Learning to Love Your Economic Hit Man

Greg Palase will never bore you, even when talking about hanging chads and caged lists. This American reporter who can only get a real audience (and employment) through the BBC was THE MAN with regards to the stealing of the 2000 election. This new report by him should be enlightening, coming to us in the thick of phony salutes to our in'juns, Cristóbal Colón, aka Columbus, and the working class stiffs who think they have the rights to, well, anything!

War Paint and Lawyers: Rainforest Indians v. Big Oil
Greg Palast investigates for BBC Newsnight - TONIGHT
Chevron: "Nobody has proved that crude causes cancer." BBC Television Newsnight has been able to get close-in film of a new Cofan Indian ritual deep in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. Known as "The Filing of the Law Suit," natives of Ecuador's jungle, decked in feathers and war paint and heavily armed with lawyers, are filmed presenting a new complaint in their litigation seeking $12 billion from Chevron Inc., the international oil goliath.
[...] For Newsnight, reporter Greg Palast, steps (somewhat inelegantly) into a dug-out log canoe to seek out the Cofan in their rainforest village to investigate their allegations.

[...] The Cofan's leader, Emergildo Criollo, tells Palast that when Texaco Oil, now part of Chevron, came to the village in 1972, it obtained permission to drill by offering the Indians candy and cheese. The indigenous folk threw the funny-smelling cheese into the jungle.
Criollo says his three-year son died from oil contamination after, "He went swimming, then began vomiting blood."
[…] "It's the largest fraud in history!" asserts Chevron lawyer Jaime Varela reacting to the Cofan law suits against his company.... What about the Indian kids dying of cancer? Texaco lawyer Rodrigo Perez asks, "And it’s the only case of cancer in the world? How many cases of children with cancer do you have in the States, in Europe, in Quito? If there is somebody with cancer there, [the Cofan parents] must prove [the deaths were] caused by crude or by petroleum industry. And, second, they have to prove that it is OUR crude – which is absolutely impossible." The Texaco man stated, "Scientifically, nobody has proved that crude causes cancer."
[…] Watch the story live on BBC2 or, in the US, on the net at http://mailings.gregpalast.com/lt/t_go.php?i=55&e=MzU4MDY=&l=-http--news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm after broadcast - or via a link from http://www.gregpalast.com/.
WARNING: The day's news events may require Newsnight to delay broadcast to another evening.

Faux Scoops BBC?

The excuses we were given by airport "authorities" for humiliating searches, long waits, removal of shoes (the harder to run away, my dear) and dumping of cosmetics, perfume, water, even expressed breast milk were all bogus. But all the charges (for this "plot") have been dropped! Where/what is the news? The BBC story has even less detail than Fox News, which at least used the Associated Press for it's coverage!
Court Orders British Suspect Freed
Thursday, November 15, 2007
By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan ordered the release Thursday of a Briton suspected in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, his lawyer said.
The court in Rawalpindi ordered the release of Rashid Rauf, a British Muslim of Pakistani origin, after the prosecution withdrew the case against him, attorney Hashmat Habib said. The lawyer said Rauf is likely to be deported to Britain.
…Pakistani police arrested Rauf in August 2006 on a tip from British authorities and have described him as a key suspect in an alleged plot to blow up jetliners flying from Britain to the United States. The purported plot prompted a major security alert at airports and increased restrictions on carry-on items.
…Britain had asked Pakistan to extradite Rauf in connection with a 2002 murder inquiry in Britain that is separate from the alleged terrorism plot.
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Nov15/0,4670,PakistanBritishSuspect,00.html
Read it yourself, but it seems to me we've been stripping for nothing:
Charges against Briton 'dropped'
The Pakistani authorities have dropped all charges against a British national arrested there in August 2006, his lawyer says.
Rashid Rauf faced charges of being in possession of false identity papers and bomb-making materials. Relatives of Mr Rauf told the BBC that he had been taken from jail on Thursday in a police convoy.
However, police say he is still being held in jail because they have not been told to release him.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7096916.stm
Fortunately, Winter Patriot provides more details:
Case Dismissed! Charges Against Rashid Rauf Have Been Dropped
Friday, November 16, 2007
…That's not an excerpt; that's it! Three cheers for the BBC for their in-depth coverage of the key suspect in the alleged plot that shut down her main airport and kick-started onerous travel restrictions which remain in effect to this day!
http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/search/label/Rashid%20Rauf

NY 9/11 Truth Events

NY 9/11 Truth's usual meeting on 6:30 Sunday, St. Marks Church will show the very provocative "Operation Gladio." Here’s the info on that and other NY 9/11 events.
OPERATION GLADIO – This BBC documentary gives a profile of Operation Gladio, a decades-long covert campaign of terrorism and deceit directed by the intelligence services of the West, against their own populations. Originally set up as a network of clandestine cells to be activated behind the lines in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, Gladio quickly expanded into a tool for political repression and manipulation directed by NATO and Washington. Many innocents were killed as well as highly visible targets such as Italian president Aldo Moro. Understanding the false flag operations behind Gladio enables us to realize how 9/11 could occur.
BREAKING NEWS – William Rodriguez, survivor of the North Tower and a true hero who saved many lives on 9/11, is working on a film. It will contain new testimony from a co-worker who corroborates his explanation of what he experienced the morning of 9/11. Check out a clip here at http://www.william911.com/. This is powerful!
REPRISE OF MAINSTREAM ACTION IN UNION SQUARE – Big news! After the great success of screeing 9/11 Mysteries in Union Sq. on Sept. 12th (video coming soon!), we're doing it again next Friday the 19th at 6PM! This will be a great opportunity to invite friends, co-workers, etc., out to have a moving, educational experience which will make a positive difference. See you there!
Truth will prevail,
NY 9/11 Truth