http://etresoi.ch/Denis/ Each day, several hundred documents pass through my inbox. Some, I feel, should have a broader circulation and I place them here. Distribute them, as you wish, or, circulate the links to this page en Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:39:45 +0100 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss denis@etresoi.ch admin@etresoi.ch (Denis Jones) 1440 http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Major-General Faisal Alavi, a former head of Pakistan’s special forces, whose sister Nadira is Lady Naipaul, named two generals in a letter to the head of the army. He warned that he would “furnish all relevant proof”. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html The documentary, which is being hidden from view. "Torturing Democracy" is a new documentary, which details how the US government set aside the rule of law in its pursuit of harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html A misguided investigation continued for years into the original suspect, Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who in June won a $5.8-million settlement from the FBI and the Justice Department for violating his privacy rights. On Aug. 8, the U.S. attorney for Washington explicitly exonerated Hatfill from any involvement in the mailings. The documents were made public by order of a federal judge, because the investigation of the mailings was a matter of high public interest and among the most complex and expensive in the annals of federal law enforcement. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html The Group of Thirty has recently published a 249-page- US$95 report entitled The Structure of Financial Supervision: Approach and Challenges in a Global Marketplace. This report discusses supervision principles, instability, rescues, and independence. The report started in July, 2007 with a 17-jurisdiction review of financial regulations, saying “Today, those issues are even more salient and important for national and international financial supervisors and policymakers as they seek to restore financial stability…We hope it will contribute to the international dialogue on the key matter of supervisory architecture.” http://etresoi.ch/Denis/trends.html U.S. economic and political clout will decline over the next two decades and the world will be more dangerous, with food and water scarce and advanced weapons plentiful, U.S. spy agencies projected. The National Intelligence Council analysis "Global Trends 2025" also said the current financial crisis on Wall Street is just the first phase of a global economic reordering. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/sofa.html Status of Forces Agreement - SOFA. This is an unofficial translation from the Arabic of the agreement between Iraq and the United States for the presence of U.S. troops in Iraq. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/ode_to_obama.html A brief poem http://etresoi.ch/Denis/brown_cloud.html Atmospheric brown clouds stretch from Dubai to Shanghai, intensifying global warming, reduce crop yields by blocking sunlight,and contribute to extreme weather that also hurts agriculture. The polluted clouds come from burning fossil fuels. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/priviledged.html If the doctrine of separation of powers and the independence of the presidency is to have any validity at all, it must be equally applicable to a president after his term of office has expired, http://etresoi.ch/Denis/new_deal.html China has acted far more quickly and decisively than the United States, with the students now teaching their former mentors. Indeed, Chinese officials, many of them schooled in US universities, seemed to have grasped far more quickly than US officials like Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke the futility of relying solely on interest rate cuts for rapid recovery. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/saviour.html To relieve the crisis, the US must repay its debts, and to do that it needs to live a more frugal life instead of asking others to continue lending it the money to maintain its over-consumption. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/plums.html The Plum Book lists over 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, nationwide. . . in other words, here are the political plums. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/trillion.html See for yourself what a trillion is http://etresoi.ch/Denis/end_secrecy.html Transparency is the opposite of secrecy. Secrecy means deliberately hiding your actions; transparency means deliberately revealing them http://etresoi.ch/Denis/drugem.html A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/ffcd.html It is a lengthy report but the key words are at the beginning, page 3 last paragraph: 'It is hoped that this last FFCD which gives the most comprehensive account of Iraq's past chemical programme provides all the answers UNSCOM seeks. Be that as it may, the fact remains that since end of 1991 Iraq's chemical weapons programme was totally and absolutely neutralized.' http://etresoi.ch/Denis/hangim.html These documents have never been made public. Why was Saddam hanged BEFORE the conclusion of the trial,. . . because he had issued orders NOT to use gas? These are the translations made by the US Military, and which the UN had access to only AFTER 29 December 2006 after Saddam had been hanged. Tony Blair knew and George Bush knew about this, as these translations were made by the RCLO Office US Military. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/GMetal.html The hedge fund known as Cerberus Series 4 is the owner of an 80 percent interest in Chrysler and a related fund owns or controls a 51 percent interest in GMAC. Not surprisingly for a company known for its secrecy, Cerberus has not disclosed which entities actually own the interests in Chrysler and GMAC, has not disclosed what fees Cerberus has taken or accrued from its investments, and has not disclosed what severance payments would have to be made if GM actually acquired Chrysler. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html This is the document that you are not meant to see. The Bushies and "anonymous senior officials" vowed that the NIE would not be allowed to enter the national debate on this issue and that they would ignore it and go on insisting that Iran has a weapons program. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/renounce.html Descendants of Spaniards who left the country for fear of political persecution or economic hardship between 1936 and 1955 will now be able to apply for nationality before 2011. Spain's government has said those who accept any offer of citizenship would not be required to give up their current passports. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's map of the world's underground water resources will be submitted to the U.N. General Assembly, next week,on 27 October (but you can download from here). The UNESCO map identifies 273 aquifers shared by at least two countries, using data compiled since 2000 by its international hydrological program. It includes information about water quality and rate of replenishment. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Washington D.C.'s next-generation hunting forest. You do want to live outside the blast zone, don't you? http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Dated 07/22/08. This is the original internal email, which notifies World Bank staff of the security failure within the World Bank's computer systems. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Most counterterrorism policies fail, not because of tactical problems, but because of a fundamental misunderstanding of what motivates terrorists in the first place. If we're ever going to defeat terrorism, we need to understand what drives people to become terrorists in the first place. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Written and published by the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, this is the apparently identical version published by the IRS for its staff. IRS and Justice have long since stopped voluntarily releasing publications that reveal their tactics and inner workings. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/depression.html Ben Bernake is noted as an expert on the great depression of 1929. What does he know? http://etresoi.ch/Denis/bondage.html As more and more people vote with their feet, the U.S. Congress repeatedly threatened to enact legislation aimed at U.S. citizens who expatriate. Congress finally made good on those threats (scroll to the bottom) http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html The Transparency International CPI measures the perceived levels of public-sector corruption in a given country and is a composite index, drawing on different expert and business surveys. The 2008 CPI scores 180 countries (the same number as the 2007 CPI) on a scale from zero (highly corrupt) to ten (highly clean). http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html A roadmap for future policy http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html A six decade treatise on the inter-relationships of many historic events, with the CIA and the international drug cartels. http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html From Bumper Sticker to Blueprint http://etresoi.ch/Denis/documents.html Vote with your feet.