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Posted by in-frequent]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 14:14:31 -0700 The Stranger Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 13:53:41 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:59:22 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:39:14 -0700 The Stranger
"because it is ostensibly about enshrining "one man, one woman."

Fixed it for ya.
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:11:41 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Matt from Denver]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:11:17 -0700 The Stranger Intelligence Coup: 2012

(Or everything Saudi)

Amid the congratulations of the CIA's Saudi double agent's prevention of the latest underwear bombing (Calvin Klein, Version 2.0) much is neglected in the reporting department.

Leaving aside the US support of Yemen's latest bloody dictator, let's review several unreported (or little reported, with regards to the myth-media) "intelligence coups": the overthrow of the government of Azerbaijan, and the overthrow of the democratically-elected president of Honduras.

The Azerbaigan overthrow, instigated by BP with the assistance of MI6 and the CIA, took place in order to ensure the oil flow from the Caspian Sea (this took place in the '90s) to those facilities run and profiting the multinationals in India.

Of course, the best route was a pipeline across Afghanistan, but the gov't there was bellicose, so that country had to be invaded.

Therefore, after the disbursement of $40 million via "NGOs" -- Saudi cutouts hijacked planes, most conveniently flying one dead center into the west wall of the Pentagon and killing or seriously injuring almost the entire Financial Management Group of the D.I.A., the very same group which had just completed an audit uncovering an unaccounted for $2.3 trillion in the DoD's finances (reported by the Pentagon's comptroller the very day prior, on 9/10/01).

Now getting this money out of the country wasn't a problem, it would just be electronically transferred offshore via computer systems and unwitting personnel in several companies residing in the World Trade Center towers, but getting rid of the evidence of said computer systems involved, and just in case those unwitting operations people might talk to one another they too would have to go.

Most conveniently, some Saudi cutout hijackers flew several planes into those towers, killing the people and destroying the evidence.

Next, the invasion and subsequent building of gas and oil pipelines across Afghanistan!

Then, a few years forward, and we find the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) funding the overthrow of the Honduran President Zelaya, just 'cause he wants to raise their national minimum wage by a few cents, which would irk the multinationals doing business there.

The chairperson of the MCC at the time was one Hillary Clinton, and her co-chair was one Timothy Geithner.

Another "intelligence coup" ! Hurrah, hurrah!

So, this recent "intelligence coup" also involves a Saudi double agent and the master bomb builder just also happens to be a Saudi, just like those hijackers on 9/11/01 --- will coincidences never cease?????

SOURCES:

http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/int…

The other project is sponsored by the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, a consortium of 11 foreign oil companies, including four American companies, Unocal, Amoco, Exxon and Pennzoil. This consortium conceives of two possible routes, one line would angle north and cross the north Caucasus to Novorossiysk. The other route would cross Georgia to a shipping terminal on the Black Sea. This second route could be extended west and south across Turkey to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan.

….

The second option is to build a pipeline south from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. One obvious route south would cross Iran, but this is foreclosed for American companies because of U.S. sanctions legislation. The only other possible route is across Afghanistan, which has of course its own unique challenges. The country has been involved in bitter warfare for almost two decades, and is still divided by civil war. From the outset, we have made it clear that construction of the pipeline we have proposed across Afghanistan could not begin until a recognized government is in place that has the confidence of governments, lenders, and our company.

http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article…

The Oil Connection: Afghanistan and Caspian Sea oil pipeline routes
Don’t think there is a connection between Afghanistan and the oil monopolies? Think again. The information contained in these partial Department of Energy reports are current as of September 2001. You can read the complete texts at http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/ca... and http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/af... (For more links, also see http://www.mujahideen.fsnet.co.uk/a... ) This story could be bigger than the Pentagon Papers if it were discovered that the "war on terrorism" were an excuse to end Afghanistan’s civil war in order to secure the Southern route of an oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea through Afghanistan. In 1998, the Taliban signed an agreement to proceed with the pipeline, but the civil war has kept the project from getting started.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?tit…

Posted by sgt_doom]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:08:16 -0700 The Stranger
No, @27, it's about enshrining marriage between one land owning white male, his wife, his mistress, and his slaves. That's what they mean.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 11:00:59 -0700 The Stranger
Anyone know for sure why it is called Amendment One ? The best I came up with after five minutes of Googling is possibly because it is about enshrining "one man and one woman."
Posted by Theodore Gorath]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 10:55:00 -0700 The Stranger
Vote suppression and intimidation is not a foreign concept in "modern" North Carolina. I lived in a racially mixed lower-middle class neighborhood in Charlotte a few years back. In the 2004 election, our precinct was woefully understaffed, resulting in a four-hour wait to vote. Many people (folks who worked on an hourly basis, others with kids in tow) had to give up and leave. I had taken the day off, so I was able to stick it out. Strangely, the higher income precincts were much more suitably staffed - waits of no more than five minutes.
Posted by Looking For a Better Read]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 09:44:30 -0700 The Stranger From the Wikipedia article on the NC state constitution.
Posted by venomlash]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 09:22:24 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Vince]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:28:19 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:23:40 -0700 The Stranger
The amendment failed in SEVEN out of one hundred counties. And don't try to tell me those seven are where all the people live: SIXTY-ONE PERCENT FOR.

Fuck North Carolina.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:21:07 -0700 The Stranger
And BofA's executive in charge of its largest business unit did some pretty strong campaigning to fight the amendment, it turns out. Say what we will about the financial titans, there's no denying they were among the earliest of influential businesses to explicitly protect LGBT workers years ago.
http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/blo…
Posted by gloomy gus]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:17:28 -0700 The Stranger Posted by mikethehammer]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:16:52 -0700 The Stranger Posted by mikethehammer]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:13:16 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Renton Mike]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:13:05 -0700 The Stranger http://www.wral.com/news/political/page/…. Mecklenburg County (Charlotte, where BofA is based) voted it down as did the major counties of the Triangle (Wake = Raleigh/Cary, Durham = Durham, Orange = Chapel Hill/Carrboro) and Buncombe (Asheville). These are the counties where pretty much all the population and industrial growth has happened in the state in the last 50 years--the "new North Carolina". Unfortunately, it was not enough to overpower the "old" North Carolina where ignorant hick stereotypes still reign.

Of course, there's other reasons to boycott BofA, but it (and pretty much every other large corporation in NC) actually came out against the amendment because they knew it would be bad for business.
Posted by decidedlyodd]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:04:38 -0700 The Stranger Posted by BLUE]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:52:55 -0700 The Stranger
Ahem: Bank of America. Wachovia.

Fuck them all.
Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:51:27 -0700 The Stranger Posted by pfffter]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:47:50 -0700 The Stranger Posted by pfffter]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:38:36 -0700 The Stranger
I think it's in the ads.

And fuck Texas.
Posted by seatackled]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:38:35 -0700 The Stranger Posted by Max Solomon]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 07:17:34 -0700 The Stranger