[cia-drugs] Fwd: Hold Your Breath
Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 28, 2007 2:19:30 PM PST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hold Your Breath Report: Iran War Was Set to Start NOW, But Resistance Gave Bush ‘Weak Knees’ Posted by Jon Ponder | Feb. 28, 2007, 7:58 am http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/02/28/report-iran-war-is-set-to- start-now/ Apocalypse now: New reporting by Robert Parry on the behind-the-scenes battle between President Bush and the U.S. military’s top generals picks up where the Seymour Hersh’s story in the New Yorker leaves off — painting a picture of a what amounts to a quiet military coup at the very top ranks of the Pentagon against the neocon cabal at the White House. Resistance from the Pentagon, Tony Blair, and even Democrats in Congress appears to be having an effect on Bush’s decision-making. He had planned to launch an attack on Iran, possibly as early as this week, but got “weak knees.” The nation’s top brass are convinced that attacking Iran would yield calamitous results, and yet the White House — under the sway of the neocons and Vice President Cheney — is determined at any cost to escalate the sectarian war it has started in Iraq into a full-scale regional war between Sunni Arabs and Shiite Iran. In an elaborate contest of wills, the generals, apparently including General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have leaked the broad strokes of Cheney’s secret war planning to the media. They have also let it be known that many of them would resign if Cheney and Bush take the country to war. To counter this threat, Cheney has instructed the Pentagon to be ready to start bombing Iran within 24 hours after a signal from the White House — relying on the military’s “do or die” ethos to force the generals to stay at their posts until after the damage is done: By creating such a tight time frame for action, Bush would negate the possibility for the Pentagon brass and Congress to mount any serious opposition to a presidential order on Iran, even if they are convinced Bush’s actions will be catastrophic. The tradition of the U.S. military is to implement presidential orders regardless of doubts. Perhaps months later, a dissenting commander might quietly resign. That practice and the 24-hour window may help explain why several U.S. generals are pondering now how to stop Bush from blindsiding them with a new war. One of their tactics appears to be leaking indications of their strong opposition to the press. It was the order to set up the 24 hour trigger that prompted several top generals to signal to the Sunday Times of London this week that they would resign if the order to start the war is given. And, as unlikely as it may seem, the generals’ resistance may have been worked, at least in the short term: [One] source told me that the resistance — from the Pentagon, Blair and even Democrats in Congress — appears to be having an effect on Bush’s decision-making. This source said he believed Bush had planned to launch an attack on Iran, possibly as early as this week, but was getting “weak knees.” Nonetheless, based on the way Cheney and Bush drove the country to war against Iraq in 2002, the best assumption is that the new war against Iran could begin at any moment. It will come, according to Parry’s sources, with an ISRAELI attack on Iran, probably on its nuclear facilities. When Iran retaliates, the U.S. will respond in full force to "defend" Israel, launching a bombardment of Iran’s infrastructure similar to the “shock and awe” at the start of the war in Iraq. What the generals want the American people to know is that this nightmare scenario is real, the planning is complete and ready to go — and that at any moment now a strike may be launched that will trigger a full-scale World War in the Middle East. AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.
[cia-drugs] Fwd: http://www.maxwell.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-futr.htm
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[cia-drugs] The Shadow War: Euro vs. Dollar
Now the NAU makes sense, eh? (In my thoughts uniting Canada/US/Mexico and changing the dollar into the Amero would make the NWO easier to compete w/the European Block than for the US to stand alone, NO?) (I found a similar article years ago and recently started researching it again. I found in the earlier article that the Europeans would not return calls to the US Treasury department. The Americans intimated rather threateningly that; "There just might be a war if the Euro didn't stop expanding into other countries.") http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/op/2003/04/22/stories/2003042200070 200.htm Online edition of India's National Newspaper Tuesday, Apr 22, 2003 Group PublicationsBusiness LineThe SportstarFrontlineThe Hindu The shadow war: euro vs. dollar Behind the war in Iraq is a struggle for economic dominance between America and Europe. A clash of civilisations is nowhere in sight. SOME INDIAN thinkers are interpreting the U.S.-led attack on Iraq as part of the "clash of civilisations" between the "Christian" West and the Islamic world. Such facile academic theories can mislead both the public and policy makers into thinking that the world is simpler than it really is, leading to policy decisions that can have unforeseen consequences. To see this, one has only to visit another popular theory 40 years ago called the "domino effect." It held that one country becoming communist would inevitably lead to its neighbours also becoming communist. Belief in this theory led to U.S. entanglement in Vietnam the wounds of which have still not healed. One may see the clash of civilisations as the academic theory that is playing today the same role as the domino effect theory did in the Cold War era. They both offer attractive but unsound simplifications. The ground situation today, especially after the U.S.-led attack on Iraq, gives scant support to the clash of civilisations thesis. The assumption, generally unstated, is that it is part of a conflict between the `Christian' West and the Islamic world. This belief appears to be particularly strong in India and the Islamic world. It is based on the fundamental misconception that religion (Christianity) plays the same role in the West as Hinduism and Islam play in the East. The reality is that the West, Europe in particular, sees itself not as Christian but secular humanistic. Unlike Indians both Hindus and Muslims many of who are prepared to lay down their lives to defend their religion, it would be hard to find a handful of Europeans prepared to do so in the defence of Christianity or the Church. In accepting Huntington's clash of civilisations thesis, Indians and other Asiatics have essentially projected their own religiosity on to the people and countries of the West. Interestingly, Westerners, Americans in particular, are making the opposite mistake by applying secular humanistic measures in interpreting the deeply religious East. The fact that their contact is limited to the Westernised urban elite, which they take to be representative of the country as a whole, has only reinforced their misperceptions. The clash of civilisations thesis also fails to explain the split within the Anglo-European block, with France and Germany opposing the U.S. policy almost as fiercely as Iraqi soldiers opposing American soldiers. Some analysts have recognised that there is an economic dimension to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which sits on oil reserves second only to Saudi Arabia's. This may be valid but it is only part of the picture: there is a deeper economic struggle that the United States is waging to preserve its economic supremacy in the world. This now has taken the form of an unseen war between the Euro and the Dollar for which Iraq has become the military beachhead. It has enormous consequences for the future of the world order. Oil and dollar In a recent article titled "It's not about oil or Iraq; it's about the U.S. and Europe going head-to-head on world economic dominance," the Australian economist and columnist Geoffrey Heard wrote: "Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the U.S. and Europe going head to head on economic leadership of the world." Heard then goes on to explain how Iraq has become the unwitting battleground "beachhead" in Heard's terminology in this economic war following Iraq's decision to switch from dollar to euro in its oil sales. In his words: "It is about the currency used to trade oil and consequently, who will dominate the world economically, in the foreseeable future the USA or the European Union. ...Iraq is a European Union beachhead in that confrontation. America had a monopoly on the oil trade, with the U.S. dollar being the fiat currency,
[cia-drugs] Outsource the Cabinet? : THOMAS FRIEDMAN - Israel's Criminal Leadership ; Dead Children
Outsource the Cabinet? : THOMAS FRIEDMAN - Israel's Criminal Leadership ; Dead Children by THOMAS FRIEDMAN - THE NEW YORK TIMES Wednesday Feb 28th, 2007 FRIEDMAN: Israels leadership seems to have blinded itself lately with all sorts of bizarre and criminal behavior. http://tinyurl.com/36kyse THE COMPLETE ARTICLE AND MORE --> Outsource the Cabinet? : THOMAS FRIEDMAN - Israeli Vision Gaffe OP-ED COLUMNIST Outsource the Cabinet? By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: February 28, 2007 Yes, its true, a picture is worth a thousand words but some are worth a whole dictionary. I came across one the other day on BBC.com. The story was headlined Israeli Minister in Vision Gaffe. Next to it is a picture showing Israels defense minister, Amir Peretz, inspecting troops on the Golan Heights alongside Israels military chief of staff, Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi. Both men are peering into the distance through binoculars, but with one big difference: Mr. Peretz was watching the maneuvers through binoculars with the lens caps still on. ... According to the photographer, the BBC reported, Mr. Peretz looked through the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Gen. Ashkenazi explained what was in view. Oh my, Id rather misspell potato on national TV than be remembered for that. *** Tom, I never saw in the streets of Israel such a total contempt for the government by almost everybody the poor and the rich, the Jews and the Arabs, the left, the right and the collapsing center. This is the essence of our situation a contrast between the you never had it so good economy and the you never had it so bad government. This is the spring of our discontent." --MORE-- http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/02/outsource-cabinet-thomas-l-friedman.html Labels: crimes, government, Israel, News, Politics, Psychology, state, The New York Times, THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Global Markets Fall Again on Fears About U.S. Economy; Manufacturing Recession http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/02/global-markets-fall-again-on-fears.html UPDATE on US controlled explosion; Ramadi bomb kills playing children ; Report of Deadly Iraq Bombing Questioned http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/02/update-on-us-controlled-explosion.html US talks to Iran and Syria on Iraq Bush policy reversal over Tehran and Damascus is widely seen as an attempt to limit criticism of the war. http://mparent.blogspot.com/2007/02/iran-weighs-invitation-to-baghdad.html And More http://mparent.blogspot.com/ http://mparent-2.blogspot.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.blogspot.com/ New website mparent mparent - Share your photos with the people who matter at Yahoo! Canada Photos
[cia-drugs] You're never too old to dream! Pot vs. Parkinson's and m ultiple sclerosis, too.
Pot vs. Parkinson's and multiple sclerosis, too. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1403365.ece With Comments. >From The Times February 19, 2007 You're never too old to dream Terence Kealey: Science Notebook How do cannabis, heroin, morphine and other mind-altering drugs work? The answer came in a dream during the 1970s to Hans Kosterlitz, who worked at the University of Aberdeen. He was more than 70 at the time, thus giving hope to other oldies that their careers, too, might finally come good. Kosterlitz dreamt that the drugs were not working by novel mechanisms but were simply mimicking the effect of our own, as yet undiscovered, internal chemicals. So to find those chemicals he passed guinea-pig brain extracts over lengths of guinea-pig guts. Since heroin and morphine not only alter minds but also cause constipation, he soon began to identify the brain chemicals that, morphine-like, immobilised the gut lengths. That is why we call those chemicals endorphins - from "endogenous morphine", morphine that grows from within. We also now know that cannabis contains cannabinoids, which mimic the effect of natural brain chemicals we consequently call endocannabinoids. What do they do? In a recent paper in Nature Robert Malenka, of Stanford University, suggested that they act on brain neurons in ways that protect us from Parkinson's disease. By using mice that were predisposed to Parkinson's disease, Malenka showed that when he applied to their brains chemicals that strengthened the effects of endocannabinoids, the mice became resistant to the disease. Will smoking spliffs à la young David Cameron protect us from Parkinson's? Perhaps not. The cannabinoids in cannabis are sufficiently different from many of our own endocannabinoids that no one knows if they will cross react in the right way with the key neurones. But smoking spliffs might - just might - help sufferers from multiple sclerosis. In 2000 David Baker, of the University of London, published a study showing that certain endocannabinoids that appear to relieve the symptoms of multiple sclerosis are sufficiently similar to spliff cannabinoids that a mellow puff might help sufferers. The scientific jury is still out. But the economic jury is still sitting, because the cannabis story has provided a surprise. We are assured by the farming lobbies that agricultural research, like all scientific research, depends on government grants and the protection of patents. But during recent years cannabis growers have developed increasingly potent, increasingly disease-resistant strains - harvesting the vast cannaboid yields that have now given us skunk - without public money or intellectual property rights and despite government discouragement. Might the stories that research should be dependent on the State therefore not be true? Now that would be mind-altering. Our politicians proselytise about a world of retirement ages, abstention from drugs and dogmas about the nature of economic development. The real world, however, is advanced by pensioners studying illegal chemicals. Background a.. High office? a.. Cameron hit by cocaine rumours a.. Another drug 'revelation' would damage Cameron
