August 8, 2006
The Moment of Truth Series #1: Final Assessment of our Choices
Hello everyone!
When I started putting together this compilation this morning (August 7), I wanted to put great emphasis on the first item below (URGENT ACTION REQUESTED: Stop the Bloodshed). Then as I spent the rest of the day and evening and night reviewing the piles of accumulated recent emails, I ended up with far more material for your review than I first intended. I also watched a number of Internet videos today, most of them being recommended below. I tried to strike a balance between Light-filled messages and, in stark contrast, the dribbling of war and other similar news.
Overall, there seems to me that everything points out towards an approaching Moment of Truth, something that will massively and permanently change the shapes of things on Earth... Hence the name of this new series.
We are entering the crucible of many lifetimes' crossroad and we each have to decide which way our future evolutionary journey will take us.
And as in every journey of significance, the first step we take is the foundation of everything that will follow.
I'll leave it to you to figure out what is best for each of you...
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
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"The truth is that you have been prepared, with your willingness, to represent points of light throughout your world, not as some massively-promoted, excitement-filled, miraculous endeavor, but as interconnected individuals who can spread common awareness that the goal of life is more than material and more than an idea about God, but rather found in your personal seeking to God and an awareness of intercommunication with spiritual forces, coupled with your continuous efforts to manifest those values gained therefrom in service to your fellows, such that the eventual recognition of planetary fellowship can occur."
- Aaron (1/05)
"We are asking you to no longer sit passively by the wayside and do nothing. You are being asked to stand up and be counted, for your dynamic Life Force energy is needed now as never before. You are much more powerful in your thought forms and actions than you can imagine, my brave friends, and you are playing an important role in attaining a peaceful solution to a very unsettling world situation. The energy you are radiating from your heart center has just as much an influence on the outcome of the devastating conflicts around the world as those who are on the 'front lines'. We can inspire, direct and assist you, but you and you alone must take the action that will result in Heaven on Earth."
- Archangel Michael (10/04)
STRIKE FOR 9/11 TRUTH ON 9/11/06
Wouldn't it be great if all the employees of private and governmental agencies including the military and main stream media decided not to go to work on 9/11/06 because they are sick and tired of being lied to by our government. Main stream media's top reporters should also go on strike along with all the personal that run these media outlets. All government employees should skip work that day. Everyone that can should get to DC and march on the White House and Congress demanding that 9/11 truth be told. If you can't make it to DC then you go to your state, city or local government buildings and demand 9/11 Truth there. You can also go to your state and city district attorneys and demand that they take action for 9/11 Truth. This is a dream of mine but I really hope it would come true. Anyway I'll keep on dreaming.
- Excellent idea suggested by Matthew nausmr@yahoo.com> - Recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net> who wrote: "Matt, this strike for 9/11 Truth is one of the best ideas I have heard in a long time! Some will strike for 9/11 Truth. Some will fast for 9/11 Truth. Some will demand 9/11 Truth. Some will educate around 9/11 Truth. While there is not much time to grow this campaign, if there is enough buy-in and support, this certainly can happen! As an old song goes, "It only takes a spark to get a fire going..." If you really want this dream to happen and if enough people want to work to help make this happen, I see no reason why it can't!
"The long-range results of the war are not immediately obvious. They belong to the category defined by Bismarck as "imponderables" - things that cannot be measured. Every day on their TV screens tens of millions of Arabs and hundred of millions of Muslims see the atrocious pictures of crushed babies, the sights of the horrible destruction. These are deeply imprinted in the consciousness of the masses and will leave behind them an accumulation of anger and hatred that is far more dangerous than an arsenal of missiles. In these 25 days, thousands of new suicide bombers have been created. And as the stature of Nasrallah as the hero of the Arab world increases, so the respect for the "moderate" Arab regimes hit new lows - the very regimes that the US and Israel rely on for creating the New Middle East."
- Uri Avnery -- Taken from Junkies of War (08/05/2006)
"This morning we got up with the diplomatic arena taking the center, following the agreement between the Americans and French on the ceasefire terms, and commentators endlessly analysing and dissecting it and most coming to the conclusion that it was "good for Israel". Then, at noon came the news of twelve Israelis being killed by rocket fire in the north, the largest number of casualties Israel suffered in a single day of this war (though for Lebanon this number would be rather below average). It took many hours before the confirmation that the twelve were reserve soldiers, called up in preparation for a possible extension of the ground offensive into Lebanon and encamped - by the height of folly - under the open sky in a daily targeted area, though the nearby Kibbutz offered them its air raid shelter. And towards the evening, the new missile attack on Haifa, covered live on TV, with the commentators visibly goading each other into greater and greater frenzy: "Four falls detected in Haifa"; "Seven falls"; "Do you see these clouds of smoke?"; "A house has collapsed"; "There are children there, small children, a woman was giving birth just when the missile hit!"; "This is an Israeli Qana, now the international public opinion will see that our civilians are also suffering, all these Europeans who demonstrate and accuse us of destroying Lebanon!"; "What do you say, gentlemen? You in the studio here are all ex-generals with a lot of experience, what would you advice the government to do?"; "I say we must send the tanks forward, immediately, if possible already this night, take all the territory until the Litani river and perhaps beyond, clean up all the hidden missiles in the villages"; "No, no, that's wrong, Hizbullah will then ambush our soldiers, they are guerillas. I say use our air power really to the full, every village from which missiles are shot should just be totally destroyed, totally! No more humanitarian considerations!"; "But what about the ceasefire, gentlemen? The Security Council will convene tonight or tomorrow!"; "What ceasefire? Do you think we can let the war end this way, to give them the last word?" The last which we heard on TV, about ten minutes ago. (9.15 pm Israeli time) was unconfirmed rumors about an emergency cabinet meeting, to authorize the army to do...what?"
- Adam Keller (6 August 2006) -- Taken from "We Shall All Lose", networked by "Gush Shalom" otherisr@actcom.co.il> - http://www.gush-shalom.org
Worthy of Your Attention
Most amazing Celestial Glyph yet!
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2006/blowingstone/blowingstone2006a.html
Knowing the world (COMPELLING AND POWERFUL PICTURES)
http://www.neverhappened.org/neverhappened/2005/06/knowing_the_wor.html
The Norwegian diplomat Charung Gollar was asked to present the UN with a graphic showing the main problems in the world in 2004. He presented a set of 8 pictures entitled "The power of stars" and was applauded for the simplicity of his idea. In spite of having no pretension at all, his work was presented to participate to the Nobel Price of Politic Marketing.
George Galloway On The Terrorist State Israel (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-brkmfrxrQY
In your face, no-hold barrel, stellar performance of this British parliamentary during a TV interview. You'd wish there was such an outspoken truth teller this side of the Atlantic...
Jews Against the Occupation
http://www.jatonyc.org/
A Jewish Voice of Opposition to the War on Palestinians - Jews Against the Occupation is an organization of progressive, secular and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.
Jewish Voice for Peace
http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
Opposed to Bombing Civilians? Sign Jewish Call to Action Petition - HELP END THE GAZA AND LEBANON INVASIONS NOW! Urge the U.S. to put a stop to the attacks on Lebanon and Gaza. Show the world there is a principled Jewish voice that opposes the collective punishment of an entire people.
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3269
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land - What you're not seeing on US TV
http://brasscheck.com/videos/middleeast/me1.html
It's a myth that all Jews and all Israelis support Israel's ongoing military aggression in the Middle East, but you'll never learn this fact on US TV. Why? This informative film (1:19:14) documents the current Israeli government's program of genocide against the Palestinian people and its well orchestrated public relations program designed to insure that Americans - whose tax dollars subsidize the Israeli military - never learn the truth about Israeli tactics and intentions. NOTE from Jean: This is a most excellent and MUST SEE documentary that will tear your eyes open on the true despotic nature of the Israeli government policy of unrelenting, despicably inhumane ethnic cleansing that, as far as I know, has no precedent in all of human history and which has been fully supported by the current and by most previous US Administrations, and has been cunningly disguised by complicit US media as being merely Israel defending itself against Palestinian aggression. Make SURE also to review the other amazing videos offered at http://www.brasschecktv.com/ Brasscheck TV: Imagine... TV about what's really going on!
- The 4 items above were recommended by Nelly Lewin nellwin108@free.fr>
I Am Declaring PEACE
http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/MusicGiftCDs/IAmDeclaringPeace.mp3
Video of I Am Declaring PEACE
http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/Video/imdeclaringpeace/imdeclaringpeace.mov
Video Clip SACRED
http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/Video/sacred/Sacred.mov
The Angels of Comfort (This is the music I play for the weekly Meditation Focus)
http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/MusicGiftCDs/Iasos-AngelicMusic/AngelsofComfort.mp3
Eternal OM - Robert Slap Golden Bowls - Karma Moffet Timeless Sound - Iasos Celebration - Suzanne Doucet
http://www.lightparty.com/Artainment/MusicGiftCDs/Peace/Peace.mp3
- The 5 items above were recommended by Da Vid Lightparty@aol.com>
Massive CO2 increase ahead!
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCremote3.html
Make sure to review the CO2 increase graph there
More revealing such graphs through
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=lang_en&safe=off&q=co2+temperature+chart
- The 2 items above were recommended by "Mark Graffis" mgraffis@vitelcom.net>
CONTENTS
1. URGENT ACTION REQUESTED: Stop the Bloodshed
2. Diane 07-August-06
3. HO'OPONOPONO
4. AIPAC's Hold
5. Banking on War
Faleh A. Jabar, an Iraqi intellectual resident in Beirut who has been a leading force in promoting a democratic intellectual culture in Iraq, writes from Lebanon...
"Dear All: This situation in Lebanon is going from bad to worst. Innocent lives are being shattered and threatened in mass. I need to ask you and other colleagues in the academia to launch a campaign to pressure the US to stop Israeli destruction of bridges, power stations, and end the Israeli blockade to Lebanon. Fuel is running short, and hospitals will come to a stand still, water supplies will be cut short, a total human disaster. Israel's official target is to secure Hizbollah-free south, not to starve four millions and randomly threaten the lives of all civilians. I am sixty years old this year, and my life does not matter that much; but I look at the young and shudder: I have young neighbours who need kidney-wash every 48 hours, and there are children with cancer, lot with heart diseases. Cutting power supply means a death sentence to them. May I add that doctors in Beirut advised that the fate of more than 20,000 patients is at stake. Pregnant women will most certainly suffer. Their numbers are anybody's guess. There are two tankers waiting offshore for Israeli guarantees to no avail. They carry fuel supplies to power plants and vehicles, some 20 odd days. This is horrible and unbearable. Please do something. Send letters to the UN, EU, the White House, the International Red Cross. This is urgent."
- Faleh A. Jabar ' -- Taken from http://www.juancole.com/
See also:
Israel Intensifies Airstrikes in Lebanon (August 7, 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706S.shtml
Israel intensified its strikes on Beirut and southern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 33 people in one of the heaviest tolls in days. Lebanon's prime minister won strong support from Arab states to plead his case at the United Nations for a full Israeli withdrawal.
While the UN Fiddles ... the Middle East Burns (August 7, 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706N.shtml
The US and Britain warned that a UN resolution was only a "first step" toward ending the violence, as Israel and Hezbollah militants used the window before a vote to inflict maximum damage. Meanwhile, Arab leaders are rejecting the US-French draft UN Security Council resolution that would bring a "full cessation of hostilities" but enable Israeli forces to stay in southern Lebanon until deployment of an international peacekeeping force.
The War's Toll on Environment
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080706EA.shtml
About 110,000 barrels of oil poured into the Mediterranean two weeks ago after Israeli warplanes hit a coastal power plant. Oil has slicked one-third of Lebanon's coast, and threatens beaches in Syria, Cyprus, Turkey and Greece, yet no cleanup can begin until the fighting is over, says the UN. Meanwhile in northern Israel, huge swaths of forests and fields have been scorched by thousands of Hezbollah rocket strikes.
Human Rights Watch: Israel Guilty of War Crimes (03 August 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306C.shtml
Human Rights Watch, after extensive investigation, has concluded that the Israeli military is guilty of war crimes. HRW says:Israeli forces have systematically failed to distinguish between combatants and civilians in their military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Human Rights Watch said in report released today. The pattern of attacks in more than 20 cases investigated by Human Rights Watch researchers in Lebanon indicates that the failures cannot be dismissed as mere accidents and cannot be blamed on wrongful Hezbollah practices. In some cases, these attacks constitute war crimes. The 50-page report, "Fatal Strikes: Israel's Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon," analyzes almost two dozen cases of Israeli air and artillery attacks on civilian homes and vehicles. Of the 153 dead civilians named in the report, 63 are children. CLIP
Anti-War Protests Erupt Across the Muslim World (August 5, 06)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506D.shtml
Mass protests have erupted across much of the Muslim world against the war in Lebanon, prompting louder and more desperate calls for a cease-fire from governments fearful of a popular backlash. Meanwhile, the largest peace march since before the Iraq invasion is expected to descend upon Downing Street today demanding calls for an unconditional cease-fire in the Middle East.
Cindy Sheehan Returns to Crawford
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706Z.shtml
A year after her first war protest in President Bush's adopted hometown attracted thousands and reinvigorated the nation's peace movement, Cindy Sheehan resumed her vigil Sunday. Under the blazing Texas sun, Sheehan and more than 50 demonstrators again marched a mile and a half toward Bush's ranch, stopping at a roadblock. As Secret Service agents stood silently, Sheehan held up her California driver's license and said she wanted to meet with the president. "It doesn't say my new address, but I do live here now," said Sheehan, who lives in Berkeley, California, and recently bought land in Crawford for war protests. "My name is Cindy and Bush killed my son."
Camp Casey: Hearts Connect
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706A.shtml
"This is the mission of Camp Casey this year: To remind George and the rest of his heart-disconnected administration that their hearts are connected to ours and the innocent people of the world being killed by their thoughtless greed. It is also our mission to remind the people of the USA who still support the carnage that their hearts are connected to the babies and children who are wantonly being killed," writes Cindy Sheehan.
Americans Are Still Dying in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706D.shtml
With the news being dominated by endless television coverage of Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon, Jimmy Breslin reminds us that Americans are still dying in Iraq. "By the way, there are many American soldiers fighting in the Middle East. In case you haven't noticed, they get killed. A lot of them get killed. The strategy for the Middle East is to keep Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon fighting. Keep all attention on them. If they ever stop, then everybody would look at Americans dying."
Lieberman Loss Could Be a Party Watershed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080606Z.shtml
"A victory by businessman Ned Lamont on Tuesday would confirm the growing strength of the grass-roots and Internet activists who first emerged in Howard Dean's presidential campaign," writes Dan Balz. "Driven by intense anger at President Bush and fierce opposition to the Iraq war, they are on the brink of claiming their most significant political triumph, one that will reverberate far beyond the borders here if Lieberman loses."
Bush seeks broader powers? Sounds like Germany in 30's? (Aug 03, 2006)
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/15176692.htm
MILITARY COURTS Bush seeks expanded military tribunal role - The White House is seeking legislation that would allow people not affiliated with terrorism to be prosecuted in military commissions -- with far fewer rights than afforded civilians. Washington Post Service WASHINGTON - A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to expand the reach and authority of such ''commissions'' to include trials, for the first time, of people who are not al Qaeda members or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal plan. The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in June, also allows the secretary of defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more individuals than previously expected before military juries, officials and independent experts said.The draft proposed legislation, set to be discussed at two Senate hearings today, is controversial inside and outside the administration because defendants would be denied many protections guaranteed by the civilian and traditional military criminal justice systems. Under the proposed procedures, defendants would lack rights to confront accusers, exclude hearsay accusations, or bar evidence obtained through rough or coercive interrogations. They would not be guaranteed a public or speedy trial and would lack the right to choose their military counsel, who in turn would not be guaranteed equal access to evidence held by prosecutors. Detainees also would not be guaranteed the right to be present at their own trials, if their absence is deemed necessary to protect national security or individuals. An early draft of the new law prepared by civilian political appointees and leaked to the media last week has been modified in response to criticism from uniformed military lawyers. But the provisions allowing a future expansion of the courts to cover new crimes and more prisoners were retained, according to government officials who are familiar with the deliberations.
Top Military Lawyers Oppose Plan for Special Courts
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306A.shtml
The military's top uniformed lawyers, appearing at a Senate hearing yesterday, criticized key provisions of a proposed new US plan for special military courts, affirming that they did not see eye to eye with the senior Bush administration political appointees who developed the plan and presented it to them last week.
40,000 US Troops Have Deserted Since 2000
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506X.shtml
Since 2000, about 40,000 troops from all branches of the military have deserted. Those who help war resisters say desertion is more prevalent than the military has admitted. "They lied in Vietnam with the amount of opposition to the war and they're lying now," said Eric Seitz, an attorney who represents Army Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to the war in Iraq.
Army Raises Enlistment Age to 42
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080306P.shtml
The Army has begun training the oldest recruits in its history, the result of a concerted effort to fill ranks depleted during the Iraq war. In June, five months after it raised the enlistment age limit from 35 to just shy of 40, the Army raised it to just under 42.
US Generals: Iraq on Verge of Civil War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080406L.shtml
Two senior American military commanders said today that the wave of sectarian bloodshed in Iraq has heightened the danger that the country will slide into all-out civil war.
Iraqi Medic Describes Carnage
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080706L.shtml
Testimony begins in hearing for US soldiers accused of rape. An Iraqi medic who responded to a home where US soldiers allegedly raped and killed a teenage Iraqi girl and murdered her sister and parents described on Sunday a display of carnage so horrific he said it made him sick for two weeks.
TerrorStorm (911, London, Madrid Bombings, Conspiracy) EXCELLENT!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7516705476148472744&hl=en
The long-awaited arrival of Alex Jones' latest trend-setting documentary has arrived! TerrorStorm delivers a powerful sucker punch to the architects of global terrorism and how they stage false-flag events to achieve political and sociological ends. Alex journeys from the depths of history from the Gulf of Tonkin, the USS Liberty and Gladio through to the Madrid and 7/7 London bombings and robustly catalogues the real story behind the government induced fable. This film contains viable solutions on how we can reclaim human dignity and freedom and prevent the global population from becoming the slaves of a prison planet.
Webster Tarpley on the Real Causes of 9/11 (07/30/2006)
http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/7/29/231258/035
Webster Tarpley has a long background of service in international journalism. His lengthy record of service in the field has provided him with many contacts, which he uses judiciously, as well as an international perspective, enabling him to see well beyond the smoke and mirrors generated by governments functioning as self-serving mechanisms.Tarpley, who received richly deserved praise for an earlier unauthorized biography of George Bush the Elder, which exposed the family's involvement in providing funding for Hitler's Third Reich, has delivered a prolifically researched and dramatic work detailing the real causes of 9/11. He makes the case for continuing investigation into the series of tragedies that transformed the entire world amid the plumes of smoke surfacing from New York's burning Twin Towers.9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in U.S.A., now in its third edition, is an indispensable work in that it tackles the number one issue that America and the world needs to currently confront. CLIP
"Unprecedented" Evacuations & Power-Downs in the WTC Prior To 9/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcUQg3DadaA&NR
6 min. 53 sec. video
Superb Interview: Scientific Proof of WTC Detonation/Official Lies
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=15425
Recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net> who wrote: "1 hr audio for people wanting scientific proof NIST report on 911 is "pathological science" and government story is an absurd lie. This scientist pleads with all Americans to look at the evidence "which is overwhelming" and says that to refuse to do so is "contrary to logic, to science, to reason, to humanity". This is a very intelligent, carefully-prepared radio interview, in layman's terms, of BYU physicist, Steven Jones, on his proof that the WTC towers were detonated and the US government lied. Interviewer Bonnie Faulkner is one of our best journalists and has been doggedly pursuing 911 Truth, attending both national 911 conferences.
9/11 Truth: In-depth Kevin Barrett Interview on Wisconsin TV (August 2 2006)
http://infowars.net/articles/August2006/020806Barrett.htm
This is the best, fairest, most thorough and in-depth interview I've seen on American telelvision in a long time. It makes you realize just how low we've sunk that the way Sean Hannity "interviews" his guests is normal for this day and age.
Journal of 9/11 Studies
http://www.journalof911studies.com/
The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001
State will be testing mass evacuation plans (08/03/2006)
http://www.goedwardsville.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17010405&BRD=2291&PAG=461&dept_id=473648&rfi=6
Governor Rod Blagojevich and Madison County officials announced that a major emergency exercise will be conducted in Edwardsville and surrounding areas to test the state's plans for large-scale evacuations and terrorism response. The exercises will begin on Friday and will, for the first time in Illinois history, test a mass evacuation and sheltering component. This exercise will be the second in the past three months for the state, but will be the largest ever conducted in the state. three-day exercise was conducted in Chicago last May to respond to simultaneous major emergencies. The military will be located in Madison County for six days during the drill which begins Friday. The area of Edwardsville that holds mostly warehouses, Liberty Middle School as well as parts of Madison and Granite City will all be a part of the mock evacuation and terrorism events. (...) Several state agencies will be taking part of the exercise. Those include: the Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, Illinois Emergency Management Agency, Illinois National Guard, Illinois Department of Transportation, Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois Department of Human Services, Illinois Department of Public Health, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the State Fire Marshal, American Red Cross, State Weapons of Mass Destruction Teams, Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System, Mutual Aid Box Alarm System, Urban Search and Rescue Team and the Illinois Medical Emergency Response Team.Air mobilization will come from the Urban Search and Rescue team from Chicago. Wilson stressed these events may look scary, but residents will be notified if an actual emergency takes place and from Friday to Tuesday, all events are staged.
The Second Peoples Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace
http://www.gvnr.com/113/1b.htm
They came by plane, bus, car, ferry, and on foot. Sixty men and women, representing diverse cultures, nations, ages, and languages, travelled to Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, for the Second Peoples Summit for Ministries and Departments of Peace held June 1922, 2006. Speaking with one voice they called on countries around the world to establish government structures whose goal is to work hand-in-hand with civil society reflecting, building, and sustaining a culture of peace.
Iran Says Oil May Hit $100/Barrel
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080506Z.shtml
Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said on Friday global crude oil prices could touch $100 a barrel on geopolitical tension and soaring winter demand.
BP shutting top US oil field Prudhoe Bay due to spill (Aug 7, 2006 ) http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlebusiness.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2006-08-07T014428Z_01_N06274365_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ENERGY-BP.xml
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil producer BP Plc said on Sunday it was shutting down the Prudhoe Bay oil field in Alaska, the biggest in the United States, cutting oil production by 400,000 barrels per day indefinitely. The closure was due to the discovery of severe corrosion and a tiny spill from a Prudhoe Bay oil transit line, BP said, the latest incident to hit its key Alaskan operations and another blow to BP's image in the United States following a deadly refinery explosion last year and a trading scandal. Prudhoe Bay, which pumps about 8 percent of U.S. domestic oil production, is operated by a BP-led group that includes oil majors ConocoPhillips and Exxon Mobil Corp.
World Must Race to Develop Green Energy
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080406EC.shtml
An urgent project on the scale of the Apollo moon landings is needed to boost research into green energy sources and save the planet from environmental disaster, according to Britain's top scientist.
Pacific Coast Dead Zones Linked to Global Warming (August 3, 2006) http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3302
In the latest bad news related to human-induced climate change, scientists last week reported bottom fish and crabs washing up dead on Oregon beaches are the latest victims of global warming, which is reportedly causing oxygen-deprived "dead zones" along a 70-mile stretch of Oregon's Pacific coast. Marine ecologists attribute these dead zones to increasingly explosive blooms of tiny plants called phytoplankton that die and sink to the ocean floor, where they are then eaten by bacteria that consume the oxygen in the water column. The recurring phytoplankton blooms, which scientists first noticed off the coast of Oregon in 2002, are caused by increasingly strong north winds--a symptom of climate change--that result in massive cyclical upwellings of sea water. "We are seeing wild swings from year to year in the timing and duration of the winds that are favorable for upwelling," says Jane Lubchenco, a marine ecologist at Oregon State University. "This increased variability in the winds is consistent with what we would expect under climate change."Unlike localized dead zones that are attributed to agricultural run-off and other forms of pollution in Washington State's Hood Canal and Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta, the coastal Oregon dead zones mirror similar circumstances witnessed recently off the coasts of Namibia and South Africa in the Atlantic and Peru in the Pacific. These cases join the litany of evidence pointing to the increased environmental impact of climate change across the globe.
Sea Urchins Dying off California Coast
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/080406EB.shtml
Hundreds of dead or dying purple sea urchins have washed up into tide pools at a Southern California marine refuge center in recent days, but no one is certain what is killing them.
Real Outer Space Art at the Judah L. Magnes Museum
http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Jonathon_Keats-Outer_Space_Art.html
Berkeley, CA - Concluding centuries of speculation about extraterrestrial intelligence, conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has discovered that a radio signal detected by the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico contains artwork broadcast from deep space. Initially dismissed by researchers as meaningless, the transmission -- which originated between the constellations Aries and Pisces thousands of years ago -- is now claimed to be the most significant addition to the artistic canon since the Mona Lisa, or even the Venus of Willendorf.Painstakingly decoded and transferred onto canvas by Keats, the artwork will be unveiled to the public at the Magnes on July 30, 2006. "This is the ultimate outsider art," notes Keats. "Historically our culture has ignored extraterrestrial artistic expression. Exhibited at the Magnes, the art becomes accessible to everyone." CLIP
Omega-News Collection 5. August 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2486018/