Dear RN list, I plan to send these 3 messages to a friend in the military. I hope to gradually convince him that the honourable thing to do now is to get out of the corporate globalization enforcement ranks... and to realize that were he to uphold democracy truly, he might well be knocked off by the crew who gives the military its orders. all the best, Jan ******************************************************************* Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 02:32:48 +0200 From: •••@••.••• (Christoph Reuss) Subject: there's something fishy about WTC and Dubya... Bombs inside the WTC made the collapse possible: http://www.eionews.addr.com/psyops/plot_within_a_plot_part1.htm The WTC changed owner only 7 weeks before 11-Sep (and for the first time since its construction), and the new insurance covered acts of terrorism. The Bush clan is in business with the Bin Laden family: http://www.americanfreedomnews.com/afn_articles/bushsecrets.htm http://www.judicialwatch.org/press_release.asp?pr_id=1624 U$ invasion into Afghanistan in October was planned already in mid-July: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1550000/1550366.stm Texan oil company has been waiting for oil pipeline thru Afghanistan for years: The company said in 1998 to the U$ parliament: "From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of our proposed pipeline [through Afghanistan] cannot begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders and our company." http://www.house.gov/international_relations/105th/ap/wsap212982.htm http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html ******************************************************************* From: magellan <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:40:25 -0300 Subject: How Laissez Faire Helps Terrorism http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2001/09/28/107.html Friday, Sep. 28, 2001. Page VIII Global Eye -- Follow the Money By Chris Floyd Why couldn't American agents find Osama bin Laden's money and stop the flow of his support to terrorist networks around the world before they struck on Sept. 11? Because Phil Gramm didn't want them to. The hard-line Texas senator has long led the fight against international efforts to crack down on money laundering, tax evasion and other financial hijinks beloved of operators taking advantage of the "free flow of capital" around the world. Gramm has successfully lobbied his fellow Republicans -- and not a few Democrats -- to keep "Big Guvmint" from peering under the rocks where terrorists, drug lords, outlaw regimes and various Mafias entwine so comfortably with Big Business and High Finance. Last year, as head of the Senate Banking Committee, Gramm killed a Clinton initiative to give federal authorities broader powers to stop money laundering and bar foreign countries and banks from U.S. financial markets if they didn't cooperate with investigators, The New York Times reports. Even after the attack, Gramm was proud of his intransigence. "I was right then, and I am right now," Gramm crowed last week. "The way to deal with terrorists is to hunt them down and kill them." But not, obviously, to interfere with their financial transactions. After all, some of that cash finds its way back to the pockets of those generous folks in the banking industry -- Gramm's political patrons. Feisty Phil wasn't the only one opposed to such efforts, however. Just a few weeks ago, the Bush administration -- another group well-watered by the murky flow of offshore capital -- announced its withdrawal from international treaty talks on cleaning up the money-laundering swamp. Why on earth did they oppose this strike against terrorism and organized crime? Let's ask Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank -- no "left-wing fifth columnist" he: "The answer is, it's in the interests of some of the monied interests to allow this to occur," he told The Nation in June. "It's not an accident; it could have been shut down at any time." And this week, the Bush administration finally reversed the long-standing conservative appeasement of wealthy murderers, at least in part, by freezing the financial assets of Bin Laden and his associates and threatening to, er, bar any foreign countries and banks from U.S. financial markets if they didn't cooperate with investigators. Of course, it took them 13 days to get around to blocking the cash flow of their "prime suspect" -- but maybe some of their comfortably entwined High Finance pals needed time to get untangled before the freeze. Oh well, better late than never, right? *********************************************************** From: magellan <•••@••.•••> To: •••@••.••• Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 23:42:58 -0300 Subject: Kissinger sued for gen. Schneider's death The brutal killing of the Chilean general René Schneider, a legalist one, by right-wing conspirators, who were driven by the CIA --the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, shocked South America in 1970. The leftist Allende was about to become the new President of Chile. Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela by then were the democratic oasis in the continent and Peru was having a curious experiment with a left-wing and tolerant military dictatorship. Colombia has always been a special case. Now the family of general Schneider is going to sue Henry Kissinger in both the Chilean and US courts as liable for Schneider's death. The family is based upon recently declassified government documents (see the news ahead). The medical doctor Salvador Allende Gossens had been running for the Chilean Presidency since 1952 being based upon a left-wing coalition (Communists became legal only in 1958, though Nazis have always been legal). He obtained only 52,000 votes (5.5% of the valid ones) in the elections on September, 4, 1952. He could have been elected in 1958, since he got 356,494 votes (28.5% of the valid ones) and lost for a narrow margin to the rightist Jorge Alessandri (389,909 votes or 31.2%), being the gap attributed to the populist Antonio Zamorano (41,304 votes or 3.3%), who was incentived by the right-wing (a common divisionist practice in South America). On 1964, the panic with the _red danger_ impulsed the right to give full support to the Democratic-Christian Eduardo Frei and his "Revolution in Liberty" as a _lesser evil_. He winned with 1,409,012 votes (56.09% of the valid ones) against Allende's 977,902 votes (38.92%). On September, 4, 1970, Salvador Allende got 1,070,000 votes (36.2% of the valid ones); the same rightist Jorge Alessandri 1,031,000 votes (34.9%); and the Democratic-Christian Radomiro Tomic --who was quite inclined to the left, at least as a lip service-- got 821,000 votes (27.8% of the valid ones). About 16% of the voters abstained themselves. According to the Chilean Constitution, since nobody obtained the absolute majority, the National Congress should elect the President. Allende was then finally chosen on October, 24, 1970 (153 votes against 35 for Alessandri and 7 blank ballots). He was bound by the Constitution and by several conditions set up by the negotiated "Estatuto de Garantías Democráticas": the maintainance of political pluralism; freedom of teaching and of association; autonomy of the universities; absolute respect for the rule of the Law; and the political neutrality of the Armed Forces... Meanwhile, the Richard Nixon administration sought a military coup before Allende's inauguration. Nevertheless, the chief Army commander, general René Schneider, was not a _gorilla_, but a professional, law-abiding and _apolitical_ officer. The right-wing conspirators tried to kidnap him in order to obtain from him a _pronunciamiento_ : pronouncement of the Army, something quite serious in Latin America, bordering to a coup. Instead, they shot him on October 22 (before the election of Allende by the Chilean Congress) when he reacted and reached for his revolver. Schneider died on October 25 and the CIA-engineered coup failed completely. In solidarity, Roberto Magellan ############################################ Fecha: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 De: Instituto Cono Sur Asunto: USA/CHILE: QUERELLA CONTRA KISSINGER POR ASESINATO DE SCHNEIDER EN EE.UU., VER EL PROGRAMA "60 MINUTES" DE CBS http://cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,309983-412,00.shtml Family To Sue Kissinger For Death * 1970 Kidnapping Of General Led To Death * Was Henry Kissinger To Blame? September 7, 2001 AP Henry Kissinger (CBS) 60 Minutes has learned that the family of a murdered Chilean general plans to file a lawsuit seeking damages against Henry Kissinger for his alleged role in the death of Gen. Rene Schneider, the commander of the Chilean Army who was killed by kidnappers in 1970. Citing recently declassified government documents, the civil suit is expected to claim that the CIA supported a kidnapping plot which led to the death of the Chilean general. The CIA's support for the kidnapping was part of a larger effort by the Agency to instigate a coup in Chile - an objective ordered by President Nixon and overseen by Kissinger. Bob Simon reports, Sunday, September 7, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Rene Schneider Jr., son of the late general, tells Simon, "I always wanted to put all this behind me, but we have a duty to humanity to speak about this. It would be irresponsible to remain silent." Accounts of the former U.S. ambassador to Chile and the embassy's former military attaché - both of whom appear in the report - and the documents tell the Cold War story of the Nixon administration's desire to thwart leftist politician Salvadore Allende's successful election to Chile's presidency. The Nixon White House sought a military coup in Chile before Allende's inauguration, but Schneider, a constitutional defender, stood in the way. Schneider was shot by the would-be kidnappers when he reached for his revolver. Kissinger declined to speak to 60 Minutes, but when questioned about Chile in the past, he has responded that he personally cut off support for the coup conspirators during a meeting with the CIA on Oct. 15, 1970, a few days before Schneider's murder. CIA officials, however, differed with Kissinger on this point in subsequent investigations. The Senate committee that investigated the matter could not determine who was telling the truth. ######################################### From: GFW <westphal@ Subject: USA: IMPLICAN A KISSINGER EN ASESINATO DE GRAL. CONSTITUCIONALISTA CHILENO Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 Fuente:...Agencias, Primera Línea Ex funcionarios de EE.UU. y el hijo del mismo nombre del asesinado general chileno René Schneider revelaron hoy nuevos datos sobre la presunta participación de Washington en este crimen y en el golpe que derrocó a Salvador Allende de la presidencia de Chile. En el programa "60 Minutes" de la cadena de televisión estadounidense CBS, los participantes involucraron al ex secretario de Estado, Henry Kissinger, y a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia en los supuestos preparativos del asesinato de Schneider y en el derrocamiento de Allende. <snip>Domingo, 9 de Septiembre de 2001 ########################################## Fecha: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 De: Instituto Cono Sur Asunto: KISSINGER ENJUICIADO FUENTE: http://www.chile-hoy.de/internacional/260601_kissinger.htm por Juan Albornoz (Originalmente aparecido en la Revista Mensaje) Este mes de mayo aparecerá en las librerías estadounidenses 'Enjuiciamiento de Henry Kissinger", un libro basado en dos extensos artículos de Christopher Hitchens recientemente publicados por Harper's, el último en su edición de marzo. Harper's es una de las revistas más antiguas de EE.UU. (fundada en 1850), con una reputación de seriedad y falta de temor frente a temas controvertibles. <snip>
