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ar from some of those individuals and families that have found themselves in direct contact with a war on terror that continues to devastate innocent lives was extremely powerful jim threapleton most importantly will the kidnap torture programs be stopped because right now nothing absolutely nothing stands in the way of you being disappeared by american secret services with our govts approval maybe that s what brown means about the world owing the us a debt for fighting terrorism he means the airfares posted in miscellaneous tags 51st state american torture authoritarianism bush crime family empire state terror the war on terror scam 10 comments cia legacy of ashes the keystone spooks 29 july 2007 rickb in 1969 the central intelligence agency informed president richard nixon that the soviets lacked the ability to launch a knockout nuclear first strike outraged that this undermined their plans for an antiballistic missile system white house hawks ordered the agency to in the words to then cia director richard helms trim the evidence the intel was buried and the abm plans went forward t he agency was tailoring its work to fit the pattern of white house policy writes tim weiner hinting that the now infamous slam dunk case for invading iraq wasn t the first time the agency told the white house what it wanted to hear i grew up under the gun with the concept of the 4 minute warning that at any time an alert would tells us we only had 4 minutes left to live and it was all a con a conservative con a neo con to enable their idiocy to continue unbound below are excerpts from a review of legacy of ashes the history of the cia by tim weiner you can read the first chapter here by ex cia man chalmers johnson the book is all documented sources wiener is an award winning reporter this is not tin foilism the conclusion seems to be the cia never did it s job rather it enjoyed acting beyond the law and helped cause millions of deaths most remarkable is how they bungled much of what they did once mistaking a ambassador petting her dog for a lesbian affair which they then hoped to blackmail her with no really h t rachel maddow perhaps the most comical of all cia clandestine activities unfortunately all too typical of its covert operations over the last 60 years was the spying it did in 1994 on the newly appointed american ambassador to guatemala marilyn mcafee who sought to promote policies of human rights and justice in that country loyal to the murderous guatemalan intelligence service the cia had bugged her bedroom and picked up sounds that led their agents to conclude that the ambassador was having a lesbian love affair with her secretary carol murphy the cia station chief recorded her cooing endearments to murphy the agency spread the word in washington that the liberal ambassador was a lesbian without realizing that murphy was also the name of her two year old black standard poodle the bug in her bedroom had recorded her petting her dog she was actually a married woman from a conservative family this covert hand interfering with our world makes me angry indeed although the cost to us was not as severe as it was to many the mass killings political genocide torture what is remarkable is the imperial arrogance that they know what is right for the world and how unimportant others lives are in their plans the end of the empire cannot come too soon on the most important annual intelligence estimate throughout the cold war that of the soviet order of battle the cia invariably overstated its size and menace then to add insult to injury under george h w bush s tenure as dci 1976 77 the agency tore itself apart over ill informed right wing claims that it was actually underestimating soviet military forces the result was the appointment of team b during the ford presidency led by polish exiles and neoconservative fanatics it was tasked to correct the work of the office of national estimates after the cold war was over writes weiner the agency put team b s findings to the test every one of them was wrong the cia s incessant almost always misguided attempts to determine how other people should govern themselves its secret support for fascists e g greece under george papadopoulos militarists e g chile under gen augusto pinochet and murderers e g the congo under joseph mobutu its uncritical support of death squads el salvador and religious fanatics muslim fundamentalists in afghanistan nothing has done more to undercut the reputation of the united states than the cia s clandestine only in terms of the american people murders of the presidents of south vietnam and the congo its ravishing of the governments of iran indonesia three times south korea twice all of the indochinese states virtually every government in latin america and lebanon afghanistan and iraq the deaths from these armed assaults run into the millions after 9 11 president bush asked why do they hate us from iran 1953 to iraq 2003 the better question would be who does not the millions were delivered to italian politicians and the priests of catholic action a political arm of the vatican suitcases filed with cash changed hands in the four star hassler hotel italy s christian democrats won by a comfortable margin and formed a government that excluded communists a long romance between the christian democratic party and the agency began the cia s practice of purchasing elections and politicians with bags of cash was repeated in italy and in many other countries for the next twenty five years the cia ultimately spent at least 65 million on italy s politicians including every christian democrat who ever won a national election in italy after italy the cia moved on to japan paying to bring nobusuke kishi to power as japan s prime minister in office 1957 1960 the country s world war ii minister of munitions it ultimately used its financial muscle to entrench the conservative liberal democratic party in power and to turn japan into a single party state which it remains to this day the cynicism with which the cia continued to subsidize democratic elections in western europe latin america and east asia starting in the late 1950s led to disillusionment with the united states attempting to influence the attitudes of students and intellectuals the cia sponsored literary magazines in germany der monat and britain encounter promoted abstract expressionism in art as a radical alternative to the soviet union s socialist realism and secretly funded the publication and distribution of over two and a half million books and periodicals during the debate over america s invasion of iraq after 2003 one of the constant laments was that the cia did not have access to a single agent inside saddam hussein s inner circle that was not true ironically the intelligence service of france a country u s politicians publicly lambasted for its failure to support us had cultivated naji sabri iraq s foreign minister sabri told the french agency and through it the american government that saddam hussein did not have an active nuclear or biological weapons program but the cia ignored him posted in miscellaneous tags american torture authoritarianism bush crime family capitalism conservatives culture empire equality fascism state terror 4 comments empire trading inc saudi india israel edition 28 july 2007 rickb congress will be asked by the bush administration to approve 20 billion in advanced weapons and planes for saudi arabia the us hopes to have assuaged this by offering israel an aid package totaling 30 4 billion over the next ten years in addition to promising an increase in american military aid to israel the pentagon is seeking to ease israel s concerns over the proposed weapons sales to saudi arabia by asking the saudis to accept restrictions on the range size and location of the satellite guided bombs including a commitment not to store the weapons at air bases close to israeli territory the officials said the officials said the plan to bolster the militaries of persian gulf countries is part of an american strategy to contain the growing power of iran in the region and to demonstrate that no matter what happens in iraq washington remains committed to its longtime arab allies president bush signed the united states india peaceful atomic energy cooperation promotion act in december if the us india agreement is really consistent with the letter and spirit of the hyde act as the administration claims why won t they release the text rep ed markey d ma if they re afraid of letting us read the document then i can only surmise that it includes provisions they fear will raise the hackles of congress he added they re turning the hyde act into the hide and go seek act but no level of diplomatic double speak will stop congress from investigating why india is claiming such enormous concessions critics of the us india nuclear cooperation agreement warn that it promotes the proliferation of nuclear weapons because it allows india which has refused to sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty to gain nuclear fuel currently all states except china russia the united kingdom france and the us must forswear nuclear weapons to access civilian nuclear technology india pakistan and israel are the only three states that have refused to sign the treaty north korea withdrew from the treaty in 2005 the most recent agreement between washington and new delhi negotiated last week was deliberately written in a way that can be interpreted differently by the two sides contrasting statements seemed to bear our kralev s reporting burns argued that if india were to test a nuclear weapon again the us could demand the return of nuclear fuel it had supplied to india s civilian energy sector if there is ever any reason for the united states to have to invoke the right of return we could certainly do so he said but according to india s economic times the country s leaders claimed it was not bound by any restrictions regarding nuclear testing so india counters islamic pakistan and things are not working out there for their client dictator and the deals makes the projected largest country by population a close imperial ally in case china gets uppity saudi dictators and their oil are kept sweet with of course israel getting the huge payout because well it s america s nuclear pal in the arab world and overall the pressure on iran is kept up and thankfully capital that could feed house and educate humans is spent on shiny stuff that goes bang phew posted in miscellaneous tags capitalism empire militarism politics 2 comments baa trying to criminalise environmentalism 28 july 2007 rickb i noticed this at bloggerheads then i caught the updated story at the independent heathrow airport s owner baa was isolated and assailed from all sides yesterday as it headed for a legal and physical showdown with protesters over an attempt to ban a mass demonstration against climate change that has enraged civil rights groups within hours of its disclosure politicians lawyers and protesters condemned an injunction that would prevent five million members of the public from attending the camp for climate action as ludicrous absurd and unenforceable the capital s transport authority transport for london tfl was furious at the inclusion of the piccadilly line in a list of places police could arrest protesters and demanded it be dropped from the action ken livingstone the mayor of london denounced baa s plans as a serious infringement of civil liberties and an attack on the right to peaceful protest britain s biggest environmental organisation the national trust described the court action as over the top warning that it smacked of absurdity baa insisted that it would not back down but said that it would amend or drop the injunction if the protesters gave undertakings about their intentions but the the camp for climate action insisted that the week long action from 14 august would take place regardless of the high court case on wednesday up to 5 000 people are expected to attend what could be the biggest protest against climate change in the uk anyone deemed to be breaking or intending to break its terms could be arrested on the piccadilly line of the london underground platforms six and seven of paddington station which serves the heathrow express and sections of the m25 and m4 motorways as well as the airport and its vicinity unbelievable corporate fascism but hopefully baa will be stopped and the attention will help to make the connection in peoples minds that air travel is a luxury that is costing the earth d you think baa have really thought this through posted in uncategorized tags authoritarianism capitalism corporatism earth human rights surveillance state 9 comments beslan massacre new evidence casts more doubt on the official version 28 july 2007 rickb previously unseen film proves that the bloody end to the 2004 beslan siege was caused by security forces firing on a school crammed with hostages not by blasts from within a victim support group says the beslan mothers committee says the footage disproves the official version that the detonation of a boobytrap device planted by chechen separatists inside the building caused the carnage at school no 1 in the southern russian town of beslan some 333 victims half of them children were killed in the siege which ended in chaos when security forces stormed the school gymnasium to free more than 1 000 children and parents held captive for three days committee head susanna dudiyeva said the video supports her conviction that security forces fired two grenade launcher rounds on the sports hall igniting a fire that quickly engulfed the building the official version puts all the blame on the separatists but this supports the contention that the security forces also hold a good amount of blame for the huge death toll the article has more detail that shows a top down cover up wants to control the narrative to hide the mistakes made a sad and familiar story posted in uncategorized tags authoritarianism corruption human rights militarism state terror 2 comments eu passenger data spins in the us a lie travels around the world 28 july 2007 rickb as part of the deal which was reached after extensive negotiations more that finished in late june the us agreed to keep the data active for seven years and then in a dormant file for specific uses for an additional eight years and us officials will not be able to access airlines records directly instead relying on the airlines to send them data or face fines much of the treaty relies on the us to follow the rules and notify europe later sensitive data on race or religion is supposed to be filtered out for instance but could be retained in special cases this is like swiss cheese for every rule there is an exception or escape clause dutch member of the european parliament sophie in t veld told spiegel online this fails completely despite all the statements to the contrary treaty critics 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