Discussion about 09/11/2001: [911TruthAction] Digest Number 1300

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

[911TruthAction] Digest Number 1300

There are 20 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. A Day in the Life: 5/21/6
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
2. Re: Rice knew..
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
3. Fw: Christopher Bollyn: Controlling the Message -- The mainstream m
From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
4. Re: Rice knew..
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
5. Re: [v911t] Rice knew..
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
6. JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs
From: "ranger116@webtv.net" ranger116@webtv.net
7. Re: CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THE
From: "Kitty" kitty285@charter.net
8. Re: JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
9. Depleted, it ain't!
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
10. Gwd: Protected message
From: "APFN" apfn@apfn.org
11. The deadly cover-up
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
12. CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THEM RA
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
13. CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THEM RA
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
14. Gwd: Hi
From: "APFN" apfn@apfn.org
15. GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon
From: "Total Information" totalinfo@gmail.com
16. A Day in the Life: 5/22/6
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
17. US ex-GI tells of atrocities against Iraqis! tvnl news
From: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net
18. Re: GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon
From: "Kitty" kitty285@charter.net
19. Re: GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
20. *helpless?!/ D.Schechter: Why is the media downplaying unverified vo
From: "Ronald" bleier.r@gmail.com

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Message 1
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 8:33am(PDT)
Subject: A Day in the Life: 5/21/6

GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans Reaching
Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
��
Via <prez@usa-exile.org>

May 21, 2006

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I'm quite pleased that truthout (see below) finally is getting its
comeuppance. Consistently it does more harm than good. That is, the
significance of what it prevents its followers from learning is greater
than the significance of what it shares. The same can be said of many
other northern-white-liberal enterprises--notably MoveOn.org,
MediaChannel.org, FAIR, A.N.S.W.E.R., UFPJ. The hour is late.
Also I want to point out an interesting scam cited in the
next-to-last paragraph of the last story below. Among the mega-rich,
only the insurance moguls have an accurate understanding of the Extreme
Weather Events (EWEs) caused mainly by Big Oil/Coal. They have to
understand to avoid total financial collapse. So now they've
devised--with some of their Fourth Reich allies--a clever way to get
farmers to suffer even more when their crops fail. Via "forward
contracts" the farmers are suckered into a seemingly generous guarantee
for their next harvest. However, the guarantees generally work in
favor of the Fourth Reich because they understand weather more
accurately than the hapless farmers kept in ignorance of the
vicious-cycling dynamic explaining why the frequency and severity of
EWEs are so swiftly increasing. Thus these ever-victimized farmers now
too often must buy (at prices much higher than those in their
contracts) other crops in order to keep their end of the contract. In
these instances the Fourth Reich makes obscenely huge profits because
it can resell for much more than it paid.
So while the Fourth Reich pretends in its pimp/whore media that
EWEs aren't big problems, they're in fact slyly making lots of money
from the size of the problems.
And to all this must be added a report that in the US midwest
there have been one or more intentional droughts so the banksters can
come in behind them and buy land from bankrupt farmers at a small
fraction of its value. So now we can see that if indeed intentional
droughts are occurring (anyone have any evidence to share?), they
benefit the Fourth Reich in a second major way by allowing enormous
profits from resale of "forward" agricultural contracts. Prior
knowledge of a drought would lead to the same sort of monumentally evil
profits as those realized by people who had prior knowledge of the 9/11
Inside Job.
Yours for all species,
Keith Lampe,
Ro-Non-So-Te,
Ponderosa Pine
Transition Prez

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From: "CLG News" <clg_news@legitgov.org>
Date: May 21, 2006 1:45:07 AM EST
To: "CLG News" <clg_news@legitgov.org>
Subject: U.S. to use lasers on drivers in Iraq 21 May 2006

Breaking News and Commentary�from�Citizens for Legitimate Government
21�May 2006
http://www.legitgov.org/

All�links to articles as summarized below are available here:�
�http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

U.S. to use lasers on drivers in Iraq 18 May 2006 The U.S. military is
deploying a laser device in Iraq that would temporarily blind drivers
who fail to heed warnings at checkpoints, in an attempt to stem
shootings of innocent Iraqis... A protocol to the Geneva Convention
bans the use of lasers that cause blindness, and human-rights groups
have protested previous U.S. attempts to employ such weapons.

Soldiers to get life in jail for refusing to act as occupiers 19 May
2006 (UK) Soldiers who object to taking part in a military occupation
of a foreign country will face life in prison under measures due to be
rubber-stamped in the House of Commons on Monday. The little-noticed
Armed Forces Bill will have its third reading in the Commons on Monday
and left-leaning MPs are alarmed that it will legitimise pre-emptive
military strikes. It will change the definition of desertion to include
soldiers who go absent without leave and intend to refuse to take part
in a "military occupation of a foreign country or territory".

Iraq is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold --Across central
Iraq, there is an exodus of people fleeing for their lives as sectarian
assassins and [US] death squads hunt them down. At ground level, Iraq
is disintegrating as ethnic cleansing takes hold on a massive scale. 20
May 2006 The state of Iraq now resembles Bosnia at the height of the
fighting in the 1990s when each community fled to places where its
members were a majority and were able to defend themselves. "Be gone by
evening prayers or we will kill you," warned one of four men who called
at the house of Leila Mohammed, a pregnant mother of three children in
the city of Baquba, in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad. He
offered chocolate to one of her children to try to find out the names
of the men in the family.

Bloody day heralds birth of Iraq's new unity 'government' 21 May 2006
Iraq's new unity 'government' was approved by parliament in Baghdad
yesterday in what may be the last chance to hold Iraq together as a
unitary state. Underlining how far security has declined since the
parliament was elected five months ago, a series of attacks killed 27
people and wounded dozens more yesterday. Police also found the bodies
of 21 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured by [US] death squads
in and around Baghdad.

The enforcer By Stephen Armstrong 20 May 2006 "Colonel Tim Spicer... is
also effectively in charge of the second largest military force in
Iraq: the estimated 20,000 private security personnel who outnumber the
British army by almost three to one. Spicer's company Aegis has a
contract with the Pentagon worth almost $300m to oversee the 16 private
security companies providing personnel, security, military training and
reconstruction."

Roadside bomb targets UK troops 20 May 2006 Two British soldiers have
been injured in a roadside bombing in southern Iraq, the Ministry of
Defence has said.

Guantanamo Bay to remain despite UN anti-torture report 20 May 2006 It
has made difficult reading for Washington, but a report by the UN's
anti-torture body says the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is
illegal and should be closed... The report has no binding authority
over the US.

German to fight on after CIA torture lawsuit fails 19 May 2006 A German
man who says he was abducted and tortured by the CIA will consider
taking his case to a higher court after a U.S. district judge dismissed
it on national security grounds, his lawyer said on Friday.

Fighting in Afghanistan Kills 34 20 May 2006 Militants hiding in a
vineyard and armed with machine guns ambushed an Afghan army convoy
Saturday, shooting dead four soldiers but losing 15 of their own.
Violence elsewhere killed another 15 people � including two French
troops and a U.S. soldier.

One Soldier Killed, Six Wounded in Afghanistan 20 May 2006 One U.S.
Servicemember was killed and six wounded in combat in in southern
Uruzgan province (Afghanistan) yesterday. The six wounded service
members were evacuated to a nearby medical facility and are in stable
condition.

Fugitive pleads with US to 'liberate' Iran 21 May 2006 Amir Abbas
Fakhravar, a 30-year-old writer and leader of the dissident Iranian
'student' movement who has been repeatedly jailed, emerged in
Washington last week after spending 10 months on the run inside Iran.
He surfaced at the end of last month in Dubai, where 24 hours later he
was met by the leading American neoconservative, Richard Perle.
Fakhravar was whisked to America last weekend and has already met
congressmen and Bush officials. He said he was in Washington to spread
one message only: "Regime change." [Who funded this whackjob's trip to
Washington?]

Pentagon secret spending said at post-Cold War high 19 May 2006 The
Pentagon's spending on secret programs has hit its highest point since
the end of the Cold War, a Washington-based research group said in a
report released this week. Classified programs appear to account for
about $30.1 billion, or 19 percent, of the acquisition funds sought in
the Defense Department budget for fiscal 2007, according to the report
by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment.

Ex-deputy secretary of state new figure in CIA leak probe 20 May 2006
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has emerged as a key
witness in the CIA leak probe, the Daily News has learned. Armitage has
been questioned several times, but is not expected to be indicted by
the federal grand jury investigating who outed CIA spy Valerie Plame to
journalists in 2003, sources said.

Eating their own (Capitol Hill Blue) 20 May 2006 "Late Friday
afternoon, Truthout executive director Marc Ash issued what he openly
called a 'partial apology' [?!?] for the story that didn't pan out...
The faithful on Democratic Underground went into a full feeding frenzy
on Ash, Leopold and Truthout honcho William Rivers Pitt... 'It's not
the first time my editors have had me chasing one of Jason Leopold's
red herrings but I sure as hell hope it's the last,' one angry reporter
told us Friday night. 'Why anybody continues to hire this fucking
nutcase is beyond me.'"

MP to investigate Dr Kelly's death 19 May 2006 A backbench MP is to
investigate the "unanswered questions" from the official inquiry into
the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly. The former Liberal
Democrat environmental spokesman Norman Baker today revealed his
decision to stand down from the shadow cabinet two months ago was based
on a quest to establish the truth behind Dr Kelly's death.

Crowd protests Cheney's visit 20 May 2006 (LA) About three dozen
protesters � students, faculty and concerned citizens � marched outside
the Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Friday as spring graduates mingled
with friends and family. The protesters, drawn by commencement speaker
Vice pResident Dick Cheney, were careful to keep moving lest they be
accused of loitering... LSU linguistics Professor Lisi Oliver said she
is fed up with the university booking graduation speakers tied to the
Bush administration. LSU astrophysics and mathematics junior Luke Smith
has the same complaint.

Graduates at New School Heckle Speech by McCain 20 May 2006 The jeers,
boos and insults flew, as caustic as any that angry New Yorkers have
hurled inside Madison Square Garden. The objects of derision yesterday,
however, were not the hapless New York Knicks, but Senator John McCain,
the keynote speaker at the New School graduation, and his host, Bob
Kerrey, the university president.

More than 230 terror suspects free to stay in Britain 21 May 2006 More
than 230 foreigners identified by MI5 and Scotland Yard as suspected
terrorists have been allowed to stay in Britain as asylum seekers.

FBI raids US House of Representatives office 20 May 2006 FBI officers
raided a House of Representatives office building on Saturday night,
and NBC television said it had searched the offices of Louisiana
Democratic Rep. William Jefferson. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
confirmed the unusual raid at the Rayburn House Office Building on
Washington's Capitol Hill but would not say whose office was searched.

Corporate troll Nagin holds on to leadership of New Orleans (via
electronic 'voting') Incumbent narrowly fends off challenge from
Landrieu in run-off 'vote' 20 May 2006 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday, in
the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S.
history. [See: Ray Nagin's $1,000 contribution to George W. Bush in
1999.]

Democratic Rival Forces LieberBush Into a Primary 20 May 2006 A
'businessman with little political experience' [That intro, btw, is the
Whore York Times trashing the antiwar candidate.] has forced Senator
Joseph I. Lieberman [LieberBush] into an August primary, surprising
even his own supporters by winning more than twice the number of
delegates he needed at the State Democratic Party's nominating
convention Friday night. Ned Lamont, 'a cable television executive from
Greenwich' [That's slam #2.] who has opposed Senator Lieberman largely
over the senator's support for the war in Iraq, won 505 of the 1,509
delegates who cast votes � about 33 percent, compared with the 15
percent required to force a primary.

Lawsuit Is Filed to Force FEMA to Continue Housing Vouchers 20 May
2006 Lawyers for New Orleans evacuees filed suit in Houston yesterday,
asking a federal court to stop the Federal Emergency Management Agency
from ending housing benefits for tens of thousands of people who fled
the flooding of Hurricane Katrina.

2,000 Gallons of Oil Spilled Near Oahu 21 May 2006 An oil tanker
spilled up to 2,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean on
Saturday morning, an official said.

Bonds Hits 714th Homer, Ties Ruth --Giants Slugger Is 41 Short of
Aaron's Record 21 May 2006 When Barry Bonds finally hit his 714th home
run Saturday, it was a warm, cloudy afternoon, and most of the 35,077
people in attendance rose to cheer him. Bonds jogged purposefully
around the bases, stepped on home plate, then gently kissed the San
Francisco Giants batboy, his 16-year-old son Nikolai, on the cheek.

[20 May lead stories:] Drop dead day (Capitol Hill Blue) 19 May 2006
"...Truthout [puke] and reporter [sic] Jason Leopold, who started this
whole [Karl] Rove-watch with an as-yet unproven 'scoop' seven days ago
claiming Rove had already been indicted, keep saying time will prove
them right and hint that today may be the day they are vindicated... On
Democratic Underground, where anything published by Truthout is treated
as gospel, an increasing number of clockers and watchers now say today
is the drop-dead date for an indictment and, if one doesn't come down,
they want answers from Leopold and the web site that published his
story. Writes a poster on DU: 'I'll never read Truthout again. That
site has let us down and this Leopold character is fool. If he had any
integrity he would accept responsibility for his screwups and not try
to make up conspiracy theories blaming other people for his failure.
That goes for us all.'" [After today, we expect "Truth Out" to change
its name to "Lies Out." The rush to steal other people's work has
finally cost them their undeserved reputation for 'breaking news.' The
only thing they 'break' is copyright law, every time they reproduce a
story on their site. --MDR]

U.S. sending additional troops to Iraq 19 May 2006 ABC News has learned
additional U.S. troops are being deployed to Iraq. Pentagon officials
tell ABC news that two battalions -- about 1,300 troops -- are moving
into Iraq from Kuwait. With the additional troops, there will be more
than 134,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

US lawmaker says 24 Iraqi civilians killed in 2005 incident 19 May
2006 The civilian death toll in an incident involving American troops
in Iraq last year could be about 24, a U.S. congressman said on Friday.
Two days ago, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) said that, "They [U.S. troops]
actually went into the houses and killed women and children. And there
was about twice as many as originally reported by Time." He said there
was no firefight.

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From: John Leonard <jpleonard@verizon.net>
Date: May 20, 2006 11:06:44 AM EST
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] Pentagon Video should show 6 Frames of Boeing
before Hit, says Publisher of "9/11 Synthetic Terror"
Reply-To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com

http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200605/1148141216.html

Pentagon Video should show 6 Frames of Boeing before Hit, says
Publisher of "9/11 Synthetic Terror".
Plane takes up to half a second to travel its own length at ground
speed -- enough for camera to show several full, clear images before
explosion, he asserts.

Washington, DC, May 20th, 2006. Amid massive publicity, the government
released a few more frames of footage allegedly showing the crash of a
Boeing 757 at the Pentagon on September 11, 2002 last week.

One point has not been made in the debate, says John Leonard,
publisher of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, which he calls the
most radical 9/11 critique in print.

The ground speed of the plane has been estimated at 250 to 350 miles
per hour.

That equals 360 to 500 feet per second.

The Boeing 757 measures 155 feet.

For the plane to travel its own length, approximately the width of the
field of vision in the video, would take 0.3 to 0.43 seconds.

Most cameras take 24 frames per second. So there should be 7 to 8
frames showing the plane approaching the building before it hits.

What does Leonard himself believe about the Pentagon? He says it was
probably sleight of hand, the simple first trick any apprentice
magician learns. A large plane may have approached the building in a
diversionary maneuver, to fool the witnesses, then avoided it by flying
over it -- the building is quite low. The object striking the building
was probably a cruise missile. Such missiles may fly at around 1,800
mph near the surface, making them hard to see.

"9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA" proposes the thesis that 9/11 was
an inside job by a war faction within the government, heirs of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Lemnitzer, who signed off on the 1962
Operation Northwoods scheme to shoot down a plane and blame it on Cuba
to fabricate a pretext to invade that country. The author Webster
Griffin Tarpley, like Leonard, believes that there were no Arab
hijackers; he says they were patsies or decoys who were framed to
invent a pretext to invade Arab countries.

The government could reply that security cameras only take one frame
per second. However, there were many more cameras trained on the spot
-- some reports say as many as 80 -- with all footage being confiscated
by the FBI. "Why are we only getting a few more frames from the same
old footage released 4 years ago?" Leonard asks.

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From: David West <davidgordonwest@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: May 20, 2006 10:12:22 AM EST
To: prez@usa-exile.org, "american_secrets@yahoogroups.com"
<american_secrets@yahoogroups.com>, "big-medicine@yahoogroups.com"
<big-medicine@yahoogroups.com>,
"educate-yourself_forum@yahoogroups.com"
<educate-yourself_forum@yahoogroups.com>,
"gettitoffyourchest2@yahoogroups.com"
<gettitoffyourchest2@yahoogroups.com>, "leftwing@yahoogroups.com"
<leftwing@yahoogroups.com>, "pepis@yahoogroups.com"
<pepis@yahoogroups.com>, "politicsandspiritnetwork@yahoogroups.com"
<politicsandspiritnetwork@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Fwd: Chile...this sounds terrible!!

Dear friends who care about our earth.
Judge for�yourself if you want to take action.�

In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile
runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers.� Water is a
most precious resource, and wars will be� fought for
it.� Indigenous farmers use the water, there is no
unemployment, and they provide the second largest
source of income for the area.� Under the glaciers has
been found a huge deposit of� gold, silver and other
minerals. To get at these, it� would be necessary to
break, to destroy� the glaciers - something never
conceived of in the� history of the world - and to
make 2 huge holes, each as big as a whole mountain,
one for extraction� and one for the mine's rubbish
tip.� The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company
is� called Barrick Gold.� The operation is planned by
a multi-national company,� one of whose members is
George Bush Senior. The Chilean Government has
approved the project to� start this year, 2006.� The only
reason it hasn't started yet is because the� farmers have
got a temporary stay of execution.� If they destroy the
glaciers, they will not just�destroy the source of
specially pure water, but they�will permanently
contaminate the 2 rivers so they will never again be
fit for human or animal�consumption because of the
use of cyanide and� sulphuric acid in the extraction
process.� Every last gramme of gold will go abroad to
the� multinational company and not one will be left
with� the people whose land it is. They will only� be
left with the poisoned water and the resulting
illnesses.� The farmers have been fighting a long time
for their�land, but have been forbidden
to make a TV appeal by a�ban from the Ministry of the Interior.
Their only hope now of putting brakes on this project
is to get help from international justice. The world
must know what is happening in Chile. The� only place
to start changing the world is from here.� We ask you to
circulate this message amongst your
friends in the following way. Please copy this text,
paste it into a new email adding your� signature and send
it to everyone in your address book.

Please will the 100th person to receive and sign�the
petition send it to noapascualama@yahoo.ca
to�be forwarded to the Chilean government.

NO TO PASCUA LAMA OPEN-CAST MINE IN THE ANDEAN
CORDILLERA ON THE CHILEAN-ARGENTING FRONTIER

We ask the Chilean Government not to authorize the
Pascua Lama project to protect the whole of 3
glaciers, the purity of the water of the San Felix
Valley and El Transito, the quality of the
agricultural land of the region of Atacama, the
quality of life of the Diaguita people and of the
whole population of the region.�

SIGNATURE ----CITY -------- COUNTRY---------

1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK�
2) Laura Cole, London, UK�
3) David Platt, London, UK�
4) Diane Platt, Manchester, UK
5) Tanya Corker, Manchester, UK�
6) Claire Colvine, Liverpool, UK.�
7) Charles Williams, Liverpool, UK�
8) Mary Williams, Manchester, UK�
9)Sarah Wettenhall, Melbourne, Australia�
10] Mary Moore, Healesville, Australia
11) Jocelyn Harvey, Madrid, Spain�
12) Michelle Campbell, Vancouver, Canada
13) Lynn Irving, Westport, NZ�
14) Glenn Irving, Westport, NZ�
15) Kate
Dermer, Raglan, NZ�
16) Joanna McKay, Raglan, NZ�
17). Anna Bartlett, palma, spain.�
18) Hamish Moeller, Taupo, NZ !�
19) andreas eggmann, chamonix, france�
20) jackie ke eble, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
21) Simon Fritchley, Mount Maunganui, NZ.
22) Abi Cross, Plymouth, UK�
23) Kirsteen Ruffell, London UK
24) Julian Drummond, Isle of Wight, UK
25) Serena Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
26) Angela Gower-Johnson, Isle of Wight, UK
27)� Jesuriel Senechal, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA�
28)� Alexander Phelps, Miami Beach, FL, USA�
29)Christopher Costa, Keaau,HI,USA
30) Nicole Brady, Danbury,CT USA
31) Taryn Gurgol, Haiku, HI USA
32) Brian Igersheim, Haiku, HI USA
33) Susan Ahrayna Zakos, Ithaca, NY USA
34) Anesti Zakos, Ithaca, NY USA�
35)Meredith Mickelson, Ithaca, NY USA�
36) Susan Blakney, Skaneateles, NY USA�
37) Linda Fairbairn,
Brisbane, Australia
38) Megan Breid, Peregian Beach,Australia.
39) Errol and Fionna Wood, Bellingen, Australia.�
40)� Sharon and Tony MacNevin, Queenscliff NSW
Australia.
41) Sally Hunter, Bellingen NSW, Australia.
42) Fiona Crosskill, Bellingen, NSW, Australia
43) Wendy Stevens, Totnes, UK
44) Graham Stevens, Totnes, UK
45} Jamie Sermon, Totnes, UK��
46} Mike Sermon, Totnes, UK��
47) Alan Payne, Totnes, UK��
48) Claire Gobeau, Totnes, UK��
49) Francesca Bourne, Totnes, UK
50) Liz Thomas, Brighton, UK
51) Tricia Reilly, Madrid, Spain
52) Fiona Smith, UK/Greece
53)David West, UK/China
54) Keith Lampe, US/Bolivia

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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: May 21, 2006 12:08:33 AM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Iran's oil exchange to trade oil for euros, not dollars

Iran's oil exchange to trade oil for euros, not dollars

http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/14-05-2006/80261-iran_oil-0

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On the 5th of May Iran registered its Oil Exchange, which will become
the fifth Stock Exchange of its kind in the world.�Other exchanges
operate in New York, London, Singapore and Tokyo. Which exact
companies will be allowed to trade at this Exchange is, like the
official opening, still unknown. Yet the Iranian Exchange will be
unique, as all trading will be conducted in Euros. On the already
functioning Stock Exchanges business is conducted in dollars and,
because of this, the specific term �petrodollars� came into use. If the
Iranian Petroleum Exchange allows the major oil companies to trade on
its floor then the dollar seriously risks losing its position in the
world market. This is a possibility that many experts already consider
very plausible.

Will the situation change on the World Oil Market? How will the
opening of the Oil Exchange affect the rate of the dollar?

The present happenings in the Oil Market are already well known � the
price of oil will continue to grow. But what changes will occur with
the creation of the new Exchange? From now on will all the oil have to
be purchased from the Iranian Exchange? With the opening of the new
exchange neither the price of milk will rise nor will it decrease in
quantity. This is a fully political gesture on the part of Iran.

As concerns the introduction of trading with the euro, this
corresponds perfectly with the present direction of the world economy:
the dollar falls and the euro gets stronger.

If we compare the presumed turnover of the Iranian Exchange and the
full turnover of the economy of the USA we will see that the same
mistakes are still being made. The dollar will continue to fall while
the price continues to grow on oil. The growth will continue as long as
American pursues its present political agenda. The USA of course has
its dividends - to raise the competitiveness of its own goods.

Iran declares that with the opening of the Exchange it hopes to reduce
the influence of America on its own economy and the economy of the
region. But can it achieve this?

At present the USA has practically no influence on Iran and its
economy. In turn Iran does not have the potential to influence USA
politics. Therefore, from the Iranian perspective, they are prepared to
make their different political declarations and gestures. The end,
however, is easy to miscalculate. It could lead to the liquidation of
Iran�s atomic aspirations.

So the creation of this new Exchange, the games of Iran, in which they
continue to play, will carry on until Uncle Sam decides to put his foot
down, for when he does, the games will soon come to an end.

Will Iran gain any profit from the opening of the new Oil Exchange?

Undoubtedly Iran has the potential for economic profit. Yet the
creation of the Exchange will, however, not play a defining role in the
in the Iranian economy, with or without the euro Iran has its own
political agenda and economic motives have, for a long time, not played
a very important role. One main concern is that Iran is governed, not
only by political motives, but by deeply rooted religious ones as well.

�

Russia has now to adjust its focus of attention from the economic area
to the political. By this I mean her new political energy agenda.

What�s more, these new events will, in no way, have an affect on the
world�s economic direction. Just as the prices on oil and gas have
grown, so they will continue to grow.

How long will the rise in energy prices continue?

This will eventually lead towards a crisis that will hit the economy of
the oil producing countries. To begin with, I think, it will quickly
strike the developing countries such as China and India, followed later
by Europe and the USA.

At this very moment we are seeing the same crisis, only in a slower
from, that already occurred when the Arabian countries established an
embargo. Now it is just on a larger scale, though, in reality, it is
the same thing.

The point is not that the �world does not have sufficient oil� for
this simply isn�t true. World supplies of oil will last us yet many
more years, but for the West there exists the problem of Iran, problems
of the new Latin American countries, terrorism from the East, Russia,
and the constant concerns of energy which still leave the West feeling
very insecure. And all these problems are coming from the very
countries that provide the west with its energy.

The price, therefore, continues to rise but in reality a barrel of oil
is still sold at a cheap price.

However, the desire to reduce the consumption of oil in order to find
different sources of energy does still not exist, despite the fact that
these alternatives are now ready for development. The problem of
thermal reactors is still being dealt with very ineffectively, while
the use of other forms of energy are inexhaustible, and could help
solve the present energy problem. In theory this is a task that will be
decided in the next century.

There is, of course, the possibility to use hydrate methane, another
powerful source of energy, and, if it were developed and used
effectively, would provide the same amount of energy reserves as oil
and gas combined.

So in fact there are solutions to the present day problems, only there
is not the political desire to realize them.

And when the political situation reaches its peak, when Iran and Saudi
Arabia decide to shut off the supply to the west, then it will be the
west that will have to find and develop these alternative fuel sources.

Politcom

Translated by Guerman Grachev
Pravda.Ru

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Chavez on "the
so-called American way of life" -
Viva Chavez,
by Mike Whitney

{sorry, I mistakenly edited out the Sender & Date of this article -
Peter Myers.}
May 19, 2006

http://mparent7777.livejournal.com/8699848.html?mode=reply

Hugo Chavez is a self-made man. He wasn't piggy-backed into Harvard on
a legacy grant (Affirmative Action for plutocrats) or shoehorned into
the White House by corporate gangsters. He grew up in a two-room
thatched palm-leaf house with his five siblings and dreamt of moving to
New York to play baseball for the Yankees. At age 18 he chose to make
the most of his meager opportunities by enlisting in the military.

For 17 years, Chavez served his country; gradually moving up the chain
of command to lieutenant colonel. Unlike his American counterpart, GW
Bush, Chavez never went AWOL during wartime or stumbled through years
of idle profligacy peering at the world through beer-goggles.

While Bush was busy driving three consecutive companies into insolvency
and fattening his bank account with the loot from insider-trading
scams, Chavez was putting together the Revolutionary Bolivarian
Movement; a leftist political organization which promoted
redistribution and civil rights.

Chavez was lifted to the presidency on the backs of peasants and
working-class people while Bush was selected by 5 venal judges who
repealed the democratic process and suspended the counting of ballots.

The differences between the two men go on and on. It is an interesting
study in contrasts and one that is particularly relevant to the
deteriorating state of world affairs. So far, Bush's views have carried
the day; the global superpower is free to act unilaterally and without
concern for either international law or basic standards of decency.

Chavez, however, has presented a competing vision of global
integration, collective action, and participatory democracy. His
world-view is clearly ascendant.

"Capitalism is barbarism," Chavez says; a point that is persuasively
driven home in the daily accounts of butchery in Iraq, Afghanistan or
Haiti. In Bush-world the mounting death toll is simply the price of
opening new markets like the cheerful ringing of a cash register. Its
no wonder the system is collapsing all around him. Chavez has taken the
lead in denouncing Bush and the system that supports him:

"For the horror it has created around the world in the last century,
the United States' war machine should be dismantled. It is a threat
against all of mankind, particularly against our children."

He has wisely taken aim at Bush, an indigent patrician without any
identifiable qualifications, as the foremost symbol of a system run
amok:

"The worst genocidal leader in the history of humanity is the President
of the United States. Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to
George W Bush. He is a terrorist, a drunkard, and a donkey".

The stark contrast of the two men's personalities has been a boon to
Chavez. Even the feeble attacks by the media have only enhanced his
popularity and strengthened his case for socialism:

"This model, the so called American way of life, the extreme
capitalism, is not sustainable, life on this planet will come to an end
if we continue down this road, that is why we are motivated to seek
socialism and abandon capitalism, the individualism, the selfish
consumerism, the so called destructive development that is destroying
this planet, we are all in danger, and not so much us, our children and
grandchildren."

Chavez has been a thumb in the eye of the Bush Empire. His criticism of
America's duplicitous foreign policy resonates with poor and working
class people alike.

Presently, he is meeting with leaders of Libya and Algeria (supposedly)
to discuss "increased cooperation on oil production" and to develop
"social programs for the poor based on oil revenues". Chavez has
initiated similar programs at home, but he is using his increased
visibility to publicly denounce Bush and American foreign policy:

"We are against America, the imperialist. We don't accept its hegemony.
The whole world should unite against America."

Chavez's trip comes at a time when there are renewed fears of an attack
on Iran. Could it be that the Venezuelan president is actually working
behind the scenes to stem the flow of oil if Iran is bombed? Or, maybe
he is orchestrating a "run on the dollar" (transfer to euros) which
Russia and Venezuela have already threatened? Whatever the plan, he has
vehemently condemned the administration's hostility to Iran while other
nations continue to cringe.

"The world needs to do everything possible to avoid the madness of a
military attack against Iran. We call upon the government of the United
States to halt its warmongering, which will throw the world into an
abyss of more wars, more terrorism, more death, and more desolation.
Europe has a very important role to play in this, and instead of
supporting this war, it should help to stop it."

Chavez has been equally blunt in his criticism of the war in Iraq. In
an interview with British Channel 4 he was asked what he would do if he
was living in occupied Iraq. Chavez answered:

"If I was an Iraqi I would be resisting. I would be in the trenches; I
would have a rocket-launcher; I would be defending the holy sovereignty
of my country against the abuses and oppression of the empire."

His sense of moral clarity is a reprieve from the evasive gibberish of
other world leaders who try to soften their rhetoric so they don't
offend Washington.

In the same interview Chavez was asked (disdainfully) why people
outside of his country "think he is crazy"?

Chavez responded, "If those people think I'm crazy, well, God forgive
them, because they are victims of a media campaign. I am just a human
being like you; no more, no less. But, I am totally devoted to this
cause of equality and justice to see if we can save this planet ... The
great crazy guy is I Washington, not here."

Chavez is slowly transforming Venezuelan politics and making
significant headway in areas of redistribution and social welfare. The
country's 25 million people now have full access to free health care
and illiteracy has been eliminated. Government programs now provide 15
million people with subsidized food, medicine and other essentials.
Medical clinics have sprung up in every barrio in Caracas and college
enrollment has increased exponentially.

Chavez has created a model of governance that is based on human needs
rather than rigid ideology. This has made it more difficult to
discredit him as dogmatic or authoritarian. His policies of income
redistribution have created a burgeoning Venezuelan middle class which
is changing the political dynamic throughout Latin America. He has
become Washington's "biggest nightmare" and a threat to America's
economic dominance in the region.

"Let's consider socialism," Chavez said. "Let's debate it and build it.
I believe that mistakes were in the economic analysis, and there should
be social praxis. 21st century socialism should be based on solid human
values."

No one has done more to reenergize the Left than Hugo Chavez. He
hasbecome the face of anti-imperialism and the champion of progressive
socialism. His views on education, poverty-reduction, social justice,
and the equitable distribution of oil revenues are sweeping the
hemisphere; brushing aside centuries of colonialism.

The politics of personal accumulation and perennial war are on the
decline. Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come. As Chavez says,
"We must embrace a new type of socialism, a humanist one, which puts
humans, not machines and not the state, above everything".

This century's Enlightenment is coming from south of the border.

Viva Chavez.

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Monsanto Develops "Genetically Modified Pig"

The patenting of livestock

By Chris Gupta
May 20, 2006

Chris Gupta

Editor's Note: Greenpeace has covered this issue in several 2005
reports, when Monsanto launched the GM pigs Patent

"The Earth is flat, pigs were invented by Monsanto, and genetically
modified organisms are safe. Right."

Through more patent perversions such as the earlier "Terminator
Corporations' Suicide Seeds" Monsanto is blatantly continuing their
scheme of rounding up the food chain from A to Z!

"One way or another, Monsanto wants to make sure no food is grown that
they don't own -- and the record shows they don't care if it's safe for
the environment or not. Monsanto has aggressively set out to bulldoze
environmental concerns about its genetically engineered (GE) seeds at
every regulatory level. So why stop in the field? Not content to own
the pesticide and the herbicide and the crop, they've made a move on
the barnyard by filing two patents which would make the corporate giant
the sole owner of that famous Monsanto invention: the pig. "

"The big picture is chilling to anyone who mistrusts Monsanto's record
disinterest for environmental safety. And if you're not worried, you
should be: central control of food supply has been a standard
ingredient for social and political control throughout history. By
creating a monopoly position, Monsanto can force dangerous experiments
like the release of GMOs into the environment on an unwilling
public.They can ensure that GMOs will be sold and consumed wherever
they say they will."

Such blatant abuse can only continue if it is not challenged.
Unfortunately, the typical lack of response from the masses and the
idle government oversight is precisely why these perversions occur and
continue. Sadly the only way to counter these shenanigans is to
collectively and openly flaunt these patents ...

Monsanto Files Patent for New Invention: The Pig - The original is here

It's official. Monsanto Corporation is out to own the world's food
supply, the dangers of genetic engineering and reduced biodiversity
notwithstanding, as they pig-headedly set about hog-tying farmers with
their monopoly plans. We've discovered chilling new evidence of this in
recent patents that seek to establish ownership rights over pigs and
their offspring. In the crop department, Monsanto is well on their way
to dictating what consumers will eat, what farmers will grow, and how
much Monsanto will get paid for seeds. In some cases those seeds are
designed not to reproduce sowable offspring. In others, a flock of
lawyers stand ready to swoop down on farmers who illegally, or even
unknowingly, end up with Monsanto's private property growing in their
fields.

One way or another, Monsanto wants to make sure no food is grown that
they don't own -- and the record shows they don't care if it's safe for
the environment or not. Monsanto has aggressively set out to bulldoze
environmental concerns about its genetically engineered (GE) seeds at
every regulatory level. So why stop in the field? Not content to own
the pesticide and the herbicide and the crop, they've made a move on
the barnyard by filing two patents which would make the corporate giant
the sole owner of that famous Monsanto invention: the pig.

The Monsanto Pig (Patent pending) . . . The patent applications were
published in February 2005 at the World Intellectual Property
Organisation (WIPO) in Geneva. A Greenpeace researcher who monitors
patent applications, Christoph Then, uncovered the fact that Monsanto
is seeking patents not only on methods of breeding, but on actual
breeding herds of pigs as well as the offspring that result. "If these
patents are granted, Monsanto can legally prevent breeders and farmers
from breeding pigs whose characteristics are described in the patent
claims, or force them to pay royalties," says Then. "It's a first step
toward the same kind of corporate control of an animal line that
Monsanto is aggressively pursuing with various grain and vegetable
lines."

There are more than 160 countries and territories mentioned where the
patent is sought including Europe, the Russian Federation, Asia (India,
China, Philippines) America (USA, Brazil, Mexico), Australia and New
Zealand. WIPO itself can only receive applications, not grant patents.
The applications are forwarded to regional patent offices.

The patents are based on simple procedures, but are incredibly broad
in their claims. In one application (WO 2005/015989 to be precise)
Monsanto is describing very general methods of crossbreeding and
selection, using artificial insemination and other breeding methods
which are already in use. The main "invention" is nothing more than a
particular combination of these elements designed to speed up the
breeding cycle for selected traits, in order to make the animals more
commercially profitable. (Monsanto chirps gleefully about lower fat
content and higher nutritional value. But we've looked, and we couldn't
find any "Philanthropic altruism" line item in their annual reports,
despite the fact that it's an omnipresent factor in their advertising.)
According to Then, "I couldn't belive this. I've been reviewing patents
for 10 years, and I had to read this three times. Monsanto isn't just
seeking a patent for the method, they are seeking a patent on the
actual pigs which are bred from this method. It's an astoundingly broad
and dangerous claim."

Good breeding always shows . . . Take patent application WO
2005/017204. This refers to pigs in which a certain gene sequence
related to faster growth is detected. This is a variation on a natural
occurring sequence -- Monsanto didn't invent it. It was first
identified in mice and humans. Monsanto wants to use the detection of
this gene sequence to screen pig populations, in order to find which
animals are likely to produce more pork per pound of feed. (And that
will be Monsanto Brand genetically-engineered feed grown from Monsanto
Brand genetically-engineered seed raised in fields sprayed with
Monsanto Brand Roundup Ready herbicide and doused with Monsanto Brand
pesticides, of course).

But again, Monsanto wants to own not just the selection and breeding
method, not just the information about the genetic indicators, but, if
you pardon the expression, the whole hog.

Claim 16 asks for a patent on: "A pig offspring produced by a method
..."
Claim 17 asks for a patent on: "A pig herd having an increased
frequency of a specific ...gene..."
Claim 23 asks for a patent on: "A pig population produced by the
method..."
Claim 30 asks for a patent on: "A swine herd produced by a method..."

This means the pigs, their offspring, and the use of the genetic
information for breeding will be entirely owned by Monsanto, Inc., and
any replication or infringement of their patent by man or beast will
mean royalties or jail for the offending swine.

Not pig fodder . . . When it comes to profits, pigs are big. Monsanto
notes that "The economic impact of the industry in rural America is
immense. Annual farm sales typically exceed US$ 11 billion, while the
retail value of pork sold to consumers reaches US$ 38 billion each
year."

At almost every level of food production, Monsanto is seeking a
monopoly position. The company once earned its money almost exclusively
through agrochemicals. But in the last ten years they've spent about
US$ 10 billion buying up seed producers and companies in other sectors
of the agricultural business. Their last big acquisition was Seminis,
the biggest producer of vegetable seeds in the world.

Monsanto holds extremely broad patents on seeds . . . most, but not
all of them, related to Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMOs). Monsanto
has also claimed patent rights on such non-Monsanto inventions as
traditionally-bred wheat from India and soy plants from China. Many of
these patents apply not only to the use of seeds but all uses of the
plants and harvest that result.

Orwellian: "The Earth is flat, pigs were invented by Monsanto, and
GMOs are safe." The big picture is chilling to anyone who mistrusts
Monsanto's record disinterest for environmental safety. And if you're
not worried, you should be: central control of food supply has been a
standard ingredient for social and political control throughout
history. By creating a monopoly position, Monsanto can force dangerous
experiments like the release of GMOs into the environment on an
unwilling public.They can ensure that GMOs will be sold and consumed
wherever they say they will.

By claiming global monopoly patent rights throughout the entire food
chain, Monsanto seeks to make farmers and food producers, and
ultimately consumers, entirely dependent and reliant on one single
corporate entity for a basic human need. It's the same dependence that
Russian peasants had on the Soviet Government following the Russian
revolution. The same dependence that French peasants had on Feudal
kings during the middle ages. But control of a significant proportion
of the global food supply by a single corporation would be
unprecedented in human history.

It's time to ensure that doesn't happen. It's time for a global ban of
patents on seeds and farm animals. It's time to tell Monsanto we've had
enough of this hogwash. -Brian Thomas Fitzgerald

Tell Monsanto to stop patenting life.

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Inflated Terrorism - Propaganda Lies
Exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into
supporting a global police state.

by Peter Phillips
May 20, 2006

Project Censored

The Bush administration is paltering to the American public with
exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into
supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases and
a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US military
has become the new supreme-power force repressing "terrorism"
everywhere.

Vice President Dick Cheney's keynote address at the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference March 7, 2006 is a
telling example of neo-conservative global dominance thought in the
current administration. Here are his exact words, "Israel, and the
United States, and all civilized nations will win the war on terror. To
prevail in this fight, we must understand the nature of the enemy. �as
America experienced on September 11th, 2001, the terrorist enemy is
brutal and heartless. This enemy wears no uniform, has no regard for
the rules of warfare, and is unconstrained by any standard of decency
or morality�.The terrorists want to end all American and Western
influence in the Middle East. Their goal in that region is to seize
control of a country, so they have a base from which to launch attacks
and wage war against governments that do not meet their demands
ultimately to establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses a region
from Spain, across North Africa, through the Middle East and South
Asia, all the way around to Indonesia."

Cheney claims that evil terrorists everywhere are plotting for the ruin
of "civilized" nations. In order to stop them we must militarily
control all the regions they are threatening in a permanent global war.
Cheney's military empire, set to prevail over the totalitarian
terrorists, will inevitably expand global resistance to US domination.
Large coalitions of freedom fighters, fundamentalists, patriots,
religious zealots, nationalists, and ideologues of various beliefs will
emerge from within the regions the US occupies.

Widespread resistance is exactly what is happening in Iraq. Le Monde
Diplomatique on May 2, 2006 described the Iraq insurgents - terrorists
to Cheney - as "armed opposition often divided into a set of wholly
independent categories which apparently do not have much in common. The
categories include the patriotic former army officers, the foreign
terrorists, the Sunni Arabs determined to regain power, the Muslims
opposed to any kind of foreign occupation, the tribal factions pursuing
their own specific vendettas, the die-hard Ba'athists - and the
"pissed-off" Iraqis (in coalition soldier jargon, POIs) who are simply
sick of the foreign forces occupying their country."

For Cheney and other global dominance neo-conservatives, the terrorist
label is so broad that it can be applied to any individual, group, or
nation that resists US military occupations, US threats, or US
corporate interests anywhere in the world. In reality, the US military
is the world's foremost totalitarian force.

Three years ago I met a Dutch journalist, Willem Oltman, at the
International Campaign Against US Aggression on Iraq in Cairo, Egypt.
Oltman described his teen years during World War II in the Dutch
resistance movement. "The Nazi's called us terrorists," he exclaimed.
"Now as the US invades and occupies other countries you do the same
thing," he added.

Maintaining an US military global police force enriches defense
contractors and enflames resistance. There is no worldwide terrorism
threat other than the one we create when we make war on other peoples.
Addressing world poverty, sickness, and environmental issues will go
much further in preventing single acts of terrorism inside the United
States than any military actions we can muster. It is time to challenge
the neo-conservative global dominance agenda and stand up for human
rights and the traditional American values of grass-roots democracy,
due process, governmental transparency, and individual freedoms for
ourselves and the rest of the world.

Peter Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University
and director of Project Censored a media research group.
www.projectcensored.org . He is co-editor with Dennis Loo of the
forthcoming book, Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and
Cheney, from Seven Stories Press, summer 2006.

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From: "paul illich" <paul_illich@hotmail.com>
Date: May 20, 2006 9:06:43 AM EST
To: bluegreenearth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bluegreenearth] fwd: Oklahoma - Wheat prices soar as crops
wane

http://newsok.com/article/1847672/?template=business/main

Wheat prices soar as crops wane

By Jim Stafford
The Oklahoman

Here is the upside to Oklahoma's smallest
projected wheat crop in half a century:
dramatically higher prices.
Futures prices on the Kansas City Board of
Trade hit a nine-year high of $5.14 per bushel
during the trading day Thursday before settling
back to $5.06 at the close.

Cash prices in Oklahoma were in a range of
$4.59 to $4.87 per bushel, but state prices track
those on the Kansas City trading board, said Mike
Cassidy, president of Cassidy Grain in Frederick.
Oklahoma wheat prices heading into the harvest
often hover just above or below the $3 per bushel
mark. The downside to higher prices is that many
Oklahoma farmers will have no wheat to sell into a
strong market, Cassidy said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture statisticians
have projected Oklahoma's wheat harvest at 68
million bushels, the lowest since 43 million
bushels were harvested in 1957.

"The price is high, but we don't have any
bushels to sell at that price, but that's why it's
high," Cassidy said of the catch-22 situation in
which Oklahoma wheat growers find themselves.

"Basically, in Tillman County we are in
ground zero," he said. "We are only going to cut
10 percent of the acres that were planted. So we
are probably as bad as it gets locally."

The harvest already has begun in
southwestern Oklahoma.

It will end quickly, Cassidy said.

"We've probably received 5,000 or 6,000
bushels, and I feel like we are winding it up," he
said.

Mike Rosen called the price situation a
"double-edged sword." Rosen is manager of Wheeler
Bros. Grain Co. in Kingfisher, where he expects
farmers to harvest about 75 percent of their
planted acres.

"We're kind of in a garden spot in
Kingfisher County compared to other parts of the
state," Rosen said. "Not that that's good. It
beats what Cassidy has down at Frederick."

Rosen said consumers should consider that
wheat prices at Kingfisher were $4.78 on Thursday,
less than $1 per bushel over what they were in
1974.

"Stop and think what you paid for an
automobile 30 years ago, your house 30 years ago
or what people spend on their food budget," he
said. "It's unbelievable how cheap wheat is
compared to what everything else is."

It's all fueled by supply and demand and the
number of wheat producing countries who are
competing with the United States, he said.

"Everybody raises hard red winter wheat,"
Rosen said.

Kim Anderson, a marketing economist at
Oklahoma State University, said state wheat prices
remain far below their historical highs. The cash
price topped $7 per bushel in 1996, he said.

"We could approach it again, but I think it's
going to take more than a short crop in the United
States," Anderson said. "World wheat production is
going to have to be lower than it's currently
forecast to be."

World wheat stocks are projected to be 4.7
billion bushels at the end of the 2006-2007
marketing year, he said. That's below the
five-year average of 5.8 billion bushels but still
above the ending stocks of 5.6 billion bushels for
the 1995-1996 crop year, he said.

"We need to lose another 75 million bushels
for prices to get up to the $7 per bushel (range)
or go higher, or we need the world ending stocks
to go down," Anderson said.

There's always next year, said Troy Rigel
with Johnston Grain Co. in Enid. Futures prices
for July 2007 are well above $5 per bushel, which
means there is some hope for Oklahoma farmers who
survive the drought of 2006, he said.

"That translates into more wheat acres being
planted, more fertilizer being put down, better
farming practices because they are farming for a
$5 wheat price," Rigel said. "Typically when we
see a $5 wheat price, the next year's crop is
priced at about $3.50. This year the market is
acting a little differently."

Farmers can plant next year's crop and then
lock in a price they will receive through forward
contracts, Rigel said. The downside to that? If
they harvest fewer bushels than what they have
contracted to deliver, they will have to make up
the difference.

"It is given an opportunity to sell next
year's wheat at some very lucrative numbers,"
Rigel said. "That never happens, but it is this
year. I guess I will have to stop using the word
'never.'"

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Message 2
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 8:43am(PDT)
Subject: Re: Rice knew..

Wanted this to happen?

More like she didn�t want a friend to die as a causality in an operation
that was about to be implemented. Exxon Condoleezza Rice was about to get
filthy rich off of 9/11.

Scott

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Subject: [911TruthAction] Rice knew..

Monday, Aug. 11, 2003
Condoleeza Rice Warned Willie Brown Not To Fly On 9-11. Bush administration
foreknowledge of 9-11 hijackings confirmed by condoleezza Rice herself.
Rice has a lot of deep official SF connections besides Chevron: Charles
Schwab, Transamerica Corporation, KQED.
Trivia question: What mayor of a major west coast city claimed just hours
after 9-11 that he'd been warned not to fly the week of 9-11 by what he
described as his 'airport security.' None other than Willie Brown!
Details:
http://propagandamatrix.com/willie_brown_got_low_key_early_warning.html
<http://propagandamatrix.com/willie_brown_got_low_key_early_warning.html>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/1
2> /MN229389.DTL
Think about it. Where else on earth would Brown get the message not to fly
on a particular day? The airport says there was no advisory in place.
Note that when asked, Brown clammed up as to the source.
Searching...
On May 17, 2002, Pacifica Radio reported that Rice was the source of the
call to Brown.
See side bar:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Bush_knew2.html
<http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Bush_knew2.html>
So in case you missed it:
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS CONDOLEEZZA
RICE CALLED A FRIEND THE DAY BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11TH AND TOLD HIM TO STAY OUT
OF THE AIR THAT WEEK.
Got that?
It's enough to make you believe they WANTED this to happen. It's the only
thing that Bush could get a higher approval rating for, deaths of thousands
and then thousands more as he hid behind his fake patriotism

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From: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 0:23pm(PDT)
Subject: Fw: Christopher Bollyn: Controlling the Message -- The mainstream m

Rodriguez, a janitor who helped rescue many people from the burning tower, stayed in the building from the time it was hit until immediately before it was demolished. His observations of what happened in the tower make him an important witness about the events at the World Trade Center. However, when Rodriguez testified before the 9-11 Commission not one word of his testimony was included in its final report. Having known Rodriguez for a year and having spent many hours with him, this reporter has learned a great deal about the 9-11 attack from his personal observations, most of which he does not speak about publicly. On a recent trip to Venezuela, Rodriguez told American Free Press that he has been advised not to talk about critical evidence that he has personal knowledge of. "I can't talk about the Israeli involvement because it would offend the Jewish families," Rodriguez said, referring to the relatives of Jewish victims. Yet, Rodriguez has important information about the involvement of Israeli intelligence agents in the attacks. For example, he has personal knowledge that Israeli Mossad agents, posing as employees of a moving company in New Jersey, met regularly with some of the Arab terror suspects at a video store a block from his home in Jersey City during the year prior to the attacks. In the afternoon of 9-11, when five Israeli "movers" were arrested in New Jersey after having been observed videotaping and celebrating the attacks on the twin towers, the police sergeant was told not to mention the fact that the men were Israelis, Rodriguez told AFP. Arab clothing had been found in their vehicle, he said. After investigating the five Israelis, the FBI concluded that they had been "conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front," wrote Marc Perelman of The Forward, a leading New York-based Jewish newspaper, in March 2002, citing an un-named "former high-ranking American intelligence official."
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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Christopher Bollyn: Controlling the Message -- The mainstream media can no longer avoid the red-hot 9-11 issues, but rather than presenting all of the facts

From: "Richard Pierce" <phobicflyonthewall@yahoo.com>
To: "911_free_discussion" <911_free_discussion@yahoogroups.com>
May 20, 2006
Subject: Controlling the Message

http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-9-11-Controlling-the-Message.html

9-11: Controlling the Message Christopher Bollyn
19 May 2006
The mainstream media can no longer avoid the red-hot 9-11 issues, such as evidence of pre-planted explosives in the World Trade Center. But rather than presenting all of the facts, the message is being carefully controlled to suppress the evidence of Israeli involvement in the attacks and media complicity in the cover-up.

William Rodriguez, the last person to escape from the North Tower just seconds before it collapsed, is a key 9-11 organizer working on behalf of the victims and their families. His efforts to find the truth about the terror attacks were instrumental in pressuring the reluctant Bush administration to establish the 9-11 Commission. Rodriguez, a janitor who helped rescue many people from the burning tower, stayed in the building from the time it was hit until immediately before it was demolished. His observations of what happened in the tower make him an important witness about the events at the World Trade Center. However, when Rodriguez testified before the 9-11 Commission not one word of his testimony was included in its final report. Having known Rodriguez for a year and having spent many hours with him, this reporter has learned a great deal about the 9-11 attack from his personal observations, most of which he does not speak about publicly. On a recent trip to Venezuela, Rodriguez told American Free Press that he has been advised not to talk about critical evidence that he has personal knowledge of. "I can't talk about the Israeli involvement because it would offend the Jewish families," Rodriguez said, referring to the relatives of Jewish victims. Yet, Rodriguez has important information about the involvement of Israeli intelligence agents in the attacks. For example, he has personal knowledge that Israeli Mossad agents, posing as employees of a moving company in New Jersey, met regularly with some of the Arab terror suspects at a video store a block from his home in Jersey City during the year prior to the attacks. In the afternoon of 9-11, when five Israeli "movers" were arrested in New Jersey after having been observed videotaping and celebrating the attacks on the twin towers, the police sergeant was told not to mention the fact that the men were Israelis, Rodriguez told AFP. Arab clothing had been found in their vehicle, he said. After investigating the five Israelis, the FBI concluded that they had been "conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front," wrote Marc Perelman of The Forward, a leading New York-based Jewish newspaper, in March 2002, citing an un-named "former high-ranking American intelligence official."

www.forward.com/articles/4146 The five Israeli agents: Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, and Yaron Shmuel were arrested eight hours after the attacks by the Bergen County police while driving in an Urban Moving Systems van. The police acted on an FBI alert after the men had been seen celebrating and videotaping the events from the roof of their warehouse and van. Suspicions were compounded when box cutters, multiple passports, and $4,000 in cash were found in the van, which tested positive for explosives. The Israelis had taken pictures of themselves smiling with the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center in the background. In the weeks and months following 9-11, numerous cells of other Mossad "moving" agents were arrested across the nation. In December 2001, Fox News reported that U.S. authorities had detained 60 such "movers" and had arrested or expelled some 120 other Israeli agents, identified as "art students," which were part of an extensive Israeli spy ring attempting to penetrate federal buildings and military facilities. In March 2002, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Israeli art students had probably been monitoring "Al Qaeda operatives."

www.forward.com/articles/4150 Le Monde added that the Israeli spies appear to have been "trailing Al Qaeda members in the United States without informing Washington." More than one-third of the Israelis under investigation lived in Florida, which was the home base for at least 10 of the 19 "hijackers" in the September 11 attacks, Le Monde noted. These facts, Le Monde wrote, support "the thesis according to which Israel did not share with the U.S. all the elements it had about the planning of the September 11 attacks." The French and the Fox News reports were dismissed by Israel and its supporters and received limited coverage in the American media, Perelman noted. American Free Press is the only U.S. newspaper which has reported extensively on these stories. The Israelis were held for two-and-a-half months and deported at the end of November 2001, for "visa violations," although the FBI's counterintelligence investigation had concluded that at least two of them were, in fact, Mossad operatives, according to the former American official, who told The Forward that he had been regularly briefed on the investigation by two separate law enforcement officials. "The assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front for the Mossad and operatives employed by it," he said. "The conclusion of the FBI was that they were spying on local Arabs but that they could leave because they did not know anything about 9/11." What all of the teams of Israeli "movers" had in common was that their vans had tested positive for explosives when the tests had been conducted by the local police authorities. When the Israelis' vehicles were turned over to the FBI, however, the FBI changed the reports to say that there was no evidence that the vehicles had carried explosives. Rodriguez, who was on the first basement level of the North Tower at 8:45 a.m. on 9-11, has often spoken publicly about feeling and hearing a "huge explosion" coming from the lower basement levels moments before the first plane struck the WTC. He recently told AFP that he cannot talk about "explosions," but only about what he heard. The first victim that Rodriguez helped, however, was a man who had been severely burned and injured by what he clearly told Rodriguez were "explosions" in the basement. In return for his co-operation in suppressing evidence of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and the explosions, Rodriguez has apparently been given vague promises of financial stability - and even political office - particularly in the event that Hillary Clinton wins the presidency in 2008. "I will be set for life if Hillary wins," he told AFP, which suggests that the powers behind Clinton are directly involved in the cover-up. On the other hand, countless federal employees, who could provide essential testimony about the attacks, have been gagged by secret letters demanding their silence about what they know, did, saw or heard on 9-11. Into the heavily-censored media environment, numerous independent researchers have brought forth a great deal of evidence disproving the official version and showing that Israeli intelligence agents and their U.S.-based supporters are prime suspects in the crimes of 9-11. In order to draw attention away from this growing truth movement, the controlled media has begun promoting a select group of authors and their books, videos, and websites. What this select group has in common is that their works minimize or completely ignore the evidence of Israeli involvement and point to a variety of other suspects being behind 9-11, such as senior officials in the Bush administration, the Neo-Cons, the Vatican, unnamed Luciferians, or the ever popular "Germanic Death Cult."

Webster G. Tarpley, author of 9-11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, is one of the authors being promoted by the controlled media. As his title suggests, Tarpley's thesis revolves around the Bush administration being behind 9-11 and completely ignores the evidence of Israeli involvement. Likewise, without presenting a single piece of evidence, Tarpley wrote an article claiming that the recent anti-Muslim cartoon scandal instigated by a Danish newspaper had been a "NATO intelligence provocation." The "entire affair has been cynically orchestrated by NATO intelligence agencies to set the stage for a new world war," Tarpley wrote. Rather than embrace the facts and evidence, Hollywood has produced several propaganda television shows and one movie, United 93, to support the seriously flawed official version. Meanwhile, a product of the so-called alternative media, a video about 9-11 called Loose Change, is now being promoted by the mainstream media. As with the others in the media's select group, the producers of Loose Change keep Israeli involvement out of the picture and place the blame for 9-11 squarely on senior officials in the Bush administration. "We don't want to point fingers at Israel for a number of different reasons," the producers of Loose Change said in a recent interview on Air America:

DylanAveryBermasRowe_4_15_2006.mp3 only 166 k bytes Questioned later by Eric Hufschmid, author of Painful Questions; An Analysis of the September 11th Attack, about their views on who was responsible for 9-11, the producers said that the Israeli role was simply one of trying to warn the U.S. about a potential terror attack. While they are well aware of the evidence of Israeli involvement, the producers of Loose Change say it is more important to prosecute members of the Bush administration and worry about other issues later.
www.EricHufschmid.net/Avery-Rowe-Bermas-Hufschmid-phonecall.html A third edition of Loose Change is being prepared for release in movie theaters nationwide this fall, according to the video's producers. Deborah S. Simon received special thanks in the video's credits for providing footage and other help in producing Loose Change. Simon told AFP that she even handed out copies of the video in front of the White House. Who is Deborah Simon, and why is she helping produce and promote Loose Change? Deborah Simon (nee Cox) is married into the billionaire Simon family of Indianapolis. The family owns the Simon Property Group, Inc., which boasts as being the largest U.S. real estate company. The Simon family owns, develops, and manages more than 280 shopping malls in the United States and 50 similar properties in Europe and Japan. The Simon family, strong supporters of Zionist causes, the Clintons, and the Democratic Party, also own the Indiana Pacers basketball team. The
campus of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis is named after Max and Mae Simon, the parents of Melvin, Fred, and Herb. Melvin Simon, the Brooklyn-born founder of the company, also owned a Hollywood production company and produced more than 20 films. Simon is remembered for such films as Porky's, Love at First Bite, and Zorro, the Gay Blade.

As of January 2005, Porky's is still the highest-grossing movie from Canada.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0084522/trivia More notably, Simon has had business partnerships with both Larry Silverstein and the Australian-Israeli billionaire Frank Lowy, the leaseholders of the destroyed World Trade Center. In the late 1980s, Silverstein and Simon developed a mall in Manhattan together, and after 9-11, Simon teamed up with Lowy's Westfield America in an attempt to take over the prestigious retail properties belonging to Taubman Centers, Inc. of Detroit.

Silverstein and Simon both sit on the advisory board of the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College in downtown Manhattan. In addition to supporting the Clintons, the Simon family has provided generous financial support to a number of Indiana senators, governors, and congressmen. Lee H. Hamilton, for example, the retired congressman who came out of retirement to serve as vice chairman of the 9-11 Commission, received a great deal of money from the Simons during his political career. During his 34-year career in Congress, Hamilton served as chairman of several key committees, such as the Committee on International Relations, the Joint Economic Committee, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran. Although he has retired from Congress, Hamilton remains a member of the Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.

As director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Hamilton still receives generous financial support from the Simon family. Birch Bayh, the former senator from Indiana, has been on the board of directors of the Simon Property Group since 1993 when his son, Evan, was governor of the state. The younger Bayh is now a U.S. Senator. Diane Meyer Simon was director and administrator of the elder Bayh's senate office with whom she worked from 1968 to 1981. When Bayh was defeated in 1980, Diane Meyer married the billionaire Herbert Simon in 1981.

(Christopher Bollyn is a journalist who writes for American Free Press of Washington, D.C.)To hear the interview with Bollyn about this article:
Daryl Bradford Smith Interviews Bollyn about Simon Don''t forget to check out Bollyn's previous article about Flight 93:
The Hollywood Fantasy of Flight 93 and interview:
Daryl Bradford Smith Interviews Bollyn about Flight 93

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Message 4
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 1:00pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: Rice knew..

I must concur, there is none of this they knew and let it happen, these fuckheads carried out the operation, this was NO stinkin intelligence failure......the ONLY intelligence failure we had was the stupid gutless american public that bought this god awful bloody horse and pony show for launching wars into places they couldn't point out on a fooking map...........

they let it happen is carefully planted disinformation because it says bush failed america in the whore on terrorism which deceptively legitimizes it as a real threat, its not its a MANUFACTURED THREAT!

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904

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----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Peden <scotpeden@cruzio.com>
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:43:43 AM
Subject: RE: [911TruthAction] Rice knew..

Wanted this to happen?

More like she didn’t want a friend to die as a causality in an operation that was about to be implemented. Exxon Condoleezza Rice was about to get filthy rich off of 9/11.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com [mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bugs
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 5:16 AM
To: 911truthaction@yahoogroups.com; v; FIREBASEVOICE@yahoogroups.com; TennesseeDemocrat@yahoogroups.com; know; texaskerry@yahoogroups.com; democratic_witches@yahoogroups.com; USDemocrat-National@yahoogroups.com; freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com; ImpeachBushNOW@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] Rice knew..

Monday, Aug. 11, 2003
Condoleeza Rice Warned Willie Brown Not To Fly On 9-11. Bush administration foreknowledge of 9-11 hijackings confirmed by condoleezza Rice herself.
Rice has a lot of deep official SF connections besides Chevron: Charles Schwab, Transamerica Corporation, KQED.
Trivia question: What mayor of a major west coast city claimed just hours after 9-11 that he'd been warned not to fly the week of 9-11 by what he described as his 'airport security.' None other than Willie Brown!
Details:
http://propagandamatrix.com/willie_brown_got_low_key_early_warning.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12 /MN229389.DTL
Think about it. Where else on earth would Brown get the message not to fly on a particular day? The airport says there was no advisory in place.
Note that when asked, Brown clammed up as to the source.
Searching...
On May 17, 2002, Pacifica Radio reported that Rice was the source of the call to Brown.
See side bar:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Bush_knew2.html
So in case you missed it:
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS CONDOLEEZZA RICE CALLED A FRIEND THE DAY BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11TH AND TOLD HIM TO STAY OUT OF THE AIR THAT WEEK.
Got that?
It's enough to make you believe they WANTED this to happen. It's the only thing that Bush could get a higher approval rating for, deaths of thousands and then thousands more as he hid behind his fake patriotism

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Message 5
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 2:15pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: [v911t] Rice knew..

Hello Mr. Nichols,

Cathy told me that you are a DU activist, I was wondering if theres anything being done to treat victims of DU poisoning?
As far as I know, conventional medicine has left them for dead, I think otherwise.

As you may know DU creates large amounts of free-radicals which induce oxidiative damage to cellular systems.
and its radioactive and heavy metal toxicity is another thing to deal with.

I was reading this book on unconventional vitamin C therapies that could help limit the oxidative damage in aqueous cellular enviroments and I was considering the potential use of chelation therapies to remove this toxic gunk from the body to prevent further damage.

Just wanted to know what you thought about something along these lines,

Naveed

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Nichols <bob.bobnichols@gmail.com>
To: v911t@yahoogroups.com; brawny@twlakes.net
Cc: 911truthaction@yahoogroups.com; FIREBASEVOICE@yahoogroups.com; TennesseeDemocrat@yahoogroups.com; know <knoxdemocrats@yahoogroups.com>; texaskerry@yahoogroups.com; democratic_witches@yahoogroups.com; USDemocrat-National@yahoogroups.com; freeamericanow@yahoogroups.com; ImpeachBushNOW@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:30:47 AM
Subject: [911TruthAction] Re: [v911t] Rice knew..

Hi Bugs,

I followed your post down to the words "WANTED this to happen".

Seems like everybody knows now that the Bush government and NeoCons "planned" for this to happen. It is the only logical conclusion. They did it. Not "wanted" somebody else to do it.

Bugs, why are you so timid? Go ahead and speak on up.

Bob

On 5/21/06, Bugs < brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Monday, Aug. 11, 2003
Condoleeza Rice Warned Willie Brown Not To Fly On 9-11. Bush administration foreknowledge of 9-11 hijackings confirmed by condoleezza Rice herself.
Rice has a lot of deep official SF connections besides Chevron: Charles Schwab, Transamerica Corporation, KQED.
Trivia question: What mayor of a major west coast city claimed just hours after 9-11 that he'd been warned not to fly the week of 9-11 by what he described as his 'airport security.' None other than Willie Brown!
Details:
http://propagandamatrix.com/willie_brown_got_low_key_early_warning.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/12 /MN229389.DTL
Think about it. Where else on earth would Brown get the message not to fly on a particular day? The airport says there was no advisory in place.
Note that when asked, Brown clammed up as to the source.
Searching...
On May 17, 2002, Pacifica Radio reported that Rice was the source of the call to Brown.
See side bar:
http://www.fpp.co.uk/online/02/05/Bush_knew2.html
So in case you missed it:
THE ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT FOR NATIONAL SECURITY AFFAIRS CONDOLEEZZA RICE CALLED A FRIEND THE DAY BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11TH AND TOLD HIM TO STAY OUT OF THE AIR THAT WEEK.
Got that?
It's enough to make you believe they WANTED this to happen. It's the only thing that Bush could get a higher approval rating for, deaths of thousands and then thousands more as he hid behind his fake patriotism

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Message 6
From: "ranger116@webtv.net" ranger116@webtv.net
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 4:52pm(PDT)
Subject: JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs

JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs +

Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs - MSNBC.com
( well then - Goodby Attorney General Gonzales !)

Address:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/

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Judy Miller Got A 911 Warning Before 9/11 but didn't have the paper
print it !

Address:http://www.rense.com/general71/warn.htm

Judy Miller Got
A 911 Warning
MediaChannel.org
News for the Media Savvy
5-21-6
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MEDIA SAVVY ROUNDUP OF REACTION TO THE MEDIACHANNEL EXCLUSIVE
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THE NY TIMES, JUDY MILLER AND 9/11: THE MOST STUNNING FAILURE YET?
Some 56 months after the fact, we are learning that both Judy Miller and
her editors at the New York Times had information that foretold the 9/11
terror attacks and elected not to publish it.
By Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003394.html
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MILLER AND 'NYT' HAD A 9/11 WARNING TIP
Judith Miller, the embattled former reporter for The New York Times who
spent 85 days in jail last year for refusing to reveal a source and
ultimately left the paper after a dispute, has another new twist to her
Times tenure.
By Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_d
isplay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002538963
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NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER HAD WARNING OF 9/11 ATTACKS
Yesterday's big news was the revelation that New York Times reporter
Judith Miller (of Plamegate fame) had been privy to a leak in 2001 that
al-Qaeda was planning a major attack in the U.S. For various reasons,
the story was never published.
By Mary Shaw, OpEd News
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=29
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THE BLOGS WEIGH IN: SUDDENLY, AFRAID OF CONTROVERSY
It's stories like this one being reported by Rory O'Connor and William
Scott Malone (in the alternative press) that leave me troubled about the
state of American mainstream journalism
By Lisa English, Ruminatethis.com
http://www.ruminatethis.com/
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NOW SHE TELLS US
By Digby
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114797168581194458
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JUDY MILLER TALKS TODAY ABOUT THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
By Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008838.php
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A MILLER'S TALE
Thus Blogged Anderson
http://andersonblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/millers-tale-kevin-drum-passes-along.html
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JUDY MILLER GOT HEADS UP BEFORE 9/11
Abledangerblog.com
http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/05/judy-miller-got-heads-up-before-911.html

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Pentagon Video should show 6 Frames of Boeing before Hit, says Publisher
of "9/11 Synthetic Terror"

Address:http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200605/1148141216.html

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Wayne Madsen Report -Rove Endictment
Address:http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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Stop U.N. Gun Ban
Address:http://www.stopungunban.org/

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Re: Mexico is Elected the President of the U.N Human Rights Counsel

Conc.: Didn't the U.S. get thrown out of that a couple years ago ?

Correct! This is what I wrote:
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE UNITED STATES REICH.

Published May 4th - 2001 - (4 months before 9/11)
� � � � � � � � �
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THE NETHERLANDS - FPF - HR -

The United States lost a seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
ioday, Friday, May 4th, 2001. For the first time since 1947, when this
HR-commission was established.

Diplomats and statesmen from all over the world, said the vote was a
sign of international irritation over the United States administration's
"arrogance of power". �

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Example
The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. to use lasers on drivers in Iraq

Address:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003001829_iraqlasers18.html

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Lately shown, concerning the Kyoto treaty on global warming, the
trampling on the ABM nuclear proliferation treaty, the new missile
defense (Star Wars), and the refusal to let �poor people anywhere in
the world have cheaper AIDS medication. But delivering millions of
landmines instead. �And fomenting hate that is leading to terrorism.
Out of all the members of the UN only 29 delegates cast their votes
for Washington.
France won by 52 votes, Austria got 41, and Sweden 32. In the eyes
of many diplomatic observers this is fierce slap in the face of the most
powerfull nation in the world, the US.
The same nation that keeps a growing number of more than two million
people in the profitable and expanding " Jail Industry " behind bars.
Where one out of eight is on wellfare+foodstamps. �
In international �comments in the press it shows that, for instance in
Latin America, Southern Asia , Africa, the Arab world �en especially
the Mid-East, hardly anybody ever uses the expression "human rights" in
the same sentence as "United States".
Washington confirmed to have privately tried to persuade Austria
and Sweden, to pull out of the race. But at a meeting of the European
Union-ambassadors at the United Nations last month, the European Union
(except 'Blairy England' of course...) made it clear the European
contries would not withdraw.
The denial of this seat must ring an enormous bell in the ears of
people who see more or less clearly what lies ahead. This �blow to
U.S. prestige is a new indication that the fall of the US-Reich is
proceeding.
The US daily looses influence with traditional allies which are
keeping track of the abominable US record on Human Rights. Ever heard of
the "US-Torture School" ? �Look at what the BBC found out. - URL :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1072000/1072940.stm?

It's on Internet, for all to see and read and copy and distribute...!
And - of course - a lot other states should also disappear from the UN
Commission on Human Rights.
�
Furthermore: the US opposition to creating an International Criminal
Court will weigh less, and thus �war-criminals of all, repeat: ALL
NATIONALITIES will in the future easier be brought to the International
Court of �Justice, in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
The strongly growing perception in the world: is that the US-hegemony
globally effects �most people in a bad way. Especially concerning
economy and security. Globalisation by ruthless multinationals �is one
of the main reasons for the US losing the seat on this United Nations
Human Rights body.
Even the staunchest US supporters ought to start seeing the light by
now.
The people on Death Row, and capital punishment for minors in the US,
show the level of 'Human Rights' in this once so great nation.
The loss of this �Human
Rights-commission-seat was one more huge 'Mene Tekel'-sign on the wall
of the UN-building, for anyone to see.
If they want to...

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
fpf@chello.nl
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Message 7
From: "Kitty" kitty285@charter.net
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 6:32pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THE

I would like to tell them i will boycott there advertisers !!!
Kitty
----- Original Message -----
From: "platterbrains" <movinwes@email.com>
To: <911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 1:33 AM
Subject: [911TruthAction] CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen
PLEASE EMAIL THEM RAISE YOUR VOI

>
> CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen
> Represents coordinated effort to debunk 9/11 truth movement
>
> Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | May 18 2006
>
> CNN is trying to bait 9/11 truth activists to appear as guests on
> its programs and attack Charlie Sheen. William Rodriguez and Philip
> Berg appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to expose a smear
> campaign that seeks to poison the well of the 9/11 truth movement.
>
> WTC survivor and truth activist William Rodriguez was contacted by
> the Anderson Cooper 360 show and asked if he would go on record as
> saying the new Pentagon footage dispelled all 9/11 questions. They
> also requested that he attack Charlie Sheen's public stance on 9/11.
>
> One CNN researcher outright called Charlie Sheen a liar during a
> phone call with Rodriguez.
>
> After Rodriguez refused to take the bait, telling them he supports
> Sheen 100%, CNN cancelled his appearance even as the car to pick him
> up was en route. Rodriguez said CNN were taken aback by the fact
> that he refused to bad mouth Sheen.
>
> Lawyer Philip Berg and philanthropist Jimmy Walters were also
> approached by CNN and promised TV time if they agreed to debunk
> Charlie Sheen. Both refused.
>
> Berg is representing Rodriguez in a RICO suit aimed at bringing
> charges against US government officials for complicity in 9/11.
>
> Berg was set to appear on Neo-Con Glenn Beck's new CNN show before
> the slot was cancelled.
>
> After host AJ Hammer and Showbiz Tonight were punished for their
> balanced 9/11 coverage, the show was bumped to a later slot and
> replaced by Beck's show.
>
> This represents a coordinated effort to smear Charlie Sheen's
> viewpoints on 9/11 and poison the well of the wider 9/11 truth
> movement. CNN are shopping for news and trying to blackmail people
> into saying what they want them to say.
>
> News networks claimed that the new Pentagon images discredited
> Charlie Sheen comments regarding what happened to Flight 77. Here is
> exactly what Sheen told the Alex Jones Show back in March.
>
> "Show us this incredible maneuvering, just show it to us. Just show
> us how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. 270 degree
> turn at 500 miles and hour descending 7,000 feet in two and a half
> minutes, skimming across treetops the last 500 meters," said Sheen.
>
> "I understand in the interest of national security that maybe not
> release the Pentagon cameras but what about the Sheraton, what about
> the gas station, what about the Department of Transportation freeway
> cam? What about all these shots that had this thing perfectly
> documented? Instead they put out five frames that they claim not to
> have authorized, it's really suspicious."
>
> Do a handful of fuzzy frames from almost exactly the same vantage
> point disprove or put to bed any of Charlie Sheen's questions as the
> news networks claimed?
>
> CNN are also cynically posing as the de facto representatives of the
> 9/11 families and erroneously claiming that the families oppose any
> questioning of the official version of events. In reality, a
> majority of the family members now have questions of their own which
> remain unanswered and Charlie Sheen was overwhelmed with the support
> he received from 9/11 survivors and families after his public
> stance. Other networks like Fox have also used this tactic to try
> and silence 9/11 dissent.
>
> We remain on guard for the continued unfounded attacks on Charlie
> Sheen and won't hesitate to expose those who engage in sinister
> smear campaigns and yellow journalism in an attempt to debunk the
> 9/11 truth movement.
>
> PLEASE email them and let em have it.let them know that we won't
> accept this from our media and expect fair and unbiased
> reporting.tell them to just let 911 truth advocates voice their
> opinion without ridicule and scrutiny from a talk show host.tell
> them that there are just too many suspicious facts and unanswered
> questions and that scholars/scientist/former and current
> military/pilots/family members that support a new 911 investigation
> would be willing to go on your show.throw in a few links if you like.
>
> thanks,dave
>
>
>
>
>
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>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
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>
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>

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Message 8
From: "Naveed" flanker12k@yahoo.com
Date: Sun May 21, 2006 8:47pm(PDT)
Subject: Re: JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top

for the final time, prior knowledge is a red herring, it implies that bush let this happen and there are scary boogey men with turbans and beards out there to get us, THERE aren't any! that aren't CIA controlled!

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Notebook, 1904

http://www.fightthenwo.org/

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Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 6:52:47 PM
Subject: [911TruthAction] JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs +

JudyMiller Got 9/11 info Early, Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs +

Mexico bars immigrants from top jobs - MSNBC.com
( well then - Goodby Attorney General Gonzales !)

Address:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12250584/

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Judy Miller Got A 911 Warning Before 9/11 but didn't have the paper
print it !

Address:http://www.rense.com/general71/warn.htm

Judy Miller Got
A 911 Warning
MediaChannel.org
News for the Media Savvy
5-21-6

MEDIA SAVVY ROUNDUP OF REACTION TO THE MEDIACHANNEL EXCLUSIVE

THE NY TIMES, JUDY MILLER AND 9/11: THE MOST STUNNING FAILURE YET?
Some 56 months after the fact, we are learning that both Judy Miller and
her editors at the New York Times had information that foretold the 9/11
terror attacks and elected not to publish it.
By Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/003394.html
= = = =

MILLER AND 'NYT' HAD A 9/11 WARNING TIP
Judith Miller, the embattled former reporter for The New York Times who
spent 85 days in jail last year for refusing to reveal a source and
ultimately left the paper after a dispute, has another new twist to her
Times tenure.
By Joe Strupp, Editor & Publisher
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_d
isplay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002538963
= = = =

NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER HAD WARNING OF 9/11 ATTACKS
Yesterday's big news was the revelation that New York Times reporter
Judith Miller (of Plamegate fame) had been privy to a leak in 2001 that
al-Qaeda was planning a major attack in the U.S. For various reasons,
the story was never published.
By Mary Shaw, OpEd News
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=29
= = = =

THE BLOGS WEIGH IN: SUDDENLY, AFRAID OF CONTROVERSY
It's stories like this one being reported by Rory O'Connor and William
Scott Malone (in the alternative press) that leave me troubled about the
state of American mainstream journalism
By Lisa English, Ruminatethis.com
http://www.ruminatethis.com/
= = = =

NOW SHE TELLS US
By Digby
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_05_01_digbysblog_archive.html#114797168581194458
= = = =

JUDY MILLER TALKS TODAY ABOUT THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY
By Kevin Drum, Washington Monthly
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_05/008838.php
= = = =

A MILLER'S TALE
Thus Blogged Anderson
http://andersonblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/millers-tale-kevin-drum-passes-along.html
= = = =

JUDY MILLER GOT HEADS UP BEFORE 9/11
Abledangerblog.com
http://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/05/judy-miller-got-heads-up-before-911.html

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Pentagon Video should show 6 Frames of Boeing before Hit, says Publisher
of "9/11 Synthetic Terror"

Address:http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200605/1148141216.html

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Wayne Madsen Report -Rove Endictment
Address:http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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Stop U.N. Gun Ban
Address:http://www.stopungunban.org/

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Re: Mexico is Elected the President of the U.N Human Rights Counsel

Conc.: Didn't the U.S. get thrown out of that a couple years ago ?

Correct! This is what I wrote:
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE UNITED STATES REICH.

Published May 4th - 2001 - (4 months before 9/11)

------------------------------------------------------------------------
THE NETHERLANDS - FPF - HR -

The United States lost a seat on the U.N. Commission on Human Rights
ioday, Friday, May 4th, 2001. For the first time since 1947, when this
HR-commission was established.

Diplomats and statesmen from all over the world, said the vote was a
sign of international irritation over the United States administration's
"arrogance of power".

````````````````````````````````````````````````
Example
The Seattle Times: Nation & World: U.S. to use lasers on drivers in Iraq

Address:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003001829_iraqlasers18.html

``````````````````````````````````````````````````````
Lately shown, concerning the Kyoto treaty on global warming, the
trampling on the ABM nuclear proliferation treaty, the new missile
defense (Star Wars), and the refusal to let poor people anywhere in
the world have cheaper AIDS medication. But delivering millions of
landmines instead. And fomenting hate that is leading to terrorism.
Out of all the members of the UN only 29 delegates cast their votes
for Washington.
France won by 52 votes, Austria got 41, and Sweden 32. In the eyes
of many diplomatic observers this is fierce slap in the face of the most
powerfull nation in the world, the US.
The same nation that keeps a growing number of more than two million
people in the profitable and expanding " Jail Industry " behind bars.
Where one out of eight is on wellfare+foodstamps.
In international comments in the press it shows that, for instance in
Latin America, Southern Asia , Africa, the Arab world en especially
the Mid-East, hardly anybody ever uses the _expression "human rights" in
the same sentence as "United States".
Washington confirmed to have privately tried to persuade Austria
and Sweden, to pull out of the race. But at a meeting of the European
Union-ambassadors at the United Nations last month, the European Union
(except 'Blairy England' of course...) made it clear the European
contries would not withdraw.
The denial of this seat must ring an enormous bell in the ears of
people who see more or less clearly what lies ahead. This blow to
U.S. prestige is a new indication that the fall of the US-Reich is
proceeding.
The US daily looses influence with traditional allies which are
keeping track of the abominable US record on Human Rights. Ever heard of
the "US-Torture School" ? Look at what the BBC found out. - URL :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1072000/1072940.stm?

It's on Internet, for all to see and read and copy and distribute...!
And - of course - a lot other states should also disappear from the UN
Commission on Human Rights.

Furthermore: the US opposition to creating an International Criminal
Court will weigh less, and thus war-criminals of all, repeat: ALL
NATIONALITIES will in the future easier be brought to the International
Court of Justice, in The Hague, in the Netherlands.
The strongly growing perception in the world: is that the US-hegemony
globally effects most people in a bad way. Especially concerning
economy and security. Globalisation by ruthless multinationals is one
of the main reasons for the US losing the seat on this United Nations
Human Rights body.
Even the staunchest US supporters ought to start seeing the light by
now.
The people on Death Row, and capital punishment for minors in the US,
show the level of 'Human Rights' in this once so great nation.
The loss of this Human
Rights-commission-seat was one more huge 'Mene Tekel'-sign on the wall
of the UN-building, for anyone to see.
If they want to...

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
fpf@chello.nl
-0-

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Message 9
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 0:49am(PDT)
Subject: Depleted, it ain't!

Analysis

Depleted, it ain't! So-called depleted uranium, that is!
By Bob Nichols
Project Censored Award Winner & Online Journal Contributing Writer

OKLAHOMA CITY, Red State of Delusion, May 31, 2005�The term "Depleted
Uranium " is misleading, on purpose.
So-called "depleted uranium" (DU) results from making hydrogen bombs. The
CIA tries to deceive us all, all the time. They have succeeded for 55 years.
George Lakoff blows the lid off the "Big Lie" about uranium weapons use.
Processing natural uranium removes about half of the bomb making material.
It is then called "depleted uranium" by the powers that be, because it can
no longer be used to make H-Bombs; but it is used to make uranium bullets,
shells, land mines and regular bombs instead.
The so-called "depleted uranium" is 88 percent as radioactive as the
original uranium. There is a huge amount, about 1.5 billion pounds, of
"depleted uranium" at H-bomb factories in the US.
The word depleted does not mean the uranium is safe or okay to use, it means
it has been used to make H-Bombs, that's all.
A less deceptive name would be George Lakoff's "Radioactive Weaponry."
Or "12 percent depleted uranium;" but Lakoff's term "Radioactive Weaponry"
better describes what the US military is currently widely using in Iraq and
Central Asia.
Copyright by Bob Nichols.
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner and lives in Oklahoma where
20 percent of the people cannot read. He is a contributor to Online Journal,
AxisofLogic.com, DissidentVoice.com other online publications and the "San
Francisco Bay View" newspaper. Nichols is a former employee of the McAlester
Army Ammunition Plant. Nichols can be reached by email at
bob.bobnichols@gmail.com <mailto:bob.bobnichols@gmail.com>
http://www.onlinejournal.org/Commentary/053105Nichols/053105nichols.html

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Message 10
From: "APFN" apfn@apfn.org
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 2:04am(PDT)
Subject: Gwd: Protected message

Ok. Attach tells everything.

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Message 11
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 4:36am(PDT)
Subject: The deadly cover-up

the deadly cover-up

All of the installments of Over the Rainbow have been updated with the United States government's latest available statistics on the total number of Gulf War vets who are deceased or receiving medical disability. Some explanation is necessary on the discrepancy between these and previous figures.

President Dwight Eisenhower, in his 1961 Farewell Address, warned the nation of the dangers to democracy posed by the "military-industrial complex." Along with the nuclear industry these profiteers of death exert a stranglehold over government through bipartisan political contributions and the revolving door that connects military retirees, elected officials, and the warfare and nuclear industries.

These forces were responsible for the 15-year coverup of Gulf War Illness, the government's denial of the lethality of depleted uranium, and the concealment from those serving in uniform of the regulations designed to protect them from radiation in battle zones.

This story has been reported by Seymour Hersh in "Against All Enemies, Gulf War Syndrome: The War Between America's Ailing Veterans and Their Government" and by former CIA analyst Patrick Eddington in "Gassed in the Gulf, The Inside Story of the Pentagon-CIA coverup of Gulf War Syndrome."

The Department of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Administration (VA) have been hiding or "cooking" disability statistics since 1991 in order to stonewall ailing veterans and to confuse the public. These policies, during both Democratic and Republican administrations, account for the wildly varying statistics and estimates of veterans suffering from radioactive poisoning.

After the posting of "Depleted Uranium For Dummies" two researchers � one a Gulf War era veteran from Texas and one a Vietnam era antiwar activist in Florida � volunteered to try to track down and fact check the total number of Gulf War troops suffering from Gulf War Illness and the number of families and children affected.

Only the DoD and VA possess the power and resources to compile these figures. They have always refused to do so accurately, and their coverup now extends to those sick vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

For example we cited figures in GIs, Beware Radioactive Showers! that were obtained last February by New York Daily News reporter Juan Gonzales, including the facts that "nearly 120,000 veterans � more than one of every four who served in Iraq and Afghanistan � have already sought treatment at Veterans Health Administration hospitals for a wide range of illnesses [and] an additional 35,000 � more than 29% of the total � were diagnosed with 'ill-defined conditions. . ." � that is, symptoms of Gulf War Illness. We also reported that the government sometimes diagnoses radiation poisoning as PTSD.

But the source, an October VHA report, has still not been released.

This month the Washington Post reported a General Accounting Office study that showed that "only 22 percent of [Iraq and Afghanistan] service members identified as at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on a post-deployment questionnaire were referred for a mental health examination. "

The DoD did not dispute the GAO's findings, but claimed that some of the remaining 78% must have gotten help elsewhere. "Many of these people got help," a military spokesman said. "Probably most. We don't know the exact number, and neither does the GAO."

In this environment of artful evasion and deliberate obfuscation we relied on the best statistics we could find. In the first installment we wrote, "518,739 Gulf War era vets are now receiving medical disability according to government figures. That's more than 70 percent of all Army, Navy and Air Force veterans, even though not all the disabled served in the Middle East."

The source was a named government spokesman, and he may very well have been accurate. No one ever disputed our figure, and our researchers could not find better statistics until after the series began, when we discovered a newly posted official Veterans Affairs quarterly Gulf War Veterans Information System (GWVIS) report for February 2006. At the same time, we also obtained from a VA Web site and other sources, a copy of the November 2005 GWVIS report. A search of the VA Web site a few days later revealed that the 2005 report is no longer available online from the VA, while the February report still is.

The VA is supposed to issue these reports quarterly in February, May, August and November. Perhaps the VA is keeping only the most current report online. Perhaps the reports are posted only sporadically and haphazardly. We don't know and haven't been able to find out. An archive, of course, would meet the VA's legal obligation and be useful to compare statistics month-to-month and to analyze trends. We found the November and February reports simultaneously, and could not find the November, or any other quarterly GWVIS report or other official statistics on Gulf War Illness later than 2003, in several months of searching for statistics.

In another sign that the VA and Pentagon are playing games with its statistics, we discovered that the Web addresses given in various reports and publications for accessing statistics on Gulf War veterans often prove to be bad links, and that the access page addresses are changed without notice or forwarding links.

There are two explanations: total incompetence or deliberate obfuscation.

The February 2006 report shows that of the 696,841 U.S. military personnel who were deployed in Operations Desert Shield or Desert Storm between Aug. 2, 1990, and July 31, 1991, 11,910 have since died and 260,209 have filed claims for benefits. Of those, 198,951 claims have been granted as service connected, and 31,696 claims are pending.

Another 3,742 veterans of the 432,498 service members who were deployed in the Persian Gulf after July 31, 1991, have died, with 92,789 of this group of military personnel being granted service-connected veterans claims.

In percentages, at least 30.3% of those veterans deployed during the first Gulf War are either dead or have been granted service-connected disability claims, while at least 22.3% of those deployed to the Persian Gulf region after the end of the conflict are either dead or have been granted service-connected claims. By comparison, only 16.3 percent of the 5,336,917 Gulf War-era service members not deployed to the Persian Gulf have died or have been granted claims. Of the total of 1,229,339 veterans deployed to the, likely irradiated, region during and after the conflict, at least 27.2% have either died or have been granted service-connected claims.

It should be noted that not all those veterans whose claims have been granted are receiving disability benefits or pensions, because the VA generally gives benefits only to those classified as being 10% or more disabled (229,261 veterans deployed in the Gulf area). However, several thousand veterans, have been granted benefits or pensions despite being rated as being less than 10% disabled, while another several thousand veterans have been denied benefits even though their level of disability is rated as 10% or greater. According to the VA, of the 291,740 Gulf veterans granted service-connected claims, only 226,503 are actually receiving benefits or pensions.

These figures are certainly gross underestimates, but they are the best ones available, so we use the conservative figure of a 30.3%, or simply "more than 30%" death/disability rate throughout the series. Obviously, this figure is much higher than previous modern conflicts, especially when only 147 U.S. troops were killed in battle, mostly by "friendly fire," 235 more were killed as a result of "non-hostile" causes, and 467 service members were wounded, again many by "friendly fire."

The government refuses to break down its figures into the types of disabilities or causes of death. Neither the DoD nor the VA keeps track of the illnesses of spouses contracted from contagious veterans. No records are kept of the number of children with birth defects born to veterans with Gulf War Illness symptoms.

Several Gulf War Veterans organizations are attempting to fill the deliberate governmental void, but obviously the lack of resources and access to all veterans and reliable public records will render their work sadly incomplete.

We confronted similar problems with the amount of tonnage of depleted uranium used in the various battle zones since 1991. The government's mendacity continues today, with some official spokesmen denying that depleted uranium is being used, while official documents reveal current multi-million dollar contracts for depleted uranium munitions. Therefore, in Over the Rainbow we either cite the minimal amount that the government admits or we present the range of estimates by non-governmental experts.

We will continue to work diligently to insure that this Web site is a reliable source of information on depleted uranium and its toll on humanity. We mean it when we promise, "We value truth for its own sake. We cite our sources, and we admit when we're wrong."

www.notinkansas.us

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Message 12
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 4:42am(PDT)
Subject: CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THEM RA

One CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: 404-827-1700

----- Original Message -----
From: Kitty
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THEM RAISE YOUR VOI

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Message 13
From: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 4:46am(PDT)
Subject: CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen PLEASE EMAIL THEM RA

One CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: 404-827-1700

>
> CNN Shopping For Guests To Attack Charlie Sheen
> Represents coordinated effort to debunk 9/11 truth movement
>
> Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | May 18 2006
>
> CNN is trying to bait 9/11 truth activists to appear as guests on
> its programs and attack Charlie Sheen. William Rodriguez and Philip
> Berg appeared on the Alex Jones Show today to expose a smear
> campaign that seeks to poison the well of the 9/11 truth movement.
>
> WTC survivor and truth activist William Rodriguez was contacted by
> the Anderson Cooper 360 show and asked if he would go on record as
> saying the new Pentagon footage dispelled all 9/11 questions. They
> also requested that he attack Charlie Sheen's public stance on 9/11.
>
> One CNN researcher outright called Charlie Sheen a liar during a
> phone call with Rodriguez.
>
> After Rodriguez refused to take the bait, telling them he supports
> Sheen 100%, CNN cancelled his appearance even as the car to pick him
> up was en route. Rodriguez said CNN were taken aback by the fact
> that he refused to bad mouth Sheen.
>
> Lawyer Philip Berg and philanthropist Jimmy Walters were also
> approached by CNN and promised TV time if they agreed to debunk
> Charlie Sheen. Both refused.
>
> Berg is representing Rodriguez in a RICO suit aimed at bringing
> charges against US government officials for complicity in 9/11.
>
> Berg was set to appear on Neo-Con Glenn Beck's new CNN show before
> the slot was cancelled.
>
> After host AJ Hammer and Showbiz Tonight were punished for their
> balanced 9/11 coverage, the show was bumped to a later slot and
> replaced by Beck's show.
>
> This represents a coordinated effort to smear Charlie Sheen's
> viewpoints on 9/11 and poison the well of the wider 9/11 truth
> movement. CNN are shopping for news and trying to blackmail people
> into saying what they want them to say.
>
> News networks claimed that the new Pentagon images discredited
> Charlie Sheen comments regarding what happened to Flight 77. Here is
> exactly what Sheen told the Alex Jones Show back in March.
>
> "Show us this incredible maneuvering, just show it to us. Just show
> us how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers. 270 degree
> turn at 500 miles and hour descending 7,000 feet in two and a half
> minutes, skimming across treetops the last 500 meters," said Sheen.
>
> "I understand in the interest of national security that maybe not
> release the Pentagon cameras but what about the Sheraton, what about
> the gas station, what about the Department of Transportation freeway
> cam? What about all these shots that had this thing perfectly
> documented? Instead they put out five frames that they claim not to
> have authorized, it's really suspicious."
>
> Do a handful of fuzzy frames from almost exactly the same vantage
> point disprove or put to bed any of Charlie Sheen's questions as the
> news networks claimed?
>
> CNN are also cynically posing as the de facto representatives of the
> 9/11 families and erroneously claiming that the families oppose any
> questioning of the official version of events. In reality, a
> majority of the family members now have questions of their own which
> remain unanswered and Charlie Sheen was overwhelmed with the support
> he received from 9/11 survivors and families after his public
> stance. Other networks like Fox have also used this tactic to try
> and silence 9/11 dissent.
>
> We remain on guard for the continued unfounded attacks on Charlie
> Sheen and won't hesitate to expose those who engage in sinister
> smear campaigns and yellow journalism in an attempt to debunk the
> 9/11 truth movement.
>
> PLEASE email them and let em have it.let them know that we won't
> accept this from our media and expect fair and unbiased
> reporting.tell them to just let 911 truth advocates voice their
> opinion without ridicule and scrutiny from a talk show host.tell
> them that there are just too many suspicious facts and unanswered
> questions and that scholars/scientist/former and current
> military/pilots/family members that support a new 911 investigation
> would be willing to go on your show.throw in a few links if you like.
>
> thanks,dave
>
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Contact Us
Contact Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. at the following address:

One CNN Center
Atlanta, Georgia 30303
Phone: 404-827-1700

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Message 14
From: "APFN" apfn@apfn.org
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 8:42am(PDT)
Subject: Gwd: Hi

Ok. Please, have a look at the attached file.

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Message 15
From: "Total Information" totalinfo@gmail.com
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 9:29am(PDT)
Subject: GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon

< http://www.total911.info/2006/05/gop-congressman-unconvinced-757-hit.html>

US Congressman Ron Paul of Texas appeared on *The Power Hour* radio
program<http://thepowerhour.com>on Wednesday, May 17th. Host Joyce
Riley asked Rep. Paul about the new 9/11
footage released by the Pentagon. Congressman's Paul's comments were
intriguing.

Here's the MP3 audio <http://www.total911.info/ronpaulpentagon.mp3>, and
here's the transcript:

"POWER HOUR HOST JOYCE RILEY: This Pentagon footage came out yesterday, and
if you don't mind -- you know we have a lot of people in the audience who
are saying, "Wait a minute. There is no plane there."

There was not a slamdunk story to end the concern of a lot of people. Your
respone to the footage that was released yesterday, sir?

REP. RON PAUL (R-TX): Well, I heard that it was released. I did not look at
it. I don't feel qualified to make a profound statement on this but I've
listened to both sides. It's certainly amazing how many times we saw
pictures of planes flying into buildings in New York; at the same time
we'ver never seen, you know, a direct hit [on the Pentagon]. And I don't
know whether this film really shows it or not. But I'm still looking at
that. But I don't have the final answer.

RILEY: Well, I'll tell you that we are contacting American Airlines to get
them on the show today and asking them to commit that it was their "Flight
77." We're waiting a response back from them, because a lot of people are
saying, "Wait a minute -- there's something really wrong here." And if so
then we're going to be probably hoping that we can get some support on
trying to get more real serious investigation.
-----

American Airlines did not respond to The Power Hour's inquiries.

--
www.total411.info
www.total911.info

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Message 16
From: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 9:36am(PDT)
Subject: A Day in the Life: 5/22/6

GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN EXILE
Free Americans Reaching
Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free
��
Via <prez@usa-exile.org>

May 22, 2006

NOTE: Christopher Bollyn's piece below is on balance quite
helpful--but I'm surprised he faults Webster Tarpley merely because the
latter hasn't provided any 9/11 Israeli info. This would be like me
faulting Bollyn merely because he hasn't provided any 9/11 Insider
Trading info. Also it is not at all clear that Deborah Simon was
handing out copies of the video "Loose Change" in front of the White
House merely to obscure Israeli involvement in 9/11. It's important
just now for us to give each other--where possible--the benefit of the
doubt. -- kl, pp

From: "Dick Eastman" <olfriend@nwinfo.net>
Date: May 21, 2006 2:15:50 PM EST
Subject: [911TruthAction] Fw: Christopher Bollyn: Controlling the
Message
Reply-To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com

From: "Richard Pierce" <phobicflyonthewall@yahoo.com>
To: "911_free_discussion" <911_free_discussion@yahoogroups.com>
May 20, 2006
Subject: Controlling the Message

http://www.iamthewitness.com/Bollyn-9-11-Controlling-the-Message.html
��
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9-11:� Controlling the Message��
By Christopher Bollyn
19 May 2006�

The mainstream media can no longer avoid the red-hot 9-11 issues, such
as evidence of pre-planted explosives in the World Trade Center.�� But
rather than presenting all of the facts, the message is being carefully
controlled to suppress the evidence of Israeli involvement in the
attacks and media complicity in the cover-up.
�
William Rodriguez, the last person to escape from the North Tower just
seconds before it collapsed, is a key 9-11 organizer working on behalf
of the victims and their families. His efforts to find the truth about
the terror attacks were instrumental in pressuring the reluctant Bush
administration to establish the 9-11 Commission.�� Rodriguez, a
janitor who helped rescue many people from the burning tower, stayed in
the building from the time it was hit until immediately before it was
demolished. His observations of what happened in the tower make him an
important witness about the events at the World Trade Center. However,
when Rodriguez testified before the 9-11 Commission not one word of his
testimony was included in its final report.�� Having known Rodriguez
for a year and having spent many hours with him, this reporter has
learned a great deal about the 9-11 attack from his personal
observations, most of which he does not speak about publicly. On a
recent trip to� Venezuela, Rodriguez told American Free Press that he
has been advised not to talk about critical evidence that he has
personal knowledge of.�� "I can't talk about the Israeli involvement
because it would offend the Jewish families," Rodriguez said, referring
to the relatives of Jewish victims. Yet, Rodriguez has important
information about the involvement of Israeli intelligence agents in the
attacks.�� For example, he has personal knowledge that Israeli Mossad
agents, posing as employees of a moving company in New Jersey, met
regularly with some of the Arab terror suspects at a video store a
block from his home in Jersey City during the year prior to the
attacks.�� In the afternoon of 9-11, when five Israeli "movers" were
arrested in New Jersey after having been observed videotaping and
celebrating the attacks on the twin towers, the police sergeant was
told not to mention the fact that the men were Israelis, Rodriguez told
AFP. Arab clothing had been found in their�vehicle, he said.�� After
investigating the five Israelis, the FBI concluded that they had been
"conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer,
Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front," wrote Marc
Perelman of The Forward, a leading New York-based Jewish newspaper, in
March 2002, citing an un-named "former high-ranking American
intelligence official."�

www.forward.com/articles/4146�� The five Israeli agents: Sivan and
Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, and Yaron Shmuel were
arrested eight hours after the attacks by the Bergen County police
while driving in an Urban Moving Systems van. The police acted on an
FBI alert after the men had been seen celebrating and videotaping the
events from the roof of their warehouse and van.�� Suspicions were
compounded when box cutters, multiple passports, and $4,000 in cash
were found in the van, which tested positive for explosives. The
Israelis had taken pictures of themselves smiling with the smoldering
wreckage of the World Trade Center in the background. In the weeks and
months following 9-11, numerous cells of other Mossad "moving" agents
were arrested across the nation.�� In December 2001, Fox News reported
that U.S. authorities had detained 60 such "movers" and had arrested or
expelled some 120 other Israeli agents, identified as "art students,"
which were part of an�extensive Israeli spy ring attempting to
penetrate federal buildings and military facilities.�� In March 2002,
the French newspaper Le Monde reported that the Israeli art students
had probably been monitoring "Al Qaeda operatives."

www.forward.com/articles/4150�� Le Monde added that the Israeli spies
appear to have been "trailing Al Qaeda members in the United States
without informing Washington." More than one-third of the Israelis
under investigation lived in Florida, which was the home base for at
least 10 of the 19 "hijackers" in the September 11 attacks, Le Monde
noted.�� These facts, Le Monde wrote, support "the thesis according to
which Israel did not share with the U.S. all the elements it had about
the planning of the September 11 attacks."�� The French and the Fox
News reports were dismissed by Israel and its supporters and received
limited coverage in the American media, Perelman noted. American Free
Press is the only U.S. newspaper which has reported extensively on
these stories.�� The Israelis were held for two-and-a-half months and
deported at the end of November 2001, for "visa violations," although
the FBI's counterintelligence investigation had concluded that at least
two of them�were, in fact, Mossad operatives, according to the former
American official, who told The Forward that he had been regularly
briefed on the investigation by two separate law enforcement
officials.�� "The assessment was that Urban Moving Systems was a front
for the Mossad and operatives employed by it," he said. "The conclusion
of the FBI was that they were spying on local Arabs but that they could
leave because they did not know anything about 9/11."�� What all of
the teams of Israeli "movers" had in common was that their vans had
tested positive for explosives when the tests had been conducted by the
local police authorities. When the Israelis' vehicles were turned over
to the FBI, however, the FBI changed the reports to say that there was
no evidence that the vehicles had carried explosives.�� Rodriguez, who
was on the first basement level of the North Tower at 8:45 a.m. on
9-11, has often spoken publicly about feeling and hearing a "huge
explosion" coming from the�lower basement levels moments before the
first plane struck the WTC. He recently told AFP that he cannot talk
about "explosions," but only about what he heard.�� The first victim
that Rodriguez helped, however, was a man who had been severely burned
and injured by what he clearly told Rodriguez were "explosions" in the
basement.�� In return for his co-operation in suppressing evidence of
Israeli involvement in 9-11 and the explosions, Rodriguez has
apparently been given vague promises of financial stability - and even
political office - particularly in the event that Hillary Clinton wins
the presidency in 2008. "I will be set for life if Hillary wins," he
told AFP, which suggests that the powers behind Clinton are directly
involved in the cover-up.�� On the other hand, countless federal
employees, who could provide essential testimony about the attacks,
have been gagged by secret letters demanding their silence about what
they know, did, saw or heard on 9-11.�� Into�the heavily-censored
media environment, numerous independent researchers have brought forth
a great deal of evidence disproving the official version and showing
that Israeli intelligence agents and their U.S.-based supporters are
prime suspects in the crimes of 9-11. In order to draw attention away
from this growing truth movement, the controlled media has begun
promoting a select group of authors and their books, videos, and
websites.�� What this select group has in common is that their works
minimize or completely ignore the evidence of Israeli involvement and
point to a variety of other suspects being behind 9-11, such as senior
officials in the Bush administration, the Neo-Cons, the Vatican,
unnamed Luciferians, or the ever popular "Germanic Death Cult."��

�� Webster G. Tarpley, author of 9-11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA,
is one of the authors being promoted by the controlled media. As his
title suggests, Tarpley's thesis revolves around the Bush
administration being behind 9-11 and completely ignores the evidence of
Israeli involvement.�� Likewise, without presenting a single piece of
evidence, Tarpley wrote an article claiming that the recent anti-Muslim
cartoon scandal instigated by a Danish newspaper had been a "NATO
intelligence provocation." The "entire affair has been cynically
orchestrated by NATO intelligence agencies to set the stage for a new
world war," Tarpley wrote.�� Rather than embrace the facts and
evidence, Hollywood has produced several propaganda television shows
and one movie, United 93, to support the seriously flawed official
version. Meanwhile, a product of the so-called alternative media, a
video about 9-11 called Loose Change, is now being promoted by the
mainstream media. As with the others in�the media's select group, the
producers of Loose Change keep Israeli involvement out of the picture
and place the blame for 9-11 squarely on senior officials in the Bush
administration.�� "We don't want to point fingers at Israel for a
number of different reasons," the producers of Loose Change said in a
recent interview on Air America:

DylanAveryBermasRowe_4_15_2006.mp3� only 166 k bytes�� Questioned
later by Eric Hufschmid, author of Painful Questions; An Analysis of
the September 11th Attack, about their views on who was responsible for
9-11, the producers said that the Israeli role was simply one of trying
to warn the U.S. about a potential terror attack. While they are well
aware of the evidence of Israeli involvement, the producers of Loose
Change say it is more important to prosecute members of the Bush
administration and worry about other issues later.�
www.EricHufschmid.net/Avery-Rowe-Bermas-Hufschmid-phonecall.html�� A
third edition of Loose Change is being prepared for release in movie
theaters nationwide this fall, according to the video's producers.��
Deborah S. Simon received special thanks in the video's credits for
providing footage and other help in producing Loose Change. Simon told
AFP that she even handed out copies of the video in front of the White
House. Who is Deborah Simon, and why is she helping produce and promote
Loose Change?�� Deborah Simon (nee Cox) is married into the billionaire
Simon family of Indianapolis. The family owns the Simon Property Group,
Inc., which boasts as being the largest U.S. real estate company. The
Simon family owns, develops, and manages more than 280 shopping malls
in the United States and 50 similar properties in Europe and Japan.��
The Simon family, strong supporters of Zionist causes, the Clintons,
and the Democratic Party, also own the Indiana Pacers basketball team.
The
campus of the Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis is named after
Max and Mae Simon, the parents of Melvin, Fred, and Herb.�� Melvin
Simon, the Brooklyn-born founder of the company, also owned a Hollywood
production company and produced more than 20 films. Simon is remembered
for such films as Porky's, Love at First Bite, and Zorro, the Gay
Blade.�

�� As of January 2005, Porky's is still the highest-grossing
movie from Canada.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0084522/trivia� More notably, Simon has had
business partnerships with both Larry Silverstein and the
Australian-Israeli billionaire Frank Lowy, the leaseholders of the
destroyed World Trade Center. In the late 1980s, Silverstein and Simon
developed a mall in Manhattan together, and after 9-11, Simon teamed up
with Lowy's Westfield America in an attempt to take over the
prestigious retail properties belonging to Taubman Centers, Inc. of
Detroit.�
�
Silverstein and Simon both sit on the advisory board of the Steven L.
Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College in downtown
Manhattan.�� In addition to supporting the Clintons, the Simon family
has provided generous financial support to a number of Indiana
senators, governors, and congressmen. Lee H. Hamilton, for example, the
retired congressman who came out of retirement to serve as vice
chairman of the 9-11 Commission, received a great deal of money from
the Simons during his political career.�� During his 34-year career in
Congress, Hamilton served as chairman of several key committees, such
as the Committee on International Relations, the Joint Economic
Committee, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and the
Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran.
Although he has retired from Congress, Hamilton remains a member of the
Department of Homeland Security Advisory Council and the President's
Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board.��

�As director of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, Hamilton still
receives generous financial support from the Simon family.�� Birch
Bayh, the former senator from Indiana, has been on the board of
directors of the Simon Property Group since 1993 when his son, Evan,
was governor of the state. The younger Bayh is now a U.S. Senator.��
Diane Meyer Simon was director and administrator of the elder Bayh's
senate office with whom she worked from 1968 to 1981. When Bayh was
defeated in 1980, Diane Meyer married the billionaire Herbert Simon in
1981.�
��
�(Christopher Bollyn is a journalist who writes for American Free Press
of Washington, D.C.) To hear the interview with Bollyn about this
article:
Daryl Bradford Smith Interviews Bollyn about Simon�� Don't forget to
check out Bollyn's previous article about Flight 93:
The Hollywood Fantasy of Flight 93�� and interview: Daryl Bradford
Smith Interviews Bollyn about Flight 93
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U.S. Aggression-Time Once Again
The Fourth U.S. "Supreme International
Crime" in 7 Years Is Already Underway

By Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
May 21, 2006

Counterpunch

U.S. Aggression-Time Once Again: The Fourth U.S. "Supreme International
Crime" in Seven Years Is Already Underway, With the Support of� the
Free Press and "International Community"
��
With the United States having initiated wars in violation of the UN
Charter, and hence engaged in the "supreme international crime,"1
against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq in 1999, 2001, and 2003, one
might have expected that its commencement of a fourth aggression only a
few years later against Iran would arouse the UN, EU, other
international institutions and NGOs, and even the supposedly moral and
independent Free Press, to serious protest and counter-action,
including referral to the UN Security Council�under Chapter VII�s
"threat of peace" articles and support of� possible diplomatic and
economic sanctions. This has not happened, and in fact the Bush
administration has successfully mobilized the UN, whose "primary
responsibility" is the "maintenance of international peace and
security," and the EU, as well as the Free Press, to facilitate its
fourth attack.

We say that the fourth aggression is already underway, because once
again, as in the Iraq case, the United States has been attacking Iran
for many months, and not just with verbal insults and threats. It has
been flying unmanned aerial surveillance drones over Iran since 2004;
it has infiltrated combat and reconnaissance teams into Iran "to
collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government
ethnic minority groups" (Seymour Hersh);2 it has bestowed an ambiguous
"protected" status upon the Mujahedin-e Khalq, a group which, since
1997, the U.S. Department of State has designated a Foreign Terrorist
Organization, but a group that the Washington regime now uses to launch
cross-border attacks on Iran from within U.S.-occupied Iraq;3 �and it
and its Israeli client have repeatedly threatened larger scale and more
open attacks. This pre-invasion aggression was an important feature of
the overall aggression against Iraq, where the US and British greatly
increased their "spikes of activity" with massive bombing well before
the March 19, 2003 invasion4�major acts of war and aggression begun as
early as April 2002, that were almost wholly ignored by the Free Press
and "international community."

What is mind-boggling in all this is that new attacks and threats by a
country that is in the midst of a serial aggression program, that runs
a well documented and widely condemned global gulag of torture,5 that
has committed major war crimes in Iraq�Fallujah may well replace
Guernica as a symbol of� murderous warfare unleashed against
civilians6�and that openly declares itself exempt from international
law and states that the UN is only relevant when it supports U.S.
policy,7 is not only not condemned for its Iran aggression, but is able
to enlist support for it in the EU, UN and global media.� This
enlistment of�support occurs despite the further fact that it is now
generally recognized that the Bush and Blair administrations lied their
way into the Iraq invasion-occupation (but still quickly obtained UN
and EU acceptance of the occupation and ensuing ruthless pacification
program),8 and that they cynically misused the inspections program, all
of which makes the new accommodation to the aggression-in-process and
planned larger attack truly frightening.

The mechanism by which this is accomplished by the aggressor state is
to cry-up an allegedly dire threat that Iran might be embarking on a
program to obtain nuclear weapons�it might be doing this secretively,
and although it has submitted itself to IAEA inspections for the past
three years, it has not been 100 percent cooperative with the Agency.9�
Combining this with demonization,10 intensive and repeated expressions
of indignation and fear, and threats to do something about the
intolerable threat, the Washington regime has managed to produce a
contrived "crisis," with huge spikes in media attention and supportive
expressions of concern and actions by the UN, IAEA, and international
community.11� These groups join the aggressor partly to avoid offending
it, but also to try to constrain its determination to get its way�but
in the process they accept its premises that there is a real threat and
hence give at least tacit support to its aggression program, and
sometimes more.� On the home front, with the acceptance of� the
seriousness of the manufactured crisis by the mainstream media and
Democrats, and with leading politicos like Hillary Clinton and Evan
Bayh even egging Bush on, the noise creates its own self-fulfilling
pressures on the leadership that manufactured the crisis, who now must
"do something" about it to avoid political loss.12

This time, the EU appears to be cooperating even more fully in the
developing aggression against Iran than it did in the Iraq case.�
Although Iran has an absolute and "inalienable" right to enrich uranium
under NPT rules (i.e., the NPT�s sole condition is that the enrichment
can only be "for peaceful purposes"), and although the NPT imposes upon
other parties to the treaty the obligation to "facilitate�the fullest
possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and
technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy,"13
under British, French and German urging Iran, in November 2004, agreed
"on a voluntary basis to continue and extend its suspension to include
all enrichment related and reprocessing activities," while these states
agreed to continue negotiations in good faith for the sake of an
agreement that "will provide objective guarantees that Iran's nuclear
programme is exclusively for peaceful purposes," and "firm guarantees
on nuclear, technological and economic cooperation and firm commitments
on security issues."14

But subsequent stages of negotiations foundered mainly because the
three EU states could not provide Iran with guarantees on
security-related issues without also securing U.S. guarantees for the
same�and not only were U.S. guarantees never forthcoming, but
Washington and Israel escalated their threats instead.� Moreover, it is
the longstanding U.S. position that "no enrichment in Iran is
permissible," in the words of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
John Bolton.� "The reason for that," he added, "is that even a small
so-called research enrichment program could give Iran the possibility
of mastering the technical deficiencies it's currently encountering in
its program.� Once Iran has the scientific and technological capability
to do even laboratory size enrichment, that knowledge could be
replicated in industrial-size enrichment activities elsewhere, that's
why we've felt very strongly that no enrichment inside Iran should be
permitted, and that remains our position."15 In short, the United
States unilaterally refuses to allow Iran its rights granted it by the
NPT.

Now some 18 months later, a U.S.-led consortium of states has
introduced a draft resolution within the UN Security Council with the
intent of imposing upon Iran a deadline for terminating all indigenous
"enrichment-related and reprocessing activities" (pars. 1-2), as well
as calling on all states to prevent the transfer of the technology and
the expertise "that could contribute to Iran�s enrichment-related and
reprocessing activities and missile program" (par. 4)�thereby following
the U.S. lead and criminalizing Iran�s and only Iran�s pursuit of its
"inalienable" rights under Article IV of the NPT, and treating Iran�s
otherwise legal, NPT-sanctioned enrichment program as a Chapter VII
threat to international peace and security.� Equally striking, this
draft resolution also expresses the Security Council�s "intention to
consider such further measures as may be necessary to ensure compliance
with this resolution�" (par. 7).16� This is exactly the kind of
phraseology that, if adopted, the Washington regime would have be eager
to interpret as a use-of-force type resolution, regardless of whether
other members of the Security Council went along with it.�

We regard the terms of this draft resolution as well as the general
thrust of British, French, German, and European Union diplomacy on the
Iranian nuclear issue to be a perfect accommodation to the needs of the
aggressor state, which openly denies Iran its "inalienable" rights
under NPT rules. This also constitutes a death-blow-by-politicization
to the NPT�and a gross abuse of the functions and powers of the
Security Council, all in deference and service to a program in
violation of� the most basic principle of the UN Charter�that all
members "shall settle their international disputes by peaceful means"
and refrain from the "threat or use of force" (Article 2).

Since the spring of 2003, U.S. power has produced a steady and
indignant focus on Iran�s alleged foot-dragging on inspections.� As in
the case of Iraq�s failure through March 2003 to prove that it did not
possess any "weapons of mass destruction" (WMD), the U.S.-driven
allegations and inspections regime channeled through the IAEA have
focused on Iran�s parallel failure to disprove a negative�namely, that
Iran prove that it is not secretly engaging in practices that are
prohibited under the NPT and subsequent Safeguards Agreement (May 15,
1974) and the Additional Protocols (signed December 18, 2003, though
only observed "on a voluntary basis").� Moreover, throughout the
current 38-month cycle of allegations and inspections to which the IAEA
has now subjected Iran, the IAEA has repeatedly adopted a phraseology
to the effect that the IAEA is "unable to confirm the absence of
undeclared nuclear material and activities inside Iran"�an inherently
politicized condition that no state would be capable of meeting, no
matter what it agreed to do, and whose application depends ultimately
on the strength of the political forces that pressure the IAEA to
continue the search.17��With enough political pressure, no amount of
"transparency" and "confidence-building" measures on the part of the
accused state can meet it, as was evident in the Iraq case.� And as
long as the IAEA reports that it is unable to confirm the absence of
undeclared nuclear material and activities inside Iran, Iran is
helpless before the IAEA�s negative condition.

The "threat" and crisis have been sustained in the media by the use of
patriotic and fear-mongering frames and suppressions of�relevant fact
that may even be more brazen and misleading than those justifying the
invasion of Iraq.� The crisis-supporting frames are:�(1) that Iran is a
dangerous theocratic state, with an irrational and unstable political
and clerical leadership that has supported terrorists and�threatened
Israel and is therefore not to be trusted with a nuclear program; (2)
that it has been secretive about its nuclear program, has not been
fully cooperative with the inspections program of the IAEA, and that
the reason for this secrecy is Iran�s intention to develop nuclear
weapons; (3) that its acquisition of�a nuclear weapons capability would
be intolerable, would destabilize the Middle East if not the whole of
Western Civilization, and must be stopped.

In sustaining these frames it is necessary to suppress major facts,
such as: (1) that there is no proof that Iran plans to go beyond the
civilian uses of nuclear materials to which it is entitled under the
NPT and the IAEA has never claimed that it has evidence of such weapons
efforts or plans; (2) that both the United States and Israel possess
large and usable nuclear arsenals,18 and both have attacked other
countries in violation of the UN Charter, which Iran has not yet done;
(3) that Iran is far less dangerous than Israel and the United States
because it is very much weaker than the two that threaten it, and could
only use nuclear weapons in self-defense�offensive use would be
suicidal, which is not the case should the United States and Israel
attack Iran; (4) that Iran was secretive about its nuclear program
because it recognized that the United States and Israel would have
opposed it bitterly, but Iran at least did sign up with the NPT and has
allowed numerous intrusive inspections, whereas Israel�was allowed to
develop a nuclear weapons program secretly, with U.S., U.K., French and
Norwegian aid, refused to join the NPT, and remains outside the
inspections system;19 �(5) that both the United States and Israel are
virtual theocratic states, profoundly influenced by religious parties
whose leaders are arrogant, racist, and militaristic, and who have
posed persistent threats to international peace and security; (6) that
both the United States and Israel have supported terrorists on a larger
scale than Iran (e.g., Posada, Bosch and the Cuban terrorist network,
the Nicaraguan contras, Savimbi and UNITA, the South Lebanon Army,
among many others); and (7)�that it is the United States and Israel
that have destabilized the Middle East, by aggression and ethnic
cleansing in violation of�international law and by forcing a huge
imbalance in which only Israel is allowed nuclear weapons among the
countries of the Middle East, a condition which allowed Israel to
invade Lebanon and enables it to ethnically cleanse the West Bank
without threat of retaliation.

A first alternative-frame that might be used but is not to be found in
the mainstream media is based on the fact that, year-in and year-out,
the United States has been a chronic violator of the NPT�s Article VI
requirement that all parties "pursue negotiations in good faith on
effective measures relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race at an
early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and
complete disarmament under strict and effective international
control."� In the context of the U.S.-driven accusations about Iran�s
violations of the NPT, it is worth emphasizing that in a 1996 decision
by the International Court of Justice, the fourteen judges on the Court
ruled unanimously that "There exists an obligation to pursue in good
faith and bring to a conclusion negotiations leading to nuclear
disarmament in all its aspects under strict and effective international
control."20� The United States has brazenly ignored this ruling,
refusing to countenance any form of disarmament or international
control over its sovereign rights on questions of war and peace, openly
working on improving its nuclear weapons,21 and even threatening to use
them against Iran.22��

Hence the United States not only has unclean hands,�but its own illegal
policies and threats pose a clear and present danger that the UN and
international community should be addressing right now.� Furthermore,
not only is Iran not an immediate threat, but given the U.S. threat to
Iran and the U.S. refusal to work toward the elimination of nuclear
weapons and to pledge non-use against nuclear weapons-free countries
like Iran, Iran has a moral right to try to acquire such weapons
for�self-defense. �Noting what the Americans had done to a
nuclear-weaponless Iraq in 2003, the Israeli historian Martin van
Creveld�has written, "Had the Iranians not tried to build nuclear
weapons, they would be crazy."23

This point is reinforced by a second alternative frame: namely, that
the United States is using the Iran nuclear threat as a gambit closely
analogous to the WMD claim that it employed as the lying rationale for
the invasion-occupation of Iraq.� As before, the gambit is a cover for
a desire to force a "regime change" in Iran to make it into another
amenable client state.� This is sometimes even openly acknowledged, and
helps explain the frenzied threat-inflation and artificial creation of
a crisis that can be used as the pretext for an attack and possibly
produce turmoil and political change in Iran.� It also helps us
understand the continual U.S. refusal to negotiate with Iran and/or to
offer a security guarantee in exchange for possible Iranian concessions
on its nuclear plans.� The same process occurred in the run-up to the
Iraq invasion�the United States inflated the threat, created a crisis,
refused to negotiate with Iraq, and would not allow inspectors to
complete their search for WMD allegedly because of the dire threat, but
more plausibly because of� a longstanding U.S. determination to
engineer a regime change.

As noted, the mainstream media have followed the party line on the Iran
"crisis" and failed almost without exception to note the problems and
deal with matters raised in the alternative frames.� Remarkably,
despite their acknowledged massive failures as news organizations and
de facto propaganda service for the Bush administration in the lead up
to the Iraq invasion,24 with the administration refocusing on the new
dire threat from Iran it took the mainstream media no time whatsoever
to fall into party-line formation�from which they have not deviated.�
Thus, they never go into the U.S. violations of its NPT obligations,
never discuss international law and its possible application to U.S.
pre-invasion aggression and threats of open attack, just as they
ignored the subject in reference to the Iraq invasion.25� They never
challenge the threat-inflation or consider any possible Iranian right
of self-defense.� (We may recall that the Free Press was able to make
an almost completely disarmed Guatemala a frightening threat back in
1954, as well as the badly weakened Iraq in 2002-3.) �The media never
suggest that the United States may be abusing the inspections
process�never harking back to its abuses and outright lying as regard
the Iraq inspections effort�and they never suggest ulterior motives for
the aggressor.�

In treating EU, UN and IAEA responses, the media never suggest that the
real problem is containing the United States.� In the comical version
offered and hardly contested in the media, it is often suggested that
there is�a threat of� "appeasement" of�Iran, and that if the world is
"to avoid another Munich," and the "Security Council fails to confront
the Iranian threat," it is up to the United States to "form an
international coalition to disarm the regime."26� But there is never a
hint that the problem might be appeasement of the United States.� Or
that the applicable Munich analogy might not apply to the Iranian
nuclear program at all, as the 1938 Pact among the European powers that
impelled Czechoslovakia to accept the cession of the Sudetenland to the
Nazis is analogous to the ongoing UN and EU role in facilitating the
designs the United States is pursuing toward Iranian territory.27�

Pravda could not have done a better job for any planned Soviet venture
abroad than the Free Press is once again doing for the Bush
administration.
�
Conclusion

It is clear that when it comes to actions that the superpower (or its
leading client states) chooses to take, international law is completely
inoperative, and that this has become institutionalized and accepted by
the "international community" (which doesn�t include the global
underlying population).� In the case of Iran, it is as if the lessons
of�the recent past, and even of the ongoing present in Iraq, simply
disappear, and similar imaginary "threats" and misuse of supposedly
neutral international bodies like the IAEA and its "inspections" can be
re-run in a miasma of hypocrisy. In fact, as we have noted, the
situation has deteriorated, with the UN and EU now playing an active
aggression-supportive role, following the U.S. lead in denying Iran its
"inalienable" rights under the NPT and making its pursuit of�those
rights into a criminalized �"threat to peace," setting the stage for a
more direct U.S. attack.

Our conclusion is twofold.� First, given the U.S. and Israeli
possession of nuclear weapons, their threat to possibly use them in
attacking Iran, and the record of both countries in major law
violations such as the U.S. violation of the UN Charter prohibition of
aggression and the Israeli violations of� the Fourth Geneva Convention
on obligations of an occupying power, and given the fact that the
Washington regime is already in the early phases of aggression against
Iran, the UN and Security Council should be urgently focusing on the
U.S. aggression instead of some minor inspection delinquencies on the
part of Iran (and it goes without saying, instead of giving positive
aid to the aggressor�s program).�

Second, if�there is a concern over violations of the NPT, far more
important than Iran�s deficiencies are the U.S. failure to undertake
any measures to eliminate nuclear weapons and its protection of Israel
as the sole nuclear power in the Middle East, and remaining outside
IAEA jurisdiction.� In fact, the United States is improving its nuclear
arsenal with the express intention of making nuclear strikes more
"practicable."� As these threaten Iran as well as many other countries,
common sense dictates that this violation of the NPT is vastly more
important than any attributable to Iran�real or imaginary.�

In a decent and sane world, bringing the U.S. violations of the NPT and
its nuclear improvement actions before the UN and Security Council
ought to have a very high priority, second only to stopping the U.S.
aggression already underway against Iran and which threatens an
enlargement of� the conflagration begun by its prior and still raging
"supreme international crime" in Iraq.�

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[SNIP: please visit URL below to see the other 26 "Endnotes". Here's
the last of them: 27. The Iran gambit could be a cover for a partial
invasion-occupation of the geographic region of Iran where in the words
of the U.S. Department of Energy the "vast majority of Iran�s crude oil
reserves are located,"--that is, "in giant onshore fields in the
southwestern Khuzestan region near the Iraqi border." Contrary to
popular myth, this would not entail going "all the way to Tehran," as a
saying attributed to the Neoconservatives has it, but only as far as
the greatest concentration of Iran�s proven oil reserves extend, where
southeastern Iraq borders Khuzestan.� See "Iran ," U.S. Energy
Information Administration, January, 2006, p. 2.� As this same report
adds, "in September 2005, several bombs were detonated near oil wells
in Khuzestan, raising concerns about unrest amongst ethnic Arabs in the
region" (p. 2).]�

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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: May 21, 2006 2:33:20 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: MP to investigate Dr Kelly's death

"He vowed to question ministers and to unearth new facts in a bid to
establish the 'truth' of the case."� Comment: He's a nice man, but a
little simple. "Question ministers?" Hah! They will lie, of course.
That's why they are ministers, they are "team players" good at lying.
The simple truth is that the British government, through its secret
services, murdered Dr. David Kelly...�
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MP to Investigate Dr Kelly's Death

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http://
politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1779184,00.html
H�l�ne Mulholland
Friday May 19, 2006

A backbench MP is to investigate the "unanswered questions" from the
official inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly.

The former Liberal Democrat environmental spokesman Norman Baker today
revealed his decision to stand down from the shadow cabinet two months
ago was based on a quest to establish the "truth" behind Dr Kelly's
death.

Mr Baker said he wanted to return to the issue because the 2003 Hutton
inquiry had "blatantly failed to get to the bottom of matters".

He vowed to question ministers and to unearth new facts in a bid to
establish the "truth" of the case.

Dr Kelly was found dead on July 18 2003 after being named as the
possible source of a BBC story on the government's Iraq dossier.

Later that month Lord Hutton was appointed head of an independent
inquiry into the events surrounding Dr Kelly's death. After a two-month
inquiry, Lord Hutton concluded the scientist had taken his own life.

Oxford coroner Nicholas Gardiner subsequently looked into the
possibility of reopening the inquest into Dr Kelly's death, but after
reviewing the evidence with the lord chancellor, decided that there was
no case for doing so.

Mr Baker explained that he had decided to wait until he relinquished
his environmental role before embarking on an investigation to find out
the "truth" that the Hutton inquiry had failed to deliver.

"It did not answer questions," he told Guardian Unlimited today.

"It was not carried out using proper rules of evidence, people were
not giving evidence under oath and the whole thing became a criticism
of the BBC."

Mr Baker said he had given himself a year to carry out his inquiries.
This will include revising the medical evidence, interviews with
experts and looking at issues relating to the government's "behaviour"
in the affair, as well as the weapons of mass destruction claims made
in the months preceding Dr Kelly's death.

Mr Baker admitted he already holds a "number of theories" about the
scientist's death, but declined to speculate so early into his
investigation, which began two months ago just after he stood down from
his shadow post.

Mr Baker, who is known for his forensic use of parliamentary
questions, insisted his decision to stand down after six years as
environment spokesman was his choice alone.

"I have long been unhappy about the sequence of events and I was
unhappy at the time about the way the Hutton inquiry was conducted and
I wanted to free up some time to look into this," he said.

"I haven't informed the party leadership yet," he added. Asked if Dr
Kelly's widow, Janice, was aware of his plans, Mr Baker said: "I
recognise the sensitivity of the matter for the family and the need to
speak with them, but only if they are prepared to do so."

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The IMF in Iraq: The
Second Invasion
by Karen Button
May 21, 2006

Uruknet

"IMF... Takes away everything it can get Always making certain that
there's one thing left Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
And they call it democracy" - Bruce Cockburn, singer/songwriter Call it
Democracy, 1985

Last December the US-backed Iraqi government agreed to a $685 million
loan from the International Monetary Fund, and effectively sold their
country down the river called economic slavery�the master being the
Free Market Economy.

They will have a lot of company. Many of the world�s so-called third
world and developing nations are already on that river, barely afloat.
Most of Latin America has been under the thumb of the IMF�s brutal
austerity programs for decades, though certain countries, most notably
Venezuela and Bolivia, who are nationalizing their resources, are
testament to the pervasive undercurrent of socialist ideals.

For Iraq though, the journey has just begun.

That $685 million loan came with a heavy price tag: end oil subsidies
and open Iraq�s economy to the free market. In other words, dismantle
any form of socialised society and make it a commodity.

Just days after Iraq�s constitutional election gave oil companies their
first taste of Iraqi crude by requiring all unexplored fields be open
to the highest bidder, Prime Minister Al-Jaafari implemented the first
of the IMF policies, cutting fuel subsidies. Nearly overnight fuel
prices rose nine-fold. Now, five months later, a canister of gas costs
about $14 USD in a country where the average monthly income is maybe
$200 USD.

Defending the cuts, IMF representative Bill Murray told the Cox News
Service that Iraq had to "come up with budgetary resources to finance
health care, education and other important public services". He failed
to mention that Iraq once provided free health care to 93 per cent of
its population with its oil revenues and also had the highest literacy
rate in the Middle East.

Now, even though the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reported in
January that poverty among Iraqis had risen by 30 per cent since the
US-led invasion, the government is bravely marching toward the free
market.

At the end of March, the Ministry of Trade, largely responsible for
food distribution, announced that it would cancel several items from
the long-instituted food ration program. According to figures from the
trade ministry itself, nearly 26.5 (or 96 per cent) of Iraq�s 28
million people are dependent on the monthly ration.

During Saddam Hussein�s reign, 12 items were included in the rations.
That�s now been cut to four essential items, including sugar, rice,
flour and cooking oil.

The ministry is expecting to cut rations altogether, perhaps by the end
of the year, according to the Ra'ad Hamza, a senior trade ministry
official. "If you keep Iraq under socialist laws, the economy won't
improve," he said to the Integrated Regional Information Networks. "But
we'll continue to provide the population with essential items at least
until the end of the current year,"

Inflation, which has skyrocketed since the invasion, can be expected to
continue unchecked with the IMF policies in place.

Baghdad University economist Omar Abdel Kareem, quoted by IRIN, stated,
"Before this decision, prices on items such as vegetables and grains
had already doubled in January. Since then, they've increased more than
20 percent a week."

With the elimination of some rations, the price of certain products has
risen by as much as 300 per cent. "In 2002 lentil beans were sold for
about US $0.50 per kilogramme. Since then, the retail price has jumped
to around US $2 per kilogramme."

With half of Iraq�s population under the age of 18, it will be the
children who bear the brunt of these tried and failed IMF policies.

UNICEF reported earlier this month that 25 per cent of children in Iraq
are now malnourished and underweight; a March 2005 report found that
malnutrition had doubled since the US-led invasion. Expect those
numbers to rise alongside the inflation rate.

But Mr. Murray is not looking at those indices; he will note, instead,
that Iraq�s economy has grown by 10 per cent. By IMF standards, that�s
success. The poverty, malnutrition, and inflation don�t count.

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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: May 21, 2006 1:19:13 PM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Col. Ted Westhusing: A Journey That Ended in Anguish

A Journey That Ended in
Anguish
By T. Christian Miller
The Los Angeles Times

Sunday 27 November 2005 From: Brian McDermott From: faye mcgarry
<aussie_sheila2002@yahoo.com>

Col. Ted Westhusing
<http://iraq.pigstye.net/images/articles/
WesthusingTedS_1_original.jpeg> �......Suicide or Execution? The US
says Suicide by Pistol! A Carlyle Insider says Murder!
��http://www.blackopradio.com/westhusing.html��
�
Anonymous said... ��
Ted had received threatening letters/notes the week he died,
coincidentally his body guard also went on R&R the week he was killed
and Ted feared greatly for his life and said he thought wouldn't get
home alive. He had already let go some contractors that weren't happy
and was about to expose major corruption with the Iraqi police they
were training which he found out that some of them were insurgents or
had links with them, giving info to the enemy and using their skills
against the Iraqi people and the army was turning a blind eye to this.
He was about to expose a major piece of this treachery and corruption
and when it got known he was going to speak out, he was killed.
Millions of dollars are transfered with the contractors and not all of
it is on the up and up or accounted for. Insurgents in the police
forces are using their american training/weapons against us and the
Iraqi people. Ted was shot behind the head in execution style. There
were also indications he was drugged the final days and that he was
killed when he was asleep/drugged and body found by contractors who had
direct access to him, that was very unusual.
deep throat | 08.18.05 - 10:50 am | #�
Anonymous said... ��
also, there were a pair of surgical gloves in his room on a table
according to the forensic report, the gun was at his feet, the door was
locked when the contractor i.e., manager first came there and unlocked
when he went back in after seeing Ted on the floor, this person, also
unchambered the gun and threw it on the bed (by the way, this
contractor), wasn't checked for residue or interrogated, there was an
argument reported in Ted's trailer (by the person living next door)
before his time of death and additional coverup. USIS? Contractors?
Getting rid of...he was in the fox's den. Ted's note had three pages
missing and was about these major issues not him/suicide and were torn
from a notebook on his bed.,....you tell me. I know......
��
�
January 23, 2006 -- More details emerge on Col. Ted Westhusing's
"suiciding" in Iraq. Days before his supposed suicide by a
"self-inflicted" gunshot wound in a Camp Dublin, Iraq trailer, West
Point Honor Board member and Iraqi police and security forces trainer
Col. Ted Westhusing reported in e-mail to the United States that
"terrible things were going on Iraq." He also said he hoped he would
make it back to the United States alive. Westhusing had three weeks
left on his tour of duty in Iraq when he allegedly shot himself in June
2005.

It is noteworthy that after Westhusing's death, two top Army generals,
both responsible for training Iraqi forces, General Dave Petraeus, the
Commander of the Multi National Security Transition Command Iraq
(MNSTCI), and Maj. Gen. Joseph Fil, the Commander of the 1st Cavalry
Division, were quickly transferred without much fanfare to Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Hood, Texas, respectively.
��
Informed sources report that Westhusing was prepared to blow the
whistle on fraud involving US Investigations Services (USIS), a Carlyle
Group company, when he died. [See Jan. 14 story below]. He had also
discovered links between USIS principals and clandestine events
involving the Iran-Contra scandal of the Reagan-Bush I administrations.
Westhusing has also linked USIS to the illegal killing and torture of
Iraqis. USIS personnel whom Westhusing was investigating had the keys
to his trailer. In addition, Westhusing's personal bodyguard was given
a leave of absence shortly before the colonel's death.

The U.S. Army's official report on Westhusing's death contained a
number of falsehoods, according to those close to the case. Most
importantly, the Army report stated that Westhusing had electronically
communicated an interest in obtaining hollow point bullets. The bullet
which killed Westhusing was a hollow point. However, the Army's
statement was false, according to an informed source. In addition, the
Army combed Westhusing's service record and interviewed a number of
colleagues in order to concoct a story that would make suicide appear
plausible.

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer is reportedly trying to get
the Senate to investigate Westhusing's death. However, with the
Republicans in firm control, it appears that murder of senior U.S.
military officers is also something the GOP is more than willing to
cover up.

In this case, as well as another highly esteemed, well adjusted British
career officer's alleged suicide, it stinks like the 3 month old
corpses we're still finding in my beloved New Orleans.

Capt. Ken Masters supposedly ate his gun. He is responsible for
watchdogging abuses in POW camps. hmmmmm...

Same drill, successful career 25 years, 2 small children, supportive
career officer wife.

Highly unlikely. Given the devastation American business has inflicted
on the majority of her citizens in the name of pure capitalism run
amok, a few mouths silenced in the chaos of Iraq is insignificant...to
the thugs running the asylum.
��
�http://nomoreapples.blogspot.com/2005/06/col-ted-westhusing-
suicide.html
��
January 14, 2006 -- Serious questions remain concerning Col.
Westhusing's "suicide" in Iraq. Army's chief ethics expert was
murdered, according to Carlyle Group insider.

According an informed source within The Carlyle Group business
consortium, Col. Ted Westhusing, the Army's top military ethicist and
professor at West Point, did not commit suicide in a Baghdad trailer in
June 2005 as was widely reported in the mainstream media five months
later. At the time of his death, Westhusing was investigating contract
violations and human rights abuses by US Investigations Services
(USIS), formerly a federal agency, the Office of Federal Investigations
(OFI), which operated under the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

In 1996, OFI, which conducted background investigations for civil
service personnel, was privatized. The 700 government employees of OFI
became employee-owners as part of USIS. In January 2003, the New York
investment firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe, described by a
Carlyle insider as a virtual shadow operation for The Carlyle Group,
bought USIS for $545 million. With 5000 current and former employees of
USIS sharing $500 million, the deal made them wealthy with the stroke
of a pen. However, upper management within USIS became much wealthier
than the rank-and-file. Insiders report that the twelve top managers at
USIS became multimillionaires as a result of their cashing in of their
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). Many of these instant
millionaires already had a close relationship with The Carlyle Group.

Carlyle had been a shareholder in USIS since 1999 and with the buy-out
deal via the Welsh, Carson, Anderson, and Stowe deal, Carlyle became
the major shareholder.

USIS continues to have a virtual exclusivity deal to perform background
security investigations for OPM. The company bills itself as "one of
the largest Intelligence and Security Services companies in North
America.�

With the Iraq invasion, USIS obtained lucrative Pentagon private
security contracts in Iraq. At a 2004 job fair in Falls Church,
Virginia, USIS was advertising for "interrogators" and "protection
specialists" for "overseas assignments." While he was in Iraq training
Iraqi police and overseeing the USIS contract to train police as part
of the Pentagon's Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, Westhusing
received an anonymous letter that reported USIS's Private Services
Division (PSD) was engaged in fraudulent activities in Iraq, including
over-billing the government. In addition, the letter reported that USIS
security personnel had murdered innocent Iraqis. After demanding
answers from USIS, Westhusing reported the problems up the chain of
command. After an "investigation," the Army found no evidence of
wrongdoing by USIS.

That decision signed Col. Westhusing's death sentence. USIS and Carlyle
have powerful allies in the administration, including Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, the Princeton roommate of Carlyle Chairman Emeritus
and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci. Former President George H.
W. Bush, former Secretary of State James Baker, and former British
Prime Minister John Major are Carlyle international advisers. George W.
Bush was formerly employed by a Carlyle subsidiary and the Bin Laden
business cartel was a one-time investor in the firm.

Westhusing, who, according to friends and colleagues, showed no signs
of depression, left a suicide note the Army concluded was in his
handwriting. However, Westhusing's family and friends have thrown cold
water on the Army's investigation.

WMR can report that based on information obtained from Carlyle
insiders, Col. Westhusing's death was not caused by suicide. The fact
that Westhusing was investigating one of the most politically and
financially powerful firms in the world resulted in higher-ups wanting
him out of the way. According to the Los Angeles Times, all of the
witnesses who claimed Westhusing shot himself were USIS employees. In
addition, a USIS manager interfered with the crime scene, including
handling Westhusing's service revolver. The USIS manager was not tested
for gunpowder residue on his hands.

Westhusing's investigation threatened to unearth a network of
fraudsters looting the US Treasury that included the Bush family and
some of their closest financial partners.
��
After Westhusing's murder, USIS management sent a vaguely-worded memo
to employees about how to respond to derogatory information in the
media or rumors about USIS. Management's attention, described as
"psychotic" in nature, was on USIS's upcoming IPO (initial public
offering), according to a well-placed source.

USIS also owns Total Information Services of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a
commercial personal data mining operation.

http://iraq.pigstye.net/article.php/WesthusingTedS
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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/20/climate-scientist-to-cei/

Climate Scientist to CEI: Stop
Misrepresenting My Research

On Wednesday, the Competitive Enterprise Institute � a front group
funded by ExxonMobil and other big oil companies � launched two
advertisements in response to Al Gore�s new movie about global warming,
An Inconvenient Truth.

One of the advertisements attempts to show that the scientific
evidence for global warming is in dispute, claiming a study found the
�Antarctic ice sheet is getting thicker, not thinner.�

The primary author of that study, Curt Davis, has issued statement
blasting CEI�s use of his study. Here�s an excerpt:

These television ads are a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead the
public about the global warming debate. They are selectively using only
parts of my previous research to support their claims. They are not
telling the entire story to the public.

The whole story, according to Davis, is that increased precipitation in
the interior of Antarctica is �predicted consequence of global climate
warming.� Warmer temperatures mean more participation and more snow on
the interior of the continent. Meanwhile, �Growth of the ice sheet was
only noted on the interior of the ice sheet and did not include coastal
areas. Coastal areas are known to be losing mass.�

The reality is, there are no legitimate scientists or scientific
studies that support CEI�s views on global warming. So they are forced
to grossly misrepresent scientific research. Unfortunately for them,
the scientists don�t look like they are going to put up with it.

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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: May 22, 2006 2:21:11 AM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Pressed by U.S., European Banks Limit Iran Deals

May 22, 2006

Comment: Typical Zionist U.S. dirty-dealing... somewhat pathetic since
it won't change much and will only increase world dislike of U.S.
tactics... if possible!

Pressed by U.S., European Banks Limit Iran Deals

By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/22/world/middleeast/22iran.html?
ei=5065&en=731a745479da77da&ex=1148961600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

WASHINGTON, May 21 � Prodded by the United States with threats of fines
and lost business, four of the biggest European banks have started
curbing their activities in Iran, even in the absence of a Security
Council resolution imposing economic sanctions on Iran for its
suspected nuclear weapons program.

Top Treasury and State Department officials have intensified their
efforts to limit Iran-related activities of major banks in Europe, the
United States and the Middle East in the past six months, invoking
antiterrorism and banking laws. They have also traveled to Europe and
the Middle East to drive home the risky nature of dealing with a
country that has repeatedly rebuffed Western demands over suspending
uranium enrichment, and to urge European countries to take similar
steps.

Stuart A. Levey, the under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and
financial intelligence, said: "We are seeing banks and other
institutions reassessing their ties to Iran. They are asking themselves
if they really want to be handling business for entities owned by a
government engaged in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and support for terrorism."

The four European banks � the UBS and Credit Suisse banks of
Switzerland, ABN Amro of the Netherlands, and HSBC, based in London �
have made varying levels of disclosure about the limits on their
activities in Iran in the past six months. Almost all large European
banks have branches or bureaus in the United States, units that are
subject to American laws.

American officials said the United States had informed its European
allies about the new pressure exerted on the banks, and indeed had
asked these countries to join the effort. At the same time, the
Americans have not publicized the new pressure, partly out of concern
it could complicate efforts by European negotiators, who were still
talking with Iran about a package of incentives to suspend uranium
enrichment.

It is not clear how curbed business with four of Europe's biggest banks
could adversely affect Iran. But some outside political and economic
experts say it is unlikely to do much damage considering Iran is one of
OPEC's leading producers and is earning hundreds of millions of dollars
worth of windfall profits daily from $70-a-barrel petroleum.

The American prodding has not yet resulted in any fines or other
punishment. But UBS and ABN Amro are no strangers to the sting of
American financial penalties for dealing with countries that the United
States has wanted to isolate. UBS was fined $100 million by the Federal
Reserve two years ago for the unauthorized movement of dollars to Iran
and other countries like Libya and Yugoslavia, which were subject to
American trade sanctions at the time. Last December, ABN Amro was fined
$80 million for failure to comply with regulations against money
laundering and with economic sanctions against Libya and Iran from 1997
to 2004.

UBS now says it will no longer do direct business with any
individuals, businesses or banks in Iran. UBS also says it will not
finance exports or imports for any corporate clients in Iran. But the
bank has said that it would not stop doing business with clients who
use other means to transact business there. ABN Amro also says it has
minimized its activities in Iran.

"We have no representation in Iran," said Sierk Nawijn, a spokesman for
ABN Amro in Amsterdam. He added that although the bank does no
dollar-based business with Iran, it was participating in "a fairly
limited number of transactions" with it."

Georg S�ntgerath, a spokesman for Credit Suisse in Zurich, said, "As
of January, we have said that we will not enter into any new business
relations with corporate clients in Iran." He said the decision, which
applied to Syria and some other countries, resulted from an assessment
of an "increased economic risk for our bank and our clients."

He said, however, that the bank would fulfill existing contracts with
businesses in Iran.

A United Nations Security Council resolution might restrict some of
those kinds of dealings.

The Americans have taken other steps to pressure Iran. With American
encouragement, Iran's rating as a business risk was raised last month
by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group
of 30 leading countries with market economies.

At the same time, the defiance of the West by President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad of Iran has unsettled markets, and American officials have
said the climate of anxiety over the prospect of globally enforced
sanctions � or even military action � was having its own effect.

"I think there is a real and growing sense that there's a risk
associated with doing business with Iran, with lending Iran more money
or providing it with a line of credit," said Robert G. Joseph, the
under secretary of state for arms control and international security.
"But I would argue that their motive is market forces, more than any
American pressure."

Some European diplomats from countries with missions in Tehran say that
there are signs of an impact, despite the rise in oil prices.

Whatever the cause, Iran's economic growth has slowed to less than 5
percent, its stock market has dropped more than 20 percent in the past
year, new investments and construction have declined, and Iranians have
been sending their money abroad, or buying gold.

Iran has recently tried to counter diplomatic pressures over its
nuclear program with reminders to Europe that it was a good market,
with a good work force. In a regular weekly news conference on Sunday,
the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hamidreza Assefi, urged Europe
not to take any steps that would jeopardize economic links with Iran.

"We have good ties with Europe, and a bad decision by Europeans over
Iran's nuclear program can undermine relations and will eventually harm
the Europeans," he said.

Many experts said it would be difficult to bar banks from conducting
the lucrative business of financing trade deals with Iran. Iran's
largest trading partners are Japan, China, Italy, Germany and France.
All of those nations have companies that use banks to finance letters
of credit to export machinery, commodities and other goods to Iran.

The laws being applied against banks are varied, and many of them also
apply to North Korea, Syria, Cuba and Sudan. A 1984 law requires a ban
on activities with any country declared a sponsor of terrorism.
Officials are also invoking the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act of 1996 and a
directive signed by President Bush last year banning transactions with
those suspected of helping the spread of unconventional weapons.

Under that directive, the United States has identified six Iranian
entities, including its Aerospace Industries Organization, the Atomic
Energy Organization of Iran and several private industrial groups, as
off limits to banks that operate under American protections and laws.

Mr. Joseph said the use of American banking regulations and
antiterrorism laws against European banks had been effective against
Iran and would have a greater effect "if we can get other countries to
take similar actions."

Some experts say they doubt that anything short of a sweeping oil
embargo, or a blockade of gasoline imports � Iran imports about 40
percent of its gasoline � could get Iran to change its behavior, and
the West is not contemplating such steps.

"I don't see that the pullout of a few European banks doing a
tremendous amount of damage," said Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst at the
International Crisis Group, an advocacy organization. "They're making
$300 million a day from oil revenues, and they can weather the storm."

Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Tehran for this article.

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Afghanistan: Drug Addiction
Lucrative for Neolib Banksters, CIA
by Kurt Nimmo
May 21, 2006

Another Day in the Empire

"An American counternarcotics official was killed and two other
Americans wounded in a suicide bombing in western Afghanistan today,
while heavy fighting between Taliban insurgents and Afghan police
continued in two southern provinces, officials said," reports the New
York Times. "We confirm that a U.S. citizen contractor for the State
Department Bureau of International Narcotic and Law Enforcement,
working for the police training program in Herat was killed in a
vehicle-borne I.E.D. attack," Chris Harris, an American Embassy
spokesman, told the newspaper. After this mention, the Times moves on
to detail the increasing violence between Afghan puppet police and
"militants," that is to say Afghans fighting against the occupation of
their country, an entirely natural occurrence.

Of course, the Times does not bother to mention that the Afghan opium
trade--in fact much of the opium trade in the so-called "Golden
Crescent" (Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan)--was cultivated and nurtured
by the United States government and the CIA, leading to countless cases
of miserable heroin addiction in America and Europe. Reading the Times,
we get the impression the Taliban--at one time sponsored by the CIA and
Pakistan's intelligence services, so long as they were kicking Russian
hindquarter--are responsible for the opium trade all on their lonesome.
As usual, the Times twists the story through omission.

"ClA-supported Mujahedeen rebels ... engaged heavily in drug
trafficking while fighting against the Soviet-supported government,"
writes historian William Blum. "The Agency's principal client was
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, one of the leading druglords and a leading heroin
refiner. CIA-supplied trucks and mules, which had carried arms into
Afghanistan, were used to transport opium to laboratories along the
Afghan/Pakistan border. The output provided up to one half of the
heroin used annually in the United States and three-quarters of that
used in Western Europe. U.S. officials admitted in 1990 that they had
failed to investigate or take action against the drug operation because
of a desire not to offend their Pakistani and Afghan allies," and also
because selling heroin and spreading misery is highly profitable. In
fact, the Soviets attempted to impose an opium ban on the country and
this resulted in a revolt by tribal groups eventually exploited by the
CIA and Pakistan.

"Reports issued by the UN and Drug Enforcement Administration in the
early 1980s stated that by 1981 Afghan heroin producers may have
captured 60 per cent of the heroin market in Western Europe and the
United States. In New York City in 1979 alone, the year the
CIA-organized flow of arms to the mujahiddeen began) heroin-related
deaths increased by 77 per cent. There were no Superbowl ads that year
about doing drugs and aiding terror. You could say that those dead
addicts had given their lives in the fight to drive back Communism,"
write Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.

Making sure heroin addiction continues unabated is such a lucrative
business for the CIA and Wall Street investors, Bush decided "not to
destroy the opium crop in Afghanistan. President Bush, who previously
linked the Afghan drug trade directly to terrorism, has now decided not
to destroy the Afghan opium crop," Charles R. Smith reported for
NewsMax on March 28, 2002, as Bush's illegal invasion of the country
was well underway. "Several sources inside Capitol Hill noted that the
CIA opposes the destruction of the Afghan opium supply because to do so
might destabilize the Pakistani government of Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
... The threat to overthrow Musharraf is motivated in part by Islamic
radical groups linked to the Pakistani intelligence service,
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The radical groups reportedly obtain
their primary funding through opium production and trade." In fact,
destroying the opium crop would have put a terrible financial squeeze
on the agency and angered financiers who routinely trade in misery and
death.

Naturally, the Times did not bother to mention the fact the Taliban
attempted to eradicate opium production and this was likely one of the
reasons Bush the Junior invaded Afghanistan. "Although the Taliban had
virtually stamped out poppy production, the country now accounts for
two-third of the world's heroin. As hard as it may be to believe, there
is compelling evidence that the US (via the CIA) may be directly
involved in narco-trafficing," notes Mike Whitney, who cites the
following from Portland Independent Media:

Before 1980, Afghanistan produced 0% of the world's opium. But then the
CIA moved in, and by 1986 they were producing 40% of the world's heroin
supply. By 1999, they were churning out 3,200 TONS of heroin a
year--nearly 80% of the total market supply. But then something
unexpected happened. The Taliban rose to power, and by 2000 they had
destroyed nearly all of the opium fields. Production dropped from
3,000+ tons to only 185 tons, a 94% reduction! This enormous drop in
revenue subsequently hurt not only the CIA's Black Budget projects, but
also the free-flow of laundered money in and out of the Controller's
banks.

It also put a pinch on the criminals and gangsters in Pakistan. "The
Taliban's actions ... (destroying the opium crop) severed the ruling
military junta in Pakistan from its primary source of foreign revenues
and made bin Laden and the Taliban completely expendable in the eyes of
the Pakistani government. It also cut off billions of dollars in
revenues that had been previously laundered through western banks and
Russian financial institutions connected to them," explains From the
Wilderness. "Prior to the WTC attacks, credible sources, including the
U.S. government, the IMF, Le Monde and the U.S. Senate placed the
amount of drug cash flowing into Wall Street and U.S. banks at around
$250-$300 billion a year," not exactly small potatoes.

In 2004, according to research conducted by the Democratic Policy
Committee, after "decreasing dramatically under the Taliban regime,
Afghanistan now [2004] produces nearly 3/4 of the world's opium. CIC
[Center for International Cooperation] found that 'opium production,
processing, and trafficking have surged, with revenues equaling roughly
half of the legal economy of Afghanistan.' It is estimated that 1.7
million people, or 7 percent of the total population now grow poppies,"
all of this under the United States installed government of Hamid
Karzai, the ex-Unocal employee.

But then none of this should be surprising--the CIA and neolib
financiers and moneymen have long dabbled in drug dealing and drug
addiction profiteering.

In addition to turning immense profits for societal parasites and other
cockroach infestations on Wall Street, drug dealing is a great way for
the government to intervene in the business of other nations, as Oliver
North well understands (as the Contra was funded by the smuggling of
cocaine). "The CIA functionally gains influence and control in
governments corrupted by criminal narco-trafficking. Politically, the
CIA exerts influence by leveraging narco-militarists and corrupted
politicians... This is really NEO-narco-colonialism, whereby local
criminal proxies do the bidding of the patron government seeking
expanded influence. But because of the quid-pro-quo of protecting the
criminal proxies' illicit pipelines, the result is still a functional
narco-colonialism, involving a narcotics commodity in the actual
practical execution of policy, with the very different twist of covert
action," summarizes the CIA & Drugs website,

http://ciadrugs.homestead.com/files/index.html.

So it is not surprising, as the New York Times puts it, there is a
"Sudden Rise of Violence in Afghanistan" and the predictable murder of
"a U.S. citizen contractor for the State Department Bureau of
International Narcotic and Law Enforcement." In Afghanistan, the
Hegelian dialect is working overtime--the U.S. government engineers the
Afghan opium trade, thus resulting in social problems and violence
associated with illicit drug distribution and consumption, and then
turns around and organizes police training programs to combat the
scourge it has spawned.

As well, for the Fabian socialist globalists, it is a great way to
break down borders and implement "free trade zones," that is to say
unhindered thievery zones. Call it a "war on drugs" or the endless war
against "terrorism" (yet another Hegelian contrivance), it is all
engineered to turn the world into a large slave plantation ruled by a
decadent and debased elite cadre of neoliberal criminals.

Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces,
New Mexico. Nimmo is a contributor to Cockburn and St. Clair's, The
Politics of Anti-Semitism. A collection of his essays for CounterPunch,
Another Day in the Empire: Life in Neoconservative America, with an
introduction by Jeffrey St. Clair is now available through Dandelion
Books: $17.95 trade paperback. He can be reached at: nimmo@nimmo.com.

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Date: Mon May 22, 2006 10:16am(PDT)
Subject: US ex-GI tells of atrocities against Iraqis! tvnl news

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Message 18
From: "Kitty" kitty285@charter.net
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 10:22am(PDT)
Subject: Re: GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon

I have to point this out again !!!! On the left side of the building there
is smoke coming out of some windows before the so called plane hit,there
seems to be an explosion on the inside first......Comments Please,this is
driving me nuts.
Kitty
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Here's the MP3 audio <http://www.total911.info/ronpaulpentagon.mp3>, and
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There was not a slamdunk story to end the concern of a lot of people. Your
respone to the footage that was released yesterday, sir?

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Message 19
From: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com
Date: Mon May 22, 2006 10:28am(PDT)
Subject: Re: GOP Congressman unconvinced 757 hit Pentagon

Someone already pointed out that what you are seeing is both of the WTC
towers in that film, not one, and the first one was already burning, which
is what you are seeing, when the second plane hit the second building. If
you look closely you can see the smoke if from the building in the
background.

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Date: Mon May 22, 2006 10:32am(PDT)
Subject: *helpless?!/ D.Schechter: Why is the media downplaying unverified vo

Friends:
Schechter nails it here. Few besides him except blogger Xymphora has been paying any attention. The Times recently carried an article which hints at the problem but also makes clear that it has no interest in following up, not even to the extent of 2004 when they carrried a (partially incorrect) map of states where there were a substantial number of districts with electronic voting machines.
Blogger Xymphora has pointed to the Republican strategy for this year's election. Allow just enough Democratic victories to keep it below the radar but make sure that control of both houses of Congress stay Republican. Make sure that there are no investigations, no impeachment proceedings.
NPR's Saturday edition 5/20 did a story on the subject and actually talked about the back door (although they didn't use the term) Diebold has thoughtfully included in all its machines, making fraud child's play. The segment made it clear that there is absolutely no control of what happens to the machines before or after the election, nor is there any control of what happens to the tallies once they are sent to central locations in the states. Predictably the NPR story ended on the feel good note of citing one state, New Mexico, where unverifable voting is outlawed due to Democratic governor Richardson's efforts.
I haven't seen one story explaining why NY state is among the last to accept electronic voting and is out of compliance wth HAVA. Could it possibly be due to Pataki's so far successful efforts to frustrate a verifed option for New Yorkers?
One point that should be emphasized is that Bush/Cheney have been able to go forward with such radical unpopular policies precisely because they understood that there would be no price to pay electorally.
John Kerry's silence on this issue has played a key role enabling the evildoers. The only question is whether he's a traitor at heart, whether he really didn't want to be president -- a theory made plausible by the campaign that he ran -- or whether there was enormous pressure on him to concede immediately in 2004. On Democracy Now about 6 months ago, testimony was presented indicating that Kerry was pressured or merely understood that the brutal attack on Fallujah couldn't go forward until his concession.
Is it astonishing that the Democrats are silent on such an issue? . As we seek for explanations, all we have to do is to look at the political landscape where effectively little or nothing is done on any media or political level about any of the innumerable scandals and outrages, perhaps the worst of which is the reckless destruction of the US and the world economy. We seem to be in a political/historical moment akin to Neil Yong's song, Helpless.
Thanks to JG for passing this along.
--Ronald Bleier

Published on Friday, May 19, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Why is the Media Downplaying Our Voting Scandal?
by Danny Schechter

Explain this to me. Why do so few of our TV "journalists" and political reporters seem interested in all the questions that have been raised about the integrity of our voting system?

Voting is at the heart of our democracy. Billions of dollars are spent on political campaigns and tens of millions on covering them. All the networks have election units complete with pollsters, analysts and experts up the kazoo. All of them sound authoritative and spice their commentary with personal war stories and a parade of insider anecdotes.

Just tune in any election night and you have to marvel at all the space age technology, fancy graphics and computer assisted projections. The anchors seem to know as much about the history of voting percentages in each Congressional district as fanatical baseball fans recall earned run averages and the speed of each pitch.

If there are ten military men and women backing up each soldier in the field, there are tens of political aides, advisors, interns and hangers on "supporting" our elected politicians, or is it poli-trikians?. Handicapping elections is one of their specialties and they know most of the races and players by heart.

Compared to corporate machinations, or even military-industrial decisions, politics is over-covered, And yet the actual process of voting�the machines, the counting, the verification, and the questions raised by well informed journalists and analysts about voting fraud seem to bore the punditocracy.

I know because I made a film, Counting on Democracy about what actually happened in Florida in what is still of the most controversial elections in our history, with the popular votes won by Gore and the election won by Bush. 175,000 votes went uncounted. Once it was decided that the GOP won, most of the media lost interest. Very few journalists looked into what the ACLU called "the tyranny of small decisions" that affected the vote.

A media review of the outcome was postponed for months and came to convoluted conclusions although the New York Times reporter who led it told me they found that Gore won. That's not what his own newspaper reported in a story that was so dense that it was hard to understand what it was saying. It was one of those pieces where the headline said one thing, the text something else.

Every one agreed that the election process was broken but there was little media attention paid to how to fix it. Once fancy new electronic voting machines appeared on the scene, many journalists seemed to promulgate the idea of "crisis over" because, in their worldwiew, technology solves all problems. Perhaps, that's because so many of them think hey are tech savvy and rely on computers every day. Yet concerns about a paper trail and verification are shunted aside as issues taken seriously only by the grumpy or conspiratorial among us.

Fast Forward to 2004. I was covering the Democratic Convention in Boston. So was Michael Moore and Greg Palast and others who were concerned that the 2004 election could become a repeat of 2000. I attended a breakfast at the Florida delegation which assured me that their problems most decidedly had not been fixed. Palast who studied the way felons and others were disenfranchised in 2000 warned that those forces who want to fix our elections were more sophisticated than ever. Everyone expressed concerns that Ohio could turn into the Florida of 2004. Oddly, the Democratic Party and its candidate didn't take the concerns seriously, or prepare for the predicted eventualities. It was business as usual.

We filmed the concerns being expressed in Boston with no response, and then for "balance" went to the GOP love fest in New York where we were told there was nothing to worry about. We edited a new beginning to our award winning film Counting on Democracy and went back to the Independent Television Service which helped fund it and got it on PBS to see if public television stations would rebroadcast it.

To our surprise, not one would. It is as if the fiasco in Florida had been forgotten. That's right, not one station would broadcast it. That's a ZERO response to a film that had been well received just four years earlier with millions saying then 'we will never forget Flori-duh.' How quickly we forgot! It was if there had been national outbreak of media-fed amnesia.

And then, as predicted in 2004, came the calamity in Ohio. Concerns with ballot rigging and other methods used to dampen Democratic turn out were briefly noted and barely pursued or covered. Kphn Kerry seemed bullied into accepting an outcome that many had doubts about. More recently accounts from across the country of breakdowns in electronic voting machines were glossed over. All were reported locally but, together, never aggregated to become the kind of national story and scandal they should be.

Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman who follow this story closely and wrote a book about what really went down in Ohio comment in a recent story in the Free Press published in Columbus Ohio, "there has been barely a whiff of coverage in the major media about any problems with the electronic voting machines."

The public on the other hand not only believes that there are problems but many insist that the elections were stolen. Write Wasserman and Fitrakis: "A recent OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll of Pennsylvania residents, found that "39% said that the 2004 election was stolen. 54% said it was legitimate. But let's look at the demographics on this question. Of the people who watch Fox news as their primary source of TV news, one half of one percent believe it was stolen and 99% believe it was legitimate. Among people who watched ANY other news source but FOX, more felt the election was stolen than legitimate. The numbers varied dramatically."

"Here, from that poll, are the stations listed as first choice by respondents and the percentage of respondents who thought the election was stolen: CNN 70%; MSNBC 65%; CBS 64%; ABC 56%; Other 56%; NBC 49%; FOX 0.5%.

"With 99% of Fox viewers believing that the election was "legitimate," only the constant propaganda of Rupert Murdoch's disinformation campaign stands in the way of a majority of Americans coming to grips with the reality of two consecutive stolen elections."

Bi-partisan Commissions have studied this problem. One led by ex-president Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker noted, "Software can be modified maliciously before being installed into individual voting machines. There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries."

A recent Wall Street Journal story revealed, "Some former backers of the technology seek return to paper ballots, citing glitches, fraud fears."

Aviel Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, did an analysis of the security flaws in the source code for Diebold touch-screen machine. After studying the latest problems, The Times reported Rubin said: "I almost had a heart attack. The implications of this are pretty astounding."

Worse still, the Congress is burying reform measures with scant media attention. Chellie Pingree, president of Common Cause writes: "What is Congress doing? Nothing. Right now HR 550, The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act the bill, which would take care of these problems, is languishing in committee. The bill has 186 cosponsors, more support than most bills voted on in the House."

Stories like this just dribble out with little follow up and less investigation. Isn't the threat to democracy here self-evident and worthy of more media attention? The press has a long tradition of skepticism. Have they become skeptical about the workings of democracy itself? Why has the heart of our democratic process become such a 'ho-hummer,"

Don't they realize the truth expressed by one of our Mediachannel readers Donna Perlmutter who writes: "Without free, fair elections, nothing else matters."

New Dissector Danny Schechter is "blogger in chief" at MediaChannel. Org and author of " The Death of the Media and the Fight to Save Democracy" News. Email to: dissector@mediachannel.org

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