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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector-Hello Aftermath News / IPCUSA, Thanks for the as usual highly informative articles. Regarding the US cooperation with the KGB (FSB) article. The FBI for several years now, has been sending agents to be trained by the KGB (FSB), in Moscow, to learn how to better combat former Soviet organised crime groups. When I mentioned this to an FBI agent I was talking to in Arizona, he mentioned that the FBI was also sending agents to be trained in US neonazi paramilitary camps (with the neonazis knowing they are training FBI agents). Back in 1994, I knew a medicine man (Native American), who was being payed to train FBI agents to infiltrate, and make arrests in, Native American cultural revival settings. When I lived in Eastern Europe, in 1995, I personally witnessed that CIA agents there, were on very familiar terms with high ranking KGB officers, in a cooperative spirit. I was not permitted to go into KGB offices, but I waited for people on the steps a few times (which is also prohibited), and was in various embassies. I do not believe in any continued Soviet menace to the US. However, one thing that should be understand, that is not widely understood, is that upon the break up of the USSR, the KGB did not break up, abnd has never broken up. This brings up a number of issues around the autonomy of nations which have seperated from the Russian Federation (president Putin, as is well known, being the former head of the USSR KGB, much as Bush Sr was head of the CIA). USSR allies, not under direct Soviet control, such as Bulgaria, have always had their own seperate KGB's. The Bulgaria KGB was censored by the USSR KGBN during the Cold War, for stirring up trouble by hunting down and murdering its expatriots in Western Nations (that is, they are in fact seperate organisations). The war on terrorism as it exists now, is mostly a highly profitable sham being used to consolidate power and destroy the rights of the World's citizenry. Cooperation in fear of possible use of WMD's, such as by persons or groups of persons who have been criminally abused by security organisations, and seek revenge or justice, is a quite valid concern. New highly virulent and very hard to stop forms of international organised crime, especially those coming out of past communist regimes which highly opressed them (USSR and PRC), in effect breeding tougher and mroe resistant strains of organised crime, is also a very valid concern, and grounds for international cooperation. In ther US, the FBI claimed some early victories on the "Russian Mafia". In retrospect, these were not victories at all of any depth, like cutting heads from a Hydra. The FBI dismally failed to understand the true organisational nature of the type of organised crime they were seeing out of the former USSR (and the PRC, such as the Big Circle Boys, former Red Guards who fell out of favor and were sent to the labor camps). The same remains true now, in relation to al Qaeda, despite the fact that the CIA created al Qaeda, they lack the understanding in an anthropological sense to understand the true nature of the organisation. And the American people are routinely misled about the nature of al Qaeda and affiliated groups as well. Nations tend to respond to threats even now, as if they are national. When in reality, those opposing the tyranical rules of nations now, are not organised like nations at all, even if by their own propaganda, and that of their enemies, they are presented as being nation like. They are more like the tough seasoned organised crime groups from the former USSR and PRC (when the PRC was communist, it is a capitalist run nation now, its leaders were mostly interned in the camps at one time for being capitalists). Bin Laden is presented as the "president" of al Qaeda. This is nto at all true, if such a role did exist, it would belong to another man. But this man is not convenient for this role, for either side, as he ahs had his face altered by plastic surgery (in Lebanon, nobody except a few terrorists knows what he looks like now), and he is in deep hiding, and working actively to organise and orchestrate terrorist acts, unlike bin Laden. The most potentially powerful "terrorists", are not even in the business of terrorim now, so the public has not even heard of them, and does not even know they exist. Like any paramilitary or criminal organisation, if attacked enough, this could change. For example, if factions of the "Russian mafia" were to engage in terrorism (they are not a unified organisation, their "leaders" lead only by the threat of execution, not by any loyalty), they would make "al Qaeda" look like primitive sissies. PRC groups like the Big Circle Boys, have already engaged in mass machine gun killings, in Canada, but these are headed under "gang wars", not under terrorism. In reality, organised crime is engaged in terrorism, around the globe, and that is how they stay in power, and force people to pay them protection money. Most small merchants in the former USSR, pay protection money to organised crime, if they refuse, terrorism, they are executed, I knew a man who was executed for this reason (hours before I saw his crying widow). I used to buy food from him. Far more non criminals are killed each year by organised crime, than are killed by terrorists, World wide, and in America (with teh exception of the year 2001). So why a war on terrorism, and not ageneral war on organised crime, with the obvious conclusion, that terrorists are just one of many types of organised criminals? The reason is quite simple. In the World today, we have elite classes, which are quite cooperative with eachother (though not so highly organised as some think). A few thousand people, holging most of the money and advanced weapons systems in teh World, and commanding over 90% of the Worlds police and soldiers. How do you become a member of this class? 1. By being very wealthy. 2. By being a leader at high level of a great nation, or the leader of a small nation. 3. By being very high up in the intelligence / "national security" industry. 4. By being very wealthy as a top tier predator in organised crime. These are the four types that make up the ruling class of the World today, and they usually do not make much effort to interfere with eachother. They internarry, socialise with eachother, do business with eachother etc.. That is why the war on terrorism is a war on only one specific type of organised crime "terrorists", who do far less damage, kill far fewer people, and do far less terrorism, than other types of organised crime, and less than nations and intelligence agencies / national security organisations, for that matter, in the World each year. Why do we not have a global war on the criminal branches of nations, who commit mass murder (terrorism), inside and outside of their territorial bounds? Killing far in excess of what "terrorists" kill each year in terms of civilian deaths, and raping hundreds even thousands of times as many children as terrorists do each year. Simple, they are part of the ruling class, so enoy protection and cooperation from their comrades in the ruling class of the World. Same is true of "non terrorist" organised crime, they are the elites, well dressed, sharing the same elite class of whores in the maternal lineages etc. as the rest of the elite classes. The real reason for the war on terrorism, is that some factions of populists, have turned to organised crime to attempt to liberate their people from the organised opression of the ruling class. By doing this, they make themselves no better than the ruling class (bin Ladin was just one step below the true elites of the Earth, part of hsi rebellion is that he was angry because they would not let him in to teh ruling class, despite his great wealth, as in his society, he did not have close enough relationship to the ruling family to be at the top tier of Saudi society). The people who tthe "war on terrorism: is fighting, have set themselves up, as an alternative ruling class. That is, they are also the enemy of human rights, liberty, and autonomy, same as the class they are rivals of. They are like one faction of neoromans, fighting another faction of neoromans. But there is yet a third class of elites today, in the World, and they are making botht he other classes of elites ("terrorists" and the class as outlined above), very nervous. This class does not have much money, does not have much control over public opinion via the press, most nations are freindly to them now, but few actively support / harbor them, does not have armies of mercenaries and enforcers, no criminal networks gathering unearned resources for them, no mind control or torture machines, no positions in high leadership, no great popularity or control of major political parties. What this third elite class does have, is the power to wage modern warfare (unlike the so called "terrorists" of today, who are just one faction of neoroman incompetents slugging it out with other neoroman incompetents). This third emerging class, this new superpower (who like the Russian mafia, is not a unified power, but instead of leadership by the threat of execution, there is leadership by example, and unity by common cause, that is, what is right). The elite classes, are nervous already, and many actions now, are not aimed at the muslim CIA created pseudo Bedouians at all, but against this new powerful class of people, who the ruling classes fear, will some day arm the masses of the Earth, and enable them to take their planet back from the ruling classes. All over the World, populations were screened. Test scores examined (military entrance exams, IQ tests, school tests), psychiatric and psychological profiles were made. The ruling class, created an artificial class by screening populations. A class of people capable of making effective weapons to fight the ruling class, capable of deploying them, developing them, or using them. People of great martial intelligence, cunning, or valor. The ruling classes, and their vast armies of mercenaries, treated thsi artificial class differentially. Those they could bring in, via "patriotism", or greed (profit / bribery), or intimidation (m9ilitary or police style), they brough in, and incoprated into their system of global domination. Those they could not bring in, they often murdered, or neutralised in some way (such as false imprisonment, or drugging which rendered them psychotic, or more correctly, organically damaged). But after these processes, remained a much reduced fraction of this artificial class, created by the ruling elites of the World, considered by each faction of them, to be their "national assets", that is, their property, their slaves. Some in the ting remaining fraction of this global artificially created class, began to udnerstand what was going on. Allies, already eaten by the system, gave them warnings and information from within, they saw patterns, and put the pieces of the puzzle together. They began to organise, and resist, even to blackmail (stop, or X or some unknown quantiy Y will be the rersult, if you continue to commit these organised crimes against our class). With time, by about 1992, some groups within this new class, the class which was capable of making war upon the rulinmg classes and remained free of the ruling classes, or secretly was not fully loyal to the ruling classes, became strong enough to defend themselves. Members of the ruling class, and their mercenaries, began to die, or have other mishaps, in retalliation for criminal activities. Bombs went off. "Accidents" happened. The World was not longer so neat and simple, a new power, was emerging, and by about 1992, already strong enough, to stand up for itself, in a big way. The elite classes became very afraid. And why not, there are only a few thousand of them, the new class, of elite warfare makers, was growing, much faster than them. And unlike them, we are real human beings, doing our own fighting, with valor, and moral diginity. And unlike them, we can draw upon billions of humans, to join us in our struggle, but their class is so wasteful and degeneerate, the World can never support mroe than a few thousand of them. A few thousand lives, between global freedom, and global slavery. So the elites, about 1994, decided they could no longer control this artificial class they created, by organised crime, and terrorism. So they decided to divide this class up, into two parts. One part, they would make a truce with, and go from hot war with them, to Cold War. So they sent their slaves and mercenaries, all over the World, to offer a peace, with various members of this class. Those who they felt they could make peace with, as they were afraid, in case of war, they would do a lot of dying, and lose vast amounts of money and power. The other part of this class, they tried to exterminate,a nd very nearly succeeded, but not quite, and these, are the most dangerous terrorists on Earth now. They bide their time, and build their power, revenge is best served cold. Some fo them have joined the pseudo terrorists, others remain in deep hiding, some of them, start to test their mortal enemies, the elite classes. The war on terrorims, the "NWO", is largely a sham. They understand, some day, they will be fighting a real war, to maintain their organised criminal control of most of the Earths resources and people. That those of that class they tried to exterminate, will not forget. And, that those they made peace with, will not forget either, and some day, there will be a fight. So far as the pseudoterrorists go, it matters little, which fat asses sit upon the thrones of the Earth, so long as they are neoromans, from an ancient lineage of ruling class whore queens in their maternal lines. Such people, will always give in to excess, until they force bloody revolt upon their subjects. They udnerstand only force, because that is how they come to power, and how they stay there (most of them). If you should rise to their class, they come bearing fruits as gifts (often vice related), and bid you to join them, if you refuse, they will hinder you, if you work against them as a member of the elite class, they will destroy you, one way, or another. They compete with eachother, betray eachother, machinate etc.. After all, they are neoromans. But they do not tolerate their own, making class warfare, against their own class, so when this is done, it is done in secret, or from hiding, except by fools, such as the dead Kennedy clansmen. Best Wishes, Alan Van Arsdale --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Aftermath News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." > > - Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1785. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, (Memorial Edition) Lipscomb and Bergh, editors. > > > > > "The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun." > > - Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386. > > > > > > > > > Aftermath News Service > > > Top Stories - December 11th, 2004 > _____________________________________________________________________ _______________ > > > > > > > > Global Techno-Orwellian Police State Dictatorship Nightmare Update > > > > > > > "Happy Police State America Day! Isn't it wonderful to have total power over the citizenry! Heck, we can do just about anything we damn well please now that the sheep are fearing for their safety! haw-haw-haw!!!" > > Sen. Joe Lieberman (news - web sites)(D-CT), right, and Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record) (R-ME), co-sponsors of the Intelligence Reform Act, make remarks to the press after the Senate approved the sweeping overhaul of America's intelligence agencies. The vote was 89-2 for the legislation, already approved by the House, and now goes to President George W. Bush (news - web sites) for his signature. (Mike Theiler/Reuters) > > U.S. Alone Among Allies in Centralizing Spy Powers > By creating a new, all-powerful director of national intelligence, the United States departs radically from the practice in most of its Western allies where spymasters shun the public gaze and work by committee. An intelligence reform bill passed by Congress this week, designed to redress the failings exposed by the Sept. 11 attacks, will create a new spy chief in charge of 15 agencies and with substantial control of an estimated $40 billion budget. This highly visible chief executive will be a different beast entirely from the reclusive top civil servants in countries like Britain or Germany who coordinate the work of domestic, foreign and military intelligence. In Israel, a "first among equals" system prevails, where the chief of military intelligence chairs meetings with his counterparts from the Shin Bet (domestic) and Mossad (foreign) agencies, and has ultimate oversight over assessments. > "How do you reach an intelligence estimate if not by groupthink?" former Mossad director Efraim Halevy told Reuters. > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&e=1&u=/nm/20041209/pl_nm/security_intelligence_dc > > > Intel bill to institute national ID system? > Congressman: Driver's license provision initiates plan 'not proper in a free society' > It is just a matter of time until those who refuse to carry the new licenses will be denied the ability to drive or board an airplane." > A Republican congressman is decrying the intelligence reform bill set to pass Congress today, saying it creates a de facto national ID- card system. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, says by establishing standards for state driver's licenses on a federal level, the government is setting up a national system that's "not proper in a free society." > The bill, which established a new cabinet-level national intelligence director and expands some law-enforcement powers, passed the House of Representatives last night 336-75 and is scheduled for a Senate vote today. > "This is America, not Soviet Russia," said the libertarian-leaning Paul in a statement. "The federal government should never be allowed to demand papers from American citizens, and it certainly has no constitutional authority to do so." "A national identification card, in whatever form it may take, will allow the federal government to inappropriately monitor the movements and transactions of every American," Paul continued. "History shows that governments inevitably use such power in harmful ways. The 9-11 commission, whose recommendations underlie this bill, has called for internal screening points where identification will be demanded. Domestic travel restrictions are the hallmark of authoritarian states, not free nations. > It is just a matter of time until those who refuse to carry the new licenses will be denied the ability to drive or board an airplane." > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41828 > > > > > Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, left, speaks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House, Friday, Dec. 3, 2004 after President Bush (news - web sites) announced Kerik as his choice to replace Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge. Kerik, President Bush's choice to be secretary of homeland security, has withdrawn his name from consideration, the White House announced late Friday, Dec. 10, 2004. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) > > Kerik Withdraws His Name for Top DHS Job > In a surprise move, former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik abruptly withdrew his nomination as President Bush's choice to be homeland security secretary Friday night, saying questions have arisen about the immigration status of a housekeeper and nanny he employed. The decision caught the White House off guard and sent Bush in search of a new candidate to run the sprawling bureaucracy of more than 180,000 employees melded together from 22 disparate federal agencies in 2003 to guard the nation against terrorist attacks. Kerik's nomination had been widely praised by Democrats and Republicans alike. > A former military man, he became widely known for his role in helping direct the emergency response to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes against the Twin Towers. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?Z54E16FF9 > > > Kerik's Bully History > On the night of Nov. 28, 2001, crack homicide detectives fanned out all over New York City, one of them even going as far as New Jersey. In all, five detectives from the Manhattan South Homicide Task Force went to the homes of various suspects, fingerprinted some of them, interrogated all of them and told a few that they would have to take lie detector tests. The horrific crime? The police commissioner's friend was missing some items. > The commish at the time was Bernard Kerik, President Bush's nominee as the nation's next head of Homeland Security. The crime victim was Judith Regan, whose imprint, Regan Books, was publishing Kerik's autobiography, "The Lost Son." It tells the Cagneyesque tale of a kid whose alcoholic mother died a prostitute, but who nevertheless managed to become New York's police commissioner. > Regan's items, including a cell phone, apparently went AWOL from a studio at Fox News Channel. All were later accounted for. The phone was found in a trash basket - and it is my guess that it was the real reason for such measured panic. You never know what numbers might be in a cell phone. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/kerik_bully_history.htm > > > All hail to Caligula's horse > Bush's new head of homeland security is perfect for the job > The department of homeland security is a bureaucratic Byzantium consisting of 22 agencies with a huge budget exceeding $40bn. Bernard Kerik's appointment was suggested to Bush by Giuliani. With this favour, Kerik's meteoric career has reached its zenith. The high school dropout Kerik fathered an illegitimate daughter in Korea, whom he refused to acknowledge and support. He became a bodyguard for Saudi royals and then a New York narcotics cop. In 1993, he was tapped as Giuliani's chauffeur and bodyguard. Giuliani made Kerik deputy police commissioner and chief of the corrections department. One million dollars in taxpayers' money used to buy tobacco for inmates disappeared into a private foundation run by Kerik without any accounting. In 2000, Giuliani leapfrogged Kerik over many more qualified candidates to appoint him police commissioner. > Kerik spent much of his time after 9/11 writing a self-promoting autobiography, The Lost Son. The city's conflict of interest board eventually fined him $2,500 for using three policemen to conduct his research. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1369728,00.html > > > Councilman says police shouldn't use Taser on kids > Use of police stun guns against children "torture." > A report by an international human rights group condemning the use of stun guns has prompted calls in Cincinnati to prohibit police from using Tasers on children younger than 11. Councilman Christopher Smitherman proposed Wednesday that Cincinnati police set a policy prohibiting officers from using Tasers on children aged 7 through 10. Department policy, following national standards, already prohibits Taser use on children younger than 7. > Smitherman's proposal was prompted by the release of an Amnesty International report this week describing the use of police stun guns against children "torture." > http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article? AID=/20041202/NEWS01/412020378/1056/news01 > > > > > Valinda Otis was three months pregnant -- and in handcuffs -- when a King County deputy used a Taser on her in September. (November 30, 2004) > Credit: Scott Eklund/Seattle Post-Intelligencer > > > Police are too quick to grab for Taser's power, say critics > Teens and pregnant women have felt jolt in King County > When deputies pulled her over, Valinda Otis told them she was pregnant and needed to use the bathroom. > When they wouldn't let her go to a nearby restroom, she walked toward it, anyway, she said, and was quickly handcuffed and placed in a patrol car. She screamed and kicked the car door. That's when a deputy with the King County Sheriff's Office pulled out a Taser, pressed it against her thigh and jolted her with 50,000 volts of electricity. "It was a sharp pain," said Otis, 24, who was three months pregnant at the time of the September incident. "I kept asking, 'Is it gonna mess up my baby?' " > Tasers have been used locally to end violent standoffs and subdue suicidal people, but a Seattle Post-Intelligencer review found they're also being used routinely in far less threatening situations -- including against juveniles, pregnant women and people who have already been handcuffed. > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/201700_taser30.html > > > Jails to Stop Using Dogs Near Detainees > Jails and detention centers around the country must stop using police dogs to control immigration detainees as of Saturday under a new policy issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of Homeland Security, issued a memo to its field offices last month ordering them to refrain from contracting with lockups that use dogs around detainees. The lockups will still be able to use the dogs to sniff for drugs or other contraband, and to guard regular prisoners who are not being held on immigration charges, said bureau spokesman Russ Knocke. "We believe there are other effective tools that can be used," he said. > Knocke said the department has received complaints about dogs being used against detainees, "but I wouldn't suggest it was cause and effect in terms of the new policy. This is something we had been working on for a number of years." > http://makeashorterlink.com/?B202238F9 > > > Constitution Butchered in Winter of `04 > Infowars.com > Never before in US history have the Congress and the President done so much to destroy the rights that make America America. > In late November, the New Freedom Initiative passed Congress by a giant majority. This so-called conservative plan to force psychologically test every child in America whether they are public, private or home schooled dwarves anything that Stalin in Russia or the East German Stasi came up with regards to forced psychological testing of the population. The program even expands into pregnant women, who could, through the program, be forced to take psychotropic drugs that are known to cause birth defects in babies. The guidelines for the New Freedom Initiative were written by the drug companies, and they have openly bragged that they will augment their doping of the American people from the current fifteen percent to fifty percent. That is, half of the people in America would be on mind-numbing drugs. In polls, up to eighty percent were against the New Freedom Initiative. Congress just did not care. Neither did Bush – forced psychological testing is "conservative" after all. > On December 7 , 2004, a day that will live in infamy, the House of Representatives voted 336 to 75 to pass the US Intelligence Bill, otherwise known as the September 11 Bill. Contained in this bill are the dreaded Patriot Act II and provisions for a National ID card through the state driver's license. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/constitution_butchered.htm > > > Scannable humans complicate ideas of privacy > VeriChip implants put vital data within easy reach, but the accessibility makes some privacy advocates uncomfortable. > Scott Silverman, chief executive of Applied Digital Solutions Inc., is banking that a microchip in his upper right arm will bring the company vast riches one day. For now, however, the implanted chip, approved in October by the Food and Drug Administration, is attracting more media queries and privacy concerns than cash. Silverman realizes it might take some time before the public comes around to his vision of a VeriChip in every arm, making personal, medical or financial information accessible with the wave of a wand. > "This is not an iPod," said Silverman, comparing the device, which is about the size of a large grain of rice, to the personal music player. "This will not happen next month, next year, or even over the next five, 15 or 20 years. But it will work into our culture and our lives. It will almost take on a life of its own." > http://www.sptimes.com/2004/11/28/Business/Scannable_humans_comp.shtm l > > > A Nation of Cattle? > Have you been chipped, yet? > The worry, of course, is that being chipped will not stay voluntary. > Have you been chipped, yet? You could be soon, for the Food & Drug Administration has now cleared the way for a Florida corporation, Applied Digital Solutions, to market a tiny electronic device called VeriChip that is surgically implanted under the skin of your arm or hand. Don't worry, says the corporation soothingly, being chipped doesn't hurt you, and it's really for your own good. For example, they say, if you have an accident, your implanted chip could contain vital medical information that could be accessed by an ambulance crew (assuming the crew has bought a hand-held, chip-reading scanner, which Applied Digital also happens to sell). Besides, coo the corporate hawkers, being chipped is a matter of great personal convenience for you. No longer would you have to carry cumbersome ID cards to get into your workplace––you could have all the required ID stored on your chip, right inside your body. And think of the convenience of not having to fumble with credit cards! Instead, > your credit numbers literally are implanted in you, so rather than running your cards through a scanner, a retailer can simply scan you. Talk about consumer progress, VeriChip turns your own body– –your very own self––into a bar-coded payment system. > The worry, of course, is that being chipped will not stay voluntary. Corporations and government will soon insist that their employees, frequent travelers, protesters, and others be tagged for security reasons. To rebel against this effort to turn us into a nation of cattle, call the Electronic Privacy Information Center: 202-488-1140. > http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_15163.shtml > > > Officials urged to stop gun shows > Contra Costa supervisors may move to cease events at public fairgrounds > Supervisor Mark DeSaulnier is urging his colleagues to take a stand against gun shows at the Contra Costa County fairgrounds. The supervisors have no direct authority over Contra Costa's fairgrounds, which are owned by the state. However, DeSaulnier hopes to send a message to the 23rd District Agricultural Association, which oversees the events on that property. "I have always felt that doing gun shows on public property is very much the wrong message to send," DeSaulnier said. "The fairgrounds should be representative of family-type events." > At next Tuesday's meeting, he will ask the board to reiterate a position it adopted in 1996 opposing weapons sales and promotional events at the fairgrounds in Antioch. > DeSaulnier said it's not clear at this point whether the local fair board would have final say over prohibiting gun shows or whether the California Exposition and State Fair Board ultimately would make that call. > http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2573704,00.htm l > > > Shop acts after toy gun arrests > A Somerset shopkeeper has banned the sale of toy guns to children under 16 after two boys were arrested for playing with plastic pistols. The pair, aged 11 and 13, were arrested for possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause alarm or distress after a motorist saw them in Yeovil. They were released without charge. Police said they took imitation firearm incidents "very seriously". The boys bought the guns for 99p from the Poundland store in Yeovil. They were held after attending their local church youth club. Poundland boss Kevin Withers said the store would now ban sales "to err on the side of caution". The mother of one boy said she was considering making a formal complaint about how her son was dealt with by police. > "I can understand if the lady who was reported them was concerned but there was no reason for the police to take this as far as they have done." > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/4066195.stm > > > Global Police State: > FBI Strikes Deal with Russia's FSB in Fight Against Terrorism > The FBI and Russia's FSB — formerly known as the KGB — have struck a deal in the fight against international terrorism, signing a historic memorandum Monday. FSB director Nikolai Patrushev met with FBI head Robert Mueller, who was on a visit to Moscow, to sign the deal, which draws out plans for cooperation between the two security bodies, the Russian Information Agency Novosti reported. "A memorandum has been signed that will lay out the specifics of our cooperation in a number of directions, first and foremost this is the fight against international terrorism, the fight against crimes using weapons of mass destruction, and other directions," Novosti quoted Patrushev as saying. > Mueller expressed hope for an effective partnership between the two agencies. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/fbi%20_deal_russia_fsb.htm > > > FBI Strikes Deal with Russia's FSB in Fight Against Terrorism > Mueller expressed hope for an effective partnership between the two agencies. > The FBI and Russia's FSB — formerly known as the KGB — have struck a deal in the fight against international terrorism, signing a historic memorandum Monday. FSB director Nikolai Patrushev met with FBI head Robert Mueller, who was on a visit to Moscow, to sign the deal, which draws out plans for cooperation between the two security bodies, the Russian Information Agency Novosti reported. "A memorandum has been signed that will lay out the specifics of our cooperation in a number of directions, first and foremost this is the fight against international terrorism, the fight against crimes using weapons of mass destruction, and other directions," Novosti quoted Patrushev as saying. > Mueller expressed hope for an effective partnership between the two agencies. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/fbi_strikes_deal_russia.htm > > > > > Shifting Responsibility > "A terror alert regime": a ban on holding assemblies, meetings and other public events, more frequent ID checks, restrictions of movement of citizens and transport > The draft bill on counteracting terrorism submitted to the lower house this week is yet another anti-constitutional initiative by the Russian authorities in their war on terror. The authors of the bill have called for the introduction of a regime of terror alerts, in addition to an emergency situation regime and a regime of counter- terrorist operations enforceable under the current anti-terror legislation. The terror alert regime would be enforced across the country "upon receipt of data on the possible preparation…of a terrorist act and in circumstances where such data cannot be verified". In other words, any time the country's security services have a feeling that the threat of a terrorist attack has increased, they will have the legal right to demand "a terror alert regime". Such a regime, according to the draft, could be declared at the request of security agencies either in certain areas or throughout the whole country. > For citizens that will mean increased security measures, a ban on holding assemblies, meetings and other public events, more frequent ID checks, restrictions of movement of citizens and transport in the streets, and heightened security at environmentally hazardous production facilities. > http://www.mosnews.com/commentary/2004/12/10/terroresponsibility.shtm l > > > > > > Yukos Compares Prosecution of Its Managers to Stalinist Terror > The Yukos Oil Company has denounced the detention of its lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina by Russian prosecutors on Tuesday. The statement from Yukos' press service was circulated on Friday. "The reputation, health and future of our comrade — Yukos employee Svetlana Bakhmina — are under threat. There is no justification for questioning a law- abiding person for hours, till late into the night. There is no justification for continuing the questioning after this person fainted and an ambulance was called. There is no justification for placing the mother of two young children into custody," the statement reads. The press service also stresses that Bakhmina was the third Yukos lawyer (Dmitry Gololobov and Kirill Glukhovsky before her) whose freedom, health and even life has been threatened by the Prosecutor General's Office who seeks to paralyze the company's activities and to curb its capabilities of realizing its lawful right to defend itself from the forceful seizure of its assets. "Our > company has all grounds to announce that the activities of the Prosecutor General's Office are undisguised terror which can be compared to Stalin's terror of 1937 in its forms and methods," the statement reads. > The statement also called on all the people in Russia and in the world to help Yukos. > http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/10/yukoscomplains.shtml > > > Russian Upper House Gives Putin Green Light to Appoint Governors > The upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, approved on Wednesday a bill canceling the election of Russian governors. 145 senators voted for the presidential appointment of governor candidacies. One house member voted against the bill, two abstained. The candidacies will be nominated by the president and then approved by local legislative assemblies. The bill was approved by the lower house, the State Duma, on Dec. 3. > The change is aimed at strengthening the federal government in the wake of a spate of deadly terrorist attacks. The proposal was made by the Russian president Vladimir Putin after the deadly school attack in the South Russian city of Beslan. Governors, in turn, will have broader powers over regional administrations. > Opponents say the change only increases what they see as an authoritarian tendency in Kremlin policy. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/russia_putin_appoints_govs.htm > > > > > > Mayor Smolin, national hero in the making / Image from www.40021.ru > > > This is pure state-of-the-art state-sponsored mind-control propaganda!! It's only purpose is the gain public support for more dictatorial police powers and endless war! Riddled with coverup lies on the FSB psyops bombings and other fantastic claims. > > State-Sponsored Blockbuster Hits Russia's Movie Screens > A much-publicised and eagerly-awaited Russian blockbuster hits screens all over the country today. "Countdown," or "Lichniy Nomer," its original title, is an attempt to outdo the latest commercial success of "Night Watch," doubling the budget and stocking up on authentic military planes, real Special Forces units, and overt backing from the government. The movie begins with a confession: Russian FSB operative Smolin admits that the apartment bombings across Russia were not in fact carried out by Chechen terrorists, but by him and his colleagues. Then — ta-da! — we see that he is actually being forced to lie by a certain excommunicated oligarch named Pokrovsky, who has kidnapped Smolin's daughter and staged a Chechen hostage takeover in a Moscow circus. Pokrovsky's cunning plan is to turn up in the circus and expertly negotiate his way back into the Russian political arena by freeing the hostages. But that's not all! Simultaneously there is a global terrorist threat from an Arab group > with the indistinct name "Ansar Allah" whose leader sports the archetypal beard and wants to get rid of all enemy presidents at once by bombing an anti-terrorist conference in Rome. > If you are already confused by the movie's main plots, then brace yourself for the various technical details of this blockbuster (with an official budget of $7 million, 345 copies, and serious promotion on state television channels). > http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/12/09/countdown.shtml > > > Police right to halt protest, say judges > Senior judges yesterday ruled that police were right to stop three coachloads of people travelling to a military base to protest against the Iraq war, but acted unlawfully when they detained the demonstrators for over two hours. Lord Woolf, the lord chief justice, and two other appeal court judges dismissed an appeal brought after 120 people were turned away from a demonstration at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, where US planes were based. After halting the coaches, police forced them back to London. The appeal court described this as unlawful, saying the protesters were "virtually prisoners", with police vehicles being manoeuvred to stop the coaches leaving the motorway, meaning the passengers could not go to the toilet for over two hours. Barry Hugill, of the civil rights group Liberty, which supported the demonstrators, said: "The right to protest is absolutely central to the British way of life and in our view the Fairford anti-war protesters were denied that right." > John Halford, solicitor for protester Jane Laporte, who brought the case, said his client was still very likely to win damages from the police for the unlawful detention. If all 120 on the coach are paid damages Gloucestershire police could face a substantial six- figure bill. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/story/0,12809,1369405,00.html > > > Father who smacked son banned from home for six months > The ban had punished not just him but his entire family. > A father who was spotted smacking his young son during a shopping trip was barred from his own home and separated from his family for six months, it emerged yesterday. Earlier this year, a detective putting up murder inquiry posters in Chorlton, Greater Manchester, saw the 41-year-old giving a single smack to the bottom of his three- year-old son. The father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to common assault at Manchester magistrates court yesterday. Bail conditions imposed by the court and social services had banned him from the home he shared with his partner and two children - including a new-born baby girl - as he waited six months for his case to come to trial. He was also prevented from having any unsupervised contact with his son, and for several months was not even allowed phone contact with him. Yesterday the man said that the ban had punished not just him but his entire family. > "My partner had to look after our son and bring up our baby all on her own for six months because I wasn't allowed to be around," he said. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/child/story/0,7369,1369556,00.html > > > The poor Nepalese people are stuck between an oppressive Feudal Monarchy and a murderous Communist revolution > > Nepal Disciplines Soldiers for Abuses > The Royal Nepalese Army said Wednesday it has disciplined 105 soldiers and officers for human rights abuses, ranging from excessive use of force to murder. The punishments handed down in the last year have ranged from warnings and suspension to jail terms — with seven years in an army prison the maximum sentence, said army spokesman Col. Deepak Gurung. The admission came as a team of U.N. investigators was in Nepal to investigate allegations that the military has been involved in extrajudicial killings, disappearances, arbitrary arrests and torture while fighting Maoist rebels. Independent human rights groups say as many as 1,200 people have disappeared in Nepal, and that the army is largely to blame. Gurung said only 47 people are in army custody. The rebels, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been fighting since 1996 to replace Nepal's monarchy with a communist state. > The insurgency has claimed more than 10,000 lives. Rebels walked out of peace talks and withdrew from a seven-month cease-fire in August, and local and international human rights groups have expressed concerns about a growing number of alleged abuses by both the government and the guerrillas. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?I1C921DF9 > > > > > > > > > > > Perpetual War on Humanity Update > > > > > > > Sergei Ivanov / Frame NTV Channel > > Russia Defends Policy of Preventive Strikes in Other Countries > Moscow following U.S. lead. > Russia on Friday defended a plan to launch preventive strikes on guerrilla bases in other countries, saying it was merely following accepted international practice. "I have said several times that we are at war. When you are at war, you act like you are at war," Reuters quoted Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov as saying to an audience of military attaches in Moscow in response to a question about preventive strikes. Moscow has repeated this policy in the past, more strongly so after the Beslan hostage-taking in September, when more than 350 people died after Chechen guerrillas seized a school in the Caucasus region of North Ossetia. The policy has worried rights groups and foreign officials who fear Moscow might violate international law, but said Russia had not invented it. > "Russia is not the only country that has announced the possibility of using or carrying out preventive strikes. I would like to stress that we did not invent it," Ivanov added, hinting that Moscow was following a U.S. lead. > http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/10/strikes.shtml > > > US Marine: We Killed Unarmed Women And Children > A former United States marine told a refugee hearing for an American war dodger Tuesday that trigger-happy U.S. soldiers in Iraq routinely killed unarmed woman and children, and murdered other Iraqis in violation of international law. In chilling testimony intended to bolster the asylum claim of compatriot Jeremy Hinzman, former staff sergeant Jimmy Massey recounted how nervous soldiers trained to believe that all Iraqis were potential terrorists often opened fire indiscriminately. "I was never clear on who the enemy was," Massey, 33, told the hearing. "If you have no enemy or you do not know who the enemy is, what are you doing there?" On several occasions, his soldiers pumped hundreds of bullets into cars that failed to stop at U.S. military checkpoints, killing all occupants - who were later found to be unarmed, Massey said. On another occasion, marines reacted to a stray bullet by killing a small group of unarmed protesters and bystanders, said Massey, who said he suffers from > nightmares and post-traumatic stress disorder. "I was deeply concerned about the civilian casualties," he said. > "What they were doing was committing murder." > Massey's statements echoed earlier testimony from Hinzman, who says he fled the U.S. military because he believed the invasion of Iraq was illegal, and any violent acts he committed there would be unconscionable. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/iraq/marine_killed_women_children.ht m > > > Homeless Iraq vets showing up at shelters > U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocates fear they are the leading edge of a new generation of homeless vets not seen since the Vietnam era. > "When we already have people from Iraq on the streets, my God," said Linda Boone, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans. "I have talked to enough (shelters) to know we are getting them. It is happening and this nation is not prepared for that." > "I drove off in my truck. I packed my stuff. I lived out of my truck for a while," Seabees Petty Officer Luis Arellano, 34, said in a telephone interview from a homeless shelter near March Air Force Base in California run by U.S.VETS, the largest organization in the country dedicated to helping homeless veterans. > http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20041207-121848-6449r.htm > > > > > "Now calm down...calm down...we have everything under control, and we want even more control, so stop your girlie-men crying und heil zu der Fuhrer!!" > > A US journalist traveling with a Tennessee National Guard unit worked with soldiers to develop remarks about troop safety made to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld during his stop in Kuwait on December 8, his newspaper revealed.(AFP/POOL/File) > > U.S. GIs Hit Rumsfeld With Hard Questions > In a rare public airing of grievances, disgruntled soldiers complained to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Wednesday about long deployments and a lack of armored vehicles and other equipment. "You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have." > Spc. Thomas Wilson had asked the defense secretary, "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" Shouts of approval and applause arose from the estimated 2,300 soldiers who had assembled to see Rumsfeld. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?O2F921DF9 > > > Rumsfeld faces dissent from US troops > US troops on their way to Iraq peppered the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, with complaints yesterday, claiming they were heading into the conflict zone with pieces of scrap metal for armour. During a frank exchange at a base in Kuwait, 12 miles from the Iraqi border, Mr Rumsfeld was asked why armour was not available for vehicles travelling to northern Iraq and how long the so- called "stop-loss" policy, which prevents soldiers from leaving the service, would be applied. > Speaking from the audience, Thomas Wilson asked: "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armour our vehicles?" > http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1369804,00.html > > > > > Andrew Steele, a prosthetist orthotist, makes an adjustment on the prosthetic leg of Army Stf. Sgt Ryan Kelly of Abilene, Tex. inside the U.S. Army Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington in this Jan. 13, 2004 file photo. For every American soldier killed in Iraq (news - web sites), nine others have been wounded and survived _ the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) > > More U.S. Soldiers Survive War Wounds > For every American soldier killed in Iraq, nine others have been wounded and survived — the highest rate of any war in U.S. history. It isn't that their injuries were less serious, a new report says. In fact, some young soldiers and Marines have had faces, arms and legs blown off and are now returning home badly maimed. But they have survived thanks, in part, to armor-like vests and fast treatment from doctors on the move with surgical kits in backpacks. "This is unprecedented. People who lose not just one but two or three extremities are people who just have not survived in the past," said Dr. Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who researched military medicine and wrote about it in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. The journal also published a five-page spread of 21 military photographs that graphically depict the horrific injuries and conditions under which these modern-day MASH surgeons operate. > "We thought a lot about it," said the journal's editor, Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, and ultimately decided the pictures told an important story. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?C50A61DF9 > > > Despite 6 refusals, NATO will increase Iraq training staff > De Hoop Scheffer said Poland, Hungary and the Netherlands had agreed to contribute to the newly enlarged force. > The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on Thursday to enlarge from 60 to 300 the number of personnel stationed in Baghdad to train Iraqi soldiers, but not before there was a contentious discussion with the foreign ministers of six countries that refuse to participate. "There is a clear agreement to support Iraq on its way to permanent security and stability," said the NATO secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. But he grumbled a bit as he added: "With an international integrated military staff, that means all officers should be able to participate. All of the NATO allies should send people to participate in the operation." Secretary of State Colin Powell of the United States was even more direct. "When it comes time to perform a mission," he said at a news conference, "it seems to us to be quite awkward for suddenly members in that international staff to say I'm unable to go because of this national caveat or national exception." NATO officials said there was a spirited > debate over lunch between the foreign ministers of the six countries - France, Germany, Belgium, Greece, Spain and Luxembourg - and those who disagreed with their positions. A senior American official acknowledged that the problem was serious. The Germans, for example, supply a significant portion of the officers on NATO's international command staff. > But Joschka Fischer, the German foreign minister, insisted that his country was not going to change its position. > http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/09/news/nato.html > > > 'Ban publication of intelligence' > Tony Blair should impose a "blanket ban" on publishing secret intelligence material for political purposes, a leading think tank has warned. A new book published by the Social Affairs Unit said that the release of the Government's notorious Iraq weapons dossier had resulted in the "politicisation" of intelligence reporting. > It called for the appointment of a powerful intelligence public affairs supervisor to prevent the spymasters being "manipulated" by officials like the Prime Minister's former communications chief Alastair Campbell. > The book, Spinning The Spies by Anthony Glees and Philip Davies of the Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University - said that Mr Blair's decision to publish the dossier in the run-up to the Iraq war was "deeply flawed". > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-4615695,00.html > > > Blair rejects call for count of Iraqi deaths > Scale of killing obscured by refusal to collect data > General Tommy Franks, the US commander in the Iraq war last year, spelled it out before the invasion began. "We don't do body counts," he said, referring to the Iraqis that might be killed in the forthcoming conflict. His deputies were left to explain why a careful toll of American dead was kept but Iraqi deaths went unrecorded. "It just is not worth trying to characterise by numbers," Brigadier General Vince Brooks, the deputy director of operations at US central command, said just days before the fall of Baghdad. "And, frankly, if we are going to be honourable about our warfare, we are not out there trying to count up bodies. This is not the appropriate way for us to go." > Occasionally the generals have not been able to resist. After the assault on Falluja last month commanders said at least 1,200 rebels were killed. > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1369497,00.html > > > > > Villagers in east Burma are seeking refuge in mountains after the latest attacks by the country's military regime > > Burma attacks citizens amid 'cease-fire' > Thousands of minority villagers driven from homes > Thousands of members of an ethnic group in eastern Burma with a strong Christian population are hiding in the jungle after their villages were attacked by army battalions carrying out a government plan described by human-rights watchers as systematic genocide of minorities. Two recent reports sent to WorldNetDaily by an aide worker in Thailand, near the Burma border, indicate Rangoon's military regime is continuing to drive members of the Karen minority from their homes. While officially the government has agreed to a cease-fire with Karen resistance fighters seeking independence, the Burmese Army has maintained attacks on ethnic villages during the dry season, according to reports. A crying villager said, according to the source, "I was very happy about my leaders making a cease- fire and believed in it. I made a large farm and now I have lost everything." > The source said, "Burmese battalions are on the attack at the extreme ends of the Karen State north and south of our location here in Thailand. Right now, at least 800 villagers in the south and over 3,000 villagers in the north are running and hiding in the jungle. > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41814 > > > > > > > > > > > New World Order Machinations Update > > > > > > > NATO, Russia Back Fair Election in Ukraine, Deny Cold War Rift > NATO told Russia there were no hard feelings over its involvement in Ukraine's election crisis, and that the issue was not comparable to a rift of Cold War proportions expected by some observers. "We appealed to all parties to continue to avoid the use or instigation of violence, to refrain from intimidation of voters, and to work to ensure a free, fair electoral process that reflects the will of the Ukrainian people," a joint statement issued after a NATO-Russia foreign ministers' meeting said. "While many in the media have attempted to portray these events as a return to Cold War-era confrontation between East and West, I am confident that we can prove them wrong and find significant common ground here today," Reuters quoted NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as saying at the start of talks between foreign ministers from the alliance and Russia. > The talks included a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. > http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/12/09/nato.shtml > > > Israel to discuss growing role in NATO, EU > Conference to explore Jewish state's partnership with world bodies > NATO's recent invitation to the Israel Defense Forces to take part for the first time in multinational military exercises and participate in anti-terror activities has prompted Israel's most prestigious foreign affairs conference to explore ways the Jewish state can become an enhanced NATO member and forge stronger ties to Europe. > The four day Herzliya Conference, which begins Dec. 13 and is known to set the tone for future regional policies, will present ways Israel will participate in a new NATO alliance, including formalizing its membership status, Uzi Arad, former director of Mossad's intelligence division and chairman of the conference, told WorldNetDaily. > "Israel will be offering its model for an enhanced strategic relationship with NATO. The conference will include a group to discuss enhancement, including elevating Israel's status from a dialogue member to a custom made format tailored to Israel's standards and positions," said Arad. > http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41807 > > > > > > Bush wants Annan to stay > US Ambassador to the United Nations John Danforth says the Bush administration has confidence in UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and is not calling for his resignation. Danforth says at the UN headquarters in New York that his previous comments about probing into the case should not be interpreted as an effort to move for Annan's resignation. He said that no one to his knowledge has cast doubt on the personal integrity of the Secretary-General. > The UN chief has been accused by some US congressmen of presiding over corruption in the UN oil-for-food program for Iraq. > http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-12/10/content_2317028.htm > > > Bush administration backs Annan > The Bush administration has expressed confidence in UN secretary- general Kofi Annan and said he should stay in office, in a belated rebuff to demands from Republicans in Congress for his resignation. US ambassador John Danforth called reporters together to deliver the comments, saying that he had to clarify the US position after his colleagues and the media believed the United States Government was not supporting Mr Annan. "We are expressing confidence in the secretary-general and his continuing in office," Mr Danforth said, adding that he was speaking for the White House and State Department. "No one to my knowledge has cast doubt on the personal integrity of the secretary-general. No one," he said. > US Senator Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican, who was later joined by five congressmen, last week called for the resignation of Mr Annan, who has two more years in office before completing his second five-year term. > http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200412/s1262277.htm > > > Meet NAFTA on steroids > New U.S.-Mexico-Canada security plan would virtually eliminate national borders > North American national borders would be virtually eliminated under plans being considered by senior business and political leaders from Canada, the United States and Mexico for a "NAFTA- plus," continent-wide, customs-free zone with a common approach to trade, energy, immigration, law enforcement and security. A tri- national task force, chaired by former Liberal Party deputy prime minister John Manley, with the full backing of all three governments, is plotting the roadmap for this new, bolder alliance meant to compete with the European Union. William Weld, former governor of Massachusetts and Pedro Aspe, former Mexican finance minister, join Manley on the panel that reports directly to the Council on Foreign Relations. The mission has the formal blessing of Tom Ridge, U.S. Homeland Security secretary, who is close with President Bush. > The committee is scheduled to issue its report next spring. > http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41447 > > > > > Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) (L) is seeking to secure US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) (R)'s backing for a new international treaty that would end US isolation in the fight against global warming.(AFP/File/Tim Sloan) > > Blair seeks to secure Bush backing for new climate treaty: Times > British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seeking to secure US President George W. Bushs backing for a new international treaty that would end US isolation in the fight against global warming, a newspaper said. The prime minister's office confirmed that Blair had held "lengthy discussions" with Bush about a fresh initiative that would bypass Washingtons opposition to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, The Times said. One source described the deal as "Kyoto-lite," it said. > The deal would involve scientific agreement on the scale and nature of the threat, as well as an international program to develop the technology needed for renewable energy and the reduction of carbon emissions, it said. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?J2D932DF9 > > > > > > > > > > > Skull and Bones Election Farce Update > > > > > > 181,000 Voters in U.S. Elections Were Dead > FBI investigating allegations that Republicans in Florida mounted a large-scale campaign to tamper with ballots. > More than 181,000 dead people were listed on the rolls in swing states for the Nov. 2 U.S. presidential election, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. The Tribune reviewed voter data from New Mexico, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota. The newspaper found numerous errors in the integrity of voter rolls. In addition to the registered deceased, thousands of voters were registered to vote in two locations, which could have allowed them to cast more than one ballot. More than 90,000 other voters in Ohio cast ballots without a valid presidential choice. Either they decided not to choose a candidate, the machine failed to register their choice, or they mistakenly voted for more than one candidate. > The FBI was investigating allegations that Republicans in Florida mounted a large-scale campaign to tamper with ballots. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/vote_fraud_181k_voters_dead.htm > > > Programmer Says He Developed Vote-Rigging Prototype for Florida Congressman; Congressman's Office Silent > In a sworn affidavit ( pdf file ) Monday, a former programmer for a NASA contractor said that he developed a vote-rigging prototype at the request of a then-Florida state representative who is now a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. RAW STORY acquired the affidavit from The Brad Blog, which has been in contact with the programmer in Washington. While working for Yang Enterprises in Florida, the 46-year-old programmer says he was instructed by then- Republican state representative Tom Feeney to "develop a prototype of a voting program that could alter the vote tabulation in the election and be undetectable." > Feeney, a former failed running mate of Gov. Jeb Bush, now represents Florida's 24th district in the House of Representatives. At the time, he was serving both as general counsel and lobbyist for Yang Enterprises and the Florida state congressman. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/programmer_vote_rigging_florida.h tm > > > > > > > > > Bizarre Mysteries, Crimes and Corruptions Update > > > > > > > > Mum's the word ... Angelina Jolie and baby Maddox. > > Jolie shops for kids > She is a deeply eccentric - some would say disturbed - woman who has experimented with bisexuality, tried almost every drug known, been in a mental ward, had a bizarre feud with her father, is fascinated with knives and claims that, in a bizarre death-wish, she once hired a hitman to kill her. She has twice been divorced. Jolie lives in an English mansion with Maddox, three. Jolie wants to adopt a variety of children from around the world - her ``noble'' act. ``I want to create a rainbow family,'' she has said. ``Children of different religions and cultures. I'd love to have seven, a small football team. ``I'm drawn to kids that are already born. I like to think with every adoption I'm saving another child from an orphanage.'' > Last year, the firm that organised Maddox's was shut. Its ``orphans'' were bought on Cambodia's black market. Her showbiz peers have voiced fears about her children's welfare. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?I2D1418F9 > > > > > > Related > Angelina Named U.N. Ambassador > It looks like Angelina Jolie has finally found a cause worth loving almost as much as her Billy Bob: focusing worldwide attention on the plight of refugees. The reformed Hollywood bad girl, who is slated to play a humanitarian aid worker in the upcoming love story Beyond Borders, apparently is doing such a good job prepping for her role that the United Nations has decided to name her a goodwill ambassador. > We kid you not. > http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,8713,00.html > > > Britain examines possible 'honor killings' of South Asian women > British prosecutors are reexamining the deaths and disappearances of more than 100 women of South Asian origin to find out whether they were victims of "honor killings", a spokesman said. The announcement that 122 cases spanning a decade had been reopened was first made on Monday along with the report that a British-Pakistani teenager was believed to have been killed by her family after they discovered she had a boyfriend. Also on Monday, the Metropolitan Police announced that the suicide rate among South Asian women aged 16 to 24 in Britain was nearly three times higher than the national average, and was possibly linked to fear of honor crimes. > By Tuesday, four cases had been dismissed and another nine were believed to be honor killings, but investigators were still seeking proof, said Paul Hayward of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). > http://makeashorterlink.com/?T2F1128F9 > > > > > Defense seeks to spare Helzer > Attorney probes history of mental illness in family of confessed murderer > Confessed murderer Glenn Taylor Helzer harbored an apocalyptic view of the world and hoped to lead elements of the Mormon church against the forces of Armageddon, a one-time friend testified Monday. Helzer's friends and family took the stand as the defense opened its case Monday and sought to spare Helzer's life. The day's testimony portrayed Helzer as an individual whose disillusionment with the Mormon church sent him down a dark path. Ohio resident Jonathan Taylor -- who met Helzer in the early 1990s while both were on missions to Brazil -- said Helzer told him technology would be rendered useless and society would become fragmented once Christ returned. Helzer believed the church would be led by warrior prophets in the days of the apocalypse, Taylor said, adding that the defendant thought he might be called upon "to become a warrior preacher." > Helzer, 34, of Concord faces a possible death sentence in the summer 2000 killings of Ivan Stineman, 85, and his wife, Annette, 78, both of Concord; Selina Bishop, 22, of Woodacre; her mother, Jennifer Villarin, 45, of Novato; and Villarin's companion, James Gamble, 54, of Laytonville. > http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~2581321,00.htm l > > > 2 Girls Convicted of Strangling Paralyzed Woman > Staff Writer A Rostov-on-Don court convicted two teenage girls Tuesday of strangling a paralyzed woman and stealing her gold jewelry, rejecting their claim that it was a mercy killing made at the request of the victim. The Rostov Regional Court convicted Kristina Patrina, 17, and Marta Shkermanova, 14, of murdering Natalya Barannikova, 32, in August in the regional town of Volgodonsk. Patrina was sentenced to five years in a corrective labor colony, while Shkermanova was sentenced to four years, Rostov regional prosecutor's office spokeswoman Yelena Velikova said. Both Patrina and Shkermanova admitted to strangling Barannikova but claimed it was euthanasia because Barannikova, who was paralyzed in a car accident in February, had asked them to help her die, Velikova said. The girls also said Barannikova promised them the jewelry in exchange for their help. Shkermanova and Barannikova were next-door neighbors. Prosecutor Alexei Khilobok said the death had little to do with euthanasia. > "This is absolutely a different situation," Khilobok said by telephone from Rostov. "Sympathy with the victim was only one aspect. There was the issue of the gold, which they sold and then split the money. And with euthanasia, several criteria must be met, including a psychological evaluation of the patient." > http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/08/011.html > > > Australian government offers Aborigines petrol if they wash their children > Australia's conservative government has offered to supply a remote Aboriginal township with fuel if parents agreed to wash their children, under a controversial plan to end health problems plaguing indigenous Critics labelled the deal patronising and discriminatory, while supporters said it was an innovative solution to endemic poor health among Aborigines, who form Australia's most disadvantaged community. > Under the deal, the Mulan community in the outback of Western Australia state will receive a 172,000 dollar (132,400 US) grant to acquire petrol pumps, which are vital in keeping the settlement functioning during the cyclone season. > http://makeashorterlink.com/?D1E943DF9 > > > > > > > > Citizens Resisting Tyranny, War, Crime and Corruption > > > > > > City approves resolution against USA Patriot Act > Helena city commissioners went on record Monday night, narrowly passing a resolution critical of the USA Patriot Act. The 3-2 vote "protecting the civil liberties of the citizens" sends what Mayor Jim Smith said is a message that Helenans have "deep concerns and unrest" over the act. The six-page resolution takes issue with the controversial legislation, lauds the Helena Police Department for its good efforts protecting civil liberties, and asks city staff to provide periodic reports on local terrorism investigations. (The resolution can be found on the city Web site, www.ci.helena.mt.us.) Supporters of the Helena Patriot Committee wore green lapel signs reading "I support a free and safe Helena" in Commission Chambers. After the outcome, they hugged each other in the hallways. > "(The vote) says that the commission truly listened to Helena citizens," said Diane Carlson Evans, a former Army nurse and committee co-chair. The resolution has substance and accountability, she said. > http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/city_against_patriot_act.htm > > > > > 'Stop Big Brother's ID plans' > A NEW group has been launched in Cambridge to fight Government plans for a national identity card. > Home Secretary David Blunkett announced the Identity Cards Bill, amid claims the cards could tackle terrorism, make national borders more secure and prevent abuse of benefits and public services. However, opponents NO2ID say cardholders will have to pay for the scheme and their "most intimate details will be controlled by the Government forever". Matt Freestone, a 33-year-old software developer, of Perne Road, Cambridge, is involved in setting up the Cambridge group. He said: "We oppose the Government's plans to introduce identity cards and a national identity register because they will significantly diminish personal privacy and threaten civil liberties. > "There's no evidence that ID cards prevent terrorism - unfortunately we have two recent examples in the 9/11 attacks where the terrorists were largely using their own IDs, and Madrid, where Spain's ID card scheme did nothing to deter the bombers. > http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=66088 > > > > > One plaintiff, Army National Guard Spc. David Qualls, at podium, with one of his attorneys, Staughton Lynd, answers questions during a news conference > > US Soldiers Sue Pentagon Over Extension of Duty > Eight U.S. soldiers are suing the Pentagon over a policy that they say is extending the deployment of thousands of service personnel in Iraq beyond their agreed commitment to service. The lawsuit comes as more soldiers are being ordered deployed to Iraq to contain an on- going insurgency. The eight soldiers are challenging what is known as the U.S. Army's stop loss policy, put in place because of the Pentagon's need to maintain experienced combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under it, the army is requiring soldiers deployed to either country to remain on duty as long as their units are deployed, even if that time extends beyond their terms of enlistment. > The Army says the move is needed to maintain a cohesive force during battle. And, Lieutenant Colonel Pamela Hart defends the policy as standard during wartime and says it is written into military enlistment contracts. > "It says that soldiers may be required to serve on active duty for the entire period of the war or emergency and for six months after its end," he said. "The whole contract is quite explanatory in that if the military needs you during a period of service, war, that you as a volunteer soldier have an obligation to serve." > http://www.voanews.com/english/2004-12-06-voa62.cfm > > > U.S. soldiers challenge forced re-enlistments > Eight soldiers are challenging the U.S. Army's policy requiring them to serve longer than the terms of their enlistment contracts. In a lawsuit being filed Monday in federal court, the soldiers are seeking a judge's order requiring the Army to immediately release them from service. "The army made an agreement with me and I expected them to honour it," said David Qualls, one of the plaintiffs. He signed up in July, 2003, for a one-year stint in the Arkansas National Guard but has been told he will remain on active duty in Iraq until next year. Under the Pentagon's "stop-loss" program, the army can extend enlistments during war or national emergencies as a way to promote continuity and cohesiveness. > The policy, invoked in June, could keep tens of thousands of personnel in the military beyond their expected departure. The policy was also used during the buildup to the 1991 Persian Gulf war. > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041206.wusarmy12 06/BNStory/International/ > > > San Diego-based sailor refuses deployment in protest of war > A Navy petty officer opposed to the war in Iraq refused to board his ship Monday as sailors and Marines deployed for the Persian Gulf. Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes, 23, said he has opposed the war since its inception. Until recently, the weapons-control technician said he did not feel he had a direct role in the war. Two weeks ago, however, he said he was involuntarily transferred to the amphibious transport USS Bonhomme Richard, which ferries Marines to Iraq. "I don't want to be a part of a ship that's taking 3,000 Marines over there, knowing a hundred or more of them won't come back," he said. "I can't sleep at night knowing that's what I do for a living." Paredes of the New York City borough of the Bronx said he joined the Navy in 2000 and has 20 months left on his six-year enlistment. He said he was stationed previously in Japan. He said he was young and naive when he joined the Navy and "never imagined, in a million years, we would go to war with somebody who had done > nothing to us." > Paredes was at the ship's pier at Navy Base San Diego Monday as Expeditionary Strike Group Five left for its tour in the Pacific and Indian oceans. > http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/11677110p-12566099c.html > > > Even though the people of Europe have surrendered their common sense, rights and sovereignty, they still haven't surrendered all their sanity, yet. > > Frankenfoods? Nein, Non, No > Although British scientists have pronounced some genetically modified crops harmless, European Union experts declined to approve another new GMO product for the eighth time in a row. The EU environment experts also brushed aside an attempt by the executive commission to enlist their support in forcing five member state governments to end bans on GMO foods and crops within 20 days. The lack of agreement underscores lingering European distaste for "Frankenstein" foods just six months after the end of a five- year blockade on authorizing new GMO products. > Nuclear hydrogen power: A government laboratory and a private company announced a $2.6 million project to develop hydrogen in a nuclear reactor using a process with the potential to one day trim the country's reliance on fossil fuels. > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,65877,00.html? tw=wn_9techhead > > > > > > > > > > Notice: Aftermath News is not accepting any more subscriptions at this time due to increasing bulk mail restrictions on Yahoo. However, if you want to be in the loop for future announcements regarding the upcoming Aftermath News Blog, please submit your name and email address. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. 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