-Caveat Lector- now why would this article refer to mercenaries as messiahs? just whose saviors are they? well if you go to the website whose url is provided below you will be afforded the opportunity to join a yahoo group whose gist is offshore investments...not much extrapolation is required to come up with the supposition that these mercs are protecting investors against popular uprisings... remember that chevron helo used to gun down nigerian anti-shell activists...hmmm...below it says, "In other parts of Africa, commercial armies are busy not only in combating rebel forces, but actively involved in protecting and mining natural resources."
at the end of this repeat of yesterday's post i have included the latest installment of "eyes on the world." --- eric stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > In Britain, where the mercenary business is flourishing, > the government is also said to be involved in making > contacts for corrupt regimes. The Punch magazine of 13 > December 1997 reported as follows: > > If a country approaches the UK government for training > teams from the British Army and it's politically dodgy, > what the Foreign Office does is give out a list of > Security > companies that are competent to carry out the training to > whatever standard; counter-terrorist work or just general > military training. They give this list of firms and say: > "These companies can carry it out. It's up to you who you > choose." But to get on that list you have to be cleared > by > the Foreign Office. > > ~snip~ > > In other parts of Africa, commercial armies are busy not > only in combating rebel forces, but actively involved in > protecting and mining natural resources. Mr. Eeben Barlow > the head of Executive Outcomes, whose troops are involved > in Angola, talks about "cost-effectiveness" and in an > interview he once said "We are selling the business of > surviving." > > more at > http://eotw.aptlearning.com/articles/mercs.html > Want to: a. Legally slash your business and personal taxes, drastically? b. Earn the maximum percentage per year on your investments? c. Learn how to regain your personal privacy? d. Create a 6 figure income in the next 4 to 8 months? Call Me Now!! 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But there is a LOT more to come. Don't miss out! Lock in 2001 pricing before it is too late! http://offshoreprivacyclub.off.ai/2001offer.html Thanks again for your continued support! Live free... Offshore & Privacy Secrets Newsletter http://offshoreprivacyclub.off.ai A Message From Our Sponsor GOT SOME EVIDENCE TO ELIMINATE? When you access the Internet, your computer keeps permanent hidden records of your activity for months or years. This is a serious threat to the legitimate surfer's privacy! Evidence Eliminator is a solution to this problem. It analyzes and protects your whole hard drive and defeats all known Forensic Analysis Software. Download your copy: http://www.evidence-eliminator.com/main.shtml?A1298 A Message From Our Sponsor End =================================================================== [2] The Bureaucrat's Toolkit =================================================================== You're about to lose something. It's already slipping from your grasp. And once it's gone, you'll never get it back. As a people, we are facing the most serious threat to humanity in recorded history the systematic stripping away of traditional freedoms by governments worldwide. And that includes all governments. It is a situation far more serious than the plagues of the Middle Ages that nearly wiped us out as a species. It is a threat never before seen in ten thousand years of human history. You are about to become the property of the government. Governments today have the means to permanently wrest control from their populations. A question of control... A number of separate threats have recently converged. An extremely dangerous situation has been created. Governments have been given the opportunity and the means to permanently wrest control from their populations. Bureaucrats are about to realize their dream of absolute power. It is a nightmare far worse than anything George Orwell might have imagined. Technology is providing the tools to government. We are now at a point in human evolution where your government if it so chooses can control every aspect of your life from cradle to grave. We face three separate threats. Together these threats combine to give government a stranglehold on our civil liberties a death grip on our traditional freedoms. Threat #1 Computers have taken over surveillance. Surveillance is now automated. Entire populations can be supervised and monitored in real time. Half your life, including your last credit card purchase, is already on a database. Computers eavesdrop on all electronic and telephone communications using word-recognition and voice-recognition software. Video cameras are everywhere inside and outside they can recognize vehicle license plates and even human faces. And all this information, all these databases, are cross-referenced and tied together by computers. Taken together, it's called dataveillance. It makes it easy to track certain classes of people. Like minorities. Or dissidents. Or grassroots political movements. Or anyone who dares think for himself. Threat #2 Militarization has taken over the police. The cops are now using some very nasty weapons. Half the stuff they use is prohibited by the Geneva Convention and the Hague Declaration. The government can't use it in war, but their own population is fair game. Modern police technology gives a whole new meaning to crowd control they use sticky foam laced with chemical irritants. It gives a whole new meaning to interrogation they use new mark-free interrogation tools. And new friendlier, more humane weapons like plastic bullets, pepper gas, and stun guns that still maim, scalp, burn, mutilate, and kill. Threat #3 Big business has taken over proliferation. Any government bureaucrat can buy this stuff. Most of these high-tech gadgets are dual-use. You can use them for benign things like traffic control or nasty things like people control. Private companies are reaping huge profits manufacturing and exporting this nightmarish technology. Research and development has gone berserk. Who cares about trivial things like human rights when there's a buck to be made? Heck, if anyone complains just order the $100,000 mobile execution vehicle it comes complete with lethal injection machine, steel holding cell, and areas for "witnesses" and "staff". Wake up call... This is what our government has been up to while we've been asleep at the wheel. They've been busy making choices. About technology and how to use it. Should technology serve the existing power structure or should it serve the population? Should technology be used to protect the government or should it be used to protect the people? Well, folks, they decided to protect themselves rather than us. Government for the people is bureaucrat old-think. Government against the people is bureaucrat new-think. Simply stated, it's hidden-control versus democratic accountability. And hidden-control is winning. What does all this mean for you and me? Well, it's becoming a lot easier for politicians to use force rather than fix social problems. It's becoming more tempting for them to choose coercion rather than cooperation. Negotiation and compromise are outdated concepts. Even worse, the new technology makes it easy for them to disguise the amount of coercive force they're using. Put yourself in their shoes. Why go to the trouble of consulting with the people? Why go to the trouble of negotiating with protesters? Why bother listening to dissenting points of view? Instead, all you need do is pick up the phone and arrange their destruction. A few words from the bureaucrat and the political control apparatus swings into gear computerized nationwide surveillance of potential troublemakers, militarized police SWAT teams for demonstrations and meetings, and a friendly sales rep standing by in case government needs more fiendish devices for controlling its citizens. How to make people say yes. When authority fails, repression begins. Eventually terror becomes official government policy. Look around you. Futuristic scenario? Sci-fi thriller? Hollywood's next blockbuster? Nope. Get real. Wake-up call. It's already here. Stop and think. Waco. Vickie Weaver. No-knock search warrants. Property confiscation. National identity cards. A cash less society. Across the USA, more and more people worry that governing-by-authority has become ruling-through-repression. Governments today can arm themselves with ghoulish toolkits for political control over individuals and over entire populations. Most people are unaware of the nightmarish systems that technology has made available to bureaucrats. It ain't pretty. And it ain't cheap. But, hey, it's your money they're spending to protect themselves from you. What is the real problem? The crux of the problem is bureaucrats who don't like people. They don't care about people the way you and I do. They only care about themselves and power. Technology is about to give these social misfits the power to exercise absolute political control over entire populations. The scientists who are providing this technology refuse to accept blame for how their monstrous devices are used. These antisocial idiot-savants have created the ultimate Frankenstein's monster a juggernaut that will make worldwide slavery a reality. Background: What you need to put this article in perspective. This article is based on information from official sources. Recently the European Parliament commissioned a study about political control in today's world. This article is based on that study. The study was intended as a guide for Members of the European Parliament to inform them about recent developments in technology useful for political control over people. The resulting document, released through the Directorate General for Research, was a political bombshell. The report first surfaced on 6 January 1998 in Luxembourg as a consultative version of a working document. The original document is a whopping 293KB in size. A 112-page paper version is available from the European Parliament department responsible, at fax number 352-4300-22418. Contents Copyright ©1998 Lee Adams. All rights reserved. ================================================================== A Message From Our Sponsor Go "offshore" without leaving the United States! Nominee Directors, Bearer Shares, NO Corporate Tax (State), and other features make Nevada the preferred jurisdiction of privacy enthusiast. Perfect for those receiving non-salary income or Internet businesses! Reduce taxes and protect assets. Privacy a priority. Complete privacy packages starting at $1250! For more information contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Message From Our Sponsor End =================================================================== [3] Newsbriefs =================================================================== * Political dissent can bring federal agents to door It was 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 7 when the two men showed up. Donna Huanca was alone, getting ready to open Houston's Art Car Museum. "They looked like robots," she says. Is the FBI acting properly in investigating reports of "anti-american activity?" She told the men, dressed in dark suits and carrying leather portfolios, that they would have to wait until the doors opened at 11. That was when they flipped out their badges: They were federal agents investigating reports of "anti-American activity" at the tiny art gallery. To FBI special agent Terrence Donahue and Steven Smith of the Secret Service, it was a routine mission to check out one of the more than 435,000 tips they have received since Sept. 11 http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0108/p1s4-usju.html ---- * New Driver's Licenses Pit Privacy Against Security A new generation of driver's licenses that the federal government is developing with the states would contain electronically stored information such as fingerprints and could allow authorities to easily track citizens nationwide. Supporters claim that with careful use, these new licenses could alert authorities to an attempt by a suspected terrorist to board an airliner, withdraw cash or enter the country all in-demand precautions after Sept. 11 But privacy experts argue that the plan is simply a way to by step widespread public opposition to federal ID cards. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42438,00.html ----- * Judge OKs FBI Keyboard Sniffing The Justice Department can legally use a controversial electronic surveillance technique in its prosecution of an alleged mobster. In the first case of its kind, a federal judge in Newark, New Jersey has ruled that evidence surreptitiously gathered by the FBI about Nicodemo S. Scarfo's reputed loan shark operation can be presented in a trial later this year. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,49455,00.html ================================================================== A Message From Our Sponsor Is your Boss, Spouse, Competition, or FBI Spying On You ? 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It also permits the government to monitor e-mail and Internet sites. Uncle Sam is going to know if you've been bad or good -- so be good for goodness' sake. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22888-2002Jan9.html ----- * Cash and the 'Carry Tax' US currency should include tracking devices that let the government tax private possession of dollar bills, a Federal Reserve official says. The longer you hold currency without depositing it in a bank account, the less that cash will be worth, according to a proposal from Marvin Goodfriend, a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In other words, greenbacks will get automatic expiration dates. "The magnetic strip could visibly record when a bill was last withdrawn from the banking system. A carry tax could be deducted from each bill upon deposit according to how long the bill was in circulation," Goodfriend wrote in a recent presentation to a Federal Reserve System conference in Woodstock, Vermont. The 34-page paper argues a carry tax will discourage "hoarding" currency, deter black market and criminal activities, and boost economic stability during deflationary periods when interest rates hover near zero. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,32121,00.html ---- * New Forfeiture Defense Manual Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR) announces its new Asset Forfeiture Defense Manual. Order from http://fear.org ================================================================== WHY HOLD GOVERNMENT MONEY? It is NOT TOO LATE to open your FREE e-Gold Account but you MUST ACT FAST... it is easy and it is free. Use this SPECIAL LINK to open your account and qualify for discounted in-exchange services via the Offshore & Privacy Club: http://www.e-gold.com/e-gold.asp?cid=367802 =================================================================== * Government zips its lips on frozen funds The Global Relief Foundation can't get to its money. It also can't get to evidence the government says is why the Muslim charity is being probed. Last month, federal agents raided the suburban Chicago offices of Global Relief Foundation, a Muslim charity. They carted away files, froze bank accounts and put the charity's founder in jail, where he awaits deportation on immigration charges. The Bridgeview, Ill., charity is "suspected of funding terrorist activities linked to al-Qaida and other associated groups," said Tasia Scolinos, a Treasury Department spokeswoman. It is under investigation. But that's all the government will say. Under authority of the Patriot Act, the expansive new anti-terrorism law enacted in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, no further public explanation is required. A federal judge issued a criminal search warrant against Global Relief, but the government's reasons for raiding the charity Dec. 14 remain under seal. http://www.sptimes.com/2002/01/13/Worldandnation/Government_zips_its_l.shtml ----- * Just Say No Years ago I wrote a story about a crackdown on marijuana growers in which state and federal agents knocked on the doors of people who had purchased indoor gardening equipment. Since they didn't have enough evidence for search warrants, they had to ask for permission to look around. To my amazement, the operation resulted in hundreds of arrests for marijuana cultivation. I found it hard to understand why someone with a closet or a basement full of contraband would consent to a search when he could avoid arrest simply by saying no. Eventually I realized that the pot growers who let the cops in must have believed they had no other choice. They probably assumed they'd already been caught and that failing to cooperate would only make matters worse. Even people with perfectly legal horticultural hobbies worried about the consequences of resisting men with badges and guns. "I had the impression that if I made them get a warrant," an orchid grower told me, "they would tear the house apart." LINK: http://reason.com/sullum/011102.shtml ----- * Setting Sail on a Giant, Floating City It's like any other metropolis, except you could be brunching on fresh Parisian croissants one day and pad Thai straight from the streets of Bangkok the next. But this city isn't defined by rivers, mountains or land boundaries. It's the Freedom Ship, the world's largest floating city. "It's the lifestyle of continuous travel, but with amenities such as a commercial center, a major hospital and major school system, and you get to take your home, your surroundings and your family with you," Freedom Ship International CEO Norman Nixon said in a telephone interview from his Florida home. Freedom Ship today exists only on paper. But some 3,000 families and businesses have already signed on to live and work on it. When it does launch, in 2006, this leviathan of comfortable living will travel a lazy circuit around the world every two years. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,42147,00.html =================================================================== A Message From Our Sponsor GET THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK IN THE WORLD! Already one politician has tried to silence this underground classic...Here's why: The Underground Directory covers all the most discreet and low profile "insider" contacts for free spirits everywhere: Privacy. Disappearing. Surveillance. 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