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AFTERMATH NEWS ROUNDUP 9-16-03
AFTERMATH NEWS, submitted thru SARTRE'S BATR Yahoo Discussion Group
TYRANNY ADVISORY: CODE RED
WE ARE NOW UNDER MARTIAL LAW. YOUR RIGHTS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?
THE WAR ON TYRANNY
POSITIVE FORCES RESISTING TYRANNY, CRIME AND CORRUPTION AROUND THE GLOBE
JOIN IN THE RESISTANCE TODAY!
GET ORGANIZED! Patriot Act blasted at Milpitas forum
SPEAKERS DISCUSS BIAS AFTER ANTI-TERROR LAW
Imagine your phone being tapped, having your
6-year-old child searched at the airport because his
name is Abdul, or receiving birthday cards and letters
from loved ones weeks late -- and already opened.
``It's real. It's happening on a daily basis,'' Zeya
Mohsin of Milpitas said Sunday during a
standing-room-only rap session about the USA Patriot
Act and its effects. The anti-terrorism law, enacted
after the Sept. 11 attacks, expands the powers of
police to question and detain people suspected of
terrorist ties.
Sweden joins Britain in saying no to euro
Swedes rejected adopting the European common currency
in a Sunday referendum overshadowed by the killing of
Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, an ardent euro supporter,
days earlier. The vote came as a blow to Europe's
currency and to European integration, and it provided
a boost for euro opponents in Britain and Denmark,
still using their own currencies.
Boise City Council To Consider Anti-Patriot Act
Resolution
The Boise City Council will consider a resolution
opposing the U-S-A Patriot Act this week. The council
has set aside a half-hour Tuesday to discuss the
proposal, which is sponsored by a group called the
Boise Patriots. The discussion will happen at the five
P-M pre-agenda meeting, which is a more informal
setting that the regular city council meeting. Last
month, Attorney General John Ashcroft spoke to Idaho
law enforcement agencies in Boise to build support for
the law. About 200 protesters were kept out of the
area.
Consumer Group Plans Protest during Gillette Speech
Consumers will protest the "EPC Symposium" at
Chicago's McCormick Place Convention Center Tuesday,
September 16 at 10 AM. The Symposium is scheduled to
showcase the world launch of the Electronic Product
Code (EPC) network. The EPC network, nicknamed by
proponents "The Internet of Things," was designed to
connect all items on the planet to computer databases
via miniature RFID "spy chips." The stated purpose of
the network is to tag and track every manufactured
item with a unique EPC identification number.
Student challenges use of terror act
Most protesters were arrested before getting near the
site
Civil rights campaigners have won the right to
challenge police use of anti-terror powers against
protesters at an arms fair. A demonstrator, backed by
the campaign group Liberty, has won a full hearing at
the High Court in London after applying for permission
to seek a judicial review of the police action.
Flintstones vitamins reduced to rubble?
Opponents of 'Hillarycare'-type bill warn of threat to
health supplements
Opponents of a congressional bill regulating vitamins
and other nutritional supplements warn of a
"Hillarycare" approach to the issue that would cut off
most consumers' access to the products.
A citizens' group called Project: FANS " Freedom of
Access to Nutritional Supplements " says the bill
"could kill the entire industry and remove nearly all
vitamins and supplements from the market."
THE KELLY MURDER MYSTERY UPDATE
Kelly said 45 mins claim 'unwise'
Dr Kelly questioned during a different public session
before MPs
Dr David Kelly told a key parliamentary committee the
day before he went missing that it had been "unwise"
for the 45 minute claim to be included in the
government dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction.
There is a dark cabal around Blair
If post-Hutton wounds are to heal, then John Scarlett
must go
Lord Hutton's journey into the heart of Britain's
secret government is about to resume. The recall of
witnesses to his inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death
will be announced tomorrow, following today's report
by the parliamentary intelligence committee into how
the spooks appear to have blundered in their
assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons programme.
THE PERPETUAL WAR ON HUMANITY
UAV System Will Support Future Combat System
Integrated Systems will develop and produce the FCS
program's Class IV unmanned aerial system (UAS) based
on the RQ-8 Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing
tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV).
Northrop Grumman's Integrated Systems sector has been
named an industry partner on the U.S. Army's Future
Combat System (FCS) program by Boeing and Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC), the
program's lead system integrators. The win marks a
major expansion of the sector's role as a provider of
integrated systems solutions for the Army.
Cheney was influential advocate of policy in Iraq
Vice President Dick Cheney has re-emerged as the Bush
administration's most forceful advocate of a hard-line
policy in Iraq, and he's offering no concessions to
win more international help. Cheney's vigorous defense
of U.S. policy during a television interview Sunday
underscored his pivotal role in shaping President
Bush's approach to the region. At a time when some
Bush advisers, led by Secretary of State Colin Powell,
are seeking a midcourse correction, Cheney gave no
indication that he has any second thoughts about the
administration's case for war or its plan for
rebuilding the country. According to other senior
administration officials, Cheney, arguably the most
influential member of Bush's inner circle, took the
lead in pushing for Saddam Hussein's removal. He was
also among the most optimistic in assessing the
prospects for postwar Iraq, predicting that U.S.
troops would be greeted as liberators.
US Army Eyes Mobile Laser Weapon For Tactical Missile
Defense
The U.S. Army and the Israeli Ministry of Defense
(IMoD) have selected a Northrop Grumman Corporation
design concept for the Mobile Tactical High-Energy
Laser (MTHEL) prototype, a laser weapon capable of
shooting down short-range rockets and artillery
projectiles in flight. The cost per shot, primarily
cost of the chemicals used to fuel the laser, is
expected to be in the thousands of dollars-?far less
expensive than the cost of kinetic energy defense
systems, in which a sophisticated rocket or projectile
collides with a target to destroy it. Kinetic energy
kill vehicles are not reusable. "MTHEL represents a
transformational weapon system the first mobile
directed energy weapon that will be able to destroy
tactical airborne threats in midair," said Pat
Caruana, Northrop Grumman Space Technology vice
president for missile defense.
NATO peacekeepers raid Bosnian Serb army barracks
NATO-led peacekeepers on Monday raided the Bosnian
Serb army barracks and intelligence service offices in
the eastern Serb-run town of Foca, Bosnian Serb
television reported. The NATO-led Stabilisation Force
(SFOR) conducted "unannounced inspections there," a
SFOR spokesman told AFP without specifying which sites
had been targetted.
NATO considers proposals to expand Kabul peacekeeping
mission
European nations are considering a U.S. and German
request for the United Nations peacekeeping force in
Afghanistan to spread outside the capital, Kabul, but
have not discussed sending more troops, officials said
Monday.
$87 billion funding bid being led by Cheney
Believes banned weapons will be found in Iraq
Predicts U.S. troops will find elusive Saddam
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney led the charge
yesterday as the Bush administration sought to justify
its $87 billion funding request for Iraq in the face
of rising American skepticism.
Bush says 'no free nation can be neutral' in call for
international support to help stabilise Iraq
On the eve of a crucial meeting between the US and its
key United Nations partners, President Bush yesterday
issued an uncompromising demand for international
support for Washington's faltering attempt to restore
stability to Iraq. Speaking in his favourite setting
of a military base, before a cheering audience of
soldiers, Mr Bush said Colin Powell, the Secretary of
State, would tell the other veto-holding members of
the Security Council that "no free nation can be
neutral in the fight between civilisation and chaos".
Powell draws a veil over killings as he tours Iraq
Killings are now like heartbeats in Iraq. Among the
first yesterday was an American soldier from the US
1st Armoured Division, whose Baghdad patrol was
attacked with a rocket-propelled grenade at ten past
one in the morning. In the coffin statistics of the
American occupation, he was the 76th US soldier to die
"in action" since President Bush declared major combat
operations at an end. As usual, the occupation
authorities here announced his fate.
The Robot Air Corps
Never send a human to do a droid's job. Unmanned
aerial vehicles, or UAVs, fly hundreds of dull, dirty,
or dangerous missions for the US military each year,
including surveillance and bombing missions over
Afghanistan and Iraq. They don't get tired or scared,
and many can stay aloft longer than manned planes.
Plus, if the bad guys shoot one down, you've lost a $3
million Predator instead of a $15 million F-16 and its
pilots. The Pentagon plans to spend $10 billion over
the next seven years on a new fleet of UAVs that will
be able to evacuate troops, fly alongside manned jets,
even carry out civilian operations. Dozens of designs
will vie for funding; here's a look at a few of the
contenders.
Bush urges UN action on Iraq
The US is struggling in Iraq and wants others to
contribute troops
US President George W Bush has called on members of
the United Nations Security Council to act quickly and
approve a new resolution on Iraq. Mr Bush on Wednesday
called on members to avoid past disputes about the war
and "move forward". The US has called for a new
resolution that would authorise a multinational force
in Iraq.
Red Ink and Blue Helmets in Iraq
The United Nations' blue helmets will go to Iraq if
President Bush gets his way. Anyone who had hopes that
the United Nations was dead and buried "I was among
this pathetic group" did not foresee the obvious: the
same people who were in charge of foreign policy under
Bush 41 are now moving into the back-seat driver's
position under Bush 43. They are advocates of
solutions imposed by the United Nations. They run the
State Department, and they have now re-gained the
President's ear, as his speech reflected. The
neoconservatives who are working in the office of the
Secretary of Defense must now make their peace with
the Department of State. The audible sucking sound of
the quagmire that is Iraq has enabled the folks at
State to re-gain access to the levers of power. One of
these men is Richard Armitage, a long-term foreign
policy advisor. On September 2, he went so far as to
say that the US will fly the UN flag over Iraq, as
long as the US gets to command the show. This is from
the September 2 issue of The International Herald
Tribune, a joint effort of The New York Times and
numerous national newspapers.
Monthly costs of Iraq, Afghan wars approach that of
Vietnam
The monthly bill for the U.S. military missions in
Iraq and Afghanistan now rivals Pentagon spending
during the Vietnam War, Defense Department figures
show.
The Perfect Army for Iraq: NATO
"Let NATO do it." This admonition has become a
standard response to military challenges, from Bosnia
to Kosovo to Afghanistan. It should now be applied to
Iraq. President Bush's address on Sunday acknowledged
that America needs help from other countries. American
and British casualties continue, postwar costs have
prompted Mr. Bush to seek more than $70 billion from
Congress, and occupation troops are increasingly
required to carry out police work and other tasks they
are not trained to perform. This comes after Secretary
of State Colin Powell praised NATO for taking on "new
responsibilities it must meet in parts of the world
that could never have been contemplated" when it was
formed.
Ex-president backs war on terrorism
Bush Senior backs his son's action in Iraq
The former US President, George Bush Senior, says the
war against terrorism must continue to be fought.
In an interview for Sunday morning's Breakfast With
Frost programme on BBC One, Mr Bush says the United
States and her allies are in this for "the long haul".
Two years after the 11 September attacks on New York
and Washington, Mr Bush says America is in better
shape - not only to avoid terrorism - but to withstand
it. However, the former president admits the war on
terror can never be said to be over, and says this is
now being seen inside Iraq.
The Bush-Carlyle Connection
There's no business like war business
There are so many connections between the Bushes, the
"Defence" establishment, the global trade in arms,
that the mind boggles. That it barely gets a mention
in the mainstream media (except of course, to simply
"report" it) is a scandal of the grandest proportions.
But it only goes to show the power of big business and
the political class they have installed in both the US
and the UK (after all, John Major is employed by the
Carlyle Group and BAE Systems, the major arms supplier
to the UK, is part-owned by Carlyle). Not only the
connections beggar belief but the sheer hypocrisy of
the Bush government should put it in a new category in
the Guinness Book of Records! As you?ll see from just
of a few of the links to information on Carlyle below,
their tentacles extend to many of the armed conflicts
going on in the world. There?s no business like war
business!
GLOBAL TECHNO-ORWELLIAN MASONIC MIND-CONTROL POLICE
STATE DICTATORSHIP NIGHTMARE
Latvia and Estonia bring million Russians into EU
Estonia voted overwhelmingly to join the European
Union at the weekend and Latvia looks set to do the
same on Saturday. Together they will bring with them
nearly a million Russians, many stateless, jobless and
angry at the treatment they have received from the
Baltic majorities. The Euro-sceptics played up the
fear that EU membership would force them to make
concessions to the Russian minority, or even allow
official use of their language. Martin Helme, of the
Free Europe Research Centre, said: "We don't want
Lefty loonies coming here and fighting for the rights
of the Russians." Some Russians hope that joining
Europe may work to their benefit, even though Brussels
has promised not to intervene on their behalf.
Alexander Zuckerman, an ethnic Russian cameraman,
said: "Most of us feel oppressed and our rights should
be better represented in the EU."
Others say the Russians are their own worst enemies.
"All you have to do is learn Estonian and pass a
language test," said Alexei, a local ethnic Russian
journalist. "I did it and my parents did it too."
Does Patriot Act keep us safe or go too far?
The U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed a month after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks, is making us into the Police State
of America, a former federal judge and three other
critics of the act charged last week.
Back off on PATRIOT Act
Bush wants to expand it; Congress should resist
If the United States is struggling in the war against
terrorism, it's not because "unreasonable obstacles"
stand in the path of law enforcement, as President
Bush claimed last week. The president called for a
significant expansion of federal enforcement powers
under the USA PATRIOT Act, the law approved by
Congress two years ago in the immediate aftermath of
the terrorist attacks. The substance of his request
was as weak as its timing was inappropriate. The
PATRIOT Act has come under justified if overdue
scrutiny this year ? because it confers too much
power, not too little. The law is broad enough to
touch the lives of ordinary citizens who may hold
unpopular views but aren't "terrorists" by any
standard. It gives the federal government power to
check out even the library-reading habits of targeted
citizens, and its definition of "domestic terrorism"
is so broad that overzealous investigators could apply
it to legitimate political organizations.
Patriot Act used to catch common criminals
In one case, a man accused of running a meth lab is
charged with making chemical weapons. In the two years
since law enforcement agencies gained fresh powers to
help them track down and punish terrorists, police and
prosecutors have increasingly turned the force of the
new laws not on al-Qaida cells but on people charged
with common crimes.
Key points of the Patriot Act
London Police Criticized for Using Anti-Terror Powers
The British government has demanded that police in
London explain why they used anti-terror legislation
to arrest protesters outside of a controversial arms
fair.
THE NEW ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK...IT'S NOT "TORTURE" IF
WE DO IT. IT'S "COERCION".
The Truth About Torture
Mark Bowden, the author of "The Dark Art of
Interrogation," on why the practice of coercion is a
necessary evil. The thing that is in Room 101 is the
worst thing in the world," George Orwell wrote in
1984. It "varies from individual to individual. It may
be burial alive, or death by fire, or by drowning, or
by impalement, or fifty other deaths. There are cases
where it is some quite trivial thing, not even fatal."
In Orwell's dystopia, Room 101 represented torture's
destruction of the human soul. And to the extent that
the public thinks about torture today, it thinks of
physical pain and psychological anguish like that
described in 1984. But in "The Dark Art of
Interrogation" (October Atlantic), Mark Bowden argues
that the public's understanding of torture is too
simplistic. While the "civilized world" has condemned
all forms of torture, Bowden explains that there are
different kinds of torture?and different kinds of
people who are subjected to it. There is a vast
difference, Bowden writes, between using cattle prods
to wring false confessions out of Chinese prisoners
and using sleep deprivation and rough handling to get
life-saving information from captured terrorists. In
fact, the word "torture" does not even apply when
interrogators employ only moderate physical and
psychological pressure, Bowden argues; he and others
prefer the term "coercion."
The Robot Air Corps
Never send a human to do a droid's job. Unmanned
aerial vehicles, or UAVs, fly hundreds of dull, dirty,
or dangerous missions for the US military each year,
including surveillance and bombing missions over
Afghanistan and Iraq. They don't get tired or scared,
and many can stay aloft longer than manned planes.
Plus, if the bad guys shoot one down, you've lost a $3
million Predator instead of a $15 million F-16 and its
pilots. The Pentagon plans to spend $10 billion over
the next seven years on a new fleet of UAVs that will
be able to evacuate troops, fly alongside manned jets,
even carry out civilian operations. GoldenEye's ducted
fan design allows it to change direction and speed by
adjusting various sets of control vanes. Because the
rotor blades aren't exposed, this UAV can fly near
people, trees, and buildings - perfect for
street-level urban warfare ops
Robocop spy-cam speaks for itself
It is the snooper that speaks before anyone has the
chance to step out of line.
A cross between Big Brother and Robocop, it barks
orders at would-be vandals, graffiti artists and drug
users. British Transport Police and two local
authorities are experimenting with revolutionary
cameras which can spot when people are not where they
should be. The Flash Cam 530 takes its photographs
with an intense flash that can read a car number plate
in the pitch dark from 100 yards, and then issues a
stern 15-second Robocop-style spoken instruction to
leave the area.
Secret quotas target children for deportation
Home Office accused over 'soft option' of expelling
families as MPs call for detention to be used only as
a last resort. Immigration officials have secretly
drawn up quotas to deport 160 asylum-seeking families
from Britain every month. Asylum groups say the new
targets will lead to a huge increase in the number of
children picked up by immigration officers and sent to
detention centres.
Huge rise in children being sent to prison
New figures reveal that the number of under-18s being
held in British jails has doubled in the past decade
Jessica was 15 when found guilty of shoplifting and
sent to Holloway prison in London. For six weeks, she
shared a cell with three women and was allowed to
shower only a couple of times a week.
Liberties Groups Warn Against British Car-Tracking
System
Despite objections by several civil liberties groups,
the British government plans to press ahead with
studies of a possible nationwide car-tracking system,
a spokeswoman said. First reported in the British
press last month, the study by the Department for
Transport is now looking at ways every car in the
United Kingdom could be equiped with a computerized
tracking device. Several methods are being studied but
the basic model includes a computer chip being
installed in each car. Data would then be transmitted
via radio to a system of roadside sensors already put
in place by the national Highways Agency. Government
agencies would be able to track any one car throughout
the country, be able to tell if it was speeding and
even possibly find out the insurance status of the
driver.
STAGED FASCIST GOVERNMENT TERROR PSYOPS INC
The FBI allowed the 1993 WTC bombing to happen.
Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1
"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart Bomb Used in Trade
Center Blast"
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists
were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow
up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart
the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder
for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The informer was to have helped the plotters build the
bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was
called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas
about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used,
the informer said.
TRUE, BUT IT IS THE CIA THAT CONTROLS THE PAKISTANI
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES WHO IN TURN RUN AL QAEDA
US report brings out Pak complicity in propping up
Al-Qaeda
It's more or less official now. Declassified portions
of US intelligence documents bring out what has always
been known: Pakistan's complicity in propping up not
only the Taliban, but also Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda
in Afghanistan. Islamabad, it is now revealed, had
directed the Taliban to facilitate Al-Qaeda's
expansion. "Bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network was able to
expand under the safe sanctuary extended by Taliban
following Pakistan directives," say the declassified
portions of documents collated by the Defence
Intelligence Agency (DIA).
OPERATION 9/11 COUP AND COVERUP
Bush to New Yorkers: Drop Dead
George W. Bush has officially told the people of New
York City that as far as he's concerned, they can drop
dead. And thanks to his lies, many of them will. With
his latest attack on the Clean Air Act he's said the
same to millions more. Bush has used the 9/11
"trifecta" to build his popularity, fund the military
and tear up the Bill of Rights. But the GOP's cynical
uses of the tragedy have gone to a new level. The
White House directly interfered with planned
Environmental Protection Agency warnings about the
toxic fallout from the World Trade Center explosions.
It had "competing considerations" that came before
protecting the health of the people of New York. Among
them were re-opening the stock exchange as quickly as
possible, and limiting clean-up costs and liability
claims. Because of Bush's lies, thousands of Americans
will suffer cancers, emphysema, heart attack, stroke,
birth defects, stillbirths, sterility,
eye/ear/nose/throat disease and much more. There have
been few toxic events to match the explosions that
pulverized the two World Trade Center towers. The
short-term deaths of three thousand people will be
dwarfed over the long term by the lethal fallout.
35 USAF Bases Within Range On 911
The 7 Air Stations On Full Alert Covering The
Continental United States
The following list were the seven Air Stations that
were armed and on full alert to protect the
continental United States on Tuesday September 11,
2001. The Air National Guard exclusively performs the
air sovereignty mission in the continental United
States, and those units fall under the control of the
1st Air Force based at Tyndall Air Force Base (AFB) in
Panama City, Florida. The Air National Guard maintains
seven alert sites with 14 fully armed fighters and
pilots on call around the clock. Besides Tyndall AFB,
alert birds also sit armed and ready at; Homestead Air
Reserve Base (ARB), Homestead, Florida; Langley AFB,
Hampton, Virginia; Otis Air National Guard (ANG),
Falmouth, Massachusetts; Oregon ANG, Portland, Oregon;
March ARB, Riverside, California; and Ellington ANG,
Houston, Texas.
Poll: U.S. worse off since 9-11
Americans with negative view doubled in 2 years
In a sharp reversal of sentiment, a plurality of
Americans now believe the United States is worse off
since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, according
to a new survey.
The Perplexing Puzzle Of The Published Passenger Lists
Conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen. Well, not all
of them. We have gone to war based on one of them. But
I don't see how anyone can make an accurate judgment
about who was behind the attacks until he has a
plausible explanation of how the hijackers got onto
the planes and were not removed.
BIZARRE MYSTERIES, CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW
WORLD ORDER
What you don't know about Tylenol can kill you
Socrates, the Greek philosopher, cautioned in 410 B.C.
"Nothing in excess." Others since that time have
added, "Too much of a good thing is worse than none at
all." But North Americans don?t believe it. Every
year, people unwittingly poison themselves with excess
acetaminophen, better known by the brand name,
Tylenol. It's easier than most realize to damage the
liver and cause death. They do it to themselves, and
sometimes to their children as well. In the U.S.,
federal health officials report that 56,000 Americans
end up in emergency rooms each year due to a Tylenol
overdose. And that 16,000 die from complications
related to over-the-counter painkillers. These figures
may be higher, since some cases are not reported.
Ethnic Cleansing in Connecticut
Our state's role in the Nazi eugenics movement
Hitler and his henchmen victimized an entire continent
and exterminated millions in his quest for a co-called
"Master Race." But the concept of a white,
blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race was not
Hitler's. The idea was created in the United States,
and cultivated in Connecticut, two to three decades
before Hitler came to power, the product of the
American eugenics movement. Hartford and indeed the
state of Connecticut played an important albeit
unknown role in this country's campaign of ethnic
cleansing. What's more, Connecticut was an important
player in America's eugenic nexus with Nazi Germany
Mobiles 'make you senile'
Mobile phones and the new wireless technology could
cause a "whole generation" of today's teenagers to go
senile in the prime of their lives, new research
suggests. The study - which warns specifically against
"the intense use of mobile phones by youngsters" -
comes as research on their health effects is being
scaled down, due to industry pressure. It is likely to
galvanise concern about the almost universal exposure
to microwaves in Western countries, by revealing a new
way in which they may seriously damage health.
Microwaves open up the Blood Brain Barrier.
Thousands of federal jobs may go abroad, U.S. says
President Bush's push to outsource hundreds of
thousands of federal jobs could end up shifting some
high-tech employment to foreign workers,
administration and industry officials said Thursday.
Although Bush has been calling for the creation of
more jobs, his administration has been promoting a
plan to open roughly 425,000 federal jobs to
competition from private companies
'Rigged' election row splits CND
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has been riven by
allegations of entryism by the hard left after the
group's chairwoman was unexpectedly ousted. Carol
Naughton, CND's leader for the past two years, lost
her post by one vote to Kate Hudson, the
organisation's vice-chair, who was allegedly backed by
a group of Trotskyite supporters. Ms Naughton's
supporters say that days before last weekend's CND
conference, about 25 sympathisers of the Trotskyite
group Socialist Action and the Socialist Workers Party
joined CND and applied to become delegates. Ms Hudson
won by 167 votes to 166.
THE SICKENING REALITY OF A "FREE" SOUTH AFRICA
I have spent alot of time in South Africa the last
three years and the themes of the following article
are true - Zulu shaman Credo Mutwa would be the first
to agree. I don't like the emphasis on the "white"
problems, constantly referred to here. This is the
reality for all peoples of this incredible country.
But I would say that, in the hysteria to be
"politically correct", the balance has swung so far in
the other direction that jobs have been given to
non-white people, just for the sake of it, who have
not been trained to do them. This has added to the
chaos and disintegration. Surely, the aim should be to
give equal opportunity to ALL people, irrespective of
colour, and then select the best person for the job.
Ironically, just as this was not happening under the
white dictatorship (the Oppenhiemer family), it is not
happening either under the black dictatorship (the
Oppenhiemer family).
Exiled oligarch alleges murder plot by Kremlin
Dramatic allegations of a Russian-sponsored "murder
plot" against Boris Berezovsky, the billionaire
businessman and Kremlin opponent, surfaced in a London
courtroom yesterday, as his extradition case was
formally halted.
Russia out to kill me - fugitive billionaire
Allegations of a murder plot against billionaire
Russian Boris Berezovsky surfaced as a case in Britain
seeking his extradition was stopped. A district judge
ruled that Mr Berezovsky would not face extradition
from Britain to Russia on fraud charges. The ruling
came two days after it emerged that Mr Berezovsky had
been granted political asylum in the UK. Grave fears
were expressed for the security of Mr Berezovsky and
his Russian associate, Yuli Dubov. The court was told
that the Russian Federation was plotting to murder Mr
Berezovsky. Clare Montgomery, representing Dubov,
said: "We have good reason to believe that organs of
the Russian state want to murder Mr Berezovsky."
Russian court reinstalls Berezovsky as co-chairman in
Liberal Russia movement
A Russian court has found lawful the decisions of the
congress of the Liberal Russia party that had ousted
Viktor Pokhmelkin and his faction from the party
ranks. Thus, the only lawful Liberal Russia party is
the one headed by Boris Berezovsky former Russian
media tycoon who has just received political asylum in
the UK.
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