Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari
and wounding of Sgrena
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/031505Madsen/031505madsen.html
Special Report
Bush administration clears US troops in slaying of Calipari and wounding
of
Sgrena
By Wayne Madsen Online Journal Contributing Writer
"The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they
had
intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of
the
U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged
Zarqawi
forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for
propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who
do
not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their
build,
stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking
Russian."
March 15, 2005?The Bush administration took specific legal steps
that
cleared a U.S. Special Forces assassination team in Iraq from any
future
criminal proceedings arising from their assassination of Italian
SISMI
intelligence number two man Nicola Calipari.
Calipari, the deputy head of SISMI and an experienced Iraqi expert,
was
accompanying freed hostage Giuliana Sgrena to Baghdad International
Airport
when their Toyota Corolla was fired on by well-trained U.S.
sharpshooter
assassins. Calipari was on the phone to the office of Italian Prime
Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Rome, where his wife also works, when he
was
shot in the head. Sgrena and the driver, a Carabiniere officer,
were
injured in the attack.
Pentagon officials claim the car was speeding past a checkpoint and
that
shots were fired only into the engine block. The Italians claim the
interior light in the car was on, the car was traveling at only 30
miles
per hour, and prominently displayed the Italian flag. Italian
intelligence
officials also believe that the Americans identified the Italian
vehicle
because National Security Agency systems had intercepted Calipari's
cell
phone signals and triangulated its specific location.
The legal protection for the American assassination team stems
generally
from the refusal of the Bush administration to recognize the
International
Criminal Court (ICC), but more recently and specifically from a new
counterintelligence doctrine outlined by National
Counterintelligence
Executive Michelle Van Cleave, who was once a member of Ronald
Reagan's
National Security Council staff. That strategy, announced by Van Cleave
at
a March 5 speech at Texas A&M University in College Station, calls
for
"attacking" foreign intelligence services by using
counterintelligence
operations. The immunity from ICC jurisdiction, the new
counterintelligence
strategy, the Pentagon's approval of special assassination teams in
Iraq
and elsewhere, as well as approval of a CIA "Worldwide Attack
Matrix," now
authorizes U.S. military forces and intelligence agents to
assassinate
those deemed a threat to the United States.
Calipari and Sgrena, according to well-placed Italian sources, had
irrefutable evidence of U.S. war crimes in the siege of Fallujah,
involving
the use of napalm, mustard gas, and nerve gas. Sgrena works for the
Italian
daily, Il Manifesto.
Calipari's intelligence collection efforts and previous hostage
rescue
missions in Iraq were supplemented by assistance from the Vatican's
own
intelligence services, which maintained close ties to Eastern
Catholic
members of Saddam's government, including former Foreign Minister
Tariq
Aziz. Calipari's brother is a well-connected monsignor in the
Vatican
Secretariat.
Calipari maintained liaison with Iraqi resistance fighters, who
were
formerly members of Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard, to secure
Sgrena's
release. This did not sit well with the Bush administration.
According to Italian sources, the ex-Republican Guard members have
worked
with Italian intelligence to combat the alleged al Qaeda and Abu Musad
Al
Zarqawi "terrorists" who took Americans, Italians, and others
hostage. The
Bush administration and its neo-conservative architects of the Iraq war
do
not want it widely known that the Iraqi resistance is split between
ex-Republican Guards, who have worked with the Italians, and
fanatic
Islamists.
The U.S. hit team wanted to kill Calipari and Sgrena because they
had
intimate knowledge of the Iraqi resistance and how some loyalists of
the
U.S.-supported Iraqi regime may have cooperated with the alleged
Zarqawi
forces to seize Western hostages and decapitate them on videos for
propaganda purposes. Many of the beheading videos show masked men who
do
not appear to be extremist Muslim Iraqis or even Arabs from their
build,
stance, sporting of jewelry, and, in one case, speaking
Russian.
According to Italian sources, the ex-Republican Guardsmen view the
alleged
Zarqawi and his alleged al Qaeda allies as "monsters," but also
know that
the ex-Republican Guard members, many of whom are secular Muslims,
had
nothing to do with the hostage taking and beheadings as often claimed
by
neoconservatives in the Bush administration.
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based journalist and columnist, and
the
co-author of "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush
II."
If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we have a failed
event in retrospect
--Raleigh
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for
selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large
corporations is the
definition of fascism.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because
it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito
Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor).
http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html
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Worksheet bio
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Blog
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change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret
Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and
governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the
majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs&
And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere
under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one
design.
Roger Bacon
Corporatist Judges Elected a Chancellor nuf said
If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we have a failed
event in retrospect
--Raleigh
Corporatist Judges Elected a Chancellor nuf said
Many around the world feel that the Unites States has been hijacked by a
right wing cabal with a script called the PNAC (Plan for a New American
Century). This has been made possible by the two thousand election
intervention by the Supreme Court judges appointed by the Bush family in
advance of a Coup detat.
It isn't rocket science to figure out what they could do with more Right
wing judges
Someone can put that in a nice diplomatic pouch and make it front page
news.
http://raenergy.igc.org/worldlight.html
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for
selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large
corporations is the
definition of fascism.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because
it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito
Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor).
http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html
Ra Energy Fdn.
Raleigh Myers
Worksheet bio
http://raenergy.igc.org/bio.html
Blog
http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
Call to Action blog a virtual seminar for change
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change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret
Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and
governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the
majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs&
And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere
under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one
design.
Roger Bacon
Fairness: Question Corporatism's Polluting Frankenfood crops
Fairness: Question Corporatism's Polluting Frankenfood
crops
Food security is of the utmost importance to survival. If we let the
Priveateers eat our food security by cornering the seed market and the
ownership of water we are in for some serious Bolivian style resistance
to get it back.
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-15,GGLD:en&q=Privatization+is+Piracy+raenergy
It is far easier to act now before the fact. Witnessing
unfairness demands resistance whether private public or government. Our
teachings on fairness and justice are in jeopardy every time we don't
resist.
http://raenergy.igc.org/resist.html
GM WATCH daily
http://www.gmwatch.org
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*Terminator vista
*No to GMOs and to the privatization of seeds in Canada
*Administration kept mum about rogue corn
*GM - just not on the American public's radar
*Monsanto completes purchase of Seminis
*Find us a place to test GMOs or risk losing billions!
all items from 'agnet' 23 March 2005 - some radically shortened.
one of the items is based on a Rutgers Food Policy Institute survey
showing that nearly a decade after the first a majority of Americans are
completely clueless about GMOs and the fact they're in about 75% of the
processed foods they buy even though Americans have been eating GM foods
-- unlabelled -- for nearly a decade.
http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/11869.html
on that note here are some quotes from a recent interview with the
American novelist and commentator Gore Vidal:
"...let us say that the old American republic is well and truly
dead. The institutions that we thought were eternal proved not to be....
So we're in uncharted territory. We're governed by public relations. Very
little information gets to the people, thanks to the corruption and/or
ineptitude of the media...
...we are totally censored, and the press just follows this. It observes
what those in power want it to observe, and turns the other way when
things get dark.
...the Republican Party as it now is funded, is the
party of corporate America, which is no friend to the people of
America.
......What is the Republican Party? Well, it used to be the party of the
small-town businessman, generally in the Middle West, generally sort of
out of the mainstream. Very conservative. It now
represents nothing but the gas and oil business. They own it. And the
people who go to Congress are simply bought. They are lawyers who are
paid to represent Halliburton, big oil, big banking.
So the very rich corporate America has a party for itself, the Republican
Party. The Democrats don't have much of anything but a kind of wistful
style.
... [citizens] have been transformed, by design, by corporate America,
aided by the media, which belongs to corporate America. They are no
longer citizens. They are hardly voters. They are consumers...
from The Undoing of America
Gore Vidal on war for oil, politics-free elections, and the late, great
U.S. Constitution
http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1268/article13085.asp
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Terminator vista
New Scientist Issue 2492, Page 30
March 26, 2005
Jack Heinemann University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand Institute of Gene Ecology, writes that Michael Le Page argues that well-meaning environmentalists overlook the value of seed-sterilising "Terminator" technology in containing genetically modified organisms (26 February, p 23). What he in turn overlooks is the possibility that the rates of mutation and recombination may be high enough to compromise Terminator as a containment strategy if it was used on the scale of commercial agriculture.
Terminator is effective enough, however, to prevent farmers growing crops from saved seed, and potentially to jeopardise the seed-saving efforts of neighbouring farmers. Poor farmers who use seeds developed to meet their particular needs should not be forced to use seed made sterile by Terminator, which would deprive them of the ability to collect and share seed and to breed for local conditions.
Instead of depending on the private sector and its intellectual property for crop improvement, a better alternative is to provide appropriate funding for public research that works with farmers' own expertise. This would maintain farmers' independence and prevent any movement toward bioserfdom.
***
Greenpeace opposes Monsanto's Bill C-27 no to GMOs and to the privatization of seeds
March 23, 2005
From a press release
MONTREAL - Greenpeace is outraged at Paul Martin's government's proposed
Bill C-27 which will take Canadian agriculture further away from farmers and put it firmly in the control of large scale economic interests of multinationals like Monsanto.
"Under the guise of an official adoption of "an intelligent ruling" and the elimination "obstacles to innovation" the federal government is handing the agricultural sector over to agro-chemical and biotechnology companies such as Monsanto. Farmers now face the very real threat of losing a vital part of their economic heritage, one that has allowed humanity to survive up till now, that being the right to collect and reuse there seeds", said Eric Darier, Greenpeace Canada GE campaigner.
Monsanto give away Bill, Bill C-27 will give even more power to the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency), in particular when it comes to the introduction of new GMOs. "Monsanto's Bill will give the CFIA the power to align our agricultural policies and procedures with those of the United States, and in so doing will avoid any necessary and essential debate on the issue," added Darier.
Greenpeace calls on all Canadians to ensure that Monsanto's Bill C-27 goes no further. Greenpeace calls on Canadians to make their views on this Bill known to their federal MPs by going to: http://www.beyondfactoryfarming.org (click on the picture of the cow at the top right of the page).
***
Administration kept mum about unapproved modified corn sold
Knight Ridder Newspapers/Reuters
WASHINGTON - The U.S. federal government kept it secret for three months that genetically modified corn seed was sold accidentally to some U.S. farms for four years and may have gotten into the American food supply.
Sheldon Krimsky, a Tufts University environmental-policy professor who's a longtime foe of genetically modified crops, was cited as saying that's not acceptable, adding, "They have both a moral and legal obligation to reveal violations. This is a government that's operating in a stealth manner that wants to keep bad news from the public."
The European Union on Wednesday played down fears about the impact of an unauthorised strain of U.S. genetically modified maize, saying it was similar to a type already approved.
***
Genetic foods [in US: "It's just not on the radar screen."]
March 23, 2005
Associated Press
Linda A. Johnson
TRENTON, N.J. -- William Hallman, associate director of the Food Biotechnology Program at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute, which conducted a recent survey of Americans regarding genetically engineered foods was quoted as saying, "It's just not on the radar screen."
***
Monsanto completes purchase of Seminis
March 23, 2005
Associated Press
Jim Suhr
ST. LOUIS -- Agribusiness Monsanto Co. was cited as saying Wednesday it has completed its billion-dollar cash purchase of Seminis Inc., the world's largest developer, grower and marketer of fruit and vegetable seeds.
***
Find us a place to test GM crops or risk losing £16bn
March 23, 2005
Daily Post
David Jones
Institute of Directors head of policy Richard Wilson was cited as saying the UK government must create a safe environment for scientists conducting genetically modified crop and other experiments or risk seeing billions of pounds worth of research and development work switched to other countries.
Wilson was further cited as saying that 22% of R&D work carried out in the UK was funded by overseas companies and that some research work was threatened by potentially violent demonstrations by animal rights activists and anti-GM protestors, adding, "We have to create a safe environment that will be conducive to that work or about £16bn of investment by pharmaceutical companies could be at risk."
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If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we have a failed event in retrospect
--Raleigh
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large corporations is the
definition of fascism. http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html
Ra Energy Fdn.
Raleigh Myers
Worksheet bio
http://raenergy.igc.org/bio.html
Blog
http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
Call to Action blog a virtual seminar for change
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs& And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one design.
Roger Bacon
GOP masking it's Eugenics Agenda
If what we are contemplating is not fair to our progeny we
have a failed event in retrospect
--Raleigh
GOP masking it's Eugenics Agenda along with Their 911 complicity, the
Enron planed scarcities, the financing of the third Reich.
Smoke Screening GOP Eugenics Agenda with the Battle of Shiaivo
Imagine GOP Eugenics Group grand standing to save a LIfe for a change
under the guise of 'right to life' after killing the safety net, millions
of deaths in the corporatist oil - core investor wars and sanctions, the
GOP FDA scandals, the Prion Cholesterol Industrial complex scandals,
along with ignoring the oil genocide in Darfur just for starters raises
GOP hypocrisy to a new edge point.
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Bill that Eugenicist in chief Bush signed as TEX governor
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/HS/content/htm/hs.002.00.000166.00.htm
Eugenicist in chief Bush can't kill fast enough on death row so much for
right to life
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-15,GGLD:en&q=Death+Row+Governor+Bush&spell=1
The real GOP Eugenics agenda is right out front with Trent Lott Strom
Thurmond's racist agendas
http://raenergy.igc.org/WestNileEugenics.html
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest
exercises
in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral
justification for
selfishness."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Franklin Roosevelt said that the domination of our nation by large
corporations is the
definition of fascism.
http://www.rense.com/general63/ssi.htm
"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because
it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito
Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor).
http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html
Ra Energy Fdn.
Raleigh Myers
Worksheet bio
http://raenergy.igc.org/bio.html
Blog
http://raenergy.blogspot.com/
Call to Action blog a virtual seminar for change
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Newsgroups beginning in the eighties click on date and web
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can
change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - - Margaret
Mead
Let us experiment with laws and customs, with money systems and
governments, until we chart the one true course - until we find the
majesty of our proper orbit as the planets above have found theirs&
And then at last we shall move all together in the harmony of our sphere
under the great impulse of a single creation - one unity, one system, one
design.
Roger Bacon
