Monday, November 27, 2006

THE THREAT KSBY: "Secret Pentagon documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union provide details of how the organization called 'Veterans for Peace' was considered a threat. Every Sunday for the past three years, members of the Santa Barbara Chapter of Veterans for Peace place a cross in the sand near Stearns Wharf for every American soldier killed in Iraq." Before you join the CIA you should ask yourself 'Are they patriots?' FreeForFive: "On September 12, 1998 five Cubans were arrested by the FBI. They received sentences ranging from 15 years to double life in prison while their only crime was to protect the Cuban people against terrorist atrocities. The trial was unfair. The case was held in Miami where a fair and impartial trial was impossible for the 'Miami Five'. High ranking US military personnel testified that at no time did the five present a threat to the security of the US." 1:11:15 PM

THE SPY WHO WAS LAID COLD A few possibilities were already mentioned in this blog about the death of the Russian spy. Here are some more. AlterNet: "Intelligence sources indicate that ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was likely the victim of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service for alleged false-flag bombings that were carried out in Russia starting in 1999." Comment: Nonsense. This is speculation coming from CIA sources. Suddenly the American left is giving credibility to the CIA again; has this anything to do with the return of the Democrats? Assassins would not want someone alive for days grabbing news headlines, pointing fingers. And they would not use a substance that is rare and traceable. Independent: "Detectives investigating the death of Alexander Litvinenko were last night examining the possibility that the former spy killed himself to discredit Vladimir Putin. Increasing concerns over the reliability of the Russian dissident's death-bed testimony have prompted police to check every detail of Mr Litvinenko's version of events on 1 November, the day he said he was poisoned." Comment: Possible, Litvinenko is after all a fanatic anti-Putinist. But unlikely. TimesOnline: "It emerged yesterday that Mr Litvinenko travelled to Israel just weeks before he died to hand over evidence to a Russian billionaire of how agents working for President Putin dealt with his enemies running the Yukos oil company." Comment: This is not necessarily related to his death. And we all know that Putin wants government control of oil. He is right in this. Natural resources are not private property, but public property and should remain in the hands of the government. This only confirms Litvinenko's profile as a neocon stooge. Journalismus: "The last person to meet Alexander Litvinenko before he succumbed to the agonising effects of radioactive poisoning is a self-professed expert in nuclear materials. International 'security consultant' Mario Scaramella, who joined Litvinenko for the now infamous clandestine meeting in a London sushi bar, headed an organisation which tracked dumped nuclear waste, including Soviet nuclear missiles left over from the Cold War." Comment: This is interesting. The link to nuclear smuggling is again confirmed. A 'security consultant' can very well be a smuggler of radioactive waste. Governments should do the tracking, not private companies. The proof for the nuclear waste is in the restaurant and in particular in Litvinenko's home, which simply means radioactive material was being manipulated there. If he was poisoned at the restaurant by a third party the substance would only be found in his body. The alpha particles Polonium-210 produces cannot penetrate the skin. The substance was manipulated at the restaurant and at his home. The hypothesis that Litvinenko was involved in radioactive waste smuggling is the most credible one. Can we believe that the British authorities (and MI5 and MI6) knew nothing about this meeting with an 'expert on nuclear waste'? Certainly not. And for all I know they haven't privatised the international crime squads yet. Litvinenko may simply have known that he was contaminated and given the whole story an anti-Putin twist. Or he may have been engaged in radioactive waste transactions. The funny thing is that Mr Litvinenko was under constant surveillance. 1:01:26 PM

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