JFK Four: Connecting Propaganda Dots from Jamaat al-Muslimeen to Hugo Chávez? : Melbourne Indymedia

Russell Defreitas, the elderly and hapless patsy ensnared by the FBI for the crime of dreaming up a fantastical plot to blow up Kennedy Airport, “may have been inspired by Osama bin Laden,” however “was not an al-Qaida wannabe, according to authorities. He told an FBI informant that he and other non-Arab Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana wanted to do their part in the global jihad,” Newsday reports. These “other non-Arab Muslims in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana” are allegedly members of Jamaat al-Muslimeen, a Muslim group headed up by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr, who led members in an attempted coup d’état against the government of Trinidad and Tobago in July 1990. Bakr is a former policeman who converted to Islam while a student in Canada.

“U.S. and Trinidadian authorities have kept a close eye on the Jammat’s activities since the 9/11 attacks, but there is no hard evidence tying the group to international terrorism, let alone al-Qaeda,” writes Chris Zambelis for Global Terrorism Analysis, a Jamestown Foundation publication (the foundation is linked to CIA asset Richard Mellon Scaife and PNAC; members include James Woolsey and Zbigniew Brzezinski). “However, Abu Bakr did maintain links with Libya’s Muammar Qadhafi in the 1980s and 90s and considers him a close friend to this day. The Jammat reportedly received funds through Libya’s World Islamic Call Society (WICS) to finance the construction of its main mosque, schools, and a medical center, but there is no evidence linking Tripoli with the failed 1990 coup attempt. Abu Bakr’s most recent publicized links with controversial international figures include Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.”

No, Russell Defreitas, according to the corporate media, is “not an al-Qaida wannabe,” however he may prove to be a convenient link to Jamaat al-Muslimeen and Hugo Chávez, as the former is basically insignificant beyond the realm of kidnapping and drug smuggling, while the latter is a big fish with a lot of oil at his disposal and the neocons would love to demonize him as a terrorist, thus working toward his overthrow.

Recall, back in February of 2003, a Venezuelan man, Hasil Mohammed Rahaham-Alan, was arrested at Gatwick Airport in Britain, “allegedly carrying a live grenade in his baggage,” according to the BBC. Naturally, the neocons over at the Daily Standard wasted precious little time attempting to link Rahaham-Alan to Hugo Chávez and al-Qaeda, the database. “The British Mail reported that al Qaeda operates a training camp on the Venezuelan island of Margarita,” claimed Thor Halvorssen.

Venezuela, however, does not take kindly to baseless accusations and corporate media propaganda linking Chávez to the aforementioned database. “Venezuela levied charges against US cable network CNN for linking Chavez to Al-Qaeda, and against Venezuelan TV network Globovision for encouraging the president’s assassination,” Agence France Presse reported earlier this week. Not surprising considering the documented fact military personnel from the Fourth Psychological Operations Group based at Fort Bragg, in North Carolina, worked at CNN headquarters in Atlanta.

But never mind. I’ll bet a dollar to a donut the corporate media eventually gets around to linking Russell Defreitas and his hapless patsies to Hugo Chávez, who is targeted for extinction by the neocons and their kissing cousins, the neolibs.

Kurt Nimmo
Homepage: http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=886
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/372402.html

Gumpet = Government Pet, I n longer believe the spin of the Howard puppets of the rich nor the Alternative Liberal party uppets of the rich like Rudd.

Damn BHP-Billiton, MacBank and all the other capo scum who are the real string pullers of the politicians in this far flung corner of the Super Power USA's military weapons test site and mine sites.....

Class Consciousness Matters
What's missing from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
By David Moberg

The myth of the self-made man is American culture's own special heart of darkness, helping to explain both its infectious optimism and ruthless greed. The idea holds enough truth and seductiveness to make it easy to forget its delusional dangers. To reprise Marx's famous formulation, individuals, like humankind, do make their own personal history, but not under conditions they choose. But in America, we choose to ignore the caveat about conditions at our peril.

The myth, or belief, that people are solely what they make of themselves is useful to keep in mind while reading two ongoing series: the New York Times' on class and the Wall Street Journal's on social mobility. Both focus attention on a truth about American society that runs counter to most people's deep-seated beliefs: There is less social mobility in the United States now than in the '80s (and less then than in the '70s) and less mobility than in many other industrial countries, including Canada, Finland, Sweden and Germany.

Yet 40 percent of respondents to a Times poll said that there was a
greater chance to move up from one class to another now than 30 years ago, and 46 percent said it was easier to do so in the United States than in Europe.

Although the news about social mobility has not been widely reported, it is generally recognized that inequality has grown over the past thirty years.

The Times series highlights how much the super-rich have made out like, well, bandits. While the real income of the bottom 90 percent of Americans fell from 1980 to 2002, the income of the top 0.1 percent-making $1.6 million or more-went up two and a half times in real terms before taxes. With the help of the Bush tax cuts, the gap between the super-rich and everyone else grew even larger.

The American people accept this, it is argued, because they think not only that there's more social mobility than there is, but also that they'll
personally get rich. Indeed, a poll in 2000 indicated that 39 percent of
Americans thought they were either in the wealthiest one percent or would be "soon." The Times poll was slightly less exuberant: 11 percent thought it was very likely they would become wealthy, another 34 percent somewhat kikely.

"It is OK to have ever-greater differences between rich and poor,
[Americans] seem to believe," David Wessel wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "as long as their children have a good chance of grasping the brass ring."

This view is problematic. First, the greater the inequality, the less likely
the possibility of mobility. Increased inequality worsens the large
disparities in resources that families can devote to education-resources
that are increasingly important for both entering many careers and for
social mobility. A college degree, it should be stressed, is important not
just because of the knowledge acquired, but because college serves as a class-biased sorting mechanism for entry to certain jobs. In contrast, the record suggests that countries with greater equality also have greater mobility. Substantive equality creates more equality of opportunity.

But even if there were mobility, such inequality would be problematic. Is it fair that society's wealth be divided so unevenly? Isn't there a decent standard of living-rising as economies become wealthier-to which everyone who "works hard and plays by the rules," in the Clintonian formulation, should be entitled? Great social disparity means that the financially well-off use their money and greater political leverage to protect their privilege rather than to design policies for the common good.

In defense of the rich getting richer, former Bush economic advisor Gregory Mankiw wrote in response to the Times series that the richest increased their share when the economy boomed; so if we want prosperity, let the plutocrats prosper. But the economy grew faster in the first three decades after World War II when equality was increasing than in the next thre decades when equality was decreasing. In any case if the income from growth is captured by the very rich, as it largely has been for a couple decades, this path to prosperity offers little to most people. Also, with high inequality, even the pretense of community declines, social conflict increases and society functions more poorly. Individual mobility is not the only way to improve one's lot. Social solidarity and working together can improve everyone's lot.

This brings us back to the self-made man. It becomes clear, as the Times series is titled, that "class matters," just as race, gender and other accidents of history matter. The social class into which someone is born largely defines one's class as an adult, and both make a difference in how healthy or how long-lived the person will be, especially in the absence of universal health insurance. It influences access to education and to jobs.

The myth of the self-made person, however, encourages the person who succeeds to think his good fortune is due entirely to his work and genius. For this reason businessmen in the United States have historically been more anti-union and hostile to government than their counterparts in Europe. And the myth makes those who fail blame themselves.

According to recent polls, American workers-worried more about job
insecurity, rising costs of education, health care expenses, th
availability of insurance, pension failures and social security
privatization-are increasingly looking for stronger social action to provide security. They are deeply skeptical about the globalization that has increased inequality and insecurity. Like the French vote on the European Union constitution, a U.S. referendum on globalization might well divide along class lines. The irony is that taking responsibility as a society to guarantee more stability and equality-by regulating the global economy and establishing universal guarantees of health care, education, and retirement security-can provide citizens with more individual freedom.

For now, the realm of freedom for most Americans remains constricted to the shopping mall, where they can buy their identities. Both the Journal and Times point to the rapid growth of personal credit as one way that Americans have continued to buy while earnings have stagnated. Former United Auto Workers official Frank Joyce even sees the rise of credit cards as undermining workers' interest in unions. Income, earned or borrowed, obviously greatly differentiates people's lives, even if a working class consumer can only indulge in a box of luxury chocolates or sub-luxury car.

And the growing differences in income are exacerbated by growing but
unmeasured differences in health insurance, as well as various business perks such as free cars or expense accounts.

But the focus on income ignores the even greater inequalities of wealth.
Wealth provides security. As the Times series points out, the better-off
consistently talk of making choices while working class individuals talk
about feeling trapped. Kids from wealthy families can take unpaid
internships, spend a year abroad or experiment with careers; kids from
working class families are likely to stick with a summer job that pays the bills and provides health insurance, thus failing to finish college.

More important, wealth and class are issues of power. Aaron Kemp, who lost his job when Maytag shifted production from Illinois to Mexico and Korea (see "Maytag Moves to Mexico," January 17), remarked, "I never remember even thinking about what class I was in until after the plant closing announcement and layoff. And then you begin to think about what class you're in." Rather than manners or fashion, class ultimately has more to do with who has the power to make such decisions and the powerlessness of the majority. These crucial aspects of class-social, political and economic power-have been missing from the series.

It might have been good for the Times to run an excerpt of Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro's new book, Death by a Thousand Cuts. It recounts how the super-rich worked with ultra-conservatives to demonize and possibly eliminate the estate tax, which they renamed the "death tax." As William Gates, Sr., father of Microsoft Bill, often argued on behalf of the tax, the very rich accumulate their wealth not simply because of what they did but because of the society in which they lived, and they have a debt to that society. And the heirs of such wealth are the antithesis of self-made men.

The rich used their political power, their money and the right's shameless, mendacious hucksters to protect their riches, at the expense of society. But belief in the myth of the self-made man - abetted by the feckless incompetence of Democratic opposition - made many ordinary people suckers for the right-wing pitch. Class matters, but so does consciousness of class. That's another, longer story.

David Moberg, a senior editor of In These Times, has been on the staff of the magazine since it began publishing. Before joining In These Times, he completed his work for a Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Chicago and worked for Newsweek. Recently he has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Nation Institute for research on the new global economy.

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "Sorry to Oil the 9-11 Attacks, the Bush Sponsored AL CIADA Demolition of the WTC, the Framing of Islam by BUSH NEWS NAZIS CNN NBC ABC CBS FOX, the Post 9-11 Bombing and invasion of Afghanistan, the Post 9-11 Release of Drug Dealer Ayub Afridi by the CIA, the Post 9-11 CIA Flower Shop in Afghanistan, the Post 9-11 CIA Drug Cartels in Afghansitan, the Post 9-11 Phoney Saddam Al CIADA Links, the Post 9-11 Oil For Bombs and Torture Program in Iraq, the Post 9-11 Phoney US / Mexico Border Al CIADA Links, the Post 9-11 Phoney Venezuela Al CIADA Links, the Post 9-11 Bush Sponsored CIA Financed Al CIADA in Iraq, the Post 9-11 Bush Sponsored CIA Financed Al CIADA in Kurdistan, the Post 9-11 Bush Sponsored CIA Finacned Al CIADA in Southwest Iran, and the Post 9-11 Bush Sponsored CIA Finance AL CIADA in Lebanon but Oil comes First. READY TO REVIL WITH THE DEVIL ?????????"

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - The U.S. war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo came to a screeching halt on Monday when a military judge dropped all the charges against a young Canadian in a ruling that could preclude trying any of the 380 prisoners.

Army Col. [militant] Peter Brownback, the judge, said the military tribunal lacked jurisdiction over Canadian Omar Khadr because he did not meet the definition of those subject to trial under a law the U.S. Congress drafted last year.

"It's not a technicality. It's another demonstration that the system simply doesn't work," said the tribunal's chief defense counsel, Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan. "Fundamentally it is a system of justice that does not comport with American [International] values."

The judge said a military review board had labeled Khadr an "enemy combatant" during a 2004 hearing in Guantanamo. But the Military Commissions Act adopted by the U.S. Congress in 2006 said only "unlawful enemy combatants" could be tried in the Guantanamo tribunals.

Brownback said Khadr did not meet that strict definition because there had been no formal proceeding designating him as unlawful.

Because none of the 380 foreign captives held at Guantanamo have been designated in that way, lawyers said they could not be tried unless they first faced proceedings reclassifying them as unlawful enemy combatants.

Brownback dismissed the charges against Khadr, but left open the possibility that charges could be re-filed if Khadr went back before a review board and was formally reclassified.

This was the latest setback for the Bush government's efforts to put the Guantanamo detainees [political prisoners] through some form of judicial process. It was forced to rewrite the rules last year after the U.S. Supreme Court deemed the old tribunals illegal.

Khadr, who was [allegedly] captured in a firefight in Afghanistan at age 15, was accused [allegedly] of killing a U.S. soldier with a grenade and wounding another in a battle at an suspected [alleged] al Qaeda compound in Afghanistan in 2002.

He was also charged with [alleged] conspiracy and providing [alleged] material support for terrorism along with [alleged] murder, attempted murder and spying, for allegedly conducting surveillance of U.S. military convoys in Afghanistan.

Khadr, now 20 and said by his family to be in poor health, wore a tan prison uniform and a shaggy beard during the brief hearing and showed no reaction to the surprise ruling.

Khadr's sister, Zaynab Khadr, told CBC television in Canada, the ruling was surprising. "Nobody expected it .... I hope my brother can come home."

One of the prosecutors, Army Capt. [militant] Keith Petty, said Khadr clearly met the definition of an unlawful combatant because he fought for al Qaeda, which was not part of the regular, uniformed armed forces of any nation.

[Bullshit, I reckon clearly you need to prove your case Capt'n! Imbecile to boot!]

He said he was prepared to produce a video of Khadr wearing civilian clothes while planting a roadside bomb, as evidence he was an unlawful combatant.

[Yeah after you made him do it?]

But Brownback said the 2006 law authorizing the tribunals barred him from proceeding unless Khadr was formally declared to be unlawful.

Congress wrote the law after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier version of the tribunals established by [war criminal] president George W. Bush to try [alleged] terrorism suspects at Guantanamo.

Brownback gave prosecutors 72 hours to appeal his ruling, but the appeals court authorized under the 2006 law has not been set up and it was unlikely it could be created that quickly.

Sullivan said that rather than putting the 380 prisoners through another review to change their status, the United States should scrap the military tribunals and move the trials to the regular U.S. federal courts, he said.

"We don't need any more evidence that it's a failure," Sullivan said. "This system should just stop."

Another prisoner, Salim Ahmed Hamdan of Yemin, was scheduled to appear before a different military judge on Monday for arraignment on charges of [allegedly] conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism. That judge was expected to drop the charges against Hamdan, who is accused of [allegedly] driving Osama bin Laden and acting as his bodyguard.

[So where has he 'bin' my blue eyed son? Osama I mean? In Bushe's back pocket!]

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0448039020070604?src=060407_1640_DOUBLEFEATURE

666 THE DEVIL (GEORGE WARMONGER BUSH) : "THE ENEMY NEVER STOPS THINKING OF WAYS TO HURT AMERIKA !!!!!!! NEITHER DO WE !!!!!!!!!!!"

The question is whether elements in the Bush administration are reaching similar conclusions and preparing to engineer or allow another round of terrorist attacks “on American soil” as a pretext for suppressing the overwhelming popular opposition to its policies.

http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/jfk-j05.shtml

Four Corners [Walls] charts the recent history of torture and tracks the passionate arguments for and against its use.

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You want to tell me what is 'for' torture?

If they found something 'passionate' for 'torture' then they should be sacked as public broadcasters on the side of common sense, ethics and sanity.

These people have the morals of John Howard in his new book of revelations to accept torture as a some form of passion, and pre emptive strikes as some form of democracy!!!

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Why don't you go and do something constructive instead of fiddling with yourself?

As the World Socialist Web Site has insisted from the outset, the real criminals are the leading operatives in the Bush administration and the Howard government. Their actions are clearly defined war crimes under the Geneva Conventions, for which they should be charged and prosecuted.

http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/hick-j05.shtml

Smart Card sacrificed ahead of election
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Guantánamo prisoner David Hicks incarcerated in high-security Australian jail
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A sneak peak at the PM's new climate change ad
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What are you voting for?
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Australia watching home grown threats: expert?
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JFK Four: Connecting Propaganda Dots from Jamaat al-Muslimeen to Hugo Chávez?
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Australia: protesters face jail for opposing spy base’s role in Iraq war
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Community urges Howard to leave the Murray-Darling issue to the people of Australia
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Write off Lib/Lab, says Nobody' director
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Nobody gains ground in latest poll
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Beekeepers here and nationwide worried about unexplained deaths
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The four suspects in an alleged terror plot to bomb a New York airport were set up in an elaborate plan by the US Republican party to retain hold of the White House, the daughter of an arrested suspect has claimed.

Huda Ibrahiim, daughter of Amir Kareem Ibrahiim, one of four men accused of plotting acts of terrorism against the United States, says US justice officials engaged in entrapment in breaking up the alleged plot.

Ms Huda, 20, speaking on behalf of the Trinidad and Tobago and the Guyanese Shiite Muslim community, read from a prepared statement in a press conference at a local hotel.

She says the US Federal Bureau of Information (FBI) informant that was key to breaking up the alleged plot had presented himself as an Islamic missionary from the United States while visiting the homes of Abdul Kadir and Amir Ibrahiim.

The FBI's informant, who she called "the source", was "the only person culpable of any of the activities mentioned in the complaint", she said.

"The source visited our brothers with the specific intent to entrap them in activities they know nothing about, never agreed to and did not participate in."

THE BUSH NEWS NAZIS CNN NBC ABC CBS FOX : "Sorry to Oil the Post 9-11 Framing of Islam by BUSH NEWS NAZI CNN NBC ABC CBS FOX, the Post 9-11 use of the name Allah to create a Global State of Fear, the Post 9-11 use of the name Jesus as a License to Kill, the Post 9-11 BUSH NEWS AL CIADA Antics by CNN NBC ABC CBS FOX, and the Post 9-11 Whitewashes of BUSH WAR CRIMES BY CNN NBC ABC CBS FOX but Oil comes First. READY TO REVIL WITH THE DEVIL ????????"

Last weekend’s scare headlines and breathless broadcast reports about the unspeakable horrors that were supposedly foiled with the uncovering of the “JFK plot” have largely faded from view as evidence mounts that the alleged threat was grossly hyped—if not totally invented—by US authorities.

http://wsws.org/articles/2007/jun2007/jfk-j07.shtml