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[cia-drugs] Kyrgyz-Russian ties could affect U.S.

2006-05-09 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis






http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/OpEd/050906_oxford.html
 


  
  
Kyrgyz-Russian ties could affect 
  U.S. Oxford Analytica
  

  On April 24-25, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev paid his first 
  official visit to Moscow, holding a series of talks that focused heavily 
  on the security dimension of Russian-Kyrgyz relations.
  The visit was Bakiyevs fourth trip to Russia since the Tulip 
  Revolution last year and treads the path of a close interlinking of 
  security and economics.
  There have been indications of the deepening security relationship 
  between Russia and Kyrgyzstan.
  After talks in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the 
  expansion of the Russian airbase in Kant  opened in 2003  would be a 
  priority of bilateral cooperation. Russian military officials have 
  indicated that Moscow intends to double the number of planes and personnel 
  at the base, which currently hosts 20 Sukhoi jet fighters and 
  fighter-bombers and around 500 servicemen.
  Putin has also announced that the two countries will hold joint 
  anti-terrorism exercises later this year. The two presidents agreed to 
  enhance Bishkeks participation in regional economic and security 
  groupings, including the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty 
  Organization  which technically operates the Kant airbase  and the 
  Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).
  Plans for several Russian investment projects in Kyrgyzstan worth up to 
  $3 billion have been announced. They are likely to focus on the energy 
  sector and involve leading Russian conglomerates, such as state gas 
  monopoly Gazprom and state electricity company Unified Energy Systems. 
  After Bakiyevs visit, on April 27, Russian Security Council Secretary 
  Igor Ivanov traveled to Bishkek, where he outlined energy, gas and 
  metallurgy as the most promising sectors for Russian investment in the 
  country.
  Indeed, meeting Russian business leaders has been a priority for 
  Bakiyev since his accession to power in March 2005. He traveled to Moscow 
  in May last year to meet Oleg Deripaska, the main owner of the worlds 
  second largest aluminum producer, Rusal, in an attempt to attract Russian 
  capital to the construction of an aluminum smelter in Kyrgyzstan. The 
  Bakiyev government has also sought to involve Russian interests in the 
  joint completion of two unfinished hydroelectric power plants in 
  Kyrgyzstan, Kambar-Ata-1 and -2.
  The strengthening military and economic links between Russia and 
  Kyrgyzstan come at the expense of U.S. influence and possibly military 
  presence in the region. In February, Bakiyev indicated he would like to 
  raise the annual lease on the U.S. base from $2 million to $207 million. 
  Before his Moscow visit, Bakiyev complained that talks had dragged on 
  since July and gave the United States until June 1 to agree to the rent 
  increase.
  The issue of the U.S. base in Kyrgyzstan has acquired greater salience 
  since July 2005, when the SCO, led by Russia and China, issued a 
  declaration calling for the United States to set a timeline for the 
  withdrawal of its military forces from the region. This was followed by 
  the eviction of the U.S. base in Uzbekistan.
  Although on the surface the U.S. authorities have mostly remained 
  positive about prospects for concluding a deal on Manas, there have been 
  few signs of progress. Speaking at a congressional committee hearing, the 
  deputy assistant secretary of defense for Eurasia, James MacDougall, said 
  the Pentagon hoped to reach a deal with Bishkek within the next two 
  months. However, the U.S. assistant secretary of state for South and 
  Central Asian affairs, Richard Boucher, was quoted as saying that 
  negotiations would rely on objective criteria.
  The U.S.-Kyrgyz relationship is also facing difficulties in the area of 
  the economy. While Russia is offering Kyrgyzstan large-scale investments, 
  Washington has voiced support for Bishkeks move to join the Heavily 
  Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative, designed to help countries with 
  overwhelming external debts to pursue debt reduction.
  Kyrgyzstans external debt stands at $2 billion, but some Kyrgyz 
  experts believe that joining the initiative will make the country highly 
  dependent on Western funds. Ahead of his visit to Moscow, Bakiyev was 
  careful not to commit to the HIPC, despite Prime Minister Feliks Kulovs 
  earlier letter to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank 
  asking to be allowed to join the initiative.
  Tensions escalated when Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Alikbek Jekshenkulov, 
  seen as being close t

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2006-05-09 Thread George Baaden




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Re: [cia-drugs] Bush CIA Pick Tied to Major Corruption Scandal

2006-05-09 Thread judson witham

The Great Texas Bank Job is NO JOKE http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/index.htmMA PA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bush CIA Pick Tied to Major Corruption ScandalThe biggest US corruption scandal of the last hundred years.A private firm, MZM, commits a major crime bribing a Congressman and had major access to top
secret government computers is now linked to the Bush nominee for chief of the CIA. Don't you feel safer? --- May 8, 2006 While director of the National Security Agency, Gen. Michael V. Hayden contracted the services of a top executive at the company at the center of the Cunningham bribery scandal, according to two former employees of the company. Hayden, President Bush's pick to replace Porter Goss as head of the CIA, contracted with MZM Inc. for the services of Lt. Gen. James C. King, then a senior vice president of the company, the sources say. MZM was owned and operated by Mitchell Wade, who has admitted to bribing former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham with $1.4 million in money and gifts. Wade has also reportedly told investigators he helped arrange for prostitutes to entertain the disgraced lawmaker, and he continues to cooperate with a federal inquiry into the matter. More: http://mparent.livejournal.com/8381616.html MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: [SPY NEWS] Neocons Dismember the CIA

2006-05-09 Thread Kris Millegan



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

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

2006-05-09 Thread Kris Millegan



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

[cia-drugs] New Order

2006-05-09 Thread Arlene Johnson

The woman who sent this to me wonders who wrote this. If there is anyone who reads this who is aware of my work, they would know the answer to that question because it's in my work, and has been since June 2002. I post this here because I want you to know what's in store for you, and encourage you to log onto a Web site that is of another friend of mine, Tom Demeter. His Web site is accessible from my Testimonials icon.

There is only one power that is stronger than this power who wrote this. Tom's site will tell you who that power is.

Peace,

Arlene Johnson
Publisher/Author
http://www.truedemocracy.net

Letter from a Globalist about the Coming
ONE WORLD ORDER

Dearest Citizen of the World,

I believe the time has come to reveal to you some of the perplexities you have faced in recent decades. It is well for you to understand some of these things so that you might know how to behave in the New Order now taking shape on the earth. We want you to be able to become fully involved and integrated into our new society. After all, this is for your best interest if you will do.

First of all, it is well that you understand some of our purposes so that you may more fully cooperate. I cannot tell you the hard times you will face if you resist us. We have ways of dealing with resisters. I am only telling you this now, since it is much too late to turn things around. The days of putting a stop to us have long since past. We have full control of the earth and its finance, along with the major media propaganda, and there is simply no way any nation or power can defeat us. We have eyes in every level of government in every nation of the world. We know what is being planned, for our ears and eyes are ever present. State secrets are fully known to us.

China recently accused the media in the U.S. of lying about Kosovo. Oh, you silly people, of course we lie. In this way we can keep the people unbalanced and always facing controversy which is very helpful to us. Have you not seen the talk show spectacle? Some of you believe we are the liberals and the good people are the conservatives. In reality, both serve our purposes. Each camp merely serves with the stamp of our approval but they are not allowed to present the real issues.

By creating controversy on all levels, no one knows what to do. So, in all of this confusion, we go ahead and accomplish what we want with no hindrance.

Consider the President of the United States. Even though he regularly breaks every known check on his power, no one can stop him. He goes ahead and does whatever we want him to do anyway. The Congress has no power to stop him. He does what we want since he knows if he does not, because of his rather dark character, we can have him removed in a moment's time. Is not that a rather brilliant strategy on our part?

You cannot take us to court because you can't see us and the courts are our servants as well. We run everything, yet, you do not know who to attack. I must say this hidden hand is wonderfully devised and without any known historical precedent on this scale. We rule the world and the world cannot even find out who is ruling them. This is truly a wonderful thing. In our media we present before you exactly what it is we want you to do. Then, as if in a flash, our little servants obey.

We can send American or European troops to wherever we like, whenever we like, and for whatever purpose we like, and you dutifully go about our business. How much more evidence do you need? We can make you desire to leave your homes and family and go to war merely at our command. We only need to present some nonsense to you from the president's desk or on the evening news and we can get you all fired up to do whatever we like. You can do nothing but what we put before you.

YOUR VAIN RESISTANCE

When any of you seek to resist us, we have ways of making you look ridiculous as we have done with your militia movement. We have delighted to use this movement to show the world how impotent any resistance is. They look so silly marching around with their guns as if they were some match for our military. Look at what we did near Waco. Did the Davidian's little store of weapons help them?

We have generously taxed you and used that money to make such sophisticated weapons you can in no way compete. Your own money has served to forge the chains we bind you with, since we are in control of all money. Some of you think you may escape by buying some land in the country and growing a garden. Let me remind you that you still pay us ground rent. Oh, you may call it property taxes, but it still goes to us.

You see, you need money no matter what you do. If you fail to pay your ground rent to us, we will take your land and sell it to someone who will pay us. Do you think we cannot do this? And with your ground rent we pay for the indoctrination of your children in the public schools we have set up. We want them to grow up well trained into the system of

[cia-drugs] CIA Secret Prisons Exposed: The disappeared: Are they dead? Are they alive?

2006-05-09 Thread norgesen







CIA Secret Prisons 
ExposedThe disappeared: Are 
they dead? Are they alive? Ask Congress. Ask the 
president.
 
by Nat HentoffMay 7th, 
2006 7:59 PM


  
  

  
  illustration: Matthew 
  Leake
  http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0619/hentoff.jpgCIA 
officers soon learned one thing for sure—prisoners sent to Bright Light and 
[other CIA secret prisons] . . . were probably never going to be released. "The 
word is that once you get sent to Bright Light, you never come back," said the 
CIA's Counterterrorism Center veteran. James Risen, State of War: The 
Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration 
 
May is the month that the United States has been summoned to Geneva by the 
United Nations Committee Against Torture to, as Reuters reported on April 18, 
"provide information about secret detention facilities and specifically whether 
the United States assumed responsibility for alleged acts of torture in them." 
The committee also wants a list of all these secret prisons. So do I—along 
with every major human rights organization and some members of Congress on both 
sides of the aisle. However, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, chairman of the 
Senate Intelligence Committee, rigidly keeps refusing to authorize an 
investigation into these "black sites," as they are called in CIA internal 
communications. (The United States is a faithless signatory to the UN Convention 
Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment 
and is now being called to account.) 
Meanwhile, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte said the 
prisoners in these hidden gulags will be there as long as "the war on terror 
continues." He added, in an April 12 Time interview: "I'm not sure I can 
tell you what the ultimate disposition of those detainees will be."As far as 
their families are concerned, these "detainees" have vanished from the face of 
the earth. 
Time says that Negroponte's comments "appear to be the first open 
acknowledgement of the secret U.S. detention system" (authorized by the 
president soon after 9-11). 
Actually, when the CIA recently fired senior official Mary O. McCarthy—for 
allegedly providing classified information about CIA secret prisons in Eastern 
Europe to The Washington Post's Dana Priest—that public accusation also 
officially revealed the existence of the "black sites." (McCarthy denies that 
she was a source for Priest.) 
The cover has long ago been blown on these dungeons by Amnesty International, 
Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, and the ceaseless researchers at NYU law 
school's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. And in the Voice, 
I've been writing on what I can find out about them since the end of 2002. 
But the CIA, the president, Alberto Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, and Donald 
Rumsfeld have nothing to say about these gulags, which are wholly removed from 
American law and the international treaties we have signed. 
Now, however, in an explosive, documented April 5 Amnesty International 
report—"Below the Radar: Secret Flights to Torture and 'Disappearance' "—there 
is direct testimony, for the first time, from three men who have been salted 
away in these secret CIA prisons. 
This 41-page report, currently reverberating throughout Europe, also includes 
a wide range of detailed information about the CIA's kidnapping and "renditions" 
of suspects to countries known for torturing prisoners. But most revealing are 
Amnesty International's interviews with the three men from Yemen who were "held 
in at least four secret US-run facilities . . . probably in Djibouti, 
Afghanistan, and somewhere in Eastern Europe." 

  
  

  

In their last "black site," where they were disappeared for 13 months, 
Muhammad Bashmilah, Salah Ali Qaru, and Muhammad al-Assad were imprisoned—they 
believe it was in Eastern Europe—where "they were never allowed to look outside. 
. . . And for month after month, the men had no idea whether it was day or night 
. . . or whether their torment of spending endless days staring at blank walls, 
or being interrogated, would ever end." 
Why they were finally returned to Yemen is unknown; but there—where they were 
first arrested two and a half years ago before falling into CIA crevasses—they 
were charged on February 13, 2006, with having forged a travel document. Amnesty 
International emphasizes: 
"None was charged with any terrorism-related offense; [and] the Chief of 
Special Prosecution in Yemen told Amnesty International that they were not 
suspected of any such involvement." 
On the old forgery charge, the judge in Yemen sentenced them to time served, 
the trial record notes, "in an unknown place by the USA." 
They were then released. But, AI adds, "All continue to suffer the dire 
mental and physical health consequences of torture and ill-treatment, including 
the prolonged periods in isolation." 
As Eric Olson, acting director of government relations at Amnesty 
Internati

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

2006-05-09 Thread Kris Millegan

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

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2006-05-09 Thread Eco Man

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Re: [cia-drugs] Organ Harvesting in China's Labor Camps

2006-05-09 Thread Arlene Johnson




Good heads up Norgesen. I met activists concerned with this issue in London in March. Stay tuned.

Peace,

Arlene Johnson
Publisher/Author
http://www.truedemocracy.net

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>Going Public About Communist Concentration Camps
>Two sources appear in public for the first time to detail organ-harvesting in China
>Gary Feuerberg
>Epoch Times Washington, D.C. Staff
>Apr 21, 2006
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>
>Informants Annie and Peter in Washington DC on April 20. Their speeches were their first public testimony about large-scale organ harvesting atrocities in China. (The Epoch Times)
>WASHINGTON ? Two sources who exposed concentration camps in China told their stories in public for the first time on Thursday afternoon. 
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>The two Chinese sources, who go by their aliases Annie and Peter, spoke at a rally at McPherson Square the same day Chinese leader Hu Jintao met with U.S. President George W. Bush, explaining why they felt the need to speak out about the existence of organ harvesting operations in labor camps in China. 
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>"If I don't stand up, perhaps the other witnesses will not dare to stand up," said Annie, referring to other informants of the camps that have yet to go public with their information. 
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>Peter has received many threatening or strange phone calls since his private interview about the organ harvesting, but expressed his determination in going public with his information despite fears of attack from the Chinese regime. 
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>"As I stand here today and making it public, I am paying a great price, maybe even my life, but I believe it is not for nothing," he said. "I can help other people who know about such incidents to tell the truth to the public? of what is really happening in [Chinese] society." 
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>The 500-strong crowd at the rally chanted in support of the two sources, shouting, "Annie and Peter are heroes!" 
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>Corroborating Accounts
>The two gave details about organ harvesting in China, particularly in Sujiatun in northeastern China, where 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners were at one time detained. They expressed the importance of coming out publicly in order to provide more credence to their accounts. 
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>"Be it the U.S. government or the Chinese government, they have denied the existence of this incident, so it was needed for me to speak out about this," said Annie. 
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>The U.S. State Department has said that they made two visits to the hospital in Sujiatun and found no evidence of organ harvesting, but in its April 14 news release, noted that "we remain concerned over China's repression of Falun Gong practitioners. We are also concerned by reports of organ harvesting." 
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>The organ harvesting atrocities were first revealed when Peter, then given the alias "Mr. R.," said on March 9 that Falun Gong practitioners were being killed on a large scale for their organs, which would then be sold for profit. 
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>Annie, whose ex-husband was a cornea specialist at the Liaoning Provincial Thrombosis Hospital, the hospital connected to the Sujiatun camp, gave an interview with The Epoch Times on March 17. She said that her husband had done operations on live Falun Gong practitioners and that the practitioners' bodies were thrown into incinerators after the operations, sometimes while they were still alive. 
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>Peter said that the atrocities at Sujiatun were just "the tip of the iceberg." 
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>On March 31, The Epoch Times published a report based on information from a military doctor who stated that there were 36 similar camps all over China, and the largest one, codenamed 672-S, holds over 120,000 people. 
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>"I hope that they go and investigate this," said Annie. "If this isn't happening in China, then open up the doors to your country and let everyone participate, look, and investigate." 
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>Annie also mentioned that she would be willing to testify in Congress. 
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>http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-4-21/40652.html
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>~~~
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>Leading British Physician Condemns Organ Harvesting in China
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>By Martin Croucher
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>Epoch Times London staff
>May 08, 2006
>China's use of organs harvested from executed prisoners is "unethical" and "distasteful" and should be universally condemned by the international medical establishment, a leading physician said last week. 
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>Professor Stephen Wigmore, chair of the ethics committee of the British Transplantation Society, called for support from other related health organisations and the UN to "send a powerful message to China that the rest of the world does not endorse their practice." 
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>The statement follows increasing concerns that prisoners are executed and their organs extracted without prior consent. Dr Wigmore said that any written consent ostensibly from the executed prisoner should be treated with suspicion: 
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>"The Chinese government claims that condemned prisons have g

Re: [cia-drugs] si

2006-05-09 Thread Arlene Johnson




Doesn't everyone realize that the FED is part of the NWO? It may have been on this listserv in fact
that someone posted the fact that if many people told their Congress person to end the FED that they
would do so. Indeed, when Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation which created the FED, he said, "I have
unwittingly destroyed my government."

Anyone who has read my 3rd edition, knows that President Kennedy floated over $4 billion worth of silver certificates,
which would have affectively destroyed the FED if he had not been assassinated. Clearly, John Kennedy knew
that the FED was in the process of destroying our government, so he had to be eliminated so the evils could
continue to destroy our government.

Instead of asking your Congress person to eliminate illegals, who, after all, are victims (see ) of the evil that controls everything around the world, ask your
Congress person to get rid of the FED. They want to do this; all we have to do is ask en masse.

Peace,

Arlene Johnson
Publisher/Author
http://www.truedemocracy.net

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>considers the most  important drivers of inflation and why. In addition, the Fed 
>might consider ways  of conducting policy based on alternative sets of rules or 
>guidelines. The SOMC  will also review the appropriate role of the Fed in 
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[cia-drugs] Millegan on radio in St Louis tonight

2006-05-09 Thread Kris Millegan




Howdy One & All,

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

Peace,
K






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[cia-drugs] Akha Journal: To New York City, The UN

2006-05-09 Thread Matthew McDaniel

Dear Friends: My wife finally got her US Fiance Visa and we have returned to the US. What should have taken weeks, in European countries, took years. The windfall was to the Akha of Laos. Where we have been for a year now. We will be attending the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues for the third year now, this time with Akha people present to make their case to the UN. The children are happy to see the US, and New York City. We have many moments of progress for the Akha of Laos and our future projects for their behalf. We are in need of funds for publications and expenses that we will incur in New York, this is a very high moment for this work, years in the making, and we ask for your support now. In the year to come we will be uniting with the Akha in the US,
many of them hidden refugees, children of trafficking, that even the US Govt. does not want to admit to. Please do your best to make a donation to this work that makes such progress at this time. We will be doing a lot to celebrate the life of the traditional Akha while in the US and to defend them against those who would silence their heritage. What a long long road it has been. Thank you all so much for your support. And we thank you for donating to this work. Sincerely, Matthew McDaniel Michu Uaiyue Ahsoh Uaiyue Meeh Daw McDaniel Ah Tsah Uaiyue Ah Ngoh Uaiyue https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org&item_name=Donation

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Re: [cia-drugs] Akha Journal: To New York City, The UN

2006-05-09 Thread Arlene Johnson




Dear Matthew,
The worthiest efforts seem to always go unfunded. I hope for your sakes that yours is the exception.

Peace,

Arlene Johnson
Publisher/Author
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>Dear Friends:
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>  My wife finally got her US Fiance Visa and we have returned to the US. What should have taken weeks, in European countries, took years. The windfall was to the Akha of Laos. Where we have been for a year now.
>   
>  We will be attending the Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues for the third year now, this time with Akha people present to make their case to the UN.
>   
>  The children are happy to see the US, and New York City.
>   
>  We have many moments of progress for the Akha of Laos and our future projects for their behalf.
>   
>  We are in need of funds for publications and expenses that we will incur in New York, this is a very high moment for this work, years in the making, and we ask for your support now.
>   
>  In the year to come we will be uniting with the Akha in the US, many of them hidden refugees, children of trafficking, that even the US Govt. does not want to admit to.
>   
>  Please do your best to make a donation to this work that makes such progress at this time.
>   
>  We will be doing a lot to celebrate the life of the traditional Akha while in the US and to defend them against those who would silence their heritage.
>   
>  What a long long road it has been.
>   
>  Thank you all so much for your support.
>   
>  And we thank you for donating to this work.
>   
>  Sincerely,
>   
>  Matthew McDaniel
>  Michu Uaiyue
>  Ahsoh Uaiyue
>  Meeh Daw McDaniel
>  Ah Tsah Uaiyue
>  Ah Ngoh Uaiyue
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[cia-drugs] Millegan on radio in St Louis tonight

2006-05-09 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis

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Howdy One & All,

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

Peace,
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[cia-drugs] U.S. alerting Mexico to Minuteman patrols

2006-05-09 Thread Jim Rarey

http://www.wnd.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50122
What do we call this, official
treason? What else have Bush and Fox agreed to circumvent our laws? JR We need to coin a new word for
outrageous.

Tuesday, May 9, 2006

INVASION
USAU.S. alerting Mexicoto Minuteman
patrols'Unbelievable that our own government
…is sending intelligence to another country'

Posted: May 9, 200611:37 a.m. Eastern

Minuteman
volunteerThe U.S. Border Patrol is
tipping off Mexican authorities on the positions of members of the Minuteman
civilian patrols.
U.S. officials have agreed to the notification process to reassure the
Mexican government that the illegal immigrants' rights are being observed,
the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin of Ontario, Calif., reports.
When the Minuteman and other civilian border patrol groups help
apprehend illegal immigrants, the Mexican government must be notified,
according to three documents on the Mexican
Secretary of Foreign Relations website.

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman confirmed to the Daily
Bulletin the notification process, describing it as a standard procedure.
"It's not a secret where the Minuteman volunteers are going to be,"
Mario Martinez said.
"This ... simply makes two basic statements – that we will not allow
any lawlessness of any type, and that if an alien is encountered by a
Minuteman or arrested by the Minuteman, then we will allow that government
to interview the person."
But angered Minuteman members say the reporting virtually nullifies
their effectiveness and could endanger lives.
"Now we know why it seemed like Mexican officials knew where we were
all the time," Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps,
told the Ontario paper.
"It's unbelievable that our own government agency is sending
intelligence to another country," he said. "They are sending intelligence
to a nation where corruption runs rampant, and that could be getting into
the hands of criminal cartels.
"They just basically endangered the lives of American people."
Martinez said any illegal alien
apprehended has the right to request counsel.
"We have to give their counsel the information about their
apprehension, and that includes where they are apprehended, whether a
Minuteman volunteer spotted them or a citizen," he said.
The spokesman said by entering into the cooperative agreement, the
Border Patrol hoped to change Mexico's perception of the group as
vigilantes.
One of the documents on the website, "Actions of the Mexican Government
in Relation to the Activities of Vigilante Groups," describes a meeting
with San Diego Border Patrol sector chief Darryl Griffen.
According to the document, Griffen "said that the Border Patrol will
not permit any violence or any actions contrary to the law by the groups,
and he is continuously aware of (the volunteer organizations')
operations."
The document continues: "Mr. Griffen reiterated to the undersecretary
his promise to notify the General Consul right away when the vigilantes
detain or participate in the detention of any undocumented Mexicans."
The documents name the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps and the Chino,
Calif.-based Friends of the Border Patrol.
TJ Bonner, president of the 10,000-member union National Border Patrol
Council, told the Daily Bulletin his member agents have complained for
years about the Mexican government "unduly influencing our enforcement
policies."
"That's not a legitimate role for any foreign nation," he said.
The Minuteman
weblog said the Daily Bulletin's story "does not report information
told to the [Minuteman] media offices that the Border Patrol chiefs have
also been passing along intelligence reports to the government of Mexico
on the activities of Minutemen not only at the borders, but in locations
such as Utah, Nevada, Illinois, Massachusetts and Tennessee."
The weblog said one report contained estimated chapter membership
numbers of Minutemen in Illinois and a statement on activities. The report
noted the group didn't seem to know any politicians there, indicating the
Illinois Minutemen had not acquired political clout.
The Minuteman blog commented: "That is not a report on the location of
Minutemen at the border, but political intelligence from our government to
a foreign nation about the activities of American citizens petitioning our
own government for redress of griev

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