[cia-drugs] 6 killed by machete in Colombia gold mine massacre
more gold mine weirdness. -vmann http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN18438075 6 killed by machete in Colombia gold mine massacre Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:32pm EDT powered by Sphere BOGOTA, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Six Afro-Colombian gold miners were killed on Thursday by unidentified machete-wielding men who attacked them as they worked in the impoverished western province of Choco, authorities said. The attack came amid a wave of killings in which dozens of candidates, campaign workers and politicians have been gunned down ahead of Oct. 28 local elections. But police said the unexplained incident at the open pit mine near the town of Istmina did not appear to be election-related. Choco is a violent cocaine-producing area between Panama to the north, a common destination for smugglers, and Valle del Cauca province to the south, home to Colombia's toughest drug cartel. Left-wing rebels and far-right paramilitaries, both funded by the cocaine trade, are active in the area. Most people in Choco are descended from African slaves brought by the Spanish to work in local gold mines, or from freed slaves who sought refuge from racism in Colombia's cities.<>
[cia-drugs] Re: I'd like to run this scenario by the group b4 it hits the White House
Wrong idea. -B --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Brad \"reallybadbrad\" Ferrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Imagine, if you will
[cia-drugs] Bomb-sniffing dogs focus on vehicle owned by Topoff 4 participant
let's put this in context. first we have people like brzezinski warning that the bushies want to do false flag terror to justify an attack on iran. this august we had the KENNEBUNKPORT MEMO, warning that a false flag scenario might be imminent. within a week after that, there is the weirdness of nukes being flown from minot to barksdale in an unauthorized manner, surrounded by mysterious deaths and possibly including one nuke going missing. now we have this. the bomb sniffing dogs going to the car of one of the participants in the "terror drill!?" click the blue line to see TERRORSTORM: THE HISTORY OF FALSE FLAG TERROR by alex jones. -vmann http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=terrorstorm&total=911&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0 He said explosive residue can get "baked in" to vehicles, noting that members of the Portland Police explosives team frequently set off alarms in airports because residue is in the fabric of their clothing. http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/10/police_are_closing_off_several.html Bomb scare disrupts terrorism drill, closes MAX line Posted by The Oregonian October 18, 2007 14:32PM Categories: Portland, Top Stories The Topoff dirty-bomb drill turned into a real-life bomb scare this afternoon after a trio of bomb-sniffing dogs alerted authorities to possible explosives on the first floor of the parking garage of the Doubletree Hotel Portland at 1000 NE Multnomah Street. Michael Chertoff, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was scheduled to be at the hotel for part of the Topoff counterterrorism exercise later in the day. Portland police cordoned off several blocks around the Lloyd Center, marking off the area with thousands of feet of yellow tape blowing in the afternoon wind. They also shut down MAX trains through the area, and alerted people inside the hotel and surrounding buildings. Some in those buildings chose to evacuate, while others remained in place. By 3:45 p.m., Police spokesman Brian Schmautz said officials "were comfortable" there was nothing sinister going on. Shortly after that, TriMet spokeswoman Peggy LaPoint said the red and blue MAX lines were back open in both directions through the area. Nonetheless, Topoff activities at the hotel were quickly canceled earlier in the afternoon. Schmautz said officers had been sweeping the area in advance of visits by Chertoff and high-ranking military personnel using a pair of "explosives sensitive" police dogs. "One dog got an alert at this car. The second dog was called in and also gave an alert." A third dog later came to the parking garage, and had the same reaction as the first two. Authorities initially focused on one vehicle, which turned out to be owned by a participant in the Topoff exercise. The car's owner was quickly located and cooperated, and police later expanded the search to other vehicles on the first floor of the garage. It was windy, Schmautz said, so it's possible the dogs picked up smells from any of several vehicles in the area. There are a number of military and Homeland Security employees in the area for the counterterrorism exercise, so Schmautz says it's possible one of their vehicles inadvertently picked up explosive residue or something else that might set off the dogs. "It's very unusual to have a concentration of military and law enforcement vehicles in the same place," Schmautz said. He said explosive residue can get "baked in" to vehicles, noting that members of the Portland Police explosives team frequently set off alarms in airports because residue is in the fabric of their clothing. Before 2 p.m., a crowd of people, many them streaming out of the mall and unable to get to their cars in a parking lot, gathered at Northeast 13th Avenue and Multnomah Street. Some asked officers near the yellow police tape if scene was part of the terror drill. "This is not a drill, m'am," said one officer. Others complained about not being able to catch buses and the MAX trains. A street preacher stopped on the corner, warning people walking past that they were witnessing the end times. "It's time to come to Jesus Christ," he said. The Topoff drill is scheduled to resume tomorrow morning with a wrap-up briefing, as participants evaluate how things went this week. -- Joseph Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[cia-drugs] Fwd: On the Ground in Israel-Palestine
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Senator Chris Dodd stood up to NOT grant immunity for the phone companies!
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com --- Begin Message --- Dodd Stands Up for American Civil Liberties by Stopping Surveillance Bill October 18, 2007 Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) announced today that he will stop the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform legislation from being considered by the full Senate and from receiving a vote on the Senate floor. Dodd will place a hold on the bill, a tool available to Senators to stop legislation from moving forward. By granting immunity to telecommunications companies that participated in the President’s terrorist surveillance program, even though such participation may have been illegal, the FISA reform bill sets a dangerous precedent by giving the President sweeping authorization to neglect the right to privacy that Americans are entitled to under the Constitution. “The President has no right to secretly eavesdrop on the conversations and activities of law abiding American citizens and anyone who has aided and abetted him in these illegal activities should be held accountable,” said Dodd. “It is unconscionable that such a basic right has been violated, and that the President is the perpetrator. I will do everything in my power to stop Congress from shielding this President’s agenda of secrecy, deception, and blatant unlawfulness.” The Senate Intelligence Committee is considering the reform proposal in a markup session this afternoon. The legislation will then be referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee for its consideration before being reported to the Senate floor Melinda Iley-Dohn Gandhi's Seven Deadly Social Sins : • Politics without principle • Wealth without risk • Commerce without morality • Pleasure without conscience • Education without character • Science without humanity • Worship without sacrifice __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --- End Message ---
[cia-drugs] Terror drill turns into the real deal near Lloyd Center
- Original Message - From: TruePatriotsUnite To: TruePatriotsUnite Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: [new_patriots] Terror drill turns into the real deal near Lloyd Center Terror drill turns into the real deal near Lloyd Center PORTLAND, Ore. - Bomb-sniffing dogs being used for a TOPOFF exercise in northeast Portland on Thursday detected the real thing, prompting police to cordon off a hotel, close nearby streets and shut down the MAX. According to Brian Schmautz with the Portland Police Bureau, as officials were doing a sweep of the Doubletree Hotel located near the Lloyd Center, bomb-sniffing dogs got a hit on a vehicle in the vicinity. There is currently a heavy police presence in the area while police investigate. The TOPOFF exercise scheduled to take place at the hotel has been canceled. Nearby Benson High School is in lock-out mode and will be for the duration of the school day. Since the MAX is shut down, school buses will be transporting students who normally take a train home to alternate MAX platforms away from the Lloyd Center area. http://www.katu.com/news/local/10647406.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.0/1077 - Release Date: 10/18/2007 9:54 AM <<071018_police_incident.jpg>>
[cia-drugs] Bush Quips He Might Stay in Power
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/bush-quip-might.html Bush Quips He Might Stay in Power (Threat Level Plays Along) By Kevin Poulsen October 17, 2007 | 2:47:58 PMCategories: Election '08 At a press briefing this morning that touched on issues like the White House's extrajudicial wiretapping program and torture policies, the president was asked a question about Vladimir Putin's plan to hold on to power when his term as Russian president runs out. Reporter: Mr. President, following up on Vladimir Putin for a moment, he said recently that next year, when he has to step down according to the constitution, as the president, he may become prime minister; in effect keeping power and dashing any hopes for a genuine democratic transition there ... Bush: I've been planning that myself. Ahahahahaha. That's funny. It's a great comedian who can give voice to what everyone else is just thinking. Despite the president's occasional contempt for the law, THREAT LEVEL doesn't believe that he's going to declare a state of emergency and cancel the 2008 election. But in July, we filed some FOIA requests anyway. We asked five Justice Department offices for documents produced or revised after August 2001 "addressing the feasibility, advisability or lawfulness of deferring, rescheduling or canceling a U.S. national election." The Office of Legal Counsel responded in nine days: It has no documents fitting that description. This is the office specifically tasked with advising the president on legal matters, and which infamously belched out a memo sanctioning torture in 2002. This was, by the way, the fastest FOIA response I've ever gotten -- the speed suggesting the proposition was so ludicrous that it demanded swift repudiation. (Or that the office wanted to dispose of the FOIA before the White House went and asked for election postponement options). The Office of the Attorney General responded late last month (.pdf), also reporting no records found. Ditto the Office of the Associate Attorney General. Only two offices haven't given the all-clear: The Office of the Deputy Attorney General is still looking into it. The National Security Division says it can't even estimate when I might get a response, because there are 14 unrelated FOIA requests ahead of mine. That means I'll probably hear back sometime in late 2009, by which time Bush won't even be in office any more. Unless he is. Ahahahahaha. Just kidding. <>
[cia-drugs] I'd like to run this scenario by the group b4 it hits the White House
Imagine, if you will, that the US Navy is running two parallel columns around the southern side of the American continents, Europe, Africa, and Asia and then back to the North American continents (pictures available upon request). At the same time, The United States Army has aircraft in the air, that will intersect in a grid at any specific given time. An intercontinental-ballistic missile, one ICBM, is launched westward across China towards Iran. Once this ICBM reaches Middle-Asia, a number of navy craft will launch similar small nuclear and tactical strikes on Uranium Mines, Nulear Power Plants, Nuclear Submarines, Nuclear Missile Stock Piles, Enemy Air Fields, Uranium Stock Piles, and Terrorist Breeding Grounds worldwide to include Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, Africa, and Southeast Asia. I think you get the idea, basically anything that uses or holds Nuclear War Potential, like Venezuela. In case of retaliation by ICBM, the Army Air Force Grid should be able to disable any Airborne ICBM or other attacks with standard Air-to-Air missiles. A second wave of ICBM's, launched West at half-speed across China, from the West Coast of the United States of America, will be joined by a fleet of Stealth Nuclear Strikers and while the ICBM's are in Chinese Air Space, the Stealth Crews will disable China's stockpile of ICBM's and tanks, and troops, and reactors, and whatever else, while the second wave continues onto Saudi Arabia (Where Osama Bin Laden hides in his parents basement), Turkey and N. Korea. There are no planned strikes against Mother Russia, but if they would like to get involved in this strike, I'm sure we can produce a third wave. I'm leaving them out because of my Capitalist values. I see them only as a fellow arms dealer and it is much easier to remove their customer base at this point in history. I think it's a good plan. I've tried getting through to the White House several times, but they may think I'm the Anti-Christ or something. Best Wishes, Brad "reallybadbrad" Ferrell www.angelisdigitalstudio.com
[cia-drugs] Kucinich(1)Policetraining(2)PulsePoll(3)TomHarkin(4)Paul(5)Hightower(6)
Print - Close Window From: "Tomi Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Undisclosed-Recipient@, Subject: Kucinich Meet up in Houston Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:47:40 -0500 Dennis's new autobiography is coming out! This will be a good time to wear your Kucinich shirt, a pin for him, or whatever else identifies you as a Kucitizen and meet with other supporters of the best candidate for President! I just replied and said I'd bring a friend. I hope it is one of you! Announcing a new event for The Houston Dennis Kucinich Meetup Group! What: Spreading the Word When: Saturday, November 3, 12:00 PM Where: Click the link below to find out! Event Description: We'll meet at Barnes & Noble in the cafe to spread the word to people in the store. Be sure to wear your Kucinich gear and bring materials to pass out if you have them. And please bring a friend! Learn more here: http://denniskucinich.meetup.com/362/calendar/6574 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:50:05 -0500 From: "Police Training" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Uphold the law with police training. Enroll now. Click these ads to enroll in police officer training. Learn the skills you need to protect and serve the public at the local, state or federal level! You received this message because you are subscribed to Unique Skip. To remove yourself from this service and stop receiving email messages from Unique Skip, go to http://www.uniquelistmanagementmailings.com/us or go here. To read our privacy policy, go to http://www.uniquelistmanagementmailings.com/pp or go here. Please mail comments about this message to Unique Skip, 1128 Royal Palm Beach Blvd., #222, Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411. * From: "Tomi Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Undisclosed-Recipient@, Subject: Presidential Primary Pulse Poll Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:29:02 -0500 Hey Friends, I wanted to drop you a short note to ask for your help. DFA is holding a Presidential Primary Pulse Poll to decide which candidate deserves their support. I voted for Representative Dennis Kucinich and I need help to move them from 3rd place in the poll. Could you take just a minute to vote for Dennis Kucinich right now? Here's the link: http://DemocracyforAmerica.com/VoteKucinich Thanks for your help. ** Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:08:57 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Tom Harkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Taking care of our home front Taking care of our home front Dear Friend, Over the past few months, I worked very hard with my colleagues to write a bill that would invest in our country's future by funding our important domestic priorities. The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill, which I brought to the Senate floor today, supports vital programs like Head Start, student financial aid, job training, community health centers, home-heating assistance for the poor, mental health and substance abuse services and a host of other important measures. You can learn more about this legislation by watching my video message. This bill provides serious, substantive assistance to those Americans that need it. Of course, President Bush continues to play politics by threatening to veto this bill, just as he vetoed increased funding for children's healthcare a few weeks ago. Make no mistake. He'd rather have taxpayers spend twelve billion dollars in Iraq every month, than to invest 11 billion dollars above his request over the next year to meet our essential needs on the home front. Please stand with me by urging your Senators to support the funding bill this week. Today, I asked our friends at DailyKos to join me with this effort as well. An overwhelming vote in the Senate will send a strong message to the White House. It's time to stop playing politics and start getting this country back on the right track. Thank you, as always, for your continued support. Sincerely, Tom Harkin Paid for and authorized by Citizens for Harkin You are subscribed to this newsletter as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please click here to modify your message preferences or to unsubscribe from any future mailings. We will respect all unsubscribe requests. Thanks for your help. ** I must say, that I have been working in these interent Democratic grassroots, and never in my wildest dreams would I ever think that one single vote for a Republican would be likely in 2008. I am shocked by all means. Think about it. We in the internet have been discussing what today is common knowledge, we did reserach and looked and read and worked and contacted everyone we could. I know that Moveon.org was our home base to begin with and we grew like crazy, and people joined us, even from other pa
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Which Presidential Candidates is Wall Street Buying?
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com --- Begin Message --- Ron Paul does not accept contributions from lobbiests. So Wall Street is buying the others! Please contribute to Ron Paul because he is NOT selling out to the special interests. If you want to get this country on the right track again, you will have to sacrifice! Make contributions here www.ronpaul2008.com Don Stacey ++ http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/select.asp?Ind=F07 2008 PRESIDENTIAL RACE Contributions from Selected Industries Securities & Investment Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) $3,829,051 Barack Obama (D) $3,668,995 Hillary Clinton (D) $3,278,100 Mitt Romney (R) $3,043,562 Christopher J. Dodd (D) $2,315,366 John McCain (R) $1,495,550 John Edwards (D) $707,850 Bill Richardson (D) $401,900 Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D) $283,000 Sam Brownback (R) $61,800 Mike Huckabee (R) $58,177 Ron Paul (R) $47,751 Thomas J. Vilsack (D) $43,550 Jim Gilmore (R) $11,200 Tommy Thompson (R) $10,449 Duncan Hunter (R) $8,350 Tom Tancredo (R) $6,400 Dennis J. Kucinich (D) $750 Mike Gravel (D) $250 Audio: FDR's Banking Crisis Chat http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/fdrgoldaudio.htm FDR's Gold Confiscation Act of 1933 http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/goldconfiscation1933.htm Five Myths About the Gold Standard, by Ron Paul, 1981 http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/5goldmyths.htm Ron Paul's 1981 "Monetary Freedom Act",legislation to Restore the Gold Coin Standard http://www.knology.net/~bilrum/Paul_Prohibit_Banks.htm YouTube Ron Paul: Economic Scholar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZJfO4g0h-k --- End Message ---
[cia-drugs] Fw: Yahoo! News Story - Cheney and Obama are distant cousins: Mrs. Cheney - Yahoo! News
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[cia-drugs] Bilderberg Book website
Please send far and wide: new website: http://bilderbergbook.com/ THURSDAY Oct 18th Home WHO RUNS THE WORLD AND WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW IMMEDIATELY WHO RUNS THE WORLD AND WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW IMMEDIATELY By Carolyn Baker Monday, 01 October 2007 A review of The True Story Of The Bilderberg Group, by Daniel Estulin It is difficult to re-educate people who have been brought up on nationalism to the idea of relinquishing part of their sovereignty to a supra-national body. —Bilderberg Group founder, Prince Bernhard— READ MORE... Live Media Schedule October 19, 2007 Noon CST Alex Jones http://www.infowars.com October 20, 2007 11:00pm PDT) Erskine Overnight http://www.erskineonradio.com www.KFNN.com October 22, 2007 9-9:30am The John Oakley Show AM640 Toronto October 23, 2007 4pm EDT David Allen AM1320 Jacksonville, FL 11 pm EDT Dr Stan Montieth Radio Liberty October 24, 2007 National Press Conference 10:30-11:30am Roosevelt Hotel 45 E 45th (45th and Madison) NYC October 26, 2007 7pm EDT Dr Stan Montieth Radio Liberty The True History of the Bilderberg Group Author Daniel Estulin is visiting Canada and New York this October. Several public events are planned. Please come and meet Danny. Public Schedule: Thursday, October 18th 7 pm Kingston Library Kingston, Canada Friday, October 19th 7:30 pm Conspiracy Culture 1696 Queen Street West Toronto 416.916.1696 Tuesday, October 23 7:00 pm Bluestocking Books 172 Allen Street (between Stanton & Rivington) NYC 212.777.6028 Wednesday, October 24 10:30-11:30 am National Press Conference Roosevelt Hotel 45 E 45th (45th & Madison) NYC Thursday, October 25th 7pm VoxPop 1022 Cortelyou Rd Brooklyn, NY 718.940.2084 POLLS The Bilderberg Group ... is nothing to be concerned about. is up to no good for humanity. is a fiction, and probably doesn't even exist. would lilke me as a member. would not want me as a member. is doomed to failure. is great, and I wish them success with their plan to rule the New World Order. WHO'S ONLINE We have 2 guests online Copyright © 2005 - 2007 The True Story of the Bilderberg Group. Designed by JoomlArt.com Joomla! is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL License. ** See what's new at http://www.aol.com
[cia-drugs] U.S. 'Terrorologist' Webster Tarpley Tours Britain To Reve al 9/11 Truth
http://rinf.com/alt-news/911-truth/us-terrorologist-webster-tarpley-tours-britain-to-reveal-911-truth/1492/ U.S. 'Terrorologist' Webster Tarpley Tours Britain To Reveal 9/11 Truth RINF Alternative News Since 9/11, evidence has come to light that contradicts that day's infamous terrorist attack. American historian Webster Tarpley argues that this is nothing new, serious inconsistencies have been associated with terror attacks for hundreds of years throughout the Western world. Whilst much post 9/11 evidence has been well sourced it has trickled out, having far less impact than the official narrative which holds Islamic fanatics entirely responsible. The end result is that press and public are left confused and disorientated by a lack of resolution to one of the biggest stories of our age. Terrorology is a growing discipline that seeks to bring academic rigour and reasoned argument to analysing this highly emotive subject. Author of two books about connections between the US state and organised crime Tarpley scours the world for answers to the growing mountain of contradictions about 9/11 and develops an alternative account which counts Islamic 'extremists' among the victims. He finds evidence for the roots of 9/11 in the Western establishment, what he calls a 'rogue network' embedded in the secret state and military apparatus. Amongst the unanswered questions Tarpley addresses are why. The US Air Force for up to one-and-a-half hours failed to intercept hijacked airliners. There was no apparent wreckage of an airliner at the Pentagon. 'Put options' on United Airlines and American Airlines shares placed before 9/1 were traced back to the Executive Director of the CIA. Building 7 at the WTC site in Manhattan collapsed without being hit by a plane. And he goes on to ask is the "War on Terror" really an Orwellian programme designed to take away peoples' hard won civil liberties? Tarpley's analysis comes as music to the ears of the growing number of Britons uncomfortable about the suspension of habeas corpus and the racist overtones of internment of Muslims. Webster will be available for interview in each venue city of the tour (see below) from roughly 2pm on the appropriate day. He will be in London from about midday on Saturday 4th November and leaves Glasgow on Sunday 12th November for Milan where the Italian translation of '911 Synthetic Terror' is being launched. Tour schedule Tickets £5.00 donation on a strictly first come-first served basis. No-one turned away due to lack of funds. LONDON, Monday 5th November, 7pm - St. John's Church, Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8TY. (by Waterloo Main Line Stn.) - Ticketline - 07947 593825 OXFORD, Tuesday 6th November, 7pm - Council Chamber, Town Hall, St Aldates', Oxford, OX1 1BX, Ticketline - 07714 364140 BRISTOL, Wednesday 7th November, 7pm - QEH Theatre, Jacob's Wells Road, Bristol. BS8 1JX - Ticketline - 07786 952037 LEEDS, Thursday 8th November, 7pm - Lecture Theatre B2, Lesley Silver Building, Leeds Metropolitan University, Civic Quarter Campus, Calverley Street, Leeds, LS1 3HE. - Ticketline -07733 323841 LANCASTER, Friday 9th November, 7pm - Hugh Pollard Lecture Theatre, St Martin's College, Cumbria University, Bowerham Road, Lancaster LA1 3JD - Ticketline - 01524 388868 EDINBURGH, Saturday 10th November, 7pm - Friends Meeting House, 7 Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL - Ticketline - 07809 365609 Biography Webster Griffin Tarpley is an activist and historian best known for his George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), which has become an underground classic. An expert on international terrorism with decades of experience, he directed the study Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro? (Who Killed Aldo Moro?) which was commissioned by a member of the Italian government and published in Rome in 1978. [Aldo Moro was an ex-prime minister of Italy who was murdered by the "Red Brigades," who were ultimately found out to be a front for a fascist state terror group.] Against Oligarchy, a collection of Tarpley's essays and speeches, appeared on the Internet in 1996. He also wrote Surviving the Cataclysm (1999), an analysis of the world financial crisis. In 2005, Tarpley's '9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA' gained a following and is now going into a fourth edition. On October 7, 2006, Amazon.com's top non-fiction book reviewer, Robert David Steele, called it "the strongest of the 770+ books I have reviewed here at Amazon." Tarpley has appeared on CNN Crossfire, FOX News, Charlie Rose, talk radio, and cable access television across North America. False Flag Section has more related reports
[cia-drugs] Troubled Burma - The Washington Connection
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/17/113050/64 Troubled Burma - The Washington Connection by truong son traveler Wed Oct 17, 2007 at 08:30:50 AM PDT This diary is inspired by a recent article written by William Engdahl which was published in Asia Times Online. As we read last month the trigger for the mass demonstrations led by the Buddhist Monks in Myanmar, or Burma if you prefer, was fuel costs which were increased by 100% to 500% when the government ended subsidies for gasoline and other types of fuel. Engdahl tells us that the UN estimates overall inflation had increased by 35% in this very poor country where people spend about 70% of their income for food. There is more to this story than meets the eye. Behind the recent CNN news pictures of streams of monks marching in the streets of the former capital city, Yangon, calling for more democracy, is a battle of major geopolitical consequence. What is not so well known is that Burma is also on the Bush Administration's hit-list for regime change. And, we can dismiss the idea that it has genuine concern for democracy, justice and human rights for the oppressed. Iraq and Afghanistan are sufficient testimony to the fact Washington's talk of democracy is cover for a different agenda. a.. truong son traveler's diary :: :: b.. Some readers might be familiar with the National Endowment for Democracy. NED is funded by Congress which has oversight, however NED in turn funds other organizations which are unaccountable. The topic of NED is worthy of a separate diary but for now we'll provide some basic information on NED activities and on their agenda in Burma from the link above. During the late 1970s there was new thinking at the highest levels of the U.S. foreign policymakers, that ugly murderous military dictatorships of the 1970s were really the best way to preserve U.S. interests in these countries - U.S. interests being defined traditionally as unfettered access to the primary products and raw materials, to the labor and to the markets of foreign countries. (Think Iraq, Venezuela, Iran) This new thinking led to the establishment in 1983 of the National Endowment for Democracy. NED regularly provides funding to opposition candidates in elections in countries other than the USA. According to Allen Weinstein, one of the founders of NED, "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA". NED has principally supported candidates with strong ties to the military and who support the rights of U.S. corporations to invest in those countries with minimal restriction. The NED has not supported candidates who oppose investments by U.S. corporations or who promise restrictions on investment rights of U.S. corporations. A list of former and present members of the board of directors includes Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright, Frank Carlucci, Zbigniew Brzezinski, General Wesley K. Clark, Paul Wolfowitz and Vin Weber. NED was present and had an active part in directing the protests last month in Myanmar. In fact CNN mentioned their presence and activities in one of their broadcasts. The State Department also admits to their presence. The protest "concert master", per Engdahl, was Gene Sharp who is the founder of an organization funded through NED, called the Albert Einstein Institution. So why is remote Burma, a small country about the size of Texas, in Southeast Asia, be of such interest to the US? One reason, as it was with Somalia, which suffered a recent regime change orchestrated by Washington - Geopolitical control, writes Engdahl. ... control ultimately of the strategic sea lanes from the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea. The coastline of Myanmar provides naval access in the proximity of one of the world's most strategic water passages, the Strait of Malacca, the narrow ship passage between Malaysia and Indonesia. The Pentagon has been trying to militarize the region since September 11, 2001 on the argument of defending against possible terrorist attack. The US has managed to gain an airbase on Banda Aceh, the Sultan Iskandar Muda Air Force Base, on the northernmost tip of Indonesia. The governments of the region, including Myanmar, however, have adamantly refused US efforts to militarize the region. And of course there is the China factor: The Strait of Malacca, linking the Indian and Pacific Oceans, is the shortest sea route between the Persian Gulf and China. It is the key chokepoint in Asia. More than 80% of all China's oil imports are shipped by tankers passing the Malacca Strait. ...each day, more than 12 million barrels in oil supertankers pass through this narrow passage, most en route to the world's fastest-growing energy market, China, or to Japan. The US State Department, operating from across the border in Chiang Mai, Thailand, is actively training and providing funding for fostering regime change in Burma. China reacting to what i
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Caspian becomes center of U.S.-Russia power struggle
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com --- Begin Message --- http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/17/business/caspian.php Energy-rich Caspian becomes center of U.S.-Russia power struggle By Judy Dempsey Wednesday, October 17, 2007 BERLIN: Is the Caspian a sea or a lake? The answer has immense repercussions for the energy industry. If it is a lake, there are no obligations by countries that flank it to grant permits to foreign vessels or drilling companies. But if it is sea, there are international treaties obliging those countries to an array of permits. The Caspian, one of the world's largest enclosed bodies of water, has become the center of a new power game involving the United States and Russia as well as its bordering countries, including Iran, over who should control the vast energy reserves under its depths. The Caspian's status has been in dispute since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Over the past few years, the United States has been trying to establish alternative energy routes that would weaken the regional dominance of Russia and Iran, while Russia has sought to control the transportation routes across these waters. When Vice President Dick Cheney visited Kazakhstan last year, he used the occasion to launch a fierce attack against President Vladimir Putin of Russia, accusing him of rolling back democracy and suppressing human rights. By delivering the speech in Kazakhstan, the Bush administration was staking out U.S. influence in the region, where it has stepped up plans to build a pipeline that would bypass Iran and Russia. On Tuesday, it was Putin's turn to put down his marker. On the first visit in 64 years by a Kremlin leader to Tehran, he met his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose country faces a fresh round of sanctions by the United Nations if it does not comply with Security Council demands for reining in its nuclear program. But while the standoff between Iran and the United Nations stole the limelight, the reason for Putin's visit was a summit meeting with Ahmadinejad and three Central Asian leaders who are now being wooed in the Caspian power game. "The summit in Tehran was about the future status of the Caspian Sea," said Johannes Reissner, Middle East expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. "Iran and Russia have enormous interests in resolving this status. But there are major disagreements between them." In addition to Iran and Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan also have Caspian coastlines. And while all of them want a large stake in the oil reserves, and to use of the sea for transportation, none of them have been able to agree on the status of the coveted waters. Russia and Iran, historically, have agreed that the sea was a lake and that it should be shared equally between the two of them. That all changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Iran and Russia wanted earlier agreements, signed in 1921 and in 1940, to continue. Moscow had obtained consent from the newly independent republics of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan that they would be bound by any agreements signed by the Soviet Union, of which they had been a part. But in 1998, Azerbaijan declared that since the Caspian was an international lake, it should be recognized as such. In practice, this would mean that the surface and seabed would be divided into five sectors determined by the length of each country's shoreline. Under such a scenario, Russia would lose out, and Iran even more so. Iran opposed this plan, since its share of the waters would be reduced to under 14 percent from about 20 percent, according to experts. As soon as Putin was elected president in 1998, he tried to break the deadlock to speed up energy links between Russia and the Central Asian countries and to pre-empt U.S. advances into the region. Energy analysts said that Putin, seeing that the United States and other Western energy companies were eager to forge energy exploration contracts with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan and to influence the Caspian negotiations, tried to find compromises among all the coastal states. But attempts to determine the status of the Caspian have often proved hazardous. In 2001, Iran deployed a warship and fighter jets as a warning to Azerbaijan, which had sent vessels to explore for oil for British Petroleum along the southern Caspian oilfields. Azerbaijan, which depends on Russia for energy transit routes, had agreed to forge a separate deal with Putin in which those two nations divided a part of the seabed. A similar deal was struck with Kazakhstan. In both cases, Iran was excluded from the negotiations. "Over the past few years, Iran has felt increasingly isolated," said a European diplomat who requested anonymity because he was involved in the region. "It sees what Russia is doing. It is being excluded fr
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Iraqi Contracts With Iran and China Concern U.S.
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com --- Begin Message --- http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/world/middleeast/18grid.html?em&ex=11928 52800&en=01be634a5830f23b&ei=5087%0A October 18, 2007 Iraqi Contracts With Iran and China Concern U.S. By JAMES GLANZ BAGHDAD, Oct. 17 - Iraq has agreed to award $1.1 billion in contracts to Iranian and Chinese companies to build a pair of enormous power plants, the Iraqi electricity minister said Tuesday. Word of the project prompted serious concerns among American military officials, who fear that Iranian commercial investments can mask military activities at a time of heightened tension with Iran. The Iraqi electricity minister, Karim Wahid, said that the Iranian project would be built in Sadr City, a Shiite enclave in Baghdad that is controlled by followers of the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr. He added that Iran had also agreed to provide cheap electricity from its own grid to southern Iraq, and to build a large power plant essentially free of charge in an area between the two southern Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf. The expansion of ties between Iraq and Iran comes as the United States and Iran clash on nuclear issues and about what American officials have repeatedly said is Iranian support for armed groups in Iraq. American officials have charged that Iranians, through the international military wing known as the Quds Force, are particularly active in support of elite elements of the Mahdi Army, a militia largely controlled by Mr. Sadr. An American military official in Baghdad said that while he had no specific knowledge of the power plant contracts, any expansion of Iranian interests was a concern for the military here. "We are of course carefully watching Iran´s overall presence here in Iraq," the military official said. "As you know, it´s not always as it appears. Their Quds Force routinely uses the cover of a business to mask their real purpose as an intelligence operative." "This is a free marketplace, so there´s not much we can do about it," the official said. At the same time, it is possible to view Iranian and Chinese investment as giving those countries a stake in Iraqi stability. The power plants could also boost a troubled reconstruction effort in Iraq. An American Embassy spokesman said, "We welcome any efforts to help develop Iraq´s energy infrastructure." "These proposals reflect the ongoing business opportunities that are arising in Iraq that American firms should be competing for," said the spokesman, who asked not to be named because of standard protocol at the embassy. It was unclear whether any American firms had tried to win the work, although Mr. Wahid said the projects had been submitted for bids. The embassy spokesman said, "We are unaware of any violations of principles of open and fair bidding." The agreements between Iraq and Iran come after the American-led reconstruction effort, which relied heavily on large American contractors, has spent nearly $5 billion of United States taxpayer money on Iraq´s electricity grid. Aside from a few isolated bright spots, there was little clear impact in a nation where in many places electricity is still available only for a few hours each day. Because the power plants are in largely Shiite-controlled areas, it is possible they may not face the same sectarian violence that crippled so many American rebuilding projects. Mr. Wahid did not say how much the plant between Karbala and Najaf would cost, but at standard international prices a plant of the scale he described would be worth roughly $200 million to $300 million. The outlines of all three agreements were confirmed by Thamir Ghadban, an expert on energy who is also director of the committee of advisers to Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. But Mr. Ghadban said that the granting of the huge projects to rivals of the United States was not an indication that American companies were being excluded from consideration now that Iraqi oil revenues, which provide the basis for the Iraqi government´s budget, are largely paying for the reconstruction of the grid. "There is no preference to the Iranians," Mr. Ghadban said, citing the most obvious potential point of sensitivity for the United States. "There is no opposition or stance from the Iraqi government to bar American or Western companies. It is the other way around," Mr. Ghadban said, indicating that he urged American contractors to bid for work in Iraq. Of the two new projects Iraq has agreed to finance, Mr. Wahid said, the largest is a $940 million power plant in Wasit to be built by a Chinese company, which he said was named Shanghai Heavy Industry. That project would pump some 1,300 megawatts of electricity into the Iraqi grid. For comparison, all of the plants currently connected to Iraq´s grid produce a total of roughly 5,000 megawatts. He said that Iraq had already
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] 'Turkey Is Falling into the Terrorists' Trap'
** See what's new at http://www.aol.com --- Begin Message --- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Iraq_demography.jpg [By going to the above linque, one can see where the Kurds and the city of Mosul intersect, ergo, where the 'tewwowists' and the Northern Iraqi oil centre meet. Turkey has expressed over time the desire to reclaim the oil in the North. Acting now, given the instability of the the rest of Iraq, the seizure of their desired slice of Iraq is time-critical. Kurdiland has been in a sort of holding position up until now, 'now' requiring action due to the unfulfilled promises of the 'COWs' (Coalition of the Willings) and the mayhem that is awaiting cooler weather.] SPIEGEL ONLINE - October 18, 2007, 02:45 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,512228,00.html THE WORLD FROM BERLIN 'Turkey Is Falling into the Terrorists' Trap' The Turkish parliament voted Wednesday to empower the government to order a military incursion to root out Kurdish insurgents in northern Iraq. Some German commentators wonder if this is simply playing into the PKK's hands and if now is not the time to use politics instead of force. AFP Kurdish PKK militants in Northern Iraq. Turkey's parliament approved a measure on Wednesday that clears the way for its military to cross Iraq's northern border to root out Kurdish insurgents there. Wednesday's vote was emphatic, with 507 in favor and only 19 against. The government now has the green light for one year to order a military incursion into northern Iraq. Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan had been under severe pressure to take action in the light of a series of deadly assaults by members of the separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which have killed 30 soldiers over the past two weeks. Commentators in Germany assess the risks of a possible military incursion for Turkey -- and for Kurds in northern Iraq. Left-leaning daily Die Tageszeitung writes: "If Turkey marches into northern Iraq then it's already clear who will profit the most: the PKK." "Naturally the state can't sit by and watch as the guerrillas kill dozens of soldiers, police officers and civilians. But it should be clear to political elites in Turkey that after spending 25 years trying to achieve a military victory over the PKK, with no avail, that political decisions are now required." "The Kurds are still not treated as a group with equal rights, and there is still no substantial accommodation of the Kurds in the ongoing debate about a new constitution. That would be essential to isolate the PKK from the majority of Kurds and to deprive them of their political base." "Instead, Turkey is falling for the PKK's escalation logic. Attacks are only to be met with military force, while Kurdish and Turkish nationalism provoke each other. An invasion of northern Iraq would finally transform a national conflict into an international crisis." The Financial Times Deutschland writes: "There is a danger that developments here could push the peaceful and prosperous northern Iraq into a new chaos." "This can only be prevented if the US and Europe clearly signal to Turkey that they take the PKK problem seriously, and will contribute to its solution An incursion into northern Iraq could lead to a string of new conflicts, particularly if the well-armed Iraqi Kurds perceive it as interfering in their affairs." "A unilateral Turkish invasion has to be prevented. But that will only succeed if the US and Europe offer political help in eradicating the PKK ... The Europeans should bear in mind that this is about a region that at some point could form the external borders of the EU." The conservative Die Welt writes: "The Turkish concerns are justified. A sovereign state cannot accept resistance fighters like the PKK entrenching themselves long-term in the Iraqi mountains and preparing attacks on Turkish soil." NEWSLETTER Sign up for Spiegel Online's daily newsletter and get the best of Der Spiegel's and Spiegel Online's international coverage in your In-Box everyday. "The current alarm is not just about Ankara's justified wish to better protect itself from terrorism. The increasingly pronounced Kurdish nationalism in northern Iraq is a thorn in Turkey's side. It is directed at Turkey as well as the central Iraqi government." "The Kurds have so far made clever use of their historic opportunity ... Now they have to remain clever and take care not to endanger their own project ... The regional government in northern Iraq has to do more against Kurdish extremists, and would do well to discourage their nationalist rhetoric. The Turks know an invasion would only cause them difficulties. But the Kurds would be better off trying not to provoke it." The center-left Süddeutsche Zeitung writes: "The only people who will be happy are the fighters in the PKK terror group ... The aged guerrill
[cia-drugs] European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.: Scandal and "Insiesta"
http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2007/10/16/eads-scandal-and-insiesta.html European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co.: Scandal and "Insiesta" By Jacques Cheminade October 15, 2007 The scandal today striking the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Co., EADS, shares a point in common with the scandal that yesterday ended with the ruin of Eurotunnel's shareholders: when a public service is diverted, and a cabal of private interests is allowed to do what ought to be undertaken by a public enterprise, economic and social disaster becomes inevitable. For EADS, it is clear that the disaster ended up with restructuring the company, with 10,000 lay-offs at stake, and a change in management at the Caisse des Dépôts et des Consignations (CDC), the state-run savings bank being the big loser in the whole affair, thus "justifying" for the most profitable activities of this old savings banks be handed over to the private sector, supposedly more reasonable. Thus, the "mistakes" of the public sector under the influence of private interests, would serve as the pretext for more privatizations! It is revealing to recap the various stages of the affair: (1) The 1999 deal between the French and the Germans. Since the Germans at the time could not accept the fact that the French state should be mixed up in the firm's management, the French state benefitted to outrageously favor its friend Jean-Luc Lagardère. Hence, the state and Lagardère, each with a 15% share, put their share in a holding (Sogeade), which is represented the EADS board of directors by one of its vice-presidents who is none other than... Jean-Luc Lagardère. The latter, formerly of the very small Matra firm, thus took control of Aérospatiale, the French public-sector giant. This scandal is the "mother" of all scandals to come. (2) From November 2005 to March 2006: The Winter of `Stock Options' >From the early 2000s, the executives and directors of EADS opportunely took >stock options (the option to buy a certain number of shares at a set price and >to sell them at market value after a given term, with the number of stock >options increasing with individual's position in the hierarchy). Note, that at two points, November 2005 and March 2006, about 1,200 executives sold their stock options, making huge capital gains--EU90 million euros in total--without spending a dime of their own. Over March 8-24, 2006, Noel Forgeard, former EADS executive vice president, also sold his stock options, making a capital gain of EU2.5 million for himself and EU1.2 million transferred to his children to avoid capital gains tax. Especially, Arnaud Lagardère, Jean-Luc's heir, notified the state on March 8, 2006, that his group was selling half of the EADS shares it possessed, altogether 7.5% of the total. On April 4, the sale took place. Ixis Bank, a subsidiary of the Caisse d'Epargne, was given charge to redeem the stock for EU32.60 each and to reallocate the proceeds. The Caisse des Dépôts et de Consignations (CDC) bought 2.25% of Jean-Luc Lagardère's 7.5% share. Immediately afterward, EADS stock plunged, bottoming out at EU18 per share (today it stands at EU22.5). The CDC had to cover EU190 million in losses and the Lagardère group made over EU700 million! In short, by buying these stocks, the state-run CDC bank, permitted a private investor, Lagardère, to make quite a profit! 3) 2007: The Financial Markets Authority Intervention The AMF sent the case to the law enforcement authorities and the testimony of the principal players before the Senate and the Finance Committees was broadcast by the parliament's TV network. What had been known to only thousands of initiates became public: then Finance Minister Thierry Breton was accused of having enriched a private shareholder to the detriment of the state. The question is the following: Did Breton and CDC know that EADS' Airbus, unable to sell its A350, had had to launch the A350 XWB, at twice the cost of some EU10 billion, and especially that delivery of the A380 was suffering from many delays? These two facts--and especially the second--are what sparked the collapse of EADS stock, between March and June 2006. Thierry Breton denied everything, saying he was unaware how serious the situation was at EADS, and that he had only learned about the 2.25% sale to CDC from the press. This line of defense doesn't hold, especially since there is precedent involving the then-minister, the Rhodia affair, from which he came out clean only with great difficulty. Add to that, as then France Télécom CEO, he was accused, with Jean-René Fourtou, in the Nagra affair, for illegal arrangements having to do with GSM mobile phone standards. Three points are incriminating in the EADS case: First, the former minister had in his possession a Jan. 20, 2006 note from the Agence des Participations de l'Etat (APE--State Shareholding Agency), advising him to sell part of the state's 15% share in EADS.
[cia-drugs] CIA collected open source information on Kennedy assassination conspiracies
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20071018 October 18, 2007 -- CIA collected open source information on Kennedy assassination conspiracies publication date: Oct 18, 2007 Previous | October 18, 2007 -- CIA collected open source information on Kennedy assassination conspiracies The Central Intelligence Agency collected a number of articles from open sources that dealt with conspiracies to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The CIA was particularly interested in articles that mentioned alleged CIA involvement in the assassination. The articles, now declassified, were held in official files maintained by the CIA. The CIA was interested in the investigation of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison into Kennedy's assassination. The agency maintained a New Orleans Times-Picayune article from January 21, 1970, the headline of which was "CIA Killed JFK, Says Garrison." A CIA analyst annotated with two check marks passages in the article by Robert Pack. One concerned Garrison's statement at a New Orleans dinner: "Speaking at a $100-a-plate testimonial dinner in the International Room at the Roosevelt Hotel, Garrison said that his statement that the Central Intelligence Agency was responsible for the former President's death was 'not speculation.'" The other passage notated was: "'The Warren Commission Report,' Garrison declared, "told you what did not happen. The United States government was involved in the assassination.'" Garrison's comments on the Warren Report mirror those that are today said about the 9/11 Commission Report -- that both reports were whitewashed designed to cover up monumental crimes of the state. Garrison is also quoted as stating, "The CIA was the agency involved. The CIA killed John Kennedy. But they're not so smart that they can't kill the President of the United States without someone finding out." Garrison also said that he was subjected to an Internal Revenue Service investigation that was drawn out in order to intimidate him away from his investigation of Kennedy's assassination. At the testimonial dinner, comedian Mort Sahl accused The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Life, and Look of trying to unseat Garrison as District Attorney because of his probe into the JFK assassination. Sahl also said President Lyndon Johnson sealed in the National Archives for 75 years many documents concerning the JFK assassination. Garrison was later charged with and cleared of charges that he was involved in taking bribes and being involved in protecting illegal pinball machine operations in New Orleans. Garrison eventually became a Louisiana Appeals Circuit Court judge. Attending the testimonial dinner praising Garrison's work were Louisiana Lt. Governor C. C. "Taddy" Aycock, representing Governor John McKeithen who was to attend but could not due to his father's funeral; New Orleans Mayor Victor Schiro, Louisiana Attorney General P. F. Gremillion. and Mayor-nominee Moon Landrieu, the father of current Louisiana U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu. The CIA files also contained a New York Times article dated January 17, 1970, in which former Dallas Police Chief Jesse E. Curry revealed in a book that "the physical evidence and eyewitness accounts do not clearly indicate what took place on the sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated." Curry wrote that eyewitnesses reported seeing two men standing at the window from which the shots were fired. The eyewitnesses were turned over by the Dallas Police to the FBI for questioning. However, Curry notes the presence of the second man never appeared in the FBI report. Curry also revealed that a paraffin test taken of the side of Oswald's right face did not reveal nitrates from firing a rifle. Curry said Oswald only had a positive nitrate pattern on his hand consistent with the firing of the revolver that killed police officer J. D. Tippitt. The CIA files also contain an article from the Lincoln (Nebraska) Star, dated September 30, 1972, that recounts the statements of Dean Morris, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan and Minutemen. Morris contended that the CIA and "far right groups" assassinated President Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Morris said the Minutemen taught its members how to make bombs and conduct assassinations. Another article found in CIA files, one from the June 1970 issue of Ramparts, reported on an interview with Minuteman founder Robert Bolivar DePugh. DePugh is quoted as saying that renegade Minutemen were involved in President Kennedy's assassination. DePugh told the magazine that he had "some evidence that might explain unanswered questions about events in Dealey Plaza in Dallas." Again, a CIA analyst placed a check mark
