[cia-drugs] Re: 9/11: Gov. Jesse Ventura Has Doubts In Official 9/11 Story
I dearly love Jesse's skepticism about 911; however, I could never understand why he dicked around when he was Gov. of Minn.. He actually refereed a WWF match. At the time I sent him a letter stating that he was given one chance in a million when the people of Minn. elected him and that he should stop F*cking around and do some good. Jesse could have done us all a big favor on the Predator shoot, but, Alas, Ahhnold is now the Governor of Ca. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=62964 9/11: Gov. Jesse Ventura Has Doubts In Official 9/11 Story Gov. Ventura wants 9/11 truth on air defense Total 411 Info/Black OP Radio -Friday, August 20, 2004 Jesse Ventura is discussing a rather large problem with the official 9/11 chronology. This audio clip is from Black Op Radio (July 22nd) BLACK OP RADIO HOST ANITA LANGLEY: On the current situation, do you see any parallels [to the JFK assassination] with the way the 9/11 has been treated? FORMER MINNESOTA GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA: Well, you know... At first, again, I wanted to believe 9/11, you know. But the problem I have with 9/11 is just a real simple one. I'm trying to figure out -- and of course they're now attempting to answer it somewhat -- how we could have failed so miserably in not having air defense. Because if you look back particulalrly -- I don't know if you're familiar -- remember Payne Stewart, the golfer? LANGLEY: Yeah, that's been brought up a few times on this program... GOV. VENTURA: He was flying in a private jet. And when they had that mechanical malfunction that apparently killed everyone on board, and the jet was up there flying on automatic pilot; well it only took them a matter of minutes to scramble a fighter jet and have it up there on the wing. And had Mr. Stewart's plane, if it looked like it was going to go down and hit a metropolitan area, of course they would blow it out of the air. But when they saw it was just going to land in a field in Nebraska [sic. - actually South Dakota], why they just let it go down and crash on its own. And the problem I have with 9/11 is that. Where the heck was our defense? Who was sleeping at the wheel? While all of these planes... I mean, I've been to air traffic control when I was Governor, and you've got a dozen people there looking at these dials, watching every plane in their sector. They know where it's going and they know what direction it's supposed to be going. Now, how is it that these planes were able to be hijacked at half hour intervals, turned directly opposite the way they're supposed to be going and no bells went off, no emergency sirens went off, no fighter jets were scrambled? Just what the hell happened in that area of time?! And that's the part that troubles me about 9/11. HOST LEN OSANIC: Yeah, I find it troubling that the Pentagon got hit at all. GOV. VENTURA: Yeah, I mean, here's the Pentagon, the head of our military. How was this plane able to circle the city of Baltimore [sic. - actually Arlington] at least once, picking out a target, and then drive into it, and we didn't have -- nothing up in the air? There wasn't one scrambled fighter jet up there to defend in any way, shape, or form? Wow. OSANIC: Or a missle battery to defend the Pentagon... GOV VENTURA: Yeah. Anything, anything! And the thing that troubles me about the Bush Administration, nobody ever gets fired... (1 image) 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] Fw: SB and Elihu
- Original Message - From: James Cooper To: RoadsEnd Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 1:12 PM Subject: SB and Elihu Isuggest researching the Elihu Club. Bone ties have been suspected since its founding in 1903. It is said that Bones founded Elihu andactually holdsmany of its meetings inside the walls ofElihu. The open door policy is simply a front for what occurs below ground.Some of the same families are known to havefounded and belonged toboth societies. Notice the Taft family connection. Alfonso Taft founded SB and his grandson (Walbridge Smith Taft)and great grandson (Seth Chase Taft)both belonged to Elihu. More significantly, however, is the presence of Henry Waters Taft on the membership rolls of both SB and Elihu. As you may know, HenryWaters Taft was the son of SBfounder, Alfonso Taft. Here are some of the more well know families obtained from the official Elihu Club roster: Adams Allen Ammidon Bass Bentley Biggs Bingham Bush Buckley Bull Burke Cooper Cowles Forstmann Gile Goodrich Goodyear Emerson Lieberman Pillsbury Sawyer Schiff Schwab Stevens Stewart Stillman Taft (seven members, including Henry Waters Taft, Walbridge Smith Taft, Seth C. Taft.) Thomas Anthony Thacher 1908 James F. Thacher 1945 Templeton Todd Townsend Truesdale Tuttle Tweedy Waddell Walker Weyerhauser http://www.google.com/search?biw=1259hl=enq=Elihu+ClubbtnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?biw=1259hl=enq=Elihu+Club+%2B+skull+bonesbtnG=Google+Search http://www.google.com/search?biw=1259hl=enq=Elihu+YalebtnG=Google+Search --- Elihu Club Incorporated (203) 776-5485 Address: 175 Elm StNew Haven, CT 06511 Cross Street:Between High St and College St ~~~ Elihu Yale - The Great Welsh American Elihu Yale's life spanned a time of great changes in British History and also great achievements in the spheres of the Arts and Sciences, development in the form of government, the foundation of the British Empire and the expansion of trade and commerce. Yale's father was taken to America (seventeen years after the first settlers sailed in the 'Mayflower') by his stepfather to avoid discrimination against the Puritans during the reign of Charles I. Elihu was born in the same year that Charles I was executed and Oliver Cromwell came to power. Rule by an absolute monarch was succeeded by rule by a dictator both apparently equally intolerant of those subscribing to any religion other than their own. The family returned to England during the Commonwealth and must have witnessed the collapse of the Commonwealth after the death of Cromwell and the triumphant return of the Stuarts in the person of Charles II. These were exciting and dangerous times. Elihu must have been in his father's counting house in London during the Great Plague and the Great Fire and during the wars with the Dutch when the Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames, setting fire to British warships and temporarily cutting off London from the sea. This was also the period when Charles II founded the Royal Society to encourage the Arts and Sciences. The age of Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, the poets John Milton and Dryden and many others. While Yale was in India he will have heard of events at home; the accession of James II, the failure of the Monmouth rebellion and the bloody revenge meted out to the rebels by the notorious Judge Jeffreys, the flight of James II and the Glorious Revolution, when William of Orange and Mary were welcomed to the throne of England and James' final defeat at the Battle of the Boyne which consolidated William's hold over Ireland. During this period the foundations of the British Empire were laid. The colonies in the New World were strengthened by emigration from Britain. Trading posts were established on the coast of India which would eventually lead to the inclusion of the whole of the subcontinent as a British possession. After Yale returned from India Queen Anne came to the throne and the Duke of Marlborough won his famous victories against the French. Then in 1714 the Georgian era started with the accession of George I. This was the time when government by Parliament and Cabinet as we know it today first started with Robert Walpole the first Prime Minister in all but name. Walpole was appointed in 1721, the year of Elihu's death. This was also a time when trade and commerce greatly expanded and prospered. When Elihu went to India as a humble 'writer' the East India company was notorious for the small salaries it paid to their servants. Even the Governor was only paid £100 per year. They were no doubt expected to make money by trading with the natives
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [CTRL] Fwd: Your book to come fall 2005 - JFK and Sam
Begin forwarded message:From: RoadsEnd [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2005 9:43:27 AM PDTTo: CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COMSubject: [CTRL] Fwd: Your book to come fall 2005 - JFK and SamReply-To: Conspiracy Theory Research List CTRL@LISTSERV.AOL.COM -Caveat Lector- Begin forwarded message:From: Robert Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2005 9:28:05 AM PDTTo: Millegan Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: Your book to come fall 2005 Begin forwarded message:From: "Wim Dankbaar" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2005 7:12:22 AM PDTTo: "Ed Bishop" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Kris Millegan" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Daniel Marvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fw: Your book to come fall 2005 - Original Message -From: Wim DankbaarTo: John HughesSent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 3:55 PMSubject: Your book to come fall 2005http://www.cumberlandhouse.com/history/jfkandsam.asp John, some grave errors in the anouncement text. (see corrections in red text) JFK and SamThe Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy AssassinationsBy Antoinette Giancana, John R. Hughes, DM(Oxon.), M.D., Ph.D., and Thomas H. Jobe, M.D.Who can hear the words "grassy knoll" or "Texas School Book Depository" without a shudder of horror? Who can forget that one minute the handsome, smiling president was waving to the crowds, and the next minute his wife was bravely trying to hold his shattered head together? The story of what happened on that day is very poignant for Antoinette Giancana. Her father, Sam Giancana, ordered the assassination of President Kennedy. (Disagreed, he helped carry it out, we do not know who ordered it)JFK and Sam is a tale of two murders. The first occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The second occurred in Oak Park, Illinois, on the evening of June 19, 1975. The first was ordered by Sam Giancana to avenge his betrayal by the Kennedys. Giancana had assured JFK's win in Illinois with the understanding that the new administration would go easy on the Chicago mob. Instead, Bobby Kennedy stepped up prosecutions. The second assassination was carried out by the CIA and the mob to prevent Giancana from testifying before the Church Committee hearings regarding his role in the CIA's plot to kill Fidel Castro. The irony is that both men—John Kennedy and Sam Giancana—were assassinated because of their relationship to each other and events that transpired from that relationship.JFK and Sam is unique from other books on the Kennedy assassination. Written by an insider with access to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements on November 22, 1963, and discusses the team leader's life, (Files was NOT the team leader, he was just a rookie) his taped confession, and his face-to-face meeting with Antoinette in the Joliet state prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman.(Files did NOT kill a policeman, Files did not fire a shot, his partner did, in self defense, the cop survived, his name is Dave Ostertag and the truth is that HE tried to kill Files. Please have this corrected)The first shot came from the Dal-Tex building (adjacent to the book depository) and struck Kennedy in the back of the neck. The second came from Giancana's driver (No no no, Files was Nicoletti's driver) who fired a CIA prototype handgun with a telescope (called a "fireball") from the grassy knoll, using a frangible bullet, which explains why there was such a massive wound to Kennedy's head. Lee Harvey Oswald was the fall guy and did not fire a weapon.Coauthors John Hughes and Thomas H. Jobe—experts in neurophysiology, neurology, and neuropsychiatry—also provide expert analysis that show what could not have happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as well as what did happen. Because of the nature of President Kennedy's injuries and his reaction to the bullets, Hughes and Jobe provide a medical basis that supports the story told by the assassin of the president of the United States.ANTOINETTE GIANCANA is the daughter of Mafia chief Sam Giancana, who controlled Chicago in the late 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Mafia Princess, which was made into a movie with the same title featuring Tony Curtis and Susan Lucci.JOHN HUGHES is the director of clinical neurophysiology and professor of neurology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of six books and more than five hundred scientific articles about the brain and its functions.THOMAS H. JOBE is professor of psychiatry and associate director of neuropsychiatry at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is coauthor of Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Tragic Self, A Psycho-Historical Portrayal. www.ctrl.org DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by
[cia-drugs] Italians Detail Lavish CIA Operation
"During January 2003, they were regular patrons at the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan, which bills itself as "one of the world's most luxuriously appointed hotels" and features a marble-lined spa and minibar Cokes that cost about $10. Seven of the Americans stayed at the 80-year-old hotel for periods ranging from three days to three weeks at nightly rates of about $450, racking up total expenses of more than $42,000 there." Italians Detail Lavish CIA Operation13 Charged in '03 Abduction Allegedly Stayed in Finest HotelsBy Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Foreign ServiceSunday, June 26, 2005 MILAN, June 25 -- For 19 American intelligence operatives assigned to apprehend a radical Islamic preacher in Milan two years ago, the mission was equal parts James Bond and taxpayer-financed Italian holiday, according to an Italian investigation of the man's disappearance. The Americans stayed at some of the finest hotels in Milan, sometimes for as long as six weeks, ringing up tabs of as much as $500 a day on Diners Club accounts created to match their recently forged identities, according to Italian court documents and other records. Then, after abducting their target and flying him to Cairo under the noses of Italian police, some of them rounded out their European trip with long weekends in Venice and Florence before leaving the country, the records show. Milan prosecutors and police spent the last two years documenting Americans' role in the Feb. 17, 2003 disappearance of Hussan Mustafa Omar Nasr, 42, an Egyptian cleric. On Thursday, a Milan judge ruled that there was enough evidence to warrant the arrest of 13 suspected CIA operatives on kidnapping charges. The Americans' whereabouts are unknown, and Italian authorities acknowledged that the odds were slim that they would ever be taken into custody. The CIA has declined to comment. While most of the operatives apparently used false identities, they left a long trail of paper and electronic records that enabled Italian investigators to retrace their movements in detail. Posing as tourists and business travelers, the Americans often stayed in the same five-star hotels, rarely paid in cash, gave their frequent traveler account numbers to desk clerks and made dozens of calls from unsecure phones in their rooms. During January 2003, they were regular patrons at the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan, which bills itself as "one of the world's most luxuriously appointed hotels" and features a marble-lined spa and minibar Cokes that cost about $10. Seven of the Americans stayed at the 80-year-old hotel for periods ranging from three days to three weeks at nightly rates of about $450, racking up total expenses of more than $42,000 there. The first operative came to Milan on Dec. 7, 2002 and stayed for 11 days at the Milan Westin Palace, according to the court documents. The others started arriving in early January and by Feb. 1 almost all of them were in place. They eschewed safe houses and private homes, bunking instead at places such as the Milan Hilton ($340 a night) and the Star Hotel Rosa ($325 a night). In early February, most of the operatives gathered for a rendezvous in La Spezia, an Italian seaside resort town on the Ligurian coast, almost a three-hour drive from Milan. Hotel records show that they checked into two hotels in La Spezia but stayed for only a few hours before departing. Some of them then drove to Florence for an overnight trip, but the rest returned to Milan. According to Milan investigators, there were two distinct groups. One crew of six was in charge of planning and surveillance, checking out possible escape routes and procuring cell phones. Each of those people left the country about a week before Nasr was reported missing. The other group -- which included almost all of those whose arrests are now being sought -- was in charge of the kidnapping operation itself, according to court documents. On Feb. 17, shortly after noon, Nasr walked down the Via Guerzoni toward a mosque to attend daily prayers. He was being watched by a crew of eight operatives, who accosted him on the sidewalk, sprayed chemicals in his face and shoved him into the back of a white van, according to an eyewitness statement given to investigators. The Americans, who between them were carrying 17 cell phones, immediately started dialing numbers in Italy and the United States, according to investigators, who reported that by piecing together records of those phones' electronic signals they were able to trace the route of the van as it headed toward Aviano Air Base, a joint U.S.-Italian military installation. The van entered the base without being stopped at the regular security checkpoints, Milan investigators found. Court documents show that a U.S. colonel at the air base in charge of security received three phone calls from the operatives as they drove toward Aviano. Milan prosecutors said they
[cia-drugs] Left, Right, What Difference Does it Make?
Left, Right, What Difference Does it Make?by Mike (in Tokyo) RogersJune 27, 2005 I think there's a good reason why so-called Liberals are easy targets for derision. I believe it has a lot to do with a serious problem in the analytical thought process department. I mean, it seems they have a problem in thinking seemingly simple things through logically. The Neo-cons, on the other hand, are just out-and-out crooks and masters of deceit. Being skilled in dishonesty – and getting away with it – requires years of practice as well as a very gullible audience. Here's where American Joe-Average – who is always readily taken advantage of – steps in along with his very dim Liberal friends. The combination of the two makes for, literally, an entire carnival of little kids to steal candy from. In a recent article, Liberal writer Joe Conason counter-attacked Karl Rove because of Rove's attempts to divert American public attention away from the Downing Street memo, George Bush's lies, and the disastrous Iraq War. Up to his tried and true trickery, Karl Rove started pointing fingers at events of 9/11 and using them as justification for questioning the patriotism of Liberals in America. Mr. Conason writes: "In attacking liberals' reaction to Sept. 11, Bush's senior advisor once again resorts to McCarthy-style tactics. Karl Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He is not a patriot but a pure partisan, as his own record proved long before now." Well, I don’t have too many problems with this so far. Of course Rove is a liar and a scoundrel. He's involved with American politics isn't he? Of course he's not a patriot but a pure partisan – did you Liberals just figure that one out? If so, no wonder we're in the mess we're in. What planet have you guys been living on? Here's where the problem for you, dear reader, and yours truly comes in; we have the liars and scoundrels on the one side; and the liars, scoundrels, and simpletons on the other. Take your pick. Then Mr. Conason really drops my jaw when he writes: "The truth is that liberal New York – and the vast majority of American liberals and progressives – stood with the president in his decision to invade Afghanistan and overthrow the Taliban. On the day of the attacks, I wrote a column that endorsed "hunting down and punishing" those responsible because the dead deserved justice – and noted that when the culpability of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban was established, the United States 'is fully capable of dealing with them.' " You can't be serious here. On the day of the attacks?! You, Mr. Liberal, supposedly the guys who are to be sticking up for the little guys – you actually wrote a column condoning the bombing of innocent people in Afghanistan on the day of the attacks – before any proof was presented?! And you are boasting about it? You are bragging about being suckered? Astounding! Maybe I missed something here, but I seem to remember that Colin Powell promised proof that Osama bin Laden was responsible for Sept. 11, within 72 hours after the event. I don't ever remember when any proof was given yet to this day. Do you? No wonder the so-called Liberals in America are so gutless and worthless. I can't believe that Liberals cannot see the crass hypocrisy and brainlessness of all this. How was bombing and murdering 20,000 innocent Afghani old men, women, and children to make up for – or compensate – 3,000 people who were murdered in a crime? That's right a crime – not an "act of war," Mr. Conason? I do not believe that there could be a single logically thinking person in the entire world who could come up with a suitable answer to that question. Then he goes on to write: "Six weeks after 9/11 and two weeks after the United States started bombing the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, I appeared on CBS's 'Early Show' to support the Bush administration's actions. Correspondent Lisa Birnbach made the point that liberals and Democrats who had once opposed the war in Vietnam were standing shoulder to shoulder with a president they didn't much like (and, although she didn't mention it, whose legitimacy they continued to doubt). "Noting the ubiquitous presence of American flags as we walked around the very liberal neighborhood where I live, Birnbach said, 'This old lefty [Conason] is suddenly siding with the White House.' " Pathetic. Simply pathetic. I do not wish to seem rude, but what is written here seems the apex of hypocrisy. What was it, Mr. Conason and the rest of you Liberals, that made you so blind to what was obviously going on? Was it a group "victim" complex? Or was it a savage primordial urge for revenge – an urge to show someone your powers of domination? No wonder right-wing drug addicts can go on the radio and make you guys look like flip-flopping idiots. We, the people, have the liars, cheaters, thieves, and war-criminals on the one side; and we have their flip-flopping enablers on the
[cia-drugs] US, Canada, Mexico to Tighten Security
"Deep integration uses security as a Trojan Horse for the complete surrender of our sovereignty to North American big business." U.S., Canada, Mexico to Tighten Security By BETH DUFF-BROWN, Associated Press WriterJune 28, 2005, 7:13 AM EDT TORONTO -- The United States, Canada and Mexico pledged Monday to shore up security by integrating their terrorist watchlists and beefing up joint protection of borders and bridges. At the same time, they promised to expand what is already the world's largest trading partnership by developing a single program to facilitate the free flow of people and goods across their shared borders. "We are three countries, three friends living in the same neighborhood, so we have a common interest in our mutual security and our mutual prosperity," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a news conference in Ottawa after he and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts unveiled their list of targets and initiatives. "We want to confront external threats; we want to prevent and respond to threats to North America and we want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders," Chertoff said. "The more secure our region is, the more our prosperity will flourish." Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan said 300 proposals were under review to ensure security and the free flow of North American trade and harmonize the screening of dangerous people or cargo. "The proposals today will go a long way toward protecting North America, while maintaining each country's sovereignty," she said. Monday's session follows the March 23 formation of a Security and Prosperity Partnership initiative announced by President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and Mexican President Vicente Fox after their meeting in Waco, Texas. The three leaders, who have sought to improve coordination since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, asked their top security and trade ministers to report back within 90 days on initiatives to enhance security and promote the economic well-being of their citizens. Some other proposals include: * Coordinating programs to ensure governments are prepared for large-scale emergencies or terrorist attacks; * Joint protection of critical cross-border infrastructure, such as the Ambassador Bridge that spans the Detroit River and facilitates one-fourth of the daily $1.4 billion in trade between Canada and the United States; * Strengthening approaches to maritime and aviation security; * Establishing a second site for a Canada-U.S. pilot project that would check cargo and passengers before they cross the border; * And creating a single, integrated program to allow "trusted travelers" who frequent the borders to travel quickly by air, land and sea. The partnership initiative has its detractors, who are concerned that further integration of North American security and trade will be skewed toward big business and a threat to Canada's sovereignty. "Deep integration uses security as a Trojan Horse for the complete surrender of our sovereignty to North American big business," Peter Julian, a New Democratic Party member of Parliament, told the House of Commons earlier this month as he pledged to fight the plan. On the economic front, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez and his Canadian and Mexican counterparts, David Emerson and Carlos Abascal, said they would develop a coordinated strategy to combat counterfeiting and piracy by the end of next year; create more regulatory consistency and further integrate their automobile and steel industries; and relax rules that will allow for an additional $25 billion worth of duty free goods. Gutierrez said the United States, Canada and Mexico have a trading relationship worth more than $700 billion a year; an increase of 88 percent between 1993 and 2003. "So we have a lot of jobs and a lot of prosperity tied to this very important trading relationship," Gutierrez said, but added: "No market economy can thrive without safety and security for its people. The threats we face require seamless cooperation that extends beyond our borders." Emerson said the three nations must stand as one powerful trading block against other growing economies. North America accounts for one-third of the world's gross domestic product and he said investors would continue to look toward North America only if it is competitive. "The rest of the world has not been standing still -- far from it," Emerson said. "A booming China is changing the competitive landscape and causing the reconfiguration of global supply chains. India is not far behind; the European Union, despite recent setbacks, will continue to get bigger and stronger." The White House praised the efforts of the ministers, who said they would report back to their leaders in the fall. "Their report represents an important first step in achieving the goals of the SPP," read a statement from the White House. * On the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] WMR-W admin cooked the books on Russian Iraqi intel2justify wardefense budget increases,TURNED OVER THE STATE'S FOSTER CHILDREN TO CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST GROUPS AND PEDOPHILES (IN SOME CASES, THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME),FINANCIAL ADVISER IN TEXAS, KARL ROVE TRASHED THE STATE'S PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM. MANY SMALL HOSPITALS IN POOR URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES WERE CLOSED. THE ACT WAS A WINDFALL FOR HCA (HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA), CALLED THE WORST HMO IN TEXAS. OF COURSE, THE SENATOR WHO DIAGNOSES PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE PATIENTS FROM FIVE YEAR OLD VIDEOTAPES, BILL FRIST, IS THE HEIR TO THE HCA FORTUNE,SMUGGLING RING THAT INVOLVES TRANSPORTING MEXICAN MIGRANT FAMILIES TO FARM LABOR CAMPS IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 12 ARE USED AS CHILD PROSTITUTES WHILE THEIR PARENTS AND OLDER SIBLINGS SLAVE AWAY ON LARGE AGRI-BUSINESS FARMS. Pentagon running a vigilante squad
Begin forwarded message:From: Our bill of rights [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2005 10:36:22 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctrl [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] WMR-W admin cooked the books on Russian Iraqi intel2justify wardefense budget increases,TURNED OVER THE STATE'S FOSTER CHILDREN TO CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST GROUPS AND PEDOPHILES (IN SOME CASES, THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME),FINANCIAL ADVISER IN TEXAS, KARL ROVE TRASHED THE STATE'S PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM. MANY SMALL HOSPITALS IN POOR URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES WERE CLOSED. THE ACT WAS A WINDFALL FOR HCA (HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA), CALLED THE "WORST HMO IN TEXAS." OF COURSE, THE SENATOR WHO DIAGNOSES PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE PATIENTS FROM FIVE YEAR OLD VIDEOTAPES, BILL FRIST, IS THE HEIR TO THE HCA FORTUNE,SMUGGLING RING THAT INVOLVES TRANSPORTING MEXICAN MIGRANT FAMILIES TO FARM LABOR CAMPS IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 12 ARE USED AS CHILD PROSTITUTES WHILE THEIR PARENTS AND OLDER SIBLINGS SLAVE AWAY ON LARGE AGRI-BUSINESS FARMS. Pentagon running a vigilante squadReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ June 29, 2005 -- Bush administration cooked the books on Russian and Iraqi intelligence to justify war and defense budget increases. Latest intelligence agency involved in politicization -- the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC). Bush's Iraqi centrifuge aluminum tubes were Egyptian-made knock-offs of Italian gun barrels captured during Desert Storm. MORE June 28, 2005 -- Names of U.S. agents wanted in kidnaping of Egyptian cleric in Italy revealed. CIA likely taking a bum rap here. These may primarily be Task Force 121 vigilantes operating under authority of National Security Council. MORE June 28, 2005 -- DEVELOPING STORY! BUSH "FAMILY VALUES" -- TEXAS AND FLORIDA ARE CASE STUDIES: IF ANYONE EVER HAD ANY QUESTIONS ON BUSH FAMILY VALUES, THEY NEED LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THE TWO BUSH BANANA REPUBLICS ("STATES") HEADED UP BY BUSH GOVERNORS. THREE DIFFERENT STORIES HAVE COME TO OUR ATTENTION AND ARE DEVELOPING. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join 1. WHILE HE WAS GOV. OF TEXAS (1995-2000), GEORGE W. BUSH'S DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE AND REGULATORY SERVICES (DPRS), NOW CALLED THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES IN AUSTIN ILLEGALLY TURNED OVER THE STATE'S FOSTER CHILDREN TO CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST GROUPS AND PEDOPHILES (IN SOME CASES, THEY WERE ONE AND THE SAME). 2. WHILE BUSH'S FINANCIAL ADVISER IN TEXAS, KARL ROVE TRASHED THE STATE'S PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM. MANY SMALL HOSPITALS IN POOR URBAN AND RURAL COMMUNITIES WERE CLOSED. THE ACT WAS A WINDFALL FOR HCA (HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA), CALLED THE "WORST HMO IN TEXAS." OF COURSE, THE SENATOR WHO DIAGNOSES PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE PATIENTS FROM FIVE YEAR OLD VIDEOTAPES, BILL FRIST, IS THE HEIR TO THE HCA FORTUNE. 3. FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS ARE LOOKING INTO A FLORIDA- AND GEORGIA-BASED SMUGGLING RING THAT INVOLVES TRANSPORTING MEXICAN MIGRANT FAMILIES TO FARM LABOR CAMPS IN FLORIDA AND GEORGIA. GIRLS AS YOUNG AS 12 ARE USED AS CHILD PROSTITUTES WHILE THEIR PARENTS AND OLDER SIBLINGS SLAVE AWAY ON LARGE AGRI-BUSINESS FARMS. OFFICIAL JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATIONS OF THIS RING HAVE BEEN SHUT DOWN ON THE PERSONAL ORDERS OF GEORGE W. BUSH WHILE JEB BUSH HAS STYMIED INVESTIGATIONS OF THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INTO MISSING FOSTER CHILDREN IN THAT STATE. MISSING CHILDREN ADVOCATES CITE TEXAS AND FLORIDA AS THE NATION'S TWO WORST STATES WHEN IT COMES TO MISSING FOSTER CHILDREN AND OTHER MINORS UNDER STATE PROTECTION. U.S. NORTHERN COMMAND AND RAYTHEON INK DEAL WITH SAUDI-SEEDED SATELLITE NETWORK FOR HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY DOMESTIC COMMUNICATIONS June 27, 2005 -- Although WorldSpace, a privately-owned company, is headed up by an Ethiopian-American, much of its original financing came from Saudi Arabian sources. WorldSpace holds $1.5 billion in IOUs to the Saudis. In fact, Saudis once owned 86 percent of the international satellite network, that, among other media, transmits XM Radio. Raytheon, the contractor for the Mobile Enhanced Situational Awareness Network (MESA), will use XM Radio satellites for North American coverage and WorldSpace birds for global coverage extending to Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The satellites will be used to coordinate military and emergency personnel in emergency situations. According to Israeli intelligence sources, Israel was once concerned that up until the time that WorldSpace's Saudi financiers were paid off to sever their connections with the firm, Al Qaeda-linked and Wahhabi-funded religious groups might have used the global satellite network to broadcast terrorist coordination messages and propaganda to their worldwide supporters. Read the Boston
Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: [Spy News] Salvador Option: Death Squads in Iraq
"We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" "Insurgent actions are responsible for the bulk of [45 journalist] deaths[45 in two years...while US has ONLY killed 3 of those 45 in the past 7 DAYS! New and improved, this week only!!!]", (see "Mao-Mao Countergang Tactic", "Vincent Petruskie", etc) "Donald Rumsfeld said,Why would I even talk about something like that?" "the director of Baghdad's central morgue began noticing that the bodies of Sunni Muslim men were turning up after the men had been detained bypeople wearing Iraqi police uniforms" Ghathanfar al-Jasim, who sits on Iraq's national judicial council andfunctions as an attorney general, said it was difficult to discuss extrajudicial killings. "We cannot admit that our police are doing it; it would make them look WEAK" [in front of their mentors!] "battered corpses turn up outside Interior Ministry facilities" "Pentagon may put Special-Forces-led assassination or kidnapping teams in Iraq. Today, Knight-Ridder reports that the Death Squads seem to have arrived in an article titled Campaign of executions feared in Iraq. Slain Sunnis have arrived at Baghdad's morgue blindfolded, bound and shot.The author of today's K-R article himself was shot and killed" "We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/24/ AR2005062401529_pf.html By AIDAN LEWIS The Associated Press Friday, June 24, 2005; 10:52 PM ROME -- An Italian judge on Friday ordered the arrests of 13 CIA officers for secretly transporting a Muslim preacher from Italy to Egypt http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/middle_east/2928153.stm Two cameramen, working for Reuters and Spain's Telecinco, were killed when a shell hit the hotel which houses hundreds of foreign journalists. There is video footage of an American Abrams tank firing at the building. Earlier, a correspondent for the Arabic TV broadcaster al-Jazeera was killed when US missiles hit the network's office "We continue to warn news organisations... you should not be there Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clark" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/16/ AR2005061600253_pf.html By JUDITH INGRAM The Associated Press Thursday, June 16, 2005; 6:52 AM MOSCOW -- Russian prosecutors have determined that a former separatist Chechen official who was the subject of a book by U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov ordered his murder... Klebnikov also was widely known for a book about controversial tycoon Boris Berezovsky. After Klebnikov wrote a profile of Berezovsky for Forbes in 1996, Berezovsky filed a libel suit against the magazine in Britain. He withdrew the suit in 2003 after the publication acknowledged it was wrong to allege he was involved in the murder of... television personality Vladislav Listyev http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/ AR2005062101365_pf.html By TRACI CARL The Associated Press Tuesday, June 21, 2005; 7:34 PM MEXICO CITY -- Members of one of Mexico's most powerful drug cartels were responsible for the death of a Tijuana investigative journalist last summer, according to a media watchdog group that was briefed by a Mexican federal prosecutor. Francisco Javier Ortiz, editor of Zeta newspaper, was fatally shot on June 22, 2004, in Tijuana. He had long specialized in reporting on organized crime and drug trafficking Liberating the Poppies in Afghanistan from Religious Fundamentalist Taliban or "Students"-- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/ 2005/06/28/AR2005062800125_pf.html By Andy Mosher Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, June 29, 2005; A16 BAGHDAD, June 28 -- In Baghdad, American soldiers killed an Iraqi news executive when he did not pull over as a U.S. convoy passed on a road in Baghdad, according to Muhanad Jawad, a physician quoted by the Associated Press. Ahmed Wael Bakri, a program director at al-Sharqiya TV, was the third Iraqi journalist alleged killed by U.S. forces in similar incidents in the past week. The U.S. military said it was investigating. On Sunday, Maha Ibrahim, a news editor with al-Iraqiya television in Baghdad, was killed in the capital when U.S. troops opened fire after apparently coming under attack, channel director Saad al-Bayati told the Associated Press. On Friday, [Yasser Salihee] an Iraqi reporter working for an American news organization was shot and killed in Baghdad, allegedly by U.S. troops, after he apparently did not respond to a shouted signal from a military convoy, witnesses said. Special correspondents Khalid Alsaffar and Omar Fekeiki contributed to this report. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/28/ AR2005062800955_pf.html The Associated Press Tuesday, June 28, 2005; 4:44 PM BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops allegedly killed an Iraqi television
[cia-drugs] Cointelpro 9.11: Death Threat in San Diego
http://madcowprod.com/Cointelpro 9.11: Death Threat in San DiegoJune 29, 2005 Venice, FL--An eyewitness to pre-9.11 intrigue in San Diego involving the infiltration of as many as 200 still-unknown Middle Eastern men into the U.S. received a death threat in the middle of the night of June 3rd from an Iranian exile, former SAVAK agent, arms dealer for the Shah of Iran and convicted felon.Joe Cicchese, a witness quoted in a recent story in the MadCowMorningNews was threatened with his life in a brief but chilling 4.30 a.m. phone call from 53-year old Sam Koutchesfahani, with whom he hadn’t spoken since they worked together 10 years ago in a San Diego-area motel.In the aftermath of the incident the MadCowMorningNews renewed its probe into Koutchesfahani, and we have discovered his story contains several implausible but real connections with the scandal unfolding currently embroiling Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, and unregulated casinos."Let sleeping dogs lie" must not be a proverb in Persia.read the story 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] Only the Grief of the Children: Video/Text - A Must See
Only the Grief of the Children: Video/Text - A Must See June 28, 2005 Only the Grief of the Children Under the Same Sun reader Pesic asked for pictures of the banner that was unfurled inside the courtroom. It was not composed of, as it was sometimes reported, pictures only of Fallujah, but a compilation from around Iraq. I have some pictures of it, as well as a video of it being circled around the room. It's pretty hard stuff to look at, but there it is: It was later placed on the street right outside the courtroom: And the video can be found here. (It may be a bit slow in loading.) Brendan Smith and I co-wrote a piece for Truthout about the Tribunal which can be found here. Here's how we described the moment the banner was brought in, as well as testimonies from that same panel: Former US Air Force combat veteran Tim Goodrich stunned the jury by revealing his role in the "softening up" of Iraq months before the US declaration of war. "We were dropping bombs then, and I saw bombing intensify," Goodrich explained to a hushed room. "All the documents coming out now, the Downing Street memo and others, confirm what I had witnessed in Iraq. The war had already begun while our leaders were telling us that they were going to try all diplomatic options first." ... Goodrich's testimony had just begun when a 75-foot banner prepared by the Iraqi delegation and composed of harrowing pictures of Iraqi child victims of the war was carried into the courtroom. In the presence of the father of one of the victims shown on the banner, Goodrich and others stood and a moment of silence spread through the room while the banner was carried through the hall. The teeming press contingent rushed to photograph the scene as some members of the audience cried. Continued plus embedded links to article and VIDEO: http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/#entry_551306 Or http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent/551306.html MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://www.livejournal.com/~mparent/ __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] Fw: [JBirch] Yahoo tracking your websites - opt out now
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[cia-drugs] Test Faults Processing of Passports
It's not just incompetence or understaffing, consider bribery and/or treason. - JR http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/politics/29passport.html?pagewanted=print June 29, 2005 Test Faults Processing of Passports By ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON, June 28 - The names of more than 30 fugitives, including 9 murder suspects and one person on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most-wanted list, did not trigger any warnings in a test of the nation's passport processing system, federal auditors have found. Insufficient oversight by the State Department allows criminals, illegal immigrants and suspected terrorists to fraudulently obtain a United States passport far too easily, according to a report on the test by the Government Accountability Office to be released Wednesday. The lapses occurred because passport applications are not routinely checked against comprehensive lists of wanted criminals and suspected terrorists, according to the report, which was provided to The New York Times by an official critical of the State Department who had access to it in advance. For example, one of the 67 suspects included in the test managed to get a passport 17 months after he was first placed on an F.B.I. wanted list, the report said. The State Department also too often fails to aggressively pursue leads that could allow the government to catch black-market sellers of fake identification documents essential to getting a fraudulent passport, said Michael Johnson, a former State Department security official. Once issued, a passport typically becomes a critical tool for illegal immigrants who are seeking work or who want to travel internationally, as well as for people involved in drug smuggling, money laundering, Social Security fraud and even terrorism, the federal auditors said. "A fraudulent passport can enable a holder to conceal his true identity and his citizenship," said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and chairwoman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "These are exactly the kinds of problems that allowed the terrorists to attack our country." The security committee is scheduled to hold a hearing on the subject of passport fraud on Wednesday. State Department officials said they were already moving to expand the crosschecking of passport applications against more complete lists of suspected criminals and terrorists. But they disputed reports that the department had been lax in its investigation of suspected fraud. "The United States passport, I believe, is among the most valuable documents on the planet," Maura Harty, assistant secretary for the State Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs, said in an interview on Tuesday. "What we have is a tremendous challenge knowing how people who ought not have a passport would like to try to get one from us." The State Department has long been engaged in a campaign to crack down on passport fraud, which with older, less tamper-proof passports was often simply a matter of switching a photograph. Current passports have the bearer's image laminated onto the identification page, with a holograph over it. Soon, the State Department plans to issue electronic passports embedded with a computer chip containing a digital image and biographical information about the holder. But the department has not done enough, federal auditors say, to prevent people using fraudulent documents from getting passports. Mr. Johnson, who was the special agent in charge of the Miami field office of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security from 2002 to 2004, said the department placed too much emphasis on rapidly processing passport applications. He also said it insufficiently pursued suspicions of fraud, missing opportunities to arrest leaders of crime rings that sold forged documents. He said that while he was in Miami, he was asked by his bosses to terminate investigations into more than 400 cases because the department did not have enough staff to complete the inquiries within a year. In the G.A.O. report, the State Department did not dispute that many cases had gone unresolved, saying that "the field officers had been encouraged to close old cases." The real problem, Ms. Harty said, is the ease with which people can obtain fraudulent identification, like birth certificates, to apply for a passport. The State Department, she said, tries to block fraudulent applications by checking them against other records, like Social Security files. Ms. Harty said that to screen passport applicants better, she had secured commitments from the F.B.I. and the federal Terrorist Screening Center to provide more complete access to records, including the comprehensive list of suspected terrorists. "Nobody should have a passport in an attempt to flee from prosecution," Ms. Harty said. Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be
[cia-drugs] Venezuela Colombia and Cuba find an echo at the UK UNISON conference
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=39555 Published: Wednesday, June 29, 2005Bylined to: Jorge Martin Venezuela Colombia and Cuba find an echo at the UK UNISON conference Hands Off Venezuela's Ray Smith reports from Glasgow (Scotland) that on the occasion of the UK National Conference of UNISON (public sector workers union) the Hands Off Venezuela and the Colombia Solidarity Campaign supporters in UNISON organized a meeting, June 22, to catch the attention of the delegates attending the conference of the biggest trade union in Britain. The appeal of the meeting went beyond the UNISON conference and there were several students from the University of Glasgow, some Labour party members as well as Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) members who were responsible for organizing the meeting. Andy Higginbottom, Colombia Solidarity Campaign Secretary, opened the meeting. Andy explained the relationship between paramilitaries, government and multinational companies in Colombia who are right behind the onslaught that the social and trade union movement has suffered over 20 years. This repression has worsened since Uribe Velez was elected as president of Colombia in 2003. Andy illustrated the level of collaboration of the Colombian army and the paramilitaries by saying that the same soldiers wear the armbands of the Colombian army and the AUC (the main far right paramilitary group), depending of the actions they are going to execute. He also presented the Coca-Cola boycott as a tactic to denounce the violence that this company is employing against their workers in Colombia. Ramon Samblas, Hands Off Venezuela spokesperson, followed on by explaining the improvements that the Venezuelan Revolution has brought about. It was really inspiring to hear that four new universities had opened their door with the aim of providing education to these layers in society that had never had this chance before. But all of that [the social programs on housing, education and healthcare] has not been free from harassment and attacks from the US administration and the Venezuelan oligarchy. They can see that their power is slipping through their fingers and they have organized reactionary attempts to defeat this movement, Ramon said to the audience. He went on explaining the different attacks on the part of US imperialism against Venezuela: coup detats, lock-outs, terrorism, diplomatic harassment, amongst other. The HOV activist reported on the experiences of workers co-management and finished up his contribution explaining the need for going all the way through, completing the process and install socialism in the country. The debate that Hugo Chavez has sparked about the need of the Venezuelan Revolution to follow a socialist path will help for sure. Rosie Kane, SSP Member of the Scottish Parliament reported on her trip to Cuba where she had the chance to meet Fidel Castro. The MSP was invited to Cuba to attend an international event where people from all over Latin America and beyond denounced the crimes of imperialism. During three days, hundreds of people gave accounts of the abuse and violence they had suffered because of the terrorist methods of US imperialism. All these accounts were broadcast by Cuban TV which reaches the neighboring islands and some Latin American countries. While in Cuba, Rosie spoke on Western hypocrisy and the need of tackling it together with the system that sustains it, capitalism. In her contribution, she despised British media because of the lack of interest in the struggle of the Cuban people against US imperialism. She illustrated this with an anecdote that happened to her the day after she came back from Cuba. A Guardian journalist phoned her and asked her, What do you think about the architecture of Scottish Parliament building? Her answer was For Christs sake, I have met the leader of the Cuban Revolution and you are asking me about the Scottish Parliament Building! She finished her contribution by saying that we have to support all the revolutionary movements that are taking in Latin America and the groups that are developing solidarity with these movements from Britain. When the main speaker, Colombian trade unionist Juan Carlos Galvis started his speech there were 80 people packed in the room. Extra chairs had to be brought in to accommodate everybody. Some people had to stay outside because there was not enough space for them all. Juan Carlos spoke on behalf of SINALTRAINAL (Colombian beverages and food workers union) about the actions that the trade union had taken at a worldwide level against the abuse and violence that his trade union had suffered by Coca-Cola. Juan Carlos has been working for this company for 16 years. He explained how SINALTRAINAL had opened four court cases against this company in the United States with the help of one of the US trade union that organize workers in the food and beverages
[cia-drugs] Despite Concerns, NASA Is Planning to Go Ahead With Shuttle Launching
This is intended to reinforce the public's belief that a broken off chunk of insulation caused the Columbia disaster. The real evidence says otherwise. This is false bravado about a non-existent risk. - JR http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/29/science/29shut.html?pagewanted=print June 29, 2005 Despite Concerns, NASA Is Planning to Go Ahead With Shuttle Launching By JOHN SCHWARTZ NASA got some unexpected and unsettling news on Monday, when its own advisory panel said the agency had not fulfilled all of the safety goals it had promised to meet before returning the shuttle fleet to orbit. But it is planning to go ahead anyway, launching the Discovery in as little as two weeks. "I think, based on what I know now, we're ready to go," Michael D. Griffin, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, told the House Science Committee yesterday. It may sound like a recipe for trouble, or worse, especially since the work left undone includes three of the most critical recommendations of the board that investigated the loss of the Columbia in 2003, including elimination of the kind of launch debris that doomed the Columbia and the development of on-orbit repair techniques. Yet few experts, even some of those who have been critical of the space agency, seemed troubled by the failure to fulfill those recommendations completely. The consensus of these experts is that while missions are inherently risky, the remaining shuttle fleet has been made much safer over all. "Our goal in the return-to-flight recommendations was to break the causal chain between debris shedding and killing astronauts," said John M. Logsdon, the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, who was a member of the investigative board. NASA's actions, he went on, "have broken the chain in enough places that the spirit of the recommendations has been accomplished." Another board member agreed. "In some cases, it wasn't 'solve this problem completely,' it was 'get started on this problem,' " said James Hallock, an aviation safety official at the Department of Transportation. On Capitol Hill yesterday, Dr. Griffin told lawmakers that the board's recommendation were "admirable goals," but that "we have reduced the level of risk due to debris damage to an acceptable level." That is a different tone than had been expressed by Dr. Griffin's predecessor, Sean O'Keefe. Before he retired this year, Mr. O'Keefe repeatedly said NASA would, as he put it in June 2003, "comply fully without any equivocation" with the recommendations. Members of the independent investigation board and of the group that monitored NASA's progress in meeting the recommendations said that the agency had made impressive progress in upgrading safety, and that missing the high mark did not mean that the shuttle was too risky to fly. Moreover, they said, things had changed considerably since the Columbia Accident Investigation Board issued its scathing final report in August 2003. Five months later, President Bush announced that NASA would retire the shuttle fleet by 2010, so recommendations that would have taken many years to fulfill, like toughening the brittle carbon composite panels that line the leading edges of the wings and nose of the shuttle, were abandoned. Richard O. Covey, the former astronaut who served as co-chairman of the advisory panel, said in an interview yesterday that "those things that remain undone are not a reason to consider the space shuttle unsafe." The investigation board, he said, had "set a high standard," and his advisory group had decided early on to interpret the recommendations strictly - a decision that he said put the panel "in a box." NASA, he said, has done "an extraordinary amount" to reduce risk. And although some of the presentations from NASA on the chance of catastrophic damage from ice falling from certain areas could be as high as 1 in 180, the overall risk appeared to be acceptable, and he did not doubt the methods used to determine the risk level. The decision to fly, he said, must rest with NASA. Dr. Logsdon, of the Space Policy Institute, said risks were an inevitable part of human spaceflight. For example, he noted that when a shuttle blasts off, "you're detonating the equivalent of a small nuclear weapon, in terms of explosive power." In an interview this month, Dr. Griffin, the NASA administrator, said the risks were much on his mind. "We understand the shuttle a lot better than we ever did before," he said. "To our chagrin, but we do." Mr. Covey said that if he were an astronaut today, he would no longer be concerned about the risks of foam and ice. Instead, he said, "I'd be focusing on those other things that have traditionally been concerns," like the shuttle's main engines, "and those things that we do not know about yet." Plans for the Space Station By The New York Times WASHINGTON, June 28 - The Bush administration
[cia-drugs] Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, June 29 (RHC) - Cuban President, Fidel Castro, arrived in the Venezuelan city of Puerto La Cruz to attend the first Energy Summit of Caribbean Heads of States scheduled to kick off in that city Wednesday.
http://www.periodico26.cu/english_new/cuba/fidel290605.htm Cuban President Fidel Castro in Venezuela for Energy Summit Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, June 29 (RHC) - Cuban President, Fidel Castro, arrived in the Venezuelan city of Puerto La Cruz to attend the first Energy Summit of Caribbean Heads of States scheduled to kick off in that city Wednesday. The gathering is reportedly aimed at setting up Patrocaribe, a regional enterprise based on economic complementation rather than competition. The Cuban leader was welcomed by his counterpart Hugo Chávez at the airport. The Cuban delegation is also made up of the island's Vice-President Carlos Lage; and the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Government and Foreign Investment and Cooperation, Felipe Pérez Roque, Ricardo Cabrisas and Marta Lomas respectively, and the President of Cuba's Central Bank, Francisco Soberón. Upon his arrival, Fidel Castro and Chávez agreed that the world is on the verge of an energy crisis which they described as almost apocalyptic, due to the continued unsustainable energy policies in industrialized countries. The Cuban leader noted that the current tendencies in the area of energy are leading the world to a survival crisis. President Fidel Castro added that there is no choice for Latin America but integration. The Petrocaribe project goes far beyond the commercial sphere, including aspects such as prospecting, production, storage, supply and exchange of technology. The Energy Summit of Caribbean Heads of State, sponsored by Hugo Chavez, will be attended by representatives from 16 countries from the Caribbean basin to promote the area's integration in the field of energy. The Puerto La Cruz Summit includes representatives from Venezuela, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Santa Lucia, San Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago and the Dominican Republic. 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] Venezuela's success will benefit all of Latin America
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/12012542.htm Venezuela's success will benefit all of Latin AmericaBY BERNARDO ALVAREZ HERRERAVenezuela Ambassador to the United States (KRT) - U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's opinion piece, `` CAFTA vital to Latin stability, security and democracy,'' incorrectly alleges that Venezuela's government is ``attempting to subvert the democratic governments in the region.'' Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, whose political party has won eight free and fair elections in the past six years, is part of a new democratic trend spreading throughout the region. Progressive, more-inclusive democracies, intent on providing health care, education and fundamental social services to their impoverished and historically excluded populations, are emerging in every corner of the Americas. The Chavez administration has invested millions of dollars in a wide array of social programs that have brought primary, secondary and university education; basic health services, including clinics and dentistry; and subsidized food to the country's poorest. Venezuela has also been at the forefront of efforts to ensure that Latin American countries effectively pursue policies that manifest a greater political and economic cohesiveness than ever before. This is needed to enable the region to confront the massive problems it faces and invest wisely for its future needs. Likewise, the Venezuelan government has pursued an innovative energy strategy, reaching out to other countries regardless of political or economic ideology, in an effort to diversify its markets and supply the world's energy needs. In March, India and Venezuela signed an agreement that will allow India's ONGC Videsh Ltd. to jointly produce oil with PDVSA, Venezuela's national oil company. Also, Venezuela has put together an Energy Cooperation Program that allows countries of the hemisphere to finance a significant part of their oil requirements, offering them long-term, low-interest loans with generous grace periods. International commerce has particularly benefited from strong economic growth; in 2004, Venezuela's economy grew by 17.3 percent, one of the highest rates of growth in the region, climbing dramatically from its trough of prior years. Foreign investments in the region are steadily expanding; Venezuela is the United States' 16th-largest economic partner with nearly $29 billion worth of trade last year, behind only Mexico and Brazil among Latin American countries. Trade with Colombia has consolidated under the Chavez administration, as Colombia has become Venezuela's second-largest trade partner after the United States. Of significance is that American businesses have invariably benefited from this economic progress and the government's openness to foster fruitful commercial relationships. Next week, the first Venezuela-U.S.A. business round table will be held in Caracas. This public policy initiative will seek to define and finalize business transactions between Venezuela and its U.S. commercial partners in the short, medium and long term. Furthermore, the Venezuelan government has been active in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking. In 2004, Venezuelan authorities interdicted more than 43 tons of cocaine, a 33 percent increase from 2003. In March, President Chavez, along with the president of Brazil, vowed to support Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's efforts to end his country's decades-long civil war. To this end, Venezuela has a cooperative agenda with the Colombian authorities regarding the control of the common border and the presence of irregular forces in that area. Venezuela has turned over members of the FARC and ELN through legal, bilateral extradition processes. All extradition requests made by Colombia have been granted by Venezuela. Today, Venezuela is seeking the extradition from the United States of the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban-Venezuelan citizen accused of masterminding a 1976 attack on a Cuban airplane that led to the death of 73 innocent civilians, including a pregnant woman. Let us be clear: Venezuela is a strong security ally for all countries, including the United States, that seeks to end the scourge of terrorism. Venezuela's pursuit of an economic development model that allows all citizens to benefit from economic prosperity - not just a privileged few - will do much to alleviate the grievances and conditions that give rise to terrorism. Our success will benefit all of Latin America. It will also benefit the United States. It will do so in the context of respect for each country's self-determination, its sovereignty and adherence to universal human rights principles. The history of what has happened before in Latin America, in terms of stability, democracy and human rights, cannot be changed in just a few years. But a foundation for a new, more prosperous and politically and
[cia-drugs] Venezuela seeks to build oil alliance with the Caribbean
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_business?id=86127186 Venezuela seeks to build oil alliance with the Caribbean PUERTO LA CRUZ, Venezuela (AP) - With oil prices hitting record highs, Caribbean countries are looking with interest to a Venezuelan plan that promises to bring them oil sales on preferential terms. Leaders from across the Caribbean will join Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday for talks on forming a new joint company, Petrocaribe, aimed at building a regional oil alliance and distributing fuel more cheaply. Chavez says the initiative is about more than just bargain oil prices, and represents the "union of the Caribbean." Others say the plan is simply "oil diplomacy." While many Caribbean islands stand to benefit economically, Venezuela will likely gain political capital by winning allies for its frequent disputes with the United States, said Bishnu Ragoonath, a political science professor at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. "Chavez is seeking regional support for his administration, and that is what he's getting in return for the cheaper fuel prices," Ragoonath said. "It's simply a matter of shoring up support." Opponents of the Venezuelan president accuse him of pursuing his political aims through selling oil cheaply to his close ally Cuba and other Caribbean countries. Chavez has defended plans for Petrocaribe - and a similar South American joint venture called Petrosur - as a way to help both Venezuela and the region while moving toward a more cooperative international economy. "Petrocaribe is a means of deepening our energy and integration policy toward the region," Information Minister Andres Izarra told reporters in the northeastern city of Puerto La Cruz. "It's a political initiative." A harsh critic of capitalism and a U.S. government Chavez calls "imperialist," he says he is leading Venezuela toward socialism. He also is firmly opposed to the U.S.-proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas and has instead sought to build support for his own brainchild, the Bolivarian Alternative trade pact, named after independence hero Simon Bolivar. Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter, already has special deals to provide oil to a number of Caribbean countries, as well as nations from Uruguay to China. Venezuela and Mexico supply subsidized oil to 11 Central American and Caribbean countries under the 1980 San Jose pact. Last year, Chavez signed a deal with the Dominican Republic to sell up to 50,000 barrels a day of oil with preferential financing. Two months ago, Venezuela opened a new office in Havana for its state-run oil company Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., and announced it had upped sales to Cuba to 90,000 barrels a day. In turn, Fidel Castro's government has sent thousands of Cuban doctors to Venezuela, where they work treating the poor for free. Chavez has said Castro will not attend this week's oil meeting and that Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage will attend in his place. Officials said delegations from 15 countries were expected, including the leaders of Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and Dominican Republic. 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.
