[cia-drugs] Fw: Turkey Plans Iraq Invasion, Orders All Military Leave Cancelled
Does anyone know definitively if the US wants the various regions of Kurdistan to be united?It doesn't seem logical that it does, but I difer to those who are experts in this area of the world instead. Peace, Arlene Johnson -Forwarded Message- From: Sorcha Faal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 20, 2007 1:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Turkey Plans Iraq Invasion, Orders All Military Leave Cancelled [Ed. Note: This report should be read from its website location at http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index995.htm as this email copy does not contain the links embedded in the original report.] March 20, 2007 Turkey Plans Iraq Invasion, Orders All Military Leave Cancelled By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers In yet another blow to the Global War aims of the United States, the most militarily powerful Nation in the Middle East, Turkey, has ordered its Military Forces to prepare to invade Iraq. Prime Minister Erdogan, along with the head of Turkeys Military Forces, General Yasar Buyukanit, have taken this extraordinary step over the United States failure to contain the growing threat of Iraqs Kurdish population and their fears that the Americans plan to set up an Independent Kurdish Nation. According to Turkish press reports all Military leave in Turkey has been cancelled in preparation for war, and as we can read as reported by Turkeys Zaman News Service in their report titled Turkey readying for spring offensive against PKK, and which says: The leaves of military personnel have been canceled and additional forces have been deployed to the border with Iraq as the military apparently prepares for an operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The measures come amid frustration with US inactivity against the PKK and the expected infiltration of PKK militants from their mountain bases in northern Iraq with the arrival of spring. The military put all troops on alert at the Iraqi border after receiving intelligence reports that the PKK would carry out attacks as the snow melts in mountain passes, thus easing passage from Iraq to Turkey. The United States has further inflamed the passions of Turkeys Political and Military Leadership with the American US Congress planned adoption of a resolution condemning Turkeys Armenian Genocide, to which Turkey has vehemently denied. Though the American White House and the United States Top Military Leaders have urged the US Congress not to adopt an Armenian Genocide measure their efforts appear to be failing, and to which Turkey has warned will call for the immediate expulsion of all US Military Forces from Turkish soil. American War Leaders knowing of Turkeys intention to invade Iraq have, likewise, issued the Turks a warning: The United States made it clear on Monday that it certainly opposed any Turkish military action inside northern Iraq to fight the terrorist Kurdistan Workers Party's presence there. A top Turkish military commander at the weekend reaffirmed Ankara's right under international law to send troops into northern Iraq to attack the PKK terrorists hiding there if it saw fit. Under international law, Turkey can always take measures against the terrorist organization in northern Iraq if our military needs require it, Army Commander Gen. Ýlker Baþbuð told reporters in Diyarbakýr in the Southeast, the main scene of the PKK terrorism. As we had, also, warned about in our March 3, 2007 report titled US Alliance With Cult Of Angels Raises Russian War Fears As World Rivers Face Mysterious New Danger, the dangers of Turkeys confrontation with the United States will result in both Russia and China moving Military Forces into the Middle East to protect their strategic interests, and to which the Americans and their Allies will be forced to respond to. Russian Military Analysts following the desperate moves of the United States to quickly achieve its war goals in the Middle East are reporting today that they concur with the dire estimates of American Military Forces coming from that Western Nation, and as we can read as reported by the Washington Post News Service in their article titled Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts, and which says: Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere, senior U.S. military and government officials acknowledge. More troubling, the officials say, is that it will take years for the Army and Marine Corps to recover from what some officials privately have called a death spiral, in which the ever more rapid pace of war-zone rotations has consumed 40 percent of their total gear, wearied troops and left no time to train to fight anything other than the insurgencies now at hand. The risk to the nation is serious and deepening, senior
[cia-drugs] Crime Blotter: CIA Headquarters and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Yup The SECRET GUVMINT hard at work. We need to come up with an ACTION PLAN and Get On With getting our Republic Back ! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3505348655137118430q=bill%2Bmoyers%2Bsecret%2Bgovernment He's a dose of what is really going on ! Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03192007.html March 19, 2007 Our Highest Law Enforcement Officials are Criminals Crime Blotter: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS While serving as President Bush's White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzales advised Bush that the president's war time powers permitted Bush to ignore the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and to use the National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on US citizens without obtaining warrants from the FISA court as required by law. Under an order signed by Bush in 2002, NSA illegally spied on Americans without warrants. By spying on Americans without obtaining warrants, Bush committed felonies under FISA. Moreover, there is strong, indeed overwhelming, evidence that justice was obstructed when Bush and Gonzales blocked a 2006 Justice Department investigation into whether Gonzales acted properly as Attorney General in approving and overseeing the Bush administration's program of spying on US citizens. Also at issue is whether Gonzales acted properly in advising Bush to kill an investigation of Gonzales' professional actions with regard to the NSA spy program. We are faced with the almost certain fact that the two highest law enforcement officials of the United States are criminals. The evidence that Bush and Gonzales have obstructed justice comes from internal Justice Department memos and exchanges of letters between the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), an investigative office, and members of Congress. The documents were leaked to the National Journal, and the story was reported in the March 15, 2007, issue by Murray Waas, who also relied on interviews with both current and former high ranking DOJ officials. Ten months previously on May 25, 2006, Waas broke the story in the National Journal about the derailing of the OPR investigation. From Waas's report it is obvious that many current and former Justice Department officials have serious concerns about the high-handed behavior of the Bush administration. The incriminating documents were leaked to the National Journal, the only remaining national publication that has any credibility. The New York Times and Washington Post have proven to be supine tools of the Bush administration and are no longer trusted. When the Bush administration's violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was leaked to the New York Times, the paper's editors obliged Bush by spiking the story for one year, while Bush illegally collected information that he could use to blackmail his critics into silence. As I wrote at the time, the only possible reason for violating FISA is to collect information that can be used to silence critics. The administration's claim that bypassing FISA was essential to the war on terror is totally false and is a justification and practice that the Bush administration, no longer able to defend, abandoned in January of this year. The known facts: After keeping the information from Congress and the public for one year, on Dec. 16, 2005, the New York Times reported that Bush was spying on Americans without complying with the FISA statute. In response to a request from members of Congress, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility launched an investigation into the Bush administration's decision to ignore FISA and to conduct domestic spying on American citizens without obtaining the warrants required by law. On January 20, 2006, Marshall Jarrett, the Justice Department official in charge of OPR, informed senior Justice Department officials of his investigation and its scope. Gonzales informed President Bush about the OPR investigation, and Bush shut down the investigation by refusing security clearances to the Justice Department officials in OPR. In a response to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter on July 18, 2006, Gonzales disclosed that President Bush had halted the OPR investigation. This is the first and only time in history that DOJ officials have been denied security clearances necessary to conduct an investigation. The Bush administration claimed that the secret spying was too crucial to our national security to permit even Justice Department officials to learn about it. However, even as Bush was denying clearances to OPR, he granted identical clearances to: (1) the FBI agents ordered to find who leaked the administration's secret spying to the New York Times, (2) DOJ officials in the Civil Division who had to respond to legal challenges to the illegal spy program, and (3) five private sector
Re: [cia-drugs] DON'T USE TOBACCO? Neither Do I
I have a friend kaylee right now dying from lung cancer...she was a 2 pk
or more a day smoker for most of her life. she is a young 68 years old
with no future. Yes no NO TOBACCO!
Nancy Berry
- Original Message
From: kaylee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: MTWT [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 11:31:58 PM
Subject: [cia-drugs] DON'T USE TOBACCO? Neither Do I
I am aware that this has little to do
with the drug war (except another possible prohibited substance), the prison
situation, free speech (well, maybe free speech), world peace or constitutional
law, but considering that lung cancer could easily affect you or someone you
love, perhaps you can graciously overlook the fact that I'm off topic again and
do something simple but wise for our future health.
Kay
Lee
Petition for the Lung Cancer Aliance
http://www.lungcanc eralliance. org/involved/ sign_the_ petition. php
LUNG CANCER IS THE #1 CAUSE OF CANCER DEATH ANNUALLY AND HAS THE
LEAST FUNDING Perhaps it's because, as part of the tobacco demonization
effort, we have come to believe that people who use
tobacco deserve cancer? Please show some compassion and common
sense...not all people who die from lung cancer ever used tobacco...
Just as not all people who use tobacco ever get lung cancer. This killer
disease
requires more funding, more research, and more effective treatments.
Lung cancer continues to be the single biggest cancer killer. In
2006, an estimated 162,460 will die of lung cancer; more people than breast,
prostate, colon, liver, melanoma, and kidney cancers combined. Few people are
even aware that lung cancer kills three times as many men as prostate cancer,
and nearly twice as many women as breast cancer. Prostate cancer has a 99
percent 5-year survival rate and breast cancer has an 88 percent 5-year
survival
rate.
Over 50 percent of new lung cancer cases will be diagnosed
at a very late stage—Stage IIIb or IV. Lung cancer has a 5-year survival rate
of
only 15 percent. That means that 85 percent of people who get lung cancer die
within five years.
THIS MUST BE CHANGED.
Join the 14757 people who have already signed or downloaded the petition to
make lung cancer a national public health priority.
I join with the Lung Cancer Alliance to call on the President of the
United States and members of Congress to increase funding to at least an
additional 250 million dollars per year, for: medical research for early
detection and curative treatment for lung cancer, and education and support for
people diagnosed with lung cancer.
We, the undersigned, call on the President of the United
States and the Congress to make early detection, treatment, and chemoprevention
of lung cancer a national public health priority.
We also call for adequate new funding to increase the
overall 5-year survival rate to at least 50 percent by 2015.
SIGN THE PETITION and Please pass this on.
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[cia-drugs] Now for the Good News Mankind has never been healthier, wealthier or freer. Surp
Now for the Good News Mankind has never been healthier, wealthier or freer. Surprised? _Indur M. Goklany_ (http://www.reason.com/contrib/show/701.html) | March 23, 2007 Environmentalists and globalization foes are united in their fear that greater population and consumption of energy, materials, and chemicals accompanying economic growth, technological change and free trade—the mainstays of globalization—degrade human and environmental well-being. Indeed, the 20th century saw the United States’ population multiply by four, income by seven, carbon dioxide emissions by nine, use of materials by 27, and use of chemicals by more than 100. Yet life expectancy increased from 47 years to 77 years. Onset of major disease such as cancer, heart, and respiratory disease has been postponed between eight and eleven years in the past century. Heart disease and cancer rates have been in rapid decline over the last two decades, and total cancer deaths have actually declined the last two years, despite increases in population. Among the very young, infant mortality has declined from 100 deaths per 1,000 births in 1913 to just seven per 1,000 today. These improvements haven’t been restricted to the United States. It’s a global phenomenon. Worldwide, life expectancy has more than doubled, from 31 years in 1900 to 67 years today. India’s and China’s infant mortalities exceeded 190 per 1,000 births in the early 1950s; today they are 62 and 26, respectively. In the developing world, the proportion of the population suffering from chronic hunger declined from 37 percent to 17 percent between 1970 and 2001 despite a 83 percent increase in population. Globally average annual incomes in real dollars have tripled since 1950. Consequently, the proportion of the planet's developing-world population living in absolute poverty has halved since 1981, from 40 percent to 20 percent. Child labor in low income countries declined from 30 percent to 18 percent between 1960 and 2003. Equally important, the world is more literate and better educated than ever. People are freer politically, economically, and socially to pursue their well-being as they see fit. More people choose their own rulers, and have freedom of expression. They are more likely to live under rule of law, and less likely to be arbitrarily deprived of life, limb, and property. Social and professional mobility have also never been greater. It’s easier than ever for people across the world to transcend the bonds of caste, place, gender, and other accidents of birth. People today work fewer hours and have more money and better health to enjoy their leisure time than their ancestors. Man’s environmental record is more complex. The early stages of development can indeed cause some environmental deterioration as societies pursue first-order problems affecting human well-being. These include hunger, malnutrition, illiteracy, and lack of education, basic public health services, safe water, sanitation, mobility, and ready sources of energy. Because greater wealth alleviates these problems while providing basic creature comforts, individuals and societies initially focus on economic development, often neglecting other aspects of environmental quality. In time, however, they recognize that environmental deterioration reduces their quality of life. Accordingly, they put more of their recently acquired wealth and human capital into developing and implementing cleaner technologies. This brings about an environmental transition via the twin forces of economic development and technological progress, which begin to provide solutions to environmental problems instead of creating those problems. All of which is why we today find that the richest countries are also the cleanest. And while many developing countries have yet to get past the “green ceiling,” they are nevertheless ahead of where today’s developed countries used to be when they were equally wealthy. The point of transition from industrial period to environmental conscious continues to fall. For example, the US introduced unleaded gasoline only after its GDP per capita exceeded $16,000. India and China did the same before they reached $3,000 per capita. This progress is a testament to the power of globalization and the transfer of ideas and knowledge (that lead is harmful, for example). It's also testament to the importance of trade in transferring technology from developed to developing countries—in this case, the technology needed to remove lead from gasoline. This hints at the answer to the question of why some parts of the world have been left behind while the rest of the world has thrived. Why have improvements in well-being stalled in areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa and the Arab world? The proximate cause of improvements in well-being is a “cycle of progress” composed of the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Addiction INC: Only the Most Harmful Substances Get Mass-Media Marketing, Most Widely Used
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 23, 2007 10:40:15 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Addiction INC: Only the Most Harmful Substances Get Mass- Media Marketing, Most Widely Used ROYAL MEDICAL COMMISSION REPORT ON DRUGS CONCLUDES: TOBACCO AND ALCOHOL ARE MORE DANGEROUS THAN LSD By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor The Independent (UK), 23 March 2007 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2383902.ece Alcohol and tobacco are more harmful than many illegal drugs including the hallucinogen LSD and the dance drug ecstasy, according to a new scale for assessing the dangers posed by recreational substances. Drug specialists say the current system for ranking drugs - class A for the most dangerous to class C for the least dangerous, as set out in the Misuse of Drugs Act - is irrational, arbitrary and lacking in transparency. Scientific evidence shows that heroin and cocaine are correctly ranked as class A drugs as they do cause the most harm. But LSD and ecstasy come close to bottom of the league in terms of harm caused, yet they are also labelled as class A. Alcohol is legal and widely used but comes fifth in the harm table, ahead of amphetamines and cannabis, which are ranked as class B and class C respectively. Tobacco is also ranked as more harmful than cannabis. The league table of 20 drugs drawn up by drugs specialists is intended to provide a scientifically based model for policy makers of the harm they cause. It shows that the dangers they pose bear little relationship to the official classification, on which the penalties for drug use are based. The eight drugs ranked as most dangerous include two that are unclassified while the eight judged least dangerous include two class A drugs. The report comes a fortnight after an independent commission called for a radical overhaul of Britain's drug laws which it said were driven by a moral panic. The commission, set up by the Royal Society of Arts, said the aim of public policy should be to reduce the harm drugs cause, not send people to jail. It proposed reclassifying drugs - legal and illegal - according to the harm they do. Professor David Nutt, who works in addiction psychiatry at the University of Bristol and who led the latest research, said: The current drug classification system is arbitrary in the way it assesses harms. It is not fit for purpose. We have tried to come up with a better system by looking at the factors that contribute to drug use and the harms they cause. We should review the penalties for drug use in the light of the harms they cause and have a more proportionate response. Professor Colin Blakemore, chief executive of the Medical Research Council and co-author of the study, said: The object was to bring a dispassionate approach to a very passionate issue. Some conclusions might appear to be liberal in stance, but that was not our starting position. We intended to reach conclusions that were evidence-based. Alcohol and tobacco are way up there in the league table, not far behind heroin and cocaine and street methadone. Society has not only come to terms with alcohol and tobacco but is well aware of the harms associated with them so we felt it was useful to include them as calibration points for other drugs. All drugs were marked on the physical harm they caused to the individual user, their tendency to cause dependence and their social harm, including their effect on families, communities and society [such as crime and NHS costs]. Each was given an overall harm score by two separate groups of experts which yielded roughly similar results. There was little evidence that ecstasy caused extensive harm, despite its widespread use by young people in clubs and pubs at weekends. Cannabis has been cited as a cause of schizophrenia but the authors said a causal relationship had not been established. If it were, evidence showed no more than 7 per cent of cases could be attributed to use of the drug. Professor Leslie Iversen, of the University of Oxford, said there was a widespread myth that skunk, from the tips of the cannabis plant, was 20 to 30 times more powerful than that available 30 years ago. It is simply not true, he said. The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs looked at this carefully. Cannabis resin [hash] has changed little and is about 5 per cent tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Skunk has 10-15 per cent THC. That makes it two to three times more powerful, not 20 to 30 times. The study, which took five years to complete, is published today in The Lancet. Professor Blakemore said: We hope that policy makers will take note of the fact that the resulting ranking of drugs differs substantially from their classification in the Misuse of Drugs Act and that alcohol and tobacco are judged more harmful than many
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Lies, Damned Lies, and Evidence from the Bush Regime
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 22, 2007 4:48:33 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lies, Damned Lies, and Evidence from the Bush Regime Friday, January 20, 2006 http://www.inblogs.net/qlipoth/2006/01/inventing-osama-lies-damned- lies-and.html Inventing Osama: Lies, Damned Lies and Conveniently Incompetent Translations Lex Luthor didn't exist, so he had to be invented. How else would they have sold Superman comics? A rare piece of investigative journalism was broadcast to 100 million German-speaking TV viewers in December 2001. Craig Morris's accurate account of that investigation appeared online in English only three days later. Today, to the best of my knowledge, the story has still never been picked up by anyone in the British or US media; nor has a single journalist or producer seen fit to repeat the experiment, using other independent translators. Why not? Why not, exactly? Mistranslated Osama bin Laden Video - the German Press Investigates by Craig Morris 7:16am Sun Dec 23 '01 (Modified on 8:19pm Sun Dec 30 '01) A German TV show found that the White House's translation of the confession video was not only inaccurate, but even manipulative. Mistranslated OBL video - Germany’s Channel One investigates On 20 December 2001, German TV channel “Das Erste” broadcast its analysis of the White House’s translation of the OBL video that George Bush has called a “confession of guilt”. On the show “Monitor”, two independent translators and an expert on oriental studies found the White House’s translation not only to be inaccurate, but “manipulative”. Arabist Dr. Abdel El M. Husseini, one of the translators, states, “I have carefully examined the Pentagon’s translation. This translation is very problematic. At the most important places where it is held to prove the guilt of Bin Laden, it is not identical with the Arabic.” Whereas the White House would have us believe that OBL admits that “We calculated in advance the number of casualties from the enemy…”, translator Dr. Murad Alami finds that: “‘In advance’ is not said. The translation is wrong. At least when we look at the original Arabic, and there are no misunderstandings to allow us to read it into the original.” At another point, the White House translation reads: “We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day.” Dr. Murad Alami: “‘Previous’ is never said. The subsequent statement that this event would take place on that day cannot be heard in the original Arabic version.” The White House’s version also included the sentence “we asked each of them to go to America”, but Alami says the original formulation is in the passive along the lines of “they were required to go”. He also say that the sentence afterwards - “they didn’t know anything about the operation” - cannot be understood. Prof. Gernot Rotter, professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg sums it up: “The American translators who listened to the tapes and transcribed them apparently wrote a lot of things in that they wanted to hear but that cannot be heard on the tape no matter how many times you listen to it.” Meanwhile the US press has not picked up on this story at all, reporting instead that a new translation has revealed that OBL even mentions the names of some of those involved. But the item is all over the German press, from Germany’s Channel One (“Das Erste” - the ones who broke the story, equivalent to NBC or the BBC) to ZDF (Channel Two) to Der Spiegel (the equivalent of TIME or the Economist - visit http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,174025,00.html if you can read German). More surprisingly, as I write the following site appears on Lycos in German: http://www.netzeitung.de/servlets/page?section=1109item=172422 - but nothing under lycos.com in English. Instead, we read in the Washington Post of Friday, December 21, 2001 (the day after the German TV show was broadcast) that a new translation done in the US “also indicates bin Laden had even more knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon than was apparent in the original Defense Department translation Although the expanded version does not change the substance of what was released, it provides added details and color to what has been disclosed.” I’ll say. Aren’t there any reporters in the US who speak German (or Arabic, for that matter)? An article in USA Today of 20 December 2001 sheds some light on why the original translation might not be accurate: “the first translation was rushed in 12 hours, in a room in the Pentagon”. So why didn’t the new US translation find the same discrepancies as the German translators did? Read the article in USA Today
[cia-drugs] Fwd: What Is Bush Hiding?
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 21, 2007 2:06:39 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What Is Bush Hiding? Nixon Waived Executive Privilege in Watergate, So Did Reagan in Iran-Contra WHAT IS BUSH HIDING? Jon Ponder | Mar. 21, 2007, 8:25 am http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/03/21/nixon-waived-executive- privilege-in-watergate-so-did-reagan-in-iran-contra/ If you think Bush’s prosecutor purge is a minor imbroglio compared with presidential scandals like Watergate and Iran-Contra, consider the fact that in both those scandals the presidents who were under fire waived executive privilege and allowed their top aides to testify before Congress. Ronald Reagan waived all executive privilege at the start of the Iran-contra investigation, which arguably dealt with the very matters of national security and diplomacy in which executive privilege is most legitimate. Bush’s messagemeisters are tap-dancing as fast as they can away from the responses of Nixon and Reagan to scandals in their administrations. Take for example White House spokesman Tony Snow’s moment of truthiness the other day: [It] has been traditional in all White Houses not to have staffers testify on Capitol Hill. In fact, presidents Nixon, Reagan and Clinton all waived the privilege. At the height of the Watergate scandal, in 1973, Richard M. Nixon allowed his closest advisers H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman and their aides to testify. President Gerald Ford testified before Congress to explain his pardon of Nixon. And President Bill Clinton’s National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger testified in 1997 before a House investigation of Clinton’s 1996 campaign fund- raising. [In fact, 31 of Clinton’s top aides testified before Congress on 47 occasions.] “The most dramatic was Ronald Reagan, who waived executive privilege for his entire staff during Iran-Contra,” said Louis Fisher, senior specialist in the separation of powers at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Congress had created a special committee to investigate allegations that Reagan had authorized the sale of weapons to Iran in return for cash for the Contra guerrilla war effort in Nicaragua. Reagan’s waiver was sweeping: Ronald Reagan waived all executive privilege at the start of the Iran-contra investigation, which arguably dealt with the very matters of national security and diplomacy in which executive privilege is most legitimate. He turned over his documents and diaries; he told everyone, including White House lawyers, to do likewise, because he said he wanted the facts to come out. Pres. Bush does not want the facts to come out, from which we draw the conclusion that he is attempting to cover up a serious crime — perhaps a concerted effort to shut down corruption investigations by fired U.S. Attorney Carol Lam into powerful California Republicans including Rep. Jerry Lewis, the ranking member on Appropriations. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [RM-COUNSEL] Rove now under investigation for election fraud by Italian and Mexican officials.
This article really points towards an international fascist conspiracy against the majority of the people of the West by Bush and his minions. One should read it in that light, and think about what that means, and who might be part of this conspiracy, and what its aims are. Note: forwarded message attached. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001 - Don't be flakey. Get Yahoo! Mail for Mobile and always stay connected to friends.---BeginMessage--- http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ March 19, 2007 -- Democratic Party sources have reported to WMR that Karl Rove and a team of Republican Party election manipulators he has used in the past for tampering with U.S. elections, particularly in Florida, Ohio, and New Mexico, are under investigation by the Italian government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi and the opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) of Mexico. The sources report that investigators are looking at alleged technical and strategic advice given by Rove and GOP election tampering consultants to Silvio Berlusconi's government, particularly the arch-neo-cons in the Berlusconi Cabinet -- then Interior Minister Beppe Pisanu and Foreign Minister Ginafranco Fini. Although polls before the April 2006 election indicated that Prodi's Center-Left coalition was far ahead of Berlusconi's right-wing/neo-fascist alliance and exit polls also indicated a large Center-Left win, Prodi squeaked by with a mere 0.1 percent of the vote. Our sources claim that Rove and his Italian counterparts severely miscalculated in their planning for tampering with the Italian election returns. Rove and his advisers forgot to include the expatriate Italian vote in their calculations. The 2006 national elections were the first in which Italians abroad were allowed to vote and by failing to calculate those votes, Berlusconi lost by a hair, despite the vote counting fraud that reportedly also included siphoning blank protest votes to the Berlusconi column. Similarly, PRD officials are also looking at Rove and his team's involvement in providing election tampering assistance to conservative National Action Party (PAN) candidate Felipe Calderon in last July's Mexico presidential election. Calderon beat PRD candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador by a razor-thin 0.6 percent. However, as with Italy, pre-election polls and exit polls showed the PRD candidate with a commanding lead. Ballot boxes were found in garbage dumps in pro-PRD precincts. In addition, votes for the PRD were either shaved from the total count and some precincts were not even counted. Some of the financial support for Republican interference in the Italian and Mexican elections may have been laundered through the U.S. taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy, which, in turn, funds the International Republican Institute (IRI), an arm of the Republican Party. The IRI has been involved in funding election campaigns in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez and in Haiti against Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Rove now under investigation for election fraud by Italian and Mexican officials. Is an INTERPOL Red Notice for Rove in the offing? Italian government and PRD officials have been in direct contact with Democratic Party election experts concerning the suspected international vote fraud committed by the GOP and Rove. If Rove is asked to testify in Italy about his contacts with Berlusconi government officials and refuses, he will have more than U.S. congressional subpoenas to worry about -- he could be faced with an INTERPOL Red Notice, a international arrest warrant recognized by INTERPOL member states. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ---End Message---
