June 10, 2006

The Empire of Darkness Series #33: Blood and Gore

Hello everyone!

Once again after 10 days of gardening and other urgent work here, I could devote several hours preparing this huge 90 page compilation for you. As usual there is a lot of critically important info to be aware of if you are interested to learn a truer picture than what the miserably corrupted and misleading media are presenting us.

Till next time, or until we next meet in the spiritual realm during tomorrow's vital Meditation Focus...

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator


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"The once proud US Marines, unable to defeat the resistance that is picking them off one by one, is now a frustrated, demoralized force that is getting even by murdering 3-month-old babies and old women."

— Paul Craig Roberts -- Taken from War Criminal Nation below


"Despite their disputed success in the 2004 elections, Bush the Younger and his Republican compadres have the lowest approval ratings of any administration in the last fifty years. The disconnect between America's political, corporate and media elite and the common people is so great that parallels with Brezhnev's Soviet Union are no longer far-fetched. In Brezhnev's time, the Soviet elite refused to face reality about the limits of Soviet power. The economic health of the country was sacrificed on the altar of the military-industrial complex. The ruble became a global joke. Environmental concerns and provision for basic necessities of the people were luxuries the Soviet elite felt they could no longer afford. Today, the American elite refuses to face reality about a number of critical problems facing the Imperium. The end of cheap oil is coming. Global warming is upon us. Families and the nation are deeply in debt. The dollar is sliding amid talk of a more truly multi-currency global monetary system. America's health care system is broken. Social Security is under attack by the government itself. America is waging war on its own elders. Rising inequality is creating a two-class society similar to the sharply divided societies of the Soviet Union or Latin American Banana Republics. Evidence of American incompetence is mounting everywhere one looks, and although America appears to be the invincible world hegemon, there are disturbing parallels between America's current position and the waning days of the Soviet Empire. Under Brezhnev, the Soviet Union waged a disastrous war in Afghanistan that undermined Soviet pretensions to military invulnerability, cast the Soviet army as a an Imperial aggressor, and set the world's billions of Muslims against Soviet rule everywhere. Under Bush, America is waging a disastrous war in Afghanistan and Iraq that is undermining American pretensions to military invulnerability, casting the American army as an Imperial aggressor, and setting the world's billions of Muslims against American interests everywhere."

— Curtis Lang - Taken from Bush & Brezhnev: Separated at Birth?


"Any economic system based upon greed rather than the public good and the ruthless exploitation of nature is not only wrong, it is a prescription for disaster. Capitalism not only embodies this self destructive ideology, it depends upon endless growth (the ideology of the cancer cell) for its continuation. Endless growth, regardless how well it is managed, is an ecological impossibility on a finite planet. Thus the perceived success of capitalism is short-lived at best. Because it is based upon a cycle of voracious consumption and waste, capitalism will inevitably collapse. This is not idle speculation or wishful thinking on my part; it is a mathematical certainty based upon the most elementary precepts of ecological science. Meanwhile, the ecological consequences of unbridled capitalism will be dire. The collapse of the world’s great ecosystems, driven by capital’s insatiable lust for material wealth, is already well under way and is almost certainly irreversible. To continue down this path will surely make things orders of magnitudes worse than if we change direction and begin to live responsibly and sustainably. Combined with a human population explosion, the growth of highly industrialized cultures driven by capitalism’s ceaseless quest for raw materials, new markets, cheap labor and higher profits, we are witnessing the systematic and wanton destruction of the biosphere in exchange for capital."

— Charles Sullivan - Taken from Sacred Ecology and Capitalism


Worthy of Your Attention

Full Moon in Gemini
http://www.satyacenter.com/festival-of-goodwill-2006
(...) The Moon is Full at the 21st degree of Sagittarius on June 11, 2006, 2:03 p.m. EDT, and conjunct dark Pluto and the Galactic Center. Pluto in Sagittarius supports the transformation of our culture’s most basic belief structures. When Pluto is conjunct the moon, which is the seat of our personal subconscious beliefs, and also the Galactic Center, the time is ripe for a total shift in consciousness, a transformation of personal and cultural values on the broadest possible scale. (...) Join this global full moon meditation to align with the Forces of Reconstruction on World Invocation Day. This is the last of the three major planetary festivals which occur in the spring and are celebrated around the world by students and teachers from all spiritual traditions. Every year, since 1952, people in all parts of the world have celebrated World Invocation Day on the day of the Gemini full moon. It is a global day of prayer and meditation when people of different spiritual paths join in a universal appeal to divinity, using the Great Invocation. (...) By tuning in to this matrix of light and consciousness on June 11, and by consciously focusing our intent to unite our energies with all individuals of good will around the world during a day of global meditation, humanity opens a door into the spiritual world, through which the many Ascended Masters of the Wisdom Schools both East and West can pour blessings and specific guidance appropriate to the time and place and situation of each and every person taking part in World Invocation Day. CLIP

GREAT Sarah McLaughlin Video
http://www.worldonfire.ca/
Standing ovation to Sarah McLaughlin for her spirit, generosity and profound gift of education to her public. Recommended by "Rayah Rowswell" OziRayah@optusnet.com.au>

This Land is Your Land
http://www.earthaction.org/engl/index.html


CONTENTS

1. Important info re draft bill
2. War Criminal Nation
3. THE IRAQ WAR ITSELF IS AN ATROCITY
4. Movie Alert: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
5. Review of An Inconvenient Truth
6. Lights, Camera, Al Gore!
7. MILITARY LEADERS MUTINYING
8. The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi
9. Unreported: The Zarqawi Invitation
10. Shadowy group meets amid secrecy in Ottawa à
11. Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg
12. Nexus Points Emerge For Potential Summer Attack
13. Condemning Zionism is crucial to world peace, and essential to peace in the Muslim and Arab world
14. U.S. should scrap missile defence plan, Blix says
15. Russia, China Warn of Space Arms Race
16. The Deadliest War In The World
17. Hamas military wing calls off Israel truce
18. Genetically modified crops highly toxic to humans - insects seem to thrive on them
19. Riveting UFO Footage on Free Sci-Fi Channel Documentary


See also:

Bush says Iran has "weeks not months" to respond (June 9, 2006)
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-06-09T151645Z_01_WAT005784_RTRUKOC_0_US-NUCLEAR-IRAN-BUSH.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Friday that Iran has "weeks not months" to respond to a U.S.-backed offer aimed at containing Iran's nuclear ambitions and said Tehran needs to suspend uranium enrichment. Bush said if Iran does not suspend enrichment, "there must be a consequence" and that it would be action taken in the U.N. Security Council. "We have given the Iranians a limited period of time, weeks not months," to respond to an offer for an incentives package for Iran to ensure it does not pursue nuclear weapons, said Bush.

Return of the Petri Dish Warriors: A New Biowar Arms Race Begins in Maryland
http://www.counterpunch.com/zeese06012006.html
The United States has come along way since our British ancestors used small pox poisoned blankets as a biological weapon against Indians.  But, sadly, biological weapons are still with us - -indeed they are becoming a major thrust of the U.S. military and a threat to humanity.Ft. Detrick in Frederick, MD, just 45 miles away from the nation's capitol, is going through a massive expansion into the largest bio-weapons facility in the world.  The federal government is installing a 220 acre campus that will bring together numerous federal agencies anchored by a massive U.S. Army building--22 acres in size.  The National Interagency Biodefense Campus (NIBC) is likely to ignite a bio-weapons arms race. Expansion of Bio-Weapons Activity Will Make America, and the World, Less SafeNot only is this a multi-billion dollar misuse of federal funds, but it will encourage our adversaries to develop similar programs, lead to the invention of new, infectious agents and increase the risk of diversion of U.S. made bio-weapons to our adversaries.  If the government really want to increase the safety of Americans, the U.S. would invest in the public health system, strengthen international controls and work to remove pathogens from the face of the earth, rather than creating new ones. CLIP

Council of Europe calls on European countries to stop renditions (07/06/2006)
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGEUR010102006
Amnesty International welcomes the strong, clear signal that the Council of Europe has sent to European governments and the USA in today's report. It makes clear that the renditions 'spider web' that the USA has woven outside the rule of law is "contrary to basic legal principles" -- involving as it does 'disappearances', arbitrary detention, illegal transfers and torture or other ill-treatment. The report confirms Amnesty International's findings that several cases of rendition occurred with the involvement or co-operation of Council of Europe member states. It also provides additional information about the possible location of sites of secret detention in Romania and Poland. This puts the onus on the Romanian and Polish authorities to conduct thorough and independent investigations without any further delay.The Council of Europe's recommendations echo Amnesty International's own calls. In particular, the USA and European states must put an end to renditions and must conduct independent and thorough investigations into the practice. They must ensure accountability of their own and foreign intelligence services. Amnesty International also calls on the US and the states in Europe and any other states that have been implicated in renditions or held people in secret detention to ensure reparation to the victims of these grave human rights violations. The disturbing facts gathered in Dick Marty's report underscore the need for states to respect and ensure human rights in any measures they take to prevent terrorism. Doing otherwise, as Dick Marty's report says, serves "to strengthen those who aim to destroy the established political, legal and social order". As Dick Marty himself has suggested, the search for the truth about the rendition practice and secret detention cannot and should not end with the publication of his findings. The USA and European states must carry out thorough investigations and must provide full disclosure to the Council of Europe and EU Parliament. Further information : Stop 'rendition' and secret detention

Europe Colluded in CIA Prisoner "Spider's Web"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706K.shtml
The full extent of European collusion with the CIA during operations to abduct terrorism suspects and fly them to countries where they may be tortured is laid bare today by the continent's most authoritative human rights body. Several states have allowed the agency to snatch their own residents, others have offered extensive logistical support, while many have turned a blind eye, according to the Council of Europe.

We need to act against rendition http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mark_pallis/2006/06/rendition.html

Psychologists and Physicians Involved in Torture at Guantanamo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706E.shtml
Psychologists, physicians and psychiatrists, called "consultants," give interrogators information that helps them to increase the discomfort, stress or ill-treatment of detainees, giving tacit approval that allows harsher treatment.

Bush Is "Renegade Rightwing Extremist"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1786442,00.html
Al Gore has made his sharpest attack yet on the George Bush presidency, describing the current US administration as "a renegade band of rightwing extremists."

Media Crimes Sanitize War Crimes in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060206A.shtml
Danny Schechter writes, "As events in Iraq continue to slip from bad to worse, the good news brigade is scrambling for new stories ('anything, give me anything') to shore up what's left of public support for a bloody war without end."

Officer at Fort Lewis calls Iraq war illegal, refuses order to go
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003044627_nogo7m.html
In a rare case of officer dissent, a Fort Lewis Army lieutenant has refused orders to head out to Iraq this month to lead troops in what he believes is an illegal war of occupation. 1st Lt. Ehren Watada's Stryker brigade is scheduled to make its first deployment to Iraq this month. His refusal to accompany these troops puts him at risk of court-martial and years of prison time."I feel that we have been lied to and betrayed by this administration, "Watada said Tuesday in a telephone interview from Fort Lewis. "It is the duty, the obligation of every soldier, and specifically the officers, to evaluate the legality, the truth behind every order -- including the order to go to war." In making his decision, Watada has reached out to peace groups, including clergy, students, some veterans opposed to Iraq and others. Some war critics are raising money for his legal defense as they seek to galvanize broader opposition to Bush administration policy in Iraq. (...) Watada's actions also may become a lightning rod for others in the debate about the Iraq war. CLIP

Thirty Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest: The Tangled Web of American "Intelligence"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106P.shtml
"From such a tangled web of intelligence organizations, fighting for turf, squirreling away money in black accounts, running covert operations (not to speak of secret prisons and interrogations, kidnappings and assassinations), surveilling everyone in hearing or sight, and monitoring the universe, undoubtedly comes a tangled mass of information, however computerized, beyond the ken of any set of human beings," writes Tom Engelhardt.

FBI says, "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11"
http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html
(...) It shouldn't take long before the full meaning of these FBI statements start to prick your brain and raise your blood pressure. If you think the way I think, in quick order you will be wrestling with a barrage of very powerful questions that must be answered. First and foremost, if the U.S. government does not have enough hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to "smoke him out of his cave?" The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to "root out" Bin Laden and the Taliban. Through the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush Administration told the American people that Usama Bin Laden was Public Enemy Number One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001. Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. CLIP

500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet to Seek the Truth of 9/11
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html
Recommended by Fred Burks fredburks@earthlink.net> who wrote: "The New York Times has written a powerful article on the 9/11 truth movement—the first major newspaper to do so! The revealing article below covers the recent 9/11 truth convention held in Chicago and attended by over 500 people dedicated to the 9/11 movement. This breakthrough article even links from the New York Times website to http://www.911truth.org, which is about the best 9/11 website out there, and to Prof. Steven Jones detailed analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centers. The truth is coming out! For an excellent summary of 9/11 truth issues filled with verifiable information, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/9-11cover-up10pg. Together, we are building a critical mass which will usher in a brighter future for us all!"

Rummy Announced $2.3 Trillion Missing (9/10/01)
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2001/s20010910-secdef.html

Interview of film maker Aaron Russo on his documentary "America--Freedom To Fascism". This is a very powerful and timely message.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5291973427234326281&q=freedom+to+fascism

AMERICA: FROM FREEDOM TO FASCISM
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
The scariest goddamn film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered. Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would advise movie theatre managers to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one." --- Todd David Schwartz, CBS

Toronto Star: 'Perhaps Toronto 17 Not Terrorists At All' (June 7 2006)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/070606notterrorists.htm
The Toronto Star postulates that the 17 alleged terrorists accused of plotting to bomb city landmarks may not be terrorists at all. In an op-ed, Thomas Walkom chronicles the history of Canadian terror arrests and how in every case the supposed evidence against the accused has always evaporated. The piece also highlights the alarming absence of bullet proof evidence to suggest the Toronto suspects were plotting anything at all. (...) Developments today have centered around the bizarre assertion that the 17 suspects, 5 of whom are teenagers, planned to storm the Canadian parliament and behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper, accusations labelled as absurd by defence lawyers. One of the lawyers is quoted as saying,"whether you're in Ottawa or Toronto or Crawford, Texas, or Washington, D.C., what is wanting to be instilled in the public is fear". Another commented that there was, "little evidence after two years of investigation," against the suspects. As Kurt Nimmo discusses, the government has already changed their story as the fraudulent nature of the whole charade is exposed. CLIP

Canadian 'Terror Plot' Begins To Unravel (June 6 2006)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/060606terrorplot.htm
Terrorists set up in sting operation, more on unfounded London raid - Just as predicted, the frightening plot to bomb high profile targets in Toronto and the arrest of 17 alleged terror suspects has all the hallmarks of yet another invented nightmare intended to scare western populations into quelling their dissent of the empire. From a manufactured scheme to attack the Library Tower in LA to the British government's hoax Canary Wharf and Ricin terror conspiracies - every major alert or mass arrest since 9/11 has proven to be a fraudulent movie script with no basis in reality. As the credibility of Friday's London terror raid collapses, so does its counterpart in Canada with the news that the arrests were a sting operation in which, "The Royal Canadian Mounted Police itself delivered three tons of potential bomb-making material," to the alleged terrorists according to the Associated Press. (...) The story also coincides with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's Senate demand for more funding to fight terrorism. It is hardly beyond the pale to suggest that this is another imaginary nightmare dreamt up in order to scare Canadian politicians into rubber stamping a giant cash cow. CLIP

US Concentration Camps?
http://www.virushead.net/vhrandom/2006/05/16/us-concentration-camps/
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was awarded a $385 million 1-year contract (with 4 1-year options) from the Department of Homeland Security to establish “temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”“We are especially gratified to be awarded this contract,” an executive vice president, Bruce Stanski, said in a statement, “because it builds on our extremely strong track record in the arena of emergency management support.” It’s amazing someone can stand up and say something like that, given the historical facts. Sigh.So, the question is, why do we need concentration camps in the US, and who’s really gonna sit in them??Terrorists? Immigrants to be deported? Victims of natural (or unnatural) events? Poor people? Old people? Whoever doesn’t sign up for the drug benefit written by the insurance industry? (the last a lame attempt at humor, sorry) American citizens culled for one of the rapidly-developing “new programs”? What kind of programs require major expansion of detention centers, each capable of holding 5,000 people? Let’s ask the Bush administration exactly what it means by the “rapid development of new programs,” which might require the construction of a new network of detention / labor / concentration camps across the United States!“Almost certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11 for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters,” says Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who in 1971 released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of its activities in Vietnam. “They’ve already done this on a smaller scale, with the ’special registration’ detentions of immigrant men from Muslim countries, and with Guantanamo.” Peter Dale Scott, author of Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina, suggests that it could be a preparation for conditions of martial law, and notes that a multimillion program for detention facilities “will greatly increase NORTHCOM’s ability to respond to any domestic disorders.” CLIP

Ameriraq - The New Colonial Frontier (June 3, 2006)
http://rense.com/general71/cctro.htm
The United States is now building a striking diplomatic complex on the bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad. It is more than a mere replacement for the traditionally modest US Embassy in that city. When finished, it will cost more than a billion dollars and consist of 104 acres of grounds, offices, living quarters, eating places, athletic clubs and community facilities. Reminiscent of 19th century "international settlements" such as in Shanghai, China, the new "Embassy" will be a completely self-contained enclave, the largest and most elaborate the United States will have anywhere in the world. The plot of ground reportedly was ceded to the United States for this purpose, although it is not clear whether the US paid for the site. Under normal diplomatic protocols, that means the entire facility will be US territory, self-powered, self-watered, self-sanitized, surrounded by high walls and blast-deflecting berms, protected by American security personnel, and subject only to US laws. Only selected Iraqis will ever see the inside of it. CLIP

Bush Links Energized Enron
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106K.shtml
"The Bush Family consistently acted to put Enron and its longtime CEO Ken Lay into a position to rip off investors and taxpayers," writes Robert Scheer. "Why is the mass media ignoring that fact now that Lay has been convicted in arguably the most egregious example of white-collar fraud in US history?"

Anti-War Protests Continue at Port of Olympia
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106Y.shtml
Anti-war protesters gathered Wednesday at the Port of Olympia to demonstrate against a 950-foot military cargo ship bound for Iraq. Crowds were small early in the day, but were expected to grow amid rumors that the ship was leaving Wednesday evening. Twenty-two people were arrested Tuesday and police pepper-sprayed a handful of protesters who pulled down a port fence.

The Threat of Depleted uranium Exposure - It’s Real, Deadly and Covered Up by the Pentagon and VA
http://www.bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=12128
(...) There’s a problem with these weapons, however - a serious downside never discussed and which great pains are taken to conceal. These weapons in all their forms leave in their wake an irremediable irradiated and chemically toxic landscape far more deadly than the death and destruction to the targets struck. How deadly and toxic the fallout is varies only with the amount of these weapons used. Hundreds of tons of them were used beginning for the first time in the Gulf war in 1991. A likely similar amount was used again in Yugoslavia in 1999 and up to 1,000 or more tons so far in Afghanistan since 2001. Any use of these weapons is reckless and was effectively banned by common consent (and common sense) and never used until 1991 in Iraq (except for that one test). However, their usage ballooned in successive wars to over 3,000 tons so far since the US introduced them on a large and sustained scale again in Iraq in March, 2003.Put in perspective, since first used in 1991, the US military has willfully and criminally spread deadly toxic radiation across a vast area of three countries as well as everywhere else affected by the fallout. It’s caused permanent irremediable contamination with a half-life of 4.5 billion years or forever by my reckoning.One more important fact is these numbers increase daily as since last December US forces have been conducting four to six daily bombings of target sites in Iraq alone that we know about using DU munitions and an unknown likely less frequent number in Afghanistan. CLIP

UN Says Iran Not an Immediate Nuclear Threat
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106L.shtml
Iran does not pose an immediate nuclear threat, and the world must act cautiously to avoid repeating mistakes made with Iraq and North Korea, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency said on Tuesday.

SPIEGEL Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (May 30, 2006)
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,418660,00.html
In an interview with SPIEGEL, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discusses the Holocaust, the future of the state of Israel, mistakes made by the United States in Iraq and Tehran's nuclear conflict with the West. (...) SPIEGEL: Denying the Holocaust is punishable in Germany. Are you indifferent when confronted with so much outrage?
Ahmadinejad: I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it? (...) We don't want to confirm or deny the Holocaust. We oppose every type of crime against any people. But we want to know whether this crime actually took place or not. If it did, then those who bear the responsibility for it have to be punished, and not the Palestinians. Why isn't research into a deed that occurred 60 years ago permitted? After all, other historical occurrences, some of which lie several thousand years in the past, are open to research, and even the governments support this. (...) Five million Palestinians have not had a home for 60 years. It is amazing really: You have been paying reparations for the Holocaust for 60 years and will have to keep paying up for another 100 years. Why then is the fate of the Palestinians no issue here? (...) One-hundred and thirty-nine countries, including us, are members of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA) in Vienna. Both the statutes of IAEA and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as well as all security agreements grant the member countries the right to produce nuclear fuel for peaceful purposes. That is the legitimate legal right of any people. Beyond this, however, IAEA was also established to promote the disarmament of those powers that already possessed nuclear weapons. And now look at what's happening today: Iran has had an excellent cooperation with IAEA. We have had more than 2,000 inspections of our plants, and the inspectors have obtained more than 1,000 pages of documentation from us. Their cameras are installed in our nuclear centers. IAEA has emphasized in all its reports that there are no indications of any irregularities in Iran. That is one side of this matter. CLIP - This was forwarded by "Mark Graffis" mgraffis@gmail.com> who also mentioned the following "bombshell" - which I saw for the first time - probably as an indication of where Ahmadinejad could be deriving his doubts about the true extent of the holocaust.

A 'FACTUAL' APPRAISAL OF THE HOLOCAUST BY THE RED CROSS (Jan. 28, 2005)
http://thunderbay.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/18220.php
There is one survey of the Jewish question in Europe during World War Two and the conditions of Germany's concentration camps which is almost unique in its honesty and objectivity, the three-volume Report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on its Activities during the Second World War, Geneva, 1948. This comprehensive account from an entirely neutral source incorporated and expanded the findings of two previous works: Documents sur l'activité du CICR en faveur des civils détenus dans les camps de concentration en Allemagne 1939-1945 (Geneva, 1946), and Inter Arma Caritas: the Work of the ICRC during the Second World War (Geneva, 1947). The team of authors, headed by Frédéric Siordet, explained in the opening pages of the Report that their object, in the tradition of the Red Cross, had been strict political neutrality, and herein lies its great value. The ICRC successfully applied the 1929 Geneva military convention in order to gain access to civilian internees held in Central and Western Europe by the Germany authorities. By contrast, the ICRC was unable to gain any access to the Soviet Union, which had failed to ratify the Convention. The millions of civilian and military internees held in the USSR, whose conditions were known to be by far the worst, were completely cut off from any international contact or supervision. The Red Cross Report is of value in that it first clarifies the legitimate circumstances under which Jews were detained in concentration camps, i.e. as enemy aliens. (...) In dealing with this comprehensive, three-volume Report, it is important to stress that the delegates of the International Red Cross found no evidence whatever at the camps in Axis occupied Europe of a deliberate policy to exterminate the Jews. In all its 1,600 pages the Report does not even mention such a thing as a gas chamber. It admits that Jews, like many other wartime nationalities, suffered rigours and privations, but its complete silence on the subject of planned extermination is ample refutation of the Six Million legend. Like the Vatican representatives with whom they worked, the Red Cross found itself unable to indulge in the irresponsible charges of genocide which had become the order of the day. So far as the genuine mortality rate is concerned, the Report points out that most of the Jewish doctors from the camps were being used to combat typhus on the eastern front, so that they were unavailable when the typhus epidemics of 1945 broke out in the camps (Vol. I, p. 204 ff) - Incidentally, it is frequently claimed that mass executions were carried out in gas chambers cunningly disguised as shower facilities. Again the Report makes nonsense of this allegation. "Not only the washing places, but installations for baths, showers and laundry were inspected by the delegates. They had often to take action to have fixtures made less primitive, and to get them repaired or enlarged" (Vol. III, p. 594). (...) Volume III of the Red Cross Report, Chapter 3 (I. Jewish Civilian Population) deals with the "aid given to the Jewish section of the free population," and this chapter makes it quite plain that by no means all of the European Jews were placed in internment camps, but remained, subject to certain restrictions, as part of the free civilian population. This conflicts directly with the "thoroughness" of the supposed "extermination programme", and with the claim in the forged Höss memoirs that Eichmann was obsessed with seizing "every single Jew he could lay his hands on." CLIP - This is of course VERY controversial. I recommend checking also what Wikipedia has on this issue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust#Holocaust_denial and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust and then this from the ICRC website...

ICRC in WW II: the Holocaust - A brief account of events related to the holocaust and to ICRC activities during the Second World War (2-02-2005)
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList418/359CC4EF8A1E5C72C1256B66005B2171
(...) Apart from the work of Friedrich Born in Hungary and a few sporadic instances elsewhere, the ICRC's efforts to assist Jews and other groups of civilians persecuted during the Second World War were a failure. By taking part in the 1995 ceremony to commemorate the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Cornelio Sommaruga, sought to show that the organization was fully aware of the gravity of the Holocaust and the need to keep the memory of it alive, so as to prevent any repetition of it. He paid tribute to all those who had suffered or lost their lives during the war and publicly regretted the past mistakes and shortcomings of the Red Cross with regard to the victims of the concentration camps.

See also this refutation of the whole article denying the holocaust...
http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/people/l/lipstadt.deborah/ftp.py?people/l/lipstadt.deborah//citations/red-cross.report
(...) The Red Cross was absolutely specific about the Jews' fate. It made reference to the Nazi attempt to annihilate them, observing that under Nazi rule Jews had been transformed into 'outcasts condemned by rigid racial legislation to suffer tyranny, persecution and systematic extermination.' ...Most important, the ICRC specifically delineated how systematic annihilation was carried out: 'They were penned into concentration camps and ghettos, recruited for forced labour, subjected to grave brutalities and sent to death camps without anyone being allowed to intervene in those matters.' These were not the ICRC's only references to death camps or systematic annihilation." (Lipstadt, 114-115)

“Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951” - Federal Documents
http://www.nhgazette.com/cgi-bin/NHGstore.cgi?user_action=detail&catalogno=NN_Bush_Nazi_2
After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal. Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators. (...) So why are the documents relevant today?"The story of Prescott Bush and Brown Brothers Harriman is an introduction to the real history of our country," says L.A. art book publisher and historian Edward Boswell. "It exposes the money-making motives behind our foreign policies, dating back a full century. The ability of Prescott Bush and the Harrimans to bury their checkered pasts also reveals a collusion between Wall Street and the media that exists to this day." Sheldon Drobny, a Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist who will soon launch a liberal talk radio network, says the importance of the new documents is that they prove a long pattern of Bush family war profiteering that continues today via George H.W. Bush's intimate relationship with the Saudi royal family and the bin Ladens, conducted via the super-secret Carlyle Group, whose senior advisers include former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III. CLIP

In Brazen Roundup, 56 Vanish From Baghdad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606O.shtml
Monday morning, gunmen in police uniforms and ski masks cordoned off a street in the Karkh neighborhood of central Baghdad and were swiftly shoving captives, four or five at a time, into a dozen waiting pickup trucks. Fifteen minutes later, the trucks were gone, and so were 56 people. (...) Monday's kidnappings did not appear to be motivated by sectarian rivalry, a witness said. "Among the passengers were Syrian businessmen, about five or six of them," Hasan Falah said. "There were also some passengers from Diwaniyah" - a predominantly Shiite city south of Baghdad- "and other parts of Iraq. There was no question of Shiite or Sunni because it was a whole mixture." That suggested that the people were simply taken for ransom, a lucrative business that has grown rapidly since U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein's government in 2003. CLIP

WISCONSIN BANS FORCED HUMAN RFID CHIPPING (June 1, 2006)
http://www.newswithviews.com/McIntyre/Liz6.htm
Civil libertarians cheered yesterday upon news that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle signed a law making it a crime to require an individual to be implanted with a microchip. Activists and authors Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre joined the celebration, predicting this move will spell trouble for the VeriChip Corporation, maker of the VeriChip human microchip implant. CLIP

Anger at Oil Chief's $400 Million Retirement Package
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106M.shtml
Investors and environmental campaigners condemned a $400 million retirement package for the boss of Exxon Mobil, the man known as the "Darth Vader of Global Warming," for his denial that carbon emissions cause climate change.

CHINA STARTS OIL DRILLING OFF FLORIDA (May 29, 2006)
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/china_starts_oil_drilling.html
WHILE AMERICA TWIDDLES THUMBS, CHINESE TAP BILLIONS OF BARRELS - While Washington dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves off the coast of Florida, China has seized the opportunity to gobble up these deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along the U.S. Gulf coast.The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West, Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making deals to sell his country's oil to China, oil that is currently coming to the United States. Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in Bolivia has nationalized the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United States. There are new reports out circulating that Chinese firms are planning to slant drill off the Cuban coast near the Florida Straits, tapping into U.S. oil reserves that are estimated at 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion barrels. This compares with 4 billion to 10 billion barrels believed to be beneath the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, where drilling is held up in Congress due to the objections of environmental groups which warn of endangering caribou. Permission to drill in the refuge, which experts are certain will not present any environmental hazard, has failed by just two votes in the Senate. As Chinese business increases its reach around the world, it is seeking oil, which it lacks domestically. After elections in Mexico in early July, when a new regime hostile to Washington is expected to take power, the United States might be without supplies of Mexican crude oil. The United States gets about 40 percent of its imported oil from Mexico and Venezuela. China is eager to tap into oil reserves in the Florida Straits and then make a deal with Castro to control it. The Chinese have already reopened an abandoned Russian oil refinery in Cuba. Much of the gas refined there is believed to be destined for Freeport in the Bahamas, where the Chinese, through front company Hutchison-Whampoa, has developed a massive port facility and airfield. With the refinery reopened and expanded it will also meet the needs of Castro. Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has introduced legislation to ease U.S. restrictions that prevent dealing with Cuba to drill in the Florida Straits. It is hoped that Florida regulations that prevent U.S. oil drilling off the state's coasts could also be eased. The irony is that Chinese drilling could be even more of an environmental hazard since China is not as concerned about or equipped to deal with any potential ecological disaster as a result of a spill, said Craig.

Police torture captured on tape; 5 deputies go to prison (April 24, 2006)
http://justiceanddrugs.blogspot.com/2006/04/police-torture-captured-on-tape-5.html
On July 8, 2004, five police officers -- sheriff's deputies, auxiliary police, local police -- went to the home of Eugene Siler, in Campbell County, northwest of Knoxville, Tennessee, ostensibly to arrest him for a probation violation. Siler's wife and son were in the home, and were allowed to leave. Before Mrs. Siler left, she surreptitiously turned on a tape recorder. The recording, which you can hear from a link from the Knoxville News Sentinel, or the excellent, 60-page transcript which law enforcement made of the recording, reveal police officers systematically torturing Siler. On almost every page of the transcript is an indication of Siler being beaten. They threaten to break his finges. The officers get a car battery charger and hook it up to his testicles and his nose. They threaten to shoot him.After Siler complained, the officers lied about the beating -- until word of the tape recording came out.All of the officers have been sentenced to multi-year terms in federal prison.(...) This case is an aberration, of course, but since such recordings are rare it is hard to assess how common aberration this behavior is. But a reading of Drug War Chronicle's Corrupt Cop of the Week column demonstrates that this behavior occurs nationwide.

US Troops Kill Pregnant Woman in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106N.shtml
US forces killed two Iraqi women - one of them about to give birth - when the troops shot at their car, which failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad.

New 'Iraq massacre' tape emerges (2006/06/01)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/5039420.stm
The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. The video appears to challenge the US military's account of events that took place in the town of Ishaqi in March. The US said at the time four people died during a military operation, but Iraqi police claimed that US troops had deliberately shot the 11 people. A spokesman for US forces in Iraq told the BBC an inquiry was under way. The new evidence comes in the wake of the alleged massacre in Haditha, where US marines are suspected of massacring up to 24 Iraqi civilians in November 2005. The video pictures obtained by the BBC appear to contradict the US account of the events in Ishaqi, about 100km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on 15 March 2006. The US authorities said they were involved in a firefight after a tip-off that an al-Qaeda supporter was visiting the house. According to the Americans, the building collapsed under heavy fire killing four people - a suspect, two women and a child. But a report filed by Iraqi police accused US troops of rounding up and deliberately shooting 11 people in the house, including five children and four women, before blowing up the building.The video tape obtained by the BBC shows a number of dead adults and children at the site with what our world affairs editor John Simpson says were clearly gunshot wounds. The pictures came from a hardline Sunni group opposed to coalition forces. It has been cross-checked with other images taken at the time of events and is believed to be genuine, the BBC's Ian Pannell in Baghdad says.

Haditha Inquiry Finds Attempted Cover-Up
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106J.shtml
The US military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have caught their attention.

US Commanders Knew Haditha Deaths From Gunfire
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060306Y.shtml
Marine commanders in Iraq knew within two days of the killings in Haditha in November that gunfire, not a roadside bomb, had killed Iraqi civilians but they saw no reason to investigate further, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Americans Fired Into Crowd, Afghan Says
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106O.shtml
American soldiers involved in a vehicle crash here on Monday that set off rioting then fired into the crowd of protesters and killed four people, according to the chief of the highway police in Kabul, Gen. Amanullah Gozar, who saw the accident.

Baghdad Morgue Reports Record Figures for May
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406E.shtml
New Iraqi government documents show that, excluding the nearly daily bombings, more Baghdad residents died in shootings, stabbings and other violence in May than in any other month since the US-led invasion in 2003.

Afghanistan, Unraveling
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106K.shtml
Poorly thought-out American policies are at least partly to blame for Afghanistan's rising carnage.

Manipulation of Votes in Elections Questioned in Key Newsweek Article
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060527electionsvotesmanipulations
"Experts are calling them the most serious voting-machine flaws ever documented. It requires only a few minutes of pre-election access to a Diebold machine to open the machine and insert a PC card that, if it contained malicious code, could reprogram the machine to give control to the violator. The machine could go dead on Election Day or throw votes to the wrong candidate. Worse, it's even possible for such ballot-tampering software to trick authorized technicians into thinking that everything is working fine, an illusion you couldn't pull off with pre-electronic systems." CLIP

Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060106R.shtml
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. writes about how in the 2004 election Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put John Kerry in the White House.

Stand Up for Democracy With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060606E.shtml
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a brilliant new article about the biggest political story in the history of the United States: An American politician illegitimately took the office of president by outright theft and fraud," writes Thom Hartmann.

As Darfur War Rages On, Disease and Hunger Kill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106T.shtml
The brutal war in Darfur has set off what the United Nations has called the "world's worst humanitarian crisis" - a crucible of death that seems to grow grimmer despite a new peace agreement. But bullets are not killing most people here now - pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria are. And the clinics set up to treat the 35,000 people displaced by the conflict are out of money.

Fear and Mistrust as People of Darfur Turn Against Peacekeepers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060706G.shtml
Analysts say the Darfur force should be doubled in size, with the power to protect returning refugees and to disarm militia. Yet the western nations that sponsor Amis have made an increase all but impossible by holding back funding. Some soldiers have not been paid for three months.

9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda - Los Angeles June 24-25
http://69.93.122.250/%7Eamerican/
This is guaranteed to be unlike any other conference of its kind - the first one ever presented by Alex Jones, a progenitor of the 9/11 Truth Movement who was the first speak out and challenge the government's official story of what happened on 9/11. Come and experience the biggest ever 9/11 conference - More highly respected speakers than any other, more amazing films than any other, plus special surprise guests. Come to learn, come to share and come to help each other create new strategies to defend the constitution and save the republic from the grip of its greatest enemy. CLIP

Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/WTC_STF.htm
(...) New York's Metals Management is among the firms taking steel from the huge project to clear Ground Zero. The company says it has bought 70,000 tons of scrap from the ruined twin towers. Some of the scrap has been shipped across the Pacific to Asian, including China and India. Among the consignments of scrap are the "very dense" steel girders from Ground Zero, which could finally yield 250,000 to 400,000 tons of scrap for recycling. (Details at http://english.cri.com.cn/english/2002/Jan/45327.htm) Imagine that! The largest criminal investigation in history and the investigators weren't even permitted to see the most important evidence of all - the steel! During the whole time that Saint Rudy the Recycler and Ratner the Rat were destroying evidence, many of the most respected engineers in the country openly complained not only about the recycling, but also about the Federal government's suffocating control of their investigation. On December 25, 2001, the New York Times ran a story about the frustrations of some of the engineers who were called in to study the cause of the collapse: Interviews with a handful of members of the team, which includes some of the nation's most respected engineers, also uncovered complaints that they had at various times been shackled with bureaucratic restrictions that prevented them from interviewing witnesses, examining the disaster site and requesting crucial information like recorded distress calls to the police and fire departments..." They made their concerns known publicly. Bill Manning, editor of the 125 year old Fire Engineering magazine, noticed a strange difference between the WTC investigation and other major fire investigations in New York City's past. Manning wrote: Did they throw away the locked doors from the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? Did they throw away the gas can used at the happy land social club fire?...That's what they're doing at the World Trade Center. The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately." One investigator told the New York Times: This is almost the dream team of engineers in the country working on this, and our hands are tied," said one team member who asked not to be identified. Members have been threatened with dismissal for speaking to the press. "FEMA is controlling everything," the team member said. Dr. Frederick W. Mowrer from the Fire Engineering department at the University of Maryland told the New York Times: "I find the speed with which important evidence has been removed and recycled to be appalling." (Details at http://www.rense.com/general18/firefighter.htm) CLIP

Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our Intestines
http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=67&i=493
Pioneer Hi-Bred's website boasts that their genetically modified (GM) Liberty Link corn survives doses of Liberty herbicide, which would normally kill corn. The reason, they say, is that the herbicide becomes "inactive in the corn plant." [2] They fail to reveal, however, that after you eat the GM corn, some inactive herbicide may become reactivated inside your gut and cause a toxic reaction. In addition, a gene that was inserted into the corn might transfer into the DNA of your gut bacteria, producing long-term effects. These are just a couple of the many potential side-effects of GM crops that critics say put the public at risk.Herbicide tolerance (HT) is one of two basic traits common to nearly all GM crops. About 71% of the crops are engineered to resist herbicide, including Liberty (glufosinate ammonium) and Roundup (glyphosate).  About 18% produce their own pesticide. And 11% do both. The four major GM crops are soy, corn, cotton and canola, all of which have approved Liberty- and Roundup-tolerant varieties. Herbicide tolerant (HT) crops are a particularly big money-maker for biotech companies, because when farmers buy HT seeds, they are required to purchase the companies‚ brand of herbicide as well. In addition, HT crops dramatically increase the use of herbicide, which further contributes to the companies‚ bottom line.There are no required safety tests for HT crops in the US˜if the biotech companies declare them fit for human consumption, the FDA has no further questions. But many scientists and consumers remain concerned, and the Liberty Link varieties pose unique risks. Liberty herbicide (also marketed as Basta, Ignite, Rely, Finale and Challenge) can kill a wide variety of plants. It can also kill bacteria, fungi and insects, and has toxic effects on humans and animals. CLIP

Fluoride Toxicity Damage
The recently released National Research Council report on fluoride now confirms what opponents to water fluoridation have been saying for over four decades. The extensive report reviewed all major studies on fluoride toxicity and concluded that fluoride was a major risk factor for a number of diseases and conditions, including cancer, diabetes, thyroid dysfunction, immune disruption, Down's syndrome, low IQ in children and brain injury. The effects on the brain were shocking, especially in small babies and children. Despite the just-released report, American Dental Association spokesmen were busy trying to force bottled water manufacturers to add fluoride to the already purified water. I recently saw a picture from the Bangor Daily News showing small children from a Maine elementary school lining up to take their daily dose of fluoride, as prescribed by school officials. This is absolutely criminal ÷ especially when you consider this: A new Harvard study published in the prestigious cancer journal Cancer Causes and Control clearly demonstrates that the present levels of fluoride added to drinking water enhance a fatal form of bone cancer (osteosarcoma) to five times normal rates when given to young boys. This confirms two other studies ÷ one by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and one by the New Jersey Health Department, which found that bone cancer incidence increased by six times in boys exposed to fluoridated drinking water. So who is behind this? Answer: super-phosphate fertilizer companies (fluoride is their major waste product), the American Dental Association (and its government backers), the CDC and the Forsyth Dental Institute. Much more on this through http://www.google.ca/search?hl=fr&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22Fluoride+Toxicity%22&meta=
Canada Pays Environmentally for US Oil Thirst
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106EC.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106EC.shtml
Huge mines here turning tarry sand into cash for Canada and oil for the United States are taking an unexpectedly high environmental toll, sucking water from rivers and natural gas from wells and producing large amounts of gases linked to global warming.

AIDS Pandemic Spreading to Every Corner of Globe, Says UN
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106HA.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/053106HA.shtml
With 65 million people infected worldwide, countries' response is "nowhere near adequate." Twenty five years after the first AIDS cases were reported, there is no sign of a halt to the pandemic which is likely to spread to every corner of the globe, the head of the United Nations' AIDS agency has said.

AIDS Groups Call UN Meeting a "Failure"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060406H.shtml
"As UNGASS +5 winds down, a coalition of over 70 civil society organizations from around the world are denouncing the meeting as a significant step back in the global fight against AIDS. The 2006 Declaration, which was ratified by the General Assembly on Friday, 'recognizes' that $20-23 billion are needed per year," but Richard Kim finds that the assembly "fails to set hard targets for funding, treatment, care or prevention."

Female Focus Needed to Stop AIDS, Say African and US Activists
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060206WA.shtml
In sub-Saharan Africa nearly 60 percent of those infected with AIDS are women; in Latin America and the Caribbean girls are nearly twice as likely as boys to become infected; and in the United States AIDS is now the leading cause of death for African American women ages 25-34.

More Than 100,000 Flee East Timor Homes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106F.shtml">http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/053106F.shtml
More than 100,000 residents of Dili have fled their homes to escape violence. Machete-wielding youths battled in East Timor's capital Wednesday amid burning and looting as Australian troops bolstered a force struggling to stop the unrest.

RUSSIANS HARNESS STAR POWER IN NEW BATTERY (May 27,2006)
http://www.zpenergy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1915
Russian scientists have invented a battery that can capture energy not only from the sun, but also from the stars, the head of a research institute at the Dubna Nuclear Institute, near Moscow, said. "The scientists have successfully created a new substance," Valentin Samoilov announced, "thanks to which this battery can work on earth, independently of meteorological conditions, using solar and stellar energy. "This is a battery like no other," Samoilov, who head's the Institute's center for applied research, told the Itar-Tass news agency, explaining that it could function 24 hours a day and was twice as effective as an ordinary solar panel at converting light into electricity. Moreover, Samoilov declared, the new battery was cheaper than a solar panel. Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news67796415.html

CloudSat system offers views of storms (June 9, 2006)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060609/ap_on_sc/cloudsat_photos;_ylt=Avif6S.qVviRDMQ5Zy8SCpWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM
FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The first images from a $217 million satellite project to measure the moisture content of clouds provided breathtaking views of storms on Earth, scientists said. "For the first time we're seeing inside the clouds," said Graeme Stephens, a Colorado State University atmospheric sciences professor and the principal investigator for the CloudSat project. "We can see tropical storms 15 kilometers deep organized on scales of thousands of kilometers across."CloudSat, a formation of five satellites launched April 28, was developed by CSU researchers in conjunction with other agencies to determine the moisture content of clouds, in the hope of developing long-term precipitation models. "We want to know how much water is in the sky so we can see how much water falls," Stephens said. The spacecraft are 438 miles above the Earth.Scientists activated the satellites' radar on Saturday and they took their first picture within 30 seconds, a cross-section of a warm storm front over the North Sea. Since then, CloudSat has captured images of snowfall over Antarctica and a storm over east AfricaThe Antarctic snowstorm pictures were the first ever taken during this time of year, when the continent is in darkness.Deborah Vane, deputy principal investigator at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said the project could help scientists make more accurate predictions about snow and rain and about the possible results if the climate changes. "Fresh water on this planet is a precious commodity and it comes from clouds," she said. "If we can better understand the process that controls precipitation in clouds, we can better understand the challenges we might face in the future." The project could also help with aviation and weather prediction, Stephens said."It can answer the question 'Why is it dry here and not dry somewhere else?' " he said.

Infant mortality rates drop around five US nuclear power reactors after reactors closed
http://sydney.indymedia.org/node/37289#comment-48755
WASHINGTON, Apr 26 (IPS) - Infant mortality rates around five US nuclear power reactors dropped almost immediately after the reactors closed, according to a new study released Wednesday on the 14th anniversary of theChernobyl nuclear disaster. Raising questions whether allowable emissions of ''low-level'' radiation from nuclear plants endanger nearby residents, the study has prompted calls forthe US government to begin considering adverse health effects associated with nuclear plants before renewing their operating licences. CLIP

Ten highest-radiation cell phones (United States)
http://msn-cnet.com.com/4520-6602_7-5020357-1.html
Please limit your talk time to extend your lifetime.

10 Lowest U.S. Models
http://msn-cnet.com.com/4520-6602_7-5020356-1.html?tag=arw

Tropical paradise - the North Pole
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/31/hot.arctic.ap/index.html?section=cnn_space

Bulldozing the Bottom of the Sea (June 5)
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0605-24.htm
It is a wonderfully clear expression, used by a U.S. biologist about the impact of bottom trawling. "Imagine using a bulldozer to catch songbirds for food — that's what it's like," marine biologist Sylvia Earle says. "After a trawler has gone by, it looks like a superhighway, it's just flat. Nobody's home. A few fish may swim in and out but the residents, those that occupy the substrate, they're just smothered, they're crushed. It's like paving them over." Perhaps it is the kind of comparison we should consider more often — after all, the oceans have been a case of out of sight, out of mind for far too long. We've dumped our sewage into the sea for generations, and have used it to dispose of everything from offshore drilling fluid to munitions. We have dragged bottom trawls back and forth across it so many times that it is — as it was earlier this year — a small miracle when scientists actually find an untouched area of bottom corals. CLIP

More Whale Slaughter Ahead?
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2128969/
The Japanese are still working to lift the ban on commercial whaling later this month. Below is a Greenpeace update on what's happening and how you can help. Nick For me, the oceans are fascinating, full of exotic and mysterious creatures – a world apart. But of all the creatures in the ocean, I’m not sure anything is more captivating and beautiful than a whale. And to me, nothing is as ugly or egregious as a whale slaughtered for profit. (...) Take Action Now Write to the governments of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and the Marshall Islands urging them to vote with the whales, not the whalers, at the upcoming IWC meeting. With the voting margins razor-thin this year, the Japanese have a good chance of winning a majority vote for the first time.This means that pro-whaling countries will control the agenda, and begin pushing to reopen commercial whaling.

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED COTTON KILLING SHEEP AND GOATS
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2139871/
In India's Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh, government officials have ordered an investigation into the deaths of hundreds of sheep and goats who appear to have been poisoned by eating genetically engineered (GE) cotton. "They just became very dull and lifeless and died," said one shepherd, Pendala Venkatamma. Sheep and goats regularly graze on traditional cotton, but after 4-5 days of eating Monsanto's genetically engineered bT cotton, the animals' stomachs swelled, and they died. CLIP Learn more: http://www.organicconsumers.org/2006/article_646.cfm

Brazil OKs Paving Amazon Road on Environment Day (06 June 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/060606EA.shtml
Brasilia, Brazil - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva gave the green light Monday to paving a controversial road through the Amazon rainforest, benefiting farmers and worrying environmentalists. Lula authorized paving a 975-mile section of the highway from Cuiaba to the Amazon River port of Santarem, a move that would bring Brazil's main center-west soybean belt closer to foreign export markets like Europe and Asia. The improvement of the road, now little more than a dirt track that washes out in seasonal rains, will help cut transport costs for grain exports. Currently, grains like soybeans are sent far to the south, where the main ports lie. However, environmentalists fear paving the road will speed the destruction of the world's largest rainforest by squatters, ranchers, loggers and soy farmers. The government said it is adopting strict environmental controls to help protect the rain forest and has created a "sustainable forestry reserve" of 19 million hectares around the road. "This project will show how we can be Brazilian without being predators, as foreigners often say about Brazil," Lula said during a ceremony marking World Environment Day. Lula generated great hopes among environmentalists by appointing fiery conservationist Marina Silva as his environment minister after coming to power in January 2003, but has since been criticized for doing too little to slow deforestation of the Amazon. In March, he approved a measure that will offer timber companies the chance to log 13 million hectares of Amazon jungle under a sustainable development plan.

Omega-News Collection 3. June 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2113013/

Omega-News Collection 10. June 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2148567/