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On The Border
Al Stewart
The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border
In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away
Late last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we're all standing on the border
In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It's just the patterns that remain
An empty shell
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well
The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On the border
On the border
On the border
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
Excerpt:
Self-determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference. The principle does not state how the decision is to be made, or what the outcome should be, whether it be independence, federation, protection, some form of autonomy or even full assimilation.[1] Neither does it state what the delimitation between nations should be — or even what constitutes a nation. In fact, there are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination.[2] Moreover, self-determination is just one of many principles applied to determining international borders.[3]
By extension the term self-determination has come to mean the free choice of one's own acts without external compulsion
Spain's Basque separatists ETA announce ceasefire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPrLUa77r8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
Excerpt:
Since 2000, the Mugabe-led government embarked on a controversial fast-track land reform program intended to correct the inequitable land distribution created by colonial rule.[6] The period has been marked by the deterioration of the Zimbabwean economic situation. Mugabe's policies have been condemned in some quarters at home and abroad, especially receiving harsh criticism from the British and American governments arguing they amount to an often violent land seizure. Eventually[when?] a wide range of sanctions[7][8][9] was imposed by the US government and European Union against the person of Mugabe, individuals, private companies, parastatals and the government of Zimbabwe. In 2008, his party suffered a tight defeat in national parliamentary elections, but after disputed presidential elections, Mugabe retained presidential power with the signing of a power-sharing deal with opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara of the MDC-T and MDC-M opposition party
http://www.insiderzim.com/stories/3203-mbeki-said-tsvangirai-was-a-western-puppet-hook-line-and-sinker.html
Excerpt:
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Mary Deane Conners. Reasons 1.4
(b) and (d).
¶1. (C) British diplomat Marianne Young (protect) told PolOff
on 09 May that President Mbeki's chief strategist, Joel
Netshitenzhe, has bought Mugabe's argument that the MDC is a
western puppet "hook, line, and sinker." Young had just
returned from a meeting with an unnamed source in the
presidency who told her that Netshitenzhe believes Zimbabwe
is a "failed Orange Revolution," and that the U.S. and UK are
using "western tactics like trying to cobble together 50
percent for MDC, which obviously did not happen." According
to Young's source, Netshitenzhe also believes the arguments
made to President Mbeki in Pretoria on 06 May by ZANU-PF
negotiators Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche that
teachers at polling stations manipulated the results in favor
of MDC.
http://talkzimbabwe.com/?p=1135
Excerpt:
Alltel, the wireless phone company, agreed last night to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion, marking the largest buyout ever in the telecommunications industry.
The consortium includes the Texas Pacific Group and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs. The deal would make Alltel, based in Little Rock, Ark., the latest large public company to seek to go private amid a frenzy of deal-making among private equity firms.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/reilly.html
Excerpt: 
Reilly served as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H.W. Bush. More recently, as a consultant for the private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, he helped broker the leveraged buyout of the Texas energy company TXU, which had planned to build 11 coal-fired power plants in the state. Here Reilly talks about the TXU deal and his memories of the first Bush administration. This is an edited transcript of an interview conducted March 19, 2007.
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/partners/sap.aspx#fbid=vxFtmH8dNTH
Excerpt:
FORENSIC ECONOMICS: Sophisticated software for automated debt recovery, MindBox automated micro-loan network which it is alleged rewards contract killers who survive the attack. Investigation reveals that contract assassins are arranged to be hit like in the 1972 Munich Olympic contract hits. It is also alleged in 1992 Sidley Austin appears to have instructed MDA-Countrywide to begin development of MindBox automated tontine loan recovery from Sidley/AXA Equitable life and property insurance on victims and borrowers. MindBox holds escrow funds and are paid out accordingly. An apt description of this sophisticated system would be a “an automated military grade killing machine”, or, killing by the numbers.
http://www.slatkinfraud.com/reed_elnk.php
Excerpt:
When the Reed Slatkin story first broke, it wasn't surprising to see Earthlink doing its best to disown its former founding investor with a hastily-issued press release. However, Reed's initial investment in the company wasn't the only link between Earthlink, Reed Slatkin and the Church of Scientology.
Earthlink was originally the brainchild of longtime Scientologist Sky Dayton, who is still chair of the company. Slatkin was introduced to Dayton by fellow Scientologist, and Slatkin 75 "net gainer" Kevin O'Donnell.
It was Dayton's enthusiastic explanation of the company that he wanted to build that first captivated Reed Slatkin, according to his deposition, and persuaded him to invest $75,000 in Earthlink.
That investment provided to be one of the only successful ventures that Reed Slatkin would ever make. For the rest of his tumultuous career as "investment counselor" to friends, family, celebrities and fellow Scientologists, Slatkin found himself in constant, fruitless and expensive pursuit of another Earthlink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Philip_Gale
Excerpts:
1) The death of Philip Gale by suicide took place on Friday March 13, 1998. Gale fell to his death from a classroom window on the fifteenth floor of a building on the MIT campus. Before ending his life, Gale (a pioneering internet software developer, computer prodigy, and avid musician) had earned roughly a million dollars worth of stock options for his innovative internet service provider (ISP) programs at EarthLink.
2) Philip Chandler Gale (born 1978, Los Angeles, California) and his sister Elizabeth were the children of Marie Gale, a Scientology official, and David Gale, a software programmer who died from a heart attack in 1995.[2][3] Gale was profoundly affected by his father's death, and still struggling to come to terms with it at the time of his suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Dayton
Excerpts:
1) Sky Dylan Dayton (born 8 August 1971) is an American entrepreneur.
Dayton is the founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, founder and chairman of Boingo
At the age of 9, Dayton got his first computer, a Sinclair ZX81. He learned to program in BASIC on this early machine. At age 16, Dayton graduated from The Delphian School, a private boarding school in Oregon, which uses study methods developed by L. Ron Hubbard. He got a job at an entertainment advertising firm, where he became exposed to Apple Macintosh hardware and digital imaging software and soon managed the digital imaging department. He then moved on to a larger advertising agency, Mednick & Associates, where he held a similar role until he was 18
2) Dayton is the great grandson of politician, industrialist and poet, Sam DeWitt.
Dayton is married to novelist Arwen Elys Dayton. They are Scientologists and they have three children
Boingo
Excerpt:
Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI) is a public company that provides global Wi-Fi services at more than 125,000 hotspots worldwide – including hundreds of airports, thousands of hotels, and tens of thousand cafes and coffee shops. It was founded by Sky Dayton, who also founded Earthlink.
In January 2011, the company announced plans for an IPO by submitting a filing with the SEC. In April 2011, Boingo Wireless set its IPO terms, planning to raise $75 million by offering 5.8 million shares at a price range of $12 to $14.[1]
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On my wall the colours of the maps are running
From Africa the winds they talk of changes coming
The torches flare up in the night
The hand that sets the farms alight
Has spread the word to those who're waiting on the border
In the village where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
Still you never see the change from day to day
And no-one notices the customs slip away
Late last night the rain was knocking at my window
I moved across the darkened room and in the lampglow
I thought I saw down in the street
The spirit of the century
Telling us that we're all standing on the border
In the islands where I grew up
Nothing seems the same
It's just the patterns that remain
An empty shell
But there's a strangeness in the air you feel too well
The fishing boats go out across the evening water
Smuggling guns and arms across the Spanish border
The wind whips up the waves so loud
The ghost moon sails among the clouds
Turns the rifles into silver on the border
On the border
On the border
On the border
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-determination
Excerpt:
Self-determination is the principle in international law that nations have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no external compulsion or external interference. The principle does not state how the decision is to be made, or what the outcome should be, whether it be independence, federation, protection, some form of autonomy or even full assimilation.[1] Neither does it state what the delimitation between nations should be — or even what constitutes a nation. In fact, there are conflicting definitions and legal criteria for determining which groups may legitimately claim the right to self-determination.[2] Moreover, self-determination is just one of many principles applied to determining international borders.[3]
By extension the term self-determination has come to mean the free choice of one's own acts without external compulsion
Spain's Basque separatists ETA announce ceasefire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDPrLUa77r8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
Excerpt:
Since 2000, the Mugabe-led government embarked on a controversial fast-track land reform program intended to correct the inequitable land distribution created by colonial rule.[6] The period has been marked by the deterioration of the Zimbabwean economic situation. Mugabe's policies have been condemned in some quarters at home and abroad, especially receiving harsh criticism from the British and American governments arguing they amount to an often violent land seizure. Eventually[when?] a wide range of sanctions[7][8][9] was imposed by the US government and European Union against the person of Mugabe, individuals, private companies, parastatals and the government of Zimbabwe. In 2008, his party suffered a tight defeat in national parliamentary elections, but after disputed presidential elections, Mugabe retained presidential power with the signing of a power-sharing deal with opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara of the MDC-T and MDC-M opposition party
http://www.insiderzim.com/stories/3203-mbeki-said-tsvangirai-was-a-western-puppet-hook-line-and-sinker.html
Excerpt:
Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission Mary Deane Conners. Reasons 1.4
(b) and (d).
¶1. (C) British diplomat Marianne Young (protect) told PolOff
on 09 May that President Mbeki's chief strategist, Joel
Netshitenzhe, has bought Mugabe's argument that the MDC is a
western puppet "hook, line, and sinker." Young had just
returned from a meeting with an unnamed source in the
presidency who told her that Netshitenzhe believes Zimbabwe
is a "failed Orange Revolution," and that the U.S. and UK are
using "western tactics like trying to cobble together 50
percent for MDC, which obviously did not happen." According
to Young's source, Netshitenzhe also believes the arguments
made to President Mbeki in Pretoria on 06 May by ZANU-PF
negotiators Patrick Chinamasa and Nicholas Goche that
teachers at polling stations manipulated the results in favor
of MDC.
http://talkzimbabwe.com/?p=1135
Excerpt:
Britain pushing for MDC unity
Posted by By Our reporter at 19 July, at 00 : 45 AM Print
BRITAIN and some Western countries are pushing for the two MDC factions to unite ahead of the elections, amid reports that MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has lost a lot of support in Matabeleland region.
The MDC-T plan is to push for the modification of the meetings of principals to the Global Political Agreement to “smuggle” in Professor Welshman Ncube who leads the other MDC formation as a principal, in a bid to win the support of the smaller MDC formation.
The smaller MDC faction is currently embroiled in a fight on who between Prof Ncube and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara should sit in the principals’ meetings.
Tsvangirai and Prof Ncube are said to be under pressure from their western sponsors and handlers who want them to unite ahead of the elections.
Some members of the EU want a united MDC as they now believe the emergence of the Welshman Ncube-led MDC and other parties in Matabeleland has cost Tsvangirai some ground in that region.
Organisations like Freedom House and International Republican Institute (US) and the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (UK) are being used to unite the factions
Tsvangirai and his senior officials flew to South Africa last Thursday to meet their sponsors as well as discuss the alliance with Prof Ncube.
However, Prof Ncube – who was scheduled to also fly to SA – failed to do so.
The trip coincided with the arrival of British premier David Cameron’s advance team to SA.
The MDC-T is proposing a meeting of political leaders which would involve himself, Welshman Ncube and the President to strip Mutambara of political status while smuggling in Professor Ncube, according to sources.
Excerpt:
Extension of sanctions, undermines the country's efforts to leverage its economy: Mutambara
2011 December 16 | 440 Views
Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara on Wednesday said the extension of sanctions this week by the USA on Mbada Diamonds and Marange Resources undermines the country's efforts to leverage its economy. Mutambara said : "This House must condemn Obama for deliberately undermining our efforts to driv...
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During his banking career, Mr. Wand was the underwriting analyst for technology innovators such as SAP, Autonomy, SurfControl, Utimaco and nCipher.
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Rosemary Vimbayi Matipano's Summary
5+ years experience as a payroll consultant doing implementation ,training and client support . Implemented SAP Payroll module at Mbada Diamonds.
Specialties
• Developing training material and test plans
• Program testing and analysis
• Payroll administration
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/36202/us1-billion-marange-diamonds-looted.html
Excerpt:
• Program testing and analysis
• Payroll administration
http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/news/36202/us1-billion-marange-diamonds-looted.html
Excerpt:
US$1 billion Marange diamonds looted
ILLEGAL diamond diggers at Marange before the army chased them away
HARARE -- Diamonds worth as much as US$ 1 billion could have been illegally mined at the Marange fields, mostly by the Zimbabwean army and the proceeds used to partly finance a campaign of violence to keep Mugabe in power while some were pocketed by members of Zimbab
HARARE -- Diamonds worth as much as US$ 1 billion could have been illegally mined at the Marange fields, mostly by the Zimbabwean army and the proceeds used to partly finance a campaign of violence to keep Mugabe in power while some were pocketed by members of Zimbab
Excerpt:
Global Witness Quits Kimberley Process Over Zimbabwean Diamond Shipments
By Michael J. Kavanagh - Dec 5, 2011 4:04 AM
Global Witness, the London-based advocacy group, said it’s withdrawing from the Kimberley Process, an organization it helped establish to monitor the sale of so-called conflict diamonds.
The group is pulling out after the “shocking” decision by the Kimberley Process last month to authorize exports by two companies operating in Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond fields. Members of Zimbabwe’s ruling party may use revenue from the area to fund the intimidation of voters ahead of elections in the southern African country, it said in an e-mailed statement today.
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A team of professionals experienced in Banking, Finance and Business Applications has developed PROMIS over a period of three years deploying 11 man-years. The Software has been operational since past 5 years and has several prestigious Installations including SAP Customers. PROMIS is totally parameterized in design to help easy customisation an implementation.
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Ptech is a high tech command and control system is probably the most advanced command and control and data mining software in the world. Experts call this “data blueprinting software”. This software combines artificia.l intelligence and interoperability, the capacity to read, modify source codes, and operate other programs --all without being detected thereafter. It is commonly called "Ptech" after the name of the firm that builds it. . It is a very advanced version of PROMIS and its progeny. It is used in a variety of areas including finance, medicine, intelligence, warfare, and aviation. The military uses it in a number of ways and looks to the day when it can be used from space to provide a "God's-eye view" of the battlefield. Some might think that reliance on this Saudi-owned computer software company might be more dangerous to the US than having most ports operated by a UAE company.
Coast Interview [01] Cheri Seymour INSLAW Octopus & PROMIS Software Scandal [Part 1] 12-26-10
Excerpt:
Systematics - since purchased by Alltel - an Arkansas financial and technical firm headed by billionaire Jackson Stephens, has often been reported as the primary developer of Promis for financial intelligence use. Systematics through its various evolutions had been a primary supplier of software used in inter-bank and international money transfers for many years. Attorneys who have been connected to Systematics and Promis include Webster Hubbell, Hillary Clinton and the late Vince Foster.
Excerpt:
Equity Firms to Buy Alltel in $27.5 Billion Deal
The consortium includes the Texas Pacific Group and the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs. The deal would make Alltel, based in Little Rock, Ark., the latest large public company to seek to go private amid a frenzy of deal-making among private equity firms.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/reilly.html
Excerpt:
http://www.microsoft.com/enterprise/partners/sap.aspx#fbid=vxFtmH8dNTH
Excerpt:
Microsoft and SAP Alliance
For more than 20 years, SAP and Microsoft have enjoyed a strong partnership with one unified goal: create customer value. Our close collaboration has led to the development of joint solutions, such as Duet Enterprise™, and the continued optimization of Windows™ and SQL Server™ platforms for SAP. Today, thousands of companies around the world depend on these SAP and Microsoft solutions to effectively run their businesses.
http://www.computerweekly.com/video/Video-SAP-delivers-sustainability-software-on-Apples-iPad
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http://www.computerweekly.com/video/Video-SAP-delivers-sustainability-software-on-Apples-iPad
Excerpt:
Video: SAP delivers sustainability software on Apple's iPad
Date: Aug 05, 2010
Enterprise software maker SAP is committed to a strategy of delivering softare on-premise, on-demand and on-device.
http://adventofdeception.com/deception-israel-america-jewish-bombing-911/
Excerpt:
The computerized national-security systems that should have automatically scrambled jets in the event of a national emergency like 9/11 were running on Ptech software.
Michael S. Goff, Ptech’s Jewish marketing manager, also worked for Israeli database company Guardium (whose director is Israeli Jew Amit Yoran). Guardium has all the characteristics of a Mossad front company.…and the MITRE corporation (computer software)
MITRE is a major defense contracting organization headed by former Director of Central Intelligence — and Jew — James Schlesinger.
Ptech and the MITRE corporation
http://www.abeldanger.net/p/glossary.html
http://adventofdeception.com/deception-israel-america-jewish-bombing-911/
Excerpt:
QUESTION: But how could Israel disable NORAD and disrupt American air defenses?
ANSWER: Ptech Software systems – computer control backdoorThe computerized national-security systems that should have automatically scrambled jets in the event of a national emergency like 9/11 were running on Ptech software.
Michael S. Goff, Ptech’s Jewish marketing manager, also worked for Israeli database company Guardium (whose director is Israeli Jew Amit Yoran). Guardium has all the characteristics of a Mossad front company.…and the MITRE corporation (computer software)
MITRE is a major defense contracting organization headed by former Director of Central Intelligence — and Jew — James Schlesinger.
Ptech and the MITRE corporation
http://www.abeldanger.net/p/glossary.html
Excerpt:
Mindbox is a sophisticated software created by Countrywide's internal development team, using MindBox™ ART Enterprise artificial intelligence software, CLUES has helped increase productivity, improve underwriting efficiency and accuracy, enhance customer service, and cut costs for Countrywide. MindBox was developed in a joint venture between Paul Pelosi Jr. at Countrywide and David Emerson, a director of Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates, the Canadian company which built the Instrument Approach Procedures used to guide al-Qaeda's (?) hijacked planes on 9/11.
FORENSIC ECONOMICS: Sophisticated software for automated debt recovery, MindBox automated micro-loan network which it is alleged rewards contract killers who survive the attack. Investigation reveals that contract assassins are arranged to be hit like in the 1972 Munich Olympic contract hits. It is also alleged in 1992 Sidley Austin appears to have instructed MDA-Countrywide to begin development of MindBox automated tontine loan recovery from Sidley/AXA Equitable life and property insurance on victims and borrowers. MindBox holds escrow funds and are paid out accordingly. An apt description of this sophisticated system would be a “an automated military grade killing machine”, or, killing by the numbers.
http://www.slatkinfraud.com/reed_elnk.php
Excerpt:
When the Reed Slatkin story first broke, it wasn't surprising to see Earthlink doing its best to disown its former founding investor with a hastily-issued press release. However, Reed's initial investment in the company wasn't the only link between Earthlink, Reed Slatkin and the Church of Scientology.
Earthlink was originally the brainchild of longtime Scientologist Sky Dayton, who is still chair of the company. Slatkin was introduced to Dayton by fellow Scientologist, and Slatkin 75 "net gainer" Kevin O'Donnell.
It was Dayton's enthusiastic explanation of the company that he wanted to build that first captivated Reed Slatkin, according to his deposition, and persuaded him to invest $75,000 in Earthlink.
That investment provided to be one of the only successful ventures that Reed Slatkin would ever make. For the rest of his tumultuous career as "investment counselor" to friends, family, celebrities and fellow Scientologists, Slatkin found himself in constant, fruitless and expensive pursuit of another Earthlink.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Philip_Gale
Excerpts:
1) The death of Philip Gale by suicide took place on Friday March 13, 1998. Gale fell to his death from a classroom window on the fifteenth floor of a building on the MIT campus. Before ending his life, Gale (a pioneering internet software developer, computer prodigy, and avid musician) had earned roughly a million dollars worth of stock options for his innovative internet service provider (ISP) programs at EarthLink.
2) Philip Chandler Gale (born 1978, Los Angeles, California) and his sister Elizabeth were the children of Marie Gale, a Scientology official, and David Gale, a software programmer who died from a heart attack in 1995.[2][3] Gale was profoundly affected by his father's death, and still struggling to come to terms with it at the time of his suicide
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_Dayton
Excerpts:
1) Sky Dylan Dayton (born 8 August 1971) is an American entrepreneur.
Dayton is the founder of EarthLink, co-founder of eCompanies, founder and chairman of Boingo
[edit] Early life
Dayton's father was a sculptor and his mother a dancer and poet. Shortly after his birth in New York City, the family moved to Los Angeles. He lived for a time with his maternal grandparents. His grandfather, David DeWitt, was an IBM Research Fellow, and he played a huge part in introducing young Sky to technology and computers.[1][2]At the age of 9, Dayton got his first computer, a Sinclair ZX81. He learned to program in BASIC on this early machine. At age 16, Dayton graduated from The Delphian School, a private boarding school in Oregon, which uses study methods developed by L. Ron Hubbard. He got a job at an entertainment advertising firm, where he became exposed to Apple Macintosh hardware and digital imaging software and soon managed the digital imaging department. He then moved on to a larger advertising agency, Mednick & Associates, where he held a similar role until he was 18
2) Dayton is the great grandson of politician, industrialist and poet, Sam DeWitt.
Dayton is married to novelist Arwen Elys Dayton. They are Scientologists and they have three children
Boingo
Excerpt:
Boingo Wireless (NASDAQ: WIFI) is a public company that provides global Wi-Fi services at more than 125,000 hotspots worldwide – including hundreds of airports, thousands of hotels, and tens of thousand cafes and coffee shops. It was founded by Sky Dayton, who also founded Earthlink.
In January 2011, the company announced plans for an IPO by submitting a filing with the SEC. In April 2011, Boingo Wireless set its IPO terms, planning to raise $75 million by offering 5.8 million shares at a price range of $12 to $14.[1]
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