October 13, 2006

George The Menace #3: Psychotic Fruitcakes Armed With Nuclear Weapons Seeking Urgent Therapy

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This compilation is definitely the largest I've ever sent out to this list - over 108 pages! That's what happens when I skip a week. Sorry for the huge lump of reading material.

On the other hand, if you have time to review some of what I've put together for you, you'll certainly find many valuable nuggets - that's how it feel to me every time I stumble upon some amazing stuff or simply read the voluminous email correspondence I constantly receive. So, of course, you'll read about North Korea, Iran, the continuing (and really horrendous!) carnage in Iraq, the infamous Foley scandal (only the mere tip of the paedophilia iceberg floating around DC), and some really amazing revelations (or confirmations depending on your level of knowledge) as you'll find in the transcript of a recent interview with 'Henry Deacon'. There are also some pretty uplifting spiritual messages for good measure. But before you start reading all this, I'd like to include here for your review - this is pretty IMPORTANT I feel - the addition I made a couple days ago the to welcome message that is automatically emailed by the listserver system to each new subscriber. Since most of you will probably never have an opportunity to see it otherwise, here it is right away...

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Trusting the innate divine abilities we all have and being the best we can be in everything will be the saving grace of this world.

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"My heartfelt thanks for your wisdom and insight that keep me knowing a kind and equitable world is possible."

- Suzanne Phillips lifeissacred@zianet.com>


"Again, dear Jean, thank you for your compilations. Somehow the Light shines so bright in you that you can compile the most sci-fi, terrible, unbelievable truths, and still convey the certainty that the Light shall prevail!"

- "Kathleen Beatty" akavibe@hotmail.com>


"The Light turned into the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen: a mandala of human souls on this planet. Now I came to this with my negative view of what has happened on the planet. So as I asked the light to keep clarifying for me, I saw in this magnificent mandala how beautiful we all are in our essence, our core. We are the most beautiful creations. The human soul, the human matrix that we all make together is absolutely fantastic, elegant, exotic, everything. I just cannot say enough about how it changed my opinion of human beings in that instant. I said, "Oh, God, I did not know how beautiful we are." At any level, high or low, in whatever shape you are in, you are the most beautiful creation, you are. I was astonished to find that there was no evil in any soul. I said "How can this be?" The answer was that no soul was inherently evil. The terrible things that happened to people might make them do evil things, but their souls were not evil. What all people seek, what sustains them, is love, the Light told me. What distorts people is a lack of love."

- Mellen-Thomas Benedict - Taken from "Truth or Bust" and recommended by Ed Elkin edelkin@aol.com


"The Democrats will not lead us out of Iraq. As heretical as this may sound, I am more afraid of the wrong Democrat winning the White House than I am the wrong Republican -- because then we will feel the need to support ‘our’ president, and his or her ‘difficult decisions’ on how to ‘do the right thing for Iraq’ and ‘withdraw with honor’. We will divide, and conquer ourselves. We know from Vietnam that there is no way to withdraw with honor from a corrupt war."

– Paul Haggis


"I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen Parker regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq. Having witnessed much of what is so well documented in this report, it is a clear and encompassing indictment of the Bush Administration for the war crimes they are directly responsible for in Iraq. Until evidence such as this begins to see the light of day in a court of law and the perpetrators brought to justice, the world remains unsafe and unstable from an administration determined to rule the world. After witnessing what they are capable of in Iraq, I have no doubt these people will not stop in their quest for world domination.? Instead, they must be stopped. And the only way to do that is bring the guilty to justice. This document will help achieve that goal." Click here to read the report in full [pdf]

- Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more than eight months reporting from occupied Iraq - Taken from http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htm


"After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone, in Iraq, during September 06, former Secretary of State James Baker III assured that the investigative panel he led had not spent any time wringing our hands over what mistakes might or might not have been created in the past. (NYT, September 20, 2006). The Consumers for Peace report on war crimes committed in Iraq helps us understand our responsibility not to wring our hands but rather to demand accountability from elected representatives by delivering this report to them and to local media. How many people killed? How many families torn apart? How many homes destroyed? How many livelihoods gone? How many lives ruined? How many cities sacrificed? We bear responsibility to end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for suffering caused, and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes committed. This report beckons all who read it to stop collaborating with illegal, immoral warmongers who recklessly afflict Iraq." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htm


"I charge that the government is engaged in immoral and criminal conduct on a global scale. That it does not conform to the norms of civil society; that it is sociopathic, and flagrantly violates domestic and international law. The form of government that we have does not serve the citizenry˜it preys upon them. It is not a government of the people, for the people. It is government of the corporations, for the corporations, by the corporations˜a corporate Plutocracy."

- Charles Sullivan -- Taken from The Assassins of Truth


"Light is shining on Earth more brightly than ever before in the current, multi-millennial epoch. Men and women all over the planet, from every nation, every religion, and every culture, are lovingly grounding this Light. It is not organizational; it is organic. It is the Light of a spiritual revolution that is changing the world forever, ushering in an unprecedented age of peace and prosperity for all. Yes, we are on the threshold of the Golden Age that has been promised throughout human history. Global societies, even with all of the technological advancements in our generation, have long lived in spiritual darkness and ignorance. Our religions, though based on nuggets of truth, contain many serious distortions of both God and Man. Our governments have not really been the benign influence many may have imagined. Together, religion and politics (which we have been told we are not supposed to talk about—more on that later) have attempted to control humanity for the benefit of those who sit at the top of the heap, so to speak. These have deceived, plundered, conspired, and used force to keep humanity in its place. They have mastered manipulation of entire populations through guilt and fear. Their “largeness” is maintained by convincing others they are too small and stupid to take control of their own lives, which, unfortunately, most humans readily accept as true. This Light that shines everywhere is revealing the distortions and misconceptions. Essentially, it is unmasking the puppet masters who have been pulling our strings for millennia. People are finally becoming able to see behind the curtains and into the ivory towers of those who have ruled by the so-called “divine right of kings” and priests. What is it that we are seeing? It’s even seeping into the mainstream news: gross corruption at the highest levels of government and religion. Our leadership is sick and out of touch; and they are desperately trying to maintain their illusion of control. Their charade is ending; and even force will not prevail against the Power of Truth manifest in and by the Light of Love. There will be no more hiding places as every secret abomination gets revealed."

- Ron Van Dyke -- Taken from UNMASKED (October 12, 2006) archived at http://www.metagroups.divinespectrum.net/Articles.html where you'll find several new recent articles including one on the Ho'oponopono healing method.


Worthy of Your Attention

Please Sign and Share This With Others - Imagine Peace for the World
http://www.worldpeacetreaty.com/
You are invited to join in a global effort to bring peace to the world. Please read, and if you can, sign the "World Peace Treaty". The "World Peace Treaty" belongs to the world. Please gather as many signatures as possible. We would like to take a global collective declaration of peace to the United Nations and the Hague. (...) This Treaty is a call to the People of the World to seek and affirm peace first and foremost to one another. It is intended to show all governments of the world that the instruments of war are no longer the sounds we will allow to be played. They must, for the sake of all creation, learn a new song. CLIP - Recommended by Joyce Kovelman asoul1@aol.com> Note from Jean: This, obviously, is a most cherished dream that may indeed come true if we all support it and embody peace in all that we are, feel, think, say and do. I signed this very simple "treaty" as a symbol of my allegiance to the legions of souls on Earth who want peace on Earth and are now co-creating this new emerging reality.

CNN News Video: Torture Bill Gives Bush Retroactive War Crimes Immunity (5 Oct)
http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/torture_bill_gives_bush_retroactive_war_crimes_immunity.htm

Another "Average American" Ready To Confront The New World Order Before It's Too Late
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/28-Feb-2006.html

America: Freedom to Fascism movie now available for free on the Internet
http://www.poodlecrap.com/Hateliars/HL_Video1.asp?Part=0
I met Aaron Russo at the Friday night showing. Because of the removal of the Right to Habeas Corpus, the government can now arrest you, in your home and without a warrant, and incarcerate you without honoring your request for a lawyer. You can disappear for as long as they wish to hold you and you have no recourse. Aaron said that due to this, his plan of theatre release will take too much time to get this film to the public so he will place it on the Internet for free. Good to his word, Aaron Russo has made the America: Freedom to Fascism movie available, free, on the Internet. Also, you will find on the same page, two other movies that will give insight on how our Republic and our Sovereignty has been compromised so that now we are on the brink of slavery to a one world dictatorship. This is a must see film and I urge you to take advantage of this opportunity. Recommended by Leonard Spade lspade@msn.com>

IBM, Verichip, and the Fourth Reich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2udoNmQkR4

The RFID Micro-chip Problem; No End in Sight
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=15616

U. K.'s Last 2006 Wheat Formation - A Mayan "Lamat"? (FASCINATING STUFF!)
http://earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=1151&category=Environment
(...) That day the moon, Earth, the Sun, the Pleiades will be aligned and we will be, according to the Mayans, in direct alignment with the center of our galaxy. For that reason, it is a very important astronomical day. We found that eclipse date in the 2005 Wayland’s Smithy formation. For that reason, my geologist friend, Calderon, considers that this Etchilhampton message is related to the message at Wayland’s Smithy. He is considering that Lamat is probably the sign of the change of the era, the end and beginning of the new era. According to codex information, the transition of the Lamat end of the big calendar will start with the solar eclipse on May 20, 2012. And we know that the calendar of the Mayan will finish in December. We also have to remember that we are moving toward a very big cycle of the Sun, the Solar Maximum. According to many scientists around the world, this one is going to be spectacular, very strong. We have to remember the Mayan prophecies told us that the Sun, would more or less take out of balance all the natural systems of the Earth. This would change the conditions of the Earth and our civilization. CLIP

A COSMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR DIVINE GOVERNMENT (For those who believe in this...)
http://www.1spirit.com/eraofpeace/1st.html
Note from Jean: I personally believe this very imaginative idea is bogus but, from the numerous forwards I got, apparently many people feel otherwise. See for yourself... More details below...

Missions 1017 (Posted Sept 13)
http://sethd8.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/mission-1017
A cosmic trigger event is occurring on the 17th of October 2006 - NUMEROUS comments posted there including this one...

"Hey … October 17 could be just another day like any other … but then again, maybe it won’t be. Does it REALLY matter if this started out as something “real” or not or just as someone’s imaginative idea of what would be nice to have happen? I don’t think the source of this idea does matter; what matters is HOW WE EACH FEEL INDIVIDUALLY ABOUT IT! If you believe that we manifest our own realities, then it certainly can’t hurt to spend some time sending out positive thoughts and wishes at the same time as a million other souls on Earth … and who knows, it just might help. I plan to put some extra effort into my thoughts, prayers, and blessings that day, just in case I can help a good thought become part of a great reality. After all, every little drop of Love adds to the ocean of support that keeps us all afloat."

and this one...

"Well, why don’t we create Mission 365.25?! That is, every single moment of our lives we live as though all is One, is Peace and is Love? I read a book by Walter Russell a while back, called the Universal One. Time is an illusion. The power of Love is at the neutral center, and it is from that point that twin cycles in nature commence. There would be no need to say “ok, it’s gonna be 17th October, I’m gonna send out a UV beam”. Some people know that they can make a name for themselves by preaching peace and love, and by securing a little slice of the action by having a channelled message and getting people to believe it. We want to believe because we all want a change. Let’s make it from that place we are all One, the neutral center, and then apply it to the fullness of the cycles, all year round. Of course it is 17th October, and 18th and 19th etc."

Mission 1017 Explained! http://sethd8.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/mission-1017-explained/


CONTENTS

1. Message from Diane
2. The Netroots Hit Their Limits
3. Silence+Torture=Complicity & Initial Report on October 5 Protests
4. Attack On Iran Inevitable - Nuke Use In White House Plan
5. Fear the Penis
6. The Real Foley Scandal is Much Bigger than Foley
7. The dark side of the stone
8. Earth's Ecological Debt Crisis: Mankind's "Borrowing" From Nature Hits New Record
9. Iran War Nearer ; The Left and the 911 Truth Movement
10. Israel's Plan for a Military Strike on Iran
11. Tehran or Pyongyang?
12. From Freedom to Fascism -- and Back
13. A Pathway Has Been Opened
14. An interview with 'Henry Deacon'
15. The Tree of Life


See also:

N Korea carries out nuclear test (Oct 9)
http://tinyurl.com/n3oqj
NORTH Korea has this afternoon detonated a nuclear device despite global warnings that it would bring a powerful response from the international community.

All Nine Nuclear Powers Are Violating Non-Proliferation Treaty
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100906A.shtml
"As North Korea becomes the eighth confirmed nuclear power (Israel is not confirmed but considered the ninth) some of the blame has to go to the original five nuclear powers," writes Scott Galindez. "When the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect in 1970, the five countries who had nuclear bombs - the US, France, China, Great Britain, and the USSR - agreed to work to reduce and eventually eliminate their nuclear arsenals. Now, 36 years later, no disarmament talks are taking place between those countries."

Kim's Message: War is coming to US soil
By Kim Myong Chol
("Unofficial" spokesman of Kim Jong-il and North Korea.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15230.htm
It is sheer illusion to think that sanctions and isolation will stop North Korea from the planned nuclear test. US hostility, threats and sanctions are the very engines that have propelled the development of nuclear weapons. Absent US hostility, nuclear blackmailing, sanctions, threats of isolation and regime change, the Kim administration would never have thought at all of acquiring nuclear deterrence.

Nuclear Blackmail
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15243.htm
North Korea has repeatedly agreed to junk its nuclear weapons provided the US does three things: 1. deal directly with Pyongyang, which Washington refuses to do; 2. provide security guarantees that the US will not attack North Korea; 3. provide economic aid. The Bush Administration's hard-line neoconservatives refuse to validate‚ North Korea's totalitarian regime through direct talks. Neocons are determined to overthrow Kim Jong-il.

Ambling towards Disaster; Bush's North Korea Policy
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15240.htm
It took 6 years of relentless threats, sanctions and belligerence, but Bush finally succeeded in pushing Kim Jong-Il to build North Korea's first nuclear bomb. Now, Kim can just add a few finishing touches to his ballistic-missile delivery system, the Taepo-dong ICBM, and he'll be able to wipe out the 9 western states with a flip of the switch.

US push for air strikes (Oct 10)
http://tinyurl.com/lh5mu
PENTAGON hawks will try to persuade US President George W. Bush he should order immediate military air strikes to obliterate North Korean nuclear sites. (...) He said the problem the US faced in attacking would be North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's promise to turn South Korean capital Seoul into "a sea of fire" and the potential for it to launch missiles on Japan.Dr Ayson said the US had 37,000 troops in South Korea and casualties would be high. Pyongyang had an estimated 80,000 artillery pieces concentrated on the area and may use non-conventional chemical weapons.Despite the risks, Dr Ayson, a specialist in North Asian strategy, said the US military option was a real possibility, given Mr Bush has said he could not tolerate a nuclear North Korea."Military action is now more likely after the test, but is probably less than 50 per cent (likely)," Dr Ayson said.US intelligence sources said the Bush Administration was considering naval action around North Korea, stopping short of a blockade but intercepting and inspecting all ships off the peninsula.Analysts estimate North Korea may have enough nuclear material for a dozen weapons and has built two or three, but is yet to miniaturise them enough for long-range missiles.The major threat its nuclear capacity posed was the potential for it to sell a bomb to a terrorist group that would sail it to a US port, or the possibility for it to drop a device from an aircraft over a major city. CLIP

The Two Faces Of Rumsfeld:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3303.htm
Director of a company which wins $200m contract to sell nuclear reactors to North Korea. 2002: declares North Korea a terrorist state, part of the axis of evil and a target for regime change

Bush's Nuclear Apocalypse
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15245.htm
The aircraft carrier Eisenhower, accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Anzio, guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage, guided-missile destroyer USS Mason and the fast-attack submarine USS Newport News, is, as I write, making its way to the Straits of Hormuz off Iran. The ships will be in place to strike Iran by the end of the month. It may be a bluff. It may be a feint. It may be a simple show of American power. But I doubt it.

The October Surprise (October 3)
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article15206.htm
It should come as no surprise if the Bush Administration undertakes a preemptive war against Iran sometime before the November election.Were these more normal times, this would be a stunning possibility, quickly dismissed by thoughtful people as dangerous, unprovoked, and out of keeping with our national character. But we do not live in normal times. And we do not have a government much concerned with our national character. If anything, our current Administration is out to remake our national character into something it has never been. The steps will be these: Air Force tankers will be deployed to fuel B-2 bombers, Navy cruise missile ships will be positioned at strategic points in the northern Indian Ocean and perhaps the Persian Gulf, unmanned drones will collect target data, and commando teams will refine those data. The latter two steps are already being taken.Then the president will speak on national television. He will say this: Iran is determined to develop nuclear weapons; if this happens, the entire region will go nuclear; our diplomatic efforts to prevent this have failed; Iran is offering a haven to known al Qaeda leaders; the fate of our ally Israel is at stake; Iran persists in supporting terrorism, including in Iraq; and sanctions will have no affect (and besides they are for sissies). He will not say: ...and besides, we need the oil. Therefore, he will announce, our own national security and the security of the region requires us to act. "Tonight, I have ordered the elimination of all facilities in Iran that are dedicated to the production of weapons of mass destruction....." In the narrowest terms this includes perhaps two dozen targets. But the authors of the war on Iraq have "regime change" in mind in Iran. According to Colonel Sam Gardiner (author of "The End of the 'Summer of Diplomacy': Assessing U.S. Military Options in Iran," The Century Foundation, 2006) to have any hope of success, such a policy would require attacking at least 400 targets, including the Revolutionary Guard. But even this presumes the Iranian people will respond to a massive U.S. attack on their country by overthrowing their government. Only an Administration inspired by pre-Enlightenment fantasy could believe a notion such as this.(...) In more rational times, including at the height of the Cold War, bizarre actions such as unilateral, unprovoked, preventive war are dismissed by thoughtful, seasoned, experienced men and women as mad. But those qualities do not characterize our current leadership. For a divinely guided president who imagines himself to be a latter day Winston Churchill (albeit lacking the ability to formulate intelligent sentences), and who professedly does not care about public opinion at home or abroad, anything is possible, and dwindling days in power may be seen as making the most apocalyptic actions necessary.

Nuclear Umbrella? The Peril of Missile Defense
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15284.htm
The US will spend some $9 billion this year to develop ballistic missile defenses, with $9.3 billion slated for next year. Total US military spending exceeds half a trillion dollars for 2006. The September 16, 2006 International Herald Tribune reports that the US now spends more on its military than does the rest of the world combined.

War or Rumors of War?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15226.htm
According to Time, the Navy has issued "Prepare to Deploy Orders" (PTDOs) to a strike group including minesweepers, a submarine, an Aegis class cruiser, and a mine hunter. Taken alongside disclosures that the chief of naval operations asked his planners for a rundown of how a blockade of Iranian oil ports would work, these military preparations led Time to conclude cautiously that the United States "may be preparing for war with Iran."

Lebanon- Prelude to the Rape of Iran
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15229.htm
An October attack would rally the US public around the currently unpopular Republican Congress and undercut the hapless Democratic Party whose virtually only appeal is "anti-Bush". It would also undermine the attempt of Iran to establish its oil bourse, a move that would bring Iran an additional $10 billion in revenues, and that some think would help undermine the US dollar as the world reserve currency.

Russia slams US "unilateral" move on Iran:
http://tinyurl.com/zzawh
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday slammed Washington for acting "unilaterally" in the crisis over Iran's nuclear programme and urged the world powers to continue diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff with Teheran.

U.S. Won't Accept Nuclear N. Korea
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15225.htm
The Bush administration delivered a secret message to North Korea yesterday warning it to back down from a promised nuclear test, and it said publicly that the United States would not live with a nuclear-armed Pyongyang government.

North Korea calls for US troop pullout
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20524597-5005361,00.html
NORTH Korea called today for the withdrawal of US forces stationed in South Korea, a day after it announced it would carry out a nuclear test.

'Too late' to stop N Korea's bomb
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,20527132,00.html
Mr Shen's judgment that nothing can be done to stop Pyongyang becoming a fully fledged nuclear state deepened the grim mood in other capitals yesterday.

Experts Warn of an Accidental Atomic War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100706X.shtml
A Pentagon project to modify its deadliest nuclear missile for use as a conventional weapon against targets such as North Korea and Iran could unwittingly spark an atomic war.

We'll make sanctions hurt, vows US
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,20560774,00.html
THE US is pushing for UN sanctions so severe they will make dictator Kim Jong-il "rue the day" he ordered his country's first nuclear test explosion, the State Department's point man on North Korea said yesterday.

N Korea: Sanctions 'an act of war'
http://tinyurl.com/rpwdu
"If the US continues to hassle us and add pressure, we will consider this as a declaration of war and subsequently take physical measures," the spokesman was quoted as saying.

Neo-cons come out guns blazing
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15279.htm
Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent US neo-conservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's reported testing of an atomic bomb.

Patrick J. Buchanan: It's begun: An Asian nuclear arms race
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52386
Why should we maintain an indefinite commitment to fight a war for South Korea when the result could now be escalation involving nuclear strikes on U.S. forces in the Pacific or the American homeland?

Bush to Kim: Thank You!
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/_by-tom
Just when the President and his Party seem sunk, who rides to the rescue? Kim Jong Il.

Moon, North Korea & the Bushes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206K.shtml
Robert Parry writes: "The Rev. Sun Myung Moon's business empire, which includes the right-wing Washington Times, paid millions of dollars to North Korea's communist leaders in the early 1990s when the hard-line government needed foreign currency to finance its weapons programs, according to US Defense Intelligence Agency documents."

Israel Occupation Forces Have Killed Twice As Many Children as In 2005
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20148&Cr=palestin&Cr1=
Ninety-one Palestinian children have already been killed this year in the West Bank and Gaza, almost double the number for the whole of 2005, with youngsters suffering increasing levels of stress from violence and fear in the Israeli-Palestinians conflict, according to the latest United Nations Children's Fund.

Israeli Rights group: Israeli denies vital health treatment to Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/773502.html
The Shin Bet security service is systematically preventing Palestinians who need medical treatment unavailable in the territories from entering Israel, a new report by the nonprofit organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charges

Roadblocks up by 40% in West Bank
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329598613-103552,00.html
The number of Israeli military road blocks in the West Bank grew by nearly 40% in the past year, part of an increasingly sophisticated lockdown that disrupts all aspects of Palestinian life, a UN aid agency said yesterday.

Italian TV: Israel used new weapon prototype in Gaza Strip
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=772894
An investigative report to be aired on Italian television today raises the possibility that Israel has used an experimental weapon in the Gaza Strip in recent months, causing especially serious physical injuries, such as amputated limbs and severe burns.

"Gaza. Inexplicable Wounds And New Weapons"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15278.htm
Video report: This report has been triggered by the warning launched in mid-july by some doctors of Gaza hospitals, who, for the first time, have treated inexplicable wounds which, in at least 62 cases, have caused the amputation of a lower limb.

Foley Scandal a Disaster for GOP
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100306K.shtml
Republican strategists said yesterday that public revulsion over the sexually graphic online conversations between Congressman Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and former House pages could compound the party's problems enough to tip the House to the Democrats in November - and could jeopardize the party's hold on the Senate as well.

Foley's Behavior No Secret on Capitol Hill (October 1, 2006) http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2514770
[Congressman] Foley's obsession with 16- and 17-year-old male pages has been known to Republicans on Capitol Hill for at least five years. But other than issue a warning, little else seems to have been done about the congressman. A former page has come forward to tell ABC News warnings were issued about Foley to the pages in 2001. Internet messages [were] sent by Foley to three different pages after that warning. Two of them were sent to pages in the 2001-2002 class, with sexually explicit messages, most too graphic to be broadcast, from Foley using the screen name Maf54. "Maf54: To be honest, I am a little to interested in you. So that's why I need to back off a little. Teen: Ya slow things down a little im still young - like under 18. don't want to do anything illegal - im not 18. Maf54: cool..dont forget to measure for me." [This last sentence was] a reference to his request that the page provide the ! measurements of his sexual organ, a request he repeatedly made to another page as well. Former pages tell ABC News the pages involved with Foley were afraid to offend the powerful Republican congressman. It's possible Foley could end up being prosecuted under laws he helped to enact as the co-chairman of the House caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. Note: If you want to know the degree of sexual corruption which reaches to the highest levels in government, see the incredibly well done Discovery Channel documentary Conspiracy of Silence available free online at http://www.WantToKnow.info/060501conspiracyofsilence (More on this below in "The Dark Side of the Stone")

Rice More Sordid Than Foley
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406K.shtml
"They are such liars," writes Robert Scheer. "In his book, Woodward described an encounter between Rice and Tenet, in a near panic about a rising flood of intelligence warnings just presented to him by top aide Cofer Black. Tenet forced an unscheduled meeting with Rice on July 10, 2001, because he wanted the Bush administration to take action immediately against Al Qaeda to disrupt a possible domestic attack."

The Tipping Point
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406R.shtml
"This Foley scandal may well become the tipping point that drives this catastrophically dangerous Republican party out of power in Congress come November, and may finally unleash an avalanche that will sweep some degree of accountability back into government," writes William Rivers Pitt.

In House Races, More GOP Seats Are Seen at Risk
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100706Y.shtml
At least five more Republican Congressional seats are in serious contention, analysts said Friday, as signs that the Congressional page scandal are sapping the enthusiasm of a group essential to Republican victories in 2002 and 2004: religious conservatives.

The White House and Mr. Abramoff
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100906Y.shtml
The New York Times: "The sordid Mark Foley controversy has diverted public attention from another major Washington ethics scandal - the influence peddling involving the disgraced former superlobbyist Jack Abramoff. That's good news for the Bush administration, given freshly heightened suspicion that its dealings with Mr. Abramoff and his sleazy K Street operation were far cozier than it is willing to admit."

A New "Night of Long Knives?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006T.shtml
Larry C. Johnson says: "It looks like Republican homosexuals who work on the Hill are being set up as the ultimate scapegoat for the electoral disaster awaiting the Republicans in November. It remains to be seen whether there will be a purge, albeit a bloodless one, of homosexual staffers, but the tale of the rocky relationship between Adolf Hitler and the co-founder of the Nazis, Ernst Roehm, who also led the Storm Troopers offers some fascinating parallels."

Elections in the USA: Justice And The Perversion of Justice
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15259.htm
In a month in which the US Congress voted to legalize torture, discard the US Constitution by abolishing habeas corpus and increase the military budget to prolong the daily slaughter of hundreds of Iraqis and Afghanis, the big controversy among the mass media and elected officials is the sexual overtures of a Republican Congressman to adolescent boys employed by Congress.

U.S.: Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners
http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_43582.shtml
Five state prison systems in the United States permit the use of aggressive, unmuzzled dogs to terrify and even attack prisoners in efforts to remove them from their cells, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.

George W. Bush versus The U.S. Constitution (05 Oct 2006)
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Military Commissions Act Shames the Constitution and Weakens America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106P.shtml
Stephen Rohde writes: "The Military Commission Act is breathtaking in its denial of fundamental rights under the Constitution and international law. The law re-establishes virtually intact President Bush's military tribunals, which were rejected by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional."

The US Enabling Act (10/01/2006)
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/jonas/019
It was an event little noted by persons other than those of us who are devoted to the American Dream of Constitutional Democracy. But it will be long remembered by the whole world, if there is a future history to record it. On Sept. 29, 2006, the Congress of the United States passed what can be termed "The US Enabling Act." It is the equivalent of the Act by the same name passed by the German Reichstag on March 23, 1933. The latter gave the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler, the power to over-ride the protections for freedom and liberty written into the German (Weimar) Constitution of the time, if he determined that so doing was necessary to protect the nation from terrorism and "actions endangering the state." It was under that Act, of course, that Hitler established his dictatorship. CLIP

Why Does Habeas Corpus Hate America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206J.shtml
Keith Olbermann discusses habeas corpus and examines the founding fathers' words: "'Depriving us of Trial by Jury' was actually considered sufficient cause to start a War of Independence, based on the then-fashionable idea that 'liberty' was an unalienable right."

The End of the U.S. as a Civilized Nation
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15283.htm
The recently passed Military Commissions Act removes the United States from the ranks of civilized nations. It codifies racial and political discrimination, legalizes kidnapping and torture of those the government deems its political enemies, and eliminates habeas corpus--the ancient precept that prevents the police from arresting and holding you without cause--a basic protection common to all (other) modern legal systems, and one that dates to the Magna Carta.

Update on Padilla motion to dismiss for outrageous government conduct
http://tinyurl.com/fmfxb
In an effort to gain Mr. Padilla's "dependency and trust," he was tortured for nearly the entire three years and eight months of his unlawful detention. The torture took myriad forms, each designed to cause pain, anguish, depression and, ultimately, the loss of will to live.

Report: Thousands Wrongly on Terror List
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100706Z.shtml
Thousands of people have been mistakenly linked to names on terror watch lists when they crossed the border, boarded commercial airliners or were stopped for traffic violations, a government report said Friday.

Violence in Iraq Leaves at Least 52 Dead (Oct 4)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406L.shtml
A suicide bomber unleashed a blast in a Baghdad fish market Tuesday and two Shiite families were found slain north of the capital as violence across Iraq claimed at least 52 lives.

At Least 75 Bodies Found in Baghdad Since Monday (Oct 10)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101006S.shtml
At least 75 corpses have been found in the Baghdad area since Monday morning, authorities said today, most of them bound, riddled with bullets, and showing signs of torture. In addition, at least five bombs exploded in the capital area, killing at least 14 civilians and 6 policemen, and injuring 23 people.

US Military "Turns Blind Eye to Killings"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106K.shtml
Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail write that the US military is deliberately turning a blind eye to sectarian killings committed by government security forces in Iraq.

Aura of fear and death stalks Iraq
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329598653-103550,00.html
As the Lancet releases shocking figures on the death toll in Iraq, Peter Beaumont describes the daily carnage across Baghdad

655,000 Iraqis Dead Since US Invasion
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106L.shtml
Epidemiologists estimate that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. This is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December.

A Last Wild Ride on the Titanic
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15286.htm
Yesterday's report in the Washington Post that over 650,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the US-led invasion is just the latest bit of bad news to hit the Bush administration. In fact, the buzzards have been circling the White House for some time now and they won't be leaving anytime soon.

Escalating violence in Iraq prompts UN aid official to call for urgent help from leaders (11 October 2006)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20218&Cr=iraq&Cr1=
The violence inside Iraq has “spiralled totally out of control,” the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said today as he appealed to the country’s religious, ethnic and other community leaders to do much more to try to stop the killings and massive displacement of people. At least 315,000 people have fled their homes in the past seven or eight months, driven by military operations or sectarian violence that has escalated since a key Shiite shrine in Samarra was bombed in February, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland told a press briefing in Geneva.Armed sectarian militias and death squads murder an average of 100 people every day, he added, noting that no segment of society was immune. “These are police and their recruits, these are judges, these are lawyers, these are journalists, and there are increasingly women,” he said. “And the latter group is particularly targeted for so-called honour killings… Revenge killings seem now to be totally out of control.” There are now thought to be 1.5 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) within Iraq, as well as an estimated 1.2 to 1.5 million Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries. Each day as many as 2,000 people cross the border into Syria as the trend accelerates. CLIP

War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International Law - Demands Prosecution of US Military and Civilian Leaders
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15261.htm
The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq, can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and weapons being used to maintain the occupation. U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability documents these violations and calls on us all to demand investigation and prosecution of violations of international law by military and civilian leaders.

No way out soon in Iraq, Rove tells GOP faithful (Oct 10) http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/10/11/news/101106lrrovevisit.txt
FAYETTEVILLE -- Pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq now could leave behind a terrorist state with oil revenue to finance attacks around the world, White House political strategist Karl Rove said in Fayetteville on Tuesday. CLIP -- One of the comments to this article reads like this... "Very clearly, once out of office, the top members of the Bush Admin will not be able to travel outside the United States, for fear of being arrested on war crimes charges. Even within the US the Admin. was forced to revise 1996 statutes to keep themselves from prosecution. What sort of people have we become that we allow our leaders to behave in this manner?"

17 US Troops Killed in Iraq Since Saturday (Oct 4)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406M.shtml
At least 17 troops have been killed in combat since Saturday, including eight US soldiers who died in gun battles and bomb blasts Monday in Baghdad - the most killed in a single day in the capital since July 2005.

Three Marines killed in western Iraq (Oct 10)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061009/ts_nm/iraq_marines_dc
The deaths of the three soldiers brought to at least 32 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the start of October.

The Ground Truth: "A Cinematic Call to Arms"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101106F.shtml
"The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends" takes an unflinching look at the training and dehumanization of US soldiers, and how they struggle to come to terms with it when they come back home. This film overrides familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle and their overjoyed returning faces as they reunite with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see a scenario that includes illness, amputation and injury, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most, "The Ground Truth" makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to dismiss its characters simply as war statistics.

Report Indicates that 1 in 4 Veterans of the Global War on "Terrorism" Claim Disabilities:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20061010/index.htm
One in four veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars are filing disability claims, according to records released by the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) under the Freedom of Information Act after nine months of denying their existence and posted today on the National Security Archive Web site.

Taliban are winning:
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/101106/opinion_20061011019.shtml
Taliban troops have retaken control of broad swatches of the country and are beginning to stand and fight NATO units head to head. Violence is at its highest level since the early days of the conflict.

Report says detainee plan would pardon U.S. officials (Sept 30)
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=16341
CNN: Congressional work on tribunal hearings grants amnesty - A video report from CNN's Jack Cafferty says that buried deep within the pending plan to create military tribunals for those suspected of terrorism is amnesty for present U.S. officials. He said that President Bush "is trying to pardon himself" with the plan, which is in the last stage of congressional endorsement and next will go to the president's desk.

Vote Democratic and Always Carry a Toothbrush
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406N.shtml
Dave Lindorff writes, "Congress, with almost no discussion, has just approved a law ostensibly about authorizing military tribunals for alleged terrorists, which actually went way beyond that bad enough end run on the Constitution to include giving the president the Congressional sanction to torture captives and, as well, the power to snatch up any American citizen and declare her or him to be an 'unlawful combatant,' devoid of Constitutional rights."

The Deeper Evil Behind the Detainee Bill
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206A.shtml
Chris Floyd writes: "It was a dark hour indeed on Thursday when the United States Senate voted to end the constitutional republic and transform the country into a 'Leader-State,' giving the president and his agents the power to capture, torture and imprison forever anyone - American citizens included - whom they arbitrarily decide is an 'enemy combatant.' This also includes those who merely give 'terrorism' some kind of 'support,' defined so vaguely that many experts say it could encompass legal advice, innocent gifts to charities or even political opposition to US government policy within its draconian strictures."

The Day America Died (September 29, 2006)
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2006/09/day-america-died.html
Actually, our country died on December 12, 2000, when a partisan Supreme Court, instead of addressing the widespread disenfranchisement of voters, instead decided to give the presidency to George W. Bush.But the final nail in the coffin of America was hammered in yesterday, when the Senate decided to give a president who has said on at least three separate occasions that he could like to be a dictator and whose spokesman once said, "If you're not with us, you're against us" and "People should watch what they say, watch what they do" absolute and unilateral authority to decide who is an enemy of the state. CLIP

Terrorists On No-Fly List: List Includes President Of Bolivia, Dead 9/11 Hijackers :
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/05/60minutes/main2066624.shtml
The National Security News Service, has obtained the secret list used to screen airline passengers for terrorists and discovered it includes names of people not likely to cause terror, including the president of Bolivia, people who are dead and names so common, they are shared by thousands of innocent fliers.

Now That You Could be Labeled an Enemy Combatant... (Oct 4)
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1004-35.htm
Since Congress recently handed Bush the power to identify American citizens as "unlawful enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge, it's worth examining the administration's record of prisoner abuse as well as the building of stateside detention centers. (...) In 2002, wacko former Attorney General John Ashcroft called for the indefinite detainment of US citizens he considered to be "enemy combatants," and while widely criticized at the time, Congress went ahead and fulfilled Ashcroft's nefarious vision last week. Ashcroft had also called for stateside internment camps, and accordingly, in January 2006 the US government awarded a Halliburton subsidiary $385 million to build detention centers to be used for, "an unexpected influx of immigrants or to house people after a natural disaster or for new programs that require additional detention space." New programs that require additional detention space. Hmm.The disgraceful Military Commissions Act and the building of domestic internment camps are yet more examples of blowback from the administration's so-called war on terror, and we ignore these increasing assaults on our civil liberties at our own peril.

Tenet Warned Congress in February 2001 About al-Qaeda
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206Y.shtml
Jason Leopold reports that in February 2001, seven months before 9/11, George Tenet, then the director of the CIA, testified before Congress and told lawmakers that the single greatest threat to the United States was Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network, according to a little known copy of Tenet's Congressional testimony. During his report to Congress, Tenet eerily described a scenario that seven months later would become a grim reality.

Condi Rice, 9/11 and Another Nest of Lies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100206X.shtml
William Rivers Pitt writes: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may have committed perjury in her testimony before the 9/11 Commission in May of 2004. At a minimum, her testimony was a convenient mishmash of half-truths and omissions which served to paint the White House as innocent bystanders as the attacks of 9/11 unfolded."

The mystery of America (October 8, 2006)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/771541.html
It happens once every few months. Like a periodic visit by an especially annoying relative from overseas, Condoleezza Rice was here again. The same declarations, the same texts devoid of content, the same sycophancy, the same official aircraft heading back to where it came from. The results were also the same: Israel promised in December, after a stormy night of discussions, to open the "safe passage" between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. This time, in what was considered the "achievement" of the current visit, Israel also promised to open the Karni crossing. Karni will be open, one can assume, only slightly more than the "safe passage," which never opened following the previous futile visit. Rice has been here six times in the course of a year and a half, and what has come of it? Has anyone asked her about this? Does she ask herself? It is hard to understand how the secretary of state allows herself to be so humiliated. It is even harder to understand how the superpower she represents allows itself to act in such a hollow and useless way. The mystery of America remains unsolved: How is it that the United States is doing nothing to advance a solution to the most dangerous and lengthiest conflict in our world? How is it that the world's only superpower, which has the power to quickly facilitate a solution, does not lift a finger to promote it? CLIP

'Cops tortured Chechen for terror confession'
http://tinyurl.com/yabvhq
The last article written by murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was an account from a Chechen man who said police passed electric shocks through his fingers until he confessed to terrorism.

Climbers see Tibetans shot 'like rats'
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/11/1160246179264.html
An Australian mountaineer was among dozens of climbers at a Himalayan base camp who watched in horror as Chinese soldiers shot Tibetan refugees "like rats, dogs [and] rabbits", leaving at least one teenage nun lying dead in the snow.

Should presidents be allowed to serve more than 2 terms?:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52246
Bills introduced in Congress to repeal 8-year restriction of 22nd Amendment

America trains Abbas' loyalists in secret camp in Jericho:
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_20169.shtml
In an apparent American step to ignite a Palestinian civil war, high-ranking Palestinian sources have unveiled that the United States was establishing a secret military camp in the West Bank city of Jericho to train the PA presidential guards (Force-17).

Rising seas could leave millions homeless in Asia:
http://tinyurl.com/zuz9k
Millions of people could become homeless in the Asia-Pacific region by 2070 due to rising sea levels, with Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, China and Pacific islands most at risk, says Australia's top scientific body.

Our Rivers Are Starting to Run Dry
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/101006EB.shtml
Monbiot says that a new report on rainfall and evaporation under global warming may be the most important science report of the year. While climate scientists have been predicting that the wet parts of the world are likely to become wetter and the dry parts drier, they had assumed that overall rainfall would rise, as higher temperatures increase evaporation. But the new paper's "drought index" covers both rainfall and evaporation: overall, the world becomes drier.

Water for millions at risk as glaciers melt away
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329597820-121568,00.html
Crisis threatens parts of South America and Asia: Decline accelerates as global warming takes hold.

Scientists teleport two different objects (October 5, 2006) http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/04/teleportation.reut/

A Rush to Medicate Young Minds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601391.html?referrer=emailarticle
I have been treating, educating and caring for children for more than 30 years, half of that time as a child psychiatrist, and the changes I have seen in the practice of child psychiatry are shocking. Psychiatrists are now misdiagnosing and overmedicating children for ordinary defiance and misbehavior. The temper tantrums of belligerent children are increasingly being characterized as psychiatric illnesses. Using such diagnoses as bipolar disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and Asperger's, doctors are justifying the sedation of difficult kids with powerful psychiatric drugs that may have serious, permanent or even lethal side effects. There has been a staggering jump in the percentage of children diagnosed with a mental illness and treated with psychiatric medications. (...) According to psychiatrist Jennifer Harris, quoted in the January/February issue of Psychotherapy Networker, "Many clinicians find it easier to tell parents their child has a brain-based disorder than to suggest parenting changes." Parents and teachers today seem to believe that any boy who wriggles in his seat and willfully defies his teacher's rules has ADHD. Likewise, any child who has a temper tantrum is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. After all, an anger outburst is how most parents define a "mood swing." Contributing to this widespread problem of misdiagnosis is the doctor's willingness to accept, without question, the assessment offered by a parent or teacher. What was once a somber, heart-wrenching decision for a parent and something children often resisted -- medicating a child's mind -- has now become a widely used technique in parenting a belligerent child. As if they were debating parental locks on the home computer or whether to allow a co-ed sleepover, parents now share notes with each other about whose child is taking what pill for which diagnosis. These days parents cruise the Internet, take self-administered surveys, diagnose their children and choose a medication before they ever set foot in the psychiatrist's office. If the first doctor doesn't prescribe what you want, the next one will. CLIP

Omega-News Collection 7. October 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2771710/