Organizations

n a community oriented effort to promote healthy eating and active living to prevent childhood and youth overweight and obesity, the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization U.S.-Mexico Border Office (PAHO/WHO) in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Initiative, the City of El Paso, Housing Authority of the City of El Paso, U.S. National Park Services, Paso del Norte Health Foundation, El Paso Independent School District, faith-based and other community organizations, the University of Texas at El Paso, the University of Texas at Houston, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, and Entravision Communications, are joining forces to ask the Mayor and Council of El Paso to proclaim the week of July 12th — July 18th, 2010 “Childhood Obesity Prevention Week”

Duration : 0:3:44

Read the rest of this entry »

Well I think the question speaks for itself, can anyone answer this question or is this a forbidden topic with all the PC ??? Be honest please I don’t really want to hear your excuses, say what’s on your mind please and don’t waste my and your time.
Based on the first answer, do minorities need more help? And why, if given the same opportunity?

Blacks can’t do anything for themselves

Today, we spend the hour with a man who claims to have worked deep inside the forces driving corporate globalization. In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins told the story of his work as a highly paid consultant hired to strong-arm leaders into creating policy favorable to the US government and corporations, what he calls the “corporatocracy.” John Perkins says he helped the US cheat poor countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars by lending them more money than they could possibly repay and then taking over their economies. John Perkins has just come out with his second book on this issue. It’s called The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals and the Truth about Global Corruption. John Perkins joins us now in the firehouse studio. Well, before we go further, “economic hit men”—for those who haven’t heard you describe this, let alone describe yourself as this, what do you mean?

JOHN PERKINS: Well, really, I think it’s fair to say that since World War II, we economic hit men have managed to create the world’s first truly global empire, and we’ve done it primarily without the military, unlike other empires in history. We’ve done it through economics very subtly.

We work many different ways, but perhaps the most common one is that we will identify a third world country that has resources our corporations covet, such as oil, and then we arrange a huge loan to that country from the World Bank or one of its sister organizations. The money never actually goes to the country. It goes instead to US corporations, who build big infrastructure projects—power grids, industrial parks, harbors, highways—things that benefit a few very rich people but do not reach the poor at all. The poor aren’t connected to the power grids. They don’t have the skills to get jobs in industrial parks. But they and the whole country are left holding this huge debt, and it’s such a big bet that the country can’t possibly repay it. So at some point in time, we economic hit men go back to the country and say, “Look, you know, you owe us a lot of money. You can’t pay your debt, so you’ve got to give us a pound of flesh.”

AMY GOODMAN: And explain your history. What made you an economic hit man?

JOHN PERKINS: Well, when I graduated from business school at Boston University, I was recruited by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and perhaps most secretive spy organization.

AMY GOODMAN: People sometimes think the CIA is that, but the NSA, many times larger.

JOHN PERKINS: Yeah, it is larger. It’s much larger. At least it was in those days. And it’s very, very secretive. We all—there’s a lot of rumors. We know quite a lot about the CIA, I think, but we know very, very little about the NSA. It claims to only work in a cryptography, you know, encoding and decoding messages, but in fact we all know that they’re the people who have been listening in on our telephone conversations. That’s come out recently. And they’re a very, very secretive organization.

They put me through a series of tests, very extensive tests, lie detector tests, psychological tests, during my last year in college. And I think it’s fair to say that they identified me as a good potential economic hit man. They also identified a number of weaknesses in my character that would make it relatively easy for them to hook me, to bring me in. And I think those weaknesses, I [inaudible] might call, the three big drugs of our culture: money, power and sex. Who amongst us doesn’t have one of them? I had all three at the time.

And then I joined the Peace Corps. I was encouraged to do that by the National Security Agency. I spent three years in Ecuador living with indigenous people in the Amazon and the Andes, people who today and at that time were beginning to fight the oil companies. In fact, the largest environmental lawsuit in the history of the world has just been brought by these people against Texaco, Chevron. And that was incredibly good training for what I was to do.

And then, while I was still in the Peace Corps, I was brought in and recruited into a US private corporation called Charles T. Main, a consulting firm out of Boston of about 2,000 employees, very low-profile firm that did a tremendous amount of work of what I came to understand was the work of economic hit men, as I described it earlier, and that’s the role I began to fulfill and eventually kind of rose to the top of that organization as its chief economist.

Duration : 0:8:6

Read the rest of this entry »

October 1979 http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FJohn-Stockwell%2Fe%2FB001J3MY7E%3Fqid%3D1278276179%26sr%3D1-2-ent&tag=doc06-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325

The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks refers to two rounds of bilateral talks and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union-the Cold War superpowers—on the issue of armament control. There were two rounds of talks and agreements: SALT I and SALT II. A subsequent treaty was START.

Negotiations started in Helsinki, Finland, in 1969 and focused on limiting the two countries’ stocks of nuclear weapons. These treaties have led to START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). START I (a 1991 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union) and START II (a 1993 agreement between the United States and Russia) placed specific caps on each side’s number of nuclear weapons.

By 1961, hundreds of thousands of Cubans had left for the United States. The 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (La Batalla de Girón) was an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Cuban government by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles with U.S. military support. The plan was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy became the U.S. President. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the exiles in three days. The bad Cuban-American relations were exacerbated the following year by the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Kennedy administration demanded the immediate withdrawal of Soviet missiles placed in Cuba, which was a response to U.S. nuclear missiles in Turkey and the Middle East. The Soviets and Americans soon agreed on the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba and American missiles secretly from Turkey and the Middle East within a few months. Kennedy also agreed not to invade Cuba in the future. Cuban exiles captured during the Bay of Pigs Invasion were exchanged for a shipment of supplies from America. By 1963, Cuba was moving towards a full-fledged Communist system modeled on the USSR. The U.S. imposed a complete diplomatic and commercial embargo on Cuba and began Operation Mongoose.

In 1965, Castro merged his revolutionary organizations with the Communist Party, of which he became First Secretary, and Blas Roca became Second Secretary. Roca was succeeded by Raúl Castro, who, as Defense Minister and Fidel’s closest confidant, became and has remained the second most powerful figure in Cuba. Raúl’s position was strengthened by the departure of Che Guevara to launch unsuccessful insurrectionss in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and then Bolivia, where he was killed in 1967.

During the 1970s, Castro dispatched tens of thousands troops in support of Soviet-supported wars in Africa, particularly the MPLA in Angola and Mengistu Haile Mariam in Ethiopia. The standard of living in 1970s was “extremely spartan” and discontent was rife. Fidel Castro admitted the failures of economic policies in a 1970 speech. By the mid-1970s, Castro started economic reforms.

Cuba was expelled from the Organization of American States (OAS) in 1962 in support of the U.S. embargo, but in 1975 the OAS lifted all sanctions against Cuba and both Mexico and Canada broke ranks with the US by developing closer relations with Cuba. On 3 June 2009 the OAS adopted a contentious resolution to end the 47-year exclusion of Cuba, but the U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton walked out in protest as the resolution was being drafted. Cuban leaders have repeatedly announced they are not interested in rejoining the OAS.

As of 2002, some 1.2 million persons of Cuban background (about 10% of the current population of Cuba) reside in the U.S., Many of them left the island for the U.S., often by sea in small boats and fragile rafts. On 6 April 1980, 10,000 Cubans stormed the Peruvian embassy in Havana seeking political asylum. The following day, the Cuban government granted permission for the emigration of Cubans seeking refuge in the Peruvian embassy. On 16 April, 500 Cubans left the Peruvian Embassy for Costa Rica. On 21 April, many of those Cubans started arriving in Miami via private boats and were halted by the U.S. State Department, but the emigration continued, because Castro allowed anyone who desired to leave the country to do so through the port of Mariel. Over 125,000 Cubans emigrated to the U.S. before the flow of vessels ended on 15 June.

Duration : 0:10:36

Read the rest of this entry »

At times, it has been among the most powerful and largest fraternal organizations in America, boasting up to four million members. It has survived for more than a century by wrapping its doctrine of hate and intolerance around the sacred cloth of Christianity and the fabric of American patriotism. THE KU KLUX KLAN: A SECRET HISTORY goes beyond the flaming crosses and beneath the robes to reveal the dark heart of this controversial organization. Authors David Chambers (Hooded Americanism) and Wyn Craig Wade (The Fiery Cross) trace the history of the Clan from its birth in 1866 to the present day. Discover how it has adapted to changing realities and responded to crises” like the Civil Rights Movement and affirmative action. In gripping interviews C. Edward Foster and Jeff Bary, the Klans Grand Dragon and Imperial Wizard, talk about their organization and its ideals, while opponents like civil rights activist Julian Bond paint a very different picture. Rare footage captures Klan rituals and rites, and archival footage chronicles the pivotal moments in the Klans long history. From the ashes of the Civil War to David Duke, this is a chronicle of 130 years of institutionalized hatred, violence and ignorance.

Duration : 0:9:51

Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Redhouse has taken on the Native American ways of healing, with natural music and ceremony.

Tony has served as a traditional Native American practitioner & consultant to Native American communities and behavioral health organizations for many years. He is a visual artist, Grammy nominated recording artist, inspirational speaker, spiritual teacher, hoop and eagle dancer and uses Native American art, dance and music to inspire and heal lives.

Tony discusses his lineage, his own path to healing and what he does for his clients.

Duration : 0:10:16

Read the rest of this entry »

all the cartels

John R. Stockwell is a former CIA officer who became a critic of United States government policies after serving in the Agency for thirteen years serving seven tours of duty and is the highest ranking CIA agent ever to go public. After managing U.S. involvement in the Angolan Civil War as Chief of the Angola Task Force during its 1975 covert operations, he resigned and wrote In Search of Enemies, a book which remains the only detailed, insider’s account of a major CIA “covert action.”

David MacMichael is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst. A ten-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was a counter-insurgency expert in South-East Asia for four years. He also served as an analyst for the National Intelligence Council from 1981-1983. MacMichael graduated with an MA and Ph.D. in History from the University of Oregon.

MacMichael resigned from the CIA in July 1983 because he felt the Agency was misrepresenting intelligence for political reasons. His public resignation from the Agency gave credence and notability to his vocal indictment of the Reagan Administration’s policy toward Central America. He was considered the “key witness” in Nicaragua v. United States. The case was heard in 1986 before the International Court of Justice, which ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their war against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua’s harbors. MacMichael also testified in front of Congress on this matter.

A former investigator for the Christic Institute, he was an outspoken critic of the Institute’s reliance on conspiracy theory, arguing that the Institute “was eager, perhaps overeager, to demonstrate that this enterprise [a "secret team" of conservatives] was responsible for everything since Cain slaying Abel.” In July 2005, he testified at a special joint hearing of Congressional and Senate Democrats about the consequences of the Plame affair.

MacMichael is a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), founding member of Association of National Security Alumni and the Association for Responsible Dissent, and an outspoken critic of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration. He has participated in six documentary films from 1988-2003. Journalist John Pilger has described him as a “CIA renegade.”

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposal by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.

The ambitious initiative was “widely criticized as being unrealistic, even unscientific” as well as for threatening to destabilize MAD and re-iginite “an offensive arms race.” It was soon derided as Star Wars, after the popular 1977 film by George Lucas. In 1987 the American Physics Society concluded that a global shield such as “Star Wars” was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.” Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, its name was changed to the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and its emphasis was shifted from national missile defense to theater missile defense; and it scope from global to regional coverage. It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today. BMDO was renamed to the Missile Defense Agency in 2002. This article covers defense efforts under the SDIO.

Space-related defense research and testing remains heavily-budgeted to this day, irrespective of the program names, operative/reporting organizations, politics, or reports to the contrary in the press. Although it is difficult to compile actual spending totals across the complete spectrum of space-based defense programs (including classified “off-budget” “black projects”), the U.S. has certainly invested well over $100 billion on “SDI” and follow-on programs, and holds a commanding lead over all current or potential future adversaries in the realm of space technology/warfare. The vast majority of this investment has been made in basic research at National Laboratories and Universities, and these programs continue to be a key source of funding for top research scientists in the fields of high-energy physics, supercomputing/computation, advanced materials, and many other critical science and engineering disciplines: funding which indirectly supports other research work by top scientists, and which would be largely unavailable outside of the defense budget environment.

Duration : 0:9:29

Read the rest of this entry »

U.S.taxpayers paid for it through USAID.
We wouldn’t have to rebuild Afghanistan if we quit bombing it!
From USAID.gov :
“U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America’s foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.

USAID’s history goes back to the Marshall Plan reconstruction of Europe after World War Two and the Truman Administration’s Point Four Program. In 1961, the Foreign Assistance Act was signed into law and USAID was created by executive order.

With headquarters in Washington, D.C., USAID’s strength is its field offices around the world. We work in close partnership with private voluntary organizations, indigenous organizations, universities, American businesses, international agencies, other governments, and other U.S. government agencies.
USAID has working relationships with more than 3,500 American companies and over 300 U.S.-based private voluntary organizations.”

During Vietnam War,USAID worked with the CIA for Operation Phoenix.Look it up.
They were involved with the coup that overthrew Haiti’s democratically elected leader Jean Bertrand Aristide:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/030104coupinhaiti.html
They’ve been involved in Afghanistan for years:
http://www.theassassinatedpress.com/yarns.htm
The brief also states, “To provoke military action, the CIA will exploit unrest stemming from USAID funded and organized opposition demonstrations slated for later this month or ongoing strikes paid for by the U.S. State Department at the state-owned oil company PSVSA.”
By 1984, the University of Nebraska, through a $51 million USAID
grant, joined the Mujahideen war against the Red Army. The
University’s Center for Afghanistan Studies produced literature in
Pashtu and Dari indoctrinating Afghan children with fanaticism and bigotry. According to The Washington Post of 23 March 2003, Afghan children were “taught to count with illustrations showing tanks, missiles and land mines.” In Qur’aanic lessons, Mujahideen were shown the path to heaven by killing a handful of ‘godless Russians’.
www.countercurrents.org(cached)
They were involved in the coup attempt against Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez:
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/2183

http://aconstantineblacklist.blogspot.com/2007/09/usaid-in-bolivia-and-venezuela-silent.html

http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/rad-green/2007-November/027918.html

Duration : 0:2:8

Read the rest of this entry »

http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/news.asp?ItemID=634716154
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/events.asp?ItemID=-1298852903&rcid=803688565&pcid=1110134820&cid=803688565&mid=1207551763
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/AboutWUC.asp?mid=1095738888
http://www.uyghuramerican.org/categories/About-UAA/

http://eastturkistangovernmentinexile.us/government_officials.html
http://www.eastturkistangovernmentinexile.us/
http://www.rfa.org/english/uyghur/

World Uyghur Congress” (WUC) just had the “Third General Assembly” meeting in May 21 to 25 in Washington DC. Rebiya Kadeer is the President of both WUC and UAA (Uyghur American Association), both are Washington-based American CIA destabilization organizations. UAA is directly funded by US government throught the CIA front organization “National Endowment for Democracy”. The operation meetings of WUC and UAA are regularily held inside the US government buildings in Washington DC with US government officials attended.

WUC / UAA is located just one block from the White House in Washington, DC.

The opening ceremony of the WUC “Third General Assembly” was held at the “Congressional Meeting Room South”, inside the US government Capital Building on May 26. See the link below:
http://www.uyghurcongress.org/En/Pres…

Rebiya Kadeer, a criminal of financial fraud, was the nominee for 2005-2006-2007-2008 Nobile Peace Prize, according to the WUC website.

*****************

General References:
http://www.conspiracyresearch.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=402
http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/677/92/1/0/
http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/684/92/
http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/703/92/
http://chinascope.org/main/content/view/704/92/1/0/
http://en.chinaelections.org/newsinfo.asp?newsid=9782
http://en.chinaelections.org/NewsInfo.asp?NewsID=15726
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd2.html
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd3.html
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd4.html
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd6.html

** National Endowment for Democracy (NED):
http://www.ned.org/
http://www.iefd.org/articles/trojan_horse.php
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/National%20EndowmentDemo.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4332.htm
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55/765.html
http://www.serendipity.li/cia/ciabase/ciabase_report_2.htm
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd1.html
http://www.friendsoftibet.org/databank/usdefence/usd5.html

** Open Society Institute (OSI):
http://www.soros.org/about
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19870601faessay7852/gregory-f-treverton/covert-action-and-open-society.html?mode=print
http://newsbusters.org/node/12954
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Open_Society_Institute
http://www.left.ru/inter/2003/december/soros.html
http://guerillas-without-guns.blogspot.com/2007/02/soros-money-and-open-society.html
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/int/2003/00000018/00000002/art00008
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/IJ17Ae01.html

** Albert Enistein Institution (AEI):
http://www.aeinstein.org
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/3690
http://www.mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=601010
http://www.stateofnature.org/forceMorePowerful.html
http://www.blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/Week-of-Mon-20070604/063706.html

** Ford Foundation:
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/FordFandCIA.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/CIAcultCW.html

Duration : 0:4:58

Read the rest of this entry »