[cia-drugs] Clinton Office in Indiana Catches Fire

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

*weren't there a spate of weird "hostage" events in hillary offices this 
past fall?  -vmann*



http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/04/11/clinton-office-in-indiana-catches-fire/?mod=WSJBlog

April 11, 2008, 9:10 am


   Clinton Office in Indiana Catches Fire

/*Amy Chozick* reports on the presidential race./

The Clinton campaign headquarters in Terre Haute, Ind., caught on fire 
early this morning.


Two women were inside the building, officials said, but were not 
injured. Secret Service was at the scene but no cause of the fire had 
been disclosed.


"When they arrived at the scene flames were shooting out of the tops of 
it and the vehicle in front also was on fire," John Gardner of the Terre 
Haute fire department told a local TV station.


Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama are locked in a heated race in Indiana, 
which votes on May 6 and offers 72 delegates. Clinton has 21 offices 
across the state.

[cia-drugs] The Martial Law Act of 2006

[norgesen]

The Martial Law Act of 2006

by James Bovard

April 10, 2008



Martial law is perhaps the ultimate stomping of freedom. And yet, on September 
30, 2006, Congress passed a provision in a 591-page bill that will make it easy 
for President Bush to impose martial law in response to a terrorist “incident.” 
It also empowers him to effectively declare martial law in response to what he 
or other federal officials label a shortfall of “public order” – whatever that 
means. 

It took only a few paragraphs in a $500 billion, 591-page bill to raze one of 
the most important limits on federal power. Congress passed the Insurrection 
Act in 1807 to severely restrict the president’s ability to deploy the military 
within the United States. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 tightened those 
restrictions, imposing a two-year prison sentence on anyone who used the 
military within the United States without the express permission of Congress. 
(This act was passed after the depredations of the U.S. military throughout the 
Southern states during Reconstruction.) 

But there is a loophole: Posse Comitatus is waived if the president invokes the 
Insurrection Act. 

The Insurrection Act and Posse Comitatus Act aim to deter dictatorship while 
permitting a narrow window for the president to temporarily use the military at 
home. But the 2006 reforms basically threw any concern about dictatorial abuses 
out the window. 

Section 1076 of the Defense Authorization Act of 2006 changed the name of the 
key provision in the statute book from “Insurrection Act” to “Enforcement of 
the Laws to Restore Public Order Act.” The Insurrection Act of 1807 stated that 
the president could deploy troops within the United States only “to suppress, 
in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or 
conspiracy.” The new law expands the list of pretexts to include “natural 
disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack 
or incident, or other condition” – and such a “condition” is not defined or 
limited. 

One might think that given the experience with the USA PATRIOT Act and many 
other abuses of power, Congress would be leery about giving this president his 
biggest blank check yet to suspend the Constitution. But that would be naïve. 

The new law was put in place in response to the debacle of the federal response 
to Hurricane Katrina. There was no evidence that permitting a president far 
more power would avoid future debacles, but such a law provides a comfort 
blanket to politicians. The risk of tyranny is irrelevant compared with the 
reduction of risk of embarrassment to politicians. According to Washington, the 
correct response to Katrina is not to recognize the failure of relying on 
federal agencies a thousand miles away but rather to vastly increase the power 
of the president to dictate a solution, regardless of whether he knows what he 
is doing and regardless of whether local and state rights are trampled. 

The new law also empowers the president to commandeer the National Guard of one 
state to send to another state for as many as 365 days. Bush could send the 
South Carolina National Guard to suppress anti-war protests in New Haven. Or 
the next president could send the Massachusetts National Guard to disarm the 
residents of Wyoming, if they resisted a federal law that prohibited private 
ownership of semi-automatic weapons. Governors’ control of the National Guard 
can be trumped with a simple presidential declaration. 

Section 1076 had bipartisan support on Capitol Hill, including support from 
Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), Sen. Ted Kennedy 
(D-Mass.), and Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Armed 
Services Committee. Since the law would give the feds more power, it was very 
popular inside the Beltway. 

On the other hand, every governor in the country opposed the changes. Sen. 
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, 
warned on September 19, 2006, that “we certainly do not need to make it easier 
for presidents to declare martial law.” Leahy’s alarm got no response. Ten days 
later, he commented in the Congressional Record, “Using the military for law 
enforcement goes against one of the founding tenets of our democracy.” 

A U.S. Enabling Act

The new law vastly increases the danger from the actions of government 
provocateurs. If there is an incident now like the first bombing of the World 
Trade Center in February 1993, it would be far easier for the president to 
declare martial law – even if, as then, it was an FBI informant who taught the 
culprits how to make the bomb. Even if the FBI masterminds a protest that turns 
violent, the president could invoke the “incident” to suspend the Constitution. 

“Martial law” is a euphemism for military dictatorship. When foreign 
democracies are overthrown and a junta establishes martial law, Americans 
usually recognize that a fundamental cha

[cia-drugs] Insanity Revealed

[norgesen]

From: Vicky Davis 


I've gone back to this website and was messing around because a friend is 
having problems getting to the links.  I don't know for sure but I suspect that 
her ISP might be blocking because they are using a proxy server.  

http://ucadia.org/frank/frank.htm


The redirect ends up like this: 

rev.opentransfer.com.181.135.41.72.in-addr.arpa [72.41.135.181]  

This is the main page.  you can get to this page by typing in  
http://72.41.135.181

This definition is in small print - light gray:

UCADIA=Complete Economic-Political-Social-Spiritual-Scientific model of the 
world.


Where I'm going with this - is that I think I was pretty close to right when I 
said that this guy was a CIA futurist.  I think this is a DARPA website.   And 
the info on this website is their model of the world -   One World.One 
Religion.   One political system - managed by regional "governance" structures. 
 

This is the plan.  These people are insane.  They think they can model 
everything in a computer - and then force people to live within those 
parameters.  

[cia-drugs] Fwd: Slavery Makes a Comeback in 21st Century America

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Disposable Workers in the US Economy


Slavery in the Fields


By ELIZABETH SCHULTE


Counterpunch, April 10, 2008


http://www.counterpunch.org/schulte04102008.html


José Vasquez couldn't stand any more.


On November 19, he and two other workers escaped 
through a ventilation hatch in the box trailer where they had been locked up 
for 
the night.  For more than a year, the three immigrants and a dozen more 
were forced to work for the Navarrete family picking tomatoes in Immokalee, 
Fla.


They were made to pay $20 for "housing" --a locked 
van where they had to defecate in the corner-- as well as $50 a week for food 
and $5 to take a shower in the backyard with a garden hose.


Earning just 45 cents for every bucket of tomatoes 
they picked in the blistering Florida sun for some 12 hours a day, the men were 
in perpetual debt to their captors.  And the fear of deportation made 
defying the men who held them seem even more impossible.  Any identifying 
documents they once had were locked away.


When investigators finally arrived a week later, 
they found the other workers bloody, bruised and beaten -- a regular state of 
affairs, according to the workers. Mariano Lucas, one of the workers who 
escaped, told investigators he tried to take a day off a few weeks previously, 
and was beaten until he bled. One man had badly swollen wrists from being 
chained with his hands behind his back every night.


There's only one way to describe this 
abuse, according to Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney Doug Molloy: "Slavery, plain 
and simple."


No one disputes that slavery --abolished 150 years 
ago in the U.S.-- is one of the ugliest chapters in American history. Yet just 
under the surface of the modern-day image of the U.S. as a beacon of democracy 
is an ugly secret: that slavery still thrives for thousands of 
workers.


Under the modern slave system, workers aren't 
bought and sold on the open market, as they once were in the U.S. South -- but 
rather they were smuggled into the country and forced to work, all just beneath 
the radar of government officials and the public.


Last year's incident at Immokalee marked the 
seventh farm labor operation to be prosecuted for servitude in Florida -- 
involving well over 1,000 workers and more than a dozen employers--in the past 
decade.


In 2004, for example, Ramiro and Juan Ramos were 
sentenced to 15 years each in federal prison on slavery and firearms charges. 
They threatened the 700 farmworkers under their control with death if they 
tried 
to leave, and pistol-whipped passenger van service drivers who gave rides to 
farmworkers leaving the area.


By and large, though, it's these small-time 
extortionists who are punished for modern-day slavery in America--while the big 
corporations who ultimately profit from slave-like labor stand above the 
fray.


And profit they do. "The food sector (food, 
groceries, food processing, and restaurant businesses together) is worth about 
a 
trillion dollars a year in the U.S. and is second only to pharmaceuticals in 
profitability," writes journalist John Bowe in his book Nobodies: Modern 
American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.


"Considering that the American public gives some 
$47 billion per year in direct subsidies to agricultural producers and billions 
more in tax breaks, research allocations to university, marketing 
initiatives...it is blind idiocy or willful deceit to say the money just isn't 
there."


Through activism on the part of farmworkers 
themselves and a fierce and creative public boycott campaign, the Coalition of 
Immokalee Workers (CIW) last year forced McDonald's, the world's biggest 
restaurant chain, and Yum!, which owns KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, to pay 
pickers another penny per pound of tomatoes.


Today, Burger King, which also buys its tomatoes 
in Immokalee, is refusing to follow suit. Burger King's intransigence was 
backed 
up by the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, which last year threatened a 
$100,000 
fine for any grower who agrees to an extra penny per pound for pickers' 
wages.


As Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, 
pointed out in the New York Times, "Telling Burger King to pay an 
extra penny for tomatoes and provide a decent wage to migrant workers would 
hardly bankrupt the company.  Indeed, it would cost Burger King only 
$250,000 a year...


"In 2006, the bonuses of the top 12 Goldman Sachs 
executives exceeded $200 million -- more than twice as much money as all of the 
roughly 10,000 tomato pickers in southern Florida earned that year."


The fast-food giant's excuse? The CIW "has gone 
after us because we are a known brand," complained Burger King vice president 
Steve Grover. "At the end of t

[cia-drugs] Fwd: [ctrl] Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy' | UK news | The Guardian

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/11/ukcrime

Heir's wife held after 'drugs trip to US embassy'
Vikram Dodd, crime correspondent
The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008

The wife of one of Britain's richest heirs has been arrested after trying  
to enter the US embassy in central London while allegedly carrying wraps  
of cocaine and heroin.

Eva Rausing was held outside the embassy in Mayfair, leading to a police  
raid on the couple's Chelsea home, where more than £1,500 of drugs are  
alleged to have been found. Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir  
to the £5bn Tetra Pak drink packaging empire, was then also arrested. They  
were released on bail until July while police continue their inquiries.

A spokesman for the US embassy said Mrs Rausing, who is a US citizen, had  
not entered the embassy, and had been due there for an appointment on  
Tuesday afternoon.

Yesterday, Mrs Rausing, 44, said: "I have made a grave error and I  
consider myself to have taken a wrong turn in the course of my life. I am  
very sorry for the upset I have caused."

Mr Rausing's father, also called Hans, is a Swedish billionaire who built  
up the Tetra Pak empire with his late brother Gad. He has lived in England  
since the early 1980s and has donated £500,000 to the Conservatives.

Mrs Rausing is a financial supporter of Action on Addiction, a charity  
which helps people with drink and drugs problems. Nick Barton, its joint  
chief executive, said: "The E and HK Rausing Trust has been an extremely  
generous supporter of addiction charities for many years. Their support  
has resulted in a great many people and their families receiving help for  
their addiction problems."

Scotland Yard said: " At approximately 16:20 on Tuesday police officers  
arrested a woman in Mayfair on suspicion of possessing class A drugs.  
Following this arrest a search was conducted at a residential address in  
Chelsea and a 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing  
class A drugs."
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/11/bae.armstrade3

Cash, contracts and crown princes
David Leigh
The Guardian, Friday April 11 2008

The BAE Eurofighter Typhoon military jet plane leaves smoke trails at an  
air show in Paris. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP



Evidence of an allegedly corrupt relationship between BAE and the Saudi  
royal family began to emerge four years ago. Using documents obtained from  
whistleblowers and files in the National Archives, the Guardian began to  
build a picture of an arms company willing to provide anything from fleets  
of Rolls-Royces to mountains of offshore cash in order to promote  
lucrative deals with the Saudi regime.

As the allegations mounted, the British government tried to cover up the  
facts, not only about apparent arms company corruption but about the  
connivance of a succession of ministers, both Labour and Tory, in  
worldwide bribery on behalf of Great Britain plc.

The Guardian turned over its evidence to Robert Wardle, the head of the  
SFO, and he embarked on an investigation.

The UK, on paper at least, had promised to crackdown on corrupt practices.  
It had signed up to an international anti-bribery treaty, brokered by the  
OECD, and in 2002 the government passed a law making it clear that  
overseas bribery was a crime.

Labour ministers trumpeted their probity and the Foreign Office even  
produced a DVD with the title Crimes of the Establishment as part of their  
toolkit on the evils of corruption.

But Lord Justice Moses' judgment yesterday lays bare what actually  
happened. In doing so, he appears to accept allegations that have swirled  
round Whitehall since Wardle announced he was to drop his investigation 18  
months ago - although without hearing evidence from Bandar.

Wardle's inquiries were bearing fruit, and he was on the brink of  
obtaining bank records from Switzerland.

These belonged, among others, to the billionaire Syrian intermediary Wafic  
Said, who played a major role in brokering the £43bn al-Yamamah arms deal  
back in the mid-80s. He is a confidant of Crown Prince Sultan, and of his  
son, Prince Bandar.

Prior to the investigation being halted, the SFO were looking into  
payments by BAE into Said's accounts.

Moses, who insisted on seeing privately the full version of government  
documents in the case, made clear what happened next. He detailed  
allegations that Bandar set out to have the inquiry stopped.

Yesterday's summary described reports of Bandar going to see Jonathan  
Powell, Blair's chief of staff. He is said to have told him and the  
British ambassador, Sherard Cowper-Cowles, that he would ensure Saudi  
intelligence links were cut unless he and his family were kept out of the  
case.

Bandar then flew to Paris and engaged in ostentatious negotiations with  
the French to buy a new batch of fighter jets - the contract BAE itself  
was after.

As the judge pointed out yesterday, Bandar was suspected of complicity  
with BAE, the target of the investigation.

He admits he received from BAE a present of a new Airbus commercial  
airliner, and payments totalling £1bn into his US account, although he  
says they were not improper.

Tony Blair's office told Wardle that "innocent British lives were at risk"  
because Saudi Arabia would no longer help prevent terrorist outrages if  
the investigation went ahead. BAE, and a number of MPs in whose  
constituencies the company has factories, joined in with claims that "jobs  
were at risk".

Moses made clear yesterday that he shared the suspicions of  
anti-corruption campaigners that much of this was a charade. The word the  
judge used was "pretext". He pointed out that Downing Street had rolled  
over with suspicious ease to Saudi threats. Getting the case dropped was  
convenient to the government, and convenient to BAE.

The high court's words about the importance of the rule of law and the  
need to stand up to attempts to pervert the course of justice could not  
have been put more stridently.

Moses' landmark judgment also produced a score sheet of how all the  
parties behaved during the SFO investigation.

BAE is shown to have tried to use backstairs political muscle to get the  
police off its back. But this did not succeed.

Peter Goldsmith, the attorney general, stood firm against pressure from  
fellow ministers for a considerable period.

Even at the last moment he met Blair and told him it would look terrible  
to cave in to threats. But he then succumbed to pressure from the then  
prime minister, and appeared to have agreed to try and sabotage the SFO  
inquiry by picking holes in its evidence. Wardle himself held out longest  
of all, but was eventually forced to cave in when Blair raised the stakes.

Moses made plai

[cia-drugs] Xinjiang Province - The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

brzezinksi wants a "color revolution" here.  but first he (probably) has 
to get tibet and mongolia.  vmann



http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/xinjiang_province_the_islamic.html

April 11, 2008


 Xinjiang Province - The Islamic Jihad Battlefront in China

*By* *Janet Levy* 
When the 2008 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Beijing seven years 
ago, hope arose that China's new-found status as a modern, world power 
and position in the world media spotlight would prompt increased 
tolerance and democracy nationwide. Clearly, that optimism has been 
dashed by the turmoil in Tibet.


Stellar economic performance and reforms, viewed sanguinely by the West 
as a sure route to liberalization, have occurred in China devoid of 
political reform. China's use of brutal force and massive arrests 
against Tibetan protestors bear witness to this lack of progress. 
Indeed, China today stands revealed as one of the worst perpetrators of 
human rights violations and religious repression in the world.


Among those singled out for similar harshness and violence is a portion 
of China's 30-million-strong Muslim community: the Islamic jihadists of 
the northwestern province of Xinjiang and surrounding areas. With Tibet 
in mind, the West may be tempted to view this decades-long unrest in 
Central Asia as yet another example of Chinese aggression and 
expansionism against a beleaguered population seeking independence. Yet, 
such a view is shortsighted and dangerous. For, in truth, the Islamic 
Jihadists of China's Xinjiang are linked to the Taliban in Afghanistan 
and Al Qaeda. Their terrorist methods and ideology are of a piece with 
the larger Islamic Jihadist goal to overthrow existing governments and 
install a religious theocracy. They, in fact, represent the Chinese 
battlefront of the worldwide Islamic Jihad.


*China**'s Muslim Population *

Inaccessibility to China's far flung regions and the exclusion of 
questions about religion in the last three national censuses make it 
difficult to obtain accurate figures about the Chinese Muslim 
population. But it is estimated at around 30 million, the second largest 
religious group in China after Buddhists. About 20 million are Hui, 
concentrated mostly in northwestern China. Another 8.5 million are 
Uyghurs who reside in Xinjiang province.  

The Hui, culturally similar to the majority Han Chinese, follow Islamic 
dietary laws and some customs of Muslim dress but have engaged in only 
limited jihadist activity. Evidence exists of uprisings in two Hui 
villages, as well as some protest activity against the Danish cartoons 
of Mohammed. However, discrimination and economic deprivation against 
the Uyghurs and their push for a separate state have made for more 
extensive and organized jihadist activities by the militant, Uyghur 
Muslims throughout Central Asia. The nature of this activity -- the 
extent to which it is an uprising for a separatist state or supports a 
pan-Islamist agenda -- is difficult to assess given Communist China's 
history of repression of religious groups, rampant human rights abuses 
and lack of a free press, but some conclusions can be made.


*The Uyghurs *

The desire for an independent Uyghur state is a fairly recent 
development, dating from the 1930's, but the Uyghurs themselves are a 
historically nomadic people of Turkic Indo-European origin who can be 
traced back to the 700s. 

The province in which they live, Xinjiang, is large and sparsely 
populated, representing one-sixth of China's total land mass. It borders 
Tibet, Russia, Kazakstan, Kyryzstan, Tajikstan, Afghanistan, Pakistan 
and the Indian state of Kashmir. Xinjiang is rich in oil, gas and 
mineral deposits. It also has numerous military installations and, until 
1996, nuclear testing facilities, giving it significant and strategic 
military importance to China.


The Uyghurs have a separate language, culture, religion and identity 
from the dominant Han, who are deemed the "true," ethnic Chinese. 
Uyghurs hold a multiplicity of identities, including Muslim, Uyghur, 
Turk or Chinese and have historically been opposed to Han or majority 
Chinese rule. The Uyghurs in Xinjiang maintain an informal ethnic 
apartheid. They view the Chinese as inferior occupiers, equate 
Confucianism and Buddhism with idolatry, and frequent their own stores 
and restaurants. An estimated 23,000 mosques exist in the region, with 
many small neighborhood facilities, some financed by Saudi Arabia and 
Pakistan. 

According to Igor Rotar, a Central Asia correspondent for The Jamestown 
Foundation, Uyghurs "tend to be more zealous Muslims than their Central 
Asian neighbors. The majority of local, married women wear burqas, which 
is quite rare in Central Asia, and middle-aged men prefer to have 
beards."[1]  Rotar says a Uyghur Muslim in Xinjiang explained to him 
that "In the Quran it is written that a Muslim should not live under the 
authority of infidels

[cia-drugs] American Airlines cancels 900 more flights

[Vigilius Haufniensis]

*is this odd?  -vmann*/*


That's more than one in three flights canceled over the last three days.*/


http://patrioticactivist.com/2008/04/10/american-airlines-cancels-900-more-flights/


   American Airlines cancels 900 more flights
   


Posted on April 10, 2008 by John

American Airlines canceled more than 900 flights Thursday to fix faulty 
wiring in hundreds of jets, marking the third straight day of mass 
groundings as company executives offered profuse apologies and travel 
vouchers to calm angry customers.


American, the nation's largest carrier, has now scrubbed more than 2,400 
flights since Tuesday, when federal regulators warned that nearly half 
its planes could violate a safety regulation designed to prevent fires.


That's more than one in three flights canceled over the last three days.

Daniel Garton, an executive vice president of American, said 
cancellations could extend into Friday.


A return to normal operations depends on how quickly mechanics can 
inspect and fix the wire bundles. Airline spokesman Tim Wagner said late 
Wednesday afternoon that 60 planes had been cleared to fly, 119 were 
being worked on, and 121 planes had not yet been inspected.


The fallout could be seen at airport ticket counters, where frustrated 
customers bickered with American employees, and on the stock market, 
where shares of American's parent company tumbled more than 11 percent 
Wednesday.


American estimates that more than 100 passengers would have been on each 
of those canceled flights. That means a quarter-million people have been 
inconvenienced this week.


Airline executives said they thought they had fixed the wiring two weeks 
ago, when they canceled more than 400 flights to inspect and in some 
cases fix the shielding around the wires in their MD-80 aircraft.


But this week, Federal Aviation Administration inspectors, who have been 
conducting stepped-up surveys of airline compliance with safety rules 
called airworthiness directives, said 15 of 19 American jets they 
examined flunked. That left the airline no choice but to ground all 300 
of its MD-80s, the most common jet in American's 655-plane fleet.


"We have obviously failed to complete the airworthiness directive to the 
precise standards that the FAA requires, and I take full responsibility 
for that," Gerard Arpey, American's chairman and chief executive, said 
at an industry event in California.


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