11/18/2002 Entry: "NSA BACKDOOR IN EVERY MICROSOFT OPERATING SYSTEM"
How NSA access was built into Windows
Duncan Campbell
Careless mistake reveals subversion of Windows by NSA.
A CARELESS mistake by Microsoft programmers has revealed that special access codes prepared by the US National Security Agency have been secretly built into Windows. The NSA access system is built into every version of the Windows operating system now in use, except early releases of Windows 95 (and its predecessors). The discovery comes close on the heels of the revelations earlier this year that another US software giant, Lotus, had built an NSA "help information"
trapdoor into its Notes system, and that security functions on other software systems had been deliberately crippled.
The first discovery of the new NSA access system was made two years ago by British researcher Dr Nicko van Someren. But it was only a few weeks ago when a second researcher rediscovered the access system. With it, he found the evidence linking it to NSA.
Computer security specialists have been aware for two years that unusual features are contained inside a standard Windows software "driver" used for security and encryption functions. The driver, called ADVAPI.DLL, enables and controls a range of security functions. If you use Windows, you will find it in the C:\Windows\system directory of your computer.
ADVAPI.DLL works closely with Microsoft Internet Explorer, but will only run crypographic functions that the US governments allows Microsoft to export. That information is bad enough news, from a European point of view. Now, it turns out that ADVAPI will run special programmes inserted and controlled by NSA. As yet, no-one knows what these programmes are, or what they do.
Dr Nicko van Someren reported at last year's Crypto 98 conference that he had disassembled the ADVADPI driver. He found it contained two different keys. One was used by Microsoft to control the cryptographic functions enabled in Windows, in compliance with US export regulations. But the reason for building in a second key, or who owned it, remained a mystery.
A second key
Two weeks ago, a US security company came up with conclusive evidence that the second key belongs to NSA. Like Dr van Someren, Andrew Fernandez, chief scientist with Cryptonym of Morrisville, North Carolina, had been probing the presence and significance of the two keys. Then he checked the latest Service Pack release for Windows NT4,
Service Pack 5. He found that Microsoft's developers had failed to remove or "strip" the debugging symbols used to test this software before they released it. Inside the code were the labels for the two keys. One was called "KEY". The other was called "NSAKEY".
Fernandes reported his re-discovery of the two CAPI keys, and their secret meaning, to "Advances in Cryptology, Crypto'99" conference held in Santa Barbara. According to those present at the conference, Windows developers attending the conference did not deny that the "NSA" key was built into their software. But they refused to talk about what the key did, or why it had been put there without users' knowledge.
A third key?!
But according to two witnesses attending the conference, even Microsoft's top crypto programmers were astonished to learn that the version of ADVAPI.DLL shipping with Windows 2000 contains not two, but three keys. Brian LaMachia, head of CAPI development at Microsoft was "stunned" to learn of these discoveries, by outsiders. The latest discovery by Dr van Someren is based on advanced search methods which test and report on the "entropy" of programming code.
Within the Microsoft organisation, access to Windows source code is said to be highly compartmentalized, making it easy for modifications to be inserted without the knowledge of even the respective product managers.
Researchers are divided about whether the NSA key could be intended to let US government users of Windows run classified cryptosystems on their machines or whether it is intended to open up anyone's and everyone's Windows computer to intelligence gathering techniques deployed by NSA's burgeoning corps of "information warriors".
According to Fernandez of Cryptonym, the result of having the secret key inside your Windows operating system "is that it is tremendously easier for the NSA to load unauthorized security services on all copies of Microsoft Windows, and once these security services are loaded, they can effectively compromise your entire operating system". The NSA key is contained inside all versions of Windows from Windows 95 OSR2 onwards.
"For non-American IT managers relying on Windows NT to operate highly secure data centres, this find is worrying", he added. "The US government is currently making it as difficult as possible for "strong" crypto to be used outside of the US. That they have also installed a cryptographic back-door in the world's most abundant operating system should send a strong message to foreign IT managers".
"How is an IT manager to feel when they learn that in every copy of Windows sold, Microsoft has a 'back door' for NSA - making it orders of magnitude easier for the US government to access your computer?" he asked.
Can the loophole be turned round against the snoopers?
Dr van Someren feels that the primary purpose of the NSA key inside Windows may be for legitimate US government use. But he says that there cannot be a legitimate explanation for the third key in Windows 2000 CAPI. "It looks more fishy", he said.
Fernandez believes that NSA's built-in loophole can be turned round against the snoopers. The NSA key inside CAPI can be replaced by your own key, and used to sign cryptographic security modules from overseas or unauthorised third parties, unapproved by Microsoft or the NSA. This is exactly what the US government has been trying to prevent. A demonstration "how to do it" program that replaces the NSA key can be found on Cryptonym's
website.
According to one leading US cryptographer, the IT world should be thankful that the subversion of Windows by NSA has come to light before the arrival of CPUs that handles encrypted instruction sets. These would make the type of discoveries made this month impossible. "Had the next-generation CPU's with encrypted instruction sets already been deployed, we would have never found out about NSAKEY."
Viewer Commentary: 86 comments
Once again its true. I typed the address for the house I was getting built a few years back (I kept on forgetting it) on a notepad file. Makes it easy to remember stuff. I ended up having to pay an extra couple of weeks rent in the house I was staying because the file with the adress went missing and when it came time to move in, the file was gone. My memory isn't so good these days, and I couldn't remember it, and I was too proud to ask the builder where it was (he might have been in on it) so more rent got paid while I waited for the new phone book to come out, and I finally found my address. Robert Duck. I think my old land-lord might work for microsoft, and he could have deleted my files to make me forget why I was paying rent, but I had a feeling something was up. As martha, denis's wife says "If you truthfully admit to doing something, does that automatically change time to rearange the events to make it happen, or did it already hapen?" I don't know Martha.
Posted by Robert Duck @ 11/18/2002 02:35 AM EST
that's not very nice
Posted by Robert Duck @ 11/18/2002 02:52 AM EST
Very dodgy. One must wonder what the purpose of SystemFunction001() - SystemFunction035() is in ADVAPI32.DLL...
Posted by John @ 11/18/2002 03:39 AM EST
Funny....I just don't seem to be
able to access Cryptonym's webpage.
Anybody knows what going on?
Posted by ideoplastic @ 11/18/2002 05:32 AM EST
pleeze can someone explain what all this means in real simple language for people like me who don't understand what is going on behind the scenes in the computer
thanks
:)
Posted by viziondanz @ 11/18/2002 10:36 AM EST
pleeze can someone explain what all this means in real simple language for people like me who don't understand what is going on behind the scenes in the computer
thanks
:)
Posted by viziondanz @ 11/18/2002 10:36 AM EST
Simple: "NIHIL FIDEI"
Posted by Boris @ 11/18/2002 06:16 PM EST
Pleeze, what does NIHIL FIDEI mean?
Posted by Non knower of NIHIL FIDEI @ 11/19/2002 12:26 AM EST
it means, roughly, "trust no one"
Posted by ataraxia @ 11/19/2002 09:30 AM EST
What about XP?
Couldn't find it under Windows/system directory.
Renamed?
Posted by Bruce @ 11/19/2002 11:16 AM EST
If I delete these files ADVAPI32.DLL and/or ADVAPI.DLL from my system will it still function?
Posted by Jim Sexton @ 11/19/2002 02:34 PM EST
I'VE READ WHERE THE SHADOW GOV'T HAS ADVANCED VERY HI TECH PROGRAMS THAT ACCESS THE UNCONCIOUS MIND VIA LIGHT PATTERNS AND BLINKING/STROBING RATES THROUGH YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WHICH IS USED FOR MASS MIND CONTROL AND PROGRAMMING...OF COURSE THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT RIGHT???!!!
Posted by jACK @ 11/19/2002 07:29 PM EST
wow, i wonder what r those Nsa doing ? y r they so curious 2 know everything...what r they up 2... n does linux have the same key.... can they do that to open source system ?
Posted by Nightshades @ 11/19/2002 08:35 PM EST
anjiiis, aing teu ngarti !!!
Posted by beruk gembel @ 11/19/2002 08:55 PM EST
just delete files ADVAPI32.DLL and/or ADVAPI.DLL from your system
Posted by BABI AER @ 11/19/2002 09:07 PM EST
Cryptonym's WEB ADDRESS IS:
http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/03/UPDATE2NewWindowsCryptoBackdoorSaid.shtml
Posted by Greg Burton @ 11/19/2002 10:13 PM EST
I just saw an agent run past my recycle bin AAAAARRRRRRGHHHHH
HEEEEEEELPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by rebu @ 11/20/2002 05:59 AM EST
i found advap132.dll under the ServicePackFile. what is an agent? pls advise. tks.
Posted by cj @ 11/20/2002 10:11 AM EST
The Duncan Campbell article is from April 1999, so this backdoor is now 3 and a half years old.
http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/5263/1.html
Check out Other Operating System options that are available to you and that are free of backdoors. :)
Posted by Paul S. @ 11/20/2002 01:30 PM EST
i run XP and the file is in the system32 folder and named advapi32.dll. after getting rid of the file putting it onto a removable hardrive, removing it, restarting, and checking, a NEW copy of the same file was in the same place. i then went to paste the original back into the directory and got the popup window about the different versions of the same file with both files having different dates. you can't just delete the file, you have to replace it with another file by the same name, preferable with the nsa key removed(if possible).
Posted by xbradx @ 11/20/2002 01:52 PM EST
Is this just another way for the American gov to put their sticky fingers where they are not wanted?
Posted by Rob @ 11/21/2002 01:10 AM EST
Apparently Cryptonym is no longer in business, their homepage is "intentionally left blank". It looks like you are right, though that this issue is several years old. I found this article from nsclean that explains in a lot more detail:
http://www.nsclean.com/nsakey.html
Apparently they think the second key was not for the government, but for international banking and, sadly, just named wrong. According to them if you have IECLEAN and turn off java, activ-x, etc your system cannot be compromised, unless after you are notified, you give approval for it to be. Same with netscape.
I wonder how this affects aol browser.
Posted by D F @ 11/21/2002 07:26 AM EST
If you use Internet Explorer, a web page can be coded to display the contents of your hard drive - A website on Angelfire showed how this worked, but the IP took it down.
The solution would be to encrypt drive C, so files can't be opened without a password.
Internet Explorer is simply unsecure, and probably will remain that way indefinitely. The security patches are made long after the defects have been exploited and publicized.
Posted by Little Brother @ 11/21/2002 09:14 AM EST
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815080126/http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa/ReplaceNsaKey.zip
Posted by Here ya go @ 11/21/2002 10:02 AM EST
Cpoy and paste the link up above.....
Posted by Here ya go @ 11/21/2002 10:04 AM EST
Just use Linux or Mac. There is talk of an alternative Internet, and Steve Jobs is completely opposed to TCPA/Palladium (another sniff-ass scheme by the Gates Crew).
Posted by Time Step @ 11/21/2002 12:24 PM EST
Recently, Microsoft announced they will be working with the new Homeland Security Dept. The guy that's heading the dept. for MS is ex-military. He was on cable last week talking about it but was very elusive on answering what MS gets out of it (ie. money). Does anyone think that the current administration let them out of the anti-trust case (which was won by the government) in return for MS building future codes into their software?
Posted by Tom @ 11/21/2002 08:14 PM EST
ABSOLUTELY, Tom. Quite obvious in light of recent developments (ie. the subject of this site)
Posted by jode @ 11/21/2002 08:49 PM EST
I was sent this by a friend after a discussion on this subject. What do you think?
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This is a response
to: http://ntbugtraq.ntadvice.com/default.asp?sid=1&pid=47&aid=52
A few months ago in my newsletter Crypto-Gram, I talked about Microsoft's
system for digitally signing cryptography suits that go into its operating
system. The point is that only approved crypto suites can be used, which
makes thing like export control easier. Annoying as it is, this is the
current marketplace.
Microsoft has two keys, a primary and a spare. The Crypto-Gram article
talked about attacks based on the fact that a crypto suite is considered
signed if it is signed by EITHER key, and that there is no mechanism for
transitioning from the primary key to the backup. It's stupid
cryptography, but the sort of thing you'd expect out of Microsoft.
Suddenly there's a flurry of press activity because someone notices that
the second key is called "NSAKEY" in the code. Ah ha! The NSA can sign
crypto suites. They can use this ability to drop a Trojaned crypto suite
into your computers. Or so the conspiracy theory goes.
I don't buy it.
First, if the NSA wanted to compromise Microsoft's Crypto API, it would be
much easier to either 1) convince MS to tell them the secret key for MS's
signature key, 2) get MS to sign an NSA-compromised module, 3) install a
module other than Crypto API to break the encryption (no other modules need
signatures). It's always easier to break good encryption.
Second, NSA doesn't need a key to compromise security in Windows. Programs
like Back Orifice can do it without any keys. Attacking the Crypto API
still requires that the victim run an executable (even a Word macro) on his
computer. If you can convince a victim to run an untrusted macro, there
are a zillion smarter ways to compromise security.
Third, why in the world would anyone call a secret NSA key "NSAKEY." Lots
of people have access to source code within Microsoft; a conspiracy like
this would only be known by a few people. Anyone with a debugger could
have found this "NSAKEY." If this is a covert mechanism, it's not very covert.
I see two possibilities. One, that the backup key is just as Microsoft
says, a backup key. It's called "NSAKEY" for some dumb reason, and that's
that.
Two, that it is actually an NSA key. If the NSA is going to use Microsoft
products for classified traffic, they're going to install their own
cryptography. They're not going to want to show it to anyone, not even
Microsoft. They are going to want to sign their own modules. So the
backup key could also be an NSA internal key, so that they could install
strong cryptography on Microsoft products for their own internal use.
But it's not an NSA key so they can secretly install weak cryptography on
the unsuspecting masses. There are just too many smarter things they can
do to the unsuspecting masses.
Bruce
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The following is from the April Crypto-Gram,
at: http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-9904.html#certificates
Attacking Certificates with Computer Viruses
How do you know an e-mail is authentic? You verify the digital signature,
of course. This means that you verify that the message was correctly
signed, using the sender's public key. How do you know that the sender's
(call her Alice) public key is valid? You check the signature on *that*
public key.
What you're checking is called a certificate. Someone else, call him Bob,
signs Alice's public key and confirms that it is valid. So you verify Bob's
signature on Alice's certificate, so you can verify Alice's signature on
her e-mail.
Okay, how do you know that Bob's signature is valid? Maybe Carol signs her
key (creating another certificate). That doesn't actually solve the
problem; it just moves it up another layer. Or maybe you signed Bob's key,
so you know to trust him. Or maybe someone else whose key you signed has
signed Carol's key. In the end, you have to trust someone.
This notion of a certificate chain is one of the biggest problems with
public-key cryptography, and one that isn't talked about very much. PGP
uses the notion of "trusted introducers"; Bob signs Alice's key because Bob
knows Alice and is her friend. You signed Bob's key for the same reason. So
when Alice sends you an e-mail you can note that her public key is signed
by Bob, and you trust Bob to introduce you to people. (Much like Bob
bringing Alice along to your party.)
Other Internet protocols -- S/MIME, SSL, etc. -- take a more hierarchical
approach. You probably got your public key signed by a company like
Verisign. A Web site's SSL public key might have been signed by Netscape.
Microsoft signs public keys used to sign pieces of ActiveX code you might
download from the net.
These so-called "root-level certificates" come hard-wired into your
browser. So when you try to establish an SSL connection with some Web site,
that Web site sends you its public-key certificate. You check to see if
that certificate is signed (using the public key in your browser); if it
is, you're happy. The you-have-to-trust-someone public keys are the ones
that come with your software. You trust them implicitly, with no outside
verification.
So if you're a paranoid computer-security professional, the obvious
question to ask is: can a rogue piece of software replace the root-level
certificates in my browser and trick me into trusting someone? Of course it
can.
It's even weirder than that. Researchers Adi Shamir and Nico van Someren
looked at writing programs that automatically search for public-key
certificates and replace them with phony ones. It turns out that the
randomness characteristics of a public key make them stick out like sore
thumbs, so they're easy to find.
This attack isn't without problems. If a virus replaces the root Netscape
certificate with a phony one, it can trick you into believing a fake
certificate is valid. But that replacement certificate can't verify any
real certificates, so you'll also believe that every real certificate is
invalid. (Hopefully, you'll notice this.) But it works well with
Microsoft's Authenticode. Microsoft had the foresight to include two
root-level Authenticode certificates, presumably for if one ever gets
compromised. But the software is designed to authenticate code if even one
checks out. So a virus can replace the Authenticode spare certificate. Now
rogue software signed with this rogue certificate verifies as valid, and
real software signed by valid Microsoft-approved companies still checks out
as valid.
This virus doesn't exist yet, but it could be written.
An okay story on the topic:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990315S0001
The actual research paper:
http://www.ncipher.com/products/files/papers/anguilla/keyhide2.pdf
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Posted by Tom @ 11/21/2002 10:26 PM EST
If you decide to delete ADVAPI32.DLL say goodbye to your computer. Unless you have that file backed up you won't be using your computer again. Don't delete it your computer won't grow a new one.
Posted by Eagleyed @ 11/21/2002 10:34 PM EST
I have read in the corporate media that there is at least one or two NSA employees working @ Microsoft. According to this article they are known to Bill Gates. I believe I read this in "Body of Secrets." I may be incorrect but it sounds reasonable. Someone want to check it out?
N.N.
Posted by nerdnick @ 11/22/2002 11:46 AM EST
I have read in the corporate media that there is at least one or two NSA employees working @ Microsoft. According to this article they are known to Bill Gates. I believe I read this in "Body of Secrets." I may be incorrect but it sounds reasonable. Someone want to check it out?
N.N.
Posted by nerdnick @ 11/22/2002 11:47 AM EST
Fuck you
Posted by Fuck you @ 11/22/2002 07:45 PM EST
Fuck you
Posted by Fuck you @ 11/22/2002 07:46 PM EST
I connected to cryptonym's website.
That's what I got:
This page was left blank intentionally.
Posted by One @ 11/25/2002 04:15 AM EST
I was banned today from all MSNBC chat servers for supposedly violating there conduct codes.
I am unable to access there site, must be blocking the ip I am coming from.
I merely logged on at approximatley 10:00am, under the ever so approriate name of Prometheus, to the MSNBC chat live with the news, where I was only allowed enough time to get out the following before being completely banned:
(i wrote) "How NSA access was built into Windows"
(this is merely a copy and paste of the article title, sorry vox about just copying)
(i wrote again) "How NSA access was built into Windows"
(I then waited for 30 or so seconds to see if anyone was willing to let me tell them, and noticed the usual Pro-Jewish, anti-Peace, war propaganda, I guess people are more worried about killing then realizing Bill Gates is helping the governemnt keep information on you, everyone should do some research on the "Stazi" and take a long hard look at what our government is doing)
(i wrote) there is a backdoor in your windows program...
And then a little windows erroe message popped up and I was told that: You have been dropped by Mark(?)
I then tried to log back on, because, hey, the 80% of culture that never reach philisophical reason and only do as there told on the jewish-zionist run media tells them, they need help too, and since I made it out of the WASP matrix and brainwashing I figure that I should help those stuck back in the bullshit sexually perverse marketing scheme of television, and I decided to log back on, even just using my name, because I believe in what I preach, and sure enough an error message pops up letting me now that I can try loggin back on in a month or so because I have been banned from all msnbc stuff for violating the code of conduct.
I relize we can all believe this, so I don't have to ask everyone.
I really feel it's time to start putting a stop to all of this constant molesting of good and decent people who have no idea who they are let alone what is going on in the world around them.
Was I the only one who had Sociology class in high school?
Was I the only one who learned about subliminal messages, propaganda, how the history books in the us are bullshit, the definition of what "Ethnocentricity" is and why antropologists stopped taking the dirty savage look on societyis that were not exactly like there, am I the only one who knows that reality is perception and the wolfs have gotten in the gate and are casting illusions on everyone?
Is there anyone else out there who really what to make a pro active differece?
They have also shut off my ability to send email out.
Posted by Andy @ 11/27/2002 07:05 AM EST
I just received a form in the mail from the Census Bureau. Aside from it bieng off about 8 years, it asks in DETAIL, all about you ,where you work all the way down to how many toilets you have! Upon checking the census website, I found out that there will be census takers out equipped with GPS and other sophisticated data gathering equipment. Now, I am politically active in that I raise questions about our government's motives, lend my voice to those that oppose a war in Iraq, and give advice judiciously to those that need it, and beleive me, I love my country, but I am not a threat in any remote sense of the word, to my country. Has anyone else heard of this "census", and if so what have you heard? Please use the e-mail address included.
Posted by A Real American @ 11/30/2002 04:34 PM EST
The e-mail address to the previous post is opa3612@bellsouth.net. Thanks
Posted by A Real American @ 11/30/2002 04:38 PM EST
Cryptome web site, still works:
Posted by Q @ 12/05/2002 12:33 AM EST
your all idiots
Posted by you idiots @ 12/05/2002 01:51 AM EST
How can we be assure that the patch of Cryptome does not add some other stuff of the NSA while advocating to be the salvation ?
People, use two computers. One connected to internet, the other not. It's as simple as that. Forget about patches.
Posted by Aquestioni @ 12/05/2002 02:13 AM EST
They come into my house in the middle of the night and re-arrange my furniture exactly the way it was!
I know they were hear because its all how I left it!!! Can you hear the black helicopters, they are coming for you for your fake Britney spears nudes, they will tell your whole school you masturbate and think about same sex relationships. Your all doomed!
Posted by Denomoulous @ 12/05/2002 03:43 AM EST
PARANOIDS
Posted by intexk @ 12/05/2002 04:22 AM EST
The NSA requires that it is provided a key, of course the "NSAKEY" is a key for the NSA.
Posted by Elijah @ 12/05/2002 05:45 AM EST
So if NSA has a hand in Microsoft, why is it not surpising that the DoJ was unable to break the company up. Possibly taking away away the governments Big Brother software provider.
Posted by nemo @ 12/05/2002 06:21 AM EST
The Matrix is beginning to collapse! Run for your lives!
Posted by KingDing @ 12/05/2002 06:28 AM EST
What better way for a government to keep track of people? Get something incorperated into the operating system that runs on about 90% of the computers in the whole freaking world, then "give it away" with the purchase of a new computer. Trust me, just about every American citizen appears on a "list" somewhere. Something you did at some point in your life got the attention of some agency (got arrested, detained at the airport, sent/received mail from a former communist country, have friends who have done any of the above, have relatives in another country, think about it...). Don't sweat it. Unless you continue to show up on their radar, the Dream Police are not going to show up at your door...
Posted by King Ding @ 12/05/2002 06:45 AM EST
Hail Eris! All hail Discordia! Fnord!
Posted by Hagbard Celine @ 12/05/2002 06:59 AM EST
[quote]I'VE READ WHERE THE SHADOW GOV'T HAS ADVANCED VERY HI TECH PROGRAMS THAT ACCESS THE UNCONCIOUS MIND VIA LIGHT PATTERNS AND BLINKING/STROBING RATES THROUGH YOUR COMPUTER SCREEN WHICH IS USED FOR MASS MIND CONTROL AND PROGRAMMING...OF COURSE THEY WOULD NEVER DO THAT RIGHT???!!![/quote]
i heard about that long time ago, normally our TV goes with 24fps, but there is frame number 25 that we cant really see as an image but brain does take that one
Posted by UnnamedPlayer @ 12/05/2002 07:34 AM EST
just because your paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you!!!
BTW "you idiots" go back to school
Posted by bargansnarf @ 12/05/2002 08:28 AM EST
If you people are sceptical about Microsoft, just install Linux. It's as simple as that!!
Hey people, don't get to paranoid!
A merry christmas from Norway! :)
Posted by Rune @ 12/05/2002 08:30 AM EST
wow, a lot of you people are pretty stupid/moronic/paranoid.
just change the key with the nsa key changer that was put out..
Posted by people are morons @ 12/05/2002 08:30 AM EST
If you people are sceptical about Microsoft, just install Linux. It's as simple as that!!
Hey people, don't get to paranoid!
A merry christmas from Norway! :)
Posted by Rune @ 12/05/2002 08:31 AM EST
If you people are sceptical about Microsoft, just install Linux. It's as simple as that!!
Hey people, don't get to paranoid!
A merry christmas from Norway! :)
Posted by Rune @ 12/05/2002 08:32 AM EST
i am not surpized of what i see. control freaks are everywhere. specially inside NSA. didn't you wanna know what everyone's doing?
Posted by geezas @ 12/05/2002 08:53 AM EST
I don't care as long as they don't delete my porn.
Posted by Bryan @ 12/05/2002 09:09 AM EST
Get a mac
Posted by Steve Jobs @ 12/05/2002 09:12 AM EST
I agree wth Bryan
Posted by Mark r @ 12/05/2002 09:12 AM EST
I agree wth Bryan
Posted by Mark r @ 12/05/2002 09:12 AM EST
I agree wth Bryan
Posted by Mark r @ 12/05/2002 09:12 AM EST
From below: In It for US
"Your either with US as equals under a rule of law as
Universal Justice, or your a mindless slave whore
Sacrificing your soul for bush, the anti-Christ, who
will as he continues, stealing and murdering from our
families without any good reason, or provocations as
evil incarnate he is to US all."
(Just another of those Youisms from Johnny, the Lord.)
Then, a little later, some scribbles on the nazi
terrorist Jew hater, that super evil mass murdering
lifeless lump of waste byproduct, the leach whom we all
know so well truly as a parasite of life's will to steal
ourselves from God as plundered, the stenching, blood
soaked monster, henry kissing.. er.. ariel sharon:
"How can killing, torturing, and [then] destroying the
homes of [US] innocent civilians be considered anything
but, terrorism?" Hey, what do you say in stopping them
hurting US, by destroying them both American Patriot?,
as we now let ourselves sort it out in the here after?
Eh? Wake up friend...
Then even further, don't miss, the highly anticipated,
"Corporate Street Gangs - Monsanto" that lists the
ACTUAL individual people never mentioned by CNN, who
perpetrate those hanious crimes against the American
Public, and who have so far, escaped incarceration as
multi-millionaire corporate successes.
Again, none of any words world wide bare contention
against the facts we've brought to our attention. The
traitors to America, Our Mr. bush Jr. and rotten
rumsfeld don't mention the willingness of American
Soldiers to apprehend general Ahmad as the principle
terrorist funder of Atta, because this general is also
responsible for developing the bushmob strategy of
killing Americans in New York City from Washington. A
strategy of blaming bin Laden without any evidence to
bomb Afghanistan for Enron. (The Dahbol Working Group.)
Then closing criminal investigations, as it's not
important to know who personally was responsible for the
insider trades, or the contacting of only Odigo. Never
mentioned by CNN as top priority to American soldier
concerns, who are expected by Blitzer and Hemmer to
throw away their lives in sacrifice unthinking to bush,
america's false deity, super evil anti-Christ. While
bush and cheney threaten to murder more dumb Americans
who would dare to articulate the demand for Justice as
our own, like Laden has, while demanding American
Patriots cower in fear of the sadistic savage mass
murdering death squad leader, tommy franks, or the
anti-Christ going out to kill their family too as not
represented by corporate policy, while American soldier
families are continually disrespected as unworthy.
(Generally, they are pretty damn stoopid, but certainly,
if they're not knowingly committing first degree murders
for the anti-Christ as pure nazi filth, they should be
allowed to learn, instead of having their own undefended
families robbed then slaughtered for American traitor,
nazi puke terrorist, tommy franks, or for Monsanto's
rotten rumsfeld. Do you notice corporate America
continues to show outdated footage of those two demons
standing near smiling armed American soldiers, who as a
mass of dumfuks, aren't intelligent enough to destroy
them instantly as established ememies of America as
terrorists? Well, that is going to change. I have yet
to find ANY American Soldier who is literate, who
disagrees WE have some very important questions that
need immediate answers before the bushmob murders more
Americans in Our name. See for yourself through Google
if you don't believe in Christ as the Redeemer.
As for the doubting American Soldier, LOOK, CNN will
continue as cult members in their dying madness of just
even lamer excuses, to convince US, we are alone in our
concerns for Freedom as Justice instills for US all.
This moment of History requires you to stand strong for
only yourself to be represented truly among the stars.
Evil stupid people can't make heads or tails of this,
but, as evil bush does truly from his dark shallow
existence, will continue by open piracy, to publicly
advocate in Our names the further robbing and murder of
your own family American Patriot, so too, will more
american nazi dumfuks die to the tune of their own
cowardice to protect themselves as garnered fairly.
This is why rotten rumsfeld forbids the death tally of
American soldiers to be made public to the ready for
enlistment as the too dumb to know better. Life is
life, and sorry to say american dumfuks, Christ on the
cross is you too as a true dying American Patriot, and
your already politically sitting in the bush slave whore
position of hatred and injustice against Humanity and
myself honestly as.. THE SON OF MAN! (The for real, no
illusion, god of God's life/death trade barter, with a
score to settle on behalf of the infinite Universe and
True brave Soldiers everywhere. KILL AMERICAN COP
KILLER BUSH NOW BEFORE HE MURDERS MORE LIKE OURSELVES IN
OUR NAME AS THE INNOCENT COWARDS!) THINK, if I fly down
there to Washington as a simple man, and destroy the cop
killing demon monsters bush, rumsfeld, cheney, and
franks with my bare hands in love as the timid Jesus of
folklore, while salivating, how is that going to look to
the perishioners, who, God love'em, just wouldn't
understand the finer art of akeido, huh?
CNN is not interested in working for American interests
by asking why, as there is little of any money in just
doing good for your neighbor, like saving a living, as
we would wish to be helped for ourselves, if we were
bound just the same to be equals at being. Mr. Blitzer
and Bill Hemmer, as americans, wouldn't give a dollar of
your time, to speak on human rights to be of their own
concern, (they're already rich by theft without talent
as dying our death by murder as not spoken for really.
Just like how they refuse to report on the blatant
criminal lottery operations that steal from EVERYONE.)
or to save the life of an innocent poor victim, if it
meant they would therefor, be compelled to honestly
report on their false deity bush, corporate america's
super evil criminal to ourselves as Humanity, the
unelected dictator, American cop killing anti-Christ in
person!, that they so leave to see Americans sacrificed
as ignored to be robbed from, as their profit margin
increases, from their, holyier than thou pulpits,
leaving You all to get robbed and murdered by dumb nazi
scum like reject tommy franks, the terrorizing death
squad leader, woman and child killer. We're sure CNN,
as others would say, as they do regarding sharon's
murder rampages against the innocent as God, nothing.
Do less for America, The dying from stupidity People,
and get payed more in collateral damages paid for by
doubting Patriots, now mostly too slow to stand for the
American flag in protection for their own living as lost
to the wind without freedom to guide their own
convictions. Mr. bush, tommy, rumsfeld, cheney and
blair give no evidence to back an american soldier's
reason, but for to show themselves as the criminals who
openly harbor terrorist activity against our
communities, and WE, as Humanity, according to CNN, are
expected to go out and kill our family and friends in
cowardice, instead of standing up to destroy the evil
demon bush instead, to save our own selves as worth
consideration.
God, or no God, I hate that murderer bush as much as any
real man would to care for his own life as family.
Johnny Wizard
--
HTTX 2.0b
Title: Material Breach: US Crimes in Iraq
Published on Saturday, November 30, 2002 by CommonDreams.org
Material Breach: US Crimes in Iraq
by Heather Wokusch
D-Day of December 8th quietly approaches - the day Iraq
must provide the UN Security Council with a complete
accounting of its weapons programs, plus its civilian
chemical/biological/nuclear production and research
activities. Even though UN weapons inspectors have
criticized the December 8th deadline as unrealizable,
the consequences for missing it will be catastrophic:
Iraq will be in "material breach" of UN resolution 1441,
and therefore subject to swift and decisive military
action.
But at this point, UN 1441 seems little more than a
whitewash pretext for a US-led attack on Iraq. With US
warplanes patrolling Iraq's no-fly zone, bombing raids
against Iraq ongoing, multiple aircraft carriers on
alert and 60,000 US troops currently in or around the
Persian Gulf, it's clear the war has already begun,
"material breach" or not. When it's convenient for the
Bush administration, Iraq will be found to have violated
some aspect of the UN resolution, and the current
buildup and covert military activity will explode into
an all-out attack.
The justification (that Iraq's Hussein violates
international law with his weapons of mass destruction
and is thus a menace to world peace) seems a bit ironic
in light of US actions in Iraq these past eleven years.
Case in point. Article 54 of the Geneva Conventions
clearly states that destroying or rendering useless
items essential to the survival of civilian populations
is illegal under international law and a war crime.
Hard then to explain the 1991 US bombing of electrical
grids that powered 1,410 water-treatment plants for
Iraq's 22 million people. An excerpt from a 1998 US Air
Force document, entitled "Strategic Attack," chillingly
explains: "The electrical attacks proved extremely
effective ... The loss of electricity shut down the
capital's water treatment plants and led to a public
health crisis from raw sewage dumped in the Tigris
River." A second US Defense Intelligence Agency
document, 1991's "Iraq Water Treatment Vulnerabilities,"
predicted how sanctions would then be used to prevent
Iraq from getting the equipment and chemicals necessary
for water purification, which would result in "a
shortage of pure drinking water for much of the
population" leading to "increased incidences, if not
epidemics, of disease."
So basically, in defiance of international law, the
United States knowingly destroyed Iraq's water supply,
then for the past eleven years has prevented the
contaminated drinking water from being treated, even
though it was obvious those most affected would be
millions of citizens doomed to preventable disease and
death. If that's not a material breach, what is?
Then there's the depleted uranium (DU) weaponry the
United States and its allies used on Iraq during the
Gulf War, despite foreknowledge its radioactivity would
make food and water in the bombed regions unsafe for
consumption on an indefinite basis (DU remains
radioactive for 4.5 billion years). Add in the fact
that trails of carcinogenic dust left in a DU bomb's
wake spread in the wind to be absorbed by plants and
animals, thereby devastating a region's food chain. Of
course, humans inhale and absorb DU dust as well, which
has most likely led not only to dramatically elevated
levels of birth defects and cancer cases among Iraqi
civilians, but also to a wide litany of suffering among
Gulf War vets; a recent study, for example, found that
even nine years after the war, veterans afflicted with
Gulf War Syndrome ailments still had DU traces in their
urine. This while there has yet to be any US
governmental study on the effects of DU inhalation...
We can expect DU to be used in the next attack on Iraq
too, in spite of the inhumane risks to civilians and
military personnel alike. According to a Defense
Department report, "the US Military Services use DU
munitions because of DU's superior lethality" adding,
"Gulf War exposures to depleted uranium (DU) have not to
date produced any observable adverse health effects
attributable to DU's chemical toxicity or low-level
radiation." With more than one out of six American Gulf
War vets having reported health problems since their
service, and over 9,000 having died since the war ended,
not to mention the marked increase in Iraqi birth
defects and cancer cases in DU-bombed regions, denial
like that is nothing short of material breach, an
affront to both human rights and common sense.
And what if the December 8th deadline is met, and no
weapons of mass destruction are found by U.N. weapons
inspectors inside Iraq? Says US Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld: "What it would prove would be that the
inspection process had been successfully defeated by the
Iraqis. There's no question but that the Iraqi regime
is clever, they've spent a lot of time hiding things,
dispersing things, tunneling underground." So it would
appear regardless of how the inspections turn out, the
Iraqis will be attacked anyway.
In facing a no-win situation, Hussein could seem like a
martyr to others in the region; he could also see little
option but to unleash whatever destructive powers he has
left. Backing someone like him into a corner is foreign
policy at its most disastrous, a dangerous development
for the entire region and very bad news for the
unfortunate service men and women thrown into that
quagmire.
It's clear that Saddam Hussein is a loathsome ogre who
has shown criminal disregard for his population. What's
also clear though is that the US record in the region is
disgraceful if not downright criminal. Consider that
for the two years following Hussein's infamous 1988 gas
attack on the Kurds at Halabja (an attack in which
US-built helicopters were apparently among those
dropping the bombs) the US government seemed quite
uninterested in his possession of chemical weapons, or
any other weapons for that matter. Remember too, that a
1992 Senate committee report entitled "US Chemical and
Biological Warfare-Related Dual-Use Exports to Iraq,"
demonstrated that Hussein bought technology and
materials necessary to create nuclear, biological and
chemical weapons from none other than the States and
Britain - and continued to make purchases even after the
attack at Halabja. Factor in the water supply
degradation, DU toxicity and debilitating sanctions and
it's hard to imagine the average Iraqi embracing
American forces as welcome liberators.
The bottom line is that the US has some questions to
answer about its past conduct in Iraq, questions that
can't be answered by another full-scale war.
Heather Wokusch is a free-lance writer. She can be
contacted via her web site at www.heatherwokusch.com
###
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HTTX 2.0b
Title: The journalism and films of John Pilger
For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with
state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the Bali outrage
allows John Howard to distract attention from his
hypocrisy : John Pilger :17 Oct 2002
The Australian prime minister, John Howard, says the
atrocity on the island of Bali is "proof" that "the war
against terrorism must go on with unrelenting vigour and
with an unconditional commitment". What he means is
that he will continue to perform his holier-than-Blair
role as George W Bush's most devoted, if not universally
recognised, foreign gang member.
The Australian military is, in effect, an extension of
the Pentagon. Australian ships operate with the
American fleet in the Gulf, enforcing an embargo against
Iraq which, according to the United Nations Children's
Fund, has led to the unnecessary deaths of more than
600,000 Iraqi children. In Indonesia, Australians,
together with their American counterparts, have secretly
resumed training the Indonesian military, which, in the
world cup of terrorism, is the undisputed champion.
Al-Qaeda has been fingered in Washington for the Bali
outrage. The script is unchanged. To Bush, Blair and
Howard, the Bali bombing will be simply further
justification for attacking Iraq.
How truly bizarre the American enterprise of world
conquest has become. First, there was the bombing of
Afghanistan, the equivalent of bombing Sicily in order
to eradicate the Mafia. "Terrorism" is the enemy; or as
Python's Terry Jones remarked, "They're bombing an
abstract noun!" What is clear is that the more bellicose
Bush and Blair and Howard become, the more they place
the citizens of their own countries at risk.
Like a mouse perpetually roaring, Howard's warmongering
has endangered every young Australian backpacking in
those countries where his and Bush's provocations are
welcomed by extreme groups. Since he became prime
minister in 1996, Howard has renewed Australia's
reputation in Asia for European exclusivity.
This is tragic, for it is not long since Australia
emerged from the cultural isolation of its notorious
"white Australia policy" and appeared to express the
confidence of the ethnically diverse society it had
become. Embracing Asia became politically fashionable,
and the old colonial fear of the Asian hordes falling
down on Australia, as by the force of gravity, was
rejected by many Australians, especially the young.
Howard's openly racist policies have again begun to
isolate Australia. He has deployed Australian troops
against helpless, mostly Muslim,asylum-seekers on the
high seas - more than 350 people went to their deaths in
a leaking boat last year even though, as it has now been
revealed, Australian military intelligence knew they
were in great peril. He has imprisoned many of those
who have reached Australia (mostly from Iraq and
Afghanistan, the countries he claims to be "liberating")
in desert concentration camps in conditions which,
reported a United Nations inspector, were among the
worst he had seen in more than 40 inspections around the
world.
Seldom a day passes when Howard and his inept foreign
minister, Alexander Downer, do not utter vacuities about
"the war on terror". The truth is that, for almost 40
years, Australian governments have played a significant
role in colluding with state terrorism in neighbouring
Indonesia. In 1965, the then prime minister Harold Holt
joked about the mass murder that accompanied the seizure
of power by General Suharto, the west's man. "With
500,000 to a million communist sympathisers knocked
off," he said, "I think it's safe to assume a
reorientation has taken place."
During the long years of Suharto's dictatorship, which
was shored up by western capital, governments and the
World Bank, state terrorism on a breathtaking scale was
ignored. Australian prime ministers were far too busy
lauding the "investment partnership" in resource-rich
Indonesia. Suharto's annexation of East Timor, which
cost the lives of a third of the population, was
described by the foreign minister Gareth Evans as
"irreversible". As Evans succinctly put it, there were
"zillions" of dollars to be made from the oil and gas
reserves in the Timor Sea.
Such lethal hypocrisy was acknowledged by Australia's
political and media elite only in the final spasms of
the Suharto dictatorship. In 1998, the World Bank's
"model pupil" finally collapsed beneath the weight of
its corruption after short-term capital fled Indonesia,
leaving 70 million people in abject poverty. Given the
pressures on this sprawling, ethnically complex country,
it is hardly surprising that extreme groups have found
fertile ground, whatever their aims. To lump them in
with the "global terror" of al-Qaeda serves to suppress,
once again, the part that rapacious western interests
have played.
Today, largely unreported, the Indonesian military, with
the tacit approval of the United States, Britain and
Australia, is terrorising the populations of Aceh and
West Papua. Most of the "human rights violations" in
these provinces - the euphemism for state terrorism -
have been part and parcel of "protecting" the American
Exxon oil holdings in Aceh as well as the vast Freeport
copper and gold mines and BP holdings in West Papua.
Those who need a link between the march of multinational
capital and state terrorism need look no further.
One of the sacred taboos for western journalists and
broadcasters is the terrorism of their own governments.
Only when they recognise this and its pivotal role in
the fate of much of humanity will they be able to report
honestly the lesser terrorism of non-state groups.
Research by Edward Herman and Gerry O'Sullivan covering
the period since 1965 points to the killing of several
thousand people by non-state terrorists, such as
al-Qaeda, compared with 2.5 million civilians killed by
state-sponsored terrorism. These include the violence
of the South African apartheid regime, the Suharto
regime in Indonesia, the "Contras" in Nicaragua and
other American-backed terrorist states. This is a
conservative figure, for it predates the deaths caused
by the Anglo-American-driven sanctions against civilians
in Iraq. As Neil Sammonds has pointed out: "When US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in May 1996
that the killing of half a million Iraqi children was 'a
price worth paying' to keep pressure on Baghdad, she was
acting well within any reasonable definition of
terrorism."
Those who committed the disgusting mass murder in Bali
need to be caught and their organisation broken. But
this is unlikely to happen while state terrorism is in
the ascendancy, and goes unacknowledged as the most
virulent menace of all - and as, in many cases, the root
of non-state atrocities. A piratical assault on Iraq
will be an act of terrorism by state extremists in
Washington. It will also be the catalyst for years of
recruitment of those willing to murder westerners in
skyscrapers and nightclubs.
St Augustine tells the story of a conversation between
Alexander the Great and a pirate he captured. "How dare
you molest the seas?" asks Alexander. "How dare you
molest the whole world?" the pirate replies. "Because I
do it with a little ship only, I am called a thief.
You, doing it with a great navy, are called an emperor."
--
HTTX 2.0b
Title: t r u t h o u t - Kissinger in His Own Chilling Words
(*Editors Note The selection of Henry Kissinger by the
Bush Administration to oversee the investigation of the
events leading up to the September 11th. attacks has
done little to allay concerns about what the
Administration knew prior to the attacks. To the
contrary Kissinger with all his baggage appears to
represent an almost desperate desire on the part of the
Bush Administration to keep the events leading up to the
attacks hidden from public view. Remember as you do the
math; this a man who cannot travel freely in Europe and
many other parts of the world for fear of being detained
by local authorities. Kissinger is a very risky
appointment. One cannot help but wonder what would
prompt the Bush Administration to take so great a risk.
-- ma)
t r u t h o u t Quotation Compilation
Quotes from Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
Sunday, 1 December, 2002
Famous Quotes by Henry Kissinger
"The US must carry out some act somewhere in the world
which shows its determination to continue to be a world
power." -- Henry Kissinger, post-Vietnam blues, as
quoted in The Washington Post, April 1975
"Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops
entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will
be grateful. This is especially true if they were told
there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or
promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is
then that all peoples of the world will plead with world
leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing
every man fears is the unknown. When presented with
this scenario, individual rights will be willingly
relinquished for the guarantee of their well being
granted to them by their world government." -- Henry
Kissinger speaking at Evian, France, May 21, 1992
Bilderburgers meeting. Unbeknownst to Kissinger, his
speech was taped by a Swiss delegate to the meeting.
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country
go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people.
The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters
to be left to decide for themselves." -- Henry
Kissinger, Secretary of State under Richard Nixon, about
Chile prior to the CIA overthrow of the democratically
elected government of socialist President Salvadore
Allende in 1973
"Why should we flagellate ourselves for what the
Cambodians did to each other?" -- Henry Kissinger - who
(with Richard Nixon) was responsible for the massive
bombing of Cambodia in 1973, which killed three-quarters
of a million peasants and disrupted Cambodian society,
setting the stage for Pol Pot to come to power and
ultimately kill another one-and-a-half million people
"Covert action should not be confused with missionary
work." -- Henry Kissinger, commenting on the US sellout
of the Kurds in Iraq in 1975
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional
takes a little longer." --Henry Kissinger
© : t r u t h o u t 2002
--
Henry Kissinger - Bloody
Hands Full of Gold
By Cheryl Seal
c. 2002 The News Insider & Cheryl Seal
It has become the joke of the day that the Bush Administration is
stuffed full of "political dinosaurs" from the Cold War era who want to
rattle their sabers and make one last stand like geriatric John Waynes.
They are everywhere, both in front of the curtain -Cheney, Rumsfeld,
Powell, et al.- and behind it -Bush, Sr., James Baker, Henry Kissinger,
and God only knows who else. However, what these men truly represent is
no joke at all.
Behind the smokescreen of patriotism, national security and ideology,
they are driven by just one motive: greed. Every single one of these
players is a politician for reasons of expediency (power can buy more
power). First and foremost, they are corporate tycoons whose primary
goal is to advance the cause of corporations. Each one is worth millions
and each one is now in a position to engineer policies that will insure
they will ultimately be worth millions more.
These policies are now in the process of being pushed forward, and have
so far being met with an astonishing lack of resistance. This may be
because many Americans, including some Congress members, are too young
to recall the true nature of the Cold War era. It may also be that some
have simply failed to make themselves sufficiently informed on the
nation's political history. It is impossible to believe that anyone
armed with the facts would fail to see the ugly template that is now
being forced down over the face of the nation.
This article presents a chunk of political history that we hope will
serve as a cautionary tale. It clearly exemplifies what the "political
dinosaurs" now in charge of our nation are all about, how they operated
in the past, and how they still hope to operate. The main figure, Henry
Kissinger, personifies to a T the snake-like combination of
unscrupulousness and superficial charm that characterizes all of these
players, from Bush, Sr. to G.W. The setting, Indonesia, personifies all
areas of Earth where any natural resources may be left for a greedy few
to exploit in the name of "patriotism" and "national security," be it
Africa, the Amazon, Ukraine, or northern Alaska.
An Opportunist's Dream Come True
Indonesia has long been a dream come true for opportunists (until this
century they were called "explorers"). With its 17,000 islands sprinkled
across the equator in the South Pacific atop a zone of tectonic
upheaval, it is a land of incredible biodiversity and dramatic
landscapes. Among its main islands are Sumatra, Borneo, Java, Timor
(East and West), and Bali (of "South Pacific" fame). Its forests and
mountains are treasure chests of exotic plants and animals, while its
human population is just as diverse -as recently as the 1980s, an
estimated 250 different languages were spoken there.
The first westerners to exploit the region were the Portuguese (although
the Dutch had a smaller settlement earlier). In the 17th century, the
Portuguese began to "mine" the forests for spices while dominating the
natives with a heavy hand. These fragrant exports earned the region the
name of "the Spice Islands." Since then, this land, whose native
inhabitants in some regions have lineages extending back as much as one
million years, has been the focus of a greedy tug-of-war between
different foreign powers and between these powers and the Indonesian
native peoples. Gold aside, no Indonesian resources have been at the
center of more collective strife, bloodshed, and environmental damage
than oil and natural gas.
After World War II, Indonesia made a determined stand for its autonomy.
By 1950, they had thrown off domination by the Japanese (who had
commandeered the oil and liquid natural gas supplies during the war),
then pushed away the control of the British and Indian armies, and,
finally, the Dutch. The new Indonesian leader Sukarno (not to be
confused with the later brutal dictator Suharto) eventually became the
country's first president. Sukarno was a visionary who pursued an ideal
he called "Pancasilo," a state of Indonesian unity in which ethnic and
religious tolerance would prevail. It was a dream that was doomed to
failure; halfway round the globe, forces were massing that would
ultimately topple Sukarno and his government.
In the United States, after World War II, the age of the automobile had
dawned. Americans in geometrically growing numbers were heading off to
"See the USA in their [great big gas-guzzling] Chevrolets". They came
home from their cruises to modern oil-heated homes in proliferating
suburbs. Existing US sources, already heavily exploited, soon could not
match the demand for abundant, cheap fuel and so the oil companies
looked elsewhere, to places such as Indonesia. At the same time,
oil-rich Southeast Asia was struggling for autonomy, urged on by the
growing Asian communist party, which wanted to distribute Asian wealth
more evenly and shake off western control. For western oil and mineral
companies, an independent Asia was a major impediment to the
exploitation of Indonesia's resources. To address this "impediment," as
early as 1953, the US National Security Council had adopted a policy of
"appropriate action in collaboration with friendly countries to prevent
permanent communist control of Indonesia." However, the only real threat
to the US that communism in Southeast Asia posed at that time was as a
hindrance to corporations hoping to tap into cheap labor, land, and
natural resources.
The history of Indonesia from 1957 on is the history of the struggle of
corporations, aided and abetted by the CIA and the corrupt puppet
governments they helped to set up, to maintain control over Indonesia's
resources. In 1957, the Indonesian state company Pertamina was created
under Sukarno for the purpose of developing and controlling oil and
natural gas for the advancement of Indonesia. This development was
viewed with alarm by US petroleum companies, who themselves wanted
control over the country's oil and gas resources. Until the mid-1960s,
most of Pertamina's business partners were Chinese, not American.
In 1958, the CIA began to secretly finance, as well as create, political
factions aligned against Sukarno. The agency also funneled money to a
handful of corrupt, ambitious generals. Thus "fed," these generals
quickly began to grow in power and influence, both in the government and
in business wheeling and dealing. Meanwhile, Sukarno was in the midst of
his "Guided Democracy Movement." Although he himself identified most
closely with the communist group called the PKI, there were at that time
three important political parties in Indonesia -the PKI, the
nationalistic PNI and the conservative Muslims. This represented a
greater democratic diversity than could be found in America at that
time.
By 1964, Sukarno had grown completely disgusted by American efforts to
buy influence in Indonesia and announced that he would no longer accept
any aid from the US. That was when the CIA, now operating chiefly
through the ambitious, greedy general Suharto, began to push forward
with a relentless, carefully orchestrated plan to topple Sukarno.
The Corporate Takeover of Indonesia
In the US a Harvard professor named Henry Kissinger was steadily
scooping up experience in international affairs and high-level corporate
wheeling and dealing -a combination that was to later prove deadly for
the people of Indonesia. From 1954 to 1969, Kissinger had his fingers in
a number of juicy pies. From 1954 until 1971 he was a professor at
Harvard University -though it is hard to see how he found time to teach-
and was in the college's Department of Government and its Center for
International Affairs From 1955-56, he served as Study Director of
Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy for the Council of Foreign Relations.
From 1956-58 he was Director of the Special Studies Project for the
Rockefeller Brothers and was also Director of the Harvard Defense
Studies Program from 1958 to 1971.
By the time Kissinger embarked on his career as a master "diplomat"
(i.e. corporate intriguer), he was extremely well versed in espionage
tactics. From 1943 (the year he came to the US from Nazi Germany) to
1946, he served in the US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps and from 1946
to 1949 was a Captain in the Military Intelligence Reserve. After the
war he was Director of the Psychological Strategy Board and of the
Operations Research Office. In the late 1950s, his influence in
Washington really began to send out tentacles. . Between 1959-68,
Kissinger was, at different or overlapping times, a consultant to: the
US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the Department of State, the
Rand Corporation, the National Security Council, and the Weapons Systems
Evaluation Group of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Through this spider's web of connections, Kissinger was privy to a
bonanza of inside international information, both political and
corporate and was fast becoming especially well groomed in those
pertaining to Southeast Asia. By 1965, it is obvious Kissinger was using
this information to speculate for personal gain in Indonesia. It is also
obvious that by 1965 many top corporate execs in the US mining, logging,
oil, and gas industries who had staked out potential claims in
Indonesia, somehow knew that Sukarno was going to be muscled out and
were circling like sharks.
In 1965, Freeport Sulfur, a company based in New Orleans, cut a private
deal with the Indonesian government, through Suharto (who by now had
immense power in the government) to create a copper-gold mine in West
Papua. Who was the deal broker, making sure Freeport got in on the
"ground floor"? There is little doubt this middle man was Henry
Kissinger. At the same time, Mobile Oil Indonesia was also entering into
contracts with Pertamina. It has been alleged that Kissinger also served
as a deal broker in this alliance. Over a dozen other oil companies were
waiting for their chance to pounce.
All that was needed to complete the scheme was to get rid of Sukarno. To
engineer a coup, the CIA took a page from Hitler and the 1950s GOP and
turned the PKI into the "monster under the bed." The agency composed and
printed lurid, and largely false propaganda about the communist "menace"
and disseminated it throughout Indonesia. Some of the literature called
for all Muslims to declare a religious Jihad against the PKI -even
asserting that it was "God's will" that all communists be killed. The
coup engineers targeted young Muslim men 19-20 years of age, whom they
whipped into a fear-filled, religious frenzy, then armed with weapons
supplied by the US
What was most despicable about this plot was that until the party began
to be persecuted in 1965, the PKI had maintained a strict policy of
remaining within the law, conducting only legal protests and remaining
unarmed, so as not to provoke the Indonesian military. The "crime" the
PKI had committed in the eyes of corrupt generals and their western
landowning allies was to urge poor peasants to demand more rights and
just compensation from wealthy landowners. The PKI also demanded that
the big landowners cease violating the ancient Indonesian rules of crop
sharing. The peasants' land was being used to grow sugar and rubber -not
the rice that was vital to the survival of the poor. In some areas, the
PKI created "armies" of farmers, who took over tracts of land and
planted rice. Many of these farmers had been left without any access to
land at all due to the eruption of the Ganungagung volcano.
In 1966, having set the stage by spreading suspicion, anger and fear
against the communists, the CIA and Suharto went into the next act of
what was to become known as the Untung Coup. Six generals still
considered loyal to Sukarno were brutally murdered by Suharto and his
cohorts. The communists were then framed for the crime, thereby
providing Suharto with the excuse he needed to unleash a wholesale
"purge" of the PKI. Hitler did much the same thing in Germany in the
1930s -he framed a young Dutch man who belonged to the communist party
for blowing up the Reichstag, and thus was able to declare outright war
on all communists, which constituted the only faction in Germany that
had posed a serious roadblock to his complete domination.
The largely unarmed PKI members were hunted down and slaughtered in one
of the most appalling bloodbaths of the 20th century. The poor farmers
who had taken a few acres of land were shot down by landowners like
turkeys in a shoot. Entire families in which a single member was
suspected of being a communist were murdered, including children, some
while they slept. Between 1965-1966 an estimated 500,000 to one million
men, women, and children were massacred -most with weapons supplied by
the US. "Time" magazine reported during this period that "travelers from
[some] areas tell of small rivers and streams that have been literally
clogged with bodies." However, "Time," like all media in the US in that
pre-Vietnam War era (the US presence in Vietnam was still a "police
action" then) was still well-indoctrinated by the anti-communist,
pro-corporate dogma created by the GOP in the 1950s and sustained by the
CIA and a cluster of powerful insiders through the decades ever since.
In the July 15, 1966 issue of "Time," the bloody Untung Coup was hailed
as "the West's best news in years."
In the final step of the coup, Suharto deposed Sukarno. What followed
was a feeding frenzy by Suharto, his henchmen and US corporations. Like
a warlord, Suharto appropriated the best of everything he could for
himself and his family -oil wells, timberlands, and sugar plantations.
Thousands of acres of land were seized by companies with the blessings
of Suharto. Tens of thousands of native people were killed, displaced,
or "disappeared" to make way for mining, logging, and drilling
operations. Suharto and the other corrupt officers of the Indonesian
military were involved in every imaginable money-generating scheme,
including smuggling -"a range of activities limited only by the
imaginations of the military commanders." In 1966, Suharto declared
himself committed to aiding the West in its exploitation of Indonesia.
In 1967, the "Foreign Investment Law" was passed, which officially threw
Indonesia's doors wide open to foreign exploitation. In 1967, guess what
western company was the first to be licensed under this new, corrupt and
bloodstained regime: The Freeport gold operation.
A Feudal Regime Where Enough is Never Enough
While the US companies ripped billions of dollars out of the Indonesian
landscape, over 60% of the nation lived below the poverty line, many at
the point of starvation. Yet, the Suharto government would always point
to a handful of new schools as proof of his compassion for his country.
Even in 2001, Freeport-McMoRan offers a slick propaganda brochure that
shows scrubbed natives in front of a single school, and describes a
smorgasbord of corporate largesse, which doesn't really exist. The few
crusts thrown to the Indonesian natives by Freeport have been in spite
of the company; most real advances in the treatment of natives has
occurred between 1999-2001 and then only because of the growing public
outcry.
As always, when it comes to corporate greed, enough is never enough. By
1974, the US had lost Vietnam and, under Suharto's rule, there were
constant outbreaks of rebellion in Indonesia. Nowhere was the push for
independence more well-organized and persistent than in East Timor. The
progressive governor there decided to allow the formation of multiple
political parties, which in turn lead to an intensified push for
independence from the oppression of Suharto and from foreign interests.
The prospect of East Timorese autonomy dismayed Suharto because he and
his friends had very valuable holdings in the region, including three
oil wells. If the push for independence succeeded, he might lose his
"investments". Worse yet, the push for independence could easily spread
into nearby West Papua, threatening Suharto's other interests and
Kissinger's gold mine (in which Suharto had a hefty share).
Evidence examined recently by researchers, including investigative
reporter Christopher Hitchens strongly indicates that in 1975, Kissinger
helped orchestrate a surprise invasion of East Timor by the Indonesian
military. . Beyond any likely coincidence, Kissinger and Gerald Ford
were visiting Suharto on December 6, 1975, the night before the invasion
(although Ford may have been Kissinger's dupe, used as a legitimizing
"front" -or even fall guy). The next day, just an hour or so after Air
Force One had cleared Indonesian air space, carrying Kissinger and Ford
back to the US, the attack on East Timor was launched and the region was
soon declared Indonesia's 27th province. In the process, over 200,000
East Timorese people were slaughtered outright; tens of thousands more
died of starvation and disease later.
For the next two decades, for the oil and mining industries in
Indonesia, and for Henry Kissinger, it was to be business as usual.
The Rape and Murder of Irian Jaya
Henry Kissinger has one sweet deal in the Freeport-McMoran Copper and
Gold Co (FCX on the NYSE). Not only does he make well over $500,000 a
year just for sitting on the board of directors, his "consulting" firm,
Kissinger & Associates (Now Mclarty & Kissinger) rakes in
$300,000-500,000 per year as the company advisors, making sure no pesky
environmental regulations can ever be enforced and no poor native group
can ever win a settlement for having their land poisoned. But best of
all for him, he is also the majority stockholder in a company with
reserves estimated at $60 billion, making it the single largest gold
deposit in the world and third largest open-pit copper mine. That is, he
was the majority stockholder as of a few months ago -he may now be
unloading certain damning assets as fast as he can dump them in the face
of the growing international scrutiny by a list of countries he has
harmed in the past 40 years. To also throw the public off the scent, in
January 2001, he named Roy J. Stapleton, a former US ambassador to
Singapore as "managing director" (i.e. head lobbyist) of Kissinger &
Associates. This accomplished two strategic things for Kissinger: it got
his name off the "masthead" as legal rep. for FCX, and it will help
carry on his own tradition of using inside government information to
insure he gains an unfair advantage as a lobbyist
Yep, Kissinger's got a pretty good deal all right. Especially when you
consider that FCX has never had to pay much of anything to anybody but a
handful of stakeholders, which includes Kissinger, good ole boy Jim-Bob
Moffett (who came on board as CEO in 1981) and their golf-playing pal
Suharto (although I imagine his grip on the club might be a bit
slippery, what with all that blood on them from the over one million
men, women and children he has been responsible for slaughtering. If you
want to get a feeling for just what sort of person "Jim-Bob" is, check
out this link.
-but take your airbag along. Under Suharto's odious Contract of Work,
slapped together in 1967, Suharto handed 100,000 hectares of land in the
southern area of West Papua, also called Irian Jaya, to FCX for its gold
mine. Neither FCX nor Suharto cared that this was not their land to
carve up, but belonged to the Amaungme and Komoro people, whose lineages
go back as much as one million years, according to some anthropologists.
The corporation simply seized the land and booted off the natives. An
estimated 2,000 people were shoved into concentration camp-like
"settlements" over the next few years so their land could be turned into
a giant gold mine, waste pits, processing buildings, airfields, roads,
etc. (In FCX's website, they claim no more than 1,000 people lived in
the mine region at the start, but the statistics indicate this is a
minimizing lie).
As the years went by, FCX gobbled up more and more forestland. Today,
the operation consumes a monstrous 5.75 million acres. Instead of a few
thousand natives scattered throughout the forest, able to sustain
themselves off their land, FCX actually boasts in its website that Irian
Jaya is now "home" to 100,000 people from all over the Indonesian
region. It doesn't add that most of them were displaced by other
corporate or military operations or that they now live in congested,
filthy shantytowns on the edge of the mining operation. The website says
these people were drawn by the economic opportunity offered by the mine.
What economic opportunity? There are only 7,000 or so jobs associated
with the mining operation; most of which are filled by imported workers.
The few jobs held by natives are unskilled.
But any protests by native peoples against the FCX "improvements" to
Irian Jaya have been handled brutally. Thanks to Suharto and the steady
supply of US weapons, FCX has been well-protected from uprisings. In
fact, Irian Jaya is the most militarized zone in all of Indonesia, with
a greater, more heavily armed military presence than even East Timor.
There have been numerous human rights reports of atrocities by FCX's
"security forces." Natives have been shot along the road as if they were
objects for target practice, pulled off buses and murdered, others have
been tortured, some have had their villages torched, yet others report
being held kidnapped and held prisoner in FCX packing crates. In one
particularly horrendous instance, when natives blew up a slurry pipe
carrying contaminated mine wastes, the military retaliated and
slaughtered an estimated 900 people.
There is no doubt at all that Kissinger is completely aware of these
atrocities. But then, according to a growing body of evidence, he was
also aware of the atrocities in Chile, Cambodia, Argentina, and
elsewhere -not only aware but, in some cases, was actively involved in
helping orchestrate them. In any case, there is no doubt he has been
fully aware of the routine, environmentally devastating practices going
on at the mine.
Freeport-McMoran, which derives its name from its relationship with Rio
Tinto, a British/Australian mining conglomerate that owns a 12% share in
the operation, is outrageously wasteful by American standards (which
themselves leave something to be desired). For every 300,000 tons of
ore, only 0.42 parts per million in gold is extracted. This means that
to get at the tiny fraction of gold, the mountain must, literally, be
chewed to pieces. By 1996, nearly 400 feet had been ripped off the top
of Puncuk Jaya Mountain, a mountain that was not only sacred to local
natives, but also the highest peak between the Andes and the Himalayas.
Today, the rubble from FCX's vast giant Grasberg Mine is dumped into two
neighboring valleys. In the next few decades, the company expects to
blast and bulldoze THREE BILLION TONS of rock, which will form vast
mounds of dangerous, slide-prone rubble. Although it is illegal to dump
tailings- slurry of crushed ore, water, cyanide, arsenic, and other
toxic chemicals used in ore processing - into American rivers, in
Indonesia it is a routine practice. That's because Kissinger and Jim-Bob
are calling all the shots -they share equal billing at the FCX website,
each being both CEO and chairman of the board of directors. Every week,
millions of tons of tailings are dumped into the Ajkwa River.
The accumulated waste has blocked and flooded the river several times,
contaminating (cumulatively) over 100 square kilometers of once
productive land. The contamination is, for all intents and purposes (as
it may take hundreds of years to abate naturally) permanent. A recent
study of abandoned gold and copper mines in the American west shows that
land flooded by water laced by tailings is still contaminated decades
after the end of mining operations. Some patches have become wastelands,
while waters in some areas downstream of the origin of contamination are
still barren. The toxics accumulate in tissues of animals, so the
contamination level of fish and birds can gradually climb instead of
abate.
The Freeport-McMoran operation has now thoroughly contaminated the
region's watershed, an area that is home to the Lorentz Reserve, a
region rich in wetlands that contains one of just three equatorial
glacier zones left on Earth. As far as 80 miles downstream from the
mine, villagers have had to be relocated because of the danger that the
dam holding back the huge, noxious lake of tailings might break. Some
people have refused to leave. Said one elderly native: "God gave this
land. I will not be moved from it. If I go, what is there for my
children?"
The water in the Ajkwa river, which is the lifeblood of Irian Jaya, is
now unfit to drink along much of its length. Native people, especially
the elderly, who do not understand why they can no longer drink the
water or eat the fish from their father's and father's father's river,
stubbornly persist. As a result, many have been poisoned and many have
died from what the Indonesian medical personnel now call "mystery
diseases." Much like Gulf War Syndrome (which is believed to be caused
by a mix of toxic chemicals), natives with "mystery diseases" develop
strange skin lesions and rashes, chronic nausea, and may cough up blood.
The natives have said that the sweet potatoes and taro they
traditionally eat now have ominous discolorations, while the skin of the
wild pigs that serve as meat appears diseased. To avoid being poisoned,
natives must travel sometimes many miles to commercial markets and
purchase food they once hunted and gathered for free, thus fueling their
poverty even more.
Perhaps the harshest plight of all is that of the "relocated." These
once free, proud people of the forest are forced to live in squalid,
crowded shantytown settlements, little better than concentration camps.
There, they are plagued by high rates of malaria, cholera, tetanus,
sexually-transmitted diseases, and malnutrition. Infant mortality is
high -twenty percent of infants do not survive- while the average life
expectancy of adults is about 50 years (FCX's "brochure" touts an
increase in life expectancy in recent years, but, tellingly, fails to
mention just what it is). Yet, West Papua's central highlands have just
ONE 70-bed hospital to serve 400,000 people. Despite the health risks
posed by poverty coupled with a toxic environment, the Amaungme and
Komaro people who chose to remain in their forest land near the mine
have no access to any government medical care.
At the FCX website, there is a very long (too long -methinks they doth
protest too much) section on how great things are going for the natives,
how wonderful the environmental standards of the company are, how much
the company has done for the natives. However, you will also notice that
the "good example" being held up is not Freeport-McMoRan, but the
Indonesian government's smaller operation called Freeport-PI. But even
the Freeport-PI accomplishments are somewhat pitiful. For example, we
are supposed to be impressed that a whole $166 million was spent over an
11-year period on at least 100,000 people? That's less than $200 per
year per person. Meanwhile, Jim-Bob and HK probably hauled home at least
$166 million between them from FCX during the same time!
The standard of life for the natives has little hope of improving.
Freeport-McMoran's labor practices systematically exclude natives,
despite what their rosy little brochure would have you believe. Of over
17,000 workers (in 2000), just 100 or so were local natives, who were
paid 70 cents per hour. FCX claims that as of 2001, just over 1,500 jobs
are now held by natives -however, it doesn't specify if those are local
natives or just natives of Indonesia (i.e., workers imported from urban
centers like Jakarta). The 1% fund the company set up for local natives
has caused more problems and conflicts than it has helped
-intentionally, say some human rights observers. Those overseeing the
distribution of the funds are often corrupt; little of the money
actually ever reaches those it was intended to help, and payments from
FCX have been called arbitrary at best.
FCX's approach to environmental outrages has consisted of liberal coats
of whitewash. For example, FCX tried to make a $248,000 grant to HAMAK
(Foundation for Human Rights Anti-Violence), an organization directed by
Ms. Josepha Alomung, an activist who won the Goldman environmental prize
in 2001. But Alomung was angered by the grant and refused to accept it.
First of all, she had never applied for the grant, so it was obvious
that FCX was trying to grab some "gain by association" it did not
deserve through deceitful means. Even more glaringly, Alomung said she
would never accept cash from an outfit whose activities ran so
completely counter to her principles. Yet, in their website, FCX boasts
that Ms. Alomung has been written them a letter of appreciation!
To date, FCX has never spent a dime on cleaning up the past devastation
wrought by the mine -which is the equivalent in its extent of several of
the largest "superfund sites" in the US. The local people receive what
amounts to $300 a piece per year compensation from profits -a gesture
even more pitiful than Bush's $300 per head tax rebate. Meanwhile good
ole boy turned gold baron Jim Bob Moffett once scoffed at the idea that
the monster mine was poisoning the river -dumping tailings into the
Ajkwa's waters was no big deal said Jim-Bob: "It's the equivalent of me
pissing in the Arafua Sea." But Jim Bob's pampered, self-aggrandizing
view of reality, spouted fromthe comfort of his stateside mansion, isn't
worth the breath it's printed on.
The evidence of Freeport-McMoran's gross environmental negligence and
human rights abuses had grown so overwhelming by the mid-1990s, that the
Overseas Private Investment Corps. (OPIC) canceled the company's $100
million insurance policy in 1995, citing severe environmental problems.
According to the OPIC report, FCX had "created and continues to pose
unreasonable or major environmental, health, or safety hazards to the
rivers that are being impacted by the tailings, the surrounding
terrestrial ecosystem, and the local inhabitants." But like all classic
robber barons, Kissinger and Jim-Bob went on a vicious offensive to
protect their ill-gotten gains. Immediately following the cancellation
announcement, FCX brought out its big guns: money. Millions and millions
of dollars were spent buying up magazine ads, TV time, and on strategic
charitable donations. In short, they poured money into everything EXCEPT
righting their wrongs. The company bought an entire half hour
infomercial, which aired in Austin and New Orleans. In an incredible
slap in the public's face, the Public Broadcasting System station
WLAE-TV in Texas aired the slot as an "educational special" at NO
CHARGE! Warm-fuzzy full-page ads ran in Newsweek and US News & World
Report.
When journalists started writing articles or airing stories critical of
Freeport-McMoran, it simply bought most of them off (a black eye to the
field of honest environmental journalism). Among the sellouts: Bill
Collier, formerly of the "Austin American-Statesman," who became FCX's
Austin spokesman, and WWL's Garland Robinette, who took a cushy job in
FCX's PR department. It must be noted that one journalist who wrote for
the "Austin Chronicle," Robert Bryce, not only turned down a lucrative
bribe job from FCX, he went onto to write more hard-hitting FCX exposes,
including an extremely thorough investigative report in "Mother Jones"
magazine.
Kissinger & Co. also scrambled to call in every favor and twist every
arm they had access to. When Suharto tried to pressure Bill Clinton into
intervening on FCX's behalf against OPIC, Clinton, to his great credit,
refused. A former CIA chief, with access to all sorts of ammunition it
should have been unthinkable to use, was called into help fight OPIC.
Swiss bankers, international insurers, and environmental regulators were
flown into Irian Jaya all-expenses paid and given free luxury
vacation-like visits and carefully choreographed tours of selected areas
of the mine complex. In the end, it is not too surprising (though
incredibly disappointing to those who believe in justice) that
Kissinger's clout once more prevailed and the mine's insurance
reinstated.
So, in the wake of such a close call and a growing public spotlight on
FCX, did the company make sweeping remedial changes in the way it
handled environmental and human rights issues? Hardly. Instead, in 1997,
the company asked permission to expand the operation to TWICE the size
it was at the time. One of the last things done by Suharto (who owned a
substantial share in the mine) before he was forced to resign by a
nation burned out by his corruption, was to approve the expansion. This
approval was granted following a cozy little private conference between
him and Jim-Bob Moffett. Once Suharto was gone, the company had a harder
time completing their outrageous request due to the resistance of the
minister in charge of mining, Kuntoro, and the Indonesian
intelligentsia, who were outraged by the flagrant concessions and
benefits already showered on FCX by Suharto.
However, good ole Jim-Bob just waited until the hopelessly weak new
leader Habibie was installed in office, then started wheeling and
dealing full force. Habibie, a pushover from day one, caved in readily.
By now, Kuntoro was being pressured relentlessly by western corporations
used to being given special above-the-law treatment by their "buddy"
Suharto. Kuntoro was finally forced to agree to the expansion, but
demanded that the mine clean up its environmental act and pay a higher
royalty rate to the government. Unfortunately, most environmentalists
say any environmental standards imposed on FCX remained on paper only.
The next "crisis" for FCX came when Habibie was ousted and replaced by
Wahid, whom many Indonesians hoped would nationalize operations such as
FCX, demoting such western gold and oil barons to the "paying guest"
status which should have been theirs from the start. But Wahid, just
like Habibie, proved to have feet of clay when pressured by Jim-Bob and
Kissinger. In early 2000, shortly after Wahid took over, Kissinger went
to Indonesia and began a process of combined intimidation and corporate
bribery aimed at extracting a promise from Wahid that he would not
nationalize FCX.
Rather than act in Indonesia's best interests and demand that Kissinger
completely overhaul FCX's environmental and labor practices, in
February, 2000, the corrupt Wahid made Kissinger an advisor on foreign
affairs! Not only that, but he apparently gave FCX more concessions than
ever. In its blurb on the NY Stock Exchange site, FCX boasts that the
cost of producing gold and copper at FCX is just about the cheapest in
the world (of course it is! They have no overhead, no fines, minimal
taxes, pay less than $1.00 per hour for laboring jobs and never really
paid for their land). It also boasts that production is at an all time
high (we can just picture the devastation this is translating into!),
while the costs of production and delivery are "lower than ever" (this
hardly sounds promising for the local economy and workers!). It is also
noted in the blurb that the company was "relieved of" its $6 million per
year commitment to West Papua. This sounds suspiciously as if Wahid
absolved the corporation of fulfilling their obligation to return some
of its profits to the people of West Papua. In any case, the company's
revenues between January and July of this year were an astounding $985
million -almost one billion dollars.
The graph for FCX stock closely mirrors the course of US and Indonesian
political events -proving that the company's wealth is based heavily on
political favor. Last summer, with the unsympathetic Clinton still in
office and Wahid's reign weakening, the stock was hovering at a lowish
point. Then, toward December 1, when it became apparent Bush would
succeed in stealing the White House, the stock steadily climbs again,
only to fall again in late May and June when Wahid toppled from power.
By the way, in 1999-2000, FCX made election donations in the US
amounting to over $262,000, an estimated 2/3 of which went to the GOP.
(Much of the money spent on the Democratic Party over the years has been
done with an eye to insuring that FCX's close ally (and bad apple
Democrat) John Breaux of Louisiana would keep winning his senate seat,
which, of course, he has.) It should also be pointed out that within
days of Bush's inauguration, Kissinger was dining with the new White
House resident and Cheney at the home of former CIA "mockingbird"
Katharine Graham. It should also be noted that well-grounded rumors
allege that one of the names topping Cheney's secret energy task force
list is Henry Kissinger. No wonder the White House wants to keep it
secret!
Now that Wahid is gone and Sukarno's daughter, Megawati, has been made
president of Indonesia, it will be very interesting to see what sort of
intimidation, calling in of favors, bribes and pressures Kissinger and
good ole Jim-Bob try to unleash and how dedicated to the welfare of her
people and her father's memory Megawatti will prove to be.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"The Mining Menace of Freeport-McMoRan" by Pratap Chatterje, "The
Multinational Monitor," April 1996
http://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/themine.htm
"Freeport Obtains Indonesian Approval to Expand World's Largest Gold
Mine," Mike Head, World Socialist Website, February 20, 1999
http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/feb1999/free-f20.shtml
"Former Secretary of State Kissinger Remembers," East Timor Action
Network (Etan); Site provides large excerpt from "The Case Against Henry
Kissinger" by investigative reporter Christopher Hitchens
http://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/
"Realpolitik, " Robert Bryce, "Austin Chronicle," May 19, 2000
http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/2000-05-19/pols_feature2.html
Statement by John Rumbiak, the West Papua Institute for Human Rights
Study and Advocacy (submitted at the annual general meeting of
Freeport-McMoRan Copper and Cold, Inc.) May 3, 2001
Drillbits and Tailings, March 17, 2000 News update
"Spinning Gold," by Robert Bryce, "Mother Jones Magazine", Sept/Oct 1996
http://www.etan.org/news/kissinger/spinning.htm
"Gus Dur: Don't Sell Papua's Future to Henry Kissinger," Statement by
Emmy Hafild, Exec. Director of WALHI-Indonesia Forum for Environment,
Friends of the Earth Indonesia
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/970421/97042102.html
"Old State, New Society: Indonesia's New Order in Comparative Historical
Perspective," Benedict R. O'G. Anderson, "Journal of Asian Studies,"
May, 1983
"Generals and Business in Indonesia," Harold Crouch, "Pacific Affairs",
Winter 1975/76
"People Were Shot, Bleeding, and Lying on the Ground," Mike Head, World
Socialist Web Site," Nov. 28, 1998
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/nov1998/pap-n28.shtml
"We Saw Terrible Slum-Like Conditions and a Very Strong Army Presence,"
Mike Head, World Socialist Website, Dec. 1 1998
http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/dec1998/pap-d01.shtml
"US Mine Gouges For Gold," Danny Kennedy, "Earth Island Institute
Journal," Spring 1997
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Environment/GoldFreeport_EII.html
"Lawsuit in New Orleans," Statement of Lawsuit of Irian Jaya natives
versus FCX
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/motherlode/freeport/lawsuit.html
"Election Donations of Freeport, 1999-2000"
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/drillbits/5_16/vs.html
"Statement of John Rumbiak"
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/mining/freeport/statement010503.html
CorporateWatch: Statements by Jim-Bob Moffett
http://www.igc.apc.org/trac/feature/freeport/freeport.html
Photo of Gouged Out Mountain at FCX Mine in Irian Jaya
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1387/freeport.html
Copyright © 2002 by the News Insider and Cheryl Seal
http://www.newsinsider.org/editorials/bloody_hands_full_of_gold.html
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families without any good reason, or provocations as
evil incarnate he is to US all. A murdering nazi demon
of evilness never before known. As he as shown, he
would steal from every American, Justice, Freedom, and
Liberty, while only saying, no he's not, as who knows
how many are illegally arrested as disappeared, and he
funnels billions of real American worker tax dollars
into criminal thefts through the Pentagon. The False
Claims Act. Like he has polluted ourselves in Texas, as
he directly supported the murder of tens of thousands in
Afghanistan without evidence, stolen tens of billions
from Americans for himself, and fought against smart and
healthy universal heath care as educated, and continues
to support the legal inaction against Enron, who fleeced
any American pensions they could get a hold on, of which
the biggest criminal in the Enron debacle, outside of
Ken Lay is Thomas White, who he has made no indications
of arresting, or even firing, as the Secretary of the
Army. Mr. bush gave his buddy Krongard the right to
murder any law abiding American citizen as soldier, and
escape criminal conviction, a traitor to America is our
Mr. bush jr., Constitutionally, plain and simple. A
nazi warmonger, who wishes to murder millions with
nuclear weapons, a savage, a monster. A demon who has
placed in his secret administration, those responsible
for the death squads of Nicaragua, and the shipments of
cocaine into America, to increase crime against every
community, while his supporters support the school of
the Americas, by removing free speech from those who
wish to point to those repuglicans ultimately
responsible for harboring real terrorism, (Mr. bush
Sr.) according to Sergeant Chuck Couglin of the Milwaukee
Sheriff's Department. He has also said he wishes no
interest in stopping his increase in the heroin trade.
He, as pure evil, who holds practically no deception to
ourselves if you'd only listen, has destabilized the
world in his commitment to the destruction of our legal
due process, by suggesting his entourage, can not be
found guilty of any crimes against our humanity, of
which they spout like rumsfeld in silence to torture,
and murder those known by all to have committed no
offense, through now military dictatorship, of which,
true Americans will not allow him to take US further, I
will not stand for it, nor should you as a Patriot
soldier protecting the flag. I demand again, the
immediate arrest of bush and rumsfeld for crimes against
humanity, in New York City and Afghanistan, or their
rightful execution by all free thinkers in America who
own firearms, and can read of our stories not present by
the corporate establishment. Mr. bush and rumsfeld
expect every single human on our planet to relinquish
our rights as living human beings. Mr. bush had no
qualms about doing business with the Taliban in August,
if they would only, by bribe, collectively sacrifice
their interests in serving for their country, as bush
has done to America for his entire career degenerating.
Mr. rumsfeld asked our living World for the murder of
"Omar the Just", for the only reason of requesting
evidence. Bin Laden, as we all remember, offered his
arrest to authorities upon the showing of any evidence,
for a crime he stated was no part of, including all the
other baseless claims made by the Clinton
administration, who too, could not arrest Bin Laden then
either, when he sat in jail for 47 days uncharged
waiting. Which is how we know again, Mr. bush is
directly involved in NYC, as would too, as have to be,
rumsfeld to let the towers fall, but too stupid evil
they both are, to not know the wise intentions of
America's founding fathers, or myself as the Messiah,
Johnny Wizard. For as we knew, all the planted evidence
and otherwise, that was publicly available, pointed only
to bush and rumsfeld for not seeking who was
responsible, only to leave blame quickly as not
possible, on a Nation accused without evidence, that had
a month prior been planned to rob and murder from for
Enron was desperate to hide their crimes against every
American dollar. All documented. Kill bush and
rumsfeld on site American soldier, and be loved by all
as Savior.
--
Holy Jesus Man!
Have you heard the Revelations from India's government
to the FBI now made public?, regarding the principle
terrorist funder of Mohammad Atta being, the ISI's,
General Ahmad? The bush administration's personal
confidant, and top secret military strategist? See, it
was Jim at MSNBC that informed US of bush's terrorist
plan existing as once top secret presidential documents,
and, that this same general, was also responsible for,
according to several members of the Senate Intelligence
Committee, developing the said war strategy of invading
Afghanistan on behalf of the evil bushmob, with the very
anti-human premise, of blaming bin Laden for a crime
without any evidence to substantiate our public
accusation, to murder more than a hundred thousand,
plus! A crime, 9/11, I will remind you, that for when
the evil plan was devised, hadn't even yet taken place.
But was threatened would happen, if the Taliban didn't
side for Enron's interests in serving for Ken Lay, one
of bush's many bum buddies. (They apparently do that
sort of thing on a regular basis, with all the members
in their secret meetings of the 'only Boners'
fraternity.) It doesn't take much either to understand
why rotten rumsfeld, corporate america's sweetheart,
(you know, the sadistic nazi war criminal who gets off
on murdering or torturing innocent people), told US he
wanted to have arrested those at the WhiteHouse and the
Pentagon, or even in the Military, who would dare as
Americans, to inform Americans what he and bush were
truly doing in their names.
Destroy the unelected unarrested heroin pushing American
cop killer war criminal, the demon we all know so well
as corporate america's false deity, the super evil doer
anti-Christ, Our Mr. bush Jr. Now Patriot Soldier, and
be loved by all as Savior. Or not, and be a thoughtless
degenerate, a cowardly regressing nazi bush slave, who
would sacrifice your own family as yourself truly,
because JESUS CHRIST, life is living to survive for
Justice, as God is warranted to be as ourselves, with
equal rights to being as is of US all included. Mr.
ashcroft tells Americans he is purposefully destroying
their freedoms as legal due process because he, as an
idiot, and a traitor, has to fight ourselves as a
terrorist blindly in Our names without American Justice,
but never explains his action, is asked to, nor could
he. As ashcroft, like most in the bushmob are, is
founded completely unqualified. Why doesn't ashcroft
move to have bush and rumsfeld arrested or executed
immediately by following the criminal leads for 9/11 on
behalf of Americans as an American?, what with all the
ample evidence documented as factual and everything?
Instead, decides too, like the demon bush demands in
attempt to sway his capture, that evidence will no
longer be mandatory for him to decide who should be
stolen from, as the left dead to be robbed as forgotten
by Justice denied to all as Godly. American soldiers
are truly as represented, weak, slow, and painfully
pathetic cowards, refusing to protect their own families
as a national defense measure, instead, as nazi dumfuk
bush slaves, willingly support the murder of would be
themselves as criminals, truly against US all as the
innocent.
Mr. bush was quoted once again defending his
irrationality as criminal murder rampages against the
innocent as ourselves like he did in New York City with
rumsfeld, by stating,
"Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say
something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an
explanation."
The evil anti-Christ figures he'll just continue to rob
and murder American Patriots while destroying freedom as
Justice for US all, and simply escape Your wrath by
corporate america making no fuss to speak in Our defense
as the still living to be underestimated as equals.
Destroy Our Mr. bush Jr. now, and be loved by all as
God would!
From: British News
July 17, 2002
Britain backs US plan for attack on Iraq
By Philip Webster, Political Editor
(Quoting the terrorist supporter blair, Philip was),
``To be TRUTHFUL about it, there was no way we could
have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a
campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on
September 11.'' ...
Oh, so there was a criminal intent known also by
yourself then blair to prop up heroin pushers to save
Enron's impending criminal bankruptcy?
We have repeatedly witnessed, CNN and CBC refusing to
represent our Democracies, our FBI officers, like airing
Coleen Rowley, General Ahmad, or the sabotaging of the
Moussouie investigation by ashcroft, or the CIA,
regarding the insider stock trades, or dealing heroin.
The innocence of the Taliban for 9/11, and the barbarity
of the Northern Alliance as heroin pusher slave owners.
No, every single american according to CNN being
unbiased, does not want bush the anit-Christ arrested
immediately for killing Americans in New York City to
steal our worths and freedoms as worthy of defense
matters by their own measure as corporate cultists. As
I told you, Bill Hemmer and several other celebs at CNN,
now are fully aware of bush and rumsfeld being the true
perpetrators of 9/11, yet, Bill continues to play evil
against US all, figuring nobody ever will know without
CNN coverage on his contempt for American Patriots he
asks to have sacrificed for as bushwhores like himself
and Blitzer. CNN refuses to protect Americans as equals
committed to Justice for US all.
It was just reported by Chris Marden on the 27 November
2002, that bush's top whore richard pearl, has advised
Britsh MPs, that bush secretly as the anti-Christ has no
intention of allowing the Iraqi inspection process to
succeed, and instead, is committed to murder ourselves
either way.
Again, bush and blair, like CNN, have no evidence to
substantiate their allegations against Saddam, and have
stated because they have no evidence, they therefor as
demons, can murder anyone on the face of this planet to
steal our lives in OUR names as US innocent. Mr. blair
and the bushmob have recently stated, that they have no
evidence that Saddam has any WMDs, nor, is any threat to
OUR WORLD community, and because of that, if the
inspectors find no weapons, and Saddam insists it is
because he doesn't have any, this, accordingly, would
give these criminal master minds a cause to murder
hundreds of thousands of innocent people, if not
millions, and steal all the assets of the Iraqi people,
while destabilizing our entire endangered species. They
are mass murderers, threatening humanity to recommit
more murder as TERRORISTS! Never while I stand ALIVE
evil nazi dumb fucks. KILL BUSH NOW! Hey, have you
heard about rotten rumsfeld's P2OG? "O", as in Oh
rumsfeld is truly an evil fuck! Apparently, rumsfeld
wants to provoke terrorist activity to murder ourselves
as innocent civilians, as an opportunity to invade any
country he wants to rob and plunder further. Also, most
importantly, according to the official documents, rotten
rumsfeld figures it would be important when he and his
mobsters commit these crimes, it be understood, that
nobody be able to trace it to himself, or his partners
in crime, so they figure, the criminal acts should be
carried out through his department at the pentagon,
then, get this, he won't therefor be accountable, or
scrutinized by the American people through corporate
news channels. The offical pentagon report details
this.
You see the American cop killer unelected bush or blair,
tommy franks the death squad recruiter child killer,
unelected rumsfeld or unelected cheney, unelected
poindexter or unelected ashcroft, you kill them
instantly for attempting to escape the criminal arrests
of those responsible for mass murder of Americans in New
York City. You either shoot them dead on the spot, or
tear them to pieces with your bare hands God lovers. No
legitimate judge, jury, or police officer, would do
anything but commend you for saving OUR lives. The
bushmob our threatening our entire humanity with
criminal murders to rob from ourselves deliberately.
Counting on american nazi troops to mindlessly slave to
their orders, soldiers so unbelievably dumb, weak, and
cowardly to allow the bushmob to rob not only from their
own parents and children, but even themselves as they
fall dead as cowards, before they even dare to publicly
ask questions about what the fuck they're actually
doing, that frankly, leaves me even beginning to have my
own doubts.
Also,
Mr. blair, you evil nazi fuck, you do not have OUR
consent to commit murder in our names against ourselves
as the innocent in Afghanistan, Iraq, or in Britain.
Especially now, what with your ties now made public to
terrorist acts through the IRA against innocent
civilians to steal our values, that you have threatened
US Brits to not learn of as having already. (Shayler.)
Mr. blair evil nazi fuck, WE DEMAND AS THE BELIEVERS IN
JUSTICE FOR OURSELVES, YOUR IMMEDIATE ARREST OR
EXECUTION FOR WAR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY. YOU WILL BE
ARRESTED, TRIED, AND SPEND THE REST OF YOUR LIFE BEHIND
BARS WHERE YOU BELONG AS A DANGER TO OUR COMMUNITIES, OR
RIGHTLY DEAD FOR TREASON BY THE HAND OF THE ENGLISH!
Americans, the world over are known as cowards, dumb,
and willing victims for bush sacrifice as lifeless
degenerates, but the Brits, well, you got a another
thing coming!
Johnny Wizard has decided to stay for snacks.
Some quotes from:
Americans Against World Empire, Americans Against Bombing
"Moslems don't hate us because we are "good" or "free."
They hate us because we have been killing them, a
million dead in Iraq, and humiliating them," Editors
"Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American
president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by
advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their
political, military and diplomatic illiteracy," Gerald
Kaufman Former Labor Party Shadow Foreign
Secretary,Balt. Sun 8/23
`You know what I believe, and you know I can't do
anything about it with the crazies in this
administration.' Colin Powell's Eyebrows NY Times
"Americans will also have to accept that their
triumphalism and disdain for international law are
creating enemies everywhere, not just among Muslims,"
How Islam Lost its Way, WASH. POST 12/30
"Nevertheless, the president continues to divide
humanity into the moral equivalent of shirts and skins.
"Our responsibility to history," he said, "is already
clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of
evil." Not only is this a ludicrous principle on which
to base a foreign policy but also an equally ludic