[cia-drugs] Fwd: Virtual March on Washington

[Kris Millegan]

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From: "Democrats.com"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: January 23, 2007 12:17:57 AM PST
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Subject: Virtual March on Washington




Ask Your Friends to Join the Virtual March on Washington



This Saturday, January 27, will be the largest anti-war protest  
since the war began on 3/19/03, with a big march in Washington DC:

http://unitedforpeace.org
and local events across the country:
http://tinyurl.com/24e8rp
(More details below).

Of course only a small fraction of America will participate in  
these events because of time, money, or lack of awareness due to  
the corporate media blackout of all progressive organizing.


We really need everyone who opposes the Iraq War to speak up NOW.  
That's why we're making it easy with a Virtual March on Washington:

http://democrats.com/outofiraq

Americans oppose Bush's escalation by 68%-26% - that's 153 million  
adults and millions more teens. Yet George Bush still adamantly  
refuses to listen to us, and Congress is moving too slowly to stop  
him.


Each of us knows 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100 people who share our  
opposition to Bush's War but won't march in the streets.


All we ask is they take 1 minute to email their Representatives:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/90

We will tally the emails on the right side of the page and hope to  
collect as many as we possibly can.


Can you help us by reaching out to your personal email lists? Click  
here:

http://democrats.com/outofiraq




Breaking News: Rep. Jim McGovern to introduce "The Safe and Orderly  
Withdrawal Act"


This week, our friend and ally Rep. Jim McGovern will introduce new  
legislation, "The Safe and Orderly Withdrawal Act of 2007," calling  
for the safe and orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq  
within 30 days of enactment to be completed within 180 days. The  
withdrawal would be paid for by already appropriated funds and all  
funds for deployment of U.S. troops would be terminated upon  
completion of the withdrawal. More:

http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-01-22-19-06-36-news.php

Exclusive PDA interview with Rep. Jim McGovern
By David Swanson, PDA Board Member

In an exclusive interview conducted Jan. 22 for PDA by David  
Swanson, Rep. McGovern commented on a range of issues:


* The urgency of this moment: "This war has gone on longer than our  
involvement in WW II. It is time to step it up a notch and to urge  
Congress to finally live up to its constitutional responsibility."


* Upcoming "supplemental" funding bills: "I don’t want to be  
talking about emergency supplementals in 2008 or 2009. I want this  
war over! I don’t want the next Presidential election to be about  
the war in Iraq."


More:
http://pdamerica.org/articles/news/2007-01-22-19-09-50-news.php

Podcast: Tony Trupiano visits with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA)
Listen to this podcast:
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=959

Sign This Petition in Support of McGovern's Bill
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/94



March and Lobby in Washington on January 27th, 28th, and 29th



Come to Washington, D.C., on January 27. Join in the march for  
peace being organized by United for Peace and Justice, a march  
dedicated to Ending the War Now!. (Some of us will also march for  
impeachment.)


TIP: Buy a dozen or more Impeachment Shirts, bring them to D.C.,  
sell them at a profit, and pay for your trip.


Come to the workshops and trainings (including on how to lobby for  
investigations with the ultimate goal of impeachment) on January  
28th and come with us to meet with your Congress Member and  
Senators on January 29th. It's not too late to register:

http://www.unitedforpeace.org/modinput4.php?modin=121

For comprehensive list of all sorts of related events in Washington  
and elsewhere in the coming days, see:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Key Bush Supporters Defecting to Obama

[Kris Millegan]

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1. Key Bush Supporters Defecting to Obama

Disillusioned supporters of President Bush are defecting from the  
Republican ranks and turning to Democrat Barack Obama as the best  
2008 presidential candidate for uniting a divided nation.


One of those Obama admirers is Tom Bernstein, who attended Yale  
University with Bush and co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team  
with him. In 2004 he donated the maximum $2,000 to Bush’s re- 
election campaign and gave $50,000 to the Republican National  
Committee, reports Sarah Baxter, a Washington correspondent for the  
Times of London.


This year he is supporting Obama, and has said he admires the  
Democrat’s call for action on Darfur.


Another Obama fan is Matthew Dowd, Bush’s chief campaign strategist  
in 2004, who last month declared that he was disappointed with the  
president’s leadership. Dowd hasn’t yet endorsed a candidate, but  
he said the only one he likes is Obama.


Robert Kagan, a leading neoconservative, is an informal policy  
adviser to Republican candidate John McCain. But in a recent  
article in the Washington Post, Kagan wrote glowingly of a speech  
by Obama at a Chicago gathering, saying it was “pure John Kennedy.”


In that speech, Obama called for an increase in defense spending  
and talked about building democracies and the right to take  
unilateral action to protect American interests if necessary,  
Baxter reported.


Financiers have also been “oiling Obama’s campaign,” Baxter wrote,  
noting: “John Canning, a ‘Bush pioneer’ and investment banker who  
pledged to raise $100,000 for the president in 2004, has given up  
on the Republicans. ‘I know lots of my friends in this business are  
disenchanted and are definitely looking for something different,’  
he said.”


Democrat Hillary Clinton has been attracting some support from  
Republican defectors, too. John Mack, who helped raise $200,000 for  
Bush’s re-election, has said he was “impressed” by Clinton’s  
expertise.


According to figures cited by Baxter, Obama and Clinton have  
received more than $750,000 in individual donations from former  
Bush donors.


Editor's Note:

Special: Can Oprah Make Barack Obama President?

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[Kris Millegan]

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Neocons Dismember the CIA

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 9, 2006 2:36:15 AM PDTTo: "[SPY NEWS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [SPY NEWS] Neocons Dismember the CIAReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=362Neocons Dismember the CIAKurt NimmoMay 8, 2006As speculated here over the weekend, the impending appointment of General Michael Hayden to the CIA will translate into the wholesale dismemberment of the agency in favor of the Pentagon conducting "paramilitary operations" (i.e., subverting governments around the world). "A senior intelligence community official yesterday said the director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, has indicated 'he is willing to give up covert operations to the Pentagon,’" reports the New York Sun. "The proposed change would give the Pentagon unfettered authority to plan and conduct these operations without consulting an intelligence bureaucracy its civilian leaders have deemed hostile to the president’s war policy," a completely natural opposition since the operations of the Straussian neocons are quite dangerous and insane.Meanwhile, according to Ken Rudin of NPR, the "prospect of putting a military guy in charge of a civilian agency, especially when Hayden and other U.S. intelligence officials are embroiled in the domestic spying controversy, has angered a lot of people on Capitol Hill, including some Republicans," not that this particularly matters, as the neocons perched on the White House roost get pretty much whatever they want. Bush should be sitting in the hoosegow at the Hague, awaiting a war crimes tribunal, and the neocons should be paraded before the cameras in orange jumpsuits, but instead they are allowed to walk around free. Obviously, since many Americans don’t think it is a big deal for a president to tell lies and then kill between 100,000 and 250,000 Iraqis and violate the Constitution in regard to a massive snoop campaign—a campaign orchestrated in part by General Hayden—they are not likely to complain about his appointment to the CIA and the shuffling of covert operations to the Pentagon. Senator John "Skull & Bones" Kerry may believe appointing Hayden is indiscreet, as a handful other Congress critters on both sides of the aisle do, but this will amount to little more than a small hurdle for the Bush administration.Pentagon covert ops have left the CIA in the dust for some time. "The Defense Department is building up an elite secret army with resources stretching across the full spectrum of covert capabilities. New organizations are being created. The missions of existing units are being revised," William Arkin wrote for the Los Angeles Times in 2002. "The increasingly dominant role of the military, Pentagon officials say, reflects frustration at the highest levels of government with the performance of the intelligence community, law enforcement agencies and much of the burgeoning homeland security apparatus. It also reflects the desire of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to gain greater overall control of the war on terror…. insulated from outside pressures, armed with matchless weapons and technology, trained to operate below the shadow line, the Pentagon’s black world of classified operations holds out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism that often looks more like a family feud than a war."Arkin, a former military analyst (who recently defended Rumsfeld after Ray McGovern called him a liar), needs a bit of translation: the Pentagon really does not believe the CIA and the "intelligence community" at large are ineffectual performers—the neocons in the Pentagon simply want to consolidate power and stage manage all aspects of the rechristened Long War. Moreover, "the Pentagon’s black world of classified operations" is not designed to hold "out the hope of swift, decisive action in a struggle against terrorism," but rather stretch the "struggle" out indefinitely and in the process, as the Straussians have long dreamed, transform society into a fascist juggernaut where plebs sacrifice their lives as the average German did under the rule of Hitler and his nihilistic minions.Nobody can say they didn’t see all of this coming—or at least those who pay attention cannot make this claim. Back in January of last year, the CIA’s favorite newspaper, the Washington Post, noted the Pentagon was "expanding into the CIA’s historic bailiwick" and creating "a new espionage arm" with "broad authority over clandestine operations abroad." Rumsfeld unleashed the Strategic Support Branch (SSB), originally known as Project Icon, and specifically tasked it to compete with the CIA and "operate without detection and under the defense secretary’s direct control." SSB began its work soon after nine eleven in Iraq, Afghanistan and "other places" civilian participants (i.e., neocons) "declined to name," although "an early planning memorandum to Rumsfeld from Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff" 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 9, 2006 12:18:45 AM PDTTo: "[SPY NEWS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [SPY NEWS] Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA ShuffleReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR2006050801616.html?nav=rss_nationExperts See a Strategy Behind CIA ShuffleGeneral May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Planshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2006/05/08/VI2006050800497.htmlVIDEO: Bush Announces Hayden To Head CIAPresident Bush announces the nomination of General Michael Hayden to head the CIA.By Dana PriestWashington Post Staff WriterTuesday, May 9, 2006; Page A09Gen. Michael V. Hayden isn't the first active-duty military officer tapped to lead the CIA -- he is in fact the fifth -- but many intelligence experts and officers have bemoaned the idea of a general leading the agency at a time when the Pentagon is expanding its ability to engage in global spying and man-hunting, traditional realms of the CIA.Despite such qualms, intelligence specialists say Hayden's appointment may turn out to be a clever move by intelligence czar John D. Negroponte to help him assert authority over Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and his burgeoning intelligence bureaucracy. Negroponte, who by law oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, has expressed frustration that he has not made more progress in managing the agencies under the Defense Department's jurisdiction.Negroponte was mindful of the issue yesterday as Hayden was officially nominated. "To those who raise a question about the fact that Mike Hayden wears the uniform," Negroponte said in announcing his nomination, "I think they can also be assured that Mike Hayden is a very, very independent-minded person, blunt-spoken. . . . I don't think [he] will have any difficulty whatsoever staking out positions that are independent."The intelligence overhaul that installed Negroponte as the first director of national intelligence also assigned the CIA the role of managing all "human intelligence" -- or spying -- including the collection done by the Defense Department, which many experts believe is trying to break out on its own in this arena."The concern about Hayden is not really about Hayden, it's about Rumsfeld and Cheney," said one former senior intelligence officer, referring to Vice President Cheney's strained relationship with the CIA and allegations that he used Pentagon-gathered information on Iraq's weapons because it comported with his personal view on Iraq."Hayden seems to be one of those guys who will, without hesitation, stand up to anyone with whom he disagrees," said Mackubin T. Owens, professor of national security studies at the Naval War College. "He's out of Rumsfeld's reach."The CIA establishment views the encroachment of the Pentagon into such sensitive areas as covert operations and human intelligence as a misguided effort that does not recognize the inherent difficulties in understanding, much less penetrating, terrorist networks."If the military's calling the shots, you're not going to get the focus on Manchester, England [where the London bombers came from], or the Montreal axis," a reference to the crossroads for a group of al-Qaeda figures, the former intelligence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the upcoming debate on Hayden's nomination.But the military's frustration with the CIA -- including not having enough terrorist targets identified for attack in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere -- is at least in part behind Rumsfeld's expansion of military intelligence capabilities. Rumsfeld has moved hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of troops into clandestine intelligence collection and analysis. With little public discussion and a wall of secrecy, the military is poised to launch its own intelligence-gathering and man-hunting operations independent of the CIA or other authorities."When you're not getting what you want, the bureaucratic response is to create your own [bureaucracy], not because you want different answers, but because you want answers," said Owens.Managed by Army Lt. Gen. Lee Blalack , a legendary special operations officer who now holds the title of deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence and warfighting support, the Pentagon is demanding that the CIA share its most sensitive databases, that small teams of undercover soldiers be allowed to secretly collect information in friendly countries, and that clandestine teams of military man-hunters be allowed to sneak into countries with which the United States is not at war to kill or capture terrorism suspects.But Hayden, an Air Force four-star general, has already taken steps and positions aimed at enhancing the CIA's leadership in human intelligence.Although he comes from the world of high-tech signals intelligence, Hayden was an early proponent of scaling back the C

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the Brothels

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: thew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 9, 2006 8:41:56 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] Bush Takes On the BrothelsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  May 9, 2006OP-ED COLUMNISTBush Takes On the BrothelsBy NICHOLAS D. KRISTOFI'm guessing that President Bush's foreign policy will stand up about as well to the assessments of future historians as a baby gazelle to a pack of cheetahs.Yet there is one area where Mr. Bush is making a historic contribution: he is devoting much more money and attention to human trafficking than his predecessors. Just as one of Jimmy Carter's great legacies was putting human rights squarely on the international agenda, Mr. Bush is doing the same for slave labor.We don't tend to think of trafficking as a top concern, so Mr. Bush hasn't gotten much credit. But it's difficult to think of a human rights issue that could be more important than sex trafficking and the other kinds of neo-slavery that engulf millions of people around the world, leaving many of them dead of AIDS by their early 20's.My own epiphany came in 1989, when my wife and I lived in China and covered the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Arrests of dissidents were front-page news, but no one paid any attention as many tens of thousands of Chinese women and girls were kidnapped and sold each year by traffickers to become the unwilling wives of peasants.Since then, I've seen the peddling of humans in many countries: the 8-year-old Filipino girl whose mother used to pull her out of school to rent to pedophiles; the terrified 14-year-old Vietnamese girl imprisoned in a brothel pending the sale of her virginity; the Pakistani teenager whose brothel's owner dealt with her resistance by drugging her into a stupor. The U.N. has estimated that 12.3 million people worldwide are caught in forced labor of one kind or another.In an age of H.I.V., sex trafficking is particularly lethal. And for every political dissident who is locked up in a prison cell, hundreds of teenage girls are locked up in brothels and, in effect, sentenced to death by AIDS.In 2000, Congress passed landmark anti-trafficking legislation, backed by an unlikely coalition of evangelical Republicans and feminist Democrats. Even today, the Congressional leaders against trafficking include a conservative Republican, Senator Sam Brownback, and a liberal Democrat, Representative Carolyn Maloney.But the heaviest lifting has been done by the State Department's tiny office on trafficking — for my money, one of the most effective units in the U.S. government. The office, led by a former Republican congressman, John Miller, is viewed with suspicion by some career diplomats who fear that simple-minded conservative nuts are mucking up relations with countries over a peripheral issue.Yet Mr. Miller and his office wield their spotlight shrewdly. With firm backing from the White House (Mr. Bush made Mr. Miller an ambassador partly to help him in his bureaucratic battles), the office puts out an annual report that shames and bullies foreign governments into taking action against forced labor of all kinds.Under pressure from the report, Cambodia prosecuted some traffickers (albeit while protecting brothels owned by government officials) and largely closed down the Svay Pak red-light district, where 10-year-olds used to be openly sold. Ecuador stepped up arrests of pimps and started a national public awareness campaign. Israel trained police to go after traffickers and worked with victims' home countries, like Belarus and Ukraine. And so on, country by country.Some liberals object to the administration's requirement that aid groups declare their opposition to prostitution before they can get anti-trafficking funds. But in the past, without that requirement, U.S. funds occasionally went to groups promoting prostitution. And in any case, the requirement doesn't seem to have caused many problems on the ground (partly because aid groups sometimes dissemble to get money). In Zambia, India and Cambodia, I've seen U.S.-financed programs work closely with prostitutes and brothel owners when that is needed to get the job done.Moreover, Ambassador Miller and his staff aren't squeamish prudes. Mr. Miller is sympathetic to the Swedish model: stop punishing prostitutes, but crack down on pimps and customers. He says that approach seems to have reduced more forced prostitution than just about any other strategy.The backdrop is a ridiculously divisive debate among anti-trafficking activists about whether prostitution should be legalized. Whatever one thinks of that question, it's peripheral to the central challenge: vast numbers of underage girls are forced into brothels against their will, and many die of AIDS. On that crucial issue, Mr. Bush is leaving a legacy that he and America can be proud of.Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company =

[cia-drugs] Millegan on radio in St Louis tonight

[Kris Millegan]

Howdy One & All,

I will be on radio, KMOX-St. Louis 1120 AM, tonight at 10:00 PDT. I  
will be speaking about the recent Geronimo's skull flap. You may  
listen online at http://kmox.com/pages/2615.php. The interview should  
begin after the news.

Peace,
K






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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Pre-invasion illegalities

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: Brian Bogart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 9, 2006 9:07:10 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Pre-invasion illegalities  (December 1999, New Hampshire primary event, when asked about Saddam Hussein)Candidate George W. Bush: "I'd take 'em out...take out the weapons of mass destruction.  I'm surprised he's still there."(Paul O'Neill asserts that Bush took office in January 2001 fully intending to invade Iraq and desperate to find an excuse for preemptive war against Saddam Hussein.)Paul O'Neill: "From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go.  For me, the notion of preemption, that the US has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is really a huge leap."(September 15, 2001; post 9-11 Cabinet meeting)Condoleeza Rice: "Afghanistan is a kind of demonstration model, so that other countries can look and say, 'Oh, I see. That's what happens...'"President Bush: "Wolfie?"Paul Wolfowitz: "Well, I want to talk about another country, it's another country in the Middle East, let's talk about that category of countries which is considering actions hostile to the United States.  And if you take a good look at that category, then I think there's one egregious member.  It's been in violation of United Nations resolutions for over ten years."Donald Rumsfeld: "I sent a memo, if you remember, Mr. President, in January (2001), before this happened, I sent a memo with a list of countries who I considered were eager to exploit any lapses in US capability.  China, North Korea, Russia, Iran.  My conclusion was we should take any actions necessary to dissuade nations from challenging American interests.  Top of that list was Iraq."Wolfowitz: "We're talking a corrupt dictatorship, run by a man who oppresses his own people and thumbs his nose at American power.  We're talking about going in and establishing democracy.  This is a country which is now very brittle.  It will break very easily.  It's sitting there, waiting to fall.  This is something we can do with very little effort.  For a minimum expenditure of effort, we can get maximum result.  Take out Saddam and we blow fresh air into the Middle East."Rumsfeld: "I mean, Jumping Jiminy, look at it strategically..."Wolfowitz: "That's it."Rumsfeld: "Look at it: Afghanistan's a big country, but what are we going to bomb?  Tommy Franks says there are only three dozen targets.  Three dozen!  Have you looked at Afghanistan?  Terracotta pots and straw roofs!"Wolfowitz: "Let's say a hundred thousand American soldiers snarled up, okay, in mountain fighting.  What message does that send?  Whereas, look...Iraq's a country we know.  We've been there.  And more important -- talk about sending messages -- I'd say there's a good percentage chance Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the attacks on the World Trade Center."Bush: "Reckon that, Paul.  What percentage?"Wolfowitz: "Ten to fifty.  That's where I'd put it.  A ten to fifty percent chance."Rice: "Mr. President, Afghanistan is a country -- this is a place with a history.  It was a nemesis for the British in the nineteenth century.  It was a nemesis for the Russians in the twentieth.  All I'm concerned is it isn't our turn in the twenty-first."Wolfowitz: "That's what's so good about Iraq.  It's do-able."(May 2003)Paul Wolfowitz: "The Bush administration focused on alleged WMD as the primary justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force because it was politically convenient, because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." (July 23, 2003)Paul Wolfowitz, explaining why US forces were not, as he had promised, greeted with flowers and offers of sweets: "Some important assumptions turned out to underestimate the problem."Both parties have relied on an external threat since World War II.  That reliance will only stop with popular demand for government cleansing.  If we do not rise to the occasion, we will eventually become identified as part of whatever external threat is the excuse of the day.  During the Cold War, Democrats started wars to placate conservative domestic politicians.  Republicans didn't need to.  In this post-Cold War era, things are vastly different.  Both parties are fueling a massive assertion of power for global economic supremacy (neo Manifest Destiny), pushed by wealthy, highly organized neoconservative groups and business interests (lobbying) of all kinds, defense and otherwise.  This will bankrupt America and continue to destroy the planet, but it is unfortunately a politically viable path for both parties.  A wholesale and sudden exodus is needed from these parties to one that makes human progress the basis for all domestic and foreign policies.  Let's hope exploding gasoline prices are enough to awaken the minds of selfish Americans to an unselfish vision.--Brian Bogart_"They Can Run, But They Can't Hide"May 8, 2006On May 4, a 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] The coming end of the CIA By Jim Lobe

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: Pale Horse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 9, 2006 9:35:55 PM PDTTo: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [ctrl] The coming end of the CIA  By Jim LobeReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]  Portents: The coming end of the CIABy Jim Lobe         WASHINGTON - Monday's nomination by US President George W Bush of air force General Michael Hayden to take over the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from the hapless Porter Goss has predictably intensified speculation over what is really going on behind the scenes.   Most analysts see the shifts as the latest battle between the director of national intelligence (DNI), John Negroponte, and Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld in the war over control of the multiple functions of the United States' sprawling, US$40-billion-a-year intelligence community.      But opinion appears deeply divided over which bureaucratic titan will emerge as this round's winner, although few doubt that the unceremonious dismissal of a CIA director who served less than 20 months on the job -      particularly by a president who has proved dogged in retaining loyal servants despite strong evidence of their incompetence - is filled with portent.      Goss, the former head of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, was sent to the CIA ostensibly to implement a reform program designed to resuscitate its covert action and human-intelligence-gathering capabilities after the debacle in Iraq.         But he is likely to be remembered chiefly for his "Gosslings", Republican political operatives he brought with him from the House, whose main purpose was to purge senior officers whose loyalty to their tradecraft appeared greater than to the policy priorities of the Bush administration, particularly in the Middle East.      By the time of his abrupt resignation last week, some 16 top officers, including one director and two deputy directors, with a combined 300 years of intelligence experience, had fled, leaving "the agency in free fall", according to Goss's former Democratic colleague on the Intelligence Committee, Jane Harman.      Both Negroponte, who last year displaced the CIA director as the president's chief intelligence adviser, and Bush's own Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board concluded earlier this year that Goss and his henchmen had to go, although the precipitating factor appears to have been implication in a remarkably unsavory congressional bribery scandal of the CIA's No 3, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who had been hand-picked by Goss himself.         With Goss out, attention naturally shifted to Hayden, Negroponte's top deputy and the former head of the Pentagon's National Security Agency (NSA), who was formally nominated by Bush to the post on Monday.      As Bush himself noted, Hayden has served almost his entire career in intelligence, although most of it has been more focused on the kinds of signals intelligence - satellite spying, eavesdropping and other forms of electronic surveillance - that is the special province of the NSA than human intelligence or covert operations.      "He knows the intelligence community from the ground up," Bush said on Monday.   Admired even by his congressional critics as an excellent and generally candid briefer, Hayden's institutional and political loyalties, however, remain unclear - a fact that has fueled speculation as to the policy and bureaucratic implications of his nomination.     Perceived as a straight-talking technocrat and effective manager who had largely succeeded in moving the NSA from Cold War thinking to the new challenges of the "global war on terror", Hayden was unanimously confirmed by the Senate last year as Negroponte's deputy.      But his apolitical image has been tarnished - for civil libertarians among Republicans and Democrats alike -      by his unexpectedly aggressive public defense over the past several months of the NSA's domestic-spying program after September 11, 2001, and his refusal to answer key details about it.      Indeed, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter warned on Sunday that he will use Hayden's confirmation hearings to try to pry out information about the government's domestic-surveillance effort that the administration has so far refused to share with Congress.       Click to join catapultthepropaganda      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join     Click to join openmindopencodenews      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/joinSome critics - already concerned about Hayden's understanding of constitutional protections against warrantless searches and seizures - also point to reports that he has become a favorite of Vice President Dick Cheney, the administration's stronge

[cia-drugs] Fwd: The Spirit of Labor

[Kris Millegan]

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [NewPacifica] Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House

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Begin forwarded message:From: Kevin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 10, 2006 1:44:21 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [NewPacifica] Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White HouseReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WriterWed May 10, 10:53 AM ET    President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.  The president said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is well-suited for another office and would make "a great president."     "I would like to see Jeb run at some point in time, but I have no idea if that's his intention or not," Bush said in an interview with Florida reporters, according to an account on the St. Petersburg Times Web site.     The president said he had "pushed him fairly hard about what he intends to do," but Jeb has not said.     "I have no idea what he's going to do. I've asked him that question myself. I truly don't think he knows," Bush said.     Jeb Bush, 53, will end his second term as governor in January. His brother George ends his second presidential term in January 2009. Neither can seek re-election because of term limits.     Jeb Bush has repeatedly said he is not going to run in 2008.     But even his own father said no one believes him when he says he's not interested in running at some point. Former President George H.W. Bush told CNN's "Larry King Live" last year that he would like Jeb Bush to run one day and that he would be "awfully good" as president.     The Florida governor laughed when asked about his father's comments last June. "Oh, Lord," he said and shook his head no. "I love my dad."     The brothers Bush appeared together Tuesday during the president's visit to the Tampa area. Gov. Bush was waiting on the tarmac when Air Force One arrived and greeted the president with a politician's handshake and "Welcome to Florida." The president brushed aside the formality and playfully adjusted his younger brother's necktie.     Jeb Bush introduced his brother at a retirement community in Sun City Center, where the president touted the new Medicare prescription drug benefit as the governor watched intently from a politically appropriate seat on stage right. They had a private lunch together with political supporters, then visited a fire station and appeared together before television cameras to express concern about wildfires that were blazing across the state.     The governor was not with the president during his visit to The Puerto Rican Club of Central Florida in Orlando Wednesday — George W. Bush's final stop on a three-day trip to the state. But the president was sure his brother still got some attention.     "Yesterday I checked in with my brother," President Bush said as he took the stage. "Make sure everything's going all right. I'm real proud of Jeb. He's a good decent man and I love him dearly."  ___Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!'SPONSORED LINKS  Issues  Pacifica  Culture  Participant  Forging YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "NewPacifica" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. 





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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Lisa Pease on TV this Thursday - on the Discovery Channel!

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Begin forwarded message:From: "Mario Profaca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: May 24, 2006 11:17:49 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [SPY NEWS] Lisa Pease on TV this Thursday - on the Discovery Channel!Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Original message ***On 23.5.2006 at 20:43 Lisa Pease <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey you! I will be featured on the Discovery Channel show “Conspiracy Files: CIAMind Control” this Thursday, May 25th, and 9pm Eastern and Western. (Notsure re other time zones – check your listings.)I’ll be talking about hypnosis, mind control, and the Robert Kennedyassassination!I’m told I have “a lot of airtime” – whatever that means! I hopeyou’llcatch it or TiVO it..! Let me know what you think if you see it!Lisa Pease*** End of original message *** Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arriveshttp://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/TySplB/TM~-> -__ ___ _ ___ __ ___ _ _ _ __  /-_|-0-\-V-/-\|-|-__|-|-|-/-_| \_-\--_/\-/|-\\-|-_||-V-V-\_-\ |__/_|--//-|_|\_|___|\_A_/|__/  SPY NEWS is OSINT newsletter and discussion list associated to Mario's Cyberspace Station - The Global Intelligence News Portal Since you are receiving and reading documents, news stories,comments and opinions not only from so called (or self-proclaimed) "reliable sources", but also a lot of possible misinformation collectedby Spy News moderator and subscribers and posted to Spy Newsfor OSINT purposes - it should be a serious reason (particularly tojournalists and web publishers) to think twice before using it for theirstory writing, further publishing or forwarding throughout Cyberspace.To unsubscribe:mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]*** FAIR USE NOTICE: This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Spy News is making it available without profit to SPY NEWS members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We always mention the author and link the original site and page of every article. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml SPY NEWS home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews Mario Profaca mario.profaca[at]zg.htnet.hr SPY NEWS owner, editor  and discussion moderatorYahoo! Groups Links<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spynews/<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:    [EMAIL PROTECTED]<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 





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PORTER GOSS RESIGNATION SOLVED:DC9 WITH 5.5 TONS OF COCAINE WAS CIA PLANE Read the whole storywww.madcowprod.com/05252006.htmlThe "mystery" of Porter Goss' resignation last month as CIA Director is apparently directly related to the huge seizure in Mexico several weeks earlier of over 5.5 tons of cocaine, according to government documents recently obtained by the The MadCowMorningNews.After Goss's surprise resignation last month he told reporters his reason for resigning was "just one of those mysteries," offering no other explanation for his sudden departure after almost two years on the job.Goss' resignation appears to be connected to the unprecedented withholding by the Federal Aviation Administration of the registration records for the DC9 (N900SA) which more than six weeks ago was caught carrying a cargo of five-and-a-half tons of cocaine, neatly packed into 126 identical black suitcases at a jungle airstrip in the Yucatan.At the time of the plane's seizure on April 11, FAA officials stated the aircraft's title records would become available to reporters within two weeks. Six weeks later that statement, in a phrase famous from the Watergate Scandal, has been rendered "inoperative."However, last week the MadCowMorningNews was successful in obtaining the FAA records last week of the confiscated plane's sister ship , an identical twin DC9 (N120NE) owned and operated by the same partnership. Both aircraft, painted to resemble U.S. Government aircraft from the Department of Homeland Security, were parked for several years at the general aviation terminal at Clearwater St Petersburg International Airport.Registration records of the identical twin show it has been owned for almost two decades by a series of firms previously revealed as aviation "front" companies of America's Central Intelligence Agency.The twin to the aircraft busted with 5.5 tons of cocaine, in Mexico, in other words, is a CIA plane.In fact, the plane's owners over the past two decades reads like a Who's Who of aviation companies known to serve as "fronts" for the CIA, whose true identities came to light during the Iran Contra Scandal.And the FAA's reluctance to release the registration of "Cocaine One," the DC9 busted in Mexico, which should already be a matter of public record, is the clearest possible indication that they will disclose the same thing. -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.madcowprod.com





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[cia-drugs] The case of the missing ambassador

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Original at http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/the-case-of-the-missing-ambassador/2006/05/25/1148524816183.htmlThe case of the missing ambassador By Richard Ackland May 26, 2006 GEORGE Bush nominated Robert McCallum to be his ambassador to Australia, the most obliging of the willing nations. That was more than two months ago and still there is no sign on the horizon of Bush's pal from the Skull and Bones society. There were 15 Bonesmen in the 1968 group at Yale and, according to Alexandra Robbins's investigation of the society in The Atlantic Monthly (May 2000), Bush was supposed to give himself a name to be used by other members. He couldn't think of one, so they called him "Temporary". Bush got into Yale despite his poor academic showing at Andover. Robbins explains that this may have had something to do with the fact that three of the seven members of the admissions committee were members of the Skull and Bones. The organisation operates as an unofficial lifetime system of patronage and cronyism. Ambassador-designate McCallum would not have had to fluke his way into university. He is by all accounts a bright button who did law at Yale, was awarded a Rhodes scholarship and went on to a masters degree at Oxford. Bush plucked him from an Atlanta law firm and brought him to the Justice Department. At the time he was nominated as ambassador to Australia, McCallum was the acting deputy attorney-general, having risen rapidly from the job of associate attorney-general, where he was in charge of the department's civil division. He was the senior official who instructed the department's lawyers to radically alter the Government's submission in the racketeering case in the US District Court against cigarette makers. The Government pulled back from the initial proposal to seek a penalty of $US130 billion ($172 billion) payable over 25 years to fund a national quit-smoking campaign, to a penalty of $US10 billion over five years. McCallum has denied any political influence was involved in this decision to, as one Justice official said, "throw the case down the toilet". He argued that the reduced penalty was in line with appeals court rulings that only the future misconduct of tobacco companies could be addressed, not past misconduct. Democrat members of the House and Senate have called on the department's office of professional responsibility to investigate the meddling in the case by a political appointee of the President. There doesn't seem any great rush by the office to announce an outcome of its inquiries. And there it has rested. The US embassy in Canberra doesn't know when the foreign relations committee of the Senate is going to begin its hearings into the nomination. In the meantime, another interesting story has turned up, also heavily covered with McCallum's fingerprints. This is a long-running class action case, Cobell v Norton. Elouise Cobell is the lead plaintiff, representing American Indian organisations against Gale Norton as the (now former) US secretary of the interior. The case is being conducted in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the same place as the tobacco case, before Judge Royce Lamberth. Basically it alleges that the US Government mismanaged trust accounts that had been mandated for individual Indians as far back as 1887. The plaintiffs are seeking a determination of what is owed from the revenues from mining, oil, gas, grazing and timber industries ondetermination of what is owed from the revenues from mining, oil, gas, grazing and timber industries on lands managed by the US Government as trustee for Indian beneficiaries. Several billion dollars are at stake for an estimated 500,000 Indians and, no doubt, a swarm of starving lawyers. McCallum has had significant influence in overseeing the litigation for the Government since 2001 and his name is on most of the briefs filed by the defendants. A row broke out when the Government and its counsel sent documents to Indian children purporting to be statements of accounts for trust monies. These statements were drawn up before a planned reform of the trust administration had been completed. If the children disagreed with the accounting for the trust money they were expected to start administrative proceedings by way of challenge. If they didn't start those proceedings the Justice Department said they waived their rights to the money. Subsequently Lamberth found that McCallum and five other Justice Department lawyers on the case had violated the court's ethical rules against lawyers communicating directly with parties on the other side. He referred them to the disciplinary panel of the US District Court, where the matter stays unresolved. The Government has fought back and on three occasions has sought to remove Lamberth from the case on various grounds, but basically because he has been critical of its conduct. He's beaten off two attempts in the Federal Court and the third is still pending. At the moment McCallum's ethics 

[cia-drugs] Drugs, Prostitution & Politics

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Drugs, Prostitution & Politics
Friday, August 05 2005 @ 02:21 PM CDT
Contributed by: buddy | Views: 282  

Mashed MarriagesI don't understand how a pretty faced girl born &  
raised in the ghetto can smoke crack & sleep with men of corrupt  
power while pregnant and/or in front of her kids. And when the  
childrens' dad gets up to fight for them he finds himself getiing in  
more legal trouble and threats are made on his life because he won't  
keep his mouth shut & just stay away from his kids.

No one knows what it's like to see your kids born not breathing and  
fight for their lives, or for your crack-whore baby's mom to throw  
your 4 day old son in your arms because again, he's not breathing. No  
one knows what its like to rush him to the hospital and stay with him  
there while he's having tests run on him and he's fighting for life,  
or to have to go & take him from the mother with the police to take  
him to the hospital where his fever is 104.2 and hes being checked  
for brain damage at age 2 because the mother's to high to give a shit.

Imagine having to rush from work to home because your baby's mom is  
bouncing off the floors yelling "I wanna kill myself!" and you find  
your 2 yr old in a bath tub full of water by himself and he's trying  
to tell you men was in your house getting his mom high & screwing her  
in front of him.You finally find drugs in her car when shes pregnant  
but the police got her back? No one knows how it feels to try to go  
in court and speak for kids to little to talk because you love them  
and then cops are arresting you without a warrant beating your ass  
and then you get told "thats what you get for trying to take my kids  
away from me."

I dont understand how legally my wife gets away with doing this to me  
& my kids lives and it has shattered mine.There are many more stories  
and no computer space. I don't understand why DFS, the police dept.,  
the court rooms all have her back. So your wife can smoke crack  
almost kill your kids, screw all these corrupt men of power and then  
almost have you killed because you won't keep your mouth shut about  
it?! These supposedly "happily married men"! Why is this legal?  
Because a few of the dope-dealers she sleeps mysteriously go to jail?

My wife is very valueable to someone with a lot of power that they  
abuse and now I've run out of patience. I will not stop fighting for  
my kids! I think these people shouldn't have their power they are  
abusing in evil ways. It should be taken from them so that then they  
will have to face me alone without hiding their coward punkass faces  
being some legal corrupt bastards!






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[cia-drugs] On the Cover of the Rolling Ston

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Thursday, June 01, 2006
On the Cover of the Rolling Stone


And it's a gut check of what you believe - Anti-Flag

I don't have time this morning to post, but here's something to chew on.

Tomorrow, Rolling Stone tries to get its groove back by publishing a  
10-page "damning and detailed feature article" by Robert F Kennedy Jr  
on the theft of the 2004 election. Bradblog, the electronic bulldog  
of voter fraud, is all over it. Kennedy will be promoting his story  
hard this month in a number of appearances, including a spot on The  
Colbert Report June 12.

I'm trying not to write something dithering, like time will tell  
whether America's peripatetic culture finally takes to this story.  
But it's tough. If it ever will, this is the window for it. With  
Bush's depressed numbers, editors who are neither backwash nor  
Mockingbirds may seize the moment, if for no more honourable reason  
than the consumers of their product are now more than ever likely to  
believe the worst of their government, and perhaps better of  
themselves. (We, the People, did not choose this man.)

The window won't remain open for long. Showdown: Iran looms, hastened  
by the hollow gesture of an offer of talks if Iran first abandons -  
well, just about everything. But it had to be done, so Washington can  
later shrug and say military action was, once more, the last choice.  
And when the next front opens in ernest, perhaps as soon as this  
month, don't be caught unaware in the stampede to "support the  
president in time of war."

Still, while the window's open a crack, it's encouraging to see  
pollster Lou Harris say that Ohio was "as dirty an election as  
America has ever seen." But what may come after that, I don't find so  
heartening. Do enough Americans really lack for knowledge of their  
government's crimes? Are there not already millions who, to the Bush  
laundry list of bloody obscenity, would wearily nod their heads, I know?

Maybe it's not awareness that needs raising, so much as American fists.

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who Owns DC9 'Cocaine One' Airliner?

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Begin forwarded message:From: "daniel hopsicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: June 2, 2006 1:38:41 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Who Owns DC9 'Cocaine One' Airliner? Spooks, Saudis, & Another FAA Cover-up in Florida read the whole story @ www.madcowprod.com/06022006.html   Eight weeks after Mexican soldiers at a rural airport in the Yucatan discovered 5.5 tons of cocaine onboard an American-registered DC9 painted to resemble aircraft from the U.S. Dept of Homeland Security, Mexican and U.S. law enforcement officials seem no closer to publicly identifying the owner of the plane, not to mention the tons of cocaine.  The last registered American owner of the DC9, Frederic Geffon of Royal Sons Inc insisted he bore no responsibility at all for the plane's recent misadventures. In a May 5, 2006 interview with the Tampa Tribune  following up a story they'd run the previous day, Geffon said he sold the plane 10 days before it was seized by Mexican authorities, to a man named Jorge Corrales, who he identified as a Simi Valley, Calif., aircraft broker. But the MadCowMorningNews has learned that there is a problem with Geffon's explanation: The California "aircraft broker" who Geffon says bought the aircraft(N900SA)—for resale to a client identified only as a "Venezuelan company"—does not appear to be in the business of buying and selling planes. The results of our probe into the tangled skein of companies and individuals involved in what has clearly been a continuing operation for at least a decade, we will at long last get a good look at what until now has been the most elusive species on Earth: The American Drug Lords.  -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.madcowprod.com





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[cia-drugs] Yale’s ‘Mao Project’ Paves Road To Hell F or Rise of Oriental Anti-Chris

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Yale’s ‘Mao Project’ Paves Road To Hell For Rise of Oriental Anti-Christ

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

Yale University is known as one of the most prestigious centers of  
learning in the world. It is now also known as the home of the Skull  
and Bones secret society of which both Presidential Candidates in the  
2004 election, Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush were  
members. President Bush is third generation
Skull and Bones , while Senator Kerry’s first wife’s father and  
brother were members, as was the former father-in-law of Teresa Heinz- 
Kerry whom he is now married to. Ms. Heinz.

Kerry’s becoming a billionairess after her previous husband Senator  
Heinz died in a bizarre plane crash is but one of numerous odd events  
that follow this organization everywhere it goes and affect everyone  
it comes into contact with.

What is not known to the general public is the connection that Yale  
University had to Mao Tse Tung, the ‘Great Helmsman” of China that  
navigated the Chinese nation across the proverbial river Styx into  
the human rights hell that it currently is, with organs and collagen  
being harvested for sale from political prisoners and every manner of  
evil perpetrated with no recourse for the tens and millions of  
victims. In
fact Mao and his “Little Red Book” are responsible for more deaths  
and misery over the long term than anyone else in history. Mao is  
also a “Yalie”.

It is the purpose of this article to show how a plan has been  
effectuated for nearly a century to bring to global power and  
domination an Oriental Antichrist , likely from China through the  
auspices and assistance of an evil secret society network based in  
Yale University, which effectively uses its status as a center of  
learning as a cover.

1. Yale University was founded on the profits of the opium trade in
China. Skull & Bones & Bush
www.subgenius.com/bigfist/evils/politics/X002_BUSHED.TXT.html .

2. Mao attended Yale-In-China and in fact was a writer and editor
there after his first paper was closed by authorities. Thus when Yale
educated, trained and hired him

the institution surely knew what they were doing. In fact ,
YALE-IN-CHINA OWNED THE BUILDING WHERE HE HAD HIS ‘CULTURE BOOKSTORE’ IN
1920. www.asiasource.org/society/mao.cfm .

3.Since the resumption of diplomatic ties with China due to the
influence of Henry Kissinger (whose son David is a Yale graduate) on
President Nixon, every US

ambassador to China is a Yalie and known or suspected member of Skull  
and
Bones, the only exception being a brief period during the Jimmy Carter
presidency.

The current Ambassador, Mr. Randt is known to be a member of S & B by  
the
chinese authorities and is described as a ‘fraternity brother’ of
President GW Bush.

www.english.people.com.cn/english/200107/24/eng20010724_75677.html .
“New US Ambassador to China Promises Closer Relations”. Of course,  
former
President George H.W. Bush was a member of Skull and Bones and US
ambassador to China as well.

Oddly, the paranoid Chinese Communist regime never seems
to have a problem with this “fraternity” - for good reason as the
following information will show.

EVIDENCE OF EXTENSIVE CHINESE PENETRATION OF U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY- - SELECTED AS MERELY ONE EXAMPLE OF MANY.

1. “CNOOC’s All Star Team”
www.publicintegrity.org/lobby/report.aspx?aid=737 . CNOOC , the chinese
oil giant hired various lobbyists recently in its ultimately failed
attempt to buy US oil company and owner of the only rare earth metals  
mine
in the USA, UNOCAL.
One of the lobbyists was BKSH an affiliate of Burson-Marsteller and
part of the WPP group.

2. “Security Veteran Michael J. Hershmann To Head New Homeland
Security Advisory Firm/18July2003.
www.wpp.com/wpp/news/press/press-release.html?content=wpp/news/press/ 
pressrelease_285.html
. The new company is to “help navigate the security landscape” possibly
with the ‘great helmsman’ in mind. The subsidiary of previously  
mentioned
BHSH and WPP will join with StoneBridge International and be called
Civitas, LLC. So the lobbyists for CNOOC are also navigators for
companies that want a piece of the security pie caused by the 9-11  
attacks
and the creation of DHS.

3. StoneBridge International was run by Samuel Berger, also now known
as Sandy-the-Burglar, caught with US secrets in his silk stockings  
and now
convicted of a misdemeanor and on probation.
www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release8.html .

4. StoneBridge has a StoneBridge-China subsidiary. “…announces
establishment of StoneBridge-China…”
www.stonebridge-international.com/News/release-stonebridge-china.html .

5. WPP has extensive ties in China as well. It is planning on doubling
its workforce to 2000 employees and its subsidiaries are also  
expanding in
China. WPP is the second largest advertising / Public Relations firm in
the world led

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Hippies intimidate U.S. Forest Service into abandoning checkpoint in Colorado

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Begin forwarded message:From: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: June 21, 2006 6:49:06 PM PDTTo: "Sardar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: Fw: Hippies intimidate U.S. Forest Service into abandoning checkpoint in Colorado - Original Message - Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 4:45 PMSubject: Hippies intimidate U.S. Forest Service into abandoning checkpoint in Colorado Source:Grand Junction Sentinelhttp://www.gjsentinel.com/Officials abandon checkpoint after `hippie' run-inhttp://tinyurl.com/qlcbbJune 20, 2006STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. - U.S. Forest Service officers drew their shotguns butthen got into their vehicles and abandoned a checkpoint without firing a shotafter about 200 people at the Rainbow Family http://welcomehere.org gatheringsurrounded the officers, an agency spokeswoman said."We're not going to compromise the safety of our officers," agency spokeswomanDenise Ottaviano said Tuesday. "We have to reavaluate whether or not we're goingto continue any checkpoints because of what happened."At least 500 people have converged in Routt National Forest for the gatheringbut the Forest Service had been turning away new arrivals from entering becausethe group hasn't gotten a permit for large groups. The group's annual event,often described as a huge gathering of hippies, is expected to draw between15,000 and 20,000 people to the Routt National Forest for a weeklong July 4thevent.About 60 to 80 people already at the event site approached the officers who hadbeen turning people away and surrounded them in a "hostile manner", Ottavianosaid.She said more than 100 other people who had been hanging out near the checkpointbecause they were not allowed in joined the smaller group, forcing the officersto retreat.Ottaviano said the checkpoint has been disbanded. No one was stopping peoplefrom entering the area but officers will continue their patrols, she said.The Forest Service began issuing citations on Monday and so far about 60 peoplehave been cited, she said.Groups of 74 or more are required to get a free permit but no one has respondedto the agency's request to apply for one, she said. The group can still applyfor a permit and the Forest Service must issue a response within 48 hours.In the meantime, the Forest Service has closed two motorized trails near thegathering near Big Red Park to avoid any potential conflict betweenrecreationists and the Rainbow Family, she said. Trails 1204 and 1199 are set tobe closed through Aug. 20 because it could take that long for all theparticipants to leave.The group gathers each year on public lands. Last year, about 15,000 turned outfor the event in Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia and the 2004 eventdrew about 19,000 to the Modoc National Forest in California.-- No virus found in this incoming message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.2/372 - Release Date: 6/21/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message.Checked by AVG Free Edition.Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.2/372 - Release Date: 6/21/2006 
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[cia-drugs] FAA STONEWALLS RELEASE OF DC9 'COCAINE ONE' RECORDS

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FAA STONEWALLS RELEASE OF DC9  'COCAINE ONE' RECORDS
Homeland Security Inc Scandal Off And Running

WORLD EXCLUSIVE
June 22 2006--Venice,FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker


Less than two weeks before the company declared bankruptcy which  
owned the DC9 recently busted in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine  
onboard, Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s Department of Transportation  
issued a press release touting the firm’s bright future in Homeland  
Security and announcing it had been selected to be the state’s  
primary provider of airport security applications.

This is not the first time Jeb Bush has been involved endorsing a  
drug trafficking aviation company. Nor is it the first time SkyWay  
Aircraft has been the recipient of unexplained government favoritism.

The Federal Aviation Administration, for example, has been doing  
SkyWay a major solid...

Two months and eleven days after the firm’s American-registered DC9  
was caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine in Campeche, Mexico destined  
for distribution in the U.S., the FAA is still stonewalling requests  
for the release of what are—by statue— public records of the  
registration and ownership of the plane.

In a twisted perversion of the U.S. Government’s so-called War on  
Drugs, the FAA is “Just Saying No” to the American people, who are  
not allowed to know if an American Drug Lord may have been  
responsible for the last doomed flight of “Cocaine One.”

We're not cleared for that information.

Be a Citizen Journalist! Win big prizes! Pressure the FAA

We first became interested in the story of the orphan 5.5 tons of  
coke after learning  that Cocaine One's registered owner, “Royal Sons  
LLC,”  had once been housed in a hanger owned by terror flight school  
Huffman Aviation at the Venice Fl Airport.

That's a real unlucky little airport, we thought to ourselves. Maybe  
they should shut it down before something really bad happens.

Compounding the seriousness of FAA malfeasance is that the DC9  
airliner had been apprehended while painted to resemble an aircraft  
from the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. That makes the FAA’s  
refusal to release the plane’s records a matter of urgent national  
security.

Today the MadCowMorningNews is issuing an urgent appeal to readers  
and all Americans who believe in real moral values, like democracy  
and government accountability, to demand the FAA immediately release  
the registration records of the DC9 (N900SA) in question.

Take a moment to help put some pressure on the FAA. If you’re someone  
interested in making our Government answer, if only occasionally, to  
the governed, click here.

Help us send the FAA a message.

The Homeland Security Inc. Scandal

The current unpleasantness combines a witch’s brew of elements from  
the Iran Contra scandal—CIA-led cocaine trafficking in “support” of,  
well, let’s see: Oliver North, Adnan Khashoggi, and, oh yes, the  
Contras—mixed with the massive corruption and insider-led looting of  
the Savings & Loan Scandal which eventually cost American taxpayers  
over a half trillion dollars.

The burgeoning industry which has rapidly grown up under the rubric  
of “Homeland Security” is not only running roughshod over American  
concepts of equal justice under law while simultaneously looting the  
American Treasury for billions and billions of dollars, which we will  
all ultimately pay for with crippling inflation, just like the double- 
digit inflation at the end of the Vietnam War…

It is also bankrupting—to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars— 
public companies whose bankruptcies have heretofore been viewed  
merely as isolated events.

Experienced and respected aviation executives cited in “Welcome to  
TERRORLAND” stated they had witnessed the FAA protecting—both before  
and after the 9.11 attack—corrupt aviation companies in Florida which  
played host to Mohamed Atta and the other terrorist hijackers. So the  
current FAA stonewall should not be viewed as an isolated instance,  
but part of a pattern of deliberate acts.

We became curious about the huge size of the Mexican haul,5.5 tons,  
and where it stood in the Big Busts of History. And what we found is  
either a statistical anomaly or a brand new unit of measurement like  
the English yard, in a system of weights and measures to which  
ordinary mortals are not privy.

There have been sixteen separate seizures of precisely 5.5 tons of  
cocaine in the past 20 years, we discovered. You can count them. We did.

Who knows? Maybe 5.5 tons is like an Eight-Ball to the Gods.

Saudis, Ultra-Zionists...and Jeb Bush

Why is the FAA keeping the American people in the dark about the  
names of individuals or companies trafficking tons of cocaine under  
the protective cloak of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security?

Perhaps it is because SkyWay is owned by an international assortment  
of spooks, Saudis (like the long-time lieutenant of Saudi billionaire  
Adnan Khashoggi) 

[cia-drugs] Homeland Security Rackets

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: THE HOMELAND SECURITY RACKETS

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Begin forwarded message:From: "daniel hopsicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 5, 2006 11:37:45 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: THE HOMELAND SECURITY RACKETS Mexico & U.S. Ruling Parties Ties to Blow Bustread the whole story at:http://www.madcowprod.com/07052006.htmlOn April 10th an American-registered DC9 was caught carrying 5.5 tons of cocaine destined for the U.S., the Mexican military announced, at an airport in Ciudad del Carmen. In the more than two months since, the incident has slipped into a black hole. Beyond a few half-hearted stabs at pinning blame for the crime on  current scapegoats du jour like the FARC in Colombia or Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, authorities in both Mexico and the U.S. have had little or nothing to say about the case. The MadCowMorningNews has learned new details in what is becoming a growing drug trafficking scandal implicating elements in the ruling parties in both Mexico and the US:Released FAA registration records from the American-registered DC9 (N900SA) airline show that documents informing the FAA the plane had been exported to new owners in Venezuela were not submitted until after its seizure in Mexico. Several top executives of SkyWays Aircraft, the American firm which owned the DC9 in partnership with Royal Sons Inc. of St Petersburg, FL. including the company's President, James Kent, are former members of U.S. military intelligence, stated one of SkyWay's original employees, who contacted us after seeing a previous story. Mexican newspapers last week began openly speculating last week on the role of high officials in the ruling party of President Vicente Fox in the huge drug load…They are also reporting that the DC9's flight from Caracas to an airport in the western Yucatan was not a one-of-a-kind occurrence, but that the airliner had made at least seven previous flights along the same route.The DEA has made a deliberate effort to downplay the importance of the seizure, underestimating its value by hundreds of millions of dollars.  -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.madcowprod.com
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK

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Begin forwarded message:From: "daniel hopsicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 18, 2006 11:03:14 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACK RELATIVE OF LEBANESE TUNNEL BOMB RINGLEADER   HAD FORE-KNOWLEDGE OF 9/11 ATTACKRead the whole story at:www.madcowprod.com/07192006.html Revelations in the case of the Lebanese man accused of being the ringleader of a plot to bomb the PATH Tunnels in New York City to deluge lower Manhattan and Wall Street in a torrent of water have begun to shed light on other terrorism investigations in the U.S., perhaps even on the very nature of the terrorist threat. As many as a dozen relatives of Assem Hammoud have already been accused or convicted in the U.S. of terrorist-related crime , The MadCowMorningNews has learned, members of what has been called the  Hezbollah-Hammoud Syndicate in Detroit. Their number includes a self-admitted member of Hezbollah in Sarasota questioned by law enforcement authorities in late September of 2001 about his suspected foreknowledge of the 9.11 attack. Dubbed the "Playboy Plotter"  in New York's tabloid press, which printed pictures showing him cradling adult beverages amidst a bevy of blonde girls, Hammoud's wide-open lifestyle does not at all fit the portrait of the Islamic fundamentalist terror threat put forth by the FBI, as well as in books about Mohamed Atta like "Perfect Soldiers," which the mainstream media has touted as the "last word" on the terrorist hijackers. Instead, the emerging portrait of the "jet-set jihadist" confirms the portrayal of Mohamed Atta in "Welcome to TERRORLAND" as a free-spending hard-drinking cocaine user  and frequenter of strip clubs… exactly the portrait the FBI has gone to great lengths to dispel. The FBI also appears to be deliberately ignoring Hammoud's frequent jaunts around the world, which echo those of Mohamed Atta, in favor of an explanation indicating that  Hammoud and his crew appear to be yet-another free-lance terrorist cell which coalesced and made plans in isolation, joining other groups that have been broken up in Miami , London, Toronto, Melbourne and Sydney. As evidence of Hammoud's international connections begins to mount, it id becoming increasingly clear that nothing could be further from the truth.  -- daniel hopsickerMadCowMorningNewswww.madcowprod.com
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trail er-park residents]

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Begin forwarded message:From: "Dstacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: July 22, 2006 7:12:18 AM PDTTo: Subject: OUR POLICE STATE:  FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents] =From: GlobalCirclenet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 2006/07/21 Fri PM 03:30:15 CDThttp://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17178FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residentsBy The Associated Press07.20.06MORGAN CITY, La. - Residents of trailer parks set up by the FederalEmergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisianaaren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The(Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out of atrailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules wereenforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish.FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Rodi wouldn't say whether the security guards'actions complied with FEMA policy, saying the matter was beingreviewed. But she confirmed that FEMA does not allow the news media tospeak alone to residents in their trailers."If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to beescorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview," Roditold the newspaper for its July 15 report. "That's just a policy."Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Reporters Committee forFreedom of the Press, said FEMA's refusal to allow trailer-parkresidents to invite news media into their homes unescorted wasunconstitutional.Morgan City Mayor Timothy Matte told The Advocate that he was surprisedresidents were being barred from talking to reporters."I would think anyone who lives there would be allowed to have anyvisitor they wanted," he said.FEMA leases the land for the trailer park from the city, Matte said."It's public property. There's no question about that. You would thinkthe people would have the same freedom there as everyone else has," hetold the newspaper.Hundreds of trailers at FEMA parks sit empty and unused in Louisiana,according to The Advocate.Officials in Morgan City estimate that FEMA has spent about $7.5million to build the trailer park but that only about 15 of the 198trailers are being used."We all wonder why no one lives there," Matte said.FEMA officials refuse to say how much was spent to build the park orwhy 183 of the trailers are vacant."We're not going to talk about cost," Rodi told the newspaper.As in Morgan City, the 334-trailer FEMA park in Davant in PlaqueminesParish is greatly underused.The north side of the park is empty, and 92 families live in the southside, Rodi said, adding that the empty trailers would be removed."We put them there at the parish's request," she said. "Now we've foundthat the need is not as great there or that people don't want to livethere."The trailers are going to be put on private property or in privateparks in the parish as needed, Rodi said. She refused to disclose howmuch the park cost to build.Meanwhile, Plaquemines Parish President Benny Rousselle blamed FEMA, inpart, for the slow return of residents to the parish.Rousselle said FEMA knows where many evacuees relocated after the stormbut won't give that information to parish officials."FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us theaddresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And noone but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we couldcontact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we hadplaces for them to live." 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Conyers' New Report on Bush's Crimes

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: "Democrats.com"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: August 7, 2006 5:05:50 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Conyers' New Report on Bush's Crimes  Conyers Releases Massive New Report on Bush-Cheney CrimesThe minority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) just released a staggering report with the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws). This report, "The Constitution in Crisis," should provide the raw material for numerous news reports and point reporters toward fertile ground for additional investigations.Please take a look:http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/constitutionincrisis___Now, Take Action!1. Ask the media to cover Conyers' report. Thus far there has been a single mention on CNN and a dishonest attack piece in National Review. Where are serious journalists?http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=8955221&type=ME2. Ask your Congress Member to sponsor H. Res. 635 to start an investigation.http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/6353. Buy this report as a book. Pre-order, and ask your friends to do so, and get it on the best-seller lists. The book, which includes an Introduction by Ambassador Joseph Wilson and a Forward by Congressman Conyers, is entitled "George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution." Buy it here.___At Long Last...Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest?If you said the United States, you'll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.http://www.campdemocracy.org At long last, Americans are preparing to say "Enough is enough," and to do what Ukrainians, Mexicans, or any other people not drugged into acquiescence would do when things got this bad: occupy the capital city to demand peace, justice, and accountability.Share a Ride to Camp Democracy, Share a Room When You Get Here!Camp Democracy will be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from September 5 to 21. This will be a camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the rule of law. Camp Casey will move from Crawford, Texas, to Washington to create a larger camp focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.http://www.campdemocracy.orgYour travel to Camp Democracy is part of the camp and should be a community-building experience. Do you have two people in your car but four seats? Can you bring a van? A large bus? Or do you want to fly on a plane together with others bound for Camp Democracy? Sign up here to offer a ride or to ask for one: http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracyDo you have or need a room in the Washington, D.C., area?Sign up here to offer a room or request one:http://spaceshare.com/campdemocracyWe Need Your Help!Camp Democracy is a grassroots effort and will only succeed with the help of many, many people contributing the small amounts they can afford. This is our opportunity to do what the citizens of the Ukraine, of Mexico, and of other countries do when their democracies are taken from them. This is our chance to say "Enough is enough!" Can you help us?http://campdemocracy.org/sponsor___Planning an Impeachment Blog ActionStarting at noon ET on September 1, 2006, and lasting 24 hours, websites and blogs all across the internet are being asked to replace their front pages with the single word "Impeach" in simple white text on a black background. Here's an example: http://impeachnet.netVisitors to those sites and blogs will be able to click and link to the sites' usual front pages. But first they will see a word that, standing alone, is as powerful as any word right now: it is banned by our political and media leadership but more popular among citizens and activists than perhaps any other. It is both shocking and welcome. For 24 hours, web surfers and blog readers will see that word first when they visit their favorite sites. In this way, we hope to get the public talking about the one tool guaranteed by the Founders to restore our Constitutional Democracy. Please encourage your favorite websites to take part in this action. If you plan to take part, please let us know here:http://www.impeachnet.net/blog/contact ___FROM THE IMPEACHMENT FORUMS"When Bush vetoed the embryonic stem-cell bill (the first veto of his presidency), he remarked that the implementation of this bill would have promoted the taking of innocent human life, something that "crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect." Regardless of the merits or pitfalls of the bill, I find it ironic (to understate) that this president invokes morality as the reaso

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Heroic speech by soldier formally charged with contempt for Bush (first such charge since 1965)

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: Brian Bogart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: August 17, 2006 5:25:05 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Heroic speech by soldier formally charged with contempt for Bush (first such charge since 1965) Lt. Watada addresses national veterans convention   By Dahr Jamail, truthout.org. August 14, 2006 http://thankyoult.live.radicaldesigns.org/content/view/172/On Saturday night, I was lucky enough to be at the Veterans for Peace National Convention. For that night, Lt. Ehren Watada was able to give the following speech, which I've just received permission to post here. The speech was met with a powerful, standing ovation from the vets who've been there.Lt. Ehren Watada, for those who don't already know, became the first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the unlawful war and occupation in Iraq. While doing this on June 22, 2006, Watada said, "As the order to take part in an illegal act is ultimately unlawful as well, I must refuse that order."Just as Watada took the stage and began to speak, over 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War filed in behind him. Watada, surprised by this and obviously taken aback by the symbolic act, turned back to the audience, took some deep breaths, then gave this speech:     Thank you everyone. Thank you all for your tremendous support. How honored and delighted I am to be in the same room with you tonight. I am deeply humbled by being in the company of such wonderful speakers.    You are all true American patriots. Although long since out of uniform, you continue to fight for the very same principles you once swore to uphold and defend. No one knows the devastation and suffering of war more than veterans - which is why we should always be the first to prevent it.    I wasn't entirely sure what to say tonight. I thought as a leader in general I should speak to motivate. Now I know that this isn't the military and surely there are many out there who outranked me at one point or another - and yes, I'm just a Lieutenant. And yet, I feel as though we are all citizens of this great country and what I have to say is not a matter of authority - but from one citizen to another. We have all seen this war tear apart our country over the past three years. It seems as though nothing we've done, from vigils to protests to letters to Congress, have had any effect in persuading the powers that be. Tonight I will speak to you on my ideas for a change of strategy. I am here tonight because I took a leap of faith. My action is not the first and it certainly will not be the last. Yet, on behalf of those who follow, I require your help - your sacrifice - and that of countless other Americans. I may fail. We may fail. But nothing we have tried has worked so far. It is time for change and the change starts with all of us.    I stand before you today, not as an expert - not as one who pretends to have all the answers. I am simply an American and a servant of the American people. My humble opinions today are just that. I realize that you may not agree with everything I have to say. However, I did not choose to be a leader for popularity. I did it to serve and make better the soldiers of this country. And I swore to carry out this charge honorably under the rule of law.    Today, I speak with you about a radical idea. It is one born from the very concept of the American soldier (or service member). It became instrumental in ending the Vietnam War - but it has been long since forgotten. The idea is this: that to stop an illegal and unjust war, the soldiers can choose to stop fighting it.    Now it is not an easy task for the soldier. For he or she must be aware that they are being used for ill-gain. They must hold themselves responsible for individual action. They must remember duty to the Constitution and the people supersedes the ideologies of their leadership. The soldier must be willing to face ostracism by their peers, worry over the survival of their families, and of course the loss of personal freedom. They must know that resisting an authoritarian government at home is equally important to fighting a foreign aggressor on the battlefield. Finally, those wearing the uniform must know beyond any shadow of a doubt that by refusing immoral and illegal orders they will be supported by the people not with mere words but by action.    The American soldier must rise above the socialization that tells them authority should always be obeyed without question. Rank should be respected but never blindly followed. Awareness of the history of atrocities and destruction committed in the name of America - either through direct military intervention or by proxy war - is crucial. They must realize that this is a war not out of self-defense but by choice, for profit and imperialistic domination. WMD, ties to Al Qaeda, and ties to 9/11 never existed and never will. The soldier must know that our narrowly and questio

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to cia-drugs

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: Yahoo! Groups Notification <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: September 19, 2006 10:25:48 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: MODERATE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to cia-drugsReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello,A message has been sent to the cia-drugs group from  [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message summary:FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DATE: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:16:11 -0700 (PDT) SUBJECT: Fwd: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high I'm really sorry to have to send such bad news to you all, but everyone must know the status of cannabis in the USA now. We really have a great deal to do. Note: forwarded message attached. End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal. b_jb2001- Why keep checking for A complete copy of this message has been attached for your convenience.This message requires your approval for one of the following reasons:* Your group is set to moderate all messages from this user, OR* Your group is set to moderate messages from all usersTo approve or reject this message using the web, please visit:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/pending?view=1&msg=2887 To approve this message using email, reply to this message. You do not need to attach the original message, just reply and send.To reject this message using email, forward this message tocia-drugs-reject-Wl=[EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTE: The pending message will expire after 14 days. If you do not take action within that time, the pending message will be automaticallyrejected.  Yahoo! Groups does this to maintain a high quality ofservice for our users.Thank you for choosing Yahoo! Groups.Regards,Yahoo! Groups Customer CareYour use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/From: james Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: September 19, 2006 10:16:11 AM PDTTo: Marijuana Activist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], renee Boje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dianne Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, CalifNorml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Traverse City <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vanessa Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Farid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed Forchion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Medpot group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sigma Marijuana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], mrweed1621 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Loretta Nall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Marc Paquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ed pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], rino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], senoritarita420 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Martin Stedinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Switz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tammi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Womens Organization for National Prohibition Reform <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Fwd: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high I'm really sorry to have to send such bad news to you all, but everyone must know the status of cannabis in the USA now.  We really have a great deal to do.Note: forwarded message attached.  End the oppression of cannabis and its consumers. Self defense is always correct, and it is never illegal.  b_jb2001 Why keep checking for Mail? The all-new Yahoo! Mail shows you when there are new messages.From: "skywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: September 18, 2006 3:18:59 PM PDTTo: "skywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [A Time 4 Hemp] FW: Marijuana arrests reach all-time highReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newest figures show a continued waste of society's resources in the culture war.  Skywolf.  _From: Allen St. Pierre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]org]  Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:09 PM To: NORML News Subject: Marijuana arrests reach all-time high     NORML.org    September 18, 2006       norml.org From NORML.ORG:   Marijuana Arrests For Year 2005 -- 786,545 Tops Record High Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 40 Seconds  Washington, DC: Police arrested an estimated 786,545 persons for marijuana violations in 2005, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report  , released today. The total is the highest ever recorded by the FBI, and comprised 42.6 percent of all drug arrests in the United States.  "These numbers belie the myth that police do not target and arrest minor marijuana offenders," said NORML Executive Director Allen St. Pierre, who noted that at current rates, a marijuana smoker is arrested every 40 seconds in America. "This effo

[cia-drugs] Fwd: "Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks on Google Video

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:From: Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: October 21, 2006 11:33:17 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks on Google Video  Here is a link to a Google video that I made of myself explaining a lot of the technical details of Bush's wire tapping program and why it will never work. It explains that terrorists would use private voice over IP networks (Internet phones) that can not be tapped. It is explained in a manner that the average viewer can get a good idea of how it works. Feel free to use this and pass it around. It puts a new light on the whole "we need NSA wiretapping to fight the terrorists" excuse. Show this to as many people as possible.   Marc Perkel  Uber Geek  Your friend, [EMAIL PROTECTED], has sent you the following video from Google Video and included this message: check this out Why Bush's NSA Wire tapping is defeated by VoIP Networks  13 min 29 sec - Oct 20, 2006 Description: Bush claims he needs NSA wire tapping to break up terrorist networks but terrorists are not using the phone network Bush is tapping. They are using private voice over IP internet phones (VoIP) that can't be tapped. This video explains how it works.  ___You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]To be removed from this list send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "unsubscribe" and you will be removed.Or - click on this: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To change your options:http://mailman.ctyme.com/options/news/ramillegan%40aol.comNews mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://mailman.ctyme.com/listinfo/news =

[cia-drugs] Fwd: BREAKING NEWS: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang Bohringer

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:


From: "daniel hopsicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: November 15, 2006 8:50:58 PM PST
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for  
Wolfgang Bohringer



BREAKING NEWS:  FBI Terror Alert in South Pacific for Wolfgang  
Bohringer;
German pilot was first identified as "close associate" of Mohamed  
Atta in The MadCowMorningNews



Wolfgang Bohringer, a German pilot identified more than two years  
ago as one of Mohamed Atta's closest associates in Florida in the  
MadCowMorningNews and "Welcome to TERRORLAND," is the subject of an  
FBI terror alert in the South Pacific.
A spate of recent news stories in the MadCowMorningNews has drawn  
attention to Bohringer's suspicious activities on tiny Fanning  
Island in the South Pacific, where he had announced an intention to  
establish a flight school that only trained pilots to fly DC3's...  
on an island with no electricity and barely a hundred inhabitants  
more than a thousand miles from a city of any size.


The unwanted scrutiny apparently caused Bohringer to flee aboard  
his yacht.


Tonight the Associated Press is reporting that U.S. authorities  
have "uncovered a plot to set up a flight training school in  
Kiribati and suspect the man behind it may have had links to  
September 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta."


Even though no one is crediting us for first reporting and  
identifying Mohamed Atta's German associates in Florida, it is  
still very satisfying to have finally broken a story from the  
enormous 'pile' of suppressed news from the terrorist's base of  
operations in Venice FL  which we have been alone in reporting for  
almost four years.


Headlines at this hour include:

"FBI raises terror alarm about South Pacific flying school"— 
International Herald Tribune;

"Man with Sept 11 links set up flight school"—The Australian.

"Terror suspect linked to Kiribati flight-school plot says FBI"—New  
Zealand Herald


MORE LATER.




--
daniel hopsicker
MadCowMorningNews
www.madcowprod.com

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Marvin Pierce Bush - Stock Options Scandal

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:


Subject: Marvin Pierce Bush - Stock Options Scandal


HCC says it backdated stock options, CEO resigns
Fri Nov 17, 2006 6:37 PM ET

NEW YORK, Nov 17 (Reuters) - HCC Insurance Holdings Inc.   
said on Friday an investigation concluded that it used incorrect  
dates for certain stock option grants covering a significant  
number of employees from 1995 through 2006.


HCC said its advisors estimate the cumulative pretax financial  
impact of additional non-cash charges associated with stock option  
grants is not likely to exceed $37 million over the periods of the  
options in question, but the errors will require an increased tax  
provision.


HCC said Stephen Way has resigned as chief executive as of Friday.  
Way will remain a director and serve as the non-executive  
chairman. Frank Bramanti will be the new chief executive.


So why should anyone care? Because President George W. Bush's (S&B  
1968) brother, Marvin Pierce Bush, is a former member of the HCC  
Board of Directors, and cashed out almost a $1 million dollars  
worth of options in 2005 alone.


HCC was also a major pre-9/11 insurer of the World Trade Center  
complex in New York City.


http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ir?s=HCC

http://biz.yahoo.com/t/78/4086.html

Marvin Pierce Bush

Mr. Bush is the President of Winston Capital Management, LLC, a  
registered investment adviser that specializes in hedge fund  
investments, and the founder and a Managing Director of Winston  
Partners, L.P. Mr. Bush served as a director of HCC from 1999  
until 2002, when he became an advisory director. Mr. Bush is an  
advisory member of the Investment and Finance Committee. Mr. Bush  
is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the George H. W.  
Bush (S&B 1947) Presidential Library.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Bush

Additionally, HCC's EVP & CFO is Edward H. Ellis, Jr., who may  
also be related George H. W. Bush through his former brother-in- 
law Alexander "Sandy" Ellis (S&B 1944), or perhaps one of the  
other five (5) Ellis Bonesmen.


Mr. Ellis is a director, Executive Vice President and Chief  
Financial Officer of HCC. Mr. Ellis is a Certified Public  
Accountant with over 35 years of public accounting experience.  
Prior to joining us in 1997, Mr. Ellis served as a partner  
specializing in the insurance industry with the international  
accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from 1988 to 1997. Mr.  
Ellis has served as a director of HCC since 2001. Mr. Ellis is a  
member of the Investment and Finance Committee and is also a  
director and officer of various of our subsidiaries.


http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/FetchFilingFrameset.aspx? 
FilingID=4346222&Type=HTML&PeopleFiling=true&FirstName=MARVIN% 
20P&LastName=BUSH


Of course is also the brother of Neil Mallon Bush, who caused the  
taxpayer to lose a billion dollars in the collapse of the  
Silverado Savings & Loan.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Mallon_Bush

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:


From: "MoneyNews.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: December 16, 2006 3:18:19 PM PST
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]




Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar
2. Greenspan: More Dollar Weakness Ahead
3. Official: OPEC Split Over Further Oil Cuts
4. Rogers Still Stocking Up on Commodities





1. OPEC Abandons U.S. Dollar

Oil-producing countries have reduced their dollar holdings to the  
lowest level in two years and shifted oil income into other  
currencies, according to the Bank for International Settlements.


Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and  
Russia reduced their dollar holdings from 67 percent in the first  
quarter to 65 percent in the second quarter.


At the same time, they increased their holdings of euros from 20  
percent to 22 percent, the BIS said. They also boosted holdings of  
the yen and British pound.


Eighteen months ago, the oil-producing countries’ exposure to the  
dollar was above 70 percent.


"The revelation in the latest BIS quarterly review . . . confirms  
market speculation about a move out of dollars and could put new  
pressure on the ailing U.S. currency," the Financial Times reports.


The BIS, the central bank for the developed world’s central banks,  
disclosed that OPEC’s dollar deposits fell by $5.3 billion, while  
euro and yen-denominated deposits rose $2.8 billion and $3.8  
billion, respectively.


The last time oil-exporting countries reduced their exposure to the  
dollar — in late 2003 — it pushed the euro to an all-time high  
against the dollar.


The BIS noted: "While the data are not comprehensive, they do  
appear to indicate a modest shift over the quarter in the U.S.  
dollar share of reporting banks’ liabilities to oil exporting  
countries."


According to the Times, "the dollar has suffered weakness because  
of concerns about global imbalances and the future course of the  
Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy."


Editor's Note:
Warren Buffett is betting billions the dollar will crash in 2007.



2. Greenspan: More Dollar Weakness Ahead

The U.S. dollar will stay weak for the next few years, according to  
former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. Greenspan blames  
the U.S. balance of payments deficit for the prolonged frailty of  
the dollar.


“I expect that the dollar will continue to drift downwards until  
there will be a change in the U.S. balance of payments,” remarked  
Greenspan, who spoke via video-link to a business conference in Tel  
Aviv.


“There has been some evidence that Organization of Petroleum  
Exporting Countries nations are beginning to switch their reserves  
out of dollars and into euro and yen,” continued Greenspan.


MoneyNews told readers yesterday that the Bank for International  
Settlements, which is known as the “central banks’ central bank,”  
reported a decline in U.S. dollar reserves in OPEC countries as  
well as oil exporter Russia.


“It is imprudent to hold everything in one currency,” advised  
Greenspan, who sounded like he was talking down the dollar. In  
fact, Greenspan added that at some point the dollar would decline  
in value.


"That [a falling dollar] will be the experience of the next few  
years," Greenspan said.


Editor's Note:
Can Ben Bernanke avoid the coming currency crisis?



3. Official: OPEC Split Over Further Oil Cuts

A narrow majority of OPEC members want to cut the group's oil  
output further when they meet in Abuja on Thursday, a top OPEC  
official said on Monday.


Hasan Qabazard, OPEC's director of research, said his view was OPEC  
should wait to judge the full impact of its existing 1.2 million  
barrels per day reduction before cutting again.


Asked how many countries backed supply curbs, he told Reuters in an  
interview: "I put it at 60/40."


"I see mixed signals. Some ministers believe there should be cuts  
but some other ministers believe the market is balanced."


He listed Saudi Arabia, Algeria, the UAE and Qatar among those  
countries favoring supply curbs of at least 500,000 barrels per  
day. At an emergency meeting in October, OPEC decided to remove 1.2  
million bpd from the market after a 25 percent drop in the oil  
price from its $78.40 mid-July peak. "I would prefer that we wait  
until January to see how our cuts in Doha take effect . . . prices  
have gone up a little bit."


He raised the possibility of price spikes during the northern  
hemisphere winter when demand peaks.


"You don't want to have the price go up drastically. That might be  
harmful for economies," he said.


Prices have rallied from a low of $54.88 on Nov. 17 for U.S. crude  
to more than $61 a barrel, above OPEC's undeclared price target of  
$60 a barrel — $55 for OPEC's basket of crude.


Sixty a Barrel Fair for All

Qabazard said a $60 a barrel price did not risk harming the world  
economy and enabled OP

[cia-drugs] Fwd: ### Fed to meet at C.O.G. on 8/31...Why? / Other interesting items ### NOTE: Don Stacey will be off-line until Thursday

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:


From: "Dstacey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 26, 2007 6:44:20 AM PDT
To: 
Subject: ###   Fed to meet at C.O.G. on 8/31...Why? / Other  
interesting items   ###   NOTE: Don Stacey will be off-line until  
Thursday





This just in. WARNING: totally unconfirmed. You decide what weight  
to give it.


Don Stacey



 FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD OF GOVERNORS MEETING TO TAKE PLACE AT  
"C.O.G."

FACILITY IN JACKSON HOLE, WYOMING ON AUGUST 31!
 C.O.G. STANDS FOR "CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT" AND IS A
SUPER-HIGH-SECURITY, UNDERGROUND MILITARY INSTALLATION DESIGNED AS A
SANCTUARY FOR GOVERNMENT IF THE U.S. IS HIT WITH NUKES OR SUFFERS  
OTHER

CATASTROPHIC DISASTER



As you know, the Fed is a private corporation. Why is it meeting at  
a highly sensitive government facility at a time of financial crisis?
 
++




Country's top decisions are made in secret by the Fed

August 25, 2007.
By Chris Powell
Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Connecticut
Saturday, August 25, 2007



Most of the important public policy decisions in the country now  
are being made not in any public forum nor even by elected  
officials. They are being made in secret by unelected officials --  
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.


While the governors are nominated by the president and appointed by  
the Senate, that is pretty much where accountability ends, since  
the governors serve 14-year terms, which is close to the life  
tenure of federal judges. There is a little more accountability for  
the board's chairman and vice chairman, who are nominated by the  
president from among the board's members and appointed by the  
Senate for four-year terms of leadership.


This structure is said to take politics out of the management of  
the money supply and interest rates. In practice it has only  
replaced public politics with private politics -- and in regard to  
issues that have the greatest bearing on the country's prosperity  
and economic opportunity and equality or inequality. The president  
and Congress spend most of their time on issues far less relevant  
to daily life than the issues that have been forfeited to the  
Federal Reserve.


And look how the Fed is functioning amid the turmoil in the world  
financial system that has been prompted by the collapse in the  
market for "subprime" mortgage bonds.


As it always does in crisis, the Fed has... http:// 
www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm? 
newsid=18741023&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=565860&rfi=6
 
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Chatter about an "incident" on West Coast at all time high
By Wayne Madsen
Editor, Wayne Madsen Report


Aug 23, 2007, 01:14 http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/ 
article_2336.shtml
Comment: Add to this the strange option buying in huge amounts  
betting on a catastrophic drop in the U.S. stock markets...


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Chatter picked up by WMR's sources in the nation's capital and in  
California point to unusual events that could be a prelude to a  
9/11-like false flag "incident" during the Labor Day weekend,  
possibly one focused on the San Francisco Bay Area.


The FBI in Seattle, as well as the Washington Joint Analytical  
Center (WJAC), have asked for the public's help in identifying two  
men spotted aboard Washington state ferries exhibiting unusual  
behavior. A number of ferry passengers have reported the two men  
showing strange behavior.


Two photos have been circulated showing two young "Middle East"  
looking men on board a ferry. The reluctance of the FBI to provide  
more details is reminiscent of the 2000 and 2001 closely-held  
government reports that a number of teams of between two and five  
to six young male and female Israelis, all veteran or reserve  
Israeli Defense Force members, were spotted casing federal  
facilities, oil refineries, harbor areas, homes of federal law  
enforcement officials, office buildings -- including the World  
Trade Center, bridges, tunnels, and military bases and airfields  
prior to and subsequent to the 9/11 attacks.


The Israelis were described in a number of federal reports as  
"Middle East-looking" in appearance. The FBI never sought to  
prosecute the Israelis, many of whom were using the intelligence  
covers of office and home furniture movers, vendors of toys at  
shopping mall kiosks, and art students selling bogus Israeli  
artwork, and merely turned them over to U.S. immigration  
authorities for deportation back to Israel. The code phrase "Middle  
East looking" has since become politically-correct FBI-speak for  
Israelis. Nationals of Arab countries are described as Arabs in  
official law enforcement intelligence reports. However, Israeli  
influence over the Bush administration prevents Israelis in t

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush Crony Seals Oil Deal with Kurds in Iraq

[Kris Millegan]

Begin forwarded message:


From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: September 9, 2007 7:47:57 PM PDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Bush Crony Seals Oil Deal with Kurds in Iraq

Texas Company Signs Iraq Oil Deal With Kurds

Hunt Oil CEO Also Serves on Halliburton Board

09 Sep 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/09/business/main3244774.shtml

Texas' Hunt Oil Co. and Kurdistan's regional government said they  
have signed a production-sharing contract for petroleum exploration  
in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, the first such deal since  
the Kurds passed their own oil and gas law in August.


"We're very pleased to have the opportunity to be a part of these  
landmark events by actively participating in the establishment of  
the petroleum industry," Ray L. Hunt, Hunt's CEO, said in a statement.


Hunt, who is also on the board of Halliburton, has been a key  
fundraiser for George W. Bush, who named him to the President's  
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.




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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Asking Why Petraeus Wasn't Sworn In Gets ex-CIA Official Ray McGovern Thrown Out

[Kris Millegan]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Asking Why Petraeus Wasn't Sworn In Gets ex-CIA Official  
Ray McGovern Thrown Out


'Swear Him In' Provokes Expulsion

By Ray McGovern
September 10, 2007

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html

“Swear him in.”

That’s all I said in the unusual silence this afternoon as first  
aid was being administered to Gen. David Petraeus’s microphone at  
the hearing before the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs  
Committees.


It had dawned on me that when House Armed Services Committee  
Chairman Ike Skelton, D-Missouri, invited Gen. Petraeus to make his  
presentation, Skelton forgot to ask him to take the customary oath  
to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.


I had no idea that would be enough to get me thrown out of the  
hearing.


I had a flashback to a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in early  
2006, when Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, reminded chairman Arlen  
Specter, R-Pennsylvania, that Specter had forgotten to swear in the  
witness, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; and how Specter  
insisted that that would not be necessary.


Now that may, or may not, be an invidious comparison. But Petraeus  
and Gonzales work for the same boss, who has a rather unusual  
relationship with the truth. How many of his senior staff could  
readily be convicted, as was the hapless-and-now-commuted Scooter  
Libby, of perjury?


So I didn’t think twice about it. I really thought that Skelton  
perhaps forgot, and that the 10-minute interlude of silence while  
they fixed the microphone was a good chance to raise this seemingly  
innocent question.


The more so since the ranking Republican representatives had been  
protesting too much. In the obverse of “killing the messenger,”  
they had been canonizing the messenger with protective fire.


Ranking Armed Services Committee member Duncan Hunter, R- 
California, began what amounted to a SWAT-team attack on the  
credibility of those who dared attack the truthfulness of the  
sainted Petraeus, and issued a special press release decrying a  
full-pager in the New York Times equating Petraeus with “Betray-us.”


Hunter served notice on any potential doubters, insisting that  
Petraeus’s “capability, integrity, intelligence...are without  
question.” And Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, ranking member of  
the House Foreign Affairs Committee, echoed that theme, unwittingly  
choosing another infelicitous almost-homonym for the charges  
against Petraeus—“outrageous.”


Indeed, Hunter’s prepared statement, which he circulated before the  
hearing, amounted to little more than a full-scale “duty-honor- 
country” panegyric for the general.


On the chance we did not hear him the first time, Hunter kept  
repeating how “independent” Petraeus is, how candid and full of  
integrity, and compared him to famous generals who testified to  
Congress in the past—Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Schwarzkopf.  
Advisedly, Hunter avoided any mention of Gen. William Westmoreland,  
commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, who fell tragically short on  
those traits. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Is Petraeus Today’s  
Westmoreland.”]


If memory serves, the aforementioned generals and Westmoreland were  
required to testify under oath. And this was one of the main  
sticking points when CBS aired a program showing that Westmoreland  
had deliberately dissembled on the strength of Communist forces and  
U.S. “progress” in the war.


When Westmoreland sued CBS for libel, several of his subordinates  
came clean, and Westmoreland quickly dropped the suit. The analogy  
with Westmoreland—justifying a White House wish to persist in an  
unwinnable war —is the apt one here.


If Petraeus is so honest and full of integrity, what possible  
objection could he have to being sworn in?


I had not the slightest hesitation being sworn in when testifying  
before the committee assembled by Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan, on  
June 16, 2005. Should generals be immune? Or did his masters wish  
to give him a little more assurance that he could play fast and  
loose with the truth without the consequences encountered by  
Scooter Libby.


With the microphone finally fixed, it quickly became clear.  
Petraeus tried to square a circle in his very first two paragraphs.


In the first, he thanks the committees for the opportunity to  
“discuss the recommendations I recently provided to my chain of  
command for the way forward.” Then he stretches credulity well  
beyond the breaking point—at least for me:


“At the outset, I would like to note that this is my testimony.  
Although I have briefed my assessment and recommendations to my  
chain of command, I wrote this testimony myself. It has not been  
cleared by, nor shared with, anyone in the Pentagon, the White  
House, or Congress.”


Is not t

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin family, goes up

[Kris Millegan]

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Subject: Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin  
family, goes up


Historical domain name, formerly owned by the Binladin family, goes up
for auction on eBay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330164895202

This name expired on 9-11-01 - the same day as the terror attacks  
in the

United States. Domain: www.saudi-binladin-group.com

This could be an interesting story for coverage in regards to 9/11,
technology, human interest and strange news.

Please contact Chris Curry at +1 (323) 459-1094 for further  
information.


Thank you,
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.shrimpo.com


BACKGROUND ...

The Binladin family has dissociated itself from the Osama. Strangely
enough the Binladin family website expired on the very same day which
their estranged son and brother attacked the united stated. This
family's website expired on 9-11-01 - the same day of the US terrorist
attacks.

Proof and facts are at http://saudi-binladin-group.com. This can  
also be

proved from various online articles (including Wired
Magazine:http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/11/48254) ,
discussion groups and research tools such as dialog.com.

This is a little known bit in the media, but is very verifiable and  
is a
fascinating and rarely documented part of the 9/11 story. Moreover,  
over

the last several years, I have placed an email server which has
harvested megabytes worth of email intended for Binladin brothers,
corporate correspondences and even strange "Osama" fan letters.

Please feel free to contact me at +1(323) 459-1094 or  
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Based in Los Angeles and available immediately.

Regards,
Christopher Curry

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Wolfowitz Back in Catbird Seat in US Govt's Nuclear Black Market (see Sibel)

[Kris Millegan]

 


 


 

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Paul Wolfowitz named to chair advisory panel 


Thu Jan 24, 6:43 PM ET 


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080124/pl_nm/usa_wolfowitz_dc_1


 


Reuters Photo: Paul Wolfowitz smiles during a news conference at the European 
Union headquarters in Brussels, May... 






WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz, an architect of the Iraq war who was 
forced to resign from the World Bank because of an ethics scandal, will chair a 
U.S. advisory panel on arms control, the State Department said on Thursday. 


The former deputy secretary of defense and advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led 
invasion of Iraq will head the State Department's International Security 
Advisory Board, which gives the department independent advice on arms control, 
disarmament, international security and other matters.


Wolfowitz was forced to resign as president of the World Bank last year after a 
bank panel found he broke several of its rules by involving himself in the 
promotion of his companion Shaha Riza, a Middle East expert at the bank.


The controversy sparked outrage among some of the bank's 10,000 employees and 
prompted senior staff to write to its board complaining the leadership crisis 
had undermined their work, especially in fighting corruption.


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Friday, January 25, 2008


http://rakemucker.blogspot.com/2008/01/did-lapd-send-lee-harvey-oswald-to.html


?









Did the LAPD Send Lee Harvey Oswald to Russia?





In the book, Chief: My Life in the L.A.P.D., 


?


http://www.amazon.com/Chief-My-Life-L-P-D/dp/0553562053/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199910091&sr=8-1


?


Daryl Gates writes that the Los Angeles Police Department had a special 
intelligence unit that ran a program which sent American spies to Russia, 
totally clandestine and under deep cover. This was during the during the same 
period when Lee Harvey Oswald made his strange trip to the Soviet Union. A 
natural question arises; was Oswald part of the LAPD program?


?


A few words about Daryl Gates are in order. Gates went to University of 
Southern California on the G.I. Bill. He worked closely with the infamous 
Police Chief Bill Parker. Gates is a notorious right winger.? Even someone as 
famous as Peter Ueberroth was not afraid to ask the question, "Is it true that 
Daryl Gates is a Nazi?" 


?


He was in charge during the Watts riot that occurred five days after the Voting 
Rights Act passed in 1965. Despite all his failures during the riots, he was 
still considered an expert on riots and riot control and helped prepare other 
police chiefs for the riots that would occur in other parts of the country.? 
His policies were viewed as racist and led to the Rodney King beating and many 
other abuses of police power


?


He?started S.W.A.T, Special Weapons and Tactics, which put military weapons 
into the hands of the police. 


?


He worked with the Marines at Camp Pendleton to find the best snipers.? 


?


?


Two interesting facts emerge when studying Daryl Gates. 





The first one is how interested he was in Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK 
assassination.? Just hours before Oswald was murdered by Ruby, Gates was on the 
phone talking to the Dallas Police Department. 


?


The second one is that he was in charge of Robert Kennedy's security at the 
Ambassador Hotel the night of RFK's assassination.?? Actually, there was no 
security.? Gates kept the police away, claiming somebody told him Bobby didn't 
want the LAPD there. 


?


The Los Angeles Police would burn most of the photos related to the 
assassination before Sirhan's trial began. Then Gates kept the case secret for 
twenty-five years. When he was forced to release the files, he had destroyed 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Who's Who at the Fed

[Kris Millegan]

 


 This screams dialectic.

Looking to put fear in control and move away from the real men in the shadows - the secret societal network which is heavily Germanic working with a Catholic secret societal network, plus other various "hoods" and their combined Levithanic economic control.

Yes, there is a Jewish arm in the Octopus,  and this is classic"court Jew" show-act to play the fear, ignorance and prejudice cards to try and trump the understanding being developed worldwide about the nature of the current Corruption and the methods of "control."

MHO
Peace, 
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http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Number=296022409

All 5 members of the Federal Reserve's 


Board of Governors are Jewish. 


 


This is an event of unthinkable odds. 

There are supposed to be seven governors. 

Kevin Warsh is the son-in-law of Ron Lauder, son of Estee Lauder. Of Ron Lauder, Wikipedia says: 

Quote: 

Lauder is actively involved in numerous civic organizations, including the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Brandeis University, and the Abraham Fund. With his brother he founded the Lauder Institute at Wharton School. Lauder has also served as a Finance Chairman of the New York State Republican Committee. He was elected President of the World Jewish Congress on June 10, 2007 beating South African businessman Mendel Kaplan by 11 votes to 4. 

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: We War Der Thor, Wer Weiser

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You shall answer for you slandering of the order of skull and bones. I make 
this threat as a member of our sacred order. You are not the only person to 
recieve this email, nor will you be the last. The world will change soon and 
you will reap our wrath.



  

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Red China Eats the World

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Rio predicts political strife as China’s appetite grows









David Robertson 


January 28, 2008


http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/china/article3261567.ece






China’s booming economy is expected to consume more than half of the world’s 
key resources within a decade, according to Rio Tinto. 


The rapid industrialisation of China’s economy means that it is likely to 
consume a majority of the world’s supply of all the major metals and minerals, 
potentially leading to clashes with other countries over access to resources. 
Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest miner, said last week that China already 
accounted for 47 per cent of all iron ore consumption, 32 per cent of aluminium 
and 25 per cent of copper. 


Tom Albanese, Rio’s chief executive, has predicted that within the next couple 
of years this will move to 58 per cent of all iron ore, 45 per cent of 
aluminium and a third of all copper. He said: “Even with the assumption that 
the current growth intensity will slow, we are looking at China consuming a 
higher percentage of global supply.” 


Vivek Tulpule, Rio’s chief economist, said that with China likely to consume 
more than half of the world’s key resources within a decade, political concerns 
would be raised as the country seeks to control access to the resources its 
economy needs. 


In 1990, China accounted for only about 5 per cent of all copper demand and 3 
per cent of aluminium and iron ore. The country is already the largest buyer of 
nickel, copper, aluminium, steel, coal and iron ore. Only in oil does it fall 
behind, coming second to the United States. 


By 2015, China will be consuming nearly a billion tonnes of iron ore a year. To 
meet this demand, large mining companies are ramping up production in areas 
such as Western Australia’s Pilbara region, which is geographically one of the 
closest ore deposits to China. Rio Tinto expects to increase its production in 
the Pilbara from 160 million tonnes a year to 320 million tonnes by 2013. BHP 
Bil-liton, the world’s largest miner, hopes to achieve 300 million tonnes by 
2015. 


Mr Tulpule said: “The US’s consumption of the key metals has been going 
backwards while China has continued to grow. [China's] share of global demand 
will continue to rise until about 2020 when other economies like India start to 
challenge it.” 




















 


COMMENTS:











Many people in North America have the view that China is still behind the 
curve. I am living in China temporarily and I can tell you it is very modern 
and forward thinking in their strategic planning. 80% of the population ride 
electric scooters around Shanghai with special roads separated from the regular 
truck and car traffic. The new buildings have all the amenities and ABM are in 
no short supply. The large apartment complexes that the majority of the people 
occupy have all the conveniences that North America has and in some cases are 
replete with large swimming pools and beautiful gardens. The lights at night 
around Suzhou make North American cities look tame. When one sees how 
progressive the Chinese nation is , one can easily believe the predictions of 
future consumption.





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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Plunge Protection

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The Plunge Protection Team
By Andrew Gause 
US Gold Coins.com
1-28-8


?http://rense.com/general80/plunge.htm




?

















Those who share the "crash" mentality have often derided the notion of 
sustainability in this fiat, or unbacked monetary system. They insist that both 
doom and gloom are imminent. They cite the fact that every experiment with fiat 
money has failed and that empires crumbled in each instance. I suggest that 
none of the prior systems had the technology in use today. Even the very notion 
of money is radically different. Today over 92% of everything we call money is 
electronic. When the Roman Empire debased its money, the masses who controlled 
the actual debased coins alternately aggregated and dumped them, creating an 
ebb and flow similar to rocking a boat. As each wave occurred, the swings were 
wider until the water came over the side. Alas, if only the Romans had the 
Plunge Protection Team. They could have stopped the rocking with appropriate 
counter measures. 






The science of monetary policy has created a system of chattel slavery unlike 
any ever witnessed. Those in charge of this wildly profitable system have found 
a way to effectively harness the efforts of the populace with what we have 
dubbed the electronic chain. 


 



By converting the bulk of money to electronic form, they have eliminated the 
element of surprise that often caused the widespread panic inherent in a 
rocking boat. Prior to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 
http://tinyurl.com/3b8fom,?pools were formed by prominent capitalists. 






The Government was rarely involved, not withstanding the 1869 Gold panic 
http://tinyurl.com/2uaucv offset by Treasury selling. J.P. Morgan himself 
organized a private pool to stem the Bank Panic of 1907 
http://tinyurl.com/34kc43 . In 1929, Richard Whitney, acting head of the New 
York Stock Exchange, created demand by buying large blocks of stock for a pool 
which bolstered prices and restored confidence. Like the Morgan pool of 1907, 
both lacked the subs tance to be successful. 


 



The modern survivor to Morgan's famous pool is the "Working Group on Financial 
Markets." http://tinyurl.com/28gy65?? Created by Executive Order 12631 
http://tinyurl.com/a8lrv , this action was largely the result of the crash of 
1987 where a total collapse of the markets was narrowly averted?thanks 
to?concerted action.? This formal government entity is charged with "enhancing 
the orderliness of our Nation's financial markets and maintaining investor 
confidence." The first reference to this faction appeared in an article?in the 
Washington Post, by Brett Fromson. Many stories have circulated?about massive 
buying at precisely timed?moments to revive an otherwise sagging market. 






Unlike informal arrangements cobbled together at the onset of a panic, these 
efforts were massive by standards of reason. In the private pools it often took 
more money than the participants were willing to commit. These efforts 
necessarily failed. Many prominent economists cited this "lack of resources" as 
the only reason for failure. The problems of limited resources are now gone. 
The Secretary of the Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, the 
Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Chairman of the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, have all picked a designee to act in 
concert with government and private parties, to prevent investor panics. 






The order also directs that, "The heads of Executive departments, agencies, and 
independent instrumentalities shall, to the extent permitted by law, provide 
the Working Group all such information as it may require for the purpose of 
carrying out this Order." And further, it says, "To the extent permitted by law 
and subject to the availability of funds thereof, the Department of the 
Treasury shall provide the Working Group with such administrative and support 
services as may be necessary for the performance of its functions". 


 



With this one order, the entire financial system has been placed in the hands 
of 6 people?with a practically unlimited supply of money.? By law, only the 
President can authorize a shutdown of U.S. financial markets.?? No doubt such 
an event would shake investor confidence.? So this team sees to it that this is 
unnecessary.? 


 



Have they had an effect? There have been many instances since 1988, when the 
Major Market Index futures contracts were heavily bought, at just the right 
moment, by a few major firms.? This unusual buying boosted the Dow and rallied 
the markets.? The heavy buying of this one MMI contract raised the price.? The 
underlying securities were then at a discount to the index. 






This prompted regular marke

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White House Trying To ‘Eliminate’ FOIA Office


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/26/leahy-foia/


 In August, the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government reported that 
“current government handling of FOIA requests is deteriorating” and that the 
Justice Department was “consistently granted the lowest percentage of [FOIA] 
appeals of any agency.” 


On New Years Eve, facing “congressional pushback against the Bush 
administration’s movement to greater secrecy,” President Bush signed the OPEN 
Government Act, toughening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The 
legislation — unanimously passed by the House and Senate — would push agencies 
to respond more quickly to records requests. 


But now, the White House is doing everything it can to neuter the law. 


Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT) said yesterday that Bush’s FY2009 “funds for the Office 
of Government Information Services authorized under the newly enacted OPEN 
Government Act will be shifted to the Department of Justice” from the National 
Archives. Congress Daily reports: 




“But by shifting the funding to the Justice Department, OMB would effectively 
eliminate the office, because it appears no similar operation would be created 
there,” according to an aide to Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT). […]


National Archives officials are relatively independent of political pressure, 
the staffer explained, “but DOJ is different.”  Government transparency 
advocates consider the department hostile to efforts to improve FOIA 
responsiveness, in part because it represents agencies sued by FOIA requesters.



Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), a cosponsor of the OPEN Government legislation said he 
“does agree with Senator Leahy and would oppose that effort” of the 
adminstration. 


The Justice Department’s efforts to protect government secrecy are notorious. 
In fact, in the 109th Congress, the Department “squelched efforts to pass the 
OPEN Government Act.”  But even initially “putting  [funding] in DOJ would 
essentially obviate what Leahy and Cornyn did with the legislation,” said 
Patrice McDermott of OpenTheGovernment.org


Bush’s noncompliance with the legislation makes clear his effort to return to 
his old ways of egregious government secrecy.





 



Comments » 



Feingold says:
http://feingold.senate.gov/ ~feingold/ statements/ 08/ 01/ 20080125.htm 


January 25, 2007


“The conduct of Senate Republicans yesterday was shameless. After weeks of 
insisting that it is absolutely critical to finish the FISA legislation by 
February 1, even going so far as to object to a one-month extension of the 
Protect America Act, they obstructed all efforts to actually work on the bill. 


"Now they want to simply ram the deeply flawed Intelligence Committee bill 
through the Senate. They refused to allow amendments to be offered or voted on, 
including my straight-forward amendment to require that the government provide 
copies of FISA Court orders and pleadings for review in a classified setting, 
so that Members of Congress can understand how FISA has been interpreted and is 
being applied. 


"If the Republicans succeed in cutting off debate on Monday, the Senate won’t 
even get to vote on the amendment Senator Dodd and I want to offer to deny 
retroactive immunity to telecom companies that allegedly cooperated with the 
administration’s illegal wiretapping program. 


“Democrats should not allow the Republicans to ram this bill through the Senate 
without amendments. Monday’s cloture vote will be a test of whether the 
majority is willing to stand up to the administration and stand up for our 
rights.”


Comment by 99Luf Balloons — January 26, 2008 @ 11:52 am







 


The only thing ANY Republican is now is an obstructionist to this government 
functioning.  PURGE ALL Republicans from ALL offices, everywhere -- local, 
state and federal.


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According to Sibel Edmonds, certain U.S. officials have been supplying
sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests 
through
its conduits.  


 


Edmonds' charges seems to be on the verge of vindication.

In likely reaction to the London Times report, the Bush Administration quietly
announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the
sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey.  



The Bushites seem to be covering their own exposed backsides, because the
timing of Bush's call to sell nuke secrets to Turkey is certainly suspicious.
It appears the White House has been spooked by Edmonds and is attempting


to absolve the officials involved in the illegal sale of nuclear technology to
private Turkish "entities."  

Edmonds says "what was going on was [covered up] by several arms of the 


U.S. government," including the entire national security apparatus associated 


with neocons who have personally profited by representing Turkish interests in
Washington.  


 


As Justin Raimondo reported in Antiwar.com, "this group includes Paul Wolfowitz 
..." 





  
Is the Bush Administration seeking to exonerate these "officials" with its plea
to allow Turkey to obtain U.S. nuclear secrets?  






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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have
any."-- Alice Walker


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19193.htm   
*Why Bush Wants To Legalize the Nuke Trade With Turkey: Exonerating Neocon
Criminals*  
By Joshua Frank 
26/01/08 
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/why-bush-wants-to-legalize-the-nuke-trade-with-turkey/


"Dissident Voice" -- According to F.B.I. whistleblower Sibel Edmonds there is a
vast black market for nukes, and certain U.S. officials have been supplying
sensitive nuclear technology information to Turkish and Israeli interests 
through
its conduits.  It's a scathing allegation which was first published by the 
London
Times two weeks ago, and Edmonds' charge seems to be on the verge of
vindication.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece  

In likely reaction to the London Times report, the Bush Administration quietly
announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the
sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey.  As with most stories of this magnitude, the
U.S. media has put on blinders, opting to not report either Edmonds' story or
Bush's recent announcement.

The White House Press Release claims that President Clinton signed off on the 
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080123-6.html   
Turkey deal way back in 2000:   
"However, immediately after signature, U.S. agencies received information 
that
called into question the conclusions that had been drawn in the required 
N.P.A.S.
(Nuclear Proliferation Assessment Statement) and the original classified annex,
specifically, information implicating Turkish private entities in certain
activities directly relating to nuclear proliferation.  Consequently, the
Agreement was not submitted to the Congress and the executive branch undertook a
review of the N.P.A.S. evaluation … My Administration has completed the 
N.P.A.S.
review as well as an evaluation of actions taken by the Turkish government to
address the proliferation activities of certain Turkish entities" (once 
officials
of the U.S. Government brought them to the Turkish government’s attention).

What "private entities" the Press Release refers to is not clear, but it could
well include the American Turkish Council, the “entity” revealed in the 
Times
article.  The Bushites seem to be covering their own exposed backsides, for the
timing of Bush's call to sell nuke secrets to Turkey is certainly suspicious, if
not overtly conspicuous.

It appears the White House has been spooked by Edmonds and hopes to absolve the
U.S. officials allegedly involved in the illegal sale of nuclear technology to
private Turkish "entities."  One of those officials is likely Marc Grossman, the
former ambassador to Turkey during the Clinton Administration who also served in
the State Department from 2001~2005.  Grossman has been named by Edmonds who
claims he 

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2777893


 


Ghorbanifar & Ledeen: Iran/Contra Redux

Since Plan A of having WMD planted by Iraqis for coalition forces to find 
failed in more ways than could possibly be expected, Plan B was intended, to 
paraphrase Patrick Fitzgerald’s description of Libby’s lying of his knowledge 
of Joseph Wilson’s wife, “to tell a story”. But this time, the storyteller was 
not Libby, or even Chalabi. Instead it is someone much darker from Iran/Contra 
infamy: Manucher Ghorbanifar. The story Ghorbanifar was trying to peddle, which 
detailed how an Iranian intelligence team infiltrated Iraq prior to the start 
of the war in March of 2003, and stole enriched uranium to use in their own 
nuclear weapons program, was part of an attempt to implicate both countries in 
a WMD plot. Though some, including Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) were taken in 
by this con, the CIA thoroughly investigated the story spun by “Ali”, believed 
to be either Ghorbanifar or his agent, a former in the Shah’s Iran and a 
secretary to Ghorbanifar, Fereidoun Mahdavi. Though Ali succeeded in leading 
the CIA through multiple wild goose chases trying to prove his claims in what 
turned out to be an attempt to extract large sums of money, he did not succeed 
in selling this story, which was found to be not credible. 
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Backchannels_used_to_bypa... 

To understand more completely how intricately woven the web of criminality is 
surrounding Ghorbanifar’s attempt to manipulate intelligence, it is necessary 
to understand how his history is connected with Michael Ledeen, and what a 
disturbing figure Ledeen is in his own right. Currently the main foreign policy 
advisor to Karl Rove http://www.sw-asia.com/People/Bio906.htm and a fellow at 
the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Ledeen holds a Ph.D. in History 
and Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin. His peculiar attitude toward 
whether the end justifies the means is evident in one of the many books he has 
authored, titled: "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron 
Rules Are as Timely and Important Today as Five Centuries Ago." He is a former 
employee of the Pentagon, the State Department and the National Security 
Council. As a consultant working with NSC head Robert McFarlane, he was 
involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran/Contra scandal. 
http://www.alternet.org/story/15860 / Ledeen acted as a go-between for Oliver 
North in the early stages of the Iran/Contra scandal, working with Israeli spy 
David Kimche to gain the release of US hostages in Beirut through an Iranian 
arms dealer, Manucher Ghorbanifar. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1261 
Ghorbanifar then served as the medium between Oliver North and Iran in the 
Iran/Contra scandal. http://www.tribune-libanaise.com/tribune/article.php3?i... 

But this would not be the last time Ledeen and Ghorbanifar would join forces. 
Both were involved in a controversial meeting in December 2001 in Rome. While 
some believe it was Ledeen who organized this meeting, 
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/19/145557/54 Ledeen says that 
[Cheney's man] Hadley had authorized the trip. This would also implicate 
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, then-National Security Advisor. "Hadley 
authorized it and he could not have done so without reporting it to his direct 
superior," said Ledeen. While the purpose of the meeting remains unclear, what 
is clear is that the OSP authorized the meeting without notifying any other 
agency, violating protocol. Ledeen was consulting for OSP when he and two other 
Americans we will examine in greater detail later were dispatched to Rome in 
2001, but they did not notify the Rome CIA station chief or the U.S. Ambassador 
to Italy, Mel Sembler. 
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Backchannels_used_to_bypa... 



All of the players at this mysteriously secret meeting deserve closer 
inspection; it serves almost as the nexus point of convergence for many of the 
scandals perpetrated by the dangerous group Sibel Edmonds refers to in the 
opening quote of this paper. In addition to Ghorbanifar, there were a number of 
other Iranians, including a former senior member of the Iranian Revolutionary 
Guard who claimed to have information about dissident ranks within the Iranian 
security services. While the names of these Iranians have not been disclosed, 
two highly influential Italians have been identified as having attended the 
meeting. Nicolo Pollari, the head of Italy's military intelligence agency, 
SISMI, attended the meetings, as did the Italian Minister of Defense Antonio 
Martino, who 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: the myth of John McCain

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Don't be fooled by the myth of John McCain


JOHANN HARI


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/348434_mccainonline24.html




A lazy, hazy myth has arisen out of the mists of New Hampshire and South 
Carolina. Across the pan-Atlantic press, the grizzled 71-year-old Vietnam vet, 
John McCain, is being billed as the Republican liberals can live with. 


He is "a bipartisan progressive," "a principled hard liberal," "a decent man" 
-- in the words of liberal newspapers. His fragile new frontrunner status as we 
go into Super Tuesday is being seen as something to cautiously welcome, a kick 
to the rotten Republican establishment.


But the truth is that McCain is the candidate we should most fear. Not only is 
he to the right of Bush on a whole range of subjects, he is also the Republican 
candidate most likely to dispense with Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.


McCain is third-generation Navy royalty, raised from a young age to be a senior 
figure in the armed forces, like his father and grandfather before him. He was 
sent to one of the most elite boarding schools in America, then to a naval 
academy where he ranked 894th of 899 students in ability. He used nepotism to 
get ahead: When he was rejected by the National War College, he used his 
father's contacts with the Secretary of the Navy to make them reconsider. He 
later married the heiress to a multi-million dollar fortune.


Right up to his twenties, he remained a strikingly violent man, "ready to fight 
at the drop of a hat," according to his biographer Robert Timberg.


This rage seems to be at the core of his personality: describing his own 
childhood, McCain has written: "At the smallest provocation I would go off into 
a mad frenzy, and then suddenly crash to the floor unconscious. When I got 
angry I held my breath until I blacked out."


But he claims he was transformed by his experiences in Vietnam -- a war he 
still defends as "noble" and "winnable," if only it had been fought harder.


(More than three million Vietnamese died; how much harder could it be?) His 
plane was shot down on a bombing raid over Hanoi, and he was captured and 
tortured for five years. To this day, he cannot lift his arms high enough to 
comb his own hair.


On his release, he used second his wife's fortune to run to as a Republican 
senator. He was a standard-issue Reaganite corporate Republican n until the 
Keating Five corruption scandal consumed him. In 1987, it was revealed that 
McCain, along with four other senators, had taken huge campaign donations from 
a fraudster called Charles Keating. In return they pressured government 
regulators not to look too hard into Keating's affairs, allowing him to commit 
even more fraud. McCain later admitted: "I did it for no other reason than I 
valued [Keating's] support."


McCain took the only course that could possibly preserve his reputation: He 
turned the scandal into a debate about the political system, rather than his 
own personal corruption. He said it showed how "we need to drive the special 
interests out of Washington," and became a high-profile campaigner for campaign 
finance reform. But privately, his behavior hasn't changed much. For example, 
in 2000 he lobbied federal regulators hard on behalf of a major campaign 
contributor, Paxson Communications, in an act the regulators spluttered was 
"highly unusual." He has never won an election without outspending his opponent.


But McCain has distinguished himself most as an über-hawk on foreign policy.


To give a brief smorgasbord of his views: at a recent rally, he sang "Bomb, 
bomb, bomb, bomb Iran," to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann." He says 
North Korea should be threatened with "extinction."


McCain has mostly opposed using U.S. power for humanitarian goals, jeering at 
proposals to intervene in Rwanda or Bosnia -- but he is very keen to use it for 
great power imperialism. He learned this philosophy from his father and his 
granddad Slew, who fought in the Philippine wars at the turn of the 20th 
century, where he was part of a mission to crush the local resistance to the 
U.S. invasion. They did it by forcing the entire population from their homes at 
gunpoint into "protection zones," and gunning down anybody over the age of 10 
who was found outside them. Today, McCain dreamily describes this as "an exotic 
adventure" which his grandfather "generally enjoyed."


Then McCain's father, John, led the U.S. invasion of the Dominican Republic in 
1965, at a time when there was a conflict on the Caribbean island. On one side, 
there were forces loyal to Juan Bosch, the democratically elected left-wing 
president who was committed to land redistribution and helping the poor. On the 
other side, there were forces who had overthro

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?


Luke Ryland: Two weeks after the first article in the Times about the 
involvement of high-level US officials being involved with Turkish and Israeli 
interests in supplying the nuclear black market, President Bush quietly 
announced that the US will start supplying nuclear technology to Turkey. Do you 
think that is a coincidence?

Sibel Edmonds: The timing is certainly very, very suspicious. The proposals 
that are being floated are very suspicious too.? There are reports that Turkey 
will build an enrichment facility, and that Turkey will become the key supplier 
of nuclear fuel to other Muslim countries who want nuclear power plants.? None 
of this makes any sense.

And again, the US media is nowhere to be seen on this issue. Where are the 
journalists? Do you remember the noise made a couple of years ago when the US 
announced that it would supply India with nuclear technology? So far, nearly a 
week after the announcement and not a single major US media outlet has even 
reported on the deal! Think of the hypocrisy, with all the saber-rattling at 
Iran over enrichment.

If it's such a good idea to sell nuclear technology to Turkey, why isn't the 
White House out there selling the idea?? Where are the arguments in the press 
saying that this will be good for regional stability, or that it will help 
reduce demand for oil, or even that it is simply good business because US firms 
will be able to sell their hardware and knowledge?? There's nothing!? Silence.? 
What does that tell you?

Luke Ryland: What needs to be done?

Sibel Edmonds: The way they've structured this deal is that Congress has 90 
days from the announcement, now 84 days, to block the 'agreement,' otherwise it 
basically becomes law.

The first thing that we need to do is to make sure that this doesn't 
'automatically' become law.? We need the journalists, the experts, and the 
bloggers to raise hell over this issue, and we need to make sure that Congress 
investigates this properly before rubber-stamping it. The clock is ticking and 
we need to act now.

As you know, and this was even published in the White House press release on 
this issue, certain 'Turkish private entities' have been involved 'in certain 
activities directly relating to nuclear proliferation.'? This includes 
supplying the A.Q. Khan network -- which built Pakistan's nuclear bomb, and 
also supplied North Korea, Iran and other countries -- but as the recent Times 
stories indicate, so much more as well.

The White House press release states that all these issues have been resolved; 
that the Turkish government has addressed these issues, that the US government 
has evaluated these actions and that the US government is satisfied,?but that 
all of this is secret --?classified!

Given the track record of this administration in abusing classification and 
distorting intelligence, why on earth would we trust them with this?? What is 
in the report?? Is it truthful?? Why is it classified?? 


?


We saw these exact same people do the same thing in the late 80s when they 
enabled Pakistan to get nuclear weapons. Richard Barlow did his best to stop 
them then, but if Congress doesn't hold hearings this time around the same 
thing will happen again. We should have stopped Pakistan then, but unless this 
'classified' report is made public and the contents publicly debated, then the 
Barlow of today won't even get the chance to debunk whatever is in that 
'classified' report.? What conceivable logic is there in classifying the 
details of how Turkey has cleaned up its act regarding nuclear proliferation?? 
If they have, they should be proud of it!

There are many great anti-proliferation organizations out there, we need to 
rally all of them, and all of the 'pro-transparency' organizations, to this 
cause. We need journalists to contact these experts for their opinion and 
expertise, and we need these experts to contact journalists to ensure that the 
story, and the issues, is covered, and covered thoroughly.

We also need to recruit bloggers and alternative media to keep the pressure on. 
Perhaps a 'countdown clock' as we count down the 90 days might help.

Luke Ryland: What are the next steps in the process?

Sibel Edmonds: I'm not exactly sure of the process at the moment, but it has 
been reported that this 'automatically' becomes law after the 90 days, somehow, 
unless Congress blocks or amends the legislation.

Apparently the approval process somehow includes convincing the Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee not to object, so 
those committees appear to be our firs

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?







Please read carefully this message which was sent 
to media insiders. Fox News is in trouble and a key part of it is the growing 
realization that Fox has mounted a vendetta against Ron Paul. In a previous 
message, their unfair question in the South Carolina primary debate and Dr. 
Paul's powerful answer was presented in video form. As the message related, Fox 
replayed the debate later that night and cut that question and Dr. Paul's 
answer 
from the replay. Just another demonstration of what a "fair and balanced" 
outfit 
Fox is!


?


But Fox is suffering some consequences for its 
behavior. It is losing out against its competitors. 


?


Meanwhile, Ron Paul is gaining strength and the 
race is narrowed to four with Guiliani dropping out. Huckabee is fading and 
McCain is not well funded. Ron Paul may surprise a lot of people!


?


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Commission Confidential




http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2008/01/commission-conf.html





By Max Holland


30 January 2008


    In a revelation bound to cast a pall over the 9/11 Commission, Philip 
Shenon will report in a forthcoming book that the panel’s executive director, 
Philip Zelikow, engaged in “surreptitious” communications with presidential 
adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials during the 
commission’s 20-month investigation into the 9/11 attacks.


     Shenon, who led The New York Times’ coverage of the 9/11 panel, reveals 
the Zelikow-Rove connection in a new book entitled The Commission: The 
Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation, to be published next month by 
TWELVE books. The Commission is under an embargo until its February 5 
publication, but Washington DeCoded managed to purchase a copy of the abridged 
audio version from a New York bookstore. 


    In what’s termed an “investigation of the investigation,” Shenon purports 
to tell the story of the commission from start to finish. The book’s critical 
revelations, however, revolve almost entirely around the figure of Philip 
Zelikow, a University of Virginia professor and director of the Miller Center 
of Public Affairs prior to his service as the commission’s executive director. 
Shenon delivers a blistering account of Zelikow’s role and leadership, and an 
implicit criticism of the commissioners for appointing Zelikow in the first 
place—and then allowing him to stay on after his myriad conflicts-of-interest 
were revealed under oath.


     Shenon’s narrative is built from extensive interviews with staff members 
and several, if not all, the commissioners. He depicts Zelikow as exploiting 
his central position to negate or neutralize criticism of the Bush 
administration so that the White House would not bear, in November 2004, the 
political burden of failing to prevent the attacks.     





    The Commission includes these specific revelations: 


• Kean and Hamilton appreciated that Zelikow was a friend and former colleague 
of then-national security adviser Condoleeza Rice, one of the principal 
officials whose conduct would be scrutinized. Zelikow had served with her on 
the National Security Council (NSC) during the presidency of Bush’s father, and 
they had written a book together about German reunification. The commission 
co-chairmen also knew of Zelikow’s October 2001 appointment to the President’s 
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. According to Shenon, however, Zelikow 
failed to disclose several additional and egregious conflicts-of-interest, 
among them, the fact that he had been a member of Rice’s NSC transition team in 
2000-01. In that capacity, Zelikow had been the “architect” responsible for 
demoting Richard Clarke and his counter-terrorism team within the NSC. As 
Shenon puts it, Zelikow “had laid the groundwork for much of went wrong at the 
White House in the weeks and months before September 11. Would he want people 
to know that?” 


• Karen Heitkotter, the commission’s executive secretary, was taken aback on 
June 23, 2003 when she answered the telephone for Zelikow at 4:40 PM and heard 
a voice intone, “This is Karl Rove. I’m looking for Philip.” Heitkotter knew 
that Zelikow had promised the commissioners he would cut off all contact with 
senior officials in the Bush administration. Nonetheless, she gave Zelikow’s 
cell phone number to Rove. The next day there was another call from Rove at 
11:35 AM. Subsequently, Zelikow would claim that these calls pertained to his 
“old job” at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. 


• The full extent of Zelikow’s involvement with the incumbent administration 
administration only became evident within the commission on October 8, 2003, 
almost halfway into the panel’s term. Determined to blunt the Jersey Girls’ 
call for his resignation or recusal, Zelikow proposed that he be questioned 
under oath about his activities. General counsel Daniel Marcus, who conducted 
the sworn interview, brought a copy of the résumé Zelikow had provided to Kean 
and Hamilton. None of the activities Zelikow now detailed—his role on Rice’s 
transition team, his instrumental role in Clarke’s demotion, his authorship of 
a post-9/11 pre-emptive attack doctrine—were mentioned in the résumé. Zelikow 
blandly asserted to Marcus that he did not see “any of this as a major conflict 
of interest.” Marcus’s conclusion was that Zelikow “should never have been 
hired” as executive director. But the only upshot from these shocking 
disclosures was that Zelikow was involuntarily recused from that part of the 
investigation which involved the presidential transition, and barred from 
participating in  subsequent i

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Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani cited Reagan's supposed 
toughness with terrorists as the reason the Iranians suddenly freed the 
hostages after a 444-day standoff.

"The best way you deal with tyrants and terrorists, you stand up to them.  You 
don't back down."    
But the House task force learned a different reality in December 1992, as 
witnesses came forth and documents surfaced indicating that Reagan operatives, 
including then George H.W. Bush, had engaged in their own secret diplomacy in 
1980, promising a swap of arms for the hostages.

Among this new evidence:

-- Former Iranian President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr sent the task force a detailed 
letter describing the Iranian infighting that had occurred around this 
Republican overture and how Iran's most radical elements favored a deal with 
the Reagan-Bush team.

-- The biographer for French intelligence chief Alexandre deMarenches recounted 
how deMarenches had confessed his role in arranging secret meetings in Paris, a 
statement that was corroborated by several other French intelligence operatives.

-- Former C.I.A. officer Charles Cogan described a meeting in early 1981 at 
which Joseph Reed, an aide to David Rockefeller, boasted to C.I.A.-Director 
William Casey about their success in sabotaging President Carter's efforts to 
get the hostages released before the election, [thereby guaranteeing 
that the Republicans would be victorious and re-capture power]..

The new evidence was so compelling that the task force's chief counsel 
approached chairman, Rep. Lee Hamilton*, D-Indiana, with a request that the 
investigation be extended a few months so the new information could be 
evaluated.  Hamilton rejected the request for an extension.

The task force then finished up work on a report that reached its conclusion 
-- the opposite of what all the new evidence indicated.  The task force report 
claimed there was no credible evidence to support the long-standing allegations 
that Bush loyalists had criminally interfered with the U.S. government's own 
negotiations to resolve the 1980 hostage crisis, all for partisan political 
gain. That conclusion could not be reached without Lee Hamilton burying the new 
evidence. 


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*Hamilton, a Lieberman-style "Democrat, was so successful in the coverup that 
saved Bush's ass from impeachment and jail time that he was later hand-picked 
by the Bushes to serve on two other obfuscating "fact-finding" committees, the 
911 Commission and the Iraq Study Group.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_H._Hamilton


 


"As chair of the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with 
Iran, Hamilton chose NOT to investigate President Reagan or President George H. 
W. Bush, stating that he didn't think it would be "good for the country" to put 
the public through another impeachment trial.  


 


"He was one of Bill Clinton's top choices for vice-presidential running mate in 
1992."


 


 







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"Cowardice asks the question -- is it safe?  Expediency asks the question -- is
it politic?  Vanity asks the question -- is it popular?  But conscience asks the
question -- is it right?  And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it
is right."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108.html  
*G.W. Bush Is a Criminal, Like His Dad*  
By Robert Parry
January 31, 2008

Watching Attorney General Michael Mukasey evade the obvious fact that
waterboarding is torture -- and the reluctance of Democrats to press him -- I 
was
reminded of how the first President Bush got away with an earlier batch of
national security crimes.

Indeed, one of the common questions I've been asked over the years is -- if the
evidence really does show that the Reagan-Bush crowd was guilty of illegal
dealings with Iran, Iraq and the Nicaraguan contras -- why didn’t the 
Democrats
hold those Republicans to account?

For people who have posed that question, I would suggest that they watch the
Senate Judiciary Committee's Jan. 30 hearing with Mukasey.  Everybody in the 
room
knew what the unspoken reality was, but nobody dared say it:  George W. Bush
authorized torture, which is a crime under

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Finally, the truth is seeping out.  Contrary to how Bush has tried to justify 
the Iraq war in the past, he has now clumsily -- if inadvertently -- admitted 
the primary purpose of the invasion and occupation of Iraq.  He did this by 
adding a signing statement to the defense appropriation bill, indicating that 
he would *not* be bound by the law's prohibition against expending funds:

"(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing
for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq," or
"(2) To exercise U.S. control of the oil resources of Iraq."










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"Cowardice asks the question -- is it safe?  Expediency asks the question -- is
it politic?  Vanity asks the question -- is it popular?  But conscience asks the
question -- is it right?  And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it
is right."-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/013108a.html
*Iniquities of War, Inequities of Life*  
By Ray McGovern
January 31, 2008

"For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more -- always more -- even 
at
the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing.   For them, to be is to
have and to be the class of the 'haves'."-- Paulo Freire, "Pedagogy of the 
Oppressed"

Finally, the truth is seeping out.  Contrary to how President George W. Bush has
tried to justify the Iraq war in the past, he has now clumsily -- if
inadvertently -- admitted that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was aimed
primarily at seizing predominant influence over its oil by establishing 
permanent
(the administration favors "enduring") military bases.

He made this transparently clear by adding a signing statement to the defense
appropriation bill, indicating that he would *not* be bound by the law’s
prohibition against expending funds:

"(1) To establish any military installation or base for the purpose of providing
for the permanent stationing of United States Armed Forces in Iraq," or

"(2) To exercise United States control of the oil resources of Iraq."

But, if you have been asleep for the past five years, you may ask, what about
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and its ties to al-Qaeda?

A recent study by the Center for Public Integrity found that Bush made 260 false
claims about these in the two years after 9/11.  He was followed closely by
then-Secretary of State Colin Powell with 254.

Nor can they any longer pretend they were deceived by faulty intelligence, since
accumulating hard evidence shows they knew exactly what they were doing.

Moreover, it has become abundantly clear that the "surge" of 30,000 troops into
Iraq was aimed -- pure and simple -- at staving off definitive defeat until Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney are safely out of office.

Some, but not all, of those 30,000 troops are slated for withdrawal, but those
who still expect more sizable withdrawals have not been reading the tea leaves. 
It is altogether likely there will still be some 150,000 U.S. troops, and even
more than that number of contractors, in Iraq a year from now.

In the administration's view, the oil-and-bases prize is well worth the 
indignity
of refereeing a civil war and additional troop casualties.

That view was reflected recently in the words of a well-heeled suburbanite, who
suggested to me, "You must concede that a few G.I.s killed every week is a small
price to pay for the oil we need.  Many more died in Vietnam, and there wasn't
even any oil there."

That person was unusually blunt, but I believe his thinking may be widely 
shared,
at least subconsciously, by those Americans who are not directly affected by 
the 
war.

It is easier to assimilate and parrot the administration’s dishonesty than to
confront the reality that these are consequential lies.  They bring untold death
and destruction -- and not only in Iraq, where several hundred thousand 
civilians
are dead and one out of every six families has been displaced -- but to 
thousands
of our fellow citizens as well.

The Human Cost

Not only have almost 4,000 American troops been killed, but another 30,000 have
been wounded in action.  Based on V.A. documents obtained by Veterans for Common
Sense, nearly 264,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war v

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Third undersea Internet cable cut in Mideast


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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/02/01/internet.outage/?iref=hpmostpop



(CNN) -- An undersea cable carrying Internet traffic was cut off the Persian 
Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials said Friday, the third loss of a line carrying 
Internet and telephone traffic in three days.










Ships have been dispatched to repair two undersea cables damaged on Wednesday 
off Egypt. 






FLAG Telecom, which owns one of the cables, said repairs were expected to be 
completed by February 12. France Telecom, part owner of the other cable, said 
it was uncertain when repairs on it would be repaired.


Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, a research company that 
consults on global Internet issues, said the cables off Egypt were likely 
damaged by ships' anchors.


The loss of the two Mediterranean cables -- FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia 
cable and SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen 
telecommunications companies -- has snarled Internet and phone traffic from 
Egypt to India.


Officials said Friday it was unclear what caused the damage to FLAG's FALCON 
cable about 50 kilometers off Dubai. A repair ship was en route, FLAG said.


Eric Schoonover, a senior analyst with TeleGeography, said the FALCON cable is 
designed on a "ring system," taking it on a circuit around the Persian Gulf and 
enabling traffic to be more easily routed around damage.


Schoonover said the two cables damaged Wednesday collectively account for as 
much as three-quarters of the international communications between Europe and 
the Middle East, so their loss had a much bigger effect.


Without the use of the FLAG Europe-Asia cable and SeaMeWe-4, some carriers were 
forced to reroute their European traffic around the globe, which could cause 
delays, Beckert said.


Other carriers could use SeaMeWe-3, an older cable that remained the only 
direct connection from Europe to the Middle East and Asia.? But because this 
cable is older, it has a smaller capacity than the two damaged cables, Beckert 
said.


Still, Beckert stressed that although the problem created a "big pain" for many 
of carriers, it did not compare to the several months of disruption in East 
Asia in 2006 after an earthquake damaged seven undersea cables near Taiwan.


TeleGeography Research Director Alan Mauldin said new cables planned to link 
Europe with Egypt should provide enough backup to prevent most similar problems 
in the future. 


Schoonover said a similar Internet problem could not happen in the United 
States.


"We have all the content here," he said. "It's not going to be felt other than 
we won't get the BBC."


TeleGeography officials also said most traffic between the U.S., Canada and 
Mexico is carried over land, and there is a plentiful supply of undersea cables 
carrying traffic under the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.


Meanwhile, Internet service was slow Friday in Dubai and Egypt, where online 
service was intermittent, but there was less demand because many businesses in 
those countries aren't open on Fridays.


Service providers in Egypt said they hoped to have improved capacity by Sunday.


Web surfers in India were experiencing a marked improvement in service, though 
graphic- or video-heavy sites were still taking longer to load.


Most of the major Internet service providers in India, like Reliance and VSNL, 
were starting to use backup lines Friday, allowing service to slowly come back, 
said Rajesh Chharia, president of the Internet Services Providers Association 
of India.


The Indian ISPs were still alerting customers to slowdowns over the next few 
days with service quality delays of 50 percent to 60 percent, he said.


The Internet slowdowns had no effect on trading at the country's two main stock 
exchanges, the SENSEX and the NSE, because they aren't dependent on the downed 
cables, Chharia said.


Individual Web users were still feeling the effects.


Madhu Vohra, who lives in the city of Noida on the outskirts of Delhi, said she 
uses Internet phone service Skype to call her son in the United States, but she 
hasn't been able to reach him since the slowdown.


"We keep trying for a long time and the message comes up, 'This page can't 
display,' so finally we just turn the computer off and give up," Vohra said.


Internet cafes typically full of teenaged gamers are nearly empty with speeds 
still frustratingly slow.






"I felt like beating the modem, throwing it away, because we compete on the 
Internet and it feels really bad," said Aman Khurana, 13.




State-owned Dubai telecom provider Du and Kuwait's Ministry of Communications 
estimated Thursday that the problems might take

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Exxon shatters profit records 


Oil giant makes corporate history by earning $1,300 a second in 2007


Exxon Mobil made history on Friday by reporting the highest quarterly and 
annual profits ever for a U.S. company, boosted in large part by soaring crude 
prices. Exxon, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said 
fourth-quarter net income rose 14% to $11.66 billion, or $2.13 per share. 
That's up from $10.25 billion, or $1.76 per share, in the year-ago period. That 
topped Exxon's previous quarterly profit record of $10.7 billion, set in the 
fourth quarter of 2005, which also was a record for a U.S. corporation. 




Exxon Posts Record Profit of $40.6 Billion For '07 


Exxon Mobil's 2007 net income of $40.61 billion sets new record


Exxon's record fourth-quarter profit helped push the company to a new annual 
best, with earnings of $11.66 billion, topping the previous record, set in the 
fourth quarter of 2005, when the company saw earnings of $10.71 billion. 



Chevron 4th-Quarter Profit Rises on Record Oil Prices 


Chevron Corp., the second-largest U.S. oil company, said fourth-quarter profit 
rose 29 percent as crude prices climbed to a record on their way to topping 
$100 a barrel last month. Net income increased to $4.88 billion, or $2.32 a 
share, from $3.77 billion, or $1.74, a year earlier, San Ramon, 
California-based Chevron said today in a statement. 


Shell Rakes in $8.5 Billion in Three Months 


Royal Dutch Shell, the world's second-largest publicly traded oil company, 
reported net income up 60 percent last quarter to a record $8.47 billion, 
thanks to the same rising oil prices that observers expect will lift the 
profits of Exxon Mobil and Chevron?to?historic levels. 






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The Black Box Economy


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Behind recent bad news lurks a much deeper concern: 


The world economy is now being driven by a vast, secretive 


web of investments that might be out of anyone's control


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By Stephen Mihm


Boston Globe, January 27, 2008


http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/01/27/the_black_box_economy/


THE PAST YEAR has been a harrowing one for the world's financial markets, 
shaken by subprime crises, credit crunches, and other ills. Things have only 
gotten stranger in the past week, with stock prices swinging wildly in every 
major market - drastically down, then back up.


Last week the Federal Reserve announced the biggest cut in overnight lending 
rates in more than two decades. Congress, not to be outdone, is slapping 
together a massive deficit spending package aimed at giving the economy an 
emergency booster shot.


Despite the anxiety, nobody is stockpiling canned goods just yet. The 
prevailing assumption in today's economy is that recessions and bear markets 
come and go, and that things will work out in the end, much as they have since 
the Great Depression. That's because there's a collective confidence that the 
market is strong enough to correct itself, and that experts in charge of the 
financial system will understand how to mount a vigorous defense.


Should we be so confident this time? A handful of financial theorists and 
thinkers are now saying we shouldn't. The drumbeat of bad news over the past 
year, they say, is only a symptom of something new and unsettling - a deeper 
change in the financial system that may leave regulators, and even Congress, 
powerless when they try to wield their usual tools.


That something is the immense shadow economy of novel and poorly understood 
financial instruments created by hedge funds and investment banks over the past 
decade - a web of extraordinarily complex securities and wagers that has made 
the world's financial system so opaque and entangled that even many experts 
confess that they no longer understand how it works.


Unlike the building blocks of the conventional economy - factories and firms, 
widgets and workers, stocks and bonds - these new financial arrangements are 
difficult to value, much less analyze. The money caught up in this web is now 
many times larger than the world's gross domestic product, and much of it 
exists outside the purview of regulators.


Some of these new-generation investments have been in the news, such as the 
securities implicated in the mortgage crisis that is still shaking the housing 
market. Others, involving auto loans, credit card debt, and corporate debt, are 
lurking in the shadows.


The scale and complexity of these new investments means that they don't just 
defy traditional economic rules, they may change the rules. So much of the 
world's capital is now tied up in this shadow economy that the traditional 
tools for fixing an economic downturn - moves that have averted serious 
disasters in the recent past - may not work as expected.


In tell-all books, financial blogs, and small-circulation newsletters, a 
handful of insiders have begun to sound the alarm, warning that governments and 
top bankers may simply no longer understand the financial system well enough to 
do anything about it.


"Central banks have only two tools," says Satyajit Das, author of "Traders, 
Guns and Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives," who 
has emerged as a voice of concern. "They can cut interest rates or they can 
regulate banks. But these are very old-fashioned tools, and are completely 
inadequate to the problems now confronting them."


Since the last financial crisis that genuinely threatened the fabric of our 
society, the Great Depression, the United States has built a system of 
regulatory checks and balances that has, for the most part, worked. The system 
has worked because the new regulations enforced some semblance of transparency. 
Companies abide by an extensive set of rules and file information on their 
profits, losses, and assets.


Obviously, there are limits to transparency: Without withholding some 
information from public view, it would be hard for companies to take advantage 
of opportunities in the marketplace. But a modicum of transparency can go a 
long way, enabling both regulators and investors to make informed decisions. 
The advantages of the system are many; the costs of even a single case of 
nontransparency, as with Enron, can be high.


But when the mortgage crisis broke last summer, it opened a window on something 
else: The existence of a huge wilderness of investments in the financial s

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top-secret archive found in general’s house 


 






An archive containing state secrets belonging to a major mysteriously killed in 
1993 was found in the home of a retired brigadier general arrested for 
membership in a crime group, newspapers reported yesterday. 

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=133117


 






More and more claims have been emerging as the investigation into the 
“Ergenekon” crime network, which appears to be an [organization]  that operates 
with the knowledge of parts of the government bureaucracy, the armed forces, 
the police and the judiciary. 

According to reports, an archive containing top state secrets previously 
belonging to Maj. Cem Ersever, who was assassinated in 1993 with the 
perpetrator never being captured, was found during a search of a ranch house 
belonging to retired Brig. Gen. Veli Küçük, arrested in the Ergenekon operation 
last week. Another file, which documented that journalist Uğur Mumcu was 
assassinated with a bomb by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in 
1993, was found in the home of another retired army member, Zekeriya Öztürk, 
news reports claimed. However, this document never made its way to the 
prosecutor’s desk, they also stated.


Ersever’s secret archive


Ersever was a former major who left the army after Gendarmerie Commander Gen. 
Etref Bitlis was killed in a suspicious plane crash. Ersever, in a confession 
made to the press after he left the army, told the public about figures who 
would become some of the most famous names in Turkey in 1996 when for the first 
time the Turkish public’s suspicions of a “deep state” would be confirmed with 
a car crash in the town of Susurluk, in which a police chief and an 
internationally sought criminal would be killed and a deputy who also led a 
southeastern Kurdish clan armed by the state against Kurdistan Workers’ Party 
(PKK) terrorists would be seriously injured.


Although scores of definitions are offered for the phrase “deep state,” ample 
evidence shows that Ergenekon-like groups acting to protect to interests of 
cliques inside the military and the bureaucracy have been responsible for a 
number of political assassinations and attacks blamed on various other 
parties.  Some analysts believe this clandestine phenomenon, the deep state, is 
a remnant of Operation Gladio, a network of secret paramilitary units organized 
within most NATO countries after WWII, although there is evidence that suggests 
such structures existed even in the times of the Ottomans.


Ersever’s confessions were later compiled in a number of books by author Soner 
Yalçın. The major before his assassination also said he was in charge of the 
southeastern operations of JİTEM, an intelligence unit in the gendarmerie that 
does not exist on paper.


Ersever’s body was found in Ankara on Nov. 4, 1993. His girlfriend and 
right-hand man were also killed, and his archive disappeared.


In a report that Hanefi Avcı, a police chief investigating deep state links, 
would compile three years later on the above-mentioned car crash, the location 
of Ersever’s archives was noted as the home of the driver of a customs police 
chief. According to the report filed by Avcı, these were taken by the 
gendarmerie, which also trapped Ersever, who had arrived to meet with the 
police chief’s driver. The document also states that Ersever was killed by a 
man who used the code name Yeşil and who worked for Küçük.


The archive, which had been lost for more than a decade, might shed light on 
the dirty jobs Ersever did for JİTEM.


The Mumcu link


According to a news report from the Taraf daily, a document that journalist 
Uğur Mumcu was killed by “deep state” forces was found in the home of Zekeriya 
Öztürk, another Ergenekon member who was arrested after an armed attack at the 
Council of the State in 2006 that left a senior judge dead, apparently the work 
of Ergenekon. However, this document later mysteriously disappeared and never 
made its way to the prosecutor working on the Council of State shooting case.


Who was Cem Ersever?


Ahmet Cem Erserver was born in the eastern city of Erzurum in 1950. On Dec. 11, 
1979 he was assigned by the Gendarmerie Command to investigate smuggling 
incidents in various crimes. After the Sept. 12, 1980 coup d’état, Ersever was 
assigned to a southeastern post to collect intelligence on the PKK. 
Establishing JİTEM, a paramilitary intelligence unit in the gendarmerie set up 
to carry out operations with the intelligence collected on terrorists, was his 
idea. Ersever set up the first lines of communication between Kurdish leaders 
Jalal Talabani and Massoud Barzani. He also had sound links with northern 
Iraq’s Turkmens and Iraqi intelligen

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Iraq not using oil cash to rebuild


Sharon Behn, LATimes


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January 30, 2008

Increased Iraqi oil revenues stemming from high prices and improved security 
are piling up in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York rather than being spent 
on needed reconstruction projects, a Washington Times study of Iraq's spending 
and revenue figures has shown.

U.S. officials and outside analysts blame the collapse of the country's 
political and physical infrastructure for Baghdad's failure to spend the money 
on projects considered vital to restoring stability in the country.

Out of $10 billion budgeted for capital projects in 2007, only 4.4 percent had 
been spent by August, according to official Iraqi figures reported this month 
by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report cited unofficial 
figures saying about 24 percent had been spent.

Meanwhile, some $6 billion to $7 billion from last year's budget is "being 
rolled over" and invested in U.S. treasuries, said Yahia Said, director of Iraq 
Revenue Watch, part of the private watchdog group Revenue Watch Institute.

"The government is broken," said Mr. Said, speaking by telephone from Baghdad. 
"The country's midlevel bureaucracy has either fled the country or been purged 
in de-Ba'athification, [and] a lot of ministers are politically appointed and 
not professional."

The result is that orders go out from the ministers in Baghdad, but there is no 
structure or staff at the middle level to carry out the instructions.

"It's like they lost the manual for driving the government," said Mr. Said, who 
is working to put that blueprint back together. "They lost the landing 
instructions for landing the airplane."

A quarterly report to be released today by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., the U.S. 
special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, says rising production and 
high prices could produce a revenue windfall for Iraq this year, according to 
the Associated Press.

Production levels finally are approaching prewar levels of 2.5 million barrels 
a day and might reach 2.8 million barrels a day by the end of the year, Iraqi 
Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih told The Washington Times on the sidelines 
of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Acknowledging the need to reform the bureaucracy, Mr. Salih said, "Some of us 
think we can do a lot better [on production] if we do adequate or proper 
management restructuring."

Oil prices, meanwhile, are expected to average $85 a barrel this year, well 
above the $57 estimated in the Iraqi budget.

However, the GAO expressed frustration in a report this month at its inability 
to get a handle on how these revenues are being spent.

"We cannot determine the extent to which Iraq has spent [budgeted capital] 
funds due to conflicting expenditure data," the report said.

It said the Bush administration, citing unofficial Iraqi data, reported in 
September that Iraq"s central government ministries had spent 24 percent of 
their 2007 capital projects budget as of July 15.

"However, this report is not consistent with Iraq"s official expenditure 
reports, which show that the central ministries had spent only 4.4 percent of 
their investment budget as of August 2007," it said.

U.S. and foreign officials told the GAO that weaknesses in Iraqi procurement, 
budgeting, and accounting procedures had stymied the completion of projects.

"For example, according to the State Department, Iraq"s Contracting Committee 
requires about a dozen signatures to approve projects exceeding $10 million, 
which slows the process," the GAO wrote.

Capital projects expenditure this year is expected to reach only $4.3 billion, 
less than half of the $10 billion spent in 2007, according to a GAO analysis of 
Iraqi government data provided by the U.S. Treasury.

Provincial governments, which had little or no control of their finances under 
Saddam Hussein, are struggling to spend the money they have under new budget 
systems, said Joseph Saloom, an adviser to David Satterfield, the senior 
adviser to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and coordinator for Iraq.

That budget system includes strict bidding rules and a process of committee 
approvals designed to prevent corruption, Mr. Saloom said.

But if a province needs a piece of specialized oil equipment, "often there are 
not three suppliers" who bid, so the process is cut short and the project 
cannot go forward, he said.

According to Mr. Said, the situation is slightly better on the local government 
level, partly because of U.S. forces who supply protection, logistics, 
resources and emergency funds.

"There is more [improvement] on the gras-roots level on the back of the surge," 
he said.

Recons

[cia-drugs] Fwd: OUR POLICE STATE: Ohio Sheriff Strip Search Victim

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From: Jan 
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Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 2:32 PM


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This is one example of what the loss of HABEUS 
CORPUS?means.


Brought to you by the so-called Patriot Act, 
which Congress voted into law without reading.


The woman in the video could be you, your sister, 
your daughter, your mother, your wife.


Watch it and ask yourself if this is the kind of 
country you thought you lived in.


If you know what imprecatory prayer is and how to 
use it 


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Is Obama?old wine in a new bottle?
  
?
  
His advisors can help us clarify the answer to that question.
  
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[cia-drugs] The legislation behind a national ID

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The legislation behind a national ID





By 
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Published on ZDNet News: Feb 4, 2008 4:00:00 AM








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Tags:   CNET News.com Staff,
Politics & government,  U.S.,   
License,Section,Driver, 
Secretary,  Person, 
Identification Card,State,  B,  
Social Security,Operational Accounting, 
Homeland Security,  Security,   
Government, Finance 


 
Real
ID became law not through the usual legislative process, but instead as
part of a mammoth Iraq spending and Asian tsunami bill, the "Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror,
and Tsunami Relief, 2005."


The following is the full, unedited text of the bill: 
 




TITLE II--IMPROVED SECURITY FOR DRIVERS' LICENSES AND PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION 
CARDS



SEC. 201. DEFINITIONS


  In this title, the following definitions apply:



 (1) DRIVER'S LICENSE--The term "driver's license" means
a motor vehicle operator's license, as defined in section 30301 of
title 49, United States Code.




 (2) IDENTIFICATION CARD--The term "identification card"
means a personal identification card, as defined in section 1028(d) of
title 18, United States Code, issued by a State.





 (3) OFFICIAL PURPOSE--The term "official purpose"
includes but is not limited to accessing Federal facilities, boarding
federally regulated commercial aircraft, entering nuclear power plants,
and any other purposes that the Secretary shall determine.




  (4) SECRETARY--The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Homeland Security.




 (5) STATE--The term "State" means a State of the United
States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands,
Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory
of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory or possession of the
United States.



SEC. 202. MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL 
RECOGNITION


  (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use



 (1) IN GENERAL--Beginning 3 years after the date of the
enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any
official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a
State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of
this section.





 (2) STATE CERTIFICATIONS--The Secretary shall determine
whether a State is meeting the requirements of this section based on
certifications made by the State to the Secretary. Such certifications
shall be made at such times and in such manner as the Secretary, in
consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, may prescribe by
regulation.



 (b) Minimum Document Requirements--To meet the requirements
of this section, a State shall include, at a minimum, the following
information and features on each driver's license and identification
card issued to a person by the State:



  (1) The person's full legal name.




  (2) The person's date of birth.




  (3) The person's gender.




  (4) The person's driver's license or identification card number.





  (5) A digital photograph of the person.




  (6) The person's address of principle residence.




  (7) The person's signature.




 (8) Physical security features designed to prevent
tampering, counterfeiting, or duplication of the document for
fraudulent purposes.




  (9) A common machine-readable technology, with defined minimum data elements.



  (c) Minimum Issuance Standards.




 (1) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this
section, a State shall require, at a minimum, presentation and
verification of the following information before issuing a driver's
license or identification card to a person:





 (A) A photo identity document, except that a
non-photo identity document is acceptable if it includes both the
person's full legal name and date of birth.






  (B) Documentation showing the person's date of birth.






 (C) Proof of the person's social security account
number or verification that the person is not eligible for a social
security account number.






  (D) Documentation showing the person's name and address of principal 
residence.





  (2) SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS






  (A) IN GENERAL--To meet the requirements of this section, a State shall 
comp

[cia-drugs] Fwd: More CIA Drug Planes Seized; John McCain's Texas Campaign Manager Implicated

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our More American Drug Planes 
  Seized




  



  
Laundered drug money was wired from Mexico to 
  Commerce Bank in Miami, whose CEO is the Texas co-chair of John 
  McCain’s presidential election 
  campaign.  

  
http://www.madcowprod.com/02072008.html

  
February 7, 2008
by 
  Daniel Hopsicker 




  





  



  


  


  


  


  


  
Four more 
  American-registered drug planes have been  seized from the 
  50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico’s Sinaloa 
  Cartel,  according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the 
  Southern District of Florida. 

  
Figures of interest in the 
  transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial 
backers of two of this year's 
  Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an 
  aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called 
  "one of the usual suspects."

  
Coincidentally or not, the 
  American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were 
  largely people and companies with  'special 
  relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including 
  the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.

  
Yet, despite this inconvenient 
  fact,  the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American 
  owners as "legitimate aircraft brokers" and "unwitting 
  sellers" 

  

"This is Your GOP.  
  This is your GOP... on drugs."

  


The Republican connection begins with the statement 
  in court 
  filings that the money to purchase the planes was laundered 
  through a bank which is almost invariably described as “fast-growing” in 
  admiring business news articles.  

  
 

  
The drug money was wired, 
  usually from Mexico, to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, 
  whose Chairman, Dennis Nixon,  is the South 
  Texas Co-chair of John McCain’s campaign.  

  
Nixon was also a Bush Pioneer 
  and Ranger in George W. Bush’s two Presidential campaigns, raising 
  $300,000 in one night for Bush’s re-election bid in Texas border town 
  Laredo. 

  
High-profile Texas businessman Dennis Nixon's 
  bank is even — in one of the sales—involved on both ends.   Money was 
  wired from Mexico, first to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, then on 
  to International Bank of Commerce (IBC) in Oklahoma to complete the 
  sale. 

  
Dennis Nixon's International 
  Bancshares of San Antonio owns both banks.

  

"Abuse of power comes as 
  no surprise." 

  


The second transaction with apparent Republican 'ramifications" 
  involves  a Grumman Albatross (N7027Z)  seaplane 
  apparently sold to the Sinaloa Cartel. 

  
N7274Z, reported El Nuevo 
  Herald, had been "purchased, with 
  several twists between August to September 2006, from the HSBC bank 
  in Mexico by Jorge Barraza, a resident of Tamil Nadu, Jorge Medina 
  and Daniel Medina on behalf of Insured Aircraft Title Service in 
  Oklahoma."

  
El Nuevo Herald identifies 
  the  plane with the “N” number N7027Z as a Beech King 
  Air.  However, the grand jury indictment identifies the plane only by 
  its N number, N7027Z. 

  
A check of FAA records revealed 
  that that “N” number was assigned to a Grumman Albatross seaplane.   
  An FAA spokesman told us, when we inquired,  that that N number has 
  been used exclusively by the Grumman Albatross for the past 15 years. 
  

  
Moreover a reliable source in 
  Fort Lauderdale stated to us recently that seaplanes have recently become 
  all the rage in drug trafficking circles. 

  

A seaplane would seem an 
  excellent idea

  
The seaplane, or 
  "warbird," as aircraft broker sites call planes decommissioned 
  from the military,  was owned by Jay Koven, whose 
  construction company built Rudy Giuliani’s Emergency Command Center in 
  Building 7 of the World Trade Center.

  
The decision to locate New York 
  City's Command Center high above the one site in NYC  
  which had already been attacked by foreign terrorists was 
  controversial... even before it had to be abandoned on September 
  11.

  
According to “The Real 
  Rudy,” a Giuliani expose in American Prospect magazine in 
  September 2006, Koven and his partner gave $4,000 to Giuliani at a party 
  given in 1998 at the behest of WTC lessor Larry Silverstein, at the Fifth 
  Avenue home of his p

[cia-drugs] Fwd: McCain's The One

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Beverly Hills, CA
  
February 12, 2008
  
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??? McCain's The One
  
??? ??? by Richard Scheck
  
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?
  
For those who think the time of the neocons has passed, the election of 2008
  
is emerging as a great disappointment.
  
?
  
Such folks have forgotten the role?that Bill Kristol played as a key supporter 
  
of McCain back in 2000 when he ran
 against Bush.
  
?
  
In a likely McCain, Obama presidential campaign, the former Air Force pilot
  
and ardent nationalist will eagerly promote expanding the Bush agenda of
  
preemptive interventions while probably accusing the Illinois Senator (or 
Hillary) 
  
as either naive or traitorous?like they use to do the left during the Cold War.
  
?
  
With the high likelihood of Joe Lieberman as his running mate along with a
  
New York Times endorsement, McCain is poised to run as the bipartisan,
  
maverick who can bridge the gap between the pro-Israel Christian right, 
disgruntled 
  
anti-Washington independents and a frustrated middle class including many
  
Democrats (like Lieberman did in Connecticut 2 years ago) to forge a powerful
  
alliance against the Hillary/Obama uber-liberals.
  
?
  
The Dems have caved on resisting
 Bush's surge and now they are positioned
  
to loose the White House again by backing?presidential candidates who oppose
  
the war in the mildest terms imaginable.
  
?
  
The antiwar left led by Dennis Kucinich and the antiwar right led by Ron Paul 
  
must find a way to overcome their fundamental differences and unite on a 
platform
  
of peace if American imperial over-reach is to ever end without exhausting our 
  
military, treasury and international good-will.
  
?
  
To see what others say about his, please go to:
  
 http://www.antiwar.com/orig/giraldi.php?articleid=12345.
  
 http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/952529.html.
  
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush's Law -- and Who Goes to Prison If You Apply the Same Law to Bush & Co

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Bush Justice Department Goes After Another Democratic 
  Lawyer (And Why This is Bad News for Yoo and Bradbury)



  










  



  
 




  
Scott 
Horton



  



  
 




  
February 
  9, 2008

  
 

  
 

  
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/02/hbc-90002346

  
 

  
 



  



  
"Government prosecutors are saying that 
  by offering a legal opinion, the attorney made himself into 
  a part of a conspiracy. So, whether that opinion was right or wrong, 
  he became just another cog in a criminal enterprise."

  
It’s beginning to sound like a stuck record. 
  Another strike by the Bush Justice Department, keeping the country safe. 
  Who’s the target this time? A crack dealer? An al Qaeda terrorist? No. 
  It’s a wing-tip shoed Miami lawyer, who served as president of the bar 
  association, is held in universally high esteem (outside, of course, of 
  the political hacks who run the Bush Justice Department) and who advised 
  Al Gore in the 2000 Florida recount battle. According to the Justice 
  Department, the lawyer’s involvement with Democratic politics has nothing 
  to do with his being charged. Quite a few of his contemporaries are 
having 
  problems buying that, and still bigger problems understanding his 
supposed 
  “crime.” 

  
Here’s the way the Miami Herald broke the story on 
  Thursday: 

  


Ben Kuehne, a widely respected Miami lawyer whose 
clients have included former Vice President Al Gore and other major 
politicians, surrendered Thursday on federal criminal charges for his 
behind-the-scenes role in a complex international drug-trafficking 
case. 
An indictment, unsealed at his morning court appearance, charges Kuehne 
in a money-laundering conspiracy with approving tainted legal payments 
by an accused Colombian drug kingpin to his defense attorney in Miami. 



The fee payments turned out to be illegitimate because 
they allegedly came from drug proceeds in violation of federal law, 
federal prosecutors said. Kuehne, appearing in Miami federal court at 
10 
a.m., said: “Since I am completely innocent of these charges, I am 
entering a plea of not guilty. . .” 


Justice Department officials allege that Kuehne broke 
the law in 2002-03 when he vouched for millions paid by one-time 
Medellín drug lord Fabio Ochoa Vasquez to his high-profile trial 
attorney, Roy Black. Kuehne’s research gave Black the confidence — in 
the form of legal opinion letters — to accept payments totaling $3.7 
million in fees and $1.3 million in expenses from Ochoa, according to 
several sources. Kuehne earned a portion of the expense payments — 
$220,000 to $260,000 — from Black for vetting Ochoa’s payments. The 
payments were documented to a specific commercial operation and holding 
long in the hands of the Ochoa family: a horse and cattle farm in 
Colombia. 


  
The Herald is giving its reporting a good 
  bit of Justice Department spin. What exactly is Kuehne’s involvement in 
  this “conspiracy”? He was asked by another lawyer to give an opinion: did 
  he think the retainer that was offered by a client could be accepted? He 
  looked at the money and its provenance and gave a positive opinion. But 
  according to the indictment, he went beyond the opinion by receiving and 
  passing on a series of retainer payments. 

  
Some other facts make the Justice Department’s 
  conduct look stranger still. The matter was not determined by local 
  attorneys in the Miami U.S. Attorney’s office, but by political 
appointees 
  from main Justice in Washington. Law.com collects a number of statements 
  from leaders in the Florida bar, reacting angrily to the charges, 
  including Kuehne’s lawyer: 

  


“This highly improbable charge involves important and 
unprecedented issues of law, policy and procedure,” Moscowitz wrote. 
The 
indictment was brought by Assistant U.S. Attorneys John Seller and 
Thomas Pinder of the Justice Department’s asset forfeiture and money 
laundering section in Washington. The case went to Washington because 
the U.S. Attorney’s office in Miami had a conflict as Ochoa’s 
prosecutor. Magistrate Brown’s courtroom overflowed with attorneys who 
support Kuehne. They included CNN legal commentator Jayne Weintraub and 
crim

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush and the Mormons

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Bush and the Mormons

By Suzan Mazur


http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0410/S00296.htm






A Mormon Temple - University City


Dan Briody, The Iron Triangle: "So in 1989, when Mr. Marriott made it known 
that his company's airline catering division, then known as Marriott In-Flite 
Services, was on the block, one had to suspect that he knew something the rest 
of the world didn't know." 


That's J.W. "Bill" Marriott, Chairman of Marriott Corp. Briody speaks of, one 
of the world's most successful businessmen. Marriott's also one of the most 
celebrated members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the 
Mormon Church. 






?


While we know of George W. Bush's popularity with the 
American electorate who consider themselves evangelical, born-again Christians 
(42%) - the vote from Bush's Mormon base has not been counted. 





Mormons are clearly not evangelical Christians. And there are 11 million of 
them. They run the "biggest and best" gun shows nationwide. They tend to vote 
Republican. And their church is rich, because it asks its members to tithe 10% 
of their annual income. 


"The Mormon Church is leaning more toward Christianity," says anthropologist 
and "Mormon sceptic" Tom Murphy at Edmonds College, Washington state. But as 
long as the religion includes Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon, Murphy says it 
cannot be considered Christian. 


Smith started the Mormon religion. The Book of Mormon is based on a 
"translation" of golden tablets he said he found in upstate New York in the 
1800s following visitation from an angel named Moroni. It describes a migration 
of ancient Israelites (Laminites) to Central America, who supposedly interbred 
with the indigenous population, and it regards Native Americans as descendants 
of those ancient Israelites. 


Mormon scripture has been under intense scrutiny in recent years in the 
Financial Times (my 2/9/2002 story "Mormons in the Olympic spotlight"), from 
author Jon Krakaeur in his book "Under The Banner of Heaven," from Tom Murphy 
and others. Murphy's challenge regarding Smith's Book of Mormon as a history of 
Native Americans led to an LDS attempt to excommunicate him, but the church 
eventually backed down under pressure from the media. 


British researchers Tudor Parfitt and Neil Bradford, who've traced the tribes 
of Israel through DNA (the Lemba in South Africa), say they have no intention 
of 
testing Native Americans to see if they are descendants of the so-called 
Laminites. It is well established that Native Americans first migrated from 
Siberia over 10,000 years ago. 


But despite the migration route and chronology being all wrong, genetic 
testing of Native Americans in Central American is still being discussed by a 
group of former Brigham Young University scientists who have the same financial 
sponsorship they had while working at BYU, which is an LDS church institution. 


Mormons have historically played a significant behind-the-scenes money and 
power role in America. Sally Denton and Roger Morris have written about Mormon 
banker Parry Thomas's financing of Las Vegas, for example, in their book, "The 
Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America." 


So when I read Dan Briody's comment about Bill Marriott possibly knowing 
something the rest of the world didn't regarding the sale of its airline 
catering service to Carlyle, I paused and began to wonder about the volatile 
mix 
of Mormons, Carlyle connections and the timing of George W. Bush's meteoric 
political rise. 


Carlyle "founding fathers" Dan Altobello, Steve Norris, Fred Malek 
and Dan D'Aniello, who participated in the catering service buyout by Carlyle, 
all came from the Marriott Mormon culture before joining Carlyle. Malek was 
number two man at Marriott and a former Director of the Republican Party; it 
was 
Malek who brought George W. Bush into the Carlyle fold. 


Looking closer at the workings of the Mormon Church and its wealth - it is 
not particularly choosy about the source of its tithes. It accepts money, for 
example, from a circle of LDS lawyers, bankers and businessmen who represent 
the 
polygamist Mormons living out West. 


Former Utah-based child advocate Jay Beswick sees these tithes as "blood 
money" because the lawyers, bankers and businessmen help to support a 10,000 
member polygamist/pedophile colony - the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints 
(FLDS) 
- on the Utah-Arizona border, which has branches in Texas, Idaho, Colorado, 
British Columbia and parts in between. Beswick says that if the main Mormon 
Church really opposed polygamy, it would reject the tithes and excommunicate 
the 
lot. 


Rodney R. Parker, who legally represents the FLDS, is with the law firm of 
Snow, Christense

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Hillary Bankrolled by Turkish Druglord among Sibel Edmonds' "10 Most Wanted"

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Key Clinton Backer Guilty in Sibel Edmonds Case 




http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/2008/02/key-clinton-backer-guilty-in-sibel.html







Wednesday, February 13, 2008 




The UK's Times has already run three bombshell articles on the nuclear black 
market 
element in the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds this year, and we 
are 
expecting more fallout in the near future as new evidence and witnesses come 
forward.

In the meantime, another important angle to Edmonds' case has 
opened up. Earlier this week, the New York Post ran a Page 6 piece, ODD FILM BY 
HILLARY 
BACKER, which highlights the close relationship between 
Hillary Clinton and Chicago-based Turkish businessman 
Mehmet Celebi.

Celebi, "one of the national leaders of 
the Turkish-American community in the US," is a key fundraiser for Clinton, and 
is one of Clinton's Chicago delegates to the 2008 Democratic National 
Convention. 
Celebi was also heavily involved in the controversial 2006 movie "Valley of the 
Wolves: Iraq" which has been widely regarded as "anti-Semitic, anti-American, 
conspiratorial agitprop."

Mehmet Celebi is also a key figure in the Sibel 
Edmonds case - he is heavily involved in the narcotics trade in the US and the 
corruption and bribery of high-level US officials.

According to Celebi's 
bio: 


He has been serving as the President of the 
  Turkish-American Cultural Alliance (TACA) since 2000, and as 
  Member of the Board/Vice-President of the Assembly of Turkish-American 
  Associations (ATAA), a Washington, D.C. based umbrella organization 
  representing 57 organizations.

The Chicago-based 
Turkish-American Cultural Alliance (TACA) and the Assembly of Turkish-American 
Associations (ATAA) both figure prominently in Sibel Edmonds' case. Both are 
reported to be front groups for criminal activity involving illegal weapons 
sales, narcotics trafficking, and the bribery and corruption of high level US 
officials.

Mehmet Celebi first came to my attention in my first interview 
with Sibel in January 2006. My notes from that interview read:


"Sibel mentioned the mafia nature of the Turkish business 
  establishment - in particular she mentioned Celebi as one of the key players 
- 
  apparently they are involved in an arms trading cartel, and they ship 
  narcotics in the cargo of their planes as they zoom around.

One of the 
  Celebi family members (Mehmet Celebi) is chairman of the Turkish American 
  Cultural Association (TACA) in Illinois. (Sibel has often pointed to both 
  Chicago, and also to 'cultural exchanges')."


TACA and the 
ATAA were both targets of an FBI counter-intelligence operation investigating 
the corruption and bribery of high-level US officials from 1997 onward, 
including the period when Celebi had high level positions at these 
organizations.

According to the 2005 investigative piece in Vanity Fair into Sibel's 
case:


Vanity Fair has established that around ... December 2001, Joel 
  Robertz, an F.B.I. special agent in Chicago, contacted Sibel and asked her to 
  review some wiretaps. Some were several years old, others more recent; all 
had 
  been generated by a counter-intelligence that had its start in 1997. “It 
began 
  in D.C.,” says an F.B.I. counter-intelligence official who is familiar with 
  the case file. “It became apparent that Chicago was actually the 
  center of what was going on.”

Its subject was explosive; what 
  sounded like attempts to bribe elected members of Congress, both 
  Democrat and Republican. “There was pressure within the bureau for a 
  special prosecutor to be appointed and take the case on,“ the official says. 
  Instead, his colleagues were told to alter the thrust of their investigation 
– 
  away from elected politicians and toward appointed officials. “This is the 
  reason why Ashcroft reacted to Sibel in such an extreme fashion,” he says “It 
  was to keep this from coming out.”

In her secure testimony, Edmonds 
  disclosed some of what she recalled hearing. In all, says a source who was 
  present, she managed to listen to more than 40 of the Chicago recordings 
  supplied by Robertz. Many involved an F.B.I. target at the city’s large 
  Turkish Consulate, as well as members of the American-Turkish Consulate, as 
  well as members of the American-Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish 
  American Associates (ATAA).

Some of the calls reportedly contained what 
  sounded like references to large scale 
  drug shipments and other crimes. To a person who knew nothing about 
  their context, the details were confusing and it wasn’t always clear what 
  might be significant. One name, however, apparently stood out – a man the 
  Turkish callers often refe

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Abandon All Truth, Ye Who Enter Canada

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Harassed at Border for 9/11 
Truth Flyer 

Thursday February 14, 2008




http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/february2008/140208Harassed.htm


JC911Truth founder, director and organizer, Glenn Zarmanov was recently 
harassed on the American-Canadian border for?possession of fliers that 
prompt the reader to demand a new investigation [of 9/11] and DVDs with similar 
content.? On a visit to Montreal, a border-patrol agent remarked that the 
fliers and discs could be considered "objectionable material" and might be 
confiscated. 


Zarmanov was allowed into the country with his property, but was warned not 
to bring such material on subsequent visits. 


Zarmanov was questioned rigorously on his intentions for smuggling paper and 
plastic into Canada.


As if a thorough search of the vehicle in which the activist was traveling 
were not enough, the border-guard in question added insult to injury by 
stating: 
"That sh*t [9/11 Truth] don't fly in Canada."


"You are not welcome here. Americans are second-rate 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Cost of the U.S. "Bubble" -- Global Economy Has Lost $7.7 TRILLION

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US subprime crisis costs global economy?7.7 trillion 
  dollars

  
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Feb 14 03:20 PM US/Eastern

  
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The meltdown in the US subprime 
  real-estate market has led to a global loss of 7.7 trillion dollars in 
  stock-market value since October, a report by Bank of America showed 
  Thursday. 
  
The crisis, which has spread beyond US shores to banks and 
  other sectors worldwide, is "one of the most vicious in financial 
  history," according to Bank of America chief market strategist Joseph 
  Quinlan. 
  

Quinlan said in the report that the losses are worse than 
  any in the past few decades, including Wall Street's Black Monday of 
1987, the 1999 Brazilian 
  real currency crisis and the collapse of hedge fund Long Term Capital 
  Management (LTCM) in 1998. 
  

An analysis by the US bank showed that in the most recent 
  episode linked to subprime, or high-risk, real estate loans to people 
with 
  shaky credit, world market capitalization was down 14.7 percent three 
  months after a peak in late October. 
  

That compared with a similar loss three months later of 
  13.2 percent after the LTCM crisis, 9.8 percent for Black Monday and 6.1 
  percent for the Brazil crisis. 
  

The losses were also greater than those suffered after the 
  September 11, 2001, terro attacks, the Asian financial crisis starting in 
1997, 
  Argentina's default on its debt in 2001 and the 1994 Mexican peso crisis. 
  
  

"It could take months or even years before Wall Street and 
  others get a handle on the true cost of the US subprime meltdown and the 
  attendant global credit crunch," Quinlan said. 
  

"While subprime loans were once thought to be 
  relatively small in scale and contained to just one segment of the US 
  financial sector, the opposite has become painfully evident over the past 
  few months." 
  

A report last week by Standard & Poors ratings agency 
  showed global stock markets were walloped with a 
  collective loss of 5.2 trillion dollars in the month of January alone. 
  
  

Quinlan said it is not clear that the massacre in equities 
  is over yet. 
  

"Against this backdrop, any investor that has been buying 
  US equities on the dips over the past few 
  months has, in general, dug himself a deeper hole," he said. 
  

"In the end, the current financial crisis is one for the 
  record books and one, more ominously, not over yet." 
  











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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Official in Charge of Auditing Federal Government's Books Quits in Disgust

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Top US accountability officer 


quits over job constraints 






  

  



Friday February 15, 
  2008


  

  
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Top_US_accountability_officer_quits_02152008.html






  





  



  



  






  











The head of the audit and investigative arm of the US Congress announced his 
resignation Friday, citing "real limitations" on what he could do.


David Walker, 51, a respected voice on fiscal matters, said he was making an 
early departure from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to head a 
new 
public interest foundation.


"As Comptroller General of the United States and head of the GAO, there are 
real limitations on what I can do and say in connection with key public policy 
issues, especially issues that directly relate to GAO's client -- the 
Congress," 
Walker said in a statement.


He did not elaborate but Walker last year issued an unusually 
downbeat assessment of his country's future in a report that drew parallels 
with 
the end of the Roman empire.


He had warned that the US government was on a "burning platform" of 
unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare 
underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a 
crisis 
if action was not taken soon.


There were "striking similarities" between America's current situation and 
the factors that brought down Rome, he had said.


These included "declining moral values and political civility at home, an 
over-confident and over-extended military in foreign lands and fiscal 
irresponsibility by the central government."


"This was a very difficult decision for me," Walker said Friday of his 
decision to leave the GAO, which he joined in November for what was to be a 
15-year term of office. His resignation would be effective March 12.


He said he would become president and chief executive officer of the newly 
established Peter G. Peterson Foundation, which would "educate and activate" 
Americans while supporting "sensible policy solutions" on various issues.


"My new position will provide me with the ability and resources to more 
aggressively address a range of current and emerging challenges facing our 
country," he said.


"This move will enable me to sharpen my messages and bring focus and 
attention to the fiscal and other key sustainability challenges that I and 
others have been discussing during the past several years," he 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Russian state TV alleges US/UK drug-trafficking from Afghanistan

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Russian state TV suggests USA involved in 
drug-trafficking from Afghanistan 


?


BBC Monitoring, Channel One TV, Moscow, in Russian 
Sun, 10 Feb 2008 
15:04 EST


http://www.sott.net/articles/show/148967-Russian-state-TV-suggests-USA-involved-in-drug-trafficking-from-Afghanistan
?
?
Russian 
state-controlled Channel One TV has broadcast a report containing allegations 
that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking from Afghanistan to Europe. It 
also highlighted the problem of drug abuse in the British army.


?


The channel's weekly news roundup "Voskresnoye Vremya" on 10 February noted 
that, according to the UN, the amount of opium being produced in Afghanistan 
has 
more than doubled since the coalition troops entered the country.


?


The report went on to show former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair visiting the 
country at an unspecified time. It said that he had met almost 800 British 
troops during the visit. "This is either a coincidence or the working of cruel 
fate, but this is the exact number of soldiers that the British army loses each 
year because of drug abuse. This is more than the total combat losses of the 
royal army in Iraq and Afghanistan," the correspondent noted.


?


The report then featured an extract from a BBC news website story saying 
that the British army loses a whole battalion of troops a year because of drug 
abuse (Research revealed that the story was published on 14 December 
2007).


?


The report went on to look at the wider problem of how to reverse the trend 
of increasing opium production in Afghanistan.


?


Aleksandr Mikhaylov, the head of the department of interdepartmental and 
informational activity at the Russian Drugs Control Agency, was shown saying 
that economic measures to tackle the problem are foundering on local 
corruption. 
"The local authorities draw up seriously forged lists in which an amount is 
recorded for the amount destroyed and, in fact, the crop has not been destroyed 
at all. The theft of the money to combat narcotics is going on and is 
flourishing," he said.


?


The accusation that US forces are involved in drug-trafficking came from 
Geydar Dzhemal, chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia. "Without the 
control and connivance on the part of the special services none of these things 
are possible. For example in Afghanistan, the CIA and the special services are 
quite brazen. Under the protection of the American army they meet the necessary 
people. They collect the stuff, go to the Bagram airbase and they hand in a 
large consignment of narcotics, which is then taken away," he said.


?


The report went on to say that heroin reached the Balkans via Turkey, which 
"has been a member of NATO since 1952 and is the USA's closest ally in the 
region". It said it is "another amazing coincidence" that Kosovo hosts the 
largest NATO base in Europe. The correspondent added that there is a "secret 
Interpol post" next to this base. "Here they speak almost openly about Afghan 
heroin in American planes," he noted.


?


A man captioned as Marko Nicovic, Interpol employee, explained that 90 per 
cent of heroin goes through the Albanian mafia, which is now more powerful than 
the Sicilian mafia. He also alleged that members of this mafia bribe European 
parliamentarians to support the independence of Kosovo.


?


The report went on to link high levels of drug crime in Russia with the US 
invasion of Afghanistan. "Since the Americans unleashed war on the Taleban, 
Russian crime labs have been working non-stop," the correspondent observed over 
footage of a drugs raid and packages of drugs being opened.


?


Aleksandr Mikhaylov, the head of the department of interdepartmental and 
informational activity at the Russian Drugs Control Agency, was shown saying 
that the production of narcotics in Afghanistan is getting more professional 
and 
that drugs have taken a real stranglehold on the Afghan economy. "The situation 
today is that narcotics have become a substance used for barter in 
Afghanistan," 
he observed.


?


"For as long as heroin remains the only hard currency in the country and 
until NATO and its military coalition do not resolve their own issues, the 
agricultural proclivities here will hardly change," the correspondent 
concluded.


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[cia-drugs] Fwd: U.S. Credit Markets Collapsing

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  http://www.moneyandmarkets.com/Issues.aspx?NewsletterEntryId=1453

*U.S. 
  Credit Markets Collapsing!*  
By Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D.   
  
02-18-08

The U.S. credit markets, the giant growth engine that 
  powers the American
economy, are collapsing ... with few credit sectors 
  spared from damage, few
investors escaping losses, and little hope of 
  federal action that's quick or
strong enough to make a major 
  difference.

Here's what's happening ...

First and Foremost, the 
  Fall of The Nation's Three Largest Bond Insurers 
  Is
Accelerating

This is the "Great Ratings Debacle" I highlighted 
  last year.

And now, the critical watershed event that I said would 
  trigger the next phase --
the collapse of the bond insurers' triple-A 
  ratings -- is here in aces and spades.

Without the triple-A rating, 
  their whole reason to exist falls by the wayside: 
They cannot enhance the 
  credit of bond issuers.  They cannot do more business. 
They may as 
  well close their doors and go home.

The facts:

* Financial 
  Guarantee Insurance Co. (F.G.I.C.), the nation's third largest, just
lost 
  its triple-A rating last week.  Moody's literally gutted its rating by 
  a
full six notches in one fell swoop.

* At the same time, Moody's 
  warned that unless F.G.I.C. can raise the needed
capital, it's ready to cut 
  F.G.I.C.'s rating to a hair above junk.

* To underscore that it means 
  business, Moody's has already downgraded FGIC's
senior debt to junk, 
  threatening to drop it to deeper junk.

* Ambac's triple-A rating was 
  zapped by all three major rating agencies in late
January.

* Next, 
  M.B.I.A. is on the chopping block, slated to lose its triple-A 
  rating
within a matter of days. 

All three of the largest bond 
  insurers are engulfed in the mess.  And all three
are trapped between 
  two major business lines -- their traditional business of
insuring 
  municipal bonds against default, which is supposedly still stable ...
and 
  their newer business of insuring mortgage- and debt-backed securities, 
  which
is in total disarray.

Meanwhile, the nation's banks and other 
  big investors -- the last hope for bond
insurers -- have so far failed to 
  come forward with the needed capital.

So, in a surprise announcement on 
  Friday, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer
threatened to intervene with 
  massive, radical action.  He said he would ...

* take over the two 
  bond insurers which are regulated by New York State --
M.B.I.A. and Ambac 
  ...

* strip out all their supposedly good assets (insurance policies 
  covering
municipal securities) ...

* pack away those assets in newly 
  formed separate companies, and ...

* leave behind strictly the bad 
  assets (polices covering the disaster-plagued
mortgage and debt sectors). 
  

The bankers were shocked and dismayed.  Instead of being the 
  first to hear the
news as part of their intense, ongoing discussions with 
  New York State
regulators, they heard about it on C.N.B.C.  And 
  instead of responding with fear
and remorse, their primary reaction is 
  anger and rebellion.

What's next?  Follow along with me, and 
  you'll see that, like four different
pathways engulfed by the same forest 
  fire, all four likely scenarios lead to
essentially the same result:  
  Credit collapse.

Scenario A:  Bank Rescue

Despite their 
  instincts not to get dragged into the morass, bankers, and other
investors 
  come through with 11th-hour capital infusions for the bond 
  insurers.

Consequences:  The banks take a big step closer to 
  insolvency, creating an even
broader threat to the financial 
  system.

Reason:  The true liabilities of the bond insurers are 
  incalculable.  The
potential exposure to losses is virtually 
  unlimited.  And before the bond
insurance crisis, the banks were 
  already buckling under their subprime mortgage
losses.

Scenario B: 
  No Rescues, No Takeovers

The banks stay out.  But despite his 
  warnings, Spitzer fails to move forward
promptly to take over the bond 
  insurers.

Consequences:  The current downward spiral of the bond 
  insurers continues
unabated.  M.B.I.A., the last of the Big Three to 
  be downgraded, loses its
triple-A rating.  F.G.I.C. is downgraded to 
  junk; Ambac, to near junk.  The $2.6
trillion municipal bond market 
  virtually dies.

Reason:  When the bond insurers are downgraded, 
  the hundreds of thousands of
municipal bonds they cover are automatically 
  downgraded -- a ratings collapse
that's so massive, it can shut off the 
  credit spigot to all city and state
governments, whether insured or 

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Government wants personal details of every [European] traveller


Phone numbers and credit card data to 
be collected under expanded EU plan





  
Ian Traynor in Brussels 
  

The Guardian,?February 23 2008 
  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/feb/23/uksecurity.terrorismandtravel









 







Airline passengers will be monitored 
at every stage of their journey under the proposals. Photograph: David 
Levene



Passengers travelling between EU countries or taking domestic flights would 
have to hand over a mass of personal information, including their mobile phone 
numbers and credit card details, as part of a new package of security measures 
being demanded by the British government. The data would be stored for 13 years 
and used to "profile" suspects.


Brussels officials are already considering controversial anti-terror plans 
that would collect up to 19 pieces of information on every air passenger 
entering or leaving the EU. Under a controversial agreement reached last summer 
with the US department of homeland security, the EU already supplies the same 
information [19 pieces] to Washington for all passengers flying between Europe 
and the US.


But Britain wants the system extended to sea and rail travel, to be applied 
to domestic flights and those between EU countries. According to a 
questionnaire 
circulated to all EU capitals by the European commission, the UK is the only 
country of 27 EU member states that wants the system used for "more general 
public policy purposes" besides fighting terrorism and organised crime.


The so-called passenger name record system, proposed by the commission and 
supported by most EU governments, has been denounced by civil libertarians and 
data protection officials as draconian and probably ineffective.


The scheme would work through national agencies collecting and processing the 
passenger data and then sharing it with other EU states. Britain also wants to 
be able to exchange the information with third parties outside the EU.


Officials in Brussels and in European capitals admit the proposed system 
represents a massive intrusion into European civil liberties, but insist it is 
a 
necessary part of a battery of new electronic surveillance measures being 
mooted 
in the interests of European security. These include proposals unveiled in 
Brussels last week for fingerprinting and collecting biometric information of 
all non-EU nationals entering or leaving the union.


All airlines would provide government agencies with 19 pieces of information 
on every passenger, including mobile phone number and credit card details. The 
system would work by "running the data against a combination of characteristics 
and behavioural patterns aimed at creating a risk assessment", according to the 
draft legislation.


"When a passenger fits within a certain risk assessment, he could be 
identified as a high-risk passenger."


A working party of European data protection officials described the proposal 
as "a further milestone towards a European surveillance society.


"The draft foresees the collection of a vast amount of personal data of all 
passengers flying into or out of the EU regardless of whether they are under 
suspicion or innocent travellers. These data will then be stored for a period 
of 
13 years to allow for profiling. The profiling of all passengers envisaged by 
the current proposal might raise constitutional concerns in some member 
states."


The Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford said: "Where is this going to stop? 
There's no mature discussion of risk. As soon as you question something like 
this, you're soft on terrorism in the UK and in the EU."


Britain is pushing for a more comprehensive system based on the experience of 
a UK pilot scheme that has been running for the past three years. Officials say 
Operation Semaphore, monitoring flights from Pakistan and the Middle East, has 
been highly successful and has resulted in hundreds of arrests.


The scheme has seen one in every 2,200 passengers warranting further 
investigation, with a tenth of those "being of interest". British officials say 
rapists, drug smugglers and child traffickers have been arrested and want the 
EU 
scheme to cover "all fugitives from crown court justice".


But Ludford said: "If you ask the UK government how many terrorists have been 
picked up, I don't think you get a very straight answer."


EU officials have asked the Home Office minister Meg Hillier for information 
about the arrests of suspected terrorists.








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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Renzi -- Tied to "Attorneygate," PLUS Hints of Defense Contractor/CIA Corruption

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Congressman, crook ... and 
spook?


 


http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/


 










Republican congressman Rick Renzi of Arizona -- whose district 
includes Flagstaff, one of my favorite little towns -- has been indicted for 
extortion, wire fraud, and money laundering.

Some of these charges stem 
from a complex scheme in which he allegedly received kickbacks after cajoling 
others to buy land from a buddy. The other charges derive from his family's 
insurance firm, which offered insurance to pregnancy centers. He is said to 
have 
helped himself to the clients' premiums.

Renzi's name came up in the U.S. 
Attorney scandal investigation; emptywheel 
has the details.

Here's the part that really 
interests me: Renzi may be a 
spook. (A tip of the chapeau to Laura Rozen.) His background is 
certainly mysterious: 


"Exactly what Renzi did for the next two decades is 
  blurry. He has said he worked overseas for the Defense 
  Department, but research turned up no information on which agency, where he 
  was assigned or what duties he had.

"Renzi founded an 
  insurance company in 1989 and bought a six-bedroom home in Virginia two years 
  later for $765,000. He and his wife, Roberta, lived there with their children 
  for more than a decade."


Suggestive, though hardly conclusive. I would note that most 
spooks don't make anywhere near the kind of money needed to buy palatial digs 
of 
that sort. On the other hand, most insurance execs don't brag about working 
overseas for the DOD.

There have long been rumors of links between the 
intelligence community and the insurance industry. Insurance fraud has funded 
covert ops, or so 
some have claimed. 


 


Wally Hilliard, the [9-11] flight school owner whom 
many consider spookier than Caspar, made his money in 
insurance.

Renzi sat on the House intelligence 
committee, which is supposed to oversee 
the spooks. 


 


That's one reason why I think we should learn more about the 
man's background.

Here's another: 




A key beneficiary of Rep. Renzi’s legislation was 
  ManTechInternational Corp., a Fairfax, Virginia based defense contractor 
where 
  Rep. Renzi’s father, Retired Major General Eugene Renzi, is an executive vice 
  president. The company, which has an office in Sierra Vista, Arizona, was the 
  largest contributor to Renzi’s 2002 congressional campaign and the second 
  largest in his 2004 campaign.

If Rep. Renzi accepted campaign 
  contributions from ManTech in exchange for pushing through legislation 
  benefitting the company, he would be in violation of federal bribery 
laws.


Here's the webpage for ManTech, which sounds 
like the name of Jeff Gannon's bordello. 


 


Aside from Major General Renzi, some interesting folks run 
the firm. One director is the notorious 
neocon Richard Armitage, of Iran/contra and Plamegate ill-fame.  
Another is Richard Kerr -- former Deputy Director of the 
CIA.

Evidence indicated that someone back 
in the DC-Virginia area took a keen interest in 
establishing a political career for the Major General's son. 



And where did Rick Renzi (who moved to Arizona from 
  out of state in order to obtain this office) get the extra money he used to 
  get his name spread across the geographically huge district he was running? 
  $436,590 came from Renzi's own deep pockets.

A significant portion of 
  the remainder came from out of state. As the Open Secrets report mentioned 
  above shows, Renzi received more than twice as much in contributions from the 
  Washington, DC area than he did from Flagstaff, Arizona, the largest city in 
  his district.


A storyline begins to form, does it not? Sniff deeply -- you 
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U.S. Northern Command, Canada Command 



establish new bilateral Civil Assistance 
Plan


February 14, 2008 


http://www.northcom.mil/News/2008/021408.html


SAN ANTONIO, Texas — U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, 
commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern 
Command, 
and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have 
signed a Civil Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to 
support the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency.


“This document is a unique, bilateral military plan to align 
our respective national military plans to respond quickly to the other nation's 
requests for military support of civil authorities,” Renuart said. “Unity of 
effort during bilateral support for civil support operations such as floods, 
forest fires, hurricanes, earthquakes and effects of a terrorist attack, in 
order to save lives, prevent human suffering and mitigate damage to property, 
is 
of the highest importance, and we need to be able to have forces that are 
flexible and adaptive to support rapid decision-making in a collaborative 
environment.” 


“The signing of this plan is an important symbol of the 
already strong working relationship between Canada Command and U.S. Northern 
Command,” Dumais said. “Our commands were created by our respective governments 
to respond to the defense and security challenges of the twenty-first century, 
and we both realize that these and other challenges are best met through 
cooperation between friends.”


The plan recognizes the role of each nation's lead federal 
agency for emergency preparedness, which in the United States is the Department 
of Homeland Security and in Canada is Public Safety Canada. The plan 
facilitates 
the military-to-military support of civil authorities once government 
authorities have agreed on an appropriate response.


U.S. Northern Command was established on Oct. 1, 2002, to 
anticipate and conduct homeland defense and civil support operations within the 
assigned area of responsibility to defend, protect, and secure the United 
States 
and its interests. 


Similarly, Canada Command was established on Feb. 1, 2006, 
to focus on domestic operations and to offer a single point of contact for all 
domestic and continental defense and security partners.


The two domestic commands established strong bilateral ties 
well before the signing of the Civil Assistance Plan. The two commanders and 
their staffs meet regularly, collaborate on contingency planning and 
participate 
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http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/


 


Here's the 60 Minutes segment you may not have seen last night, since it 
ran opposite the Oscars. (Thanks to Brad 
Friedman.)

Alas, folks in Alabama couldn't see this 
report even if they had their teevees (or Tivos) tuned to CBS. Why? Because the 
station suddenly experienced "technical difficulties" -- for that segment alone.

Larisa has been covering this astounding turn 
of events:


Some of the Alabama blackouts are reported to have happened on 
  Channel 19, which is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, owned by the Bass 
  family of Texas. The others appeared to have happened on one Comcast 
channel.


Could this Bass family be the same family involved in George W. 
  Bush's Harken energy scandal?
Here's what Scott Horton of Harpers has to say about the 
blackout: 


  
The station ran a trailer stating “We apologize that you missed the first 
  segment of 60 Minutes tonight featuring ‘The Prosecution of Don Siegelman.’ 
It 
  was a techincal problem with CBS out of New York.” I contacted CBS News 
  in New York and was told that “there is no 
  delicate way to put this: the WHNT claim is not true. There were no 
  transmission difficulties. The problems were peculiar to Channel 19, 
  which had the signal and had functioning transmitters.” I was told 
  that the decision to blacken screens across Northern Alabama “could only have 
  been an editorial call.” 

  
 

  
Channel 19 is owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, who can be contacted 
  through Rhonda Barnat, 212-371-5999 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oak Hill Partners 
  represents interests of the Bass family, which contribute heavily to the 
  Republican Party.

Contact dear Rhonda, by all means. Better 
still: Contact the new FCC, once a Democrat takes the reins. Someone should 
lose 
a broadcast license over this transparent stunt.






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[cia-drugs] How to Say "NO" to a 'False Flag' Operation - Cambodia, 1966

[Kris Millegan]

http://911blogger.com/node/14180



How to Say "NO" to a 'False Flag' Operation - Cambodia, 1966


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Submitted by Reprehensor on Mon, 03/03/2008 - 6:32pm.   



Capt. John J. McCarthy | Daniel Marvin | Green Berets | Peter Dale 
Scott | Prince Sihanouk | Special Forces | TrineDay



It may seem naïve to some, to offer pledge cards to the military asking them 
not to participate in a False Flag operation.
However, sometimes the right message needs to get to the right person,
and who is to say that a pledge card wouldn't be a good way to get the
message delivered? It might help someone think over a decision that
they may regret for the rest of their life.


In 1966, LTC USASF (Ret.) Daniel Marvin refused to participate in a
False Flag operation. Now retired, Marvin revealed his story in a book
called "Expendable Elite". The hardback was released in 2003, after
nearly 20 years of searching for a publisher. Immediately following the release 
of the book,
the Special Forces Association began a campaign to discredit the book's
contents, and ultimately bankrolled a libel suit against Marvin and his
publishers. Marvin won the legal battle, and the whole sordid tale is
included in the softcover version of the book, which you can order
directly from the publisher, TrineDay.


The chief claim in the book which set a legal battle in motion that
has cost Marvin and TrineDay over $150,000 in legal fees appears to be
this; in June of 1966, a CIA agent by the name of Walter Mackem
approached Marvin with a plot to assassinate Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
at the time, Cambodia's Head of State;



He very matter-of-factly told me that the agency had
been asked to dispose of a very delicate situation... "We've been asked
to terminate Prince Sihanouk. Yours is the closest Special Forces Camp
to Phom Penh; you've got all Hoa Hoa's in your CIDG and their record is good. 
We want you take care of it... because we believe you can get the job done." ...


"You want us to assassinate Crown Prince Sihanouk?" I asked, not
really believing he'd come to ask us to kill Cambodia's Head of State.
"Don't get me wrong, I've got no love for Sihanouk, but don't you have
some of your own people in Cambodia who could make the hit?"


"Yes... we want you to do the job." Mackem went on to tell me
their analysis had determined that the Cambodians would take up arms
against VC and NVA forces and push them back into Laos or North Vietnam if 
their Prince was thought to have been killed by the Viet Cong. "Your job," he 
went on to say, "will be to bring about his death and make it appear to have 
been done by the VC."

- "Expendable Elite", 2nd Edition, p. 262.



Marvin was already engaged in covert work, attacking Viet Cong
forces encamped in Cambodia from his base in the An Phu district of
Vietnam. Marvin offered a quid pro quo, if President Johnson
would put an end to the covert operation his unit was engaged in, (by
publicly declaring the VC havens in Cambodia fair game for the regular
military), then Marvin would do the job.


The CIA apparently did not appreciate the conditions attached to
Marvin's offer, and would not negotiate. On Mackem's return trip a few
days later, to see if Marvin would do the job with no strings attached,
Marvin ordered Mackem off the camp. Within days, Marvin's camp was
ordered closed, and when Marvin refused to close the camp without
giving legal immunity to the Hoa Hoa's that fought in his CIDG, an ARVN
unit was dispatched to wipe out the entire camp. I don't want to give
too much away, but obviously, Marvin lived to tell the tale.


LTC Marvin's story is one of bravery and honor. Although he did
covert work which he justified at the time as doing battle in the Cold
War, ultimately, he would not become a mercenary assassin, tasked with
a False Flag operation which could have had consquences that the
planners did not foresee... particularly if Marvin or his team had been
caught in the act, deep within Cambodian territory.





To lend credence to Marvin's tale, let's look at what Sihanouk had to say about 
the CIA and Cambodia, from his book, "My War With the CIA", published in 1973*, 
written while Sihanouk was exiled from his own country after a coup;



"My first experienc

[cia-drugs] The Queen of Kansas

[Kris Millegan]

http://www2.ljworld.com/weblogs/victor-lazlo/2008/mar/04/the-queen-of-kansas/



The Queen of Kansas


  
  

  













  
  

Governor Kathleen Sebelius has been making a name for herself on the
national stage recently, fueling rumors that she is destine for bigger
arenas than Topeka, Kansas. Gov. Sebelius is on the short list to be
Barak Obama’s Vice Presidential running mate as he gets closer to
securing the nomination. Gov. Sebelius has been actively campaigning
for Obama on network political talk shows and campaign stops which
helped Obama coast over Clinton in the Kansas caucus and Midwestern
states. 




In January Gov. Sebelius was bestowed the honor of delivering the
Democratic response to President Bush’s last State of the Union
Address, which was viewed by millions of people across the world. She
has also been making constant headlines with her historic battle
against coal plants being built in western Kansas. Currently the
Democratic Governor has a 64% approval rating in the traditionally
conservative state of Kansas.



However, Gov. Sebelius’ most telling sign that she is heading for
bigger things might be her invitation and attendance at the 2007
meeting of the notorious Bilderberg Group in Istanbul, Turkey. The
Bilderberg Group is a collection of the world’s most elite and powerful
people who secretly meet once a year among tremendous mystery and
security. The conferences attendees are sworn to secrecy and are under
strict instructions to not divulge what goes on at the conference to
outside sources.



The Bilderberg Group was officially formed in 1954, primarily by the
powerful banking families of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers,
along with royal Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. The group annually
includes around 130 guests who consist of Europe and America’s most
wealthy and noble elite from politics, royalty, business, banking,
education, media, and the military. 




Notable Bilderberg attendees include David Rockefeller, Rothschild
Family Banking, George Soros, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry
Kissinger, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Prince
Charles, Al Gore, Colin Powell, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Perle, Tony
Blair, Gordon Brown, Alan Greenspan, Rupert Murdoch, as well as the
CEO’s of mega corporations and financial institutions such as Deutsche
Bank, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, The Federal Reserve Banks, IBM, Goldman
Sachs, Siemens AG, Google, Eli Lilly, etc.



The overall goal of the Bilderberg Group is to bring about a
one-world government and global financial system, under the political
body of UN style government and the central banking systems of the
Rockefellers and Rothschilds. David Rockefeller described the group’s
goals in 1991 as the Chairman of the Bilderbergs, 


"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time
magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended
our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost
forty years. ... It would have been impossible for us to develop our
plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of
publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated
and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again
know war but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity."



The Bilderberg Group is credited with conceiving and establishing
the European Union as the centerpiece of their global government plan.
Like their purely American brother, The Council on Foreign Relations,
the Bilderbergs are devoted to the rapid spread of globalization
through the government and economy, with themselves positioned at the
top to control the wealth of the world. 




One central idea in this group is that of rejecting national
sovereignty in favor of multi-national non-democratic institutions,
such as the World Trade Organization, World Bank, European Union, and
the emerging North American Union. The Bilderbergs, along with the CFR,
have been making gradual process toward a one-world government since
the end of WWII. In America, globalization has already rapidly changed
the economic and political landscape through treaties such as NAFTA and
the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), which are intent on
forming a North American community of government and economy.



Bilderberg Group founders Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and the
Rockefellers were notoriously involved in eugenics and had ties to the
Nazi Party. Prince Bernhard was a member of the elite SS. Since his
death, his daughter, Queen Betrix has taken his place. Award winning
investigative journalist Daniel Estulin claims that the elite inner
circle of the Bilderberg Group still advocates aspects of modern
eugenics and has the end goal of eventually reducing the world‘s
population by 80%, as called for by the 1974 UN Assessment on
Biodiversity.



So what exactly is Governor Sebelius doing meeting with the ultra
elite of the world, and what good d

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Did Iseman and McCain 
  Enable 

  
Conrad Black to Commit Fraud with 
  CanWest?

  
By: emptywheel

  
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/02/21/iseman-and-mccain-enable-conrad-black-to-commit-fraud-with-canwest/

  
 

  
February 21, 2008 11:21 am 















On July 31, 2000, Alcalde & Fay--and their lobbyist Vicki 
Iseman--terminated their lobbying activities for CanWest, a big Canadian media 
company. That day, CanWest had achieved the goal Alcalde & Fay had been 
assisting with: the acquisition of much of Conrad Black's media empire in 
Canada.


Iseman and her colleagues had been lobbying the FCC, the House of 
Representatives, and the Senate (including John McCain, with whom McCain's 
advisors believed Iseman had an inappropriate relationship at the time) to win 
approval for the foreign purchase of American broadcast companies--that is, 
Conrad Black's properties, which were headquartered in Chicago.


Iseman's role in the deal is significant for a couple of reasons. First, the 
deal greatly contributed to the consolidation of media in Canada: 




  

  
In the largest media deal in Canadian history, CanWest Global 
  Communications, a company that started 20 years ago with a North Dakota 
  television station, is to pay $2.36 billion for dominant dailies in 8 of 
  Canada's 10 provinces. Mr. Black is to gain a seat on the CanWest board and 
is 
  to become the second-largest shareholder, after the family of the company 
  founder, Israel H. Asper. 

  
''The borders are gone, we have to grow,'' Mr. Asper, Global's chairman, 
  told a news conference in Toronto today, comparing his acquisition to Tribune 
  Media's recent purchase of The Los Angeles Times. ''We don't intend to be one 
  of the corpses lying beside the information highway.'' 

  
Mr. Black said in a statement that his company, Hollinger International, 
  ''believes this intimate association with a highly successful telecaster 
built 
  by an entrepreneurial spirit compatible with Hollinger is the best possible 
  assurance of the strength of the newspaper franchises.'' 




Like Conrad Black before them, the family running CanWest exerts a great deal 
of editorial control--going so far as to distribute corporate editorials to be 
run in all their 
properties. 



  

  
CanWest set off the media furor in December 
  [2001, a year after the purchase] with its a decision to require all of its 
  daily newspapers to run corporate editorials produced in its Winnipeg head 
  office. Initially, the company sent out one editorial weekly, but said this 
  would increase to three times a week. The company also said locally-written 
  material should not contradict the party line handed down in corporate 
  editorials. Ownership and management have clashed with journalists and 
  columnists who’ve cringed under the new controls. 




More interesting still, the deal lay at the core of the charges (and 
conviction) of Conrad Black for fraud. CanWest paid $60 million to Black and 
other Hollinger 
executives that they hid as non-compete agreements. 



  

  
Canwest purchased the newspapers for $3.5-billion in a deal that also 
  included $80-million in non-compete payments. Black, Atkinson and Boultbee 
  pocketed $60-million in fees from the sale - money the U.S. prosecutors are 
  alleging should have gone to Hollinger International. 




Now, there is absolutely no reason to believe that McCain 
and Iseman had anything to do with the fraudulent aspect of this deal--or that 
they even knew about it. Many of Hollinger's board members testified they had 
no 
clue about the fraud, so there's almost no way CanWest's lobbyist knew about 
it. 
Iseman simply helped make sure the deal got the regulatory approval it needed 
in 
the US. 


As with my post on the ties between Stolen Honor and 
Iseman's lobbying of McCain, I'm not so interested in the deals themselves--I'm 
interested in the folks bankrolling the Iseman-McCain relationship. And as with 
the Sinclair and the Paxson lobbying, what Iseman was working to accomplish was 
the consolidation--and with it, the politicization--of the media. There's no 
evidence the people behind the deals are the same. But the ultimate goal of 
their lobbying does appear to be the same.



 


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chrisc February 21st, 2008 at 11:44 am 


 


Computer Sciences Corp might be interesting too.
They 
have been raking in a lot of homeland security contracts.
Some of their major projects for 2007






  
CSC is on the Verizon Business team that won GSA’s Networx Universal 
  contract. CSC is providing Verizon with network design support and 

[cia-drugs] Fwd: "Domesticating" the Wild (Meaning FREE) Human Animal by "Gelding"

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"When the EU drew up its first comprehensive 
controls on chemicals?two years ago, it exempted 
'gender-benders.'?? Britain, under Tony Blair's 
leadership, was responsible for this exemption.? Confidential documents 
show that it obediently acted to water down the controls?after [orders] 
from the Bush administration -- putting the interests of U.S. corporations 
above 
the health of British children."


?


Singing starlings ... and why thousands of babies who should have been boys 
are being born as girls


By GEOFFREY LEAN


London Daily Mail, 27 February 2008 


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=521535&in_page_id=1770


Next time you hear a starling sing, stop and listen hard. It may well be 
warning of a peril that endangers the whole world of nature - and the very 
future of the human race itself. 





Because?scientists have found that gender-bender 
?chemicals -- increasingly contaminating the 
environment, our food, our water and our bodies -- are having a bizarre effect 
on common birds, causing the males to give voice to longer and more complex 
songs. 


This is only the latest in a long series of increasingly urgent alarms being 
sounded by wildlife against an insidious but devastating danger that threatens 
our children. 


But so far our leaders have steadfastly and scandalously turned a deaf ear to 
them - and, even more shamefully, ignored the first signs that the peril is 
already affecting birth patterns, causing thousands of babies who should have 
been boys to be born as girls instead. 


Starlings and their diverse, complicated and mimicking - though not beautiful 
- songs have long fascinated humanity. 


Mozart was entranced by a starling after it copied a tune that the great 
composer was whistling in a pet store. 


Modern scientists have discovered that starlings' songs contain similar 
patterns to human speech. 


But if we could, indeed, understand what they are communicating, we would be 
wise to take heed. 


Scientists at Cardiff University have discovered that the brains of 
male starlings foraging for worms at a sewage treatment works in South-West 
England have been subtly changed by being contaminated by oestrogen from the 
contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). 


The female hormones - present in women's urine, and passing through 
the sewage treatment unaffected - caused the part of the brain that controls 
their song to grow much bigger, causing them to sing at greater length and with 
even more virtuosity than usual. 


The study confirms similar, if slightly differing, research on other 
birds, which scientists say is adding up to some of the first concrete proof of 
the effects of gender benders on the natural world. 


Researchers at the University of California have found that feeding female 
finches with a hormone used in HRT has caused them to sing, something hitherto 
done only by their males. 


And studies at the University of Alberta have found robins exposed to the 
pesticide DDT before birth suffered damage to the region of the brain that 
enables them to sing and protect their territory. 


Dr David Crews of the University of Texas calls the research on birdsong 
"very significant", describing it as "the first step needed to demonstrate a 
causal link between specific pollutants and the effects on wildlife 
populations". 


 







 

Researchers have calculated that 250,000 baby girls should 
have been born boys in the U.S. and Japan alone




Yet there have been strange warning signs for decades. Way back in the early 
1970s, researchers found that female gulls had taken to nesting together all 
over the U.S., the males having apparently lost interest. 


When the bashful males were caught and examined, they were found to have 
developed female egg-laying canals. 


In the 1980s, researchers in Florida found that alligators were failing to 
reproduce because their males had mysteriously tiny penises; further 
investigations revealed that they had developed female hormone patterns - and 
that turtles in the same waters had developed into hermaphrodites. 


Most alarming of all, repeated studies by Britain's own Environment Agency 
have shown that about a third of the male roach in rivers and streams right 
across the country have begun producing eggs, after developing female sex 
organs. 


Again, the problem was traced to oestrogen passing through sewage 
works -- in some areas, near particularly heavy inflows of treated water, all 
the males were found to be anatomically of "between" sex. 


The findings have inevitably raised concern that people may also be affected, 
since one-third of the country's drinking water comes from ri

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Homeland Security Crime Wave

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Wed, Mar. 05, 2008 


Crimes by Homeland Security agents stir alert


BY JAY WEAVER AND ALFONSO CHARDY


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/v-print/story/444503.html 


U.S. Customs and Border Protection is supposed to stop these types of crimes. 
Instead, so many of its officers have been charged with committing those crimes 
themselves that their boss in Washington recently issued an alert about the 
''disturbing events'' and the ``increase in the number of employee arrests.'' 


Thomas S. Winkowski, assistant commissioner of field operations, wrote a memo 
to more than 20,000 officers nationwide noting that employees must behave 
professionally at all times -- even when not on the job. 


''It is our responsibility to uphold the laws, not break the law,'' Winkowski 
wrote in the Nov. 16 memo obtained by The Miami Herald. 


Winkowski's memo cites employee arrests involving domestic violence, DUI and 
drug possession. But court records show Customs officers and other Department 
of 
Homeland Security employees from South Florida to the Mexican border states 
have 
been charged with dozens of far more serious offenses. 


Among them: A Customs and Border Protection officer at Fort 
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport was charged in February with 
conspiring to assist a New York drug ring under investigation by tapping into 
sensitive federal databases. 


Winkowski, a former director of field operations in Miami, called the 
misconduct ''unacceptable.'' He told The Miami Herald that while he wrote the 
memo because of an uptick in employee arrests last fall, he didn't believe the 
problem was pervasive. 


''Do I believe this is widespread in our organization? No, I do not,'' he 
said in an interview Tuesday. ``Are there examples where we fall short? Yes.'' 


Two highly controversial issues, illegal immigration and national security, 
have thrust the Department of Homeland Security into the public eye as it 
labors 
to prevent another terrorist attack in the post-9/11 era. 


The bureaucratic behemoth grew out of a controversial consolidation five 
years ago of several agencies, including the U.S. Customs Service and 
Immigration and Naturalization Service. 


Employees of both joined either Customs and Border Protection or Immigration 
and Customs Enforcement, known for their acronyms CBP and ICE. 


CBP handles the border, airports and seaports, while ICE investigates 
immigration and customs law violators. 


''We as an agency are constantly policing ourselves so that the public trust 
is not diminished as a result of inappropriate activity, whether it's on the 
job, off the job, criminal or not criminal,'' said Zachary Mann, a special 
agent 
and spokesman for Customs and Border Protection in Miami. 


Some Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees also have been caught up 
in episodes of alleged misconduct. But Anthony Mangione, the special agent in 
charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Miami, said he was not aware 
of 
any increase in criminal or administrative actions ``even though we have had a 
substantial increase in personnel since the merger.'' 


UNDER WRAPS 


Federal authorities normally keep administrative incidents quiet. But 
officials cannot control publicity in the event of serious criminal behavior, 
like the February case involving the Border Protection officer at Fort 
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. 


Elizabeth Moran-Toala, a six-year veteran, allegedly accessed an electronic 
database known as Treasury Enforcement Communications System, a tool to stop 
illegal drug imports. 


According to an indictment, she is accused of tapping into the system several 
times to pass along information to a Delta Airlines baggage handler who was 
conspiring with a drug ring to transport cocaine and heroin from the Dominican 
Republic to New York. Moran-Toala, 36, was transferred to New York in February 
for prosecution. 


Other recent South Florida cases -- mirroring a pattern along border states 
-- have involved officers and agents accepting payoffs for migrant smuggling, 
drug trafficking, witness tampering, embezzlement and rape. 


Agency managers say these cases reflect individual criminal behavior, not the 
culture of the agencies. 


But some longtime employees said administrative incidents, like hostile 
confrontations or heavy drinking, may reflect the low morale and intense 
rivalries following the merger of federal agencies under Homeland Security. 


Some employees from the old Immigration and Naturalization Service are the 
most vocal in their complaints. They bitterly denounce employees who came from 
the old Customs Service for ''seizing control'' of both CBP and ICE, ''lording 
it over'' former INS em

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http://timshorrock.com/  



  
About Tim Shorrock

  
Tim Shorrock is an investigative journalist whose 
  work has appeared in many publications in the United States and abroad, 
  including The Nation, Salon, Mother Jones, Harper’s, Inter Press Service, The 
  Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Progressive, The Journal 
  of Commerce, Foreign Policy in Focus, Asia Times, Sisa Journal (Korea) and 
  Hankyoreh 21 (Korea). He also appears frequently on the radio as a 
commentator 
  on US-Korean relations, US intelligence and foreign policy, and has been 
  interviewed on Pacifica’s Democracy Now, Air America and CBS Radio. 




http://www.amazon.com/Spies-Hire-Secret-Intelligence-Outsourcing/dp/0743282248


Links:





  
Tim Shorrock’s archive page at The Nation. It includes articles on 
  NSA spying, US corporations in Iraq, CACI International (the contractor 
  involved in Abu Ghraib), and other topics. 

  
2005 expose of the massive outsourcing taking place in US intelligence. 
  

  
One of the first exposes of the Carlyle Group (The Nation). 

  
A thorough reaming of Paul 
  Wolfowitz from Asia Times - long before 9/11 made him a key player 
  in the Bush administration’s foreign policy. 




--


 


 


CIFA tunes in to Cambone 
story
January 17th, 2008 



Domestic surveillance in America: The Pentagon’s 
Counter-Intelligence Field Activity (CIFA) office signed onto this website 
today to read my 
story on the contract it recently awarded to a 
British contractor linked to former defense intelligence boss Stephen Cambone. 
The 
IP address (below) is one of CIFA’s nodes, based apparently in San Diego, on 
the 
Department of Defense’s highly classified Network Information Center (click the 
second link in green to follow a CIFA agent’s Google search). Hey CIFA, in 
return for peeking onto my website, how about giving me access to your’s? And 
why is a DoD agency spying on Americans anyway?


Meanwhile, over at Emptywheel, you can read more on Cambone and 
CIFA’s ties with contractors such as MZM, the company linked to the corrupt 
congressman Duke Cunningham. Emptywheel might find it 
interesting that MZM, after being sold to private equity fund Veritas 
Capital and renamed Athena Innovative Solutions, is now owned by CACI 
International. 
CACI, one of the Pentagon’s favorite contractors during the Rumsfeld-Cambone 
era, is forever linked to the prison abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib. You can read 
much more about CACI’s history, CIFA and the defense intelligence enterprise in 
my upcoming book, SPIES FOR HIRE, which will be out in May from Simon 
& Schuster.


Update: Since I posted this item 12 hours ago, my 
site has received hits from the National 
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the US Coast Guard, the Rand 
Corporation, the US Southern Command and the Office of the Secretary of Defense 
at the Pentagon, where someone reached the site by searching (in Ask.com) “Who 
is Tim Shorrock?” Another hit came from Intelligent Software Solutions, a 
defense contractor 
deeply engaged in network centric warfare that holds contracts, according to 
its 
website, with the National Security Agency, the US Central Command, the Office 
of Naval Intelligence and the Air Force. Nice to see I’m being read.


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  cambone
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  Stephen Cambone, War 






 


 





Stephen Cambone, War 
Profiteer
January 16th, 2008 



My latest, from CorpWatch:






  
A Pentagon office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military 
  bases in North America — and was once reprimanded by the U.S. Congress for 
  spying on antiwar activists — has just awarded a multi-million dollar 
contract 
  to a company that employs one of Donald Rumsfeld’s former aides. That aide, 
  Stephen Cambone, helped create the very office that issued the contract. On 
  January 7, QinetiQ (pronounced “kinetic”) North America (QNA), a major 
  British-owned defense and intelligence contractor based in McLean, Virginia, 
  announced that its Mission Solutions Group, formerly Analex Corporation, had 
  just signed a five-year, $30 million contract to provide a range of 
  unspecified “security services” to the Pentagon’s Counter-Intelligence Field 
  Activity office, known as CIFA…The contract was awarded just two months after 
  QinetiQ hired Cambone, the former undersecretary of

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been?weakened,?unruly Left Coasters?start?dying 
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  Biological Chemicals Over San Francisco Announced By Rami Nagel 11 Mar 2008 
  People of the world, the US Government is planning to poison more than two 
  million people, in California, using an untested biological "pesticide" this 
  summer. The chemical to be sprayed is classified by the EPA as a "pesticide" 
  and the plan is to douse cities with this chemical designed to stick on 
  everything for 90 days or longer. This application is not a one time event, 
  but will continue every 1-3 months for as long as five 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: MICHAEL CORBIN - The Passing of a Legend: Memorial Page

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Michael Corbin was found in his car, after suffering a massive stroke.
He was disconnected from life support on Tuesday. There are still?
unanswered questions, but we hope his death was from natural causes,
and he passed quickly and without suffering. Funeral arrangements have
not yet been finalized. 



For those of use who knew him, he held the light. If you wish, please
visit his memorial page, and pass along the news. 



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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Future President and Vice President of the DC Mafiya (AKA "U.S. Government")

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Lieberman and John McCain, yarmulka'd up at the Wailing 
Wall


 



  




http://www.gnn.tv/threads/21064/Politics_and_Organized_Crime


More Jewish crime connections -- get used to the fact that organized 
crime was not exclusively an Italian operation, like in Hollywood movies. 
It 
was multi-ethnic, with a very high representation from Jewry.


Holy Joe Lieberman’s political career was bought and paid for by 
Jewish hedge-funder Michael 
Steinhardt. And Michael’s father was none other than 
the infamous Sol Steinhardt.


Who was Sol Steinhardt? Forbes.com 
explains:


Sol was a compulsive high-stakes gambler and colorful New York 
nightclub patron. He was also New York’s leading jewel fence, a 
convicted felon and pal to underworld figures such as Meyer Lansky and 
“Three Finger” Jimmy Aiello. The night before crime figure Joey 
Anastasia was rubbed out in the Park Sheraton barbershop in 1957, he and 
Sol 
were out on the town gambling together. 


The next year, Sol was convicted on charges of buying and selling 
stolen jewelry and was sentenced to five to ten years in prison on each of 
two felony counts. 


Counterpunch article 
describing Michael Steinhardt:


The DLC (Democrat Leadership Council) was — and is — a creature of New 
York high roller Michael Steinhardt, son of Sol Steinhardt, a jewel 
fence for the Meyer Lansky mob.  Like most of organized crime, 
Steinhardt fils decided to go upmarket and merge with Wall Street. His 
millions created the Hon. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT).


Steinhardt is also notable for his loose interpretation of the law of 
possession. In the early 1990s, he attempted to corner the market on 
Treasury securities, an audacious strategy which resulted in his having to 
pay $70 million in civil penalties to the Securities and Exchange 
Commission—a record fine at the time. Weep not for Steinhardt, though: he 
made $600 million from the scam.


http://www.ronpaulwarroom.com/?p=4061


Cindy McCain (nee Hensley) was born to Jim Hensley, a protégée of Kemper 
Marley. This guy called himself a politician, but he was really a 
gangster.


The Hensley fortune financed McCain's rise to power. 



The Hensley fortune, in fact, is a regional offshoot of the big time 
boot-legging and rackets empire of the Bronfman dynasty of Canada, founded 
by Sam Bronfman, an early partner of Meyer Lansky, longtime "chairman of 
the 
board" of the international crime syndicate. 


McCain's father-in-law got his start as a top henchman of one Kemper 
Marley, who, for some forty years until his death in 1990 at age 84, was 
the 
undisputed behind-the-scenes political boss of Arizona. But Marley was much 
more: he was also the protege' of Lansky's longtime lieutenant, Phoenix 
gambler Gus Greenbaum.  In 1941, Greenbaum was a book-maker. In 
1946, Greenbaum turned over the day-to-day operations to Marley while 
Greenbaum focused on building up Lansky-run casinos in Las Vegas, commuting 
there from Phoenix. 


Greenbaum, in fact, was so integral to the Lansky empire that he was the 
one who took command of Lansky's Las Vegas interests in 1947 after Lansky 
ordered the execution of his own longtime friend, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, 
for skimming profits from the new Flamingo Casino
 
Hensley had a 
dog track operation connected to the the Buffalo-based Jacobs family.  
The Jacobs were the leading distributors for Bronfman liquor into the 
United 
States during Prohibition into the hands of local gangs that were part of 
the Lansky syndicate. Expanding over the years, the family's enterprises 
were described as being "probably the biggest quasi-legitimate 
cover for organized crime's money-laundering in the United States." 



 Today, the Las Vegas gambling industry is among McCain’s primary 
financial benefactors









 


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[cia-drugs] Fwd: sub races

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 New class of submarine all about mission of 
stealth 


The Associated Press 


02.17.2008 


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971861/posts 



ABOARD THE USS OHIO — Capt. Andy Hale has just worked out and is still in a 
sweaty T-shirt and shorts as he stands in the battle command center. He is 
watching a flat-screen display that shows what's happening outside on the bow 
and the aft. 


His billion-dollar submarine — the U.S. Navy's newest twist on underwater 
warfare — is hovering just below the surface off the Pacific island of Guam as 
a 
submersible disappears into the dark waters, carrying a team of commandos. 


The USS Ohio is the first of a new class of submarine created in a conversion 
from 1970s vessels by trading nuclear-tipped ICBMs for conventional cruise 
missiles and a contingent of commandos ready to be launched onto virtually any 
shore through rejiggered missile tubes — against conventional forces or 
terrorists. The sub's cruise across the Pacific comes as China builds its 
submarine fleet into the region's largest as part of the bulking up of its 
military. The voyage is the Ohio's first deployment since the makeover, and 
Hale 
is in the odd position of showing the ship off. 


Commandos aboard 


It's odd because the sub is all about stealth. Hale can't talk about 
where the ship is going. The back of the ship, where the nuclear power 
plant is located, is off- limits. The leader of the SEAL commando contingent 
aboard can't be named, and the commandos themselves can't be photographed in 
any 
way that shows their faces. 


But, over the next few months, the Ohio will be making a very public 
statement, training intensively in some of the world's most crowded and 
contested waters and joining in exercises with America's Asian allies. Instead 
of hiding them, the Ohio will be showcasing its abilities to elude detection 
and 
operate too deeply and quickly to be tracked. 


Then it will likely do what it does best — vanish. "Submarines are the 
original stealth platform," Hale said. "Submarine forces have always viewed the 
Pacific as a very important strategic area . . . it's certainly grown in 
importance in the last 10 years." Just about every country with a coastline in 
Asia wants or has subs. 


China, Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, 
Bangladesh and South Korea and North Korea either now have or are planning to 
acquire them. Most don't pose much of a threat to the more advanced American 
fleet. But that is changing. 


Large Chinese fleet 


While Russia continues to be a factor, China now has the biggest submarine 
fleet in the region, with nearly 60. The United States has upped its presence 
in 
the Pacific and now has more ships — and more subs — in this part of the world 
than in the Atlantic. But they are still outnumbered. "There are many 
challenges 
in the Pacific," Hale said. "China is certainly one of them, but it is not the 
only one." 


China's subs are mainly diesel-powered, meaning they must come up for air 
more frequently than U.S. nuclear-powered vessels, and their crews are not 
believed to be as well trained as American submariners, who spend several 
months 
at a time at sea. 


China's fleet is also highly focused on patrolling its own coastal waters and 
on dealing with potential hostilities over Taiwan, rather than with "projecting 
force," or trying to control faraway shipping lanes. But its the long-term 
goals 
remain opaque. 


Two years ago, a Chinese sub shocked the U.S. Navy by surfacing within 
torpedo range of the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier near the Japanese island 
of 
Okinawa. Beijing claimed the sub was in international waters and was not 
"stalking" the carrier, which was taking part in a naval exercise. 


The growing rivalry was underscored in November, when Beijing refused a 
scheduled port call by the Kitty Hawk's battle group to Hong Kong, forcing 
thousands of sailors to spend Thanksgiving at sea. In January, however, China 
allowed a visit to the port by another U.S. Navy vessel. 


Washington has repeatedly expressed concern that China is pouring money into 
expanding its forces. Beijing increased its military budget by nearly 18 
percent 
to about $45 billion last year, the largest annual hike in more than a decade, 
and U.S. officials believe actual spending is greater. 


"Devil of deterrence" 


The Chinese, meanwhile, are closely watching to see how U.S. concern 
translates into changes in the U.S. Navy. When the Ohio, which is based in 
Bangor, Wash., docked at Guam last month, China's official Xinhua news agency 
called the submarine a "warehouse of explosives" and a "devil of deterrence." 
"If the Ohio turns west from Guam, it would need only hours to travel to the 
coa

[cia-drugs] Fwd: OIL RUSH! -- As Arctic Ice Melts, U.S. Firm Races to Control North Pole's OIL

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U.S. firm lays claim to 'potentially vast' Arctic oil 
resources


Firm lays claim to nearly all of an expected 400 billion 
barrels





Randy Boswell, 


The Ottawa Citizen,?March 21, 
2008


http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2699b272-8fed-4da6-8c2a-d54390f7d54b



A U.S.-based company that has controversially laid claim to nearly all of the 
Arctic Ocean's undersea oil said yesterday that new geological data suggest a 
"potentially vast" petroleum resource of 400 billion barrels.


That figure is backed by a respected Canadian researcher who recently signed 
on as the firm's chief scientific adviser.


Las Vegas-based Arctic Oil & Gas 


http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/people/board.asp?symbol=AOAG.PK


has raised eyebrows around the world with its roll-of-the-dice bid to lock up 
exclusive rights to extract oil and gas from rapidly melting areas of the 
central Arctic Ocean, currently beyond the territorial control of Canada, 
Russia 
and other polar nations.





[ Sponsor Content ] 




The company, which counts retired B.C. senator Edward Lawson 
among its directors, has filed a claim with the United Nations to act as the 
sole "development agent" of Arctic seabed oil and gas.



The firm acknowledges that the Arctic's petroleum deposits are the "common 
heritage of mankind," but has argued that the polar region requires a private 
"lead manager" to organize a multinational consortium of oil companies to 
extract undersea resources responsibly and equitably.


The Canadian government has dismissed the company's "alleged claim" over 
Arctic oil as having "no force in law," but experts in polar issues have raised 
alarms about the firm's actions, saying they could disrupt efforts to create an 
orderly regime for exploiting resources and protecting the Arctic environment 
under international law rather than a marketplace model.


In its latest statement about the polar seabed's "enormous reserve potential" 
for petroleum deposits, Arctic Oil & Gas cites recent scientific evidence 
that huge, floating mats of azolla -- a prehistoric fern believed to have 
covered much of the Arctic Ocean during a planetary hothouse era about 55 
million years ago -- decomposed soon after the age of the dinosaurs and exist 
today as "vast hydrocarbon resources" trapped in layers of rock below the polar 
ice cap.


Jonathan Bujak, a former geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada 
who now works as a private consultant in Canada and Britain, is described in 
the 
Arctic Oil & Gas statement as confirming the "highly probable validity" of 
recent research pointing to rock layers "extremely rich" in "hydrocarbon 
precursors" throughout the Arctic basin.


Mr. Bujak, who previously worked for PetroCanada as a petroleum geologist, 
co-authored a landmark 2006 study in the journal Nature that first detailed the 
ancient azolla explosion that shows up today in Arctic seabed core samples.


Neither Mr. Bujak nor Mr. Lawson could be reached for comment yesterday.


Scientists have predicted that global warming could leave the entire Arctic 
virtually ice-free for months at a time within 20 years. That prospect has 
hastened a scramble among nations with a polar coast -- namely Canada, Russia, 
the U.S., Norway and Denmark, which controls Greenland -- to try to strengthen 
their scientific claims under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to 
extended territorial sovereignty over the Arctic Ocean floor.


A report issued last week by the European Union's top two foreign policy 
officials also highlighted the looming international struggle over Arctic oil 
deposits.


Authored by Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy chief, and Benita 
Ferrero-Waldner, Europe's commissioner for external relations, the study 
pointed 
to "potential consequences for international stability and European security 
interests" as the retreat of Arctic ice makes shipping and oil and gas 
exploration a reality in the region.


Noting the "rapid melting of the polar ice caps," the report noted that "the 
increased accessibility of the enormous hydrocarbon resources in the Arctic 
region is changing the geo-strategic dynamics of the 
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Neocons Circle Their Wagons Around John McCain

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13 March 2008




McCain and PNAC 


http://laudemgloriae.blogspot.com/2008/03/mccain-and-pnac.html


 









McCain has surrounded himself with the 
best and brightest from the now-defunct Project for the New American 
Century: Randy Scheunemann, one 
of its directors, is serving as McCain’s top foreign policy advisor. He is 
joined by PNAC’s founder, Bill Kristol, along with Gary Schmitt (President), 
Robert Kagan (director), and James Woolsey 
(signatory).

More than any other group, PNAC has exerted 
the greatest influence over the Bush administration with regard to foreign 
policy. In 1998, PNAC sent a letter to President Clinton (signed by the likes 
of 
Cheney, Rumsefeld, Wolfowitz, and others) urging him to effect regime change in 
Iraq because of Saddam Hussein’s so-called development of WMDs. Clinton 
responded by initiating Operation Desert Fox, bombing military targets over a 
period of several days to “degrade” Iraq’s ability to produce nuclear weapons. 


A mere nine days after 9/11, PNAC sent a letter (signed again by 
many of the same luminaries) asking that President Bush attack Iraq even if 
no links to 9/11 were found. The Bush administration promptly proceeded to 
do just that: according to the testimony of ex-CIA and FBI, every intelligence 
agent in Iraq was tasked to discover links between Hussein and al-Qaeda. When 
they came up with nothing, they were ordered to look again. Despite the lack of 
credible links, the Bush administration proceeded to act as PNAC had 
requested.

PNAC is an intellectual thinktank founded in 1997 by 
Bill Kristol. Its purpose, as set forth on its website, is to “advance American 
interests 
in the new century” by asserting “American global leadership” through 
“a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles 
abroad.” This would involve “challeng[ing] regimes hostile to our 
interests and values” and “preserving and extending an international 
order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.” This 
would all be accomplished, of course, through the use of force, or by the 
threat 
of force. 

PNAC makes no secret of its intent for American global 
hegemony (in Kristol’s own words, a ”benevolent global hegemony”): in a 
position paper published in 2000, PNAC 
advocated the nuclear strategic superiority of the United States, not simply 
over Russia, but over the world. One of the ways it would promote American 
military dominance is by “fight[ing] and decisively win[ning] multiple, 
simultaneous major theater wars.” 

Can you say frightening? The 
only thing more bizarre than this plan for world dominance is that PNAC has 
been 
so overt and straightforward about it. And more frightening still, these are 
the 
men who have filled the Bush administration at its highest levels. 

 
It was from PNAC that Bush became persuaded of the triple 
threat emanating from Iraq, Iran, and North Korea (borrowing David Frum’s 
famous 
“axis of evil” phrase). No sooner did PNAC indicate a so-called threat from 
Iran 
(a country with no army, no navy, no air force, and no nuclear weapons), then 
the administration began its saber-rattling. It was a heavy blow to PNAC’s 
interests when the NIE issued a finding that Iran had halted production of 
nuclear weapons in 2003 because of international pressure. Cheney, one of the 
strongest voices opposed to Iran and a PNAC member, is undeterred; he has 
turned 
his focus from nuclear weapons to ballistic missiles. If one recalls that the 
possible presence of a nuclear arsenal in Iraq was the only legitimate 
justification for a preemptive strike (side issues like the good of liberating 
Iraqis from Hussein’s oppression and the furtherance of democracy could never 
be 
justifications per se for a preemptive war) and that WMDs were never 
found, one surmises that any future administration controlled by PNAC (such as 
McCain’s, if elected) will hardly find it necessary to justify a strike based 
on 
the actual presence of nuclear weapons. Another excuse will do. One way or 
another, the plan for American empire will move forward.

Case in point: 
PNAC has proposed establishing permanent bases in 
Iran even if no real threat exists: 

Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to 
  U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian 
  relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still 
be 
  an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding 
American 
  interests in the region.
If its members get their way, 
expect an increase in American troops in Iraq, and for a very long time: 

[T]here is little reason to anticipate that the U.S. air 
  presence in the region sho

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Saddam's Files Raise Questions About Bush Assassination Claim

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?



  
President Bush said lots of things about Saddam Hussein in the run-up 
  to the Iraq War.? But few of his charges grabbed more attention than an 
  unscripted remark he made at a Texas political fund-raiser on Sept. 26, 
  2002.? "After all, this is a guy who tried to kill my dad at one time," 
  Bush said.? The comment referred to a 1993 claim by the Kuwaiti 
  government -- accepted by the
Clinton administration -- that the Iraqi 
  Intelligence Service?had plotted to assassinate President George H.W. 
  Bush during a trip to Kuwait that spring.




  
But, 
  curiously little has been heard about the allegedly foiled 
  assassination
plot in the five years since the U.S. military invaded 
  Iraq.? A just-released
Pentagon study on the Iraqi regime's ties to 
  terrorism only adds to the mystery.
The review combed through 600,000 pages 
  of Iraqi intelligence documents seized after the fall of Baghdad, as well as 
  thousands of hours of audio- and video-tapes of Saddam's conversations
with 
  his ministers and top aides.? The study found that the I.I.S. kept 
  remarkably detailed records of virtually every operation it planned.? 
  But, they found NO documents that referred to a plan to kill Bush.? The 
  absence was conspicuous because researchers, aware of its potential 
  significance, were looking for such evidence. 








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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Where have all the leaders gone?

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Subject: Where have all the leaders 
  gone?

  




 

  
Excerpt from Where Have All the Leaders 
  Gone? 

From 
  Chapter 1: Had Enough?

Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? 
  Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. We've 
got 
  a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've 
  got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a 
  hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone 
  sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, "Stay the course." 
  

Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is 
  America, not the damned Titanic. I'll give you a sound bite: 
  Throw the bums out! 

You might think I'm getting senile, that 
  I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I 
  hardly recognize this country anymore. The President of the United States is 
  given a free pass to ignore the Constitution, tap our phones, and lead us to 
  war on a pack of lies. Congress responds to record deficits by passing a huge 
  tax cut for the wealthy (thanks, but I don't need it). The most famous 
  business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While 
we're 
  fiddling in Iraq, the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to 
  do. And the press is waving pom-poms instead of asking hard questions. That's 
  not the promise of America my parents and yours traveled across the ocean 
for. 
  I've had enough. How about you? 

I'll go a step further. You can't call 
  yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready 
  and willing to have. 

My friends tell me to calm down. They say, "Lee, 
  you're eighty-two years old. Leave the rage to the young people." I'd love to 
  -- as soon as I can pry them away from their iPods for five seconds and get 
  them to pay attention. I'm going to speak up because it's my patriotic duty. 
I 
  think people will listen to me. They say I have a reputation as a straight 
  shooter. So I'll tell you how I see it, and it's not pretty, but at least 
it's 
  real. I'm hoping to strike a nerve in those young folks who say they don't 
  vote because they don't trust politicians to represent their interests. Hey, 
  America, wake up. These guys work for us. 



  
WHO ARE THESE GUYS, ANYWAY?


Why are we in this mess? How did we end up with this crowd in 
  Washington? Well, we voted for them -- or at least some of us did. But I'll 
  tell you what we didn't do. We didn't agree to suspend the 
  Constitution. We didn't agree to stop asking questions or demanding answers. 
  Some of us are sick and tired of people who call free speech treason. Where I 
  come from that's a dictatorship, not a democracy. 

And don't tell me 
  it's all the fault of right-wing Republicans or liberal Democrats. That's an 
  intellectually lazy argument, and it's part of the reason we're in this stew. 
  We're not just a nation of factions. We're a people. We share 
  common principles and ideals. And we rise and fall together. 

Where are 
  the voices of leaders who can inspire us to action and make us stand taller? 
  What happened to the strong and resolute party of Lincoln? What happened to 
  the courageous, populist party of FDR and Truman? There was a time in this 
  country when the voices of great leaders lifted us up and made us want to do 
  better. Where have all the leaders gone? 


  
THE TEST OF A LEADER


I've never been Commander in Chief, but I've been a CEO. I understand a 
  few things about leadership at the top. I've figured out nine points -- not 
  ten (I don't want people accusing me of thinking I'm Moses). I call them the 
  "Nine Cs of Leadership." They're not fancy or complicated. Just clear, 
obvious 
  qualities that every true leader should have. We should look at how the 
  current administration stacks up. Like it or not, this crew is going to be 
  around until January 2009. Maybe we can learn something before we go to the 
  polls in 2008. Then let's be sure we use the leadership test to screen the 
  candidates who say they want to run the country. It's up to us to choose 
  wisely. 

So, here's my C list: 

A leader has to show 
  CURIOSITY. He has to listen to people outside of the "Yes, sir" crowd 
  in his inner circle. He has to read voraciously, because the world is a big, 
  complicated place. George W. Bush brags about never reading a newspaper. "I 
  just scan the headlines," he says. Am I hearing this right? He's the 
President 
  of the United States and he never reads a newspaper? Thomas Jefferson once 
  said, "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government 
  without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate 
  for a moment to prefer the latter." Bush disagrees. As long as he gets his 
  daily hour in the gym, with Fox News piped through the sound system, he's 

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Adolph Obama said...
  




Carol:
Since your speech at the United Nations we have had, I would say, a
renaissance of communications technologies, you didn’t have the Project
Earth website, in the days prior to the internet, now we have these new
ways of communicating, and I know that the corporate media is still
bashing taboo topics like ETs, new energy, 9/11 Truth, and trying to
marginalize and pigeonhole and separate us...

Adam: They don’t
even want the truth about Barak Obama for God sakes. I just started
saying something on Jack Cafferty.com, on his blog, today on CNN.com,
and it was refused, and I didn’t use any profanity or anything. I just
said, “We’re finally getting to see this guy’s true stripes. We’re
finally getting to see who this guy really is, and he’s just another
corporate marionette, who has a really good rap.” And that’s too bad,
because I really had advocated that a lot of people involved in my
network, and I have a huge network and I had recommended him to
thousands of people.

Carol: Oh dear.

http://rigint.blogspot.com/2008/03/updating-today.html











Adam: Back in 2006
and basically not long after, I had done that, an article came out in
Harper’s Magazine called Barack Obama Inc and it was the beginning of
the breaking of that stride, in terms of my own opinion of Barack, but
it is interesting to me that the corporate media is so behind him, and
they are so against Hillary Clinton, and yet they want everyone to
believe that they are exactly the same. It’s kind of like the whole rap
that came down that voting for George Bush was just the same as voting
for Al Gore, which of course is patent nonsense. Unless there is this
thing that we call “Republicrats, but I don’t want to get off… too much
on this tangent.”

Carol: I want to talk to you a little bit
about the elections, too, because we have had a couple of presidential
elections blatantly stolen.

Adam: They’ve been stealing
elections for a long time. And George Bush’s father would have stolen
the election from Bill Clinton, if he could have, but that was
prevented by a few brave souls, much to the chagrin of Poppy Bush, much
to the chagrin of George Bush Sr.. The fact is that he lost, and George
Bush really went into meltdown when he lost, because he didn’t think it
would be possible to lose to this hick from Arkansas.

When
Clinton took office, I was at the Arkansas Ball and, I was at a few of
the balls, and the inauguration, and at the big gala, and all of that
stuff cause I was very involved in that whole thing, back then. What we
witnessed was an incredibly naïve young President, kind of almost with
a messianic kind of fervor. Which is why, one of the things that freak
me out about Barack Obama, is he’s taken it to the next level. He says
things that are unbelievable at his rallies.

The one thing we
can say about Clinton is that we never found him using alpha
entrainment at his rallies, and there is evidence that alpha
entrainment has been used at Barack Obama’s rallies. I haven’t done the
tests myself, personally. But people who I have been in communication
with, for some time, have told me, at my recommendation, they made
measurements. Alpha entrainment was discovered at Nuremberg Stadium
after Hitler had seized power from Hindenburg. Von Hindenburg was,
removed from power by Hitler. When Albert Spier talked, in his whole
confession, about what had happened at Nuremburg Stadium, he said, “It
was the first place that they used alpha entrainment.”

It’s
based on a process called frequency, frame, and response. It was
discovered by them, the Nazis, that human beings, if they are exposed
to a constant alpha wave, or a mixture of waves, depending on what
those wave forms are, that they will become entrained, they will enter
into a kind of trance like state, a stupor. If you look at the American
people right now, a lot of the people around the world, I travel a lot,
and a lot of the people around the world go, “What the heck,” they’ve
been saying this a long time, “What the heck is going on with the
American people, why are they so stupid? Why are they so unaware of
what is going on?”

I try to tell them that not all Americans are
unaware of what’s going on, and that some people are more resistant to
this entrainment than others, and we’ve caught the Republicans doing
this years, and years, and years ago, using alpha entrainment in their
commercials, stimulating pleasure centers in the brain, making you feel
really good about their candidate, and stimulating revulsion areas of
the brain when they were putting up a picture of Al Gore, for example.
So this is something what we’ve been involved with for a long time.

I’ve
actually been using spectrum analyzers for a very long time, now. And
you can hook a spectrum analyzer up, and if you know what waves forms
to look for, in a TV signal for example. You can see all kinds of
interesting wave forms, the Lilly wave, invented by Dr. John Lilly,
when he was working 

[cia-drugs] March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of torture bill

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March 24, 2008 -- CIA rendition flights in full operation after Bush veto of 
torture bill

  


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The Irish media is reporting on continuing CIA rendition
flights through Shannon Airport in Ireland following other recent CIA
flights being spotted in Norway, Hungary, and Iceland. On March 12, a
Gulfstream IV jet, tail number N475LC and on March 15 another
Gulfstream IV, tail number N478GS, landed at Shannon. Both planes,
operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a CIA front company based in
Fayetteville, North Carolina, were identified in a European Union
report as planes involved in the CIA's renditioning of prisoners.
N478GS was previously registered to Braxton Management Services of
Great Falls Montana, another purported CIA front. 



The spate of CIA rendition aircraft activity comes after President
Bush's recent veto of a bill that would have banned the CIA and US
military torture tactic known as waterboarding. 



On December 4, 2004, N478GS almost crashed on landing at Bucharest
Baneasa Airport in Romania. It was arriving from Bagram gulag in
Afghanistan with seven unidentified passengers. The Council of Europe
identified two previous possible rendition flights by the Gulfstream --
in 2003 it made flights from Tel Aviv to Bucharest and Stuttgart to
Tbilisi, Georgia. It was also a frequent visitor to Fayetteville;
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland.



N475LC has also been active. On August 10, 2007, it was sighted at
Glasgow airport. It has flown from Fayetteville to Shannon via Bangor,
Maine and returned from Glasgow to Fayetteville via Bangor. 







CIA rendition aircraft N475LC, registered to Centurion Aviation Services.



  

On March 16, two additional CIA aircraft, N71PG and N54PA,
both Lear jets, were scheduled to land in Shannon.? N54PA is registered
to VPC Planes LLC of Wilmington, Delaware. N71PG is registered to
Phoenix Air Group, Inc. of Cartersville, Georgia. N54PA flew from
Andrews Air Force Base to Godman Army Air Field in Kentucky on March
21. On March 20, N71PG flew from Bangor to Cartersville, Georgia.



N54PA was sighted in February 2008 in Seoul. It has also landed in
Beijing, London Gatwick, and Maastricht, Netherlands. N71PG has been
seen in Geneva, Amsterdam Schipol, San Juan, and Santa Maria, Azores.



N54PA has been sighted in Keflavik, Gander, Newfoundland; Guam; and Guantanamo. 

 






Comments







liberty antigone
(?) 


 



"What you do to the least of them, you do to me also", Thus 
spake Jesus. Funny how Bush interprets the Gospels, eh?











Betty Wood
(Blodgett Mills NY) 


 



You
seem to forget: God spoke directly dubya. (or was it dubya spoke to
God?) Anyway, it seems that Moses got it all wrong. Moses understood
"thou shalt not" but dubya heard "thou shalt", no "not". And he's been
living by the newly interpreted commandments ever since.











Thierry Jacob
(Scarborough)   


 



The Woman Who Nearly Stopped the War

By Martin Bright

The New Statesman



Wednesday 19 March 2008


 Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned
something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the
truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten



http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032408H.shtml

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Jewish Scholar Says PALESTINIANS, Not Khazars, Descendants of Original Jews

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Shattering a 'national 
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By Ofri Ilani 

  
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/966952.html


  



  

Of all the national heroes who have arisen from 
  among the Jewish people over the generations, fate has not been kind to 
  Dahia al-Kahina, a leader of the Berbers in the Aures Mountains. Although 
  she was a proud Jewess, few Israelis have ever heard the name of this 
  warrior-queen who, in the seventh century C.E., united a number of Berber 
  tribes and pushed back the Muslim army that invaded North Africa. It is 
  possible that the reason for this is that al-Kahina was the daughter of a 
  Berber tribe that had converted to Judaism, apparently several 
generations 
  before she was born, sometime around the 6th century C.E. 
  

According to the Tel Aviv University historian, Prof. Shlomo Sand, 
  author of "Matai ve'ech humtza ha'am hayehudi?" ("When and How the Jewish 
  People Was Invented?"; Resling, in Hebrew), the queen's tribe and 
  other local tribes that converted to Judaism are the main sources from 
  which Spanish Jewry sprang. This claim that the Jews of North Africa 
  originated in indigenous tribes that became Jewish -- and not in 
  communities exiled from Jerusalem -- is just one element of the 
  far-reaching argument set forth in Sand's new book. 

In this work, 
  the author attempts to prove that the Jews now living in Israel and other 
  places in the world are not at all descendants of the ancient people who 
  inhabited the Kingdom of Judea during the First and Second Temple period. 
  Their origins, according to him, are in varied peoples that converted to 
  Judaism during the course of history, in different corners of the 
  Mediterranean Basin and the adjacent regions. Not only are the 
  North African Jews for the most part descendants of pagans who converted 
  to Judaism, but so are the Jews of Yemen (remnants of the Himyar Kingdom 
  in the Arab Peninsula, who converted to Judaism in the?4th Century 
  C.E.) and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe (refugees from the Kingdom 
  of the Khazars, who converted in the 8th Century 
  C.E.).

  

Unlike other "new historians" who have tried to undermine the 
  assumptions of Zionist historiography, Sand does not content himself with 
  going back to 1948 or to the beginnings of Zionism, but rather goes back 
  thousands of years. He tries to prove that the Jewish people never 
  existed as a "nation-race" with a common origin, but rather is a colorful 
  mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the Jewish 
  religion. He argues that for a number 
  of Zionist ideologues, the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient 
  people led to truly racist thinking: 
  "There were times when if anyone argued that the Jews belong to a people 
  that has gentile origins, he would be classified as an anti-Semite on the 
  spot. Today, if anyone dares to suggest that those who are considered 
Jews 
  in the world?have never constituted and still do not constitute a 
  people or a nation -- he is immediately condemned as a hater of Israel." 
  

According to Sand, the description of the Jews as a wandering and 
  self-isolating nation of exiles, "who wandered across seas and 
continents, 
  reached the ends of the earth and finally, with the advent of Zionism, 
  made a U-turn and returned en masse to their orphaned homeland," is 
  nothing but "national mythology." Like other national movements in 
  Europe, which sought out a splendid Golden Age, through which they 
  invented a heroic past -- for example, classical Greece or the Teutonic 
  tribes - to prove they have existed since the beginnings of history, "so, 
  too, the first buds of Jewish nationalism blossomed in the 
  direction of the strong light that has its source in the mythical Kingdom 
  of David." 

So when, in fact, was the Jewish people invented, in 
  Sand's view? 

  
?

  
At a certain stage in the 19th 
  century, intellectuals of Jewish origin in Germany, influenced by the 
folk 
  character of German nationalism, took upon themselves the task of 
  inventing a people "retroactively," out of a thirst to 
  create a modern Jewish people.? From 
  historian Heinrich G

[cia-drugs] Fwd: There's So Many Mentally Ill in America "It's NORMAL to Be Crazy"

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Are We Really That Ill?




By CHRISTOPHER 
LANE


March 26, 2008


http://nysun.com/editorials/are-we-really-ill?fark


CHICAGO - America has reached a point 
where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally 
ill, 
and nearly a quarter of its citizens -- 67.5 million -- have taken 
antidepressants.


These statistics have sparked a widespread, 
sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication 
than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders. Studies 
indicate that 40% of all patients fall short of the diagnoses that doctors and 
psychiatrists give them, yet 200 million prescriptions are written annually in 
America to treat depression and anxiety. Those who defend such widespread use 
of 
prescription drugs insist that a significant part of the population is 
under-treated and, by inference, under-medicated. Those opposed to such rampant 
use of drugs note that diagnostic rates for bipolar disorder, in particular, 
have skyrocketed by 4,000% and that overmedication is impossible without 
ver-diagnosis.


To help settle this long-standing dispute, I studied why the number of 
recognized psychiatric disorders has ballooned so dramatically in recent 
decades. In 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 
added 112 new mental disorders to its third edition, DSM-III. Fifty-eight more 
disorders appeared in the revised third edition in 1987 and fourth edition in 
1994.


With over a million copies in print, the manual is known as the bible of 
American psychiatry; certainly it is an invoked chapter and verse in schools, 
prisons, courts, and by mental-health professionals around the world. The 
addition of even one new diagnostic code has serious practical consequences. 
What, then, was the rationale for adding so many in 1980?


After several requests to the American 
Psychiatric Association, I was granted complete access to the hundreds of 
unpublished memos, letters, and even votes from the period between 1973 and 
1979, when the DSM-III task force debated each new and existing disorder. Some 
of the work was meticulous and commendable. But the overall approval process 
was 
more capricious than scientific.


DSM-III grew out of meetings that many participants described as chaotic. One 
observer later remarked that the small amount of research drawn upon was 
"really 
a hodgepodge - scattered, inconsistent, and ambiguous." The interest and 
expertise of the task force was limited to one branch of psychiatry: 
neuropsychiatry. That group met for four years before it occurred to members 
that such one-sidedness might result in bias.


Incredibly, the lists of symptoms for some disorders were knocked out in 
minutes. The field studies used to justify their inclusion sometimes involved a 
single patient evaluated by the person advocating the new disease. Experts 
pressed for the inclusion of illnesses as questionable as "chronic 
undifferentiated unhappiness disorder" and "chronic complaint disorder," whose 
traits included moaning about taxes, the weather, and even sports results.


Social phobia, later dubbed "social anxiety disorder," was one of seven new 
anxiety disorders created in 1980. At first it struck me as a serious 
condition. 
By the 1990s experts were calling it "the disorder of the decade," insisting 
that as many as one in five Americans suffers from it. Yet the complete story 
turned out to be rather more complicated. For starters, the specialist who in 
the 1960s originally recognized social anxiety - London-based Isaac Marks, a 
renowned expert on fear and panic - strongly resisted its inclusion in DSM-III 
as a separate disease category. The list of common behaviors associated with 
the 
disorder gave him pause: fear of eating alone in restaurants, avoidance of 
public toilets, and concern about trembling hands. By the time a revised task 
force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed 
sufficiently 
elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet.


To counter the impression that it was turning common fears into treatable 
conditions, DSM-IV added a clause stipulating that social anxiety behaviors had 
to be "impairing" before a diagnosis was possible. But who was holding the 
prescribers to such standards? Doubtless, their understanding of impairment was 
looser than that of the task force. After all, despite the impairment clause, 
the anxiety disorder mushroomed; by 2000, it was the third most common 
psychiatric disorder in America, behind only depression and alcoholism.


Over-medication would affect fewer Americans if we could rein in such clear 
examples of over-diagnosis. We would have to set the thr

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Turmoil in Asia from Rice and Grain Shortages, Prices Inflated by Int'l Traders

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High Rice Cost Creating Fears of Asia 
Unrest 




 


By KEITH BRADSHER


New York Times, March 29, 2008




http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/worldbusiness/29rice.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin


HANOI — Rising prices and a growing fear of scarcity have prompted some of 
the world’s largest rice producers to announce drastic limits on the amount of 
rice they export.


The price of rice, a staple in the diets of nearly half the world’s 
population, has almost doubled on international markets in the last three 
months. That has pinched the budgets of millions of poor Asians and raised 
fears 
of civil unrest.


Shortages and high prices for all kinds of food have caused tensions and even 
violence around the world in recent months. Since January, thousands of troops 
have been deployed in Pakistan to guard trucks carrying wheat and flour. 
Protests have erupted in Indonesia over soybean shortages, and China has put 
price controls on cooking oil, grain, meat, milk and eggs.


Food riots have erupted in recent months in Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, 
Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen. But the moves by rice-exporting nations 
over the last two days — meant to ensure scarce supplies will meet domestic 
needs — drove prices on the world market even higher this week. 


This has fed the insecurity of rice-importing nations, already increasingly 
desperate to secure supplies. On Tuesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of 
the Philippines, afraid of 
increasing rice scarcity, ordered government investigators to track down 
hoarders. 


The increase in rice prices internationally promised to put more pressure on 
prices in the United States, which imports more than 30 percent of the rice 
Americans consume, according to the United States Rice Producers Association. 
The price that consumers pay for rice has already increased more than 8 percent 
over the last year. 


But the United States is fortunate in also exporting rice; poor countries 
ranging from Sengal in West Africa to the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific 
are heavily dependent on imports and now face higher bills. 


Vietnam’s government announced here on Friday that it would cut rice exports 
by nearly a quarter this year. The government hoped that keeping more rice 
inside the country would hold down prices. 


The same day, India effectively banned the export of all but the most 
expensive grades of rice. Egypt announced on Thursday that it would impose a 
six-month ban on rice exports, starting April 1, and on Wednesday, Cambodia 
banned all rice exports except by government agencies.


Governments across Asia and in many rice-consuming countries in Africa have 
long worried that a steep increase in prices could set off an angry reaction 
among low-income city dwellers.


“There is definitely the potential for unrest, particularly as the people 
most affected are the urban poor and they’re concentrated, so it’s easier for 
them to organize than it would be for farmers, for example, to organize to 
protest lower prices,” said Nicholas W. Minot, a senior research fellow at the 
International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington.


Several factors are contributing to the steep rice in prices. Rising 
affluence in India and China has increased demand.  At the same time, 
drought and other bad weather have reduced output in Australia and 
elsewhere.  Many rice farmers are turning to more lucrative cash crops [for 
export], reducing the amount of land devoted to the grain.  And 
urbanization and industrialization have cut into the [agricultural] land 
devoted 
to rice cultivation.


In Vietnam, an obscure plant virus has caused annual output to start leveling 
off; it had increased significantly each year until the last three years.


Until the last few years, the potential for rapid price swings was damped by 
the tendency of many governments to hold very large rice stockpiles to ensure 
food security, said Sushil Pandey, an agricultural economist at the 
International Rice Research Institute in Manila.


But those stockpiles were costly to maintain. So governments have been 
drawing them down as world rice consumption has outstripped production for most 
of the last decade.


The relatively small quantities traded across borders, combined with small 
stockpiles, now mean that prices can move quickly in response to supply 
disruptions. 


At the same time, prices set in international rice trading now have an 
increasingly important effect on prices within countries. This has been 
particularly true in an age of Internet and mobile phone communications when 
even farmers in remote areas can learn about distant prices and decide whether 
their own buye

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Propagandists Are War Criminals Too

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_walter_c_071230_william_kristol_2c_the.htm


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...?[On]?December 30, 2007 the New York Times [decided] 
to hire William Kristol (editor of the Weekly Standard) as a columnist. 
Although the Times calls Kristol a conservative, he is, in fact, a 
notorious neoconservative -- a member of a political cult that many traditional 
conservatives disavow. Readers who noticed this Orwellian elision by the 
Times might also recall that in January 1998, Kristol (and Robert 
Kagan) wrote an Op Ed titled, "Bombing Iraq isn't Enough," which the 
Times was reckless enough to publish. 

Reckless? Yes, because, as Robert Parry has observed: "Under principles of 
international law applied from 
Nuremberg to Rwanda, propagandists who contribute 
to war crimes or encourage crimes against humanity can be put in the dock 
alongside the actual killers." [Consortium News, 
Posted August 21, 2006]? Simply recall that, under international law, the 
unprovoked invasion of another 
sovereign state is considered the most egregious of war 
crimes. 


The decision by the Times to hire this effete, cowardly warmonger 
smacks of rank hypocrisy, especially when one considers that in May 2004, the 
Times issued an "apology" to its readers for "problematic articles" 
that "depended at least in part on information from a circle of Iraqi 
informants, defectors and exiles bent on 'regime change' in Iraq, people whose 
credibility has come under in creasing public debate in recent weeks." Yet, who 
has made more bogus warmongering assertions about Iraq than William Kristol? 
Who 
has less credibility today than William Kristol? 


As I've written elsewhere, "According to Scott McConnell, in the very first 
issue published after 9/11, the Weekly Standard 'laid down a line from which 
the 
magazine would not waver over the next 18 months.' Their line was 'to link 
Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden in virtually every paragraph, to join them 
at 
the hip in the minds of readers, and then lay out a strategy that actually gave 
attacking Saddam priority over eliminating al Qaeda.' [McConnell, "The Weekly 
Standard's War," The American Conservative, September 21, 2005]" 


With this immorality, hypocrisy and criminality in mind, I called the New 
York Times this morning to cancel my subscription. Having cancelled my 
subscription, I then sent the following email to the Times' Executive 
Editor and the VP for Circulation: 


"I canceled my subscription to the New York Times -- with prejudice -- a few 
minutes ago. I've terminated my decades-long subscription because somebody at 
the Times made the immoral decision to hire William Kristol -- as close to a 
war 
criminal as a so-called "journalist" can become. You see, I can have nothing 
further to do with such a morally tainted newspaper. It's a matter of 
principle. 



You might use this moment to reflect on how the reporting by Judith Miller 
(AKA stenography for Perle and Chalabi) and your editorial decision to delay 
reporting on Bush's illegal wiretaps contributed to America's poor moral 
standing around the world.? Now, with the hiring of effete coward and 
warmonger Kristol, who (possessing any morals at all) can consider the Times to 
be anything but a whore? 


I will use my website to inform my thousands of readers about your immoral 
decision and I will exhort them to cancel their subscriptions as well. 


Sincerely
Walter C. Uhler 


After all, simply consider that, ten years after the end of World War 
II, the editor of Das Schwarze Korps, Nazi SS leader Gunter d'Alquen, 
was fined 60,000 Deutsch Marks, "deprived of all civic rights for three years 
and debarred from drawing an allowance or pension from public funds. He was 
found guilty of having played an important role in the Third Reich, of war 
propaganda, inciting against the churches, the Jews and foreign countries, and 
incitement to murder." [Wikipedia, see also Saul Friedlander, 
Nazi German and the Jews, Volume I, pp. 311-313] 


Think about it: If you do something similarly egregious in Bush's Amerika, 
you get your own column at the New York Times. 








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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Bush to Create "Homeland Security"-Style Agency to Monitor & CONTROL US Economy

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To Keep Markets Stable, President Bush 
Proposes "Economic 
Czar" 
March 28, 2008 6:08 pm 

New York Times
Edmund L. Andrews
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/business/29regulate.html?_r=1&oref=slogin


 





WASHINGTON — The Bush administration will propose on Monday that Congress 
give the Federal Reserve broad authority to oversee financial market stability, 
in effect allowing it to send SWAT teams into any corner of the industry or any 
institution that might pose a risk to the overall system.


The proposal is part of a sweeping blueprint to overhaul the 
country’s hodge-podge of regulatory agencies, which many specialists 
say failed to recognize rampant excesses in mortgage lending until after they 
triggered what is now the worst financial calamity in decades.


According to a summary provided by the administration, the plan would 
consolidate what is now an alphabet soup of banking and 
securities regulators into a trio of overseers responsible for everything from 
banks and brokerage firms to hedge funds and private equity firms.


While the plan could expose Wall Street investment banks and hedge funds to 
greater scrutiny, it avoids a call for tighter 
regulation.  The plan would NOT rein in any of the 
practices that have been implicated in the housing and mortgage meltdown, like 
packaging risky subprime loans into securities carrying AAA 
ratings.








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[cia-drugs] What do you do with the defective slaves?

[Kris Millegan]

What do you do with the defective slaves?


What do you do with the defective slaves?
Do you set them aside?
Do you boil them in oil?
Do you deceive them,
As, you bleed them,
All the while?

What do you do with the defective slaves?
Do you get them to fight one another?
You know,
To save you the bother?
Now, you lose, 
By the way, 
Everytime;
But the play is the game,
And it ain’t always the same.
And isn’t being a player,
Better than, 
Being the game?

What do you do with the defective slaves?
Effectively, cajoling away, 
Away down the river, 
Away till the time,
A will and a way, 
For the defective slaves.


(C) !997 R. A. Kris Millegan

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Zeitgeist, The Movie - Remastered / Final Edition

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[cia-drugs] Fwd: First Rice Shortages, Now Wheat-Killing Fungus® (Monsanto)

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Why Food Prices Will Go Through 

The Roof In Coming Months


 


By F. William Engdahl*  
http://www.rense.com/general81/food.htm


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A deadly fungus, known as Ug99, which kills wheat, has 
likely spread to Pakistan from Africa according to reports. If true, 
that threatens the vital Asian Bread Basket including the Punjab 
region. 
The spread of the deadly virus, stem rust, against which an effective 
fungicide does not exist, comes as world grain stocks reach the lowest 
in four decades and government subsidized bio-ethanol production, 
especially in the USA, Brazil and EU are taking land out of food 
production at alarming rates. 


 



The deadly fungus is being used by Monsanto and 
the US Government to spread patented GMO seeds.  






Stem rust is the worst of three rusts that afflict 
wheat plants. The fungus grows primarily in the stems, plugging the 
vascular system so carbohydrates can't get from the leaves to the 
grain, 
which shrivels. Ug99 is a race of stem rust that blocks the vascular 
tissues in cereal grains including wheat, oats and barley. Unlike other 
rusts that may reduce crop yields, Ug99-infected plants may suffer up 
to 
100 percent loss. 






In the 1950s, the last major outbreak destroyed 40% of 
the spring wheat crop in North America. At that time governments 
started 
a major effort to breed resistant wheat plants, led by Norman Borlaug 
of 
the Rockefeller Foundation. That was the misnamed Green Revolution. The 
result today is far fewer varieties of wheat that might resist such a 
new fungus outbreak. 






The first strains of Ug99 were detected in 1999 in 
Uganda. It spread to Kenya by 2001, to Ethiopia by 2003 and to Yemen 
when the cyclone Gonu spread its spores in 2007. Now the deadly fungus 
has been found in Iran and according to British scientists may already 
be as far as Pakistan.  






Pakistan and India account for 20 percent of the annual 
world wheat production. It is possible as the fungus spreads that large 
movements could take place almost overnight if certain wind conditions 
prevail at the right time. In 2007 a three-day wind event recorded by 
Mexico's CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center), had 
strong wind currents moving from Yemen, where Ug99 is present, across 
Pakistan and India, going all the way to China. CIMMYT estimates that 
from two-thirds to three-quarters of the wheat now planted in India and 
Pakistan are highly susceptible to this new strain of stem rust. One 
billion people who live in this region and they are highly dependent on 
wheat for their food supply. 






These are all areas where the agricultural 
infrastructure to contain such problems is either extremely weak or 
non-existent. It threatens to spread into other wheat producing regions 
of Asia and eventually the entire world if not checked. 






FAO World Grain Forecast 






The 2007 World Agriculture Forecast of the United 
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, projects an 
alarming trend in world food supply even in the absence of any 
devastation from Ug99. The report states, "countries in the non-OECD 
region are expected to continue to experience a much stronger increase 
in consumption of agricultural products than countries in the OECD 
area. 
This trend is driven by population and, above all, income growth ­ 
underpinned by rural migration to higher income urban areas...OECD 
countries as a group are projected to lose production and export shares 
in many commodities.  Growth in the use of agricultural commodities 
as feedstock to a rapidly increasing biofuel industry is one of the 
main 
drivers in the outlook and one of the reasons for international 
commodity prices to attain a significantly higher plateau over the 
outlook period than has been reported in the previous reports."  
(my emphasis-w.e.). 






The FAO warns that the explosive growth in acreage used 
to grow fuels and not food in the past three years is dramatically 
changing the outlook for food supply globally and forcing food prices 
sharply higher for all foods from cereals to sug