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For those still unsure about how the police state deals with organized dissent, look no further than the demonstrations at the latest meeting of the globalist elite at the Summit of the Americas. Here is a first - hand report.
Behind a 10-foot-high steel fence braced by concrete barriers that snaked two miles through upper Quebec City, Canada, leaders from 34 nations in the Western Hemisphere gathered at the third Summit of the Americas on April 20-22 to discuss expanding the sovereignty-stealing NAFTA into a continental trading bloc.
Gathered outside the security perimeter were between 20,000 and 30,000 protesters, representing a broad range of issues from the environment to trade unions, who concurrently held their own People's Summit and loudly showed their disdain for globalization.
As the globalists' meetings were set to kick off on April 20, riot police used tear gas, rubber bullets, water cannons, police dogs, truncheons, and military tactics on several thousand protesters at the main entrance to the security perimeter on Rene Levesque street.
In the ensuing chaos, the Hilton Hotel, which housed many of the diplomats, and the neighboring Congress Center, where most of the meetings were held, were locked down by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Summit attendees were not allowed to leave or enter either building, and many, as a result of the protests, were forced to miss scheduled talks and meetings.
In addition, opening remarks by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien were delayed for two hours until police were sure no protesters had sneaked past police lines.
For the next three days, 6,000 Canadian security forces from the RCMP, local police and neighboring law enforcement, wearing body armor, gas masks and helmets and carrying truncheons and shields, repeatedly fired CS tear gas, pepper spray, stun grenades and rubber bullets hundreds of yards into crowds of protesters, which included tourists and children.
So much CS tear gas was shot into the air, many of the presidents and prime ministers, who were staying at least 200 yards behind the security fence, retired to their rooms to escape the overwhelming effect of the tear gas and watched the protests live on television.
CS tear gas reacts with mucous membranes causing temporary blindness as the victims' eyes fill with tears. An awful burning sensation on the nose and mouth occurs and, in some cases, it can make victims vomit. The gas remains on the skin and clothes, so when eyes and nose are rubbed by exposed hands, rags or clothing, the whole painful process repeats itself.
Even though police are told explicitly not to shoot people with tear gas canisters, at least two protesters were shot directly in the chest as they tried to pick up and throw gas canisters back at the police lines. One of the demonstrators fell to the ground after being shot and had to be helped away by others. The other turned and ran.
Police also used Arwen 37 guns to fire hard-coated rubber bullets at several protesters, in the fashion Israeli soldiers deal with Palestinians.
On the first day, Canadian Broadcast News interviewed one demonstrator who was shot in the knee with a rubber bullet while running from riot police. The in jured demonstrator, who was being treated by volunteer doctors, said his knee was severely swollen and possibly broken as a result of the shooting.
Canadian news also reported that government informants were placed amidst protest groups so leaders could be identified and arrested.
Eventually, riot police brought in armored personnel carriers with water canons to push protesters from the security zone. Riot police, in military formation, boxed in demonstrators and saturated the area with tear gas in a show of force to quell organized protests.
BORDER CROSSING
From the beginning of the weekend meetings, Canadian and U.S. officials admitted they were preparing for "war."
Immigration officials on both sides of the border took unprecedented steps to beef up security as thousands of people attempted to cross to go to Quebec City.
"Entry into Canada is a privilege, not a right," Richard St. Louis, a spokesman for the Canadian Citizenship and Immigration Ministry, told The Montreal Gazette.
Looking for any reason to deny en trance, police scrutinized border crossers, often detaining them at the immigration office for hours. Thousands were denied admittance to the country for varying reasons.
At the busiest crossing, along the Vermont border, Gov. Howard Dean (D) called out the National Guard and flew in extra police to ensure there were no problems. Several representatives of the Electricians' Union who tried to cross in Vermont were denied because one union member had been convicted of a minor crime as a youth in the late 1970s.
At the Champlain border crossing in New York two students from the State University of New York at Plattsburg were questioned and searched by police. A police dog was used to inspect their belongings.
The two students reported ridiculous questioning, such as: "Are you a protester?" "Do you consider yourself an activist?" and "Are you violent?"
This writer was detained at the Champlain border for more than an hour as police scrutinized my media credentials. Summit of the Americas officials denied me a media pass for the meeting and I was forced to attend the protests without official identification.
While police allowed reporters from CNN, Canadian News, ABC News, Associated Press and others to wander inside riot police lines and controlled areas, I was treated as any other demonstrator who tried to get too close to the security fence — with orders to back-off and tear gas.
Part residential, part business district, the upper town of Quebec City had already prepared for the expected disruptions. Expecting vandalism, shop owners boarded up windows and closed down for the weekend.
A McDonald's fast food restaurant — a common target for anti-globalization protesters because the multinational corporation aggressively promotes its fat junk food around the world — removed its sign and painted over the store-front in an attempt to hide.
There were, however, only isolated reports of vandalism in the business and restaurant district, only blocks away from the hot spots of the demonstration.*
Fresh from the Summit of the Americas, the global elite are gearing up for more internationalist talks in Washington, D.C.
Internationalists rushed from the Summit of the Americas in Quebec to the meeting of the International Monetary Fund and world Bank in Washington where a Bilderberg plan for new global financial rules were advanced at both sessions.
Both at Quebec April 20-22 and in Washington April 27-30, internationalists echoed Bilderberg's call for new and stronger global bureaucracies under the United Nations to control the world's financial systems.
Bilderberg will meet near Gothenburg, Sweden May 24-28, followed by the annual economic summit of the world's industrialized nations.
At a briefing on the IMF-World Bank sessions attended by Karin Lissakers, former U.S. executive director of the IMF, constant calls for stronger international financial controls were heard.
Stronger "monetary enforcement activities by international institutions" are necessary to prevent future economic crises, said Ralph Bryan, a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution. Brookings is one of the many arms of the Bilderberg-Trilateral clique.
A "new financial architecture" must be established, Bryant said, "an infrastructure with oversight" of nations for the "management of crisis," because "monetary and enforcement activities by international institutions" can prevent crises.
Carol Graham, also a senior fellow in economic studies at Brookings, called for "social insurance" for people made jobless in poor nations by globalization. She said "permanent institutions" should be established to administer "permanent safety nets."
The IMF's Lissakers, nodding approval through all this, said President Bush had given "every indication he would work with the IMF and World Bank." She said the global financial institutions must "streamline conditionalities," which is bureaucratese for telling sovereign nations how they must behave to receive big (mostly American) bucks.
Carol Graham, also a senior fellow at Brookings, hailed the benefits of globalization for the world's poor while unsympathetically acknowledging the concern for job losses in industrialized nations.
"Is there a looming backlash against globalization?" she asked in a paper distributed at the briefing. "In the United States and most industrialized economies, the main opposition to globalization and free trade stems from fears about job displacement."
She was referring to the fact that, under NAFTA, hundreds of thousands of American jobs already gone to Mexico, China, etc., where international corporations exploit cheap labor and are relieved of the huge costs of health insurance, vacations and other "fringe benefits" and of expensive environmental requirements.
But "what do people in developing countries think? She asked. "Globalization has brought substantial benefits and opportunities for upward mobility for large numbers of low-income individual in the emerging economies."
She did not mention the massive benefits brought to international plutocrats and corporations by exploiting cheap labor overseas and driving down the quality of life for most Americans.*
In another act of perennial idiocy, a "hate Crimes" bill has again been introduced in Congress. As usual, H.R. 74 by Rip Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Tex.) Fails to define a "love crime."
Ms. Jackson-Lee made a strained effort to justify congressional action under the commerce clause in the Constitution on grounds that victims of a so-called hate crime may be afraid to cross state lines and thus not become involved in "interstate commerce."
As usual, it federalizes state laws against killing, maiming and robbing people, etc. But it could lead to federal police patrolling your neighborhood where the city cop once walked.
The proposed law discriminates. For example, if it is determined that a homosexual was beaten and robbed not just for the money stolen but because of "hate," there is a greater punishment. But if the homosexual beats and robs a white, it cannot be "hate" and this is a lesser offense drawing lighter punishment.
Anyone who causes or attempts to cause "bodily injury to any person, because of his actual or perceived race, color religion, sexual orientation, gender or disability of the victim" would be subject to harsher federal penalties than if he maimed without "hate."
Since these would be federal, and not state crimes, the FBI would have license to act on these local incidents. The more state laws that are federalized, the more the federal government gets involved in local matters. Could this be the beginning of a national police force?*
Former Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key (R), who spearheaded a major independent inquiry into the Oklahoma City bombing, was the guest on the April 15 broadcast of The SPOTLIGHT's weekly call-in talk forum, Radio Free America, with host Tom Valentine.
Key and his Oklahoma Bombing Investigating Committee are preparing to release a detailed, fact-filled 500-page report explaining their findings which point clearly toward the fact that neither convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh nor the federal authorities who built the legal case against McVeigh are telling the truth about what really happened.
What follows is part one of an edited transcript of the interview with Key. Valentine's questions start with a "Q". Key's responses star with an "R". The balance of the transcription will be published next week in The SPOTLIGHT.
Q. Why do you think Tim McVeigh is now saying that he acted entirely alone in this bombing? This new book written by two reporters who say they got that from McVeigh has been widely promoted in the media.
R. I don't know why McVeigh is saying it, but we know for a fact that when he claims that he was the only one involved that this is a flat-out lie. Did he say it exactly as the new book says he said it?
However, since we know it isn't true, then how much of the book can be taken as legitimate? I don't feel like I can take anything in the book to be legitimate.
I can be critical of the authors on at least this: they claim that they documented and "checked out" all of McVeigh's statements to make sure that what he was saying was true. That's not true. If they had checked it out, they would have discovered that his claim about acting alone could not have been true.
In addition, there are questions about the size of the bomb and how it was put together. So I'm not sure what these authors were trying to do. I do know they had the credentials and background to do a better job than they did.
Q. It doesn't make sense, at least to me, that McVeigh didn't give interviews to publications that understand McVeigh's frustrations with the government that purportedly led him to take the actions that he did.
R. Like Liberty Lobby and The SPOTLIGHT, I've been criticized for trying to find out the truth about what happened. Our critics automatically say that we are somehow defending McVeigh and the bombing and that we are trying to get him off the hook, when, in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
Q. Obviously McVeigh had a role in the bombing, but it's clear that there were other bombs inside the building, based on the evidence that's come out (and which the government is trying to hide).
The government had a FEMA group of civil engineers do a report. These engineers were actually kept about 200 feet from the building. They didn't even let these federal investigators come in. In stead, the FEMA engineers were simply fed information that they used in their report.
They were told, for example, that the crater was 28 to 32 feet in diameter and that's what they based their report on. The fact is that crater was actually 16 to 18 feet in diameter and wasn't very deep. The government intentionally kept these investigators away and set things up for an invalid report.
Q. What first got you suspicious that there was much more to the bombing than the media and the federal authorities were saying?
R. The first thing that really grabbed my attention was the Murrah building and the way it was damaged. I wondered how it could have been damaged as it was and the other buildings in the vicinity didn't have more damage than they did.
That didn't seem to make sense to me, but in the beginning I didn't have enough knowledge or experience in areas such as explosives and demolition (as does Gen. Ben Partin, who contends that there were explosives inside the Murrah building). I didn't carry my thinking any further be yond that until maybe three or four weeks after the bombing.
Then there were other questions being raised because of all of these witnesses who had seen these other John Does in and around Oklahoma City.
And then there were questions about government foreknowledge and the lack of BATF personnel in the building the day of the bombing. There were BATF agents making statements to people about the BATF personnel not being in the building that day.
R. Edye Smith, who lost her two little boys in the bombing, was the one who said on live television, talking to CNN, that there were rumors about BATF personnel having been absent the day of the bombing because they had been tipped off about a possible attack on the building.
The governor, Frank Keating, was very critical of her for saying that. That was very unusual to be critical of a mother who lost two children. She was just asking the question: "Where was the BATF?"
A number of federal officials, including Pat Ryan from the U.S. attorney's office (and who later became one of the government prosecutors in the McVeigh and Nichols trials) and some IRS agents and BATF agents and others came to the home of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, Edye Smith's parents, to answer these questions. It was a big deal here in Oklahoma City and the press was waiting on their doorstep.
Well, Glenn had a list of questions for them. The first thing that happened was that these federal authorities came in to assure the Wilburns and Mrs. Smith that they had no knowledge and they had everybody's best interests at heart. After they finished, Glenn whipped out his full page of questions. At that point, things got very silent. They didn't want to answer his questions.
He had one big question for them. He asked them if they had considered April 19 to be a significant day and whether they had made any extra preparations. They said, "Oh no. We didn't consider April 19 to be anything special."
However, about an hour after they left, Glenn and Kathy were watching television and John McGaw, the head of the BATF, came on in a national press conference and the media asked him the same question, among other questions, and he said, "We absolutely did consider April 19 to be an important day. We had all of our offices on alert and we took it very seriously."
This completely refuted what was said by this team of federal agents who came to the Wilburn home to try to quiet them and Edye Smith.
Q. These types of things started to raise questions in your mind.
Yes, we started meeting and talking with witnesses who had seen other people with McVeigh and we started discovering that there was this prior knowledge and that it was very obvious that some in the federal government and some in the state government had this prior knowledge. So things didn't add up.
We could tell from the way the FBI investigation was going that it seemed like they were going to put it on just these two guys, McVeigh and Nichols, and we knew that there was much more.
Q. This inquiry that you undertook as a private citizen had a very detrimental effect on your political career as a state legislator representing Oklahoma City.
R. That's right. In the very early part of 1996, I got word from a person who worked closely with the state Republican Party that Gov. Keating and other top GOP officials in Oklahoma were trying to recruit somebody to run against me in the Republican primary.
Q. This shows that there was a lot more at work behind the scenes. Clearly, people in high places didn't like you looking into what really happened.
This was right at the time that all of the questions were being raised, but in the Republican Party primary, one guy ran against me and I beat him by a 75-25 margin. The point is that the people didn't see it (as did the governor and my opponents) as being unreasonable to ask these questions.
It wasn't until 1998 that Keating and the state attorney general really ganged up on me big-time, getting the newspapers to make everything an issue, that they were finally able to do the "divide-and-conquer" tactics and I was defeated.
Q. Despite this, you've continued to investigate.
R. We've carried on this investigation for some five years now. During that time there were a lot of battles we faced. We fought to get a grand jury impaneled to investigate the bombing.
Oklahoma is one of two states (along with New Mexico) whose Constitution provides for the right of the people to have a grand jury called at the county level any time on any issue they choose. It's been done pretty regularly, but they tried to stop us on this issue, using a lot of ridiculous legal reasoning.
Finally, after a year and a half, both the appeals court and the Supreme Court of the state of Oklahoma ruled unanimously in our favor.
Q. After all that effort, you finally got the grand jury established, but the local district attorney, Bob Macey, took charge of the grand jury and essentially sabotaged it.
R. That's what happened. When the grand jury finally got set in place in the middle of the summer of 1997, we spent all of our time working to put together all of the information that we could in the type of format that was appropriate for an official investigation.
The one good thing that came out of the grand jury was that we did the best we could. We knew the odds were against us, but we tried it anyway. We knew that at least a large part of this evidence that we uncovered would get out to the public. While it didn't get reported in the national media, it did get reported in the state of Oklahoma, especially Oklahoma City.
Many of the witnesses who are cited in our report came before our grand jury and a large number of them gave witness interviews to the local press as they went in and out of the grand jury proceedings.
So people in Oklahoma got television, radio and newspaper reports for quite a significant period of time. These witnesses and other experts verified what we were saying and raising questions about.
The two assistant district attorneys from Macey's office who were there were clearly trying to put down anyone who went against the federal government's point of view on this.
They had to be careful how they did it. They really beat up on me when I testified. There were certain people that they treated in a totally different way: they treated survivors with respect. They treated Gen. Partin with respect, and a number of others. So they were careful how they did all of this before the grand jury members themselves.
Q. They had to show Gen. Partin re spect. He was one of the Air Force's (and thus one of the entire nation's) leading experts on explosives.
R. Ultimately, however, there has to be somebody on a grand jury who is willing to stand up and take charge of their own power as a juror.
Q. Hoppy Heidelberg, who was on the earlier grand jury that actually indicted Tim McVeigh, raised some uncomfortable questions about other people being involved. He was thrown off the grand jury by the government.
R. At least we had somebody on that grand jury. Unfortunately, we didn't have anybody like that on the second grand jury.
Q. The district attorney's office actually selected the grand jury.
R. That's right. They had people on the grand jury that they shouldn't have. They had an Oklahoma City police officer, a city employee and a couple of state employees, if I remember right.
Q. Did the grand jury ever look at seismic evidence from the Oklahoma Geological Survey (OGS) which came up suggesting that there was more than one blast at the time of the bombing?
R. The grand jury looked at that but we don't know what was said about it. The scientists from the OGS never changed their original story. They just stopped talking about what they had found.
Q. Evidently, Dr. Brown of the OGS came under some pressure for having said there was evidence of at least two explosions.
R. Hats off to Dr. Brown for holding his ground for such a long time. But he has given up. The fact is that Dr. Brown and others have said repeatedly that they had evidence of more than one explosion. I'll never forget what Dr. Brown told me when I called him early on. He went into all the boring scientific analysis.
After our conversation, I said to him, "If I understand all this right, you're telling me that the proper scientific interpretation, in your opinion, is that there were multiple events on the seismographic record?" He said, "Yes."
Then I asked him in another way, and said, "Do I hear you right? Do you think it would be an improper analysis from a scientific point of view to describe this in any other way?" And he said, "That's correct." He held that position for quite some time. There wasn't any confusion about that.
The feds came in and took the original records of the seismographic data at Dr. Brown's OGS office. Fortunately, though we've got copies of the records, but the feds have the originals and never returned them.
Q. Even though the grand jury was sabotaged, you have still put together a 500-page report on everything that you've uncovered.
Yes, and it is well documented in all of these areas: where numerous witnesses saw John Does with McVeigh and other persons in Oklahoma City on April 19 and on the days proceeding the bombing. There are also many things about prior knowledge that have not been publicly revealed.
One of the sections I'm very proud of is the section on the Murrah building and the alleged single truck bomb and the damage that was done to the building.
We cite quite a number of experts in there who give their opinions as to what that damage reflects and whether or not a single truck bomb could have inflicted that damage as the government claims.
We have photos of the actual inner beams of the building that give proof of supplemental explosive charges inside the building, which obviously demonstrates that the damage to the building just didn't come from a single truck bomb.
We went to a number of other experts and asked them to look at the report by Gen. Ben Partin (who says that there were clearly explosives set off inside the building) and asked them to give their analysis of what Partin said, along with their own independent analyses.
We wanted our report so ironclad that the federal government couldn't refute it. A lot of people don't know that the federal government could never back up its own claims about the bombing.
There literally is no forensic evidence to prove that it was actually an ammonium nitrate bomb that blew up in front of that building, much less the size of the bomb. The data that the government put out is grossly in error.
That's another thing that we show in the report in a very scientific way: we map out the real size of the crater in front of the building and show that it was actually about half the size of what they claim it was.
There's even evidence of Gov. Keating saying right after the bombing that they took two additional bombs out of the building during the rescue efforts. It's all very well documented. It's not just some people who "got it wrong." The few government officials who have been put on the spot about this have tried to claim that "oh, somebody found a briefcase and thought there was a bomb in it." In another case, they tried to claim that it was an alarm clock and somebody thought it was attached to a bomb.
That's hogwash. There are numerous documented testimonies of actual bombs being taken out of the building during the rescue and of bomb experts talking about these bombs being dismantled and of how they were glad to have found these bombs because it would help them find out who the perpetrators were and who put those bombs together.*
The official report of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigating Committee has not been released. Mr. Key, president of the committee, will give a comprehensive review of the report at The Barnes Review Second International Conference on Authentic History and the First Amendment in Washington, June 15. Copies of the report will be available at the conference.
A New York court struck a blow for the Second Amendment that has gun grabbers reeling.
New York's highest court has disarmed a throng of plaintiffs in a key class-action lawsuit seeking to make 25 gun manufacturers pay for six killings and a wounding.
The seven-man Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that manufacturers cannot be held liable for the actions of retail gun buyers or those who steal guns.
"The chain most often includes subsequent legal purchasers or even a thief," Judge Richard Wesley said in explaining why the legal doctrine of "negligent entrustment" is inapplicable to gun manufacturers.
The court's interpretation of state law—from which there is no appeal—may derail the legal theory that has spawned at least 17 copycat lawsuits by cities across the nation: that marketing and distribution practices by gun manufacturers generated an underground market in handguns for violent criminals.
More evidence of direct negligence would have to be proven, considering the number of federally-licensed dealers and wholesalers who process sales after a gun is manufactured, Judge Wesley said.
The unusual state ruling in a federal case likely will nullify a $4 million federal jury verdict in February 1999 against three gun manufacturers, legal scholars said.
Without proof of which firm made the gun that wounded and permanently disabled Stephen Fox, the jury in the federal case returned a verdict dividing the $4 million award according to the share of the gun market held by American Arms, Inc., Beretta USA Corp. and Taurus International Manufacturing.
"It's an important decision, both from the standpoint of New York state law and from the standpoint of national litigation raising similar issues," said Lawrence Greenwald, a lawyer who represented Beretta USA and American Arms.
The federal appeals court reviewing the judgment against the gun makers had asked the State Court of Appeals whether New York state laws support the finding of negligence in such a gun violence case.
Writing for the court, Judge Wesley said lawyers for the gunshot victims alluded to "broad" and "general" ways that gun makers are liable for handgun injuries, but they failed to show specifically how their sales and marketing led to their guns getting into the wrong hands.
A more "tangible" direct link is needed to show how gun makers contributed to the injuries of the victims and that manufacturers "were realistically in a position to prevent the wrongs," Wesley wrote.
Having been unable to disarm the public through congressional legislation, gun foes have been fighting on the state level with frivolous lawsuits blaming gun manufacturers for crimes and accidents involving firearms.
Many state legislatures have stymied their assaults.
According to the National Rifle Association, Indiana is the 25th state to ban the court actions. Florida any day could be the 26th, putting Second Amendment supporters over the halfway mark.
Anti-gun groups are now switching their attack back to Congress, which is awaiting introduction of a bill by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joseph Lieber man (D-Conn.), who are calling for "compromise" legislation to do away with gun shows.
Meanwhile, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) has already introduced legislation previously pushed by former Sen. Frank Lautenburg (D-N.J.), which also calls for an end to gun shows.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) plans to attach an anti-gun bill (S. 767) to legislation dealing with education reform.*
Former Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key (R), who spearheaded a major independent inquiry into the Oklahoma City bombing, was the guest on the April 15 broadcast of The SPOTLIGHT's weekly call-in talk forum, Radio Free America, with host Tom Valentine.
Key and his Oklahoma Bombing Investigating Committee are preparing to release a 500-page report explaining their findings which point clearly toward the fact that neither convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh nor the federal authorities who built the legal case against McVeigh are telling the truth about what really happened.
What follows is the second part of an edited transcript of the interview with Key. Valentine's questions start with a "Q". Key's responses start with an "R". The first part of the transcription was published last week in The SPOTLIGHT.
Q. There is evidence that the government had advance knowledge about a possible bomb attack on the Murrah building. There is also evidence about other unexploded bombs being taken out of the Murrah building. Is any of this perhaps related to the strange death (after the bombing)—supposedly a suicide—of Oklahoma City Police Officer Terrence Yeakey?
R. We don't know whether Yeakey's death is connected to this, but his story is interesting in itself.
Yeakey was one of the very first rescue workers on the scene. He knew a lot about the bombing, according to his wife, and was very concerned about things that he knew. He expressed this to his wife and mother, and his sisters and brother-in-law.
The Oklahoma City Fire Department got a call from the FBI the weekend before the bombing to tell them to be on readied alert for something that could be taking place in the next few days. The Police Department also had some information that came through to them. While they've been very "mum" about that, we've got bits and pieces from some police dispatchers and others.
Q. Evidently Officer Yeakey didn't feel right about keeping his mouth shut about things that he saw that just didn't look right to him.
R. The evidence itself shows that he obviously was murdered, even though they say he committed suicide. Yeakey was found in the outskirts of the city. He allegedly walked out into a fenced area off the road after having cut both wrists twice and then made another cut on his elbow and then cut both areas of the jugular vein on his neck.
Having lost tremendous amounts of blood in his car and elsewhere, he supposedly then walked all of this distance and then decided to shoot himself. He didn't shoot himself with his service revolver. When a law enforcement officer dies, there is almost always an autopsy. They did not do an autopsy in this case. They proclaimed it a suicide. His family is not satisfied and his wife is not satisfied.
Q. Officer Yeakey, who was a black man, by the way, was very widely liked and respected in Oklahoma City. Was he about to blow the whistle on what he knew about the bombing?
R. Yes, according to his wife, he was ready to talk. Whoever killed him took his briefcase out of his car. The family finally got the briefcase after some time, but it had been in the custody of the police, who didn't want to give it up to the family. It's also believed by the wife and family that he not only had evidence in that briefcase, but that he may have also stashed other evidence somewhere else, at a storage unit. But that's never been found.
Q. That's a shocking story. What about Jayna Davis, the reporter from Chan nel 4 television (an NBC affiliate) in Oklahoma City? She uncovered some amazing evidence of Tim McVeigh having been involved with Iraqis in Oklahoma City.
R. Miss Davis and some other reporters, including, primarily, Brad Edwards, had done some really great investigative work in the early days after the bombing.
Because of their work, a lot of people in Oklahoma City do know that there's much more to the story and were not willing to buy the government's version early on.
Miss Davis and her colleagues did a lot of work on the other "John Doe" figures in the case and the Middle East connection. There were so many witnesses who de scribed a John Doe or John Does who were on the scene with McVeigh and others right in front of the Murrah building on the day of the bombing and on the days before the bombing that it seems clear that there must have been a Middle Eastern connection of some type.
Q. Miss Davis pinpointed an Iraqi immigrant as one of the John Does.
R. What a lot of people around the country don't know, and what even a lot of reporters in Oklahoma City didn't know at first, was that right after the Persian Gulf war there were just under 5,000 Iraqi soldiers who had deserted Saddam Hussein's army who were looking for asylum in another country. No country would take them so the United States let them come here. They were dispersed throughout the country and a group of them were placed in Oklahoma City.
One of these Iraqis was one of these John Does identified by several people, as having been in McVeigh's company, including being in a Ryder truck the day of the bombing. He and others who were either former Iraqi soldiers or other Middle Easterners became the subject of the investigation by Jayna Davis who has put together some real blockbuster information about this.
There is no doubt in my mind that there is some kind of Middle Eastern connection to this. And this is in our report.
Q. This Iraqi sued Jayna Davis, but she won.
R. It was a federal lawsuit. What happened was that Channel 4 talked about this individual, but not by name. When they showed some surveillance video that they used to investigate him, they never showed his face or used his name. Then other television stations criticized Channel 4. However, this Iraqi came to another station and revealed himself and then turned around and sued Channel 4 for allegedly revealing his identity. Then the federal case ensued. It stopped everything for about two years. However, Miss Davis and Channel 4 had to show their evidence and the judge ruled in their favor, saying it was all reasonable evidence, including many witnesses.
Q. Yet, the rest of the media in the United States did not report any of this.
R. In addition to most of what we call the "mainstream" media being controlled, they will also lose credibility by this story finally coming out. They totally just blew it. With this case coming out, it will show what a terrible job the media (both local and national) did in covering the story. There's both an ego factor and a credibility factor.
Q. Surveillance tapes from outside the Murrah building are being kept un der wraps by the FBI. You would think that if these tapes backed up their story that McVeigh was traveling alone that they would be glad to release those tapes to the public.
R. There are at least 22 surveillance tapes. There were two functioning tapes from the front of the Murrah Building that would have shown close-up views of the truck and the occupants of that truck. It would have shown who got out of it and exactly what they looked like. In addition, there were tapes from the nearby Regency Towers apartments, the Journal-Record building, Southwestern Bell and others.
There is—right now—a freedom of information act lawsuit filed by independent investigator David Hoffman. His lawsuit started out as a simple freedom of information request. However the FBI, to this day, refuses to release any of those surveillance videotapes.
At this point, there are no outstanding trials to be conducted. They already got their convictions. They shouldn't have anything to hide, but obviously they've got a lot to hide.
Q. Didn't you have witnesses who said that they told the FBI that they saw an Arab-looking guy and McVeigh parting company near the Murrah building but then the FBI turned around and told these witnesses, "No, you didn't see that," and then recorded the witness interviews on the FBI 302 forms incorrectly?
R. That's correct. There are at least two times I know for certain that this happened and we believe it happened at least another three times. We've got documented two times where the FBI agents did as you described (or something close to that), where a witness said, "Here's my testimony as to what happened."
In another case, two deputy reserve sheriffs had a conversation with U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) where Istook said that the government had "blown it" and that they knew about this impending bombing since about April 9 and that they had information about a radical Islamic extremist terrorist organization.
The deputy said to Istook, "Excuse me, sir?" Then the congressman repeated it all back to him again. When the deputy reserve officer gave his testimony to the FBI, the FBI agent said that he (the agent) was going to put it down [in a different way].
Q. It must have been tough for you to put Istook on the spot in this way, since he had been a longtime personal friend and fellow Republican political colleague.
R. Yes, it was difficult.
Q. How would Istook have known about government foreknowledge of a possible attack on the building?
R. He obviously had some information that was imparted to him. It's reasonable to speculate that since he was the congressman from that particular area he would have been told. In addition, it was known that Oklahoma City had the second largest population of Middle Eastern Islamic immigrants and that there was a mosque that was under surveillance by law enforcement several weeks before the bombing. Also, consider Jayna Davis's information about these Iraqi immigrants. Who knows what else? It's reasonable to speculate that a congressman from the area had been told something either officially or unofficially.
Q. Radio Free America used to be carried locally in Lawton, Okla., and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) was on the program several times. I have visited with him in his office in Washington for several years.
Once when I visited him and asked him questions about the Oklahoma City bombing, I could see in his face that it was really painful and he didn't want to talk about it. I'm sure he knows a lot more than he will say and it's bothering him very much.
R. Oh yes. We've got a lot of information that suggests that he definitely knows a whole lot. Inhofe is a good guy, though.
Q. We can hope that some day Jim Inhofe will tell us what he knows. I doubt that Governor Frank Keating will ever do so.
R. I'd put my money on Inhofe, more so than the other guys. I'll only believe it when I see it when an elected official finally speaks out.
Q. McVeigh's attorney and others have alleged that the FBI falsified hundreds of their 302 witness report forms.
R. We need to get the word out to enough people for them to become aware of how corrupt our federal government has become. It's not like we are indicting all federal employees. Far from it. It's simply that there's a high level of people inside some of these agencies who will do anything and they control the reins of power.
Q. You have to wonder what their motivation is in keeping all of this under wraps. Even if it were a sting operation by the FBI or BATF that went bad, it wouldn't be so bad for them to admit it as it is for them to not tell us the truth. So for that very reason, I don't think it was simply a sting gone bad.
R. We keep getting a lot of new information as time goes by. I will tell you that we think we have found this Robert Jacques who has been the subject of a lot of government investigation. If our information is true and we believe that it is, the government may not have wanted to find that guy, just as they didn't want to find the other John Does.
Q. What about this group at Elohim City?
R. I don't know really how much the people there were involved in this, except for Andreas Strassmeir, the West German. I'm convinced that this guy was a government agent. He was either working for our government or with the knowledge of our government.
Q. Is it possible that Strassmeir was somehow McVeigh's "handler," on behalf of the government or somebody?
R. There's such a large body of information that we have received which indicates that Strassmeir was in direct contact with McVeigh up until the day of the bombing, at least the night before the bombing, and it would appear that yes, Strassmeir, was a "handler" of McVeigh. It would seem from this information that McVeigh didn't realize that until after the bombing.
Q. Is there any other information we should hear about at this point?
R. Well, I must be very circumspect, at this juncture, but I was able to talk to a federal government official who told me how this whole Oklahoma City affair evolved. They told me that it was planned right after the Waco event as a sting operation by the BATF for publicity's sake — to make the BATF look good. So the genesis of it all was a sting. The person wasn't suggesting that it was a sting operation that went wrong.
Based on what I've learned, there appears to be a whole lot more at work. It was originally a sting, but there were two over-lapping operations. There was a group of other people, whatever their plan was, and they turned the tables on the folks who thought there was just a sting going on.
We have information that shows that there were efforts, in the early morning hours before the explosion, by bomb squads who came down, trying to locate the truck or the informant or someone. It appears they lost track of them as they were surveilling them, expecting them to come into the city.*
The official report of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigating Committee has not been released. Mr. Key, president of the committee, will give a comprehensive review of the report at The Barnes Review Second International Conference on Authentic History and the First Amendment in Washington, June 15. Copies of the report will be available at the conference.
The drum-beat for war against Red China is in the air. However, before Americans commit themselves to war, they should stop and ask: "Who wants war? Who profits?" The answer to those questions unveil some unpleasant realities about power politics in our world today.
If we are to believe what we see, both the American "right" and the American "left" have finally reached agreement on something: it's time to start a war against Red China.
However, those who look more closely will find other behind-the-scenes forces at work pushing for war.
On April 23, The New Republic - published by "liberal" Martin Peretz, mentor to former Vice President Al Gore - took a no-holds-barred stand against China. No less than for major pieces appeared under the theme: "An Enemy for Our Time." On the cover, a menacing photo of somber-faced, machine-gun armed Red Chinese soldiers march toward the reader.
Then, on April 30, The Weekly Standard - owned by billionaire "conservative" Rupert Murdoch and edited by Bilderberg figure William Kristol, touted in the media as a "leading GOP analyst" - took a hard line against China in a series of articles. These reports were no different in tone or rhetoric from those in the Standard's "liberal" counter-part, The New Republic.
Clearly, the major media are subtly changing their spin regarding China and Chinese-Americans.
BUTCHERS
Make no mistake. China is no friend of the United States. The butchers of Peking are not cuddly like the Chinese panda bears. Throughout its history - one which predates that of the United States by tens of centuries - China has always had its own geopolitical agenda.(1)
The big question is why have influential "conservative" and "liberal" voices suddenly joined forces to beat the drum for war against China?
China is now being designated, in the words of The New Republic, "the enemy for our time." In the past it was the Kaiser. Then Adolf Hitler. The the Soviet Union.
The Cold War against the USSR - conducted during the time when American banks such as Chase Manhattan and other Western interests were engaged in lucrative business deals with the butchers of the Kremlin - enriched the plutocratic elite beyond their wildest dreams.
The "no-win" wars conducted in Korea and Vietnam were part of the bigger scheme. Along the way, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the ayatollahs of Iran and Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia played sideline roles in the pantheon of villainy. The American people love war and the plutocrats and their puppet press are always willing to come up with a new one.
Today, the big bad wolf is China. The American people are being told by the "conservative" and "liberal" opinion-makers, who function as propaganda voices for the plutocratic elite who control the major media, to be prepared for war. There's a " long world struggle with China that lies ahead," says The New Republic. The Weekly Standard agrees.
What is so remarkable is that not once does either The New Republic or The Weekly Standard cite the primary element that has cranked up the massive Chinese war machine to where it is today: Israel's little-known role in massive arms transfers to China - including critical nuclear technology - over the past 50 years.
This surprises no one who knows that both The New Republic and The Weekly Standard - despite their cosmetic "liberal and "conservative" differences - are both loud and enthusiastic media beacons for the propaganda of the pro-Israel lobby.
BIGGER AGENDA
This is not to suggest that Israel's role in arming Red China is a secret. In fact, there have been a variety of publications - circulating largely in defense and diplomatic circles - that have commented on this phenomenon. They include such reports as: "Israel's dirty deals," by Al Venter, Jane's Intelligence Review, Nov. 1 1998: "Israel helps China build fighters, submarines," Jane's Foreign Report, March 26, 1998; "U.S. Experts: Israel is channel for U.S. arms technology to China," Deutsche Presse-Agentur, Dec. 11, 1997; and "Navy Intelligence Sticks to View on Israeli-China Transfers," Defense Week, May 27, 1997.
The most comprehensive account of Israel's illicit arms transfers appeared in the June 22, 1995, issue of Foreign Policy, published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
The article, written by Duncan Clarke, professor of international relations at American University in Washington, D.C., can be found on a web site devoted to the subject of Israel's arms-and-technology transfers to China, at: wwww.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/7659/ .
In the United States, the Israeli lobby - and Israel's partisans within what was then the "hard-line anti-communist" administration of Ronald Reagan - were enthusiastic about Israel's "new" alliance with China.
For example, The Washington Times reported on Jan. 24, 1985, that Assistant Defense Secretary Richard Perle and his deputy, Stephen Bryen, the former president of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, an influential lobby for Israel, lauded the alliance between Israel and China. Perle is a Bilderberg member.
Later, both Perle and Bryen were investigated by the Justice department for passing U.S. defense secrets to Israel. What seems evident, though, is that those same secrets were then passed on to Israel's allies in China.
However, it was The SPOTLIGHT, on June 15, 1981, that became the first national media voice to blow the whistle on the intrigue between Israel and China.
The SPOTLIGHT pinpointed Israel's longtime middleman in the secret deals with China as wealthy industrialist and Mossad asset, Shaul Eisenberg, Who dropped dead of a sudden heart attack in Peking at age 76 in 1997.
Subsequent reports in the mainstream media acknowledged Eisenberg's central role in the arms transfers.
On July 7, 1998, The SPOTLIGHT was the first, and thus far only, national media voice to point out that in the little-known 1978 book, The Israeli Secret Service, British intelligence historian Donald McCormack, writing under his pen name Richard Deacon, revealed that there had been a long-standing secret nuclear weapons development liaison between Israel and Red China.
One of Eisenberg's primary allies in bankrolling Israel'‘s secret nuclear weapons development program was a Chicago-based wheeler-dealer named Henry Crown.
Through his ties to the corrupt Chicago political machine and the crime syndicate of Israeli loyalist Meyer Lansky, Crown amassed a gigantic real estate and construction empire, the proceeds of which he plowed into defense contracting in the United States.
Today, the billionaire Crown family is one of the richest families in the world. The jewel in their crown is the General Dynamics Corporation.
Already a major defense contractor, the Crown family conglomerate with its wide-ranging subsidiaries stands on the brink of becoming the Navy's dominant supplier of Ships and its only source of nuclear-powered vessels with General Dynamics' impending takeover of Newport News Shipbuilding.
In addition, longtime Crown family satellite, General Dynamics executive Gordon England, was just appointed secretary of the Navy in the Bush administration.
EVEN RICHER
Should conflict in the Pacific with China ultimately come, the Crown family will grow ever richer, supplying the guns and the troop transports that will take American boys and girls to fight in the conflict.
At the same time, some perceptive of servers suggest, nuclear-armed Israel will have a free hand to exercise its imperial dreams in the Middle W\East while the United States is distracted in its latest venture in the Pacific, fighting China.
Israeli writer Uri Dan says it was "the dream" of Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, to forge ties with the Chinese and to "bring two of the world's most ancient peoples together."
Ben-Gurion's biographer, Dan Kurzman, says that Ben-Gurion had "delved into Chinese history and culture and even studied Buddhist thought. China, he was convinced, would inevitably evolve into the greatest power on earth, and its support would be invaluable."
By June 13, 1990, The Los Angeles Times reported that Israel had become the largest supplier of advanced military technology to China. In June 1991 China and Israel signed a bilateral agreement on scientific cooperation. On Jan. 24, 1992, China and Israel established formal diplomatic relations to much fanfare in the world press and with much celebration in the worldwide Jewish media.
Considering the hard facts that are available, Americans need to take a very careful second look before "rallying around the flag" and jumping on the pro-war bandwagon that is being assembled before their very eyes.*
(1) Ways That Are Dark, by veteran American diplomat Ralph Townsend, is an eye-opening, fact-filled historical overview of China based on Townsend's first=hand experiences there. The book is available at $9 from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave., Washington, D.C. 20003.
Behind every globalization scheme there are mattoids like David Rockefeller pulling the strings.
Secretary of State
Colin Powell revealed more of what the emerging "American
Union" will be like in a speech May 7 at the Council of the
Americas Washington conference in Washington.
The council is chaired by David Rockefeller, a major player in Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission.
(See the adjacent chart on page 3 for the complete list of board of directors.)
The Free Trade Area of the Americas is to begin functioning as a hemisphere-wide economic entity in 2005. At the behest of government, U.S. banks will have more consumers for their predatory lending practices, corporations will move more industry south of the border and U.S. taxpayer dollars will be spread throughout Central and South America to feed the poor and educate the young, Powell said.
President Bush spoke later, asking
the international financiers to "help bring sanity to the
United States Congress" by pressuring lawmakers to give him
fast-track authority to negotiate the hemispheric free-trade zone.
Under fast-track, the president could strike a deal that Congress
would vote up or down but not change. His father had fast track,
but it expired in 1994. In his speech, Powell said the Summit
of the Americas in Quebec had approved important "initiatives."
"Especially exciting is a $10 million down payment for centers of excellence to boost teacher skills and performance . . . to make sure we are educating all of the youngsters of the Americas to take advantage of the opportunities of the new world," Powell said.
"In Quebec, we were all excited about the possibilities of closing the digital divide to make sure that nobody's child, nobody's school, is left behind . . . by doing so, we would increase economic integration, bring the poor and marginalized into fuller participation," Powell said.
Describing a peasant woman and mother in a Latin America who "is just trying to put food on the table every day" and "needs medicine" and "wants an education," Powell said "all our efforts have to ultimately be about Maria Soledad."
In spite of the rhetoric, Powell failed to note that the benefits afforded to corporations, banks and international speculators outweigh the gains made by average people, including North Americans.
Translated from bureaucratese, FTAA critics point out, Powell was really saying that American middle class taxpayers will be backing usurious bank loans for education and welfare for the multitudes in the southern part of the "American Union."
The FTAA, in Powell's words, would pave the way for AOL-Time Warner to provide Internet access to starving people in the ghettos of Central and South America, provide jobs that increase the profit margins of multinational corporations; and arrange for Citibank to provide loans at usurious rates so poor nations can build schools.
Critics of the FTAA point out that, for U.S. citizens, the free trade region will only expand the devastation wrought by NAFTA. Wages in the manufacturing sector will further decrease as industry's flight out of the United States increases and the domestic job market constricts.
For more on the Council of the Americas, visit the web site at www.counciloftheamericas.org.
Folks familiar with the downfall of the once-respected Institute for Historical Review (IHR), taken over in 1994 by a profit-mad gang of lawyers and parasites, may think of Greg Raven as merely a common gunsel and thug. But this would be wrong. He's more-or less - as the case may be. It now turns out that Raven's denials that he is a paid agent of the Church of Scientology may be true. In fact, it may be true that no real Church of Scientology exists.
It has come to light that this organization is actually owned by a group of lawyers, most of whom are not even Scientologists! The record shows that Scientology, its names, trademarks, copyrights, logos-even including "LRH," the initials of its founder-L. Ron Hubbard-are the property of a separate corporation, Religious Technology Center, Inc. (RTC).
And RTC is completely separate from Scientology. It receives fees, commissions and payments every time that the sect's names appear in any of the printed material it puts out.
RTC is hidden in a corporate maze. It lists its official address in care of a little professional mail drop at 419 Larchmont Avenue in Los Angeles called Village Mail Call.
And yet this obscure corporation owns the multi-million dollar Scientology empire! How many veteran followers of L. Ron Hubbard know this? The board of directors of RTC is composed of lawyers for the most part, few if any of whom are Scientologists. One of these is Lawrence E. Heller, a longtime Scientology lawyer.
Significantly, Heller was also the lawyer for Mel Mermelstein, the "holocaust survivor" who sued the IHR and Liberty Lobby for millions of dollars in 1991.
In the courtroom, Mermelstein's performance was so poor that the judge dismissed his suit before the trial. At this, Heller lost his mind and physically attacked Liberty Lobby's attorney, Mark Lane, who had (easily) made Mermelstein look like a fool.
The entire entertaining and revealing story is covered in Michael Collins Piper's book, Best Witness.*
Here is the legal notice and Heller & Co. requires be printed in every publication issued by Scientology: It is reprinted from International Scientology News magazine issue No. 16, released in May, 2001 by Church of Scientology International, 6331 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 801, Los Angeles, CA 90028-6300. It is printed on page 47 at the bottom in extremely light 4-point type. This message appears on all official "Scientology" publications. It proves that Scientology is owned by Religious Technology Center, Inc.
All Rights Reserved. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard. SCIENTOLOGY, the new FLAG logo, Flag Service Organization, corporate symbol, SCIENTOLOGY symbol, GOLDEN AGE OF TECH symbol, OT, FLAG, FREEWINDS, HUBBARD, LRH, LRH DEVICE, SMI corporate symbol, I HELP logo, CLEARSOUND logo, CLEARSOUND, E-METER, STANDARD TECH, STUDENT HAT, MARK SUPER VI/VII E-METER configuration, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM, NED, SAINT HILL, SHSBC, FREEWINDS logo, MARK SUPER VII QUANTIUM logo, Religious Technology Center symbol, DIANETICS, THE BRIDGE, Lion symbol, SUPER POWER, FSSO symbol, "RON" signature, CSI corporate symbol, OT symbol, Solo Auditor symbol, FSO corporate symbol, Sea Organization symbol and Sea Organization coat of arms are trademarks and service marks owned by Religious Technology Center and are used with its permission. SCIENTOLOGIST is a collective membership mark designating members of the affiliated churches and missions of Scientology. Services relating to Scientology religious philosophy are delivered throughout the world exclusively by licensees of the Church of Scientology International with the permission of Religious Technology Center, holder of the SCIENTOLOGY and DIANETICS trademarks.
Heller and the others who sit on the board of directors of RTC are all known to be closed to the notorious Anti-Defamation League (ADL) which is, in turn, a division of the Mossad, Israel's powerful and ruthless intelligence agency.
No one has ever doubted that the ADL is an illegal organization which operates inside the U.S. in open and flagrant violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
But no American politician or newspaper will question the bona fides of the ADL because all are terrified of its power. The ADL - with some 2000 offices around the country - can rub out any political ambition very easily because it can control every "mainstream" newspaper through its control over the advertising that makes a newspaper profitable.
Raven has never been questioned as to his relationship to Heller and the other lawyers who control the RTC and through it, Scientology.
Is Raven paid for his intelligence work as was Roy Bullock, the famed ADL spy who narrowly escaped jail? (Bullock was first unmasked as an ADL spy by this newspaper in 1986.)
To pay Bullock, the ADL sent funds to a Los Angeles lawyer, Bruce Hochman, who in turn paid Bullock out of his office account. This eliminated a paper trail and invoked the doctrine held sacred by lawyers, the "attorney-client privilege." This covert means of financing Bullock made it possible for Bullock to deny that he was paid by the ADL.**
Is this how Raven is paid by Heller or one of his associates? Does the ADL send "fees" to Heller from which Heller pays Raven? And what connection exists between Heller and fellow Los Angeles lawyer Bruce Hochman?
In any event, it is unmistakable that Heller and crew control Scientology through their RTC. The evidence indicates that they also control and manipulate Greg Raven and the IHR.*
* Best Witness is available at $10 from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20003.
* The bizarre story of Roy Bullock, the ADL's longtime top undercover informant, is told in The Garbage Man, available at $10 from Liberty Library, 300 Independence Ave., SE, Washington, DC 20003.
The following is a list of board members of the New York-based Council of the Americas, a globalist organization composed of banksters and corporate fat cats that is working with the Bush administration to expand NAFTA into a continental free trade zone.
Amb. Cresencio S. Acos, Regional Vice Pres., International
Public Affairs, Latin America & Caribbean AT&T
Donn. B. Aktins, General Manager, IBM Latin America
John E. Avery, Honorary Member, Honorary Member, Past Chairman
Council of the Americas
Alfredo M. Blanco, Pres, Latin America & the Far East
Schering-Plough Corp
Amb. Everett E. Briggs, Honorary Member Past Pres. Council
of the Americas
J. Murfree Butler, Pres. JMB Global Associates Inc.
Juan C. Cappello, Pres. & Managing Partner Latin America
Hill & Knowlton
Eugene Celentano, Pres. Texaco International Marketing
& Manufacturing
Maston N. Cunningham, Ex-Offivio Pres. American Chambers
of Commerce in Latin America
Hamilton Da Silva, Chief Executive Officer, Latin America
Region American Int'l Group, Inc.
George J. Donnelly, Vice Chairman Americas Spencer Stuart
Ludlow Flower, Vice President Government Affairs Galaxy
Latin America
Sergio J. Galvis, Esq. Partner Sullivan & Cromwell
Timothy J. Haas, Pres. Latin America Group The Coca-Cola
Company
Robert C. Helander, Esq. Senior Partner & Chairman,
Latin America Emerging Markets Dept. Kaye, Scholer Fieman, Hays
& Handler, LLP
Robert Herzstein, Esq. Miller & Chevalier, Chartered
David E. Ivy, Senior Partner Vice Pres. Kom/Ferry International
Amb. George W. Landau, Honorary Member Past Pres. Council
of the Americas
Francis R. McAllister, Pres. & Chief Operating Officer
ASARCO Inc.
John t. McCarter, Pres. & Chief Executive Officer GE
Latin America
Amb. Thomas E. McNamera, President, Council of the Americas
Elena C. Mola, Vice President Latin America/Europe CNG
International Corporation
Hon. Robert A. Mosbacher, Sr., Chairman, Council of the
Americas. Chairman Mosbacher Energy Company
John G. Mott Partner, Arthur Andersen LLP
Martha T. Muse, Chairman The Tinker Foundation
Richard C. Nerod, Vice Pres. & Group Executive General
Motors Latin American Operations
Brian d. O'Neill, Managing Director & Latin America
Executive The Chase Manhattan Bank
Jens Olesen, Executive Vice Pres. Latin America/Caribbean
Director McCann-Erickson Worldwide
Richard de J. Osborne, Chairman of the Board(Retired) ASARCO
Incorporated
Quinton Oswald, Pres. Latin America Bristol-Myers Squibb
Company
Andrew C Quale, Jr., Esq. Partner Sidney & Austin
William R. Rhodes, Vice Chairman Citibank, N.A.
Rodman C. Rockefeller, Chairman Pocantico Associates
Federico Sacasa, Group Vice Pres. Bank of America
Alan Stoga, Pres. Zemi Communications, LLC
Michael J. Tangney, Pres. Latin America Colgate-Palmolive
Company
Alberto Verme, Head of Latin American Group Chairman, Latin
American Comm. Salomon Smith Barney Holdings
R. Scott Wallinger, Senior Vice Pres. International Westvaco
Corporation
Grey F. Warner, Vice Pres. Latin America Human Health Merck
& Co., Inc.
Peter E. Weber, President FMC Latin America
Robert E. Wilhelm, Director & Senior Vice President
Exxon Corporation
David Rockefeller, Founder
This list of members of the Council of the Americas was obtained from the group's web site located at www.counciloftheamericas.org *
Could the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been less than completely forthcoming about its interest in your private Internet communications?
Beginning last year, the FBI launched a public relations effort to convince the American public that it wasn't randomly tapping into private Internet communications.
The FBI provided a laundry list of Internet snooping cases, all attributed to "criminal" investigations. But where are the convictions? Who decides who is a ‘suspect" who should be spied upon? Who defines the limits?
For example, does "money laundering" include off-shore banking? You don't know if you are talking to an FBI agent in your "chat room." You cannot know if an agent is reading your email or monitoring your use of the Internet.
The public relations campaign followed revelations about a program called "Carnivore," designed to do what the FBI said it wasn't doing.
Now, internal FBI records show the agency used its controversial Carnivore system 13 times between October 1999 and August 2000 to monitor Internet communications, and a similar device, Etherpeek, another 11 times.
And, records reveal, one unnamed Internet provider is "co-operating" with the feds in reading private e-mails.
The FBI has used Internet eavesdropping tools to track fugitives, drug dealers, extortionists, computer hackers and suspected foreign intelligence agents, documents obtained by the Associated Press through Freedom of Information Act filings show.
Carnivore is a set of software programs for monitoring Internet traffic - e-mails, web pages, chat room conversations and other signals - going to or from a suspect.
Civil liberties groups contend that Carnivore can collect too much information and put ordinary citizens at risk.
While large portions of the FBI documents are blacked out "to protect national security and investigative secrets," they reveal details about the agency's Internet surveillance program, AP reported.
For instance, in January 2000, FBI agents got a wide-ranging order to use a computer wiretap in a gambling and money laundering investigation.
An e-mail from an unidentified agent reads: "We got bank accounts, where money was hidden and other information. Some of the data sent...was instrumental in tying several of the conspirators to the crime. One of the conspirators is offering to pay as part of a plea bargain."
The following month, FBI investigators used Carnivore to catch a fugitive from the U.S. Marshals Service. The Internet provider involved protested in court but was ordered to cooperate.
According to AP, the 24 instances of Internet surveillance also included four investigations of computer hacking, three drug probes, one extortion investigation and an intellectual property case.
The nature of the other cases was not disclosed. The FBI has said that Carnivore has been used in investigations involving national security and attempted domestic terrorism.
One July 2000 e-mail about Carnivore, with the names of both the author and recipient deleted contains the only reference to national security matters: "We have a pending FISA order there and as soon as we get authority to test our software we will be installing it.
FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which enables the FBI to wire tap foreigners in espionage cases.
The FBI 2002 budget request includes more than $13 million for Internet surveillance, $2.5 million more than this year. Most of the new money would go for research and development.
In justifying the budget, the FBI cybertechnology lab said the number of requests for Internet wiretaps from FBI field offices increased by 1,850 percent from 1997 to 1999. The exact number of requests was not disclosed.*
For decades, stories have been circulating about the potential for the virus that causes AIDS to be spread by mosquitoes. Now, a doctor has come forward saying it is possible.
AIDS is caused by a retrovirus and extensive research by virologists has shown that AIDS has no traceable background.
All other virus groups have clearly defined ancestry but not the virus that causes AIDS. This would indicate that the deadly virus may have been developed in a laboratory and is not a natural mutation.
The AIDS virus may have been accidentally developed and released either during the course of cancer research or, more seriously, as the direct result of governmental experimentation with a virus that would lower the immune system of opposing military forces and render them vulnerable to common diseases such as swine flu or German measles.
Opposing troops could be rendered so ill with these common diseases that they would be incapable of any kind of defense and therefore easily defeated.
AIDS clearly appears to have linked itself with other major and very serious diseases and with disastrous results. A recent tremendous upsurge in tuberculosis, long considered to be a vanishing disease. Well under control, an increase in Alzheimer's disease and a sharp increase in one form of muscular dystrophy have been linked to the AIDS epidemic.
Aids is at epidemic levels in some areas of the world, mainly in the tropics. Parts of Central Africa have 75 percent to 95 percent of the population infected and a devastating die-off is expected within the next 10 years.
Also, major infestations are to be found in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Southern Florida and Mexico. The tropical areas of Southeast Asia and China are also seriously affected.
The AIDS virus has been found
repeatedly in blood-sucking insects and can be spread by their
feeding. The World Health Organization has discovered massive
insect infestations in the Central African Republic and the mosquito
has been cited as the major factor in person-to-person infection.
The female mosquito must feed at least once on the blood of a warm-blooded animal, or human, to develop eggs. The female mosquito has long been identified as a transmitter of malaria, yellow fever and other disease organisms in tropical regions. Mosquitoes in temperate zones are less dangerous from the disease standpoint but have been established as a vector for human encephalitis.
A female mosquito, in other words, is nothing less than a flying hypodermic needle and could be considered as deadly as any drug-users' syringe.
In 1986, Dr. Mark Whiteside of the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Miami prepared an opinion paper for a California attorney on the subject of the transmission of the AIDS virus through mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects.
This paper caused instant alarm in the offices of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control ad Prevention in Atlanta.
It was felt that although Whiteside's paper was technically valid, his conclusions could well create a panic if published.
Copies of this devastating report were never publicized. The question of the common mosquito as a significant spreader of the AIDS virus disappeared in a loud, official discussion of the African green monkey, dirty hypodermic needles and homosexual sex as the major sources for the spread of the AIDS epidemic.
Whiteside writes: "I believe that AIDS is an environmental (probably insect transmitted) disease in the tropics with secondary transmission by other blood mechanisms, i.e. transfusions, contaminated needles and sexual practice that leads to breaks in skin or mucosa. The role of environmental factors...has been unfortunately neglected. These issues have great significance for prevention and control of AIDS."*
A copy of Dr. Whiteside's report ($5 each, shipping and handling included) can be ordered from The SPOTLIGHT, 300 Independence Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. 20003.
Reputable figures have come forward to expose a criminal cover-up of Illegal drug smuggling in Mena, Ark., that ties in an Arkansas congressman just appointed by the Bush administration to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.
George W. Bush's nomination of Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.)
to head the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is a 
crushing blow to those who couldn't
bring themselves to believe the sordid stories about the president
consorting with drug smuggler Barry Seal.
Hutchinson, a former western Arkansas U.S. attorney, was directly involved in the Mena drug smuggling operation, producing the critical legal "protection" necessary for any operation of that size and magnitude and acting to squelch whatever legal action citizen outrage prompted.
As reported in the new book Barry & the "Boys,"(1) and a variety of independent sources, Bush had much more than a nodding acquaintance with Barry Seal, the biggest drug smuggler in American history, and his notorious Mena operation.
In addition to the people already on record regarding Hutchinson's coziness with the Mena cocaine smuggling, numerous witnesses have stepped forward for the first time on Hutchinson in Barry & the "Boys."
Finis Duvall, the Arkansas state police commander in charge of Mena, said that on at least one occasion Hutchinson, when he was U.S. attorney, "took care" of a Mena legal entanglement for Seal that has never surfaced in the press.
Duval said the Arkansas state police didn't try to develop a case against the Mena drug smuggler because it was well-known that he was being "protected" by Hutchinson.
"We always knew we couldn't prosecute Barry Seal, no matter what we got on him, because of the politics involved in the Western Judicial District," Duvall said.
Then there are Hutchinson's recent business dealing with drug smugglers.
Recently, a Seal drug smuggling associate, Michael Roy Fugler, took an Internet company called Netivation public.
Netivation.com portrays itself as an Internet public policy and political web site, offering a package of fund-raising services to candidates and campaigns.
The Virginia State Democratic Party, for example, raised money for Netivation.com to produce web sites for its candidates. Netivation.com received a percentage of campaign contributions made to candidates via the web pages.
It also publishes the U.S. Congress Factbook, and has a major Internet site for campaign fund-raising.
After going public, Netivation immediately signed Hutchinson as marketing "poster boy."
Fugler, however, was no mere legal counsel to Seal. Rather, Fugler was an integral part of the smuggling organization. By the mid 1970s, Fugler was deeply involved in all of Seal's various businesses, including the "front" sign companies.
Several of Seal's associates gave accounts of Fugler's activities, including the time he left a briefcase with over $100,000 sitting on the front seat of a rental car at Baton Rouge airport and was too afraid to go back to retrieve it.
DRUG-FREE AMERICA?
Hutchinson has served as a member of the House Speaker's Task Force for a Drug-Free America.
The task force has a mandate "to seek out new and more effective approaches to combating the threat of drug use among the nation's youth."
Hutchinson made some tough-talking speeches to community groups in Arkansas about cleaning up what even he had been forced to acknowledge was "a haven for international drug trafficking" where Seal had continued to operate from an air-field in Mena, just a few miles from Hutchinson's office.
Maybe the sound of the big C-123s rumbling overhead had scared him, but observers of Hutchinson's lack of performance grew increasingly skeptical of his crime-fighting credentials.
Hutchinson's action never once matched his rhetoric.
Former IRS agent William Duncan had been the first to take his information on Hutchinson public.
In a deposition for the Arkansas attorney general, Duncan was asked, "Are you stating now under oath that you believe that the investigation in and around the Mena airport of money laundering was covered up by the U.S. attorney?"
Duncan replied: "It was covered up."*
(1) Barry and the "Boys" (item #431) is available for $30 from Liberty Library, 300 Indepence Avenue SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. Or call toll-free 800-522-6292 and charge to Visa or Mastercard.
What's the connection between President
Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and a Mexican drug
lord? And why does the mainstream media ignore stories widely
circulated by Mexican newspapers.
Mexico's righ drug lords held a peace summit in Apodaca recently and agreed that they should stop shedding mutual blood and instead collaborate on sales to the United States and bribing government officials, Associated Press reports.
One of Mexico's most notorious drug lords, banker Roberto Hernandez Ramirex, is a friend of Mexican President Vicente Fox who has private political connections to Bush, three Mexican newspapers reported.
Shortly after the high-level drug smuggler summit, President Bush met with Fox in Mexico City.
Though obviously widely available, these stories of intrigue have been largely ignored in the mainstream media in the United States.
The charge that Fox is a crony of Hornandex was made by three newspapers: Por Esto!, El Universal and La Jorada.
Evidence linking Hornandez to narcotic was so solid that a court threw out his libel suit against Por Esto!, according to The Village Voice.
Hernandez, according to Forbes, could not even afford an American Express card in 1980. Now, Hernandez maintains a massive estate in Cancun and has an income of $29 million a year.
The Dallas Morning News reported back on July 9, 2000, that Robert Allyn who worked on the Bush campaign, secretly worked for three years on the Fox campaign, too.
Allyn "most likely would have known abut the alleged connection between Fox and the drug runners," pointed out investigative journalist Tom Flocco.
Hernandez's apparent purchase of White House influence is bipartisan and long-standing. President Clinton visited in February 1999 and met at Hernandez's island ranch near Cancun, The New York Times reported.
The American press corps was aware of Hornandez's drug dealings because the Mexican newspaper Por Esto! Carried extensive stories on the subject at the time.
Former Boston writer Al Giordano lavishly praised the newspaper's work, Flocco said. Yet it was entirely ignored by American journalists, more than 90 percent of whom voted for Clinton.
Allyn had created a series of campaign ads defending Bush's environmental record against Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) Then his rival for the Republican nomination.
Allyn also made 40 trips to Mexico to help the Fox campaign over a three-year period, using fake names to avoid media detection, Flocco reported.
The meeting of the drug lords, recently reported by AP, occurred Jan. 26-28, shortly after Fox visited Bush in Austin and before Bush visited Fox in Mexico in February in his first foreign trip as president.
What hold does Hernandez have on Fox? And why is Allyn so intimately involved with Fox and Bush and Silent about Hernandez?
"U.S. authorities are managing the illegal drug trade in Mexico," wrote Mario Menendez, editor of Por Esto!
Despite losing an earlier libel suit, Hernandez has hired Bilderberg member Vernon Jordan's Washington law firm to sue Menendez.
Conveniently, two Bilderberg senators - Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) a Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) - are pushing legislation to end the annual process under which the United States is required to assess Mexico's performance in fighting drug trafficking.*
Could critical evidence that disappeared during the OKC investigation be among files the FBI claims it "found" recently?
Two pieces of vital information abut the Oklahoma City bombing that were reported exclusively by The SPOTLIGHT may be among documents recently retrieved from FBI files. These reportedly concern the widely-held belief that the terrorist act was a well-planned conspiracy.
The SPOTLIGHT reported April 9 that when Timothy McVeigh was arrested by state police while leaving Oklahoma city after the blast, among personal items taken from him was a roll of exposed film.
Retired FBI Senior Agent in Charge Ted L. Gunderson told The SPOTLIGHT that the film had been inventoried at the time of McVeigh's booking by Oklahoma state police officials.
The information was revealed to Gunderson in an extended interview with an investigator for McVeigh's defense team, headed by Attorney Steven Jones.
The investigator said that when the FBI took custody of McVeigh from the Oklahoma state police and arrested him for the bombing, they took the roll of film.
That film, according to the investigator, was never seen again.
Are the photographs that were on it, Gunderson now wonders, among the documents now handed over to attorneys for McVeigh and his supposed accomplice in the crime, Terry Nichols? Do they contain shots of others, like a "John Doe No. 2"? Is that why the photos were withheld?
Jones has been featured in numerous recent television news interviews insisting, as he had in the 1996 trial of McVeigh, That there was an intricate conspiracy behind the terrorist bombing.
The photographs from that roll of missing film could, Gunderson said, blow the lid off the Oklahoma City bombing once and for all.
Also, Gunderson wonders if the trove of documents includes reports or information submitted to the Justice Department by the late Dr. Louis "Jolly" West, a long-time CIA asset in the field of mind control.
West has been linked to the MK-Ultra mind-control project, which was supposed to have been shut down by the CIA decades ago, but many expect is still active.
Soon after the arrest of McVeigh, Gunderson learned from a colleague that West, who gained public notoriety by killing an elephant with an overdose of the mind altering drug LSD, had visited McVeigh while in custody (SPOTLIGHT April 16).
Gunderson, who had known West for years and had discussed with him on several occasions satanic and religious cults, telephoned the "Dr. Strangelove" of the CIA, but he was not in his office.
Instead, Gunderson spoke briefly with an aide to West and learned that in fact the doctor had visited McVeigh and would be back to see him.
McVeigh had told his friends, the Nichols brothers - Terry and James - that he had "a chip" implanted in one of his buttocks.
McVeigh has been granted a request that his body not be autopsies. That autopsy would have been performed by Oklahoma, not federal pathologists. If a chip exists they could have found it.
McVeigh is not the only high-profile federal prisoner to have reportedly been examined by West.
Others include Jack Ruby, the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald, who supposedly assassinated President Kennedy, and Sirhan Sirhan, who supposedly killed President Kennedy's brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.*
A prominent televangelist - a pillar of the religious right - has been caught putting business ahead of his God.
TV preacher Pat Robertson, who once warned his flock against
reading The SPOTLIGHT, 
has
revealed where his interests really lie.
The former presidential candidate, described by British journalist Tony Harnden as "a pillar of the religious right," has "plunged his Christian Coalition into turmoil by declining to speak out against forced abortions in Red China.
In an interview on CNN, the wealthy televangelist came down on the side of business over God.
Robertson, 71, was "startlingly reluctant to condemn Peking's brutally repressive regime when asked his views on the Communist Chinese' policy of forced abortions," wrote Harnden in the London newspaper The Telegraph.
"Pastor Pat," who has major business interests in Red China, said Peking's leaders were "doing what they have to do" to prevent a population explosion. He also told the CNN audience:
"They've got 1.2 billion people and they don't know what to do. If every family over there was allowed to have three or four children, the population would be completely unsustainable. Right now, they run the risk of tremendous unemployment. So I think that right now they're doing what they have to do. I don't agree with the forced abortion, but I don't think the United States needs to interfere with what they're doing internally in this regard."
Senior figures on the religious right say Robertson's comments could turn out to be the death knell for the Christian Coalition.
Charles Donovan of the Family Research Council told reporters he was "sadened and surprised" by Robertson's comments, while Concerned Women for america issued a statement saying: "Babies are not the causes of china's problems. Communism is."
LET'S CLARIFY THAT
After the CNN broadcast, Robertson hurriedly issued a statement "clarifying" his "unrehearsed remarks" and expressing his "deeply held convictions" against abortion, wrote Harnden.
But Gary Bauer, head of the Campaign for Working Families and a presidential candidate last year, said few Christian conservatives are satisfied .
"Pat's been investing in China for a number of years and, as his investments have grown, so his willingness to criticize the Chinese Communists has declined," he said. "It will take some time for him to rebuild his credibility."*