| 03.Dec.2005 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-388170,00.html Bürgerrechtler wollen CIA verklagen
Die Affäre um CIA-Geheimgefängnisse zieht Kreise. Jetzt will die amerikanische Bürgerrechtsunion (ACLU) den US-Geheimdienst wegen Verschleppung eines ausländischen Bürgers verklagen. Washington - Das kündigte die Organisation am Freitag in Washington an. Es ist die erste Klage im Zusammenhang mit Berichten über CIA-Geheimgefängnisse in mehreren europäischen + anderen Staaten. Die Identität des Mannes wurde zunächst geheim gehalten. Er soll jedoch auf einer Pressekonferenz der ACLU am Dienstag auftreten. Der Organisation zufolge wird in der Klage CIA-Beamten "auf der höchsten Ebene" Verletzung amerikanischer + internationaler Menschenrechtsgesetze vorgeworfen.
Mit Erlaubnis der CIA hätten Beamte einen unschuldigen Mann entführt, festgehalten, von Kontakten zur Außenwelt abgeschnitten, geschlagen + ihn in ein Geheimgefängnis in Afghanistan gebracht. Die CIA habe das Opfer auch noch dann im berüchtigten "Salt-Pit"- Gefängnis festgehalten, als seine Unschuld schon längst festgestanden habe. Der Mann sei schließlich freigelassen worden, ohne jemals angeklagt worden zu sein.
Die Klage richtet sich nach Angaben der ACLU auch gegen jene Gesellschaften, die die Flugzeuge besessen oder betrieben hätten, in denen der Mann verschleppt worden sei. Die Unternehmen hätten sich damit widerrechtlich an der Verletzung der Bürgerrechte des Opfers beteiligt.
03.Dec.2005 Cannabis Verschwörung - History
00.000.1935 -bis zum Jahr-WR Hearst William Randolph Hearst , Mediengigant und Industrieller, hatte bereits ein Vermögen verloren. Schuld daran war die Hanfpflanze. ... https://www.loq12.at/conspiracy/17_cannabis/con_pr.ihtml
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03.Dec.2005 Final questions. The Cunningham case was outrageous enough when it was about bribery. But the bribes to Cunningham cost each taxpayer less than a penny; the frauds committed by Brent Wilkes sucked $$ out of each + every wallet in this land. Personally, I would have considered my share of that money better spent on a nice chicken sandwich -- or on providing services to the needy. I bet you feel likewise.
So why won't the media pay more attention to Brent Wilkes?
And why couldn't the Pentagon double-check where the money went? Surely someone in that famous five-sided building could have pored through those websites + spotted the obvious clues indicating a sharpster at work. Why wasn't the public warned that hundreds of millions of taxpayer $$ went out to a con artist?
How many other crooks like Wilkes have helped to empty our national treasure-house? Why is there no money for armored Humvees in Iraq, but plenty of cash for right-wing Republicans with connections?
And when will the mainstream media stop pretending that Wilkes' many phony-baloney "businesses" were anything other than web-based cons? Permalink https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
02.Dec.2005 https://www.expressindia.com/newsletter/index.html We thought he was exaggerating when former Ambassador Wilson wrote in his recent book that the sordid spectacle we have all been forced to witness has been caused by “a small pack of zealots whose dedication has spanned decades, and that through years of selective recruitment has become a government cult with cells in most of the national security system.”
02.Dec.2005 https://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3216_christian_coalition.html 00.000.1998 -the year after Reed came aboard Enron's team, Enron lobbyists met with DeLay at his Texas home + Enron lobbyists planned with DeLay a USA campaign to roll back Federal energy regulations. Enron paid $750,000 to two of DeLay's lieutenants— DeLay chief of staff, Ed Buckham - an ordained evangelical minister + ARMPAC consultant Karl Gallant, who together had formed a private company, Alexander Consulting Group, to run a nationwide crusade for electricity deregulation. The Enron-DeLay arrangement was disguised under the front-group name, Americans for Affordable Electricity. Enron soon hired the DeLay men directly, Buckham for a total of $370,000, Gallant for $200,000. 00.000.2002 -By- Enron + California + thousands of piracy victims were bankrupt + DeLay was crowned House Majority Leader, the wielder of Congressional power without historical precedent. Buckham + Gallant + a crew from DeLay, Inc. + The Fellowship continue to run the Alexander Strategy Group as a cosmically connected, nominally private lobbying arm of the DeLay Congressional dictatorship. One Alexander Strategy Group partner, Brian Darling, became a Senate aide—but Brian Darling resigned when Brian Darling was exposed as the author of the notorious memo on how the Republicans could take opportunistic political advantage of the 00.000.2005 Terri Schiavo "feeding tube" case. 00.000.---- -earlier- Republicans had accused Democrats of concocting the memo.
02.Dec.2005 https://www.madcowprod.com Here’s how it worked: Money budgeted for US Defense went in at the ADCS end of something called the “ Wilkes Corporation” for services which the Pentagon protested it never requested + out the other end came a magical cornucopia of bribes + kick-backs + campaign contributions + yachts + Lear jets + Rolls Royce ’ s. 00.000.1994-00.000.2001 -Over the course of almost an entire decade - repeatedly - Cunningham’s Appropriations Committee added funding to the Pentagon budget for a 00.000.1995 -prior to- previously non-existent () software company, ADCS, owned by the “ Wilkes Corporation,” a private company (natch) owned by San Diego businessman Brent Wilkes. The money then made a short trip—courtesy the wonders of modern accounting— from one of Brent Wilkes’ pants pocket to another, called “Group W Advisors,” which proceeded to obligingly send hundreds of thousands of $$ in ‘client fees’ annually to The Alexander Strategy Group , a lobbying + consulting firm currently under scrutiny in the Justice Department's investigation of Casino Jack Abramoff.
"A little trouble keeping the company names straight, is all."
02.Dec.2005 https://www.freenewmexican.com/news/35699.html#
"The prophet Muhammad had Jewish + Christian alliances as well as enemies."
02.Dec.2005 California Rep. Cunningham resigns after pleading guilty to charges of taking bribes
By Maria Leyba (Submitted: 30.Nov.2005 3:48 pm) from The Hill: these are the congressmen who received monies from the same co-conspirators of Cunningham. They are:
01.Jan.2001–30.Nov.2005* Congressional Campaign Contributions from “Co-Conspirators”,
NAME AMOUNT
Rep. Randy Cunningham (R-Calif.) $66,000
Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) $32,000
Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) $30,000
Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) $30,000
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) $28,500
Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) $28,250
Rep. Jerry Weller (R-Ill.) $20,000
Rep. Henry Bonilla (R-Texas) $12,500
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) $11,250
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) $10,000
* Contributions to congressional candidates + their leadership PACs from Mitchell Wade, Brent Wilkes, Tom Kontogiannis + their family members + PACs associated with MZM Inc. + ADCS Inc.
Source: Federal Election Commission reports, as compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics
02.Dec.2005 https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20050910-963-cunningh.html 00.Apr.2001 Wilkes bought his ski boat in Maryland + shortly afterward moored it behind the Kelly C. Wilkes' attorney, Lipman said Wilkes used the boat often when he was in Washington. But Cunningham had access to the boat when Wilkes was not using it. In addition to use of his boat, Wilkes allowed Cunningham to take trips on Wilkes corporate jet to such locations as Honolulu + Idaho. "This just adds to the problem that we've seen with Cunningham, in that it appears Cunningham 's taking gifts from a contractor who depends on support from Congress," said Larry Noble, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that tracks money in politics and its effect on public policy. "It's hard to understand the rationale in which Cunningham thought this would appear appropriate."
02.Dec.2005 https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/index.html
U-T editorials U-T letters
02.Dec.2005 https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/index.html
Past key articles on Randy Cunningham.
02.Dec.2005 https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/index.html 00.000.199000-000.2005 -Since- Randy "Duke" Cunningham has been a US Representative for California. Federal prosecutors say the GOP congressman Cunningham 's relationships with defense contractors – including a house sale that netted Cunningham $700,000 more than the house's apparent value – are tantamount to bribery. Cunningham maintains his innocence.
05.Oct.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE)Randy 'Duke' Cunningham Deal lets Cunningham sell home amid inquiry
Prosecutors + lawyers for Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham have reached a deal to allow the politician to sell his Rancho Santa Fe home while a federal investigation continues into whether it was bought with proceeds from a bribe. As part of the agreement, a federal judge ordered Thursday that proceeds from the house sale – after mortgages + fees are paid – be placed in an escrow account.
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Lawmaker contacted contractor early on: 00.000.2001 -Shortly after House Speaker Dennis Hastert selected Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to serve on the House intelligence committee in, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican sent a letter to Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes. 24.Sep.2005 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE) ROSEDALE, N.Y., Developer linked to Cunningham has home raided: In its third wave of raids linked to the investigation of Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, federal agents on Thursday searched the New York home + office of a controversial businessman who has had a series of financial dealings with congressman Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. 23.Sep.2005 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON Cunningham is allowed to use campaign funds for legal bills: 22.Sep.2005 Federal Election Commission ruled Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham can use contributions to his personal campaign fund to pay legal expenses related to a federal investigation of his dealings with defense contractors, 19.Sep.2005 03-59 p.m. (AP)WASHINGTON, FEC: Cunningham may use campaign money for legal fees: Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham may use campaign money to pay his legal fees in a federal bribery investigation, Federal Election Commission staff said Monday. 10.Sep.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Legal warning on Cunningham house to stay: 09.Sep.2005 A federal judge rejected Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's bid to remove a legal warning the congressman says is frightening off potential buyers of his Rancho Santa Fe home. 10.Sep.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Warning on Cunningham house to stay: 09.Sep.2005 A federal judge rejected Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's bid to remove a legal warning the congressman says is frightening off potential buyers of his Rancho Santa Fe home. 10.Sep.2005 (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE) Cunningham is linked to third boat: First there was the Kelly C. Then there was the Duke Stir. + now a third boat has emerged in the ongoing saga of favors offered to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham by business executives whose companies won millions of $$ in government contracts with Cunningham's support. 07.Sep.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Cunningham home sale possible: Prosecutors + lawyers for Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham have agreed to let him sell his Rancho Santa Fe home and put the proceeds into an escrow account until it is determined whether it was bought with money from a political bribe. 02.Sep.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Duke's donors OK with legal aide: More than 95 % of the contributors to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's campaign fund have authorized their donations to be used to help defray the embattled congressman's legal expenses, Cunningham's campaign treasurer said in a letter to the Federal Election Commission. 01.Sep.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Cunningham aide says 95% of donors OK legal fund: Cunningham's campaign treasurer said in a letter to the Federal Election Commission : More than 95 % of the contributors to Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's campaign fund have authorized their donations to be used to help defray the embattled congressman's legal expenses, 26.Aug.2005 Prosecutors: Cunningham demanded bribe Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham "demanded + received" a bribe from a Pentagon contractor who paid far above market value for the congressman's Del Mar-area home 00.000.2003, according to court documents filed yesterday by federal prosecutors. 25.Aug.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) Plescia ends pursuit of Cunningham's congressional seat: 24.Aug.2005 as a top contender bowed out the jockeying to replace Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham intensified. 21.Aug.2005 (UNION-TRIBUNE) MZM scandal illuminates defense contract tactics: -last week- When Diversa Corp. agreed to buy the assets of scandal-plagued MZM Inc., -last week- Diversa Corp. picked up a stable of 450 workers, Of 450 workers of Diversa Corp. about 85 % have security clearances – -workers security clearances – a lucrative asset for a defense-related firm like Diversa. 20.Aug.2005 WASHINGTON (COPLEY NEWS SERVICE) Cunningham plans legal defense fund: House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has one. President Clinton had one. Now embattled Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham plans to get one. Archived articles
02.Dec.2005 https://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/cunningham/20051005-9999-1n5quid.html
Once on panel, Cunningham wrote to figure now in probe By Marcus Stern and Jerry Kammer/Dean Calbreath
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE/STAFF WRITER 05.Oct.2005 WASHINGTON – Shortly after House Speaker Dennis Hastert selected Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham to serve on the House intelligence committee 00.000.2001, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican sent a letter to Poway defense contractor Brent Wilkes. "As the speaker's newest designee to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, I feel fortunate to represent the nation's top technological talent in the 'black' world," a reference to classified government programs. "I have long benefited from your expertise on major defense issues before Congress + have appreciated the opportunity to work with you on key service funding priorities. With my new assignment, I see even greater opportunities to work together in support of our national security and intelligence communities," Cunningham wrote in the letter on congressional stationery. The recipient of the correspondence was the same Brent Wilkes who 00.000.2000+00.000.2004 -between-. Wilkes helped steer at least $71,500 in campaign contributions to Cunningham Brent Wilkes 's also the one who flew Cunningham on Brent Wilkes corporate jet on campaign-related trips, including a hunting trip in Idaho + a golf tournament in Hawaii + hosted fundraisers on the lawmaker's boat in Washington, D.C. He's the same Brent Wilkes who founded Poway-based ADCS Inc. ADCS Inc. had no major defense contracts 00.000.1990 -in the s- before Cunningham began assisting ADCS Inc. by contacting Pentagon procurement officials on its behalf, according to defense executives + procurement officials with firsthand knowledge of the events. And it's the same Brent Wilkes whose house + corporate headquarters were raided by federal law enforcement authorities on. 16.Aug.2005 – six weeks after federal agents searched Cunningham's Rancho Santa Fe home. A federal task force including the FBI + Internal Revenue Service + US Attorney's Office is investigating Cunningham's dealings with Wilkes + another defense contractor, Mitchell Wade, founder of MZM Inc. 00.000.2005 -after disclosures that Wade bought + sold Cunningham's Del Mar-area home at a $700,000 loss + allowed Cunningham to live aboard his yacht in Washington A federal grand jury in San Diego is probing Cunningham's dealings with Wade . Wade has since resigned as head of MZM + the company is in the process of being sold to a New York-based equity firm. Since receiving its first federal contract 00.000.2002, Washington-based MZM has collected more than $163 million in government contracts. ADCS has received at least $80 million in contracts since 1996. Cunningham's positions on the defense appropriations subcommittee and intelligence committee put him in position to influence the kinds of military-intelligence contracts that ADCS and MZM have relied on in recent years, according to defense officials and contractors, many of whom would only speak on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals. Watchdog groups say Cunningham's letter to Wilkes, at a minimum, reflects a worrisome relationship between a lawmaker and a friend who happens to be a generous political contributor and businessman making a living off government contracts. "At a minimum, this letter presents an appearance of corruption," said Taylor Lincoln, a government policy analyst at Public Citizen, a public-interest advocacy group. "The notion that Cunningham truly sought insight into national security from citizen Wilkes is seriously damaged by the fact that he has been willing to accept tens of thousands of $$ from Wilkes and Co. "Likewise, Cunningham would have been foolish to put any value in Wilkes' counsel since Wilkes stood to make tens of millions of $$ from the federal government," he said. Cunningham's attorney, Lee Blalack, rejected those assertions. "It's ridiculous for these people to suggest that a congressman cannot value the advice of experts in a given field just because these experts support the congressman's political agendas with campaign contributions. Do they expect a member of Congress to receive contributions from people who oppose their policy agenda?" In addition, Blalack added, "there is nothing inappropriate or unusual about a member of Congress calling the Pentagon on behalf of a constituent regarding the use of appropriated funds." Wilkes' attorney echoed that view. "Brent Wilkes has made proper, legal campaign contributions to a variety of local, state and federal officials whose views and positions he supports," said Mike Lipman. "We are confident that the authorities will come to the same conclusion. ADCS Inc. is proud of the work that it has done and will continue to do for the Department of Defense and other government agencies." Several defense contractors in recent weeks have said that Cunningham intervened with Pentagon officials on their behalf, as well as Wilkes'. Cunningham's intervention, they said, had been crucial to securing defense contracts. One contractor said his company relocated to San Diego specifically to be in Cunningham's district. After moving to the district, he said, he raised political contributions for Cunningham to ensure the lawmaker's continued support as Pentagon officials decided how to split annual defense appropriations among competing contractors. Cunningham never directly asked him for money in exchange for support, the executive said. However, he added, a lobbyist he retained made it clear that he should be located in the district and provide contributions. "We had a lobbyist advising us, but we kind of knew the game," he said. "And if we didn't do it, somebody else was going to + so we didn't have a whole lot of choice." Cunningham also contacted mid-level defense program managers to encourage their use of ADCS software, according to several contracting executives and program managers who had direct contact with Cunningham. "He just wanted to emphasize the importance of the project we were working on," said one manager. "It was always project related, but it was very odd that he would call me directly." John Karpovich, a former Pentagon procurement officer who worked on a large program Cunningham helped fund, said Wilkes would infuriate Pentagon staff by saying he was responsible for the annual appropriation and demanding a big piece of the pie. "Brent came in and said, 'That's our money,' " recalled Karpovich, who has since retired. "He said, 'The congressmen put the money in there for us.' " Once Congress has appropriated money for programs, officials in the office of the secretary of defense decide how to apportion the money among prequalified contractors. These officials are very mindful of the desires of members of Congress who were crucial in funding the program, according to contractors and program managers. The particular program Karpovich referred to involved converting paper documents to electronic files. ADCS, or Automated Document Conversion Services, specializes in scanning documents so they can be indexed and cross-referenced easily. Its biggest project has been archiving 1.2 million architectural documents from the Panama Canal 00.000.1999. Each year from 1994 to 2001, Congress provided funding for the conversion program even though the Pentagon never requested it and despite the fact that much of the program's early promise was overwhelmed by glitches in the software. In less than a decade, the funding totaled $190 million for software that sometimes went unused because of its defects, according to contractors and procurement officers. "It was a program that really ran amok. It got seriously out of hand," said one program manager. 00.000.1998, the Pentagon tried to bring order to the program. Assistant Deputy Undersecretary Lou Kratz created a special team to select projects that would receive funding from the $45 million Congress appropriated for fiscal year 1999. Wilkes' ADCS wasn't on the list selected by the team. But, as a Defense Department inspector general's report later noted, the Pentagon reversed that decision and pushed $9.77 million into the ADCS program "after receiving inquiries from two members of Congress." Those two lawmakers were Cunningham and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, now chairman of the Armed Services Committee, according to the contractors and procurement officers directly involved. Both men acknowledge their ongoing involvement in funding the specific program but deny any wrongdoing. Facing questions about his interventions on behalf of ADCS 00.000.1997, Cunningham said at the time he had merely talked up the company he believed had the best software. Anyone saying otherwise, he added, "can go to hell." Said the congressman, "I'm on the side of the angels here."
02.Dec.2005 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-387910,00.html
Die Explosion war so heftig, dass sie selbst auf der Erde noch zu sehen war - 6500 Lichtjahre oder knapp 62 Billiarden Kilometer entfernt. Japanische und chinesische Astronomen berichteten im Jahr 1054 von einem hellen Stern am Himmel, den sie nie zuvor gesehen hatten. Hätten die Forscher schon damals leistungsstarke Teleskope besessen, hätten sie beobachten können, wie die Reste des explodierten Sterns mit ungeheurer Geschwindigkeit ins All fliegen.
Der Krebsnebel, unter Astronomen auch unter der Kennung M1 oder NGC 1952 bekannt, gehört zu den am besten studierten und interessantesten Erscheinungen im All. Seine faserigen Strukturen sind die zerrissenen Reste des Sterns, die größtenteils aus Wasserstoff bestehen.
02.Dec.2005 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-388154,00.html
Amsterdam - In einem Testprogramm sollen die Pflanzen dem Vorschlag zufolge zunächst in der Nähe von Maastricht unter öffentlicher Kontrolle angebaut werden. Coffe-Shops, in denen die Droge legal gekauft und konsumiert werden kann, müssten ihre Kunden über Herkunft des Rauschgifts, über seine chemische Zusammensetzung und über die Gefahr des Konsums informieren.
02.Dec.2005 HRW has strong evidence Romania was involved in CIA secret prisons case : Human Rights Watch (HRW) has indirect, but strong evidence that Romania and Poland were involved "some time ago" in the case of the CIA alleged secret prisons, together with several Middle East countries 02.Dec.2005 Rewards for torture?: Romania to sign US military bases deal next week: Romania and the United States will sign a deal on Tuesday to set up US military bases in the Black Sea country, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 02.Dec.2005 US holding 26 ‘ghost detainees’, says HRW: A leading human rights monitor accused the United States on Wednesday of holding and possibly torturing at least 26 ‘ghost detainees’ in secret overseas locations. 02.Dec.2005 Report: Two CIA Flights Stopped in France : Two flights chartered by the CIA made stopovers in France 00.000.2002 and 2005, French newspaper Le Figaro said Friday, adding to likely questions facing US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when she visits Europe next week. 02.Dec.2005 Blair faces allegations of complicity in torture : There are growing calls at Westminster for Mr Blair to block the CIA flights. The Labour MP Harry Cohen said: "It is not for the UK Government to connive in and facilitate people disappearance. The Government's blind-eye approach to enforcing the law is not acceptable." 02.Dec.2005 It is time for Britain to come clean on its part in rendition : The UK is a party to the Convention against Torture which imposes an absolute prohibition on torture, with no exceptions. So is the US. The ban on torture applies not just to the act itself but also prohibits sending people to countries where there are substantial grounds for believing that they would be in danger of being tortured. 02.Dec.2005 95 per cent US dailies ignored report on torture of Iraqi prisoners: Military autopsy reports provide indisputable proof that detainees are being tortured to death while in US military custody. Yet the corporate media of the United States (US) is covering it with the seriousness of a garage sale for the local Baptist Church. 02.Dec.2005 U.N.: Torture in China Still Widespread: The first U.N. torture investigator to visit China said Friday that abuse was still widespread and authorities subjected detainees to electric shocks, beatings and sleep deprivation. He also accused the government of obstructing his work. 02.Dec.2005 Venezuela Signs $2B Arms Contract With Spanish Firms : "In terms of the sale of some military systems by Spain to Venezuela, we have expressed our concerns to the government of Spain concerning those sales + we are currently looking at technology licensing issues related to that sale," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at a briefing. 02.Dec.2005 Bolivians set to elect left-wing leader : Evo Morales, an indigenous leader and candidate of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS), is favored to win Bolivia’s presidential elections on Dec. 18. 02.Dec.2005 Brazil and Argentina support Bolivia’s Morales : Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Argentina Nestor Kirchner praised Wednesday Bolivian Indian leader Evo Morales whom opinion polls identify as the front-runner for the December 18 general election in his country. 02.Dec.2005 Pilot Reports 'Missile' Fired at Jetliner Near LAX: FBI agents and Homeland Security officials spent the weekend investigating the report of a possible missile fired at an American Airlines plane taking off from Los Angeles International Airport. 02.Dec.2005 Bribed ex-congressman's committees review his activities: The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee has ordered an investigation into whether former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham compromised national security while he was steering defense contracts — many of them for classified programs — to businessmen who gave him at least $2.4 million in bribes. 02.Dec.2005 As many as 60 US Congressmen may be implicated in Bribery scandal : Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of $$.
02.Dec.2005 Kurdish Oil Deal Shocks Iraq's Political Leaders: A Norwegian company begins drilling in the north without approval from Baghdad. 02.Dec.2005 Halliburton subsidiary KBR workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour: While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream + washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour. 02.Dec.2005 It's propaganda (shock, horror)! : Paying off the Iraqi media to run good news mirrors what the Bush administration has been doing at home. 02.Dec.2005 How Presidents Use the Term "Democracy" as a Marketing Tool: It would be hard to find a US war or expansionist enterprise that was not accompanied by enthusiastic rhetoric about supporting democracy. 02.Dec.2005 War based on a lie: We started the war based on a lie + we’ll finish it based on a lie. I say this because I am currently serving with a logistics headquarters in the Anbar province, between the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi. I am not fooled by the constant fabrication of “democracy” and “freedom” touted by our leadership at home and overseas. 02.Dec.2005 Analysis casts doubt on Vietnam war claims: Another war, another set of faulty intelligence findings behind it. 02.Dec.2005 US Army officer charged in Iraq contract bribe scam: According to court papers, Wheeler and his co-conspirators accepted money and gifts to rig contract bids. Wheeler is also accused of stealing and laundering funds from the CPA. 02.Dec.2005 Military option against Iran: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday Israel + other countries couldn't accept an Iran with a nuclear bomb, adding Tehran's program could be stopped by military means 02.Dec.2005 War pimp alert: Iran : AIPAC criticizes Bush approach: As time dwindles for diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran’s drive for nuclear weapons, the pro-Israel lobby in Washington is criticizing the Bush administration’s handling of the issue. 02.Dec.2005 Iran buys Russian surface to air missiles: paper: Iran is to buy 29 TOR-M1 systems, designed to bring down aircraft and guided missiles at low altitudes, said the Vedomosti daily, citing Russian defense sources close the deal. 02.Dec.2005 Israel missile test 'successful' : Correspondents say nearly US $2.5bn has been invested in developing the missile defence system - two thirds of it paid by the United States. 02.Dec.2005 Sharon 'sees wall as Israel's new border' : A senior ally of Ariel Sharon has given the most explicit indication yet that the Israeli Prime Minister envisages the 425-mile separation barrier as the border between Israel a future Palestinian state. 02.Dec.2005 US Is Force Feeding Hunger Strikers In Guantanamo : "Some, because of their character and temperament, they would be less than cooperative and would need to be restrained," Gong said 02.Dec.2005 Guantanamo is just an aside: 14,500 of those remain in detention and 108 people are known to have died in US custody.
02.Dec.2005 Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech About Iraqi Security Forces : TIME Magazine reporter Michael Ware, who is embedded with the US troops in Iraq who participated in the Tal Afar battle, appeared on Anderson Cooper yesterday. He said Bush’s description was completely untrue 02.Dec.2005 02.Dec.2005 Iraqi insurgency strong and could get stronger : Despite US claims of progress in quelling the insurgency in Iraq, it remains as robust as ever and could grow a good deal stronger, according to a new study released Thursday. 02.Dec.2005 Profusion of Rebel Groups Helps Them Survive in Iraq : Iraqi and American officials in Iraq say the single most important fact about the insurgency is that it consists not of a few groups but of dozens, possibly as many as 100 02.Dec.2005 Key nations leaving coalition, others may withdraw from Iraq: Washington's ragtag coalition in Iraq continues to crumble, diluting the US-led effort to secure the country amid mounting pressure to start bringing American troops home next year.
02.Dec.2005 A Cabal of Criminality - By Manuel Valenzuela
What the Iraq/Bush war shows the world is how a Cabal of Criminality, numbering less than a few hundred individuals, can bamboozle a nation into a war whose ramifications on our future we cannot yet fully comprehend. The Bush war, the single-greatest blunder in America’s foreign policy history, was spawned by greed-addicted corporatists + treasonous neoconartists + presstitute lackeys + political hacks, placed in charge of US foreign policy. Continued
02.Dec.2005 Beware Iraqization - By Mike Ferner
Nixon decided to change the color of the corpses in Viet Nam by replacing US ground troops with US bombers… that 00.000.1972 -in just six months of- US warplanes dropped 702,000 500-pound bombs on Viet Nam… or that 15 giant B-52’s would be shot down during the “Christmas Bombings” that year, with nearly 100 crewmembers killed or captured. Continued
02.Dec.2005 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-387873,00.html
"Die Schildkröte hat die Aufmerksamkeit des WWF erregt, weil dieser Geburtsfehler mit Umweltverschmutzung oder steigenden Temperaturen in Verbindung stehen könnte", sagte Carlos Drews, Mitarbeiter der Umweltorganisation. Und er ging noch weiter: Die Schildkröten-Spezies könne gar als "Indikator für den Klimawandel und die Wirkung von Pestiziden sowie Landwirtschafts-Chemikalien auf Küsten- + Meeresökosysteme dienen".
Reptilien-Experten möchten dem regionalen WWF-Koordinator für Meeresschildkröten allerdings nicht folgen. Denn zum einen sind Mutationen, die etwa zweiköpfige Tiere zur Folge haben, zwar selten, aber nicht sensationell. "Ich selbst habe schon mehrere gesehen", sagte Sheryan Epperly, Meeresschildkröten-Experte des US National Marine Fisheries Service in Miami.
Zum anderen könne ein einzelnes Tier keinesfalls mit regionalen oder gar globalen Veränderungen in Zusammenhang gebracht werden, betonte Jakob Hallermann von der Universität Hamburg. "Erst bei einem verstärkten Auftreten innerhalb einer Population wäre eine solche Missbildung bedeutsam", sagte der Reptilien-Fachmann im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.
02.Dec.2005 Geheimgefängnisse: Bürgerrechtler wollen CIA verklagen
02.Dec.2005 Folter im Irak: USA planen Überraschungsbesuche in Knästen
0 2.Dec.2005 Schwindende Hoffnung: Überschuss der Krankenkassen schmilzt drastisch
02.Dec.2005 Liberale Niederlande: Parlamentarier wollen Marihuana-Anbau legalisieren
02.Dec.2005 Augenblick: Herr der Drogen 02.Dec.200 Terror: Deutschland im Fadenkreuz
02.Dec.2005 "Taipeh 101": Wolkenkratzer soll Erdbeben ausgelöst haben (Wissenschaft, Frankreich: Frau nach Gesichts-Teiltransplantation wohlauf
02.Dec.2005 CIA-Affäre: Paris prüft Hinweise auf Geheimflüge (Politik, Prügel für Klassenkameraden: Schüler filmen Misshandlung mit Handy
02.Dec.2005 Kompromiss: EU-Ministerrunde einig über Speicherung von Telefondaten
02.Dec.2005 Drei-Schluchten-Damm: Land unter am Jangtse
02.Dec.2005 Irak: Schiitenführer Sadr fordert Freilassung Osthoffs (Politik, Leichenverwertung in Brandenburg: Proteste gegen Plastinationsfabrik (Wissenschaft, Todesstrafe: USA direkt hinter Iran und Vietnam
02.Dec.2005 Tod im Obdachlosenheim: Ermittler rätseln über Brandursache
02.Dec.2005 Irak: Schiiten und Sunniten fordern Freilassung Osthoffs (Politik, Wahl in Kasachstan: Aufruhr im Steppenland
02.Dec.2005 Empörte Fans: iPod-Steuer in Japan scheitert
02.Dec.2005 Dokumentation: Fatale Feuer in Obdachlosenheimen 02.Dec.200 Spektakuläres Foto: Sternenleiche unter zerfetztem Schleier 02.Dec.200 Kontroverse: Zypries wirbt für Datenspeicherung
02.Dec.2005 EU-Rabatt: Briten wettern gegen Blairs Kompromissangebot
02.Dec.2005 Ansehen: Microsoft stößt General Electric vom Thron
02.Dec.2005 Halberstadt: Tote und Verletzte bei Brand in Obdachlosenheim
02.Dec.2005 Chinas Energiemisere: Stromnot in der Weltwerkstatt
02.Dec.2005 Todesstrafe: USA vollstrecken 1000. Hinrichtung
02.Dec.2005 Costa Rica: Zweiköpfige Schildkröte verblüfft Umweltschützer
02.Dec.2005 Singapur: Australier wegen Drogenbesitzes hingerichtet
02.Dec.2005 Medien im Irak: Bush lässt Berichte über gefällige Artikel prüfen (Politik, VW-Aufsichtsrat: US-Investor macht Front gegen Piëch
02.Dec.2005 Gesamtmetall: Beschäftigte müssen mit Reallohnverlust rechnen
02.Dec.2005 Fall Osthoff: Zentralrat der Muslime erwägt Demonstration
02.Dec.2005 Gefangenentransporte: Rice will sich zu CIA-Geheimflügen äußern (Politik, Deutsche Unternehmer im Irak: Das Geschäft mit der Angst
02.Dec.2005 How Emotions and Personality Effect the Utility of Alternative Decisions: A Terrorist Target Selection Case Study
Michael Johns, Barry G. Silverman, Computer & Info Science Dept., University of Pennsylvania
02.Dec.2005 Intelligent Threat Assessment Processor (ITAP) using Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic
P. Gonsalves, R. Cunningham + N. Ton, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion, Paris, France, 00.000.2000
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01.Jan.1978-31.Dec.2001 -from-through-.Key : The "Career Total" column represents the total amount of Pro-Israel PAC money received
02.Dec.2005 Nuke the Duke Much has occurred on the Randy "Duke" Cunningham front. Not only did this Republican congressman sell a house at a wildly inflated price to a defense contractor who benefited from Duke's votes - - turns out this shabby pol has done the same sort of deal repeatedly. Right now, the best place to go for info is Talking Points Memo + San Diego Union-Tribune account + this Washington Post story.
Duke, it turns out, has made a strange bedfellow (+ a very soiled bed it is!) of one Thomas Kontogiannis, a shady Long Island real estate developer with a history of bribing schemes.
This story is even more important than many may believe, for at least three reasons:
1. Impeachment won't happen unless at least one house of Congress changes ownership. Every seat counts.
2. We have good reason to believe that other Republicans are guilty of similar shennanigans.
3. This Kontogiannis fellow has tossed around some very long green + has done so in a way that sets off my (far from infallible) Spidey sense. Don't be too surprised if he turns out to be something more than just another corrupt businessman.
02.Dec.2005 Posted by billmon at 04:19 PM | Comments (68) -> The Fascists Have a Field Day House GOP Critical of Kerry [KFJ966]'s '71 Actions Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Tex.) began the attack by denouncing the Massachusetts senator on the 33rd anniversary of his testimony before a Senate panel in which he sharply criticized the conduct of some US troops in Vietnam. Kerry [KFJ966], a decorated Navy officer in Vietnam, became a prominent antiwar spokesman after his discharge. Johnson, who spent seven years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war, said the young Kerry [KFJ966] "blasted our nation, chastised our troops + hurt our morale. . . . What he did was nothing short of aiding + abetting the enemy." Comparing Kerry [KFJ966] to former antiwar activist Jane Fonda, Johnson said: "He's called Hanoi John." The presiding officer, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-Ill.), briefly cautioned members not to disparage senators by name, but other Republicans poured it on. Rep. John Kline (Minn.) said Kerry [KFJ966]'s service in the war "does not excuse his joining ranks with Jane Fonda + others in speaking ill of our troops or their service, then or now." Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham (Calif.), whose plane was shot down over North Vietnam, said Kerry [KFJ966]'s 1971 remarks angered Cunningham + his comrades at the time. "We do not need a Jane Fonda as commander in chief," he said. If I didn't know better, I'd say some of the esteemed members of our Chamber of People's Deputies are getting a little worried about Dear Leader's prospects. But I do know better. These guys are like rabid dogs + they don't need any particular excuse to foam at the mouth. But I'd also like to offer Messrs. Johnson, Kline + Cunningham a sincere thanks for again reminding me why I support John Kerry [KFJ966].
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Triad's machine tampering in Hocking County continues to make waves, including a mention in today's NY Times editorial. According to Wired's Kim Zetter in Ohio Recount Stirs Trouble, Triad president Brett Rapp says Triad technician Michael Barbian did not put a "patch" on the computer, but deputy director of elections Sherole Eaton insists that's exactly the word he used. https://www.ghostinthemachine.net/001271.html Allen County elections director Keith] Cunningham, like most other elections directors in the state, selected which precincts to count for the initial 3 %. Ohio law says the precincts should be picked randomly but doesn't further define the process. What part of "random" does Cunningham not understand? Cunningham also denied access to poll books - the sign-in sheets that prove who actually voted - claiming insufficient staff. But other counties had no problems complying with the law.
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Advised of the recount push by the Green and Libertarian Parties + their plan to sue to force a second tally even before Secretary of State Blackwell is scheduled to certify the first count, Cunningham said his statewide group might sue back to prevent a recount. "I need to see if this is merely my opinion or reflects the opinion of the association."
02.Dec.2005 https://sideshow.me.uk/snov04.htm Elsewhere, Keith Olbermann reminds us: In Ohio, the reality of the recount is beginning to sink in + local governments aren't happy about it. The Associated Press ran a story Monday afternoon in which its reporter quoted the incoming president of the Ohio Association of Election Officials, Keith Cunningham. "The inference is that Ohio election officials will not count every vote," said the man who is currently head of the Board of Elections in Allen County (that's the Lima area, northwest of Columbus). "That's just insulting; it's frivolous + simply harassment."
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00.Feb.1997 “The Death Squads + The Catholics + The Moonies + The Evangelicals,” Religion in Politics,” Volume 2, No. 1, , p. 6-7.
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Heeding Bible Prophecy systematically outlines how the book of Revelation will be counterfeited for Christian consumption. There will be a counterfeit Tribulation Period, counterfeit Antichrist, counterfeit False Prophet, counterfeit Abomination of Desolation, etc. At mid-Trib, the pseudo-Antichrist [eg., Prince Charles/UN/global government] and pseudo-Mystery Babylon [Pope/ Roman Catholic Church] will be judged and ostensibly destroyed in a mock trial and execution. The world and undiscerning Christians, believing that the Beast has been destroyed, will receive a descendant of the Merovingian bloodline as "The Christ." The Bistea Neptunis -- the Beast out of the Sea of Rev.13:1 -- will ascend the throne of a rebuilt Temple in Jerusalem and the Great Tribulation will commence
02.Dec.2005 https://watch.pair.com/antipas.html Take heed that no man deceive you. . .
For there shall arise false Christs and false prophets,
and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Behold, I have told you before.
Matthew 24:1,24,25
02.Dec.2005 https://watch.pair.com/antipas.html Since these major Biblical events were supposedly accompanied by astrological phenomena, Clasen endorses Rood's theory that the Millennium officially began with the 05.May 2000 alignment of the planets. Michael Rood's theory is not unlike New Age astrologer Rick Levine's thesis in The Gift of the Magi: Christmas for a New Millennium, that the Star of Bethlehem was actually a conjunction of Jupiter + Saturn _0007-_0006 in zodiacal sign of Pisces. According to Levine, this astronomical sign inaugurated the Christian Age + validated the messianic credentials of Jesus Christ for the age of Pisces. Levine further proposes that, since the next Jupiter/Saturn triple conjunction occured last May under the sign of Aquarius, rather than Pisces, humanity has entered a new messianic age during which all mankind will be reborn as the "Christ" for this age.
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The National Association of Evangelicals [NAE] is the powerful US division of the lesser known, international World Evangelical Fellowship [WEF]. 00.000.1846 dates back to- The World Evangelical Fellowship's history 00.000.1846 -when, under the original name World Evangelical Alliance, it held the first global meeting of missionaries at the United Grand Lodge of England 00.000.1776 -at its completion in- Freemasons' Hall, London. (The UGLE had been “dedicated to the purposes of Freemasonry”.) 37. 00.000.1944 when the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance dissolved ( 00.000.1951 -later- to be resurrected by the NAE), 00.000.1944 the American branch of the Evangelical Alliance remaining funds were transferred to the 00.000.1908 Rockefeller-funded Federal Council of Churches [FCC,]. 00.000.1948 -later- Amsterdam The FCC would become the World Council of Churches [WCC,]. 00.000.2005 -today- The World Evangelical Fellowship serves the United Nations agenda as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Just as WEF serves as the umbrella organization over the NAE, the NAE serves as umbrella to the National Religious Broadcasters [NRB]. NRB membership includes a number of Evangelical leaders who hold cross-over memberships in the secretive + political Council for National Policy -- John Ankerberg, Ed Astinger III, Theodore Baehr, Richard Bott, II, David Breese, Bill Bright, Chuck Colson, James Dobson, Stuart Epperson, Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy, Tim La Haye, Marlin Maddoux, Patrick Matrisciana, Chuck Missler, Paul Pressler + Pat Robertson. 00.000.1942 -after a planning session at Moody Bible Institute The National Association of Evangelicals emerged . Its first president was Harold Ockenga, co-founder of Fuller Theological Seminary. Also acknowledged as co-founders are Charles Fuller [founder of Fuller Theological Seminary] + J. Edwin Orr. Orr, a scholar on revival at Fuller Seminary, developed the strategy for Campus Crusade for Christ [Bill Bright] + aided Billy Graham in his “new understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit.”
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00.000.1987 The Covert Action Information Bulletin reported that 00.000.1977-00.000.1986 -between-the State of Israel, Guatemala's principle backer not only sponsored espionage + torture of Guatemalans, but employed members of Gospel Outreach’s Verbo Church to assist their agents. "Israel also installed computer surveillance equipment in Guatemala + Israel under the pretext of providing agricultural assistance, helped devise Rios Montt's 'beans + bullets strategic hamlets, modeled after the CIA's Operation Phoenix. . . [ed. note: ‘beans and bullets’ refers to Rios Montt’s policy, ‘If you are with us, we’ll feed you; if not we’ll kill you.’] [Richard Paradise of Gospel Outreach] says he works under the auspices of the World Zionist Organization as a liaison with US evangelicals, with the assigned role of working against anti-Semitism within the US. 00.Oct.1984 -published- According to a special report entitled 'Sectas y Religiosidad en American Latina' by the Chile-based Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Transnacionales, during Rios Montt's rule, members of Gospel Outreach's Verbo church took jobs in espionage + torture + accompanied Israeli + Argentinean experts during interrogation sessions." 33. 00.000.1981-00.000.1989 Guatemala. Israel’s role was confirmed by a member of Israel’s Knesset according to CIABASE files on Death Squads: “ Israeli Knesset member General Peled said in Central America Israel is 'dirty work' contractor for US Helped Guatemala regime when Congress blocked Reagan administration. Israeli firm Tadiran (then partly US-owned) supplied Guatemalan military with computerized intelligence system to track potential subversives. Those on computer list had an excellent chance of being ‘disappeared.’” The following CIABASE records describe the CIA operation in Guatemala, courtesy of Reuters + The Nation:
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00.Jun.1982 Rios Montt’s self-declaratoin as ‘God’s choice,’-“Within three months of- Amnesty International would issue a special report, Massive Extrajudicial Executions in Rural Areas Under the Government of General Efrain Rios Montt . Its ‘partial listing of massacres,’ totaling more than sixty, included one village where survivors witnessed soldiers beheading men, battering children’s heads against rocks + raping women. 23.Mar.1982 More than 500 Indian people were killed in three villages in the departments of Quiche + Huehuetenango 24.Mar.1982-27.Mar.1982 -between- In addition, 100 people were slaughtered in three villages in Alta Verapaz; 00.Apr.1982-00.Apr.1982 -the first two weeks of-l; 250 people, in three villages in Chimaltenango 100, 05.Apr.1982 in the village of Nangal alone in Quiche + 15.Apr.1982 193, in Rio Negro + 18.Apr.1982 54, in Macalbaj + 20.Apr.1982 + 100, in Josefinos “Machine guns, grenades + machetes were used with sadistic abandon. Most of the victims were women + children. In Alta Alta Verapaz, home of the Kekchi Indians, more than 1,000 of the 2,500 communities in the province were abandoned or destroyed. Those communities that remained were decimated by losses. In one municipality, Santa Cristobal Verapaz, up to 10,000 of the 28,000 residents were believed by local authorities to have died. . . “ . . .after meeting Rios Montt in Honduras later that month, President Reagan insisted that the regime was ‘getting a bad deal’ from the accusations of massacres + deserved renewed military aid from the United States (which he granted the following month). Had not the White House received a flood of letters calling for renewed arms sales to Guatemala after Pat Robertson appealed to his 700 Club television show for prayers + money for the regime?” 32.
02.Dec.2005 https://watch.pair.com/antipas.html Gospel Outreach gained notoriety when one of its elders, Gen. Rios Montt, became president of Guatemala during the 1982 military coup. By 1982, the US Central Intelligence Agency was well-entrenched in Guatemala. 00.000.1954, the CIA had joined with the United Fruit Company, wealthy plantation owners and the military to overthrow the freely-elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz. A protracted civil war ensued in this country through the 1970s, which took a turn for the worse in the early 1980's, at which time the Guatemalan army, backed by the CIA, began a campaign of genocide against the Maya peoples. Several hundred Indian villages were obliterated and their inhabitants were either killed or forced into exile in Mexico. 28. Altogether, the Guatemalan war claimed over 200,000 lives, mostly Mayan civilians. According to a recent U.N report, at least 626 massacres took place during the country's 36-year war and, in recent years, 125 massacre sites have been exhumed. Most of the victims were Maya Indians. Only two court trials have been conducted in which state prosecutors filed criminal charges and only one of these cases led to convictions. 00.000.1998, three former members of an army-trained civilian patrol were sentenced to death for their role in a 1982 massacre of 130 civilians outside the town of Rio Negro. 29. The rise of El Verbo Church elder, Rios Montt, to President of Guatemala 00.000.1982, the terrorist operations of his regime and his support among leading US evangelical ministers are documented in the Public Information Research Database file on Gospel Outreach: "Gospel Outreach is an evangelical Pentecostal church with headquarters in Eureka, California and Guatemala. It grew out of the 'Jesus People' movement of the 1960s in the United States. . After the 1976 earthquake, 28 Gospel Outreach evangelicals from California arrived in Guatemala to help rebuild the country and establish El Verbo church. "An early convert was General Efrain Rios Montt, who became president after a military coup in March 1982. "According to the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies, 'Within the first nine months of Rios Montt's administration, 12 evangelical pastors were assassinated; 69 were kidnapped; 45 disappeared; 15 were jailed; 11 foreign missionaries were expelled; 88 evangelical temples were destroyed; and 50 more were occupied by the Army.' By 1986, Verbo Ministries reported 250 congregations. Verbo Ministries also runs a Leadership Training School with over 1000 members directed by Rios Montt himself. . . "Rios Montt has been supported by Pat Robertson (Christian Broadcasting Network), Jerry Falwell (Moral Majority, Thomas Road Baptist Church, Liberty Federation) + Loren Cunningham (Youth with a Mission). They have worked with the Florida Cuban community. . . Jimmy Swaggart Ministries has provided financial support for the schools of El Verbo in Guatemala. This is done under the ‘Programa Ayuda Infantile,’ a branch of the Swaggart ministry.” 30. /database2.html#robertson Pat Robertson's organization funded Gospel Outreach to help Rios Montt build ‘model villages’ for the Guatemalan peasants. These model villages were, like the Jesus Movement, “based on ‘communitarianism,’ a system of church-centered community ownership of property that vaguely would include private ownership of homes + land.” 31. Gospel Outreach’s fundraising arm in the US, International Love Lift, was able to raise $1.5 million for Rios Montt’s program. The authors of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil, describe the fruit of Gospel Outreach – which turned out not to be model villages, but a genocidal campaign that was perpetuated largely because of Evangelical funding + petitions to President Reagan: “The irony of [Gospel Outreach’s] name was outranked only by the name of its fund-raising arm in the USA, which was endorsed by TV evangelist Pat Robertson: International Love Lift. . . “Love was beginning to take on a strange look . . .
02.Dec.2005 https://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.br.htm Loren Cunningham (YWAM),
02.Dec.2005 https://alfatomega.com//20050630.html 21.Jun.2005 Contractor who bought Congressman's house made employees give political contributions : A defense contractor who took a $700,000 loss on the purchase of Rep. Randy Cunningham's Del Mar residence 00.000.2003 + provided a yacht for his use in the nation's capital, forced his employees to make political contributions that benefited the San Diego Republican + other members of Congress, according to three former senior officials of the company.
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02.Dec.2005 https://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Aspen_Institute The Aspen Strategy Group is currently co-chaired by Joseph Samuel Nye, Jr. + Brent Scowcroft. The Aspen Institute owns the 1100-acre Wye River Conference Center in Maryland, a park-like retreat that has served as host to a number of historically significant events, including Middle East peace negotiations. It also served as a temporary home to 5-year-old Elián Gonzalez 00.000.2000 during the political controversy in the United States during the custody battle between his Cuban father + his Miami relatives. This in turn made AIHS a target for right-wing conspiracy theorists, who labeled it a "training center for a global army of psycho-social change agents."[1] Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide")
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Hours later, Gibbons voted to send the amended bill to the House floor. Cunningham did, too, saying he had learned that the House Appropriations Committee was content with the bill's spending provisions. Most Democrats also endorsed the bill. Only two members of the intelligence committee --LaHood + Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-N.J.) -- voted against the measure.
02.Dec.2005 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6980.htm Plan Would Let US Deport Suspects to Nations That Might Torture Them
By Dana Priest and Charles Babington - Washington Post Staff Writers
30.Sep.2004 "Washington Post" The Bush administration is supporting a provision in the House leadership's intelligence reform bill that would allow US authorities to deport certain foreigners to countries where they are likely to be tortured or abused, an action prohibited by the international laws against torture the United States signed 20 years ago.
The provision, part of the massive bill introduced Friday by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), would apply to non-US citizens who are suspected of having links to terrorist organizations but have not been tried on or convicted of any charges. Democrats tried to strike the provision in a daylong House Judiciary Committee meeting, but it survived on a party-line vote.
the provision, human rights advocates said, contradicts pledges President Bush made after the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal erupted this spring that the USA would stand behind the U.N. Convention Against Torture. Hastert spokesman John Feehery said the Justice Department "really wants and supports" the provision.
Justice Department spokesman Mark Corallo said, "We can't comment on any specific provision, but we support those provisions that will better secure our borders and protect the American people from terrorists."
The provision is one of several items in the bill that Democrats say are unrelated to intelligence reform but Republicans say are important tools for fighting terrorists. The Senate is debating its own intelligence reform bill that does not include the provision + the House bill is being marked up in several committees.
00.000.1942 The CIA opens an experimental mind control clinic in Montreal, known as the Allan Memorial, to probe into EMR dytopia and other areas. The clinic is funded by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, McConnell,J.D.of the Montreal Star + the Geschickter Foundation, named after Geschickter, Charles,Dr. who tested potent drugs on mental patients + the terminally ill + bombarded monkeys with microwaves. The clinic was directed by Cameron, Ewen, Dr.D.. Experiments would begin on the population of Montreal. 00.000.1942 Foster Kennedy, a psychiatrist in the US, recommends the killing of retarded children. 24.Oct.1942 US Government orders the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were conducted by Prescott Bush. Under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the government takes over Union Banking Corporation, of which Bush is a director. 28.Oct.1942 USA government seizes two Nazi front organizations run by the Bush-Harriman-bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation + the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation. 00.Nov.1942 Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corp are seized. Nazi US partners are left to carry on business. The order to seize the bank is quietly burried in government records + kept out of the public media. .."
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02.Dec.2005 Fifty years ago, America also felt the need to conduct most of its international crimes far from public view. Interventions in the affairs of uncooperative nations (invariably conducted to "fight communism") were mostly secretive, CIA -led actions that made surreptitious use of special military units, typically called "American advisors" (Honduras, Guatemala, Iran + Cuba provide a few relevant examples). Now, 07.Dec.2002 emboldened by the demise of its only global counterweight, the Soviet Union + encouraged by Israel's success in using conventional military forces in a public and illegal campaign against civilians, the US is increasingly eschewing the old "secret war" model in favor of direct and open military intervention with American troops. Witness Somalia, Haiti, Yugoslavia + Afghanistan during the past ten years.Pre-emptive Action Israel has long been criticized for taking pre-emptive military action against its perceived enemies. Two well-known examples are its surprise attack against a nearly-completed Iraqi nuclear power plant and its protracted, illegal and bloody occupation of southern Lebanon. Despite worldwide criticism of these and many other blatant violations of international law, Israel continued + continues, undaunted.The Clinton administration was noted for its fawning support of Israel's occupation + for abandoning a long-standing US commitment (on paper only, of course) to return Palestine to its pre-1967 borders. Clinton also took a big page out of Israel's book on international relations, when he insisted, against strenuous objections from the United Nations, that the US has the right to launch pre-emptive strikes + that NATO had the right to wage war on Yugoslavia without UN approval. This year, 07.Dec.2002 the Bush administration dropped all pretense of maintaining security with deterrence and adopted the illegal Israeli standard of pre-emptive strikes as official US policy.Militarization of Politics Our politicians have also learned much by example from our close and "special" relationship with the government of Israel. For decades, our pols have used cant, dissimulation and fraud to excuse Israel's most egregious crimes. In the process, much has been learned about how to turn acts of wanton destruction into a noble defense of freedom. Israel's willingness to keep 'pushing the envelope' of state terror has been invaluable in this process, training both American pols and media in the arts of propaganda required to justify ever-larger crimes.Meanwhile, the American populace has been steadily learning to accept Israel's gross violations of human rights, international law + common decency as "necessary for peace and security", justified by "Israel's right to defend herself". This lesson in moral decay and desensitization is proving handy indeed, as the current US administration seeks to extend American hegemony in the Middle East by a new war of occupation. The Terror Card Following the tragedy of 9/11, Israel immediately recast its thirty-five-year occupation of Palestine as an essential front in the "war on terror". To extract maximum political advantage from our loss and grief, Israeli politicians like Ariel Sharon suggested, with typical touches of arrogance and self-satisfaction, that, finally, Americans know how Israelis have felt for years. We face a common and implacable enemy, they lectured us, leaving unspoken the message that we Americans had better develop some backbone and put our shoulder to the anti-terror wheel.
02.Dec.2005
President Lyndon Johnson wanted a war in Vietnam. He wanted it to help his friends who owned defense companies to do a little business. He needed it to get the Pentagon + CIA to quit trying to invade Cuba. And most of all, he needed a provocation to “convince” the American people that there was really "no other choice". 05.Aug.1964 newspapers across America reported "renewed attacks" against American destroyers operating in Vietnamese waters, specifically the Gulf of Tonkin. The official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an "unprovoked attack" on the USS Maddox while it was on "routine patrol". The truth is that USS Maddox was involved in aggressive intelligence gathering in coordination with actual attacks by South Vietnam + the Laotian Air Force against targets in North Vietnam. The truth is also that there was NO attack by torpedo boats against the USS Maddox. Captain John J. Herrick, the task force commander in the Gulf, cabled Washington DC that the report was the result of an "over-eager" sonarman who had picked up the sounds of his own ship's screws + panicked. But even with this knowledge that the report was false, Lyndon Johnson went on national TV that night to announce the commencement of air strikes against North Vietnam, "retaliation" for an attack that had never occurred. ******************************** President Bush,George H. wanted a war in Iraq. Like Crassus, Bush,George H. is motivated by GREED. Specifically oil money. But with the OPEC alliance failing to keep limits on oil production in the Mideast, the market was being glutted with oil pumped from underneath Iraq, which sat over roughly 1/3 of the oil reserves of the entire region. George Bush (I) wanted a war to stop that flow of oil, to keep prices (+ profits) from falling any further than they already had. But like Roosevelt, he needed the "other side" to make the first move. Iraq had long been trying to acquire greater access to the Persian Gulf + felt limited confined a narrow strip of land along Kuwait's northern border, which placed Iraqi interests in close proximity with hostile Iran. George Bush(I), who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word via April Glaspie that the USA would NOT intervene if Saddam Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait. Saddam fell for the bait + invaded. Of course, Americans were NOT about to send their sons + daughters to risk their lives for petroleum products. So Bush,George H. arranged a hoax, using a PROPAGANDA public relations firm which has grown rich on taxpayer money by being most industrious + creative liars! The PR firm concocted a monumental fraud in which the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the USA went on TV pretending to be a nurse + related a horror story in which Iraqi troops looted the incubators from a Kuwaiti hospital, leaving the premature babies on the cold floor to die. The media, part of the swindle from the start, never bothered asking why the "nurse" didn't just pick the babies up + wrap them in blankets or something. Enraged by the incubator story, Americans supported operation Desert Storm, which never removed Saddam Hussein from power but which did take Kuwait's oil off of the market for almost 2 years + limited Iraq's oil exports to this very day. That our sons + daughters came home with serious + lingering medical illnesses was apparently not “too great a price to pay “* for increased oil profits. ************************************* Following the victory in Iraq, yet another war appeared to be in the offering in the mineral rich regions of Bosnia. Yet again, a hoax was used to create support for military action. The (above) photo of Fikret Alic staring through a barbed wire fence, was used to "prove" the existance of modern day "Concentration Camps". As the headline of "Belsen 92" indicates, all possible associations with the Nazi horrors were made to sell the necessity of sending yet more American troops into someone else's nation. But when German Journalists went to Trnopolje, the site of the supposed Concentration Camp to film a documentary, they discovered that the photo was a fake! The camp at Trnopolje was not a concentration camp but a refugee center. Nor was it surrounded by barbed wire. Careful examination of the original photo reve .."
https://alfatomega.com/noname04.html Are you kidding? The US has already bombed al-Jazeera offices in Afghanistan + in Baghdad. Please see = The Guardian (London) 08.Apr.2002 HEADLINE: Media: 'Don't get in our way': In the wake of last year's bombing by the US of Arab TV station al-Jazeera, Nik Gowing argues that the message from the Pentagon to journalists wanting to cover any conflict involving America is: stay out, or assume your technology will make you one of our targets BYLINE: Nik Gowing= for an account of the first + see USA TODAY April 9, 2003, HEADLINE: True test of victory comes after the war BYLINE: Walter Shapiro and The New York Times April 9, 2003 Wednesday HEADLINE: A NATION AT WAR: THE MEDIA; Deaths of Journalists Bring Accusations + Concerns BYLINE: By JACQUES STEINBERG and JIM RUTENBERG = for an account of the second. The US claimed that the Baghdad bombing was, uh, accidental. Yeah, that's it! accidental! Posted by: James on November 26, 2005 at 11:36am Is this comment abusive? spam? [flag it] James: We all know this, have a mint and relax. They've shown the capacity to do all kinds of "dirty-tricks", so it's safe to assume-the-worst. In any intelligence-op, it's best to make things appear to be an "accident". In war, there are few-accidents at the planning/actionable-stage, the areas the public almost never sees. I, again, refer to Ian Fleming's illuminating-quote: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." - -From Goldfinger 007: Dr. John Dee's code-name. Posted by: DeepThroat on November 26, 2005 at 12:03pm Is this comment abusive? spam? [flag it] aljazeera HAS been bombed by the US before, twice, once in kabul + once in baghdad... juan cole reports + documents (https://www.juancole.com/2005/11/bush-as-press-assassinbaathist-in.html)... ** "Despite attempts of British officials to muddy the waters by suggesting that Bush was joking, another official who had seen the memo insisted, "Bush was deadly serious, as was Blair. That much is absolutely clear from the language used by both men." 00.Nov.2001 -in mid- The US military bombed the Kabul offices of Aljazeera (https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1653887.stm) 09.Apr.2004 The US military hit the Aljazeerah offices in Baghdad (https://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2003/04/10/stories/2003041000891500.htm), not so long before Bush's conversation with Blair. That attack killed journalist Tarek Ayoub, who had a 3 year old daughter. He had said earlier, "We've told the Pentagon where all our offices are in Iraq + hung giant banners outside them saying `TV.''' Given what we now know about Bush's intentions, that may have been a mistake. ** so, it's not like there weren't precedents that tend to substantiate the charge that the administration has labeled "outlandish ..." https://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/2005/11/if-bush-is-ever-impeached-this-charge.html Posted by: profmarcus on 26.Nov.2005 https://fusioner.proboards60.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1131129004 We need letter writers for a grassroots media campaign. Please participate!! Posted by: Fusioner on 26.Nov.2005 Here is the link to the Gaffney story: https://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98621,00.html Here's him on the list at PNAC https://www.tvnewslies.org/html/pnac_neo-con_artists.html + here he is listed as a Pentagon Advisor https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3169095.stm Posted by: EricSchmeltzer on 26.Nov.2005 Yyotomist and others. I don't doubt that bombing propaganda outlets is sometimes necessary + has been done. In the cases of Iraq + Afghanistan, we did bomb al Jazeera, then said it was an "error." But bombing in Qatar is a whole other ball of wax because it's a 'friendly' country. That's why the WH says it is an outlandish rumor + would never be considered. Yet, my gut tells me bombing Qatar was talked about. Posted by: EricSchmeltzer on 26.Nov.2005 Yo! Folks! Wanna see what practicing freedom of speech gets you at the Christiania Mall in New Castle Delaware. Check out this site and story. https://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051126/NEWS/511260337/1006 Posted by: shadow on 26.Nov.2005 You overlooked ONE thing... If it was a JOKE... Then why did Blair have to 'talk him out of it'...? 26.Nov.2005 The point is if you can squash speech at Al Jerzeera you can squash it at The Christiania Mall. Heh! Heh! New T-Shirt logo.... "Bomb the White sisters"..... What evil lurks in the hearts of men (women too) The shadow knows....... Posted by: shadow on 26.Nov.2005 Nice work, Eric. The FoxNews piece is now in my \Storage Card\Issues\Militarism\Iraq\Journalist Targets folder on my 1G card in my PDA. Woe unto the next defender of the "it's a joke" defense, because I am never without that instrument. Only one thing I would add to your piece is this thing Ledeen wrote for the American Enterprise Inst.'s website: "Machiavelli for Moderns" https://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.18971,filter.all/pub_detail.asp. Not much of a stretch from there to "Hitler for Homemakers", eh? This is the NeoCon way -- they are unabashed. Posted by: ProudPrimate on 26.Nov.2005 This does prove a little something: It proves that the idea of bombing al-Jazeera has recently been discussed seriously by influential people + therfore that the White House response, 'We refuse to dignify that question with a denial,' is inadequate. Posted by: david78209 on 26.Nov.2005 When American journalists are kidnapped, captured and/or killed.. Bush Blair + the media run around crying about innocent people just trying to get news.. but when it's one of their media.. not a word.. message to whores.. don't cry about the same things you do.. you have no credibility.. my vote for sacrifical lambs.. Miller + Woodward.. Posted by: americasfreedom on N 26.Nov.2005 ... + Novak.. Posted by: americasfreedom on 26.Nov.2005 This is a WWII. notion + probably would be a good idea: 00.000.1928 commercial TV broadcasting started in Europe + 00.000.1939 by the outbreak of WWII. commercial TV broadcasting started in Europe was in widespread use. The British shut down + dismantled their TV system in case the Germans were able to broadcast their propaganda into UK. When the USA entered WWII. war they began bombing the German TV stations, the Germans responded by placing a TV transmitter atop the Eiffel Tower 00.000.1942 under the accurate belief that the USA would not bomb it. This transmitter was the source of the German propaganda during Vichy + remained in place for three years. If we are to stop the propaganda being broadcast to the Middle East during this war we should shut down enemy broadcasting facilities. There are many other sources of information throughout the Middle East, hundreds of newspapers + TV stations to provide good information. commercial TV broadcasting started in Europe Posted by: RightBrain Is this comment abusive? spam? [flag it] A joke? I guess that's Bush's answer to Cindy Sheehan, too. "Oh, come on, Cindy, it was just a joke." If the matter requires Britain to raise it's iron fist and declare it a crime to reveal any more, then it was most assuredly not a joke. What's amazing is that Blair could convince the stubborn bull-headed Bush not to do it. Bush probably didn't do it because the whole Administration couldn't figure out how to blame it on insurgents - + who would they then bomb in retaliation? More likely, Bush was hoping that Blair would take the hint and arrange it, so that it could never be traced back to Bush + Blair simply refused to be the fool. But, really, peo .."
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26.Nov.2005 Al Jazzy is the Fox News of the middle east. The Neocons have also wanted to oust Senor Castro + Chavez. Its a post-McCarthy world with all the McCarthy values Imagine if Al Jazzy were gone... the US government would have to rely on the CIA for all information about terrorists + Bin Laden--we know how that turns out...yellow-cake baby! Posted by: darksideOfTheMoon on 02.Dec.2005 The so-called "war on Terrorism" is a total fabrication: Who "harbors" whom? Osama- CIA links. Washington's has consistently supported + abeted Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, from the Cold War to the present (2002) 13. Jan.2002 in an interview with the Berlin Tagesspiegel daily, former German Minister of Technology, Andreas von Buelow gave his assessment of the level of sponsorship necessary to carry out the 11.Sep.2001 bombings: "I can state: the planning of the attacks was technically + organizationally a master achievement. To hijack four huge airplanes within a few minutes + within one hour, to drive them into their targets, with complicated flight maneuvers! This is unthinkable, without years-long support from secret apparatuses of the state + industry." Violations of Constitutional Rights + Liberties by Bush II Attorney General John Ashcroft's undermining of constitutional rights far exceeds anything experienced in American history. 11.Sep.2001 -Since- Bush [BGW968] has enacted laws that deny freedom here at home on an order of magnitude greater than anything terrorists could dream of imposing. And they're not finished yet. Except for rare critical analyses of these denials of freedom inside the USA, commercial media has utterly failed to emphasize the relentless march of this supreme + fundamental threat to freedom + liberty by our own unelected government. The "USA PATRIOT Act" The October 2001 "USA PATRIOT Act" (USAPA) legally turned the United States into a potentially permanent police state. It vastly expands the structures of government secrecy + surveillance, utterly relinquishes any semblance of due process, categorically violates the First + Fourth + Fifth + Sixth + Eighth Amendments + unacceptably mixes aspects of criminal investigations with aspects of immigration + foreign intelligence laws, while it simultaneously extinguishes the accountability of elected + non-elected government officials. Members of Congress have pointed out that this legislation would not have stopped the 11.Sep.2001 attacks. Hence, for what did we give up our unique constitutional guarantees and liberties? The USAPA was passed during the height of the anthrax scare which effectively shut down the US government at a very critical moment in our history as a republic. Congressman Ron Paul asserts that this law was not made available to members of Congress for review before its vote. See: Police State, by Kelly O'Meara, Insight Magazine, 09.Nov.2001 .
02.Dec.2005 https://www.traprockpeace.org/podcasts_transcripts
02.Dec.2005 Complete Books: Understanding Special Operations + Their Impact on The Vietnam War Era - 1989 Interview with L. Fletcher Prouty, Colonel USAF (Retired), by David Ratcliffe, 1999. The Secret Team, The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, by L. Fletcher Prouty, Col., US Air Force (Ret.), 1973, 1997
02.Dec.2005https://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/special_packages/5min
02.Dec.2005 New leader pushes close relationship with US BY GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press Signaling a change in style, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Wednesday to put aside past differences between Germany + USA even as she pressed for the Bush administration to take seriously European concerns about alleged CIA prisons in Europe.
02.Dec.2005 https://washingtontimes.com/upi
02.Dec.2005 EuropeKBR workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour (Pamela Hess)
02.Dec.2005 report Paper claims 300 CIA landings in Europe KBR
02.Dec.2005http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com
Der Irak bestritt die Vorwürfe Powells. Alles, was vorgetragen wurde, passe nur in die Linie der USA. Der Irak werde alle Vorwürfe in einer späteren ausführlichen Stellungnahme widerlegen. Mohammed al-Duri, Iraks Uno-Botschafter, bezog sich auf den Bericht des Waffeninspektors Hans Blix, der bestätige, dass es keine Beweise für die Szenarien von Powell gebe: Das betreffe die mobilen Laboratorien ebenso wie Massenvernichtungswaffen. Genüsslich zitierte er die "New York Times", in der sich CIA -Mitarbeiter beschwerten, dass Beamte der Bush-Administration Informationen der Geheimdienste "überinterpretiert" + "überbewertet" würden. -- Jeder konnte sein Bild von der Uno bestätigt sehen. Wer im Sicherheitsrat einen zahnlosen Tiger + eine Schwatzbude erkennt .."
02.Dec.2005 https://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=135&newsid=77320&ch=0&datte=2005-11-25
02.Dec.2005 Top Analysis CIA Prisons + EU Perspectives
02.Dec.2005 By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions - by abandoning every value except the will to power - they follow in the path of fascism + Nazism + totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies. 20.Sep.2002 "George W. Bush - State of the Union address- Of course he was supposedly describing the Taliban, which of course was created by the CIA .
02.Dec.2005 Die militärische Schlagkraft der Amerikaner ist derzeit übermächtig. Doch Hekmatjar ist kampferprobt. Hekmatjar war einer der führenden Gotteskrieger, welche die Sowjets nach zehnjähriger Besatzung (00.000.1979-00.000.1989) aus dem Land bombten. Unterstützt wurden die Mudschaheddin damals von den USA und al-Qaida-Chef Osama Bin Laden, der seinerseits von der CIA mit Waffen beliefert wurde. Im anschließenden Bürgerkrieg legte er mit seinen Leuten Kabul in Schutt und Asche. Durch den Beschuss Kabuls kamen etwa 50.000 Zivilisten ums Leben. Der neu um sich greifende Fundamentalismus und der laut Uno sprunghafte Anstieg des Opiumanbaus, ein neuer Boom im Waffenhandel + der schleppende Aufbau einer funktionierenden Regierungsarmee, all das spielt den Guerrillas letztlich in die Hände. Vor mehr als einem Jahr sagte Hekmatjar voller Optimismus: "Die Amerikaner sind in eine Falle geraten, so wie einst die Sowjets. Vielleicht noch schlimmer: Sie werden sich nach Vietnam zurücksehen." ----------
00.000.1981 Newsweek, Washington Post owners acknowledge cooperation with CIA https://alfatomega.com/conteudo_gallery01.html 19.Feb.2001 NEWSWEEK EDITION - STINKING GUN
02.Dec.2005CHENEY CITES LEAKED INTELLIGENCE ON IRAQ-AL QUEDA from The Daily Mis-lead January 23, 2004 In an interview this month, Vice President Dick Cheney touted a report + leaked classified document that the Administration itself has billed "inaccurate" as the basis for his Iraq-Al Qaeda claims." Cheney-Gate Escalates As Probe Becomes Official by Jeffrey Steinberg Executive Intelligence Review 11.Nov.2003 -appearing on Rense.com "With the announcement by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) that he had obtained a pledge from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) to open a formal probe of the pre-Iraq war intelligence process, "Cheney-gate'' has moved into an intensive new phase." Pressure Mounts On Cheney Over Wilson/Plame Affair Vice-President's Officials Accused Of Serious Felony, by Andrew Buncombe 01.May 2004 The Independent - UK "Vice-President Dick Cheney was under mounting pressure last night after he + his senior officials were accused of smearing a former ambassador + outing his wife as an undercover CIA officer in a deliberate act of revenge hatched inside the White House." 00.000.1989 VP Cheney Helped Cover-Up Pakistani Nuclear Proliferation - So US Could Sell Country Fighter Jets, by Jason Leopold 08.Mar.2004 Scoop News "Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney + top members of USA administration reacted with shock when they found out that Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's top nuclear scientist, spent the past 15 years selling outlaw nations nuclear technology + equipment. So it was sort of a surprise when Bush, upon finding out about Khan's proliferation of nuclear technology, let Pakistan off with a slap on the wrist. But it was all an act. In fact, it was actually a cover-up designed to shield Cheney because he knew about the proliferation for more than a decade + did nothing to stop it." Cheney's ex-firm blasted over Iraq Auditors: Halliburton violated contract rules by SETH BORENSTEIN FREE PRESS WASHINGTON STAFF March 11, 2004, Detroit Free Press "Halliburton, the company awarded nearly $6 billion in government contracts to rebuild Iraq, significantly and systematically violated federal contracting rules by providing inaccurate and incomplete information about its costs, according to a special report by Defense Department auditors." Cheney coordinated Halliburton Iraq contract May 30, 2004, AFP "A Pentagon e-mail said Vice President Dick Cheney coordinated a huge Halliburton government contract for Iraq, despite Cheney's denial of interest in the company he ran until 2000."
02.Dec.2005 The Memory Hole Center for Justice and Democracy Foreign Policy in Focus The CIA 's Interrogation Techniques
02.Dec.2005 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11166.htm
Rep. Cunningham pleads guilty to conspiracy : ".. NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN. 28.Nov.2005 Cunningham Rep. pleads guilty to conspiracy : By ELLIOT SPAGAT "Associated Press" Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes as part of guilty pleas Monday in a case that grew from an investigation into the sale of his home to a wide-ranging conspiracy involving payments in cash, vacations + antiques. Cunningham, 63, entered pleas in US District Court to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud + wire fraud + tax evasion for underreporting his income 00.000.2004. Cunningham answered "yes, your honor" when asked by US District Judge Larry Burns if he had accepted bribes from someone in exchange for his performance of official duties. After the hearing, Cunningham was taken away for fingerprinting. He will be released on his own recognizance until a 27.Feb.2006 sentencing hearing. He could receive a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison. He also agreed to forfeit to the government his Rancho Santa Fe home, more than $1.8 million in cash + antiques + rugs. In a prepared statement, prosecutors said Cunningham admitted to receiving at least $2.4 million in bribes paid to him by several unnamed conspirators through a variety of methods, including checks totaling over $1 million, cash, rugs, antiques, furniture, yacht club fees and vacations. "He did the worst thing an elected official can do — he enriched himself through his position + violated the trust of those who put him there," US Attorney Carol Lam said in the statement. The case began when authorities started investigating whether Cunningham + his wife, Nancy, used the proceeds from the $1,675,000 sale to defense contractor Mitchell Wade to buy a $2.55 million mansion in ritzy Rancho Santa Fe. Wade put the Del Mar house back on the market + sold it after nearly a year for $975,000 — a loss of $700,000. Cunningham is an eight-term congressman + former Vietnam War flying ace known on Capitol Hill for his interest in defense issues + his occasional temperamental outbursts Cunningham has been under investigation since his sale of the home attracted the attention of federal authorities. He drew little notice outside his San Diego-area district before the San Diego Union-Tribune reported 00.Jun.2005 that he'd sold the home to Wade. The house sale was just one in a series of too-friendly deals for Cunningham. Though he denied wrongdoing when he announced in 00.Jul.2005 that he wouldn't seek re-election, Cunningham himself acknowledged it didn't look good. Cunningham's pleas came amid a series of Republican scandals. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, had to step down as majority leader after a Texas prosecutor indicted him in a campaign finance case; a stock sale by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., is being looked at by regulators; + Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff was indicted in the CIA leak case. In addition to buying Cunningham's home at an inflated price, Wade let him live rent-free on his yacht, the Duke Stir, at the Capital Yacht Club. His firm, MZM Inc., donated generously to Cunningham's campaigns. Around the same time, MZM was winning valuable defense contracts + Cunningham sits on the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls defense $$. 00.000.2004 t he little-known company based in Washington, D.C., tripled its revenue + nearly quadrupled its staff, according to information posted on the company Web site before Wade stepped down as president + the company was sold to a private equity firm. An associate of Wade, Brent Wilkes, president of a Poway company called ADCS Inc., also gave Cunningham campaign cash + favors. Wilkes reportedly flew Cunningham in a corporate jet to go hunting in Idaho + golfing in Hawaii + a charitable foundation Wilkes started spent $36,000 hosting a black tie "Tribute to Heroes" gala 00.000.2002 that feted Cunningham with a trophy naming him a hero. 00.000.1990 -since the late s- ADCS, which specializes into turning paper records into digital files, has received tens of millions in Defense Department contracts. In some years, lawmakers on Cunningham's spending panel added the money themselves, even scolding the Pentagon for not requesting it in the first place. Unlike Wade + Wilkes, the third man federal investigators focused on, Thomas Kontogiannis, apparently wasn't in the defense business. Like them he had a mutually beneficial relationship with Cunningham. 00.000.2000 Cunningham wrote to prosecutors on behalf of Kontogiannis, a New York developer 00.000.2000 under investigation in a bribery + kickback scheme involving school computer contracts. 00.000.2002 -Two years later- Cunningham made $400,000 selling his 65-foot flat-bottom riverboat to Kontogiannis. Also, a company run by Kontogiannis' nephew + daughter helped Cunningham finance a condominium in Alexandria, Va. + Cunningham house in Rancho Santa Fe. Kontogiannis ultimately pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Kontogiannis told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Cunningham gave him advice on attorneys to contact to explore getting a presidential pardon. Associated Press Writer Erica Werner in Washington contributed to this story (In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. 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25.Nov.2005 US ran Guantanamo-style prison in Kosovo By AFX News "Forbes" PARIS (AFX) - The US military ran a Guantanamo Bay-type detention centre in Kosovo, a top Council of Europe official said. The Council of Europe's Human rights commissioner Alvaro Gil-Robles said he had been 'shocked' by conditions at the barbed wire-rimmed centre inside a US military base, which he witnessed 00.000.2002 . The camp resembled 'a smaller version of Guantanamo', he told France's Le Monde newspaper, referring to the US centre at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where hundreds of terrorism suspects remain detained without trial. Gil-Robles told the daily he had inspected the centre, located within the US military's Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, 0.000.2002 to investigate reports of extrajudicial arrests by NATO-led peacekeepers. Gil-Robles said he had no evidence that Camp Bondsteel was linked to the alleged CIA operations. 'But I do believe that an explanation should be given for this base in Kosovo, as for other potentially suspect sites' in Europe, he told the paper. Earlier this week the Council of Europe, which guarantees human rights in its 46 member states, launched an investigation into the alleged prisons. The official leading the probe said Friday that Romania, which rights groups have labelled a likely site for one of the secret centres, was not hosting a large, Guantanamo-style jail. Dick Marty told a press conference in Bucharest that he was 'convinced that there are no Guantanamos in Romania'. However, he did not exclude the possibility of Romania having 'small centres with one or two detainees being kept temporarily for interrogation'. © 2005 Forbes.com Inc
02.Dec.2005 alfatomega.com/20050221.html 20041009 But never, Pavitt said Friday, does he recall anything like "the viciousness + vindictiveness" now playing out in a battle between those aligned with the White House + the CIA . The tensions have simmered for years, mostly over Iraq. alfatomega.com/20041009.html
22.Nov.2005 Grounds for Impeachment Ten days after 9/11, the CIA told Bush that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or Al Qaeda, yet BushCheney insisted there were - and now Bush refuses to turn over the CIA briefing » bob fertik's blog
02.Dec.2005 UK Politics Blair faces allegations of complicity in torture 02.Dec.2005 Pressure is mounting on the White House to answer claims that the CIA is using UK airports to fly terrorist suspects for torture in secret prisons in Europe Finance experts to rescue struggling hospitals Published: 02 December 2005
02.Dec.2005 New leader pushes close relationship with US BY GEIR MOULSON, Associated Press Signaling a change in style, Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Wednesday to put aside past differences between Germany + USA even as she pressed for the Bush administration to take seriously European concerns about alleged CIA prisons in Europe.
02.Dec.2005 ratville times Public Diplomacy + Covert Propaganda - The Declassified Record of Ambassador Otto Juan Reich, an Electronic Briefing Book of the National Security Archive. Edited by Tom Blanton, 02.Mar.2001 Our Man in Little Havana: The secret Cold War history of Otto Juan Reich, George W. Bush's Frightening Nominee for Assistant Secretary of State of Western Hemisphere Affairs, by Jason Vest, 21.May 2001 The American Prospect, Scandal? What Scandal? Bush's Iran-Contra appointees are barely a story, by Terry J. Allen, 00.Sep.2001 Extra The following is mirrored from its source at: https://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,646883,00.html Friends of terrorism Bush's decision to bring back Otto Reich exposes the hypocrisy of the war against terror by Duncan Campbell 08.Feb.2002 The Guardian His name may sound like that of a character from a Mel Brooks musical but Otto Reich is real enough. He has just been appointed by President Bush as assistant secretary of state for western hemisphere affairs - + both the manner of his appointment + the role he will now play have profound implications for a part of the world often disregarded since 11.Sep.2001 . Over the last year President Bush has attempted to bring back into office people who 00.000.1980-00.000.1990 -s s in the 1980s +- were discredited during the US interventions in Central America One such appointment was that of Elliott Abrams, who had two convictions 00.000.1991 for misleading Congress about the so-called Iran-contra affair. 00.000.1992 He was pardoned by President Bush's father + 03Dec.2005 -now- enjoys the title of head of the "office of democracy and human rights". Another was John Negroponte, the former US ambassador to Honduras, who was accused by his predecessor of turning a blind eye to the atrocities committed there against leftists because it was felt necessary to remain on good terms with the Honduran government. 11.Sep.2001 -shortly after- Negroponte was quietly confirmed as US ambassador to the UN. But the third appointment is by far the most controversial and potentially divisive. Otto Reich is a rightwing Cuban American whose key policy objective is the overthrow of Fidel Castro's regime and whose support base is the Cuban-American community in Florida. President Bush's brother, Jeb, is depending on this community's votes and backing as he runs for re-election as governor of the state later this year. Otto Reich came to prominence during the Reagan administration when he was appointed head of the office of public diplomacy within the state department. According to the national security archives, Reich used this role to pursue his own agenda to such an extent that 00.000.1987 the Comptroller-General of the US, a Republican appointee, found that some of the efforts of his office were "prohibited, covert propaganda activities ... beyond the range of acceptable agency public information activities". 30.Sep.1987 -A letter of- concluded that Reich's office had violated "a restriction on the state department's annual appropriations prohibiting the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorised by Congress". He staffed his unit with CIA and Pentagon "psychological warfare" specialists and discredited journalists whose work the Reagan administration did not like. His office wrote bogus editorial pieces under the names of Nicaraguan contras and got them published in the mainstream media. He reported directly to Oliver North. Reich also served as US ambassador to Venezuela and was alleged to have used his influence to try and get a US visa for a convicted terrorist, Orlando Bosch, jailed in Venezuela 00.000.1976 for the bombing of a Cubana airliner with 73 people on board. Bosch had already been convicted of a terrorist attack in Miami on a Polish merchant vessel bound for Cuba and jailed in the US. According to US justice department records: "the files of the FBI and other government agencies contain a large quantity of documentary information which reflects that, beginning in the early 1960s, Bosch held leadership positions in various anti-Castro terrorist organisations ... Bosch has personally advocated, encouraged, organised and participated in acts of terrorist violence in this country as well as various other countries." Amazingly, 00.000.1990 Bosch was granted a pardon by George Bush senior + is now in Florida, apparently untroubled by the current president's commitment to rooting out terrorism in all its forms. Although many countries seek Bosch's extradition he remains free, protected by the same government that warns other countries that they are either for or against terrorism. The Democrats on the Senate foreign relations committee had already made it clear that they would oppose Reich's appointment, not least because of the Bosch factor. So 00.Jan.---- -at the beginning of- President Bush made a "recess appointment" , which meant that he could side-step the Senate confirmation and avoid the damaging questions which Reich would be asked. That a terrorist (by any definition of the word) such as Bosch should receive a blessing from the Bush family is revealing enough. That President Bush has decided to protect Reich from questioning on the subject by avoiding exposing him to the Senate foreign relations committee is just as disturbing. So what has Reich's relationship with Bosch actually been? Ann Louise Bardach, who knows as much about this area as any journalist in the US, writes about Reich in her forthcoming book, Cuba Confidential: "a half dozen declassified CIA and state department cables leave little doubt that Reich used his position to lobby for Orlando Bosch, a man who the Bush justice department had concluded had participated in more than 30 terrorist actions." When the Guardian reported the allegations about the Reich-Bosch connection last year, the US deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage wrote to deny the report, insisting Reich had advised that Bosch was ineligible. "It is unfair and destructive to the US democratic process that the president's nominees be pilloried," wrote Armitage. The letter must have made Reich chuckle since he himself was a master of the art of pillorying his opponents through the dishonest use of his office. But the whole point of the Senate hearings was that these cables and Reich's role in them would have been exposed. Reich has been extremely coy about his relationship with Bosch. In response to the Senate foreign relations committee's question, "Do you consider Orlando Bosch to be a terrorist?", Reich wrote: "I do not have sufficient knowledge of Mr Bosch's criminal activities to pass judgment on his legal status." This is impossible to believe. Reich later moved into the corporate lobbying business to work on behalf of Bacardi rum, which has paid him $600,000, according to the New York Times. Bacardi has an enormous financial stake in the overthrow of Castro, as it would allow them to take over their old distilleries. Although Reich is no longer employed by Bacardi, you do not have to be a cynic to see a dangerous conflict of interest. He also participated in drawing up the Helms-Burton legislation which has fiercely tightened the US embargo on Cuba, a mean-spirited operation that strips Cuba of copyright protection and is opposed by almost every other country in the world. The contra war which Reich so heartily endorsed was an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government, often using attacks on civilian targets. The Bosch affair also highlights the strange double standards involved in condoning terrorism against Cubans while abhorring it elsewhere. The US has chosen to keep al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners in Cuba at their Guantanamo Bay base. So while men accused of terrorism are kept on land acquired in an old colonial war and held by force, a safe haven is given to a man happy to promote terrorism against Cuba. Colombia, Argentina and Peru are in crisis. There are plenty of qualified Latin American hands who could have filled Reich's post and helped build bridges. President Bush's choice is a sad echo of the shabby days that so discredited his father's and Ronald Reagan's administrations in their dealings with Latin America. duncan.campbell@guardian.co.uk Copyright © 2002 Guardian Newspapers Limited Reprinted for Fair Use Only. https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FoT.html
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19.Sep.2002 A joint panel of congressional intelligence committees reported (New York Times) that 00.000.1996 -as early as- Pakistani terrorist Abdul Hakim Murad confessed to USA federal agents that he was `learning to fly in order to crash a plane into CIA HQ'. 00.000.1996 -Only- CIA director George Tenet seemed to take the various threats seriously. 00.Dec.1998 CIA director George Tenet wrote to his deputies that `we are at war' with Osama bin Laden. 20.Sep.2001 -by `the FBI still had only one analyst assigned full time to al-Qaeda' - So impressed was the FBI by his warnings that...- 00.Jul.2001 -at the beginning of- From a briefing prepared for Bush : `We [FBI] believe that OBL [Osama bin Laden] will launch a significant terrorist attack against US +/or Israeli interests in the coming weeks. The attack will be spectacular + designed to inflict mass casualties against US facilities or interests. Attack preparations have been made. Attack will occur with little or no warning.' And so it came to pass; yet Condoleezza Rice, the National Security Advisor, says she never suspected that this meant anything more than the kidnapping of planes. Happily, somewhere over the Beltway, there is Europe - recently declared anti-Semitic by the US media because most of Europe wants no war with Iraq + the junta does, for reasons we may now begin to understand thanks to European + Asian investigators with their relatively free media. On the subject ` 11.Sep.2001 -How + Why USA was Attacked on- ', the best, most balanced report, thus far, is by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed [1] . . . Yes, yes, I know he is one of Them. But they often know things that we don't - particularly about what we are up to. A political scientist, Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development [2] `a think-tank dedicated to the promotion of human rights, justice and peace' in Brighton. His book, The War on Freedom [3], has just been published in the US by a small but reputable publisher. Ahmed provides a background for our ongoing war against Afghanistan, a view that in no way coincides with what the administration has told us. He has drawn on many sources, most tellingly on American whistleblowers who are beginning to come forth + bear witness - - like those FBI agents who warned their supervisors that al-Qaeda was planning a kamikaze strike against New York + Washington only to be told that if they went public with these warnings they would suffer under the National Security Act. Several of these agents have engaged David P. Schippers,[4] chief investigative counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee, to represent them in court. The majestic Schippers managed the successful impeachment of President Clinton in the House of Representatives. He may, if the Iraqi war should go wrong, be obliged to perform the same high service for Bush, who allowed the American people to go unwarned about an imminent attack upon two of our cities as pre-emption of a planned military strike by the US against the Taliban. 26.Sep.2001 The Guardian ([5]) reported that 00.Jul.2001 a group of interested parties met in a Berlin hotel to listen to a former State Department official, Lee Coldren, 00.Jul.2001 as Lee Coldren passed on a message from the Bush administration that `the USA was so disgusted with the Taliban that they might be considering some military action . . . the chilling quality of this private warning was that it came - - according to one of those present, the Pakistani diplomat Niaz Naik - accompanied by specific details of how Bush would succeed . . .' 00.Jul.2001 -Four days earlier-, the Guardian had reported that `Osama bin Laden + the Taliban received threats of possible American military action against them two months before the terrorist assaults on New York + Washington . . . [which] raises the possibility that bin Laden was launching a pre-emptive strike in response to what he saw as US threats.' A replay of the `day of infamy' in the Pacific 62 years earlier? Why the US needed a Eurasian adventure 09.Sep.2001 Bush was presented with a draft of a national security presidential directive outlining a global campaign of military, diplomatic + intelligence action targeting al-Qaeda, buttressed by the threat of war. According to NBC News: `President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaeda . . . but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks . . . The directive, as described to NBC News, was essentially the same war plan as the one put into action 11.Sep.2001 -after-. The administration most likely was able to respond so quickly . . . because it simply had to pull the plans "off the shelf".' 18.Sep.2001 -Finally, BBC News- : `Niak Naik, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, was told by senior American officials 00.Jul.2001 -in mid-July- that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead 00.Oct.2001 -by the middle of-. It was Naik's view that Washington would not drop its war for Afghanistan even if bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taliban.' Was Afghanistan then turned to rubble in order to avenge the 3,000 Americans slaughtered by Osama? Hardly. The administration is convinced that Americans are so simple-minded that they can deal with no scenario more complex than the venerable lone, crazed killer (this time with zombie helpers) who does evil just for the fun of it 'cause he hates us, 'cause we're rich 'n free 'n he's not. Osama was chosen on aesthetic grounds to be the most frightening logo for USA long contemplated invasion + conquest of Afghanistan, planning for which had been `contingency' some years before 11.Sep.2001 + -again, from 20.Dec.2000 , when Clinton's out-going team devised a plan to strike at al-Qaeda in retaliation for the assault on the warship Cole. Clinton's National Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, personally briefed his successor on the plan but Rice, still very much in her role as director of Chevron-Texaco, with special duties regarding Pakistan + Uzbekistan, now denies any such briefing. 12.Aug.2002 -A year and a half later ()- fearless Time magazine reported this odd memory lapse. We have only outdone the Romans in turning metaphors such as the war on terrorism, or poverty, or Aids into actual wars on targets we appear, often, to pick at random in order to maintain turbulence in foreign lands. Osama, if it was he and not a nation, simply provided the necessary shock to put in train a war of conquest. But conquest of what? What is there in dismal dry sandy Afghanistan worth conquering? Zbigniew Brzezinski tells us exactly what in a 00.000.1997 Council on Foreign Relations study called The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy + its Geostrategic Imperatives.[6] The Polish-born Brzezinski was the hawkish National Security Advisor to President Carter. In The Grand Chessboard, Brzezinski gives a little history lesson. `Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some 500 years ago, Eurasia has been the centre of world power.' Eurasia is all the territory east of Germany. This means Russia, the Middle East, China + parts of India. Brzezinski acknowledges that Russia + China, bordering oil-rich central Asia, are the two main powers threatening US hegemony in that area. He takes it for granted that the US must exert control over the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, known to those who love them as `the Stans': Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan + Kyrgyzstan all `of importance from the standpoint of security + historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate + most powerful neighbours - - Russia, Turkey + Iran, with China signaling'. Brzezinski notes how the world's energy consumption keeps increasing; hence, who controls Caspian oil/gas will control the world economy. Brzezinski then, reflexively, goes into the standard American rationalization for empire. We want nothing, ever, for ourselves, only to keep bad people from getting good things with which to hurt good people. `It follows that America's primary interest is to help ensure that no single [other] power comes to control the geopolitical space + that the global community has unhindered financial + economic access to it.' Brzezinski is quite aware that American leaders are wonderfully ignorant of history + geography so he really lays it on, stopping just short of invoking politically incorrect `manifest destiny'. He reminds the Council just how big Eurasia is. Seventy-five % of the world's population is Eurasian. If I have done the sums right, that means that we've only got control, to date, of a mere 25 % of the world's folks. More! `Eurasia accounts for 60- % of the world's GNP + three-fourths of the world's known energy resources.' Brzezinski's master plan for `our' globe has obviously been accepted by the Cheney-Bush junta. Corporate America, long over-excited by Eurasian mineral wealth, has been aboard from the beginning. Ahmed sums up: `Brzezinski clearly envisaged that the establishment, consolidation + expansion of US military hegemony over Eurasia through Central Asia would require the unprecedented, open-ended militarisation of foreign policy, coupled with an unprecedented manufacture of domestic support + consensus on this militarisation campaign.' Afghanistan is the gateway to all these riches. Will we fight to seize them? It should never be forgotten that the American people did not want to fight in either of the twentieth century's world wars, but President Wilson maneuvered us into the First while President Roosevelt maneuvered the Japanese into striking the first blow at Pearl Harbor, causing us to enter the Second as the result of a massive external attack. 00.000.1997 Brzezinski understands all this + he is thinking ahead - as well as backward. `Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive + widely perceived direct external threat.' Thus was the symbolic gun produced that belched black smoke over Manhattan + the Pentagon. Since the Iran-Iraq wars, Islam has been demonized as a Satanic terrorist cult that .." https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html | 