[cia-drugs] The dogs of war
The onslaught of Lebanon doesn’t make sense other thanthe theory that this is secretly a US, G8, NATO initiated war. The Question is then, what are the US, G8, NATO boys going to give to Israel for their obedient service? http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0805-26.htm ... G9? ... Right. --- These organizations: G8, NATO, EU are just different names for the same group of powerful people, and apparently the G8 configuration is the new face of these people that will apparently be the final organizing structure formed to tell or show the world: that we are ruling this thing, have ruled it, and not only will continue to rule it, but will rule it with a more controlling apparatus like never before, and whoever doesn’t go along, will get it’s ass kicked. --+ --Iran (and thus Hezbollah) are proxies. Iran is running southern Iraq (peacefully) on our behalf, while the Sunni resistance is in full cry in the North. But: Quote: this may be the last cacophony of bullshit coming out from the Zionist inspired neo-cons before they are hurled out of power and hopefully back to the dark pits of hell whence they came. The Neocons came from the G8. Zionists and the Neocons twist the arm of the mighty U.S.? Yeah, like... please twist My US Arm... and I'll give you 50 bucks. Please twist my Imperial Arm and force Me to invade Iraq. Please twist my Imperial Arm and force Me to demolish Lebanon. As if the U.S. needs persuading to assert the G8 Imperium. Remember what you saw happening in Iraq at the time of the invasion? The looting, the gas shortages, the shortage of electricity to this day. It's the deliberate implosion of democratic civil society. Old Iraq needed to be broken up. And in the new mix, Northern Iraq (and Lebanon) is a designated "No Development Allowed" zone. Zones kept on ice at the G8's pleasure. Lebanon was clawing it's way back to some kind of order and economic potential. Oooops. Not Allowed! Bam!, Whazoom!, Boom! Back to the stone age you pesky peasants. As to Syria, with it's mostly Sunni army and Sunni majority, well you guys picked the wrong ethnicity. Check with your bro's in Iraq. Quote: It's bigger than Israel. Bigger than the US. The unfolding reality of globalist control renders nations archaic--fronts. Yeah... fronts. Hollow toothless shells. Facades of national government. Facades for "democracy". Implementers of corporate 'think tank' policies. But MidEast WW4 is not imminent. Just some "stone age" treatment for Lebanon and lots of newsprint... Lots... and lots The G8-Empire is bogged down in Iraq. So the Israelis are putting on a good half-time show. To keep the TV-eyed gobots entertained. To feed the cable feed. Feed the fear. And so the Long Game continues: Divide and Conquer. And of course Conquer and Divide. -- NATO Muscles Into Lebanon --Thanks to Israel Ok, So now you see the ongoing objective of the Israeli bombardment and incursion into Lebanon. As I pointed out earlier, already the U.N.'s role has been carefully eclipsed by the G8 Summit -who okayed Israel's assault on Lebanon. That sidelining of the U.N. was not a freak of circimstance. It was all part of the advance strategy to lever NATO into the heart of the Middle East. With the U.N. out of the picture, U.N. troops are out of the picture, and out also is all that cumbersome international accountability. So, here come the Empire's 'other' army: NATO. Israel is part of the New Europe, in case you hadn't heard. The US-EU Empire is a movin' South. Here's the word from the Israeli Defense Minister Peretz: --- Quote: Diplomacy To The Fore As Military Stakes Rise PRAGUE, July 23, 2006 (RFE/RL) Defense Minister Peretz indicated on July 23 that diplomacy is an important element in Israeli thinking, saying that "we definitely see a combination of the existing military activity...alongside broad international diplomatic efforts accomplishing the job." Peretz said on July 23 that Israel is willing to accept the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, saying the force should be led by NATO. The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" quoted Peretz as telling German Foreign Minister Steinmeier that Israel would support such a force "because of the weakness of the Lebanese army." http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/07/b654ef07-3865-48fe-9b48-e2f5d1c8d697.html - And here's more of the same -reportedly from Israeli Prime Minister Olmert: --- Quote: Israel's Olmert Might Accept a Multinational Force in Lebanon July 23 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he might accept a multinational force stationed in Lebanon as a means of ending the conflict, so long as it is manned by European Union troops and monitors Lebanon's border with Syria. Olmert said in a meeting with German Foreign Minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier that Israel would ``agree to consider stationing a military force with
[cia-drugs] The B.T.C. Pipeline and the Increasing Importance of Energy Supply Routes
08 August 2006PINR Senior Analyst Dr. Michael A. Weinstein was recently interviewed by Voice of America regarding his coverage of Somalia. That report can be read at http://voanews.com/english/2006-08-04-voa52.cfm. For PINR's latest in-depth assessment of Somalia, please see: "Conflict in Somalia Moves Toward Confrontation"http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_reportreport_id=534 To contact Dr. Weinstein regarding Somalia, please e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]. --The B.T.C. Pipeline and the Increasing Importance of Energy Supply Routes Drafted By: Michael Piskur http://www.pinr.com On July 13, world leaders and energy industry officials gathered in Turkey to inaugurate the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (B.T.C.) pipeline, the east-west hub intended to connect energy supplies in the Caspian region and Central Asia to Western markets. The first shipment of Azerbaijani crude oil, originally pumped on May 10, 2006, arrived in Italy to coincide with the inauguration. This occasion came just days before the annual G8 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, where Moscow and Washington clashed over such issues as Russian membership in the World Trade Organization and the exploration of gas and oil reserves in the North Atlantic and Baltic Sea.The B.T.C. pipeline connects the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil fields to Turkey's Mediterranean port city Ceyhan through Baku, Azerbaijan, and Tbilisi, Georgia. As the world's second longest pipeline at 1,760 kilometers (1,094 miles), the majority of which is far underground, and with a path that traverses a politically unstable region, the B.T.C. pipeline has been criticized for being prone to sabotage or malfunction. Western leaders, however, hail it as one of the most important projects of the 21st century.The World Bank's International Finance Corporation and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development funded the US$4 billion project. British Petroleum is the main operator and controls a 30.1 percent stake in the pipeline. Other major contributors include State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (S.O.C.A.R.), American firms Unocal Corp. and Chevron, Norway's Statoil, Turkish state oil firm T.P.A.O., and Italy's Eni SpA.B.T.C. Provides an Alternative to Russian EnergyFrom its inception, the B.T.C. pipeline was designed to challenge Russian hegemony over energy in the Caspian Sea region. Planning for a pipeline that could carry oil from the landlocked Caspian to the Mediterranean Sea -- while avoiding Russia and politically unstable areas such as Armenia -- began in earnest in 1999 and construction commenced in September 2002. The Western governments and firms behind the pipeline intended for it to rival the Russian-backed Blue Stream pipeline, which sends Russian gas to Turkey and Italy. [See: "Economic Brief: The Blue Stream Gas Pipeline"]Since much of Europe's energy -- 50 percent of the E.U.'s imported natural gas and about 25 percent of its imported oil -- is imported from Russia primarily through the state-owned energy giant Gazprom, Moscow has been firmly opposed to the B.T.C. since planning for it began more than ten years ago. In light of this year's Russia-Ukraine gas dispute that temporarily cut natural gas supplies to Europe, and Moscow's heavy-handed use of political leverage against its smaller neighbors, the European Union has made diversity of energy resources and providers a top priority. The B.T.C. pipeline will account for only a small percentage of global oil, but the West considers a stable -- and not Moscow-controlled -- supply to be worth the financial and political costs.In addition to the B.T.C. pipeline, several other projects intended to subvert Russian influence are in development. The Nabucco pipeline, a major part of the European Union's diversification strategy, will carry natural gas from Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Iran to Austria and Western Europe. Construction is slated to begin in 2008 and conclude in 2011; Nabucco is expected to achieve a maximum transport of 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Additionally, a number of extensions to the B.T.C. pipeline have been discussed and would connect oil and gas from Central Asia to Western Europe. Furthermore, oil from Kazakhstan travels through two pipelines controlled by Moscow, but Western involvement in the Central Asian country, particularly by the United States, and increased Chinese investment have intensified the "Great Game" being played in the oil-rich region by the world's major energy consumers.Kazakhstan signed on to transport nearly 200 million barrels of oil per year through the B.T.C. pipeline and has begun to explore oil shipments to China. With at least nine billion barrels in proven reserves and a shared border with both Russia and China, it could prove to be the most widely contested portion of the geopolitically crucial region.Turkey Positions Itself as a Global Energy HubDuring the
Re: [cia-drugs] No Reason For High Gas Prices
the dollar is circling the toilet bowl. - Original Message - From: muckblit To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] No Reason For High Gas Prices From 2000 to 2004 I used to read Platt's Oil fairly often and several Hightower reports every morning.Hightower actually said once that there was no change in oil supply or on-shore inventory to explain why gasoline prices were rising.Gasoline prices have continued to rise, but you have not read a single story which gives objective data to show that the oil supply or on-shore inventory has been altered by wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Lebanon. Have you? Didn't think so. What did you think, Mike Ruppert's Peak Oil scare explained today's gasoline prices? Or environmentalist concerns that falsely so-called fossil fuel was going to be in short supply some day by and by?I give you an example of a story which does explain an instance of reduced supply. And you remember Hurricanes Katrina and especially Rita might have altered supply for a few days. But neither last year's hurricane story or this story are about war-related oil supply reductions. Iraq was under sanctions until the US invadd in 2003, and Iraq's oil capacity has not been reduced or increased much since the invasion.Admit it, you WERE NOT THINKING. What numbed your mind out every time you paid higher prices for gasoline? What is the NEURO-LINGUISTIC BASIS for our collective unconsciousness? How did Goebbels do it? George Bush and Sean Hannity say,"911 changed everything", but why are oil and gasoline prices so high if the US supply of oil has not changed in MANY YEARS?Curious? The answer is that oil companies have raised prices. That's all. And? And nothing. Congress did not investigate "price gouging". Congress did not fine oil companies billions to recover what they looted from us. They used to do that.-Bob Dhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700131_pf.htmlPipeline Closure Sends Oil HigherBP to Halt Production of 400,000 Barrels a Day in Alaska By Steven MufsonWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, August 8, 2006; A01 After noticing an oil spill on a deserted stretch of frozen road in Alaska's North Slope in early March, workers needed three days to find the quarter-inch-wide hole in a pipeline, just where it dipped into a culvert to allow the caribou to pass. On Sunday, five months after that unwelcome discovery, BP PLC conceded that the tiny hole was part of a widespread corrosion problem that will force it to replace 16 miles of a 22-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay and to shut down 400,000 barrels a day of production from the largest oil field in the United States. News that BP would have to suspend production equal to 8 percent of U.S. petroleum output for an indefinite period helped push the price of crude oil up by 3 percent yesterday, to $76.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price jump underlined the fragility of world oil markets, already anxious about the thin cushion between global supply and demand and potential threats to flows from Iran, Nigeria, Iraq and the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico. Shutting down the field will take three to five days, BP said, and Merrill Lynch Co. oil analyst John P. Herrlin said that the repairs would take "a minimum of two to three months," dealing another blow to the chances of motorists getting relief from high gasoline prices anytime soon. Alaskan crude oil usually goes to refineries on the West Coast, where there is enough surplus to last about two weeks, analysts said. After that, some refiners will have to scramble to line up new supplies. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said yesterday that the Bush administration would consider releasing supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, though getting that oil from the salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico to the West Coast would take some time or involve some swaps. BP's announcement also gave another black eye to a firm that has fashioned an image as a responsible, environmentally concerned company, and it drew new criticism from pipeline experts and environmentalists who have been saying for years that the company had failed to do the maintenance needed to keep the pipeline free from sludge and protect it from corrosion in the harsh Alaska conditions. The Environmental Protection Agency has launched a criminal probe to determine whether the company was negligent in managing the pipeline, said sources who had talked to government investigators. "They have known about these problems for a long time and promised for many years to fix them, and they haven't done so," said Peter van Tuyn, an environmental lawyer based in Anchorage. Thomas J. Barrett, head of the Pipeline and
[cia-drugs] COCAINE ONE BUST LIFTS VEIL ON GLOBAL NARCOTICS CARTEL
http://www.madcowprod.com/ COCAINE ONE BUST LIFTS VEIL ON GLOBAL NARCOTICS CARTEL WORLD EXCLUSIVE AUGUST 8, 2006--Venice,FL. by Daniel Hopsicker A DC9 registered to a company which once used as its address the hanger of Huffman Aviation, the flight school at the Venice, FL Airport which trained both terrorist pilots who crashed planes into the World Trade Center, was caught in Campeche by the Mexican military April 10th carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S. Beyond a few half-hearted stabs at pinning blame for the crime on scapegoats du jour like the FARC in Colombia or Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, authorities in Mexico and the U.S. have had virtually nothing to say about the case. In the more than three months since, the massive seizure has slipped into a black hole. One of the chief shareholders in SkyWay Aircraft, the company which owned the DC9 airliner (N900SA) seized in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine aboard, is a private investment bank in Dallas which also raised funds for a Mexican industrialist with reported ties to a Cali and Juarez Cartel narcotics trafficker, the MadCowMorningNews has learned. An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the seizure of the DC9 airliner (dubbed Cocaine One for its paint job and Seal designed to impersonate planes from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security) has unearthed evidence which is beginning to pierce the heavy curtain behind which the biggest taboo in the U.S. mainstream media has remained hidden: the identities of the until-now anonymous American Drug Lords. Meet the Masters of the Universe What local officials blundered into at a remote airport in the farthest corner of Mexicos Yucatan may have earth-shaking reverberations felt around the world if the true story of what happened there becomes widely known... The seizure in Ciudad del Carmen has exposed the links of a global narcotics cartel that may be the most powerful political force on the planet. Based on court documents, SEC filings, records of incorporation, and interviews with eyewitnesses, the elements which comprise this global narcotics cartelall of which will be named and covered in this seriesinclude the following: Rogue U.S. defense contractor Titan Corp in San Diego; CIA proprietary airlines; fugitive Saudi billionaires, Gulf States Sheiks and financiers; the Israeli Mossad and right wing Israeli political parties identified with Jewish settler interests; retired officers of the CIA and U.S. military intelligence; Texas Republican kingmakers and private investment banks; member of U.S. organized crime... Also... stock swindlers in Vancouver, Canada responsible for multi-billion dollar financial fraud; officials from the party of Mexican President Vicente Fox; Colombian and Mexican drug cartels; Florida air charter companies which enjoyas did the Florida aviation companies associated with the terrorist hijackersapparent official immunity from prosecution; and Lebanese industrialists in Mexico known to the Mexican press as the Narco-Pederastas, for their penchant for molesting children, with apparent immunity from prosecution, both boys and girls, as young as four. Continued @ http://www.madcowprod.com/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office 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] Re: Bob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded!
Stanley Monteith has an interview with a former US ambasador who claims the CIA put Castro in power. The name of the game is indeed money, trillions of taxpayers dollars to fight the phony cold war and prop up the Soviet Union. When huge oil reserves were discovered in Russia and elsewhere in the SU, Gorbachev was told to stand down and the wealth of the Russian fields was handed over to six Jewish 'oligatchs' at 5% of its value by Boris Yeltsin. That's why the US oil companies blocked the privatisation of Iraqi state oil because they had been burned by the Neocons in Russsia and got nothing. When Khodokovsky went to jail he handed his shares over to Lord Rothschild, no doubt the real owner. - -- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, muckblit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes Venezuela different from Cuba is oil. Bush Warco supplied both sides in Cuba, Batista and Castro. See Daniel Hopsicker, Barry and the Boys(Porter 911 Goss and the boys), http://www.madcowprod.com Bush Warco supplied both sides in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq war, Bosnia, 911 war on terror. The second and better known of three Bay of Pigs or US invasions of Cuba failed, and Bush Warco(Sam, Prescott, GHW, GW and Jeb Bush) realized that Cuba would not fall to expats. And Cuba has always had more value as bogeyman to excuse ripping off the US taxpayer for defense spending, than as a liberated gambling resort and sugar plantation. So Bush Warco left Cuba alone. Reasons for Bush Warco not to leave Venezuela alone, and even to use US troops instead of surrogates, are laid out in Michel Chossudovsky's book, America's War On Terrorism. Basically, Chossudovsky gives a great many recent examples of how far Bush Warco is willing to go to prop up oil prices and loot the US economy by ten times more defense spending than is remotely rational. Buy CITGO gas to show your support for Venezuela. I love Saab, but boycott Saab for now, for Lebanese civilians being bombed. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis nerdmann@ wrote: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=65434 Published: Sunday, August 06, 2006 Bylined to: Bob Chapman Bob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded! THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Our intel sources tell us that the neocon elitists are building a ring of bases surrounding Venezuela. We all know what has been going on in Colombia and the same is happening in Peru and Paraguay. There is no question in our mind that eventually Venezuela will be attacked and invaded. a.. In fact, Medivacs have already been sent to Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. The big buildup has begun. We hope President Chavez is listening and is expanding his army on the ground. He will need all the help he can get once this gets underway. We expect an attack will come before Venezuela takes delivery of their new aircraft and helicopters ... he should expedite delivery if that is possible. Last year Iran invested US$1 billion in Venezuela, most of it in the oil, gas and engineering sectors. On his recent visit to Iran, President Chavez invited President Mahmound Ahmadinejad to make further investments in the Orinoco region. Both Presidents not only have oil in common as members of OPEC, but they also share a dislike of elitist US foreign policy. What a joke. Sweden has shown how neutral it is ... Saab says it cannot continue sales of defensive armaments, such as anti-aircraft and anti-tank devices to Venezuela, because of the US arms embargo. Well who cares. The Venezuelans will simply buy from Russia and China. Note should be made for future reference. Sweden is controlled by the elitists so don't do business with them in the first place ... perhaps the Swiss may step in. The Venezuelan government decided to withdraw the Venezuelan charge d'affaires from Israel in rejection of Israeli's military actions that have killed and displaced thousands of Lebanese people. Caracas real estate prices jumped 20% in the first half of the year, reflecting a surge in government subsidies for homebuyers and a shortage of housing. Bob Chapman international_forecaster@ THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USA Bob Chapman international_forecaster@ http://www.vheadline.com/chapman 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/
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Bob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded!
Big diffrence. Both are Catholics, and hoping that Catholic voice including Spain and Italy to raise again, against the Protestant evil dictatorship.S1000+muckblit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes Venezuela different from Cuba is oil. Bush Warco supplied both sides in Cuba, Batista and Castro. See Daniel Hopsicker, Barry and the Boys(Porter 911 Goss and the boys), http://www.madcowprod.com Bush Warco supplied both sides in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq war, Bosnia, 911 "war on terror". The second and better known of three Bay of Pigs or US invasions of Cuba failed, and Bush Warco(Sam, Prescott, GHW, GW and Jeb Bush) realized that Cuba would not fall to expats. And Cuba has always had more value as bogeyman to excuse ripping off the US taxpayer for defense spending, than as a liberated gambling resort and sugar plantation. So Bush Warco left Cuba alone. Reasons for Bush Warco not to leave Venezuela alone, and even to use US troops instead of surrogates, are laid out in Michel Chossudovsky's book, America's War On Terrorism. Basically, Chossudovsky gives a great many recent examples of how far Bush Warco is willing to go to prop up oil prices and loot the US economy by ten times more defense spending than is remotely rational. Buy CITGO gas to show your support for Venezuela. I love Saab, but boycott Saab for now, for Lebanese civilians being bombed. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]. wrote: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=65434 Published: Sunday, August 06, 2006 Bylined to: Bob ChapmanBob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded! THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Our intel sources tell us that the neocon elitists are building a ring of bases surrounding Venezuela. We all know what has been going on in Colombia and the same is happening in Peru and Paraguay. There is no question in our mind that eventually Venezuela will be attacked and invaded. a.. In fact, Medivacs have already been sent to Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. The big buildup has begun. We hope President Chavez is listening and is expanding his army on the ground. He will need all the help he can get once this gets underway. We expect an attack will come before Venezuela takes delivery of their new aircraft and helicopters ... he should expedite delivery if that is possible. Last year Iran invested US$1 billion in Venezuela, most of it in the oil, gas and engineering sectors. On his recent visit to Iran, President Chavez invited President Mahmound Ahmadinejad to make further investments in the Orinoco region. Both Presidents not only have oil in common as members of OPEC, but they also share a dislike of elitist US foreign policy. What a joke. Sweden has shown how neutral it is ... Saab says it cannot continue sales of defensive armaments, such as anti-aircraft and anti-tank devices to Venezuela, because of the US arms embargo. Well who cares. The Venezuelans will simply buy from Russia and China. Note should be made for future reference. Sweden is controlled by the elitists so don't do business with them in the first place ... perhaps the Swiss may step in. The Venezuelan government decided to withdraw the Venezuelan charge d'affaires from Israel in rejection of Israeli's military actions that have killed and displaced thousands of Lebanese people. Caracas real estate prices jumped 20% in the first half of the year, reflecting a surge in government subsidies for homebuyers and a shortage of housing. Bob Chapman international_forecaster@... THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USA Bob Chapman international_forecaster@... http://www.vheadline.com/chapman How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office 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] Secret Law at the Supreme Court
Secret Law At The Supreme Court Does the government have the right to keep secret a law that is applied to millions of Americans every day? That's the question John Gilmore has asked the Supreme Court to decide in his petition to the Court, filed on the 4th of August 2006. Secret Law in the Old Rome: Caligula (according to Dio Cassius) wrote his laws in very small type, and hung them up upon high pillars, the more effectually to ensnare the people. (with thanks to Professor Blackstone) When John, an American citizen, decided to take a trip to Washington, DC back on the 4th of July 2002, he was told at Oakland International Airport that he had to produce his ID if he wanted to travel. He asked to see the law demanding he show his 'papers' and was told after a time that the law was secret and no, he wouldn't be allowed to read it. He hasn't flown in his own country since. He has fought in the courts for his right to travel freely in his own country for over four years, but the bottom line is that none of his Constitutional rights to Speech, Travel, and Assemble can be exercised if the government denies him his basic right of Due Process. John– and every other American– should have the right to know what the law is. By choosing to hear Gilmore v. Gonzales, the Supreme Court can and should expose Secret Law for what it is: an abomination. Get the facts... http://www.papersplease.org/gilmore/index.html ~~~ The Identity Project "Papers, please!" This mantra of totalitarian societies has become familiar to Americans – not from movies, but from their own government. From police encounters to airport security, from political protests to public buses, your right to move around freely without "accounting for yourself" is increasingly challenged. The Identity Project (IDP) exists to uphold the freedom to exist, wander, and live anonymously within our own country if we so choose. We believe all Americans have the fundamental right to exist without seeking or getting permission of the government, to live without constantly proving who we are or why we are here, to freely move around our country. IDP explores and defends these rights. IDP questions the motives behind, and effectiveness of, identity based domestic security programs and asks whether the degradation of our civil liberties is justified. http://www.papersplease.org/ __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Fwd: FEAR: North Carolina: US Attys nab law enforcement big time
Begin forwarded message:From: Jody Neal-Post [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 8, 2006 6:43:52 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: FEAR: North Carolina: US Attys nab law enforcement big timeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Surprising account of US Attys getting the major bad guys- law enforcement abusing the drug and forfeiture laws and getting time for it.Former deputy pleads guilty http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=239090Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USARALEIGH -- A former Robeson County deputy pleaded guilty Friday in US District Court to stealing about $25,000 in federal drug forfeiture money. ...See all stories on this topic http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8oe=utf8persist=1hl=enclient=googlencl=http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article%3Fid%3D239090 ---Attachment: http://mapinc.org/temp/part488.html**FEAR also offers an unmoderated discussion list and digests for all listsList unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Swap to digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]** __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Conyers' New Report on Bush's Crimes
Begin forwarded message:From: "Democrats.com"[EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 7, 2006 5:05:50 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Conyers' New Report on Bush's Crimes Conyers Releases Massive New Report on Bush-Cheney CrimesThe minority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) just released a staggering report with the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws). This report, "The Constitution in Crisis," should provide the raw material for numerous news reports and point reporters toward fertile ground for additional investigations.Please take a look:http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis___Now, Take Action!1. Ask the media to cover Conyers' report. Thus far there has been a single mention on CNN and a dishonest attack piece in National Review. Where are serious journalists?http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=8955221type=ME2. Ask your Congress Member to sponsor H. Res. 635 to start an investigation.http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/6353. Buy this report as a book. Pre-order, and ask your friends to do so, and get it on the best-seller lists. The book, which includes an Introduction by Ambassador Joseph Wilson and a Forward by Congressman Conyers, is entitled "George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution." Buy it here.___At Long Last...Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?If you said the United States, you'll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.http://www.campdemocracy.org At long last, Americans are preparing to say "Enough is enough," and to do what Ukrainians, Mexicans, or any other people not drugged into acquiescence would do when things got this bad: occupy the capital city to demand peace, justice, and accountability.Share a Ride to Camp Democracy, Share a Room When You Get Here!Camp Democracy will be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from September 5 to 21. This will be a camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the rule of law. Camp Casey will move from Crawford, Texas, to Washington to create a larger camp focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.http://www.campdemocracy.orgYour travel to Camp Democracy is part of the camp and should be a community-building experience. Do you have two people in your car but four seats? Can you bring a van? A large bus? Or do you want to fly on a plane together with others bound for Camp Democracy? Sign up here to offer a ride or to ask for one: http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracyDo you have or need a room in the Washington, D.C., area?Sign up here to offer a room or request one:http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracyWe Need Your Help!Camp Democracy is a grassroots effort and will only succeed with the help of many, many people contributing the small amounts they can afford. This is our opportunity to do what the citizens of the Ukraine, of Mexico, and of other countries do when their democracies are taken from them. This is our chance to say "Enough is enough!" Can you help us?http://campdemocracy.org/sponsor___Planning an Impeachment Blog ActionStarting at noon ET on September 1, 2006, and lasting 24 hours, websites and blogs all across the internet are being asked to replace their front pages with the single word "Impeach" in simple white text on a black background. Here's an example: http://impeachnet.netVisitors to those sites and blogs will be able to click and link to the sites' usual front pages. But first they will see a word that, standing alone, is as powerful as any word right now: it is banned by our political and media leadership but more popular among citizens and activists than perhaps any other. It is both shocking and welcome. For 24 hours, web surfers and blog readers will see that word first when they visit their favorite sites. In this way, we hope to get the public talking about the one tool guaranteed by the Founders to restore our Constitutional Democracy. Please encourage your favorite websites to take part in this action. If you plan to take part, please let us know here:http://www.impeachnet.net/blog/contact ___FROM THE IMPEACHMENT FORUMS"When Bush vetoed the embryonic stem-cell bill (the first veto of his presidency), he remarked that the implementation of this bill would have promoted the taking of innocent human life, something that "crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect." Regardless of the merits or pitfalls of the bill, I find it ironic (to understate) that this president invokes morality as the reason
[cia-drugs] Re: No Reason For High Gas Prices
--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the dollar is circling the toilet bowl. Cart before the horse. The dollar is sinking, automakers and airlines bankrupted, because of the oil tax(and offshoring jobs disemploying many at the same time), not vice versa. Index the dollar to the euro or any other first world currency for the last six or eight years. The dollar has not changed value in relation to those currencies by a factor of 7:1 (ten dollars per barrel, Clinto low) or 4:1 ($16.50 bl, Bush low). - Original Message - From: muckblit To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 7:32 AM Subject: [cia-drugs] No Reason For High Gas Prices From 2000 to 2004 I used to read Platt's Oil fairly often and several Hightower reports every morning. Hightower actually said once that there was no change in oil supply or on-shore inventory to explain why gasoline prices were rising. Gasoline prices have continued to rise, but you have not read a single story which gives objective data to show that the oil supply or on-shore inventory has been altered by wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, or Lebanon. Have you? Didn't think so. What did you think, Mike Ruppert's Peak Oil scare explained today's gasoline prices? Or environmentalist concerns that falsely so-called fossil fuel was going to be in short supply some day by and by? I give you an example of a story which does explain an instance of reduced supply. And you remember Hurricanes Katrina and especially Rita might have altered supply for a few days. But neither last year's hurricane story or this story are about war-related oil supply reductions. Iraq was under sanctions until the US invadd in 2003, and Iraq's oil capacity has not been reduced or increased much since the invasion. Admit it, you WERE NOT THINKING. What numbed your mind out every time you paid higher prices for gasoline? What is the NEURO-LINGUISTIC BASIS for our collective unconsciousness? How did Goebbels do it? George Bush and Sean Hannity say,911 changed everything, but why are oil and gasoline prices so high if the US supply of oil has not changed in MANY YEARS? Curious? The answer is that oil companies have raised prices. That's all. And? And nothing. Congress did not investigate price gouging. Congress did not fine oil companies billions to recover what they looted from us. They used to do that. -Bob D http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/07/AR2006080700131_pf.html Pipeline Closure Sends Oil Higher BP to Halt Production of 400,000 Barrels a Day in Alaska By Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff WriterTuesday, August 8, 2006; A01 After noticing an oil spill on a deserted stretch of frozen road in Alaska's North Slope in early March, workers needed three days to find the quarter-inch-wide hole in a pipeline, just where it dipped into a culvert to allow the caribou to pass. On Sunday, five months after that unwelcome discovery, BP PLC conceded that the tiny hole was part of a widespread corrosion problem that will force it to replace 16 miles of a 22-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay and to shut down 400,000 barrels a day of production from the largest oil field in the United States. News that BP would have to suspend production equal to 8 percent of U.S. petroleum output for an indefinite period helped push the price of crude oil up by 3 percent yesterday, to $76.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price jump underlined the fragility of world oil markets, already anxious about the thin cushion between global supply and demand and potential threats to flows from Iran, Nigeria, Iraq and the hurricane-prone Gulf of Mexico. Shutting down the field will take three to five days, BP said, and Merrill Lynch Co. oil analyst John P. Herrlin said that the repairs would take a minimum of two to three months, dealing another blow to the chances of motorists getting relief from high gasoline prices anytime soon. Alaskan crude oil usually goes to refineries on the West Coast, where there is enough surplus to last about two weeks, analysts said. After that, some refiners will have to scramble to line up new supplies. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said yesterday that the Bush administration would consider releasing supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, though getting that oil from the salt caverns along the Gulf of Mexico to the West Coast would take some time or involve some swaps. BP's announcement also gave another black eye to a firm that has fashioned an image as a responsible, environmentally concerned company, and it drew new criticism from pipeline experts and environmentalists who have been saying for years that the company had failed to do the maintenance needed to keep the pipeline free from sludge and protect it from corrosion in the harsh Alaska conditions. The Environmental
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Bob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Bob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded!
Big diffrence. Both are Catholics, and hoping that Catholic voice
including Spain and Italy to raise again, against the Protestant evil
dictatorship.S1000+By "Both", do you mean CITGO and Saab? Or Batista and Castro? Or Barry and Porter? Or Chavez and Hopsicker?Are Likudniks "evil Protestant"? The neocons are chiefly Jewish, but you are probably referring to their useful zionits, protestants like Rev. Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell?Bush Warco was aligned with the pope in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up UK parliament, and with Colombia death squadding, lat am death squadding generally(and Israeli Likudniks cum neocons helping), and P2 in Italy. So don't assume that Bush and Cheney are "Protestant" themselves.Bush Warco takes drug cash laundered through Spain and buys out lat am companies and assets pounded down by IMF/WB "economic hitmen" see John Perkins book.An interesting "catholic" theory currently has to do with Lebanon. I think that would have NATO troops in Lebanon soon. There is currently a split in oil and arms and aero industries between US-Brit and France-Germany-Spain that you might wish to cast as a "catholic vs. protestant" meme.Iraq was formed 1919 to keep Iraqi oil in the ground. Sunnis obliged, obeying low Saudi("OPEC") quotas, until Saddam Hussein used timing to cause price fluctuations same as if he was busting quotas. Saudis and big oil determined to oust Saddam, let another Sunni general take over, but neocons turned that into a long occupation with privatization of oil. Big oil and Saudis saw that privatization would take away state monopoly control, making it difficult to keep Iraqi oil in the ground(supply down prices up), so big oil stepped in. There is still a back and forth between big oil and neocons on Iraq, Chalabi in and out and in a job, but so far big oil has prevented privatization of Iraqi oil. But the oil has changed hands from Sunnis to Shiites in Iraq, both because of geography and because Iranians control the govt there now.muckblit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes Venezuela different from Cuba is oil. Bush Warco supplied both sides in Cuba, Batista and Castro. See Daniel Hopsicker, Barry and the Boys(Porter 911 Goss and the boys), http://www.madcowprod.com Bush Warco supplied both sides in WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Iran-Iraq war,
Bosnia, 911 "war on terror". The second and better known of three Bay of Pigs or US invasions of Cuba failed, and Bush Warco(Sam, Prescott, GHW, GW and Jeb Bush) realized that Cuba would not fall to expats. And Cuba has always had more value as bogeyman to excuse ripping off the US taxpayer for defense spending, than as a liberated gambling resort and sugar plantation. So Bush Warco left Cuba alone. Reasons for Bush Warco not to leave Venezuela alone, and even to use US troops instead of surrogates, are laid out in Michel Chossudovsky's book, America's War On Terrorism. Basically, Chossudovsky gives a great many recent examples of how far Bush Warco is willing to go to prop up oil prices and loot the US economy by ten times more defense spending than is remotely rational. Buy CITGO gas to show your support for Venezuela. I love Saab, but boycott Saab for now, for Lebanese civilians being bombed.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" [EMAIL PROTECTED]. wrote: http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=65434 Published: Sunday, August 06, 2006 Bylined to: Bob ChapmanBob Chapman: No question that Venezuela will be attacked and invaded! THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Our intel sources tell us that the neocon elitists are building a ring of bases surrounding Venezuela. We all know what has been going on in Colombia and the same is happening in Peru and Paraguay. There is no question in our mind that eventually Venezuela will be attacked and invaded. a.. In fact, Medivacs have already been sent to Colombia, Paraguay and Peru. The big buildup has
begun. We hope President Chavez is listening and is expanding his army on the ground. He will need all the help he can get once this gets underway. We expect an attack will come before Venezuela takes delivery of their new aircraft and helicopters ... he should expedite delivery if that is possible. Last year Iran invested US$1 billion in Venezuela, most of it in the oil, gas and engineering sectors. On his recent visit to Iran, President Chavez invited President Mahmound Ahmadinejad to make further investments in the Orinoco region. Both Presidents not only have oil in common as members of OPEC, but they also share a dislike of elitist US foreign policy. What a joke. Sweden has shown how neutral it is ... Saab says it cannot continue sales of defensive armaments, such as anti-aircraft and anti-tank devices to Venezuela, because of the US arms embargo. Well
who cares. The Venezuelans will simply buy from Russia and China. Note should be made
[cia-drugs] US sanctions on Russian companies is reaction to Venezuela arms contracts
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=65586 Published: Tuesday, August 08, 2006Bylined to: RIA Novosti US sanctions on Russian companies is reaction to Venezuela arms contracts RIA Novosti: Russia's Defense Ministry said US sanctions against two Russian state-owned companies were linked with their contracts with Venezuela. The US State Department announced Friday the introduction of sanctions against Russia's state arms exporter Rosoboronexport and state-owned aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi over their cooperation with Iran. A high-ranking official in the Defense Ministry said, "Obviously, this decision is a reaction to recent successes of our companies in concluding beneficial contracts on arms supplies to Venezuela." Russia signed US$1 billion contracts on supplies of 30 Su-30 Flanker air-superiority fighters and 30 helicopters to Venezuela in July prior to the visit to Russia by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who has moved to curb American influence in the region and consolidate ties with other South American nations since he came to power in 1998. The Russian Foreign Ministry slammed the US sanctions saying, "Our companies stand accused of violating the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000. We consider these actions by the U.S. State Department unacceptable." "Russian companies cooperating with other countries in the military-technical sphere are acting in strict compliance with the rules of international law, as well as Russian law, including Russia's obligations on nuclear nonproliferation and export control," the ministry said. The source in the Defense Ministry also said the US accusations that the Russian companies were supplying technologies, which Iran could use to produce weapons of mass destruction, were groundless. "They [the companies] have violated no international obligations and the US is well aware of this," he said. The source called the US sanctions "dishonest competition on the arms market." Some countries, led by the United States, suspect Tehran of pursuing a secret weapons program. Iran has consistently stated that it only wants nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office 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] ANTICHRIST SYSTEM OF CONTROL
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/08/07/terrorism.technology.ap/index.html Video cameras on the lookout for terrorists Monday, August 7, 2006; Posted: 2:52 p.m. EDT (18:52 GMT) A camera records activity at a GE video surveillance testing site. Image: NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) -- It sounds like something out of science fiction. Researchers at General Electric Co.'s sprawling research center, are creating new "smart video surveillance" systems that can detect explosives by recognizing the electromagnetic waves given off by objects, even under clothing. Scientist Peter Tu and his team are also developing programs that can recognize faces, pinpoint distress in a crowd by honing in on erratic body movements and synthesize the views of several cameras into one bird's eye view, as part of a growing effort to thwart terrorism. "We're definitely on the cutting edge," said Tu, 39. "If you want to reduce risk, video is the way to do it. The threat is always evolving, so our video is always evolving." Scientists at the GE complex, a landscaped, gated campus of laboratories and offices spread out over 525 acres and home to 1,900 scientists and staff, and others in the industry hope to use various technologies to reduce false alarms, cut manpower used on mundane tasks and give first-responders better tools to assess threats. The country's growing security needs also provide an opportunity to boost business. The United States and its allies now face a new "Iraq generation" of terrorists who have learned how to make explosive devices, assassinate leaders and carry out other mayhem since the U.S. invasion of the country more than three years ago, said Roger Cressey, a former counterterrorism official in the Bush Administration who now runs his own consulting business in Arlington, Virginia. "These people are far more adept and capable in many respects than al-Qaeda before 9-11," he said. "They don't appear in any no-fly list or terrorism data base." Since 2002, GE has spent $4 billion buying smaller businesses to take a bigger share of the $160 billion global security industry, a market that includes everything from building security to narcotics detection. The company expects $2 billion in revenue from its security businesses this year. That should rise to $2.8 billion in 2009, said Louis Parker, chief executive of GE's security unit. Philadelphia-based Acoustech Corp. and Providence-Based FarSounder Inc. received Homeland Security grants to develop systems that can detect underwater threats such as divers with explosives. "Ever since the Department of Homeland Security was put into place, our business has gone up," said James McConnell of Acoustech. The three-person company takes in $500,000 in revenue a year. Systems currently run about $1 million from other vendors so the companies are trying to make systems that would be more affordable for port authorities and other waterfront facilities around the country such as power plants and oil refineries. "We've had a lot of customers calling and asking for a solution to the problem," said FarSounder founder Matthew Zimmerman. Such cost-saving measures could benefit New York City, which in June, had its share of federal anti-terrorism grants from the Department of Homeland Security cut by 40 percent to $124.5 million. Cressey said the country has to find the best ways to protect itself and that includes investing in new technologies for things like ports, airports and mass transit systems. The U.S. government is spending $1.1 billion this year to fund anti-terrorism technology research and has spent about $3 billion over the past three years, said Christopher Kelly, a DHS spokesman. At General Electric, researchers are working on software that allows cameras to separately track people and the items they are carrying to help detect when suspicious packages are left in airports, stadiums and other public places. One such system is already being tested using video from London's Victoria train station, part of the transit system hit by suicide bombers in July 2005 in which 52 people were killed and another 740 wounded. Cressey said there are about 30 million video surveillance cameras in the United States shooting about four billion hours of footage every week. Relying more on computers to go through that footage would allow manpower to be better used elsewhere and perhaps lead to faster recognition of possible threats. Among numerous other projects, GE is working on baggage scanners that use advanced X-ray and CT technologies to detect traces of explosives faster and with greater accuracy and shoe scanners that use quadrupole resonance, similar to magnetic resonance imaging, to improve screening of passengers' shoes while they are still on their feet. Still, many officials warn that technology cannot replace humans entirely. "You can't get too reliant on these
[cia-drugs] Escalating War: Agitating for the Apocalypse ~ Defiance Facade
It would appear that the "bomb Iran" school, as represented by the Gingrich-Woolsey-Kristol-Ledeen wing of the CFR, is primarily serving as a foil to make the planned "international" approach, as represented by the Kipper-Kissinger-Brzezinski-Shultz wing of the CFR, look more reasonable. All of the "experts" quoted above — both the "bomb Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria" and the "talk to Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Syria" schools of thought — are longtime members of the elite private establishment that has been deciding and running U.S. foreign policy for the past several decades: the Council on Foreign Relations. --- Escalating Warby William F. JasperAugust 21, 2006 The dilemma of false alternatives — and why Americans must not let our government entangle us further in the current Mideast mess. "We are in the early stages of what I would describe as the third world war, and frankly, our bureaucracies aren't responding fast enough," Newt Gingrich declared. "We don't have the right attitude about this This is, in fact, World War III." That alarming statement, laden with overtones of approaching Armageddon, came on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert on Sunday, July 16, as Gingrich put the current Lebanon crisis in context by running through a list of terror attacks worldwide. Mr. Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives and neo-conservative guru, subsequently took up the same theme on CNN's Larry King Live, Fox's Hannity and Colmes, and other programs. But he wasn't merely expressing his opinion that events on the ground have already, de facto, put us squarely in the opening throes of WWIII. No, he was arguing for kicking the process up another notch, pressing for Israel — with U.S. backing — to attack Syria and Iran, the state sponsors of the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists who have been attacking Israel. Agitating for the Apocalypse Gingrich is not the only influential policy wonk to be casting the Lebanon flare-up in apocalyptic terms and rattling the sabers. James Woolsey, a former under secretary of the Navy and President Clinton's CIA director from 1993 to 1995, is even more hawkish, advocating that the United States itself bomb Syria, rather than wait for Israel to do so. "I think we ought to execute some airstrikes against Syria," Woolsey said on Fox News Channel's The Big Story with John Gibson. If we're going to go after Syria, why not also "hit something in Iran?" Gibson asked. Woolsey is not averse to that course of action, but acknowledges that we may be too overextended militarily, at present, to take on another war. "One has to take things to some degree by steps," Woolsey replied, noting that with our troops already committed in one major war in Iraq, a full-tilt war against the Tehran regime may not be practical "at this moment." Other war hawks, apparently, are unburdened by these concerns. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard and a leading cheerleader for a global war against Islam, is calling for a U.S. military effort to bring about "regime change in Syria and Iran." In a July 24 editorial entitled, "It's Our War," Kristol advocates that we launch "a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities." Now! "Why wait?" he asks. Likewise, neo-con propagandist Michael Ledeen, another leading voice in perennial pro-war punditry, sees the Lebanon situation as a mandate for a U.S. military attack on Syria and Iran. In a July 13 National Review Online piece entitled "The Same War," for instance, Ledeen argues: "In this war, there is no meaningful distinction between Iran and Syria, they work in tandem." He insists, "The only way we are going to win this war is to bring down those regimes in Tehran and Damascus." And, he continues, "Only the United States can accomplish it." Defiance Facade Opposed to (or rather, seemingly opposed to) these and other voices of the war chorus are the accommodationists, all of whom seem to be pretty much in general agreement that the solution to the Israel-Lebanon-Hamas-Hezbollah-Syria-Iran crisis must be an international one, involving a parley among all of the above-mentioned parties plus the United States, the UN, the EU, Russia, and China. These advocates propose an international peace force for the Israel-Palestine-Lebanon region — most likely under the United Nations and/or NATO auspices — along with generous largesse (from guess who) for humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, rebuilding of infrastructure destroyed in the recent conflict, etc. This is the school of thought expounded by, for example, Judith Kipper, adviser for Middle East Programs at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), who urges the Bush administration to "do some meaningful diplomacy" with the terrorists and their state sponsors. In a July 22 New York Times op-ed entitled, "Don't Just Talk to States," Kipper happily reports that "Hamas and Hezbollah, supported by Iran and Syria,
