Nineteen Eighty-Four has, at times, been seen as revolutionary and politically dangerous and therefore was banned by many libraries in various countries, not mentioning totalitarian regimes.

Nazi Party

Nineteen Eighty-Four

The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake… We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

– Part III, chapter III

The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

– Part II, chapter IX - chapter I of Goldstein's book

----michael rivero - he reminds us. we were told that we attacked iraq because they have nuclear bombs. but you have to look at the u.s. paid for a tremendous nuclear deterent system. trillions spent. for the pres to say that iraq iran n.korea is going to attack us with a nuclear weapons means that that nuclear deterrent that we spent trillions of dollars on doesnt work. So we have to look at what exactly they tell us, there's a disconnect. why did we spend that much for a program that doesnt work? (bill gertz - alluding to some kind of spectacular weapons capabilities these small nations have) - of course there's the problem of new forms of tech developmet. asymmetrical tech advanced warfare. but still, the planet can be turned into burnt toast.

JC
How does Michael Rivero define "love of one's Country" ?

MR
The country is the people. Egomaniacs throughout history have tried to claim ,"L'etat, c'est moi!" or variations thereof, but the heart, soul, and lifeblood of any nation is the people. In a mature Republic, which is what the United States was created as, the government is an employee, a custodian of national sovereignty ruling only with the permission of the people, and its function is to obey orders, not to issue them. So, for me, love of country is love of one's neighbors, the citizens in your town, your county, your state, and being willing to take a hand in making that neighborhood, that town, or the nation, just a bit better. We all have a moral obligation to leave to the next generation a better nation than that which was left to us. I am concerned that the present generation will fail that test.

All taken together, I predict that the United States will soon follow the USSR into historical oblivion. What the American people need to be focusing on is just what sort of nation they want to replace it, so that they are ready and prepared to horsewhip the inevitable scoundrels who will try to form a new government dedicated to preservation of their own personal privilege.

The most important lesson for the people to learn from the present age is that if you tolerate lies in government, you will live under a government that lies to you, to trick you into courses of action you would not otherwise agree to, to trick you out of your money and out of the lives of your children sent to wars-for-profit. My recommendation to future generations is that you always strive to make the cost of a lie so far outweigh its benefits that the government will always see truth as a virtue. No government has a right to lie to its people. A well-run government doesn't need to.

The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Ms Gallagher received $21,500 from the department of health and human services, and $20,000 from the justice department for championing the initiative in her syndicated newspaper columns.

George Bush tried to distance the administration from such payment practices earlier this week, and an official from the health department said the payments would cease.

But a report issued on Thursday by Democratic members of the House of Representatives suggested the Bush administration may rely far more heavily on pay-per-view columnists than had been previously thought.

The administration spent more than $88m on public relations contracts last year - more than double the $37m it spent during Mr Bush's first year in office. That brought the administration's first-term spending on PR to $250m.

The first sign of a political payola scandal erupted this month when USA Today reported that Armstrong Williams, a conservative African-American columnist, had been paid $240,000 by the education department to champion the administration's controversial policies in his print, radio and television outlets.

Mr Williams was paid through Ketchum PR, the public relations firm also involved in producing fake "news pieces" last year that touted the administration's prescription drug bill. Some US television stations put the clips straight on the air.

The administration claimed that its use of a fake reporter, Karen Ryan, to sell its programmes, was an isolated incident. It now appears that such covert campaigns were widespread.

The Bush administration's readiness to pay for favourable press at a time of mounting budget deficits has raised eyebrows in Congress.

"While not all public relations spending is illegal or inappropriate, this rapid rise in public relations contracts at a time of growing budget deficits raises questions about the priorities of the administration," a report on public relations spending by the Democratic staff of the house government reform committee said.

The Bush administration was confronted with fresh evidence of a far-reaching clandestine campaign to influence public opinion yesterday after a third conservative commentator admitted receiving payments for championing its policies.

Michael McManus, a newspaper columnist, was paid up to $10,000 (£5,300) to praise the administration's marriage initiative, which diverts funds from welfare to marital counselling, the Los Angeles Times reported.

His fees were approved by a branch of the department of health and human services, and were funnelled through the Lewin Group, a consultancy firm. The commentator's rightwing Marriage Savers Foundation received an additional $49,000 in government grants. Mr McManus did not disclose the payments in his columns.

By DAVID RISING, Associated Press Writer Sat Feb 10, 10:04 AM ET

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Speaking at a conference of the world's top security officials, including the Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani, Putin said nations "are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force in international relations."

"One state, the United States, has overstepped its national borders in every way," he told the 250 officials, including more than 40 defense and foreign ministers.

"This is nourishing an arms race with the desire of countries to get nuclear weapons," Putin said, but did not elaborate on specifics and did not mention the wars in

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The Russian leader also voiced concern about U.S. plans to build a missile defense system in eastern Europe — likely in Poland and the Czech Republic — and the expansion of

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"The process of NATO expansion has nothing to do with modernization of the alliance or with ensuring security in Europe," Putin said. "On the contrary, it is a serious factor provoking reduction of mutual trust."

On the missile defense system, Putin said: "I don't want to accuse anyone of being aggressive" but suggested it would seriously change the balance of power and could provoke an unspecified response.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates had little to say about Putin's remarks, noting only that "he was very candid."

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"There is no way around this," Merkel said. "What we are talking about here is a very, very sensitive technology, and for that reason we need a high degree of transparency — which Iran has failed to provide — and if Iran does not do so, then the alternative for Iran is to slip further into isolation."

On the sidelines of the conference, Larijani defended his country's nuclear program as peaceful, saying: "We are no threat to our region or other countries," while indicating a willingness to return to negotiations.

"We are prepared to work together with other countries for a comprehensive peace," he said.

Heading into the conference, Larijani said he planned to use the gathering as an opportunity to discuss Iran's nuclear program — the first talks with Western officials since limited U.N. sanctions were imposed in December.

The annual Munich Conference on Security Policy, now in its 43rd year, often is used as an opportunity for informal diplomacy.

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The conference this year focuses on "Global Crises — Global Responsibilities," looking at NATO's changing role, the Middle East peace process, the West's relations with Russia and the fight against terrorism.

Some 3,500 police were on hand to keep some 1,300 protesters in check, officials said. Scattered arrests were reported, but police said there were no major incidents.

Scientists say wildlife extinction rates are soaring. The die-off, they claim, threatens the planet's web of life or biodiversity which sustains farming, forestry and oceans. At a Paris meeting last week scientists called on world leaders to catalog and save species. One of the speakers was University of Minnesota ecology professor David Tilman. He's known around the world for his research showing the effects of human activity on the environment.

St. Paul, Minn. — The 1200 scientists and others at the international meeting sponsored by the government of France issued a statement at the end of the 5-day-long event. It said in part, "Biodiversity is being irreversibly destroyed by human activities at an unprecedented rate. . . (demanding) urgent and significant action."

New plant and animal species are emerging, University of Minnesota ecology professor David Tilman says, but not nearly fast enough to make up for the toll caused by human activity.

"That's sort of a 1 million to 4 million year process, and yet we are causing species to be lost at rates of 100 to 1000 times faster," he says.

Tilman says the rate of extinction is approaching what scientists assume happened 65 million years ago. That's when many believe a giant meteorite struck the earth, causing a dramatic climate change that led to mass extinction.

Thirty million years (later) things were pretty much back to normal, different species, dinosaurs were gone, mammals were here," he says.

Unlike then, Tilman argues, we can't count on time to heal the earth's wounds.

Scientists estimate there are 10 to 30 million plant and animal species on the planet, most of them unidentified. Each year as many as 50,000 species disappear. Most die off, Tilman says, because of human activity. "We take natural habitats convert them to agriculture, to suburbia, to roads, to monoculture forestry. We fish the oceans so heavily we literally have these trolling nets that scrape the bottom of the ocean clean," he says.

Dave Tilman is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, the author of four books and more than 140 scientific papers.

Unlike some scientists, he doesn't hesitate to give his opinion on what his research means. Tilman says human behavior is affecting the environment and that our treatment of the earth amounts to a form of theft.

"What that means morally is that future generations will have a lower quality of life because we overexploited the habitat now," he says.

Tilman cites meat production as one of our most wasteful practices. He says raising grain as feed for beef cattle requires vast amounts of land and uses up lots of petroleum to make fertilizer to raise the crops.

"We're using an organism, cattle, that are highly specialized on living on low quality food, and we're giving them high quality food which their guts aren't able to handle very effectively," he says.

A wiser practice which preserves biodiversity, Tilman argues, is raising cattle on grassland that resembles the prairie. Ten years of research by Tilman and others at the Cedar Creek Natural History Area 30 miles north of the Twin Cities shows pasture with plant variety is more productive, releases cleaner water and tolerates extreme weather better.

Tilman argues saving the planet's biodiversity will require modifying human preferences for driving bigger vehicles, eating more meat and generally consuming more of everything around us.

He says we can't count on the market place alone to send the right signals for preserving biodiversity.

He says the next phase of his research will attempt to show ways for finding a balance.

"Might we be able to not only produce more pulp in a more diverse forest for paper production but maybe have that forest provide other services, cleaner water, store more carbon so we can remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, helping get rid of some of our effects of burning fossil fuel. . . finding ways we can use biological diversity as a tool to help society have a more sustainable world?" he asks.

Two specific proposals emerged at the Paris meeting he attended. One is a 25-year-long effort to catalog all of the earth's species, and another is to spend $25 billion to save the 25 most threatened environments including the Amazon forest.

Contact: Keith Randall at (979) 845-4644 or Duane Kraemer at (979) 845-4220.

Extinction

Mass extinctions

The Cambrian Extinction (500 MYA)

The Devonian Extinction (345 MYA)

The Permian Extinction (230 MYA)

Triassic extinction (80 MYA)

Quaternary (Pleistocene epoch) extinction 20,000 YA

Causes of extinction: Overexploitation

Causes of extinction: Introduction of Pests, Predators and competitors

Causes of extinction: Habitat destruction Risks faced by small populations

Demographic stochasticity

Genetic stochasticity

Effective population size, Ne

Ne with unequal sex ratios

Short-term Genetic risks faced by small populations

Long-term Genetic risks

Genetic Vs. demographic stochasicity

Why save species?

By Cheryl Seal

"Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and most inhumane." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Need a good laugh? Here's a joke for you: America's standard of health care is the best in the world and therefore we should be willing to pay for it (as in high insurance premiums, high drug costs, high everything medical) so that we can continue to enjoy the best health in the world.

Now, when you have stopped rolling on the floor with helpless mirth, your tears of laughter will turn to tears of frustration and grief as you read the following sad litany of facts:

U.S. has the most new medicines in world, spends more of GDP on medicine than any other nation, and yet has the highest rates of cancers for at least 10 cancer types and the highest infant mortality rate of all developed nations. The conservative politicians say socialized medicine is bad because you might have to wait your turn for some nonemergency services, up to a few months. Why is that such a bad deal? - 42.6 million Americans face an even longer wait than that for ALL services - as in forever - because they have no insurance. That's the highest percentage of people without access to medical care in the world. We also have the highest number of ininsured of any developed nation (42.6 million).

So, check out where we REALLY stand compared to the rest of the world, re: statistics compiled from World Health Organization data and a Harvard U. study:

The U.S. ranks

NUMBER ONE in COST of health care, but
NUMBER 24 in disability-adjusted life expectancy, and
NUMBER 37 in the overall performance of its medical system and
NUMBER 40 in the level of satisfaction recipients express for their care

Nearly half (48%) of all people in the U.S. with below-average incomes report that it is "extremely, very, or somewhat difficult" to get medical care when they need it.

They say the gauge of the quality of a society is how they treat their infants and elderly. Looks like we're a second rate banana republic:

INFANT MORTALITY RATE per 100,000 births

Sweden: 382
Japan: 396
Norway: 413
France: 476
Austria: 492
Denmark: 551
Canada: 552
UK: 586
Israel: 662
U. S. 772

It seems no surprise that the two nations most obsessed at present with death and destruction have the highest rates.

ELDERLY CARE: (From 2000 Harvard School of Public Health report)

More than 1 in 4 (29%) elderly Americans have a difficult time meeting their basic monthly expenses.

32% of U.S. elderly have no drug coverage.

20% of US elderly pay $50-$100 per month out-of -pocket for drugs, while 16% pay more than $100 per month. By contrast, under 5% of the elderly in four other developed countries pay more than $100 per month.

15% of elderly have foregone filling prescriptions because they could not afford it,

18 % have problems paying medical bills

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press05082000.html
http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.p

The U.S. also has the greatest disparity between the health of the poor and that of the wealthy of all industrialized nations. Black infants, for example, have a mortality rate that is more than twice that of white children (14 versus 6 per 100,000).

CANCER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD

If you believe what the drug company ads and the medical industry lobbyists tell you, you'd be sure that America is just a heartbeat away from beating cancer...that our cancer patients are damn lucky to be living in the good ole U.S. of A. Well, think again.

In addition to having the highest rate of prostrate cancer in the world as a nation, the U.S. also boasts the worst prostate cancer rates in world for a specific population: Black men in Atlanta Georgia, while black men in New Orleans have the second highest lung cancer rate in the world, after the Maoris of New Zealand

The U.S. also has the highest rates in the world of the following cancers:

Colon cancer in males
Cancer of lung, breast, oropharynx, larnynx and bladder in women
For both sexes: Pancreas, thyroid, non-Hodgkins lymphoma, multiple myeloma, myeloid leukemia:

America's five-year cancer survival rates for all types of cancer for all races: 4%
whites only 5%
blacks: 2%

And now here's a crowning fact in the cancer department. Billions upon billions of dollars are donated each year to cancer research from private, local, state, and federal sources. But cancer research fundraising has become just another Enron-style cash cow and PR op for the elite. Not surprisingly, Barbara and George Bush, sr. are the darlings of the cancer fundraising circuit. A recent study of the American Cancer Society (who awarded the Bushes their medal of honor for 2002) shows that only 16% of the billions poured into cancer research goes to cancer research. The rest goes to high-profile, big-buck figurehead positions and schmoozing.

For example, one of Enron's CEO's was named to a top post at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Clinic. This guy, John Mendelsohn, was one of the primary forces behind Imclone, the company now being investigated for fraud. After Mendelsohn got his post at the clinic, Ken Lay donated $55,000 to the clinic - but only on the condition it went to a special fund set up in the name of his pals the senior Bushes. The Bushes are major fundraising figureheads for said clinic. And, John Mendelsohn has been an advisor on key issues -like stem cell research - to G. W. Bush, privately meeting with him in August 2001 at the White House. Mendlesohn was caught failing to inform drug trial patients that he, the principle investigator for Imclone's drug Erbitux, has a vested financial interest in the outcome. But has ANYONE noticed Mendelesohn's name in the news, linked either with Imclone OR Enron? Nope! All they can see is Martha Stewart, who has been used, it would appear, as a big name smokescreen to hide the REAL dirty linen.

"My overall assessment is that the national cancer program must be judged a qualified failure," says Dr. John Bailer, who spent 20 years on the staff of the U.S. National Cancer Institute and was editor of its journal. Dr. Bailer also says: "The five year survival statistics of the American Cancer Society are very misleading. They now count things that are not cancer, and, because we are able to diagnose at an earlier stage of the disease, patients falsely appear to live longer. Our whole cancer research in the past 20 years has been a total failure. More people over 30 are dying from cancer than ever before . . . More women with mild or benign diseases are being included in statistics and reported as being 'cured'. When government officials point to survival figures and say they are winning the war against cancer they are using those survival rates improperly." http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/online/research/cancer.html. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner, was even more blunt: "Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them."

American medicine has become almost synonymous with drugs. To hear the drug companies line every night on the evening news (where their ads and free infomercials abound), they have an answer to every ill...they are concerned, paternal outfits interested only in a "better life for America." The truth is very different from the million-buck a minute ads. In reality, the pharmaceutical industry in America can only be described as cutthroat - literally and figuratively. The competition is so intense and the corporations so secretive that the big companies have become more like the CIA - but, if anything, less principled - less concerned for the "collateral damage." The trouble is, for the American drug companies, collateral damage = patient life and suffering. Drugs known to be dangerous are rushed to market now, the results routinely fudged.http://www.drugawareness.org/Archives/2ndQtr_2001/4101Drug.html They are hyped endlessly through the mainstream media, which aids and abet the companies. Drug co. infomercials for new products are run on the nightly news as "Medical news." Then, some time later, when the body count starts to mount up for drugs whose deadly side effects were swept under the rug by tweaked results during drug trials and FDA folk "helping out" the drug barons, the drug is pulled, the companies sued. But, before the sh-t hits the fan, the companies make billions - more than enough to consider the subsequent lawsuits as a "cost of doing business." Case in point:

Baycol is a prime example of drug company evil: The drug was put out in 1998 and hyped relentlessly. You couldn't watch a TV show without seeing three ads..couldn't go into a doctor's office without seeing the slick literature or name sprinkled about (as on prescription forms provided by the co. as a freebie). The first deaths were reported within a year. Yet, despite maker Bayer's own evidence of the drug's danger, they continued to defend and sell the product, lobbying for approval of HIGHER doses. It was not until the confirmed death count reached 31, that Bayer withdrew the drug. In addition, by then, over 1000 cases of rhabdomyolysis or muscle weakness and/or damage were reported in association with the drug. Since then the death count and disability attributable to the drug has climbed. http://www.cepr.net/columns/baker/dying_for_patents.htm
http://www.baycol-law.com/lawsuits.htm

But just a few weeks after the first big lawsuits were filed and the revenues started to dry up, Bayer's immediate money problems were solved by the oh-so-lucky coincidence of the anthrax attacks happening just then and the even better good fortune of having all the media pushing their product to a terrified America as the "only cure" for anthrax (Tom Brokaw even held his bottle like an old-fashioned carnival pitch man) - causing a huge run internationally on the drug. Of course it turns out Cipro was NOT the only drug that could treat anthrax - doxycycline, just a small fraction of the cost of Cipro, works just fine and with also just a fraction of the side effects of Cipro.

The cost of prescription drugs, in general, are inflated to a point that strains credibility, esp. when the same items go for half the cost in poorer nations. Worse yet, the drug companies use misleading advertising and product descriptions to convince doctors and their patients that a overpriced drug is the "best" remedy - one that may "save" them. Case in point: Plavix. Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) has been touted by iits makers (Sanofi Synthelabo and Bristol Myers Squibb as a wonder drug for preventing cardiovascular events such as stroke and heart attack. But the New England Journal of Medicine reveals that this heavily advertised and drug rep-pushed drug - which costs $3.02 a pill - is no more effective than aspirin, which costs 4 CENTS a pill. But Plavix, recently, accounted for an insane one-third of Sanofi Synthelabo's profits. Damn the consumer, full speed ahead. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/abstract/346/23/1800

The week before the terrorist attacks in Sept of 2001, an extremely critical expose' of the drug industry broke - and, of course, was quickly forgotten: Thirteen major medical journals from around the world joined forces to expose and condemn the manipulation of drug trial results by pharmaceutical companies. It seems the drug barons have been pressuring the university researchers who conduct drug trials into producing reports of results that will help gain drug approval. In some cases, the researchers are not given access to key data that might show an unfavorable result, or they are forced to use trial designss that will skew results to the drug company?s advantage while sacrificing accuracy. As a result, drugs with unknown, and sometimes ultimately lethal, side effects and questionable efficacy often make it far too quickly to market." (read whole story (date: 9/10) at http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=4410

So what is the answer to this systematic abuse of Americans? For the Democrats to AGGRESSIVELY promote a universal healthcare system which guarantees that every American has an equal shot at healthcare. The misinformation about universal health care that is being spread by the insurance industry and their henchmen in the GOP is appalling. For example - promoting the lie that universal healthcare would bankrupt the government. What a joke - study after study has show that the cost of administering a centralized single-payer program would be LESS per citizen than the current ridiculous HMO system. In addition, the reduced number of lost days due to sickness and disability would be greatly reduced, as would the cost to the taxpayer of taking care of people who have gone without healthcare so long that they are, ultimately, thrown onto welfare or SSI unnecessarily. Healthcare MUST be independent of job. Corporate indiifference to employee wellbeing is notorious. Workers are routinely finding their providers changed, "edited" (as in covering less for more $) or the cost jacked up. Then, when the company decides to throw its workers over board so the overpaid CEOs can hoard the lifeboats, right in the midst of the stress of becoming jobless, workers are suddenly without access to healthcare. In Silicon Valley, the free clinic, once the only recourse for the very poor, is now having to try to find a larger building to accommodate the hundreds of jobless tech workers who benefits have run out.

Next, there MUST...and I cannot stress this enough...MUST MUST MUST be an independent agency that oversees the pharmaceutical industry. A board upon which NO drug or insurance industry employees - past or present - can sit. All donations to political candidates from the pharmaceutical industries, and ALL industries where human health is likely to be effected, must be BANNED, even if no other campaign finance reforms are made. Do this, and half the big lobbyist bucks thrown to candidates will be eliminated. In addition, legislation must be introduced that makes it illegal for anyone with any vested interest in the pharmaceutical industry and any other industry directly affecting human and environmental health to be appointed to any government position related to that industry. Right now, the Bush cabinet is stuffed with former pharmaceutical industry bigwig. Donald Rumsfeld's biggest claim to fame before coming into the White House and playing Geriatric General was calling in favors in Washington to insure that his company (Searle) was able to win FDA approval for its biggest cash cow of all time - aspartame ...DESPITE mounting evidence from trial results and medical testimony that the compound is NOT free from serious side effects. (the single biggest source of product health complaints filed with the FDA has, for years now, been re: aspartame).

In short, remove the incentive to screw America's health in favor of ready cash, and the abuses will decline. Do nothing, and disaster is just over the horizon. The aging of America - with more people living longer but not without chronic ailments (diabetes, heart disease, etc,, will all climb commensurately), a system without adequate healthcare in this scenario will be a nighmare...with America's social landscape resembling an impoverished eastern European nation from the 1950s more than the supposedly wealthiest, most "advanced" nation on Earth.

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for the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the crips and bloods street gangs of los angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a latin american guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found....

the we the people cia-drugs web site is dedicated to furthering debate on one of the most critical issues of our time: U.S. government complicity in the crack cocaine epidemics that has decimated so many of our inner cities and destroyed countless lives.

The record is clear. George Herbert Walker Bush stands guilty of crimes against the American people and crimes against humanity. During the 1980's he was the head of a vast criminal network that was responsible for unleashing death and destruction throughout the countries of South and Central America, flooding this country with illegal narcotics, turning our inner cities into virtual war zones, and destroying countless lives through the horrors of drug addiction.

The evidence we've presented also makes it clear that when our elected officials put their hands on the Bible and swear to uphold this country's Constitution, they have nothing but contempt for both - and the American people.

Justice delayed is justice denied. And in the case of George Herbert Walker Bush, justice has been denied far too long. The time has long since past when former President Bush should be tried for treason, put before a firing squad, and shot for this unforgivable betrayal of the public's trust.

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but the truth is, the legal drugs take far more lives, and provide far more income. One prolongs life with excruciating agony, one Detracts life with mindboggling speed and heartwrenching efficiency.

as i said, it goes on....and on.....and on....

- (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANgmAI9XZEk) - RBG Photo Story Mini-Lecture: Can't Sell Dope Forever -

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(http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=2066) - BLOG | Posted 12/13/2004

Gary Webb is dead.

He was the journalist who wrote a famous--or infamous--1996 series for the San Jose Mercury News that maintained a CIA-supported drug ring based in Los Angeles had triggered the crack epidemic of the 1980s. On Friday, the 49-year-old Webb, who won a Pulitzer Prize for other work, apparently shot himself. His "Dark Alliances" articles spurred outrage and controversy. Leaders of the African-American community demanded investigations. Mainstream newspapers--including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times--questioned his findings. And nearly a year after the pieces appeared, the Mercury News published a criticism of the series; Webb was demoted and soon left the newspaper. Two years later, he published a book based on the series.

Webb's tale is a sad one. He was on to something but botched part of how he handled it. He then was blasted and ostracized. He was wrong on some important details but he was, in a way, closer to the truth than many of his establishment media critics who neglected the story of the real CIA-contra-cocaine connection. In 1998, a CIA inspector general's report acknowledged that the CIA had indeed worked with suspected drugrunners while supporting the contras. A Senator named John Kerry had investigated these links years earlier, and the media had mostly ignored his findings. After Webb published his articles, the media spent more time crushing Webb than pursuing the full story. It is only because of Webb's work--as flawed as it was--that the CIA IG inquiry happened. So, then, it is only because of Webb that US citizens have confirmation from the CIA that it partnered up with suspected drug traffickers in the just-say-no years and that the Reagan Administration, consumed with a desire to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, allied itself with drug thugs.

(http://www.wethepeople.la/ciadrugs.htm) -

Since WeThePeople originally published the results of Bradely Earl Ayers investigation of CIA proprietary Southern Air Transport, the CIA itself has confirmed the results of his investigation in Volume II of its Inspector General's report. Yet more proof, if any were needed, that what the small army of former DEA, CIA, and FBI agents and whistlblowers has been saying is true: The CIA has been up to its neck in the drug trade for decades.

Verbatim from Volume II of the CIA's IG Report:

800. Background. Southern Air Transport (SAT) carried a variety of equipment, supplies and humanitarian aid for the FDN during the 1980s.

801. Allegations of Drug Trafficking. A January 21, 1987 memorandum from ADCI Robert Gates to Morton Abramowitz, Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, stated that the U.S. Customs Service had advised CIA that the Customs office in New Orleans was investigating an allegation of drug trafficking by SAT crew members. The Gates memorandum noted that the source of the allegation was a senior FDN official. The memorandum indicated that the FDN official was concerned that "scandal emanating from Southern Air Transport could redound badly on FDN interests, including humanitarian aid from the United States."

802 .A February 23, 1991 DEA cable to CIA linked SAT to drug trafficking. The cable reported that SAT was "of record" in DEA's database from January 1985-September 1990 for alleged involvement in cocaine trafficking. An August 1990 entry in DEA's database reportedly alleged that $2 million was delivered to the firm's business sites, and several of the firm's pilots and executives were suspected of smuggling "narcotics currency."