[cia-drugs] Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail. Medi-pot patient.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=currentfor more info.http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203672 eco2man veteran Reged: Nov 29 2000 Posts: 1921 Loc: Amerika, land of the Free? Ha! 2.3 million "free" inmates. 25% of world's prisoners!Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail.#1203672 - Fri Jan 27 2006 02:15 AMEdit Reply Quote Several articles below. More are found with this Google News search shortcut: http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby Put quotes around "steve kubby" to narrow the results. There is an article just out from Pravda in Russia too: Failed pot refugee comes back from Canada to face United States bonds. http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/27/71920.html - -SanFranciscoSentinel.com article begins- web page Jailed medical marijuana advocate said sick without treatment in Redwood City jail. January 26, 2005, 11:45 p.m. Bay City News contributed to this report REDWOOD CITY - A medical marijuana advocate arrested as he disembarked a Canadian flight at San Francisco International Airport tonight became ill in a Redwood City jail due to lack of medication, according to a spokesman for NORML. Steve Kubby, a cancer patient, began coming ill two hours after his 8:10 p.m. arrest following police refusal to provide Marinol, NORML spokesman D. Gieringer reported. San Francisco Police Officer George Swartz said Steve Kubby was taken into custody around 8:10 p.m. by San Francisco police. Swartz said Kubby, who had been deported from Canada, was arrested on a no-bail warrant and was booked into San Mateo County jail. "I'm really sick already," Kubby told Gieringer by telephone said from jail. "I'm gonna start puking my brains out." "He says his guards laughed at him when he requested Marinol. Kubby says he hasn't had marijuana for half a day and has begun to experience all of the symptoms of his life-threatening disease -- nausea, headaches, swollen kidneys. He has chills and has not been able to get a blanket from the guards," Gieringer stated. San Francisco airport police said that they had arrested him at the request of Placer County authorities. They said Kubby will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning, though it wasn't clear where -- in Redwood City, where he is being detained, or in Placer County. -end -- San Francisco Chronicle article begins web page Pot advocate arrested at SFO after arriving from Canada Chronicle Staff Report Thursday, January 26, 2006 Marijuana advocate and former gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby, a fugitive for several years, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday night on a plane that arrived from Canada, San Francisco police said. Kubby co-authored "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal" with marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal and in 1998 was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor. According to the New York Times, Kubby fled California in 2001 after police found 265 marijuana plants in his Squaw Valley home. He was sentenced to four months of house arrest and probation -- and fearing it would lead to an eventual prison term in which he would be unable to use medical marijuana to treat adrenal cancer, he fled to Canada. San Francisco police said he was arrested on a no bail warrant for fleeing the U.S. He was arrested at 8:10 p.m. at SFO following his deportation from Canada. -end- -- -Bay City News article begins web page MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE ARRESTED AT SFO January 26, 2006, 11:00 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (BCN) - A medical marijuana advocate was arrested tonight at San Francisco International Airport as he disembarked from his flight from Canada, according to San Francisco police. Police Officer George Swartz said Steve Kubby was taken into custody around 8:10 p.m. by San Francisco police. Swartz said Kubby, who had been deported from Canada, was arrested on a no-bail warrant and was booked into San Mateo County jail. end- Copy this!: Post Extras: -Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:37:49 -0800 From: "renee boje" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RB: Kubby arrest video footage Steve Kubby Arrested At SFOPot-TVhttp://pot.tv/archive/shows/pottvshowse-4131.html SAN FRANCISCO -- Medical marijuana crusader Steve Kubby was arrested Thursday night at San Francisco Airport after spending years as a fugitive in Canada.Kubby was arrested on a no-bail warrant and booked into San Mateo County jail, San Francisco police said.Kubby's supporters and family were on hand as he boarded the flight escorted by his American lawyer, who worried he could die without access to pot in jail."The officials in Canada might be sending him back to a death sentence," said Bill McPikeWrite George Bush, tell him about the Miracle of
[cia-drugs] Mexican Pot Smugglers Help Restore Americans' Sanity, Humanity -was: ..border...
Americans can certainly benefit from easier access to marijuana. It helps deprogram many people from the fascist propaganda that pours into their heads from the TV. It was widely recognized in the 1960s that use of marijuana and other psychedelics was one of the major factors leading to protests against the American fascist genocidal Vietnam War. It helped people realize that their government was lying to them. That's why the Nixon regime and those that came after made this harmless and beneficial plant so illegal. American TV watched by teenagers, e.g., the Cartoon Network, is full of ads telling them not to smoke marijuana because if they do, they're just doing something stupid because someone told them to. But there are also lots of ads telling them to join the U.S. army and marines. These are *not* accompanied by advice telling kids not to obey people who tell them to do something stupid. Americans have been programmed by the U.S./Israeli/British false-flag terror attacks -- 9-11, Madrid, London -- and now support U.S. mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Arabs by the Republican neocons and the Democrat DLC, both of which are doing it upon orders from the state of Israel, and the owners of the weapons factories. Americans need to examine their own minds and figure out where their beliefs and ideas are coming from, and then stop the government that's controlling their minds with constant lying propaganda. On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 10:21:45PM -0500, Jim Rarey wrote: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/front/3610528 Chertoff, 216 incursions, aw shucks that's just mistakes. hr HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Front page Jan. 25, 2006, 9:54AM Bizarre scene fuels border concerns Smugglers in Mexican uniforms retreat when seen by Texas officers By JAMES PINKERTON Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle U.S. and Mexican officials on Tuesday were investigating a bizarre encounter between Texas lawmen and heavily armed intruders who were wearing Mexican military uniforms while evidently escorting a caravan of sport utility vehicles that was smuggling marijuana into the United States. The smugglers, spotted on the U.S. side of the border in remote western Texas on Monday afternoon, hastily fled back into Mexico, leaving behind nearly a half ton of marijuana and setting one of their vehicles ablaze. Although no shots were fired and no one was hurt, the episode - along with an incident in November - heightened fears that Mexican traffickers and U.S. border agents are headed for a potentially deadly confrontation. American officers, who have long complained about being outgunned along the border, point out that the armed men seen Monday were riding in a military-style Humvee equipped with what looked like .50-caliber machine guns. ''It's an explosive situation, said Becky Dean-Parker, a Hudspeth County judge and local rancher. ''This is the second major incident where people with military-type uniforms and weaponry came in the defense of drug loads. We are very, very concerned because all it would take is one person to pull the trigger and it's going to be a disaster. Investigation ordered Mexico's secretary of defense has ordered a full investigation into the incident. However, Rafael Laveaga, a spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C., said he does not think the men in military fatigues seen escorting the traffickers were soldiers. The Mexican military installation in Ciudad Juarez, which is nearest to where the incident occurred, does not have any vehicles or weapons like those described by the Hudspeth County sheriff's deputies, he said. ''We strongly deny that members of the Mexican army participated in any incident at the Mexican-U.S. border, Laveaga said. ''I think it's fair to say that criminal organizations sometimes wear military uniforms and use military vehicles to provide confusion among authorities of both countries. Mexico's presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar insisted again today that the uniformed men were drug smugglers, not Mexican soldiers. Aguilar said the FBI supported that view, but he gave no evidence of the claim. These were not Mexican soldiers, Aguilar said at a news conference. It is known that these are drug traffickers using military uniforms and they were not even regulation military uniforms. Still, Washington is demanding answers. Kristi M. Clemens, assistant commissioner for U.S. customs and border protection, issued a statement saying the agency is reviewing the confrontation and has asked the Mexican government for a ''thorough investigation. Criminal networks present a serious threat to border security and their lawlessness is not going unchecked, she said. Deputies chased SUVs According to the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department, deputies began a chase Monday afternoon of
Re: [cia-drugs] Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail. Medi-pot patient.
This is heartbreaking. I have a demand in one of my earliest editions to make medical marijuana legal, but too few have listened to me, so now this man must suffer. In the most recent edition, the 20th, I published what a retired Chemistry professor taught me regarding long term marijuana use does, but that doesn't affect Mr. Kubby at all. I really feel sorry for him. Peace, Arlene Johnson Publisher/Author http://www.truedemocracy.net Click on Magazine icon to access the e-zine. Password for 17th - 20th editions: UN-Original Message- From: Eco Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Jan 27, 2006 10:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [cia-drugs] Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail. Medi-pot patient. http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/postlist.php?Board=currentfor more info. http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1203672 eco2man veteran Reged: Nov 29 2000 Posts: 1921 Loc: Amerika, land of the Free? Ha! 2.3 million "free" inmates. 25% of world's prisoners! Kubby sick without treatment. Redwood City jail.#1203672 - Fri Jan 27 2006 02:15 AM Edit Reply Quote Several articles below. More are found with this Google News search shortcut: http://news.google.com/news?q=steve+kubby Put quotes around "steve kubby" to narrow the results. There is an article just out from Pravda in Russia too: Failed pot refugee comes back from Canada to face United States bonds. http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2006/01/27/71920.html - -SanFranciscoSentinel.com article begins- web page Jailed medical marijuana advocate said sick without treatment in Redwood City jail. January 26, 2005, 11:45 p.m. Bay City News contributed to this report REDWOOD CITY - A medical marijuana advocate arrested as he disembarked a Canadian flight at San Francisco International Airport tonight became ill in a Redwood City jail due to lack of medication, according to a spokesman for NORML. Steve Kubby, a cancer patient, began coming ill two hours after his 8:10 p.m. arrest following police refusal to provide Marinol, NORML spokesman D. Gieringer reported. San Francisco Police Officer George Swartz said Steve Kubby was taken into custody around 8:10 p.m. by San Francisco police. Swartz said Kubby, who had been deported from Canada, was arrested on a no-bail warrant and was booked into San Mateo County jail. "I'm really sick already," Kubby told Gieringer by telephone said from jail. "I'm gonna start puking my brains out." "He says his guards laughed at him when he requested Marinol. Kubby says he hasn't had marijuana for half a day and has begun to experience all of the symptoms of his life-threatening disease -- nausea, headaches, swollen kidneys. He has chills and has not been able to get a blanket from the guards," Gieringer stated. San Francisco airport police said that they had arrested him at the request of Placer County authorities. They said Kubby will be arraigned in court tomorrow morning, though it wasn't clear where -- in Redwood City, where he is being detained, or in Placer County. -end -- San Francisco Chronicle article begins web page Pot advocate arrested at SFO after arriving from Canada Chronicle Staff Report Thursday, January 26, 2006 Marijuana advocate and former gubernatorial candidate Steve Kubby, a fugitive for several years, was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday night on a plane that arrived from Canada, San Francisco police said. Kubby co-authored "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal" with marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal and in 1998 was the Libertarian Party candidate for governor. According to the New York Times, Kubby fled California in 2001 after police found 265 marijuana plants in his Squaw Valley home. He was sentenced to four months of house arrest and probation -- and fearing it would lead to an eventual prison term in which he would be unable to use medical marijuana to treat adrenal cancer, he fled to Canada. San Francisco police said he was arrested on a no bail warrant for fleeing the U.S. He was arrested at 8:10 p.m. at SFO following his deportation from Canada. -end- -- -Bay City News article begins web page MEDICAL MARIJUANA ADVOCATE ARRESTED AT SFO January 26, 2006, 11:00 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (BCN) - A medical marijuana advocate was arrested tonight at San Francisco International Airport as he disembarked from his flight from Canada, according to San Francisco police.
[cia-drugs] Davos debate, concerns over Bric countries' rising power
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=34156 Davos debate, concerns over Bric countries' rising power Friday, January 27, 2006 World Economic Forum DAVOS - AP Saving the world was on the agenda, but for many of the business leaders, academics and activists who attended the "Big Debate" at the World Economic Forum (WEF), the theme may very well have been: Saving the West from China and India. Foreboding hung in the airas participants discussed key issues that global society must confront to navigate what Harvard University President Lawrence Summers described as one of the most important moments in history -- Asia's new economic might. "What's happening in India and China, the integration of the four-fifths of the world where people are poor with the one fifth of the world where people are rich, has the potential to be one of the three most important economic events in the last millennium, alongside the Renaissance and the industrial revolution," Summers said. He cautioned the room of millionaires and leaders in their fields to focus their minds: "I fear that we have too much hope and too little fear." But fear was a recurrent subtext -- at least in the words of the Westerners who comprised the majority of those present. The debate -- like much of the goings-on at the 2006 edition of the annual Davos extravaganza -- reflected the realization by many that global integration and the wondrous technological advancements of recent years could bring traumatic change to countries that have grown comfortable and perhaps a little complacent. Adding piquancy to the proceedings was Chinese government data coming from Shanghai earlier in the day that suggested China may have leapfrogged several European powers to become the world's fourth-largest economy, after the United States, Japan and Germany. Speakers at the debate noted that by embracing market principles, China and India have added hundreds of millions of inexpensive workers to the global labor market at precisely the moment when technology has rendered geographical location less important. Laura Tyson, dean of the London Business School, warned of "downward pressure on real wages or employment [in the West] for a period to last up to 25 years." The session -- a centerpiece of day one at Davos -- reflected the extraordinary mix of idealism, business, networking and self-promotion that has made this annual gathering in a remote Swiss ski resort such an improbably huge event on the calendar of the world business elite. Some delegates got up to note that their companies have created thousands of jobs in Africa and called on others to follow. Another got up to reveal that he was wearing smiley faces on his shirt to reflect his optimism. At one table, delegates debated whether the global economic output might rise fast enough to prevent the need for an actual transfer of wealth from developed to developing countries. But solar power advocate and businessman Bertrand Piccard -- who became the first balloonist to circumnavigate the globe seven years ago -- urged colleagues to think more creatively, along undefined new lines. Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, chief executive of Nestle, was more downbeat, saying that he once hoped for a truly global society but "the dream is over." He said regions of the globe were drifting apart, separated by competition over oil and water, by differing attitudes and age demographics. Columbia University Professor Jagdish Bhagwati spoke in stark terms as well. "Twenty percent of the population of the world has 80 percent of the income, India and China are no longer willing to sit on the margins," he warned, calling for a more equitable distribution of wealth. "We have 40 percent of the world's youth." Each of the fifty-odd tables picked a discussion leader who reduced their own debate to two key questions facing the world, which were written down on blue cards and submitted to the organizers, who in turn formulated the most common themes and submitted the batches of questions to an electronic vote. Results of polls: That WEF poll, which followed a debate, also signalled a broader desire to bring climate change back to the core of the Forum's agenda, while the need for improvements in global education headed the list of priorities (40 percent). Of more than 1,400 top executives questioned by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 71 percent said their companies planned to do business in at least one of the four Bric countries -- China,Brazil, India and Russia -- in the next three years. China topped its list of countries with significant market opportunites, where large populations are enjoying increased buying power, followed by India, Russia and Brazil. Some 26 percent in the WEF poll said they wanted to find ways to better integrate China and India into the global economy. "The Bric [nations] have a much stronger influence than we have realized," said Jim
[cia-drugs] Earmarks, the currency of corruption
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/26/AR2006012602221.html?referrer=emailreferrer=email K Street's New Ways Spawn More Pork As Barriers With Lawmakers Fall, 'Earmarks' Grow By Jonathan Weisman and Charles R. Babcock Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, January 27, 2006; Page A01 An explosion of special interest funding engineered in part by lawmakers with close ties to lobbyists is drawing increased scrutiny as Congress moves to address concern about corruption that already has led to the conviction of a Republican House member and former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. At issue is a symbiotic relationship between lawmakers well positioned to slip special-interest projects into legislation, and wealthy lobbying groups that raise large sums of campaign funds or provide trips and other benefits to those lawmakers. In the latest example of these backstage dealings, Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.) told The Washington Post that he helped steer defense funding, totaling $37 million, to a California company, whose officials and lobbyists helped raise at least $85,000 for Doolittle and his leadership political action committee from 2002 to 2005. Brent Wilkes, a director of the company, PerfectWave Technologies LLC, and a major contributor to House Republican leaders, was identified as "Coconspirator No. 1" in criminal charges brought against Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) late last year. Cunningham pleaded guilty in November and resigned from Congress after admitting he conspired to take $2.4 million in bribes in return for using his office to help Wilkes and another defense contractor, in part by placing earmarks in defense appropriations bills. Doolittle said in a statement this week that as one of three California Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee, he frequently supports "well deserving projects throughout the state." The statement added that his support of PerfectWave Technology "was no exception and based completely on the project's merits and the written support of the military." The link between special interests and members of Congress has grown so tight that nearly a dozen House and Senate members who control federal spending have retained lobbying veterans to raise campaign funds for them, and those lobbyists have secured lucrative favors in spending bills. These relationships have coincided with the rapid growth in the volume of home-state pork-barrel projects, commonly called earmarks, that have swelled appropriations bills in recent years, according to congressional experts and watchdog groups. "It's the currency of corruption," Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said of appropriations earmarks. Since the Republicans took control of Congress in 1994, the number of home-district earmarks jumped from 4,155 valued at about $29 billion in 1994 to 14,211 worth nearly $53 billion 10 years later, according to the Congressional Research Service. Once a backwater for boutique lobbying shops, the House and Senate Appropriations committees are fueling a lobbying boom in Washington. The hunt for earmarks has become so consuming that lawmakers are neglecting other duties, said Scott Lilly, who recently retired as chief Democratic aide on the House Appropriations Committee. Last year, the committee received 10,000 requests for home-district projects on one spending bill alone -- 25.4 projects per lawmaker, said committee spokesman John Scofield. "It has become an obsession of the Congress," Lilly said. "That's all they do." Traditionally, Congress has provided large pots of money to federal, state and local agencies, such as housing authorities and transportation departments, which then funded specific programs based on merit and local need. The Appropriations committees funded specific projects only when they had been vetted and approved by authorizing committees, such as the Armed Services Committee. But increasingly, lawmakers have gone around authorizers and agency officials to finance pet projects in their home districts. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) secured $207 million for the "Prairie Parkway" through Kane and Kendall counties in Illinois in last year's major highway law, although the Illinois Department of Transportation is only two years into a five-year study of the project and has not yet determined whether a highway is needed or whether improvements to existing roads would suffice. The hunt for earmarks on Capitol Hill and on K Street has opened up new avenues for lobbyists and lawmakers to come together. Seven members of the House Appropriations Committee -- Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), Ernest J. Istook Jr. (R-Okla.), Kay Granger (R-Tex.), Dennis Rehberg (R-Mont.), John E. Sweeney (R-N.Y.), Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) -- have political action committees headed by registered lobbyists or former registered lobbyists with business before the committee, according to the Center for Public Integrity and campaign
[cia-drugs] Central Bank Gold Sales Seen Falling Short of Quota -HSBC
http://www.thebusinessonline.com/DJStory.aspx?DJStoryID=20060127DN003056 Central Bank Gold Sales Seen Falling Short of Quota -HSBC LONDON -(Dow Jones)- European central banks are highly unlikely to sell the total 2,500 metric tons of gold permitted under the five-year Central Bank Gold Agreement, HSBC analyst Alan Williamson said Friday. Total confirmed and probable sales under the renewed agreement currently stand at 1,441 tons, of which 599 tons has already taken place and a further 842 tons are expected to take place over the balance of the agreement, Williamson said. "Within this category we have included the 130 tons of Swiss sales, which completes the longstanding disposal program, the 600 tons of likely French sales (151 tons already completed) and the Dutch sale of 165 tons (75 tons already)," Williamson said. "In addition, we have included likely Portuguese sales of 160 tons (of which 65 tons has been completed), Austrian sales of 90 tons (of which 15 tons done already) and probable Swedish sales of 60 tons (17 tons done)," he added. Williamson said also included are European Central Bank sales of 47 tons undertaken so far and the 6 tons of gold sold by the Bundesbank for coin minting. Also, Belgium has likely sales of 120 tons (of which 30 tons have been completed), and Spain has sold 63 tons. "These sales total 1,441 tons, or just over half of the potential sales under the agreement," Williamson added. In addition to these sales, there is a potential 876 tons of central bank disposals that can be identified, Williamson said. "Within this we would include a further 594 tons of German sales if the Bundesbank were to take up its full 600 tons allocation - although it passed on the possibility of sales in the first year of the revised agreement and has not yet stated its intentions," he noted. "In addition, we have included a further 220 tons of possible ECB sales, which is approximately what would need to be sold to reduce its holdings to 15% of total reserves, and a possible 62 tons of Belgian sales," he said. But even in the "unlikely event" all these sales materialize, Williamson said total sales under the renewed Central Bank Gold Agreement would be just over 2,300 tons, still almost 200 tons short of the maximum permissible. "Unless another central bank emerges as a seller, we remain of the view that the full 2,500 tons quota will not be filled. Indeed, in the event that either the Bundesbank and/or the ECB decide not to undertake any further sales, aggregate sales will fall short of the 2,500 tons maximum," he added. The five-year agreement is the second of its kind and limits combined annual sales of gold by individual countries to a total 500 tons. Each Central Bank gold agreement year runs from the end of September. -By Andrea Hotter, Dow Jones Newswires; +44 (0)20 7842 9413; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Conservative Canadian Prime Minister-elect Espouses Positive Change
http://www.aim.org/guest_column_print/4329_0_6_0/ Conservative Canadian Prime Minister-elect Espouses Positive Change By Paul M. Weyrich | January 26, 2006 . . . it is clear that Canada wanted change and enough Canadian voters felt that the Conservative Party was the instrument to realize that change. It has been rather exciting to watch the Canadian Elections. I had the benefit of discussing the projections with one Gerald Chipeur, an Alberta attorney who is involved with Conservatives in Canada. Chipeur called the elections right-on-the-money. He advised me via e-mail a few days before last Monday's Elections that Liberals would not win despite reports by the United States media that the Liberals were closing the gap. In fact, Chipeur and I inadvertently were involved in the Elections a few days before Election Day. Chipeur had contacted Free Congress out of concern for what the leftwing Canadian media could do to obtain from some unsuspecting United States conservative an off-the-charts quote which could be hung around Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper's neck. I asked my associate Bob Thompson, who runs our Coalition meetings, to tell American conservatives what the media up north intended to do and request that folks not conduct interviews until after the Canadian Elections. Of course, in this city of leaks, our e-mail had been released only a few hours before I received a call from the Canadian News Service. Our e-mail message mentioning Chipeur was read back to me. Someone among the large group of folks who received the e-mail allegedly did himself a small favor by selling us out. The e-mail itself then became a story. I have not spoken with Chipeur but I suspect that he also received telephone calls from every prominent Canadian news operation. After speaking with two Canadian reporters I chose not to return such telephone calls. In the end, there just wasn't enough there to make a fuss, although there was potential to blow this sky high. Conservatives did not conduct interviews. Small victory. The morning after the Elections, it so happened I spoke with two Canadian Conservatives who had worked hard to win. One was thrilled with the outcome. The other was defeated, proclaiming the Elections a disaster. My pessimistic friend said that inasmuch as Harper's is a minority government, Harper could do almost nothing to encourage the Country to adopt a more reasonable view of the United States and to correct some premises of Cultural Marxism, which Canadians have espoused, such as same-sex marriage and abortion-on-demand. Having often been confronted with two opposing views of policy and political questions in the United States, I determined that I personally would investigate the situation and found: The people of Canada have become so liberal and hedonistic that the public ethic in the Country immediately could not reversed. It will take time. But with leadership it well may be possible to change the public ethic. One Conservative suggested that Harper's nationwide victory is the equivalent of the election of Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) as Governor of Massachusetts. It would take time for voters to adjust to their new government. Some party operatives already are looking ahead to the Canadian elections in four years. Incumbents in Parliament have a tremendous advantage, my source said, and they could realize that advantage in four years. If they accomplish constructive goals they will be capable of building support. One source said it is unlikely that the plug would be pulled at one moment. He explained that the Separatist bloc in Quebec wants the Conservative Party in power because it is the only party which supports a decentralized government and would confer power on the Provinces. Some liken the Conservative position to non-racist States rights in the United States. A more positive observer claims that if Harper were to dismantle the liberal, wasteful big government programs established by the Liberal Party while it was in power for 13 consecutive years Harper would have a super majority of 175 votes to defeat big government Liberals. Brian Mulroney, of Quebec, who served two terms as Prime Minister during the Reagan years, broke a string of Liberal victories which began to occur when John Diefenbaker was ousted by Liberals in 1962. Nonetheless, Liberals have dominated Canadian politics for four decades, much the way Democrats dominated United States politics from 1932 to 1994. It takes 155 votes to win outright control of Parliament. Harper has 134 votes riding. He will need a significant bloc of votes from other parties.One party operative claims there are upwards of 10 Liberals - some from Bloc Québécois - who would join with Harper if he were to call for a free vote on reversing same-sex marriage. Media sources in this country claim Harper lacks the votes to tackle the issue of same-sex marriage. But an inside vote-counter
[cia-drugs] Ranch is signed over to 2 immigrants
Nethercott is serving a five-year prison term in Texas stemming from a 2003 incident on a Texas ranch where he confronted Leiva and Mancia and was accused of pistol-whipping them. He was acquitted of assault but convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nethercott was a member of the group Ranch Rescue, which works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border. http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/113080 Ranch is signed over to 2 immigrants Published: 01.26.2006 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BISBEE Two immigrants are now the legal owners of a Douglas-area ranch seized from an anti-immigrant activist. Documents granting the 70-acre ranch once owned by Casey Nethercott to Fatima del Socorro Leiva Medina and Edwin Alfredo Mancia Gonzales were signed by a Cochise County judge on Monday. Nethercott is serving a five-year prison term in Texas stemming from a 2003 incident on a Texas ranch where he confronted Leiva and Mancia and was accused of pistol-whipping them. He was acquitted of assault but convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Nethercott was a member of the group Ranch Rescue, which works to protect private property along the southern U.S. border. The Southern Poverty Law Center brought suit against Nethercott on behalf of the two immigrants. Nethercott did not respond and a Texas judge ordered him to pay $500,000. Also named in the suit were Jack Foote, the founder of Ranch Rescue and the owners of the Texas ranch, Joe and Betty Sutton. The Suttons settled for $100,000. Foote also didn't offer a defense and was ordered to pay $500,000. Leiva and Mancia were illegal immigrants from El Salvador. They received temporary legal status in the United States as crime victims and are seeking visas to stay longer. They don't plan to hold on to the ranch, said Kelley Bruner, an attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Instead the property will be sold, with the proceeds going to the immigrants. Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS United state bankruptcy court western district of texas United state life insurance United state patent United state patent search United states patent office United state flag YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[cia-drugs] Diebold in Florida: 'I saw it hacked.'
http://www.counterpunch.org/pynchon01232006.html January 23, 2006 "I Saw It Hacked" Diebold in Florida By SUSAN PYNCHON I was one of ten people present at the "hack" of the Leon County, Florida voting system, which took place on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 around 4:30 in the afternoon at the county elections warehouse. Leon County's voting system is the Diebold Accu-Vote OS 1.94w (optical scan). The Leon County Supervisor of Elections, Ion Sancho, authorized a "test" of his Diebold voting system to see if election results could be altered using only a memory card. Harri Hursti, a computer programmer from Finland facilitated the test and it has come to be known as the "Harri Hursti Hack." What follows is my description of that hack and its significance for our nation, which I hope will correct much of the misinformation circulating regarding this event. To select which voting machine to use for the test, Ion drew a serial number of one voting machine from a container holding all the serial numbers of all the Leon County machines. Since the test took place at the elections warehouse, all the voting machines were already stored there and the one machine, whose serial number was selected, was located and brought into the warehouse office, where it was plugged into an electrical outlet (so it could operate!). It was not networked to any other machines. We checked the serial number of the machine against the serial number that Ion had randomly selected. Earlier, Ion had given ONE Diebold memory card to Hursti. Bev Harris and Kathleen Wynne of Black Box Voting were also present at the test. Harri had programmed the memory card that morning, in his hotel room, using an off-the-shelf crop scanner. I drove Harri in my car from the hotel to the warehouse. When we arrived, Harri was asked to stay outside the warehouse office where the central tabulator is located, so that there would be no question about whether he had had any access to the central tabulator. When the randomly-selected voting machine was brought into the warehouse office, all of us went into the warehouse office except Harri, whom we could see sitting in a chair on the other side of a plate glass window separating the office from the rest of the warehouse. Ion ran a complete mock election. He had had actual paper ballots pre-printed with the following question: "Can the votes on this Diebold system be hacked using the memory card?" There were two possible answers: "Yes" or "No," with an oval to the left of each answer to be filled in by the voter. Everything was conducted as in a normal election. Ion first printed a "zero tape" (a poll tape from the machine that is supposed to show that nothing has been altered before the election begins). This was the first step in the hack --the zero tape showed zero votes for both the "Yes" answer and the "No" answer, even though Harri had altered the memory card and votes had been subtracted from one answer and added to the other answer. Harri used the interpreted (executable) code to cover up the fact that he had changed the vote counters. Then eight of us voted, filling in the oval on our paper ballot. Six of us voted "No," the election could not be hacked. Two of us voted "Yes," it could be hacked. Then, one by one, we inserted our ballots into the voting machine. Ion checked after each voter to make sure that the counter on the machine was counting properly as each ballot was inserted. So, we ended up with an accurate count of 8 ballots cast on the screen on the front of the voting machine. Then Ion placed an "ender card" in the machine to end the election and printed the poll tape. Instead of two "Yes" votes, the poll tape showed seven "Yes" votes. Instead of six "No" votes, the poll tape showed one "No" vote. Harri did not just flip the votes, as he wanted to show how easy it was to change the totals completely. At that point, Ion Sancho's technician, TJ, said, "Well, that doesn't prove anything because the printer template can be changed." (And that is true. The poll tape can be made to read anything at all, which was proved in an earlier test on a Leon County op-scan in May of 2005, when the poll-tape was made to say, at the bottom of the tape, "Is this real or is it Memorex?") Ion responded to TJ that they were taking this to the next level and that he wanted TJ to upload the memory card to the central tabulator. TJ, who had quite apparently been talking to the Diebold reps, said he didn't want that to happen because he didn't know if Harri might have planted some kind of virus on the memory card that would infect the central tabulator. Ion then explained to TJ that, just an hour earlier, he had obtained permission from the Leon County Council to replace the Diebold system. That meant that the Leon County Diebold system would never be used in any election again, and thus Ion said it was all right to upload the memory card to the
[cia-drugs] US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm US plans to 'fight the net' revealed By Adam Brookes BBC Pentagon correspondent A newly declassified document gives a fascinating glimpse into the US military's plans for "information operations" - from psychological operations, to attacks on hostile computer networks. The document says information is "critical to military success" Bloggers beware. As the world turns networked, the Pentagon is calculating the military opportunities that computer networks, wireless technologies and the modern media offer. From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". It was obtained by the National Security Archive at George Washington University using the Freedom of Information Act. Officials in the Pentagon wrote it in 2003. The Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, signed it. The "roadmap" calls for a far-reaching overhaul of the military's ability to conduct information operations and electronic warfare. And, in some detail, it makes recommendations for how the US armed forces should think about this new, virtual warfare. The document says that information is "critical to military success". Computer and telecommunications networks are of vital operational importance. Propaganda The operations described in the document include a surprising range of military activities: public affairs officers who brief journalists, psychological operations troops who try to manipulate the thoughts and beliefs of an enemy, computer network attack specialists who seek to destroy enemy networks. All these are engaged in information operations. The wide-reaching document was signed off by Donald Rumsfeld Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans. "Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it reads. "Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American public," it goes on. The document's authors acknowledge that American news media should not unwittingly broadcast military propaganda. "Specific boundaries should be established," they write. But they don't seem to explain how. "In this day and age it is impossible to prevent stories that are fed abroad as part of psychological operations propaganda from blowing back into the United States - even though they were directed abroad," says Kristin Adair of the National Security Archive. Credibility problem Public awareness of the US military's information operations is low, but it's growing - thanks to some operational clumsiness. When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to see the internet as being equivalent to an enemy weapons system Late last year, it emerged that the Pentagon had paid a private company, the Lincoln Group, to plant hundreds of stories in Iraqi newspapers. The stories - all supportive of US policy - were written by military personnel and then placed in Iraqi publications. And websites that appeared to be information sites on the politics of Africa and the Balkans were found to be run by the Pentagon. But the true extent of the Pentagon's information operations, how they work, who they're aimed at, and at what point they turn from informing the public to influencing populations, is far from clear. The roadmap, however, gives a flavour of what the US military is up to - and the grand scale on which it's thinking. It reveals that Psyops personnel "support" the American government's international broadcasting. It singles out TV Marti - a station which broadcasts to Cuba - as receiving such support. It recommends that a global website be established that supports America's strategic objectives. But no American diplomats here, thank you. The website would use content from "third parties with greater credibility to foreign audiences than US officials". It also recommends that Psyops personnel should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet. 'Fight the net' When it describes plans for electronic warfare, or EW, the document takes on an extraordinary tone. It seems to
