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Comment: Unemployed and financially struggling people can't go to the movies, buy CD's and/or DVDs... do you want them on the streets? You think about it.
The police and intelligence services are calling on the Government to drop plans to disconnect persistent internet pirates because they fear that this would make it harder to track criminals online. Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, has vowed to use the Government’s forthcoming Digital Economy Bill to introduce new measures to fight illegal file-sharing of music and films. He has also proposed that persistent pirates should have their internet connections suspended temporarily. Read more
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Armed attack against police station in Athens, five cops wounded
From Occupied LondonAt around 9.40pm on Tuesday night, four people on motorbikes opened fire against the police station of Ayia Paraskeui, a north-eastern suburb of Athens.
Mainstream media report that five cops have been wounded, with one being in a critical condition. They also report that the type of weapons and ammunition used and the style of the attack refer to either the “Revolutionary Struggle” or the “Revolutionary Sect” – two of the many urban guerrilla groups active in the country lately. It is expected that whatever group is responsible for the attack will release a communique in the next few days.
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CIA Supports Drug Kingpins
From Dailycensored:
Pretend to be surprised!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html
One of the more prominent drug dealers in that story was Manuel Noriega.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/18/opinion/oe-schou18
http://sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/97-02%20FEB/darkaliance2.html
http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol1/cia_body.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101880222-148712,00.htm
Pretend to be surprised!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/world/asia/28intel.html
I want to skip right to my favorite part:
“The CIA’s practices also suggest the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban, the Times said.”
“The CIA’s practices also suggest the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban, the Times said.”
This is the punch line. Hilarious, brilliant writing! Do you mean that offering a steady CIA paycheck to the world’s biggest heroin trafficker might…just maybe… undermine our worldwide “war on drugs?”
I loved the sentence, but lets clarify a misconception that the article perpetuates here. The Taliban (like many Afghan farmers) does derive revenue from the poppy trade, but by no means are they alone. As a matter of fact, the CIA itself probably makes significantly more money off of heroin than Mullah Omar does. After all, this money they are paying Karzai’s brother does not come from any budget that congress voted for. He is being paid out of the CIA’s secret slush fund.
This is a pattern for the CIA. In an earlier era they were in partnership with a different set of drug dealers in South America. These drug dealers were interested in selling cocaine and the CIA needed money to finance its secret wars against the people of South and Central America. A natural alliance evolved between cocaine cartels and the CIA, since both had identical interests, namely to crush any popular government that considered land reform or nationalization of industries.
One of the more prominent drug dealers in that story was Manuel Noriega.
Noriega was on CIA payroll from the 1950’s until the mid-80’s. He was also a coke dealer, an ally of Pablo Escobar of the Medellin Cartel. The CIA needed some extra cash to fund its covert operations against freely elected governments in South America, notably Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega (who was freely elected again in 2006). The CIA financed those operations by funneling cocaine from Columbia to famed LA kingpin “Freeway” Ricky Ross. CIA was ostensibly fighting “communism” at that point, and now the boogeyman is “terrorism.”
Do you see how this works yet? The CIA was in the cocaine dealing business in the 70’s and 80’s and they are now also clearly involved in the heroin dealing business. They have found a way to make huge amounts of money to support covert operations around the world without need for congressional or popular support. They can afford to lie to Speaker Pelosi because they have income she cannot touch…heroin sales. The CIA has developed its own internal economy based on the drug trade and it is now operating independently of the US government.
Mr. Noriega is still in prison, even though he has actually served his whole sentence already and should have been freed in 2007. Mr. Ross was finally released from prison just last month. Mr. Karzai should take notice. If he doesn’t watch out, he will also spend the rest of his life in jail. The CIA are not the most trustworthy allies, as both Mr. Ross and Mr. Noriega can confirm.
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug/18/opinion/oe-schou18
http://sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/97-02%20FEB/darkaliance2.html
http://www.fpif.org/briefs/vol1/cia_body.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101880222-148712,00.htm
This article dedicated to the memory of Gary Webb, who first exposed the CIA’s involvement in the US “crack epidemic” of the 1980’s.
BEAUTIFUL PARAGUAY - THE BUSH'S LIKE IT - WONDER WHY?
Bush Buys 100,000 Acres on border of Paraguay & Brazil
Buenos Aires, Oct 13 (Prensa Latina) An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region.
Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia.
The news circulated Thursday in non-official sources in Asuncion, Paraguay.
D Elia considered this Bush step counterproductive for the regional power expressed by Presidents Nestor Kirchner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
He said that "it is a bad signal that the Bush family is doing business with natural resources linked to the future of MERCOSUR."
The official pointed out that this situation could cause a hypothetical conflict of all the armies in the region, and called attention to the Bush family habit of associating business and politics.
Additional Report from WMR:
October 23, 2006 -- George W. Bush's Paraguay land deal. WMR's Paraguayan sources have confirmed that George W. Bush recently bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern "Chaco" region. The land sits atop huge natural gas reserves, according to sources in Asuncion.
Moreover, the land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and business representatives.
Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama City. A troubling aspect of the land deal is the role played by James Cason, the US ambassador to Paraguay, in a private Bush family business venture. Cason is a career Foreign Service officer whose previous assignment was the head of the US Interests Section in Havana, where he managed to stir up tensions between the mission and Cuban authorities with his anti-Castro advertisements placed in the windows of the U.S. offices. Cason also has a long history of cooperating with the Defense Intelligence Agency in such locations as Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Cason also served as the Guatemala Desk Officer at the Department of State. from Wiki: [link to en.wikipedia.org]
"The Guaraní Aquifer...is one of the world's largest aquifer systems...It is said that this vast underground reservoir could suppy fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years."
"US President George W. Bush allegedly has recently purchased a 98,842 acre farm in Chaco, Paraguay atop the aquifer.
The Reverend Moon has purchased 1,482,600 acres in Chaco, Paraguay."
For additional info re: Bush/Moon/Paraguay connection ---> [link to wonkette.com] *
Both the original as well as google cached pages
of the Wonkette article referenced above have now been deleted
from Google, she will post 'her' saved copy from that link below:
Quoting: Wonkette:
We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too
Our paranoid friends over at Bring It On have put together a story that hasn’t exactly made Washington Whispers. It’s real short and real simple:
The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border.
Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason. There were no press conferences, no public sightings and no official confirmation of her 10-day trip which apparently ended this week.
The Paraguayan Senate voted last summer to “grant U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction.” Immediately afterwards, 500 heavily armed U.S. troops arrived with various planes, choppers and land vehicles at Mariscal Estigarribia air base, which happens to be at the northern tip of Paraguay near the Bolivian/Brazilian border. More have reportedly arrived since then.
What the hell, after the jump. Plus a BREAKING UPDATE involving, of course, The Moonies!
Now, Prensa Latina is a Cuban-government operation that is not exactly friendly toward Washington, what with Washington trying to kill Castro for 50 years and all. But Prensa Latina didn’t invent the story. It’s all over the South American press — and not just Venezuela and Bolivia.
And here’s one from Paraguay itself.
As far as we can understand, all the paperwork and deeds and such are secret. But somehow the news leaked that a new “land trust” created for Bush had purchased nearly 100,000 acres near the town of Chaco. And Jenna’s down there having secret meetings with the president and America’s ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Bush posted Cason in Havana in 2002, but last year moved him to Paraguay.
Cason apparently gets around. A former “political adviser” to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama … basically everywhere the U.S. has run secret and not-so-secret wars over the past 30 years.
Here’s a fun question for Tony Snow: Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguyan government?
Here’s a little background on the base itself, which Rumsfeld secretly visited in late 2005:
U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay’s Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the international airport at the capital city, Asuncion.
Some 500 special forces arrived July 1 for a three-month counterterrorism training exercise, code named Operation Commando Force 6.
Paraguayan denials that Mariscal Estigarribia is now a U.S. base have met with considerable skepticism by Brazil and Argentina. There is a disturbing resemblance between U.S. denials about Mariscal Estigarribia, and similar disclaimers made by the Pentagon about Eloy Alfaro airbase in Manta , Ecuador.
The United States claimed the Manta base was a “dirt strip” used for weather surveillance. When local journalists revealed its size, however, the United States admitted the base harbored thousands of mercenaries and hundreds of U.S. troops, and Washington had signed a 10-year basing agreement with Ecuador.
BREAKING, UPDATE
We’ve been directed to yet another parapolitical theory here at Rigorous Intuition, where it is reported that Rev. Moon bought 600,000 hectares — that’s 1,482,600 acres — in the same place: Chaco, Paraguay.
Another twist: The first story, from Paraguay, apparently refers to the senior George Bush as the owner of the 98,840 acres in Moon’s neighborhood. Bush 41 was the first bigshot politician to go prancing around with Rev. Moon in public. Especially in South America:
“In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced the Washington Times and Moon’s anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event,” wrote The Gadflyer last year. “Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that ‘brings sanity to Washington.’” That was while on an extended trip to South America in Moon’s company.
A Reuters’ story of Nov 25 of that year describes the former president as “full of praise” for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him as “the man with the vision.” (And Moon helped Bush out with his own vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure of his company.) Bush and Moon then traveled together to Uruguay, “to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo, to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.”
Oh, and both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what Paraguay’s drug czar called an “enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades.” And it sits atop the one of the world’s largest fresh-water aquifers.
Operation Commando Force 6, scheduled to go on until next month.
The whole package is part of a controversial military agreement between Paraguay and the United States endorsed by the Paraguayan Congress more than a year ago. The US Special Forces are guaranteed total immunity and diplomatic status. They are free to import and export, they don't pay any taxes, and what they trade is not subjected to any inspections. Contraband kingpins at the Triple Border would kill for a deal like that.
Source
Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia.
The news circulated Thursday in non-official sources in Asuncion, Paraguay.
D Elia considered this Bush step counterproductive for the regional power expressed by Presidents Nestor Kirchner, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.
He said that "it is a bad signal that the Bush family is doing business with natural resources linked to the future of MERCOSUR."
The official pointed out that this situation could cause a hypothetical conflict of all the armies in the region, and called attention to the Bush family habit of associating business and politics.
Additional Report from WMR:
October 23, 2006 -- George W. Bush's Paraguay land deal. WMR's Paraguayan sources have confirmed that George W. Bush recently bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern "Chaco" region. The land sits atop huge natural gas reserves, according to sources in Asuncion.
Moreover, the land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and business representatives.
Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama City. A troubling aspect of the land deal is the role played by James Cason, the US ambassador to Paraguay, in a private Bush family business venture. Cason is a career Foreign Service officer whose previous assignment was the head of the US Interests Section in Havana, where he managed to stir up tensions between the mission and Cuban authorities with his anti-Castro advertisements placed in the windows of the U.S. offices. Cason also has a long history of cooperating with the Defense Intelligence Agency in such locations as Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Cason also served as the Guatemala Desk Officer at the Department of State. from Wiki: [link to en.wikipedia.org]
"The Guaraní Aquifer...is one of the world's largest aquifer systems...It is said that this vast underground reservoir could suppy fresh drinking water to the world for 200 years."
"US President George W. Bush allegedly has recently purchased a 98,842 acre farm in Chaco, Paraguay atop the aquifer.
The Reverend Moon has purchased 1,482,600 acres in Chaco, Paraguay."
For additional info re: Bush/Moon/Paraguay connection ---> [link to wonkette.com] *
Both the original as well as google cached pages
of the Wonkette article referenced above have now been deleted
from Google, she will post 'her' saved copy from that link below:
Quoting: Wonkette:
We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too
Our paranoid friends over at Bring It On have put together a story that hasn’t exactly made Washington Whispers. It’s real short and real simple:
The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border.
Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason. There were no press conferences, no public sightings and no official confirmation of her 10-day trip which apparently ended this week.
The Paraguayan Senate voted last summer to “grant U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction.” Immediately afterwards, 500 heavily armed U.S. troops arrived with various planes, choppers and land vehicles at Mariscal Estigarribia air base, which happens to be at the northern tip of Paraguay near the Bolivian/Brazilian border. More have reportedly arrived since then.
What the hell, after the jump. Plus a BREAKING UPDATE involving, of course, The Moonies!
Now, Prensa Latina is a Cuban-government operation that is not exactly friendly toward Washington, what with Washington trying to kill Castro for 50 years and all. But Prensa Latina didn’t invent the story. It’s all over the South American press — and not just Venezuela and Bolivia.
And here’s one from Paraguay itself.
As far as we can understand, all the paperwork and deeds and such are secret. But somehow the news leaked that a new “land trust” created for Bush had purchased nearly 100,000 acres near the town of Chaco. And Jenna’s down there having secret meetings with the president and America’s ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Bush posted Cason in Havana in 2002, but last year moved him to Paraguay.
Cason apparently gets around. A former “political adviser” to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama … basically everywhere the U.S. has run secret and not-so-secret wars over the past 30 years.
Here’s a fun question for Tony Snow: Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguyan government?
Here’s a little background on the base itself, which Rumsfeld secretly visited in late 2005:
U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay’s Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the international airport at the capital city, Asuncion.
Some 500 special forces arrived July 1 for a three-month counterterrorism training exercise, code named Operation Commando Force 6.
Paraguayan denials that Mariscal Estigarribia is now a U.S. base have met with considerable skepticism by Brazil and Argentina. There is a disturbing resemblance between U.S. denials about Mariscal Estigarribia, and similar disclaimers made by the Pentagon about Eloy Alfaro airbase in Manta , Ecuador.
The United States claimed the Manta base was a “dirt strip” used for weather surveillance. When local journalists revealed its size, however, the United States admitted the base harbored thousands of mercenaries and hundreds of U.S. troops, and Washington had signed a 10-year basing agreement with Ecuador.
BREAKING, UPDATE
We’ve been directed to yet another parapolitical theory here at Rigorous Intuition, where it is reported that Rev. Moon bought 600,000 hectares — that’s 1,482,600 acres — in the same place: Chaco, Paraguay.
Another twist: The first story, from Paraguay, apparently refers to the senior George Bush as the owner of the 98,840 acres in Moon’s neighborhood. Bush 41 was the first bigshot politician to go prancing around with Rev. Moon in public. Especially in South America:
“In the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced the Washington Times and Moon’s anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be caught at a Moon event,” wrote The Gadflyer last year. “Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that ‘brings sanity to Washington.’” That was while on an extended trip to South America in Moon’s company.
A Reuters’ story of Nov 25 of that year describes the former president as “full of praise” for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him as “the man with the vision.” (And Moon helped Bush out with his own vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure of his company.) Bush and Moon then traveled together to Uruguay, “to help him inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo, to train 4,200 young Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across Latin America.”
Oh, and both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what Paraguay’s drug czar called an “enormously strategic point in both the narcotics and arms trades.” And it sits atop the one of the world’s largest fresh-water aquifers.
Operation Commando Force 6, scheduled to go on until next month.
The whole package is part of a controversial military agreement between Paraguay and the United States endorsed by the Paraguayan Congress more than a year ago. The US Special Forces are guaranteed total immunity and diplomatic status. They are free to import and export, they don't pay any taxes, and what they trade is not subjected to any inspections. Contraband kingpins at the Triple Border would kill for a deal like that.
Source
U.S. Defense Bill Would Pay Taliban to Switch Sides
They are already paying them, in several ways. But it does not work.
Source: Reuters U.S. defense bill would pay Taliban to switch sides Tue Oct 27, 2009 * Bill includes provision to woo Taliban fighters* Plan is to emulate Iraq program* Obama plans to meet military commanders on Friday (Adds Obama's meeting with joint chiefs,...
Source: Reuters U.S. defense bill would pay Taliban to switch sides Tue Oct 27, 2009 * Bill includes provision to woo Taliban fighters* Plan is to emulate Iraq program* Obama plans to meet military commanders on Friday (Adds Obama's meeting with joint chiefs,...
Pakistani journalist claims life under threat following U.S agency expose
A Pakistani journalist claims to have been receiving life threats from a U.S agency for critically writing against the Obama administration and for reporting its secret operations in the country.
Fears of being harassed has him to use a pseudo name, S.F.A. Shah, who now fears for his life after breaking the story of the presence of Blackwater (now Xe Worldwide) in Peshawar along with Creative Associates International Inc (CAII).
He had published names of the investigation and operational heads of the agency and had unmasked the nexus of BW, FBI and CIA. He had also investigated the activities of the US Consulate in Peshawar... The Nation reports. Now a report has revealed how he was hounded out of his home and was later approached by the CIA. Read all
Ah, and speaking of Peshawar: Many dead in Peshawar explosion
At least 43 people have died and dozens were hurt by a large [Blackwater?] blast in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, doctors say. Buildings were set on fire after the blast and plumes of smoke were seen drifting over the north-western city. More than 200 people have been killed by such attacks recent weeks as the army carries out an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.
Bomb kills dozens in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton arrives
Fears of being harassed has him to use a pseudo name, S.F.A. Shah, who now fears for his life after breaking the story of the presence of Blackwater (now Xe Worldwide) in Peshawar along with Creative Associates International Inc (CAII).
He had published names of the investigation and operational heads of the agency and had unmasked the nexus of BW, FBI and CIA. He had also investigated the activities of the US Consulate in Peshawar... The Nation reports. Now a report has revealed how he was hounded out of his home and was later approached by the CIA. Read all
Ah, and speaking of Peshawar: Many dead in Peshawar explosion
At least 43 people have died and dozens were hurt by a large [Blackwater?] blast in a market in Peshawar, Pakistan, doctors say. Buildings were set on fire after the blast and plumes of smoke were seen drifting over the north-western city. More than 200 people have been killed by such attacks recent weeks as the army carries out an operation against Taliban militants in South Waziristan.
Bomb kills dozens in Pakistan as Hillary Clinton arrives
Lawyers in EU draw up list of "alleged" IDF war criminals
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1123814.html
Human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries hold lists with names of Israel Defense Forces soldiers allegedly linked to war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
Existing legislation enables arrest warrants to be issued against these officers if they enter those countries.
More: UN calls on Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes
Human rights lawyers and pro-Palestinian activists in a number of European countries hold lists with names of Israel Defense Forces soldiers allegedly linked to war crimes committed during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip.
Existing legislation enables arrest warrants to be issued against these officers if they enter those countries.
More: UN calls on Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes
US drone bombings "may" break international law: UN
"May"??? That "may" implies that bombing people "may" not be an egregious war crime??? Read the convoluted news here.
More: UN lashes out at US for drone strikes
The United Nations has warned Washington about indiscriminate use of drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it may be breaking humanitarian law. The UN rights investigator said the United States has done nothing to demonstrate that its not randomly killing civilians in violation of international law through the use of drones. TPV: US drone attack kills 27 in Pakistan. Empire Burlesque: Depraved Indifference: Drone Wars, Whack Jobs and Imperial Terror. Dawn: UN investigator warns US on use of drones.
More: UN lashes out at US for drone strikes
The United Nations has warned Washington about indiscriminate use of drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan, saying that it may be breaking humanitarian law. The UN rights investigator said the United States has done nothing to demonstrate that its not randomly killing civilians in violation of international law through the use of drones. TPV: US drone attack kills 27 in Pakistan. Empire Burlesque: Depraved Indifference: Drone Wars, Whack Jobs and Imperial Terror. Dawn: UN investigator warns US on use of drones.
CIA prevented prisoner deaths to prolong torture
Russia Today Wednesday, Oct 28th, 2009
The CIA took measures to make sure their tortured prisoners did not die – in order to continue further torturing, according to human rights lawyer John Sifton.
The CIA took measures to make sure their tortured prisoners did not die – in order to continue further torturing, according to human rights lawyer John Sifton.
Herbal Drug Crackdown: Millions Face Having to Buy Remedies on Black Market as EU Tightens the Rules
Patients could lose access to safe herbal medicines under EU rules, it was claimed yesterday.
Instead they could end up buying potentially dangerous supplies from the black market, say herbalists. Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of products for 'mild' illness, will be banned to the public under the new law to come in in 2011.' Read more...
Instead they could end up buying potentially dangerous supplies from the black market, say herbalists. Sales of all herbal remedies, except for a small number of products for 'mild' illness, will be banned to the public under the new law to come in in 2011.' Read more...
Brussels 'Home Office' Plot to Snoop on All of Europe
Brussels bureaucrats are plotting a massive expansion in the use of surveillance and controversial extradition powers, a report warned last night.At the same time they will also increase their meddling in Britain's justice system, it was claimed.
The EU wants to create its own version of the Home Office to oversee the policy changes, and even has plans to train a third of the police service to create a Blocwide 'common culture of policing'.
There would be an increased sharing of British DNA, health and tax records with foreign governments and investigators, as well as the introduction of new Big Brother surveillance techniques.
Cash from the EU's £1billion justice and home affairs budget is being used to look at whether CCTV cameras can be installed to predict whether somebody is about to commit a crime - not just to catch them if they do so. Read more...
The EU wants to create its own version of the Home Office to oversee the policy changes, and even has plans to train a third of the police service to create a Blocwide 'common culture of policing'.
There would be an increased sharing of British DNA, health and tax records with foreign governments and investigators, as well as the introduction of new Big Brother surveillance techniques.
Cash from the EU's £1billion justice and home affairs budget is being used to look at whether CCTV cameras can be installed to predict whether somebody is about to commit a crime - not just to catch them if they do so. Read more...
Baghdad Bombings and the Israeli attack to Iran
Baghdad Bombings an Inside Job
Says the governor. The bigger question here is whether US intel agencies had anything to do with this, and it's not too hard to guess "yes".
Could there be a motive for Israel to destabilize Iraq right now?
Look at the map! In spite of the deal Iran has made with Russia and France about it´s nuclear enrichment program, Israel is still threatening an attack.If Israel wants to attack Iran from it´s own territory it has to fly over Iraq. There is no other way. We know that many Shiites in Iraq sympathize with Iran. We know, that no truly sovereign Iraqi government would give Israel permission to... Read all
Does US-Israeli Missile Defense War Game Signal Israeli Attack on Iran? - Paul Craig Roberts Infowars October 28, 2009
Says the governor. The bigger question here is whether US intel agencies had anything to do with this, and it's not too hard to guess "yes".
Could there be a motive for Israel to destabilize Iraq right now?
Look at the map! In spite of the deal Iran has made with Russia and France about it´s nuclear enrichment program, Israel is still threatening an attack.If Israel wants to attack Iran from it´s own territory it has to fly over Iraq. There is no other way. We know that many Shiites in Iraq sympathize with Iran. We know, that no truly sovereign Iraqi government would give Israel permission to... Read all
Does US-Israeli Missile Defense War Game Signal Israeli Attack on Iran? - Paul Craig Roberts Infowars October 28, 2009
the "Climate Change" Scam of the Century
Must read of today, from The Daily Bell:
In a startling new book, Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists, who have pushed flawed theories on global warming for decades, now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages ... Next Thursday marks the first anniversary of one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the House of Commons. For six hours MPs debated what was far and away the most expensive piece of legislation ever put before Parliament.
The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over 80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialized economy, changing our way of life out of recognition. Even the Government had to concede that the expense of doing this - which it now admits will cost us £18 billion a year for the next 40 years - would be twice the value of its supposed benefits. Yet, astonishingly, although dozens of MPs queued up to speak in favour of the Bill, only two dared to question the need for it. It passed by 463 votes to just three.
One who voted against it was Peter Lilley who, just before the vote was taken, drew the Speaker's attention to the fact that, outside the Palace of Westminster, snow was falling, the first October snow recorded in London for 74 years. As I observed at the time: "Who says that God hasn't got a sense of humour?" - Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Global warming under attack?
Free-Market Analysis: Global warming - now climate change - is as good an example of a dominant social theme as we have got. It does seem, in writing about dominant social themes, that one is postulating a kind of conspiracy of the elite. But how else does one account for the kind of evidence that Booker presents (evident even in this article of his) except through a kind of conscious dislocation of facts - a manipulation not to put too fine a point on it.
Global warming has monetary elite fingerprints all over it. The signs are always the same: a few "prestigious" players at "prestigious" institutes discover something, or say something. The mainstream media trumpets the findings and then the political establishment takes action amidst cries for speed and haste. A "crisis" has been discovered, discussed and finally dealt with. The only trouble with such dominant social themes is that when they are built on real or manufactured evidence, and when they linger without being enshrined by legislation, they are subject to revision.
And that is just what is happening to global warming - in large part thanks to the Internet. On the ‘Net the real evidence of global warming has been exposed for what it is: elite propaganda manufactured and purveyed by a handful of scientists that one can presume are more than innocent bystanders in this production. The initial evidence was evidently manufactured or at least misinterpreted; the massive number of scientists on board with the manufactured evidence appears to be something of a charade; and finally and most inconveniently temperatures have been going DOWN for the past 10 years.
Here's some more from the article:
I have been regularly reporting on the issue in my column in The Sunday Telegraph, and this week I publish a book called The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with climate change turning out to be the most costly scientific delusion in history?It is a story that has unfolded in three stages. The first began back in the Seventies when a number of scientists noticed that the world's temperatures had been falling for 30 years, leading them to warn that we might be heading for a new ice age.
Then, in the mid-Seventies, temperatures started to rise again, and by the mid-Eighties, a still fairly small number of scientists - including some of those who had been predicting a new ice age - began to warn that we were now facing the opposite problem: a world dangerously heating up, thanks to our pumping out CO2 and all those greenhouse gases inseparable from modern civilization.
In 1988, a handful of the scientists who passionately believed in this theory won authorization from the UN to set up the body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This was the year when the scare over global warming really exploded into the headlines, thanks above all to the carefully staged testimony given to a US Senate Committee by Dr James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), also already an advocate for the theory that CO2 was causing potentially catastrophic warming.
The disaster-movie scenario that rising levels of CO2 could lead to droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and, above all, that melting of the polar ice caps, which would flood half the world's major cities, struck a rich chord. The media loved it. The environmentalists loved it. More and more politicians, led by Al Gore in the United States, jumped on the bandwagon. But easily their most influential allies were the scientists running the new IPCC, led by a Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin and Dr. John Houghton, head of the UK Met Office.
The IPCC, through its series of weighty reports, was now to become the central player in the whole story. But rarely has the true nature of any international body been more widely misrepresented. It is commonly believed that the IPCC consists of "1,500 of the world's top climate scientists", charged with weighing all the scientific evidence for and against "human-induced climate change" in order to arrive at a "consensus".
In fact, the IPCC was never intended to be anything of the kind. The vast majority of its contributors have never been climate scientists. Many are not scientists at all. And from the start, the purpose of the IPCC was not to test the theory, but to provide the most plausible case for promoting it. This was why the computer models it relied on as its chief source of evidence were all programmed to show that, as CO₂ levels continued to rise, so temperatures must inevitably follow.
One of the more startling features of the IPCC is just how few scientists have been centrally involved in guiding its findings. They have mainly been British and American, led for a long time by Dr. Houghton (knighted in 1991) as chairman of its scientific working group, who in 1990 founded the Met Office's Hadley Centre for research into climate change. The centre has continued to play a central role in selecting the IPCC's contributors to this day, and along with the Climate Research Unit run by Professor Philip Jones at the University of East Anglia, controls HadCrut, one of the four official sources of global temperature data (another of the four, GIStemp, is run by the equally committed Dr. Hansen and his British-born right-hand man, Dr. Gavin Schmidt).
With remarkable speed, from the time of its first report in 1990, the IPCC and its computer models won over many of the world's politicians, led by those of the European Union. In 1992, the UN staged its extraordinary Earth Summit in Rio, attended by 108 prime ministers and heads of state, which agreed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and this led in 1997 to the famous Kyoto Protocol, committing the world's governments to specific targets for reducing CO2.
There is something deeply and profoundly wrong with the current course of the West, and much of the problems lead to the promotions of the monetary elite. It is extremely profitable to manufacture problems - of any sort - and then to provide solutions. Demographic problems, addiction problems, declining resource problems, food problems, water problems - any problem inevitably demands an equally manufactured solution. The one thing that ordinary people are never supposed to find out is that most of the problems are phony, or at least exaggerated, and then the market itself would take care of them in due course without government action.
Conclusion: The biggest meme of all, in our opinion, is central banking, the idea that a handful of men exercising the levers of high finance are necessary to the smooth functioning of Western democracies. This is entirely untrue. Market based money - gold and silver - are adequate for the task, just as private enterprise is adequate when it comes to most functions currently embraced by government.
In a startling new book, Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists, who have pushed flawed theories on global warming for decades, now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages ... Next Thursday marks the first anniversary of one of the most remarkable events ever to take place in the House of Commons. For six hours MPs debated what was far and away the most expensive piece of legislation ever put before Parliament.
The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over 80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialized economy, changing our way of life out of recognition. Even the Government had to concede that the expense of doing this - which it now admits will cost us £18 billion a year for the next 40 years - would be twice the value of its supposed benefits. Yet, astonishingly, although dozens of MPs queued up to speak in favour of the Bill, only two dared to question the need for it. It passed by 463 votes to just three.
One who voted against it was Peter Lilley who, just before the vote was taken, drew the Speaker's attention to the fact that, outside the Palace of Westminster, snow was falling, the first October snow recorded in London for 74 years. As I observed at the time: "Who says that God hasn't got a sense of humour?" - Telegraph
Dominant Social Theme: Global warming under attack?
Free-Market Analysis: Global warming - now climate change - is as good an example of a dominant social theme as we have got. It does seem, in writing about dominant social themes, that one is postulating a kind of conspiracy of the elite. But how else does one account for the kind of evidence that Booker presents (evident even in this article of his) except through a kind of conscious dislocation of facts - a manipulation not to put too fine a point on it.
Global warming has monetary elite fingerprints all over it. The signs are always the same: a few "prestigious" players at "prestigious" institutes discover something, or say something. The mainstream media trumpets the findings and then the political establishment takes action amidst cries for speed and haste. A "crisis" has been discovered, discussed and finally dealt with. The only trouble with such dominant social themes is that when they are built on real or manufactured evidence, and when they linger without being enshrined by legislation, they are subject to revision.
And that is just what is happening to global warming - in large part thanks to the Internet. On the ‘Net the real evidence of global warming has been exposed for what it is: elite propaganda manufactured and purveyed by a handful of scientists that one can presume are more than innocent bystanders in this production. The initial evidence was evidently manufactured or at least misinterpreted; the massive number of scientists on board with the manufactured evidence appears to be something of a charade; and finally and most inconveniently temperatures have been going DOWN for the past 10 years.
Here's some more from the article:
I have been regularly reporting on the issue in my column in The Sunday Telegraph, and this week I publish a book called The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the obsession with climate change turning out to be the most costly scientific delusion in history?It is a story that has unfolded in three stages. The first began back in the Seventies when a number of scientists noticed that the world's temperatures had been falling for 30 years, leading them to warn that we might be heading for a new ice age.
Then, in the mid-Seventies, temperatures started to rise again, and by the mid-Eighties, a still fairly small number of scientists - including some of those who had been predicting a new ice age - began to warn that we were now facing the opposite problem: a world dangerously heating up, thanks to our pumping out CO2 and all those greenhouse gases inseparable from modern civilization.
In 1988, a handful of the scientists who passionately believed in this theory won authorization from the UN to set up the body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This was the year when the scare over global warming really exploded into the headlines, thanks above all to the carefully staged testimony given to a US Senate Committee by Dr James Hansen, head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), also already an advocate for the theory that CO2 was causing potentially catastrophic warming.
The disaster-movie scenario that rising levels of CO2 could lead to droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and, above all, that melting of the polar ice caps, which would flood half the world's major cities, struck a rich chord. The media loved it. The environmentalists loved it. More and more politicians, led by Al Gore in the United States, jumped on the bandwagon. But easily their most influential allies were the scientists running the new IPCC, led by a Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin and Dr. John Houghton, head of the UK Met Office.
The IPCC, through its series of weighty reports, was now to become the central player in the whole story. But rarely has the true nature of any international body been more widely misrepresented. It is commonly believed that the IPCC consists of "1,500 of the world's top climate scientists", charged with weighing all the scientific evidence for and against "human-induced climate change" in order to arrive at a "consensus".
In fact, the IPCC was never intended to be anything of the kind. The vast majority of its contributors have never been climate scientists. Many are not scientists at all. And from the start, the purpose of the IPCC was not to test the theory, but to provide the most plausible case for promoting it. This was why the computer models it relied on as its chief source of evidence were all programmed to show that, as CO₂ levels continued to rise, so temperatures must inevitably follow.
One of the more startling features of the IPCC is just how few scientists have been centrally involved in guiding its findings. They have mainly been British and American, led for a long time by Dr. Houghton (knighted in 1991) as chairman of its scientific working group, who in 1990 founded the Met Office's Hadley Centre for research into climate change. The centre has continued to play a central role in selecting the IPCC's contributors to this day, and along with the Climate Research Unit run by Professor Philip Jones at the University of East Anglia, controls HadCrut, one of the four official sources of global temperature data (another of the four, GIStemp, is run by the equally committed Dr. Hansen and his British-born right-hand man, Dr. Gavin Schmidt).
With remarkable speed, from the time of its first report in 1990, the IPCC and its computer models won over many of the world's politicians, led by those of the European Union. In 1992, the UN staged its extraordinary Earth Summit in Rio, attended by 108 prime ministers and heads of state, which agreed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and this led in 1997 to the famous Kyoto Protocol, committing the world's governments to specific targets for reducing CO2.
There is something deeply and profoundly wrong with the current course of the West, and much of the problems lead to the promotions of the monetary elite. It is extremely profitable to manufacture problems - of any sort - and then to provide solutions. Demographic problems, addiction problems, declining resource problems, food problems, water problems - any problem inevitably demands an equally manufactured solution. The one thing that ordinary people are never supposed to find out is that most of the problems are phony, or at least exaggerated, and then the market itself would take care of them in due course without government action.
Conclusion: The biggest meme of all, in our opinion, is central banking, the idea that a handful of men exercising the levers of high finance are necessary to the smooth functioning of Western democracies. This is entirely untrue. Market based money - gold and silver - are adequate for the task, just as private enterprise is adequate when it comes to most functions currently embraced by government.
More: US sovereignty and the Climate Summit
And more:
- The Real Climate Change Catastrophe
- Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?
- The Anthropogenic Global Warming Hoax Does Something Good
- Prominent Russian Scientist: ‘We should fear a deep temperature drop — not catastrophic global warming’
- The Philanthropic Roots Of Corporate Environmentalism
- £3,300 New Car Tax to be Proposed by Green Think Tank
- Climate Chief Lord Stern: Give Up Meat to Save the Planet
- Coming in December: World government
Gordon Brown to 'Buy Off' Germany and France to Get President Blair
The Prime Minister is now actively campaigning for Mr Blair to get the post.
Number 10 believes that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will add her support to the move if she is allowed to choose a German for the other new role created by the Lisbon Treaty, the high representative for foreign affairs.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French President, would be offered the chance to select a politician to take on one of the top economic portfolios, possibly the EU trade commissioner's role currently held by Britain.' Read more...
The EU is preparing for indirect taxation of the Europeans via telephone calls , flight tickets, CO2-tolls, financial transactions etc., 6.4 bn euros
Councils Get ‘Al Capone’ Power to Seize Assets Over Minor Offences
Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt.
The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.
The measure, being pushed through by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, comes into force next week and will deploy some of the most powerful tools available to detectives against fare dodgers, families in arrears with council tax and other minor offenders.' Read more...
More: Secret Plan For Euro Income Tax
Secret plans to seize more than £4billion a year from Britain and make its citizens pay taxes direct to Europe emerged last night.
The leaked proposals, seen by the Daily Express, state that Britain should lose the billions of pounds in rebate that was agreed by Margaret Thatcher 25 years ago.
The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.They would also mean Brussels being given the power to dip straight into taxpayers’ pockets.
The proposals prompted fury last night.' Read more...
And more: The EU is preparing for indirect taxation of the Europeans via telephone calls , flight tickets, CO2-tolls, financial transactions etc., 6.4 bn euros a year on a total. A majority of the British want to leave the EU.
Draconian police powers designed to deprive crime barons of luxury lifestyles are being extended to councils, quangos and agencies to use against the public, The Times has learnt.
The right to search homes, seize cash, freeze bank accounts and confiscate property will be given to town hall officials and civilian investigators employed by organisations as diverse as Royal Mail, the Rural Payments Agency and Transport for London.
The measure, being pushed through by Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, comes into force next week and will deploy some of the most powerful tools available to detectives against fare dodgers, families in arrears with council tax and other minor offenders.' Read more...
More: Secret Plan For Euro Income Tax
Secret plans to seize more than £4billion a year from Britain and make its citizens pay taxes direct to Europe emerged last night.
The leaked proposals, seen by the Daily Express, state that Britain should lose the billions of pounds in rebate that was agreed by Margaret Thatcher 25 years ago.
The plans – with a foreword by European Union Commissioner Jose Manuel Barroso – would cost every British family at least £155 a year.They would also mean Brussels being given the power to dip straight into taxpayers’ pockets.
The proposals prompted fury last night.' Read more...
And more: The EU is preparing for indirect taxation of the Europeans via telephone calls , flight tickets, CO2-tolls, financial transactions etc., 6.4 bn euros a year on a total. A majority of the British want to leave the EU.
Iran: Fate of $66 Billion in Oil Revenues Unknown
By Rooz Online
While the Ahmadinejad administration is accused by the State Audit Organization to have engaged in massive financial fraud, reports surfaced yesterday in domestic media outlets indicating the size of the ninth administration's fraudulent dealings to have far exceeded what had been commonly thought until now.
According to Farda website which is closely affiliated to Tehran's mayor, the difference between Ahmadinejad administration's revenues and the amount deposited with Iran's Central Bank exceeds $66 billion. This is a large number as it is equal one-tenth of Iran's total oil revenues since the 1979 revolution. According to statistics, the largest instances of such unprecedented violations took place in the areas of imported goods and customs. While the Central Bank has determined that nearly $220 billion worth of goods have been imported into the country in the past four years, the customs administration has claimed that only $185 billion worth of goods came in. This $35 billion difference constitutes the largest discrepancy in allegations of financial fraud involving Ahmadinejad's Principalist administration.
The second large instance relates to the export of oil, which constitutes the Islamic Republic's largest source of revenue. According to the Iran's Central Bank, revenues generated by the sale of oil from 2005 to 2008 were close to $280 billion, but the Ahmadinejad administration's oil ministry has announced the number to be $255 billion.
Although the $25 billion discrepancy is not as large as the one involving those in the import of goods area, it constitutes the second largest item of financial irregularity involving the Ahmadinejad administration.The third item of difference exposed by comparing the report generated by the Central Bank, the highest financial authority in the Islamic Republic, and the Principalist administration's figures is a $2.6 billion difference in the amount of non-oil exports. The reports also expose a $3 billion difference in the foreign exchange reserves account based on data published by the central bank's official publication, "Ravand." While the central bank calculates that about $28 billion must be remaining in the foreign exchange reserves account, only $25 billion is currently in the account.
This report was published while the Ahmadinejad administration has repeatedly been accused by its conservative and reformist clerics of misappropriating oil revenues through illegal and non-transparent financial maneuvers.
... Payvand News - 10/27/09 ... --
While the Ahmadinejad administration is accused by the State Audit Organization to have engaged in massive financial fraud, reports surfaced yesterday in domestic media outlets indicating the size of the ninth administration's fraudulent dealings to have far exceeded what had been commonly thought until now.
According to Farda website which is closely affiliated to Tehran's mayor, the difference between Ahmadinejad administration's revenues and the amount deposited with Iran's Central Bank exceeds $66 billion. This is a large number as it is equal one-tenth of Iran's total oil revenues since the 1979 revolution. According to statistics, the largest instances of such unprecedented violations took place in the areas of imported goods and customs. While the Central Bank has determined that nearly $220 billion worth of goods have been imported into the country in the past four years, the customs administration has claimed that only $185 billion worth of goods came in. This $35 billion difference constitutes the largest discrepancy in allegations of financial fraud involving Ahmadinejad's Principalist administration.
The second large instance relates to the export of oil, which constitutes the Islamic Republic's largest source of revenue. According to the Iran's Central Bank, revenues generated by the sale of oil from 2005 to 2008 were close to $280 billion, but the Ahmadinejad administration's oil ministry has announced the number to be $255 billion.
Although the $25 billion discrepancy is not as large as the one involving those in the import of goods area, it constitutes the second largest item of financial irregularity involving the Ahmadinejad administration.The third item of difference exposed by comparing the report generated by the Central Bank, the highest financial authority in the Islamic Republic, and the Principalist administration's figures is a $2.6 billion difference in the amount of non-oil exports. The reports also expose a $3 billion difference in the foreign exchange reserves account based on data published by the central bank's official publication, "Ravand." While the central bank calculates that about $28 billion must be remaining in the foreign exchange reserves account, only $25 billion is currently in the account.
This report was published while the Ahmadinejad administration has repeatedly been accused by its conservative and reformist clerics of misappropriating oil revenues through illegal and non-transparent financial maneuvers.
... Payvand News - 10/27/09 ... --
More bad news for imperialism from Afghanistan
From Juan Cole, Informed Comment 10/28/2009:
Gunmen stormed a UN guest house in Kabul, deploying small arms fire and killing 3 UN staff members along with 4 other persons.
A Taliban spokesman said his group was behind the attack and that it was aimed at disrupting the Nov. 7 presidential runoff election. At the same time, a rocket slammed into a five star hotel in Kabul.
Heavy gunfire reverberated through the streets shortly after dawn and a large plume of smoke rose over the city following the attack on the hostel in the Shar-e-Naw district. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahman said seven people were killed, including some attackers.
The killing of 8 US troops by roadside bombs on Tuesday has brought the number of US troops slain in October in Afghanistan to 55, making this the deadliest month so far in the 8-year US war in that country. The US currently has 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, in addition to NATO forces.
AP has video
Matthew Hoh, a former Marine and a Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan has resigned in protest against the conduct of the US war in Afghanistan, the first such FSO known to have done so. He protests that we are simply propping up a corrupt and feckless urban-based government that is being opposed by a rural religious-nationalist movement, and that we are highly unlikely to succeed in settling this three decades-old conflict.
Karen DeYoung of WaPo reports that Hoh believes many Pashtun guerrillas have taken up arms against the US and NATO simply because these foreign troops are in their country, so that we are generating the conflict we say we are ameliorating.
Underlying Hoh's point about corruption, the NYT reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, who has been accused of involvement in the drug trade, has for some years been on the CIA payroll.
So it makes you wonder, has the US been winking at Ahmed Wali's alleged drug running because he is an asset who is doing something for Washington? If so, how far up does this operation extend? Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam every day.
Meanwhile, Washington is abuzz with plans and counter-plans on Afghanistan. They include paying the Taliban not to fight the US, focusing mainly on Pakistan, and withdrawing US troops to the major cities.The Soviets more or less withdrew to the cities in the mid-1980s, and it didn't stop them from being forced ultimately to withdraw from the country.
And they even had loyal Communist Party cadres and large numbers of urban women on their side. I doubt there is any similar genuine support group for US and NATO presence in the country, though the Tajiks don't so far seem to mind it the way elements among the Pashtuns do.
What I still don't hear is what the objective of the war is, and how it will be accomplished in some reasonable time frame. If the objective is that Pashtun tribesmen shouldn't feud with each other and with their government, and should become secularized, then this really is a 40-year war.
Gunmen stormed a UN guest house in Kabul, deploying small arms fire and killing 3 UN staff members along with 4 other persons.
A Taliban spokesman said his group was behind the attack and that it was aimed at disrupting the Nov. 7 presidential runoff election. At the same time, a rocket slammed into a five star hotel in Kabul.
Heavy gunfire reverberated through the streets shortly after dawn and a large plume of smoke rose over the city following the attack on the hostel in the Shar-e-Naw district. Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahman said seven people were killed, including some attackers.
The killing of 8 US troops by roadside bombs on Tuesday has brought the number of US troops slain in October in Afghanistan to 55, making this the deadliest month so far in the 8-year US war in that country. The US currently has 66,000 troops in Afghanistan, in addition to NATO forces.
AP has video
Matthew Hoh, a former Marine and a Foreign Service officer in Afghanistan has resigned in protest against the conduct of the US war in Afghanistan, the first such FSO known to have done so. He protests that we are simply propping up a corrupt and feckless urban-based government that is being opposed by a rural religious-nationalist movement, and that we are highly unlikely to succeed in settling this three decades-old conflict.
Karen DeYoung of WaPo reports that Hoh believes many Pashtun guerrillas have taken up arms against the US and NATO simply because these foreign troops are in their country, so that we are generating the conflict we say we are ameliorating.
Underlying Hoh's point about corruption, the NYT reports that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai, who has been accused of involvement in the drug trade, has for some years been on the CIA payroll.
So it makes you wonder, has the US been winking at Ahmed Wali's alleged drug running because he is an asset who is doing something for Washington? If so, how far up does this operation extend? Afghanistan looks more like Vietnam every day.
Meanwhile, Washington is abuzz with plans and counter-plans on Afghanistan. They include paying the Taliban not to fight the US, focusing mainly on Pakistan, and withdrawing US troops to the major cities.The Soviets more or less withdrew to the cities in the mid-1980s, and it didn't stop them from being forced ultimately to withdraw from the country.
And they even had loyal Communist Party cadres and large numbers of urban women on their side. I doubt there is any similar genuine support group for US and NATO presence in the country, though the Tajiks don't so far seem to mind it the way elements among the Pashtuns do.
What I still don't hear is what the objective of the war is, and how it will be accomplished in some reasonable time frame. If the objective is that Pashtun tribesmen shouldn't feud with each other and with their government, and should become secularized, then this really is a 40-year war.
A Stronger IMF and World Bank
From Voltairenet.org, 22 October 2009
by Damien Millet*, Eric Toussaint*, Renaud Vivien*
The G-20, the self-proclaimed global regulation authority, has decided to bolster the capacity of the FMI and the World Bank to siphon the wealth from the South in order to solve the crisis in the North. In an effort to conceal the ruthlessness of this policy, at their Istanbul meeting the international institutions agreed to give the IMF a new face while leaving intact the voting principles of its General Assembly. The leaders of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) denounce this consequential widening of world imbalances.
The annual meetings of the IMF and of the World Bank in Istanbul ended in a climate of repression. For the second consecutive day, the 10,000 policemen who had been called upon for the occasion used water cannons, tear gas and tanks against demonstrators. The same scenario had been played out at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, where demonstrations against this G8 substitute were also violently repressed by police forces.
The IMF and the WB held these controversial meetings only days after the G20’s decision to change the voting rights within these two institutions: 5% of the IMF quotas and 3% of the voting rights at the WB assembly are to be transferred to emerging and developing countries by January 2011.
The current voting system was challenged both by countries of the South and by social movements: it relies on the “1 dollar = one vote” rule, contrary to the UN General Assembly where each country has only one vote.
For the IMF’s Managing Director, the French socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, these are “historic decisions”. Yet for CADTM, this is but a grim joke. Indeed, this modification does not change the power relationships within the two institutions at all. For instance, China, one of the main beneficiaries of the change, now has about 3% of the voting rights, far behind the United States, which holds over 16%, giving it de facto veto power on all major decisions.
The Rwanda group, representing 24 Subsaharan African countries and some 225 million people, holds 1.39 % of the voting rights! No need to be a keen mathematician to understand that these media-hyped pseudo-reforms will not turn the IMF and the WB into democratic organisations.
Can they ever become democratic considering that the present system cannot be changed without the US’s consent? To make things worse, since 1944, according to a tacit agreement, the WB’s President has always been a US citizen while the director of the IMF has always been a European. Such power-sharing combined with a deeply antidemocratic allocation of voting rights is evidence that the IMF and the WB are tools in the hands of Western powers in order to impose self-serving policies upon the rest of the world.
After a severe crisis of legitimacy the WB and the IMF have been given a new lease of life thanks to the global crisis. From 2004 to 2008, a significant rise in commodity prices increased the currency reserves of some developing countries, which could then repay their debts to these creditors in advance and thus shake off their cumbersome guardianship. But since the end of 2008, the global crisis has radically changed the situation.
The list of badly hit countries keeps getting longer and the G20 has restored the IMF and the WB as key actors in the global game. Romania yielded to IMF pressure and implemented anti-welfare policies such as a 15% cut in civil servants’ incomes, in order to receive a loan to deal with short-term emergencies. The same has occurred in about fifteen countries since 2008. The World Bank has benefited from the environment crisis by setting up several climate investment funds, though it continues to finance deforestation and mining projects.
Over the course of 2008, funds for clean energy were five times lower than those dedicated to non-renewable energy, the amount of which rose by over 165%. [1]
Next, the G20, a self-proclaimed global regulation authority, played a decisive part in the attempt to restore the IMF’s legitimacy as it trebled the resources made available to this institution at the London summit last April [2] and enlarged its missions as an outcome of the Pittsburgh Summit. [3]
The IMF has thus been placed at the heart of efforts to monitor the global economy “to promote international financial stability and to strengthen economic growth”. At the Istanbul summit it was decided to “reassess the IMF’s mandate to include all macroeconomic policies and policies related to the financial industry that influence global economic stability.” It will thus have to “recommend economic policies to countries, which will have to take adapted corrective measures”. It’s easy to guess what the IMF’s recommendations will be. In June 2009 the IMF commented on policies implemented in the Euro zone: “measures taken to support shorter working hours and raise social benefits—while important to shore up incomes and keep the labour force attached to the labour market—should have built-in reversibility”. [4]
The WB report “Doing Business 2010” is even more explicit since it warns countries against social protection programmes and calls governments that develop them ‘anti-competitive’. [5] In spite of its repeated failures, the Washington Consensus, a kind of code for neoliberalism, still is the IMF’s and the WB’s tall order to countries that ask for their ’help’.
Yet the failure of structural adjustment policies implemented in countries of the South since the 1982 debt crisis should have been sufficient to censure them: poverty and inequalities have grown while the issue of debt is anything but solved. Worse still, a new crisis of debt is brewing, which will increase the proportion of national budgets dedicated to repaying creditors. This will happen unless governments decide to suspend payment so as to meet fundamental human needs and to launch a large-scale audit of their debts in order to unconditionally cancel the illegitimate portion of them, which did not benefit the people. An audit of this kind would be a first and crucial challenge to the grizzly policies enforced by the IMF and the WB. We must now demand that they be replaced by institutions that truly care for the people’s interests.
Damien Millet
Secretary-General of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). He is co-author of Who Owes Who? 50 Questions about World Debt, Zed Books, London, 2004.This author's articles To send a message
Eric Toussaint
President of CADTM in Belgium (Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World’s Debt). Its last book publihed in english is World Bank: A Critical Primer Pluto Press / Between the lines / David Philip Publisher, London - Toronto - Cape Town, 2008 .This author's articles To send a message Renaud Vivien
Member of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). This author's articles To send a message
[1] ’Climate bank’ or ’fossil fuel bank’?, Srabani Roy, 29 septembre 2008, in Bretton Woods Project.
[2] A G20 Meeting for Naught, by Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet, Voltaire Network, 9 April 2009.
[3] G20 Summit - Leaders’ Statement : The Pittsburgh Summit, Pittsburgh, 25 September 2009.
[4] "Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission on Euro-Area Policies", IMF, 8 June 2009.
[5] Doing Business 2010: World Bank Discourages Extension of Social Protection, by the International Trade Union Confederation, 9 September 2009.
by Damien Millet*, Eric Toussaint*, Renaud Vivien*
The G-20, the self-proclaimed global regulation authority, has decided to bolster the capacity of the FMI and the World Bank to siphon the wealth from the South in order to solve the crisis in the North. In an effort to conceal the ruthlessness of this policy, at their Istanbul meeting the international institutions agreed to give the IMF a new face while leaving intact the voting principles of its General Assembly. The leaders of the CADTM (Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt) denounce this consequential widening of world imbalances.
The annual meetings of the IMF and of the World Bank in Istanbul ended in a climate of repression. For the second consecutive day, the 10,000 policemen who had been called upon for the occasion used water cannons, tear gas and tanks against demonstrators. The same scenario had been played out at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, where demonstrations against this G8 substitute were also violently repressed by police forces.
The IMF and the WB held these controversial meetings only days after the G20’s decision to change the voting rights within these two institutions: 5% of the IMF quotas and 3% of the voting rights at the WB assembly are to be transferred to emerging and developing countries by January 2011.
The current voting system was challenged both by countries of the South and by social movements: it relies on the “1 dollar = one vote” rule, contrary to the UN General Assembly where each country has only one vote.
For the IMF’s Managing Director, the French socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn, these are “historic decisions”. Yet for CADTM, this is but a grim joke. Indeed, this modification does not change the power relationships within the two institutions at all. For instance, China, one of the main beneficiaries of the change, now has about 3% of the voting rights, far behind the United States, which holds over 16%, giving it de facto veto power on all major decisions.
The Rwanda group, representing 24 Subsaharan African countries and some 225 million people, holds 1.39 % of the voting rights! No need to be a keen mathematician to understand that these media-hyped pseudo-reforms will not turn the IMF and the WB into democratic organisations.
Can they ever become democratic considering that the present system cannot be changed without the US’s consent? To make things worse, since 1944, according to a tacit agreement, the WB’s President has always been a US citizen while the director of the IMF has always been a European. Such power-sharing combined with a deeply antidemocratic allocation of voting rights is evidence that the IMF and the WB are tools in the hands of Western powers in order to impose self-serving policies upon the rest of the world.
After a severe crisis of legitimacy the WB and the IMF have been given a new lease of life thanks to the global crisis. From 2004 to 2008, a significant rise in commodity prices increased the currency reserves of some developing countries, which could then repay their debts to these creditors in advance and thus shake off their cumbersome guardianship. But since the end of 2008, the global crisis has radically changed the situation.
The list of badly hit countries keeps getting longer and the G20 has restored the IMF and the WB as key actors in the global game. Romania yielded to IMF pressure and implemented anti-welfare policies such as a 15% cut in civil servants’ incomes, in order to receive a loan to deal with short-term emergencies. The same has occurred in about fifteen countries since 2008. The World Bank has benefited from the environment crisis by setting up several climate investment funds, though it continues to finance deforestation and mining projects.
Over the course of 2008, funds for clean energy were five times lower than those dedicated to non-renewable energy, the amount of which rose by over 165%. [1]
Next, the G20, a self-proclaimed global regulation authority, played a decisive part in the attempt to restore the IMF’s legitimacy as it trebled the resources made available to this institution at the London summit last April [2] and enlarged its missions as an outcome of the Pittsburgh Summit. [3]
The IMF has thus been placed at the heart of efforts to monitor the global economy “to promote international financial stability and to strengthen economic growth”. At the Istanbul summit it was decided to “reassess the IMF’s mandate to include all macroeconomic policies and policies related to the financial industry that influence global economic stability.” It will thus have to “recommend economic policies to countries, which will have to take adapted corrective measures”. It’s easy to guess what the IMF’s recommendations will be. In June 2009 the IMF commented on policies implemented in the Euro zone: “measures taken to support shorter working hours and raise social benefits—while important to shore up incomes and keep the labour force attached to the labour market—should have built-in reversibility”. [4]
The WB report “Doing Business 2010” is even more explicit since it warns countries against social protection programmes and calls governments that develop them ‘anti-competitive’. [5] In spite of its repeated failures, the Washington Consensus, a kind of code for neoliberalism, still is the IMF’s and the WB’s tall order to countries that ask for their ’help’.
Yet the failure of structural adjustment policies implemented in countries of the South since the 1982 debt crisis should have been sufficient to censure them: poverty and inequalities have grown while the issue of debt is anything but solved. Worse still, a new crisis of debt is brewing, which will increase the proportion of national budgets dedicated to repaying creditors. This will happen unless governments decide to suspend payment so as to meet fundamental human needs and to launch a large-scale audit of their debts in order to unconditionally cancel the illegitimate portion of them, which did not benefit the people. An audit of this kind would be a first and crucial challenge to the grizzly policies enforced by the IMF and the WB. We must now demand that they be replaced by institutions that truly care for the people’s interests.
Damien Millet
Secretary-General of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). He is co-author of Who Owes Who? 50 Questions about World Debt, Zed Books, London, 2004.This author's articles To send a message
Eric Toussaint
President of CADTM in Belgium (Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World’s Debt). Its last book publihed in english is World Bank: A Critical Primer Pluto Press / Between the lines / David Philip Publisher, London - Toronto - Cape Town, 2008 .This author's articles To send a message Renaud Vivien
Member of the Committee for the Abolition of the Third World Debt (CADTM). This author's articles To send a message
[1] ’Climate bank’ or ’fossil fuel bank’?, Srabani Roy, 29 septembre 2008, in Bretton Woods Project.
[2] A G20 Meeting for Naught, by Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet, Voltaire Network, 9 April 2009.
[3] G20 Summit - Leaders’ Statement : The Pittsburgh Summit, Pittsburgh, 25 September 2009.
[4] "Concluding Statement of the IMF Mission on Euro-Area Policies", IMF, 8 June 2009.
[5] Doing Business 2010: World Bank Discourages Extension of Social Protection, by the International Trade Union Confederation, 9 September 2009.
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