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Saturday, December 07, 2002

What a Coincidence!!
The Council on Foreign Relations IS the Shadow Government


(pic via post-atomic)

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Is That Really You? Check My DNA


Retinal scans. Fingerprints. Face scans. In the post 9/11 world, these kinds of biometric measures are increasingly used in public places like government offices, airports and rental car kiosks.

Every human cell contains DNA, the blueprint for all life, and that genetic code is unique to each individual...

..."VISA is currently eating about 2 percent of their transactions in fraud," he said. "All they have to say is 'Take a scrape of your cheek and mail it to us and we'll give you a credit card that has a better APR.'"

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Project Bluebeam?: 5.6 Airborne Holographic Projector


Brief Description

The holographic projector displays a three-dimensional visual image in a desired location, removed from the display generator. The projector can be used for psychological operations and strategic perception management. It is also useful for optical deception and cloaking, providing a momentary distraction when engaging an unsophisticated adversary.

Capabilities
  • Precision projection of 3-D visual images into a selected area
  • Supports PSYOP and strategic deception management
  • Provides deception and cloaking against optical sensors
Enabling Technologies (MCTL)
  • 4.1.4, Image Processing (holographic displays)
  • 10.1, Lasers
  • 10.2, Optics
  • 10.3, Power Systems
http://www.au.af.mil/au/2025/volume4/chap03/b5_6.htm

Also see: Project Bluebeam: Good Lord! What in heaven's name is that?

Also see: When Seeing and Hearing Isn't Believing

Also see: PROJECT BLUE BEAM AND THE NEW WORLD RELIGION

Also see: "It was like someone flying up to heaven.''

Also see: NASA BLUE BEAM PROJECT


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Documents Show Postal Officials Knew Building Was Contaminated, But Kept Facility Open 4 Additional Days - Endangering Workers and Public


JUDICIAL WATCH FILES CRIMINAL COMPLAINT WITH U.S. ATTORNEY ROSCOE C. HOWARD OVER BRENTWOOD ANTHRAX COVER-UP

Judicial Watch forced the USPS to turnover documents by court order, after the USPS failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents contained stunning, new information in a diary or log written by a senior Brentwood postal official. The diary reveals that USPS and U.S. government officials knew on Thursday, October 18, 2001, that ?mail was leaking? anthrax spores into the environment of the Brentwood facility, and that a second anthrax spore swab test confirmed that the swabs ?tested hot.?

Despite this knowledge, USPS and U.S. government officials kept the Brentwood facility open (in violation of their own written emergency regulations) for an additional four days, until Sunday, October 21, 2001 ? when news broke of the deaths of Mr. Curseen and Mr. Morris from inhalation anthrax. Judicial Watch?s complaint to U.S. Attorney Howard seeks a full and immediate criminal investigation for reckless endangerment, manslaughter, obstruction of justice, and conspiracy, among other applicable charges.

Also see: FBI 'guilty of cover-up' over anthrax suspect

Also see: Anthrax Missing From Army Lab

Also see: Report: U.S. Expert Believed Behind Anthrax Attacks

Also see: Agency hushed anthrax scandal

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The Overthrow Of The American Republic Part 22

by Sherman H. Skolnick
Helpful in measuring whether an "outside the box" scandal, can cause commotions within the "box", are historical records. The monopoly press keep the same, calling them "the morgue", the place where they save old news clips, sometimes so old they are on microfilm, microfiche, and similar retention devices.

Do non-monopoly press sorts keep track that way? If not, why not? Internet search engines are helpful but limited. Did THEIR computers save the real stuff, the real possible negatives, revealing little-known happenings?

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Who Controls The Federal Reserve System?

By Victor Thorn
Now that we know the Federal Reserve is a privately owned, for-profit corporation, a natural question would be: who OWNS this company? Peter Kershaw provides the answer in "Economic Solutions" where he lists the ten primary shareholders in the Federal Reserve banking system.

1) The Rothschild Family - London 2) The Rothschild Family - Berlin 3) The Lazard Brothers - Paris 4) Israel Seiff - Italy 5) Kuhn-Loeb Company - Germany 6) The Warburgs - Amsterdam 7) The Warburgs - Hamburg 8) Lehman Brothers - New York 9) Goldman & Sachs - New York 10) The Rockefeller Family - New York

Now I don't know about you, but something is terribly wrong with this situation. Namely, don't we live in AMERICA? If so, why are seven of the top ten stockholders located in FOREIGN countries? That's 70%!

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"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (around the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Applied signs VeriChip distributor for South Korea
Friday, December 06, 2002

The Global Beast System Marches On...
Palm Beach technology company Applied Digital Solutions (Nasdaq: ADSX) said its microchip subsidiary has signed an exclusive, five-year deal with a City of Industry, Calif.-based import-export firm to distribute its products in South Korea.

The VeriChip subsidiary said Global Integrated Technology will be able to market and distribute all applications of VeriChip products in South Korea, provided the distributor meets minimum purchase requirements and certain other conditions. Applied said GIT must purchase 5,000 VeriChips in three months.

VeriChips are microchips that can be inserted under a person's skin and contain personal information. The agreement also calls for GIT to buy 216 VeriChip scanners, according to Applied. The scanners allow users to retrieve information stores in a VeriChip
Also see: Florida Firm Seeks to Microchip Americans

Also see: 'Digital Angel' lands in China

Also see: Applied to sell $9M in VeriChips to Mexican firm

Also see: Applied Digital again in trouble with FDA

Also see: VeriChip Corporation Launches National "Get Chipped'' Promotion

Also see: Digital Angel's Latest Partner: Microsoft MapPoint

Also see: FDA Ruling - Subdermal VeriChip is Not a Regulated Medical Device

Don't forget to check back for the "Chipmobile" schedule!

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Field Manual (FM) 3-19.40: MILITARY POLICE INTERNMENT/RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS

Field Manual (FM) 3-19.40 depicts the doctrinal foundation, principles, and processes that MP will employ when dealing with enemy prisoners of war (EPWs), civilian internees (CIs), US military prisoner operations, and MP support to civil-military operations (populace and resource control [PRC], humanitarian assistance [HA], and emergency services [ES]). FM 3-19.40 is not a standalone manual, and it must be used in combination with other publications. These publications are pointed out throughout the manual, and a consolidated list is provided in the bibliography.
Also see:

Also see: INTERNMENT CAMPS: The Mechanics of Tyranny

Also see: Concentration Camps in U.S.

Also see: AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Also see: GULAG AMERIKA

Also see: Concentration Camps on US soil: Full list

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Hollywood Gets Norway to Try Jon Johansen

Teenager Prosecuted for Watching His Own DVDs on Linux Computer
Oslo, Norway - The criminal trial against Jon Johansen, a Norwegian teenager who watched his DVDs on his Linux computer using a DVD descrambling program called DeCSS, will start in Norway this Monday, December 9. The trial is scheduled to last until Friday, December 13.

"Jon owned the DVDs and he's never been accused of copyright infringement or assisting in copyright infringement," noted EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. "Instead, he's facing criminal charges for taking the necessary steps to view his own DVDs on his own computers."

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Henry Kissinger In Hell - Because what we really need now is more murderous criminal masterminds in power

It's getting so it's nearly impossible to follow which war-crimes monster or which convicted lying felon or which mysterious pro-corporate stable boy is heading what major investigative commission or sinister domestic-surveillance database or cramming what vile homeland-security bill with how many tons of conservative pork....

...In related news, Bush also appointed a squad of those evil hooded dark-rider things from "The Lord of the Rings" to look into the thousands of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. They promise complete unbiased reportage, as soon as they remove the skulls from between their teeth.

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John Hull--Simple Rancher or U.S. Government Terrorist?

Affidavit: US planned to bomb its own buildings to "simulate terrorism"
"Although I will reveal the full details of my intelligence background and activities only before a grand jury, trial jury or congressional committee, I will say that during and after my military service in the United States Army (RA11312792) I worked for or with the Army Security Service, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Army's Criminal Investigative Division.

This affidavit is limited to my activities from approximately 1971 through 1977 in Lakeland, Florida; Sao Paulo, Brazil and Albuquerque, New Mexico..."
Also see: Oliver North & Co. Banned from Costa Rica

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Students for an Orwellian Society

Because 2002 is 18 years too late.
What is SOS?

Students for an Orwellian Society (SOS) is a nationwide student group. Although SOS has always been a nationwide student group, there is evidence to suggest that it first appeared at Columbia University. The mission of SOS is to promote the vision of a society based upon the principles of Ingsoc, first articulated by George Orwell in his prophetic novel, 1984.

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Armey's Farewell Speech: Protect Personal Freedoms

"And so the courage of America is being called upon more than at any time in my lifetime. And what I fear I hear is an echo chamber of voices in America that are saying, "Give us greater dominion over your personal liberties and we will make you secure."

...There are many authorities that we can extend to the government of this country that'll make us safer. But will we be free?"
Also see: Armey leaves House with call for freedom: Conservative from Texas says Americans must not sacrifice liberty for security

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AL QAEDA TO TERRORIZE GULLIBLE CITIZENS WITH WILD CONSPIRACY THEORIES

A little humor for you from clayman from LF
Washington (RP) -- CIA sources have revealed al Qaeda plans to target particularly naive Americans with "insane conspiracy theories." Such theories, sources say, are intended to instill otherwise baseless trepidation into the hearts of citizens riddled with paranoia.

"One such claim," a CIA spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity stated, "is that Osama bin Laden has acquired technology that would allow him to transmute al Qaeda operatives into squirrels capable of gnawing through SUV brake lines."

The official added that the credibility degree of al Qaeda-spun theories ranges from "psychotically implausible" to "just enough to keep the irrational neurotic."
In response to: Terrorist Planning To Poison Americans?

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Mass. Tech Company Raided for Alleged Terror Links

A Massachusetts high-tech firm that has sold millions of dollars in software and services to the FBI, the White House and other sensitive federal agencies was raided by federal agents early this morning because of allegations it is secretly funded by a U.S.-designated terrorist financier.
"Maybe along the lines of INSLAW, as "The FBI has used Ptech?s software for financial tracking and internal budgeting" sounds remarkably similar to PROMIS. It may be they developed a really great piece of software that the govt. wanted." Hmm...

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Former NYC Mayor Giuliani Donned Black Cape, Joins Portuguese Brotherhood (cache)

from the Associated Press

PORTO, Portugal (AP) - Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani donned a big, black, floppy hat Thursday when he was inducted into the Port Wine Brotherhood during a visit to Portugal.

Giuliani wore the brotherhood's traditional black cape as well as its trademark hat with a broad rim and shoulder-length ribbon at his initiation ceremony in this northern Portuguese city.

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A Brief (But Creepy) History of America's Creeping Fascism

by Maureen Farrell
"Public health officials want to shut down roads and airports, herd people into sports stadiums and, if needed, quarantine entire cities in the event of a smallpox attack".- the Boston Herald, Nov. 8, 2001

"Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be 'enemy combatants' has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace." -the Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14, 2002

"The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system. . . . " - the Washington Post, Dec. 1, 2002
These days, it's hard to read anything without thinking, "this can't be true." We're living in an age of secret bunker governments and stealth legislation, however, and unlikely scenarios are tempered with the realization our old reality is gone. This America differs drastically from the country we knew two years ago, when tales of felons ogling our e-mail would have been capped with a punch line. Yet here we are, scratching our heads, while guardians of the public trust shill for the state.

When Chris Matthews responds to Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger by braying about how "our very free notion of the first amendment," allows Hitchens to say "anything he wants about somebody," (as if Hitchens were making things up), our airways are either populated by the misinformed or by those paid to propagandize.

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Government officials in sex trafficking ring arrested

Horrifying testimony of woman sex-slave traded for a Mercedes shakes political establishment of Yugoslav republic
When police in the tiny republic of Montenegro swooped on a suspected pimp accused of running a major sex trafficking operation, they ran into an embarrassing problem.

The man they were about to put behind bars was none other than the country's deputy state prosecutor.
In every case, from England to France to Portugal - Europe's elite are caught running sex slave and paedophile rings (via The Propaganda Matrix)

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Terrorism and the Feedback Loops of History
Thursday, December 05, 2002

by valis
I predict that history will repeat itself again and again.

The last War on Terrorism didn't go so well for Germany. They were ultimately defeated, not by the "terrorists", but by a foreign alliance because of their response to terrorism.

The foreign alliance felt justified in removing a hysterical empire from existence, who apparently could not deal with terrorism in a rational manner. Russia and China will feel the same justification when they attempt to do the same.

"But the terrorists want to take away our freedom"

If the purpose of terrorism is to destroy liberties, then that can only be accomplished by the reactionary measures imposed. If the reaction is to destroy liberties, couldn't that reaction and those that support it be considered terrorist accomplices or phase two of the terrorist agenda?

My solution to terrorism would be just the opposite; use the same tactics of those used by the media to quell "terrorist" anti-war protests, or those used by MLB when a fan streaks naked accross the field: IGNORE THEM.

Terry Gilliam's movie Brazil (1985) was an attempt to explore reactionism and inverting the terrorist paradigm.

Terrorists don't destroy liberties. That's impossible. It's the governments that do.
Also see: Inverting the terrorist paradigm: Part 1 - Reactions to death

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I.N.S. Deporting 'Magic Boy' Rudy Dekkers

"The I.N.S. is acting to place the prime suspect in a wider-ranging 9/11 conspiracy investigation out of the reach of the Independent Investigation."

At the instigation of Bush Administration officials the Immigration and Naturalization Service is preparing to deport the man whose Venice, FL. flight school served as a magnet for Mohamed Atta's terrorist cadre, effectively placing him beyond the reach of the upcoming 9/11 investigation, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
Also see: Venice Airport Used for Covert Ops: What they're hiding down in Venice, Florida

Also see: "A Lear Too Far": Terror Flight School Owners' Plane Seized for Heroin Trafficking

Also see: Atta & Girlfriend's Wild 3-Day Party in Key West

Also see: Key Witness 'Disappears' in Venice FL

Also see: Magic Dutch Boy Escapes Fiery Plane Crash

Even stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard's operation well after the company's Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns.

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Photgrapher Arrested For Taking Pictures of Vice President's Hotel


An amateur photographer named Mike Maginnis was arrested on Tuesday in his home city of Denver - for simply taking pictures of buildings in an area where Vice President Cheney was residing. The following is Maginnis's account of what transpired:
As he was putting his camera away, Maginnis found himself confronted by a Denver police officer who demanded that he hand over his film and camera. When he refused to give up his Nikon F2, the officer pushed him to the ground and arrested him.

After being brought to the District 1 police station on Decatur Street, Maginnis was made to wait alone in an interrogation room. Two hours later, a Secret Service agent arrived, who identified himself as Special Agent "Willse."

The agent told Maginnis that his "suspicious activities" made him a threat to national security, and that he would be charged as a terrorist under the USA-PATRIOT act. The Secret Service agent tried to make Maginnis admit that he was taking the photographs to analyze weaknesses in the Vice President's security entourage and "cause terror and mayhem."

When Maginnis refused to admit to being any sort of terrorist, the Secret Service agent called him a "raghead collaborator" and a "dirty pinko faggot."
Welcome to the new Amerika

If you are reading this you are part of a Subversive Terrorist Network

Turn Yourself In and Get It Over With

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"GREAT SECRETS INTO THE 21st CENTURY", Part 1

by Sherman H. Skolnick 11/29/02
COUNTERFEIT RESERVE

Carried over from the greatly troubled 20th Century is a hush-hush group of events that is virtually impossible to be dealt with by the American monopoly press. After you study this, the how, when, where, and why of it, may become clear to you...

...Starting October, 1980, Daddy Bush, running for Vice President on the Reagan/Bush ticket, arranged a treasonous deal with the Iranians at the time, holding 52 U.S. Embassy hostages in Teheran. The Iranians agreed, in a Paris suburb meeting, to hold the U.S. hostages until the Reagan/Bush ticket was elected by getting the edge over incumbent Jimmy Carter...

Another, little-known part of the treasonous Daddy Bush/Iran deal, was Bush's promise to them that the then new administration would take no action if the Iranians counterfeited foreign currencies, INCLUDING THAT OF THE UNITED STATES.

So, the Iranians bought printing apparatus from Germany, similar to that used by the U.S., to print superior quality bogus Federal Reserve Hundred Dollar Notes. Through corrupt means, the Iranians even obtained the special U.S.-contract only, linen type paper used for printing the hocus pocus money.

The big secret, forbidden to be discussed by the oil-soaked, spy-riddled American monopoly press is that there is, because of Iran and others, over 800 billion dollars worth of these superior quality Federal Reserve Notes, masquerading, of course, as the "U.S. Dollar". Some of it, circulating by way of Iran. Some is being circulated by a joint deal between the Russian mafiya (former KGB officers) and a faction of the Colombia dope cartel. Some by blowback (spy lingo) is coming back to the U.S....

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I want my country back

by Harry Browne
World government

America rules the world ? by force.

And that's ironic. Because for as long as I can remember, conservatives have been railing against the threat of world government.

But now we actually have a form of world government ? a government run by George Bush and enforced by the American military ? and most conservatives are all for it...

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Bill O'Reilly: Warmonger

Bill Moyers is too diplomatic to say it, so Libertythink will:

Bill O'Reilly is a warmonger. And a media whore.

In the aftermath of 9/11 Mr. O'Reilly, from his battle station at Fox, was calling for the United States "to bomb the Afghan infrastructure to rubble, the airport, the power plants, the water facilities, the roads." He went on to describe Afghanistan as "a very primitive country" and to say "taking out their ability to exist day-to-day will not be hard. Remember the people of any country are ultimately responsible for the government they have. The Germans were responsible for Hitler, the Afghans are responsible for the Taliban. We should not target civilians but if they don't rise up against this criminal government, they starve, period."

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Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police State (Parts 1, 2, & 3)

t r u t h o u t | Report By Jennifer Van Bergen
(*Editors Note | This is the first part of a three-part series on the Homeland Security Act (HSA). The first part reviews the origins of the Act in the Hart-Rudman Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. Tomorrow, Part 2 will discuss Cheney's plan for global dominance and how that relates to homeland security. Wednesday, Part 3 will detail some of the HSA provisions themselves and briefly discuss what worries civil libertarians.)
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

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Bosnian Muslim spied for Al Qaeda: U.S.
Wednesday, December 04, 2002

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - A Bosnian Muslim arrested by U.S. troops in Bosnia on suspicion of spying on a U.S. base is linked to the Al Qaeda terrorist network, peacekeepers said today.
Sabahudin Fijuljanin, 41, was arrested Oct. 26 by U.S. troops from the NATO-led peacekeeping force based in Tuzla, northeastern Bosnia, when they saw him allegedly spying on their base.

During an investigation, the troops found an anti-tank weapon and several passports in Fijuljanin's home.

"We have information which links Fijuljanin to Al Qaeda," said Lt. Cmdr. Yves Vanier, a spokesman for the peacekeepers......

Since the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, several people in Bosnia have been questioned about possible links to international terrorism. Six of them - all Algerians - were arrested and handed over to the U.S. government. They still are reported to be in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Earlier this year, Bosnian authorities raided several Islamic charities operating here and closed three of them: the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, the Global Relief Foundation and Bosanska Idealna Futura - a branch of the Chicago-based Benevolence International Foundation.
Those guys are going to be put away at Guantanamo, far away from investigative reporters, who would love to ask them how they ended up in Bosnia and who their mentors really were. But the truth does slip out here and there. The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation are named as defendents in a suit that the families of the victims of 9-11filed against the Al Qaeda network. The CIA and their Saudi partners in crime were using these "charities" as a money laundering machine for the Bin Laden organization to finance covert operations. Khalid Bin Mafouz (BCCI) named in 9/11 suit

A BIF attorney is griping that these faithful servants of the CIA are getting a raw deal. U.S. Indicts Head of Islamic Charity in Qaeda Financing "Mr. Piers, the lawyer for Benevolence International, said in an interview that the Justice Department was seeking to "rewrite history" in portraying Mr. Arnaout as a financier of terrorists. He said Mr. Arnaout's activities in war-torn regions like Afghanistan in the 1980's and Bosnia in the 1990's came on behalf of many of the same rebel fighters the United States was backing then. "

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CIA Has OK To Kill Americans Working For Al-Qaeda

Targeted Assassinations now in the USA
"The authority to kill U.S. citizens is granted under a secret finding signed by the president after the Sept. 11 attacks that directs the CIA to covertly attack al-Qaida anywhere in the world. The authority makes no exception for Americans, so permission to strike them is understood rather than specifically described, officials said."
Anywhere in the world, huh? I assume that would include inside of the US as well.

So if jaywalking is a terrorist crime under the Patroit Act, all they have to do is find that all terrorism is connected with al-Qaeda, and they've just legalized gunning people down in the streets of downtown USA.

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Bush Family Dipping Into Security Pie

Marvin P. Bush, one of George W. Bush's three younger brothers, is co-founder and partner in Winston Partners, a private investment firm in Alexandria, Va. Winston Partners in turn is part of a larger venture capital entity called the Chatterjee Group, headed by venture capitalist Purnendu Chatterjee........

Inevitably, many companies are aggressively marketing services to make businesses ``Patriot Act''-compliant: that is, they sell computer systems to enable banks to argue successfully to Uncle Sam that they're not laundering money for terrorists. One of the most aggressive is Sybase Inc., which developed a ``Sybase PATRIOT compliance Solution'' months ago. Sybase, which said it wanted foreign banks as customers (it already had a deal with the People's Bank of China), landed Sumitomo Mitsui Bank in time for the October 2002 compliance deadline.

This is where Winston Partners comes in. The Chatterjee Group, including Winston Partners, owns 5.5 million shares in Sybase (Chatterjee businesses also have been paid thousands more shares in Sybase). SEC filings show that Winston Partners LP owns 1,036,075 shares in Sybase; Winston Partners LDC holds 1,317,825 shares; and Winston Partners LLC owns 1,221,837 shares. The shares owned by the subsidiaries are collectively managed in funds for Winston Partners by Pernendu Chatterjee. There is also a Chatterjee Charitable Foundation.
Another interesting point according to WInston Partner's website is Sami F. Al-Bashir, who "held the positions of Credit Analyst and then Portfolio Manager (Alternative Asset Management) at National Commercial Bank in Saudi Arabia." http://www.winstonpartners.com/he/he_teamlist.html

The National Commercial Bank of Saudi Arabia is a defendent in the suit against the Al Qaeda network, which was filed by the families of the 9-11 victims.

The Chatterjee Group is an "affiliate of George Soros Ltd." http://www.womeninc.com/wpo/agendas/nov6agen.htm

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MP3 AUDIO: Alex Jones Interviews Trina Magi

MP3 AUDIO: Alex Jones interviews Trina Magi, past President of the Vermont Library Association. Magi has said,
"We think that if you have to start wondering what your reading list might look like to an FBI agent then you might just start to censor yourself and not read the things that you want to read. And the moment you have to begin thinking about that, you are no longer free to be an informed citizen."
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