August 31, 2006

Turning Tide of History #19: Birthing a Brave New World

Hello everyone!

Last week I received the following letter from long-time ERN subscriber Joyce Kovelman:

Dear Jean

Your tireless devotion to truth, human rights and factual information is extraordinary. Thank you for your loving service to all of humanity. It is important to know what is occurring, as well as to envision more positive solutions and responses to our present world predicaments. So thank you for also helping us not to fall into despair and hopelessness, but rather to create a more positive, loving and sustainable world. We need to work as a community of light to birth the new.

... To which I replied (in part)

Dear Joyce

I very much appreciate your supportive comment for my work and have included it in my next compilation. (...) BTW Joyce, I'd like to put you to task by asking you to elaborate on how we may actually "work as a community of light to birth the new"... I feel you'd certainly have much more to say on this and trust that, if you are so inspired, you'll propose me something of high spiritual value for inclusion either in my next Meditation Focus (if I receive it before Saturday evening) or in a coming compilation.

... And here is the highly inspirational piece I received from her on August 29.

Birthing a Brave New World

Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D. (© 2006)

This we know: Humanity stands at the precipice. We must quickly decide whether we will continue to desecrate and destroy our planet, or whether we will make the needed changes and sacrifices that allow all of earthly existence to survive and thrive. We are asked to consciously co-create a new reality in which to fulfill our greater, more noble destinies. Indeed it is the very reason that each of us is presently living upon Earth. 

This we know: We are summoned, and how we respond is critical. Do we step up to the plate and begin to make the necessary changes, or do we continue to complain, turn away, and wait for others to change?

This we know: We already recognize where change is needed. We already know what each of us must do to become the change we wish to see in our world. We know that there are needy, sick, poor and homeless; and that every one of us makes a difference. And we all realize that we have come to Earth for just such a moment as this.

We may not fully know how to change, we may not fully know what to do, or even if we can succeed. But begin we must! Humankind will surely perish if we do not try.

This we know: Each world begins with You and Me. All of us are Beings of Energy and Light. We are invited to participate in the most sacred task of creating a new world. We already know that all change and creation begins within. So please take a moment or two, or three or more …. Please enter into the silence and stillness at the very core of your being, and please begin the inner process of creating a sustainable and caring world.

Deep within my heart and soul, there is an absolute certainty that We can create the world we want to dwell within; We can evolve; and We can become a loving, compassionate, sustainable and harmonious humanity. We can make it happen, if we but dare to dream and envision once again. It has always been so.

This we know: A dedicated community of vision and light can bring forth a life sustaining and life affirming humanity. I invite you to become the change you wish to see in your world, to be the action you seek, the inspiration you need, and the love you wish to share. Let us join together in the wonder of conscious co-creation and joy. Let us begin! 

All who wish to respond to Spirit’s Soulful call to help birth a new world – please contact me at ASOUL1@aol.com. Now is the moment to begin. Please join and make it so.

... So as you can imagine, I feel that this wonderfully inspired call deserves our full support and I encourage you all to contact Joyce (with a Cc to me if you'd like to keep me informed of your commitment and reactions to this). Also if you'd like to find out more about her, check her website at http://www.essentialsforasoul.com/ (Check also the ADDENDUM below)

Meanwhile, I have another powerful compilation below for your consideration.

May Peace, Love and Harmony prevail on Earth

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator


ADDENDUM: In my reply to Joyce I asked her the following:

I'm curious also to know what you intend to do with or offer to the people who will reply to you on this. Consider this as your first such reply. What can you tell me if I ask you "What now?"

And she replied:

"I see my article as a Call to Action - and as yours is my first response - I feel we can each do something daily or weekly, big or small - it adds up. We each know within what we can do and it is not helpful for me to explicitly tell other Light Workers how to proceed. What I feel is unfolding is the need for change through action - not just ideas and words (of course, with integrity) and we need to begin. So my Herald's call is to start a supporting circle of those who will begin to not only make the inner changes, but also start to act change and transformation out in the world. I am open to what will unfold with "A committed, dedicated Community of Light Workers who will respond in the Now." The Light Workers are ready, and all they need is a spark to light the way!"

VERY interesting don't you feel... Now it's up to each one of you to add your unique contribution to this emerging "New Ball Game". Let us initiate a global campaign towards collectively coalescing the New Earth! The Countdown has begun...


NOTE from Jean: I case you would miss it in this large compilation below, here is a comment I was moved to write after reading the article by Israeli peace group Gush Shalom's founder Uri Avnery (see "America's Rottweiler" below):

"Now imagine Israelis being loved by their neighbors because of the good they do - if they were to let go of their current circle-the-wagons warmongering mindset - to all people living around their country, bringing food, economic help, humanitarian succor instead of bombs and mayhem... This is the vision I hold for the future of this reborn country, a future of peaceful love-breeding cooperation with all and meaningful atonement for the sinful deeds of the current generation. So is also the vision I hold for this entire living planet and all her inhabitants - soon to be living in harmony, loving each other as brothers and sister of the wonderfully diverse and rich human family, sustaining a brightly evolving world well into the far future and showing the entire universe that a place that looked like hell can become a heavenly paradise for the evolution of all souls. If it can be imagined... it can be achieved.

The seeds of this visionary future is growing right now in the hearts of all sentient loving beings called humans, earthlings in search of Who They Are, awakening from the nightmare of love-deprivation and fear-domination. One for all... All for One... No soul left behind...
All growing in glorious harmony/living/breathing/sharing/shining/BEING Love for one's Universal Self and thus for all... because All IS One..."


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"Millions of people are doing Light Service around the world, most of them doing simply what they feel is the right thing to do, without even labelling themselves as "Lightworkers", a name they probably never heard. By working as countless seemingly uncoordinated agents of change, we act as a leaven in the bread raising the whole world population as we rise spiritually to be Who We Are. The New Earth is being created here and now in the deepest recesses of our soul, collectively and individually, with Light-filled vibes, thoughts, words and actions being spread out rather than through resorting to the "old ways" of the mental frame and rational thinking typical of the dualistic mindset."

- Amanumenoum


"The synergy of like hearts, souls and minds can help create a new world and make the space/time for its manifesting. How each of us do this begins with a heart of peace, rather than war. It begins with what one is most passionate about."

- Joyce A. Kovelman ASOUL1@aol.com>


"We as individuals and as a society really do need to start taking responsibility for our own actions and to stop passing the buck."

Mark


"It's not Israelis who need to go away - it's their current behaviour toward their neighbours. Happy, safe, friendly, open, constructive, collaborative Israelis are undoubtedly welcome in a new Middle East, given a little time, and achieving this would be a key part of the region's transformation, and a potential miracle of our times.

- Palden Jenkins -- Taken from A New Middle East (August 30, 2006)


"It is well to avoid the "magical thinking" that the Star Nations are going to come down and clean up planet Earth for us. That is our proper Human responsibility: to reform and transform our own society. Ethically, the most Star Nations can do is provide a bit of catalyst for such reformation by helping unveil the UFO Cover-Up. What happens next is up to us. There are many lightworkers and Star Seeds embedded in our midst at every level of society. We all need to work in concert to uproot Cabal influence from our midst. Source willing, we shall prevail."

- "Richard Boylan PhD" drboylan@sbcglobal.net> -- Excerpted from an email posted to a small group of correspondents on August 26, 2006


"When a long train of abuses and usurpations [...] evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government."

- Thomas Jefferson, US Declaration of Independence


"The war costs $100 billion a year and it generates an extra $75 billion in annual oil profits. In other words, for every $1 the U.S. government spends on the wars, the owners of the oil companies earn an additional ¢75 in net profit."

- Taken from "Cheap Wars"


"Parapsychology was recognized in 1969, by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as a legitimate scientific field. Originally known as "psychical research" the discipline has been active for over 120 years. A considerable body of research literature exists. Nevertheless, educational offerings in this discipline are appallingly few and far between. The good news is that there is a vast library of literature in parapsychology, metaphysics, consciousness studies, transpersonal psychology and the world's mystical traditions that speaks directly to the yearning of millions for a cognitive framework within which they can begin to interpret and understand their own inner experiences. The bad news is that this wealth of knowledge and wisdom is rarely discussed within our mainstream social institutions. These fields of knowledge are generally regarded as undeserving of attention by educational, scientific, business and religious authorities. As a result, ignorance is widespread - fostering prejudices of many kinds. Furthermore, individuals with psychic talents, or in theological terms, "gifts of the spirit," are too often treated with disrespect, fear and even social contempt. This results in an incredible waste of human talent, that if carefully cultivated and encouraged, could be of great benefit to all of society. The time has come when it must be no more acceptable to prejudicially or contemptuously dismiss a person for claiming to have experienced some psychic event than it is to similarly treat a person due to the color of their skin, their religion, their sex or their sexual orientation."

- Jeffrey Mishlove - Taken from his Manifesto for Psychic Liberation


Worthy of Your Attention

Help Bring the Arctic Refuge into Homes Across America
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/tellafriend.asp
Watch Robert Redford's video, then forward his message!Watch the Video. You can help mobilize one million Americans in defense of the Arctic Refuge before the showdown vote in the Senate.

2012: Ascension, Rebirth and the Dimensional Shift
http://www.weinholds.org/2012_home.asp

Jon Stewart: Bush Debate (And plenty more from Stewart and on Bush through this)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj9EMNrfMOk&NR

VIDEO: Jon Stewart dissects Bush's latest 'desperate soundbites' (VERY FUNNY!)
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/VIDEO_Jon_Stewart_dissects_Bushs_latest_0823.html

Is Bush An Idiot? Dah! (August 15, 2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m211YBCe1iM&mode=related&search=%20BUSHISMS

Voted Best Commercial in Europe
http://www.jibjab.com/JokeBox/JokeBox.aspx?Id=90735&JokeId=22483

Kids with guns
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=277245771309014482

Terror Storm on Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947&q=terrorstorm
Around 800 of Alex Jones and Jim Marrs' closest friends filled the Dallas Lakewood Theater to near capacity on the evening of August 26, 2006, for the Texas Premiere of "TerrorStorm" and to hear Jim Marrs speak. The crowd was diverse; many races, many different political stripes, and people of all ages were in attendance. Jones opened up the evening with a stirring 30 minute speech, putting the "elite" on notice; people are educating themselves about the existence of state sponsored terror as a political tool, and they're not going to take it anymore. Despite the serious nature of TerrorStorm, the crowd was positive, receptive to Jones' message, and the audience gave the film a rousing ovation at its conclusion. Recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net>

How to Brainwash a Nation
http://www.brasscheck.com/videos/spin/bernays1.html
An excerpt from "The Century of the Self": In 2002, Adam Curtis and the BBC released a four-part series called "The Century of the Self." The series tracks how American elites have aggressively used the modern behavioral sciences to persuade, coerce and manipulate the American public into accepting the corporate-government world's version of events as their own. This seven-minute video which I call "The Assassin of Democracy" focuses on one of the most skillful and amoral expert of all the experts in mass manipulation, Edward Bernays. Bernays got his first taste of the power of propaganda during World War I. He advised US presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Einsehower and served numerous corporations and business associations. One of his biggest fans was Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, a fact about which Bernays bragged proudly.In this clip, we see a pattern that Bernays used over and over again: turn a harmless entity into a fearsome enemy through lies and manufactured news items. Then use the "threat" to justify attack. The subject of this video is Bernays campaign against the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1953, but you'll have no trouble seeing that this very same method is being used today. Also recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net>

American Conspiracy: TV Show Promo
http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/american_conspiracy_pilot_promo.htm
An independent TV producer is working on this project. Imagine seeing this on television...

Come to Ground Zero 9/11/06
(...) Ground Zero Rally for Truth at the corner of Fulton and Church Streets. Monday, September 11 Ground Zero 8:00 am - 2:00 pm St Marks 4:30 pm -- The city's official plan for the September 11 memorial service will include four moments of silence to acknowledge the exact times when each plane hit and when each tower collapsed, as it has for the last four years. The victims' names will be read by friends and family members. Church bells will ring. We will all be wearing black 'Investigate 9/11' T-shirts and carrying cameras, DVD's, and leaflets. Please avoid confrontation and conduct yourself in the spirit of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. Louder Than Words will not tolerate or allow themselves to be associated with violence or disruptive behavior. They are bringing 10,000 Loose Change DVDs to hand out. More details through twrl911@gmail.com

9/11 Information Center
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information
This page provides links to a variety of sources of reliable, verifiable information dealing with the 9/11 cover-up. (...) Spread the Word on the 9/11 Cover-up. We have no doubt that by working together we can and will build a brighter future. When we step out of fear, secrecy, and polarization, we choose to join with the ever increasing numbers of people dedicated to working for the good of all in our world. You can make a difference right now by sharing this 9/11 information with your family, friends, and colleagues. CLIP


CONTENTS

1. Now let's tackle the root cause
2. Working Together During The Great Transition
3. Airline Insanity Merely A Beta Test For Police State Caste System
4. Israel feels US will not attack Iran
5. THE CRISIS FACING ISRAEL: Settling for a Draw with Hezbollah
6. Former US President Carter: US and Israel Stand Alone
7. We Need Fewer Secrets
8. As 'America's Rottweiler' Avnery does not see much of a future
9. Israel Must Win
10. The Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon: Their Facts and Ours
11. Why We Fight - Documentary Review
12. Another miserable milestone for Bush's war
13. FDA APPROVES VIRAL ADULTERATION OF OUR FOOD SUPPLY
14. Cascades' Reddened Forests Signal Threat to Humans Rockies'
15. Forests Fall to a Tiny Foe
16. Oceans in Distress
17. Actual Bumper stickers on US cars
18. Movie: Into Great Silence
19. Ain't it the truth
20. Cheated!


See also:

US Preparing to Go It Alone on Iran
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082606Y.shtml
With increasing signs that several fellow Security Council members may stall a United States push to penalize Iran for its nuclear enrichment program, Bush administration officials have indicated that they are prepared to form an independent coalition to freeze Iranian assets and restrict trade.

From Hype To Hysteria: Fox News Selling Preemptive War Against Iran:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/30/fox-selling-iran-war/
Tomorrow marks the deadline for Iran to comply with U.N. demands to suspend portions of its nuclear program. Fox is using the opportunity to sell another preemptive war.

Iran's nuclear programme 'legitimate' if peaceful: Italian FM:
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=139937
"If Iran is looking to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, it is not only legitimate, but can also clear the way for cooperation" with other countries, D'Alema said in an interview on Radio 1.

Rumsfeld: U.S. able to take new fight despite Iraq (August 30)
http://tinyurl.com/epcvp
NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned potential adversaries on Monday that the United States remained capable of responding to military threats at home and abroad, despite its troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan."We are capable of dealing with other problems were they to occur," he told troops at an airfield in the Nevada desert."It would be unfortunate if other countries thought that because we have 136,000 troops in Iraq today, that we're not capable of defending our country or doing anything that we might need to do," he said in response to a question about military options for dealing with Iran.More than three years into the Iraq war, the military is showing signs of stress. The Army and Marine Corps, in particular, must spend tens of billions of dollars to replace and repair equipment. Army officials have said the combat readiness of many units and their ability to take on new missions have suffered. CLIP

Donald Rumsfeld as the serpent
http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20060830/53313650.html
Russia was asked to support a U.S. proposal to use intercontinental ballistic missiles whose nuclear warheads would be replaced with conventional ones to attack terrorists.

Bush Ensured Iran Offer Would Be Rejected
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082406C.shtml
Even before Iran gave its formal counter-offer to ambassadors of the P5+1 countries Tuesday, the Bush administration had already begun the process of organizing sanctions against Iran. A day later, a Congressional report warned that the US was facing "significant gaps" in its intelligence on Iran that could be as serious as the shortcomings in its pre-war knowledge about Iraq, leaving Washington ill-prepared to assess Tehran's military capabilities.

U.S. built major Iranian nuclear facility (August 23)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/chi-060823iran,0,1434982.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front
In the heart of Tehran sits one of Iran's most important nuclear facilities, a dome-shaped building where scientists have conducted secret experiments that could help the country build atomic bombs. It was provided to the Iranians by the United States.The Tehran Research Reactor represents a little-known aspect of the international uproar over the country's alleged weapons program. Not only did the U.S. provide the reactor in the 1960s as part of a Cold War strategy, America also supplied the weapons-grade uranium needed to power the facility—fuel that remains in Iran and could be used to help make nuclear arms. CLIP

Life Under the Bombs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082406N.shtml
Rasha Salti writes, " I am haunted by the nameless and faceless caught under rubble. In the undergrounds of destroyed buildings or simply in the midst of its ravages. Awaiting to be given a proper burial."

Paul Krugman | King George's Crumbling Monarchy
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082406O.shtml
"Somehow political power has fallen into the hands of people who want to dismantle everything that works, and conduct business as if they were running a medieval duchy - or a third world tin-pot dictatorship. (Yes, contractors in Iraq really did receive duffel bags filled with $100 bills.) And it turns out that they can do immense damage in a very short time," writes Paul Krugman. "Remember that FEMA was regarded as one of the best agencies in the federal government at the end of the Clinton years."

War Protesters Follow Bush to Maine
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082706Z.shtml
At every wedding, it seems, something happens not according to plan. Expect the unexpected, planners warn. But how many brides and grooms expect a peace protest? That is what happens when the president shows up for the ceremony in the midst of a polarizing war. About 700 demonstrators marched past the seaside church where President Bush's second cousin was to be married Saturday and then up to the checkpoint guarding the family summer compound to protest the war in Iraq.

Bush's Miserable Vacation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006M.shtml
"Love him or hate him," writes Larry C. Johnson, "President Bush is having a terrible week while trying to catch some downtime in Maine. Watching the self-immolation of the Bush Presidency is certainly a spectacularly sad show. When this week is over and opinion polls are taken, we are likely to see Bush close in on low thirties or high twenties in terms of public support for his presidency. The drumbeat of bad news is incessant."

Lawyers Will Subpoena Bush White House in Phone Company Spying Case
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082906A.shtml
Two lawyers who brought the first lawsuit against the Bush administration, Verizon and AT&T for illegally examining the phone records of virtually every American citizen will announce today that they are serving subpoenas on the Bush White House and on Verizon.

Corporate Globalization and Middle East Terrorism
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14749.htm
It is ironic that the people who think they are the freest are the most controlled people on earth. It is equally odd that those who think they are part of the greatest democracy the world has ever known do not participate in a democracy at all; nor do they recognize one when they see it. These facts attest to how thoroughly the American people have been propagandized by the corporate media. CLIP

Bill for depleted uranium screening passes Senate (8/25/2006)
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=14280
California veterans and members of the U.S. Armed Forces are one signature away from having mandated access to health screenings to determine their exposure to depleted uranium. SB 1720, the Veterans’ Health and Safety Act of 2006, passed with the unanimous approval of the state Senate on Wednesday and is headed to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s desk. The bill, which establishes outreach programs as well as screening tests for veterans, was introduced by state Sen. Wes Chesbro (D-Arcata) in February of this year. It passed the state Assembly with a 61-13 vote on Tuesday. “We feel it’s going to be a great benefit to the many veterans who have been unknowingly exposed,” local Veterans for Peace member Steve Sottong said Thursday. “We’re extremely pleased and very hopeful that the governor will sign it.” (...) “It seems to be a bill that pretty much everybody can get behind,” Sottong noted. “We hope California can become a model for other states on this.”

You Wouldn't Catch Me Dead in Iraq (40,000 US troops have deserted in the Iraq War!)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806J.shtml
Scores of American troops are deserting - even from the front line in Iraq. But where have they gone? And why isn't the US Army after them? They are the US troops in Iraq to whom the American administration prefers not to draw attention. They are the deserters - those who have gone AWOL from their units and not returned, risking imprisonment and opprobrium.

Nine US Soldiers Dead in Two Days
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082906K.shtml
At least 100 people were killed across Iraq yesterday in a day of intense gun battles and suicide bombings, contradicting US military claims that the security situation in the war-torn nation was improving. US forces have lost nine soldiers since Saturday, the military said in press releases, making it a lethal weekend for them as well. Eight of the soldiers were killed by roadside bomb attacks and one by gunfire, according to the brief military statements.

UK Soldier Kills Himself to Avoid Iraq (August 26)
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-08/26/06.shtml
CAIRO — Rejecting his commanders' orders to kill Iraqi children, a British soldier has committed suicide after he was told he could be ordered to shoot dead alleged child suicide bombers in Iraq. (...) Chelsea's death renews concerns about the psychological pressures facing British forces in Iraq. Early August, the Ministry of Defense said that 1,541 British soldiers in Iraq are suffering from psychiatric illness.The BBC said in May that the number of British soldiers deserting military service over the US-led invasion has been on the rise with more than 1,000 personnel absent without leave and failing to return since the war.A recent US study revealed that US troops returning from Iraq have the highest rate of mental health consultation and psychological problems compared to other troops returning from Afghanistan and other trouble spots.

State Department Investigates Israeli Use of US-Made Cluster Bombs
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506C.shtml
The State Department is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in southern Lebanon violated secret agreements with the United States that restrict when it can employ such weapons. A report released Wednesday by the United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center said it had found unexploded bomblets, including hundreds of American types, in 249 locations south of the Litani River.

Is this Bush's secret bunker? (August 28, 2006)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1859815,00.html
Mount Weather is a top-security underground installation an hour's drive from Washington DC. It has its own leaders, police, fire department - and laws. A cold war relic, it has been given a new lease of life since 9/11. And no one who's been inside has ever talked. (...) The changes to its exterior landscape - not to mention the gossip among local residents - are just one sign that that something very important has been going on at Mount Weather, a level of activity not seen here since the days when Eisenhower and his advisers trooped out here during drills. For some, this is a sign of prudent planning in a world where the security calculus has been for ever altered; for others, it is the symbol of an administration with a predilection towards exercising power in secret. (...) John Staelin, a member of the Clarke County Board of Supervisors, says that on September 11, the county's 911 line received a call from an agitated local woman. "She said, 'I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, but the whole mountain opened up and Air Force One flew in and it closed right up. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.' (...) Inquiries to Fema yield little more light. "There's been a general upgrade of security at all federal installations around the country, and Mount Weather is one of them," says spokesman Don Jacks. "I answered your question in a very general way. We're not going to talk about Mount Weather, period. It's not that I can't, we just don't." CLIP

Voice of the White House (August 27, 2006)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=5059
“The posting of an intercepted conversation between an official of the Israeli Embassy and a party at AIPAC has drawn an enormous amount of attention. Nearly all of this is positive, I am told, but a number of parties have wondered how it could be authenticated. If they could advise me as to how they feel this conversation, and the many others I am now in the process of working up , can be authenticated, I will be happy to address the issue. Perhaps a signed, notarized statement from the Israeli official involved might suffice but one has the distinct feeling that such a statement would never issue. The initial conversation between an official of the Israeli Embassy in Washington and someone from the AIPAC, also in Washington, has had a tremendous reception, having been looked at over 100,000 times on our website alone, and has subsequently been reprinted on other websites around the world. To date, we have had no comment from the Israeli Embassy proclaiming it to be false and there is a great deal of internal evidence that lends credence to its authenticity. (...) A: Right. That’s why I say you and your family should leave your nice Big Apple place about the ninth of October and go visit your relatives in Arizona. Then you can watch it on CNN. (...) B: Why that target and not something like the Liberty Bell? Or they could blow up a plane with a lot of top Democrats on board, right? A: If the refinery goes, you can see and hear it in your apartment. No damage to New York but plenty of dramatic fireworks. Keep the media busy for months. (...) Oh, and here’s a nice touch. They want to leave a dead raghead behind, like some guard shot him. I mean someone they have in jail, over there, not here, with a long record of militant activity and I mean well-documented. And one of my man’s people will accidentally discover him nice and dead with all kinds of fake evidence in his pockets, for certain putting the blame on bin Laden. And that’s a joke because bin Laden has been dead since ’03. B: Did we ice him somewhere? A: No. Kidney failure in a paki hospital. He makes a good boogeyman. You know the drill: If you don’t vote for us, the rotten, weak faggot Democrats will take over and bin Laden will rejoice and kill all of you. B: It has worked before as I remember. Red Alerts and duct tape. A: And then we can have real Red Alert days, just before elections. CLIP Recommended by CoetaMills@aol.com

Iraq War Has Bush Doctrine in Tatters
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806D.shtml
Analysts across the political spectrum say the Bush Doctrine - preventive war, choking the roots of terrorism by planting democracy, and brandishing power to force others into line - has failed. Bush's lofty goals, shared even by his critics, have been set back, perhaps decades, by the Iraq occupation.

The Cheney Presidency
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806N.shtml
"George W. Bush has been faulted in some quarters for taking an extended vacation while the Middle East festers. It doesn't much matter; the man running the country is Vice President Dick Cheney. When historians look back on the multiple assaults on our constitutional system of government in this era, Cheney's unprecedented role will come in for overdue notice." Yet, Robert Kuttner writes, "Cheney's shotgun mishap, when he accidentally sprayed his host with birdshot, has gotten more media attention than has his control of the government."

New 'Caught Red-Handed' Report
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14738.htm
Since the Iraq war began, the Republican-led Congress has spent more than $300 Billion on President Bush's failed policy. $18 billion has been awarded to Halliburton, much of which was in "no bid" contracts and $9 billion is missing.

Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082506D.shtml
A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferenccz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld that both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars - Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The Big Lie About 'Islamic Fascism'
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The latest big lie unveiled by Washington’s neoconservatives are the poisonous terms, "Islamo-Fascists" and "Islamic Fascists." They are the new, hot buzzwords among America’s far right and Christian fundamentalists.President George W. Bush made a point last week of using "Islamofacists" when recently speaking of Hezbullah and Hamas – both, by the way, democratically elected parties. A Canadian government minister from the Conservative Party compared Lebanon’s Hezbullah to Nazi Germany.The term "Islamofascist" is utterly without meaning, but packed with emotional explosives. It is a propaganda creation worthy Dr. Goebbels, and the latest expression of the big lie technique being used by neocons in Washington’s propaganda war against its enemies in the Muslim World.This ugly term was probably first coined in Israel – as was the other hugely successful propaganda term, "terrorism" – to dehumanize and demonize opponents and deny them any rational political motivation, hence removing any need to deal with their grievances and demands.As the brilliant humanist Sir Peter Ustinov so succinctly put it, "Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich." CLIP

The new GOP buzzword: Fascism (August 30, 2006)
http://tinyurl.com/h7hu4
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush in recent days has recast the global war on terror into a "war against Islamic fascism." Fascism, in fact, seems to be the new buzz word for Republicans in an election season dominated by an unpopular war in Iraq.Bush used the term earlier this month in talking about the arrest of suspected terrorists in Britain, and spoke of "Islamic fascists" in a later speech in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Spokesman Tony Snow has used variations on the phrase at White House press briefings.Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pennsylvania, in a tough re-election fight, drew parallels on Monday between World War II and the current war against "Islamic fascism," saying they both require fighting a common foe in multiple countries. It's a phrase Santorum has been using for months.And Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on Tuesday took it a step further in a speech to an American Legion convention in Salt Lake City, accusing critics of the administration's Iraq and anti-terrorism policies of trying to appease "a new type of fascism." CLIP

Mexico Leftist to Create Parallel Gov't (August 29, 2006)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/29/international/i141204D66.DTL
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, convinced he won't be awarded the presidency, has vowed to create a parallel leftist government and is urging Mexicans not to recognize the apparent victory of the ruling party's Felipe Calderon.While his party lacks the seats in Congress to block legislation, Lopez Obrador can mobilize millions to pressure his conservative rival to adopt the left's agenda — or to clamp down and risk a backlash. Both scenarios are possibilities as the former Mexico City mayor lays out plans to create his own government to rule from the streets, with the support of thousands who are already occupying protest camps throughout downtown Mexico City. Some predict his parallel initiative — which Lopez Obrador's supporters call the "legitimate government" — could turn those protest camps into the core of a violent revolt, especially if the government tries to shut it down. Such violence broke out in the southern city of Oaxaca after Gov. Ulises Ruiz sent police to evict striking teachers. Outraged citizens' groups joined the protests, setting fire to buildings and public buses, seizing radio and TV stations and forcing the closure of businesses in a city known throughout the world as a quaint tourist destination."Everything we do, from property taxes to permits to natural resources, will go through the 'legitimate government,'" said Severina Martinez, a school teacher from Oaxaca camped out in a tent in Mexico City's main Zocalo plaza. "We won't have anything to do with the official government." Some supporters took out a newspaper ad Tuesday, calling on Lopez Obrador to set up his own treasury department and said all Mexicans "should channel federal revenues to the new treasury department." Lopez Obrador is encouraging his followers to disobey Calderon, whose 240,000-vote advantage was confirmed Monday by the country's top electoral court. The seven magistrates stopped short of declaring Calderon president-elect, but they have only a week to declare a winner or annul the election. "We do not recognize Felipe Calderon as president, nor any officials he appoints, nor any acts carried out by his de-facto government," Lopez Obrador said after the court ruling, which he claims overlooked evidence of fraud in the July 2 elections. CLIP

PBS set to ask if voting rights are 'under assault' (August 30, 2006)
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/PBS_set_to_ask_if_voting_0830.html
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is set to air a segment posing the possibility that the voting rights of many Americans are under attack, RAW STORY has learned. A nation-wide push for laws to target voter fraud is likely to disqualify many who are legally eligible to vote, the PBS program NOW will claim in a segment tomorrow night titled, "Your right to vote -- is it under assault?" A Florida law that could have leveled enormous fines against non-partisan groups organizing voter registration drives, and a Georgia law requiring photo ID at the polls will be put under scrutiny by the program. These laws, NOW will explain, will often prevent legally eligible and registered voters from casting ballots in the upcoming elections--yet many have been approved by the Department of Justice. Minorities, the poor, the elderly and disabled are expected to be hit especially hard. "This is a concerted effort to make sure that certain people don't have the opportunity to vote, that they don't have the opportunity to participate in their own democracy," Georgia state representative Alisha Thomas Morgan will be seen telling the program. CLIP

Al Gore: Democracy Is Under Attack
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082806C.shtml
"Democracy is under attack," Gore told an audience at the Edinburgh International Television Festival. "Democracy as a system for self-governance is facing more serious challenges now than it has faced for a long time. Democracy is a conversation, and the most important role of the media is to facilitate that conversation of democracy. Now the conversation is more controlled, it is more centralized."

Who’s Watching? (2006-08-23)
http://autos.aol.com/article/general/v2/_a/whos-watching/20060816150109990001
Big Brother will be watching you for sure by 2008 -- the year a proposed requirement that Event Data Recorders (EDRs) become mandatory standard equipment in all new cars and trucks will become law unless public outrage puts the kibosh on it somehow. EDRs are "black boxes" -- just like airplanes have. They can record a wide variety of things -- including how fast you drive and whether you "buckle-up for safety." The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) wants EDRs to be installed in every new vehicle beginning with model year 2008 -- on the theory that the information will help crash investigators more accurately determine the hows and whys of accidents. But EDRs could -- and likely will be -- used for other purposes as well. Tied into GPS navigation computers, EDRs could give interested parties the ability to take automated ticketing to the next level. Since the data recorders can continuously monitor most of the operating parameters of a vehicle as it travels -- and the GPS unit can precisely locate the vehicle in "real time," wherever it happens to be at any given moment -- any and all incidents of "speeding" could be immediately detected and a piece of paying paper issued to the offender faster than he could tap the brake. That's even if he knew he was in the crosshairs, which of course he wouldn't. (...) But if you get edgy thinking about the government -- and our friends in corporate America -- being able to monitor where we go and how we go
whenever they feel like checking in on us, take the time to write a "Thanks, But No Thanks" letter to NHTSA at http://dms.dot.gov

Background on the HAARP Project
http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/HAARPbg.html
(...) It would be rash to assume that HAARP is an isolated experiment which would not be expanded. It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would be rash not to associate HAARP with the space laboratory construction which is separately being planned by the United States. HAARP is an integral part of a long history of space research and development of a deliberate military nature. The military implications of combining these projects is alarming. Basic to this project is control of communications, both disruption and reliability in hostile environments. The power wielded by such control is obvious. The ability of the HAARP / Spacelab/ rocket combination to deliver a very large amount of energy, comparable to a nuclear bomb, anywhere on earth via laser and particle beams, are frightening. The project is likely to be "sold" to the public as a space shield against incoming weapons, or, for the more gullible, a devise for repairing the ozone layer.

I want Ruppert to realize this as he sits in Caracas, Venezuela safe and sound.. (August 20, 2006)
http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=66485
As I read Michael Ruppert's piece published here at VHeadline.com, I am angry in the way he depicts the citizens of my country since he has basically renounced his citizenship, by stating that he is a citizen of the world. (...) When Ruppert stated "Few have tried to hold the government accountable for 2,500 Americans who have died needlessly, and those who have, have been remarkably ineffective."While the effect may not be instantaneous, those of us who write for progressive and alternative news sites continue to try instead of fleeing our country. We who choose to stay and fight do so in honor of the framers of this country who gave their life's blood in order to give birth to this ideal, this country and democracy itself. Does one see Michael Moore, Arianna Huffington and other more notable progressive writers fleeing this country? No, they soldier on. I am sure that they have been met with their own personal tyrannies for daring to speak out. CLIP

Rock Frontman Invites Viewing Millions To See Alex Jones Movie (August 27 2006)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/270806rockfrontman.htm
Critically acclaimed rockers Muse cited Alex Jones' new film as one of their influences as frontman Matt Bellamy scrawled "Terror Storm" on the back of his shirt for the band's Saturday night headline gig at the Reading Festival in the UK. The Reading Festival is famous worldwide amongst music lovers and is regularly screened by the BBC to viewers in the UK. Muse are considered one of the best alternative rock bands in Britain and they have played many large stadiums in the United States, in which their fan base is also large and ever-expanding. Following the performance, Bellamy explained the meaning behind the t-shirt to NME, Britian's top selling music magazine." Go to Google Video, type in Terror Storm and you'll find a nice little surprise. It will shed some light on world affairs, put it that way. I rather point you in the direction then preach about it myself," said Bellamy. A BBC news report also picked up on the story." With "terror storm" written on his T-shirt, singer Matthew Bellamy took to a white piano at one point. Afterwards he said they were getting a vibe from the crowd, and in the words of their own song they really seemed invincible." It is very exciting and a boon for the 9/11 Truth Movement to have a major rock band encourage people to watch Terror Storm in front of 80,000 festival goers and millions watching at home on BBC television. The connection between the cultural zeitgeist and the 9/11 truth movement as well as the wider truth movement in general is evergreen and can only help in spreading awareness amongst those who will inherit the battle to preserve all our freedoms - the youth of today. CLIP

If We Were Smart
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006A.shtml
"An Israeli-Palestinian peace can be built on the basis of the nearly completed Taba negotiations, which were only aborted by the elections of Prime Minister Sharon and the abandonment of the peace process by the Bush administration in 2001. That framework is still recognized by many Israelis and Palestinians as a desirable and workable solution to the conflict," writes James J. Zogby

Burning Wetlands Unleash Mercury in Wake of Climate Change
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/082506HA.shtml
Released into the atmosphere most prodigiously with the launching of the industrial age, the toxic element mercury falls back onto Earth, and accumulates particularly in North American wetlands. A new study finds wildfires, growing more frequent and intense, are unleashing this sequestered mercury at levels up to 15 times greater than originally calculated.

Gulf Coast Mourns One Year After Katrina
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/082906C.shtml
In the dark of dawn 65 miles south of this shattered city, several hundred people bowed their heads in silence, marking the moment a year ago when the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed overhead at 6:10 a.m. The tiny town of Buras was swept into the Gulf of Mexico by Katrina, and hours later, New Orleans' crucial levees were breached, unleashing one of the worst natural disasters in US history, killing over 1,800 people, most in Louisiana.

Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His Job Over Pre-Katrina Warnings
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209

11,000 people flee homes as hot toxic mud engulfs villages and farmland (August 24, 2006)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/indonesia/Story/0,,1856933,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12
Prospector accused of causing massive eruption· Residents complain of inadequate compensation - Hot mud gushes from the ground in Porong in East Java. Photograph: Eka Dharma/Getty Four villages and 19 factories have been submerged in a 240-hectare (600-acre) sea of mud in East Java that is growing up to 50,000 cubic metres a day in a major environmental disaster triggered during an oil exploration venture.A few rooftops are still visible, along with hastily constructed dykes which could not hold back the flow of toxic mud that began on May 29 around an oil exploration drilling rig.Eleven miles of dykes are being built by 1,500 soldiers and labourers around the clock to contain the growing catastrophe, in which 11,000 people have lost their homes or been forced to evacuate. The company, which is facing daily protests from residents, now accepts its drilling may have caused the world's largest disaster of its kind. A 100 metre-high column of thick white smoke is visible several miles from Porong district, 22 miles south of Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya, in East Java, and the smell of rotten eggs pervades the hazy tropical air. The mud is up to seven metres deep, and every few seconds the earth jolts and another dollop of hot sediment belches out. Occasionally the mud exits more dramatically, shooting up several metres into the air with a loud "whooosh". The gas stings people's eyes and it is impossible to breathe without taking in the fumes, even with a mask. CLIP

Chemtrails: GAO report admits "chaff" Lab report reveals much more
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20060704.htm
(...) Over the last several months, The IO has received a significant increase in chemtrail-related calls and letters. Most report a dramatic increase in chemtrail "spraying" activity in their areas; some are reporting the development of chronic flu-like symptoms, chronic fatigue and body aches that they have never before experienced. CLIP

Engineers Race to Steal Nature's Secrets (29 August 2006)
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,1860250,00.html
Giant wind turbines based on a seed, and desalination plant that mimics a beetle. A new generation of small green companies is emerging with radical but proven ideas to revolutionise engineering and create anything from intelligent fridges to colossal wind turbines moored at sea. The designers hope their projects will transform energy supplies and cut carbon emissions in the next 20 years. They include huge wind turbines, more powerful than any seen before, anchored to the seabed 20 miles off the coast; fridges that monitor the national grid to use less power; a desalination plant that is also a theatre; and a tidal lagoon that protects the coast while generating electricity. The new companies are rethinking major infrastructure projects using natural objects as their basis. The aero-generator turbine, now being laboratory tested before sea trials next year, mimics sycamore seeds that spin like propellers in the slightest breeze. Its twin arms could each be as tall as the Eiffel tower, and the structure could be moored like an oil platform in 450 feet of water. Each turbine, said Martin Pawlyn, an architect with Grimshaw - which developed the transparent "biomes" at the Eden Project in Cornwall - could produce 20 megawatts of electricity, nearly five times as much as any existing wind turbine. "A cluster of 100 of them spread over just a few square miles of ocean, each turning at just a few revolutions a minute, could outperform almost all Britain's existing wind farms put together," he said. "We are now learning from natural eco-systems, and are scaling up projects. We are going back to first principles, taking our inspiration from nature." CLIP"

An Environmental Disaster Emerges on Lebanon Coast
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/083006EB.shtml
Clean up of the fuel oil spilled by an Israeli air strike has barely begun. Experts are calling it the worst environmental disaster ever in the eastern Mediterranean. Health effects of the spill could be dire. Thousands of families on the Lebanese coast depend on fishing for their primary food supply, but surviving fish may contain hydrocarbons and other carcinogens.


Darfur: UN Troops ASAP, Say Rights Workers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/083006I.shtml
Amid fears that escalating violence could unleash another round of humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan's Darfur region, rights advocacy groups are urging the world community to take immediate steps to protect civilians.

An Antidote to Info Vertigo (28 August 2006)
http://www.fpif.org/fpifzines/wb/3471
Remember 1993? Bill Clinton was sworn in for his first term at the beginning of the year, the Mogadishu debacle took place in October, and the fighting in Bosnia was getting worse. You followed these issues in the newspaper, by radio, or on television. It's not likely you received your news on-line. After all, 1993 was the first year of the World Wide Web. By the end of 1993, there were only 623 websites. Ah, those were the days. The world was at your fingertips. With Mosaic, the first web browser, you could visit the entire Web in a couple days of intensive mousework.Now, according to an article I just found through Wikipedia, there are more than 11.5 billion web pages. The Web is reproducing faster than the human population. Wikipedia itself didn't even exist until five years ago. It now has 1,343,574 articles. Weblogs or blogs began back in 2003. For the past three years, the blogosphere has doubled in size every six months. There are now over 50 million blogs. The verb "to google" debuted not too long ago. OhMyNews, the largest grassroots news service, began in 2000 with 737 citizen reporters. It now has over 41,000 throughout the world.So, what's the relationship between foreign policy and the tremendous upsurge in information and opinion available on the Web? Traditional media have not disappeared. We still read newspapers and watch the television news. But the foreign policy content in these traditional sources has declined (except for the occasional spikes around war). U.S. media coverage of foreign affairs has declined by as much as 70-80% over the last two decades. Foreign news bureaus are downsizing (or simply shutting down).That's where the Web comes in. We now have a virtual infinity (a googolplex, to be precise) of sources to learn about the daily slog of war, poverty, and repression. If you don't like The New York Times, you can get your news from hundreds of alternative sources. And if you don't like depressing news, well, you can personalize your news delivery so that you receive Brangelina 24/7.All of this information is enough to make anyone's head spin. And create a new syndrome: info vertigo. Now everyone can be as time-crunched and info-inundated as the average policymaker. CLIP