[cia-drugs] FBI Turned Loose: Privacy rights may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes
FBI Turned LoosePrivacy rights may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes by Nat HentoffJune 23rd, 2005 6:16 PM [Since 9-11] the Constitution has gone from an objective to be satisfied to an obstacle to national defense. . . . As these changes mount, at what point do we become other than a free and democratic nation? George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2003 Civil liberties had their origin and must find their ultimate guarantee in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine [votes on the Supreme Court] could not long supply its want. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, Douglas v. City of Jeannette (1943) On June 6, in a closed-door session, the Senate Intelligence Committee approved a bill that, if Congress and the president agree (and he will), would dramatically expand the FBI's powers under the Patriot Act to issue secret administrative subpoenas for an unprecedented range of personal recordswithout having to go to a judge. The FBI will write its own subpoenasjust as British customs officials in the colonies did before the American Revolutionusing general search warrants (writs of assistance) to go into homes and offices at will to look for contraband. These raids so inflamed 18th-century Americans that the "general search warrant" was one of the precipitating causes of our revolution. The ACLU's superb Washington staff bluntly explains the impact of the proposal: "This power would let agents seize personal records [it deems relevant to an intelligence investigation] from medical facilities, libraries, hotels, gun dealers, banks and any other businesses, without having to appear before a judge, and without any evidence that the people whose records are collected are involved in any criminal activity." (Emphasis added.) If the FBI is targeting you in its dragnet operations for some amorphous connection to terrorism (do you go to a mosque or organize against the war?) you will not know that your personal records have been seizedand put into any number of data banks. Since these are secret administrative subpoenas, the third-party record holders who get them can't tell you what they've given up to the FBI. While this unleashing of the FBI was being debated at a May 24 open hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, several Democrats asked a highly pertinent question of a witness, Valerie Caproni, general counsel for the FBI: Is there any evidence that the delaycaused by having to get a judge's approval for a subpoenahas ever harmed national security? This was her answer: "Can we show you, because of delays, that a bomb went off? No, but it could happen tomorrow. It could." The administration's shadow Constitution, made up as Bush goes along, trashes the rule of law on the basis of what might happen. That's how so many thousands of Japanese Americans were herded into internment camps during the Second World War as the army gave false prospective information to President Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court. If anything like 9-11 happens here again, startled speculation, fueled by fear, could bring back those internment campswith a multicultural range of inmates. Listening to the FBI general counsel's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee was Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein of California, who, until that moment, had been a stalwart defender of the Patriot Act, much to the administration's delight. Hearing Valerie Caproni justify awarding the FBI such overwhelming authority that this administration had previously failed to get through, Senator Feinstein was somewhat shaken. "This is a very broad power," she said, "with no check on that power. It's carte blanche for a fishing expedition." She got it! Because that vote was taken at a closed session of the Intelligence Committee, the yeas and nays have not been officially revealed. (And George W. Bush calls this "a transparent democracy"!) But I have learned that four Democrats voted against the bill as a whole, including the FBI's expanded administrative subpoenas. They were Dianne Feinstein, Jon Corzine of New Jersey, Carl Levin of Michigan, and Ron Wyden of Oregon. Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas, the aggressive chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, moved this bill fast to steal a march on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which also has oversight authority over the Justice Department and its FBI. Among the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, ranking minority member Patrick Leahy of Vermont, Richard Durbin of Illinois, and Russell Feingold of Wisconsinthe latter being the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act in 2001should mount strong opposition to the administrative subpoenas and other parts of the bill. For example, empowering the FBI to get from postal inspectors, The
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [IPCUSA] DEA Agent Seizes Woman's Plastic Surgery Money at Airport
Begin forwarded message:From: Milo [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 25, 2005 6:34:11 AM PDTTo: George [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [IPCUSA] DEA Agent Seizes Woman's Plastic Surgery Money at AirportReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DEA Agent Seizes Woman's Plastic Surgery Money at AirportNews Views for Anarchists Activists:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygoAPDEA Agent Seizes Woman's Plastic Surgery Money At AirportPOSTED: 10:09 am EDT June 24, 2005BOSTON -- A woman who apparently stuffed $46,950 in cash in her bra before trying to board a plane to Texas for plastic surgery has sued a federal agency, demanding the return of her money.The money was seized from Ileana Valdez, 26, after a security check at a metal detector at Logan International Airport on Feb. 3. Valdez told authorities she was heading to Texas for plastic surgery on her buttocks and breasts."I don't know why she was carrying it in her bra," said Boston lawyer Tony V. Blaize, who filed the suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Boston.In her suit, Valdez said a male Drug Enforcement Administration agent told her she had a nice body and didn't need surgery -- and then seized the cash, claiming it was drug money.Valdez said she has no criminal record and earned the money by selling her Dorchester business and two parcels of property in Boston's Jamaica Plain section.Anthony Pettigrew, a spokesman for the DEA in Boston, said he could not comment on the lawsuit. But he said federal asset forfeiture laws allow agents to seize suspected drug profits.-- Dan Clore-- No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 6/24/2005[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IPCUSA/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] More evidence of colossal Iraq error
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 25, 2005 5:25:01 AM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] More evidence of colossal Iraq errorReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050625/NEWS/506250338/1022More evidence of colossal Iraq errorJune 25, 2005The story in the June 22 Times Argus, titled "CIA: Iraq Fertile Ground forTerrorists," states that "[a] new, classified assessment by the CentralIntelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effectivetraining ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in al-Qaida'searly days."The study concludes what most thoughtful people will already have surmised:that the American invasion of Iraq has provided "real-world" training forinternational terrorists, giving them unequaled opportunity to improve theirskills and experience, especially in the art of car-bombing and suicideattacks. Can anyone in this country reasonably continue to defend thearrogance, duplicity and stupidity of the current administration?Rick WestWorcester-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net CAUTION! # Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] CIA agents face arrest in Italy over kidnapping of imam: report
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 25, 2005 5:24:57 AM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] CIA agents face arrest in Italy over kidnapping of imam: reportReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/afp/20050624/pl_afp/italyusspyislam_050624150824CIA agents face arrest in Italy over kidnapping of imam: reportFri Jun 24,11:08 AM ETROME (AFP) - Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for 13 agentsof the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) accused of kidnapping anIslamic leader in northern Italy, an Italian newspaper reported.Osama Mustafa Hassan, also known as Abu Omar, was seized in a street ofMilan on February 17, 2003, by two Italian-speakers claiming to want tocheck his identity. He has been missing since, the Corriere della Serareported.Hassan was the former imam of a Milan mosque which had been placed underclose watch following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.The CIA agents are suspected of abducting Hassan and transferring him to theUS military base at Aviano in northern Italy, and from there to an Egyptianjail, where his entourage claim he was tortured during interrogation.Milan prosecutors twice asked the Egyptian authorities for information aboutthe whereabouts of Hassan, who is under investigation in Italy as part of aninquiry into international terrorism, but to no avail.The warrants were issued by Italian Judge Chiara Nobili at the request ofthe anti-terrorist division of the state prosecutor's office, the papersaid.The CIA agents targeted included the alleged head of the operation, who wasan accredited diplomat with the US consulate in Milan at the time, theCorriere wrote, quoting reports by Milan magistrates.According to the paper, the Italian investigators are in possession ofphotographs of all the agents involved in the operation, as well as detailsof their accommodation, mobile telephones, passports and credit cardrecords.-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net CAUTION! # Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] More evidence of colossal Iraq error
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 25, 2005 5:25:01 AM PDTTo: "!SPY NEWS" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [Spy News] More evidence of colossal Iraq errorReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050625/NEWS/506250338/1022More evidence of colossal Iraq errorJune 25, 2005The story in the June 22 Times Argus, titled "CIA: Iraq Fertile Ground forTerrorists," states that "[a] new, classified assessment by the CentralIntelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effectivetraining ground for Islamic extremists than Afghanistan was in al-Qaida'searly days."The study concludes what most thoughtful people will already have surmised:that the American invasion of Iraq has provided "real-world" training forinternational terrorists, giving them unequaled opportunity to improve theirskills and experience, especially in the art of car-bombing and suicideattacks. Can anyone in this country reasonably continue to defend thearrogance, duplicity and stupidity of the current administration?Rick WestWorcester-__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal http://mprofaca.cro.net CAUTION! # Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS eGroup members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml --- SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca http://mprofaca.cro.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Neoconservatives Speechless!
Begin forwarded message:From: elvis oner [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 24, 2005 9:27:18 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], o [EMAIL PROTECTED], om [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], quiche [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Neoconservatives Speechless!Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Neoconservatives Speechless! by Karen Kwiatkowskiby Karen Kwiatkowski Neoconservatives from the left, right and middle, including George W. Bush, believe that they create their own reality, live in their own world, and make their own history. It¡¦s kind of funny how they don¡¦t want to talk about it right now.Freshly ironed World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, when asked about the Downing Street Memoranda, had this to say:"There will be a time and place to talk about history," he added, "but I really don't believe it's now." Highly classified and eyes-only official government records, written by the British counterpart to George Tenet at the time, record the Bush decision in early 2002 to invade Iraq ¡V long before the Congress or the American public was alerted by the administration to any national security risk involving Iraq. The Downing Street memoranda also indicate that the George W. Bush administration crafted and disseminated half-truths and falsehoods to Congress and the media to support this predetermined policy. I saw it, many others saw it, and we could not stop it. Each and every day since the war in Iraq was illegally launched, long before actual invasion in March 2003, people have died as a result. Cities and entire nations have been destroyed as a result. Billions and billions of U.S. borrowed money ¡V added to the oppressive tab already owed by our children and grandchildren ¡V has been wasted as a result. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join These memoranda from Downing Street, circa 2002, also indicate that the Bush administration was attempting ¡V through increased military attack beyond enforcement of the Northern and Southern No-Fly Zones and through an obscenely oppressive international inspection regime ¡V to goad Saddam Hussein into some action that could then be used to justify a military action by the United States. Tragically for the neoconservatives, Saddam Hussein did not take the bait. He sat passively as the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy attempted to soften up the Iraqi battlefield. Saddam Hussein eagerly welcomed the most intrusive inspection regime imaginable. The inspectors had full access, and they ¡V like David Kay¡¦s team after them ¡V found no weapons of mass destruction. No stockpiles, no existent capability, no programs. But Wolfowitz prefers not to discuss such history. He remains, in his own mind, a hugely successful instrument in gaining the war he had long fantasized and craved. What¡¦s not to like?Where is Donald Rumsfeld on the Downing Street Memoranda? Increasingly, Rummy seems to embody the utter dementia that permeates the current administration. He seems to not to understand questions, not to have seen the news, not to have heard of the policy, not to be aware of the facts, not to conceive of the gravity of his personal situation in historical terms. Ah, but there is time for that later, they say. Dick Cheney, beyond identifying and denunciating presumed enemies of America behind every shrub at the Naval Observatory and beyond, has had little to offer. While Cheney makes history ¡V for himself, Halliburton, Iraq, energy policy and American neoconservatism ¡V discussion of that history can wait. Let¡¦s not talk about it now. George W. Bush gave another speech this week, regarding energy. It occurred to me again, as I watched and listened to his words, that we have elevated only knaves and fools to Washington. Like Spanish conquistadors witnessed for the first time, we believe them gods and kneel. Perhaps a better analogy is seen in The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle dropped from an airplane leads to a new "culture" of worship for an African tribe ¡V a culture filled with hatred, envy, and discontent. Young George spoke this week about future energy technologies, ethanol from corn, and bio-diesel from soybeans. He said taxpayers should be glad that he is spending "our money" to pay for programs to teach people to conserve energy and to subsidize research into energy saving practices, devices and vehicles. Higher oil prices ¡V made higher by wars and threats of war and embargoes and government managed international trade and expansion of unpopular U.S. military operations around oil pipelines and fields ¡V in another world, would amply fuel this type of alternative energy research. But no, the American government needs to extract more tax receipts and can somehow
[cia-drugs] Is Condoleezza Rice a patsy?
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Part two: Who Created Condi
Rice?
By Linda Minor
Excerpt:In an earlier piece we posed the question:
Is Condoleezza Rice a patsy? In the world of psychological operations
("psyops"), a "patsy" refers to a decoy deliberately inserted into a psyop to
deflect attention away from a team performing a special activity (such as an
assassination or coup d'état), thus allowing the team time to escape unnoticed
while the patsy takes the blame. "Psyop" is a word used in intelligence circles
to describe the entire operation, including a cover-up by media, designed to
manipulate psychologically the belief mechanisms of the nation for political
reasons.It appears that Condi was groomed most of her life to be used in
this way. She is not an actual decision maker, but a mere shield, as is her
boss, George W. Bush. They have served their purpose by getting America involved
in the war in Iraq. They are now disposable.
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[cia-drugs] Venezuela, Brazil and Argentinean Presidents prepare new summit date
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=38932 Published: Friday, June 24, 2005Bylined to: Vanessa Carolina del Valle Marcano Venezuela, Brazil and Argentinean Presidents prepare new summit date ABN reports: According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry (MRE), the Venezuelan, Brazilian and Argentinean governments have begun a consultation process to set a new date for the trilateral Presidential Summit scheduled for next Tuesday, June 28. The summit was suspended on June 23, after it was known that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was not going to be able to travel to Venezuela. The Presidential meetingincluding Brazilian PresidentLula Da Silva, Argentinean President Nestor Kirchner and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez willfocus on ways to strengthen a central axis for South American integration. Some projects currently being studied in this context are the creation of Petrosur, an energy integration proposal, Telesur, a regional TV station, as well as the Bank of the South, among others. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] OPEC's clout wanes, but rebound possible
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/11984477.htm OPEC's clout wanes, but rebound possibleRISING SURPLUS IN OIL `CUSHION' COULD PROMPT CARTEL TO CUT OUTPUT, MAINTAIN PRICE LEVELSBy Brad FossAssociated Press WASHINGTON - OPEC's inability to bring down the cost of oil has helped push U.S. gasoline prices above $2 a gallon for the past three months. But don't jump to any conclusions about the cartel's influence or intentions in the market. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could be in a stronger position next year if analysts' forecasts of a growing supply cushion prove to be correct. While that would ease traders' jitters and probably make oil cheaper, it might also put OPEC in the mood to cut production to prevent prices from falling too far. OPEC officials, who this week said they are considering boosting their output target by 500,000 barrels a day, insist they aren't to blame for the latest surge in oil prices to the record $60-a-barrel level. They say their aim is to ease prices to keep the global economy from seizing up. But traders dismissed the latest effort -- as well the OPEC agreement June 15 to raise its output target by half a million barrels July 1 -- because it would further deplete OPEC's already thin supply cushion. On Friday, August crude futures settled at a record closing price of $59.84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange after earlier rising as high as $60. ``It's clear that OPEC has lost control of prices in the near term,'' said Yasser Elguindi, senior managing director at Medley Global Advisors in New York. Impact on markets Rising oil prices also prompted a sell-off on Wall Street this week; the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its second consecutive 100-point-plus loss Friday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 123.60, or 1.2 percent, to 10,297.84, after plunging more than 166 points Thursday. The Standard Poor's 500 index dropped 9.16, or 0.8 percent, to 1,191.57. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index lost 17.39, or 0.8 percent, to 2,053.27. For the week, the Nasdaq was down 1.8 percent, the Dow was down 3.1 percent and the SP 500 declined 2.1 percent. Analysts said a wide range of factors is contributing to the 60 percent surge in oil prices in the past year that are beyond OPEC's control. For starters, economists worldwide failed to predict last year's 3 percent surge in global oil demand, with half of that growth coming from China. This was compounded, analysts said, by years of under-investment in new production and refining capacity. Even now, flush with cash as a result of high prices, major oil companies are using large sums to buy back shares and raise dividends. This is partly out of fear that the higher prices won't last, but also reflects the opportunity constraints the industry faces as oil-rich nations such as Venezuela and Russia make it ever more expensive for foreign companies to gain access to their natural resources. Supply disruptions following the war in Iraq, Hurricane Ivan and labor strife in Venezuela have also taken a toll on market stability. ``It's a bit naive to think that it's up to OPEC to open the taps and flood the market,'' said Antoine Halff, director of global energy at Eurasia Group in New York. And yet, with crude inventories steadily rising around the globe, the roughly 30 million barrels a day that OPEC has been pumping cannot be ignored. ``Stocks have been rebuilt by quite a bit,'' Halff said. Above year-ago level U.S. crude supplies stand at 327.4 million barrels, or 8 percent above year-ago levels, according to the Energy Department, which said this week that ``inventories remain well above the upper end of the average range for this time of year.'' Whether the economic and political uncertainty around the globe justifies the level of fear gripping energy markets or not, analysts said the underlying factor -- the extremely thin supply cushion -- could begin to dissipate in 2006. New oil development projects in Saudi Arabia and in some non-OPEC countries will soon come on line, and demand growth is slowing in China and the United States, they said. PFC Energy, a Washington-based consultancy, estimates that OPEC's spare production capacity, now about 1.5 million barrels a day, is on pace to rise as high as 2.7 million barrels a day a year from now. While not as large as the supply cushion of 3 million to 5 million barrels a day that the markets were accustomed to in the 1990s, this could be enough excess production capacity to allow prices to begin falling. At that point, PFC and others warn, OPEC may step into its role of reining in output to defend prices. ``What we don't know is what level they want prices to stay at,'' Elguindi said, though he emphasized that the days of $25 a barrel as a suitable level are long gone. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links
Fwd: [cia-drugs] In Washington, China has gotten almost too big to criticize
Ah, think of the beauty of it! It took billions of dollars and a Cold War to finally turn the Chinese (ex) Communists into free market capitalist wheelers and dealers. And the Dragon has now turned around and bitten Uncle Sam in his ass. Be careful of the children you bear, if you do not teach them good morals or proper manners! How sharper than a serpent's truth is the thankless child. Blow back once again! From: Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 12:10:37 -0700 Subject: [cia-drugs] In Washington, China has gotten almost too big to criticize In Washington, China has gotten almost too big to criticize By Edmund L. Andrews The New York Times Friday, June 24, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24trade.html WASHINGTON, June 23 -- For the Bush administration and even for many members of Congress, China has become almost too big to bash. A day after one of China's state-controlled oil companies made an unsolicited $18.5 billion bid for Unocal, a California oil and gas company with extensive fields in Asia, administration officials and many lawmakers were almost tongue-tied about the implications. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, asked whether he would lead a national security review of the deal, hesitantly told members of the Senate Finance Committee that the question was hypothetical because the transaction has yet to happen. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said virtually nothing about the deal. But he used some of his bluntest language ever to warn lawmakers against imposing tariffs on China as a way to pressure it over its exchange rate policies. For months, many lawmakers in both parties have become almost frantic about China's soaring trade surplus and its impact on American manufacturers. Anxiety is so high that Republican lawmakers from industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania are loath to vote for anything that sounds like a free-trade agreement. But anxiety is at least as great about a disruption of American business ties to China. I think there is a reluctance to confront China, said Rep. Phil English, a Republican from Pennsylvania and the leader of the congressional steel caucus. The problem is that many companies are depending on Chinese inputs and on imported goods to sell at retailers. China is also a leading creditor of the United States; it acquired more than $200 billion of Treasury securities over the last year. Moreover, China is already home to a growing number of American- owned factories, many of them exporting to the United States, and a large number of factories that are suppliers to American companies. For the last two years, the Bush administration has struggled to balance competing economic goals. It wants to persuade China to let its currency rise in value, which would make Chinese imports more expensive in dollar terms, even as it works to fend off proposals from Congress to impose high tariffs if China refuses to change its policies. On Thursday, Mr. Snow argued that it would be dangerous to impose punitive actions on China. Not only would it be a mistake to threaten China with tariffs if it refuses to let its currency float, he said, but it would also be a mistake to subject China to countervailing duties in cases where it illegally subsidizes exports. Acting on any of the punitive legislative proposals before Congress now would be counterproductive, Mr. Snow told lawmakers. Mr. Greenspan, testifying at the same hearing, said it was a major mistake to think that American jobs would be increased even if China did change its currency policies. I am aware of no credible evidence that supports such a conclusion, Mr. Greenspan said. Tariffs on Chinese imports would protect few, if any American jobs, he continued, and would materially lower our standard of living. But the political debate about China is lagging behind events on the ground. The $18 billion bid for Unocal by the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC), China's third-largest oil company, was merely the latest and by far the biggest move by a Chinese company to buy a formidable American company. The move represents an evolution for China from being a major exporter, using its earnings to acquire Treasury securities, to becoming a significant foreign investor in hard assets as well. Administration officials made it clear Thursday that a deal with Unocal would almost certainly be subjected to an interagency review over its implications for national security. But Mr. Snow was extremely hesitant when asked about it by Sen. Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon. It's hypothetical at this point, because we don't have a transaction, Mr. Snow said, adding that a foreign company taking over a company in a potentially sensitive
[cia-drugs] MUST READ! (if you can find a copy...)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/074532309X/qid=1119722069/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-4101286-0404634 A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Orderby F. William Engdahl Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Drowning in Filth
Drowning in Filth by John Chuckman (Friday June 24 2005) [Snip] The Downing Street Memos - Eyes-Only, Secret documents also leaked in the U.K. - are irrefutable proof that Bush had the invasion of Iraq planned almost a year before it occurred, before all his phony outrage about weapons or support for terror. It points, too, to intelligence and diplomacy being deliberately bent to the purpose. It is rare for historians to have such evidence of plans and intentions, especially at so early a date after an illegal war. The only other example I can think of is the Nazi government's papers falling, completely intact, into the hands of the Allies. Yet the American press has minimized these revealing documents by misrepresenting them, under-reporting them, and playing with words when they are reported. Instead, we were treated to a sentimental love-in over memories of two cub reporters at the Washington Post three decades ago during the last days of Richard Nixon. It followed the revelation of just who Deep Throat was, a high-level government source for the reporters at the time. It was re-assuring that the Washington Post managed one act of serving the public thirty years ago. They certainly have done nothing worthwhile since. One of those daring cub reporters, Bob Woodward, has since gone on to such meaningful work as singing the praises of America's current brutish-thug President. Last, we have a genuine investigative reporter, one of America's last, a remarkable man named Seymour Hersh, telling us that sadistic horrors are contained in tapes from Abu Ghraib prison never released to the public. They contain, among other things, pictures of young boys being sodomized and the soundtrack has their screams. http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/427119.html Related: The Big Brass Alliance was formed in May 2005 as a collective of progressive bloggers who support After Downing Street, a coalition of veterans' groups, peace groups, and political activist groups formed to urge that the U.S. Congress launch a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. The campaign focuses on evidence that recently emerged in a British memo containing minutes of a secret July 2002 meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top national security officials. 599 Blogs have joined the Big Brass Alliance111 Congressional Leaders have signed John Conyers' Letter450,978+ Citizens have demanded an investigation http://www.bigbrassblog.com/bba/ MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://www.livejournal.com/~mparent/ For today's news overview scroll to bottom and work up : http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/2005/06/ __Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Bushs' quotes
I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God. - George H. W. Bush 8/27/1987 Let's forgive the Nazi war criminals. - George H. W. Bush 4/14/1990 See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. - George W. Bush 5/23/05 [1](http://www.wgrz.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=28697) Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. - George W. Bush Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th; malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists, themselves, away from the guilty. - George W. Bush They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush 8/5/2004 Who cares what you think? - George W. Bush July 4, 2001 Retrieved from "http://conwiki.com/index.php?title=Bad_Quotes" Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] CIA Tradecraft
tradecraft: The methods used in clandestine operations such as espionage. -- http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=8q=tradecraft I recently started CIA Tradecraft to house my research on the intelligence community and world affairs. With over 1000 links to (abstracts of) articles, I've even compiled some of the raw data into an essay series entitled State of the Notion. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia_tradecraft/ At the very least, check out the Gadgets folder which has tons of funky technologies. You don't need to join the group to have access to the Links and Messages, though membership is highly appreciated. I also host older essays on topics like Cloning and Brain Implants that have been used as college course material. The Open Directory Project and Wikipedia even list a couple of my essays. Maybe you'd be interested in my popular page on Two-Headed Babies or want to see my collection of Simpsons screenshots. And if you are a victim of Disney or just want to know more about that Empire, I host a support group with scores of links. You can access all of my material from http://www.SkewsMe.com . Lately I've been having fun exercising my writing muscles after being invited to pen the Mind Control entry at the new Conspiracy Wiki encyclopedia: http://www.ConWiki.com I try hard to provide timely, accurate information. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed considating it on the web. http://www.SkewsMe.com Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Conspiracy! (the song)
In 1996, a complete song popped into my head along with memories of having written it in 8th grade in a secret operation as part of a program started by disgruntled CIA agents decades ago in response to such abuses as MKULTRA. With a little help we quickly produced the song and I got to see some of it performed at a nearby highschool before being wiped again and returned to my parents with no immediate recollection of anything mysterious having occured other than not remembering more than about ten minutes of the two or three hours the shrinks had me and my mom insisting they hadn't said I had mild autism after confiscating the medical records as she had done before when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Conspiracy! (1984) Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah Nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah F*** you! I know The Secret The one eluded to Psychological manipulations Conditioning through and through Aggression from frustration Reaction from a sign Stimulus, suggestion Making kids lose their mind Conspiracy! Insane The day that I was born I took the world by storm Supposed to be veg. Instead I made a pledge To remember All the things that they did I'd remember As an adult but not a kid Why? Conspiracy! I was trained I heard the starlings cry like children And I wondered why Adoptive mom and dad You know? They got real mad They locked me away They had wanted me gay To mask the mem'ries of molestation From when I was a babe Conspiracy! I was maimed I knew the world was wrong I figured I could be strong Body and mind was bent Cuz, I was Heaven sent To remember Autism and crazed come Spring I remember Systematic poisoning Why? Conspiracy! I was flamed The War on Crime Is actually a war on marijuana They'd have us shoot the line Control the dosage Then cause trauma Riddling Ritalin crazy Selling candy like its gravy Cannibinoid hazy Action, reaction And acting all ravy Conspiracy! Still got a brain --- Some time after the flashbacks began, my thoughts informed me that I had a brain implant and was communicating mentally with my handlers. At the time I knew nothing about implants and of course didn't believe it, so I decided to test the theory. Like a Ouija Board I let my eyes roam over the reading material in front of me as I wrote down the letters my eyes stopped on. This was a long process and I wasn't paying attention to the letters I was writing. During this period, my eyes felt strange, as if being controlled by someone other than myself. When my thoughts informed me that I was finished, I had what looked like a word that I'd never heard of so I looked it up: Epicureanism: the philosophy of Epicurus who subscribed to a hedonistic ethics that considered an imperturbable emotional calm the highest good, held intellectual pleasures superior to others, and advocated the rununciation of momentary in favor of more permanent pleasures. (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (© 1977)) That I had just written the name of a philosophy I'd been following for years without knowing it was rather spooky. At that point I started following the strange orders my thoughts were telling me. Maybe a week later my thoughts steered me to the Seattle Space Needle and the strange sensation in my eyes pointed them at a star just above the early morning southern skyline. After several seconds of staring at the dot of light, it suddenly took off at a tremendous rate of speed to the west. Several seconds later, the roar from it finally reached me. It was strangely loud for being so distant and there were no sonic booms. At that point I became convinced that I've got an implant. Plus there's the flashback of requesting one when I joined the CIA offshoot. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] State of the Notion -- The CIA Today
State of the Notion -- The CIA Today 28 March 2005 (updated 5 April 2005) by SkewsMe.com There is a spate of recent chatter regarding the CIA. At the expense of not delving into past CIA accomplishments, I'd like to provide a synposis of what is currently happening within the intelligence community. So what is the chatter? Most notible is the process known as extraordinary rendition, started during the Reagan years, but put into full force by Bush after 9/11. It is estimated that between 150-200 prisoners have since been rendered to countries that may include torture in their interrogation techniques.[1] Top officials deny that the prisoners are being flown to countries for the purpose of torture, but there are an increasing number of claims of abuse. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said that if the United States sends a prisoner abroad, then our nation's Constitution no longer applies.[2] pA sock in the arm for the CIA is the disclosure that one of its informants, a man called Curveball, regarding the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq apparently fabricated non-existant capabilities. Intelligence discrediting Curveball was available before Colin Powell's pre-war speech to the United Nations but was withheld in order to continue the White House's drive to war. pAnother blow is the CIA's nearly 60-year run as the undisputed center of power and influence in the secret world of intelligence[3] coming to an end with the appointment of John D. Negroponte to Director of National Intelligence (DNI). Negroponte, as you may remember, was U.S. ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, during a time when the Reagan administration was secretly arming right- wing Contra forces with the aim of ousting the progressive, Sandinista-led government in Nicaragua next door.[4] Negroponte had [also] previously served as ambassador to Iraq, Mexico and the United Nations.[5] John Negroponte is a multi-millionaire who has made a lot of money off of owning stock in companies that benefit directly from the war and occupation of Iraq. During his 41-year career with the State Department, or as some have called it Death Squads Inc., he and his cronies shepherded a murder machine from Vietnam to Iraq.[6] Since 9/11 the CIA has also begun spying on Americans here in the US, a move that is outside their jurisdiction. A secretive government commission recently scrutinized the CIA for expanding its spy activities inside the United States and for failing to share key intelligence with the FBI, the New York Daily News has learned.[7] Similarly, the nation's electronic intelligence agency [NSA] warned President Bush in 2001 that monitoring U.S. adversaries would require a permanent presence on networks that also carry Americans' messages that are protected from government eavesdropping. [The document] raised questions about how new global communications technologies were challenging the Constitution's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.[8] Even the FBI and Pentagon has gotten into the spy business,[9] though a study contracted by the Pentagon has concluded that the Defense Department should not take charge of the CIA's paramilitary functions.[10] The Bush administration has adopted a new counterintelligence strategy that calls for attacking foreign spy services and the spy components of terrorist groups before they can strike, a senior U.S. intelligence official said,[11] a continuation of Bush's so- called preemptive defense. But reshuffling of agencies' priorities has had its share of problems. The Terrorist Threat Integration Center (which has since been renamed the National Counter-Terrorism Center) mission was to fuse the various strands of information collected by the government's 15 intelligence arms, including the FBI, CIA, NSA and Homeland Security. Instead of competing, officials from each agency would work together inside the new office. [But] analysts from different agencies had different clearances, making it difficult for them to talk to one another.[12] The Congressional Research Service questions whether the primacy of the DNI (Negroponte) is undermined by establishing a separate reporting channel to the president for certain counterterrorism operations.[13] While the agency has turned into a government bureaucracy like any other, its managers and employees preoccupied with endless reams of restrictive regulations and simultaneously caught up in many of the newfangled pathologies of the American workplace,[14] CIA Director Porter Goss has complained that he feels overwhelmed by his new job. [15] One such result seems to be that he intends to rid the agency of those who do not fall into line with Bush administration policies in the Middle East and elsewhere, leading some high officials to leave the agency and to widespread morale problems.[16] To top that off, the Court has ruled that state secrets should stay secret and that
