A straight shot west out of Boston on I-90 will carry you, in two hours or less, to Western Massachusetts, where the country still looks like it did twenty or even 40 years ago: college towns, I-91 tracing the same lazy ladder from Springfield up through Holyoke and Northampton, Amherst and Deerfield. Out there it's taken for granted that the houses will be drafty, the winters uniformly long, and that, on any given trip to the local supermarket, one might spot Thurston or Lou or Kim or J, on-and-off locals for more than twenty years. {audio}http://www.archive.org/download/DinosaurJrDrawings/07Drawerings_64kb.mp3{/audio} ... Drawerings Read More ...
By way of decrying a society that left its citizens unbearably restrained, Edith Wharton describes how in New York in the 1870s, women would order dresses from their Paris dressmakers and then leave them in tissue paper at least two years before wearing them in public; the thought of showing them "in advance of the fashion" was unforgivably vulgar. Social life has changed, but cultural life seems just as restricted now – even Animal Collective are held back by trends that seem a couple of years old (and that they helped to invent). When I think back on 2009, I’ll first remember how our impoverished aesthetic generation repeatedly scraped the resin from the cultural trash barrel. Every second person is wearing neon leggings, and the ones who aren’t rock a ‘70s aesthetic, with high-waisted jeans and moccasins. Christmas sweaters are getting impossible to find at the thrift store. Ska revival. Garage rock revival. It never ends. Read More ...
For just over 10 years, London's Guapo has been working in the world of avant and progressive rock. The band's past is a bit hard to track with its numerous lineup changes and guest musicians. The most recent change in roster was the resignation of Matthew Thompson, the founding member of Guapo, which occurred just before the release of 2005's Black Oni. The departure of Thompson has left Guapo with percussionist David Smith and multi-instrumentalist Daniel O'Sullivan. Though O'Sullivan is by no means a founding member of the band, but he was essential in honing the sound on Guapo's last two LPs: Five Suns and Black Oni. These two albums have been pivotal in building Guapo's following of fans, so it's hard not to credit O'Sullivan as an asset to the band.... {audio}http://www.neurotrecordings.com/artists/guapo/audio/Guapo-The%20Selenotrope.mp3 {/audio} ... The Selenotrope Read More ...
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The free iPhone app features all ATR albums and songs, all videos, a photo archive, bio, news updates and also a ‘Riotsounds Produce Riots’ audioplayer. This audio player includes all the sounds/WAV files that ATR used at the May 1st 1999 demonstration (very low sub basses, square waves, noise sounds which trigger hysteria and panic within the audience) & would make them available to every political activisit out there. The idea being that you can hook up your iPhone to a speaker system if there is a rally: Apple/iTunes is arguing that they still need to investigate further, because it is legally a grey area and ATR has been indexed in Germany before (censored). Read More ...
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Michael Gira's re-activated Swans will be undertaking their first U.S. performances in 13 years, celebrating the Fall release of the first new Swans album since Soundtracks For The Blind (1997). The album was recorded by Jason LeFarge at Seizure's Palace in Brooklyn and is currently be remixed by Gira with Bryce Goggin (Antony & The Johnsons, Akron/Family) at Trout Recordings. Read More ...
The Ex are one of those rare bands that, despite being around for 25 years, have neither gone soft nor stagnated. The 23 tracks on this album all date from their first decade of existence (1980-1990), and if you compare it with recent milestones like Starter Alternator and Turn, you’ll see that while many of the Ex’s virtues are long standing, much has changed. The Ex grew out of Amsterdam’s once-fertile squatters’ subculture, and have always been politically conscious; Singles. Period. includes screeds that oppose American cultural hegemony, Dutch apathy, and eugenics. Their most recent album Turn likewise includes protests against globalization, consumerism, and cultural erosion, but its lyrics are quite nuanced and in touch with the grey areas of the issues when compared with the black and white prescription of 1981’s “Weapons For El Salvador”: .............. {audio}http://www.theex.nl/mp3/The%20Ex%20-%20Trash.mp3{/audio} ... Trash Read More ...
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From The Cortinas to Lunatic Fringe and Disorder, Bristol had a huge Punk scene that has influenced, affected and stimulated a vast range of artists that operate in the city. Many of these artists produce music that wouldn’t necessarily suggest a Punk heritage but scratch beneath the surface of a lot of the major players in the Bristol milieu and you will find a fondness for the times of `spikey barnets’, limited musical ability, a `F*** You’ attitude and disrespect for the music industry and its poseur hierarchy. Read More ...
A live album can be many things: a candid snapshot, a footnote to a scene, or even just a thrifty alternative to studio time. Antlers, a collection of live Bastro recordings from 1991, is the rarest kind of live album: it illuminates a side of the band that, in turn, casts their previous work in a new light as well.“1991 has been called the year that punk broke. Some of it broke into the mainstream, but some broke into more irregular shards.” David Grubbs’s observation, from the liner notes to Antlers, could also describe the varied musical paths that led from his former band Squirrel Bait to the disparate ’90s groups he and his ex-bandmates went on to found: Slint, Palace Brothers, King Kong, Bitch Magnet, the For Carnation, Tortoise, and of course, Bastro. Read More ...
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Black-lip Rattail ............ These sorts of rattails feed in the muddy seafloor by gliding along head down and tail up, powered by gentle undulations of a long fin under the tail. The triangular head has sensory cells underneath that help detect animals buried in the mud or sand. The common name comes from the black edges around the mouth. Read More ...
All world secret underground bases build for space travelers
The following material comes from people who know the Dulce (underground) base exists. They are people who worked in the labs; abductees taken to the base; people who assisted in the construction; intelligence personal (NSA,CIA,FBI ... ect.) and UFO / inner-earth researchers. This information is meant for those who are seriously interested in the dulce base. for your own protection be advised to “use caution” while investigating this complex.Does a strange world exist beneath our feet? Strange legends have persisted for centuries about the mysterious cavern world and the equally strange beings who inhabit it. More UFOlogists have considered the possibility that UFOs may be emanating from subterranean bases, that UFO aliens have constructed these bases to carry out various missions involving Earth or humans. Read More ...
"I forgot to remember to forget," Elvis Presley sang in 1955. I know that it was 1955 because I just Googled the title and clicked on the link to the Wikipedia entry for the song. How cool is that? Not long ago, I would have had to actually remember that Elvis recorded the song as part of his monumental Sun Records sessions that year. Then I would have had to flip through a set of histories of blues and country that sit on the shelf behind me. It might have taken five minutes to do what I did in five seconds. I almost don't need my own memory any more. That strikes many of us as a good thing: the costs low, the benefits high. We can be much more efficient and comprehensive now that a teeming collection of documents sits just a few keystrokes away. Read More ...
These days, with all the pundits preaching doom and the impending collapse of society into some kind of Mad Max style wasteland, it's easy for us to imagine that the economy is as unhealthy as it's ever been. But any historian would give you a hard backhanded smack for even saying that out loud. History is full of economic idiocy, and here are five economic collapses that make 2010 feel like the Renaissance. Read More ...
Island of Ghosts: Hashima Island - Japan’s rotting metropolis
Hashima, an island located in Nagasaki Bay, is better known as Warship Island (Gunkanshima). The island was inhabited until the end of the 19th century, when it was discovered that the ground below it held tons of coal. The island soon became a center of a major mining complex owned by Mitsubishi Corporation. As the complex expanded, rock brought out of the shafts was used to artificially expand the island. Seawalls created in this expansion turned Hashima into the monstrous looking Gunkanshima; its artificial appearance makes it looks more like a battleship than an island. Read More ...
Dreamachine - stroboscopic flicker device enter you to a hypnagogic state - try it right here in your browser
The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain. In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides. The cylinder is placed on a record turntable and rotated at 78 or 45 revolutions per minute. A light bulb is suspended in the center of the cylinder and the rotation speed allows the light to come out from the holes at a constant frequency of between 8 and 13 pulses per second. This frequency range corresponds to alpha waves, electrical oscillations normally present in the human brain while relaxing. Read More ...
The Peyote Way Church of God - believe that the Holy Sacrament Peyote can lead an individual toward a more spiritual life
The Peyote Way Church of God is a non-sectarian, multicultural, experiential, Peyotist organization located in southeastern Arizona, in the remote Aravaipa wilderness. It is not affiliated with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Native American Church, or any other religious organizations, though we do accept people from all faiths. Church membership is open to all races. We encourage individuals to create their own rituals as they become acquainted with the great mystery. We believe that the Holy Sacrament Peyote, when taken according to our sacramental procedure and combined with a holistic lifestyle (see Word of Wisdom), can lead an individual toward a more spiritual life. Peyote is currently listed as a controlled substance and its religious use is protected by Federal law only for Native American members of the Native American Church. Read More ...
The World's First Commercial Brain-Computer Interface + history of BCI
A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain–machine interface, is a direct communication pathway between a brain and an external device. BCIs are often aimed at assisting, augmenting or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA. The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain–computer interface in scientific literature. Read More ...
Seven theories of everything that pretend to describe the fundamental nature of the universe
We still don't have a theory that describes the fundamental nature of the universe, but there are plenty of candidates.
The "theory of everything" is one of the most cherished dreams of science. If it is ever discovered, it will describe the workings of the universe at the most fundamental level and thus encompass our entire understanding of nature. It would also answer such enduring puzzles as what dark matter is, the reason time flows in only one direction and how gravity works. Small wonder that Stephen Hawking famously said that such a theory would be "the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God". But theologians needn't lose too much sleep just yet. Despite decades of effort, progress has been slow. Rather than one or two rival theories whose merits can be judged against the evidence, there is a profusion of candidates and precious few clues as to which (if any) might turn out to be correct. Read More ...
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Coral Castle doesn't look much like a castle, but that hasn't discouraged generations of tourists from wanting to see it. That's because it was built by one man, Ed Leedskalnin, a Latvian immigrant who single-handedly and mysteriously excavated, carved, and erected over 2.2 million pounds of coral rock to build this place, even though he stood only five feet tall and weighed a mere 100 pounds. Ed was as secretive as he was misguided. He never told anyone how he carved and set into place the walls, gates, monoliths, and moon crescents that make up much of his Castle. Some of these blocks weigh as much as 30 tons. Ed often worked at night, by lantern light, so that no one could see him. He used only tools that he fashioned himself from wrecks in an auto junkyard. Read More ...
The T2K Experiment - From Tokai To Kamioka - Where is the anti-matter?
From the beginning of 2010, the T2K experiment will fire a beam of muon-neutrinos from Tokai on Japan's east coast, 300km accross the country to a detector at Kamioka. It hopes to investigate the phenomenon of "neutrino oscillations" by looking for "muon neutrinos" oscillating into "electron neutrinos". A million pound detector has been built at the University of Warwick as part of a vital experiment to investigate fundamental particles - neutrinos. Read More ...
The giant ALICE detector is already underway at CERN, and researchers are scrambling to add an electromagnetic calorimeter to capture jet-quenching, the newest way to look inside the quark-gluon plasma — the hot, dense state of matter that filled the earliest universe, which the Large Hadron Collider will soon recreate by slamming lead nuclei into one another. CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known mainly as the accelerator that will soon begin searching for the Higgs particle, and other new physics, in proton collisions at unprecedented energies — up to 14 TeV (14 trillion electron volts) at the center of mass — and with unprecedented beam intensities. But the same machine will also collide massive nuclei, specifically lead ions, to energies never achieved before in the laboratory. Read More ...
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It's not just a good idea, it's the law: 186,287 miles per second. The fact that sound waves travel at a finite speed--roughly 330 meters per second--has been known since ancient times. It's obvious, really, when you stand back a ways and observe the falling of a tree or the clapping of a pair of hands, and the sound arrives noticeably later than the sight itself. The fact that light waves also travel at finite speed is much harder to notice, because that speed is almost a million times faster. But by the end of the Renaissance, astronomers--viewing events much more distant than a few hundred meters--had begun to suspect the truth. Read More ...
It was nearly the end of WWII. At that same time, scientist Viktor Schauberger worked on a secret project. Johannes Kepler, whose ideas Schauberger followed, had knowledge of the secret teachings of Pythagoras that had been adopted and kept secret. It was the knowledge of Implosion (in this case the utilization of the potential of the inner worlds in the outer world). Hitler knew - as did the Thule and Vril people - that the divine principle was always constructive. A technology however that is based on explosion and therefore is destructive runs against the divine principle. Thus they wanted to create a technology based on Implosion. Read More ...
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Homerecent news CIA mililtary and covert operations in Libya from 80s - Secret CIA BASE files by Ralph McGehee
CIA mililtary and covert operations in Libya from 80s - Secret CIA BASE files by Ralph McGehee
The CIA is not now nor has ever been a central intel agency. It is the covert action arm of foreign policy. It overthrows or supports foreign Gvts while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It Shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear Weapon capability, to support policy. Disinformation is a large part Of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are The primary target audience of its lies. CIA fabricated propaganda often comes back to CIA for organization and Analyses but is not recognized as such. Net result is that CIA and other U.S. Agencies take CIA lies as truth. Example found re China. CIA broadcast Reports from Taiwan attributed to mainland that talked of thriving Resistance to cultural revolution. Broadcasts picked up by foreign Broadcast information service and included in daily booklets of Transcriptions from mainland. McGehee, R.W. (1983).
Human Rights the New International Communist Conspiracy.
To justify all of the multiple and massive covert operations of the CIA during the Cold War, it used the "International Communist Conspiracy," etc. as an excuse for overturning governments. With the end of the that war, another excuse had to be found -- and that, of course, is the violation of human rights. Such violations apparently occur everywhere but in the U.S. and its associated governments.
To continue our briefly interrupted policy of defeating China's government, the U.S., inter alia, sponsors Harry Wu's Laogai Foundation. Harry ends up being arrested by the Chinese authorities as a U.S. agent. Hillary's visit rescues him from a 15-year prison term.
To improve policies in Vietnam, we send William Colby (of Phoenix fame), (Search and Destroy) Westmoreland and General John Vessey.
The U.S.-funded National Endowment for Democracy, a surrogate CIA, per its latest newsletter, awarded 300 grants for programs in some eighty countries. It is my guess that we find human rights abuses in virtually all eighty countries.
My name is Ralph McGehee and I am a 25-year decorated veteran of the CIA and am a critic of the Agency. I served in Vietnam in 1968-1970 as chief adviser to the Vietnamese Special Police and after leaving CIA, I wrote the book DEADLY DECEITS: MY 25 YEARS IN THE CIA. My purpose in writing is to comment on the review of Robert McNamara's book, IN RETROSPECT, that appears in The Nation's 12 June 1995 issue.
I concur with the general thrust of the book review, "Bombing for the Hell of it," but disagree strongly with the repeated statements regarding the accuracy of CIA intelligence. I served in Vietnam in 1968 through mid 1970 and protested the CIA's intelligence about the war from then until the Vietnamese regained their country in April 1975.
CIA - Libya Links
Mar 26, 1996 - Reuters news reports yesterday state that unrest in the Jabal Akhdar mountains of Eastern Libya is caused by armed rebels who may have joined escaped prisoners in an uprising against the government.
This is an operation to overthrow Gaddafi led by Col. Khalifa Haftar, of a contra-style group based in the United States called the Libyan National Army. The army is the military wing of the Salvation Front for the Liberation of Libya.
It is obvious that the CIA is behind this group and indicates a new "awakening" for the CIA now that it has been cleared and re-energized by all the various official exonerations; and led by the new Director Deutch who pushes for more covert operations. With "Mr. Intervention," Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations advising the government on intervening via mililtary and covert operations toward China and probably also Libya and the rest of the world, we can expect a number of additional "successful" CIA covert operations similar to that of Vietnam, Central America and Afghanistan.
Libya, 92 Most guerrillas of cia-backed national salvation front from Libyan students living in u.s. And europe. Washington post 4/18/92 a15
Assassinations
Libya, 84 In may 84 15 gunmen attacked the residence of col. Qadhafi. A Sudan-based group called the national libya salvation front claimed Responsibility for the attack. Nair, k. (1986). Devil and his dart 98
Libya, 84 The cia backed, trained and continues to support the exile Group that tried to assassinate qaddafi in 84. The plot failed and qaddafi Executed a number of the group. The cia-backed group is called the national Front for the salvation of libya (nfsl) and is led by gen youssef Magarieff. The saudis have provided $7 million to the nfsl. Cia agents Advised nfsl leaders and trained their recruits in western europe, sudan And morocco. Jack anderson washington post 6/12/85 Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site
Libya, saudi arabia, 84 Despite an executive order forbidding Assassinations, the cia trained and supported the national front for the Salvation of libya before, during and after its attempt to assassinate Qaddafi on 5/8/84. The anti-qaddafi group was slaughtered in a day-long Battle less than a mile from the barracks where qaddafi was. Group's Leader, youssef magarieff, went ahead with op to show his cia and saudi Arabian backers what they got for support. Jack anderson washington post 11/8/85
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China, 96. The Washington Post reported 3/24/96 that the Secretary of Defense William J. Perry and other top Pentagon officials discussed policy toward China with independent expert Richard Haass. (The author of the book, Intervention). Page 31.
Council on Foreign Relations president discusses his thoughts on the notion of a "real diplomacy."
Chad, 91 Former chad chief of staff, and his patriotic salvation movement (Mps) preferred by france and libya. And u.s. Forced to remove its 700-man Libyan national liberation army (nla). Saudi arabia had set up bank account In libreville, gabon under control of dr. Yusuf al-margariaf. Since 81 Had been secretary-general of national front for salvation of libya (nfsl). In 81 a nie said funding for qaddafi's opponents came from saudi arabia, Egypt, morocco and iraq. Some believe nfsl created by cia in early 80s. Morocco provided nfsl trg in 81-82. In 84 front based in sudan. Later in Egypt. In 89 when egypt and libya became friends nfsl moved to ndjamena, Where it spliced with nla. Israel lent trainers. Nls's 700 contras Recruited from among 2,000 libyan prisoners taken by chad in border Skirmishes between 83-87. Col abdoulgassim khalifa hafter made nla Commander. Group turned over to 30 u.s. Military advisers for training in Commando and terrorist ops. Nla also intended for use against sudan and Other countries. Sudanese people's liberation army (spla) shut down. Office Described as u.s. Chadian op. In 89 op centered in villa of head of chad's Secret service, the dds, and staffed by u.s. Personnel. U.s. Finally Admitted nla a u.s. Op in 3/91. Israel used cameroons intel orgs and sent Instructors run nla trg centers. U.s. Apparently had major supply base at Yoko in central cameroon. Further details treverton, g. (1987). Covert Action summer 91 47-51
Chad, libya, israel, 90-91 Fall of pres habre in chad in dec 90 ended a Major u.s.-israeli covert war against libya. Cia-created libyan national Liberation army (lnla) assembled from prisoners taken by chad between 83-87. Group had just laid mines in s. Libya. "Africa confidential" 1/6/89 Reported u.s. And israel est series of bases in chad, cameroon, gabon and Central african republic where group aka contras trained. Originally group Called national front for salvation of libya (nfsl). Op funded in part by Saudi arabia. After change gvt in chad cia reportedly flew out 1st group of 100 libyan contras. Iric reported on 12/7/90 2 burly u.s. Diplomats kept Them from interviewing 200 pows being loaded onto u.s. Plane. Icrc tried Gain access to libyan pows for years. U.s. Air force flew contras to Nigeria where possibly at libya's request for repatriation. Israeli foreign Affairs 1/91 1-5 Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site
Egypt, libya, 81-87 Before sadat's assassination, secretary state haig Referred to qaddafi as a cancer that has to be cut out. On 6/18/81 President had signed secret intel finding directing cia to provide Non-lethal support and training to anti-qaddafi exiles. In october, former Libyan diplomat mohammed mugharief founded national front for salvation of Libya, underwritten largely by cia with help of saudi arabia. Based in Sudan, front established a propaganda radio station. Martin, d. & walcott, J. (1988). Best laid plans 79
Libya. A reporter from arab newspaper al-hayat allowed to visit national Front for salvation of libya - an arab opposition group in u.s. Territory. Leader of national liberation army is col. Khalifa hafter who said front Has 400 fighters in u.s. Located in (virginia?) 4 hours from d.c. Libyan Group said they waiting right moment to return to libya. The 400 men are in 25 states and are given regular military training. From al-hayat newspaper 12/18/91. Top secret autumn-winter 92 28-9
Libya, 73-88 U.s./cia waging a secret war against qaddafi for 15 years. Through surrogates, agents, national proxies, armies developed from Crumbling remnants of libyan opposition movements, and in 86, actual Military intervention. In early 80s cia established links with national Front for the salvation of libya. Cia strengthened nfsl, headed by aly Abuzaakouk. In 81 cia and pentagon plan code-named op early call, designed To provoke qaddafi into attacking sudan by faking a pro-libyan takeover of Sudan gvt. Plan discovered by qaddafi. In may 84 cia supported a coup that Crushed bloodily with more than 75 plotters killed. Libyan task force group Chief, vince cannistraro, and nsc officer donald fortier, made plan that Included arming libyan dissident groups in egypt and algeria. Ddi, r. Gates, suggested u.s. Support an egyptian invasion of libya - op called Flower/rose stopped by sos shultz. Perry, m. (1992). Eclipse: the last days Of the cia 165 Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site
Dr. Jen Ziemke, International Network of Crisis Mappers; Dr. Aly Abuzaakouk, Libya Forum for Human and Political Development; and Ahmed Abonamah, Libya Outreach Group; speak about the Libyan uprising in a town-hall type discussion.
Inside Story presenter Kamahl Santamaria, discusses with: Oliver Miles, a former British ambassdor to Libya; Mustafa Alani, director of the Security Progamme at the Gulf Research Centre and Aly Abuzaakouk, president of the Libyan Human and Political Development Forum.
Libya, 81-83 On june 18, 81 president signed intel finding directing cia To provide non-lethal support to anti-quaddfi exiles. In oct a former Libyan diplomat, mohammed mugharief, founded national front for salvation Of libya - underwritten by cia with help from saudi arabia. Based in sudan It established a radio station and began looking for prominent exiles. Blp 79. On 12/10/91 president signed national security decision directive 16 - That established task force to implement new libya policy. Martin, d. & Walcott, j. (1988). Best laid plans 81
Ibrahim Sahad from the National Front for Salvation of Libya joins Lateline from Washington.
Libya, 81-92 The national salvation front has no fixed hqs. Its leader, Ibrahim sahad, operates out of his home in virginia. Front forced to move From morocco to sudan and then out of arab world altogether and close down Its radio station in sudan and then egypt. Front once had hundreds of Troops recruited from libyan soldiers captured in chad. About 350 brought To us by cia after chad gvt expelled them. Now they scattered in 25 states. In 84 front launched an unsuccessful rocket and machine-gun attack against Military barracks of bab aziziyya - usually used as a residence by gadhafi. Most guerrillas libyan students living in u.s. And europe. In dec 91 "al Hayat" from front sources wrote "libyan contra camp in america," and said 400 rebels are preparing to fight - they training in the u.s. Washington Post 4/18/92 a15 Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site
a first hand account of entering bab al azizia, by a friend who's in Tripoli Liberation Brigade, filmed from his mobile.
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Iran, france, 85 The front for the salvation of iran (fsi), backed by the Cia, printed and distributed a million copies of a fake iranian postal Stamp showing the faces of amini and the young shah. Taheri, a. (1988). Nest of spies 150
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Libya. A reporter from arab newspaper al-hayat allowed to visit national Front for salvation of libya - an arab opposition group in u.s. Territory. Leader of the national liberation army is col. Khalifa hafter who said Front has 400 fighters in u.s. Located in (virginia?) 4 hours from d.c. Libyan group said they waiting right moment to return to libya. The 400 men Are in 25 states and are given regular military training. From al-hayat Newspaper 12/18/91. Top secret autumn-winter 92 28-9 Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site
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Libya. National front for the salvation of libya. An anti-qadaffi exile Group supported by cia. Carl, l. (1990). The international dictionary of Intelligence 252
Libya, 84 In may 84 15 gunmen attacked the residence of col. Qadhafi. A Sudan-based group called the national libya salvation front claimed Responsibility for the attack. Nair, k. (1986). Devil and his dart 98
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Chad, 91 Former chad chief of staff, and his patriotic salvation movement (Mps) preferred by france and libya. And u.s. Forced to remove its 700-man Libyan national liberation army (nla). Saudi arabia had set up bank account In libreville, gabon under control of dr. Yusuf al-margariaf. Since 81 Had been secretary-general of national front for salvation of libya (nfsl). In 81 a nie said funding for qaddafi's opponents came from saudi arabia, Egypt, morocco and iraq. Some believe nfsl created by cia in early 80s. Morocco provided nfsl trg in 81-82. In 84 front based in sudan. Later in Egypt. In 89 when egypt and libya became friends nfsl moved to ndjamena, Where it spliced with nla. Israel lent trainers. Nls's 700 contras Recruited from among 2,000 libyan prisoners taken by chad in border Skirmishes between 83-87. Colo abdoulgassim khalifa hafter made nla Commander. Group turned over to 30 u.s. Military advisers for training in Commando and terrorist ops. Nla also intended for use against sudan and Other countries. Sudanese people's liberation army (spla) shut down. Office Described as u.s. Chadian op. In 89 op centered in villa of head of chad's Secret service, the dds, and staffed by u.s. Personnel. U.s. Finally Admitted nla a u.s. Op in 3/91. Israel used cameroons intel orgs and sent Instructors run nla trg centers. U.s. Apparently had major supply base at Yoko in central cameroon. Further details covert action information Bulletin (now covert action quarterly) summer 91 47-51
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Libya, israel, 87-89 Israel and u.s. Training "contra force of libyans" In number of west and central african countries. They called "national Front for salvation of libya," and located in chad. Contras from about 2000 Libyan prisoners war, leader khalifa haftar. Cia controls weapons. Saudi Arabia contributed to libyan contras. Israeli foreign affairs 2/89 1,6
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Egypt, libya, 81-87 Before sadat's assassination, secretary state haig Referred to qaddafi as a cancer that has to be cut out. On 6/18/81 President had signed secret intel finding directing cia to provide Non-lethal support and training to anti-qaddafi exiles. In october, former Libyan diplomat mohammed mugharief founded national front for salvation of Libya, underwritten largely by cia with help of saudi arabia. Based in Sudan, front established a propaganda radio station. Martin, d. & walcott, J. (1988). Best laid plans 79
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Libya, 81-83 On june 18, 81 president signed intel finding directing cia To provide non-lethal support to anti-quaddfi exiles. In oct a former Libyan diplomat, mohammed mugharief, founded national front for salvation Of libya - underwritten by cia with help from saudi arabia. Based in sudan It established a radio station and began looking for prominent exiles. Martin, d. & walcott, j. (1988). Best laid plan
CIA uses human rights issues to subvert other governments
Human Rights Watch/Asia, is a New York-based "privately funded" group. One of the persons involved with the founding organization -- Helsinki Watch -- Orville Schell, is a Wall Street lawyer who is currently a member of the Board of Human Rights Watch (HRW). Schell wrote an article in the 12/14/92, issue of The Nation attacking China for corruption in its stock exchange that had been created only a year or two earlier. In the February 19, 1996 issue of the Nation he describes China's current negotiating posture based on its ancient traditions and recommends "How to Talk to China." He has also written a book "Mandate of Heaven." So if Orville Schell helps make HRW policy toward China it would seem that the organization may not be soley a dispassionate supporter of human rights but instead may have broader goals.
It also appears, from the information listed below, that HRW directly or indirectly received NED funding. With NED currently funding 18 operations to alter or unseat the Chinese government and at the same time possibly funding operations to criticize/demonize that government -- we must view with scepticism some of its claims.
It should be noted that NED establishes and funds Human Rights groups in numerous countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the former Soviet Union and the Middle East -- sometimes multiple groups in one country -- these groups are frequently used to criticize governments probably in order to justify operations to change or overthrow target governments.
NED assumed the CIA's role in political action operations in 1983-1984 and it is probable that the CIA satellites many of its operations on individuals, organizations and political parties supported by NED. While NED overtly funds those activities in addition to Human Rights groups overseas, we suggest that the activites of the Human Rights Watch organization in the United States may move in concert with the political goals espoused by NED.
In the case of China, would it not be better for the United States to directly negotiate these issues and concerns than go through the time-worm, obvious process of demonizing a government. We are not dealing with a tiny Grenada or a vulnerable Noreiga and this important nation deserves our best efforts. Rather than fall into the familiar deceitful pattern, cannot the United States deal frankly with the American public and the Chinese government on contentious issues?
Information from CIABASE files below, indicates that Helsinki Watch is the parent or an affiliated organization of Human Rights Watch/Asia and it also appears that Helsinki Watch was at one time funded by NED. It would be informative to investigate a list of current supporters of Helsinki Watch and Human Rights Watch. I would guess that an investigation might reveal covert CIA funding.
Ralph McGehee
A staff of 65 and a budget of $5.2 million. Human Rights Watch is the umbrella organization formed in 88 for the fund of Free expression (1975) and five regional divisions: helsinki watch (1979), Americas watch (1981), asia watch (1985), and middle east watch (1989). Committees publish reports and publicize violations of human rights. Robert bernstein, then head of random house, established the fund for free Expression in 75. Together with wall street lawyers Orville Schell and Adrian dewind, Bernstein founded helsinki watch in 79 in response to Persecution of soviets and czechs (including vaclav havels' charter 77). Aryeh neier of aclu, joined as executive director and has played a central Role in developing the full human rights watch program. Important persons are Jeri laber, juan mendez, sidney jones for asia watch, rakiya omaar for Africa watch, neier is overall director and holly burkhalter leads The washington office. Namebase excerpt, filed 1/23/96
Poland, 87 Ned supporting the helsinki watch committee. National endowment for democracy annual Report 87 38
Poland, 88 Ned funding the polish helsinki watch committee. National Endowment for democracy annual report 88 24
Poland, 89-90 Ned, polish american congress, to administer seven projects Designed for democratic movement in poland: independent committees for Education, culture, academic research and health (okno); polish helsinki Watch committee... 1989 $263,000, 1990 $59,000. National endowment for democracy annual report 89 22-23, 90 28
Poland, 86 Support for polish american congress charitable foundation - polish helsinki watch committee. National endowment for democracy Annual report 1986 22
"China plays the market." Orville schell and todd Lappin tell the astonishing, surreal and shocking inside story Of the paradozes of the privatization of the world's largest Marxist state. Beginning with the establishment of the first Chinese stock exchange in 1990, schell and lappin show how the Network of exchanges that followed was rocked by corruption, "Insider trading," "crashes" and all the other financial Fun and games, culminating in riots by angry would-be investors. This award winning nation article was published 12/14/92. The nation 2/5/96 38
An article by Orville Schell, "how to talk to china." Schell goes back to the years 453-221 b.c. to explain the logic behind China's recent negotiating postures -- on how to best manipulate a situation to one's advantage. "Moreover, the fact that after forty-five years of communist party rule China still does not have a viable political system helps create a new sense of political precariousness from which much of the uncompromising rhetoric now emanates." "In the meantime, the Clinton administration ought to stiffen its own back and remind itself that it is involved in a strategic game in which china also needs to "`save the relationship.'" The nation 2/19/96 20-22.
Robert Gates, a former Director of the CIA, said the CIA uses human rights issues to subvert other governments. The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is the overt implement for creating and funding these human rights organizations. In 1983, the CIA passed, or so we were told, many its political action functions to NED -- supposedly an independent entity but one that is funded by Congress.
Secrets of the CIA
Dim lights Embed Embed this video on your site Secrets of the CIA reveals the truth about the CIA and how this organization is behind numerous terrorist plots throughout history. Many ex-CIA agents speak out about their experiences as agents and what they were required to do.
Some of these missions even included killing of children. Most of them are now spreading the word about the crimes of the CIA and how the organization needs to be extinguished.
Ralph McGehee, a renowned ex-CIA agent, is featured in this documentary. He is most famous for publishing Deadly Deceits.
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The CIA is not now nor has ever been a central intel agency. It is the covert action arm of foreign policy. It overthrows or supports foreign Gvts while reporting "intelligence" justifying those activities. It Shapes its intelligence, even in such critical areas as Soviet nuclear Weapon capability, to support policy. Disinformation is a large part Of its covert action responsibility, and the American people are The primary target audience of its lies. CIA fabricated propaganda often comes back to CIA for organization and Analyses but is not recognized as such. Net result is that CIA and other U.S. Agencies take CIA lies as truth. Example found re China. CIA broadcast Reports from Taiwan attributed to mainland that talked of thriving Resistance to cultural revolution. Broadcasts picked up by foreign Broadcast information service and included in daily booklets of Transcriptions from mainland. McGehee, R.W. (1983).
