[cia-drugs] What do Mark Foley and Larry Craig have in common?
http://www.blogactive.com/2006/10/senator-larry-craig-whats-with-gay.html UPDATE: Click here to listen to me talk to Ed Schultz about Larry Craig. Since the Mark Foley scandal broke earlier this month, increasing attention has been paid to the hypocrisy of Republican leaders. Every election year, these party leaders make what many of us see as anti-gay appeals to religious conservative voters who object to what they disparagingly call the "homosexual lifestyle." What these party leaders don't tell these voters is how many of them actually lead secret lives which include sexual encounters with members of the same sex. Recent stories in USA Today, National Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times have discussed this GOP messaging problem. As readers know, my work is bipartisan. The recent use of gays by the Republican Party during this election makes it necessary to focus on the Party and how it facilitates keeping gay men closeted. My tactics at blogACTIVE have taken a new path from those of the past. Reporting on hypocrisy within the gay community has been going on for years. My goal with this site and my companion site, Proud Of Who We Are, is to take that message further. To educate not just gays and lesbians about these homophobes, but to educate the greater electorate at large. Because of this, I find myself in the odd position of being one of the few people who seems to be willing to tell religious conservatives, who don't approve of people like me, just how many conservative political leaders are like me. I have been calling on gay Republican representatives, senators, and high-level staffers to stand up and be proud of who they are, to level with voters about the truth, and to let people decide on their politicians based on truth, honesty and openness. As this message is posted, I have apppeared on the Ed Schultz Show, a nationally syndicated radio program broadcast in more than 100 cities and on Sirius Satellite. On the show I have called on Senator Larry Craig to end his years of hypocrisy by leveling with Idahoans about who he really is. I am also calling upon several prominent Idaho social conservative leaders to ask them how they square their anti-gay positions with their support for this leader. I have done extensive research into this case, including trips to the Pacific Northwest to meet with men who have say they have physical relations with the Senator. I have also met with a man here in Washington, D.C., who says the same -- and that these incidents occurred in the bathrooms of Union Station. None of these men know each other, or knew that I was talking to others. They all reported similar personal characteristics about the Senator, which lead me to believe, beyond any doubt, that their stories are valid. Larry Craig being mentioned as possibly connected to Congressional scandals is nothing new. Check out these video clips from 1982 when he preemptively denied his involvement in a Congressional sex and drug scandal. (I love what he says about unmarried people back then and how often do politicians issue preemptive denials based on rumors?) Two clips--Sex, Drugs and Congressional Pages. 1. Steven R. Valentine, book by a former Page 2. Roger Mudd report in 1981 about Larry Craig and Congressional personnel drug delivery network. Senator Craig has consistently relied on the support of Idaho's "values voters," but he has not been honest with them about his own conduct. Conservatives and liberals are both standing up and recognizing the hypocrisy of elected officials like Senator Larry Craig. The time for treating Americans one way and behaving in another is over. By: Michael Rogers
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Two Weeks to Election Day -- US Warships Have Arrived Off Coast of Iran
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 17, 2006 3:37:55 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Two Weeks to Election Day -- US Warships Have Arrived Off Coast of Iran Surprise! Bush Will Have Warships in Position and Ready to Bomb Iran This Saturday Posted by Jon Ponder | Oct. 16, 2006, 6:04 am Bombing Could Start 17 Days before Mid-Term ElectionsBased on stories last month in Time magazine and The Nation, it appears that the U.S.S. Eisenhower Strike Group left Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct. 1 and will reach the shores of Iran at the Strait of Hormuz this Saturday, Oct. 21 — 17 days before the mid-term elections. First word of the Eisenhower’s deployment to the Persian Gulf came from angry Navy officers, who contacted military critics of the Iraq war and complained that they were being sent to attack Iran without any order from the Congress.According to the mid-September 2006 article in The Nation, the strike group includes: [The] nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship…And: First word of the early dispatch of the “Ike Strike” group to the Persian Gulf region came from several angry officers on the ships involved, who contacted antiwar critics like retired Air Force Col. Sam Gardiner and complained that they were being sent to attack Iran without any order from the Congress.“This is very serious,” said Ray McGovern, a former CIA threat-assessment analyst who got early word of the Navy officers’ complaints about the sudden deployment orders. (McGovern, a twenty-seven-year veteran of the CIA, resigned in 2002 in protest over what he said were Bush Administration pressures to exaggerate the threat posed by Iraq. He and other intelligence agency critics have formed a group called Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.)Colonel Gardiner, who has taught military strategy at the National War College, says that the carrier deployment and a scheduled Persian Gulf arrival date of October 21 is “very important evidence” of war planning. He says, “I know that some naval forces have already received ‘prepare to deploy orders’ [PTDOs], which have set the date for being ready to go as October 1. Given that it would take about from October 2 to October 21 to get those forces to the Gulf region, that looks about like the date” of any possible military action against Iran. (A PTDO means that all crews should be at their stations, and ships and planes should be ready to go, by a certain date–in this case, reportedly, October 1.) So why has the president sent the strike group to Iran? “I think the plan’s been picked: bomb the nuclear sites in Iran,” says Gardiner. “It’s a terrible idea, it’s against US law and it’s against international law, but I think they’ve decided to do it.” Gardiner says that while the United States has the capability to hit those sites with its cruise missiles, “the Iranians have many more options than we do: They can activate Hezbollah; they can organize riots all over the Islamic world, including Pakistan, which could bring down the Musharraf government, putting nuclear weapons into terrorist hands; they can encourage the Shia militias in Iraq to attack US troops; they can blow up oil pipelines and shut the Persian Gulf.” Most of the major oil-producing states in the Middle East have substantial Shiite populations, which has long been a concern of their own Sunni leaders and of Washington policy-makers, given the sometimes close connection of Shiite populations to Iran’s religious rulers.Aside from the articles in Time and The Nation a month ago, there has been little or no coverage by the Old Media of this provocative, potentially disastrous and politically motivated move by the Bush Administration. COMMENTS Here is my perspective of why attacks on Iran are highly unlikely: When the Naval Officers were notified that their scheduled deployment was moved up by about a month, you can bet money that no one was officially told that they might attack Iran; this was only typical rumour/speculation and not someone with inside knowledge of actual (Top Secret) op plans calling up their old friends with hot scoop.Instead, the expectation of this group of vessels is that they will REPLACE those ships that have already been in the Persian Gulf Region for many months. The fact that the ships are arriving a little earlier than originally planned may be a useful psychological ploy in the minds of some strategists, but it does not change the basic balance of forces in the Gulf.Any Naval Forces that stray within about forty miles of the Iran’s coast will be sitting ducks for a large array of anti-ship missles. One of the low-tech versions of these missles almost sunk the USS Stark during the Iran-Iraq War. Iran is estimated to have hundreds of these missles, which are capable of overcoming current ship defenses, if fired in swarms. An even bigger problem is
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Internet a Breeding-Ground for Future Subversives, says Chertoff
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 17, 2006 3:31:55 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Internet a Breeding-Ground for Future Subversives, says Chertoff Web could be terror training camp in U.S., politician says Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:49 PM EThttp://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryid=2006-10-16T204853Z_01_N16404472_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-CHERTOFF.xmlsrc=""> BOSTON (Reuters) - Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Monday."We now have a capability of someone to radicalize themselves over the Internet," Chertoff said on the sidelines of a meeting of International Association of the Chiefs of Police."They can train themselves over the Internet. They never have to necessarily go to the training camp or speak with anybody else and that diffusion of a combination of hatred and technical skills in things like bomb-making is a dangerous combination," Chertoff said. "Those are the kind of terrorists that we may not be able to detect with spies and satellites."Chertoff pointed to the July 7, 2005 attacks on London's transit system, which killed 56 people, as an example a home-grown threat.To help gather intelligence on possible home-grown attackers, Chertoff said Homeland Security would deploy 20 field agents this fiscal year into "intelligence fusion centers," where they would work with local police agencies.By the end of the next fiscal year, he said the department aims to up that to 35 staffers. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Foley, Bush Family Friend Since 1984
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 17, 2006 4:04:09 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Foley, "Bush Family Friend" Since 1984 Foley, a Bush family friend since the early 1980s http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/10/foley-bush-family-friend-since-early.html * this from the Miami Herald** 2005, is something i haven't seen reported of late: "Hours before the House vote, President Bush called Foley, a Bush family friend since the early 1980s, and asked for his support." **http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12250974.htm * update: here's Bush, Oct 04: "I want to thank my friend, Congressman Mark Foley, for joining us today." FTR, this isn't boilerplate language, he's only used the phrase "I want to thank my friend, Congressman" seven times according to whitehouse.gov. (and 4 times with "Senator")* and here's Laura Bush, Oct 04 (different event, different day): " Congressman Mark Foley, thank you very, very much. Thank you for being here with me, and thank you for your service to your constituents and for your friendship. (Applause.)" * updating again. Palm Beach Post : (Jeb) Bush and Foley have exchanged about 100 electronic messages since 1999, according to documents Bush's office released Wednesday eveningThe e-mails show a friendly relationship between Foley and Bush, in contrast to Bush's recent characterization of Foley's behavior as "despicable" and "disgusting." posted by lukery at 10/13/2006 11:35:00 AM __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] In Vodka Non Veritas: MAUREEN DOWD - McCain is starting to sound downright Clintonian +
In Vodka Non Veritas: MAUREEN DOWD - McCain is starting to sound downright Clintonian +ByMAUREEN DOWD - The New York Times - Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006 Dowd: Drinking Games - I did not have drinks with that woman! (the complete article). Housing Slowdown Creating "Ghost Towns" and MoreOP-ED COLUMNIST In Vodka Non Veritas By MAUREEN DOWD Published: October 18, 2006 The once candid Senator John McCain is starting to sound downright Clintonian. I did not have drinks with that woman! Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/13591443.html Housing Slowdown Creating "Ghost Towns": Bonddad http://mparent.livejournal.com/13591252.html What Democrats Would Do http://mparent.livejournal.com/13590970.html How Bad Will It Be? The GOP debacle to come. http://mparent.livejournal.com/13589865.html Sami's Shame, and Ours: NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - Jailed Journalist http://mparent.livejournal.com/13586743.html Nine U.S. troops killed in Iraq bombings http://mparent.livejournal.com/13587019.html Former US Secy. Of State James Baker: Iraq Is A "Helluva Mess" http://mparent.livejournal.com/13588779.html Lawyer: Foley to name alleged abuser http://mparent.livejournal.com/13588045.html MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ Homepage http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 Archived http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon Archived mparent 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 Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Re: off topic - more windows security problems
From a thread at Nuenergy Forum...Please join them and help with this most urgent issue.http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/nuenergy/Thank you so muchfor this, Ron...I hope you don't mind my sharing it with some of my favorite groups?I wanted to reply to the listeven thoughyou said not to because I've not posted for so longand want to address the whole group with good newsFirst I want to say I was told by sbc that my computer has been taken over...I'm not the administrator they said...When they sent me to the log in page I had 5 user ID's and my old and current passwords were visible instead of the dots as usual...I was at the second level tier and they said they had never seen this before...The next stage costs 59 dollars an hour, they said...I have a friend coming who will help me thoughSending this email to you will more than likely trigger today's first disconnect and I may not be able to get on the whole day...They have crippled my activism and being online has become impossible most of the time...Most all actions, like getting into my documents, starts them up...They have gotten quite good...I had thought myself smug because I was always able to get by them...So much for that, huh?...lol...Did you hear about the Englishman who donated 3 billion dollars to findclean energy alternatives?...I can't remember his name but I'll send information on him as soon as I can find itHe was on Bill Maher (HBO East) last Friday at 11 Eastern time...Bill gets down with truth...Watch Countdown with Keith Olberman tonightMSNBC...It's a special and going to be a great showEven better than usual...Many patriots are being born on many fronts every day...and the enemy is being exposed at every turn...Soon, we will be allowed to implement our alternatives to the oil and life will be all it can be...I'm excited and can soon rest knowing future generations will live in a secured futureWe need to be allowed to grow hemp and that alone will start us on the great road to recovery...We need a lobbyist for this effort...We need lots of them(((V))) For Victory Peace, Marsha off topic - more windows security problems Tue Oct17,2006 8:01am (PST) Hello all,Here we go again. Please don't reply to this message on the list. You can send me a private email if you like. More security vulnerabilities have been exposed in Windows and more exploits have appeared out on the net to take advantage of these vulnerabilities and take over people's machines and implant viruses. I'll keep this short. Go to http://www.grc. com/securitynow/ . Listen to the last few episodes. Listen to all if you can. Learn it. Love it. (Maybe not.) Do it. Stay safe. Read the show notes for the latest show. Your computer can be compromised just by going to a website with a corrupted file. The bottom line, update your computer with the latest Windows patches. The latest threat has not been patched, so you may want to react to it specifically, as described on the above website.The bad hackers have learned to release their new internet weapons and attacks just after Microsoft releases patches. So, there's a window of time where the attack has not been patched. Viruses are not so much about destroying your computer any more. They want to take your computer over. Once they take it over, they can use it to distribute material of their choice to others, read your confidential files, or attack other people, using you computer and network connection under remote control without your knowledge. I've started a web page to discuss tips and trick in the area of computer security. Rather than repeat the information here, you can go to http://c3energy. com/computersecu rity/ . Right now, the page has minimal content. But I anticipate adding more in the near future.Sincerely,Ron Fraziermoderator http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/futureener gynow/ and http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/futureener gyproducts/ Back to top Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post Messages in this topic (1) 2. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease
He termed it surprising that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base. Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and California together). http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B2DA7BAE4-061B-49B6-983F-3D69A4396E37%7D)language=EN Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease Asuncion, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) The land grab project of US President George W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort both politically and environmentally. The news circulating the continent about plans to buy 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay, near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay) is the talk of the town in these countries. Although official sources have not confirmed the information that is already public, the land is reportedly located in Paso de Patria, near Bolivian gas reserves and the Guarani indigenous water region, within the Triple Border. Alto Paraguay Gov. Erasmo Rodriguez Acosta revealed he heard that part of the land purchase consists of an ecological reserve (Fundacion Patria), with which Bush is affiliated. In its interview with Rodriguez Acosta, neike.com.py reported that he does not have documentation of this affiliation and it could not communicate either with the foundation or with the National Rural Development and Land Institute, in charge of these state lands. Concern increased last week with the arrival of Bush" daughter, Jenna, and a source from the Physical Planning Department saying that most of the Chaco region belongs to private companies. Luis D"Elia, Argentina´s undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says the matter raises regional concern because it threatens local natural resources. He termed it surprising that the Bush family is trying to settle a few short miles from the US Mariscal Estigarribia Military Base. Argentinean Adolfo Perez Esquivel warned that the real war will be fought not for oil, but for water, and recalled that Acuifero Guaraní is one of the largest underground water reserves in South America, running beneath Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (larger than Texas and California together). The southern US states are already struggling with water shortages," asserted the 1980 Nobel Peace Prizewinner. Orlando Castillo, Paraguay Peace and Justice Service member, recalled the US military buildup in Chaco under a bilateral agreement. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Russian Central Bank board member resigns
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061018/54910507.html Russian Central Bank board member resigns 14:24 | 18/ 10/ 2006 MOSCOW, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Central Bank chairman said Wednesday he has decided not to submit the candidacy of Tatyana Paramonova for reappointment as a managing board member. Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, extended Wednesday the tenures of five members of the bank's board, which ended September 27. "I think Tatyana Paramonova is a highly qualified, experienced and industrious person, but she has not been good at tackling issues lately, as decisions have been implemented slowly and ineffectively," Sergei Ignatyev said. He specified that Paramonova, who was acting chairman of the bank in 1994-1995 and worked on the board since 2002, had certain difficulties with the introduction of the real-time gross settlement system and the transition of the banking sector to International Financial Reporting Standards. "I decided not to submit her candidacy for reappointment to the managing board," he said. Central Bank board members are appointed for four years. To extend their tenures or appoint new members, the bank chairman submits their candidacies for the president's approval, which is followed by consideration in the State Duma. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___
[cia-drugs] Rev. Moon is Bush's neighbor in Paraguay,Necromocracy (Pt One)
- Original Message - From: Meno Slither Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 1:27 AM Subject: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] Rev. Moon is Bush's neighbor in Paraguay,Necromocracy (Pt One) Moonshadow Trouble in the water, trouble in the airGo all the way to the other side of the worldYou'll find trouble there - Bob Dylan About a year and a half ago (here and here), I referred to Sun Myung Moon's purchase of 600,000 hectares of Paraguay's Chaco for the stated intention of erecting an "ecological paradise." Moon's land sits atop the Guarani Aquifer, the Earth's largest resource of fresh drinking water, and also happens to be an "enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades," according to Paraguay's drug czar from 1976-89. "The available intelligence clearly shows that the Moon sect is involved in both these enterprises." Now, apparently, the Reverend is again keeping familiar company:The Governor of Alto Paraguay, Erasmo Rodr¨ªguez Acosta has admitted to hearing that George Bush Sr. owns land in the Chaco region of Paraguay, in Paso de Patria. Acosta says that rumor has it that Bush owns near to 70 thousand hectares (173,000 acres) as part of an ecological reserve and/or ranch. However, the governor said he had no documents to prove the rumor. Acosta said that some stories credited the land to the Fundaci¨®n Patria, which Bush would be a member of. The spokespeople of the organization were not available to comment. Supposedly, Timothy Towell , the U.S. Ambassador in Asunci¨®n (the capital of Paraguay) is the present administrator of the land. First accounts signaled that Bush had acquired 40,000 hectares (99,000 acres) in the Chaco zone of Fuerte Olimpo, near the Bolivian Border. A spark of the interest in this property may have been Jenna Bush's private visit to Paraguay with Unicef, which started Saturday, October 7, 2006. Supposedly Jenna will travel to the ranch to "observe" several indigenous villages are located on the property. The original Oct 11 story from Paraguay, in Spanish, can be found here. There's a second story from Prensa Latina that identifies the purchaser as George W rather than George HW Bush, but the Chaco purchase strikes me as more likely an initiative of the father than of the son. Bush Sr, let's remember, tootled around Latin America in 1996 as Moon's lapdog and praised him in Buenos Aires as "the man with the vision." (Moon's foresight might have included blackmail, specifically the office of the then Vice President with the Craig Spence call boy scandal. Influence, by any means necessary.) Still, keeping Moon's company is a Bush family enterprise, as Neil accompanied the Reverend last year on his 100-day "global peace campaign." Paraguay, of course, has been a recent source of alarm to the region for its allowance of its tri-border territory to become a US military beachhead. Now, with the reports of the Bush purchase of an "ecological reserve" alongside Moon's, we have good reason to suspect that US national security has again been seconded to the Bush family business. posted by Jeff at 9:30 AM 32 comments Saturday, October 14, 2006 Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join Click to join openmindopencodenews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/openmindopencodenews/join Necromocracy (Part One) "Across history, other nations had gone insane. Other movements had been evil or tried awful wizardries. But none perpetrated murder with such dedicated efficiency. The horror must have been directed not so much at death itself, but at some hideous goal beyond death." - David Brin, The Life Eaters When I was taught history in high school, Athens was a favourite historical analogue for the United States. Both were considered accidental empires and, for the most part, benign necessities of their dangerous times. (For America, this was the period of its so-called soft power, even though its application often felt hard as hell away from home. But Mossadegh and Allende could tell you better.) The self-celebrating mythology of America's global reach was always democratic, and its extended aspects - its colonies, though they would never be called such - were assumed to be dependencies by choice. America's Athenians were regarded as individuals, and its military the champion of an individual's liberty. Unlike the Evil Empire of the Soviet Union, whose subjects and armed forces were thought more comparable to the severe and undifferentiated Spartans. But in wartime, and in a time of re-mythologizing war, America's mythmaking undergoes a radical makeover to favour Sparta and the 300 of King Leonidas. It's too tempting a story to resist, because no matter its overwhelming might, it seems that for the good of its soul America must also, at least in its fiction, regard itself as the underdog. (You could perhaps
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Vote of No-Confidence
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 18, 2006 12:34:46 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Vote of No-Confidence http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_ernest_p_061018_reflections_on_the_e.htm October 18, 2006Reflections on the Eve of Another Rigged ElectionBy Ernest PartridgeThe Bush administration cannot allow the Democrats to take control of either house of Congress. And they are in a position to prevent it, regardless of the will of the American voters. These are the two controlling facts that make all other conditions of the coming election trivial in comparison, or even irrelevant. The failure of the media and even the Democratic Party to acknowledge and deal with these facts in no way diminishes their significance. Quite the contrary.And why can't the Busheviks allow the loss of even one house of Congress to the Democrats? Such a loss might, of course, result in the halting and even some reversal of the Bush/GOP agenda. But that is the least of their concerns. Far more important would be the reestablishment of Congressional oversight -- of investigations, with the penalties of perjury and contempt of Congress, into vast array of crimes committed by the Bush administration. Among these crimes are bribery, the disappearance of billions of dollars in Iraq, war crimes, the disregard of acts of Congress, lying to Congress, and fraudulent elections. In a new, Democratic, House of Representatives, the incorruptible Henry Waxman, as the new Chair of the Government Affairs Committee, would doggedly examine and expose the corruption of the Bush Administration, and John Conyers, the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, would, at long last, energetically investigate the issue of stolen elections. Accordingly, Bush and his partners in crime face far more than a curtailment of power; they face possible indictment, prosecution, and prison sentences for their crimes.How, then, might the Busheviks avoid accountability for their crimes by remaining in control of the Congress? The same way that they seized control of the White House in 2000, and maintained control of Congress and the White House in 2004, namely by rigging these elections through their surrogates in "the election industry."The accumulated weight of evidence has moved e-vote fraud well beyond the status of mere accusation. To those willing to examine that evidence scrupulously and objectively, it is now a proven fact. The refusal of the media to deal with this issue and the pathetically weak rebuttal-by-ridicule of the debunkers has not mitigated the force of the evidence. Because I have written repeatedly and at length about the stealing of the national elections, I will not argue the point here. Those still unconvinced are urged to examine these sources.Significantly, despite the aforementioned media silence and weak rebuttals, a Zogby poll reports that less than half the public is "very confident that Bush won [the 2004 election] fair and square," and a third if the public is "not at all confident that he won fair and square."Given the likelihood of another rigged election, does this mean that those of us who desire a Democratic victory – apparently a sizeable majority of likely voters – should simply give up, accept the inevitable, and stay at home?By no means. We should redouble our efforts. For even if the GOP retains control of Congress through still more of the same electronic vote fraud combined with their familiar vote-suppression schemes, this could be the election that finally exposes and puts an end to the paperless, non-verifiable e-vote scam. If the election precincts are flooded with crowds of angry citizens demanding the ouster of the Republican majority in Congress, the GOP just might be made to pay an exorbitant price for one more rigged election. For all their advantages, including their control of the election processes, the GOP faces a daunting dilemma: on the one hand, steal one more election and risk, at long last, exposure of this crime, or on the other hand, "allow" the Democrats to take control of one house of Congress with the expectation that the crimes of the Bush administration, including election fraud, will be rigorously investigated.I expect that the GOP strategists will opt for the former course of action. Even so, it is just possible that the GOP will still lose the House, although, given their control of the e-ballots, their continued the Senate is a lock for the Republicans. To win the Senate, the Democrats must lose no seats while winning almost all of the contested seats. Should the GOP "fix" just three close elections, say in New Jersey, Missouri and Ohio, their control of the Senate is assured. Even so, that might not be the end of it. If, by over-reaching this time, the election-fraud machinery is finally exposed, those ill-gained Senate seats might be contested and overturned by court challenges. And these would be
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Dirty Bomb Threat Before Monday
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 18, 2006 1:02:37 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: "Dirty Bomb" Threat Before Monday October 17, 2006 DIRTY BOMB ATTACK ON U.S. WITHIN THE WEEK? UPDATE: "AMERICAN HIROSHIMA" http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185029.php The Taliban have issued another warning that Muslims should leave the U.S. immediately before a major attack is launched. The warning implies that the threat will be from a dirty bomb and that it will come before next Monday. In September we brought you news of an al Qaeda threat to detonate a dirty bomb on U.S. soil. The threat was that Adnan El Shukrijumah (aka, Adnan Al-Shukri Jumaa) would carry out the attack. The whole blogosphere was abuzz about it, and one of our readers alerted us (and the FBI) that she had seen Adnan El Shukrijumah in Texas. Personally, I never took the threat that seriously. But some of the other Jawa writers did. It looks like some law enforcement officials are taking the threat seriously, too. The same reader alerted us about this encounter with the local SWAT team last week. In my prolonged absence, I forgot to post about it. I was greeted this morning at my office by a member of the local SWAT team. They are looking for an Arab male, passing himself off as hispanic. Judging by the picture they showed me, this guy could definitely pass as Mexican. This is getting rather strange. Indeed it is. If you look at El Shukrijumah's picture above, it seems to me he might pass off as a Mexican national. You'll also remember that when the same reader had her initial strange encounter with the person who she believed was El Shukrijumah, that he tried to pass himself off as a Mexican national. El Shukrijumah may have recently been spotted in Britain. On top of that, Allahpundit has news of a second warning that an attack will come before the end of Ramadan. Just to keep you up to speed, Ramadan ends October 23. Less than a week 'til doomsday, I guess. My spidey-senses tell me that the threat is just so much bluster. The media whores at al Qaeda central just hate being upstaged and out-nuked by the Ronery One. But still, I was a Boy Scout, and 'tis better to be prepared than sorry. Be on the lookout for Arabs trying to pass themselves off as Mexicans. El Shukrijumah is believed to have spent some time in Latin America, so he may speak Spanish. He also went to school in Canada. So if a 'Mexican' orders a "Molsen, eh" better call the FBI. UPDATE: And here is our friend Jeff Epstein's take in Canada Free Press on the same warnings above: Final preparations have been made for the American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S. And it looks like the version of the account quoted by Allahpundit, and which was the basis of the doomsday-within-a-week scenario, which makes it seem like the attack will come before the end of Ramadan, may have been misleading. Here are some quotes from the original conversation: Our brothers are ready to attack inside America. We will breach their security again. There is no timeframe for our attack inside America; we can do it any time. Q: What do you mean by another attack in America? A: Yes a bigger attack than September 11th 2001. Brother Adnan [el Shukrijumah] will lead that attack, Inshallah..Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is silent about him, because he doesn't want to panic his people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of warnings Q: But if you attack inside America again, then Muslims living in America will face lot of problems, why would you like to create new problems for your brothers and sisters? A: Muslims should leave America. We cannot stop our attack just because of the American Muslims So, maybe not next week, but soon. And 30 seconds of a Google News search, and it turns out my Molsen joke may be both funny and true. Canada Free Press: "Adnan El Shukrijumah possesses the uncanny abilities to blend into a crowd, to alter his looks, to assume a multitude of identitiesHe is the proverbial Mr. Cellophane. Few things about el Shukrijumah indicate his radical Islamic orientation. He is often clean-shaven and never wears a long shirt or chews a toothpick. He has been known to have a beer on occasion (like an average American Joe), to smoke an occasional Camel, and to carry rosary beads in his pocket." ... He could pose as an Italian-American, a Mexican-American, a Canadian, a Saudi, a Jamaican and a Latino from Trinidad. This lone wolf in sheep's clothing is a trained pilot, an expert in the intricate art of the dirty bomb, and if the FBI's got it right, he's coming soon to an American city near you. This article was from 2 days ago. Also, just a reminder, Adnan El Shukrijumah spent time in his childhood in Brooklyn and spent some time in college in
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Dirty Bomb? Flip a Billion-Dollar Coin.
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 18, 2006 1:02:44 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Dirty Bomb? Flip a Billion-Dollar Coin. FEDS BLEW NUKE-SCANNER BUY By GEOFF EARLE http://www.nypost.com/seven/10182006/news/nationalnews/feds_blew_nuke_scanner_buy_nationalnews_geoff_earle.htm October 18, 2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security used "incomplete and unreliable data" to buy radiation monitors for New York's port, and the machines frequently don't work right, according another report critical of the agency. DHS's cost-benefit analysis "does not justify [spending] $1.2 billion" on monitors to protect against a dirty bomb, the Government Accountability Office found. The agency hoped the machines could detect enriched uranium 95 percent of the time - but their detection rate was closer to 50 percent [pure chance], the report found. __._,_.___ Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM SPONSORED LINKS Independent broker dealer Independent director Central intelligence agency Central intelligence agency employment Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ =
[cia-drugs] Moderate Europeans losing faith in Islam
Moderate Europeans losing faith in Islam By Dan Bilefsky and Ian FisherThe New York Times Europe appears to be crossing an invisible line regarding its Muslim minorities: More people in the political mainstream are arguing that Islam cannot be reconciled with European values. "You saw what happened with the pope," said Patrick Goeman, 43, the owner of Raga, a funky wine bar in central Antwerp, half an hour outside Brussels. "He said Islam is an aggressive religion. And the next day they kill a nun somewhere and make his point. "Rationality is gone." Goeman is hardly an extremist. In fact, he organized a protest last week in which 20 bars and restaurants closed on the night when a far-right party with an anti-Muslim message held a rally nearby. His worry is shared by centrists across Europe disturbed that any criticism of Islam or Muslim immigration provokes threats of violence. For years, those who raised their voices were mostly on the far right. Now those normally seen as moderates - ordinary people as well as politicians - are asking whether once unquestioned values of tolerance and multiculturalism should have limits. Jack Straw, the former British foreign secretary and prominent Labour Party politician, seemed to sum up the moment last week when he wrote that he felt uncomfortable addressing women whose faces were covered with a veil. The veil, he wrote, is a "visible statement of separation and difference." When Pope Benedict XVI made a speech last month that included a quotation calling aspects of Islam "evil and inhuman," Muslims berated him for stigmatizing their culture, while non-Muslims applauded him for bravely speaking a hard truth. The line between open criticism of another group and bigotry can be a thin one, and many Muslims worry that it is being crossed more and more. Whatever the motivations, "the reality is that views on both sides are becoming more extreme," said Imam Wahid Pedersen, a prominent Dane who is a convert to Islam. "It has become politically correct to attack Islam, and this is making it hard for moderates on both sides to remain reasonable." Pedersen fears that onetime moderates are baiting Muslims, the very people they say should integrate into Europe. The worries about extremism are real. A far-right party, Vlaams Belang, took 20.5 percent of the vote in Belgian city elections on Sunday, five percentage points higher than in 2000. But in Antwerp, its base, its performance barely improved, suggesting to some experts that its power might be peaking. In Austria this month, right-wing parties also did well, on a campaign promise that had rarely been made openly: that Austria should start to deport its immigrants. Vlaams Belang, too, has suggested "repatriation" for immigrants who do not made greater efforts to integrate. The idea is unthinkable to mainstream leaders, but many Muslims still fear that the day - or at least a debate on the topic - may be one terroristic attack away. "I think the time will come," said Amir Shafe, 34, a Pakistani who earns a good living selling clothes at a market in Antwerp. He deplores terrorism and says he does not sense hostility in Belgium. But he said, "We are now thinking of going back to our country, before that time comes." Many experts note the centuries of bloodily defining the boundaries of Christianity and Islam, including the Muslim conquest of Palestine in 635 and the subsequent Crusades, and the Moors' conquest of Spain and Portugal in the eighth century and the Christians' victory in 1492. A sense of guilt over Europe's colonial past and then World War II, when intolerance exploded into mass murder, allowed a large migration to occur without any uncomfortable debates over the real differences between migrant and host. Then the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jolted Europe into new awareness and worry. The subsequent Madrid and London transit bombings and the murder of the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Dutch-born Muslim stand as examples of the extreme. But many Europeans - even those who generally support immigration - have begun talking more bluntly about cultural differences, specifically about Muslims' deep religious beliefs and social values, which are far more conservative than those of most Europeans on issues like women's rights and homosexuality. "A lot of people, progressive ones - we are not talking about nationalists or the extreme right - are saying, 'Now we have this religion, it plays a role and it challenges our assumptions about what we learned in the '60s and '70s,'" said Joost Lagendijk, a Dutch member of the European Parliament for the Green Left Party who is active on Muslim issues. "So there is this fear," he said, "that we are being transported back in a time machine where we have to explain to our immigrants that there is equality between men and women, and gays should be treated properly. Now there is the idea we have to do it again."
[cia-drugs] Bill Moyers on PBS -- The Net @ Risk: Big, Bigger, Biggest Media
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/net/index.html Backgrounder: Big and Bigger Media Media ownership rules are again a topic of debate on Capitol Hill, as the rules come up for a review and Republican Kevin Martin undergoes hearings to reconfirm him as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Senator Barbara Boxer grilled Martin about an FCC study on local media ownership, which found local reporting decreased markedly after the Telecommunications Act of 1996. In 1984, the number of companies owning controlling interests in America's media was 50 today that number is six. Critics of media consolidation say it has led to fewer and fewer voices being heard and a marked decrease in local news coverage. Some media watchers are worried that the much touted "free for all" of the Internet will go the same way. Proponents of "net neutrality" worry that the cable and telecom companies providing the bulk of Internet connectivity will use new fee structures, which may favor some content providers over others. Phone and cable companies have a near monopoly over Internet service. More precisely, it's a 'duopoly' - which means that in more than 90 percent of American homes in the U.S [more] Class Is in Session... In 1941, the federal government regulated the ownership of media outlets to ensure a broad spectrum of opinion. The Local Radio Ownership Rule, National TV Ownership Rule stated that a broadcaster cannot own television stations that reach more than 35% of the nation's homes. Many other regulations followed as the American media landscape changed. In the 1980s the climate changed in the U.S. -- fewer federal regulations became the order of the day under President Reagan. (View a timeline of media regulation.) Then came the Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed into law by President Clinton. It is generally regarded as the most important legislation regulating media ownership in over a decade. The radio industry experienced unprecedented consolidation after the 40-station ownership cap was lifted. Clear Channel Communications now owns 1200 stations, in all 50 states, reaching, according to their Web site, more than 110 million listeners every week. Viacom's Infinity radio network holds more than 180 radio stations in 41 markets. Its holdings are concentrated in the 50 largest radio markets in the United States. In 1999, Infinity owned and operated six of the nation's Top 10 radio stations. Then in 2003 ownership limits came up for review again -- media companies wanted ownership rules relaxed further. Among the proposed changes: allowing greater cross-ownership in media markets (newspapers and broadcast stations, radio and television stations) and caps on television and radio stations ownership raised in large markets. In addition, the FCC proposed that a single entity could own television stations reaching up to 45 percent of the national viewership, an increase from 35 percent. In 2003, Barry Diller, the man who created Fox Broadcasting and ran ABC Entertainment, Paramount, Vivendi Universal, spoke out against the rule changes to an industry group - and to Bill Moyers. (Diller is currently chairman and CEO of USA Interactive, itself an empire of informational services from the Home Shopping Network to Ticketmaster.) What about the fairness doctrine? Critics of consolidation fear that the fewer the owners the fewer the voices on the airwaves. Several recent cases -- among them Sinclair Broadcasting's decision not black out names and faces in an episode of NIGHTLINE which listed the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq - have media watchers saying conglomerates have too much power over the message heard. The Communications Act of 1934, as amended, called for stations to offer "equal opportunity" to all legally qualified political candidates running for office. In 1949, the FCC adopted the "fairness doctrine," a policy that viewed station licensees as "public trustees" and, as such, responsible for addressing controversial issues of public importance. The key requirement was that stations allowed opportunity for discussion of contrasting points of view on these issues. By the 1980s, many stations saw the FCC rules as an unnecessary burden. Some journalists considered the fairness doctrine a violation of the First Amendment rights of free speech and free press; they felt reporters should be able to make their own decisions about balancing stories. In order to avoid the requirement of presenting contrasting viewpoints, some journalists chose not to cover certain controversial issues at all. In addition, the political climate of the Reagan administration favored deregulation. When the fairness doctrine came before the courts in 1987, they decided that since Congress did not mandate the doctrine, it did not have to be enforced. (You can also see how the major news stations prioritize the news by visiting the Tyndall Report. Andrew Tyndall has watched the major broadcasts
