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[no subject]: msg#00000culture.discuss.conspiracyOriginal article by Dr. Federico Fasano Mertens, editor of La Rep=FAblica= del Uruguay: http://www.diariolarepublica.com/2003/3marzo/especiales/sep= arata_20030330.htm --------------------------------- Reply from the editor of La Rep=FAblica del Uruguay to the US ambassador = there, Martin Silverstein, who complained about the comparisons the newsp= aper had drawn between Hitler and Bush. --------------------------------- A few days ago I received a letter from Martin Silverstein, the US ambass= ador to Uruguay, accusing La Rep=FAblica, a publication which I am honour= ed to edit, of "totally lacking any sense of journalistic integrity" by c= omparing George Bush, the president of his country, to Adolf Hitler, the = chancellor of the Third Reich. I have been unable to reply to him any sooner because the act of piracy w= hich his country has committed, attacking a defenceless and close to disa= rmed country with the most formidable killing machine that the history of= the world has ever known, has forced me to devote more than the usual am= ount of time to publishing special editions on the slaughter. I also foun= d myself taken up by trying to convict US-trained uniformed torturers who= had slandered me, a task which I have only recently been able to bring t= o completion. Not long ago, when the ambassador visited me in my office, I remember say= ing to my colleagues that he was the most intelligent, perceptive and wit= ty American ambassador I had ever met. "At last," I said, "a representati= ve from the empire with whom you can exchange ideas, without being poison= ed by the same tired, old clich=E9s whenever you attend a meeting." Unfortunately for the ambassador, however, his wisdom has not spared him = the misfortune of having to represent the forty-third president of his na= tion, George Bush Jr.: a paranoid fanatic intoxicated by messianic passio= ns and dimmer than a slug. A man drunk with power, as he was drunk with a= lcohol before=97and legally condemned for it on 4 September 1976, for dri= ving drunk at full speed. Admonished, too, by none other than the evangel= ist Billy Graham who told him, "Who are you, to think yourself God?". A m= ilitant for the Christian Right, the Texan, Southern Christian right that= is. A racist in love with the death sentence, especially when it comes t= o African-Americans. All in all, the worst US president for over a centur= y, the man who will unleash the greatest tragedies on his own people. The= opposite of Homo Sapiens, the incarnation of Homo Demens. And a misogynist, to boot, like any good racist. No one could forget the = public humiliations he has put Laura Bush through. You can well imagine L= aura Bush's embarrassment on hearing her husband's reply when asked by th= e press why she wasn't accompanying him on that day, "it's been raining a= nd she's had to sweep the driveway to our Crawford ranch, we're expecting= Jiang Zemin, the president of China, tomorrow". His compatriot, the aged writer Kurt Vonnegut did not hesitate in calling= him "the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'=E9tat leader= imaginable". But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let's leave the US ambassador w= ith his sad misfortune of having to defend the most delirious resident th= e White House has ever known, and me with the honour of trying this man a= rmed only with words. The matter at hand is the comparison between Adolf Hitler and George Bush. There are obvious differences. The first being that the war criminal, the= murderer of the Jewish and Soviet peoples, won a resounding victory in t= he German elections, while the war criminal and murderer of the Iraqi peo= ple reached power fraudulently, in the biggest electoral scandal in US hi= story. >From the theoretical point of view, the comparison between Bush and Hitle= r is correct. The scientists have described Nazism as a terrorist dictato= rship of corporate expansionism. Bush, by putting himself beyond the law = and invading a defenceless nation which it had not attacked in order to t= ake over its oil wealth, the second largest on the planet, and then stati= ng that other oil-producing nations will follow, comes close to the defin= ition of a corporate terrorist dictatorship. Even though he may not like = to admit it. George Bush is a Nazi in his genes. His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a partner in Brown Brothers Harriman = and one of the proprietors of the Banking Corporation Union. Both compani= es played a key role in financing Hitler on his way to power in Germany. = On 20 October 1942, the US government ordered the confiscation of Ranking= Corporation Union, owned by Prescott Bush, and in addition seized the Du= tch-US Trade Corporation and Seamless Steel Corporation, both administere= d by the Bush-Hamman Bank. On 17 November of the same year, Franklin Dela= no Roosevelt confiscated all assets of the Silesian American Corporation,= again administered by Prescott Bush, for trading with the enemy. George'= s great-grandfather, God's warrior, Samuel Bush, father of the Nazi Presc= ott Bush, was the right hand man of the steel magnate Clarence Dillon and= the banker Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book called I Paid Hitler, joining= the German Socialist Workers Party in 1931. Should the ambassador have any doubts on the spurious alliance between th= e Bush family and Hitler, I would recommend he reads Victor Thorn's splen= did essay. Thorn states: "An important part of the basis for the Bush fam= ily fortune was created by the help it offered Adolf Hitler. The current = president of the United States, as his father (ex-director of the CIA, vi= ce-president and president), reached the summit of the North-American pol= itical hierarchy because his grandfather, great-grandfather and their pol= itical family aided and abetted the Nazis". This without going into how t= he Bush family swindled and embezzled four-and-a-half million dollars fro= m Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida, or the fraud of millions o= f savers at the Silverado Savings Bank (Denver, Colorado). A Nazi great-grandfather, a Nazi grandfather, a father who wasn't able to= be a Nazi because Hitler had already killed himself in the ruins of the = Chancellery gardens, though he benefited from the ill-gotten gains of his= ancestors. But let us not condemn our homo demens for his evil genes. Let us judge him only by his works. And let's compare. Just compare. How does the ambassador believe that the delirious Austrian corporal reac= hed the pinnacle of public power? Hitler reached power in clean elections= , but then found that the Constitution of the Weimar Republic placed limi= ts which his omnipotent desires refused to accept. He then plotted the bu= rning of the Reichstag and in a single night was anointed the elector of = war or peace. Doesn't this sound familiar, Mr Ambassador? The criminal demolition of the Twin Towers brought about the same mire as= the burning of the Reichstag. Obviously, I am not about to be so bold as= to join those who accuse the Bush warmongers of having orchestrated the = massacre or of not stopping it when they learnt of its preparation. There= is no conclusive proof for such an outrageous statement, though there ar= e many signs of criminal negligence and huge suspicion which is only enco= uraged by strict censorship that is without precedent in modern US democr= acy. Some day, when the American people fully recover their freedom of in= formation and investigate that black Tuesday morning of September 11, tod= ay corralled by a Patriot Act, approved with the single vote against of a= woman, a symbol of national US dignity, we shall be able to find out why= the many tell-tale signs of an impending large-scale assassination left = throughout the country were ignored. We shall be able to learn why the Ai= r Force jets took 80 minutes to intercept the hijacked planes, when it was known that the planes were hijacked and hea= ding for Washington as soon as they took off from Boston and the manual l= ays down the procedure for the intervention of the Air Force within 5 min= utes of a hijack. We will be able to find out why the remains of the presumed plane that hi= t the Pentagon were hidden. We shall be able to learn why, according to t= he conservative Wall Street Journal, immediately after meeting in Washing= ton with CIA director George Tenet, the head of the Pakistani secret serv= ices arranged for Islamabad to send one hundred thousand dollars to Moham= med Atta in the US, the organiser of the New York Twin Towers suicide att= ack. The suspension of civil rights by the Patriot Act now prohibits the = investigation of this frightening piece of information. We will finally b= e able to find out why 15 of the 21 commandos came from Saudi Arabia, the= chief US ally in the Persian Gulf. There wasn't a single Iraqi onboard t= hose planes. Not even accidentally. Apart from all the suspicion, there is no doubt that the chaotic forty-th= ird president of the US, anointed by fraudulent elections, in the middle = of an impressive recession with no end in view, with the lowest initial a= pproval ratings for a head of state, has moved on to dominate the stage b= y acquiring powers inconceivable in a democracy and been crowned the aven= ging Emperor that he may cleanse the affront the barbarians had infringed= upon his people. The American Burning of the Reichstag of September 11 gave George Bush th= e chance of a lifetime. The worst electoral victory of a US president sin= ce 1876 had turned into the best historical opportunity for a warmonger t= o impose a new US order on the world. As in Hitler's case, the first thing he did was to surround himself with = a clique of con artists such as himself, men obsessed with the intimidati= ng power of force. Like Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Mengele, or Eichmann,= the Texan president searched for the protective shell of an iron guard, = often more war-like than himself to impede any temptation to doubt, and m= en of a common stamp: all oilmen. The vice-president, Dick Cheney, came f= rom Halliburton Oil, the chief of the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld, from Occ= idental, another oil company, the National Security Advisor, the spinster= Condoleeza Rice, whose name in Spanish by a twist of fate means "with sw= eetness", was on Chevron's board of directors and has oil tankers named a= fter her. Then there's the Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norton, who is= also linked to the oil industry, as is Bush Sr. with the Carlyle oil gro= up, and the current president, Bush Jr. with Harkins Oil. This quintet of death around warrior Bush, a true mafiocracy, as with the= quintet who joined Hitler, were fed on a very special Bible. In this cas= e the philosophies of Hegel, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, which formed and= inflamed the inventor of the Holocaust of the 20th century, were replace= d by less cultivated specimens who did not posses such an esteemed intell= ectual lineage, but who were more useful for the Hitler of the 21st centu= ry. What is the bedtime reading of this gang of warmongers? More- http://www.amics21.com/911/fasano.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propaga= ndic screeds are unwelcomed. 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The difference<BR>is that the <B>Nazi</B> said this in German and = Bush says it in English. <B>...</B><BR><FONT color=3D#008000>www.amics21.= com/<B>911</B>/fasano.html </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV align=3Dcenter> <H1>From Hitler to Bush</H1> <P> </P></DIV> <DIV>Original article by Dr. Federico Fasano Mertens, editor of La Rep=FA= blica del Uruguay:<A href=3D"http://www.diariolarepublica.com/2003/3marzo= /especiales/separata_20030330.htm"> http://www.diariolarepublica.com/2003= /3marzo/especiales/separata_20030330.htm</A><BR><BR></DIV> <DIV> <HR width=3D"60%" noShade SIZE=3D2> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style=3D"COLOR: #000066">Reply from the editor of La Re= p=FAblica del Uruguay to the US ambassador there, Martin Silverstein, who= complained about the comparisons the newspaper had drawn between Hitler = and Bush.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> <HR width=3D"60%" noShade SIZE=3D2> </DIV> <DIV><BR>A few days ago I received a letter from Martin Silverstein, the = US ambassador to Uruguay, accusing La Rep=FAblica, a publication which I = am honoured to edit, of "totally lacking any sense of journalistic integr= ity" by comparing George Bush, the president of his country, to Adolf Hit= ler, the chancellor of the Third Reich. </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>I have been unable to reply to him any sooner because the ac= t of piracy which his country has committed, attacking a defenceless and = close to disarmed country with the most formidable killing machine that t= he history of the world has ever known, has forced me to devote more than= the usual amount of time to publishing special editions on the slaughter= . I also found myself taken up by trying to convict US-trained uniformed = torturers who had slandered me, a task which I have only recently been ab= le to bring to completion.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>Not long ago, when the ambassador visited me in my office, I= remember saying to my colleagues that he was the most intelligent, perce= ptive and witty American ambassador I had ever met. "At last," I said, "a= representative from the empire with whom you can exchange ideas, without= being poisoned by the same tired, old clich=E9s whenever you attend a me= eting."</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>Unfortunately for the ambassador, however, his wisdom has no= t spared him the misfortune of having to represent the forty-third presid= ent of his nation, George Bush Jr.: a paranoid fanatic intoxicated by mes= sianic passions and dimmer than a slug. A man drunk with power, as he was= drunk with alcohol before=97and legally condemned for it on 4 September = 1976, for driving drunk at full speed. Admonished, too, by none other tha= n the evangelist Billy Graham who told him, "Who are you, to think yourse= lf God?". A militant for the Christian Right, the Texan, Southern Christi= an right that is. A racist in love with the death sentence, especially wh= en it comes to African-Americans. All in all, the worst US president for = over a century, the man who will unleash the greatest tragedies on his ow= n people. The opposite of Homo Sapiens, the incarnation of Homo Demens.</= DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>And a misogynist, to boot, like any good racist. No one coul= d forget the public humiliations he has put Laura Bush through. You can w= ell imagine Laura Bush's embarrassment on hearing her husband's reply whe= n asked by the press why she wasn't accompanying him on that day, "it's b= een raining and she's had to sweep the driveway to our Crawford ranch, we= 're expecting Jiang Zemin, the president of China, tomorrow".</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>His compatriot, the aged writer Kurt Vonnegut did not hesita= te in calling him "the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'= =E9tat leader imaginable".</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let's leave the US= ambassador with his sad misfortune of having to defend the most deliriou= s resident the White House has ever known, and me with the honour of tryi= ng this man armed only with words.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>The matter at hand is the comparison between Adolf Hitler an= d George Bush.<BR><BR>There are obvious differences. The first being that= the war criminal, the murderer of the Jewish and Soviet peoples, won a r= esounding victory in the German elections, while the war criminal and mur= derer of the Iraqi people reached power fraudulently, in the biggest elec= toral scandal in US history.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>From the theoretical point of view, the comparison between B= ush and Hitler is correct. The scientists have described Nazism as a terr= orist dictatorship of corporate expansionism. Bush, by putting himself be= yond the law and invading a defenceless nation which it had not attacked = in order to take over its oil wealth, the second largest on the planet, a= nd then stating that other oil-producing nations will follow, comes close= to the definition of a corporate terrorist dictatorship. Even though he = may not like to admit it.<BR><BR>George Bush is a Nazi in his genes.<BR><= BR>His grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a partner in Brown Brothers Harrim= an and one of the proprietors of the Banking Corporation Union. Both comp= anies played a key role in financing Hitler on his way to power in German= y. On 20 October 1942, the US government ordered the confiscation of Rank= ing Corporation Union, owned by Prescott Bush, and in addition seized the= Dutch-US Trade Corporation and Seamless Steel Corporation, both administered by the Bush-Hamman Bank. On 17 November o= f the same year, Franklin Delano Roosevelt confiscated all assets of the = Silesian American Corporation, again administered by Prescott Bush, for t= rading with the enemy. George's great-grandfather, God's warrior, Samuel = Bush, father of the Nazi Prescott Bush, was the right hand man of the ste= el magnate Clarence Dillon and the banker Fritz Thyssen, who wrote a book= called I Paid Hitler, joining the German Socialist Workers Party in 1931= .</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>Should the ambassador have any doubts on the spurious allian= ce between the Bush family and Hitler, I would recommend he reads Victor = Thorn's splendid essay. Thorn states: "An important part of the basis for= the Bush family fortune was created by the help it offered Adolf Hitler.= The current president of the United States, as his father (ex-director o= f the CIA, vice-president and president), reached the summit of the North= -American political hierarchy because his grandfather, great-grandfather = and their political family aided and abetted the Nazis". This without goi= ng into how the Bush family swindled and embezzled four-and-a-half millio= n dollars from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida, or the fraud = of millions of savers at the Silverado Savings Bank (Denver, Colorado).</= DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>A Nazi great-grandfather, a Nazi grandfather, a father who w= asn't able to be a Nazi because Hitler had already killed himself in the = ruins of the Chancellery gardens, though he benefited from the ill-gotten= gains of his ancestors.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>But let us not condemn our homo demens for his evil genes.<B= R><BR>Let us judge him only by his works. And let's compare. Just compare= .</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>How does the ambassador believe that the delirious Austrian = corporal reached the pinnacle of public power? Hitler reached power in cl= ean elections, but then found that the Constitution of the Weimar Republi= c placed limits which his omnipotent desires refused to accept. He then p= lotted the burning of the Reichstag and in a single night was anointed th= e elector of war or peace.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>Doesn't this sound familiar, Mr Ambassador?<BR></DIV> <DIV><BR>The criminal demolition of the Twin Towers brought about the sam= e mire as the burning of the Reichstag. Obviously, I am not about to be s= o bold as to join those who accuse the Bush warmongers of having orchestr= ated the massacre or of not stopping it when they learnt of its preparati= on. There is no conclusive proof for such an outrageous statement, though= there are many signs of criminal negligence and huge suspicion which is = only encouraged by strict censorship that is without precedent in modern = US democracy. Some day, when the American people fully recover their free= dom of information and investigate that black Tuesday morning of Septembe= r 11, today corralled by a Patriot Act, approved with the single vote aga= inst of a woman, a symbol of national US dignity, we shall be able to fin= d out why the many tell-tale signs of an impending large-scale assassinat= ion left throughout the country were ignored. We shall be able to learn w= hy the Air Force jets took 80 minutes to intercept the hijacked planes, when it was known that the planes were hi= jacked and heading for Washington as soon as they took off from Boston an= d the manual lays down the procedure for the intervention of the Air Forc= e within 5 minutes of a hijack.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>We will be able to find out why the remains of the presumed = plane that hit the Pentagon were hidden. We shall be able to learn why, a= ccording to the conservative Wall Street Journal, immediately after meeti= ng in Washington with CIA director George Tenet, the head of the Pakistan= i secret services arranged for Islamabad to send one hundred thousand dol= lars to Mohammed Atta in the US, the organiser of the New York Twin Tower= s suicide attack. The suspension of civil rights by the Patriot Act now p= rohibits the investigation of this frightening piece of information. We w= ill finally be able to find out why 15 of the 21 commandos came from Saud= i Arabia, the chief US ally in the Persian Gulf. There wasn't a single Ir= aqi onboard those planes. Not even accidentally.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>Apart from all the suspicion, there is no doubt that the cha= otic forty-third president of the US, anointed by fraudulent elections, i= n the middle of an impressive recession with no end in view, with the low= est initial approval ratings for a head of state, has moved on to dominat= e the stage by acquiring powers inconceivable in a democracy and been cro= wned the avenging Emperor that he may cleanse the affront the barbarians = had infringed upon his people.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>The American Burning of the Reichstag of September 11 gave G= eorge Bush the chance of a lifetime. The worst electoral victory of a US = president since 1876 had turned into the best historical opportunity for = a warmonger to impose a new US order on the world.<BR></DIV> <DIV><BR>As in Hitler's case, the first thing he did was to surround hims= elf with a clique of con artists such as himself, men obsessed with the i= ntimidating power of force. Like Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Mengele, or = Eichmann, the Texan president searched for the protective shell of an iro= n guard, often more war-like than himself to impede any temptation to dou= bt, and men of a common stamp: all oilmen. The vice-president, Dick Chene= y, came from Halliburton Oil, the chief of the Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld,= from Occidental, another oil company, the National Security Advisor, the= spinster Condoleeza Rice, whose name in Spanish by a twist of fate means= "with sweetness", was on Chevron's board of directors and has oil tanker= s named after her. Then there's the Secretary of the Interior, Gale Norto= n, who is also linked to the oil industry, as is Bush Sr. with the Carlyl= e oil group, and the current president, Bush Jr. with Harkins Oil.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>This quintet of death around warrior Bush, a true mafiocracy= , as with the quintet who joined Hitler, were fed on a very special Bible= . In this case the philosophies of Hegel, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, whi= ch formed and inflamed the inventor of the Holocaust of the 20th century,= were replaced by less cultivated specimens who did not posses such an es= teemed intellectual lineage, but who were more useful for the Hitler of t= he 21st century.</DIV> <DIV><BR><BR>What is the bedtime reading of this gang of warmongers?</DIV= > <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>More- <A href=3D"http://www.amics21.com/911/fasano.html";>http://www.= amics21.com/911/fasano.html</A></SPAN></DIV><p>__________________________= ________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail= has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com <br><br> <tt> www.ctrl.org<BR> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER<BR> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<BR> ctrl is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing pro= pagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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In the air above and the earth beneath are nefari= ous progenitors of esoteric mysticism. =93Demons=94 to some and =93gods=94= to others, such forces have numerous titles. They can appear in hideous = forms or as beautiful angels of light. They are the =93wicked spirits=94 = (poneria: the collective body of demon soldiers comprising Satan=92s hord= es), =93rulers of darkness=94 (kosmokrators: governing spirits of darknes= s), =93powers=94 (exousia: high ranking powers of evil), and =93principal= ities=94 (arche: commanding generals over Satan=92s fallen army) of Ephes= ians 6:12. As the "gods and goddesses" of the underworld, they live today= and encourage mysticism among pagans, witches, New Agers and even church= -goers in at least the following ways: Aphrodite=97sensuality, fertility rites, wiccan rituals, sacred p= rostitution. Amun-Ra=97masturbation, self realization, environmentalism, Darwi= nism. Apis=97animal worship, animal rights, animal channeling, occultia= nity. 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This year's Occulture festtivities exhibited bigger than ever ve= nues - sacred music and dance, clarivoyance, psychic and tarot readers, c= hakra, traditional witchcraft, tatooing, piercing, fetish satanism, shama= nism, transcendent techniques, and lectures favoring paganism from the or= iginal Book of Shadows.</FONT></P> <P> </P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>And then there was the 'Pleasure Dome" whe= re magicians, sorcerers and witches discussed their trade, including Mogg= Morgon, founder of the Golden Dawn Occult Society, Ralph Harvey, a promi= nent Wiccan High Priest, and Emrys, a Shaman of the Cromlech Covenant.</F= ONT></P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>On the heels of this in the U.S., Burning = Man 2004 has grown to become the largest ever, surpassing last year's 33,= 000 participants as the number of earth-worshipping pagans swell the rank= s of party-goers from across Canada, Brazil, Germany, Russia, and 25 othe= r countries to an isolated corner of Black Rock Desert in Nevada.</FONT> <P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As in the past, this year's clothing-optio= nal Burning Man offers a no-holds-barred "Woodstock" style festival where= neo-pagans, wiccans, transvestitie entertainers, curiosity seekers, and = old hippies can go to trance, perform rituals, burn sacrifices to deities= , fornicate, and otherwise "express" themselves freely.</FONT> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The 40-foot-high effigy Burning Man (the "= Spirit Cave Man"-- sacred to local Indians and New Agers) will be torched= as usual together with just about everything else at the close of thhe f= estivity.</FONT> <P> <P><B><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>UNDERSTANDING THE OCCULT FIRES PHENOMEN= ON</FONT></B> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>The spirit of the occult has existed since= the beginning of time. Like an insidious cancer=97unseen, patient, deadl= y=97it has grown. Indications of its presence have been felt occasi= onally, and confirmations of its actuality have been documented from Brig= hton to Washington D.C.</FONT> <P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>As we approach the culmination of the =93n= ew order of the ages,=94 cult experts forecast a continuing revival of su= ch mysticism. While church attendance continues to decline across the Uni= ted States and Britain, adherents of the occult expand their "services" t= o meet the desires and mystical interests of a spiritually hungry world.&= nbsp;</FONT> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>New Age expert Judy Vorfeld says, =93Dabbl= ing in the realm of the occult is currently stylish. Even some Chri= stians seem unable to avoid the attraction of this colorful, seductive wo= rld.=94</FONT> <P> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>She's right. From Burning Man festivals to= public school Environmental Education to faddish television good-guys an= d bad-girls, today=92s generation is lapping up as much New Age Occultian= ity as they can get their hands on. Whether it's comic book heroes that t= each youth the dangerous Persephonian idea that a person can be in league= with the devil and still be a good person, or the syncretistic goals of = the Occulture Festival and Burning Man, the glowing fire of pagan revival= can no longer be denied. </FONT> <P> <P><B><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>THE REAL BURNING MAN</FONT></B> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>From a Biblical point of view, powerful an= d ancient entities are behind the revival of paganism. In the air above a= nd the earth beneath are nefarious progenitors of esoteric mysticism. =93= Demons=94 to some and =93gods=94 to others, such forces have numerous tit= les. They can appear in hideous forms or as beautiful angels of light. Th= ey are the =93wicked spirits=94 (poneria: the collective body of demon so= ldiers comprising Satan=92s hordes), =93rulers of darkness=94 (kosmokrato= rs: governing spirits of darkness), =93powers=94 (exousia: high ranking p= owers of evil), and =93principalities=94 (arche: commanding generals over= Satan=92s fallen army) of Ephesians 6:12. As the "gods and goddesses" of= the underworld, they live today and encourage mysticism among pagans, wi= tches, New Agers and even church-goers in at least the following ways:</F= ONT> <P> <UL> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Aphrodite=97sens= uality, fertility rites, wiccan rituals, sacred prostitution. </FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Amun-Ra=97mastur= bation, self realization, environmentalism, Darwinism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Apis=97animal wo= rship, animal rights, animal channeling, occultianity.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Apollo=97humanis= m, oracles, channeling, psychics, drugs, visualization.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Artemis=97goddes= s worship, animal worship, animal rights, lesbianism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Asclepius=97holi= stic medicine, psychic dreaming, spirit-guide animals.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Athene=97goddess= worship, feminism, the spirituality movement, lesbianism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Baal=97oracles, = polytheism, abortion, fertility issues.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Demeter=97enviro= nmental education, earth worship, goddess worship.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Dionysus=97drunk= eness, freudianism, ecstasy, pornography, lesbianism, abortion.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Eros=97eroticism= , mystic sex, body worship, body piercing, sacred prostitution.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Gaia=97earth wor= ship, environmentalism, paganism, pantheism, sweat lodges.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Geb=97environmen= tal movement, animal rights, eco-paganism.</FONT> <LI> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Hades=97devil wo= rship, occultism, spiritism, necromancy.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Hathor=97goddess= worship, earth worship, animal rights, animal worship.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Hecate=97witchcr= aft, necromancy, crystals, spells, druidism, feminism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Heka=97mysticism= , demonism, animal rights, environmentalism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Hypnos=97hypnoti= sm, psychic dreaming, prognostication, e.s.p., clairvoyance.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Imhoteb=97mystic= healing, animal dancing, holistic medicine, vision quests.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Isis=97wicca, wi= tchcraft, goddess worship, magic, channeling, visualization.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Min and Qetesh=97= fertility rites, body worship, sensuality, pornography.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Osiris=97occulti= anity, necromancy, anthropomorphism, occultism, spiritism.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Persephone=97ani= mism, zoroastrianism, dualism, magic, necromancy.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Ptah=97universal= ism, pantheism, mysticism, holistic medicine.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Sekhmet=97enviro= nmentalism, mystic medicine, animal worship.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Seth=97homosexua= lity, rebellion, earth worship, environmental movement.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Vatchit=97devil = worship, channeling, trancing, visualization, necromancy.</FONT> <LI><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> Zeus=97satanism,= transexualism, pantheism, oracles, animal worship.</FONT> </LI> <LI></LI></UL> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>By whatever names they may otherwise be ca= lled, the underworld spirits elevated in the Burning Man and Occulture fe= stivals are gathering the combined efforts of the kingdom of Satan toward= a conspiracy of apocalyptic proportions. As a consequence, we are experi= encing an unprecedented pagan revival at a time when the United States an= d Britain are considered the most advanced economic and technological pow= ers in the world.</FONT> <P><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><B>Where will the revival of paganism lead= ? </B></FONT></P> <P>More- <A href=3D"http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/burningnew.htm";>http= ://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/burningnew.htm</A></P><p> <hr size=3D1>Discover Yahoo!<br> Have fun online with music videos, cool games, IM & more. <a href=3D"http= ://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=3D32660/*http://discover.yahoo.com/online.html";>Ch= eck it out!</a> <br><br> <tt> www.ctrl.org<BR> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER<BR> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D<BR> ctrl is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing pro= pagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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"The Downing Stre= et Memo confirms what we already knew -- that a conspiracy to deceive the American people led us into the war, and that this conspiracy constitutes 'high crimes and misdemeanors' according to the U.S. Constitution." </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"= font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">The Green Party of the United States called for the impeachment of George W. Bush during the party's 2003 national meeting <<a href=3D"http://www.gp.org/press/pr_07_21_03.html";>www.gp.org/press= /pr_07_21_03.html</a>>. Greens have organized and participated in numerous protests against the war since early 2003, and have called for an immediate end to the occupation, cancellation of further war spending, and removal of military recruiters from schools as U.S. troops continue to face death and injury in Iraq. </span><br styl= e=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"= font-weight: bold;">Greens praised Rep. John Conyers' (D-Mich.) public demand for an explanation from President Bush in the wake of Downing Street Memo's publication, and questioned why so many of the mainstream U.S. media have remained silent on the content and implications of the memo. </span><br style=3D"f= ont-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-w= eight: bold;">But Greens also called many Democrats as responsible as Republicans for Iraq policy, having voted in October 2002 to transfer war power to the President, which created the scenario for White House deceit and abuse of power, and having recently voted for another $82 billion for the war. </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bo= ld;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">"It was already apparent, long before the Downing Street Memo, that President Bush's case for invading Iraq was based on fraud," said Rebecca Rotzler, co-chair of the Green Party's Peace Action Committee. "All of the reasons for invasion that Mr. Bush listed in his January 28, 2003 State of the Union address -- Iraqi WMDs, collusion between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda, evidence that Saddam had sought nuclear weapons materials from Africa, nuclear aluminum rods, Iraq's supposed threat to the U.S. and to other nations -- are now known to be false. The Downing Street Memo shows that the intelligence supporting an invasion was fixed, with the complicity of the Bush and Blair administrations as early as July 2002." </span><br style=3D"font-wei= ght: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: = bold;">Green Party leaders also noted that Ahmed Chalabi, whose false testimony to U.S. intelligence officials on Iraqi WMDs formed much of the basis of the claim that Saddam Hussein was an international threat, is now serving as interim Iraqi Oil Minister, with the Bush Administration's approval; and that John Bolton, now under consideration for appointment as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., repeatedly manipulated intelligence and lied to the U.S. media and the U.N. about Iraqi weapons materials. </span= ><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span = style=3D"font-weight: bold;">"Americans should be protesting in every way possible against the continued occupation of Iraq, and for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney," said Jake Schneider, treasurer of the Green Party= of the United States. "But this has also been a bipartisan war all alon= g, and every Democrat and Republican in Congress who has supported it despite evidence of deceit from the very beginning also deserves removal from office." </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br st= yle=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">MORE INFORM= ATION </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: b= old;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;"> Green Party of the United States </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;">= <span style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><a href=3D"http://www.gp.org";>www.gp.o= rg</a> </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight= : bold;">1700 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 404 </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;= ">Washington, DC 20009. </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span sty= le=3D"font-weight: bold;">202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN </span><br style=3D"f= ont-weight: bold;"> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">Fax 202-319-7193 </span><br style=3D"f= ont-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-w= eight: bold;">Green Party Peace Action Committee </span><br style=3D"font= -weight: bold;"> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><a href=3D"http://www.gp.org/committee= s/peace/">www.gp.org/committees/peace/</a></span><br style=3D"font-weight= : bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bol= d;">"The 'I' word" </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;= ">By Ralph Nader and Kevin Zeese </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;">= <span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">The Boston Globe, May 31, 2005 </span>= <br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"> <span style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><a href=3D"http://boston.com/news/glob= e/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_\i_word/">boston.com/new= s/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/05/31/the_\i_word/</a> </spa= n><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"> <br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">Lette= r to Pres Bush Concerning the "Downing Street Minutes" </span><= br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">From R= ep. John Conyers </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;= "><a href=3D"http://www.johnconyers.com";>www.johnconyers.com</a> </span><= br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><span st= yle=3D"font-weight: bold;"> "Hold Bush Accountable If He Lied About Iraq" </span><br style=3D= "font-weight: bold;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;">By Mark Dunlea (G= reen Party of New York State) </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><sp= an style=3D"font-weight: bold;"> The Albany Times Union, July 9, 2003 </span><br style=3D"font-weight: bol= d;"><span style=3D"font-weight: bold;"><a href=3D"http://www.commondreams= .org/views03/0709-04.htm">www.commondreams.org/views03/0709-04.htm</a></s= pan><br> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>The US is: "...a nation of 200 million used-car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable."<br>-Hunter S.= Thompson <br><br>"Friend, hope for the truth while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! What you call "salvation" belon= gs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?"<br>-Kabir<br><= br> </body></html> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing pro= pagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please!= These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths,= mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different g= roups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and though= t. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Archives Available at: <p> http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ <A HREF=3D"http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/">ctrl= </A> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <p> To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <p> Om ------=_Part_1360_15668557.1118449263676-- --0-1281330125-1118487944=:97604-- --part1_20c.2d16543.2fdc4f8c_boundary-- From Vietnam to Iraq: Ignoring the Veteran Healthcare Crisis http://americansforsharedsacrifice.org/VetCrisisReport4-HR.pdf GAO: Pentagon Squandering Billions on Excess Property Tuesday, June 07, 2005 -- The Government Reform Committee National Security Subcommittee holds a hearing to examine a new GAO study on waste and inefficiency in the Defense Department. The report finds that the Department has improperly disposed of valuable equipment at a cost to taxpayers of more than $3.5 billion. The litany of Administration mismanagement of federal contracts is long and costly. The value of no-bid contracts has skyrocketed under the Bush Administration. Oversight of federal contracts has been turned over to private companies with blatant conflicts of interest. And when government auditors do find abuses, their recommendations are ignored. Nearly every week, the papers are of full of stories of contract abuse. The Department of Homeland Security has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on security contracts that have produced virtually no results. Th= e FBI has spent $170 million on Virtual Case File software that doesnt work. And in Iraq, Halliburton has overcharged by hundreds of millions of dollars, yet the Administration continues to shower the company with federal funds, bonuses, and special treatment. Rep Henry Waxman While I may have missed the June 8th Million Veteran March on Washington, whatever it takes I will be at the march on Washington this September 24th. I hope that a lot of people make the plans and set aside that time to come to Washington. The one thing the people who keep creating these wars fear the most is an informed and mobilized public. The people who run this country currently are destroying the nations ability to pay for anything but war; while at the same time creating more veterans to toss aside. If for no other reason than the lack of fair and just treatment for veterans by this nations governing body, this alone is more than enough to march on Washingtonsomething I will be doing, bad health, wheelchair and all! I hope to see many of you therestart making plans while there is still plenty of time. The majority of the advisors and department heads Bush has surrounded himself with all come from the state of Texas. They have set the policies that have led us into this current war. They have set the policies that have us on the road to economic ruin. They have turned this nation into a military juggernaut the likes of which the world has never before seen. I= t would be good to remember the words of Dwight D Eisenhower as he saw this coming a long time ago: Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and far= m programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." President Dwight Eisenhower, l952. Unfortunately for us, the nation, and the rest of the world, the people Eisenhower called stupid in 1952 are now the ones running the country (over a cliff.) These people that were called stupid and the crazies regardless of whether they call themselves Democrats or Republicans are essentially two ends of the same party the way I see it. The illusion of two parties is what we are faced with. In fact, just recently the GOP stated it is out to completely restructure the federal government in thei= r own image. A $491 billion bloated War Department budget is helping to create deficit= s so high that the Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist policy of Starve the Beast so as to eliminate all social spending by breaking the bank, is wel= l under wayand this definitely includes eliminating spending for and on veterans! The time has long since passed for ALL military veterans - especially career military retirees - to take up our arms and join in the struggle t= o restore ALL promised military pay and benefits...... James Nolan Campbell= , Senior MasterSergeant, United States Air Force Retiredmilitary.com IT IS NOT 'UP TO SOMEONE ELSE' - IT'S UP TO US! Mass March on Washington, September 24, 2005 http://answer.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=3DANS_S24index&JServSe= ssionIdr004=3Dfhcjnwieo1.app6a#call 1 in 4 Iraq and Afghan War Veterans Seek VA Medical Care http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=3DArticle&id=3D3281&= NoMenu=3D1 Depleted Uranium Education Project http://www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.ht= m IAMB Report on Iraq funds http://www.iamb.info/pr/pr052305.htm Agent Orange Website http://www.lewispublishing.com/orange.htm Vietnam Veterans of America Guide on PTSD http://www.vva.org/benefits/ptsd.htm $69 million gone http://admin.corisweb.org/index.php?fuseaction=3Dnews.view&id=3D117491&sr= c=3Ddcn Smedly Butler: War is a Racket http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm GOP Out to Restructure the Federal Government http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleprint/2864/-1/344/ Analysists Warn DoD Budget Train-Wreck Coming http://www.terradaily.com/upi/2005/WWN-UPI-20050523-17144100-bc-us-defens= e-budget.html Senate Silent on Halliburton http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?&id=3D12291 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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The report finds that the Department has improperly disposed of valuable equipment at a cost to taxpayers of more than $3.5 billion. The litany of Administration mismanagement of federal contracts is long and costly. The value of no-bid contracts has skyrocketed under the Bush Administration. Oversight of federal contracts has been turned over to private companies with blatant conflicts of interest. And when government auditors do find abuses, their recommendations are ignored. Nearly every week, the papers are of full of stories of contract abuse. The Department of Homeland Security has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on security contracts that have produced virtually no results. Th= e FBI has spent $170 million on Virtual Case File software that doesnt work. And in Iraq, Halliburton has overcharged by hundreds of millions of dollars, yet the Administration continues to shower the company with federal funds, bonuses, and special treatment. Rep Henry Waxman While I may have missed the June 8th Million Veteran March on Washington, whatever it takes I will be at the march on Washington this September 24th. I hope that a lot of people make the plans and set aside that time to come to Washington. The one thing the people who keep creating these wars fear the most is an informed and mobilized public. The people who run this country currently are destroying the nations ability to pay for anything but war; while at the same time creating more veterans to toss aside. If for no other reason than the lack of fair and just treatment for veterans by this nations governing body, this alone is more than enough to march on Washingtonsomething I will be doing, bad health, wheelchair and all! I hope to see many of you therestart making plans while there is still plenty of time. The majority of the advisors and department heads Bush has surrounded himself with all come from the state of Texas. They have set the policies that have led us into this current war. They have set the policies that have us on the road to economic ruin. They have turned this nation into a military juggernaut the likes of which the world has never before seen. I= t would be good to remember the words of Dwight D Eisenhower as he saw this coming a long time ago: Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and far= m programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." President Dwight Eisenhower, l952. Unfortunately for us, the nation, and the rest of the world, the people Eisenhower called stupid in 1952 are now the ones running the country (over a cliff.) These people that were called stupid and the crazies regardless of whether they call themselves Democrats or Republicans are essentially two ends of the same party the way I see it. The illusion of two parties is what we are faced with. In fact, just recently the GOP stated it is out to completely restructure the federal government in thei= r own image. A $491 billion bloated War Department budget is helping to create deficit= s so high that the Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist policy of Starve the Beast so as to eliminate all social spending by breaking the bank, is wel= l under wayand this definitely includes eliminating spending for and on veterans! The time has long since passed for ALL military veterans - especially career military retirees - to take up our arms and join in the struggle t= o restore ALL promised military pay and benefits...... 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THE AGENCY?S DEALINGS WITH THE PRESS BEGAN during the earliest stages of = the Cold War. Allen Dulles, who became director of the CIA in 1953, sough= t to establish a recruiting-and-cover capability within America=A1=A6s mo= st prestigious journalistic institutions. By operating under the guise of= accredited news correspondents, Dulles believed, CIA operatives abroad w= ould be accorded a degree of access and freedom of movement unobtainable = under almost any other type of cover. American publishers, like so many other corporate and institutional leade= rs at the time, were willing us commit the resources of their companies t= o the struggle against ?global Communism.? Accordingly, the traditional l= ine separating the American press corps and government was often indistin= guishable: rarely was a news agency used to provide cover for CIA operati= ves abroad without the knowledge and consent of either its principal owne= r; publisher or senior editor. Thus, contrary to the notion that the CIA = era and news executives allowed themselves and their organizations to bec= ome handmaidens to the intelligence services. "Let=A1=A6s not pick on som= e poor reporters, for God=A1=A6s sake," William Colby exclaimed at one po= int to the Church committee=A1=A6s investigators. "Let=A1=A6s go to the m= anagements. They were witting". In all, about twenty-five news organizati= ons (including those listed at the beginning of this article) provided co= ver for the Agency. . . . . . Many journalists who covered World War II were close to people in the Off= ice of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor of the CIA; more impor= tant, they were all on the same side. When the war ended and many OSS off= icials went into the CIA, it was only natural that these relationships wo= uld continue. Meanwhile, the first postwar generation of journalists ente= red the profession; they shared the same political and professional value= s as their mentors. "You had a gang of people who worked together during = World War II and never got over it," said one Agency official. "They were= genuinely motivated and highly susceptible to intrigue and being on the = inside. Then in the Fifties and Sixties there was a national consensus ab= out a national threat. The Vietnam War tore everything to pieces...shredd= ed the consensus and threw it in the air." Another Agency official observ= ed: "Many journalists didn=A1=A6t give a second thought to associating wi= th the Agency. But there was a point when the ethical issues which most people had submerged finally surfaced. Today, a lot of= these guys vehemently deny that they had any relationship with the Agenc= y." . . . . . The CIA even ran a formal training program in the 1950s to teach its agen= ts to be journalists. Intelligence officers were "taught to make noises l= ike reporters," explained a high CIA official, and were then placed in ma= jor news organizations with help from management. "These were the guys wh= o went through the ranks and were told, "You=A1=A6re going to be a journa= list," the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400-some relationship= s described in Agency files followed that pattern, however; most involved= persons who were already bona fide journalists when they began undertaki= ng tasks for the Agency. The Agency=A1=A6s relationships with journalists, as described in CIA fil= es, include the following general categories: Legitimate, accredited staff members of news organizations - usually repo= rters. Some were paid; some worked for the Agency on a purely voluntary b= asis. . . . Stringers and freelancers. Most were payrolled by the Agency under standa= rd contractual terms. . . . Employees of so-called CIA ?proprietaries.? During the past twenty-five y= ears, the Agency has secretly bankrolled numerous foreign press services,= periodicals and newspapers - both English and foreign language - which p= rovided excellent cover for CIA operatives. . . . Columnists and commentators. There are perhaps a dozen well-known columni= sts and broadcast commentators whose relationships with the CIA go far be= yond those normally maintained between reporters and their sources. They = are referred to at the Agency as "known assets" and can be counted on to = perform a variety of undercover tasks; they are considered receptive to t= he Agency=A1=A6s point of view on various subjects. . . . . . MURKY DETAILS OF CIA RELATIONSHIPS with individuals and news organization= s began trickling out in 1973 when it was first disclosed that the CIA ha= d, on occasion, employed journalists. Those reports, combined with new in= formation, serve as casebook studies of the Agency=A1=A6s use of journali= sts for intelligence purposes. The New York Times. The Agency=A1=A6s relationship with the Times was by = far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. [It w= as] general Times policy . . . to provide assistance to the CIA whenever = possible. . . . . . CIA officials cite two reasons why the Agency?s working relationship with= the Times was closer and more extensive than with any other paper: the f= act that the Times maintained the largest foreign news operation in Ameri= can daily journalism; and the close personal ties between the men who ran= both institutions. . . . . . The Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS was unquestionably the CIA=A1=A6s m= ost valuable broadcasting asset. CBS president William Paley and Allen Du= lles enjoyed an easy working and social relationship. 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He = did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go = because he was asked to do so by the newspapers that printed his column. = He went at the request of the CIA. <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip>Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in= the past twenty-five years have secretly carried out assignments for the= Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headq= uarters. Some of these journalists=A1=A6 relationships with the Agency we= re tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and ov= erlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services - from s= imple intelligencegathering to serving as go-betweens with spies in Commu= nist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors sh= ared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, d= istinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors-without-port= folio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents w= ho found that their association with the Agency helped their work; string= ers and freelancers who were as interested it the derring-do of the spy b= usiness as in filing articles, and, the smallest category, full-time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In= many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform = tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements America?s leading n= ews organizations. <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip>The history of the CIA=A1=A6s involvement with the Americ= an press continues to be shrouded by an official policy of obfuscation an= d deception . . . . <P class=3Dspip>Among the executives who lent their cooperation to the Ag= ency were William Paley of the Columbia Broadcasting System, Henry Luce o= f Time Inc., Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times, Barry Bingham = Sr. of the Louisville Courier-Journal and James Copley of the Copley News= Service. Other organizations which cooperated with the CIA include the A= merican Broadcasting Company, the National Broadcasting Company, the Asso= ciated Press, United Pres International, Reuters, Hearst Newspapers, Scri= pps-Howard, Newsweek magazine, the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Miami = Herald and the old Saturday Evening Post and New York Herald-Tribune. <P class=3Dspip> <DIV> <DIV><A href=3D"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join"= ><IMG alt=3D"Click here to join catapultthepropaganda" src=3D"http://us.i= 1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/yg/img/i/us/ui/join.gif" border=3D0><BR><FONT co= lor=3D#9136ad>Click to join catapultthepropaganda</FONT></A> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href=3D"http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join"= ><FONT color=3D#9136ad>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropagand= a/join</FONT></A></DIV></DIV> <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip>By far the most valuable of these associations, according= to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS and Time Inc. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>From the Agency=A1=A6s perspective, there is nothing unto= ward in such relationships, and any ethical questions are a matter for th= e journalistic profession to resolve, not the intelligence community. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>THE AGENCY?S DEALINGS WITH THE PRESS BEGAN during the ear= liest stages of the Cold War. Allen Dulles, who became director of the CI= A in 1953, sought to establish a recruiting-and-cover capability within A= merica=A1=A6s most prestigious journalistic institutions. By operating un= der the guise of accredited news correspondents, Dulles believed, CIA ope= ratives abroad would be accorded a degree of access and freedom of moveme= nt unobtainable under almost any other type of cover. <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip>American publishers, like so many other corporate and ins= titutional leaders at the time, were willing us commit the resources of t= heir companies to the struggle against ?global Communism.? Accordingly, t= he traditional line separating the American press corps and government wa= s often indistinguishable: rarely was a news agency used to provide cover= for CIA operatives abroad without the knowledge and consent of either it= s principal owner; publisher or senior editor. Thus, contrary to the noti= on that the CIA era and news executives allowed themselves and their orga= nizations to become handmaidens to the intelligence services. "Let=A1=A6s= not pick on some poor reporters, for God=A1=A6s sake," William Colby exc= laimed at one point to the Church committee=A1=A6s investigators. "Let=A1= =A6s go to the managements. They were witting". In all, about twenty-five= news organizations (including those listed at the beginning of this arti= cle) provided cover for the Agency. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>Many journalists who covered World War II were close to p= eople in the Office of Strategic Services, the wartime predecessor of the= CIA; more important, they were all on the same side. When the war ended = and many OSS officials went into the CIA, it was only natural that these = relationships would continue. Meanwhile, the first postwar generation of = journalists entered the profession; they shared the same political and pr= ofessional values as their mentors. "You had a gang of people who worked = together during World War II and never got over it," said one Agency offi= cial. "They were genuinely motivated and highly susceptible to intrigue a= nd being on the inside. Then in the Fifties and Sixties there was a natio= nal consensus about a national threat. The Vietnam War tore everything to= pieces...shredded the consensus and threw it in the air." Another Agency= official observed: "Many journalists didn=A1=A6t give a second thought t= o associating with the Agency. But there was a point when the ethical issues which most people had submerged finally surfaced= . Today, a lot of these guys vehemently deny that they had any relationsh= ip with the Agency." <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>The CIA even ran a formal training program in the 1950s t= o teach its agents to be journalists. Intelligence officers were "taught = to make noises like reporters," explained a high CIA official, and were t= hen placed in major news organizations with help from management. "These = were the guys who went through the ranks and were told, "You=A1=A6re goin= g to be a journalist," the CIA official said. Relatively few of the 400-s= ome relationships described in Agency files followed that pattern, howeve= r; most involved persons who were already bona fide journalists when they= began undertaking tasks for the Agency. <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip>The Agency=A1=A6s relationships with journalists, as desc= ribed in CIA files, include the following general categories: <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>Legitimate, accredited staff members of news or= ganizations - usually reporters. Some were paid; some worked for the Agen= cy on a purely voluntary basis. . . . <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>Stringers and freelancers. Most were payrolled = by the Agency under standard contractual terms. . . . <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>Employees of so-called CIA ?proprietaries.? Dur= ing the past twenty-five years, the Agency has secretly bankrolled numero= us foreign press services, periodicals and newspapers - both English and = foreign language - which provided excellent cover for CIA operatives. . .= . <P class=3Dspip> <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>Columnists and commentators. There are perhaps = a dozen well-known columnists and broadcast commentators whose relationsh= ips with the CIA go far beyond those normally maintained between reporter= s and their sources. They are referred to at the Agency as "known assets"= and can be counted on to perform a variety of undercover tasks; they are= considered receptive to the Agency=A1=A6s point of view on various subje= cts. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>MURKY DETAILS OF CIA RELATIONSHIPS with individuals and n= ews organizations began trickling out in 1973 when it was first disclosed= that the CIA had, on occasion, employed journalists. Those reports, comb= ined with new information, serve as casebook studies of the Agency=A1=A6s= use of journalists for intelligence purposes. <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>The New York Times. The Agency=A1=A6s relations= hip with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, accordi= ng to CIA officials. [It was] general Times policy . . . to provide assis= tance to the CIA whenever possible. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip>CIA officials cite two reasons why the Agency?s working r= elationship with the Times was closer and more extensive than with any ot= her paper: the fact that the Times maintained the largest foreign news op= eration in American daily journalism; and the close personal ties between= the men who ran both institutions. <P class=3Dspip>. . . . . <P class=3Dspip><IMG class=3Dspip_puce alt=3D- src=3D"http://bellaciao.or= g/en/puce.gif" border=3D0>The Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS was unque= stionably the CIA=A1=A6s most valuable broadcasting asset. CBS president = William Paley and Allen Dulles enjoyed an easy working and social relatio= nship. Over the years, the network provided cover for CIA employees, incl= uding at least one well-known foreign correspondent and several stringers= ; it supplied outtakes of newsfilm to the CIA; established a formal chann= el of communication between the Washington bureau chief and the Agency; g= ave the Agency access to the CBS newsfilm library; and allowed reports by= CBS correspondents to the Washington and New York newsrooms to be routin= ely monitored by the CIA. 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But Porter Goss, 66, says he now has more time to run America's largest human intelligence agency. He sat down for his first interview with TIME's Timothy J. Burger. WHEN WILL WE GET OSAMA BIN LADEN? That is a question that goes far deeper than you know. In the chain that you need to successfully wrap up the war= on terror, we have some weak links. And I find that until we strengthen all = the links, we're probably not going to be able to bring Mr. bin Laden to justice. We are making very good progress on it. But when you go to the v= ery difficult question of dealing with sanctuaries in sovereign states, you'r= e dealing with a problem of our sense of international obligation, fair pla= y. We have to find a way to work in a conventional world in unconventional w= ays that are acceptable to the international community. IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHERE HE IS. WHERE? I have = an excellent idea of where he is. What's the next question? VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY HAS SAID THE IRAQ INSURGENCY IS IN ITS LAST THROES. IS THAT YOUR READ? I think they're not quite in the last throes, = but I think they are very close to it. And I think that every day that goes b= y in Iraq where they have their own government and it's moving forward reinforces just how radical [the insurgents] are and how unwanted they ar= e. COULD THE U.S. GO TO WAR AGAIN BASED ON FALSE INTELLIGENCE? I would not agree to surmise that America has gone to war based on false intelligence= . I would say that the right question is: Should America be checking out thre= ats to America? The answer is yes. And will we find some threats were more ta= lk than real? Yes, we will. COULD AL-QAEDA HIT US AGAIN? Yes, it could. Certainly the intent is very high. And we are trying to stay ahead of their capability. And so far, I think we have done pretty well carrying the war to them, as it were. I th= ink that's mattered. YOU HAVE BEEN A BIG CRITIC OF CIA HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE = TO FIX IT? We're fixing it with quantity and quality. We're changing methods. We're changing systems. We're changing it from the beginning to the end, from the recruitment=97the types of people we are trying to attract=97to = the way we bring them in, to the experience we give them in training, to the ways= we get them on station or in places where they are of use to us. We are focused very much on finding ways to get our eyes and ears out and about on a global basis. And we are doing it in ways that you can't even imagine and I'm not even going to slightly discuss. HOW MUCH DOES IT HURT CIA MORALE TO SEE THE DIRECTOR LOSE PRESIDENTIAL FA= CE TIME AND THE ROLE OF INTEL QUARTERBACK TO JOHN NEGROPONTE? I would almost equate it to getting rid of a 60-lb. back sack, climbing up a big, steep trail. I suddenly feel like I am refreshed. 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Yet today, as the autocratic American Empire performs its awesome debut= on the global stage, some of these dangerous schemers have boldly emerged f= rom their subterranean refuge to reveal their previously hidden lust for pow= er, and are now, in public statements and policy papers, baring their visibl= e teeth. </P><P><BR><BR>These nefarious elitists =96 all too often naively s= corned as paper tigers by sensible folk who dismiss conspiracy theories =96=20= may have a smile as sweet as sugar and spice, but they also have a nasty sna= rl and a fearsome bite. The deception that promotes their bid for dominion i= s the claim that American military dominance over the world is best for ever= yone, and that this policy =96 disguised as =93democracy=94 =96 is endorsed,= even directed by God. </P><P><BR><BR>The new elite that slipped from the sh= adows to direct the Bush administration foreign policy are neoconservatives,= or neocons, who have formed an unprecedented right-wing alliance of former=20= leftists and liberals. Their ideology is paradoxical, spawned in that fetid=20= breeding ground where right meets left, producing a hybrid offspring that re= sembles a power-hungry, pro-Zionist mutation of Trotsky's ideas on permanent= revolution. This new elite now openly promotes a glorious vision of America= n supremacy based on a messianic ideology that exalts American culture as su= perior in every way to the cultures of other nations. </P><P><BR><BR>Under t= he motto =93peace through strength,=94 their aim is to subjugate every aspec= t of American society to the bare-fisted control of the state, as part of a=20= military crusade for complete U.S. global dominance. Like the wolf in disgui= se who fooled Little Red Riding Hood, their voracious blood-lust is masked b= y soothing reassurances of good intentions. Only this time the wolf is far m= ore ambitious. It is the people of America and the nations of the world who=20= are lined up for lunch under the guise of benevolence. But first, the trusti= ng victims must be convinced that the hungry wolf is just as benign as lil= =92 ole granny in a frilly nightgown. </P><P><BR><BR>The elite made its firs= t move from the shadows of power to the spotlight when a draft of the Defens= e Policy Guidance (DPG) on U.S. grand strategy was leaked to the New York Ti= mes in 1992. This literal Pax Americana =96 American Peace =96 was framed al= ong the same lines as the Pax Romana, and foretold a world in which global U= .S. military intervention would become permanent.</P><P>=A0<BR><BR>Surprised= commentators described the policy document as stunning in the clarity and a= mbition of the new U.S. military vision. The proposed strategy called for U.= S. military pre-eminence over Eurasia by preventing the rise of any potentia= lly hostile power. It also established a new policy of pre-emptive action ag= ainst any state suspected of developing weapons of mass destruction. Written= more than a decade ago by former Pentagon analysts Paul Wolfowitz, now Depu= ty Security of Defense, and I. Lewis Libby, now Vice President Cheney=92s ch= ief-of-staff, this prospective defense strategy has today become the backbon= e of America=92s aggressive foreign policy, and many aspects of it are inclu= ded in the important document outlining 2002 National Security Strategy. As=20= Richard Perle put it: "The President of the United States, on issue after is= sue, has reflected the thinking of neoconservatives." </P><P><BR><BR>Cleverl= y masked in the rhetoric of justice and benevolence, the new doctrine promot= ed by the Bush Inner Circle is characterised by a distinctly Machiavellian t= inge. Niccol=F2 Machiavelli, the political philosopher who served the Italia= n government in the 16th century, wrote that the true purpose of political p= ower is to maintain and extend itself. It has nothing at all to do with the=20= welfare of the people, nor with principles of right and wrong. </P><P><BR><B= R>Machiavelli taught that it was useful to promote morals, ethics and religi= ous convictions among the people for the purpose of maintaining control and=20= productivity. The ruler himself, while advised to maintain a guise of morali= ty and religiosity, was sanctioned in the covert use of dishonesty, cruelty,= murder, or any other means necessary to perpetuate power. </P><P><BR><BR>Th= e new elite, whose driving force is the pursuit of power, believe they have=20= a right to impose their rule by way of deceit. As disciples of Machiavelli t= hey consider themselves to be free from the constraints of moral absolutes.=20= Their philosophy also encourages them to promote religious faith among the p= eople, even though they themselves are not true believers. This may, perhaps= , explain why some of the elite clique who are secular Jews and members of o= ccult fraternities, have strategically embedded themselves with the Christia= n Right, and successfully persuaded most influential evangelical churches in= America to serve their cause. The =93born-again=94 George Bush certainly kn= ows just how important =93faith=94 is to the 100 million professing American= Christians who form the Republican political power base. </P><P><BR><BR>In=20= his book, The Prince, Machiavelli writes:</P><P><BR>"Therefore it is unneces= sary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it i= s very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also,=20= that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appea= r to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, u= pright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not=20= to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite. And you ha= ve to understand this, that a prince, especially a new one, cannot observe a= ll those things for which men are esteemed, being often forced, in order to=20= maintain the state, to act contrary to faith, friendship, humanity, and reli= gion=85 </P><DIV>=A0<BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P>There is=20= nothing more necessary to appear to have than this last quality, inasmuch as= men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, because it belongs to= everybody to see you, to few to come in touch with you. Everyone sees what=20= you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppos= e themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state t= o defend them.=94</P><P>=A0<BR><BR>Surrounded by policy shapers with allegia= nce to a philosophy that advocates the shameless blinding of the electorate,= President Bush has aggressively pursued strategies that have finally result= ed in the imposition of new moral absolutes. Grounded neither in truth nor i= n national interest, the ambitious Machiavellian clique exploits religion on= ly to rally support for the perpetuation of their own power and profit. Iron= ically, this strategic deception and manipulation is the exact antithesis of= the faded values of the Christian community, who remain entirely oblivious=20= to the elite=92s predation. </P><P><BR><BR>Like Machiavelli, the German Jewi= sh political philosopher Leo Strauss also taught that the elite, who transce= nd moral absolutes, should exploit religious faith in order to autocraticall= y control the masses. Strauss became convinced, as a result of his experienc= e of World War I, that faith in human nature without God, as it was exalted=20= in the Enlightenment, was mistaken. He saw religion as the indispensable opi= ate of the people. Deception, for Strauss, was a necessity in political life= , and he considered religion to be a desirable =93pious fraud=94 =96 a fraud= to be encouraged as a means of control, through the imposition of =93moral=20= law=94. Religion is necessary for the people, he advised, but the rulers the= mselves =96 not bound by the same moral laws they preach and impose on other= s =96 should maintain only an outward form of religion, a convincing fa=E7ad= e. </P><P><BR><BR>Leo Strauss emigrated to the United States in 1938, where=20= he obtained a fellowship with the Rockefeller Foundation and a position teac= hing philosophy at the University of Chicago. The eccentric opinions of this= obscure German academic would not be expected to hold much sway, except tha= t Leo Strauss happens to be the mentor of influential neoconservatives inclu= ding William Kristol, former chief of staff to Dan Quayle, and Paul Wolfowit= z, now Deputy Defense Secretary. </P><P><BR><BR>In 1997, members of the neoc= onservative elite formed a number of interlocking think tanks and front grou= ps dedicated to their fundamental belief that =93American leadership is good= both for America and for the world=94. Several founder members were influen= tial veterans of the Reagan administration and future senior officials of th= e G.W. Bush foreign policy team. </P><P><BR><BR>William Kristol founded the=20= Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with the stated goal to =93promo= te American global leadership=94. PNAC brought the neoconservatives who prom= ote global U.S. dominance together with powerful militarists in the Bush adm= inistration such as Vice-president Dick Cheney, and Secretary of Defense, Do= nald Rumsfeld. Here, at PNAC, the neoconservatives and militant hawks rub sh= oulders with influential Christian activists such as Gary Bauer, and other p= rominent leaders of the Religious Right, who obediently promote the neocon c= ause throughout the churches. </P><P><BR><BR>Influential think-tank warriors= also formed several other revolving door interfaces between high positions=20= in government and top jobs in the military-industrial complex. The Center fo= r Security Policy (CSP), is described as the =93main battle tank=94 whose mi= ssion is to promote world peace through American strength. The Jewish Instit= ute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) links American defense policy with= the security of Israel. The American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an influen= tial Washington think tank, is known as the heartbeat of neoconservative tho= ught.</P><P>=A0<BR><BR>William Kristol is often described as =93the crown pr= ince=94 of the neoconservative elite. His father, Irving Kristol, the =93god= father=94 of neoconservatives, credited with defining the neoconservative cr= edo, was a member of the American Trotskyists=92 Fourth International in 194= 0, before veering to the right. 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CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From the "too</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-= bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">proud to fight" and "he kept us out of war"= episodes, I ventured to deduce</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-r= ight: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(September 29, 1918, Appe= ndix 36) that he would at the appropriate moment</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-t= op: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">oblige u= s by transferring the "not" from his commandments to his creed</DIV><DIV sty= le=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0= px; ">without as much as a "may I not," and in such a way that his people wi= ll</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px= ; margin-left: 0px; ">be none the wiser.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px;=20= "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom:= 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SP= AN>The plain people of this country are inveterate and incurable hero</DIV><= DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-= left: 0px; ">worshipers. They are, however, sincere in sentiment; and for a=20= hero to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom= : 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">become established in the public shrine, he must=20= first succeed in getting</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0= px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">his name associated with the phr= ases and slogans that seem to reflect the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px= ; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">undefined aspir= ations of the average inhabitant. When this has been</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">acco= mplished the allegiance is at once transferred from the sentiment to</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">the sentimentalist, from the ideal to the maker of the longed-fo= r phrase.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">No one understands this peculiarity of the nati= ve behavior better than Mr.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right= : 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wilson, which accounts largel= y for his exceptional usefulness to us. He</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0p= x; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">knows that Ame= ricans will not scrutinise any performance too closely,</DIV><DIV style=3D"m= argin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">p= rovided their faith in the performer has been adequately established. Mr.</D= IV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; mar= gin-left: 0px; ">Wilson has since made the transfer amid American acclamatio= n. In the same</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin= -bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">way he will now be able to satisfy them th= at far from surrendering their</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-ri= ght: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">independence to the League= they are actually extending their sovereignty</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top= : 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">by it. He=20= alone can satisfy them on this. He alone can father an</DIV><DIV style=3D"ma= rgin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">an= ti-Bolshevik act which judicially interpreted -- will enable appropriate</DI= V><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; marg= in-left: 0px; ">punitive measures to be applied to any American who may be u= nwise enough</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-b= ottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to assert that America must again declare he= r independence. And he alone,</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-rig= ht: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">therefore, is qualified to=20= act for us as first president of the League.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top:=20= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14= px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bot= tom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0=20= </SPAN>I confess I am a little uneasy lest in the exigencies of diplomatic</= DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ma= rgin-left: 0px; ">combat, Mr. Wilson may not have found the joy he anticipat= ed from matching</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; marg= in-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">his wits against the best brains of Euro= pe. He is easily slighted and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-rig= ht: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">remarkably vindictive. It i= s the highest degree desirable that any traces</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top= : 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of resentm= ent his mind may be harboring against us should be radically</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">removed before he returns. I would, therefore, suggest that the work of<= /DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; m= argin-left: 0px; ">adulation planned in Appendix 32 should be instructed to=20= consult the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bo= ttom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">inventories I have prepared (appendixes 45-83= ), which show that he is now</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-righ= t: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">surfeited with diamond stoma= chers, brooches, and bracelets, Gobelin</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;=20= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">tapestries, mosai= cs, and vases, gold caskets, and plates.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px;=20= "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom:= 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SP= AN>The program we arranged for his visit to England (appendix 33)</DIV><DIV=20= style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left= : 0px; ">including a royal reception at Buckingham Palace, with which the Pr= esident</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom= : 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">was well pleased. The fruitful visit of the Presi= dent to the King should</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0p= x; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">be returned as early as possible.= I would suggest that as soon as the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">President is settled= once more in the White House, the visit should be</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin= -top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">return= ed by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales [then</DIV><DIV style=3D"margi= n-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mount= batten/Battenberg I think], who would be an admirable representative</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">of His Royal Sire, and would satisfy President Wilson's sense of= fitness.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It is perhaps unfortunate that there is not a P= residential daughter of the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right= : 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Prince's age, for such a unio= n would have greatly advanced our purpose not</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">only with t= he American people, but also with a President who feels that</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">lese majeste should be punishable with 20 years' imprisonment, and who</= DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ma= rgin-left: 0px; ">acts as if he considered his son-in-law, Mr. McAdoo, as hi= s heir apparent.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; marg= in-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted= -space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>PRESIDENT WILSON'S PECULIARITIES</DIV><DIV style=3D"m= argin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min= -height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-spac= e">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>Too great attention cannot be given at this time to the Pr= esidential</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bot= tom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">peculiarities, for his devotion to our purpose= will depend upon our</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ability to pander to them. I would=20= suggest that the new ambassador to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margi= n-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Washington should be c= hosen only after the most careful thought. He should</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">not=20= be too clever, lest Mr. Wilson shun him. He should be able to evince</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">hilarity at the most venerable jest, no matter how often he may=20= have to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom= : 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">suffer it. This qualification is vitally importan= t whether Mr. Wilson's</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px= ; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"humor" is merely assumed to perpe= tuate the "human" tradition established</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;=20= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for Presidents by= Lincoln, or whether it is studied descent from Jovelike</DIV><DIV style=3D"= margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">= isolation to Jovelike jest. The ambassador should be a Wilson worshiper. I</= DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ma= rgin-left: 0px; ">enclose (appendix 34) resumes of the methods of worship pr= acticed by</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bot= tom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">various members of his inner circle. The appoi= ntee would do well to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">familiarize himself with them, and=20= my services are at his disposal should</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m= argin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">be desire more ext= ended information on the method of worship he selects.</DIV><DIV style=3D"ma= rgin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">He= should of course be a commoner, that we may not lose democratic favor</DIV>= <DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin= -left: 0px; ">-- preferably a professor -- and sufficiently subsidized to be= able to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-botto= m: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">entertain regally. If a list were submitted to M= r. Wilson he might be</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">prepared to indicate all of whom he= did not approve, and the one against</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; ma= rgin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">whom he expressed n= o prejudices should be appointed. The pressing need of</DIV><DIV style=3D"ma= rgin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ou= r embassy at Washington is not so much an ambassador as a gentleman in</DIV>= <DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin= -left: 0px; ">waiting to the President.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;=20= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "= ><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom:=20= 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPA= N>I would suggest that his powers as President of the League of Nations</DIV= ><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; ">be left undefined for the present. He may be trusted to assum= e what power</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-b= ottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">he can and to use it in the interests of the= Crown.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom= : 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-= top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN c= lass=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>A grant of a privy purse of $1= 00,000,000 would prove most acceptable</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m= argin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to him and would b= e useful for private espionage, private wars, Siberian</DIV><DIV style=3D"ma= rgin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ra= ilroads, etc. His appointment should be for life, and you might</DIV><DIV st= yle=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:=20= 0px; ">definitely promise him that any instructions he may care to convey</D= IV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; mar= gin-left: 0px; ">concerning his successor will receive the most careful atte= ntion of His</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-b= ottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Majesty's Government.</DIV><DIV style=3D"mar= gin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-h= eight: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; m= argin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space"= >=A0 =A0 </SPAN>Nevertheless, it would be well quickly to reinforce him in t= he</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px= ; margin-left: 0px; ">presidency of the League of Nations by staging the fir= st session of the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; mar= gin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">League in Washington. This will convinc= e these simple people that they are</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; marg= in-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the League and its po= wer resides in them. Their pride in this power should</DIV><DIV style=3D"mar= gin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">be=20= exalted. Perhaps you, yourself, might condescend to visit this country.</DIV= ><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; ">Or, if that be impracticable, you might send such noble state= smen, and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">stately noblemen, as will suffice to make of th= e first League session a</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0= px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">spectacle of unsurpassed brillia= nce. Indeed, it would be well to commence</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px= ; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">at an early dat= e a series of spectacles by which the mob may be diverted</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">from any attempt to think too much of matters beyond their province. The= </DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;=20= margin-left: 0px; ">success of the Joffre, Vivianti Balfour, and other missi= ons in amusing the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; ma= rgin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">people while the country was quietly p= ut into the war shows that similar</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margi= n-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">missions would likewis= e amuse the people -- while the country was quietly</DIV><DIV style=3D"margi= n-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">put i= nto the League. I would suggest that missions of thanksgiving to</DIV><DIV s= tyle=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:= 0px; ">America be organized, and that His Majesty the King of the Belgians<= /DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; m= argin-left: 0px; ">[related to the British house of Hanover], Cardinal Merci= er, Field Marshal</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; mar= gin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Foch, Venizelos, and an eminent Italian= or two be sent seriatim.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:=20= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DI= V style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-le= ft: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin= -right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-co= nverted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>PROPAGANDA</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px;=20= "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom:= 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SP= AN>While awaiting these diversions for the vulgar, we are incessantly</DIV><= DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-= left: 0px; ">instructing them in the wonders of the League. Its praises are=20= thundered</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">by our press, decreed by our college presidents= , and professed by our</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px= ; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">professors. Our authors, writers.=20= and lecturers are analyzing its selected</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">virtues for whom= soever will read or listen. As will be seen from appendix</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">39, circulars issued by the League of Nations committee, we have enliste= d</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;= margin-left: 0px; ">8,000 pulpiteers or propagandists for the League. We ha= ve organized</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-b= ottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">international and national synods, consistor= ies, committees, conferences,</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-rig= ht: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">convocations, conventions,=20= councils, congresses, and assemblies, as well</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">as their St= ate, municipal, and district equivalents, to herald the birth</DIV><DIV styl= e=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0p= x; ">of the League as the dawn of universal peace. A special Sunday will be<= /DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; m= argin-left: 0px; ">observed as League Sunday in all churches. In this connec= tion, may I</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bo= ttom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">remark that the appointment of Mr. Raymond Fo= sdick to the Secretariat of</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right= : 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the League, has pleased not o= nly the Rockefeller interests but also the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0p= x; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">less disingenu= ous uplifters, for it stamps the League as an endowed</DIV><DIV style=3D"mar= gin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">org= anization for promiscuous uplifting, under the triple crown of</DIV><DIV sty= le=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0= px; ">religion, respectability, and finance. Agriculturalists, bankers, brok= ers,</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0= px; margin-left: 0px; ">chartered accounts, chemists, and all other function= al groups capable of</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;=20= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">exerting organized professional, bus= iness, financial, or social pressure</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are meeting to endor= se the League in the name of peace, progress, and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-= top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">prosper= ity.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0= px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top= : 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN clas= s=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>The World's Peace Foundation has=20= issued for us a series of League of</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; marg= in-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Nations pamphlets, wh= ich, with our other literature, tax the mails to the</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">limi= t of their capacity. Our film concerns are preparing an epoch-making</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">picture entitled "The League of Nations." In brief, our entire s= ystem of</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-botto= m: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thought control is working ceaselessly, tireless= ly, ruthlessly, to insure</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:=20= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the adoption of the League. And= it will be adopted, for business wants</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;=20= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">peace, the righte= ous cannot resist a covenant, and the politicians, after</DIV><DIV style=3D"= margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">= shadow-boxing for patronage purposes, will yield valiantly lest the fate</DI= V><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; marg= in-left: 0px; ">of the wanton and wilful pursue them.</DIV><DIV style=3D"mar= gin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-h= eight: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; m= argin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space"= >=A0 =A0 </SPAN>By these means we hope smoothly to overcome all effective op= position</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-botto= m: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">on the on the part of our colony America to ente= ring the League -- that</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0p= x; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">is, the Empire. As soon as the Le= ague is functioning properly, His Majesty</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px= ; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in response to=20= loyal and repeated solicitation, might graciously be</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">plea= sed to consent to restore to this people their ancient right to</DIV><DIV st= yle=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:=20= 0px; ">petition at the foot of the throne; to confer the ancient rank and st= yle</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0p= x; margin-left: 0px; ">of governor general upon our Ambassador, that this co= lony may enjoy a</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; marg= in-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">status inferior to no other colony's; to= establish the primacy of the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-rig= ht: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Metropolitan [Anglican?] Se= e, with the Right Reverend Dr. Manning as first</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-to= p: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">primate;=20= to appoint ***Mr. Elihu Root [Skull and Bones & lots of</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">internationalist connections; several Roots have been in S&B; This i= s the<SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0</SPAN></DIV><DIV style=3D"mar= gin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Roo= t family of corporate crony contract created organization "Brown and</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">Root (aka Halliburton)] lord chief justice of the colony,*** and= to</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0p= x; margin-left: 0px; ">nominate Messrs. [Skull and Bones founding family of]= W. H. Taft, Nicholas</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Murray Butler, J. P. Morgan, Elizab= eth Marbury, Adolph Ochs [New York</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margi= n-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Times family owner], a= nd Thomas Lamont to the colonial privity council; as</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">a sp= ecial mark of royal and imperial condescension, to rename the Federal</DIV><= DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-= left: 0px; ">Capital of the Colony Georgetown, and lest section jealousy be=20= thereby</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom= : 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">excited, to grant royal charters to the cities of= Boston and Chicago</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; m= argin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">entitling them thereafter to style th= emselves, respectively, Kingston and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Guelf -- concisely t= o bestow in time and in measure such tokens of the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin= -top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">bounty= of the Crown as the fealty of the colonists merit.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margi= n-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-hei= ght: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; mar= gin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>BRITISH-AMERICAN UN= ION URGED</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margi= n-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN= class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>Since that memorable day, Se= ptember 19, 1877, on which the late Cecil</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px= ; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rhodes devised=20= by will a fund "to and for the establishment, promotion,</DIV><DIV style=3D"= margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">= and development of a secret society -- the true aim of which and object of</= DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; ma= rgin-left: 0px; ">which shall be the extension of British rule throughout th= e world, and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-b= ottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">especially the ultimate recovery of the Unit= ed States of America as an</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">integral part of the British E= mpire" -- the energy and intelligence of</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">England has not=20= been spent in vain. It would perhaps be presumptuous of me</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">to refer here to the admirable services rendered not only by LORD</DIV><= DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-= left: 0px; ">NORTHCLlFFE (the probable author of the report) and the corps o= f 12,000</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-botto= m: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">trained workers whom he introduced here during t= he year as purchasing</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px;= margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">agents under the direction of Sir C= ampbell Stuart [Scottish royal house</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">line], but also the=20= right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, and by Lord</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top= : 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reading. B= ut my report would be incomplete without a reference to Mr.</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; ">[the very Anglican] Andrew Carnegie, of Skibo Castle, Sutherlandshire, a= nd</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px= ; margin-left: 0px; ">New York City. He unobtrusively assumed the mantle of=20= the late Mr. Cecil</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; ma= rgin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rhodes. Through the Carnegie Foundatio= n, he obtained such control over the</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">professorate of this= country that even President Wilson was a suppliant</DIV><DIV style=3D"margi= n-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for a= Carnegie pension before this people and allied gratitude placed him</DIV><D= IV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-l= eft: 0px; ">beyond prospective want.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; mar= gin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><B= R></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px= ; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>T= he Carnegie League to Enforce Peace and its affiliate League of Small</DIV><= DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-= left: 0px; ">Nations are even now leading the van in our fight. In the North= American</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bott= om: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Review, June 1893, Mr. Carnegie wrote: "Let men= say what they will, I say</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that as surely as the sun in t= he heavens once shone upon Britain and</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m= argin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">America united, so= surely is it one morning to rise, to shine upon, to</DIV><DIV style=3D"marg= in-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">gree= t again, the reunited state -- the British-American union."</DIV><DIV style= =3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px= ; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right:= 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted= -space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>The object of Cecil Rhodes is almost attained. The da= y prophesied by</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margi= n-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mr. Carnegie is near at hand, the day whe= n the American Colonies will be</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-r= ight: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">in all things one with th= e motherland, one and indivisible. Only the last</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-t= op: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">great ba= ttle remains to be. fought -- the battle to compel her acceptance</DIV><DIV=20= style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left= : 0px; ">of the terms of the League of Nations."</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-t= op: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height= : 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin= -bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"= margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; mi= n-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px= ; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----------------------</DIV><DIV s= tyle=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left:= 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-ri= ght: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DI= V><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; marg= in-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m= argin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">= <BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0= px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top= : 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height:=20= 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BR class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DI= V><BR> <BR> <DIV style=3D"text-align:center; color:#909090; width:500p= x;"> <HR style=3D"border-bottom:1px; width:500px; text-align:left;"> <TT>Y= AHOO! 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CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From our web page at: www.nexusmagazine.com by Daniel Estulin =A9 May=96June 2005 Email: d.estulin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The full text of this article is at: http://www.onlinejournal.com --------------------------------- Bilderberg's Plans for the World The Bilderberg group's secret annual meeting determines many of the headl= ines and news developments that you will read about in the coming months.= But the Establishment media completely black out any news of it and rema= in strangely reluctant to lift the curtain hiding this major event. A num= ber of high-ranking members of the press who attend the annual meeting ar= e sworn to secrecy, and news editors are held responsible if any of their= journalists "inadvertently" report on what takes place. Yet few have eve= r heard of this exclusive and secretive group of the world's most powerfu= l financiers, industrialists and political figures. Although the Bilderberg group has lost some of its past lustre, on 5 to 8= May 2005 it met at Rottach-Egern (in Munich, Germany) under its usual se= crecy that makes a freemasonry lodge look like a playgroup. Staff at the = hotel were photographed and put through special clearance. From porters t= o senior managers, the employees were warned (under the threat of never w= orking in their country again) about the consequences of revealing any de= tails of the guests to the press. The discussions that the Bilderbergers engaged in this year and the conse= nsus they reached=97deciding how the world should deal with European=96Am= erican relations, the Middle East powder keg, the Iraq war, the global ec= onomy and how to stave off war in Iran=97will influence the course of Wes= tern civilisation and the future of the entire planet. Ironically, they m= et behind closed doors, protected by a phalanx of armed guards. After three straight years of open hostility and tension amongst the Euro= pean, British and American Bilderbergers, caused by the war in Iraq, the = aura of complete congeniality amongst them has returned. Bilderbergers ha= ve reaffirmed and remain united in their long-term goal to strengthen the= role the United Nations plays in regulating global conflicts and relatio= ns. However, it is important to understand that the Americans are no more the= "Hawks" than the European Bilderbergers are the "Doves". Europeans joine= d in supporting the 1991 invasion of Iraq by US President George Bush Sen= ior, celebrating (in the words of notable Bilderberg hunter Jim Tucker) t= he end of "America's Vietnam syndrome". Europeans also supported former U= S President Bill Clinton's invasion of Yugoslavia, bringing NATO into the= operation. UN Global Oil Tax and Peacebuilding Proposals A much discussed subject in 2005 at Rottach-Egern was the concept of impo= sing a UN tax on people worldwide through a direct tax on oil at the well= -head. This, in fact, sets a precedent. If enacted, it would be the first= time that a non-governmental agency (read the United Nations) directly b= enefited from a tax on citizens of free and enslaved nations. The Bilderb= erg proposal calls for a tiny UN levy at the outset, which the consumer w= ould hardly notice. Jim Tucker, formerly of the court-killed Spotlight magazine, wrote in the= American Free Press (14=9621 June 2004) that: "...establishing the princ= iple that the UN can directly tax citizens of the world is important to B= ilderberg. It is another giant step toward world government. Bilderberger= s know that publicly promoting a UN tax on all people on Earth would meet= with outrage. But they are patient; it [Bilderberg] first proposed a dir= ect world tax years ago and celebrates the fact that it is now in the pub= lic dialogue with little public attention or concern." Bilderberg wants "tax harmonisation" so that high-tax countries can compe= te with more tax-friendly nations=97including the United States=97for for= eign investment. They would "harmonise" taxes by forcing the rate in the = US and other countries to rise so that socialist Sweden's 58-per-cent lev= el would be "competitive". According to sources, an unidentified guest at the conference asked how g= lobal taxation can be sold to the American public. One European Union com= missioner suggested using as the battering ram the rhetoric of helping co= untries build peaceful, stable societies once conflict subsides. Someone = asked for the timing of the appeal. A former commissioner mentioned that = the best time to ask for cash is once the conflict subsides and the world= is subjected to brutal images of destruction. A Norwegian Bilderberger d= isagreed. What looked to be Bj=F6rn T. Grydeland, Norway's ambassador to = the European Union, said that, on the contrary, it's much easier to get w= orld attention and money for a region when a conflict rages. This was confirmed a posteriori when Denmark's foreign minister Per Stig = Moller, during a debate in the United Nations on 26 May, stated on the re= cord that "[i]f the international community is not able to act swiftly, t= he fragile peace is at risk, with loss of more lives as a consequence". D= enmark holds the EU presidency until 1 July 2005, when it will be replace= d by the UK. [The changeover took place just before we went to press. Ed.= ] Bilderbergers are planning to use what they nominated as a UN Peacebuildi= ng Commission, apparently to help win the peace in post-conflict countrie= s, as one of the tools in secretly imposing the UN tax on an unsuspecting= world population. Jim Tucker said as much in his Bilderberg report in the American Free Pre= ss (23 May) when he wrote: "There was some informal discussion of timing = for a vote in the United Nations on establishing a direct global tax by i= mposing a 10-cents-a-barrel levy on oil at the well-head. This is importa= nt to the Bilderberg goal of establishing the UN as a formal world govern= ment. Such a direct tax on individuals is symbolically important. Bilderb= erg's global tax proposal has been pending before the UN for three years = but the issue has been blacked out by the Bilderberg-controlled US media.= " Mark R. Warner, governor of Virginia and a first-time Bilderberg invitee,= expressed concern about how much additional financial responsibility the= United States would take on as a result. At this point, Jos=E9 M. Dur=E3= o Barroso, president of the European Commission, expressed a view held by= many within Bilderberg that the United States does not provide a fair sh= are of economic aid to poor countries. My sources confirm Jim Tucker's re= port that "Kissinger and David Rockefeller, among other Americans, beamed= and nodded approval". Although the US pays more into the foreign-aid piggy bank than any countr= y in the world, the Bilderbergers and the United Nations are poised to de= mand much more funding from it to meet the Peacebuilding proposal. NGOs and the Global Neighbourhood The rise of the NGOs (non-governmental organisations) is a development th= at former US President Clinton suddenly (one day after it was discussed a= t Rottach-Egern) suggested to be among "the most remarkable things that h= ave happened since the fall of the Berlin Wall". Ironically, Clinton's st= atement was picked up by the Wall Street Journal, a paper represented at = the Bilderberg meetings by its vice-president, Robert L. Bartley, until h= is death in December 2003, and its editorial page editor, Paul Gigot. The Bilderbergers have been vigorously debating, for the first time, whet= her to have unelected, self-appointed environmental activists given posit= ions of governmental authority on the governing board of the United Natio= ns Environment Program (UNEP)=97the agency which controls the use of the = atmosphere, outer space, the oceans and, for all practical purposes, biod= iversity. This invitation for "civil society" to participate in global go= vernance is described as "expanding democracy". According to sources within Bilderberg, the status of NGOs would be eleva= ted even further in the future. NGO activity would include agitating at t= he local level, lobbying at the national level and producing studies to j= ustify global taxation through UN organisations such as Global Plan, one = of Bilderberg's pet projects for over a decade. The strategy to advance the global governance agenda specifically include= s programs to discredit individuals and organisations that generate "inte= rnal political pressure" or "populist action" that fails to support the n= ew global ethic. The ultimate objective, according to sources, is to supp= ress democracy. If the plan proceeds, UNEP, along with all the environmental treaties und= er its jurisdiction, would ultimately be governed by a special body of en= vironmental activists, chosen only from accredited NGOs appointed by dele= gates to the General Assembly who are themselves appointed by the Preside= nt of the United States, who himself is controlled by the Rockefeller=96C= ouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR)=96Bilderberg interlocking leadership. This new mechanism would provide a direct route from the local, "on-the-g= round", NGO affiliates of national and international NGOs to the highest = levels of global governance. For example, the Greater Yellowstone Coaliti= on, a group of affiliated NGOs, recently petitioned the World Heritage Co= mmittee of UNESCO asking for intervention in the plans of a private compa= ny to mine gold on private land near Yellowstone Park. The UNESCO committ= ee did intervene, and immediately listed Yellowstone as a "World Heritage= Site in Danger". Under the terms of the World Heritage Convention, the U= nited States is required to protect the park, even beyond the borders of = the park and onto private lands if necessary. The ideas being discussed, if implemented, would bring all the people of = the world into a global neighbourhood, managed by a worldwide bureaucracy= under the direct authority of a minute handful of appointed individuals = and policed by thousands of individuals, paid by accredited NGOs, and all= certified to support a belief system that to many people is unbelievable= and unacceptable. A Lesson for Tony Blair Bilderbergers are celebrating the result they wanted: the return of a muc= h humbled Tony Blair to 10 Downing Street, with a much reduced parliament= ary majority. European Bilderbergers are still angry at him for supporting America's wa= r in Iraq. While teaching Blair a useful lesson in international politics= , Bilderbergers feel he is a far safer candidate to continue on the path = of European integration than his conservative rival, Michael Howard. Click to join catapultthepropaganda http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catapultthepropaganda/join The EU Referendum in France The first day of secret meetings at Bilderberg 2005 was dominated by talk= of the European Union referendum in France and whether President Chirac = could persuade France to vote "Yes" on 29 May. A "Yes" vote, according to= sources within Bilderberg, would put a lot of pressure on Tony Blair to = finally deliver Britain into the waiting arms of the New World Order thro= ugh its own referendum on the treaty, scheduled for 2006. Matthias Nass, = Deputy Editor of Die Zeit, wondered out loud that a "No" vote in France c= ould undoubtedly cause political turmoil in Europe and overshadow Britain= 's six-month EU presidency starting on 1 July. Bilderbergers hope that Blair and Chirac, whose at times open animosity h= as spilled into the public arena on more than one occasion, can work toge= ther for mutual benefit and political survival. Another European Bilderbe= rger added that both leaders must put behind them as quickly as possible = all past disputes on such topics as Iraq, the liberalisation of Europe's = economy and the future of the budget rebate that Britain receives from th= e EU, and work towards complete European integration=97which could disint= egrate if France's often "hard-headed and obstinate people", in the words= of a British Bilderberger, do not do the right thing, meaning give up vo= luntarily their independence for the "greater good" of a European federal= super-state! A German Bilderberger insider said that France's "Yes" vote is in trouble= because of the "outsourcing of jobs". "Jobs in Germany and France are go= ing to Asia and Latvia [to take advantage of cheap labour]." Latvia is on= e of the former Soviet republics that have been admitted to the European = Union, bringing the total membership to 25 nations. A German politician w= ondered out loud how Tony Blair will go about convincing Britons to embra= ce the European Constitution when, due to the outsourcing of jobs, both G= ermany and France are suffering 10 per cent unemployment while Britain is= doing well economically. The Neo-conservative Lobby In full force was that faction: the so-called "neo-conservatives", who ha= ve determined that Israel's security should come at the expense of the sa= fety of the United States and be central to all US foreign policy decisio= ns. Most notable among them is Richard N. Perle, who was investigated by the = FBI for conducting espionage on behalf of Israel. Perle played a critical= role in pushing the United States into the war against Iraq. On 27 March= 2003, he was forced to resign from the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board a= fter it was learned he'd been advising Goldman Sachs International, an ha= bitual Bilderberg attendee, on how it might profit from the war in Iraq. Another neo-conservative figure on hand was Michael A. Ledeen, an "intell= ectual's intellectual". Ledeen serves for the American Enterprise Institu= te (AEI), a think-tank founded in 1943 and with which Richard Perle has l= ong been associated. AEI and the Brookings Institution operate a Joint Ce= nter for Regulatory Studies (JCRS), the purpose being to hold lawmakers a= nd regulators "accountable for their decisions by providing thoughtful, o= bjective analyses of existing regulatory programs and new regulatory prop= osals". The JCRS pushes for cost-benefit analysis of regulations, which f= its with AEI's (and the Bilderbergers') ultimate goal of deregulation. These neo-conservatives were also joined this year at Bilderberg by a han= dful of other former top Washington policymakers and publicists known for= their sympathies for Israel, including: Richard N. Haass, former State D= epartment official and president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR= ); Richard Holbrooke, former assistant secretary of state and "father" of= the Dayton Accord; Dennis Ross, of the pro-Israel Washington Institute f= or Near East Policy, effectively an offshoot of the American Israel Publi= c Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Jewish Institute for National Securit= y Affairs (JINSA); and Paul Wolfowitz, the newly elected World Bank presi= dent. American Criminals: Public Policy in Private In the United States, the Logan Act states explicitly that it is against = the law for federal officials to attend secret meetings with private citi= zens to develop public policies. Although Bilderberg 2005 was missing one of its luminaries=97US State Dep= artment official John Bolton, who was testifying before the Senate Commit= tee on Foreign Relations=97the US Government was well represented in Rott= ach-Egern by: Allan E. Hubbard, Assistant to the President for Economic P= olicy and director of the National Economic Council; William Luti, Deputy= Under-Secretary of Defense; James Wolfensohn, outgoing president of the = World Bank; and Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of State, an ideologue o= f the Iraq war and incoming president of the World Bank. By attending the= Bilderberg 2005 meeting, these people broke United States federal law. Journalistic Whores Bilderberg, at one time or another, has had representatives of all major = US and European newspapers and network news outlets attend. High-ranking = membes of the inadequately named "international free press" attend on the= ir solemn promise to report nothing. This is how Bilderberg keeps its new= s blackout virtually complete in the United States and Europe. This year's invitees included: Nicolas Beytout, editor-in-chief of Le Fig= aro; Oscar Bronner, publisher and editor of Der Standard; Donald Graham, = chairman of the Washington Post; Matthias Nass, deputy editor of Die Zeit= ; Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time; J. Robert S. Prichard, pres= ident and CEO of Torstar Media Group (Toronto Star); C=FCneyt Ulsevere, c= olumnist for H=FCrriyet; John Vinocur, senior correspondent for the Inter= national Herald Tribune; Martin Wolf, associate editor of the Financial T= imes; Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International; Klaus Zumwinkel, = chairman of Deutsche Post; and John Micklethwait, US editor of The Econom= ist and Adrian Wooldridge, Washington correspondent for The Economist. Mi= cklethwait and Wooldridge acted as the meeting's rapporteurs. Declining Energy Reserves and Economic Downturn More- http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/BilderbergExposed.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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The military is= mainly providing search and rescue, medical help and supplies in support of= the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Gulf Coast states of Louisi= ana, Mississippi and Alabama.</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); fon= t-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.infowars.com/article= s/us/katrina_pentagon_coordinating_response.htm"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb= (0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline= ; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color:= rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: unde= rline; ">http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/katrina_pentagon_coordinating_r= esponse.htm</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weigh= t: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG sty= le=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV>= <DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT siz= e=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); fo= nt-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Anarchy as US troops rush to halt violen= ce</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight:=20= bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); fo= nt-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Anarchy: State police descend on New Orl= eans</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight= : bold; "></FONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96,= 191); font-weight: bold; ">US troops poured into New Orleans today with sho= ot-to-kill orders to scare off looting gangs so rescuers can help thousands=20= of people stranded by Hurricane Katrina, find the dead and clean up the carn= age. </SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT= ></STRONG><A href=3D"http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2B3539BB";><STRONG style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-eff= ect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" s= tyle=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-i= n-effect: underline; ">http://makeashorterlink.com/?P2B3539BB</SPAN></FONT><= /STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"= #0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "= ><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font= -weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-sty= le-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold= ; ">FEMA seeks 2,000 Homeland Security volunteers for disaster assistance </= SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold= ; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0805/083105p2= .htm"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text= -decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"= Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml= -text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/08= 05/083105p2.htm</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-w= eight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG= style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</= DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size= =3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); fon= t-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Bush Calls For Massive, Coordinated Recov= ery</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight:= bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); f= ont-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">'New Orleans will be back on its feet,'= the president vows. 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"><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG= >=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"= ></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT c= olor=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight:= bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span"= style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Pric= e Gouging</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bol= d; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRON= G style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4"></FONT></= STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0= 060bf" size=3D"4"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><BR><STRONG style=3D"font-we= ight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-= style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: b= old; ">Gasoline prices rising 'by the hour'</SPAN></FONT><BR style=3D"color:= rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://new= s.newspress.com/topsports/090205gasoline.htm"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb(0,= 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "= ><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rg= b(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underli= ne; ">http://news.newspress.com/topsports/090205gasoline.htm</SPAN></FONT></= STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#= 0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; ">= <FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-= weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Appl= e-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight:= bold; ">$3 Gas Is Likely in a Matter of Days</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(= 0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "></FONT><SPAN class=3D"App= le-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; ">Hurrica= ne Katrina could deliver $3-a-gallon gasoline by Labor Day weekend </SPAN><B= R style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple= -style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; ">Ripples f= rom Hurricane Katrina could deliver $3-a-gallon gasoline by Labor Day weeken= d to California and across the nation as most of the Gulf Coast petroleum in= dustry remained closed Tuesday, pushing wholesale energy prices to new highs= .</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></S= TRONG><A href=3D"http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil31aug31,0,7442193.= story?coll=3Dla-home-business"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-= weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT color= =3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191= ); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http:/= /www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-oil31aug31,0,7442193.story?coll=3Dla-home-bu= siness</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bo= ld; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style= =3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><D= IV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4">= <SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size:= 14px; font-weight: bold; ">California drivers worried about gouging at the=20= pump </SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weigh= t: bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191);= font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Cost per gallon has jumped 8 cents on= average since storm</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 1= 4px; font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.sfgate.com/c= gi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/c/a/2005/09/02/BUGULEGTV01.DTL"><STRONG style=3D"col= or: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: un= derline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-ef= fect: underline; ">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=3D/c/a/2005/0= 9/02/BUGULEGTV01.DTL</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"f= ont-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><S= TRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>= =A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf">= <FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96,= 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Congress must take a look at Bi= g Oil profits</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; fo= nt-weight: bold; "><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 9= 6, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">You're being gouged.</SPAN><B= R style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "></F= ONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-w= eight: bold; ">The time has come for Congress to take a look at oil company=20= profits, especially in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. If you drive a car --=20= or ride a bus, a train or a plane -- you're being gouged.</SPAN><BR style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"= http://www.norwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=3D/20050830/OPINION= 01/508300309/1014/OPINION"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weig= ht: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#00= 60bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font= -weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.no= rwichbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=3D/20050830/OPINION01/508300309/= 1014/OPINION</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weig= ht: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG st= yle=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV= ><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT si= ze=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); f= ont-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Oil hits fresh high as Katrina wreaks h= avoc </SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weigh= t: bold; "></FONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96= , 191); font-weight: bold; ">Traders panic in London and New York after hurr= icane shuts rigs and refineries across the Gulf of Mexico </SPAN><BR style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"= http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1559592,00.html";><STRONG style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-eff= ect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" s= tyle=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-i= n-effect: underline; ">http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1559592,0= 0.html</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bo= ld; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style= =3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><D= IV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4">= <SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size:= 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Rising gasoline prices prompt call for probe </S= PAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;= "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/i= ndex.ssf?/base/news-0/1125647183286950.xml&coll=3D1"><STRONG style=3D"color:= rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: under= line; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"co= lor: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect:=20= underline; ">http://www.masslive.com/metrowest/republican/index.ssf?/base/ne= ws-0/1125647183286950.xml&coll=3D1</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV>= <STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRON= G>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf= "></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT=20= color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style= =3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Schweitzer= accuses refineries of price gouging in wake of Katrina </SPAN><BR style=3D"= color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "></FONT><SPAN c= lass=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold= ; ">Gov. Brian Schweitzer is criticizing Montana oil refineries, saying some= have raised prices for gasoline as much as 50 cents a gallon since Hurrican= e Katrina, despite no evidence that their own production costs have risen. <= /SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STR= ONG><A href=3D"http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=3D1&display=3Dred= news/2005/09/02/build/state/25-schweitzer-gas.inc"><STRONG style=3D"color: r= gb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underli= ne; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"colo= r: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: un= derline; ">http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=3D1&display=3Dred= news/2005/09/02/build/state/25-schweitzer-gas.inc</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A>= </DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></F= ONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color= =3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bol= d; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-spa= n" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Pr= ice-Gouging Complaints Proliferate</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191)= ; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "></FONT><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-sp= an" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; ">Officials initiate= probes as pump prices across the U.S. soar beyond $3. Storm survivors tell=20= of jacked-up costs for hotel rooms and supplies.</SPAN><BR style=3D"color: r= gb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.l= atimes.com/business/la-fi-gouge2sep02,1,4408170.story?coll=3Dla-headlines-bu= siness"><STRONG style=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-weight: bold; -khtml-te= xt-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class= =3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -k= html-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.latimes.com/busines= s/la-fi-gouge2sep02,1,4408170.story?coll=3Dla-headlines-business</SPAN></FON= T></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color= =3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bol= d; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"= font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><FONT size=3D"4"><SPAN class= =3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); 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font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations-in-e= ffect: underline; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span"= style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); font-weight: bold; -khtml-text-decorations= -in-effect: underline; ">http://www.infowars.com/articles/science/weather_mo= d_katrina_tsunami_called_katrina.htm</SPAN></FONT></STRONG></A></DIV><DIV><S= TRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf"></FONT></STRONG>= =A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT color=3D"#0060bf">= </FONT></STRONG>=A0</DIV><DIV><STRONG style=3D"font-weight: bold; "><FONT co= lor=3D"#0060bf" size=3D"4"><SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color:=20= rgb(0, 96, 191); font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Weather Warfare: Was=20= Katrina A Man-Made Hurricane? </SPAN><BR style=3D"color: rgb(0, 96, 191); fo= nt-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; "></FONT></STRONG><A href=3D"http://www.co= nspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=3D77&contentid=3D2700"><STRONG styl= e=3D"color: rgb(0, 0, 238); 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That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== From 1990 through fiscal year 2002 From : Icij.orgPrivatization On July 25, 2003, US AID announced its ninth Iraq reconstruction contract (awarded, as usual, under a restricted bidding setup), to McLean, Va.-based consulting firm BearingPoint Inc., which already has a $40 million contract for economic consulting work in Afghanistan. "Under the terms of the latest deal, BearingPoint consultants will help to improve economic and regulatory policy-making in Iraq by working with the Iraqi Central Bank and Ministry of Finance. The firm will also help implement plans to privatize Iraqi state-owned enterprises, and support private sector entrepreneurship." "The AID contract will cover civil governance, as well as fiscal, tax and customs reform. The U.S. occupation authority has said it will privatize a number of Iraqi companies that were formerly state-owned."30 BearingPoint is the re-branded former KPMG Consulting,31 the consulting arm of the "big five" ac counting firm KPMG LLC that split off from its parent in 2000, and then bought up many of Andersen's (Enron's accountants) consulting offices, including those in the US.32 One would hope that the KPMG/Andersen staff's experience with Enron, Anderson, and other corrupt US corporations will provide them with the necessary background to help write regulations that will help prevent such large scale corporate corruption from occurring in Iraq, as well. The Bush administrations clear record of fierce opposition to effective government regulation of business renders that possibility rather unlikely, however. GSA smartens up BY Michael Hardy June 14, 2004 More Related Links The General Services Administration will issue more than 18,000 smart cards to its employees and contractors in an effort to improve security at its facilities nationwide. The initiative, announced last week, is part of a five-year, $1.3 million contract. "The security of public visitors, federal workers and federal property is a top priority for the entire federal government," GSA Administrator Stephen Perry said in a statement. "Improved security through increased control of access to federal buildings is just the beginning of what these smart cards can do." The new GSA smart cards are interoperable with cards issued by other federal agencies, according to GSA officials. Bearing Point Inc. will provide the cards and Oberthur Card Systems will serve as the centralized processing center that manages day-to-day use of the cards. GSA officials awarded the contract last fall and it ends August 2008. In a later phase of the program, GSA officials will offer smart cards to tenants in GSA-owned buildings, officials said. BearingPoint to help Hawaiian Telecom set up shop Jeff Clabaugh Staff Reporter Hawaiian Telecom may be in Honolulu, but a lot of Washington-area talent is shaping the new company. BearingPoint is the latest local connection, winning a five-year contract to install and configure new information-technology systems for Hawaiian Telecom. The contract includes front office, network and back office systems for finance, human resources and customer billing. BearingPoint says the work encompasses more than 40 new IT systems. McLean-based BearingPoint (NYSE: BE) did not disclose the value of the contract. District-based The Carlyle Group acquired the former Verizon Hawaii for $1.6 billion earlier this year. In May, Hawaiian Telecom hired District-based InPhonic (NASDAQ: INPC) to help it launch a new wireless servicei. judson witham <jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: BearingPoint Alliance Partner Program Check Out Who Is Setting Up IRAQ's NEW Banking System (it's a private NO BID Contract ?????) admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: From: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx Subject: BearingPoint Alliance Partner Program Thank you for your interest in BearingPoint's Alliance Partner Program. The first step in the alliance process requires completion of the Alliance Partner Qualification Form at: http://www.bearingpoint.com/partnerform. Once returned, it will be evaluated for possible alignment within our solution and/or industry strategies. Please note: As a pre-requisite to becoming an alliance partner, BearingPoint requires a proven track record (three successful engagements together) as well as a partner sponsor. If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Chu at 909-396-9436. 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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --0-356350256-1127335658=:66837 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html><body> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>WHO Dies NEXT</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>YUP devide and conquer.</STRONG> There is so much UNSUBSTANTIATED BS floating around the net it's <STRONG>almost impossible to see "The Forest Through The Trees".</STRONG> I too have been attacked BUT if you take some time and actually READ and do a little research <STRONG><FONT color=#c00000>OL JUDSON WITHAM is corroborated by LOADS of Folks. </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>SEE <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot</FONT></A> <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003399>The Great Texas Bank Job</FONT></STRONG></A> makes the MADISON S&L / Whitewater and the KEATING FIVE mess with Lincoln Savings and Loan <STRONG>look like CHUMP CHANGE</STRONG>. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><IMG id=_x0000_i1025 height=97 src="http://www.co.cochise.az.us/images/horses2.jpg"; width=450 useMap=#MicrosoftOfficeMap0 border=0></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><A href="http://www.co.cochise.az.us/treasurer/LandFraud.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Now let me see WHO's DONATING to the RNC and DNC Politicians again</FONT></A></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#003399></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.co.cochise.az.us/treasurer/LandFraud.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.co.cochise.az.us/treasurer/LandFraud.htm</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=6><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/index2.htm";>Tom DeLay's funny-money trail</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.simonpure.com/newsman01.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399 size=4>MURDER OF DON BOLLES</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399><IMG height=116 src="http://www.simonpure.com/images/Murder_logo.jpg"; width=382 border=0></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.simonpure.com/newsman01.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.simonpure.com/newsman01.htm</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1487185</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/lombardi.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/lombardi.html</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/Exhibitions/MarkLombardi/MarkLombardi.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/Exhibitions/MarkLombardi/MarkLombardi.htm</FONT></A></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399><IMG height=272 src="http://www.pierogi2000.com/memorial/mark.jpg"; width=183 border=10></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Mark Lombardi, 48, an Artist Who Was Inspired by Scandals was found hanged in his loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Wednesday evening, the police said. He was 48.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, Geneva, Verdana"><STRONG>A spokesman for the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg said that a autopsy had been ordered by the medical examiner.</STRONG> </FONT></P> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.pierogi2000.com/memorial/lombardiobit.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>mark lombardi's obituary</FONT></A><BR>in the <I>new york times<BR></I>by roberta smith<BR><BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">mark lombardi's <A href="http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lombardi.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>flatfile page</FONT></A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399><IMG height=270 src="http://www.wburg.com/0202/arts/pictures/lombardi3.jpg"; width=300></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#007070> <A href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a389b6cef4189.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a389b6cef4189.htm</FONT></A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </DIV> <CENTER><B><FONT size=4><A href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a389b6cef4189.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>S&L fraud suspect found dead;</FONT></A> </FONT></B></CENTER> <CENTER><B><FONT size=4>Suicide possible in Corson case </FONT></B></CENTER><FONT color=#000000 size=2> <CENTER><B><FONT size=4>JENNIFER LIEBRUM, LYNWOOD ABRAM, JERRY URBAN; Staff </FONT></B></CENTER> <CENTER><B><FONT size=4>The Houston Chronicle; A; Pg. 35 </FONT></B></CENTER> <CENTER><B><FONT size=4>November 5, 1992, Thursday, 2 STAR Edition</FONT> </B></CENTER> <P><BR></FONT><FONT face=arial color=#007070 size=5><B>F</B></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=3>ormer Houston developer <STRONG>Robert Louis Corson,</STRONG> described as one of the Justice Department's top 10 targets for prosecution of suspected savings-and-loan fraud, <FONT size=4><STRONG>was found dead in an El Paso motel room Wednesday of an apparent drug overdose.</STRONG> </FONT></FONT></P> <P><FONT size=4></FONT> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><FONT size=4><B>James McDougal</B> - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr's investigation.</FONT> His NITRO witheld by Fed Prison Guards !!!!!</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Mary Mahoney</B> - A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown. The murder happened just after she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the White House.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Vince Foster</B> - Former White House counselor, and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled suicide. He also had another 22 gunshot wound in the neck. The gunshot wound to the head was of larger caliber and found still in his hand!! </P> <P> </P> <P><B>Ron Brown</B> - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown's skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death, Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors</P> <P>. </P> <P><B>C. Victor Raiser II & Montgomery Raiser</B> - Major players in the Clinton fund-raising organization. Died in a private plane crash in July 1992.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Paul Tulley</B> - Democratic National Committee Political Director found dead in a hotel room in Little Rock, September 1992. Described by Clinton's a "Dear friend and trusted advisor".</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Ed Willey</B> - Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in Virginia of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Jerry Parks</B> - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock. Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park's son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton. He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house. </P> <P> </P> <P><B>James Bunch</B> - Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a "Black Book" of people containing names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas. </P> <P> </P> <P><B>James Wilson</B> - Was found dead in May 1993 from an apparent hanging suicide. He was reported to have ties to Whitewater.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Kathy Ferguson</B> - Ex-wife of Arkansas Trooper Danny Ferguson. Died in May 1994. She was found dead in her living room with a gunshot to her head. It was ruled a suicide although there were several packed suitcases, as if she was going somewhere. Danny Ferguson was a co- defendant along with Bill Clinton in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a possible corroborating witness for Paula Jones.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Bill Shelton</B> - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancee of Kathy Ferguson. Critical of the suicide ruling of his fiancee, he was found dead in June, 1994 of a gunshot wound also ruled a suicide at the gravesite of his fiancee. </P> <P> </P> <P><B>Gandy Baugh</B> - Attorney for Clinton friend Dan Lassater. Died by jumping out a window of a tall building January, 1994. His client was a convicted drug distributor. One of Clinton's last duties as Governor of Arkansas was to pardon Dan Lassater convicted on over a hundred drug charges.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Florence Martin</B> - Accountant sub-contractor for the CIA related to the Barry Seal Mena Airport drug smuggling case. Died of three gunshot wounds</P> <P>. </P> <P><B>Suzanne Coleman</B> - Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Paula Grober</B> - Clinton's speech interpreter for the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one-car accident</P> <P>. </P> <P><FONT size=4><B>Danny Casolaro</B> - Investigative reporter. Investigating Mena Airport and Arkansas Development Finance Authority. He slit his wrists, apparent suicide in the middle of his investigation</FONT></P> <P>. </P> <P><B>Paul Wilcher</B> - Attorney investigating corruption at Mena Airport with Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise" was found dead on a toilet June 22, 1993 in his Washington D.C. apartment. Had delivered a report to Janet Reno 3 weeks before his death.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Jon Parnell Walker</B> - Whitewater investigator for Resolution Trust Corp. Jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. Was investigating Morgan Guarantee scandal.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Barbara Wise</B> - Commerce Department staffer. Worked closely with Ron Brown and John Huang. Cause of death unknown. Died November 29, 1996. Her bruised nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Charles Meissner</B> - Assistant Secretary of Commerce who gave John Huang special security clearance, died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash. Dr.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Stanley Heard</B> - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Care Advisory Committee. Died with his attorney Steve Dickson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council, personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather and brother.</P> <P> </P> <P><FONT size=4><B>Barry Seal</B> - Drug running pilot out of Mena Arkansas, death was no accident.</FONT></P> <P> </P> <P><B>Johnny Lawhorn Jr.</B> - Mechanic, found a check made out to Clinton in the trunk of a car left in his repair shop. Died when his car hit a utility pole.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Stanley Huggins</B> - Suicide. Investigated Madison Guarantee. His report was never released.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Hershell Friday</B> - Attorney and Clinton fundraiser. Died March 1, 1994 when his plane exploded.</P> <P> </P> <P><B>Kevin Ives & Don Henry</B> - Known as "The boys on the track" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled upon the Mena Arkansas airport drug operation. Controversial case where initial report of death was due to falling asleep on railroad track. Later reports claim the 2 boys had been slain before being placed on the tracks. Many linked to the case died before their testimony could come before a Grand Jury. </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <H3><!--mstheme--><FONT color=#000080>THE FOLLOWING SIX PERSONS HAD INFORMATION ON THE IVES / HENRY CASE: <!--mstheme--></FONT></H3> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><B>Keith Coney</B> - Died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck July, 1988. </P> <P><B>Keith McMaskle</B> - Died of 113 stabbed wounds, November 1988. </P> <P><B>Gregory Collins</B> - Died from a gunshot wound January 1989. </P> <P><B>Jeff Rhodes</B> - He was shot, mutilated and found burned in a trash dump in April 1989. </P> <P><B>James Milan</B> - Found decapitated. Coroner ruled death due to natural causes. </P> <P><B>Jordan Kettleson</B> - Was found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June 1990. </P> <P><B>Richard Winters</B> - Was a suspect in the Ives / Henry deaths. Was killed in a set-up robbery July 1989. </P> <P> </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <H3><!--mstheme--><FONT color=#000080>THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD: <!--mstheme--></FONT></H3> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Major William S. Barkley Jr. <BR>Captain Scott J. Reynolds <BR>Sgt. Brian Hanley <BR>Sgt. Tim Sabel <BR>Major General William Robertson <BR>Col. William Densberger <BR>Col. Robert Kelly <BR>Spec. Gary Rhodes <BR>Steve Willis <BR>Robert Williams <BR>Conway LeBleu <BR>Todd McKeehan</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>judson witham <</EM></STRONG><A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399><STRONG><EM>jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx</EM></STRONG></FONT></A><STRONG><EM>></EM></STRONG> wrote: </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>In taking over <FONT color=#c00000><U>Charles Keating's</U> notorious Lincoln Savings & Loan,</FONT></FONT> the RTC acquired some $1 billion worth of property, <FONT color=#c00000 size=4><U>including plots for 17 planned communities</U></FONT> in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Louisiana.</STRONG> <STRONG>One of them is the 20,000-acre Estrella Project in the desert <FONT color=#c00000><U>20 miles southwest of Phoenix.</U></FONT></STRONG> Although <STRONG>Lincoln invested <U><FONT color=#407f00 size=6>$200 million in preparatory work,</FONT></U> <FONT size=5><FONT color=#c00000>only <U><FONT color=#000000>three</FONT> </U>homesites have been sold</FONT>. !! except from article below !!</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3>This is the primary MO - Whitewater and the Thousands of BOGUS DEVELOPMENTS in Texas were the same BS. It's Nationwide !</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=3></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <P>Judson</P> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Garamond> </FONT><FONT size=5>See Ol "Kat" Woolford at:</FONT> <P align=left>SEE <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot</FONT></A> </P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003399>The Great Texas Bank Job</FONT></STRONG></A> <STRONG><FONT size=4>IT's NO JOKE</FONT></STRONG></P> <P align=left><U><FONT color=#003399></FONT></U><BR><BR><B><I>Under The Penalties of PERJURY and DEATH, I can NOT Tell A Lie JW </I></B><STRONG><EM>With $550 Billion Looted From Banks and S&Ls Land Speculation FRAUD and Money Laudering <U>COVERED UP</U> by the Bank Liquidation Folks at RTC Worked GREAT - JW A HUGE Scandal of EPIC porportions from CIA to the Congress and Senate Etc. et al made it all possible</EM></STRONG></P> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder> </DIV> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><FONT size=4><STRONG>Kat Woolford</STRONG> (BBA '72) of Baton Rouge, La., has done a little bit of everything since graduation: exercised race horses, worked for the <U><STRONG>Liquidation Division of the FDIC,</STRONG></U> and served as an advisor to <STRONG><U>the Bank of Latvia and the National Bank of Romania.</U></STRONG></FONT></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><STRONG><FONT color=#c00000 size=7></FONT></STRONG></FONT> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><STRONG><FONT color=#c00000 size=7>CIA LIKE I SAID</FONT></STRONG></FONT></P> <P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=7></FONT></STRONG> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond color=#003399><A href="http://www.uga.edu/~gm/1298/Notes2.html"; target=_blank>http://www.uga.edu/~gm/1298/Notes2.html</A></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond color=#003399><A href="http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/mt/images/fsnl.pdf#search='Woolford,%20FDIC'" target=_blank>http://www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/mt/images/fsnl.pdf#search='Woolford,%20FDIC'</A></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><A href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1218/is_n23_v107/ai_n12428575"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1218/is_n23_v107/ai_n12428575<SPAN class=artViewTitle><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></A></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond color=#003399><SPAN class=artViewTitle><STRONG></STRONG></SPAN></FONT> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><SPAN class=artViewTitle><STRONG><FONT size=6>For sale by owner: </FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond><SPAN class=artViewTitle><STRONG><FONT size=6>junk real estate</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P><FONT face=Garamond><SPAN class=artViewTitle><STRONG><FONT size=6></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> <P align=left><BR><STRONG><A href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1218"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>US News & World Report</FONT></A></STRONG>, <A href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1218/is_n23_v107"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Dec 11, 1989</FONT></A> by <A href="http://www.findarticles.com/p/search?tb=art&qt=%22Monroe+W.+Karmin%22"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Monroe W. Karmin</FONT></A></P> <P align=left></FONT> </P> <P align=left><FONT face=Garamond>For the grab bag of less luxurious listings that constitute the bulk of the RTC portfolio - foreclosed homes, motels, shopping malls, office and apartment buildings, industrial parks and vacant land - the market seems even more forbidding. Still, plucky sales agents are rising to the challenge. "The roof dips a tudge on one side, the porch has a hole in it and there are termites," admits <STRONG><FONT size=3>Kat Woolford,</FONT></STRONG> who is hawking a $7,500, two-bedroom shack on a third of an acre in Tomball, Tex., north of Houston. "But it's a cute hideaway."</FONT><BR><BR></P> <P align=left>Amazing how many Crooked Texas Bankers and Slimy Land Speculators and <STRONG>Former Texas Governors</STRONG> are swapping SPIT with <STRONG>Roy Blunt and John Ashcroft.</STRONG> Tom DeLay and Kenny Boy Lay, Bernie Ebbers and Charles Keating, Carl Linder N COMPANY are NOT unique, Money Laundering Takes LOTS of Land Speculation and Failed <STRONG><U>RESORT VENTURES. </U></STRONG><STRONG>DOPE INC. is a BIG PLAYER in Methouri. JW</STRONG></P> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder> </DIV> <P align=left><FONT size=5>Arizona real estate for sale: For sale by owner: junk real estate</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT size=5></FONT> </P> <P align=left><A href="http://popup8.tok2.com/home2/coolzsky/arizona-real-estate-for-sale.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://popup8.tok2.com/home2/coolzsky/arizona-real-estate-for-sale.html</FONT></A></P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left><FONT size=4>For <B>sale</B> by owner: Junk <B>real</B> <B>estate</B></FONT></P> <P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </P> <P align=left>Just as Americans have grown used to the idea of junk bonds, a new financial bugaboo looms on the horizon: Junk <B>real</B> <B>estate</B>. Set in desirable communities, many of the properties now being jettisoned by insolvent savings and loan institutions seem to be paradise. But like the 9-acre swath of Long Island beachfront off the Texas Gulf Coast, <STRONG>spectacular vistas rarely live up to a developer's dreams.</STRONG> Over half of the $400,000 Laguna Madre parcel <STRONG><U>lies underwater.</U></STRONG> There is <STRONG><U>no sewer hookup</U></STRONG> and no sea wall, and there are high fees to maintain a private bridge that connects the island with Port Isabel on the mainland. "It could all go underwater in a hurricane," admits a spokesman <B>for</B> La Hacienda Savings Association in San Antonio, which holds the property.</P> <P align=left><STRONG><U>Peddling Texas swampland</U></STRONG> is just one of <STRONG><U>the dirty jobs facing the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC),</U></STRONG> the U.S. agency that opened shop in early August to administer the coup de grace to sick thrifts. The mop-up has landed federal regulators in the same muck that mired the S&L industry:</P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#c00000 size=4>Thousands of white-elephant properties,</FONT></STRONG> most located in markets as soft as quicksand. The collection includes such exotica as a $900,000 equestrian center (reduced from $1.5 million) north of San Antonio, the $25 million StarPass golf-course community in Tucson, a historic bank building in Houston, a boarded-up lumberyard surrounded by wetlands near Tampa, Fla., 77 condominium units on the tip of Long Island, N.Y., and a 55 percent stake in the opulent $200 million Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Ariz. All told, RTC officials estimate they now must dispose of close to $16 billion worth of <B>real</B> <B>estate</B> currently on the books of 268 failed thrifts in 33 states.</P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left><STRONG><FONT color=#c00000 size=4>Fool's gold.</FONT></STRONG> Most of the properties will fetch pennies on the dollar's worth of book value - if they can be unloaded at all. The 6-acre McCune Mansion in Paradise Valley outside of Phoenix is typical of the RTC's daunting task. Built in the 1960s by oil tycoon Walker McCune <B>for</B> his young bride, the 53,000-square-foot house boasts numerous kitchens, a ballroom with an $80,000 chandelier, an Olympic-sized swimming pool and ice-skating rink, a theater, a darkroom, its own beauty salon, a 14-car garage and a guest house. Mrs. McCune refused to move in, and the place saw a succession of owners, most recently Gordon Hall, cofounder of the Nautilus fitness company. RTC inherited the property when it took over the bankrupt Southwest Savings & Loan Association earlier this year. "There's not a great market <B>for</B> <STR ONG><FONT size=4>53,000-square-foot houses," says Jack Lake, the RTC agent charged with finding a buyer.</FONT></STRONG></P> <P align=left>For the grab bag of less luxurious listings that constitute the bulk of the RTC portfolio - <B>for</B>eclosed homes, motels, shopping malls, office and apartment buildings, industrial parks and vacant land - the market seems even more <B>for</B>bidding. Still, plucky <B>sale</B>s agents are rising to the challenge. "The roof dips a tudge on one side, the porch has a hole in it and there are termites," admits <STRONG><FONT size=5>Kat Woolford</FONT></STRONG>, who is hawking a $7,500, two-bedroom shack on a third of an acre in Tomball, Tex., north of Houston. "But it's a cute hideaway."</P> <P align=left>The heat is on <B>for</B> the RTC to speed up its fire <B>sale</B>. The agency has three years to gather up all the nation's ailing S&L's and seven years to dispose of acquired properties. Ideally, the feds would like to get rid of their sick thrifts as whole entities, <FONT size=4><U>bad <B>real</B>-<B>estate</B> investments and all.</U></FONT> But most investors are interested only in the best assets, saddling the government with the <STRONG><U>white elephants</U></STRONG>. The longer the RTC hangs on to the losers, the higher the taxpayers' tab, already estimated at $166 billion.</P> <P align=left><FONT size=4>But the disposal process is being hindered by the fact that no one knows how much <U>sour <B>real</B> <B>estate</B></U> the RTC will have to offer.</FONT> An initial inventory of properties currently under its wing will not be completed until the end of this month. And that is just the beginning. Leonard Sahling, <B>real</B>-<B>estate</B> analyst <B>for</B> Merrill Lynch in New York, figures the government will wind up with at least a $50 billion portfolio when it actually takes over all the thrifts that now are technically insolvent. <STRONG>Others put the total at <U>$100 billion</U> as more S&L's go belly up in the years ahead.</STRONG></P> <P align=left><STRONG></STRONG> </P> <P align=left>Nor can the RTC simply dump its holdings on the market whole<B>sale</B>. "Everything we have is <B>for</B> <B>sale</B>," says Thomas Horton, the agency's deputy director, "but everything is not <B>for</B> <B>sale</B> at any price." The government is barred by law from selling its assets <B>for</B> less than 95 percent of fair market value in the six depressed states of the Southwest - Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado and Louisiana - where about two thirds of the property is located. Still, "fair market value" is in the eye of the appraiser; Horton admits that properties that cannot be sold at 5 percent discounts will be "re-evaluated" until buyers are found.</P> <P align=left>The most promising properties in the RTC's bag, mainly apartment and office buildings whose rents cover expenses, are sure to be snapped up by insurance companies, pension funds and other "deep pocket" investors. But such quality properties are in the minority. <STRONG><FONT color=#c00000 size=4>The largest proportion of the government's holdings consists of vacant land, a tough commodity to peddle in the Southwest and other overbuilt areas.</FONT></STRONG> </P> <P align=left><FONT size=3><STRONG>In taking over Charles Keating's notorious Lincoln Savings & Loan, the RTC acquired some $1 billion worth of property, including plots for 17 planned communities in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Florida and Louisiana.</STRONG> <STRONG>One of them is the 20,000-acre Estrella Project in the desert 20 miles southwest of Phoenix.</STRONG> Although <STRONG>Lincoln invested $200 million in preparatory work, <FONT color=#c00000>only three homesites have been sold</FONT>.</STRONG> Now the RTC's agent, Mark Randall, is trying to figure out what to do with the property. <STRONG>"Vacant real estate has not fared well in the Arizona economy," he observes sadly.</STRONG></FONT></P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left>Other parcels may not draw buyers - no matter how attractive the price. "They'll have to be plowed under to grow soybeans," predicts Michael Aronstein, president of Comstock Partners, a New York investment firm. But while developers may sniff at many of the government's offerings, interest is cropping up in some surprising quarters. Conservationists already are picking through the pile of unwanted <B>real</B> <B>estate</B> <B>for</B> wildlife preserves and other ecologically valuable property. The Florida Keys Land & Sea Trust, <B>for</B> instance, paid $1.35 million <B>for</B> Crane Point Hammock, a 63 1/2-acre <B>estate</B> that was going to be turned into a resort be<B>for</B>e its developers went broke. Now, it is slated to become a nature center.</P> <P align=left>PHOTO : Museum piece. The Phoenician Resort in</P> <P align=left>PHOTO : Picture perfect. Houston's historic Franklin National Bank will appear in "Dark Angel"</P> <P align=left>PHOTO : Scottsdale, Ariz., comes decorated with millions of dollars' worth of sculpture</P> <P align=left>PHOTO : Castle keep. The McCune mansion near Phoenix has a 14-car garage, an ice rink and a ballroom with an $80,000 chandelier</P> <P align=left>COPYRIGHT 1989 All rights reserved.<BR>COPYRIGHT 2005 Gale Group</P> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder> </DIV> <P align=left><B><I>judson witham <<A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx</FONT></A>></I></B> wrote</P> <P align=left>Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 07:15:29 -0700 (PDT)<BR>From: judson witham <<A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx</FONT></A>><BR>Subject: Re: [AFRA_EAGLE] Former CIA Agent Overturned on False Affidavit<BR>To: <A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=AFRA_EAGLE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>AFRA_EAGLE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</FONT></A><BR>CC: <A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=powerbeonme@xxxxxxxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>powerbeonme@xxxxxxxxxxxx</FONT></A><BR><BR><STRONG></STRONG></P> <P align=left><STRONG>I know Judge Hughes as I had a couple cases before him years ago.</STRONG> He is getting better with age apparently. I sued and beat The American Title Insurance Company in his Court over a VERY CORRUPT series of Land Deals in Texas back in the 1980s... SEE <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot</FONT></A> <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003399>The Great Texas Bank Job</FONT></STRONG></A> makes the MADISON S&L / Whitewater and the KEATING FIVE mess with Lincoln Savings and Loan <STRONG>look like CHUMP CHANGE</STRONG>. <STRONG>(IN FACT there are many, many THOUSANDS of Clinton Style Land Development CONS all over America) </STRONG></P> <P align=left>Old Judson Witham is the Real McCoy, <STRONG>IN FACT I was very instrumental in having EVERY SINGLE, I mean EVERY Bank and S&L in Texas Seized during 1985 - 1992.</STRONG> <FONT color=#c00000>(I knew <STRONG>FDIC <U>Bank Liquidation Specialist Katheryn Woolford</U></STRONG> To)</FONT> It Seems MASSIVE Land Fraud Schemes have been RAMPANT in America for about 150 years. The Clinton's GANG at Quapaw Title in Little Rock and the Rose Law Firm N Company (That's CIA for COMPANY) and the MENA Air America DOPE Inc. GANG all had the American Continental Corporation and Carl Linders MAFIA all Laundering Money using CLINTON STYLE Land Development CONS.</P> <P align=left>NO KIDDING take some time and ACTUALLY read the CORROBORATION and MANY,MANY Links listed at <A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot</FONT></A> <STRONG><FONT size=4>You will see WHY the American banking Scandal of the 1980s 1990s well actually the 20th Century from 1900 to 2000 nearly always involved LAND SPECULATION and BANKING Schemes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</FONT></STRONG></P> <P align=left><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </P> <P align=left>Live Free</P> <P align=left>Judson Witham</P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/OperationMissouriFreedom.htm"; target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003399 size=4>OperationMissouriFreedom </FONT></STRONG></A></P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/OperationMissouriFreedom.htm"; target=_blank><FONT size=1></FONT></A><FONT color=#003399 size=1><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/OperationMissouriFreedom.htm"; target=_blank>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/OperationMissouriFreedom.htm</A></FONT><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot/OperationMissouriFreedom.htm"; target=_blank></A></P> <P align=left><STRONG>No Justice No Peace</STRONG></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV> <P>__________________________________________________</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG>The LIQUIDATOR for FDIC's White E;ephant Properties In Texas now works for Carlyle and Bearing Point ETC !!!!! KAT WOOLFORD what a CON</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><STRONG><FONT color=#003399 size=4>http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT size=4> </FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><A href="http://www.geocities.com/jurisnot"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399 size=4>The Great Texas Bank Job</FONT></A><FONT size=4> IT's NO JOKE</FONT></STRONG><BR><BR><B><I>judson witham <jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:10:18 -0700 (PDT)<BR>From: judson witham <jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx><BR>Subject: Re: BearingPoint Alliance Partner Program<BR><BR><BR> <DIV> <DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=450> <H3><SPAN class=Style28><SPAN class=Style23><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT color=#c00000><U>KAT WOOLFORD's CUSHY NEW JOB !!!!!!!!!!</U></FONT></FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></H3> <H3><SPAN class=Style28><SPAN class=Style23><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT color=#c00000><U>BearingPoint </U></FONT>is the re-branded former KPMG Consulting,</FONT><A class=sdfootnoteanc href="http://restoringsanity.org/iraq/iraq_reconstruction.html#sdfootnote31sym"; target=_blank name=sdfootnote31anc><SUP><FONT color=#003399 size=2>31</FONT></SUP></A><FONT size=2> the consulting arm of the "big five" accounting firm KPMG LLC that split off from its parent in 2000, and then </FONT><FONT color=#c00000 size=4>bought up many of Andersen's (Enron's accountants) consulting offices, including those in the US.</FONT><A class=sdfootnoteanc href="http://restoringsanity.org/iraq/iraq_reconstruction.html#sdfootnote32sym"; target=_blank name=sdfootnote32anc><SUP><FONT color=#c00000>32</FONT></SUP></A><FONT color=#c00000> </FONT></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></H3> <H3><SPAN class=Style28><SPAN class=Style23><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>April</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN class=Style28><SPAN class=Style23><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">26,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=Style3><SPAN class=Style23><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG> 20</STRONG>04 -</FONT></SPAN></SPAN> Campaign Contributions of Post-war Contractors </H3> <H3> <TABLE width=400 align=center border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><SPAN class=Style33>Contractor </SPAN></TD> <TD><SPAN class=Style33>Total Contributions </SPAN></TD></TR> <TR> <TD>General Electric Company </TD> <TD>$8,843,884 </TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P><STRONG>Vinnell Corporation (Northrop Grumman) </STRONG></P></TD> <TD> <P><STRONG>$8,517,247 </STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P><FONT color=#c00000><STRONG>BearingPoint Inc. </STRONG></FONT></P></TD> <TD> <P><FONT color=#c00000><STRONG>$4,949,139</STRONG></FONT> </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Science Applications International Corp. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$4,704,909 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Fluor Corp. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$3,624,173 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Bechtel Group Inc. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$3,310,102 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Kellogg, Brown & Root (Halliburton) </P></TD> <TD> <P>$2,379,792 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>American President Lines Ltd. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$2,185,303 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Dell Marketing L.P. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$1,774,971 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Parsons Corp. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$1,403,508 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>DynCorp (Computer Sciences Corp.) </P></TD> <TD> <P>$1,218,944 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>TECO Ocean Shipping Co. </P></TD> <TD> <P>$1,217,587 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Washington Group International </P></TD> <TD> <P>$1,185,232 </P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P><STRONG>United Defense Industries, L.P. </STRONG></P></TD> <TD> <P><STRONG>$1,076,006 </STRONG></P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD> <P>Unisys Corporation </P></TD> <TD> <P>$626,239 </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></H3> <H3 align=center><FONT size=5>Hey KAT whens that next Senate and Presidential Election Cycle ?</FONT></H3> <P align=center>Now I call this STEALING ELECTIONS with LOOTED BILLIONS</P> <H3 align=center><FONT size=5>How Many BILLIONS MISSING IN IRAQ and Afghanistan</FONT></H3> <P align=center><A href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040628/news_1n28develop.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Billions missing?</HL1></HEDLINE><BR></FONT></A><FONT color=#003399><IMG height=2 src="http://www.signonsandiego.com/images/black.gif"; width=442 border=0></FONT> </P> <P><FONT class=drophead><HEDLINE><HL2><!-- SUBHEAD --></HL2></HEDLINE></FONT><!-- CUTLINE: --><!-- BYLINE --><!-- CREDIT --><FONT class=date><STORY.DATE>June 28, 2004</FONT> <P><FONT class=date></STORY.DATE></FONT> <P><FONT class=newstext><XBODY.CONTENT>Billions of dollars belonging to Iraq is not accounted for by the Coalition Provisional Authority, which was given responsibility by the United Nations for the country's finances, British lawmakers and aid activists said today. There are glaring gaps in the handling of $20 billion generated by Iraq's oil and other sources since the war began, according to the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third-largest political party, and Christian Aid. </FONT></P> <P align=center> </P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/106690354068.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>A staggering US$4 billion in oil revenues and other Iraqi funds earmarked for the reconstruction of the country has disappeared into opaque bank accounts administered by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), the US-controlled body that rules Iraq. By the end of the year, if nothing changes in the way this cash is accounted for, that figure will double.</FONT></A></P> <P align=left><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </P> <P align=left><A href="http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/106690354068.htm"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/106690354068.htm</FONT></A></P> <H3 align=left><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1074267,00.html"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1074267,00.html</FONT></A></H3> <P align=left><FONT color=#003399></FONT> </P> <H3 align=center>From 1990 through fiscal year 2002 From : <A href="http://www.icij.org/wow/resources.aspx?act=contrib#60"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Icij.org</FONT></A></H3> <H3 align=center>Privatization </H3> <H3> <P class=c4><FONT size=2>On July 25, 2003, US AID announced its ninth Iraq reconstruction contract (awarded, as usual, under a restricted bidding setup), to McLean, Va.-based consulting firm <FONT color=#c00000><U>BearingPoint Inc.,</U></FONT> which already has a $40 million contract for economic consulting work in Afghanistan. <FONT color=#c00000 size=4>"Under the terms of the latest deal, BearingPoint consultants will help to improve economic and regulatory policy-making in Iraq by working with the Iraqi Central Bank and Ministry of Finance.</FONT> The firm will also help implement plans to privatize Iraqi state-owned enterprises, and support private sector entrepreneurship." "The AID contract will cover civil governance, as well as fiscal, tax and customs reform. The U.S. occupation authority has said it will privatize a number of Iraqi companies that were formerly state-owned."</FONT ><A class=sdfootnoteanc >href="http://restoringsanity.org/iraq/iraq_reconstruction.html#sdfootnote30sym"; > target=_blank name=sdfootnote30anc><SUP><FONT color=#003399 >size=2>30</FONT></SUP></A><FONT size=2> BearingPoint is the re-branded former >KPMG Consulting,</FONT><A class=sdfootnoteanc >href="http://restoringsanity.org/iraq/iraq_reconstruction.html#sdfootnote31sym"; > target=_blank name=sdfootnote31anc><SUP><FONT color=#003399 >size=2>31</FONT></SUP></A><FONT size=2> the consulting arm of the "big five" >accounting firm KPMG LLC that split off from its parent in 2000, and then >bought up many of Andersen's (Enron's accountants) consulting offices, >including those in the US.</FONT><A class=sdfootnoteanc >href="http://restoringsanity.org/iraq/iraq_reconstruction.html#sdfootnote32sym"; > target=_blank name=sdfootnote32anc><SUP><FONT color=#003399 >size=2>32</FONT></SUP></A><FONT size=2> One would hope that the KPMG/Andersen staff's experience with Enron, Anderson, and other corrupt US corporations will provide them with the necessary background to help write regulations that will help prevent such large scale corporate corruption from occurring in Iraq, as well. The Bush administrations clear record of fierce opposition to effective government regulation of business renders that possibility rather unlikely, however.</FONT> </P></H3> <H3>GSA smartens up</H3></TD> <TD align=middle width=200></TD> <TD align=middle width=200></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV class=author>BY <A href="http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/ym/Compose?To=mhardy@xxxxxxx"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>Michael Hardy</FONT></A> <BR>June 14, 2004 <BR><BR><A href="http://www.fcw.com:8443/article83257-06-14-04-Web#related"; target=_blank><FONT color=#003399>More Related Links</FONT></A> </DIV> <DIV class=contentArticle id=article> <DIV class=contentArticle id=article> <P>The General Services Administration will issue more than 18,000 smart cards to its employees and contractors in an effort to improve security at its facilities nationwide. The initiative, announced last week, is part of a five-year, $1.3 million contract.</P> <P></P> <P>"The security of public visitors, federal workers and federal property is a top priority for the entire federal government," GSA Administrator Stephen Perry said in a statement. "Improved security through increased control of access to federal buildings is just the beginning of what these smart cards can do."</P> <P></P> <P>The new GSA smart cards are interoperable with cards issued by other federal agencies, according to GSA officials.</P> <P></P> <P><STRONG>Bearing Point Inc.</STRONG> will provide the cards and Oberthur Card Systems will serve as the centralized processing center that manages day-to-day use of the cards. GSA officials awarded the contract last fall and it ends August 2008.</P> <P></P> <P>In a later phase of the program, GSA officials will offer smart cards to tenants in GSA-owned buildings, officials said.</P> <H1 class=headline>BearingPoint to help Hawaiian Telecom set up shop</H1> <P><A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?t=washington&am=washington&q=%22Jeff%20Clabaugh%22&f=byline&am=120_days&r=20"; target=_blank><FONT color=#022c7f>Jeff Clabaugh</FONT></A> </P> <DIV class=bylineinfo>Staff Reporter</DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman,Times,Serif" color=#000000 size=3> <DIV class=paragraph> <P><A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22Hawaiian%20Telecom%22&t=washington"; target=_blank><FONT color=#022c7f>Hawaiian Telecom</FONT></A> may be in Honolulu, but a lot of Washington-area talent is shaping the new company. </P></DIV></FONT> <P><A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22BearingPoint%22&t=washington"; target=_blank><FONT color=#022c7f>BearingPoint</FONT></A> is the latest local connection, winning a five-year contract to install and configure new information-technology systems for Hawaiian Telecom. The contract includes front office, network and back office systems for finance, human resources and customer billing. BearingPoint says the work encompasses more than 40 new IT systems. </P> <P>McLean-based BearingPoint (NYSE: BE) did not disclose the value of the contract. </P> <P>District-based The <A href="http://www.bizjournals.com/search/bin/search?q=%22Carlyle%20Group%22&t=washington"; target=_blank><FONT color=#022c7f>Carlyle Group</FONT></A> acquired the former Verizon Hawaii for $1.6 billion earlier this year. In May, Hawaiian Telecom hired District-based InPhonic (NASDAQ: INPC) to help it launch a new wireless servicei. </P></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR><BR><B><I>judson witham <jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx></I></B> wrote: </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>BearingPoint Alliance Partner Program Check Out Who Is Setting Up IRAQ's NEW Banking System (it's a private NO BID Contract ?????)<BR></STRONG><BR><B><I>admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</I></B> wrote: </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From: admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<BR>To: jurisnot@xxxxxxxxx<BR>Subject: BearingPoint Alliance Partner Program<BR><BR><BR>Thank you for your interest in BearingPoint's Alliance Partner Program. The first step in the alliance process requires completion of the Alliance Partner Qualification Form at: http://www.bearingpoint.com/partnerform. Once returned, it will be evaluated for possible alignment within our solution and/or industry strategies.<BR>Please note: As a pre-requisite to becoming an alliance partner, BearingPoint requires a proven track record (three successful engagements together) as well as a partner sponsor. If you have any questions, please contact Theresa Chu at 909-396-9436.<BR>If you would like to speak with someone immediately, please call: 1 (866) BRNGPNT; from outside the U.S. and Canada: 1 (617) 378-3721<BR>BearingPoint<BR>Business and Systems Aligned. Business Empow ered.</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <P> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></DIV><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From Justice Producer Terry Frieden Wednesday, August 18, 2004 Posted: 10:06 PM EDT (0206 GMT)=20 =20 WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the = Balkans for the United States in recent years have emerged as a serious = organized crime problem, threatening to displace La Cosa Nostra (LCN) = families as kingpins of U.S. crime, top FBI officials said Wednesday. =20 The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York and = other Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal = agents because of their propensity for violence and brutality, the = officials said. "They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon," said Chris = Swecker, the newly named FBI assistant director for the Criminal = Investigative Division. Swecker and other officials said some of the Albanians served as = enforcers in the established Mafia families for several years.=20 When the FBI dealt a major blow to the LCN families in recent years, the = Albanians began to emerge, and now are taking over turf once controlled = by the traditional mob bosses. Officials said ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro = are included in the clans and crews that emerged in the organized crime = world. FBI officials said Russian and many other organized crime groups = operating in the United States are much more sophisticated and less = violent than the Albanians. Part of the Albanian emergence stems from the FBI's success in busting = the LCN.=20 Operation Buttondown, the code name for the FBI's campaign to crush the = Mafia, reduced the number of families operating in the United States = from 24 to only nine, the FBI officials said. More than 100 leading members of LCN and more than 600 associates were = arrested in the crackdown on organized crime. Although no terrorism connection has been discovered, the FBI says it is = closely watching to see whether the militant Muslims in the emerging = organized crime world demonstrate ties to organizations suspected of = involvement in terrorist financing. (ROFLMFSAO! WHAT A WHOPPER!) http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/ =20 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! 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The truth is now <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">consistently</SPAN> obscured by not just liars of the = Republican and=20 Democratic ilk, but also by a majority of our talking heads. Poor = Edward=20 R. Murrow........or should I say, 'Pinwheel'=20 Morrow?</FONT> </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <H1>FBI: Albanian mobsters 'new Mafia'</H1> <H3></H3> <DIV>From Justice Producer Terry <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">Frieden</SPAN><BR><SPAN class=3DcnnStoryTime>Wednesday, August = 18, 2004=20 Posted: 10:06 PM EDT (0206 GMT) </SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3DcnnStoryTime><BR> </DIV></SPAN> <DIV><B style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 14px"><SPAN class=3Dcorrection = id=3D"">WASHINGTON</SPAN>=20 (CNN) -- Thousands of Albanians and others who fled the Balkans for the = United=20 States in recent years have emerged as a serious organized crime = problem,=20 threatening to displace La <SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">Cosa</SPAN> = <SPAN=20 class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">Nostra</SPAN> (<SPAN class=3Dcorrection = id=3D"">LCN</SPAN>)=20 families as <SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">kingpins</SPAN> of U.S. = crime, top FBI=20 officials said Wednesday.</B></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV>The Albanian criminal enterprises, operating largely in New York = and other=20 Eastern seaboard cities, represent a major challenge to federal agents = because=20 of their propensity for violence and brutality, the officials = said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"They are a hardened group, operating with reckless abandon," said = Chris=20 <SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">Swecker</SPAN>, the newly named FBI = assistant=20 director for the Criminal Investigative Division.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">Swecker</SPAN> and other officials = said some=20 of the Albanians served as enforcers in the established Mafia families = for=20 several years. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When the FBI dealt a major blow to the <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">LCN</SPAN> families in recent years, the Albanians began to = emerge, and=20 now are taking over turf once controlled by the traditional mob = bosses.</DIV> <DIV>Officials said ethnic Albanians from <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">Kosovo</SPAN>, Macedonia and <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">Montenegro</SPAN> are included in the clans and crews that = emerged in the=20 organized crime world.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>FBI officials said Russian and many other organized crime groups = operating=20 in the United States are much more sophisticated and less violent than = the=20 Albanians.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Part of the Albanian emergence stems from the <SPAN = class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">FBI's</SPAN> success in busting the <SPAN class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">LCN</SPAN>. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Operation <SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">Buttondown</SPAN>, the = code name for=20 the <SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">FBI's</SPAN> campaign to crush the = Mafia,=20 reduced the number of families operating in the United States from 24 to = only=20 nine, the FBI officials said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>More than 100 leading members of <SPAN class=3Dcorrection = id=3D"">LCN</SPAN>=20 and more than 600 associates were arrested in the <SPAN = class=3Dcorrection=20 id=3D"">crackdown</SPAN> on organized crime.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM><U>Although no terrorism connection has been=20 discovered</U></EM></STRONG>, the FBI says it is closely watching to see = whether=20 the militant Muslims in the emerging organized crime world demonstrate = ties to=20 organizations suspected of involvement in terrorist financing. = (<FONT=20 color=3D#ff0000><SPAN class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">ROFLMFSAO</SPAN>! = WHAT A <SPAN=20 class=3Dcorrection id=3D"">WHOPPER</SPAN>!</FONT><FONT = color=3D#000033>)</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href=3D"http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/"=20 target=3D_blank><FONT=20 color=3D#0000ff><STRONG><EM><U>http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanian= s.mob/</U></EM></STRONG></FONT></A></DIV><!-- end of = AOLMsgPart_2_46a14032-b1bb-40f6-909c-f21ddb72f1cf --> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><A href=3D"http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/"=20 target=3D_blank><U><FONT=20 color=3D#0000ff></FONT></U></A> </DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTM= L> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From 1996 to 1999, says the Times, Clinton made at least four visits to the=20 parole commission=E2=80=99s headquarters in Chevy Chase, Md., to meet with f= ederal=20 officials regarding a parole for Gambino. The newspaper reported that Clinto= n=20 received a Rolex watch, plane tickets to Washington, D.C., expense money and= a=20 $50,000 loan to buy a house, all of which came from Rosario=E2=80=99s son, T= ommy Gambino. The article identified Rosario Gambino as an associate of the Gambino crime=20 family in New York City =E2=80=94 a crime family that was founded by Rosario= Gambino=E2=80=99s=20 relative, Carlo Gambino. Rosario has denied any relation. But to federal and state investigators in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and to= =20 law enforcement authorities in Italy, Rosario Gambino is much more than an=20 organized crime associate. According to Italian law enforcement, when Rosario Gambino and his brothers=20 came from Sicily in the mid-1960s, they were already "men of honor," made=20 members of the Sicilian Mafia. Rosario entered the U.S. illegally in 1962 but in 1966 was granted permanent= =20 resident status. Rosario, his older brother, John, and his younger brother,=20 Giuseppe, settled first in Delran, N.J. Later they bought homes in Cherry Hi= ll=20 where they lived in the same development as reputed Philadelphia mobster=20 Raymond "Long John" Martorano. In 1966, the Gambino brothers ran The Cafe Valentino on 18th Avenue in=20 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. At that time, a new wave of Sicilian immigrants were=20= settling=20 in Brooklyn. Not far from the Gambinos, another Sicilian immigrant, Salvator= e=20 Catalano, opened the Cafe Viale. (Catalano eventually took control of the=20 Bonanno crime family, only to be assassinated by the Italian-American factio= n,=20 which resented the Sicilians=E2=80=99 influence and power in an American Cos= a Nostra=20 family.) The Gambino brothers and Catalano were friends and often visited on= e=20 another. When Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian Mafia boss from Palermo, needed to hide hi= s=20 ex-wife and daughter in America, Rosario Gambino took the women in. A few=20 years later, Buscetta fled a violent mob war in Sicily and settled in Brookl= yn,=20 where he often hung out with the Gambino brothers as well as Carlo Gambino. In 1972, Rosario and his two brothers formed Father and Son Pizza; they also= =20 ran pizza shops in Philadelphia and Camden, and, with a cousin, pizzerias as= =20 far south as Dover, Del. In 1978, Rosario Gambino used his wife=E2=80=99s maiden name to lease a prop= erty at=20 Second and Walnut streets in Old City, which he planned to turn into a=20 restaurant/nightclub. And Rosario=E2=80=99s little brother, Joe, ran Valenti= no=E2=80=99s Supper Club=20 in Cherry Hill. The "Cherry Hill" Gambinos were close friends with Philly Cosa Nostra boss,=20 Angelo Bruno. Police discovered that Angelo Bruno often met with New York=20 Gambino underboss, Paul Castellano, at Valentino=E2=80=99s Supper Club. (Cas= tellano=20 eventually became boss of the Gambino crime family and ran it for 10 years u= ntil John=20 Gotti had him assassinated December 1985.) In 1979 Rosario Gambino played a pivotal role in the Michele Sindona story.=20 Sindona, an international banker and money launderer, was the banker for the= =20 Vatican, the governing Christian Democratic party of Italy, the Masons and t= he=20 Mafia in Sicily. At the height of his power Sindona owned six banks in four=20 countries, an international hotel chain, a food company, 500 corporations an= d one=20 of the largest international currency brokerage firms in the world. But when= =20 Sindona bought the 18th largest bank in America, Franklin National Bank of N= ew=20 York, he stole so much money that the bank soon crashed. Billions of dollars= =20 were lost as Sindona=E2=80=99s European banks collapsed the following week.=20 Sindona was indicted in the U.S. and in Italy, and he disappeared in August=20 1979. His friends claimed that Sindona had been kidnapped, but Sindona flew=20= to=20 Sicily to meet with his "clients." Sindona was accompanied on his trip by Jo= hn=20 Gambino, Rosario=E2=80=99s brother. Sindona eventually returned to the Unite= d States=20 in October. When Sindona landed at JFK Airport, Rosario Gambino met him. At the same time, DEA agents intercepted five kilos of heroin, packed in=20 talcum powder, on their way to the Gambino brothers. The next shipment came=20= from=20 Sicily inside a truckload of lemons which was driven to Milan. There, the 91= =20 pounds of heroin were packed inside a cargo container filled with Italian po= p=20 music albums and shipped off to New York. When the shipment reached the U.S., the police moved in on the Gambinos. In=20 March 1980, Rosario and his brother Giuseppe were arrested in their restaura= nt,=20 Valentino=E2=80=99s, for alleged participation in an international heroin sm= uggling=20 operation after cops in Milan, Italy, confiscated 91 pounds of heroin destin= ed=20 for the U.S. They were eventually acquitted of those charges =E2=80=94 but m= ore than=20 60 members of the Mafia in Italy were convicted in the case. In December 1984, Rosario Gambino and three others were convicted on drug=20 related charges. Rosario Gambino was sentenced to 45 years in prison. Said one New Jersey State Police investigator, "To call Rosario Gambino a mo= b=20 associate is like saying John Gotti was just a street corner thug. Rosario=20 and his brothers were some of the most important Sicilian Mafiosi to ever=20 operate in this country." www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Archives Available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ <A HREF=3D"http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/";>ctrl</A> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] LISTSERV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Om -------------------------------1130841852 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Language: en Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -Caveat Lector- <HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUTF-8 http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; charse= t=3DUTF-8"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <P class=3Ddate><EM>Jack Abramoff is allegedly a bagman for the SERIOUS Mafi= a -- the Gambino Family</EM></P> <P class=3Ddate> </P> <P class=3Ddate>September 6=E2=80=9313, 2001</P> <P><SPAN class=3Dcategory2><A title=3Dhttp://www.citypaper.net/articles/0906= 01/news.underworld.shtml href=3D"http://www.citypaper.net/articles/090601/ne= ws.underworld.shtml">http://www.citypaper.net/articles/090601/news.underworl= d.shtml</A></SPAN></P> <H1>Roger and Me</H1> <P class=3Dsubhead><EM>Rosario Gambino, beneficiary of Roger Clinton=E2=80= =99s lobbying largesse, has local roots.</EM></P> <P class=3Dbyline>by Jim Barry</P> <P>Last week The New York Times reported that former President Bill Clinton= =E2=80=99s half-brother, Roger Clinton, lobbied parole officials to pardon c= onvicted heroin trafficker, Rosario Gambino.</P> <P>From 1996 to 1999, says the <EM>Times</EM>, Clinton made at least four vi= sits to the parole commission=E2=80=99s headquarters in Chevy Chase, Md., to= meet with federal officials regarding a parole for Gambino. The newspaper r= eported that Clinton received a Rolex watch, plane tickets to Washington, D.= C., expense money and a $50,000 loan to buy a house, all of which came from=20= Rosario=E2=80=99s son, Tommy Gambino.</P> <P>The article identified Rosario Gambino as an associate of the Gambino cri= me family in New York City =E2=80=94 a crime family that was founded by Rosa= rio Gambino=E2=80=99s relative, Carlo Gambino. Rosario has denied any relati= on.</P> <P>But to federal and state investigators in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and= to law enforcement authorities in Italy, Rosario Gambino is much more than=20= an organized crime associate.</P> <P>According to Italian law enforcement, when Rosario Gambino and his brothe= rs came from Sicily in the mid-1960s, they were already "men of honor," made= members of the Sicilian Mafia.</P> <P>Rosario entered the U.S. illegally in 1962 but in 1966 was granted perman= ent resident status. Rosario, his older brother, John, and his younger broth= er, Giuseppe, settled first in Delran, N.J. Later they bought homes in Cherr= y Hill where they lived in the same development as reputed Philadelphia mobs= ter Raymond "Long John" Martorano.</P> <P>In 1966, the Gambino brothers ran The Cafe Valentino on 18th Avenue in Be= nsonhurst, Brooklyn. At that time, a new wave of Sicilian immigrants were se= ttling in Brooklyn. Not far from the Gambinos, another Sicilian immigrant, S= alvatore Catalano, opened the Cafe Viale. (Catalano eventually took control=20= of the Bonanno crime family, only to be assassinated by the Italian-American= faction, which resented the Sicilians=E2=80=99 influence and power in an Am= erican Cosa Nostra family.) The Gambino brothers and Catalano were friends a= nd often visited one another.</P> <P>When Tommaso Buscetta, a Sicilian Mafia boss from Palermo, needed to hide= his ex-wife and daughter in America, Rosario Gambino took the women in. A f= ew years later, Buscetta fled a violent mob war in Sicily and settled in Bro= oklyn, where he often hung out with the Gambino brothers as well as Carlo Ga= mbino.</P> <P>In 1972, Rosario and his two brothers formed Father and Son Pizza; they a= lso ran pizza shops in Philadelphia and Camden, and, with a cousin, pizzeria= s as far south as Dover, Del.</P> <P>In 1978, Rosario Gambino used his wife=E2=80=99s maiden name to lease a p= roperty at Second and Walnut streets in Old City, which he planned to turn i= nto a restaurant/nightclub. And Rosario=E2=80=99s little brother, Joe, ran V= alentino=E2=80=99s Supper Club in Cherry Hill.</P> <P>The "Cherry Hill" Gambinos were close friends with Philly Cosa Nostra bos= s, Angelo Bruno. Police discovered that Angelo Bruno often met with New York= Gambino underboss, Paul Castellano, at Valentino=E2=80=99s Supper Club. (Ca= stellano eventually became boss of the Gambino crime family and ran it for 1= 0 years until John Gotti had him assassinated December 1985.)</P> <P><STRONG>In 1979 Rosario Gambino played a pivotal role in the Michele Sind= ona story. Sindona, an international banker and money launderer, was the ban= ker for the Vatican, the governing Christian Democratic party of Italy, the=20= Masons and the Mafia in Sicily</STRONG>. At the height of his power Sindona=20= owned six banks in four countries, an international hotel chain, a food comp= any, 500 corporations and one of the largest international currency brokerag= e firms in the world. But when Sindona bought the 18th largest bank in Ameri= ca, Franklin National Bank of New York, he stole so much money that the bank= soon crashed. <STRONG>Billions of dollars were lost as Sindona=E2=80=99s Eu= ropean banks collapsed the following week. </STRONG></P> <P>Sindona was indicted in the U.S. and in Italy, and he disappeared in Augu= st 1979. His friends claimed that Sindona had been kidnapped, but <STRONG>Si= ndona flew to Sicily to meet with his "clients." <FONT color=3D#ff0000>Sindo= na was accompanied on his trip by John Gambino, Rosario=E2=80=99s brother</F= ONT>. Sindona eventually returned to the United States in October. <FONT col= or=3D#ff0000>When Sindona landed at JFK Airport, Rosario Gambino met him</FO= NT>.</STRONG></P> <P>At the same time, DEA agents intercepted five kilos of heroin, packed in=20= talcum powder, on their way to the Gambino brothers. The next shipment came=20= from Sicily inside a truckload of lemons which was driven to Milan. There, t= he 91 pounds of heroin were packed inside a cargo container filled with Ital= ian pop music albums and shipped off to New York.</P> <P>When the shipment reached the U.S., the police moved in on the Gambinos.=20= In March 1980, Rosario and his brother Giuseppe were arrested in their resta= urant, Valentino=E2=80=99s, for alleged participation in an international he= roin smuggling operation after cops in Milan, Italy, confiscated 91 pounds o= f heroin destined for the U.S. They were eventually acquitted of those charg= es =E2=80=94 but more than 60 members of the Mafia in Italy were convicted i= n the case.</P> <P>In December 1984, Rosario Gambino and three others were convicted on drug= related charges. Rosario Gambino was sentenced to 45 years in prison.</P> <P>Said one New Jersey State Police investigator, "To call Rosario Gambino a= mob associate is like saying John Gotti was just a street corner thug. Rosa= rio and his brothers were some of the most important Sicilian Mafiosi to eve= r operate in this country."</P></BODY></HTML> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From Atlanta, they shuttled to the training site and "on our flight there=20 were a bunch of guys with Marine haircuts speaking Spanish. It took us a few= =20 moments to realize these guys were `students' of the School of the Americas,= the=20 U.S. Army's own terrorist training camp in Latin America." This experience "= put=20 things into perspective: warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally oka= y=20 with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests."=20 ("What's wrong with Black Hawk Down? -- Black Hawk Down Actor Brendan Sexton= on=20 what really happened in Somalia," Z-Magazine Web Site,=20 http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm)=20 Those interests lurked beyond Ridley Scott's klieg lights in geopolitical=20 obscurity. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Somalia was ruled by the decrepit=20 Mohamed Siad Barre. Bowing to the dictates of American Oil, President Barre=20= crushed=20 all dissent. He leased nearly two-thirds of oil-rich Somalia to four America= n=20 petroleum companies: Chevron, Conoco, Phillips and Amoco. Somalia, a tiny=20 country in the Horn of Africa, is also of interest to the U.S., a direct rou= te to=20 the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Barre was overthrown in 1991, Somalia erupte= d=20 in turmoil and the oil companies' land contracts were rendered useless paper= .=20 At the same time, there was no shortage of misery in the world. A military=20 adventure to Somalia would have appeared whimsical. Citing famine in Mogadis= hu=20 and the South, President George Bush, Sr. let the dogs out. The Los Angeles=20 Times noted that Bush's envoy during the operation made the Conoco compound=20= his=20 base. ("Black Hawk Down: Shoot first, don't ask questions afterwards,"=20 Independent, 2-2-02)=20 On May 7, 1993 Canadian newspapers reported that Airborne Commandos had=20 torture-murdered a Somali teenager. Then came subsequent news of murders by=20 Canada's peacekeepers. As many as 1,000 civilians (or "Skinnies"s) were mass= acred by=20 American troops sent to "restore order" and grab Barre's successor, Mohammed= =20 Aideed. Colin Powell, then head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, described the=20 military operations in Somalia as "a paid political advertisement" for the=20 Pentagon. (Michael L. Tan, "Only a Movie," INQ7, Philippine news web site,=20 http://www.inq7.net/opi/2002/feb/26/opi_mltan-1.htm.)=20 The "humanitarian" operation devolved into wholesale bloodshed. "In one=20 incident," the Independent reported in 1998, "Rangers took a family hostage.= When=20 one of the women started screaming at the Americans, she was shot dead. In=20 another incident, a Somali prisoner was allegedly shot dead when he refused=20= to=20 stop praying outside. Another was clubbed into silence." Mark Dowden, author= of=20 Black Hawk Down, wrote the article -- yet his book, released a year later,=20 makes no mention of these atrocities. (Independent, 2-2-02) Further nips and= tucks=20 in the film script were made at Pentagon request.=20 Letters from the studios to Pentagon officials declassified last year reveal= =20 that Hollywood routinely rewrites history at the dictate of DoD officials wi= th=20 the authority to grant access to military hardware and property. If the=20 script changes are not made, assistance is denied, the film suffers. Films t= hat=20 have won Pentagon approval include Armageddon, Air Force One, The Jackal, To= p=20 Gun, Pearl Harbour and Bad Company. Some movies that didn't make the grade:=20= The=20 Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, Sgt Bilko, Platoon, Independence Day and Spy=20 Game. (Duncan Campbell, "Top Gun versus Sergeant Bilko?," The Guardian, 8-29= -01.)=20 Goodfellas=20 The national security-entertainment complex is as driven by greed as it is=20 hypocrisy, so on September 15, 2000, the New York Post reported: "BUSH MADE=20 BUNDLE ON MOVIE VIOLENCE." President Bush has scolded panderers of film viol= ence=20 and is given to public pronouncements that there should be "a sense of urgen= cy=20 in our society about the pervasiveness of violence" (excluding the current=20 spate of gory war movies, of course -- these he applauds). "I think it start= s=20 with reminding moms and dads that they've got to be mindful of the games and= =20 movies and music that their children are listening to." Most moms and dads h= ad no=20 idea that, for ten years, moralist Bush sat on the board of Silver Screen=20 Management Co., a company operated by New York businessman Roland Betts, a f= ellow=20 Skull & Bones frat brother. Silver Screen has financed a score of R-rated=20 flicks, including The Hitcher, a bloodfest. Bush joined the board of SS in 1= 983=20 and was a director until 1993, when he planned his candidacy for the Texas=20 governor's office. Bush received over $100,000 in directors' fees and bonuse= s from=20 the firm.=20 In the last election cycle, Bush's starched supporters regaled Al Gore for=20 his friendship with Pulp Fiction producer Harvey Weinstein, and soliciting=20 campaign funds in Hollywood. They selectively forgot that Colin Powell sat o= n the=20 corporate board of Time-Warner before his appointment to the State Departmen= t.=20 Time-Warner Cable offers hardcore pornography. In 1992, the ultra-conservati= ve=20 American Family Association named Time-Warner "the third leading sponsor of=20 sex, violence and profanity on broadcast TV." (Robert Peters, "Time Warner=20 Still a Major Cultural Polluter," Morality in Media Web Site:=20 http://www.moralityinmedia.org/index.htm?mediaIssues/timewarn.htm.)=20 Martin Kaplan, a former speechwriter and Disney executive, allowed at a=20 recent news conference that between Hollywood and Washington, "there's a=20 combination of distrust and affection. There has been the culture-wars side=20= of it, but=20 there's also been quite a passionate relationship with legislative outcomes.= =20 They understand each other in a fundamental way." (Doug Saunders, "Films of=20 War," Globe and Mail, 11-17-01)=20 This intimacy was conspicuous when screenwriter E. Howard Hunt was tapped fo= r=20 spy duty. It was conspicuous in 1952, when Actors' Guild president Ronald=20 Reagan was recruited by the Crusade for Freedom, a CIA front, to star in a s= eries=20 of televised appeals for viewer donations to resettle East European Nazi=20 collaborators -- "freedom fighters," Reagan said -- in the U.S. (John Loftus= , The=20 Belarus Secret, New York: Knopf, 1982, pp. 107-41.)=20 And it was conspicuous twenty years later at the world premiere of The=20 Godfather, an event attended by then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Rob= ert=20 Evans, the film's producer, a Kissinger crony, had known Mafia ties -- his=20 attorney was Sidney Korshak, the legendary West Coast mob fixer -- but this=20= didn't=20 deter the world's most prominent war criminal. Evans writes in his memoirs t= hat=20 when Kissinger arrived at the screening, the paparazzi "became so unruly tha= t=20 extra police were called in to physically push them back."=20 A reporter shouted, "Dr. Kissinger, why are you here tonight?"=20 Kissinger croaked with a grin, "I was forced."=20 "By who?"=20 "By Bobby."=20 The theater's lights dimmed, the theme rose, Evans gushed: "my whole life=20 seemed to pass before me. Here, sitting between Henry and Ali [McGraw], watc= hing=20 this epic unfold, I felt that everything my life was about had led up to thi= s=20 moment." (Robert Evans, The Kid Stays in the Picture, London: Aurum Press,=20 1994, pp. 9-10.)=20 The mutual admiration was still evident in November, 2001 when senior White=20 House advisor Karl Rove and several dozen studio executives met in Beverly=20 Hills to discuss the war on terrorism. "It's important to hear what Hollywoo= d has=20 on its mind," Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleisher explained at a dail= y=20 press briefing. The names Bill Maher, Oliver Stone, Warren Beatty or Larry=20 Flynt did not come up.=20 The thoughtful movie moguls represented CBS, HBO, MGM, Showtime, Dreamworks,= =20 Viacom and other multinational cartel dream factories. The New York Times=20 assured, "several executives emphasized ... that they were not interested in= =20 making propaganda films." CNN mentioned that MPAA president Jack Valenti, he= ad of=20 the Motion Picture Association, "hoped the White House representatives weren= 't=20 planning `to tell us what kind of movies to make.'" Rove wanted "concrete=20 information, told with honesty and specificity and integrity." But most repo= rts of=20 the closed meeting note that "patriotic" movies were the topic of discussion= .=20 The studio executives offered to turn out flicks in the tradition of Why We=20 Fight, a documentary made during World War II, and The Battle of San Pietro;= =20 they also committed to public service projects on biological terrorism and=20 "homeland security." (Rick Lyman, "White House Sets Meeting with Film Execut= ives to=20 Discuss War on Terrorism," New York Times, 11-8-01.) Among the volunteers to= =20 the war effort, count directors David Fincher (Fight Club), Spike Jonze (Bei= ng=20 John Malkovich) and Randal Kleiser (Grease), and Die Hard screenwriter Steve= n=20 E. De Souza.=20 Never mind that Hollywood was already tummy-tuck deep in the propaganda biz.= =20 A few days before Rove's summit, actor Tom Cruise met with CIA officials to=20 discuss ways of burnishing the agency's image in the upcoming Mission:=20 Impossible 3. (Editorial, "Unease over Hollywood Washington pact," Guardian=20= Unlimited,=20 November 14, 2001.) Truth is, the nation's political and entertainment=20 capitals had been on intimate terms for decades when the studio moguls issue= d their=20 denials.=20 "For many years," Canadian media critic Doug Saunders writes, "Hollywood's=20 most prominent products, its major studio films and TV series, have been alm= ost=20 indistinguishable from government-funded propaganda. With rare exceptions,=20 whenever men in uniform appear on-screen, Hollywood has been singing Washing= ton's=20 song from the beginning." The grave flaws in American foreign policy "may=20 loom large in history, but 50 years of cinema and TV have painted [the CIA a= nd=20 DoD] in bright and unmottled hues." And reaped immense profits with their ar= t:=20 CIA expenditures alone on propaganda during the Cold War ran to hundreds of=20 millions of dollars each year. (Alex Constantine, And Now a Word from Our Sp= onsor=20 -- the CIA, Virtual Government) "If Bush were to erect a soundstage on the=20 White House lawn, he could not do a better job getting the official line acr= oss=20 than movies and TV shows have been doing for years." (Saunders)=20 Two years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency opened its headquarters to=20 Showtime and Paramount for the making of In the Company of Spies. The progra= m=20 aired on Showtime. To celebrate the completion of this collaborative project= , the=20 CIA's George Tenet invited everyone involved to a private screening at CIA=20 headquarters in Langley. "The CIA's objectives were clear," screenwriter Rog= er=20 Towne told the Associated Press. "They hoped to see a human face put on the=20 agency and we had just the story to do it." ("Hollywood Whores for Washingto= n,"=20 http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antiDrug.html and=20 http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antidrugCont.html) This is an agency= , mind you, with two=20 faces, an international Gestapo that has trained death squads around the glo= be,=20 assassinated a score of foreign leaders, plotted coups, conducted illicit=20 human experimentation, peddled LSD, sprayed disease on Cuban crops, dragged=20= the=20 country into Vietnam, created bin Laden, etc. Tenet boasted that the movie=20 "portray[s] us in a good light, and I want the American people to know the v= alues=20 we believe in."=20 "Never," noted the Washington Post, "has the CIA so fully embraced a movie."= =20 (Vernon Loeb, "The CIA's Operation Hollywood," Washington Post, October 14,=20 1999, Page C-1.)=20 The Langley-Hollywood romance began during World War II, when the Office of=20 Strategic Services (the nascent CIA) and a Disney make-up artist designed=20 disguise kits for agents on jungle assignment. In the postwar period, make-u= p=20 artists were also recruited for the start-up of Studio Six Productions, a=20 full-fledged CIA front complete with business cards, an office, movie poster= s and trade=20 ads. Studio Six was run by John Chambers, who won an Academy Award for his=20 make-up wizardry in Planet of the Apes, his partner Tom Burman and the CIA's= =20 Tony Mendez. (Robert P. Laurence, "Into the Shadows: The CIA in Hollywood,"=20 television review, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12-04-01.)=20 The CIA, soiled by a half century of PR disasters, hired Chase Brandon, a=20 26-year veteran paramilitary officer with experience "all over Latin America= " --=20 also a cousin of actor Tommy Lee Jones, Al Gore's college roommate -- in 199= 6=20 to fill the newly-created position of Entertainment Liaison Officer. "The=20 popular image of us is of some kind of rogue organization creating mayhem an= d=20 madness on a whim," Brandon told the press a week prior to the World Trade C= enter=20 air assaults. "We hate to see ugly imagery of us in television and films."=20 Brandon's office was conceived on December 20, 1991 by the "Task Force on=20 Greater CIA Openness" in a study undertaken at the request of then CIA direc= tor=20 Robert Gates, a Bush, Sr. appointee, and immediately classified, though a fe= w=20 copies were leaked. The report proposed an image upgrade to neutralize publi= c=20 hostility. The task force was in "substantial agreement that we generally ne= ed=20 to make the institution and the process more visible and understandable rath= er=20 than strive for openness on specific substantive issues." Forget openness,=20 the Openness Task Force advised. The report "seems to recommend no real chan= ge=20 in attitude," complained The Excluded Middle, an anti-CIA Internet site, "on= ly=20 in the way that the agency presents itself to a hostile or at least an=20 indifferent public." The authors of the report boast arrogantly that the CIA= 's Public=20 Affairs Office (PAO) censored and had buried projects that it found=20 objectionable in the past. Chase Brandon hails from the PAO. Contact with "e= very major=20 wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and television network in the nation"=20 was advised by the panel. The result was the Entertainment Liaison Office.=20 (Anonymous, "CIA MEMO ON GREATER OPENNESS REVEALS CONTRADICTIONS," Excluded=20= Middle,=20 http://www.elfis.net/tem/ciaduh.htm)=20 The CIA's PR campaign was calculated to convince viewers that programs like=20 The Agency on CBS -- praised by Brandon for portraying "the bravery and dece= ncy=20 of the men and women who work here" -- were true-to-life. Wolfgang Peterson,= =20 an executive producer of the spook show, observes that Americans "are=20 questioning whether we need a CIA, and this is a great opportunity to get th= e word=20 out." With CIA oversight, of course. Michael Frost Beckner, creator of serie= s,=20 worked closely with Brandon and submitted the product for Agency approval.=20 (Duncan Campbell, "Hollywood helps CIA come in from the cold," The Guardian,= =20 September 6, 2001.) The premiere episode of The Agency featured agents thwar= ting a=20 plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, a smoke-belching storyline fit for Rupert=20 Murdoch's delusional Fox cable channel, or perhaps Nickelodeon.=20 A plausible script was suggested by Guardian media critic John Patterson:=20 "Think of a movie that chronicles the fortunes of a secretive, murderous,=20 criminal organization, deeply prone to the pathologies of masculinity and pa= ranoia,=20 all seen over the course of four decades with excess followed by hubris=20 followed by dead reckoning. The CIA awaits its version of Goodfellas." (John= =20 Patterson, "The Caring, Sharing CIA," The Guardian, October 5, 2001.) A work= ing title=20 for this version might be:=20 "Indecent Exposure"=20 The raw material for a true-life CIA classic already exists in the life and=20 untimely death of Hollywood scriptwriter Gary Devore (The Dogs of War, Raw=20 Deal). In the early morning hours of June 28, 1997, Devore drove his SUV off= the=20 highway near Palmdale, California, plunged into the California Aqueduct and=20 drowned, Chappaquiddick-style. It wasn't a blowout. He didn't nod off at the= =20 wheel. Shortly before the fatal plunge, Devore bragged to his wife by cell p= hone=20 that he was wide awake, riding on "adrenaline" because he was hard at work o= n=20 the final draft of Solo, a film script about the military occupation of Pana= ma,=20 and was headed for their beach home in Santa Barbara to complete it. The bod= y=20 would not be found for over a year.=20 In the meantime, his disappearance summoned up a multitude of conspiracy=20 theories, including CIA assassination. Wendy Devore, his wife, still conside= rs=20 this the most likely explanation and ignores the snickers of the press. Her=20 husband wrote spy thrillers for the screen and had intelligence contacts. Po= lice=20 found a surveillance wire hidden in a bedroom drawer. Devore disappeared in=20= the=20 Antelope Valley, on the outskirts of Palmdale, a CIA enclave. And shortly=20 after the writer went missing, the Agency's Chase Brandon popped up at the h= ouse=20 to request private access to the scriptwriter's office and computer -- as=20 though the spook had good reason to believe that Devore, then officially a m= issing=20 person, was dead. (Ivor Davis and Sally Ogle Davis, "Disappearing Act: A Big= =20 Comeback...A Big Mystery," E-Online,=20 http://www.eonline.com/Features/Specials/Screenwriter/Three/index3.html)=20 In July, 1998 Devore's Explorer was hauled from the aqueduct. The driver's=20 window was down. "He must have been unconscious when he hit the water," she=20= told=20 reporters. "Otherwise, if the window was open, why couldn't he get out?" Fro= m=20 the start, police have refused, despite Wendy's pleas, to investigate the=20 case properly.=20 The Los Angeles Times reported on June 29, 1998 that Devore made frequent=20 calls over a period of several weeks before vanishing to "a longtime friend,= "=20 Chase Brandon, "at the CIA in Langley, Va., to ask him about the U.S. invasi= on of=20 Panama, former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and about Noriega's=20 involvement in drugs and money-laundering." Brandon: "I remember talking to=20= him=20 about a lot of elements of Panama and Noriega's regime and the drug money th= at=20 Noriega was alleged to have had stashed in safes in his offices and that's t= he=20 money that, in his script [Solo], soldiers stumble across and steal. From th= at,=20 we sort of drifted off and sort of talked about U.S. counter-narcotics=20 programs in general. I may have mentioned a couple things about the agency's= role in=20 providing increased U.S. intelligence efforts to provide support to U.S. law= =20 enforcement."=20 On May 6, 1997, Devore made a note in his day-planner: "Undersecretary for=20 int'l narcotics makers. Chase [name crossed out]. Crime and Narcotics Center= .=20 CNC. Largest center in CIA. Espionage agents work with local police, gov't,=20= etc.=20 Do cover work on problems locals won't handle. Airfields, burn labs, fuel=20 storage."=20 Chase Brandon snickers at conspiracy theories, but offered the Times one of=20 his own: "Gary was one of those people who met a horrible, tragic quirk of=20 fate. He was simply victimized by people who wanted that car." (Robert W. We= lkos,=20 "Without a Trace," Los Angeles Times, June 29, 1998.) A conspiracy to steal=20= a=20 moving automobile on an open highway. Case closed. Then again, as filmmaker=20 Barbara Trent (The Panama Deception) pointed out to The Colorado Daily last=20 year, a CIA spokesman is "paid a lot of money to lie. I mean, how many times= do we=20 have to learn that lesson?" (Terje Langeland, "Filmmaker to speak on media=20 deception," Colorado Daily, January 27, 2000,=20 http://www.empowermentproject.org/codaily.htm) Gary Devore's death remains a= mystery.=20 The Manchurian Moviegoer=20 The proliferation of pro-American films and television programs might be d escribed as a cynical mind control operation, a psyop. John Rendon, a "strat= egic=20 communications" firm hired by the Pentagon (at $100,000 a month) in the war=20= on=20 terrorism, describes himself as "an information warrior and a perception=20 manager." (Jeff Stein, "Propaganda, the Pentagon, and the Rendon Group," Tom= Paine. Com http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5188)=20 Perception management is the mission, under a $45 million Army grant, of the= =20 Institute for Creative Technologies, an interactive virtual-reality warfare=20 simulation center and think-tank in Marina Del Rey, operated by the Universi= ty=20 of Southern California. Richard Lindheim, former vice president of Paramount= =20 Television Group, is executive director of the center. The keynote address a= t=20 the ITC's opening in 1999 was delivered by Jack Valenti, who observed in his= =20 opening remarks, "Los Angeles is not the entertainment capital of the world.= =20 Washington, DC is the entertainment capital of the world!"=20 James Der Derian, director of the Information Technology, War and Peace=20 Project (ITWP), was sitting in the audience at the ITC's opening in 1999. "I= did=20 not want to rain on the parade," he wrote in an ITWP newsletter, but had to=20= ask=20 "whether the linking up of Hollywood and the Pentagon might not repeat the=20 World War II experience, when training films were mixed with propaganda film= s,=20 and military simulations became a tool for public dissimulation?"=20 Valenti came back with a response that "made up in pugnacity what it lacked=20 in nuance." The MPAA president "contrasted my view to the decision to drop t= he=20 atomic bomb on the Japanese. `Some might have seen that as a heartless and=20 terrible thing to do, but not the 150,000 American boys whose lives would ha= ve=20 been lost. This is a lesson in Philosophy 101 that I am giving to you right=20 now.'" But Der Derian came away with another lesson: "Valenti, like many in=20= power=20 today, are all too ready to drop the bomb on dissident viewpoints." Death on= =20 the battlefield or simulated on the screen "gives war its special status. Th= is=20 fact can be censored, hidden in a body bag, air-brushed away, but it provide= s,=20 even in its erasure, the corporal gravitas of war. However, everything I=20 witnessed that day at the ICT was dedicated to the disappearance of the body= , the=20 aestheticizing of violence, the sanitization of war. Will this latest allian= ce=20 of brass, silicon and celluloid be any different? It would seem not." (James= =20 Der Derian, "Dreams, Lies and Video Tapes," INFOintervention, Watson Institu= te=20 Web site, December 18, 2001,=20 http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/jdd_videos.html)=20 Sanitizing war is the primary aim of the patriotizing media. When the bombs=20 began to fall in Afghanistan, killing and mutilating innocent civilians, a=20 policy of suppressing the body count (or "propaganda") was adopted by Donald= =20 "Precision Bombing" Rumsfeld and the government's "information warriors." In= =20 Hollywood, self-censorship is the rule. Rarely have the Feds had reason to s= tep in=20 and silence the studios by threat of force. (A rare exception was an episode= of=20 Murphy Brown concerning the medical benefits of marijuana -- DEA Director=20 Thomas Constantine threatened a "criminal investigation" of the program. See= =20 "Pushing propaganda", from the About website, 7/17/00,=20 http://civilliberty.about.com/library/weekly/aa071700a.htm?iam=3Ddpile&terms= =3Dcia+propaganda+movies)=20 Nevertheless, an atmosphere of aggression and fear has fostered an industry,= =20 argues San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Ryan, "in which ideology=20 predominates and contrary voices are silenced. What happens when someone wan= ts to=20 make a film about Abdul Nabi and his family, Afghans who were forced to=20 become refugees when U.S. bombs killed 28 people in nearby villages?" The ma= nagers=20 of perception will interpret such a storyline "as `stupid meddling,' and=20 `should be stifled.'" ("Unease over Hollywood-Washington pact," Guardian Unl= imited,=20 November 14, 2001.)=20 On Black Tuesday, the national security cult's pentagram was breached by a=20 jetliner, the demons of mass persuasion set loose. Until the exorcist arrive= s,=20 expect generous servings of "heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murder," and "hatr= ed=20 for America" at the matinee.=20 =A9 2002 Alex Constantine=20 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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The N= ew York Times assures us "several executives emphasized that they were=20= not interested in making propaganda films." CNN mentioned that Jack Valenti,= head of the Motion Picture Association, "hoped the White House representati= ves weren't planning `to tell us what kind of movies to make.'" </EM></FONT>= </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><FONT color=3D#ff0000><EM>Most reports of th= e closed meeting state that "patriotic" movies were the topic of discus= sion. [Finally] the studio executives agreed to turn out flicks in the=20= tradition of documentaries made during World War II. Among the volunteers to= this war effort, count directors David Fincher (Fight Club), Spike Jonze (B= eing John Malkovich) and Randal Kleiser (Grease), and Die Hard screenwriter=20= Steven E. De Souza. </EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=3D#ff0000><EM>Just before Rove's summit, actor Tom Cruis= e met with CIA officials to discuss ways of burnishing the agency's ima= ge in the upcoming Mission: Impossible 3. </EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=3D#ff0000><EM>The Central Intelligence Agency had already ope= ned its headquarters to Showtime and Paramount for the making of In the Comp= any of Spies. "The CIA's objectives were clear," screenwriter Roger Tow= ne told the Associated Press. "They hoped to see a human face put on the age= ncy." ("Hollywood Whores for Washington," <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica><A hr= ef=3D"http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antiDrug.html";>http://www.xmag= .com/archives/7-08-feb00/antiDrug.html</A></FONT> and <FONT face=3Darial,hel= vetica><A href=3D"http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antidrugCont.html"= >http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antidrugCont.html</A></FONT>) Tenet= boasted that the movie "portray[s] us in a good light, and I want the Ameri= can people to know the values we believe in." </EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=3D#ff0000><EM>Soiled by a half century of PR disasters, in 19= 96 the CIA hired Chase Brandon, a 26-year veteran paramilitary officer, = ;to fill the newly-created position of <U>Entertainment Liaison Officer</U>.= <STRONG>"The popular image of us is as some kind of rogue organization= creating mayhem and madness on a whim," Brandon told the press a week=20= before 9-11.</STRONG> "We hate to see ugly imagery of us in television and f= ilms." </EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color=3D#ff0000><EM><STRONG>Washington's</STRONG></EM> <EM>[<STRONG= >Hollywood propaganda office</STRONG>]<STRONG> originated in 1991 = under the presidency of George HW Bush, <U>the product of a s= till-classified study undertaken by the CIA</U>.</STRONG></EM></FONT></= P> <P><EM><FONT color=3D#ff0000></FONT></EM></FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D+2>Collateral Brain Damage? <BR>The H= ollywood Propaganda Ministry </FONT></P> <P>by Alex Constantine, </P> <P>Scheduled for the July 2002 issue of <I>High Times</I> </P> <P></P> <P> <TABLE cellSpacing=3D0 cellPadding=3D0 align=3Dcenter border=3D0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD><FONT size=3D2>"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused <BR= >in the public mind." </FONT> <P align=3Dright><FONT size=3D2>--General William C. Westmoreland, <BR><I>Ti= me</I>, April 5, 1982 </FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR><BR> <P><B>Tinseltown Down </B></P> <P>During the filming of Black Hawk Down, the Pentagon persuaded its produce= rs to change the name of Army Ranger John Stebbins, portrayed by Ewan McGreg= or, because the true-life "patriot" had been convicted to a 30-year prison t= erm for the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl. (Megan Turner, "<A href= =3D"http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/BlkHawkDown.html= ">WAR-FILM `HERO' IS A RAPIST</A>," <I>NY Post</I>, 12/18/01) In the movie,=20= "John Grimes" stands in for pedophile Stebbins. Despite this and numerous ot= her revisions to the record of the famed Somali military fiasco, Black Hawk=20= Down met with widespread acclaim. The film's Washington premiere was attende= d by Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Oliver North and a divisio= n of generals. It grossed $75.5-million in its first three weeks. </P> <P>But jeering protestors -- including Brendan Sexton, an actor in Black Haw= k Down -- decried the movie, a riot of Hawkish clich=E9s ("C'mon, let's roll= !"), as crude war propaganda, a drug intended to stupefy the country into su= pporting covert operations and oil company maneuvers in Somalia, still more=20= dead civilians. The Pentagon's heavy hand in the making of the film was cond= emned as a manipulation of public sentiment recalling the Goebbels propagand= a mill. </P> <P>A glance that way is instructive. "Films," Heinrich Goebbels opined, cons= titute a "scientific means of influencing the masses," of molding attitudes,= and he cautioned, "a government must not neglect them." Movies were central= to the Nazi regime's domestic propaganda blitz. Under Nazi rule, some 1,300= movies were approved or commissioned by the Reich. Robert Hertzstein, a for= mer consultant to the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations,= notes in <I>The War that Hitler Won</I> that Goebbel's ministry salted popu= lar films with repetitious words and symbols that stirred the emotions of th= e German populace: "heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murder," "hatred for German= y." (in Robert Edwin Herzstein, <I>The War that Hitler Won: Goebbels and the= Nazi Media Campaign,</I> New York: Paragon, 1987, p. 272.) A half century l= ater, Black Hawk Down -- with its profuse "heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murd= er," "hatred for America" -- swept the next bellicose right-wing "homeland."= The parallels were glaring. </P> <P>And obnoxious. Brendon Sexton, speaking at an anti-war forum held at Colu= mbia University, recalled that in preparation for his role, he and a fellow=20= actor flew to Georgia for `Ranger Orientation Training' at Fort Benning in C= olumbus. From Atlanta, they shuttled to the training site and "on our flight= there were a bunch of guys with Marine haircuts speaking Spanish. It took u= s a few moments to realize these guys were `students' of the School of the A= mericas, the U.S. Army's own terrorist training camp in Latin America." This= experience "put things into perspective: warlords, dictators and terrorists= are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. cor= porate interests." ("<A href=3D"http://www.counterpunch.org/sexton1.html";>Wh= at's wrong with Black Hawk Down?</A> -- Black Hawk Down Actor Brendan Sexton= on what really happened in Somalia," <I>Z-Magazine</I> Web Site, <FONT face= =3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm";>http:/= /www.zmag.org/ZNET.htm</A></FONT>) </P> <P>Those interests lurked beyond Ridley Scott's klieg lights in geopolitical= obscurity. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, Somalia was ruled by the decrepit= Mohamed Siad Barre. Bowing to the dictates of American Oil, President Barre= crushed all dissent. He leased nearly two-thirds of oil-rich Somalia to fou= r American petroleum companies: Chevron, Conoco, Phillips and Amoco. Somalia= , a tiny country in the Horn of Africa, is also of interest to the U.S., a d= irect route to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal. Barre was overthrown in 1991,= Somalia erupted in turmoil and the oil companies' land contracts were rende= red useless paper. At the same time, there was no shortage of misery in the=20= world. A military adventure to Somalia would have appeared whimsical. Citing= famine in Mogadishu and the South, President George Bush, Sr. let the dogs=20= out. The Los Angeles Times noted that Bush's envoy during the operation made= the Conoco compound his base. ("Black Hawk Down: Shoot first, don't ask que= stions afterwards," <I>Independent,</I> 2-2-02) </P> <P>On May 7, 1993 Canadian newspapers reported that Airborne Commandos had t= orture-murdered a Somali teenager. Then came subsequent news of murders by C= anada's peacekeepers. As many as 1,000 civilians (or "Skinnies"s) were massa= cred by American troops sent to "restore order" and grab Barre's successor,=20= Mohammed Aideed. Colin Powell, then head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, descr= ibed the military operations in Somalia as "a paid political advertisement"=20= for the Pentagon. (Michael L. Tan, "Only a Movie," <I>INQ7,</I> Philippine n= ews web site, <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.i= nq7.net/opi/2002/feb/26/opi_mltan-1.htm">http://www.inq7.net/opi/2002/feb/26= /opi_mltan-1.htm</A></FONT>.) </P> <P>The "humanitarian" operation devolved into wholesale bloodshed. "In one i= ncident," the <I>Independent</I> reported in 1998, "Rangers took a family ho= stage. When one of the women started screaming at the Americans, she was sho= t dead. In another incident, a Somali prisoner was allegedly shot dead when=20= he refused to stop praying outside. Another was clubbed into silence." Mark=20= Dowden, author of <I>Black Hawk Down</I>, wrote the article -- yet his book,= released a year later, makes no mention of these atrocities. (<I>Independen= t,</I> 2-2-02) Further nips and tucks in the film script were made at Pentag= on request. </P> <P>Letters from the studios to Pentagon officials declassified last year rev= eal that Hollywood routinely rewrites history at the dictate of DoD official= s with the authority to grant access to military hardware and property. If t= he script changes are not made, assistance is denied, the film suffers. Film= s that have won Pentagon approval include Armageddon, Air Force One, The Jac= kal, Top Gun, Pearl Harbour and Bad Company. Some movies that didn't make th= e grade: The Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, Sgt Bilko, Platoon, Independence= Day and Spy Game. (Duncan Campbell, "Top Gun versus Sergeant Bilko?," <I>Th= e Guardian</I>, 8-29-01.) </P> <P><B>Goodfellas </B></P> <P>The national security-entertainment complex is as driven by greed as it i= s hypocrisy, so on September 15, 2000, the <I>New York Post</I> reported: "B= USH MADE BUNDLE ON MOVIE VIOLENCE." President Bush has scolded panderers of=20= film violence and is given to public pronouncements that there should be "a=20= sense of urgency in our society about the pervasiveness of violence" (exclud= ing the current spate of gory war movies, of course -- these he applauds). "= I think it starts with reminding moms and dads that they've got to be mindfu= l of the games and movies and music that their children are listening to." M= ost moms and dads had no idea that, for ten years, moralist Bush sat on the=20= board of Silver Screen Management Co., a company operated by New York busine= ssman Roland Betts, a fellow Skull & Bones frat brother. Silver Screen h= as financed a score of R-rated flicks, including The Hitcher, a bloodfest. B= ush joined the board of SS in 1983 and was a director until 1993, when he pl= anned his candidacy for the Texas governor's office. Bush received over $100= ,000 in directors' fees and bonuses from the firm. </P> <P>In the last election cycle, Bush's starched supporters regaled Al Gore fo= r his friendship with Pulp Fiction producer Harvey Weinstein, and soliciting= campaign funds in Hollywood. They selectively forgot that Colin Powell sat=20= on the corporate board of Time-Warner before his appointment to the State De= partment. Time-Warner Cable offers hardcore pornography. In 1992, the ultra-= conservative American Family Association named Time-Warner "the third leadin= g sponsor of sex, violence and profanity on broadcast TV." (Robert Peters, "= Time Warner Still a Major Cultural Polluter," Morality in Media Web Site: <F= ONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.moralityinmedia.o= rg/index.htm?mediaIssues/timewarn.htm">http://www.moralityinmedia.org/index.= htm?mediaIssues/timewarn.htm</A></FONT>.) </P> <P>Martin Kaplan, a former speechwriter and Disney executive, allowed at a r= ecent news conference that between Hollywood and Washington, "there's a comb= ination of distrust and affection. There has been the culture-wars side of i= t, but there's also been quite a passionate relationship with legislative ou= tcomes. They understand each other in a fundamental way." (Doug Saunders, "F= ilms of War," <I>Globe and Mail,</I> 11-17-01) </P> <P>This intimacy was conspicuous when screenwriter E. Howard Hunt was tapped= for spy duty. It was conspicuous in 1952, when Actors' Guild president Rona= ld Reagan was recruited by the Crusade for Freedom, a CIA front, to star in=20= a series of televised appeals for viewer donations to resettle East European= Nazi collaborators -- "freedom fighters," Reagan said -- in the U.S. (John=20= Loftus, <I>The Belarus Secret,</I> New York: Knopf, 1982, pp. 107-41.) </P> <P>And it was conspicuous twenty years later at the world premiere of The Go= dfather, an event attended by then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Rober= t Evans, the film's producer, a Kissinger crony, had known Mafia ties -- his= attorney was Sidney Korshak, the legendary West Coast mob fixer -- but this= didn't deter the world's most prominent war criminal. Evans writes in his m= emoirs that when Kissinger arrived at the screening, the paparazzi "became s= o unruly that extra police were called in to physically push them back." </P= > <P>A reporter shouted, "Dr. Kissinger, why are you here tonight?" </P> <P>Kissinger croaked with a grin, "I was forced." </P> <P>"By who?" </P> <P>"By Bobby." </P> <P>The theater's lights dimmed, the theme rose, Evans gushed: "my whole life= seemed to pass before me. Here, sitting between Henry and Ali [McGraw], wat= ching this epic unfold, I felt that everything my life was about had led up=20= to this moment." (Robert Evans, <I>The Kid Stays in the Picture,</I> London:= Aurum Press, 1994, pp. 9-10.) </P> <P>The mutual admiration was still evident in November, 2001 when senior Whi= te House advisor Karl Rove and several dozen studio executives met in Beverl= y Hills to discuss the war on terrorism. "It's important to hear what Hollyw= ood has on its mind," Bush administration spokesman Ari Fleisher explained a= t a daily press briefing. The names Bill Maher, Oliver Stone, Warren Beatty=20= or Larry Flynt did not come up. </P> <P>The thoughtful movie moguls represented CBS, HBO, MGM, Showtime, Dreamwor= ks, Viacom and other multinational cartel dream factories. The <I>New York T= imes</I> assured, "several executives emphasized ... that they were not inte= rested in making propaganda films." CNN mentioned that MPAA president Jack V= alenti, head of the Motion Picture Association, "hoped the White House repre= sentatives weren't planning `to tell us what kind of movies to make.'" Rove=20= wanted "concrete information, told with honesty and specificity and integrit= y." But most reports of the closed meeting note that "patriotic" movies were= the topic of discussion. The studio executives offered to turn out flicks i= n the tradition of Why We Fight, a documentary made during World War II, and= The Battle of San Pietro; they also committed to public service projects on= biological terrorism and "homeland security." (Rick Lyman, "White House Set= s Meeting with Film Executives to Discuss War on Terrorism," <I>New York Tim= es,</I> 11-8-01.) Among the volunteers to the war effort, count directors Da= vid Fincher (Fight Club), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich) and Randal Klei= ser (Grease), and Die Hard screenwriter Steven E. De Souza. </P> <P>Never mind that Hollywood was already tummy-tuck deep in the propaganda b= iz. A few days before Rove's summit, actor Tom Cruise met with CIA officials= to discuss ways of burnishing the agency's image in the upcoming Mission: I= mpossible 3. (Editorial, "Unease over Hollywood Washington pact," <I>Guardia= n Unlimited,</I> November 14, 2001.) Truth is, the nation's political and en= tertainment capitals had been on intimate terms for decades when the studio=20= moguls issued their denials. </P> <P>"For many years," Canadian media critic Doug Saunders writes, "Hollywood'= s most prominent products, its major studio films and TV series, have been a= lmost indistinguishable from government-funded propaganda. With rare excepti= ons, whenever men in uniform appear on-screen, Hollywood has been singing Wa= shington's song from the beginning." The grave flaws in American foreign pol= icy "may loom large in history, but 50 years of cinema and TV have painted [= the CIA and DoD] in bright and unmottled hues." And reaped immense profits w= ith their art: CIA expenditures alone on propaganda during the Cold War ran=20= to hundreds of millions of dollars each year. (Alex Constantine, <I>And Now=20= a Word from Our Sponsor -- the CIA, Virtual Government</I>) "If Bush were to= erect a soundstage on the White House lawn, he could not do a better job ge= tting the official line across than movies and TV shows have been doing for=20= years." (Saunders) </P> <P>Two years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency opened its headquarters to= Showtime and Paramount for the making of In the Company of Spies. The progr= am aired on Showtime. To celebrate the completion of this collaborative proj= ect, the CIA's George Tenet invited everyone involved to a private screening= at CIA headquarters in Langley. "The CIA's objectives were clear," screenwr= iter Roger Towne told the Associated Press. "They hoped to see a human face=20= put on the agency and we had just the story to do it." ("Hollywood Whores fo= r Washington," <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.= xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antiDrug.html">http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-0= 8-feb00/antiDrug.html</A></FONT> and <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2>= <A href=3D"http://www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antidrugCont.html";>http:/= /www.xmag.com/archives/7-08-feb00/antidrugCont.html</A></FONT>) This is an a= gency, mind you, with two faces, an international Gestapo that has trained d= eath squads around the globe, assassinated a score of foreign leaders, plott= ed coups, conducted illicit human experimentation, peddled LSD, sprayed dise= ase on Cuban crops, dragged the country into Vietnam, created bin Laden, etc= . Tenet boasted that the movie "portray[s] us in a good light, and I want th= e American people to know the values we believe in." </P> <P>"Never," noted the <I>Washington Post,</I> "has the CIA so fully embraced= a movie." (Vernon Loeb, "The CIA's Operation Hollywood," <I>Washington Post= ,</I> October 14, 1999, Page C-1.) </P> <P>The Langley-Hollywood romance began during World War II, when the Office=20= of Strategic Services (the nascent CIA) and a Disney make-up artist designed= disguise kits for agents on jungle assignment. In the postwar period, make-= up artists were also recruited for the start-up of Studio Six Productions, a= full-fledged CIA front complete with business cards, an office, movie poste= rs and trade ads. Studio Six was run by John Chambers, who won an Academy Aw= ard for his make-up wizardry in Planet of the Apes, his partner Tom Burman a= nd the CIA's Tony Mendez. (Robert P. Laurence, "Into the Shadows: The CIA in= Hollywood," television review, <I>San Diego Union-Tribune,</I> 12-04-01.) <= /P> <P>The CIA, soiled by a half century of PR disasters, hired Chase Brandon, a= 26-year veteran paramilitary officer with experience "all over Latin Americ= a" -- also a cousin of actor Tommy Lee Jones, Al Gore's college roommate --=20= in 1996 to fill the newly-created position of Entertainment Liaison Officer.= "The popular image of us is of some kind of rogue organization creating may= hem and madness on a whim," Brandon told the press a week prior to the World= Trade Center air assaults. "We hate to see ugly imagery of us in television= and films." </P> <P>Brandon's office was conceived on December 20, 1991 by the "Task Force on= Greater CIA Openness" in a study undertaken at the request of then CIA dire= ctor Robert Gates, a Bush, Sr. appointee, and immediately classified, though= a few copies were leaked. The report proposed an image upgrade to neutraliz= e public hostility. The task force was in "substantial agreement that we gen= erally need to make the institution and the process more visible and underst= andable rather than strive for openness on specific substantive issues." For= get openness, the Openness Task Force advised. The report "seems to recommen= d no real change in attitude," complained <I>The Excluded Middle,</I> an ant= i-CIA Internet site, "only in the way that the agency presents itself to a h= ostile or at least an indifferent public." The authors of the report boast a= rrogantly that the CIA's Public Affairs Office (PAO) censored and had buried= projects that it found objectionable in the past. Chase Brandon hails from=20= the PAO. Contact with "every major wire service, newspaper, news weekly, and= television network in the nation" was advised by the panel. The result was=20= the Entertainment Liaison Office. (Anonymous, "CIA MEMO ON GREATER OPENNESS=20= REVEALS CONTRADICTIONS," <I>Excluded Middle,</I> <FONT face=3Darial,helvetic= a size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.elfis.net/tem/ciaduh.htm";>http://www.elfis= .net/tem/ciaduh.htm</A></FONT>) </P> <P>The CIA's PR campaign was calculated to convince viewers that programs li= ke The Agency on CBS -- praised by Brandon for portraying "the bravery and d= ecency of the men and women who work here" -- were true-to-life. Wolfgang Pe= terson, an executive producer of the spook show, observes that Americans "ar= e questioning whether we need a CIA, and this is a great opportunity to get=20= the word out." With CIA oversight, of course. Michael Frost Beckner, creator= of series, worked closely with Brandon and submitted the product for Agency= approval. (Duncan Campbell, "Hollywood helps CIA come in from the cold," <I= >The Guardian,</I> September 6, 2001.) The premiere episode of The Agency fe= atured agents thwarting a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, a smoke-belching= storyline fit for Rupert Murdoch's delusional Fox cable channel, or perhaps= Nickelodeon. </P> <P>A plausible script was suggested by <I>Guardian</I> media critic John Pat= terson: "Think of a movie that chronicles the fortunes of a secretive, murde= rous, criminal organization, deeply prone to the pathologies of masculinity=20= and paranoia, all seen over the course of four decades with excess followed=20= by hubris followed by dead reckoning. The CIA awaits its version of Goodfell= as." (John Patterson, "The Caring, Sharing CIA," <I>The Guardian,</I> Octobe= r 5, 2001.) A working title for this version might be: </P> <P><B>"Indecent Exposure" </B></P> <P>The raw material for a true-life CIA classic already exists in the life a= nd untimely death of Hollywood scriptwriter Gary Devore (The Dogs of War, Ra= w Deal). In the early morning hours of June 28, 1997, Devore drove his SUV o= ff the highway near Palmdale, California, plunged into the California Aquedu= ct and drowned, Chappaquiddick-style. It wasn't a blowout. He didn't nod off= at the wheel. Shortly before the fatal plunge, Devore bragged to his wife b= y cell phone that he was wide awake, riding on "adrenaline" because he was h= ard at work on the final draft of Solo, a film script about the military occ= upation of Panama, and was headed for their beach home in Santa Barbara to c= omplete it. The body would not be found for over a year. </P> <P>In the meantime, his disappearance summoned up a multitude of conspiracy=20= theories, including CIA assassination. Wendy Devore, his wife, still conside= rs this the most likely explanation and ignores the snickers of the press. H= er husband wrote spy thrillers for the screen and had intelligence contacts.= Police found a surveillance wire hidden in a bedroom drawer. Devore disappe= ared in the Antelope Valley, on the outskirts of Palmdale, a CIA enclave. An= d shortly after the writer went missing, the Agency's Chase Brandon popped u= p at the house to request private access to the scriptwriter's office and co= mputer -- as though the spook had good reason to believe that Devore, then o= fficially a missing person, was dead. (Ivor Davis and Sally Ogle Davis, "Dis= appearing Act: A Big Comeback...A Big Mystery," <I>E-Online,</I> <FONT face= =3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.eonline.com/Features/Spec= ials/Screenwriter/Three/index3.html">http://www.eonline.com/Features/Special= s/Screenwriter/Three/index3.html</A></FONT>) </P> <P>In July, 1998 Devore's Explorer was hauled from the aqueduct. The driver'= s window was down. "He must have been unconscious when he hit the water," sh= e told reporters. "Otherwise, if the window was open, why couldn't he get ou= t?" From the start, police have refused, despite Wendy's pleas, to investiga= te the case properly. </P> <P>The <I>Los Angeles Times</I> reported on June 29, 1998 that Devore made f= requent calls over a period of several weeks before vanishing to "a longtime= friend," Chase Brandon, "at the CIA in Langley, Va., to ask him about the U= .S. invasion of Panama, former Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and about= Noriega's involvement in drugs and money-laundering." Brandon: "I remember=20= talking to him about a lot of elements of Panama and Noriega's regime and th= e drug money that Noriega was alleged to have had stashed in safes in his of= fices and that's the money that, in his script [Solo], soldiers stumble acro= ss and steal. From that, we sort of drifted off and sort of talked about U.S= . counter-narcotics programs in general. I may have mentioned a couple thing= s about the agency's role in providing increased U.S. intelligence efforts t= o provide support to U.S. law enforcement." </P> <P>On May 6, 1997, Devore made a note in his day-planner: "Undersecretary fo= r int'l narcotics makers. Chase [name crossed out]. Crime and Narcotics Cent= er. CNC. Largest center in CIA. Espionage agents work with local police, gov= 't, etc. Do cover work on problems locals won't handle. Airfields, burn labs= , fuel storage." </P> <P>Chase Brandon snickers at conspiracy theories, but offered the <I>Times</= I> one of his own: "Gary was one of those people who met a horrible, tragic=20= quirk of fate. He was simply victimized by people who wanted that car." (Rob= ert W. Welkos, "Without a Trace," <I>Los Angeles Times,</I> June 29, 1998.)=20= A conspiracy to steal a moving automobile on an open highway. Case closed. T= hen again, as filmmaker Barbara Trent (<I>The Panama Deception</I>) pointed=20= out to <I>The Colorado Daily</I> last year, a CIA spokesman is "paid a lot o= f money to lie. I mean, how many times do we have to learn that lesson?" (Te= rje Langeland, "Filmmaker to speak on media deception," <I>Colorado Daily,</= I> January 27, 2000, <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http:= //www.empowermentproject.org/codaily.htm">http://www.empowermentproject.org/= codaily.htm</A></FONT>) Gary Devore's death remains a mystery. </P> <P><B>The Manchurian Moviegoer </B></P> <P>The proliferation of pro-American films and television programs might be=20= described as a cynical mind control operation, a psyop. John Rendon, a "stra= tegic communications" firm hired by the Pentagon (at $100,000 a month) in th= e war on terrorism, describes himself as "an information warrior and a perce= ption manager." (Jeff Stein, "Propaganda, the Pentagon, and the Rendon Group= ," <I>TomPaine.Com</I> <FONT face=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"htt= p://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/5188">http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cf= m/ID/5188</A></FONT>) </P> <P>Perception management is the mission, under a $45 million Army grant, of=20= the Institute for Creative Technologies, an interactive virtual-reality warf= are simulation center and think-tank in Marina Del Rey, operated by the Univ= ersity of Southern California. Richard Lindheim, former vice president of Pa= ramount Television Group, is executive director of the center. The keynote a= ddress at the ITC's opening in 1999 was delivered by Jack Valenti, who obser= ved in his opening remarks, "Los Angeles is not the entertainment capital of= the world. Washington, DC is the entertainment capital of the world!" </P> <P>James Der Derian, director of the Information Technology, War and Peace P= roject (ITWP), was sitting in the audience at the ITC's opening in 1999. "I=20= did not want to rain on the parade," he wrote in an ITWP newsletter, but had= to ask "whether the linking up of Hollywood and the Pentagon might not repe= at the World War II experience, when training films were mixed with propagan= da films, and military simulations became a tool for public dissimulation?"=20= </P> <P>Valenti came back with a response that "made up in pugnacity what it lack= ed in nuance." The MPAA president "contrasted my view to the decision to dro= p the atomic bomb on the Japanese. `Some might have seen that as a heartless= and terrible thing to do, but not the 150,000 American boys whose lives wou= ld have been lost. This is a lesson in Philosophy 101 that I am giving to yo= u right now.'" But Der Derian came away with another lesson: "Valenti, like=20= many in power today, are all too ready to drop the bomb on dissident viewpoi= nts." Death on the battlefield or simulated on the screen "gives war its spe= cial status. This fact can be censored, hidden in a body bag, air-brushed aw= ay, but it provides, even in its erasure, the corporal gravitas of war. Howe= ver, everything I witnessed that day at the ICT was dedicated to the disappe= arance of the body, the aestheticizing of violence, the sanitization of war.= Will this latest alliance of brass, silicon and celluloid be any different?= It would seem not." (James Der Derian, "Dreams, Lies and Video Tapes," <I>I= NFOintervention,</I> Watson Institute Web site, December 18, 2001, <FONT fac= e=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://www.watsoninstitute.org/info= peace/911/jdd_videos.html">http://www.watsoninstitute.org/infopeace/911/jdd_= videos.html</A></FONT>) </P> <P>Sanitizing war is the primary aim of the patriotizing media. When the bom= bs began to fall in Afghanistan, killing and mutilating innocent civilians,=20= a policy of suppressing the body count (or "propaganda") was adopted by Dona= ld "Precision Bombing" Rumsfeld and the government's "information warriors."= In Hollywood, self-censorship is the rule. Rarely have the Feds had reason=20= to step in and silence the studios by threat of force. (A rare exception was= an episode of Murphy Brown concerning the medical benefits of marijuana --=20= DEA Director Thomas Constantine threatened a "criminal investigation" of the= program. See "Pushing propaganda", from the About website, 7/17/00, <FONT f= ace=3Darial,helvetica size=3D-2><A href=3D"http://civilliberty.about.com/lib= rary/weekly/aa071700a.htm?iam=3Ddpile&terms=3Dcia+propaganda+movies">htt= p://civilliberty.about.com/library/weekly/aa071700a.htm?iam=3Ddpile&term= s=3Dcia+propaganda+movies</A></FONT>) </P> <P>Nevertheless, an atmosphere of aggression and fear has fostered an indust= ry, argues <I>San Francisco Examiner</I> film critic Michael Ryan, "in which= ideology predominates and contrary voices are silenced. What happens when s= omeone wants to make a film about Abdul Nabi and his family, Afghans who wer= e forced to become refugees when U.S. bombs killed 28 people in nearby villa= ges?" The managers of perception will interpret such a storyline "as `stupid= meddling,' and `should be stifled.'" ("Unease over Hollywood-Washington pac= t," <I>Guardian Unlimited,</I> November 14, 2001.) </P> <P>On Black Tuesday, the national security cult's pentagram was breached by=20= a jetliner, the demons of mass persuasion set loose. Until the exorcist arri= ves, expect generous servings of "heroism," "sacrifice," "mass murder," and=20= "hatred for America" at the matinee. </P><BR><FONT face=3Darial,helvetica si= ze=3D-1>=A9 2002 Alex Constantine </FONT></BODY></HTML> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From 1999 to 2001, the "Able Danger" group used data mining to collect huge=20= amounts of information about individuals connected to al-Qaida.<BR>But after= Shaffer tried to team Special Operations Command with the FBI to closer scr= utinize suspected terrorists, the Pentagon blocked the effort, Weldon and Sh= affer told The Times Herald in June.<BR>Shaffer was a DIA liaison working wi= th "Able Danger" team members Capt. Scott Phillpott and James D. Smith, a de= fense contractor, and others. The three men were barred by the Defense Depar= tment from testifying at the September hearing.<BR>Another defense contracto= r employee, Bob Johnson, who worked for Raytheon, also claims to have indepe= ndently identified Atta prior to the terrorist attacks while working on a da= ta-mining project for his former employer, the congressman said.<BR>This is=20= the sixth person to corroborate Shaffer's claim that Atta was identified pri= or to the Sept. 11 attacks.<BR>The congressman charged that a former 9/11 Co= mmission staff member, Dieter Snell, deliberately passed up information on "= Able Danger." The operation was not included in the commission's final repor= t published in July 2004.<BR>Snell purposely held back information given to=20= him by Phillpott, the former "Able Danger" team leader, 10 days before the 9= /11 Commission report was published to deflect criticism from his colleague,= 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick, Weldon said.<BR>He said the truth would e= ventually come out.<BR>"I know there's going to be egg on the face of the 9/= 11 Commission," Weldon said.<BR>Gorelick, who worked in the U.S. Justice Dep= artment during the Clinton Administration, is blamed for creating a legal "w= all" that previously prevented law enforcement and intelligence agencies fro= m sharing information on suspected terrorists.<BR>"There's a cover up here,"= Weldon said. "It's clear and unequivocal."<BR>In August, Gorelick called We= ldon's office leaving the message. <BR>"I've done nothing wrong," according=20= to Weldon.<BR>The DIA has attempted to discredit Shaffer by revealing that h= e violated Pentagon policy by making improper phone calls and submitting que= stionable travel expenses, Weldon said. These alleged violations have been d= isputed.<BR>"I'm convinced that the DIA does not want this story told intact= ," he said.<BR>As well, the agency said the 42-year-old reservist had stolen= government pens. Though true, it turned out this occurred about 27 years ag= o when Shaffer's father worked in an overseas embassy. At the time, Shaffer=20= was 15 years old.<BR>Recently, the DIA sent Shaffer a box of his effects tha= t included classified information, which is a violation of U.S. law, Weldon=20= said. By this time, Shaffer's security clearance had been revoked. The box a= lso included someone else's mail and a box of pens. <BR><STRONG>Last week at= a meeting of DIA attaches from around the world held in Tampa, Fla., Weldon= said, an official told the group it was <EM>the defense agency's top priori= ty</EM> to <U>kill </U><EM>the "Able Danger" inquiry</EM>.<BR></STRONG>"The=20= reason they're after (Shaffer) so aggressively is that he will embarrass peo= ple from the (Clinton) administration and perhaps this (Bush) administration= ," he said.</DIV> <DIV class=3D"story">=A0</DIV> <DIV class=3D"story"><BR><E= M>Keith Phucas can be reached at <A href=3D"mailto:kphucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";>= kphucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx</A> or 610-272-2500, ext. 211.</EM></DIV></BLOCKQUOT= E></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! 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CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From <a href=3D"http://valis.cjb.cc/"; target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return t= op.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><i>Awoken Research Group</i> </a>: <b= lockquote>"<span style=3D""><li> <b><a href=3D"http://www.google.com/s= earch?hl=3Den&q=3Dwtc+rooftop+helicopter+rescue" target=3D"_blank" oncl= ick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> WTC rooftop helicopter rescue further shows media fell asleep on 9/11 and = never woke up</a></b><center><img src=3D"http://www.cjb.cc/members/valis/pi= cs/helicopter.jpg"></center><p><small>Clearly visible in the film <i><a hre= f=3D"http://www.911eyewitness.com/"; target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top= .js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> 9/11 Eyewitness</a></i> is the success of the fourth rooftop helicopter re= scue attempt. However...</small></p><p> </p></li><li><small> <a href=3D"ht= tp://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/12/19/usat-escape.htm" target=3D"_bl= ank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> USA TODAY:</a> "A helicopter rescue was not possible: The rooftop doo= rs were locked, and the roof was smothered in smoke." </small><p> </p>= </li><li><small> <a href=3D"http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/attack/ev= es_firefighters.htm" target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink= (window,event,this)"> WTC7.NET:</a></small><blockquote><small>The plan was developed after the 1993 WTC bombing and it envisioned possible roof-top rescues that would involve two police helicopters carrying rescue companies from the FDNY. A battalion chief would ride in one of the helicopters, equipped with a police radio that would tie him into an Emergency Services Division police officer that would respond immediately to fire commanders in the lobby of the building. <b>Tha= t never happened on 9/11</b> because the fire commanders were unable to rea= ch the Fire Dispatcher on the department radio to trigger the rescue plan= .=20 </small></blockquote><center><small><img src=3D"http://www.cjb.cc/members/v= alis/pics/helicopter2.jpg"></small></center><small>This furthers the eyewit= ness descriptions of some of the fourteen+ helicopters as having military = origins. </small><p> <small><small>Related Video: <img src=3D"http://www.libertythi= nk.com/video.gif" align=3D"middle"> <a href=3D"http://plaguepuppy.net/publi= c_html/video%20archive/911%20-%20wtc%20-%20images%20from%20helicopter%20-%2= 0new%20release.asf" target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(= window,event,this)"> Inside the NYPD helicopter</a> | <img src=3D"http://www.libertythink.com/vi= deo.gif" align=3D"middle"> <a href=3D"http://www.terrorize.dk/911/wtc2dem9/= 911.wtc.2.demolition.northwest.new.jersey.1.wmv" target=3D"_blank" onclick= =3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> What are these two doing?</a></small></small></p><p> <small> Now back to y= our regular scheduled programming. </small></p></li></span><br>-----</bloc= kquote><span class=3D"sg"> <br></span><br>-- <br><a href=3D"http://www.tota= l411.info"> www.total411.info</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.total911.info";>www.total911.= info</a> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. <p> Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D From this point of view, there can be only one locus of power in America:= The=20 Chief Executive. The time-honored "checks and balances" between the three= =20 branches of government, under Bush&Co., are no longer valid -- they're so= rt of=20 "quaint," to borrow Gonzales' term about the Geneva Conventions.=20 The Judicial Branch is either frozen out of the equation where possible, = or=20 packed with like-minded HardRight ideologues who believe in Executive=20 dominance. The Legislative branch is run pretty much by the GOP leadershi= p as an=20 appendage to the White House's political agenda, with the Democrats (made= to seem=20 "unpatriotic" if they question Bush's war and torture policies and the li= ke)=20 shuffled off into a backwater, with no real power or influence. The=20 corporate-owned mainstream media, the Fourth Estate, which normally would= be the public's=20 watchdog over legislative and executive perfidy, seems content to play la= pdog=20 instead. =20 AN END-AROUND THE JUDICIARY On those rare occasions when the Judicial and/or Legislative branches sta= nd=20 up and assert their rightful place in the checks-and-balance system of=20 government, the Bush Administration finds ways to go around whatever rest= rictions are=20 placed on Executive power. Let's take three recent examples: 1. After 9/11, the Bush Administration, exercising what amounts to=20 police-state powers, began rounding up terrorist suspects -- including Am= erican citizens=20 -- and throwing them in prisons without recourse to any judicial review, = or=20 even contact with an attorney. Several years later, the U.S. Supreme Cour= t=20 finally received a case about such authoritarian treatment of detainees, = and=20 ordered the Administration to grant the prisoners access to the court sys= tem where=20 they could challenge the legality of their incarceration. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was as blunt about the Administration's illeg= al=20 misbehavior as could be imagined -- and she's a staunch conservative: The= =20 court, she wrote in reference to American citizen Yaser Hamdi, '''made cl= ear that a=20 state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the=20 rights of the nation's citizens."' The response of the Bush Administration to the detainee decision was, in=20 effect, to ignore the court's order. Promises were made, some papers were= =20 shuffled, etc., but in practice not much changed. Some prisoners, who had= been=20 imprisoned for several years ("the worst of the worst," we were assured w= hen they=20 were first incarcerated), were released as not being threats after all. F= ew have=20 had their day in court in Bush's military tribunals, and attorneys furnis= hed=20 them by the Administration have denounced the process as pretty much of a= fixed=20 farce. Lower courts, packed with Bush appointees, have been supportive, a= nd=20 the Administration is hoping that with two new justices appointed to the=20 Supreme Court -- who will support wide-sweeping Executive power during "w= artime" --=20 the original Hamdi ruling will be overturned. If that were to happen, fas= cism=20 would have come full flower in America. =20 THE TORTURE ESCAPE HATCHES 2. Last week, facing rebellion in his own GOP ranks and a united Democrat= ic=20 opposition, Bush seemed to cave on the McCain Amendment that would put th= e U.S.=20 officially on record as not permitting torture to be carried out on priso= ners=20 in U.S. care. Politically it was, on the surface, a major humiliation for= =20 Bush, who had vigorously opposed the McCain Amendment and threatened to v= eto any=20 legislation to which it was attached. McCain came off looking good, but, in reality, he'd been outmaneuvered by= =20 Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Bush agreed to McCain's language because that trio already had neutered t= he=20 impact of the amendment. They were able to carve out enough legalistic wi= ggle=20 room to permit the continuation of torture, without much fear of politica= l or=20 judicial retribution. For example, those who reasonably believe they are following lawful order= s=20 would be permitted to continue their "enhanced" interrogation methods. (I= t's the=20 old "I was only following orders" ploy -- a defense used by Nazi=20 war-criminals that was disallowed at the Nuremburg Tribunals.)=20 Note that the McCain amendment said nothing about the ongoing practice of= =20 "extraordinary renditions" to countries allied with the U.S. where tortur= es of=20 high-level suspects are carried out for the Bush Administration. 3. Finally, McCain and others tied their ban-on-torture amendment to the=20 well-respected Army Field Manual that carefully defines what constitutes=20 acceptable (and successful) interrogation methods and what would go over = the line into=20 abuse and torture. Pulling the rug out from under McCain, Rumsfeld simply= had=20 the Army Field Manual rewritten to permit "harsh" interrogation methods -= - and=20 stamped the descriptions of what is now permissible with a "classified"=20 label, to prohibit quoting from them. (An unnamed Pentagon official sugge= sted that=20 the alteration of the Field Manual was designed to be "a stick in McCain'= s=20 eye.")=20 As in all things, he who controls the dictionary controls the world. Tort= ure=20 now means what the Bush Administration says it means, so there -- unless=20 enough ruckus can be generated to get them to back off. (Assistant Defens= e=20 Secretary Stephen Cambone still has to approve the final Field Manual lan= guage.) In short, thanks to Bush & Friends, U.S. torture is alive and well, despi= te=20 the reasonable words that appear on a no-torture amendment overwhelmingly= =20 ratified by Congress. Needless to say, the Bush Administration's torture = practices=20 are the best recruiting tool for Muslim extremists, doing great damage to= =20 America's long-term national security.=20 =20 IMPEACHMENT AS AN URGENT NECESSITY Momentum is moving against the Bush Administration as more and more=20 indictments are delivered against key aides and supporters in the innumer= able scandals.=20 (You may wonder why so few Democrats are being indicted. Early on, Bush&C= o.=20 made sure that the Democrats were frozen out of the power loop, therefore= the=20 big-money lobbyists and bribers went to the locus of power -- i.e., to th= e=20 Republicans.)=20 Since we don't have official "votes of no-confidence" in our system of=20 government, electorally we have to wait until November 2006 to get the Re= publicans=20 out of power in the House so that impeachment hearings can begin, and in = the=20 Senate, so that a possible conviction can be obtained. (All this pre-supp= oses=20 that we finally get an honest, verified voting system in place, with no m= ore=20 outsourcing of vote-counting to partisan corporations, in this case=20 Republican-supporting, who use secret coding and who easily can manipulat= e the=20 tally-results.) But non-electoral solutions are available: So much citizen pressure could be put on Democratic and Republican=20 incumbents, anxious to preserve their jobs, that they will vote to initia= te impeachment=20 hearings in the next few months. Certainly, there are enough grounds to=20 justify, at the least, calling for impeachment hearings in the House: the= felonious=20 outing by Administration officials of a CIA agent for political reasons,=20 Bush's unlawful order to the NSA to spy on U.S. citizens inside the count= ry,=20 commiting perjury before Congress to obtain authorization for war on Iraq= -- well,=20 those will do for starters. There are no shortages of willful "high crime= s and=20 misdemeanors" in Bushland. =20 Or, another option, perhaps a bit more fanciful at the moment, though per= haps=20 more realistic next year: Republican corporate and political leaders will= see=20 the handwriting on the wall -- and the long-term effects on the economy o= f=20 keeping the disgraced, corrupt Bush regime in power -- and urge Bush and = Cheney=20 to resign, for the good of the party and the country.=20 So our job now, as I see it, is first to supply energy and political cove= r to=20 the Democrats, Independents and traditional Republicans who want to see t= he=20 reckless reign of Bush&Co. ended, while we're moving the impeachment ball= =20 forward day by day by leaning on our opinion-makers and elected officials= to start=20 the process of transformation back to a government of which we can once a= gain=20 be proud.=20 If this takes massive civil disobedience to convince the elected official= s=20 that the citizenry is serious, and that they may be ousted at the ballot = box if=20 they don't challenge Bush's crimes, so be it. 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Bush,</A> December 18, 2000<BR>(during his first=20= trip to Washington <BR>as President-Elect) </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></D= IV> <P><BR>It's clear that Bush violated the law by ordering the National Securi= ty Agency to engage in warrantless domestic spying on U.S. citizens. So, onc= e again, I have a question for those who, perhaps somewhat reluctantly, vote= d for George Bush: NOW do you get it?</P> <P>I posed that <A href=3D"http://www.crisispapers.org/essays-w/getitnow.htm= ">same question</A> several months ago, in the wake of the stupendous Bush A= dministration incompetency that left thousands dead and homeless after Katri= na hit the Gulf Coast. Now more and more facts are being revealed (about spy= ing, torturing, lying) that should make it obvious that those residing in th= e White House are not only bunglers on a grand scale but dangerous to the cu= rrent and future health of our democratic republic. They should be impeached= and removed ASAP before they take us all down with them. </P> <P>We already knew how they lied and deceived the citizenry into supporting=20= a war against a country that was weak, contained, posing little or no immine= nt threat to any of its neighbors, and certainly not to the United States. (= Recent polls indicate that nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the war wa= s a mistake and the figures are steadily rising for those who think the troo= ps should be brought home as soon as possible.) We already knew how the Bush= Administration had effectively turned over environmental and public-health=20= regulation to the polluting industries and drug companies. </P> <P>But these new revelations about secretly ordering warrantless domestic sp= ying is, as one senator said, an "astounding" violation of how America works= as a country of laws.</P> <P>How could this have happened in a free society? The reasons are many and=20= varied, including a corporate-owned mass media that knew a lot more than it=20= was telling the public. But before we get to the spying and torture scandals= -- and the twisted legal reasoning that Bush&Co. use to justify their v= iolating laws whenever they feel like it -- here's my abbreviated chronologi= cal take on how we got to this awful place:<BR> </P> <P><B>THE "OPPORTUNITY" AFFORDED BY 9/11</B></P> <P>One could begin with the reasonable presumption that plans for various Ad= ministration moves -- taking control of oil abroad, invading Iraq, packing t= he courts with HardRight judges, neutering the Democratic party, etc. -- wer= e being discussed by Bush&Co. even before the election of 2000. But so m= uch of that was secret.</P> <P>Let's start with something more public: the tragic events of 9/11. The Bu= sh Administration may not have known the details of those terrorist attacks=20= -- the date, time, and exact targets -- but a barrage of intelligence report= s were coming into the White House in the Spring and Summer of 2001 from all= ies around the globe that a "spectacular" event was about to be launched by=20= al-Qaida on the U.S. mainland. </P> <P>In the Presidential Daily Briefing of August 6, titled "Bin Laden Determi= ned to Strike in U.S.," Bush was told that the FBI had found evidence of "pa= tterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations f= or hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of fe= deral buildings in New York....CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to o= ur embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of bin Laden supporters was= in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives." (The Bush Administration app= arently ignored intelligence gained after the 1993 attack on the World Trade= Center indicating that the terrorists wanted to use airplanes to strike gov= ernment buildings in Washington.)</P> <P>Given the urgent warnings from foreign governments along with this PDB, t= he logical, intelligent, professional thing for Bush to do would be to summo= n all his key military, intel and emergency-preparedness advisors and figure= out how to disrupt the impending attacks. What did Bush and his colleagues=20= do? Absolutely nothing. They chose to look the other way. Nearly three thous= and innocents died.</P> <P>On the morning of the attack, what did Bush do? Absolutely nothing. He sa= t there with those elementary-school students, and took photos with the teac= her and kids, even after his chief-of-staff whispered in his ear that the se= cond tower had been hit and America was under attack. Normally, when there's= a possible threat to the president, the Secret Service is trained to surrou= nd the guy and whisk him immediately to safety; why was no such policy follo= wed here? Very strange indeed. </P> <P>What did Rumsfeld do at the Pentagon? Absolutely nothing. He was incommun= icado at a meeting in another part of the building when the Twin Towers were= hit and collapsed, and when the Pentagon was struck. He emerged only after=20= all the mass-murders had taken place.</P> <P>Whether all this behavior was simply evidence of utter confusion and/or t= otal incompetence (or, as some would have it, something more sinister) isn't= clear. The point is that the Bush Administration did nothing until after th= e attacks had transpired.</P> <P>A few days later, then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice told NS= C staffers that, given 9/11, the key question now was "how do you capitalize= on these opportunities" to fundamentally change American doctrine, and shap= e the world?..."It's important to try to seize on that and position American= interests and institutions," she said. </P> <P>In that sense, 9/11 was analogous to Pearl Harbor, freeing an administrat= ion to act boldly, both internally and abroad, in the face of enemy attacks.= Recall the telling quotation, referring to radical military reform, from a=20= 2000 Project for The New American Century report: '<I>"[T]he process of tran= sformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long o= ne, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor= ."</I>' Note: The HardRight founders of PNAC -- among them Dick Cheney, Dona= ld Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, Zalmay Khalilzad, et=20= al. -- a year later became those in charge of U.S foreign/military policy. <= /P> <P>Shortly after 9/11, deadly anthrax spores were mailed to media outlets an= d to Democratic leaders of Congress, causing additional fright and panic. No= body ever has been charged in the anthrax attacks; the spores were traced ba= ck to stock from the Army's Fort Detrick Biological Weapons Lab. </P> <P>Congress, which was shaken badly, didn't need much convincing to urgently= pass the so-called USA Patriot Act, even though virtually no members had th= e chance to read the final version from the White House. Large sections of t= he Patriot Act consisted of bills introduced by HardRight conservatives over= the years but which were rejected by earlier Congresses as far too violativ= e of civil liberties. (Four years later, finally, the Senate is standing up=20= for the Constitution, refusing to extend the worst aspects of the Patriot Ac= t.)</P> <P>In short, 9/11 gave the Bush Administration a green light to do whatever=20= it said was necessary to locate and destroy those responsible, and to block=20= future terrorists from doing damage to the U.S. again.</P> <P>But, as we learned years later, that wasn't all that the Bush Administrat= ion was engaged in.<BR> </P> <P><B>THE DOMESTIC SPYING SCANDAL</B></P> <P>The Bush crew claim that whatever seemingly shady actions they take are d= one to "protect Americans" from future terrorist attacks. For the sake of ar= gument, let's assume that they are acting out of those best intentions.</P> <P>Even if one were to give them the benefit of the doubt, why would they co= nstantly and consistently find it necessary to hide and disguise what they'r= e doing (even paying media types to publicize their spin) and to violate the= law and the Constitutional protections of due process? Why wouldn't they ex= plain what they're doing, why, and get Congress (with the GOP controlling bo= th houses) to pass the necessary authorizing legislation? And, most importan= tly, why would they do everything possible to ensure that the appropriate fe= deral courts would have no role in evaluating the legal correctness of their= approach? I'll provide an answer below, but first consider:</P> <P>Bush ordered the NSA to begin secret domestic spying, even though the 197= 8 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act restricts the NSA to spying abroad,=20= except in certain circumstances when the FISA court can OK a wiretap or what= ever. With Bush's secret order in hand, and the court in the dark, the NSA c= ould forget about seeking warrants for phone-taps, computer invasions, email= readings, and who knows what else (breaking&entering? sneak&peek bl= ack-bag jobs?).</P> <P>Alberto Gonzales, the Bush toady who then was White House Counsel (now At= torney General), devised a legal philosophy claiming that the President is p= ermitted to violate laws whenever he asserts he's acting as "commander-in-ch= ief" in "wartime." Since Bush unilaterally has declared that the U.S. is at=20= "war" -- a war with no foreseeable end against terrorists -- he feels he's h= ome free to do whatever he feels is required. (For more on this legal mumbo-= jumbo, see <A href=3D"http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/fascist.htm";>"No Ot= her Way to Say This: Torture Memos Reveal Fascist Mentality."</A></P> <P>So far as is known, the memos establishing this authoritarian legal strat= egy are still operative; indeed, Bush used the "commander-in-chief" rational= e in his most recent radio address and news conference when attempting to ju= stify his ordering the NSA to spy inside the country. To "protect the Americ= an people," Bush effectively said, I did it, I'll do it again, what are you=20= going to do about it? Gonzales likewise is pounding the theme that the presi= dent is acting legally when acting illegally. (When Richard Nixon tried to s= ell the president-is-above-the-law justification, the U.S. Supreme Court dis= missed that argument quickly.)<BR> </P> <P><B>"WE DON'T TORTURE" RE-DEFINED</B></P> <P>Similarly, to get around U.S. laws and international treaties against tor= ture, Gonzales and Rumsfeld's lawyers at the Pentagon, simply redefined tort= ure to mean causing either death or organ-failure; anything else, including=20= "waterboarding" (near-drowning) and beatings and shootings, pass the test. S= o, follow the reasoning here: If the interrogation doesn't kill the prisoner= or result in organ-failure, ipso facto it's not "torture," and Bush and Ric= e and the others can baldly assert that "we don't torture." (They have yet t= o explain the estimated 100+ or more deaths of detainees in U.S. care. Oops.= )</P> <P>Uncooperative high-value detainees are either spirited to secret CIA pris= ons around the globe for interrogation -- in Poland, Romania, North Africa,=20= etc. -- or are "rendered" to countries (Egypt being one) that are less squea= mish about inflicting excruciating pain. The CIA even has its own planes to=20= fly those suspects to the secret CIA prisons or to the "rendering" countries= .</P> <P>One could go on and on, but you get the central idea: The Bush Administra= tion believes itself to be, and acts in accordance with that belief, that it= is above the law, untouchable. By any definition, that is a dictatorship --= maybe not a total dictatorship, yet, but heading full-steam in that directi= on. </P> <P>And they're willing to draw the line in the political sand right now, mak= ing their stand in the face of a tidal-wave of revulsion and anger, probably= because they figure Karl Rove's in-your-face approach -- come and get me, c= opper! -- has worked in the past, so why not one more time? Besides, they ma= y figure that things are going to get worse for them months down the line, w= hen even more Republicans will desert them, so why not try to stanch the flo= w of impeachment talk now, while they still can call in their markers from t= he GOP faithful in Congress.<BR> </P> <P><B>IT'S THE P.N.A.C. PLAYBOOK</B></P> <P>This bullying, take-no-prisoners attitude, it should be noted, mirrors th= e philosophy behind the brazen foreign/military policy laid out by PNAC in 2= 000 and which became the official <A href=3D"http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/n= ss.html">National Security Strategy of the United States</A> two years later= : acting unilaterally, courting no competitors for power, steamrolling and d= estroying opposition by any and all means necessary.</P> <P>From this point of view, there can be only one locus of power in America:= The Chief Executive. The time-honored "checks and balances" between the thr= ee branches of government, under Bush&Co., are no longer valid -- they'r= e sort of "quaint," to borrow Gonzales' term about the Geneva Conventions. <= /P> <P>The Judicial Branch is either frozen out of the equation where possible,=20= or packed with like-minded HardRight ideologues who believe in Executive dom= inance. The Legislative branch is run pretty much by the GOP leadership as a= n appendage to the White House's political agenda, with the Democrats (made=20= to seem "unpatriotic" if they question Bush's war and torture policies and t= he like) shuffled off into a backwater, with no real power or influence. The= corporate-owned mainstream media, the Fourth Estate, which normally would b= e the public's watchdog over legislative and executive perfidy, seems conten= t to play lapdog instead.<BR> </P> <P><B>AN END-AROUND THE JUDICIARY</B></P> <P>On those rare occasions when the Judicial and/or Legislative branches sta= nd up and assert their rightful place in the checks-and-balance system of go= vernment, the Bush Administration finds ways to go around whatever restricti= ons are placed on Executive power. Let's take three recent examples:</P> <P>1. After 9/11, the Bush Administration, exercising what amounts to police= -state powers, began rounding up terrorist suspects -- including American ci= tizens -- and throwing them in prisons without recourse to any judicial revi= ew, or even contact with an attorney. Several years later, the U.S. Supreme=20= Court finally received a case about such authoritarian treatment of detainee= s, and ordered the Administration to grant the prisoners access to the court= system where they could challenge the legality of their incarceration.</P> <P>Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was as blunt about the Administration's illeg= al misbehavior as could be imagined -- and she's a staunch conservative: The= court, she wrote in reference to American citizen Yaser Hamdi, <I>'''made c= lear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it come= s to the rights of the nation's citizens."'</I></P> <P>The response of the Bush Administration to the detainee decision was, in=20= effect, to ignore the court's order. Promises were made, some papers were sh= uffled, etc., but in practice not much changed. Some prisoners, who had been= imprisoned for several years ("the worst of the worst," we were assured whe= n they were first incarcerated), were released as not being threats after al= l. Few have had their day in court in Bush's military tribunals, and attorne= ys furnished them by the Administration have denounced the process as pretty= much of a fixed farce. Lower courts, packed with Bush appointees, have been= supportive, and the Administration is hoping that with two new justices app= ointed to the Supreme Court -- who will support wide-sweeping Executive powe= r during "wartime" -- the original Hamdi ruling will be overturned. If that=20= were to happen, fascism would have come full flower in America.<BR> </P= > <P><B>THE TORTURE ESCAPE HATCHES</B></P> <P>2. Last week, facing rebellion in his own GOP ranks and a united Democrat= ic opposition, Bush seemed to cave on the McCain Amendment that would put th= e U.S. officially on record as not permitting torture to be carried out on p= risoners in U.S. care. Politically it was, on the surface, a major humiliati= on for Bush, who had vigorously opposed the McCain Amendment and threatened=20= to veto any legislation to which it was attached.</P> <P>McCain came off looking good, but, in reality, he'd been outmaneuvered by= Rove, Cheney and Rumsfeld.</P> <P>Bush agreed to McCain's language because that trio already had neutered t= he impact of the amendment. They were able to carve out enough legalistic wi= ggle room to permit the continuation of torture, without much fear of politi= cal or judicial retribution.</P> <P>For example, those who reasonably believe they are following lawful order= s would be permitted to continue their "enhanced" interrogation methods. (It= 's the old "I was only following orders" ploy -- a defense used by Nazi war-= criminals that was disallowed at the Nuremburg Tribunals.) </P> <P>Note that the McCain amendment said nothing about the ongoing practice of= "extraordinary renditions" to countries allied with the U.S. where tortures= of high-level suspects are carried out for the Bush Administration.</P> <P>3. Finally, McCain and others tied their ban-on-torture amendment to the=20= well-respected Army Field Manual that carefully defines what constitutes acc= eptable (and successful) interrogation methods and what would go over the li= ne into abuse and torture. Pulling the rug out from under McCain, Rumsfeld s= imply had the Army Field Manual rewritten to permit "harsh" interrogation me= thods -- and stamped the descriptions of what is now permissible with a "cla= ssified" label, to prohibit quoting from them. (An unnamed Pentagon official= suggested that the alteration of the Field Manual was designed to be "a sti= ck in McCain's eye.") </P> <P>As in all things, he who controls the dictionary controls the world. Tort= ure now means what the Bush Administration says it means, so there -- unless= enough ruckus can be generated to get them to back off. (Assistant Defense=20= Secretary Stephen Cambone still has to approve the final Field Manual langua= ge.)</P> <P>In short, thanks to Bush & Friends, U.S. torture is alive and well, d= espite the reasonable words that appear on a no-torture amendment overwhelmi= ngly ratified by Congress. Needless to say, the Bush Administration's tortur= e practices are the best recruiting tool for Muslim extremists, doing great=20= damage to America's long-term national security. <BR> </P> <P><B>IMPEACHMENT AS AN URGENT NECESSITY</B></P> <P>Momentum is moving against the Bush Administration as more and more indic= tments are delivered against key aides and supporters in the innumerable sca= ndals. (You may wonder why so few Democrats are being indicted. Early on, Bu= sh&Co. made sure that the Democrats were frozen out of the power loop, t= herefore the big-money lobbyists and bribers went to the locus of power -- i= .e., to the Republicans.) </P> <P>Since we don't have official "votes of no-confidence" in our system of go= vernment, electorally we have to wait until November 2006 to get the Republi= cans out of power in the House so that impeachment hearings can begin, and i= n the Senate, so that a possible conviction can be obtained. (All this pre-s= upposes that we finally get an honest, verified voting system in place, with= no more outsourcing of vote-counting to partisan corporations, in this case= Republican-supporting, who use secret coding and who easily can manipulate=20= the tally-results.)</P> <P>But non-electoral solutions are available:</P> <UL> <LI>So much citizen pressure could be put on Democratic and Republican incum= bents, anxious to preserve their jobs, that they will vote to initiate impea= chment hearings in the next few months. Certainly, there are enough grounds=20= to justify, at the least, calling for impeachment hearings in the House: the= felonious outing by Administration officials of a CIA agent for political r= easons, Bush's unlawful order to the NSA to spy on U.S. citizens inside the=20= country, commiting perjury before Congress to obtain authorization for war o= n Iraq -- well, those will do for starters. There are no shortages of willfu= l "high crimes and misdemeanors" in Bushland.<BR> =20 <LI>Or, another option, perhaps a bit more fanciful at the moment, though pe= rhaps more realistic next year: Republican corporate and political leaders w= ill see the handwriting on the wall -- and the long-term effects on the econ= omy of keeping the disgraced, corrupt Bush regime in power -- and urge Bush=20= and Cheney to resign, for the good of the party and the country. </LI></UL> <P>So our job now, as I see it, is first to supply energy and political cove= r to the Democrats, Independents and traditional Republicans who want to see= the reckless reign of Bush&Co. ended, while we're moving the impeachmen= t ball forward day by day by leaning on our opinion-makers and elected offic= ials to start the process of transformation back to a government of which we= can once again be proud. </P> <P>If this takes massive civil disobedience to convince the elected official= s that the citizenry is serious, and that they may be ousted at the ballot b= ox if they don't challenge Bush's crimes, so be it. It's time to move; Ameri= ca can't take much more.</P> <P align=3Dcenter><BR>Copyright 2005 by Bernard Weiner</P> <HR color=3D#808080> <P>Bernard Weiner, Ph.D., has taught government & international relation= s at various universities, worked as a writer/editor with the San Francisco=20= Chronicle, and currently co-edits The Crisis Papers (www.crisispapers.org).=20= To comment: crisispapers@xxxxxxxxxxx . </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance=E2=80=94not soap-boxing=E2=80=94please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'=E2=80=94with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds=E2=80=94is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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Bruce Fein, a Washin= gton, DC attorney who has worked with Addington, said of him and Cheney that= they both entered government =E2=80=9Cat a time when presidential powers we= re at their ebb, in the aftermath of Nixon=E2=80=99s disgraceful resignation= . So this mind-set set in, =E2=80=98we need to re-bolster the presiden= t=E2=80=99s authority.=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D<BR><BR><FONT color=3D#ff0000>Their=20= mind-set has contributed to abuses of power by the G. W. Bush administration= =E2=80=93 abuses which include the use of sensitive information to punish c= ritics, the withholding of information from Congress, the falsification of d= ocuments, and criminal coverup. These same abuses by President Nixon were kn= own as =E2=80=9CWatergate,=E2=80=9D the scandal that caused Nixon=E2=80=99s=20= resignation, the consequent erosion of presidential authority</FONT>, and th= e mind-set of Cheney and Addington.<BR><BR>I would have thought that instead= of trying to replicate Nixon=E2=80=99s abuses in a reckless gamble to enhan= ce Bush=E2=80=99s presidential power, Cheney and Addington would have learne= d the lesson that presidential abuses of power can bring down a presidency=20= =E2=80=93 and a nation. (Besides, abuses by definition are improper and unde= mocratic.)<BR><BR>I wonder, too, what they want the power FOR. Power for nob= le causes? Power for base causes? <EM><U>Power for power=E2=80=99s sake</U><= /EM>?</FONT></P></H2> <H2 class=3Dtitle> <P class=3Dauthorname><FONT size=3D2>-----</FONT></P> <H2 class=3Dposttitle>The =E2=80=9CWar=E2=80=9D on =E2=80=9CTerror=E2=80=9D=20= is Not a War</H2> <P><FONT size=3D2>Bush attributes his sweeping claims of =E2=80=9Cabsolute,= =E2=80=9D =E2=80=9Cinherent=E2=80=9D presidential power to his role as =E2= =80=9Ccommander-in-chief.=E2=80=9D But the commander-in-chief clause of the=20= U.S. Constitution refers to his powers as commander-in-chief of the army, na= vy, [air force], and militia (the latter when called into service). It does=20= not give him power over citizens=E2=80=99 mail and phone calls, the economy,= or anything else in the society or culture. Only =E2=80=9Cactivist=E2=80= =9D judges would argue that the Constitution does that. OK, I know, we=E2= =80=99ll have to discuss the presidency=E2=80=99s accretion of power over th= e decades and the many judicial and legislative decisions and measures relat= ed to this accretion.<BR><BR>Bush=E2=80=99s in-house lawyers further claim t= hat the commander-in-chief clause gives him extraordinary powers in time of=20= war. However, Congress did not constitutionally declare the war in Iraq; it=20= =E2=80=9Cauthorized=E2=80=9D the use of =E2=80=9Cnecessary force.=E2=80=9D D= oes snooping equate with =E2=80=9Cforce,=E2=80=9D especially snooping on cit= izens?<BR><BR>The wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan long ago turned into =E2= =80=9Coccupations=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cpolice actions.=E2=80=9D This is a d= ifficult legal and conceptual area, but it can be argued that we are no long= er at war in these places. Let=E2=80=99s look at what history, anthropology,= and sociology tell us about the meaning of =E2=80=9Cwar=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93=20= the =E2=80=9Cthing=E2=80=9D behind the =E2=80=9Cword.=E2=80=9D<!-- READ MORE= --> </FONT> <P><FONT size=3D2>War is the most violent relationship that can exist betwee= n societies. It is best defined as armed and lethal conflict between organiz= ed human groups, which in the modern historical era have usually been nation= -states =E2=80=93 or organized factions within nation-states in the case of=20= =E2=80=9Ccivil war.=E2=80=9D It is a resort to deadly physical force over ot= her methods of achieving social ends. As collective violence, it is distinct= ly different from the individual acts of homicidal and suicidal killing, and= , as the activity of organized groups, it is more structured, systematized,=20= protracted, and purposeful than mob killing. Finally, war is characterized b= y reciprocal, organized violence that is limited in time and place.<BR><BR>G= ray areas exist in the instances of guerrilla and counter-guerrilla war, eve= n though war in these cases is still distinguished from other kinds of colle= ctive violence by its =E2=80=9Corganized=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Ctime/space-li= mited=E2=80=9D qualities.<BR><BR>Moreover, you can=E2=80=99t fight a =E2=80= =9Cwar=E2=80=9D on =E2=80=9Cterror=E2=80=9D anymore than you can fight a war= on drugs or poverty (see definition above). You fight real, blood and guts=20= wars against identifiable groups, which are doing the same against you. Thes= e organized groups have usually been nation-states. But if Bush wants to cla= im that he is fighting a war against particular U.S.-threatening terrorist g= roups, then let him name them and go after them by legal national and intern= ational means.<BR><BR>=E2=80=9CTerror=E2=80=9D is a violent tactic of inspir= ing fear in an attempt to intimidate others; it is not a group to be warred=20= upon. The United States sometimes practices terror itself or has and still d= oes support terrorists. Moreover, contrary to what Bush says, terrorist acts= against nation-states, including the United States, are not new.<BR><BR>= =E2=80=9CPatriotism=E2=80=9D is another term that needs discussion. There= =E2=80=99s the patriotism of loyalty to the principles of the Republic and i= ts democracy; and there=E2=80=99s the patriotism of loyalty to a war leader.= I choose the former, regardless of party. </FONT></P> <P><FONT size=3D2><EM>WARNING: Replies to this blog entry are subject to sec= ret retrieval and review by Federal Law Enforcement Agents without a court-o= rdered warrant.</EM></FONT></P></H2> <H2 class=3Dtitle align=3Dcenter>--------</H2> <H2 class=3Dtitle align=3Dcenter>The Nixon Shadow that </H2> <H2 class=3Dtitle align=3Dcenter>Hovers Over the Bush White House</H2> <H4 class=3Dauthor align=3Dcenter><FONT size=3D5><EM>by John Dean</EM></FONT= > </H4> <P class=3Dbio><EM>Mr. Dean served as White House counsel under Richard Nixo= n. He is a columnist for</EM> <A href=3D"http://writ.news.findlaw.com/";>find= law.com</A>. </P><SPAN class=3Dbodytext> <P> <P class=3Dheadline align=3Dcenter><A href=3D"http://www.bomc.com/bom/ms/ms_= 1002.html?src_type=3Dpartner&src=3D901_01_pi_01_g345_5864"></A></P> <P>Not since Richard Nixon's presidency have the powers of Congress been in=20= greater jeopardy. <STRONG>Not only is the Bush White House seeking to expand= presidential powers at the expense of Congress, but the conservative gang o= f five on the U.S. Supreme Court are busy trimming congressional powers dire= ctly.</STRONG>=20 <P>The Bush-Cheney efforts, along with those of the Rehnquist-Scalia-Thomas-= O'Connor-Kennedy bloc, are raw power politics and an example of short-sighte= d decisionmaking. These moves to curb congressional authority also raise the= question why. In Part One of this two part-series, I will look at the threa= t to congressional power posed by the Bush White House; then, in Part Two, I= will turn to the threat posed by the Supreme Court.</P> <P><SPAN class=3Dtitle><B>The Man Behind The White House Power Plays </B></S= PAN></P> <P>Clearly, Vice President Dick Cheney is the force behind the White House's= effort to enhance presidential power, and limit the powers of those on Capi= tol Hill. This is evident because President Bush simply does not possess the= mental acumen, or experience, to play the game his White House has institut= ed; but Cheney does. This is not to say Bush doesn't embrace the undertaking= , for he obviously does, but simply that Cheney is almost certainly the movi= ng force behind it.</P> <P>Indeed, Cheney has all but admitted the point. "In thirty-four years, I h= ave repeatedly seen an erosion of the powers and the ability of the presiden= t of the United States to do his job," Cheney told ABC's "This Week" in Janu= ary 2002. </P> <P>His reference to "thirty-four years" is quite clear. About thirty-four ye= ars ago, in 1969, Dick Cheney joined the Nixon Administration - serving in a= number of positions at the Cost of Living Council, and later the Office of=20= Economic Opportunity. When Nixon was forced from office, Cheney helped Vice=20= President Ford make the transition to the Oval Office and in 1975, Cheney be= |
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