April 21, 2006

The Writing on the Wall Series #49: W - The Walking Disaster

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Another epic compilation chronicling the inevitable, unstoppable and soon terminal decline of the Bush horror movie, and the unspeakable crimes his dictatorial reign could still create...

Jean Hudon
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Worthy of Your Attention

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ... and "The Lost Cities of Barsoom" ....
http://www.enterprisemission.com/LostCitiesofBarsoom.htm
Photos of Ancient Cities on Mars

Ongoing Global Poll About First Contact
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/1stcontactpoll.htm
Question: Do you agree at soul level to a global first contact between Earth's inhabitants and benevolent extraterrestrial civilizations? As of April 21, 2006: 91.77% of 717 respondents are in favor...

Google Video UFO
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=ufo
299 clips came up of which 290 are free.

The Hutchison Effect: The Race to Zero Point (New Energy Video)
http://stream.osen.org/aag/Hutchison_RaceToZeroPoint.wmv
(Free windows media player required) This is a fascinating 12-minute video demonstrating inspiring new energy technologies.


CONTENTS

1. 2 Feedbacks
2. Desert Rats Leave The Sinking Ship - WHY RUMSFELD SHOULD NOT RESIGN
3. A Campaign Gore Can't Lose Trailer for Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
4. Ozone Man
5. Scientists Condemn US as Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Hit Record Level
6. Whose Spring? Our Spring!
7. THE JUDICIAL HIJACKING OF THE 9-11 VICTIM LAWSUITS
8. Charlie Sheen Says Media Complicit In 9/11 Cover-Up
9. Bush Defector To Demolish 911 Lies On May 6
10. Iran was not ordered to Stop Enrichment
11. The Ongoing War on Truth in Iraq
12. Iraq War, Round Two
13. Mass Graves Of Children Found Near Montreal
14. How the First Earth Day Came
15. About US to Palestinians: Vote, then starve; democracy as instrument of mass control 16. Tierramerica Reports Aspartame is a Carcinogen
17. Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush
18. Bill Maher's closing monologue a few nights ago
19. Post Turtle


See also:

The Worst President in History? (21 April 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006J.shtml
One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush. (Illustration - WORTH SEEING! - by Robert Grossman) George W. Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history. (...) Even worse for the president, the general public, having once given Bush the highest approval ratings ever recorded, now appears to be coming around to the dismal view held by most historians. To be sure, the president retains a considerable base of supporters who believe in and adore him, and who reject all criticism with a mixture of disbelief and fierce contempt - about one-third of the electorate. (When the columnist Richard Reeves publicized the historians' poll last year and suggested it might have merit, he drew thousands of abusive replies that called him an idiot and that praised Bush as, in one writer's words, "a Christian who actually acts on his deeply held beliefs.") Yet the ranks of the true believers have thinned dramatically. A majority of voters in forty-three states now disapprove of Bush's handling of his job. Since the commencement of reliable polling in the 1940s, only one twice-elected president has seen his ratings fall as low as Bush's in his second term: Richard Nixon, during the months preceding his resignation in 1974. No two-term president since polling began has fallen from such a height of popularity as Bush's (in the neighborhood of ninety percent, during the patriotic upswell following the 2001 attacks) to such a low (now in the midthirties). (...) The monster deficits, caused by increased federal spending combined with the reduction of revenue resulting from the tax cuts, have also placed Bush's administration in a historic class of its own with respect to government borrowing. According to the Treasury Department, the forty-two presidents who held office between 1789 and 2000 borrowed a combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions. But between 2001 and 2005 alone, the Bush White House borrowed $1.05 trillion, more than all of the previous presidencies combined. Having inherited the largest federal surplus in American history in 2001, he has turned it into the largest deficit ever - with an even higher deficit, $423 billion, forecast for fiscal year 2006. Yet Bush - sounding much like Herbert Hoover in 1930 predicting that "prosperity is just around the corner" - insists that he will cut federal deficits in half by 2009, and that the best way to guarantee this would be to make permanent his tax cuts, which helped cause the deficit in the first place! The rest of what remains of Bush's skimpy domestic agenda is either failed or failing - a record unmatched since the presidency of Herbert Hoover. CLIP

Bush, a Crisis Almost Without Equal (19 April 2006) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006A.shtml
Republicans and Democrats alike are starting to face the prospect of what it means to have George W. Bush as their commander in chief for another 33 months - in a time of war, terrorism, and nuclear intrigue. How can the press contribute to confronting the crisis? First: recognize it exists. Thomas Friedman started to do that today. No matter which party they generally favor or political stripes they wear, newspapers and other media outlets need to confront the fact that America faces a crisis without equal in recent decades. Our president, in a time of war, terrorism and nuclear intrigue, will likely remain in office for another 33 months, with crushingly low approval ratings that are still inching lower. Facing a similar problem, voters had a chance to quickly toss Jimmy Carter out of office, and did so. With a similar lengthy period left on his White House lease, Richard Nixon quit, facing impeachment. Neither outcome is at hand this time. CLIP

FOX Poll: Gloomy Economic Views; Bush Approval at New Low (April 20, 2006)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192468,00.html

In the Rubble
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041706O.shtml
As Bush polling numbers creep ever lower, Tom Engelhardt questions how long it will be before some future round of hideous polling figures sets off a full-scale panic in the Republican Party, leading possibly to a spreading revolt of the pols that could put the present revolt of the generals in the shade.

This George Is No WashingtonBy William John Cox (04/11/06)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12704.htm
Each was elected president of the United States, but George the 43rd possesses none of the courage, intelligence, or wisdom of the first. (...) George W. Bush has sometimes quipped that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship; however, it is increasingly clear that the real joke is on the American people. Since taking office, Bush has virtually eliminated the public’s access to government records; he has issued more than 100 “signing statements,” upon signing bills of legislation essentially nullifying any part he does not intend to obey; he has refused to disclose the membership and deliberations of a secret energy panel which formulated government policy; he has suppressed any dissent within government agencies that contradicted his narrow-minded policies; he has punished “whistle-blowers” for revealing government corruption and illegal activities he deployed the military to spy on non-violent protest groups; he authorized the secret and illegal wiretapping of the telephone conversations and e-mails of thousands of American citizens; and he has lied about it – repeatedly. In establishing an imperial presidency, Bush seeks to avoid all accountability and oversight. He has used his “global war on terror” to expand presidential powers far beyond any grant by Congress, even denying that Congress has the power to limit him, if it interferes with his role as Commander in Chief of the military. More importantly, Bush has sought to deceive the American people about his crimes over and over and over, and the risk of harm posed by his criminality continues to increase. The Reagan administration organized “readiness exercises” which called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to round up and detain up to 400,000 “refugees” in the event of “uncontrolled population movements” over the Mexican border into the United States. In January 2006, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $385 million contract to a Halliburton subsidiary to construct detention centers in the United States to cope with “an emergency influx of immigrants into the US, or to support the rapid development of new programs.” Each detention center is designed to hold up to 5,000 detainees, should Bush decide to declare martial law in the event of another terrorist attack or a natural disaster, such as another Katrina or an Asian Flu epidemic. Bush has authorized the military to become engaged in “counter-terrorism” operations inside the United States and to conduct “special access” surveillance programs. The Pentagon’s national Counterterrorism Center now holds the names of 325,000 “terrorism” suspects. It is unknown how many of these “suspects” are American citizens defined as terrorist “affiliates.” The Pentagon’s “Strategy for Homeland Defense and Civil Support” pledges to “transform US military forces to execute homeland defense mission in the ... US homeland.” The military considers antiwar protests to be a “threat” and protestors as “those who would harm us.” The Pentagon’s Civilian Inmate Labor Program (which provides for the use of civilian inmate labor on Army installations) was recently revised. Are these the “new programs?” Should we fear our president? CLIP

New WH Policy Chief Was "Brooks Brothers" Rioter (19 April 2006) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006E.shtml
The man Bush tapped to fill Karl Rove's spot as his policy wizard is none other than Joel Kaplan, who took part in the infamous "Brooks Brothers riot" of 2000. That's when a bunch of Washington GOP operatives, posing as outraged Floridians, waved fists, chanted "Stop the fraud!" and pounded windows in an effort to intimidate officials engaged in the Florida recount effort. In George Bush's Washington, there's no shame in staging a fake protest to undermine a democratic election, apparently: last year, the Washington Post's Al Kamen noted that "the "rioters" proudly note their participation on resumes and in interviews." Kaplan was even the one to cheekily dub the fracas the "Brooks Brothers Riot."

Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush (01/29/06)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11696.htm
Two recent polls, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll and a New York Times/CBS News poll, indicate why Bush is getting away with impeachable offenses. Half of the US population is incapable of acquiring, processing and understanding information.Much of the problem is the media itself, which serves as a disinformation agency for the Bush administration. (...) Americans need desperately to comprehend that if Bush attacks Iran and Syria, as he intends, terrorism will explode, and American civil liberties will disappear into a thirty year war that will bankrupt the United States.The total lack of rationality and competence in the White House and the inability of half of the US population to acquire and understand information are far larger threats to Americans than terrorism.America has become a rogue nation, flying blind, guided only by ignorance and hubris. A terrible catastrophe awaits. [Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.]

Hubris and Neglect - The Imminent Decline of the American Empire? (April 12, 2006)
http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud04122006.html
The miscalculated policies of the US administration in the Middle East are quickly depleting the country's ability to sustain its once unchallenged global position. Winds of change are blowing everywhere, and there is little that Washington's ideologues can do to stop it.The above claim is increasingly finding its way into the realm of mainstream thinking, despite all attempts to mute or relegate its import. A recent speech by US Republican congressman and chairman of the House of international relations committee, Henry Hyde was the focal point of analysis by Martin Jacques in The Guardian. "Our power has the grave liability of rendering our theories about the world immune from failure. But by becoming deaf to easily discerned warning signs, we may ignore long-term costs that result from our actions and dismiss reverses that should lead to a re-examination of our goals and means," Hyde said. In his poignant analysis--decoding Hyde's deliberately implicit thoughts--Jacques argued, "The Bush administration stands guilty of an extraordinary act of imperial overreach which has left the US more internationally isolated than ever before, seriously stretched financially, and guilty of neglect in east Asia and elsewhere." CLIP¨

Bill Bulges With Unforeseen Spending for Guns, Tanks (20 April 2006) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006N.shtml
Senate to take up measure as military fights to keep guns, tanks working. With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat. The cost of the war in U.S. fatalities has declined this year, but the cost in treasure continues to rise, from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in 2004 to $81 billion in 2005 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new Congressional Research Service report found. Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, in today's dollars. The invasion's "shock and awe" of high-tech laser-guided bombs, cruise missiles and stealth aircraft has long faded, but the costs of even those early months are just coming into view as the military confronts equipment repair and rebuilding costs it has avoided and procurement costs it never expected. CLIP

Growth in federal spending unchecked (April 3, 2006)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-04-02-federal-spending_x.htm
Federal spending is outstripping economic growth at a rate unseen in more than half a century, provoking some conservatives to complain that government under Republican control has gotten too big. The federal government is currently spending 20.8 cents of every $1 the economy generates, up from 18.5 cents in 2001, White House budget documents show. That's the most rapid growth during one administration since Franklin Roosevelt. There are no signs that the trend is about to turn around. This week, the House is scheduled to debate the $2.8 trillion budget for 2007, which projects an additional $3 trillion of debt in the next five years. CLIP

Calling Iran's Bluff
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041906D.shtml
"There is one clear standard by which President Bush has asked, over and over, to be judged: his ability to keep us safe from rogue nations or terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction," Robert Scheer writes. "Unfortunately, by any rational definition of that standard, his 5-year administration has been an abysmal failure."

Army report on al-Qaida accuses Rumsfeld (April 15, 2006)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1754348,00.html
Donald Rumsfeld said to have been "personally involved" in a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. 15 Apr 2006 Donald Rumsfeld was directly linked to prisoner abuse for the first time yesterday, when it emerged he had been "personally involved" in a Guantánamo Bay interrogation found by military investigators to have been "degrading and abusive". Human Rights Watch last night called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate whether the defence secretary could be criminally liable for the treatment of Mohamed al-Qahtani, a Saudi al-Qaida suspect forced to wear women's underwear, stand naked in front of a woman interrogator, and to perform "dog tricks" on a leash, in late 2002 and early 2003. (...) The revelation comes at a critical time for Mr Rumsfeld. He is under unprecedented scrutiny for his management of the Iraq war, after six former generals in quick succession called for his resignation.The questions reached such a pitch by the end of the week that George Bush took the unusual step of issuing a personal note from Camp David in Mr Rumsfeld's defence. (...) And, responding to the generals, Mr Rumsfeld said in an al-Arabiya TV interview yesterday: "If every time two or three people disagreed we changed the secretary of defence, it would be like a merry-go-round." However, in the wake of the inspector general's report, Human Rights Watch said: "The question at this point is not whether secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted. General Schmidt's sworn statement suggests Rumsfeld may have been perfectly aware of the abuses inflicted on Mr al-Qahtani."

Rumsfeld Linked to Guantanamo Torture
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041906A.shtml
A leading international human rights group is calling for the Bush administration to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged involvement of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials in the torture of a prisoner at Guanatanamo Bay some three years ago.

Rumsfeld Shouldn't Be Fired. He Should Be Indicted (17 April 2006)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806L.shtml
(...) It's not Donald Rumsfeld's colossal arrogance or his glaring misjudgments we should be focusing on. It's his potential crimes. The mainstream media in the U.S. is giving enormous attention to the retired generals who are demanding Donald Rumsfeld's resignation because of his autocratic style and his bungling in Iraq. But the mainstream media is barely discussing Rumsfeld's alleged culpability in the abusive treatment of detainees, up to and including torture. "The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted," says Joanne Mariner of Human Rights Watch, who directs its terrorism and counterterrorism program.

Rumsfeld Should Go as Iraq Goes "From Bad to Terrible"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041906O.shtml
US Senator Dick Durbin called Tuesday for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to be replaced and said he hopes Congress will debate the issue next week

Baghdad Street Battle Smacks of Open Civil War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041806R.shtml
Snipers held rooftop positions as masked Sunni Arab insurgents said they were gearing up for another open street battle with pro-government Shiite militiamen in Baghdad's Adhamiya district.

20,000 Kidnapped in Iraq Since January: Report (20 April 2006) http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006K.shtml
Karbala - Nearly 20,000 people have been kidnapped in Iraq since the beginning of this year alone, according to a report released on Wednesday. The survey, which underscores the massive social upheaval caused by rebel activity and increasing sectarian conflict, does not give the number of people killed. However, it says that 15,462 people have been wounded. The 19,548 people kidnapped includes 4,959 women and 2,350 children, according to the report prepared by a group of 125 non-governmental organisations and made public in the Shia holy city of Karbala. The high-profile seizure of foreigners in Iraq has numbered only a few hundred since the practice began two years ago and is usually aimed at scoring propaganda points against the US-led occupation. In contrast, the thousands of Iraqis being kidnapped are primarily the victims of political rivalry and of common criminal gangs seeking ransom. CLIPà

Libby: Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041506Y.shtml
Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, according to Libby's grand jury testimony in the CIA leak case and sources who have read the classified report.

Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042006Z.shtml
The grand jury session yesterday in federal court in Washington, DC, sources close to the case said, was the first time this year that Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald told the jurors that he would soon present them with a list of criminal charges he intends to file against Karl Rove in hopes of having the grand jury return a multi-count indictment. In an interview with Jason Leopold on Wednesday, Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove remains a "subject" of Fitzgerald's two-year-old probe.

Cindy Sheehan: Hold Bush Accountable
http://www.truthout.org/multimedia.htm
Cindy Sheehan expresses her anger at the excuses Bush uses for being above the law. Cindy also proposes fitting punishment for the Neo-Cons.

Your Future According to Rockefeller (Hawaii Observer – April 2006)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=4403
Would you like to know the future the Rockefeller group plans for you? Check out this excerpted quote, from a 50-year old book about the family: “Rockefeller by no means neglected their program of converting our government into a totalitarian device for looting. The basic plan was published in 1930 by his intimate friend Hoffman Nickerson in his book, the American Rich. Nickerson’s scheme is to nullify the Constitution by converting our Government into an absolute monarchy. He concludes, the only perfect form of government is hereditary absolute monarchy, but it might be wiser at the start not to violate American sentiment by undertaking to impose it openly. The conversion of President to absolute monarch merely requires the elimination of checks and balances on the power of the President that the framers of the Constitution “unwisely” incorporated into it, to convert his role to that of absolute dictator.” “The key to converting Congress into a mere “rubber stamp’ is the budget plan. If the Presidential elective monarch presents to Congress, year after year, budgets so huge and complex that members could not possibly find the time to read it, and so richly provided with graft and pork barrel for each member of Congress that none of them would dare to sincerely attack it for fear of losing their shares - Congress would eschew the powers granted it by the Constitution. The presidential monarch would easily rob Congress of its Constitutional power to initial any legislation under the pretense of contrived “emergencies” and “crises”…” Does this sound like something we have today? Exxon (ex-Standard Oil) Bechtel and Halliburton, the top profiteers of Iraq are all major Rockefeller outfits.

It's a Family Affair: Bush's War for Rockefeller Oil (December 2003)
http://politicalaffairs.net/article/view/25/1/14
(...) In the pioneering 1957 book, Empire of High Finance, Victor Perlo provides the necessary material to see the present-day dominance of one group, the Rockefellers. Perlo’s 1971 column on the Rockefeller agent, Henry Kissinger (reprinted in the recently published book, People vs. Profits), refers to the Rockefeller group as “the most influential single force in the Wall Street Establishment these days.” The Rockefellers long ago learned to drop to the background and use a stable of agents in business and politics. Fore example, George Shultz headed both Bechtel, the Rockefeller-affiliated construction company, and the State Department. As Perlo showed, every US Secretary of State in the decades after World War II was tied to the Rockefellers. Coinciding with war-induced oil gouging, US energy monopolies’ profits jumped 296 percent in the first quarter of 2003, compared to a year earlier. ExxonMobil topped all companies with $7 billion in profits, up 237 percent. ChevronTexaco recorded $2.1 billion, up 192 percent. (...) Now the US proconsul overseeing the destruction of Iraq is Paul Bremer. Who is he? The long-time protégé of Henry Kissinger, serving first as Kissinger’s aide in the Nixon days, then heading Kissinger’s consulting business. And who is winning the contracts in occupied Iraq? Bechtel – the Rockefeller-dominated construction company; Halliburton, the Rockefeller-dominated oil-services (and now also war-services) corporation. CLIP

Ready for $262 a barrel oil? (April 11, 2006)
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/27/news/international/pluggedin_fortune/index.htm
Two of the world's most successful investors say oil will be in short supply in the coming months.

Spare the Taxpayer, Spur the Economy, Save the Planet
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041406EA.shtml
Shifting taxes from income to environmental "bads," like pollution, could save the planet. As one industrialist said: "Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow the market to tell the ecological truth."

In 2005, Exxon CEO Raked in 190K a Day
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041406G.shtml
Exxon CEO Lee Raymond blamed the problem on "global supply and demand" and assured the public that "we're all in this together." Exxon is giving Lee Raymond one of the most generous retirement packages in history, nearly $400 million, including pension, stock options and other perks, such as a $1 million consulting deal, two years of home security, personal security, a car and driver, and use of a corporate jet for professional purposes.

Bush Pays $187,768 in 2005 Taxes; Cheney Gets $1.94 Mln Refund (14 Apr 2006)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aFOqUzYEgPio
President [sic] George W. Bush paid $187,768 in taxes on taxable income last year of $618,694, according to returns released today at the White House. Vice President [sic] Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, reported owing $529,636 on taxable income of $1,961,157. The couple's total income in 2005 was $8,824,762. The Cheneys are claiming a tax refund of $1.94 million, according to their return, released three days before Monday's filing deadline. (...) Neither Bush nor Cheney paid the federal alternative minimum tax, and both claim residency in states -- Texas and Wyoming -- that don't have income taxes. CLIP

Activists March Against France's Plans to Build New Generation of Nuclear Reactors
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041706EB.shtml
More than 10,000 French activists marched in silence to honor victims of the Chernobyl disaster 20 years ago, part of a larger protest denouncing France's plans to build more nuclear reactors.

Fitzgerald Probe Headed To Switzerland, Marc Rich, Vince Foster And At Least A Trillion Dollars Of Stolen U.S. Treasury Money By The Bush-Clinton Mob; Treasury Agent Leo Wanta, Sent To Arrest Rich, Tells What Really 'Went Down' In Switzerland (15 Apr 2006 )
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/15-Apr-2006.html
Wanta, the legally appointed trustor of $27.5 trillion dollars of money made at the end of the Cold War when the Soviet Currency was destabilized, is now tracing the funds, saying more than $750 billion has been traced as stolen in the biggest bank heist in U.S. history, orchestrated by the Illumnati-controlled Bush-Clinton mob.

Expert View: The joke's on Bush as Chavez strikes it even luckier (16 April 2006)
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/comment/article357889.ece
Estimated oil reserves have just overtaken those of Saudi Arabia - There is nowhere on this earth quite like Caracas. Certainly the business traveller has no shortage of time to admire the physical beauty of its setting - two-hour traffic jams characterise this oil-boom city, where petrol costs a mere tuppence a litre. We'd better get used to it. For Venezuela has just overtaken Saudi Arabia in its estimated oil reserves to become number one in the world. Venezuela is here to stay. When the reports of the country's latest good fortune came through to New York, a banker turned to me and said: "Surely by now George Bush must realise God is not on his side." Even under the old estimates, Venezuela already had its place as a major oil producer guaranteed for the next 80 years. Now it would appear to stretch into infinity. Together with the Middle East, Caracas will be the major force in world energy markets. In Venezuela itself, high oil prices are having dramatic effects. CLIP

STOP CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE!
http://www.ourworldisnotforsale.org/about.asp?about=signon&lang=english
A Statement of Unity from the OUR WORLD IS NOT FOR SALE Network - OUR CHALLENGE“Our World Is Not for Sale” is a worldwide network of organizations; activists and social movements committed to challenging trade and investment agreements that advance the interests of the world’s most powerful corporations at the expense of people and the environment. Against this process of corporate-led globalization, we pose the vision of a global economy that is built on principles of economic justice, ecological sustainability, and democratic accountability, one that asserts the interests of people over corporations. This is an economy built around the interests of the real producers and consumers, such as workers, peasants, family farmers, fishers, small and medium sized producers, and around the needs of those marginalized by the current system, such as women and indigenous people.We believe that a just system must protect, not undermine, cultural, biological, economic and social diversity; put the emphasis on the development of healthy local economies and trade; secure internationally recognized environmental, cultural, social and labour rights; support the sovereignty and self-determination of peoples; and protect national and sub-national democratic decision-making processes. CLIP

John Pilger: Freedom dies quietly (04/13/06) (COMING SOON TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU...)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12719.htm
The bill marks the end of true parliamentary democracy; it is as significant as Congress abandoning the Bill of Rights. (...) Those who fail to hear these steps on the road to dictatorship should look at the government's plans for ID cards, described in its manifesto as "voluntary". They will be compulsory and worse. An ID card will be different from a driving licence or passport. It will be connected to a database called the NIR (National Identity Register), where your personal details will be stored. These will include your fingerprints, a scan of your iris, your residence status and unlimited other details about your life. If you fail to keep an appointment to be photographed and fingerprinted, you can be fined up to £2,500. Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy and every bank will have an NIR terminal where you can be asked to "prove who you are". Each time you swipe the card, a record will be made at the NIR - so, for instance, the government will know every time you withdraw more than £99 from your bank account. Restaurants and off-licences will demand that the card be swiped so that they are indemnified from prosecution. Private business will have full access to the NIR. If you apply for a job, your card will have to be swiped. If you want a London Underground Oyster card, or a supermarket loyalty card, or a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account, your ID card will have to be swiped. In other words, there will be a record of your movements, your phone calls and shopping habits, even the kind of medication you take. These databases, which can be stored in a device the size of a hand, will be sold to third parties without you knowing. The ID card will not be your property and the Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend it at any time without explanation. This would prevent you drawing money from a bank. (...) This government was re-elected with the support of barely a fifth of those eligible to vote: the second-lowest proportion since the franchise. Whatever respectability the famous suits in television studios try to give him, Blair is demonstrably discredited as a liar and war criminal. Like the constitution-hijacking bill now reaching its final stages, and the criminalising of peaceful protest, ID cards are designed to control the lives of ordinary citizens (as well as enrich the new Labour-favoured companies that will build the computer systems). A small, determined and profoundly undemocratic group is killing freedom in Britain, just as it has killed literally in Iraq. That is the news. "The kaleidoscope has been shaken," said Blair at the 2001 Labour party conference. "The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us reorder this world around us."

THE FIRST NATIONAL BIRD FLU SUMMIT (March 7, 2006)
http://newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri5.htm
(...) Discussed in passing was the need to have the police and the military available to control mass panic; the need for “incredibly efficient mass production” of a polyvalent influenza vaccine; and the duty of governments to continue consulting with risk communication experts to “get people to understand the magnitude of the risk.”[2] (...) Throughout the two-day affair a stream of scientists and medical professionals from the audience approached the microphone, repeatedly asking the same two questions: Where is the human serological data that demonstrates the need for all this planning? Is there any evidence that the bird flu is becoming a threat to humans? The uniform response was that all of this hype is based on what was happening to birds; whether or not it will occur in humans remains completely unknown. CLIP

U.S. Plan For Flu Pandemic Revealed (April 16, 2006)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/15/AR2006041500901_pf.html
Multi-Agency Proposal Awaits Bush's Approval

Danube floods: 1,000 miles of devastation, 26-FEET over previous record highs (17 April 2006)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2137746,00.html
The worst Danube floods for a century have brought chaos and destruction to three countries THE Blue Danube of legend was yesterday a torrent of brackish floodwater after it burst its banks in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, causing widespread destruction and raising fears of mass evacuations.Romanian officials began a programme of controlled flooding, after the Danube reached its highest levels for more than a century, to prevent low-lying villages being submerged.The floods have been caused by high rainfall and melting snow from the harsh Balkan winter. Hundreds of houses have been flooded in the region and thousands of people have been made homeless. CLIP

TAKE ACTION: Let Russian government know oil and water do not mix
http://www.waterconserve.org/alerts/send.asp?id=baikal
A controversial Russian crude oil pipeline from eastern Siberia to the Pacific coast threatens the world's largest freshwater lake. The pipeline may pass within less than one kilometer of Lake Baikal -- a UNESCO protected World Heritage site and home to 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Lake Baikal, called the "Jewel of Siberia", is the world's deepest and oldest lake renowned for its water purity and home to tremendous amounts of endemic species including a rare fresh water seal. It is feared that an earthquake, forest fire or flood around Lake Baikal could rupture the pipeline, sending 4,000 tons of crude oil into the world's largest freshwater body in just 20 minutes. Experts, including specialists from the Russian Academy of Sciences, have said the oil pipeline should run as far as possible from the coast of Baikal. Scientists who conducted the state assessment of the plan found that in the event of an earthquake there is a high likelihood that water quality would be severely diminished and permanent damage to the unique wildlife would occur, and thus recommended its construction near Baikal be stopped. There has been strong local opposition to the project for years, including recent protests by Russian environmentalists. Project plans are continually changing, with important questions including whether the pipeline route will fall within the Baikal water catchment still unresolved. Please send an email supporting local campaigns to ensure the final pipeline route steers well clear of Lake Baikal and its watershed, and to promote sustainable development in the Baikal region.

TAKE ACTION: Call upon Bank board to prevent climate mayhem by halting subsidies for deadly fossil fuel projects while greatly increasing renewable energy and efficiency funding
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=world_bank_renewable_energy
The World Bank has failed to promote clean renewable energy and rarely considers climate change when funding fossil fuel and other projects in developing nations. During the World Bank's Spring Meeting on April 22 and 23, they look set to further steer energy policy in the wrong direction. A new report acknowledging the severe impacts of climate change on developing countries is to be considered, but plans will still be put forward to continue investing in fossil fuel projects. Despite World Bank claims it wants to play a lead role in financing renewable energy globally, it is failing to meet targets for increasing finance for renewable energy projects. In 2005 renewable energy and energy efficiency financing by the World Bank accounted for just 9% of the entire Bank's financing in the energy sector. Climate change threatens the Earth and the lives of all of the Earth's citizens, and we must see real progress on the development of sustainable energy if climate mayhem is to be averted. The World Bank must be called upon to promote clean air technologies like wind and solar power, rather than environmentally harmful oil, coal and dam projects. The World Bank must lead in converting the world's energy system to a sustainable basis or step aside.

Meat-Eaters Aiding Global Warming?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041906EA.shtml
Your personal impact on global warming may be influenced as much by what you eat as by what you drive, according to authors of a new study that ranks the energy efficiency of food production. According to researchers, the difference between a vegetarian and a red meat diet "is comparable to the difference between driving an SUV and driving a reasonable sedan."

Omega-News Collection 15. April 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1830708/