[cia-drugs] Dictatorship is the danger.
Title: Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US democracy Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US de www.sandersresearch.com The Heron's Latest Catch http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1729350,00.html March 13, 2006 Dictatorship is the danger, Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US democracy Jonathan Raban Monday March 13, 2006 The Guardian Linking the words "America" and "dictatorship" is a daily staple of leftwing blogs, which thrive on the idea that Bush administration policies since 9/11 are taking the country ever closer to totalitarian rule. Liberal fears that democracy is endangered by Republicans in Congress are so widespread, so endemic to the jittery political climate in the US, that they hardly bear repeating. It'll surprise no one to learn that another voice was added to the chorus last Thursday, warning that recent attacks on the American judiciary were putting the democratic fabric in jeopardy and were the first steps down the treacherous path to dictatorship. What is surprisingmore than that, electrifyingis that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O'Connor, who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O'Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee. Regarded as the "swing vote" on the court, she swung the presidential election to George Bush in 2000. Equally surprising is that O'Connor's speech to an audience of lawyers at Georgetown University was attended by just one reporter, the diligent legal correspondent for National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg. No transcript or recording of the speech has been made available, so we have only Totenberg's notes to go on. Butassuming they are accuratethe notes are political dynamite. O'Connor's voice was "dripping with sarcasm", according to Totenberg, as she "took aim at former House GOP [Republican] leader Tom DeLay. She didn't name him, but she quoted his attacks on the courts at a meeting of the conservative Christian group Justice Sunday last year when DeLay took out after the courts for rulings on abortions, prayer and the Terri Schiavo case. "It gets worse, she said, noting that death threats against judges are increasing. It doesn't help, she said, when a high-profile senator suggests there may be a connection between violence against judges and decisions that the senator disagrees with." Then she spoke the D-word. "I, said O'Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O'Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." Delivered by someone who was, until recently, one of the nine guardians of the US constitution, these are spine-chilling opinions, and you might have thought they'd have been all over the papers the next day. Not so. I happened to catch Totenberg's NPR report last Friday, and have been following up references to it. A cable TV talkshow and a handful of blogs have mentioned Totenberg's piece: otherwise there's been a disquieting silence, as if the former justice had laid an unsavoury egg and had best be politely ignored. Why did O'Connor choose such a closed forum to air her thoughts? Why was Totenberg the only reporter present? The possibility that America is sliding toward dictatorship or an unprecedented form of corporate oligarchy ought to be a matter of world concern. And if O'Connor believes what she is reported to have said, surely she owes it to the world to make public the prepared text of her remarks, which so far have the dubious character of the scores of unverifiable leaks that have passed for news in the compulsively secretive world of the Bush administration. It's unsurprising that, say, Colin Powell chooses to leak rather than speak out, but when a supreme court justice prefers to whisper her fears to a coterie audience, it's hard to avoid the inference that the whisper itself speaks volumes about the imperilled democracy it purports to describe. Death threats to judges figured importantly in O'Connor's speech, with good reason. Last year, an Illinois federal judge found her husband and mother murdered, and a Georgia state judge was shot dead in his courtroom. Within days, Senator John Cornyn of Texas mused: "I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence." DeLay, speaking of the judges
[cia-drugs] MI6 payouts over secret LSD tests
Thought that MK-ULTRA-type mind control experiments were only conducted by the CIA? MI6 payouts over secret LSD tests Last Updated: Friday, 24 February 2006, 08:48 GMT Three UK ex-servicemen have been given compensation after they were given LSD without their consent in the 1950s. A "volunteers programme" started at Porton Down in 1916 http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41369000/jpg/_41369456_portonbody.jpg The men volunteered to be "guinea pigs" at the government research base Porton Down after being told scientists wanted to find a cure for the common cold. But they were given the hallucinogen in mind control tests, and some volunteers had terrifying hallucinations. The Foreign Office said the secret intelligence body MI6 had made the settlements after legal advice. The out-of-court settlements are thought to be under £10,000 for each of the men. In a statement issued later to the BBC News website, the Ministry of Defence said it did not make any admission of liability in respect of the settlements. The statement added: "The Ministry of Defence is very grateful to all those whose participation in studies at Porton Down made possible the research to provide safe and effective protection for UK Armed Forces." A spokesman for the Foreign Office, which oversees MI6, said: "The settlement offers were made to the government on behalf of the three claimants which, on legal advice, and in the particular circumstances of these cases, the government thinks it appropriate to accept." The men had volunteered for experiments at the government's chemical warfare research base at Porton Down in Wiltshire in 1953 and 1954. Following the settlement, Don Webb, who was a 19-year-old airman at the time, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "I think they grudgingly acknowledged that they did something wrong. "They stick to the old maxim: never apologise, never explain. But I think in this case they have decided to pay some money. I think that is as near to an apology or an explanation I'll get." Both he and fellow serviceman Logan Marr, a former shepherd from the Scottish highlands, suffered hallucinations after they were asked to drink a clear liquid. The third man did not wish to be named. The research was carried out after British and American governments thought the Soviet Union had developed a "truth drug" which could compel spies and servicemen to yield up important secrets. MI6 scientists decided to test LSD, the closest thing they thought they had to a truth drug, on volunteers to see how they reacted. 'Volunteers programme' Alan Care, a lawyer who represented the three men, said: "As far as we are aware, these are the first settlements by the secret intelligence services for a personal injury action." He added that a request that documents relating to the case be put into the public domain had been refused. Some volunteers at the base did not find out they had been given LSD until 50 years later. Thousands of servicemen and women have volunteered in the testing of defences against chemical and biological attacks at the Wiltshire military base. Research began in 1916 using a "volunteers programme", and up to 20,000 people took part in various trials in the 50 years up to 1989. Last October, the government was found guilty of breaching the human rights of former soldier Thomas Roche, who claimed he developed health problems as a result of mustard gas and nerve agent tests in 1962 and 1963. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4745748.stm Hear one of the men tell of his frightening hallucinations MoD agrees sarin case settlement 13 Feb 06| England Porton Down veterans reject study 15 Jun 05| Wiltshire Porton 'guinea pigs' revisit labs 29 May 05| Wiltshire Timeline: chemical warfare and Porton Down 19 Apr 05| UK 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] On the death of Milosevic
Emperor's Clothes Newsletter * 13 March 2006 On the death of Milosevicby Jared Israel[13 March 2006]In the aftermath of the death of Milosevic, the media is rehashing all the old charges against him - which in effect means, against the Serbian people. Emperor's Clothes has published many articles refuting media misinformation about the Serbs and Yugoslavia. Some of the most important are listed, with links, following these comments.Milosevic's death while incarcerated at The Hague - like the deaths of other Serbs before him - is at minimum an outrage. He asked for, and Russia agreed to provide, first rate care for his serious heart condition. The Hague Tribunal demanded special guarantees; the Russian government provided them. Nevertheless, the request was denied, apparently without explanation. Milosevic's lawyer, Mr. Tomanovic, states that Milosevic wrote to the Russian Embassy in The Hague, charging that he was being given dangerous medicines. Even apart from this charge, the denial of medical care in itself constitutes foul play. And The Hague Tribunal has denied Milosevic's family's demand that an autopsy be conducted in Russia. Why?How can a UN organization justify denying medical care to a prisoner, indeed to an elected head of state? Not to mention to the accused in what was billed as the trial of the century? How, even if he had been guilty as charged? But he was not guilty of war crimes. Despite the media hype, Milosevic was not a war criminal. And despite some of his rhetoric at The Hague, he was also not a heroic opponent of NATO. In truth, he was an appeaser who tried to curry favor with the West while sometimes talking tough, to the despair of the ordinary people whom he regularly setup and betrayed. The fact that, despite this, The Hague Tribunal, the proclaimed tool of NATO, seized him without concern for mere legality, put him on trial in its brazenly biased 'court,' and finally killed him, at the very least through criminal negligence, says much about the character of the leaders of the International Community who sponsored the resurgent Croatian, Moslem and Albanian fascists who wrecked havoc on Yugoslavia, followed by massive NATO bombing. -- Jared IsraelEmperor's Clothes * 13 March 2006The Break-up of Yugoslavia: Who did what, and to whom?-- A collection of Emperor's Clothes articles and documents[13 March 2006]Part 1 of 2*Table of Contents(1) Most recent articles(2) Serbs, Muslims, Albanians, Croats and NATO: Who stood for what; who has done what and to whom(3) Crime, Terror and Racism: What NATO and the UN have Wrought in Kosovo (and Macedonia)(4) Media misinformation about Yugoslavia(5) US goals in the Balkans(6) NATO financing behind the October 2000 coup in Yugoslavia(7) Life in Yugoslavia after the October 2000 coup(8) The Hague Tribunal: Justice or Travesty?(9) Why the Serbs feared being ruled by Albanian secessionists, Bosnian Muslim extremists and Croatian neo-fascists. (You would too...)(10) Serbian-Jewish relations(11) Articles on the Srebrenica massacre charge1. Our most recent articles on Yugoslavia* "Serbian condolences to the Jews for the life of Arafat,"by Petar Makarahttp://emperors-clothes.com/makara/aramilo.htm Emperor's Clothes editor Petar Makara comments that, in praising the late Yasar Arafat, Mr. Milosevic did not represent the Serbian people, who, like the Jews, have suffered at the hands of Islamists.Evidence that the supposed Srebrenica execution video is a fabrication: "Srebrenica Srebrenica 'Execution' Video, Part 1: What I'll prove and how I'll do it," by Jared Israel http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/vid.htm Procitajte ovaj tekst na srpsko-hrvatskom: http://emperors-clothes.com/s-c/s-sreb1.htm "Srebrenica 'Execution' Video, Part 2: Mission Impossible," by Jared Israel http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/location.htm Procitajte ovaj tekst na srpsko-hrvatskom: http://emperors-clothes.com/s-c/s-sreb2.htm "'Execution' Video, Part 3: The Media Moves Mountains," by Jared Israel http://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/moves.htm Procitajte ovaj tekst na srpsko-hrvatskom: http://emperors-clothes.com/s-c/s-sreb3.htm "UN Military Officer Carlos Branco asks, 'Was the Supposed Srebrenica Massacre a Hoax?'"Comments by Jared Israel and Petar Makarahttp://emperors-clothes.com/sreb/branco-1.htm"Why Should one Read Articles Refuting the Srebrenica Massacre Claim?"by Jared Israel and Petar MakaraIncludes UN report on genocide against Serbs living near Srebrenicahttp://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/list-s.htm"Bosnia-Herzegovina - Origin of the Myth of a Tolerant, Pluralistic Islam,"By Bat Ye'orComments by Petar Makarahttp://emperors-clothes.com/bosnia/bat.htm"Slaves of the 21st Century,"by Urban
[cia-drugs] USA doesn't care what it'll cost ... they want the FTAA op position broken up
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=50776 Published: Monday, March 13, 2006Bylined to: Bob Chapman USA doesnt care what it'll cost ... they want the FTAA opposition broken up THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes:The Summit of the Americas in Mar del Plata, Argentina was a stunning defeat for the neocon program of free trade and globalization. It was rejected cold and unequivocally and gave an unmistakable message to Mr. Bush who fled the conference early leaving Mexicos President Fox to do his bidding. The outcome was a disaster for the elitists. That was followed by the 20th anniversary meeting of Mercosur, the common market of the south, at Puerto Iguazu, Argentina. At that time the members were Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, which the US is trying hard to dislodge, Paraguay, with Bolivia and Chile as associate members. A month after the meeting Venezuela was admitted as a new member. At the Uruguay meeting Venezuelas President Hugo Chavez Frias proposed the 5,000-mile natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Brazil and Argentina branching into Bolivia and other nations. Those meetings were followed by announcements and finally payment of IMF debt by Argentina and Brazil. That was followed by the elections in Bolivia of Evo Morales and Michelle Bachelet in Chile. In late January, Brazils President Lula stated the region was obligated to help Bolivias political, economic and social stabilization. South America is now committed to deepening integration of their economies and the rejection of the neocon Free Trade Association of the Americas, FTAA. Now no longer under the heel of international bankers they are no longer financially imprisoned and they have recovered their autonomy. The December WTO Dohna Round of talks in Hong Kong exposed the hypocrisy of so-called free trade. The major protagonists were Argentina and Brazil who want true free trade or at least fair trade. The evolution in trade and foreign affairs for the region has been helped by the willingness of Venezuelas President Chavez who not only has politically stood behind Mercosur, but has bought sovereign bonds to relieve financial pressures in the region and has been a strong foe against FTAA. This group of leaders might not be what wed like, but they sure are a better alternative to the elitist-one-world crowd. There are weak links in Mercosur and one is Uruguay. A year ago Tabare Vazquez was elected as Uruguays first left leaning president. He has embraced Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, but he is governing from the center. He enjoys great popularity and uses whatever works. His previous history as mayor of Montevideo was anti-neocon and anti-privatization. He has also decentralized government. Prior to Vazquezs victory the country was hit by a run on the banks, an 11% decline in GDP, unemployment of 20% and a crippling IMF debt of $2.3 billion. Vazquez won election by attacking the Washington consensus. He has since avoided the spotlight. His biggest problem is paying the countrys debt. Argentina defaulted; Uruguay has not. Uruguay was previously known as the Switzerland of South America due to the similarity in banking systems. By not devaluing he was able to raise $500 million in bonds from foreign investors. He and his economic minister see foreign investments being 20% of GDP by 2010. This approach has left Vazquez at odds with his socialist neighbors. The beginning of this is a $1.8 billion foreign investment in two cellulose plants along the Rio Plata separating Uruguay and Argentina. Argentina is furious seeing pollution and Vazquez wont back down. The case seems to be headed to the International Court of Justice in The Hague, which will cancel the development for years. The World Bank would cover 9% of the projects cost. If Vazquez presses harder hell come in conflict with Mercosur. Uruguay and Paraguay are Mercosurs smallest members and they believe they are being marginalized and that may be so. If they hook up with the US, and that is what the neocons are up to, Uruguay could break away. The US doesnt care what it will cost -- they want the FTAA opposition broken up. In the long run if Uruguay does break away they will be a big loser. A bilateral pact with the US will violate Mercosur rules. A US agreement would lead to the exploitation of the country as CAFTA has done in Central America. The US doesnt know what free trade is. Debt is 85% of GDP and Uruguay should default ... theyll never work their way out of it. The international banks have buried the country ... this is touch and go, well see what happens. Bob Chapman[EMAIL PROTECTED] THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USABob Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vheadline.com/chapman Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM
[cia-drugs] Bob Chapman: We believe this is what is presently going on in Venezuela!
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=50778 Published: Monday, March 13, 2006Bylined to: Bob Chapman Bob Chapman: We believe this is what is presently going on in Venezuela! THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes:The military is placing small teams of Special Operations troops in a growing number of American Embassies to gather intelligence on terrorists in unstable parts of the world and to prepare for potential missions to disrupt, capture or kill them. There is no question the Pentagon is stepping into the CIAs theatre of operations. These teams fall outside the orbit controlled by John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence. These are secret ops and to prove that point in Paraguay, 1-1/2 years ago, members of the Military Liaison Elements were pulled out of the country for killing an armed robber. The defense was justified, but the US Embassy officials were embarrassed, because the team was operating secretly in Paraguay. There is no question in our minds that these teams will be used for aggressive US military operations or to enable defense elements to engage in covert action and activities separate and on their own. They could eliminate politicians the neocons do not like and foment revolutions. They could do this based on assistance of existing revolutionary forces. We believe this is what is presently going on in Venezuela. This has little to do with combating terrorism, and lots to do with undermining and overthrowing existing governments. Bob Chapman[EMAIL PROTECTED] THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USABob Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vheadline.com/chapman 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] You can count on George and the neocons to bring violence to Peru.
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=50774 Published: Monday, March 13, 2006Bylined to: Bob Chapman You can count on George and the neocons to bring violence to Peru. THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes:As US Secretary of State Rice flew into Lima, Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru for the past five years arrived in Washington. Ms. Rice is trying to save Peru for Washington and Toledo is seeking his reward for being the neocon agent in Peru. We predicted Toledo would be a disaster and he was ... his approval rating is about 18%. Ms. Rice consulted with the pro free-trade candidate Lourdes Flores. She is pitted against former coup leader and retired Army officer Ollanta Humala and the race is very close. Ollanta has met with Hugo Chavez, Nestor Kirchner and Lula to expand his credentials as a socialist. At his meeting with George Bush, elitist Toledo will be congratulated for a job well-done - bringing free trade to Peru via Washington. Perus economy has done well for the last few years thanks to higher base metal and gold and silver prices. It had nothing to do with Toledos incompetent leadership. As usual there has been no improvement in living standards over the past five years, but the local wealthy and transnational conglomerates did quite well for themselves. No matter who is elected you can count on George and the neocons to bring violence to Peru. Brazils central bank cut the benchmark-lending rate to a 17-month low of 16.5%, down .75%. The cut is the sixth since September and brings the rate down 3-1/4% from 19.75%. President Lula, up for reelection, hopes GDP growth will rise from 2005s 2.3% to 4%. Banco Santander sees the overnight rate at 14.5% by yearend. Annual inflation has slowed to 5.7% in January from 7.4% a year earlier. The estimate for yearend inflation is 4.56%. The US is using CAFTA to push beyond the terms of previous intellectual property agreements to further extend the life of pharmaceutical patents and they are succeeding. Guatemala has already agreed to repeal a law aimed at guaranteeing local access to crucial generic drugs, despite social unrest the issue has incited throughout the country. It should come as no surprise that Bushs Emergency Plan for AIDS relief is run by the former CEO and major stockholder of drug giant Eli Lilly, and that the majority of the drugs are purchased from high-priced pharmaceutical companies instead of using cheap generic drugs. This handcuffs these poor countries in treating AIDS. The program is a subsidy for drug companies. Bob Chapman[EMAIL PROTECTED] THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER P. O. Box 510518, Punta Gorda, FL 33951, USABob Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vheadline.com/chapman 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] Markets may be jumping gun over Gulf dollar sales
http://today.reuters.com/business/newsarticle.aspx?type=reutersEdgestoryID=2006-03-13T161933Z_01_L13179754_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARKETS-FOREX-GULF.xml Markets may be jumping gun over Gulf dollar sales By Will Rasmussen DUBAI (Reuters) - The prospect of Middle Eastern oil exporters shunning the dollar sent ripples through currency markets on Monday, but analysts said any shift looks set to be gradual, marginal and driven by economic considerations. Concern about investment flows to the United States from the world's biggest oil exporting region rose last week after a U.S. political storm over security risks forced Gulf Arab firm Dubai Ports to relinquish control of six U.S. ports. The central bank governor of the United Arab Emirates then announced on Sunday that he was looking to convert up to 10 percent of its foreign exchange reserves from dollars into euros -- double the target the bank had previously set. The news helped lift the euro to a one-month high versus the yen and a one-week high against the dollar. Traders said sentiment had been affected by concerns that protectionism would hamper foreign investment in the United States. Governor Sultan Nasser al-Suweidi said the Dubai Ports furor will color foreign investors' perception of the United States and affect future investment decisions, but he made no link between the row and his plans for the reserve portfolio. Instead he talked about the relative appeal of the euro. Analysts said it would be economic considerations rather than politics that would drive decision making by state-linked investors who control the bulk of the Gulf's petrodollar flows. "I strongly doubt that this will be the beginning of wholesale diversification from U.S. dollars," said Stephen Jen of Morgan Stanley in London. TREND REVERSED The Bank for International Settlements says investors from the OPEC oil cartel have become increasingly sensitive to changes in interest rate differential between the euro and the dollar. According to its data, the BIS said OPEC deposits favored the euro over the dollar from early 1999 to early 2004 based on interest rate differentials tilted toward the euro and the depreciation of the dollar. But the trend reversed in 2004 and 2005 as the exchange rate stabilized and rates began rising in the U.S., leading to an 8 percentage point decline in the euro's share. Now that could change again with the U.S. Federal Reserve believed to be close to the peak of its rate raising cycle and the European Central Bank having just embarked on policy tightening. Ali al Shihabi, chief executive of Dubai-based Rasmala Investments, said the ports row would hit high profile investments in the United States, especially mergers and acquisitions, but not affect portfolio investments. "Portfolio investments in financial markets will continue, however, since the breadth and depth of U.S. markets is unsurpassed and these investments do not attract public interest," Shihabi said. Other analysts say the oil exporters are too closely wedded to the dollar to dump it wholesale. Oil exports are denominated in dollars and the UAE, like the five other Gulf Arab states, has a currency pegged to the dollar. During the euro's long rise against the dollar before last year Gulf governments came under pressure to adopt a basket of currencies from Gulf residents concerned about the cost of euro-denominated imports. The pressure came to nothing. "The oil exporting countries are naturally U.S. dollar centric. Even if they want to diversify away from U.S. dollars there is a strict limitation as to how much they can do this," said Jen. However Iran, a major OPEC exporter, gave dollar watchers another reason to watch the region's politics by saying it could switch its holdings into other currencies to avoid restrictions imposed by some financial institutions. Iran caused a flap on international markets earlier this year after the central bank governor was quoted saying Tehran was repatriating dollars held in foreign accounts as pressure mounted on Iran's nuclear program. The remarks were swiftly retracted. (Additional reporting by Sabyasachi Mitra in London, Alireza Ronaghi in Tehran) 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
[cia-drugs] Ex-State Department Security Officer Charges Pre-9/11 Cover-Up
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn03092006.html Ex-State Department Security Officer Charges Pre-9/11 Cover-Up March 9, 2006Karmilowicz's StoryBy ALEXANDER COCKBURN A former State Department security officer has given CounterPunch a detailed memoir and documents that point to very curious conduct by the CIA, Secret Service and FBI in the Philippines following warnings of an assassination bid on President Clinton during his November 12/13, 1994 visit to Manila. The bid was organized by the 1993 WTC bomber Ramzi Yousef, at the direction of, and with financial support from, Osama bin Laden (who was indicted for the plot by a federal grand jury in August 1998). A Pakistani linked to that Manila plot, and also to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency may still be at large. The security officer charges a U.S. cover-up of possible involvement by the Pakistani ISI in the 9/11/01 attack on the Trade Towers. Although given these same leads, the Official 9/11 Commission failed to investigate them. This past December, Sam Karmilowicz finished a 21-year career as an officer in the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Back in 1994 he was working as an Assistant Regional Security Officer at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, when John D. Negroponte was the ambassador. These days, Negroponte is the U.S. Director of National Intelligence. On the morning of September 18, 1994, Karmilowicz recalls, "the U.S. embassy received a telephone call from an anonymous person (who spoke with a distinct middle eastern accent) concerning his knowledge of an assassination plot against President William Clinton, who was scheduled to visit Manila that coming November." The embassy switchboard relayed that and a subsequent call to Karmilowicz, and the caller provided him the name of a Pakistani businessman, Tariq Javed Rana, as being one of the leaders of the plot. The source told Karmilowicz that Rana was facilitating the importation of explosives and operatives into the Philippines to complete the mission by paying bribes to Philippine government officials of the Immigration and Customs bureaus. He said the bribes were paid in counterfeit U.S. currency. The first call was promptly reviewed in the embassy that same day by members of the embassy emergency action committee (EAC) chaired by Raymond Burghardt, the Deputy in Charge of Mission under Negroponte. The FBI, Secret Service, CIA, DEA, and DIA were all members of the committee. At the conclusion of the EAC meeting, embassy law enforcement and intelligence officials were instructed to inform the Philippine authorities and to initiate an investigation to determine the credibility of the threat. (Burghardt went on to become US ambassador to Vietnam and now heads the East-West Center, based in Honolulu.) "A few weeks afterwards", Karmilowicz says, " high ranking officers of the CIA and Secret Service came into my office and informed me that they had conducted an investigation concerning the threat and concluded that the allegations against the Pakistani, Rana, were a hoax in order to have the police harass him. They offered no motive or information as to why such a 'hoax' would be perpetrated or who might be behind it. "While all this was going on, I was supervising and managing the embassy's surveillance detection unit responsible for the security of our housing compounds and annexes, including looking for suspicious persons or activity. I was also assigned the task of coordinating and providing protective security arrangements for visiting dignitaries and VIPs. As such, I had a professional responsibility to know whether the Pakistani suspect, and or any of his accomplices, was a credible threat against U.S. persons and/or interests in the Philippines. "The U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies may have dismissed this intelligence data as a hoax while secretly following up the leads ... or they may just have been incompetent and let the future 9-11 terrorist masterminds slip through their fingers. Either way, they seem to have been incompetent because, if they were secretly monitoring these suspected (later confirmed) terrorists, then they obviously did a poor job of it." A few days before that first call, the Pakistani man named in the plot, Tariq Rana, had been featured in the Philippine press, which reported that he was a suspect in an illegal drug manufacturing ring. In response to these allegations, the public affairs section of the Pakistani embassy in Manila issued a number of statements vigorously denying the allegations against their national, claiming that he was a law-abiding citizen and a close relative of members of Pakistan's parliament and military establishment. Shortly after he issued these statements the Pakistani public affairs officer was recalled to Pakistan. President Clinton arrived in Manila on November 12, 1994, and his two-day visit passed without incident. Then,
[cia-drugs] Monroe Doctrine
Is this a dead letter? Neither the European countries nor the United States has lived up to the spirit and intent. JR http://www.pixi.com/~kingdom/monroe.html#top Monroe Doctrine December 2, 1823 The Monroe Doctrine was expressed during President Monroe's seventh annual message to Congress . . . At the proposal of the Russian Imperial Government, made through the minister of the Emperor residing here, a full power and instructions have been transmitted to the minister of the United States at St. Petersburg to arrange by amicable negotiation the respective rights and interests of the two nations on the northwest coast of this continent. A similar proposal has been made by His Imperial Majesty to the Government of Great Britain, which has likewise been acceded to. The Government of the United States has been desirous by this friendly proceeding of manifesting the great value which they have invariably attached to the friendship of the Emperor and their solicitude to cultivate the best understanding with his Government. In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers. . . It was stated at the commencement of the last session that a great effort was then making in Spain and Portugal to improve the condition of the people of those countries, and that it appeared to be conducted with extraordinary moderation. It need scarcely be remarked that the results have been so far very different from what was then anticipated. Of events in that quarter of the globe, with which we have so much intercourse and from which we derive our origin, we have always been anxious and interested spectators. The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of the liberty and happiness of their fellow-men on that side of the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defense. With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted. We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States. In the war between those new Governments and Spain we declared our neutrality at the time of their recognition, and to this we have adhered, and shall continue to adhere, provided no change shall occur which, in the judgement of the competent authorities of this Government, shall make a corresponding change on the part of the United States indispensable to their security. The late events in Spain and Portugal shew that Europe is still unsettled. Of this important fact no stronger proof can be adduced than that the allied powers should have thought it proper, on any principle satisfactory to themselves, to have interposed by force in the internal concerns of Spain. To what extent such interposition may be carried, on the same principle, is a question in which all independent powers whose governments differ from theirs are interested, even those most remote, and surely none of them more so than the United States. Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not
[cia-drugs] Milosevic May Have Used Drug to Worsen His Condition
so they FOUNDa toxin, but milosovic took it HIMSELF? -vmann ``It's a very clever one, because in a normal toxicological screen you don't look for this drug.'' Uges said. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=1085sid=aRRZg7jHkQy8refer=europe Milosevic May Have Used Drug to Worsen His Condition (Update3) March 13 (Bloomberg) -- A toxicologist who tested Slobodan Milosevic two weeks before he was found dead in a Hague jail cell said the former Yugoslav leader may have taken an unprescribed drug that worsened his high blood pressure, in a bid to be sent to Moscow for care. Milosevic's blood contained traces of rifampicin, an antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis and leprosy, which can counteract the effect of blood-pressure drugs, Dutch toxicologist Donald Uges said today in a phone interview from Groningen. ``It's a very clever one, because in a normal toxicological screen you don't look for this drug,'' Uges said. ``It was for him the only possibility to go to Moscow.'' Milosevic's family members have visited or lived in Moscow since he was jailed. Milosevic, 64, the first head of state to appear before an international war crimes tribunal, was found dead in his cell in The Hague on March 11. An autopsy overseen by Dutch authorities showed he died of a heart attack, the United Nations court in The Hague said on its Web site. The UN tribunal declined to comment on Uges's remarks on his toxicological tests on Milosevic. Milosevic's death, as his genocide trial entered a fourth year, may pressure Serbia to hand over the highest-ranking of the six war-crimes suspects still at large, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. The European Union said talks leading to closer ties with Serbia will be put on hold unless Serb authorities arrest Karadzic and Mladic by the end of this month. Serbia is seeking to join the EU. Milosevic faced life in prison if he'd been convicted over the 1990s conflicts that marked the breakup of Yugoslavia. Poisoning Alleged Milosevic's lawyer, Zdenko Tomanovic, told Serbia's Blic daily that the former president alleged the day before he died, in letter to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, that someone at the court was trying to poison him with a leprosy drug. Dutch forensic pathologists said the cause of death was a ``myocardial infarction,'' according to the court. Pathologists identified two heart conditions Milosevic suffered from that may explain the heart attack. Two Serbian pathologists attended the procedure. Further toxicological tests ``will take a couple of days,'' said Suzanne Staals, a spokeswoman for the Dutch Public Prosecutor. Funeral The Dutch prosecutor's office said the legal restriction on Milosevic's body was lifted today, suggesting a family member would be able to collect the remains. Milosevic's family has decided to hold his funeral in Belgrade, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Tomanovic. Milosevic's son, Marko, received a visa for travel to the Netherlands from the Dutch Embassy in Moscow, AFP said. The ``remaining question'' is whether the funeral would be a state ceremony, Tomanovic said. Serbian President Boris Tadic said a funeral with state honors would be inappropriate, given the role Milosevic played in Serbia's history and contrary to the will of citizens who ousted him in 2000, Belgrade's B92 Radio reported on its Web site, citing a statement from Tadic's office. Tadic also refused to lift charges against Milosevic's widow, Mirjana Markovic. She is wanted by Interpol on a Serbian warrant in connection with fraud charges, according to Interpol's Web site. Markovic also was asked to report to the police in Serbia to be questioned in the case of the murdered former President of Serbia Ivan Stambolic, B92 said. Babic Milosevic's trial began on Feb. 12, 2002. Milan Babic, a Serb leader jailed by the tribunal in 2004, committed suicide in his cell last week. He had testified against Milosevic in 2002. Last month, the tribunal rejected a request from Milosevic to travel to Moscow for treatment, on the grounds he could be treated in the Netherlands and that he might flee. Uges said he carried out the tests under instructions from Milosevic's prison doctor, who tried to find out why his blood pressure remained high even with medication. Uges said he didn't know if Milosevic was stopped from taking rifampicin after his findings two weeks ago. ``When he stopped taking this drug, his blood pressure would have had to
[cia-drugs] Why Milosevic Was Murdered
http://www.wnymedia.net/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=1137Itemid=35 Why Milosevic Was MurderedTinpot dictator blew the whistle on the New World Order Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com March 13 2006 Slobodan Milosevic was a distasteful man with authoritarian Communist ideals. But the reasons for his obvious murder revolve around his evergreen willingness to blow the whistle on the global criminal masterminds who had made the mistake of giving 'Slobo' a speaking platform in the first place. Just two days after Milosevic's death the evidence indicating murder has poured in. - Milosevic wrote a letter one day before his death claiming he was being poisoned to death in jail. The lawyer who advised Milosevic during his trial, Azdenko Tomanovic (pictured below) , showed journalists a handwritten letter in which Milosevic wrote: "They would like to poison me. I'm seriously concerned and worried." - Blood tests show that Milosevic's body contained a drug that rendered his usual medication for high blood pressure and his heart condition ineffective, causing the heart attack that led to his death. - The media has spun this to make out as if Milosevic deliberately took the wrong drug so he could seek specialist treatment in Moscow and delay his trial. This is frankly absurd. Milosevic only had access to the drugs provided to him by UN appointed doctors and took them under close surveillance. Are we to believe that Milosevic had managed to set up a secret drugs lab in his closely watched prison prison cell and then substituted the drugs while under constant monitoring? - Milan Babic, a former Croatian Serb leader who testified against Milosevic was "suicided" just six days before Milosevic's death. According to the BBC, tribunal spokeswoman Alexandra Milenov said he had given no indication that he was contemplating suicide. "There was nothing unusual in his demeanor," she said. Another Hague detainee, Slavko Dokmanovic, supposedly killed himself in 1998. - Allegations of suicide were dismissed by British lawyer, Steven Kay QC, who said Milosevic had told him before he was found dead: "I have not come all this way not to see it to the end." - The Globalists have wanted to eliminate Milosevic for a long time. Former MI6 agent Richard Tomlinson said he saw documents in 1992 that discussed assassinating Milosevic by means of a staged car accident, where the driver would be blinded by a flash of light and remote controlled brake failure enacted to cause the crash. This exact same technique was utilized for real in the murder of Princess Diana. Milosevic was a loose cannon with intimate knowledge of the criminality of the Globalists after the IMF/Bilderberg coup de 'tat in Serbia in the 1990's. In March 2002, Milosevic presented the Hague tribunal with FBI documents proving that the United States government and NATO provided financial and military support for Al-Qaeda to aid the Kosovo Liberation Army in its war against Serbia. This didn't go down too well at the Pentagon and the White House, who at the time were trying to sell a war on terror and gearing up to justify invading Iraq. Milosevic made several speeches in which he discussed how a group of shadowy internationalists had caused the chaos in the Balkans because it was the next step on the road to a "new world order." During a February 2000 Serbian Congressional speech, Milosevic stated, "Small Serbia and people in it have demonstrated that resistance is possible. Applied at a broader level, it was organized primarily as a moral and political rebellion against tyranny, hegemony, monopolism, generating hatred, fear and new forms of violence and revenge against champions of freedom among nations and people, such a resistance would stop the escalation of modern time inquisition. Uranium bombs, computer manipulations, drug-addicted young assassins and bribed of blackmailed domestic thugs, promoted to the allies of the new world order, these are the instruments of inquisition which have surpassed, in their cruelty and cynicism, all previous forms of revengeful violence committed against the mankind in the past." Milosevic was far from an angel, but evidence linking him to genocides like Srebrenica, in which 7,000 Muslims died, was continually proven to be fraudulent. In fact, Srebrenica was supposedly a 'UN safe zone', yet just like Rwanda, UN peacekeepers deliberately withdrew and allowed the massacre to unfold, then blamed Milosevic. Milosevic's exposure of UN involvement in the Srebrenica massacre was another reason why tribunal transcripts were heavily edited and censored, and another contributing factor towards his murder. 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
[cia-drugs] Governor of UAE Central Bank criticizes US politicizing of economics
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0603140190005836.htm Governor of UAE Central Bank criticizes US politicizing of economics Dubai, March 14, IRNA UAE-Central Bank-US United Arab Emirate's Governor of Central Bank here on Monday strongly criticized what he called "politicizing of economics by the US Administration." Sultan bin-Naser al-Suwaidi's criticism was related to the way the US officials have dealt with the UAE's Dubai Ports (DP) World Company, which he said "stand in direct contrast with the rules of international free trade. According to IRNA correspondent in Dubai, he added, "mixing up politics with commerce in the United States and the raised hue and cry over DP World's new responsibility to take up the management of US ports might leave negative effects on US-UAE trade ties." He meanwhile stressed, "The matter would of course not affect the bilateral free trade pact, but the foreign investors would naturally think twice before making new investments in the United States following the DP World's experience, and view the matter keeping in mind new conservation." Al-Suwiadi's comments are made at a time when a number of US officials, and some US Congressmen are visiting the UAE and they have all stressed Washington's commitment to its business ties with UAE, and called that country "a good US partner in international campaign against terrorism." Dubai Ports World's transfer of US port operations to a US entity was the result of a "political decision" by the United Arab Emirates government to help its "friends" in the United States, an Emirati official said Thursday. Dubai government owned company is to sell its US port operations, officials said Thursday in a move that spared President George W. Bush from a showdown with Congress. Dubai Ports World (DP World) made the announcement after leading Republicans told President George W. Bush that the takeover would be blocked by Congress. A power play by the US Congress that forced an Arab company to sell its US ports operations sends the wrong message to allies, US President George W. Bush said Friday. 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] Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10815 March Sunday12th2006 (22h50) : Fears mount as US opens new military installation in Paraguay Written by Benjamin Dangl Controversy is raging in Paraguay, where the US military is conducting secretive operations. Five hundred US troops arrived in the country on Jul. 1, 2005 with planes, weapons and ammunition. Eyewitness reports prove that an airbase exists in Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay, which is 200 kilometres from its border with Bolivia and may be utilized by the US military. Officials in Paraguay claim the military operations are routine humanitarian efforts and deny that any plans are underway for a US base. Yet human rights groups in the area are deeply worried. White House officials are using rhetoric about terrorist threats in the tri-border region (where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet) in order to build their case for military operations, which are in many ways reminiscent of the build up to the invasion of Iraq. The tri-border area is home to the Guarani Aquifer, one of the worlds largest reserves of water. Near the Estigarribia airbase are Bolivias natural gas reserves, the second largest in Latin America. Political analysts believe US operations in Paraguay are part of a preventative war to control these natural resources and suppress social uprisings in Bolivia. Argentinian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel commented on the situation in Paraguay and warned, "Once the United States arrives, it takes a long time to leave. And that really frightens me." The Estigarribia airbase was constructed in the 1980s for US technicians hired by the Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner, and is capable of housing 16,000 troops. A journalist writing for the Argentinian newspaper, Clarin, recently visited the base and reported it to be in perfect condition, capable of handling large military planes. Its oversized for the Paraguayan air force, which only has a handful of small aircrafts. The base has an enormous radar system, huge hangars and an air traffic control tower. The airstrip itself is larger than the one at the international airport in Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital. Near the base is a military camp which has recently grown in size. "Estigarribia is ideal because it is operable throughout the year ... I am sure that the US presence will increase," said Paraguayan defense analyst Horacio Galeano Perrone. Denials and immunity "The national government has not reached any agreement with the United States for the establishment of a US military base in Paraguay," states a communiqué signed by Paraguayan foreign minister Leila Rachid. The US Embassy in Paraguay has also released statements officially denying plans to set up a military base in the country. The Pentagon used this same language when describing its actions in Manta, Ecuador, now the home of an $80 million US military base. First, they said the facility was an archaic "dirt strip", which would be used for weather monitoring and would not permanently house US personnel. Days later, the Pentagon stated that Manta was to serve as a major military base tasked with a variety of security-related missions. Paraguayan political analyst and historian Milda Rivarola said that, "In practice, there has already been a [US] base operating in Paraguay for over 50 years." The US armed forces have had an ongoing presence in the country, she said. "In the past, they needed congressional authorization every six months, but now they have been granted permission to be here for a year and a half." On May 26, 2005 the Paraguayan Senate granted the US troops total immunity from national and international criminal court jurisdiction until Dec. 2006. The legislation is automatically extendable. Since Dec. 2004, the US has been pressuring Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela and Paraguay into signing a deal which would grant immunity to US military. The Bush administration threatened to deny the countries up to $24.5 million in economic and military aid if they refused to sign the immunity deal. Paraguay was the only country to accept the offer. Coup warning in Bolivia The proximity of the Estigarribia base to Bolivian natural gas reserves, and the fact that the military operations coincide with a presidential election in Bolivia, has also been a cause for concern. The election is scheduled to take place on Dec. 4, 2005. Bolivian Workers Union leader Jaime Solares and Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) legislator Antonio Peredo, have warned of US plans for a military coup to frustrate the elections. Solares said the US Embassy backs right wing ex-president Jorge Quiroga in his bid for office, and will go as far as necessary to prevent any other candidates victory. The most recent national poll showed left wing MAS congressman Evo Morales was barely one point behind Quiroga in the race. Solares said there were calls in Jun. 2005
[cia-drugs] Akha Journal: Akha in Laos and web update
Dear Friends:Certainly US Drug War policy has brought calamity to the Akha of Laos. Many news stories have come out about this, but the sound is still somewhat muffled. The US Govt. itself continues propaganda about how successful the opium eradication was, and how minimal the consequences have been.This stretches the imagination given the conditions the Akha face in the villages and given the numbers of Akha who have died.Laotian people readily say there is little they can do against the western demands and pressures as a poor country.I continue to work on the paperwork required for our next Akha Project.The rebuilding of www.akha.org is progressing slowly. I work on it every day a little bit, layer after layer, new index pages, new links, rebuilding content and news articles one by one.The work to rebuild the site takes from time to enter new stories and files. I hope to get the site caught up as soon as possible, lots of late nights.I think that the site is useful to many people. And when it is all rebuilt it will be more secure and faster than the previous system was, as well as more flexible. Maybe a little more work for me to maintain it, but long term it will be a better site.If the website has been useful to you in the past, and you want to support our ongoing work to assistthe Akha people, then please take the time to make a donation to help us at this time. You depend on us that we keep working year after year to assist the Akha, and we depend on you for donations to help us accomplish the tasks in front of us.$20 goes a long way, $50, $100 and we can make some real progress.We look forward to your donation and we hope for your support to help us cover the expenses we face at this time.Matthew McDanielhttps://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.orgitem_name=Donation The Akha Heritage Foundation.http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Site. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AkhaweeklyjournalDiscussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akhaDonate Via Credit Card Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org PO Box 6073 Salem, OR. 97304 USA. Yahoo! Mail Use Photomail to share photos without annoying attachments. 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.
