Belgian grandparents convicted for heroin dealing BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court has sentenced two 73-year-old grandparents to two-year suspended jail terms this week after they were convicted of dealing in heroin and other drugs, the tribunal said on Wednesday.
The elderly pensioners had taken over the business of their grandson, who himself had been imprisoned for selling heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.
The court established that the couple had sold a variety of drugs to people, including one minor, who dropped by their apartment near the northern town of Aalst. Some even came by to make large orders, the court said.
"The only thing that counted for them was to continue the profitable drug dealing business of their grandson," the judges wrote in their ruling on Tuesday.
The couple, who had no prior criminal record, were also ordered to pay fines of 1,000 euros each.
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Changes / festival / underground parties dunno about you folk, but i read a lot on kill hippies this/that..is there a divide in our once thriving scene?..i know things change/progress..but whats all this polony about..bring back the old freedom fessies..john pendragon..i wish?...pre cjb days ...rts..u know the score ..or is it time to retire?.....wqhiskeys good anyway...discuss....
rumsfeld sold nuclear technology to N Korea it's can hardly be a surprise to USA, UN etc that N Korea has nuclear capability...
Don Rumsfeld Bats Both Ways
By Chris Floyd
10/10/06 "ICH Information Clearing House " -- --
In February 2003, I wrote a column for the Moscow Times detailing Don Rumsfeld's personal – and profitable – connection with North Korea's nuclear program. Today Greg Saunders at This Modern World notes (from a Guardian story from May 2003), that the Bush Administration continued to shove money toward Rumsfeld's corporate cronies, allowing them to help accelerated North Korea's nuke push – even as the Dear Leader (theirs, not ours) was kicking out weapons inspectors and withdrawing from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
What I wrote more than three years ago unfortunately still holds true today. The nuclear blast test that North Korea conducted this week is not only the result of the Bush Administration's incompetent and sinister diplomatic philosophy – which seems to consist solely of provoking unfriendly regimes into countermeasures which can then be used as excuses for war-profiteering "regime change" assaults – but also stems from the overwhelming lust for loot that lies behind the noble rhetoric of the third-rate goons of the Bush Gang.
Swing Blades
(Originally published in the Feb. 28, 2003 edition of The Moscow Times; the version here excerpted from the book, Empire Burlesque.)
It's a well-known fact – oft detailed in these pages – that the boys in the Bush Regime swing both ways. We speak, of course, of their proclivity – their apparently uncontrollable craving – for stuffing their trousers with loot from both sides of whatever war or military crisis is going at the moment.
That's why it came as no surprise to read last week that just before he joined the Regime's crusade against evildoers everywhere (especially rogue states that pursue the development of terrorist-ready weapons of mass destruction), Pentagon warlord Donald Rumsfeld was trousering the proceeds from a $200 million deal to send the latest nuclear technology – including plenty of terrorist-ready "dirty bomb" material – to the rogue state of North Korea, the Swiss paper Neue Zurcher Zeitung reports.
In 1998, Rumsfeld was citizen chairman of the Congressional Ballistic Missile Threat Commission, charged with reducing nuclear proliferation. Rumsfeld and the Republican-heavy commission came down hard on the deal Bill Clinton had brokered with North Korea to avert a war in 1994: Pyongyang would give up its nuclear weapons program in exchange for normalized relations with the United States, plus the construction of two non-weaponized nuclear plants to generate electricity. The plants were to be built by an international consortium of government-backed business interests called KEDO.
Rum deal, said Rummy: those nasty Northies would surely turn the peaceful nukes to nefarious ends. What's more, even the most innocuous nuclear plant generates mounds of radioactive waste that could be made into "dirty bombs" – hand-carried weapons capable of killing thousands of people. The agreement was big bad juju that threatened the whole world, Rumsfeld declared.
Of course, that didn't prevent him from trying to profit from it. Even while he was chairing commission meetings on the "dire threat" posed by the Korean program, Rumsfeld was junketing to Zurich for board meetings of the Swiss-based energy technology giant, ABB, where he was a top director. And what was ABB doing at the time? Why, negotiating that $200 million deal with North Korea to provide equipment and services for the KEDO nuclear reactors, of course!
Yes, nuclear proliferation is ugly stuff – but you might as well squeeze a few dollars from it, right? A smart guy always plays the angles – and, as the hero-worshiping American media never stop telling us, Rumsfeld is one smart guy.
In fact, he's so smart that he's now playing dumb. A Pentagon spokesman says Rumsfeld "can't recall" discussing the Korean deal at ABB board meetings. And his erstwhile ABB corporate colleagues say that it's possible the subject never came up. Of course it didn't; going into the nuclear business with a Communist tyranny that very nearly launched a nuclear war against the West just four years before, in a deal that involved high-level negotiations with the governments of the United States, South Korea, Japan and the European Union – that's certainly the kind of thing that would be handled by a couple of junior executives in a branch office somewhere. Nothing for the bigwigs – especially hard-wired government players like Rumsfeld – to trouble their pretty heads about. A perfectly reasonable explanation.
And so Rumsfeld joins the roster of Bush Regime boardroom honchos who once trumpeted their "business savvy" as selling points for their aspirations to national leadership but now claim to have been "hands-off" figureheads who had no idea what their companies were up to. Bush, in his sinkhole of insider trading and stockholder scamming at Harken; Cheney, making fat deals with Saddam Hussein (yes, after the Gulf War) and muddying up the corporate books at Halliburton; Army Secretary Thomas White, gaming the power grid and stealing millions for Enron in the manufactured California "energy crisis" – all of them went from mighty moguls to mere "front men" the instant their corruption was brought to light. None of it was their fault; nothing ever is.
Whatever happened to Bush's much-trumpeted "era of responsibility?" These guys are not only chiselers, hustlers, hypocrites and war profiteers – they're a bunch of gutless wonders as well. So you'll pardon us if we are just the tiniest bit cynical about the "moral arguments for war" and other such buckets of warm spit this gang is now forcing down the world's throat.
Postscript
And what became of that 1994 pact with North Korea? UN inspectors entered the country to make sure the weapons program was put on ice. Pyongyang signed a number of lucrative deals with various politically-connected Western firms, like ABB, to build the promised energy plants, while waiting for the normalization of relations with the United States to begin – a move which many thought would set North Korea on a course toward China-style "moderation" of its monolithic regime.
But normalization never came. Clinton, pressured by rightwing forces (such as Rumsfeld's commission) who opposed any truck whatsoever with godless commies, did his usual folding number, with much windy suspiration of forced breath – and no action. The KEDO companies pocketed Pyongyang's cash but dithered about the actual construction. Pyongyang – while not exactly a font of smiling cooperation itself – concluded that the pact was being deep-sixed. This suspicion was confirmed when Bush took office, calling Korean leader Kim Jong Il a "pygmy" and declaring the county part of the "Axis of Evil."
Pyongyang then accelerated its weapons program, kicked out the UN inspectors, and is now threatening to unleash a nuclear war if Bush, a la Iraq, makes a "pre-emptive strike."
A dicey situation, sure – but at least Don Rumsfeld made some money out of it.
Car Boot Sales and Fairs I love them! I forgot how much until this Sunday at Brighton train station.
I got loads of great crap for the van + some free [new] flip flops and the best skinning up tray!
Can not wait for the next one!
raaa
Anyone else had any good finds!12
Stop the War Coalition! STOP THE WAR COALITION
NEWSLETTER No. 2006/40
17 October 2006
Email office@stopwar.org.uk
Telephone 020 7278 6694
Web: www.stopwar.org.uk
N THIS NEWSLETTER:
1) DEMONISING MUSLIMS: AN OPEN LETTER
2) ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
3) WHERE HAVE ALL THE DOCTORS GONE?
THE COLLAPSE OF IRAQ'S HEALTH SERVICES
4) DID THE GENERAL SPEAK FOR US ALL?
5) STAYING UNTIL "THE JOB IS DONE"
6) A POSTER COMMEMORATING A REMARKABLE DAY
7) CRUCIAL VOTE ON UK-US EXTRADITION TREATY
8) JOIN THE FASLANE BLOCKADE
9) BRIZE NORTON DEMONSTRATION
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1) DEMONISING MUSLIMS: AN OPEN LETTER
There is an attempt to plunge this country into a racist hysteria of a kind we have not seen for a generation or more -- directed against Muslims.
Recent weeks have seen a series of speeches by leading politicians designed to isolate and demonise British Muslims. These have been reflected in spurious news stories and, still more seriously, violence directed against Muslim people and places of worship.
In particular, we deplore the recent remarks by Jack Straw concerning the veil worn in public by some Muslim women. His intervention undoubtedly created the climate in which the racist attack on a Muslim woman in Liverpool took place. Likewise, the bullying attacks of John Reid have served only to spread fear amongst Muslims.
We further condemn the attempted fire-bombing of a mosque in Windsor -- the latest in a number of such episodes nationwide -- and note the failure of many commentators and politicians to condemn this outrage.
We express our solidarity with all British people of the Muslim faith and affirm their right to worship and dress as they please and to live their lives in peace and security.
The current wave of Muslim-baiting is rooted above all in the disastrous 'war on terror', of which this government has been such a prominent supporter. This war has made Britain more vulnerable, not less, to terrorist attack -- an uncomfortable fact from which ministers try to distract by attacks on the Muslim community.
If the government is concerned about improving the cohesion of our communities, let it first of all abandon its support for the foreign policy of the US administration, including the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
We call on all people of good-will to reject the anti-Muslim hatred being whipped up and to support the values of tolerance now under attack.
THIS OPEN LETTER CAN BE DOWNLOADED FOR PRINTING HERE: http://tinyurl.com/y2ctso
Collect signatures, including from local political, community, religious, trade union leaders etc. and return the letter to Stop the War Coalition.
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2) ISLAMOPHOBIA AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR'
Stop the War Coalition has called a People's Assembly in London on Saturday 18 November to discuss Islamophobia and the 'War on Terror'. The assembly will be open to all and will aim to bring together the broadest possible representation from all sections of society. We will discuss how the attacks on Muslims are intrinsically linked to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how the anti-war movement can counter those attacks in its continuing campaign to end those wars.
PEOPLE'S ASSEMBLY
TOPIC: Islamophobia and the 'War on Terror'
DATE: Saturday 18 November
TIME: 10am - 5.30pm
VENUE: Camden Centre, Judd Street, London WC1H 9JE
Full details of the People's Assembly will be available soon on the Stop the War Coalition website: http://www.stopwar.org.uk. For a leaflet or more information, contact 020 7278 6694; email office@stopwar.org.uk
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3) WHERE HAVE ALL THE DOCTORS GONE?
THE COLLAPSE OF IRAQ'S HEALTH SERVICES
"An end to occupation is vital for the life-chances and health of the Iraqi people. Until this takes place, Iraq will remain a country of the dead, the dying and the despairing."
This is the conclusion of a report written by David Wilson for Stop the War Coalition, which shows how Iraq's health services, once by far the most advanced in the Middle East, have effectively collapsed under the US/British occupation. It is packed with essential information for everyone actively involved in the anti-war movement and for anyone who wants to understand the scale of death and destruction which the war crimes of George Bush and Tony Blair have inflicted on Iraq.
TO READ THE REPORT, NOW PUBLISHED BY COUNTERPUNCH, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/y7e4t9
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4) DID THE GENERAL SPEAK FOR US ALL?
Last week, in an unprecedented statement, General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British armed forces seemed to speak for us all, when he said of the Iraq war: "We should get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems. We are in a Muslim country and Muslims' views of foreigners in their country are quite clear. As a foreigner, you can be welcomed by being invited in a country, but we weren't invited certainly by those in Iraq at the time. The military campaign we fought in 2003 effectively kicked the door in."
Tony Blair claimed he agreed with every word of this, confirming his status as a serial liar, able to state the opposite of the truth without a hint of a blush.
But while the anti-war movement welcomes Dannatt's admission that the presence of foreign troops is the problem rather than the solution and that the British army should get out soon, his main purpose is to transfer the troops now in Iraq to Afghanistan, to fight another unwinnable war.
And Dannatt, a Christian fundamentalist, also holds hardline views on the "war on terror" views, as seen in his statement, "We can't wish the Islamist challenge to our society away and I believe that the Army, both in Iraq and Afghanistan and probably wherever we go next, is fighting the foreign dimension of the challenge to our accepted way of life." The hint of an attack on Iran being next on the agenda won't go unnoticed by the anti-war movement.
FOR MORE OF THE GENERAL'S COMMENTS, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/ss4r9
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5) STAYING UNTIL "THE JOB IS DONE"
When General Dannatt's said, "We should get ourselves out sometime soon", Tony Blair's response was all too predictable: "We will not walk away until the job is done."
A report published by The Lancet last week showed what "the job" has "done" so far. It estimated that 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the Iraq war and occupation, over one third of them killed by the bombs and bullets of the invading armies.
It's also worth noting how the Iraqi people experience "the job" today:
* The United Nations says that every day over 1000 Iraqis flee their homes and another 100 die a violent death;
* Eight million Iraqis live on less than one dollar per day, and 96 per cent of Iraq's 28 million people receive monthly basic food rations of rice, flour and cooking oil.
* More than 500,000 residents of Baghdad can only get water for a few hours a day;
* Iraq's power generation and supply grid is in a state of collapse, with households in Baghdad receiving on average only two to six hours of electricity per day;
* Law and order does not exist and Iraqis live in fear of death squads and kidnappers, which many suspect are the work of the police and government militias.
FOR THE FULL REPORT ON 655,000 DEATHS CAUSED BY WAR AND OCCUPATION, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/ueev7
FOR THE WASHINGTON POST SUMMARY OF THE REPORT, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/lu4jl
FOR LANCET EDITOR ROBERT HORTON'S COMMENTS, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/y6to22
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6) A POSTER COMMEMORATING A REMARKABLE DAY
If you were there, you'll know that it was a remarkable day which brought protestors from every corner of Britain to Manchester on the eve of the Labour Party conference. If you weren't there you can catch the flavour of the day from the reports, pictures and videos available on the Stop the War website: http://tinyurl.com/ycmcop.
A poster commemorating the demonstration has now been produced in a limited edition, using a picture taken by photographer Ray Smith, which makes a mockery of the initial police figure of 10,000 for the attendance. (They updated their estimate later in the day to 30,000.)
TO SEE THE PHOTO, GO TO: http://tinyurl.com/y4vyk7.
THE POSTER IS AVAILABLE PRICED £2 FROM THE STOP THE WAR OFFICE (020 7278 6694) OR ONLINE FROM GREATER MANCHESTER STOP THE WAR COALITION (http://tinyurl.com/y4k3hj).
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7) CRUCIAL VOTE ON UK-US EXTRADITION TREATY
As reported in our last newsletter, Babar Ahmad is a victim of Tony Blair's slavish support for George Bush's "war on terror". He faces extradition to the US on trumped up terrorism charges under New Labour's disgraceful treaty with the United States, which allows British citizens to be extradited to the US without the right to challenge the evidence against them in court.
The House of Commons will be voting on crucial amendments to the UK-US Extradition Treaty 2003 on Tuesday 24 October 2006. If the vote is won, this will directly affect cases of several British Citizens facing extradition to the United States, including that of Babar Ahmad.
The Free Barbar Ahmad Campaign is asking all its supporters to contact their MP by 4pm on Friday 20 October 2006 to make sure they clear their diaries to attend the vote. MPs from all parties need to be contacted, especially Labour MPs. For directions on how best to contact your MP by email and phone call, send an email to: freebabarahmad@yahoo.co.uk
FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE:
http://www.freebabarahmad.com
http://www.notoextradition.co.uk
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8) JOIN THE FASLANE BLOCKADE
Stop the War supporters around the country are planning to join our blockade of the Faslane nuclear base on 6-7 November. Our mobilisation is part of the Faslane 365 campaign, which aims to blockade the base for a whole year. If you would like to be part of the Stop the War protest in Faslane on those days, email office@stopwar.org.uk with your contact details or contact Daniela on 020 7278 6694 for further information.
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9) BRIZE NORTON DEMONSTRATION
A new leaflet is available giving full details of the national demonstration on 2 December at Brize Norton, Britain's biggest military base,which is the main transport base for sending troops and supplies in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. In August this year it was used by US planes taking munitions to the Israeli Defense Force to bomb Lebanon.
TO DOWNLOAD THE LEAFLET, GO HERE: http://tinyurl.com/kp2u2
The demonstration is called by Bristol Stop the War Coalition; Oxford Stop the War Coalition; Oxford CND, Swindon Stop the War Coalition and CND; and Faringdon Peace Group. It is supported by the national Stop the War Coalition, CND and the Green Party.
North/South Divide-trouble free partying I've always said how supprised I am at the police down south and heres another reason why.....
Our last Dance Til Dawn(Monkey Business) of the year was last saturday.
After my turn on the decks I took a walk up the path away from the party just to check how far the sound was carrying, only to discover a police van parked up and flashing torches about.
Making a hasty retreat to alert everyone, standard good party goer's guide stuff, four officers and a sargent from Strathclydes L division turned up to find out what was going on. of course being police they claimed somebody had complained of the noise but after a little chat with me, a reduction in volume and a look at who was there they arrested a girl.
It turned out she had stole a car and wrote it off just up the road, after radioing in the situation they wished us all the best asked us to clear up after ourselves and left!!!!:weee:
So you understand my suprise when I see video's or hear of the police charging in mob handed down south.
if you'd like to see how much fun we had visit dontstayin.com and look up Dumbarton plenty of pictures, unfortunetly by the time I'd grabbed my camera the police had left.
Thanks must go out to all our regular party goers who kept their heads in this situation.
Mixing I want to get more of a buzz with my coke?? what do u lot recomend? should i get some Es crush em and mix em?? what about MDMA powder(tho im finding it a bit hard to get hold of)...
will mixing certain things take away the effeectiveness of the cocain in the first place? dont wanna do that now lol
Once upon a time there was a female brain cell… Once upon a time there was a female brain cell who accidentally ended up in a man's head. She looked around nervously but it was all empty and quiet.
"Hello?" she cried, but no answer. "Is there anyone here?" she cried a little louder, but still no answer. Now the female brain cell started to feel alone and scared and yelled at the top of her voice, "HELLO! IS THERE ANYONE HERE?"
Then she heard a very faint voice from far, far away...
"We're down here!"
Not Just Pants… [MEDIA]http://www.youtube.com/v/xKDn216B2NE[/MEDIA]
Spoof M&S commercial written by Gary Dring, voiced by Lynn Parsons with music by Kevin MacLeod.
Tyra Banks Show Invite Got this on Myspace...
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Subject:TYRA BANKS SHOW
Body:Hello,
My name is Marc from the Tyra Banks Show. We're doing a segment called, 'The secret lives of teens.' I came across an artice about 'pharm parties.' I wanted to know if you knew an expert on this growing trend and a panel of teens who possibly go to these types of parties.
Also, if you know teens who go to Raves or parties like raves, please let us know.
You can call me anytime at 323 575 8281
Hopefully we can find a way to help each other.
Thank you.
Marc
Associate Producer
Marc.Nicolas@tyratv.com
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