The question investigators need to ask is: what role did the US government play in their (probable) agent's terror spree last weekend in Moscow, near the campus of the University of Idaho and on the grounds of the Latah County Courthouse? Is this terror for terror's sake? Getting the fear? Man's government needs to sow fear and terror if they wish to retain their power over us. Jason Kenneth Hamilton may have been an instrument toward that end. How else would a clearly unstable extremist with a criminal record, legally obtain automatic weapons, and plea bargain a circa 1999 or 2000 shooting, into an inconsequential (and unspecified) sentence, about which conveniently incomplete records are silent? Cf. Shooter Linked to Aryans, The Spokesman Review, May 23, 2007, pp. 1 and 9. *** To have Mr. Hoffman's essays and columns e-mailed to you free-of-charge or obligation, send an e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you receive Topica's e-mail in response to your subscription request, simply click on your reply button; that's all there is to it. You need not visit Topica's website in order to subscribe. You may easily unsubscribe, hassle-free, at any time. Hamilton.jpg
[cia-drugs] LaRouche To Democrats: Impeach Cheney Now!
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2007/lar_pac/070523dems_cheney_now.html LaRouche To Democrats: Impeach Cheney Now! This release was issued on May 23, 2007 by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee (LPAC). In one of his most forceful statements to date, Lyndon LaRouche today demanded that the Democratic Party leadership in the U.S. Congress immediately launch impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney. LaRouche was responding to the latest capitulation by Congressional Democrats on the issue of the timetable for a troop withdrawal from Iraq. LaRouche cited the recent state Democratic Party conventions in California and Massachusetts, where strongly worded impeachment resolutions were passed, in stark contrast to Congressional Democratic leadership insistence that impeachment of Cheney is off the table. The Democratic leadership has lost the confidence of their own core political base, LaRouche declared, and they are unwilling to take the only steps that would regain it. You cannot mobilize public opinion, LaRouche continued, without mobilizing the base of the Democratic Party. And the Congressional leadership has been running away from that base since the beginning of 2006, when they capitulated on the issue of the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court and then totally caved in to the hedge funds, to Felix Rohatyn and his friends, and allowed the looting and destruction of the entire U.S. automobile manufacturing sector without lifting a finger. LaRouche underscored that the only way to get the American troops out of Iraq is by the impeachment of Cheney. This is the key domestic issue, LaRouche said. All U.S. politics at this moment centers on the ouster of Cheney, warning, furthermore, that The Democratic Party is finished for the time being if they don't go for Cheney's impeachment-now. It is time for the Democratic Party leadership to stop this practice of running way from its own base of political support from within the Party itself. The Party base wants Cheney impeached. The base is right, and the leadership is wrong. Rally the base, by going hard against Cheney, and the Republicans will have no fair choice but to support a veto-proof vote against Cheney's new wars.
[cia-drugs] Pakistani soldiers accused of trading weapons for gold
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=87b5b1c8-0b58-4c16-8f28-ebef94662c98k=39693 Pakistani soldiers accused of trading weapons for gold Steven Edwards, CanWest News Service Published: Thursday, May 24, 2007 UNITED NATIONS - A new scandal rocked the biggest United Nations peacekeeping force in the world Wednesday as allegations surfaced that Pakistani 'blue helmets' in the Democratic Republic of Congo had traded weapons for gold with rebel groups they were supposed to be disarming. Human rights groups in the sprawling central African nation say Pakistani officers serving in the 17,600-strong force were involved in the illegal smuggling of up to $5 million USin gold from the trouble-plagued northeastern Ituri region. They add the shady dealing saw weapons returned to rebels of the Front of Nationalists and Integrationalists (FNI), said by the Congolese government to be responsible for war crimes during Congo's long-running conflict. Pakistan has rejected the allegations as malicious and distorted, but adds it has launched an investigation, saying it knew nothing of the allegations before Tuesday. It's additionally alleged that when UN officials began to investigate, the Pakistani force switched from initially being co-operative to being threatening. Acknowledging that the probe hadn't been plain sailing, UN spokeswoman Michele Montas spoke Wednesday of the very difficult circumstances faced by the seven UN investigators assigned to the case. According to some reports from the country, Pakistani soldiers reacted to the UN's attempt to seize a computer containing apparently incriminating information by laying barbed wire around UN police guarding the investigators. The Pakistanis also dispatched two armoured personnel carriers to the investigators' living quarters. The allegations refer to events in late 2005, but even though the UN denies rebels were re-armed, it admits it has yet to complete the investigation into the dealing. Canada will have the new scandal in mind next Tuesday when John McNee, Canada's ambassador to the UN, co-hosts the opening of an exhibition marking UN Peacekeepers' Day at UN headquarters and speaks on the need to strengthen standards amid other reforms. In late 2005, Pakistani UN forces were stationed in the Ituri mining town of Mongbwalu as fighting between ethnic militias still raged. It's alleged Pakistani soldiers colluded with both the local armed groups and Indian businessmen from Kenya to obtain gold. We have very solid information, said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher with U.S.-based Human Rights Watch. Woudenberg and other HRW researchers briefed UN peacekeeping officials Wednesday on the evidence they say they have that Pakistani officers helped arrange for between $2 million US and $5 million US in gold to be smuggled from Ituri. Charges the Pakistanis returned weapons to the FNI rebels come from the Congolese human rights group Justice Peace. There was co-operation between the Pakistanis and the FNI, said Joel Bisubu, a researcher with the group. The first draft of the report was produced at the end of March and it is currently going through the final stages of a very rigourous, due-diligence, and quality assurance process, said Montas. It is expected to be finalized in about three weeks. The slow pace of the probe has led to charges of a coverup, with the BBC reporting from DRC that initial findings were buried to avoid a political fallout. Because Pakistan rotates its troop deployments every six months, the battalion allegedly involved in the gold-for-arms trading is no longer in DRC. The Congo mission has served as a test of how effective huge blue-helmet deployments can be as the world body's peacekeeping operations reach record levels around the world, with more than 100,000 soldiers serving in some 15 missions. But while the force led the war-torn country to historic elections last year, the latest scandal follows a series of others. One of the more infamous was 2004 revelations UN personnel had been involved in sexual exploitation of local girls and women, including rape and pedophilia. Despite the huge size of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), only nine Canadians are part of it, working as staff officers in Kinshasa, the capital, and at the sector headquarters in Kisangani. The UN dispatched the force in stages following years of warfare that not only left three million dead, but had seen rebel groups and also the armies of five neighbouring countries occupy large parts of the country, often pillaging timber, diamonds, gold and other resources.
[cia-drugs] The End of National Currency
http://aftermathnews.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/the-end-of-national-currency/ The End of National Currency May 24, 2007 Posted by pjwalker911 in Economic Meltdown, Global Government, Crime Corruption, European Union. trackback Foreign Affairs | May/June 2007 Below is another position paper by the Council on Foreign Relations on how they plan to manipulate the world into accepting three global currencies based loosely on the EU, the NAU (North American Union) and the Asian Union. Monetary nationalism, the audacous idea that nations should control their own their own destinies, their currencies and economies, is considered a sin. Yeah, well John D. Rockefeller said competition is a sin and proceeeded to monopolize the oil industry. So I guess that's what they mean since they work for the Rockefellers' interests over an above those of Americans and everyone else for that matter. This reads like a globalist manifesto, claiming how wonderful the EU is and how much better people are off under its jackboot. Yes, the Nazis and the Communists have said similar things, but most of the people knew differently, though they were too afraid to voice their opinions. And of course, the Asian system would be based on the Chinese monetary system, which may resemble a free-market, but the fact is that most Chinese are barely surviving under grinding poverty, harsh and dangerous work conditions, punitive taxation, rising inflation and apparently have very little in the way of rights under the Communist legal system. And you may be surprised to know that this socialist country offers little in the way of services to its citizens for all the taxes they are forced to pay. So yes, China is the model for the world according to the globalists. This is precisely what the aristocrats want for all of us commoners. The bottom line is that they want to concentrate currencies into the Euro, the Dollar (which would become the Amero) and the Chinese Renminbi which would probably take on another name. And needless to say, the people of these countries would have absolutely no say over the matter. It is dictated by the incredibly arrogant and secretive Bilderberg banking elite and royalty who have no allegience to any country but only to themselves for the purpose of further concentrating the wealth of the world into fewer and fewer hands, just as we have seen happening in the past two decades. That is what is called a mercantilist dictatorship, one that is growing to a global scale day by day, into the all-powerful New World Order empire. The only way to avert this totalitarian agenda is to take back control of national governments. For America, it means to support whoever is for national independence and sovereignty, sound money, the rights of the individual and non-interventionism. In our case, that means one and only one thing: support Ron Paul for 2008! Don't be fooled by the establishment puppets like Romney, Giuliani, Obama and Hillary. That bucket of writhing snakes all work for the Council on Foreign Relations which is nothing but a front for the aristocratic elite. They do not and will not represent the interests of the people, no matter what they say. It is all a pack of lies so stop voting for CFR puppets! It is time to wake up America and defend your country to preserve your own freedom because I guarantee the elites want to enslave you and they can only do it if you let them. PW _ The End of National Currency By Benn Steil Summary: Global financial instability has sparked a surge in monetary nationalism - the idea that countries must make and control their own currencies. But globalization and monetary nationalism are a dangerous combination, a cause of financial crises and geopolitical tension. The world needs to abandon unwanted currencies, replacing them with dollars, euros, and multinational currencies as yet unborn. Benn Steil is Director of International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and a co-author of Financial Statecraft. But the world can do better. Since economic development outside the process of globalization is no longer possible, countries should abandon monetary nationalism. Governments should replace national currencies with the dollar or the euro or, in the case of Asia, collaborate to produce a new multinational currency over a comparably large and economically diversified area. Europeans used to say that being a country required having a national airline, a stock exchange, and a currency. Today, no European country is any worse off without them. Even grumpy Italy has benefited enormously from the lower interest rates and permanent end to lira speculation that accompanied its adoption of the euro. A future pan-Asian currency, managed according to the same principle of targeting low and stable inflation, would represent the most promising way for China to fully liberalize its financial and
[cia-drugs] When Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ May 24, 2007 -- When Vice President Dick Cheney visited Baghdad on a surprise visit on May 9, he was booed by U.S. troops during an appearance before them in the Green Zone, according to our congressional sources. These incidents may explain why the Army has ordered its personnel to submit web postings, including videos, to Army censors before uploading to web sites.
[cia-drugs] Re: I Vote No - John Kerry
Senator Kerry,
Did you hear about Dennis Kucinich on Cspan yesterday? from the house he
denounced the
Bush administration for he is backing a contract with Iraq Parlement to sign
to give the U.S.and British Oil Companies 80% of their Oil rights. Can you
believe that? He is blackmailing them for their oil and it is said that he has
been doing that for a couple of years, and destroying their country in the
meantime and having our military risk their lives everyday for this reason. I
believe this is the only reason they went in to Iraq, now remember Cheney
refused to give us the energy meeting minutes. No wonder, look what they were
planning at the beginning of the Bush administration. It has been that all
along. I read the constitutuion the Iraqis drew up and it sounded o.k. until
the end, which said that the Ayatollah would have the last say, You see, all
ARabs have dictators or kings, and it is even in their genes. So that is that
for the democratization. Actually, It appears that Sadaam had added a lot of
democracy himself. He gave free Univerisity for the
highschool graduates, and also he saw to it that they attended school.. If
not, they went to jail..he did a lot of very update activities and I saw
pictures of the People down town Iraq who were going to work in their business
suits walking on the street. Now the women dressed just like we do and they
wear skirts up totheir knees and highheel should with very nice coffures for
their hair and with great hygene at that.. They all looked very European or
like us. So, we only gt pictures from the war showing women wearing black all
over and old timey way of dress.
We are being deceived on every view of Iraq. It appears that the world
international law ( I heard they have a warrant out for Rumsfeld and also the
General who led the war in Iraq). could very easily step in and do something
about this to the leaders of this atrocity. It is more serious than we
realized.
I don't think our soldiers like being there fighting those people for oil and
greed. It is time to come home..and take care of our own business, like the
border, ie...and giving away our country to the North Atlantic Union,
forerunner New World Order Police state.. And where do you think Bush will get
his police from? ???
Theresa J. Steed
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Hi Theresa j., The compromise supplemental will
probably be presented to the Senate later today, but I wanted to drop a quick
note to let all of you know my thoughts on it. I'm voting against it. I explain
my feelings in a post I put up on the blog Daily Kos.
You can read it here.
Here are the first couple of paragraphs:
Let's be really clear about the Iraq vote coming down the pike in Congress
this week. I'm voting no on this bill. I'm tired of the false choices of
Republicans and all the recycled spin of old battles and the political
calculations that do nothing for our troops who bear the real costs of this
war. Bottom line: we support the troops by getting the policy right, and this
bill doesn't do that. I've said it again and again and I'm not about to stop:
we need a deadline to force Iraqis to stand up for Iraq and bring our heroes
home, not watered down benchmarks and blank check waivers for this President.
We support the troops by funding the right mission, not with a White House that
opposes a pay raise for our brave men and women in uniform. Do we need to bring
out the hand puppets and make the case again?
Thanks for all of your help so far in this fight. I'm disappointed in the
compromise bill, but I'm more convinced than ever that we'll win this fight.
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[cia-drugs] Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush's Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush
http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002145.php May 24, 2007 Cheney Attempting to Constrain Bush's Choices on Iran Conflict: Staff Engaged in Insubordination Against President Bush There is a race currently underway between different flanks of the administration to determine the future course of US-Iran policy. On one flank are the diplomats, and on the other is Vice President Cheney's team and acolytes -- who populate quite a wide swath throughout the American national security bureaucracy. The Pentagon and the intelligence intelligence establishment are providing support to add muscle and nuance to the diplomatic effort led by Condi Rice, her deputy John Negroponte, Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns, and Legal Adviser John Bellinger. The support that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and CIA Director Michael Hayden are providing Rice's efforts are a complete, 180 degree contrast to the dysfunction that characterized relations between these institutions before the recent reshuffle of top personnel. However, the Department of Defense and national intelligence sector are also preparing for hot conflict. They believe that they need to in order to convince Iran's various power centers that the military option does exist. But this is worrisome. The person in the Bush administration who most wants a hot conflict with Iran is Vice President Cheney. The person in Iran who most wants a conflict is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Iran's Revolutionary Guard Quds Force would be big winners in a conflict as well -- as the political support that both have inside Iran has been flagging. Multiple sources have reported that a senior aide on Vice President Cheney's national security team has been meeting with policy hands of the American Enterprise Institute, one other think tank, and more than one national security consulting house and explicitly stating that Vice President Cheney does not support President Bush's tack towards Condoleezza Rice's diplomatic efforts and fears that the President is taking diplomacy with Iran too seriously. This White House official has stated to several Washington insiders that Cheney is planning to deploy an end run strategy around the President if he and his team lose the policy argument. The thinking on Cheney's team is to collude with Israel, nudging Israel at some key moment in the ongoing standoff between Iran's nuclear activities and international frustration over this to mount a small-scale conventional strike against Natanz using cruise missiles (i.e., not ballistic missiles). This strategy would sidestep controversies over bomber aircraft and overflight rights over other Middle East nations and could be expected to trigger a sufficient Iranian counter-strike against US forces in the Gulf -- which just became significantly larger -- as to compel Bush to forgo the diplomatic track that the administration realists are advocating and engage in another war. There are many other components of the complex game plan that this Cheney official has been kicking around Washington. The official has offered this commentary to senior staff at AEI and in lunch and dinner gatherings which were to be considered strictly off-the-record, but there can be little doubt that the official actually hopes that hawkish conservatives and neoconservatives share this information and then rally to this point of view. This official is beating the brush and doing what Joshua Muravchik has previously suggested -- which is to help establish the policy and political pathway to bombing Iran. The zinger of this information is the admission by this Cheney aide that Cheney himself is frustrated with President Bush and believes, much like Richard Perle, that Bush is making a disastrous mistake by aligning himself with the policy course that Condoleezza Rice, Bob Gates, Michael Hayden and McConnell have sculpted. According to this official, Cheney believes that Bush can not be counted on to make the right decision when it comes to dealing with Iran and thus Cheney believes that he must tie the President's hands. On Tuesday evening, i spoke with a former top national intelligence official in this Bush administration who told me that what I was investigating and planned to report on regarding Cheney and the commentary of his aide was potentially criminal insubordination against the President. I don't believe that the White House would take official action against Cheney for this agenda-mongering around Washington -- but I do believe that the White House must either shut Cheney and his team down and give them all garden view offices so that they can spend their days staring out their windows with not much to do or expect some to begin to think that Bush has no control over his Vice President. It is not that Cheney wants to bomb Iran and Bush doesn't, it is that Cheney is saying
[cia-drugs] What's Behind the Withdrawals from the World Bank, IMF?
http://news.nacla.org/2007/05/24/what's-behind-the-withdrawals-from-the-world-bank-imf/ What's Behind the Withdrawals from the World Bank, IMF? 24 May 2007by Alejandro Reuss The backlash against neoliberalism in Latin America is now leading to confrontations between several of the region's governments and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the span of just the last few weeks, there has been something of a mass defection from these institutions. President Rafael Correa announced that Ecuador was expelling the World Bank's representative from the country (1), President Hugo Chavez announced that Venezuela would be withdrawing from both the Bank and the IMF (2), and Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Venezuela announced their intention to withdraw from the World Bank-affiliated ICSID or International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (3). The Venezuelan government has also proposed the formation of a new regional lending institution, the Bank of the South, widely perceived as a challenge to the World Bank and the IMF. The government of Argentina has pledged to contribute funds to the new bank, and the Brazilian government may as well (4). The World Bank and the IMF are international lending institutions. While each has over 150 member countries, the representatives of a few rich capitalist countries hold most of the power. They hold disproportional voting rights and get to appoint their own representatives to the institutions' executive boards. The president of the World Bank, while formally appointed by the Bank's executive board, is de facto named by the U.S. government (5). Both institutions tie credit to the adoption of neoliberal policies like privatizing public enterprises, reducing public employment, eliminating price controls on basic goods, weakening protections for workers and labor unions, and opening up to international trade and investment (6). Established and funded by the World Bank, the ICSID functions like an international court in which private companies can bring suits for damages against the governments of member countries. These cases are often brought under provisions of bilateral investment agreements (or so-called trade agreements, like NAFTA, which govern not only trade in goods, but also foreign direct investment). While the ICSID does not have police powers for enforcing its rulings, a government that does not comply faces the same possible retaliation as one that refuses World Bank or IMF conditionality- the cutoff of international credit. The ICSID itself stated in a 1988 order in the case Maritime International Nominees Establishment (MINE) vs. Guinea: Non-compliance by a State constitutes a violation by that State of its international obligations and will attract its own sanctions. The Committee refers in this connection . to the consequences which such a violation would have for such a State's reputation with private and public sources of international finance. (7) The recent withdrawals from the World Bank, IMF, and ICSID by Latin American governments represent a rejection of the conditions these institutions have imposed on poorer and less powerful countries. The withdrawal from ICSID, in particular, represents an assertion of the power of sovereign states to determine the conditions under which they will permit foreign investment- a burning issue today in Venezuela, Bolivia, and other Latin American countries. The Venezuelan government has nationalized the largest telecommunications and electricity firms by simply buying their stock, including the shares owned by large U.S. corporations (8). The government has also asserted control over the country's oil industry- not by purchase but by threatening to expropriate the holdings of any multinational firms that refused to accept their new status as minority partners (9). Bolivia has made similar moves in asserting control over gas resources (10). Disputes over property rights exist in every society. In the United States, for example, conservative legal scholars argue that the passage of environmental legislation constitutes an illegal taking since it deprives property owners of potential benefits. Others insist that this does not constitute a violation of property rights since there is no right to damage the environment and to harm other people. Different states differ, moreover, on what property rights they enforce. The differ over whether the government can expropriate property without the consent of the owner, under what circumstances it may do so, whether it must give compensation, how fair compensation is determined, and even what constitutes an expropriation. Some of the recent moves of the Venezuelan, Bolivian, or other Latin American governments may run counter to, say, property rights under U.S. law- but they are, of course, sovereign countries with their own laws. Some of the recent nationalizations (though not the ones
[cia-drugs] Fw: [GATA] China concedes little at U.S. summit
- Original Message - From: Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 8:41 PM Subject: [GATA] China concedes little at U.S. summit China concedes little at U.S. summit Submitted by cpowell on 06:41PM ET Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Section: Daily Dispatches By Krishna Guha, Eoin Callan, and Doug Cameron Financial Times, London Wednesday, May 23, 2007 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/1e91d272-096f-11dc-a349-000b5df10621.html China on Wednesday agreed to a new aviation deal with the United States and offered limited concessions in financial services at the conclusion of top-level economic talks in Washington. The financial sector opening will help foreign companies access China's booming stock market but fell short of the far-reaching liberalisation sought by Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary. With no new commitments on the currency, the outcome did not satisfy China's critics in Congress, who threatened to introduce new legislationtargeting Beijing for alleged currency manipulation. China said it would lift the block on new securities joint ventures, and in time let these firms participate in a wider range of activities. Foreign banks would be allowed to issue local currency credit and debit cards, and the ceiling on the amount qualified foreign institutional investors could invest in domestic financial markets would rise from $10bn to $30bn. But the delegation led by Wu Yi, China's vice-premier, rebuffed US calls to allow foreign securities firms to set up wholly owned subsidiaries or raise the ownership caps on foreign investment in Chinese financial institutions. Mr Paulson, who personally pressed Ms Wu for financial reform, said the steps were incremental changes. The aviation deal paves the way for a significant expansion of bilateral passenger and cargo traffic. Flights operated by US carriers between the two countries will more than double from 10 to 23 a day by 2012. China agreed to an open-skies deal for cargo from 2011, but would discuss a similar deal for passenger services only from March 25, 2011. The US and China also said they would expand cooperation on energy, and expand trade in environmental goods and services. Mr Paulson told the Financial Times he would like there to be more movement. But he said: I am totally convinced that the dialogue is letting us achieve results we would never achieve without it. He added: You are going to see more progress over time and I think you are going to see it accelerate. Ms Wu said the announcements reflected China's acknowledgement of the need to accommodate as appropriate hot-spot questions in current China-US economic and trade relations. US lawmakers warned that the modest progress could undermine relations with China. The Chinese delegation meets with Senate leaders on Thursday, after a highly-charged meeting with members of House of Representatives late on Wednesday. U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel said the Chinese delegation had given all the same answers on currency and trade imbalances. Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate finance committee, welcomed Wednesday's progress but said he was deeply concerned that the dialogue did not address the undervaluation of China's currency. * * * Join GATA at the World Gold, PGM, and Diamond Investment Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Sunday and Monday, June 17 and 18, 2007 http://www.cambridgeconferences.com/ch_june2007.html * * * Help Keep GATA Going GATA is a civil rights and educational organization based in the United States and tax-exempt under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Its e-mail dispatches are free, and you can subscribe at www.GATA.org. GATA is grateful for financial contributions, which are federally tax-deductible in the United States. Contact GATA [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee 7 Villa Louisa Road Manchester, Connecticut 06043-7541 USA www.gata.org Recommended Sites Recommended Internet sites for daily monitoring of gold and precious metals news and analysis. Free sites: http://www.jsmineset.com http://www.cbs.marketwatch.com http://www.mineweb.com/ http://www.gold-eagle.com/ http://www.kitco.com/ http://www.usagold.com/ http://www.usagold.com/amk/usagoldmarketupdate.html http://www.GoldSeek.com/ http://www.GoldReview.com/ http://www.capitalupdates.com/ http://www.DailyReckoning.com http://www.goldenbar.com/ http://www.silver-investor.com http://www.thebulliondesk.com/ http://www.sharelynx.com/ http://www.mininglife.com/ http://www.financialsense.com http://www.goldensextant.com http://www.goldismoney.info/index.html http://www.howestreet.com http://www.depression2.tv http://www.moneyfiles.org/ http://www.howestreet.com http://www.minersmanual.com/minernews.html http://www.a1-guide-to-gold-investments.com/euro-vs-dollar.html http://www.goldcolony.com http://www.miningstocks.com http://www.mineralstox.com
[cia-drugs] Greag Palast uncovers the Atty Gen debacle about Justice Dept investigators
FYI I received this email on the internet email. This is about Greg Plast and his finding, plus a lot of behind the scene concerning Robert Kennedy Jr. and The BBC. Read and discover things you should know. Regards, Theresa J. Steed [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** PalastHow do I know? I have the caging lists I have them because they are attached to the emails Rove insists cant be found. I have the emails. 500 of them sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden. - BBC's Greg Palast The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom #65279;Call your reps and senators on this one The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom by Greg Palast This Monica revealed something hotter much hotter than a stained blue dress. In her opening testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary Committee, Monica Goodling, the blonde-ling underling to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Department of Justice Liaison to the White House, dropped The Big One .And the Committee members didnt even know it. Goodling testified that Gonzales Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, perjured himself, lying to the committee in earlier testimony. The lie: Sampson denied Monica had told him about Tim Griffins involvement in caging voters in 2004. Huh?? Tim Griffin? Caging??? The perplexed committee members hadnt a clue and asked no substantive questions about it thereafter. Karl Rove is still smiling. If the members had gotten the clue, and asked the right questions, they would have found the keys to the kingdom, they thought they were looking for. They dangled right in front of their perplexed faces. The keys: the missing emails and missing link that could send Griffin and his boss, Rove, to the slammer for a long, long time. Kingdom enough for ya? But whats caging and why is it such a dreadful secret that lawyer Sampson put his license to practice and his freedom on the line to cover Tim Griffins involvement in it? Because its a felony. And a big one. Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet - except the USA - only because Americas news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup detat that chose our President in 2004. Heres how caging worked, and along with Griffins thoughtful emails themselves youll understand it all in no time. The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked Do not forward to voters homes. Letters returned (caged) were used as evidence to block these voters right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and you got to love this American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters. Why werent these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation and the soldiers were overseas. Go to Baghdad, lose your vote. Mission Accomplished. How do I know? I have the caging lists I have them because they are attached to the emails Rove insists cant be found. I have the emails. 500 of them sent to our team at BBC after the Rove-bots accidentally sent them to a web domain owned by our friend John Wooden. Heres what you need to know and the Committee would have discovered, if only theyd asked: 1. Caging voters is a crime, a go-to-jail felony. 2. Griffin wasnt involved in the caging, Ms. Goodling. Griffin, Roves right-hand man (right-hand claw), was directing the illegal purge and challenge campaign. How do I know? Its in the email I got. Thanks. And its posted below. 3. On December 7, 2006, the ragin, cagin Griffin was named, on Roves personal demand, US Attorney for Arkansas. Perpetrator became prosecutor. The committee was perplexed about Monicas panicked admission and accusations about the caging list because the US press never covered it. Thats because, as Griffin wrote to Goodling in yet another email (dated February 6 of this year, and also posted below), their caging operation only made the news on BBC London: busted open, Griffin bitched, by that British reporter, Greg Palast. Theres no pride in this. Our BBC team broke the story at the top of the nightly news everywhere on the planet except the USA only because Americas news networks simply refused to cover this evidence of the electoral coup detat that chose our President in 2004. And now, not bothering to understand the astonishing revelation in Goodlings confessional, they are missing the real story behind the firing of the US attorneys. Its not about removing prosecutors disloyal to Bush, its about replacing those who refused to aid
[cia-drugs] Re: Congress backed down. We must stand up.
John Please find Dennis Kucinich Speech from the House yestereday aired by CSPAN...there is not a word of it in the news papers. The topic was that Bush administration has been trying to get the Iraqi Parliment to sign a contract to give 80% of their oil fields and future oil fields to the US and British Oil Corporations. This is what they had with Hugo Chavez and he pulled out of it and now is doing business with the other South American NAtions. So some of his speech mentions that the energy meeting way before the war was based on this topic... Iraq Oil... even before 911... no wonder cheney refused to allow Congress or the GOA to see the minutes of that meeting. Before Bush came into office we were buy 52 % of our oil from Venesuala. now we are not even speaking to him. The New networks seem to go along with this administration.. However if we had the chairman of the FCC and had a democratic president, we could probably straighten out our hide the facts News Networks, for they ahve to have a liscense to operate. On the voting of Iraq funds: this is the way most of the cold wars were ended, by stopping the funding and bringing our troops home immediately.. How can they say they want to keep soldiers out of harms way in iraq.. That is impossible, the only way we can get them out of harms way is to bring them home now. So all in all I can see why the soldiers want out of iraq, for they are tired of killing Iraqi people and children for oil. Enough is enough. Are you familiar with the North Atlantic Union, which is the forerunner of the New World Order? The bilderberg Group plans each year, the coming program... and it appears that they have the ear of this administration, not the American People. They asked bush to take the world's largest oil fields... with our military and our taxpayers money, just like the huge giganticTruckers Freeway will be built in mexico and US and on to Canada.. by American tax Payers.. Isn't this rather stretching it a bit? They are seeing to it also that the Countries mix right now again at the US Taxpayers expense.. What is this alla bout?? I only wish there were a way to take our country back and get the Patriot Act out and also the Military act which takes away our habeas Corpus. The old Military bases are not turned into concentrations camps contract by Halliburton. We are in a big mess... It could be very simple to get out of.. I was told (don't know if it is true) that Senate Rule #22 can take only 41 senators to filibuster at the same time and stop a bill or act in its tracts and it doesn't take a president's signature for it will no longer exist. Why couldn't we have tried this.. Poor Feingold tried and tried to do this but who stood with him. We need a president who will stand up for our laws and make sure to have an Atty general who will indeed inforce those laws. Regards, Theresa J. Steed *** John Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Theresa J., About an hour ago, the Senate caved to President Bush and sent him another blank check to continue the war in Iraq. This is a serious blow for all of us, but no one lost more today than the troops in the field who continue to sacrifice so nobly and their families still waiting back home. It's a hard moment, but you and I don't have the luxury of getting discouraged. We must remember: This is not over. For those of us committed to change, it has only begun. This weekend, thousands of us will take action in our communities to support the troops and end the war. We will speak out in public. We will send care packages to soldiers in Iraq. We will gather letters for Congress and the president. And on Memorial Day, we will remember and honor those who sacrificed everything for their nation. Join us: www.SupportTheTroopsEndTheWar.com After tonight, one thing is now perfectly clear: No one else is going to end this war for us. Bush will not listen. Congress will not fight. There's no one left to lead the country now but we the people. Each of us has a duty and a responsibility to our troops and to each other to do all that we can to end this war. Under the Constitution of the United States of America, we the people are the sovereign and the ultimate deciders--and by all that I know is right we will succeed in bringing our troops home. Thank you for standing up. --John Edwards Paid for by John Edwards for President Contributions to John Edwards for President are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. 410 Market Street, Suite 400, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 (919) 636-3131. johnedwards.com. Click here to unsubscribe from email sent by John Edwards for President. - Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo!
