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Mexicans arrest alleged drug kingpin wanted in Atlanta (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

Major drug trafficker Edgar “La Barbie” Valdez is escorted by Mexican federal police during a news conference at the federal police center in Mexico City August 31, 2010. Mexico captured Valdez on Monday in a new victory for President Felipe Calderon’s high-stakes war on murderous cartels that threatens the country’s image among investors and tourists. Federal police caught Valdez, a leader of the Beltran Leyva cartel based in central Mexico, in a residential area near Mexico City, the government said. REUTERS/Henry Romero

His fair skin and blue eyes made Edgar Valdez Villarreal resemble a Ken doll and earned him the nickname “La Barbie.”

But there was nothing playful about this allegedly brutal drug lord who federal authorities said ran a drug operation that brought cocaine by the truckload to Atlanta and sent those trucks back to a Mexican cartel carrying millions of dollars in cash.

Valdez was arrested Monday in a residential area outside Mexico City, U.S. and Mexican authorities said. It was a big enough break in Mexico’s war with the drug cartels that Mexican President Felipe Calderon announced the arrest of “La Barbie” on his Twitter account, calling Valdez one of the most-wanted criminals in Mexico and abroad.

For years, the 37-year-old Valdez has used Atlanta as a major distribution hub to flood the eastern United States with thousands of kilograms of cocaine, according to a federal indictment here. When that indictment was unsealed in June, the U.S. Justice Department announced that it was putting up $2 million for information leading to the arrest of Valdez.

Federal authorities said the drug-laden trucks that Valdez sent to Atlanta began their journey 1,100 miles away at a border crossing in Laredo, Texas.

In Mexico, Valdez has been blamed for bloody drug and gang turf wars in which rivals were beheaded and hung from bridges.

With his good looks, luxury cars and fine clothes, Valdez achieved a sort of cult status among those involved in the Mexican drug trade.

Capture of drug kingpin a breakthrough for Mexico (McClatchy News Service):

Born in Laredo, Valdez-Villarreal moved to Mexico City, where in 1998 he met Arturo Beltran-Leyva, a drug lord working for the surging Sinaloa Cartel, Pequeno said. As the Texan worked his way up the criminal chain, first in Nuevo Laredo along the border, then starting in 2004 in the Pacific Coast resort of Acapulco, he nurtured a reputation for extreme violence, including frequent beheadings of the Beltran-Leyva group’s enemies.

The grisly reputation contrasted with his unlikely nickname, given because of his blue eyes and fair complexion — reminiscent of Ken, the Barbie doll’s companion.

By 2007, Valdez-Villarreal ranked senior enough to take part in a meeting in the weekend getaway of Cuernavaca in which bosses of the Sinaloa, Juarez and Gulf cartels — along with the Gulf Cartel’s armed wing, Los Zetas — gathered to hash out an end to conflict between the rival groups, Pequeno said.

Valdez-Villarreal had many enemies, but one of his bitterest feuds dated to his stint in Nuevo Laredo, where he battled the Gulf Cartel and its henchmen, Los Zetas, for smuggling routes, Pequeno said. His hatred of the No. 2 Zetas leader, Miguel Trevino Morales, alias “El L-40,” was so severe it nearly caused a falling out with his own boss, Pequeno said.

Eventually, Beltran-Leyva and his underlings broke from the Sinaloa Cartel, and when the drug lord died in a shootout in December with Mexican marines, his gang was ripped apart by violence, with “La Barbie” seizing control of a faction and becoming a major trafficker in his own right.

Narcotics agents hunting “La Barbie” got a lucky break in a raid on Aug. 9 in the elegant Bosques de las Lomas district of Mexico City, which turned up evidence leading them to the accused drug lord’s mountain safe house in Salazar, Rosas said.

The State Department had offered a $2 million bounty for Valdez-Villarreal and Mexican authorities held out a similar reward of around $2.2 million.

Valdez-Villarreal faces federal narcotics charges in Texas, Louisiana and Georgia, the earliest dating back to 1998 and the most recent announced in June in Atlanta.

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration held Valdez-Villarreal on marijuana charges briefly in St. Louis when he was 19 but let him go, Pequeno said.

source: argonium79

By Philip Giraldi – Israeli government claims that it does not spy on the United States are intended for the media and popular consumption. The reality is that Israel’s intelligence agencies target the United States intensively, particularly in pursuit of military and dual-use civilian technology. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department. It also dominates two commercial sectors that enable it to extend its reach inside America’s domestic infrastructure: airline and telecommunications security. Israel is believed to have the ability to monitor nearly all phone records originating in the United States, while numerous Israeli air-travel security companies are known to act as the local Mossad stations.

As tensions with Iran increase, sources in the counterintelligence community report that Israeli agents have become more aggressive in targeting Muslims living in the United States as well as in operating against critics. There have been a number of cases reported to the FBI about Mossad officers who have approached leaders in Arab-American communities and have falsely represented themselves as “U.S. intelligence.” Because few Muslims would assist an Israeli, this is done to increase the likelihood that the target will cooperate. It’s referred to as a “false flag” operation.

Mossad officers sought to recruit Arab-Americans as sources willing to inform on their associates and neighbors. The approaches, which took place in New York and New Jersey, were reportedly handled clumsily, making the targets of the operation suspicious. These Arab-Americans turned down the requests for cooperation, and some of the contacts were eventually reported to the FBI, which has determined that at least two of the Mossad officers are, ironically, Israeli Arabs operating out of Israel’s mission to the United Nations in New York under cover as consular assistants.

In another bizarre case, U.S.S. Liberty survivor Phil Tourney was recently accosted in Southern California by a foreigner who eventually identified himself as an Israeli government representative. Tourney was taunted, and the Israeli threatened both him and journalist Mark Glenn, who has been reporting on the Liberty story. Tourney was approached in a hotel lounge, and it is not completely clear how the Israeli was able to identify him. But he knew exactly who Tourney was, as the official referred to the Liberty, saying that the people who had been killed on board had gotten what they deserved. There were a number of witnesses to the incident, including Tourney’s wife. The threat has been reported to the FBI, which is investigating, but Tourney and Glenn believe that the incident is not being taken seriously by the bureau.

FBI sources indicate that the increase in Mossad activity is a major problem, particularly when Israelis are posing as U.S. government officials, but they also note that there is little they can do to stop it as the Justice Department refuses to initiate any punitive action or prosecutions of the Mossad officers who have been identified as involved in the illegal activity.

In another ongoing Israeli spy case, Stewart Nozette appears to be headed towards eventual freedom as his case drags on through the District of Columbia courts. Nozette, an aerospace scientist with a top secret clearance and access to highly sensitive information, offered to sell classified material to a man he believed to be a Mossad officer, but who instead turned out to be with the FBI. Nozette has been in jail since October, but he has now been granted an additional 90-day delay so his lawyers can review the documents in the government’s case, many of which are classified. If Nozette demands that sensitive information be used in his defense, his case will likely follow the pattern set in the nine-times-postponed trial of AIPAC spies Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, who were ultimately acquitted in April 2009 when prosecutors determined that they could not make their case without doing significant damage to national security. A month after Rosen and Weissman were freed, Ben-Ami Kadish, who admitted to providing defense secrets to Israel while working as an engineer at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey, walked out of a Manhattan court after paying a fine. He did no jail time and continues to receive his substantial Defense Department pension.

The mainstream media reported the Rosen and Weissman trial intermittently, but there was virtually no coverage of Ben-Ami Kadish, and there has been even less of Nozette. Compare that with the recent reporting on the Russian spies who, by all accounts, did almost nothing and never obtained any classified information. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that spying for Israel is consequence free.

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/mossad-i…

http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/26/p…

By SARAH BRUMFIELD

source: Associated Press

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Police shot a man upset with the Discovery Channel network’s programming who took three people hostage at the company’s headquarters Wednesday, officials said. All three hostages escaped safely.

Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said he did not know whether police killed the gunman, who was upset about the network’s programming. Police spent several hours negotiating with him after he burst into the suburban Washington building about 1 p.m. waving a handgun and with canisters strapped to his body.

Manger said an explosive device may have detonated, and the suspect may have brought other devices into the building. He said as far as he knows, the 1,900 people who work in the building were able to get out safely.

A law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing said authorities had identified James J. Lee as the likely suspect.

A different official, who spoke on condition of anonymity for the same reason, said Lee previously protested outside the building, where he was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct in February 2008, according to court records.

Police reports indicate he paid homeless people to join his protest and carry signs outside the building. He gave one individual $1,000 for what he considered a prize winning essay.

At one point, a crowd of more than 100 people gathered around Lee, 43, who referred to money as “just trash” and began throwing fistfuls of it into the air.

At the trial, The Gazette of Montgomery County reported, he said he began working to save the planet after being laid off from his job in San Diego. He said he was inspired by “Ishmael,” a novel by environmentalist Daniel Quinn and by former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.”

A lengthy posting which could be seen Wednesday on a website registered to Lee expressed anger against the Discovery Channel and said it promoted overpopulation.

He said it and its affiliates should stop “encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.” Instead, he said, the network should air “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility.”

“NO MORE BABIES! Population growth is a real crisis,” he wrote.

He also railed against “programs promoting War” and said solutions should be found for global warming and automotive and factory pollution.

“I want Discovery Communications to broadcast on their channels to the world their new program lineup and I want proof they are doing so,” he wrote. “I want the new shows started by asking the public for inventive solution ideas to save the planet and the remaining wildlife on it.”

Discovery Communications Inc. operates cable and satellite networks in the U.S., including The Discovery Channel, TLC and Animal Planet. Discovery shows include “Cash Cab” and “Man vs. Wild,” and TLC airs “American Chopper” and “Kate Plus Eight.”

Animal Planet also airs the controversial series “Whale Wars,” about attempts by environmentalists to disrupt the Japanese whaling industry.

After Lee’s arrest, a magistrate ordered a doctor’s evaluation, but court records do not immediately indicate the result. Lee was convicted by a jury and served two weeks in jail. He was also ordered to stay 500 feet away from Discovery headquarters.

Adam Dolan, a sales director in Discovery’s education division, told The Associated Press by phone that he was heading to lunch with a co-worker when he heard there was a situation in the building.

He was told to go back up to the top floor, lock the door and turn off the lights. Eventually the workers were herded down a stairwell and told to go home.

“Everyone was very scared, but at the same time … I think people were calm and collected and responded as one would expect in this situation,” said Dolan, 28.

When he got to the bottom floor, he saw shattered glass near the company’s daycare and suspected it was broken to get the children out. He later got an e-mail that all the children were safe and had been taken to a McDonald’s.

Dolan said the company has unarmed security guards who won’t let anyone into the building without a badge.

Melissa Shepard, 32, of Peterborough, N.H., a consultant who works there during the week, said she was on the third floor in a large room with several other workers when someone announced over a loudspeaker that there was a situation in the lobby and people should stay at their desks.

After some time, they were told to move to the other end of the building. She said she was among a dozen workers who huddled into an office, shut the door and turned off the lights.

Then she said someone knocked on the door and told them to leave the building. She said there was some confusion as they were told to go to an upper floor or down the stairs.

“Finally, I screamed, ‘tell us where we need to go…I just want to get out of there,’” she said. “I was shaking…I was like what do we do what do we do?’”

Authorities descended on the area, and people were being kept away from the main drag of the downtown area where the building is located amid restaurants and shops. Traffic was jammed.

The Protocols of Zion pdf
http://www.doxtop.com/browse/3a72e2d/victor-e-marsden-edition-protocols-of-zion-revised-single-pa.aspx

PDF, 303pp., text under the page image, single page not “open book” layout for easier printing.

PDF scan of the 1934 edition of Victor E. Marsden’s translation from the Russian text of “The Protocols of [the Meetings of the Learned Elders of] Zion, with Preface and Explanatory Notes”. Or as Bill Cooper (youth member of the De Molay Society) would have us believe: “…Of Sion”.

The scan from archive.org sucks, basically dual page no good for printing and they scanned a copy with lots of idiot underlinings etc.

As the Marsden edition is widely used the crap scan has been doctored to split the pages, remove the handwritten grafitti and re-OCR the text under the images. The poor quality of the original scan means the pages are too light for taste but they print good.

The Protocols, irrespective of the debate over their origins, must be studied, not just read, and for that purpose a paper copy is best. Rather than printing it might be cheaper to buy one from the likes of http://www.omnicbc.com/ or http://www.abebooks.com

Texe Marrs in his 22/23 July 2010 broadcast says he’s satisfied the Protocols are genuine (18:00 on). Near the end of this talk he mentions Cathy Griffin (zio-Jewess) at an awards ceremony where she said “Suck it Jesus!!”
For such a benign and universal figure, JC does seem to come in for some flack, particularly from zio-JEWS!
Maybe they really are their Daddy’s little helpers. [John 8:44].

http://204.45.70.66/~texemarr/audio/3010.mp3

Note to decriers: keeping an open mind on this, have you read and find any parallels with the Protocols in prior source writings:

Zwack: “Einige Original Scripten.” c1784;

Bavarian Government: English title: “The Original Writings of the Order and Sect of the ILLUMINATI.” (1756)

John Robison, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University and Secretary of The
Royal Society of Edinburgh: “Proofs of a Conspiracy to destroy all Governments and Religions.” (1798) He reportedly had custody of a copy of the original Weishaupt statements.

This is a video I just wanted to share with everyone. I hope you enjoy it as I do.

source: ITN

A Palestinian gunman has killed four Israelis on the eve of a new round of Middle East peace talks in Washington.

The killer opened fire at a vehicle travelling near Hebron – a volatile West Bank city that has been a flash point of violence in the past. A pregnant woman was among the dead, according to an Israeli Army spokesman.

Some 500 ultranationalist Jewish settlers live in heavily fortified enclaves in the city amid more than 100,000 Palestinians.

A spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has launched a US push for peace in the Middle East, holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders before they begin direct negotiations on Thursday.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman said the Israeli Prime Minister “will tell Clinton the criminal murder proves again the need to stand firmly on Israel’s stringent security demands, and there will be no compromise on them”.

source: Desert Peace

Murder is murder!

Killing of civilians is NOT resistance!!

Killing of settlers living illegally on Palestinian soil will not end settlement activity!!!

Four Israelis were killed on Tuesday night when gunmen opened fire on their car at the entrance to Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, in the West Bank.

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By SUZANNE SATALINE
source: Wall Street Journal

Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort.

A patient and care giver at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, Alaska, where the government is considering a partnership with the for-profit LHP Hospital Group of Texas.

Officials in Lauderdale County, Ala., this spring opted to transfer their 91-year-old Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital and other properties to a for-profit company after struggling to satisfy an angry bond insurer.

“We were next to knocking on bankruptcy’s door,” said Rhea Fulmer, a Lauderdale County commissioner who approved the deal with RegionalCare Hospital Partners, of Brentwood, Tenn, but with trepidation. She said the county had no guarantee the company would improve care in the decades to come. “Time will tell.”

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source: CNN

A new Los Angeles high school features a maple basketball court, TVs in the walkway floors and costs $578 million.