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	Iraqi Tribes Accused of Oil Protection Racket
		Since a contract with a British security firm expired in December, NOC has been relying on 16 tribes in the Kirkuk area which it has contracted to protect the pipeline network for a monthly fee.
		The tribal forces complement the 1,500-strong Oil Pipeline Protection Force which the government set up earlier this year to guard the main northward route from the Kirkuk fields to the Turkish oil terminal of Ceyhan.
		This big pipeline should be able to carry 800,000 barrels of oil per day, but because of the attacks it is currently averaging an eighth of that volume.
	www.aina.org /news/20050621101630.htm (578 words)

	Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) — folder_listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The United Wa State Army will not be held responsible for the 496 kg heroin bust that caught one of its top members red-handed last month, according to a highly-placed source who recently returned from Rangoon...
		Despite the mishap last month when more than 400 kilograms of their heroin consignment was seized by the Burma Army, the Wa on the Sino-Burma border are doing their best to live up to their pledge of establishing a drug-free zone, according to sources from Panghsang...
		The Hongpang Group of the United Wa State Army in Tachilek, opposite Maesai, is still in operation despite the removal of its signboards as ordered by the Kengtung-based Triangle Region authorities, reports Pegasus from the border...
	www.shanland.org /articles/drugs/2005 (879 words)

	Army Protection Racket
		Voice Over: In 1943, a group of British Army Officers working deep behind enemy lines, carried out one of the most dangerous and heroic raids in the history of warfare.
		A bloke was telling me, if you're in the army and there's a war you have to go and fight.
		Like say, he don't feel the army's playing fair by him, he may start breaking things, Colonel.
	orangecow.org /pythonet/sketches/racket.htm (483 words)

	The Fourth Rail: The Protection Racket
		While the Army was reduced from 20 divisions to 10, the commitment to...
		While the Army was reduced from 20 divisions to 10, the commitment to defend Europe, South Korea, Japan and other nations did not change, and a large percentage of American troops remained overseas.
		The Pentagon has proposed a plan to withdraw its two Army divisions from Germany and undertake an array of other changes in its European-based forces, in the most significant rearrangement of the American military around the world since the beginning of the cold war, according to American and allied officials.
	billroggio.com /archives/2004/06/since_the_end_o.php (647 words)

	Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Nader's movement for consumer protection and enactment of appropriate law thereafter spread throughout the world and led to the enactment of laws for protection of consumers of many countries.
		These drives have conclusively established that this country immediately needs a law for protection of the consumers, because, the current drives which are going on cannot be continued for months and years together.
		Fundamental elements of the debate on terrorism, which included the legitimacy of armed resistance against foreign military occupation, the illegal acts of state terrorism committed against people under occupation and the persecution of individuals by dictatorships in the name of state security, were overlooked in favour of a broad, indiscriminate definition.
	independent-bangladesh.com /news/aug/25/25082005ed.htm (4134 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		The same pipeline was hit on Wednesday, when a group of six saboteurs opened connections between two pipes, the US-Iraqi liaison office in Tikrit said today in a statement.
		The state-owned North Oil Company (NOC) alleges that tribes paid to protect pipelines are behind many of the attacks on them around the Kirkuk oil fields.
		"The Iraqi army is negligent and irresponsible about fulfilling its duties, and that’s because of lack of expertise," al-Asi said.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/jun2005/2005-06-10-03.asp (754 words)


		Yet when the soldier declared that his oath didn't oblige him to serve under the UN flag rather than the American, he faced court-marshal.
		Despite the fact that Revolutionary regiments elected their officers, an army is necessarily an undemocratic institution.
		Congressmen promise their protection, but members have a conflicting interest.
	www.renewamerica.us /columns/index.php?columnist=hines&date=031027&print=1 (699 words)

	savethemales.ca - The Zionist Protection Racket
		The "War on Terror" is a protection racket.
		The aggressor is the world financial elite known as the "Crown" based in the City of London.
		Using some units of the Red Army - Trotsky was the chairman of the country's Revolutionary Military Council - they organized the Jewish pogrom in Seversk.
	www.savethemales.ca /000889.html (1039 words)

	The "white year" turns to grey, by Jean-Marie Chauvier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Between 1983 and 1985, 28 people died in apparently random murders, often by means of army weapons, at the exits of large stores on the outskirts of Brussels.
		Amidst a vociferous puritanical reaction, psychiatrists speak out against the proposed law lowering the age of sexual consent from 16 to 14 (they claim it is an "invitation to rapists") and also against sex between people from different age groups (18).
		Money, the all-powerful, the free-market order which is responsible for "destroying our jobs and our children", and violence against "children and adults alike" have all been lumped together by the workers who demonstrated last October, the parents who rallied to the march for Clabecq and the "white committees".
	mondediplo.com /1997/10/belgium (4646 words)

	The Unconstitutional FEMA by Sheila Samples
		Either by incompetence or design, they failed to act, and the death, crippling despair, disease and sheer hopelessness suffered by Americans in our most romantic city is breathtaking in scope and indefensible on any level.
		We are all outraged, not at Bush for dropping the ball; for being so chillingly disconnected from those he is charged to protect – but at Brown, who is a perfect lightning rod and, if need be, a fall guy.
		Sheila Samples [send her mail] is an Oklahoma freelance writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig5/samples7.html (1673 words)

	Heart rate monitor review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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	heart-rate-monitor-review.goes.tychy.pl (342 words)

	The Corps Cored - The Bushies take a big bite out of the Army Corps of Engineers budget. By Michael Grunwald
		The Army Corps is one of the most bizarre bureaucracies in the federal government and one of the most effective at generating work to keep itself busy.
		A third of them work on military programs that are usually uncontroversial—the recent flap over the contract to Halliburton in Iraq was an exception—but the rest focus on civil works that reflect the agency's addictions to concrete and the control of nature.
		In 2000, for example, after corps leaders were caught manipulating an economic study in order to justify a billion-dollar Mississippi River project and devising a secret "Program Growth Initiative" in order to boost their budget by 50 percent, the Clinton administration tried to issue a few mild guidelines reminding them to obey civilian authorities.
	www.slate.com /id/2082577 (1626 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| US firm pays Indonesian army
		Freeport paid the army to protect their employees at Papua's Grasberg mine, one of the world's largest gold and copper mines.
		The Indonesian military have been accused of widespread corruption and human rights abuses in Papua, where they are trying to contend with a sporadic separatist revolt.
		The BBC's Jakarta correspondent Rachel Harvey says the admission, from the biggest company in Indonesia to what is basically a protection racket, is a significant move.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2850701.stm (466 words)

	BIBLIOGRAPHY ON HEARING PROTECTION, HEARING CONSERVATION, AND AURAL CARE, HYGIENE AND PHYSIOLOGY
		Anttonen, H., Sorri, M., and Riihikangas, P. "The Impulse Noise Exposure and the Effect of Protectors in Army," in Proceedings of the Fourth Int.
		Bauman, K. and Marston, L. "Effects of Hearing Protection on Speech Intelligibility in Noise," Sound and Vibration 20(10), 12-14.
		Brinkmann, H. "Effectiveness of Ear Protection Against Impulse Noise," in Proceedings of the Oslo International Symposium on Effects of Noise on Hearing, edited by H. Borchgrevink, Scand.
	www.nonoise.org /hearing/biblio/biblio.htm (12978 words)

	OpinionJournal - John Fund on the Trail
		All four of these ideas will be bitterly fought, but expect the most money to be spent on the esoteric issue of redistricting.
		The incumbent-protection racket to which both parties' leaders agreed in 2001 effectively fixed the races in all of the state's 173 races for state legislature and Congress for the next decade.
		A panel of special masters quickly drafted reasonably compact districts, protected minority rights, and allowed either party the chance to win a majority of races.
	www.opinionjournal.com /diary?id=110006260 (1079 words)

	Everglades Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These contributions are not made to foster good government, but in the vernacular of TV gangster Tony Soprano - this is a protection racket pure and simple.
		Currently, Florida’s sugar industry is paying only 15% of the $1.6 billion clean up cost of their pollution in spite of 3.2 million Floridians who cast their votes to amend their Constitution to “make EAA polluters pay” so innocent taxpayers won’t have to.
		Again, I say, this is a protection racket, pure and simple and an abuse of taxpayer dollars.
	www.saveoureverglades.org /action/action_petitions_mary.html (1442 words)

	Free market protection agencies and the tragedy of the commons \| Samizdata.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		For those who find the notion of conflicting protection agencies wrangling with each other as novel and peculiar obviously haven't been paying attention to the interplay between municipalities and counties, counties with the States, and the States with the Federal Government, and short cuts between all levels.
		Someone above described anarcho-capitalist firms as being like protection rackets, forgetting that a protection racket is an organisation that forces you to pay for protection that you haven't asked for and may wll not want.
		Frankly, I wouldn't want to be signed with a protection agency that is sheltering criminals and if such agencies exist would anonymously contribute to the fund for their elimination.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/007392.html (14692 words)

	RIC Query - El Salvador (8 February 2001) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Under Medrano, the patrol structure was further developed and expanded into a well organized militia force, with military officers in command at the departmental level, non-commissioned officers coordinating actions from municipal centers, and many members drawn from army reservists and retired National Guard and Treasury Police officers (Popkin 2000, 42; Binford 1996, 45-46, 218).
		ORDEN penetrated every hamlet in the country and, according to Human Rights Watch, “is widely recognized as one of the precursors of the ‘death squads’ of the late 1970s and 1980s.” A principal function of ORDEN was to identify and eliminate purported communists among the rural peasant population.
		According to low-intensity strategy advocates, the role of the Civil Defense was to protect the population, to isolate the FMLN guerrillas from the people.
	uscis.gov /graphics/services/asylum/ric/documentation/SLV01003.htm (1292 words)

	NPA rebels shoot dead ... - Feb. 11, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		PO1 Ernesto Sangcap, desk officer of the Mauban police station, said a statement from the New People's Army's Apolonio Mendoza Command in Quezon owned responsibility to the killing.
		The statement was delivered in the station by a civilian several hours after the murder.
		According to the report of the Mauban News Cable Television, the statement said Mancenido was killed due to his alleged protection racket that involved illegal drugs, illegal fishing and illegal logging, and extortion activities.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/feb/11/text/reg_5-1-p.htm (206 words)

	Christianarchy?
		They seek to protect their own without unnecessarily antagonizing other families, knowing that failure to do so could easily mean their own doom as well.
		The state seeks to protect itself; it protects its subjects only insofar as is politically necessary for its own survival.
		As I have also pointed out in a previous column, the state is nothing but a legalized Mafia protection racket, only it doesn’t even guarantee to protect the people from whom it is extracting protection money.
	www.strike-the-root.com /51/tennant/tennant5.html (3050 words)

	Why Rent Control is Immoral by Michael Berliner -- Capitalism Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Government is an institution of physical force: police, courts, army.
		Government has a monopoly on the use of such force: it's the only institution legally empowered to enforce its decisions by the threat of taking your money or putting you behind bars.
		San Mateo County and The Environmental Protection Racket
	www.capmag.com /article.asp?ID=2971 (1200 words)

	ZNet \| Activism \| Embed With The Military
		Most importantly embeds are afforded protection from physical harm by the military.
		So the protection on offer is more of a threat than a reassurance for independent reporters.
		Some embeds are, according to Christian Lowe of US military magazine Army Times, being 'hounded by military public affairs officers who follow their every move and look over their shoulders as they interview aviators, sailors, and maintainers for their stories.'
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=3378§ionID=1 (1448 words)

	Populous Revolution - Protection Racket UW Walkthrough
		Now start off by getting all the braves you can and get them to make huts and get the spells you have, 10 huts should do.
		Once you have a decent amount of followers get a little army to together so you can recover your temple near where the enemy braves are praying.
		Make sure you have a warrior training hut since they send over warriors, preachers and firewarriors and you shaman’s spells are useless against them.
	www.strategyplanet.com /Populous/bart5986/walkthroughs/protection_racket.html (511 words)

	Tribes accused of oil protection racket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Jasim al-Agidi, who gets 150,000 dinars a month — around 100 US dollars — to stand guard at a pipeline west of Kirkuk, said it was not people like him who were responsible for sabotage, “The negligence comes from the NOC itself.
		Mohammed Kamal, a Kurdish member of the Kirkuk regional council, says it is Arabs and the Turkoman, a significant minority in this area, who hold most of the important posts in NOC.
		As a result, claims Kamal, “Most of the oil protection contracts have gone to Arabs, not Kurds, [who] have been marginalised.”
	www.kurdmedia.com /news.asp?id=7034 (644 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		These actions conserve the force's fighting potential so it can be applied at the decisive time and place and incorporate the coordinated and synchronized offensive and defensive measures to enable the effective employment of the joint force while degrading opportunities for the enemy.
		Force protection does not include actions to defeat the enemy or protect against accidents, weather, or disease.
		Developed by the USAF to "introduce the concepts of force protection and to address some of the issues involved in its implementation.".
	www.au.af.mil /au/aul/bibs/force/fp.htm (1815 words)

	Jihad Watch: Indonesian police swoop on suspected misunderstanders of Islam
		FWIW the Mafia originated in Sicily, which as we know was under Muslim rule for 300 years, and the word mafia is derived from the Arabic maehfil which means unity, and the payment of "protection money" is of course jizyah.
		In that regard I think it is past time to stop calling jizyah "head tax" or "poll tax" or any other of the euphemisms, and refer to it as it is the extraction of "protection money" from the non muslim population - i.e.
		jizyah is nothing more than the maehfil protection racket.
	www.jihadwatch.org /archives/006978.php (498 words)

	SlashNOT - Dirty SpamCop indicted in Protection Racket
		The Spam senders, using IronPort Senderbase spam flooding software, were apparently working in collusion with SpamCop, which had recently taken bribes from IronPort to continue operations.
		In what amounts to a protection racket, IronPort would on one hand flood unsuspecting customers with Spam, and then SpamCop would shake them down to eliminate the spam.
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	www.slashnot.com /article.php3?story_id=332 (300 words)

	SCIENCE 911: Panama Protection Racket
		Although most ants wouldn't have anything to do with a Thisbe, one species is happy to provide protection because it's worth the payoff -- a special nectar produced by the caterpillar.
		I provide nutrients for my friend, and in return I get water, protection from dryness, protection from bright light and essential nutrients.
		After spending years searching for wild areas in the tropics, DeVries has insights into how these quickly diminishing areas can be protected.
	www.pbs.org /safarchive/4_class/45_pguides/pguide_404/4544_panama.html (1136 words)

	Under the Rose
		Like me, she had also been a third child, but third of ten, eight of them girls, the second daughter, but first to marry—so deep a violation of Sicilian protocol that it required the formal dispensation of her beloved father, who could refuse her nothing.
		But what a catch Mario must have seemed: flagrantly, darkly handsome, very Valentino, a decorated former officer in the Italian army, veteran of the Alto Adige campaign in the First World War, who had fought among Gabriele D'Annunzio's handpicked company of arditi— "the ardent ones." She, for her part, was an Arabian princess.
		And yet neither the mastery of that love, nor, when they finally left Harlem, the distance up the Boston Post Road to Westchester, could keep her from her father, and from the familiar Sicilian noise and grand passions of her home place and its glorious community of women, still everything to the girl in her.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/a/alaya-rose.html (3740 words)

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