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#10801 From: nathaniel x vance <broali4xa@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 3:34 am
Subject: Help Repeal Unjust Racist Crack Cocaine Sentences
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Help Repeal Unjust Racist Crack Cocaine Sentences
One of the most glaring injustices in US drug policy is the infamous crack/powder sentencing disparity, in which possession of a mere five grams of crack cocaine draws a five-year mandatory minimum sentence under federal law. It takes 100 times as much powder cocaine, 500 grams, to get the same sentence. The law has been applied in a racially disparate fashion since it was enacted 23 years ago, but reform efforts have mostly stalled.

 Until this year, that is. Last July the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives approved H.R. 3245, the Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act of 2009. In October, a similar bill was introduced in the Senate, S. 1789.

 Please call your US Representative and your two US Senators to urge their strongest possible support for the Fairness in Cocaine Sentencing Act. The number for the Capitol Switchboard and your legislators is (202) 224-3121, or click here to look them up online. Whether you call today or not, please use our online form at this web page to email your Rep. and Senators too.
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#10800 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 2:56 am
Subject: Fw: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
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Howdie Peter.
 
Thanks for your worthy comments!  This is going to my groups as well!

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Peter Rogers <peterog@...> wrote:

From: Peter Rogers <peterog@...>
Subject: Fw: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
To: "Marie Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>, "VIP Friends" <vipfriends@...>
Cc:
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:14 PM

Hi Marie,
 
Yes, Barry Obama's #1 co-commie partner in crime, one Nancy Pelosi !
 
Great man, great American, is Mr. Dennis Guthrie..   I hope that his spot-on letter to the Speaker, Ms. Pelosi- did indeed reach her eyes...  I don't think she has a humble bone in her body, so the meaning will go in one ear and out the other.. Not so, with many Americans who may have a chance to read Mr. Guthrie's words- and join the rising tide of aware Americans who are fed up with Commie Rat Obama, and his entire cabinet- not to exclude Madam Speaker herself....
 
With hopes for a real Victory for the American People over these Jackass politicians, who dare call themselves Americans !
 
Pete Rogers
(San Clemente, Calif)
 
P.S. note to Obama:  "NO MORE  TROOPS  to the killing fields of Afghanistan"... Bring home all the Military troops who are illegally  deployed there and elsewhere in the world..  Bring them home to stay. NOW  !!!

--- On Wed, 12/2/09, Marie M. Buchanan <mariemartine1966@...> wrote:

From: Marie M. Buchanan <mariemartine1966@...>
Subject: Fw: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
To: "WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE" <WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 5:36 PM



Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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From: midenise <midenise@...>
Subject: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@...
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 1:53 AM

 
I asked a few of you to put me in touch with San Francisco movers&shakers, with an eye toward keeping Nancy in California after 2010. I got a few answers which didn't much help.
Now I send the same request to all of you. Please, either send me email addresses or forward this to honchos in S.F., who might be game to contact me.
Milton.
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----- Original Message -----
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#10799 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 1:44 am
Subject: Fw: Servants of the Czar.
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Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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Everything we type may be used against us to detain us in a secret prison,
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----- Original Message -----
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#10798 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 1:36 am
Subject: Fw: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
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Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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Ph. 1:21, Rev. 20:4)
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legislative oversight. We in this country have no recourse or protection.
Everything we type may be used against us to detain us in a secret prison,
where we will be held without right of habeas corpus or right to trial by
jury.


--- On Wed, 12/2/09, midenise <midenise@...> wrote:

From: midenise <midenise@...>
Subject: Bad news for Barry's cover girl of the year.
To: Undisclosed-Recipient@...
Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 1:53 AM

 
I asked a few of you to put me in touch with San Francisco movers&shakers, with an eye toward keeping Nancy in California after 2010. I got a few answers which didn't much help.
Now I send the same request to all of you. Please, either send me email addresses or forward this to honchos in S.F., who might be game to contact me.
Milton.
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----- Original Message -----
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#10797 From: nathaniel x vance <broali4xa@...>
Date: Thu Dec 3, 2009 12:02 am
Subject: What is really causing CLIMATE-CHANGE: CO2, The Sun, or PX?
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Is the CLIMATE-GATE cover-up about to go BUST!

 Are we the blind highly gullible public being fooled and dumb-downed on purpose by the rulers of darkness to hide the real reason for planet earth climate-change?
But Why?

The simple answer is hell yeah, and here is the real reason why!

CNN  Mr. Jack Cafferty chimes suggesting that Climate Change is NOT caused by CO2 emissions!
______________________________________________________________

Al Gore called global warming "An Inconvenient Truth"... but suddenly a lot of people are asking what the truth really is. It's been dubbed ClimateGate.<http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/12/02/has-scientific-community-has-been-honest-about-global-warming/ >  CNN: caffertyfile,  Has scientific community been honest about global warming?

ZetaTalk: When Lies Fail  [written Feb 17, 2006]

When the cover-ups on the alien presence and the approach of Planet X first started, back in the days of Roswell, this was to be primarily supression of information, along with some fear inducing disinformation to keep people from pursuing the matter. UFO's were routinely called swamp gas and weather balloons, and the CIA spread rumors of aliens in underground chambers eating human body parts floating in vats. This involved NASA air brushing UFO's out of photos, suppression of real UFO sightings in the news, project Blue Book, government sponsored skeptics prominent in the media, and faked eye witness reports. This is still the mode today, almost 60 years later, though the mechanisms have failed. They were overrun with genuine reports of contactee experiences, many using the Internet to spread the word, and mass sightings where thousands would view a UFO blitz, simultaneously, so the news seeped past the media suppression, forcing the media to address the issue to avoid the appearance of a controlled suppression. What is to be learned from the breakdown of the cover-up on the alien presence? Sheer volume of information, truth, overruns and counters a cover-up and disinformation.
How might this apply to the cover-up on Planet X? Unlike the alien presence, which was palpable at the time of Roswell, presenting itself with crashed ships and alien bodies and front page news coverage, Planet X was not expected to become an issue for decades. They had time. Thus, the cover-up has not yet broken down by the sheer volumn of information, or truth countering disinformation, but this process is evident. The plan was to claim and blame an erratic Sun for magnetic irregularities, asteroid swarms to explain the increase in fireballs, global warming to explain the melting glaciers and poles, and periodic climate change to cover weather irregularities. Since panic in the public could be assumed to be a national security threat, coercing the media and scientists and those in the know to cooperate with the cover-up was simply a matter of imposing a nation security oath on anyone needed to cooperate. But they did not know what to expect, nor could they imagine what to expect, and thus there are holes in the plan. Lies come with many faces.
More at:
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http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta262.htm>


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salaam  akwaaba  jambo  ashogee


#10796 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 11:10 am
Subject: The Dollar Bubble
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The Dollar Bubble: Starring Peter Schiff, Ron Paul, Marc Faber, Gerald Celente, Jim Rogers, and others.

Prepare now for the U.S. dollar collapse.

YouTube - The Dollar Bubble
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=eZA0qNsf4m0





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#10795 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Wed Dec 2, 2009 12:50 am
Subject: Fwd: Tea - **Wake Up White Boy**
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--- On Tue, 12/1/09, Marie <mariemartine1966@...> wrote:

From: Marie <mariemartine1966@...>
Subject: Fwd: Tea - **Wake Up White Boy**
To: mariemartine1966@...
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 4:30 PM

--- In call4investigation@yahoogroups.com, "Jade_Iconoclast" <Jade@...> wrote:

Re:Tea - **Wake Up White Boy**


That's right, the so called "hate laws" of ADL origin do NOT protect
whites against racial violence at all. ADL is a branch of B'nai B'rith,which is a comasonic org founded by Rothschild clan. So, it's NWO policy being exposed there.

Black rapper JZ has been advertizing his masonic affiliation lately
via hand signs and symbolisms in tv ads. His current video is
disturbing, showing blacks with bandanas covering thier faces, and
weapons in hand, and one demonstrates how to make and throw a molotov
coctail. It's obviously a no whites allowed party of wickedness. It
made me want an assault rifle handy at all times.

That's the masonic goal... divide along racial lines, encouraging a
violent attitude, to distract from the real enemies in the secret
societies which have hijacked govs via organized infiltration, and it
aids the depopulation agenda.

Those of african genes are better off than they would be if they'd
not been brought to the USA, but there's a collective hatred from blacks I've been encountering more and more in recent years. Those who've been to jail n the big city know that the blacks in jail are seriously hostile to whites, bullying whites.

It's like La Raza,with their plan to reclaim the SW of the USA for
Mexico, and divide the USA into racial sections, which is the same
agenda of the masonic run white supremecist groups to make the NW a
whites only zone.

The masonic plan is to literally divide up the sabotaged ruined USA,
and absorb it into the dying world disorder NWO. Serious times now, as their orchestrated treasons have serious effects.
††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††

Amendment 10 negates unconstitutional fed powers, like the 1947
National Security Act, UNpatriot Acts, international "agreements", &
federal police agencies like DHS/FBI/BATF/DEA. Federal referendums =
power to the people, once elections are unrigged.
Rev 19:11/19, Isaiah 24:21-22, Matt.13:49-50, Psalm 110:1-6 KJV (109
other versions), Ephesians 6:12, 2 Kings 10:19-30 KJV (4 Kings oher
versions)... then consider the VIPs doing Baalist rituals at Bohemian
Grove!

----- Original Message -----

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To: teaparty@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Tea - Fw: **Wake Up White Boy**


      I agree. More so for the ones instilling the hatred for whites in blacks.

      This is part of a divide and conquer strategy. When you look at how these people are raised because of government programs that release them from the normal activities that force self training of discipline, self restraint and logic you see why these people can act this way. It is not race based because of genetic or other organic factors but because they see and are given by government an easier path than the schooling or apprenticeship most white parents demand their children undertake and succeed at. Parents on welfare create children full of hate for those that have and are going through the normal course of growing up as moral adults, in other words whites. It is those behind the scenes that are our real enemies.



#10794 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
Date: Tue Dec 1, 2009 11:54 pm
Subject: Eisenhower 1952 Birth-Certificate Fraud Revealed
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

By Don Nicoloff

November 29, 2009

It seems that in 2009 we do not have to go far in finding the Truth. The
Truth has its own way of finding us.

After discovering the true identities of "George Herbert Walker Bush, Sr."
(aka George H. Scherff, Jr.) [see "Deathbed confessions, photos support
claims that George H. Scherff, Jr. was the 41st U.S. President," Part 1 and
Part 2" The Idaho Observer, April, 2007], "Senator John Sydney McCain, III"
(aka John McCann, II) and "Barack Hussein Obama" (aka Barry Soetoro and
Barry Rockefeller) [see "The Three Stooges go to Washington, Parts 1-7b, The
Idaho Observer, May 20, 2008-July 18, 2009], it should come as no surprise
that another U.S. president has been caught in several lies that warrant
forensic investigation of his genealogy.

A recently-discovered 1952 Texas newspaper clipping, from either The Denison
Herald or The Sherman Democrat, describes a birth certificate controversy
which involved then-U.S. Presidential candidate Gen. Dwight D. "Ike"
Eisenhower. Eisenhower went on to become the 34th President of the United
States, serving two terms before leaving office in 1961.

Another birth certificate scandal

Eisenhower was allegedly born on October 14, 1890 in Denison, Texas. After
receiving a letter from an undisclosed New York law firm during the 1952
presidential campaign, Harold Schmitzer, the Denison City Secretary replied
that Eisenhower did not have a birth certificate filed with with the Grayson
County Clerk's Office [a now-familiar pattern in U.S. presidential
genealogies] . Lonnie F. Roberts, having read a Denison newspaper article
that described Eisenhower's unrecorded birth, checked with the county
clerk's office in Sherman, Texas to see if there was a recorded birth
certificate. The clerk's office said that there was no such recording.

Roberts then requested compiled birth information from Gen. Eisenhower
through Mamie Eisenhower in Denver, Colorado. The information was entered
into a formal, legal birth certificate and sent to Arthur B. Eisenhower (in
Kansas City, Missouri) to be notarized as an official witness to the birth.
Judge J. N. Dickson (the source of the newspaper archive) signed the
certificate which was recorded by County Clerk J.C. Buchanan. Once the
certificate was recorded, it was sent back to Mrs. Eisenhower.

If there ever existed a further public controversy regarding Eisenhower's
birthplace, it was definitely quashed. However, sufficient biographical
accounts have been written in an attempt to legitimize Dwight D.
Eisenhower's birth in Denison, Texas, a fact that few dare dispute - that
is, until now.

Eisenhower's 'smoking cannon': A Texas newspaper article

The following is a verbatim transcription of the aforementioned article
found in a Denison, TX newspaper, "Ike Gets Birth Certificate; Filed In
Courthouse Here," whose publisher/author is/are (currently) unknown:

'Ike Gets Birth Certificate; Filed In Courthouse Here'

'Dwight David Eisenhower now has a birth certificate officially recorded
in the office of the County Clerk, Grayson County, Texas. The certificate
was signed Wednesday by County Judge J.N. Dickson and recorded by County
Clerk J.C. Buchanan. It is the first official notation of Eisenhower's birth
Oct. 14, 1890, in Denison.

The filing came about through a long process. A New York law firm wrote
Harold Schmitzer, Denison City Secretary, asking if Eisenhower has a birth
certificate registered in that city. Schmitzer replied there was none. A
Denison newspaper carried a story saying Eisenhower's birth had never been
recorded.

Lonnie F. Roberts read the story and checked with the county clerk's
office in Sherman, who told him there was no birth certificate recorded for
the Republican presidential nominee.

Roberts wrote Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower in Denver, Colo., asking if she
would compile the birth information from the general. Mrs. Eisenhower wrote
Roberts that I was very amused when he learned he had never been "born"
officially.

As soon as Roberts received the information from Mrs. Eisenhower he drew
up a formal, legal birth certificate which he sent to Ike's brother, Arthur
B. Eisenhower, in Kansas City, Mo.

Arthur Eisenhower swore that Ike was born at the time and place stated,
but was not sure about the time of day. Mildred B. Burgess, notary public in
Jackson County, Mo., notarized Arthur Eisenhower's signature.

Roberts received the elder Eisenhower's reply Wednesday, and promptly
brought the document to Sherman for recording.

He is now sending the certificate back to Mrs. Eisenhower.'

Eisenhower's political 'guardian angel'

It is apparent that Lonnie F. Roberts either had enough political clout or
was instructed to create a birth certificate on Dwight D. Eisenhower's
behalf. Who was Lonnie F. Roberts? How is it that he was able to circumvent
Texas and Federal law, the Federal Elections Commission, and the U.S.
Constitution, fraudulently creating a birth certificate by using the U.S.
Post Office, a few biased relatives, and a Texas judge? Judge Dickson was
obviously instructed to certify the document, but by whom?

Based on a few forthcoming facts, Lonnie F. Roberts, Arthur B. Eisenhower,
and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower would have, at least, committed mail
fraud, a felony. Was this now the benchmark for asserting one's birthplace
and citizenship? And why weren't doctors, hospitals, or other medical
officials contacted to corroborate a birth? The usual
"they-didn't- keep-good- records-in- those-days" excuse does not apply. There
were no records because the story is yet another U.S.-presidential
genealogical fraud.

Certainly, administrative officials at the West Point Military Academy would
have required a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship upon his
enrollment to the school. Did Eisenhower state that he was born in Denison,
TX?

Records indicate that there were two "Lonnie F. Roberts" born in Texas, the
first in 1911 and the second in 1922. We will focus on the one born in 1911,
as there is an army record of a "Pvt. Lonnie F. Roberts" (February 25,
1911-January 11, 1989). The 1930 U.S. Census in Los Angeles, CA lists him at
age 18, born "about 1912." About 1912? This is the same method of
obfuscation employed by the Bush/Walker clans, the McCain/Vaulx clans, and
the Obama/Soetoro clans. Coincidentally, Dwight D. Eisenhower was issued his
Social Security number in California.

Both Roberts were issued Social Security numbers in the state of Colorado,
which puts one or both in direct proximity to the Eisenhowers, according to
their residence in Denver. Pvt. Roberts was likely instructed, as were the
other participants in the scheme, to manufacture a birth certificate and
insure the cooperation of the Grayson County judge. It is likely that the
two aforementioned articles were never read outside of Denison, TX. Ike (or
his handlers) probably saw to that.

By now, the reader may be wondering, "So, where is the crime here? Where is
the fraud?" These questions will be answered shortly.

A gratuitous, repetitious biographical account minimizes negative publicity
about the hoax

In "Denison: Birth Place of a President," Archie P. McDonald, Ph.D penned,
for the East Texas Historical Society, an anecdotal account of Eisenhower's
birthplace.

[http://www.texasesc apes.com/ DEPARTMENTS/ Guest_Columnists /East_Texas_ all_things_ historical/ DenisonBirthPlac eOfPresident1AMD 301.htm]

Mr. McDonald wrote (in part):

'...What is in question here is this: was Ike a Texan, where he was born, or
a Kansan, where he grew to young adulthood before going off to West Point in
1911?

And the answer probably should be that Ike was a citizen of the world who
rarely lived anywhere for long after his graduation from West Point until
his final residence on a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

That Ike was born in Denison, Texas, on October 14, 1890, was confirmed by
his mother. When Ike became famous during the war, Jennie Jackson wrote to
ask if he had been born in Denison. He responded that he did not know and
directed her to his mother, who said that Ike entered the world in this
north Texas railroad town. Specifically, Ike was born in the front bedroom
of a two-story structure located at the corner of Lamar and Day streets,
adjacent to the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad.

The reason for this blessing came to the Eisenhower's [sic] in Denison was
that Ike's father, David J. Eisenhower, worked as a wiper for the MKT in the
Dennison rail yards. Within six months of the event the Eisenhower family
returned to Kansas and Ike grew up in Abilene, which he and others always
regarded as his "home town."

Ike visited his birthplace three times: first, in 1946 while still in the
Army; in 1952 while campaigning for the presidency; and in 1965, just four
years before his death. From the nine-foot statue of Eisenhower in his WWII
uniform, which greets visitors in the yard, through photos and artifacts
which occupy every room, the visitor is reminded of the era in which Ike was
born. ...'

Giving Mr. McDonald the benefit of the doubt, he probably was unaware of
Eisenhower's birth certificate controversy. That he relied upon anecdotes
and third-hand accounts is typical, especially where records do not exist.
But McDonald did address the birthplace issue more than a few times, which
had obviously consumed a major portion of his piece.

Had this author relied upon similar research methods, this expos would not
have been written. But then, Mr. McDonald probably did not have the luxury
of reading the 1952 Denison newspaper article which described a manufactured
birth certificate.

Eisenhower's self-incriminating disclosures dispute historical accounts

Dwight D. Eisenhower could have never imagined that information he gave an
INS agent at Ellis Island would come back to posthumously haunt him 85 years
later. As detailed in an Ellis Island passenger manifest, on September 27,
1924, returning from Cristobal, Canal Zone on the USS Cristobal, Maj. Dwight
D. Eisenhower made two declarations to Customs Officials: 1) that he was "34
years of age," and 2) that he was born in "Tyler, Texas."

Based on his published birthdate, Eisenhower was only 33 years of age on
Sept. 27, 1924. This may seem insignificant, though no one reaches the age
of 34 until one's 34th birthday. It has always been that way. So why did he
misstate his age, or was he just confused?

On this same day in 1924, Eisenhower declared his birthplace was "Tyler,
Texas." Certainly, a major in the U.S. Army would have known where he was
born. After all, everyone else who has studied anything about Gen. Dwight D.
Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, has heard that he was
born in "Denison, TX." That was the storyline in 1952, but Eisenhower's 1924
U.S. Customs declaration disputes this more recent claim.

In naming Tyler, TX as his place of birth, Eisenhower did not describe a
suburb of Denison. The distance between the two towns via US-69 S, in 1952
and 2009 terms, is 130 miles - a 3-1/2 hour trip by automobile. The same
trip today, via US 75 S from Denison to I-20 E (through the Dallas
metropolitan area), then onto US-69 S totals 164 miles and is estimated to
take 2 hours, 43 minutes. Eisenhower could not have been confused about the
locations or distance between the two towns, could he?

During the same Ellis Island incident, either Dwight and/or Mamie Eisenhower
informed the INS agent that their son, John Sheldon, age 2, was born in
"Hennen, Colorado." A search for Hennen reveals no results, and several
current residents of the state attest to the fact that they have never heard
of it. Perusing the USS Cristobal passenger list, on lines 18 and 19 were
the names of two respective passengers: Lawrence (Keyser, W. VA) and Mrs.
Mary C. (Norfield, VA). Their last names? "Hennen."

Official accounts of John Sheldon Eisenhower's birthplace indicate that he
was born in Denver, Colorado. Why did the Eisenhowers say he was born in
Hennen, CO? Might he have been born in the Canal Zone, outside of the United
States? Was this another feeble attempt to legitimize the Eisenhowers and
their 2-year-old son as Americans?

Conclusions

The three biographical inconsistencies (above) prove that Eisenhower's
'official' accounts are fictional. It is implausible that anyone, let alone
a private in the U.S. Army, after reading a newspaper article, would
independently spearhead a plot to create a birth certificate for a U.S.
presidential candidate. It is equally ridiculous to assume that the ultimate
investigative task would have been assigned to Mamie Eisenhower, wife of the
former Supreme Commander of Allied forces in Europe and the first supreme
commander of NATO.

Born as "David Dwight Eisenhower," it is inconceivable that Eisenhower
changed his name to "Dwight D. Eisenhower" while attending West Point
Military Academy, without first submitting a genuine birth certificate. Had
he done so, there would have been no controversy in Denison, TX prior to the
presidential election of 1952. And his statements to the INS agent at Ellis
Island might not ever have been scrutinized.

It is ironic that the president who, in his farewell speech to the nation,
warned us about the looming "military/industria l complex" failed to warn us
about his own dubious, genealogical background. At least, Grayson County
Judge J.N. Dickson saved a most-revealing newspaper article for posterity's
sake, an act of patriotism if ever there was one.

These revelations will undoubtedly lead to many others hidden beneath a
quagmire of international political obfuscation. The Truth, despite
preconceived notions, has a way of appearing at the most propitious times,
and these are very auspicious times.

The Eisenhowers, more than anyone else, would have truly known where they
were born. They just forgot to tell everyone else.

2009 By Don Nicoloff / Direct Light Productions

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#10793 From: nathaniel x vance <broali4xa@...>
Date: Tue Dec 1, 2009 4:58 pm
Subject: What is really causing CLIMATE-CHANGE: CO2, The Sun, or PX?
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What is really causing CLIMATE-CHANGE: CO2, The Sun, or PX?

Global atmospheric temperatures are not rising, as the media is portraying, instead they are falling. Thus, why are a few governmental forlorn scientists alone with the likes of Mr. Al Gore still vehemently clamoring like a crying 3-year-old baby that falling temperatures is not the case? However today, their misguided though profitable thesis is slowly screeching to an ignominious halt, and rightly so.
Is next all of a sudden, a fiery misbehaving Sun to be blamed in some contorted way for all the commotion? And lastly, if neither the supposed greenhouse gas CO2, nor the sun pan out to be the real cause for all the present earth change anomalies, then what in the heavens will be next?
Maybe in the message below, there is a better more reasonable explanation, albeit from beings who are from elsewhere or from above, we may find the real answer to this mystery – “What is really causing so-call CLIMATE CHANGE?
Their short answer is and always has been since 1995… the present earth changes are being caused by one rogue planet named Nibiru - aka Planet X!

From ZetaTalk
: (11-28-09)   <http://zetatalk.com/index/zeta548.htm

[Questioner]  Big scandal this week called "Climategate". Thousands of scientist e-mails, showing the numbers for "global warming" were rigged, have been leaked. They said either hacker or inside job. What's the story and why are the mainstream media and White House ignoring it?
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Global Warming, as we have long stated, is not the cause of the current Earth changes, but is rather a cover chosen to explain many of the anticipated Earth changes. All was well as long as the media and the supposed scientific consensus made the statement that Global Warming was evident and undeniable. Since most people in power in the establishment are aware that there is a presence in our inner solar system likely to pass at some point, and since the establishment has the opinion that panic in the masses is the thing to fear, they pressed all those under their control to go along with this cover-up story. It is no secret that under Bush, scientists were told what to say, ordered to toe the line. The media is controlled. Al Gore went forward like a sacrificial goat to tout the line, knowing that eventually he would be shamed for this. Now that a leak has been accomplished, those in charge of the cover-up are stunned and not sure how to proceed. Their first approach is to see what the fallout might be, if excuses can suffice.
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Here are a few more links which substantiates most of the above:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwkR3uuZMIM>  Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago
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<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ydo2Mwnwpac&feature=related> Climate Bombshell: Hacker leaks thousands of emails showing conspiracy to “HIDE” the real data on so-call manmade climate change!

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<http://tadcronn.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/global-warming-consensus-31000-scientists-disagree/>
Global warming ‘consensus’: 31,486 scientists disagree that global warning is real or caused by CO2 gas emissions!
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<http://www.petitionproject.org>  31,486 scientists signed a petition verifying that global warming is nothing but a hoax!




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#10792 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Tue Dec 1, 2009 4:52 pm
Subject: TIM WHITE, A TRUE PATRIOT (James Rothstein's reference letter)
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James Rothstein wrote:

From: "James Rothstein" boots@...

To: "Tim White" phantom469366@...
Subject: Emailing: Letter to Tim.txt
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:30:09 -0500


March 16, 2007

To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing this for Tim White. Tim White has been a true Patriot
and has gone beyond what is expected of any citizen. Tim realized the
danger of his actions and the personal attacks that would be made
against him. He did not hesitate to disclose the photos of Johnny Gosch. These
heroic efforts have revived the interest into the disappearance of
Johnny Gosch.This action was the biggest break I have seen in many years.

Tim White was and has always been honest and forthright in any
dealings I have had with him.

I have worked with Noreen Gosch for the last 10 years in trying to
locate her son, Johnny Gosch.


James Rothstein www.johnnygosch.com
Ret.NYCPD Det.

320-548-3647

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St Martin Minnesota
 
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#10791 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:37 pm
Subject: The Economy is so good and healthy . . .
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Zee Source wrote :

The economy is so bad - that Bush is now sending his kids to Pakistan
for graduate school

The economy is so bad - that Cheney's undisclosed location is being
disclosed as foreclosed by Hamid Karzai

The economy is so bad - that I got a pre-declined credit card in the
mail.

The economy is so bad - I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid
behind the counter asked, "Can you afford fries with that?"

The economy is so bad - that CEO's are now playing miniature golf.

The economy is so bad - if the bank returns your check marked
"Insufficient Funds," you call them and ask if they meant you or them.

The economy is so bad - Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading
higher than GM.

The economy is so bad - McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

The economy is so bad - parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies
and learned their children's names.

The economy is so bad - a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking
into Mexico .

The economy is so bad - Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

The economy is so bad - Motel Six won't leave the light on anymore.

The economy is so bad - the Mafia is laying off judges.

The economy is so bad - Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen. .

http://www.commondr eams.org/ view/2009/ 11/30 And finally...
Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.
Oh Great!! The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being
investigated by the people who made $50 Trillion disappear into their
friends' pockets!


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#10790 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:22 pm
Subject: Happy Thankskilling everywhere, this time!
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Mr. John tells us some more interesting scenes about the history of the rulers of the current world (through their Banks). S1000+

"I saw a British documentary yesterday, which talked about the genocidal tactics used by the Christian English, in Australia's history, against the Aborigines. They would give them poisoned rations, and people could shoot them, if they saw them in groups of 6 or more."
 
"Later, when the English arrived in Australia, they caused violent disruption to the lives of the Aborigines. Europeans were known to mistreat the Aborigine people to acquire the land they wanted. They would often poison main watering holes and give the Aborigines flour and bran mixed with strychnine and arsenic." 
 
 
"They were literally massacred by the colonizers and expelled from their land, especially from productive land."
 
"By 1806, racism from colonizers and soldiers reached a very high point. Not only were sacred Aboriginal places violated and desecrated, the Aboriginals themselves became hunted like kangaroos for pleasure and fun, like trophy prizes. The soldiers used to visit Aboriginal villages offering gifts, while the real purpose of the visit was to contaminate the village water supply with arsenic. Whole communities including children, elderly, women and men were removed by arsenic poisoning. Rum, initially imported from England, was freely offered to Villagers. The introduction of rum made many villagers drunk for a whole week until death arrived from alcoholic comas. The English soldiers took advantage of this stage of alcoholism to create wars between friendly villages, leaving them to kill each other. It was a massacre."
 
"After Australia gained independence from England, (but still with a very strong racial discrimination against anyone not descendent from the British) something much worse happened to the Aborigines. It is called "The lost Generation"; where Aboriginal children were kidnapped never to be seen again by their families. The government target was to physiologically break any interference from Aboriginal people on the "white" politics."
 
 
I think the doco stated that only as recently as 1967, were Aborigines included in the census as Australians (after 25,000 years in Australia), and allowed the vote.
 
The Judaic/Christian myths have long been used  by rulers, as a tool to program their people to rape, murder, pillage and plunder the resources of particularly more primitive, indigenous cultures, a tactic still in operation today (Iraq, Afghanistan etc).
 
John H.
 
 
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#10789 From: nathaniel x vance <broali4xa@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:04 pm
Subject: UFOs or Hoaxes? [11-30-09]
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UFOs or Hoaxes? [11-30-09]

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXNI15zPYM&feature=player_embedded>
Nov. 19, 2009-White Pine Nevada UFO News Video Report

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Monster Fireballs
(Bible: There will be signs in the sky even though the US Media is NOT reporting them!)
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  11-21-09:   Monster Fireball explodes over Johannesburg South Africa
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<http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=8714738>   Monster terawatt meteor
11-18-09:  Meteor lights up early morning sky, alarms Utah
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<http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2009/11/western_fireball_may_have_been.html>
11-18-09: B
rilliant meteor startled residents across parts of Idaho and northern Utah

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 10-08-09 : Indonesia fireballs
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ZetaTalk Comment 11/21/2009: When the debris from the tail of Planet X first started arriving in ernest, in 2004, the establishment chose to call this space junk. When the public became alarmed at the amount of space junk falling to Earth they tried to enhance the story by claiming that two satellites had crashed into each other, but this just made a bad story worse. Since fireballs have not gone away, but continued apace and if anything gotten worse, a new term has been used - asteroids. This is debris in the tail of Planet X, which is increasingly turning toward the Earth, hosed out from the N Pole of Planet X. This is why the wobble has gotten more violent, why electromagnetic disruption of dams and airplanes has occurred, and why blackouts will become more frequent. There will also be displays in the sky, some of which has already been noticed, from the electomagnetic tides assaulting the Earth's atmosphere. Stay tuned, more to come!
<http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue161.htm> Asteroid
Blitz  from Zetatalk.com


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#10788 From: nathaniel x vance <broali4xa@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:10 am
Subject: ZetaTalk: GLP Live [11-28-09]
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ZetaTalk: GLP Live [11-28-09]  
Page 1:  Mushroom crop circle, Magnitogorsk, Common dream, Telekinesis, 911 exposure, STS growth, Putin's reach, Rules of Engagement, Urantia book, Implant conflict, Technological advances, Cassiopeians, Magnetic influence, Spiritual lessons, Mars/Moon videos, Plaxo2012.com, Priorities, Climategate, Bogota UFO, State Dinner crashers, Council of Worlds, Superhuman strength, Oral hygiene, LA 1942 battle, 7 on 1-10 scale, Star Children, Hail storms, Hugo Chavez, Annunaki influence, Amityville, V, 3rd Density worlds, Lanuage development
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Excerpts:
[Questioner]  Why are the republicans so against 911 trials? Are they afraid bits of truth around 911 might leak out? Is this a possible avenue to a limited back door disclosure?
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[Zeta Response]   911 happened on Bush's watch, as did the errant War in Iraq which has been proven not necessary as Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on 911. All this is extremely embarrassing to Republicans who have lost control of the White House and the Congress, both of which they formerly controlled. Their only hope is that the public forget who was responsible for all the missteps done by Bush/Cheney. They want no reminders.
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[Questioner]  Big scandal this week called "Climategate". Thousands of scientist e-mails, showing the numbers for "global warming" were rigged, have been leaked. They said either hacker or inside job. What's the story and why are the mainstream media and White House ignoring it?
-
[Zeta Response]   Global Warming, as we have long stated, is not the cause of the current Earth changes, but is rather a cover chosen to explain many of the anticipated Earth changes. All was well as long as the media and the supposed scientific consensus made the statement that Global Warming was evident and undeniable. Since most people in power in the establishment are aware that there is a presence in our inner solar system likely to pass at some point, and since the establishment has the opinion that panic in the masses is the thing to fear, they pressed all those under their control to go along with this cover-up story. It is no secret that under Bush, scientists were told what to say, ordered to toe the line. The media is controlled. Al Gore went forward like a sacrificial goat to tout the line, knowing that eventually he would be shamed for this. Now that a leak has been accomplished, those in charge of the cover-up are stunned and not sure how to proceed. Their first approach is to see what the fallout might be, if excuses can suffice.
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[Questioner]  What's the story behing the two uninvited people sneaking into the state dinner and meeting Obama? Secret Service is very upset and embarrassed.
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[Zeta Response]   They were simply opportunists, who hoped to meet people and further their careers, which were in show business. They in fact hoped that no one would call them on their affront, so they could participate fully and get away with it. In future, the Obama administration will be more careful.
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[Questioner]  I would like to ask you what things do you know about Hugo Chavez, I mean if he is right about some things like the recent problem about the EEUU military bases in Colombia and if he is right when he criticizes the Elite and etc.
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[Zeta Response]   Chavez is highly Service-to-Other, and has good intelligence not only from human sources. He is a contactee, and is right in what he purports more often than not.
Issue161, Sunday Nov 29, 2009 Asteroid Blitz; Fireball Clouds; Weather Records
<http://zetatalk.com/newsletr/issue161.htm>

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#10787 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
Date: Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:53 am
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Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgiving

Posted by Mike E on November 15, 2009

Puritan settlers massacre Pequot people.

by Mike Ely

[Available as podcast.]

It is a deep thing that people still celebrate the survival of the early colonists at Plymouth — by giving thanks to the Christian God who supposedly protected and championed the European invasion. The real meaning of all that, then and now, needs to be continually excavated. The myths and lies that surround the past are constantly draped over the horrors and tortures of our present.


Every schoolchild in the U.S. has been taught that the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony invited the local Indians to a major harvest feast after surviving their first bitter year in New England. But the real history of Thanksgiving is a story of the murder of indigenous people and the theft of their land by European colonialists– and of the ruthless ways of capitalism.

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In mid-winter 1620 the English ship Mayflower landed on the North American coast, delivering 102 exiles. The original Native people of this stretch of shoreline had already been killed off. In 1614 a British expedition had landed there. When they left they took 24 Indians as slaves and left smallpox behind. Three years of plague wiped out between 90 and 96 percent of the inhabitants of the coast, destroying most villages completely.


The Europeans landed and built their colony called “the Plymouth Plantation” near the deserted ruins of the Indian village of Pawtuxet. They ate from abandoned cornfields grown wild. Only one Pawtuxet named Squanto had survived–he had spent the last years as a slave to the English and Spanish in Europe. Squanto spoke the colonists’ language and taught them how to plant corn and how to catch fish until the first harvest. Squanto also helped the colonists negotiate a peace treaty with the nearby Wampanoag tribe, led by the chief Massasoit.


These were very lucky breaks for the colonists. The first Virginia settlement had been wiped out before they could establish themselves. Thanks to the good will of the Wampanoag, the settlers not only survived their first year but had an alliance with the Wampanoags that would give them almost two decades of peace.


John Winthrop, a founder of the Massahusetts Bay colony considered this wave of illness and death to be a divine miracle. He wrote to a friend in England, “But for the natives in these parts, God hath so pursued them, as for 300 miles space the greatest part of them are swept away by smallpox which still continues among them. So as God hath thereby cleared our title to this place, those who remain in these parts, being in all not 50, have put themselves under our protection.”

The deadly impact of European diseases and the good will of the Wampanoag allowed the settlers to survive their first year.


In celebration of their good fortune, the colony’s governor, William Bradford, declared a three-day feast of thanksgiving after that first harvest of 1621.

How the Puritans Stole the Land



But the peace that produced the Thanksgiving Feast of 1621 meant that the Puritans would have 15 years to establish a firm foothold on the coast. Until 1629 there were no more than 300 settlers in New England, scattered in small and isolated settlements. But their survival inspired a wave of Puritan invasion that soon established growing Massachusetts towns north of Plymouth: Boston and Salem. For 10 years, boatloads of new settlers came.


And as the number of Europeans increased, they proved not nearly so generous as the Wampanoags.

On arrival, the Puritans and other religious sects discussed “who legally owns all this land.” They had to decide this, not just because of Anglo-Saxon traditions, but because their particular way of farming was based on individual–not communal or tribal–ownership. This debate over land ownership reveals that bourgeois “rule of law” does not mean “protect the rights of the masses of people.”


Some settlers argued that the land belonged to the Indians. These forces were excommunicated and expelled. Massachusetts Governor Winthrop declared the Indians had not “subdued” the land, and therefore all uncultivated lands should, according to English Common Law, be considered “public domain.” This meant they belonged to the king. In short, the colonists decided they did not need to consult the Indians when they seized new lands, they only had to consult the representative of the crown (meaning the local governor).


The colonists embraced a line from Psalms 2:8. “Ask of me, and I shall give thee, the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.” Since then, European settler states have similarly declared god their real estate agent: from the Boers seizing South Africa to the Zionists seizing Palestine.

The European immigrants took land and enslaved Indians to help them farm it. By 1637 there were about 2,000 British settlers. They pushed out from the coast and decided to remove the inhabitants.


The Shining City on the Hill

Where did the Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies of Puritan and “separatist” pilgrims come from and what were they really all about?

Governor Winthrop, a founder of the Massachusetts colony, said, “We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.” The Mayflower Puritans had been driven out of England as subversives. The Puritans saw this religious colony as a model of a social and political order that they believed all of Europe should adopt.


The Puritan movement was part of a sweeping revolt within English society against the ruling feudal order of wealthy lords. Only a few decades after the establishment of Plymouth, the Puritan Revolution came to power in England. They killed the king, won a civil war, set up a short-lived republic, and brutally conquered the neighboring people of Ireland to create a larger national market.


The famous Puritan intolerance was part of a determined attempt to challenge the decadence and wastefulness of the rich aristocratic landlords of England. The Puritans wanted to use the power of state punishment to uproot old and still dominant ways of thinking and behaving.


The new ideas of the Puritans served the needs of merchant capitalist accumulation. The extreme discipline, thrift and modesty the Puritans demanded of each other corresponded to a new and emerging form of ownership and production. Their so-called “Protestant Ethic” was an early form of the capitalist ethic. From the beginning, the Puritan colonies intended to grow through capitalist trade–trading fish and fur with England while they traded pots, knives, axes, alcohol and other English goods with the Indians.


The New England were ruled by a government in which only the male heads of families had a voice. Women, Indians, slaves, servants, youth were neither heard nor represented. In the Puritan schoolbooks, the old law “honor thy father and thy mother” was interpreted to mean honoring “All our Superiors, whether in Family, School, Church, and Commonwealth.” And, the real truth was that the colonies were fundamentally controlled by the most powerful merchants.


The Puritan fathers believed they were the Chosen People of an infinite god and that this justified anything they did. They were Calvinists who believed that the vast majority of humanity was predestined to damnation. This meant that while they were firm in fighting for their own capitalist right to accumulate and prosper, they were quick to oppress the masses of people in Ireland, Scotland and North America, once they seized the power to set up their new bourgeois order. Those who rejected the narrow religious rules of the colonies were often simply expelled “out into the wilderness.”


The Massachusetts colony (north of Plymouth) was founded when Puritan stockholders had gotten control of an English trading company. The king had given this company the right to govern its own internal affairs, and in 1629 the stockholders simply voted to transfer the company to North American shores–making this colony literally a self-governing company of stockholders!


In U.S. schools, students are taught that the Mayflower compact of Plymouth contained the seeds of “modern democracy” and “rule of law.” But by looking at the actual history of the Puritans, we can see that this so-called “modern democracy” was (and still is) a capitalist democracy based on all kinds of oppression and serving the class interests of the ruling capitalists.


In short, the Puritan movement developed as an early revolutionary challenge to the old feudal order in England. They were the soul of primitive capitalist accumulation. And transferred to the shores of North America, they immediately revealed how heartless and oppressive that capitalist soul is.


The Birth of “The American Way of War”



In the Connecticut Valley, the powerful Pequot tribe had not entered an alliance with the British (as had the Narragansett, the Wampanoag, and the Massachusetts peoples). At first they were far from the centers of colonization. Then, in 1633, the British stole the land where the city of Hartford now sits–land which the Pequot had recently conquered from another tribe. That same year two British slave raiders were killed. The colonists demanded that the Indians who killed the slavers be turned over. The Pequot refused.


The Puritan preachers said, from Romans 13:2, “Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.” The colonial governments gathered an armed force of 240 under the command of John Mason. They were joined by a thousand Narragansett warriors. The historian Francis Jennings writes: “Mason proposed to avoid attacking Pequot warriors which would have overtaxed his unseasoned, unreliable troops. Battle, as such, was not his purpose. Battle is only one of the ways to destroy an enemy’s will to fight. Massacre can accomplish the same end with less risk, and Mason had determined that massacre would be his objective.”

The colonist army surrounded a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River. At sunrise, as the inhabitants slept, the Puritan soldiers set the village on fire.


William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth, wrote: “Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was conceived they thus destroyed about 400 at this time. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire…horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the prayers thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them.”


Mason himself wrote: “It may be demanded…Should not Christians have more mercy and compassion? But…sometimes the Scripture declareth women and children must perish with their parents…. We had sufficient light from the word of God for our proceedings.”

Three hundred and fifty years later the Puritan phrase “a shining city on the hill” became a favorite quote of conservative speechwriters.


Discovering the Profits of Slavery

This so-called “Pequot war” was a one-sided murder and slaving expedition. Over 180 captives were taken. After consulting the bible again, in Leviticus 24:44, the colonial authorities found justification to kill most of the Pequot men and enslave the captured women and their children. Only 500 Pequot remained alive and free. In 1975 the official number of Pequot living in Connecticut was 21.


Some of the war captives were given to the Narragansett and Massachusetts allies of the British. Even before the arrival of Europeans, Native peoples of North America had widely practiced taking war captives from other tribes as hostages and slaves.


The remaining captives were sold to British plantation colonies in the West Indies to be worked to death in a new form of slavery that served the emerging capitalist world market. And with that, the merchants of Boston made a historic discovery: the profits they made from the sale of human beings virtually paid for the cost of seizing them.


One account says that enslaving Indians quickly became a “mania with speculators.” These early merchant capitalists of Massachusetts started to make genocide pay for itself. The slave trade, first in captured Indians and soon in kidnapped Africans, quickly became a backbone of New England merchant capitalism.


Thanksgiving in the Manhattan Colony

In 1641 the Dutch governor Kieft of Manhattan offered the first “scalp bounty”–his government paid money for the scalp of each Indian brought to them. A couple years later, Kieft ordered the massacre of the Wappingers, a friendly tribe. Eighty were killed and their severed heads were kicked like soccer balls down the streets of Manhattan. One captive was castrated, skinned alive and forced to eat his own flesh while the Dutch governor watched and laughed. Then Kieft hired the notorious Underhill who had commanded in the Pequot war to carry out a similar massacre near Stamford, Connecticut. The village was set fire, and 500 Indian residents were put to the sword.


A day of thanksgiving was proclaimed in the churches of Manhattan. As we will see, the European colonists declared Thanksgiving Days to celebrate mass murder more often than they did for harvest and friendship.


The Conquest of New England

By the 1670s there were about 30,000 to 40,000 white inhabitants in the United New England Colonies–6,000 to 8,000 able to bear arms. With the Pequot destroyed, the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonists turned on the Wampanoag, the tribe that had saved them in 1620 and probably joined them for the original Thanksgiving Day.


In 1675 a Christian Wampanoag was killed while spying for the Puritans. The Plymouth authorities arrested and executed three Wampanoag without consulting the tribal chief, King Philip.


As Mao Tsetung says: “Where there is oppression there is resistance.” The Wampanoag went to war.

The Indians applied some military lessons they had learned: they waged a guerrilla war which overran isolated European settlements and were often able to inflict casualties on the Puritan soldiers. The colonists again attacked and massacred the main Indian populations.


When this war ended, 600 European men, one-eleventh of the adult men of the New England Colonies, had been killed in battle. Hundreds of homes and 13 settlements had been wiped out. But the colonists won.


In their victory, the settlers launched an all-out genocide against the remaining Native people. The Massachusetts government offered 20 shillings bounty for every Indian scalp, and 40 shillings for every prisoner who could be sold into slavery. Soldiers were allowed to enslave any Indian woman or child under 14 they could capture. The “Praying Indians” who had converted to Christianity and fought on the side of the European troops were accused of shooting into the treetops during battles with “hostiles.” They were enslaved or killed. Other “peaceful” Indians of Dartmouth and Dover were invited to negotiate or seek refuge at trading posts–and were sold onto slave ships.


It is not known how many Indians were sold into slavery, but in this campaign, 500 enslaved Indians were shipped from Plymouth alone. Of the 12,000 Indians in the surrounding tribes, probably about half died from battle, massacre and starvation.


After King Philip’s War, there were almost no Indians left free in the northern British colonies. A colonist wrote from Manhattan’s New York colony: “There is now but few Indians upon the island and those few no ways hurtful. It is to be admired how strangely they have decreased by the hand of God, since the English first settled in these parts.”


In Massachusetts, the colonists declared a “day of public thanksgiving” in 1676, saying, “there now scarce remains a name or family of them [the Indians] but are either slain, captivated or fled.”


Fifty-five years after the original Thanksgiving Day, the Puritans had destroyed the generous Wampanoag and all other neighboring tribes. The Wampanoag chief King Philip was beheaded. His head was stuck on a pole in Plymouth, where the skull still hung on display 24 years later.


The descendants of these Native peoples are found wherever the Puritan merchant capitalists found markets for slaves: the West Indies, the Azures, Algiers, Spain and England. The grandson of Massasoit, the Pilgrim’s original protector, was sold into slavery in Bermuda.


Runaways and Rebels

But even the destruction of Indian tribal life and the enslavement of survivors brought no peace. Indians continued to resist in every available way. Their oppressors lived in terror of a revolt. And they searched for ways to end the resistance. The historian MacLeod writes: “The first `reservations’ were designed for the `wild’ Irish of Ulster in 1609. And the first Indian reservation agent in America, Gookin of Massachusetts, like many other American immigrants had seen service in Ireland under Cromwell.”


The enslaved Indians refused to work and ran away. The Massachusetts government tried to control runaways by marking enslaved Indians: brands were burnt into their skin, and symbols were tattooed into their foreheads and cheeks.

A Massachusetts law of 1695 gave colonists permission to kill Indians at will, declaring it was “lawful for any person, whether English or Indian, that shall find any Indians traveling or skulking in any of the towns or roads (within specified limits), to command them under their guard and examination, or to kill them as they may or can.”


The northern colonists enacted more and more laws for controlling the people. A law in Albany forbade any African or Indian slave from driving a cart within the city. Curfews were set up; Africans and Indians were forbidden to have evening get-togethers. On Block Island, Indians were given 10 lashes for being out after nine o’clock. In 1692 Massachusetts made it a serious crime for any white person to marry an African, an Indian or a mulatto. In 1706 they tried to stop the importation of Indian slaves from other colonies, fearing a slave revolt.


Celebrate?

Looking at this history raises a question: Why should anyone celebrate the survival of the earliest Puritans with a Thanksgiving Day? Certainly the Native peoples of those times had no reason to celebrate.


The ruling powers of the United States organized people to celebrate Thanksgiving Day because it is in their interest. That’s why they created it. The first national celebration of Thanksgiving was called for by George Washington. And the celebration was made a regular legal holiday later by Abraham Lincoln during the civil war (right as he sent troops to suppress the Sioux of Minnesota).


Washington and Lincoln were two presidents deeply involved in trying to forge a unified bourgeois nation-state out of the European settlers in the United States. And the Thanksgiving story was a useful myth in their efforts at U.S. nation-building. It celebrates the “bounty of the American way of life,” while covering up the brutal nature of this society.

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#10786 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
Date: Sun Nov 29, 2009 6:32 pm
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Dear David,
 
Please read the reply James Dierbeck did concerning your post.  I am the one who posted it in the groups.  I think you will like it.
 
My post was about Tommy Watts AKA the Terrible Tommy or AKA the educator of the masses.  He did attack me publicly because I was not agree with him about attacking ALL the Jews.  In other words, he is putting the Jews all in the waste basket and I could not let this go and yes, I will publish his "real face" all over the Internet anytime I feel like it simply because I am far from being a Jew basher or a Jew hater.
 
This being said, I understand your concern of not condemning all the members of a particular group (there is always exceptions to the rule) and for the records, I do not do that.  If "the Terrible Tommy" would not jump on the gun concerning the Jews and then, jump on the gun concerning me, I would most likely not discover that he is a Mason.  Thanks for your participation.
 
Marie
 
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Re: [WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER] RESEARCH ABOUT TOMMY WATTS, THE SELF-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF THE MASSES

Masons founded this country.  After we are enslaved by the new world disorder,
it may well me masons who start the second revolution.  We need our own secret
societies to fight the secret societies that are now bent on controlling us. 
Instead of villianizing the masons we should seek to place freedom minded
individuals in positions of power.  Some bad masons have done much harm
however; the same has also done much good. 
 
Lets wise up.  The new world order divides us and gets us to expend our efforts
in fighting among our selves. 
 
We need to use the same techniques against them that they use against us: Secret
societies, people in positions of power who help other freedom minded
individuals attain positions of power and sometimes deceit; pretending to be in
favor of an opposite view until we are able to effect change. 
 
We must work toward the cause of free markets and natural rights.  We have the
advantage because freedom is the natural tendency of human beings.  They have
to reinforce disinformation again and again to gain the trust of the masses.  
We only need to wake people up once and they will be changed forever. 
 
When freedom of speech is made illegal, as it will soon be, secret societies may
be one of paths left to get the message of freedom out. 

For the record I am not a mason. 



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From: Marie M. Buchanan <mariemartine1966@...>
Subject: [WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER] RESEARCH ABOUT TOMMY
WATTS, THE SELF-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF THE MASSES
To: "Jim Higginbotham" <jimbm433@...>
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RonPaulforPresident@yahoogroups.com, "My groups"
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Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 12:19 PM


 








Dear Jim,
 
Howdie.  After reading your email, I decided to go on google and I found your
email exchange with Tommy Watts because I care to know people in my groups but
most importantly, I care about the truth.   I did my research about Tommy
Watts and I must add that James Dierbeck (jade_iconoclast@ webtv.net) helped me
by giving me the beton proof that Tommy Watts is a Mason. (please see attached
file)
Proofs: Well, I realized I better publish my research again, otherwise it will
disappear... I have a hard time to find my part number 4 on the Internet.
 
Please take good note of what semperfidave said because I like it and I like it
because there are FAKE Jews = Zionists, Talmudists and REAL Jews and I do love
the real Jews like any other Nation on the face of the earth.  I will never let
go this FREEMASON running around and deceive My People, My Nation, America!
 
Serving Christ First and Foremost
America Second
 
TOMMY WATTS - FREEMASON, PART 1
 
 
TOMMY WATTS - FREEMASON, PART 2
 



TOMMY WATTS, FREEMASON, PART 3
Tommy Watts, FREEMASON, PART 4:

Here's Tommy Watts giving a lame defense to freemasonry
& admitting being a freemason in his signature.
A sincere thank you to "Jade" for this very tangible proof.
Together, we can nail clowns alright - I like that.
I like to fight this new world order even if I know the outcome - I don't care
anymore, my husband is dead.
Watch out when I'll have my computer back online.....
 
In the Service of the Truth, the Lord Jesus Himself, (Jn. 14:6)
Marie


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From: Jade Iconoclast <jade_iconoclast@ webtv.net>
Subject: Fwd: Re: [truthquestonline] Re:THE FREEMASONS - EXPOSED
To: marielovesashley@ yahoo.ca
Received: Friday, September 19, 2008, 5:31 PM

Here's Watts giving a lame defense to freemasonry
& admitting being a freemason in his signature. truthquestonline group
is where he admitted being newly sworn to freemasonry. See below...
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[truthquestonline] Re:THE FREEMASONS - EXPOSEDSaturday, September 13, 2008 7:27
AMFrom: "Thomas Watts" <tommyoverload@ yahoo.com>To: truthquestonline@
yahoogroups. com, jade_iconoclast@ webtv.netYep. Your right!  Just a little
FYI. I too have been at this for decades.  In defense of the Masons, the vast
majority haven't got a clue about the top levels. If I was to tell this to my
lodge they'd look at me like I'd lost my mind. It's not fair to judge six
million Masons by a handful of jerks.  I don't defend those corrupt members.
But seriously, there's corruption in all organizations. From the Masons clear on
down to the girl scouts. If you want to see real corruption attend a Catholic
church some day. Frankly, I wish we 'true' Masons could change the name of our
organization and distance ourselves from those evil bastards. We could call our
selves something like "Not The
Masons". I never called you an 'evil bastard'. Please don't put words in my
mouth. When I defend the Masons it's the honest, hard working, caring,
charitable and dignified Masons that I defend. This video is a real eye
opener. Enjoy ... Let me issue and control a Nation's money and I care not who
makes its laws.
-- Meyer Amschel Rothschild   MISSING LINKS THE DEFINITIVE TRUTH ABOUT 9/11
http://www.911missi nglinks.com/     Again, sorry for being such a butt head.
Perhaps I did jump to conclusions. I apologize for that. Hopefully you
understand me better now.  Terrible Tommy~Freemason 

 http://www.greatdan epromilitary. com/Battle% 20Hymn/index.htm http://groups.
yahoo.com/ group/atimetofig ht/join


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From: jade_iconoclast@ webtv.net <jade_iconoclast@ webtv.net>
Subject: [truthquestonline] Re:THE FREEMASONS - EXPOSED
To: truthquestonline@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 4:06 AM

Watts, I can't let your masonic party line propaganda go unanswered,
though, on other topics I agree with you.

You say the masons gave me my rights, but Hitler was also masonic
Thule society member, backed by the vatican & false jew illuminati,
including Prescott Bush. Castro is a freemason; does he uphold my rights
also? The Chinese commie revolution was also backed by the Rockefeller
illuminati; notoriously anti-rights.

Whatever freemasonry was like before WEISHAUPT HERALDED THE
ILLUMINATI style freemasonry, George Washington AVOIDED all Lodges the
last 20 years of his life!

Those rights are now all nullified at the whim of the feds via
UNpatriot Acts, and the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and the 1947
National Security Act. Why don't those wonderful antichristian
freemasons give back my rights now, instead of freemason you pretending
like we still have those rights?

You called me an antichrist bastard, which is a lie you cannot
prove. I'm an outlawed minister, by the IRS & courts violating those
rights you say I have. Now NSA has erased all record of my case & appeal
to the Supreme Court. A newspaper article and what court documents I
have is al the proof I have left.

Ex ONI officer William Cooper exposed masonic control of
DIA/CIA/NSA/ ONI, and was shot by gov in a staged incident. Coverups like
the Franklin cover up for a PD chief run child prostitution ring & gay
cannibal Dahmer coverup, and the coverups I witnessed are all done in
the name of national security fraud, by unelected freemason NSA
deputized PD chiefs.

I've been fighting coverups of evidence since 1984, since evidence
I delivered was covered up in a mutiple murder case involving a mafia
boss. Freemason Mazzini founded the Italian mafia & P2 Lodge.

My former mafia lawyer educated me about the masonic nature of NSA
corruption & the mafia. When I refused to perform a ritual murder
initiation, attempts on my life commenced, and frame setups. I requested
refugee status in Canada in 1993, to escape the NSA masonic murdering
framer terrorism. I despise you lying masoinic antichristian bastards,
with a vengeance.

You're trying to lead a revolution as a freemason, to assure
masonic control & corruption continues after the revolution. Did the
native americans & africans have rights under masonic governance? NO.
Freemasons didn't allow them rights either. The new gov depended on
support of the protestants, so the Magna Carta rights were granted in
the US constitution, but masons have been usurping those rghts ever
since.

You cannot deny that the New World Order (Novus Ordo Secular) is
masonic, under the masonic UN flag at UN conference tables in the
masonic "G" shape. The globalist treasons of the CFR & Rockefellers is
masonic agenda. You don't fool me, freemason Watts.

The blood red masonic Fez hats commemorate the extermination of
50,000 Christians in the Islamic purge about 80AD, where Fez Morocco was
then established. Freemasons ARE antichristian bastards.
http://www.ralphepp erson.com & http://www fremasonrywatch. com &
http://www.illumina ticonfessions. webfriend. it/ &
http://www.illumina ti-news.com
&&&&&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&& &&&&&&&&& &&&

Amendment 10 negates unconstitutional fed powers, like the 1947
National Security Act, UNpatriot Acts, international "agreements" , &
federal police agencies like DHS/FBI/BATF/ DEA. Federal referendums =
power to the people, once elections are unrigged.
Rev 19:11/19, Isaiah 24:21-22, Matt.13:49-50, Psalm 110:1-6 KJV (109
other versions), Ephesians 6:12, 2 Kings 10:19-30 KJV (4 Kings oher
versions)... then consider the VIPs doing Baalist rituals at Bohemian
Grove!
 
BTW, I do not know why but I got him here also:

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Mac Leod
Question:  is his real name Mac Leod?
 
 


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A RON PAUL CONVERSATION
Posted by Tommy Watts on Sunday, April 27, 2008 5:15:28 PM

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Howdy Tommy.
well. the third party is not my idea.
but i believe if we just have to have political partys?
then the MORE THE BETTER.WITHOUT some MIRACLE of GOD HIMSELF. DR PAUL is NOT
going ANYWHERE in the GOP.
there for, a THIRD PARTY.
NOT everyone in the COMMUNIST DEMOCROOK, OR RINO PARTY are HAPPY with the THREE
CHOICES, we CAN do BETTER.
the GOP has closed ranks AGAINST DR PAUL and have picked OLD DON JUAN MCCAIN.
NOW'' is our chance with the THIRD PARTY, while we STILL have the MOVEMENT
GOING.
and the ONLY MAN to LEAD IT, is DR PAUL.
FORGET this going to clean up the GOP, nada not gonna happen.
THEIR right now a MIRROR IMIGE of the COMMUNINST DEMOCROOKS.


Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:13:35 -0700
From: tommyoverload@ yahoo.com
Subject: RE: NEW VIDEO !
To: jimbm433@msn. com; tommyoverload54@ gmail.com

Ya Ha (My John Wayne Impersonation! )
I tend to agree James. Don't tell my boss this but if it were up to me we'd be
out of the traitorous GOP in a heart beat. Those people aren't Republicans any
more than I'm Jimi Hendrix!
You know? I hear this all the time. Bunches of folks want out but they are to
loyal to Ron to leave.
However, there is great news on the horizon. Ron wants a new party also. but for
reasons that are too lengthy to explain he wants to finish out this term in the
Repub party. After his election, and he will be elected, a new party will be
born.
We even already have a name for it. "Our Party Rocks. Your Party Sucks!" Whatcha
think? Sorta rings don't it?
Just be patient and for crissakes dint give up on our Ronnie. He knows what he's
doing.
With your permission I am going to send this email out to a couple thousand
people and put it in my blog site.
Oh good! I knew that would be okay with you!
C'ya! http://tommyoverloa d.blogtownhall. com/2008/ 04/27/a_ron_
paul_conversatio n.thtml






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From: Jim Higginbotham <jimbm433@msn. com>
Subject: RE: Question from Marie Buchanan / Baraque Obama = Shack LOL
To: mariemartine1966@ yahoo.com
Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 12:48 PM




howdy Marie.
ya bet i am a member of that group you own, and glad to be a part of it Ma'am,
how to face this new world order, i just don't say a lot, but i READ EVERYTHING
lol.
you have a good weekend now.
Semper Fi.
 


Jim


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    #10784 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
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    IN THE LOVING MEMORY OF REVEREND
    ASHLEY M. BUCHANAN, D.D.
    06/19/57 - 12/05/06
    By Marie Buchanan Copyright 2007
     
    By pleasing God by the power of his Spirit, there is a bridge between my world and Ashley’s world- You are the Bridge.  I wish to thank you Father, in Jesus’ name that not only Ashley is saved but in your Kindness, I know You are talking to him for me when I need it.  I know I cannot communicate directly with Ash nor he can communicate directly with me because there is a HUGE IMPENETRABLE WALL separating our two worlds. 
     
    I know fully well that Ashley prayed for my protection.  I understand the way Ashley is taking care of me is the fact that even if he perfectly knows that You are taking good care of me and even if Jesus is the only intercessor between You and men – far from me to take my Charming Prince as an intercessor.  In fact, Ashley caressed my hair in a particular way twice (like You Jesus would caress my hair) before going to sleep and I am sure since he was a man of prayer, he prayed for me before leaving this world. 
     
    My Charming Prince will soon become King (he refused the worldly kingdom offered to him if he would bow down to Satan which he did not want like You refused the worldly kingdom Satan offered You in a bigger scale) because he will Reign with You during the coming Millennium.  I am Ashley’s French Princess and I will reign with him because You saved my soul from hell.   I know we won’t act as wife and husband because I am sure Ashley will have a glorified body and the ones having a glorified body will not procreate but I do know we will have a Privileged Relationship because he was the first love of my life and I was the first love of his life.
     
    I am TERRIBLY suffering from this physical separation from Ashley but I know he is thinking about me in a continuous basis and your Holy Spirit is the bridge between our two worlds.  I know Ashley did not abandon me – it is only that he is not physically with me anymore for a while…only for a while….I also know that the distance has no importance since Ashley is thinking about me on a continuous basis (like he was doing on earth) but there is a HUGE IMPENETRABLE WALL separating us because I am still in this flesh – I am not perfect and Ashley became perfect by entering in Your Presence – so there is no direct communication possible but You, My Dear Lord, is the Bridge between me and him because YOU ARE GOOD.  (this huge impenetrable wall called death is because the sin entered in this world) You are the Way, the Truth and the Life (Jn. 14:6) and You are my Life.
     
    Thank you My Father for taking good care of My Sweetheart.  Ash is not suffering anymore in his body and he is not crying anymore because of the separation we had for 19 months because of the Immigration process.  I am happy for Ashley because he is not suffering anymore even if that means terrible sufferings for me.  I am asking you to please help me in Jesus’ name to find the way you want me to denounce what happened to him because in my situation You know perfectly well, this is not the most obvious.  Please give me the strength and the wisdom I need to Glorify You in my life.  I need you more than the air I am breathing.  I need you more than the food I am eating.  I count on You and I know you are not about to abandon me even if the worse case scenario would happen. (Rev. 20:4)  

    Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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    #10782 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
    Date: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:39 am
    Subject: Australia to kill 6000 Camels.. in a an awful butchery manner
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    And after the mascara in kangaroos, rabbits, kiwis, Mo, you name it,

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinct_animals_of_Australia

    the turn comes to camels in a butchery way.. Those camels built Australia.. They will be killed in a very criminal awful manner.

    Why does they export them back to Afghanistan instead of sharing murdering more Afghani's there along with the Americans.
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    http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/731113--australia-to-kill-6-000-camels

    Australia to kill 6,000 camels




    ALICE SPRINGS–Australian authorities plan to corral about 6,000 wild camels with helicopters and gun them down after they overran a small Outback town in search of water, trampling fences, smashing tanks and contaminating supplies.


    The Northern Territory government announced its plan Wednesday for Docker River, a town of 350 residents where thirsty camels have been arriving daily for weeks because of drought conditions in the region.

    "The community of Docker River is under siege by 6,000 marauding, wild camels," local government minister Rob Knight said in Alice Springs, 310 miles (500 kilometres) northeast of Docker.


    "This is a very critical situation out there, it's very unusual and it needs urgent action.''


    The camels, which are not native to Australia but were introduced in the 1840s, have smashed water tanks, approached houses to try to take water from air conditioning units, and knocked down fencing at the small airport runway, Knight said.


    The carcasses of camels killed in stampedes at water storage areas are contaminating the water supply, he added.


    The government plans to use helicopters to herd the camels about nine miles (15 kilometres) outside of town next week, where they will be shot and their carcasses left to decay in the desert. The state government will give a 49,000 Australian dollar ($45,000) grant for the cull and to repair damaged infrastructure in the town.

    "We don't have the luxury of time because the herd is getting bigger," Knight said.

    It is common to see some camels in the remote community, but a continuing drought and an early heat wave have dried up other water sources and forced great numbers of them into town. Much of Australia is gripped by some of the worst drought conditions on record.


    In August, the federal government set aside 19 million Australian dollars for a program to slash the wild camel population, including a possible mass slaughter.


    Glenys Oogjes, executive director of national advocacy group Animals Australia, said the plan to kill camels by helicopter was barbaric, and the community could instead focus on setting up barriers to keep out the camels.


    "It's a terrible thing that people react to these events by shooting," she said. "The real concern is the terrible distress and wounding when shot by helicopter. ... There will be terrible suffering.''

    Camels were first brought to Australia to help explorers travel through the desert, and now an estimated 1 million roam wild across the country.


    They compete with sheep and cattle for food, trample vegetation and invade remote settlements in search of water, scaring residents as they tear apart bathrooms and rip up water pipes.


    Docker River residents were not especially concerned when about 30 camels came into the town looking for water a few weeks ago, said Graham Taylor, head of the local council. But their fears grew as more animals arrived day by day.


    He said many people were too frightened to leave their homes because of the big, strong animals, which can grow up to 7 feet (2.1 meters) tall and weigh 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms).


    "We need to get the risk and that threat away from the people," Taylor said.







    #10781 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
    Date: Fri Nov 27, 2009 8:58 pm
    Subject: Re: [WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER] RESEARCH ABOUT TOMMY WATTS, THE SELF-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF THE MASSES
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    Dear James,
     
    I decided to post this to all my own groups.   
    c.c. to David Irons with his message below. 
    David, you can join all my groups if you want.  They are listed in the c.c.
    Thanks for your collaboration and your thoughts.
     
    In Christ,
    Marie Martine
     
    --- On Thu, 11/26/09, Jade Iconoclast <jade_iconoclast@...> wrote:

    From: Jade Iconoclast <jade_iconoclast@...>
    Subject: Re: Please let me know your preference....
    To: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
    Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 10:46 PM

      Marie; I read that interesting post, suggesting an anti-secret society
    forming to counter the NWO societies. I'm not sure if that's a good idea
    or not.

        The thing about freedom of speech and press and religion in the USA
    is it requires tolerance of views we don't totally agree with. Deletions
    are censorship, which you have the yahoo given right to do, but ethicly
    may not always be the right thing to do, while preaching
    constitutionality over tyranny.

        Not every post made to your groups reflects on you. I'm sure I could
    post on subjects you'd consider censoring, rather than being identified
    with. That author seems to be against the masonic world disorder, with
    respect for freedoms.

        "Now the Lord is that spirit; and where the spirit of the Lord is,
    there is LIBERTY"- 2 Corinthians 3:17.

        Thanks for asking my opinion, anyhow. Think how that guy will view
    not being allowed, and may attack you as a censor later on other groups.
    You can always reply to any post you don't agree with.

        I never heard of that author before now, and cannot judge based on
    that one post.
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    --- In WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER@yahoogroups.com, David Irons <jazforyou@...> wrote:
    From: David Irons <jazforyou@...>
    Date: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:04 pm
    Subject: Re: [WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER] RESEARCH ABOUT TOMMY WATTS, THE SELF-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF THE MASSES
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    Masons founded this country.  After we are enslaved by the new world disorder,
    it may well me masons who start the second revolution.  We need our own secret
    societies to fight the secret societies that are now bent on controlling us. 
    Instead of villianizing the masons we should seek to place freedom minded
    individuals in positions of power.  Some bad masons have done much harm
    however; the same has also done much good. 
     
    Lets wise up.  The new world order divides us and gets us to expend our efforts
    in fighting among our selves. 
     
    We need to use the same techniques against them that they use against us: Secret
    societies, people in positions of power who help other freedom minded
    individuals attain positions of power and sometimes deceit; pretending to be in
    favor of an opposite view until we are able to effect change. 
     
    We must work toward the cause of free markets and natural rights.  We have the
    advantage because freedom is the natural tendency of human beings.  They have
    to reinforce disinformation again and again to gain the trust of the masses.  
    We only need to wake people up once and they will be changed forever. 
     
    When freedom of speech is made illegal, as it will soon be, secret societies may
    be one of paths left to get the message of freedom out. 
    For the record I am not a mason. 
    
    From: David Irons <jazforyou@...>
    Date: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:04 pm
    Subject: Re: [WELCOME_TO_THE_HOMELAND_OF_THE_JESUITS_DISORDER] RESEARCH ABOUT TOMMY WATTS, THE SELF-APPOINTED EDUCATOR OF THE MASSES
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    Masons founded this country.  After we are enslaved by the new world disorder,
    it may well me masons who start the second revolution.  We need our own secret
    societies to fight the secret societies that are now bent on controlling us. 
    Instead of villianizing the masons we should seek to place freedom minded
    individuals in positions of power.  Some bad masons have done much harm
    however; the same has also done much good. 
     
    Lets wise up.  The new world order divides us and gets us to expend our efforts
    in fighting among our selves. 
     
    We need to use the same techniques against them that they use against us: Secret
    societies, people in positions of power who help other freedom minded
    individuals attain positions of power and sometimes deceit; pretending to be in
    favor of an opposite view until we are able to effect change. 
     
    We must work toward the cause of free markets and natural rights.  We have the
    advantage because freedom is the natural tendency of human beings.  They have
    to reinforce disinformation again and again to gain the trust of the masses.  
    We only need to wake people up once and they will be changed forever. 
     
    When freedom of speech is made illegal, as it will soon be, secret societies may
    be one of paths left to get the message of freedom out. 
    For the record I am not a mason. 
    



    Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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    #10780 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
    Date: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:50 pm
    Subject: Google to show Iraqi museum images - looted?
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    What about the items looted or facilated their looting by the American army. Will they shown too? Or is this an invitation for the next looting session?


    Google to show Iraqi museum images

    The internet giant Google has announced it's going to be making available online much of the Iraqi national museum's collection.


    The search engine's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, made the announcement during a visit to the museum, where he said 14,000 images would be carried on Google, documenting the development of civilisation in Iraq from prehistoric to Islamic times.

    Jim Muir reports from Baghdad.

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    #10779 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
    Date: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:50 pm
    Subject: Re: Fall Of The Republic - Full Movie The Presidency Of Barack H Obama
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    Hi "zionism_sucks_truly",
     
    I found your message interesting:
     
    Those here should do a bit of research into psychopathic LIAR John F. Perna who
    is a front man(sic) for ZIONISM! NOTE perna has the shalom alias below and has
    consistently denied the existence of CHEMTRAILS now being used to infect the
    UKRAINE and other countries yet ACTS like a christian patriot infesting many
    militia groups yet speaking against such GOOD patriots as Mark Koernke and
    others. Perna has been CAUGHT repeatedly toting the ADL party line. Perna
    repeatedly accuses others of what HE is guilty of. Don't fall for the
    smokescreen blathering he will spew, CHECK THE FACTS! ZIONISM IS THE ROOT OF
    MOST EVIL in todays world. Perna repeats and supports the LIE that Moslems
    attacked U.S. on 911. The TRUTH is here: www.realnews247.com

    Zionist TRAITORS in Yahoo groups like John F Perna aka: http://profiles.
    <http://profiles.yahoo.com/shalom_29212> yahoo.com/ shalom_29212
    > http://www.endgamep lan.net/2008/ 03/written- on-ma-1.html
    <http://www.endgameplan.net/2008/03/written-on-ma-1.html>
    > (See photos of this bloated PARASITE and other info here)
    >
    > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/end- time-prophecies/
    <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/end-time-prophecies/message/23226> message/23226
    > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/end- time-prophecies/
    <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/end-time-prophecies/message/26575> message/26575
    > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Jews- On-The-Internet/
    <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jews-On-The-Internet/message/965> message/965
    > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/SupportIsr ael/message/ 9488
    <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SupportIsrael/message/9488>
    > http://groups. yahoo.com/ group/Jews- On-The-Internet/
    <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jews-On-The-Internet/message/965> message/965
    posted at this group:
    --- In Freedoms_Darkness_3@..., "ZIONISM  SUCKS!" <zionism_sucks_truly@...>
     
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     
    Please do not post nor forward this email elsewhere that I already determined simply because my time is priceless and I can not afford to waste it in the trash right now. 
     
    I own my own groups where people like John Perna can NOT disinform folks MORE THAN THEY ACTUALLY ARE CONFUSED!  Not everyone is posting in my groups.  In fact, a selected few members and if I discover that they are other FAKE, I DO BAN THEM.
     
    Here is what I need to know about you:
     
    A)  I need to know your identity as you know mine by now. 
     
    B)  Also, I need to know if you do put the Jews all in the same basket.  Not all of them are Zionists!  I hope you do know the difference because I have a good Internet contact by the name of James Dierbeck who wrote this in my group and he is the most right and we did EXPOSE TOMMY WATTS (but I am eager to add that James had the most important contribution by briging me the beton proof that Watts is a FREEMASON) who puts the Jews all in the same basket...
     
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    Thanks Marie. Now that the so called "hate laws" are outlawing freedom
    of speech & press & religion & info internationally, via ADL, a branch
    of B'nai B'rith comasonry, founded by Rothschilds, we all should be
    careful to explain that we are only opposed to the illuminati & B'nai
    B'rith, not all jews.
    http://www.hatelawsexposed.org  Various websites are jews against
    zionism, such as http://www.nkusa.org

        Watts promotes hatred of all jews indiscriminately, and blacks, etc,
    which is like Hitler depopulating Torah jews while sparing secret
    society jews like Eichmann and Borhmann and Rothschilds. Masonic
    propaganda will mislead all at every turn, on every topic. Jews in
    general are not the problem, like not all Scotsmen are Scottish Rite
    freemasons. B'nai B'rith/ADL is the NWO tyrants, along with the
    inquisitioners who hijacked Christianity & the world.

        Not all Catholics are SMOM or DeMolay, or Knights of Columbus.
    Indiscriminate targeting of all Catholics would be irrational, same as
    Watts... the Arkansas corndog hillbilly freemason who also hates
    Christianity, coincidentally, or not.

        Former top USA freemason Albert Pike was involved in founding the
    KKK, so, masonics in the racist groups is no surprise. They try to
    control all sides of politics and religion and even crime (the Italian
    mafia was founded by top Italian freemason Mazzini, along with the P2
    Lodge).

        In the course of exposing masonic secrets, when defenders of
    freemasonry come out to play foul, I ask them if they are connected to
    any masonic or comasonic org. Ask them for the words to their oaths...
    they're too afraid over the enforced oaths to answer about swearing to
    kill on command for freemasonry at 9th degree, or any other degree.

        33rd degree is by invite only, and many comasonic orgs are invite
    only. The lower levels don't know what they're talking about, as they
    parrot the public relations Baalcrap of masonry.
    Cyber operatives can be gov or masonics.
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    Amendment 10 negates unconstitutional fed powers, like the 1947
    National Security Act, UNpatriot Acts, international "agreements", &
    federal police agencies like DHS/FBI/BATF/DEA.  Federal referendums =
    power to the people, once elections are unrigged.
      Rev 19:11/19, Isaiah 24:21-22, Matt.13:49-50, Psalm 110:1-6 KJV (109
    other versions), Ephesians 6:12, 2 Kings 10:19-30 KJV (4 Kings oher
    versions)... then consider the VIPs doing Baalist rituals at Bohemian
    Grove!

    Otherwise, forget my name and I will not invite you in my groups. 
    Because you can be TOMMY WATTS, FREEMASON and if you will not reply to this email, I SHALL ASSUME THAT YOU ARE TOMMY WATTS AND WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE MEASURES TO STOP THIS. BTW, I do not support Ron Paul like Perna does simply because I found out Ron Paul is a Mason.

    Marie M. Buchanan, M.Ps.
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    Ph. 1:21, Rev. 20:4)
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    #10778 From: "Marie M. Buchanan" <mariemartine1966@...>
    Date: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:33 pm
    Subject: People Sick from Flameproof Mattresses
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    People Sick from Flameproof Mattresses

     

    Eric North, Washington DC  20011
    My partner and I have been stumped trying to figure out why we are having chronic skin rashes since sleeping on our mattress purchased in August 07. Most outbreaks occurring on the side on which we normally sleep

    Diane Sandstrum, Broomfield CO 80023
    I am currently battling many symptoms after sleeping on a 'flameproof' bed. I have experienced hives, rapid heart rate, shortness of breath, dizziness, anxiety, panic, vision problems, and other symptoms.

    Jan Young, Muskego WI 53150
    We have gone thru 3 mattresses in the last 2 months. They all made us sick with flame retardants. We can't find a mattress without these chemicals. Help!

    Patrick Mallo
    I had difficulty breathing at night after 1 week in the bed. I forced the return of the bed and got 85% of my money back.

    Carey Ann Holcomb, Ojai CA 93023
    I have become sick from 2 mattresses that had heavy odor from flame retardant. My youngest son who often comes to sleep in my bed also has become sick from the mattresses.

    Mary Ludwig
    My son was poisoned using an expensive brand name crib mattress. ... Alex used to bounce in his crib and cry for hours. ...Alex's antimony levels were so high it almost killed him on his heavy metals tests.

    Dorothy Doelger, Stillwater OK 74075
    My daughter became very ill from her new mattress (vomiting, shaking, headache, sweating) and it took three months to get the toxins out of her system.

    Joyce Skwor, Greenville MS  38701
    I got a rash on my skin and now my eyes are red . And the only thing new in my life was the new mattress set by Serta .

     

    Requested Confidential (Mattress factory employees)
    I work at a large bedding manufacturing plant that distributes mattresses to the east cost with approx. 300 stores. The employees at the plant are complaining of sore throats, skin irritations and in some cases running noses and nose bleeds.

    Requested Confidential (Different mattress company and state than above)
    I work at a Simmons mattress factory. The employees here are having difficulty's health wise. Mostly respiratory. About 20 people called OSHA and complained which only angered our CEO and upper management. They held a meeting a few days ago saying "A handful of people are having problems" which they continued to repeat through out the meeting. Well 20 people may be a handful if we are talking about a huge population of people but only about 90 people work in our plant per shift and only a handful (about 20) people handle the FR material. Anyways they told us "If anyone complains about any reaction to the FR material they will be required to use the extra safety equipment ( Air tight goggles, respirators, full body smocks etc.) for the eternity of their employment".


    Requested Confidential (Female mattress factory employee)
    I watch the effects of this to our workforce daily. I work at Simmons Mattress in Janesville WI. We are concerned that the chemicals are harmful. All we hear is FR is government mandated. What is wrong with our government?

    Rick Cassidy, (Mattress Manufacturer Employee) Baton Rouge LA 70802
    This topic of toxic FR Materials is being held a secret by importers from China. My former employer knowingly withheld this information from the largest retail customer in the California market. Antimony Trioxide is commonly used as a fire retardant chemical additive and is a known carcinogen as I understand from a US testing facility. I was told to keep this quiet by my employer or I would lose my position as product designer and marketing executive. That's what happened. I agree that the unaware consumer is at severe long term risk with this US government mandated FR compliance.

     

    Lisa Werenskjold, Glasgow KY 42141
    I recently purchased a Stearns and Foster mattress. My eyes began to burn after sleeping on this mattress and I couldn't even be in the room with it.

    Cheryl Anderson,
    My first night I couldn't sleep and got a fever and headache, one night I was sick to my stomach. We flew out the next day for a week in Portland slept fine. Came back to our new mattress and for four days straight I couldn't sleep and same thing happened, fever, face flushed sick to stomach and migraine. ... So I am writing to you in case you are thinking about buying a new mattress, beware of the toxins.

    Mike Kelly, 78759
    Researching the cause of my rashes, which I think are from my bed.

    Jennifer Benton, San Francisco CA 94109
    I slept on a flame retardant mattress for about 3 months, and developed a horrible skin rash on my face and swollen lips. ... Before the purchase of the flame retardant bed, I had none of these issues. My skin was perfect. If I had known that the bed had been treated with toxic chemicals I never would have purchased it. These resulting health issues have now cost me more than $5000 and quite a bit of pain and suffering.

    Frank Moshman, Maybrook NJ  12543
    I recently bought a new mattress. The smell is awful and I already developed a huge skin rash which I read could be an effect of the boric acid.

    Richard Pitts, Brighton CO 80601
    My wife and I are now chemical sensitive from our bed.

    Mike
    I started developing a rash that first appeared on my lower back but has since appeared on my arms, the sides of my torso and hips and upper back primarily. It seems to be happening on pressure points where my body meets the bed.

    Robert Archer, Sedona AZ 86340
    I am sick from a new mattresses I recently purchased.

    Lynn Trudel, Finchburg MA  01420
    Am on my second mattress - first Simmons then Sealy. Both have odors and am allergic to both with no chance for a refund.

    Howard Nussdor, Huntington NY  11743
    I am suffering ill affects by a recently purchased mattress.

     

    Dr Lawrence A. Plumlee,  MD
    Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association
    Dallas, TX 75220-3757

    The benefits do not outweigh the risks. I know many chemically sensitive people who do not tolerate treated mattresses. And how many are intolerant who don't know why they can't sleep or feel bad?

     

    Phil Fleming, Seattle WA  98166
    The new Serta I bought at Costco this spring is giving me huge headaches and joint pain. I went back to a 8 yr old bed and immediately felt better.

    Kirsten Surratt, BS, Peoria IL  61615, Friend had similar problem
    "Bought a chemical treated mattress, broke out in a rash/itchy skin, have sore throat and increased frequency of my migraines and sinus problems."

    Robert L Chavoya, BA, Lockhart TX  78644
    My wife and I purchased a Serta mattress (Pillow top)a month ago. The first was soiled and was exchanged. The second and our current third mattress has a caustic odor that permeates the house and causes our eyes to water and throats to itch. The Serta folks advised us to air it out. I've sealed off the bedroom and had a heavy duty fan blowing directly on the mattress (the second mattress for 7 days) the third mattress for 3 days. The odor is not going away. Our master bedroom is completely sealed off from the rest of house with windows open.

    "We are both in our senior years; we've had a few mattresses in our life times. But this is the first that is fire retardant and the first that has caused us extreme physical discomfort with allergic/cold type symptoms. I'm currently in contact with Serta management, but I believe that this treated mattress will not be part of our household much longer. They insist that the mattress itself is not treated with any chemicals, but that the different materials that are used to patch the mattress together have fire-retardant features. "

    [Serta has previously admitted they use Boric Acid to the Washington Post and others. Kevlar is used in the yellow thread you see on the perimeter of the mattress to hold it together, but this is not the flameproofing system. The CPSC report table 1 proves the cotton batting flameproofing system contains 7.5% Boric Acid and 2.4% Antimony. With no labeling requirements, it is typical for mattress makers to deny using chemicals!]

     

    Dr. Donald Stone, Ph.D., Oakland CA  94618
    I have fairly regular tolerance to a variety of toxic chemicals but demonstrated chemical sensitivity to formaldehyde. For instance when rugs used greater concentrations in the backing glues I would last about 2 minutes in a carpet store before I got faint. I now can last a half an hour. "A recently purchased mattress has given me the familiar symptoms of formaldehyde poisoning. When I did a little research into the new requirements for flame retardants, I was appalled at what is going into mattresses, and without any adequate labeling.  People buying flame retardant mattresses should be paid for participating in an experimental trial of an inadequately tested product. Not required by law to get a Dr's prescription to have the privilege of paying huge sums to purchase expensive mattresses without flame retardants. "

     

    Ann Natale, BS, Rockford IL  61107
    "I am currently suffering severe allergic reactions to my new Sealy mattress. The store, Slumberland and its rep deny any problems from the Boric acid. I am excited to find this site that will help ban boric acid."

    Thank you for your work.

     

    Linda Merrill, Columbia TN  38401
    My good friend acquired asthma after prolonged exposure to boric acid.  (carpet treatment)   Subsequently, she died from an asthma attack.   This happened over a period of two years!!! 

    I DO NOT WANT MICROPARTICLES OF BORIC ACID FLOATING OUT FROM MY MATTRESS EVERY TIME I LAY DOWN OR MOVE AND THE MATTRESS COMPRESSES!!

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    Some people are called Canaries because they are more sensitive than others. The real risk is long term.

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    Vickie Symons, Cincinnati OH 45245
    "Last month my husband and I bought two new flame-proof mattress sets for our 4 yr old twins. I was immediately nauseated and extremely fatigued after placing the mattresses in their room. We let their room air out as much as we could before they slept on them, but I was/am still incredibly concerned about the potential effects the mattresses may have on them. I did not realize how chemical-laden these mattresses were and definitely would have purchased mattresses without the flame-proofing had I been aware. Please stop this new law for the health of all."

     

    Dr. Susan Toron, D.C., Paramus NJ  07652
    "I was forced to purchase an organic bed for my son after learning he was being poisoned by the chemicals in his mattress.  In testing, he had 3x the level of antimony in his system, which was causing significant health and behavior problems (he was 4 at the time). Within 6 months of getting him out of the chemical bed and into the organic one, his antimony levels went back to normal, and his health and behavior problems stopped.  Bottom line is that we do not deserve to be poisoned by chemicals we are unaware of, especially when it comes to our mattresses. How many of us have health problems we are dealing with that are from the chemicals we are being exposed to from our mattresses.  As someone who lived through the horror of watching her son deal with chronic health and behavior problems at 4 years old, only to find out it was from his mattress, I feel these chemicals definately do not belong in our homes.  We should have a choice, don't you think.  Unfortunately, most of us do not have the knowledge to make the choice, because this information is not readily available.  Let's fight for change."

     

      

    Doreen Mack, Lofty Expressions, Carson City NV  89703
    I have clients who are highly allergic to any chemicals; as a matter of fact one of my clients was in the hospital with severe asthma because of a chemical in her chair that we had just purchased.  I find this absolutely absurd!  I would not want to sleep on a mattress treated in chemicals, especially Boric Acid.

     

    Guenter Frivert, Pomp Home, Culver City CA  90232
    I am very aware of these chemicals. I do have problems sleeping on a regular mattress because of these chemicals in them...unfortunately. I'm strictly against these chemicals. America the land of chemicals!

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    Beware of the laws that “protect” us!

    Sandra Dorsey, Fallbrook, CA 92028

    Today I was able to go out and work in the garden with my husband. Hallelujah!aH What a beautiful spring day in Fallbrook, CA. Two weeks ago I could barely lift my head off the pillow; I was waking up everyday nauseated, dizzy, weak and in a fog. I have a lot of allergies and sensitivities but I had reached the point of not being able to function.

    Last year we bought a new mattress. California now has a law that all mattresses must be fire-retardant. At the time of the purchase, the salesman informed me of this requirement which immediately put me on alert. I questioned the salesman at length and he reassured me that in this name-brand mattress the fire-retardant is not just sprayed on but incorporated into the fabric of the mattress. Just to be sure, I immediately put a zippered anti-allergic cover on the mattress when it was delivered. Soon after the purchase, I noticed a lot of stomach acid and reflux which I wrote off as “must have been the dinner I had tonight.” Then I gradually developed a churning stomach waking me up about 4 AM. Then diarrhea. I had a bladder infection, sinus headaches continuously, and earaches. Well maybe with so many Santa Ana winds this year I thought, there must be more allergens. Aches, pains, muscle pulls followed. In January 2006 a sensitive bladder, then multiple bladder infections that kept returning. After spending two weeks on vacation in Mexico, I felt a little better. Lots of the pains subsided. Within a week of returning home it was all back again. I woke up one morning and told my husband not to go play golf; I would have to go to the emergency room. But after getting out of bed I felt better. Well finally I put two and two together. Maybe something is wrong with this bed! I decided to sleep in the guest room on an older mattress which was manufactured before the fire-retardant requirement. Next morning I could open my eyes, and open them widely. WOW. We switched the beds, moving the older mattress into our master bedroom and our suspicious new mattress into the guest room. I have been sleeping on the old mattress for 2 weeks now and what a relief. I can go to sleep in 15 minutes as opposed to an hour. I didn’t even hear it raining during the night this week. And I can sleep until 7 AM instead 4:30 to 5 AM. When I look in the mirror I see a much more relaxed face without the furrowed brow. I can walk and smile and laugh with my husband.

    Conversations with the store where I bought the mattress and the company representative have been nonproductive. I have had the mattress over a year and they cannot guarantee it or give me a prorated refund. In fact when speaking to the company representative, I mentioned driving to Arizona to purchase a mattress without the fire-retardant and he said this new requirement will soon be nation wide and the company is making all their mattresses with fire-retardant now.

    I have my life back now but how many other people will suffer from this unnecessary exposure to added chemicals. Some mattress companies will be using other more lethal chemicals or even spraying on the retardant. I feel sorry for the infants who are placed on these infected mattresses. This will surely cause more “imaginary” diseases, attention deficient, and autism. Problems with sensitivities are hard to pinpoint and many doctors are not sympathetic. If you buy a new mattress and begin to feel ill. Document your symptoms and complain to the maker immediately. Don’t make excuses like I did. These laws that are made to “protect” us do everything but. What we need to be healthier are natural fibers and fewer chemicals not more.



    Sandra Dorsey

    Fallbrook, CA 92028

    Source:

    http://www.strobel.com/people_sick.htm

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      Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
      by Jeremy Scahill


    At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special
    Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members
    of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program
    in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al
    Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other
    sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The
    Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering
    intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign
    that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes,
    according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence
    apparatus.

    The source, who has worked on covert US military programs for years,
    including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has direct knowledge of
    Blackwater's involvement. He spoke to The Nation on condition of
    anonymity because the program is classified. The source said that the
    program is so "compartmentalized" that senior figures within the Obama
    administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware of
    its existence.

    The White House did not return calls or email messages seeking
    comment for this story. Capt. John Kirby, the spokesperson for Adm.
    Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The
    Nation, "We do not discuss current operations one way or the other,
    regardless of their nature." A defense official, on background,
    specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone strikes or
    intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. "We don't have any contracts to do
    that work for us. We don't contract that kind of work out, period," the
    official said. "There has not been, and is not now, contracts between
    JSOC and that organization for these types of services."

    The previously unreported program, the military intelligence source said, is distinct
    from the CIA assassination program that the agency's director, Leon
    Panetta, announced he had canceled in June 2009. "This is a parallel
    operation to the CIA," said the source. "They are two separate beasts."
    The program puts Blackwater at the epicenter of a US military operation
    within the borders of a nation against which the United States has not
    declared war--knowledge that could further strain the already tense
    relations between the United States and Pakistan. In 2006, the United
    States and Pakistan struck a deal that authorized JSOC to enter Pakistan
    to hunt Osama bin Laden with the understanding that Pakistan would deny
    it had given permission. Officially, the United States is not supposed
    to have any active military operations in the country.

    Blackwater, which recently changed its name to Xe Services and US Training Center, denies
    the company is operating in Pakistan. "Xe Services has only one employee
    in Pakistan performing construction oversight for the U.S. Government,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Mark Corallo said in a statement to The
    Nation, adding that the company has "no other operations of any kind
    in Pakistan."

    A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military
    intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for
    the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations
    force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for
    the Pakistani government on a subcontract with an Islamabad-based
    security firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with
    Pakistani forces in counter-terrorism operations, including house raids
    and border interdictions, in the North-West Frontier Province and
    elsewhere in Pakistan. This arrangement, the former executive said,
    allows the Pakistani government to utilize former US Special Operations
    forces who now work for Blackwater while denying an official US military
    presence in the country. He also confirmed that Blackwater has a
    facility in Karachi and has personnel deployed elsewhere in Pakistan.
    The former executive spoke on condition of anonymity.

    His account and that of the military intelligence source were borne
    out by a US military source who has knowledge of Special Forces actions
    in Pakistan and Afghanistan. When asked about Blackwater's covert work
    for JSOC in Pakistan, this source, who also asked for anonymity, told
    The Nation, "From my information that I have, that is absolutely
    correct," adding, "There's no question that's occurring."

    "It wouldn't surprise me because we've outsourced nearly
    everything," said Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of
    State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, when told of
    Blackwater's role in Pakistan. Wilkerson said that during his time in
    the Bush administration, he saw the beginnings of Blackwater's
    involvement with the sensitive operations of the military and CIA. "Part
    of this, of course, is an attempt to get around the constraints the
    Congress has placed on DoD. If you don't have sufficient soldiers to do
    it, you hire civilians to do it. I mean, it's that simple. It would not
    surprise me."

    The Counterterrorism Tag Team in Karachi

    The covert JSOC program with Blackwater in Pakistan dates back to at
    least 2007, according to the military intelligence source. The current
    head of JSOC is Vice Adm. William McRaven, who took over the post from
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC from 2003 to 2008 before being
    named the top US commander in Afghanistan.  Blackwater's presence in
    Pakistan is "not really visible, and that's why nobody has cracked down
    on it," said the source. Blackwater's operations in Pakistan, he said,
    are not done through State Department contracts or publicly identified
    Defense contracts. "It's Blackwater via JSOC, and it's a classified
    no-bid [contract] approved on a rolling basis." The main JSOC/Blackwater
    facility in Karachi, according to the source, is nondescript: three
    trailers with various generators, satellite phones and computer systems
    are used as a makeshift operations center. "It's a very rudimentary
    operation," says the source. "I would compare it to [CIA] outposts in
    Kurdistan or any of the Special Forces outposts. It's very bare bones,
    and that's the point."

    Blackwater's work for JSOC in Karachi is coordinated out of a Task
    Force based at Bagram Air Base in neighboring Afghanistan, according to the military intelligence source. While JSOC technically runs the operations in Karachi, he said, it is largely staffed by
    former US special operations soldiers working for a division of
    Blackwater, once known as Blackwater SELECT, and intelligence analysts
    working for a Blackwater affiliate, Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS),
    which is owned by Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince. The military source
    said that the name Blackwater SELECT may have been changed recently.
    Total Intelligence, which is run out of an office on the ninth floor of
    a building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, is staffed by
    former analysts and operatives from the CIA, DIA, FBI and other
    agencies. It is modeled after the CIA's counterterrorism center. In
    Karachi, TIS runs a "media-scouring/open-source network," according to
    the source. Until recently, Total Intelligence was run by two former top
    CIA officials, Cofer Black and Robert Richer, both of whom have left the
    company. In Pakistan, Blackwater is not using either its original name
    or its new moniker, Xe Services, according to the former Blackwater
    executive. "They are running most of their work through TIS because the
    other two [names] have such a stain on them," he said. Corallo, the
    Blackwater spokesperson, denied that TIS or any other division or
    affiliate of Blackwater has any personnel in Pakistan.

    The US military intelligence source said that Blackwater's
    classified contracts keep getting renewed at the request of JSOC.
    Blackwater, he said, is already so deeply entrenched that it has become
    a staple of the US military operations in Pakistan. According to the
    former Blackwater executive, "The politics that go with the brand of BW
    is somewhat set aside because what you're doing is really one military
    guy to another." Blackwater's first known contract with the CIA for
    operations in Afghanistan was awarded in 2002 and was for work along the
    Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

    One of the concerns raised by the military intelligence source is
    that some Blackwater personnel are being given rolling security
    clearances above their approved clearances. Using Alternative
    Compartmentalized Control Measures (ACCMs), he said, the Blackwater personnel are
    granted clearance to a Special Access Program, the bureaucratic term
    used to describe highly classified "black" operations. "With an ACCM,
    the security manager can grant access to you to be exposed to and
    operate within compartmentalized programs far above 'secret'--even
    though you have no business doing so," said the source. It allows
    Blackwater personnel that "do not have the requisite security clearance
    or do not hold a security clearance whatsoever to participate in
    classified operations by virtue of trust," he added. "Think of it as an
    ultra-exclusive level above top secret. That's exactly what it is: a
    circle of love." Blackwater, therefore, has access to "all source"
    reports that are culled in part from JSOC units in the field. "That's
    how a lot of things over the years have been conducted with
    contractors," said the source. "We have contractors that regularly see
    things that top policy-makers don't unless they ask."

    According to the source, Blackwater has effectively marketed itself
    as a company whose operatives have "conducted lethal direct action
    missions and now, for a price, you can have your own planning cell. JSOC
    just ate that up," he said, adding, "They have a sizable force in
    Pakistan--not for any nefarious purpose if you really want to look at it
    that way--but to support a legitimate contract that's classified for
    JSOC." Blackwater's Pakistan JSOC contracts are
    secret and are therefore shielded from public oversight, he said. The source is
    not sure when the arrangement with JSOC began, but he says that a
    spin-off of Blackwater SELECT "was issued a no-bid contract for support
    to shooters for a JSOC Task Force and they kept extending it." Some of
    the Blackwater personnel, he said, work undercover as aid workers.
    "Nobody even gives them a second thought."

    The military intelligence source said that the Blackwater/JSOC
    Karachi operation is referred to as "Qatar cubed," in reference to the
    US forward operating base in Qatar that served as the hub for the
    planning and implementation of the US invasion of Iraq. "This is
    supposed to be the brave new world," he says. "This is the Jamestown of
    the new millennium and it's meant to be a lily pad. You can jump off to
    Uzbekistan, you can jump back over the border, you can jump sideways,
    you can jump northwest. It's strategically located so that they can get
    their people wherever they have to without having to wrangle with the
    military chain of command in Afghanistan, which is convoluted. They
    don't have to deal with that because they're operating under a
    classified mandate."

    In addition to planning drone strikes and operations against
    suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan for both JSOC and the
    CIA, the Blackwater team in Karachi also helps plan missions for JSOC
    inside Uzbekistan against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the military intelligence source. Blackwater
    does not actually carry out the operations, he said, which are executed on the ground by JSOC forces.
    "That piqued my curiosity and really worries me because I don't know if
    you noticed but I was never told we are at war with Uzbekistan," he
    said. "So, did I miss something, did Rumsfeld come back into power?"

    Pakistan's Military Contracting Maze

    Blackwater, according to the military intelligence source, is not
    doing the actual killing as part of its work in Pakistan. "The SELECT
    personnel are not going into places with private aircraft and going
    after targets," he said. "It's not like Blackwater SELECT people are
    running around assassinating people." Instead, US Special Forces teams
    carry out the plans developed in part by Blackwater. The military
    intelligence source drew a distinction between the Blackwater operatives
    who work for the State Department, which he calls "Blackwater Vanilla,"
    and the seasoned Special Forces veterans who work on the JSOC program.
    "Good or bad, there's a small number of people who know how to pull off
    an operation like that. That's probably a good thing," said the source.
    "It's the Blackwater SELECT people that have and continue to plan these
    types of operations because they're the only people that know how and
    they went where the money was. It's not trigger-happy fucks, like some
    of the PSD [Personal Security Detail] guys. These are not people that
    believe that Barack Obama is a socialist, these are not people that kill
    innocent civilians. They're very good at what they do."

    The former Blackwater executive, when asked for confirmation that
    Blackwater forces were not actively killing people in Pakistan, said,
    "that's not entirely accurate." While he concurred with the military
    intelligence source's description of the JSOC and CIA programs, he
    pointed to another role Blackwater is allegedly playing in Pakistan, not
    for the US government but for Islamabad. According to the executive,
    Blackwater works on a subcontract for Kestral Logistics, a powerful
    Pakistani firm, which specializes in military logistical support,
    private security and intelligence consulting. It is staffed with former
    high-ranking Pakistani army and government officials. While Kestral's
    main offices are in Pakistan, it also has branches in several other
    countries.

    A spokesperson for the US State Department's Directorate of Defense
    Trade Controls (DDTC), which is responsible for issuing licenses to US
    corporations to provide defense-related services to foreign governments
    or entities, would neither confirm nor deny for The Nation that
    Blackwater has a license to work in Pakistan or to work with Kestral.
    "We cannot help you," said department spokesperson David McKeeby after
    checking with the relevant DDTC officials. "You'll have to contact the
    companies directly." Blackwater's Corallo said the company has "no
    operations of any kind" in Pakistan other than the one employee working
    for the DoD. Kestral did not respond to inquiries from The
    Nation.

    According to federal lobbying records, Kestral recently hired former
    Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger
    Noriega, who served in that post from 2003 to 2005, to lobby the US
    government, including the State Department, USAID and Congress, on
    foreign affairs issues "regarding [Kestral's] capabilities to carry out
    activities of interest to the United States." Noriega was hired through
    his firm, Vision Americas, which he runs with Christina Rocca, a former
    CIA operations official who served as assistant secretary of state for
    South Asian affairs from 2001 to 2006 and was deeply involved in shaping
    US policy toward Pakistan. In October 2009, Kestral paid Vision Americas
    $15,000 and paid a Vision Americas-affiliated firm, Firecreek Ltd., an
    equal amount to lobby on defense and foreign policy issues.

    For years, Kestral has done a robust business in defense logistics
    with the Pakistani government and other nations, as well as top US
    defense companies. Blackwater owner Erik Prince is close with Kestral
    CEO Liaquat Ali Baig, according to the former Blackwater executive. "Ali
    and Erik have a pretty close relationship," he said. "They've met many
    times and struck a deal, and they [offer] mutual support for one
    another." Working with Kestral, he said, Blackwater has provided convoy
    security for Defense Department shipments destined for Afghanistan that
    would arrive in the port at Karachi. Blackwater, according to the former
    executive, would guard the supplies as they were transported overland
    from Karachi to Peshawar and then west through the Torkham border
    crossing, the most important supply route for the US military in
    Afghanistan.

    According to the former executive, Blackwater operatives also
    integrate with Kestral's forces in sensitive counterterrorism operations
    in the North-West Frontier Province, where they work in conjunction with
    the Pakistani Interior Ministry's paramilitary force, known as the
    Frontier Corps (alternately referred to as "frontier scouts"). The
    Blackwater personnel are technically advisers, but the former executive
    said that the line often gets blurred in the field. Blackwater "is
    providing the actual guidance on how to do [counterterrorism operations]
    and Kestral's folks are carrying a lot of them out, but they're having
    the guidance and the overwatch from some BW guys that will actually go
    out with the teams when they're executing the job," he said. "You can
    see how that can lead to other things in the border areas." He said that
    when Blackwater personnel are out with the Pakistani teams, sometimes
    its men engage in operations against suspected terrorists. "You've got
    BW guys that are assisting... and they're all going to want to go on the
    jobs--so they're going to go with them," he said. "So, the things that
    you're seeing in the news about how this Pakistani military group came
    in and raided this house or did this or did that--in some of those
    cases, you're going to have Western folks that are right there at the
    house, if not in the house." Blackwater, he said, is paid by the
    Pakistani government through Kestral for consulting services. "That
    gives the Pakistani government the cover to say, 'Hey, no, we don't have
    any Westerners doing this. It's all local and our people are doing it.'
    But it gets them the expertise that Westerners provide for
    [counterterrorism]-related work."

    The military intelligence source confirmed Blackwater works with the
    Frontier Corps, saying, "There's no real oversight. It's not really on
    people's radar screen."

    In October, in response to Pakistani news reports that a Kestral
    warehouse in Islamabad was being used to store heavy weapons for
    Blackwater, the US Embassy in Pakistan released a statement denying the
    weapons were being used by "a private American security contractor." The
    statement said, "Kestral Logistics is a private logistics company that
    handles the importation of equipment and supplies provided by the United
    States to the Government of Pakistan. All of the equipment and supplies
    were imported at the request of the Government of Pakistan, which also
    certified the shipments."

    Who is Behind the Drone Attacks?

    Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the United States has
    expanded drone bombing raids in Pakistan. Obama first ordered a drone
    strike against targets in North and South Waziristan on January 23, and
    the strikes have been conducted consistently ever since. The Obama
    administration has now surpassed the number of Bush-era strikes in
    Pakistan and has faced fierce criticism from Pakistan and some US
    lawmakers over civilian deaths. A drone attack in June killed as many as
    sixty people attending a Taliban funeral.

    In August, the New York Times reported that Blackwater works
    for the CIA at "hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the
    company's contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound
    laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft." In February,
    The Times of London obtained a satellite image of a secret CIA
    airbase in Shamsi, in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan,
    showing three drone aircraft. The New York Times also reported
    that the agency uses a secret base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to strike
    in Pakistan.

    The military intelligence source says that the drone strike that
    reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, his wife
    and his bodyguards in Waziristan in August was a CIA strike, but that
    many others attributed in media reports to the CIA are actually JSOC
    strikes. "Some of these strikes are attributed to OGA [Other Government
    Agency, intelligence parlance for the CIA], but in reality it's JSOC and
    their parallel program of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] because they
    also have access to UAVs. So when you see some of these hits, especially
    the ones with high civilian casualties, those are almost always JSOC
    strikes." The Pentagon has stated bluntly, "There are no US military
    strike operations being conducted in Pakistan."

    The military intelligence source also confirmed that Blackwater
    continues to work for the CIA on its drone bombing program in Pakistan,
    as previously reported in the New York Times, but added that
    Blackwater is working on JSOC's drone bombings as well. "It's Blackwater
    running the program for both CIA and JSOC," said the source. When
    civilians are killed, "people go, 'Oh, it's the CIA doing crazy shit
    again unchecked.' Well, at least 50 percent of the time, that's JSOC
    [hitting] somebody they've identified through HUMINT [human
    intelligence] or they've culled the intelligence themselves or it's been
    shared with them and they take that person out and that's how it works."

    The military intelligence source says that the CIA operations are
    subject to Congressional oversight, unlike the parallel JSOC bombings.
    "Targeted killings are not the most popular thing in town right now and
    the CIA knows that," he says. "Contractors and especially JSOC personnel
    working under a classified mandate are not [overseen by Congress], so
    they just don't care. If there's one person they're going after and
    there's thirty-four people in the building, thirty-five people are going
    to die. That's the mentality." He added, "They're not accountable to
    anybody and they know that. It's an open secret, but what are you going
    to do, shut down JSOC?"

    In addition to working on covert action planning and drone strikes,
    Blackwater SELECT also provides private guards to perform the sensitive
    task of security for secret US drone bases, JSOC camps and Defense
    Intelligence Agency camps inside Pakistan, according to the military
    intelligence source.

    Mosharraf Zaidi, a well-known Pakistani journalist who has served as
    a consultant for the UN and European Union in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
    says that the Blackwater/JSOC program raises serious questions about the
    norms of international relations. "The immediate question is, How do you
    define the active pursuit of military objectives in a country with which
    not only have you not declared war but that is supposedly a front-line
    non-NATO ally in the US struggle to contain extremist violence coming
    out of Afghanistan and the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan?"
    asks Zaidi, who is currently a columnist for The News, the
    biggest English-language daily in Pakistan. "Let's forget Blackwater for
    a second. What this is confirming is that there are US military
    operations in Pakistan that aren't about logistics or getting food to
    Bagram; that are actually about the exercise of physical violence,
    physical force inside of Pakistani territory."

    JSOC: Rumsfeld and Cheney's Extra Special Force

    Colonel Wilkerson said that he is concerned that with General
    McChrystal's elevation as the military commander of the Afghan
    war--which is increasingly seeping into Pakistan--there is a concomitant
    rise in JSOC's power and influence within the military structure. "I
    don't see how you can escape that; it's just a matter of the way the
    authority flows and the power flows, and it's inevitable, I think,"
    Wilkerson told The Nation. He added, "I'm alarmed when I see
    execute orders and combat orders that go out saying that the supporting
    force is Central Command and the supported force is Special Operations
    Command," under which JSOC operates. "That's backward. But that's
    essentially what we have today."

    From 2003 to 2008 McChrystal headed JSOC, which is headquartered at
    Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where Blackwater's
    7,000-acre operating base is also situated. JSOC controls the Army's
    Delta Force, the Navy's SEAL Team 6, as well as the Army's 75th Ranger
    Regiment and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and the Air
    Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron. JSOC performs strike operations,
    reconnaissance in denied areas and special intelligence missions.
    Blackwater, which was founded by former Navy SEALs, employs scores of
    veteran Special Forces operators--which several former military
    officials pointed to as the basis for Blackwater's alleged contracts with JSOC.

    Since 9/11, many top-level Special Forces veterans have taken up
    employment with private firms, where they can make more money doing the
    highly specialized work they did in uniform. "The Blackwater individuals
    have the experience. A lot of these individuals are retired military,
    and they've been around twenty to thirty years and have experience that
    the younger Green Beret guys don't," said retired Army Lieut. Col.
    Jeffrey Addicott, a well-connected military lawyer who served as senior
    legal counsel for US Army Special Forces. "They're known entities.
    Everybody knows who they are, what their capabilities are, and they've
    got the experience. They're very valuable."

    "They make much more money being the smarts of these operations,
    planning hits in various countries and basing it off their experience in
    Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia," said the military intelligence
    source. "They were there for all of these things, they know what the
    hell they're talking about. And JSOC has unfortunately lost the
    institutional capability to plan within, so they hire back people that
    used to work for them and had already planned and executed these [types
    of] operations. They hired back people that jumped over to Blackwater
    SELECT and then pay them exorbitant amounts of money to plan future
    operations. It's a ridiculous revolving door."

    While JSOC has long played a central role in US counterterrorism and
    covert operations, military and civilian officials who worked at the
    Defense and State Departments during the Bush administration described
    in interviews with The Nation an extremely cozy relationship that
    developed between the executive branch (primarily through Vice President
    Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) and JSOC. During the
    Bush era, Special Forces turned into a virtual stand-alone operation
    that acted outside the military chain of command and in direct
    coordination with the White House. Throughout the Bush years, it was
    largely General McChrystal who ran JSOC. "What I was seeing was the
    development of what I would later see in Iraq and Afghanistan, where
    Special Operations forces would operate in both theaters without the
    conventional commander even knowing what they were doing," said Colonel
    Wilkerson. "That's dangerous, that's very dangerous. You have all kinds
    of mess when you don't tell the theater commander what you're doing."

    Wilkerson said that almost immediately after assuming his role at
    the State Department under Colin Powell, he saw JSOC being politicized
    and developing a close relationship with the executive branch. He saw
    this begin, he said, after his first Delta Force briefing at Fort Bragg.
    "I think Cheney and Rumsfeld went directly into JSOC. I think they went
    into JSOC at times, perhaps most frequently, without the SOCOM [Special
    Operations] commander at the time even knowing it. The receptivity in
    JSOC was quite good," says Wilkerson. "I think Cheney was actually
    giving McChrystal instructions, and McChrystal was asking him for
    instructions." He said the relationship between JSOC and Cheney and
    Rumsfeld "built up initially because Rumsfeld didn't get the
    responsiveness. He didn't get the can-do kind of attitude out of the
    SOCOM commander, and so as Rumsfeld was wont to do, he cut him out and
    went straight to the horse's mouth. At that point you had JSOC operating
    as an extension of the [administration] doing things the executive
    branch--read: Cheney and Rumsfeld--wanted it to do. This would be more
    or less carte blanche. You need to do it, do it. It was very alarming
    for me as a conventional soldier."

    Wilkerson said the JSOC teams caused diplomatic problems for the
    United States across the globe. "When these teams started hitting
    capital cities and other places all around the world, [Rumsfeld] didn't
    tell the State Department either. The only way we found out about it is
    our ambassadors started to call us and say, 'Who the hell are these
    six-foot-four white males with eighteen-inch biceps walking around our
    capital cities?' So we discovered this, we discovered one in South
    America, for example, because he actually murdered a taxi driver, and we
    had to get him out of there real quick. We rendered him--we rendered him
    home."

    As part of their strategy, Rumsfeld and Cheney also created the
    Strategic Support Branch (SSB), which pulled intelligence resources from
    the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA for use in sensitive JSOC
    operations. The SSB was created using "reprogrammed" funds "without
    explicit congressional authority or appropriation," according to the
    Washington Post. The SSB operated outside the military chain of
    command and circumvented the CIA's authority on clandestine operations.
    Rumsfeld created it as part of his war to end "near total dependence on
    CIA." Under US law, the Defense Department is required to report all
    deployment orders to Congress. But guidelines issued in January 2005 by
    former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone
    stated that Special Operations forces may "conduct clandestine HUMINT
    operations...before publication" of a deployment order. This effectively
    gave Rumsfeld unilateral control over clandestine operations.

    The military intelligence source said that when Rumsfeld was defense
    secretary, JSOC was deployed to commit some of the "darkest acts" in
    part to keep them concealed from Congress. "Everything can be justified
    as a military operation versus a clandestine intelligence performed by
    the CIA, which has to be informed to Congress," said the source. "They
    were aware of that and they knew that, and they would exploit it at
    every turn and they took full advantage of it. They knew they could act
    extra-legally and nothing would happen because A, it was sanctioned by
    DoD at the highest levels, and B, who was going to stop them? They were
    preparing the battlefield, which was on all of the PowerPoints:
    'Preparing the Battlefield.'"

    The significance of the flexibility of JSOC's operations inside
    Pakistan versus the CIA's is best summed up by Senator Dianne Feinstein,
    chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "Every single
    intelligence operation and covert action must be briefed to the
    Congress," she said. "If they are not, that is a violation of the law."

    Blackwater: Company Non Grata in Pakistan

    For months, the Pakistani media has been flooded with stories about
    Blackwater's alleged growing presence in the country. For the most part,
    these stories have been ignored by the US press and denounced as lies or
    propaganda by US officials in Pakistan. But the reality is that,
    although many of the stories appear to be wildly exaggerated, Pakistanis
    have good reason to be concerned about Blackwater's operations in their
    country. It is no secret in Washington or Islamabad that Blackwater has
    been a central part of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that the
    company has been involved--almost from the beginning of the "war on
    terror"--with clandestine US operations. Indeed,
    Blackwater is accepting applications for contractors fluent in Urdu and
    Punjabi. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, has denied
    Blackwater's presence in the country, stating bluntly in September,
    "Blackwater is not operating in Pakistan." In her trip to Pakistan in
    October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dodged questions from the
    Pakistani press about Blackwater's rumored Pakistani operations.
    Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, said on November 21 he will
    resign if Blackwater is found operating anywhere in Pakistan.

    The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that
    Blackwater "provides security for a US-backed aid project" in Peshawar,
    suggesting the company may be based out of the Pearl Continental, a
    luxury hotel the United States reportedly is considering purchasing to
    use as a consulate in the city. "We have no contracts in Pakistan,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Stacey DeLuke said recently. "We've been blamed
    for all that has gone wrong in Peshawar, none of which is true, since we
    have absolutely no presence there."

    Reports of Blackwater's alleged presence in Karachi and elsewhere in
    the country have been floating around the Pakistani press for months.
    Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist who rose to fame after his
    1997 interview with Osama bin Laden, claimed in a recent interview that
    Blackwater is in Karachi. "The US [intelligence] agencies think that a
    number of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are hiding in Karachi and
    Peshawar," he said. "That is why [Blackwater] agents are operating in
    these two cities." Ambassador Patterson has said that the claims of Mir
    and other Pakistani journalists are "wildly incorrect," saying they had
    compromised the security of US personnel in Pakistan. On November 20 the
    Washington Times, citing three current and former US intelligence
    officials, reported that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Afghan
    Taliban, has "found refuge from potential U.S. attacks" in Karachi "with
    the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service."

    In September, the Pakistani press covered a report on Blackwater
    allegedly submitted by Pakistan's intelligence agencies to the federal
    interior ministry. In the report, the intelligence agencies reportedly
    allege that Blackwater was provided houses by a federal minister who is
    also helping them clear shipments of weapons and vehicles through
    Karachi's Port Qasim on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The military
    intelligence source did not confirm this but did say, "The port jives
    because they have a lot of [former] SEALs and they would revert to what
    they know: the ocean, instead of flying stuff in."

    The Nation cannot independently confirm these allegations and
    has not seen the Pakistani intelligence report. But according to
    Pakistani press coverage, the intelligence report also said Blackwater
    has acquired "bungalows" in the Defense Housing Authority in the city.
    According to the DHA website, it is a large residential estate originally established
    "for the welfare of the serving and retired officers of the Armed Forces
    of Pakistan." Its motto is: "Home for Defenders." The report alleges
    Blackwater is receiving help from local government officials in Karachi
    and is using vehicles with license plates traditionally assigned to
    members of the national and provincial assemblies, meaning local law
    enforcement will not stop them.

    The use of private companies like Blackwater for sensitive
    operations such as drone strikes or other covert work undoubtedly comes
    with the benefit of plausible deniability that places an additional
    barrier in an already deeply flawed system of accountability. When
    things go wrong, it's the contractors' fault, not the government's. But
    the widespread use of contractors also raises serious legal questions,
    particularly when they are a part of lethal, covert actions. "We are
    using contractors for things that in the past might have been considered
    to be a violation of the Geneva Convention," said Lt. Col. Addicott, who
    now runs the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of
    Law in San Antonio, Texas. "In my opinion, we have pressed the envelope
    to the breaking limit, and it's almost a fiction that these guys are not
    in offensive military operations." Addicott added, "If we were subjected
    to the International Criminal Court, some of these guys could easily be
    picked up, charged with war crimes and put on trial. That's one of the
    reasons we're not members of the International Criminal Court."

    If there is one quality that has defined Blackwater over the past
    decade, it is the ability to survive against the odds while
    simultaneously reinventing and rebranding itself. That is most evident
    in Afghanistan, where the company continues to work for the US military,
    the CIA and the State Department despite intense criticism and almost
    weekly scandals. Blackwater's alleged Pakistan operations, said the military
    intelligence source, are indicative of its new frontier. "Having learned
    its lessons after the private security contracting fiasco in Iraq,
    Blackwater has shifted its operational focus to two venues: protecting
    things that are in danger and anticipating other places we're going to
    go as a nation that are dangerous," he said. "It's as simple as that."



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    Mrs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto was murdered by her husband / CIA three weeks after she unevield to the world that Bin Ladin was executed in 2002 by a CIA agent she named.  Now there are good reasons to know what is the role of Bhutto husband, who is running the country now. Every Pakistani in the world will tell you many evidences how the current ruler of Pakistan is just a CIA thug.

    I hope also that China pays attention to what is happening in Pakistan.. China was having a big role in Pakistan. Now it is not paying attention to this. Being a merchant no 1 , needs political and power existence. China must not allow American presence in Pakistan.. It is a threat to China. I hope Chinese will realize this before it is too late to handle. S1000+



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      Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
      by Jeremy Scahill


    At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special
    Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members
    of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program
    in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al
    Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other
    sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The
    Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering
    intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign
    that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes,
    according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence
    apparatus.

    The source, who has worked on covert US military programs for years,
    including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has direct knowledge of
    Blackwater's involvement. He spoke to The Nation on condition of
    anonymity because the program is classified. The source said that the
    program is so "compartmentalized" that senior figures within the Obama
    administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware of
    its existence.

    The White House did not return calls or email messages seeking
    comment for this story. Capt. John Kirby, the spokesperson for Adm.
    Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The
    Nation, "We do not discuss current operations one way or the other,
    regardless of their nature." A defense official, on background,
    specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone strikes or
    intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. "We don't have any contracts to do
    that work for us. We don't contract that kind of work out, period," the
    official said. "There has not been, and is not now, contracts between
    JSOC and that organization for these types of services."

    The previously unreported program, the military intelligence source said, is distinct
    from the CIA assassination program that the agency's director, Leon
    Panetta, announced he had canceled in June 2009. "This is a parallel
    operation to the CIA," said the source. "They are two separate beasts."
    The program puts Blackwater at the epicenter of a US military operation
    within the borders of a nation against which the United States has not
    declared war--knowledge that could further strain the already tense
    relations between the United States and Pakistan. In 2006, the United
    States and Pakistan struck a deal that authorized JSOC to enter Pakistan
    to hunt Osama bin Laden with the understanding that Pakistan would deny
    it had given permission. Officially, the United States is not supposed
    to have any active military operations in the country.

    Blackwater, which recently changed its name to Xe Services and US Training Center, denies
    the company is operating in Pakistan. "Xe Services has only one employee
    in Pakistan performing construction oversight for the U.S. Government,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Mark Corallo said in a statement to The
    Nation, adding that the company has "no other operations of any kind
    in Pakistan."

    A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military
    intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for
    the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations
    force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for
    the Pakistani government on a subcontract with an Islamabad-based
    security firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with
    Pakistani forces in counter-terrorism operations, including house raids
    and border interdictions, in the North-West Frontier Province and
    elsewhere in Pakistan. This arrangement, the former executive said,
    allows the Pakistani government to utilize former US Special Operations
    forces who now work for Blackwater while denying an official US military
    presence in the country. He also confirmed that Blackwater has a
    facility in Karachi and has personnel deployed elsewhere in Pakistan.
    The former executive spoke on condition of anonymity.

    His account and that of the military intelligence source were borne
    out by a US military source who has knowledge of Special Forces actions
    in Pakistan and Afghanistan. When asked about Blackwater's covert work
    for JSOC in Pakistan, this source, who also asked for anonymity, told
    The Nation, "From my information that I have, that is absolutely
    correct," adding, "There's no question that's occurring."

    "It wouldn't surprise me because we've outsourced nearly
    everything," said Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of
    State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, when told of
    Blackwater's role in Pakistan. Wilkerson said that during his time in
    the Bush administration, he saw the beginnings of Blackwater's
    involvement with the sensitive operations of the military and CIA. "Part
    of this, of course, is an attempt to get around the constraints the
    Congress has placed on DoD. If you don't have sufficient soldiers to do
    it, you hire civilians to do it. I mean, it's that simple. It would not
    surprise me."

    The Counterterrorism Tag Team in Karachi

    The covert JSOC program with Blackwater in Pakistan dates back to at
    least 2007, according to the military intelligence source. The current
    head of JSOC is Vice Adm. William McRaven, who took over the post from
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC from 2003 to 2008 before being
    named the top US commander in Afghanistan.  Blackwater's presence in
    Pakistan is "not really visible, and that's why nobody has cracked down
    on it," said the source. Blackwater's operations in Pakistan, he said,
    are not done through State Department contracts or publicly identified
    Defense contracts. "It's Blackwater via JSOC, and it's a classified
    no-bid [contract] approved on a rolling basis." The main JSOC/Blackwater
    facility in Karachi, according to the source, is nondescript: three
    trailers with various generators, satellite phones and computer systems
    are used as a makeshift operations center. "It's a very rudimentary
    operation," says the source. "I would compare it to [CIA] outposts in
    Kurdistan or any of the Special Forces outposts. It's very bare bones,
    and that's the point."

    Blackwater's work for JSOC in Karachi is coordinated out of a Task
    Force based at Bagram Air Base in neighboring Afghanistan, according to the military intelligence source. While JSOC technically runs the operations in Karachi, he said, it is largely staffed by
    former US special operations soldiers working for a division of
    Blackwater, once known as Blackwater SELECT, and intelligence analysts
    working for a Blackwater affiliate, Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS),
    which is owned by Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince. The military source
    said that the name Blackwater SELECT may have been changed recently.
    Total Intelligence, which is run out of an office on the ninth floor of
    a building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, is staffed by
    former analysts and operatives from the CIA, DIA, FBI and other
    agencies. It is modeled after the CIA's counterterrorism center. In
    Karachi, TIS runs a "media-scouring/open-source network," according to
    the source. Until recently, Total Intelligence was run by two former top
    CIA officials, Cofer Black and Robert Richer, both of whom have left the
    company. In Pakistan, Blackwater is not using either its original name
    or its new moniker, Xe Services, according to the former Blackwater
    executive. "They are running most of their work through TIS because the
    other two [names] have such a stain on them," he said. Corallo, the
    Blackwater spokesperson, denied that TIS or any other division or
    affiliate of Blackwater has any personnel in Pakistan.

    The US military intelligence source said that Blackwater's
    classified contracts keep getting renewed at the request of JSOC.
    Blackwater, he said, is already so deeply entrenched that it has become
    a staple of the US military operations in Pakistan. According to the
    former Blackwater executive, "The politics that go with the brand of BW
    is somewhat set aside because what you're doing is really one military
    guy to another." Blackwater's first known contract with the CIA for
    operations in Afghanistan was awarded in 2002 and was for work along the
    Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

    One of the concerns raised by the military intelligence source is
    that some Blackwater personnel are being given rolling security
    clearances above their approved clearances. Using Alternative
    Compartmentalized Control Measures (ACCMs), he said, the Blackwater personnel are
    granted clearance to a Special Access Program, the bureaucratic term
    used to describe highly classified "black" operations. "With an ACCM,
    the security manager can grant access to you to be exposed to and
    operate within compartmentalized programs far above 'secret'--even
    though you have no business doing so," said the source. It allows
    Blackwater personnel that "do not have the requisite security clearance
    or do not hold a security clearance whatsoever to participate in
    classified operations by virtue of trust," he added. "Think of it as an
    ultra-exclusive level above top secret. That's exactly what it is: a
    circle of love." Blackwater, therefore, has access to "all source"
    reports that are culled in part from JSOC units in the field. "That's
    how a lot of things over the years have been conducted with
    contractors," said the source. "We have contractors that regularly see
    things that top policy-makers don't unless they ask."

    According to the source, Blackwater has effectively marketed itself
    as a company whose operatives have "conducted lethal direct action
    missions and now, for a price, you can have your own planning cell. JSOC
    just ate that up," he said, adding, "They have a sizable force in
    Pakistan--not for any nefarious purpose if you really want to look at it
    that way--but to support a legitimate contract that's classified for
    JSOC." Blackwater's Pakistan JSOC contracts are
    secret and are therefore shielded from public oversight, he said. The source is
    not sure when the arrangement with JSOC began, but he says that a
    spin-off of Blackwater SELECT "was issued a no-bid contract for support
    to shooters for a JSOC Task Force and they kept extending it." Some of
    the Blackwater personnel, he said, work undercover as aid workers.
    "Nobody even gives them a second thought."

    The military intelligence source said that the Blackwater/JSOC
    Karachi operation is referred to as "Qatar cubed," in reference to the
    US forward operating base in Qatar that served as the hub for the
    planning and implementation of the US invasion of Iraq. "This is
    supposed to be the brave new world," he says. "This is the Jamestown of
    the new millennium and it's meant to be a lily pad. You can jump off to
    Uzbekistan, you can jump back over the border, you can jump sideways,
    you can jump northwest. It's strategically located so that they can get
    their people wherever they have to without having to wrangle with the
    military chain of command in Afghanistan, which is convoluted. They
    don't have to deal with that because they're operating under a
    classified mandate."

    In addition to planning drone strikes and operations against
    suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan for both JSOC and the
    CIA, the Blackwater team in Karachi also helps plan missions for JSOC
    inside Uzbekistan against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the military intelligence source. Blackwater
    does not actually carry out the operations, he said, which are executed on the ground by JSOC forces.
    "That piqued my curiosity and really worries me because I don't know if
    you noticed but I was never told we are at war with Uzbekistan," he
    said. "So, did I miss something, did Rumsfeld come back into power?"

    Pakistan's Military Contracting Maze

    Blackwater, according to the military intelligence source, is not
    doing the actual killing as part of its work in Pakistan. "The SELECT
    personnel are not going into places with private aircraft and going
    after targets," he said. "It's not like Blackwater SELECT people are
    running around assassinating people." Instead, US Special Forces teams
    carry out the plans developed in part by Blackwater. The military
    intelligence source drew a distinction between the Blackwater operatives
    who work for the State Department, which he calls "Blackwater Vanilla,"
    and the seasoned Special Forces veterans who work on the JSOC program.
    "Good or bad, there's a small number of people who know how to pull off
    an operation like that. That's probably a good thing," said the source.
    "It's the Blackwater SELECT people that have and continue to plan these
    types of operations because they're the only people that know how and
    they went where the money was. It's not trigger-happy fucks, like some
    of the PSD [Personal Security Detail] guys. These are not people that
    believe that Barack Obama is a socialist, these are not people that kill
    innocent civilians. They're very good at what they do."

    The former Blackwater executive, when asked for confirmation that
    Blackwater forces were not actively killing people in Pakistan, said,
    "that's not entirely accurate." While he concurred with the military
    intelligence source's description of the JSOC and CIA programs, he
    pointed to another role Blackwater is allegedly playing in Pakistan, not
    for the US government but for Islamabad. According to the executive,
    Blackwater works on a subcontract for Kestral Logistics, a powerful
    Pakistani firm, which specializes in military logistical support,
    private security and intelligence consulting. It is staffed with former
    high-ranking Pakistani army and government officials. While Kestral's
    main offices are in Pakistan, it also has branches in several other
    countries.

    A spokesperson for the US State Department's Directorate of Defense
    Trade Controls (DDTC), which is responsible for issuing licenses to US
    corporations to provide defense-related services to foreign governments
    or entities, would neither confirm nor deny for The Nation that
    Blackwater has a license to work in Pakistan or to work with Kestral.
    "We cannot help you," said department spokesperson David McKeeby after
    checking with the relevant DDTC officials. "You'll have to contact the
    companies directly." Blackwater's Corallo said the company has "no
    operations of any kind" in Pakistan other than the one employee working
    for the DoD. Kestral did not respond to inquiries from The
    Nation.

    According to federal lobbying records, Kestral recently hired former
    Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger
    Noriega, who served in that post from 2003 to 2005, to lobby the US
    government, including the State Department, USAID and Congress, on
    foreign affairs issues "regarding [Kestral's] capabilities to carry out
    activities of interest to the United States." Noriega was hired through
    his firm, Vision Americas, which he runs with Christina Rocca, a former
    CIA operations official who served as assistant secretary of state for
    South Asian affairs from 2001 to 2006 and was deeply involved in shaping
    US policy toward Pakistan. In October 2009, Kestral paid Vision Americas
    $15,000 and paid a Vision Americas-affiliated firm, Firecreek Ltd., an
    equal amount to lobby on defense and foreign policy issues.

    For years, Kestral has done a robust business in defense logistics
    with the Pakistani government and other nations, as well as top US
    defense companies. Blackwater owner Erik Prince is close with Kestral
    CEO Liaquat Ali Baig, according to the former Blackwater executive. "Ali
    and Erik have a pretty close relationship," he said. "They've met many
    times and struck a deal, and they [offer] mutual support for one
    another." Working with Kestral, he said, Blackwater has provided convoy
    security for Defense Department shipments destined for Afghanistan that
    would arrive in the port at Karachi. Blackwater, according to the former
    executive, would guard the supplies as they were transported overland
    from Karachi to Peshawar and then west through the Torkham border
    crossing, the most important supply route for the US military in
    Afghanistan.

    According to the former executive, Blackwater operatives also
    integrate with Kestral's forces in sensitive counterterrorism operations
    in the North-West Frontier Province, where they work in conjunction with
    the Pakistani Interior Ministry's paramilitary force, known as the
    Frontier Corps (alternately referred to as "frontier scouts"). The
    Blackwater personnel are technically advisers, but the former executive
    said that the line often gets blurred in the field. Blackwater "is
    providing the actual guidance on how to do [counterterrorism operations]
    and Kestral's folks are carrying a lot of them out, but they're having
    the guidance and the overwatch from some BW guys that will actually go
    out with the teams when they're executing the job," he said. "You can
    see how that can lead to other things in the border areas." He said that
    when Blackwater personnel are out with the Pakistani teams, sometimes
    its men engage in operations against suspected terrorists. "You've got
    BW guys that are assisting... and they're all going to want to go on the
    jobs--so they're going to go with them," he said. "So, the things that
    you're seeing in the news about how this Pakistani military group came
    in and raided this house or did this or did that--in some of those
    cases, you're going to have Western folks that are right there at the
    house, if not in the house." Blackwater, he said, is paid by the
    Pakistani government through Kestral for consulting services. "That
    gives the Pakistani government the cover to say, 'Hey, no, we don't have
    any Westerners doing this. It's all local and our people are doing it.'
    But it gets them the expertise that Westerners provide for
    [counterterrorism]-related work."

    The military intelligence source confirmed Blackwater works with the
    Frontier Corps, saying, "There's no real oversight. It's not really on
    people's radar screen."

    In October, in response to Pakistani news reports that a Kestral
    warehouse in Islamabad was being used to store heavy weapons for
    Blackwater, the US Embassy in Pakistan released a statement denying the
    weapons were being used by "a private American security contractor." The
    statement said, "Kestral Logistics is a private logistics company that
    handles the importation of equipment and supplies provided by the United
    States to the Government of Pakistan. All of the equipment and supplies
    were imported at the request of the Government of Pakistan, which also
    certified the shipments."

    Who is Behind the Drone Attacks?

    Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the United States has
    expanded drone bombing raids in Pakistan. Obama first ordered a drone
    strike against targets in North and South Waziristan on January 23, and
    the strikes have been conducted consistently ever since. The Obama
    administration has now surpassed the number of Bush-era strikes in
    Pakistan and has faced fierce criticism from Pakistan and some US
    lawmakers over civilian deaths. A drone attack in June killed as many as
    sixty people attending a Taliban funeral.

    In August, the New York Times reported that Blackwater works
    for the CIA at "hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the
    company's contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound
    laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft." In February,
    The Times of London obtained a satellite image of a secret CIA
    airbase in Shamsi, in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan,
    showing three drone aircraft. The New York Times also reported
    that the agency uses a secret base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to strike
    in Pakistan.

    The military intelligence source says that the drone strike that
    reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, his wife
    and his bodyguards in Waziristan in August was a CIA strike, but that
    many others attributed in media reports to the CIA are actually JSOC
    strikes. "Some of these strikes are attributed to OGA [Other Government
    Agency, intelligence parlance for the CIA], but in reality it's JSOC and
    their parallel program of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] because they
    also have access to UAVs. So when you see some of these hits, especially
    the ones with high civilian casualties, those are almost always JSOC
    strikes." The Pentagon has stated bluntly, "There are no US military
    strike operations being conducted in Pakistan."

    The military intelligence source also confirmed that Blackwater
    continues to work for the CIA on its drone bombing program in Pakistan,
    as previously reported in the New York Times, but added that
    Blackwater is working on JSOC's drone bombings as well. "It's Blackwater
    running the program for both CIA and JSOC," said the source. When
    civilians are killed, "people go, 'Oh, it's the CIA doing crazy shit
    again unchecked.' Well, at least 50 percent of the time, that's JSOC
    [hitting] somebody they've identified through HUMINT [human
    intelligence] or they've culled the intelligence themselves or it's been
    shared with them and they take that person out and that's how it works."

    The military intelligence source says that the CIA operations are
    subject to Congressional oversight, unlike the parallel JSOC bombings.
    "Targeted killings are not the most popular thing in town right now and
    the CIA knows that," he says. "Contractors and especially JSOC personnel
    working under a classified mandate are not [overseen by Congress], so
    they just don't care. If there's one person they're going after and
    there's thirty-four people in the building, thirty-five people are going
    to die. That's the mentality." He added, "They're not accountable to
    anybody and they know that. It's an open secret, but what are you going
    to do, shut down JSOC?"

    In addition to working on covert action planning and drone strikes,
    Blackwater SELECT also provides private guards to perform the sensitive
    task of security for secret US drone bases, JSOC camps and Defense
    Intelligence Agency camps inside Pakistan, according to the military
    intelligence source.

    Mosharraf Zaidi, a well-known Pakistani journalist who has served as
    a consultant for the UN and European Union in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
    says that the Blackwater/JSOC program raises serious questions about the
    norms of international relations. "The immediate question is, How do you
    define the active pursuit of military objectives in a country with which
    not only have you not declared war but that is supposedly a front-line
    non-NATO ally in the US struggle to contain extremist violence coming
    out of Afghanistan and the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan?"
    asks Zaidi, who is currently a columnist for The News, the
    biggest English-language daily in Pakistan. "Let's forget Blackwater for
    a second. What this is confirming is that there are US military
    operations in Pakistan that aren't about logistics or getting food to
    Bagram; that are actually about the exercise of physical violence,
    physical force inside of Pakistani territory."

    JSOC: Rumsfeld and Cheney's Extra Special Force

    Colonel Wilkerson said that he is concerned that with General
    McChrystal's elevation as the military commander of the Afghan
    war--which is increasingly seeping into Pakistan--there is a concomitant
    rise in JSOC's power and influence within the military structure. "I
    don't see how you can escape that; it's just a matter of the way the
    authority flows and the power flows, and it's inevitable, I think,"
    Wilkerson told The Nation. He added, "I'm alarmed when I see
    execute orders and combat orders that go out saying that the supporting
    force is Central Command and the supported force is Special Operations
    Command," under which JSOC operates. "That's backward. But that's
    essentially what we have today."

    From 2003 to 2008 McChrystal headed JSOC, which is headquartered at
    Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where Blackwater's
    7,000-acre operating base is also situated. JSOC controls the Army's
    Delta Force, the Navy's SEAL Team 6, as well as the Army's 75th Ranger
    Regiment and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and the Air
    Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron. JSOC performs strike operations,
    reconnaissance in denied areas and special intelligence missions.
    Blackwater, which was founded by former Navy SEALs, employs scores of
    veteran Special Forces operators--which several former military
    officials pointed to as the basis for Blackwater's alleged contracts with JSOC.

    Since 9/11, many top-level Special Forces veterans have taken up
    employment with private firms, where they can make more money doing the
    highly specialized work they did in uniform. "The Blackwater individuals
    have the experience. A lot of these individuals are retired military,
    and they've been around twenty to thirty years and have experience that
    the younger Green Beret guys don't," said retired Army Lieut. Col.
    Jeffrey Addicott, a well-connected military lawyer who served as senior
    legal counsel for US Army Special Forces. "They're known entities.
    Everybody knows who they are, what their capabilities are, and they've
    got the experience. They're very valuable."

    "They make much more money being the smarts of these operations,
    planning hits in various countries and basing it off their experience in
    Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia," said the military intelligence
    source. "They were there for all of these things, they know what the
    hell they're talking about. And JSOC has unfortunately lost the
    institutional capability to plan within, so they hire back people that
    used to work for them and had already planned and executed these [types
    of] operations. They hired back people that jumped over to Blackwater
    SELECT and then pay them exorbitant amounts of money to plan future
    operations. It's a ridiculous revolving door."

    While JSOC has long played a central role in US counterterrorism and
    covert operations, military and civilian officials who worked at the
    Defense and State Departments during the Bush administration described
    in interviews with The Nation an extremely cozy relationship that
    developed between the executive branch (primarily through Vice President
    Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) and JSOC. During the
    Bush era, Special Forces turned into a virtual stand-alone operation
    that acted outside the military chain of command and in direct
    coordination with the White House. Throughout the Bush years, it was
    largely General McChrystal who ran JSOC. "What I was seeing was the
    development of what I would later see in Iraq and Afghanistan, where
    Special Operations forces would operate in both theaters without the
    conventional commander even knowing what they were doing," said Colonel
    Wilkerson. "That's dangerous, that's very dangerous. You have all kinds
    of mess when you don't tell the theater commander what you're doing."

    Wilkerson said that almost immediately after assuming his role at
    the State Department under Colin Powell, he saw JSOC being politicized
    and developing a close relationship with the executive branch. He saw
    this begin, he said, after his first Delta Force briefing at Fort Bragg.
    "I think Cheney and Rumsfeld went directly into JSOC. I think they went
    into JSOC at times, perhaps most frequently, without the SOCOM [Special
    Operations] commander at the time even knowing it. The receptivity in
    JSOC was quite good," says Wilkerson. "I think Cheney was actually
    giving McChrystal instructions, and McChrystal was asking him for
    instructions." He said the relationship between JSOC and Cheney and
    Rumsfeld "built up initially because Rumsfeld didn't get the
    responsiveness. He didn't get the can-do kind of attitude out of the
    SOCOM commander, and so as Rumsfeld was wont to do, he cut him out and
    went straight to the horse's mouth. At that point you had JSOC operating
    as an extension of the [administration] doing things the executive
    branch--read: Cheney and Rumsfeld--wanted it to do. This would be more
    or less carte blanche. You need to do it, do it. It was very alarming
    for me as a conventional soldier."

    Wilkerson said the JSOC teams caused diplomatic problems for the
    United States across the globe. "When these teams started hitting
    capital cities and other places all around the world, [Rumsfeld] didn't
    tell the State Department either. The only way we found out about it is
    our ambassadors started to call us and say, 'Who the hell are these
    six-foot-four white males with eighteen-inch biceps walking around our
    capital cities?' So we discovered this, we discovered one in South
    America, for example, because he actually murdered a taxi driver, and we
    had to get him out of there real quick. We rendered him--we rendered him
    home."

    As part of their strategy, Rumsfeld and Cheney also created the
    Strategic Support Branch (SSB), which pulled intelligence resources from
    the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA for use in sensitive JSOC
    operations. The SSB was created using "reprogrammed" funds "without
    explicit congressional authority or appropriation," according to the
    Washington Post. The SSB operated outside the military chain of
    command and circumvented the CIA's authority on clandestine operations.
    Rumsfeld created it as part of his war to end "near total dependence on
    CIA." Under US law, the Defense Department is required to report all
    deployment orders to Congress. But guidelines issued in January 2005 by
    former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone
    stated that Special Operations forces may "conduct clandestine HUMINT
    operations...before publication" of a deployment order. This effectively
    gave Rumsfeld unilateral control over clandestine operations.

    The military intelligence source said that when Rumsfeld was defense
    secretary, JSOC was deployed to commit some of the "darkest acts" in
    part to keep them concealed from Congress. "Everything can be justified
    as a military operation versus a clandestine intelligence performed by
    the CIA, which has to be informed to Congress," said the source. "They
    were aware of that and they knew that, and they would exploit it at
    every turn and they took full advantage of it. They knew they could act
    extra-legally and nothing would happen because A, it was sanctioned by
    DoD at the highest levels, and B, who was going to stop them? They were
    preparing the battlefield, which was on all of the PowerPoints:
    'Preparing the Battlefield.'"

    The significance of the flexibility of JSOC's operations inside
    Pakistan versus the CIA's is best summed up by Senator Dianne Feinstein,
    chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "Every single
    intelligence operation and covert action must be briefed to the
    Congress," she said. "If they are not, that is a violation of the law."

    Blackwater: Company Non Grata in Pakistan

    For months, the Pakistani media has been flooded with stories about
    Blackwater's alleged growing presence in the country. For the most part,
    these stories have been ignored by the US press and denounced as lies or
    propaganda by US officials in Pakistan. But the reality is that,
    although many of the stories appear to be wildly exaggerated, Pakistanis
    have good reason to be concerned about Blackwater's operations in their
    country. It is no secret in Washington or Islamabad that Blackwater has
    been a central part of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that the
    company has been involved--almost from the beginning of the "war on
    terror"--with clandestine US operations. Indeed,
    Blackwater is accepting applications for contractors fluent in Urdu and
    Punjabi. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, has denied
    Blackwater's presence in the country, stating bluntly in September,
    "Blackwater is not operating in Pakistan." In her trip to Pakistan in
    October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dodged questions from the
    Pakistani press about Blackwater's rumored Pakistani operations.
    Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, said on November 21 he will
    resign if Blackwater is found operating anywhere in Pakistan.

    The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that
    Blackwater "provides security for a US-backed aid project" in Peshawar,
    suggesting the company may be based out of the Pearl Continental, a
    luxury hotel the United States reportedly is considering purchasing to
    use as a consulate in the city. "We have no contracts in Pakistan,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Stacey DeLuke said recently. "We've been blamed
    for all that has gone wrong in Peshawar, none of which is true, since we
    have absolutely no presence there."

    Reports of Blackwater's alleged presence in Karachi and elsewhere in
    the country have been floating around the Pakistani press for months.
    Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist who rose to fame after his
    1997 interview with Osama bin Laden, claimed in a recent interview that
    Blackwater is in Karachi. "The US [intelligence] agencies think that a
    number of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are hiding in Karachi and
    Peshawar," he said. "That is why [Blackwater] agents are operating in
    these two cities." Ambassador Patterson has said that the claims of Mir
    and other Pakistani journalists are "wildly incorrect," saying they had
    compromised the security of US personnel in Pakistan. On November 20 the
    Washington Times, citing three current and former US intelligence
    officials, reported that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Afghan
    Taliban, has "found refuge from potential U.S. attacks" in Karachi "with
    the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service."

    In September, the Pakistani press covered a report on Blackwater
    allegedly submitted by Pakistan's intelligence agencies to the federal
    interior ministry. In the report, the intelligence agencies reportedly
    allege that Blackwater was provided houses by a federal minister who is
    also helping them clear shipments of weapons and vehicles through
    Karachi's Port Qasim on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The military
    intelligence source did not confirm this but did say, "The port jives
    because they have a lot of [former] SEALs and they would revert to what
    they know: the ocean, instead of flying stuff in."

    The Nation cannot independently confirm these allegations and
    has not seen the Pakistani intelligence report. But according to
    Pakistani press coverage, the intelligence report also said Blackwater
    has acquired "bungalows" in the Defense Housing Authority in the city.
    According to the DHA website, it is a large residential estate originally established
    "for the welfare of the serving and retired officers of the Armed Forces
    of Pakistan." Its motto is: "Home for Defenders." The report alleges
    Blackwater is receiving help from local government officials in Karachi
    and is using vehicles with license plates traditionally assigned to
    members of the national and provincial assemblies, meaning local law
    enforcement will not stop them.

    The use of private companies like Blackwater for sensitive
    operations such as drone strikes or other covert work undoubtedly comes
    with the benefit of plausible deniability that places an additional
    barrier in an already deeply flawed system of accountability. When
    things go wrong, it's the contractors' fault, not the government's. But
    the widespread use of contractors also raises serious legal questions,
    particularly when they are a part of lethal, covert actions. "We are
    using contractors for things that in the past might have been considered
    to be a violation of the Geneva Convention," said Lt. Col. Addicott, who
    now runs the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of
    Law in San Antonio, Texas. "In my opinion, we have pressed the envelope
    to the breaking limit, and it's almost a fiction that these guys are not
    in offensive military operations." Addicott added, "If we were subjected
    to the International Criminal Court, some of these guys could easily be
    picked up, charged with war crimes and put on trial. That's one of the
    reasons we're not members of the International Criminal Court."

    If there is one quality that has defined Blackwater over the past
    decade, it is the ability to survive against the odds while
    simultaneously reinventing and rebranding itself. That is most evident
    in Afghanistan, where the company continues to work for the US military,
    the CIA and the State Department despite intense criticism and almost
    weekly scandals. Blackwater's alleged Pakistan operations, said the military
    intelligence source, are indicative of its new frontier. "Having learned
    its lessons after the private security contracting fiasco in Iraq,
    Blackwater has shifted its operational focus to two venues: protecting
    things that are in danger and anticipating other places we're going to
    go as a nation that are dangerous," he said. "It's as simple as that."



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    Mrs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto was murdered by her husband / CIA three weeks after she unevield to the world that Bin Ladin was executed in 2002 by a CIA agent she named.  Now there are good reasons to know what is the role of Bhutto husband, who is running the country now. Every Pakistani in the world will tell you many evidences how the current ruler of Pakistan is just a CIA thug.

    I hope also that China pays attention to what is happening in Pakistan.. China was having a big role in Pakistan. Now it is not paying attention to this. Being a merchant no 1 , needs political and power existence. China must not allow American presence in Pakistan.. It is a threat to China. I hope Chinese will realize this before it is too late to handle. S1000+



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      Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistan
      by Jeremy Scahill


    At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special
    Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members
    of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program
    in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al
    Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of high-value targets and other
    sensitive action inside and outside Pakistan, an investigation by The
    Nation has found. The Blackwater operatives also assist in gathering
    intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign
    that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes,
    according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence
    apparatus.

    The source, who has worked on covert US military programs for years,
    including in Afghanistan and Pakistan, has direct knowledge of
    Blackwater's involvement. He spoke to The Nation on condition of
    anonymity because the program is classified. The source said that the
    program is so "compartmentalized" that senior figures within the Obama
    administration and the US military chain of command may not be aware of
    its existence.

    The White House did not return calls or email messages seeking
    comment for this story. Capt. John Kirby, the spokesperson for Adm.
    Michael Mullen, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told The
    Nation, "We do not discuss current operations one way or the other,
    regardless of their nature." A defense official, on background,
    specifically denied that Blackwater performs work on drone strikes or
    intelligence for JSOC in Pakistan. "We don't have any contracts to do
    that work for us. We don't contract that kind of work out, period," the
    official said. "There has not been, and is not now, contracts between
    JSOC and that organization for these types of services."

    The previously unreported program, the military intelligence source said, is distinct
    from the CIA assassination program that the agency's director, Leon
    Panetta, announced he had canceled in June 2009. "This is a parallel
    operation to the CIA," said the source. "They are two separate beasts."
    The program puts Blackwater at the epicenter of a US military operation
    within the borders of a nation against which the United States has not
    declared war--knowledge that could further strain the already tense
    relations between the United States and Pakistan. In 2006, the United
    States and Pakistan struck a deal that authorized JSOC to enter Pakistan
    to hunt Osama bin Laden with the understanding that Pakistan would deny
    it had given permission. Officially, the United States is not supposed
    to have any active military operations in the country.

    Blackwater, which recently changed its name to Xe Services and US Training Center, denies
    the company is operating in Pakistan. "Xe Services has only one employee
    in Pakistan performing construction oversight for the U.S. Government,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Mark Corallo said in a statement to The
    Nation, adding that the company has "no other operations of any kind
    in Pakistan."

    A former senior executive at Blackwater confirmed the military
    intelligence source's claim that the company is working in Pakistan for
    the CIA and JSOC, the premier counterterrorism and covert operations
    force within the military. He said that Blackwater is also working for
    the Pakistani government on a subcontract with an Islamabad-based
    security firm that puts US Blackwater operatives on the ground with
    Pakistani forces in counter-terrorism operations, including house raids
    and border interdictions, in the North-West Frontier Province and
    elsewhere in Pakistan. This arrangement, the former executive said,
    allows the Pakistani government to utilize former US Special Operations
    forces who now work for Blackwater while denying an official US military
    presence in the country. He also confirmed that Blackwater has a
    facility in Karachi and has personnel deployed elsewhere in Pakistan.
    The former executive spoke on condition of anonymity.

    His account and that of the military intelligence source were borne
    out by a US military source who has knowledge of Special Forces actions
    in Pakistan and Afghanistan. When asked about Blackwater's covert work
    for JSOC in Pakistan, this source, who also asked for anonymity, told
    The Nation, "From my information that I have, that is absolutely
    correct," adding, "There's no question that's occurring."

    "It wouldn't surprise me because we've outsourced nearly
    everything," said Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as Secretary of
    State Colin Powell's chief of staff from 2002 to 2005, when told of
    Blackwater's role in Pakistan. Wilkerson said that during his time in
    the Bush administration, he saw the beginnings of Blackwater's
    involvement with the sensitive operations of the military and CIA. "Part
    of this, of course, is an attempt to get around the constraints the
    Congress has placed on DoD. If you don't have sufficient soldiers to do
    it, you hire civilians to do it. I mean, it's that simple. It would not
    surprise me."

    The Counterterrorism Tag Team in Karachi

    The covert JSOC program with Blackwater in Pakistan dates back to at
    least 2007, according to the military intelligence source. The current
    head of JSOC is Vice Adm. William McRaven, who took over the post from
    Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who headed JSOC from 2003 to 2008 before being
    named the top US commander in Afghanistan.  Blackwater's presence in
    Pakistan is "not really visible, and that's why nobody has cracked down
    on it," said the source. Blackwater's operations in Pakistan, he said,
    are not done through State Department contracts or publicly identified
    Defense contracts. "It's Blackwater via JSOC, and it's a classified
    no-bid [contract] approved on a rolling basis." The main JSOC/Blackwater
    facility in Karachi, according to the source, is nondescript: three
    trailers with various generators, satellite phones and computer systems
    are used as a makeshift operations center. "It's a very rudimentary
    operation," says the source. "I would compare it to [CIA] outposts in
    Kurdistan or any of the Special Forces outposts. It's very bare bones,
    and that's the point."

    Blackwater's work for JSOC in Karachi is coordinated out of a Task
    Force based at Bagram Air Base in neighboring Afghanistan, according to the military intelligence source. While JSOC technically runs the operations in Karachi, he said, it is largely staffed by
    former US special operations soldiers working for a division of
    Blackwater, once known as Blackwater SELECT, and intelligence analysts
    working for a Blackwater affiliate, Total Intelligence Solutions (TIS),
    which is owned by Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince. The military source
    said that the name Blackwater SELECT may have been changed recently.
    Total Intelligence, which is run out of an office on the ninth floor of
    a building in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, is staffed by
    former analysts and operatives from the CIA, DIA, FBI and other
    agencies. It is modeled after the CIA's counterterrorism center. In
    Karachi, TIS runs a "media-scouring/open-source network," according to
    the source. Until recently, Total Intelligence was run by two former top
    CIA officials, Cofer Black and Robert Richer, both of whom have left the
    company. In Pakistan, Blackwater is not using either its original name
    or its new moniker, Xe Services, according to the former Blackwater
    executive. "They are running most of their work through TIS because the
    other two [names] have such a stain on them," he said. Corallo, the
    Blackwater spokesperson, denied that TIS or any other division or
    affiliate of Blackwater has any personnel in Pakistan.

    The US military intelligence source said that Blackwater's
    classified contracts keep getting renewed at the request of JSOC.
    Blackwater, he said, is already so deeply entrenched that it has become
    a staple of the US military operations in Pakistan. According to the
    former Blackwater executive, "The politics that go with the brand of BW
    is somewhat set aside because what you're doing is really one military
    guy to another." Blackwater's first known contract with the CIA for
    operations in Afghanistan was awarded in 2002 and was for work along the
    Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

    One of the concerns raised by the military intelligence source is
    that some Blackwater personnel are being given rolling security
    clearances above their approved clearances. Using Alternative
    Compartmentalized Control Measures (ACCMs), he said, the Blackwater personnel are
    granted clearance to a Special Access Program, the bureaucratic term
    used to describe highly classified "black" operations. "With an ACCM,
    the security manager can grant access to you to be exposed to and
    operate within compartmentalized programs far above 'secret'--even
    though you have no business doing so," said the source. It allows
    Blackwater personnel that "do not have the requisite security clearance
    or do not hold a security clearance whatsoever to participate in
    classified operations by virtue of trust," he added. "Think of it as an
    ultra-exclusive level above top secret. That's exactly what it is: a
    circle of love." Blackwater, therefore, has access to "all source"
    reports that are culled in part from JSOC units in the field. "That's
    how a lot of things over the years have been conducted with
    contractors," said the source. "We have contractors that regularly see
    things that top policy-makers don't unless they ask."

    According to the source, Blackwater has effectively marketed itself
    as a company whose operatives have "conducted lethal direct action
    missions and now, for a price, you can have your own planning cell. JSOC
    just ate that up," he said, adding, "They have a sizable force in
    Pakistan--not for any nefarious purpose if you really want to look at it
    that way--but to support a legitimate contract that's classified for
    JSOC." Blackwater's Pakistan JSOC contracts are
    secret and are therefore shielded from public oversight, he said. The source is
    not sure when the arrangement with JSOC began, but he says that a
    spin-off of Blackwater SELECT "was issued a no-bid contract for support
    to shooters for a JSOC Task Force and they kept extending it." Some of
    the Blackwater personnel, he said, work undercover as aid workers.
    "Nobody even gives them a second thought."

    The military intelligence source said that the Blackwater/JSOC
    Karachi operation is referred to as "Qatar cubed," in reference to the
    US forward operating base in Qatar that served as the hub for the
    planning and implementation of the US invasion of Iraq. "This is
    supposed to be the brave new world," he says. "This is the Jamestown of
    the new millennium and it's meant to be a lily pad. You can jump off to
    Uzbekistan, you can jump back over the border, you can jump sideways,
    you can jump northwest. It's strategically located so that they can get
    their people wherever they have to without having to wrangle with the
    military chain of command in Afghanistan, which is convoluted. They
    don't have to deal with that because they're operating under a
    classified mandate."

    In addition to planning drone strikes and operations against
    suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban forces in Pakistan for both JSOC and the
    CIA, the Blackwater team in Karachi also helps plan missions for JSOC
    inside Uzbekistan against the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, according to the military intelligence source. Blackwater
    does not actually carry out the operations, he said, which are executed on the ground by JSOC forces.
    "That piqued my curiosity and really worries me because I don't know if
    you noticed but I was never told we are at war with Uzbekistan," he
    said. "So, did I miss something, did Rumsfeld come back into power?"

    Pakistan's Military Contracting Maze

    Blackwater, according to the military intelligence source, is not
    doing the actual killing as part of its work in Pakistan. "The SELECT
    personnel are not going into places with private aircraft and going
    after targets," he said. "It's not like Blackwater SELECT people are
    running around assassinating people." Instead, US Special Forces teams
    carry out the plans developed in part by Blackwater. The military
    intelligence source drew a distinction between the Blackwater operatives
    who work for the State Department, which he calls "Blackwater Vanilla,"
    and the seasoned Special Forces veterans who work on the JSOC program.
    "Good or bad, there's a small number of people who know how to pull off
    an operation like that. That's probably a good thing," said the source.
    "It's the Blackwater SELECT people that have and continue to plan these
    types of operations because they're the only people that know how and
    they went where the money was. It's not trigger-happy fucks, like some
    of the PSD [Personal Security Detail] guys. These are not people that
    believe that Barack Obama is a socialist, these are not people that kill
    innocent civilians. They're very good at what they do."

    The former Blackwater executive, when asked for confirmation that
    Blackwater forces were not actively killing people in Pakistan, said,
    "that's not entirely accurate." While he concurred with the military
    intelligence source's description of the JSOC and CIA programs, he
    pointed to another role Blackwater is allegedly playing in Pakistan, not
    for the US government but for Islamabad. According to the executive,
    Blackwater works on a subcontract for Kestral Logistics, a powerful
    Pakistani firm, which specializes in military logistical support,
    private security and intelligence consulting. It is staffed with former
    high-ranking Pakistani army and government officials. While Kestral's
    main offices are in Pakistan, it also has branches in several other
    countries.

    A spokesperson for the US State Department's Directorate of Defense
    Trade Controls (DDTC), which is responsible for issuing licenses to US
    corporations to provide defense-related services to foreign governments
    or entities, would neither confirm nor deny for The Nation that
    Blackwater has a license to work in Pakistan or to work with Kestral.
    "We cannot help you," said department spokesperson David McKeeby after
    checking with the relevant DDTC officials. "You'll have to contact the
    companies directly." Blackwater's Corallo said the company has "no
    operations of any kind" in Pakistan other than the one employee working
    for the DoD. Kestral did not respond to inquiries from The
    Nation.

    According to federal lobbying records, Kestral recently hired former
    Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roger
    Noriega, who served in that post from 2003 to 2005, to lobby the US
    government, including the State Department, USAID and Congress, on
    foreign affairs issues "regarding [Kestral's] capabilities to carry out
    activities of interest to the United States." Noriega was hired through
    his firm, Vision Americas, which he runs with Christina Rocca, a former
    CIA operations official who served as assistant secretary of state for
    South Asian affairs from 2001 to 2006 and was deeply involved in shaping
    US policy toward Pakistan. In October 2009, Kestral paid Vision Americas
    $15,000 and paid a Vision Americas-affiliated firm, Firecreek Ltd., an
    equal amount to lobby on defense and foreign policy issues.

    For years, Kestral has done a robust business in defense logistics
    with the Pakistani government and other nations, as well as top US
    defense companies. Blackwater owner Erik Prince is close with Kestral
    CEO Liaquat Ali Baig, according to the former Blackwater executive. "Ali
    and Erik have a pretty close relationship," he said. "They've met many
    times and struck a deal, and they [offer] mutual support for one
    another." Working with Kestral, he said, Blackwater has provided convoy
    security for Defense Department shipments destined for Afghanistan that
    would arrive in the port at Karachi. Blackwater, according to the former
    executive, would guard the supplies as they were transported overland
    from Karachi to Peshawar and then west through the Torkham border
    crossing, the most important supply route for the US military in
    Afghanistan.

    According to the former executive, Blackwater operatives also
    integrate with Kestral's forces in sensitive counterterrorism operations
    in the North-West Frontier Province, where they work in conjunction with
    the Pakistani Interior Ministry's paramilitary force, known as the
    Frontier Corps (alternately referred to as "frontier scouts"). The
    Blackwater personnel are technically advisers, but the former executive
    said that the line often gets blurred in the field. Blackwater "is
    providing the actual guidance on how to do [counterterrorism operations]
    and Kestral's folks are carrying a lot of them out, but they're having
    the guidance and the overwatch from some BW guys that will actually go
    out with the teams when they're executing the job," he said. "You can
    see how that can lead to other things in the border areas." He said that
    when Blackwater personnel are out with the Pakistani teams, sometimes
    its men engage in operations against suspected terrorists. "You've got
    BW guys that are assisting... and they're all going to want to go on the
    jobs--so they're going to go with them," he said. "So, the things that
    you're seeing in the news about how this Pakistani military group came
    in and raided this house or did this or did that--in some of those
    cases, you're going to have Western folks that are right there at the
    house, if not in the house." Blackwater, he said, is paid by the
    Pakistani government through Kestral for consulting services. "That
    gives the Pakistani government the cover to say, 'Hey, no, we don't have
    any Westerners doing this. It's all local and our people are doing it.'
    But it gets them the expertise that Westerners provide for
    [counterterrorism]-related work."

    The military intelligence source confirmed Blackwater works with the
    Frontier Corps, saying, "There's no real oversight. It's not really on
    people's radar screen."

    In October, in response to Pakistani news reports that a Kestral
    warehouse in Islamabad was being used to store heavy weapons for
    Blackwater, the US Embassy in Pakistan released a statement denying the
    weapons were being used by "a private American security contractor." The
    statement said, "Kestral Logistics is a private logistics company that
    handles the importation of equipment and supplies provided by the United
    States to the Government of Pakistan. All of the equipment and supplies
    were imported at the request of the Government of Pakistan, which also
    certified the shipments."

    Who is Behind the Drone Attacks?

    Since President Barack Obama was inaugurated, the United States has
    expanded drone bombing raids in Pakistan. Obama first ordered a drone
    strike against targets in North and South Waziristan on January 23, and
    the strikes have been conducted consistently ever since. The Obama
    administration has now surpassed the number of Bush-era strikes in
    Pakistan and has faced fierce criticism from Pakistan and some US
    lawmakers over civilian deaths. A drone attack in June killed as many as
    sixty people attending a Taliban funeral.

    In August, the New York Times reported that Blackwater works
    for the CIA at "hidden bases in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the
    company's contractors assemble and load Hellfire missiles and 500-pound
    laser-guided bombs on remotely piloted Predator aircraft." In February,
    The Times of London obtained a satellite image of a secret CIA
    airbase in Shamsi, in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan,
    showing three drone aircraft. The New York Times also reported
    that the agency uses a secret base in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, to strike
    in Pakistan.

    The military intelligence source says that the drone strike that
    reportedly killed Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, his wife
    and his bodyguards in Waziristan in August was a CIA strike, but that
    many others attributed in media reports to the CIA are actually JSOC
    strikes. "Some of these strikes are attributed to OGA [Other Government
    Agency, intelligence parlance for the CIA], but in reality it's JSOC and
    their parallel program of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] because they
    also have access to UAVs. So when you see some of these hits, especially
    the ones with high civilian casualties, those are almost always JSOC
    strikes." The Pentagon has stated bluntly, "There are no US military
    strike operations being conducted in Pakistan."

    The military intelligence source also confirmed that Blackwater
    continues to work for the CIA on its drone bombing program in Pakistan,
    as previously reported in the New York Times, but added that
    Blackwater is working on JSOC's drone bombings as well. "It's Blackwater
    running the program for both CIA and JSOC," said the source. When
    civilians are killed, "people go, 'Oh, it's the CIA doing crazy shit
    again unchecked.' Well, at least 50 percent of the time, that's JSOC
    [hitting] somebody they've identified through HUMINT [human
    intelligence] or they've culled the intelligence themselves or it's been
    shared with them and they take that person out and that's how it works."

    The military intelligence source says that the CIA operations are
    subject to Congressional oversight, unlike the parallel JSOC bombings.
    "Targeted killings are not the most popular thing in town right now and
    the CIA knows that," he says. "Contractors and especially JSOC personnel
    working under a classified mandate are not [overseen by Congress], so
    they just don't care. If there's one person they're going after and
    there's thirty-four people in the building, thirty-five people are going
    to die. That's the mentality." He added, "They're not accountable to
    anybody and they know that. It's an open secret, but what are you going
    to do, shut down JSOC?"

    In addition to working on covert action planning and drone strikes,
    Blackwater SELECT also provides private guards to perform the sensitive
    task of security for secret US drone bases, JSOC camps and Defense
    Intelligence Agency camps inside Pakistan, according to the military
    intelligence source.

    Mosharraf Zaidi, a well-known Pakistani journalist who has served as
    a consultant for the UN and European Union in Pakistan and Afghanistan,
    says that the Blackwater/JSOC program raises serious questions about the
    norms of international relations. "The immediate question is, How do you
    define the active pursuit of military objectives in a country with which
    not only have you not declared war but that is supposedly a front-line
    non-NATO ally in the US struggle to contain extremist violence coming
    out of Afghanistan and the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan?"
    asks Zaidi, who is currently a columnist for The News, the
    biggest English-language daily in Pakistan. "Let's forget Blackwater for
    a second. What this is confirming is that there are US military
    operations in Pakistan that aren't about logistics or getting food to
    Bagram; that are actually about the exercise of physical violence,
    physical force inside of Pakistani territory."

    JSOC: Rumsfeld and Cheney's Extra Special Force

    Colonel Wilkerson said that he is concerned that with General
    McChrystal's elevation as the military commander of the Afghan
    war--which is increasingly seeping into Pakistan--there is a concomitant
    rise in JSOC's power and influence within the military structure. "I
    don't see how you can escape that; it's just a matter of the way the
    authority flows and the power flows, and it's inevitable, I think,"
    Wilkerson told The Nation. He added, "I'm alarmed when I see
    execute orders and combat orders that go out saying that the supporting
    force is Central Command and the supported force is Special Operations
    Command," under which JSOC operates. "That's backward. But that's
    essentially what we have today."

    From 2003 to 2008 McChrystal headed JSOC, which is headquartered at
    Pope Air Force Base and Fort Bragg in North Carolina, where Blackwater's
    7,000-acre operating base is also situated. JSOC controls the Army's
    Delta Force, the Navy's SEAL Team 6, as well as the Army's 75th Ranger
    Regiment and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, and the Air
    Force's 24th Special Tactics Squadron. JSOC performs strike operations,
    reconnaissance in denied areas and special intelligence missions.
    Blackwater, which was founded by former Navy SEALs, employs scores of
    veteran Special Forces operators--which several former military
    officials pointed to as the basis for Blackwater's alleged contracts with JSOC.

    Since 9/11, many top-level Special Forces veterans have taken up
    employment with private firms, where they can make more money doing the
    highly specialized work they did in uniform. "The Blackwater individuals
    have the experience. A lot of these individuals are retired military,
    and they've been around twenty to thirty years and have experience that
    the younger Green Beret guys don't," said retired Army Lieut. Col.
    Jeffrey Addicott, a well-connected military lawyer who served as senior
    legal counsel for US Army Special Forces. "They're known entities.
    Everybody knows who they are, what their capabilities are, and they've
    got the experience. They're very valuable."

    "They make much more money being the smarts of these operations,
    planning hits in various countries and basing it off their experience in
    Chechnya, Bosnia, Somalia, Ethiopia," said the military intelligence
    source. "They were there for all of these things, they know what the
    hell they're talking about. And JSOC has unfortunately lost the
    institutional capability to plan within, so they hire back people that
    used to work for them and had already planned and executed these [types
    of] operations. They hired back people that jumped over to Blackwater
    SELECT and then pay them exorbitant amounts of money to plan future
    operations. It's a ridiculous revolving door."

    While JSOC has long played a central role in US counterterrorism and
    covert operations, military and civilian officials who worked at the
    Defense and State Departments during the Bush administration described
    in interviews with The Nation an extremely cozy relationship that
    developed between the executive branch (primarily through Vice President
    Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld) and JSOC. During the
    Bush era, Special Forces turned into a virtual stand-alone operation
    that acted outside the military chain of command and in direct
    coordination with the White House. Throughout the Bush years, it was
    largely General McChrystal who ran JSOC. "What I was seeing was the
    development of what I would later see in Iraq and Afghanistan, where
    Special Operations forces would operate in both theaters without the
    conventional commander even knowing what they were doing," said Colonel
    Wilkerson. "That's dangerous, that's very dangerous. You have all kinds
    of mess when you don't tell the theater commander what you're doing."

    Wilkerson said that almost immediately after assuming his role at
    the State Department under Colin Powell, he saw JSOC being politicized
    and developing a close relationship with the executive branch. He saw
    this begin, he said, after his first Delta Force briefing at Fort Bragg.
    "I think Cheney and Rumsfeld went directly into JSOC. I think they went
    into JSOC at times, perhaps most frequently, without the SOCOM [Special
    Operations] commander at the time even knowing it. The receptivity in
    JSOC was quite good," says Wilkerson. "I think Cheney was actually
    giving McChrystal instructions, and McChrystal was asking him for
    instructions." He said the relationship between JSOC and Cheney and
    Rumsfeld "built up initially because Rumsfeld didn't get the
    responsiveness. He didn't get the can-do kind of attitude out of the
    SOCOM commander, and so as Rumsfeld was wont to do, he cut him out and
    went straight to the horse's mouth. At that point you had JSOC operating
    as an extension of the [administration] doing things the executive
    branch--read: Cheney and Rumsfeld--wanted it to do. This would be more
    or less carte blanche. You need to do it, do it. It was very alarming
    for me as a conventional soldier."

    Wilkerson said the JSOC teams caused diplomatic problems for the
    United States across the globe. "When these teams started hitting
    capital cities and other places all around the world, [Rumsfeld] didn't
    tell the State Department either. The only way we found out about it is
    our ambassadors started to call us and say, 'Who the hell are these
    six-foot-four white males with eighteen-inch biceps walking around our
    capital cities?' So we discovered this, we discovered one in South
    America, for example, because he actually murdered a taxi driver, and we
    had to get him out of there real quick. We rendered him--we rendered him
    home."

    As part of their strategy, Rumsfeld and Cheney also created the
    Strategic Support Branch (SSB), which pulled intelligence resources from
    the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA for use in sensitive JSOC
    operations. The SSB was created using "reprogrammed" funds "without
    explicit congressional authority or appropriation," according to the
    Washington Post. The SSB operated outside the military chain of
    command and circumvented the CIA's authority on clandestine operations.
    Rumsfeld created it as part of his war to end "near total dependence on
    CIA." Under US law, the Defense Department is required to report all
    deployment orders to Congress. But guidelines issued in January 2005 by
    former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone
    stated that Special Operations forces may "conduct clandestine HUMINT
    operations...before publication" of a deployment order. This effectively
    gave Rumsfeld unilateral control over clandestine operations.

    The military intelligence source said that when Rumsfeld was defense
    secretary, JSOC was deployed to commit some of the "darkest acts" in
    part to keep them concealed from Congress. "Everything can be justified
    as a military operation versus a clandestine intelligence performed by
    the CIA, which has to be informed to Congress," said the source. "They
    were aware of that and they knew that, and they would exploit it at
    every turn and they took full advantage of it. They knew they could act
    extra-legally and nothing would happen because A, it was sanctioned by
    DoD at the highest levels, and B, who was going to stop them? They were
    preparing the battlefield, which was on all of the PowerPoints:
    'Preparing the Battlefield.'"

    The significance of the flexibility of JSOC's operations inside
    Pakistan versus the CIA's is best summed up by Senator Dianne Feinstein,
    chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. "Every single
    intelligence operation and covert action must be briefed to the
    Congress," she said. "If they are not, that is a violation of the law."

    Blackwater: Company Non Grata in Pakistan

    For months, the Pakistani media has been flooded with stories about
    Blackwater's alleged growing presence in the country. For the most part,
    these stories have been ignored by the US press and denounced as lies or
    propaganda by US officials in Pakistan. But the reality is that,
    although many of the stories appear to be wildly exaggerated, Pakistanis
    have good reason to be concerned about Blackwater's operations in their
    country. It is no secret in Washington or Islamabad that Blackwater has
    been a central part of the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that the
    company has been involved--almost from the beginning of the "war on
    terror"--with clandestine US operations. Indeed,
    Blackwater is accepting applications for contractors fluent in Urdu and
    Punjabi. The US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, has denied
    Blackwater's presence in the country, stating bluntly in September,
    "Blackwater is not operating in Pakistan." In her trip to Pakistan in
    October, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dodged questions from the
    Pakistani press about Blackwater's rumored Pakistani operations.
    Pakistan's interior minister, Rehman Malik, said on November 21 he will
    resign if Blackwater is found operating anywhere in Pakistan.

    The Christian Science Monitor recently reported that
    Blackwater "provides security for a US-backed aid project" in Peshawar,
    suggesting the company may be based out of the Pearl Continental, a
    luxury hotel the United States reportedly is considering purchasing to
    use as a consulate in the city. "We have no contracts in Pakistan,"
    Blackwater spokesperson Stacey DeLuke said recently. "We've been blamed
    for all that has gone wrong in Peshawar, none of which is true, since we
    have absolutely no presence there."

    Reports of Blackwater's alleged presence in Karachi and elsewhere in
    the country have been floating around the Pakistani press for months.
    Hamid Mir, a prominent Pakistani journalist who rose to fame after his
    1997 interview with Osama bin Laden, claimed in a recent interview that
    Blackwater is in Karachi. "The US [intelligence] agencies think that a
    number of Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders are hiding in Karachi and
    Peshawar," he said. "That is why [Blackwater] agents are operating in
    these two cities." Ambassador Patterson has said that the claims of Mir
    and other Pakistani journalists are "wildly incorrect," saying they had
    compromised the security of US personnel in Pakistan. On November 20 the
    Washington Times, citing three current and former US intelligence
    officials, reported that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the leader of the Afghan
    Taliban, has "found refuge from potential U.S. attacks" in Karachi "with
    the assistance of Pakistan's intelligence service."

    In September, the Pakistani press covered a report on Blackwater
    allegedly submitted by Pakistan's intelligence agencies to the federal
    interior ministry. In the report, the intelligence agencies reportedly
    allege that Blackwater was provided houses by a federal minister who is
    also helping them clear shipments of weapons and vehicles through
    Karachi's Port Qasim on the coast of the Arabian Sea. The military
    intelligence source did not confirm this but did say, "The port jives
    because they have a lot of [former] SEALs and they would revert to what
    they know: the ocean, instead of flying stuff in."

    The Nation cannot independently confirm these allegations and
    has not seen the Pakistani intelligence report. But according to
    Pakistani press coverage, the intelligence report also said Blackwater
    has acquired "bungalows" in the Defense Housing Authority in the city.
    According to the DHA website, it is a large residential estate originally established
    "for the welfare of the serving and retired officers of the Armed Forces
    of Pakistan." Its motto is: "Home for Defenders." The report alleges
    Blackwater is receiving help from local government officials in Karachi
    and is using vehicles with license plates traditionally assigned to
    members of the national and provincial assemblies, meaning local law
    enforcement will not stop them.

    The use of private companies like Blackwater for sensitive
    operations such as drone strikes or other covert work undoubtedly comes
    with the benefit of plausible deniability that places an additional
    barrier in an already deeply flawed system of accountability. When
    things go wrong, it's the contractors' fault, not the government's. But
    the widespread use of contractors also raises serious legal questions,
    particularly when they are a part of lethal, covert actions. "We are
    using contractors for things that in the past might have been considered
    to be a violation of the Geneva Convention," said Lt. Col. Addicott, who
    now runs the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of
    Law in San Antonio, Texas. "In my opinion, we have pressed the envelope
    to the breaking limit, and it's almost a fiction that these guys are not
    in offensive military operations." Addicott added, "If we were subjected
    to the International Criminal Court, some of these guys could easily be
    picked up, charged with war crimes and put on trial. That's one of the
    reasons we're not members of the International Criminal Court."

    If there is one quality that has defined Blackwater over the past
    decade, it is the ability to survive against the odds while
    simultaneously reinventing and rebranding itself. That is most evident
    in Afghanistan, where the company continues to work for the US military,
    the CIA and the State Department despite intense criticism and almost
    weekly scandals. Blackwater's alleged Pakistan operations, said the military
    intelligence source, are indicative of its new frontier. "Having learned
    its lessons after the private security contracting fiasco in Iraq,
    Blackwater has shifted its operational focus to two venues: protecting
    things that are in danger and anticipating other places we're going to
    go as a nation that are dangerous," he said. "It's as simple as that."



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    Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic
    in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon
    Brown under pressure from anti-war activists in Britain is beginning
    hearings into the actions and statements of British leaders that led to the
    country's joining the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

    Even before testimony began in hearings that started yesterday, news began
    to leak out from documents obtained by the commission that the government of
    former PM Tony Blair had lied to Parliament and the public about the country's
    involvement in war planning.

    Britain's Telegraph newspaper over the weekend published documents from
    British military leaders, including a memo from British special forces head
    Maj. Gen. Graeme Lamb, saying that he had been instructed to begin "working
    the war up since early 2002."

    This means that Blair, who in July 2002, had assured members of a House of
    Commons committee that there were "no preparations to invade Iraq," was
    lying.

    Things are likely to heat up when the commission begins hearing testimony.
    It has the power, and intends to compel testimony from top government
    officials, including Blair himself.

    While some American newspapers, including the  Philadelphia Inquirer,
    have run an Associated Press report on the new disclosures and on the
    commission, key news organizations, including the New York Times, have not.
    The Times ignored the Telegraph report, but a day later ran an article about
    the British commission that focused entirely on evidence that British
    military leaders in Iraq felt "slighted" by "arrogant" American military
    leaders who, the article reported, pushed for aggressive military action
    against insurgent groups, while British leaders preferred negotiating with
    them.

    While that may be of some historical interest, it hardly compares with the
    evidence that Blair and the Bush/Cheney administration were secretly
    conspiring to invade Iraq as early as February and March 2002.

    Recall that back in the fall of 2002, the Bush/Cheney argument to Congress
    and the American people for initiating a war against Iraq was that Iraq was
    allegedly behind the 9-11 attacks and that it posed an "imminent" danger of
    attack against the US and Britain with its alleged weapons of mass
    destruction.

    Of course, such arguments, which have subsequently been shown to have been
    bogus, would have had no merit if the planning began a year earlier, and if
    no such urgency was expressed by the two leaders at that time. Imminent,
    after all, means imminent, and if Blair, Bush and Cheney had genuinely
    thought an attack with WMDs was imminent back in the early days of the Bush
    administration, they would have been acting immediately, not secretly
    conjuring up a war scheduled for a year later. (The actual invasion began on
    March 19, 2003).

    As I documented in my book, The Case for Impeachment (St. Martin's Press,
    2006), there is plenty of evidence that Bush and Cheney had a scheme to put
    the US at war with Iraq even before Bush took office on Jan. 20, 2001. Then
    Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in his own tell-all book, The Price of
    Loyalty, written after he was dumped from the Bush Administration, recounts
    that at the first meeting of Bush's new National Security Council, the
    question of going to war and ousting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was on the
    agenda. Immediately after the 9-11 attacks, NSC anti-terrorism program czar
    Richard Clarke also recalled Bush ordering him to "find a link" to Iraq.

     
    Meanwhile, within days, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was ordering top
    generals to prepare for an Iraq invasion. Gen. Tommy Franks, who was heading
    up the military effort in Afghanistan that was reportedly closing in on
    Osama Bin Laden, found the rug being pulled out from under him as Rumsfeld
    began shifting troops out of Afghanistan and to Kuwait in preparation for
    the new war.

    It is nothing less than astonishing that so little news of the British
    investigation into the origins of the illegal Iraq War is being conveyed to
    Americans by this country's corporate media-yet another example
    demonstrating that American journalism is dead or dying.

    It is even more
    astonishing that neither the Congress nor the president here in America is
    making any similar effort to put America's leaders in the dock to tell the
    truth about their machinations in engineering a war that has cost the US
    over $1 trillion (perhaps $3 trillion eventually when debt payments and the
    cost of veterans care is added in), and over 4000 lives, not to mention as
    many as one million innocent Iraqi lives.

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    #10773 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
    Date: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:19 pm
    Subject: Lari King's logic defeated by the Libian President
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    #10772 From: "Sumerian.." <sumerian100@...>
    Date: Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:04 pm
    Subject: The only "standards" are double standards.
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    We have gone from carpet-bombing to targeting targets so precisely 
    that a bomb doesn't throw a brick into the street. So now we are war 
    criminals for assassinating an individual instead of leveling an 
    entire city. There's no winning with these people.

    On the other hand, after howling at the moon at a Bush plan that never 
    got off the ground, the left is oddly silent on Obama's methods. http://rawstory.com/2009/10/mayer-drone-attacks-on-pakistan/
        drone-murdered Pakistanis -- these human beings, these fathers and 
    mothers, these grandparents, these toddlers, these brothers and 
    sisters -- their lives are just statistics to be coldly weighed in the 
    calibrations of imperial policy. The "bad news" about their deaths is 
    not that they were murdered, not that these utterly defenseless men, 
    women and children were blown to shreds without warning, without the 
    slightest chance of escape, by flying robots controlled by unseen 
    hands a world away; no, the "bad news" is that these that these 
    killing might possibly hamper America

    The only standards  are double standards.



    Pentagon Manhunters: America's New Murder, Inc.?
    11-21-2009
    By Tom Burghardt - BLN Contributing Writer

    When CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed that for eight years the 
    Agency ran a secret program to hunt down and kill top leaders of the 
    Afghan-Arab database of disposable Western intelligence assets known 
    as al-Qaeda, it set off a political firestorm.

    While congressional Democrats and Republicans diverted the public's 
    attention with claims and counterclaims whether or not the Company had 
    "misled" Congress by not disclosing the program's existence, 
    investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reported months earlier that 
    former Vice President Richard Cheney had stood up an "executive 
    assassination ring."

    According to Hersh, that fully-operational program was run, not by the 
    CIA, but by the Pentagon's secretive Joint Special Operations Command 
    (JSOC), a subunit attached to United States Special Operations Command 
    (USSOCOM). During a "Great Conversations" event last March at the 
    University of Minnesota, Hersh told the audience:


    "Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring 
    essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the 
    Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named 
    [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many 
    collateral deaths.

    "Under President Bush’s authority, they've been going into countries, 
    not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding 
    people on a list and executing them and leaving. That's been going on, 
    in the name of all of us." (Eric Black, "Investigative reporter 
    Seymour Hersh describes 'executive assassination ring'," MinnPost.com
    March 11, 2009)

    Old news right? Well, not entirely.

    Wired investigative reporter Noah Shachtman revealed November 3, that 
    a report published by the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations 
    University (JSOU), the "educational component" of USSOCOM based at 
    MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, proposed creating a specialized 
    "manhunting" unit with a global reach.

      (snips)

    This "high-level executive approval" of an international death squad 
    reflected past--and current--Pentagon thinking that when it comes to 
    killing capitalism's opponents, everything is permitted.

    The parallels to contemporary American covert intelligence and 
    military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with their documented 
    linkages to the flourishing international drug trade are striking.

    That these moves by Washington to seize the geostrategic high ground 
    vis-à-vis their imperialist rivals, as in Latin America decades 
    earlier, have spawned an unholy alliance with far-right political 
    forces, warlords, religious extremists and drug traffickers, exposes 
    the lie that U.S. military intervention has anything to do with 
    democracy and human rights. Thirty years ago Danish journalist Henrik 
    Krüger observed:

    International Fascista was a crucial first step toward fulfilling the 
    dream not only of [SS Col. Otto] Skorzeny, but also of his close 
    friends in Madrid exile, José Lopez Rega, Juan Peron's grey eminence, 
    and Prince Justo Valerio Borghese, the Italian Fascist money man who 
    had been rescued from execution at the hands of the World War II 
    Italian resistance by future CIA counterintelligence whiz James J. 
    Angleton. They, and other Nazi and Fascist powers throughout Europe 
    and Latin America, envisioned a new world order built on a Fascist 
    Iron Circle linking Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, La Paz, Brasilia and 
    Montevideo. (Henrik Krüger, The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, 
    Intelligence, & International Fascism, Boston: South End Press, 1980, 
    p. 210)
      (snips)

    Lest readers forget, New Scotland Yard's Antiterrorist Branch, SO13, 
    was the "crack" unit that murdered Jean Claude de Menezes in cold 
    blood on a London subway in 2005.

    After an investigation that was little more than a cover-up, it was 
    revealed that de Menezes was entirely innocent and had been mistakenly 
    targeted by SO13's armed wing, SO19, as part of "Operation Kratos," 
    the Met's controversial "shoot-to-kill" program meant to take down 
    suspected terrorists and would-be suicide bombers.

    De Menezes was neither, but that didn't stop police from pumping seven 
    bullets into his head.

    Tellingly, SO13 was stood up after consultations with Israeli 
    "experts," well-known for their fidelity to human rights, the rule of 
    law and the sanctity of life,

    (snips)  secrecy and deceit are the norm and discretion in choosing a 
    "target" is transformed into a morality play with a unique 
    demonstration effect:

    If internal security forces arrest a terrorist, it is an act of law 
    enforcement, most often viewed favorably by both the international and 
    domestic communities. If a terrorist is killed in an alley by an 
    unknown assailant, it is an unsolved crime, a crime which may not be 
    deeply investigated if the terrorist has a lengthy rap sheet. Thus it 
    may be preferable to consign terrorist manhunting to intelligence and 
    law enforcement organs and to avoid entanglements caused by crossing 
    manhunting with military or diplomatic functions. Where manhunting is 
    concerned, there may be legal and moral advantage in ambiguity and 
    plausible denial. (Crawford, op. cit., p. 16)

    Harken back to Seymour Hersh's description of how Dick Cheney's 
    "executive assassination ring" actually performed in the real world: 
    "they've been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or 
    the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them 
    and leaving."

    This too, was the precise mechanism employed by Operation Condor 
    assassins across Latin America, Europe and the United States during 
    the 1970s. Small teams of highly-trained, plausibly deniable 
    intelligence officers and assets, including NATO-trained Italian 
    neofascists, Turkish narcotraffickers and CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles 
    carried out a reign of terror against their Southern Cone leftist 
    opponents.

    While the 1976 car-bombing in Washington, D.C. that murdered former 
    Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and his secretary, Ronni 
    Moffitt, may be the most notorious Condor operation to come to light, 
    dozens if not hundreds of other "catch and snatch" operations were 
    carried out, with a wink-and-a-nod from Washington. Those 
    "disappeared" into Argentine or Chilean dungeons were never to be seen 
    again.
    (snips)  dirty work.... Crawford's manhunting weltanschauung is not 
    conducive to a democratic model of society but rather, to the darkness 
    of a technocratic and immutable fascism servicing America's ruling 
    oligarchy. "  UNQUOTES for educational review




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