Is this Colonel Powell - Stalking me and Handing out money - in front of my residence? What is he doing?
White Trucks Stalking Me..... From Coast to Coast!
U.S. Boarder Security - A National Security Emergency - The Cuban Boarder opened to U.S.?
External and Internal!
Decades of U.S. Biowarfare Against Cuba
In May 2002, the U.S. undersecretary of state for arms control, John Bolton, made a speech at the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation accusing Cuba of having “at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort.” He also claimed Cuba had “provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states,” and called on Cuba to “fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention” (BWC). This is pretty rich coming from the U.S., which the summer before walked out of a meeting to strengthen enforcement provisions of the BWC. But the threat was clear: Bolton’s speech was ominously titled, “Beyond the Axis of Evil,” and in it he threatened that states that do not “renounce terror and abandon weapons of mass destruction…can expect to become our targets.” Like Iraq. A spokesman for the Cuban Interests Section in Washington labeled this attack “a big lie and a big slander.”
Bolton is a rabid right-winger and protégé of ultra-conservative former senator Jesse Helms. But he was not off on a tangent of his own. The same accusation against Cuba was made two months earlier in Congressional testimony by Carl Ford, the undersecretary of state for intelligence and research. This is the first time the U.S. has charged Cuba with developing chemical/biological arms. Washington offered no proof of its allegations, and when challenged, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer retreated into nebulous talk of “concerns.” That did not stop bioweapons “expert” Judith Miller from writing a scurrilous piece in the New York Times (7 May 2002) retailing the trumped-up claims and quoting unnamed “administration officials” who said the U.S. “believes that Cuba has been experimenting with anthrax.” The Center for Defense Information published an article skewering Bolton, titled “Cuba: Bioweapons Threat or Political Punching Bag?” (22 May 2002). Even former U.S. president Jimmy Carter dismissed the politically motivated charges during a visit to Cuba’s famed biomedical research center.
What is true is that Cuba has become a world leader in biotechnology research and production. Cuban researchers at the Finlay Institute and the Western Havana Scientific Pole have produced a number of important new drugs, including a meningitis vaccine, a vaccine for hepatitis B and medicines for treating diseases afflicting the impoverished populations of “Third World” countries which are typically ignored by the profit-driven multinational giants of “Big Pharma.” Cuba’s investment in scientific education (it has 2 percent of Latin America’s population and 22 percent of the region’s scientists) could potentially reap large export earnings in desperately needed hard currency.
As Washington tries to tighten the screws on the four-decade-old embargo on Cuba in an attempt to strangle the country economically, the U.S. wants to shut down this key industry. This bureaucratically deformed workers state has been a prime target of Yankee imperialism in its drive to “roll back” the Cuban Revolution and to spike revolutionary struggle throughout the hemisphere. Trotskyists defend Cuba against counterrevolution, external and internal, while fighting for workers political revolution to replace the Castro bureaucracy, with its nationalist outlook, by a revolutionary internationalist workers government dedicated to extending the revolution throughout South, Central and North America and the Caribbean.
While accusations of biological warfare by Cuba are utterly bogus, a typical Cold War “disinformation” campaign, the United States government has a long history of using biological and chemical warfare against the Caribbean island nation. In 1961-62, the CIA’s infamous “Operation Mongoose” sought to cause sickness among sugar cane workers by spreading chemicals on the cane fields. U.S. agents repeatedly contaminated exported Cuban sugar. The CIA later admitted that during the 1960s it undertook clandestine anti-crop warfare “research” targeting a number of countries under its MK-ULTRA program, but claimed its records had been destroyed. At the end of the decade, as Castro tried to mobilize the population to bring in ten million tons of sugar, in addition to the regime’s rampant bureaucratic snafus the CIA sabotaged the harvest by seeding clouds to cause torrential rains in nearby provinces while leaving the cane fields parched (see William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II [Common Courage Press, 1995]).
After that “success,” the U.S. moved on to introduce African swine fever to Cuba in 1971. This was the first outbreak of swine fever in the Western Hemisphere. As a result of the epidemic, Cuba was forced to slaughter the entire pig population (some 500,000 animals), eliminating the supply of pork, a staple of the Cuban diet. When Cuban government spokesmen first accused Washington of unleashing the biological attack, U.S. officials dismissed this with a wave of the hand. However, six years later, following the post-Watergate Congressional investigations of skullduggery by U.S. intelligence agencies, a New York paper reported that a “U.S. intelligence source” told the paper that “he was given the virus in a sealed, unmarked container at a U.S. Army base and CIA training ground in Panama with instructions to turn it over to the anti-Castro group” (“CIA Link to Cuban Pig Virus Reported,” Newsday, 10 January 1977). The article explained in detail how the virus was transferred from Fort Gulick to Cuba.
A decade later, the U.S. introduced a virulent strain of dengue fever in Cuba, as a result of which 273,000 people on the island came down with the illness and 158 died, including 101 children. An article in Covert Action (Summer 1982) detailed U.S. experiments with dengue fever at the Army’s Fort Detrick chemical/biological warfare center and its research into theAedes aegypti mosquito which delivers it. The article noted that only Cuba of all the Caribbean countries was affected, and concluded that “the dengue epidemic could have been a covert U.S. operation.” Two years later, a leader of the Omega 7 gusano (Cuban counterrevolutionary) terrorist group, Eduardo Victor Arocena Pérez, admitted (in a Manhattan trial in which he was convicted of murdering an attaché of the Cuban Mission to the UN) that one of their groups had a mission to “carry some germs to introduce them in Cuba to be used against the Soviets and against the Cuban economy, to begin what was called chemical war” just before simultaneous outbreaks of hemorrhagic dengue fever, hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, tobacco mold, sugar cane fungus and a new outbreak of African swine fever (Covert Action, Fall 1984).
These are only a few of the most spectacular and best documented cases of U.S. biological warfare against Cuba. James Banford in his book Body of Secrets (Doubleday, 2001) revealed that while the Pentagon was refining plans for a biological strike on Cuba, in “Operation Northwoods” the U.S. military developed plans to fake incidents to cause popular outrage. These included shooting people on American streets, sinking refugee boats on the high seas and blowing up a U.S. ship in Guantánamo. These was no mere contingency plans. They were drawn up by rabidly anti-Communist general Lyman Lemnitzer, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the suggestion of U.S. president (former general) Eisenhower, and were signed by all of the service chiefs. But they pale in comparison with the operation code-named “Marshall Plan,” which was to have been unleashed if U.S. forces invaded Cuba at the time of the 1962 missile crisis.
The plan was to attack all of Cuba with incapacitating agents, in a biological strike that would affect millions of Cubans. The scientific director at Fort Detrick said that one alternative considered was spraying Cuban troops with lethal botulinum toxin, arguing that this would be “a good thing” since it would save American lives in an invasion. Judith Miller, who reported this plan in her book Germs: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War (Simon & Schuster, 2001), says that it involved a “cocktail” of two germs and a biological toxin producing extreme nausea, fevers of up to 106 degrees Fht. (close to what produces comas and death), Venezuelan equine encephalitis and Q fever. “Teams at Pine Bluff [the main U.S. chemical weapons plant] made thousands of gallons of the cocktail, enough to fill a swimming pool,” Miller reports. The head of Pine Bluff argued, “We could move our forces in and take over the country and that would be it.”
The Fort Detrick director argued that there was “a humane aspect” to the plan, because it would reduce the number of casualties from fighting. The plan was to spray from East to West, to take advantage of the prevailing trade winds, and blanket Havana. And this “humane” U.S. biological warfare would “only” kill 1 to 2 percent of the Cuban population. Given the island’s population of roughly 7 million at the time, this means the Pentagon was planning to kill between 70,000 and 140,000 Cuban civilians. Actual fatalities would probably have been far higher. When Harvard biologist Matthew Meselson learned of the plan, he went to his former colleague McGeorge Bundy, the evil genius of the Vietnam War who was U.S. president John Kennedy’s national security advisor. Bundy promised that the Marshall Plan would be kept out of the war plans. But according to Miller, “In fact, the germs stayed in the war plans, former officials said.”
And the U.S. government dares to accuse Cuba of possible biological warfare!
Law Enforcement's use of Excessive Force...
In the last two years, according to the U.S. Justice Department, allegations of wrongdoing by police departments across the country have mushroomed to unprecedented levels. According to Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, at least 17 U.S. police departments are under investigation for various civil rights violations, "more than at any time in the division's history," Perez said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September.
A very recent example, in one of America's most storied precincts of liberalism and tolerance, symbolizes both the breadth of the problem as a national issue and the challenges facing its correction.
After an eight-month Justice Department investigation into allegations of excessive force by the Seattle Police Department, allegations made mostly by black and Latino citizens, U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan said at a Dec. 16 news conference that "there is reasonable cause to believe that the Seattle Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of using unnecessary and excessive force, in violation of the United States Constitution." The department found that about one in every five use-of-force cases by Seattle police was unconstitutional.
As identified by the DOJ, the scope of deficiencies at the SPD is frankly panoramic. The department was faulted for lax oversight of policies and training on the use of force, the reporting of use of force and the amount of force to be wielded by officers; failure of supervisors to follow up on use-of-force cases; faulty methods of complaint investigation, intervention and discipline; inadequate policies on stopping pedestrians; and even poor performance on collecting the data needed to make a determination of bias.
"Many of these officers may have a perfectly legitimate justification for their activities, while others may not," Perez said in Seattle on Dec. 16. "We don't know the answer because the accountability systems have not been put in place."
The complaints filed this year came from the city's chapter of the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and 33 other nonprofits and advocacy organizations spanning the demographic spectrum. Numerous incidents have aroused the suspicion and concern of minorities in Seattle -- from an officer's punching of a teenage girl in a June 2010 jaywalking incident to the fatal unprovoked police shooting of a wood-carver in August 2010 and the use of pepper spray against peaceful Occupy protesters in downtown Seattle.
Seattle police Chief John Diaz pushed back against the DOJ findings. "Right now I don't find anything that would show me that there is a problem here," he said on Dec. 16 to KOMO, Seattle's ABC News affiliate. "This police department isn't broken."
A Widespread Problem
The Seattle Police Department isn't alone. Other police agencies, are under the federal microscope for alleged civil rights violations, reflect a striking range of bias allegations, not only in the major population centers such as New York City and Los Angeles but also in smaller American cities, towns and territories.
Miami: In November the Justice Department opened an investigation into a series of fatal shootings and violent encounters by the Miami Police Department. "In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police-involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of our investigation," Perez said at a news conference.
"Since July 2010, MPD officers shot and killed eight young men and critically wounded a ninth man. By comparison, the country's largest police force, the New York City Police Department, had one fatal shooting for every 4,313 officers in 2010, while Miami had one fatal shooting for every 220 officers. Washington D.C., with a larger population and police force, had no fatal shootings by police in 2010, compared to five by the Miami Police Department," Perez said.
"Officers all too frequently plant evidence during searches, rely on excessive force and intimidation as search aids, and proceed with searches even when knowing that the address or identity of the individual or some other pertinent information is simply incorrect," Perez said in September.
Portland, Ore.: In June the DOJ announced the start of an inquiry into allegations of excessive use of force by Portland Police Bureau officers -- use-of-force incidents and officer-involved shootings apparently targeting the city's mentally ill and institutionalized people over the previous 18 months. The Justice Department investigation was expected to take about 18 months to complete.
Denver: In May the Justice Department said that it was at the "threshold stage" of deciding on an investigation of the Denver Police Department and the Denver Sheriff Department for civil rights violations after a decade of arrests involving alleged brutality and questionable fatal shootings, as well as the July 2010 death of Marvin Booker, a black minister who died in the city jail after a struggle with sheriff's deputies. Over that decade, the cases have resulted in $6 million in settlements.
Houston: In February ColorOfChange.org, an organization that advocates on behalf of African Americans, launched an email campaign calling for public outcry and a DOJ investigation into the actions of the Houston Police Department in the 2010 case of Chad Holley, a 15-year-old burglary suspect beaten by four HPD officers while eight other officers looked on.
"It's time to demand real accountability for the Houston Police Department -- and when we do, it'll send a clear message to other departments with a similar problem," the email reads. "What happened to Chad Holley isn't merely an isolated incident -- it's the result of a police culture in Houston (and in police departments across the nation) that places little value on black lives."
A Critical Tool in Reform
The Justice Department can bring any number of resources to bear in these investigations, maybe none as powerful as the consent decree, an agreement between a city and the Justice Department. It is a legally binding contract that often includes the use of federal monitors to assess the progress made in reforming behavior at police departments with a history of civil rights-abuse allegations.
In November 2000, Los Angeles entered into a consent degree with the DOJ in the wake of the Los Angeles Police Department beatings that provoked the Rodney King riots. By mid-2009 the LAPD had begun to turn around. In a June 2009 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, two members of the ACLU praised the department. While acknowledging that the LAPD had more progress to make, they said "the LAPD has made substantial strides in changing the culture of the department."
The consent decree -- a kind of nuclear option for the DOJ -- may be the most viable option for another police department with a troubled past.
In May the Justice Department opened an investigation of the Newark Police Department in New Jersey and the alleged use of excessive force, as well as officers' possible retaliation against civilians who document police actions.
By August, speculation was growing among advocacy groups and law-enforcement experts that a consent decree in Newark was a strong possibility. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin at the DOJ told the Newark Star-Ledger in August that the increased use of consent decrees was part of a "reinvigorated enforcement of many of our civil rights laws."It's safe to say that the city of Seattle probably heard footsteps. In a Dec. 21 letter to the ACLU of Washington office, and no doubt trying to keep the initiative for making changes on the city's own terms, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced that, effective Jan. 4, 2012, the Seattle Police Department "will implement a system of consistent supervision of patrol officers," as well as teams to investigate the use of force by SPD officers and to review such cases after the fact.
"We have heard from the public and now the federal government that more must be done," McGinn wrote, expressing a sentiment that other cities and their police departments would do well to endorse. "We agree. Let us be very clear: We are committed to reform. This process of change cannot wait."
A very recent example, in one of America's most storied precincts of liberalism and tolerance, symbolizes both the breadth of the problem as a national issue and the challenges facing its correction.
After an eight-month Justice Department investigation into allegations of excessive force by the Seattle Police Department, allegations made mostly by black and Latino citizens, U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan said at a Dec. 16 news conference that "there is reasonable cause to believe that the Seattle Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of using unnecessary and excessive force, in violation of the United States Constitution." The department found that about one in every five use-of-force cases by Seattle police was unconstitutional.
As identified by the DOJ, the scope of deficiencies at the SPD is frankly panoramic. The department was faulted for lax oversight of policies and training on the use of force, the reporting of use of force and the amount of force to be wielded by officers; failure of supervisors to follow up on use-of-force cases; faulty methods of complaint investigation, intervention and discipline; inadequate policies on stopping pedestrians; and even poor performance on collecting the data needed to make a determination of bias.
"Many of these officers may have a perfectly legitimate justification for their activities, while others may not," Perez said in Seattle on Dec. 16. "We don't know the answer because the accountability systems have not been put in place."
The complaints filed this year came from the city's chapter of the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union and 33 other nonprofits and advocacy organizations spanning the demographic spectrum. Numerous incidents have aroused the suspicion and concern of minorities in Seattle -- from an officer's punching of a teenage girl in a June 2010 jaywalking incident to the fatal unprovoked police shooting of a wood-carver in August 2010 and the use of pepper spray against peaceful Occupy protesters in downtown Seattle.
Seattle police Chief John Diaz pushed back against the DOJ findings. "Right now I don't find anything that would show me that there is a problem here," he said on Dec. 16 to KOMO, Seattle's ABC News affiliate. "This police department isn't broken."
A Widespread Problem
The Seattle Police Department isn't alone. Other police agencies, are under the federal microscope for alleged civil rights violations, reflect a striking range of bias allegations, not only in the major population centers such as New York City and Los Angeles but also in smaller American cities, towns and territories.
Miami: In November the Justice Department opened an investigation into a series of fatal shootings and violent encounters by the Miami Police Department. "In the past 16 months, we have seen nine police-involved shootings that are of concern and are the premise of our investigation," Perez said at a news conference.
"Since July 2010, MPD officers shot and killed eight young men and critically wounded a ninth man. By comparison, the country's largest police force, the New York City Police Department, had one fatal shooting for every 4,313 officers in 2010, while Miami had one fatal shooting for every 220 officers. Washington D.C., with a larger population and police force, had no fatal shootings by police in 2010, compared to five by the Miami Police Department," Perez said.
"Officers all too frequently plant evidence during searches, rely on excessive force and intimidation as search aids, and proceed with searches even when knowing that the address or identity of the individual or some other pertinent information is simply incorrect," Perez said in September.
Portland, Ore.: In June the DOJ announced the start of an inquiry into allegations of excessive use of force by Portland Police Bureau officers -- use-of-force incidents and officer-involved shootings apparently targeting the city's mentally ill and institutionalized people over the previous 18 months. The Justice Department investigation was expected to take about 18 months to complete.
Denver: In May the Justice Department said that it was at the "threshold stage" of deciding on an investigation of the Denver Police Department and the Denver Sheriff Department for civil rights violations after a decade of arrests involving alleged brutality and questionable fatal shootings, as well as the July 2010 death of Marvin Booker, a black minister who died in the city jail after a struggle with sheriff's deputies. Over that decade, the cases have resulted in $6 million in settlements.
Houston: In February ColorOfChange.org, an organization that advocates on behalf of African Americans, launched an email campaign calling for public outcry and a DOJ investigation into the actions of the Houston Police Department in the 2010 case of Chad Holley, a 15-year-old burglary suspect beaten by four HPD officers while eight other officers looked on.
"It's time to demand real accountability for the Houston Police Department -- and when we do, it'll send a clear message to other departments with a similar problem," the email reads. "What happened to Chad Holley isn't merely an isolated incident -- it's the result of a police culture in Houston (and in police departments across the nation) that places little value on black lives."
A Critical Tool in Reform
The Justice Department can bring any number of resources to bear in these investigations, maybe none as powerful as the consent decree, an agreement between a city and the Justice Department. It is a legally binding contract that often includes the use of federal monitors to assess the progress made in reforming behavior at police departments with a history of civil rights-abuse allegations.
In November 2000, Los Angeles entered into a consent degree with the DOJ in the wake of the Los Angeles Police Department beatings that provoked the Rodney King riots. By mid-2009 the LAPD had begun to turn around. In a June 2009 op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, two members of the ACLU praised the department. While acknowledging that the LAPD had more progress to make, they said "the LAPD has made substantial strides in changing the culture of the department."
The consent decree -- a kind of nuclear option for the DOJ -- may be the most viable option for another police department with a troubled past.
In May the Justice Department opened an investigation of the Newark Police Department in New Jersey and the alleged use of excessive force, as well as officers' possible retaliation against civilians who document police actions.
By August, speculation was growing among advocacy groups and law-enforcement experts that a consent decree in Newark was a strong possibility. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin at the DOJ told the Newark Star-Ledger in August that the increased use of consent decrees was part of a "reinvigorated enforcement of many of our civil rights laws."It's safe to say that the city of Seattle probably heard footsteps. In a Dec. 21 letter to the ACLU of Washington office, and no doubt trying to keep the initiative for making changes on the city's own terms, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn announced that, effective Jan. 4, 2012, the Seattle Police Department "will implement a system of consistent supervision of patrol officers," as well as teams to investigate the use of force by SPD officers and to review such cases after the fact.
"We have heard from the public and now the federal government that more must be done," McGinn wrote, expressing a sentiment that other cities and their police departments would do well to endorse. "We agree. Let us be very clear: We are committed to reform. This process of change cannot wait."
Stalker's Trucks.....
Stoker's Followed me to Doctor's Appointment and Back - With Fake Driver's? Look at the Photographs!!
"No Mercy"
I went to the Car Wash, to try to wash my car, but this guy followed me and made it impossible. I was in Burbank, right off of Glendale Blvd., when this Dude in a white car, pulled up and parked in front of me and started spraying my car with something. He had something in his hand, that he was pointing in my direction and he was spraying something at my car. I took a couple of pictures of him and took off. I was very upset and shaken by this.....Who is this Dude and where is he now?
Father & Son Stocking Unit...
I didn't feel safe in San Luis Obispo, California, so I went to Ventura, to try to figure out where I was going to stay. I was sitting in my car, drinking my coffee and noticed this Motor Home, at the light in front of me. To my shock and horror I saw my ex-father-in-law in the driver's seat. At that very moment, I knew they were ganging-up on me and stocking me, as a community effort.
"Masked Man"
The Man in the Blue Shirt is wearing a mask? His tool racks have holes drilled into the sides of them. He had cannisters in the back of his truck, with chemicals inside of them and he was pumping whatever he had inside of them, into the pipes at the base of the tool racks. He got in his truck and started the engine, and something started comming out of the holes (in the pipes)? He kept his foot on the gas, with the truck idling and smoke started comming out of the pipes.
The majority of the Photographs are on my Photobucket Site at : [email protected]
The majority of the Photographs are on my Photobucket Site at : [email protected]
"Life Saver"
I was watching The Oprah Show one day and she had a guest on her show named Patricia Evans. The abuse I had endured, for so many years, started out as Verbal Abuse and escalated into physical abuse, mental abuse, etc. Patricia Evan's was talking about her new book called "The Verbally Abusive Relationship". Oprah and Patricia were talking about Verbal Abuse and how it effect self-esteem and so many other aspects of our emotional lives. I was experiencing everything they were talking about, it was my wake-up call and I took it seriously. I immediately went out and bought the book "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" and discovered another book by Patricia Evan's, called "Controlling People". I went home and secretly started reading these books. I was never taught, in my early years, what it meant to be abused and it became clear to me, by reading "The Verbally Abusive Relationship" that I was in a dangerous relationship and needed to get out.
One day I would like to thank Patricia Evan's, for writing these books, for saving my life and for being a Woman of Courage!! I believe anybody that is in an abusive relationship and/or knows anybody that is, should read these books and make this information available to Woman everywhere. I also believe that everybody should read "Controlling People", especially people working in positions of Authority and intend to keep their dignity and integrity in tact. You can't change what you don't acknowledge and ignorance is not an excuse.
One day I would like to thank Patricia Evan's, for writing these books, for saving my life and for being a Woman of Courage!! I believe anybody that is in an abusive relationship and/or knows anybody that is, should read these books and make this information available to Woman everywhere. I also believe that everybody should read "Controlling People", especially people working in positions of Authority and intend to keep their dignity and integrity in tact. You can't change what you don't acknowledge and ignorance is not an excuse.