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From: Wes Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] View Contact Details Add Mobile Alert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: As dangerous as George Bush Dear Theresa J., If you don't think John McCain is just as dangerous in the White House as George W. Bush, think again. McCain will not reverse the foreign policy mistakes of George Bush. He is content to leave us in Iraq, saying it'd be fine by me if we were in Iraq for another 100 years; he is rash on using military force with Iran. He overplays the military card and doesn't seem to appreciate that the real strength of the nation lies in our economy and in our values. We have to be sure we have a Congress that will support a Democratic president but also one that, in the event of a John McCain presidency, has enough horsepower to ensure he can't continue the policies of George W. Bush. We can't just triumph over John McCain in the race for the White House. We must also defeat every Republican senator who supports Bush and McCain and believes in continuing a war that 64% of the American people are vehemently against - people like Norm Coleman in Minnesota, Susan Collins in Maine, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. The DSCC is working overtime to expand our narrow 51-49 Democratic majority so they can either push through the agenda of a Democratic president or act as a firewall against the radical policies of a President John McCain. And with the GOP consolidating their national efforts now, the DSCC has got to have the support of committed Democrats early and often. Click here to make a donation of $50, $75 or more to help expand the Democratic Senate majority in 2008. As a military man, I know and respect the use of force. I also know it's not enough to keep us safe. But that's not the way John McCain and his acolytes see it. Since 9/11, they have taken the very real threat of terrorism and turned it into a rallying cry for military adventurism. Their paranoia runs so deep that Sen. McCain has now taken to calling Islamic terrorism the greatest evil ever faced by the United States. This nation triumphed over Nazism and Communism once before and I have no doubt that the bin Ladens of the world will eventually rue the day they challenged the United States. But this constant fear mongering and refusal to change course in Iraq is making it more difficult to defeat our enemies. American troops have done everything that's been asked of them and more in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the Army and Marine Corps are stretched to their breaking point because George Bush has refused to engage in the type of diplomacy that could tamp down hostilities and ease the strain on our military. And John McCain and any Republican senator who supports his presidential candidacy are offering more of the same. And they have got to go. You can make it happen. Click here to make a donation of $50, $75 or more to help expand the Democratic Senate majority in 2008. I have every expectation that America will have a Democrat in the White House next January, and when that happens, I know he or she will begin bringing American troops home from Iraq with honor. But nothing is for certain in politics. And while Democrats battle to retake the executive branch, we must work just as hard to expand our majorities in the United States Congress. The DSCC is on the front lines of the fight for the Senate every day. And today, they need you. Sincerely, Gen. Wesley Clark 100 years in Iraq!?! Help defeat the Republicans. If you received this message from a friend, click this button to join the DSCC. ** From: Congressman Anthony Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Weiner Town Hall Meeting Coming To Your Couch To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], If you are having trouble viewing this message, please click here. June 09, 2008 Unsubscribe Update My Profile WEBSITE | THE DISTRICT | ABOUT ANTHONY | ON THE ISSUE | PRESSROOM | HERE TO HELP | CONTACT TOWN HALL MEETING ON YOUR COUCH_ JOIN MY CONFERENCE CALL TOWN HALL OVER THE PHONE Dear Neighbor: Im writing to invite you to take part in a Conference Call Town Hall Im hosting on Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30 PM. This is a convenient way for you to share with me your thoughts on national and local issues. I'll also update you on a couple of things I've been working on in Washington. To join the Conference Call Town Hall dial 1-866-447-5149, enter the conference ID 12767 and then press #. I hope you will join me Wednesday, June 11th at 7:30 PM for this innovative Town Hall. As always, if you have any concerns on this or any other issue, do not hesitate to contact me at my neighborhood office at (718) 520-9001 or email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sincerely, ANTHONY D. WEINER Member
[cia-drugs] Trenton Mega Base is about MONEY
TRENTON MEGA ARMY BASE IS ABOUT HOW A FEW CAN MAKE A GOOD LIVING BY KILLING PEOPLE AND CREATING A POLICE STATE by Iakoha'ko:wa of Sharbot Lake, Haudenosaunee Territory MNN. June 8, 2008. 6:58PM The Canadian military base near Trenton , Ontario , Canada , was a make-work project in 1931 and part of preparations for World War II. In other words, the war was no accident. It was planned. It wasn't all Hitler's fault! Today the capitalists are sprucing up the old blueprint. They're salivating at the thought of all the bags of money they're going to make by killing people and imposing martial law.One sign is the recent court order where the army will be brought in when 6 Nations demonstrate against illegal development on Haudenosaunee Territory . War games are being practiced on the main resisters, the Indigenous People. Mike Collacutt writes on how to kill men, women and babies without even looking them in the eye. The military is creating remote warfare. He maps out the future fascist blending of military and law enforcement like NATO, the army and government agencies like the RCMP, the Canadian Border Security and others. The trend is to blur the lines between military and police. This is the road to a POLICE STATE. The Trenton army base is on Haudenosaunee Territory near the Mohawk community of Tyendinaga on Lake Ontario . The construction of a huge jailhouse/holding facility in the middle of the community is designed to catch us and then who knows what! The sadists won't have to go to Abu Graib to get their fix. In 1997, the U.S. Senate and Congress were critical of the large amounts of money being spent by the Pentagon on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [UAV] development. These are spy machines for arm chair generals to kill people. Suddenly the Twin Towers came down. The Post-9/11 Canada/United-States Bi-National Planning Group is shaping the military. Future warfare involves chemical, nuclear, radiological or biological situations where people die by being attacked by unmanned flying machines. War is a money-making racket for the military-industrial-corporate- banking-colonial government complex. Canada is part of the U.S. 's national concerns. It could stage another pretext event followed by an all out invasion of Canada , calling it terrorism. According to an October 2005 article at aviation.ca, a Canadian aviation news web site, in February 2005 following General Rick Hillier's appointment as Chief of Defense Staff [CDS] the federal budget went to $12.8 billion in new spending over a five year period. The Aerospace Warfare Centre was started then at Trenton . Trenton 8 Wing [name of the base] has a payroll of over $110 million annually supposedly spent in the Quinte area. As the rest of Ontario goes downhill, Trenton gets richer by creating a military economy. Trenton base already has a large international airport. Planned are more runways, hangars and training spaces for bigger planes like NATO's Boeing 707's. An average of 23 million pounds of freight and 42,000 passengers a year go through No. 2 Air Movements Squadron at Trenton . They are mostly classified visitors or goods with top secret processing. The Canadian Airforce Journal spring 2008 issue looks at the possibility of a NATO Forward Operating Base [FOB] being set up in Canada . Whose dreams are these? They've never been discussed in Parliament or reported on the news. It offers training and space for international air forces to practice their war games by bombing, contaminating and desecrating our land without our permission. Canada already puts $33 million annually into the NATO Airborne Early Warning Force [NAEWF] in Germany and $43 million on the NATO Security Investment Program [NSIP]. [2004 figures]. Collacutt wants Canada to cash in on NATO's surveillance development and to get E-3A AWACS and other anti-highjack, anti-terrorist and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle [UAV] training! He suggests Canada get NATO to build one or more E-3A FOB's in strategic locations like North Bay or Trenton, both in Ontario, Shearwater, Newfoundland, Greenwood, Nova Scotia, Bagotville, Quebec and Comox, British Columbia. Canada could rapidly become a centre for the NATO Response Force [NRF] training or Data Link (Link 16). The Link 16 Joint Tactical Information Distribution System [JTIDS] allows large volumes of information to be transmitted in seconds and shared between AWACS allied aircraft. Canada could designate No. 22 Wing North Bay as their NATO Forward Operating Base [FOB] for the NATO Airborne Early Warning Force [NAEWF]. North Bay can do surveillance of major urban centres and offer E-3 access to fighter aircrafts in Bagotville [ Quebec ] and Cold Lake [ Alberta ] and training opportunities south of the border. Why do they need that? How secretive does a democracy have to be? Since Canada donates to the NATO Security
[cia-drugs] Fwd: Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media
-Original Message- From: Kris Millegan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 7:07 am Subject: Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media For Immediate Release For more info please contact: Kurt Aldag, (800) 670-4372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media They came, they met and they conquered—at least “they” conquered America’s pliant mainstream press. (Eugene, OR 6/10/08) A press corps recently scourged by former White House Press Secretary, Scott McCellan, as being “too deferential,” have once again bowed to pressures, and decided not to report the largest gathering of corporate, banking, governmental and royal power ever assembled on American soil this past weekend. Over 140 of the world’s most elite powerbrokers gathered in a high class hotel in Chantilly, Virgina, June 5-8, not far from this nation’s capital for the annual Bilderberg Conference. First held in 1954, the Bilderberg Group has, until recently, never even acknowledged its own existence and attendees, who even today, will not admit they attended or what they actually discussed. In a rare moment of public relations, an anonymous group affiliated with the ultra-secretive Bilderbergers, called Friends of Bilderberg, issued a list of power elites invited to this year’s conference. The list included American Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of the Treasury Paulson, National Security Agency Director Alexander, World Bank president Zoellick, Fed Chairman Bernanke, NY Fed President Geithner, along with Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, George Schultz, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Holbrooke, as well as major European politicians, bankers and businessmen. All the major corporations, the royal houses of Europe, and representatives of the media, such as Donald Graham of the Washington Post and Paul Gigot of PBS, were invited. Yet, not one photo or word documenting the event showed up in the mainstream media, despite a howling blogosphere rife with rumors that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama secretly attended. The Friends of Bilderberg press release also states that the “meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion” and that “all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.” Under the Logan Act, passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994, it is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years, for any U.S. citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority. The attendance of U.S. citizens at annual Bilderberg Group Conference in an unofficial—meaning unauthorized—capacity raises the question of violation of federal law on a rather large scale, which should at the very least draw the mainstream media’s attention. Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (TrineDay; September, 2007), is recognized as the only reliable source of information on the meetings, attendees, and agendas of this secretive group of corporate titans, media moguls and political powers. For years, he has been tracking the movements, speeches, and political webs of Bilderberg members to glean what he can about their plans to re-invent the world in their own image. According to Estulin, and other printed sources, the funds for the first conferences were supplied by the CIA, and security at these conference are still handled by government agencies. “The fact of this sinister conclave, as spooky as any midnight meeting of the KKK in a piney wood, was bound to get known to the world eventually,” says Estulin. There is a queer parallel between Bilderberg´s secret meeting in Chantilly and a conference on Jekyll Island way back in 1908 in which the currency of the United States and of the world was manipulated—to what effect, whether for good or evil, opinions vary. There have been many excited versions of that secret meeting on Jekyll Island in 1908, but relatively few have ever heard of it at all. Most Americans are not aware of Bilderberg nor understand that the decisions taken at their secret confab affect the lives of the entire planet.” Underlining the serious nature of the meeting, Estulin reports that Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haas spoke at the Bilderberg Conference Thursday, June 5, calling for the elimination of superpowers and sovereign nation states. Estulin quotes Haas as saying in his speech on International Non-Polarity, The United States' unipolar moment is over. International relations in the twenty-first century will be defined by nonpolarity. Power will be diffuse rather than concentrated, and the influence of nation-states will decline as that of non-state actors increases. Estulin has reported over the past few years that the true purpose of
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Link to full article: http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/433048.html US congressman moves to impeach Bush Jun. 10th, 2008 at 8:43 AM Related Impeachment, the war, and American values Email Your Congress Member - Congress has 72 hours to table it, send it to committee, pass it, or reject it. The full text of the articles-pdf Published: Tuesday 10, June 2008 - 13:40] 1 of 1 Enlarge Dennis Kucinich: 35 articles of impeachment against Bush Former Democratic presidential contender, Dennis Kucinich, has called for the impeachment of George W Bushnbsp;claiming that the president set out to deceive the nation, and violated his oath of office with the Iraq war.The Ohio representative yesterday introduced 35 articles of impeachment against Bush on the floor of the US House of Representatives. Kucinich unveiled a list of alleged illegal and improper acts by Bush,including war crimes. He accused Bush executing a calculated and wide-ranging strategy to deceive citizens and Congress into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.--MORE-- Tags: activism, bush, impeachment, kucinich Link to full article: http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/433048.html MARC PARENT, mparent, mparent, ccnwon CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent-1.livejournal.com/ http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/blog/38 nbsp; nbsp; __ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
[cia-drugs] Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media
http://bilderbergbook.com/ Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media For Immediate Release For more info please contact: Kurt Aldag, (800) 670-4372 [EMAIL PROTECTED] e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Largest gathering of wealth and power ever assembled on American soil off-limits to American media They came, they met and they conquered—at least “they” conquered America’s pliant mainstream press. (Eugene, OR 6/10/08) A press corps recently scourged by former White House Press Secretary, Scott McCellan, as being “too deferential,” have once again bowed to pressures, and decided not to report the largest gathering of corporate, banking, governmental and royal power ever assembled on American soil this past weekend. Over 140 of the world’s most elite powerbrokers gathered in a high class hotel in Chantilly, Virgina, June 5-8, not far from this nation’s capital for the annual Bilderberg Conference. First held in 1954, the Bilderberg Group has, until recently, never even acknowledged its own existence and attendees, who even today, will not admit they attended or what they actually discussed. In a rare moment of public relations, an anonymous group affiliated with the ultra-secretive Bilderbergers, called Friends of Bilderberg, issued a list of power elites invited to this year’s conference. The list included American Secretary of State Rice, Secretary of the Treasury Paulson, National Security Agency Director Alexander, World Bank president Zoellick, Fed Chairman Bernanke, NY Fed President Geithner, along with Henry Kissinger, David Rockefeller, George Schultz, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Holbrooke, as well as major European politicians, bankers and businessmen. All the major corporations, the royal houses of Europe, and representatives of the media, such as Donald Graham of the Washington Post and Paul Gigot of PBS, were invited. Yet, not one photo or word documenting the event showed up in the mainstream media, despite a howling blogosphere rife with rumors that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama secretly attended. The Friends of Bilderberg press release also states that the “meeting is private in order to encourage frank and open discussion” and that “all participants attend Bilderberg in a private and not an official capacity.” Under the Logan Act, passed in 1799 and last amended in 1994, it is a felony, punishable under federal law with imprisonment of up to three years, for any U.S. citizen to conduct foreign relations without authority. The attendance of U.S. citizens at annual Bilderberg Group Conference in an unofficial—meaning unauthorized— capacity raises the question of violation of federal law on a rather large scale, which should at the very least draw the mainstream media’s attention. Daniel Estulin, author of The True Story of the Bilderberg Group (TrineDay; September, 2007), is recognized as the only reliable source of information on the meetings, attendees, and agendas of this secretive group of corporate titans, media moguls and political powers. For years, he has been tracking the movements, speeches, and political webs of Bilderberg members to glean what he can about their plans to re-invent the world in their own image. According to Estulin, and other printed sources, the funds for the first conferences were supplied by the CIA, and security at these conference are still handled by government agencies. “The fact of this sinister conclave, as spooky as any midnight meeting of the KKK in a piney wood, was bound to get known to the world eventually,” says Estulin. There is a queer parallel between Bilderberg´s secret meeting in Chantilly and a conference on Jekyll Island way back in 1908 in which the currency of the United States and of the world was manipulated—to what effect, whether for good or evil, opinions vary. There have been many excited versions of that secret meeting on Jekyll Island in 1908, but relatively few have ever heard of it at all. Most Americans are not aware of Bilderberg nor understand that the decisions taken at their secret confab affect the lives of the entire planet.” Underlining the serious nature of the meeting, Estulin reports that Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haas spoke at the Bilderberg Conference Thursday, June 5, calling for the elimination of superpowers and sovereign nation states. Estulin quotes Haas as saying in his speech on International Non-Polarity, The United States' unipolar moment is over. International relations in the twenty-first century will be defined by nonpolarity. Power will be diffuse rather than concentrated, and the influence of nation-states will decline as that of non-state actors increases. Estulin has reported over the past few years that the true
[cia-drugs] Fw: Marines to begin martial law training in Indianapolis
From: Cornet Joyce II Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 6:10 AM All: I'm sure you are aware that Obama and Clinton were called to the Bilderberger meeting. You can be assured that the candidacies were firmed up at that meeting and Clinton knows exactly where she stands. I wouldn't be a bit surprised that McCain was also called in to the meeting (He reportedly belongs to the American Friends of Bilderberg). I would hope you are aware the Ron Paul's supporters are being shut down at state conventions, one after another, Washington State being one of the latest. He has reportedly accumulated percentages of votes in the 20's in at least one state. Then consider this article. CJJ -- Marines to begin martial law training in Indianapolis June 3rd, 2008 By: D. H. Williams @ 9:14 PM - EST Under the guise of urban warfare training the 26th Expeditionary Unit an elite group of U.S. Marines will conduct a martial law training exercise at 26 surrendered locations in central Indiana from June 4th thru the 17th. While state officials and media are doing their best to assure the public that this military takeover of civilian property is somehow a good thing, ignoring the Posse Comitatus Act which fundamentally prohibits these types of exercises. These two weeks of training are also a contradiction of military tradition against deployments among the civilian population dating back to the end of the Civil War. Why then are the citizens of Indianapolis and six other Indiana towns being made to take part in two weeks of patrols and ambushes? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOU934hhuEQ Local news station WTHR 6 reports, That in the interest of national security the sights and sounds of war will be brought to Indianapolis. Why do residents of Indianapolis need to learn the sights and sounds of war? Could it be a conditioning process? Considering that numerous urban training environments which exist within military bases in the U. S. and around the globe the explanation of a need to train in realistic urban zones is doubtful. More likely the real purpose is to condition the civilian population and military personnel to living under martial law. Too many this hypotheses may sound farfetched, that is until you realize the plans for martial law and the detention of U.S. citizens have already been made. (Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies, gives the executive the power to invoke martial law.) Most Americans are completely unaware of the Continuity of Government Commission created in the fall of 2002 to study and make recommendations for the continuity of government institutions after a catastrophic attack. This commission is made up primarily of professional lobbyists. The plans approved from this commission advocates a constitutional amendment calling for the appointment of individuals to the House of Representatives to fill the seats of dead or incapacitated members, a first in American history. I will say that again: our representative government will cease to exist as individuals to the House of Representatives will be appointed and not elected. An examination of the proposal reveals that it is both unnecessary and dangerous. Out of the COGC came the National Security Presidential Directive NSPD 51. This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of federal government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of federal continuity policies. This policy establishes National Essential Functions, prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency. Therefore it is not much of a leap to conclude that the true purpose of these exercises is to prepare and condition the population and the military to the prospects of martial law. In a San Francisco Chronicle article published this February former U.S. Congressman Dan Hamburg revealed that beginning in 1999, the government had entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Haliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars; some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has complained about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. What kind of new programs requires
[cia-drugs] Dark history of aspartame
Dark history of aspartame June 8th, 2008 By: D. H. Williams Brain cancer in a can or as one singer song writer calls it, Stoopid juice. Drinking a lot of diet soft drinks lately? Not feeling so well, experiencing headaches, migraines, dizziness, unsteadiness, confusion or memory loss. Concerned about brain tumors, brain lesions and lymphoma? If so you may want to check your favorite soft drink for aspartame, an artificial, non-saccharide sweetener. Marketed under the trade names; Equal, NutraSweel, Tropicana Slim and Canderel it is used as an ingredient in approximately 6,000 consumer goods. Most commonly used in soft drinks it is also in chewable vitamin supplements and sugar-free chewing gums. In 1995, FDA Epidemiology Branch Chief Thomas Wilcox reported that aspartame complaints represented 75% of all reports of adverse reactions to substances in the food supply from 1981 to 1995. Concerns about aspartame frequently revolve around symptoms and health conditions that are allegedly caused by the sweetener. A total of 92 different symptoms and health conditions were reported by physicians and consumers. A brief history of this substance begins with a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry confirming that aspartame “might induce brain tumors.” The FDA actually banned aspartame based on this finding but fortunately for Monsanto which purchased the patent in 1985, then Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld ( Yes the former Sec. Def.) vowed to “call in his markers,” to get it approved. The FDA panel upheld the ban in a 3 - 2 decision, but FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr. appointed a sixth person to the panel creating a deadlock, Hull then stepped in to break the tie in favor of approval. Hull was later rewarded by Monsanto with a contract to perform duties as chief public relations. Hull has never spoken publicly about aspartame. Still thirsting for that diet drink? You may want to listen to this original song by CC Williams, Stoopid Juice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0CCulRHssg http://www.dailynewscaster.com/2008/06/08/dark-history-of-aspartame/ aspartame-poison1.jpg
[cia-drugs] New member.
Hello. Do you believe in the legalization of (currrently criminal) drugs? Thank you. d
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Absolutely. The prohibition creates a black market which corrupts our society from the top on down and the from the bottom on up. Peace, K On Jun 10, 2008, at 10:31 AM, dan rice wrote: Hello. Do you believe in the legalization of (currrently criminal) drugs? Thank you. d Complete archives at http://www.sitbot.net/ Please let us stay on topic and be civil. OM Yahoo! Groups Links
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dan rice wrote: Hello. Do you believe in the legalization of (currrently criminal) drugs? Thank you. d VMANN: i do. so do the people at [EMAIL PROTECTED] which you can join here www.drugwar.com read THE POLITICS OF HEROIN by alfred mccoy. vigilius haufniensis
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RoadsEnd wrote: Absolutely. The prohibition creates a black market which corrupts our society from the top on down and the from the bottom on up. Peace,K VMANN: more specifically prohibition is really mercantilism. this is the british economic system wherein the government would grant monopolies on various sectors of the economy to various favored interests. what we see in the drug war is law enforcement being used not to STOP narcotics trafficking, but to enforce the monopoly, while simultaneously forming a pretext for a police state. it's a win-win situation! for the bad guys. vigilius haufniensis
[cia-drugs] The `Village Voice' Alternative Media Monopoly's Hidden History--Parts 1 2
http://constantineinstitute.blogspot.com/2008/06/village-voice-alternative-media.html Tuesday, June 10, 2008 The `Village Voice' Alternative Media Monopoly's Hidden History--Parts 1 2 http://constantineinstitute.blogspot.com/2008/06/village-voice-alternative-media.html By Bob Feldman http://www.bfeldman68.blogspot.com/ (Most of the following article originally appeared in the October 9, 1996 issue of Downtown/Aquarian Weekly) * The Village Voice became not something there because of the need for it, to give a voice to voiceless people, but a prize of booty on the battlefield of venture capitalism, something to be looked at and fought over, put into the portfolio of a corporation, used by one individual on the make after another...As of 1977, it had become part of a super-empire... --Kevin McAuliffe in The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the `Village Voice' in 1978* Denver's alternative weekly newspaper, the Denver Westword, may not be publicizing on a regular basis the current efforts of local antiwar activists to protest against the Democratic Party-controlled Congress's failure to end the U.S. military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and impeach Bush and Cheney, by mobilizing antiwar Denver residents to demonstrate outside the 2008 Democratic National Convention. One reason might be because the Denver Westword is owned by the Phoenix-based Village Voice/New Times alternative weekly newspaper chain that also owns the Village Voice, the LA Weekly, the Seattle Weekly, the San Francisco Weekly, the Minneapolis City Pages, the Phoenix New Times, the Dallas Observer, the Orange County Weekly, the Houston Press, the Cleveland Scene, the Nashville Scene, the St. Louis Riverfront Times, the Broward-Palm Beach New Times, the Miami New Times and the Kansas City Patch. In fact, the free circulation of the alternative weekly newspapers which the Denver Westword 's out-of-state parent company owns represents 25 percent of the free weekly circulation of all U.S. alternative weekly newspapers. But prior to the 2005 merger between the Wall Street bankers who had purchased the Village Voice from former Voice owner Leonard Stern for $170 million in 2000 and New Times media company owner Michael Lacey, the Voice was also not controlled by its original owners. For--like current Voice/Westword owner Michael Lacey--the Wall Street bankers, former Voice owner Leonard Stern and former Voice owner Rupert Murdoch did not provide the initial money or initial labor that was needed to launch the Village Voice on October 26, 1955. The Voice was actually started by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer---using money from Mailer's bank account and from Fancher's inheritance. (Downtown/Aquarian Weekly 10/9/96) PART 2 (Most of the following article originally appeared in the October 9, 1996 issue of Downtown/Aquarian Weekly.) Voice co-founder Wolf was the husband of a social worker. After his involvement in the world of Manhattan alternative journalism enabled him to become a millionaire by the early 1970s, Wolf turned neoconservative and eventually moved into a City Hall office in 1977 to be an aide and close adviser to then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Voice co-founder Fancher was a Lake Placid, New York prep school graduate who had become a Manhattan doctor. He had also inherited $30,000 (in 1950s money) worth of Orange County Telephone Company stock from his grandfather. Fancher used part of his inherited utility company stock to come up with the $5,000 that he initially contributed to launch the Voice. [Now-deceased] Best-selling Novelist Mailer also put up $5,000. In exchange for his $5,000 investment, Mailer and his lawyer received 40 percent of the Voice's stock. In exchange for his $5,000 investment, Fancher and his close friend, Dan Wolf, received 60 percent of the Voice's stock. The idea of naming their Manhattan alternative newspaper, The Village Voice, however, was apparently not thought up by either Mailer, Wolf or Fancher, but by a woman named Patricia Woods, who worked as an English teacher during the 1950s. Wolf took the title of Voice editor-in-chief, but a hip guy named John Wilcock was named the Voice's first news editor. Other editorial employees initially included Florence Ellerbert and Jerry Tallmer, who was a former editor of Dartmouth College's student newspaper. Although Wolf was approaching his 40th birthday when the Voice was first published, in the first issue he would lie and say he was only 33, according to The Great American Newspaper: The Rise and Fall of the `Village Voice' by Kevin McAuliffe. Before the 1962 newspaper strike by local union people shut down all of Manhattan's daily major newspapers for 114 days, the Voice was not much of a success, financially. In 1955, it only had a circulation of about 3,000, sold for 5 cents and lost up to $1,000 a week in 1950s money. It
[cia-drugs] Informant Who Accused Police Of Steroid Use Turns Up Dead In Dallas Texas
http://www.badcopnews.com/2008/06/09/informant-who-accused-police-of-steroid-use-turns-up-dead-in-dallas-texas/ Informant Who Accused Police Of Steroid Use Turns Up Dead In Dallas Texas http://www.badcopnews.com/2008/06/09/informant-who-accused-police-of-steroid-use-turns-up-dead-in-dallas-texas/ Posted by Admin http://www.badcopnews.com/author/admin/ Published in TEXAS http://www.badcopnews.com/category/texas/ *DALLAS, TEXAS - *Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell stuck with convicted steroids trafficker David Jacobs when no one else would. It may have gotten her killed. Police found the bodies of Ms. Earhart-Savell, 30, a professional fitness competitor, and Mr. Jacobs, 35, a former amateur bodybuilder, shot to death inside his home on Honey Creek Lane in Plano on Thursday morning. Police received a missing-person call shortly after midnight Wednesday from Ms. Earhart-Savell's family, said Plano police spokesman Rick McDonald. The family said that they had not heard from her and that she might be at Mr. Jacobs' house. Autopsies by the Dallas County medical examiner's office are pending. Investigators would not say if it was a murder-suicide, but people who knew the pair say Mr. Jacobs was jealous and possessive of Ms. Earhart-Savell, a fitness magazine cover girl described by friends as bubbly, attractive and outgoing. Mr. Jacobs had previously told The Dallas Morning News that their almost yearlong relationship was marked by at least two breakups and reconciliations, centered on allegations of cheating on both sides. He was by all accounts a controlling person, said John Romano, senior editor for Muscular Development magazine who knew Mr. Jacobs. Close friends told her to stay away from him. When Mr. Jacobs' role as ringleader of one of the largest steroids networks in the U.S. made headlines in November, she publicly stood by him. And paid a price, both said in blog entries. In February, she was not invited to the Arnold Classic, one of the world's most prestigious events of its kind. Bodybuilding enthusiasts decried the move online, saying it was because of her connection to Mr. Jacobs. She took second in the Arnold Classic last year and wasn't invited back this year. That's an incredible hypocrisy, said Mr. Romano, who believes steroids use is rampant in the bodybuilding community. The guy who does the steroids can compete, but the person who dates the steroids dealer can't. Mr. Jacobs drew criticism among online bloggers for recently sitting down with NFL investigators and giving them names of players to whom he said he sold performance-enhancing drugs, including ex-Cowboys lineman Matt Lehr. Mr. Jacobs also supplied the league with canceled checks, e-mails, text messages and other evidence, saying he wanted to clean up the sport. Mr. Lehr's attorney has called Mr. Jacobs' information unreliable and said his client would not be indicted. Federal investigators will only say that their investigation continues. Mr. Jacobs also said he sold steroids and growth hormone to other NFL players, but never named them publicly. On the Web site for his now-defunct nutrition store in Plano, Mr. Jacobs described himself as a trainer who offers guidance to many top athletes across the United States, including Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons football players. After his arrest, Mr. Jacobs freely told investigators about his Chinese connections for raw steroid powder, which he imported and used to cook steroids. One of his top middlemen sold about $30,000 a month of the drugs. NFL investigation Mr. Jacobs maintained until his death that federal authorities already had names of middlemen and NFL players as a result of their two-year investigation into his network. He said he confirmed names, but he did not willingly give up any names. One of the areas of interest to the NFL was Mr. Jacobs' allegation that players use a hair-loss-prevention drug that can also act as a masking agent for steroid use. He said that in 2006, Mr. Lehr used such a medication, and Mr. Jacobs said federal investigators confiscated a bottle of that medicine given to Mr. Jacobs by Mr. Lehr. The label bore an NFL team logo, along with Mr. Lehr's name, Mr. Jacobs said. The use of finasteride, sold under the trade names Propecia and Proscar, has been reviewed by the National Football League, but has not been banned. It is prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency, which oversees international competition such as the Olympics. It's unclear what the league will do with Mr. Jacobs' revelations. We are reviewing the information to determine if there is documented evidence establishing any violations of our program and will follow up on any other information that is provided, NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Thursday. It is premature to comment on any specific player at this time. He said anyone found to have violated league policies would be disciplined. He
