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Posted: Wed Oct 19th, 2005 12:50 pm |
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White House was worried about
rogue CIA group: reporter
AFP | October 18 2005
A new account of the CIA leak scandal rocking the White House suggests top US presidential aides were seriously concerned about a dissident faction inside the US spy agency that appeared to work even behind the back of the CIA director to debunk the notion Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
The first-hand account, delivered yesterday by Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter at the center of the leak story, cast a new light on the byzantine world of Washington politics rife with political intrigue, backstabbing and career-ruining retribution for expressing an opposing view.
Miller spent 58 days in jail earlier this year for refusing to talk to a special prosecutor about her three 2003 interviews with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, whose name is often mentioned in connection with the illegal leaking to the media of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
Her name was first disclosed in July 2003 by conservative columnist Robert Novak following her husband Joseph Wilson's mission to Niger the previous year, during which the former US ambassador to that African nation tried to verify reports that Iraq was secretly trying to purchase uranium ore there.
After failing to find any evidence of that, Wilson wrote a newspaper article, in which he accused the Bush administration of "exaggerating the Iraqi threat" in order to justify the war.
Miller said the article "appeared to have agitated Mr. Libby," who referred to Wilson as a "clandestine guy."
He added that the CIA "took it upon itself to try and figure out more" about the uranium allegations without informing either the White House or its own director, the journalist recalled.
All in all, Libby was concerned the CIA was engaged in a "perverted war" over the war in Iraq and resorted to "selective leaking" of information to drive its point home, according to the report.
He believed the CIA was "backpedaling on the intelligence leading to war," Miller said.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/cia_leak_case_wh_worried_about_rogue_cia_group.htm
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Posted: Wed Oct 19th, 2005 01:39 pm |
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CIA leak probe 'widening to
include use of intelligence'
Caroline Daniel and Edward Alden / Financial Times | October 18 2005
Evidence is building that the probe conducted by Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor, has extended beyond the leaking of a covert CIA agent's name to include questioning about the administration's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence.
According to the Democratic National Committee, a majority of the nine members of the White House Iraq Group have been questioned by Mr Fitzgerald. The team, which included senior national security officials, was created in August 2002 to educate the public about the risk posed by weapons of mass destruction on Iraq. Mr Fitzgerald, who has been applauded for conducting a leak-free inquiry, has said little publicly about his 22-month probe, other than that it is about the “potential retaliation against a whistleblower, Joseph Wilson. After Mr Wilson, a former ambassador, went public with doubts about the evidence that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons, the name of his wife, Valerie Plame, a CIA official, was leaked to reporters.
The prosecutor has given no indication whether he will charge anyone in the case. At the weekend Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days after refusing to testify, provided new details about the scope of Mr Fitzgerald's investigation. She was asked repeatedly how Lewis Scooter” Libby, chief of staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, handled classified information.
Ms Miller said Mr Libby had made a sharp critique of Mr Wilson, and referred several times to the fact his wife worked at the CIA. Ms Miller also expressed surprise at a letter sent by Mr Libby when she was in jail that, she said, could imply he was trying to influence her testimony. “I replied that this portion of the letter had surprised me because it might be perceived as an effort by Mr Libby to suggest that I too would say we had not discussed Ms Plame. Yet my notes suggested that we had discussed her job, she wrote.
According to Time magazine, both Mr Libby and Karl Rove, President George W. Bush's chief political adviser, who has appeared four times before the grand jury, would resign or take unpaid leave if indicted for their role in the case.
Mr Rove has been adopting a lower profile, backing out of two public speeches over the last week. However, Scott McClellan, White House spokesman, said yesterday: Karl is here at the White House doing his duties, as he always does.
The US failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq resulted in two inquiries into the prewar intelligence, one led by the Senate intelligence committee and the other by a White House-appointed panel.
But both panels confined themselves to investigating the intelligence community, concluding that the White House was largely the innocent victim of faulty intelligence. Neither delved into the political use of the available intelligence by the administration.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/october2005/181005leakprobe.htm
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Posted: Wed Oct 19th, 2005 03:06 pm |
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Former CIA Analyst: Government May
Be Manufacturing Fake Terrorism
A Government openly promoting torture, A President acting like a
King cannot be trusted, must be impeached
Prisonplanet.com | October 19 2005
Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst during the Regan and Bush 41 regimes, joined Alex Jones on his daily radio show Monday 17th October as part of a round table discussion of issues surrounding the Iraq war and the "war on terror".
McGovern launched straight into the War in Iraq and suggested that over the last few months there has been a "sea change" in public opinion, and now over two thirds of Americans, according to major opinion polls, are against the war and can now see through the Neo-con Propaganda that so clouded their judgment in the lead up to the war.
McGovern went on to comment that there has built up an ignorant attitude amongst more well to do Americans that the troops dying everyday are expendable. There has been a shut down in the minds of people who cannot place themselves in the shoes of the families who's sons and fathers and brothers are being needlessly slaughtered for a corrupt elite agenda.
Mr McGovern stated that the war "has nothing to do with democracy or freedom or defending "our way of life", it is to do with enriching the pockets of those who support this administration."
Alex then put it to Mr McGovern that Congressman Ron Paul had recently been on the show and said that The Bush Administration was openly trying to set up a martial law police state in America. McGovern responded in the affirmative:
"Well it does seem that those who have his (Bush's) ear are hell bent on giving away or providing wider responsibilities to our military. Witness what they are talking about now with giving the military primary responsibility for catastrophes, for hurricanes and so forth. Our military has been built up as an instrument of power but has never existed with this kind of potency before, and so we all need to look at this because there are laws against using the military in law enforcement capacities and we need to get to our Congressmen and Senators and say "look enough of this stuff."
McGovern then moved on to talk about terrorism and the fact that if there was another major attack in the US, it would mean a martial law state (According to General Tommy Franks) and a breakdown in our freedoms.
He amazingly went on to suggest that if another attack took place we should not accept what the government tells us because it could be them carrying out the terror.
"We have to be careful, if somebody does this kind of provocation, big violent explosions of some kind, we have to not take the word of the masters there in Washington that this was some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them, or seemingly to allow them to get what they want."
McGovern said he would not put it past the Government to "Play fast and loose" with terror alerts and warnings and even events themselves in order to rally people behind the flag.
Last week we revealed how a major terror alert in New York was outed as a fake, and magically boosted Mayor Bloomberg's ratings.
Mr McGovern then went on to reveal his opinions on the possible upcoming indictments within the Bush Administration, siding with the view that the truth will out and the Administration will come toppling down because of the way it has continually forged a bedrock of lies to justify the War In Iraq.
But he warned that we have to stay vigilant and continually expose the lies because we no longer have a free mainstream press. If we stop looking they will get away with anything they want.
Mr Govern Stressed that the founders wrote the Constitution with far sighted possibilities in mind, and we may now be at that juncture. The founders provided us with the ability to impeach any Government should it take away our liberties or any President, should he attempt to act like a King or an Emperor.
At this very moment we have a President about to veto a ban on torture. Even at the height of the British Empire torture was still outlawed because it was recognized as the pinnacle of human rights violations. What more does this Administration have to do before we remove it from power?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/191005McGovern.htm
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Posted: Wed Oct 19th, 2005 04:02 pm |
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EFF Reveals Codes in Xerox Printers
Associated Press | October 17, 2005
By ANICK JESDANUN
Just because a document from a color laser printer doesn't carry your name doesn't mean no one can trace it back to you, privacy advocates warn.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it has cracked the tracking codes embedded in Xerox Corp.'s DocuColor color laser printers. Such codes are just one way that manufacturers employ technology to help governments fight currency counterfeiting.
"Underground democracy movements ... will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters," said Lee Tien, EFF senior staff attorney. "Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers."
Researchers found patterns of yellow dots arranged in 15 by 8 grids and printed repeatedly over every color page, said Seth Schoen, a staff technologist at the San Francisco-based civil-liberties group.
The dots are visible only with a magnifying glass or under blue light, which causes the yellow dots to appear black.
By analyzing test pages printed out by supporters worldwide and by staffers at various FedEx Kinko's locations, researchers found that some of the dots correspond to the printers' serial numbers. Other dots refer to the date and time of the printing.
Xerox spokesman Bill McKee would not provide details about the technology. He said the company "does not routinely share any information about its customers," though it does respond to requests from law enforcement.
At the Secret Service, which helps develop such technologies with other government agencies and industry, spokesman Eric Zahren said the tools are designed "simply to make it more difficult to utilize that equipment for the illegal activity of reproducing genuine U.S. currency."
"They do not in any way track the use of a personal computer or a person's computer's hardware or software," he added, refusing to elaborate on the technologies.
But Schoen said much can be gleaned from the printouts alone.
Consider two documents, one carrying the author's name and one meant to be anonymous. By comparing the codes, it can be determined whether the two documents came from the same printer, even if Xerox reveals nothing about a customer's serial number, Schoen said.
The EFF is now studying other printers from well-known manufacturers with similar tracking codes, but whose keys remain secret.
The Xerox DocuColor printers are high-end machines more likely to be found in offices and copy centers than in homes.
The U.S. government is involved with other countries in a separate anti-counterfeiting program meant to prevent currency from being scanned and printed.
Adobe Systems Inc. has acknowledged quietly adding the government software to its Photoshop software at the request of regulators and international bankers.
But David Skidmore, a spokesman at the Federal Reserve Board, said that the technology, known as the Counterfeit Deterrence System, was aimed mostly at personal computers and ink-jet printers not the high-end machines like DocuColor.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/eff_reveals_codes_in_xerox_printers.htm
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Posted: Thu Oct 20th, 2005 08:21 pm |
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Bush's US 'Terror'
Alerts Manufactured?
FreeMarketNews.com
10-20-5
Those repeated terror alerts from the Bush administration might all be part of a calculated manipulation from our own government. At least that is the speculation of Ray McGovern. A former CIA Analyst under both Reagan and Bush 41, he was interviewed on an internet radio program Monday, presenting indications that this could all be "manufactured fake terrorism," designed to deflect attention from the continuing encroachments on our civil liberties and the growth of the federal empire at home and abroad.
McGovern noted that the war in Iraq "has nothing to do with democracy or freedom or defending 'our way of life,'" but is about "enriching the pockets of those who support this administration." McGovern, who writings also appear regularly on such "progressive" sites as Tom Paine and the American Prospect, has long been a critic of Bush foreign policy, but speaks from his own CIA experiences to note the signs as they present themselves. Commenting on the statements of Congressman Ron Paul [R-TX], that the Administration was openly trying to set up a martial law police state in America, he readily agreed, stating that "it does seem that those who have his (Bush's) ear are hell bent on giving away or providing wider responsibilities to our military."
He cited the recent proposal by Bush himself, to put the military in direct charge during hurricanes and other domestic catastrophes. He also noted statements, like those of General Tommy Franks, indicating that the next major attack in the US "would mean a martial law state and a breakdown in our freedoms." But he cautioned against accepting the government's word in such an event, since it very well might be our own government carrying out the terror: "We have to be careful," he is quoted as saying, "if somebody does this kind of provocation we have to not take the word of the masters there in Washington that this was some terrorist event because it could well be a provocation allowing them, or seemingly to allow them to get what they want."
He notes how the New York City terror alert has now been "outed as a fake," while it "magically boosted" Mayor Bloomberg's ratings. - ST
http://www.freemarketnews.com/ WorldNews.asp?nid=1413
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Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee before his face.
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Posted: Fri Oct 21st, 2005 03:21 pm |
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For the hate crime of evangelizing,
eleven Christians were jailed in Philadelphia last year
Hate laws end free speech.
Save yours now.
Hate laws already ended free speech in Canada and many nations of Europe.
Here is how: Governments first passed an anti-hate law, supposedly to eliminate violent hate crimes. Later they broadened the definition of a hate crime to include hate speech.Governments ruled that federally favored groups should be protected, not just physically, but emotionally from verbal violence. Criticism of homosexuals, Jews, Muslims, etc., became a hate crime punishable by harsh fines and/or imprisonment.
Free speech was gone.
An ominous federal anti-hate bill was passed by our House of Representatives on Sept. 14, 2005. It is now S 1145 in the Senate.
For more information, visit http://www.truthtellers.org
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Posted: Fri Oct 21st, 2005 04:07 pm |
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Tommy 'Martial Law' Franks
is a Paid Bush Admin Patriot
Retired Gen. Tommy Franks -- nominee to be czar of just about everything; Midland, Texas high school graduate one year ahead of First Lady Laura Bush; Republican Convention speaker; Presidential Medal of Freedom wearer and frequent public reader of the Constitution -- has been caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
The Southern New Jersey Courier-Post reported this week that veterans were angered and initially taken aback when they learned that almost $25,000 in taxpayer money was being used to help pay Franks's $75,000 speaking fee for an upcoming October 29 appearance in Camden.
Since his withdrawal from the military in 2003, Franks has been on the speaker circuit. A quick check on the web found him giving speeches at the Networked Economy Summit (October 2003), National Association of Chain Drug Stores Foundation (December 2003), American Farm Bureau (December 2003), Los Angeles University of Judais's 2004 Public Lecture Series (February 2004), International Futures Industry Conference (March 2004), TechNet International 2004 (May 2004), Bethesda Foundation (May 2004), Florida Forum (October 2004), Independence Bowl Foundation (December 2004), Credit Union National Association Governmental Affairs Conference (February 2005), Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc. (August 2005), The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (September 2005), and the Community Bankers Association of Oklahoma (September 2005). His appearances are open to print press only -- no radio or television -- and tape recorders are not allowed.
According to Franks's bio http://www.tommyfranks.com/About.shtml and other sources, the General serves on the boards of directors of the National Park Foundation, the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Foundation, is an advisor to the Central Command Memorial Foundation and the Military Child Education Coalition. He is Honorary National Chair of the Flight 93 National Memorial fundraising campaign, and a spokesman for the Salute America's Heroes Foundation and the Southeastern Guide Dogs Organization. He isn't running for anything.
Franks, of course, isn't the only beneficiary of the retired military's money circuit. Here are some updates from that front.
Gen. Richard Myers, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will serve with John Ashcroft as keynote speaker at the 2006 Network Centric Warfare Conference http://www.ncw2006.com/ in January, the Institute for Defense & Government Advancement (IDGA) announced October 12.
Myers may have to work on his speaking. When asked last month by the Today Show's Matt Lauer to share a "do-over" he might consider in his time as Chairman, Myers said:
"Well, as you look back at the, at the last four years, if you look at what we've tried to do in Iraq, which I think is, is very important and central to our security and, and peace and stability in that region of the world for that matter, because it's such a simple battlefield for al-Qaeda. The things, as you look back at such a hard task, there's, there's, there's a lot of things as you look back you say, `Well, gee, I wish I'd done this instead of that.'"
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Posted: Sun Oct 23rd, 2005 02:41 pm |
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VeriChip Corporation and Austco Communication
Systems Introduce the Hugs(R) Infant Protection
System in the United Kingdom
DELRAY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 2005--VeriChip Corporation, a subsidiary of Applied Digital (NASDAQ:ADSX), announced today that it has shipped its first Hugs(R) infant protection system for use in the United Kingdom. The sale and installation of the Hugs system is being coordinated by VeriChip's international distributor, Australia-based Austco Communication Systems Pty, Ltd.
VeriChip's Hugs infant protection system is designed to prevent mismatching and deter abduction of newborn infants from hospitals, and is part of VeriChip's portfolio of RFID healthcare security products.
"The entry of the Hugs system into the U.K. is another example of our commitment to develop the international healthcare security market," remarked Kevin McLaughlin, Chief Executive Officer of VeriChip Corporation.
Speaking for Austco Communication Systems, Robert E. Grey, President and CEO, commented, "The integration of the Hugs infant security system with Austco's MediCom staff and emergency call system is highly attractive to our worldwide hospital clients."
About Austco
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Austco Communication Systems Pty, Ltd. has been a world leader since 1985 in the highly specialized field of electronic communications for healthcare and secure accommodation environments. Austco designs and manufactures dedicated microprocessor based and computer based nurse call systems for the hospital, long-term care, and dementia care markets. There are over 4,000 Austco call systems installed throughout 41 countries worldwide supported by their 9 international offices. For more information on Austco, visit the company's website at http://www.austco.com.
About VeriChip - "RFID for people"
VeriChip is a subsidiary of Applied Digital and provides state-of-the-art RFID security solutions that identify, locate, and protect people, their assets, and their environments. From the world's first and only FDA-cleared, human-implantable RFID microchip to the only active RFID tag with patented skin sensing capabilities, VeriChip's technology ensures the safety and security organizations are looking for. Its market-leading infant protection, wander prevention, asset tracking, and patient identification applications make VeriChip the predominant RFID solutions provider in the healthcare industry. And today, VeriChip systems are installed in over 4,000 locations worldwide in healthcare, security, industrial, and government markets making it the world's premier RFID company for people. For more information on VeriChip, please visit http://www.verichipcorp.com.
About Applied Digital - "The Power of Identification Technology"
Applied Digital develops innovative identification and security products for consumer, commercial, and government sectors worldwide. The Company's unique and often proprietary products provide identification and security systems for people, animals, the food supply, government/military arena, and commercial assets. Included in this diversified product line are RFID applications, end-to-end food safety systems, GPS/Satellite communications, and telecomm and security infrastructure, positioning Applied Digital as the leader in identification technology. Applied Digital is the owner of a majority position in Digital Angel Corporation (AMEX: DOC).
Statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other statements in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, and the Company's actual results could differ materially from expected results. The Company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect subsequently occurring events or circumstances.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20051019005558&newsLang=en
Comment:
Whenever you hear the expression "It's for the Children", it never is.
This is the mark-of-the-beast phase 1, warned of for countless centuries in the book of revelation, specifically rev. 16:18 to be precise.
The late Fr. Malachi Martin warned the Coast audience, if you take this mark, you will loose your soul; Quite simple and as real as a heart attack.
I don't watch television very much, but last week while eating in a restaurant, I happened to glance up at CNN and they were advocating taking the chip, yes the same chip - Applied Digital Solutions; you have been warned.
-civilian
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Posted: Mon Oct 24th, 2005 07:28 pm |
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Posted: Mon Oct 24th, 2005 07:29 pm |
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CONFIRMED: Bush Melting Down
Bushies feeling the boss' wrath
NY DAILY NEWS | October 24th, 2005
BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK
RELATED: Bush's Obscene Tirades Rattle White House Aides
Is Bush Out of Control?
WASHINGTON - Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated, sometimes angry and even bitter, his associates say.
With a seemingly uncontrollable insurgency in Iraq, the White House is bracing for the political fallout from a grim milestone that could come any day: the combat death of the 2,000th American G.I.
Last week alone, 23 military personnel were killed in Iraq, and five were wounded yesterday in a relentless series of attacks across the country.
This week could also bring a special prosecutor's decision that could shake the foundations of the Bush government.
The President's top political guru, Karl Rove, and Vice President Cheney's right-hand man, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, are at the center of a two-year criminal probe into the leak of a CIA agent's identity. Many Bush staffers believe indictments are likely.
"He's like the lion in winter," observed a political friend of Bush. "He's frustrated.
He remains quite confident in the decisions he has made. But this is a guy who wanted to do big things in a second term. Given his nature, there's no way he'd be happy about the way things have gone."
Bush usually reserves his celebrated temper for senior aides because he knows they can take it. Lately, however, some junior staffers have also faced the boss' wrath.
"This is not some manager at McDonald's chewing out the help," said a source with close ties to the White House when told about these outbursts. "This is the President of the United States, and it's not a pleasant sight.
Bush flashes the bird, something aides say he does often and has been doing since his days as governor of Texas. The specter of losing Rove, his only truly irreplaceable assistant, lies at the heart of Bush's distress. But a string of political reversals, including growing opposition to the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina's aftermath and Harriet Miers' bungled Supreme Court nomination, have also exacted a personal toll.
Presidential advisers and friends say Bush is a mass of contradictions: cheerful and serene, peevish and melancholy, occasionally lapsing into what he once derided as the "blame game." They describe him as beset but unbowed, convinced that history will vindicate the major decisions of his presidency even if they damage him and his party in the 2006 and 2008 elections.
At the same time, these sources say Bush, who has a long history of keeping staffers in their place, has lashed out at aides as his political woes have mounted.
"The President is just unhappy in general and casting blame all about," said one Bush insider. "Andy [Card, the chief of staff] gets his share. Karl gets his share. Even Cheney gets his share. And the press gets a big share."
The vice president remains Bush's most trusted political confidant. Even so, the Daily News has learned Bush has told associates Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues in the runup to the Iraq war that have been seized on by Bush critics.
Bush is so dismayed that "the only person escaping blame is the President himself," said a sympathetic official, who delicately termed such self-exoneration "illogical."
A second senior Bush loyalist disagreed, saying Bush knows "some of these things are self-inflicted," like the Miers nomination, where Bush jettisoned contrary advice from his advisers and appointed his longtime personal lawyer.
"He must know that the way he did that, relying on his own judgment and instinct, was not good," another key adviser said.
Despite the turmoil, Bush is determined to soldier on, already preparing for two major overseas trips in November and helping shape next year's legislative agenda.
"I've got a job to do," he told reporters last week. "The American people expect me to do my job, and I'm going to."
http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/bush_confirmed_melting_down.htm
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Posted: Mon Oct 24th, 2005 08:00 pm |
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How America Stopped The
Hate Bill In The Senate Judiciary -
Battle Still Not Over
By Rev. Ted Pike
10-24-5
If freedom is to be preserved, we must have many more victories such as we experienced last Thursday when, despite all odds, the Senate Judiciary stripped the hate bill S.1145 from the Children's Safety Act.
This was no fluke. It was the result of concentrated pressure on Judiciary members. Such came, in my opinion, largely from the most potent reservoir of concern in America: tens of thousands of die-hard activists who listen to "far right" AM talk radio.
After the House of Representatives suddenly passed the hate bill on September 14, 2005, I knew this Orwellian legislation would race through the Senate Judiciary Committee and across the floor of the Senate in fast track to almost certain signing by the President.
I therefore asked hundreds of thousands of listeners via dozens of broadcasts on AM talk radio (primarily the Genesis and Republic networks) to do the unprecedented: not just fulfill the usual "call your members of Congress" obligation but also contact every crucial Republican Senator in the Senate Judiciary Committee. About two weeks later, I took to the airwaves again requesting that they protest to all 55 Republican members of the Senate. LIGHT ON CAPITOL HILL
Like sunlight focusing through a prism onto dry grass, the heat on the Judiciary became intense. Finally, it broke into flame as Senator Orrin Hatch compelled a voice vote of Senate Judiciary members to declare against the hate bill. The Children's Safety Act, modified to become the Sex Offenders Registration Act, S.1086, was then allowed to proceed toward the Senate unencumbered by the hate bill.
Incidentally, for two and a half hours, the call-in lines were jammed as, on two major broadcasts on big Salt Lake City talk radio, I roused the people of Utah against the hate bill. Such heat was good for Mormon Senator Orrin Hatch because three years ago he joined with Senator Edward Kennedy and Senator Gordon Smith in support of a "modified" hate bill, which was actually much more dangerous than the hate bill that preceded it. Hatch said it was time for America "to grow up and pass the hate bill." Since then, Hatch has come back to his former position and opposed the hate bill. Last Thursday, with fires of a Mormon constituency beneath him, Senator Hatch took leadership in refusing to add S.1145 to the Sex Offenders Registration Act. He showed himself the champion of all who love freedom.
JOINING FORCES FOR VICTORY
Over the past year, about 40 talk show hosts have been working closely with me, warning of the hate bill's imminent passage. We were vividly aware that on September 28, 2004, House members, by a symbolic procedural motion, voted 233 to 186 in favor of the hate bill. Since then, the House had been poised to pass it at the first opportunity.
After more than a year of preparation, vast audiences of the far right were ready for action. This is a highly concerned audience, most of whom have made the decision to get their news and views from shortwave or the Internet. They are a concentrated pool of very focused activists who showed themselves willing to phone, email, and phone again exactly where and when it is needed.
After the hate bill was approved by the House on September 14th, national New Right Christian leaders, such as Dr. James Dobson and Beverly LaHaye, sounded the alarm to their massive evangelical audiences. Without doubt, the response they generated enormously contributed to the victory last week. Result: Victory in Congress, for a change. Hope for the future.
BACK INTO BATTLE
But there is no time to bask in victory. Senator Edward Kennedy is determined to reattach the hate bill, S.1145, unmodified, to The Sex Offenders Registration Act, S.1088. If that fails, he may attach it to the Streamlined Procedures Act. Kennedy's staffers told me they are confident of victory, considering the Senate's 65-to-33 vote in favor of the hate bill last year.
Since a Senate vote could occur very quickly, even within a week, I encourage all patriots to go to their phones again. Keep up the pressure on the 55 Republican Senators. Tell them: "Please do not add any hate crimes bills to legislation before Congress."
Also, let's start protesting to Democrats in the Senate. Dr. Dobson in a recent alert describes how Christian ex-homosexuals have been walking the halls of the Senate office building, objecting to the hate bill. They have been receiving a very courteous response from Democratic Senators. Some Democrats, Dobson says, are beginning to question whether special protection of homosexuals is really such a good idea after all. Maybe our traditional justice system, they query, is adequate to punish hate crimes.
At http://www.truthtellers.org I have listed the 44 Democrats and one Independent. Call them. Fax them my powerful flyer and brief articles which are posted online.
It is my fervent prayer that God will help us defeat S.1145 in the Senate. I hope that all Christian/conservative leaders throughout America will join me to educate the public about the recurring threat that hate laws pose to freedom of speech and religion.
If we come before God in faith and humility, and also fulfill our civic duty, God can give us many more " impossible" victories.
http://www.rense.com/general68/hatebill.htm
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Psalm 67
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Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 02:19 pm |
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Galloway challenges US senators
 
Mr Galloway denies claims he profited from Iraqi oil deals
 Galloway's reaction
George Galloway has rejected claims he lied under oath to the US Senate committee which accused him of receiving oil cash from Saddam Hussein.
The Respect MP ridiculed the senators' claims during a hearing in May.
Now they say fresh evidence links him and his estranged wife to Iraq's oil-for-food programme. Mr Galloway and his wife both deny the allegations.
Mr Galloway said: "I am ready to fly to the US today... to face such a charge (perjury) because it is simply false."
The US Senate committee claims to have found £85,000 in Iraqi oil money in the bank account of his estranged wife Dr Armineh Abu-Zayyad.
The MP could face criminal charges if he is found to have given false testimony to the committee on 17 May.
'Smoking gun'
During that combative performance he defended himself against accusations by senators that he received credit to buy Iraqi oil.
 They have been cavalier with any idea of process and justice so far, but I am still willing to go to the US and I am still willing to face any charge of perjury before the senate committee 
George Galloway
One of the main allegations raised by the senate sub-committee was that Mr Galloway received oil allocations with the assistance of Fawaz Zureikat.
Mr Zureikat, who was chairman of the Mariam Appeal set up by Mr Galloway to help a four-year-old Iraqi girl with leukaemia, has strongly denied making any arrangements linked to oil sales on behalf of the MP.
The senate committee's new report accuses Mr Galloway of personally soliciting and being granted eight oil allocations totalling 23 million barrels from the Hussein government between 1999 and 2003.
I have never solicited or received from Iraq or anyone else any proceeds of any oil deals, either for myself or for my former husband
Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad
It also says that his estranged wife received £85,000 in connection with one allocation of oil.
The committee alleges that at least £252,000 was funnelled to the Mariam Appeal through several allocations.
Republican Senator Norm Coleman, chairman of the committee, said documents it had uncovered were "the smoking gun".
'Cavalier' attitude
He said that Mr Galloway had "been anything but straight" with the committee and he had sent a report to the US Department of Justice and to British authorities.
Mr Galloway, who has denied all suggestions he profited from told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The specific allegation against me is that I lied under oath in front of a senate committee.
"In this case the remedy is clear - they must charge me with perjury and I am ready to fly to the US today, if necessary, to face such a charge because it is simply false."
Perjury in the US carries a penalty of up to five years in prison and a £140,500 fine.
The Bethnal Green and Bow MP also launched an attack on the senate investigators.
"They have been cavalier with any idea of process and justice so far, but I am still willing to go to the US and I am still willing to face any charge of perjury before the senate committee," he said.
Libel damages
In the committee's report Dr Abu-Zayyad is specifically quoted denying she received any money.
Asked whether she or Mr Galloway had benefited from Iraq oil sales, she said in writing: "I have never solicited or received from Iraq or anyone else any proceeds of any oil deals, either for myself or for my former husband."
BBC Washington correspondent Justin Webb said the latest developments meant the senators' confrontation with Mr Galloway had "reached a new and more serious stage".
Mr Galloway has always denied funds from the sale of Iraqi oil were funnelled through the Mariam Appeal.
In December, Mr Galloway won £150,000 in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over its separate claims he had received money from Saddam's regime. The paper is currently awaiting the result of its appeal against that ruling.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4374534.stm
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Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 02:21 pm |
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Galloway To 'Lickspittle'
Coleman - 'Put Up
Or Shut Up'
The Respect MP accused Mr Coleman of orchestrating a
"sneak revenge attack" motivated by a desire to avenge
his "humiliation" at the hearing in May. Galloway rejects senate perjury claims
The Independent - UK Staff and Agencies
10-26-5
A furious George Galloway today challenged US senators to charge him with perjury over claims that he solicited money from Saddam Hussein's oil-for-food programme and lied about it under oath.
The US Senate inquiry into the Bethnal Green and Bow MP's alleged involvement in the saga claims to have discovered $150,000 (85,000) in Iraqi oil money in his estranged wife's bank account.
Its chairman, the Republican senator Norm Coleman, says this means Mr Galloway lied under oath when giving evidence to the senate permanent sub-committee on investigations on May 17, when he offered a passionate defence against similar claims. Today Mr Galloway repeated denials that he had ever received any oil cash, and told Mr Coleman to "put up or shut up" by either bringing a prosecution or dropping the allegations. The Respect MP accused Mr Coleman of orchestrating a "sneak revenge attack" motivated by a desire to avenge his "humiliation" at the hearing in May.
"I am demanding prosecution, I am begging for prosecution," Mr Galloway told Sky News. "I am saying if I have lied under oath in front of the senate, that's a criminal offence. Charge me and I will head for the airport right now and face them down in court as I faced them down in the senate room.
"Because I publicly humiliated this lickspittle senator Norman Coleman - one of [George] Bush's righthand men - in the US senate in May, this sneak revenge attack has been launched over the past 24 hours."
The committee's new report accuses Mr Galloway of personally soliciting and being granted eight oil allocations totalling 23m barrels from the Hussein government between 1999 and 2003. It claims his estranged wife, Dr Amineh Abu-Zayyad, received approximately $150,000 in connection with one allocation of oil. It also alleges that at least $446,000 was funnelled to Mr Galloway's Mariam Appeal through several allocations.
Senator Coleman said: "I directed the sub-committee to continue its investigation into Mr Galloway because his testimony at the May 17, 2005 hearing so clearly conflicted with the evidence. The additional evidence ... clearly demonstrates that the testimony Mr Galloway provided to the sub-committee was false and misleading."
In its initial report the committee accused the former Labour MP of receiving 20m barrels of oil from Saddam Hussein's regime. Dr Abu-Zayyad is quoted in the report specifically denying she received any money. Asked whether she or her husband had benefited from Iraqi oil sales, she replied to the committee in writing yesterday: "I have never solicited or received from Iraq or anyone else any proceeds of any oil deals, either for myself or for my former husband."
The committee attributes its findings to personal interviews with high-level members of the Hussein regime, anonymous oil traders with personal knowledge of Mr Galloway's involvement and extensive bank records.
It claims that a Jordanian businessman and friend of Mr Galloway's, Fawaz Zureikat, channelled the money from the UN oil-for-food programme to the MP's former wife and to the Mariam Appeal.
It also cites testimony from the former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz who has been in jail since the US invasion of Iraq and who allegedly told investigators Mr Galloway had requested oil allocations in the name of Mr Zureikat.
The report also quotes the former Iraqi oil minister Amer Rashid as confirming Mr Galloway was granted oil allocations.
The committee then printed alleged documents that it claimed proved the money transfers were made. A senate aide said the information had been turned over to the US Department of Justice, which potentially had the power to press charges of perjury. The information will also be given to the British authorities.
The Respect MP recently won a 150,000 in libel damages after suing the Telegraph over documents published in 2003, in which he was said to have asked for an increased allocation from the oil-for-food programme. The newspaper is currently appealing that ruling.
http://www.rense.com/general68/glow.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1600269,00.html
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Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 02:33 pm |
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Hate crime laws and the
path to tyranny
Selwyn Duke | October 25 2005
The insidious thing about evolutionary tyranny is that its gradual progression. It doesnt beat you over the head with the iron fist of a despot or sweep you aside with a wave of revolution, but, rather, is a death by a thousand doses of bad medicine that makes benign neglect seem utopian.
One example of this brand of tyranny is the proliferation of hate-crime laws in the Western World. The very concept of hate-crime law itself is an offense against freedom and, as such, is quintessentially un-American. Yes, I hate hate-crime laws. And so should you.
The main problem with hate-crime law is that it is an effort at thought-control masquerading as legitimate criminal-justice legislation. Lets examine why this is so.
Consider this example: two identical illegal acts are committed; the perpetrator of one is motivated by hate, whereas the perpetrator of the other is motivated by good old greed. Ill call the latter Mr. Greed and the former Mr. Hate. The punishment deemed appropriate for Mr. Greed is ten years in prison, but the punishment visited upon Mr. Hate is twenty years up the river because his crime was motivated by a worse impulse.
Now, lets analyze the reason for this disparity between their sentences. Obviously, the law determined that the act itself warranted ten years in prison because thats what was received by Mr. Greed when only the nature of the act was taken into consideration. So, this begs the question, since the two men committed the same act, what were the extra ten years imposed in Mr. Hates case for? They could only have been for one thing: the thoughts that motivated the act or were expressed through it.
So, now the government has been appointed both clairvoyant and arbiter of the acceptability of thoughts, bringing us one giant step closer to an Orwellian nightmare in which the state plays God, reading and judging minds and hearts and damning people based on its determinations. Whats next, Bless me Big Brother for I have sinned; I have had proscribed thoughts? The truth is that the government should punish actions, not motivations.
Ironically, while part of the supposed purpose of hate-crime legislation is to combat prejudice and discrimination, it is the very embodiment of it. After all, there are seven deadly sins: sloth, gluttony, lust, envy, pride, greed and wrath (hate), and this legislation discriminates by placing an undue onus on those who exhibit the one that is most out of fashion.
Why is hate being turned into our national boogeyman? The social-engineers have deemed that hate and dreaded permutations of it, such as racism are the end all and be all, the source of all our ills, as they formulate their very own hierarchy of sin. Of course, lust would never find a prominent place on the totem pole, since the libertine formulators in question have tried to turn the exercise of it into a national pastime. Nor would envy strike them as something bedeviling us, since it infuses their souls and animates their schemes to redistribute wealth. But their version of hate is the bee in their bonnet; so much so, that they dont see the forest for the trees. After all, if crime is at issue, the focus should be on that which probably constitutes ninety-five percent of all crime: greed-crime. In fact, this brings to mind a pearl of wisdom from a rather highly regarded and widely sold book: The lust for money is the root of all evil.
Hate-crime laws also facilitate discrimination, as they provide ideological prosecutors with a vehicle through which members of groups that are out of favor socially can be hammered with disproportionate punishment. For a crime isnt a hate-crime until it is judged so, and this judgment often reflects the prejudices of the arbiters more than it does reality. For instance, if a crime is white-on-black or straight-on-homosexual, its far more likely that it will be labeled a hate-crime than a scenario involving the reverse.
One example of this is the very different treatment of the Matthew Sheppard and Jesse Derkhising cases. The quite notorious Sheppard case involved two men who murdered a homosexual, while the Derkhising case involved two homosexuals who tortured and murdered a 13-year-old boy. However, while the Sheppard case became a cause calebre in the media and was labeled a hate-crime, young Derkhising was barely a blip on the radar screen.
And this brings to light another odious aspect of this topic. Because the media determine what events and causes will see the light of day and how they will be cast, theyre instrumental in shaping the perception of criminal acts. Yes, the medias biases determine the content and nature of coverage, and this serves to put pressure on authorities and shape their thinking, and this, in turn, means that those biases will be reflected in the treatment of crime.
These biases in the media will shape punishment. If one of your loved ones were killed for his money and his murderer received a lesser sentence than someone who killed motivated by hate, would you find the relative slap-on-the-wrist palatable because your loved one died for a politically-correct reason? And, if someone else were in those mournful shoes, would you want to be the one charged with the task of explaining to him that the lesser punishment was justifiable because the motivation for his loved ones murder was more acceptable? If you would answer no, you cannot in good conscience support these misbegotten laws.
Far more distressing than anything Ive mentioned, though, are the social changes that are both a cause and an effect of the hate-crime philosophy. Remember, laws dont emerge in a vacuum, rather, they are an expression of the collective values of a society. And pondering this reminds me of an experience I had earlier this year.
After speaking about so-called racial-profiling at the World Affairs Conference in Toronto, Canada, I learned that certain elements of my presentation didnt sit too well with a student in attendance. Some representatives of the host institution were kind enough to apprise me of the fact that he found certain comments of mine offensive.Although I forged on undeterred with the same speech and approach during the second session, the fact that sensitivity-police are no longer uncommon should give us all pause for thought.
You see, what does the fact that students would lodge such complaints mean in terms of social change? Im not that old, but in my dayit wasnt uncommon to hear the adage, Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me. Of course, we all know that sharp words can cut hearts, but this principle was, nevertheless, a good one to bear in mind. After all, we dont want to raise children who are so thin-skinned that they cant cope and whose self-image hinges on others estimation of them. More importantly, however, the saying also implicitly transmits the message that its a given that people are free to say what they wish, even if its not what we wish. And freedom of speech must be a given if we are to remain a free land.
Ominously, though, that erstwhile ubiquitous old saying has fallen by the wayside, supplanted by psycho-babble that casts hate-speech as the ultimate sin. Its not as if the school officials in question seek merely to root out meanness across the board and encourage civility and charity; this would be just fine. No, what they are doing is cherry-picking speech from the realms of both illegitimate and legitimate discourse and earmarking some for demonization. And, of course, the only thing these examples of speech the good, the bad and the ugly have in common is that theyre politically-incorrect.
And it has taken hold. I remember some years ago a student of mine telling me that one shouldnt be allowed to use hateful words. And sadly, his is not an unusual belief among those weaned on a steady diet of leftist tripe. These youth have been transformed into good, unthinking foot soldiers for the left and have been conditioned to mistake facile analyses for intellectualism and the embrace of the spirit of the age for sophistication. They blindly accept the dogma that hate should be criminalized and the dogma that hate is whatever the social engineers say it is. When you have enough such obedient dogmatists and they reach voting age, you no longer have a free nation.
This is why we see our neighbor in the great white north descending into what can rightly be called fascism. You see, Canada is proceeding down the hate-speech road, and its rather heavy-handed, euphemistically-named Human Rights Tribunals have assiduously been imposing an orthodoxy upon the people. Case in point: in 2003 Hugh Owens of Regina, Saskatchewan, was found guilty of inciting hatred and was forced to pay 1,500 Canadian Dollars to each of three homosexual men who filed a complaint against him. His crime? He took out a newspaper advertisement that included four Bible citations pertaining to homosexuality.
Then there was the 2002 case of Mark Harding, a man who committed the unpardonable sin of distributing pamphlets in which he was critical of Islam. A Canadian court sentenced Harding to two years probation and community service under the direction of one Mohammad Ashraf, general secretary of the Islamic Society of North America. His service involved being indoctrinated with Islamic ideas by Ashraf, who emphasized that if Harding said anything negative about Islam or its Prophet Muhammad or failed to follow Ashrafs instructions, he would be sent back to prison.
Of course, we are all so sure this could never happen here. We have our First Amendment guaranteeing us freedom of speech, after all. But with Supreme Court Justices embracing the notion that our Constitution can be interpreted in light of international law, it may just be a matter of time. For, there are deeds, words and thoughts, and the ultimate goal of any fervent social-engineer is to gain control over the last of those. Punishing thoughts as expressed through action otherwise known as hate-crime laws is the first step. The next logical move is to punish the most direct expression of thoughts: speech. This is why this pattern of moving toward an Orwellian oblivion should be broken.
Hate-crime laws should be abolished. Hate them, hate them with a burning fire of a thousand suns. For, to hate them is to love freedom.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/october2005/251005hatecrime.htm
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Former Abu Ghraib General:
Torture Is Continuing;
Order Came From Very Top
General says she was deliberately kept out of the loop and scapegoated to protect higher ups
Steve watson, Paul Watson & Alex Jones | October 25 2005
The General commanding troops in Iraq whose career was ruined in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, Janis Karpinski, appeared on the Alex Jones Show yesterday and made some amazing revelations.
Prisonplanet.tv subscribers can hear the entire interview here.
Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski will be reduced to the rank of colonel as a result of an Army Inspector General investigation into a scandal that tarnished the United States' reputation abroad and set in motion a string of high-level inquiries.
Karpinski was the only general punished in the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Her Army Reserve unit was in charge of the prison compound when Iraqi detainees were physically abused and sexually humiliated by military police and intelligence soldiers in the fall of 2003.
Karpinski had previously admitted that rather than being an isolated incident under her command, the abuses were, "the result of conflicting orders and confused standards extending from the military commanders in Iraq all the way to the summit of civilian leadership in Washington."
The General described how the abuses came to pass and how she was used as the scapegoat.
"It started when we were assigned this new mission for detention operations. We were basically sold a false bill of goods, they told us that we were going to Baghdad, that we were going to receive support from the CJTF7, General Sanchez's headquarters, and from Ambassador Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority, that we would be working with these prison experts at the Coalition Provisional Authority to work towards restoring Iraqi Prisons to turn them back over to Iraqi control." She commented.
"To arrive in Baghdad to discover that they had just begun to identify some locations, they had a list of 121 prisons that they wanted to restore and that they wanted us to run, and I told them I didn't have nearly that number of resources, I could run about fifteen, we settled on seventeen and they were responsible for providing the funding to restore and renovate those prisons."
Karpinski revealed that the prisons were basically left as they had been by the Iraqis before the war.
"...After those contractors had left, most of the contract work had been allegedly done and paid for was in fact never done. So we had MP's that were running these facilities, very very austere conditions, the prisons that were restored were done to the minimal standard. In one case the contractors put all the hinges on the inside of the doors and the prisoners took all the hinge pins out."
Abu Ghraib was never intended to be a permanent prison or permanent detention center, it was used as an interim facility, largely because there was real estate inside the twenty foot high retaining wall for Karpinski to establish temporary camps.
"If there was still a war going on, this would have been much like a prisoner of war camp. It was never an ideal location of any kind, for detention operations, let alone interrogation operations as it ultimately became." She commented.
Karpinski went on to describe how military intelligence took over and became rooted within her own reservations.
"The Military Intelligence Brigade Commander relocated to Abu Ghraib after two of his soldiers were killed in an RPG attack out at the prison facility. He was visiting one night, only intended to stay one or two nights and there was an attack and two of his soldiers were killed and shortly after that he decided to relocate inside Abu Ghraib." She said.
"He had six interrogation teams shortly after this became about a dozen. These were military interrogation teams, soldiers who were serving as interrogators, they were following the regulations, their doctrine. We had a very small number of prisoners that needed to be interrogated, they were mostly Iraqi criminals, nonviolent crimes, looting, missing curfew, a weapon in the trunk of the car, whatever it may have been."
Of course, the official army report on Abu Ghraib said that between seventy five and ninety percent were totally innocent and just hadn't had their papers in order. The General confirmed this:
"That's correct and I believe that it remains so today because they are still doing these raids, these round ups where they will go out and target an individual, and whoever happens to be around that individual, they bring them all in. And then there is no avenue to release them, once they are tagged as security detainees, they fall into this relatively new and unsupervised category."
Karpinski went on to say that the General in charge of the military interrogations at Abu Ghraib had the authority to do whatever he wanted and was not required to report any of his findings through her.
She also stated that even though innocent detainees had been deemed of no further Intel use and were recommended to be released by their interrogators, the higher uppers read the riot act and started a pattern whereby no one was to be released and innocent people were kept locked up without trial or charges.
The General went on to speak about the direct links to leading members of the Bush Administration:
"We can trace back now, through documents that were released through court order, back to the original document, the one that Alberto Gonzales reviewed and discussed with the President of the United States, a departure from the Geneva Convention. These are not prisoners, these are terrorists and these techniques will be more effective." She said.
"And then Secretary Rumsfeld putting his signature on a document authorizing more aggressive and harsher techniques during interrogation. That document goes over to Guantanamo Bay and over to Afghanistan, and it's used first in smaller groups and then it's used at Guantanamo Bay as a standard practice."
The General also agreed that private contractors were brought in to over see the interrogations. The orders to use torture techniques can be traced back to the criminals in Government.
"The orders came right from the top, filtered down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo Bay to Iraq as well."
The General agreed that in effect torture seminars were taking place as Miller would teach how to make techniques of torture more effective.
Karpinski also went on to explain how it came about that photographs and video of the torture were taken and how despite Congress having seen thousands of them, few of the persons responsible for authorizing the raping of women, the beating to death of innocent people, and the torture of minors have been brought to justice.
"They needed a group of people to scapegoat and they must have believed naively that they were going to take the punishment, go to jail and be quiet and that they were never going to go out and hire their own attorneys and representatives for themselves and their own cases. They certainly believed that I was going to be quiet."
General Karpinski was not even informed of charges against her until the investigation was under way and she received a late night e-mail from the Commander of the Criminal Investigation Commission. His agent on site at Abu Ghraib was the one who received the disc of pictures from the MP. So the Commanding officer of all the reopened prisons in Iraq was not informed about an ongoing criminal investigation into occurrences at the prisons.
"They kept me out of the loop on purpose" Karpinski angrily asserted.
Karpinski reiterated that it was almost inconceivable to have an operation taken over by Military intelligence at Abu Ghraib, a site in the middle of the Sunni Triangle, that was being bombarded with mortars every night. Further more the objective of military intelligence is completely different from that of a military police soldier. MP's know how to humanly treat detainees and they did so at every facility, the only breach was at Abu Ghraib under the control of the military intelligence.
The MI would even hire former federal prison guards with bad records to undertake these operations.
"The prisons experts that were hired, we were supposed to have about eighty of them down at the Coalition Provisional Authority, there was three and then one of them got fired, and these are US contractors, of course they didn't share the information about their previous positions with us." Karpinski said.
The General went on to state that she saw many instances of decision makers being worried more about the political ramifications of their decisions back in Washington than the moral ramifications. She asserted that to disagree with Donald Rumsfeld would mean instant dismissal and everyone knew this.
"There is no backbone any more that the US military is so famous for. Our leaders are now afraid. They are afraid to voice their opinions, and they are afraid to say, no you're wrong." The General said.
Furthermore, all the data before the war, and the advice of all the big think tanks, suggested that more than 300, 000 troops would be needed to succeed. Of course all of this was ignored by the crazy Neo-Cons who are so convinced by their own convictions that they will not tolerate any one else's opinions or suggestions.
Becoming emotional, the General asserted that the higher uppers have been attempting to run the war "from their lap top computers". They refused to go out and walk the ground in Baghdad that the soldiers are walking, but they had no trouble sending those under them out there WITHOUT the armored vehicles which were being used to protect their own spokesmen and their own headquarters.
"The person who stopped the orders for additional armored equipment and armored vehicles is today a FOUR STAR GENERAL, and is in the Pentagon, and is serving as the acting chief of staff of the army." Karpinski angrily commented.
"You see how it works, you play the game, you go along with whatever is being spun by the Neo-Cons or by the Pentagon and you get promoted. But the people who have the strength and the moral courage to stand up and say This is wrong, this is a lie, they are removed from their positions, they take their security clearance away and then they're out on the street."
General Karpinski went on to say that the reason talk of banning torture has come to the forefront, even though there should be no need for discussion on the topic is because it IS STILL GOING ON.
"There is overwhelming proof that torture is going on, that it has been directed and is likely continuing, even to this day. I don't want to believe it is but the statements from the people just returning from the theater give every indication that in fact it is, they still don't know where to draw the line." The General said.
On the topic of why the torture is so extreme and degrading, the General suggested that the interrogators are getting a bizarre pleasure out of it. She gave the example of using naked menstruating women to break Muslim Iraqi men.
"Who studied the Arab culture to come up with such an idea, this is insulting to anybody." She said. "And the fact that they are using female soldiers to conduct this demonstrates what they think the likely role of women in the army is."
If you wrote a horror movie where the army was doing this it would be too unbelievable, yet this is happening in reality and the media has just accepted it as the norm now.
It seems clear and the General agrees that we are seeing the formation of a cold blooded torture core with Iraq as the beta test. Iraq is often referred to as a "laboratory". The test is to see how the prisoners, the soldiers and the public react to this.
"They are looking for the kind of people with this mind set, who can live with themselves whilst they are going forth with this global war on terrorism and trying to make a difference."
Related Information
Daily life at Abu Ghraib: Filthy conditions, sexual misbehavior, bug-infested food, prisoner beatings and humiliations
Gen. Karpinski demoted in prison scandal
Abu Ghraib disciplinary actions set
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All US passports to be RFID chipped
Silicon.com | October 26 2005
By Declan McCullagh
All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced.
Sweeping new State Department regulations issued on Tuesday say passports issued after that time will have tiny RFID chips that can transmit personal information including the name, nationality, sex, date of birth, place of birth and digitised photograph of the passport holder. Eventually, the government contemplates adding additional digitised data such as "fingerprints or iris scans".
Over the last year, opposition to the idea of implanting RFID chips in passports has grown amidst worries that identity thieves could snatch personal information out of the air simply by aiming a high-powered antenna at a person or a vehicle carrying a passport. Out of the 2,335 comments on the plan that were received by the State Department this year, 98.5 per cent were negative. The objections mostly focused on security and privacy concerns.
But the Bush administration chose to go ahead with embedding 64KB chips in future passports, citing a desire to abide by "globally interoperable" standards devised by the International Civil Aviation Organization, a United Nations agency. Other nations, including the United Kingdom and Germany, have announced similar plans.
In regulations published on Tuesday, the State Department claims it has addressed privacy concerns. The chipped passports "will not permit 'tracking' of individuals", the department said. "It will only permit governmental authorities to know that an individual has arrived at a port of entry - which governmental authorities already know from presentation of non-electronic passports - with greater assurance that the person who presents the passport is the legitimate holder of the passport."
To address citizens' concerns about ID theft, the Bush administration said the new passports will be outfitted with "anti-skimming material" in the front cover to "mitigate" the threat of the information being surreptitiously scanned from afar. It's not clear, though, how well the technique will work against high-powered readers that have been demonstrated to read RFID chips from about 160 feet away.
A State Department official, who did not wish to be identified by name, said on Tuesday: "The shielding in the passport is a physical device that basically, when the passport cover is closed, it's very difficult to read the chip." The official was unable to provide details about the material's composition. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which has been working to evaluate the chip's vulnerability to skimming, was unable to provide further information on Tuesday.
Privacy advocates said the anti-skimming device was a decent start. But if the cover of the passport happens to be open, all bets are off, said Bill Scannell, a privacy advocate who founded the site RFIDkills.com. He said: "They've built little baby radio stations into peoples' passports and covered it with concrete but when the little hatch is open, you can still hear the music."
"It's better than nothing," Scannell went on, "but why take this risk?"
In addition, the passports will use "Basic Access Control", a reference to storing a pair of secret cryptographic keys in the chip inside. The concept is simple: the RFID chip disgorges its contents only after a reader successfully authenticates itself as being authorised to receive that information.
Computer scientists, however, have criticised that encryption method as flawed. In a recent paper, RSA Laboratories' Ari Juels, and University of California's David Molnar and David Wagner, warned that the design of the encryption keys is insufficiently secure. They said that the use of a "single fixed key" for the lifetime of the e-passport creates a vulnerability.
The Bush administration could face an eventual legal challenge. A letter to the State Department from privacy groups says there is "no statutory authority" for the RFID passport because Congress has not authorised it.
Lee Tien, staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which co-authored the comments, said: "Our point is, whatever Congress may have meant in giving the State Department authority to issue passports was probably to issue passports that were like the old passports.
"But at some point you are doing something that is significantly different, which should probably require some sort of additional congressional authorisation. The argument is how broadly does that authority go, and honestly, it's something no one knows."
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/rfid_all_us_passports_to_be_rfid_chipped.htm
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Posted: Wed Oct 26th, 2005 05:02 pm |
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Patriot Act bill would expand death penalty
Washington Post | October 26 2005
By Dan Eggen
WASHINGTON The House bill that would reauthorize the USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law includes several little-noticed provisions that would dramatically transform the federal death penalty system, allowing smaller juries to decide on executions and giving prosecutors the ability to try again if a jury deadlocks on sentencing.
The bill also triples the number of terrorism-related crimes eligible for the death penalty, adding, among others, the material support law that has been the core of the governments legal strategy against terrorism.
The death penalty provisions, which were added to the House bill during a voice vote in July, are emerging as one of the major points of contention between House and Senate negotiators as they begin work on a compromise bill to renew expiring portions of the Patriot Act. If approved, the provisions could have a significant effect on future Justice Department terrorism prosecutions.
The Senate version of the bill does not include the death penalty expansions. Senate Democrats argue that the proposals are extraneous to the Patriot Act and should not be approved without fuller debate. Death penalty opponents and defense attorneys also contend that the measures would increase the risk that innocent people could be executed by removing some of the safeguards now in place.
The Justice Department has endorsed the provisions and a spokesman for House Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., R-Wis., said Tuesday that the proposals were viewed as relatively uncontroversial because they were approved overwhelmingly on the House floor.
A Republican staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee said the death penalty issue was one of several concerns about the House bill, which also includes fewer restrictions on surveillance and search powers than the Senate version.
Under the proposals, 41 new crimes would be added to the 20 terrorism-related offenses now eligible for the federal death penalty. Prosecutors would also find it easier to impose a death sentence in cases in which the defendant did not have the intent to kill.
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/patriot_act_would_expand_death_penalty.htm
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Posted: Thu Oct 27th, 2005 12:54 am |
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Mr. Galloway May Go to Washington, Again
Kurt Nimmo | October 26 2005
Mr. Galloway May Go to Washington, Again
Tuesday October 25th 2005, 1:08 pm
Norm Coleman is a lot like his ideological brother, David Horowitz. Back in the day, Coleman was a 1960s leftist radical, as was Horowitz, but over time Coleman slithered to the reactionary side of the political spectrum, as did Horowitz, and when Paul Wellstones plane suspiciously fell out of the sky in 2002, Coleman snagged the Minnesota Senate seat. It didnt take long for Coleman, who once organized antiwar marches at Hofstra University, to demand Bush and the neocons attack Iraq. Mission accomplished, Coleman moved on to chair a Senate panel investigating the alleged abuses of the UNs oil-for-food program in Iraq, concentrating his wrath on the British MP, George Galloway, one of the last principled men in the whole of the British government.
Galloway, of course, never received a dime from Saddam, although he did launch the Mariam Appeal cancer charity to help a sick Iraqi girl (Mariam Hamza) and for medical aid to Iraqi childrenthe helpless children Coleman is responsible for, as a warmonger and member of Senate who voted for the invasion, injuring and maiming with cluster bombs and depleted uraniumthat is after Clinton and Bush Senior had thinned the ranks by way of monstrous sanctions, that is to say starving kids to death and denying them medicine.
Mr. Galloway may face criminal charges if found to have given false testimony to the committee when he defended himself against similar claims in a passionate showdown earlier this year, writes the National Enquirer of the right, the Drudge Report. The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has accused him of giving false and misleading testimony at the May 17 hearing. Mr. Galloway, who used the headline-grabbing appearance as the basis for a new book, denied being an oil trader, soliciting oil allocations or instructing anyone to do so on his behalf.
But Republican Senator Norm Coleman, who chairs the committee, claims to have obtained new evidence proving that Saddams regime granted oil allocations to the Bethnal Green and Bow MP and his Mariam Appeal fund. In other words, Coleman contends Galloway received money from Saddam to help the Iraqi children Coleman and his murderous protgs shamefully attacked. Obviously, since killing a half million Iraqi children in the 1990s by way of medieval sanctions was not good enough for the necrophile neocons, they insistently demand a second go and, besides, how dare a lowly MP for Glasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Kelvin get in their faces.
Neocon sycophants and wannabes have built a cottage industry around attacking Galloway, as they boisterously go after anybody who makes a sound argument in opposition to their ghoulish rationalizations for killing hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Muslims. Galloway is best known for his support of terrorists whom he refers to as the Iraqi resistance, his admiration for Saddam Hussein, his allegedly substantial involvement in the Oil-for-Food scandal, and his seething hatred of the West, writes Horowitz scribbler Rocco DiPippo.
In the demented Manichean world of the neocons and their mean-spirited apostles, visceral disgust when confronting the wholesale murder of Iraqi babies and grandmothers is admiration for Saddam Hussein and seething hatred of the West. Galloway clearly sides with the suicide bombers, the beheaders and other psychopaths that murder civilians in Iraq and elsewhere and people who agree with Gallowaythe neocon invasion and occupation is morally repugnant and a crime of Nuremberg dimensionare, according to DiPippo, cheering for their own deaths.
All of this insidious and inflammatory nonsense aside, Galloway was quick to challenge Coleman and his Grand Neocon Inquisitors. Im demanding that they charge me with contempt and with perjury, Im demanding it, Galloway told the BBC. If a Senate committee can go on the international airwaves without putting this to you, without sending me an advance and accuse me of lying under oath in front of a Senate committee, then I demand they charge me with perjury and Ill be on the next plane to face it.
So, what evidence does Coleman supposedly have implicating Galloway? Mr. Coleman said his investigators confirmed their evidence, which includes numerous bank records, in interviews with the former Iraqi deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, a friend of Mr. Galloways, the former Iraqi Vice-President, Taha Yasin Ramadan, and the former Iraqi oil minister, Amer Rashid, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
It would appear Colemans evidence surfaced during interviews conducted on April 21 of this year with Aziz by US politicos and the CIA at the notorious Camp Cropper prison in Baghdad (as for the lovely conditions at Camp Cropper, see this report by Robert Fisk). It is imperative that there is intervention into our dire situation and treatment, Tariq Aziz wrote about his imprisonment in a letter published in the Observer. It is totally in contradiction to international law, the Geneva Convention and Iraqi law as we know it. Considering Bush receives his intelligence by way of torture and rape, anything Aziz did or did not say about Galloway should be taken with a grain of salt, to say the least.
Likewise for anything Taha Yassin Ramadan, VP of Iraq and the Ten of Diamonds in the most-wanted Iraqi deck of playing cards, or Iraq Oil Minister General Amer Rashid, have to say.
It is obvious Colemana former leftist, now neocon hitman with a mission from the nihilist vulcansis itching to take down Galloway for his spot-on analysis of the Iraqi invasion and occupation. No doubt Galloway will come back to Washington in short order to face perjury allegations (Galloway is not one to back down) and Coleman and the Grand Neocon Inquisitors will attempt to throw him in the clinkand of course this will simply feed the antiwar movement, as Galloway (and Cindy Sheehan, now talking about civil disobedience) know well enough. Coleman, mired in his vindictive myopia, and obviously attempting to exorcise his 1960s demons (as Horowitz continually exorcises his), either does not understand how arresting Galloway for perjury will feed the growing ardor of the antiwar movement. Moreover, Galloway has a damn good record of refuting spurious charges, as he did in regard to the Daily Telegraphs ludicrous accusation Galloway conspired with Iraqi intelligence (Galloway was awarded 150,000 damages plus costs estimated to total 1.2 million in a libel case against the conservative, that is to say reactionary Tory newspaper).
In short, Coleman best prepare himself for the possibility of another humiliating George Galloway tongue lashing. Either way, it will make for good television, as did the last encounter, which left Coleman and Crew, who are intellectual midgets when compared to Galloway, reeling and more or less speechless in the wake of Georges testimony last May.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/october2005/261005Galloway.htm
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Expect Indictments to be Public Thursday
Wayne Madsen | October 26 2005
Major news expected within the next 36 hours. Story unfolding . . . Overheard this afternoon at the Starbuck's across the street from the Bond Federal Office Building at 1400 New York Ave., where (on the 9th Floor) Patrick Fitzgerald's team of prosecutors and FBI agents are conducting their investigation of CIA Leakgate with expected indictments of key White House officials imminent -- one lawyer who is on loan to the team from another city decided to extend his hotel reservations to include Thursday night.
Expect a public announcement of indictments on Thursday.
http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/october2005/261005thursday.htm
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Posted: Thu Oct 27th, 2005 04:04 pm |
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IPS News reports that human rights organizations are deeply concerned about dozens of secret gulag detention centers that are operating completely without oversight and hold an undetermined amount of prisoners.
Priti Patel, an attorney and representative of the New-York based group Human Rights First, stated, "There are locations you know about, like Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram in Afghanistan, but there are other locations which you know exist, but you don't know exactly how many or where they are."
"There are around 20 of them in Afghanistan, but you don't know how many people are being held there, and you don't know how they are being treated," Patel told IPS.
"And then there is the worst-case scenario, which is you don't know even their location."
President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top Bush administration officials are currently fighting tooth and nail to prevent a torture ban on detainees in US custody, approved by the Senate, which was included in a wider defense bill.
Although Bush and his mouthpiece McClellan insist that the administration does not condone torture, they are zealously pursuing an amendment to make covert agents exempt from the law.
This basically give the green light for the CIA to engage in torture. Furthermore, evidence that the Bush administration's torture policy did not end at Abu Ghraib but simply spread elsewhere has been presented by a former General who worked at Abu Ghraib.
Janis Karpinski was scapegoated as being party to the torture when she was in reality trying to put a stop to it. Since the Abu Ghraib scandal she has been blowing the whistle on who directed the torture program and how it continues to this day. During a recent interview on the Alex Jones Show, Karpinski stated, "There is overwhelming proof that torture is going on, that it has been directed and is likely continuing, even to this day. I don't want to believe it is but the statements from the people just returning from the theater give every indication that in fact it is, they still don't know where to draw the line." The General said.
Karpinski identified the masterminds of the torture policy as occupying the highest rungs of the Bush administration.
"The orders came right from the top, filtered down from the secretary of defense, with the endorsement of the President, the Vice President, whatever advisors are surrounding them, filtered down through the Commanders in the field, these practices were not only endorsed, but were in use at Guantanamo bay and in locations in Afghanistan. And when General Miller visited Iraq he brought those techniques with him. And then he sent contract interrogators who had 'performed well' at Guantanamo Bay to Iraq as well."
The fact that the torture program has been continued at countless secret detention centers around the globe offers more proof to suggest that tales of indictments and bird flu are merely distractions to deflect attention away from the real elephant in the living room.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/october2005/261005torturegangs.htm
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