1. U. S. Marine Corporal Jeff Paterson, the first U.S. military resister to President Bush Sr.'s genocidal war against Iraq;
2. Army Captain Doctor Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, the highest ranking U. S. commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to participate in President Bush Sr.'s genocidal war against Iraq;
3. Captain Lawrence Rockwood, who was court-martialed by the U. S. Army for trying to stop torture in Haiti after the Clinton administration had illegally invaded that country in 1994;
4. Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, the first U. S. military resister to be court-martialed for refusing to participate in President Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq; and
5. Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first U. S. commissioned officer to be court-martialed for his refusal to participate in President Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq.
As I can attest from my direct personal involvement, each and every one of these five courts-martial under the U.C.M.J. were Stalinist show-trials produced and directed by the Pentagon that predictably and readily degenerated into travesties of justice. These five U.C.M.J. courts-martial involving U.S. warfare each proved correct the old adage attributed to Groucho Marx that military justice is to justice as military music is to music. By comparison, the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts will not even be run in accordance with the U.C.M.J. despite the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan that they should be. The Marx Brothers are running the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts.1. Vagts himself, who supported abusing the then recently captured President of Iraq Saddam Hussein despite his being publicly acknowledged to be a Prisoner of War by the Bush Jr. administration itself and thus absolutely protected by the Third Geneva Convention of 1949 and the Convention against Torture;
2. the infamous Alan Dershowitz, a self-incriminated war criminal in his own right. Dersh publicly acknowledged being a member of a Mossad Committee for approving the murder and assassination of Palestinians, which violates the Geneva Conventions and is thus a grave war crime;
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5. The war criminal Jack Goldsmith who while working as a lawyer for the Bush Jr. administration at both the Pentagon and later its Department of In-Justice did much of the legal spade-work designing, justifying and approving the hideous human rights atrocities that the Bush Jr. administration inflicted on everyone after 9/11. Goldsmith and his co-felon accomplice and co-conspirator from the Bush Jr. administration Professor John Yoo--now desecrating Berkeley's Law School where my friend and colleague the late, great Dean Frank Newman had taught Human Rights and International Law--are functionally analogous to Nazi Law Professor Carl Schmitt, who justified every hideous atrocity that Hitler and the Nazis inflicted on anyone, including the Jews.
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- - Depleted uranium is destroying life
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Where do I begin around Earth Day, 2010, with melting glaciers over erupting volcanoes, deception-based wars, poisoned radioactive dust in the air, pseudo science good for cover-up, and plutocracy jamming distractions deep into our skulls? I keep coming back to noticing the futility of war, fear’s derangement that occupies too much time and space. It is a sham. And heroes like Luke Rudkowski and WeAreChange are breaking down the mind barrier of controlled communication.
In item one Jerry Mazza and Bob Nichols write about the current Depleted Uranium situation. Please use a part of your Earth Day to share this information. Also, this week, DemocracyNow is covering a Peoples' Summit on Climate Change. Perhaps timed with the uncertainty of some much colder years ahead from the Icelandic Volcano, FN has changed its title from 'Evidence of Extreme Global Warming' to "Energy Emissions Impact On Our Environment."
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Depleted uranium is destroying life
By Jerry Mazza
Published by FlybyNews.com - April 16, 2010
I have long heard sound-bites or seen passages about depleted uranium that sounded more than dire. But given my own cognitive dissonance, and the fact that I was writing about many other dire topics at the time, I filed depleted uranium in my cranium for future investigation, which, given the human aversion to bad news, could have been never.
But never was over in an exchange of emails about nuclear missiles in Israel's arsenal. I received some startling nuclear information from San Francisco Bay View writer, Bob Nichols. It was an illumination long-time coming.
I started at the end of Bob's article to find out who he was. His credits read "Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winning writer and a San Francisco Bay View correspondent. A former bomb maker in a U.S. government factory in rural Oklahoma, he reports on the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. He can be reached at duweapons@gmail.com ” His credentials were impressive and so was the article he sent, PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war.
In several, follow-up phone calls, Bob, in his gentle, mid-western drawl, filled me in on the picture of the imposing disasters caused by depleted uranium in Central Asia and in the Mid-East, in which hundreds of thousands of tons of depleted uranium had been dropped in the past 20 years.
Bob pointed out that San Francisco itself was receiving fallout from the Berkeley National [Nuclear Weapons] Lab, and from the Livermore Laboratory in the South Bay area, managed by San Francisco-based Bechtel, a nuclear-capable corporation, boosted by San Francisco's "Nuclear Nancy’ Pelosi and her friends at Bechtel" as Bob commented. The University of California at Berkeley now earns more from weapons than from students.
The San Francisco facilities have been part of the Manhattan Project, operating from pre-1945, contributing a dangerous amount of radiation to the area with weapons testing and leakages of material into the Bay. It was for this reason, Nichols told me, that he still lives in Oklahoma, though he has a real love affair with San Francisco. Yet he fears for its human and natural safety due to poisoning by the nuclear projects.
In fact, he bemoaned the occasion of "Fleet Week," "the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week - an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the US Navy and marines – who will probably come in deadly contact with another Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and aerosols, UO."
As he wrote, "Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as depleted uranium.
"When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself."
That was shocking to hear. So I did a bit of research to corroborate Bob's claims and came upon a number of YouTube pieces, one particularly powerful ten-minute piece called Depleted Uranium - The Ultimate Dirty Bomb.
It features Dr. Doug Rokke, US Army Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer, as well as the internationally known Geological Scientist and International Radiation Expert Leuren Moret. Please take ten minutes to listen to it.
Dr. Rokke explains that as far back as 1973 [the Yom Kippur War], radioactive materials carpeted Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He mentions too that DU radioactive contamination makes food and water unusable. He explains how the huge jolts of electrical energy in a small amount of depleted uranium can destroy human cells.
Most notably, Dr. Rooke estimates that from October/November 1991 in Gulf War 1, 160,000 US soldiers were permanently disabled by US use of some 340 tons of depleted uranium. Ten years later that number had climbed to 221,000 and left 10,000 dead. Dr. Rooke, a victim himself of the lack of proper post-battle examinations for DU poisoning, spoke with a tempered but deliberate anger and frustration at the damage done to all, including civilian populations, combatants, and himself.
Lauren Moret pointed out that as far back as 1943 depleted uranium usage, aka "poison gas warfare" was encouraged in a government memo shown on screen. She also tells us that the UN Human Rights Commission declared depleted uranium as illegal. The ultimate irony she points out is that in 2003 we attacked Iraq and Saddam Hussein for possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, which turned out not to be true. Yet when we attacked Iraq in 2003, we dropped between 1000 to 2000 tons of depleted uranium, a known Weapon of Mass Nuclear Destruction in a three-week period. This is a war crime unto itself.
This all jibed with Bob Nichol's writings, especially the fact that the damage of depleted uranium is forever, lasting billions of years in the atmosphere, the earth and water, as it lasts on clothing, the skin, the human body, destroying vital organs, causing birth defects of all kinds, cancers, infertility, damage to the bones, brains, testicles and ovaries, which applies to civilians and animals as well.
As Nichols writes, "Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in US war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president."
"Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the US Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people." Remember that US forces themselves are the victims as well of these weapons, the worst imaginable blowback.
In fact, Nichols points us towards a "Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. This country is Israel."
Bob sent along an article from the noted Israeli paper, Haaretz, dated 3/21/2010: Study: Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in past decade. Bob claimed the number was fudged somewhat because from 2004-2008 there was a 10 million sperm a year drop-off. Taken to 2015, all of the nation would be infertile. The motility of the tested sperm also indicated a drop-off. These samples were taken from healthy young people who do not smoke.
"In Israel, too, [Haaretz writes] a study was published about a year ago, showing an increase of about 30 percent in defects in the male reproductive system. In addition, in the past decade, the number of cases of testicular cancer has doubled."
Haaretz goes on to attribute the sperm drop to "chemicals in the ground and in drinking water...as impacting hormone levels and secondary sexual characteristics." The paragraph concludes with "Studies published in Britain have highlighted a clear connection between continual decline in sperm counts and chemicals in the environment."
In the next to last paragraph of Bob Nichols' article, he writes of the Israeli situation, "Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset… Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive US presidents."
The 800-pound gorilla in the room here is that young people tested (both men and women) are performing in the Israeli Defense Forces, and face massive amounts of depleted uranium in the US manufactured weaponry being used in the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. The land, animals, and those involved in the conflict on both sides must be, by definition, poisoned by these toxic weapons of nuclear destruction. That's the real story. The Israelis have performed a service in a way just by conducting a bona fide scientific analysis of the situation.
In nearby Iraq, three-headed babies are turning up and a virtual Pandora’s Box of birth defects that you can see here. Caution: these are not pretty pictures, but they are true pictures of what the future could be as the present.
Again, please read the entire Haaretz article and view the YouTube piece. Or check the more conservative Wikipedia for the 38-page article (which includes 13 pages of footnotes) linked here on Depleted Uranium. You can verify the information presented above and find more information as well. In fact, the first DU, which uses radioactive isotope-238 was "manufactured in the 1940's when the US and USSR began their nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs." P.S. Depleted uranium bombs were also used on Serbia in the Bosnian War by President Clinton.
The total world inventory of depleted uranium stands at 1,188,273 tonnes as of 2002. That is enough to wipe out life on the planet for billions of years.
The United States leads the pack with 480,000 tonnes; Russia closely follow with 460,000 million tonnes; France, 190,000 tonnes; United Kingdom, 30,000 tonnes, etcetera.
As to the Legal Status of DU, Wiki reports, "In 1996 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the 'legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons'. [29] This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that international law on poisonous weapons--the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899, Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925--did not cover nuclear weapons, because their prime or exclusive use was not to poison or asphyxiate. This ICJ opinion was about nuclear weapons, but the sentence 'The terms have been understood, in the practice of States, in their ordinary sense as covering weapons whose prime, or even exclusive, effect is to poison or asphyxiate,' also removes depleted uranium weaponry from coverage by the same treaties as their primary use is not to poison or asphyxiate, but to destroy material and kill soldiers through kinetic energy."
The deadly irony here is that depleted uranium, through the use of a perverse legalese, is classified here not as the awful poison and asphyxiate it is, but as a destructor of material and killer of solders through kinetic energy. Never has there been such a torturous misuse of language. Obviously, the people at the top are not thinking clearly. But we down here, the everyday people, must think clearly and protest the use of depleted uranium in any form, as a deadly poison and as a destructor of material, soldiers, civilians, animals, soil, water and air. Otherwise, we're committing suicide, the universe's ultimate punishment for our poisoning the planet.
This includes poisoning as well in non-warfare situations like the one in Naples, Italy (home of my forefathers) where the crime organization, the Camorra, is poisoning the Mediterranean, as Bob Nichols tells me, with the continual exploding of forty foot barges of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium. These gangsters are killing the sea that feeds that nation, the sea that runs into the Red Sea, in which Israelis swim. The Med is being poisoned for profit by criminals as the bought-off police turn their heads. Evil has many heads, like the DU misconceived child itself.
But let me conclude this piece, with Bob Nichols' last line, "The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape." But I will add that there is consciousness and the actions of conscious people to stop the situation from worsening. Lets use it.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. His book “State Of Shock – Poems from 9/11 on” is available at www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
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PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
by Bob Nichols
PTSD and its effects on U.S. soldiers and their families is a ghastly story with no end. PTSD is, in large part, though, an entirely Pentagon, or American war machine, inflicted wound.
Boot camp and combat is bad enough; and such forced inhumanity as committing war crimes against civilians causes soldiers to suffer the mental trauma of PTSD. In addition, there is an unseen agent or disease vector at work here as well.
There, on the battlefield, the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week – an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the U.S. Navy and Marines – will probably come in deadly contact with another San Francisco Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and erosols, UO.
Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as depleted uranium.
When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself.
The deadly radioactive poison was developed by the Manhattan Project in 1945 when they were making the first atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project became the Bay Areas’ two nuclear weapons labs.
San Francisco's Rep. "Nuclear Nancy" Pelosi and her friends at San Francisco-based Bechtel are all set to make more atomic bombs, too. Bechtel is a nuclear capable corporation and manages the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
Depleted uranium is called depleted only because less than one half of 1 percent of the uranium isotope 235, the bomb making isotope, is removed when the U.S. government makes atomic bombs. The currently remaining billion and a half pounds of uranium isotopes are often given free to politically connected arms manufacturers. That radioactive uranium is then used to make bullets, shells, missiles, mines and bombs to sell to the U.S. government a second time.
San Francisco based lawyer Karen Parker is an expert in the International Law of Armed Conflict, commonly called 'war crimes' law. The law and treaties require that weapons can be 'turned off' after the battle is over.
Simple as that. Anything else is a war crime, punishable by hard labor in prison or death by hanging.
Army and civilian researchers have shown that uranium oxide (UO) poison gas particles migrate right up the olfactory nerve to the brain. This is when the uranium poison gas weapons are used by soldiers as directed by arms manufacturers and military regulations.
In addition, UO particles are small enough to go through combat uniforms and penetrate the skin of soldiers. Once inside their bodies, the poison uranium gas is drawn to their brains, bones, and testicles or ovaries. Of course, this applies to civilians and animals as well.
Over a million U.S. soldiers have been on the ground in Iraq and Central Asia. The medical disability rate is over 60 percent and 'PTSD' is a common diagnosis. Soldiers from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy report similar medical problems as well.
One milligram (mg) of uranium oxide poison gas is about the size of one of the periods at the end of these sentences. When soldiers can absorb UO through their skin, there is nothing to limit their exposure to one milligram or a thousand. That goes for civilians too.
Each tiny milligram shoots about 1,251,000 powerful radioactive bullets a day with a range of about 20 cells of the human body for thousands or even billions of years. This is according to noted mathematician and radiation expert, Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH.
She should know, Dr. Bertell serves on several Pentagon radiation committees and has for decades.
Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in U.S. war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president.
Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the U.S. Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people.
The U.S. Expeditionary Forces are quite successful in targeting and dosing these large populations. In so doing the soldiers poison themselves with depleted uranium too. The American presidents don't care. Should we care if the president doesn't?
There is a Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year-olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. The country is Israel.
All Israeli soldiers donate a sperm sample that is immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in a sperm bank at University Hospital in Jerusalem. Recent professional analysis shows Israeli sperm concentration has declined by 40 percent in less than 10 years.
This is a dangerous and precipitous collapse in human sperm concentration. While opinions differ as to the causes, Israel is swimming in a sea of uranium oxide gas partly from its own and American uranium oxide weapons. The DU attacks the sperm and eggs of male and female soldiers. Civilians and animals too.
In addition, Israel borders the Mediterranean Sea, as do 21 other countries. For 20 years, a branch of the Italian Mafia called 'Ndrangheta in the South of Italy,' next door to Sicily, have grown a thriving nuclear waste disposal business into an estimated 2007 US$65 billion a year 'legal illegal business,' as Mafia operations are called in Italy.
The infamous 'Mafia' load derelict cargo ships with high level nuclear wastes and used reactor cores, then sink them in the Mediterranean and along the African coasts. As a result, Israelis swim in a radioactive sea.
Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children soon after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset. The hearings were covered by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive U.S. presidents.
The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape.
Sources
CNN, "Who Are the 'Ndrangheta'" http://tinyurl.com/ybxfsbp
Dr. Ronit Haimov-Kokhman cited by Ofri Ilani, "Study: Quality of
Israeli sperm down 40 percent in past decade," Haaretz, 11/05/2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084574.html
Or, http://tinyurl.com/o4p87s
Google: Mafia + 'nuclear waste' + Mediterranean for an up-to-date listing of thousands of articles on this crime against humanity.
Ann Garrison, "San Francisco recruits; Blue Angels over the Bay,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtkvraLh7Lk
Central Intelligence Agency World FactBook
http://tinyurl.com/29d8r3
Caleb E. Finch, "The Biology of Human Longevity"
http://tinyurl.com/ygnkqyg
Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winning writer and a San Francisco Bay View correspondent. A former bomb maker in a U.S. government factory in rural Oklahoma, he reports on the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. He can be reached at duweapons@gmail.com.
Article posted: www.sfbayview.com/2010/ptsd-infertility-and-other-consequences-of-war/
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- - Moyers on the Costs of War
- - Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak
- - Moyers on the Costs of War
April 16, 2010
In his closing essay this week Bill Moyers talks about Binghamton, New York's Mayor Matt Ryan and his effort to make manifest the costs of war to his town and its citizens. The mayor has installed a "cost of war" clock that keeps a running tab of how much in tax dollars Binghamton citizens collectively and individually have contributed to the war effort. You can see how much your community has spent by using Costofwar.com, which keeps a running tab. And, you can see what those dollars might have paid for by using The National Priorities Project's "Trade Offs" calculator.
BILL MOYERS: That's it for the JOURNAL, except for this postscript to last week's conversation with the historian and military analyst Andrew Bacevich, who had this to say about Afghanistan:
ANDREW BACEVICH: "it is the longest war in American history. And it is a war for which there is no end in sight. And to my mind, it is a war that is utterly devoid of strategic purpose. And the fact that that gets so little attention from our political leaders, from the press or from our fellow citizens, I think is simply appalling, especially when you consider the amount of money we're spending over there and the lives that are being lost whether American or Afghan."
BILL MOYERS: Hardly had we finished talking about the rising anger over Afghan civilians killed by American and allied troops then news came of more death. American troops opened fire on a passenger bus near Kandahar. They thought the bus threatened a military convoy. At least five Afghan civilians were killed and 18 wounded. Soon a loud and angry crowd was demonstrating against the United States, followed by a suicide bombing at the Kandahar office of Afghan intelligence, killing four officials and another five civilians.
All of this as General David Petreus, commander of our forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, told a Washington audience that the continued loss of innocent civilian lives undermines everything we're trying to do in Afghanistan. And all of this as congress prepares to vote on spending another 33 billion dollars on that faraway war.
Mayor Matt Ryan Of Binghamton, New York, can't take it anymore. He calculates that by September 30th of this year the citizens of Binghamton will have paid 138 million dollars toward the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan — and more if congress passes the Obama request for supplemental funds. Binghamton is a small city of 47,000 people with an annual budget of 81 million dollars. Facing a budget deficit, the mayor has to raise taxes or cut jobs and services. He says he is sick and tired of watching people in town "squabble over crumbs" while sending all that money to foreign wars. Next week, he will become the first mayor in the country to install on city hall a large digital clock adding up minute-by-minute how much the people of Binghamton are paying for those two wars.
To watch or read the program, see: www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04162010/profile2.html
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- - Bill Moyers talks with authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak
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The White House and Democrats in Congress have begun pushing in earnest for a package of financial reforms. But will it be enough to stop Wall Street from causing another meltdown?
To find out what real financial reform needs to look like, Bill Moyers turns to Simon Johnson and James Kwak, the co-authors of 13 BANKERS: THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER AND THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN.
The problem, according to Kwak, is that the legislation currently doesn't address the central problem of the crisis, that America's banks have grown 'too big to fail.' In fact, the problem has gotten worse, with just six banks holding assets in excess of 63% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. Kwak explains that the crisis actually made the surviving banks more powerful, "I think what's remarkable is that it used to be maybe eight or nine banks. But what's happened over the last two years, as Simon is saying, is that these banks have gotten bigger, because they've bought each other. They've become more powerful. And they have an even stronger market position in some key markets like credit cards, mortgages, equity underwriting, and derivatives."
Johnson argues that for reform to work, policy makers and regulators must reject the belief that Wall Street knows what's its doing, that its interests are always aligned with the nation as a whole, "The idea that we need Wall Street with its current structure — and a disproportionate economic power that implies — to somehow make this economy work and drive entrepreneurship, that idea is nonsense. This is why we wrote the book, all right? There's plenty of evidence on this issue. We go through it. If you want a faith based economy in this regard, you can disregard the evidence."
Senator Brown and the 'Volcker Rule'
Johnson and Kwak believe Congress should pass a law capping the size of the banks, to keep them from becoming so large that their failure threatens the world economy. This approach has been dubbed the 'Volcker Rule,' after Paul Volcker, the well-respected former Federal Reserve chairman who has pushed hard for its inclusion. Senator Sherrod Brown from Ohio has introduced an amendment to the bill that would do just that, reading in part that, "No bank holding company may possess non-deposit liabilities exceeding 3 percent of the annual gross domestic product of the United States."
The Six Big Banks
The names of the six banking behemoths are no doubt familiar to most Americans. The four largest by assets — Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Citigroup — hold 39 percent of American's deposits.
The six biggest commercial banks by deposit:
* Bank of America, $817.9 billion
* JPMorgan Chase Bank $618.1 billion
* Wachovia Bank $394.2 billion
* Wells Fargo Bank $325.4 billion
* Citibank $265.9 billion
* U.S. Bank $151.9 billion
Source: FDIC
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Depleted uranium is destroying life
- - PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
By Bob Nichols [See article following]:
Depleted uranium is destroying life
By Jerry Mazza
Published by FlybyNews.com - April 16, 2010
I have long heard sound-bites or seen passages about depleted uranium that sounded more than dire. But given my own cognitive dissonance, and the fact that I was writing about many other dire topics at the time, I filed depleted uranium in my cranium for future investigation, which, given the human aversion to bad news, could have been never.
But never was over in an exchange of emails about nuclear missiles in Israel's arsenal. I received some startling nuclear information from San Francisco Bay View writer, Bob Nichols. It was an illumination long-time coming.
I started at the end of Bob's article to find out who he was. His credits read "Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award winning writer and a San Francisco Bay View correspondent. A former bomb maker in a U.S. government factory in rural Oklahoma, he reports on the two nuclear weapons labs in the Bay Area. He can be reached at duweapons@gmail.com ” His credentials were impressive and so was the article he sent, PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war.
In several, follow-up phone calls, Bob, in his gentle, mid-western drawl, filled me in on the picture of the imposing disasters caused by depleted uranium in Central Asia and in the Mid-East, in which hundreds of thousands of tons of depleted uranium had been dropped in the past 20 years.
Bob pointed out that San Francisco itself was receiving fallout from the Berkeley National [Nuclear Weapons] Lab, and from the Livermore Laboratory in the South Bay area, managed by San Francisco-based Bechtel, a nuclear-capable corporation, boosted by San Francisco's "Nuclear Nancy’ Pelosi and her friends at Bechtel" as Bob commented. The University of California at Berkeley now earns more from weapons than from students.
The San Francisco facilities have been part of the Manhattan Project, operating from pre-1945, contributing a dangerous amount of radiation to the area with weapons testing and leakages of material into the Bay. It was for this reason, Nichols told me, that he still lives in Oklahoma, though he has a real love affair with San Francisco. Yet he fears for its human and natural safety due to poisoning by the nuclear projects.
In fact, he bemoaned the occasion of "Fleet Week," "the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week - an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the US Navy and marines – who will probably come in deadly contact with another Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and aerosols, UO."
As he wrote, "Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as depleted uranium.
"When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself."
That was shocking to hear. So I did a bit of research to corroborate Bob's claims and came upon a number of YouTube pieces, one particularly powerful ten-minute piece called Depleted Uranium - The Ultimate Dirty Bomb.
It features Dr. Doug Rokke, US Army Health Physicist and Nuclear Medicine Sciences Officer, as well as the internationally known Geological Scientist and International Radiation Expert Leuren Moret. Please take ten minutes to listen to it.
Dr. Rokke explains that as far back as 1973 [the Yom Kippur War], radioactive materials carpeted Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. He mentions too that DU radioactive contamination makes food and water unusable. He explains how the huge jolts of electrical energy in a small amount of depleted uranium can destroy human cells.
Most notably, Dr. Rooke estimates that from October/November 1991 in Gulf War 1, 160,000 US soldiers were permanently disabled by US use of some 340 tons of depleted uranium. Ten years later that number had climbed to 221,000 and left 10,000 dead. Dr. Rooke, a victim himself of the lack of proper post-battle examinations for DU poisoning, spoke with a tempered but deliberate anger and frustration at the damage done to all, including civilian populations, combatants, and himself.
Lauren Moret pointed out that as far back as 1943 depleted uranium usage, aka "poison gas warfare" was encouraged in a government memo shown on screen. She also tells us that the UN Human Rights Commission declared depleted uranium as illegal. The ultimate irony she points out is that in 2003 we attacked Iraq and Saddam Hussein for possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction, which turned out not to be true. Yet when we attacked Iraq in 2003, we dropped between 1000 to 2000 tons of depleted uranium, a known Weapon of Mass Nuclear Destruction in a three-week period. This is a war crime unto itself.
This all jibed with Bob Nichol's writings, especially the fact that the damage of depleted uranium is forever, lasting billions of years in the atmosphere, the earth and water, as it lasts on clothing, the skin, the human body, destroying vital organs, causing birth defects of all kinds, cancers, infertility, damage to the bones, brains, testicles and ovaries, which applies to civilians and animals as well.
As Nichols writes, "Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in US war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president."
"Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the US Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people." Remember that US forces themselves are the victims as well of these weapons, the worst imaginable blowback.
In fact, Nichols points us towards a "Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. This country is Israel."
Bob sent along an article from the noted Israeli paper, Haaretz, dated 3/21/2010: Study: Quality of Israeli sperm down 40% in past decade. Bob claimed the number was fudged somewhat because from 2004-2008 there was a 10 million sperm a year drop-off. Taken to 2015, all of the nation would be infertile. The motility of the tested sperm also indicated a drop-off. These samples were taken from healthy young people who do not smoke.
"In Israel, too, [Haaretz writes] a study was published about a year ago, showing an increase of about 30 percent in defects in the male reproductive system. In addition, in the past decade, the number of cases of testicular cancer has doubled."
Haaretz goes on to attribute the sperm drop to "chemicals in the ground and in drinking water...as impacting hormone levels and secondary sexual characteristics." The paragraph concludes with "Studies published in Britain have highlighted a clear connection between continual decline in sperm counts and chemicals in the environment."
In the next to last paragraph of Bob Nichols' article, he writes of the Israeli situation, "Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset… Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive US presidents."
The 800-pound gorilla in the room here is that young people tested (both men and women) are performing in the Israeli Defense Forces, and face massive amounts of depleted uranium in the US manufactured weaponry being used in the ongoing conflict with the Palestinians. The land, animals, and those involved in the conflict on both sides must be, by definition, poisoned by these toxic weapons of nuclear destruction. That's the real story. The Israelis have performed a service in a way just by conducting a bona fide scientific analysis of the situation.
In nearby Iraq, three-headed babies are turning up and a virtual Pandora’s Box of birth defects that you can see here. Caution: these are not pretty pictures, but they are true pictures of what the future could be as the present.
Again, please read the entire Haaretz article and view the YouTube piece. Or check the more conservative Wikipedia for the 38-page article (which includes 13 pages of footnotes) linked here on Depleted Uranium. You can verify the information presented above and find more information as well. In fact, the first DU, which uses radioactive isotope-238 was "manufactured in the 1940's when the US and USSR began their nuclear weapons and nuclear power programs." P.S. Depleted uranium bombs were also used on Serbia in the Bosnian War by President Clinton.
The total world inventory of depleted uranium stands at 1,188,273 tonnes as of 2002. That is enough to wipe out life on the planet for billions of years.
The United States leads the pack with 480,000 tonnes; Russia closely follow with 460,000 million tonnes; France, 190,000 tonnes; United Kingdom, 30,000 tonnes, etcetera.
As to the Legal Status of DU, Wiki reports, "In 1996 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave an advisory opinion on the 'legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons'. [29] This made it clear, in paragraphs 54, 55 and 56, that international law on poisonous weapons--the Second Hague Declaration of 29 July 1899, Hague Convention IV of 18 October 1907 and the Geneva Protocol of 17 June 1925--did not cover nuclear weapons, because their prime or exclusive use was not to poison or asphyxiate. This ICJ opinion was about nuclear weapons, but the sentence 'The terms have been understood, in the practice of States, in their ordinary sense as covering weapons whose prime, or even exclusive, effect is to poison or asphyxiate,' also removes depleted uranium weaponry from coverage by the same treaties as their primary use is not to poison or asphyxiate, but to destroy material and kill soldiers through kinetic energy."
The deadly irony here is that depleted uranium, through the use of a perverse legalese, is classified here not as the awful poison and asphyxiate it is, but as a destructor of material and killer of solders through kinetic energy. Never has there been such a torturous misuse of language. Obviously, the people at the top are not thinking clearly. But we down here, the everyday people, must think clearly and protest the use of depleted uranium in any form, as a deadly poison and as a destructor of material, soldiers, civilians, animals, soil, water and air. Otherwise, we're committing suicide, the universe's ultimate punishment for our poisoning the planet.
This includes poisoning as well in non-warfare situations like the one in Naples, Italy (home of my forefathers) where the crime organization, the Camorra, is poisoning the Mediterranean, as Bob Nichols tells me, with the continual exploding of forty foot barges of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium. These gangsters are killing the sea that feeds that nation, the sea that runs into the Red Sea, in which Israelis swim. The Med is being poisoned for profit by criminals as the bought-off police turn their heads. Evil has many heads, like the DU misconceived child itself.
But let me conclude this piece, with Bob Nichols' last line, "The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape." But I will add that there is consciousness and the actions of conscious people to stop the situation from worsening. Lets use it.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. His book “State Of Shock – Poems from 9/11 on” is available at www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com.
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By Bob Nichols
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PTSD, infertility and other consequences of war
by Bob Nichols
PTSD and its effects on U.S. soldiers and their families is a ghastly story with no end. PTSD is, in large part, though, an entirely Pentagon, or American war machine, inflicted wound.
Boot camp and combat is bad enough; and such forced inhumanity as committing war crimes against civilians causes soldiers to suffer the mental trauma of PTSD. In addition, there is an unseen agent or disease vector at work here as well.
There, on the battlefield, the happy boys sent off to war by Mayor Gavin Newsom's Fleet Week – an event responsible for a big chunk of the enlistments in the U.S. Navy and Marines – will probably come in deadly contact with another San Francisco Bay Area product: depleted uranium, aka DU, and weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas and erosols, UO.
Iraq and virtually all the rest of the Middle East and Central Asia have been continually dosed for almost 20 years with thousands of tons of weaponized ceramic uranium oxide gas, also known as depleted uranium.
When used as directed, the depleted uranium bullets, shells and bombs become a lethal uranium gas or aerosol. The poison uranium oxide gas aerosols last for billions of years and never stop indiscriminately maiming and killing, which is a war crime in itself.
The deadly radioactive poison was developed by the Manhattan Project in 1945 when they were making the first atomic bombs. The Manhattan Project became the Bay Areas’ two nuclear weapons labs.
San Francisco's Rep. "Nuclear Nancy" Pelosi and her friends at San Francisco-based Bechtel are all set to make more atomic bombs, too. Bechtel is a nuclear capable corporation and manages the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab.
Depleted uranium is called depleted only because less than one half of 1 percent of the uranium isotope 235, the bomb making isotope, is removed when the U.S. government makes atomic bombs. The currently remaining billion and a half pounds of uranium isotopes are often given free to politically connected arms manufacturers. That radioactive uranium is then used to make bullets, shells, missiles, mines and bombs to sell to the U.S. government a second time.
San Francisco based lawyer Karen Parker is an expert in the International Law of Armed Conflict, commonly called 'war crimes' law. The law and treaties require that weapons can be 'turned off' after the battle is over.
Simple as that. Anything else is a war crime, punishable by hard labor in prison or death by hanging.
Army and civilian researchers have shown that uranium oxide (UO) poison gas particles migrate right up the olfactory nerve to the brain. This is when the uranium poison gas weapons are used by soldiers as directed by arms manufacturers and military regulations.
In addition, UO particles are small enough to go through combat uniforms and penetrate the skin of soldiers. Once inside their bodies, the poison uranium gas is drawn to their brains, bones, and testicles or ovaries. Of course, this applies to civilians and animals as well.
Over a million U.S. soldiers have been on the ground in Iraq and Central Asia. The medical disability rate is over 60 percent and 'PTSD' is a common diagnosis. Soldiers from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy report similar medical problems as well.
One milligram (mg) of uranium oxide poison gas is about the size of one of the periods at the end of these sentences. When soldiers can absorb UO through their skin, there is nothing to limit their exposure to one milligram or a thousand. That goes for civilians too.
Each tiny milligram shoots about 1,251,000 powerful radioactive bullets a day with a range of about 20 cells of the human body for thousands or even billions of years. This is according to noted mathematician and radiation expert, Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH.
She should know, Dr. Bertell serves on several Pentagon radiation committees and has for decades.
Uranium munitions, containing weaponized uranium oxide gas and aerosols, are used by presidential order in U.S. war zones. Privates and corporals do not decide to use these poisonous uranium gas weapons on their own. No, that order comes from the American president.
Uranium oxide gas weapons are called 'genocidal weapons.' They maim and kill millions of people, their animals and their land. The actual targets by the U.S. Expeditionary Forces are the populations of Central Asia and the Middle East, about a billion people.
The U.S. Expeditionary Forces are quite successful in targeting and dosing these large populations. In so doing the soldiers poison themselves with depleted uranium too. The American presidents don't care. Should we care if the president doesn't?
There is a Middle Eastern country that requires all 18-year-olds to join national service for several years. This country even has a roughly comparable health care system to America for a population of 7,233,701, according to the CIA World Factbook. The country is Israel.
All Israeli soldiers donate a sperm sample that is immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in a sperm bank at University Hospital in Jerusalem. Recent professional analysis shows Israeli sperm concentration has declined by 40 percent in less than 10 years.
This is a dangerous and precipitous collapse in human sperm concentration. While opinions differ as to the causes, Israel is swimming in a sea of uranium oxide gas partly from its own and American uranium oxide weapons. The DU attacks the sperm and eggs of male and female soldiers. Civilians and animals too.
In addition, Israel borders the Mediterranean Sea, as do 21 other countries. For 20 years, a branch of the Italian Mafia called 'Ndrangheta in the South of Italy,' next door to Sicily, have grown a thriving nuclear waste disposal business into an estimated 2007 US$65 billion a year 'legal illegal business,' as Mafia operations are called in Italy.
The infamous 'Mafia' load derelict cargo ships with high level nuclear wastes and used reactor cores, then sink them in the Mediterranean and along the African coasts. As a result, Israelis swim in a radioactive sea.
Since 20 percent live sperm is considered to be the beginning of infertility, Israel will be sterile in less than 10 years at this rate of decline. The estimated 7 million Israeli Jews will have no more children soon after that. This catastrophic development has already occasioned legislative hearings in Israel's Knesset. The hearings were covered by Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Israeli sperm concentration is just an example of what is happening to human sperm all over the Middle East and Central Asia, by the choice and force of will of successive U.S. presidents.
The American war machine has consequences. PTSD is just one of them. The poison gas cannot be contained, undone or recalled. There is no antidote; there is no cure. There is no escape.
Sources
CNN, "Who Are the 'Ndrangheta'" http://tinyurl.com/ybxfsbp
Dr. Ronit Haimov-Kokhman cited by Ofri Ilani, "Study: Quality of
Israeli sperm down 40 percent in past decade," Haaretz, 11/05/2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1084574.html
Or, http://tinyurl.com/o4p87s
Google: Mafia + 'nuclear waste' + Mediterranean for an up-to-date listing of thousands of articles on this crime against humanity.
Ann Garrison, "San Francisco recruits; Blue Angels over the Bay,"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtkvraLh7Lk
Central Intelligence Agency World FactBook
http://tinyurl.com/29d8r3
Caleb E. Finch, "The Biology of Human Longevity"
http://tinyurl.com/ygnkqyg
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Misprision Treason or Justice * Truth or War
30 March 2010
"..What about Vietnam? And I knew that I could never again raise
my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos
without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor
of violence in the world today, my own government."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riverside Church, April 4th, 1967
29 March 2010 - Democracy Now! - Amy Goodman
As Obama Visits Afghanistan,
Tavis Smiley on Rev. Martin Luther King
and His Opposition to the Vietnam War
On March 31, 2010 PBS aired Tavis Smiley’s special
MARTIN LUTHER KING: A Call to Conscience
1) 9-11 Truth, Peace, and Freedom, or To Hell With America
- - Covering up American War Crimes, From Baghdad to New York
- - Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice April Newsletter
- - New Kevin Ryan Essay with Intro by Don Paul
- - American Behavioral Scientist: “State Crimes Against Democracy”
- - New Research on State Crimes Against Democracy
- - Evidence of Treason - Misprision Citizens Action
2) US and Israel Arms Deal Corruption Undeniable
- - U.S. and Israel sign a massive arms deal
- - Is there evidence of a moon landing hoax?
3) Critical Breaking News [Links]
Editor’s Notes:
FN is part of the movement to expose deep government corruption that could 'pull' off such an event like September 11, 2001 with military-grade nano-thermite explosives, and be able to blame it on a CIA derivative group called Al-Qaeda. I believe it is time to go on record and officially file Misprision of Treason EVIDENCE, and write a letter to local newspapers to explain your actions. Renewing a commitment to truth and reality is part of being a responsible and free individual. Will even subtle fears and mind control dictate how we respond, or will the actual facts in the case, which were used to justify launching devastating wars, be the deciding factor?
9/11 Crime - Misprision - Citizens Action
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Please note the new article by Christopher Story, and the Jerry Mazza new article on US and Israel escalating dangers everywhere, plus upcoming program on MLK. How did Israel obtain nuclear weapons? Everyone knows, but the hypocrisy reeks of something perverse. Note, too, the must-see investigative film documentary, George Bush Sr. and the Assassination of JFK. The corrupt evil connections since WWII are becoming undeniably evident. News in the post Cassini flyby era is turning rapidly, and either things will get much better or much worse, staying this present course is impossible.
29 March 2010 - OnLineJournal - Jerry Mazza
U.S. and Israel
sign
a massive arms deal
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Christopher Story
29 March 2010
Senator Arlen Specter Invokes Misprision of Felony
RECLAIMING AMERICA
Paranoid Shift
Special article by Michael Hasty
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Dark Legacy
George Bush and the Assassination of JFK
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1) 9-11 Truth, Peace, and Freedom, or To Hell With America
- - Covering up American War Crimes, From Baghdad to New York
- - Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice April Newsletter
- - New Kevin Ryan Essay with Intro by Don Paul
- - American Behavioral Scientist: “State Crimes Against Democracy”
- - New Research on State Crimes Against Democracy
- - Evidence of Treason - Misprision Citizens Action
- - Covering up American War Crimes, From Baghdad to New York
By Charles Glass
March 25, 2010 "Taki's" -- BBC correspondent John Simpson reported on March 4 that the number of defects in newborn babies in the Iraqi town of Fallujah had risen dramatically since the American assault there at the end of 2004. Some people in the town blame the abnormalities in their children on whatever chemicals the US Marines may have used in their conquest of the Sunni Muslim redoubt. Dr. Samira al-Ani, a paediatrician at Fallujah’s General Hospital, told Simpson that two or three children were born each day with serious cardiac problems. Before the first American attack on Fallujah in two years earlier, she noticed similar ailments in one baby every two months. “I have nothing documented,” she admitted, “but I can tell you that year by year the number [is] increasing.”
The Iraqi government, which supported the American attack with troops of its own, denies there has been any increase. “The US military authorities,” Simpson said, “are absolutely correct when they say they are not aware of any official reports indicating an increase in birth defects in Fallujahno official reports exist.” Nor are any likely to. By any standard, though, this was a big story. John Simpson is a serious journalist and a friend, and I listened carefully to his report that morning on the BBC World Service. I waited in vain for the New York Times, Washington Post, and other serious American journals to take up the story. All I read was a brief item on the CBS News website quoting Simpson.
“The US government does not want it known that it was using chemicals on human beings in a country whose leader it overthrew ostensibly because he retained the capacity to do the same thing.”
The US denied it anyway, perhaps out of habit. Military spokesman Michael Fitzpatrick responded predictably, “No studies to date have indicated environmental issues resulting in specific health issues.” But, as Simpson said, there have not been any studies. American spokesmen were reluctantly forced to admit the use of White Phosphorousor Willie Pete, as the troops call itin Fallujah when someone noticed that Field Artillery Magazine, a U. S. Army publication, had already documented its deployment in its March/April 2005 edition. The magazine wrote, “We fired ‘shake and bake’ missions at the insurgents, using WP [White Phosphorous] to flush them out and HE [High Explosives] to take them out.” After Dahr Jamail, a brilliant freelance journalist, reported during the battle in 2004 that American forces were using WP on Iraqis, Project Censored gave him an award for the second most under-reported story of the year. It is still under-reported, but it is not difficult to understand why. The US government does not want it known that it was using chemicals on human beings in a country whose leader it overthrew ostensibly because he retained the capacity to do the same thing. And the US Treasury does not want to compensate foreigners for any harm its troops might have done. Let us turn now to New York and what has become the secular-sacred site of the former World Trade Center.
The government this month finally settled claims by 10,000 workers on the Ground Zero clean-up by agreeing to pay $657.5 million for the debilitating effects of the asbestos and other poisons they were exposed to. That’s an average of $65,750 a head, less the lawyers’ share. It doesn’t sound like much, but they’re doing better than anyone in Fallujah. There are precedents for government resistance to admitting responsibility. American Vietnam veterans crippled by the dioxin they dropped all over Vietnam waited many years for the government to acknowledge their plight. At first, the government resisted the connection between dioxin and the veterans’ cancer, Parkinson’s, and other fatal illnesses. By the time the government paid anything, the vets were observing that their children were being born with severe birth defects from dioxin in Agent Orange and other herbicides unleashed on the South Vietnamese countryside. Their children’s congenital deformities included spina bifida and other horrors that may go for generations to come. The Department of Veterans Affairs didn’t send them any money until 2003thirty years after the last barrel of poison was dropped on Vietnam. Even that was restricted to 7,520 of the 99,226 veterans who claimed to have been affected.
While dioxin disabled thousands of American service personnel who merely handled it, as many as 4.8 million Vietnamese endured twenty-eight million gallons of toxic rain that drenched their skins, soaked their soil, and polluted their rivers and groundwater for ten years. As with the American war vets, then-unborn children were also affected. Vietnam has one of the world’s highest levels of birth defects, concentrated in the south where the American forced deployed most of the chemicals. Five children out of one hundred are born with serious abnormalities, including missing limbs, spina bifida, twisted or missing internal organs and grotesque malformations that have made their survival impossible. While reluctantly accepting a link between dioxin and birth defects in American service personnel’s children, the US denies any connection when it comes to Vietnamese. I guess it’s just one of those strange anomalies that nature throws up every so often, like Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates’ observation that the disproportion in African-American deaths from the police choking was due to the fact that “blacks might be more likely to die from chokeholds because their arteries do not open as fast as they do on ‘normal people’.” Perhaps Vietnamese born after 1961, when Operation Ranch Hand to defoliate South Vietnam began, were just not normal anyway.
The abnormal people of Iraq remember that the US denied Saddam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons on its Kurdish citizens. In those days, Saddam was an American ally. When freelance journalist Gwynne Roberts brought back the soil samples from Hallabja that proved Saddam has gassed the Kurds, the US blamed the Iranians. That assessment became inoperative when condemning Saddam was politically useful. Now that the US has been caught using chemicals in the same country that the monster Saddam did, it admits using them on “insurgents” but not on civilians. It is hard in a city to blast chemicals at the people with guns and miss those who don’t have any. No matter. The US and Iraqi governments are blocking an investigation that would prove one way or another that White Phosphorous did any harm to Iraqi mothers and their children. It’s unlikely they’ll receive a cent for the next fifty years, if ever. But why the hell isn’t this a big story?
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- Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice April Newsletter
www.STJ911.org - April, 2010
[EXCERPT]
- - New Kevin Ryan Essay with Intro by Don Paul
Demolition Access to the WTC Towers:Part Four – Clean Up
by Kevin R. Ryan
In addition to the actual placement of explosives, those involved would need to clean up any evidence of explosives remaining at the site. In this final essay of a multi-part series, it will be seen that certain people had the means, opportunity and motive to destroy such evidence at Ground Zero, and that something was being hidden after the buildings fell. These facts will be reviewed in light of the knowledge that the debris was considered highly sensitive and nearly all the steel evidence was quickly destroyed.
Read the full essay here. See all four essays starting here.
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In Denial of Democracy: Social Psychological Implications for Public Discourse on State Crimes Against Democracy Post-9/11
by Laurie A. Manwell
To preserve what is left of North American democracy—and our responsibility for tolerance and restraint toward citizens of nondemocratic states—the culture of fear and political intolerance and a governing dissociative mindset of “democracy for the few” must be subjected to immediate serious public scrutiny and debate. This must begin with the thorough and scientific vetting of evidence that contradicts the U.S. government’s official account of 9/11, on which two wars of aggression have been predicated, with the possibility of a third looming in the near future; for it was this event, more than any other in modern history, that has precipitated an epochal change in the social psychology of “We, the People.”
See full article here, and discussion here.
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by Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff
Credible scientific evidence brings into question the possibility that some aspects of the events of 9/11 involved State Crimes Against Democracy. Psychologically, this is a very hard concept for Americans to even consider. However, ignoring the issue in the context of multiple proven SCADs since World War II seems far more dangerous for democracy than the consequences of future scientific inquiry and transparent, fact-based investigative reporting. Anything short of complete, open discourse based on all the evidence about these critical issues in our society relating to the possible continuation of SCADs is simply a matter of censorship.
See full article here.
For complete Newsletter, see: http://stj911.org/blog/?p=595
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- - Evidence of Treason
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) reported that World Trade Center 7 collapsed due to fire damage. If that is the case, it would be the first steel-framed skyscraper in history to undergo total collapse from fire alone. The fact that NIST refused to even consider explosive demolition when it is the most likely hypothesis and fits all of the available evidence is, in and of itself, grounds for suspicion of a cover-up. Fire doesn’t pulverize 90,000 tons of concrete to powder. Explosives do. Crucial evidence from the World Trade Center crime scene, including most of the steel from WTC 1, 2 and 7, was deliberately shipped away and destroyed before it could be properly examined.
The Twin Towers collapsed too rapidly and with too much violence for the NIST explanation to be even remotely valid; the temperatures attained during the destruction were much too high; the acceleration of the buildings during their collapses was much too smooth. Well over one hundred first responders witnessed explosions at the on-set of the collapses. Small chips of nano-thermitic composite materials – a highly sophisticated explosive, has been found and documented by an international team of scientists in large quantities in the dust of the debris at the World Trade Center.
This work is published in Open Chemistry/Physics Journal, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe." One of its authors, Niels H. Harrit in a German interview in May 2009, said: "There are no experts on nano-thermite without connections to the military…. This stuff has only been prepared under military contracts in the USA and probably in bigger allied countries. This is secret military research…It was not prepared in a cave in Afghanistan."
Senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, disclosed in his book, The Ground Truth “...at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened... I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The [Norad air defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years. This is not spin.” Whenever contact is lost with any airplane, fighter jets routinely take to the air to investigate. This commonly occurs about 100 times per year in well under 20 minutes. But on 9/11 nearly two hours passed without any interception.
There were also warnings of the impending attacks from other countries; plus insiders such as John Ashcroft, top military officers, and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown were warned not to fly. Additional evidence of foreknowledge came from insider trading. Shortly before 9/11, tens of millions that were made by Put options on American Airlines show 99% probability of illegal insider trading.
Evidence meant to implicate 19 Arabs as hijackers of four planes (passports, business cards, and so on) alleged to have survived the fiery plane impacts is not credible and suggests a staged crime scene. Furthermore, since seven alleged hijackers were housed on US military bases, two lived with an undercover FBI agent, and many others, like alleged flight 93 pilot Ziad Samir Jarrah, were brought over to flight school in Florida by CIA agents, we must conclude that the training was part of a cover story concocted by US intelligence, and that most of these 9/11 alleged hijackers were NOT involved, or were unwitting patsies, to say nothing of the nine who showed up still alive AFTER 9/11. Hundreds of contradictions exist that were omitted in the official version.
References:
18 USC Sec. 2382. Misprision of treason - http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/18C115.txt
”Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe”
Open Chemistry/Physics Journal
http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM
“Did nano-thermite take down the WTC?”
Interview with Dr. Niels Harrit; Published by RT, 21 January 2010
http://rt.com/Politics/2009-07-09/Did_nano-thermite_take_down_the_WTC.html?fullstory
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7, Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False
By David Ray Griffin http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?cPath=4_19&products_id=2130
"9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, The A Critique of the Kean-Zelikow Report"
David Ray Griffin - http://www.interlinkbooks.com/product_info.php?products_id=983
118 Firefighters' Testimony to Explosions in the Twin Towers
http://www.journalof911studies.com/articles/Article_5_118Witnesses_WorldTradeCenter.pdf
Kolar, Jay, "What We Now Know about the Alleged 9-11 Hijackers", in The Hidden History of 9-11,
2nd edition, P. Zarembka, editor, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008, pp. 3-44 and 293-304.
Poteshman, Allen M., "Unusual Option Market Activity and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001",
Journal of Business, Vol. 79, no. 4, 2006, pp. 1703-1726.
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2) US and Israel Arms Deal Corruption Undeniable
- - U.S. and Israel sign a massive arms deal
- - Is there evidence of a moon landing hoax?
- - U.S. and Israel sign a massive arms deal
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Mar 29, 2010, 00:33
Here, I thought the U.S. and Israel were ready to go 15 rounds in the Garden (not Eden).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insulted Vice President Biden, Middle East envoy George Mitchell, plus Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Clinton warned Netanyahu that the building of more settlements in the West Bank definitely will slow peace efforts. Netanyahu basically said who cares.
And then I read this HAARETZ headline: Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal. What, so they can use them on us? You gotta be kidding. But no, there it is, in the first paragraph: As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Washington this week absorbing the full wrath of the Obama administration, the Pentagon and Israels defense establishment were in the process of sealing a large arms deal. Sounds like theyre playing, good cop, bad cop, nest-ce pas?
Well, isnt that special, Dana Carveys Church Lady smiles from cyberspace and asks, Now, who could be behind that? (Beat) Saaatan? Well, it certainly sounds like the great dissembler. As Haaretz says, According to the deal, Israel will purchase three new Hercules C-130J airplanes. The deal for the three aircrafts, designed by Lockheed Martin, is worth roughly a quarter of a billion dollars. Each aircraft costs $70 million. Ugh, I think, worth a quarter of a billion bucks, each plane $70 million? What? Whos paying for this deal?
Well, the deal, it turns out will be covered by American foreign assistance funds. What does that mean? Were fronting them the money to buy our planes? Kiss my tassels.
And look at this: The aircrafts were manufactured specifically for Israeli needs, and include a large number of systems produced by Israels defense industry. What? When? Three new planes, $70 million each? They didnt make these in a minute. Who ever heard? Well who ever said that you need to know what the Pentagon is doing? It is top secret, not for schlimazels like you, you taxpayer, you American senior citizen, useless eater. Youre lucky youve got your Social Security and Medicare for another year. Then it all goes to Bnai Brith. Arrrrrgh!
And what are the Israelis special needs besides bombing Palestinians? Well, how about bombing the Iranians. Bombing the Jordanians, the Syrians, and the whole megillah? The Pentagon has got to be nuts. Or, once again, the Pentagon is letting little Israel play the big stick for them in the Middle East.
Listen to this: The Pentagon will issue a formal announcement on the matter on Thursday vening. Thats it, just like that? We dont vote, we dont know, were handing these vipers more deadly weapons, more money? Are you serious, Haaretz? Well, dont shoot the messenger.
Right, but it says, America and Israel have still not reached an agreement regarding the purchase of the Lockheed F-35 war plane. It is still not clear when that deal, which is estimated to be worth more than $3 billion, will finally be sealed and carried out.
But dont we give these characters $3 billiion a year to buy war crap? Is this it? And we have to front them even more for the first deal? And were supposed to not be angry at these goons for trying to gobble up the West Bank. Is Obama getting head from Monica Lewinski? Whats going on: Three Lockhead F-35s; three new Hercules C-130J airplanes?
And this for the country that does more spying on us than any nation, friend or enemy? Are we serious? What are those guys smoking at the Pentagon and whos supplying them?
And heres the capper. If that deal is signed in the near future, Israel will likely receive its first F-35 in 2014.
If that deal is sealed, wait a minute? Ho, hold on, thats my, thats our tax money, putz! Seal your lips before I get the Five Dancing Israelis to dance on your heads while we document Israel going up in smoke, not just the World Trade Center. These guys were videotaping one of their buddies dancing on a white moving fan in New Jersey, dancing and flicking his lighter as the towers burned and fell in the background.
And these schlimazels walked away after they were arrested for a couple of months, cold as stone, no remorse, nothing. And the FBI stood there with their hands on their privates, doing, saying nothing, as the boyz were extradited to Israel and claiming on TV there that they were to document the event. How did they know there was going to be an event to document, particularly one of those tragic proportions? How, Secretary Gates, tell me?
See, heres what I believe. The reason we throw more and more money at Israel is because Israel, the Mossad, does all this dirty business for us, including helping to wipe out the WTC on 9/11. Larry Silverstein and Frank Loewy, his partner, the lessees of the WTC, are now reaching a new deal with the Port Authority for more money to build Towers 2 and 3, after they received $4.5 billion in insurance, and Larry another $500 million in insurance on Tower 7, which he built five stories higher and wider immediately. This is a cash cow for Silverstein and his buddies. That and other little assignments the dual Israel/American citizens and Mossad are so good at pulling off.
So by now you think Im an anti-Semite saying this? No, everything Ive said is the truth. When you tell the truth, fact, about someone that isnt a religious or ethnic slur. Its just the truth. Throw them all in jail. Go ahead. I am an American citizen. This is my country. And I dont want my country associated with these murderers.
In fact, Id like to know why so few people picked up on former US Marine Corps grunt Gordon Duff, who writes for Veterans Today, interviewing USMC Vietnam vet, Dr. Alan Sabrosky, former director of studies at the US Army War College, about his military knowledge that Israel Did It, that is 9/11, and has the potential to launch a nuclear strike. The Mossad, he claims, took down the towers with help of the CIA. Sabrosky, who is Jewish, but also a fiercely loyal American, is seething at the Israelis.
So, bottom line, it all comes back to following the money, and asking why were bowing to Israel, spotting them for billions for more high-powered, advanced tech planes, especially when theyve thumbed their noses at our orders to not keep building new settlements in Palestine.
Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer and life-long resident of New York City. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net. His new book, State Of Shock: Poems from 9/11 on is available at jerrymazza.com , Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com.
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- - Is there evidence of a moon landing hoax?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon
by Bart Sibrel - film running time - 47 minutes
Flyby News has provided screenings and discussions of a controversial film alleging a moon-landing hoax. The moon is 240,000 miles away from Earth. The space shuttle has never gone more than 400 miles from our atmosphere. Except for Apollo astronauts;, no humans even claim to have gone beyond low-earth orbit. When the space shuttle astronauts did get to an altitude of 400 miles, the radiation of the Van Allen belts forced them to a lower altitude. CNN reported: "The radiation belts surrounding Earth may be more dangerous for astronauts than previously believed (like when they supposedly went through them thirty years ago to reach the Moon.) The phenomenon known as the 'Van Allen Belts' can spawn (newly discovered) 'Killer Electrons' that can dramatically affect the astronauts' health."
In a recent (2008) article in the Guardian (UK), a science correspondent wrote: "The question of how to fend off the solar wind has been given some urgency by an international plan - the Global Exploration Strategy, signed by 14 space agencies including those of Britain, China, France and the US - to return to the moon and send astronauts further into space. George Bush has committed the US to a return trip to the moon by 2020.." So why after the supposed multiple successful lunar landing and take-offs has humans remained in low orbit, since the 1972 and Apollo missions ended; is it coincidence that these missions ended when Russia and other countries had the technology in place to confirm a human moon landing and take-off. According to Bart Jordan, at that time NASA did not have the technology to lift off the moon even if they landed on it, and survived the intense Van Allen Earth-Sun magnetic radiation belt.
What is unique about Bart Sibrel’s film, besides its artistic blending of images demonstrating the hubris of humankind throughout the ages, and the current events of the arms race, Vietnam War, race riots, but he also presented some mislabeled, unedited, behind-the-scenes footage from NASA showing the crew of Apollo 11 'staging a shot of being half-way to the moon.' The quote used in his film from George Orwell’s book, 1984, is very apropos: "Those who control the future control the past." It may be time for another look back to what many of us believed once was true. Did man really land on the moon?
Valley 9/11 Truth & Flyby News
present films and discussions:
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Above film begins at 7:00 PM and following, at 9:00 PM:
"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Moon"
Wednesday, April 14, 2010; meeting at 6:00 PM
Media Education Foundation, Northampton, MA
Moon Landing Conspiracy YouTube Channel
The official web site for the film is www.moonmovie.com
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DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
During an interview with Stanley Kubrick's widow an extraordinary story came to light. She claims Kubrick and other Hollywood producers were recruited to help the U.S. win the high stakes race to the moon. In order to finance the space program through public funds, the U.S. government needed huge popular support, and that meant they couldn't afford any expensive public relations failures. Fearing that no live pictures could be transmitted from the first moon landing, President Nixon enlisted the creative efforts of Kubrick, whose 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968) had provided much inspiration, to ensure promotional opportunities wouldn't be missed. In return, Kubrick got a special NASA lens to help him shoot Barry Lyndon (1975). A subtle blend of facts, fiction and hypothesis around the first landing on the moon, Dark Side Of The Moon illustrates how the truth can be twisted by the manipulation of images.
Dark Side Of The Moon is written and directed by William Karel and co-produced by Point du Jour Production and ARTE France.
For more on this and a YouTube video clip, see: www.thelastoutpost.com/site/1362/default.aspx
For dozens of more resources on this issue, see: www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm
and www.orwelltoday.com/moonhoaxdoc.shtml
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
28 March 2010 - VIDEO - 911blogger
9-11 Truth makes HUGE appearance
at Los Angeles Anti-War March
25 March 2010 - Taki Magazine - Information Clearinghouse
Covering up American War Crimes,
From Baghdad to New York
The US government does not want it known
that it was using chemicals on human beings
in a country whose leader it overthrew ostensibly
because he retained the capacity to do the same thing.
24 June 2006 - VIDEO - John McMurtry
Why The Facts Of 9/11 Are Suppressed
17 March 2010 - Raw Story - 911blogger
Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld
warned 9/11 Commission about
'line' it 'should not cross'
21 March 2010 - Washington Post - 911blogger
FBI false flag terror
plot exposed in court
16 March 2010 - William Veale, Esq. - 911blogger
April Gallop's case on 9/11-Pentagon thrown out!
Judge Chin has just dismissed the Gallop case.
He said that the allegations are frivolous and
based on fantasy and delusion.
Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler
Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post's no-
conspiracy-theory policy, and he's not happy about it.
12 March 2010 - Raw Story - Video (RT) - 911blogger
Jesse Ventura:
'You're not allowed to ask' about 9/11
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Connecting dots to democracy or to genocide
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
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The Biggest Lie * The Hague * Howard Zinn
30 January 2010
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe
if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point
where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government
by an individual, by a group or by any other
controlling private power."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
1) Three High Rise 9/11 Demolitions – Anthrax – Pentagon - MacKinlay
- - Two Hit, Three Down - The Biggest Lie – By Lynn Margulis
- - 1,000+ Architects and Engineers – Standing for Truth
- - Kevin Ryan –Controlled Demolition of WTC Towers
- - What hit the Pentagon? (Journal of 9/11 Studies)
- - Wall Street Journal: The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
- - Janette MacKinlay - Surviving 9/11
2) War Crimes – The Hague – US assassinations – Howard Zinn
- - The Hague acknowledges War Crime filing against Bush et al
- - Presidential Assassinations of US Citizens
- - Blackwater’s Youngest Victim - Report from Jeremy Scahill
- - Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian
- - Howard Zinn: "Largest Lie" is the "U.S. War on Terrorism"
- - HOWARD ZINN: A Lion Falls Leaving A Nation of Swine
3) Toxic Nukes, Dirty Coal, Deceptive Obama, and Global Warming
- - Tell President Obama he's just wrong on nuclear power
- - Last Decade Warmest Ever: NASA
- - Critical Breaking News – World Reports and more..
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism
because it is the merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
Editor’s Notes:
If you have not subscribed to Flyby News (FN), then this is the first issue of 2010. Please take your time reading and absorbing, since there is quite a bit of information. However, I want to encourage you to take action soon, regarding item 2, which contains a formal response to Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, from The Hague on his filing against Bush et al for the war-crime "Extraordinary Rendition." Please consider endorsing and supporting this campaign ASAP.
The first item begins with Dr. Lynn Margulis, who is a National Academy of Science member and distinguished professor at UMASS, Amherst. Her article, published in the February, 2010 issue of the Rock Creek Free Press, reveals her humanity and commitment to science and justice. I hear a lot about conspiracy theories, some feasible, some ridiculous, and of course, most anything could be claimed as possible. However, her analysis of the work of David Ray Griffin and others, is most refreshing. She has put her reputation on the line by accusing the official story, which claims two airplanes brought down three high-rise buildings as “the biggest lie.” An independent free mind must challenge the abuse of science and deception, especially when it justifies military invasions-occupations. The atrocity and abuse of Muslim innocent people must end. The real perpetrators are challenging everyone’s humanity to either wake up and take a stand, or slip into a denial pact for the illusion of security and comfort. I realize most everyone who reads this is united in this awareness, but we have not been united enough to effectively break through the media-mind control barriers to awaken a critical mass of the public. Please make a pact with all people of conscience to make this the year we become successful in this endeavor.
Item 1 also includes updates from Architects and Engineers, new information on the militarized anthrax, additional analysis on what hit the Pentagon, Janette MacKinlay, artist and 9/11 survivor, and more. Japan now has “9/11: Blueprint for Truth - The Architecture of Destruction” translated with major press and government leaders questioning what really happened. The second item, besides the War Crimes filing at The Hague, includes an article by Glenn Greenwald on Obama placing American citizens on a hit-list of people ‘authorized to be killed.’ Plus, a Democracy Now! link with an interview with the father of a 9 year-old child, killed by Blackwater in Iraq; also, a few articles to honor the wonderful work and life of historian, humanitarian, Howard Zinn. Please find inspiration in all this. We will need it to stand up to the monsters controlling world governments and media.
Please support the filing to The Hague soon and be ready for the next FN issue, which will include a campaign to engage the 9/11 truth community and peace activists. I will be providing text with clear evidence of Treason regarding the cover-up of the demolitions of the World Trade Center, and will request all to respond to US code 18 (Sec. 2382) - Misprision of treason -- which states: "Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both."
We will request your taking the evidence to Judges in your community and demand their taking action, or to anyone, especially those who have taken sworn oaths of office to uphold and protect principles of the US Constitution. Also we will request your writing of your actions in letters to the editor in local newspapers.
Item 3 is part of this issue, too, because energy and uranium weapons is a big part of the downfall of the US Republic, and misleading the world into a death spiral arms race and war. This item also includes an article showing figures from NASA on how the last decade was the warmest ever recorded for our planet. Many are triggered by the disinformation of the energy warlords, playing the game between left and right, truth and deception, but the measurements and real science are not political or partisan. Many are fooled by the complexity of disinformation that seeks to push an elitist plan to profit and control the financial-political game for their dark motives. As per the crisis in Haiti, any turn to make a buck will be used over the anguish of many. Many want to believe that the altering of the climate by humanity is a hoax, but the numbers speak for themselves, and pollution has accumulated since the beginning of the industrial revolution, promoted by greed and willful or plain ignorance with deforestation killing the lungs of our living (or dying) planet. Also, in this item, note the action requested to stop the elitist energy plan. Tell Obama and the public that nuclear power is not safe or clean. Nukes threatens all life, since it will last beyond the time humankind may destroy itself. Members of Congress and the elitists will not be safe in their bunkers. Our only chance is to change the energy, control, weapon, deception pathway of where we are now headed. 9/11 truth is key. In the spirit of Howard Zinn, take an active stand for nonviolence and compassion, be a warrior for peace and justice; they go hand in hand.
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1) Three High Rise 9/11 Demolitions – Anthrax – Pentagon - MacKinlay
- - Two Hit, Three Down - The Biggest Lie – By Lynn Margulis
- - 1,000+ Architects and Engineers – Standing for Truth
- - Kevin Ryan –Controlled Demolition of WTC Towers
- - What hit the Pentagon? (Journal of 9/11 Studies)
- - Wall Street Journal: The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
- - Janette MacKinlay - Surviving 9/11
- - Two Hit, Three Down - The Biggest Lie – By Lynn Margulis
National Academy of Science member and Distinguished Professor endorses
David Ray Griffin's work exposing the truth of 9/11
By Lynn Margulis
In the February issue: Rock Creek Free Press
Two Hit, Three Down - The Biggest Lie
I comment here on the nanotechnology aspect of Jerry Mazza’s masterful review (Rock Creek Free Press, January 2010, page 6) of David Ray Griffin’s extraordinary 2009 book, The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False.
By the time we (Dorion Sagan – my eldest son and Sciencewriters partner – and I) met David Griffin in 2003 in his native habitat at the Center for Process Studies (which is on the campus of the Claremont School of Theology in southern California), he had written over two dozen books, none of which I had ever read or even heard of. We immensely enjoyed a three-day scientific-philosophical meeting on the Darwinian-evolutionary view of life that had been organized by Griffin’s sage mentor, the sweet-tempered but razor sharp, Jimmy Carter-sounding, octogenarian professor emeritus and director, John B. Cobb, Jr. The results of this fascinating meeting have since been published (Cobb, ed. 2008).
At that meeting, Griffin’s talk was sober, academic, competent, scholarly – and entirely new to me: Christian theology in a much broader philosophical context than any to which I had ever been exposed.The science-friendly philosophical outlook Griffin espoused apparently was developed by Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), the English mathematician-philosopher who became a Harvard professor, or by Cobb. Why would I have known anything about this theological-philosophical work? My own expertise after all is in protoctist and organellar genetics. With close colleagues I reconstruct the origin and evolution of nucleated cells in the Proterozoic Eon. Where I understood DRG’s talk at all, he made clear to me his honesty. Truth, especially scientifically/empirically established truth, seemed intrinsic to his Christianity. As a typical agnostic scientist overtly critical of organized, and even disorganized, religion, I was surprised by the scientific commitment to approaching empirical truth in a religious context rather than the usual authority-pleasing consensus.
Griffin went on to elaborate that, although as a Whiteheadian he embraces the methods and results of science, he is critical of the entire international scientific enterprise as generally practiced today. Not only do scientists extrapolate their intrinsically specialized empirical knowledge into intellectual territory where it does not belong, but they don’t heed Whitehead’s recognition that, after all, scientists –like all people – have an emotional life and an inner spirit. The acclaimed “objectivity of science,” on close scholarly inspection (by, say, Cobb, Griffin and other Whiteheadians), often translates into tribalism, jingoism, naiveté, denial of obvious truths, uncritical service to The State, and other forms of profoundly dangerous ignorance. Scientists, as do all groups of people, share unstated philosophical assumptions. For example, they not only have faith in the consistency and “knowability” of the real world, but they often assume that the concrete particulars of the world are adequately described by the abstractions that have proved useful for limited purposes in their own disciplines – an assumption that Whitehead called the “fallacy of misplaced concreteness.”
On the return trip east from this meeting, I read, non-stop, DRG’s seminal book on 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor. Since then I have watched the “aging theologian” (his self-description as quipped in the excellent video-graphed lecture “9/11 and Nationalist Faith” (or was it 9/11: Let’s Get Empirical? Both are highly recommended) metamorphose from a compelling, careful scholar to a brave and extraordinary orator (but still careful scholar). Griffin has become a superb politician with a single agenda item: We must re-open public inquiry into the events of September 11, 2001, especially the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Read the article here.
http://911blogger.com/node/22463
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,
Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False
By David Ray Griffin
For the review of this book by Jerry Mazza:
"Just Say No to Nist.."
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- - 1,000+ Architects and Engineers – Standing for Truth
AE911Truth 1,000+ - January 2010 Newsletter
Contents - The Shout Heard 'Round the World on Feb 19!
9/11: Blueprint for Truth Now Available in Japanese
The Mystery of 9/11 is "Now Unraveling", Says Major Japanese Weekly
Live Debate: Architect Richard Gage, AIA, vs. Explosives Expert Ron Craig,
Round Two Sunstein and Beck Fire Shots Across Our Bow
60 Aerospace Engineers Call for New 9/11 Investigation
AE911Truth Presents at St. Mary's College of California
Upcoming Events
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The Shout Heard 'Round the World on Feb 19!
1,000 Architects & Engineers Call for a Real 9/11 Investigation
Press Conference and Dinner February 19, 2010
AE911Truth will hold a press conference on Friday, February 19, at 11:00 AM at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel in San Francisco. We will announce and honor the milestone of our achievement of obtaining 1,000 architects and engineers (A/E's) petitioning for a real investigation into the destruction of the 3 World Trade Center skyscrapers.
9/11: Blueprint for Truth Now Available in Japanese
On the heels of the seven-city tour of Japan, during which Richard Gage, AIA, spoke to eight members of the Japanese Diet, AE911Truth is delighted to announce the Japanese-language edition of the seminal 9/11: Blueprint for Truth (Companion Edition) one-hour DVD.
This break-through DVD also includes David Chandler's important work – the physics analysis that exposes explosiveness of the North Tower, the free-fall acceleration of WTC 7, and fraud in the official story.
The Mystery of 9/11 is "Now Unraveling", Says Major Japanese Weekly
AE911Truth Highlighted in the "Time Magazine of Japan"
"The official story is not convincing." – Councilor Yukihisa Fujita
For complete newsletter, see:
www.ae911truth.org/newsletter/2010/01/index.php
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- - Kevin Ryan –Controlled Demolition of WTC Towers
Kevin Ryan presentation at Keene State College on
Video - Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Towers
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- - What hit the Pentagon? (Journal of 9/11 Studies)
Misinformation and its Effect on Credibilty...."
Version 7 - In this version an additional photograph of debris has been included, wing loading on the spiral descent of flight AA77 has been calculated and the description of the position of CIT has been enlarged. Version 5 included a table showing that a range of flight paths exist which would enable a Boeing 757 to hit the light poles and the Pentagon without experiencing excessive g-force. As some researchers have stated that this is impossible the issue of misinformation arises and is examined in a postscript.
www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2009/WhatHitPentagonDrLeggeAug.pdf
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- - Wall Street Journal: The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.
From the Wall Street Journal, no less, comes the following article:
The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
The article makes the case that the scapegoat Ivins could not have made the anthrax used in the attacks since it had relatively high concentrations of silicon, which he could not have created.
I still believe that the anthrax case is one of the best opportunities for the 9/11 truth movement. The facts are relatively straightforward compared to 9/11. If it could be shown that the anthrax attacks originated from the US government or agents thereof, it would produce a massive shift in the public's thinking. People would then be forced to accept the fact that they have been lied to and the country was attacked through an inside job. That would open up, in my opinion, a huge opportunity to expose the truth about 9/11.
For comment and article, see: http://911blogger.com/node/22454
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Anthrax -- brought to you by the Military Industrial Complex
"FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU"
www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html
Truncated, for complete comment and extensive resources, see:
http://911blogger.com/node/22454#comment-226297
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- - Janette MacKinlay - Surviving 9/11
By Carol Brouillet
On January 26, 2010, Janette MacKinlay, a survivor of 9/11, underwent surgery, a biopsy, following the discovery of a brain tumor last week. I saw her in the hospital following the surgery, and she was her warm, gracious, lucid self, even sharing with me the latest examples of note cards she has had printed, featuring her beautiful ikebana art images. Last September, we had worked together on the 9/11 Film Festival, held at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California to draw attention to many 9/11 issues, including the plight of the those suffering from their exposure to the toxic dust, over 800 have died so far, that we know about. Janette believes that her tumor was probably caused by 9/11 and that she, along with many, many, others will be counted as victims of 9/11, as more and more “cancers and tumors” are found.
Fortunate- A Personal Diary of 9/11
Janette’s entire story bears repeating. She wrote a book, Fortunate- A Personal Diary of 9/11, which features photographs from her personal experience, as well as the ikebana floral arrangements that she created, in her effort to heal. On September 11, 2001, she was living across the street from the World Trade Center, and directly witnessed the fires and the collapses which broke the windows of her apartment. Some of the dust that she saved from her apartment, she sent to the physicist Steven Jones who analyzed it, finding iron spheres, as well as chips of nanothermite. Janette had a cameo appearance in Loose Change- 9/11 An American Coup, as well as other 9/11 truth documentaries, and has been interviewed on many mainstream television and radio stations. I hope a great, sensitive, filmmaker decides to make a film about Janette someday, because her story is one of great personal transformation, courage and hope, illustrated by her artistic creations. They say that the most personal story is the most universal and I suspect that the collective American psyche has not yet caught up with Janette, but will someday, hopefully before it is too late.
I met Janette in the summer of 2004, when activists had launched a campaign to “Blow the Whistle on the 9/11 Cover-Up!” in the Bay Area, and had gathered at a Commonwealth Club event where the featured speakers were members of the 9/11 Commission reporting their findings. I was tabling outside of the event and gave Janette a copy of David Ray Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor-Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration for her book. The Deception Dollar artist, Blaine Machan, by coincidence, sent me Janette’s contact info on the same day that I met her (She had contacted him and was including Deception Dollars in one of her anti-war art exhibitions). Janette says that the commissioners, themselves, that day, persuaded her that they were concealing, rather than searching for the truth about 9/11. Subsequently, Janette became very active with our group, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance, hosting and organizing events, parties, mailing parties, becoming Treasurer, as well as speaking out publicly. (Her February 23, 2006 talk and powerpoint presentation from the event that she organized- Question 9/11- A Call to Action at the Grand Lake Theater are posted here).
Later, when she visited New York and her old apartment complex, she discovered that her renovated apartment was for rent, she decided to move back to New York City, and became involved with the East Coast activists. Her unique connections with family members, survivors, West Coast activists, East Coast activists helped her to bridge differences and pull diverse people together. She poured a lot of energy into the 9/11 Accountability Conference in Arizona in 2007, as well as the NYC Coalition for Accountability Now effort in 2009.
In the past few months, a number of meetings have been held with lawyers and activists, discussing how best to secure subpoena power and get those most responsible for 9/11 to speak, and to be held criminally accountable for their actions. Janette has been amongst the most active people, doing the vital legwork to seek accountability.
Mike Daly, an ironworker, who has been trying to educate the public about the enormous Captive Fund- created by Congress to “compensate workers for their injuries involved in the clean-up” (See- www.wtccaptivefund.com The huge fund has only hired lawyers to fight claims, paid out almost no money at all to those who have suffered ill health, as a result of 9/11, but has paid big bucks to those managing the fund.) well, Mike was visiting Janette last Wednesday evening when Janette suddenly had trouble speaking. A friend had telephoned her to ask for directions and realized that something was seriously wrong with her and came over immediately to get her to the hospital. Mike had gone to see Janette, because he felt that her artwork should be made into metal sculptures, memorials to 9/11.
This week, Janette had planned to begin taking care of her three month old grandson, Huxley, two days a week. Those plans have been turned upside-down and her two sons, Brian and Mark ,have been looking after Janette and taking her to and from the hospital.
I have not spoken directly with Janette’s doctors or her family about her medical condition. I learned from Janette that they told her that she has a fast growing tumor, the kind associated with people doing construction work, and that the professionals have advised her that she has between 6 months and a year to live. I have learned, from experience, that patients are sometimes not told the truth about their condition or their treatments, and that Western medicine has its limitations. I learned about alternative medicine, before I learned about “alternative politics or alternative media.” Years ago, my fiancé had a tumor, the size of an orange, removed from the center of his brain, and received a very bleak diagnosis for survival. He also had a dramatic remission, thanks to a classic Chinese herbal treatment, prescribed by the Director of Cancer Research in Beijing. I know many people who have survived brain tumors and who have overcome cancer through holistic, natural remedies. Janette has a very strong spirit and with the love and support of friends and family, I hope that she will recover from her surgery, and in the process of healing herself, add to our insights on how we can heal the world. I believe that truth, love, spirit are stronger than the lies, fear, malice deployed to control humanity.
I would encourage everyone to send some love and healing energy towards Janette, as well as towards all the victims, first responders, inhabitants of New York City, and New Jersey, who came into contact with the toxic dust.
www.911blogger.com/node/22460
2) War Crimes – The Hague – US assassinations – Howard Zinn
- - The Hague acknowledges War Crime filing against Bush et al
- - Presidential Assassinations of US Citizens
- - Blackwater’s Youngest Victim - Report from Jeremy Scahill
- - Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian
- - Howard Zinn: "Largest Lie" is the "U.S. War on Terrorism"
- - HOWARD ZINN: A Lion Falls Leaving A Nation of Swine
- - The Hague acknowledges War Crime filing against Bush et al
for "Extraordinary Rendition" – Please support this critical action.
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BUSH TO THE HAGUE! The Hague acknowledges Francis Boyle
today on his filing against Bush et al for the war-crime "Extraordinary Rendition"
From: Susan Serpa; Monday, January 25, 2010
Dear Accountability Advocates and previous impeachment advocates,
The day of accountability is at hand.
We need your help:
Contact The Hague to insist they proceed an investigation of war-crimes committed by the accused (Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet and Gonzales) in the acts called "Extraordinary Rendition" as quickly as possible. Send me a reply (neimpeach@gmail.com) if you would like your group listed as endorsing Prof. Boyle's filing. Send this message to all your groups - this is the accountability we've all been working on for the past several years.
Contact Eric Holder 202-353-1555 AskDOJ@usdoj.gov to tell him
the International Community will prosecute even if he does not.
I'll be setting up a Facebook group shortly (hopefully today) and Prof. Boyle has just engaged a webmaster who will be setting up a website this weekend. Any other ideas on how to get this moving forward is greatly appreciated.
From: OTP InformationDesk [mailto: OTP.InformationDesk@icc-cpi.int ]
Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:08 AM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: Information Received - Review Letter - OTP-CR-41/10
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please find attached a communication from the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
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Below is Prof. Boyle's message and initial filing. He is looking for endorsements.
Please respond if you'd like your group named as endorsing the arrest of Bush,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Tenet and Gonzales for the international war-crimes.
[From Prof. Boyle]: Thanks. I want to set up a worldwide grassroots campaign:
BUSH TO THE HAGUE!
The basis would be the Complaint I have filed with the ICC. I want everyone in the world to contact the ICC prosecutor as indicated and demand Bush’s prosecution. Once that is set up we use it to pressure all governments in the world to investigate, extradite and prosecute Bush et al., including our own The principles of international criminal law that they have violated apply everywhere in the world. We need grassroots activists whom I can work with to put this together with experience doing it. We also get as many endorsements from NGOs as we can. I already got my first, as indicated below.
Fab.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT COMPLAINT FILED
AGAINST BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, TENET, RICE AND GONZALES;
INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
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Demonstrate Your Support for this Complaint by Contacting the I.C.C. Prosecutor
by Letter, Fax, or email as Indicated Below
Champaign, U.S.A./The Hague, Netherlands (19 Jan 2010). -- Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C.
The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless the Accused have ordered and been responsible for the commission of I.C.C. statutory crimes within the respective territories of many I.C.C. member states, including several in Europe. Consequently, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction to prosecute the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes under Rome Statute article 12(2)(a) that affords the I.C.C. jurisdiction to prosecute for I.C.C. statutory crimes committed in I.C.C. member states.
The Complaint requests (1) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor open an investigation of the Accused on his own accord under Rome Statute article 15(1); and (2) that the I.C.C. Prosecutor also formally “submit to the [I.C.C.] Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3).
For similar reasons, the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration risk the filing of a follow-up Complaint with the I.C.C. if they do not immediately terminate the Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition,” which the Obama administration has continued to implement.
The Complaint concludes with a request that the I.C.C. Prosecutor obtain International Arrest Warrants for the Accused from the I.C.C. in accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), 58(1)(b)(i), 58(1)(b)(ii), and 58(1)(b)(iii).
In order to demonstrate your support for this Complaint you can contact the I.C.C. Prosecutor by letter, fax, or email as indicated below.
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Law Building
504 East Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign, Illinois 61820
The Honorable Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Office of the Prosecutor
International Criminal Court
Post Office Box 19519
2500 CM, The Hague
The Netherlands
Fax No.: 31-70-515-8555
Email: OTP.InformationDesk@icc-cpi.int
January 19, 2010
Dear Sir:
Please accept my personal compliments. I have the honor hereby to file with you and the International Criminal Court this Complaint against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice , and Alberto Gonzales (hereinafter referred to as the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition.” This term is really a euphemism for the enforced disappearances of persons, their torture, severe deprivation of their liberty, their violent sexual abuse, and other inhumane acts perpetrated upon these Victims. The Accused have inflicted this criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” upon about one hundred (100) human beings, almost all of whom are Muslims/Arabs/Asians and People of Color. I doubt very seriously that the Accused would have inflicted these criminal practices upon 100 White Judeo-Christian men.
The Accused’s criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” are both “widespread” and “systematic” within the meaning of Rome Statute article 7(1). Therefore the Accused have committed numerous “Crimes against Humanity” in flagrant and repeated and longstanding violation of Rome Statute articles 5(1)(b), 7(1)(a), 7(1)(e), 7(1)(f), 7(1)(g), 7(1)(h), 7(1)(i), and 7(1)(k). Furthermore, the Accused’s Rome Statute Crimes Against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues even as of today.
The United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute. Nevertheless, the Accused ordered and were responsible for the commission of these I.C.C. statutory crimes on, in, and over the respective territories of several I.C.C. member states, including many located in Europe. Therefore, the I.C.C. has jurisdiction over the Accused for their I.C.C. statutory crimes in accordance with Rome Statute article 12(2)(a), which provides as follows:
Article 12
Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction
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2. In the case of article 13, paragraph (a) or (c), the Court may exercise its jurisdiction if one or more of the following States are Parties to this Statute or have accepted the jurisdiction of the Court in accordance with paragraph 3:
(a) The State on the territory of which the conduct in question occurred …
So the fact that United States is not a contracting party to the Rome Statute is no bar to the I.C.C.’s prosecution of the Accused because they have ordered and been responsible for the commission of Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity on, in, and over the respective territories of several I.C.C. member states.
Consequently, I hereby respectfully request that the Court exercise its jurisdiction over the Accused for these Crimes against Humanity in accordance with Rome Statute article 13(c), which provides as follows:
Article 13
Exercise of Jurisdiction
The Court may exercise its jurisdiction with respect to a crime referred to in article 5 in accordance with the provisions of this Statute if:
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(c) The Prosecutor has initiated an investigation in respect of such a crime in accordance with article 15.
Pursuant to Rome Statute article 13(c), I hereby respectfully request that you initiate an investigation proprio motu against the Accused in accordance with Rome Statute article 15(1): “The Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu on the basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.” My detailed Complaint against the Accused constitutes the sufficient “information” required by article 15(1).
Furthermore, I respectfully submit that this Complaint by itself constitutes “a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation” under Rome Statute article 15(3). Hence, I also respectfully request that you formally “submit to the Pre-Trial Chamber a request for authorization of an investigation” of the Accused under Rome Statute article 15(3) at this time. Please inform me at your earliest convenience about the status and disposition of my two requests set forth immediately above.
Based upon your extensive human rights work in Argentina, you know full well from direct personal experience the terrors and the horrors of enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture. According to reputable news media sources here in the United States, about 100 human beings have been subjected to enforced disappearances and subsequent torture by the Accused. We still have no accounting for these Victims. In other words, many of these Victims of enforced disappearances and torture by the Accused could still be alive today. Their very lives are at stake right now as we communicate. You could very well save some of their lives by publicly stating that you are opening an investigation of my Complaint.
As for those Victims of enforced disappearances by the Accused who have died, your opening an investigation of my Complaint is the only means by which we might be able to obtain some explanation and accounting for their whereabouts and the location of their remains in order to communicate this critical information to their next-of-kin and loved-ones. Based upon your extensive experience combating enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture in Argentina, you know full well how important that objective is. The next-of-kin, loved-ones, and friends of “disappeared” human beings can never benefit from psychological “closure” unless and until there is an accounting for the fates, if not the remains, of the Victims. In part that is precisely why the Accused’s enforced disappearances of about 100 human beings constitutes ongoing criminal activity that continues as of today and will continue until the fates of all their Victims have been officially determined by you opening an investigation into my Complaint.
Let us mutually suppose that during the so-called “dirty war” in Argentina the International Criminal Court had been in existence. I submit that as an Argentinean human rights lawyer you would have moved heaven and earth and done everything in your power to get the I.C.C. and its Prosecutor to assume jurisdiction over the Argentine Junta in order to terminate and prosecute their enforced disappearances and torture of your fellow Argentinean citizens. I would have done the same. Unfortunately, the I.C.C. did not exist during those darkest of days for the Argentine Republic when we could have so acted. But today as the I.C.C. Prosecutor, you have both the opportunity and the legal power to do something to rectify this mass and total human rights annihilation, and to resolve and to terminate and to prosecute the “widespread” and “systematic” policy and practice of enforced disappearances and consequent torture of about 100 human beings by the Accused.
Unfortunately, the new Obama administration in the United States has made it perfectly clear by means of public statements by President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder that they are not going to open any criminal investigation of any of the Accused for these aforementioned Crimes against Humanity. Hence an I.C.C. “case” against the Accused is “admissible” under Rome Statute article 1(complementarity) and article 17. As of right now you and the I.C.C. Judges are the only people in the entire world who can bring some degree of Justice, Closure, and Healing into this dire, tragic, and deplorable situation for the lives and well-being of about one hundred “disappeared” and tortured human beings as well as for their loved-ones and next-of-kin, who are also Victims of the Accused’s Crimes against Humanity. On behalf of them all, as a fellow human rights lawyer I implore you to open an investigation into my Complaint and to issue a public statement to that effect.
Also, most regretfully, the new Obama administration has publicly stated that it will continue the Accused’s policy and practice of "extraordinary rendition," which is really their euphemism for enforced disappearances of human beings and consequent torture by other States. Hence the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration fully intend to commit their own Crimes against Humanity under the I.C.C. Rome Statute – unless you stop them! Your opening an investigation of my Complaint will undoubtedly deter the Obama administration from engaging in any more “extraordinary renditions” -- enforced disappearances of human beings and having them tortured by other States. Indeed your opening of an investigation into my Complaint might encourage the Obama administration to terminate its criminal “extraordinary rendition” program immediately and thoroughly by means of issuing a public statement to that effect. In other words, your opening an investigation of my Complaint could very well save the lives of a large number of additional human beings who otherwise will be subjected by the Obama administration to the Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity of enforced disappearances of persons and their consequent torture by other States, inter alia.
The lives and well-being of countless human beings are now at risk, hanging in the balance, waiting for you to act promptly, effectively, and immediately to save them from becoming Victims of Rome Statute Crimes against Humanity perpetrated by the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration as successors-in-law to the Accused by opening an investigation of my Complaint. Otherwise, I shall be forced to file with you and the I.C.C. a follow-up Complaint against the Highest Level Officials of the Obama administration. I certainly hope it will not come to that. Please make it so.
Finally, for reasons more fully explained in the Conclusion to my Complaint, I respectfully request that you obtain I.C.C. arrest warrants for the Accused in accordance with Rome Statute articles 58(1)(a), article 58(1)(b)(i), article 58(1)(b)(ii), and article 58(1)(b)(iii). The sooner, the better for all humankind.
I respectfully request that you schedule a meeting with me at our earliest mutual convenience in order to discuss this Complaint. I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
This transmission letter is an integral part of my Complaint against the Accused and is hereby incorporated by reference into the attached Complaint dated as of today as well.
Please accept, Sir, the assurance of my highest consideration.
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)
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- - Presidential Assassinations of US Citizens
This is a must read: By Glenn Greenwald
American citizens are now being placed on a secret "hit list" of people
whom the President has personally authorized to be killed.
For article, see: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24516.htm
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- - Blackwater’s Youngest Victim - Report from Jeremy Scahill
Democracy Now! - January 29, 2010
EXCLUSIVE…Blackwater’s Youngest Victim: Father of 9 Year-Old Killed
in Nisour Square Gives Most Detailed Account of Massacre to Date
Today a Democracy Now! exclusive report from Jeremy Scahill about a nine year old boy, shot in the head and killed by Blackwater in the infamous Nisour Squre massacre. His father, who is suing the private military contractor, provides the most detailed eyewitness account of the massacre to date. Scahill has conducted an in-depth investigation of the massacre and of nine-year old Ali Kinani’s death.
He files an exclusive report with Rick Rowley of Big Noise Films.
www.democracynow.org/2010/1/29/exclusiveblackwaters_youngest_victim_father_of_9
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- - Howard Zinn (1922-2010): A Tribute to the Legendary Historian
with Noam Chomsky, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein and Anthony Arnove
[Following is an excerpt from a recent Democracy Now! program, replaying a 2005 interview about his time as an Air Force bombardier in World War II, and his bringing the lesson he learned into the present circumstances of US occupation-wars.]
HOWARD ZINN: Well, we thought bombing missions were over. The war was about to come to an end. This was in April of 1945, and remember the war ended in early May 1945. This was a few weeks before the war was going to be over, and everybody knew it was going to be over, and our armies were past France into Germany, but there was a little pocket of German soldiers hanging around this little town of Royan on the Atlantic coast of France, and the Air Force decided to bomb them. Twelve hundred heavy bombers, and I was in one of them, flew over this little town of Royan and dropped napalm—first use of napalm in the European theater.
And we don’t know how many people were killed or how many people were terribly burned as a result of what we did. But I did it like most soldiers do, unthinkingly, mechanically, thinking we’re on the right side, they’re on the wrong side, and therefore we can do whatever we want, and it’s OK. And only afterward, only really after the war when I was reading about Hiroshima from John Hersey and reading the stories of the survivors of Hiroshima and what they went through, only then did I begin to think about the human effects of bombing. Only then did I begin to think about what it meant to human beings on the ground when bombs were dropped on them, because as a bombardier, I was flying at 30,000 feet, six miles high, couldn’t hear screams, couldn’t see blood. And this is modern warfare.
In modern warfare, soldiers fire, they drop bombs, and they have no notion, really, of what is happening to the human beings that they’re firing on. Everything is done at a distance. This enables terrible atrocities to take place. And I think, reflecting back on that bombing raid and thinking of that in Hiroshima and all the other raids on civilian cities and the killing of huge numbers of civilians in German and Japanese cities, the killing of 100,000 people in Tokyo in one night of fire-bombing, all of that made me realize war, even so-called good wars against fascism like World War II, wars don’t solve any fundamental problems, and they always poison everybody on both sides. They poison the minds and souls of everybody on both sides. We’re seeing that now in Iraq, where the minds of our soldiers are being poisoned by being an occupying army in a land where they are not wanted. And the results are terrible.
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The following url link is to where you can read the transcript, listen, or watch the program, broadcast January 28, 2010:
www.democracynow.org/2010/1/28/howard_zinn_1922_2010_a_tribute
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- - Howard Zinn: "Largest Lie" is the "U.S. War on Terrorism"
By Sherwood Ross
The “largest lie,” wrote historian Howard Zinn who died yesterday at age 87, is that “everything the United States does is to be pardoned because we are engaged in a ‘war on terrorism.’”
“This ignores the fact that war is itself terrorism, that the barging into people’s homes and taking away family members and subjecting them to torture, that is terrorism, that invading and bombing other countries does not give us more security but less security.”
In an article published previously in “The Long Term View” magazine of the Massachusetts School of Law, Zinn said that in the Fallujah area of Iraq Knight Ridder reporters found there was no Ba’athist or Sunni conspiracy against the U.S., “only people ready to fight because their relatives had been hurt or killed, or they themselves had been humiliated by home searches and road stops.”
Truncated, for complete article, see:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17272
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- - HOWARD ZINN: A Lion Falls Leaving A Nation of Swine
January 29, 2010 by Gordon Duff – Published by Veterans Today
FEW AMERICANS KNEW OF ZINN, FEW KNOW
WHAT WE HAVE LOST AND THE DOOM WE FACE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
[EXCERPT]
..As a combat veteran and historian, I could never hope to remotely follow in Zinn’s footsteps. Even onto his death at 87, he was tireless in his fight for truth, his opposition to war and his rage against those dishonoring America. His tools were his honesty, his impeccable scholarship and his genuine love of his country, a country he worked every day of his life to save against elements, elements of endless power backed by endless money that live only to spread fear, lies and to cripple each generation more than the last.
I had written an article recently criticizing the Supreme Courts recent 5/4 decision to allow corporations unlimited ability to influence elections. I have a reasonable background in Constitutional history, the document itself and most of the schools of interpretation. On a personal note, I figure that 2 or 3 of the 5 judges who voted in the majority must be insane and 2 others either bribed or their families were being held hostage by a drug cartel. I tried to explain the ramifications to American independence as best I could, but I still receive “think tank” responses from readers, Cato, Heritage etc., that backed the most insane and anti-American act of our country’s history. Zinn lived to give Americans intellectual tools and strength of character to toss aside lies like this. He is gone. We can hope his words will reach more of those around us.
Our children shouldn’t have to suffer, living in a country we bankrupted thru ignorance, an ignorance some still value above their families, their nation and their sanity. Howard Zinn was about sanity.
For the complete article and comments, see:
www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/29/howard-zinn-a-lion-falls-leaving-a-nation-of-swine/
3) Toxic Nukes, Dirty Coal, Deceptive Obama, and Global Warming
- - Tell President Obama he's just wrong on nuclear power
- - Last Decade Warmest Ever: NASA
- - Critical Breaking News – World Reports and more..
- - Tell President Obama he's just wrong on nuclear power
In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama spoke in support of "safe, clean nuclear power."
We need to tell President Obama that nuclear power is neither safe nor clean, and is not an acceptable means of addressing the climate crisis. Recycling energy talking points from George W. Bush does not lead to meaningful climate policies, it leads to continued taxpayer bailouts of giant energy corporations.
Candidate Obama knew this. You can go here to see a Youtube video of Obama expressing his concern for his daughters living in Chicago and surrounded by nuclear reactors. He specifically says he is not a nuclear proponent. And he specifically opposes taxpayer subsidies for new nuclear reactors.
That's the Obama we need in the White House. Remind Obama of his earlier positions and encourage him to stop any taxpayer support for nuclear power. As always, feel free to edit the sample letter below to reflect your own concerns.
We also need to change the entire tenor of debate in Washington. One first step is to send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper. We've made it easy for you to do so. Go here to get started:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/t/5846/letter/?letter_KEY=254
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
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- - Last Decade Warmest Ever: NASA
Published on January 22, 2010 by Agence France Presse
WASHINGTON - The past decade was the warmest ever on Earth, a new analysis of global surface temperatures released by NASA showed Thursday.
The US space agency also found that 2009 was the second-warmest year on record since modern temperature measurements began in 1880. Last year was only a small fraction of a degree cooler than 2005, the warmest yet, putting 2009 in a virtual tie with the other hottest years, which have all occurred since 1998.
According to James Hansen, who heads NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, global temperatures change due to variations in ocean heating and cooling.
"When we average temperature over five or 10 years to minimize that variability, we find global warming is continuing unabated," Hansen said in a statement.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/01/22-5
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming
22 January 2010 - Agence France Presse - CommonDreams
Last Decade Warmest Ever: NASA
14 January 2010 - Climate Progress
2009 hottest year on record
in Southern Hemisphere
and tied for second globally
15 January 2010 - The Guardian (UK) - Common Dreams
Arctic Permafrost Leaking Methane
at Record Levels, Figures Show
Experts say methane emissions from the Arctic
have risen by almost one-third in just five years,
and that sharply rising temperatures are to blame.
21 December 2009 - Online Journal - Jerry Mazza
One man’s look at the global warming horizon
How oil remains the culprit behind 9/11 and global warming,
the latter being a reality not an elitist scam.
22 December 2009
Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups
on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to democracy or to genocide
1,023 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
29 December 2009 - 911blogger - Dr. Steven Jones
Additions to the Journal of 9/11 Studies,
and thoughts for this coming new year
"Active Thermitic Materials” by Prof. Niels Harrit et al.
Translated into Spanish and German, published in the
Journal of 9/11 Studies
25 January 2010 * Wall Street Journal * 911blogger
The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved
The FBI disproved its main theory
about how the spores were weaponized.
26 January 2010 * Pravda * 911blogger
Hague acknowledges Professor of International Law,
Francis A. Boyle, on his filing against Bush et al
for the war-crime "Extraordinary Rendition"
"The Guantánamo 'Suicides'
A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle"
By SCOTT HORTON
20 January 2010 * Interview * Democracy Now!
Casting Doubt on US Claims of Suicide, Attorney Scott Horton
Reveals 3 Gitmo Prisoners Died After Torture at Secret Site.
19 January 2010 * Harpers Magazine * Scott Horton
The Official Response Begins
21 January 2010
Time for a Special Prosecutor
21 January 2010 - Veterans Today - Gordon Duff
9/11: NATIONAL TRAGEDY,
CIRCUS OR BLATANT TREASON?
22 January 2010
Call For Arrest Of 5 Supreme Court Justices For Treason
March 6-7, 2010 * CONFERENCE * Prussia, PA
"Treason in America: 911, the Wars
and Our Broken U.S. Constitution"
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Christopher Story
29 January 2010
Biggest Lawsuit In World History: $3.87 Trillion Suit VS. SEC
26 January 2010
Re-Resecuritisation Of Securitised Junk By The FDIC
Merton—The Value of Essential Works
Do not depend on the hope of results.
When you are doing the sort of work
you have taken on, essentially an
apostolic work, you may have to face
the fact that your work will be apparently
worthless and even achieve no result at all,
if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
As you get used to this idea, you start more and more
to concentrate not on the results but on the value,
the rightness, the truth of the work itself.
– Thomas Merton
February 21, 1966
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Post 9/11 * Oil Nuke Warming * Christmas
24 December 2009
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
-- Desmond Tutu
1) The "Post-9/11 World" Is A Detriment To Humanity
- - Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
- - Who is against jobs in the United States?
- - Vote for 9/11 Answers in New Hampshire towns
- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
2) How oil remains the culprit behind 9/11 and global warming
- - Three Hundred and Fifty Chimes
- - One man’s look at the global warming horizon
- - Helen Caldicott on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
- - Enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" Nationwide
3) White Christmas poem * 2012 & Breaking News
- - The True Meaning of 2012 – By John Perkins
"The truth which makes men free is for the most part
the truth which men prefer not to hear."
-- Jim Bishop
(1907-1987)
Source: The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Editor’s Notes:
The top quote of this issue is highly relevant for those denying the hard evidence of building demolitions and cover-up of what really happened on September 11, 2001. Without truth, President Obama, as in his December ’09 West Point speech, will continue to use the emotional events of that day to justify sending trillions of dollars and tens of thousands more US troops into Afghanistan. When I spoke up at a strategy session for 'peace activists' in Northampton MA, I received harsh criticism for saying how exposing the 9/11 cover-up was critical for peace and justice. This so-called 'Coalition of the Outraged' could not see the connection. The first item may only get read by those not under mind control or paralyzing fear. Jon Gold lays out the significance of that day, and why a real investigation is essential for peace, justice, and freedom.
Item 2 begins in the Copenhagen downturn for taking significant steps to lower fossil emissions causing catastrophic consequences in our environment. Following the Valley Advocate article, Online Journal Associate Editor, Jerry Mazza, covers Craig Hill's article published by Flyby News about a year and a half ago. It is as relevant today as ever, especially with Jerry’s putting new life into it, featuring the hocus pocus of Sarah Palin’s ideas, climate-gate, Alex Jones, and more. This section also includes a critical article about the work of Helen Caldicott, blasting environmental groups for supporting a new energy bill that would expand the dangers of nuclear power for generations to come. Note, too, the interview by Democracy Now! on a recent radiation leak at Three Mile Island. Christian Parenti discusses enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" nationwide.
The last item begins with a 'white christmas' poem I wrote decades ago when my poetry used to mostly rhyme. In this item, too, is a wonderful article by shaman-connected, economic hit man, John Perkins, regarding the significance of December 21, 2012. Back when Flyby News was conceived, following the 1999 NASA-Cassini Earth flyby, I made a commitment until this date in 2012 for reporting news for life’s survival in the 21st Century. If we don’t have a major transformation by then, it won’t look good for our species and many others. Those following us know we have supported the Presidential campaigns of Dennis Kucinich, based on his efforts for the preservation of space treaties in Congress and for a Department of Peace. I contacted his office yesterday, and asked his staff to start thinking about another run in 2012. However, one person is always at risk for what may be described as a ‘terminal accident,’ as Senator Wellstone and family might have experienced, and many others. Which is why a Movement like 9/11 truth is key in exposing such a deception to overcome this reality with such dangerous consequences. Your support of campaigns like that of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth is crucial to give peace and justice a chance.
"The most common way people give up their
power is by thinking they don't have any."
-- Alice Walker
Author quote source
1) The “Post-9/11 World” Is A Detriment To Humanity
- - Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
- - Who is against jobs in the United States?
- - Vote for 9/11 Answers in New Hampshire towns
- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
- - The "Post-9/11 World" Is A Detriment To Humanity
By Jon Gold
Why we Fight
* We are fighting illegal preemptive wars against three countries. Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan. The resulting wars have caused well over 1,000,000 casualties. Preemptive war is illegal according to the Nuremberg Charter, and the United Nations charter. These wars are destabilizing the entire Middle East, and causing anti-American sentiment throughout the world.
* In America, the Constitution is being forgotten with the passage of bills like the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act. Americans are forced to wonder if their conversations are being monitored through the use of illegal wiretapping. The freedom of the press, and the right to peacefully assemble is being discarded.
* Executive Power within the United States is being expanded to the point of near-dictatorship, and accountability for the actions of the Executive, and other members of Government is non-existent.
* A constant state of fear is the norm.
* Billions upon billions are being spent on the previously mentioned wars, and things that are needed for the people are being forgotten about.
* Soldiers are dying, are being subjected to multiple tours of duty, are being exposed to depleted uranium and chemical weapons, are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, are committing suicide at an astounding rate, are being fed propaganda in order to murder innocents, and are having their families destroyed.
The event that created the "Post-9/11 World" were the attacks of September 11th, 2001.
Every effort has been made by the American Government to conceal the truth about what happened that day. The “Joint Congressional Inquiry” was "limited in scope" thanks to the efforts of George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney. The "PENTTBOM" investigation failed to address a number of the families’ questions. The "9/11 Commission" was compromised from beginning to end, and was headed by Philip Zelikow, someone the families called for the resignation of during the 9/11 Commission, someone who re-wrote the 9/11 Report to be more favorable of his good friend Condoleezza Rice, someone that tried to insert a false link into the 9/11 Report between Iraq and 9/11, someone that shied people away from the NSA, someone that shied people away from Saudi Arabia’s possible involvement in the attacks, someone that is alleged to have taken the direction of Karl Rove, someone who wrote the preemptive war strategy mentioned above, someone who should never have been anywhere near the 9/11 Commission.
If the event that created the "Post-9/11 World" wasn’t what we were led to believe, and based on available information at sites like www.historycommons.org, www.911truth.org, or www.911blogger.com, it was NOT what we were led to believe, then we need to expose that truth to hopefully end the "Post-9/11 World," and restore this country, and this world to a more peaceful, and productive society.
As Dr. Martin Luther King said, a time comes when silence is betrayal.
Now is that time. For the 2,973 people brutally murdered that day, for their families, for the 9/11 First Responders that are sick and dying, for the millions displaced or killed in the Middle East, we MUST expose the 9/11 Cover-Up, and end the insanity of the "Post-9/11 World."
It is very simply the right thing to do.
Source - http://911blogger.com/node/22194
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- - Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
By Julien Mercille
Asia Time Online - Daily News
December 16, 2009
Trail of Afghanistan's drug money exposed
As United States President Barack Obama and his advisors debated future troop levels for Afghanistan - which resulted in the decision to send an additional 30,000 troops - a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) muddied the water on one of the most important issues in the debate - the effects of Afghanistan's drug production.
The report, entitled "Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium," gives the false impression that the Taliban are the main culprits behind Afghanistan's skyrocketing drug production. It also implies that drugs are the main reason why the Taliban are gaining in strength, absolving the nited States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) of their own responsibility in fomenting the insurgency.
In fact, the United States and its Afghan allies bear a large share of responsibility for the drug industry's dramatic expansion since the invasion. Buried deep in the report, its authors admit that reduced levels of drug production would have little effect on the insurgency's vigor.
The following annotation rebuffs some of the report's main assertions, puts in perspective the Taliban's role in the opium economy and highlights US/NATO responsibility for its expansion and potential reduction.
Taliban insurgents draw some US$125 million annually from drugs, which is more money than 10 years ago, [and as a result] the perfect storm of drugs and terrorism, that has struck the Afghan/Pakistani border for years, may be heading towards Central Asia. A big part of the region could be engulfed in large-scale terrorism, endangering its massive energy resources.
These claims are supposed to make us shudder in the face of an impending narco-terrorist seizure of a large chunk of the world's energy resources. UNODC states that a decade ago the Taliban earned $85 million per year from drugs, but that since 2005 this figure has jumped to $125 million. Although this is pitched as a significant increase, the Taliban play a more minor role in the opium economy than UNODC would have us believe and drug money is probably a secondary source of funding for them. Indeed, the report estimates that only 10-15% of Taliban funding is drawn from drugs and 85% comes from "non-opium sources".
The total revenue generated by opiates within Afghanistan is about $3.4 billion per year. Of this figure, according to UNODC, the Taliban get only 4% of the sum. Farmers, meanwhile, get 21%.
And the remaining 75%? Al-Qaeda? No: The report specifies that it "does not appear to have a direct role in the Afghan opiates trade," although it may participate in "low-level drugs and/or arms smuggling" along the Pakistani border.
Instead, the remaining 75% is captured by government officials, the police, local and regional power brokers and traffickers - in short, many of the groups now supported (or tolerated) by the United States and NATO are important actors in the drug trade.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KL16Df01.html
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- - Who is against jobs in the United States?
They're All Against Jobs
By Sen. Fritz Hollings
Posted at Hunffington Post - December 18, 2009
Who is against jobs in the United States? The big banks, Wall Street, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Business Roundtable, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Retail Federation, Corporate America, the President of the United States, Congress of the United States. Everyone is crying for jobs, but no one seems to understand why there aren't any. And the reason for those opposing jobs is money.
Beginning in 1973, big banks made most of their profit outside of the United States. Industries off-shoring, investing, banks financing the investments, transfer fees, fees and interest on the loans made for bigger profits. Long since, the big banks under the leadership of David Rockefeller have led the way to off-shore and make a bigger profit. Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citicorp and Wall Street, conspiring for a bailout and now using it for bonuses, make more money from the off-shored operations.
The Council on Foreign Relations ought to be renamed the Council on Making Money. A recent PEW poll reported fully 85% of Americans said that protecting United States jobs should be a top foreign policy priority. But only 21% of the Council on Foreign Relations agrees. Financial interests organized the Business Roundtable to continue off-shore investment and profit. The local Chamber is for Main Street America, but Tom Donahue and the United States Chamber have sold out to the financial interests and oppose jobs and producing in the United States. Thirty years ago, hundreds of thousands of Arrow shirts produced in China were a best seller in the United States. But at Christmastime, the Chinese supply ran short and the retail stores had to order the same shirt from New Jersey. They made 20% less profit on the New Jersey shirt. Retailers are all for profit from imports and against domestic production and jobs in America.
Corporate America would fight any initiative by the President, the Congress, or the government to create jobs in the United States. That is, production that faces competition offshore. In globalization, U. S. production can't make a profit, can't survive. Its competition will off-shore the same article for a lesser price, putting you out of business. Moreover, Corporate America doesn't have to bother with labor in China. The China government controls labor and you don't have to worry about a work stoppage or minimum wage. All they have is a maximum wage.
And Corporate America doesn't have to worry with clean air and clean water or the environment in China. Nor does it have to worry with OSHA and all of its safety rules. Many times the factory building is furnished and you don't have to worry with capital costs. If you make a profit, you can just reinvest it in an additional operation and not have to pay any U. S. income tax. If the operation fails, walk away with no legacy costs. Corporate America bitterly opposes its government protecting and strengthening the U. S. economy because producing again in America will put the executives back to work. They can send a Jaycee to China to watch the quality control daily and sit on the 32nd floor on Sixth Avenue with the internet, keeping check, and, leaving early for a massage and drinks. With production in China they don't have to work.
As Commander-in-Chief, the President dithered for months over the number of troops. But he can't equip the troops except for the favor of a foreign country. The War Production Act of 1950 requires the President to make sure that we can produce in- country those articles necessary for our national defense. Enforcing this law would limit the campaign contributions. Under Section 201 of the trade laws, the President is supposed to take action, like impose tariffs or quotas, when a certain production is endangered. Not only endangered, our automobile production has been bankrupted. But all the President does is give Detroit bailout welfare. The President doesn't want to limit the campaign contributions.
The same with Congress. Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota long ago tried to allocate the tax incentive for foreign jobs and production to domestic jobs and production. The Business Roundtable and the U. S. Chamber fought it like a tiger and killed it.
As the President said in his West Point talk, there is fierce competition in international trade and globalization. All countries move to protect and build their economies while the United States goes out of business. The one advantage that the U.S. has is its richest market in the world. It is fast becoming the poorest market and the U.S. is losing any clout to maintain a strong economy.
The economy is in the hands of Summers, Bernanke and Geithner. Campaign contributions are in the hands of David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel. The poor President is smart, diligent and working his head off campaigning. But he is inexperienced and not governing, and the Congress is in a Mexican standoff over an archaic filibuster rule that reveres democracy by the minority.
Of course, the media, which knows this and keeps it top secret, is owned by big business.
If I don't meet you in the breadline, my children will.
Merry Christmas!
www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-ernest-frederick-hollings/theyre-all-against-jobs_b_397405.html
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- - Vote for 9/11 Answers in New Hampshire towns
Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance:
1. Vote for 9/11 Answers in NH towns!
2. Reserve Sat. February 27, 7 pm., for an evening dedicated to exposing 9/11 myths and facts,with well-known actor Daniel Sunjata, some film clips, and more. The band Northern Stone will open the program. Venue to be announced: probably in Swanzey, Keene, or Peterborough.
The Vote for Answers campaign: A lot has happened in the last two weeks! With help of the New York City group NYCCAN (NYC Coalition for Accountability Now), we are launching a campaign to get the following question on as many NH town ballots as possible, for their March annual town meetings:
"Shall New Hampshire’s Congressional Delegation be instructed to pursue a new and independent investigation to address thoroughly all of the evidence and unanswered questions related to the events of September 11, 2001? (The record of the vote on this article shall be transmitted by the Town of ____ to New Hampshire's Congressional Delegation.)"
In support of this campaign, we have prepared a powerful flyer with quotes (and photos) from nationally prominent figures such as former Senator Max Cleland, CIA veteran Ray Mc Govern, and Paul Craig Roberts who served under President Reagan. On the NH side of the flyer we have quotes and photos from a physicist, business owner, architect, and a fire protection technician, as well as this statement:
'As current and former public servants, it is our duty to raise our voice with those from across the country and around the world to call attention to the omissions and falsehoods in the official account of the events of September 11, 2001. The good people of New Hampshire are asked to sacrifice ever more in the War on Terrorism and yet there has been no true investigation into the events of September 11th for which this war is being fought. So long as our policies continue to be based on those tragic events, it will never be too late for honest answers to reasonable questions that to this day go unanswered. "
(Signed by current or former NH State Representatives Peter Allen, Peter Espiefs, Betty Hall, Charles Weed, and former Mayor of Keene Michael Blastos, featured with their photos..)
Only 25 signatures (or 2 % of a town’s registered voters, whichever is lower) are needed to get the question on the ballot. Some towns, Swanzey for example, have a January 12 deadline, others Febr. 4. Signature gathering is under way, or about to get started, in the following towns: Swanzey, Peterborough, Sullivan, Chesterfield, Harrisville, Rindge, Marlborough, Dublin, Wilton, Brookline, Barnstead, Hanover. (This will not work in cities, only towns!)
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- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
Don Meserlian wrote FN by email:
On 12/4/09 I filed the subject complaint of Misprision of Treason against N. Caldwell Municipal Court Judge Donald O'Connor based on his "violating 18 USC Par 2382 "Misprision of Treason" based on his refusal to respond to the indisputable evidence of treason that explosives, not fires, caused the collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC 7 on 9/11/01".
The "9/11 Truth Proclamation" (www.voicesofsafety.com/pogonews/petitions/200802/) contains the indisputable evidence of treason.
In accordance with the subject federal law I have presented this evidence of treason to "a judge or justice of a particular state (and failure to take action means the judge "is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 7 years or both".
Please state whether you will or will not take disciplinary action against judge Donald O'Connor.
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Please reply by 12/12/14/09.
Anyone who wants to attend my trial should phone me.
[By email contact: dcmeserlian[at}voicesofsafety{dot]com
2) How oil remains the culprit behind 9/11 and global warming
- - Three Hundred and Fifty Chimes
- - One man’s look at the global warming horizon
- - Helen Caldicott on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
- - Enduring “Zombie Nuke Plants” Nationwide
- - Three Hundred and Fifty Chimes
Bells rang from Copenhagen across the world
to warn us to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
Published by Valley Advocate, December 17, 2009
By Stephanie Kraft
Last Sunday, bells, drums, gongs and horns at churches, synagogues and mosques the world over sounded 350 times to tell the world to lower the volume of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million. It was a plea for global cooperation to control climate change, as photos from around the world document the stages of that change: melting glaciers at the poles and in the Himalayas; cattle in drought-ravaged African countries dying of thirst; widening outbreaks of dengue fever as warm weather favors the proliferation of mosquitoes.
Earlier, in the U.S., while Republican Congressman James Inhofe was publicizing his plans to tell the Copenhagen summit on global warming that the U.S. Congress would not pass climate change legislation, the Environmental Protection Agency made an historic statement of intention to use the Clean Air Act to control greenhouse gas pollutants. The statement builds on a Supreme Court decision (Massachusetts vs. EPA, 2007) affirming that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Act.
The EPA's action could have dramatic effects on industry, especially the automobile and power industries. (Notice that Inhofe's largest industrial donors are oil and gas companies and electric utilities.) Representatives of those industries had hoped to avoid regulatory action, which they see as more rigid than the cap-and-trade legislation being mulled in Congress.
And the EPA's announcement gave Obama something to take to the table in Copenhagen even though Congress didn't pass climate legislation in time for the summit. The fact that industry doesn't like the EPA's statement may make it easier for other governments to force their industries to make concessions in order to get carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to or at least not far above 350 parts per million, a quantity we can live with (it's already 390 ppm).
Cuts currently proposed would still see the volume rising to 450. The last time we had 350 ppm was in 1989; that was 35 ppm over the 1958 figure, 315.
www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11000
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- - One man's look at the global warming horizon
By Jerry Mazza
Online Journal Associate Editor
Dec 21, 2009
Sarah Palin's recent WP op-ed on climate-change led her from hockey-puck moms to manipulating emails on global warming and calling it "politicized science," in her words "Climate-gate." Would "politicized science," I thought be like "Intelligent Design" or "Creationism," those blessed miracles and worship of scientific ignorance? If so, my money goes on the reality of global warming and their scientists, including their disagreements as to the nature, pace, and/or total effect of its end game, climate-change.
Both linked articles will give a broader background on these multi-faceted subjects. They are fascinating reading.
Interestingly, in the middle of the Palin and Copenhagen chaos, came an email from Jonathan Mark, my friendly blogger from up north (www.FlybyNews.com) with an article he solicited from Craig Hill, former US Senate candidate from Vermont and 9/11 Truther as well. The article is now at 9/11blogger.com, aptly titled Global warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness. Hill came up with a short piece that clearly explained some dire instances of global warming, and compared it as well to 9/11, both problems we need to know about: the first to protect our political health, the second to protect our planet’s health.
Hill’s reasoning goes like this: “The damage done and the power abused by the perpetrators are not confined to the known effects of 9/11, however, but in many other socio-ecological-political realms. For a movement such as 9/11’truth,’ born of sensitive antennae, we bear signs of tone-deafness to other dramatic aspects of the oil uber alles bunch as they rampage the globe in suppression of freedom.
“The single greatest fact of our time is that we are well into the 6th Great Extinction. Much if not most of all species currently living will die out over the next dozens of decades due to our anthropocentric Godzillaesque footprint. There is much we can do to stop it, by slowing it down before it takes us with it, but if we cannot loosen the grip of the lunatics in charge, and soon, much of what we think of as ‘Earth’ will be unrecognizable to our distant descendants. . . .”
Ergo, what the 9/11 false-flag op and denying global warming have in common is oil, and gas and coal companies as well, and the desire to quench an unquenchable thirst for these fossil fuels, whose carbon emissions have been observed raising our global temperatures for at least 150 years. Coincidentally, the more the 9/11 perps win their hegemonic hunt for more oil, gas, and “clean coal,” the more the world will use them. And the less we will seek sustainable forms of energy, seriously hurting our planet.
It is interesting, too, that George W. Bush, who navigated the inside job of 9/11, rejected signing the Kyoto accords in his tenure. The accords called for the US to sign, as now they call for China (which also hasn’t signed) to sign. It seems the world’s two largest carbon polluters are still haggling over recognizing the problem, while the Europeans seem focused at the Copenhagen events, as in the past, on what strategies to put into effect ASAP. Effectiveness remains another issue.
As Hill writes, “We have perhaps five years to dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions, including the burning of coal and gasoline via internal combustion, before positive reinforcement of the growth of C02 in the atmosphere begins to blossom exponentially to what it has so far, and life becomes literally unlivable for all but a few tortured members of the species responsible.”
I might add that reducing C02 levels would help in the short run, but it could take significantly more time until it is fully released from under the ice and the oceans. Nevertheless, I’ll take whatever improvement we can achieve.
Hill continues, "Throughout human existence, the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide has been atmospherically stable at 280 parts per million. Over the last 100 years, as that admixture has grown to 380 ppm, the greenhouse cap has been placed over the steeping pot and, just as it would on a tepid stove, the ice is melting, rapidly, from pole to pole, ice which is necessary to reflect heat and sunlight back into space. No ice, no reflection, and the poles act as a blotter of the trapped heat, increasing it to the point it releases, as will soon begin in earnest, methane trapped in miles-thick tundra around specifically the northern pole. Methane being about 20 times more powerful, albeit shorter-lived, than a molecule of C02, we near the conditions of a previous Great Extinction caused by equally massive releases of methane into the atmosphere. When C02 concentrations reach 1000 ppm, life as we think of it is pretty much kaput. Consider there are thousands of BILLIONS of TONS of methane trapped in Arctic tundra, and 1000 ppm does not sound at all far-fetched."
Now, I know Mrs. Palin can see the tundra, snow and ice from her kitchen window, but Hill does shed a bit more light on the landscape’s issues, including methane, which causes 4-9 percent of greenhouse gases, while carbon dioxide adds 9-26 percent, water vapor causes some 36-70 percent, and ozone (03) some 7 percent of greenhouse gases. Clouds can also affect the radiation balance, the first Wiki link reports, being composed of liquid water or ice and, therefore, considered separately from water vapor and other gases.
Hill also points out that “Computer models of the growth of warming since their inception in the late ’80s have been consistently understated, which is to say predictions made for 2020 have appeared in 2005, and conditions predicted for 2040 have been up ticked to appear soon. The poles and Greenland, which is the island along with Antarctica which will raise sea levels some three dozen feet worldwide, are melting at a rate 3 1/2 times faster than was predicted as recently as May 2007 (that’s right). Every glacier on Earth is melting completely away; that 40% of the world’s fresh drinking and growing water is dependent on streams soon to go dry is precursor to monumental dislocation, famine and death on a horrifically global scale. One glacier in Bolivia ceased to exist in 2008. The 200,000 consumers of its vanished water have nowhere to go. Rainfall patterns are shifting, which means even more increased drought in many more places than the few we are currently ignoring."
Let's hope that's a wake-up call to the caring to overcome the forces of darkness. Notice, the attempt to discredit material like climate-change due to global warming, came from Mrs. Slightly-To-The-Right-of-Ghengus-Khan, following in Bush’s carbon footprints. But then we see vocal 9/11 Truthers like Alex Jones pooh-poohing global warming as he pronounces the Global Elite as the ones running the oil-and-money show. On the second point, I agree with him. On the first point, I do not.
In fact, Jones appeared on a December 16 Conspiracy Theories TV show (truTV) with host Jessie Ventura and posited global warming as being used by billionaire oilman Maurice Strong along with financier Edward Rothschild, both members of the Global Elite, to control the world economy. To that end, they would like to establish a bank of World Conservation, with its own currency, and use the fund to reduce global warming, and most probably make themselves even richer.
Briefly, the cap and trade vouchers allow a company using more carbon emissions than it has vouchers for, to trade with another company that is emitting less carbon emissions and has vouchers left over. For all the obvious reasons, I don’t think “cap and trade” would really stop abusers. Non-exchangeable fines relative to the amount of overproduction would be a better solution.
Returning to Hill, he says, "The oceans can absorb no more of the heat we are so idiotically creating. They have reached the suffocation point to the degree the plankton, that basic foodstuff of the seas, is dying. The oceans will eventually emit more greenhouse gases than they are soaking up unless we stop our furnace-blast activities and institute renewables immediately, an imminently achievable short-term goal."
Now there is an equally scary thought, that the ocean running out of food for the sustenance of its bounty. There is mention of smaller, less hearty plankton in the first Wiki article, but no specific mention of the speed of depletion.
Hill also goes on to mention the creation of deserts via global warming. "Deserts around the world are spreading north and south from the equator. Earthworms, a reliable canary in this coalmine, are dying as the soil turns to sand. High nighttime temperatures, the hallmark of warming, are parching the formerly moist Midwest soil. Beijing has a desert right outside the city limits because its top-down beauracracy of political control is too institutionally myopic to grasp what it’s doing to itself. While the Amazon, the lungs of the planet, is being rapidly clear cut, the soil is desertifying, and once soil goes to sand (see the Sahara) it doesn’t come back."
Deforestation remains a good part of global warming, given that green plants absorb C02 for photosynthesis and emit oxygen in the process. As I said, I'll take the scientist’s truth not the witch doctor's trance, as Mrs. Palin did, to help voodoo her way into the US vice presidency, with presidential hopeful John McCain.
Lastly, Hill sums up his global warming/9/11 metaphor, "Despite all of this, or because none of it is being recognized, we think our most important goal is to get the [9/11] perps destroying our rights, and we are right, but for much greater reason than the merely wimpy human one that one form of governance is superior than another. As our fight goes on the world shrivels and desiccates. The realizations of 9/11 go hand-in-hand with warming in that, as we press our prime issue to bring down corporate government in toto -- like a skyscraper in its own footprint -- we do so, unknowingly, to stop the wars for oil responsible for the bipartisan policy that caused traitors to orchestrate 9/11 in the first place: So that we may move into the Age of Biology, to eliminate dirty 20th century energy in favor of clean green 21st century sustainable energy, to get a handle on warming, to ameliorate the great death-wish of its apocalyptic promoters, who are no less than the perps of 9/11, and who as with 9/11 have shrouded the evil effects of warming in unscientific myth and lie as they have poorly though successfully covered up the vast multiplicity of their other crimes."
He concludes, "Imagine how much more urgent and, yes, even energetic we would be if we understood even more the good cause we must win."
Bottom line, Hill's comments make broad geopolitical sense for the restoration of peace and our republic. And they make eminent good sense for the reduction of global warming. Remember, too, greenhouse effects are not just about gases, but global aerosols, soot, and solar variations. Thus, in the light of future mumbo jumbo re "Climate-Gate" or global warming being an urban legend, fuhgeddaboudit. Double fuhgeddaboudit. And let the lady from Alaska go back to her kitchen window and call to Putin across the tundra, like one of the wolves she loves to kill from her chopper, and ask him to do what he can to ameliorate global warming as well. Also, tell her to get a better op-ed writer, one who doesn't sound quite as Repuglican-on-point as the last one.
As WP Op-Ed Editor Autumn Brewington who ran Palin’s op-ed, she ought to resign and go to work for Rupert Murdoch, the emperor of jingo journalism.
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Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer living in New York City. Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net. His new book, “State Of Shock: Poems from 9/11 on” is available at www.jerrymazza.com, Amazon or Barnesandnoble.com.
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- - Helen Caldicott on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
Helen Caldicott Slams Environmental Groups
on Climate Bill, Nuclear Concessions
by: Art Levine, t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 22 December 2009
Dr. Helen Caldicott, the pioneering Australian antinuclear activist and pediatrician who spearheaded the global nuclear freeze movement of the 1980s and co-founded Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), has joined with left-leaning environmental groups here in an uphill fight to halt nuclear power as a "solution" to the global warming crisis. "Global warming is the greatest gift the nuclear industry has ever received," Dr. Caldicott told Truthout.
The growing rush to nuclear power was only enhanced, experts say, by the weak climate deal at the Copenhagen 15 climate conference. The prospects for passage of a climate bill in Congress - virtually all versions are pro-nuclear - were enhanced, most analysts say, because it offered the promise that China might voluntarily agree to verify its carbon reductions and it could reassure senators worried about American manufacturers being undermined by polluters overseas. But at the two-week international confab that didn't produce any binding agreements to do anything, Caldicott and environmental activist groups were marginalized or, in the case of the delegates from Friends of the Earth, evicted from the main hall.
The upshot of the latest trends boosting nuclear power - although no nuclear reactor has been built in America since the 1970s - are indeed grim, she said. "Nothing's going to work to stop them but a meltdown," she said, fearing the prospects of such a calamity. "I don't know how else the world is going to wake up."
Her fears may sound apocalyptic, but as Truthout will explore in more depth in part II of this article, the dangers of a meltdown, terrorist attack and radiation damage are far greater than commonly known. That's because of what federal and Congressional investigators, advocacy groups and medical researchers say is a culture of sloppy security, health and safety oversight by a cozily pro-industry Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (An NRC spokesman denied those allegations in a written statement to Truthout.) The quasi-independent agency is funded primarily by fees from nuclear power plants. On top of all that, the Obama administration is planning to offer about $20 billion in loan guarantees to fund two new uncertified and risky reactors designs that have faced safety and cost overrun problems overseas.
Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.truthout.org/1222096?print
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- - Enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" Nationwide
Christian Parenti on Enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" Nationwide
Democracy Now! - November 25, 2009
As U.S. Probes Radiation at Three Mile Island,
Christian Parenti on Enduring "Zombie Nuke Plants" Nationwide
Federal officials have launched an investigation of a radiation leak at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said about 175 workers were sent home when the contamination was detected. Democracy Now! spoke to journalist Christian Parenti, who says "Zombie Nuke Plants" like Three Mile Island should have been closed long time ago, but continue to operate.
[EXCERPT]
CHRISTIAN PARENTI - There are 104 reactors in the U.S., they’re all over the country. They were designed to last for 40 years. What has happened over the last several years is that half of this fleet of atomic reactors has been re-licensed for 20 years. There is actually a discussion of re-licensing some of them for another 20 years. What happens in many cases is that new companies bought them, frequently these old plants were unburdened of their dead at the expense of the ratepayers, and now you have companies like Exelon which gave over 225—$225,000 to Obama and has contracted regularly with Axelrod, David Axelrod's PR firm. So they buy these plants and they are now running them for an extra 20 years.
One of the problems is that radiation makes metal brittle, so these plants are in serious disrepair. There were designed to last 40 years and now will be used for 60 years. On top of that, there’s a process called uprating whereby these operators can apply to increase the rate in which to operate the plant and in some cases up to 120% of design capacity. For example, Vermont Yankee outside Brattleboro, Vermont runs at 120% of its design capacity and it’s at the end of its life. All over the country there are these problems of leaks, emergencies and it remains largely under the radar. Many in the environmental movement talk about atomic power in terms of the future and whether or not we should build a new fleet of atomic power plants, how we'll fight climate change. That is really not the issue, because new atomic power plants are extremely expensive. If all goes well, which never has in the construction of a single plant in the U.S., it would cost about $10 billion-$12 billion. Generally, they cost more. There’s $18.5 billion on the table.
The problem is, the federal government has ensured 80% of any private loans that will be made to build the new plant. But no one in Wall Street is prepared to invest in these things unless they get 100% public insurance. So there’s really not much investment there for it. There are these firms that would love to get on the gravy train of building atomic power plants; whether or not they ever come on line is another story.
For complete transcript of the DN interview, to listen or watch, see:
www.democracynow.org/2009/11/25/as_us_probes_radiation_at_three
3) White Christmas poem * 2012 & Breaking News
- - The True Meaning of 2012 – By John Perkins
Author, Hoodwinked
Huffington Post - December 7, 2009
The movie 2012 has generated a tsunami of controversy over an ancient Mayan prophecy. We can thank Hollywood for stirring up our interest. Perhaps we needed a film loaded with global destruction and special effects to awaken our collective consciousness to this time of transformation. However, the theater version misses the true meaning of the message those great mathematicians and visionaries intended us to hear all those many centuries ago.
As I head off this week into the Mayalands of Central America, co-leading (with Llyn Roberts) a couple dozen people on an expedition that will delve deep into the significance of this ancient legend, I am struck by the signs that we are indeed poised to experience events foretold by the Mayan prophecy. But do not expect them to resemble the mayhem displayed in the movie.
Although there are many different interpretations of this prophecy, the one most widely accepted by the Maya teachers I know is taken from the Popul Vuh, the Mayan creation myth. Far from predicting a Hollywood-style doomsday, it holds out the possibility of positive transformation. In its simplest form, the people overthrow an egotistical regime characterized by exploitation and deception and replace it with an enlightened and compassionate one. In the process, the people have to surrender their own egos and endure material and environmental hardships.
December 21, 2012 was identified by the Mayans as the time when this transformation will become most obvious. It was an auspicious date for them because their astrologers predicted that at that moment the sun would move into alignment with the center of the Milky Way. Modern scientists, not the Mayans, offer theories that are the basis for the film's thesis that the earth's climate and magnetic poles may be changing.
My book Hoodwinked explores the deep underlying causes of the events that have now sent the U.S. and the entire planet spiraling toward the very things the Mayans foretold -- economic and environmental collapse -- and what we must do to reverse this process.
The real cause of our current meltdown is predatory capitalism -- the mutant form of an economic system that encourages widespread exploitation to benefit a small number of already very wealthy people. A new geo-political system has emerged; today the CEOs of big corporations, rather than governments, control human and natural resources around the globe, as well as politicians and the media. Their arrogance, gluttony, and mismanagement have brought us to the perilous edge. In their relentless drive to amass ever greater fortunes, they have polluted our air, water, and earth, relegated countless numbers to the ranks of the unemployed, and doubled the gap between the few who live in mansions and the many who are malnourished or starving. They exemplify that egotistical regime described in the Popul Vuh.
When I wrote Hoodwinked I was not thinking about the 2012 prophecy. Yet, now, as I prepare to visit the incredible cities these ancient people built, I realize that in an odd sort of way my writing is part of a tradition that stretches back to those Mayan visionaries.
We have indeed entered a critical time in human history. A tsunami is rapidly building on the horizon. Every person on earth is connected like never before, through the Internet and cell phones. Most of us have come to understand that we are perched on a shore that is threatened by a mounting wave of economic and environmental disaster.
We have only three years left until December 21, 2012. Whether or not you believe in this Mayan prophecy, we can all agree that we must turn things around. We must abandon our gluttonous, exploitative ways in favor of lifestyles and systems that will bequeath to our children and grandchildren a world they will want to inhabit. By definition, we simply must become sustainable.
You may want to take a moment, next time you pass by 2012 on a theater marquee, to reflect on the true message symbolized by those numbers. The real message is a call to action based on the knowledge that we can transform ourselves. It echoes down through the centuries from a people who built the magnificent pyramids that continue to enthrall and mystify visitors to the Yucatan Peninsula and who also created one of history's most accurate calendars -- the one that ends in 2012.
John Perkins is former chief economist at a major international consulting firm. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and Hoodwiniked and has written many books about the Maya and other indigenous cultures, including Shapeshifting, The World Is As You Dream It, and Psychonavigation. His website is www.johnperkins.org.
www.huffingtonpost.com/john-perkins/the-true-meaning-of-2012_b_382677.html
The White Christmas is a symbol
of more than we can assemble,
it is the heart that hurts
when that is broken.
Jesus the man, Christ his symbol,
came with love but became an idol.
With joy he gave, he spoke,
a truth to live, more than just hope;
but, as Centuries went by, man manipulated
truth into lies, stating that heaven or hell
awaits those who do or do not realize;
yet death is just an opening door,
to allow us to go on with the thoughts
we lived with and for.
Jonathan Mark
poem written 12/21/1977
Published by Tree-Root Press 1980
All My Relations – Mitakuye Oyasin
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
22 December 2009
Pro-Single-Payer Physicians Call
for Defeat of Senate Health Bill
We have concluded that the Senate bill's
passage would bring more harm than good
22 December 2009 - kucinich.us
Values of Health Care Stocks Increase
Fearlessly as Public Option Is Dead
Transforming Health-care and Criminal Justice
Not-for-Profit Healthcare and Prisons good for USA!
By Jonathan Mark
18 December 2009
Kucinich Panel to Investigate Citigroup Tax Ruling
A House subcommittee said that it will investigate
the Treasury Department's decision to change a
long-standing law so that Citigroup could keep
billions of dollars in tax breaks.
Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) called Treasury's
action a "farce" and an "outrage" during a hearing.
Kucinich, the subcommittee chairman, said that he
would demand an explanation from Treasury officials.
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Global Intelligence
25 December 2009
Interim Corruption Update: Christmas Day 2009
986 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
P e r s p e c t i v e - R e s o u r c e s - A r c h i v e s
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to real democracy or real genocide
When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers
and for a time they seem invincible
but in the end, they always fall --
think of it, ALWAYS.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
The American Ruling Class
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9/11 Convergence * TamiFlu Hoax * Treason
14 December 2009
"Understanding and destroying terrorism might simply be
a matter of understanding and destroying organizations
that continue to profit from 9/11."
- Kevin Ryan
1) "Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence"
- - $47 Trillion Lien Against U.S. Treasury and FED
- - Obama's Big Sellout - By Matt Taibbi
- - Key News: Wall Street 'Too Big to Punish,'
- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
2) Tamiflu Fraud-Hoax & other Critical Breaking News
- - Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as complete hoax
Editor's Notes:
Item one begins with a special article by Kevin Ryan, "Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence." Ryan is a former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). He was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. His article’s concluding sentence points to where freedom, justice, and security may benefit most: “Understanding and destroying terrorism might simply be a matter of understanding and destroying organizations that continue to profit from 9/11.” Following this and other major economic-intelligence news, make sure you read the article by Mike Adams exposing how the TamiFlu antiviral drug has been exposed as a 'complete hoax.' Following that is more critical news links.
1) "Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence"
- - $47 Trillion Lien Against U.S. Treasury and FED
- - Obama's Big Sellout - By Matt Taibbi
- - Key News: Wall Street 'Too Big to Punish,'
- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
- - Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence
By Kevin Ryan
[EXCERPT]
Careful investigation leads one to notice that a number of intriguing groups of people and organizations converged on the events of September 11th, 2001. An example is the group of men who were members of Cornell University’s Quill & Dagger society. This included Paul Wolfowitz, National Security Advisors Sandy Berger and Stephen Hadley, Marsh & McLennan executive Stephen Friedman, and the founder of Kroll Associates, Jules Kroll. Another interconnected group of organizations is linked to these Cornell comrades, and is even more interesting in terms of its members being integral to the events of 9/11, and having benefited from those events.
After the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (WTC), a company called Stratesec (or Securacom) was responsible for the overall integration of the new security system designed by Kroll Associates. Stratesec had a small board of directors that included retired Air Force General James Abrahamson, Marvin Bush (the brother of George W. Bush) and Wirt Walker III, a cousin of the Bush brothers. Other directors included Charles Archer, former Assistant Director in charge of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, and Yousef Saud Al Sabah, a member of the Kuwaiti royal family.[1]
Yousef Saud Al Sabah was also chairman of the Kuwait-American Corporation (KuwAm), which between 1993 and 1999 held a controlling share of Stratesec. The other owners of Stratesec were Walker and an entity controlled by Walker and Al Sabah, called Special Situation Investment Holdings (SSIH).[2] SSIH was said to form a group with KuwAm, and the group owned several other companies, including Commander Aircraft and Aviation General. In any case, the Kuwaiti royal family can be said to have benefited from 9/11 due to “The War on Terror” that removed Saddam Hussein from power. Of course, that was the second consecutive US war that Kuwait benefited from, the first being the 1991 Gulf War led by President George H.W. Bush.
Stratesec director James Abrahamson was President of Hughes Aircraft from 1989 to 1992, when Prescott Bush Jr. was helping Hughes lobby Bush’s brother, the US President, to lift sanctions on the Chinese government. Abrahamson became a director of Stratesec in December 1997.[3] He also co-founded a company called Crescent Investment Management (Crescent) with the Pakistani-American, Mansoor Ijaz. Crescent’s board of advisors included James Woolsey, the CIA Director for President Clinton who became a PNAC signatory and Booz Allen Hamilton executive.[4]
Mansoor Ijaz is the CEO of Crescent, and is a rare individual in that he claimed to have the ability to persuade several governments to extradite Osama bin Laden. After meetings with Clinton and his National Security Advisor Sandy Berger (who first introduced Woolsey to Clinton), Ijaz said that he could not convince them to work toward the extradition.[5] Additionally, Ijaz introduced the journalist Daniel Pearl, by way of a personal letter, to those in Pakistan who are believed to have been involved in his death.[6] Ijaz went on to become a Fox News correspondent, and he was a strong promoter of false claims leading up to the Iraq War, including WMDs and ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.[7]
Stratesec had contracts to provide security services for United Airlines, and Dulles Airport, where American Airlines Flight 77 took off on 9/11. Another client was Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where scientists were working on the development of nanothermite, a type of explosive material that has since been discovered in the WTC dust.[8,9]
Truncated, for complete article, see:
www.911blogger.com/node/22120
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- - $47 Trillion Lien Against U.S. Treasury and FED
By Christopher Story, FRSA,
Editor and Publisher, International Currency Review,
World Reports Limited, London and New York.
Monday 14 December 2009 02:30
[EXCRPT]
LIEN EXECUTED AGAINST TREASURY AND FEDERAL RESERVE IN THE SUM OF $47 TRILLION
Following further intransigent obstruction, the Chinese parties who obtained the necessary World Court Writ of Execution and Lien on the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve, duly exercised their powers and imposed the Lien on or around 6th December 2009. The Lien against the Treasury is in the sum of $47 trillion, which is approximately the aggregate identified by this service in 2007.
As happened shortly after the ‘lockdown’ of the $14.0+ trillion sovereign funds including the $6.2 trillion LOAN money provided by the British Monarchical Power [referenced again below] on 10th-12th September 2008, when the Editor’s voicemail received a message consisting of a recording of three actual gunshots, two specific threats, mentioned in an Update to the previous posting, were received on Sunday 6th December 2009, the date on which the Lien is believed to have been implemented. Transcriptions of these threats are given in Note 1 below (1) .
SPECIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE LIEN OBTAINED BY THIS SERVICE
We have obtained special confirmation of the foregoing Lien intelligence, otherwise, self-evidently, we would not have published this information. Furthermore, we have taken extra precautions to ascertain whether publishing this would be liable to ‘cause any difficulties’, and we have been advised that no impediment to publishing it has even been hinted at, although the fact that we possess the information ‘is known’. Indeed you will have observed that we have waited for a number of days in order to be sure that this shattering intelligence is fully confirmed.
We have been emphatically and authoritatively advised, since 10th December, that it is. We obtained reiterated confirmation of this intelligence, from New York, on 12th December.
U.S. HIJACKING OF THE FOREIGN SOVEREIGN FUNDS
Within the $47 trillion is the previously mentioned $14.0+ trillion, and that aggregate in turn embraces the above-noted $6.2 trillion of funds stolen from the British Monarchical Power by the criminal US Government, to which frequent reference has been made in this column. Those funds were transferred by the Bank of England to the criminal enterprise, Bank of New York Mellon (as it became, effective 1st July 2007), on 19th-20th June 2007 under levy, as we reported at the time.
Instead of disbursing the funds for the on-the-books Dollar Refunding Programme, as required by the sovereign LENDER, the named institution was party to a conspiracy involving other US criminal enterprise financial institutions, to divert and steal those real funds for use as a ‘platform base’ for leveraged financing operations to buttress their self-serving financial carousel.
SOVEREIGN FUNDS PLACED INTO ‘LOCKDOWN’ ON 10-12 SEPTEMBER 2008
After this had become fully apparent, and in response to this Editor’s strenuous recommendation on 6th September 2008 that the $6.2 trillion, in particular, was being abused in this manner, and that this state of affairs was intolerable – and further, that irrespective of the consequences, the only language these criminals would ever understand would be the removal of the funds from access by them and their associates – the entire $14.0+ trillion (within which total resided OTHER, non-British, sovereign monies) were placed into ‘lockdown’ (i.e. beyond the reach of the criminal operatives at the US Treasury and elsewhere) on 10th-12th September 2008 – a development that triggered the extreme crisis that overwhelmed London and New York at the beginning of October.
Coincidentally or not, scalar Hurricane IKE which developed on 13th September 2008 was probably intended to destroy the oil refineries and offshore oil platforms in the Houston area – the heart of the US oil industry. A sudden and temporary collapse of oil prices then followed, as did a quadruple witching day for commodities on Friday 19th September. Certain parties who had probably hoped to ‘make a killing’ that week, were wiped out instead.
BRITISH MINISTERS APPEARED TO HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THIS BACKGROUND
It has since become apparent that the British Government appeared to have NO CLUE as to these background circumstances concerning the ‘lockdown’ of the $14.0+ trillion, given the subsequent statements by Ministers such as the City Minister, Lord Myners, that the financial system was within hours of disintegration at a critical stage that October.
A few days after the $14.0+ trillion was placed into ‘lockdown’, the Editor’s voicemail was enlivened (on the morning of 20th September) by a recording of three actual gunshots, as we reported at the time [see above]. This was an intelligence operation, as the recording could not be recaptured after being played the first time.
The Editor subsequently received special protection during his visit to Washington and New York for the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in October 2008.
KISSINGER AND BUSH ASSOCIATES ARRESTED
On 8th December 2009, sources advised us that ‘a number’ of associates of Godfather George H. W. Bush and of the triple-agent Dr Henry (‘Heinz’) Kissinger were arrested on that date. Earlier we learned that three close associates of Bush 41 had been arrested: although the total was changed to five within 24 hours.
However despite several further, entirely separate, sources telling us that Kissinger is in jail, we have been specifically advised (as of 12th December) by authoritative inside sources that this IS NOT CONFIRMED. The position here is that when the authoritative source was asked to confirm this information, it was NOT confirmed. (This may be because he is 'no longer with us: see below). Had the source been able to confirm it, he would have done so, in conformity with the etiquette that we are told nothing officially: but if we establish information independently and then ask whether it is true, we are told: confirmed, not confirmed, or: we can neither confirm nor deny what you say.
For the time being, therefore, while we were naturally inclined to accept the accuracy of these reports about Kissinger, we cannot confirm them at the time of posting. Likewise, a report that Godfather Bush Sr.’s financial sorcerer-in-chief, Dr Alan Greenspan, was also arrested, cannot be confirmed at this time, either.
However you will recall that we have reported on two separate earlier occasions that Greenspan was arrested: and both those reports stand. Greenspan REMAINS under arrest, but is thought to be tagged. He may thus appear on TV talk shows as though nothing ever happened, which is NOT TRUE. On Sunday 13th December, Greeenspan was seen jabbering away as usual on NBC.
For complete article, see:
http://worldreports.org/news/251_47_trillion_lien_against_u.s._treasury_and__fed
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- - Obama's Big Sellout - By Matt Taibbi
The President has Packed His Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders
Published on December 13, 2009 by Rolling Stone
[EXCERPT]
Obama's Big Sellout
The President has Packed His Economic Team with Wall Street Insiders
by Matt Taibbi
Published on December 13, 2009 by Rolling Stone
[EXCERPT]
Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers "at the expense of hardworking Americans." Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. What inspired supporters who pushed him to his historic win was the sense that a genuine outsider was finally breaking into an exclusive club, that walls were being torn down, that things were, for lack of a better or more specific term, changing.
Then he got elected.
What's taken place in the year since Obama won the presidency has turned out to be one of the most dramatic political about-faces in our history. Elected in the midst of a crushing economic crisis brought on by a decade of orgiastic deregulation and unchecked greed, Obama had a clear mandate to rein in Wall Street and remake the entire structure of the American economy. What he did instead was ship even his most marginally progressive campaign advisers off to various bureaucratic Siberias, while packing the key economic positions in his White House with the very people who caused the crisis in the first place. This new team of bubble-fattened ex-bankers and laissez-faire intellectuals then proceeded to sell us all out, instituting a massive, trickle-up bailout and systematically gutting regulatory reform from the inside.
For complete article, see:
www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/13-8
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- - Key News: Wall Street 'Too Big to Punish,'
CIA Access to European Bank Accounts, More
www.WantToKnow.info/009/091214_wall_street_big_punish_cia_access_bank_accounts
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- - Violation of the "Oath of Office" act of treason
For background on a citizen’s campaign for truth and justice, see:
http://www.voicesofsafety.com/pogonews/911/yearoftruth/
"Based on the first amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "The right to petition" contains an implied "obligation to respond" otherwise the "right to petition" is a meaningless right. The "Oath of Office" that every official takes states that they will "uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution". Violation of the "Oath of Office" by public officials is an act of treason per United States code 18USC Par. 2382, misprision of treason.
The Wikipedia definition of "Oath of Office" states: "Under the laws of a state it may be considered treason or a high crime to betray a sworn oath of office." This is the basis for the need of officials to respond to a petition by either signing the petition or providing a valid written reason for not signing. Betraying the Oath of Office is perjury; a felony."
The facts of forensic engineer, Don Meserlian, published as the http://www.voicesofsafety.com/pogonews/petitions/200802/ “9-11 TRUTH PROCLAMATION.” This effort is supported by many in the 9/11 truth movement, including Richard Gage, AIA, founder of ae911truth.org. If you have any questions, contact Don Meserlian by email - dcmeserlian[at}voicesofsafety{dot]com
2) Tamiflu Fraud-Hoax & other Critical Breaking News
- - Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as complete hoax;
Roche studies based on scientific fraud
by Mike Adams,
Editor of NaturalNews.com
(NaturalNews) When it comes to selling chemicals that claim to treat H1N1 swine flu, the pharmaceutical industry's options are limited to two: Vaccines and anti-virals. The most popular anti-viral, by far, is Tamiflu, a drug that's actually derived from a Traditional Chinese Medicine herb called star anise.
But Tamiflu is no herb. It's a potentially fatal concentration of isolated chemical components that have essentially been bio-pirated from Chinese medicine. And when you isolate and concentrate specific chemicals in these herbs, you lose the value (and safety) of full-spectrum herbal medicine.
That didn't stop Tamiflu's maker, Roche, from trying to find a multi-billion-dollar market for its drug. In order to tap into that market, however, Roche needed to drum up some evidence that Tamiflu was both safe and effective.
Roche engages in science fraud
Truncated, for complete article, see:
www.naturalnews.com/027734_Tamiflu_Roche.html
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
12 December 2009
"Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton:
A 9/11 Convergence" - By Kevin Ryan
Financial Analysis - World Reports - Global Intelligence
14 December 2009
$47 Trillion Lien Against U.S. Treasury and FED
26 November 2009
The Financing of Al-Qaeda By U.S. Intelligence
13 December 2009 - Rolling Stone - Common Dreams
Obama's Big Sellout
The President has Packed His Economic Team
with Wall Street Insiders - By Matt Taibbi
Key News - 14 December 2009 - WantToKnow.info
Wall Street 'Too Big to Punish,'
CIA Access to European Bank Accounts, +
975 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
Progress Reports:
AE911Truth JAPAN Tour
December, 2009
Hard Evidence Tour Down Under
10 December 2009 - 911blogger
9/11 on TruTV Wed 12/9
Watch it online at above link!
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
12 December 2009
RAW STORY covers Ventura’s 9/11 program
27 November 2009 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifth Estate The Unofficial Story
12 December 2009 - Elizabeth Woodworth
The Media Response to the Growing
Influence of the 9 /11 Truth Movement
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust
from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7,
Why the Final Official Report about 9/11 is Unscientific and False
By David Ray Griffin
For an audio of Dr. Griffin presenting about this book:
Guns and Butter- The Mysterious Collapse of WTC-7
For a review of this book by Jerry Mazza:
"Just Say No to Nist.."
War in Space & 9/11
Jonathan Mark on Fair & Balanced
Kevin Barrett - NoLiesRadio - August 11, 2009
02 December 2009 - 911blogger
Obama Invokes 9/11
to justify more troops
abomination obama nation
06 October 2009
Obama Worked for the CIA
By Wayne Madsen
04 December 2009 - 911blogger
Obama Lied: Taliban Did Not
Refuse to Hand Over Bin Laden
29 November 2009
Senate Report: "Tora Bora Revisited:
How We Failed To Get Bin Laden
And Why It Matters Today"
Pilots for 9/11 Truth
9/11: Pentagon Aircraft Hijack Impossible:
FLIGHT DECK DOOR CLOSED FOR ENTIRE FLIGHT
02 December 2009 - The Populist
Scott Fenstermaker, the 9/11 Lawyer, Speaks Out
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
P e r s p e c t i v e - R e s o u r c e s - A r c h i v e s
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to real democracy or real genocide
Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate
the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.
Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear
sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of
threads, capable of being cut at any moment
by accident or miscalculation or madness.
- John F. Kennedy
The American Ruling Class
A dramatic, musical, documentary satire on
class in America that attempts to answer
the question 'Who rules America?'
RECLAIMING AMERICA
Paranoid Shift
Special article by Michael Hasty
&
Special Film by John Hankey
Dark Legacy
George Bush and the Assassination of JFK
24 October 2009
Peter Dale Scott: "The JFK Assassination:
NY Times Acknowledges CIA Deceptions"
07 December 2009 - WantToKnow.info
Secret Meetings of World's Top Bankers
06 October 2009 - The Independent (UK)
The Demise of The Dollar
By Robert Fisk
In a graphic illustration of the new world order,
Arab states have launched secret moves with China,
Russia, and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading.
The American people are not the culprits but rather the victims
of a system that is not only unsustainable but worse still:
it is incompatible with the life of humanity.
- Fidel Castro
11 November 2009
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming
23 November 2009
Antarctic Ice Loss Vaster, Faster Than Thought: Study
Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness
Innovative Technology ~ Waste to ReGen Power
Financial Crisis solution policy
Open letter (Oct. 2008) to Obama
By Jonathan Mark
Transforming Health-care and Criminal Justice
Not-for-Profit Healthcare and Prisons good for USA!
When I despair, I remember that all through history
the way of truth and love has always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers
and for a time they seem invincible
but in the end, they always fall --
think of it, ALWAYS.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
FluScam.com
14 December 2009 - NaturalNews
Tamiflu anti-viral drug revealed as hoax;
Roche studies based on scientific fraud<
05 December 2009 - Dr. Mercola
Mounting Debilities and Deaths
from H1N1 Vaccine
16 November 2009
Deadly flu spreads across Ukraine
15 November 2009 - Global Research
Ukraine Flu Outbreak:
Mixture of H1N1 and Parainfluenza,
Causes Cardiopulmonary Failure
Interview with Dr. Victor Bachinsky
23 November 2009
Doctors in Ukraine Say President
Created Pandemic For Political Gain..
OXYSILVER™: The Green Technology Making
Risky Vaccinations and Toxic Antibiotics Obsolete.
By Leonard G. Horowitz
DMD, MA, MPH, DNM, DMM
Recommended alternative to over-used
conventional antibiotics and vaccinations:
O X Y S I L V E R™
Comparison of OxySilver to Colloidal Silver
Testimonial by Jonathan Mark
[Item 2 - July 21, 2009 Flyby News]
26 September 2009 - Lewis Rockwell
Where Did the H1N1 Late-2009
Flu Season Virus Come From?
16 November 2009
Partnership for NYC
911Vaccinate - Warning
12 November 2009
Population Reduction:
Globalist Endgame Begins?
H1N1
Special Emergency Report
15 November 2009
By Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
The WHO Flu Scam Video
Free Online or $5 regular US mail!
Report suggests people who get Vaccinated
are more likely to catch H1N1
27 September 2009 - Globe and Mail
A “perplexing” Canadian study linking H1N1 to seasonal flu
shots is throwing national influenza plans into disarray and
testing public faith in the government agencies responsible
for protecting the nation's health. Distributed for peer review
last week, the study confounded infectious-disease experts
in suggesting that people vaccinated against seasonal flu
are twice as likely to catch swine flu.
One of the common failings among honorable people is
a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some
other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
-- Thomas Sowell
(1930- ) Writer and economist
The BIG Surprise
out of the
Cassini-Earth flyby
1964 U.S atomic bomb
blast in the Van Allen belts
A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way To The Moon
Astounding Sci-Fi Channel documentary
Out of the Blue
Revealing interviews with astronauts, generals,
admirals, professors, and other respected people.
"Best UFO Documentary Ever"
- Fred Burks
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton
Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
#1. Million+ Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
The Film
Citizens Campaign For 9-11 Truth
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Life Rhythms poetry blog with jonathan mark
abomination obama nation
abomination obama nation declares war
under false pretense too horrific to ignore
while tens of thousands (no longer people), but troops,
ordered to preserve poppy plants, dark economies,
energy resources, while law takes order a foot, or two..
soldiers crawl under site - killing being killed,
and told that to justify such a decision
to invade and occupy 9/11 is implicated
into mind altering imagery, denial is its deadliest sound,
as people are told to trust untruth,
or we will and can kill you..
or better yet, don't think of it.. live day to day..
i remember buildings falling like no other time..
i remember resistance to investigations and overt cover-up..
i remember non-existence of science in its manipulation,
government reports miss smoking gun evidence..
i remember anthrax sent to media and Democrats..
i remember seeing explosions, plumes over Baghdad,
heated depleted uranium pressing on populations
infiltrating generations destroying innocence forever.
the fool's errand is to rescue the queen,
while we know nine eleven scorches truth within
usa sponsored terrorism, home grown, Able Danger,
or patsies as the mission goes dark and deep
from world war 2 to endless war, CIA,
smoke-screening kennedy killers with those bought to serve..
the devil doers.. sheeple sleep, and every so often
wolves raid the cavern dark and deep to control secrets..
but genocide on the way to abyss is not logical thinking..
while Shakespeare said it so simply,
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
where have we gone; and what have we forgotten?
By Jonathan Mark
02 December 2009
Welcome to poetry blog page,
edited by Jonathan Mark
This page will be updated, changed, revised.. new poems will appear plus quotations, which to me are condensed poems full of meaning that can explode into awareness. Doing this will help me organize what I consider inspirational words, ideas and actions, including on issues of current events. For instance.. here are thoughts by Cynthia McKinney regarding the December 1 Afghan War speech by Obama, which also inspired above poem. Here Cynthia is calling a spade a spade and acting in humankind's best interest.
"Many in the special interest press are cynically reporting the President's speech tonight as an "Afghanistan exit plan." We have now reached the point where those who make and interpret current events think they can make us believe that war is for peace, ignorance is strength, slavery is freedom, and lies are the truth. Well, we know the truth, and we will not rest until every drone is stopped and no more bombs are dropped. We will not rest until peace is won. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said there comes a time when we do what we must because our ultimate measure is not where we stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where we stand at times of challenge and controversy. At this time of challenge, we are clear: we will not give up and we will not stop."
- Cynthia McKinney
"Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution
of the United States as our Fathers made it inviolate. The people
of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress
and the Courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but
to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness
Let us forgive the worst among us
because the worst is in ourselves,
the worst lives in each of us,
along with the best.
Let us forgive the worst
in each of us
and all of us
so that the best
in each of us
and all of us
may be free.
- Leonard Peltier
PRISON WRITINGS: My Life Is My Sun Dance
Published by St. Martins Press, NYC; 1999
The Earth Wondrous
My greetings and thanksgivings
I extend to the Earth Mother;
her nourishment though invisible
is felt by the rushing four winds,
the seasons have purpose,
the sun, glorious;
life as spread forth by trees
feeds the continuing healing forces
of purification.
I am endowed with beauty
and my arms stretch forth
in openness and gaiety
to the music of the heavens.
The Earth is wondrous.
29 December 1979
Grandfather's Prayer - 21 June 2010 - Solstice
Thank you my Creator for allowing me to be different,
but may I always remember - "We are all one Tribe"
To most of us these words make logical sense. When we
look at our brothers and sisters of the human family we are
pretty well the same. We are born with two arms and two legs,
we all have a head on our shoulders. We all need to eat and go
to the toilet. We all also have part of the Great Spirit within us.
Maybe it is this sameness that gets us into trouble
and we tend to take it for granted.
In this world we seem to concentrate on the differences
we perceive, which lead to separation. We are all very quick
to be judgmental about the differences, be it religious beliefs,
cultural background, language, ethnic origin, where we live,
and the colour of ones skin.
The old ones gave honour to the differences in each of us.
When they sat in circle they acknowledged each of us came from
the same source, but each person saw every situation from a different
perspective. Sitting in a circle enables each one sitting around the circle
to see everyone from a slightly different angle or perspective as well as
the centre itself. A hologram is similar, it looks slightly different
depending on the angle you are looking at it,
but the image isthe same.
When the ancestors sat in circle they gave honour to everyone's
point of view and there being a right to have a variety of opinions.
Everything could be discussed, resulting invariably in the right
decision being made that benefited the whole and everyone.
Next time we are quick to voice an opinion or judge another
maybe we should imagine ourselves in that person's shoes
and try to see the picture as they see it.
We may see we are pretty much the same after all!
GRANDFATHER PETER
Skennen kenhak O:NEN!
Let there be Peace NOW
A sunrise takes us by surprise
yet never delays its coming,
its turning, its yearning
to mix life with color
and turn on the crystal
ball of Earth.
02 October 1980
"The most beautiful experience we can have
is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion
that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
-- Albert Einstein
Birth
In the awakening of birth
I felt an overwhelming love.
Pure and simple,the dream,
the floating, the freeness to touch and stretch
and to be touched while still glowing in ecstasy.
05 March 1980 - Tree-Root Press
"It's better to light one candle
than to curse the darkness."
- Emily Dickinson
Death
The unknown journey tells us of lives past,
What's behind the sky and how long we can last.
Blight and perish, then return Creation to your chore never ending,
Though it appears dim sometimes because the tunnel winds,
But beyond the next bend the illumined mind might find a permeating ray.
O' divine mystery, naked before my thoughts,
Such grandeur and majesty, am I truly worthy?
Embracing life, colors blend, light filters through,
I am what I am.
The only death that came to be was to that of mystery,
As life has a way of renewing and cleansing,
And with the purpose of growth, the spirit will always be unending.
August 3, 1979
"The individual is the true reality of life.
A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State,
nor for that abstraction called 'society,' or the 'nation,'
which is only a collection of individuals."
-- Emma Goldman
(1869-1940) Source: The
Place of the Individual in Society
Thought
I thought and saw a cosmic flash of laughter,
Bedazzled,
I circuited the miscellaneous thoughts
Connecting
truth with the umbrella of peace
Perpetuating
the existence of awareness,
Never-ending, always going,
flowing,
all knowing,
Life, a wonder of wonders
Creating an immortal self
for we are as we are
comforted
by the Creator of creators
Beyond
a time that was or is or ever will be.
I AM
in a sea of totality.
04 March 1979
"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe
if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point
where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.
That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government
by an individual, by a group or by any other
controlling private power."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Beginning, New End
Time forged in mystery
Flowing to drips of anxiousness
Sweating out toxins and breathing in space
Where none existed before,
Except in our minds; now
Trembling into a disappearing act –
Frozen in fear as glaciers melt away
And consumption is on its last binge..
Where tomorrow holds uncertainty
And logic is confined in its space
Between denial and insanity,
Or perhaps science is on its last breath and voyage
From the perspective of humankind-nature,
And yet, a new day begins.
28 October 2009
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice,
you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
-- Desmond Tutu
Morning Star
If there was a morning star
and I found a path to a mountain reservoir,
And viewed the past in moments of today,
I must say, I have found a way. Chosen,
because I choose to do what I came here for,
Realizing I have seen it all before,
a deja-vu from a morning star;
Reawakening love to a planet
which has strayed much too far.
22 August 1980
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring, those ripples build a current
which can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance.”
Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966
Happiness
Happiness comes from a large garden
full of the fruits of the most sacred things..
The delicate flowers unfold a fragrance
to behold the image worth living.
O' purple majesty, violet rays of God's tranquility,
tell us about compassion, and the green depth of grass
and pines do heal, swirling leaves in the wind say,
"Come out into the sun and feel." And air currents carry
the moisture, in its core the life force, absolutely pure,
and we bathe in light and color and learn to see the positive
behind everything.. and the backdrop of blue, blue sky,
brings the heavens closer to the real world of dreams
and visions that one can fly.. and to understand the
shapes of clouds creates an artistic eye . . .
to know the spiritual wonders of illumination,
to be on Earth and reach out ever so high.
24 July 1980
"I'm very much in favor of the space program, but I think the use
of plutonium in space is a manifestation of organized insanity."
John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.
18 August, 1999
Professor Emeritus of Molecular and Cell Biology
O eons of darkness, eternal night
you are only a backdrop for wondrous light.
And here I might find through the core of self
the entrance to illuminate, to perceive,
to flow with atoms expelling light,
as a river of purity in the deepness of night
1982 - Tree-Root Press
"You can never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes
the existing model obsolete."
-- Buckminster Fuller
Passion's Fruit
Passion comes from life
with winds both gentle and strong
and trees leafy and bare,
with wild creatures old and young
and joy and sorrow's tear.
Nature's bounty is passion's fruit
nourishing both earth and humans
continuing life's existence
with a force of two,
who come in passion
to feel oneness
and join with compassion
on this sacred land.
1982 - Tree-Root Press
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression.
In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains
seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all
must be most aware of change in the air - however slight -
lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
- William O Douglas
Questions
What if we crush against the pit of war
and out bursts its bitter counterpart, destruction?
What if tears and pains unbearable
are cursesbecause of lack of food?
What if death won't unlock the door
and we stay alive in misery?
Would we comprehend the meaning of existence?
Did it mean much before the war?
Could it mean more now in these days of
panic-stricken homes?
O' the emotions lose control;
who the fuck cares who wins the war?
Who's on the side of fate?
Could nuclear radiation wipe out hate?
What if we lean against each others shoulder
and profess a liberty that can't be beat?
What if our hearts melt openly in the sun
and declare a unity that makes all one?
Can the bleeding call of mass hysteria
conquer simple trust?
Can innocence bow down below an inferior lust?
23 January 1980
"Fear and religion. Religion and fear.
The two are historically entwined. The catalysts
for most of the atrocities committed by man.
Fear of evil fuels religion, religion fuels
hatred, hatred fuels evil, and evil
fuels fear among the masses. It is
a diabolical cycle, and we have
played into the Devil's hand."
- Julius Gabriel
(From Steve Alten's international best-seller, DOMAIN)
9/11 Birthday Wish
In a birthday wish I find myself contemplating decisions
from a pattern of thought, ideas of righteousness,
or stumbling upon a more comfortable situation;
the memories come blazing in anyway
with the current events setting the stage on fire..
and we can hide from the fierce winds of destruction..
or sail upon the ocean's back.. breaking it into pieces
with man's chemical contributions.. geopolitical greed,
shaped by Centuries and deception trying to buy humanity.
Dark generations profiting from war, resources bought
and owned from death weapons to corrupt financial systems..
owning media, pharmaceutical-health-food-energy-water,
infiltrating most every government, intelligence slips a notch
around the world; and we, the people.. hear the corporate
supreme court justices say they own us, and our minds
could be for sale.. or tricked, while those denying science
can firsthand witness 9/11 world coup in broad daylight,
cameras catching things that could never happen
before or since, and yet, for some, denial is too thick
to realize.. or hear.. and that loss of freedom for others
is too high a price.. especially while wars are justified
and the situation slips, worsens, and can become
too dark to see or think or for a birthday wish.
June 2010
Pounding heartbeats
blazon with the sun
and the willow sense of the wind
as I try not to understand
but believe whole in what is.
As the sweetest scent of spring
makes magic possible,
heaven descending upon land
the trials of freedom
brimming with satisfaction
in sun, truth is a noble friend
and breathes life where once there
was only sin
& separation
in darkness
light is triumphant!
May 5, 2010
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
- Wendell Berry
"The Peace of Wild Things"
For a Chris Hedges' article on this poem, see:
Freedom in the Grace of the World
O eons of darkness, eternal night
you are only a backdrop for wondrous light.
And here I might find through the core of self
the entrance to illuminate, to perceive,
to flow with atoms expelling light,
as a river of purity in the deepness of night
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End War Obama Call In - Cynthia McKinney -
23 November 2009
The following contains news updates and a letter to President Obama by Cynthia McKinney. Please support a campaign to call Obama today to resist the shadow US government's foreign policy in its war in Afghanistan. Ask Obama, too, while on the call to free Leonard Peltier. His continued imprisonment is a sign for many that the US justice system is bias and a sham. Also note more evidence of the catastrophic effects from human induced Global Warming.
CRITICAL BREAKING NEWS
National White House Call-In Day:
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Call President Obama to End the War in Afghanistan
Today call the White House - 202-456-1111 -
Give President Obama the advice he so desperately needs.
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming
23 November 2009
Antarctic Ice Loss Vaster, Faster Than Thought: Study
Special investigation documentary by John Hankey
Dark Legacy
George Bush and the Assassination of JFK
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 46th year since
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Today, every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate
the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.
Every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear
sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of
threads, capable of being cut at any moment
by accident or miscalculation or madness.
- John F. Kennedy
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to real democracy or real genocide
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
P e r s p e c t i v e - R e s o u r c e s - A r c h i v e s
The American people are not the culprits but rather the victims
of a system that is not only unsustainable but worse still:
it is incompatible with the life of humanity.
- Fidel Castro
11 November 2009
Cynthia McKinney sent following text to President Obama:
22 November 2009
"Mr. President:
I am writing to urge you to announce an immediate cease-fire followed by a withdrawal of all US troops from Iraq and Afghanistan in the fastest way consistent with the safety of our forces.
I urge you to end the use of Predator drones that kill civilians.
I call upon you to cease all covert operations in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
Too many of your military advisors are implicated in torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes against the peace. Your Justice Department operates at the zenith of injustice, defending Bush Administration criminality in U.S. Courtrooms.
I wrote to you earlier suggesting that if you did not investigate the crimes of the Bush Administration, you would be viewed as their accessory. Sadly, war crimes and torture are now committed with your name on them.
Please bring our troops home now."
# # # #
A peace demonstration is being organized for December 12, 2009 in Washington, D.C. The Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally, also known as the End US Wars Rally, is scheduled for 11am at Lafayette Park at the White House. Cynthia McKinney wholly endorses this rally and encourages all who can to participate in Washington, DC or to help a local peace organization committed to ending U.S. wars on that date.
For more information about the Washington, D.C. December 12, 2009 demonstration, please visit endUSwars.org, (currently under construction).
P.S. President Obama's Department of Justice, unlike President Clinton's that refused to even prosecute, just took Lynne Stewart to prison and is trying to extend her sentence from 28 months to 3O years. Please take a moment and write a letter of encouragement to Lynne Stewart, the people's attorney, who is now Prisoner #53504-054 at MCC-NY. Her address is:
Lynne Stewart
53504-054
MCC-NY
150 Park Row
New York, NY 10007
Resource links for Cynthia McKinney:
dignity.ning.com
livestream.com/dignity
twitter.com/dignityaction
myspace.com/dignityaction
myspace.com/runcynthiarun
twitter.com/cynthiamckinney
facebook.com/CynthiaMcKinney
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NASA Director: 9/11 'Controlled Demolition'
PRESS RELEASE: November 19, 2009
Contact: Colorado911Visibility.org
Don Plummer, 970-234-4430
FORMER NASA DIRECTOR SAYS THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
TOWERS WERE FELLED BY CONTROLLED DEMOLITION
On October 21st at the University of San Diego, Mr. Dwain Deets, former Director of NASA Aerospace Projects, gave a multimedia presentation on behalf of nearly one thousand architects and engineers who cite evidence of explosive demolition in all three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11 and are calling for a new, independent investigation into their destruction. These architects and engineers are listed on their website at ae911Truth.org.
Mr. Deets was an engineering executive with NASA Dryden Flight Research Center for more than 37 years and formerly served as Director, Research Engineering Division at Dryden. He received the Presidential Meritorious Rank Award in the federal government's Senior Executive Service (1988). In 1986, Deets was awarded the Wright Brothers Lectureship in Aeronautics, a distinguished speaking engagement sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Resolutely empirical, non-political, and non-finger-pointing, ae911Truth only asks for a new investigation of the towers’ collapse that does justice to the forensic evidence it presents. The concerns presented by Mr. Deets and the conclusions of Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth are shared by hundreds of scientists; senior-level military, intelligence, and government officials; firefighters; pilots and aviation professionals; scholars and university professors; 9/11 survivors and family members; and media professionals around the world.
Mr. Deets will continue giving presentations and is in the writers group for ae911Truth.org
For more clarifying information see: ae911Truth.org 911PressForTruth.com, 911Truth.org, 911Research.wtc7.net, stj911.org, and 911Review.com.
967 Architects and Engineers
Call for New 9/11 Investigation
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27 November 2009 - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifth Estate on AE 9/11 Truth
New 9/11 Investigation vs New World Order
P e r s p e c t i v e - R e s o u r c e s - A r c h i v e s
Space for Peace and September 11
Connecting dots to real democracy or real genocide
War in Space & 9/11
Jonathan Mark on Fair & Balanced
Kevin Barrett - NoLiesRadio - August 11, 2009
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WHO Flu H1N1 * NAZI Finance * Goldstone
03 November 2009
“A great civilization is not conquered from without
until it has destroyed itself from within.”
-- Will Durant
1) The WHO Flu Scam keeping hold on the truth
- - Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter?
- - Making Risky Vaccinations and Toxic Antibiotics Obsolete
- - The WHO Flu Scam Video now available
2) NAZI Continuum Overtaking US, UK, Israel, and World Peace
- - Bush SR. In Germany To Sabotage Payment Process
- - Capitol Hill Exposed Censoring Derivatives Critic
- - The American Ruling Class ~ and rave reviews
- - Brzezinski Says Ignore US Public on Afghanistan
- - Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
- - Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza?!?
- - Support The Goldstone Report
3) Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet
- - Snow Cap Melting Away Atop Mount Kilimanjaro
4) The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US
- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on Leonard’s parole denial - Correction
5) Critical Breaking News - updated
Editor's Notes:
The subject of the dangerous H1N1 (with evidence of it being created in a laboratory) begins this issue. The article by Dr. Leonard Horowitz discloses potential conflicting interest in his helping to formulate and market OxySilver™, an advanced silver hydrosol. FN also discloses being affiliated with this product. As this 17-page report shows: “The entire class of nanosilver solutions is gaining substantial scientific support and recognized value in healthcare for service in disease remediation and health promotion.” This product could be a lifesaver. All funds received from FN's affiliation is used to cover our expenses for campaigns for life’s survival in the 21st Century. On this subject, too, I recommend watching and sharing The WHO Flu Scam DVD.
In item 2, learn about the DVD of Germany, the NAZI connection with the head of US intelligence corruption, George Bush, Sr., following the path set forth by his father in supporting a fascist new world takeover. Many separate one issue from another. The larger story is almost too much to take in. But what are our options? The US basis for its military invasion-occupation of Afghanistan is based on the ‘official’ version (myth) of what happened on September 11, 2001. Only the truth will set us free. Meanwhile, Christopher Story and others are showing signs of an awakening world at the brink of global financial failure. Also in the second item too, take note of The American Ruling Class, a dramatic, musical, documentary satire that attempts to answer the question 'Who rules America?' The interview-segment with James Baker was particularly satisfying in its exposing corrupt doublespeak-evil of this man who was involved in the 2000 election coup d'etat. And don't miss the link to take action, Support The Goldstone Report.
Meanwhile, the snowcap is melting away atop Mount Kilimanjaro. Crises are looming almost on every level. Climate chief Lord Stern gives practical and healthful advice for humans to give up meat for lowering our carbon footprint on the planet. In the fourth item, Peter Matthiessen, author of The Spirit of Crazy Horse, writes an op-ed in the NY Times, “The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US.” In the last item, catch up on all the recent posts at FN. Note especially Stephanie Kraft's October 22nd article, “Flying Girders, Falling Towers” on Richard Gage, AIA, presentation in Northampton, MA. It begins with the question: "Is the public ready to consider evidence that controlled demolition brought down the World Trade Center skyscrapers?" It concludes: "Increasingly, the signs are that they will."
New Beginning, New End
Time forged in mystery
Flowing to drips of anxiousness
Sweating out toxins and breathing in space
Where none existed before,
Except in our minds; now
Trembling into a disappearing act –
Frozen in fear as glaciers melt away
And consumption is on its last binge..
Where tomorrow holds uncertainty
And logic is confined in its space
Between denial and insanity,
Or perhaps science is on its last breath and voyage
From the perspective of humankind-nature,
And yet, a new day begins.
Jonathan Mark
28 October 2009
1) The WHO Flu Scam keeping hold on the truth
- - Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter?
- - Making Risky Vaccinations and Toxic Antibiotics Obsolete
- - The WHO Flu Scam Video now available
- - Shannon Brownlee: Does the Vaccine Matter?
Democracy Now! 02 November 2009
In a new article in The Atlantic, Shannon Brownlee examines how some flu experts are challenging the medical orthodoxy and arguing that for those most in need of protection, flu shots and antiviral drugs may provide little to none. So where does that leave us if a bad pandemic strikes? Shannon Brownlee is the author of the bestselling book Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.
URL source for DN interview transcript; plus, watch or listen:
www.democracynow.org/2009/11/2/shannon_brownlee_does_the_vaccine_matter
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- - Making Risky Vaccinations and Toxic Antibiotics Obsolete
OxySilver™: The “Green” Technology Making
Risky Vaccinations and Toxic Antibiotics Obsolete
By
Leonard G. Horowitz
DMD, MA, MPH, DNM, DMM
The author discloses potential conflicting interest in helping to formulate and market OxySilver™ an advanced silver hydrosol. The entire class of nanosilver solutions has gained substantial scientific support and recognized value in healthcare for service in disease remediation and health promotion.
Abstract
Drug makers profit billions of dollars annually from the sale of toxic antibiotics and risky vaccines. These antimicrobial methods accepted by the medical mainstream are often responsible for pollution and myriad side-effects. The use of antibiotics upsets the microbial balance of ecology and the human body. It promotes the evolution of “super germs” that require stronger chemotherapies.
Vaccines may have worse consequences. Inoculations of foreign proteins, heavy metals, and toxic chemicals tax the immune system and detoxification organs triggering auto-immune diseases, neuro-degenerative ailments, learning disabilities such as autism and more. Cancers are linked to some vaccine contaminations. To remedy these arguably criminal inequities, an advanced silver hydrosol has been developed as a “green technology” alternative to risky vaccinations and toxic antibiotics. OxySilver operates hydrosonically and energetically to save lives and costs as a far safer and proven effective broad spectrum solution to nearly all infectious diseases.
Targeting pathogenic bacteria, fungi, and viruses; OxySilver generally spares beneficial flora in the gut and supports, rather than stresses, the immune system, neurology, and general constitution. In addition, OxySilver, and silver hydrosols in general, do not encourage microbial mutations forming “super bugs” as do antibiotics. Given all the science that has advanced, OxySilver may be the “silver bullet” humanity has sought for freedom from infectious diseases.
For complete PDF article post (17 pagest):
http://oxysilver.com/lenhorowitz/OXYSILVER_Site_5/RESEARCH_ARTICLES_ARCHIVE_files/OxySilver%20Research%20Paper%20by%20Dr.%20Horowitz.pdf
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- - The WHO Flu Scam Video now available
as a download - for free - or via mail.
This videos is not false propaganda. The contents include a substantive and comprehensive collection of video news reports (from the major news networks), text news reports (from major newspapers) and unclassified government documents.
The purpose of these videos is to assist the viewer to make an informed decision about the safety and effectiveness of all vaccines (especially the H1N1 swineflu vaccine); to present evidence that the 2009 WHO flu level 6 pandemic is a fraud; and to document the existence of a corrupt secret government.
To order free copies of ‘The WHO Flu Scam’ DVD Video
First and Second Edition:
Send your mailing address and $5 in U. S. dollars
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2) NAZI Continuum Overtaking US, UK, Israel, and World Peace
- - Bush SR. In Germany To Sabotage Payment Process
- - Capitol Hill Exposed Censoring Derivatives Critic
- - The American Ruling Class ~ and rave reviews
- - Brzezinski Says Ignore US Public on Afghanistan
- - Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
- - Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza?!?
- - Support The Goldstone Report
- - Bush SR. In Germany To Sabotage Payment Process
By Christopher Story
Published 03 November, 2009 by World Reports
[EXCERPT]
The Main NAZI Perpetrators Exposed For The Whole World To See
The foregoing exposure reveals the accuracy of our assessment that the MAIN ENEMY OF THE MAIN ENEMY (as German and covert Soviet intelligence reference Great Britain and the United States) is the Nazi Continuum served by George Bush Sr., his partner Joseph Ackermann, CEO of Deutsche Bank, who runs the DVD’s main banking institution, and their hypercorrupt cohorts in the United States, including Paulson, the Clintons, Geithner, Summers, Panetta and Bernanke.
For the complete article, see:
http://worldreports.org/news/242_bush_sr._in_germany_to_sabotage_payment_process
For World Reports archives:
http://worldreports.org/news
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- - Capitol Hill Exposed Censoring Derivatives Critic
How Wall Street and Its Backers on Capitol Hill
Silenced a Critic Calling for Regulation of Derivatives
Broadcast 02 November 2009 by DemocracyNow!
Last month, when the a subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on the derivatives market, Robert Johnson was the only non-industry expert invited to speak. The former economist at the Senate Banking Committee and the Senate Budget Committee was invited just sixteen hours before the hearing. His testimony was cut short after five minutes by Congresswoman Melissa Bean, and the committee has since refused to post online his full testimony along with the statements of the other panelists. Robert Johnson comes on Democracy Now! to explain what he tried to tell Congress.
Read, watch, or listen:
www.democracynow.org/2009/11/2/how_wall_street_and_its_backers
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- - The American Ruling Class ~ and rave reviews
THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS
This is a highly entertaining dramatic documentary musical written by Lewis Lapham and directed by John Kirby that “explores our country’s most taboo topic: class, power and privilege in our nominally democratic republic.” It seeks to answer the question, “Does America have a ruling class?”
Serving as an oddly Vincent Price-like master of ceremonies, Lapham poses a simple question: Is there a ruling class in America, and, if so, how does one get in? To find the answer, he sends two fictional Yale grads on a series of interviews, some candid and some staged, with such power brokers as former secretary of State James Baker as well as progressive icons, such as Howard Zinn, filmmaker Robert Altman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Kurt Vonnegut, and Pete Seeger.
At bottom “The American Ruling Class” is a morality tale. As Lapham conducts them through the corridors of power: Pentagon press briefings, the World Economic Forum, philanthropic foundations, Washington law firms, corporations, banks, the Council on Foreign Relations, and New York society dinners--our two representative graduates “one rich and the other not so rich” must struggle with their responsibilities in “a world collaterally damaged by the magic of money and the miracles of science.” The real-life luminaries they meet on their journey become characters in a story about power, its responsibilities and abuses.
http://theamericanrulingclass.org/home/index.php 2007 89 min.
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The American Ruling Class ~ reviews
“Divine madness…a documentary version of The Wizard of Oz … director John Kirby and Lapham attempt to illuminate the heart of darkness inside the American political-economic machine. What they find ain’t pretty.”
- Matthew Hays, Montreal Mirror
“A brilliant documentary/comedy, part Monty Python, part Michael Moore; brings to life the question: Can one join the power elite and yet work for the public interest?”
- Joseph A. Soares, Professor of Sociology, Wake Forest University,
Author, Power of Privilege: Yale and America’s Elite Colleges
“THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS is a crowning achievement of cinematic sociology… a must-see for those concerned about the future of our economy and social order.”
- Kevin T. Leicht, Professor and Director of the Institute
for Inequality Studies, The University of Iowa, Author,
Post-Industrial Peasants: The Illusion of Middle Class Prosperity
“A satirical tour through the corridors of power with Lewis Lapham… The film takes on our political and financial elites, the top of America’s food chain, but it’s all for a purpose: to remind us of those who are struggling just to make ends meet.”
-Bill Moyers
“THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS is the most cinematically subversive film to come along this decade. Led by the extremely lucid and funny Lewis Lapham, the nation’s number one intellectual treasure, the film takes us on a luminous quest… Director John Kirby has fashioned a sly film; it plays with form, but is populist in outreach, transcending documentary expectations with wit, style and political savvy.”
- Peter Wintonick, Director/Producer, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
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- - Brzezinski Says Ignore US Public on Afghanistan
By David Swanson
Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke at a RAND Corporation forum on Afghanistan in a Senate caucus room on Thursday. His first statement was that “Withdrawal from Afghanistan in the near future is a No-No.” He offered no reasons why and suggested that his other statements would be more controversial.
During a subsequent question-and-answer period, I asked Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, why he had provided no rationale for his first rule. I asked him why such a rule should be considered uncontroversial when approximately half of Americans oppose the occupation of Afghanistan. I asked how he would respond to the arguments of a US diplomat who just resigned in protest.
Brzezinski’s response would make Dick “So?” Cheney proud. He responded that it was understandable but that a lot of people are weak and don’t know any better, and they should be ignored. But, he urged that those supporters of war who would criticize the president if he pulled out should be feared and followed.
These are paraphrases. For exact wording get the video.
For complete article with notes on Brzezinski’s remarks:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/47383
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- - Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
Appeals Court Rules in Maher Arar Case:
Innocent Victims of Extraordinary Rendition Cannot Sue in US Courts
On Monday, a federal court of appeals dismissed Canadian citizen Maher Arar’s case against US officials for their role in sending him to Syria to be tortured. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that victims of extraordinary rendition cannot sue Washington for torture suffered overseas, because Congress has not authorized such lawsuits. In 2002, Syrian-born Maher Arar was held in New York on his way back to Canada from a family vacation in Tunisia. A subsequent Canadian public inquiry has shown Arar was held on erroneous advice from Canadian officials who accused him of ties to Islamic militants. US authorities then flew Arar to Syria, where he was imprisoned and tortured for a year. Canadian authorities exonerated Arar in 2007, apologized for their role in his torture, and awarded him a multi-million-dollar settlement.
Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 3, 2009
www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/appeals_court_rules_in_maher_arar
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- - Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza?!?
Israeli Activists Criticize US House for Considering Resolution
Condemning Goldstone Report on Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The House is expected to overwhelmingly vote today to condemn a UN inquiry that found Israel committed scores of war crimes in its three-week assault on the Gaza Strip. Headed by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone, the inquiry also accused Hamas of war crimes and said both sides should investigate the allegations or face international prosecution. Over 1,300 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli attack, a majority of them civilians. Nine Israelis were killed by Palestinians and another four by so-called friendly fire. The bipartisan, non-binding House measure calls the Goldstone inquiry “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.” The vote comes one day before the United Nations General Assembly is expected to take up the inquiry’s findings.
Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 3, 2009
www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/israeli_activists_criticize_us_house_for
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3) Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet
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- - Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet
People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
Lord Stern, a former chief economist of the World Bank and now I. G. Patel Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, warned that British taxpayers would need to contribute about £3 billion a year by 2015 to help poor countries to cope with the inevitable impact of climate change.
He also issued a clear message to President Obama that he must attend the meeting in Copenhagen in person in order for an effective deal to be reached. US leadership, he said, was “desperately needed” to secure a deal.
He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18. “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kind of changes that will be necessary,” he added.
Up to 20,000 delegates from 192 countries are due to attend the UN conference in the Danish capital. Its aim is to forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to prevent an increase in global temperatures of more than 2 degrees centigrade. Any increase above this level is expected to trigger runaway climate change, threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Lord Stern said that Copenhagen presented a unique opportunity for the world to break free from its catastrophic current trajectory. He said that the world needed to agree to halve global greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to 25 gigatonnes a year from the current level of 50 gigatonnes.
UN figures suggest that meat production is responsible for about 18 per cent of global carbon emissions, including the destruction of forest land for cattle ranching and the production of animal feeds such as soy.
Lord Stern, who said that he was not a strict vegetarian himself, was speaking on the eve of an all-parliamentary debate on climate change. His remarks provoked anger from the meat industry.
Jonathan Scurlock, of the National Farmers Union, said: “Going vegetarian is not a worldwide solution. It’s not a view shared by the NFU. Farmers in this country are interested in evidence-based policymaking. We don’t have a methane-free cow or pig available to us.”
On average, a British person eats 50g of protein derived from meat each day — the equivalent of a chicken breast or a lamb chop. This is a relatively low level for a wealthy country but between 25 per cent and 50 per cent higher than the amount recommended by the World Health Organisation.
Su Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society, welcomed Lord Stern’s remarks. “What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in our personal impact on the environment,” she said. “Meat uses up a lot of resources and a vegetarian diet consumes a lot less land and water. One of the best things you can do about climate change is reduce the amount of meat in your diet.”
The UN has warned that meat consumption is on course to double by the middle of the century.
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6891362.ece
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- - Snow Cap Melting Away Atop Mount Kilimanjaro
Democracy Now! – November 3, 2009
A new report has found that the snow and ice capping Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, is shrinking rapidly and could vanish altogether in twenty years. Eighty-five percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has already melted. Meanwhile, the nation of Nepal has announced it will soon hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight how global warming is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas.
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/3/headlines#10
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4) The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier vs. the US
By Peter Matthiessen
The New York Review of Books
Volume 56, Number 18 · November 19, 2009
www.freepeltiernow.org/matthiessen20091119.htm
On July 27, 2009, I drove west from New York to the old riverside town of Lewisburg in central Pennsylvania, the site of the federal penitentiary where early the next morning I would make an appeal to the parole board on behalf of the American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier in his first parole hearing in fifteen years. On this soft summer evening, a quiet gathering of Peltier supporters from all over the country had convened in a small park near the Susquehanna River. Despite his long history of defeats in court, these Indians and whites sharing a makeshift picnic at wood tables under the trees were optimistic about a favorable outcome. Surely a new era of justice for minorities and poor people had begun with the Obama administration, and anyway, wasn’t Leonard’s freedom all but assured by the Parole Act of 2005, which mandated release for inmates who had spent thirty or more years in prison?
Leonard Peltier, an Ojibwa-Lakota from Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, was one of the three young Indians who were among the participants in a shoot-out with the FBI at Oglala on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation on a hot dusty day in June 1975. They were later charged with the deaths of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ron Williams. Ostensibly searching for a suspect in a recent robbery case, the agents had been warned by tribal police not to enter the property where the AIM Indians had their camp. Their intrusion apparently provoked a warning that led to an exchange of gunfire. Understandably outraged by the deaths of Coler and Williams and in particular by the fact that an unknown “shooter” had finished off both wounded men at point-blank range, their fellow agents would also suffer intense frustration and embarrassment when a dozen or more of the Indians involved, using a brushy culvert under a side road, escaped a tight cordon of hundreds of agents, Indian and state police, national guardsmen, and vigilantes who had the area surrounded.
More galling still, Bob Robideau and Dino Butler, two of the three AIM suspects in the killings arrested during the FBI’s huge “ResMurs” (Reservation Murders) investigation, were acquitted a year later in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on a plea of self-defense, as the third and last suspect, Leonard Peltier, would certainly have been as well, had he not fled to Canada. He was arrested there in February 1976, extradited back to the US, and tried separately. Though originally indicted with the others on identical evidence, he was barred by a hostile new judge, Paul Benson, from presenting the same argument based on self-defense that had led to Robideau and Butler’s acquittal. Furiously prosecuted as the lone killer and convicted for both deaths on disputed evidence, Peltier was sentenced in February 1977 in Fargo, North Dakota, to two consecutive life terms in federal prison.
The following year, when Peltier’s conviction was appealed, 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Donald Ross denounced the coercion of witnesses and manipulation of evidence in his case as “a clear abuse of the investigative process by the FBI”; the US Attorney’s Office, too, would be sharply criticized for withholding exculpatory evidence. In October 1984, in an evidentiary hearing in Bismarck, North Dakota, ordered by the appellate court to review the possibility of a new trial, the prosecutor, US Attorney Lynn Crooks, had to concede that the FBI’s own laboratory had failed to verify the claimed ballistics link between Peltier and the murder weapon that was used to nail down his conviction—a shell casinng of disputed provenance that Crooks had called “perhaps the most important piece of evidence in this case.” Even so, Judge Benson refused to reconsider the conviction.
The following year when the decision was appealed again, Crooks finally admitted that the identity of “the shooter” had never been proven and was in fact unknown to the prosecution even when it was twisting the evidence to ensure Peltier’s conviction and make certain that its third and last suspect—by its own description, “tthe only one we got”—was imprisoned for life. Yet the appellate courrt, while noting that so much tainted evidence had deprived the defendant of his constitutional right to due process of law, found “no compelling legal justification” for ordering a new trial.
In a TV interview after his retirement in 1989, Judge Gerald Heaney, who had signed that astonishing decision, called it “the most difficult I had to make in twenty-two years on the bench.” The following year, in the National Law Journal, this troubled jurist held the FBI “equally responsible” for the deaths of its two agents; in a letter to Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, he urged commutation of Peltier’s sentence. Questioned on the same 1989 TV show about the perjured affidavits extracted by FBI agents from a frightened alcoholic, US Attorney Crooks declared: “I don’t really know and I don’t really care if they were false. I don’t agree that we did anything wrong, but I can tell you, it don’t bother my conscience one whit if we did.” Properly outraged by this arrogant refusal to repudiate US government use of fabricated evidence, Senator Inouye, as a former US attorney, called Crooks “a disgrace to the profession.”
I first interviewed Leonard Peltier in Marion Penitentiary in 1981, and that same year, with his original codefendant Bob Robideau, I inspected the Jumping Bull Ranch at Oglala where the shoot-out had taken place. Later, after reading many if not most of the pertinent documents, including the FBI field reports and the transcripts of both trials, I returned to Oglala to interview local people and study the scene again. Like the FBI, I would hear all sorts of rumors about the many young Indians involved without learning which one had fired the fatal shots; however there seemed to me no doubt whatever that Leonard Peltier had been railroaded into prison.
Unfortunately my long book making that case[*] was quickly suppressed by libel suits brought by South Dakota’s attorney general, William Janklow, and an FBI agent named David Price. Eight years would pass before both suits were summarily dismissed and the book was back in circulation. Meanwhile Peltier’s long fight for a fair trial had won his endorsement as a political prisoner by Amnesty International, and his thousands of supporters throughout the world included the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and the great majority of his own people in the more than 250 Indian nations that had formally demanded his release.
In Peltier’s first parole hearing in 1996, the examiner filed an internal recommendation in Peltier’s favor. (The US Parole Commission, like the US Attorney’s Office and the FBI, is under the aegis of the Justice Department: its examiner informs himself about the case, questions both sides, and appraises the new evidence, if any.) Yet in actions so belated and irregular as to raise suspicion of undue influence, the commission replaced that first examiner with one more to its liking and denied parole.
By then, the few bold lawmakers who had called for investigations had retreated or retired, and Peltier’s best hope was executive clemency. To that end, I wangled my way into the Oval Office and pressed my book about the case into President Clinton’s hands. In January 2001, during Clinton’s last week in office, as FBI lobbyists—the Association of Retired FBI Ageents and No Parole for Peltier—marched in front of the White House, I joined attorney Bruce Ellison and filmmaker Jon Kilik in a long meeting with the presidential and White House counsels in which we argued that granting clemency to an American Indian who could offer nothing in return was a bold symbolic step that could only enhance the President’s last-minute efforts to prop up his legacy.
The lawyers seemed impressed and hopes were high, but when the clemency list appeared on the Saturday morning of Inauguration Day, Peltier’s name was missing. The phone call I dreaded was put through from Leavenworth Prison in early afternoon. “They didn’t give it to me,” mumbled a stunned voice I scarcely recognized, the first time in twenty years of visits, letters, and telephone conversations that Leonard Peltier’s strong spirit sounded broken. With all court appeals exhausted and no hope of mercy from the incoming Republican administration, this aging prisoner was condemned to wait for his next parole hearing in 2009.
In the park in Lewisburg, people agreed that had the shoot-out victims not been “FBIs,” Leonard might never have been convicted; at the very least, he would have been paroled many years before. Someone in the park recalled the fear and disruption on the reservations caused by the FBI’s huge ResMurs investigation (which was widely perceived as the latest chapter in the long history of oppression and revenge against “the redskins who killed Custer” that had led up to the shoot-out). The killing that day in June 1975 of a young member of the AIM by a marksman’s bullet in the forehead had gone all but unmentioned, someone said, let alone investigated by “the Injustice Department,” doubtless because “Injuns don’t count.” How about Bob Robideau’s statement to an FBI man that he had been “the shooter”? Would the Parole Commission take that into account? And was it suspicious that Robideau had been found dead last February in Barcelona? (The official autopsy concluded that he had struck his head in a fall while suffering a seizure.)
With Peltier’s attorney Eric Seitz and the two other parole advocates —Dr. Thoom White Wolf Fassett, a Seneca elder and United Methodist adviser to Congress on Indian affairs, and an Ojibwa woman named Cindy Maleterre representing Peltier’s Turtle Mountain Reservation—I went early the next morniing to the prison, passing supporters waving “Free Peltier” signs at the entrance road.
In the hearing room the first to speak were the two sons of the late agent Jack Coler. After testifying to their family’s great loss, they suggested that if this man facing them today were to take responsibility and express remorse for those brutal murders he so stubbornly denies having committed, the Coler family might not protest his parole. But the three FBI spokesmen and the assistant US attorney who spoke next were content to repeat the same vilifications and distortions of the facts that won a conviction back in 1977. Locked long ago into their ResMurs myth, they insisted that Peltier was still a danger to the public and cited those provisions in the Parole Act specifying that parole may be denied if the subject’s release might “depreciate the seriousness of the offense” or “promote disrespect for the law.”
In response to the charge that Peltier has evaded his responsibility for those murders, Eric Seitz countered that the FBI and the US Attorney’s Office have evaded responsibility for their own illegal tactics in his prosecution. Otherwise Seitz made no attempt to retry a long historic case in a few minutes, emphasizing instead the prisoner’s exemplary behavior record, serious health problems, and other strong qualifications for parole under the commission’s geriatric and medical criteria. He reminded Examiner Scott Kubic that in a few weeks, on September 12, when Peltier would turn sixty-five, he would also become eligible for home detention under the new Second Chance program for elderly inmates designed to ease overcrowding in the US prisons.
Thom White Wolf testified that Peltier’s incarceration for nearly thirty-three years has been viewed both nationally and internationally as a gross injustice and a major embarrassment to our country, with a negative effect on the world’s view of how the US government treats its native population. When my turn came, I spoke to the points made in this article, adding how much this inmate had matured over the three decades of our acquaintance, not only as an articulate spokesman for his people but as an artist, self-taught in the prisons, whose work is admired through- out the US. And Cindy Maleterre assured the examiner that the prisoner’s Ojibwa-Dakota people at Turtle Mountain—including grandchildren he has never seen ”had already taken care of the parole requirements of social support, adequate housing, and steady employment (as an arts-and-crafts teacher and alcoholism counselor on the reservation), and were planning to welcome him home with a great feast.
That afternoon we left the prison with the feeling that Examiner Kubic had listened carefully and would recommend parole—a guarded optimism we conveyed to the flag-waving suupporters awaiting our report on the public road. But no one forgot how the examiner’s finding in Peltier’s favor fifteen years before had been aborted; in the next weeks, as so often in the past, the prisoner would have to suffer the suspense of desperate hope.
On Friday, August 20, federal inmate #89637-132 received terse notice that his petition for parole had been denied: not until his “15-year Reconsideration Hearing in July 2024,” he was informed, would he become eligible to be turned down again. In the unlikely event that he lives long enough to attend that hearing, Inmate Peltier will be eighty years old.
In his angry response, Attorney Seitz accused the commission of “adopting the position of the FBI that anyone who may be implicated in the killings of its agents should never be paroled and should be left to die in prison.” I entirely agree with Seitz and share his anger. For the prisoner and his supporters, the Lewisburg hearing had been hollow, with a predetermined outcome: The United States v. Leonard Peltier had always been a matter less of justice than of retribution.
Americans—those in public office especially—should inform themselves about this painful case and demand an unbiased investigation that might start with one simple question: If, in the thirty-three years since his trial, reputable evidence has ever emerged that Leonard Peltier was the lone killer and deserves to be in prison for life, why hasn’t the Justice Department produced it?
Without public protest, Peltier will not be granted a fair hearing since his prosecutors know that in the absence of honest evidence, “the only one we got” would be set free. Instead, this man’s life leaks away behind grim concrete walls for the unworthy purpose of saving face for the FBI and a US Attorney’s Office that together botched the famous ResMurs case and mean to see somebody pay. And who better for this fate than a “radical” AIM Indian who dared stand up to “legally constituted authority” in defense of his humiliated people, as he was doing with such tragic consequences on that long-ago June day?
In reviewing this case with an open mind, as surely he must in fulfilling his oath of office, Attorney General Eric Holder (the assistant attorney general in 2001) might reflect on his own role in the clemency bestowed by Clinton on Marc Rich, the notorious “fugitive felon.” He might consider, too, Rich’s consequent evasion of even a single day in prison in the harsh light of the eleven thousand days already served by a penniless American Indian who remains innocent before the law, having never been proven guilty.
URL - www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/matsnsa.html
[*]Notes - In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (Viking, 1983).
http://freepeltiernow.blogspot.com/2009/11/tragedy-of-leonard-peltier-vs-us.html
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- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on Leonard’s parole denial - Correction
In a previous issue of FN – September 19, 2009 - Sept 11 Treason + Vaccine * Peltier
I posted an earlier address for Jehan Abdur-Raheem, which has now been corrected:
Jehan Abdur-Raheem
# 77A1180 - Eastern, NY Correctional Facility;
P.O. Box 338; Napanoch, NY 12458-0338
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Notes: The following contains some updated links at FN. Lately, FlybyNews.com is getting about six to seven times more page visits from The Netherlands than from the US. For this month, the US ranks behind: Spain, Great Britain, China, and Romania. With this lead story, I am quite thankful for an international appeal. Our overall stats for the month of September, 2009 - Unique visitors: 2536; Number of visits: 3988; Pages 82383; Hits: 86459; Bandwidth: 3.11 GB. The dollar going down is BIG news worldwide. It is questionable what the results of this will be. However, we know already that the invasion of Iraq failed to control the oil-specialized wealth domain by corrupt criminal Administrations. This following excerpt by Robert Fisk explains the current predicament and threat for more hostilities.
"Iran announced late last month that its foreign currency reserves would henceforth be held in euros rather than dollars. Bankers remember, of course, what happened to the last Middle East oil producer to sell its oil in euros rather than dollars. A few months after Saddam Hussein trumpeted his decision, the Americans and British invaded Iraq."
In my opinion from a perception of being active in campaigns to stop the escalation of endless war for more than ten years, World War II never really ended. This is why I appreciate the work of Christopher Story, who has been investigating international corrupt criminal monetary systems. Yet it has been the aggressive military program of the US that is threatening everyone, and other countries are responding.
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Sept 11 Treason + Vaccine * Peltier
18 September 2009
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."
-- Albert Einstein
1) September 11 Breakthrough for Treason
- - NYC CAN's Historic MARCH FOR ANSWERS
- - Senior Government Officials Question 9/11
- - The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven
- - Dr. Steve Jones - DVD - Nanothermite - AE911truth Newsletter
- - 9/11: Blueprint for Truth World Premiere TV Broadcast
- - Sibel Edmonds Deposition re: 9/11 & Nuclear Trafficking
- - Why Propaganda Trumps Truth
- - Charlie Sheen 'Twenty Minutes' with President Barack Obama
- - Barack Obama Abandons Missile Defense Shield in Europe
- - U.S. Death Squads Roam The Globe
- - Ex-CIA Chiefs Seek Halt to Interrogations Probe
- - "Anthrax Wars" with investigative journalist, author and filmmaker
- - Film Critic Reviews Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
- - Evidence of Treason...Basis for 9/11 Grand Jury Investigation
2) US Under Vaccine Attack – WHO Do You Trust?
- - Len Horowitz – Pandemic Charges Filed With FBI In NYC
- - FBI Request for Investigation Letter
- - Vaccine May Be More Dangerous Than Swine Flu
- - Ten Swine Flu Lies Told by the Mainstream Media
3) Leonard Peltier: Obama’s Political Prisoner Now
- - Leonards Statement on his Parole Denial
- - Jehan Abdur-Raheem on Leonard’s parole denial
- - A Safe Substitute for Alcohol?
Editor’s Notes:
Item 3 begins with Leonard Peltier’s statement about being denied Parole. Following that is another response on this by Jehan Abdur-Raheem. 9/11 Truth is key for peace, which exposes the Emperor with no clothes on. The war on terror is based on fraud, lies and deceit. Don’t let the distraction of health care get you confused, and allow swine flu inoculations take you down. Be awake, ready, and take actions to uphold and defend principles of the US Constitution. Dr. Leonard Horowitz is requesting you to copy, paste, and forward his letter (item 2) to your local FBI headquarters, and to others in your network. Check out the evidence in Dr. Horowitz's AFFIDAVIT. Working together there is a chance we can obtain an injunction to stop the deadly H1N1 Swine Flu vaccinations. And don’t miss the latest book by David Ray Griffin, “The Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7: Why the Final Official Report About 9/11 Is Unscientific and False,” published by Interlink Books.
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts
to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and
crossing each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring, those ripples build a current
which can sweep down the mightiest walls
of oppression and resistance.”
Robert F. Kennedy
Capetown, June 6th 1966
Valley 9/11 Truth
presents a film screening:
Dark Legacy
George Bush and the Assassination of JFK
Wednesday, September 23, 2009; 7:00 PM
Media Ed. Foundation, Northampton, MA
1) September 11 Breakthrough for Treason
- - NYC CAN's Historic MARCH FOR ANSWERS
- - Senior Government Officials Question 9/11
- - The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven
- - Dr. Steve Jones - DVD - Nanothermite - AE911truth Newsletter
- - 9/11: Blueprint for Truth World Premiere TV Broadcast
- - Sibel Edmonds Deposition re: 9/11 & Nuclear Trafficking
- - Why Propaganda Trumps Truth
- - Charlie Sheen 'Twenty Minutes' with President Barack Obama
- - Barack Obama Abandons Missile Defense Shield in Europe
- - U.S. Death Squads Roam The Globe
- - Ex-CIA Chiefs Seek Halt to Interrogations Probe
- - "Anthrax Wars" with investigative journalist, author and filmmaker
- - Film Critic Reviews Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
- - Evidence of Treason...Basis for 9/11 Grand Jury Investigation
- - NYC CAN's Historic MARCH FOR ANSWERS
NYC Coalition for Accountability Now
March For Answers
For A New 9/11 Investigation
From Battery Park to City Hall
via Ground Zero, The City Clerk
September 27, 2009 - 2:00 PM
Speakers Include:
Bob McIlvaine - 9/11 Family Member
Manny Badillo - 9/11 Family Member
Daniel Sunjata - Star of "Rescue Me"
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September 13, 2009 - YouTube:
Manny Badillo schools France 24 News
80,000 New Yorkers have signed the petition. As with every other NYC ballot initiative, the City of New York is denying the will of its people to vote on the issues it considers most important.
NYC CAN responded by filing suit, and on September 9 the City conceded NYC CAN did in fact submit enough valid signatures to put the referendum before the voters. Now NYC CAN is battling to prove the petition is legally valid. On September 28, the referee will report on the petition's legality, and a final determination will be made in the days that follow.
On the eve of the referee's decision, let us take to the streets in the THOUSANDS on behalf of the families, first responders and survivors of September 11th and the 80,000 New Yorkers who signed the petition. As the climate ripens and public opinion continues to swing in favor of a new investigation, this is our opportunity to send a message like never before. If we stand together, we can make history.
September 27. 2pm. Battery Park.
Please help promote this event. Post the flier on your website. If you have a radio show please contact info@nyccan.org to have an NYC CAN representative on the show. If you can volunteer to hand out fliers starting Saturday, September 19, please email volunteer@nyccan.org and put VOLUNTEER in the subject line. For fliers to print out and distribute on your own, go to www.NYCCAN.org
Thinkers think and talkers talk. Patriots ACT.
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- - Senior Government Officials Question 9/11
Post@ wanttoknow.info
Senator Max Cleland – Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned December 2003. U.S. Senator from Georgia 1996-2002. Currently serves on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Administrator of U.S. Veterans Administration 1977-1981. Awarded Silver Star and Bronze Star for U.S. Army bravery in Viet Nam. Triple amputee from war injuries.
Boston Globe Article 11/13/03: "If this decision stands [to limit 9/11 Commission access to White House documents], I, as a member of the commission, cannot look any American in the eye, especially family members of victims, and say the commission had full access. This investigation is now compromised."
Article 11/21/03: Regarding the 9/11 Commission: "It is a national scandal."
Resigned from the 9/11 Commission, 12/03
Transcript of audio interview 3/23/04: "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9/11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up."
Louis Freeh – Director of FBI, 1993-2001. Former U.S. District Court Judge for Southern District of New York, appointed by President George H.W. Bush. Former Deputy United States Attorney in New York. Former FBI agent. Former officer in United States Army.
Wall Street Journal 11/17/05: "Even the most junior investigator would immediately know that the name and photo ID of [lead 9/11 hijacker Mohammed] Atta in 2000 is precisely the kind of tactical intelligence the FBI has many times employed to prevent attacks and arrest terrorists. Yet the 9/11 Commission inexplicably concluded that it 'was not historically significant.' This astounding conclusion in combination with the failure to investigate Able Danger and incorporate it into its findings raises serious challenges to the commission's credibility and, if the facts prove out, might just render the commission historically insignificant itself. No wonder the 9/11 families were outraged by these revelations and called for a 'new' commission."
For more info and references backing up above statements, see:
9/11 Commission Report Questioned by Senior Military,
Intelligence, and Government Officials
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- - The Mysterious Collapse of WTC Seven
Why NIST’s Final 9/11 Report is Unscientific and False
by Prof. David Ray Griffin
Global Research, September 14, 2009
[EXCERPT]
At 5:21 in the afternoon of 9/11, almost seven hours after the Twin Towers had come down, Building 7 of the World Trade Center also came down. The collapse of this building was from the beginning considered a mystery. [1]
The same should have been true, to be sure, of the collapse of the Twin Towers. But they had been hit by planes, which had ignited big fires in them, and many people assumed this combination of causes to be sufficient to explain why they came down.
But WTC 7 had not been hit by a plane, so it was apparently the first steel-framed high-rise building in the known universe to have collapsed because of fire alone. New York Times writer James Glanz quoted a structural engineer as saying: “[W]ithin the structural engineering community, [WTC 7] is considered to be much more important to understand [than the Twin Towers],” because engineers had no answer to the question, “why did 7 come down?” [2]
From a purely scientific perspective, of course, there would have been an obvious answer. Scientists, presupposing the regularity of nature, operate on the principle that like effects generally imply like causes. Scientists are, therefore, loathe to posit unprecedented causes for common phenomena. By 9/11, the collapse of steel-framed high-rises had become a rather common phenomenon, which most Americans had seen on television. And in every one of these cases, the building had been brought down by explosives in the process known as controlled demolition. From a scientific perspective, therefore, the obvious assumption would have been that WTC 7 came down because explosives had been used to remove its steel supports.
However, the public discussion of the destruction of the World Trade Center did not occur in a scientific context, but in a highly charged political context. America had just been attacked, it was almost universally believed, by foreign terrorists who had flown hijacked planes into the Twin Towers, and in response the Bush administration had launched a “war on terror.” The idea that even one of the buildings had been brought down by explosives would have implied that the attacks had not been a surprise, so this idea could not be entertained by many minds in private, let alone in public.
This meant that people had to believe, or at least pretend to believe, that Building 7 had been brought down by fire, even though, as Glanz wrote: “[E]xperts said no building like it, a modern, steel-reinforced high-rise, had ever collapsed because of an uncontrolled fire.” [3] And so, this building’s collapse had to be considered a mystery – insofar as it was considered at all.
But this was not much. Although WTC 7 was a 47-story building, which in most places would have been the tallest building in the city, if not the state, it was dwarfed by the 110-story Twin Towers. It was also dwarfed by them in the ensuing media coverage. And so, Glanz wrote, the collapse of Building 7 was “a mystery that . . . would probably have captured the attention of the city and the world,” if the Twin Towers had not also come down. [4] As it was, however, the mystery of Building 7’s collapse was seldom discussed.
For those few people who were paying attention, the mysteriousness of this collapse was not lessened by the first official report about it, which was issued by FEMA in 2002. This report put forward what it called its “best hypothesis” as to why the building collapsed, but then added that this hypothesis had “only a low probability of occurrence.” [5]
This FEMA report, in fact, increased the mystery, th