1930s depression in sight

Daily Telegraph

BIS warns of Great Depression dangers from credit
spree

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Last Updated: 9:02am BST 25/06/2007

The Bank for International Settlements, the world's
most prestigious financial body, has warned that years
of loose monetary policy has fuelled a dangerous
credit bubble, leaving the global economy more
vulnerable to another 1930s-style slump than generally
understood.

"Virtually nobody foresaw the Great Depression of the
1930s, or the crises which affected Japan and
Southeast Asia in the early and late 1990s. In fact,
each downturn was preceded by a period of
non-inflationary growth exuberant enough to lead many
commentators to suggest that a 'new era' had arrived",
said the bank.

The BIS, the ultimate bank of central bankers, pointed
to a confluence a worrying signs, citing mass issuance
of new-fangled credit instruments, soaring levels of
household debt, extreme appetite for risk shown by
investors, and entrenched imbalances in the world
currency system.

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"Behind each set of concerns lurks the common factor
of highly accommodating financial conditions. Tail
events affecting the global economy might at some
point have much higher costs than is commonly
supposed," it said.

The BIS said China may have repeated the disastrous
errors made by Japan in the 1980s when Tokyo let rip
with excess liquidity.

"The Chinese economy seems to be demonstrating very
similar, disquieting symptoms," it said, citing
ballooning credit, an asset boom, and "massive
investments" in heavy industry.

Some 40pc of China's state-owned enterprises are
loss-making, exposing the banking system to likely
stress in a downturn.

It said China's growth was "unstable, unbalance,
uncoordinated and unsustainable", borrowing a line
from Chinese premier Wen Jiabao

In a thinly-veiled rebuke to the US Federal Reserve,
the BIS said central banks were starting to doubt the
wisdom of letting asset bubbles build up on the
assumption that they could safely be "cleaned up"
afterwards - which was more or less the strategy
pursued by former Fed chief Alan Greenspan after the
dotcom bust.

It said this approach had failed in the US in 1930 and
in Japan in 1991 because excess debt and investment
build up in the boom years had suffocating effects.

While cutting interest rates in such a crisis may
help, it has the effect of transferring wealth from
creditors to debtors and "sowing the seeds for more
serious problems further ahead."

The bank said it was far from clear whether the US
would be able to shrug off the consequences of its
latest imbalances, citing a current account deficit
running at 6.5pc of GDP, a rise in US external
liabilities by over $4 trillion from 2001 to 2005, and
an unprecedented drop in the savings rate. "The dollar
clearly remains vulnerable to a sudden loss of private
sector confidence," it said.

The BIS said last year's record issuance of $470bn in
collateralized debt obligations (CDO), and a further
$524bn in "synthetic" CDOs had effectively opened the
lending taps even further. "Mortgage credit has become
more available and on easier terms to borrowers almost
everywhere. Only in recent months has the downside
become more apparent," it said.

CDO's are bond-like packages of mortgages and other
forms of debt. The BIS said banks transfer the
exposure to buyers of the securities, giving them
little incentive to assess risk or carry out due
diligence.

Mergers and takeovers reached $4.1 trillion worldwide
last year.

Leveraged buy-outs touched $753bn, with an average
debt/cash flow ratio hitting a record 5.4.

"Sooner or later the credit cycle will turn and
default rates will begin to rise," said the bank.

"The levels of leverage employed in private equity
transactions have raised questions about their
longer-term sustainability. The strategy depends on
the availability of cheap funding," it said.

That may not last much longer.

bukovsky warns of european dictatorship

https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865

Former Soviet Dissident Warns For EU Dictatorship

Paul Belien

2006-02-27  

Bukovsky and Belien

Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet
dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way
to becoming another Soviet Union. In a speech he
delivered in Brussels last week Mr Bukovsky called the
EU a “monster” that must be destroyed, the sooner the
better, before it develops into a fullfledged
totalitarian state.

Mr Bukovsky paid a visit to the European Parliament on
Thursday at the invitation of Fidesz, the Hungarian
Civic Forum. Fidesz, a member of the European
Christian Democrat group, had invited the former
Soviet dissident over from England, where he lives, on
the occasion of this year’s 50th anniversary of the
1956 Hungarian Uprising. After his morning meeting
with the Hungarians, Mr Bukovsky gave an afternoon
speech in a Polish restaurant in the Trier straat,
opposite the European Parliament, where he spoke at
the invitation of the United Kingdom Independence
Party, of which he is a patron.


An interview with Vladimir Bukovsky about the
impending EUSSRIn his speech Mr Bukovsky referred to
confidential documents from secret Soviet files which
he was allowed to read in 1992. These documents
confirm the existence of a “conspiracy” to turn the
European Union into a socialist organization. I
attended the meeting and taped the speech. A
transcript, as well as the audio fragment (approx. 15
minutes) can be found below. I also had a brief
interview with Mr Bukovsky (4 minutes), a transcript
and audio fragment of which can also be found below.
The interview about the European Union had to be cut
short because Mr Bukovsky had other engagements, but
it brought back some memories to me, as I had
interviewed Vladimir Bukovsky twenty years ago, in
1986, when the Soviet Union, the first monster that he
so valiantly fought, was still alive and thriving.

Mr Bukovsky was one of the heroes of the 20th century.
As a young man he exposed the use of psychiatric
imprisonment against political prisoners in the former
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1917-1991)
and spent a total of twelve years (1964-1976), from
his 22nd to his 34th year, in Soviet jails, labour
camps and psychiatric institutions. In 1976 the
Soviets expelled him to the West. In 1992 he was
invited by the Russian government to serve as an
expert testifying at the trial conducted to determine
whether the Soviet Communist Party had been a criminal
institution. To prepare for his testimony Mr Bukovsky
was granted access to a large number of documents from
Soviet secret archives. He is one of the few people
ever to have seen these documents because they are
still classified. Using a small handheld scanner and a
laptop computer, however, he managed to copy many
documents (some with high security clearance),
including KGB reports to the Soviet government.

An interview with Vladimir Bukovsky
Listen to it here

Paul Belien: You were a very famous Soviet dissident
and now you are drawing a parallel between the
European Union and the Soviet Union. Can you explain
this?

Vladimir Bukovsky: I am referrring to structures, to
certain ideologies being instilled, to the plans, the
direction, the inevitable expansion, the obliteration
of nations, which was the purpose of the Soviet Union.
Most people do not understand this. They do not know
it, but we do because we were raised in the Soviet
Union where we had to study the Soviet ideology in
school and at university. The ultimate purpose of the
Soviet Union was to create a new historic entity, the
Soviet people, all around the globe. The same is true
in the EU today. They are trying to create a new
people. They call this people “Europeans”, whatever
that means.

According to Communist doctrine as well as to many
forms of Socialist thinking, the state, the national
state, is supposed to wither away. In Russia, however,
the opposite happened. Instead of withering away the
Soviet state became a very powerful state, but the
nationalities were obliterated. But when the time of
the Soviet collapse came these suppressed feelings of
national identity came bouncing back and they nearly
destroyed the country. It was so frightening.

PB: Do you think the same thing can happen when the
European Union collapses?

VB: Absolutely, you can press a spring only that much,
and the human psyche is very resilient you know. You
can press it, you can press it, but don’t forget it is
still accumulating a power to rebound. It is like a
spring and it always goes to overshoot.

PB: But all these countries that joined the European
Union did so voluntarily.

VB: No, they did not. Look at Denmark which voted
against the Maastricht treaty twice. Look at Ireland
[which voted against the Nice treaty]. Look at many
other countries, they are under enormous pressure. It
is almost blackmail. Switzerland was forced to vote
five times in a referendum. All five times they have
rejected it, but who knows what will happen the sixth
time, the seventh time. It is always the same thing.
It is a trick for idiots. The people have to vote in
referendums until the people vote the way that is
wanted. Then they have to stop voting. Why stop? Let
us continue voting. The European Union is what
Americans would call a shotgun marriage.

PB: What do you think young people should do about the
European Union? What should they insist on, to
democratize the institution or just abolish it?

VB: I think that the European Union, like the Soviet
Union, cannot be democratized. Gorbachev tried to
democratize it and it blew up. This kind of structures
cannot be democratized.

PB: But we have a European Parliament which is chosen
by the people.

VB: The European Parliament is elected on the basis of
proportional representation, which is not true
representation. And what does it vote on? The
percentage of fat in yoghurt, that kind of thing. It
is ridiculous. It is given the task of the Supreme
Soviet. The average MP can speak for six minutes per
year in the Chamber. That is not a real parliament.

In 1992 I had unprecedented access to Politburo and
Central Committee secret documents which have been
classified, and still are even now, for 30 years.
These documents show very clearly that the whole idea
of turning the European common market into a federal
state was agreed between the left-wing parties of
Europe and Moscow as a joint project which [Soviet
leader Mikhail] Gorbachev in 1988-89 called our
“common European home.”

The idea was very simple. It first came up in 1985-86,
when the Italian Communists visited Gorbachev,
followed by the German Social-Democrats. They all
complained that the changes in the world, particularly
after [British Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher
introduced privatisation and economic liberalisation,
were threatening to wipe out the achievement (as they
called it) of generations of Socialists and
Social-Democrats – threatening to reverse it
completely. Therefore the only way to withstand this
onslaught of wild capitalism (as they called it) was
to try to introduce the same socialist goals in all
countries at once. Prior to that, the left-wing
parties and the Soviet Union had opposed European
integration very much because they perceived it as a
means to block their socialist goals. From 1985
onwards they completely changed their view. The
Soviets came to a conclusion and to an agreement with
the left-wing parties that if they worked together
they could hijack the whole European project and turn
it upside down. Instead of an open market they would
turn it into a federal state.

According to the [secret Soviet] documents, 1985-86 is
the turning point. I have published most of these
documents. You might even find them on the internet.
But the conversations they had are really eye opening.
For the first time you understand that there is a
conspiracy – quite understandable for them, as they
were trying to save their political hides. In the East
the Soviets needed a change of relations with Europe
because they were entering a protracted and very deep
structural crisis; in the West the left-wing parties
were afraid of being wiped out and losing their
influence and prestige. So it was a conspiracy, quite
openly made by them, agreed upon, and worked out.

In January of 1989, for example, a delegation of the
Trilateral Commission came to see Gorbachev. It
included [former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro]
Nakasone, [former French President Valéry] Giscard
d’Estaing, [American banker David] Rockefeller and
[former US Secretary of State Henry] Kissinger. They
had a very nice conversation where they tried to
explain to Gorbachev that Soviet Russia had to
integrate into the financial institutions of the
world, such as Gatt, the IMF and the World Bank.

In the middle of it Giscard d’Estaing suddenly takes
the floor and says: “Mr President, I cannot tell you
exactly when it will happen – probably within 15 years
– but Europe is going to be a federal state and you
have to prepare yourself for that. You have to work
out with us, and the European leaders, how you would
react to that, how would you allow the other
Easteuropean countries to interact with it or how to
become a part of it, you have to be prepared.”

This was January 1989, at a time when the [1992]
Maastricht treaty had not even been drafted. How the
hell did Giscard d’Estaing know what was going to
happen in 15 years time? And surprise, surprise, how
did he become the author of the European constitution
[in 2002-03]? A very good question. It does smell of
conspiracy, doesn’t it?

Luckily for us the Soviet part of this conspiracy
collapsed earlier and it did not reach the point where
Moscow could influence the course of events. But the
original idea was to have what they called a
convergency, whereby the Soviet Union would mellow
somewhat and become more social-democratic, while
Western Europe would become social-democratic and
socialist. Then there will be convergency. The
structures have to fit each other. This is why the
structures of the European Union were initially built
with the purpose of fitting into the Soviet structure.
This is why they are so similar in functioning and in
structure.

It is no accident that the European Parliament, for
example, reminds me of the Supreme Soviet. It looks
like the Supreme Soviet because it was designed like
it. Similary, when you look at the European Commission
it looks like the Politburo. I mean it does so
exactly, except for the fact that the Commission now
has 25 members and the Politburo usually had 13 or 15
members. Apart from that they are exactly the same,
unaccountable to anyone, not directly elected by
anyone at all. When you look into all this bizarre
activity of the European Union with its 80,000 pages
of regulations it looks like Gosplan. We used to have
an organisation which was planning everything in the
economy, to the last nut and bolt, five years in
advance. Exactly the same thing is happening in the
EU. When you look at the type of EU corruption, it is
exactly the Soviet type of corruption, going from top
to bottom rather than going from bottom to top.

If you go through all the structures and features of
this emerging European monster you will notice that it
more and more resembles the Soviet Union. Of course,
it is a milder version of the Soviet Union. Please, do
not misunderstand me. I am not saying that it has a
Gulag. It has no KGB – not yet – but I am very
carefully watching such structures as Europol for
example. That really worries me a lot because this
organisation will probably have powers bigger than
those of the KGB. They will have diplomatic immunity.
Can you imagine a KGB with diplomatic immunity? They
will have to police us on 32 kinds of crimes – two of
which are particularly worrying, one is called racism,
another is called xenophobia. No criminal court on
earth defines anything like this as a crime [this is
not entirely true, as Belgium already does so – pb].
So it is a new crime, and we have already been warned.
Someone from the British government told us that those
who object to uncontrolled immigration from the Third
World will be regarded as racist and those who oppose
further European integration will be regarded as
xenophobes. I think Patricia Hewitt said this
publicly.

Hence, we have now been warned. Meanwhile they are
introducing more and more ideology. The Soviet Union
used to be a state run by ideology. Today’s ideology
of the European Union is social-democratic, statist,
and a big part of it is also political correctness. I
watch very carefully how political correctness spreads
and becomes an oppressive ideology, not to mention the
fact that they forbid smoking almost everywhere now.
Look at this persecution of people like the Swedish
pastor who was persecuted for several months because
he said that the Bible does not approve homosexuality.
France passed the same law of hate speech concerning
gays. Britain is passing hate speech laws concerning
race relations and now religious speech, and so on and
so forth. What you observe, taken into perspective, is
a systematic introduction of ideology which could
later be enforced with oppressive measures. Apparently
that is the whole purpose of Europol. Otherwise why do
we need it? To me Europol looks very suspicious. I
watch very carefully who is persecuted for what and
what is happening, because that is one field in which
I am an expert. I know how Gulags spring up.

It looks like we are living in a period of rapid,
systematic and very consistent dismantlement of
democracy. Look at this Legislative and Regulatory
Reform Bill. It makes ministers into legislators who
can introduce new laws without bothering to tell
Parliament or anyone. My immediate reaction is why do
we need it? Britain survived two world wars, the war
with Napoleon, the Spanish Armada, not to mention the
Cold War, when we were told at any moment we might
have a nuclear world war, without any need for
introducing this kind legislation, without the need
for suspending our civil liberaties and introducing
emergency powers. Why do we need it right now? This
can make a dictatorship out of your country in no
time.

Today’s situation is really grim. Major political
parties have been completely taken in by the new EU
project. None of them really opposes it. They have
become very corrupt. Who is going to defend our
freedoms? It looks like we are heading towards some
kind of collapse, some kind of crisis. The most likely
outcome is that there will be an economic collapse in
Europe, which in due time is bound to happen with this
growth of expenses and taxes. The inability to create
a competitive environment, the overregulation of the
economy, the bureaucratisation, it is going to lead to
economic collapse. Particularly the introduction of
the euro was a crazy idea. Currency is not supposed to
be political.

I have no doubt about it. There will be a collapse of
the European Union pretty much like the Soviet Union
collapsed. But do not forget that when these things
collapse they leave such devastation that it takes a
generation to recover. Just think what will happen if
it comes to an economic crisis. The recrimination
between nations will be huge. It might come to blows.
Look to the huge number of immigrants from Third World
countries now living in Europe. This was promoted by
the European Union. What will happen with them if
there is an economic collapse? We will probably have,
like in the Soviet Union at the end, so much ethnic
strife that the mind boggles. In no other country were
there such ethnic tensions as in the Soviet Union,
except probably in Yugoslavia. So that is exactly what
will happen here, too. We have to be prepared for
that. This huge edifice of bureaucracy is going to
collapse on our heads.

This is why, and I am very frank about it, the sooner
we finish with the EU the better. The sooner it
collapses the less damage it will have done to us and
to other countries. But we have to be quick because
the Eurocrats are moving very fast. It will be
difficult to defeat them. Today it is still simple. If
one million people march on Brussels today these guys
will run away to the Bahamas. If tomorrow half of the
British population refuses to pay its taxes, nothing
will happen and no-one will go to jail. Today you can
still do that. But I do not know what the situation
will be tomorrow with a fully fledged Europol staffed
by former Stasi or Securitate officers. Anything may
happen.

We are losing time. We have to defeat them. We have to
sit and think, work out a strategy in the shortest
possible way to achieve maximum effect. Otherwise it
will be too late. So what should I say? My conclusion
is not optimistic. So far, despite the fact that we do
have some anti-EU forces in almost every country, it
is not enough. We are losing and we are wasting time.

on peut manifester librement a cuba

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http://www.voltairenet.org/article146615.html

La faillite morale de l’Union européenne

par Salim Lamrani*

L’Union européenne agonise en tant qu’entité politique. Son rôle sur la scène internationale est insignifiant car elle est incapable d’adopter une politique étrangère indépendante de la ligne prônée par Washington. Elle suit docilement l’aventurisme belliqueux de l’administration Bush notamment à l’égard de Cuba. En effet, elle se prête aux campagnes contre le gouvernement de La Havane avec une servilité déconcertante. Pire encore, elle se rend complice des violations massives des droits de l’homme commises par la CIA, complicité qui l’entraîne vers une faillite morale sans précédents.

L’hypocrisie de la Suède

Le 12 mars 2007, lors de la réunion de la Commission des droits de l’homme des Nations unies à Genèvre, le ministre des Affaires étrangères suédois, Carl Bildt, a accusé Cuba de ne pas respecter les droits de l’homme. Cette stigmatisation est purement idéologique car, selon le rapport 2006 d’Amnesty International, Cuba est, de loin, la nation qui viole le moins les droits de l’homme sur le continent américain, du Canada jusqu’à l’Argentine [1]. Elle illustre également l’hypocrisie de la Suède et de l’Europe en général, promptes à s’en prendre à la petite nation caribéenne agressée depuis près d’un demi-siècle par les Etats-Unis, tout en maintenant un silence assourdissant sur les crimes commis par la Maison-Blanche à travers le monde [2].

Le délégué cubain, Rodolfo Reyes Rodríguez, a pour sa part regretté que la Suède se prête à la stratégie de propagande étasunienne, dont le but n’est autre que de justifier les implacables sanctions économiques dont est victime la population cubaine depuis 1960. Il a également pointé du doigt le manque d’autorité morale du gouvernement scandinave pour donner des leçons sur les droits de l’homme [3].

En effet, en mai 2005, le Comité contre la torture de l’ONU a condamné la Suède pour avoir expulsé vers le Bangladesh une jeune réfugiée politique qui avait été violée par des policiers. Selon le Comité, les autorités suédoises n’avaient pas nié le fait qu’elle avait été persécutée, emprisonnée, torturée et violée, mais avaient quand même procédé à son expulsion [4].

En novembre 2005, la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme a considéré de manière unanime que l’expulsion de quatre Syriens s’apparentait « à une violation de leur droit à la vie et de l’interdiction de tout traitement inhumain ou dégradant ». La Suède a également procédé à d’autres expulsions vers des pays pratiquant la torture, toutes condamnées par le Comité contre la torture. Les droits des réfugiés et demandeurs d’asile ont été bafoués surtout lorsqu’il s’agissait de Roms, dont les demandes étaient considérées par les autorités comme « manifestement infondées [5] ».

En guise de réponse, Stockholm a dénoncé les déclarations « inacceptables » du responsable cubain devant la Commission de Genèvre et a évoqué la possibilité d’une crise diplomatique entre les deux pays. Visiblement, certaines vérités ne sont pas du goût de tout le monde [6].

La provocation des députés italiens

Le 18 mars 2007, un groupe de cinq députés italiens en quête de sensationnalisme a orchestré une provocation dans les rues de La Havane en défilant avec des panneaux politiques exigeant la « liberté » pour les « prisonniers de conscience ». L’objectif recherché par le député européen Marco Capatto, le vice-président du Sénat italien Maurizio Turco, les députés Mateo Meccati et Elisabetta Zamparutti et l’ex députée María Fida Moro, tous membres du parti radical, était de créer un incident avec les autorités cubaines et de déclencher ainsi une campagne médiatique internationale à leur encontre. Mais la provocation était tellement grossière que le gouvernement cubain les a superbement ignorés. Ils ont déambulés dans les rues de la capitale sans être aucunement inquiétés [7].

« A notre grande surprise, il ne s’est rien passé lors de notre manifestation dans les rues. Nous y sommes restés environ une demi-heure et tout était tranquille. Le fait que nous n’ayons pas été arrêtés est quelque chose que je laisse à votre réflexion », a déclaré Marco Capatto, avouant ainsi le but qu’il recherchait. Frustrés, ces derniers se sont résignés à quitter l’Île sans même obtenir la satisfaction d’être expulsés [8].

Deux jours plus tard, le 20 mars 2007, les députés ont effectué une visite à Miami. Cette escale n’avait pas pour but de manifester contre le fait que cette ville abrite et protège des terroristes anti-cubains confessés tels que Orlando Bosch ou José Basulto. Il ne s’agissait pas non plus de dénoncer le fait que Miami organise des activités publiques en faveur de la libération du Ben Laden latino-américain qu’est Luis Posada Carriles, responsable de plus d’une centaine d’assassinats contre des civils innocents. Non, leur voyage n’avait d’autre but que de se réunir l’organisation d’extrême droite cubaine, Madres contra la Represión et de tenir une conférence de presse en sa compagnie. Il s’avère que ce groupuscule, qui reçoit d’importantes subventions de la part de Washington, a entièrement financé le voyage des cinq députés, de Rome jusqu’à Miami en passant par La Havane et Panama, ce qui explique l’étape en Floride [9].

Les députés italiens savaient pertinemment qu’ils ne risquaient strictement rien à Cuba et c’est ce qui explique leur activisme. Auraient-ils le courage d’aller soutenir les dissidents colombiens, guatémaltèques ou honduriens ? Auraient-ils le courage de manifester dans les rues de Washington dénonçant les crimes contre l’humanité commis quotidiennement en Irak, en Afghanistan et à Guantanamo ? Auraient-ils le courage de manifester devant le bureau des services italiens de la sécurité militaire (SISMI) « qui ont joué un rôle actif dans l’enlèvement de l’Imam Abou Omar à Milan en 2003 » avec la complicité du gouvernement de Silvio Berlusconi, selon le rapport de l’Union européenne sur les disparitions orchestrées par la CIA ? La veulerie et la duplicité semblent décidément être à la mode [10].

La complicité de l’Union européenne dans les vols secrets de la CIA et les cas de disparition

Le 14 février 2007, le Parlement européen a rendu public son rapport qui accuse les gouvernements du vieux continent de complicité flagrante avec les cas de disparitions forcées et les enlèvements clandestins orchestrés par la CIA. Comble de la fourberie, une semaine auparavant, le 7 février 2007, ces mêmes gouvernements signaient la Convention des Nations unies contre les « disparitions forcées », qui criminalise l’emploi des geôles secrètes. L’Union européenne est experte dans ce genre de suicide moral [11].

Selon le rapport, les avions de la CIA, transportant en toute illégalité des personnes soupçonnées de liens avec le terrorisme, à destination des centres de torture de Guantanamo, d’Afrique et… d’Europe, ont effectué au moins 1 245 escales dans les aéroports européens. Aucun gouvernement n’ignorait le caractère criminel de ces vols secrets. Des pays européens – dont certains sont membres de l’Union européenne – tels que la Pologne et la Roumanie ont même ouvert sur leurs territoires des centres de torture mis à la disposition des bourreaux étasuniens. D’autres tels que le Royaume-Uni, l’Autriche, l’Allemagne, la Pologne, le Portugal, le Danemark, la Roumanie, l’Espagne et, ironie de l’histoire !, l’Italie et la Suède, ont participé à l’enlèvement de suspects sur leur territoire [12].

Le Parlement a condamné « l’acceptation et la dissimulation de cette pratique, en plusieurs occasions, par les services secrets et les autorités gouvernementales de certains pays européens ». Dans la majorité des cas, ces enlèvements s’accompagnaient d’une « détention au secret et un usage de la torture durant les interrogatoires ». Selon l’ancien ambassadeur du Royaume-Uni en Ouzbékistan, Craig Murray, les échanges de renseignements obtenus sous la torture par les services de pays tiers « avec les services secrets britanniques étaient une pratique connue et tolérée par le gouvernement britannique [13] ».

Ces graves violations des droits de l’homme ont été réalisées avec la pleine connaissance des plus hauts dirigeants de l’Union européenne tels que Javier Solana, secrétaire général du Conseil de l’UE, et Gijs de Vries, coordinateur de la lutte antiterroriste, qui ont été « incapables de fournir des réponses satisfaisantes » sur leur rôle dans ces exactions. Personne ne peut prétendre ignorer cette terrible réalité. Ainsi, tant que l’Union européenne fera preuve de ce genre de double morale et de dépravation en s’en prenant lâchement à une petite nation du Tiers-monde tout en occultant ses crimes, elle continuera de se morfondre dans les affres du discrédit sur la scène internationale et aux yeux du monde.

[1] Salim Lamrani, Cuba, l’Union européenne et les droits de l’homme (Pantin : Le Temps des Cerises, 2007), à paraître

[2] Agence France Presse, « Tensos los vínculos entre Cuba y Suecia », 22 mars 2007

[3] Ibid

[4] Amnesty International, « Rapport annuel 2006 : Suède », avril 2006

[5] Ibid

[6] Agence France Presse, « Tensos los vínculos entre Cuba y Suecia », op. Cit

[7] Javier Galeano, « Diputados italianos se suman a protesta de las Damas de Blanco », 19 mars 2007

[8] Rui Ferreira, « En Miami diputados italianos que protestaron en Cuba », El Nuevo Herald, 20 mars 2007

[9] Ibid. ; El Duende, « Por donde le entra el agua al coco a los italianos », La Radio Miami, 21 mars 2007

[10] Parlement européen, « Activités de la CIA en Europe : le Parlement adopte son rapport final et presse el Conseil d’obtenir davantage d’informations des Etats membres », 14 février 2007 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/... (site consulté le 26 mars 2007) ; Ignacio Ramonet, « CIA, vols secrets », Le Monde Diplomatique, mars 2007, p. 1.

[11] Ibid

[12] Ibid

[13] Ibid

Salim Lamrani Enseignant chargé de cours à l’Université Paris-Descartes et à l’Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée et journaliste français, spécialiste des relations entre Cuba et les États-Unis. Auteur de Cuba face à l’empire : Propagande, guerre économique et terrorisme d’État, dernier ouvrage publié en français : Double Morale. Cuba, l’Union européenne et les droits de l’homme.

bin laden not "most wanted" by fbi!

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FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"


June 6, 2006 – This past weekend, a thought provoking e-mail circulated through Internet news groups, and was sent to the Muckraker Report by Mr. Paul V. Sheridan (Winner of the 2005 Civil Justice Foundation Award), bringing attention to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist web page for Usama Bin Laden.[1] (See bottom of this web page for Most Wanted page) In the e-mail, the question is asked, “Why doesn’t Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster make any direct connection with the events of September 11, 2001?” The FBI says on its Bin Laden web page that Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. According to the FBI, these attacks killed over 200 people. The FBI concludes its reason for “wanting” Bin Laden by saying, “In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorists attacks throughout the world.”

On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.”

Surprised by the ease in which this FBI spokesman made such an astonishing statement, I asked, “How this was possible?” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” I asked, “How does that work?” Tomb continued, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice than decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, Bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connected Bin Laden to 9/11.”

It shouldn’t take long before the full meaning of these FBI statements start to prick your brain and raise your blood pressure. If you think the way I think, in quick order you will be wrestling with a barrage of very powerful questions that must be answered. First and foremost, if the U.S. government does not have enough hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to “smoke him out of his cave?” The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” Bin Laden and the Taliban. Through the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush Administration told the American people that Usama Bin Laden was Public Enemy Number One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001. Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.

Next is the Bin Laden “confession” video that was released by the U.S. government on December 13, 2001. Most Americans remember this video. It was the video showing Bin Laden with a few of his comrades recounting with delight the September 11 terrorist attacks against the United States. The Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said, “There was no doubt of bin Laden’s responsibility for the September 11 attacks before the tape was discovered.”[2] What Rumsfeld implied by his statement was that Bin Laden was the known mastermind behind 9/11 even before the “confession video” and that the video simply served to confirm what the U.S. government already knew; that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

In a BBC News article[3] reporting on the “9/11 confession video” release, President Bush is said to have been hesitant to release the tape because he knew it would be a vivid reminder to many people of their loss. But, he also knew it would be “a devastating declaration” of Bin Laden’s guilt. “Were going to get him,” said President Bush. “Dead or alive, it doesn’t matter to me.”

In a CNN article[4] regarding the Bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that “the tape removes any doubt that the U.S. military campaign targeting bin Laden and his associates is more than justified.” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “The tape’s release is central to informing people in the outside world who don’t believe bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks.” Shelby went on to say “I don’t know how they can be in denial after they see this tape.” Well Senator Shelby, apparently the Federal Bureau of Investigation isn’t convinced by the taped confession, so why are you?

The Muckraker Report attempted to secure a reference to the U.S. government authenticating the Bin Laden “confession video”, to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and U.S. Congress, along with the dead stream media, played the video as if it was authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? After all, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficking, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel openly talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand jury. The identified participants of the video would be indicted, and if captured, the video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court. So why is the Bin Laden “confession video” not carrying the same weight with the FBI?

Remember, on June 5, 2006, FBI spokesman, Chief of Investigative Publicity Rex Tomb said, “The FBI has no hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11.” This should be headline news worldwide. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the U.S. media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of September 11, 2001? Why has the U.S. media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government’s account? And on those few rare occasions when a 9/11 dissenter has made it upon the airways, why has the mainstream media ridiculed the guest as a conspiracy nut, rather than listen to the evidence that clearly raises valid questions about the government’s 9/11 account? Why is the Big Media Conglomeration blindly content with the government’s 9/11 story when so much verifiable information to the contrary is available with a few clicks of a computer mouse?

Who is it that is controlling the media message, and how is it that the U.S. media has indicted Usama Bin Laden for the events of September 11, 2001, but the U.S. government has not? How is it that the FBI has no “hard evidence” connecting Usama Bin Laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the U.S. media has played the Bin Laden - 9/11 connection story for five years now as if it has conclusive evidence that Bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the twin towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?

…No hard evidence connecting Usama Bin Laden to 9/11… Think about it.

[1] Federal Bureau of Investigation, Most Wanted Terrorists, Usama Bin Laden, http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm, [Accessed May 31, 2006]
[2] United States Department of Defense, News Release, U.S. Releases Videotape of Osama bin Laden, December 13, 2001, http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2001/b12132001_bt630-01.html, [Accessed June 5, 2006]
[3] BBC News, Bin Laden video angers New Yorkers, December 14, 2001, Peter Gould, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1711874.stm, [Accessed June 5, 2006]
[4] CNN, Bin Laden on tape: Attacks ‘benefited Islam greatly”, December 14, 2001, http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/12/13/ret.bin.laden.videotape, [Accessed June 5, 2006]

"james bond" plot to down putin behind litvinenko

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http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070430_117

Wayne Madsen is a former US Navy officer and a former NSA employee..

The Litvinenko radiation poisoning and a mysterious plane crash

March 21, 2007

Amid the hype over the radiation poisoning death of ex-Russian intelligence agent and Boris Berezovsky colleague Alexander Litvinenko last November, a little-reported story about a helicopter crash went largely unnoticed. In what may have been an indication of who and what was behind the Litvinenko poisoning and the attempts by Italian right-wing politicians to discredit both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, the activities of a mysterious firm tied to Berezovsky and his former Yukos Oil business partner, Tel Aviv-based Leonid Nevzlin, are under renewed scrutiny.

On January 2, 2007, WMR reported: "In another full circle between Tel Aviv and Italy, Menatep's [Group Menatep -- the Gibraltar-based firm behind Yukos since renamed GML] former chief for investment management Alexei Globuvich said, after his arrest last Spring in Italy, that Nevzlin may have tried to poison him and his family after mercury was found in his office, home, and car. Globuvich said he was a threat because he knew where Yukos and Menatep assets were located. Shortly thereafter, a Scotland Yard officer handed over to the British security firm ISC Global plans by the British government to extradite a number of Russian-Israeli exiles in Britain to Russia. ISC Global had been part of Menatep and Nevzlin was one of its chief customers. The London offices of ISC Global, now known as RISC Management, were visited in November 2006 by Litvinenko and Russian businessmen Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun and traces of polonium-210 were discovered there. According to the Sunday Times of London, Russian police are also investigating whether the poisoning of Litvinenko and the attempted poisoning of Globuvich are connected to the radiation poisoning death two years ago of Roman Tsepov, a former bodyguard of Putin when he was deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. Tsepov was involved in the Russian government's tracking of Yukos assets. Also of interest are connections to the June 2004 assassination of Forbes Russian edition editor-in-chief Paul Klebnikov, a U.S. citizen who wrote a damaging expose of Berezovsky. Three Chechen contract killers were charged in Klebnikov's murder. The same Russian-Israeli mob ring is also being looked at in the investigation of the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of Novaya Gazeta as a way to embarrass Putin."

Attention is being drawn to a May 14, 2006 article in the Times of London. In March 2004, British attorney Stephen Curtis, the chairman of ISC Global, died, along with his pilot, in a helicopter crash near Bournemouth Airport. The two were on their way to Dublin. The Times reported a James Bond-like secret project by ISC Global, jailed Yukos tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Nevzlin to launch an international smear campaign to discredit Putin and other members of the Russian government, including Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, other ministers, and officials of state-owned energy companies. Doctored "compromising" photographs were to be used in the smear campaign. Also targeted by the Russian gangsters was Russian tycoon and Chelsea football team owner Roman Abramovich, who had earned the wrath of Nevzlin, Berezovsky, and others because Putin allowed Abramovich to retain his billions in wealth and travel freely to and from Russia.

According to The Times, Curtis, who managed a £16 billion portfolio for Menatep, was under surveillance and had been threatened in the weeks before his death. He told a relative, "If anything happens in the next two weeks then it won't be an accident." After his death, Curtis' home was found to contain a small magnet used for a bugging device. It also was revealed at the Curtis death inquest that the British attorney had been in contact with British police "on many occasions" concerning the activities of his Russian clients.

ISC was to obtain a luxury yacht, the Constellation, that would become a headquarters for exiled Russian-Israeli oligarchs (a la "SPECTRE"-- SPecial Executive for Control, Terrorism, Extortion, and Revenge) wanted by Moscow for fraud. The yacht would have its own armed SWAT team and crew to repel any attacks. The yacht would be outfitted with bullet proof glass and "white noise" generators to prevent eavesdropping. Prostitutes invited on board would be specially screened by a "trusted agency." Nevzlin authorized the anti-Putin project in a 12-page dossier marked "Secret." In the document, Putin is referred to as "X." British ex-SAS commandos were to be used as personal bodyguards to protect the exiled Russian tycoons from kidnapping and extradition by Russian agents.

Fact vs. fiction: No difference with the forces out to bring down Russian President Putin.

On January 11 this year, Yuri Golubev, 64, a Yukos cofounder, along with Khodorkovsky, and colleague of former Yukos deputy chairman Nevzlin, was found dead in his bed in London. Police ruled the cause of death as "natural causes." Our sources in Britain report that the scandals surrounding British Prime Minister Tony Blair and key members of his government are part and parcel of the fact that Britain's government has been co-opted by the Russian-Israeli mobsters, much in the same way that their American colleagues, acting through neo-con proxies, have captured control of the Bush administration. The British honors-for-cash scandal, British defense contractor malfeasance, and phony intelligence about Iraqi WMDs laundered through the British government, are all results of the mobsters' control of Blair and his advisers.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/13/topstories3.russia

I am plotting a new Russian revolution'

London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putin

Ian Cobain, Matthew Taylor and Luke Harding in Moscow

13 April 2007

Boris Berezovsky pictured in his London office. Photograph: Chris Young/PA

The Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has told the Guardian he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Putin from his base in Britain after forging close contacts with members of Russia's ruling elite.
In comments which appear calculated to enrage the Kremlin, and which will further inflame relations between London and Moscow, the multimillionaire claimed he was already bankrolling people close to the president who are conspiring to mount a palace coup.
"We need to use force to change this regime," he said. "It isn't possible to change this regime through democratic means. There can be no change without force, pressure." Asked if he was effectively fomenting a revolution, he said: "You are absolutely correct."
Although Mr Berezovsky, with an estimated fortune of £850m, may have the means to finance such a plot, and although he enjoyed enormous political influence in Russia before being forced into exile, he said he could not provide details to back up his claims because the information was too sensitive.
Last night the Kremlin denounced Mr Berezovsky's comments as a criminal offence which it believed should undermine his refugee status in the UK.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin's chief spokesman, said: "In accordance with our legislation [his remarks are] being treated as a crime. It will cause some questions from the British authorities to Mr Berezovsky. We want to believe that official London will never grant asylum to someone who wants to use force to change the regime in Russia."
It will not be the first time the British government has faced accusations from the Kremlin that it is providing a safe haven for Mr Berezovsky. When he told a Moscow radio station last year that he wanted to see Mr Putin overthrown by force, Jack Straw, then foreign secretary, told the Commons that "advocating the violent overthrow of a sovereign state is unacceptable" and warned the tycoon he could be stripped of his refugee status.
Russian authorities subsequently sent an extradition request to London. That failed, however, when a district judge ruled Mr Berezovsky could not be extradited as long as he has asylum status.
In an interview with the Guardian, however, Mr Berezovsky goes much further than before, claiming to be in close contact with members of Russia's political elite who, he says, share his view that Mr Putin is damaging Russia by rolling back democratic reforms, smothering opposition, centralising power and flouting the country's constitution.
"There is no chance of regime change through democratic elections," he says. "If one part of the political elite disagrees with another part of the political elite - that is the only way in Russia to change the regime. I try to move that."
While declining to describe these contacts - and alleging that they would be murdered if they were identified - he maintained that he was offering his "experience and ideology" to members of the country's political elite, as well as "my understanding of how it could be done". He added: "There are also practical steps which I am doing now, and mostly it is financial."
Mr Berezovsky said he was unconcerned by any threat to strip him of his refugee status. "Straw wasn't in a position to take that decision. A judge in court said it wasn't in the jurisdiction of Straw."
He added that there was even less chance of such a decision being taken following the polonium-210 poisoning last November of his former employee, Alexander Litvinenko. "Today the reality is different because of the Litvinenko case."
Mr Berezovsky, 61, a former mathematician, turned to business during the Yeltsin years and made his fortune by capturing state assets at knockdown prices during Russia's rush towards privatisation.
Although he played a key role in ensuring Mr Putin's victory in the 2000 presidential elections, the two men fell out as the newly elected leader successfully wrested control of Russia back from the so-called oligarchy, the small group of tycoons who had come to dominate the country's economy.
A few months after the election Mr Berezovsky fled Russia, and applied successfully for asylum in the UK after Mr Litvinenko, an officer with the KGB's successor, the FSB, came forward to say he had been ordered to murder the tycoon.
Mr Berezovsky changed his name to Platon Elenin, Platon being the name of a character in a Russian film based loosely upon his life. He was subsequently given a British passport in this name.
As well as claiming to be financing and encouraging coup plotters in Moscow, Mr Berezovsky said he had dedicated much of the last six years to "trying to destroy the positive image of Putin" that many in the west held, portraying him whenever possible as a dangerously anti-democratic figure. He said he had also opposed the Russian president through Kommersant, the influential Russian newspaper which he controlled until last year.
Last month Mr Berezovsky was questioned by two detectives from the Russian prosecutor general's office who were in London to investigate the death of Mr Litvinenko. He has denied claims that he refused to answer many of their questions.
Last night the Kremlin said Russian authorities might want to question him again in the light of his interview with the Guardian. "I now believe our prosecutor general's office has got lots of questions for Mr Berezovsky," said Mr Peskov. He added: "His words are very interesting. This is a very sensitive issue."
The Foreign Office said it had nothing to add to Mr Straw's comments of last year.

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 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/articles/20070427_59

November 27, 2006

The poisoning death of former Russian KGB and Federal Security Service (FSB) colonel Alexander Litvinenko, a critic of the Russian government of Vladimir Putin, is being blamed on the Russian-Israeli Mafia by a number of Russian officials.  

The Russian officials point out that Litvinenko, described as a Russian-Israeli "double agent," was the perfect choice to set up for a false flag assassination just as Putin was attending a Russia-European Union summit in Helsinki.

Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya of the liberal newspaper Novaya Gazeta  and a fierce critic of Putin was assassinated a few days before Putin was due to make an important visit to Germany. Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who is a shareholder of Novaya Gazeta along with billionaire Alexander Lebedev, wrote an editorial in the paper in which he correctly  noted that, "those who killed Anna Poltikovskaya wanted to hit Putin."

One Russian official told The Sunday Times of London, "If you ask the question who had the most to gain from all this, the answer can only be Berezovsky, a man who by his own admission is out on a campaign to discredit Putin and the Kremlin."

Litvinenko's assassination from poisoning with Polonium 210, a radioactive isotope, was quickly blamed on Putin by Russian-Israeli mafia figure Boris Abramovich Berezovsky. Litvinenko claimed he was sent by Moscow to London to assassinate  Berezovsky but refused to carry out his orders. Litvinenko defected to Britain via Turkey, the latter a major trans-shipment nexus for radioactive materials -- including cesium-137, radium, iridium, strontium-90, uranium, thorium, and plutonium-239 -- sold by the Russian-Israeli Mafia to the highest bidders.

It is also no coincidence that Turkey is the home to a major support network for the Chechen guerrillas and that one of their leaders, Ahmed Zakayev, is a close associate of Berezovsky and was also linked to Litvinenko.

Litvinenko reportedly passed classified information damaging to Russian leaders to Russian-Israeli businessman Leonid Nevzlin, the former chief executive officer of Yukos Oil who is the subject of a Russian government arrest warrant for murder, embezzlement, and tax evasion. Nevzlin, a former head of the Russian Jewish Congress, is currently living in Tel Aviv under the protection of the Israeli government. Nevzlin's exiled Russian-Israeli comrades include Vladimir Dubov, a major Yukos shareholder and wanted oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky. The wanted ex-Yukos officials have also been linked to wealthy British businessman Jacob Rothschild.

Nevzlin's former boss at Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, is in a Russian prison for tax evasion. The assassination of Litvinenko to embarrass Putin is similar to the false flag assassinations carried out by Russian-Israeli Mafia figures of Lebanese politicians in order to lay blame on Syria (as previously reported by WMR).

Litvinenko's dodgy association with leading Russian-Israeli mafia figures, most of whom are wanted by Russia for looting and misappropriating the the assets of the Soviet Union, likely made him a convenient target for an exotic gangland-style hit. His reported role as a Russian-Israeli double agent, selling secrets to the highest bidders, also shortened his life expectancy. Litvinenko also was problematic for a number of criminal syndicate leaders especially considering the fact that his special operations task in the FSB was the targeting of foreign businessmen -- many of whom are leading figures in the global Russian-Israeli Mafia and some with direct links to the White House. Litvinenko, therefore, knew many of the secrets about the Russian-Israeli Mafia -- secrets that may have cost him his life.

"Sasha" Litvinenko kept a number of dodgy friends and associates tied to the Russian-Israeli mob and Chechen guerrillas.

Britain is under tremendous financial pressure from the Kremlin to extradite Berezovsky to Moscow to stand trial. The assassination of Litvinenko and the blame placed by the neo-con media on Russia as the culprit buys Berezovsky some British sympathy and a little time.

The involvement of Litvinenko with Israeli organized crime bosses was reported at the same time the Washington Post reported on the counterfeiting of U.S. $100 bills by a South Ossetia-based organized crime ring operating with Russian-Israeli mobsters based in the Republic of Georgia and Israel.

On October 27, 2004, a courier for the counterfeit ring, Hazki Hen, met with an undercover Secret Service agent at a hotel in Linthicum, Maryland near Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Hen, who had just arrived from Tel Aviv, offered to exchange $230,000 in counterfeit Ben Franklin notes for $80,000 in real currency. Hen also agreed to supply an additional $1.5 million in counterfeit hundred dollar notes and discussed the potential of delivering as much as $100 million on counterfeit bills in the future. Hen was not charged by the Federal government until November 2005 and then, after he claimed he was too ill to stand trial, was permitted by federal prosecutors to return to Israel.

Russian-Israeli mobsters are also reported to be counterfeiting U.S. Postal money orders and American Express Traveler's Checks in Eastern Europe.

The Hen case is yet another example of the U.S. government failing to fully prosecute Israeli criminals, spies, and other threats to U.S. national security. The same scenario has played out with "Al Qaeda" financier Yehuda Abraham, a New York U.S-Israeli diamond dealer who was laundering money for the Russian-Israeli mob and a Malaysian linked to Al Qaeda affiliate Jemaah Islamiya; Asher Karni, a South African-Israeli who was shipping nuclear triggers from the United States to the A. Q. Khan network in Pakistan; and various Israeli spies caught around sensitive U.S. facilities posing as art students, movers, and tourists.

Note: The screenwriters of the new James Bond film, Casino Royale, are on to the real life mobsters. Not only is a Montenegro-based mob ring (Montenegro is one of the centers for the Russian-Israeli syndicate) featured as engaging in international terrorism in order to manipulate the stock market, but there is a reference by "M" (Judi Dench) that a similar mob ring engaged in stock "put" options before the 9/11 attacks in order to make tons of money on the world markets. It would seem that fictional spies know more about the threat from international mobsters than do their real life counterparts.

"M" (left) gets the threat, FBI's Robert Mueller (right) does not.

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• January 12, 2007 -- Scaramella links to network of individuals out to bring down anti-neocon Italian politicians.
• December 15, 2006 -- Finnair flight radiation was from Cobalt-60.
• December 1-3, 2006 -- In our November 30 report, thanks to our contacts in the "community," we were the first to cite a possible Polish connection to the polonium poisoning of Russian KGB and FSB defector Alexander Litvinenko
• February 1, 2007 -- Bush senior staff meeting notes provide rare insight into administration priorities in July 2003 and White House connections to a Russian-Israeli Mafia
• November 20, 2007 -- New South African book links apartheid agents to Jack Abramoff
• January 18-20, 2008 - Plame and Edmonds were looking at the same covert network
• April 5, 2007 -- On February 2, 2006, WMR reported the following: "Documents obtained by WMR reveal that the Reagan-Bush White House sanctioned, financed, and provided high-level intelligence support to an international propaganda effort that, among other
• Sept. 13, 2007 -- Potential Russian President represents a warning shot at neocons and Russian-Israeli Mafia
• December 11, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT. Litvinenko poisoning scandal yet another neo-con perverse display of its parallel intelligence structures.