VeriChip Corporation Signs New International Distribution Agreements for Russia, Colombia and Venezuela

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The U.S. intelligence community has excised significant details of the ties of the Saudi royal family to al-Qaida from a congressional report.

Congressional sources said the 800-page report on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was delayed for months over arguments with the Bush administration on details of Saudi involvement with al-Qaida.

The administration did not want a companion report by the independent National Commission on Terrorist Attacks to reopen wounds with Riyadh amid its new cooperation with the U.S.-led war against Osama bin Laden\'s terror network, the sources said.

The report, which could be released this week, will discuss how the United States underestimated Saudi links to al-Qaida.

The 10-member commission reviewed the FBI failure to detect Saudi aid to two of the 19 al-Qaida hijackers in September 2001.

\"There\'s little doubt that much of the funding of terrorist groups – whether intentional or unintentional – is coming from Saudi sources,\" John Lehman, a member of the independent commission, told a congressional hearing earlier this month.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33734

ach
ach 2003-07-24 23:14:37

dnes som si precital komiks tank girl: apocalypse, a tu su z neho dve stranky vytrhnute:

Praha 6 a její kamerový systém

autor: tacud

Určitě Vás taky zajímá, kde se na nás všechny velký bratr kouká. Tak pozorně čtěte a zkuste přemýšlet nad tím, zda je normální být sledován téměř na každém kroku v jedné z městských částí Prahy. A dá se proti tomu vůbec něco dělat? A vadí to vlastně vůbec někomu? Diskuze je tu pro Vás. Ke kamerovému systému ostatních městským částí se i s kompletním seznamem vrátím v příštím článku.

Schémata zorného úhlu těchto městských kamer: http://phatbeatz.cz/index.php?kam=1a&cid=305&sh=2

Poll shows many Germans see U.S. behind Sept 11

BERLIN, July 23 (Reuters) - Almost one in three Germans below the age of 30 believes the U.S. government may have sponsored the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, according to a poll published on Wednesday.

And about 20 percent of Germans in all age groups hold this view, a survey of 1,000 people conducted for the weekly Die Zeit said.

It also said 68 percent of all Germans felt the media had not reported the full truth behind the attacks, in which some 3,000 people were killed when hijacked planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

After the September 11 attacks, there was an outpouring of sympathy from Germans for the United States. Despite misgivings, Germany joined a military campaign against the al Qaeda network that Washington blamed for the attacks.

But as the United States geared up for war against Iraq, relations soured bady as Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder expressed vocal opposition to the plans.

Although the United States took strong offence at Berlin\'s attitude, Schroeder\'s anti-war stance was popular in Germany and helped him to snatch victory in last September\'s elections.

Asked whether they believed that the U.S. government could have ordered the September 11 attacks itself, 31 percent of those surveyed under the age of 30 in the poll answered \"yes\", while 19 percent overall gave the same answer.

Die Zeit said widespread disbelief about the reasons given by the United States for going to war in Iraq and suspicion about media coverage of the conflict had fostered a climate in which conspiracy theories flourished.

\"The news is controlled,\" 17-year old Kenny Donaubaur was quoted as saying. \"You could see that in the Iraq war. It doesn\'t seem to me thet you get the full truth.\"

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L23109558.htm

Toppan Gears Up for Low-Cost RFID

The Japanese company plans to begin volume production of chips that it says will cost 5 cents and readers that will cost less than $20.



July 23, 2003 - Toppan Printing, a $10 billion Japanese printing, electronics and industrial products manufacturer, will begin volume production in December of dual-band RFID tags that it says will cost about 5 cents. The company also plans to sell reader modules that cost less than $20.
The tiny T-Junction chip

The new RFID chip, named T-Junction, will operate at 2.45 GHz, which is the common RFID frequency used in Japan today, as well as 800 to 950MHz, the band used in the US and Europe. Toppan plans to sell both RFID inlays -- the chip and antenna mounted on a substrate -- and finished labels. \"We expect that the cost of the label with the chip and antenna will be about 5 cents,\" says Koichiro Sasai, a spokesperson for Toppan Printing.

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http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/511/1/1/

jo a malem bych zapomnel, toto je taky supr sajta, zabyva se spis mimozemstanama a duchama spis nez spolecenskou konspiraci. Vysilaj to tu prez noc na jednom fasistickym radiu, dalo by se to prirovnat k tabloid newspapers, ale jak spravny konspiracni vedec vi, spousta z toho je pravda !

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/

http://www.hereinreality.com/bigbrother.html

neco o Johnu Poindexterovi a Iransko-Nicaraguyskem skandalu/konspiraci a o dnesni politice USA

Tuhle sajtu taky doporucuju, rozebira celou historii Bushovy rodiny, vysvetluje, obsahuje spoustu linku a dokonce i brozurky, ktere si muzete vytisknout: http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html

July 23, 2003 | 5:41 PM


I Stole the Head of Prescott Bush! More Scary Skull and Bones Tales
by Ron Rosenbaum

What if I told you I’d stolen the skull of Prescott Bush, George W.’s grandfather? Snuck up to the Bush family burial plot in the depths of the night, dug up the coffin, cracked it open, yanked the skull off the skeleton and slipped away with it. How would you react? How would George W. Bush react?

I raise these questions to put in perspective the allegations against George W. Bush’s secret society, Skull and Bones, allegations that link the society and Governor Bush’s grandfather to the practice of grave robbing. I raise these questions to help put in perspective the bizarre-yet-true moment when George W. Bush’s uncle sought to offer the skull of a young child to an Apache tribal official in an apparent attempt to hush up a potential Bush family scandal. Should this skeleton in the Bush closet that was, in fact, part of a skeleton, be an issue in the Presidential campaign?

It seems like the grave-robbing allegation just will not die. A new source has come forward to substantiate a previous allegation involving Bush family patriarch Prescott Bush and to broaden the charge from one skull-snatching to a secret-society-wide Skull and Bones practice. And the source has added a further allegation: license-plate stealing. All of which paints a picture of a grave-robbing, plate-stealing crime spree of the privileged elite. Practices, including those of his own grandfather, candidate George W. should be called upon to disclaim or defend.

The new source, whom I’ll call (what else?) \"Deep Skull,\" came forward in response to my appeal in the pages of The Observer recently (\"Inside George W.’s Secret Crypt,\" March 27.) I had made a public appeal to the women of the legendary Skull and Bones all-girl break-in team. These were the intrepid women who had in the late 70’s slipped illicitly inside the sanctum sanctorum of the blue blood Old Boys network, the forbidding, windowless Egyptian-style crypt on the Yale campus in New Haven which Skull and Bones initiates call \"the Tomb.\"

Two decades ago, one of the all-girl break-in team’s confederates had shown me the pictures taken inside the Tomb during the break-in. And very fetching pictures they were, one of my favorite being a kind of mock pajama party featuring two of the break-in team in Laura Ashley—like nightclothes and one in men’s pajamas clustered around the base of the Skull and Bones grandfather clock, which featured a skeleton hanging inside the glass pendulum case. One bare toe nudging an actual skull.

For strictly journalistic reasons, I was hoping one of these brave women would come forward and supply to me the photos of their successful raid on the crypt of the secret society that has for nearly two centuries shaped the character of the men who shaped the American character. You know the roll call: The pajama-clad ninjas were lounging in a place that had been the secret retreat of Presidents such as William Howard Taft and George Bush; Supreme Court Justices such as Potter Stewart; Secretaries of State such as Henry Stimson; diplomatic mandarins such as Averell Harriman and Robert Lovett; National Security advisers (and Bay of Pigs planners and Vietnam war architects) such as William and McGeorge Bundy; Senators such as Cooper, Chafee, Boren and Kerry, to name just a few; publishing magnates with names like Luce and Cowles; C.I.A. recruits William F. Buckley and William Sloane Coffin. There in the bowels of the Skull and Bones Tomb, to the accompaniment of occult male bonding rituals that involved baring their souls and, some say, their bodies, they’d spill their guts to each other, share their sexual histories together ... and rob skulls together?

That was the question raised again by Deep Skull. She’s a woman who was surreptitiously taken into the Tomb, contacted me, and her story is even more provocative because she was taken into the Tomb by an initiate–an unheard-of breach of the bloodcurdling vows of secrecy the Skull and Bones society demands of its members.


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She was taken inside and was not only given a tour but given the secrets, which she has now passed on to me. But before we get to the question of stolen skulls, let me get to the story of the allegedly stolen license plates that I think helps put the grave-robbing charge against George W.’s society (and his grandfather) in context.

In my previous Observer piece on Skull and Bones, I’d spoken of the \"the Room with the License Plates of Many States.\" I’d spoken of it in a kind of tongue-in-cheek way as a kind of corrective to all the grand conspiracy theories that have made the Tomb of Skull and Bones the epicenter of the Hidden Hand that secretly rules the world. My point was that the power of Skull and Bones was far from hidden–it was out there, in your face. I mean, even with the decline of the traditional WASP establishment, they stand a good chance of getting two initiates into the White House in a single decade. My point was also to counterbalance the focus on the deep WASP voodoo, the overlay of exotic and occult rituals that initiates, future presidents, all had to undergo: the stories of the nude mud wrestling, the naked coffin sexual confessionals, the close encounters with guys from Greenwich and Locust Valley dressed up as skeletons–all the mumbo jumbo of crypto-Masonic homosocial (if not homoerotic) bonding rituals.

And so I pointed instead to the photographs the break-in team had shown me of \"the Room with the License Plates of Many States,\" as I dubbed it: \"The kind of thing you’d expect to find in some second-tier midwestern frat house. A wall covered with a bunch of license plates. Gee, look at all the places the brothers have been! Get me a brewski!\" But now I’m beginning to think I may have underestimated the true significance of the Room with the License Plates of Many States. Now I think it may, in fact, be the key to understanding the Skull and Bones mindset. What changed my mind was my encounter with Deep Skull, who sent me the following missive, some of whose identifying details I’ve removed:

\"In the late 1970’s I had a boyfriend who was tapped [for Bones] although he didn’t really fit the profile because he seemed a bit of a loser in the way of a John O’Hara character … Anyway, he took me inside … Alas, I didn’t pay very close attention because perhaps not being a Yalie … I didn’t know what the big deal was, but in regard to the license plate room which was a kind of a foyer or mud room to the right of the entrance I seem to recall that the reason for the plates was that they all bore the numbers 322 [the mythical date of the founding of the Skull and Bones \"order,\" which traces itself to the death of Demosthenes in 322 B.C.], and that it was the obligation of the S&B boys to confiscate such plates when spotted … If I can be of any further assistance feel free to contact me at the above address and phone number.\"

Needless to say, I did contact her. She is a well-regarded professional whose work has been praised by some well-known cultural figures, and she told me, on condition of anonymity, much more that was fascinating about her penetration of the sanctum of Skull and Bones–but let’s dwell for a moment on the license plates. No, it’s not the Bay of Pigs (we’ll get to the curious Skull and Bones connection to that tragedy in a moment). But it’s more than trivial. It’s a lesson in the immunity that privilege can confer. Say you’re an inner-city kid, not shielded by privilege, who’s sent to jail for a similar \"confiscation.\" It’s not trivial to you.

And come to think about it, what about all those judges, all those lawyers and legislators who pass through the Room with the \"Confiscated\" License Plates of Many States, the ones who are sworn to uphold the law, the ones who sentence kids to jail for thefts when they’re not protected by the shield of privilege and the padlocked doors of the Skull and Bones Tomb? Skull and Bones is supposed to be the place where the best and brightest of the elite and privileged develop character and breeding. But the practice of \"confiscating\" plates would suggest it breeds the kind of character with a contempt for the law, except when it’s applied to the transgressions of the lower orders.


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Whose Child Do They Have?

Now let’s examine the controversy over the confiscated skulls to see if what we now know about confiscated plates can illuminate the question of confiscated pates, so to speak.

Consider first the prevalence of death, grave, skeleton and skull imagery at the heart of the psychic bonding ritual that has made Skull and Bones such a powerful influence on people like George W.

The skeletal grave-digging imagery of Skull and Bones was there from the 1832 beginning, imported from Germany by Skull and Bones founder General Alfred Russell, who seems to have adopted much of the iconography and death’s-head philosophy from the German Lodges of Freemasonry. The Germanic influence on Skull and Bones may have extended to some less savory secret societies than the Freemasons. Hitler’s SS was, of course, known for using skull-and-crossbones insignia, which some say derived from the same German Masonic sources–a connection that, according to one report, has not gone unrecognized by the initiates of \"the Order.\" Back in 1989, noted author, editor and raconteur Steven L. Aronson published an essay on Skull and Bones that quoted a member of what seems to be the same all-girl break-in team.

\"The most shocking thing,\" the source told Mr. Aronson, \"and I say this because I do think it’s sort of important–I mean President Bush does belong to Skull and Bones … there is like a little Nazi shrine inside. One room on the second floor has a bunch of swastikas, kind of an SS macho Nazi iconography. Somebody should ask President Bush about the swastikas in there.\"

Out of fairness it’s possible to conceive that what this woman saw was captured Nazi memorabilia rather than a shrine–several secret societies at Yale are said to boast of possessing Hitler’s silverware, for instance. But that does not appear to be the impression this woman got. And so her suggestion–\"Somebody should ask President Bush about the swastikas in there\"–might be just as relevant to George W., who would know about the nature of the \"shrine\" she describes.

On Sunday, two days before The Observer went to press, I faxed a detailed summary of the questions raised in this story to Bush press aide Dan Bartlett, and asked for comment by press time, midday Tuesday. No reply was forthcoming.

Now let’s proceed to the relationship between the Bush family and the skull of Geronimo–and the skull of an unidentified child. One of the sensational disclosures Deep Skull made to me, one of the secrets vouchsafed to her by the initiate who took her into the Tomb, was about the role of the skulls that decorate the inner walls of the Tomb.

Once having passed the Room with the (\"Confiscated\") License Plates of Many States, she said, upon entering the main room of the Tomb, she noticed mantelpieces decorated with \"loads of skulls.\" Human skulls, each bearing a name plate. Her attention was immediately drawn, by her initiate escort, to what she described as a kind of \"aquarium-like glass case filled with what looked like turquoise chips\" surmounted by a skull. A skull she said was identified by her guide as the skull of a great Native American warrior. She recalled it as Cochise, but says after 20 years that it could well have been Geronimo.

Her initiate guide explained to her, she told me, that in order to prove their mettle and perhaps to bond them in mutual guilt over participation in an illicit act, each class of 15 new initiates to Skull and Bones were required to dig up, to \"confiscate,\" the skull of a famous person and bring it to the Tomb to be enshrined in its skull collection. It makes you wonder what other famous dead people are missing their skulls.

Here’s where the Bush family involvement in the grave-robbing allegation begins. In 1986, someone–a still-anonymous unknown source–sent an excerpt from a privately printed Skull and Bones document to the chairman of the San Carlos Apache tribe in Arizona, one Ned Anderson. The document was entitled A Continuation of the History of Our Order for the Century Celebration. Its author, I have since learned, was Skull and Bones member F.O. Matthiessen, later a Harvard professor renowned for his groundbreaking studies of classic 19th-century American literature. I’ve also learned that the original of the document reposes now in a Harvard library where, under an agreement with Matthiessen’s executors and Skull and Bones, it is not available to the public.

The document is an account of a \"mad expedition\" by George W.’s grandfather Prescott Bush and two other Skull and Bones men to the grave of Geronimo \"to bring to the Tomb its most spectacular ‘crook,’ the skull of Geronimo, the Indian chief who had taken 49 white scalps. … [Prescott] Bush entered and started to dig. The skull was fairly clean, having only some flesh inside and a little hair.\"

I was recently able to confirm, from a copy of an official Skull and Bones directory (whose provenance I can’t disclose), that in fact George W.’s grandfather Prescott was stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, site of Geronimo’s tomb, in 1918 at the U.S. Army artillery training school there, along with Ellery James and Neil Mallon, the other two men mentioned as part of the tomb-raiding party.

Note the language: They say they’ll bring back to the Tomb \"its most spectacular ‘crook.’\" Which suggests that the Tomb contains an array of other somewhat less spectacular but similarly stolen skulls. In fact, shortly after the Geronimo-skull story appeared in print, and after Ned Anderson, the Apache tribal leader, had enlisted the aid of his senator, John McCain, to try to set up a meeting with then Vice President George Bush, another allegation about a similar raid for \"crook\" skulls surfaced. A group of men in El Paso claimed to have proof that, back in 1923, five Skull and Bones men put up a total of $25,000 to pay for the acquisition of the skull of Pancho Villa. Mark Singer investigated the El Paso—Pancho Villa skull-robbery allegation for The New Yorker in 1989 and ended up somewhat skeptical, as am I.

But in the course of his highly diverting account of the Pancho Villa skull claim, Mr. Singer lets drop an astonishing detail about the parallel Geronimo skull-recovery attempt: a remarkable report of a face-to-face, indeed face-to-skull, meeting between the Apache tribal representative, Ned Anderson, and representatives of Skull and Bones, including George Bush’s brother Jonathan!

According to Mr. Singer, Endicott Peabody Davison, a lawyer described as a designated spokesman for the Russell Trust Association, the Skull and Bones corporate shell, described the \"Century Celebration\" grave-robbing document as authentic–but the raid itself \"apocryphal.\" Nonetheless, \"in 1986 [Davison] and other representatives of Skull and Bones–among them George Bush’s brother Jonathan–met with Anderson. They brought a skull and offered it to Anderson, but he declined because it seemed not to be the same one he had seen in photographs surreptitiously provided by an anonymous dissident member of Bones. The nose and eye cavities didn’t match. Also Anderson took offense at a document that Davison wanted him to sign, which stipulated that neither the Apaches nor Skull and Bones would publicly discuss the whole business.\"

I was fascinated by this account: Soon to be President Bush’s brother offering the Apaches a skull their father was said to have stolen! Demanding the Apaches be sworn to silence presumably to protect the Bush family as well as Bones. But looking further into the episode I found an even more extraordinary detail about that face-to-skull meeting: the Skull of the Unknown Child. It appeared in an earlier account of the Geronimo controversy that first ran in 1988 in the Arizona Republic. In it, Republic reporter Paul Brinkley-Rogers reveals another fact about the document the Bush/Bones delegation asked the Apaches to sign: \"Anderson called the document ‘very insulting to Indians.’ [He] also said he was confused and annoyed because the document said that Skull and Bones members had submitted the skull to ‘an expert in New Haven’ who determined that the remains were those of a child and therefore ‘cannot possibly be those of Geronimo.’\"

Chilling! Now we not only have the mystery of the skull of Geronimo, we have the mystery of the skull of a child. What was George Bush’s brother doing with a dead child’s skull in his hands? (A message left at Jonathan Bush’s number in Connecticut was not returned.)

Chilling as well in its implication of the presumptions of privilege: Hey you naïve Apaches, we don’t have the skull you wanted, but if you sign this document and keep your mouth shut, we’ll give you another skull we happen to have lying around. Treating the Apache like a child.

But meanwhile, I want to know: Who was that child? And how did his or her head end up in the Skull and Bones Tomb?


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My attempt to get further information from the Skull and Bones shell corporation, the Russell Trust Association, resulted in my uncovering a fascinating corporate shell game that led back to the Bay of Pigs. These days any researcher who attempts to track down information from the Russell Trust Association will learn from the corporate filings office of the Connecticut Secretary of State that no such entity exists. This is a bit of a scam. It required some brilliant cross-referencing and close study of the secret Skull and Bones directories on the part of my research associate on this story, Peggy Adler, to discover that the Russell Trust Association changed its name nearly four decades ago and effectively erased its existence from corporate history.

It did so by abolishing itself and then reincorporating itself with the uninformative, anonymous-sounding name \"RTA Incorporated.\" And it chose a very peculiar moment in history to do so. The new papers of reincorporation that erased the century-old Russell Trust Association were filed at 10:15 a.m. on April 14, 1961. Two hours later, at noon on that day, the orders went out to begin the Bay of Pigs operations–the covert C.I.A.-financed invasion of Castro’s Cuba, a bloody fiasco that still haunts us four decades later.

Coincidence? Probably. But then it’s also true that one of the C.I.A.’s masterminds for the Bay of Pigs was a man named Richard Drain, Skull and Bones ’43. And the White House planner of the Bay of Pigs operation was McGeorge Bundy, Skull and Bones ’40. And the State Department liaison for the Bay of Pigs operation was his brother William P. Bundy, Skull and Bones ’39. And the man who filed the reincorporation papers that erased the Russell Trust Association from existence on the day of the Bay of Pigs was Howard Weaver, Skull and Bones ’45W (George Bush’s class), who retired from the C.I.A. in 1959. All of which might lead one to suspect that the Skull and Bones corporate shell had been used as a clandestine conduit of funds for the Bay of Pigs, and then erased from existence to cover up the connection as the invasion got underway.

Still, once again, it’s not any covert connection between Skull and Bones and the Bay of Pigs that’s so shocking and revealing, it’s the overt connection: Whether or not they used the Russell Trust Association as a pipeline, the fact that all these Skull and Bones geniuses devised such a patently idiotic plan in the first place is the scandal. Brave men died because of their elitist secret-society mentality. And then they went on to give us Vietnam. It makes you fear for the future of our country if George W. turns to these types for advice.

In any case, by using the secret new corporate name I was able to learn the identities of the current officers of RTA Inc. But as of press time, neither the president of RTA, retired attorney David George Ball, nor the treasurer, Henry P. Davison, have replied to my requests for further information.

Once again, to put this concern into context: The cover photo of my new book The Secret Parts of Fortune, which reprints my original 1977 investigation plus new revelations from Deep Skull, depicts me on the steps of the Skull and Bones Tomb holding a skull under my arm (see photo on page 13), and a number of people have asked me whose skull it is. If I were to say it was the skull of Prescott Bush, I would imagine everyone in the Bush family would come down on my skull for it. But somehow, the skull of an Apache or an unidentified child in the possession of Skull and Bones is considered just a harmless prank? I don’t think so.

There is a peculiar horror that attaches itself to depriving the bones of the dead of their proper resting place. A horror and a curse. On his own tomb Shakespeare ordered the curse to be carved in stone: \"Blest be the man that spares these stones / And curst be he that moves my bones.\"

I hereby offer my good offices to the Bush family to rectify the situation and exorcise the curse. I’m willing to meet with Jonathan Bush, my old Yale classmate George W., or indeed any member of the Bush family (except maybe Barbara) to arrange for the return of the skull of that poor child to its parents. And give all those other skulls a proper burial.


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Did the NSA Lose a Sept. 11 Hijacker?

The congressional 9/11 commission says intelligence officials dropped the ball while watching one of the men who carried out the Pentagon attack

By ELAINE SHANNON


Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2003

The National Security Agency missed a prime opportunity in early 2000 to crack the Sept. 11 plot, according to a forthcoming congressional investigation of the attacks. The report of the House and Senate Intelligence committees, to be released Thursday, will say that the NSA intercepted and analyzed \"several communications\" between future 9/11 hijacker Khalid al Midhar and an al-Qaeda safe house in the Middle East. But despite the agency\'s vaunted signals intelligence (SIGINT) technology, which enables it to intercept telephone, radio, cell phone, e-mail and fax messages worldwide, the NSA didn’t realize that the messages, from someone vaguely identified as \"Khalid,\" originated in the U.S., the report charges. As a result, the FBI wasn’t alerted to what could have been a valuable lead.

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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,466609,00.html

JAXXE: problem je, ze illuminati se nezastavi pred nicim a obycejnym lidem se to vzdycky zvladne nejak vysvetlit.

David Kelly’s murder – Is it a punishment or a warning?

Is it a mafia-like execution to hide the truth?

ONDON: Murder of Dr. David Kelly, one of the members of UN’s Weapons Inspection team in Iraq to find the weapons of mass destruction allegedly manufactured and piled up by the Saddam government, has left no doubt that to which extent the group of criminal-minded individuals responsible for a new conflict in the Middle East could go to serve its vested interests.

Although all the government agencies in UK and the media in United States is trying to portray this seemingly cold blooded murder as a “suspicious suicide”, the circumstances led to Dr. Kelly’s disappearance and death clearly indicate that who should be held responsible for silencing a voice for sanity and truth.

UN inspectors were under grave threat before the war. Before the war on Iraq, the US administration, acting like mafia gangsters, used all fair and foul tactics to justify a war on Iraq to appease some specific lobbies. Top US officials were hurling threats to the UN inspectors and were pressurizing them to declare that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

The diplomats representing the members of the Security Council were being threatened for dire consequences if their countries did not vote for a war resolution. It was not diplomacy. It was not statesmanship. It was abuse of power and authority for which both George W. Bush and Tony Blair are personally responsible.

Now when Blair faced tough criticism because of a BBC’s report that he intentionally exaggerated the facts and added fiction to his analyses to sell the war plans to the people of Britain, an inspector is killed. Is it the punishment to speak to the media and disclose what the truth was? Or it is a warning to other inspectors and government officials that they could be murdered if they spoke truth.

The British Broadcasting Corp. has admitted that scientist David Kelly was its main source for a story about the British government\'s dossier on Iraqi weapons.

\"Over the past few weeks we have been at pains to protect Dr. Kelly being identified as the source of these reports,\" the BBC said in a statement released Sunday.

\"We clearly owed him a duty of confidentiality. Following his death, we now believe, in order to end the continuing speculation, it is important to release this information as swiftly as possible.\"

The government and the BBC have been in a war of words over the issue for weeks. As the story has dragged on, the popularity of both Blair and his government have declined.


Monday, July 21, 2003

http://www.balochistanpost.com/item.aspx?ID=4210

David Kelly faced the wrath of the Saddam regime as a weapons inspector after the 1991 Gulf War. He faced something similar from Russian officials during an investigation there - the guy could stand his ground. Shortly before he left on his \"suicide walk\" he emailed colleagues with \"combative\" comments about the pressure he was under from \"many dark actors playing games\". He said he hoped it would all blow over and he could get back to Baghdad and get on with the work that really mattered. When he left his home, his wife, Janice, was unconcerned. Although she knew her 59-year-old husband was deeply upset, his mental state did not seem to be too down. Walking was a hobby and he often disappeared for up to two or three hours. He had family matters to look forward to like the marriage of one of his daughters in October. He was devoted to his wife and family and he did not show signs of someone who was about to kill himself. But he was later found dead, the police say, in an isolated wood with his wrist slashed with a pen knife. There was no goodbye to his wife and family, nothing
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Does this make sense to you? Me neither.

Des Moines, IA -- Democratic presidential candidate Governor Howard Dean delivered these remarks on July 18th at a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa:

As the Niger uranium story has unfolded, what has become increasingly obvious is that there are many questions that must be answered about the way the Bush Administration led us to war, managed the conflict in Iraq, and failed to foresee the continuing resistance that our military is now confronting.

We must be clear: decisions regarding war and peace are the most serious and solemn that a Commander-in-Chief is called upon to make. There are now fundamental questions about President Bush\'s leadership in taking us to war with Iraq.

There has been much discussion about the 16 words included in the State of the Union address. Today I call on the President to answer these sixteen questions to ensure that the American people can retain their trust in their government and to help ensure that the United States can retain its credibility as a moral force in the world.



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Mr. President, beyond the NSC and CIA officials who have been identified, we need to know who else at the White House was involved in the decision to include the discredited uranium evidence in your speech, and, if they knew it was false, why did they permit it to be included in the speech

2.
Mr. President, we need to know why anyone in your Administration would have contemplated using the evidence in the State of the Union after George Tenet personally intervened in October 2002, to have the same evidence removed from the President\'s October 7th speech. (The Washington Post, Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, 7/13/2003)

3.
Mr. President, we need to know why you claimed this very week that the CIA objected to the Niger uranium sentence \"subsequent\" to the State of the Union address, contradicting everything else we have heard from your administration and the intelligence community on the matter. (The Washington Post, Priest, Dana and Dana Milbank, 7/15/2003)

4.
Mr. President, we urgently need an explanation about the very serious charge that senior officials in your Administration may have retaliated against Ambassador Joseph Wilson by illegally disclosing that his wife is an undercover CIA officer. (The Nation, Corn, David, 7/16/2003)

5.
Mr. President, we need to know why your Administration persisted in using the intercepted aluminum tubes to show that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear program and why your National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, claimed categorically that the tubes were \"only really suited for nuclear weapons programs,\" when in fact our own government experts flatly rejected such claims. (CNN, 9/08/2002, Knight Ridder News Service, 10/04/2002)

6.
Mr. President, we need to know why Secretary Rumsfeld created a secret intelligence unit at the Pentagon that selectively identified questionable intelligence to support the case for war including the supposed link to al-Qaeda while ignoring, burying or rejecting any evidence to the contrary. (New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, 5/12/03)

7.
Mr. President, we need to know what the basis was for Secretary Rumsfeld\'s assertion that the US had bulletproof evidence linking Al Qaeda to Iraq, despite the fact that U.S. intelligence analysts have consistently agreed that Saddam did not have a \"meaningful connection\" to Al Qaeda. (NY Times, Schmitt, Eric, 9/28/2002, NY Times, Krugman, Paul, 7/15/2003)

8.
Mr. President, we need to know why Vice President Cheney claimed last September to have \"irrefutable evidence\" that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his nuclear weapons program, an assertion he repeated in March, on the eve of war. (AP, 9/20/2002, NBC 3/16/2003)

9.
Mr. President, we need to know why Secretary Powell claimed with confidence and virtual certainty in February before the UN Security Council that, \"Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets.\" (UN Address, 2/05/2003)

10.
Mr. President, we need to know why Secretary Rumsfeld claimed on March 30th in reference to weapons of mass destruction, \"We know where they are. They\'re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat.\" (The Guardian, Whitaker, Brian and Rory McCarthy, 5/30/2003)

11.
Mr. President, we need an explanation of the unconfirmed report that your Administration is dishonoring the life of a soldier who died in Iraq as a result of hostile action by misclassifying his death as an accident. (Time, Gibbs, Nancy and Mark Thompson, 7/13/2003)

12.
Mr. President, we need to know why your Administration has never told the truth about the costs and long-term commitment of the war, has consistently downplayed what those would be, and now continues to try to keep the projected costs hidden from the American people.

13.
Mr. President, we need to know why you said on May 1, 2003 , that the war was over, when US troops have fought and one or two have died nearly every day since then and your generals have admitted that we are fighting a guerrilla war in Iraq. (Abizaid, Gen. John, 7/16/2003)

14.
Mr. President, we need to know why your Administration had no plan to build the peace in post-war Iraq and seems to be resisting calls to include NATO, the United Nations and our allies in the stabilization and reconstruction effort.

15.
Mr. President, we need to know what you were referring to in Poland on May 30, 2003, when you said, \"For those who say we haven\'t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they\'re wrong. We found them.\" (The Washington Post, Mike Allen, 5/31/2003)

16.
Mr. President, we need to know why you incorrectly claimed this very week that the war began because Iraq would not admit UN inspectors, when in fact Iraq had admitted the inspectors and you opposed extending their work. (The Washington Post, Priest, Dana and Dana Milbank, 7/15/2003)


If you can\'t or won\'t answer these 16 questions, Mr. President, I call on the Republicans in Congress to stop blocking efforts to create an independent, bipartisan committee to investigate what is a matter of the highest importance: whether your decision to go to war was sound and just.

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As the US, EU, and other Western nations increase pressure on Iran to allow weapons inspectors spontaneous access to nuclear sites, some analysts have pointed out the arrogance of a stance which they say is hypocritical. While the reported International Atomic Energy Agency discovery last week of enriched uranium at an undisclosed site in Iran has been viewed with alarm, most nations are ignoring the regional presence of a nuclear-armed state which has not signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty at all; Israel. Phyllis Bennis from the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington delves deeper into the double standard in this interview with RN\'s Josh Maiyo:

\"We don\'t know any of the details of what has been found [in Iran]. What we do know is whatever it was, it was traces. It was not a functioning weapons system, it was not something about to become a weapon. The danger, of course, is that the Bush administration has shown itself willing to use exaggerated or even outright false, forged, evidence to bolster their claim. Rather than using intelligence information to come to a decision, they make a decision that is ideologically driven, and based on that decision they go and find evidence, whether it\'s true or not, and claim it as a way of bolstering their position. We need to be very cautious that they not be allowed to repeat that around Iran.\"

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Australia primed to be yanked into US

By Tess Livingstone
July 16, 2003

AUSTRALIA has been urged to seriously consider becoming the 51st state of the US.

And American-born historian Dr David Mosler told a Brisbane audience yesterday there was a 20 per cent chance of Australia becoming an American state in the next 50 years.

The visiting research fellow at Adelaide University, who has lived in Australia since 1971, said the chances would increase significantly in the event of a major Al-Qaeda attack on Australia or if Indonesia became a fundamentalist Islamic republic.

Dr Mosler told the 2003 Fulbright Symposium at Griffith University yesterday that he decided Australia was \"an unreformable society\" after the loss of the 1999 republic referendum.

Australians, he said, had no flag of their own; a weak sense of nationhood; no prime minister in the Lodge, with John Howard living in Sydney; no national bushfire or water plans, even with the worst drought in history; and no \"broad knowledge of nation in public discourse or popular culture\". Australians had replaced \"Empire with Yanks\" after 1942, and the country retained a \"quasi-colonial status\".


He said Australian governments, attuned to the British, Americans, Japanese and global capital markets, had \"sold off the farm\" - electricity, water, ports, airports, resources - while Australians weren\'t offended by such \"treasonous behaviour\".

He said Australia\'s passage to American statehood would not be difficult under its Constitution.

He listed the advantages of American statehood for Australia as:

* Access to the world\'s best higher education system.

* Large savings on embassies.

* Being part of the world\'s most effective defence system.

* Merger with the world\'s strongest currency.

* Being part of the world\'s biggest economy.

* A constitution bringing a republic and a Bill of Rights.

* Fielding teams in the US national basketball, baseball and gridiron competitions.


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High-Ranking Officials Admit 9/11 Could\'ve Been Prevented

\"They don\'t have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn\'t do anything to prevent it.\"

— Senator Richard Shelby, then ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee; member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11


\"I don\'t believe any longer that it\'s a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn\'t act on it.\"

— Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican member of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11


\"There were lots of warnings.\"

— Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld

\"Should we have known? Yes, we should have. Could we have known? Yes, I believe we could have because of the hard targets [CIA operatives were tracking].\"

— Representative Porter Goss, Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; Republican co-chairman of the joint intelligence committee that investigated 9/11



\"I cannot say for sure that there wasn\'t a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers.\"

— FBI Director Robert Mueller



\"As of September 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on September 11th.\"

— Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff (described by the Associated Press as \"the Bush administration\'s top anti-terrorism prosecutor\")

\"Had one human being or a common group of human beings sat down with all that information, we could have gotten to the hijackers before they flew those four airplanes either into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the ground of Pennsylvania.\"

— Senator Bob Graham, then Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; Democratic co-chairman of the joint intelligence panel that investigated 9/11


\"If you put all those pieces together, I don\'t say you could have prevented September 11th, but there might have been some warning, had it been handled properly.\"

— Vice President Dick Cheney



Sources

Cheney: Unsigned. \"Cheney Blasts September 11 Critics.\" CNN, 23 May 2002.

Chertoff: Parry, Wayne. \"Official: Many Signs Pointed to 9/11.\" Associated Press, 1 June 2002.

Goss: Priest, Dana, and Juliet Eilperin. \"\'We Should Have\' Known, Goss Says of 9/11.\" Washington Post, 12 June 2002: A12.

Graham: Miller, Greg. \"Congress Fattens Its Dossier on Sept. 11 Intelligence Errors.\" Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2002.

Mueller: Lewis, Neil A. \"F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable.\" New York Times, 30 May 2002.

Rumsfeld: \"Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine.\" Defense Department Website, 12 Oct 2001.

Shelby: Coile, Zachary. \"Another Dot That Didn\'t Get Connected.\" San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2002.

Specter: Sisk, Richard. \"FBI, CIA Brass in a Sling.\" Daily News (New York), 6 June 2002.




>>> The above is based on the following excerpt from my 30-page article, \"Pieces of the 9/11 Puzzle,\" in the anthology I edited, Abuse Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to Media Mirages and Establishment Lies (The Disinformation Company, 2003) [info here].

Top Officials Admit 9/11 Was Preventable

After reading about all of these warnings, if you\'re thinking that 9/11 could\'ve been prevented, you\'re not alone. A lot of top US officials feel the same way. Unfortunately, their remarks appear in isolated instances, quickly surfacing and fading away. They\'re gathered here for the first time.

As noted in my article \"September 11, 2001: No Surprise,\" when Parade magazine asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld why the US was caught so flat-footed, without any warnings, he amazingly replied: \"There were lots of warnings.\"[109]

It took Robert Mueller eight months to admit it--and then he said it in a confusing way--but even the head G-man had to come clean. The New York Times informs us:

The director of the F.B.I., Robert S. Mueller III, acknowledged today for the first time that the attacks of Sept. 11 might have been preventable if officials in his agency had responded differently to all the pieces of information that were available.

\"I cannot say for sure that there wasn\'t a possibility we could have come across some lead that would have led us to the hijackers,\" Mr. Mueller told reporters after listing several missed opportunities by officials to discern a pattern of terrorist planning before Sept. 11.

He also said that while there was no specific warning, \"that doesn\'t mean that there weren\'t red flags out there, that there weren\'t dots that should have been connected to the extent possible.\" [110]

At a commencement speech at Seton Hall Law School, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff--described by the Associated Press as \"the Bush administration\'s top anti-terrorism prosecutor\"--said: \"As of Sept. 10th, each of us knew everything we needed to know to tell us there was a possibility of what happened on Sept. 11th.\" [111]

Then we have this choice quote from Senator Bob Graham, who at the time was the Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as the co-chairman of the joint panel investigating 9/11:

Had one human being or a common group of human beings sat down with all that information, we could have gotten to the hijackers before they flew those four airplanes either into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or the ground of Pennsylvania. [112]

But Graham is a Democrat [now running for President], so this must be a politically-motivated statement to make the Bush Administration look bad, right? Then how to explain the remarks of the Republican co-chairman of the joint panel, Representative Porter J. Goss? The Congressman is also Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He said:

Should we have known? Yes, we should have. Could we have known? Yes, I believe we could have because of the hard targets [CIA operatives were tracking]. [113]

For a similar opinion, we turn to Senator Richard Shelby, who was the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee: \"They don\'t have any excuse because the information was in their lap and they didn\'t do anything to prevent it.\" [114]

Senator Arlen Specter was another Republican on the joint committee. After it had held one of its numerous closed-door sessions, Specter told CBS News:

I don\'t believe any longer that it\'s a matter of connecting the dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and we want to know why they didn\'t act on it. [115]

Even Vice President Dick Cheney got in on the act, telling interviewer Larry King:

If you put all those pieces together, I don\'t say you could have prevented September 11th, but there might have been some warning, had it been handled properly. [116]

Of course, this Clintonian mincing of words begs the question: If there could\'ve been \"some warning,\" why couldn\'t the attacks have been \"prevented\"? But we can forgive Cheney for this non sequitur; he undoubtedly admitted more than he meant to during the live interview.

So if anyone gives you a hard time for believing that the government knew enough to have prevented the attacks, just tell them that you\'re in powerful company. The Secretary of Defense, the Director of the FBI, the Assistant Attorney General, one Democratic Senator, two Republican Senators, one Republican Representative, and the Vice President feel that way, too.

Endnotes

109. \"Secretary Rumsfeld Interview with Parade Magazine.\" Defense Department Website, 12 Oct 2001.

110. Lewis, Neil A. \"F.B.I. Chief Admits 9/11 Might Have Been Detectable.\" New York Times, 30 May 2002.

111. Parry, Wayne. \"Official: Many Signs Pointed to 9/11.\" Associated Press, 1 June 2002.

112. Miller, Greg. \"Congress Fattens Its Dossier on Sept. 11 Intelligence Errors.\" Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2002.

113. Priest, Dana, and Juliet Eilperin. \"\'We Should Have\' Known, Goss Says of 9/11.\" Washington Post, 12 June 2002: A12.

114. Coile, Zachary. \"Another Dot That Didn\'t Get Connected.\" San Francisco Chronicle, 3 June 2002.

115. Sisk, Richard. \"FBI, CIA Brass in a Sling.\" Daily News (New York), 6 June 2002.

116. Unsigned. \"Cheney Blasts September 11 Critics.\" CNN, 23 May 2002.


excerpt copyright 2003 Russ Kick

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