[cia-drugs] Memetic Lexicon
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/MEMLEX.html Memetic Lexicon http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lanier/lanier_p1.html Criticism of Memetic Totalism by Jaron Lanier Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM ~-> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Russian diplomats die in Iraq: murder or execution?
> No one in the Russian government is taking steps because, no doubt, > Russian elitists at the top levels of the government are in league > with Bush/Israel. The NWO elitists world wide share the same agenda> > And China just sits back and smiles VMANN: the russian oligarchs are aligned with wall street/israel/mossad. putin has been covertyly supporting the insurgency in iraq. this may have been a false flag operation by putin, to justify some hits or some activity in the area. vigilius haufniensis Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/vseplB/TM ~-> Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election
http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/063006Palast.shtml STEALING MEXICO: Bush Team Helps Ruling Party "Floridize" Mexican Presidential Election by GREG PALAST All the target nations for "foreign counterterrorism investigation" listed in the FBI's "guidance" memo were Latin and had one thing in common, besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in office.Friday, June 30, 2006GEORGE Bush's operatives have plans to jigger with the upcoming elections. I'm not talking about the November '06 vote in the USA (though they have plans for that, too). I'm talking about the election this Sunday in Mexico for their Presidency. It begins with an FBI document marked, "Counterterrorism" and "Foreign Intelligence Collection" and "Secret." Date: "9/17/2001," six days after the attack on the World Trade towers. It's nice to know the feds got right on the ball, if a little late. What does this have to do with jiggering Mexico's election? Hold that thought. This document is what's called a "guidance" memo for using a private contractor to provide databases on dangerous foreigners. Good idea. We know the 19 hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the Persian Gulf Emirates. So you'd think the "Intelligence Collection" would be aimed at getting info on the guys in the Gulf. Not so. When we received the document, we obtained as well its classified appendix. The target nations for "foreign counterterrorism investigation" were nowhere near the Persian Gulf. Every one was in Latin America -- Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and a handful of others. See one of the documents yourself. Latin America?! Was there a terror cell about to cross into San Diego with exploding enchiladas? All the target nations had one thing in common besides a lack of terrorists: each had a left-leaning presidential candidate or a left-leaning president in office. In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez, bete noir of the Bush Administration, was facing a recall vote. In Mexico, the anti-Bush Mayor of Mexico City, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was (and is) leading the race for the Presidency. Most provocative is the contractor to whom this no-bid contract was handed: ChoicePoint Inc. of Alpharetta, Georgia. ChoicePoint is the database company that created a list for Governor Jeb Bush of Florida of voters to scrub from voter rolls before the 2000 election. ChoicePoint's list (94,000 names in all) contained few felons. Most of those on the list were guilty of no crime except Voting While Black. The disenfranchisement of these voters cost Al Gore the presidency. Having chosen our President for us, our President's men chose ChoicePoint for this sweet War on Terror database gathering. The use of the Venezuela's and Mexico's voter registry files to fight terror is not visible -- but the use of the lists to manipulate elections is as obvious as the make-up on Katherine Harris' cheeks. In Venezuela, leading up to the August 2004 vote on whether to re-call President Chavez, I saw his opposition pouring over the voter rolls in laptops, claiming the right to challenge voters as Jeb's crew did to voters in Florida. It turns out this operation was partly funded by the International Republican Institute of Washington, an arm of the GOP. Where did they get the voter info? In that case, access to Venezuela's voter rolls didn't help the Republican-assisted drive against Chavez, who won by a crushing plurality. In Mexico this Sunday, we can expect to see the same: challenges of Obrador voters in a race, the polls say, is too close to call. Not that Mexico's rulers need lessons from the Bush Administration on how to mess with elections. In 1988, the candidate for Obrador's Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR), who opinion polls showed as a certain winner, somehow came up short against the incumbent party of the ruling elite. Some of the electoral tricks were far from subtle. In the state of Guerrero, the PDR was leading on official tally sheets by 359,369. Oddly, the official final count was 309,202 for the ruling party, only182,874 for the PDR. Challenging the vote would have been dangerous. Two top officials of Obrador's party were assassinated during the campaign. Crucial to the surprise victory of the ruling party was the introduction of computer voting machines and the centralization of voter databases. Observer Andrew Reding of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs reported that ruling party operatives had special access codes denied the opposition. Whether the US "War on Terror" lists will find a use in Sunday's election, we cannot know. But the use of American government resources to interfere in south-of-the-border campaigns is an open secret. The GOP's International Republican Institute has run training sessions for the PAN youth wing, funded by US taxpayers through the "National Endowment for Democracy." Foreign -- that is, American -
[cia-drugs] Re: Russian diplomats die in Iraq: murder or execution?
Well, to me it's a US/Israel black covert ops against the Russians to make it appear as if it's the Iraqis. It's also an attempt to fool the Russian people into believing that Muslims and Islam are the enemy; in other words, "get on board with the US/Israel/UK." The "real" enemy is Islam (Iran), not the US. No one in the Russian government is taking steps because, no doubt, Russian elitists at the top levels of the government are in league with Bush/Israel. The NWO elitists world wide share the same agenda And China just sits back and smiles --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060630/50725145.html > > Russian diplomats die in Iraq: murder or execution? > 15:08 | 30/ 06/ 2006 > > > > > MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Boris Kaimakov) - We are talking in different idioms-"we" and "they." We think we are a civilized community. > > They think our civilization is a sworn enemy of their ideals and world-views, even of their sheer survival. By "them," I mean everyone who is ready to die for his ideals and take with him to the other world as many innocent lives as he can. They may be Chechen and other mojaheddin, religious extremists or Basque separatists. Skin color, facial features and religion do not matter. What matters are the means they use to get their ends. As they see it, killing defenseless hostages is the shortest cut to their goal. We see it as murder, they as lawful execution. > > We Russians saw our kidnapped diplomats were doomed the instant the criminals-I don't see any other name for them-advanced their demands. Russia's Foreign Ministry was certainly the wrong partner for talks on such terms. Now, who would make the right partner in the situation? The answer lies in the drama of Budyonnovsk, a small town in the steppe of European Russia's south, where Shamil Basayev's terrorist gang seized a maternity hospital several years ago. Boris Yeltsin, then Russian president, was in hospital having therapy, so Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made chief negotiator in the hostage crisis-and went down in history with, "What do you want, Basayev?"-the words that opened his talks to rescue the patients and doctors. > > Now, it took not the Kremlin alone, nor the State Duma, the Foreign Ministry or the Cabinet but the entire nation to rescue the diplomats. Is this remark empty talk? The answer is "yes" and "no" at the same time. No one has moved a finger to save four lives. All looked with idle curiosity at a "talking head" on their television screens as it tried hard to make the impression of knowing something too secret to make public. In fact, he did not know anything at all. He was not even sure whether the diplomats were alive at the time. Now, the four deaths delivered Russia's Foreign Ministry a double blow-its pain comes not only from losing colleagues but from the haunting awareness of its own helplessness in the tragedy. > > We all live in glass houses today. The Iraqi bloodshed proves that. From time to time, stones are thrown from the most unexpected sides. We can come down on the United States to our heart's content for headlong action in Iraq, and America can pay back with attacks on Russian policies in the North Caucasus. Russia will never give up those policies as they reflect our concept of our vital interests. Likewise, the U.S. is sure it is working for its own interests in the Middle East. > > A conclusion from it all suggests itself. Politicians and professional demagogues may pile as many accusations on each other as they like-but Russian and U.S. secret services have to join hands as we are strategic partners, whether we like it or not. > > The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and may not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti. > Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cia-drugs/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[cia-drugs] Narconews. Giordano: And the Winner in Mexico Is... The Zapatista Other Campaign
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1675396940-1151688068=:81932" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --0-1675396940-1151688068=:81932 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit These are heady times we are living in. forwarded message begins- "Daniel A. Feder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Daniel A. Feder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:03:16 -0500 Subject: [narconews] Giordano: And the Winner in Mexico Is... The Zapatista Other Campaign June 30, 2006 Please Distribute Widely Dear Colleague, Mexico's hotly contested presidential election is only two days away. In The Narco News Bulletin today, Al Giordano files some final predictions and analysis on what might be in store for the country after Sunday. Giordano writes: "Anything can happen on Sunday, including an attempted electoral fraud, as occurred here in 1988. But this time the Mexican people will not swallow it. If Mexico's dubious Federal Electoral Institute (IFE, in its Spanish initials) tries to repeat that dark history, the revolution will begin on Monday. Those in power can't be that stupid. Or can they? "All objective signs - if the vote is to be tabulated fairly and accurately - point to a punishing electoral victory by former Mexico City Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The big boys - at least the domestic ones who seem to believe their own hype that López Obrador is a 'leftist' (foreign capitalists are much more sanguine about the probability of victory by the candidate with the initials AMLO) - have tried everything to stop it. In 2005, they tried to remove López Obrador from the ballot with a legal maneuver called the desafuero. They only ended up making him stronger. Lately, they've attempted an Election of the State to impose a whiney little man named Felipe Calderón of the PAN (National Action) party as Fox's successor, but this week they were caught red-handed trying to rig the voter lists, among other old-style maneuvers, on Calderón's behalf. They were undone at each step through a medium known as the Internet, which did not exist in Mexico in 1988. They may still attempt to impose Calderón on Sunday but your correspondent doubts it because, if so, it bears repeating, a revolution will break out on Monday. "The Mexican business and political elites are left with two other possible scenarios to try and stop the unstoppable: The first would be a 'surprise' victory by Roberto Madrazo, candidate of the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party), a man who has trailed the two frontrunners all year long according to the polls. Obviously, that scenario would be suspected by many as a fabrication and would not stand for long. "The other possible scenario - now being spoken of openly in some corners of the Mexican press - would be to 'annul' Sunday's election results (there certainly have been enough documented irregularities to justify such a maneuver) and install an 'interim president' named Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas. That last scenario would fascinate those above, since it was Cárdenas who acquiesced to the historic 1988 election fraud that robbed him of the presidency then, and who, of late, has shown an apparent bitterness that López Obrador, and not he, is his party's candidate today. In that scenario, the system would try to sell a Cárdenas bait-and-switch as a kind of latent display of 'justice,' the realization of a long-denied advance, eighteen years after the fact. But down below, few would be wowed or impressed by any play so cynical and mocking of an electorate's dignity. And there is that pesky little force down below and to the left that, seen or unseen, would put a stop to it faster than one can say 'national rebellion': the Zapatista Other Campaign." Read the full story in The Narco News Bulletin, including some remarkable revelations of electoral crimes on the part of the PAN that have gone virtually unreported in the international press: http://www.narconews.com There will be more coverage of this potential turning point in the history of Mexico during the coming days in these pages, so keep reading. All eyes seem to be focused above now, but as Giordano explains, the deciding force for the country's future is "below and to the left." >From somewhere in a country called América, Dan Feder Managing Editor The Narco News Bulletin http://www.narconews.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Narco News is supported by: The Fund for Authentic Journalism P.O. Box 241 Natick, MA 01760 http://www.authenticjournalism.org The Fund receives online donations at this web page: http://www.authenticjournalism.org Apply for your co-publisher's account, here: http://www.narconews.com/copublisher/application.php Subscribe for free alerts of new reports: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/narconews Suscríbete g
[cia-drugs] Iranian drone plane buzzes U.S. aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf
http://en.rian.ru/onlinenews/20060530/48833304.html Iranian drone plane buzzes U.S. aircraft carrier in Persian Gulf 19:06 | 30/ 05/ 2006 TEHRAN, May 30 (RIA Novosti) - A pilotless Iranian reconnaissance plane circled for 25 minutes over a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf before returning safely to its base, a senior Iranian official said Tuesday."Our pilotless reconnaissance plane flew over the USS Ronald Reagan in the Persian Gulf unnoticed to the Americans for 25 minutes," the official said, according to Iran's Fars agency.He did not say when the flight took place, but added that U.S. radars picked up the unmanned aerial vehicle after 25 minutes, and that four USAF fighters and two helicopters were scrambled to intercept it. However, the Iranian plane had already crossed the border back into Iran and landed at its base. "This points to holes in the U.S. military reconnaissance systems deployed in the Persian Gulf," the Iranian official said. __._,_.___ 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] Russian diplomats die in Iraq: murder or execution?
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060630/50725145.html Russian diplomats die in Iraq: murder or execution? 15:08 | 30/ 06/ 2006 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Boris Kaimakov) - We are talking in different idioms-"we" and "they." We think we are a civilized community. They think our civilization is a sworn enemy of their ideals and world-views, even of their sheer survival. By "them," I mean everyone who is ready to die for his ideals and take with him to the other world as many innocent lives as he can. They may be Chechen and other mojaheddin, religious extremists or Basque separatists. Skin color, facial features and religion do not matter. What matters are the means they use to get their ends. As they see it, killing defenseless hostages is the shortest cut to their goal. We see it as murder, they as lawful execution. We Russians saw our kidnapped diplomats were doomed the instant the criminals-I don't see any other name for them-advanced their demands. Russia's Foreign Ministry was certainly the wrong partner for talks on such terms. Now, who would make the right partner in the situation? The answer lies in the drama of Budyonnovsk, a small town in the steppe of European Russia's south, where Shamil Basayev's terrorist gang seized a maternity hospital several years ago. Boris Yeltsin, then Russian president, was in hospital having therapy, so Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made chief negotiator in the hostage crisis-and went down in history with, "What do you want, Basayev?"-the words that opened his talks to rescue the patients and doctors. Now, it took not the Kremlin alone, nor the State Duma, the Foreign Ministry or the Cabinet but the entire nation to rescue the diplomats. Is this remark empty talk? The answer is "yes" and "no" at the same time. No one has moved a finger to save four lives. All looked with idle curiosity at a "talking head" on their television screens as it tried hard to make the impression of knowing something too secret to make public. In fact, he did not know anything at all. He was not even sure whether the diplomats were alive at the time. Now, the four deaths delivered Russia's Foreign Ministry a double blow-its pain comes not only from losing colleagues but from the haunting awareness of its own helplessness in the tragedy. We all live in glass houses today. The Iraqi bloodshed proves that. From time to time, stones are thrown from the most unexpected sides. We can come down on the United States to our heart's content for headlong action in Iraq, and America can pay back with attacks on Russian policies in the North Caucasus. Russia will never give up those policies as they reflect our concept of our vital interests. Likewise, the U.S. is sure it is working for its own interests in the Middle East. A conclusion from it all suggests itself. Politicians and professional demagogues may pile as many accusations on each other as they like-but Russian and U.S. secret services have to join hands as we are strategic partners, whether we like it or not. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and may not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti. __._,_.___ 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] Drug trafficking: geography of death
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060629/50685587.html Drug trafficking: geography of death 18:36 | 29/ 06/ 2006 Drug trafficking means high death and crime rates, and, ultimately, the destruction of the genetic fund. Even the most liberal nations acknowledge the need to fight drugs, or at least to control drug trafficking because of the horrendous damage it causes. To address this challenge, in 1987 the UN General Assembly decided to observe June 26 as International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking. Action against drugs has been effective in several directions, but the general trend remains frightening. It is enough to mention that since the start of a "counter-terrorist operation" in Afghanistan in 2001, the production of raw opium in that country has gone up almost a hundred times. Today, the bulk of heroine and morphine in Europe and the CIS is produced from Afghan opium. Reports by the UN and other international anti-drug organizations reveal "global distribution of labor." Herbal drugs - cannabis and its resin (or marijuana and hashish), as well as drugs derived from opium poppy (morphine and heroin) travel from the poorest countries in Latin America, South and South-East Asia and the Middle East to the prosperous West. More expensive synthetic drugs (derivatives of amphetamine, such as ecstasy, and various hallucinogens like LSD) are moved in the opposite direction. Every region has its own preferences. Marijuana and hashish are very popular in Europe. According to the UN data, 44% of Czech school students abuse cannabis or its resin. The figures for Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, and Switzerland are similar. The situation is better in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovakia, and Slovenia - a quarter of students there are regular cannabis users. Latin American cocaine and Afghan heroin are widely used by European drug addicts. Poland, the Netherlands, and Belgium are known for domestically produced amphetamines, which are consumed at home or exported to Australia, Canada, Japan and South Africa. Cannabis is grown in Albania and the Netherlands mostly for the domestic use. The situation is different in the United States. The number of marijuana and hashish smokers is going down, although cannabis is still the most popular drug. But the abuse of psychotropic drugs (tranquilizers, stimulators, and sedatives) and methamphetamine is growing. Nearly all the heroin, cannabis, and methamphetamine in the U.S. are smuggled from Mexico. Central and South America are a major supplier of cocaine and cannabis. It is grown in Brazil and Paraguay, and on Jamaica. The coca plant is mostly cultivated in Bolivia, Columbia, and Peru. This plant as well as cocaine and crack produced from it are sent to the U.S. and Europe. Opium poppy also grows in Central America, but it is far behind the Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran), and the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos) in the production of opium. In East and South-East Asian countries, opium has been traditionally produced and consumed on a large scale. Recently, however, they have been exposed to "progress" as well. The production of amphetamine is increasing in China and Myanmar, and that of methamphetamine in the Republic of Korea. Ecstasy is very popular in more developed areas like Hong Kong, Macao, and Japan. The start of the anti-terrorist operation in Afghanistan has dealt a serious blow to the Asian drug lords - since 2001 it has virtually monopolized the market of opiates. Heroine for the Unfaithful Indicatively, up to the middle of the 1970s, opium poppy was mostly used for household purposes in Afghanistan. Dry grass was fed to the cattle, seeds were made into soap, and stems into herbal colorants. The communities strictly controlled the consumption of opium as a mind-altering drug. The situation changed in 1970 when a number of political events upset the fragile balance which had existed in Afghanistan since 1929. The country became the world's leader in the production and supply of opium and heroin to the world market after the Soviet troop withdrawal in the 1990s. This change was brought about by the advent to power of the Taliban, which controlled 90% of the nation's territory by the end of 1996. During this period, the Talibs gave a legal seal to large-scale cultivation of opium poppy, production of heroin, and smuggling of opiates. The proceeds replenished their budget. The Taliban's contacts with al-Qaeda largely contributed to the expansion of heroin production. Al-Qaeda became a bridge that linked heroin-producers and drug addicts, who lived far away from each other. A pattern used for international opium tra
[cia-drugs] Russia, Paris Club ink deal on pre-term debt repayment
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060630/50728909.html Russia, Paris Club ink deal on pre-term debt repayment 15:56 | 30/ 06/ 2006 MOSCOW, June 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and the Paris Club of creditor nations Friday signed a multilateral protocol on pre-term payment of Russia's $21.3 billion debt. Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak signed for the Russian side, while French Ambassador to Russia Jean Cadet signed for the Paris Club. "We will repay the remaining $21.3 billion of Russia's Paris Club debt as early as before the end of August," Storchak said, adding that the remaining debt had been restructured in 1996 and 1999. Storchak said Russia would thereby save $7.7 billion in interest payments. The country's Paris Club debt would otherwise mature in 2012-2020. Part of the debt, 52.1%, will be repaid at par value, the other part with a fixed interest rate - to Britain, France, and the Netherlands - at market value. Russia will pay $22.3 billion, including $21.3 billion as early payment, with $700 million as a planned installment on August 20, and $1 billion as a premium to Britain, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. Germany, Russia's largest club creditor, will receive $700 million of the premium. The scheme was agreed with the Paris Club at talks June 15-16 and approved by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov Thursday. Storchak said the government was still to issue an additional resolution authorizing bilateral agreements with the creditors. "These agreements will define specific amounts payable and payment timeframes, with the latter to be determined by creditor nations," he said. Cadet said the multilateral protocol signed today changed Russia's status in the Paris Club, where it became a creditor. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "cia-drugs" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] '[H]oney trap' that made spy of Vassall
Begin forwarded message:From: "Alamaine, IVe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: June 30, 2006 2:44:03 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ctrl] '[H]oney trap' that made spy of VassallReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1147231.ece30 June 2006 04:41 Home > News > UK > This Britain Secrets revealed of gay 'honey trap' that made spy of Vassall By Cahal Milmo Published: 30 June 2006 Both the brandy and the lighting were unusually strong and it all took place in a restaurant close to the Bolshoi Theatre equipped with a large divan bed. The official account of the gay "honey trap" set by the KGB in 1955 to blackmail a British naval attaché into revealing defence secrets for seven years is revealed for the first time today in government papers.John Vassall, the son of an Anglican vicar who became a junior official in the British embassy in Moscow and subsequently one of the KGB's most useful Cold War spies, was photographed taking part in a gay orgy after he was befriended by a Soviet agent working inside the diplomatic mission as a young man.In return for regular payments, the naval clerk, whose codename was Miss Mary, then passed a succession of classified papers to his KGB minders after he returned to London, including details of British torpedoes and anti-submarine devices, until he was finally arrested at his Westminster flat in September 1962.In a statement provided to Special Branch after officers raided his flat in Dolphin Square, the exclusive Thameside apartment complex favoured by politicians and for several years Princess Anne, Vassall explained how he had become friends with a Russian interpreter, Sigmund Mikhailsky, shortly after he arrived in Moscow in 1954.After three months, Mikhailsky, who was a KGB plant, one night introduced Vassall, then aged 30, to a group of male friends who invited the Briton to join them for dinner in a private room at a restaurant two streets from the Bolshoi Theatre.Vassall said: "We had drinks, a large dinner and I was plied with very strong brandy and after half an hour I remember everybody taking off their jackets and somebody assisted me to take off mine. In one corner there was a large divan."I remember the lighting was very strong and gradually most of my clothes were removed. I remember two or three people getting on to the bed with me, all in a state of undress. Then certain compromising sexual actions took place. I remember someone in the party taking photographs."The documents released at the National Archives in Kew, west London, come from Vassall's Old Bailey trial, which was partly heard behind closed doors to protect state secrets.Vassall was later approached by more KGB agents who threatened him with being stripped of his diplomatic immunity and put on trial for breaking Russian laws banning homosexuality. After giving into the Soviet blackmail, the civil servant led a double life while working at the Ministry of Defence as secretary to a junior minister, Thomas Galbraith, the son of a Scottish peer who eventually successfully sued for libel over claims that he was one of Vassall's lovers.In return for his services, which were suspended in 1961 after the discovery of another Soviet spy ring in London, Vassall was paid by the KGB between £500 and £700 a year (equivalent to £8,000 to £10,000 today) in bundles of £5 notes.The arrest of Vassall following a tip off to MI6 by Soviet defectors embarrassed the government and an inquiry was held into how he had managed to operate undetected for so long. The civil servant was sentenced to 18 years after pleaded guilty to espionage offences under the Official Secrets Act. He died in 1996.For his part, Vassall, who insisted he had no Communist sympathies, told Special Branch that he regretted his actions but insisted he had been trying to avert conflict between the West and the Soviet bloc.Alamaine, IVeGrand Forks, ND, US of A~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)Don't ask about caste or riches but instead ask about conduct. Look at the flames of a fire. Where do they come from? From a piece of wood"and it doesn't matter what wood. In the same way, a wise person can come from wood of any sort. It is through firmness and restraint and a sense of truth that one becomes noble, not through caste. -Sutta Nipata~~~In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.www.ctrl.orgDECLARATION & DISCLAIMER==ctrl is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis-directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread
[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists, LSD case, animals mutilated
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: June 29, 2006 5:15:22 PM PDTTo: undisclosed-recipients:;Subject: [ctrl] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists, LSD case, animals mutilatedReply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proof that Ritual Abuse Exists - data on ritual abuse is at http://www.morningcomequickly.com/RA%20Proof.htm San Francisco - Ex-marshal's appeal in LSD case is denied by Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer 6/27/06 "A federal appeals court, with misgivings, ruled Monday that a former deputy marshal failed to prove he had been drugged with LSD as part of a then-secret CIA mind-control program before trying to hold up a San Francisco bar in 1957." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/27/BAG2FJKN641.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea fwd from L Moss Sharman describes crimes Dog, other animals mutilated - Investigators say a religious link is possible Victoria E. Freile 6/28/06 "Several recent animal beheadings in Rochester may be linked to a religious ritual, Humane Society officials believe. Tuesday morning a passerby found three deceased animals --- a mutilated goat and three beheaded chickens --- bundled together in a white sack and left at the corner of North Clinton Avenue and Avenue D. The goat's front legs, head and intestines had been removed. Over the weekend, someone apparently killed a white goat and five chickens and left their beheaded bodies — along with three pennies." http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060628/NEWS01/606280405/1002/NEWS&template=printart __._,_.___ 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] Dump Windows Update, use alternatives
Dump Windows Update, use alternatives By Brian LivingstonThe Internet interprets Microsoft as damage and routes around it.My apologies to John Gilmore for tweaking his famous 1993 quote about censorship. But the above statement just happens to sum up the alternatives Windows users are adopting ever since Microsoft's "Windows Genuine Advantage" (WGA) debacle.It was only a few weeks ago when the Redmond software giant started quietly auto-installing WGA to Windows machines in the U.S., U.K., and a few other countries. The code, which qualifies as spyware under any objective definition, was programmed to contact Microsoft's servers every 24 hours. Now, after hearing from plenty of outraged customers, the company back-pedaled on June 27, saying it would release a version that calls home less often.That's not really a solution, as I'll explain below. Since that's the case, the entire affair has given enormous momentum to third-party products that render Microsoft's Windows Update routine completely unnecessary.I'll explain in today's article exactly how you can best deal with WGA. For those in a hurry, here's a 4-point elevator summary:1. Turn off Automatic Updates in the Control Panel. Set it to merely notify you of new patches, not auto-install them.2. WindizUpdate.com, an independent patch-download system, which I've been asked about by many readers, is a flawed alternative to Windows Update that I can't recommend.3. By contrast, patch-management software that's well-supported, such as Shavlik's NetChkPro, provides an inexpensive and reliable solution that far exceeds Windows Update's capabilities.4. Once your alternative update mechanism is in place, follow the routine I describe below to uninstall WGA and get it out of your system for good.What's so bad about Genuine Advantage? My last article, in the June 15 newsletter, flatly declared that Windows Genuine Advantage is Microsoft-sponsored spyware. That story received the highest reader ranking since we started asking our readers last January to vote on our articles (4.4 out of 5.0). We also received almost 200 e-mails, far more than we normally get about any single topic. Windows users are highly agitated.I've repeatedly heard terms like "furious" and "livid" to describe how people felt about Microsoft pushing a piece of marketing spyware through the company's sacred mechanism for distributing critical security updates. Perhaps the most deeply offended were the outside professionals who have defended Microsoft for years against charges that it's an "evil empire." Microsoft's abuse of its auto-update system to install an intrusive sales gimmick caused a lot of these faithful ones to rail against the idea as though personally betrayed. Without repeating my June 15 article, I'll summarize the bottom line: No security-minded company or individual can allow a program to stealthily contact a distant server and morph its behavior at will. This principle holds just as true for people who think Microsoft is the world's greatest corporation as it does for those who deeply distrust the company's motives. (The rule obviously doesn't preclude trusted programs with specific, known tasks — such as an antivirus utility — from automatically downloading new signature files.)Let me emphasize that I'm dead set against the mass piracy of software or any other creative work. But Windows Genuine Advantage and Windows Product Activation, which WGA is meant to enforce, have nothing to do with stopping mass piracy.As I reported in InfoWorld Magazine way back on Oct. 22 and Oct. 29, 2001, Microsoft deliberately designed Product Activation to be trivial for pirates to circumvent. Any fly-by-night business can copy a single file and sell thousands of machines that pass Product Activation (although the innocent buyers may have trouble validating months or years later).The purpose of Product Activation has always been to prevent Mom and Dad from buying a Windows package, installing one copy on the parents' PC and another on the kid's PC. Frankly, copyright laws for hundreds of years have allowed buyers of copyrighted works to make a limited number of copies exclusively for themselves. If you bought an music album you liked, you could legally make a copy to play in your car. In the U.S., this is known as the "personal use exemption" of the copyright laws or, more generically, "fair use."Product Activation isn't aimed at hard-core pirates. Instead, it's part of a surprisingly powerful, coordinated effort to change the basic nature of copyright so people can't make any personal copies whatsoever.The fact that personal-use copies have traditionally been permitted under copyright laws is illustrated by, of all things, Microsoft Office. The Product Activation scheme in Office has always explicitly allowed the buyer to install copies on two different machines. Furthermore, Office Update — which uses a patch-download mec
