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Israel Divestment Campaign video
California Attorney General Issues Title and Summary for Divest from Israel Initiative

The Israel Divestment Campaign (IDC) is the first citizens’ effort in the country to appeal directly to voters to hold Israel accountable for violations of international law and human rights.

With the official assignment of a title* and summary to our Initiative by the Attorney General on September 1st, the IDC has begun the process of collecting the signatures of at least 434,000 registered California voters by January 31, 2011.

There are only 96 days left until the end of Signature Gathering!
If successful, the measure will appear on the next statewide ballot after March 2011.Then, if approved by a majority of voters, it will become California law. This means that the two public retirement systems, the Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) and the State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), would be required to engage in a divestment process with corporations providing equipment and services to Israel that are used in the violation of human rights and international law, including but not limited to the building of the “Separation Wall” and settlements.

If you share our concern for a just peace, we hope that you will join the campaign and help us gather signatures in your community. Please click on Petition Resources to find out how you can participate.

*#10-0020 “PROHIBITS STATE RETIREMENT FUNDS FROM INVESTING IN COMPANIES ENGAGED IN CERTAIN BUSINESS ACTIVITIES IN ISRAEL.”

Michael Chertoff and sabotage of PTECH
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Now, how does Chertoff figure in the Ptech story? It goes back to the turf war of two years ago over Operation Greenquest, "the high-profile federal task force set up to target the financiers of Al Qaeda and other international terrorist groups." The aggressive, Customs-led task force was folded into Homeland Security, sending both the FBI and its minders at the Department of Justice into a tizzy. They "demanded that the White House instead give the FBI total control over Greenquest."

Now, consider this, also from the two-year-old Newsweek:

The FBI-Justice move, pushed by DOJ Criminal Division chief Michael Chertoff and Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, has enraged Homeland Security officials, however. They accuse the bureau of sabotaging Greenquest investigations—by failing to turn over critical information to their agents—and trying to obscure a decade-long record of lethargy in which FBI offices failed to aggressively pursue terror-finance cases.

Operation Green Quest wikipedia
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Synopsis
Led by the U.S. Customs Service, and included agents and analysts from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Secret Service, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. Federal prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department's Criminal Division also formed an integral part of Operation Green Quest. The director of Operation Green Quest was a senior special agent from U.S. Customs and the deputy director is a senior special agent from the IRS.

According to Customs, by its fourth month of operation Operation Green Quest had initiated more than 300 probes into terrorist finances, seizing about $10.3m in smuggled US currency and $4.3m in other assets. Its work resulted in 21 searches, 12 arrests and four indictments.[1]

[edit] SAAR network raid
Its most spectacular operation of was March 20, 2002 raid 19 interrelated business and non-profit entities in Herndon, VA associated with an umbrella corporation known as the SAAR Foundation. No arrests were made and no organizations were shut down, but over 500 boxes of files and computer files were confiscated, filling seven trucks. Finding no incriminating evidence, much of the confiscated material has been returned.

The raid would raise concerns of unfair persecution within the American Muslim community,[2] leading to an April 4, 2002 meeting in which several notable Muslim figures, including Palestinian-American financier and Republican organizer Talat M. Othman and Islamic Institute head Khaled Saffuri were received by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill as representatives of the Muslim-American community, and to voice complaints about the raid.

How Mossad deceived military 911
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"Joe Bergantino, a reporter for WBZ-TV's investigative team,
was torn. He could risk breaking a story based on months of
work investigating a software firm linked to terrorism, or heed
the government's demand to hold the story for national security
reasons. In mid-June, Bergantino received a tip from a woman
in New York who suspected that Ptech, a computer software
company in Quincy, Mass., had ties to terrorists.
Ptech specialized in developing software that manages
information contained in computer networks.

"Bergantino's investigation revealed that Ptech's clients included many
federal governmental agencies, including the U.S. Army, the U.S.
Air Force, the U.S. Naval Air Command, Congress, the Department
of Energy, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue
Service, NATO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the
Secret Service and even the White House.

"Ptech was doing business with every federal government
in defense and had access to key government data,"
Bergantino said.

PTECH and SAAR Foundation
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From 1985 to 1990, Abdurrahman Alamoudi served as the executive assistant to the president of SAAR. Alamoudi would later donate seed money to the Islamic Free Market Institute, a non-profit started by GOP power broker Grover Norquist, who is a close adviser to President George W. Bush and a friend of jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Janus-Merritt Strategies wikipedia
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Controversial ties
Perhaps the most controversial client of the lobbying firm was the American Muslim Council and Abdurahman Alamoudi, a fierce supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah.[citation needed] Senate disclosure reports on file show that for years Janus-Merritt registered as a lobbyist for Alamoudi.[citation needed]

At a Senate confirmation hearing in April 2004, Safavian said that "To my knowledge, neither I nor Janus-Merritt did any work for Mr. Alamoudi."[citation needed] "I do not know why Mr. Alamoudi was erroneously listed in the client's lobby disclosure forms." More, "I do not believe Janus-Merritt received any funds from Mr. Alamoudi."[citation needed]

On December 17, 2001, eleven months after Safavian's departure, Janus resubmitted its disclosure forms. This time the name of Alamoudi had been replaced by the name of Dr. Jamal al Barzinji, who is also notable as a vice president of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).[citation needed] Norquist has refused to release tax records of the firm for the period during which he and Safavian owned the company.[citation needed]

Safavian told the Senate that al Barzinji, not Alamoudi, was his client. "Al Barzinji," he said, "should have been listed as the client retaining the firm for work related to Malaysian political prisoner Anwar Ibrahim," referring to the deposed prime minister of Malaysia, who also was a co-founder of the IIIT.[citation needed] In fact, Barzinji had been listed as a contact, not a client, on all the disclosure forms.[citation needed]

On March 20, 2002, Barzinji's home was raided by a federal task force investigating terrorist finances. A federal affidavit identifies Barzinji as the ringleader of a group suspected of aiding terrorists.[1]

At least one of the co-registrants with Alamoudi in his services on behalf of Norquist's Islamic Institute, Palestine-born Omar Nashashibi, went to work for Williams Mullen, serving as its director of government affairs.[3]

Alamoudi and Abramoff
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“Marjac” is the name of another Safa Group entity, Marjac Poultry, where Mirza is a secretary. Jamal Barzinji, Marjac Poultry’s CEO, was a “longtime business associate” of SDGT Youssef Nada, who founded the Al Taqwa bank. Al Taqwa acted as a vast Hawala network, an Islamic sort of Western Union where people can deposit money to be forwarded to other members around the world. Barzinji is also the head of an American Islamic think tank that in May 2006 hosted an event with Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to the U.S., Prince Turki al-Faisal, a close friend of President George W. Bush. In 2001, al-Barzinji hired the lobbying services of Janus-Merritt Strategies, a firm founded by GOP heavyweight Grover Norquist and David Safavian, who went on to become the Chief of Staff at the General Services Administration and who was convicted of obstruction of justice in connection with the Jack Abramoff bribery and corruption scandal. That same year, al-Barzinji spoke at the annual conference of the Islamic Society of North America, where he cast doubts on whether Al Qaeda coordinated the attacks of September 11th. “It is not only that we don’t have any proof, but the FBI doesn’t have any proof,” he said. “They are still looking.” (In 2004, Karen Hughes, close advisor to President Bush, spoke at the same conference.)

More on PTECH
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Yassin Al-Qadi
Last Updated: January 06, 2009
Since the early '80s, his close colleagues have been big-time money sources for both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Three weeks after September 11th, Saudi banker Yassin Al-Qadi was declared a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), charged with directly sending millions to Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, through US-based business and Muslim charity fronts.

Felix Rausch and PTECH
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Meanwhile, during those years before Al Qadi was finally charged in late September 2001, his company, Ptech, had not only been given control of the FAA’s computer system, but that of every vital US government agency. Those included the Departments of Defense, State, Energy and Justice. There has been no official inquiry into how that could have happened, or why.

Even less known is that Felix Rausch, Ptech’s Government Projects Director, was previously the Deputy CIO for the White House, as well as Chief of Technology at INTERPOL His later business partner, Beryl Bellman, was a consultant for Ptech, and had also been a top technology advisor at the White House.

Felix Rausch
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Felix Rausch, FEAC Institute Mon, 2009-02-02 15:32
EA is the 21st Century way to get your arms around complexity. If you look at it from an IT perspective, Data perspective or a business process redesign perspective, SOA or any other stove piped perspective only, You never get a holistic view of the complexity landscape. The EA discipline (or whatever name you want to attach to it) is methodology and framework modeling that integrates and is used in the requirements, design, implementation, operation and decision making of complex "systems" to enable exploration, common understanding, unity of effort, disciplined control of expectations and saving money. "Systems" can be defined as organizations, projects, LOBs, M&As, or any complex situation needing a holistic approach to see the light at the end of the tunnel.