[cia-drugs] Fwd: Red China Eats the World
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:54 pm Subject: Red China Eats the World Rio predicts political strife as China’s appetite grows David Robertson January 28, 2008 http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/china/article3261567.ece China’s booming economy is expected to consume more than half of the world’s key resources within a decade, according to Rio Tinto. The rapid industrialisation of China’s economy means that it is likely to consume a majority of the world’s supply of all the major metals and minerals, potentially leading to clashes with other countries over access to resources. Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest miner, said last week that China already accounted for 47 per cent of all iron ore consumption, 32 per cent of aluminium and 25 per cent of copper. Tom Albanese, Rio’s chief executive, has predicted that within the next couple of years this will move to 58 per cent of all iron ore, 45 per cent of aluminium and a third of all copper. He said: “Even with the assumption that the current growth intensity will slow, we are looking at China consuming a higher percentage of global supply.” Vivek Tulpule, Rio’s chief economist, said that with China likely to consume more than half of the world’s key resources within a decade, political concerns would be raised as the country seeks to control access to the resources its economy needs. In 1990, China accounted for only about 5 per cent of all copper demand and 3 per cent of aluminium and iron ore. The country is already the largest buyer of nickel, copper, aluminium, steel, coal and iron ore. Only in oil does it fall behind, coming second to the United States. By 2015, China will be consuming nearly a billion tonnes of iron ore a year. To meet this demand, large mining companies are ramping up production in areas such as Western Australia’s Pilbara region, which is geographically one of the closest ore deposits to China. Rio Tinto expects to increase its production in the Pilbara from 160 million tonnes a year to 320 million tonnes by 2013. BHP Bil-liton, the world’s largest miner, hopes to achieve 300 million tonnes by 2015. Mr Tulpule said: “The US’s consumption of the key metals has been going backwards while China has continued to grow. [China's] share of global demand will continue to rise until about 2020 when other economies like India start to challenge it.” COMMENTS: Many people in North America have the view that China is still behind the curve. I am living in China temporarily and I can tell you it is very modern and forward thinking in their strategic planning. 80% of the population ride electric scooters around Shanghai with special roads separated from the regular truck and car traffic. The new buildings have all the amenities and ABM are in no short supply. The large apartment complexes that the majority of the people occupy have all the conveniences that North America has and in some cases are replete with large swimming pools and beautiful gardens. The lights at night around Suzhou make North American cities look tame. When one sees how progressive the Chinese nation is , one can easily believe the predictions of future consumption. Greg Nixon, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Plunge Protection
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 11:48 pm Subject: Plunge Protection The Plunge Protection Team By Andrew Gause US Gold Coins.com 1-28-8 ?http://rense.com/general80/plunge.htm ? Those who share the crash mentality have often derided the notion of sustainability in this fiat, or unbacked monetary system. They insist that both doom and gloom are imminent. They cite the fact that every experiment with fiat money has failed and that empires crumbled in each instance. I suggest that none of the prior systems had the technology in use today. Even the very notion of money is radically different. Today over 92% of everything we call money is electronic. When the Roman Empire debased its money, the masses who controlled the actual debased coins alternately aggregated and dumped them, creating an ebb and flow similar to rocking a boat. As each wave occurred, the swings were wider until the water came over the side. Alas, if only the Romans had the Plunge Protection Team. They could have stopped the rocking with appropriate counter measures. The science of monetary policy has created a system of chattel slavery unlike any ever witnessed. Those in charge of this wildly profitable system have found a way to effectively harness the efforts of the populace with what we have dubbed the electronic chain. By converting the bulk of money to electronic form, they have eliminated the element of surprise that often caused the widespread panic inherent in a rocking boat. Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 http://tinyurl.com/3b8fom,?pools were formed by prominent capitalists. The Government was rarely involved, not withstanding the 1869 Gold panic http://tinyurl.com/2uaucv offset by Treasury selling. J.P. Morgan himself organized a private pool to stem the Bank Panic of 1907 http://tinyurl.com/34kc43 . In 1929, Richard Whitney, acting head of the New York Stock Exchange, created demand by buying large blocks of stock for a pool which bolstered prices and restored confidence. Like the Morgan pool of 1907, both lacked the subs tance to be successful. The modern survivor to Morgan's famous pool is the Working Group on Financial Markets. http://tinyurl.com/28gy65?? Created by Executive Order 12631 http://tinyurl.com/a8lrv , this action was largely the result of the crash of 1987 where a total collapse of the markets was narrowly averted?thanks to?concerted action.? This formal government entity is charged with enhancing the orderliness of our Nation's financial markets and maintaining investor confidence. The first reference to this faction appeared in an article?in the Washington Post, by Brett Fromson. Many stories have circulated?about massive buying at precisely timed?moments to revive an otherwise sagging market. Unlike informal arrangements cobbled together at the onset of a panic, these efforts were massive by standards of reason. In the private pools it often took more money than the participants were willing to commit. These efforts necessarily failed. Many prominent economists cited this lack of resources as the only reason for failure. The problems of limited resources are now gone. The Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have all picked a designee to act in concert with government and private parties, to prevent investor panics. The order also directs that, The heads of Executive departments, agencies, and independent instrumentalities shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide the Working Group all such information as it may require for the purpose of carrying out this Order. And further, it says, To the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of funds thereof, the Department of the Treasury shall provide the Working Group with such administrative and support services as may be necessary for the performance of its functions. With this one order, the entire financial system has been placed in the hands of 6 people?with a practically unlimited supply of money.? By law, only the President can authorize a shutdown of U.S. financial markets.?? No doubt such an event would shake investor confidence.? So this team sees to it that this is unnecessary.? Have they had an effect? There have been many instances since 1988, when the Major Market Index futures contracts were heavily bought, at just the right moment, by a few major firms.? This unusual buying boosted the Dow and rallied the markets.? The heavy buying of this one MMI contract raised the price.? The underlying securities were then at a discount to the index. This prompted regular market traders
[cia-drugs] Fwd: On His Way Out of the White House, Bush Turns Off Our Lights and Locks Our Doors
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:53 pm Subject: On His Way Out of the White House, Bush Turns Off Our Lights and Locks Our Doors White House Trying To ‘Eliminate’ FOIA Office http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/26/leahy-foia/ In August, the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government reported that “current government handling of FOIA requests is deteriorating” and that the Justice Department was “consistently granted the lowest percentage of [FOIA] appeals of any agency.” On New Years Eve, facing “congressional pushback against the Bush administration’s movement to greater secrecy,” President Bush signed the OPEN Government Act, toughening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The legislation — unanimously passed by the House and Senate — would push agencies to respond more quickly to records requests. But now, the White House is doing everything it can to neuter the law. Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) said yesterday that Bush’s FY2009 “funds for the Office of Government Information Services authorized under the newly enacted OPEN Government Act will be shifted to the Department of Justice” from the National Archives. Congress Daily reports: “But by shifting the funding to the Justice Department, OMB would effectively eliminate the office, because it appears no similar operation would be created there,” according to an aide to Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT). […] National Archives officials are relatively independent of political pressure, the staffer explained, “but DOJ is different.” Government transparency advocates consider the department hostile to efforts to improve FOIA responsiveness, in part because it represents agencies sued by FOIA requesters. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), a cosponsor of the OPEN Government legislation said he “does agree with Senator Leahy and would oppose that effort” of the adminstration. The Justice Department’s efforts to protect government secrecy are notorious. In fact, in the 109th Congress, the Department “squelched efforts to pass the OPEN Government Act.” But even initially “putting [funding] in DOJ would essentially obviate what Leahy and Cornyn did with the legislation,” said Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org Bush’s noncompliance with the legislation makes clear his effort to return to his old ways of egregious government secrecy. Comments » Feingold says: http://feingold.senate.gov/ ~feingold/ statements/ 08/ 01/ 20080125.htm January 25, 2007 “The conduct of Senate Republicans yesterday was shameless. After weeks of insisting that it is absolutely critical to finish the FISA legislation by February 1, even going so far as to object to a one-month extension of the Protect America Act, they obstructed all efforts to actually work on the bill. Now they want to simply ram the deeply flawed Intelligence Committee bill through the Senate. They refused to allow amendments to be offered or voted on, including my straight-forward amendment to require that the government provide copies of FISA Court orders and pleadings for review in a classified setting, so that Members of Congress can understand how FISA has been interpreted and is being applied. If the Republicans succeed in cutting off debate on Monday, the Senate won’t even get to vote on the amendment Senator Dodd and I want to offer to deny retroactive immunity to telecom companies that allegedly cooperated with the administration’s illegal wiretapping program. “Democrats should not allow the Republicans to ram this bill through the Senate without amendments. Monday’s cloture vote will be a test of whether the majority is willing to stand up to the administration and stand up for our rights.” Comment by 99Luf Balloons — January 26, 2008 @ 11:52 am The only thing ANY Republican is now is an obstructionist to this government functioning. PURGE ALL Republicans from ALL offices, everywhere -- local, state and federal. Comment by 99Luf Balloons — January 26, 2008 @ 11:53 am Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: A Second Look at Daryl Gates and the Secret LAPD
Let us not forget, he was also the brain-child of the popular anti-drug D.A.R.E. program. Kris Millegan wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 3:36 pm Subject: A Second Look at Daryl Gates and the Secret LAPD Friday, January 25, 2008 http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-lapd-send-lee-harvey-oswald-to.html http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-lapd-send-lee-harvey-oswald-to.html */Did the LAPD Send Lee Harvey Oswald to Russia?/* http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-lapd-send-lee-harvey-oswald-to.html In the book, Chief: My Life in the L.A.P.D. http://www.amazon.com/Chief-My-Life-L-P-D/dp/0553562053/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1199910091sr=8-1, http://www.amazon.com/Chief-My-Life-L-P-D/dp/0553562053/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1199910091sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Chief-My-Life-L-P-D/dp/0553562053/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1199910091sr=8-1 Daryl Gates writes that the Los Angeles Police Department had a special intelligence unit that ran a program which sent American spies to Russia, totally clandestine and under deep cover. This was during the during the same period when Lee Harvey Oswald made his strange trip to the Soviet Union. A natural question arises; was Oswald part of the LAPD program? A few words about *Daryl Gates* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Gates are in order. Gates went to University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill. He worked closely with the infamous Police Chief *Bill Parker* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Parker_%28LAPD%29. Gates is a notorious right winger. Even someone as famous as Peter Ueberroth was not afraid to ask the question, Is it true that Daryl Gates is a Nazi? He was in charge during the Watts riot that occurred five days after the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. Despite all his failures during the riots, he was still considered an expert on riots and riot control and helped prepare other police chiefs for the riots that would occur in other parts of the country. His policies were viewed as racist and led to the Rodney King beating and many other abuses of police power He started S.W.A.T, Special Weapons and Tactics, which put military weapons into the hands of the police. He worked with the Marines at Camp Pendleton to find the best snipers. Two interesting facts emerge when studying Daryl Gates. The first one is how interested he was in Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination. Just hours before Oswald was murdered by Ruby, Gates was on the phone talking to the Dallas Police Department. The second one is that he was in charge of Robert Kennedy's security at the Ambassador Hotel the night of RFK's assassination. Actually, there was no security. Gates kept the police away, claiming somebody told him Bobby didn't want the LAPD there. The Los Angeles Police would burn most of the photos related to the assassination before Sirhan's trial began. Then Gates kept the case secret for twenty-five years. When he was forced to release the files, he had destroyed most of the evidence Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp0030002548 More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp000503! No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.9/1239 - Release Date: 1/23/2008 10:24 AM
[cia-drugs] Akha Journal: We put deposit on Akha Freedom Bus
Dear Friends: We have put a deposit on the bus we need for the Ride for Freedom. See www.akha.org for a recent picture of the bus before we repaint it for the Akha. We are really excited about this. We still have to raise the rest of the money needed for this but know that people will come forward and help us get it done. In solid mechanical condition this mobile billboard and office will provide service and publicity for years to come. From this base we will be making video, documents, web updates, and doing a lot of PR about the Akha human rights situation. Across America by horseback, with a means to really get the word out there, all across the United States. Join in and be part of this exciting adventure. We really value your support. Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation. http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Site. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal Discussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha Donate Via Credit Card Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org PO Box 6073 Salem, OR. 97304 USA. - Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.
[cia-drugs] We've Waited Seven Years: Kucinich Introducing Articles of Impeachment Against Bush TODAY
We've Waited Seven Years: Kucinich Introducing Articles of Impeachment Against Bush TODAYSubmitted by davidswanson on Mon, 2008-01-28 13:30. Impeachment State of the Unitary Executive? State of the Dictatorship? Today Congressman Kucinich will introduce over 50 Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush: Let Congress and the Media Know You Support This! http://tinyurl.com/277hoq MARC PARENT, mparent, mparent, ccnwon CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail
