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Array For example, Harvard only accepts about 10% of all applicants, and about 80% of them choose to go to Harvard.Some specialty schools have very high yields without having very high selectivity, such as BYU and the Citadel military, but mostly selectivity and yields are closely related (inversely).Here’s a 2006 article from the Stanford Daily with some more numbers on yield: Though still a long way from Harvard’s 80 percent, Stanford’s yield rate increased to a respectable 69 percent this year, up from 67 percent last year, according to Richard Shaw, dean of admission and financial aid. Yale’s yield rate is expected to be 73 percent, while Princeton’s is 69 percent.Two years ago, the Office of Undergraduate Admission released statistics showing that 28 percent of students that declined Stanford chose Harvard instead, followed by 20 percent choosing Yale, 13 percent choosing MIT and 8 percent choosing Princeton; And, 44% of those turning down Stanford are picking a non-Big 4 school, so the expected yield in this (unrealistic) model would be more like 20-25% of those accepted by all the Big 4’s.So, why are the yields so high?Certainly, Early Decison, where students are allowed to apply to only one college in the fall in return for promising to enroll if accepted, boosts the yields.And, perhaps, the average number of Big 4 schools applied to is less than three.
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General Vito Miceli, the Italian head of military intelligence, after his arrest in 1974 on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the government, testified “that the incriminated organization, which became known as the ‘Parallel SID,’ was formed under a secret agreement with the United States and within the framework of NATO.”3 Former Italian defense minister Paulo Taviani told Magistrate Casson during a 1990 investigation “that during his time in office (1955–58), the Italian secret services were bossed and financed by ‘the boys in Via Veneto’—i.e. the CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy in the heart of Rome.”4 In 2000 “an Italian secret service general said . For some time critics of U.S foreign policy have stressed the role of CIA assets and Gladio terrorism in the Greek Colonels’ coup of 1967: “The Gladio ‘Sheepskin’ group was involved in a campaign of terrorist bombings, which were blamed on the left, and two days before the election campaign was to begin, a military coup brought to power a junta led by George Papadopoulos, a member of the Greek intelligence service KYP [who had been on CIA payroll since 1952].”7 This was the climax of a period in which Greece was afflicted with “an intelligence service gone wild” and “a shadow government with powers beyond the control of the nation’s nominal leaders.”8 Even clearer is the continuous U.S. intervention in Italian politics after 1948, to block the formation of any government supported by the Communist Party. The official Italian Senate investigation into Gladio concluded “without the shadow of a doubt that elements of the CIA started in the second half of the 1960s to counter by the use of all means the spreading . William Harvey, when CIA station chief in Rome, reportedly recruited his own “action squads” and suggested that the head of the Italian intelligence service SIFAR (later SID) “use his ‘action squads’ to ‘carry out bombings against Christian Democrat Party offices and certain newspapers in the north, which were to be attributed to the left.’”13 More important, European sources allege that one of the masterminds of the 1969 plot, Guido Giannettini, was invited in late 1961 to give a three-day lecture course to U.S. military officers in Annapolis, on “Techniques and Possibilities of a Coup d’Etat in Europe.”14 A few weeks later Pentagon officials began drafting the plans known as Operation Northwoods, the first known American application of a strategy of tension. As summarized by ABC News, “the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.”15 This was at a time of developing U.S. Army interest in so-called counterterror as a technique in counterinsurgency, as developed by Nazis, French theorists of guerre révolutionnaire, and East European émigrés now attached to the U.S. Army. Can it be the United States itself, Britain, France, Italy, and others who should be on the list of state sponsors?”16 It is alarming moreover to note that the Piazza Fontana bombing was planned by a “parallel” structure, outside government control, as a prelude for a military coup.17 Cheney, Rumsfeld and COG Planning in the 1980s Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have been associated since the 1980s with a parallel planning structure in the United States. Oliver North was working with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency . But in addition to groups opposing United States policies in Central America, the FEMA plan reportedly included environmental activists, opponents of nuclear energy and refugee assistance activists.”20 Earlier, Governor Reagan in California had authorized the development of a counterinsurgency plan (known as Cable Splicer) and exercises to deal with such crises, in conjunction with the U.S. Sixth Army and the Pentagon (Operation Garden Plot). Bush appointed Cheney to head a terrorism task force and created a new office within FEMA, the innocuously named Office of National Preparedness, to assist him. And on September 11 the planning bore fruit: a classified “continuity of operations plan” was implemented, at least partially, for the first time.28 This chapter and especially the next explore the consequences of this arresting coincidence: that the COG planning team of the 1980s was essentially reconstituted by Bush the younger in May 2001 as a terrorism task force, and then (after planning activities of which we know next to nothing) a major attack on the United States (of which we also still know next to nothing) resulted in implementation of COG. It would be more honest, however, to call it a “change of government” plan, since according to Alfonso Chardy of the Miami Herald, the plan called for “suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to FEMA, emergency appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial law during a national crisis.”29 The plan also gave the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had been involved in drafting it, sweeping new powers, including internment.30 The team was planning, in effect, for the supplanting in a major crisis of the public state by an alternative one. Under it U.S. officials furtively carried out detailed planning exercises for keeping the federal government running during and after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. the speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate, and the rest of Congress would play a greatly diminished role.”31 But the planning eventually called for suspension of the Constitution, not just “after a nuclear war” but for any “national security emergency.” This was defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”32 Clearly 9/11 met this definition. One group, the Continuity of Government Interagency Group, dealt with devolution and relocation of government leaders, to prevent decapitation of the government in a crisis. Another group, focused on the Department of Defense, planned for retaliation against the nation’s attackers.33 In April 1994, Tim Weiner announced in The New York Times that in the post-Soviet Clinton era, “the Doomsday Project, as it was known” was to be closed. ‘They are not relevant to today’s world.’”34 This article persuaded authors James Mann and James Bamford that Reagan’s COG plans had now been abandoned, because “there was, it seemed, no longer any enemy in the world capable of . Richard Clarke, a Clinton Democrat, makes it clear that he participated in the COG games in the 1990s and indeed drafted Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 67 on “Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government.”37 But COG planning involved different teams for different purposes. In light of how COG was actually implemented in 2001, one can legitimately suspect that, however interested this group had been in continuity of government under Reagan, under Clinton the focus of Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s COG planning was now a change of government. Although he has said that he ‘severed all my ties with the company,’ he continues to collect deferred compensation worth approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.”40 It is clear that from at least February 2001 Cheney’s task force discussions extended to the “capture” of oil resources in Iraq: “One intriguing piece of evidence pointing in this direction was a National Security Council document, dated February 2001, directing NSC staff to cooperate fully with Cheney’s task force. The NSC document, reported in The New Yorker, noted that the task force would be considering the ‘melding’ of two policy areas: ‘the review of operational policies towards rogue states’ and ‘actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields.’ This certainly implies that the Cheney task force was considering geopolitical questions about actions related to the capture of oil and gas reserves in ‘rogue’ states, including presumably Iraq.”41 The task force’s concerns are well illustrated by two documents, released to the public-interest law firm Judicial Watch only after a fierce court struggle. This task force report was cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, another group historically concerned about U.S. access to overseas oil resources.43 The report, Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century, concluded that “the U.S. should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy, economic and political/diplomatic assessments.”44 Meanwhile, the BBC heard from State Department insiders that planning for regime change in Iraq “began ‘within weeks’ of Bush’s first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the U.S.”45 The administration’s concern for controlling oil in the Middle East intermingled with strategic concerns in the area, especially with increasing uncertainty about the future of U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia. According to Bamford (_Pretext for War_, 72), “the Eisenhower White House failed to pass on details of their secret government to the incoming Kennedy administration, which discovered it by accident.” On October 30, 1969 President Nixon issued Executive Order 11490, consolidating twenty-one executive orders and two defense mobilization orders, assigning emergency preparedness functions to federal departments and agencies. Bamford, Pretext for War, 74: “The existence of the secret government was so closely held that Congress was completely bypassed .
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(Ok, I’m probably happiest when I’m having good sex, but you know what I mean!) So, I need to earn some decent money, so I can give up work for a while and set about finishing that novel and plotting that screenplay and let those creative juices flow. Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are completely baffled after a total of 1.81 million yen (that’s round about £7200) was found in 18 mailboxes by Saturday 28th July! The money was in identical plain envelopes, which were unsealed and just contained the cash, no letter, no words, just the notes! Since June, dozens of city halls and other public buildings across the country have reported finding neatly packaged envelopes full of cash in men’s toilets, however the bathroom money has come with identical letters asking people to do good deeds!These Japanese cash drop offs are not always so neat and tidy, also on Wednesday, notes worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen falling in front of a convenience store. Again the Police don’t have a Scooby Doo (clue) who dropped the money We can just say the money came from the skies, a puzzled police official said. There were other passers-by outside and customers in the store but the incident caused no confusion, he said, then added People thought it was too eerie to touch.The largest single dropoff so far was in the ancient city of Kyoto on July 23, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of neatly stacked notes in her mailbox.Jap media tallies suggest more than four million yen, including some found last year, has been found in the public bogs and the like.
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The chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum onIndigenous Issues said the biggest stumbling block to the adoption ofa UN document recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples is thelobby started by multinational companies engaged in large businessesaround the world.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UNPFII chair, said multinational companies fromCanada, New Zealand, Australia and the United States engaged in miningand logging have been pressuring other countries to vote against theUN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.“[These firms] were against the declaration because they would like[to keep] their business interests in countries where indigenouspeoples wanted to assert sovereign rights on their territories. International Center for PolicyResearch and Education), said the Philippines, however, has startedgathering support from other countries to adopt the document.The Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples establishesthe rights of indigenous peoples to maintain and strengthen their owninstitutions, cultures and traditions.It addresses both individual and collective rights and protects theircultural property and identity, and rights to education, health,employment and language, among other things.Corpuz said UN member-countries would vote to approve the declarationon Sept.
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Excerpt from p 33 to p 40. 14 march: A dawn sweep through Sydney to arrest G20 demonstrators. Sunil Menon was woken before dawn by a powerful light shining through his window. He would discover it was attached to a camera videoing the raid, but in the first confused moments he was aware only of the light, serious knocking on the front door and a man yelling his name. Menon says that in less than a minute the door was kicked open and about ten police poured into the house. One identified himself as a member of the NSW counter-terrorism unit. Another was a man Menon often noticed hanging around demonstrations in dark glasses and cargo pants. I was scared when I saw him. In front of his housemates gathered in the sitting room, Menon was handcuffed and shown a search warrant. They told me it was to do with G20. Between fifty and sixty police from NSW, Victorian and Federal squads were out before the sun came up that day, arresting five students in raids around Sydney. The scale of the operation can’t be explained by the chaos of Melbourne’s G20 demonstrations last year or the relentless campaign for revenge driven by News Ltd’s Herald Sun. The police themselves allude to the real driver behind the raids: the conference of world leaders to be held in Sydney this September. One of the arrested students says he has been told several times by senior police: If you guys turn up to APEC, well smash you.” Tall and black with an unmistakeable face, Menon, 25, works at Sydney Universitys Fisher Library. A few years ago he was at the centre of a little cause celebre after being charged with helping an escapee asylum seeker reach New Zealand. Menons prosecution attracted street demonstrations, pleas from civil liberties bodies and an email from Thomas Keneally. The case collapsed. In August 2005, a Sydney judge ordered the jury to acquit for lack of evidence. On the morning of the March raid Menon was taken to the Sydney Police Centre and charged with two counts of aggravated burglary - its alleged he was among G20 demonstrators who occupied office foyers in Collins Street - and two counts of unlawful assembly. Daniel Jones, a heavy sleeper, was woken in his parents house in East Balmain by a policewoman tugging his toe. He faced two or three police in his bedroom - who introduced themselves by name and squad as he lay there - and found another dozen in the hallway outside. Among them were counter-terrorist police. Jones, 20, is an arts student at Sydney University with a face known to many sports fans. He was one of the stars — not quite the word - of the SBS reality show Nerds FC screened during the World Cup. The fight against voluntary student unionism (VSU) drew Jones into campus politics. He was issued with two traffic fines after one of the big anti-VSU rallies in Sydney. He is now the education officer of the universitys Students Representative Council. At the Sydney Police Centre he was charged with affray, criminal damage and riot. Dan Robins was woken at his girlfriends place at 6 a.m. by frantic housemates in Newtown ringing with the news: The police are trashing the house and they’re looking for you. Later they told him about being brought into the sitting room in their pyjamas and twelve police searching their rooms. They videoed my punk t-shirts and all the political stickers on the back of my door, said Robins. They spread out my documents and videoed them - things like blood tests, union memberships, all these newspaper cuttings. They did the same thing in all the rooms. My housemates were really shaken up. Robins, 23, went to a city police station and turned himself in. A fine-boned, restless kid, Robins has been demonstrating for years. He was a schoolboy among tens of thousands of protesters on Melbourne streets during the World Economic Forum at Crown Casino in 2000. Hes demonstrated often since and never been in trouble with the police before. At the Sydney Police Centre he was charged with two counts of affray, two of riotous assembly, two of reckless conduct and one count of intentionally destroying property. Ten police came for Tim Davis-Frank at his parents house in the beach suburb of Bronte. My father answered the door in the dark at 6 a.m. in his dressing gown. As they gathered in the kitchen, Davis-Frank noticed through the window guys in dark clothing and gloves sneaking around the back of the house to cut off any possible escape. He knew one of the squad: a Melbourne detective who had interviewed and released him on the evening of the G20 demonstration last November. Davis-Franks parents explained their son was diabetic and he was allowed to eat a bowl of cereal before being taken to the Sydney Police Centre. “This arrest is the second time I have experienced the force of Victorian counter-terrorism agents in relation to the G20 protest,” wrote Davis-Frank in the Green Left Weekly. On the night of November 18, in Melbourne, I was snatched by about eight unidentifiable men and forced into an unmarked white van as I was walking with friends away from the protest. Without identifying themselves, the men in the van tied my hands behind my back, forced me to lie face down on the floor and proceeded to interrogate me, punching me repeatedly in the face if I didnt answer their questions quickly enough and once for accidentally calling one of them mate. Davis-Frank says he was taken to a Melbourne police station where the detective now standing in his kitchen arranged for his injuries to be photographed and told him he would be charged by summons for his part in the chaotic demonstrations that day. The next thing I heard about it was four months later when they raided my parents’ home. Davis-Frank, 22, studies politics at Sydney University and comes from a political household. He says he was pushed in a pram to an anti-nuclear demo at the age of three months. If you feel passionately about something, you should make your opinions known to other people, he explained. Democracy should give space to express your voice. The more people who do, the richer society will be. At the police centre he was charged with two counts of aggravated burglary - those Melbourne office foyers again - three counts of riotous assembly and one of affray. At the centre, the students saw a fifth suspect arrested in the early-morning raids: a seventeen-year-old high-school boy from Haberfield. He was leaning on the window of his holding cell: a distraught child on one side of the glass and his ashen-faced mother on the other. At some point in the day he was taken to the Childrens Court, bailed and disappears from this narrative. The four remaining were taken after a few hours to the cells at Liverpool Central Court and strip-searched while they waited - most of the day - for the formalities of bail to be completed. Honora Ryan was at Central Station early in the morning handing out anti-war leaflets to commuters when she heard about the arrests. She joined about thirty people gathered at the court to give the students moral support. A young piano teacher, Ryan was days away from graduating as a Bachelor of Music from Sydney University. She was not at G20, but opposition to the Iraq war had seen her demonstrating when Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney visited Sydney. She has never, she says, been violent at a demonstration. “Ive shouted a lot. I go there and march and shout slogans. Im a pacifist. I believe very strongly we shouldnt be violentlink

The WILL to SURVIVE cancer is the most urgent need for just any cancer patient. No one can survive when his or her will to survive cancer is gone. Find out the cause and prevent it from happening at the first place.But fear not, as I always confide in many people, there are also certain miraculous and wonderful food that can cure cancer. Have one ever given a second thought on how to attain immortality and that we are actually a spark of Divinity?[7] The will to cooperate with doctors and physiciansThere are many cases where patients aren’t cooperating well with healing doctors. We need the doctors to diagnosis our well-being and our status of cancer. To survive a cancer, one MUST work hand in hand with your doctor. All of us should learn to treasure life.This article is taken from my personal blog and actually is written for a new friend who is now having ovarian cancer and is now hospitalized. I wish her speedy recovery and would like to share with more people on how to survive cancer. This is the 3rd article on cancer that I have wrote.If there is a will, there is a way, if there are 8 WILLS, there are MANY WAYS!Lucy Wong is a health and nutrition consultant. She is also keen in sharing Multiple Qs, she is also an educator and has written many articles on this subject in her personal column under alternative health in http://submitarticles.biz Read more about mental health articles in her personal column and discover the secrets of maintaining good mental health.
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Array For example, Harvard only accepts about 10% of all applicants, and about 80% of them choose to go to Harvard.Some specialty schools have very high yields without having very high selectivity, such as BYU and the Citadel military, but mostly selectivity and yields are closely related (inversely).Here’s a 2006 article from the Stanford Daily with some more numbers on yield: Though still a long way from Harvard’s 80 percent, Stanford’s yield rate increased to a respectable 69 percent this year, up from 67 percent last year, according to Richard Shaw, dean of admission and financial aid. Yale’s yield rate is expected to be 73 percent, while Princeton’s is 69 percent.Two years ago, the Office of Undergraduate Admission released statistics showing that 28 percent of students that declined Stanford chose Harvard instead, followed by 20 percent choosing Yale, 13 percent choosing MIT and 8 percent choosing Princeton; And, 44% of those turning down Stanford are picking a non-Big 4 school, so the expected yield in this (unrealistic) model would be more like 20-25% of those accepted by all the Big 4’s.So, why are the yields so high?Certainly, Early Decison, where students are allowed to apply to only one college in the fall in return for promising to enroll if accepted, boosts the yields.And, perhaps, the average number of Big 4 schools applied to is less than three.
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General Vito Miceli, the Italian head of military intelligence, after his arrest in 1974 on a charge of conspiring to overthrow the government, testified “that the incriminated organization, which became known as the ‘Parallel SID,’ was formed under a secret agreement with the United States and within the framework of NATO.”3 Former Italian defense minister Paulo Taviani told Magistrate Casson during a 1990 investigation “that during his time in office (1955–58), the Italian secret services were bossed and financed by ‘the boys in Via Veneto’—i.e. the CIA agents in the U.S. Embassy in the heart of Rome.”4 In 2000 “an Italian secret service general said . For some time critics of U.S foreign policy have stressed the role of CIA assets and Gladio terrorism in the Greek Colonels’ coup of 1967: “The Gladio ‘Sheepskin’ group was involved in a campaign of terrorist bombings, which were blamed on the left, and two days before the election campaign was to begin, a military coup brought to power a junta led by George Papadopoulos, a member of the Greek intelligence service KYP [who had been on CIA payroll since 1952].”7 This was the climax of a period in which Greece was afflicted with “an intelligence service gone wild” and “a shadow government with powers beyond the control of the nation’s nominal leaders.”8 Even clearer is the continuous U.S. intervention in Italian politics after 1948, to block the formation of any government supported by the Communist Party. The official Italian Senate investigation into Gladio concluded “without the shadow of a doubt that elements of the CIA started in the second half of the 1960s to counter by the use of all means the spreading . William Harvey, when CIA station chief in Rome, reportedly recruited his own “action squads” and suggested that the head of the Italian intelligence service SIFAR (later SID) “use his ‘action squads’ to ‘carry out bombings against Christian Democrat Party offices and certain newspapers in the north, which were to be attributed to the left.’”13 More important, European sources allege that one of the masterminds of the 1969 plot, Guido Giannettini, was invited in late 1961 to give a three-day lecture course to U.S. military officers in Annapolis, on “Techniques and Possibilities of a Coup d’Etat in Europe.”14 A few weeks later Pentagon officials began drafting the plans known as Operation Northwoods, the first known American application of a strategy of tension. As summarized by ABC News, “the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.”15 This was at a time of developing U.S. Army interest in so-called counterterror as a technique in counterinsurgency, as developed by Nazis, French theorists of guerre révolutionnaire, and East European émigrés now attached to the U.S. Army. Can it be the United States itself, Britain, France, Italy, and others who should be on the list of state sponsors?”16 It is alarming moreover to note that the Piazza Fontana bombing was planned by a “parallel” structure, outside government control, as a prelude for a military coup.17 Cheney, Rumsfeld and COG Planning in the 1980s Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have been associated since the 1980s with a parallel planning structure in the United States. Oliver North was working with officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency . But in addition to groups opposing United States policies in Central America, the FEMA plan reportedly included environmental activists, opponents of nuclear energy and refugee assistance activists.”20 Earlier, Governor Reagan in California had authorized the development of a counterinsurgency plan (known as Cable Splicer) and exercises to deal with such crises, in conjunction with the U.S. Sixth Army and the Pentagon (Operation Garden Plot). Bush appointed Cheney to head a terrorism task force and created a new office within FEMA, the innocuously named Office of National Preparedness, to assist him. And on September 11 the planning bore fruit: a classified “continuity of operations plan” was implemented, at least partially, for the first time.28 This chapter and especially the next explore the consequences of this arresting coincidence: that the COG planning team of the 1980s was essentially reconstituted by Bush the younger in May 2001 as a terrorism task force, and then (after planning activities of which we know next to nothing) a major attack on the United States (of which we also still know next to nothing) resulted in implementation of COG. It would be more honest, however, to call it a “change of government” plan, since according to Alfonso Chardy of the Miami Herald, the plan called for “suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to FEMA, emergency appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial law during a national crisis.”29 The plan also gave the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which had been involved in drafting it, sweeping new powers, including internment.30 The team was planning, in effect, for the supplanting in a major crisis of the public state by an alternative one. Under it U.S. officials furtively carried out detailed planning exercises for keeping the federal government running during and after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union. the speaker of the House, the president pro tempore of the Senate, and the rest of Congress would play a greatly diminished role.”31 But the planning eventually called for suspension of the Constitution, not just “after a nuclear war” but for any “national security emergency.” This was defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”32 Clearly 9/11 met this definition. One group, the Continuity of Government Interagency Group, dealt with devolution and relocation of government leaders, to prevent decapitation of the government in a crisis. Another group, focused on the Department of Defense, planned for retaliation against the nation’s attackers.33 In April 1994, Tim Weiner announced in The New York Times that in the post-Soviet Clinton era, “the Doomsday Project, as it was known” was to be closed. ‘They are not relevant to today’s world.’”34 This article persuaded authors James Mann and James Bamford that Reagan’s COG plans had now been abandoned, because “there was, it seemed, no longer any enemy in the world capable of . Richard Clarke, a Clinton Democrat, makes it clear that he participated in the COG games in the 1990s and indeed drafted Clinton’s Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 67 on “Enduring Constitutional Government and Continuity of Government.”37 But COG planning involved different teams for different purposes. In light of how COG was actually implemented in 2001, one can legitimately suspect that, however interested this group had been in continuity of government under Reagan, under Clinton the focus of Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s COG planning was now a change of government. Although he has said that he ‘severed all my ties with the company,’ he continues to collect deferred compensation worth approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.”40 It is clear that from at least February 2001 Cheney’s task force discussions extended to the “capture” of oil resources in Iraq: “One intriguing piece of evidence pointing in this direction was a National Security Council document, dated February 2001, directing NSC staff to cooperate fully with Cheney’s task force. The NSC document, reported in The New Yorker, noted that the task force would be considering the ‘melding’ of two policy areas: ‘the review of operational policies towards rogue states’ and ‘actions regarding the capture of new and existing oil and gas fields.’ This certainly implies that the Cheney task force was considering geopolitical questions about actions related to the capture of oil and gas reserves in ‘rogue’ states, including presumably Iraq.”41 The task force’s concerns are well illustrated by two documents, released to the public-interest law firm Judicial Watch only after a fierce court struggle. This task force report was cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, another group historically concerned about U.S. access to overseas oil resources.43 The report, Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges for the 21st Century, concluded that “the U.S. should conduct an immediate policy review toward Iraq including military, energy, economic and political/diplomatic assessments.”44 Meanwhile, the BBC heard from State Department insiders that planning for regime change in Iraq “began ‘within weeks’ of Bush’s first taking office in 2001, long before the September 11th attack on the U.S.”45 The administration’s concern for controlling oil in the Middle East intermingled with strategic concerns in the area, especially with increasing uncertainty about the future of U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia. According to Bamford (_Pretext for War_, 72), “the Eisenhower White House failed to pass on details of their secret government to the incoming Kennedy administration, which discovered it by accident.” On October 30, 1969 President Nixon issued Executive Order 11490, consolidating twenty-one executive orders and two defense mobilization orders, assigning emergency preparedness functions to federal departments and agencies. Bamford, Pretext for War, 74: “The existence of the secret government was so closely held that Congress was completely bypassed .
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(Ok, I’m probably happiest when I’m having good sex, but you know what I mean!) So, I need to earn some decent money, so I can give up work for a while and set about finishing that novel and plotting that screenplay and let those creative juices flow. Residents of a Tokyo apartment building are completely baffled after a total of 1.81 million yen (that’s round about £7200) was found in 18 mailboxes by Saturday 28th July! The money was in identical plain envelopes, which were unsealed and just contained the cash, no letter, no words, just the notes! Since June, dozens of city halls and other public buildings across the country have reported finding neatly packaged envelopes full of cash in men’s toilets, however the bathroom money has come with identical letters asking people to do good deeds!These Japanese cash drop offs are not always so neat and tidy, also on Wednesday, notes worth 960,000 yen were inexplicably seen falling in front of a convenience store. Again the Police don’t have a Scooby Doo (clue) who dropped the money We can just say the money came from the skies, a puzzled police official said. There were other passers-by outside and customers in the store but the incident caused no confusion, he said, then added People thought it was too eerie to touch.The largest single dropoff so far was in the ancient city of Kyoto on July 23, astonishing a 67-year-old woman who found an envelope containing 10 million yen of neatly stacked notes in her mailbox.Jap media tallies suggest more than four million yen, including some found last year, has been found in the public bogs and the like.
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The chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum onIndigenous Issues said the biggest stumbling block to the adoption ofa UN document recognizing the rights of indigenous peoples is thelobby started by multinational companies engaged in large businessesaround the world.Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, UNPFII chair, said multinational companies fromCanada, New Zealand, Australia and the United States engaged in miningand logging have been pressuring other countries to vote against theUN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.“[These firms] were against the declaration because they would like[to keep] their business interests in countries where indigenouspeoples wanted to assert sovereign rights on their territories. International Center for PolicyResearch and Education), said the Philippines, however, has startedgathering support from other countries to adopt the document.The Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples establishesthe rights of indigenous peoples to maintain and strengthen their owninstitutions, cultures and traditions.It addresses both individual and collective rights and protects theircultural property and identity, and rights to education, health,employment and language, among other things.Corpuz said UN member-countries would vote to approve the declarationon Sept.
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Excerpt from p 33 to p 40. 14 march: A dawn sweep through Sydney to arrest G20 demonstrators. Sunil Menon was woken before dawn by a powerful light shining through his window. He would discover it was attached to a camera videoing the raid, but in the first confused moments he was aware only of the light, serious knocking on the front door and a man yelling his name. Menon says that in less than a minute the door was kicked open and about ten police poured into the house. One identified himself as a member of the NSW counter-terrorism unit. Another was a man Menon often noticed hanging around demonstrations in dark glasses and cargo pants. I was scared when I saw him. In front of his housemates gathered in the sitting room, Menon was handcuffed and shown a search warrant. They told me it was to do with G20. Between fifty and sixty police from NSW, Victorian and Federal squads were out before the sun came up that day, arresting five students in raids around Sydney. The scale of the operation can’t be explained by the chaos of Melbourne’s G20 demonstrations last year or the relentless campaign for revenge driven by News Ltd’s Herald Sun. The police themselves allude to the real driver behind the raids: the conference of world leaders to be held in Sydney this September. One of the arrested students says he has been told several times by senior police: If you guys turn up to APEC, well smash you.” Tall and black with an unmistakeable face, Menon, 25, works at Sydney Universitys Fisher Library. A few years ago he was at the centre of a little cause celebre after being charged with helping an escapee asylum seeker reach New Zealand. Menons prosecution attracted street demonstrations, pleas from civil liberties bodies and an email from Thomas Keneally. The case collapsed. In August 2005, a Sydney judge ordered the jury to acquit for lack of evidence. On the morning of the March raid Menon was taken to the Sydney Police Centre and charged with two counts of aggravated burglary - its alleged he was among G20 demonstrators who occupied office foyers in Collins Street - and two counts of unlawful assembly. Daniel Jones, a heavy sleeper, was woken in his parents house in East Balmain by a policewoman tugging his toe. He faced two or three police in his bedroom - who introduced themselves by name and squad as he lay there - and found another dozen in the hallway outside. Among them were counter-terrorist police. Jones, 20, is an arts student at Sydney University with a face known to many sports fans. He was one of the stars — not quite the word - of the SBS reality show Nerds FC screened during the World Cup. The fight against voluntary student unionism (VSU) drew Jones into campus politics. He was issued with two traffic fines after one of the big anti-VSU rallies in Sydney. He is now the education officer of the universitys Students Representative Council. At the Sydney Police Centre he was charged with affray, criminal damage and riot. Dan Robins was woken at his girlfriends place at 6 a.m. by frantic housemates in Newtown ringing with the news: The police are trashing the house and they’re looking for you. Later they told him about being brought into the sitting room in their pyjamas and twelve police searching their rooms. They videoed my punk t-shirts and all the political stickers on the back of my door, said Robins. They spread out my documents and videoed them - things like blood tests, union memberships, all these newspaper cuttings. They did the same thing in all the rooms. My housemates were really shaken up. Robins, 23, went to a city police station and turned himself in. A fine-boned, restless kid, Robins has been demonstrating for years. He was a schoolboy among tens of thousands of protesters on Melbourne streets during the World Economic Forum at Crown Casino in 2000. Hes demonstrated often since and never been in trouble with the police before. At the Sydney Police Centre he was charged with two counts of affray, two of riotous assembly, two of reckless conduct and one count of intentionally destroying property. Ten police came for Tim Davis-Frank at his parents house in the beach suburb of Bronte. My father answered the door in the dark at 6 a.m. in his dressing gown. As they gathered in the kitchen, Davis-Frank noticed through the window guys in dark clothing and gloves sneaking around the back of the house to cut off any possible escape. He knew one of the squad: a Melbourne detective who had interviewed and released him on the evening of the G20 demonstration last November. Davis-Franks parents explained their son was diabetic and he was allowed to eat a bowl of cereal before being taken to the Sydney Police Centre. “This arrest is the second time I have experienced the force of Victorian counter-terrorism agents in relation to the G20 protest,” wrote Davis-Frank in the Green Left Weekly. On the night of November 18, in Melbourne, I was snatched by about eight unidentifiable men and forced into an unmarked white van as I was walking with friends away from the protest. Without identifying themselves, the men in the van tied my hands behind my back, forced me to lie face down on the floor and proceeded to interrogate me, punching me repeatedly in the face if I didnt answer their questions quickly enough and once for accidentally calling one of them mate. Davis-Frank says he was taken to a Melbourne police station where the detective now standing in his kitchen arranged for his injuries to be photographed and told him he would be charged by summons for his part in the chaotic demonstrations that day. The next thing I heard about it was four months later when they raided my parents’ home. Davis-Frank, 22, studies politics at Sydney University and comes from a political household. He says he was pushed in a pram to an anti-nuclear demo at the age of three months. If you feel passionately about something, you should make your opinions known to other people, he explained. Democracy should give space to express your voice. The more people who do, the richer society will be. At the police centre he was charged with two counts of aggravated burglary - those Melbourne office foyers again - three counts of riotous assembly and one of affray. At the centre, the students saw a fifth suspect arrested in the early-morning raids: a seventeen-year-old high-school boy from Haberfield. He was leaning on the window of his holding cell: a distraught child on one side of the glass and his ashen-faced mother on the other. At some point in the day he was taken to the Childrens Court, bailed and disappears from this narrative. The four remaining were taken after a few hours to the cells at Liverpool Central Court and strip-searched while they waited - most of the day - for the formalities of bail to be completed. Honora Ryan was at Central Station early in the morning handing out anti-war leaflets to commuters when she heard about the arrests. She joined about thirty people gathered at the court to give the students moral support. A young piano teacher, Ryan was days away from graduating as a Bachelor of Music from Sydney University. She was not at G20, but opposition to the Iraq war had seen her demonstrating when Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney visited Sydney. She has never, she says, been violent at a demonstration. “Ive shouted a lot. I go there and march and shout slogans. Im a pacifist. I believe very strongly we shouldnt be violentlink

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