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Dear Friends: Back to the Home Page www.akha.org The Appeal to the Queen of Thailand video is there. As well as a statement to UNESCO and a discussion of their website. I do some oil painting as I have time, and so I put the first one up on the website for sale. Michu and the kids will get some more artwork of theirs to put up and maybe some other Akha may put some artwork up here too. Did you see that? Marijuana is now the US's biggest crop? More than corn and wheat? And to think that the DEA was busy busting little old Akhas for some opium in Laos, and the US is the biggest Narco State out there according to David Alexander's stats on Reuters news. Also worth noting since American missionaries and others were always using the excuse that the FATHERS were involved in drugs so it justified taking the kids away. ACF hasn't coughed up their English report yet. There is a book out, The King Never Smiles, about Thailand and the Royalty. Interesting reading. Since we continue to fight to help the Akha get back the land of Hooh Yoh and since the Royals are always taking more and more hilltribe land. Have a good week. Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation. http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Site. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal Discussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha Donate Via Credit Card Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org PO Box 6073 Salem, OR. 97304 USA. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[cia-drugs] Akha Journal: Akha TV Program 2 - Statement and Discussion re. UNESCO Bkk
Dear Friends: Back to the Home Page www.akha.org The Appeal to the Queen of Thailand video is there. As well as a statement to UNESCO and a discussion of their website. http://www.akha.org/upload/video/akhatv/akhatv2unesco.mov I do some oil painting as I have time, and so I put the first one up on the website for sale. Michu and the kids will get some more artwork of theirs to put up and maybe some other Akha may put some artwork up here too. Did you see that? Marijuana is now the US's biggest crop? More than corn and wheat? And to think that the DEA was busy busting little old Akhas for some opium in Laos, and the US is the biggest Narco State out there according to David Alexander's stats on Reuters news. Also worth noting since American missionaries and others were always using the excuse that the FATHERS were involved in drugs so it justified taking the kids away. ACF hasn't coughed up their English report yet. There is a book out, The King Never Smiles, about Thailand and the Royalty. Interesting reading. Since we continue to fight to help the Akha get back the land of Hooh Yoh and since the Royals are always taking more and more hilltribe land. Have a good week. Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation. http://www.akha.org Akha Heritage Site. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Akhaweeklyjournal Discussion http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akha Donate Via Credit Card Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=akha%40akha.org PO Box 6073 Salem, OR. 97304 USA. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[cia-drugs] Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/relatedstories/160717.php Tucson Region STAR INVESTIGATION Tucson military recruiters ran cocaine Some kept visiting schools for 3 years after FBI caught them on tape By Carol Ann Alaimo / Arizona Daily Star / Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.17.2006 A Midtown strip mall that should have housed the best of the best served as Corruption Central in Tucson. Two military recruiting stations sit side-by-side there, one run by the Army, the other by the Marines. Between them, a total of seven recruiters were on the take, secretly accepting bribes to transport cocaine, even as most spent their days visiting local high schools. They had help from several more recruiters at an Army National Guard office, where one recruiter was said to be selling cocaine from the trunk of his recruiting vehicle. Together, these dozen or so recruiters formed the nucleus of one of the FBI's biggest public corruption cases, the sting known as *Operation Lively Green*, which unfolded in Southern Arizona from 2002-2004 and was made public last year. Many of the drug-running recruiters remained on the job, with continued access to local schools, for months --- and often, years --- after FBI agents secretly filmed them counting cash next to stacks of cocaine bricks, the Arizona Daily Star found in a months-long probe of court records and military employment data. _Some were still recruiting three years after they first were caught on camera running drugs in uniform_. Most have pleaded guilty and are to be sentenced in March. Some honorably retired from the military. There is no suggestion in court records that the recruiters were providing drugs to students. What they did between FBI drug runs isn't known because they weren't under constant surveillance, the FBI said. For example, in the middle of the cocaine sting, one of the recruiters was arrested by another law-enforcement agency in an unrelated drug case, accused of transporting nearly 200 pounds of marijuana on Interstate 19, court records show. Military recruiting officials say the corruption was not widespread. They also say they kept these recruiters on the job because they either didn't know they were under investigation, or were told by the FBI to leave the suspects alone so as not to jeopardize the sting's outcome. Some Tucson parents and school officials, contacted by the Star about the results of the paper's research, said students should not have been left exposed for so long to recruiters known by the FBI to be involved in cocaine-running. I don't like the thought of someone involved with drugs having access to my child, and I don't know anything about it and the school doesn't know anything about it, said Kathy Janssen, who has a 15-year-old son at Tucson High Magnet School, the city's largest high school. High school students are very vulnerable. This isn't the first time the FBI has come under criticism in the Lively Green case. Allegations of sexual misconduct by undercover informants also have dogged the case and could result in reduced punishment for the recruiters and dozens of other defendants. * * *SCHOOLS * At a press conference to unveil the case last year, the FBI announced that many Lively Green defendants were military members. Agents didn't say that recruiters were involved. A Phoenix-based FBI spokeswoman said the agency can't say much at this point about the Lively Green probe because it's still in progress. Special Agent Deb McCarley did say the FBI generally performs risk assessments before deciding to keep suspects who work in public positions on the job during undercover probes. We recognize the range of ethical issues that inherently arise in the course of our undercover investigations, McCarley said in an e-mail. We have sound policies in place to address such dilemmas, she said, and this case has been no exception. Some high schools in Tucson Unified, Flowing Wells Unified and Marana Unified school districts, and in Amphitheater Public Schools, were visited by one or more of these recruiters on a regular or occasional basis, according to military recruiting officials. Schools in other districts may have had visits as well, but precise records no longer are available in some cases, officials said. One TUSD Governing Board member was incensed to hear the recruiters remained on the job so long. It's ludicrous to me that the FBI would leave these people in place and allow them onto our high school campuses, Judy Burns said. If they were going to do that, they should have been monitoring them constantly. Monica Young, who has two children attending TUSD high schools, agreed. It is appalling that recruiters who were known to be involved in such activity were allowed on any school campus, she said. Legal expert Stephen Saltzburg, who teaches criminal procedure at George Washington University, said it's entirely possible that the Tucson recruiters were running
[cia-drugs] Timothy McVeigh Gore Vidal
--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, mark urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mcveigh corresponded extensively with gore vidal before his execution. does anybody have copies of that material? ~ Vidal and the McVeigh Execution On May 5, 2001, Gore Vidal announced that he would attend Timothy McVeigh's execution in Indiana and write a piece about it for Vanity Fair. As it turned out, Vidal did not attend the execution because he didn't have enough time to get to the U.S. from Italy after McVeigh - on Friday, June 8 - abruptly ended his appeals, thus allowing the June 11 execution to take place. Most observers thought McVeigh would get a stay as his appeals worked their way through the courts. For people interested in this issue as it relates to Vidal, I've put together a list of links to stories I've found on the web. Needless to say, if a site takes down its story, then the link will no longer be good. Vidal and McVeigh made contact after Vidal wrote a piece on the drug war and the loss of freedom in America for Vanity Fair in November 1998. Vidal's post-execution piece on McVeigh - which includes excerpts from their correspondence - appears in the September 2001 issue of the magazine. And Vidal's book on the World Trade Center attack has more material about his relationship with McVeigh. Many of the stories that appeared about Vidal's involvement with McVeigh has since been take off the internet (as older stories often are). Here, though, are some links to pieces that remain: The online magazine Salon published this story about Vidal's contact with McVeigh. Writer Justin Raimondo defends Vidal in an essay on antwar.com. Here's a reprint of a Washington Post article on the subject. A story on the BBC's web site depicts an execution chamber along with photos of Vidal and McVeigh. This report appeared in the Brisith newspaper The Guardian USA Today published a story on Vidal and McVeigh The liberal web site Fantastic Forum supports Vidal in his efforts to explain McVeigh (this will open as a PDF file in a new window). Vidal defends McVeigh at the Edinburgh Book Festival, as reported in The Guardian. Or you can read the actual interview from the festival. The Russian newspaper Pravda ran this piece in English about Vidal and McVeigh. This Reuters story shares Vidal's view that McVeigh had help in doing what he did. In this piece, Vidal casts McVeigh as a hero, the author says, not quite accurately. On a related matter, here is a list of articles that examine Vidal's views on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. THE GORE VIDAL INDEX by Harry Kloman The Gore Vidal Index is the most comprehensive Vidal site on the Internet. http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html An essay on Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: The Newest World Order The World Trade Center Attack And Vidal's Writing on the Subject http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/attack.html Vidal and the McVeigh Execution http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/mcveigh.html blueball.gif Description: GIF image
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Most judges are republicans and the veteran help put them there because most vets supported bush 41,reagan,and bush 43 in 2000, The republican gang cars only for there own ,the very rich and powerful,sweet talk our ass to go fight for them and then get screwed by people as bush / cheney/rummy.. Change the way we vote from now on Vets and tell all the same... Bugs - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 9:54 PM Subject: [VETERANS-FOR-CHANGE] (no subject) Justice Denied WWW.FIREBASENETWORK.NET By Staff Writer: Rick Townsend [EMAIL PROTECTED] December 18, 2006 Today in the courtroom of Judge Curtis J. Bell, 1400 Gull Rd. Kalamazoo, Michigan, Justice was once again denied a disabled American Veteran. Gordon Sutton was in Court seeking a reduction in the amount of alimony the Court had ordered him to pay. Despite evidence provided the Court by Gordon, U.S. Code Title 38 5301(a) which covers VA disability, U.S.Code Title 42 which covers SSI disability, and U.S. Code 10, Section 1408. (U.S.Code Title 10 prohibits any treatment of disability pay as disposable pay and the courts cannot work around this prohibition by allocating other assets to make up for the lost disability pay.) This Judge found no reason to reverse his earlier ruling and told Gordon his only recourse is the Appeals Court. The Judge stated he did not base alimony on Gordon's VA and SSI disability but based it on Gordon's ability to pay. This case and many others like it across this Nation points out just how out of touch Judges are with the people and the Law. The violation of Federal U.S. Code by State Judges must end. Every Veteran who has had their alimony assessed using VA and SSI Disability must join together and fight this. If your alimony was based on your ability to pay, the Judge violated the law and is using semantics to get around it. This is your disability earned with sweat and blood and should never go to someone who was not there while it was earned Gordon contacted the State of Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission with a request for an investigation of Justice Curtis J. Bell for violation of Title 38 United States Code. This was their reply: Dear Mr. Sutton: The Judicial Tenure Commission has completed the investigation conducted at your request. The Commission's jurisdiction is limited to determining whether there is evidence of judicial misconduct, as that term is defined by law. The Commission has determined that there is no basis for commencing formal disciplinary proceedings or taking any other action. Accordingly, the file in this matter has been closed. Thank you for bringing this matter to the Commission's attention. Sincerely, Paul J. Fischer Executive Director and General Counsel What this is means is that Gordon complained about a fox being in the hen house in Kalamazoo and the higher ranking foxes in Lansing, Michigan told him he was imagining things. Tomorrow, 12/19/06, Calvin Murphy will appear in a courtroom in Manistee, Michigan about this same issue. Go to this link http://www.northernexpress.com/editorial/features.asp?id=2215 to read the story. The Firebase Network is interested in your thoughts in theses matters. Send your feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have received this email in error, please reply with the word REMOVE in the subject line and you will be removed from my mailing list.
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: response to hopsicker
If, as Daniel says, the attempt was at 6am, then why would Bush show up a couple of hours later at the school? That scheduled appointment was basically public information well before that day, wasn't it? - Original Message - From: mark urban To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 3:41 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: response to hopsicker As far as an attempt on Bush on the morning of 911 - if that were the case, then how the fuck could the secret service let him sit there like a bump on a log for a good half hour while planes were flying all over bumblefuck without a flight plan? Wouldn't they have rushed him off to safety? Wouldn't the attempt on his life come across as a very powerful propaganda tool for any and all future actions to be taken against Afghanistan and Al Qaida? There was zero media coverage of this. Why? --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: daniel To: cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com in my humble but always-forcefully stated opinion, it's EITHER/OR: either 19 arab suicide hijackers struck one of the most successful blows against a supposedly all-powerful adversary in the history of warfare, OR somebody pushed a button somewhere, and everything went BOOM. this either/or premise seems especially true given that i know, as the result of investigation, and not jerking off at my computer while thinking out loud, that george w bush was the target of an assassination attempt at 6 a.m on the morning of sept. 11 2001. [...]
[cia-drugs] [IN REVIEW] Dec.'06, Apathy Ignorance.
Howdy, You heard about the old boy that was asked what he thought about the apathy and ignorance of most folks. He said, I don't know and I don't care. Then there is the mature man that was told what a wonderful farm the good Lord had given him with orchards, gardens, deep well and rock house. Shaking his head, he replied, You should have seen the place when the Lord had it to himself. Most believe we have the right to our opinions, I would argue that it is more important that your opinions be right. Ron Stop Blaming Theology For Your Apathy I know dispensationalists who will excuse their apathy by saying, It's the last days, and there is nothing we can do about it. Or, This is just prophecy being fulfilled; we can't stop it. http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin336.htm Maybe... The Best 911 Explanation Available Well, the end game was this: Flight 93 was to land on the Whitehouse. You see, under US law at the time, if that happened, it would be martial law in the US and under those conditions, the entire 911 plot could have been completely tidied up, all the evidence buried. http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=107154;title=APFN About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal Interviews with active-duty soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who have signed the Appeal for Redress reveal an array of motivations. http://www.freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=41703 Former US Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment Donald Vance, a 29-year-old Navy veteran from Chicago who went to Iraq as a security contractor. He wound up as a whistle-blower, passing information to the F.B.I. about suspicious activities at the Iraqi security firm where he worked. http://qwstnevrythg.blog-city.com/former_us_detainee_in_iraq_recalls_torment.htm Torture Is Now Part of the American Soul You might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But never underestimate the human capacity for invention. United States interrogators have found a new way of destroying a human being http://qwstnevrythg.blog-city.com/torture_is_now_part_of_the_american_soul.htm Ex-soldiers break `silence' on Israeli excesses There were pictures of Palestinians bound and blindfolded. There was a photo of a settler carrying an assault rifle with a decal on the magazine clip: Kill 'em all, Let God sort 'em out. Another was of graffiti on a wall: Arabs to the gas chamber. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1c=Articlecid=1166271550356call_pageid=970599109774col=Columnist969907621513 North American Union Leader Says Merger Just Crisis Away Robert Pastor, a leading intellectual force in the move to create an EU-style North American Community, told WND he believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada. http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53378 US Army Announces Readiness for Total Military Takeover of America The first of the USANORTH plans for the total military takeover of the United States, from its few remaining civilian overseers, rest with a new series of draconian laws recently enacted by their top Military Leaders. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/October2006/211006Takeover.htm What Patriotic Christians Can Do For America? What can those of us do who plan to stay and tough it out in America? Are we totally without recourse? Is there nothing we can do to truly help turn the ship of state around? http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin337.htm From Jenni, I dont know how I got on your mailing list but I love to hear from you. I find the information that you send very valuable because I dont know what to believe on the news because there is so much more that they keep from us. Thank you! Please keep on sending this to me! Dan, You are a communist. Remove. Old Bill, All those who ignore the obvious need the help. Keep The Truth Flowing! Your posts are RIGHT ON!!! Grace, Please, remove my name from you list. My husband is in Iraq. Raz Khan Wow this is good, thanks alot for this stuff keep it coming, i fully support your attempts in freeing America, and every other nation, its people like you that gives us hope that maybe one day this world will be free Ivan. A BIG thanks to you Ron, for this 9/11 link. And I thought I had seen everything at goggle and u-tube about the truth about 9/11. If only every registered republican voter would see ALL THREE video at this site. Than come November there would not be a republican candidate left standing. Again thanks you Ron from the bottom of my speak truth to power activist hart. To be removed, place remove on the subject line. Sorry I woke you. Just trying to plant some seeds.
[cia-drugs] War Signals?
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0922-28.htm War Signals? by Dave Lindorff As reports circulate of a sharp debate within the White House over possible US military action against Iran and its nuclear enrichment facilities, The Nation has learned that the Bush Administration and the Pentagon have issued orders for a major strike group of ships, including the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship, to head for the Persian Gulf, just off Iran's western coast. This information follows a report in the current issue of Time magazine, both online and in print, that a group of ships capable of mining harbors has received orders to be ready to sail for the Persian Gulf by October 1. As Time writes in its cover story, What Would War Look Like?, evidence of the forward deployment of minesweepers and word that the chief of naval operations had asked for a reworking of old plans for mining Iranian harbors suggest that a much discussed--but until now largely theoretical--prospect has become real: that the U.S. may be preparing for war with Iran. According to Lieut. Mike Kafka, a spokesman at the headquarters of the Second Fleet, based in Norfolk, Virginia, the Eisenhower Strike Group, bristling with Tomahawk cruise missiles, has received recent orders to depart the United States in a little over a week. Other official sources in the public affairs office of the Navy Department at the Pentagon confirm that this powerful armada is scheduled to arrive off the coast of Iran on or around October 21. The Eisenhower had been in port at the Naval Station Norfolk for several years for refurbishing and refueling of its nuclear reactor; it had not been scheduled to depart for a new duty station until at least a month later, and possibly not till next spring. Family members, before the orders, had moved into the area and had until then expected to be with their sailor-spouses and parents in Virginia for some time yet. 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.) Gardiner notes, You cannot issue a PTDO and then stay ready for very long. It's a very significant order, and it's not done as a training exercise. This point was also made in the Time article. So what is the White House planning? On Monday President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly at its opening session, and while studiously avoiding even physically meeting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was also addressing the body, he offered a two-pronged message. Bush told the people of Iran that we're working toward a diplomatic solution to this crisis and that he looked forward to the day when you can live in freedom. But he also warned that Iran's leaders were using the nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons. Given the President's assertion that the nation is fighting a global war on terror and that he is Commander in Chief of that war, his prominent linking of the Iran regime with terror has to be seen as a deliberate effort to claim his right to carry the fight there. Bush has repeatedly insisted that the 2001 Congressional Authorization for the Use of Force that preceded the invasion of Afghanistan was also an authorization for an unending war on terror. Even as Bush was making not-so-veiled threats at the UN, his former Secretary of State, Colin Powell, a sharp critic of any unilateral US attack on
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: response to hopsicker
If, as Daniel says, the attempt was at 6am, then why would Bush show up a couple of hours later at the school? That scheduled appointment was basically public information well before that day, wasn't it? VMANN: yeah, they didnt even get him out of longboat key. in fact, they didnt even arrest the ostensibly alleged assassinators. they LET THEM GO. later they were suspected of having been seen booing bush as the motorcade drove by, iirc. i bet if a normal person attempted to assassinate an american head of state, they would be arrested even if the attempt didnt go through. and imprisoned for life. vigilius haufniensis
Re: [cia-drugs] Re: response to hopsicker
i too was/am puzzled about why bush didn't make pr hay out of the assassination attempt. the only answer i've been able to come up with is that the attack was so almost completely successful in decimating the constitutional line of succession that bush et co were scared shitless. also, sorry, but to think the massoud hit was anything other than an attack by his chief enemy seems to me to be ridiculous. VMANN: well, it was curiously timed, was it not? they could have whacked massoud any old time. why right before we would need them on our side? in re al qaeda and the cia: one of two things is the case. either a) someone in the whitehouse picked up a phone and said, hey, big o! what it is! we need a little help! or: b) knowing the u.s. had already begun to insert spec forces into afghanistan in the summer of 2001, as revealed by woodward in his first book after 9/11, they struck first. VMANN: wouldnt that be counter productive, though? why provide the New Pearl Harbor? since im no more privy to the answer to that than anyone else, i prefer b, for many reasons. 1 occam's razor. 2. extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. 3. it makes a hell of a lot more sense. i don't know about the terror drills. i DO know that, contrary to ruppert's nattering, it was NOT NORAD but the FAA which dropped the ball. also, pre-9/11, the FAA routinely protected the hijackers, or rather, they protected the op they were participating in. VMANN: why do you say it was the FAA, and not NORAD, that dropped the ball? this seems to be contraticted in griffin's analysis of the Commission Report. the Report wants to put it all on the FAA. finally, there seems to be quite a lack of rigorous thought in some of the other questions here. IF there was something amiss in the collapse of the buildings, THEN the first scientists to be all over it would not be red state dickwads from texas tech and utah state, but from schools so affected, say, colombia, that they couldn't be silenced, or from blue states that really hate bush, say, at harvard. VMANN: WHAT!? first of all, if the dickwad in question is from a Red State or is a Red State Type then what he says is more like a statement against interest. because we would presume that he would be predisposed to SUPPORTING the Bush Party Line. secondly, HARVARD!? are you kidding me? perhaps kris could send you his book on Eastern Establishment Secret Societies. in my view, harvard would be more likely to be in the loop than bush himself was vis a vis the 9/11 attacks. as for rodriguez, tarpley, etc: i again point to the logical assertion that we are dealing with an EITHER/OR proposition. and since, in the five fucking years since 9/11, there has been not a SHRED of real evidence to the contrary, i again assert that the 9/11 truth movement is disinformation designed to lead questioning away from certain obvious and highly inconvenient facts about the heroin trafficking the americans who were housing atta were at that same time involved in. if that's not a big enough or dirty enough conspiracy for you, then by all means continue nattering on. daniel VMANN: im going to have to continue nattering on. 1: why are you positing the EITHER/OR proposition? either there were saudi hijackers OR there was government complicity? werent the alleged hijackers themselves government agents? where they not running dope for the CIA? trained at pensacola naval air station? etc? 2: there is not a SHRED of evidence to the contrary of WHAT? to the contrary that there was government complicity? i disagree, there seems to be abundant evidence. or evidence to the contrary that 9/11 investigators are trying to lead away from the Neo-Iran/Contra Narcotics Angle? I disagree with that as well. both griffin and tarpley reference it. dunno if nafeez mossodeq ahmed does, as im not done with his book yet. thanks again for taking the time, dude. just trying to hash out all possibilities and permutations. vigiluis haufniensis
[cia-drugs] USA Planning Persian Gulf Build-Up As Warning To Iran
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm USA Planning Persian Gulf Build-Up As Warning To Iran Tue Dec 19 2006 10:02:07 ET The Pentagon is planning a major buildup of Naval forces in and around the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran, it was reported last night. MORE. The buildup, which would included a ago second aircraft carrier to the one already there is being proposed as a response to what US officials view as increasingly provocative acts by Iran, David Martin reported on CBS EVENING NEWS. Recent Iranian naval exercises in the Persian Gulf, support for Shiite militias in Iraq, and its nuclear enrichment program which US intelligence believes is designed to produce a bomb. CBS added, Military officers say the buildup would take place after the first of the year, not to actually attack Iran but to discourage its leaders from spreading their Shiite revolution. Developing...
[cia-drugs] Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?
pay per view: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070101faessay86108/rawi-abdelal-adam-segal/has-globalization-passed-its-peak.html Has Globalization Passed Its Peak? Rawi Abdelal and Adam Segal From Foreign Affairs, January/February 2007
[cia-drugs] KEVIN BARRETT ON O'REILLY FACTOR TONIGHT, FOX NEWS CHANNEL
- Original Message - From: Jack Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: xjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 1:27 PM Subject: [RM-COUNSEL] KEVIN BARRETT ON O'REILLY FACTOR TONIGHT, FOX NEWS CHANNEL KEVIN BARRETT ON FOX NEWS TONIGHT Kevin Barrett, who stood up to neocon talking head Sean Hannity, will be on the Bill O'Reilly Show tonight. O'Reilly made a threatening comment about Kevin saying he should have been fired from his position, and would have been thrown in the Charles River if he taught at Boston College, O'Reilly's alma mater. So tune in tonight on FOX cable news (I think it's 8 or 9 pm EST). FIRST RESPONDERS STILL WAITING There's an important article in today's NY Times saying the $40 million allotted for monitoring and treatment of 9/11 First Responders will run out soon. There's a report saying another $276 million is needed soon. You can read it at www.nytimes.com. BIG WEEKEND FOR 9/11 TRUTH Commemorations of the Boston Tea Party which launched the American Revolution took place this past weekend in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and San Francisco! These events began with plans by 3 Massachussetts groups of 9/11 truth activists, then spread across the nation in a matter of weeks. This goes to show how a good idea backed by dedicated planning and hard work by talented people can create a historic series of events, provide education and organizational value, and get media attention for the cause. The event in Boston resulted in a great photo with caption in the Boston Globe. The event in San Francisco was covered by their local CBS news station. See some coverage, photos and links at www.ny911truth.org. Below is the Proclamation handed out at the Boston event which I urge all to read and distribute to your lists. A PDF is available on our site. *** PROCLAMATION to be DISCUSSED by the CITIZENS at FANEUIL HALL NOON SATURDAY DECEMBER 16th Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth Did the 9/11 Commission cover-up government involvement in 9-11-01? ( http://boston911truth.org/teaparty/ or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 617-401-8047) Citizens of the United States of America, sisters and brothers of the six New England States, and all honorable servants of our great Republic — the Day of Reckoning is upon us. The lies and deception of the tyrannical elite within our government, especially regarding the misleading 9/11 Commission investigation and cover-up of the devastating attacks of September 11, 200 J, have infected our beloved democratic process and usurped our liberties for far too long. The Executive, Judiciary and US Congress are hereby advised that the citizenry of these United States holds an uncompromising DEMAND for: An exhaustive reinvestigation of ALL SCIENTIFIC THEORIES and testimonies as they relate to the physical destruction of life and property inflicted during the attacks on 9/11; Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate numerous Air Force war games conducted on September 11, 2001 that severely crippled our normally highly competent FAA/Air National Guard team's aircraft interception capability. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate or even mention the collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Tower 7. It is highly suspicious that WTC7 is the first steel framed high-rise in history to collapse from small fires alone. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission lied in stating that the center of World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2 contained only air ducting and elevators. In reality the center of the towers each contained 47 massive, vertical steel support columns, which were the core supports for these towers. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate the fact that the three tower collapses on 9-11-01 each exhibited eleven classic characteristics of well-engineered building demolitions. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate and explain how the Pentagon, the most-guarded airspace on the planet, with its own missile defense system, was penetrated on 9-11-01. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed to investigate members of the Administration who posted their radical military plan in September 2000. This plan stated that their goals would not be met unless a cataclysmic event occurred, like a new Pearl Harbor, to get US citizens on-board with their ruthless agenda. Whereas, the 9/11 Commission failed in its original mandate. Over 100 other questions, omissions, inconsistencies and im plausible scenarios constitute gross malfeasance in its obligation to the 9/11 victims' families to conduct a thorough investigation. We, the people of the United States of America, today, in Boston, on the sixteenth day of December in the year two thousand and six, do hereby REJECT the findings contained in the Report of the Kean-Hamilton Commission to Investigate Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, and, therefore, DEMAND an IMMEDIATE, New and Independent investigation with subpoena powers, independent
[cia-drugs] GenMod 'Skeeters!?
trust your government? -vmann http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/772702/mosquitoes_may_become_our_allies/index.html Mosquitoes May Become Our Allies By Catherine Clabby Without mosquitoes, epidemics of dengue fever and malaria could not plague this planet. The skin-piercing insects infect one person after another while dining on a favorite meal: human blood. Eliminating the pests appears impossible. But scientists are attempting to re-engineer them so they cannot carry disease. If they manage that, they must create enough mutants to mate with wild insects and one day to outnumber them. Researchers chasing this dream, including an N.C. State University entomologist, know they may court controversy. Genetically modified crop plants such as soybeans and corn have become common in the United States, but an altered organism on wings would be a first. Critics of bio-engineering, especially in Europe, view some genetic alterations as unnatural, even monstrous. People fearful of so-called Frankenfood could sound similar alarms over Frankenbugs. But with advances in molecular biology and millions of dollars from the Bill Melinda Gates Foundation, this quest may be within reach. And its promise is huge, the scientists say. We're looking at a timeline. But this is coming, said Fred Gould, the NCSU insect expert. Gould is working on the project with scientists on four continents. They landed $19.7 million under a Grand Challenges in Global Health grant offered by the Gates philanthropy and a National Institutes of Health foundation. The funders selected researchers ready to collaborate rather than compete on risky research aimed at solving massive health threats in poor places. The genetic tinkering is focused at first on dengue, a tropical virus re-emerging in Asia, Latin America and Africa. While dengue claims a fraction of the million or more victims that malaria kills annually, it strikes 50 to 100 million people each year with severe flu symptoms. Outbreaks disrupt families and communities and overburden health systems. Dengue is a good starting point because it is transmitted almost exclusively by a single mosquito species (the smallish, striped- legged Aedes aegypti) while the malaria parasite is carried by several. Focusing the effort on just one bug simplifies the science. To try to build a less dangerous Aedes aegypti, scientists broke a huge job into smaller chunks. First, they needed a means to make female mosquitoes immune to dengue. Only females drink blood (males prefer nectar), and only insects infected with dengue can spread it. A breakthrough this year at Colorado State University may help. Molecular biologists there stitched laboratory-made DNA into Aedes aegypti that blocks dengue from reproducing in a bug's gut. That stops dengue from getting into mosquito saliva, which deposits the virus into human bloodstreams. As important, the change sticks. Bugs pass the trait to their offspring. Things keep bearing fruit. So far, so good, said Anthony James, a biologist at the University of California Irvine, the lead investigator for the mosquito project. But inserting strings of DNA into laboratory mosquitoes and spreading them in the wild are two different things. Scientists must convince the government and people of any country they approach that mutant bugs will fight disease without risk to people or the environment, said Sujatha Byravan, president of the Council for Responsible Genetics. Scientists are trying to harness exotic genes to help slip dengue- fighting DNA into many offspring quickly. One way: piggyback onto so- called selfish genes -- unusual stretches of DNA that perform no duties other than tending to their own survival. Whichever strategy gets picked will require a customized release plan. And it will likely carry a cost. Organisms absorbing altered DNA often take a fitness hit, meaning an altered mosquito may fly slower, weigh less or be less successful finding a mate. Gould and his team aren't engineering insects. They are predicting each strategy's success at passing dengue immunity to future generations. Is it best to release many in a small place or fewer over a neighborhood? Both jobs require a mix of high-level mathematics and big computing power. But just as important is detailed knowledge of the life cycles and mating habits of Aedes aegypti. Dengue mosquitoes often are born, live and die in or near a home. They prefer dwellings with no running water, where they can lay eggs in containers people use for cooking, bathing and cleaning. The bugs tend to bite during the day, so mosquito netting over beds offers little protection. Understanding the life cycles of the insects will give Gould's group clues on how to infiltrate an entire mosquito population quickly and at a reasonable cost. We want to determine what's the most efficient way to use the fewest mosquitoes to get this
[cia-drugs] Iraq Special Inspector Exposes Fraud, Gets Fired By Congress
When the firm was raided, at Vance's urging, Vance learned the hazards of being a whistleblower. He got taken into custody and was imprisoned in one of the U.S. military's infamous detention centers in Iraq. http://www.swnewsherald.com/online_content/2006/12/121906wv_hor_vance.php Iraq Special Inspector Exposes Fraud, Gets Fired By Congress Jacob Hornberger's Commentary Tuesday, December 19, 2006 -- Stuart W. Bowen should be grateful. He's the special inspector who was exposing fraud in federal contracts in Iraq. Consequently, Congress terminated his job. So, why should Bowen be thanking his lucky stars? Because he got off light compared to Donald Vance, a 29-year-old American who went to Iraq as a security contractor. No doubt a bit naïve due to his age, Vance began reporting suspicious activity to the FBI about possible illegal weapons trading in the Iraqi security firm he was working with, including a steady flow of weapons to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, which has been tied to death squads in Iraq. When the firm was raided, at Vance's urging, Vance learned the hazards of being a whistleblower. He got taken into custody and was imprisoned in one of the U.S. military's infamous detention centers in Iraq. Spending 97 days in that hellhole, his confinement appears to be eerily similar to that of another American imprisoned by the Pentagon - Jose Padilla. According to the New York Times: American guards arrived at the man's cell periodically over the next several days, shackled his hands and feet, blindfolded him and took him to a padded room for interrogation, the detainee said. After an hour or two, he was returned to his cell, fatigued but unable to sleep. The fluorescent lights in his cell were never turned off, he said. At most hours, heavy metal or country music blared in the corridor. He said he was rousted at random times without explanation and made to stand in his cell. Even lying down, he said, he was kept from covering his face to block out the light, noise and cold. And when he was released after 97 days he was exhausted, depressed and scared. Vance's request to talk to a lawyer, one of the principal tenets of America's criminal justice system, was rebuffed by U.S. military authorities. After all, he was in Iraq, where that pesky U.S. Constitution isn't operative. Giving the same response that they have in the Padilla case, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon's detentions operations in Iraq, a first-lieutenant named Lea Ann Fracasso, said that Vance was treated fair and humanely. The sad part of this is the distinct possibility that Fracasso, along with her Pentagon cohorts, really and truly believes this. One day, Vance wrote in his Bible: Sick, very. Vomited. Told no more phone calls til leave. Yesterday, the federal judge in the Padilla case ordered an official examination into Padilla's mental competency, given Padilla's apparently having been subjected to the same type of mental torture that American GIs were subjected to by the North Korean communists during the Korean War. I've said it before but it bears repeating: Heaven forbid that the American people ever permit the U.S. military to import to America the type of freedom and humaneness it has brought to the Iraqi people. But that's certainly the direction our nation continues to head in, thanks to the horrible fear of the terrorists that 9/11 engendered in American adults. Just ask Jose Padilla and Donald Vance. Mr. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is one of the 22 speakers at FFF's upcoming conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties on June 1-4, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Reston in Reston, Virginia. Send him email. Serving readers in Orland Park, Tinley Park, Frankfort, Mokena, Palos Park, Palos Hills, Palos Heights, Oak Lawn, Burbank, Bridgeview.
[cia-drugs] Paramilitary Ties Implicate Colombia's Political Elite
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801374.html Paramilitary Ties Implicate Colombia's Political Elite By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, December 19, 2006; Page A01 BOGOTA, Colombia, Dec. 18 -- In what has been heralded as a decisive moment in Colombia's shadowy, decades-long conflict, a powerful paramilitary commander is to appear in a special court Tuesday to account for crimes that include massacres and assassinations. Salvatore Mancuso's testimony will be the first by a top death-squad leader in a Colombian courtroom, and it is being touted by the administration of President Álvaro Uribe as evidence that the wheels of justice are turning. Rather than rejoicing, however, the Uribe government has found itself in the awkward position of being implicated in the wrongdoing. Over the past several weeks, Colombians have been gripped by revelations of ties between paramilitary fighters and several congressmen close to the president, as well as some officials in his administration. The scandal now threatens to unravel his authority. Uribe won reelection in May after cultivating his reputation as a workaholic technocrat -- someone who would be relentless against corruption and illegal armed groups. But lately, he has joined a cast of lawmakers, intelligence service operatives and mid-level government bureaucrats in publicly denying ties to the paramilitary groups, which for a generation the military used as a proxy force to battle guerrillas. The government's smokescreen is becoming transparent, said Venus Albeiro Silva, a congressman from the left-leaning Alternative Democratic Pole party. What's happening now is they cannot put the lid on this. That's why we're telling the president to come out and say the truth. Repeated requests for an interview with Uribe went unanswered. But Vice President Francisco Santos said in an interview that the administration fully supports the investigations into ties with the paramilitary umbrella organization known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, known by its Spanish initials, AUC. The government has said this has to go as deep as it needs to go, he said. But he added, We're seeing the whole iceberg here. So far, investigators from the Supreme Court and the attorney general's office have revealed case after case that not only expose friendly ties between officials and paramilitary fighters but also detail how lawmakers and others helped the fighters expand their hold over northern Colombia, liquidating opponents in the process. Since three congressmen were jailed last month for collaborating with paramilitary groups, investigators have opened official probes into six more members of Congress and three former lawmakers. The most prominent is Sen. Álvaro Araújo, whose sister, Maria Consuelo Araújo, is the country's foreign minister. The senator has even admitted meeting with Rodrigo Tovar, a paramilitary commander who prosecutors say has been running a drug-trafficking group while negotiating with the government. Another senator, Miguel de la Espriella, publicly detailed how he and dozens of other lawmakers met with paramilitary commanders in 2001. At the meeting, they signed a pact cementing an alliance designed to lead to disarmament negotiations, which death squad commanders hoped would help them avoid extradition to the United States on drug charges and hold on to land and other possessions. The talks began after Uribe won office in 2002. The interests of these men is personal, that they don't lose property and that they don't get extradited, said José Mejia, a former political officer in Tovar's paramilitary group who gave up his weapons this year. What they're looking for is that they don't get tried for massacres and narco-trafficking. The developments involving congressmen follow disclosures that a string of officials in the Uribe administration -- among them the former head of the intelligence service, the former head of the rural development agency and the former ambassador to Chile -- helped paramilitary groups by giving them classified information while orchestrating the takeover of land and the murder of the group's enemies. The government has also come under withering criticism for moving too slowly to bring paramilitary fighters to justice, although the groups began disarming in 2003. The government says 2,700 paramilitary commanders should be tried for atrocities, but the attorney general's office says administration officials have fully identified only 400. And although Mancuso agreed to talk to prosecutors, dozens of other top commanders have balked, threatening to paralyze the process. Maria McFarland, of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said the system set up to investigate paramilitary fighters puts the burden on prosecutors, not defendants. So far, the government hasn't gotten the paramilitaries to fulfill their
[cia-drugs] Dollar has fallen, when is gold-Dinar coming
http://www.bruneitimes.com.bn/section/opinion/19Dec2006-3.php Dollar has fallen, when is gold-Dinar coming Dzikrullah W Pramudya 19-Dec-06 THE veteran Samurai of capitalism has acknowledged his sword is no longer sharp enough to rule the world. Last week, former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan said he expected the dollar to stay weak for the next few years and will continue to drift down, weighed by the US balance of payments deficit. ``I expect that the dollar will continue to drift downwards until there will be a change in the US balance of payments,`` Greenspan told a business conference via video-link from the United States to Israel. He said markets were so sophisticated it was very difficult to forecast the short term direction of the dollar. He also noticed that Opec nations were switching their reserves out of dollars and into euro and yen. ``It is imprudent to hold everything in one currency,`` he said, adding that at some point the dollar will be moving lower. What Greenspan failed to acknowledge was, in fact, that for such a long time it had been an imprudent act to hold anything in any conventional currency, any fiat money - which is the paper money that is made legal and valued by the law. Dollar, Euro, Franc, Mark, Poundsterling, Rupee, Ringgit, Peso, Rupiah, Bath - none are backed by a real value. Fiat money has no intrinsic value, as opposed to commodity money such as gold-Dinar. If tomorrow, for any reason, the US government declares its intention to devaluate US$100 notes into US$10, then billions of people would not be able to do anything but submit and accept the `reality' that in the next 24 hours they would be much poorer. No such threat with regard to gold-Dinar. Even if all governments under the sun declare that gold is valueless, not many people would even blink. Gold is gold, and people will always appreciate it as something highly precious. The value of a 22-carrat gold-Dinar coin during the time of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) more than 1400 years ago was exactly the same with its value today. Burn a piece of gold or melt it, its value would remain. Try to burn a bagful of US$ banknotes and use the charred remnants to buy a plate of rice. A burnt piece of fiat money is useless. Worse, you do not even need to burn fiat money to render it useless. All you need to do is save it in a bank and never touch it; after several years, the value of your money would certainly drop. In fact, the dollar value has kept sliding downwards against gold since 1970s up until today. Many people think that it is the nature of money, and that inflation is to blame. But pressure groups in the US such as Fame (Foundation of the Advancement of Monetary Education) or Gata(Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee) have different thoughts. They are speaking out against the fiat money-based monetary system. ``Because of material misrepresentations and nondisclosure regarding our fiat dollar, it is prima facie fraudulent,`` stated Lawrence Parks, Executive Director of Fame. Both organisations have long pursued a Congressional reform in monetary system. According to the Fame fact sheet, the Congress has improperly delegated to the US banking system a power that the Congress does not have under the US Constitution: the power to create legal-tender-irredeemable-paperticket/electronic-fiat-token money out of nothing. Since 1946, on a base of about US$150 billion, the U.S. banking system has created US$9.4 trillions up to 2005. About US$ 700 billion was created by the Federal Reserve, and the balance, about US$8.7 trillion, was created by private companies, banks. ``Why should private companies be empowered to create money?`` asked Parks. We will let the Americans respond to the confusion that has influenced the world economy through their fiat money system. This article will focus on a solution, namely the commodity money. In this case, the gold-Dinar currency, is a solution. Many people in Southeast Asia region would usually see the gold-Dinar issue as political, launched in 2003 by then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad. In fact, Mahathir had been responding to the issue a long time after it was first raised by many Muslims. Mahathir stated that Malaysia would take the initiative to overhaul the international financial system, by establishing gold-Dinar as an alternative currency. He criticised the current financial system as one that that was ``skewed toward rich countries and speculators``. He also stated that Malaysia would exert efforts to use the gold-Dinar for its trade with Iran for starter. If the initiative proved to be successful, Malaysia would extend it to cover 32 countries having bilateral payment arrangements (BPA) with Malaysia. Now, the dollar has fallen. Why hasn't the gold-Dinar emerged yet, the way
[cia-drugs] The War in Iraq: It's All About the Dollar
http://ajbenjaminjr.blogspot.com/2006/12/war-in-iraq-its-all-about-dollar.html Tuesday, December 19, 2006 The War in Iraq: It's All About the Dollar Some clips to ponder: If this measure is implemented it could have very grave consequences for the American economy. As early as September 2005 Aljazeera published an article on its website that Iran was about to begin pricing its oil in euros. According this article just about everyone would benefit, except the United States. For at least fifty years about 70 % of all currency reserves were in American dollars. This made the dollar the strongest currency on earth. Central banks need to have important reserves in dollars because up until now oil, the most important commodity of the world, is mostly priced in dollars. Since the irresponsible policies of the current American administration have allowed America's national debt to rise to crippling heights, its ailing economy became mostly dependent upon the high demand for its currency. Or, to put it simply, the dollar may no longer be exchangeable for gold but it can be exchanged for oil. Since the demand for oil increases steadily and the price of oil also increases, the dollar is a safe bet. Until now, that is. [snip] The adoption of the euro for oil transactions will provide the European currency with a reserve status that will benefit the Europeans at the expense of the Americans. On September 2, 2005 the Global Politician quoted an expert stating One of the Federal Reserve's nightmares may begin to unfold when it appears that international buyers will have a choice of buying a barrel of oil for $60 on the NYMEX (New York Mercantile Exchange) and IPE (London's International Petroleum Exchange) or purchase a barrel of oil for ?45 to ?50 via an alternative Iranian bourse. In this scenario an already-existent global trend of shifting foreign currency reserves from dollars to euros would accelerate, thus strengthening the euro and weakening the dollar on the international market. Imports would start to cost America so much more that its economy would not be able to cope anymore and the stock market bubble would burst. [snip] But is it likely to happen? Well, it has happened before it seems. In 2000 Saddam Houssein demanded euros for Iraq's oil. At first he wasn't taken all to seriously but when it became clear that he meant business, political pressure was exerted to change his mind. Other oil producing countries began to voice their intent to accept payments in euros or yen. So, when Bush and his cabal of neocons invaded Iraq, why exactly were they doing this? Because of Saddam's long defunct pipe-dream of weapons of mass destruction? Was it about spreading democracy? Indignation about an inhuman regime? Or was it about defending the American dollar and sending a clear message to other countries that a superpower would not tolerate its super-currency flouted. Some have argued that Bush started the war to seize Iraq's oilfields. But why would he want to? Strangely enough: as long as the dollar is backed by oil, America can print as many dollars as it wants and... buy oil with them. Defending the dollar as the unique oil-currency is infinitely more important than seizing the oil itself. And look what happened: barely two months after the United States invaded Iraq, the Oil for Food Program was terminated and the Iraqi euro accounts were switched back to dollars. Global dollar supremacy was once again restored. That was the real mission that was accomplished. That is also the reason neocons aren't too worried about the way the war in Iraq is going. As far as they are concerned it may drag on for another twenty years and cost tens of thousands of American lives as long as the supremacy of the dollar is maintained. For the neocons and their conspiracy for a New American Century this is the basis of all that they are trying to accomplish. This is what Krassimir Petrov in the Energy Bulletin has to say about it: A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations. (...) Historically, imperial taxation has always been direct: the subject state handed over the economic goods directly to the empire. For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation. It did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but distributed instead its own fiat currency, the U.S. Dollar, to other nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of inflating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar with less economic goods-the difference capturing the U.S. imperial tax. The immediate question is whether the neocons will attempt to intervene
[cia-drugs] Re: Timothy McVeigh Gore Vidal
thank you! --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, norgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, mark urban mcurb@ wrote: mcveigh corresponded extensively with gore vidal before his execution. does anybody have copies of that material? ~ Vidal and the McVeigh Execution On May 5, 2001, Gore Vidal announced that he would attend Timothy McVeigh's execution in Indiana and write a piece about it for Vanity Fair. As it turned out, Vidal did not attend the execution because he didn't have enough time to get to the U.S. from Italy after McVeigh - on Friday, June 8 - abruptly ended his appeals, thus allowing the June 11 execution to take place. Most observers thought McVeigh would get a stay as his appeals worked their way through the courts. For people interested in this issue as it relates to Vidal, I've put together a list of links to stories I've found on the web. Needless to say, if a site takes down its story, then the link will no longer be good. Vidal and McVeigh made contact after Vidal wrote a piece on the drug war and the loss of freedom in America for Vanity Fair in November 1998. Vidal's post-execution piece on McVeigh - which includes excerpts from their correspondence - appears in the September 2001 issue of the magazine. And Vidal's book on the World Trade Center attack has more material about his relationship with McVeigh. Many of the stories that appeared about Vidal's involvement with McVeigh has since been take off the internet (as older stories often are). Here, though, are some links to pieces that remain: The online magazine Salon published this story about Vidal's contact with McVeigh. Writer Justin Raimondo defends Vidal in an essay on antwar.com. Here's a reprint of a Washington Post article on the subject. A story on the BBC's web site depicts an execution chamber along with photos of Vidal and McVeigh. This report appeared in the Brisith newspaper The Guardian USA Today published a story on Vidal and McVeigh The liberal web site Fantastic Forum supports Vidal in his efforts to explain McVeigh (this will open as a PDF file in a new window). Vidal defends McVeigh at the Edinburgh Book Festival, as reported in The Guardian. Or you can read the actual interview from the festival. The Russian newspaper Pravda ran this piece in English about Vidal and McVeigh. This Reuters story shares Vidal's view that McVeigh had help in doing what he did. In this piece, Vidal casts McVeigh as a hero, the author says, not quite accurately. On a related matter, here is a list of articles that examine Vidal's views on the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. THE GORE VIDAL INDEX by Harry Kloman The Gore Vidal Index is the most comprehensive Vidal site on the Internet. http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/vidalframe.html An essay on Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: The Newest World Order The World Trade Center Attack And Vidal's Writing on the Subject http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/attack.html Vidal and the McVeigh Execution http://www.pitt.edu/~kloman/mcveigh.html
[cia-drugs] This was sent to me on the internet about the Money valuation problem - which is really world wide possiblity
I read not long ago, I believe on the web site, where the New World Order (The Bilderberg Group) (see web search) was preparing to devaluate the dollar about 40%. That means that more people would not have as much money, thereby causeing caos in the street and a shortage of money. why? that is for you to figure out. The spend and borrow system of this administration and and will have a huge impact on our economy, regardless if they get the North Atlantic Union through or not. It also could be how they get it through.That is left up to you and your knowledge of what is going on and what is in the making as well. We on the internet call it KeepUp. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:03:33 -0600From: December 19, 2006 12:21 p.m. PST This Report addresses reasons behind the Illuminatis efforts to drive down the value of the US Dollar. MANIPULATION OF US DOLLAR For the past few years, the value of the US Dollar has been declining in comparison to the Euro. The US Dollars loss of value is part of the Illuminati plan to cause a worldwide economic crash. The history behind the US Dollars present status helps to explain why the US Dollars loss of value is a WORLDWIDE issue, not just an American issue. After World War II, economist John Maynard Keynes proposed major economic policies to rebuild the devastated economies of Europe and Asia as part of avoiding future wars. Keynes proposed the US Dollar should become the standard world currency to which the value of all other currencies would be tied. The USAs economy was the only economy at the end of World War II which was strong enough to reach out and help the ruined economies of Europe and Asia, therefore the US Dollar became the common medium of exchange. This led to a planned, very large expansion of US Dollars being used as the international currency by all countries worldwide. It is why even today, when traveling to other countries, the US Dollar is accepted by most businesses and service providers. There are huge amounts of US Dollars held by businesses and governments of most countries worldwide. Therefore, the loss of value of the US Dollar impacts much of the world. The Illuminati have planned for many decades to cause a worldwide economic crash with the hope it would cause chaos in the streets. The Illuminati believe that if the people become unruly due to economic crashes, the major governments would be justified in declaring MARTIAL LAW. Martial Law is necessary for the Illuminati to impose their new world order or one world government on the worlds people. One of the current Illuminati actions to cause a worldwide economic crash is the planned reduction in the value of the US Dollar. Therefore, it is NO surprise that the Illuminati worldwide organization is pulling the strings of China and Chinas government is planning to sell over one trillion US Dollars in the coming months. Only a few of Chinas highest officials are privy to the Illuminatis plans and therefore aware of the TRUE reason behind China selling one trillion US Dollars. Last week according to the Washington Post newspaper, Bush government officials met in Beijing with Chinese officials to discuss economic issues, including certain currency issues. Although Chinas announcement they are selling one trillion US Dollars is not widely published, it is a fact. Fortunately, there are behind-the-scenes actions which will PREVENT the China sales of US Dollars from giving the Illuminati the worldwide economic crash they are hoping to cause. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[cia-drugs] Re: response to hopsicker
Dan, Thanks for addressing this stuff. I do not think anybody gives a lot of consideration to the narcowar angle. It is taboo - just like white slavery and pedophilia. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i too was/am puzzled about why bush didn't make pr hay out of the assassination attempt. the only answer i've been able to come up with is that the attack was so almost completely successful in decimating the constitutional line of succession that bush et co were scared shitless. also, sorry, but to think the massoud hit was anything other than an attack by his chief enemy seems to me to be ridiculous. in re al qaeda and the cia: one of two things is the case. either a) someone in the whitehouse picked up a phone and said, hey, big o! what it is! we need a little help! or: b) knowing the u.s. had already begun to insert spec forces into afghanistan in the summer of 2001, as revealed by woodward in his first book after 9/11, they struck first. since im no more privy to the answer to that than anyone else, i prefer b, for many reasons. 1 occam's razor. 2. extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. 3. it makes a hell of a lot more sense. i don't know about the terror drills. i DO know that, contrary to ruppert's nattering, it was NOT NORAD but the FAA which dropped the ball. also, pre-9/11, the FAA routinely protected the hijackers, or rather, they protected the op they were participating in. finally, there seems to be quite a lack of rigorous thought in some of the other questions here. IF there was something amiss in the collapse of the buildings, THEN the first scientists to be all over it would not be red state dickwads from texas tech and utah state, but from schools so affected, say, colombia, that they couldn't be silenced, or from blue states that really hate bush, say, at harvard. as for rodriguez, tarpley, etc: i again point to the logical assertion that we are dealing with an EITHER/OR proposition. and since, in the five fucking years since 9/11, there has been not a SHRED of real evidence to the contrary, i again assert that the 9/11 truth movement is disinformation designed to lead questioning away from certain obvious and highly inconvenient facts about the heroin trafficking the americans who were housing atta were at that same time involved in. if that's not a big enough or dirty enough conspiracy for you, then by all means continue nattering on. daniel --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, mark urban mcurb@ wrote: I guess William Rodriguez is just a big lying sack of shit! He was by no means some armchair jerkoff on a mission when he arrived at work on the morning of 911 and began his day trying to save the life of some maintenance worker who was blown up in the basement of the north tower about a minute before Atta's plane plowed into the 90th or so floor Is Webster Tarpley jerking off at his computer? My hat is off to him. I hope I have the desire and drive to do that when I'm his age. And I guess the Silverstein statement is just one of those things. As far as an attempt on Bush on the morning of 911 - if that were the case, then how the fuck could the secret service let him sit there like a bump on a log for a good half hour while planes were flying all over bumblefuck without a flight plan? Wouldn't they have rushed him off to safety? Wouldn't the attempt on his life come across as a very powerful propaganda tool for any and all future actions to be taken against Afghanistan and Al Qaida? There was zero media coverage of this. Why? And I guess physicists like Steven Jones who have basically committed professional suicide in order to pursue the truth are just wasting their time and whacking their wickers in self flagellation! If none of this makes sense. If I am completely off the wall, then I am going to sit down, shut the fuck up, and get out of the way. Good luck and happy hunting. --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Vigilius Haufniensis thehatefulnerd@ wrote: in my humble but always-forcefully stated opinion, it's EITHER/OR: either 19 arab suicide hijackers struck one of the most successful blows against a supposedly all-powerful adversary in the history of warfare, OR somebody pushed a button somewhere, and everything went BOOM. this either/or premise seems especially true given that i know, as the result of investigation, and not jerking off at my computer while thinking out loud, that george w bush was the target of an assassination attempt at 6 a.m on the morning of sept. 11 2001. VMANN: agreed, but what do you make of the ANGEL IS NEXT warning touted by webster tarpley, and which seems to explain bush's movements on that day? the assassination
[cia-drugs] Fwd: War On Drugs journaal Oktober
Begin forwarded message: From: legalize! members [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: December 19, 2006 11:33:06 AM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: War On Drugs journaal Oktober Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [column]: Criminelen scoren voor je prestatiecontract Stel, je gaat naar een feest in de Westergasfabriek en staat te wachten in de rij. De sfeer is goed, je schuift steeds dichter naar de ingang en geniet al van de muziek. En dan opeens zie je… een vette drugscontrole. Naast de security staan vijfentwintig agenten met drugshonden en iedereen wordt gecheckt! Wat doe jij dan met je drie pillen? Het is slikken of weggooien, want pakt het ‘HIT’ (Horeca Interventie Team) je tijdens zo’n controle - ook al is het met maar één pil - dan word je tegenwoordig zonder pardon van het feest verwijderd. Natuurlijk ben je als ‘dropper’ helemaal de lul. Iemand die veel pillen tegelijk slikt loopt nu eenmaal een groot risico uit te drogen of (f)out te gaan. En je vrienden? Hen rest zich geheel over te geven aan de enige legaal aanwezige drug: alcohol. En daar zit het probleem: sinds de invoering van dit zero-tolerance beleid - ruim twee jaar geleden stak het zijn lelijke kop op - heeft de EHBO op evenementen vaker te maken met alcoholgerelateerde problemen. Maar ook voor de feestganger die niets met drugs heeft kan het zero-tolerancebeleid een ruwe verstoring van een goed(betaald)e avond betekenen. Zo pakte een bezoeker van het feest Awakenings een kauwgumpje en stak een ander de sleutel van zijn lockerbox in zijn broekzak, om door agenten in burger hardhandig te worden meegenomen voor een schaamteloze ‘interne’ controle. Wat is hier gebeurd? Dertig jaar gedoogbeleid, kennis van ‘harm reduction’ en ervaring met vele soorten drugs lijken door de kabinetten Balkenende door de gootsteen te zijn gespoeld. De politie werkt nu met prestatiecontracten, zodat we gerust kunnen zijn dat ze echt(e) criminelen vangen. Gevolg is dat een ‘heterdaadje’ van één pil op papier ook doorgaat voor het pakken van een crimineel. Dat is makkelijk scoren! Dat de Officieren van Justitie en agenten nu hun vermeende kans grijpen, is misschien niet zo verwonderlijk. Nederland stemde de voorgaande verkiezingen nu eenmaal op ‘duidelijkheid’, ‘regels die regels zijn’, ‘normen en waarden’ en nog meer vaagheidsbeginsels die iedere oefening in nuance teniet doen. Nu maar hopen dat het volgende kabinet de ‘internationale betrekkingen’ (voor zover de Amerikaanse War on Drugs reikt) niet zo hoog in het vaandel heeft staan als de voorgaande drie. De Legalees [quote]: ‘See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.’ (Milton Friedman) [berichten]: Drugs goedkoper BRUSSEL - Volgens een analyse van het EU-drugsagentschap (EWDD) zijn in Europa de straatprijzen van heroïne en XTC in vijf jaar tijd bijna gehalveerd. De prijzen daalden voor marihuana met gemiddeld 12%, hasj 19%, amfetamine 20%, cocaïne 22%, heroïne (45%) en XTC (47%). Drugsprijzen worden onder meer beïnvloed door schommelingen in aanbod en kwaliteit. Volgens het EWDD is er echter geen rechtstreekse relatie tussen de prijsdaling en de stijging van het aantal drugsvangsten of de omvang van het gebruik. (Het Belang Van Limburg) Groei HIV in Azie en Oost-Europa vooral bij spuiters GENEVE - Unaids, de aidsorganisatie van de VN, constateert een scherpe stijging van het aantal HIV-dragers in Oost-Europa en Azië in de afgelopen twee jaar. 67 procent van de HIV-besmettingen is toe te schrijven aan drugsspuiters. Preventie ligt in dit gebied politiek gevoelig en verslaafden worden vervolgd. Purnima Mane, directeur Beleid van Unaids: ‘De vrees is dat ze meer gaan spuiten als je schone naalden verstrekt.’ Volgens Mane is bewezen dat hulp zoals voorlichting, opvang, spuitomruil en verstrekking van methadon aan drugsverslaafden zeer effectief is tegen aids. (Volkskrant) Medische heroïne te duur DEVENTER - Twaalf middelgrote gemeenten dreigen na 1 januari 2008 te stoppen met medische heroïneverstrekking, omdat ze de kosten niet kunnen betalen. Volgens een woordvoerder van de gemeente Deventer is de subsidie ontoereikend, omdat er onderzoek moet worden verricht naar de effecten van behandeling. De gemeenten pleiten ervoor te stoppen met deze onderzoeksverplichting. De heroïneverstrekking heeft geleid tot een verbetering van de gezondheid van verslaafden en een vermindering van criminele activiteiten. (NRC Handelsblad) Medicinale marihuana kweken mag LEEUWARDEN - De 51-jarige MS-patiënt Wim Moorlag mag van het Gerechtshof Leeuwarden toch medicinale marihuana voor eigen gebruik telen. Het Hof stelt dat het persoonlijke belang van Moorlag boven het maatschappelijk belang van de opiumwet gaat. Het Openbaar Ministerie gaat in cassatie. Moorlag’s advocaat Wim
