tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340121772024-03-08T06:55:17.471-08:00Collen DuBOSEdrawings, recollections, videos, animations, stories, zeitgiestidgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.comBlogger388125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-40562419740860450962009-08-28T23:17:00.001-07:002009-08-28T23:17:14.454-07:00vids?http://s18.photobucket.com/albums/b126/idgaff27/video%20MISC/idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-91410248095035336662009-02-08T00:03:00.001-08:002009-02-08T00:03:39.095-08:00stuck all the new draws together<img src="http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/4834/biggerestib3.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-27900622897846251532009-02-04T11:17:00.001-08:002009-07-09T20:43:58.987-07:00RECENTLY I've<img src="http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5743/ownercopy.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br/>By <a target="_new" href="http://profile.imageshack.us/user/collen">collen</a> at 2009-06-30<br /><br /><img src="http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/8473/cookiesnyc.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><br /><img src="http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/8025/octomom.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><br /><img src="http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3082/dani003.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-87141056710402187062009-02-04T11:13:00.000-08:002009-07-09T20:44:29.298-07:00scans cleaned up<img src="http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/9691/summerf.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-13069605876243272992008-11-27T13:31:00.001-08:002009-07-09T20:45:05.359-07:00robot and a merbear<img src="http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1356/robittmerbr.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-23143748687531981082008-11-25T13:52:00.000-08:002009-07-09T20:45:57.457-07:00"sahara shark"<img src="http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/9713/sharkcactus004.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-43615991358746479332008-11-14T14:02:00.000-08:002009-07-09T20:51:42.638-07:00"modern romance"<img src="http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/339/britneyx.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-61577631318284789752008-11-12T22:50:00.001-08:002009-07-09T20:50:12.374-07:00"acute awareness"<img src="http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/882/acuteawareness.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-11427487959789034302008-11-12T17:01:00.000-08:002009-07-09T20:47:25.206-07:00"taco ninja"<img src="http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/4307/taconinja001.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-14170342145288104802008-10-10T20:38:00.000-07:002008-10-10T20:44:33.529-07:00shit ima watching<object width="400" height="225"> <param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /> <param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1823335&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /> <embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1823335&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><br /><a href="http://vimeo.com/1823335?pg=embed&sec=1823335">The Universal Declaration of Human Rights</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user786199?pg=embed&sec=1823335">Seth Brau</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&sec=1823335">Vimeo</a>.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/iu0ztxdsFis&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/iu0ztxdsFis&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-89149499216277029772008-10-07T08:39:00.000-07:002009-07-09T20:53:47.816-07:00"untitled"<img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/8726/selfportraithx6.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-65674050923971708252008-09-30T19:08:00.000-07:002008-09-30T19:09:03.082-07:00post haste...exit strategy...<img src="http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/7906/dheadcolorra0.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6628/terrortextureap7.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-23030546668298483002008-09-12T10:29:00.000-07:002009-07-09T20:55:12.899-07:00make phonzie davis comics move...rought draft "Left Handed Sophie"<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5494783&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5494783&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5494783">LHS test</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1317126">team draw</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-87554584420473643742008-09-10T10:56:00.001-07:002008-09-10T10:57:30.984-07:00been a minute, dude.<img src="http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/1581/divasmallsqe9.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><br />been fixing the karoake machine at the fag bar.<br /><br />DIVA WORSHIP/ THINGS UNbeKNOWNST to MEidgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-63012368882203871852008-07-04T15:04:00.000-07:002008-07-04T15:05:15.137-07:00awesome edittt<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/to2hIhXrRTk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/to2hIhXrRTk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-38298913036058094622008-07-02T23:50:00.001-07:002008-07-02T23:50:57.306-07:00this is a stunt...fame is a drug<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="461" height="278" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" align="middle" base="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/" flashvars="Thumb=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/thumbs/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_-thumb.jpg&AutoPlay=off&AutoSize=on&ScrubMode=advanced&File=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/flash/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_.flv&DefaultRatio=0.5625" id="player_v1.1b"><param name="flashvars" value="Thumb=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/thumbs/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_-thumb.jpg&File=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/flash/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_.flv&AutoPlay=off&AutoSize=on&DefaultRatio=0.5625&title=Fred Durst Outtakes&description=Fred Durst stops by The Channel for some classic Web-o-Vision! Check out the next season of Tom Green's House Tonight on the Canadian Comedy Network to see the actual show!&keywords=fred, durst, limp, bizkit, rap, rock, wes, borland, nookie, director, ice cube, canadian, comedy, network, tv, tom, green, Los Angeles, Internet, Channel&id=1145" /><param name="movie" value="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/bitgravity_player.swf" /><param name="loop" value="false" /><param name="base" value="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="ScrubMode" value="advanced" /><param name="PostRoll" value="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/bitgravity/players/tomgreen/Bitgravity_postroll.swf" /><param name="AutoSize" value="on" /><param name="AutoPlay" value="off" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#3B8C30" /><embed src="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/bitgravity_player.swf?Thumb=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/thumbs/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_-thumb.jpg&File=http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/flash/062608FredDurstWEB_HD_.flv&AutoPlay=off&AutoSize=on&ScrubMode=advanced&title=Fred Durst Outtakes&description=Fred Durst stops by The Channel for some classic Web-o-Vision! Check out the next season of Tom Green's House Tonight on the Canadian Comedy Network to see the actual show!&keywords=fred, durst, limp, bizkit, rap, rock, wes, borland, nookie, director, ice cube, canadian, comedy, network, tv, tom, green, Los Angeles, Internet, Channel&id=1145" allowFullScreen="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" base="http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/tomgreen/" width="461" height="278" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" quality="high" loop="false" bgcolor="#3B8C30" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-26163367526282724982008-06-28T13:21:00.001-07:002008-06-28T13:21:23.947-07:00nobody cares a lick[Wednesday]'s vote by Congress effectively gives retroactive immunity to the telecom companies and endorses an all-powerful president. It’s a Congressional coup against the Constitution.<br />The Democratic leadership is touting the deal as a "compromise," but in fact they have endorsed the infamous Nuremberg defense: "Just following orders." The judge can only check their paperwork. This cynical deal is a Democratic exercise in deceit and cowardice.<br /><br />Congress has made the FISA law a dead letter--such a law is useless if the president can break it with impunity. Thus the Democrats have surreptitiously repudiated the main reform of the post-Watergate era and adopted Nixon’s line: "When the president does it that means that it is not illegal." This is the judicial logic of a dictatorship.<br />The surveillance system now approved by Congress provides the physical apparatus for the government to collect and store a huge database on virtually the entire population, available for data mining whenever the government wants to target its political opponents at any given moment—all in the hands of an unrestrained executive power. It is the infrastructure for a police state.<br /><br />Mark Kleinidgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-58112414938146664822008-06-25T06:24:00.001-07:002008-06-25T06:24:52.901-07:00damon dash<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4lWIX2ToJvY&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4lWIX2ToJvY&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-34929797163033186652008-06-23T20:23:00.000-07:002008-06-23T20:24:13.677-07:00obama's game plansTrilateral Commission<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br /><br />The Trilateral Commission is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation between America, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973, at the initiative of David Rockefeller; who was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations at that time. The Trilateral Commission is widely seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations.[1] He pushed the idea of including Japan at the Bilderberg meetings he was attending but was rebuffed. Along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and a few other people, including individuals from the Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations and the Ford Foundation, he convened initial meetings out of which grew the Trilateral organization.<br />Other founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both eventually heads of the Federal Reserve system.<br />Contents [hide]<br />1 History<br />2 Membership<br />3 References<br />4 See also<br />5 Further reading<br />6 External links<br />[edit]History<br /><br />Its first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo in October 1973. In May 1976, the first plenary meeting of all of the Commission's regional groups took place in Kyoto, attended by Jimmy Carter.[2] Today it consists of approximatively 300–350 private citizens from Europe, the Asia-Pacific region, and North America, and exists to promote closer political and economic cooperation between these areas, which are the primary industrial regions in the world.[3] Its official journal from its founding is a magazine called Trialogue.<br />Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of its three regional areas. These members include corporate CEOs, politicians of all major parties, distinguished academics, university presidents, labor union leaders and not-for-profits involved in overseas philanthropy. Members who gain a position in their respective country's government must resign from the Commission.<br />The organization has come under much scrutiny and criticism by political activists and academics working in the social and political sciences. The Commission has found its way into a number of conspiracy theories, especially when it became known that President Jimmy Carter appointed 26 former Commission members to senior positions in his Administration. Later it was revealed that Carter himself was a former Trilateral member. In the 1980 election, it was revealed that Carter and his two major opponents, John B. Anderson and George H. W. Bush, were also members, and the Commission became a campaign issue. Ronald Reagan supporters noted that he was not a Trilateral member, but after he was chosen as Republican nominee he chose Bush as his running mate; as president, he appointed a few Trilateral members to Cabinet positions and held a reception for the Commission in the White House in 1984. The conservative John Birch Society believes that the Trilateral Commission is dedicated to a one-world government.[4] In 1980, Holly Sklar released a book titled Trilateralism: the Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management.<br />Since many of the members were businesspeople or bankers, actions that they took or encouraged that helped the banking industry have been noted. Jeremiah Novak, writing in the July 1977 issue of Atlantic, said that after international oil prices rose when Nixon set price controls on American domestic oil, many developing countries were required to borrow from banks to buy oil: "The Trilaterists' emphasis on international economics is not entirely disinterested, for the oil crisis forced many developing nations, with doubtful repayment abilities, to borrow excessively. All told, private multinational banks, particularly Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan, have loaned nearly $52 billion to developing countries. An overhauled International Monetary Fund (IMF) would provide another source of credit for these nations, and would take the big private banks off the hook.This proposal is the cornerstone of the Trilateral plan."[5]<br />The North American continent is represented by 107 members (15 Canadian, seven Mexican and 85 U.S. citizens). The European group has reached its limit of 150 members, including citizens from Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.<br />At first, Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan. However, in 2000 the Japanese group of 85 members expanded itself, becoming the Pacific Asia group, composed of 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, seven Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also includes nine members from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.<br />[edit]Membership<br /><br />The three current chairmen are:<br />Joseph Nye: North America (University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chair, National Intelligence Council and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs);<br />Peter Sutherland: Europe (Irish businessman and former politician associated with the Fine Gael party; former Attorney General of Ireland and European Commissioner in the first Delors Commission; former Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization; Chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs International);<br />Yotaro Kobayashi: Pacific Asia (Chairman of Fuji Xerox).<br />Some others who are or have been members:<br />Krister Ahlström: Chairman, Ahlström Corp.; Vice Chairman, Stora Enso & Fortum; former Chairman, Finnish Employers Confederation<br />John B. Anderson: former US Congressman<br />Bruce Babbitt: Interior Secretary under Clinton[6]<br />Francisco Pinto Balsemão<br />Jim Balsillie: Chairman and Co-CEO of Research In Motion.<br />Raymond Barre: former French Prime Minister<br />Lloyd Bentsen: former US Senator and Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton[7]<br />Georges Berthoin: International Chairman of the European Movement from 1978–1981.<br />Catherine Ann Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary General in Management, former Director of World Food Program.<br />Ritt Bjerregaard: Mayor of Copenhagen, Danish Social Democrat MP, former Secretary of Education, member of various cabinets; European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999.<br />John H. Bryan: former CEO of Sara Lee bakeries, affiliated with the World Economic Forum and a director on the Boards of Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, British Petroleum and Bank One.<br />Zbigniew Brzezinski: U.S. National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.<br />James E. Burke: CEO of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989.<br />George H.W. Bush: Former President of the U.S.<br />Guido Carli: former Governor of the Banca d'Italia from 1960-1975<br />Frank Carlucci: President of Carlyle Group, U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989.<br />Jimmy Carter: Former President of the U.S.<br />Gerhard Casper: Constitutional scholar, faculty member and former President at Stanford University; successor trustee of Yale University and part of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Hungary.<br />Dick Cheney: current Vice President of the U.S.<br />Warren Christopher: former Secretary of State under Clinton and Deputy Secretary of State under Carter[1]<br />Henry Cisneros: HUD Secretary under Clinton[8]<br />Joe Clark: former Canadian Prime Minister<br />Bill Clinton: Former President of the U.S.<br />William Cohen: former Republican Congressman and US Senator, U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Clinton.<br />Tim Collins: CEO of Ripplewood Holdings LLC investment company; also part of the Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management board of advisors and U.S.-Japan non-profit organizations.<br />John Danforth: former US Senator<br />Hedley Donovan: former editor-in-chief of Time magazine, White House Advisor on Domestic and Foreign Policy under Carter, Trilateral Commission founding member[9]<br />Lawrence Eagleburger: former Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush<br />Bill Emmott: Former editor of The Economist magazine.<br />Aatos Erkko: Chairman, SanomaWSOY<br />Daniel J. Evans: former Governor of Washington<br />Dianne Feinstein: Democratic U.S. Senator, former Mayor of San Francisco, member of the Council on Foreign Relations; chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.<br />Martin Feldstein: Professor of economics at Harvard University; president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984; former director of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Bilderberg Group and of the World Economic Forum.<br />Hugh Fletcher: Chancellor of Auckland University and CEO of Fletcher Challenge.<br />David Gergen: Political consultant and presidential advisor during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford and Reagan; also served as advisor to Bill Clinton.<br />John Glenn: former astronaut, former US Senator and U.S. Presidential candidate[10]<br />Maldonado Gonelha<br />Allan Gotlieb: Canadian Ambassador to Washington from 1981 to 1989, chairman of the Canada Council from 1989 to 1994.<br />Bill Graham: former Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Paul Martin; for most of 2006, interim parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party.<br />Hank Greenberg: Former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation.<br />Alan Greenspan: Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve<br />Alexander Haig: former Secretary of State under Reagan<br />Sirkka Hämäläinen: Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland<br />Edward Heath: former British Prime Minister<br />Mugur Isarescu: Governor of the National Bank of Romania since 1990 and Prime Minister from December 1999 to November 2000; he worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs then for the Romanian Embassy in the U.S. after the 1989 Romanian revolution.<br />Max Jakobson: former Finnish ambassador to the United States<br />Sergei Karaganov: Presidential Advisor to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2005.<br />Henry Kissinger: U.S. diplomat, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations; former Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of JP Morgan Chase.<br />Joseph Kraft: syndicated columnist[11]<br />Otto Graf Lambsdorff: Chairman of the German Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1998; Economic Minister for West Germany from 1977 to 1984.<br />Liam Lawlor: Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil party; died in a car-crash in Moscow in 2005.<br />Pierre Lellouche: French MP of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party led by Nicolas Sarkozy.<br />Gerald M. Levin: Former CEO of Time Warner, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.<br />Mario Vargas Llosa<br />Peter Lougheed: former Premier of Alberta<br />Allan MacEachen: former Leader of the Government in the Senate (Canada)<br />Jorge Braga de Macedo<br />Francis Maude: MP for Horsham, the only British MP currently a member of the Trilateral Commission, former Conservative Party Chairman, son of the late Sir Angus Maude MP<br />John McCain: US Senator, 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, past attendee of the World Economic Forum, attended the 2007 Herzliya conference, attended the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Board of directors Chairman of the International Republican Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies Advisory Board member, Pacific Council on International Policy Board member, Republican Main Street Partnership Board member, Alfalfa Club member, attended the 1996 Trilateral Commission meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<br />Kiichi Miyazawa: Japanese Prime Minister in 1991–1993; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976, Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1984 to 1986, Minister of Finance in 1987 and again from 1999 to 2002.<br />Walter Mondale: former Vice President of the U.S. under Carter[2]<br />Akio Morita: Co-founder of Sony Corporation; vice chairman of the Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and member of the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group.<br />Lowell Murray: Canadian Senator<br />Indra Nooyi: CEO of PepsiCo<br />Andrzej Olechowski: Polish director of Euronet, USA; on the supervisory boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny; president of the Central European Forum; Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Poland from 1989 to 1991; Minister of Foreign Economic Relations from 1991 to 1992; Minister of Finance in 1992 and of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995; economic advisor to President Lech Wałęsa from 1992 to 1993 and in 1995, etc.)<br />Paul H. O'Neill: former Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush<br />Lucas Papademos: European Central Bank Vice President.<br />Martha C. Piper: Former Chancellor of UBC<br />Lee Raymond: Former CEO and Chairman, ExxonMobil, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute.<br />Charles Robb: former US Senator<br />Mary Robinson: President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 as a candidate for the Labour Party; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.<br />Dufferin Roblin: former Premier of Manitoba<br />David Rockefeller: Founder of the Trilateral Commission; Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank board from 1969 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985, now honorary Chairman; a life member of the Bilderberg Group.<br />Carl Rowan: syndicated columnist[12]<br />Robert Rubin: Treasury Secretary under Clinton[13]<br />Brent Scowcroft: former National Security Advisor under Ford and George H. W. Bush<br />William Scranton: former Governor of Pennsylvania<br />Tøger Seidenfaden: Editor-in-Chief, Politiken,Denmark . Also a Bilderberg attendee since 1995<br />Donna Shalala: Secretary of Health and Human Services under Clinton[14]<br />Gerard C. Smith: First U.S. Chairman of the Trilateral Commission; chief U.S. delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1969.<br />Miguel Sousa Soares: Management Consultant, EMPORDEF, MDN (Portugal) from 2005.<br />Ted Sorensen: former special adviser to President Kennedy[15]<br />Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Leader of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal) from 1996 to 1999.<br />Ron Southern: Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder of ATCO<br />Jessica Stern: Former NSC staff member, author, and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.<br />Robert Taft Jr.: former US Senator<br />James R. Thompson: former Governor of Illinois<br />George Vasiliou: President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993, founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party.<br />Paul Volcker: Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty.<br />Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense under Reagan[16]<br />Paul Wolfowitz: Former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington.<br />Isamu Yamashita<br />Lorenzo Zambrano: Chairman and CEO of CEMEX since 1985, the third largest cement company of the world; member of the board of IBM and Citigroup.<br />Robert Zoellick: President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Trade Representative.<br />[edit]References<br /><br /><br />The references in this article would be clearer with a different or consistent style of citation, footnoting, or external linking.<br />^ Berkman, Gene (1993). The Trilateral Commission and the New World Order. antiwar.com. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.<br />^ Trilateralism Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists<br />^ Trilateralism Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists<br />^ The Straight Dope: Is the Trilateral Commission the secret organization that runs the world?<br />^ The Trilateral Commission And The New World Order<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ The Trilateral Commission And The New World Order<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />^ Trilateralism Jimmy Carter and the Trilateralists<br />^ Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard<br />[edit]See also<br /><br />Council for Excellence in Government<br />Rand Corporation<br />Bilderberg Group<br />Bohemian Grove<br />New world order<br />Internationalismidgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-75868175243415280772008-06-22T20:16:00.001-07:002008-06-22T20:16:24.268-07:00nerd-core<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8zEQhhaJsU4&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8zEQhhaJsU4&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-32223637980496924312008-06-19T10:29:00.000-07:002008-06-19T10:30:11.795-07:00mashed out posse<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Vy2aJY6rq8&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Vy2aJY6rq8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-50445236699493621232008-06-18T22:59:00.000-07:002008-06-18T23:00:04.829-07:00i shot footage at a GRAY KID show<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KN6h5nsG990&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KN6h5nsG990&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-9302125081130338302008-06-17T18:41:00.001-07:002008-06-17T18:41:39.507-07:00mike jack lives thereAl Qaeda's Gold: Following Trail to Dubai<br /><br />By Douglas Farah<br /><br />Washington Post <br />February 18, 2002<br />Just as the United States and its allies swept toward Afghanistan's main cities last autumn, the ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden's Qaeda network sent waves of couriers with bars of gold and bundles of dollars across the porous border into Pakistan.<br /><br />In small shops and businesses along the border, the money and gold, taken from Afghanistan's banks and national coffers, were collected and moved by trusted Taliban and Qaeda operatives to the port city of Karachi, according to sources familiar with the events. Then, using couriers and the virtually untraceable hawala money transfer system, they transferred millions of dollars to this desert sheikhdom, where the assets were converted to gold bullion.<br /><br />The riches of the Taliban and Al Qaeda were subsequently scattered around the world through a financial structure that has been little affected by the international efforts to seize suspected terrorist assets. This account of the flight of the Taliban and Qaeda treasure from Afghanistan is based on dozens of interviews in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Europe and the United States.<br /><br />The gold trail was described by intelligence officers, law enforcement officials, gold brokers, and sources that have direct knowledge of some of Al Qaeda's financial movements, but not by Taliban or Al Qaeda operatives.<br /><br />v The interviews offered a tantalizing glimpse into the critical yet mysterious role played by gold in the finances of Al Qaeda, both before and after the Sept. 11 attacks. Gold has allowed the Taliban and bin Laden largely to preserve their financial resources, despite the military attack that battered their forces in Afghanistan, investigators and intelligence sources said.<br /><br />Al Qaeda also used diamonds purchased in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo, tanzanite from Tanzania and other commodities to make money and hide assets. But gold played a uniquely important role in the group's financial structure, investigators and intelligence sources said, because it is a global currency.<br /><br />"Gold is a huge factor in the moving of terrorist money because you can melt it, smelt it or deposit it on account with no questions asked," said a senior U.S. law enforcement official investigating gold transactions. "Why move it through Dubai? Because there is a willful blindness there."<br /><br />Since it is exempt from international reporting requirements for financial transactions, gold is a favored commodity in laundering money from drug trafficking, organized crime and terrorist activities, U.S. officials said. In addition, Dubai, one of seven sheikhdoms that make up the United Arab Emirates, has one of the world's largest and least regulated gold markets, making it an ideal place to hide.<br /><br />Dubai is also one of the region's most open banking centers and is the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates, one of three countries that maintained diplomatic relations with the Taliban until shortly after Sept. 11. Sitting at a strategic crossroad of the Gulf, South Asia and Africa, Dubai has long been a financial hub for Islamic militant groups. Much of the $500,000 used to fund the Sept. 11 attacks came through Dubai, investigators believe.<br /><br />"All roads lead to Dubai when it comes to money," said Patrick Jost, who until last year was a senior financial enforcement officer in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. "Everyone did business there." When the U.S. bombs began pounding Taliban and Al Qaeda targets last autumn, the rush of gold and money out of Afghanistan intensified.<br /><br />The Pakistani financial authorities said that $2 million to $3 million a day is usually hand-carried by couriers from Karachi to Dubai, mostly to buy gold. Late last year that amount increased significantly as money was moved out of Afghanistan, they said.<br /><br />Pakistani and U.S. officials estimate that $10 million from Afghanistan was taken out by courier over three weeks in late November and early December. The Taliban's fighters fled Kabul on Nov. 12 and abandoned Kandahar on Dec. 7.<br /><br />One of the couriers of cash and gold to Dubai was the Taliban consul-general in Karachi, Kaka Zada, who took at least one shipment of $600,000 to Dubai in the last week of November, according to two Pakistani sources who witnessed him carrying the money.<br /><br />In addition, U.S. and other officials said, millions more were sent through hawalas, the informal money transfer system widely used across the Middle East, North Africa and Asia that, outside of major cities, often serves as the only money transfer system.<br /><br />Rather than moving money through traceable mechanisms such as wire transfers, hawala brokers take a client's money, then call or e-mail a counterpart in the area where the client wants the money delivered. The counterpart pays out the sum. When the transaction is complete, the records are destroyed.<br /><br />Gold is often used by hawala brokers to balance their books. Hawala dealers also routinely have gold, rather than currency, placed around the globe.<br /><br />"There are no traditional banking systems in Afghanistan or Somalia," Jost said. "Everything is done through hawala, and gold is the fuel hawala runs on."<br /><br />U.S. investigators, led by the Customs Service, have begun poring over transactions of some of Dubai's largest and most prestigious gold brokerages for possible links to the movement of Al Qaeda or Taliban money and have found unusual gold shipments into the United States after Sept. 11.<br /><br />A customs official said that as part of efforts to "investigate terrorist financing," the agency was "scrutinizing movements of gold by several companies, including ARY Gold," one of Dubai's largest and most prestigious gold bullion and jewelry dealers.<br /><br />ARY's cramped headquarters are situated in the heart of Dubai's gold market - an area several blocks square, filled with stores that sell little else. Abdul Razzak, the Pakistani owner of ARY Gold, strongly denied knowingly doing business with the Taliban or Al Qaeda.<br /><br />"I am a God-fearing person, but all my life I have been afraid of religious people like the Taliban," Razzak said. "I wouldn't like to deal with Taliban people, and we don't like Taliban people.<br /><br />"If you say you want 100 kilos of gold, I can give you that wherever you want in 12 hours. What you do with it is your business."<br /><br />Razzak, who owns three of Dubai's largest gold jewelry stores, said he imports and exports gold legally. Dubai has no restrictions on either activity, and Razzak said competitors were spreading lies about his company out of jealousy.<br /><br />During two interviews, Razzak displayed few hints that he was a powerful political and financial broker. Wearing a simple white robe, he spoke in a small office separated by a glass partition from brokers monitoring a bank of computers. On the wall were plaques commemorating his gifts to charitable causes.<br /><br />In 1998, Pakistani investigators looking into government corruption found two checks, each for $5 million, allegedly paid by ARY Gold in 1994 to Asif Ali Zardari, the husband of Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani prime minister at the time, to secure a two-year monopoly on gold imports to Pakistan.<br /><br />While acknowledging that he held the monopoly and shipped $500 million in gold to Pakistan from 1994 to 1996, Razzak said that he had paid no bribes and that "enemies" had falsified the bank documents.<br /><br />He was cleared of criminal charges in Dubai but still faces charges in Pakistan from that case, the Pakistani authorities said.<br /><br />In addition to using gold to hide assets, there is evidence that Al Qaeda smuggled gold into Pakistan and India for profit. Smuggling gold is lucrative because the two countries have a high demand for gold and legal gold imports are taxed.<br /><br />A Qaeda manual found by British forces in Afghanistan late last year included not only chapters on how to build explosives and clean weapons, but also on how to smuggle gold on small boats or conceal it on the body, British and U.S. officials said.<br /><br />The officials said that the Taliban and Al Qaeda moved large quantities of gold into Afghanistan after the Taliban rose to power in the mid-1990s, in part because most people in the region are more familiar with gold than foreign currencies. The officials said the Taliban collected taxes in gold from the heads of Pakistani and Indian trucking networks that hauled cargo through Afghanistan.<br /><br />Donations to Al Qaeda and the Taliban from wealthy supporters were often made in gold, the officials said, and taxes on opium production, a source of revenue for both groups, were also paid in gold, according to U.S. and British officials. Gold bullion was flown directly from Dubai to the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on Ariana Afghan Airlines, the officials said. "The Taliban took gold into Afghanistan because there was nothing else they could take there," said Jost, who has studied the use of gold by terrorist groups. "The local money was worthless, and foreign currency brings suspicion, but if you show up with gold, people know exactly what that is worth." For Al Qaeda to operate, the gold needed to be easily convertible to cash, and to be available around the world. For that, the organization is believed to rely on a hidden financial network across the Middle East, Pakistan and Europe, U.S. and European investigators said.<br /><br />Dubai's links to suspected terrorist financing and money laundering have long been a point of contention between the United States and the United Arab Emirates. "There is no question the UAE was used by terrorists, the question is why," a U.S. official said. "It is no more lax and unregulated than many places. The answer is, Dubai is so damn convenient."idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-7224281768026890472008-06-17T18:03:00.000-07:002008-06-17T18:09:10.954-07:00i'm here to murder the devil...<img src="http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/3823/obamahypepipeln2.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/8429/photo236cu3.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/2233/graydrawcy7.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/359/graypost2ha1.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/5092/fugnastibs2.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><br /><img src="http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/728/graykidrx0.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/574/lipslt6.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/574/lipslt6.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/574/lipslt6.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><img src="http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/574/lipslt6.gif" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ol1BH-e6Y0k&hl=en"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ol1BH-e6Y0k&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34012177.post-8495253521351435572008-06-08T00:57:00.000-07:002008-06-08T00:58:20.335-07:00fuck yeah, this is spot on...<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yqmGaWzI0zQ&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yqmGaWzI0zQ&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>idgaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03468848413430613793noreply@blogger.com0