2011年11月23日 12:25:43
5.12.11
美國影子政府
2011年12月1日 21:35:55
A few of the key players of Iran-Contra Affair include William Casey, Lt.Col. Oliver North, Admiral John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Caspar Weinberger.
If this were a play, top billing would go to Lt. Oliver North, who with his Marine Corps dress greens and boyish charms, claimed the attention of millions of Americans in 1987 during the Iran-Contra hearings.
Vice President George H. Bush claimed that he was “out of the loop,” but his diaries not released to investigators until after the 1988 Presidential election revealed that he was aware of many if not all of the details.
Even though it was a violation of law to sell arms to the Iranians, few Americans at the time objected to the excessive mark-up of sales of TOWs and Hawk missiles to Iran. After the taking of hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, very few Americans held fond memories of this strategic Middle Eastern country and the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini.
The diversion of funds from the sales of weapons to support the Contra War in Nicaragua and the prospect of the U.S. entanglement in a war in Central America were illegal and, even if it were not, had no chance of approval by Congress and the American public.
The Reagan administration painted the picture of Contras as “freedom fighters,” good guys riding into town with their white hats taking on the gang of Communists that had forcefully taking over Nicaragua and were a threat to the hemisphere.
After the Boland Amendments prohibited the use of appropriated funds to support the Contras, this pitch was an effective tool used by Lt.Col. North in briefings to right wing millionaires willing to write checks to fund the ‘cause.’
Had they known about the sale of illegal drugs to fund the Contras and the use of CIA proprietary airlines to transport the weapons from the U.S. to Central America and the drugs into the U.S., the source of funds from private donors would have dried up quickly.
Those in the administration who knowingly turned the other eye to the illegal drugs would have faced serious jail terms and not just ‘slaps on the wrists’ handed out by the judicial system.
The revelation that U.S. military bases and personnel were used to support the Contras’ supply of weapons and drugs is not widely known and disputed by those who served in the Reagan administration.Using FOIA, the National Security Archive obtained copies of Lt.Col. North’s diaries that show knowledge of drug trafficking. “In a July 12, 1985 entry, North noted a call from retired Air Force general Richard Secord in which the two discussed a Honduran arms warehouse from which the contras planned to purchase weapons. (The contras did eventually buy the arms, using money the Reagan administration secretly raised from Saudi Arabia.) According to the notebook, Secord told North that “14 M to finance [the arms in the warehouse] came from drugs.” [1] This was not just an isolated incident.
more here
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1448/904/The_Shadow_Government.html
Narcotrafficing and a ‘shadow government’ in the Iran/Contra Affair are linked to the murders, categorized as ‘suicides’ by the government.
Lt. Col. Oliver North
(SALEM, OR) - You don’t have to believe in conspiracies to understand the threat to freedom of a small but powerful group of people in and outside of government subverting the Constitution, effectively executing a coup d’état. Not in the United States, this is a free country, you must be paranoid, we’re the good guys, you say.
It is not hyperbole to say that thousands of Americans have fought and died for the right to remain free. Just walk through Arlington Cemetery or for that matter any cemetery on Veterans Day and notice the American flags placed beside graves. Life was too often short for those who served and died to preserve our freedom to ignore the threats of a ‘shadow government.’
Senator Daniel Inouye referred to the covert and illegal activities of a shadow government involved in the Iran-Contra Affair of the 1980s. The sale of arms to Iran and the transfer of weapons to the Contras were activities not approved by Congress and in violation of Federal laws. A few of the key players of Iran-Contra Affair include William Casey, Lt.Col. Oliver North, Admiral John Poindexter, Robert McFarlane, Elliott Abrams, Duane Clarridge, Alan Fiers, Clair George, and Caspar Weinberger.
If this were a play, top billing would go to Lt. Oliver North, who with his Marine Corps dress greens and boyish charms, claimed the attention of millions of Americans in 1987 during the Iran-Contra hearings.
Vice President George H. Bush claimed that he was “out of the loop,” but his diaries not released to investigators until after the 1988 Presidential election revealed that he was aware of many if not all of the details.
Even though it was a violation of law to sell arms to the Iranians, few Americans at the time objected to the excessive mark-up of sales of TOWs and Hawk missiles to Iran. After the taking of hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, very few Americans held fond memories of this strategic Middle Eastern country and the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini.
The diversion of funds from the sales of weapons to support the Contra War in Nicaragua and the prospect of the U.S. entanglement in a war in Central America were illegal and, even if it were not, had no chance of approval by Congress and the American public.
The Reagan administration painted the picture of Contras as “freedom fighters,” good guys riding into town with their white hats taking on the gang of Communists that had forcefully taking over Nicaragua and were a threat to the hemisphere.
After the Boland Amendments prohibited the use of appropriated funds to support the Contras, this pitch was an effective tool used by Lt.Col. North in briefings to right wing millionaires willing to write checks to fund the ‘cause.’
Had they known about the sale of illegal drugs to fund the Contras and the use of CIA proprietary airlines to transport the weapons from the U.S. to Central America and the drugs into the U.S., the source of funds from private donors would have dried up quickly.
Those in the administration who knowingly turned the other eye to the illegal drugs would have faced serious jail terms and not just ‘slaps on the wrists’ handed out by the judicial system.
The revelation that U.S. military bases and personnel were used to support the Contras’ supply of weapons and drugs is not widely known and disputed by those who served in the Reagan administration.Using FOIA, the National Security Archive obtained copies of Lt.Col. North’s diaries that show knowledge of drug trafficking. “In a July 12, 1985 entry, North noted a call from retired Air Force general Richard Secord in which the two discussed a Honduran arms warehouse from which the contras planned to purchase weapons. (The contras did eventually buy the arms, using money the Reagan administration secretly raised from Saudi Arabia.) According to the notebook, Secord told North that “14 M to finance [the arms in the warehouse] came from drugs.” [1] This was not just an isolated incident.
more here
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1448/904/The_Shadow_Government.html
研消除恐懼藥物 美打造超級士兵
2011年12月05日
打仗勝利之道，除了要船堅炮利，還要打心理戰。為了提升軍人心理素質，美國國防部正要打造一批「超級士兵」，用藥物令軍人不懂恐懼上戰場，並即將展開臨床測試。但用藥炮製超級士兵，立即引起道德爭議，醫學界質疑這會製造冷血無情的殺人機器。
美國國防部高級研究規劃局（ DARPA）在名為「抗壓計劃」之下，即將展開臨床測試，要以腦掃描技術在現有註冊藥物當中尋找一種化合物，阻止令腦部產生恐懼感的蛋白發生作用。 DARPA拒絕透露將用那些藥物測試，僅指用現有註冊藥物測試可節省時間，不用像研發新藥那樣要花上 15年測試和審批。
引起道德爭議
DARPA研究員相信，這項研究最終能為每名士兵提供度身訂做的藥物，消除他們在戰場上的恐懼感，成為超級士兵。其實，美國一直嘗試用藥物加強士兵戰力和應付戰爭後遺症，譬如向越戰退伍軍人處方降血壓藥 Prazosin，以減少他們發噩夢和傷痕記憶閃現，有關研究現時每年撥款 4億美元（ 31.2億港元）。
然而，用藥物打造不知驚恐的士兵，引起道德爭議。英國皇家學會一個專家小組下月就發表報告，列出應用神經科學於軍事所涉的法律、道德和人權問題。英國公開大學榮休生命科學講師羅斯就說：「以為用藥可隨意控制思想的構思是很天馬行空及可疑。」倫敦國皇學院軍事精神料專家韋塞利則說，如果能用藥消除恐懼和創傷記憶，「人們就不會為自己所做壞事不快」，構成道德問題。
負責研究計劃的馬切多尼亞上校則辯稱，計劃將可改善士兵在戰場上安全，減少酗酒濫藥：「如果你擔心有藥物會令情緒反應變鈍和被濫用，我們已有一種，就是酒精。我們希望加強控制壓力的能力而不影響其他情緒，以及沒有酒精對身心的損害。」
英國《星期日泰晤士報》
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20111205&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15339&art_id=15861918
打仗勝利之道，除了要船堅炮利，還要打心理戰。為了提升軍人心理素質，美國國防部正要打造一批「超級士兵」，用藥物令軍人不懂恐懼上戰場，並即將展開臨床測試。但用藥炮製超級士兵，立即引起道德爭議，醫學界質疑這會製造冷血無情的殺人機器。
美國國防部高級研究規劃局（ DARPA）在名為「抗壓計劃」之下，即將展開臨床測試，要以腦掃描技術在現有註冊藥物當中尋找一種化合物，阻止令腦部產生恐懼感的蛋白發生作用。 DARPA拒絕透露將用那些藥物測試，僅指用現有註冊藥物測試可節省時間，不用像研發新藥那樣要花上 15年測試和審批。
引起道德爭議
DARPA研究員相信，這項研究最終能為每名士兵提供度身訂做的藥物，消除他們在戰場上的恐懼感，成為超級士兵。其實，美國一直嘗試用藥物加強士兵戰力和應付戰爭後遺症，譬如向越戰退伍軍人處方降血壓藥 Prazosin，以減少他們發噩夢和傷痕記憶閃現，有關研究現時每年撥款 4億美元（ 31.2億港元）。
然而，用藥物打造不知驚恐的士兵，引起道德爭議。英國皇家學會一個專家小組下月就發表報告，列出應用神經科學於軍事所涉的法律、道德和人權問題。英國公開大學榮休生命科學講師羅斯就說：「以為用藥可隨意控制思想的構思是很天馬行空及可疑。」倫敦國皇學院軍事精神料專家韋塞利則說，如果能用藥消除恐懼和創傷記憶，「人們就不會為自己所做壞事不快」，構成道德問題。
負責研究計劃的馬切多尼亞上校則辯稱，計劃將可改善士兵在戰場上安全，減少酗酒濫藥：「如果你擔心有藥物會令情緒反應變鈍和被濫用，我們已有一種，就是酒精。我們希望加強控制壓力的能力而不影響其他情緒，以及沒有酒精對身心的損害。」
英國《星期日泰晤士報》
http://hk.apple.nextmedia.com/template/apple/art_main.php?iss_id=20111205&sec_id=15335&subsec_id=15339&art_id=15861918
荷研生物燈 借細菌發光
明報
【明報專訊】荷蘭電器公司飛利浦利用生物發光（bioluminescent）的原理研發「生物燈」，改寫家居能源的消耗方式。
生物發光是一種化學現象，指生物體內一種名為「螢光素」（luciferin）的蛋白質與酵素「螢光素酶」（luciferase）產生化學作用而發光，螢火蟲和發光細菌都是以此原理發光。飛利浦的「生物燈」是由一組以鋼架固定的手工製玻璃瓶組成，裏面盛載含有發光細菌的液體，並以管道連接至一個家居廢物分解器。分解器會向玻璃瓶輸出分解廢物所得的甲烷，作為發光細菌的「食糧」，令細菌發出綠光，適合用作調整家居氣氛。
飛利浦稱，生物燈為公司「微生物家居計劃」的成果，計劃旨在利用生物科技將家居廢物轉為再生能源，改寫家居能源消耗方式。
有線新聞網絡
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/荷研生物燈-借細菌發光-212547344.html
【明報專訊】荷蘭電器公司飛利浦利用生物發光（bioluminescent）的原理研發「生物燈」，改寫家居能源的消耗方式。
生物發光是一種化學現象，指生物體內一種名為「螢光素」（luciferin）的蛋白質與酵素「螢光素酶」（luciferase）產生化學作用而發光，螢火蟲和發光細菌都是以此原理發光。飛利浦的「生物燈」是由一組以鋼架固定的手工製玻璃瓶組成，裏面盛載含有發光細菌的液體，並以管道連接至一個家居廢物分解器。分解器會向玻璃瓶輸出分解廢物所得的甲烷，作為發光細菌的「食糧」，令細菌發出綠光，適合用作調整家居氣氛。
飛利浦稱，生物燈為公司「微生物家居計劃」的成果，計劃旨在利用生物科技將家居廢物轉為再生能源，改寫家居能源消耗方式。
有線新聞網絡
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/荷研生物燈-借細菌發光-212547344.html
澳洲取消向印售鈾禁令
明報 – 5小時前
【明報專訊】澳洲執政工黨昨投票支持取消向印度出口鈾礦禁令，總理吉拉德稱，向印度出口鈾符合澳洲國家利益，但反對者批評，印度一直拒絕簽署核不擴散條約，取消禁令使澳洲在核不擴散立場上向國際社會發出錯誤信號。
吉拉德表示，澳洲已向中國、日本與美國出售鈾，印度發展迅速，向印度出口鈾符合國家利益，且有助加強澳洲與印度戰略伙伴關係。防長史密斯則稱，美國和印度已經簽署民用核能協議，澳洲亦可與印度簽署類似協議。世界核聯合會估計，澳洲擁有世界最大的鈾儲存量，佔全球界儲量23%。澳洲鈾產量居世界第三位，僅次於哈薩克和加拿大。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/澳洲取消向印售鈾禁令-212617176.html
【明報專訊】澳洲執政工黨昨投票支持取消向印度出口鈾礦禁令，總理吉拉德稱，向印度出口鈾符合澳洲國家利益，但反對者批評，印度一直拒絕簽署核不擴散條約，取消禁令使澳洲在核不擴散立場上向國際社會發出錯誤信號。
吉拉德表示，澳洲已向中國、日本與美國出售鈾，印度發展迅速，向印度出口鈾符合國家利益，且有助加強澳洲與印度戰略伙伴關係。防長史密斯則稱，美國和印度已經簽署民用核能協議，澳洲亦可與印度簽署類似協議。世界核聯合會估計，澳洲擁有世界最大的鈾儲存量，佔全球界儲量23%。澳洲鈾產量居世界第三位，僅次於哈薩克和加拿大。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/澳洲取消向印售鈾禁令-212617176.html
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