Re: [cia-drugs] Re: Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil
thanks, bob! - Original Message - From: "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil > There is one word that does not appear here, "security". > > It was not the Houston oilmen who wanted to privatize Iraq's oil > monopoly or occupy Iraq, but the zany neocons. The Houston oilmen of the > Jim Baker think tank were funded by Saudi Arabia to write the real plan, > the nazi dot inside of the neocon circle plan, or PNAC. > > The old paradigm was to set low quotas for Iran and Iraq, and to assure > profits from Iraqi oil by supporting Saddam Hussein and Iraq's state oil > monopoly. > > Gone are the days when neo-colonial oil companies could own mideast oil > themselves. ARAMCO is gone, forget about it. The next model was to let > countries "nationalize" oil, then lock in a favorable deal with those > state oil monopolies. The key to a favorable deal was installing a > dictator or monarch who knew he depended on foreign military and police > aid to retain power. If you read Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse, all the > Houston oilmen wanted was a coup or at most a lightning US invasion to > effect the replacement of Saddam Hussein, who was destabilizing oil > prices by holding back Iraqi oil and selling it at the most opportune > time, adhering to his OPEC quota but causing price swings. The Houston > oilmen have intervened twice since the neocons changed the plan. Once, > they got rid of Paul Bremer and prevented privatization of Iraqi oil. > Recently Jim Baker himself went to Iraq, and we don't know why yet, but > it must have been about oil and thwarting the neocons and Amed Chalabi. > > The neocons also wanted to start a civil war in Iraq, to divide Iraq. > There is no way Jim Baker and the Houston oilmen can prevent the civil > war started by special forces and British SAS planting "Sunni(April 2003 > US troops cut 1991 UN seal on 380 tons HMX for 100 waiting Sunni trucks > to bloody Americans with roadside bombs and make it a war and counter > the bully image)" HMX car bombs beside Shiite mosques a few years ago to > start a reactive pendulum swinging. > > Now, the civil war which neocons started is going to divide Iraq into > Sunni, Kurd, and Shiite areas, with the known oil in Shiite and Kurd > areas. The Sunnis have no oil and that is why they were chosen by > neo-colonialists to rule in the past, because they would know they were > dependent on US military and police aid to retain power over the > majority. The neocons installed the Shiites in power. The Houston oilmen > would probably attempt to force each new ethno-religious-based state of > three to form its own state monopoly. The neocons would be struggling to > privatize and form a hundred little colonialist ARAMCOs. > > Occupation would be the only way to secure neo-ARAMCOs. Remember the > security problem of French rubber plantations in Vietnam in the 1950's? > Can you find ARAMCO on the New York stock exchange today? > > When this article claims that Webfairy and Wiolawa have struck oil in > western or Sunni areas, that would mean that the Sunnis suddenly became > more than just a CIA surplus puppet family, because they would have > their own oil. That's a dynamic concept. Unfortunately, it's all about > pie in the sky there, isn't it? > > -Bob > > --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "Vigilius Haufniensis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/43045/ >> Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil >> >> By Joshua Holland, AlterNet. Posted October 16, 2006. >> >> Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil war, four > big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable > reserves, known to everyone in the petroleum industry as "the prize." >> >> >> Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series. Go here to read > the second installment. >> >> Iraq is sitting on a mother lode of some of the lightest, sweetest, > most profitable crude oil on earth, and the rules that will determine > who will control it and on what terms are about to be set. >> >> The Iraqi government faces a December deadline, imposed by the world's > wealthiest countries, to complete its final oil law. Industry analysts > expect that the result will be a radical departure from the laws > governing the country's oil-rich neighbors, giving foreign > multinationals a much higher rate of return than with other major oil > producers and locking in their control over what George Bush called > Iraq's "patrimony" for decades, regardless of what kind of policies > future elected governments might want to pursue. >> >> Iraq's energy reserves are an incredibly rich prize. According to the > U.S. Department of Energy, "Iraq contains 112 billion barrels of proven > oil reserves, the second largest in the world (behind Saudi Arabia), > along with roughly 220 billion barrels of probable and possible > resources. Iraq's tr
[cia-drugs] Bear-hug by Russian central bank gives the yen a boost
http://www.euro2day.gr/articlesfna/22652652/ Bear-hug by Russian central bank gives the yen a boostBy Peter GarnhamPublished: 20/10/2006 | Last Updated: 20/10/2006 16:45 London Time The yen advanced this week after the Russian central bank said it was adding the Japanese currency to its foreign-exchange reserves. Alexei Ulyukayev, first deputy chairman of the Russian central bank, told a news conference in Moscow that Russia had been thinking about broadening the number of currencies in which it was allowed to invest its assets and that recently it had included the yen. Analysts said the move was important, not just because Russia's gold and foreign-exchange reserves at $268bn were the third-largest in the world, but also because global central banks are underweight the yen and the move could be the start of a trend that sees other countries follow Russia's lead. The yen was also supported by reports in the Japanese press that suggested the Bank of Japan was set to step up its monitoring of carry trades. Nihon Kezai, the Japanese business daily, said the BoJ was concerned that hedge funds and their investors were helping to push down the Japanese currency by borrowing funds cheaply in yen to invest in higher-yielding assets abroad. The BoJ later denied it was setting up new monitoring mechanisms. However, analysts said the report served to highlight Japanese anxieties over the build-up of short yen positions in the market, especially given the events of 1998, when dollar/yen tumbled from Y130.80 to Y111.80 in two days as hedge funds unwound carry trades in response to the Russian financial crisis. Tim Fox, , FX strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort, said: "It might be early days to start worrying about an unwinding of the carry trade. But it is an issue that is at the back of people's minds." Over the week the yen rose 0.9 per cent against the dollar to Y118.70 and 0.1 per cent against the euro to Y149.60. For its part the dollar eased 0.8 per cent against the euro to $1.2610 on the week as a series of US economic data releases, including figures on both consumer and producer prices, failed conclusively to end the debate over whether the US economy was heading for a hard or soft landing. Adrian Schmidt, , senior forex strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland, said the dollar's fall might simply have reflected the fact that the euro/dollar rate came close to the bottom of the ranges seen in the past six months at $1.25 against the euro. He argued that in the absence of genuine evidence of higher US rates or some other clear fundamental justification for dollar strength some dealers who had built up long dollar positions had sold down their holdings, pushing the currency pair back towards the centre of its range. Sterling rose 1.4 per cent against the dollar to $1.8820 and 0.6 per cent against the euro to £0.6700 on the week's as series of data releases, including figures on Friday revealing stronger than expected UK growth, which served to heighten market expectations that the Bank of England would raise UK interest rates by 25 basis points after its November policy-setting meeting. __._,_.___ 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: [catapult] YOU MUST MUST MUST SEE THIS- KEITH OLBERMANN LIVE: 'Beginning of the end of America']
THIS IS THE MOST POWERFUL STATEMENT I HAVE EVER SEEN COME OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA! YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS! PASS IT ON!!! Original Message Subject: [catapult] YOU MUST MUST MUST SEE THIS- KEITH OLBERMANN LIVE: 'Beginning of the end of America' Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:12:54 -0400 From: David Rubinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] THIS IS ON LIVE TONIGHT. OR WATCH IT ONLINE (URL BELOW). 'Beginning of the end of America' "...For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from..." "...This President now has his blank check. He lied to get it. He lied as he received it. Is there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it nor who he intends to use it against?..." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/from/ET/ MSNBC.com 'Beginning of the end of America' Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special comment SPECIAL COMMENT By Keith Olbermann Countdown SEE THE VIDEO: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/ Updated: 3:00 p.m. ET Oct 19, 2006 We have lived as if in a trance. We have lived as people in fear. And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing. Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy. For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from. We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush. We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors. American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America. We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war. American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America. And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9066 was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that order to imprison and pauperize 110,000 Americans while his man in charge, General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.” American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did, but for the choices they or their ancestors had made about coming to America. Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons. And each was a betrayal of that for which the president who advocated them claimed to be fighting. Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased. Many of the very people Wilson silenced survived him, and one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900,000 votes, though his presidential campaign was conducted entirely from his jail cell. And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States to the citizens of the United States whose lives it ruined. The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons. In times of fright, we have been only human. We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us. We have listened to the little voice inside that has said, “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.” We have accepted that the only way to stop the terrorists is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists. Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets. Or substitute the Japanese. Or the Germans. Or the Socialists. Or the Anarchists. Or the Immigrants. Or the British. Or the Aliens. The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons. And, always, always wrong. “With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?” Wise words. And ironic ones, Mr. Bush. Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing
[cia-drugs] Israel Must Not Ignore A Devalued American Dollar
http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/191020061 Israel Must Not Ignore A Devalued American DollarBy Lawrence UniglichtIsrael must not ignore a significant devaluation of formidable Americas dollar relative to the euro over the last several years. In 10/2002 one greenback would exchange for about 1.19 euros. Since then the tables have turned, as the American dollar will now only exchange for about .78 euros. This reversal of fortune, no doubt abetted by the cost of Americas pre-emptive invasion and occupation of Iraq juxtaposed to a substantial drop in Americas overall tax rate, requiring an expansion of money supply without productive justification, partially explains that consequence. The Bush Administration and successors will have to deal with the dilution in value of their currency in a number of ways, some of which could affect Israel.The petrodollar, albeit weakened in the minds-eye of many bankers, remains todays primary oil trading currency in the Middle East. Gasoline prices in America, not coincidentally, have climbed dramatically over the last few years in order to provide an incentive for OPEC, a cadre of Middle East oil producing Israel despising regimes, to maintain the beleaguered dollars status. Indeed, if the petrodollar is ever replaced by say the petroeuro as the currency of choice among chic sheiks, the already challenged greenback will suffer an enormous psychological as well as tangible blow to its value, partially crippling Americas globally connected erstwhile dominant economy. Shrewd Arab and Persian money managers and politicians know this, thus could attempt to extort American leaders to trade-off Israeli interests for so-called Palestinian interests, during any future Roadmap (more aptly named Road Kill) negotiations, in exchange for a continued tolerance of the shaky petrodollars now tenuous primo position as medium exchange for their fossil fuel. Would or could American leaders hold fast against such a threat to their nation or their personal legacies?Israel must not ignore such facts while perilously relying on one superpower, no matter how trustworthy, as an implied guarantor of its prosperity and perhaps viable existence. Nations of empire status rise, fall, yet survive based on considerable residual capacity and vitality. Comparatively fledgling nations, especially one surrounded by hostile neighbors, alas may not withstand so harsh a blow as one empire nation may absorb, yet stand to witness another day.Currency values should directly represent the intrinsic wealth of their respective nations. It would be propitious, in the long run, for the Israeli shekel to grow in value based solely on the merits of Israels economy, implicitly suggesting that Israel not rely on the fortunes of its staunchest ally. A healthy shekel should thus depend on Israels own entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, educators, and technicians. Warren Buffet, the worlds perhaps savviest and one of its wealthiest investors, has staked four billion dollars in a Galilee based company Iscar, an Israeli metalworking tool manufacturing firm, implicitly prognosticating a robust Israeli economy of the future. The Jewish State must not disappoint such an investor or others like him as they contemplate where they will invest their venture capital. Cut the cord now Israel, your brainpower needs no external help! Source: Article submitted by the author, an IHC memberEdited by IHC staff, www.infoisrael.netPublished 19 October 2006 __._,_.___ 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's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil, Part II
http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2006%20Opinion%20Editorials/October/20%20o/Bush's%20Petro-Cartel%20Almost%20Has%20Iraq's%20Oil,%20Part%20II%20By%20Joshua%20Holland.htm Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil, Part II By Joshua Holland AlterNet, October 19, 2006 With 140,000 U.S. troops on the ground, the largest U.S. embassy in the world sequestered in Baghdad's fortified "Green Zone" and an economy designed by a consulting firm in McLean, Va., post-invasion Iraq was well on its way to becoming a bonanza for foreign investors. But Big Oil had its sights set on a specific arrangement -- the lucrative production sharing agreements that lock in multinationals' control for long terms and are virtually unheard of in countries as rich in easily accessible oil as Iraq. The occupation authorities would have to steer an ostensibly sovereign government to the outcome they desired, and they'd have to overcome any resistance that they encountered from the fiercely independent and understandably wary Iraqis along the way. Finally, they'd have to make sure that the Anglo-American firms were well-positioned to win the lion's share of the choicest contracts. Dealing with the most likely points of opposition began almost immediately. While the Oil Ministry, famously, was one of the few structures the invading forces protected from looters in the first days of the war, the bureaucracy's human assets weren't so lucky. With a stroke of the pen, Coalition Provisional Authority boss L. Paul Bremer fired hundreds of ministry personnel, ostensibly as part of the program of "de-Baathification." But, as Antonia Juhasz, author of "The Bush Agenda," told me, "it wasn't an indication that they were a party to Saddam Hussein's crimes they were fired because they could have stood in the way of the economic transformation." Some fraction were certainly hard-core Baathists, but they were all veterans of the country's oil sector; they knew the industry, they knew what the norms in neighboring countries were and they had no loyalty to the occupation forces. Some had to go. That was true at the top as well. Serving as oil minister in the Iraqi Interim Government was Thamir Ghadbhan, a British-trained technocrat who at one time had been chief of planning under Saddam Hussein and was widely respected for his political independence and his opposition to the previous regime (Saddam had ended up imprisoning him at Abu Ghraib). But despite working closely with American advisors, Ghadbhan was replaced with Ibrahim Bahr al-Uloum, a close associate of Ahmed Chalabi, the exile favored by some war planners to run the country as a kindler and gentler -- but no doubt just as corrupt -- version of Saddam Hussein. According to Greg Muttit, an analyst with the British oil watchdog Platform, Uloum at first seemed to be a malleable figure. He told the Financial Times that he personally favored PSAs and giving priority to U.S. oil companies "and European companies, probably." But Uloum would later publicly protest the elimination of fuel subsidies, a key provision of the country's economic restructuring, saying, "This decision will not serve the benefit of the government and the people. This decision brings an extra burden on the shoulders of citizens." He was, as the Associated Press reported, given "a forced vacation." It was, in the end, a permanent vacation; Chalabi, who was deputy prime minister at the time, took over the job himself (as "acting" minister for 30 days, but his term would last a year). Chalabi had no previous experience in the oil biz, but was a reliable, pro-Western figure with little in the way of nationalist zeal to get in the way of being a good lap dog. As leader of the Iraqi National Congress, he had said he favored the creation of a U.S.-led consortium to develop Iraq's oil fields. "American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil," Chalabi told the Washington Post in 2002. According to Alexander Cockburn, Chalabi also orchestrated the ouster of Mohammed Jibouri, executive director of the state's oil marketing agency, who had offended the Swiss giant Glencore by telling its executives that they couldn't trade Iraqi oil after their extensive dealings with Saddam Hussein. An emerging, although still fragile, civil society was another source of potential trouble. Iraqi trade unions were a thorn in the side of the CPA -- shutting down the port of Khor az-Zubayr in protest of a rip-off deal with the Danish shipping giant Maersk, halting oil production in the south to demand the rehire of laid-off Iraqi workers and kicking Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root out of their refineries. Perhaps it's not a coincidence, then, that the only significant law that Paul Bremer left on the books from the Hussein era was a prohibition against organizing public-sector workers. Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi analyst with the NGO Global Exchange, told me, "They're
[cia-drugs] BUSHES GOING TO PARAGUAY?
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=24005 BUSHES GOING TO PARAGUAY?Friday, October 20, 2006 - FreeMarketNews.comIt's only on the rumor-mill so far, but according to a posting at Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country, George W. Bush and his family are planning to purchase nearly 100,000 acres of land in Paraguay. He cited reports that the President's daughter, Jenna Bush, is involved and may be the actual landowner. The land is reportedly near the triple border adjoining both Brazil and Argentina, over one of the largest reserves of fresh water on the planet, a gigantic aquifer that running under parts of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina, and "larger than Texas and California put together." Strieber notes further that although the rumor has "caused concern among leftist governments in the region," the Bush family is already associated with the Fatherland Foundation (Fundacion Patria), an environmental reserve in the same area. - ST Staff Reports - Free-Market News Network __._,_.___ 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] Solid Foreign Relations to Underpin Strong Economic Growth in Venezuela
20 October 2006Today's analyst, Jephraim P. Gundzik, is president of Condor Advisers, a firm that provides investment risk analysis on developing countries.--Solid Foreign Relations to Underpin Strong Economic Growth in Venezuela Drafted By: Jephraim P. Gundzik http://www.pinr.com American media attention is fixated on Venezuela's endemically deteriorating relations with the United States. In the shadow of this coverage, however, the Chavez government has dramatically improved its foreign commercial and diplomatic ties with many countries. During the next several years, these ties will be crucial for the development of Venezuela's petroleum sector, which has growth potential that is unrivaled anywhere in the world. Accelerating development of the petroleum sector could make Venezuela Latin America's wealthiest country within the next decade. Weakening Links to the United StatesRelations between Caracas and Washington have deteriorated continuously during the past six years. Diplomatic links have completely evaporated and have been replaced by mutual political interference. Washington started the game by supporting President Hugo Chavez's domestic political opposition both monetarily and strategically in 2001. This support continued through the 2005 legislative elections in Venezuela. In 2006, the Bush administration appears to have focused its anti-Chavez support on Manuel Rosales who will run against Chavez in the December presidential election. Chavez has also demonstrated Venezuela's ability to interfere in domestic politics in the United States. Beginning in 2005, Chavez offered subsidized heating oil to poor Americans through Citgo, a subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela (P.D.V.S.A.). In 2006, the program expanded. Chavez has used the program to suggest that the Bush administration has little regard for the poor in the United States.Mutual political interference has been accompanied by increasingly harsh treatment of U.S. diplomats by Venezuela and Venezuelan diplomats by the United States. Beginning in early 2006, U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield began to encounter protests at official functions in Venezuela. In April 2006, Brownfield's diplomatic convoy was assaulted by motorcyclists throwing garbage, sparking a diplomatic row between Caracas and Washington. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state, said the attack had been condoned by the city government in Caracas. In September 2006, Washington seemingly retaliated by subjecting Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro to secondary screening after he arrived late for a flight from New York's J.F.K. airport to Caracas. Maduro claimed that Port Authority officials verbally abused and strip searched him even after he showed them his diplomatic passport. A subsequent U.S. apology was discarded by Chavez who described the incident as a provocation. The mudslinging that preceded the incident, most notably Chavez calling Bush "the devil" at the September 2006 U.N. General Assembly in New York, continued in early October with Chavez describing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a "dog of war."The collapse in diplomatic ties has been accompanied by weakening commercial links. Venezuela is reducing its petroleum product exports to the United States and selling its U.S.-based refining assets. Many analysts continue to believe that Venezuela's ability to redirect its oil exports away from the United States is limited by economic factors such as the added cost of shipping oil to Asia. Although such shipments reduce Venezuela's oil export revenue by $3 to $4 per barrel, this added cost has not reduced Venezuela's zeal for shipping increasing quantities of crude oil to Asia. Venezuela's oil shipments to both China and India are increasing. This crude oil is not coming from increased production in Venezuela; it is being redirected from the United States to Asia in an obvious effort by Caracas to weaken its commercial links with the United States. According to data produced by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. imports of crude oil from Venezuela declined by five percent in 2005 compared to 2004. In the first seven months of 2006, U.S. imports of crude oil from Venezuela declined 13 percent from the same period in 2005. This data makes it clear that Venezuela's crude oil exports to the United States are declining.Many analysts also believe that the concentration of Venezuela's oil refining capacity in the United States further hinders the reorientation of the country's oil exports away from the United States. Yet, Venezuela is involved in a myriad of new refinery projects in Asia, the Middle East and in Latin America. These new and upgraded refineries will all have the capacity to process Venezuela's crude oil. Meanwhile, Venezuela has been gradually unloading its U.S.-based oil refi
[cia-drugs] Undernews Extract: Bush Purchases 99,000 Acres In Paraguay?
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Undernews Extract: Bush Purchases 99,000 Acres In
Paraguay?Compiled By Prorev.com
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BUSH REPORTED TO HAVE PURCHASED 99,000 ACRES IN
PARAGUAY
Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay
protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have
been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguayan government? -
Wonkette
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. . .
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.
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STEVE O - It has been reported that George W. Bush has recently purchased a
98,842 acre farm in Northern Paraguay. What on earth does the President of the
United States need a 98,000+ acre farm in Northern Paraguay for?
On the surface it looks all very innocent, but let's add the very quiet trip
that Jenna Bush made to the country earlier this month in which she met
Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte and his family at their official residence.
She also met with U.S. Ambassador James Cason. Could it be that our little
drunken Jenna is all grown up and playing diplomacy?
This all still seems very innocent on the surface, but now let's add the five
hundred U.S. troops that arrived in Paraguay with planes, weapons and ammunition
in July 2005, shortly after the Paraguayan Senate granted U.S. troops immunity
from national and International Criminal Court jurisdiction. Neighboring
countries and human rights organizations are concerned the massive air base at
Mariscal Estigarribia, Paraguay is potential real estate for the U.S. military.
Does Bush plan on being charged with something in the future? Does Bush
foresee a collapse of the United States and feels a strong need to have a place
to cut and run to, or does Bush just need a nice secret little place other than
Gitmo where he can send people he doesn't like?
http://www.teambio.org/2006/10/bush-family-98842-acres-and-a-mule/
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BRING IT ON - Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan
President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason. There were no press
conferences, no public sightings and no official confirmation of her 10-day trip
which apparently ended this week. . .
And Jenna's down there having secret meetings with the president and
America's ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Bush posted Cason in Havana in
2002, but last year moved him to Paraguay. Cason apparently gets around. A
former "political adviser" to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO's Supreme Allied
Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El Salvador, Honduras,
Guatemala, Panama
basically everywhere the U.S. has run secret and
not-so-secret wars over the past 30 years.
Here's a fun question for Tony Snow: Why might the president and his family
need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military
base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes
prosecution by the Paraguayan government?
WONKETTE - Here's a little background on the base itself, which Rumsfeld
secretly visited in late 2005: U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past
summer at Paraguay's Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built
in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can
handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar
system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger
than the international airport at the capital city, Asuncion.
http://www.wonkette.com/politics/george-w.-bush/we-hate-to-bring-up-the-nazis-but-they-fled-to-south-america-too-208549.php
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[cia-drugs] Deadlocked Venezuela-Guatemala race pauses a bit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901057.html Deadlocked Venezuela-Guatemala race pauses a bit By Evelyn LeopoldReutersThursday, October 19, 2006; 4:26 PM UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Venezuela and Guatemala's marathon contest for an open U.N. Security Council seat is expected to pause for at least five days in hopes Latin American nations can resolve the impasse, diplomats said on Thursday. After three days and 30 rounds of balloting, Guatemala still led Venezuela by 20 to 30 votes on Thursday. But neither country has achieved the required two-thirds majority in the 192-member U.N. General Assembly. At issue is an open Latin American seat in the 15-nation Security Council contested by Guatemala, backed by the Bush administration, and Venezuela, which sees the race as a battle against Washington and its U.N. ambassador, John Bolton. "Mr. Bolton has not been able to keep us out of the race," said Venezuelan U.N. Ambassador Francisco Arias Cardenas. Armed with petrodollars, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has tried to form an alliance with nations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East to challenge Washington's interests. Failure to win a council seat would represent a setback for Chavez's ambitions for a bigger international profile. Several Latin American ambassadors said the voting, which has paralyzed the General Assembly for three days this week, would stop on Friday for other assembly business as well as Monday and Tuesday for the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday. 'THEATER OF THE ABSURD' Guatemalan Foreign Minister Gert Rosenthal said he favored a longer recess and fewer ballots in this "theater of the absurd" but other nations, including Venezuela, disagreed. Rosenthal said that, as long as Venezuela remained in the race, he had no alternative but to continue. Bolton agreed and said, "The honorable thing would be for the candidate who has now lost 28 out of 29 votes to withdraw. Venezuela insists on putting everybody through all this -- vote after vote after vote." Guatemala has never had a seat on the prestigious council, whose decisions on war and peace are mandatory for all U.N. members. Venezuela has served four times. But Ecuador's U.N. ambassador, Diego Cordovez, head of the 32-nation Latin American and Caribbean group, said he did not intend to call a formal meeting unless there was some hint of an agreement in the works. Balloting began on Monday and continued Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday, 32 Latin American and Caribbean nations met but did not come up with an agreement. Nor were they able to agree among several compromise candidates mentioned. The United States, Russia, Britain, France and China hold permanent seats on the 15-member Security Council. Ten other nations sit on the council for two-year terms, five elected each year. Guatemala and Venezuela are vying for the Latin American seat that Argentina will vacate on December 31. Peru stays on the council until the end of 2007. In other regions, South Africa, Indonesia, Italy and Belgium received the necessary votes on Monday to win two-year terms in the council beginning on January 1. __._,_.___ 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: America -- A Nation of Suckers, by Suckers, FOR CON MEN
Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: October 20, 2006 1:47:49 PM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: America -- A Nation of Suckers, by Suckers, FOR CON MEN "Look at the 20 most corrupt members of the House. Every single one of them got high marks from [the evangelical 'Moral Majority's'] 'Family Research Council'." David Kuo's Book "Tempting Faith": The Author's Agenda, the Authoritarian Behavior He Reports, And the White House's Response By JOHN W. DEAN http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20061020.html Friday, Oct. 20, 2006David Kuo, the former deputy-director of the Bush White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, recently published a book, Tempting Faith. The book's most controversial claim is that members of the Bush administration have been privately trashing some of the very Religious Right leaders who helped put them in power. For example, Kuo told "60 Minutes" that he had heard people in the White House political affairs office, Karl Rove's operation, refer to Pat Robertson as "insane," call Jerry Falwell "ridiculous," and say that James Dobson "had to be controlled."In this column, I'll consider claims that Kuo must have a hidden political agenda, analyze the implication of the badmouthing of the religious right by Rove's team, and consider the Administration's responses to Kuo.What Is David Kuo's Hidden Political Agenda -- If He Has One?First, let's consider the question of what Kuo's hidden agenda, if any, might be. It's a question that's being asked by countless Republicans who want to know what prompted a former White House insider (in an administration that is highly intolerant of dissent, and adverse to giving outsiders an inside look) to write (and speak out) about the hypocrisy of Bush's political operatives -- especially just before the midterm election? In theory, Kuo, a committed Christian and a Republican, ought to seek to keep the Republicans in Congress, not to torpedo their chances come November. When CBS News asked Kuo about his motives, he said he had been greatly disappointed with what he saw as the gap, recurring time and again, between what Bush promised his Evangelical Christian supporters and what he actually delivered. This disparity, Kuo said, had "been gnawing at both him and his wife since 2003, when [Kuo] learned he had a malignant brain tumor, and left politics for good."When asked by "60 Minutes" about whether he anticipated his colleagues would attack him, Kuo responded, "Of course they will. I can hear the attacks, right? 'Oh, he's really a liberal.' or, 'Oh, maybe that brain tumor really messed up his head.' Or, you know, 'He's an idealist.'" Regardless, Kuo says, "I'm fine with it."There's really no reason, then, to think Kuo has any hidden political agenda. He's admitted his disappointment in the Bush Administration. And he's sought out the best forum possible -- a book where he can set forth the details of how he believes Bush and his aides are politically manipulating Christians -- at the best time, to call attention to his inside knowledge to those who share his beliefs. His agenda seems to be the simple one he claims: To convey to his fellow Christians how much he feels the Bush White House has let them down.Kuo notes that -- unlike the Bush White House, and the Republican National Committee -- he does not believe that Jesus should be reduced "to some precinct captain, to some get-out-the-vote guy." But that, however, Kuo says, is exactly the Republicans' belief: "This message that has been sent out to Christians for a long time now: that Jesus came primarily for a political agenda, and recently primarily a right-wing political agenda -- as if this culture war is a war for God. And it's not a war for God, it's a war for politics. And that's a huge difference," says Kuo.As these revelations by David Kuo were surfacing, I was exchanging emails with Bob Altemeyer, a social scientist who brings four decades of research to bear on understanding the behavior both of the Bush White House, as well as with Evangelicals who are being manipulated by Bush and his aides. Altemeyer was too unique a source to not probe him about these activities.The Behavior Kuo Has Reported In the White House Is Typical of AuthoritariansAltemeyer is a Yale-trained social psychologist who teaches and pursues his research at the University of Manitoba. Altemeyer has studied authoritarianism for the past 40 years, and is considered by his peers to be a leading authority on the subject, not to mention a cutting-edge researcher in the field.Those who have read my latest book, Conservat
[cia-drugs] Incentives for the Dead: PAUL KRUGMAN ; US Army Concedes Failure in Baghdad +
Incentives for the Dead: PAUL KRUGMAN ; US Army Concedes Failure in Baghdad +By PAUL KRUGMAN - The New York Times - Friday, Oct. 20, 2006 Krugman: Stock Options(The Complete Article). Report: N. Korea 'sorry' for nuke test and moreOctober 20, 2006 Op-Ed Columnist Incentives for the Dead By PAUL KRUGMAN I dont know about you, but I need a break from political scandals. So lets talk about private-sector scandals instead specifically, the growing scandal involving backdated stock options, which this week led to the resignation of William McGuire, the chief executive of UnitedHealth Group. To understand the issue, we need to go back to the original ideological justification for giant executive paychecks. Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/13676423.html US Army Concedes Failure in Baghdad http://mparent.livejournal.com/13676224.html Young, Cold and for Sale: BOB HERBERT - Atlanta Hub of Child Prostitutionhttp://mparent.livejournal.com/13673238.html Report: N. Korea 'sorry' for nuke test http://mparent.livejournal.com/13675036.html Run, Barack, Run: DAVID BROOKS - Barack Obama Should Run For President http://mparent.livejournal.com/13673056.html Shiite militia seizes total control of Iraqi city http://mparent.livejournal.com/13673783.html And More on Today's Newswire http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/10/20/ 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 All new Yahoo! Mail Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. __._,_.___ 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 __,_._,___
