November 10, 2005

The Empire of Darkness Series #28: Some very, VERY Bad Apples...


Hello everyone!

I really shouldn't be taking that much time - which I hardly have right now! - to compile such a long compilation (75 pages!) for you, but the material in this one is SO EXPLOSIVE, and makes such a compelling case against the ignominious crimes perpetrated non-stop by the mad American Evil Empire that I just could not sit on all this information that came to my attention in the last few days and hours and not pass it on to you - hoping of course you'll do likewise.

The most damning evidence of yet another crime against humanity perpetrated by the US Army of Mass Destruction featured below is the proof of what was reported in several compilations a year ago when the mad warriors were indiscriminately dousing innocent children, elderly people, men and women with lethal chemical weapons during their all-out assault against the city of Fallujah in Iraq.

This is hard stuff to read and to see if you go check the picture and video, but it is good that such dark deeds are now finally exposed - hardly in the US media yet though! - so as to pump up enough steam into the public opinion's disturbing apathy towards such continuing horrors in the hope it will pop the cork and purge the world from the mass-slaughtering and mass-torturing neocons and their now immensely unpopular and planet-wide reviled Bush puppet and his dartvaderesque "handler" Dick Cheney.

In the meantime, let's continue to hold high the Light of Love and shine globally this vibration of unconditional Love towards all beings, even those directly involved with such crimes, so as to touch everyone's heart with the redeeming knowledge that all can be healed, in time, as long as the choice to go towards the Light is made and harmlessness and compassion are nurtured within one's soul.

Let us make sure the sacrifice of all these beings who suffered such utter pain was not in vain and that true justice and peace prevail.

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator


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"Americans still seem blissfully unaware of the fundamental changes to the political system. The cloak of disinformation and diversion has successfully obscured the perils of our present course. Freedom is no longer guaranteed in Bush’s America nor is liberty everyman’s birthright. The rickety scaffolding that supports the rule of law has been replaced by the unbridled authority of the supreme presidency. The country is slipping inexorably towards the Orwellian nightmare; the National Security State."

- Mike Whitney - Taken from "Drifting towards a Police State" below


"You go to hell!! You can leave and you can take the rest of these lily-livered motherfuckers with you!"

- George W. Bush - taken from GOP Leaders to Bush: 'Your Presidency is Effectively Over' below


Worthy of Your Attention

US Treasury Missing $ Trillions
http://www.whereisthemoney.org/
Trillions of dollars in "unsupported adjustments" means trillions of dollars unaccounted for. What's going on? Where is the money? How could this happen? Where are the checks and balances? How much more has gone missing? Is this happening in the other government agencies too? What would happen if a corporation failed to pass an audit like this? Or a taxpayer? Who is responsible for this? Who can we trust to fix it? CLIP

The Missing Money Articles & Documents
http://www.solari.com/learn/articles_missingmoney.htm
"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions" —Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - CBS News, January 2002 Recommended by "Greg O'Neill" whtgr@yahoo.com> who wrote: "This is criminal mismanagement to say the least. Any civilian business that couldn't account for their spending of thousands, or millions of dollars, would be in serious trouble. How does the matter of trillions of dollars lost by agencies responsible for accurate accounting of those funds effect the U.S. economy, in truly terrible ways."

Groups Denounce Stealth Senate Amendment on Detainees
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/reports/report.asp?ObjID=tNs7RqrFSC&Content=660
As Senator Graham planned to introduce an amendment today to the military appropriations bill that would strip U.S. courts of any jurisdiction over detainees at Guantánamo and other U.S. facilities around the world, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and allies spoke out against this attack on the rule of law, the fundamental principle of habeas corpus and the separation of powers. (...) It is no secret that arbitrary indefinite detention and widespread prisoner mistreatment have taken and continue to take place at Guantánamo and other U.S.-run facilities. It is precisely this unchecked Executive tyranny that the historic writ of habeas corpus was designed to prevent. (...) Senator Graham's jurisdiction-stripping efforts come as allegations of secret CIA detention facilities around the world dominate headlines; the day after the Senate defeated an amendment that would have created an independent commission to investigate torture at U.S. facilities, further evading oversight and accountability; and two days after the Administration charged five more detainees at Guantánamo to go before the very military commission that the Supreme Court announced it would review for constitutionality that morning. The Graham Amendment will only serve to reinforce the growing perception that the United States has become an enemy of human rights. The documented fact that in many cases the "evidence" against these men has been procured by torture and other inhumane methods only worsens the situation. CLIP  You can take action by going at http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=1500

The Hunger Site - Click on the "Give Free Food" button to fund food for the hungry
http://www.thehungersite.com
It is estimated that one billion people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition. That's roughly 100 times as many as those who actually die from these causes each year. About 24,000 people die every day from hunger or hunger-related causes. This is down from 35,000 ten years ago, and 41,000 twenty years ago. Three-fourths of the deaths are children under the age of five.

Canadian Disclosure Spreads: Paul Hellyer on TV Ontario's BIG IDEAS (November 8, 2005)
http://www.jerrypippin.com/UFO_Files_toronto_exopolitics_symposium.htm
Toronto Ontario -- TV Ontario’s acclaimed and thought-provoking program BIG IDEAS will present the address by former Minister of National Defense Paul Hellyer given at the Symposium on UFO Disclosure at U of T’s Convocation Hall this passed September. TVO’s BIG IDEAS will air the Hellyer address beginning at 1:55 pm on Saturday November 12, 2005. The address will be re-broadcast at the same time on Sunday November 13, 2005. TVO’s BIG IDEAS is in its fifth season of presenting provocative ideas that shape public debate. The current lecture series on BIG IDEAS will feature Paul Hellyer the former Canadian Minister of National Defense as he presents his views on: The policy implications and social impact of the 58 year-old UFO/ET cover-up, Peaceful contact with off-world civilizations, His perspective on the weaponization of space by the American government and its ultimate effect on the national security and defense of Canada, His assessment of the US military retrieval of technologies obtained from the crash site of an extraterrestrial craft near Roswell New Mexico in 1947, and The media’s newly acquired and unfolding responsibility to investigate information surrounding this issue of national security. Not only will you hear Mr. Hellyer speak of his days in office but of his recent conversation with a retired United States Air Force General who stated, “It is all true and more…” The political and social impact of such a broadcast aired by a Canadian provincial government television channel as presented by a former Canadian Cabinet Minister will no doubt be examined with great interest and be measured carefully today and in the future by journalists, politicians and members of the public. (...) As quoted on the Maclean's Magazine website, Hellyer stated, "I believe that UFOs are real. I'll talk about that a little bit and a bit about the fantastic cover-up of the United States government and also a little bit of the fallout from the wreckage, by that I mean the material discoveries we have made and how they've been applied to our technology." CLIP MUCH MORE on this also at http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2005/11/paul_hellyer_an.html


CONTENTS

1. US forces ’used chemical weapons’ during assault on city of Fallujah
2. Fallujah: Where is the Outrage. The Story the Mainstream Media won't tell you
3. Why are they not in front of their cameras calling Bush a butcher?
4. The United States of Torture
5. Drifting towards a Police State
6. Bush's Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides
7. GOP Leaders to Bush: 'Your Presidency is Effectively Over'
8. Tularemia Follows Cindy Sheehan to Bay Area
9. Neo-con/fascist provocateurs behind French riots?
10. US Pentagon contingency planning for military conflict with Venezuela
11. Israel’s nuclear program threatens global security
12. Israel and the Neocons: The Libby Affair and the Internal War
13. Killing Two Birds With One Tamiflu Stone
14. Mandatory Vaccines: Ingredients may be kept secret and more
15. The Deadliness Below
16. Women and the Civil Disobedience Movement: The Tide Cannot be Stopped
17. Message from Diane


See also:

GAO report upholds Ohio vote fraud claims
http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=11529
As if the indictment of Lewis “Scooter” Libby wasn’t enough to give the White House some heavy concerns, a report from the Government Accounting Office takes a big bite out of the Bush clique’s pretense of legitimacy. This powerful and probing report takes a hard look at the election of 2004 and supports the contention that the election was stolen. The report has received almost no coverage in the national media.The GAO is the government’s lead investigative agency, and is known for rock-solid integrity and its penetrating and thorough analysis. The agency’s agreement with what have been brushed aside as “conspiracy theories” adds even more weight to the conclusion that the Bush regime has no business in the White House whatever. Almost a year ago, Rep. John Conyers, senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, asked the GAO to investigate the use of electronic voting machines in the Nov. 2, 2004, presidential election. That request was made as a flood of protests from Ohio and elsewhere deluged Washington with claims that shocking irregularities were common in that vote and were linked to the machines. CLIP

Rioting Erupts as Bush Visits Argentina
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110505Z.shtml
A hemispheric summit meant to help create jobs and spread democracy throughout the region opened yesterday with large-scale anti-US demonstrations and deep divisions among participating nations about the Bush administration's expanded free-trade agenda.

Musharraf slams quake aid response (04 November 2005)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4A208D6-B455-4B70-B79E-151B6BB73624.htm
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has criticised the international community for failing to provide sufficient aid to survivors of last month's devastating earthquake. - The Pakistani leader said the world had given less money than it had for survivors of last December's tsunami because no Westerners had been involved. "With the tsunami, I think if one compared realistically the damage there is much more, the magnitude of the calamity is much more," military ruler Musharraf told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday. "But there it was spread to many countries, it affected many people from many countries of the world, especially the West who were tourists," he said. The army chief of staff and president also said he was postponing the controversial purchase of 25 F-16s from the US at a cost of $25 million each in order to divert funds to survivors of the earthquake. (...) The United Nations says it needs $550 million in emergency aid for earthquake victims but donor nations have pledged only $131 million. Pakistani Finance Ministry official Ashfaq Hassan Khan said the world has pledged $1.93 billion in aid over the long term, but the country has said it needs $5 billion. By comparison, donors pledged $13.5 billion for victims of the December tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people. More than 73,000 people died in the 8 October earthquake, which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale. Almost the same number were injured and more than three million were made homeless. (...) The British charity Oxfam said squalid conditions in camps could kill thousands more people, far exceeding the toll in remote villages that have been the focus of aid efforts so far. Oxfam said the risk of disease was growing in crowded camps that have sprung up in devastated cities, while the sheer numbers of people living there meant that any outbreak would be disastrous. "The focus on what's happening in the most remote communities in earthquake-hit Kashmir is overshadowing the thousands more lives that are in danger in the increasing number of camps," the charity said in a statement. "Unless conditions are improved in these camps, diseases like cholera could spread like wildfire," the statement said. CLIP

The Kashmir earthquake: Failures on the road to disaster (10 November 2005)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article326039.ece
Refugees from far-flung mountain villages are on the move in search of shelter before the first snowfalls. The relief effort for the homeless is desperately underfunded and disease has struck the camps. (...) The charity World Vision says that aid still has not reached 250,000 earthquake survivors in Pakistan. (...) As relief organisations struggle to get help to the needy, foreign governments have failed to match their pledges with hard cash for the earthquake victims.Pakistan's government says it has received just $9.5m (£5.4) out of $2bn pledged by foreign donors for earthquake relief.The United Nations says it has received only $133m towards its appeal for $550m, despite total offers of more than $1.3bn. The organisation needs $42m to maintain the Pakistan relief effort at current levels and stop the situation deteriorating before winter sets in.The UN stresses that reconstruction is a long way off. "We are still in the emergency life-saving phase, still trying to reach people in inaccessible areas, still trying to establish relief camps and get supplies of food and medicine through before roads are cut off by snow. This is unprecedented. In similar disasters this life-saving phase is normally over within a couple of weeks,'' said a spokeswomen. The speed and size of the response of outside countries appears small compared with the response to the 26 December tsunami. A month after that, the UN appeal was 80 per cent complete; the Pakistan appeal is only 24 per cent complete a month after the quake.Oxfam has calculated the amount of money contributed by the main donor countries as a percentage of their economies, arriving at a "fair share" figure.By this measure, Sweden, with 170 per cent of its fair share, tops the table. Britain is 12th at 24 per cent and the US 16th at 6.9 per cent. However, the US tops the list of individual donors. Spain, Portugal, Greece, Finland and Austria have contributed nothing.The UNsays the reasons for the slow reaction appear to be a combination of factors. In many countries, it is the end of the budget year. It has also been a year of natural disasters, and aid for the tsunami, famine in Africa and Hurricane Katrina has taken its toll on the ability of some nations to help. CLIP

Rich Nations Are Accused Of Giving 'Nothing'
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1027-04.htm
The United Nations Almost Doubled Its Appeal For Donations For Victims Of The Pakistan Earthquake As Some Rich Nations Were Accused Of Contributing Nothing To Help The Survivors

Darfur 'sliding into anarchy' (Nov 5)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2196872005
SUDAN'S troubled western region of Darfur has deteriorated back into a state of anarchy and bloodshed, hampering humanitarian work, according to senior United Nations officials. Thousands of people have arrived at the region's sprawling aid camps after rebels and government-backed Janjaweed militia stepped up attacks during the past six weeks. And the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is warning that November's harvest will be disrupted if the violence continues. Jan Pronk, the UN's special representative to Sudan, speaking in Khartoum, said: "We have had a relative calm in Darfur since April, but in the past six weeks things have deteriorated." He explained that rebel commanders and their Janjaweed counterparts had lost control of their troops. At the same time, a split within the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), the main rebel movement, had seen rival commanders step up military action in order to win influence. (...) Some 5,000 people have trekked here in the past six weeks and a further 1,900 have arrived at neighbouring Abu Shouk. Zam Zam is now almost full. New arrivals must mark out a small patch of ground with stones as they wait for help building a shelter. (...) It is two and a half years since the farming tribes in the western region of Darfur took up arms against the Arab government in Khartoum, which they accused of ignoring their needs. The Sudanese government responded by unleashing nomadic Arab militias - the dreaded Janjaweed - on the rebels. The militias, often backed by government Antonov aircraft, razed villages they suspected of harbouring rebels. Conservative estimates suggest that two million people have fled their homes for camps, where international charities offer a measure of security. A further 180,000 people have been killed. All sides have stepped up the violence in the latest escalation, which coincided with the resumption of peace talks in the Nigerian capital Abuja last month. In West Darfur, aid workers are confined to the capital, as the United Nations has declared all roads out of bounds due to banditry. African Union troops sent in to observe a much-ignored ceasefire are finding themselves increasingly targeted; five Nigerian soldiers and two civilian contractors were killed last month. The WFP says that each day a food truck is looted, fired upon or harassed. And last week tensions in Darfur's largest camp, Kalma, boiled over. Residents frustrated by a government blockade of the site and the arrest of a tribal leader took 35 Sudanese contractors and a handful of aid workers hostage, later releasing them unharmed. One charity worker summed up feelings among the aid community: "We are getting it from all sides." Where once the rebels were seen as co-operative, he added, now they are as likely to cause problems as government forces. "There has been a total breakdown of law and order, and people are taking advantage." November is harvest time, but with many farmers trapped in camps, much of this year's crop could go to waste. CLIP

VIDEO SPECIAL: t r u t h o u t's Sari Gelzer reports from San Franciso's "The World Can't Wait" demonstration. Thousands took to the streets and heard speeches from Cindy Sheehan and others. TO was also in Los Angeles to view reports from both actions go to http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm

Anti-Bush Protests Mark Re-Election
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110305Q.shtml
To mark the one-year anniversary of President Bush's re-election Wednesday, a group called The World Can't Wait staged rallies at sites across the United States, calling for radical change in Washington.

US Forces 'Used Chemical Weapons' on City of Fallujah
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110805Z.shtml
Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack in November of 2004. The attack killed insurgents and civilians with appalling burns that are the signature of this weapon. A video documentary entitled "Fallujah: the Hidden Massacre," provides what it claims is clinching evidence that incendiary bombs known as Mark 77 - a new, improved form of napalm - were used in the attack on Fallujah. This action is in breach of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons of 1980, which only allows such use against military targets. MUCH MORE ON THIS IN ANOTHER ARTICLE THIS BELOW!

New 911 Cover-up Allegations (8 Nov 2005)
http://www.rense.com/general68/911jh.htm

BOOK ON CIA’s SECRET JAILS: "Operation Hotel California" (Nov 6)
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9076
The first book-length expose of CIA kidnappings and prisons -- two of the greatest evils in the Bush government, and the world -- by the Italian investigative journalist Guido Olimpio is here, and it’s new and as current as todays news stories about secret jails the CIA runs! The book is a must-read for anyone wanting to know about the CIA’s practice of "rendition": kidnapping people and transporting them to places like Egypt for torture. It’s an extremely controversial practice, a threat to America’s security and character, and a sweat-provoking threat to potential victims and an insult to the sovereignty of countries like Italy and Sweden. Read the book, and your reactions will range from cold sweat to boiling mad. CLIP

White House keeps dossiers on more than 10,000 'political enemies' (Nov 8, 2005)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7625.shtml
Spurred by paranoia and aided by the USA Patriot Act, the Bush Administration has compiled dossiers on more than 10,000 Americans it considers political enemies and uses those files to wage war on those who disagree with its policies. The “enemies list” dates back to Bush’s days as governor of Texas and can be accessed by senior administration officials in an instant for use in campaigns to discredit those who speak out against administration policies or acts of the President. The computerized files include intimate personal details on members of Congress; high-ranking local, state and federal officials; prominent media figures and ordinary citizens who may, at one time or another, have spoken out against the President or Administration. Capitol Hill Blue has spoken with a number of current and former administration officials who acknowledge existence of the enemies list only under a guarantee of confidentiality. Those who have seen the list say it is far more extensive than Richard Nixon’s famous “enemies list” of Watergate fame or Bill Clinton’s dossiers on political enemies. “How is that you think Karl (Rove) and Scooter (Libby) were able to disseminate so much information on Joe Wilson and his wife,” says one White House aide. “They didn’t have that information by accident. They had it because they have files on those who might hurt them.” White House insiders tell disturbing tales of invasion of privacy, abuse of government power and use of expanded authority under the USA Patriot Act to dig into the personal lives of anyone the administration deems an enemy of the state. CLIP

Zogby poll: Majority of likely voters support considering impeachment (November 4th 2005) http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9056
New Poll Shows Majority of Americans Support Impeachment; ImpeachPAC is Launched to Support Pro-Impeachment Candidates - By a margin of 53% to 42%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,200 U.S. adults from October 29 through November 2. CLIP

New York Times | President Bush's Walkabout
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110805P.shtml
After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front. But the rest of the world simply can't afford an American government this bad for that long.

Vermont Passes Resolution to Secede from the USA (November 4th 2005)
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=9052
An historic Vermont meeting in the state capital has passed a resolution to secede from the United States. Members of a peaceful freedom-fighting group want no part of neo-cons running the imperialistic U.S. government. The plan to secede from the U.S. is gaining momentum in the fiercely independent Green Mountain state. The neo-con band of criminals running Washington, trampling on civil rights at home and invading countries at will overseas, has led a large group of strong-minded Vermont freedom-fighters with no choice but to secede from the United States. CLIP

'White House in Chaos' & Other Utter Horseshit
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-gilroy/white-house-in-chaos-_b_10159.html
Nothing could be more damaging for the bridge club of armchair politicians known as the Democratic Leadership than the recent spate of sound bytes like "Bush's worst week in Office," "A White House Demoralized," and "Bushies on the Brink of Collapse". You can already feel Schumer, Dean, Hillary, and their media addicted minions being taken over by that familiar self-satisfied stupor, validating their inaction and cowardice, even repositioning it as though it was part of a grand plan, an agenda, even an ideology. It's like a bunch of fat people on a couch learning about the obesity epidemic from 60 Minutes and concluding they must be skinny. The problem with these snappy doomsday pronouncements—collective wishes really—is that they bear no relationship to reality. You really have to wonder what kind of bloated house-bound moron could think slumping polls and plummeting approval ratings would worry a gang of fanatics who stole two elections in a row, invaded a country they knew couldn't defend itself, and gave a male hustler White House security clearance. CLIP

BLACK GOLD HOT GOLD The Rise of Fascism in the American Energy Business
http://www.brojon.org/frontpage/bj050701-1.html
What is often called the German or Italian form of Fascism had its roots in America. Both Hitler and Mussolini were funded and brought into power in the 1920's and '30s by international bankers, including the 12 banks which now make up the American Federal Reserve System. But I get ahead of myself. (...) Fascism grew out of the attempt of the Big 3 oil companies to form a world cartel to control the world's supply of petroleum and eliminate any other competitors which they branded as "communists." Thus at the end of WWI, after the Treaty of Versailles, and the take over of the large oil fields in southern Russia by the socialists, came the creation of both "communism" and "fascism." Both were constructs, inventions and ploys of the Big 3: Standard Oil, British Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell. It was a deception which would lead to world empire. In the 1920's and '30s the Big 3 decided on a plan to eliminate Russian control of oil by "hiring" the small "fascist" movements in Germany and Japan to attack and take over Russia and thus eliminate any state control of oil fields. Most historians would blame large international bankers for funding the rise of fascism. But the bankers had no motivation and fringe fascists parties in Germany, Italy and Japan did not look like good financial risks. But for the Big 3 Oil companies there was a strong motivation to use the "fascists" to defeat the "communists" in Russia and take over the world oil market. And the vast oil wealth which they stored in their international banks provided them with the means. In the 1920's the opportunity was ripe. Thus the small fascist political parties in Germany, Japan and Italy were given massive Big 3 financial backing to help those minor political parties come to power and build up their military. But things did not go quite as they had planned. The aging John D. had died and his son and four grandsons had decided they would carve up the world along different lines, and at the same time eliminate their competitors, the British and Dutch oil companies. CLIP - REVEALING ARTICLE!!

British Patriot Act Rejected
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/110905Q.shtml
In a political blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, British lawmakers on Wednesday rejected tough anti-terrorism legislation that would have allowed suspects to be detained for 90 days without charge.

Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning (November 7, 2005)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-me-allsaints7nov07,1,6113713,print.story?coll=la-home-sports
The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election. CLIP

Statistics Prove Prescription Drugs Are 16,400% More Deadly Than Terrorists
http://www.newstarget.com/009278.html

U.S.-Syrian tension cutting through ties (11/08/2005)
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3193485
WASHINGTON - The United States has cut off nearly all contact with the Syrian government as the Bush administration steps up a campaign to weaken and isolate President Bashar al-Assad's regime, according to U.S. and Syrian officials. The United States has halted high-level diplomatic meetings, limited military coordination on Syria's border with Iraq, and ended dialogue with Syria's Finance Ministry on amending its banking laws to block terrorist financing. In recent months, as distrust between the two countries widened, the United States also declined a proposal from Syria to revive intelligence cooperation with Syria, according to Syria's ambassador to the United States, Imad Moustapha, and a U.S. official. The new era of hostility flows from American frustration at what it considers Syria's failure to effectively control its border with Iraq and continued support for radical Palestinian groups that threaten the chances of peace in Israel. The U.S.-Syrian confrontation has sharpened just as Syria is also facing pressure from many Arab and European governments - as well as the United States - over Syria's suspected role in the assassination of the former prime minister of Lebanon, Rafik Hariri. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Oct. 31 that "the Syrian government needs to make a strategic decision to fundamentally change its behavior'' or risk becoming an international pariah. Some U.S. officials say privately that there is now an active debate about whether regime change should be a U.S. goal. Publicly, administration officials say that they want to see a change in behavior. But Syrian officials say they have made progress on many U.S. demands, including stepping up patrols along the Iraqi border, and that it is the United States that has broken promises to cooperate. Syrians say that powerful neoconservative policy makers in Washington have long hoped to topple their regime in a bid to transform the Middle East. 'What we see in general is an administration that is categorically refusing to engage with Syria on any level,'' Moustapha said. "We see an administration that would really love to see another crisis in the Middle East, this time targeting Syria. . . . Even before the Iraq war started, they had this grand vision for the Middle East.''

Avnery - Amir Peretz may still save our democratic existence (Nov 6, 2005)
https://mailman.gush-shalom.org/pipermail/intl/2005/000094.html
(...) For almost five years now the Labor Party has been the hostage of Shimon Peres. Under his leadership, it has lost any remnant of an independent world view, national or social. When Sharon came to power, Peres became his world-wide spin-doctor and spokesman. Until then, the world associated Sharon with the Kibia massacre of 1953, the 1982 assault on Lebanon and the Sabra-Shatila slaughter. It was Shimon Peres, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who gained him world-wide acceptance as a respectable statesman. After the half-comic intermezzo of leaving the government for election purposes, Peres delivered his party again to the second Sharon government, where it became the main supporter of the "disengagement". He did not put up any conditions: neither that the withdrawal should be carried out in agreement with the Palestinians, nor that the territory should really be liberated, nor that the withdrawal should lead to negotiations for the withdrawal from the West Bank. We see the result now: the Gaza Strip has turned into a big prison, the occupation there continues by other means (isolation from the West Bank and the entire world), living conditions there have become even worse (who thought that this was possible?) The result: the bloodshed goes on, and will probably get more terrible. We see and read every day how the Labor Party enables Sharon to carry out his design - to annex to Israel 58% of the West Bank, turning the rest into enclaves cut off from each other, and the building of the Separation Wall, which was a brainchild of the Labor Party to start with, and which annexes great swathes of the West Bank to Israel. The roadblocks. The enlargement of the settlements at a frantic pace. The dismantling of the "outposts" is not even up for discussion. The assassinations and arrests continue even after the Palestinians have declared a cease-fire, which Sharon refused to join. There is no peace negotiation, and the Minister of Defense has asserted that peace must wait "for the next generation". Without any political achievements at all, the position of Mahmoud Abbas is undermined, creating again the desired situation where "there is nobody to talk with". On the social level, the government, with the support of the Labor Party, is widening the income gap and deepening poverty. Regarding this Thatcherite policy, there is no real difference between Sharon, Netanyahu and Peres, empty slogans notwithstanding. No wonder that in this situation, the party itself is degenerating. People are fed up not only with Peres, but with the whole bunch of politicians that surround him - indeed with the entire democratic system. There is no life in the party, no debate, no activity at all. CLIP

Petition: Stop the Sonic Booms (2 November 2005)
Today Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Gaza Community Mental Health Programme filed a joint petition against the Israeli Minister of Defense to the Israeli High Court, and are demanding that the Israeli Air Force cease the use of sonic booms over civilian populations. In the past few weeks the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has conducted flights over the Gaza Strip purposely creating sonic booms. These extremely loud booms have caused both physical and mental harm to the population as well as damage to property. Dr Eyad al Sarraj, a psychiatrist and director of GCMHP, filed a professional medical opinion to the court in which he details the affects of the sonic booms on the civilian population in Gaza. For example, he explained the negative psychological consequences of the booms, especially on the children: anxiety, panic, fear, poor concentration, low academic success, feelings of vulnerability, alertness, withdrawal, stuttering, ticks, regressive behaviour and even somatic problems. He also noted that during the days of repeated intense booms the number of abortions increased. It should be noted that many of the booms occur during the hours in the morning when the children are going to school. The IAf no longer flies at speeds exceeding the speed of sound over Israeli civilians areas due to the great stress the booms caused to the population. (...) Due to the extreme violations of human rights, specifically the right to health, and the fact that the booms constitute collective punishment, the petitioners demand that the Israeli Air Force immediately end flying planes above the speed of sound, and thus creating frightening sonic booms, over civilian populations.
For more information and to sign the petition go to the Physicians for Human Rights-Israel website at http://www.phr.org.il/

Melting Mountains (November 5, 2005)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1105-03.htm
How Climate Change is Destroying the World's Most Spectacular Landscapes (...) All the most famous ski resorts in Europe are situated in valleys overlooked by mountains held together by permafrost. The high altitude permafrost zones lie on steep slopes above these settlements, roads, railways and valleys. Massive slope failures and landslides leading to blocked rivers, dammed lakes and catastrophic flooding will be especially pronounced in the Alps, which has such steep topography and high population levels.Already climatologists have predicted the complete failure of the Scottish ski industry due to lack of snow within 20 years and the Alpine ski industry within 50 years. Many Alpine ski resorts would already be out of business but for the snow machines.Because the best Alpine ski fields and lift systems are above the crucial permafrost altitude of 8,202 feet, it could spell the end of the ski industry as we know it, let alone the more esoteric world of mountaineering. When you consider that one sixth of Austria's gross domestic product comes from Alpine tourism, the effects of permafrost meltdown could be far more wide-ranging than just screwing up our winter sports holidays. Climatologists, geologists and civil engineers from all over the world are making disturbingly similar reports. Glaciers in Antarctica are thinning twice as fast as they were a decade ago and this may destabilise the west Antarctic ice sheet, which, if melted, contains enough ice to raise sea levels by as much as five metres. A gigantic slab, the Larsen B ice shelf, has already fallen off its eastern side.Ablation rates of glaciers are speeding up all over the world. Retreating glaciers in the Peruvian Andes are adding huge amounts of melt water to already overburdened mountain lakes, greatly increasing the risk of dam collapses and alluvion avalanches. There are passes in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia that just 20 years ago were glaciated, yet now are rocky moraine fields. Only two weeks ago it was announced that Kilimanjaro in Tanzania would lose its year-round mantle of snow within 10 years. One-third of Kilimanjaro's ice field has disappeared in the past 12 years. In Iceland ice cores have shown that temperatures are at their highest since the arrival of the Vikings. The past two years have been the hottest since records began in 1822. At this rate of melting, all the ice will be gone in 200 years.In the Arctic, a region of sea ice the size of France and Germany has melted away in the past 30 years and there are fears that the inflow of fresh water could possibly lead to the shutdown of the Gulf Stream, which bathes Europe in warm water. This would plunge Britain into winters that would be the equivalent of those in northern Canada. It wouldn't save the ski industry, not unless you like skiing in conditions of 40C below. CLIP

Caribbean Reefs Bleached by Warm Water (November 03, 2005)
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9172
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A bleaching phenomenon caused by unusually warm waters is whitening coral reefs throughout the Caribbean, raising fears of a large-scale die-off of the organisms, scientists said Wednesday.The warmer atmosphere has been slowly raising ocean temperatures, threatening sea coral that can only live within a narrow temperature margin, according to scientists. A slight increase in sea surface temperature can induce coral bleaching, killing the coral.Recent data gathered by the University of Puerto Rico shows that up to 95 percent of coral colonies off the island have been bleached in some areas. CLIP

Melting Planet
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=56&ItemID=8862
Species are Dying Out Faster Than We Have Dared Recognize, Scientists Will Warn This Week
(...) The science magazine Nature predicted last year that up to 37 per cent of terrestrial species could become extinct by 2050. And the Defra report presents more problems than solutions. Tackling these crises will be far more complicated than just building more nature reserves - a problem that Jim Knight, the nature conservation minister, acknowledges. A key issue in sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, is profound poverty. After visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month, Mr Knight found it difficult to condemn local people eating gorillas, already endangered. "You can't blame an individual who doesn't know how they're going to feed their family every day from harvesting what's around them. That's a real challenge," he said. (...) Many environmentalists are pessimistic about the prospects of halting, let alone reversing, this trend. "Are we fighting a losing battle? Yes, we probably are," one naturalist told the IoS last month. The UK, which is attempting to put climate change at the top of the global agenda during its presidency of the G8 group of industrialised nations, is still struggling to persuade the American, Japanese and Australian governments to admit that mankind's gas emissions are the biggest threat. These three continue to insist there is no proof that climate change is largely manmade. CLIP

Satellite Data Reveals Beijing As Air Pollution Capital Of World
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,12188,1605147,00.html

China faces world's worst water crisis (01 Nov 2005)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK215903.htm
Aid experts debunk post-disaster myths TALKING POINT: The global food aid controversy FAMINE RESOURCE FILE: The reality of hunger SLIDE SHOW: Life-cycle of a famine MORE BEIJING, Nov 1 (Reuters) - China is struggling to overcome what a minister called the world's worst water crisis caused by widespread drought, pollution, rapid economic growth and waste, the China Daily said on Tuesday. Per capita water availability in China was about a quarter of the world average and expected to fall further, the report said. "(China) is facing a water crisis more severe and urgent than any other country in the world,"CLIP

British to help China build 'eco-cities' (November 6, 2005) AMAZING!!
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1635188,00.html
British engineers will this week sign a multi-billion contract with the Chinese authorities to design and build a string of 'eco-cities' - self-sustaining urban centres the size of a large western capital - in the booming country. (...) Head said: 'It is part of a new awareness of the environment by the Chinese government. They realise that with their growing population and economy they have to overcome the problems of environmental pollution and resource depletion.' The eco-cities are intended to be self-sufficient in energy, water and most food products, with the aim of zero emissions of greenhouse gases in transport systems. Head said: 'It is no gimmick. It is being led at the highest levels of the Chinese government. They are very committed to developing a new paradigm of economic development.' CLIP

The Time to Act Is Now
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110405EA.shtml
Al Gore declares that global warming "is a planetary emergency that now threatens human civilization on multiple fronts." He pays tribute to the heroes and warriors of the environmental movement who were honored in the article, "Climate Heroes and Warriors".

Canada: Environmental Bad Boy (October 24, 2005)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1599452,00.html
Sluggish, Asleep At The Wheel, Haywire And Incontinent. A Leading Green Country A Decade AgoIs Found Severely Wanting In A New Report.

Catalogues, tissues not worth destroying ancient Canadian forests: protesters (Nov 3)
http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=9093
TORONTO (CP) - Sexy lingerie catalogues and extra-soft tissues aren't worth destroying Canada's ancient forests, environmental advocates said Thursday as they staged rallies in cities across North America on behalf of the continent's boreal forest. Events were organized in Edmonton, Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, New York, Las Vegas, Chicago and more than 100 other cities to protest what critics call the destruction of the boreal, which they say is also displacing wildlife like caribou. In Toronto, protesters wore horns to represent the endangered caribou and in Vancouver, organizers planned a mock clearcut in a public square. Corporations like Victoria's Secret and Kimberly-Clark - which makes Kleenex-brand tissues and toilet paper - are making their products and catalogues with trees from endangered forests, protesters said. "These guys are irresponsibly consuming paper and forest products and that's just not acceptable, to destroy the boreal for throw-away things like catalogues, junk mail and tissue products," said Lafcadio Cortesi of the San Francisco-based group ForestEthics. North America's boreal forest stretches from Alaska to the Atlantic Ocean, sweeping every province except Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It is among the three most expansive forests in the world, accounting for 25 per cent of the planet's remaining intact, roadless forests. ForestEthics said Victoria's Secret mails out more than one million catalogues every day - about 395 million a year - and the paper is largely coming from the boreal. "What a waste of our heritage," said prominent lawyer Clayton Ruby, who's also an environmental activist. CLIP

UN warns of poverty as world’s lakes evaporate (October 31 2005)
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/f1d73ba4-4a30-11da-b8b1-0000779e2340.html
Lakes around the world are shrinking and becoming less productive because of climate change, pollution, poor irrigation practices and neglect, the United Nations warned on Monday.

Deadly Immunity
http://www.whale.to/vaccine/kennedy.html
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal
(...) Searching for children who had not been exposed to mercury in vaccines -- the kind of population that scientists typically use as a "control" in experiments -- Dan Olmsted scoured the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, who refuse to immunize their infants. Given the national rate of autism, Olmsted calculated that there should be 130 autistics among the Amish. He found only four. One had been exposed to high levels of mercury from a power plant. The other three -- including one child adopted from outside the Amish community -- had received their vaccines. CLIP

US Lawmakers Okay Some Synthetics For Organic Food
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27474310.htm
The Organic Consumers Association Called It A Sneak Attack On Organic Food Standards By Major Food Corporations That Are Relative Newcomers To The Profitable, Niche Market.

The New York Times | Organic Standards Must Be Protected
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/110905HB.shtml
Ever since 2002, when the Department of Agriculture began its program of national organic certification, there has been a steady lobbying effort to weaken standards in a way that makes it easier for the giant food companies, which often use synthetic substances in processing, to enter the organic market.

Omega-News Collection 5. November 2005
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122809/