-Caveat Lector- The UNHCR estimates that there are at least one million Afghans starving to death at the moment. http://struggle.ws/issues/war/afghan/pamwt/afghan.html
Medea Benjamin of Global Exchange, a human rights organization based in San Francisco, recently sent a fact-finding delegation to Afghanistan and Pakistan. "I didn't know that massive numbers of people were not getting food aid because the U.S. was blocking an international force from coming in to open up the roads so that aid could get in," Benjamin reports. http://www.guerrillanews.com/war_on_terrorism/doc250.html Police fired teargas and made mounted baton charges against protesters clamoring for the Argentine president's resignation outside his palace Thursday, after days of rioting over austerity measures left 16 dead and forced the economy minister to quit. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/wl/argentina_dc.html Just about the same time that the world was being treated to the Osama bin Laden "home video" which was supposed to provide conclusive proof that cave-man bin Laden and he alone was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, a story broke in the U.S. media, starting on Dec. 11, pointing in a very different direction. http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2849isr_spies_911.html Troops claiming to be US soldiers landed on the Comoran isle of Moheli, seizing control of the security forces on the island, a former prime minister said by phone. http://sg.news.yahoo.com/011219/1/25by3.html As EIR has documented, there is no such thing as "Islamic" terrorism. Virtually every terrorist group in the world-including those falsely labeled as "Islamic"-is headquartered in London, enjoying the protection of the British Crown and British intelligence, fundraising there without restriction, and plotting terrorist acts abroad, with no fear of arrest or retaliation. http://www.aboutsudan.com/issues/terrorism/embassy_bombings_aimed_to_drive_us_out_of_africa.htm There once was a young person named Little Red Riding Hood who lived on the edge of a large forest full of endangered owls and rare plants that would probably provide a cure for cancer if only someone took the time to study them. http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/humor/PC_Red_Riding_Hood.html Defense officials are considering the possibility of developing a low-yield nuclear device that would be able to destroy deeply buried stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons. Such a move would require Congress to lift a 1994 ban on designing new nuclear warheads. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1219-04.htm American opinion makers differ sharply with foreign colleagues over whether U.S. policies were a major cause of the Sept. 11 attacks, with a majority of non-Americans believing such policies were responsible, a major opinion poll said on Wednesday. The Pew Global Attitudes Project poll found that only 18 percent of American respondents believed U.S. policies brought on the attacks, while 58 of non-Americans believed they were responsible. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=827&mode=&order=0 The informal community of Internet software pirates has been ripped apart by the recent international law-enforcement raids on many of its elite crackers, members of the shadowy scene said this week. http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5100883,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 The University at Albany, N.Y., has shut down a research project investigating the claims of individuals who believe that they were surgically implanted with communications devices which can read and transmit their thoughts. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=828&mode=&order=0 [price fixing on gold] The following documentation and statements were presented in Reg Howe's lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Boston against the Bank for International Settlements, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, New York Fed President William J. McDonough, J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc., Chase Manhattan Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Deutsche Bank AG, and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1934 As a Jew, whose family lost numerous members to the inconceivable savagery and mind-numbing systematic, organized brutality of Naziism and the Third Reich, I am profoundly offended, sickened and saddened by Israel's flagrant racism and constant, relentless, ongoing oppression of non-Jews. http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=13886;show_parent=1 flight 587: "I saw exactly what Tom saw. I was near a stop light at the Marine Parkway Bridge. First, the small explosion. The plane kept on going, tail intact, then the big explosion and the plane nose-dived. The first thing I said was: 'The bastards did it again.'" . . . As far as the major news media are concerned – but not the Post – these people are delusional. They have to be. Because, if there really were a pair of explosions, that plane was probably destroyed by terrorists. These terrorists must have been on the inside. This is the opinion of Joel Skousen, and I agree with him. They did this two months after airport security was supposedly tightened. Such an interpretation of the breakup of Flight 587 is not what the airline industry wants, nor is it politically correct today in light of the successful anti-terrorism efforts of the government. So, the explosions never happened. They couldn't have. http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north72.html Church Committee Hearings, 1984 Iran/Contra Hearings http://pw1.netcom.com/~ncoic/cia_info.htm#CHAPTER%20ONE At a moment when the popular mind-set once again links the words "Arab" and "Islamic" with all things retrograde and threatening—including terrorism (cue the new Charlie Daniels anthem and revel in the poetry: "This ain't no rag, it's a flag/And we don't wear it on our heads. . . . /We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound")—it came as a surprise to some that the latest malefactors accorded POW status in the "War on Terrorism" turned out to be Jewish. http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0151/vest.php The European Commission said Tuesday that the United States had sought to block the deployment of a European system of navigation known as Galileo, with the Americans arguing that an enemy could turn it against the West in the event of a war. http://www.iht.com/articles/42335.html But what about the fact that Jerry Falwell was involved in the kidnapping of my daughter, Shamema Honzagool Sloan, and is right now holding my daughter a prisoner in his "Lynchburg Christian Academy" in Lynchburg, Virginia? http://www.ishipress.com/jerry.htm The following are photographs taken in Putumayo, a southern state of Colombia, in December 2001. The US and Colombian governments began a fumigation campaign on November 13, 2001. At the time of these photos, the campaign was still going on. Witness for Peace issued a report about the fumigation and joined with 61 other organizations to urge Secretary of State Colin Powell to cease this horrible policy. http://www.witnessforpeace.org/colombia/photos.html The double standards never seem to end. When an Israeli cabinet official, Rechavam Zeevi, was assassinated by Palestinians in October of 2001, Sharon and some U.S. officials denounced it as "terrorism." If the shooting down of Zeevi is indeed terrorism, what should we call many years of Israeli assassinations of hundreds of Palestinian political figures, philosophers, clerics and poets? Why doesn't the press point out that Zeevi was himself a Jewish Supremacist who described Palestinians living and working illegally in Israel as "lice" and a "cancer in our midst.(14)" Zeevi himself was a terrorist who advocated the forcible expulsion of all Palestinians from the occupied territories and the assassination of all those who resist Israel occupation. He even publicly called for the assassination of Yassir Arafat. Yet, the same press that calls his assassination "terrorism" never calls the pro-assassination Zeevi a terrorist or even a Jewish Supremacist. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1933 During a recent analysis of two meteorites scientists got a sweet surprise; they detected the presence of a sugar and many sugar-related compounds. The sugar and sugar-like molecules, collectively called polyols, were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Murchison, Australia, in 1969 and the Murray meteor that fell in Kentucky in 1950—two meteorites that are rich in carbon. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=830&mode=&order=0 In 1966, actor Patrick McGoohan created a thought-provoking television series entitled The Prisoner. Far from being the simple TV action show it appeared on the surface, this prescient series raised deep, unsettling questions about the place of an individual in society, the right to privacy and to freedom thought, the abuses of computer technology and education, and many more topics which have only become more urgent in the past generation. In the more than 30 years since this 17-episode series first aired, it has been broadcast almost continuously on UHF, PBS and cable television channels. The series spawned a set of videotapes, a trio of novels, a role-playing game, a graphic novel, several books, a world-wide cult following… and inspired endless debate over the meaning of the sociology, psychology, symbology and secrets of the multi-leveled episodes. http://www.impermanentpress.com/pages2/newsx.html Wilson's social commentaries, psychological essays and personal anecdotes seem to employ a tactic rarely encountered elsewhere. Where most writers are merely content to tell their tale, RAW employs Zen warfare to lead his readers up the creek of expectation, followed by a swift *wake-up* blow of the paddle to get his point across. It works. RAW forces the reader to stare their own preconceptions in the eye while delivering a knee to the groin of dogma. http://www.inept.com/sporadic/featuresjul98/raw.htm The Bush administration is stepping up pressure on the European Commission to approve imports of a dozen crops made with genetically- modified organisms, warning that a continuation of the moratorium could escalate into a serious trade dis-pute. http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/articles.html?print=true&id=011218001083 THE WORLD AFTER SEPTEMBER 11, BY NOAM CHOMSKY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1950 This manifesto outlines a strategy to eradicate suffering in all sentient life. The abolitionist project is ambitious, implausible, but technically feasible. It is defended here on ethical utilitarian grounds. Nanotechnology and genetic-engineering allow Homo sapiens to discard the legacy-wetware of our evolutionary past. Post-humans will rewrite the vertebrate genome, redesign the global ecosystem, and abolish suffering throughout the living world. http://www.paradise-engineering.com/ "I am not a Church numeral; I am a free variable!" http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/su/su.html "When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" -from Pat Robertson's "The New World Order," page 218 http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/7027/patrobertson.html Traumatic Abuse in Cults: An Exploration of an Unfamiliar Social Problem http://www.anti-fascism.org/cult2-2.html Three weeks ago, the Tamil Tigers attacked and blew up a fuel ship in Jaffna Harbor, a successful suicide attack in one of the most heavily defended waterways on the island of Sri Lanka. You probably didn’t hear about it. Sri Lanka is a world where suicide bombings are so routine they don’t make a ripple in the international news. (And, since Americans did not get killed, the Western press deemed it unimportant.) http://www.commonway.org/CWI911-17.html Virtually the entire top leadership of the Taliban has survived the American bombing and eluded capture by American-backed Afghan forces, according to United States officials and people close to the Taliban. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/international/asia/20TALI.html The tracks of secret financing for the Nicaraguan contra war may cross a troubling money-raising tactic passed on from Adolf Hitler's Nazis to their ideological heirs in Argentina: the liquidation of property from victims killed in death camps. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1957 We're now arming the same groups of people we had formerly declared to be "terrorists," those who had been fighting with Russia in Chechnya. But now they're our "friends," so we're going to arm them. Then when they become a problem (next week), we'll spend another billion dollars of American taxpayers' money to go after them -- after we've equipped them with our weapons. http://www.almartinraw.com/column43.html Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Tuesday called for an emergency Arab summit to be held at Islam's holiest city - Mecca in Saudi Arabia - to discuss Israeli attacks on Palestinians. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1958 German computer experts are working round the clock to unlock the truth behind an unexplained surge in financial transactions made just before two hijacked planes crashed into New York's World Trade Center on September 11. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1959 With the declaration last week that Israel would no longer recognise Yasser Arafat, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has publicly refuted the 1993 Oslo Accords and the perspective of achieving a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/isr-d19.shtml This was a massive demonstration, at one point stretching from Hyde park to Trafalgar square, and was much larger than the previous national anti-war demonstration in London. This was not the "wobble" ambassador Blair has spoken of, no weak willed doubting of the means but a thorough rejection of the war effort. http://struggle.ws/freeearth/war/londondemoNOV01.html Men, women and children have been bombed and gunned to death by US forces in Afghanistan and on Saturday 15th of December men women and children from the four corners of Ireland gathered at Shannon airport to protest at the use of that facility as a stop over and refuelling point for US death squads. http://struggle.ws/wsm/news/2001/shannonDEC.html Millionaires go to WAR! Expect world's workers to fight for them!!! http://struggle.ws/ws/2001/67/cover.html At the start of a war the national governments often receive a huge boost in popularity, in particular when the war is perceived as just. But as the war goes on and both the reality of war and the real agenda behind it is revealed the mood can change. War is a time when the state seeks to mobilise the people, in uniform and out behind its agenda. We need to help turn this mobilisation around and direct it at the real enemies. http://struggle.ws/ws/2001/67/resistwar.html There are good reasons to begin talking about terror as such and within a global context. To a large extent terror can also be viewed apart from whatever motives that may hide behind particular expressions of it, or whether it is carried out of states or not. If the end result is the same, in both a shorter and longer term perspective, such distinctions become less important. Which does not mean we should overlook the question of ideological legitimisation It is no coincidence that terror has formed such a central part within fascist movements. Nor that words such as class are absent in Osama bin Laden's as well as George Bush's legitmisation of terror. http://struggle.ws/issues/war/afghan/pamwt/terror.html The situation in Palestine is verging on that of a humanitarian crisis. The Palestinian population, 3.2 million people, is currently under the worst siege in their entire history. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1961 The Security Council passed two Resolutions on terrorism between September 11 and America’s attack on Afghanistan on October 7. Now editorial writers have tried to cut and paste the words of these resolutions to make it seem like they authorize this attack, but this is just a lie and you can prove it yourself by reading the resolutions at www.un.org/Docs/scres/2001/sc2001.htm As a lawyer, it’s natural that I look at things from the legal point of view. From the legal point of view, this war is illegal. Of course, it’s also immoral and it won’t prevent terrorism. But it’s very important that it’s illegal. The war is illegal because it’s a flagrant violation of the express words of the Charter of the United Nations. In fact, it’s not only illegal, it’s criminal. It’s what the Nuremberg tribunal called "the supreme crime", the crime against peace. The Charter of the United Nations, the most authoritative document in international law, seeks to ban war as a "scourge" Its very first words are "We the Peoples of the United Nations, Determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war…." War is permitted only when it is absolutely and demonstrably necessary. And the Charter does not leave that question to the individual States, no matter how powerful. Necessity is entirely a matter for the Security Council, with only one exception: the very narrow and strictly limited right of self-defence. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1885 If you have a fast computer and a fast connection to the Internet, you make Hollywood nervous. And Tinseltown is nervous not because of what you're doing now, but because of what you might do -- grab digital Hollywood content with your computer and broadcast it over the Internet. http://cryptome.org/mpaa-v-net-mg.htm A political powerhouse behind global energy deregulation and major GATS designer, the Enron Corp. has been a pivotal figure in the military-industrial network of cartels behind the Bush administration. Now filing for bankruptcy, Enron is the topic of Senate hearings, the subject of SEC investigations, and the possible target of criminal charges (for concealing massive debt in ‘partnerships’ with de facto subsidiaries). The story of Enron’s rapid rise and fall illustrates many times over the flippant ease with which leaders of multinational cartels can and will engineer global social and economic crises – banking on disaster. http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/doc244.html In mainstream political discourse, Israel's recent atrocities are described as 'retaliatory acts' - answering the last wave of terror attacks on Israeli civilians. But in fact, this 'retaliation' had been carefully prepared long before. Already in October 2000, at the outset of the Palestinian uprising, military circles were ready with detailed operative plans to topple Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. http://www.mediamonitors.net/tanya11.html The State Department’s “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2000: Occupied Territories” (February 2001) states unequivocally that “Israel’s overall human rights record in the occupied territories [is] poor.” It goes on to report that “Israeli security forces committed numerous serious human rights abuses during the year…. Since the violence began, [September 2000] Israeli security units often used excessive force against Palestinian demonstrators. Israeli security forces sometimes exceeded their rules of engagement, which provide that live fire is only to be used when the lives of soldiers, police, or civilians are in imminent danger. …Israeli security forces abused Palestinians in detention suspected of security offenses. … There were numerous credible allegations that police beat persons in detention. Three Palestinian prisoners died in Israeli custody under ambiguous circumstances during the year. Prison conditions are poor. Prolonged detention, limits on due process, and infringements on privacy rights remained problems. Israeli security forces sometimes impeded the provision of medical assistance to Palestinian civilians. Israeli security forces destroyed Palestinian-owned agricultural land. Israeli authorities censored Palestinian publications, placed limits on freedom of assembly, and restricted freedom of movement for Palestinians.” http://www.mediamonitors.net/jenniferloewenstein1.html Aiming to foster a secure environment for the political transition in Afghanistan, the United Nations Security Council today authorized the establishment of an International Security Assistance Force to assist the Afghan Interim Authority in Kabul and its surrounding areas. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=2463&Cr=afghan&Cr1=brahimi The family of Chilean military commander Rene Schneider, who was killed 31 years ago during a botched kidnapping, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington yesterday accusing Henry A. Kissinger, Richard M. Helms and other officials in the Nixon administration of orchestrating a series of covert activities that led to his assassination. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1927 Florida AIM is deeply disturbed by the termination of Dr. Sami Al-Arian as a tenured professor at the University of South Florida ("USF"). We are concerned that this termination is a direct indication that the University of South Florida is not an academic institution, but a capital enterprise in which academics, discourse, the truth and knowledge play second fiddle to the economic bottom line. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1966 Of course there is much missing from Bush's assertion that Islamic terrorists are simply jealous as hell of the democratic freedoms "enjoyed" in the US. The simple truth is that throughout the Middle East, indeed the world, the US has, despite its alleged support for movements towards democracy and greater freedoms for all, generally hampered provisional steps in the direction of democratisation whilst it has increased its support for despotic regimes such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Morocco. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1955 NASA has notified Don Campbell, Associate Director of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo and Head of the Radar Astronomy Group, that all funding for Arecibo radar studies will be terminated on January 1 2002. The Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society believes that "the Arecibo program should not be terminated to meet an arbitrary deadline." The Planetary Society "strongly condemns NASA's decision, announced today, to terminate radar observations of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Arecibo is the most powerful radio observatory on Earth and is the most accurate instrument we have for studying NEOs." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1956 UN votes 161 to 3 against for Palestininian state http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1968 Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies examines the basis for an end to conflict between Israel and Palestine, why all previous "peace plans" have failed, the role of Ariel Sharon, Yassir Arafat and the US. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=844&mode=thread&order=0 The purpose of this work will be to survey the covert operations that have been undertaken by the CIA in the past forty years and to assess the effectiveness of a number of these activities. We shall begin by examining the various shapes that covert operations may take. They are propaganda; political action; economic activities; and paramilitary operations. http://pw1.netcom.com/~ncoic/cia_info.htm#CHAPTER%20ONE Timothy Leary 1920-1996 by Mikal Gilmore Rolling Stone July 11-25, 1996 http://www.leary.com/archives/text/index.html China continued to supply arms to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist even after the group began the September 11 attack on America, says a senior U.S. official. http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20011221-95780908.htm When a Twin Cities flight instructor phoned the FBI last August to alert the agency that a terrorist might be taking lessons to fly a jumbo jet, he did it in a dramatic way: "Do you realize how serious this is?" the instructor asked an FBI agent. "This man wants training on a 747. A 747 fully loaded with fuel could be used as a weapon!" http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/913687.html The FBI is pursuing the possibility that financial gain was the motive behind the mailing of letters containing deadly anthrax bacteria and has conducted extensive interviews of personnel at two laboratories and possibly more, according to government officials. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9523-2001Dec20.html The FBI has turned down family requests that it release the cockpit voice recording from an airliner hijacked on Sept. 11 that crashed in a Pennsylvania field, saying the horror captured on the tape would do little to assuage their grief. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/ts/attack_hijack_recording_dc_1.html Captial Confusion Over Anthrax Vaccine http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1997 A US astronomer claims he has found the first mention of the star of Bethlehem outside the Bible. The reference is in a 4th-century manuscript written by a Roman astrologer and Christian convert called Firmicus Maternus. Michael Molnar, formerly of Rutgers University in New Jersey, is the originator of the idea that the star of Bethlehem was not a spectacular astronomical event such as a supernova or a comet but an obscure astrological one. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=847&mode=&order=0 An enormous squid that grows 23 feet long and lives more than 3,000 feet under the ocean, has baffled scientists with what they call its strange looks and weird behavior. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=848&mode=&order=0 Isn't it strange that in the past people were so peculiar in their tastes, their prejudices, their sexual attitudes, their treatment of animals, and their family relationships? Even now, people in some parts of the world have some really strange ideas about how to feel and behave. Were our ancestors stupid? What about the great scientists and philosophers of the past, who seemed very intelligent, yet showed little understanding for the problems of women and minorities? Many of the great leaders and statesmen of the past even had slaves. Are we just smarter now -- or what? No, those strange folks in other times and other lands were making decisions in the same way you do now -- decisions based on the memes and genes that inhabit their minds. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=849&mode=&order=0 On Sep 11 2001, three groups of hijackers blew up passenger planes into WTC and killed more than 3900 innocent people (per NY Times). The whole world condemned the barbaric act of those suicide terrorists. [Link - Massive Attack on America ] In retaliation, USA-led war against terrorism starting with bombing campaign on Afghanistan is incurring an unfortunate but real cost: the loss of innocent lives. http://www.paknews.org/top.php?id=1&date1=2001-11-21 This is American Justice??? http://www.mewmew.f2s.com/alja_eng.html Now, I want you all to stop and think for a minute of the full ramifications of this. Israeli interests have the ability to listen in on ANY phone in America connected to any of the systems used by Amdocs or Comverse Infosys. They have had this ability for several years. They can listen in and track the phone calls made by anyone's phone, whether police officer, elected official, media talking head, editor, policy setter, news mogul, even the President of the United States. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/blackmail.html Israeli "spy-phone" company Comverse Infosys now buying into the Instant Messaging business through Odigo, the largest Instant Messaging company. http://www.comverse.com/press/2001/010109.htm Odigo, it should be remembered, is the Israeli owned company whose employees received a two hour advance warning to leave their offices on 9/11. http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has%5C map showing location of Odigo offices relative to WTC http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/Ortega1.htm >From the Odigo web site. Gabriel Matsliach, PhD, Chief Technology Officer at Odigo, has overall responsibility for Odigo's R&D activities. One of the founding members of Odigo, Dr. Matsliach holds a PhD in computer science from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and has over 12 years of experience in leading and managing software development projects. Previous to his position with Odigo, Dr. Matsliach worked at Amdocs, a leading telecommunication-software company, where he led the development of cutting edge technologies and their deployment to mobile operators in Europe and North America. In 1998 he was awarded the "Prime Minister's Award for Software Development". http://corp.odigo.com/about/management.html DID THE MOSSAD BUG MONICA (HONEY TRAP) LEWINSKY'S PHONE? http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/mossadbug.html Israeli spy ring largest ever uncovered inside United States! http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/12/18/224826.shtml Report of Israeli Eavesdropping On White House Telephones Gets Varying Media Treatment http://www.rense.com/general18/report.htm Yemeni forces have attacked a village in the east of the country where they believe members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network may be hiding. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_1717000/1717330.stm President Bush's top national security advisers have made no recommendation to attack Iraq. But serious consideration to drive President Hussein from power, and planning how to do so, are under way in the State Department and at the Pentagon, officials said. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/18/international/middleeast/18IRAQ.html John Hull--Simple Rancher or U.S. Government Terrorist? http://www.aci.net/kalliste/rhayes.htm Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that an active FBI Special Agent filed a complaint last week concerning FBI/Justice Department interference in and mishandling of terrorist investigations. The FBI Special Agent, who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, alleges that he was retaliated against when he continued to push for and pursue certain terrorist investigations over the objections of his FBI and Justice Department supervisors. The FBI Special Agent, who is represented by Judicial Watch and David Schippers, Esq., filed the complaint last week with the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (IG) and Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR). http://judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1819 US coerces other nations to buy US warplanes http://www.unitedstates.com/news/farticle/698993?20011218183824 An estimated 200 U.S. scientists dealt with the anthrax program over the last five years and federal authorities have told ABCNEWS they are now investigating the activities of a senior research scientist who FBI sources say was twice fired from Battelle and who allegedly made a threat to use anthrax in the days after Sept. 11. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/US_ANTHRAX.html Mossad Link to First WTC Bombing Raises Eyebrows http://www.americanfreepress.net/09_16_01/Mossad_Link_to_First_WTC_Bombi/mossad_link_to_first_wtc_bombi.html Israeli tanks and armored vehicles rumbled back into two Palestinian-ruled cities after withdrawing briefly yesterday, sparking a fresh gunbattle in the West Bank. http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=11441 Is it possible that the right-wing blitzkrieg of legislation America and the world has been hit with, was only devised since 9-11? It stretches the imagination to believe so. Military experts say it would take many months to put together the kind of military action the US is now involved in. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/critical.html There is strong continuing support for the Taleban among ordinary people in Pakistan, according to a BBC World Service opinion poll. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1721000/1721663.stm A source has claimed that Iraq does have sites at which bio-weapons can be produced. The timing of this alleged "news" is so PERFECT, in terms of WELL-KNOWN plans by the BushMob to unleash a massive assault against Iraq, that it absolutely BOGGLES the rational mind. http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=13987 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. said Thursday that Israel has agreed to buy 52 additional F-16 fighter jets, exercising a $1.3 billion option under a contract signed last year. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2010 Arab foreign ministers meeting in Cairo on Thursday expressed their “support” for the decision of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to call for a halt to armed operations against Israel. They also said they would “boycott” Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for his isolation of the beleaguered Arafat. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2011 Following recent Israeli military strikes on Palestinian Authority targets and its declaration that Arafat was ''irrelevant,'' one resolution approved by the assembly on Thursday stressed Arafat's administration ``remains the indispensable and legitimate party for peace and needs to be preserved fully.'' http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2012 According to a story published by the Pakistan News Service on the 1st of December, documents referring to US anthrax vaccine-maker BioPort Inc. were found in the possession of the al-Qaeda in Kabul, Afghanistan. http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=82&contentid=418 Enron suckers who invested heavily in the benevolent Enron retirement account were not allowed to sell their shares and had to watch their savings evaporate like steam from a vaporizer. Energy giant Enron "barred them from selling Enron shares from their retirement accounts." http://www.shout.net/~bigred/enron And how 'bout that Northern Alliance! Thanks to them, my weekly supply of heroin will finally be reinstated. Whoo-hoo -- and just in time for New Year's Rockin' Eve! Those Taliban simply did NOT have the best delivery system for the stuff, kinda like why you never see Beaman's gum anymore -- poor distribution and shelf placement. According to the New York Times, the Northern Alliance has put all the poppy farmers back to work, and they are promising a "bumper crop" by spring. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1970 "MIND CONTROL IS COMING," the New York Times reported in 1965. And mind control has, in fact, come for MOST of us. Boobus Americanus lives in an imaginary house, one said to have "moral authority" in the geopolitical sphere, when in fact this is a nation that thrives on a foundation of death squad politics, political assassinations, media industry manipulation, federally-sanctioned drug operations, illicit wars, black ops, etc., etc. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1971 Caught in a blatant psyop fabrication, "they" still don't know when to give up: Bin Laden Names Sept. 11 Hijackers http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011220/us/attacks_bin_laden_tape_5.html The abundance of conservatives and Republicans at Fox News Channel does not seem to be a coincidence. In 1996, Andrew Kirtzman, a respected New York City cable news reporter, was interviewed for a job with Fox and says that management wanted to know what his political affiliation was. "They were afraid I was a Democrat," he told the Village Voice (10/15/96). When Kirtzman refused to tell Fox his party ID, "all employment discussion ended," according to the Voice. http://www.guerrillanews.com/media/doc249.html As the endgame approaches in the war against Osama bin Laden, Pakistani professor Pervez Hoodbhoy has written a thoughtful essay, published in two installments, which ponders the next steps that must be taken. "If the world is to be spared what future historians may call the 'Century of Terror,' we will have to chart the perilous course between the Scylla of American imperial arrogance and the Charybdis of Islamic religious fanaticism," he writes. http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/spin/doc245.html GNN's first news video, THE DIAMOND LIFE, puts the spotlight on the brutal atrocities committed by the Sierra Leone rebel forces (Revolutionary United Front) and the international diamond cartels, who have been willing to pay almost any price to maintain the artificial value of their gems. Produced in association with Witness and cut to the haunting music of Peter Gabriel, THE DIAMOND LIFE features interviews with UN officials, top political commentators and Sierra Leone television journalist-in-exile Aroun Rashid Deen. http://www.guerrillanews.com/diamondlife/index.htm This documentary highlights the personal experiences of child combatants and abducted survivors of sexual violence in Sierra Leone, and features the work of powerful local activists working for peace and justice. http://www.witness.org/ What may be driving this great nation to destroying smaller, poor and more vulnerable countries is greed. Greed for wealth. Greed for power. Greed for recognition. In their violence against violence, the US has used helicopter gunships, chemical and biological agents, nuclear bombs, cruise missiles, fumigation campaigns, the IMF and World Bank, embargoes, sanctions, etc. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MUN112A.html The [Kenyan] Department of Defence (DoD) yesterday remained firm that Kenya will not be used as a base by Americans to attack Somalia. http://globalresearch.ca/articles/EAS112A.html President Fernando de la Rua fled the Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace, aboard a helicopter December 20 after a day of violent clashes between riot police and thousands of workers and youth who defied a state of siege to protest the government’s economic austerity policies. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/arg-d21.shtml Some 300 subcontractors at Alcoa’s Kwinana alumina refinery near Perth in Western Australia went on strike late last month over the company’s cancer-causing emissions. Alcoa workers have been in dispute with the giant multinational since 1996 because more than 200 workers have suffered health problems, including nine cases of serious illness. The strikers have returned to work while Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) officials hold talks with management. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/alco-d21.shtml The U.S. government is delighted by the smoking gun tape, which was mysteriously "found" in Afghanistan a few days ago. The White House says the tape should dispel any lingering doubts bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 mass killings. But two other Arabic experts say the tape's audio quality is so poor that almost nothing bin Laden says on it can be verified. To my ears, well accustomed to Arabic, half of bin Laden's words were inaudible. The translation was sometimes out of sync with the action on screen. Bin Laden's statements looked cut up and edited. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1977 Selfridges, one of London's major department stores, yesterday announced that it has withdrawn a range of goods produced on Israel's illegal settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. There has been sustained pressure from Palestinian rights groups who held regular pickets asking the public to boycott the store until it the goods were withdrawn. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2017 U.S. farmers this year harvested a record soybean crop and one of the largest corn crops in history, but the number of hungry Americans in rural areas continues to grow, according to public policy experts and food pantry supervisors. "We've seen this fall an increase in people who are coming to the food bank for the first time in three or four years,'' said Barb Prather, executive director of Northeast Iowa Food Bank, in Waterloo, Iowa. "We're also seeing an increase in seniors and in the number of people who are in crisis. A year ago, we were seeing about 24 to 30 people daily,'' she said. "Now we're seeing about 30 to 40 people per day.'' http://globalresearch.ca/articles/SCH112A.html Just as Blair's values can enable him to curry favour with Israel's Ariel Sharon, architect of the slaughter in Qibya in 1953 and the 1982 massacres in Sabra and Shatila, so can these same ideals prompt him into friendly dialogue with President Karimov, whose airfields are suddenly strategically important now the bombing of Afghanistan has commenced. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2002 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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