[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Neocons Dismember the CIA
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 2:36:15 AM PDTTo: "[SPY NEWS]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Neocons Dismember the CIAReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=362Neocons Dismember the CIAKurt NimmoMay 8, 2006As speculated here over the weekend, the impending appointment of General Michael Hayden to the CIA will translate into the wholesale dismemberment of the agency in favor of the Pentagon conducting "paramilitary operations" (i.e., subverting governments around the world). "A senior intelligence community official yesterday said the director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, has indicated 'he is willing to give up covert operations to the Pentagon,’" reports the New York Sun. "The proposed change would give the Pentagon unfettered authority to plan and conduct these operations without consulting an intelligence bureaucracy its civilian leaders have deemed hostile to the president’s war policy," a completely natural opposition since the operations of the Straussian neocons are quite dangerous and insane.Meanwhile, according to Ken Rudin of NPR, the "prospect of putting a military guy in charge of a civilian agency, especially when Hayden and other U.S. intelligence officials are embroiled in the domestic spying controversy, has angered a lot of people on Capitol Hill, including some Republicans," not that this particularly matters, as the neocons perched on the White House roost get pretty much whatever they want. Bush should be sitting in the hoosegow at the Hague, awaiting a war crimes tribunal, and the neocons should be paraded before the cameras in orange jumpsuits, but instead they are allowed to walk around free. Obviously, since many Americans don’t think it is a big deal for a president to tell lies and then kill between 100,000 and 250,000 Iraqis and violate the Constitution in regard to a massive snoop campaign—a campaign orchestrated in part by General Hayden—they are not likely to complain about his appointment to the CIA and the shuffling of covert operations to the Pentagon. Senator John "Skull Bones" Kerry may believe appointing Hayden is indiscreet, as a handful other Congress critters on both sides of the aisle do, but this will amount to little more than a small hurdle for the Bush administration.Pentagon covert ops have left the CIA in the dust for some time. "The Defense Department is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions of existing units are being revised," William Arkin wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2002. "The increasingly dominant role of the military, Pentagon officials say, reflects frustration at the highest levels of government with the performance of the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and much of the burgeoning homeland security apparatus. It also reflects the desire of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to gain greater overall control of the war on terror…. insulated from outside pressures, armed with matchless weapons and technology, trained to operate below the shadow line, the Pentagon’s black world of classified operations holds out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism that often looks more like a family feud than a war."Arkin, a former military analyst (who recently defended Rumsfeld after Ray McGovern called him a liar), needs a bit of translation: the Pentagon really does not believe the CIA and the "intelligence community" at large are ineffectual performers—the neocons in the Pentagon simply want to consolidate power and stage manage all aspects of the rechristened Long War. Moreover, "the Pentagon’s black world of classified operations" is not designed to hold "out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism," but rather stretch the "struggle" out indefinitely and in the process, as the Straussians have long dreamed, transform society into a fascist juggernaut where plebs sacrifice their lives as the average German did under the rule of Hitler and his nihilistic minions.Nobody can say they didn’t see all of this coming—or at least those who pay attention cannot make this claim. Back in January of last year, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, noted the Pentagon was "expanding into the CIA’s historic bailiwick" and creating "a new espionage arm" with "broad authority over clandestine operations abroad." Rumsfeld unleashed the Strategic Support Branch (SSB), originally known as Project Icon, and specifically tasked it to compete with the CIA and "operate without detection and under the defense secretary’s direct control." SSB began its work soon after nine eleven in Iraq, Afghanistan and "other places" civilian participants (i.e., neocons) "declined to name," although "an early planning memorandum to Rumsfeld from Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff"
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 12:18:45 AM PDTTo: "[SPY NEWS]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA ShuffleReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050801616.html?nav=rss_nationExperts See a Strategy Behind CIA ShuffleGeneral May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Planshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/05/08/VI2006050800497.htmlVIDEO: Bush Announces Hayden To Head CIAPresident Bush announces the nomination of General Michael Hayden to head the CIA.By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, May 9, 2006; Page A09Gen. Michael V. Hayden isn't the first active-duty military officer tapped to lead the CIA -- he is in fact the fifth -- but many intelligence experts and officers have bemoaned the idea of a general leading the agency at a time when the Pentagon is expanding its ability to engage in global spying and man-hunting, traditional realms of the CIA.Despite such qualms, intelligence specialists say Hayden's appointment may turn out to be a clever move by intelligence czar John D. Negroponte to help him assert authority over Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his burgeoning intelligence bureaucracy. Negroponte, who by law oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, has expressed frustration that he has not made more progress in managing the agencies under the Defense Department's jurisdiction.Negroponte was mindful of the issue yesterday as Hayden was officially nominated. "To those who raise a question about the fact that Mike Hayden wears the uniform," Negroponte said in announcing his nomination, "I think they can also be assured that Mike Hayden is a very, very independent-minded person, blunt-spoken. . . . I don't think [he] will have any difficulty whatsoever staking out positions that are independent."The intelligence overhaul that installed Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence also assigned the CIA the role of managing all "human intelligence" -- or spying -- including the collection done by the Defense Department, which many experts believe is trying to break out on its own in this arena."The concern about Hayden is not really about Hayden, it's about Rumsfeld and Cheney," said one former senior intelligence officer, referring to Vice President Cheney's strained relationship with the CIA and allegations that he used Pentagon-gathered information on Iraq's weapons because it comported with his personal view on Iraq."Hayden seems to be one of those guys who will, without hesitation, stand up to anyone with whom he disagrees," said Mackubin T. Owens, professor of national security studies at the Naval War College. "He's out of Rumsfeld's reach."The CIA establishment views the encroachment of the Pentagon into such sensitive areas as covert operations and human intelligence as a misguided effort that does not recognize the inherent difficulties in understanding, much less penetrating, terrorist networks."If the military's calling the shots, you're not going to get the focus on Manchester, England [where the London bombers came from], or the Montreal axis," a reference to the crossroads for a group of al-Qaeda figures, the former intelligence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the upcoming debate on Hayden's nomination.But the military's frustration with the CIA -- including not having enough terrorist targets identified for attack in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere -- is at least in part behind Rumsfeld's expansion of military intelligence capabilities. Rumsfeld has moved hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of troops into clandestine intelligence collection and analysis. With little public discussion and a wall of secrecy, the military is poised to launch its own intelligence-gathering and man-hunting operations independent of the CIA or other authorities."When you're not getting what you want, the bureaucratic response is to create your own [bureaucracy], not because you want different answers, but because you want answers," said Owens.Managed by Army Lt. Gen. Lee Blalack , a legendary special operations officer who now holds the title of deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and warfighting support, the Pentagon is demanding that the CIA share its most sensitive databases, that small teams of undercover soldiers be allowed to secretly collect information in friendly countries, and that clandestine teams of military man-hunters be allowed to sneak into countries with which the United States is not at war to kill or capture terrorism suspects.But Hayden, an Air Force four-star general, has already taken steps and positions aimed at enhancing the CIA's leadership in human intelligence.Although he comes from the world of high-tech signals intelligence, Hayden was an early proponent of scaling back the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the Brothels
Begin forwarded message:From: thew [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 8:41:56 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the BrothelsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 9, 2006OP-ED COLUMNISTBush Takes On the BrothelsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFI'm guessing that President Bush's foreign policy will stand up about as well to the assessments of future historians as a baby gazelle to a pack of cheetahs.Yet there is one area where Mr. Bush is making a historic contribution: he is devoting much more money and attention to human trafficking than his predecessors. Just as one of Jimmy Carter's great legacies was putting human rights squarely on the international agenda, Mr. Bush is doing the same for slave labor.We don't tend to think of trafficking as a top concern, so Mr. Bush hasn't gotten much credit. But it's difficult to think of a human rights issue that could be more important than sex trafficking and the other kinds of neo-slavery that engulf millions of people around the world, leaving many of them dead of AIDS by their early 20's.My own epiphany came in 1989, when my wife and I lived in China and covered the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Arrests of dissidents were front-page news, but no one paid any attention as many tens of thousands of Chinese women and girls were kidnapped and sold each year by traffickers to become the unwilling wives of peasants.Since then, I've seen the peddling of humans in many countries: the 8-year-old Filipino girl whose mother used to pull her out of school to rent to pedophiles; the terrified 14-year-old Vietnamese girl imprisoned in a brothel pending the sale of her virginity; the Pakistani teenager whose brothel's owner dealt with her resistance by drugging her into a stupor. The U.N. has estimated that 12.3 million people worldwide are caught in forced labor of one kind or another.In an age of H.I.V., sex trafficking is particularly lethal. And for every political dissident who is locked up in a prison cell, hundreds of teenage girls are locked up in brothels and, in effect, sentenced to death by AIDS.In 2000, Congress passed landmark anti-trafficking legislation, backed by an unlikely coalition of evangelical Republicans and feminist Democrats. Even today, the Congressional leaders against trafficking include a conservative Republican, Senator Sam Brownback, and a liberal Democrat, Representative Carolyn Maloney.But the heaviest lifting has been done by the State Department's tiny office on trafficking — for my money, one of the most effective units in the U.S. government. The office, led by a former Republican congressman, John Miller, is viewed with suspicion by some career diplomats who fear that simple-minded conservative nuts are mucking up relations with countries over a peripheral issue.Yet Mr. Miller and his office wield their spotlight shrewdly. With firm backing from the White House (Mr. Bush made Mr. Miller an ambassador partly to help him in his bureaucratic battles), the office puts out an annual report that shames and bullies foreign governments into taking action against forced labor of all kinds.Under pressure from the report, Cambodia prosecuted some traffickers (albeit while protecting brothels owned by government officials) and largely closed down the Svay Pak red-light district, where 10-year-olds used to be openly sold. Ecuador stepped up arrests of pimps and started a national public awareness campaign. Israel trained police to go after traffickers and worked with victims' home countries, like Belarus and Ukraine. And so on, country by country.Some liberals object to the administration's requirement that aid groups declare their opposition to prostitution before they can get anti-trafficking funds. But in the past, without that requirement, U.S. funds occasionally went to groups promoting prostitution. And in any case, the requirement doesn't seem to have caused many problems on the ground (partly because aid groups sometimes dissemble to get money). In Zambia, India and Cambodia, I've seen U.S.-financed programs work closely with prostitutes and brothel owners when that is needed to get the job done.Moreover, Ambassador Miller and his staff aren't squeamish prudes. Mr. Miller is sympathetic to the Swedish model: stop punishing prostitutes, but crack down on pimps and customers. He says that approach seems to have reduced more forced prostitution than just about any other strategy.The backdrop is a ridiculously divisive debate among anti-trafficking activists about whether prostitution should be legalized. Whatever one thinks of that question, it's peripheral to the central challenge: vast numbers of underage girls are forced into brothels against their will, and many die of AIDS. On that crucial issue, Mr. Bush is leaving a legacy that he and America can be proud of.Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company =
[cia-drugs] Millegan on radio in St Louis tonight
Howdy One All, I will be on radio, KMOX-St. Louis 1120 AM, tonight at 10:00 PDT. I will be speaking about the recent Geronimo's skull flap. You may listen online at http://kmox.com/pages/2615.php. The interview should begin after the news. Peace, K 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 United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The coming end of the CIA By Jim Lobe
Begin forwarded message:From: Pale Horse [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 9:35:55 PM PDTTo: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED], "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] The coming end of the CIA By Jim LobeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Portents: The coming end of the CIABy Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Monday's nomination by US President George W Bush of air force General Michael Hayden to take over the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the hapless Porter Goss has predictably intensified speculation over what is really going on behind the scenes. Most analysts see the shifts as the latest battle between the director of national intelligence (DNI), John Negroponte, and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld in the war over control of the multiple functions of the United States' sprawling, US$40-billion-a-year intelligence community. But opinion appears deeply divided over which bureaucratic titan will emerge as this round's winner, although few doubt that the unceremonious dismissal of a CIA director who served less than 20 months on the job - particularly by a president who has proved dogged in retaining loyal servants despite strong evidence of their incompetence - is filled with portent. Goss, the former head of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, was sent to the CIA ostensibly to implement a reform program designed to resuscitate its covert action and human-intelligence-gathering capabilities after the debacle in Iraq. But he is likely to be remembered chiefly for his "Gosslings", Republican political operatives he brought with him from the House, whose main purpose was to purge senior officers whose loyalty to their tradecraft appeared greater than to the policy priorities of the Bush administration, particularly in the Middle East. By the time of his abrupt resignation last week, some 16 top officers, including one director and two deputy directors, with a combined 300 years of intelligence experience, had fled, leaving "the agency in free fall", according to Goss's former Democratic colleague on the Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman. Both Negroponte, who last year displaced the CIA director as the president's chief intelligence adviser, and Bush's own Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board concluded earlier this year that Goss and his henchmen had to go, although the precipitating factor appears to have been implication in a remarkably unsavory congressional bribery scandal of the CIA's No 3, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who had been hand-picked by Goss himself. With Goss out, attention naturally shifted to Hayden, Negroponte's top deputy and the former head of the Pentagon's National Security Agency (NSA), who was formally nominated by Bush to the post on Monday. As Bush himself noted, Hayden has served almost his entire career in intelligence, although most of it has been more focused on the kinds of signals intelligence - satellite spying, eavesdropping and other forms of electronic surveillance - that is the special province of the NSA than human intelligence or covert operations. "He knows the intelligence community from the ground up," Bush said on Monday. Admired even by his congressional critics as an excellent and generally candid briefer, Hayden's institutional and political loyalties, however, remain unclear - a fact that has fueled speculation as to the policy and bureaucratic implications of his nomination. Perceived as a straight-talking technocrat and effective manager who had largely succeeded in moving the NSA from Cold War thinking to the new challenges of the "global war on terror", Hayden was unanimously confirmed by the Senate last year as Negroponte's deputy. But his apolitical image has been tarnished - for civil libertarians among Republicans and Democrats alike - by his unexpectedly aggressive public defense over the past several months of the NSA's domestic-spying program after September 11, 2001, and his refusal to answer key details about it. Indeed, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter warned on Sunday that he will use Hayden's confirmation hearings to try to pry out information about the government's domestic-surveillance effort that the administration has so far refused to share with Congress. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/joinSome critics - already concerned about Hayden's understanding of constitutional protections against warrantless searches and seizures - also point to reports that he has become a favorite of Vice President Dick Cheney, the administration's strongest advocate of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Spirit of Labor
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 9, 2006 9:51:15 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: The Spirit of Labor http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/6460/WalkingEgyptian4.html 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 United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Lisa Pease on TV this Thursday - on the Discovery Channel!
Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: May 24, 2006 11:17:49 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Lisa Pease on TV this Thursday - on the Discovery Channel!Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Original message ***On 23.5.2006 at 20:43 Lisa Pease [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey you! I will be featured on the Discovery Channel show “Conspiracy Files: CIAMind Control” this Thursday, May 25th, and 9pm Eastern and Western. (Notsure re other time zones – check your listings.)I’ll be talking about hypnosis, mind control, and the Robert Kennedyassassination!I’m told I have “a lot of airtime” – whatever that means! I hopeyou’llcatch it or TiVO it..! Let me know what you think if you see it!Lisa Pease*** End of original message *** Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arriveshttp://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM~- -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __ /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/ SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor and discussion moderatorYahoo! Groups Links* To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/* To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM 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 United state flag 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. =
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PORTER GOSS RESIGNATION SOLVED:DC9 WITH 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE WAS CIA PLANE Read the whole storywww.madcowprod.com/05252006.htmlThe "mystery" of Porter Goss' resignation last month as CIA Director is apparently directly related to the huge seizure in Mexico several weeks earlier of over 5.5 tons of cocaine, according to government documents recently obtained by the The MadCowMorningNews.After Goss's surprise resignation last month he told reporters his reason for resigning was "just one of those mysteries," offering no other explanation for his sudden departure after almost two years on the job.Goss' resignation appears to be connected to the unprecedented withholding by the Federal Aviation Administration of the registration records for the DC9 (N900SA) which more than six weeks ago was caught carrying a cargo of five-and-a-half tons of cocaine, neatly packed into 126 identical black suitcases at a jungle airstrip in the Yucatan.At the time of the plane's seizure on April 11, FAA officials stated the aircraft's title records would become available to reporters within two weeks. Six weeks later that statement, in a phrase famous from the Watergate Scandal, has been rendered "inoperative."However, last week the MadCowMorningNews was successful in obtaining the FAA records last week of the confiscated plane's sister ship , an identical twin DC9 (N120NE) owned and operated by the same partnership. Both aircraft, painted to resemble U.S. Government aircraft from the Department of Homeland Security, were parked for several years at the general aviation terminal at Clearwater St Petersburg International Airport.Registration records of the identical twin show it has been owned for almost two decades by a series of firms previously revealed as aviation "front" companies of America's Central Intelligence Agency.The twin to the aircraft busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, in Mexico, in other words, is a CIA plane.In fact, the plane's owners over the past two decades reads like a Who's Who of aviation companies known to serve as "fronts" for the CIA, whose true identities came to light during the Iran Contra Scandal.And the FAA's reluctance to release the registration of "Cocaine One," the DC9 busted in Mexico, which should already be a matter of public record, is the clearest possible indication that they will disclose the same thing. -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.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 United state flag 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] The case of the missing ambassador
Original at http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-case-of-the-missing-ambassador/2006/05/25/1148524816183.htmlThe case of the missing ambassador By Richard Ackland May 26, 2006 GEORGE Bush nominated Robert McCallum to be his ambassador to Australia, the most obliging of the willing nations. That was more than two months ago and still there is no sign on the horizon of Bush's pal from the Skull and Bones society. There were 15 Bonesmen in the 1968 group at Yale and, according to Alexandra Robbins's investigation of the society in The Atlantic Monthly (May 2000), Bush was supposed to give himself a name to be used by other members. He couldn't think of one, so they called him "Temporary". Bush got into Yale despite his poor academic showing at Andover. Robbins explains that this may have had something to do with the fact that three of the seven members of the admissions committee were members of the Skull and Bones. The organisation operates as an unofficial lifetime system of patronage and cronyism. Ambassador-designate McCallum would not have had to fluke his way into university. He is by all accounts a bright button who did law at Yale, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship and went on to a masters degree at Oxford. Bush plucked him from an Atlanta law firm and brought him to the Justice Department. At the time he was nominated as ambassador to Australia, McCallum was the acting deputy attorney-general, having risen rapidly from the job of associate attorney-general, where he was in charge of the department's civil division. He was the senior official who instructed the department's lawyers to radically alter the Government's submission in the racketeering case in the US District Court against cigarette makers. The Government pulled back from the initial proposal to seek a penalty of $US130 billion ($172 billion) payable over 25 years to fund a national quit-smoking campaign, to a penalty of $US10 billion over five years. McCallum has denied any political influence was involved in this decision to, as one Justice official said, "throw the case down the toilet". He argued that the reduced penalty was in line with appeals court rulings that only the future misconduct of tobacco companies could be addressed, not past misconduct. Democrat members of the House and Senate have called on the department's office of professional responsibility to investigate the meddling in the case by a political appointee of the President. There doesn't seem any great rush by the office to announce an outcome of its inquiries. And there it has rested. The US embassy in Canberra doesn't know when the foreign relations committee of the Senate is going to begin its hearings into the nomination. In the meantime, another interesting story has turned up, also heavily covered with McCallum's fingerprints. This is a long-running class action case, Cobell v Norton. Elouise Cobell is the lead plaintiff, representing American Indian organisations against Gale Norton as the (now former) US secretary of the interior. The case is being conducted in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the same place as the tobacco case, before Judge Royce Lamberth. Basically it alleges that the US Government mismanaged trust accounts that had been mandated for individual Indians as far back as 1887. The plaintiffs are seeking a determination of what is owed from the revenues from mining, oil, gas, grazing and timber industries ondetermination of what is owed from the revenues from mining, oil, gas, grazing and timber industries on lands managed by the US Government as trustee for Indian beneficiaries. Several billion dollars are at stake for an estimated 500,000 Indians and, no doubt, a swarm of starving lawyers. McCallum has had significant influence in overseeing the litigation for the Government since 2001 and his name is on most of the briefs filed by the defendants. A row broke out when the Government and its counsel sent documents to Indian children purporting to be statements of accounts for trust monies. These statements were drawn up before a planned reform of the trust administration had been completed. If the children disagreed with the accounting for the trust money they were expected to start administrative proceedings by way of challenge. If they didn't start those proceedings the Justice Department said they waived their rights to the money. Subsequently Lamberth found that McCallum and five other Justice Department lawyers on the case had violated the court's ethical rules against lawyers communicating directly with parties on the other side. He referred them to the disciplinary panel of the US District Court, where the matter stays unresolved. The Government has fought back and on three occasions has sought to remove Lamberth from the case on various grounds, but basically because he has been critical of its conduct. He's beaten off two attempts in the Federal Court and the third is still pending. At the moment McCallum's ethics
[cia-drugs] Drugs, Prostitution Politics
http://www.justrage.com/article.php/drugs_whores_politics Drugs, Prostitution Politics Friday, August 05 2005 @ 02:21 PM CDT Contributed by: buddy | Views: 282 Mashed MarriagesI don't understand how a pretty faced girl born raised in the ghetto can smoke crack sleep with men of corrupt power while pregnant and/or in front of her kids. And when the childrens' dad gets up to fight for them he finds himself getiing in more legal trouble and threats are made on his life because he won't keep his mouth shut just stay away from his kids. No one knows what it's like to see your kids born not breathing and fight for their lives, or for your crack-whore baby's mom to throw your 4 day old son in your arms because again, he's not breathing. No one knows what its like to rush him to the hospital and stay with him there while he's having tests run on him and he's fighting for life, or to have to go take him from the mother with the police to take him to the hospital where his fever is 104.2 and hes being checked for brain damage at age 2 because the mother's to high to give a shit. Imagine having to rush from work to home because your baby's mom is bouncing off the floors yelling I wanna kill myself! and you find your 2 yr old in a bath tub full of water by himself and he's trying to tell you men was in your house getting his mom high screwing her in front of him.You finally find drugs in her car when shes pregnant but the police got her back? No one knows how it feels to try to go in court and speak for kids to little to talk because you love them and then cops are arresting you without a warrant beating your ass and then you get told thats what you get for trying to take my kids away from me. I dont understand how legally my wife gets away with doing this to me my kids lives and it has shattered mine.There are many more stories and no computer space. I don't understand why DFS, the police dept., the court rooms all have her back. So your wife can smoke crack almost kill your kids, screw all these corrupt men of power and then almost have you killed because you won't keep your mouth shut about it?! These supposedly happily married men! Why is this legal? Because a few of the dope-dealers she sleeps mysteriously go to jail? My wife is very valueable to someone with a lot of power that they abuse and now I've run out of patience. I will not stop fighting for my kids! I think these people shouldn't have their power they are abusing in evil ways. It should be taken from them so that then they will have to face me alone without hiding their coward punkass faces being some legal corrupt bastards! 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 United state flag 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] On the Cover of the Rolling Ston
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/ Thursday, June 01, 2006 On the Cover of the Rolling Stone And it's a gut check of what you believe - Anti-Flag I don't have time this morning to post, but here's something to chew on. Tomorrow, Rolling Stone tries to get its groove back by publishing a 10-page damning and detailed feature article by Robert F Kennedy Jr on the theft of the 2004 election. Bradblog, the electronic bulldog of voter fraud, is all over it. Kennedy will be promoting his story hard this month in a number of appearances, including a spot on The Colbert Report June 12. I'm trying not to write something dithering, like time will tell whether America's peripatetic culture finally takes to this story. But it's tough. If it ever will, this is the window for it. With Bush's depressed numbers, editors who are neither backwash nor Mockingbirds may seize the moment, if for no more honourable reason than the consumers of their product are now more than ever likely to believe the worst of their government, and perhaps better of themselves. (We, the People, did not choose this man.) The window won't remain open for long. Showdown: Iran looms, hastened by the hollow gesture of an offer of talks if Iran first abandons - well, just about everything. But it had to be done, so Washington can later shrug and say military action was, once more, the last choice. And when the next front opens in ernest, perhaps as soon as this month, don't be caught unaware in the stampede to support the president in time of war. Still, while the window's open a crack, it's encouraging to see pollster Lou Harris say that Ohio was as dirty an election as America has ever seen. But what may come after that, I don't find so heartening. Do enough Americans really lack for knowledge of their government's crimes? Are there not already millions who, to the Bush laundry list of bloody obscenity, would wearily nod their heads, I know? Maybe it's not awareness that needs raising, so much as American fists. posted by Jeff at 8:40 AM Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who Owns DC9 'Cocaine One' Airliner?
Begin forwarded message:From: "daniel hopsicker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 2, 2006 1:38:41 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Who Owns DC9 'Cocaine One' Airliner? Spooks, Saudis, Another FAA Cover-up in Florida read the whole story @ www.madcowprod.com/06022006.html Eight weeks after Mexican soldiers at a rural airport in the Yucatan discovered 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard an American-registered DC9 painted to resemble aircraft from the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials seem no closer to publicly identifying the owner of the plane, not to mention the tons of cocaine. The last registered American owner of the DC9, Frederic Geffon of Royal Sons Inc insisted he bore no responsibility at all for the plane's recent misadventures. In a May 5, 2006 interview with the Tampa Tribune following up a story they'd run the previous day, Geffon said he sold the plane 10 days before it was seized by Mexican authorities, to a man named Jorge Corrales, who he identified as a Simi Valley, Calif., aircraft broker. But the MadCowMorningNews has learned that there is a problem with Geffon's explanation: The California "aircraft broker" who Geffon says bought the aircraft(N900SA)—for resale to a client identified only as a "Venezuelan company"—does not appear to be in the business of buying and selling planes. The results of our probe into the tangled skein of companies and individuals involved in what has clearly been a continuing operation for at least a decade, we will at long last get a good look at what until now has been the most elusive species on Earth: The American Drug Lords. -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.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 United state flag 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] Yale’s ‘Mao Project’ Paves Road To Hell F or Rise of Oriental Anti-Chris
http://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/yales-mao-project-paves-road-to- hell-for-rise-of-oriental-anti-christ Yale’s ‘Mao Project’ Paves Road To Hell For Rise of Oriental Anti-Christ Tuesday, February 21st, 2006 Yale University is known as one of the most prestigious centers of learning in the world. It is now also known as the home of the Skull and Bones secret society of which both Presidential Candidates in the 2004 election, Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush were members. President Bush is third generation Skull and Bones , while Senator Kerry’s first wife’s father and brother were members, as was the former father-in-law of Teresa Heinz- Kerry whom he is now married to. Ms. Heinz. Kerry’s becoming a billionairess after her previous husband Senator Heinz died in a bizarre plane crash is but one of numerous odd events that follow this organization everywhere it goes and affect everyone it comes into contact with. What is not known to the general public is the connection that Yale University had to Mao Tse Tung, the ‘Great Helmsman” of China that navigated the Chinese nation across the proverbial river Styx into the human rights hell that it currently is, with organs and collagen being harvested for sale from political prisoners and every manner of evil perpetrated with no recourse for the tens and millions of victims. In fact Mao and his “Little Red Book” are responsible for more deaths and misery over the long term than anyone else in history. Mao is also a “Yalie”. It is the purpose of this article to show how a plan has been effectuated for nearly a century to bring to global power and domination an Oriental Antichrist , likely from China through the auspices and assistance of an evil secret society network based in Yale University, which effectively uses its status as a center of learning as a cover. 1. Yale University was founded on the profits of the opium trade in China. Skull Bones Bush www.subgenius.com/bigfist/evils/politics/X002_BUSHED.TXT.html . 2. Mao attended Yale-In-China and in fact was a writer and editor there after his first paper was closed by authorities. Thus when Yale educated, trained and hired him the institution surely knew what they were doing. In fact , YALE-IN-CHINA OWNED THE BUILDING WHERE HE HAD HIS ‘CULTURE BOOKSTORE’ IN 1920. www.asiasource.org/society/mao.cfm . 3.Since the resumption of diplomatic ties with China due to the influence of Henry Kissinger (whose son David is a Yale graduate) on President Nixon, every US ambassador to China is a Yalie and known or suspected member of Skull and Bones, the only exception being a brief period during the Jimmy Carter presidency. The current Ambassador, Mr. Randt is known to be a member of S B by the chinese authorities and is described as a ‘fraternity brother’ of President GW Bush. www.english.people.com.cn/english/200107/24/eng20010724_75677.html . “New US Ambassador to China Promises Closer Relations”. Of course, former President George H.W. Bush was a member of Skull and Bones and US ambassador to China as well. Oddly, the paranoid Chinese Communist regime never seems to have a problem with this “fraternity” - for good reason as the following information will show. EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE CHINESE PENETRATION OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY- - SELECTED AS MERELY ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY. 1. “CNOOC’s All Star Team” www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=737 . CNOOC , the chinese oil giant hired various lobbyists recently in its ultimately failed attempt to buy US oil company and owner of the only rare earth metals mine in the USA, UNOCAL. One of the lobbyists was BKSH an affiliate of Burson-Marsteller and part of the WPP group. 2. “Security Veteran Michael J. Hershmann To Head New Homeland Security Advisory Firm/18July2003. www.wpp.com/wpp/news/press/press-release.html?content=wpp/news/press/ pressrelease_285.html . The new company is to “help navigate the security landscape” possibly with the ‘great helmsman’ in mind. The subsidiary of previously mentioned BHSH and WPP will join with StoneBridge International and be called Civitas, LLC. So the lobbyists for CNOOC are also navigators for companies that want a piece of the security pie caused by the 9-11 attacks and the creation of DHS. 3. StoneBridge International was run by Samuel Berger, also now known as Sandy-the-Burglar, caught with US secrets in his silk stockings and now convicted of a misdemeanor and on probation. www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release8.html . 4. StoneBridge has a StoneBridge-China subsidiary. “…announces establishment of StoneBridge-China…” www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release-stonebridge-china.html . 5. WPP has extensive ties in China as well. It is planning on doubling its workforce to 2000 employees and its subsidiaries are also expanding in China. WPP is the second largest advertising / Public Relations firm in the world led
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Tim Russert Interviewed by Jack Blood and Questioned on 9/11
Begin forwarded message:From: "Bush-Adm-Planned-911" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 19, 2006 9:09:21 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "John Buchanan" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Stacy Malkan" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Wim Dankbaar" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fw: Tim Russert Interviewed by Jack Blood and Questioned on 9/11 - Original Message -From: Bush-Adm-Planned-911To: Bush-Adm-Planned-911Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 12:02 PMSubject: Tim Russert Interviewed by Jack Blood and Questioned on 9/11 When ask about 9-11, Russert fakes phone problemspeace,pwTim Russert Interviewed by Jack Blood and Questioned on 9/11Tim Russert Interviewed by Jack Blood - youtube.comWow. Tim Russert from Meet the Press was on Deadline Live with Jack Blood on June the 14th. The interview available above is about 10 minutes long, and in the last couple of minutes Jack Blood brings up 9/11 with Russert. Russert makes a few statements of opinion and then drops off the line with phone troubles.In any event, an insightful interview with Tim Russert, perhaps he will feel encouraged to take a second look at 9/11.http://911blogger.com/+On TV this tuesday on your local PBS stationpeace,pw"The Dark Side": Frontline documentary explores battle between Cheney and the CIA, in the shadows of intelligence 6/19Frontline: The battle between Vice President Cheney and CIA to control the 'dark side'RAW STORYPublished: Saturday June 17, 2006Tuesday's episode of the PBS public affairs series Frontline will probe the battle between Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA to control the 'dark side,' according to a press release for the show."Amid daily revelations about prewar intelligence and a growing scandal surrounding the indictment of the vice president's chief of staff and presidential adviser, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to investigate the internal war that was waged between the intelligence community and Richard Bruce Cheney, the most powerful vice president in the nation's history," says the press release.The title for the show is derived from a television interview Cheney gave five days after September 11, 2001, when asked how the government might respond to the terrorist attacks by NBC's Tim Russert."I'm going to be careful here, Tim, because I--clearly it would be inappropriate for me to talk about operational matters, specific options or the kinds of activities we might undertake going forward," Cheney said. "We do, indeed, though, have, obviously, the world's finest military - they've got a broad range of capabilities - and they may well be given missions in connection with this overall task and strategy.""We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will," Cheney added. "We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world.".http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/PBS_Frontline_Inside_battle_between_Cheney_0617.html __._,_.___ 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 United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To
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[cia-drugs] Homeland Security Rackets
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK
Begin forwarded message:From: "daniel hopsicker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 18, 2006 11:03:14 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACKRead the whole story at:www.madcowprod.com/07192006.html Revelations in the case of the Lebanese man accused of being the ringleader of a plot to bomb the PATH Tunnels in New York City to deluge lower Manhattan and Wall Street in a torrent of water have begun to shed light on other terrorism investigations in the U.S., perhaps even on the very nature of the terrorist threat. As many as a dozen relatives of Assem Hammoud have already been accused or convicted in the U.S. of terrorist-related crime , The MadCowMorningNews has learned, members of what has been called the Hezbollah-Hammoud Syndicate in Detroit. Their number includes a self-admitted member of Hezbollah in Sarasota questioned by law enforcement authorities in late September of 2001 about his suspected foreknowledge of the 9.11 attack. Dubbed the "Playboy Plotter" in New York's tabloid press, which printed pictures showing him cradling adult beverages amidst a bevy of blonde girls, Hammoud's wide-open lifestyle does not at all fit the portrait of the Islamic fundamentalist terror threat put forth by the FBI, as well as in books about Mohamed Atta like "Perfect Soldiers," which the mainstream media has touted as the "last word" on the terrorist hijackers. Instead, the emerging portrait of the "jet-set jihadist" confirms the portrayal of Mohamed Atta in "Welcome to TERRORLAND" as a free-spending hard-drinking cocaine user and frequenter of strip clubs… exactly the portrait the FBI has gone to great lengths to dispel. The FBI also appears to be deliberately ignoring Hammoud's frequent jaunts around the world, which echo those of Mohamed Atta, in favor of an explanation indicating that Hammoud and his crew appear to be yet-another free-lance terrorist cell which coalesced and made plans in isolation, joining other groups that have been broken up in Miami , London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney. As evidence of Hammoud's international connections begins to mount, it id becoming increasingly clear that nothing could be further from the truth. -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.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 United state flag 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: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trail er-park residents]
Begin forwarded message:From: "Dstacey" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: July 22, 2006 7:12:18 AM PDTTo: Undisclosed-Recipient:;Subject: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents] =From: GlobalCirclenet [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: 2006/07/21 Fri PM 03:30:15 CDThttp://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17178FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residentsBy The Associated Press07.20.06MORGAN CITY, La. - Residents of trailer parks set up by the FederalEmergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisianaaren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The(Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out of atrailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules wereenforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish.FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Rodi wouldn't say whether the security guards'actions complied with FEMA policy, saying the matter was beingreviewed. But she confirmed that FEMA does not allow the news media tospeak alone to residents in their trailers."If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to beescorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview," Roditold the newspaper for its July 15 report. "That's just a policy."Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Reporters Committee forFreedom of the Press, said FEMA's refusal to allow trailer-parkresidents to invite news media into their homes unescorted wasunconstitutional.Morgan City Mayor Timothy Matte told The Advocate that he was surprisedresidents were being barred from talking to reporters."I would think anyone who lives there would be allowed to have anyvisitor they wanted," he said.FEMA leases the land for the trailer park from the city, Matte said."It's public property. There's no question about that. You would thinkthe people would have the same freedom there as everyone else has," hetold the newspaper.Hundreds of trailers at FEMA parks sit empty and unused in Louisiana,according to The Advocate.Officials in Morgan City estimate that FEMA has spent about $7.5million to build the trailer park but that only about 15 of the 198trailers are being used."We all wonder why no one lives there," Matte said.FEMA officials refuse to say how much was spent to build the park orwhy 183 of the trailers are vacant."We're not going to talk about cost," Rodi told the newspaper.As in Morgan City, the 334-trailer FEMA park in Davant in PlaqueminesParish is greatly underused.The north side of the park is empty, and 92 families live in the southside, Rodi said, adding that the empty trailers would be removed."We put them there at the parish's request," she said. "Now we've foundthat the need is not as great there or that people don't want to livethere."The trailers are going to be put on private property or in privateparks in the parish as needed, Rodi said. She refused to disclose howmuch the park cost to build.Meanwhile, Plaquemines Parish President Benny Rousselle blamed FEMA, inpart, for the slow return of residents to the parish.Rousselle said FEMA knows where many evacuees relocated after the stormbut won't give that information to parish officials."FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us theaddresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And noone but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we couldcontact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we hadplaces for them to live." __._,_.___ 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 United state flag 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] Fwd: Heroic speech by soldier formally charged with contempt for Bush (first such charge since 1965)
Begin forwarded message:From: Brian Bogart [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: August 17, 2006 5:25:05 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Heroic speech by soldier formally charged with contempt for Bush (first such charge since 1965) Lt. Watada addresses national veterans convention By Dahr Jamail, truthout.org. August 14, 2006 http://thankyoult.live.radicaldesigns.org/content/view/172/On Saturday night, I was lucky enough to be at the Veterans for Peace National Convention. For that night, Lt. Ehren Watada was able to give the following speech, which I've just received permission to post here. The speech was met with a powerful, standing ovation from the vets who've been there.Lt. Ehren Watada, for those who don't already know, became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful war and occupation in Iraq. While doing this on June 22, 2006, Watada said, "As the order to take part in an illegal act is ultimately unlawful as well, I must refuse that order."Just as Watada took the stage and began to speak, over 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War filed in behind him. Watada, surprised by this and obviously taken aback by the symbolic act, turned back to the audience, took some deep breaths, then gave this speech: Thank you everyone. Thank you all for your tremendous support. How honored and delighted I am to be in the same room with you tonight. I am deeply humbled by being in the company of such wonderful speakers. You are all true American patriots. Although long since out of uniform, you continue to fight for the very same principles you once swore to uphold and defend. No one knows the devastation and suffering of war more than veterans - which is why we should always be the first to prevent it. I wasn't entirely sure what to say tonight. I thought as a leader in general I should speak to motivate. Now I know that this isn't the military and surely there are many out there who outranked me at one point or another - and yes, I'm just a Lieutenant. And yet, I feel as though we are all citizens of this great country and what I have to say is not a matter of authority - but from one citizen to another. We have all seen this war tear apart our country over the past three years. It seems as though nothing we've done, from vigils to protests to letters to Congress, have had any effect in persuading the powers that be. Tonight I will speak to you on my ideas for a change of strategy. I am here tonight because I took a leap of faith. My action is not the first and it certainly will not be the last. Yet, on behalf of those who follow, I require your help - your sacrifice - and that of countless other Americans. I may fail. We may fail. But nothing we have tried has worked so far. It is time for change and the change starts with all of us. I stand before you today, not as an expert - not as one who pretends to have all the answers. I am simply an American and a servant of the American people. My humble opinions today are just that. I realize that you may not agree with everything I have to say. However, I did not choose to be a leader for popularity. I did it to serve and make better the soldiers of this country. And I swore to carry out this charge honorably under the rule of law. Today, I speak with you about a radical idea. It is one born from the very concept of the American soldier (or service member). It became instrumental in ending the Vietnam War - but it has been long since forgotten. The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it. Now it is not an easy task for the soldier. For he or she must be aware that they are being used for ill-gain. They must hold themselves responsible for individual action. They must remember duty to the Constitution and the people supersedes the ideologies of their leadership. The soldier must be willing to face ostracism by their peers, worry over the survival of their families, and of course the loss of personal freedom. They must know that resisting an authoritarian government at home is equally important to fighting a foreign aggressor on the battlefield. Finally, those wearing the uniform must know beyond any shadow of a doubt that by refusing immoral and illegal orders they will be supported by the people not with mere words but by action. The American soldier must rise above the socialization that tells them authority should always be obeyed without question. Rank should be respected but never blindly followed. Awareness of the history of atrocities and destruction committed in the name of America - either through direct military intervention or by proxy war - is crucial. They must realize that this is a war not out of self-defense but by choice, for profit and imperialistic domination. WMD, ties to Al Qaeda, and ties to 9/11 never existed and never will. The soldier must know that our narrowly and
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to cia-drugs
Begin forwarded message:From: Yahoo! Groups Notification [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 19, 2006 10:25:48 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to cia-drugsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello,A message has been sent to the cia-drugs group from [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message summary:FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:16:11 -0700 (PDT) SUBJECT: Fwd: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high I'm really sorry to have to send such bad news to you all, but everyone must know the status of cannabis in the USA now. We really have a great deal to do. Note: forwarded message attached. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001- Why keep checking for A complete copy of this message has been attached for your convenience.This message requires your approval for one of the following reasons:* Your group is set to moderate all messages from this user, OR* Your group is set to moderate messages from all usersTo approve or reject this message using the web, please visit:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/pending?view=1msg=2887 To approve this message using email, reply to this message. You do not need to attach the original message, just reply and send.To reject this message using email, forward this message tocia-drugs-reject-Wl=[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: The pending message will expire after 14 days. If you do not take action within that time, the pending message will be automaticallyrejected. Yahoo! Groups does this to maintain a high quality ofservice for our users.Thank you for choosing Yahoo! Groups.Regards,Yahoo! Groups Customer CareYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/From: james Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 19, 2006 10:16:11 AM PDTTo: Marijuana Activist [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], artur [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], renee Boje [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dianne Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED], CalifNorml [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED], cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Traverse City [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vanessa Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Farid [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ed Forchion [EMAIL PROTECTED], Medpot group [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sigma Marijuana [EMAIL PROTECTED], Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], mrweed1621 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Loretta Nall [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marc Paquette [EMAIL PROTECTED], ed pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], rino [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], senoritarita420 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Stedinger [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Switz [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tammi [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Womens Organization for National Prohibition Reform [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high I'm really sorry to have to send such bad news to you all, but everyone must know the status of cannabis in the USA now. We really have a great deal to do.Note: forwarded message attached. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001 Why keep checking for Mail? The all-new Yahoo! Mail shows you when there are new messages.From: "skywolf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 18, 2006 3:18:59 PM PDTTo: "skywolf" [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time highReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newest figures show a continued waste of society's resources in the culture war. Skywolf. _From: Allen St. Pierre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]org] Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:09 PM To: NORML News Subject: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high http://www.norml.org http://www.norml.org/ NORML.org http://www.norml.org September 18, 2006 http://www.norml.org/images/news/ezine_subtitle.gif http://www.norml.org norml.org From NORML.ORG: Marijuana Arrests For Year 2005 -- 786,545 Tops Record High Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 40 Seconds Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 786,545 persons for marijuana violations in 2005, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/arrests/index.html , released today. The total is the highest ever recorded by the FBI, and comprised 42.6 percent of all drug arrests in the United States. "These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor marijuana offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 40 seconds in America. "This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources that diverts
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks on Google Video
Begin forwarded message:From: Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 21, 2006 11:33:17 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks on Google Video Here is a link to a Google video that I made of myself explaining a lot of the technical details of Bush's wire tapping program and why it will never work. It explains that terrorists would use private voice over IP networks (Internet phones) that can not be tapped. It is explained in a manner that the average viewer can get a good idea of how it works. Feel free to use this and pass it around. It puts a new light on the whole "we need NSA wiretapping to fight the terrorists" excuse. Show this to as many people as possible. Marc Perkel Uber Geek Your friend, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has sent you the following video from Google Video and included this message: check this out Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks 13 min 29 sec - Oct 20, 2006 Description: Bush claims he needs NSA wire tapping to break up terrorist networks but terrorists are not using the phone network Bush is tapping. They are using private voice over IP internet phones (VoIP) that can't be tapped. This video explains how it works. ___You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To be removed from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "unsubscribe" and you will be removed.Or - click on this: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To change your options:http://mailman.ctyme.com/options/news/ramillegan%40aol.comNews mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://mailman.ctyme.com/listinfo/news =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: BREAKING NEWS: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer
Begin forwarded message: From: daniel hopsicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 15, 2006 8:50:58 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BREAKING NEWS: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer BREAKING NEWS: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer; German pilot was first identified as close associate of Mohamed Atta in The MadCowMorningNews Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot identified more than two years ago as one of Mohamed Atta's closest associates in Florida in the MadCowMorningNews and Welcome to TERRORLAND, is the subject of an FBI terror alert in the South Pacific. A spate of recent news stories in the MadCowMorningNews has drawn attention to Bohringer's suspicious activities on tiny Fanning Island in the South Pacific, where he had announced an intention to establish a flight school that only trained pilots to fly DC3's... on an island with no electricity and barely a hundred inhabitants more than a thousand miles from a city of any size. The unwanted scrutiny apparently caused Bohringer to flee aboard his yacht. Tonight the Associated Press is reporting that U.S. authorities have uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to September 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta. Even though no one is crediting us for first reporting and identifying Mohamed Atta's German associates in Florida, it is still very satisfying to have finally broken a story from the enormous 'pile' of suppressed news from the terrorist's base of operations in Venice FL which we have been alone in reporting for almost four years. Headlines at this hour include: FBI raises terror alarm about South Pacific flying school— International Herald Tribune; Man with Sept 11 links set up flight school—The Australian. Terror suspect linked to Kiribati flight-school plot says FBI—New Zealand Herald MORE LATER. -- daniel hopsicker MadCowMorningNews www.madcowprod.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar
Begin forwarded message: From: MoneyNews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 16, 2006 3:18:19 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar 2. Greenspan: More Dollar Weakness Ahead 3. Official: OPEC Split Over Further Oil Cuts 4. Rogers Still Stocking Up on Commodities 1. OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar Oil-producing countries have reduced their dollar holdings to the lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into other currencies, according to the Bank for International Settlements. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Russia reduced their dollar holdings from 67 percent in the first quarter to 65 percent in the second quarter. At the same time, they increased their holdings of euros from 20 percent to 22 percent, the BIS said. They also boosted holdings of the yen and British pound. Eighteen months ago, the oil-producing countries’ exposure to the dollar was above 70 percent. The revelation in the latest BIS quarterly review . . . confirms market speculation about a move out of dollars and could put new pressure on the ailing U.S. currency, the Financial Times reports. The BIS, the central bank for the developed world’s central banks, disclosed that OPEC’s dollar deposits fell by $5.3 billion, while euro and yen-denominated deposits rose $2.8 billion and $3.8 billion, respectively. The last time oil-exporting countries reduced their exposure to the dollar — in late 2003 — it pushed the euro to an all-time high against the dollar. The BIS noted: While the data are not comprehensive, they do appear to indicate a modest shift over the quarter in the U.S. dollar share of reporting banks’ liabilities to oil exporting countries. According to the Times, the dollar has suffered weakness because of concerns about global imbalances and the future course of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy. Editor's Note: Warren Buffett is betting billions the dollar will crash in 2007. 2. Greenspan: More Dollar Weakness Ahead The U.S. dollar will stay weak for the next few years, according to former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan blames the U.S. balance of payments deficit for the prolonged frailty of the dollar. “I expect that the dollar will continue to drift downwards until there will be a change in the U.S. balance of payments,” remarked Greenspan, who spoke via video-link to a business conference in Tel Aviv. “There has been some evidence that Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries nations are beginning to switch their reserves out of dollars and into euro and yen,” continued Greenspan. MoneyNews told readers yesterday that the Bank for International Settlements, which is known as the “central banks’ central bank,” reported a decline in U.S. dollar reserves in OPEC countries as well as oil exporter Russia. “It is imprudent to hold everything in one currency,” advised Greenspan, who sounded like he was talking down the dollar. In fact, Greenspan added that at some point the dollar would decline in value. That [a falling dollar] will be the experience of the next few years, Greenspan said. Editor's Note: Can Ben Bernanke avoid the coming currency crisis? 3. Official: OPEC Split Over Further Oil Cuts A narrow majority of OPEC members want to cut the group's oil output further when they meet in Abuja on Thursday, a top OPEC official said on Monday. Hasan Qabazard, OPEC's director of research, said his view was OPEC should wait to judge the full impact of its existing 1.2 million barrels per day reduction before cutting again. Asked how many countries backed supply curbs, he told Reuters in an interview: I put it at 60/40. I see mixed signals. Some ministers believe there should be cuts but some other ministers believe the market is balanced. He listed Saudi Arabia, Algeria, the UAE and Qatar among those countries favoring supply curbs of at least 500,000 barrels per day. At an emergency meeting in October, OPEC decided to remove 1.2 million bpd from the market after a 25 percent drop in the oil price from its $78.40 mid-July peak. I would prefer that we wait until January to see how our cuts in Doha take effect . . . prices have gone up a little bit. He raised the possibility of price spikes during the northern hemisphere winter when demand peaks. You don't want to have the price go up drastically. That might be harmful for economies, he said. Prices have rallied from a low of $54.88 on Nov. 17 for U.S. crude to more than $61 a barrel, above OPEC's undeclared price target of $60 a barrel — $55 for OPEC's basket of crude. Sixty a Barrel Fair for All Qabazard said a $60 a barrel price did not risk harming the world economy and enabled OPEC countries to invest
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Virtual March on Washington
Begin forwarded message: From: Democrats.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 23, 2007 12:17:57 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Virtual March on Washington Ask Your Friends to Join the Virtual March on Washington This Saturday, January 27, will be the largest anti-war protest since the war began on 3/19/03, with a big march in Washington DC: http://unitedforpeace.org and local events across the country: http://tinyurl.com/24e8rp (More details below). Of course only a small fraction of America will participate in these events because of time, money, or lack of awareness due to the corporate media blackout of all progressive organizing. We really need everyone who opposes the Iraq War to speak up NOW. That's why we're making it easy with a Virtual March on Washington: http://democrats.com/outofiraq Americans oppose Bush's escalation by 68%-26% - that's 153 million adults and millions more teens. Yet George Bush still adamantly refuses to listen to us, and Congress is moving too slowly to stop him. Each of us knows 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 people who share our opposition to Bush's War but won't march in the streets. All we ask is they take 1 minute to email their Representatives: http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/90 We will tally the emails on the right side of the page and hope to collect as many as we possibly can. Can you help us by reaching out to your personal email lists? Click here: http://democrats.com/outofiraq Breaking News: Rep. Jim McGovern to introduce The Safe and Orderly Withdrawal Act This week, our friend and ally Rep. Jim McGovern will introduce new legislation, The Safe and Orderly Withdrawal Act of 2007, calling for the safe and orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq within 30 days of enactment to be completed within 180 days. The withdrawal would be paid for by already appropriated funds and all funds for deployment of U.S. troops would be terminated upon completion of the withdrawal. More: http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-01-22-19-06-36-news.php Exclusive PDA interview with Rep. Jim McGovern By David Swanson, PDA Board Member In an exclusive interview conducted Jan. 22 for PDA by David Swanson, Rep. McGovern commented on a range of issues: * The urgency of this moment: This war has gone on longer than our involvement in WW II. It is time to step it up a notch and to urge Congress to finally live up to its constitutional responsibility. * Upcoming supplemental funding bills: I don’t want to be talking about emergency supplementals in 2008 or 2009. I want this war over! I don’t want the next Presidential election to be about the war in Iraq. More: http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-01-22-19-09-50-news.php Podcast: Tony Trupiano visits with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) Listen to this podcast: http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=959 Sign This Petition in Support of McGovern's Bill http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/94 March and Lobby in Washington on January 27th, 28th, and 29th Come to Washington, D.C., on January 27. Join in the march for peace being organized by United for Peace and Justice, a march dedicated to Ending the War Now!. (Some of us will also march for impeachment.) TIP: Buy a dozen or more Impeachment Shirts, bring them to D.C., sell them at a profit, and pay for your trip. Come to the workshops and trainings (including on how to lobby for investigations with the ultimate goal of impeachment) on January 28th and come with us to meet with your Congress Member and Senators on January 29th. It's not too late to register: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=121 For comprehensive list of all sorts of related events in Washington and elsewhere in the coming days, see: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event _ Print Out a Flyer and Make Copies Click image for flyer in Word. Blank areas on right are for you to fill in local info. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/jan27flyer.doc # Forward this message to everyone you know! If you received this from a friend, you can subscribe at: http://archive.democrats.com/elandslide/subscribe_module.cfm? campaign=ads To unsubscribe from AfterDowningStreet Updates, click here: http://archive.democrats.com/unsub.cfm? [EMAIL PROTECTED]fieldname=L16
[cia-drugs] Fwd: ### Fed to meet at C.O.G. on 8/31...Why? / Other interesting items ### NOTE: Don Stacey will be off-line until Thursday
Begin forwarded message: From: Dstacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: August 26, 2007 6:44:20 AM PDT To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Subject: ### Fed to meet at C.O.G. on 8/31...Why? / Other interesting items ### NOTE: Don Stacey will be off-line until Thursday This just in. WARNING: totally unconfirmed. You decide what weight to give it. Don Stacey FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING TO TAKE PLACE AT C.O.G. FACILITY IN JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING ON AUGUST 31! C.O.G. STANDS FOR CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT AND IS A SUPER-HIGH-SECURITY, UNDERGROUND MILITARY INSTALLATION DESIGNED AS A SANCTUARY FOR GOVERNMENT IF THE U.S. IS HIT WITH NUKES OR SUFFERS OTHER CATASTROPHIC DISASTER As you know, the Fed is a private corporation. Why is it meeting at a highly sensitive government facility at a time of financial crisis? ++ Country's top decisions are made in secret by the Fed August 25, 2007. By Chris Powell Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut Saturday, August 25, 2007 Most of the important public policy decisions in the country now are being made not in any public forum nor even by elected officials. They are being made in secret by unelected officials -- the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. While the governors are nominated by the president and appointed by the Senate, that is pretty much where accountability ends, since the governors serve 14-year terms, which is close to the life tenure of federal judges. There is a little more accountability for the board's chairman and vice chairman, who are nominated by the president from among the board's members and appointed by the Senate for four-year terms of leadership. This structure is said to take politics out of the management of the money supply and interest rates. In practice it has only replaced public politics with private politics -- and in regard to issues that have the greatest bearing on the country's prosperity and economic opportunity and equality or inequality. The president and Congress spend most of their time on issues far less relevant to daily life than the issues that have been forfeited to the Federal Reserve. And look how the Fed is functioning amid the turmoil in the world financial system that has been prompted by the collapse in the market for subprime mortgage bonds. As it always does in crisis, the Fed has... http:// www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm? newsid=18741023BRD=985PAG=461dept_id=565860rfi=6 +++ Chatter about an incident on West Coast at all time high By Wayne Madsen Editor, Wayne Madsen Report Aug 23, 2007, 01:14 http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/ article_2336.shtml Comment: Add to this the strange option buying in huge amounts betting on a catastrophic drop in the U.S. stock markets... Email this article Printer friendly page Chatter picked up by WMR's sources in the nation's capital and in California point to unusual events that could be a prelude to a 9/11-like false flag incident during the Labor Day weekend, possibly one focused on the San Francisco Bay Area. The FBI in Seattle, as well as the Washington Joint Analytical Center (WJAC), have asked for the public's help in identifying two men spotted aboard Washington state ferries exhibiting unusual behavior. A number of ferry passengers have reported the two men showing strange behavior. Two photos have been circulated showing two young Middle East looking men on board a ferry. The reluctance of the FBI to provide more details is reminiscent of the 2000 and 2001 closely-held government reports that a number of teams of between two and five to six young male and female Israelis, all veteran or reserve Israeli Defense Force members, were spotted casing federal facilities, oil refineries, harbor areas, homes of federal law enforcement officials, office buildings -- including the World Trade Center, bridges, tunnels, and military bases and airfields prior to and subsequent to the 9/11 attacks. The Israelis were described in a number of federal reports as Middle East-looking in appearance. The FBI never sought to prosecute the Israelis, many of whom were using the intelligence covers of office and home furniture movers, vendors of toys at shopping mall kiosks, and art students selling bogus Israeli artwork, and merely turned them over to U.S. immigration authorities for deportation back to Israel. The code phrase Middle East looking has since become politically-correct FBI-speak for Israelis. Nationals of Arab countries are described as Arabs in official law enforcement intelligence reports. However, Israeli influence over the Bush administration prevents Israelis in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Crony Seals Oil Deal with Kurds in Iraq
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 9, 2007 7:47:57 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bush Crony Seals Oil Deal with Kurds in Iraq Texas Company Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds Hunt Oil CEO Also Serves on Halliburton Board 09 Sep 2007 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/09/business/main3244774.shtml Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said they have signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, the first such deal since the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August. We're very pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of these landmark events by actively participating in the establishment of the petroleum industry, Ray L. Hunt, Hunt's CEO, said in a statement. Hunt, who is also on the board of Halliburton, has been a key fundraiser for George W. Bush, who named him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. See what's new at AOL.com and Make AOL Your Homepage.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Asking Why Petraeus Wasn't Sworn In Gets ex-CIA Official Ray McGovern Thrown Out
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 11, 2007 12:21:48 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Asking Why Petraeus Wasn't Sworn In Gets ex-CIA Official Ray McGovern Thrown Out 'Swear Him In' Provokes Expulsion By Ray McGovern September 10, 2007 http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html “Swear him in.” That’s all I said in the unusual silence this afternoon as first aid was being administered to Gen. David Petraeus’s microphone at the hearing before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committees. It had dawned on me that when House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, invited Gen. Petraeus to make his presentation, Skelton forgot to ask him to take the customary oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I had no idea that would be enough to get me thrown out of the hearing. I had a flashback to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in early 2006, when Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, reminded chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, that Specter had forgotten to swear in the witness, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; and how Specter insisted that that would not be necessary. Now that may, or may not, be an invidious comparison. But Petraeus and Gonzales work for the same boss, who has a rather unusual relationship with the truth. How many of his senior staff could readily be convicted, as was the hapless-and-now-commuted Scooter Libby, of perjury? So I didn’t think twice about it. I really thought that Skelton perhaps forgot, and that the 10-minute interlude of silence while they fixed the microphone was a good chance to raise this seemingly innocent question. The more so since the ranking Republican representatives had been protesting too much. In the obverse of “killing the messenger,” they had been canonizing the messenger with protective fire. Ranking Armed Services Committee member Duncan Hunter, R- California, began what amounted to a SWAT-team attack on the credibility of those who dared attack the truthfulness of the sainted Petraeus, and issued a special press release decrying a full-pager in the New York Times equating Petraeus with “Betray-us.” Hunter served notice on any potential doubters, insisting that Petraeus’s “capability, integrity, intelligence...are without question.” And Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, echoed that theme, unwittingly choosing another infelicitous almost-homonym for the charges against Petraeus—“outrageous.” Indeed, Hunter’s prepared statement, which he circulated before the hearing, amounted to little more than a full-scale “duty-honor- country” panegyric for the general. On the chance we did not hear him the first time, Hunter kept repeating how “independent” Petraeus is, how candid and full of integrity, and compared him to famous generals who testified to Congress in the past—Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Schwarzkopf. Advisedly, Hunter avoided any mention of Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, who fell tragically short on those traits. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Is Petraeus Today’s Westmoreland.”] If memory serves, the aforementioned generals and Westmoreland were required to testify under oath. And this was one of the main sticking points when CBS aired a program showing that Westmoreland had deliberately dissembled on the strength of Communist forces and U.S. “progress” in the war. When Westmoreland sued CBS for libel, several of his subordinates came clean, and Westmoreland quickly dropped the suit. The analogy with Westmoreland—justifying a White House wish to persist in an unwinnable war —is the apt one here. If Petraeus is so honest and full of integrity, what possible objection could he have to being sworn in? I had not the slightest hesitation being sworn in when testifying before the committee assembled by Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, on June 16, 2005. Should generals be immune? Or did his masters wish to give him a little more assurance that he could play fast and loose with the truth without the consequences encountered by Scooter Libby. With the microphone finally fixed, it quickly became clear. Petraeus tried to square a circle in his very first two paragraphs. In the first, he thanks the committees for the opportunity to “discuss the recommendations I recently provided to my chain of command for the way forward.” Then he stretches credulity well beyond the breaking point—at least for me: “At the outset, I would like to note that this is my testimony. Although I have briefed my assessment and recommendations to my chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself. It has not been cleared by, nor shared with, anyone in the Pentagon, the White House, or Congress.” Is not
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin family, goes up
Begin forwarded message: From: chris curry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: September 11, 2007 11:30:18 AM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'The Webfairy' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Bush-Adm- Planned-911' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] action.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] movement.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'JohnBuchanan' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Stacy Malkan' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin family, goes up Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin family, goes up for auction on eBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=330164895202 This name expired on 9-11-01 - the same day as the terror attacks in the United States. Domain: www.saudi-binladin-group.com This could be an interesting story for coverage in regards to 9/11, technology, human interest and strange news. Please contact Chris Curry at +1 (323) 459-1094 for further information. Thank you, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.shrimpo.com BACKGROUND ... The Binladin family has dissociated itself from the Osama. Strangely enough the Binladin family website expired on the very same day which their estranged son and brother attacked the united stated. This family's website expired on 9-11-01 - the same day of the US terrorist attacks. Proof and facts are at http://saudi-binladin-group.com. This can also be proved from various online articles (including Wired Magazine:http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/11/48254) , discussion groups and research tools such as dialog.com. This is a little known bit in the media, but is very verifiable and is a fascinating and rarely documented part of the 9/11 story. Moreover, over the last several years, I have placed an email server which has harvested megabytes worth of email intended for Binladin brothers, corporate correspondences and even strange Osama fan letters. Please feel free to contact me at +1(323) 459-1094 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Based in Los Angeles and available immediately. Regards, Christopher Curry
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Wolfowitz Back in Catbird Seat in US Govt's Nuclear Black Market (see Sibel)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 2:55 pm Subject: Wolfowitz Back in Catbird Seat in US Govt's Nuclear Black Market (see Sibel) Paul Wolfowitz named to chair advisory panel Thu Jan 24, 6:43 PM ET http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080124/pl_nm/usa_wolfowitz_dc_1 Reuters Photo: Paul Wolfowitz smiles during a news conference at the European Union headquarters in Brussels, May... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraq war who was forced to resign from the World Bank because of an ethics scandal, will chair a U.S. advisory panel on arms control, the State Department said on Thursday. The former deputy secretary of defense and advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq will head the State Department's International Security Advisory Board, which gives the department independent advice on arms control, disarmament, international security and other matters. Wolfowitz was forced to resign as president of the World Bank last year after a bank panel found he broke several of its rules by involving himself in the promotion of his companion Shaha Riza, a Middle East expert at the bank. The controversy sparked outrage among some of the bank's 10,000 employees and prompted senior staff to write to its board complaining the leadership crisis had undermined their work, especially in fighting corruption. ? Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: A Second Look at Daryl Gates and the Secret LAPD
-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 ? Did the LAPD Send Lee Harvey Oswald to Russia? 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 ? 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 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. 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. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who's Who at the Fed
This screams dialectic. Looking to put fear in control and move away from the real men in the shadows - the secret societal network which is heavily Germanic working with a Catholic secret societal network, plus other various "hoods" and their combined Levithanic economic control. Yes, there is a Jewish arm in the Octopus, and this is classic"court Jew" show-act to play the fear, ignorance and prejudice cards to try and trump the understanding being developed worldwide about the nature of the current Corruption and the methods of "control." MHO Peace, K -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 4:04 pm Subject: Who's Who at the Fed http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Number=296022409 All 5 members of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors are Jewish. This is an event of unthinkable odds. There are supposed to be seven governors. Kevin Warsh is the son-in-law of Ron Lauder, son of Estee Lauder. Of Ron Lauder, Wikipedia says: Quote: Lauder is actively involved in numerous civic organizations, including the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Brandeis University, and the Abraham Fund. With his brother he founded the Lauder Institute at Wharton School. Lauder has also served as a Finance Chairman of the New York State Republican Committee. He was elected President of the World Jewish Congress on June 10, 2007 beating South African businessman Mendel Kaplan by 11 votes to 4. http://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/default.htm Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail!
[cia-drugs] Fwd: We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser
-Original Message- From: Dolvar Glenimous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 9:33 am Subject: We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser You shall answer for you slandering of the order of skull and bones. I make this threat as a member of our sacred order. You are not the only person to recieve this email, nor will you be the last. The world will change soon and you will reap our wrath. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[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
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Fox News slipping....
-Original Message- From: don.stacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed-Recipient:; Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 7:24 am Subject: Fox News slipping ? ? Please read carefully this message which was sent to media insiders. Fox News is in trouble and a key part of it is the growing realization that Fox has mounted a vendetta against Ron Paul. In a previous message, their unfair question in the South Carolina primary debate and Dr. Paul's powerful answer was presented in video form. As the message related, Fox replayed the debate later that night and cut that question and Dr. Paul's answer from the replay. Just another demonstration of what a fair and balanced outfit Fox is! ? But Fox is suffering some consequences for its behavior. It is losing out against its competitors. ? Meanwhile, Ron Paul is gaining strength and the race is narrowed to four with Guiliani dropping out. Huckabee is fading and McCain is not well funded. Ron Paul may surprise a lot of people! ? Don Stacey ? http://mediamatters.org/columns/200801290001 More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 4:58 pm Subject: Fwd: G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani cited Reagan's supposed toughness with terrorists as the reason the Iranians suddenly freed the hostages after a 444-day standoff. The best way you deal with tyrants and terrorists, you stand up to them. You don't back down. But the House task force learned a different reality in December 1992, as witnesses came forth and documents surfaced indicating that Reagan operatives, including then George H.W. Bush, had engaged in their own secret diplomacy in 1980, promising a swap of arms for the hostages. Among this new evidence: -- Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr sent the task force a detailed letter describing the Iranian infighting that had occurred around this Republican overture and how Iran's most radical elements favored a deal with the Reagan-Bush team. -- The biographer for French intelligence chief Alexandre deMarenches recounted how deMarenches had confessed his role in arranging secret meetings in Paris, a statement that was corroborated by several other French intelligence operatives. -- Former C.I.A. officer Charles Cogan described a meeting in early 1981 at which Joseph Reed, an aide to David Rockefeller, boasted to C.I.A.-Director William Casey about their success in sabotaging President Carter's efforts to get the hostages released before the election, [thereby guaranteeing that the Republicans would be victorious and re-capture power].. The new evidence was so compelling that the task force's chief counsel approached chairman, Rep. Lee Hamilton*, D-Indiana, with a request that the investigation be extended a few months so the new information could be evaluated. Hamilton rejected the request for an extension. The task force then finished up work on a report that reached its conclusion -- the opposite of what all the new evidence indicated. The task force report claimed there was no credible evidence to support the long-standing allegations that Bush loyalists had criminally interfered with the U.S. government's own negotiations to resolve the 1980 hostage crisis, all for partisan political gain. That conclusion could not be reached without Lee Hamilton burying the new evidence. - *Hamilton, a Lieberman-style Democrat, was so successful in the coverup that saved Bush's ass from impeachment and jail time that he was later hand-picked by the Bushes to serve on two other obfuscating fact-finding committees, the 911 Commission and the Iraq Study Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_H._Hamilton As chair of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, Hamilton chose NOT to investigate President Reagan or President George H. W. Bush, stating that he didn't think it would be good for the country to put the public through another impeachment trial. He was one of Bill Clinton's top choices for vice-presidential running mate in 1992. Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. Attached Message From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:29:00 -0800 Cowardice asks the question -- is it safe? Expediency asks the question -- is it politic? Vanity asks the question -- is it popular? But conscience asks the question -- is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108.html *G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad* By Robert Parry January 31, 2008 Watching Attorney General Michael Mukasey evade the obvious fact that waterboarding is torture -- and the reluctance of Democrats to press him -- I was reminded of how the first President Bush got away with an earlier batch of national security crimes. Indeed, one of the common questions I've been asked over the years is -- if the evidence really does show that the Reagan-Bush crowd was guilty of illegal dealings with Iran, Iraq and the Nicaraguan contras -- why didn’t the Democrats hold those Republicans to account? For people who have posed that question, I would suggest that they watch the Senate Judiciary Committee's Jan. 30 hearing with Mukasey. Everybody in the room knew what the unspoken reality was, but nobody dared say it: George W. Bush authorized torture, which is a crime under U.S. and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Iniquities of War, Inequities of Life
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 3:59 pm Subject: Fwd: Iniquities of War, Inequities of Life Finally, the truth is seeping out. Contrary to how Bush has tried to justify the Iraq war in the past, he has now clumsily -- if inadvertently -- admitted the primary purpose of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He did this by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would *not* be bound by the law's prohibition against expending funds: (1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq, or (2) To exercise U.S. control of the oil resources of Iraq. Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape in the new year. Attached Message From: Jim S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Iniquities of War, Inequities of Life Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:18:53 -0800 Cowardice asks the question -- is it safe? Expediency asks the question -- is it politic? Vanity asks the question -- is it popular? But conscience asks the question -- is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108a.html *Iniquities of War, Inequities of Life* By Ray McGovern January 31, 2008 For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more -- always more -- even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the 'haves'.-- Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Finally, the truth is seeping out. Contrary to how President George W. Bush has tried to justify the Iraq war in the past, he has now clumsily -- if inadvertently -- admitted that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was aimed primarily at seizing predominant influence over its oil by establishing permanent (the administration favors enduring) military bases. He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that he would *not* be bound by the law’s prohibition against expending funds: (1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq, or (2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq. But, if you have been asleep for the past five years, you may ask, what about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and its ties to al-Qaeda? A recent study by the Center for Public Integrity found that Bush made 260 false claims about these in the two years after 9/11. He was followed closely by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell with 254. Nor can they any longer pretend they were deceived by faulty intelligence, since accumulating hard evidence shows they knew exactly what they were doing. Moreover, it has become abundantly clear that the surge of 30,000 troops into Iraq was aimed -- pure and simple -- at staving off definitive defeat until Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are safely out of office. Some, but not all, of those 30,000 troops are slated for withdrawal, but those who still expect more sizable withdrawals have not been reading the tea leaves. It is altogether likely there will still be some 150,000 U.S. troops, and even more than that number of contractors, in Iraq a year from now. In the administration's view, the oil-and-bases prize is well worth the indignity of refereeing a civil war and additional troop casualties. That view was reflected recently in the words of a well-heeled suburbanite, who suggested to me, You must concede that a few G.I.s killed every week is a small price to pay for the oil we need. Many more died in Vietnam, and there wasn't even any oil there. That person was unusually blunt, but I believe his thinking may be widely shared, at least subconsciously, by those Americans who are not directly affected by the war. It is easier to assimilate and parrot the administration’s dishonesty than to confront the reality that these are consequential lies. They bring untold death and destruction -- and not only in Iraq, where several hundred thousand civilians are dead and one out of every six families has been displaced -- but to thousands of our fellow citizens as well. The Human Cost Not only have almost 4,000 American troops been killed, but another 30,000 have been wounded in action. Based on V.A. documents obtained by Veterans for Common Sense, nearly 264,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans already have
[cia-drugs] Fwd: THIRD Accident Cuts Off Internet Traffic in Middle East
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:20 am Subject: THIRD Accident Cuts Off Internet Traffic in Middle East Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast ? http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop (CNN) -- An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying Internet and telephone traffic in three days. Ships have been dispatched to repair two undersea cables damaged on Wednesday off Egypt. FLAG Telecom, which owns one of the cables, said repairs were expected to be completed by February 12. France Telecom, part owner of the other cable, said it was uncertain when repairs on it would be repaired. Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, a research company that consults on global Internet issues, said the cables off Egypt were likely damaged by ships' anchors. The loss of the two Mediterranean cables -- FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen telecommunications companies -- has snarled Internet and phone traffic from Egypt to India. Officials said Friday it was unclear what caused the damage to FLAG's FALCON cable about 50 kilometers off Dubai. A repair ship was en route, FLAG said. Eric Schoonover, a senior analyst with TeleGeography, said the FALCON cable is designed on a ring system, taking it on a circuit around the Persian Gulf and enabling traffic to be more easily routed around damage. Schoonover said the two cables damaged Wednesday collectively account for as much as three-quarters of the international communications between Europe and the Middle East, so their loss had a much bigger effect. Without the use of the FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, some carriers were forced to reroute their European traffic around the globe, which could cause delays, Beckert said. Other carriers could use SeaMeWe-3, an older cable that remained the only direct connection from Europe to the Middle East and Asia.? But because this cable is older, it has a smaller capacity than the two damaged cables, Beckert said. Still, Beckert stressed that although the problem created a big pain for many of carriers, it did not compare to the several months of disruption in East Asia in 2006 after an earthquake damaged seven undersea cables near Taiwan. TeleGeography Research Director Alan Mauldin said new cables planned to link Europe with Egypt should provide enough backup to prevent most similar problems in the future. Schoonover said a similar Internet problem could not happen in the United States. We have all the content here, he said. It's not going to be felt other than we won't get the BBC. TeleGeography officials also said most traffic between the U.S., Canada and Mexico is carried over land, and there is a plentiful supply of undersea cables carrying traffic under the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Meanwhile, Internet service was slow Friday in Dubai and Egypt, where online service was intermittent, but there was less demand because many businesses in those countries aren't open on Fridays. Service providers in Egypt said they hoped to have improved capacity by Sunday. Web surfers in India were experiencing a marked improvement in service, though graphic- or video-heavy sites were still taking longer to load. Most of the major Internet service providers in India, like Reliance and VSNL, were starting to use backup lines Friday, allowing service to slowly come back, said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Services Providers Association of India. The Indian ISPs were still alerting customers to slowdowns over the next few days with service quality delays of 50 percent to 60 percent, he said. The Internet slowdowns had no effect on trading at the country's two main stock exchanges, the SENSEX and the NSE, because they aren't dependent on the downed cables, Chharia said. Individual Web users were still feeling the effects. Madhu Vohra, who lives in the city of Noida on the outskirts of Delhi, said she uses Internet phone service Skype to call her son in the United States, but she hasn't been able to reach him since the slowdown. We keep trying for a long time and the message comes up, 'This page can't display,' so finally we just turn the computer off and give up, Vohra said. Internet cafes typically full of teenaged gamers are nearly empty with speeds still frustratingly slow. I felt like beating the modem, throwing it away, because we compete on the Internet and it feels really bad, said Aman Khurana, 13. State-owned Dubai telecom provider Du and Kuwait's Ministry of Communications estimated Thursday that the problems might take two weeks to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who's Your Daddy Warbucks?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:29 am Subject: Who's Your Daddy Warbucks? http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news ? Exxon shatters profit records Oil giant makes corporate history by earning $1,300 a second in 2007 Exxon Mobil made history on Friday by reporting the highest quarterly and annual profits ever for a U.S. company, boosted in large part by soaring crude prices. Exxon, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said fourth-quarter net income rose 14% to $11.66 billion, or $2.13 per share. That's up from $10.25 billion, or $1.76 per share, in the year-ago period. That topped Exxon's previous quarterly profit record of $10.7 billion, set in the fourth quarter of 2005, which also was a record for a U.S. corporation. Exxon Posts Record Profit of $40.6 Billion For '07 Exxon Mobil's 2007 net income of $40.61 billion sets new record Exxon's record fourth-quarter profit helped push the company to a new annual best, with earnings of $11.66 billion, topping the previous record, set in the fourth quarter of 2005, when the company saw earnings of $10.71 billion. Chevron 4th-Quarter Profit Rises on Record Oil Prices Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said fourth-quarter profit rose 29 percent as crude prices climbed to a record on their way to topping $100 a barrel last month. Net income increased to $4.88 billion, or $2.32 a share, from $3.77 billion, or $1.74, a year earlier, San Ramon, California-based Chevron said today in a statement. Shell Rakes in $8.5 Billion in Three Months Royal Dutch Shell, the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company, reported net income up 60 percent last quarter to a record $8.47 billion, thanks to the same rising oil prices that observers expect will lift the profits of Exxon Mobil and Chevron?to?historic levels. Who's never won? Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Black Box Economy: Money for Nothing
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:44 am Subject: The Black Box Economy: Money for Nothing The Black Box Economy ? ? ? Behind recent bad news lurks a much deeper concern: The world economy is now being driven by a vast, secretive web of investments that might be out of anyone's control ? By Stephen Mihm Boston Globe, January 27, 2008 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/01/27/the_black_box_economy/ THE PAST YEAR has been a harrowing one for the world's financial markets, shaken by subprime crises, credit crunches, and other ills. Things have only gotten stranger in the past week, with stock prices swinging wildly in every major market - drastically down, then back up. Last week the Federal Reserve announced the biggest cut in overnight lending rates in more than two decades. Congress, not to be outdone, is slapping together a massive deficit spending package aimed at giving the economy an emergency booster shot. Despite the anxiety, nobody is stockpiling canned goods just yet. The prevailing assumption in today's economy is that recessions and bear markets come and go, and that things will work out in the end, much as they have since the Great Depression. That's because there's a collective confidence that the market is strong enough to correct itself, and that experts in charge of the financial system will understand how to mount a vigorous defense. Should we be so confident this time? A handful of financial theorists and thinkers are now saying we shouldn't. The drumbeat of bad news over the past year, they say, is only a symptom of something new and unsettling - a deeper change in the financial system that may leave regulators, and even Congress, powerless when they try to wield their usual tools. That something is the immense shadow economy of novel and poorly understood financial instruments created by hedge funds and investment banks over the past decade - a web of extraordinarily complex securities and wagers that has made the world's financial system so opaque and entangled that even many experts confess that they no longer understand how it works. Unlike the building blocks of the conventional economy - factories and firms, widgets and workers, stocks and bonds - these new financial arrangements are difficult to value, much less analyze. The money caught up in this web is now many times larger than the world's gross domestic product, and much of it exists outside the purview of regulators. Some of these new-generation investments have been in the news, such as the securities implicated in the mortgage crisis that is still shaking the housing market. Others, involving auto loans, credit card debt, and corporate debt, are lurking in the shadows. The scale and complexity of these new investments means that they don't just defy traditional economic rules, they may change the rules. So much of the world's capital is now tied up in this shadow economy that the traditional tools for fixing an economic downturn - moves that have averted serious disasters in the recent past - may not work as expected. In tell-all books, financial blogs, and small-circulation newsletters, a handful of insiders have begun to sound the alarm, warning that governments and top bankers may simply no longer understand the financial system well enough to do anything about it. Central banks have only two tools, says Satyajit Das, author of Traders, Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives, who has emerged as a voice of concern. They can cut interest rates or they can regulate banks. But these are very old-fashioned tools, and are completely inadequate to the problems now confronting them. Since the last financial crisis that genuinely threatened the fabric of our society, the Great Depression, the United States has built a system of regulatory checks and balances that has, for the most part, worked. The system has worked because the new regulations enforced some semblance of transparency. Companies abide by an extensive set of rules and file information on their profits, losses, and assets. Obviously, there are limits to transparency: Without withholding some information from public view, it would be hard for companies to take advantage of opportunities in the marketplace. But a modicum of transparency can go a long way, enabling both regulators and investors to make informed decisions. The advantages of the system are many; the costs of even a single case of nontransparency, as with Enron, can be high. But when the mortgage crisis broke last summer, it opened a window on something else: The existence of a huge wilderness of investments in the financial sector
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Turkey's Secret State
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 1:40 am Subject: Turkey's Secret State top-secret archive found in general’s house An archive containing state secrets belonging to a major mysteriously killed in 1993 was found in the home of a retired brigadier general arrested for membership in a crime group, newspapers reported yesterday. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detaylink=133117 More and more claims have been emerging as the investigation into the “Ergenekon” crime network, which appears to be an [organization] that operates with the knowledge of parts of the government bureaucracy, the armed forces, the police and the judiciary. According to reports, an archive containing top state secrets previously belonging to Maj. Cem Ersever, who was assassinated in 1993 with the perpetrator never being captured, was found during a search of a ranch house belonging to retired Brig. Gen. Veli Küçük, arrested in the Ergenekon operation last week. Another file, which documented that journalist Uğur Mumcu was assassinated with a bomb by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in 1993, was found in the home of another retired army member, Zekeriya Öztürk, news reports claimed. However, this document never made its way to the prosecutor’s desk, they also stated. Ersever’s secret archive Ersever was a former major who left the army after Gendarmerie Commander Gen. Etref Bitlis was killed in a suspicious plane crash. Ersever, in a confession made to the press after he left the army, told the public about figures who would become some of the most famous names in Turkey in 1996 when for the first time the Turkish public’s suspicions of a “deep state” would be confirmed with a car crash in the town of Susurluk, in which a police chief and an internationally sought criminal would be killed and a deputy who also led a southeastern Kurdish clan armed by the state against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists would be seriously injured. Although scores of definitions are offered for the phrase “deep state,” ample evidence shows that Ergenekon-like groups acting to protect to interests of cliques inside the military and the bureaucracy have been responsible for a number of political assassinations and attacks blamed on various other parties. Some analysts believe this clandestine phenomenon, the deep state, is a remnant of Operation Gladio, a network of secret paramilitary units organized within most NATO countries after WWII, although there is evidence that suggests such structures existed even in the times of the Ottomans. Ersever’s confessions were later compiled in a number of books by author Soner Yalçın. The major before his assassination also said he was in charge of the southeastern operations of JİTEM, an intelligence unit in the gendarmerie that does not exist on paper. Ersever’s body was found in Ankara on Nov. 4, 1993. His girlfriend and right-hand man were also killed, and his archive disappeared. In a report that Hanefi Avcı, a police chief investigating deep state links, would compile three years later on the above-mentioned car crash, the location of Ersever’s archives was noted as the home of the driver of a customs police chief. According to the report filed by Avcı, these were taken by the gendarmerie, which also trapped Ersever, who had arrived to meet with the police chief’s driver. The document also states that Ersever was killed by a man who used the code name Yeşil and who worked for Küçük. The archive, which had been lost for more than a decade, might shed light on the dirty jobs Ersever did for JİTEM. The Mumcu link According to a news report from the Taraf daily, a document that journalist Uğur Mumcu was killed by “deep state” forces was found in the home of Zekeriya Öztürk, another Ergenekon member who was arrested after an armed attack at the Council of the State in 2006 that left a senior judge dead, apparently the work of Ergenekon. However, this document later mysteriously disappeared and never made its way to the prosecutor working on the Council of State shooting case. Who was Cem Ersever? Ahmet Cem Erserver was born in the eastern city of Erzurum in 1950. On Dec. 11, 1979 he was assigned by the Gendarmerie Command to investigate smuggling incidents in various crimes. After the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d’état, Ersever was assigned to a southeastern post to collect intelligence on the PKK. Establishing JİTEM, a paramilitary intelligence unit in the gendarmerie set up to carry out operations with the intelligence collected on terrorists, was his idea. Ersever set up the first lines of communication between Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani. He also had sound links with northern Iraq’s Turkmens and Iraqi intelligence
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Iraqi Oil and the Fed
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 9:55 am Subject: Iraqi Oil and the Fed Iraq not using oil cash to rebuild Sharon Behn, LATimes http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m40688hd=size=1l=e January 30, 2008 Increased Iraqi oil revenues stemming from high prices and improved security are piling up in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rather than being spent on needed reconstruction projects, a Washington Times study of Iraq's spending and revenue figures has shown. U.S. officials and outside analysts blame the collapse of the country's political and physical infrastructure for Baghdad's failure to spend the money on projects considered vital to restoring stability in the country. Out of $10 billion budgeted for capital projects in 2007, only 4.4 percent had been spent by August, according to official Iraqi figures reported this month by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report cited unofficial figures saying about 24 percent had been spent. Meanwhile, some $6 billion to $7 billion from last year's budget is being rolled over and invested in U.S. treasuries, said Yahia Said, director of Iraq Revenue Watch, part of the private watchdog group Revenue Watch Institute. The government is broken, said Mr. Said, speaking by telephone from Baghdad. The country's midlevel bureaucracy has either fled the country or been purged in de-Ba'athification, [and] a lot of ministers are politically appointed and not professional. The result is that orders go out from the ministers in Baghdad, but there is no structure or staff at the middle level to carry out the instructions. It's like they lost the manual for driving the government, said Mr. Said, who is working to put that blueprint back together. They lost the landing instructions for landing the airplane. A quarterly report to be released today by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the U.S. special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, says rising production and high prices could produce a revenue windfall for Iraq this year, according to the Associated Press. Production levels finally are approaching prewar levels of 2.5 million barrels a day and might reach 2.8 million barrels a day by the end of the year, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told The Washington Times on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Acknowledging the need to reform the bureaucracy, Mr. Salih said, Some of us think we can do a lot better [on production] if we do adequate or proper management restructuring. Oil prices, meanwhile, are expected to average $85 a barrel this year, well above the $57 estimated in the Iraqi budget. However, the GAO expressed frustration in a report this month at its inability to get a handle on how these revenues are being spent. We cannot determine the extent to which Iraq has spent [budgeted capital] funds due to conflicting expenditure data, the report said. It said the Bush administration, citing unofficial Iraqi data, reported in September that Iraqs central government ministries had spent 24 percent of their 2007 capital projects budget as of July 15. However, this report is not consistent with Iraqs official expenditure reports, which show that the central ministries had spent only 4.4 percent of their investment budget as of August 2007, it said. U.S. and foreign officials told the GAO that weaknesses in Iraqi procurement, budgeting, and accounting procedures had stymied the completion of projects. For example, according to the State Department, Iraqs Contracting Committee requires about a dozen signatures to approve projects exceeding $10 million, which slows the process, the GAO wrote. Capital projects expenditure this year is expected to reach only $4.3 billion, less than half of the $10 billion spent in 2007, according to a GAO analysis of Iraqi government data provided by the U.S. Treasury. Provincial governments, which had little or no control of their finances under Saddam Hussein, are struggling to spend the money they have under new budget systems, said Joseph Saloom, an adviser to David Satterfield, the senior adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and coordinator for Iraq. That budget system includes strict bidding rules and a process of committee approvals designed to prevent corruption, Mr. Saloom said. But if a province needs a piece of specialized oil equipment, often there are not three suppliers who bid, so the process is cut short and the project cannot go forward, he said. According to Mr. Said, the situation is slightly better on the local government level, partly because of U.S. forces who supply protection, logistics, resources and emergency funds. There is more [improvement] on the gras-roots level on the back of the surge, he said. Reconstruction also has been
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Obama's Skull and Bones economic advisor
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[cia-drugs] The legislation behind a national ID
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6228910.html?tag=nl.e550 The legislation behind a national ID By CNET News.com Staff, News.com Published on ZDNet News: Feb 4, 2008 4:00:00 AM TalkBack Share Digg Del.ico.us Print Email Recommend Don't Recommend + 3 3 Tags: CNET News.com Staff, Politics government, U.S., License,Section,Driver, Secretary, Person, Identification Card,State, B, Social Security,Operational Accounting, Homeland Security, Security, Government, Finance Real ID became law not through the usual legislative process, but instead as part of a mammoth Iraq spending and Asian tsunami bill, the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005. The following is the full, unedited text of the bill: TITLE II--IMPROVED SECURITY FOR DRIVERS' LICENSES AND PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION CARDS SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS In this title, the following definitions apply: (1) DRIVER'S LICENSE--The term driver's license means a motor vehicle operator's license, as defined in section 30301 of title 49, United States Code. (2) IDENTIFICATION CARD--The term identification card means a personal identification card, as defined in section 1028(d) of title 18, United States Code, issued by a State. (3) OFFICIAL PURPOSE--The term official purpose includes but is not limited to accessing Federal facilities, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants, and any other purposes that the Secretary shall determine. (4) SECRETARY--The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security. (5) STATE--The term State means a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States. SEC. 202. MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use (1) IN GENERAL--Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section. (2) STATE CERTIFICATIONS--The Secretary shall determine whether a State is meeting the requirements of this section based on certifications made by the State to the Secretary. Such certifications shall be made at such times and in such manner as the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, may prescribe by regulation. (b) Minimum Document Requirements--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following information and features on each driver's license and identification card issued to a person by the State: (1) The person's full legal name. (2) The person's date of birth. (3) The person's gender. (4) The person's driver's license or identification card number. (5) A digital photograph of the person. (6) The person's address of principle residence. (7) The person's signature. (8) Physical security features designed to prevent tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for fraudulent purposes. (9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements. (c) Minimum Issuance Standards. (1) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall require, at a minimum, presentation and verification of the following information before issuing a driver's license or identification card to a person: (A) A photo identity document, except that a non-photo identity document is acceptable if it includes both the person's full legal name and date of birth. (B) Documentation showing the person's date of birth. (C) Proof of the person's social security account number or verification that the person is not eligible for a social security account number. (D) Documentation showing the person's name and address of principal residence. (2) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS (A) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall comply with the
[cia-drugs] Fwd: More CIA Drug Planes Seized; John McCain's Texas Campaign Manager Implicated
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 8:01 pm Subject: More CIA Drug Planes Seized; John McCain's Texas Campaign Manager Implicated our More American Drug Planes Seized Laundered drug money was wired from Mexico to Commerce Bank in Miami, whose CEO is the Texas co-chair of John McCain’s presidential election campaign. http://www.madcowprod.com/02072008.html February 7, 2008 by Daniel Hopsicker Four more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Figures of interest in the transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial backers of two of this year's Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called one of the usual suspects. Coincidentally or not, the American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were largely people and companies with 'special relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Yet, despite this inconvenient fact, the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American owners as legitimate aircraft brokers and unwitting sellers This is Your GOP. This is your GOP... on drugs. The Republican connection begins with the statement in court filings that the money to purchase the planes was laundered through a bank which is almost invariably described as “fast-growing” in admiring business news articles. The drug money was wired, usually from Mexico, to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, whose Chairman, Dennis Nixon, is the South Texas Co-chair of John McCain’s campaign. Nixon was also a Bush Pioneer and Ranger in George W. Bush’s two Presidential campaigns, raising $300,000 in one night for Bush’s re-election bid in Texas border town Laredo. High-profile Texas businessman Dennis Nixon's bank is even — in one of the sales—involved on both ends. Money was wired from Mexico, first to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, then on to International Bank of Commerce (IBC) in Oklahoma to complete the sale. Dennis Nixon's International Bancshares of San Antonio owns both banks. Abuse of power comes as no surprise. The second transaction with apparent Republican 'ramifications involves a Grumman Albatross (N7027Z) seaplane apparently sold to the Sinaloa Cartel. N7274Z, reported El Nuevo Herald, had been purchased, with several twists between August to September 2006, from the HSBC bank in Mexico by Jorge Barraza, a resident of Tamil Nadu, Jorge Medina and Daniel Medina on behalf of Insured Aircraft Title Service in Oklahoma. El Nuevo Herald identifies the plane with the “N” number N7027Z as a Beech King Air. However, the grand jury indictment identifies the plane only by its N number, N7027Z. A check of FAA records revealed that that “N” number was assigned to a Grumman Albatross seaplane. An FAA spokesman told us, when we inquired, that that N number has been used exclusively by the Grumman Albatross for the past 15 years. Moreover a reliable source in Fort Lauderdale stated to us recently that seaplanes have recently become all the rage in drug trafficking circles. A seaplane would seem an excellent idea The seaplane, or warbird, as aircraft broker sites call planes decommissioned from the military, was owned by Jay Koven, whose construction company built Rudy Giuliani’s Emergency Command Center in Building 7 of the World Trade Center. The decision to locate New York City's Command Center high above the one site in NYC which had already been attacked by foreign terrorists was controversial... even before it had to be abandoned on September 11. According to “The Real Rudy,” a Giuliani expose in American Prospect magazine in September 2006, Koven and his partner gave $4,000 to Giuliani at a party given in 1998 at the behest of WTC lessor Larry Silverstein, at the Fifth Avenue home of his public
[cia-drugs] Fwd: McCain's The One
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:28 am Subject: McCain's The One Beverly Hills, CA February 12, 2008 ? ??? McCain's The One ??? ??? by Richard Scheck ? ? For those who think the time of the neocons has passed, the election of 2008 is emerging as a great disappointment. ? Such folks have forgotten the role?that Bill Kristol played as a key supporter of McCain back in 2000 when he ran against Bush. ? In a likely McCain, Obama presidential campaign, the former Air Force pilot and ardent nationalist will eagerly promote expanding the Bush agenda of preemptive interventions while probably accusing the Illinois Senator (or Hillary) as either naive or traitorous?like they use to do the left during the Cold War. ? With the high likelihood of Joe Lieberman as his running mate along with a New York Times endorsement, McCain is poised to run as the bipartisan, maverick who can bridge the gap between the pro-Israel Christian right, disgruntled anti-Washington independents and a frustrated middle class including many Democrats (like Lieberman did in Connecticut 2 years ago) to forge a powerful alliance against the Hillary/Obama uber-liberals. ? The Dems have caved on resisting Bush's surge and now they are positioned to loose the White House again by backing?presidential candidates who oppose the war in the mildest terms imaginable. ? The antiwar left led by Dennis Kucinich and the antiwar right led by Ron Paul must find a way to overcome their fundamental differences and unite on a platform of peace if American imperial over-reach is to ever end without exhausting our military, treasury and international good-will. ? To see what others say about his, please go to: http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=12345. http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952529.html. ? ? ? ? ? Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush's Law -- and Who Goes to Prison If You Apply the Same Law to Bush Co
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:16 am Subject: Bush's Law -- and Who Goes to Prison If You Apply the Same Law to Bush Co Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury) Scott Horton February 9, 2008 http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002346 Government prosecutors are saying that by offering a legal opinion, the attorney made himself into a part of a conspiracy. So, whether that opinion was right or wrong, he became just another cog in a criminal enterprise. It’s beginning to sound like a stuck record. Another strike by the Bush Justice Department, keeping the country safe. Who’s the target this time? A crack dealer? An al Qaeda terrorist? No. It’s a wing-tip shoed Miami lawyer, who served as president of the bar association, is held in universally high esteem (outside, of course, of the political hacks who run the Bush Justice Department) and who advised Al Gore in the 2000 Florida recount battle. According to the Justice Department, the lawyer’s involvement with Democratic politics has nothing to do with his being charged. Quite a few of his contemporaries are having problems buying that, and still bigger problems understanding his supposed “crime.” Here’s the way the Miami Herald broke the story on Thursday: Ben Kuehne, a widely respected Miami lawyer whose clients have included former Vice President Al Gore and other major politicians, surrendered Thursday on federal criminal charges for his behind-the-scenes role in a complex international drug-trafficking case. An indictment, unsealed at his morning court appearance, charges Kuehne in a money-laundering conspiracy with approving tainted legal payments by an accused Colombian drug kingpin to his defense attorney in Miami. The fee payments turned out to be illegitimate because they allegedly came from drug proceeds in violation of federal law, federal prosecutors said. Kuehne, appearing in Miami federal court at 10 a.m., said: “Since I am completely innocent of these charges, I am entering a plea of not guilty. . .” Justice Department officials allege that Kuehne broke the law in 2002-03 when he vouched for millions paid by one-time Medellín drug lord Fabio Ochoa Vasquez to his high-profile trial attorney, Roy Black. Kuehne’s research gave Black the confidence — in the form of legal opinion letters — to accept payments totaling $3.7 million in fees and $1.3 million in expenses from Ochoa, according to several sources. Kuehne earned a portion of the expense payments — $220,000 to $260,000 — from Black for vetting Ochoa’s payments. The payments were documented to a specific commercial operation and holding long in the hands of the Ochoa family: a horse and cattle farm in Colombia. The Herald is giving its reporting a good bit of Justice Department spin. What exactly is Kuehne’s involvement in this “conspiracy”? He was asked by another lawyer to give an opinion: did he think the retainer that was offered by a client could be accepted? He looked at the money and its provenance and gave a positive opinion. But according to the indictment, he went beyond the opinion by receiving and passing on a series of retainer payments. Some other facts make the Justice Department’s conduct look stranger still. The matter was not determined by local attorneys in the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office, but by political appointees from main Justice in Washington. Law.com collects a number of statements from leaders in the Florida bar, reacting angrily to the charges, including Kuehne’s lawyer: “This highly improbable charge involves important and unprecedented issues of law, policy and procedure,” Moscowitz wrote. The indictment was brought by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Seller and Thomas Pinder of the Justice Department’s asset forfeiture and money laundering section in Washington. The case went to Washington because the U.S. Attorney’s office in Miami had a conflict as Ochoa’s prosecutor. Magistrate Brown’s courtroom overflowed with attorneys who support Kuehne. They included CNN legal commentator Jayne Weintraub and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush and the Mormons
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41 am Subject: Bush and the Mormons Bush and the Mormons By Suzan Mazur http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0410/S00296.htm A Mormon Temple - University City Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle: So in 1989, when Mr. Marriott made it known that his company's airline catering division, then known as Marriott In-Flite Services, was on the block, one had to suspect that he knew something the rest of the world didn't know. That's J.W. Bill Marriott, Chairman of Marriott Corp. Briody speaks of, one of the world's most successful businessmen. Marriott's also one of the most celebrated members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the Mormon Church. ? While we know of George W. Bush's popularity with the American electorate who consider themselves evangelical, born-again Christians (42%) - the vote from Bush's Mormon base has not been counted. Mormons are clearly not evangelical Christians. And there are 11 million of them. They run the biggest and best gun shows nationwide. They tend to vote Republican. And their church is rich, because it asks its members to tithe 10% of their annual income. The Mormon Church is leaning more toward Christianity, says anthropologist and Mormon sceptic Tom Murphy at Edmonds College, Washington state. But as long as the religion includes Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon, Murphy says it cannot be considered Christian. Smith started the Mormon religion. The Book of Mormon is based on a translation of golden tablets he said he found in upstate New York in the 1800s following visitation from an angel named Moroni. It describes a migration of ancient Israelites (Laminites) to Central America, who supposedly interbred with the indigenous population, and it regards Native Americans as descendants of those ancient Israelites. Mormon scripture has been under intense scrutiny in recent years in the Financial Times (my 2/9/2002 story Mormons in the Olympic spotlight), from author Jon Krakaeur in his book Under The Banner of Heaven, from Tom Murphy and others. Murphy's challenge regarding Smith's Book of Mormon as a history of Native Americans led to an LDS attempt to excommunicate him, but the church eventually backed down under pressure from the media. British researchers Tudor Parfitt and Neil Bradford, who've traced the tribes of Israel through DNA (the Lemba in South Africa), say they have no intention of testing Native Americans to see if they are descendants of the so-called Laminites. It is well established that Native Americans first migrated from Siberia over 10,000 years ago. But despite the migration route and chronology being all wrong, genetic testing of Native Americans in Central American is still being discussed by a group of former Brigham Young University scientists who have the same financial sponsorship they had while working at BYU, which is an LDS church institution. Mormons have historically played a significant behind-the-scenes money and power role in America. Sally Denton and Roger Morris have written about Mormon banker Parry Thomas's financing of Las Vegas, for example, in their book, The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America. So when I read Dan Briody's comment about Bill Marriott possibly knowing something the rest of the world didn't regarding the sale of its airline catering service to Carlyle, I paused and began to wonder about the volatile mix of Mormons, Carlyle connections and the timing of George W. Bush's meteoric political rise. Carlyle founding fathers Dan Altobello, Steve Norris, Fred Malek and Dan D'Aniello, who participated in the catering service buyout by Carlyle, all came from the Marriott Mormon culture before joining Carlyle. Malek was number two man at Marriott and a former Director of the Republican Party; it was Malek who brought George W. Bush into the Carlyle fold. Looking closer at the workings of the Mormon Church and its wealth - it is not particularly choosy about the source of its tithes. It accepts money, for example, from a circle of LDS lawyers, bankers and businessmen who represent the polygamist Mormons living out West. Former Utah-based child advocate Jay Beswick sees these tithes as blood money because the lawyers, bankers and businessmen help to support a 10,000 member polygamist/pedophile colony - the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) - on the Utah-Arizona border, which has branches in Texas, Idaho, Colorado, British Columbia and parts in between. Beswick says that if the main Mormon Church really opposed polygamy, it would reject the tithes and excommunicate the lot. Rodney R. Parker, who legally represents the FLDS, is with the law firm of Snow, Christensen and Martineau which
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Hillary Bankrolled by Turkish Druglord among Sibel Edmonds' 10 Most Wanted
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 9:31 am Subject: Hillary Bankrolled by Turkish Druglord among Sibel Edmonds' 10 Most Wanted Key Clinton Backer Guilty in Sibel Edmonds Case http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2008/02/key-clinton-backer-guilty-in-sibel.html Wednesday, February 13, 2008 The UK's Times has already run three bombshell articles on the nuclear black market element in the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds this year, and we are expecting more fallout in the near future as new evidence and witnesses come forward. In the meantime, another important angle to Edmonds' case has opened up. Earlier this week, the New York Post ran a Page 6 piece, ODD FILM BY HILLARY BACKER, which highlights the close relationship between Hillary Clinton and Chicago-based Turkish businessman Mehmet Celebi. Celebi, one of the national leaders of the Turkish-American community in the US, is a key fundraiser for Clinton, and is one of Clinton's Chicago delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Celebi was also heavily involved in the controversial 2006 movie Valley of the Wolves: Iraq which has been widely regarded as anti-Semitic, anti-American, conspiratorial agitprop. Mehmet Celebi is also a key figure in the Sibel Edmonds case - he is heavily involved in the narcotics trade in the US and the corruption and bribery of high-level US officials. According to Celebi's bio: He has been serving as the President of the Turkish-American Cultural Alliance (TACA) since 2000, and as Member of the Board/Vice-President of the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations (ATAA), a Washington, D.C. based umbrella organization representing 57 organizations. The Chicago-based Turkish-American Cultural Alliance (TACA) and the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations (ATAA) both figure prominently in Sibel Edmonds' case. Both are reported to be front groups for criminal activity involving illegal weapons sales, narcotics trafficking, and the bribery and corruption of high level US officials. Mehmet Celebi first came to my attention in my first interview with Sibel in January 2006. My notes from that interview read: Sibel mentioned the mafia nature of the Turkish business establishment - in particular she mentioned Celebi as one of the key players - apparently they are involved in an arms trading cartel, and they ship narcotics in the cargo of their planes as they zoom around. One of the Celebi family members (Mehmet Celebi) is chairman of the Turkish American Cultural Association (TACA) in Illinois. (Sibel has often pointed to both Chicago, and also to 'cultural exchanges'). TACA and the ATAA were both targets of an FBI counter-intelligence operation investigating the corruption and bribery of high-level US officials from 1997 onward, including the period when Celebi had high level positions at these organizations. According to the 2005 investigative piece in Vanity Fair into Sibel's case: Vanity Fair has established that around ... December 2001, Joel Robertz, an F.B.I. special agent in Chicago, contacted Sibel and asked her to review some wiretaps. Some were several years old, others more recent; all had been generated by a counter-intelligence that had its start in 1997. “It began in D.C.,” says an F.B.I. counter-intelligence official who is familiar with the case file. “It became apparent that Chicago was actually the center of what was going on.” Its subject was explosive; what sounded like attempts to bribe elected members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican. “There was pressure within the bureau for a special prosecutor to be appointed and take the case on,“ the official says. Instead, his colleagues were told to alter the thrust of their investigation – away from elected politicians and toward appointed officials. “This is the reason why Ashcroft reacted to Sibel in such an extreme fashion,” he says “It was to keep this from coming out.” In her secure testimony, Edmonds disclosed some of what she recalled hearing. In all, says a source who was present, she managed to listen to more than 40 of the Chicago recordings supplied by Robertz. Many involved an F.B.I. target at the city’s large Turkish Consulate, as well as members of the American-Turkish Consulate, as well as members of the American-Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associates (ATAA). Some of the calls reportedly contained what sounded like references to large scale drug shipments and other crimes. To a person who knew nothing about their context, the details were confusing and it wasn’t always clear what might be significant. One name, however, apparently stood out – a man the Turkish callers often referred to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Abandon All Truth, Ye Who Enter Canada
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 7:28 pm Subject: Abandon All Truth, Ye Who Enter Canada Harassed at Border for 9/11 Truth Flyer Thursday February 14, 2008 http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2008/140208Harassed.htm JC911Truth founder, director and organizer, Glenn Zarmanov was recently harassed on the American-Canadian border for?possession of fliers that prompt the reader to demand a new investigation [of 9/11] and DVDs with similar content.? On a visit to Montreal, a border-patrol agent remarked that the fliers and discs could be considered objectionable material and might be confiscated. Zarmanov was allowed into the country with his property, but was warned not to bring such material on subsequent visits. Zarmanov was questioned rigorously on his intentions for smuggling paper and plastic into Canada. As if a thorough search of the vehicle in which the activist was traveling were not enough, the border-guard in question added insult to injury by stating: That sh*t [9/11 Truth] don't fly in Canada. You are not welcome here. Americans are second-rate travelers. The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Cost of the U.S. Bubble -- Global Economy Has Lost $7.7 TRILLION
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 7:17 pm Subject: Cost of the U.S. Bubble -- Global Economy Has Lost $7.7 TRILLION US subprime crisis costs global economy?7.7 trillion dollars ? Feb 14 03:20 PM US/Eastern http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080214202021.5qwu7lx0show_article=1 The meltdown in the US subprime real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed Thursday. The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and other sectors worldwide, is one of the most vicious in financial history, according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph Quinlan. Quinlan said in the report that the losses are worse than any in the past few decades, including Wall Street's Black Monday of 1987, the 1999 Brazilian real currency crisis and the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998. An analysis by the US bank showed that in the most recent episode linked to subprime, or high-risk, real estate loans to people with shaky credit, world market capitalization was down 14.7 percent three months after a peak in late October. That compared with a similar loss three months later of 13.2 percent after the LTCM crisis, 9.8 percent for Black Monday and 6.1 percent for the Brazil crisis. The losses were also greater than those suffered after the September 11, 2001, terro attacks, the Asian financial crisis starting in 1997, Argentina's default on its debt in 2001 and the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. It could take months or even years before Wall Street and others get a handle on the true cost of the US subprime meltdown and the attendant global credit crunch, Quinlan said. While subprime loans were once thought to be relatively small in scale and contained to just one segment of the US financial sector, the opposite has become painfully evident over the past few months. A report last week by Standard Poors ratings agency showed global stock markets were walloped with a collective loss of 5.2 trillion dollars in the month of January alone. Quinlan said it is not clear that the massacre in equities is over yet. Against this backdrop, any investor that has been buying US equities on the dips over the past few months has, in general, dug himself a deeper hole, he said. In the end, the current financial crisis is one for the record books and one, more ominously, not over yet. The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Official in Charge of Auditing Federal Government's Books Quits in Disgust
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 5:53 pm Subject: Official in Charge of Auditing Federal Government's Books Quits in Disgust Top US accountability officer quits over job constraints Friday February 15, 2008 http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Top_US_accountability_officer_quits_02152008.html The head of the audit and investigative arm of the US Congress announced his resignation Friday, citing real limitations on what he could do. David Walker, 51, a respected voice on fiscal matters, said he was making an early departure from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to head a new public interest foundation. As Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO, there are real limitations on what I can do and say in connection with key public policy issues, especially issues that directly relate to GAO's client -- the Congress, Walker said in a statement. He did not elaborate but Walker last year issued an unusually downbeat assessment of his country's future in a report that drew parallels with the end of the Roman empire. He had warned that the US government was on a burning platform of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action was not taken soon. There were striking similarities between America's current situation and the factors that brought down Rome, he had said. These included declining moral values and political civility at home, an over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government. This was a very difficult decision for me, Walker said Friday of his decision to leave the GAO, which he joined in November for what was to be a 15-year term of office. His resignation would be effective March 12. He said he would become president and chief executive officer of the newly established Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which would educate and activate Americans while supporting sensible policy solutions on various issues. My new position will provide me with the ability and resources to more aggressively address a range of current and emerging challenges facing our country, he said. This move will enable me to sharpen my messages and bring focus and attention to the fiscal and other key sustainability challenges that I and others have been discussing during the past several years, he said. The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Russian state TV alleges US/UK drug-trafficking from Afghanistan
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 5:12 pm Subject: Russian state TV alleges US/UK drug-trafficking from Afghanistan Russian state TV suggests USA involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan ? BBC Monitoring, Channel One TV, Moscow, in Russian Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:04 EST http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148967-Russian-state-TV-suggests-USA-involved-in-drug-trafficking-from-Afghanistan ? ? Russian state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army. ? The channel's weekly news roundup Voskresnoye Vremya on 10 February noted that, according to the UN, the amount of opium being produced in Afghanistan has more than doubled since the coalition troops entered the country. ? The report went on to show former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visiting the country at an unspecified time. It said that he had met almost 800 British troops during the visit. This is either a coincidence or the working of cruel fate, but this is the exact number of soldiers that the British army loses each year because of drug abuse. This is more than the total combat losses of the royal army in Iraq and Afghanistan, the correspondent noted. ? The report then featured an extract from a BBC news website story saying that the British army loses a whole battalion of troops a year because of drug abuse (Research revealed that the story was published on 14 December 2007). ? The report went on to look at the wider problem of how to reverse the trend of increasing opium production in Afghanistan. ? Aleksandr Mikhaylov, the head of the department of interdepartmental and informational activity at the Russian Drugs Control Agency, was shown saying that economic measures to tackle the problem are foundering on local corruption. The local authorities draw up seriously forged lists in which an amount is recorded for the amount destroyed and, in fact, the crop has not been destroyed at all. The theft of the money to combat narcotics is going on and is flourishing, he said. ? The accusation that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking came from Geydar Dzhemal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia. Without the control and connivance on the part of the special services none of these things are possible. For example in Afghanistan, the CIA and the special services are quite brazen. Under the protection of the American army they meet the necessary people. They collect the stuff, go to the Bagram airbase and they hand in a large consignment of narcotics, which is then taken away, he said. ? The report went on to say that heroin reached the Balkans via Turkey, which has been a member of NATO since 1952 and is the USA's closest ally in the region. It said it is another amazing coincidence that Kosovo hosts the largest NATO base in Europe. The correspondent added that there is a secret Interpol post next to this base. Here they speak almost openly about Afghan heroin in American planes, he noted. ? A man captioned as Marko Nicovic, Interpol employee, explained that 90 per cent of heroin goes through the Albanian mafia, which is now more powerful than the Sicilian mafia. He also alleged that members of this mafia bribe European parliamentarians to support the independence of Kosovo. ? The report went on to link high levels of drug crime in Russia with the US invasion of Afghanistan. Since the Americans unleashed war on the Taleban, Russian crime labs have been working non-stop, the correspondent observed over footage of a drugs raid and packages of drugs being opened. ? Aleksandr Mikhaylov, the head of the department of interdepartmental and informational activity at the Russian Drugs Control Agency, was shown saying that the production of narcotics in Afghanistan is getting more professional and that drugs have taken a real stranglehold on the Afghan economy. The situation today is that narcotics have become a substance used for barter in Afghanistan, he observed. ? For as long as heroin remains the only hard currency in the country and until NATO and its military coalition do not resolve their own issues, the agricultural proclivities here will hardly change, the correspondent concluded. ? ? ? ? ? ? The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 2:28 pm Subject: Fwd: U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/18/2008 11:25:36 P.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing! http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/Issues.aspx?NewsletterEntryId=1453 *U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing!* By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 02-18-08 The U.S. credit markets, the giant growth engine that powers the American economy, are collapsing ... with few credit sectors spared from damage, few investors escaping losses, and little hope of federal action that's quick or strong enough to make a major difference. Here's what's happening ... First and Foremost, the Fall of The Nation's Three Largest Bond Insurers Is Accelerating This is the Great Ratings Debacle I highlighted last year. And now, the critical watershed event that I said would trigger the next phase -- the collapse of the bond insurers' triple-A ratings -- is here in aces and spades. Without the triple-A rating, their whole reason to exist falls by the wayside: They cannot enhance the credit of bond issuers. They cannot do more business. They may as well close their doors and go home. The facts: * Financial Guarantee Insurance Co. (F.G.I.C.), the nation's third largest, just lost its triple-A rating last week. Moody's literally gutted its rating by a full six notches in one fell swoop. * At the same time, Moody's warned that unless F.G.I.C. can raise the needed capital, it's ready to cut F.G.I.C.'s rating to a hair above junk. * To underscore that it means business, Moody's has already downgraded FGIC's senior debt to junk, threatening to drop it to deeper junk. * Ambac's triple-A rating was zapped by all three major rating agencies in late January. * Next, M.B.I.A. is on the chopping block, slated to lose its triple-A rating within a matter of days. All three of the largest bond insurers are engulfed in the mess. And all three are trapped between two major business lines -- their traditional business of insuring municipal bonds against default, which is supposedly still stable ... and their newer business of insuring mortgage- and debt-backed securities, which is in total disarray. Meanwhile, the nation's banks and other big investors -- the last hope for bond insurers -- have so far failed to come forward with the needed capital. So, in a surprise announcement on Friday, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer threatened to intervene with massive, radical action. He said he would ... * take over the two bond insurers which are regulated by New York State -- M.B.I.A. and Ambac ... * strip out all their supposedly good assets (insurance policies covering municipal securities) ... * pack away those assets in newly formed separate companies, and ... * leave behind strictly the bad assets (polices covering the disaster-plagued mortgage and debt sectors). The bankers were shocked and dismayed. Instead of being the first to hear the news as part of their intense, ongoing discussions with New York State regulators, they heard about it on C.N.B.C. And instead of responding with fear and remorse, their primary reaction is anger and rebellion. What's next? Follow along with me, and you'll see that, like four different pathways engulfed by the same forest fire, all four likely scenarios lead to essentially the same result: Credit collapse. Scenario A: Bank Rescue Despite their instincts not to get dragged into the morass, bankers, and other investors come through with 11th-hour capital infusions for the bond insurers. Consequences: The banks take a big step closer to insolvency, creating an even broader threat to the financial system. Reason: The true liabilities of the bond insurers are incalculable. The potential exposure to losses is virtually unlimited. And before the bond insurance crisis, the banks were already buckling under their subprime mortgage losses. Scenario B: No Rescues, No Takeovers The banks stay out. But despite his warnings, Spitzer fails to move forward promptly to take over the bond insurers. Consequences: The current downward spiral of the bond insurers continues unabated. M.B.I.A., the last of the Big Three to be downgraded, loses its triple-A rating. F.G.I.C. is downgraded to junk; Ambac, to near junk. The $2.6 trillion municipal bond market virtually dies. Reason: When the bond insurers are downgraded, the hundreds of thousands of municipal bonds they cover are automatically downgraded -- a ratings collapse that's so massive, it can shut off the credit spigot to all city and state governments, whether insured or
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Soon All Travel Anywhere in the World Forbidden w/out Big Brother's Permission
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31 pm Subject: Soon All Travel Anywhere in the World Forbidden w/out Big Brother's Permission Government wants personal details of every [European] traveller Phone numbers and credit card data to be collected under expanded EU plan Ian Traynor in Brussels The Guardian,?February 23 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/23/uksecurity.terrorismandtravel Airline passengers will be monitored at every stage of their journey under the proposals. Photograph: David Levene Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone numbers and credit card details, as part of a new package of security measures being demanded by the British government. The data would be stored for 13 years and used to profile suspects. Brussels officials are already considering controversial anti-terror plans that would collect up to 19 pieces of information on every air passenger entering or leaving the EU. Under a controversial agreement reached last summer with the US department of homeland security, the EU already supplies the same information [19 pieces] to Washington for all passengers flying between Europe and the US. But Britain wants the system extended to sea and rail travel, to be applied to domestic flights and those between EU countries. According to a questionnaire circulated to all EU capitals by the European commission, the UK is the only country of 27 EU member states that wants the system used for more general public policy purposes besides fighting terrorism and organised crime. The so-called passenger name record system, proposed by the commission and supported by most EU governments, has been denounced by civil libertarians and data protection officials as draconian and probably ineffective. The scheme would work through national agencies collecting and processing the passenger data and then sharing it with other EU states. Britain also wants to be able to exchange the information with third parties outside the EU. Officials in Brussels and in European capitals admit the proposed system represents a massive intrusion into European civil liberties, but insist it is a necessary part of a battery of new electronic surveillance measures being mooted in the interests of European security. These include proposals unveiled in Brussels last week for fingerprinting and collecting biometric information of all non-EU nationals entering or leaving the union. All airlines would provide government agencies with 19 pieces of information on every passenger, including mobile phone number and credit card details. The system would work by running the data against a combination of characteristics and behavioural patterns aimed at creating a risk assessment, according to the draft legislation. When a passenger fits within a certain risk assessment, he could be identified as a high-risk passenger. A working party of European data protection officials described the proposal as a further milestone towards a European surveillance society. The draft foresees the collection of a vast amount of personal data of all passengers flying into or out of the EU regardless of whether they are under suspicion or innocent travellers. These data will then be stored for a period of 13 years to allow for profiling. The profiling of all passengers envisaged by the current proposal might raise constitutional concerns in some member states. The Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford said: Where is this going to stop? There's no mature discussion of risk. As soon as you question something like this, you're soft on terrorism in the UK and in the EU. Britain is pushing for a more comprehensive system based on the experience of a UK pilot scheme that has been running for the past three years. Officials say Operation Semaphore, monitoring flights from Pakistan and the Middle East, has been highly successful and has resulted in hundreds of arrests. The scheme has seen one in every 2,200 passengers warranting further investigation, with a tenth of those being of interest. British officials say rapists, drug smugglers and child traffickers have been arrested and want the EU scheme to cover all fugitives from crown court justice. But Ludford said: If you ask the UK government how many terrorists have been picked up, I don't think you get a very straight answer. EU officials have asked the Home Office minister Meg Hillier for information about the arrests of suspected terrorists. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living. More new features than ever.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Renzi -- Tied to Attorneygate, PLUS Hints of Defense Contractor/CIA Corruption
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 6:22 pm Subject: Renzi -- Tied to Attorneygate, PLUS Hints of Defense Contractor/CIA Corruption Congressman, crook ... and spook? http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Republican congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona -- whose district includes Flagstaff, one of my favorite little towns -- has been indicted for extortion, wire fraud, and money laundering. Some of these charges stem from a complex scheme in which he allegedly received kickbacks after cajoling others to buy land from a buddy. The other charges derive from his family's insurance firm, which offered insurance to pregnancy centers. He is said to have helped himself to the clients' premiums. Renzi's name came up in the U.S. Attorney scandal investigation; emptywheel has the details. Here's the part that really interests me: Renzi may be a spook. (A tip of the chapeau to Laura Rozen.) His background is certainly mysterious: Exactly what Renzi did for the next two decades is blurry. He has said he worked overseas for the Defense Department, but research turned up no information on which agency, where he was assigned or what duties he had. Renzi founded an insurance company in 1989 and bought a six-bedroom home in Virginia two years later for $765,000. He and his wife, Roberta, lived there with their children for more than a decade. Suggestive, though hardly conclusive. I would note that most spooks don't make anywhere near the kind of money needed to buy palatial digs of that sort. On the other hand, most insurance execs don't brag about working overseas for the DOD. There have long been rumors of links between the intelligence community and the insurance industry. Insurance fraud has funded covert ops, or so some have claimed. Wally Hilliard, the [9-11] flight school owner whom many consider spookier than Caspar, made his money in insurance. Renzi sat on the House intelligence committee, which is supposed to oversee the spooks. That's one reason why I think we should learn more about the man's background. Here's another: A key beneficiary of Rep. Renzi’s legislation was ManTechInternational Corp., a Fairfax, Virginia based defense contractor where Rep. Renzi’s father, Retired Major General Eugene Renzi, is an executive vice president. The company, which has an office in Sierra Vista, Arizona, was the largest contributor to Renzi’s 2002 congressional campaign and the second largest in his 2004 campaign. If Rep. Renzi accepted campaign contributions from ManTech in exchange for pushing through legislation benefitting the company, he would be in violation of federal bribery laws. Here's the webpage for ManTech, which sounds like the name of Jeff Gannon's bordello. Aside from Major General Renzi, some interesting folks run the firm. One director is the notorious neocon Richard Armitage, of Iran/contra and Plamegate ill-fame. Another is Richard Kerr -- former Deputy Director of the CIA. Evidence indicated that someone back in the DC-Virginia area took a keen interest in establishing a political career for the Major General's son. And where did Rick Renzi (who moved to Arizona from out of state in order to obtain this office) get the extra money he used to get his name spread across the geographically huge district he was running? $436,590 came from Renzi's own deep pockets. A significant portion of the remainder came from out of state. As the Open Secrets report mentioned above shows, Renzi received more than twice as much in contributions from the Washington, DC area than he did from Flagstaff, Arizona, the largest city in his district. A storyline begins to form, does it not? Sniff deeply -- you may note that special Wilkes/Wade fragrance perfuming the air. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Canadian and US Military Merge for Armed Defense of MexAmeriCanadian NWO
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:21 am Subject: Canadian and US Military Merge for Armed Defense of MexAmeriCanadian NWO U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command establish new bilateral Civil Assistance Plan February 14, 2008 http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/021408.html SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency. “This document is a unique, bilateral military plan to align our respective national military plans to respond quickly to the other nation's requests for military support of civil authorities,” Renuart said. “Unity of effort during bilateral support for civil support operations such as floods, forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack, in order to save lives, prevent human suffering and mitigate damage to property, is of the highest importance, and we need to be able to have forces that are flexible and adaptive to support rapid decision-making in a collaborative environment.” “The signing of this plan is an important symbol of the already strong working relationship between Canada Command and U.S. Northern Command,” Dumais said. “Our commands were created by our respective governments to respond to the defense and security challenges of the twenty-first century, and we both realize that these and other challenges are best met through cooperation between friends.” The plan recognizes the role of each nation's lead federal agency for emergency preparedness, which in the United States is the Department of Homeland Security and in Canada is Public Safety Canada. The plan facilitates the military-to-military support of civil authorities once government authorities have agreed on an appropriate response. U.S. Northern Command was established on Oct. 1, 2002, to anticipate and conduct homeland defense and civil support operations within the assigned area of responsibility to defend, protect, and secure the United States and its interests. Similarly, Canada Command was established on Feb. 1, 2006, to focus on domestic operations and to offer a single point of contact for all domestic and continental defense and security partners. The two domestic commands established strong bilateral ties well before the signing of the Civil Assistance Plan. The two commanders and their staffs meet regularly, collaborate on contingency planning and participate in related annual exercises. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living. More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://webmail.aol.com
[cia-drugs] Fwd: New GOP Motto: Think Globally, Act (to Suppress the Truth) Locally
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:26 am Subject: New GOP Motto: Think Globally, Act (to Suppress the Truth) Locally http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Here's the 60 Minutes segment you may not have seen last night, since it ran opposite the Oscars. (Thanks to Brad Friedman.) Alas, folks in Alabama couldn't see this report even if they had their teevees (or Tivos) tuned to CBS. Why? Because the station suddenly experienced technical difficulties -- for that segment alone. Larisa has been covering this astounding turn of events: Some of the Alabama blackouts are reported to have happened on Channel 19, which is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, owned by the Bass family of Texas. The others appeared to have happened on one Comcast channel. Could this Bass family be the same family involved in George W. Bush's Harken energy scandal? Here's what Scott Horton of Harpers has to say about the blackout: The station ran a trailer stating “We apologize that you missed the first segment of 60 Minutes tonight featuring ‘The Prosecution of Don Siegelman.’ It was a techincal problem with CBS out of New York.” I contacted CBS News in New York and was told that “there is no delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have been an editorial call.” Channel 19 is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, who can be contacted through Rhonda Barnat, 212-371-5999 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oak Hill Partners represents interests of the Bass family, which contribute heavily to the Republican Party. Contact dear Rhonda, by all means. Better still: Contact the new FCC, once a Democrat takes the reins. Someone should lose a broadcast license over this transparent stunt. Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on AOL Living.
[cia-drugs] How to Say NO to a 'False Flag' Operation - Cambodia, 1966
http://911blogger.com/node/14180 How to Say NO to a 'False Flag' Operation - Cambodia, 1966 ( Home » blogs » Reprehensor's blog » How to Say... ) Entries in this section are created by individual users who register with this site and are largely unmoderated. Content in this section should not be interpreted as being supported by 911blogger.com, or by any other members of this site, and should only be viewed as a posting of the individual who created it. Please contact a team member if you notice a post which violates our general rules. Submitted by Reprehensor on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 6:32pm. Capt. John J. McCarthy | Daniel Marvin | Green Berets | Peter Dale Scott | Prince Sihanouk | Special Forces | TrineDay It may seem naïve to some, to offer pledge cards to the military asking them not to participate in a False Flag operation. However, sometimes the right message needs to get to the right person, and who is to say that a pledge card wouldn't be a good way to get the message delivered? It might help someone think over a decision that they may regret for the rest of their life. In 1966, LTC USASF (Ret.) Daniel Marvin refused to participate in a False Flag operation. Now retired, Marvin revealed his story in a book called Expendable Elite. The hardback was released in 2003, after nearly 20 years of searching for a publisher. Immediately following the release of the book, the Special Forces Association began a campaign to discredit the book's contents, and ultimately bankrolled a libel suit against Marvin and his publishers. Marvin won the legal battle, and the whole sordid tale is included in the softcover version of the book, which you can order directly from the publisher, TrineDay. The chief claim in the book which set a legal battle in motion that has cost Marvin and TrineDay over $150,000 in legal fees appears to be this; in June of 1966, a CIA agent by the name of Walter Mackem approached Marvin with a plot to assassinate Prince Norodom Sihanouk, at the time, Cambodia's Head of State; He very matter-of-factly told me that the agency had been asked to dispose of a very delicate situation... We've been asked to terminate Prince Sihanouk. Yours is the closest Special Forces Camp to Phom Penh; you've got all Hoa Hoa's in your CIDG and their record is good. We want you take care of it... because we believe you can get the job done. ... You want us to assassinate Crown Prince Sihanouk? I asked, not really believing he'd come to ask us to kill Cambodia's Head of State. Don't get me wrong, I've got no love for Sihanouk, but don't you have some of your own people in Cambodia who could make the hit? Yes... we want you to do the job. Mackem went on to tell me their analysis had determined that the Cambodians would take up arms against VC and NVA forces and push them back into Laos or North Vietnam if their Prince was thought to have been killed by the Viet Cong. Your job, he went on to say, will be to bring about his death and make it appear to have been done by the VC. - Expendable Elite, 2nd Edition, p. 262. Marvin was already engaged in covert work, attacking Viet Cong forces encamped in Cambodia from his base in the An Phu district of Vietnam. Marvin offered a quid pro quo, if President Johnson would put an end to the covert operation his unit was engaged in, (by publicly declaring the VC havens in Cambodia fair game for the regular military), then Marvin would do the job. The CIA apparently did not appreciate the conditions attached to Marvin's offer, and would not negotiate. On Mackem's return trip a few days later, to see if Marvin would do the job with no strings attached, Marvin ordered Mackem off the camp. Within days, Marvin's camp was ordered closed, and when Marvin refused to close the camp without giving legal immunity to the Hoa Hoa's that fought in his CIDG, an ARVN unit was dispatched to wipe out the entire camp. I don't want to give too much away, but obviously, Marvin lived to tell the tale. LTC Marvin's story is one of bravery and honor. Although he did covert work which he justified at the time as doing battle in the Cold War, ultimately, he would not become a mercenary assassin, tasked with a False Flag operation which could have had consquences that the planners did not foresee... particularly if Marvin or his team had been caught in the act, deep within Cambodian territory. To lend credence to Marvin's tale, let's look at what Sihanouk had to say about the CIA and Cambodia, from his book, My War With the CIA, published in 1973*, written while Sihanouk was exiled from his own country after a coup; My first experience with CIA
[cia-drugs] The Queen of Kansas
http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/victor-lazlo/2008/mar/04/the-queen-of-kansas/ The Queen of Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has been making a name for herself on the national stage recently, fueling rumors that she is destine for bigger arenas than Topeka, Kansas. Gov. Sebelius is on the short list to be Barak Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate as he gets closer to securing the nomination. Gov. Sebelius has been actively campaigning for Obama on network political talk shows and campaign stops which helped Obama coast over Clinton in the Kansas caucus and Midwestern states. In January Gov. Sebelius was bestowed the honor of delivering the Democratic response to President Bush’s last State of the Union Address, which was viewed by millions of people across the world. She has also been making constant headlines with her historic battle against coal plants being built in western Kansas. Currently the Democratic Governor has a 64% approval rating in the traditionally conservative state of Kansas. However, Gov. Sebelius’ most telling sign that she is heading for bigger things might be her invitation and attendance at the 2007 meeting of the notorious Bilderberg Group in Istanbul, Turkey. The Bilderberg Group is a collection of the world’s most elite and powerful people who secretly meet once a year among tremendous mystery and security. The conferences attendees are sworn to secrecy and are under strict instructions to not divulge what goes on at the conference to outside sources. The Bilderberg Group was officially formed in 1954, primarily by the powerful banking families of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers, along with royal Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The group annually includes around 130 guests who consist of Europe and America’s most wealthy and noble elite from politics, royalty, business, banking, education, media, and the military. Notable Bilderberg attendees include David Rockefeller, Rothschild Family Banking, George Soros, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Prince Charles, Al Gore, Colin Powell, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Perle, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Alan Greenspan, Rupert Murdoch, as well as the CEO’s of mega corporations and financial institutions such as Deutsche Bank, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, The Federal Reserve Banks, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Siemens AG, Google, Eli Lilly, etc. The overall goal of the Bilderberg Group is to bring about a one-world government and global financial system, under the political body of UN style government and the central banking systems of the Rockefellers and Rothschilds. David Rockefeller described the group’s goals in 1991 as the Chairman of the Bilderbergs, We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again know war but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity. The Bilderberg Group is credited with conceiving and establishing the European Union as the centerpiece of their global government plan. Like their purely American brother, The Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergs are devoted to the rapid spread of globalization through the government and economy, with themselves positioned at the top to control the wealth of the world. One central idea in this group is that of rejecting national sovereignty in favor of multi-national non-democratic institutions, such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank, European Union, and the emerging North American Union. The Bilderbergs, along with the CFR, have been making gradual process toward a one-world government since the end of WWII. In America, globalization has already rapidly changed the economic and political landscape through treaties such as NAFTA and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which are intent on forming a North American community of government and economy. Bilderberg Group founders Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and the Rockefellers were notoriously involved in eugenics and had ties to the Nazi Party. Prince Bernhard was a member of the elite SS. Since his death, his daughter, Queen Betrix has taken his place. Award winning investigative journalist Daniel Estulin claims that the elite inner circle of the Bilderberg Group still advocates aspects of modern eugenics and has the end goal of eventually reducing the world‘s population by 80%, as called for by the 1974 UN Assessment on Biodiversity. So what exactly is Governor Sebelius doing meeting with the ultra elite of the world, and what good
[cia-drugs] Fwd: McCain and Media Lobbies / Alcalde Fay / Conrad Black + Richard Perle
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 11:34 am Subject: McCain and Media Lobbies / Alcalde Fay / Conrad Black + Richard Perle Did Iseman and McCain Enable Conrad Black to Commit Fraud with CanWest? By: emptywheel http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/iseman-and-mccain-enable-conrad-black-to-commit-fraud-with-canwest/ February 21, 2008 11:21 am On July 31, 2000, Alcalde Fay--and their lobbyist Vicki Iseman--terminated their lobbying activities for CanWest, a big Canadian media company. That day, CanWest had achieved the goal Alcalde Fay had been assisting with: the acquisition of much of Conrad Black's media empire in Canada. Iseman and her colleagues had been lobbying the FCC, the House of Representatives, and the Senate (including John McCain, with whom McCain's advisors believed Iseman had an inappropriate relationship at the time) to win approval for the foreign purchase of American broadcast companies--that is, Conrad Black's properties, which were headquartered in Chicago. Iseman's role in the deal is significant for a couple of reasons. First, the deal greatly contributed to the consolidation of media in Canada: In the largest media deal in Canadian history, CanWest Global Communications, a company that started 20 years ago with a North Dakota television station, is to pay $2.36 billion for dominant dailies in 8 of Canada's 10 provinces. Mr. Black is to gain a seat on the CanWest board and is to become the second-largest shareholder, after the family of the company founder, Israel H. Asper. ''The borders are gone, we have to grow,'' Mr. Asper, Global's chairman, told a news conference in Toronto today, comparing his acquisition to Tribune Media's recent purchase of The Los Angeles Times. ''We don't intend to be one of the corpses lying beside the information highway.'' Mr. Black said in a statement that his company, Hollinger International, ''believes this intimate association with a highly successful telecaster built by an entrepreneurial spirit compatible with Hollinger is the best possible assurance of the strength of the newspaper franchises.'' Like Conrad Black before them, the family running CanWest exerts a great deal of editorial control--going so far as to distribute corporate editorials to be run in all their properties. CanWest set off the media furor in December [2001, a year after the purchase] with its a decision to require all of its daily newspapers to run corporate editorials produced in its Winnipeg head office. Initially, the company sent out one editorial weekly, but said this would increase to three times a week. The company also said locally-written material should not contradict the party line handed down in corporate editorials. Ownership and management have clashed with journalists and columnists who’ve cringed under the new controls. More interesting still, the deal lay at the core of the charges (and conviction) of Conrad Black for fraud. CanWest paid $60 million to Black and other Hollinger executives that they hid as non-compete agreements. Canwest purchased the newspapers for $3.5-billion in a deal that also included $80-million in non-compete payments. Black, Atkinson and Boultbee pocketed $60-million in fees from the sale - money the U.S. prosecutors are alleging should have gone to Hollinger International. Now, there is absolutely no reason to believe that McCain and Iseman had anything to do with the fraudulent aspect of this deal--or that they even knew about it. Many of Hollinger's board members testified they had no clue about the fraud, so there's almost no way CanWest's lobbyist knew about it. Iseman simply helped make sure the deal got the regulatory approval it needed in the US. As with my post on the ties between Stolen Honor and Iseman's lobbying of McCain, I'm not so interested in the deals themselves--I'm interested in the folks bankrolling the Iseman-McCain relationship. And as with the Sinclair and the Paxson lobbying, what Iseman was working to accomplish was the consolidation--and with it, the politicization--of the media. There's no evidence the people behind the deals are the same. But the ultimate goal of their lobbying does appear to be the same. Responses chrisc February 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am Computer Sciences Corp might be interesting too. They have been raking in a lot of homeland security contracts. Some of their major projects for 2007 CSC is on the Verizon Business team that won GSA’s Networx Universal contract. CSC is providing Verizon with network design support and
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Domesticating the Wild (Meaning FREE) Human Animal by Gelding
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 9:14 pm Subject: Domesticating the Wild (Meaning FREE) Human Animal by Gelding When the EU drew up its first comprehensive controls on chemicals?two years ago, it exempted 'gender-benders.'?? Britain, under Tony Blair's leadership, was responsible for this exemption.? Confidential documents show that it obediently acted to water down the controls?after [orders] from the Bush administration -- putting the interests of U.S. corporations above the health of British children. ? Singing starlings ... and why thousands of babies who should have been boys are being born as girls By GEOFFREY LEAN London Daily Mail, 27 February 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=521535in_page_id=1770 Next time you hear a starling sing, stop and listen hard. It may well be warning of a peril that endangers the whole world of nature - and the very future of the human race itself. Because?scientists have found that gender-bender estrogen-mimetic?chemicals -- increasingly contaminating the environment, our food, our water and our bodies -- are having a bizarre effect on common birds, causing the males to give voice to longer and more complex songs. This is only the latest in a long series of increasingly urgent alarms being sounded by wildlife against an insidious but devastating danger that threatens our children. But so far our leaders have steadfastly and scandalously turned a deaf ear to them - and, even more shamefully, ignored the first signs that the peril is already affecting birth patterns, causing thousands of babies who should have been boys to be born as girls instead. Starlings and their diverse, complicated and mimicking - though not beautiful - songs have long fascinated humanity. Mozart was entranced by a starling after it copied a tune that the great composer was whistling in a pet store. Modern scientists have discovered that starlings' songs contain similar patterns to human speech. But if we could, indeed, understand what they are communicating, we would be wise to take heed. Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered that the brains of male starlings foraging for worms at a sewage treatment works in South-West England have been subtly changed by being contaminated by oestrogen from the contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The female hormones - present in women's urine, and passing through the sewage treatment unaffected - caused the part of the brain that controls their song to grow much bigger, causing them to sing at greater length and with even more virtuosity than usual. The study confirms similar, if slightly differing, research on other birds, which scientists say is adding up to some of the first concrete proof of the effects of gender benders on the natural world. Researchers at the University of California have found that feeding female finches with a hormone used in HRT has caused them to sing, something hitherto done only by their males. And studies at the University of Alberta have found robins exposed to the pesticide DDT before birth suffered damage to the region of the brain that enables them to sing and protect their territory. Dr David Crews of the University of Texas calls the research on birdsong very significant, describing it as the first step needed to demonstrate a causal link between specific pollutants and the effects on wildlife populations. Researchers have calculated that 250,000 baby girls should have been born boys in the U.S. and Japan alone Yet there have been strange warning signs for decades. Way back in the early 1970s, researchers found that female gulls had taken to nesting together all over the U.S., the males having apparently lost interest. When the bashful males were caught and examined, they were found to have developed female egg-laying canals. In the 1980s, researchers in Florida found that alligators were failing to reproduce because their males had mysteriously tiny penises; further investigations revealed that they had developed female hormone patterns - and that turtles in the same waters had developed into hermaphrodites. Most alarming of all, repeated studies by Britain's own Environment Agency have shown that about a third of the male roach in rivers and streams right across the country have begun producing eggs, after developing female sex organs. Again, the problem was traced to oestrogen passing through sewage works -- in some areas, near particularly heavy inflows of treated water, all the males were found to be anatomically of between sex. The findings have inevitably raised concern that people may also be affected, since one-third of the country's drinking water comes
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Homeland Security Crime Wave
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 9:52 pm Subject: Homeland Security Crime Wave Wed, Mar. 05, 2008 Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert BY JAY WEAVER AND ALFONSO CHARDY http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/v-print/story/444503.html U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the ''disturbing events'' and the ``increase in the number of employee arrests.'' Thomas S. Winkowski, assistant commissioner of field operations, wrote a memo to more than 20,000 officers nationwide noting that employees must behave professionally at all times -- even when not on the job. ''It is our responsibility to uphold the laws, not break the law,'' Winkowski wrote in the Nov. 16 memo obtained by The Miami Herald. Winkowski's memo cites employee arrests involving domestic violence, DUI and drug possession. But court records show Customs officers and other Department of Homeland Security employees from South Florida to the Mexican border states have been charged with dozens of far more serious offenses. Among them: A Customs and Border Protection officer at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was charged in February with conspiring to assist a New York drug ring under investigation by tapping into sensitive federal databases. Winkowski, a former director of field operations in Miami, called the misconduct ''unacceptable.'' He told The Miami Herald that while he wrote the memo because of an uptick in employee arrests last fall, he didn't believe the problem was pervasive. ''Do I believe this is widespread in our organization? No, I do not,'' he said in an interview Tuesday. ``Are there examples where we fall short? Yes.'' Two highly controversial issues, illegal immigration and national security, have thrust the Department of Homeland Security into the public eye as it labors to prevent another terrorist attack in the post-9/11 era. The bureaucratic behemoth grew out of a controversial consolidation five years ago of several agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service and Immigration and Naturalization Service. Employees of both joined either Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known for their acronyms CBP and ICE. CBP handles the border, airports and seaports, while ICE investigates immigration and customs law violators. ''We as an agency are constantly policing ourselves so that the public trust is not diminished as a result of inappropriate activity, whether it's on the job, off the job, criminal or not criminal,'' said Zachary Mann, a special agent and spokesman for Customs and Border Protection in Miami. Some Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees also have been caught up in episodes of alleged misconduct. But Anthony Mangione, the special agent in charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, said he was not aware of any increase in criminal or administrative actions ``even though we have had a substantial increase in personnel since the merger.'' UNDER WRAPS Federal authorities normally keep administrative incidents quiet. But officials cannot control publicity in the event of serious criminal behavior, like the February case involving the Border Protection officer at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Elizabeth Moran-Toala, a six-year veteran, allegedly accessed an electronic database known as Treasury Enforcement Communications System, a tool to stop illegal drug imports. According to an indictment, she is accused of tapping into the system several times to pass along information to a Delta Airlines baggage handler who was conspiring with a drug ring to transport cocaine and heroin from the Dominican Republic to New York. Moran-Toala, 36, was transferred to New York in February for prosecution. Other recent South Florida cases -- mirroring a pattern along border states -- have involved officers and agents accepting payoffs for migrant smuggling, drug trafficking, witness tampering, embezzlement and rape. Agency managers say these cases reflect individual criminal behavior, not the culture of the agencies. But some longtime employees said administrative incidents, like hostile confrontations or heavy drinking, may reflect the low morale and intense rivalries following the merger of federal agencies under Homeland Security. Some employees from the old Immigration and Naturalization Service are the most vocal in their complaints. They bitterly denounce employees who came from the old Customs Service for ''seizing control'' of both CBP and ICE, ''lording it over'' former INS
[cia-drugs] Fwd: don't breath
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:19 am Subject: Fwd: don't breath Then,?once?our?immune resistance has been?weakened,?unruly Left Coasters?start?dying from?bird flu. ? Sent: 3/13/2008 10:32:04 P.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: donapos;t breath ? Plan to Spray Toxic Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced By Rami Nagel 11 Mar 2008 People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two million people, in California, using an untested biological pesticide this summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a pesticide and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five years. Supercharge your AIM. Get the AIM toolbar for your browser. It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: MICHAEL CORBIN - The Passing of a Legend: Memorial Page
-Original Message- From: Indira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: undisclosed-recipients:; Sent: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 5:09 pm Subject: MICHAEL CORBIN - The Passing of a Legend: Memorial Page Michael Corbin was found in his car, after suffering a massive stroke. He was disconnected from life support on Tuesday. There are still? unanswered questions, but we hope his death was from natural causes, and he passed quickly and without suffering. Funeral arrangements have not yet been finalized. For those of use who knew him, he held the light. If you wish, please visit his memorial page, and pass along the news. http://rememberingmichael.wordpress.com/ Indira
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Future President and Vice President of the DC Mafiya (AKA U.S. Government)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 3:01 pm Subject: Future President and Vice President of the DC Mafiya (AKA U.S. Government) Lieberman and John McCain, yarmulka'd up at the Wailing Wall http://www.gnn.tv/threads/21064/Politics_and_Organized_Crime More Jewish crime connections -- get used to the fact that organized crime was not exclusively an Italian operation, like in Hollywood movies. It was multi-ethnic, with a very high representation from Jewry. Holy Joe Lieberman’s political career was bought and paid for by Jewish hedge-funder Michael Steinhardt. And Michael’s father was none other than the infamous Sol Steinhardt. Who was Sol Steinhardt? Forbes.com explains: Sol was a compulsive high-stakes gambler and colorful New York nightclub patron. He was also New York’s leading jewel fence, a convicted felon and pal to underworld figures such as Meyer Lansky and “Three Finger” Jimmy Aiello. The night before crime figure Joey Anastasia was rubbed out in the Park Sheraton barbershop in 1957, he and Sol were out on the town gambling together. The next year, Sol was convicted on charges of buying and selling stolen jewelry and was sentenced to five to ten years in prison on each of two felony counts. Counterpunch article describing Michael Steinhardt: The DLC (Democrat Leadership Council) was — and is — a creature of New York high roller Michael Steinhardt, son of Sol Steinhardt, a jewel fence for the Meyer Lansky mob. Like most of organized crime, Steinhardt fils decided to go upmarket and merge with Wall Street. His millions created the Hon. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT). Steinhardt is also notable for his loose interpretation of the law of possession. In the early 1990s, he attempted to corner the market on Treasury securities, an audacious strategy which resulted in his having to pay $70 million in civil penalties to the Securities and Exchange Commission—a record fine at the time. Weep not for Steinhardt, though: he made $600 million from the scam. http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4061 Cindy McCain (nee Hensley) was born to Jim Hensley, a protégée of Kemper Marley. This guy called himself a politician, but he was really a gangster. The Hensley fortune financed McCain's rise to power. The Hensley fortune, in fact, is a regional offshoot of the big time boot-legging and rackets empire of the Bronfman dynasty of Canada, founded by Sam Bronfman, an early partner of Meyer Lansky, longtime chairman of the board of the international crime syndicate. McCain's father-in-law got his start as a top henchman of one Kemper Marley, who, for some forty years until his death in 1990 at age 84, was the undisputed behind-the-scenes political boss of Arizona. But Marley was much more: he was also the protege' of Lansky's longtime lieutenant, Phoenix gambler Gus Greenbaum. In 1941, Greenbaum was a book-maker. In 1946, Greenbaum turned over the day-to-day operations to Marley while Greenbaum focused on building up Lansky-run casinos in Las Vegas, commuting there from Phoenix. Greenbaum, in fact, was so integral to the Lansky empire that he was the one who took command of Lansky's Las Vegas interests in 1947 after Lansky ordered the execution of his own longtime friend, Benjamin Bugsy Siegel, for skimming profits from the new Flamingo Casino Hensley had a dog track operation connected to the the Buffalo-based Jacobs family. The Jacobs were the leading distributors for Bronfman liquor into the United States during Prohibition into the hands of local gangs that were part of the Lansky syndicate. Expanding over the years, the family's enterprises were described as being probably the biggest quasi-legitimate cover for organized crime's money-laundering in the United States. Today, the Las Vegas gambling industry is among McCain’s primary financial benefactors http://judicial-inc.biz/83your_future_president.htm Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: sub races
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:42 pm Subject: sub races New class of submarine all about mission of stealth The Associated Press 02.17.2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971861/posts ABOARD THE USS OHIO — Capt. Andy Hale has just worked out and is still in a sweaty T-shirt and shorts as he stands in the battle command center. He is watching a flat-screen display that shows what's happening outside on the bow and the aft. His billion-dollar submarine — the U.S. Navy's newest twist on underwater warfare — is hovering just below the surface off the Pacific island of Guam as a submersible disappears into the dark waters, carrying a team of commandos. The USS Ohio is the first of a new class of submarine created in a conversion from 1970s vessels by trading nuclear-tipped ICBMs for conventional cruise missiles and a contingent of commandos ready to be launched onto virtually any shore through rejiggered missile tubes — against conventional forces or terrorists. The sub's cruise across the Pacific comes as China builds its submarine fleet into the region's largest as part of the bulking up of its military. The voyage is the Ohio's first deployment since the makeover, and Hale is in the odd position of showing the ship off. Commandos aboard It's odd because the sub is all about stealth. Hale can't talk about where the ship is going. The back of the ship, where the nuclear power plant is located, is off- limits. The leader of the SEAL commando contingent aboard can't be named, and the commandos themselves can't be photographed in any way that shows their faces. But, over the next few months, the Ohio will be making a very public statement, training intensively in some of the world's most crowded and contested waters and joining in exercises with America's Asian allies. Instead of hiding them, the Ohio will be showcasing its abilities to elude detection and operate too deeply and quickly to be tracked. Then it will likely do what it does best — vanish. Submarines are the original stealth platform, Hale said. Submarine forces have always viewed the Pacific as a very important strategic area . . . it's certainly grown in importance in the last 10 years. Just about every country with a coastline in Asia wants or has subs. China, Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Bangladesh and South Korea and North Korea either now have or are planning to acquire them. Most don't pose much of a threat to the more advanced American fleet. But that is changing. Large Chinese fleet While Russia continues to be a factor, China now has the biggest submarine fleet in the region, with nearly 60. The United States has upped its presence in the Pacific and now has more ships — and more subs — in this part of the world than in the Atlantic. But they are still outnumbered. There are many challenges in the Pacific, Hale said. China is certainly one of them, but it is not the only one. China's subs are mainly diesel-powered, meaning they must come up for air more frequently than U.S. nuclear-powered vessels, and their crews are not believed to be as well trained as American submariners, who spend several months at a time at sea. China's fleet is also highly focused on patrolling its own coastal waters and on dealing with potential hostilities over Taiwan, rather than with projecting force, or trying to control faraway shipping lanes. But its the long-term goals remain opaque. Two years ago, a Chinese sub shocked the U.S. Navy by surfacing within torpedo range of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier near the Japanese island of Okinawa. Beijing claimed the sub was in international waters and was not stalking the carrier, which was taking part in a naval exercise. The growing rivalry was underscored in November, when Beijing refused a scheduled port call by the Kitty Hawk's battle group to Hong Kong, forcing thousands of sailors to spend Thanksgiving at sea. In January, however, China allowed a visit to the port by another U.S. Navy vessel. Washington has repeatedly expressed concern that China is pouring money into expanding its forces. Beijing increased its military budget by nearly 18 percent to about $45 billion last year, the largest annual hike in more than a decade, and U.S. officials believe actual spending is greater. Devil of deterrence The Chinese, meanwhile, are closely watching to see how U.S. concern translates into changes in the U.S. Navy. When the Ohio, which is based in Bangor, Wash., docked at Guam last month, China's official Xinhua news agency called the submarine a warehouse of explosives and a devil of deterrence. If the Ohio turns west from Guam, it would need only hours to travel to the coastal waters of
[cia-drugs] Fwd: OIL RUSH! -- As Arctic Ice Melts, U.S. Firm Races to Control North Pole's OIL
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 9:15 pm Subject: OIL RUSH! -- As Arctic Ice Melts, U.S. Firm Races to Control North Pole's OIL U.S. firm lays claim to 'potentially vast' Arctic oil resources Firm lays claim to nearly all of an expected 400 billion barrels Randy Boswell, The Ottawa Citizen,?March 21, 2008 http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2699b272-8fed-4da6-8c2a-d54390f7d54b A U.S.-based company that has controversially laid claim to nearly all of the Arctic Ocean's undersea oil said yesterday that new geological data suggest a potentially vast petroleum resource of 400 billion barrels. That figure is backed by a respected Canadian researcher who recently signed on as the firm's chief scientific adviser. Las Vegas-based Arctic Oil Gas http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?symbol=AOAG.PK has raised eyebrows around the world with its roll-of-the-dice bid to lock up exclusive rights to extract oil and gas from rapidly melting areas of the central Arctic Ocean, currently beyond the territorial control of Canada, Russia and other polar nations. [ Sponsor Content ] The company, which counts retired B.C. senator Edward Lawson among its directors, has filed a claim with the United Nations to act as the sole development agent of Arctic seabed oil and gas. The firm acknowledges that the Arctic's petroleum deposits are the common heritage of mankind, but has argued that the polar region requires a private lead manager to organize a multinational consortium of oil companies to extract undersea resources responsibly and equitably. The Canadian government has dismissed the company's alleged claim over Arctic oil as having no force in law, but experts in polar issues have raised alarms about the firm's actions, saying they could disrupt efforts to create an orderly regime for exploiting resources and protecting the Arctic environment under international law rather than a marketplace model. In its latest statement about the polar seabed's enormous reserve potential for petroleum deposits, Arctic Oil Gas cites recent scientific evidence that huge, floating mats of azolla -- a prehistoric fern believed to have covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 million years ago -- decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist today as vast hydrocarbon resources trapped in layers of rock below the polar ice cap. Jonathan Bujak, a former geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada who now works as a private consultant in Canada and Britain, is described in the Arctic Oil Gas statement as confirming the highly probable validity of recent research pointing to rock layers extremely rich in hydrocarbon precursors throughout the Arctic basin. Mr. Bujak, who previously worked for PetroCanada as a petroleum geologist, co-authored a landmark 2006 study in the journal Nature that first detailed the ancient azolla explosion that shows up today in Arctic seabed core samples. Neither Mr. Bujak nor Mr. Lawson could be reached for comment yesterday. Scientists have predicted that global warming could leave the entire Arctic virtually ice-free for months at a time within 20 years. That prospect has hastened a scramble among nations with a polar coast -- namely Canada, Russia, the U.S., Norway and Denmark, which controls Greenland -- to try to strengthen their scientific claims under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to extended territorial sovereignty over the Arctic Ocean floor. A report issued last week by the European Union's top two foreign policy officials also highlighted the looming international struggle over Arctic oil deposits. Authored by Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Europe's commissioner for external relations, the study pointed to potential consequences for international stability and European security interests as the retreat of Arctic ice makes shipping and oil and gas exploration a reality in the region. Noting the rapid melting of the polar ice caps, the report noted that the increased accessibility of the enormous hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic region is changing the geo-strategic dynamics of the region. Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Neocons Circle Their Wagons Around John McCain
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 8:58 pm Subject: Neocons Circle Their Wagons Around John McCain 13 March 2008 McCain and PNAC http://laudemgloriae.blogspot.com/2008/03/mccain-and-pnac.html McCain has surrounded himself with the best and brightest from the now-defunct Project for the New American Century: Randy Scheunemann, one of its directors, is serving as McCain’s top foreign policy advisor. He is joined by PNAC’s founder, Bill Kristol, along with Gary Schmitt (President), Robert Kagan (director), and James Woolsey (signatory). More than any other group, PNAC has exerted the greatest influence over the Bush administration with regard to foreign policy. In 1998, PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton (signed by the likes of Cheney, Rumsefeld, Wolfowitz, and others) urging him to effect regime change in Iraq because of Saddam Hussein’s so-called development of WMDs. Clinton responded by initiating Operation Desert Fox, bombing military targets over a period of several days to “degrade” Iraq’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. A mere nine days after 9/11, PNAC sent a letter (signed again by many of the same luminaries) asking that President Bush attack Iraq even if no links to 9/11 were found. The Bush administration promptly proceeded to do just that: according to the testimony of ex-CIA and FBI, every intelligence agent in Iraq was tasked to discover links between Hussein and al-Qaeda. When they came up with nothing, they were ordered to look again. Despite the lack of credible links, the Bush administration proceeded to act as PNAC had requested. PNAC is an intellectual thinktank founded in 1997 by Bill Kristol. Its purpose, as set forth on its website, is to “advance American interests in the new century” by asserting “American global leadership” through “a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad.” This would involve “challeng[ing] regimes hostile to our interests and values” and “preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.” This would all be accomplished, of course, through the use of force, or by the threat of force. PNAC makes no secret of its intent for American global hegemony (in Kristol’s own words, a ”benevolent global hegemony”): in a position paper published in 2000, PNAC advocated the nuclear strategic superiority of the United States, not simply over Russia, but over the world. One of the ways it would promote American military dominance is by “fight[ing] and decisively win[ning] multiple, simultaneous major theater wars.” Can you say frightening? The only thing more bizarre than this plan for world dominance is that PNAC has been so overt and straightforward about it. And more frightening still, these are the men who have filled the Bush administration at its highest levels. It was from PNAC that Bush became persuaded of the triple threat emanating from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea (borrowing David Frum’s famous “axis of evil” phrase). No sooner did PNAC indicate a so-called threat from Iran (a country with no army, no navy, no air force, and no nuclear weapons), then the administration began its saber-rattling. It was a heavy blow to PNAC’s interests when the NIE issued a finding that Iran had halted production of nuclear weapons in 2003 because of international pressure. Cheney, one of the strongest voices opposed to Iran and a PNAC member, is undeterred; he has turned his focus from nuclear weapons to ballistic missiles. If one recalls that the possible presence of a nuclear arsenal in Iraq was the only legitimate justification for a preemptive strike (side issues like the good of liberating Iraqis from Hussein’s oppression and the furtherance of democracy could never be justifications per se for a preemptive war) and that WMDs were never found, one surmises that any future administration controlled by PNAC (such as McCain’s, if elected) will hardly find it necessary to justify a strike based on the actual presence of nuclear weapons. Another excuse will do. One way or another, the plan for American empire will move forward. Case in point: PNAC has proposed establishing permanent bases in Iran even if no real threat exists: Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region. If its members get their way, expect an increase in American troops in Iraq, and for a very long time: [T]here is little reason to anticipate that the U.S. air presence in the region
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Saddam's Files Raise Questions About Bush Assassination Claim
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 9:43 am Subject: Fwd: Saddam's Files Raise Questions About Bush Assassination Claim ? ? President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the Iraq War.? But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an unscripted remark he made at a Texas political fund-raiser on Sept. 26, 2002.? After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time, Bush said.? The comment referred to a 1993 claim by the Kuwaiti government -- accepted by the Clinton administration -- that the Iraqi Intelligence Service?had plotted to assassinate President George H.W. Bush during a trip to Kuwait that spring. But, curiously little has been heard about the allegedly foiled assassination plot in the five years since the U.S. military invaded Iraq.? A just-released Pentagon study on the Iraqi regime's ties to terrorism only adds to the mystery. The review combed through 600,000 pages of Iraqi intelligence documents seized after the fall of Baghdad, as well as thousands of hours of audio- and video-tapes of Saddam's conversations with his ministers and top aides.? The study found that the I.I.S. kept remarkably detailed records of virtually every operation it planned.? But, they found NO documents that referred to a plan to kill Bush.? The absence was conspicuous because researchers, aware of its potential significance, were looking for such evidence. Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Where have all the leaders gone?
Subject: Where have all the leaders gone? Excerpt from Where Have All the Leaders Gone? From Chapter 1: Had Enough? Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, Stay the course. Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: Throw the bums out! You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you? I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have. My friends tell me to calm down. They say, Lee, you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people. I'd love to -- as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get them to pay attention. I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty. I think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight shooter. So I'll tell you how I see it, and it's not pretty, but at least it's real. I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, America, wake up. These guys work for us. WHO ARE THESE GUYS, ANYWAY? Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in Washington? Well, we voted for them -- or at least some of us did. But I'll tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy. And don't tell me it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together. Where are the voices of leaders who can inspire us to action and make us stand taller? What happened to the strong and resolute party of Lincoln? What happened to the courageous, populist party of FDR and Truman? There was a time in this country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do better. Where have all the leaders gone? THE TEST OF A LEADER I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've been a CEO. I understand a few things about leadership at the top. I've figured out nine points -- not ten (I don't want people accusing me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the Nine Cs of Leadership. They're not fancy or complicated. Just clear, obvious qualities that every true leader should have. We should look at how the current administration stacks up. Like it or not, this crew is going to be around until January 2009. Maybe we can learn something before we go to the polls in 2008. Then let's be sure we use the leadership test to screen the candidates who say they want to run the country. It's up to us to choose wisely. So, here's my C list: A leader has to show CURIOSITY. He has to listen to people outside of the Yes, sir crowd in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously, because the world is a big, complicated place. George W. Bush brags about never reading a newspaper. I just scan the headlines, he says. Am I hearing this right? He's the President of the United States and he never reads a newspaper? Thomas Jefferson once said, Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter. Bush disagrees. As long as he gets his daily hour in the gym, with Fox News piped through the sound system, he's ready to
[cia-drugs] “What the heck is going on with the American people, why are they so stupid? Why are they so unaware of what is going on?”
Adolph Obama said... Carol: Since your speech at the United Nations we have had, I would say, a renaissance of communications technologies, you didn’t have the Project Earth website, in the days prior to the internet, now we have these new ways of communicating, and I know that the corporate media is still bashing taboo topics like ETs, new energy, 9/11 Truth, and trying to marginalize and pigeonhole and separate us... Adam: They don’t even want the truth about Barak Obama for God sakes. I just started saying something on Jack Cafferty.com, on his blog, today on CNN.com, and it was refused, and I didn’t use any profanity or anything. I just said, “We’re finally getting to see this guy’s true stripes. We’re finally getting to see who this guy really is, and he’s just another corporate marionette, who has a really good rap.” And that’s too bad, because I really had advocated that a lot of people involved in my network, and I have a huge network and I had recommended him to thousands of people. Carol: Oh dear. http://rigint.blogspot.com/2008/03/updating-today.html Adam: Back in 2006 and basically not long after, I had done that, an article came out in Harper’s Magazine called Barack Obama Inc and it was the beginning of the breaking of that stride, in terms of my own opinion of Barack, but it is interesting to me that the corporate media is so behind him, and they are so against Hillary Clinton, and yet they want everyone to believe that they are exactly the same. It’s kind of like the whole rap that came down that voting for George Bush was just the same as voting for Al Gore, which of course is patent nonsense. Unless there is this thing that we call “Republicrats, but I don’t want to get off… too much on this tangent.” Carol: I want to talk to you a little bit about the elections, too, because we have had a couple of presidential elections blatantly stolen. Adam: They’ve been stealing elections for a long time. And George Bush’s father would have stolen the election from Bill Clinton, if he could have, but that was prevented by a few brave souls, much to the chagrin of Poppy Bush, much to the chagrin of George Bush Sr.. The fact is that he lost, and George Bush really went into meltdown when he lost, because he didn’t think it would be possible to lose to this hick from Arkansas. When Clinton took office, I was at the Arkansas Ball and, I was at a few of the balls, and the inauguration, and at the big gala, and all of that stuff cause I was very involved in that whole thing, back then. What we witnessed was an incredibly naïve young President, kind of almost with a messianic kind of fervor. Which is why, one of the things that freak me out about Barack Obama, is he’s taken it to the next level. He says things that are unbelievable at his rallies. The one thing we can say about Clinton is that we never found him using alpha entrainment at his rallies, and there is evidence that alpha entrainment has been used at Barack Obama’s rallies. I haven’t done the tests myself, personally. But people who I have been in communication with, for some time, have told me, at my recommendation, they made measurements. Alpha entrainment was discovered at Nuremberg Stadium after Hitler had seized power from Hindenburg. Von Hindenburg was, removed from power by Hitler. When Albert Spier talked, in his whole confession, about what had happened at Nuremburg Stadium, he said, “It was the first place that they used alpha entrainment.” It’s based on a process called frequency, frame, and response. It was discovered by them, the Nazis, that human beings, if they are exposed to a constant alpha wave, or a mixture of waves, depending on what those wave forms are, that they will become entrained, they will enter into a kind of trance like state, a stupor. If you look at the American people right now, a lot of the people around the world, I travel a lot, and a lot of the people around the world go, “What the heck,” they’ve been saying this a long time, “What the heck is going on with the American people, why are they so stupid? Why are they so unaware of what is going on?” I try to tell them that not all Americans are unaware of what’s going on, and that some people are more resistant to this entrainment than others, and we’ve caught the Republicans doing this years, and years, and years ago, using alpha entrainment in their commercials, stimulating pleasure centers in the brain, making you feel really good about their candidate, and stimulating revulsion areas of the brain when they were putting up a picture of Al Gore, for example. So this is something what we’ve been involved with for a long time. I’ve actually been using spectrum analyzers for a very long time, now. And you can hook a spectrum analyzer up, and if you know what waves forms to look for, in a TV signal for example. You can see all kinds of interesting wave forms, the Lilly wave, invented by Dr. John Lilly, when he was working
[cia-drugs] March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of torture bill
March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of torture bill http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20080323_1 publication date: Mar 23, 2008 Previous | Next ? March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of torture bill The Irish media is reporting on continuing CIA rendition flights through Shannon Airport in Ireland following other recent CIA flights being spotted in Norway, Hungary, and Iceland. On March 12, a Gulfstream IV jet, tail number N475LC and on March 15 another Gulfstream IV, tail number N478GS, landed at Shannon. Both planes, operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a CIA front company based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, were identified in a European Union report as planes involved in the CIA's renditioning of prisoners. N478GS was previously registered to Braxton Management Services of Great Falls Montana, another purported CIA front. The spate of CIA rendition aircraft activity comes after President Bush's recent veto of a bill that would have banned the CIA and US military torture tactic known as waterboarding. On December 4, 2004, N478GS almost crashed on landing at Bucharest Baneasa Airport in Romania. It was arriving from Bagram gulag in Afghanistan with seven unidentified passengers. The Council of Europe identified two previous possible rendition flights by the Gulfstream -- in 2003 it made flights from Tel Aviv to Bucharest and Stuttgart to Tbilisi, Georgia. It was also a frequent visitor to Fayetteville; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. N475LC has also been active. On August 10, 2007, it was sighted at Glasgow airport. It has flown from Fayetteville to Shannon via Bangor, Maine and returned from Glasgow to Fayetteville via Bangor. CIA rendition aircraft N475LC, registered to Centurion Aviation Services. On March 16, two additional CIA aircraft, N71PG and N54PA, both Lear jets, were scheduled to land in Shannon.? N54PA is registered to VPC Planes LLC of Wilmington, Delaware. N71PG is registered to Phoenix Air Group, Inc. of Cartersville, Georgia. N54PA flew from Andrews Air Force Base to Godman Army Air Field in Kentucky on March 21. On March 20, N71PG flew from Bangor to Cartersville, Georgia. N54PA was sighted in February 2008 in Seoul. It has also landed in Beijing, London Gatwick, and Maastricht, Netherlands. N71PG has been seen in Geneva, Amsterdam Schipol, San Juan, and Santa Maria, Azores. N54PA has been sighted in Keflavik, Gander, Newfoundland; Guam; and Guantanamo. Comments liberty antigone (?) What you do to the least of them, you do to me also, Thus spake Jesus. Funny how Bush interprets the Gospels, eh? Betty Wood (Blodgett Mills NY) You seem to forget: God spoke directly dubya. (or was it dubya spoke to God?) Anyway, it seems that Moses got it all wrong. Moses understood thou shalt not but dubya heard thou shalt, no not. And he's been living by the newly interpreted commandments ever since. Thierry Jacob (Scarborough) The Woman Who Nearly Stopped the War By Martin Bright The New Statesman Wednesday 19 March 2008 Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408H.shtml
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Jewish Scholar Says PALESTINIANS, Not Khazars, Descendants of Original Jews
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:45 am Subject: Jewish Scholar Says PALESTINIANS, Not Khazars, Descendants of Original Jews Shattering a 'national mythology' ? By Ofri Ilani Haaretz (Jerusalem), March 21, 2008 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html Of all the national heroes who have arisen from among the Jewish people over the generations, fate has not been kind to Dahia al-Kahina, a leader of the Berbers in the Aures Mountains. Although she was a proud Jewess, few Israelis have ever heard the name of this warrior-queen who, in the seventh century C.E., united a number of Berber tribes and pushed back the Muslim army that invaded North Africa. It is possible that the reason for this is that al-Kahina was the daughter of a Berber tribe that had converted to Judaism, apparently several generations before she was born, sometime around the 6th century C.E. According to the Tel Aviv University historian, Prof. Shlomo Sand, author of Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi? (When and How the Jewish People Was Invented?; Resling, in Hebrew), the queen's tribe and other local tribes that converted to Judaism are the main sources from which Spanish Jewry sprang. This claim that the Jews of North Africa originated in indigenous tribes that became Jewish -- and not in communities exiled from Jerusalem -- is just one element of the far-reaching argument set forth in Sand's new book. In this work, the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the?4th Century C.E.) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom of the Khazars, who converted in the 8th Century C.E.). Unlike other new historians who have tried to undermine the assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a nation-race with a common origin, but rather is a colorful mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish religion. He argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues, the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led to truly racist thinking: There were times when if anyone argued that the Jews belong to a people that has gentile origins, he would be classified as an anti-Semite on the spot. Today, if anyone dares to suggest that those who are considered Jews in the world?have never constituted and still do not constitute a people or a nation -- he is immediately condemned as a hater of Israel. According to Sand, the description of the Jews as a wandering and self-isolating nation of exiles, who wandered across seas and continents, reached the ends of the earth and finally, with the advent of Zionism, made a U-turn and returned en masse to their orphaned homeland, is nothing but national mythology. Like other national movements in Europe, which sought out a splendid Golden Age, through which they invented a heroic past -- for example, classical Greece or the Teutonic tribes - to prove they have existed since the beginnings of history, so, too, the first buds of Jewish nationalism blossomed in the direction of the strong light that has its source in the mythical Kingdom of David. So when, in fact, was the Jewish people invented, in Sand's view? ? At a certain stage in the 19th century, intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the folk character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of inventing a people retroactively, out of a thirst to create a modern Jewish people.? From historian Heinrich Graetz on, Jewish
[cia-drugs] Fwd: There's So Many Mentally Ill in America It's NORMAL to Be Crazy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:10 am Subject: There's So Many Mentally Ill in America It's NORMAL to Be Crazy Are We Really That Ill? By CHRISTOPHER LANE March 26, 2008 http://nysun.com/editorials/are-we-really-ill?fark CHICAGO - America has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens -- 67.5 million -- have taken antidepressants. These statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies indicate that 40% of all patients fall short of the diagnoses that doctors and psychiatrists give them, yet 200 million prescriptions are written annually in America to treat depression and anxiety. Those who defend such widespread use of prescription drugs insist that a significant part of the population is under-treated and, by inference, under-medicated. Those opposed to such rampant use of drugs note that diagnostic rates for bipolar disorder, in particular, have skyrocketed by 4,000% and that overmedication is impossible without ver-diagnosis. To help settle this long-standing dispute, I studied why the number of recognized psychiatric disorders has ballooned so dramatically in recent decades. In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders added 112 new mental disorders to its third edition, DSM-III. Fifty-eight more disorders appeared in the revised third edition in 1987 and fourth edition in 1994. With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and verse in schools, prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world. The addition of even one new diagnostic code has serious practical consequences. What, then, was the rationale for adding so many in 1980? After several requests to the American Psychiatric Association, I was granted complete access to the hundreds of unpublished memos, letters, and even votes from the period between 1973 and 1979, when the DSM-III task force debated each new and existing disorder. Some of the work was meticulous and commendable. But the overall approval process was more capricious than scientific. DSM-III grew out of meetings that many participants described as chaotic. One observer later remarked that the small amount of research drawn upon was really a hodgepodge - scattered, inconsistent, and ambiguous. The interest and expertise of the task force was limited to one branch of psychiatry: neuropsychiatry. That group met for four years before it occurred to members that such one-sidedness might result in bias. Incredibly, the lists of symptoms for some disorders were knocked out in minutes. The field studies used to justify their inclusion sometimes involved a single patient evaluated by the person advocating the new disease. Experts pressed for the inclusion of illnesses as questionable as chronic undifferentiated unhappiness disorder and chronic complaint disorder, whose traits included moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results. Social phobia, later dubbed social anxiety disorder, was one of seven new anxiety disorders created in 1980. At first it struck me as a serious condition. By the 1990s experts were calling it the disorder of the decade, insisting that as many as one in five Americans suffers from it. Yet the complete story turned out to be rather more complicated. For starters, the specialist who in the 1960s originally recognized social anxiety - London-based Isaac Marks, a renowned expert on fear and panic - strongly resisted its inclusion in DSM-III as a separate disease category. The list of common behaviors associated with the disorder gave him pause: fear of eating alone in restaurants, avoidance of public toilets, and concern about trembling hands. By the time a revised task force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed sufficiently elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet. To counter the impression that it was turning common fears into treatable conditions, DSM-IV added a clause stipulating that social anxiety behaviors had to be impairing before a diagnosis was possible. But who was holding the prescribers to such standards? Doubtless, their understanding of impairment was looser than that of the task force. After all, despite the impairment clause, the anxiety disorder mushroomed; by 2000, it was the third most common psychiatric disorder in America, behind only depression and alcoholism. Over-medication would affect fewer Americans if we could rein in such clear examples of over-diagnosis. We would have to set the thresholds for
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Turmoil in Asia from Rice and Grain Shortages, Prices Inflated by Int'l Traders
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:15 am Subject: Turmoil in Asia from Rice and Grain Shortages, Prices Inflated by Int'l Traders High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia Unrest By KEITH BRADSHER New York Times, March 29, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/worldbusiness/29rice.html?_r=1ref=worldoref=slogin HANOI — Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of the world’s largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of rice they export. The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world’s population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three months. That has pinched the budgets of millions of poor Asians and raised fears of civil unrest. Shortages and high prices for all kinds of food have caused tensions and even violence around the world in recent months. Since January, thousands of troops have been deployed in Pakistan to guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. Protests have erupted in Indonesia over soybean shortages, and China has put price controls on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs. Food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. But the moves by rice-exporting nations over the last two days — meant to ensure scarce supplies will meet domestic needs — drove prices on the world market even higher this week. This has fed the insecurity of rice-importing nations, already increasingly desperate to secure supplies. On Tuesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, afraid of increasing rice scarcity, ordered government investigators to track down hoarders. The increase in rice prices internationally promised to put more pressure on prices in the United States, which imports more than 30 percent of the rice Americans consume, according to the United States Rice Producers Association. The price that consumers pay for rice has already increased more than 8 percent over the last year. But the United States is fortunate in also exporting rice; poor countries ranging from Sengal in West Africa to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific are heavily dependent on imports and now face higher bills. Vietnam’s government announced here on Friday that it would cut rice exports by nearly a quarter this year. The government hoped that keeping more rice inside the country would hold down prices. The same day, India effectively banned the export of all but the most expensive grades of rice. Egypt announced on Thursday that it would impose a six-month ban on rice exports, starting April 1, and on Wednesday, Cambodia banned all rice exports except by government agencies. Governments across Asia and in many rice-consuming countries in Africa have long worried that a steep increase in prices could set off an angry reaction among low-income city dwellers. “There is definitely the potential for unrest, particularly as the people most affected are the urban poor and they’re concentrated, so it’s easier for them to organize than it would be for farmers, for example, to organize to protest lower prices,” said Nicholas W. Minot, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. Several factors are contributing to the steep rice in prices. Rising affluence in India and China has increased demand. At the same time, drought and other bad weather have reduced output in Australia and elsewhere. Many rice farmers are turning to more lucrative cash crops [for export], reducing the amount of land devoted to the grain. And urbanization and industrialization have cut into the [agricultural] land devoted to rice cultivation. In Vietnam, an obscure plant virus has caused annual output to start leveling off; it had increased significantly each year until the last three years. Until the last few years, the potential for rapid price swings was damped by the tendency of many governments to hold very large rice stockpiles to ensure food security, said Sushil Pandey, an agricultural economist at the International Rice Research Institute in Manila. But those stockpiles were costly to maintain. So governments have been drawing them down as world rice consumption has outstripped production for most of the last decade. The relatively small quantities traded across borders, combined with small stockpiles, now mean that prices can move quickly in response to supply disruptions. At the same time, prices set in international rice trading now have an increasingly important effect on prices within countries. This has been particularly true in an age of Internet and mobile phone communications when even farmers in remote areas can learn about distant prices and decide whether their own
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Propagandists Are War Criminals Too
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:42 am Subject: Propagandists Are War Criminals Too http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_walter_c_071230_william_kristol_2c_the.htm ? ...?[On]?December 30, 2007 the New York Times [decided] to hire William Kristol (editor of the Weekly Standard) as a columnist. Although the Times calls Kristol a conservative, he is, in fact, a notorious neoconservative -- a member of a political cult that many traditional conservatives disavow. Readers who noticed this Orwellian elision by the Times might also recall that in January 1998, Kristol (and Robert Kagan) wrote an Op Ed titled, Bombing Iraq isn't Enough, which the Times was reckless enough to publish. Reckless? Yes, because, as Robert Parry has observed: Under principles of international law applied from Nuremberg to Rwanda, propagandists who contribute to war crimes or encourage crimes against humanity can be put in the dock alongside the actual killers. [Consortium News, Posted August 21, 2006]? Simply recall that, under international law, the unprovoked invasion of another sovereign state is considered the most egregious of war crimes. The decision by the Times to hire this effete, cowardly warmonger smacks of rank hypocrisy, especially when one considers that in May 2004, the Times issued an apology to its readers for problematic articles that depended at least in part on information from a circle of Iraqi informants, defectors and exiles bent on 'regime change' in Iraq, people whose credibility has come under in creasing public debate in recent weeks. Yet, who has made more bogus warmongering assertions about Iraq than William Kristol? Who has less credibility today than William Kristol? As I've written elsewhere, According to Scott McConnell, in the very first issue published after 9/11, the Weekly Standard 'laid down a line from which the magazine would not waver over the next 18 months.' Their line was 'to link Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in virtually every paragraph, to join them at the hip in the minds of readers, and then lay out a strategy that actually gave attacking Saddam priority over eliminating al Qaeda.' [McConnell, The Weekly Standard's War, The American Conservative, September 21, 2005] With this immorality, hypocrisy and criminality in mind, I called the New York Times this morning to cancel my subscription. Having cancelled my subscription, I then sent the following email to the Times' Executive Editor and the VP for Circulation: I canceled my subscription to the New York Times -- with prejudice -- a few minutes ago. I've terminated my decades-long subscription because somebody at the Times made the immoral decision to hire William Kristol -- as close to a war criminal as a so-called journalist can become. You see, I can have nothing further to do with such a morally tainted newspaper. It's a matter of principle. You might use this moment to reflect on how the reporting by Judith Miller (AKA stenography for Perle and Chalabi) and your editorial decision to delay reporting on Bush's illegal wiretaps contributed to America's poor moral standing around the world.? Now, with the hiring of effete coward and warmonger Kristol, who (possessing any morals at all) can consider the Times to be anything but a whore? I will use my website to inform my thousands of readers about your immoral decision and I will exhort them to cancel their subscriptions as well. Sincerely Walter C. Uhler After all, simply consider that, ten years after the end of World War II, the editor of Das Schwarze Korps, Nazi SS leader Gunter d'Alquen, was fined 60,000 Deutsch Marks, deprived of all civic rights for three years and debarred from drawing an allowance or pension from public funds. He was found guilty of having played an important role in the Third Reich, of war propaganda, inciting against the churches, the Jews and foreign countries, and incitement to murder. [Wikipedia, see also Saul Friedlander, Nazi German and the Jews, Volume I, pp. 311-313] Think about it: If you do something similarly egregious in Bush's Amerika, you get your own column at the New York Times. Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush to Create Homeland Security-Style Agency to Monitor CONTROL US Economy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 7:32 pm Subject: Bush to Create Homeland Security-Style Agency to Monitor CONTROL US Economy To Keep Markets Stable, President Bush Proposes Economic Czar March 28, 2008 6:08 pm New York Times Edmund L. Andrews http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/29regulate.html?_r=1oref=slogin WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will propose on Monday that Congress give the Federal Reserve broad authority to oversee financial market stability, in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any institution that might pose a risk to the overall system. The proposal is part of a sweeping blueprint to overhaul the country’s hodge-podge of regulatory agencies, which many specialists say failed to recognize rampant excesses in mortgage lending until after they triggered what is now the worst financial calamity in decades. According to a summary provided by the administration, the plan would consolidate what is now an alphabet soup of banking and securities regulators into a trio of overseers responsible for everything from banks and brokerage firms to hedge funds and private equity firms. While the plan could expose Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds to greater scrutiny, it avoids a call for tighter regulation. The plan would NOT rein in any of the practices that have been implicated in the housing and mortgage meltdown, like packaging risky subprime loans into securities carrying AAA ratings. Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home.
[cia-drugs] What do you do with the defective slaves?
What do you do with the defective slaves? What do you do with the defective slaves? Do you set them aside? Do you boil them in oil? Do you deceive them, As, you bleed them, All the while? What do you do with the defective slaves? Do you get them to fight one another? You know, To save you the bother? Now, you lose, By the way, Everytime; But the play is the game, And it ain’t always the same. And isn’t being a player, Better than, Being the game? What do you do with the defective slaves? Effectively, cajoling away, Away down the river, Away till the time, A will and a way, For the defective slaves. (C) !997 R. A. Kris Millegan
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Zeitgeist, The Movie - Remastered / Final Edition
-Original Message- From: APFN [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: APFN Yahoogroups [EMAIL PROTECTED]; APFN GOOGLE GROUP [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:45 pm Subject: Zeitgeist, The Movie - Remastered / Final Edition ZEITGEIST, The Movie - Remastered / Final Edition - Full Production. What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve all have in common? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-594683847743189197 == H.R. 1955 Freedom of Speech, Thought Crime http://www.apfn.net/videos.asp Depression: don't people ever learn? — Henk Ruyssenaars, Mon Mar 31 09:37 Time To Wake The Hell Up! — Judith Moriarty, Sun Mar 30 12:15 Ron Paul - We Want Our Country Back!
[cia-drugs] Fwd: First Rice Shortages, Now Wheat-Killing Fungus® (Monsanto)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 9:21 pm Subject: First Rice Shortages, Now Wheat-Killing Fungus® (Monsanto) Why Food Prices Will Go Through The Roof In Coming Months By F. William Engdahl* http://www.rense.com/general81/food.htm 3-30-8 A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab region. The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol production, especially in the USA, Brazil and EU are taking land out of food production at alarming rates. The deadly fungus is being used by Monsanto and the US Government to spread patented GMO seeds. Stem rust is the worst of three rusts that afflict wheat plants. The fungus grows primarily in the stems, plugging the vascular system so carbohydrates can't get from the leaves to the grain, which shrivels. Ug99 is a race of stem rust that blocks the vascular tissues in cereal grains including wheat, oats and barley. Unlike other rusts that may reduce crop yields, Ug99-infected plants may suffer up to 100 percent loss. In the 1950s, the last major outbreak destroyed 40% of the spring wheat crop in North America. At that time governments started a major effort to breed resistant wheat plants, led by Norman Borlaug of the Rockefeller Foundation. That was the misnamed Green Revolution. The result today is far fewer varieties of wheat that might resist such a new fungus outbreak. The first strains of Ug99 were detected in 1999 in Uganda. It spread to Kenya by 2001, to Ethiopia by 2003 and to Yemen when the cyclone Gonu spread its spores in 2007. Now the deadly fungus has been found in Iran and according to British scientists may already be as far as Pakistan. Pakistan and India account for 20 percent of the annual world wheat production. It is possible as the fungus spreads that large movements could take place almost overnight if certain wind conditions prevail at the right time. In 2007 a three-day wind event recorded by Mexico's CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), had strong wind currents moving from Yemen, where Ug99 is present, across Pakistan and India, going all the way to China. CIMMYT estimates that from two-thirds to three-quarters of the wheat now planted in India and Pakistan are highly susceptible to this new strain of stem rust. One billion people who live in this region and they are highly dependent on wheat for their food supply. These are all areas where the agricultural infrastructure to contain such problems is either extremely weak or non-existent. It threatens to spread into other wheat producing regions of Asia and eventually the entire world if not checked. FAO World Grain Forecast The 2007 World Agriculture Forecast of the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, projects an alarming trend in world food supply even in the absence of any devastation from Ug99. The report states, countries in the non-OECD region are expected to continue to experience a much stronger increase in consumption of agricultural products than countries in the OECD area. This trend is driven by population and, above all, income growth underpinned by rural migration to higher income urban areas...OECD countries as a group are projected to lose production and export shares in many commodities. Growth in the use of agricultural commodities as feedstock to a rapidly increasing biofuel industry is one of the main drivers in the outlook and one of the reasons for international commodity prices to attain a significantly higher plateau over the outlook period than has been reported in the previous reports. (my emphasis-w.e.). The FAO warns that the explosive growth in acreage used to grow fuels and not food in the past three years is dramatically changing the outlook for food supply globally and forcing food prices sharply higher for all foods from cereals to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Hillary Sells Her Soul to the Devil for a Chance of Becoming President
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:10 pm Subject: Hillary Sells Her Soul to the Devil for a Chance of Becoming President Richard M[ellon] Scaife and Sen. Hillary Clinton talk at the offices of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday, March 25, 2008. Sidney Davis / Tribune-Review Hillary, reassessed By Richard M[ellon] Scaife TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, April 1, 2008 http://pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_559659.html I have a very different impression of Hillary Clinton today than before last Tuesday's meeting -- and it's a very favorable one indeed. Richard M. Scaife is the owner of the Tribune-Review. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife Scaife's publications were substantially involved in coverage against then-President Bill Clinton. Scaife was the major backer of The American Spectator, whose Arkansas Project set out to find facts about Clinton and in which Paula Jones' accusations of sexual harassment against Clinton were first widely publicized. In a 1999 series of articles on Scaife and foundations that support conservative causes, the Washington Post named a close Scaife associate, Richard Larry, and not Scaife himself as the man who drove the Arkansas Project. Regardless of his role, the project not only accused Clinton of financial and sexual indiscretions (some later verified, others not), but also gave root to hyperbolic conspiracist notions that the Clintons collaborated with the CIA to run a drug smuggling operation out of the town of Mena, Arkansas and that Clinton had arranged for the murder of White House aide Vince Foster as part of a coverup of the Whitewater scandal. So involved was Scaife in efforts against Clinton that many Democrats believed Hillary Clinton's statement condemning a vast right-wing conspiracy against her husband was a direct reference to Scaife himself. President Clinton later admitted to sexual indiscretions, but all the other allegations that came out of the Arkansas Project were never proven. Coincidental to the Lewinsky scandal and Clinton's impeachment, Scaife endowed a new school of public policy at Pepperdine University. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr was named the first dean of this school, although Pepperdine denies any connection. Starr accepted the post in 1996, but in the ensuing controversy, Starr gave up the appointment in 1998 before ever having started at Pepperdine. That same year Scaife's friend and Pittsburgh attorney, H. Yale Gutnick, denied that there was any connection between Scaife and Starr: I can tell you unequivocally that there is absolutely no linkage between Scaife and Starr in any way, shape or form. Had Ken Starr's picture not been all over the television and newspapers in recent weeks, I don't think Dick Scaife would recognize him at a social event. They have never communicated, they have never seen each other personally, and there's no relationship whatsoever. Dick Scaife has been involved with Pepperdine I think before Clinton became governor of Arkansas, and clearly long before he was president and before the special prosecutor ever was even a dream in anybody's imagination. His giving to Pepperdine has been consistent over the years and it's been generous.[13] However, once the investigation was behind him, Starr was appointed to head Pepperdine's law school in 2004. In the fall of 2007, however, Ruddy published a positive interview with former President Clinton on Newsmax.com, followed by a positive cover story in the magazine. The New York Times noted with reference to the event that politics had made strange bedfellows.[14] Newsweek reported that Ruddy praised Clinton for his Foundation's global work, and explained that the interview, as well as a private lunch he and Scaife had had with Clinton (which Ruddy says was orchestrated by Ed Koch), were due to the shared view of himself and Scaife that Clinton was doing important work representing the U.S. globally while America was the target of criticism. He also said that he and Scaife had never suggested Clinton was involved in Foster's death, nor had they spread allegations about Bill Clinton's sex scandals, although their work may have encouraged others.[15] It has been suggested that Scaife is motivated by a desire to improve his public image in regard to his divorce, or even that he may be motivated by a desire to
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Young Hillary, Wellesley's Pink Skull Bones, and the Kennedy Assassination
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 8:03 am Subject: Young Hillary, Wellesley's Pink Skull Bones, and the Kennedy Assassination Tuesday, April 01, 2008 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ ? Hillary and?... THE JFK ASSASSINATION? Hillary Clinton has inspired a great many conspiracy theories. Obviously, we can dismiss most of them -- but can we dismiss all of them? ? Apparently, this story about Hillary Clinton, http://www.freewebs.com/leobharley/? by a writer previously unknown to me, has been gaining quite a bit of attention in progressive circles. X-Files creator Chris Carter couldn't have come up with a more outlandish and intriguing scenario. ? Hillary Clinton and the JFK Assassination -- or: Why DID she wear that pink ribbon? By Leo. B. Harley http://www.freewebs.com/leobharley/ At first, drawing a connection between Hillary Rodham Clinton and the JFK assassination would seem an exercise in absurdity. But a link does exist. Indeed, the senator might be called the last living witness. Those conversant with the history of the controversy may recall that in 1992, Bill Clinton promised to look into the evidence of conspiracy in the JFK killing. After Clinton reached office, that pledge underwent a sad defenestration. In late 1993, the major media trumpeted Gerald Posner's book Case Closed as proof that Oswald acted alone, and Bill Clinton issued a statement endorsing Posner's findings. In the years since, we have learned of the many deceits, large and small, within Posner's volume. Why was the President so quick to place his seal of approval on a book of lies? The facts given in this essay will provide strong evidence that Clinton may have been motivated by a desire to cover up his own wife's participation in the post-Dallas clean-up operations. The truly stunning thing about this new conspiracy theory is that -- outrageous as it seems at first -- I cannot immediately disprove it. I should be able to, but I can't. Perhaps you can do the honors...? The author, one Leo B. Harley, has set out to prove that a young college student named Hillary Clinton participated in efforts to cover up the 1963 murder of upcoming actress Karen Cookie Kupcinet, daughter of the famed Chicago columnist Irv Kupcinet. For many years, the conspiratorial rumor mills have linked this unsolved killing to the assassination of John Kennedy, which occurred a week earlier. I know what you're thinking: It can't be. Hillary was too young. Indeed, she was only 16 in 1963. But the cover-up extended well beyond that point. I have been able to find independent verification for much -- but not all -- of this new thesis. What follows are choice excerpts from a very lengthy, convoluted, and -- I must confess -- compelling narrative. Please note, though, that compelling does not necessarily mean convincing. This one has me torn. On the one hand, I'm suspicious (even phobic) when it comes to most Clinton conspiracy theories. On the other hand, I do have a longstanding interest in JFK material, and this writer does appear to have done his homework. You be the judge: Karyn had befriended actor Mark Goddard and his wife Marcia. He later became well-known for his role in the science fiction television series Lost in Space, and his wife Marcia. Later still, Goddard became a university professor. On the last day of her life, Karyn had Thanksgiving Eve dinner at the Goddard home in Beverly Hills. The Goddards noticed that her behavior seemed odd: Her speech was faltering and her manner distracted. It remains unknown whether this behavior was due to emotional turmoil or to prescription drugs. Many theorize that she took pills in order to cope with a stressful situation. According to Mark Goddard, Karyn had related a fanciful story about an abandoned baby being placed on her doorstep that very day, a tale which no doubt carried a certain symbolic truth. She left the Goddards by taxicab at 8:30, promising to call her friends to assure them of her safety... Within the hour, Karyn was at her apartment and in the company of two other friends, writer Edward Stephen Rubin and actor Robert Hathaway. By this point, she appeared to have regained her normal state of mind. The trio watched television until she fell asleep on the sofa. After she awoke briefly and transferred herself to her room, the two men lowered the television volume and left. The time was shortly after 11:00. They went to Hathaway's home and were joined by Karyn's on-and-off boyfriend, Andrew Prine, a successful television actor. The three men socialized until 3:00 a.m. So, at least, they told the police. The
[cia-drugs] Fwd: No Noose is Good News (Severed Headlines 04/02/08)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 1:35 pm Subject: No Noose is Good News (Severed Headlines 04/02/08) CLG's BREAKING NEWS and COMMENTARY Last updated: 04/02/2008 12:08:51 http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news follow links at site Military Report: Secretly 'Recruit or Hire Bloggers' A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers. ...A 2006 report for the Joint Special Operations University, Blogs and Military Information Strategy, offers a third approach -- co-opting bloggers, or even putting them on the payroll. Hiring a block of bloggers to verbally attack a specific person or promote a specific message may be worth considering, write the report's co-authors, James Kinniburgh and Dororthy Denning. ACLU: Military skirting law to spy The military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and telephone companies, the ACLU said Tuesday. Newly unredacted documents released today reveal that the Department of Defense is using the FBI to circumvent legal limits on its own NSL power, said the ACLU, whose lawsuit was filed in Manhattan federal court. Intelligence Centers Tap Into Personal Databases State Groups, Dozens of 'Fusion Centers,' Were Formed After 9/11 Intelligence centers run by states across the country have access to personal information about millions of Americans, including unlisted cellphone numbers, insurance claims, driver's license photographs and credit reports, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. One center also has access to top-secret data systems at the CIA, the document shows, though it's not clear what information those systems contain. From 2004 to 2007, state and local governments received $254 million from the Department of Homeland Security to support of the centers, which are staffed by employees of the FBI and other federal law enforcement agencies. In some cases, they work with the U.S. Northern Command, the Pentagon operation involved in homeland security. Inside the Pentagon's Black Budget One patch shows a space alien with huge eyes holding a stealth bomber near its mouth. To Serve Man reads the text above, a reference to a classic Twilight Zone episode in which man is the entree, not the customer. Military officials and experts said the patches are real if often unofficial efforts at building team spirit... The classified budget of the Defense Department, concealed from the public in all but outline, has nearly doubled in the Bush years, to $32 billion. Wasting and Wanting at the Pentagon New York Times President Bush and a far-too-compliant Congress have already wasted more than $600 billion on the disastrous Iraq war. Since Mr. Bush took office, the Pentagon’s weapons acquisition budget has doubled from $790 billion in 2000 to $1.6 trillion last year... Not only did Mr. Bush and his former defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, allow contractors to run amok in Iraq, they let them run amok in the halls of the Pentagon. Colombian Troops Kill Farmers, Pass Off Bodies as Rebels' 'Civilians are just being taken out, executed, and then dressed up in uniforms so the authorities can claim body counts of guerrillas killed.' Under intense pressure from Colombian military commanders to register combat kills, the army has in recent years also increasingly been killing poor farmers and passing them off as rebels slain in combat, government officials and human rights groups say. The trend has prompted concern among some members of the U.S. Congress. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations foreign operations subcommittee, said he is holding up $23 million in military aid until he sees progress in the fight against impunity and state-sponsored violence terrorism. We've had six years, $5 billion in U.S. aid. More than half of it has gone to the Colombian military, and we find the army is killing more civilians, not less, Leahy said in an interview. And by all accounts, we find that civilians are just being taken out, executed and then dressed up in uniforms so they can claim body counts of guerrillas killed. Hamas TV puppet 'kills' Bush as revenge for U.S. actions Child tells Bush: You are a criminal. You deprived me of everything. In a Hamas TV production for Palestinian children, a puppet stabs U.S. President George Bush to death in revenge for American and Israeli actions. The children's puppet aired Sunday, part of series called Exceptionals. In the episode, Bush, a hand-held puppet dressed in a green uniform
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who Did Bush Have in Mind When Proposing an Economic Czar?
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 4:39 pm Subject: Who Did Bush Have in Mind When Proposing an Economic Czar? To Keep Markets Stable, President Bush Proposes?Economic Czar? March 28, 2008 6:08 pm New York Times Edmund L. Andrews http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/29regulate.html?_r=1oref=slogin ? Carlyle Group's Plan for [Hostile] Takeover of the Banking System http://www.economicanalyticsgroup.com/2008/04/carlyle-groups-plan-to-take-over.html ? So what's Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's call for changes in regulation of the financial markets all about? A clue may have been revealed today by Randal Quarles, former Under Secretary of the Treasury who led the Treasury Department's effort in the coordination of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and is a current Managing Director at Carlyle Group. Quarles spoke at a luncheon meeting of the Washington DC-based National Economists Club. His topic: Restructuring Financial Regulation. Quarles told the luncheon group that he chose the topic in January. Hmmm. Didn't Treasury Paulson just make the proposal to restructure the financial regulatory agencies last week? How did Quarles pick this topic back in January? Short-answer, Quarles is a major insider and his comments should be monitored to get a sense for what insiders are thinking. In his talk, Quarles said that estimates go into the hundreds of billions in terms of capital that will be required by the financial industry because of losses sustained as a result of the current crisis. He said there will be more financial institutions that will go under in coming months. He said that public markets will not supply the necessary funds because they don't have the capabilities to study in detail the risks and potential rewards of the complex financials of financial institutions. He said private equity firms have the capabilities to do so and to supply the necessary funds. (N.B. Carlyle Group is a private equity firm). Quarles stated that some changes in the structure of regulations that Paulson proposed were necessary but would take time to develop. He specifically stated that one regulation that needed to be changed is the limitation on the size of positions that non-banks can take in banks. (Note: Limitations in the size of non-banks positions in banks now limits Carlyle Group from taking large positions in banks). During the Q A session, one questioner summarized Quarles talk this way: So what you said here today is that you would like to see regulatory changes to make it easier for private equity to take major positions in banks? And private equity, through various entities on and offshore gets its money from banks. So what you want is an environment where private equity can borrow from banks to takeover banks? In response, Quarles laughed. We might add this private equity acquisition of financial institutions will go on as the general public is scared off from investing in the financial institutions by scare headlines, or as Quarles would put it, Public markets just don't have the capabilities to judge the risks and rewards of the various financial institutions. Translation: The public is not clued in on which firms the insiders have decided to let survive, like JPMorgan, and which they are going to takedown, like Bear Stearns. Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Justice Dept Told Bush in Oct 2001 He Had ABSOLUTE POWER in Time of War
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:31 am Subject: Justice Dept Told Bush in Oct 2001 He Had ABSOLUTE POWER in Time of War 'The October 2001 memo arguing for unregulated military searches on U.S. soil has not been formally withdrawn and remains a secret but unclassified document.' ? In its footnotes, asides and central text, that 81-page memo asserted unlimited presidential power during a time of war?-- and?claimed that? Congress had?no Constitutional?authority to?put limits on that power ? ? 04 Apr 2008 ? The Justice Department concluded in October 2001 that military operations combating terrorism inside the United States [!] are not limited by Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, in one of several secret memos containing new and controversial assertions of presidential power. ? The memo, sent on Oct. 23, 2001, to the Defense Department and the White House by the Office of Legal Counsel, focused on the rules governing any deployment of U.S. forces inside the country [!] in the event of further large-scale terrorist activities by al-Qaeda, a Justice Department official said yesterday. ? The October 2001 memo arguing for unregulated military searches on U.S. soil has not been formally withdrawn and remains a secret but unclassified document, according to Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. ? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304136.html Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides.
[cia-drugs] Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of (1760-1842), the East India Company's (EIC) governor general of India
http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-wellesley-1st-marquess-wellesley Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of (1760-1842), the East India Company's (EIC) governor general of India, 1797-1805. Although overshadowed by the achievements of his younger brother Arthur, the Duke of Wellington, Wellesley was an important figure in his own right, especially in expanding British imperial power. During his governor generalship he redrew the map of India through a combination of diplomacy and military annexation, a process to which his brother's military victories made a formidable contribution. Mysore, Hyderabad, Tanjore, Surat, the Carnatic, and Oudh were either partially annexed or subordinated to EIC rule. French power in India suffered a major blow and Wellesley refused British government orders to restore French territory under the provisions of the Treaty of Amiens (1802), an act of insubordination which was soon justified by events. Wellesley's ambition, his expansionist policy, and the huge cost of his military arrangements alarmed the directors of the EIC in London. He was recalled in 1805 and threatened with impeachment, but survived. He remained politically important, serving as ambassador to Spain in 1808 and as foreign secretary, 1809-12. His later years were soured by jealousy of his younger brother's increasing fame. Bibliography Butler, Iris, The Eldest Brother: The Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842 (London, 1973) — John M. Bourne
[cia-drugs] Yale Tomb Societies: Class of 2006
Tomb Societies: Class of 2006 Skull Bones Paige Austin Satya Babha Owen Dalby Brandon Dyches Caroline Edsall Jessica Fei Anson Frericks A.J. Hopkins Nazneen Mehta Jacob Liebenluft Don Phan Gul Raza Crissaris Sarnelli Diala Shamas Andre Thoma Scroll Key Nientara Anderson Hannah Collins Tala Gharagozlou Camilla Hsu Al Jiwa Liz Jordan Zvika “Jayson Blair” Krieger Alex Nemser Justin Noble MatthewSchneier Michael Smith Berzelius Leslie Cacciapaglia David Carpman Julian Darwall Thayer Hardwick David Knox Jeehae Lee Dawn Lippert Zach Mayer Colin Neville Colin O’Brady Jade Pagkas-Bather Andrew Ralph Della Sentilles Parminder Singh Book Snake Deirdre Cerminaro Mario Conde Andrew Dayton Annie Fang Celia Gomez Christian Jensen Carolyn Kriss Iliodora Margellos Nick Moscow Tammer Qaddumi Kersten Stevens Leanna Sudhof Dow Tang Vicente Undurraga Perl Lindsey Weening Aaron Zelinsky Wolf’s Head Sarah Cannon Kieran Locke Paul McLaughlin Jesse Pizarro Michelle Quibell Yaakov Sadan Erika Shumate Matt Stone
[cia-drugs] Tomb Societies 2006-07
Skull Bones Christina Huang (Brotherhood of Death) Jesse Wolfson (Mu-Eta-Tau-Sima) Matt Campbell (Magog) Peter Pacelli (Scuzzz) Steph Speirs (Kamehameha) Hyder Akbar (Abdulhaq) Gabriel Hernandez (Fagin) Andom Ghebreghiorgis (Razashé) Caroline Howe (Gog) Tanya Martinez (Tsimone) Kobi Libii (Juba the Tuba) Timothy Andres (Lenny) Christine Tsang Matthew Thunell (Geneseis, Genie) Stacey Leondis Book Snake Mirko Serkovic Chris Allwin Kristen Saruwatari Natalie Paul Chinenye Okafor Kit Krugman Katie Dewitt Trista Choksi Stephanie Wu Romina Da Costa Austin Kilaru Ed McCarthy Terence de Pentheny O’Kelly Casey Hughes Ned Mitchell Scroll Key Ted Fertik Amia Srinavasan Hrvoje Ostric Alex Rabin Ian Bishop Aaron Kachuck Adam Eaker Richard Ludlow Alex Munns Lisa Freinkman Claire Siebers Eli Clark Dayo Olopade Beth Dickinson Eleonora Sharef Berzelius Chris Kempner Evan Joiner Kyle Mitchell Aida Sykes Rohan Jain Chloe Beizer Sunny Kang Marcela Benitez Michelle Reid Eve Fine Kate McNeece Allison Stern Brandon Etheridge Michael Slater Michael Davis Wolf’s Head Marisol Leon Tinbet Tecle Yohannes Abraham Lauren McCrery Chris Kochevar Eric Lockhart Justin Ankney Kevin Littleton Noam Rudnick Kimberly Stromberg Jack Hutchinson Jennifer Suhr Chris Lapinig Lila Neugebauer Katrina Castille Katie Melamed
[cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005
TOMB SOCIETIES: Class of 2005 Skull Bones Rob Carr Ally Croffy Eve Fairbanks Jeohn Favors Dan Grimm Derek Morales Derek Ng Katharine Schemmer Raja Shamas Dicky Shanor Kirby Smith Eleanor Sokolow Aaron Tang Scroll Key Melody Chan Peter Cook Evan Coughenour (President) Julia Gonzales Meredith Hughes Sulmaan Khan Rebecca Krauss Julie Lake Henry-Gordon Masters Emily Scharfman Allison Stielau Lindsey Williams Elizabeth Wilkins Patricio Zambrano-Barragán Berzelius John Atkinson Summar Aubrey Tony Bellino Elisa Bramble Pete Cohen Kerry Docherty David Friedlander Luke Knowles Chatan Kumar Olivia Kwak Maria Muller Ryan Murguia Thomas Nakanishi Chavaughn Raines Lauren Thompson Book and Snake Yaw Anim Chris Brady Mike Caldwell Edwin Draughan Laura Esnaola Rebecca Ives Pano Kalogeropoulos Eddie Pritchett Leila Rastegar Lauren Worsham Wolf’s Head Steve Abramowitz Sara Cardoza Ameer El-Mallawany Alex Gamboa Francis Ho Ralph Labossiere C.J. Orrico Farah Peterson (President) Michelle Rosenthal Robbie Schrum Natasha Silber Eben Smith Jessie Weiner Krystle Woods
Fwd: [cia-drugs] Sean MCBride is not a real person. He is Chip Berlet ... in drag!
Chip Berlet/Sean McBride is a player in the Israel/Jews did it hoary false meme operation. (Among other things.) Go for it Chip. Yahoo has no rules under our current regime. Legends are numerous and easily created. And with your pull. There is no evidence that you can show,Sean McBride is a false name. Yeah, my weakly researched stuff ... just a secret societal system that is looking to switch our sovereignty to efficient economic regions. Yeah, I am just some crazy guy that's why I publish books no one else will. Dunna really care, Chip, what the fuck you think. You are a cowardly spook. It is real interesting though to watch you try and become a real person by posting all them bona fides. And again, Chip, I do not care to carry on private conversations with you and would advise others not to as well. For in the dark is where cointelpro lies. Pun intended. Peace, Kris Millegan A real person. 1.800.556.20012 -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:03 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 Kris, You are making a huge mistake, and you are creating the strong impression among *serious* deep politics researchers that you are mentally ill -- they know precisely how mistaken you are. I have absolutely no connections to Chip Berlet, and I am a completely independent researcher. If you possessed even a minimal degree of literary intelligence, you would have figured that out a long time ago -- but you don't know how to read texts with any subtlety -- the words are all just a vague blur for you. By the way, if you continue to spread this defamatory lie in any forums whatever, at least five people are going to complain to Yahoo and AOL about your repeated and blatant violations of their TOS (Terms of Service). You've managed to piss off quite a few people with your libelous (and crazy) statements. They've collected the full documentation (including all your offending posts) to support their complaint against you. And also keep in mind that I've been doing business with Yahoo for years, and that they know exactly who I am. I think your real problem, Kris, is that you couldn't handle the challenge I made to some of your weakly researched conspiracy theories. You still haven't recovered, and you are unable to discuss these issues in fair and open debate. I wonder if you've yet been able to fully assimilate Mearsheimer's and Walt's book on the Israel lobby into your Hegelian world model or figured out how to data mine the annual Forbes billionaires list. Now, if you want to snap out of it, and get on with doing some useful collaborative research, you'll flesh out your tomb societies post. How credible is this data? If you don't want to support your own posts, then why should anyone take them seriously? Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, Chipper … Peace, K -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:33 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 Kris, I want to integrate this data you just posted in my GPE (Global Power Elite) database with NML markup. But a few questions: 1. What is the source of the data? 2. How reliable is the data? 3. How exactly does one read the data? In what years were the members inducted? (I assume the induction years differ from the class/graduation years.) P.S. Do you have this data for all years to the present? Thanks On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOMB SOCIETIES: Class of 2005 Skull Bones Rob Carr Ally Croffy Eve Fairbanks Jeohn Favors Dan Grimm Derek Morales Derek Ng Katharine Schemmer Raja Shamas Dicky Shanor Kirby Smith Eleanor Sokolow Aaron Tang Scroll Key Melody Chan Peter Cook Evan Coughenour (President) Julia Gonzales Meredith Hughes Sulmaan Khan Rebecca Krauss Julie Lake Henry-Gordon Masters Emily Scharfman Allison Stielau Lindsey Williams Elizabeth Wilkins Patricio Zambrano-Barragán Berzelius John Atkinson Summar Aubrey Tony Bellino Elisa Bramble Pete Cohen Kerry Docherty David Friedlander Luke Knowles Chatan Kumar Olivia Kwak Maria Muller Ryan Murguia Thomas Nakanishi Chavaughn Raines Lauren Thompson Book and Snake Yaw Anim Chris Brady Mike Caldwell Edwin Draughan Laura Esnaola Rebecca Ives Pano Kalogeropoulos Eddie Pritchett Leila Rastegar Lauren Worsham Wolf's Head Steve Abramowitz Sara Cardoza Ameer El-Mallawany Alex Gamboa Francis Ho Ralph Labossiere C.J. Orrico Farah Peterson (President) Michelle Rosenthal Robbie Schrum Natasha
Re: [cia-drugs] Chip Berlet is dumb as a rock ... as is his sock puppet ... Sean McBride
Logic really isn't your strong suit is it Chip? Kris Millegan is a real person. There is no question who I am. It is a known fact that Sean McBride is a fake name. And what we are dealing with is meme warfare. The actual reason for this missive is so that you can slander me some more. Call me names and accuse me of being what you are. It's a trick that is old as the hills. You Sean McBride use a false name ... in an op that is used to sow dissension and deflection. You have done this several times, Chip. I am Kris MIllegan, I run a publishing company that publishes books. I am a real person, quite open about my beliefs and who I am. You have been threatening me with court for years. I am very pubic and can be served most anytime. And by the way, you contacted me. After, being told many times, I wished no contact. See ya Spook, Peace, Kris MIllegan -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:11 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 P.S. If someone kept insisting that you, Kris Millegan, were really MARK POTOK and a secret agent of the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center), how would you adjudge the sanity of this accuser? Would you come to the conclusion that this sad pathetic soul was insane and mental ward material? There are only three possible ways to judge your obsession with Chip Berlet: 1. you're dumb as a rock, 2. you're mentally ill, or 3. you're an op for the bad guys who is trying to sow dissension in the conspiracy research community. Which is it? Most of the people who have been attacked by you are convinced that you are an op -- are you aware of that? So, Kris, are you still continuing to deny that you are really Mark Potok? Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, Chipper … Peace, K -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:33 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 Kris, I want to integrate this data you just posted in my GPE (Global Power Elite) database with NML markup. But a few questions: 1. What is the source of the data? 2. How reliable is the data? 3. How exactly does one read the data? In what years were the members inducted? (I assume the induction years differ from the class/graduation years.) P.S. Do you have this data for all years to the present? Thanks On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOMB SOCIETIES: Class of 2005 Skull Bones Rob Carr Ally Croffy Eve Fairbanks Jeohn Favors Dan Grimm Derek Morales Derek Ng Katharine Schemmer Raja Shamas Dicky Shanor Kirby Smith Eleanor Sokolow Aaron Tang Scroll Key Melody Chan Peter Cook Evan Coughenour (President) Julia Gonzales Meredith Hughes Sulmaan Khan Rebecca Krauss Julie Lake Henry-Gordon Masters Emily Scharfman Allison Stielau Lindsey Williams Elizabeth Wilkins Patricio Zambrano-Barragán Berzelius John Atkinson Summar Aubrey Tony Bellino Elisa Bramble Pete Cohen Kerry Docherty David Friedlander Luke Knowles Chatan Kumar Olivia Kwak Maria Muller Ryan Murguia Thomas Nakanishi Chavaughn Raines Lauren Thompson Book and Snake Yaw Anim Chris Brady Mike Caldwell Edwin Draughan Laura Esnaola Rebecca Ives Pano Kalogeropoulos Eddie Pritchett Leila Rastegar Lauren Worsham Wolf's Head Steve Abramowitz Sara Cardoza Ameer El-Mallawany Alex Gamboa Francis Ho Ralph Labossiere C.J. Orrico Farah Peterson (President) Michelle Rosenthal Robbie Schrum Natasha Silber Eben Smith Jessie Weiner Krystle Woods Get the MapQuest Toolbar, Maps, Traffic, Directions More! Get the MapQuest Toolbar, Maps, Traffic, Directions More!
[cia-drugs] Fwd: In Violation of Yahoo's and AOL's TOS- Sean McBride = Chip Berlet
Sue me. Again meme warfare. The zinger is at the end. Mr. Sean Berlet is trying to taint me with Tim White. Who is Tim White? All I know is what I have read on the Web. Tim White is a poster on the Internet, who seems to interject himself into mind-control discussions especially. He has been a poster on several of my public email lists. Can be disruptive. If memory serves, I have kicked him off lists for being disruptive. Never met him, as far as I know or remember. I don't quite understand your implications, but I gather from your breathless syntax that it is some sort of attempt to smear me by using Tim White's Internet activity and demeanor. What is your point, Seanus? Don't answer. Mr. Berlet, like I have said, Logic is not your strong point nor is continuity. But you see that is easily understandable, because as a sock-puppet you have no spine. You are malleable to the situation.You are a false person, using a mask to hide yourself and throw false memes around. How can I make a defamatory statement about a false person? Don't answer. I have never solicited you or your attention. Please do not contact me by private email. I would rather speak in public. Peace, Kris Millegan -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:08 pm Subject: In Violation of Yahoo's and AOL's TOS You've just added to the already substantial documentation that backs up the case that you are in blatant violation of Yahoo's and AOL's Terms of Service. You don't know when to quit. Don't you yet understand that is ethically wrong and certainly not in your self-interest to make false and defamatory statements about others? You've just done it again in a public forum on Yahoo Groups. Care to describe your relationship with Tim White, Kris? Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logic really isn't your strong suit is it Chip? Kris Millegan is a real person. There is no question who I am. It is a known fact that Sean McBride is a fake name. And what we are dealing with is meme warfare. The actual reason for this missive is so that you can slander me some more. Call me names and accuse me of being what you are. It's a trick that is old as the hills. You Sean McBride use a false name ... in an op that is used to sow dissension and deflection. You have done this several times, Chip. I am Kris MIllegan, I run a publishing company that publishes books. I am a real person, quite open about my beliefs and who I am. You have been threatening me with court for years. I am very pubic and can be served most anytime. And by the way, you contacted me. After, being told many times, I wished no contact. See ya Spook, Peace, Kris MIllegan -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 11:11 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 P.S. If someone kept insisting that you, Kris Millegan, were really MARK POTOK and a secret agent of the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center), how would you adjudge the sanity of this accuser? Would you come to the conclusion that this sad pathetic soul was insane and mental ward material? There are only three possible ways to judge your obsession with Chip Berlet: 1. you're dumb as a rock, 2. you're mentally ill, or 3. you're an op for the bad guys who is trying to sow dissension in the conspiracy research community. Which is it? Most of the people who have been attacked by you are convinced that you are an op -- are you aware of that? So, Kris, are you still continuing to deny that you are really Mark Potok? Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, Chipper … Peace, K -Original Message- From: Sean McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:33 am Subject: Re: [cia-drugs] TOMB SOCIETIES Class of 2005 Kris, I want to integrate this data you just posted in my GPE (Global Power Elite) database with NML markup. But a few questions: 1. What is the source of the data? 2. How reliable is the data? 3. How exactly does one read the data? In what years were the members inducted? (I assume the induction years differ from the class/graduation years.) P.S. Do you have this data for all years to the present? Thanks On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOMB SOCIETIES: Class of 2005 Skull Bones Rob Carr Ally Croffy Eve Fairbanks Jeohn Favors Dan Grimm Derek Morales Derek Ng Katharine Schemmer Raja Shamas Dicky Shanor Kirby Smith Eleanor Sokolow Aaron Tang Scroll Key Melody Chan Peter
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Central California Population to be Sprayed with Unregistered Pesticide
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 3:16 pm Subject: Fwd: Central California Population to be Sprayed with Unregistered Pesticide ? ? Sent: 4/5/2008 2:37:49 A.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: Re: Central California Population to be Sprayed with Unregistered Pesticide ? http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Writer-Bio-Page.htm?EdNo=102?; ? Population To Be Sprayed With Unregistered Pesticide By Barbara Peterson [... ... ... ] No eradication measures have been taken against the moth in New Zealand, and none are planned.? The moth is a minor pest whose larvae are eaten by earwigs, birds, and spiders.? Furthermore, there is no widespread infestation of the light brown apple moth [in the U.S.], but U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say they are trying to head off a potential disaster (Kay, 2008). Therefore, Bay Area residents will be sprayed with an untested unregulated pesticide on the pretense of this non-existent emergency by Stewart Resnick, owner of the largest farming operation of tree crops in the world, and one of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's top 100 contributors, and are basically told to just shut up and take it. Yes, as I posted before: This moth does NO agricultural damage.? Aside from below (the more or less 'current' list), all of the populated areas of CA will be sprayed over the next 3~5 years!? This crap sickened hundreds of people in Santa Cruz one~two month/s ago!? Totally unnecessary BS abuse of power greed!! Jim Cities to be sprayed are as follows: Alameda County: Albany Alameda Piedmont Emeryville Oakland Contra Costa County: El Cerrito El Sobrante Hercules Kensington Pinole-N. Richmond San Pablo San Francisco County: San Francisco San Mateo County: Daly City Colma Pacifica San Bruno South San Francisco Marin County: Tiburon Belvedere San Pablo Corte Madera Larkspur Sausalito Copyright 2008, Barbara H. Peterson Msg sent via CWNet? - http://www.cwnet.com/ Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Slavery Makes a Comeback in 21st Century America
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 9:27 am Subject: Slavery Makes a Comeback in 21st Century America Disposable Workers in the US Economy Slavery in the Fields By ELIZABETH SCHULTE Counterpunch, April 10, 2008 http://www.counterpunch.org/schulte04102008.html José Vasquez couldn't stand any more. On November 19, he and two other workers escaped through a ventilation hatch in the box trailer where they had been locked up for the night. For more than a year, the three immigrants and a dozen more were forced to work for the Navarrete family picking tomatoes in Immokalee, Fla. They were made to pay $20 for housing --a locked van where they had to defecate in the corner-- as well as $50 a week for food and $5 to take a shower in the backyard with a garden hose. Earning just 45 cents for every bucket of tomatoes they picked in the blistering Florida sun for some 12 hours a day, the men were in perpetual debt to their captors. And the fear of deportation made defying the men who held them seem even more impossible. Any identifying documents they once had were locked away. When investigators finally arrived a week later, they found the other workers bloody, bruised and beaten -- a regular state of affairs, according to the workers. Mariano Lucas, one of the workers who escaped, told investigators he tried to take a day off a few weeks previously, and was beaten until he bled. One man had badly swollen wrists from being chained with his hands behind his back every night. There's only one way to describe this abuse, according to Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy: Slavery, plain and simple. No one disputes that slavery --abolished 150 years ago in the U.S.-- is one of the ugliest chapters in American history. Yet just under the surface of the modern-day image of the U.S. as a beacon of democracy is an ugly secret: that slavery still thrives for thousands of workers. Under the modern slave system, workers aren't bought and sold on the open market, as they once were in the U.S. South -- but rather they were smuggled into the country and forced to work, all just beneath the radar of government officials and the public. Last year's incident at Immokalee marked the seventh farm labor operation to be prosecuted for servitude in Florida -- involving well over 1,000 workers and more than a dozen employers--in the past decade. In 2004, for example, Ramiro and Juan Ramos were sentenced to 15 years each in federal prison on slavery and firearms charges. They threatened the 700 farmworkers under their control with death if they tried to leave, and pistol-whipped passenger van service drivers who gave rides to farmworkers leaving the area. By and large, though, it's these small-time extortionists who are punished for modern-day slavery in America--while the big corporations who ultimately profit from slave-like labor stand above the fray. And profit they do. The food sector (food, groceries, food processing, and restaurant businesses together) is worth about a trillion dollars a year in the U.S. and is second only to pharmaceuticals in profitability, writes journalist John Bowe in his book Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy. Considering that the American public gives some $47 billion per year in direct subsidies to agricultural producers and billions more in tax breaks, research allocations to university, marketing initiatives...it is blind idiocy or willful deceit to say the money just isn't there. Through activism on the part of farmworkers themselves and a fierce and creative public boycott campaign, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) last year forced McDonald's, the world's biggest restaurant chain, and Yum!, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, to pay pickers another penny per pound of tomatoes. Today, Burger King, which also buys its tomatoes in Immokalee, is refusing to follow suit. Burger King's intransigence was backed up by the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, which last year threatened a $100,000 fine for any grower who agrees to an extra penny per pound for pickers' wages. As Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, pointed out in the New York Times, Telling Burger King to pay an extra penny for tomatoes and provide a decent wage to migrant workers would hardly bankrupt the company. Indeed, it would cost Burger King only $250,000 a year... In 2006, the bonuses of the top 12 Goldman Sachs executives exceeded $200 million -- more than twice as much money as all of the roughly 10,000 tomato pickers in southern Florida earned that year. The fast-food giant's excuse? The CIW has gone after us because we are a known brand, complained Burger King vice president Steve Grover. At the end of the day, we
[cia-drugs] Fwd: How John McCain Will Become President in November 2008
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 8:53 pm Subject: How John McCain Will Become President in November 2008 Computer Scientists: '2008 Presidential Election Can Be Hacked' ? Systems Made by Diebold, Sequoia and Hart InterCivic Are 'Still Going to Have Same Viral Vulnerabilities Found' During California's 2007 Study... ? http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5890 A bunch of world-class computer scientists testified publicly this week that U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked. As stunning as that sounds, there's nothing new here necessarily to readers of The BRAD BLOG, other than the fact that outlets like the IDG News Service and PCWorld are reporting it --- out loud --- and that the computer scientist community, specifically those who have been studying these systems, are now out and out saying it --- in public...and out loud. The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation, warned professor David Wagner of the University of California, They're going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have the same vulnerabilities we found. Wagner was speaking about e-voting system made by Diebold, Sequoia Voting Systems and Hart InterCivic which he examined during CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen's independent Top to Bottom review last year. He and his team found that they could introduce a computer virus to any of the three systems, which would then spread throughout the county and ultimately skew the vote count, the IDG News Service reports. While our readers may be familiar with the above, our friend DHinMI and his fellow misinformed DailyKos front pagers may want to give this short article a quick look sometime soon. Particularly the part about paper ballots, and that simply having them is not enough...if nobody bothers to actually count them. Here's the key grafs from the article...Along with a special clip for the dangerously misinformed/misleading dKos boys and girls... U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked Robert McMillan, IDG News Service This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said Thursday ... As the November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting systems, but rather, how best to check them for fraud, said David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of California, Berkeley's computer science department. Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems during the state's review of electronic voting, and the problems his team found affect counties across the U.S. The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation, he said during an e-voting panel discussion at the show. They're going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have the same vulnerabilities we found. ... The California audit examined systems from Diebold Elections Systems, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems, ultimately permitting their use in 2008, but only under certain conditions. In testing, Wagner and his team found that they could introduce a computer virus to any of the three systems, which would then spread throughout the county and ultimately skew the vote count. And in case yutzes like disinfo specialist and DailyKos front pager, Dana DHinMI Houle, don't bother to read the full piece linked above, here's a special clipping just for him/them... Wagner said...even the states that keep paper records are not necessarily checking their results. Only about a third of all states have records that are regularly audited. (Never mind that none of those states actually does much of a legitimate public audit, of those paper ballots and/or records, but you get the drift.) So, how does that square with your embarrassingly inaccurate dKos front page article written after the New Hampshire primary, Mr. Houle? We're guessing you've yet to apologize to your readers for dangerously and wholly misleading them about key issues of Election Integrity, right? Of course, right. It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Black Death of Financial Collapse
Sent: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:05 am Subject: Fwd: The Black Death of Financial Collapse ? ? Sent: 4/12/2008 3:06:14 A.M. Pacific Standard Time Subj: The Black Death of Financial Collapse The Ponzi scheme to shame all others is?waiting to deliver its coup de grace.? One commentator has drawn attention to the?BAD news:?the $500?TRILLION derivatives market.? He says This is an area that the general public doesn't even know exists.? Few professionals understand this market.? There is no regulation --?government just let it go,?and go it did.? You must expect a 5% default problem.? That?amounts to?$25?TRILLION ... It can create insolvent institutions all over the world ... It is the making of the first?truly global depression.? The world is not ready. It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms and advice on AOL Money Finance.
