-Caveat Lector- The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) have denied Human Rights Watch access to detention centers that hold people arrested in relation to the September 11 terrorist investigation. The INS has also said that it cannot provide information regarding a Pakistani citizen who died in its custody unless Human Rights Watch produces a document with the man’s signature indicating his consent to the release of information. The man, Mohammed Butt, died on October 23 allegedly of unspecified heart problems. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/demo-d15.shtml
The most powerful warlord during the Mujaheddin's battle against Kabul regime. The most destructive and antisocial element during the years 1970-1975. He carried out a number of terrorists acts within territory of Afghanistan during the Mohammad Daoud presidency and following regimes . Gollbuddin Attended two years of engineering faculty in Kabul University and involved in politics in late 1970 and became member of "Ikhwan-e Muslimin" (Muslims' Brothers) movement in 1970. He received most of military and financial aides from the United States government and CIA during the Afghan War against Kabul regime. After that Mujaheddin became to the power of Kabul regime, Gollbuddin has continued fighting against Raban's government and his Defense Minister Ahmad Shah Masoud. http://www.afghan-info.com/Politics/Afghan_Mujaheedin/GULBUDIN.HTM Let's look at the heroin boom of the 1980s. In the 1980s, CIA op-erations again played a role in the revival of the U.S. drug problem. In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua, prompting two more CIA operations with some revealing similarities. Let us now pay particularly close attention to the CIA's Afghan operation. Not only is the Afghan operation simultaneous and similar to the controversial contra operation, but its direct and negative impact on U.S. drug supply is beyond question or controversy. http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/97-08%20AUG/ciacovert.html On December the 12th 1969 the bombing began, with one bomb in Milan and three in Rome. The bombs in Rome left eighteen wounded, the bomb in Milan killed seventeen and injured eighty-eight. Police acting on information from S.I.D. ( intelligence agency) arrested two anarchists for the Milan bomb, later murdering one of them , Giuseppe Pinelli , with a fake suicide. Despite mounting evidence that this was a Fascist bomb, the official party line for years afterward was blame the Anarchists. Later the Establishment view changed and the idea that this was a joint operation between Anarchists and Fascists is propounded! Eventually a number of Fascists are tried, convicted and imprisoned but are acquitted, as is the surviving Anarchist. One of the bombers acquitted for "lack of evidence" was Guido Giannette a S.I.D. agent.. When Giannette became a suspect, the secret state sent him out of Italy and continued to pay his wages after the arrest warrant had been issued. http://struggle.ws/freeearth/fe3_italy.html Quick on the heels of Taliban defeat, starving farmers are replanting the opium poppies banned under the Islamist regime, giving rise to fears of renewed drug warlordism. Engaged in the shooting war, Washington may be turning a blind eye to a favorite income source of its allies, says Pacific News Service commentator Peter Dale Scott -- bad news for those who want to reduce global heroin production. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and has authored numerous books on drugs and U.S. foreign policy. http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1217warlords.html The CIA's biowarfare program is now being investigated. The Washington Post reported a law enforcement source said the FBI did not initially include the CIA on its list of labs working with anthrax because the agency was not among 91 labs registered with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to transfer anthrax specimens. But as investigators interviewed workers at those known labs, they learned of the CIA's work, and in the past few weeks posed questions about it to the agency. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=798&mode=&order=0 How can a democratic people have confidence in elected officials who hide the records of their actions from public view? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46716-2001Dec14.html Analysis of Sharon's order to liquidate Hamas leader suggests it was calculated to trigger an escalating cycle of violence. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1848 Sen. Lieberman: "war against terrorism cannot end before Saddam Hussein is out of power in Iraq" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1850 THE PICTURE THAT FOOLED THE WORLD! http://emperors-clothes.com/Film/doctored.htm What's next? How will they handle the worldwide derision over the latest bin Laden video? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1834 The Forest Service is moving to change Clinton-era policies designed to protect undeveloped portions of national forests. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57114-2001Dec17.html This pamphlet is an excerpt from The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution and included in The Complete Works of Michael Bakunin under the title "Fragment." http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bakunin/Bakuninarchive.html The Pentagon's psychological warfare campaign in Afghanistan has taken an unusual turn in recent weeks. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/strike_leaflets011218.html Adding to the suspicions is the fact that in Israel, Comverse works closely with the Israeli government, and under special programs, gets reimbursed for up to 50 percent of its research and development costs by the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade. But investigators within the DEA, INS and FBI have all told Fox News that to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,40824,00.html The US military is continuing its relentless bombing of the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan after sabotaging a surrender deal negotiated last week between Afghani militia leaders and pro-Taliban fighters holed up in cave complexes in the rugged mountains. Claiming that it now has Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda figures cornered, the US is conducting what amounts to a systematic slaughter. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/afgh-d17.shtml The most significant feature of November’s elections for the new assembly in Kosovo is the continued failure of the political successors of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) to win any substantial support at the ballot box. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/kos-d17.shtml Workers employed by capital receive a wage equivalent to the value of the commodity they sell, their labour power, or capacity to work. Once having purchased this commodity, the capitalist, like every other purchaser of a commodity, is entitled to its use value. The use value of labour power is that it is a source of additional value, which it creates during the process of production. Suppose that the value of labour power (paid in the form of wages) is equivalent to half a day’s labour. Then at the end of four hours, the worker will have reproduced the value of his labour power. But as we know, the worker does not work for four hours, but for eight hours, or a longer period. During that period, the worker creates additional or surplus value, over and above the value of the labour power he sold to the capitalist. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/corr-d17.shtml Everything that Mr. Putin has earned by spectacular improvement of relations with China, India, Vietnam, Cuba and some other countries collapsed nearly overnight. What has surfaced was Gorbachev's primitive concept of 'common human values' - i.e. subordination of Russia's interests to those of the West. http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/tetekin/10blows.htm "The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control...Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent." Congressman Larry P. McDonald, 1976, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1861 Yes, that is correct, it's called HR3162. If you don't have a copy of it, I suggest you get one. Now. It just removed the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights from our existence. Do NOT believe the lie that this document, and others like it, will be "Grand fathered" or simply done away with after four years. This will not happen. Do NOT take solace in the fact that this Legislation is "only" aimed at those weird, brown- skinned Arab types....you know, the ones with towels on their heads..... Think again - you and I are next. This is precisely the very same tract taken by every petty Dictator, Tyrant or wann-be starting with Rome, or before, running through Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini all those bozo's in Africa, and on, and on. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1862 FBI: Hope You Can Come! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1782 Frontline: Animal Liberation Totals for 2001 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1863 Gangs of Northern Alliance soldiers have unleashed a crime wave of looting and killing in Kabul which is awakening nostalgia for the Taliban http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1864 An Iraqi opposition leader has lobbied the US government with a war plan against Saddam Hussein, calling for an air assault and the deployment of American special forces. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1866 Dear FBI Director Robert Mueller, I don’t know whether you have seen Sunday’s Washington Post (Dec. 16, 2001) article by authors Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt entitled “Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army’s Stocks: 5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick,” in which a short list of your chief suspects is provided? I am pleased to read these revelations, and wish to further facilitate your investigation toward a successful conclusion. As a Harvard-trained public health authority and independent investigator published in the field of using the FBI’s motivational model for investigating serial homicides involving infectious agents, I want you to know that on Monday December 10, I released a 20-page detailed report to the press, to members of Congress, and to your bureau chiefs, which has largely propelled these recent mainstream media identifications of the Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as your principle suspects in the anthrax mailings mystery. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1867 As the assets of two more American Muslim charities were frozen on Friday, American Muslims are watching closely to see if the same standards apply to non-Muslim groups who allegedly support terrorism-even terrorism against fellow Americans right here at home. Concern is growing so much, in fact, that a well-respected American Muslim organization, the Muslim Public Affairs Council (www.mpac.org), is incorporating a discussion of domestic terrorism into its national convention on December 29th in Los Angeles. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1868 This is the third failed attempt in a year by the UN to establish a monitoring force in the Occupied Territories and the second time in a year that the US has vetoed the Security Councils' draft Resolution. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1869 Over the past four years we had discovered massive evidence of gold market manipulation. None of that evidence contradicts our initial assertion that gold was not allowed to rise in price due to an orchestrated effort of certain bullion banks. Unfortunately, we have learned the gold price manipulation extends to the International Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements, the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States, and the U.S. Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1870 Dear NPR: Linda Gradstein today again ignored the facts, and picked news clips and items as if there is only an Israeli governmental version of the world to report to America. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1871 Drugs, Impunity and the CIA http://www.connix.com/~harry/cia-drug.htm Since the day of infamy on September 11, 2001, conspiracy theories have been rampant about what happened in the terror attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon by hijacked planes. (Gee, imagine that?) There's been many questions asked, but the biggest of all, of course, is "Who done it?" While the chorus of the korporate media has focused almost completely on lone nut evil madman Osama bin Laden - or, perhaps, that other evil crazy Muslim monster Saddam Hussein - in their own officially sanctioned conspiracy theory, there have been numerous alternative theories presented in the underground press: Israel and Mossad, China and the PLA, Russia and the KGB, MI6 and the Royal Crown, and, of course, the always nominated Illuminati. http://www.konformist.com/botm/volume05/botm1001.htm Last week Barron's published an essay by Robert D. Auerbach, a professor at the University of Texas, complaining about the Federal Reserve's active concealment of the public policies it carries out. Interestingly, one of the Fed meetings cited by Auerbach is the one in whose minutes GATA's investigators discovered what we consider to be the smoking-gun reference to "gold swaps" undertaken by the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Open Market Committee meeting of January 31, 1995. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1873 God forbid dollarization! It would be the end of our nationality. Look, I’ll put it differently; we know very well that biodiversity is a good thing, that we must preserve species, that we must preserve species from extinction. Well, for the same reason we must avoid the extinction of nationalities, because they are what gives flavor and human quality to this world. And if we become the same as Americans, and part of their culture, through dollarization, the world will have lost something very valuable: Mexican culture. http://www.plata.com.mx/plata/comNOT21a.htm North American gold miners Barrick Gold and Homestake Mining have wrapped up their $US 2.3 billion ($4.43 billion) merger, clearing the way for the expanded Barrick to enter the battle for Normandy Mining. http://www.thewest.com.au/20011217/business/tw-business-home-sto36656.html Every person in the world would be fingerprinted and registered under a universal identification scheme to fight illegal immigration and people smuggling outlined at a United Nations meeting today. http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/12/14/FFX058CU6VC.html 1. German firm close to identifying probable-advance-knowledge WTC crashbombing financial-market profiteers 2. Frame-up: Dates entirely wrong on video, President viewing, full moon, Ramadan references -- reduces probability of video authenticity to near-zero based on this one timing issue alone. 3. Did heroin profit returns from Afgan raw opium play a role in State Department/CIA buying cooperation among druglord tribes to form the "Northern Alliance"? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1874 Russia hopes that the US will consult with European countries before starting a war on terrorism beyond the bounds of Afghanistan, the Russian President said in his interview with the Financial Times. However, the Russian president warned against military agression against Iraq. The anti-terrorist coalition’s next task should block sources of terrorist activities’ financing, he stated. Though, for the time being, we have neither information nor proof of Iraq financing terrorist activities. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/17/23790.html Eye-witnesses claimed that the Mosque was attacked as the Hammas leaders prayed inside the Mosque of Al Rahma in the Al Rimal suburb of Gaza City in the Gaza Strip. Various missiles were fired by Israeli aircraft. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/17/23753.html EBOLA EPIDEMIC OUT OF CONTROL http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/17/23751.html The topic was an investigative series that appeared last summer in the San Jose Mercury News. Written by Gary Webb, "Dark Alliance" explained that millions of dollars from the sale of drugs went to support the Nicaraguan Contras during the Reagan years. Most newsworthy was the type of drug sold -- crack cocaine. At the cost of ruined lives in America's inner city, Ollie North funded his illegal war. For his work, Gary Webb received Journalist of the Year honors from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Northern California Chapter. http://www.monitor.net/monitor/editorials/ed-alliance.html Prescription For Scandal: Biological Psychiatry's Faustian Pact http://www.canadiandimension.mb.ca/v35/v35_5ab.htm Janis Besler Heaphy, president and publisher of The Sacramento Bee, was speaking before the largest crowd ever for a CSUS graduation ceremony about the threats to civil liberties posed by the federal government's investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Her comments were drowned out about five minutes into the eight-minute speech when a segment of the audience began to stomp and clap in protest to her words. http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/story/1335122p-1404788c.html A powerful Washington, D.C., law firm with unusually close ties to the White House has earned hefty fees representing controversial Saudi billionaires as well as a Texas-based Islamic charity fingered last week as a terrorist front. http://www.truthout.com/12.17C.Saudi.Friends.htm When is American foreign policy going to start putting America first? The US had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence on all sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The resolution condemned terrorism, no matter what the source, called for the creation of a "monitoring mechanism" to prevent violence, denounced executions without trial, and said the destruction of property must cease. You gotta problem with that? http://www.mediamonitors.net/justin18.html "We seek a genuine Palestinian state....with Jerusalem as its capital, alongside the state of Israel." http://www.mediamonitors.net/yasserarafat1.html Sept. 12: For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security -- a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel. http://www.sfgate.com/today/0912_chron_mnreport.shtml 676 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., and archived on CD-ROM covering the Ku Klux Klan. Files contain approximately 350 narrative pages. Files chiefly cover the Louisiana KKK, known as the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Documents contain cursory information regarding the FBI investigation of the Ku Klux Klan during 1964 and 1965 for possible violations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other criminal activities. http://www.paperlessarchives.com/kkk.html Most of us accept the premise that terrorism is a phenomenon that can be defeated only by better ideas, by persuasion and, most importantly, by amelioration of the conditions that inspire it. Terrorism's best asset, in the final analysis, is the fire in the bellies of its young men, and that fire cannot be extinguished by Tomahawk missiles. If intelligent Americans can accept that premise as a reasonable basis for dealing with this nemesis, why is it so difficult for our leaders to speak and act accordingly? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/close.html During World War II, restrictions on shipping and strict port security produced a marked hiatus in global opium trafficking. In sum, the war cut the long-distance smuggling routes between Asia and the West, confining the drug traffic to regional markets. Denied illicit opiates from Asia, the United States drew limited supplies of low-grade heroin from Mexico that failed to meet even a fraction of consumer demand. By the end of the war, the US addict population had dropped to an historic low of some twenty thousand. http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/opi011.htm Throughout the Cold War the CIA used gangsters and warlords, many of them drug dealers, to fight communism. As the Cold War ended, the list of CIA assets who used their alliance with the agency to deal drugs had grown longer—Marseilles Corsicans, Lao generals, Thai police, National Chinese irregulars, Afghan rebels, Pakistani intelligence, Haitian colonels, Mexican police units, and Guatemalan military. http://www.connix.com/~harry/cia-drug.htm The intelligence community of Pakistan, which was once described by the "Frontier Post" of Peshawar (May 18,1994) as its "invisible government" and by the "Dawn" of Karachi (April 25,1994) as "our secret godfathers" consists of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the ISI. While the IB comes under the Interior Minister, the ISI is part of the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Each wing of the Armed Forces has also its own intelligence directorate for tactical MI. http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper287.html James Cross, the British Trade Commissioner, was kidnapped by the Liberation cell of the FLQ on October 5th, 1970. He was taken from his home on Redpath Crescent in Montreal and held for 60 days in an eight-by-fourteen room on des Recolletts Street in Montreal North. He was eventually freed by police action on Dec 3rd, 1970. Mr. Cross left Canada and returned to England within days of his freedom. He retired in 1980 and now lives in Seafort,England. Mr. Cross is 79. http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/october/where.html Winds of change in policy matters are blowing across the world (is it?). China with its own vulnerability and strengths must be watching the prospective changes in international security dynamics more closely than ever before. Chinese eyes on the current US involvement in Afghanistan and the associated American activities reflecting on regional and international security imperatives might intend to accept the present impasse both as a challenge and an opportunity to include them in future national behaviour. http://www.saag.org/papers4/paper371.html You are faced with a stark choice. Do you dedicate yourself to an impossible cause? Or do you look after your own, making do as best you can? The choice is clear. You must dedicate yourself to an impossible cause. Why? Because we are all incurables. Because solidarity is a form of tenderness. Because the simple act of caring for the world itself is a victory. Take a stand – not because it will lead to anything, but because it is the right thing to do. We never know what can or can’t be done; only what must be done. http://www.guerrillanews.com/newswire/guerrilla/doc246.html The latest hit limiting access to government business came last week when President Bush invoked executive privilege to block Congress from seeing prosecutors' memos in some criminal cases. Even stalwart Republican leaders were angered by the move, and rightfully so. http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story123035.html Anyone with a stomach ache and a bottle of antacid could be subject to quarantine by the government during a public health emergency under model legislation financed by the federal Centers for Disease Control, critics of the plan charge. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1819 American Blackhawk helicopters have been spotted near Mogadishu in Somalia. An eyewitness said the helicopters flew at a very low level and were photographing the region. The Blackhawks are well known in Somalia from U.S. operations in 1993 that left 18 Americans and over 300 Somalis dead. Sources close to Somali leaders said American military officials had also recently visited Mogadishu for talks about new targets in next phase of the war on terrorism. http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1217roundup.html “The first war of the 21st Century” was how Bush has described the events sparked off by the suicide –and murderous – attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington on 11 September. A chilling reminder that, under capitalism, things are going to be no different this century than they were in the last. But Bush's claim was not entirely accurate, since the attack on America that Tuesday was the continuation of a conflict that has been going on for half-a-century, irrupting from time to time in open warfare: the struggle for the control of the oil resources of the Middle East. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1828 Case by anguished case, family by tortured family, the truth is starting to surface: The Mexican army and a shadowy force of secret police systematically kidnapped, brutalized and "disappeared" hundreds of people in the 1970s as it crushed an array of leftist guerrilla movements. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3318 Israel Selects a New Target for the USA http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3351 An exercise in psychological warfare and damage control: Pre-empt the claims that bin Laden is alive and well, sighted someplace or other, after he fails to be killed or apprehended -- which is exactly what happened on December 17th, when even Rummy acknowledged that bin Laden has disappeared without a trace, and that they have neither killed nor captured him. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3358 For A New Jerusalem Campaign http://worldlightcenter.com/jerusalem.htm The U.S. government has broken international law and the Geneva Convention many times with its brutal use of force and horrific violence against persons and property, to intimidate and coerce governments, civilian populations, and many segments thereof, in furtherance of political, social and especially economic objectives. http://www.geocities.com/americanterrorism/Amerikan_Terrorism.html President Bush may act on his own to install controversial nominees at the Labor and State departments if the Democratic Senate refuses to vote on them this week. Senior administration officials said Monday they are exploring ways to give Otto Reich and Eugene Scalia temporary appointments during Congress' recess. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Bush has not made a final decision but is likely to issue recess appointments if the Senate doesn't act. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=805&mode=&order=0 "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. As terrible as it is to live in a nation where the press in known to be controlled by the government, at least one has the advantage of knowing the bias is present, and to adjust for it. In the United States of America, we are taught from birth that our press is free from such government meddling. This is an insideous lie about the very nature of the news institution in this country. One that allows the government to lie to us while denying the very fact of the lie itself. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=809&mode=&order=0 All it takes is a little provocation, like like last week's attack on the Parliament of India. Poof, World War III gets another two players, and Dim Son's little dilemma over his new muslim allies in Pakistan is solved. Only problem is, this skirmish of the Great Terror Crusade is likely to go nuclear. The following are mostly from Indian sources. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3377 The United States on Monday intensified the hunt for al-Qaeda fighters after the apparent fall of their cave compound at Tora Bora in Afghanistan, with one US television network reporting that special forces had been dispatched to Pakistan to head off fleeing enemy troops. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3380 Many people asked me what I should like to be done in response to the WTC-attack. I can think of many possibilities but all lead to nothing. Within the present paradigm any solution is bound to fail. Our political system in which elitist democracies in rich countries are connected to feudal dictatorial regimes in other countries cannot provide a lasting solution. Something else has to happen. http://members.ams.chello.nl/jsteenis/catastrophes4.htm The Pakistan government on Tuesday expressed regret at new accusations from India of Pakistani involvement in an attack on Indian Parliament and offered to take part in a joint inquiry. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3384 Militants belonging to Pakistan-backed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), jailed by the Northern Alliance in this remote prison alongwith over 300 Taliban fighters, are hoping to get out on a general amnesty vowing to fight against India in Kashmir and the new regime in Afghanistan. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3388 Abbie Hoffman's FBI files http://foia.fbi.gov/hoffsum.htm Can Feds be sued for "covert actions?" http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anarchopunk/message/7044 The Global Surveillance State predicted in the December 2000 edition of my book Snitch Culture is rising from the ashes of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bay_area_activist/message/12226 Documents Should Lead to Indictments of Kissinger and Bush http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1900 That was pretty exciting there, at least for a while: the Northern Alliance was closing in on Osama bin Laden, or so we were told, and the battle of Tora Bora was going to be Al Qaeda's Gotterdammerung: the Mad Sheik's last stand. They heard Osama's voice giving commands to his beleaguered troops over the radio, and brought in specialists to verify his DNA in case he fell in battle. Pundits argued over whether he should be tried in one of those special military tribunals, and headlines screamed: Osama Cornered! Bin Laden Finished! There's No Escape! Closer and closer the US and its Afghan allies crept, until, at last … victory evaporated into the mist, along with OBL himself. Welcome to the "new war," the Surreal War, where nothing – including "victory" – is quite what it seems... http://www.antiwar.com/justin/justincol.html Over the weekend, George W. Bush told Americans that illegal drug use among Americans was helping our enemies by putting money in the hands of terrorists and regimes that support them. There’s a sense in which this is true, but the issues of cause and effect implied by such a statement are comically wrongheaded, and need to be addressed. http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds86.html A shortwave radio program focusing on anti-government militia issues has caught the attention of the Federal Communications Commission for broadcasting without a license. http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14014&printerfriendly=1 The Jewish state is a virtual state that quickly loses all remaining connection to reality. This ghost of a state kills people and collects money in America; it continues some nefarious existence, like the legal term, "estate of the deceased". Its fields are worked by imported guest workers, guarded by imported Russians and Ethiopians, explained by Israeli professors teaching forever in American universities and by brave generals on the lookout for a big shake. The unemployment grows daily, vital services are on strike; the tourist industry collapsed, hotels are boarded up and other branches of national economy are close to collapse. Israelis buy flats in Florida and Prague, while houses in Israel could not be sold. Sharon's desire to punish Palestinians was similar to punishing one's own left hand: Palestinians and Israelis are intertwined and integrated, and this separation kills the economy of both. http://www.rense.com/general18/isstatwe.htm Dr. Charles Andrew Crenshaw, who became a favorite of conspiracy buffs when he asserted three decades after the assassination of John F. Kennedy that Lee Harvey Oswald had not acted alone and that as a surgical resident he saw four gunshot wounds in the fallen president, has died. He was 68. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ctrl/message/11046 Einstein on Socialism http://www.monthlyreview.org/598einst.htm The U.S. is the only country that was condemned for international terrorism by the World Court and that rejected a Security Council resolution calling on states to observe international law. It continues international terrorism. http://www.monthlyreview.org/1101chomsky.htm Coroporate Media Will not Admit that it was the hard work of the progressive community that created the climate that convinced the police not to cooperate with the FBI. http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=5400&group=webcast The City-Parish Council has banned cable television broadcasts of the public comment session at the end of its meetings, a move critics say stifles free speech. http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=3816 Al-Maqtari told of being interrogated for 12 hours straight, lied to by the FBI, accused of beating his wife, then locked up with little ability to contact his wife or attorneys, all because Tiffinay Al-Maqtari wore a head scarf to a recruiting center where she enlisted in the Army, and because soldiers found box cutters and New York City postcards in their car. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12062 After a decision by a federal court, the Agriculture Department has decided it will no longer shut down meat processing plants that repeatedly fail to control the salmonella bacteria. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/17/national/17MEAT.html?todaysheadlines The Northeast of recent historical memory could disappear this century, replaced by a hotter and more flood-prone region where New York could have the climate of Miami and Boston could become as sticky as Atlanta, according to the first comprehensive federal studies of the possible effects of global warming on the Northeast. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52174-2001Dec16.html The Bush administration are still considering military action in Somalia, despite admitting that they have found no Al Qaeda training camps in the country. There are also plans for “hot pursuit” of Al Qaeda members fleeing to Somalia, and the US is said to be willing to use help from the Ethiopian military, or from the various militia run by warlords in Somalia, to snatch Al Qaeda members. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/som-d18.shtml Israeli, Palestinian and international human rights groups have reported various cases in which Israeli soldiers have shot and killed Palestinians without provocation at roadblocks. The blockades have not provided security for Israel, but instead work to radicalize moderate Palestinians whose still believe in peace. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1906 We forget our own terrorist history, both in our religious communities and in our nation. Christians and Jews can read about forms of fundamentalist religious bigotry on the pages of our sacred writings. An Old Testament psalmist urges the faithful to take "two-edged swords in their hands, to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1838 Why is it a greater crime to know Youssef Mouammar than it is to be Youssef Mouammar? http://www.nationalpost.com/commentary/columnists/story.html?f=/stories/20011215/877977.html On March, 1995, the regents of the University of Texas, at the ehest of Governor Bush, invested $10 million with the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in the District of Columbia. Carlyle was chaired by Frank Carlucci, Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense and, since 1989, "a darling of the corporate sector," per the L.A. Times. Carlucci sits on the board of numerous mega-corporations, including Bell Atlantic, Ashland Oil and the Kaman Corporation. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1910 Israel's ambassador protested to Germany's leading news magazine Monday for publishing a column comparing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's hard-line stand toward the Palestinians to policies pursued by Adolf Hitler. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1911 BioPort Corp.'s controversial anthrax vaccine may have contributed to the death of one of its own employees, a medical examiner said Wednesday. http://www.gulfwarvets.com/death2.htm Iraqi President Saddam Hussein called upon the leaders of the Arab countries to summon an urgent session to discuss the situation in the Middle East due to the escalation of the conflict between Palestine and Israel. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23939.html I was in the old Soviet Union in 1971 and spent three weeks there. In the old cathedrals you could see that this was part of us. You are as much a part of the West as America is. If a great final clash of civilizations is coming, Russia will hold the eastern and southeast flank of the West, just as the Polish King John Sobieski defended Vienna. Russia is part of the West, and America should bring Russia in from the cold. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23938.html Jammu & Kashmir is a state in India. It is a large state and was ruled by a Maharaja (Indian King) in the past. Jammu & Kashmir is made up of many regions but is called "Jammu & Kashmir" because the two most populous regions in the state are called Jammu and Kashmir. This territory is basically populated by the Muslims – 70% and 30% - the Hindus. The total square of the territory is about 222 thousand square kilometers, and one-third of this area is illegitimately occupied by Pakistan. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23937.html This Monday, Palestinian extremist organization Hamas declared it would continue its operations against Israel till the Israeli regime stops its occupation. This was reported by Lebanese radio referring to Hamas officials statement. http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/18/23854.html The West's reaction has been revealing. A grand coalition is being organised to combat “terrorism”. But not terrorism in general. The Western powers are not concerned about the Tamil Tigers or ETA or the IRA or the various South American guerrilla groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1865 Though Perle draws no government salary, he holds a Pentagon appointment and he has an office in the Pentagon's E-Ring, a short hop from that of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. He has access to all manner of classified information; he's in the loop on war planning. Rumsfeld recently told CNN's Bob Novak that Perle is "not a government official." But by most commonsense definitions, Perle isn't a former member of the Reagan administration; he's a member of the current administration. http://www.prospect.org/print/V12/22/marshall-j.html Rashid Masharawi wants to show the world what life is like in the Middle East http://www.ubyssey.bc.ca/article.shtml?/20011120/featureRashid.htmlf The Central Intelligence Agency has been given new freedom to get involved in domestic surveillance and investigations in ways that are unprecedented in its history. http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/196509p-1908209c.html New Yorker Roger Hertog is a big-time financier, big-time philanthropist and big-time conservative -- and now, a big-time part owner of the left-leaning New Republic. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57422-2001Dec17.html The state of Nevada filed a lawsuit Monday to halt the Yucca Mountain Project, challenging Energy Department ground rules for judging whether the site is suitable for nuclear waste storage. http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Dec-18-Tue-2001/news/17692551.html By taking the state propaganda at face value, and focussing on this war as a singular event, rather than a manifestation of historically arrived-at social relations, peace protestors are left with nothing more than vapid hopes. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1914 My first job for the CIA's clandestine services 46 years ago was to organize a network of informants in the squalid Palestinian refugee camps of southern Lebanon -- some, ironically, barely a stone's throw from where my grandfather and great-grandfather established American mission schools more than a hundred years ago. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/close.html A Florida company is poised to become the first to sell microchips designed to be implanted into human beings, an achievement that opens the door to new systems of medical monitoring and ID screening. Implantable chips have long been discussed by technologists and denounced by those who object on religious grounds or fear their use by a totalitarian state. But the company that did the test, Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, said the specter of terrorism is shifting attitudes. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=812&mode=&order=0 Some of the prophecies of our various tribes talk about a time when technology and development will be so far out of balance that it may affect the future of our planet. The Six Nations in the eastern Great Lakes area have prophecies about the time when the trees will start dying from the top down, and I understand that's happening. We've got glaciers in the Andes that are receding. We've got thinning ice in Alaska that is affecting the subsistence culture of the Alaska Natives. I hear that aquifers are starting to dry out. Climate change and global warming are impacting our people. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1918 Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) December 18, 2001 Letter to Northern Arizona University concerning transfer of a shipment of anthrax to Los Alamos National Laboratory http://www.pogo.org Once the heroin left these labs in Pakistan's northwest frontier, the Sicilian Mafia imported the drugs into the U.S., where they soon captured sixty percent of the U.S. heroin market. That is to say, sixty percent of the U.S. heroin supply came indirectly from a CIA operation. During the decade of this operation, the 1980s, the substantial DEA contingent in Islamabad made no arrests and participated in no seizures, allowing the syndicates a de facto free hand to export heroin. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1920 A senior Hamas official has said the radical Palestinian movement has decided to stop suicide bombings against Israel. http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s444599.htm In Joe McCarthy's day they were called "snitch lines." They worked like this: if you suspected your colleague or neighbor or employee was up to something un-American - leaving lights on when nobody was home, sympathizing with the Communists, etc. - you could call up a special phone number and anonymously rat them out. In this time of heightened national security, the snitch lines are back. In the aftermath of September 11th, the FBI received tens of thousands of calls on so-called "tip" lines, and folks were broadly rounded up for questioning. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=818&mode=&order=0 In a 1995 commencement address at Michigan State University, which was delivered shortly after the terrorist bombing at Oklahoma City, Bill Clinton declared: "If you say the government is in a conspiracy to take your freedom away, you are wrong… There’s nothing patriotic about hating your government or pretending you can hate your government but love your country." A few weeks later, in remarks before a hand-picked audience in Billings, Montana, Clinton insisted that Americans have a patriotic duty to "shout down" critics of government actions: "When you hear somebody doing it, you ought to stand up and double up your fist and stick it in the sky and shout them down." http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/1882 December 17, 2001 Appearing before the House Committee on Financial Services, on December 12, Joseph Berardino, chief executive of Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm that conducted Enron's internal and external audits, said the company had engaged in "possibly illegal acts," and had misled auditors. Berardino's appearance followed Enron's filing for bankruptcy on December 2, after years of being touted as an exemplar of corporate innovation. http://www.thedubyareport.com/enron1.html US WARPLANES ATTACK TARGETS IN YEMEN http://66.96.205.195/~azzam/afghan/news/news.php?id=43 David Barsamian on Afghanistan, internment camp survivor Yuri Kochiyama, Anuradha Mittal of Food First, Sue Armstrong from the ACLU, Glenn Morris of the American Indian Movement, and Valery Alzaga from Justice for Janitors. "Star Wars Returns" - a quick look at the consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from the ABM treaty. We look into the impact of the US war on Afghanistan, especially it's impacts on Afghan women. And, you'll hear how crackdowns on Civil Liberties affect activists and immigrant workers. http://www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/fstvnews1214.ram Astronauts of the future could receive text, graphics and even video through a wearable computer built into their space suits. At present, during space walks, astronauts get their instructions via radio. But the American space agency (NASA) reckons the way to maximise information exchange is to send it visually into the astronaut's helmet. Fitting the upgraded communications equipment into the space suit means kitting the astronauts out with a wearable computer. http://www.memes.org/article.php?sid=820&mode=&order=0 Clark Kissinger of Refuse and Resist analyzes Bush and Congress measures to destroy many legal safeguards to civil liberties in name of fighting terrorism. http://www.freespeech.org/ramfiles/kissinger_pat_act.ram Georgie looks awful guilty in this amateur propaganda video (RealVideo) designed to make you look at things in a different context. http://www.memes.org/video/smokinggun.ram __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! 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