http://www.wikio.co.uk/blog/search/Mata Hari Wikio Blogs - search: Mata Hari wikio wikio http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67726538 Maybe a little light bulb will go off in Jimmy Carter's head. Yes, these monsters want to kill us all, even groveling appeasers like you.Before she turned her attention to blowing up New York landmarks, the alleged al Qaeda "Mata Hari" had wild dreams of murdering former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, federal law-enforcement sources said yesterday. MIT-educated neuroscientist Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67726538 JammieWearingFool 2008-08-14T10:58:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68157348 The truth behind the "Korean Mata Hari," Kim Soo-im, who was thought to have seduced secrets out of an American colonel and later executed by the South Korean military, is finally revealed. • Iraqi... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:30:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68157348 Maria 2008-08-18T21:30:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67691132 Okay, perhaps ABC is prone to hyperbole. But this does seem somewhat... er... problematic for the peaceniks among us ("Officials believe arrested neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui is a danger to the U.S."): When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:19:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67691132 directorblue 2008-08-14T03:19:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67570684 Source: [b]ABC News[/b] When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island, detailed chemical,... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 08:09:03 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67570684 2008-08-13T08:09:03Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67613032 ---Quote--- When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had in her possession maps of New York, a list of potential targets that included the Statue of Liberty, Times Square, the subway system and the animal disease center on Plum Island, detailed chemical, biological... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:10:35 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67613032 TerryTate 2008-08-13T09:10:35Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66788175 This is totally bizarre -- Rita MacNeil?!? Seriously, in the time of the FLQ and the Weathermen the RCMP spies on her! Makes you wonder if CSIS is better at picking targets now? (And there are some legitimate targets out there). RCMP spied on Rita MacNeil; Feminist singer of 'women's lib songs,' among dozens under scrutiny in early '70s Jim Bronskill The Toronto Star, Aug. 5, 2008 RCMP spies infiltrated the women's movement in the early 1970s, monitoring marches and rallies to keep an eye on feminists including Rita MacNeil, who would become a much-admired Maritime songstress. An undercover source reporting on a March 1972 gathering of women's liberation groups in Winnipeg compiled biographical sketches of several delegates, noting MacNeil was in attendance from the Toronto Women's Caucus. "She's the one who composes and sings women's lib songs," says the RCMP memo, portions of which remain secret. MacNeil, who lent her musical talents to the feminist cause before turning to music full-time, was among dozens of women from across the country who came under Mountie scrutiny, new research reveals. Full story here: http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/472240 James Morton 1100 - 5255 Yonge Street Toronto, Ontario M2N 6P4 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66788175 James C Morton 2008-08-05T23:21:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66073830 THE MATA HARI OF FIREARMS....Isn't "Mary McFate" a great name for a spy? I think so. So it's only fitting that Mary McFate is, indeed, a spy. For the NRA. For the last decade, it turns out, she's been busily... Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:38:09 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=66073830 Kevin Drum 2008-07-30T16:38:09Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65579206 in post Smoothness in Chorus from Musik Kontrapunkt Kontrol . and itunes Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:41:46 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65579206 2008-07-26T02:41:46Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65306004 Posted on Wednesday, July 23 @ 13:13:09 PDT Mata Hari as a classic point-and-click PC adventure game that will tell a story ... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:51:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65306004 2008-07-23T21:51:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65246497 dtp press release for July 23th, 2008 - Theres still some time left to go until her great performance: Mata Hari, legendary danceress and spy, will ... Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=65246497 2008-07-23T13:53:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68935964 Party animals — in this case, asses — should watch themselves this week, as we've got some spies watching them. Our main Mata Hari is the "Unconventional Conventionaire", a convention... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:40:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68935964 Megan 2008-08-25T18:40:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68425116 Charles J. Hanley, special correspondent for Associated Press (AP), has written a compelling, fascinating and sad tale of the execution of purported Korean "Mata Hari", Kim Soo-im , at the start of the Korean War. He linked her torture and death to the recent revelations about the more than 100,000 murders of leftists or suspected leftists sympathizers in 1950 by the U.S.-allied (and some would say puppet) regime of South Korea. This massive human rights crime was covered up by the United States for over fifty years, and it's unclear to what extent U.S. forces participated in the slaughter. We need to understand the history of lies and cover-up perpetuated by the Pentagon, State Department, and executive branch in general, not simply for history's sake, but because the aggressive U.S. militarist policy is accelerating beyond its Middle Eastern goals, and aiming itself at Russia. Placing missiles less than 200 miles from St. Petersburg -- US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed the deal today -- the U.S. flirts with a Third World War. Such a war would be a disaster of epic proportions, if anyone were left alive afterwards to judge the scope of its destruction. Does the U.S. government tell the truth, particularly when it comes to war? Here's one story, with some notice of differential press coverage. It mostly follows the details as laid out in Hanley's AP story . Kim's Story Wonil Kim, Kim's son by former U.S. Colonel John Baird, has been trying to find out the truth about his mother's death, and the charges of spying for North Korea that led to her death. But recently declassified files, including those of a 1950 U.S. military investigation into the charges of spying by Soon-im, revealed it was known soon after her trial (if not even then) that the charges had no basis. Col. Baird, from whom Kim supposedly stole secrets, had no access to the disputed military information. Her confession had been elicited through waterboarding torture, and perhaps by electric shock and other barbaric physical means. But like the deaths of many tens of thousands of others in cold blood by U.S. ally South Korea, the truth was hidden from the world. Important aspects of what occurred in Korea over 50 years ago remain unknown. As the censorship work of Fox News demonstrates, if they could, major players in the media would keep the reality of what happened hidden, caged in an ideological prison, unsafe for general distribution, the better to protect the image and behavior of the U.S. from both domestic and international condemnation. Kim's story begins in 1941, when the glamorous and educated Soon-im married Lee Gang-kook, a German-educated Seoul leftist. Lee ended up on the "Central People's Committee, a broad nationalist coalition that sought to take over Korea from a defeated Japan in September 1945." The Japanese had occupied Korea in a brutal fashion since 1910. In Korea, this period is referred to as the Japanese Forcible Occupation Period . After Japan was defeated in World War II, the U.S. occupied the southern portion of Korea, and the Soviets occupied the northern area. The dividing line was set at the 38th parallel. According to the AP article, in its full version published by Newsweek (emphasis added): Cho [Myung-hwa, a film director planning a film on Lee's life,] pointed out a little-known fact: In 1946, a year after the U.S. Army occupied southern Korea at World War II's end, a U.S. Embassy poll found that 77 percent of southerners wanted a socialist or communist future . Instead, the U.S. military government kept many of Japan's right-wing Korean collaborators in power, and the U.S. commander, Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge, vowed to "stamp out" the communists. In the version of the story posted by Fox News , the first of the two quoted paragraphs is omitted. This is a "little-known" fact that Fox, and many in this country, would like to keep as obscure as possible. Fox News made one other redaction in AP's story, but I'll get to that in a minute. After the U.S. occupational forces withdrew in 1949, Kim's former lover, Gang-kook, became a leader in the north, while Kim herself worked as for her new lover, Col. Baird, assisting him in his work advising the national police of the new South Korean government. Kim also had a child by Baird, and he set up a house for her and the child, often spending his nights there with her. Confession by Torture But in March 1950, as arrests of thousands of leftists or suspected sympathizers in South Korea began in earnest under the right-wing, U.S. backed government of President Syngman Rhee, Kim was arrested. The North Korean invasion was still some three months away. The most serious charge against Soo-im was espionage, which carried the death penalty. Kim was supposed to have given U.S. military information to her former lover Gang-kook. There were assorted other charges, of keeping guns, of stealing government vehicles. There never was any material evidence, nor any eyewitnesses, to back up any of the charges. "It was witch-hunting," said historian Jung Byung-joon, who has studied the case. "The South Korean police and prosecutors hated her because she was the lover of Lee Gang-kook, and then of Col. Baird, and nobody could touch her. They waited for their chance." The South Korean prosecutors used torture to obtain a confession. By the third day of the trial, Kim broke down. Col. William H.S. Wright, head of the Korea advisory group, had testified that her confession was probably forced through "out and out torture," probably near-drowning, or waterboarding, as it's now known. "The water cure is a very common method," Wright said. "Electric shock and the use of pliers is frequent." [emphasis added] A Korean source backs this up. In a 2005 Seoul TV report on Kim Soo-im, longtime government propagandist Oh Jae-ho, a staunch anticommunist, said he learned from a police official that the defendant had to be carried into the courtroom to confess on the final day. For some reason, the Fox News version of the story did not include the middle paragraph quoted above. Was it the claim of the regularity by which a U.S. ally used waterboarding torture that Fox sought to hide? Or was it the use of other barbaric techniques? The use of pliers? The confession sealed Kim's fate. She was found guilty by the South Korean military court, and executed. A top-secret inquiry by the U.S. military, initiated only weeks after the verdict, found Kim Soo-im innocent of the charges. Her file "was stamped 'case closed.'" A government recommendation for a court martial for Col. Baird was ignored. The entire affair entered the realm of purported history, another bit of propagandistic lore, meant to display the perfidy of the communists, and the rightness of U.S. intervention and war. Baird never spoke out to defend his lover, the mother of his son. The U.S. government never released its exculpatory findings, even as her case was used for propagandistic purposes over the years. One teleplay from the 50s said to depict Kim "as Asia's Mata Hari," was introduced by host Ronald Reagan. Cornonet magazine labeled her "The Korean Seductress Who Betrayed America." As for Lee Gang-kook, an Army intelligence document links him to the CIA's "JACK" program (Joint Activities Commission, Korea). Lee was executed in the North after the war, labeled an American spy. One wonders if the story against Lee weren't concocted by the CIA, in part to build up the credentials of their own agent in Pyongyang. We shall likely never know. After This, What Redemption? Thanks to the valiant efforts of Kim's son, who only wanted to know the truth about his mother, Kim's story is being heard again. But in the wild roar that is the rush of 24-hour news, the clamoring of the blogosphere, and the distractions of video, gaming, films, and music, her story will sink back into the anonymity of old historical fact, like a stone dropped forever into the river Lethe. And yet, poised on the edge of a new "Cold War, and the blood not dry yet from the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, with its own hundreds of thousands dead, and millions of forgotten refugees... and yet, the story of Kim Soo-im has more relevance than ever. The use of torture by a U.S. ally, the cover-up of mass killings and judicial injustice, the censorship of what "foreigners" really think and feel, these lessons must be internalized by the body politic. A terrible, final war approaches: a nuclear war. Make no mistake about it. If the U.S. keeps up its present direction of provocation and aggression abroad, and secrecy and lies and censorship at home, the convergence of the two will make war inevitable. And this time, missiles will fly, and civilization as we know it will end. The word "hope," cheapened into campaign slogan cant, will be banned, or worse, forgotten. Only an educated populace, following leaders who are strongly anti-militant, and recognizing the dangers that unbridled capitalism, imperialism, and nationalism represent for the future of mankind, will be able to take the necessary steps to turn the giant ship of history around, and steer it towards safer waters. Also posted at Invictus and Progressive Historians Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:10:01 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=68425116 Valtin 2008-08-20T22:10:01Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67553020 An update on this story. "Alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda Could Provide 'Treasure Trove' of Intelligence," by Richard Esposito and Brian Ross for ABC News, August 12: When she was arrested in Afghanistan last month, Aafia Siddique allegedly had... Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:33:22 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67553020 Marisol 2008-08-12T23:33:22Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67794419 "The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." -Mata Hari Lots of quiet movement. This butterfly was hovering for, what seemed like, a long time, but in actuality was probably only about 10 seconds. I noticed it was almost running in place, which made me smile, because it kind of felt like I was watching her doing her aerobics for the day. LOL. I smiled because I know how good it feels to get a good long, workout in, whether it be from a bike ride, or a jog or whatever. My body just feels sexy and invigorated when I am finished. It is a definite mood enhancer. :) Yesterday, I took a long ride along Chrissy Field and around the Presideo. About 5 miles total. Ahhh... that's the stuff. Afterward I did some photography around the city and along the coast. It was really warm, so my knee was doing really well, and my mind was clear, so I think I did really good with my photography. It's amazing what a little bit of exercise will do for the body and the mind. Anyway, movement was catching my eye yesterday. Butterflies, birds, the wind in the trees. It was a good day, in the middle of a stressful week. -OndineMonet "Dancing" Conservatory of Flowers San Francisco, California Golden Gate Park August, 2008 Afternoon Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:49:00 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67794419 Carly 2008-08-14T21:49:00Z http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67609519 Sure it's safe to put a novice like Barack Obama in the White House; After all, Al-Qaeda isn't a serious threat anymore, right? Alleged Mata Hari of Al Qaeda Could Provide 'Treasure Trove' of Intelligence ...When she was arrested in... Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:00:32 GMT http://www.wikio.co.uk/info?id=67609519 2008-08-13T10:00:32Z