On 10 March 2009, Seymour Hersh revealed that, during the Bush years, the US military ran an "executive assassination ring" which reported directly to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them..."
Dick Cheney was Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
One hopes he had nothing to do with the deaths of the following:
Supposedly, Osama in the late 1970s with Zbigniew Brzezinski
1. In 2001, Osama bin Laden died, according to several reports.
2. In 2002, Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash
Dr David Kelly
3. Dr David Kelly died suddenly in 2003.
Kelly worked for the UK Ministry of Defence and he had revealed to the BBC that there was something wrong with the British dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Arafat
4. Yasser Arafat died suddenly in 2004.
Robin Cook
5. Robin Cook, the former UK Foreign Secretary, died suddenly in 2005.
Cook had revealed that Al-Qaida was originally a list of people working for the CIA. [14]
Rumour has it that Prabowo has growing support among the poor.
Jakartass relates that Prabowo Subianto is hoping to become the President of the world's fourth largest country, in terms of population.
American-trained Prabowo is the former boss of Indonesia's special forces (Kopassus).
He is also a former son in law of former president Suharto.
Prabowo is notorious for human rights abuses.
Indonesia is the world's largest Moslem country, in terms of population.
Prabowo Subianto has denied accusations that he organised terror squads in East Timor during Indonesia's bloody 24-year occupation and that he orchestrated riots and mass rapes of ethnic Chinese women in Jakarta prior to Suharto's fall,
But he has not shied away from responsibility for the kidnappings of student activists in the last days of his then father-in-law, telling foreign journalists last month his "conscience is clear" over the abductions.
Jakartass writes: "There's no way he can deny it - the army command kicked him out and he went off to build up his fortune in the Lebanon.
"Much of his wealth is being spent on a media campaign which, if his party gains a sufficient percentage of the votes, will enable him to campaign for the presidency. This election is in July.
"What makes this of particular interest is that two of the kidnapped activists are now legislative candidates for Prabowo's party and another heads up his media centre."
Indonesians
Of the 23 activists abducted in 1997 and 1998, one is known to be dead and 13 are missing.
Raharja Waluya Jati was held in a cell for 45 days and tortured in what he suspects, but is not sure, was Kopassus headquarters.
At night, he communicated by yelling down the hall to the three kidnap victims now with Gerindra, and to friends who never returned.
"Prabowo needs the victims to get legitimacy and wash his bloody hands," Jati said, adding the alliance was likely motivated by the victims' own thirst for political power.
"I have four friends still missing now and when I talk to their families they just want to know about their sons. Prabowo knows about everything, including my friends who are still missing." -Kidnapper recruits victims in Indonesia vote
American trained General Prabowo is said to be a friend of the CIA.
Domingos Guterres, from East Timor, alleges that in 1989 he was tortured for 35 days by soldiers under General Prabowo's command. Guterres claims General Prabowo personally carried out acts of torture.
In the 1983 Kraras massacres in East Timor, about 300 people are believed to have been buried in mass graves after a series of executions that the locals say were carried out under General Prabowo. ( Torture evidence mounts against Indonesian general )
Prabowo is again in the news.
Presidential elections will be held in Indonesia in 2009.
Indonesia is the world's biggest Moslem nation and it is the world's 4th biggest nation in terms of population.
Indonesia guards important sea lanes and has important mineral wealth and a large military.
"Barring a cataclysm, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president, is so far ahead that his re-election should be relatively straightforward, perhaps even without a run-off... Indonesia is weathering the global financial economic slump better than most places...
"The greatest excitement is being provided by Prabowo Subianto, a former son-in-law of Suharto and head under him of a notorious special-forces unit accused of many atrocities over the years.
"His military career foundered after Suharto’s downfall. But backed by his billionaire brother, Hashim Djojohadikusumo, he formed the Great Indonesia Movement Party (Gerindra) last year.
"It is waging a slick, populist campaign aimed at the mass of poor voters.
"Gerindra may well win enough votes for Mr Prabowo to join Mr Yudhoyono and Mrs Megawati in an unlikely three-cornered presidential race."
Video: Prabowo advert
Lieutenant General Prabowo Subianto, the leader of the new nationalist political party Partai Gerakan Indonesia Raya (Gerindra), is using television. (Self Promotion Strategies)
In one advertisement Prabowo, as chairman of the Farmers’ Federation, "is shown strolling about fields chatting with, and listening to, men on the land."
Prabowo speaks of his calling to serve the nation.
It has been alleged that the CIA used General Prabowo to topple President Suharto.
In 1998, when Suharto was apparently toppled by the CIA, one of the key generals was Prabowo, son of Dr. Sumitro Djojohadikusumo, a former Finance Minister, said to have once worked with the British and the Americans against Sukarno.
Pakistani officials have complained that the US has failed to hit Mehsud with drone attacks despite them having supplied co-ordinates three times. (BBC NEWS South Asia Profile: Baitullah Mehsud )
CNN and other media sources reported the death of Baithullah Mehsud, on 30 September 2008.
I'm only about fifty pages in but it is fascinating and quite sad at the same time. Who knew behind the happy face of Marcia Brady that Maureen McCormick was so unhappy and full of self doubt. Maureen is pretty blunt in her story telling, frankly recounting the life behind the Brady Bunch for her personally. When I finish I will give a more proper review for you all, but I do recommend the book.
(You can find it at Barnes & Noble in the bargain books currently for $5.98.)
Reportedly, UK hospitals have too many managers and too many of these managers do a very poor job.
According to Sir Gerry Robinson, "There are 5,000 more people now employed to tend to organisation than there are consultants (senior doctors).... in the case of the NHS, what we need are far fewer – albeit far better – managers. " 'Cure the NHS with far fewer managers'
Just as the UK education system has been ruined by bad management, by both local and national governments, so the UK National Health Service has been damaged by idiot officialdom.
Recent government ministers in charge of the UK health service:
John Francis Smith died in the Royal Free Hospital in London.
"From the paperwork retrieved from his Hampstead home and confirmation of his employment details with the NHS which began in February 1977, I was certain that John had been involved with or exposed to a very significant occurence in shadow government between 1974-1976. There is little doubt that as a time-served Government Service employee during that turbulent period in British history, he would have had some knowledge of The Wilson Plot, Wallace and Clockwork Orange." (Director General of MI5 humiliated in whistleblower battle against ... )
VIDEO: "Exposing the Royal Free Hampstead NHS 'Trust' [London's dirtiest 'hospital'] for MRSA infections and foreign born staff who conveniently claim they cannot speak !English" when they have been caught out!
"The editor of www.news-alliance.com has been trying to obtain a copy of the post mortem report on his uncle [British Government whistleblower] John Francis Smith and has been met with a wall of silence, dirty tricks and blocking tactics ordered by the corrupt New Labour regime....
"In another NHS body parts scandal his heart and lungs were removed to advance "medical science". J F Smith died of heart disease and cause of death was known before death and therefore no post mortem was necessary.
"But in the event, the post mortem left J F Smith's body so badly disfigured that his family could not view him in the coffin before his funeral!"
VIDEO: "NHS Chief Executive Andrew Way proved a serial liar by a News Alliance sting to expose corruption at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
"But News Alliance showed that Moore did work at the hospital by telephoning the switchboard several times on different dates to prove Moore still worked at the hospital. But even after proving Moore works at the hospital, Andrew Way continues to deny this fact in an act of typical New Labour clinical delusion.
"The toothless Healthcare Commission upheld the complaint against Andrew Way and the hospital but took no action against anyone. This investigation shows it is time to clean-up the NHS by getting New Labour out of power permanently!"
1. The US has troops stationed in over 150 countries worldwide; and the US has been fighting costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The US has vast debts and may be "irreversibly overextending itself".
2. "New world order" can mean:
A. A change in the balance of power.
B. A world dictatorship
3. If the U.S. collapses in the same way that Iceland has, this could lead to a new world order.
According to Professor Willem Buiter, at the London School of Economics, "There will, before long ... be a global dumping of U.S. dollar assets..."
Peter Schiff, president of the stock brokerage firm Euro Pacific Capital Inc. predicts that gold will climb to $2,000 per ounce.
According to Ron Paul : "Americans have suffered a steadily eroding purchasing power because of the Federal Reserve's inflationary policies."
Gerald Celente, the CEO of Trends Research Institute, forecasts that by 2012 there will be a revolution in the U.S., accompanied by food riots and tax rebellions.
New World Order - a change in the balance of power.
4. What might replace the USA as the world's dominant player?
One possibility is the United Nations.
In 1991, in Congress, George H. W. Bush said:
"...We can see a new world coming into view... A world where the United Nations ... is poised to fulfill the historic vision of its founders..."
In January 2009, Henry Kissinger told CNBC that the world economic crisis is a "great opportunity" for Obama to help form a "new world order."
In June 2007, Gordon Brown said: "I believe it will be said of this age, the first decades of the 21st century, that out of the greatest restructuring of the global economy, perhaps even greater than the industrial revolution, a new world order was created."
5.It seems unlikely that governments will willingly surrender sovereignty to the United Nations.
6. However, what if there was 'an unpheaval on a massive scale'?
"The only such event that seems even remotely likely is the end of Western global dominance and the transfer of global hegemony to the Eurasian powers.
"Perhaps it would not be a 'global government', but a 'new world order', with the central power of the world residing in Asia.
"... If the Chinese government decided to dump all of its U.S. dollars, the entire U.S. economy would collapse overnight.
"But would China do that?
"The motivation would be two-fold; firstly, the U.S. Federal Reserve's 'inflationary policies' (as described by Ron Paul) devalue the U.S. currency to the point that China no longer has an incentive to hold U.S. dollars, and secondly, China sees an opportunity to become the dominant player in the new world order...
"The collapse of the United States of America would certainly create the chaos necessary to justify the formation of a new global reserve currency and ultimately a new world order, with its central power residing in Eurasia."
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Chinese Ambassdor to Israel Chen Yonglong (R) and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres pose for a photo in Herzliyya, Israel, on July 12, 2006.
The Chinese are said to be the Jews of Asia.
The Chinese and the Israelis have become firm friends.
1. Leo Gleser, an Israeli, is the owner and managing director of International Security and Defense Systems. He and his company are taking part in securing the Olympic Games. - One Israeli was served part of the security pie at Beijing
2. Testifying before a Senate committee in October 1993, CIA Director James Woolsey said, "We believe the Chinese seek from Israel advanced military technology that U.S. and Western firms are unwilling to provide."[8] (At What Cost Israel-China Ties? - Middle East Quarterly)
In 1992, the George H.W. Bush administration accused Israel of illegally 'transferring' to China the Patriot anti-missile system, which the Pentagon deployed in Israel during the Kuwait crisis.[5]
In 1994, U.S. media reports accused Israel of unauthorized transfer of technology associated with the Lavi jet fighter to China.[9]
In 2004, the Bush administration objected to the Israeli government's decision to repair and upgrade the Harpy unmanned aerial vehicle that Israel had sold to China in the 1990s.[12]
3. China is involved in business with Israel. China is Israel's number 2 trading partner.
Hundreds of Israeli high-tech, chemical, and agricultural technology companies have seen exports to China boom. ( The China-Israel connection)
The amount of trade between China and Israel has increased from $50 million in 1992 to about $4.5 billion in 2007.
The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) is digging Israel's Carmel Tunnel. It is involved in the civil engineering aspect of the Red Line of Tel Aviv's light-rail project. ZPMC, the Chinese manufacturer of cranes and metal equipment, is to supply seven bridge cranes to the Haifa port. ('Israeli Miracle' is developing strong ties with Communist China)
4. To some people in South East Asia, it may seem that it is Chinese billionaires who control the economies and the governments.
In Indonesia, ethnic Chinese make up less than 4 percent of the population but allegedly control around 70 percent of the major businesses. In recent times, twelve of the 15 wealthiest families were Chinese.
Chinese oligarchs are influential in countries such as Thailand, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Burston refers to people who ask about the Israelis:
What is with these blights on the backside of humanity?
A vast war machine pretending to be a tiny country, a mobilized citizenry sterilized of morality, drained of compassion, bereft of conscience, bestial in war, imperial in ambition, Goliathized in its marriage of high tech and high explosive;
incorrigibly bigoted bullying simpletons, little more than racists who vote for racists, fascists who fall for fascists, an embarrassment to the West, an embarrassment to the Jews, an embarrassment, at root, to the progressive individual who asks the question.
Burston then goes on to refer to rockets.
"But the world should know this: No matter how progressive the government in Israel, no matter how grave the suffering of the Palestinians in Gaza, without an end to the rockets, there will be no peace process and certainly no peace. While the rockets are flying, nothing else moves."
Burston fails to mention that things were OK during the truce, which Israel ended.
Burston fails to mention that top Israelis are on record as wanting a Greater Israel.
Last year, my friend, Nicole, told me that she thought I should try out this new website she had just gotten interested in. That site was Twitter. The thing that I love most about MySpace and Facebook is the little status updates and that is all Twitter is...you can only do status updates. Oh, you know I joined.
Twitter is like a voyeuristic trip into someone's life. There are some interesting people on Twitter and "following" them is never a dull moment...
Ashton Kutcher and his wife, Demi Moore, have taken Twitter to a whole new level as they have made Twitter mainstream and they pop on frequently to update and have conversations with people throughout the day.
On 23 February 2009, Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington DC.
Did they discuss the Lockerbie Bombing?
Is the SNP going to support the US and UK governments in their attempt to cover up the truth about Lockerbie?
The government of Scotland is at present run by the Scottish National Party (SNP)
On 19 February 2009, The Mail on Sunday (Scotland) has a Lockerbie Bomb story, by Marcello Mega and Michael Tait, entitled:
SNP IN SECRET BID TO SEND BOMBER HOME.
The headline may be misleading, as it is the US and UK governments that want Al Megrahi to remain 'convicted' and to serve the rest of his sentence in Libya.
The US and UK governments may be trying to use the Lockerbie business to discredit the anti-war SNP.
The Mail makes the following points:
1. SNP government officials have been involved in secret talks between the UK Foreign Office and Libyan officials.
These talks could lead to Al Megrahi being sent back to Libya.
MacAskill
2.Scotland's Justice Secretary, Kenny MacAskill, instructed his top official, Robert Gordon, to play a key role in the negotiations.
3. The UK and US governments are keen to see Al Megrahi apply for a Prisoner Transfer Agreement.
This would mean that Al Megrahi would serve the rest of his sentence in Libya.
It is the SNP's Kenny MacAskill who would be responsible for organising a prisoner transfer of Al Megrahi.
A Prisoner Transfer Agreement between the UK and Libya is expected to be ratified in April 2009.
(The UK and US governments would like Al Megrahi to abandon his appeal against his conviction. An appeal could reveal evidence of CIA involvement in the Lockerbie bombing and could reveal that the CIA and the Scottish police faked evidence in the Lockerbie trial.)
4. Al Megrahi's appeal against his conviction is due to start in April 2009.
Al Megrahi wants the appeal to go ahead so that he can clear his name.
5."Sources close to the Libyan delegation... said Mr Gordon had given them every encouragement to push for a transfer.
"One said: 'He told them in fairly plain language that if an application came it would be granted.'" 6. According to the Mail on Sunday: "The planned appeal has the potential to humiliate the Crown Office and to expose conspiracy and dirty tricks involving UK and US intelligence agents and the Scottish police."
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There is evidence that the SNP does not want a cover-up of the Lockerbie business.
A FURIOUS row was brewing last night after the agreement of a secret £450million oil deal that could send the Lockerbie bomber back to Libya.
Insiders claim the UK Government agreed to let Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi go home to save fuel giant BP's contract.
The Scottish Government last night demanded answers after the deal got the green light...
A spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond said: "We opposed a prisoner transfer agreement which is open-ended and failed to secure the exclusion that the UK government pledged to seek...
Saad Djebbar, a Londonbased lawyer who has worked with the Libyans on the Lockerbie case, said: "The matter of Megrahi had delayed matters, not just for BP but all other commercial arrangements."
2. Leading SNP figure Alex Neil has stressed the importance of holding an appeal trial as quickly as possible.
Spring has sprung! It is bringing the blooming of the ugly little yellow flowers that drive my sinuses NUTS! And it is lovely outside most days with a light breeze. Spring & Autumn are my favorite seasons. Definitely preferable to the ugly heat of summer in Phoenix.
I started my new job last Tuesday. It is definitely interesting. I do really miss the old company and my co-workers as they are more friendly. But I'm fitting in very well with the new job and I am sure I will like it more when I get the hang of it all.
My friend, Rose, and her mother, Lucretia, were in town on Tuesday & Wednesday. It had been a few years since I had last got to spend time with Ro so it was great to have her here with us! She is talking about coming back out in September PLUS contemplating a move to AZ (to Tucson) so that would be awesome!!
I have done a couple of interviews with some of the actors that I am friends with and am going to post those up over the next couple of weeks as well. I just wanted to hone some writing skills and thought it would be fun to interview them. I hope you like them as well.
"Lawyers for the (Palestinian) families were given access to Ottoman land registry archives in Ankara for the first time, providing what they say is proof that title deeds produced by the (Jewish) settlers are forged...
"Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire when the land transactions supposedly took place...
"Israel and Turkey have been close military and political allies for decades and traditionally Ankara has avoided straining ties by becoming involved in land disputes in the occupied territories. But there appears to have been an about-turn in Turkish government policy since a diplomatic falling-out between the two countries over Israel’s recent Gaza operation." - Turkey’s fallout with Israel deals blow to settlers
Bank robbers -Bonnie and Clyde
"Dmitry Abzalov believes that the current situation with the US national debt may end with a new war. The war will destroy excessive liquidity and the current debt.
"In Kirkcudbright, a visit to his old school inspires reflection on the failing state of education. In Glasgow and Lanarkshire his writing gains force, fuelled by a mixture of anger at what the ravages of industrialism have done to people's lives, and concern at how little has been done to repair that damage." - Curious George and the lost spirit of honesty.
There is a theory that the CIA and its friends want to increase their control over Malaysia, a prosperous and successful, mainly Moslem, country. (aangirfan: CIA trying to wreck Malaysia?)
Malaysian politicians may be making it easy for the CIA!
Malaysia's next prime minister is to be Najib Razak.
Najib has been linked on the internet, and by political rivals, to the murder, in 2006, of a Mongolian lady called Altantuya Shaariibuu.
Altantuya,who was murdered
Najib has also been linked to a submarines deal that involved 'commissions'.
It is being alleged that Altantuya was killed to silence her demands for a share of the loot from the submarines deal. (Arms deal link to death of model )
According to Cool Wiseman, whose source is Liberation:
1. "This was a murder unlike others in a region where business conflicts or petty politics are often settled with a gun."
2. "This case... started in 2002 when the French Spanish company Armaris concluded the sale of three submarines to the Malaysian government for the amount of one billion Euros...
" The murder of the 28 year old Mongolian was the result of a 'commission'... of 114 million Euros by Armaris to its Malaysian counterpart.
"This 'commission', which was acknowledged by the Malaysian government in front of the Parliament in Kuala Lumpur, has triggered a chain of events that has led to the assassination of Altantuya and the disappearance of several key witnesses in the case."
3. According to a report from the Malaysian police the killers were policemen from the Malaysian Special Branch.
Baginda, the 'lover' of Altantuya
4. Reportedly, Altantuya was the lover of Abdul Razak Baginda, a security expert and the director of the Malaysian Strategic Research Centre, a pro-government think-tank.
Baginda is close to Najib Razak (Baginda is Najib's security affairs adviser).
"We knew that Baginda was used by Deputy Prime minister Najib Razak as an intermediary for weapons systems deals, especially the high level ones," said a regional security affairs expert.
Liberation mentions the existence of a photograph which allegedly shows Najib, Altantuya and her lover Baginda in a Paris nightclub.
5. Reportedly, in March 2005 Altantuya and Baginda met Najib in Paris. Reportedly, a picture shows the threesome in a Parisian private club.
Najib has sworn on the Koran that he has never met Altantuya.
Reportedly, according to a private detective, now in hiding in India, Altantuya was also the occasional mistress of Najib.
6. In October 2006, Altantuya was informed that the commission paid by the French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived in a Kuala Lumpur bank account.
It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Baginda.
Reportedly, Altantuya hurried to Kuala Lumpur to claim her share of the commission from Baginda.
However, Baginda and Altantuya had already broken up.
Reportedly, Najib's wife objected to any payment being made to Altantuya.
7. Reportedly, on the 18th of October 2006, Baginda contacted the Director of the Special Branch, Musa Safrie, who happened to be Najib's aide de camp.
Reportedly, on October 19th, 2006, two police officers of the Malaysian Special Branch, Azilah Hadridan and Sirul Omar kidnapped Altantuya and then shot her dead.
Reportedly, "the taxi driver hired by Altantuya for the day did not appreciate that his passenger was kidnapped under his eyes without payment for the fare. He took note of the registration plate of the kidnapper's car and filed a complaint at the local police station. In a few days, the police identified the car and realised that it was a government vehicle."
8. Najib, at that time Deputy Prime Minister, sent a message to Baginda a few hours before Baginda's arrest. The message said: "I will see the Inspector General of Police at 11 am today… The problem will be solved. Be cool".
9. After a trial, Baginda was acquitted.
Source: The Liberation, Paris, with Arnaud Dubus (in Kuala Lumpur, Ulaan Baataar and Paris)
The following comment was made by longjaafar, at Malaysia Today (Malaysia-Today.net. ) on March 22, 2009.
"The danger in all this is if the French or even CIA has strong and conclusive evidence about Najib, it can be used as blackmail.
"What might then happen is that we as a country will be beholden to whoever has the evidence, be it in the form of photographs or documents.
"It is inconceivable that there are no records of Najib's and Razak's movements in Europe as well as that of Altantuya. That the French immigration and security is very silent on all this is baffling."
This is about an expat's nine year stay in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia. The names of people and institutions are inventions. A completed version, with longer chapters, appears athttp://jakarta-kid.blogspot.com/
Supposedly, Osama in the late 1970s with Zbigniew Brzezinski 
Paul Wellstone
Arafat 
Robin Cook
Litvinenko
