The only reason you wouldn't monitor them is if

CORRECTING THE CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

In a discussion of the bullets that are used in fifty caliber
rifles, a recent Congressional Research Service report included
this account:

"A single grain is equivalent to 0.0648 gram. As one pound is
equivalent to 28.350 grams, a 665 grain bullet would weigh
about 1.52 pounds."

See "Long-Range Fifty Caliber Rifles: Should They Be More
Strictly Regulated?," May 20, 2005, page 2, footnote 5:

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22151.pdf

But wait! One pound is equivalent to 454 grams, not 28 grams
(which equals one ounce).

"Maybe the Congress really does need an OTA," quipped Allen
Thomson, who was the first of several Secrecy News readers to
spot the CRS error. (OTA, the Office of Technology Assessment,
was the scientific advisory body terminated by Congress in
1995.)

No one, of course, is above error. But one of the
unacknowledged adverse consequences of the CRS policy of
restricting distribution of its reports is that such errors may
be harder to detect than they would be if anyone, anywhere were
free to review the reports.

In this case, a revised copy of the CRS report, without the
offending footnote, was issued on May 25

Leeds United security manager Jeff Stoyles reported seeing something on the prowl recently, but recent searches for the mystery animal have been fruitless. A spokesman for the British Big Cat Society has explained that there have been several sightings of big cats in various parts of the country and that it is possible for them to survive in urban environments.
http://www.leedsunited.com/article.asp?article=289541&blnFeedback=&Title=Claws+Encounters+Of+The+Furred+Kind+-+Update!&navlid=newsroom

The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), an alliance grouping Russia, China and central Asian countries on Tuesday called for the US-led anti-terrorist coalition in Afghanistan to set a time frame for withdrawing its forces from member states.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_6-7-2005_pg1_1

If that was the CIA’s purpose, it clearly failed. Nasr was tortured and held for more than a year before being released briefly in April 2004 under a form of house arrest. He contacted his wife and rang an Egyptian cleric in Milan to explain what had taken place, then promptly disappeared again. Chicago Tribune correspondents in Egypt confirmed that he was being held without charge at the Damanhour prison outside of Alexandria and found family members too terrified to talk.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jul2005/cia-j05.shtml

Next question: "What is this base going to be used for?"
 
"A storage facility for the IDF."
 
I respond: "Suddenly the IDF is suffering a huge lack of warehouse space? I mean, how big is this base?"
 
"It will be half the area of all Tel Aviv."
 
"For storage? What is the American role then in this base?"
 
"They are building it for us. All the supervisors are American."
 
"What are those underground tunnels for?"
 
"No tunnels. It just looks that way because of the topography. Look, you came to the wrong person. I'm a simple builder from Rosh Haayin. What do I know?"
http://www.rense.com/general66/excl.htm

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Corporate announcements of job reductions increased by 35% from May's 82,282 and by 73% from June 2004's 64,343, Challenger said Wednesday. Cuts are up 92% since April.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B5E273562-1479-43BB-AA67-F00966B7BF96%7D&siteid=google

``Pleading to the G-8 to lift debts won't make a future for Africa,'' said Gadhafi, wearing his traditional African dress while praising Africa's natural resources and treasures. ``We need cooperation between the big and the small countries in the world.''

``Begging won't make a future for Africa,'' he added.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5117330,00.html

In Chapter 10, Posner drops a highly explosive story on the reader. Drawing sources from Israeli intelligence as well as from a file that the National Security Agency (NSA) called the “Petroleum Scorched Earth,” Posner reports that Saudi officials have wired all their major oil facilities with a network of Semtex explosives that some Saudi king or designated prince can detonate from a single control point. As if this news does not shock us, Posner adds that this network of explosive charges includes several extremely toxic, radioactive materials. It’s a huge dirty bomb that would contaminate the world’s richest oil fields and thus prohibit oil extraction.

Posner explains that the Saudi Royalty installed these explosives in order to make certain that nobody could benefit from taking down the Saud regime. If internal or external forces bring down the House of Saud, Posner writes, the new world order, as we know it, goes with it because all the oil on which the Western military industrial complex depends disappears forever
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1102

The U.S. Agriculture Department says it has tracked the latest confirmed case of "mad cow" disease to a 12-year-old animal born in Texas. The agency said the cow was slaughtered last November for use in pet food and did not enter the human food supply
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/mad_cow_tx2.html


But for all the problems faced by residents across the city, the neighborhoods within a few blocks of the wall have become a world apart. Mortar rounds and rockets fired at the Green Zone fall short and land there. Suicide bombers, unable to breach the wall, explode in shops just outside it. And the maze of checkpoints, blocked streets and rumbling US armor may be thicker here than anywhere else in Baghdad.

"We are the new Palestine," said Saman Abdel Aziz Rahman, owner of the Serawan kebab restaurant, hard upon the northern reaches of the wall.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2005/07/06/2003262424

This is not the first time that a group of well-connected entrepreneurs has persuaded a municipality to seize private property in order to facilitate their planned development project. It happened in Arlington -- Arlington, Texas, that is, and one of the entrepreneurs, albeit a small bore one, was our nominal president, G.W. Bush, at the time a failed, would-be oil man, but one with a magic -- in Texas anyway -- last name.

Kevin Phillips, a long-time Republican strategist turned apostate, describes the deal in his book, American Dynasty.
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/opinion/stories/op070605s176341.shtml

So when Sheehan received an invitation to meet privately with President Bush at the White House two months after her son died, the least she could have expected was a bit of compassion or a kind word coming from the heart.

But what she encountered was an arrogant man with eyes lacking the slightest bit of compassion, a President totally "detached from humanity" and a man who didn’t even bother to remember her son’s name when they were first introduced.

Instead of a kind gesture or a warm handshake, Sheehan said she immediately got a taste of Bush arrogance when he entered the room and "in a condescending tone and with a disgusting loud Texas accent," said: "Who we’all honorin’ here today?"

"His mouth kept moving, but there was nothing in his eyes or anything else about him that showed me he really cared or had any real compassion at all. This is a human being totally disconnected from humanity and reality. His eyes were empty, hollow shells and he was acting like I should be proud to just be in his presence when it was my son who died for his illegal war! It was one of the most disgusting experiences I ever had and it took me almost a year to even talk about it," said Sheehan in a telephone conversation from Washington D.C. where she was attending a July 4th anti-war rally.

Sheehan said the June 2004 private meeting with the President went from bad to worse to a nightmare when Bush acted like he didn’t even want to know her name. She said Bush kept referring to her as ‘Ma’ or ‘Mom’ while he "put on a phony act," saying things like ‘Mom, I can’t even imagine losing a loved one, a mother or a father or a sister or a brother.’

"The whole meeting was simply bizarre and disgusting, designed to intimidate instead of providing compassion. He didn’t even know our names," said Sheehan. "Finally I got so upset I just looked him in the eye, saying ‘I think you can imagine losing someone. You have two daughters. Imagine losing them?’ After I said that he just looked at me, looked at me with no feeling or caring in his eyes at all."
http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1668

According to the former director of the Freedom of Thought Foundation (now the director of the CAHRA organization), Cheryl Welsh, in the USA over 500 people complaining about being subjected to mind control experiments are documented. Also in Russia the Association of Victims of Mind Control Experiments was formed. Its director is Emilia Cherkina, former deputy in the Russian city of Zelenograd. Most probably it was her case that inspired a group of Zelenograd deputies to mail to the president Yeltsin a petition signed by 150 people demanding that he opens an investigation into the use of biolelectronic weapons (69). In the same article is a quotation of one of the alleged victims: They controlled my laughter, my thoughts and caused pain in different parts of my body
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=74171



Again and again we see hints of ritual sexual practices in the most secretive corners of Military Intelligence (as superbly chronicled by Jeff Wells on his Rigorous Intuition blog). I think this is the most important, and regularly overlooked, clue about what really goes on behind the locked doors in the heart of Black Ops. Mayer is giving us a vital clue when she places the sexual incident described above at the close of her article. Pay close attention.
http://www.charm.net/~profpan/2005/07/sex-drugs-mind-control-and-gitmo.html

Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecutors said Wednesday
http://www.rense.com/general66/geno.htm

The CPA maintained one fund of nearly $600m cash for which there is no paperwork: $200m of it was kept in a room in one of Saddam's former palaces. The US soldier in charge used to keep the key to the room in his backpack, which he left on his desk when he popped out for lunch. Again, this is Iraqi money, not US funds.
...
At the same time, the IAMB discovered that Iraqi oil exports were unmetered. Neither the Iraqi State Oil Marketing Organisation nor the American authorities could give a satisfactory explanation for this. "The only reason you wouldn't monitor them is if you don't want anyone else to know how much is going through," one petroleum executive told me.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html