Newly released FBI files reveal that presumed Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry attended a second meeting with North Vietnamese communists in Paris in the early 1970s. Kerry has previously admitted to meeting only once with the North Vietnamese delegations in 1970.

According to the FBI files, Kerry met with representatives from the North Vietnamese government in Paris in 1971. [Kerry] has said nothing of the 1971 meeting.

Researcher and author Jerry Corsi [said,] "Kerry has admitted to one meeting with Madam Binh. Now we have reason to believe there was a second ... "Kerry needs to explain to the American people why he directly went into negotiations with communists, Corsi added. Corsi has written an essay on Kerry's dealings with the Vietemese communists on the Internet site, WinterSoldier.com.

According to Gerald Nicosia, a Kerry supporter and the author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement, Kerry's second visit to Paris to meet with emissaries of the North Vietnamese communist government is documented in redacted FBI files from the era.
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Vietnamese communists have shown their gratitude to Kerry by displaying a photo of him at Ho Chi Minh City's Protestors Hall of the War Remnants Museum.

Many Bonesmen who had become C.I.A. operatives and government officials returned to the Tomb and discussed highly classified matters, as National-Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy reportedly did. "The things that fascinated me at Pat gatherings were the level of penetratiion ... and how open they were about talking in the Tomb," says a Bonesman who graduated in the 1980s. "They talked about foreign operations at the timne, the stuff that became Iran-contra. The level of trust was startling. It was like once you were trusted enough to get in, people just talked openly."

The Libertarian Party, faced with the opportunity to select a candidate for president who had millions to spend on his own campaign, who had achieved a measure of fame in Hollywood as a producer of films and a consort of celebrities on the order of Bette Midler, and someone else with no money and zero name recognition, chose?well you know the answer...

The LP has displayed a genius for assigning itself a role in American politics akin to irrelevance, and I am sad to say that this record of genius is likely to remain unbroken as campaign 2004 unfolds during the months ahead and Ralph Nader continues to capture all the attention given to third-party candidates for the highest office in the land.
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Aaron Russo was the one candidate (arguably one of two) who had some sliver of a chance to make a splash for the LP this time around, to make the media stand up and pay him some attention as he laid out his plan to trim the size of the overstuffed, all-powerful, gluttonous beast we call the federal government. Money and celebrity endorsements are two of the ingredients needed to insinuate oneself into the public?s truncated attention span, and Russo had both of them at his disposal. Supposedly, Badnarik bested him and Gary Nolan (the third viable contender for the spot who inexplicably threw his own support to Badnarik) in a debate before the vote took place, and many libertarians are more interested in scoring ideological debating points than they are in having a genuine impact on the society we live in.

I have no idea how good a candidate Russo would have been had he been able to secure the LP nod. One esteemed libertarian told me he?s "rich as Croesus and crazy as hell." But rich and crazy isn?t bad when the society you live in is populated by obese, brain-dead couch potatoes who believe war crimes are perfectly fine as long as they?re committed by red-blooded American "heroes," when the president of the country can barely string a sentence together without the aid of his speechwriters, when the same gentleman can scarcely make a policy decision without the imprimatur of his own vice president, when the nation?s intelligence agencies make an end run around the accepted rules of warfare in an undefined "war against terror," and when an opposition party with any guts would be screaming for the president?s impeachment . . .

The average American is criminally ignorant of his own heritage and about two cheeseburgers away from a coronary at any given moment. An LP candidate crazy enough to grab the electorate by the throat and shake it out of its comatose state would have been an ideal choice this year. An LP candidate with deep pockets and enough fire in his belly to make his voice heard above the usual cacophony of nonsense that fills the ether in an election year might have been the right ticket for success this year.

Too late. The LP has blown yet another opportunity to have a genuine impact.

Personally, I believe CoIntelPro is alive and well and is firmly in control of the LP.

The LP if well publicized would be able to grab a sizable chunk of the vote. That there has been no concerted effort to increase the size of the Party and to popularize Libertarian Principles is to me a prima facie case for internal sabotage from some quarter.

Certainly the R's fear that eventuality as many Paleocons are very close to PaleoLibertarians and would vote for a viable Libertarian in preference to a Socialist Leaning NAZI like Duhbya.

Arlington County take notice: Officials are collecting outstanding taxes and fines at the rate of about $900 an hour with the help of an electronic roving eye.

County officials last month began using the BootFinder, a small, hand-held camera that scans license plates of parked cars to identify people with delinquent property-tax bills and unpaid parking tickets.

The county spent $27,000 to buy the camera, which was developed by Alexandria company G2 Tactics, and has recovered about $900 each hour of its use, said Arlington County Treasurer Frank O'Leary.
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Two treasury workers patrol the city in a van, aiming the camera at the license plates of parked cars. The camera is connected to a laptop computer that compares the license owner's name against a database of persons with outstanding taxes or fines.

If a car's owner has any unpaid taxes or fines, the computer audibly informs the camera's operator, who calls the treasurer's office for verification. After the information is verified, the workers remove the car's license plates and place a bright green levy sticker on the driver's side windshield.

Award Title: Build a Prototype Optical Recognition System to ID and Track Stolen Vehicles Using License Plate Reading Techniques

Award Number: 2002LTBXK006

Awardee: G2 Tactics

Awardee Contact:
Andrew Bucholz
G2 Tactics
1600 Prince Street, Suite 613
Alexandria , VA 22314

Original Funds: Year: 2002, Amount: $156,773.00

Categories: Crime Prevention ; Surveillance and Detection

Project Location: ALEXANDRIA , Virginia

Project Description: G2 Tactics will demonstrate and evaluate its Grand Larceny Auto Video Detection System (GLAVID), an innovative surveillance tool for law enforcement to address stolen vehicle crimes. GLAVID is an imagery analysis system that reads the license plates of passing vehicles and compares them to the current National Crime Information Center (NCIC) record of stolen vehicles. This system can be deployed either covertly in a stationary vehicle or set up for mobile use in a police cruiser.

The recent (5/26/04) appearance of David Ray Griffin on Democracy Now! (DN) repudiates every principle of press freedom that you claim to represent. It was a shameful betrayal to the movements opposing the Bush() Regime around the globe.

First of all, it is very revealing that you chose to have Griffin appear on your show in a hostile "debate" format. This contrasted remarkably from the easy, non-confrontational (and extended) interviews recently given to Richard Clarke, Peter Lance and Sibel Edwards. (Richard Clarke is a "defector" from the Bush Regime. Peter Lance is an author. Edwards is a "whistle-blower". All three uniquely advocate the official story of 911.) The clear implication is that DN is biased in favor of sources who advocate the official propaganda of the State.

Second, while Chip Berlet's affiliation with the Political Research Associates (PRA) was made known, you failed to mention the controversy related to PRA's alleged ties to the Ford Foundation.

It is also known that the Ford Foundation has a long-term connection with Democracy Now and Pacifica generally.

Recall that the Ford Foundation has been reportedly linked to the CIA for decades. By specifically choosing Berlet to challenge Griffin this episode of Democracy Now! strongly resembles a CIA propaganda campaign.

Third, Berlet's major contention against Griffin's book is that Griffin is relying on experts who lack the qualifications to offer opinions about basic engineering and physics. So why not have on an expert promoting the official science of the Bush Regime with one of the many researchers who dispute it?

Niaz Khan... the diminutive Briton who is making the extraordinary claim that he warned about the attacks on New York's Twin Towers 18 months before they actually took place on September 11, 2001.

The former curry house waiter claims he alerted American and British officials to the Al Qaeda plot.
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A report seen by this newspaper and prepared for a powerful U.S. security committee into the tragedy confirms that Khan contacted counter-terrorism officers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Newark, New Jersey, as early as April 2000.

He was grilled for three weeks and twice passed a lie detector test...

Khan was simply shipped back to Britain, where our intelligence services also discounted his warning of Bin Laden's air hijack plot.

Now Khan has been approached by lawyers for the families of the 9/11 victims who say his revelations may prove that Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on the U.S. could have been prevented.

One American attorney, Michael Bryant, acting for a group of bereaved families, said this week: 'If this man informed America before 9/11 that there was a terror plot to fly planes into buildings, we want to speak with him.
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The selection of Iyad Allawi to become prime minister of the interim government of Iraq from July 1 is a surprising development
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Allawi, the founder of Iraqi National Accord (INA), is a former Ba'athist and an ex-military man. He built his career as an anti-Saddam expatriate by consistently cooperating with, and supplying intelligence to, the British MI6 and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Consequently, his nomination as prime minister is perceived, at least in Washington, as a success for the Department of State and the CIA.
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His organization, INA, is also infamously known for passing on intelligence to MI6 that claimed that Saddam could launch a weapons-of-mass-destruction attack within 45 minutes.

TIME has obtained an internal Pentagon e-mail sent by an Army Corps of Engineers official?whose name was blacked out by the Pentagon?that raises questions about Cheney's arm's-length policy toward his old employer. Dated March 5, 2003, the e-mail says "action" on a multibillion-dollar Halliburton contract was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. The e-mail says Douglas Feith, a high-ranking Pentagon hawk, got the "authority to execute RIO," or Restore Iraqi Oil, from his boss, who is Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. RIO is one of several large contracts the U.S. awarded to Halliburton last year.

The e-mail says Feith approved arrangements for the contract "contingent on informing WH [White House] tomorrow. We anticipate no issues since action has been coordinated w VP's [Vice President's] office." Three days later, the Army Corps of Engineers gave Halliburton the contract, without seeking other bids. TIME located the e-mail among documents provided by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group.
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Cheney is linked to his old firm in at least one other way. His recently filed 2003 financial-disclosure form reveals that Halliburton last year invoked an insurance policy to indemnify Cheney for what could be steep legal bills "arising from his service" at the company.

American Free Press announced on Friday 30th April, that Bilderberg 2004 is definately to be held in Italy. The best way to confirm is to contact the Bilderberg office in Leiden, Holland.

Bilderberg Conference venue and date

Date: Thursday June 3rd to Sunday June 6th 2004
Hotel des Iles Borromees - Corso Umberto I, 67 - 28838 Stresa - ITALY
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This is Bilderberg's 50th anniversary - the big one - only the elitest of the elite get invites here...

George W Bush - just as Bill Clinton in the year 2000 - is travelling nearby this year. Experience tells us (Tony Blair dropped in at Bilderberg 1998 though he was not mentioned in Bilderberg's post conference 'Press Release') Bush will almost certainly drop in for a chat with the oil and banking cartel people - not to mention the European royalty.

State Dept. announcement of Bush schedule

President Bush is in Rome on 4th June 2004. He will meet President Berlusconi, President Ciampi and Pope John Paul II. He will depart Rome on the 5th June. He will be staying somewhere between Milan and Paris on the night of 5th June 2004. By 6th President Bush is in France, where he will meet Jaques Chirac and participate in the D-Day anniversary.

Other attendees --
The Spanish political class look set to be present in force at Bilderberg 2004:
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero (PM)
Pedro Solbes (Finance Minister)
Queen of Spain
King of Spain
+ Plus the usual line-up of bankers, Opus Deists from Partido Popular etc.

France:
Michel David-Weill - US and French president of the board of Lazard Freres is due to be there.

There is no other information about who will be there yet - apart from the usual royalty and Bilderberg Steering Group attendees - a list of which has been made available in previous years from Maja Banck at the Bilderberg office in Leiden.