-Caveat Lector- All letter samples contain the same strain of anthrax, corresponding to the AMES strain in the N. Arizona State University database (which has been used for identification). The Ames substrain possessed by N. Arizona State is referred to herein as the "reference strain." That strain was obtained from Porton Down (UK) in the mid-90's (the sample was marked "October 1932"); Porton had gotten it from Fort Detrick. http://fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm
No member of Congress is publicly, as yet, questioning the hazy areas of "private client banking" -- repeatedly described by the U.S. Senate and Justice Department as being a vehicle for drug money laundering -- and apparent conflicts of interest linked to documented 9/11-related insider trading in United Air Lines stock. The trades were placed through one of the world's three largest pools of investment capital, Deutschebank-Alex Brown. http://www.copvcia.com/stories/dec_2001/death_profits_pt2.html In exchange for its help, the drug industry, the 10th biggest campaign contributor to federal parties and candidates so far this year, is pressing President Bush and Congress for some major policy concessions. Pharmaceutical companies have asked to be protected from lawsuits should the vaccines they develop to fight terrorism cause health problems. They want to block generic drug companies from making cheaper version of their drugs, and they are pressing the Food and Drug Administration to review and approve new drugs more quickly. http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_33.asp British and American intelligence agents trying to destroy the al-Qa'ida network worldwide have been forced to reassess the role of a London-based French Islamic radical who, according to the latest evidence, could have led them straight to the heart of the suicide hijacking conspiracy. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=109458 THE Pentagon has moved the headquarters of its 3rd Army from America to Kuwait, apparently in preparation for expanding the war on terrorism to Somalia and elsewhere. http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war211.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html A recent federal order for libraries to destroy copies of a public water supply database is raising new concerns about how far authorities will go to restrict information in the name of national security. http://www.thehotsheets.com/thinktank/messages/6057.html FBI officials have acknowledged that the agency is developing a combination computer worm/Trojan horse called Magic Lantern that's designed to capture keystrokes on a target computer and encryption keys used to conceal data. http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO66430,00.html AOL Time Warner Inc said it named Larry Cockell, deputy director of the US Secret Service, as the company's senior vice president and chief security officer, a newly created position, effective Jan 14, 2002. http://www.iii.co.uk/uknews/?articleid=4251383&action=article AMERICAN officers have secretly entered Somalia in the first indication of President Bush's determination to extend the war against terrorism. http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/12/11/war11.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/12/11/ixhome.html Opponents and supporters of the World Trade Organisation alike are still pondering the meaning of the outcome of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Qatar. And as usual, we are invited to drown our sorrows in a sea of consumer choices. Pepsi or Coca-Cola? BP or Shell? http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/10choudry.cfm Basically a person is selected for torture and surveillance for whatever real reason is involved -- classified work, they are presumed subversive or criminal, they are a random experimental subject, etc. -- and then one objective of the surveillance is to come up with plausible lies about why the surveillance was begun in the first place. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crimgov/message/7669 Imagine for a moment that you’re a citizen of Tuvalu, an island nation in the South Pacific. Your home will soon disappear beneath the waves, an early casualty of rising sea levels linked to global warming. The people largely responsible for your plight – the oil-burning, carbon-dioxide-spewing citizens of the United States – are thousands of miles away and show no signs of lending a hand. What do you do? A growing number of environmental advocates, alarmed by the Bush administration’s repudiation of the Kyoto Protocol, have this advice: take ’em to court. http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/guerrilla/doc242.html Former White House counsel John W. Dean III knows a little about the perils of presidential cover-ups. He was one of the key players in Nixon's downfall. For his role in the Watergate cover-up he was charged with obstruction of justice and spent four months in prison. Three decades later, Dean has some harsh words about Bush's Executive Order 13233 - a move that makes Nixon's attempts at secrecy look like child's play. http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/doc237.html War is "business by other means" as they say. This war (whatever form it takes) have its roots in the ongoing scramble for Middle East oil. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1542 As Cato the Elder ended every speech in the Roman forum with "Delenda est Carthago!" ("Carthage must be destroyed!"), so our neo-conservatives have decreed that Iraq must be destroyed. http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25035 This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodologies for economic conquest - it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public. http://www9.pair.com/xpoez/money/silent.html A resolution has been introduced in Congress to declare that Iraq has committed "an act of aggression against the United States..." by refusing to comply with U.N. Resolution 687. This proposed resolution is a twisted, and extremely dangerous, excuse to bomb Baghdad back to the stone age. http://www.sierratimes.com/archive/files/dec/10/henrylamb.htm yet, just 3 weeks ago iraq offered to comply with the ending of the 10 year old genocide campaign as a condition - sounds reasonable right? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20011121/wl/iraq_un_sanctions_dc_1.html A group of 70 security guards known as the "camo dudes" walked off their jobs Monday in Las Vegas and at the covert military installation known as Area 51, a place they said they can't talk about. http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Dec-11-Tue-2001/news/17638293.html It was my great honor and pleasure to have served as the Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993, including and especially to the Head of the Delegation, Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi. A man of great courage, integrity, and principle. I would fight the Devil himself for Dr. Abdul Shaffi. The following invited reflections are to the best of my immediate recollection. The viewpoints expressed here are solely my own. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1516 The main Palestinian resistance groups have offered to suspend attacks inside 1948 Palestine (Israel) if the Israeli occupation army and paramilitary Jewish terrorists agree in return to stop assassinating Palestinian citizens and end tank and aerial bombardment of Palestinian population centers. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1517 Israel this weekend barred Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat from leaving the West Bank to attend an Organization of the Islamic Conference meeting in Doha, Qatar. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1519 On Friday 07 December 2001, late afternoon after Asr prayer, a group of 15 Arab Mujahideen on a reconnaissance mission spotted an encampment of US Marines. http://66.96.205.195/~azzam/afghan/news/news.php?id=32 Every couple of years someone writes a new report claiming that most environmental problems have been greatly exaggerated or don't even exist. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1518 Cochabamba, the third largest city in Bolivia, is best known as the "city of eternal Spring". But, as Oscar Olivera, a factory labourer and spokesperson for la Coordinadora (the Coalition for the Defence of Water and Life) reminded us at the beginning of the third People's Global Action conference, it wasn't the pleasant climate that made this highland city the perfect location for a meeting of grassroots groups from all over the world in September 2001. Last year, Cochabamba became a key symbol of the struggle against global capitalism, when tens of thousands of local people took to the streets against the privatisation of their water supply by the US transnational Bechtel and won! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1555 Today I learned how a person can be driven to despair and act with complete frustration, feeling severely crushed and despised. I have been living with this hard situation in Palestine for nearly four decades but never has it been this bad. Today we started to experience a new style of suffering in our little village - Wadi Foquin - this village is known to many of you. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1556 A thesis which alleges that Jewish militias slaughtered unarmed Arab fighters during the war of Independence is at the centre of a fierce debate about Israel's approach to its history, writes Suzanne Goldenberg. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1557 US forces dropped their largest conventional bomb - a 15,000-pound (6,800 kg) "daisy cutter" - on a cave in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend in hopes of killing senior al-Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden, a senior US military official said today. http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/2001/12/11/FFX60UUJ2VC.html There is provably, a faceless, elite and totalitarian government that rules this planet through a network of secret organisations. These organisations are not secret in the sense that they are not known about, they are secret in the sense that it is very hard to find out what goes on behind closed doors. Nearly all of the politicians we know and love are members of one or more of these organisations. Others are kept in line through fear and the political matrix itself such as the controlled party whips in England. The false political parties that the media present us with, are exactly that, false. The secret government ignores national boundaries controls all sides of the political debate and works relentlessly towards an agenda of total global domination. Remember, secrecy is only required if there is something to hide. http://petercw.topcities.com/AwakeningTheWorld/AwakeningTheWorldPage2.htm The goal of the current protracted war against a weak foe (indeed, against a foe largely created by the U.S. and its client states, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) is to position the U.S. military-intelligence apparatus firmly in Central Asia. http://emperors-clothes.com/images/north-int.htm "If liberty means anything at all," George Orwell wrote, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12051 One look at a map to see how perfectly Gaza and the West Bank would fit into the rest of Israel will send the concept of "manifest destiny" running through American minds – that 1800s American presumption that our nation was destined to stretch from sea to shining sea. http://www.ramallahonline.com/article.php?sid=608 Some Americans who live near coal mines are worried about their future health and safety if President Bush's nominee to oversee that industry receives congressional approval. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12036 What links Enron, the largest natural gas company in the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Pentagon and the fast-growing energy markets of developing countries around the world? If you said covert intelligence operations to support Washington's aggressive pursuit of emerging markets and a network of ''good old boys'' who have long helped each other in and out of government, you probably got it right. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1559 A cholera epidemic has claimed over 1,000 lives in Nigeria. The disease has spread from Kano to a number of other states. No coordinated response has come from the federal government, and the state governments have been criticised for their slow and ineffective measures against the epidemic. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/nige-d11.shtml Not only does this prove the frame-up - it also proves that people high up in the United States government were involved in this super crime - it was not just Mossad - the Defense department was in on it - but not Naval Intelligence (which was bombed at the Pentagon and has long been rumored to be resisting the move toward non-constitutional globalist world governance.) And if you look at likely suspects in the Pentagon, there is none more likely than Paul Wolfowitz. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1560 So, the attorney general of the United States tells me: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists." Well, screw you, buddy! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1561 In trying to appraise this issue of law enforcement, much has been written and much more will be written. One point that everyone seems to agree on is that crime is out of control, and something must be done about it. We call America the land of the free, and refer to the Soviet Union as a police state. But the facts tell us another story: they show that this country holds more people per capita in jail than any other country, including the Soviet Union and South Africa. In reality, most people in America live in a police state, and are completely unaware of it. There is little difference between tyranny in governments, no matter where it may be. http://memes.org/article.php?sid=725&mode=&order=0 FEMA for kids homepage "Disasters aren't fun, but learning about them is!" http://www.fema.gov/kids/ Fifty-three years ago, on 11 December 1948, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution of monumental importance to the Palestinian refugees - G.A. Resolution 194. This year, the 53rd anniversary of Resolution 194 follows the conclusion of the one-year anniversary of the al-Aqsa intifada, in which the Palestinian refugees have made incomparable sacrifices in asserting their fundamental and inalienable rights to be free from Israel's illegal occupation and to return to their homes of origin. These demands are supported by the entire Palestinian people and leadership, a fact that is not surprising considering that nearly three-quarters of the world's Palestinians are refugees. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1562 Mr.President, I share your grief as I think of those innocent people whose lives were lost in such a brutal fashion. What is truly sad, given what I saw today, you do not share my grief, not only do you not share it, you show a callous and cold disregard for the pain we Palestinians feel every single moment of every waking hour. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1563 Microsoft is to install profiling software from Predictive Networks in all its digital TV set-top boxes. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/23318.html Nomadic tribal herders – after wandering the seemingly infinite wilderness for millions of years, as their semi-domesticated cattle led them to verdant pastures – found the once free, open land being gradually claimed, proclaimed, and patrolled by the most powerful armed war lords, who suggested that the herder needed “protection” for their defenseless flocks and herds, which were tantalizingly stealable wealth. http://people.montana.com/~calsch/CosmicCosting.htm Mr. Peterson is a director of Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc.; Sony Corp. and Transtar Inc. He is chairman of the board of the Council on Foreign Relations and Institute for International Economies, president of The Concord Coalition and a trustee of the Committee for Economic Development, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and New York's Museum of Modern Art. He also is founding member of the Bi-Partisan Budget Appeal. http://www.ny.frb.org/pihome/orgchart/board/peterson.html This site is devoted to advancing Humanity’s Option for Success, inspired by the principles articulated by Buckminster Fuller. We hope to empower site visitors to see the big picture and exercise individual initiative. Everyone on board our Spaceship Earth can live abundantly and successfully on an ecologically sustainable basis. Humanity has the option to make it. We must choose it before it expires. More on Humanity’s Option. http://www.bfi.org/ We're ready. Though Mars is distant, we are far better prepared today to send humans to Mars than we were to travel to the Moon at the commencement of the space age. Given the will, we could have our first teams on Mars within a decade. http://www.marssociety.org/about/founding_declaration.asp May I suggest that we start referring to the 911 crash-bombing frame-up as "The 911 Wolfowitz Conspiracy" -- that will spook their key Administration mastermind and mouthpiece -- eventually the ignoring of the frame-up theory will become so ridiculous that POOOF! it will be over and we can get back to our knitting. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1566 What neither of these columns mentions is that the current chair of Republican National Committee, Marc Racicot, was hired as a lobbyist-attorney of Houston's Bracewell & Patterson, which is Enron's chief lobbyist. Racicot was instrumental in getting Montana's power industry deregulated while he was governor of that state, chiefly for the benefit of Enron's expansion into fiber optic cable systems. They also don't mention Enron's historical connections to the Bakers' gas company, Entex, now part of Reliant Energy (formerly Houston Industries) and its connection to Pennzoil, a company controlled since 1962 by Bush family friends, the Liedtkes. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1567 The court ruled that online journalists reporting on matters of public importance, like their colleagues in other media, can only be found guilty of libel if their actions are deemed malicious. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,48996,00.html China will officially become a member of the World Trade Organization on Tuesday. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/11/23408.html RUSSIA TO JOIN THE WTO NO LATER THAN 2003 http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/11/23389.html Having supported and encouraged the setting up of the African Union, which will set up its own bank and emergency fund, so that member states are not entirely dependent on more expensive international financial institutions, Muammar Gaddafi continues to work energetically and tirelessly in deepening the role of the institution and Libya's collaboration within it. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/11/23351.html To any amateur conspiracy theorist, that information seems almost too good to be true. Removing the Taliban from Afghanistan and installing an "internationally recognised government" would eliminate the main obstacle to Unocal's investment in the pipeline project. http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2001/556/5war.htm A cautionary tale comes from the arc of land through parts of Jordan, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, and Iran -- the cradle of civilization known as the Fertile Crescent. In ancient times much of this land was forest. The area became a leader in food production as trees were cleared for agriculture, and cut for timber, firewood, and manufacturing plaster. Now the expression "Fertile Crescent" is absurd, because the land is largely desert, semi-desert, steppe-eroded and salinized terrain, unsuitable for agriculture. http://www.tompaine.com/features/2001/12/10/index.html In short, we do not know how many inhalational-anthrax deaths occurred in the United States between 1976 and September 2001. We know only that the officially-assigned cause of any inhalational-anthrax death which did occur either has been “unknown” or is incorrect. http://cryptome.org/fi2-anthrax.pdf A high ranking Kuwaiti government official has stressed that Kuwait is not a military base nor an operation room where the war against Afghanistan is run. http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011211/2001121104.html Representatives of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims set up a ministerial panel on Monday to urge the United States and the European Union to press Sharon and the Israeli government to end its on going aggression on the Palestinians and revive the Middle East peace process. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1580 Pictures can speak for themselves http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20011211/ts/imdf11122001094051a.html Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981. 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