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To: tejek who wrote (274729)	2/15/2006 1:15:30 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 1578495

Iran - Disinformation Phobia Propaganda designed to target Iran as the greatest threat to the world is just the latest sequel in the machinated melodrama of the evil empire. Make no mistake about it, the imperialists of internationalism are the cause of global insanity. How many neo-Hiltlers have to be created to impose the New World Order of the Zionist-Amerika axis? If you equate America and her true national interest with a pre-empted interventionist foreign policy you have been programmed to accept that the globe is flat. Such horizontal thinking only seeks to smother the earth with that hideous fraud known as controlled democracy which imposes a repugnant servitude upon every dissenting nation that has the gall to disobey the “World Community”. If this is your idea of the noble traditions of Western Civilization you are a fool. The ancient Iranian culture is no servant to the Henry Kissenger school of diplomatic empire. Defiance is Iran’s mortal sin. But the long history of U.S. interference into the Middle East is the root cause of hatred towards a foreign policy designed in Tel Aviv and fueled with the blessing of the board room of Big Oil. America’s original sin is the abandonment of a traditional America-First Foreign Policy as practiced at the beginning of the Republic. Today the world hasn’t changed to demand internationalism, just that the oligarchy precipitates artificial crisis to manage a contrived chaos. Novakeo sums up the house of cards that provokes the plutocrats. “Iran in 2003 began accepting euros as the exchange currency for their oil exports and in March 2006, Iran will begin their own Oil Bourse that will directly compete with New York's Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE). These two American owned oil exchanges use the U.S. dollar as their monetary exchange mechanism for the purchase of oil. Iran's plan to establish an Iranian Oil Bourse utilizing the stronger euro for their oil trade represents a dangerous threat to the monetary supremacy of the U.S. dollar and to the American imperial prowess that the petrodollar sustains.” Pat Buchanan goes one step further: “Conservatives must raise the ever-relevant question: Cui bono? Who would benefit from a U.S. war with Iran? Who is prodding us into it? Are they looking out for America first?” For the answer look to Michel Chossudovsky in Nuclear War against Iran: “Since late 2004, Israel has been stockpiling US made conventional and nuclear weapons systems in anticipation of an attack on Iran. This stockpiling which is financed by US military aid was largely completed in June 2005. Israel has taken delivery from the US of several thousand "smart air launched weapons" including some 500 'bunker-buster bombs, which can also be used to deliver tactical nuclear bombs.” According to the Neocon WND - Iran leader: Islam to 'rule the world'. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is quoted as saying: “We must believe in the fact that Islam is not confined to geographical borders, ethnic groups and nations. It's a universal ideology that leads the world to justice." Now clear your mind of decades of disinformation and seriously ask yourself if a Nuclear Iran is really a clear and prevalent threat to bomb America? Is there anyone who still retains a modest degree of rational intelligence that can deny that the Zionist are posed to wipe off the map any country that dares to defy their dominance in the region or their Satanic financial Federal Reserve Ponzi scheme? An ideology that does not bow down and obey the ultimate organized crime syndicate that pumps up the New World Order using fractional reserve debt revenue and stolen oil reserves must be targeted for extermination. Who is really the holocaust denier? A world based upon CIA and Mossad intrigue produced the Pahlavian Savak secret police state. The good old days under the Shah of Iran when all was under Israeli control are gone. Today Mordechai Vanunu is the modern day Alfred Dreyfus, but where is his Émile Zola? If Iran wants an atomic deterrent to counter the nukes from the Dimona reactor, what Talmudic authority gives contemporary Elders of Zion the protocols to ferment a nuclear winter? If citizens of the world truly want to prevent regional carnage, disarm a nuclear Israel as a condition to defuse Iranian weapons. Under the global oil for dollars regimes, the desire or will to lead towards a “world to justice”, will not tolerate dissident Islamic parity. Just maybe Iran is not the devil you are conditioned to believe . . . James Hall aka SARTRE << batr.org

To: tejek who wrote (274729)	2/15/2006 1:44:18 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578495

Smashed Ballot Boxes Found in Haiti Dump By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Writer 23 minutes ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - U.N. officials sent troops to a garbage dump near the Haitian capital Wednesday to collect hundreds of smashed ballot boxes and vote count material, more than a week after presidential elections that still have not been decided. Associated Press reporters saw hundreds of empty ballot boxes, at least one vote tally sheet and several empty bags — numbered and signed by the heads of polling stations — strewn across the fly-infested dump five miles north of Port-au-Prince. "That's extraordinary," U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst said. Leading candidate Rene Preval has alleged that the Feb. 7 vote was marred by "massive fraud or gross errors" designed to leave him just short of the majority needed for a first-round presidential victory. A wave of chaotic protests by Preval supporters sent foreign diplomats scrambling for peaceful solutions. The United States and other countries "directly involved in the crisis" were discussing a plan to have other candidates recognize Preval's victory and prevent a mass uprising, according to Marco Aurelio Garcia, foreign affairs adviser to Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Brazil heads U.N. peacekeeping forces in Haiti. A popularly elected government with a clear mandate from the voters is seen as crucial to avoiding a political and economic meltdown in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. Gangs have gone on kidnapping sprees and factories have closed for lack of security. Haiti's interim government had already ordered a review of the election results, promising Tuesday to form a new commission to quickly review voter tally sheets. Preval, the former protege of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, has urged his supporters to continue protesting nonviolently and says he will formally challenge the results if officials insist on holding a runoff in March. When the most recent results were posted on Haiti's electoral council's Web site midday Monday, Preval — a former president and agronomist — had 48.76 percent of the vote, with 90 percent of ballots counted. He would need 50 percent plus one vote to win outright. Another former president, Leslie Manigat, was in second place with 11.8 percent of the vote. "The government wants to make sure that everything with the process is correct," interim Interior Minister Paul Magloire told the AP. "We're going to review the results because we want to make sure what we have is right." The commission would include representatives of the president's office, the electoral council and Preval's party, said Michel Brunache, chief of staff of interim President Boniface Alexandre. Late Tuesday, the local Telemax TV news broadcast images from the dump showing smashed white ballot boxes with wads of ballots strewn about. Ballot after ballot was marked for Preval. AP reporters at the dump saw one vote tally sheet from the Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Carrefour that recorded 129 votes for Preval out of 202 cast. A man picking through the dump, Jean-Ricot Guerrier, said a truck dumped the material a day after the election. Someone tried to burn the material, but rain put out the fire, he said. Wimhurst said the ballots could have come from any of nine polling stations across the country that were ransacked on election day, forcing officials to throw out up to 35,000 votes. At least one voting center was destroyed by people tired of waiting in line, while others were destroyed by political factions, he said. Wimhurst also said it was possible someone dumped the ransacked ballots to create an appearance of fraud. The electoral council issued a statement saying it would investigate the incident because it "could cause confusion in the electoral process." The constitution says a challenge would go to the Supreme Court, but the interim government recently decreed that any complaints should go to the electoral commission — the same body releasing the results. The United Nations provided security for the vote and helped ship election returns to the capital, but it is not directly involved in counting ballots. In New York, the U.N. Security Council urged Haitians to respect election results and refrain from violence, and it extended the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for six months through Aug. 15. A runoff election would pit Preval against Manigat. Manigat's wife, Myrlande, declined to say whether anyone had approached him about withdrawing. Of the 2.2 million ballots cast, about 125,000 ballots have been declared invalid because of irregularities, raising suspicion among Preval supporters that polling officials were rigging the election. Another 4 percent of the ballots were blank but were still added into the total, making it harder for Preval to reach the threshold needed to avoid a runoff