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Post by moabiter on Jul 28, 2010 8:30:20 GMT -8
Law chief to probe KGB agent's claim that David Kelly was 'exterminated' Last updated at 7:26 AM on 26th July 2010 A former Russian spy's dossier which suggests that Government scientist David Kelly was ' exterminated' in a planned assassination is being studied by the Attorney General. Boris Karpichkov, who fled to Britain after 15 years as a KGB agent, claims a London intelligence contractor linked to MI5 told him Dr Kelly's death was not suicide. Mr Karpichkov has emailed his evidence to Attorney General Dominic Grieve - who has already said he is 'concerned' by questions raised by doctors who dispute the official suicide ruling over the Iraq expert's death. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1297444/KGB-agent-Boris-Karpichkovs-claim-David-Kelly-exterminated-faces-probe.html#ixzz0uzlXw1Vq
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Post by moabiter on Jul 28, 2010 10:26:28 GMT -8
Report: Billions for Iraq reconstruction unaccounted for; lax oversight blamed July 28, 2010 10:24 a.m. EDT Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A federal audit of $9.1 billion targeted for reconstruction in Iraq cannot account for more than 95 percent of it, a federal report said Tuesday. The report, by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, blamed "weaknesses in DoD's [the Department of Defense's] financial and management controls" and called on the Pentagon to improve its financial and management controls. The audit centered on the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI), which was established in May 2003 by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/27/iraq.audit/index.html?hpt=T2
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Post by moabiter on Jul 29, 2010 9:50:36 GMT -8
White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism - pdated 2:52 p.m. 9/6/09 Jones, who joined the administration in March as special adviser for green jobs at the CEQ, had issued two public apologies in recent days, one for signing a petition in 2004 from the group 911Truth.org that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration. voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/06/van_jones_resigns.html
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Post by moabiter on Jul 29, 2010 10:02:23 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:55:52 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:57:33 GMT -8
April 2002
News from the front. Four Canadians, Sergeant Marc D Léger, Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, Private Richard Green, and Private Nathan Smith are killed by "friendly" fire when American pilot mistake Canadian training exercises for enemy fire. The pilot was found guilty of ignoring orders to hold fire. Eight more men were injured in the bombing. This is one of the first in a series of events this year, which have narrowed Canada-US relations.
Year in review 2002
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Post by moabiter on Jul 30, 2010 7:58:12 GMT -8
Hans Blix appears at Iraq inquiry UPDATED ON: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 16:14 Mecca time, 13:14 GMT Blix revealed earlier this year that he had urged Tony Blair in the month before the invasion, to consider the possibility that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/07/201072775116884417.html
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Post by moabiter on Aug 2, 2010 0:11:51 GMT -8
JEB (far right) - Neil, George Jr., George Sr., and Jeb Bush The Bush family and the S&L Scandal The Savings and Loan industry had been experiencing major problems through the late 60s and 70s due to rising inflation and rising interest rates. Because of this there was a move in the 1970s to replace the role of S&L institutions with banks. In the early 1980s, under Reagan, regulatory changes took place that gave the S&L industry new powers and for the first time in history measures were taken to increase the profitability of S&Ls at the expense of promoting home ownership. A history of the S&L situation can be found here: www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/s&l/What is important to note about the S&L scandal is that it was the largest theft in the history of the world and US tax payers are who was robbed. The problems occurred in the Savings and Loan industry as they relate to theft because the industry was deregulated under the Reagan/Bush administration and restrictions were eased on the industry so much that abuse and misuse of funds became easy, rampant, and went unchecked. Additional facts on the Savings and Loan Scandal can be found here: www.inthe80s.com/sandl.shtmlThere are several ways in which the Bush family plays into the Savings and Loan scandal, which involves not only many members of the Bush family but also many other politicians that are still in office and still part of the Bush Jr. administration today. Jeb Bush, George Bush Sr., and his son Neil Bush have all been implicated in the Savings and Loan Scandal, which cost American tax payers over $1.4 TRILLION dollars (note that this is about one quarter of our national debt). Between 1981 and 1989, when George Bush finally announced that there was a Savings and Loan Crisis to the world, the Reagan/Bush administration worked to cover up Savings and Loan problems by reducing the number and depth of examinations required of S&Ls as well as attacking political opponents who were sounding early alarms about the S&L industry. Industry insiders were aware of significant S&L problems as early 1986 that they felt would require a bailout. This information was kept from the media until after Bush had won the 1988 elections. Jeb Bush defaulted on a $4.56 million loan from Broward Federal Savings in Sunrise, Florida. After federal regulators closed the S&L, the office building that Jeb used the $4.56 million to finance was reappraised by the regulators at $500,000, which Bush and his partners paid. The taxpayers had to pay back the remaining 4 million plus dollars. Neil Bush was the most widely targeted member of the Bush family by the press in the S&L scandal. Neil became director of Silverado Savings and Loan at the age of 30 in 1985. Three years later the institution was belly up at a cost of $1.6 billion to tax payers to bail out. The basic actions of Neil Bush in the S&L scandal are as follows: Neil received a $100,000 "loan" from Ken Good, of Good International, with no obligation to pay any of the money back. Good was a large shareholder in JNB Explorations, Neil Bush's oil-exploration company. Neil failed to disclose this conflict-of-interest when loans were given to Good from Silverado, because the money was to be used in joint venture with his own JNB. This was in essence giving himself a loan from Silverado through a third party. Neil then helped Silverado S&L approve Good International for a $900,000 line of credit. Good defaulted on a total $32 million in loans from Silverado. During this time Neil Bush did not disclose that $3 million of the $32 million that Good was defaulting on was actually for investment in JNB, his own company. Good subsequently raised Bush's JNB salary from $75,000 to $125,000 and granted him a $22,500 bonus. Neil Bush maintained that he did not see how this constituted a conflict of interest. Neil approved $106 million in Silverado loans to another JNB investor, Bill Walters. Neil also never formally disclosed his relationship with Walters and Walters also defaulted on his loans, all $106 million of them. Neil Bush was charged with criminal wrongdoing in the case and ended up paying $50,000 to settle out of court. The chief of Silverado S&L was sentenced to 3.5 years in jail for pleading guilty to $8.7 million in theft. (Keep in mind that you can get more jail time for holding up a gas station for $50.) Today Neil Bush is working on closing a deal in Florida, where his brother Jeb is governor, to sell a software package to schools with his startup company Ignite. Update 11/28/2003: Some of Neil Bush's business deals have been exposed in his recent divorce case. For more on this see: www.truthout.org/docs_03/112703A.shtmlwww.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/26/neil_bush/index.htmlIt should also be noted that shortly after news of Neil Bush’s involvement in the S&L scandal hit the press his father, George Bush Sr., announced the Desert Storm campaign in Iraq, which subsequently had the result of making Neil’s name quickly fade from the headlines. In addition, while Neil Bush's divorce proceeding were exposing more backroom Bush dealings, America was once again bombarded with war propaganda for Operation Iraq Freedom. The S&L scandal is by no means the only incident of questionable, and actually illegal, financial activity that the Bush family has been involved in. The line of questionable, illegal, and unethical businesses practices goes back at least to Prescott Bush Sr., George Bush Sr.’s father. Prescott Bush was a Senator from 1952 – 1963. Previous to his time as a Senator Prescott was a banker and businessman. Prior to the American entry into WWII Prescott Bush was director of Union Banking Corporation. Union Banking Corporation helped to finance Hitler’s regime. The Concentration Camps of Nazi Germany were labor camps that the Nazis used to make products for their regime as well as for sale to raise money. Prescott profited directly from the Auschwitz labor camp. In 1942, after Hitler declared war on America the United States government seized the Union Banking Corporation under the Trading with the Enemy Act as a front operation that was supporting the Nazis. Much of the profits from the operation were already pocketed by Prescott however, and $1.5 million was put in a trust fund for George Bush Sr. For more on Prescott Bush's ties to the Nazis see: www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2The issues of WWII will be revisited again later. This is actually just the tip of the iceberg as far as the Bush family and business dealings are concerned, the topic is a book in itself. In the interest of brevity I invite you to research the Bush family business ties yourself, including those in Saudi Arabia, where George Bush made millions as an oil well developer, and George Bush’s $14 million deal when he sold the Texas Rangers, while leaving tax payers footing the bill. www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#rangersFor information on Prescott Bush Jr.'s economic ties to China see: www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2002/02/19/usat-prescott-bush.htmSource: rationalrevolution.net/war/bush_family_and_the_s.htmThis page is a part of This War Is About So Much More rationalrevolution.net/war/index.htm which was written in March and April of 2003.
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Post by moabiter on Aug 2, 2010 0:14:47 GMT -8
General Electric settles charges on Iraq kickback scheme Jul. 27, 2010 Company neither admits nor denies charges of shelling out illegal kickbacks; agrees to pay $23.4m settlement General Electric Co will pay $23.4-million (U.S.) to settle charges that executives bribed Iraqi government officials to win contracts, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The agency alleged that GE units, and companies that the largest U.S. conglomerate later bought, paid $3.6-million in illegal kickbacks from 2000 to 2003 to Iraqi officials to win contracts funded by the United Nations Oil for Food program. www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/americas/general-electric-settles-charges-on-iraq-kickback-scheme/article1653099/
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Post by moabiter on Aug 2, 2010 0:17:41 GMT -8
Investigation of the September 11th attacks Despite all the talk about making America more secure the Bush administration has only allotted $3 million for the investigation and has given it a one-year time frame for completion. Now, this was the largest foreign attack on American soil since the Revolutionary War, and they only want to spend $3 million to investigate it and only spend about a year's time on it? There are single murder cases that are investigated for 10 or even 20 years, and in this case, the murder of over four thousand people, they only want to spend a year? For comparison it has been noted that $47 million was spent investigating President Clinton in relation to Monica Lewinski and Whitewater. The Republicans thought it was appropriate to spend $47 million investigating blowjobs, but this administration isn’t going to spend over $3 million investigating the largest attack on America in history? rationalrevolution.net/war/investigation_of_the_september_1.htm
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Post by moabiter on Aug 2, 2010 7:00:29 GMT -8
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Post by moabiter on Aug 2, 2010 7:26:05 GMT -8
US ADMITS ANTHRAX LETTER WAS FALSE MUSLIM ATTACK www.youtube.com/watch?v=T151FRvy7e0Mike Rivero on the so called "suicide" of Bruce E. Ivins www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYMd3RjFBk&NR=1Patriot Act - ... 'person of interest' - Dr Steven Hatfield en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hatfillno authorization - Dr. Philip Zack Notes: This is a segment from Michael Riveros What Really Happened radio show on Saturday August 2nd, 2008. Get the archive at gcnlive.com or whatreallyhappened.com
The evidence amassed by F.B.I. investigators against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, the Army scientist who killed himself last week after learning that he was likely to be charged in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, was largely circumstantial, and a grand jury in Washington was planning to hear several more weeks of testimony before issuing an indictment, a person who has been briefed on the investigation said on Sunday.
Including Dr. Philip Zack, the man actually caught on the security system entering the storage area without proper authorization, after losing his job over a racially-motivated attack on an Egyptian co-worker.
www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRH...
Would Arab terrorists have targeted only Congress men who were likely to oppose the Patriot Act and other tyrannical measures? Would they have gotten that specific in their targeting? In order to terrorize America as a whole, wouldn't real Arab terrorists have sent anthrax to the Congressional leaders of both parties, regardless of their political postures towards particular legislation?
The true anthrax suspect is Dr. Philip Zack!
Read more at whatreallyhappened.com_______________________ Philip Zack Steals Anthrax By Matt Hutaff, Sep 26, 2006 Remember, all of this was widely reported in 2002, less than four months after anthrax filled the country with panic. You would think a man with a grudge against Arabs who was seen breaking into a facility where at least two dozen samples of lethal pathogens later went unaccounted would push Zack ahead of Dr. Stephen Hatfill on the "person of interest" list. As we all know, however, that was not the case. www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01241_philip_zack_steals_anthrax.html
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Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted
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Post by Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted on Aug 5, 2010 15:28:19 GMT -8
Tony Blair Must Be Prosecuted by John Pilger, August 05, 2010 Tony Blair must be prosecuted, not indulged like his mentor Peter Mandelson. Both have produced self-serving memoirs for which they have been paid fortunes. Blair’s will appear next month and earn him £4.6 million. Now consider Britain’s Proceeds of Crime Act. Blair conspired in and executed an unprovoked war of aggression against a defenseless country, which the Nuremberg judges in 1946 described as the "paramount war crime." This has caused, according to scholarly studies, the deaths of more than a million people, a figure that exceeds the Fordham University estimate of deaths in the Rwandan genocide. In addition, four million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes and a majority of children have descended into malnutrition and trauma. Cancer rates near the cities of Fallujah, Najaf, and Basra (the latter "liberated" by the British) are now revealed as higher than those at Hiroshima. "UK forces used about 1.9 metric tons of depleted uranium ammunition in the Iraq war in 2003," the Defense Secretary Liam Fox told parliament on 22 July. A range of toxic "anti-personnel" weapons, such as cluster bombs, was employed by British and American forces. original.antiwar.com/pilger/2010/08/04/tony-blair-must-be-prosecuted/
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Post by clone on Aug 6, 2010 20:05:55 GMT -8
9/11 - the big cover-up? Even the chair of the 9/11 Commission now admits that the official evidence they were given was 'far from the truth'. Wednesday 12 September 2007 10.30 BST The final report did not examine key evidence, and neglected serious anomalies in the various accounts of what happened. The commissioners admit their report was incomplete and flawed, and that many questions about the terror attacks remain unanswered. Nevertheless, the 9/11 Commission was swiftly closed down on August 21 2004... There are dozens of 9/11 "truth" websites and campaign groups. I cannot vouch for the veracity or credibility of any of them. But what I can say is that as well as making plenty of seemingly outrageous claims; a few of them raise legitimate questions that demand answers. Four of these well known "tell the truth" 9/11 websites are: 1) Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which includes academics and intellectuals from many disciplines. 2) 250+ 9/11 'Smoking Guns' a website that cites over 250 pieces of evidence that allegedly contradict, or were omitted from, the 9/11 Commission report. 3) The 911 Truth Campaign that, as well as offering its own evidence and theories, includes links to more than 20 similar websites. 4) Patriots Question 9/11, perhaps the most plausible array of distinguished US citizens who question the official account of 9/11, including General Wesley Clark, former Nato commander in Europe, and seven members and staffers of the official 9/11 Commission, including the chair and vice chair. In all, this website documents the doubts of 110+ senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement and government officials; 200+ engineers and architects; 50+ pilots and aviation professionals; 150+ professors; 90+ entertainment and media people; and 190+ 9/11 survivors and family members. Although this is an impressive roll call, it doesn't necessarily mean that these expert professionals are right. Nevertheless, their scepticism of the official version of events is reason to pause and reflect. More and more US citizens are critical of the official account. The respected Zogby polling organisation last week found that 51% of Americans want Congress to probe President Bush and Vice-President Cheney regarding the truth about the 9/11 attacks; 67% are also critical of the 9/11 Commission for not investigating the bizarre, unexplained collapse of the 47-storey World Trade Centre building 7 (WTC7). This building was not hit by any planes. Unlike WTC3, which was badly damaged by falling debris from the Twin Towers but which remained standing, WTC7 suffered minor damage but suddenly collapsed in a neat pile, as happens in a controlled demolition. www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/12/911thebigcoverup?CMP=twt_gu
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Post by clone on Aug 13, 2010 1:09:56 GMT -8
Profile: Daniel Pearl Daniel Pearl was a participant or observer in the following events: Early 1998: CIA Ignores Ex-Agent’s Warning KSM Is ‘Going to Hijack Some Planes,’ Visiting Germany Robert Baer. [Source: Publicity photo]In December 1997, former CIA agent Robert Baer, newly retired from the CIA and working as a terrorism consultant, meets Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad al Thani, who was Qatar’s minister of the economy and chief of police until he was deposed and exiled the year before, and whom he calls the “black prince.” Al Thani tells Baer that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM) was being sheltered by then Qatari Interior Minister Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani in 1996 (see January-May 1996). However, the black prince knows other details, based on what Qatari police and intelligence learned when KSM was in the country. He says that KSM is chief of al-Qaeda’s terrorist operations (see Early 1998). KSM was leading an al-Qaeda cell in Qatar together with Mohammed Shawqui Islambouli, the brother of the Egyptian who had killed Anwar Sadat. They also were linked to bomber Ramzi Yousef. But what worries the black prince is that KSM and Islambouli are experts in hijacking commercial planes. He tells Baer that KSM “is going to hijack some planes.” Further, he says that KSM has moved to the Czech Republic, and has also traveled to Germany to meet bin Laden associates there. In early 1998 Baer sends this information to a friend in the CIA Counterterrorist Center, who forwards the information to his superiors. Baer doesn’t hear back from the CIA. He says, “There was no interest.” [Baer, 2002, pp. 270-71; Vanity Fair, 2/2002; United Press International, 9/30/2002; Baer, 2003, pp. 190-198] Later in 1998, President Clinton will be briefed about a hijacking threat in the US involving Islambouli, but it is unclear if Islambouli was actually involved in the 9/11 plot or any other hijacking plots targeting the US (see December 4, 1998). He will not have been captured by March 2008. Baer tries to interest reporter Daniel Pearl in a story about KSM before 9/11, but Pearl will still be working on it when he is kidnapped and later murdered in early 2002. [United Press International, 4/9/2004] Baer also tries to interest New York Times reporter James Risen in the information about KSM. But just before Risen can come to the Middle East to meet the black prince, the black prince is kidnapped in Lebanon and sent to prison in Qatar. There will be speculation that the CIA turned on the source to protect its relationship with the Qatari government. Risen will publish an article in July 1999 about KSM, but it will not include most of the information from the black prince, since Risen will not be able to confirm it. [New York Times, 7/8/1999; BBC, 7/25/1999; Gertz, 2002, pp. 55-58; Baer, 2003, pp. 190-198] Al-Thani will continue to support al-Qaeda, even hosting visits by bin Laden between 1996 and 2000 (see 1996-2000). [ABC News, 2/7/2003] Yet the US will not have frozen al-Thani’s assets or taken other action by March 2008. Entity Tags: Al-Qaeda, Counterterrorist Center, Hamad bin Jassim bin Hamad al Thani, Daniel Pearl, Mohammed Shawqui Islambouli, James Risen, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, Robert Baer, Ramzi Yousef, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=daniel_pearl
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