[cia-drugs] Greg Palast. Why Democrats Don't Count. USA versus Mexico.
Quotes from the article farther down: "Right now in Mexicos capitol, nearly a million ballots sit in tied bundles uncounted. Thats four times the official margin of victory of the ruling party over Lopez Obrador. Supposedly, theyre 'votos nulos' null votes, unreadable. But, not surprisingly, when a few packets were opened, the majority of these supposedly unreadable votes were Lopez Obradors "Heres a nasty little fact about voting in the Land of the Free not reported in your newspapers: 3,600,380 ballots were cast in the November 2004 presidential election that were never counted. In 2000, the uncounted ballots totaled just under two million." Please forward widely. Start-- http://www.gregpalast.com/why-democrats-dont-count#more-1452 WHY DEMOCRATS DONT COUNTPublished by Greg Palast July 14th, 2006 in Articles Lessons from the Un-Gore of Mexico[Watch Florida con Salsa, Palasts 15-minute investigative report from Mexico City for Democracy Now!] The Exit polls said he won, but the official tally took his victory away. His supporters found they were scrubbed off voter rolls. Violence and intimidation kept even more of his voters away from the polls. Hundreds of thousands of ballots supposedly showed no choice for president like ballots with hanging chads.And the officials in charge of this suspect election refused to re-count those votes in public. Everyone knew full well a fair count would certainly change the outcome.Youve heard this story before: Gore 2000. Kerry 2004. But Lopez Obrador 2006 is made out of very different stuff than the scarecrow candidates who, oddly, call themselves Democrats.For six years now, Ive had this crazy fantasy in my head. In it, an election is stolen and the guy whos declared the loser stands up in front of the White House and says three magic words: Count the votes.This past Saturday, my dream came true. Unfortunately, it was in Spanish but Ill take what I can get. There was Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, presidential challenger, standing in the Zocalo the square in front of Mexicos White House, telling the ruling clique inside, Count the votes!Most important, his simple demand was echoed by half a million pissed-off, activated voters chanting with him, Vota por vota! vote by vote.And you know what? I think they are going to have to listen. I suspect that the rulers of Mexico, a vicious, puffed-up, arrogant elite, may well have to count those votes. But, for that to happen, someone had to ask them to do it in no uncertain terms.Traveling the USA, Im asked again and again Why dont Democrats stand up when their elections are stolen? The answer: for the same reason jellyfish dont stand up theyre invertebrates.Im beginning to find that answer a bit too glib (though darn funny). Because its not about electoral cojones; its about a devotion to democracy deep in the bone. Yet weirdly, candidates that call themselves Democrats seem kind of, well, indifferent to democracy.Why? Elections are the radical tool of the working class the great leveler of the powerless against the too-powerful. But the candidates themselves, both Republican and Democrat, tend to come from the privileged and pampered class. Votes are just the surfboards on which their ambitions ride.Right now in Mexicos capitol, nearly a million ballots sit in tied bundles uncounted. Thats four times the official margin of victory of the ruling party over Lopez Obrador. Supposedly, theyre votos nulos null votes, unreadable. But, not surprisingly, when a few packets were opened, the majority of these supposedly unreadable votes were Lopez Obradors.If you think thats a Mexican game, think again. Because thats exactly what happened in Florida and Ohio. In Florida, 179,855 ballots supposedly showed no vote for President. A closer look by the US Civil Rights Commission statisticians showed that 54% of those Florida votos nulos were cast by African-Americans. Did Black folk forget to vote for President, couldnt make up their minds or, as one TV network implied, were too dumb to figure out the ballot? Not at all. Machines cant count some ballots. But people can. For example, several voters wrote in, Al Gore, which the machines rejected as his name was already printed on the ballot. The write-in could fool a machine but a human has no problem figuring out that voters intent.The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago reviewed all 179,855 uncountable votes and found the majority attempted to choose Gore. And they would have been counted but Floridas Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, ordered a halt.So Bush was elected not by counting the votes but by preventing their count. And he was reelected the same way in 2004 when a quarter million votes were nullified in Ohio.But why fixate on Florida and Ohio? Heres a nasty little
[cia-drugs] I am crying as I post this
I am crying as I post this By Marc Parent 'A Light Unto the Nations' http://mparent.livejournal.com/10276321.html Enough. Crimes and Corruptions of the New World Order NewsJul 15, 2006 -- 02:08:46 PM EST http://tinyurl.com/h98nc 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 Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger with Voice __._,_.___ 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] Official heroin production versus official heroin usuage
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/ducks-head- soup.html#115299294873092658 Kris Millegan said... Well, we will try again, Someday I may take a typing class. And here are the changes according to populatin and ages. The CIA World Fact book is where the population numbers come from. Kris Millegan said... I find very little reality in official drug stats or officially related history. Much mis and dis-information. I have found that the most reliable information comes from much earlier and untainted information. One may read at: http://www.rand.org/commentary/050405UPI.html that The Islamic Revolution in 1979 in Iran used some of the same police-state tactics as China to eliminate the large production and consumption of opium that had prevailed under the rule of the shah of Iran. A canard if I ever heard one. We have all been told that in all aspects that Red China and Islamist fundie Iran are or have been evil. And then we are also told that that have both eradicated their opium crops and do not use heroin as historical documented by most major countries to facilitate black ops and other agendas. According to: www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/heroin.htm Worldwide heroin production was estimated at 426.9 metric tons in 2003. 472 tonnes in 2005 according to UN http://www.unodc.org/unodc/ en/world_drug_report.html . A metric tonne equals 2,204.622 pounds According to the UN, ( http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ world_drug_report.html ) Russia has the highest heroin usage rate 2.0% of the population aged 15 to 65 or about 2,000,000 folks. Let us round down to 1,800,000 daily addicts. Well, that is over 1.8 metric tonnes a day and over 665 tonnes a year. The USA's figures are all over the map most US official figures are from 600,000 to 1,000,000 users. The UN says 0.6% of the population or around 1,200,000 users. Again rounded down to 1,000,000 daily users is over 1 tonnes a day, around 369 tonnes a year. These numbers are figured with average use at a gram per day, which is supported by most research and anecdotal reports. So as you see there seems to be a supply problem … Now one may say that well, maybe most users are just casual. That has not been my personal observation of users. And even if you cut my figures in half, just those two countries would still consume more than the official figures of production. It behooves those running the shit to keep the official numbers down and untrue. I mean who can check. It is an illegal and unregulated industry. And considering that they generally run or at the very least have big influence on interference and bean counting, its a rigged play. If you will notice many of the heroin production records will put a big NA in the columns for Iran and China and then follow conventional wisdom of saying both countries used ruthless methods to eradicate, etc. I find the contention unconvincing. Opium became the largest commodity on earth in the 1830s and has been there ever since. A very good book on the dynamics From Carl A Trocki’s excellent book, Opium, Empire and the Global Economy(1999): The trade in such drugs usually results in some form of monopoly which not only centralizes the drug traffic, but also restructures much of the affiliated social and economic terrain in the process. In particular two major effects are the creation of mass markets and the generation of enormous, in fact unprecedented, cash flows. The existence of monopoly results in the concentrated accumulation of vast pools of wealth. The accumulations of wealth created by a succession of historic drug trades have been among the primary foundations of global capitalism and the modern nation-state itself. Indeed, it may be argued that the entire rise of the west, from 1500 to 1900, depended on a series of drug trades. . . . the image of the opium empire, a metaphor first offered by Joseph Conrad. It takes up the early history of opium and other traditional drugs such as tobacco and sugar and develops the paradigm of commercialized drug trades and ties that to the growth of European colonialism in the Americas and Asia . . . . . . links between drug trades, European colonial expansion, the creation of the global capitalist system and the creation of the modern state. Drug trades destabilized existing societies not merely because they destroyed individual human beings but also, and perhaps more importantly, because they have the power to undercut the existing political economy of any state. They have created new forms of capital; and they have redistributed wealth in radically new ways. Opium thus created a succession of new political and economic orders in Asia during the past two centuries. These included the state of the East India
[cia-drugs] More on official production versus consumption of opiates
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/07/ducks-head-soup.html#comments Howdy, In refering back to my source material, let me correct, refine Iran's position in worldwide opium production. Again refering to the CIA World Fact book and the 2006 UN World Drug Report. Iran has the highest percentage of it's adult (15-65) population as opiate users, 2.8% (that's where that number floating 'round my head came from). Now with an adult population of 47,379,174 gives us around 1,300,000 users, rounding down to a million again about 370 tonnes a year. Now this is figuring heroin and so the model must be refined some more because much of the use in Pakistan is strictly opium use. But there is also a heroin using population in Pakistan. If one looks at the figures of usage versus production one sees that there is a disconnect. With one tonne of heroin production requiring about ten tonnes of opium. Which is reflected in the UN figures of 4620 tonnes of opium and 472 potential production in 2005. So let us say Iran has 250,000 heroin addicts and 750,000 opium addicts, each figuring a gram a day of their substance a day yeilds: Heroin about .25 tonnes of heroin a day and 93 tonnes of heroin a year. For the 750,000 opium addicts, they need ,75 tonnes of opium a day or 277 tonnes of opium a year. So taking the ten percent rule of thumb. Iran uses 930 plus 277 or around 1200 tonnes of opium just to take care of its, according to official UN report, internal opiated population. So where does it come from? In looking at a Dutch report from 1935 here is the listing of opium production leaders 1931-1935. With limited information on Afghanistan and none at all from French Indo-Chiina. 1. China 2. India (Reported production dropping fast) 3. Iran 4. Asia Minor 5. USSR 6. Yugoslavia 7. Japan 8. Korea 9. Bulgaria If Afghanistan kept up with the one year reported it would be fourth. According to this report in 1931 the production was 2291 metric tonnes and that is without reporting. China, Afghanistan and French Indo-China. That year Iran produced 890 metric tonnes So, again just going back to the current usage and production numbers. There does seem to be a disconnect that would benefit the illegal drug trade. 6:36 PM Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Check out the new improvements in Yahoo! Groups email. http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/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] Venezuela would welcome Gazprom role in pipeline to Argentina - ambassador
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11538884 Venezuela would welcome Gazprom role in pipeline to Argentina - ambassador MOSCOW. June 21 (Interfax) - The Venezuelan authorities attach great importance to plans by the Russian gas giant Gazprom to help build an 8,000-kilometer gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina, Venezuelan Ambassador to Russia Navarro Alexis Rojas told a news conference in Moscow on Wednesday. "Russia is the best partner for Venezuela. No other country in the world has better pipes," he 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] National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report - heroin
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs11/13846/heroin.htm Skip navigation. To Contents To Previous Page To Next Page To Publications Page To Home Page To Home Page. National Drug Intelligence Center National Drug Threat Assessment 2005 Summary Report February 2005 Heroin Key Findings Trends and Developments Availability Demand Production Transportation Distribution While the demand for heroin is significantly lower than for other drugs such as cocaine, methamphetamine, and marijuana, the consequences of heroin abuse are such that its abuse poses a significant drug threat. Slightly more than 310,000 persons aged 12 or older report past year heroin use in 2003, considerably lower than the number of individuals who report past year use of marijuana (25.2 million), cocaine (5.9 million), and methamphetamine (1.3 million). Figure 8. Numbers of Persons Aged 12 or Older Reporting Past Year Use in Millions, 2003 Chart showing the number of persons aged 12 or older who reported past year use of illicit drugs. d-link Source: National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Key Findings * The availability of Southwest Asian heroin appears to have increased slightly in 2003, attributable partly to participation by certain groups (for example, Nigerian and Russian traffickers) in heroin transportation and wholesale distribution. However, compared with other types of heroin available in domestic markets, relatively little Southwest Asian heroin is destined for the United States, and preliminary 2004 data indicate that availability of Southwest Asian heroin may be declining to pre-2003 levels. * Despite stable demand for heroin in the United States, the number of primary heroin treatment admissions continues to increase. Because heroin abusers typically abuse the drug for several years before seeking treatment, the increase likely is due to individuals seeking treatment who began abusing the drug in the mid- to late 1990s, when the demand for heroin increased significantly in the United States. * In 2003 potential worldwide opium production and heroin production increased significantly, attributable overwhelmingly to increases in production in Afghanistan. Potential worldwide illicit opium production in 2003 was estimated at 3,757 metric tons, compared with 2,237 metric tons in 2002. Worldwide heroin production was estimated at 426.9 metric tons in 2003, compared with 244.7 metric tons in 2002. Moreover, 2004 estimates indicate a significant increase in illicit opium production and potential heroin production. (See Table 8.) Figure 9. Heroin Admissions to Publicly Funded Treatment Facilities, 1992-2002 Graph showing number of heroin-related admissions to publicly funded treatment facilities for the years 1992-2002. d-link Source: Treatment Episode Data Set. To Top To Contents Table 8. Potential Worldwide Heroin Production, in Metric Tons, 1999-2003 199920002001200220032004 Mexico 8.8 4.5 10.76.8 11.9NA* Colombia8.7 8.711.48.5 7.8 NA* Afghanistan 218.0 365.0 7.0 150.0 337.0 582.0 Burma 104.0 103.0 82.060.046.028.0 Laos13.020.019.017.019.05.0 Pakistan4.0 19.00.5 0.5 5.2 NA* Thailand0.6 0.6 0.6 0.9 NA NA* Vietnam 1.0 1.4 1.4 1.0 NA NA* Total 358.1 522.2 132.6 244.7 426.9 NA* Source: Crime and Narcotics Center. * Estimates for 2004 are not completed. * The smuggling of South American heroin across the Southwest Border--particularly through Texas--increased significantly in 2003. According to EPIC data, the amount of South American heroin seized in the U.S. Arrival Zone in Texas surpassed the amount seized in New Jersey, historically the state reporting the third highest amount of South American heroin seized, after New York and Florida. * Heroin use in Chicago suburban areas has increased, resulting in a rise in the consequences of heroin abuse in Chicago, a PMA for multiple types of heroin. This increase is most evident among suburban users, particularly those under 25 years of age, who are experimenting with and becoming addicted to heroin. To Top To Contents Trends and Developments Availability The availability of Southwest Asian heroin in the United States appears to have increased slightly in 2003. According to EPIC, wholesale Southwest Asian heroin seizures in the U.S. Arrival Zone in FY2003 exceeded the amount of Mexican heroin seizures, making Southwest Asian heroin second only to South American heroin in the amount seized within the U.S. Arrival Zone--an indication of the increased availability of Southwest Asian heroin. However, anecdotal law
[cia-drugs] Suspicious Bush Admin Death
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/ July 15/16, 2006 -- William H. Lash III is the second high-ranking former African-American official and Harvard alum in the George W. Bush administration to die under suspicious circumstances within the last year. Thursday night, Fairfax, Virginia police responded to an domestic incident at the McLean, Virginia residence of Lash, who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Market Access and Compliance. He served in the position from 2001 to 2005 and was responsible for a special task force that assisted companies in securing contracts in U.S.-occupied Iraq. Lash, who was 45 and a New Jersey native, was a high-powered Washington attorney who served a counsel to the U.S. International Trade Commission during the Reagan administration. Before and after leaving the Bush administration, he taught law at George Mason University. According to today's Washington Post, police were called a little before 10 p.m. by Lash's wife, Sharon Zackula. She claimed she and Lash had a dispute and she ran from their home. The story claims that sometime between "shortly before 10 p.m." and 9:55 p.m., police obtained a warrant for the arrest of Lash for domestic assault. Police arrived at 9:55 p.m. at Lash's front door. The police then knocked on the door for ten minutes before they heard two gunshot wounds from inside the home. Police then used bullhorns to ask Lash to phone them. Police also instructed neighbors to turn off all their lights and go to their basements. That decision prevented any witnesses from noticing anyone fleeing the scene of the shooting. At 1:00 a.m., Friday morning, police sent a robot unit into the home. It was not until 3:50 a.m., almost six hours after the shooting was heard, that police discovered the bodies of Lash and his 12-year old autistic son dead in a first floor bedroom from gunshot wounds to the upper body. Police claimed that Lash shot his son and then himself. Neighbors and colleagues expressed shock at the news, all saying that Lash showed no signs of tension or depression and that was very devoted to his son. Lash was also an adviser to the corporate public relations firm Brunswick Group, LLC, a U.K.-based firm that once employed Clinton State Department spokesman Jamie Rubin as a director of its political affairs unit. Brunswick has been known by a number of names, including Lincoln Research Ltd. Its holding company is based in the Channel Islands. Brunswick represents the Royal Bank of Scotland and paid 5,000 pounds to the Labor Party in return for its clients to receive tickets to dine with top Labor politicians. Two recent incidents involve Brunswick's Royal Bank of Scotland client and the cash payments to the Labor Party. On July 12, Neil Coulbeck, a Royal Bank of Scotland officer and a witness in the Enron case, allegedly committed suicide in an East London park. Also, Tony Blair's chief Labor Party fundraiser, Lord Michael Levy, was arrested in a police investigation of the sale of peerages and royal honors in return for political donations. Sharon Zackula is an attorney with the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). Last September 7, Eric Miller, a prominent African-American attorney who had served as Assistant Chief of Litigation for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was found partially burned and beaten to death in his automobile parked in a seedy neighborhood in Washington. Colonel Ted Westhusing, the U.S. Army's top ethics expert and West Point professor, was found dead in a Baghdad trailer of a supposed self-inflicted gunshot wound while investigating contract fraud by U.S. Investigations Services. Last month, Phillip Merrill, Dick Cheney's handpicked head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank at the time of dubious loans to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq supposedly committed suicide with a shotgun and threw himself into the Chesapeake Bay with an anchor tied around his legs. Editorial note: How many more suspicious deaths will it take before Americans wake up to the fact that their country has been taken over by a criminal syndicate that involves the Bushes and Cheneys and their close friends and business partners? __._,_.___ 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. __,_._,___
