Sunday, September 30, 2007

Oil Company President Will Bomb Iran


From Lew Rockwell's Blog -

Bush Is About To Attack Iran
Why Can’t Americans See It?
by Paul Craig Roberts

The American public and the US Congress are getting their backs up about the Bush Regime’s determination to escalate the war in Iraq. A massive protest demonstration is occurring in Washington DC today, and Congress is expressing its disagreement with Bush’s decision to intensify the war in Iraq.
This is all to the good. However, it misses the real issue – the Bush Regime’s looming attack on Iran.
Rather than winding down one war, Bush is starting another. The entire world knows this and is discussing Bush’s planned attack on Iran in many forums. It is only Americans who haven’t caught on. A few senators have said that Bush must not attack Iran without the approval of Congress, and postings on the Internet demonstrate world-wide awareness that Iran is in the Bush Regime’s cross hairs. But Congress and the Media – and the demonstration in Washington – are focused on Iraq.
What can be done to bring American awareness up to the standard of the rest of the world?
In Davos, Switzerland, the meeting of the World Economic Forum, a conference where economic globalism issues are discussed, opened January 24 with a discussion of Bush’s planned attack on Iran. The Secretary General of the League of Arab States and bankers and businessmen from such US allies as Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates all warned of the coming attack and its catastrophic consequences for the Middle East and the world. Writing for Global Research (January 24), General Leonid Ivashov, vice president of the Academy on Geopolitical Affairs and former Joint Chief of Staff of the Russian Armies, forecast an American nuclear attack on Iran by the end of April. General Ivashov presented the neoconservative reasoning that is the basis for the attack and concluded that the world’s protests cannot stop the US attack on Iran. There will be shock and indignation, General Ivashov concludes, but the US will get away with it. He writes:
"Within weeks from now, we will see the informational warfare machine start working. The public opinion is already under pressure. There will be a growing anti-Iranian militaristic hysteria, new information leaks, disinformation, etc. . . . The probability of a US aggression against Iran is extremely high. It does remain unclear, though, whether the US Congress is going to authorize the war. It may take a provocation to eliminate this obstacle (an attack on Israel or the US targets including military bases). The scale of the provocation may be comparable to the 9-11 attack in NY. Then the Congress will certainly say "Yes" to the US President (they did before didn't they)
The Bush Regime has made it clear that it is convinced that Bush already has the authority to attack Iran. The Regime argues that the authority is part of Bush’s commander-in-chief powers. Congress has authorized the war in Iraq, and Bush’s recent public statements have shifted the responsibility for the Iraqi insurgency from al-Qaeda to Iran. Iran, Bush has declared, is killing US troops in Iraq. Thus, Iran is covered under the authorization for the war in Iraq. Both Bush and Cheney have made it clear in public statements that they will ignore any congressional opposition to their war plans.
For example, CBS News reported (Jan. 25) that Cheney said that a congressional resolution against escalating the war in Iraq "won’t stop us." According to the Associated Press and Yahoo News, Bush dismissed congressional disapproval with his statement, "I’m the decision-maker."
Everything is in place for an attack on Iran. Two aircraft carrier attack forces are deployed to the Persian Gulf, US attack aircraft have been moved to Turkey and other countries on Iran’s borders, Patriot anti-missile defense systems are being moved to the Middle East to protect oil facilities and US bases from retaliation from Iranian missiles, and growing reams of disinformation alleging Iran’s responsibility for the insurgency in Iraq are being fed to the gullible US Media.
General Ivashov and everyone in the Middle East and at the Davos globalization conference in Europe understand the Bush Regime’s agenda. Why cannot Americans understand? Complete article at:http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts193.html

Comment SL ...
The American people do not understand because they have been held hostage by placed presidents owned by the oil companies. Ever since the assassination of Kennedy in Texas, any last hope of democracy died. Since then there has been an ongoing assault on the consitutution of the United States of America, such that the country is now a Bush Gulag, no habeas corpus, a neutered congress, and president who is a lap dance for big oil.

Americans do not receive any news that is not through an oil filter....a big oil filter that removes any truth from the equation. When they question big oil ..their patriotism is questioned instead of the very monsters who have destroyed the country and continue to destroy our world.
Why hasn’t Congress told Bush and Cheney that they will both be instantly impeached if they initiate a wider war?

Oil Companies the Root of World Terror

Watching the repeat of Bush/oil company carnage in Burma, is enough to make one's blood boil with indignation. While America's corporate owned "media" cover for the slime committing the crimes, big oil crime is simply repeated again and again and again.


HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
Corporations and Human Rights

A shift in the terms of the debate over corporate social responsibility for human rights occurred in 1996. In the previous two years, corporations and governments had touted the positive impact of business and trade in enhancing respect for human rights in countries with widespread violations. They had promised that corporations would bring greater respect for essential human and labor rights, such as freedoms of association and expression, as well as an end to cruelty and discrimination and inequality on the basis of ethnicity or gender. However, during 1996 multinational corporations in several product sectors— Royal Dutch/Shell, British Petroleum Company, Total, Unocal, Freeport-McMoRan, Nike, Disney, Heineken, and Carlsberg, —were placed on the defensive by damaging exposures of corporate complicity in human rights violations. Throughout the year CEOs and corporate directors were stung again and again by charges that their companies had abused workers and propped up repressive governments. Accounts of child labor and sweatshop working conditions stirred public opinion to become human rights issues of broad popular concern. Corporate management defended its presence abroad by citing the advantage of company wage scales over local ones.
These issues were initially publicized by a growing number of activist groups. Frequently, these organizations brought workers on tours of the U.S. to publicize their situations. Extensively covered in the news media, the charges were taken up by consumers and grassroots organizations in Europe, Asia and North America. In a few instances, this had an important positive effect. After protests in Denmark and the Netherlands, both Carlsberg and Heineken decided to sell their shares of a proposed brewery in Burma. Liz Claiborne also decided to end its sourcing from Burma. At the height of the exposures of corporate complicity with human rights abuse, in July, The Economist magazine, reflecting the shift, observed that multinational corporations were increasingly worried about protests against their activities in developing countries. The same issue editorialized that when governments failed to uphold international human rights, the moral burden of responsibility shifted to corporate management.

(It is quite laughable to think of this administration being "burdened" by the moral aspect of anything)

However, with billions of dollars’ worth of investment and profit at stake, most of the business community resisted pressure. Generally corporations in oil, mining and heavy manufacturing made no pretense of concern. A small number in the apparel and footwear industries reacted to negative publicity by expressing a commitment to human rights and took limited steps to address the problems.


In the countries where the companies are headquartered, governments are caught between their promotion of global corporate investment and the expectations they profess about investment advancing human rights. In 1996, political considerations and growing pressure forced many governments to take these issues seriously, yet did not lead to effective or credible policies. There were some exceptions, however. In Germany, the debate on child labor associated with the carpet industry in South Asia intensified due to mounting public concern. Based on consumer outrage over the use of child labor, the German government, beginning in 1993, gave serious consideration to the issue. Initially, Bonn funded the Rugmark campaign, a consumer-based effort to promote rugs produced without child labor. By 1996, the government shifted tactics to mix support of Rugmark and the Indian government-sponsored label with a preference for educational programs for children in South Asia. Nevertheless, the German government granted loan guarantees to Siemens and ABB for work on China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam, which had been criticized internationally for environmental risks and the forcible relocation of more than one million residents of the areas affected by construction.


Human Rights Watch/Middle East took a strong stand criticizing the role of British corporations in pressuring the British government to deport exiled Saudi dissident Dr. Muhammed al-Mas’ari, a spokesman for the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR). Human Rights Watch/Middle East wrote the chairs of the arms corporations Vickers and GKN, both British corporations, citing their reported part in the decision to expel Dr. al-Mas’ari in violation of British law. Vickers is a leading manufacturer of arms and weaponry and a large supplier to the Saudi military. Human Rights Watch/Middle East protested the company’s reducing al-Mas’ari’s right to an asylum hearing to the status of an obstacle to British business and the company’s business.
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The Corporate Response

Some corporations displayed a flatly intransigent attitude to human rights criticism of their practices. Before and after the hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Royal Dutch/Shell provided both increased financial investment and a diplomatic public relations shield for the Nigerian government. In newspaper advertisements Shell ran in Europe, the company blamed Saro-Wiwa’s execution on those protesting his unfair trial. Likewise, in response to criticisms of its practice of sex discrimination against women workers in its Mexican maquiladoras, the Zenith Corporation, now owned by the South Korean conglomerate Goldstar, acknowledged the use of the practice without apology. In a letter to our Women’s Rights Project, the company justified the discrimination—which is illegal under Mexican law—by citing the prevalence of pregnancy testing in “the local labor market.” In October, despite specific concerns over human rights and environmental issues surrounding the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, in China, the Swiss-Swedish company ABB, a major turbine manufacturer, requested risk guarantees from the Swiss government for the export of its equipment for the dam. The U.S.-based Caterpillar corporation mounted a fierce campaign against a White House-initiated recommendation to deny loan guarantees for U.S. companies involved with the dam. The burgeoning international movement on Burmese human rights drew varied corporate reactions: as noted above, some apparel manufacturers pulled out, as did Pepsi-Cola, while the oil giant, Unocal, remained indifferent to protests.
http://www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/corp.html

The United SHAME of America is the fact that American companies behave as ignorant slave barons abroad. Mercenary armies have pillaged the world, treating local populaces as they do in Burma. While, American, British, Canadian, French and Australian media do NOT tell the public that the oil firms OWN the militia in Burma. That is the shock and awe - a media devoid of conscience owned by the corporate owned state of America.

And Alberta, you better cover you butts raising royalities for your gas - you should see what US companies have done around the world to others who wanted a fair share of their own country's resources. Expect the death squads - and the sad part is - I'm not kidding.

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Impeach Bush, Cheney & Nullify Supreme Court Appointments

From After Downing Street

Impeach Bush, Cheney and nullify their Supreme Court appointments
Submitted by patriot on Thu, 2007-07-12 19:29. Discussion
July 4, 2007

A Patriot’s Message

The hammer falls on the Constitution of the United States of America. Our freedom and Democracy, our sovereignty as a nation is coming to an end.The politically appointed neoconservatives in Justice sneer at Habeas Corpus; Geneva Convention; worker, consumer, investor and environment protection; education; affirmative action; individual rights and “entitlements” like Social Security and health care.The corporate neo-con conspirators (Establishment) have their own agenda of a New World Order; W.T.O; N.A.F.T.A; immigration; globalization and “free trade”; military seizure of foreign oil fields; employing a private army of mercenaries and propagandist; “dealing” with Afghanistan Opium drug lords harboring Osama Bin Laden and financing Al Qaeda.The ideal corporate model is “Communism” where individual freedom and democracy are mute. The board of directors rule. The corporate neo-cons hate our regulatory government, Constitution and Individual Rights. Our Federal Government is purposely bankrupt by war/trade debt and the ideal corporate nation, China, are carrying trillions of dollars of our debt. Communist China and their junior corporate American partner’s technically own the”U.S.A” resulting in “Globalization” and loss of sovereignty. Mission accomplished. The surge strategy is not to win the war but to pump oil and further indebt U.S.A to Communist China. Patriots, sign on! Impeach Bush, Cheney and nullify their Supreme Court appointments!
Lawrence Baker
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24604


IMPEACH now...get the names of the Republicans blocking legislation and keeping these goons in office.









How much longer must the world be subjected to this murdering, lying corporate coup?


Indeed give Bush the boot and expose the entire corrupt CIA, including the news media who make Pravda on its worst day, look tame.











George W. Bush is, like Nixon, a criminal


This incompetent, criminal, has destroyed the United States of America. It is called treason.

Arrest these lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, cowards.

Oil Company Death Squads Worldwide - Negroponte "News" At Home

From Blackwater, Halliburton and Dyncorp in Iraq to the Phillipines, and more recently the country of Burma, (with a convenient name change to add to the confusion), we have mercenary armies operating on behalf of oil companies exploiting the natural resources in that region. Do we hear about the genocide of 1988 (Gee what thug was President then?) when Unocal had their paid off mercenaries cut a swath through the jungle for their pipeline? Do we hear that they murdered, raped and
generally abused the villagers all across the country? Do we hear about the death squads and the schools operated out of Fort Benning in Florida that train local psychopaths in the torture techniques of the CIA?


The news media of the USA is criminally complicit with the Bush administration in not providing the truth - that behind nearly every worldwide conflict is an AMERICAN, or French or German, or Canadian OIL COMPANY...running a mercenary army to take over world resources.

i.e.
22 February 2002
J'ACCUSE - ENCORE: BUSH'S DEATH SQUADS
Angola and Colombia Postscripts
By Wayne Madsen
This is an update to my previous article (below) concerning the CIA's new unbridled authority to assassinate political nuisances to U.S. interests around the world. In Bush's "New World Order of "if you're not with us, you're against us," social activists and progressive political leaders everywhere are now within the crosshairs of the CIA and its local notorious surrogates and warlords. America's traditional concepts of human rights have been relegated to the dustbin of history in post-constitutional corporate statist America.
In fact, the National Security Council's point man for human rights is none other than the infamous Reagan era State Department official Elliott Abrams, the mollycoddler of the death squads in El Salvador and the contras in Nicaragua during the 1980s.
He is assisted by terrorist supporter Otto Reich, in charge of the Latin American Bureau at the State Department. Reich is the most vile of right-wing Cubans who were brought into the United States by the CIA after Castro took power. Reich supported the release from a Venezuelan jail of Orlando Bosch, a Cuban terrorist who planted a bomb on an Air Cubana plane in 1976.
That Boeing passenger jet, owned by Air Canada and leased to Cubana, exploded and crashed in 1976 off the east coast of Barbados. Many of my US Navy colleagues at the US Naval Facility on Barbados, where I arrived for duty in 1977, often recounted the horrible stories of their helping Barbadian police and fishermen haul body parts and the bodies of young children and babies out of the Caribbean that awful October day.
And let us not forget U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Negroponte, the former US Ambassador to Honduras who had his own dealings with the local death squads.
Today, a former U.S. intelligence asset, Dr. Jonas Savimbi, was killed by Angolan Army units in eastern Angola. His is the sixth major assassination of a political leader since Bush unleashed his CIA death squads. If one includes the late Royal Family of Nepal and the late Congolese President Laurent Desire Kabila (assassinated just 4 days before Bush was sworn in as President), the number of those dispatched climbs even higher.
Savimbi's continued presence in Angola did not suit the interests of U.S. oil companies that are increasing their operations in the country. For that reason, the United States has permitted a number of CIA and Pentagon fronts, like Air Scan, MPRI, and Dyncorp, to provide military assistance to the Angolan Army. It seems that the training and logistics finally paid off with the killing of Savimbi.
For similar reasons, the Colombian oligarchy, armed with US provided aircraft and intelligence, launched a blitzkrieg at the exclusion zone of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The Colombian Army is supoprted by some of the same CIA and Pentagon fronts operating in Angola. This attack on the FARC occured as Angola's US-backed Army launched its attack on Savimbi's UNITA forces. The US military offensive in Colombia is also tied to oil. The Bush oil clique wants nothing to pose a threat to the oil pipelines in the area, including the Cao Limon pipeline in the north and the Amazon-Esmerldas pipeline in Ecuador.
It was not the phony drug war that pushed the Bush regime to declare war on Colombia's opposition -- God knows, the Bushes have been both suppliers and demanders for various drugs -- but their revivalistic fervor in making the developing world safe for oil industry exploitation.
SIDEBAR:
Apparently, intelligence agencies allied to the United States, like those of India (a new "strategic partner" of the United States in the "War on Terrorism" and the "War to Protect Regional U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Interests"), have decided to take a cue from President Bush's "shoot to kill" order against activists and independence leaders.
On February 11, a senior separatist leader of the Tripura (northeast India) independence movement was shot and killed by Indian security forces. The assassinated leader was Benjamin Hrangkhawl, a senior leader of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), a Christian-dominated separatist group. Hrangkhawl had arrived in Tripura from neighboring Bangladesh.
According to the BBC, the state Police Intelligence Chief Kishore Jha, said the killing of Mr Hrangkhawl was "a major success." Indian intelligence is now pressing Bhutan and Bangladesh to arrest and extradite separatist refugees in those countries.
The King of Bhutan and Prime Minister of Bangladesh might want to look at what happened to the entire Royal Family of Nepal last June when the late King decided to negotiate with leftist guerrillas rather than fight them. According to unblemished sources in Kathmandu, the king and his family were quickly dispatched by a Nepali army commando unit trained at the time by U.S. Special Operations forces sent by US Pacific Commander in Chief Adm. Dennis Blair (he's the same guy who propped up Gen. Wiranto with special training while the good general was committing genocide in East Timor).
What was to become the Pentagon's Office of Strategic Influence (PSYOPs division) prepared a story, with the assistance of India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence agency, that the King and his family were murdered as a result of the Crown Prince going nuts with automatic weapons after being forlorn over his mother's refusal to allow him to marry a commoner. The entire Western media bought that story faster than George Bush nosediving after choking on a pretzel. The media also bought that one.
And---
the tally so far in anti-terrorism assassinations is: Assassinated: 5 Christians, 1 non-radical Muslim. If I understand Bush correctly, I thought the Christians were the good guys and the Muslims were the "evil doers."

more...
J'ACCUSE: BUSH'S DEATH SQUADS
By Wayne Madsen
31 January 2002
Today, The Washington Post ran the fifth segment in its series on what transpired within the Bush Cabinet in the aftermath of September 11. Of particular interest is what CIA Director George Tenet brought to the table at Camp David last September 15. According to the article by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, when Tenet produced a Top Secret "Worldwide Attack Matrix" that specified targets in 80 countries around the world, he sought unprecedented authority to simply assassinate foreign terrorists directly or though allied intelligence services. The CIA even prepared a "Memorandum of Notification" which would allow the agency to have virtual carte blanche to conduct political assasinations abroad. This Memorandum trumped previous mechanisms by which the President would authorize intelligence actions (but not assassinations) through individual Presidential Findings. The fail safe mechanisms established under the administrations of Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton were simply erased at the urging of Tenet. In light of these revelations, what was authorized by the President may have led to the assassinations of a number of human rights and ethnic leaders not connected in any way with Al Qaeda but did represent bothersome roadblocks to a number of U.S. military and corporate interests.
It now seems likely, given the unprecedented "license to kill" President Bush granted to the CIA, there was U.S. complicity in the murders of the following individuals. Human rights commissions and war crime tribunals in Belgium and France should take a close look at these likely criminal misadventures:


1. Theys Eluay. Today, the Indonesian army chief, General Endriartono Sutarto, confirmed in Jakarta that West Papuan independence leader Theys Eluay was assassinated by Indonesian Army units after he was kidnapped last November 11. The assassins were members of KOPASSUS, a special operations unit trained by U.S. Special Forces and CIA personnel and was involved in massacres in East Timor during the Indonesian occupation of that country. In 1969, West Papua was formally handed over to Indonesia by the United Nations after a referendum, now widely recognized as rigged, determined that the non-Indonesian population wanted to be Indonesian. Eluay was a thorn in the side of Freeport McMoran, a Louisiana-based mining company that has pillaged West Papua's natural resources and has been accused by local activists of propping up local Indonesian army and KOPASSUS officers with bribes and favors. Henry Kissinger serves as a Director Emeritus on the board of directors of Freeport and former Louisiana Senator J. Bennett Johnston, recently identified as a lobbyist for Enron, serves as a full member of the board.

2. Abdullah Syafii. On January 22, 2002, Indonesian army troops assassinated the military commander of the Free Aceh Movement, Abdullah Syafii. The Free Aceh Movement demands independence for Aceh, a region in northwest Sumatra, and is a member of the non-violent Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), an international organization headquartered in the Netherlands. It has also been at loggerheads with ExxonMobil, which has extensive drilling and refining operations in the territory. Aceh's Governor Abdullah Puteh, who is claimed by local activists to be on the payroll of ExxonMobil, had written a letter to Syafii inviting him to attend peace talks with the government. Syafii's lieutenants claim that the letter contained a small microchip that permitted Indonesian KOPASSUS troops to track him down and ambush him. The operation has all the earmarks of the CIA, which can rely on National Security Agency (NSA) satellites to track such microchip transponders.

3. Elie Hobeika. Elie Hobeika was the head of the Lebanese Forces militia, a right-wing Christian army that was allied with Israel during its 1982 occupation of Beirut. Although Hobeika was in charge of the Christian forces that massacred hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children at the Sabra and Chatilla refugee camps that year, he had irrefutable evidence that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had authorized the mass murder in his role as Israeli Defense Minister. An official Israeli commission of inquiry found Sharon indirectly responsible for the massacres. Hobeika was going to testify against Sharon at an upcoming Belgian war crimes tribunal which has already indicted Sharon for the war crimes. It was that testimony that resulted in Hobeika being silenced by a Mossad car bomb that exploded near his SUV near Beirut. The bomb killed Hobeika and his bodyguards. The CIA, now closely allied with Mossad, is said to have given its approval for the action.

4. Chief Bola Ige. On December 23, 2001, Chief Bola Ige, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Nigeria, was assassinated in the bedroom of his home in Ibadan by unknown gunmen. Ige was a leader of the Yorubas, a largely Christian ethnic group that has championed the cause of southern Nigerian Christian tribes like the Igbo, Ogoni, and Yoruba that maintain grievances against exploitative Western oil companies that have spoiled their lands with pollution and pocketed most of the oil revenues for themselves and corrupt Nigerian politicians. Ige was the presidential candidate of the pan-Yoruba Alliance for Democracy but lost to the current President Olusegun Obasanjo, a former general who is thought by many Nigerians to be in the hip pocket of western oil companies, including Chevron and ExxonMobil. A lucrative CIA and Pentagon front operation, the private military contractor MPRI, has been training special units of the Nigerian armed forces. These forces have been active in putting down anti-oil industry protests by Igbo, Ogoni, and Yoruba tribal peoples along the Nigerian coast. Michael J. Boskin, the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bush I is a member of the Exxon Mobil board, while current National Security Adviser Condolleezza Rice served on the board of Chevron. Currently serving on Chevron's Board is Bush I trade representative Carla Hills and former Louisiana Senator Johnston, who also serves on the board of Freeport McMoran.
In all likelihood all of these assassinations were likely known to the CIA and allowed to take place unhindered. The killings all directly benefitted the interests of the US military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower so poignantly warned us about some 40 years ago.
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I more or less predicted the Indonesian murders a few months ago (just after Tenet received authorization to conduct assassinations of "terrorists") during an interview with Radio Singapore International. The transcript of that broadcast follows:
CIA assassination mis
sions - a look into the implications of this US Foreign policy
Source: Augustine Anthuvan, Newsline, Radio Singapore International Broadcast date: 30 October 2001

Wayne Madsen, a former Intelligence Officer at the National Security Agency in Washington with this comment.
"When Senator Frank Church had a committee in the Senate that found out that the CIA was conducting assassination missions against foreign leaders and they passed very stringent laws against the CIA to prevent any abuses. And now what we're hearing is that the late Senator Church went too far. Well Senator Church was responding to some very severe abuses of authority by the CIA. And now we're hearing basically history is being changed on us here and we're hearing that Senator Church went too far in what he did.
And I think its very important now to understand that these things are all in context and what people like Senator Frank Church did in the 1970s really still applies today."

Killing Without Conscience - What God in America?



The following lawsuit has been filed against Bush & Cheney.
You won't read about the truth or hear it in Operation Mockingbird (the U. S. "media") News you won't find on CNN.

Lawsuit Filed Against George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney Doug WallaceWASHINGTON -- January 18 "Information Clearing House" --

A lawsuit was filed late Friday January 14th in the U.S. District Court in Reno, Nevada against President Bush and Vice President Cheney. The lawsuit alleges that both defendants have acted outside the scope of their job description in waging a war against Iraq. The complaint alleges that both defendants and others working within the White House and Defense Department have covertly implemented a white paper called “Rebuilding America’s Defenses:” as presented by the Project for the New American Century or PNAC in September, 2000 two months before the murky elections of that year. Among the persons signing the paper were Richard Cheney and Jeb Bush. While the paper was published on the internet, implementation of it by the White House has been in secret.The thrust of the white paper calls for the complete domination of the globe by the US with wars against Iraq, Syria, and Iran, domination of outer space and of Cyberspace. It calls for an enlarged military to fight simultaneous wars. Security bases world wide with extensive constabulary forces posted to keep all nations subservient to US military and economic power. It also calls for nuclear rockets to be fired from Spy satellites to suppress any challenge to US global domination.The class action lawsuit filed by retired attorney and great-grandfather, Doug Wallace alleges that the defendants have violated their oaths of office in entering into a private treaty relating to International relations without approval of the Congress and have made a mockery of the Constitution under a false banner of a war on terrorism.



The lawsuit seeks an injunction against further implementation of the PNAC plan without a 2/3 vote of the congress and a full disclosure to the American Public. It also names John Does 1-100 as defendants. The suit seeks restitution to the US Treasury from all Defendants of the cost of the war with Iraq and also seeks a ruling that since the deception about the war and execution of it was outside of their job descriptions they should all be individually liable to private persons injured as a result of their illegal conduct. To view Complaint go to http://www.dougwallace.com/ Under the circumstances, notice of support to the court would be appropriate

(A printable copy is available at page 26 on website ). CONTACT: Founders Freedom Defense Fund : Doug Wallace 775-833-5010
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(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. Information Clearing House has no affiliation whatsoever with the originator of this article nor is Information Clearing House endorsed or sponsored by the originator.) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7751.htm




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Class Action Suit Filed Against Media / CIA


Many of us have wondered "what can we do" in the face of this deluge of treason with politicians seemingly operating under no system of law whatsoever, and if they are brought to justice...well we have our toadies on the Supreme Court, right.

Well let's start or better join some existing CLASS ACTION suits now,
like this one:

CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST CIA/MEDIA VIOLATION OF FIRST AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO A FREE PRESS

View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition

To: US CONGRESS

CIA SECRET PROJECT OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD
WEBSITE CREATED and DESIGNED BY JEFF H WILLIAMSON/DJ BLAZE http://www.freewebs.com/operationmockingbird CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD LAWSUIT FILED IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT,DISTRICT OF COLORADO,CASE NO 05CV1598 OES JEFF WILLIAMSON VS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,CIA DIRECTOR PORTER GOSS, AND MEDIA DEFENDANTS-CALL NOW TO RECIEVE YOUR COPY OF LAWSUIT AND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER PH 303-844-3433.
THIS CONCERNS ALL 50 STATES AND EVERY US CITIZEN IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.YOU CAN FILE A CASE IN YOUR STATE TOO FOR FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS. THERE IS A GLOBAL COMMERCIAL MEDIA SYSTEM DOMINATED BY A SMALL NUMBER OF SUPER-POWERFUL TRANSNATIONAL MEDIA CORPORATIONS (MOSTLY US BASED),WORKING TO ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF THE GLOBAL MARKETS AND THE CIA AGENDA.( CIA SECRET PROJECT CALLED "OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD"),THE CIA CONTROLLED MEDIA AND/OR MEDIA MANIPULATION IN VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT-RIGHT TO A FREE PRESS CONCERNING ALL 50 STATES AND EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.



The Media

Journalism is a perfect cover for CIA agents. People talk freely to journalists, and few think suspiciously of a journalist aggressively searching for information. Journalists also have power, influence and clout. Not surprisingly, the CIA began a mission in the late 1940s to recruit American journalists on a wide scale, a mission it dubbed Operation MOCKINGBIRD. The agency wanted these journalists not only to relay any sensitive information they discovered, but also to write anti-communist, pro-capitalist propaganda when needed. The instigators of MOCKINGBIRD were Frank Wisner, Allan Dulles, Richard Helms and Philip Graham. Graham was the husband of Katherine Graham, today’s publisher of the Washington Post. In fact, it was the Post’s ties to the CIA that allowed it to grow so quickly after the war, both in readership and influence. (8) MOCKINGBIRD was extraordinarily successful. In no time, the agency had recruited at least 25 media organizations to disseminate CIA propaganda. At least 400 journalists would eventually join the CIA payroll, according to the CIA’s testimony before a stunned Church Committee in 1975. (The committee felt the true number was considerably higher.) The names of those recruited reads like a Who's Who of journalism:


Philip and Katharine Graham (Publishers, Washington Post) William Paley (President, CBS) Henry Luce (Publisher, Time and Life magazine) Arthur Hays Sulzberger (Publisher, N.Y. Times) Jerry O'Leary (Washington Star) Hal Hendrix (Pulitzer Prize winner, Miami News) Barry Bingham Sr., (Louisville Courier-Journal) James Copley (Copley News Services) Joseph Harrison (Editor, Christian Science Monitor) C.D. Jackson (Fortune) Walter Pincus (Reporter, Washington Post) ABC NBC Associated Press United Press International Reuters Hearst Newspapers Scripps-Howard Newsweek magazine Mutual Broadcasting System Miami Herald Old Saturday Evening Post New York Herald-Tribune

Perhaps no newspaper is more important to the CIA than the Washington Post, one of the nation’s most right-wing dailies. Its location in the nation’s capitol enables the paper to maintain valuable personal contacts with leading intelligence, political and business figures. Unlike other newspapers, the Post operates its own bureaus around the world, rather than relying on AP wire services. Owner Philip Graham was a military intelligence officer in World War II, and later became close friends with CIA figures like Frank Wisner, Allen Dulles, Desmond FitzGerald and Richard Helms. He inherited the Post by marrying Katherine Graham, whose father owned it.

After Philip’s suicide in 1963, Katharine Graham took over the Post. Seduced by her husband’s world of government and espionage, she expanded her newspaper’s relationship with the CIA. In a 1988 speech before CIA officials at Langley, Virginia, she stated: We live in a dirty and dangerous world. There are some things that the general public does not need to know and shouldn’t. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows. This quote has since become a classic among CIA critics for its belittlement of democracy and its admission that there is a political agenda behind the Post’s headlines. Ben Bradlee was the Post’s managing editor during most of the Cold War. He worked in the U.S. Paris embassy from 1951 to 1953, where he followed orders by the CIA station chief to place propaganda in the European press. (9) Most Americans incorrectly believe that Bradlee personifies the liberal slant of the Post, given his role in publishing the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigations. But neither of these two incidents are what they seem. The Post merely published the Pentagon Papers after The New York Times already had, because it wanted to appear competitive. As for Watergate, we’ll examine the CIA’s reasons for wanting to bring down Nixon in a moment. Someone once asked Bradlee: "Does it irk you when The Washington Post is made out to be a bastion of slanted liberal thinkers instead of champion journalists just because of Watergate?" Bradlee responded: "Damn right it does!" (10) It would be impossible to elaborate in this short space even the most important examples of the CIA/media alliance. Sig Mickelson was a CIA asset the entire time he was president of CBS News from 1954 to 1961. Later he went on to become president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, two major outlets of CIA propaganda. The CIA also secretly bought or created its own media companies. It owned 40 percent of the Rome Daily American at a time when communists were threatening to win the Italian elections. Worse, the CIA has bought many domestic media companies. A prime example is Capital Cities, created in 1954 by CIA businessman William Casey (who would later become Reagan’s CIA director). Another founder was Lowell Thomas, a close friend and business contact with CIA Director Allen Dulles. Another founder was CIA businessman Thomas Dewey. By 1985, Capital Cities had grown so powerful that it was able to buy an entire TV network: ABC. For those who believe in "separation of press and state," the very idea that the CIA has secret propaganda outlets throughout the media is appalling. The reason why America was so oblivious to CIA crimes in the 40s and 50s was because the media willingly complied with the agency. Even today, when the immorality of the CIA should be an open-and-shut case, "debate" about the issue rages in the media. Here is but one example: In 1996, The San Jose Mercury News published an investigative report suggesting that the CIA had sold crack in Los Angeles to fund the Contra war in Central America. A month later, three of the CIA’s most important media allies — The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times — immediately leveled their guns at the Mercury report and blasted away in an attempt to discredit it. Who wrote the Post article? Walter Pincus, longtime CIA "journalist"

EXAMPLE OF CIA OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD CONTROL OF MEDIA:

The Israeli Spy Ring Scandal

The Story That Will Not Go Away - Prior to 9/11, the FBI had discovered the presence of a massive spy ring inside the United States run by the government of Israel. This seems a harsh gratitude from a nation which obtains 10% of its annual budget from the American taxpayer, $3+ billion a year. ALSO http://www.freewebs.com/cnnciafront CNN & FOX PROPAGANDA IMPORTANT TO READ THESE LINKS (please copy the link into your browser and hit enter)

PLEASE BE ADVISED YOU CAN FILE A CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT IN UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN ANY STATE AGAINST THE USA,CIA,CIA DIRECTOR,AND THE BROADCAST AND PRINT MEDIA.THERE ARE TWO VERY GOOD WEBSITES ON "OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD" http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/mockingbird.htm and http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_01_03_03_mockingbird.html WHERE THE CORPORATE NAMES OF THE MEDIA ARE FOUND THAT CAN BE LISTED AS DEFENDANTS OR JUST TYPE IN "OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD" TO OBTAIN A LIST OF THE WEBSITES AND ALSO READ

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm and read below how the CIA public relations officer conrols the media and news to the public. source: http://www.freewebs.com/govwebsites urnalist.

The complete online petition is at: http://www.petitiononline.com/6725/petition.html

...

This explains WHY we are having a bloodbath in Burma once again (George H. W. helped block the news of 1988 seige) and there is no mention of the UNOCAL / TOTAL owned mercenary army in Burma. Yes indeed, while the American press attempts to deflect with China, the truth of the matter is that the mercenary army is owned by American oil company UNOCAL and French oil company TOTAL. Like most of the militias and death squads in the world today, they are owned and trained by Americans.

Friday, September 28, 2007

America's Rape Rooms - Time to Look in the Mirror


May 12, 2004

America's Rape Rooms

From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror
A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Max Blumenthal

"This is war... We want to get the message out to the cowards out there, and that's what they are, rotten little cowards -- we want the message to go out that we're going to come and get them." -- Los Angeles Police Chief Darryl Gates, April 1988

"Freedom was attacked this morning by faceless cowards... Make no mistake, the United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly acts." -- President George W. Bush, September 11, 2001


I.
In December 2003, a guard at a notoriously brutal prison used a German shepherd to attack a 20-year-old prisoner lying on the ground and not resisting. The attack, reported on May 9th by the Los Angeles Times, was not carried out at the now-infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq where Americans were photographed torturing Iraqi prisoners; it occurred in Stockton, California at a juvenile correctional facility. Such abuse runs rampant throughout America's prison system, where prisoners are routinely raped, tortured, beaten and humiliated by guards employing brutality to enforce order.
Thus it is not surprising that two of the alleged ringleaders in the Abu Ghraib torture scandal are both former civilian prison guards. Staff Sgt. Ivan Frederick was a guard at Buckingham Correctional Center in Virginia, part of a state prison system where violent abuse of inmates by prison guards is common. Specialist Charles Graner was a guard at Pennsylvania's Greene State Correctional Institute, a notorious death row facility described by an attorney who visited it as "a concentration camp."
Frederick and Graner's experience in the US prison system made them prime candidates for posts at Abu Ghraib. As Sgt. Frederick wrote in a letter to his family in 2003, "I was placed in [Abu Ghraib] because of my civilian background working as a correctional officer.... The [commander] wanted it run like a prison in the US." [Le Monde PDF] Because Abu Ghraib was indeed run like a US prison, the torture that occured there can not be viewed as an aberration. Abu Ghraib symbolizes the exportation of the prison system spawned by President George Bush Sr.'s War on Drugs to the battlefields of his son's War on Terror. Thus, for any attempt by America to repair the damage inflicted by prisoner abuse abroad to succeed, it must be accompanied by a thorough examination and reform of its prison system at home.


The story of Abu Ghraib begins during the War on Drugs, when the American prison system was super-sized. In his acceptance speech at the 1988 Republican National Convention, Bush Sr. officially launched the War on Drugs with a bellicose warning shot: "My administration will be telling the dealers, 'Whatever we have to do, we'll do. But your day is over. You're history.'" Which dealers Bush was referring to was left unstated; however, as he urged states across the country to pass mandatory minimum sentencing laws for minor drug offenses, it became evident he was gunning for the small timers.
(Of course he is not going to put himself in jail and people are basically jailed for selling drugs in opposition to the Bush drug market through the CIA)

To take his war to the streets, Bush tapped Los Angeles' police chief Darryl Gates, a longtime Republican activist with his eye on the California governorship. Gates devised a military-style anti-gang program called "Operation Hammer" to impose de facto martial law on LA's ghettoes and round up gang members with a set of tactics reminiscent of Vietnam. As Hammer began in April 1988, Gates declared, "This is war... We want to get the message out to the cowards out there, and that's what they are, rotten little cowards -- we want the message to go out that we're going to come and get them." In the operation's first phase, Gates created a "narcotic enforcement zone" in the heavily Latino Pico-Union neighborhood, fencing off a 27 block area with barricades and checkpoints and arresting thousands.
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As young Black and Latinos were captured in droves and sentenced to lengthy, mandated terms for usually minor drug-related offenses, the US prison population skyrocketed: According to a study by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in London, between 1973 and 2000, America's prison population quadrupled to a whopping 6.6 million inmates. Today that's about 3% of the total population -- and rising. In federal prisons, by 2002, 54.7% of inmates were non-violent drug offenders.
While the War on Drugs devastated inner cities, for rural America, the rapid spike in incarceration rates resulted in a booming job market. To fill guard positions at the new penitentaries sprouting up across the Heartland, states offered good salaries and generous benefits to lure a crop of mostly young, white males from racially homogenous, economically depressed small towns. Thrust into often overcrowded, chaotic prisons full of Black and brown people from far away cities, the new generation of guards were overwhelmed. Consequently, many resorted to violence -- and even torture -- to exert control on a prison population they perceived as hostile and culturally alien.


The complete article is available here:

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/05/con04209.html

... it closes this way:

As media interest in the Abu Ghraib scandal holds steady, Bush tries to obscure its framework by characterizing the torture as the work of "a few." This explanation is consistent with his analysis of the the war in general: the forces of the civilized world waging an inevitably victorious battle against "a few" militants, Saddam loyalists and foreign fighters. But as the insurgency continues to spread like a California wildfire, so does the prisoner torture scandal. In the coming week, more photos of hulking soldiers assaulting bone-thin, naked Iraqi prisoners will explode in the media like dirty bombs, staining America's reputation and crippling its historical role as a bearer of democracy to the world. Bush's act as Pericles, the wise War President rallying a besieged nation to "stay the course," has reached its conclusion. He is now Caligula, the depraved adolescent-king of late Rome whose motto was, "Let them hate as long as they fear."
History teaches that after imperial leaders falter and colonial enterprises collapse, societies turn inward to reflect on the origins of their failure and heal the wounds inflicted on their social fabric. America should not be an exception. The roots of Abu Ghraib lie in America's prison system, an institution where brutality too often substitutes for order. Thus, if Americans are sincere in their outrage over the torture, rape and humiliation of prisoners, they must work to end the abuse where it began. Ousting Bush from office is a useful start, but it will take nothing less than a new civil rights movement to reform America's prison system and regain the country's moral ballast.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
Max Blumenthal is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in Salon.com, the American Prospect and the Washington Monthly. He is the media director of the Free Maria Suarez Committee (www.womaninprison.org www.freemariasuarez.com)

Repeating History, Bush Unocal and Burma


As the photos of monks being beaten and murdered in Burma flood the networks, the chilling facts of the situation are not mentioned.

The French president ..the very right wing French president meets with the very right wing George W. Bush and within weeks the military in Burma, which is owned byUnocal and the French company Total, is
repeating the slaughter of civilians and monks that they achieved under
George H. W. Bush.

Burma repeats the revolt of '88 - the outcome is unlikely to be any happier

By Peter Popham in Bangkok

Published: 28 September 2007

As the Burmese military crackdown on the monks' protests intensifies, the parallels with the events that culminated in the massacres of 1988 are becoming starker.
The present crisis began last month when the regime raised fuel prices by up to 50 per cent overnight, making everyday life for the impoverished Burmese impossible. The crisis of '88 began with a similar crass act of economic folly, when dictator General Ne Win demonetarised high-value currency notes with equal suddenness, wiping out the savings of millions of Burmese without compensation.
In 2007, as in 1988, visceral fury at a regime that cares nothing for the suffering of the people it rules (sounds famliar) has mutated rapidly into a broader expression of political exasperation. Ne Win seized power in 1962 and his so-called "Burmese Way to Socialism" transformed Asia's rice basket into a country whose main goal in 1987 – one it achieved – was to obtain "least-developed nation" status at the United Nations. For the rebels, economic hardship and political frustration were two sides of the same coin. Nineteen years on, little has changed.

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Andwhat news report after news report never mentions is that the local military regime is OWNED by Unocal and the French company Total. So Bush and Sarkozy meet at Kennebunkport and bada bada bing Burma repeats history.

When do thinking people connect the dots and stop allowing genocide in the name of our phoney democracy? Everywhere there is unrest, genocide and tragedy ..there is an oil company manipulating the local government which is most often a placed puppet of big oil.


All because of a right wing, psychopathic, narcissistic, devoid of conscience Republican GUARD in the USA who are clearly fascist.

We Interrupt This War to Bring You the Truth


Religion has always been used as a club. If religion curls up in bed with the latest dictator they usually promise to lay off that respective religion. Hitler, for example had great admiration for the early brainwashing techniques of the Catholic Church and used the pagentry from that religion as part of his large Nazi rallies.
Bush uses an identical type of religion, completely enmeshed in politics and just as rigid, it too demands women stay barefoot and pregnant. It is difficult for families to revolt if they cannot put bread on the table.
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TOP INSTITUTIONAL HOLDERS FOR EXXONMOBIL
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd
258,116,610
4.23
$14,498,409,983
31-Dec-05
STATE STREET CORPORATION
195,107,745
3.20
$10,959,202,036
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD GROUP, INC. (THE)
148,578,594
2.43
$8,345,659,624
31-Dec-05
JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY
108,180,081
1.77
$6,076,475,149
31-Dec-05
Mellon Financial Corporation
100,002,491
1.64
$5,617,139,919
31-Dec-05
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLP
88,907,505
1.46
$4,993,934,555
31-Dec-05
NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION
88,125,714
1.44
$4,950,021,355
31-Dec-05
FMR CORPORATION (FIDELITY MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH CORP)
80,072,937
1.31
$4,497,696,871
31-Dec-05
CAPITAL RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT COMPANY
73,264,100
1.20
$4,115,244,497
31-Dec-05
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
67,718,049
1.11
$3,803,722,812
31-Dec-05

TOP MUTUAL FUND HOLDERS for EXXONMOBIL
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND
59,263,260
.97
$3,328,817,314
31-Dec-05
COLLEGE RETIREMENT EQUITIES FUND-STOCK ACCOUNT
41,464,658
.68
$2,329,069,839
31-Dec-05
WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVESTORS FUND
34,776,600
.57
$1,953,401,622
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FUND-INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FD
30,957,637
.51
$1,738,890,470
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
28,691,416
.47
$1,611,596,836
31-Dec-05
SPDR TRUST SERIES 1
26,735,766
.44
$1,698,790,571
30-Sep-05
AMERICAN BALANCED FUND
15,800,000
.26
$887,486,000
31-Dec-05
LORD ABBETT AFFILIATED FUND
15,388,783
.25
$965,646,133
31-Jan-06
FIDELITY EQUITY-INCOME FUND
14,047,174
.23
$881,460,168
31-Jan-06
SPARTAN U.S. EQUITY INDEX FUND
12,682,547
.21
$735,968,202
30-Nov-05

TOP INSTITUTIONAL HOLDERS for SHELL PETROLEUM
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
DODGE & COX INC
13,523,991
1.00
$872,703,139
31-Dec-05
CAPITAL RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT COMPANY
12,653,928
.93
$816,557,973
31-Dec-05
NWQ INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLC
4,988,382
.37
$321,900,290
31-Dec-05
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLP

4,748,463
.35
$306,418,317
31-Dec-05
FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC
3,293,573
.24
$212,534,265
31-Dec-05
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC
3,095,151
.23
$199,730,094
31-Dec-05
CAPITAL GUARDIAN TRUST COMPANY
2,758,973
.20
$178,036,527
31-Dec-05
Amvescap Plc
1,408,030
.10
$90,860,175
31-Dec-05
CITIGROUP INC.
1,188,269
.09
$76,678,998
31-Dec-05
ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
852,152
.06
$54,989,368
31-Dec-05

TOP MUTUAL FUND HOLDERS for SHELL PETROLEUM
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
DODGE & COX STOCK FUND
10,407,864
.77
$678,072,339
31-Mar-06
DODGE & COX BALANCED FUND
3,116,127
.23
$203,015,674
31-Mar-06
INCOME FUND OF AMERICA INC
3,021,565
.22
$194,981,589
31-Dec-05
VAN KAMPEN EQUITY & INCOME FD
2,489,900
.18
$160,673,247
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD SPECIALIZED-ENERGY FUND
2,398,426
.18
$172,206,986
31-Jan-06
INVESTMENT COMPANY OF AMERICA
2,370,498
.18
$152,968,235
31-Dec-05
EUROPACIFIC GROWTH FUND
1,874,848
.14
$120,983,941
31-Dec-05
CAPITAL INCOME BUILDER, INC.
1,866,228
.14
$120,427,692
31-Dec-05
TEMPLETON INSTITUTIONAL FUNDS, INC-FOREIGN EQUITY SERIES
1,415,307
.10
$91,329,760
31-Dec-05
CAPITAL WORLD GROWTH AND INCOME FUND
1,142,148
.08
$73,702,810
31-Dec-05

TOP INSTITUTIONAL HOLDERS for CHEVRONTEXACO
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
CAPITAL RESEARCH AND MANAGEMENT COMPANY
97,141,215
4.36
$5,514,706,775
31-Dec-05
Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd
87,892,029
3.95
$4,989,630,486
31-Dec-05
STATE STREET CORPORATION
84,041,073
3.78
$4,771,011,714
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD GROUP, INC. (THE)
53,632,872
2.41
$3,044,738,143
31-Dec-05
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLP
41,785,822
1.88
$2,372,181,114
31-Dec-05
DODGE & COX INC
37,307,979
1.68
$2,117,973,967
31-Dec-05
Mellon Financial Corporation
34,606,101
1.55
$1,964,588,353
31-Dec-05
JP MORGAN CHASE & COMPANY
31,986,117
1.44
$1,815,851,862
31-Dec-05
NORTHERN TRUST CORPORATION
29,572,493
1.33
$1,678,830,427
31-Dec-05
DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
25,674,289
1.15
$1,457,529,386
31-Dec-05

TOP MUTUAL FUND HOLDERS for CHEVRONTEXACO
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVESTORS FUND
37,429,800
1.68
$2,124,889,746
31-Dec-05
DODGE & COX STOCK FUND

21,688,305
.97
$1,257,271,040
31-Mar-06
VANGUARD 500 INDEX FUND

21,381,665
.96
$1,213,837,122
31-Dec-05
INVESTMENT COMPANY OF AMERICA
19,581,010
.88
$1,111,613,937
31-Dec-05
COLLEGE RETIREMENT EQUITIES FUND-STOCK ACCOUNT
14,688,286
.66
$833,853,996
31-Dec-05
INCOME FUND OF AMERICA INC
12,178,300
.55
$691,362,091
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FUND-INSTITUTIONAL INDEX FD
11,169,420
.50
$634,087,973
31-Dec-05
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
10,312,575
.46
$585,444,882
31-Dec-05
SPDR TRUST SERIES 1
9,564,581
.43
$619,115,328
30-Sep-05
VANGUARD/WELLINGTON FUND INC.
8,534,400
.38
$489,106,464
30-Nov-05

TOP INSTITUTIONAL HOLDERS for BP-AMOCO
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
STATE STREET CORPORATION
51,882,136
1.45
$3,331,870,773
31-Dec-05
FMR CORPORATION (FIDELITY MANAGEMENT & RESEARCH CORP)
30,750,483
.86
$1,974,796,018
31-Dec-05
BARROW, HANLEY MEWHINNEY & STRAUSS, INC.
17,694,833
.49
$1,136,362,175
31-Dec-05
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LLP
17,086,360
.48
$1,097,286,039
31-Dec-05
BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
13,940,401
.39
$895,252,552
31-Dec-05
SAROFIM, FAYEZ
13,440,189
.37
$863,128,937
31-Dec-05
STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE CO
13,052,048
.36
$838,202,522
31-Dec-05
MORGAN STANLEY
12,446,156
.35
$799,292,138
31-Dec-05
LEGG MASON INC.
11,508,423
.32
$739,070,925
31-Dec-05
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
10,084,500
.28
$647,626,590
31-Dec-05

TOP MUTUAL FUND HOLDERS for BP-Amoco
Holder
Shares
% Out
Value*
Reported
VANGUARD/WINDSOR II
11,548,072
.32
$835,041,086
31-Jan-06
FIDELITY DIVERSIFIED INTERNATIONAL FUND
6,500,000
.18
$470,015,000
31-Jan-06
FIDELITY CONTRAFUND INC
5,575,066
.16
$358,030,738
31-Dec-05
EATON VANCE TAX-MANAGED GROWTH PORTFOLIO
5,008,980
.14
$321,676,695
31-Dec-05
FIDELITY EQUITY-INCOME FUND
4,963,404
.14
$358,903,743
31-Jan-06
JANUS TWENTY FUND
4,764,910
.13
$316,485,322
28-Feb-06
VANGUARD/WELLINGTON FUND INC.
4,434,500
.12
$291,967,480
30-Nov-05
VANGUARD SPECIALIZED-ENERGY FUND
3,878,800
.11
$280,476,028
31-Jan-06
FRANKLIN CUSTODIAN FUNDS-INCOME FUND
3,500,000
.10
$224,770,000
31-Dec-05
FIDELITY ADVISOR DIVERSIFIED INTERNATIONAL FUND
3,167,800
.09
$229,063,618
31-Jan-06
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$ 0
Mr. David Roberts , 43Chief Exec. Officer of International Retail & Commercial Banking, Director and Member of Group Exec. Committee
$ 2.44M
$ 3.00K
Mr. Robert Edward Diamond Jr., 54Pres, Director, Member of Group Exec. Committee, Chairman of Barclays Global Investors, Chief Exec. of Barclays Capital, Chief Exec., Wholesale and Institutional, Chief Exec. of Investment Banking and Investment Management, Head of Private Clients Component of PC&I, Head of International & Private Banking and Head of Wealth Solutions
N/A
N/A
Mr. Robert Morrice , Chief Exec. of Asia Pacific Operations, Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC - Hong Kong, Chairman of Barclays Capital -Asia, Chief Exec. Officer of Barclays Bank PLC - Hong Kong, Chief Exec. Officer of Barclays Capital - Asia of Barclays Capital -Asia
N/A
N/A
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Mellon Financial Corp.One Mellon CenterPittsburgh, PA 15258-0001Phone: 412-234-5000Fax: 412-234-6283Web Site: http://www.mellon.com/

Mr. Stephen Edward Canter , 60Vice Chairman, Member of Exec. Management Group, Vice Chairman of Mellon Bank, Chairman of The Dreyfus Corp. and Chief Exec. Officer of The Dreyfus Corp.
$ 1.40M
$ 159.00K
Mr. David F. Lamere , 45Vice Chairman, Member of Exec. Management Group, Vice Chairman of Mellon Bank N A, Chairman of Mellon New England, Chief Exec. Officer of Mellon New England and Pres of Private Wealth Management
$ 2.22M
$ 56.00K
Mr. Ronald Philip O'Hanley , 48Vice Chairman, Member of Exec. Management Group, Vice Chairman of Mellon Bank N A and Pres of Mellon Institutional Asset Management
$ 2.78M
$ 9.00K
Mr. Robert P. Kelly , 51Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Pres, Chairman of Exec. Committee, Chairman of Mellon Bank N A, Chief Exec. Officer of Mellon Bank N A and Pres of Mellon Bank N A
N/A
N/A
Mr. Mitchell Harris , Member of Sr. Management Committee, Chairman of Standish Mellon Asset Management and Chief Exec. Officer of Standish Mellon Asset Management
N/A
N/A
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc.85 Broad StreetNew York, NY 10004Phone: 212-902-1000Fax: 212-902-3000Web Site: http://www.gs.com/

Mr. Henry M Paulson Jr., 60Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Managing Director, Chairman of Management Committee and Chairman of Admin. Committee
$ 600.00K
$ 0
Mr. Lloyd C. Blankfein , 51Pres, Managing Director, Director, Member of Management Committee and Member of Admin. Committee
$ 19.72M
$ 0
Ms. Suzanne M. Nora Johnson , 48Vice Chairman, Chairman of the Global Markets Institute, Head of Global Investment Research Division, Managing Director, Member of Management Committee and Member of Admin. Committee
$ 11.37M
$ 0
Mr. David A. Viniar , 50Chief Financial Officer, Exec. VP, Head of the Operations, Technology & Fin. Division, Managing Director and Member of Management Committee
$ 12.85M
$ 0
Mr. Edward C. Forst , 45Chief Admin. Officer, Exec. VP, Managing Director and Member of Management Committee
$ 11.35M
$ 0
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Northern Trust Corp.50 South Lasalle StreetChicago, IL 60675Phone: 312-630-6000Fax: 312-444-7843Web Site: http://www.ntrs.com/

Mr. William A. Osborn , 58Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer, Chairman of Exec. Committee, Member of Management Committee, Chairman of The Northern Trust Company and Chief Exec. Officer of The Northern Trust Company
$ 3.50M
$ 3.54M
Mr. Frederick H. Waddell
, 52Pres, Chief Operating Officer, Director, Member of Management Committee, Pres of Corp. & Institutional Services, Pres of the Northern Trust Company, Chief Operating Officer of the Northern Trust Company
$ 1.19M
$ 446.00K
Mr. William L. Morrison , 55Exec. VP, Co-Pres of Personal Financial Services, Member of Management Committee, Chief Exec. Officer of Northern Trust of Florida Corp. and Pres of Northern Trust of Florida Corp
$ 1.08M
$ 0
Mr. Timothy J. Theriault , 45Exec. VP and Pres of Worldwide Operations & Technology and Member of Management Committee
$ 1.14M
$ 0
Mr. Terence J. Toth , 46Exec. VP, Pres of Northern Trust Global Investments and Member of Management Committee
$ 987.00K
$ 120.00K
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Capital Group Companies New York Office630 Fifth Avenue36th FloorNew York, NY 10111-0121 For other offices - http://www.capgroup.com/about/office_locations.html#Send a comment - http://www.capgroup.com/comments.html

I find it interesting that on the top of the list is Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd, which began its banking business in the UK in 1896 and has grown since as one of the largest banking institutions in the world. The company made billions in its dealings with South Africa's Apartheid government. Fortunately, due to worldwide pressure from activists, they were forced to divest themselves of their South African holdings prior to the fall of Apartheid. That only goes to show that activism works, but people need to know the facts to be able to take action.

They have a history of wicked dealings internationally, and it is no wonder they would hold such a large amount of shares in such a wicked company as EXXON/MOBIL.
While every war has the presence of American Big Pharma, oil companies and the auto industry trading full up with both sides.

We are living under a criminal corporate coup who blame China for their excesses abroad. UNOCAL is the major force in Burma and Afghanistan...why are we dying for them?