MAY LIGHT AND LOVE PREVAIL ON EARTH
September 28, 2007
The Empire of Darkness Series #36: Not a Rosy Picture...
Hello everysoul!
Here is a tiny sampling of what came in my Inbox since my last compilation - only what I could find time to review...
Not looking good!
Incidentally, you might be interested to know that we now have a new guestbook with a new design and new features on the Earth Rainbow Network website. Give it a look at http://users3.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g35-09010-3a
If you feel like joining in the current Meditation Focus #176: Identifying With and Being Who We Really Are this Sunday, it may prove very helpful, as the more we radiate our Light, the more this energy of Peace will be potent in positively influencing world events. There is no turning back to mere human status. We can and we shall expand into fully manifested Christ Consciousness and co-achieve the miracles we came here to co-manifest.
It's that simple :-D
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
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THE QUOTES
"You bring us so much inspiration and uplift, along with exposing all the things that need to be brought to light, discouraging, even daunting as they are. I don't know how you can possibly cover all the inputs you do, but God bless you for running it through your magnificent, open mind and bringing the best of it to your readers."
- Ann Emerson (aemerson@wavecable.com)
"I am always amazed at how much information you process and disseminate with the Earth Rainbow Network website. You are doing such great work for the planet. We are at a very critical time in the evolution of the planetary consciousness, a real cliff-hanger! I visualize a positive, loving and peaceful world every day. It is so easy to get caught up in the illusory darkness. Let there be Light! Let there be Light!"
- John Tibayan (gavjohn333@gmail.com)http://www.globalartistvillage.org/ - http://www.globalartistvillage.blogspot.com/
"It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form of a community - a community practicing understanding and loving kindness, a community practicing mindful living. This may be the most important thing we can do for the survival of the earth."
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist teacher -- Taken from http://www.futureprimitive.org/
"fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in th e rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt !"
- Amouynons
CONTENTS
1. People's reaction to the ERN newsletter
2. Not in Sydenham
3. Burma: People Power Rising - They're shooting monks in Burma
4. The Sept. 15 March on Washington: A New Movement is Emerging
5. The Silence Is Deafening In The Warcast Press
6. Bring light to the slaughter
7. Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address
8. The Nightmare Is Here
9. CONFIRMED DEATH - Minot Base Officials Say Airman Dies While On Leave
10. Be careful, talk to your friends in the military
11. Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike
12. Kissinger Admits Iran Attack Is About Oil
13. A Culture of violence
14. Student Tasered for Armed Madhouse Question to Kerry
15. Cynthia McKinney on Tasered Student
16. Shocking New Revelations On 9/11 Ground Zero Cover-Up
17. Interview Merck Chief of Vaccine Division: Cancer & AIDS in Vaccines
18. Gardasil -- New Video Reveals Hidden Dangers
19. Not the President
WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Declare it Now Campaign
http://www.declareitnow.com/
The Declare it Now Campaign, seeks to make visible the sentiment to Drive out the Bush Regime by Wearing ORANGE
89% believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/?polls=is_open
The Declaration of Independence - VERY MOVING - POWERFUL!! - IT SHOULD BE SEEN BY ALL U.S. CITIZENS
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZxTvS-kyHzs
This is the second part of "A Powerful Performance." Here, the Declaration is read by many popular actors, including Mel Gibson, Michael Douglas, Whoopi Goldberg, Winona Ryder, and others. To hear it read with such zeal is very inspiring. Think of this document whenever you think of the role of government. Recommended by Carolyn Thompson (zarcturian@gmail.com) who wrote: "Super reading by actors!!! It feels like it is just been reborn and against the present King Bush!" Note from Jean: I recommend you watch the unabridged version (14 min 24 sec) at http://youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU
This was posted on YouTube last March 09, 2006 and has been seen ONLY by 12,826 people so far, which is an abysmal shame. The last part is a searing denunciation of the British king which can largely be applied to tyrant George W Bush today...
Bush to World: Up Is Down (September 25, 2007)
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/092507.html
In his annual address to the United Nations, George W. Bush portrayed himself as the great defender of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, even as he asserts his unlimited power to kill, imprison, torture or spy on anyone he wants anywhere in the world without due process. The U.S. President seems to be looking at the world through a prism that turns everything upside down. And he acts as if those who don't see things his way are either evil or blind.
Ron Paul @ Republican Fox Debate 9-5-07
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8BB3NrSpRGE
Why Isn’t Ron Paul Taken More Seriously?
http://donklephant.com/2007/09/06/why-isnt-ron-paul-taken-more-seriously/
This is a question I’ve been asking myself lately, especially after he won yet another post-debate poll yesterday. Seriously, it’s puzzling as to why the public or pundits aren’t taking Paul more seriously. Is it because he doesn’t fit into the mold of what a “conservative” is supposed to be anymore? Is it because his support sprung up from the Internets? What’s the deal?And while I didn’t watch the debate, post-mortems like this make me wonder if there really is a coordinated effort against Paul…
Jon Stewart interview with President of Bolivia
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Jon_Stewart_tells_Bolivian_President_Americas_0926.html
Jon Stewart tells Bolivian president America's elections are 'rigged'
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Jon_Stewart_tells_Bolivian_President_Americas_0926.html
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2006-2007
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/index.htm
#1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person” #2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law # 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources and MUCH MUCH MORE!
PETITION TO SIGN: Investigate Israeli Nuclear Capacity Now
http://www.petitiononline.com/Dimona/petition.html
To Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei - Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) - Following comments and remarks during the week of December 10th 2006 by designated US Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert concerning the fact that Israel possesses nuclear weapons, we demand that the IAEA commence an immediate and comprehensive investigation into this matter. We are extremely concerned about the possibility that Israel, a country which refuses to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP), possesses the capacities to develop and export nuclear weapons and technologies. Moreover, we are concerned that this high level and direct acknowledgement of Israel’s nuclear capabilities will drag the Middle East into a nuclear competition, with all of its dangerous implications for the region and for the world.
UFO PHOTOGRAPHS
http://www.ufoevidence.org/photographs/photohome.asp
This catalog contains over 340 photographs!
More through http://www.ufoevidence.org/
Group Calls on Government For UFO Truth
http://www.wgal.com/video/14118735/index.html?rss=lan&psp=news
A group of citizens and activists who believe the government is hiding the truth about UFOs say officials should uncover close encounters with visitors from outer space. [Video] http://mfile.akamai.com/12877/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2007/0914/14118735.200k.asx [Time: 1:57]
CBS Interviews Disclosure Project Witness Dan Willis
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=2021185951
UFO - FOX News Mexican Air Force
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDOOZ_IPb6Y
The US government must end the embargo on the truth about the UFOs
The Darker Side Of UFOs (9-21-7)
http://rense.com/general78/dark.htm
Recommended by Larry Stellk (lstell@glasgow-ky.com) who wrote: "Most UFO researchers cannot determine if these happenings are caused by UFO Occupants or by Rogue Military Operations pretending to be ET – from by our own government."
Pilot who flew 2 planes used on 9/11 doesn't believe official story (13 sept. 2007)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3606159506368831731
Former Air Force fighter pilot Russ Wittenberg, who flew over 100 combat missions in Vietnam, sat in the cockpit for Pan Am and United for over 30 years, and previously flew two of the actual airplanes that were allegedly hijacked on 9/11 (United Airlines Flight 175 & 93), does not believe the government's official 9/11 conspiracy theory... RUSS WITTENBERG: "I flew the two actual aircraft which were involved in 9/11... Fight number 175 and Flight 93, the 757 that allegedly went down in Shanksville and Flight 175 is the aircraft that's alleged to have hit the South Tower. I don't believe it's possible for... a so-called terrorist to train on a 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding it's design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns,.. pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G's... I couldn't do it and I'm absolutely positive they couldn't do it."
Emergency in Darfur (45 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrxPXvvaCs
Darfur, Sudan is being called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today. Tens of thousands of people have died. Two million more have been forced to flee their homes and livelihoods. For these innocent civilians, living on the edge of survival, their only hope is the dwindling number of humanitarian organizations willing to risk the dangers on the ground in Darfur to provide relief. International Medical Corps was one of the first relief organizations to arrive on the scene in Darfur, and remains there to this day. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC provides help in more than 25 countries and regions worldwide that have been ravaged by war and disaster. IMC's network of some 5,000 doctors, nurses and other health care professionals makes it one of the fastest, most effective emergency response agencies in the world. In Darfur, IMC has been providing critical emergency medical services to a target population of about 300,000. For more information visit http://www.imcworldwide.org. To learn more about this production, and the host and director, Dr. Bob Arnot, visit http://videoactionaid.com
The abandoned monkey who has found love with a pigeon
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/09_02/monkeypigPHTSHT1309_700x463.jpg
They're an odd couple in every sense but a monkey and a pigeon have become inseparable at an animal sanctuary in China.The 12-week-old macaque - who was abandoned by his mother - was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province.After being taken to an animal hospital his health began to improve but he seemed spiritless - until he developed a friendship with a white pigeon.
Tiger & Piglets
http://animalliberationfront.com/News/AnimalPhotos/Animals_1-10/Tiger_piglets.htm
Big Bear Rescue on the Donner Memorial Bridge (September 18, 2007) http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/09/big-bear-rescue.html
Dr. Jane Goodall - I cried when I watched this interview - MUST SEE!
http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1673
She's spent forty-seven years living with, studying, writing about and advocating for chimpanzees. But don't call her just an animal-rights activist. Her institute campaigns for wildlife research, education, conservation, and works to empower women and communities in the Kigoma region of Africa. Dr. Jane Goodall is celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of "The Jane Goodall Institute" this year by lecturing around the world on the challenges and success of conservation projects and improving the lives of the people who live around them.
Spiritual Cinema Circle
http://www.spiritualcinemacircle.com/
In case you don't know yet this invaluable service.
The Voice of the Heart
http://www.du21-12-2007au21-12-2012.org/
A French initiative inviting us all to sing from our hearts for one hour at noon local time on December 21, 2007
The Call to the Angelic Humans
http://www.angelichuman.com/
"Time has come for me to voice that which I AM seeing and have been experiencing for many years. As we are becoming more and more aware of the collapse of the time/ space continuum and as science comes ever closer to manifesting instant creation of light in physicality, there are appearing on earth Angelic Humans originally created as Guardians of this transformational age on Planet Earth. "For many years, I have been aware of people who are different than other human beings-people who share their awareness and souls with the Angelic realm. While this may sound utterly fantastic to some, to those who experience it my awareness has come as an enormous sense of relief when they are able to express how they see life on this planet from their frame of reference-that of an Angelic Human, a member of the human race who is also a member of the Angelic Kingdom. I have found it increasingly fascinating to see movies and television programs given to this identical subject at the same time that it appeared in my reality on earth. "And so, time has come for me to express my knowing and to make a formal calling to all who may feel the nudge that these words stir up within to come forward and make themselves known. In the coming 20 years, the destiny of this planet will be decided by our knowing and our deeds. We are being asked to make a formal commitment to the manifestation of the longing in each heart and experience a DNA Heart Activation that interweaves us into a Golden Chain of Light to encircle the earth. CLIP
Have You Had a Mystical/Spiritual Experience?
http://www.blinston.com/announce.html
Did it happen when you were a child or teenager? Now is your chance to help make a difference! Tell your story and contribute to this very important research. Your assistance, by taking part in this research, will help psychologists and clergy better understand children and teenagers who experience mystical events. What did you experience? Are you willing to fill in a questionnaire and tell your story? You will remain anonymous; your identity will not be revealed. Be a part of a project that may alter the theories of developmental psychology pertaining to the capacity and potential of children and teenagers! CLIP
3rd North American Conference Spirituality of Children and Youth: Sending Our Love to the Future 2007 (November 7 - 11, 2007)
http://www.westga.edu/~childsp/
This groundbreaking conference brings together the freshest thinkers from across disciplines, faith traditions, and cultures, all of whom share a common commitment to sending our love to the next generation. This conference is designed to ENGAGE in dialogue, EXPERIENCE innovative PRACTICES, NETWORK with like-minded folks and NOURISH your inner spirit. How can we best nurture the inner life of young people? What is the spiritual life of young people really like? At this remarkable moment in history, there is fresh opening to the spiritual life of young people. A parent wonders how to nourish a child's character and calling, a teacher seeks to teach the whole child, religious and spiritual leaders look for ways to foster a child's connection to a source of faith, and health care providers seek to catalyze healing and wellbeing. CLIP
GAIALOGUES BROADCAST ARCHIVES - LOTS to listen to!
http://www.futureprimitive.org/FPArchives.htm
Wild Ethics - LOTS of explore!
http://www.wildethics.org
Discover Galantamine
http://www.dreamamins.com/galantamine.html
This extract from plantation grown, Red Spider Lily (Lycoris radiata) has a rich history of use in herbal treatment. For thousands of years people have used it for dream enhancement, as a headache treatment and for its positive effect on recall. CLIP -- In case some of you want to experience lucid dreaming with this quite interesting natural, FDA-approved drug... There is another company that sells this, but this first one above is cheaper. If you know of anyone with memory recall problems or Alzheimer's disease, this can help too. Reading what is at http://www.galantamine.cc/articles/galantamine-articles-4.htm will give you much more info on this and access to another company to buy a more potent version of this supplement.
ALSO RECOMMENDED
Burma death toll may be 'far greater' than reported: British PM (September 28, 2007) MORE ON THIS BELOW
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/18/iraq-weapons/
In his testimony before Congress last week, Gen. David Petraeus confirmed that the United States plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Iraq: Iraq is becoming one of the United States' larger foreign military sales customers, committing some 1.6 billion (dollars) to FMS already, with the possibility of up to 1.8 billion (dollars) more being committed before the end of this year. This move may mean big profits for arms manufacturers in the United States and abroad. But as Salon's Mark Benjamin notes, "Good business doesn't necessarily equal good foreign policy."A recent Government Accountability Report found that the United States has been unable to keep track of the arms it sold in the region. Under Petraeus's watch, more than "110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 Glock pistols, 135,000 pieces of body armor and 115,000 Kevlar helmets issued to Iraqi security forces" have gone missing. U.S. weapons sold to the Iraqi government were also found in Turkey, where they were linked to violent crimes.U.S. officials also acknowledged in June that they were arming Sunni groups who promised to fight Al-Qaeda. But as Center for American Progress Senior Fellows Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis note, the Bush administration's short-sighted strategy is actually contributing to the deterioration of the security situation: First, the United States is arming up different sides in multiple civil wars that could turn even more vicious in the coming years. Second (and more important to America's strategic interests) billions of dollars of U.S. military assistance is going to some of the closest allies of America's greatest rival in the Middle East - Iran. The Shi'a-dominated Iraqi national army and security forces could quite quickly turn their weapons against American troops and allies in the region. Recent statistics also show that the more the United States trains and equips the Iraqi security forces, the more violence in the country increases.
Pentagon seeks 190 billion dollars for Iraq, Afghanistan (Sept 26, 2007)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070926/ts_alt_afp/usmilitarybudget_070926180809
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is seeking nearly 190 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the largest war funding request ever in the six-year-old "war on terror," the Pentagon said Wednesday. Gates was scheduled to testify later before a Senate committee on the request, which was 42.3 billion dollars greater than the administration's estimate when it presented its 2008 budget request in February. "This additional 42.3 billion dollars puts us at just under 190 billion dollars for the global war on terror supplemental request for 2008 -- 189.3 billion dollars," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. The increase was needed in part to cover the cost of maintaining the so-called surge in US forces at least through July 2008, as well as to buy mine-resistant armored vehicles known as MRAPs.
Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484162
Saddam Hussein is said to have offered to go into exile for $1bnGeorge Bush was convinced that Saddam was serious about going into exileSaddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night.Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for £500million ($1billion). The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of talks in February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the President's Texas ranch. The White House refused to comment on the report last night. But, if verified, it is certain to raise questions in Washington and London over whether the costly four-year war could have been averted. Only yesterday, the Bush administration asked Congress for another £100billion to finance the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. CLIP
How George Bush became the new Saddam (Sept 20, 2007)
http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20070920_100442_7900&source=srch&page=1#
COVER STORY: Its strategies shattered, a desperate Washington is reaching out to the late dictator's henchmen. (...)This “Anbar Awakening” has been a slow process, beginning long before the recent U.S. “surge” that increased the number of American troops in Iraq by 30,000, to 180,000. But it is still a shaky union, a desperate marriage of convenience based on shared enemies: Iran, and the Sunnis’ former-friend-turned-foe al-Qaeda. Many of America’s new allies are former insurgents and Saddam Hussein loyalists (Saddam was a Sunni) who only a short while ago were routinely called terrorists, “anti-Iraqi fighters,” and “Baathist dead-enders.” They are suspicious of one another and strongly anti-American, although willing to work, for the moment, with the U.S. The leader and founder of the Anbar Awakening Council, Sheik Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, was recently killed by a roadside bomb outside his house in Ramadi, clearly an inside job of some kind for which al-Qaeda claimed credit. Only 10 days earlier, Abu Risha had met with George W. Bush during the President’s visit to Iraq, the photo op of death, apparently. CLIP
Testimony in Court-Martial Describes a Sniper Squad Pressed to Raise Body Count
http://tinyurl.com/23benc
CAMP LIBERTY, IRAQ, Sept. 27 — An Army sniper is taught to kill people “calmly and deliberately,” even when they pose no immediate danger to him. “A sniper,” Army Field Manual 23-10 goes on to state, “must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety or remorse.”The Reach of WarGo to Complete Coverage »But in a crowded military courtroom seemingly stunned into silence on Thursday, Sgt. Evan Vela all but broke down as he described firing two bullets into an unarmed Iraqi man his unit arrested last May.In anguished, eloquent sentences, Sergeant Vela, a member of an elite sniper scout platoon with the First Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, quietly described how his squad leader, Staff Sgt. Michael A. Hensley, cut off the man’s handcuffs, wrestled him to his feet and ordered Sergeant Vela, standing a few feet away, to fire the 9-millimeter service pistol into the detainee’s head. CLIP
Commentary: Bush fulfills H.L. Mencken's prophecy (September 19, 2007)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/galloway/story/19824.html
It took just eight decades but H.L. Mencken's astute prediction on the future course of American presidential politics and the electorate's taste in candidates came true:On July 26, 1920, the acerbic and cranky scribe wrote in The Baltimore Sun: " . . . all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily (and) adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."My late good buddy Leon Daniel, a wire service legend for 40 years at United Press International, dredged up that Mencken quote several years ago and found that it was a perfect fit for George W. Bush, The Decider. MSNBC's Keith Olberman highlighted the same quote this week. A tip of the hat to both of them, and to Mencken.The White House is now so adorned by Mencken's downright moron, and has been for more than six excruciatingly painful years. It wouldn't be so bad if the occupant had at least enough common sense to surround himself with smart, competent and honest advisers and listen to them. But he hasn't.We inflicted George W. Bush on ourselves — with a little help from Republican spin-meisters, slippery lawyers, hanging chads and some judicial jiggery pokery — and he has stubbornly marched to the beat of his own broken drum year after year, piling up an unparalleled record of failures and disasters without equal in the nation's long history. He inherited a balanced budget and a manageable national debt, and in just over six years has virtually bankrupted the United States of America and put us in hock to the tune of nine trillion dollars — a sum larger than that accumulated by all the 42 other presidents we had in two and a quarter centuries. The man from Crawford, Texas, stood Robin Hood on his head almost from Day One, robbing the poor and the middle class so he could give to the rich and Republican. When the bills for those selective tax cuts, and his war of choice in Iraq, began coming due our president simply signed IOU's for a trillion dollars, with those markers now held by our traditional ally communist China.Although he titillated the Republican conservative base with talk of his opposition to big government, Bush has presided over a far more grandiose expansion of government than even Franklin D. Roosevelt with his New Deal. (...) Throughout this ongoing national catastrophe Bush has kept close around him a coterie of incompetents and ideologues always on guard to defend the indefensible and justify the unjustifiable. They brush the lapels of the emperor's suit of gold and whisper that he is right and God will make him shine in American history.Perhaps the crowning blow came when it was revealed that The Decider is now getting his strategic advice and counsel from none other than Henry Kissinger, the author of genocide in Cambodia; wholesale slaughter in Chile; abandonment of American POWs in Laos; betrayal of South Vietnam, and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. God help us.
Daniel Ellsberg: 'A Coup Has Occurred' (September 26, 2007)
http://consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html
In a remarkable speech, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg warns that the United States will complete its slide into a "police state" if President Bush goes ahead with a war on Iran. Referring to Bush's steady accumulation of power over the past six years, Ellsberg said, "a coup has occurred" and would be solidified by the crisis of an expanded war in the Middle East. To stop this, he urges government officials to live up to their oath of office and defend the Constitution.
DAN RATHER: TASED AND CONFUSED (September 24, 2007) http://www.gregpalast.com/dan-rather-tased-and-confused/
New York- Newly unearthed records reveal that, in 2004, when Americans were in the midst of a brutal electoral battle over whether to reelect a president posing as a war hero, a commanding US reporter, Dan Rather, went AWOL. Just three months before the election, Rather had a story that might have changed the outcome of that razor-close race. We now know that Dan cut a back-room deal to shut his mouth, grab his ankles, and let his network retract a story he knew to be absolutely true. In September 2004 when Rather cowered, Bush was riding high in the polls. Now, with Bush’s approval ratings are below smallpox, Rather has come out of hiding to shoot at the lame duck. Thanks, Dan.It began on September 8, 2004, when Rather, on CBS, ran a story that Daddy Bush Senior had, in 1968, put in the fix to get his baby George out of the Vietnam War and into the Texas Air National Guard. Little George then rode out the war defending Houston from Viet Cong attack. The story is stone-cold solid. I know, because we ran it on BBC Television a year before CBS (see that broadcast here). BBC has never retracted a word of it. But CBS caved. So did Dan. CLIP
The Media Ignore Credible Poll Revealing 1.2 Million Violent Deaths In Iraq (September 18, 2007)
http://uruknet.info/?p=m36417&hd=&size=1&l=e
(...) Another aspect of reality that has no place in the corporate media's painted window was highlighted last Friday with the release (September 14) of a new report by the British polling organisation, Opinion Research Business (ORB). ORB is no dissident, anti-war outfit; it is a respected polling company that has conducted studies for customers as mainstream as the BBC and the Conservative Party. The latest poll revealed that 1.2 million Iraqi citizens "have been murdered" since the March 2003 US-UK invasion. (http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=78) In February, Les Roberts, co-author of the 2004 and 2006 Lancet reports, argued that Britain and America might by then have triggered in Iraq "an episode more deadly than the Rwandan genocide", in which 800,000 people were killed. (Roberts, 'Iraq's death toll is far worse than our leaders admit,' The Independent, February 14, 2007; http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/article2268067.ece) The key importance of the new poll is that it provides strong evidence for this claim, and strong support for the findings of the 2006 Lancet study, which reported 655,000 deaths. Roberts sent this email in response to the ORB poll:"The poll is 14 months later with deaths escalating over time. That alone accounts for most of the difference [between the October 2006 Lancet paper and the ORB poll]. There are confidence interval issues, there are reasons to assume the Lancet estimate is too low but the same motives for under-reporting should apply to ORB. CLIP
Proxy war could soon turn to direct conflict, analysts warn (September 15, 2007)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2169798,00.html
US strikes on Iran predicted as tension rises over arms smuggling and nuclear fears (...) Vincent Cannistraro, a former CIA counter-terrorism chief who is now a security analyst, said: "The decision to attack was made some time ago. It will be in two stages. If a smoking gun is found in terms of Iranian interference in Iraq, the US will retaliate on a tactical level, and they will strike against military targets. The second part of this is: Bush has made the decision to launch a strategic attack against Iranian nuclear facilities, although not before next year. He has been lining up some Sunni countries for tacit support for his actions."US and British officials have complained to Iran about the use by Shia militias in Iraq of what they say are Iranian-made weapons. The main concern is the proliferation of roadside bombs that fire a bolt of molten metal through any thickness of armour, which the officials say must have been made in Iran. A US military spokesman in Baghdad, Major General Kevin Bergner, raised the stakes when he said the 240mm rocket that hit the US military headquarters outside Baghdad this week, killing an American soldier and wounding 11, had been supplied to Shia militants by Iran. CLIP
Attack on Iran Said To Be Imminent (September 28, 2007)
http://www.nysun.com/article/63561?access=245357
In a sign that U.N. Security Council-based diplomacy is losing steam, a number of sources are reporting that a military strike against Iran's nuclear facilities may be imminent. France and America also are pushing for tighter economic sanctions against Tehran, without U.N. approval.Yesterday's edition of Le Canard Enchaîné, a French weekly known for its investigative journalism, reported details of an alleged Israeli-American plan to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. The frontpage headline read: "A report sent to the Elysée — Putin tells Tehran: They're going to bomb you!"The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, also expressed concerns to reporters in New York that an attack on Iran might be imminent. Like most stories in the French paper, the article was based on unnamed sources who said that in order to reduce casualties, the attack against Iran is planned for October 15, the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Israel would bomb the first targets while America would orchestrate a second wave of strikes, the report said.
Cheney mulled Israeli strike on Iran (Sept 23, 2007) http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2323126720070923
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney had at one point considered asking Israel to launch limited missile strikes at an Iranian nuclear site to provoke a retaliation, Newsweek magazine reported on Sunday. The news comes amid reports that Israel launched an air strike against Syria this month over a suspected nuclear site. Citing two unidentified sources, Newsweek said former Cheney Middle East adviser David Wurmser told a small group several months ago that Cheney was considering asking Israel to strike the Iranian nuclear site at Natanz. A military response by Iran could give Washington an excuse to then launch airstrikes of its own, Newsweek said. CLIP
Why Did Israel Attack Syria? (09/27/07)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18469.htm
Nazareth -- Israel's air strike on northern Syria earlier this month should be understood in the context of events unfolding since its assault last summer on neighboring Lebanon. From the leaks so far, it seems that more than half a dozen Israeli warplanes violated Syrian airspace to drop munitions on a site close to the border with Turkey. We also know from the US media that the raid occurred in close coordination with the White House. But what was the purpose and significance of the attack?It is worth recalling that, in the wake of Israel's month-long war against Lebanon a year ago, a prominent American neoconservative, Meyrav Wurmser, wife of Vice-President Dick Cheney's recently departed Middle East adviser, explained that the war had dragged on because the White House delayed in imposing a ceasefire. The neocons, she said, wanted to give Israel the time and space to expand the attack to Damascus. The reasoning was simple: before an attack on Iran could be countenanced, Hizbullah in Lebanon had to be destroyed and Syria at the very least cowed. The plan was to isolate Tehran on these two other hostile fronts before going in for the kill. CLIP
Revealed: Israel plans nuclear strike on Iran http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1290331.ece
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran's uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons.
Charlie Rose interviews Iran President
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/166.html
Before you believe the media’s hate propaganda about Mahmud Ahmadenijad, the president of Iran, watch Charlie Rose’s interview with him. Remember, Iran has never attacked anyone, but it has been invaded many times throughout history. According to the president of the country, Iranians are a peace-loving culture that is Pro-American. The Zionist-controlled press is demonizing him so that we will go along with an attack on Iran. It’s about an hour long.
Democrats Were Charged To End A War, Not Start One
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18474.htm
Joe Lieberman wrote the resolution authorizing the invasion of Iraq that was passed with Democratic support on October 11, 2002. Lieberman's new resolution setting up a Bush-Cheney invasion of Iran passed by 76 to 22 with Democratic backing on September 26, 2007. These are two dates that will live in infamy in the 21st century.
BREAKING: Lieberman-Kyl’s Iran amendment passes. (27 Sep 2007)
http://thinkprogress.org:80/2007/09/26/breaking-lieberman-kyls-iran-amendment-passes/
By a vote of 76-22, the Senate passed the Lieberman-Kyl amendment, which threatens to “combat, contain and [stop]” Iran via “military instruments.” Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) called the amendment “Cheney’s fondest pipe dream” and said it could “read as a backdoor method of gaining Congressional validation for military action.” CLIP
Lieberman SNEAKING An Iran War Declaration Through The Senate (9-25-2007)
http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=024289
Here is the language from the amendment:(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.The policy of the U.S should be to "combat" Iran with "all" "military instruments"?!? You can be absolutely certain that those are the ONLY words Dick Cheney and George Bush will see or care about.
Dare To Compare - Israel
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18455.htm
Let's not forget that Israel is a rogue state in possession of the fourth largest military force in the world. Israel amasses an arsenal that includes biological and chemical weapons and more than 200 nuclear warheads. Israel is rightly considered by the overwhelming majority of people
Abizaid Comes Out Against War With Iran
http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/09/abizaid-comes-o.html
General John Abizaid, the longest serving CentCom commander in history, says we can live with a nuclear Iran. "I believe that we have the power to deter Iran, should it become nuclear...Let's face it, we lived with a nuclear Soviet Union, we've lived with a nuclear China, and we're living with (other) nuclear powers as well."
20 Generals opposing Iraq war break with military tradition (September 23, 2007)
http://tinyurl.com/3cg95h
Retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton: "The ethos is: Give your advice to those in a position to make changes, not the media. But this administration is immune to good advice." Retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste: "I had a moral obligation and a duty to do so. I have been speaking out for the past 17 months and there is no turning back." The generals acted independently, coming in their own ways to the agonizing decision to defy military tradition and publicly criticize the Bush administration over its conduct of the war in Iraq.What might be called The Revolt of the Generals has rarely happened in the nation's history. In op-ed pieces, interviews and TV ads, more than 20 retired U.S. generals have broken ranks wit the culture of salute and keep it in the family. Instead, they are criticizing the commander in chief and other top civilian leaders who led the nation into what the generals believe is a misbegotten and tragic war. The active-duty generals followed procedure,sending reports up the chain of command. There tired generals beseeched old friends in powerful positions to use their influence to bring about a change. When their warnings were ignored, some came to believe it was their patriotic duty to speak out, even if it meant terminating their careers. It was a decision none of the men approached cavalierly. Most were political conservatives who had voted for George W. Bush and initially favored his appointment of Donald Rumsfeld as defense secretary. But they felt betrayed by Bush and his advisers. CLIP
Blackwater ‘may be worse than Abu Ghraib’ (September 26th, 2007) http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13008.html
To describe the ongoing Blackwater scandal as a fiasco would be a dramatic understatement. Not only do we have a situation in which private security contractors stand accused of killing Iraqi civilians without provocation, we also have deep divisions brewing between the Pentagon and the State Department, coupled by State stonewalling a congressional investigation.A confrontation between the U.S. military and the State Department is unfolding over the involvement of Blackwater USA in the shooting deaths of Iraqi civilians in a Baghdad square Sept. 16, bringing to the surface long-simmering tensions between the military and private security companies in Iraq, according to U.S. military and government officials.In high-level meetings over the past several days, U.S. military officials have pressed State Department officials to assert more control over Blackwater, which operates under the department’s authority, said a U.S. government official with knowledge of the discussions. “The military is very sensitive to its relationship that they’ve built with the Iraqis being altered or even severely degraded by actions such as this event,” the official said. “This is a nightmare,” said a senior U.S. military official. “We had guys who saw the aftermath, and it was very bad. This is going to hurt us badly. It may be worse than Abu Ghraib, and it comes at a time when we’re trying to have an impact for the long term.” At this point, the State Department seems to be treating Blackwater contractors as the agency’s own private army, accountable to no one outside the department. The Maliki government believes Blackwater is a criminal enterprise, the Iraqi people resent Blackwater’s presence, the Pentagon believes Blackwater is lying about the Sept. 16 incident in Nisoor Square, and congressional Democrats have questions about what has transpired — which the State Department refuses to answer. This is a debacle so severe and humiliating, only the Bush administration could pull it off. CLIPO
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Being “Guarded” by Israel (September 26, 2007)
http://tinyurl.com/2jaut7
American supporters of Israel were delighted to learn that an Israeli company, Magal Security Systems—owned in part by the government of Israel—is in charge of security for the most sensitive nuclear power and weapons storage facilities in the United States. The largest perimeter security company in the world, Magal started out as a division of Israeli Aircraft Industries (IAI)—which was owned in part by the government of Israel. In recent years, however, Magal evolved into a publicly-traded company, although IAI (and thus the government of Israel) still holds a substantial share in the highly successful firm.What all of this means is that the government of Israel will actually have control over the security of America’s nuclear weapons.Supporters of Israel say that this is a splendid idea, since Israel is said to be perhaps America’s closest ally on the face of the planet. However, there are some critics who question the propriety of America’s super-sensitive nuclear security being in the hands of any foreign nation, particularly Israel which, even today, officially denies that it is engaged in the production of nuclear arms.
Mind Control: Americas Secret War (43 min)
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/video/092007.htm
In preparation for two people coming up in our October interviews, we thought we should prepare you with this documentary from the History Channel. U.S. intelligence agencies spent millions on top-secret mind control projects with a goal of creating totally dependable, programmable human robots. The projects involved brutal, often terminal experiments on thousands of unwitting citizens in direct defiance of law, all ethical codes, and the most basic human rights. We talk to author John Marks, who broke the story of the CIA's experiments known as MK-ULTRA and a woman whose past was erased by a brainwashing experiment.For an abundance of reliable, verifiable information further describing these and other top secret mind control programs and their impact on our world, see the Mind Control Information Center at http://www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrolinformation. For an excellent two-page summary of the top secret government mind control projects, including numerous, verifiable footnotes, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/mindcontrol
RIGHTS-EUROPE: Torture Flights Could Land Again
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39424
BRUSSELS, Sep 27 (IPS) - Seven months after a major investigation spelt out Europe's involvement in a murky U.S. torture and kidnapping programme, the EU's governments have claimed they are powerless to prevent such human rights abuses in the future.In February, an inquiry committee in the European Parliament concluded that at least 1,245 flights operated by the Central Intelligence Agency flew into European airspace or stopped at the continent's airports between the end of 2001 and the end of 2005. As well as citing evidence that the aircraft were used to transport torture victims, the report urged that all military or police overflights in Europe should only be granted clearance in return for assurances on the respect of human rights. But Portugal, the current holder of the EU's presidency, claimed Sep. 26 that the Union has no legal power to monitor the CIA in that way. CLIP
Dollar's Retreat Raises Fear of Collapse
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091407R.shtml
Carter Dougherty for The International Herald Tribune reports on the dollar's falling value: "For longer than most economists would have been willing to predict a decade ago, the world has been a willing partner in American excess - until a new and homegrown financial crisis this summer rattled confidence in the country, the world's largest economy."
Saudi Arabia Set to ABANDON U.S. Dollar! Ouch! (Sep 21, 2007)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/9/21/172410/823
(...) Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates in lockstep with the US Federal Reserve for the first time, signalling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East. "This is a very dangerous situation for the dollar," said Hans Redeker, currency chief at BNP Paribas."Saudi Arabia has $800bn (£400bn) in their future generation fund, and the entire region has $3,500bn under management. They face an inflationary threat and do not want to import an interest rate policy set for the recessionary conditions in the United States," he said. The Fed's dramatic half point cut to 4.75pc yesterday has already caused a plunge in the world dollar index to a fifteen year low, touching with weakest level ever against the mighty euro at just under $1.40.The danger is that this could now accelerate... leaving America starved of foreign capital flows needed to cover its current account deficit - expected to reach $850bn this year, or 6.5pc of GDP. Foreigners have funded 25pc to 30pc of America's credit and short-term paper markets over the last two years."They were willing to provide the money when rates were paying nicely, but why bear the risk in these dramatically changed circumstances? We think that a fall in dollar to $1.50 against the euro is not out of the question at all by the first quarter of 2008," he said. CLIP
Israel Asks U.S. Foreign Aid Be Paid in EUROS
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/3689
China Goes, So Goes the Dollar? (September 24, 2007)
http://crooksblog.sovereignsociety.com/2007/09/china-goes-so-g.html
Dollar Mixed, Gold Rises in Europe
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5169322.html
The U.S. dollar fell to a record low against the euro for the sixth straight trading day and was mixed against other key currencies in European trading Thursday. Gold rose.
The Credit Crisis Could Be Just Beginning
http://snipurl.com/1rbvz
Massive levels of debt underlying the world economic system are about to unwind in a profound and persistent way.
America's Police Brutality Pandemic - By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18460.htm
Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Ironically, Bush's "war on terror" has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing US civil liberty and turning an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic.
Federal Approval To Travel WITHIN The US Soon? (9-20-7) !!!!!
http://rense.com/general78/fedd.htm
Buried in the September 5 issue of the Federal Register, was a notice that Thursday, September 20, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) will hold public hearings on their so-called Secure Flight Plan. http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p102/484384.pdf Come with me into a nightmare world where American citizens will have to obtain permission from the government before they can travel by air in the U.S. Your government (meaning the Department of Homeland Security) is up to no good. Beginning in February 2008, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will implement their "Advance Passenger Information System (APIS)," the gist of which is that you will need permission from the United States Government to travel on any air or sea vessel that goes to, from or through the U.S. The travel companies will not be able to issue a boarding pass until you are cleared by DHS. This applies to ALL passengers, US citizens and visitors alike. And how do you get said permission to travel? That's for your government to know and you to never find out. Now TSA proposes to do for domestic travel what APIS will do for international routes. That's what I said: the new TSA rule would require that you obtain PERMISSION to travel within the U.S. Here is the summary of their proposed rules, which seem so reasonable, couched as they are in the blandness of governmenteez [emphasis added]. (...) Edward Hasbrough states that these rules are more insidious than merely complying to demands for ¨Your papers please.¨ He states, The proposal ... require[s] that travellers display their government-issued credentials not to government agents but to airline personnel (staff or contractors), whenever the DHS orders the airline to demand them. But since the orders to demand ID of [certain passengers] will be given to the airline in secret, ... travellers will have no way to verify whether ... demands for ID are actually based on government orders. Think about that: you will not be allowed to verify if the person demanding your papers is actually authorized to do so. In addition, the airlines or their contractors (or sub or even sub sub contractors) have the right, under the proposed rules, to do anything they like with your personal information including: keep copies of your passport ... as long as they like, use it, publish it, broadcast it, sell it, rent it, or pass it on to whomever they please.... [T]hey would have no obligation to get your permission for any of this. Aside from the privacy issue, this is the DHS. Their past performance is an indication of future returns and we can look forward to true travel nightmares beginning February 19, 2008. Just think about the mess that occurred when CBP demanded that travelers to Canada and Mexico have a passport. Multiply that by orders of magnitude to imagine what travelers will be facing. If you can, please attend the TSA hearings on Thursday (Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H Street, N.W. beginning at 8:00am). If you can´t attend in person, you have until October 22, 2007 to submit written comments through the Docket Management System. The docket number is TSA-2007-28572. The Identity Project at Papers Please is working to prevent your government from robbing you of your right to privacy in your movements.
Homeland Track Internet Anti-War Sites (September 25, 2007)
http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=49382
Two articles on "Homeland Security" activities have been recently posted by the Internet "alternative press." One presented Homeland's push to track 'Net sites, the other to restrict domestic travel. Neither have been covered by the mainstream media, including talk radio, apparently, and both are indicative of the unrestrained nature of massive bureaucracies such as those built under the current administration. Here is the first story that has been attracting much attention: CLIP
The Homeland Security Vacuum Cleaner
http://papersplease.org/wp/2007/09/21/the-homeland-security-vacuum-cleaner/
An Identity Project investigation into the incredible amount of personal information collected by DHS was published yesterday. Titled “Homeland Security’s Data Vacuum Cleaner In Action”, the report documents how DHS keeps track of your race, what you read, where you sleep and with whom you associate. CLIP
Call for Paying Third World Countries to Save Rain Forests
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/091407EB.shtml
NewKerala.com reports that "Scientists have urged the first world nations to help Third World countries preserve their rain forests. Poor nations must be rewarded for resisting economic pressure to clear rain forests, they said."
Bush To Skip U.N. Talks On Global Warming (September 24, 2007)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/09/24/bush-to-skip-un-talks-o_n_65558.html
Dozens of world leaders are to gather at the United Nations on Monday for a full agenda of talks on how to fight global warming, and President Bush is skipping all the day's events but the dinner. His focus instead is on his own gathering of leaders in Washington later this week, a meeting with the same stated goal, a reduction in the emissions blamed for climate change, but a fundamentally different idea of how to achieve it. Mr. Bush's aides say that the parallel meeting does not compete against the United Nations' process -- hijacking it, as his critics charge. They say that Mr. Bush hopes to persuade the nations that produce 90 percent of the world's emissions to come to a consensus that would allow each, including the United States, to set its own policies rather than having limits imposed by binding international treaty.
George Hunt: UN UNCED Earth Summit 1992 - The dark side of the sustainable development movement (September 25, 2007)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/250907_b_Hunt.htm
Very Interesting short feature made in 1989 that documents the beginning of the hijack of the environmental movement by the elite in order to usher in more restriction and a policy of population reduction. Everything covered is now unfolding before our eyes. Note: The quality of the video is not the best but it is almost 20 years old.George Hunt, a business consultant, was present at the 1987 Fourth World Wilderness Congress as a member of the staff. He initially wanted to buy a ticket, but this proved to be much too expensive ($650). At the conference he noticed it had very little to do with the conventional environment movement and was surprised to see people like Maurice Strong, Edmund de Rothschild (Pilgrims Society), David Rockefeller (Pilgrims Society), and James A. Baker (Pilgrims Society; Cap & Gown; trustee American Institute for Contemporary German Studies; Atlantic Council of the United States; National Security Planning Group; Bohemian Grove; CFR; Carlyle; advisor George W. Bush in his 2000 election).(Article continues below)In his two videos, produced in 1989 and 1992, he plays audio recordings of several of the 1987 speakers, including Maurice Strong and Edmund de Rothschild.
United States Carbon Footprint Tables
http://www.eredux.com/states/
Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming (20 March 2003)
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/sun_output_030320.html
In what could be the simplest explanation for one component of global warming, a new study shows the Sun's radiation has increased by .05 percent per decade since the late 1970s.The increase would only be significant to Earth's climate if it has been going on for a century or more, said study leader Richard Willson, a Columbia University researcher also affiliated with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The Sun's increasing output has only been monitored with precision since satellite technology allowed necessary observations. Willson is not sure if the trend extends further back in time, but other studies suggest it does. "This trend is important because, if sustained over many decades, it could cause significant climate change," Willson said. In a NASA-funded study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, Willson and his colleagues speculate on the possible history of the trend based on data collected in the pre-satellite era. "Solar activity has apparently been going upward for a century or more," Willson told SPACE.com today. Significant component - Further satellite observations may eventually show the trend to be short-term. But if the change has indeed persisted at the present rate through the 20th Century, "it would have provided a significant component of the global warming the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports to have occurred over the past 100 years," he said. That does not mean industrial pollution has not been a significant factor, Willson cautioned.Scientists, industry leaders and environmentalists have argued for years whether humans have contributed to global warming, and to what extent. The average surface temperature around the globe has risen by about 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1880. Some scientists say the increase could be part of natural climate cycles. Others argue that greenhouse gases produced by automobiles and industry are largely to blame.Willson said the Sun's possible influence has been largely ignored because it is so difficult to quantify over long periods. CLIP
Earth's Axis Tilt Has recently increased by an additional 26 degrees
http://www.divulgence.net/
NOTE from Jean: This claim reported by David Fiske (fiskedavid@hotmail.com) seems totally ludicrous to me. How could such a massive change go unreported worldwide? I checked to see if this has been discussed somewhere on the web and found this from http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=180890 --
"Crackpottery. And poorly done crackpottery at that. Of 21 bits of "evidence" listed, only one of them (#4) has anything whatever to do with actual analysis of the issue. All the others are simply pulled from the usual global warming grab bag of anecdotes."
How this 12inch miracle tube could halve heating bills (September 15, 2007)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=481996&in_page_id=1965
It sounds too good to be true - not to mention the fact that it violates almost every known law of physics. But British scientists claim they have invented a revolutionary device that seems to 'create' energy from virtually nothing. Their so-called thermal energy cell could soon be fitted into ordinary homes, halving domestic heating bills and making a major contribution towards cutting carbon emissions. Even the makers of the device are at a loss to explain exactly how it works - but sceptical independent scientists carried out their own tests and discovered that the 12in x 2in tube really does produce far more heat energy than the electrical energy put in. The device seems to break the fundamental physical law that energy cannot be created from nothing - but researchers believe it taps into a previously unrecognised source of energy, stored at a sub-atomic level within the hydrogen atoms in water. The system - developed by scientists at a firm called Ecowatts [a holding of Gardner Watts] - involves passing an electrical current through a mixture of water, potassium carbonate [potash] and a secret liquid catalyst, based on chrome. This creates a reaction that releases an incredible amount of energy compared to that put in. If the reaction takes place in a unit surrounded by water, the liquid heats up, which could form the basis for a household heating system. If the technology can be developed on a domestic scale, it means consumers will need much less energy for heating and hot water - creating smaller bills and fewer greenhouse gases. The device has taken ten years of painstaking work by a small team at Ecowatts' ... laboratory, and bosses predict a household version of their device will be ready to go on sale within the next 18 months.
Prisons Book Purge, Flu Shots, Collecting Data on Travelers, More
http://www.WantToKnow.info/070928prisonsbookspurgeflushotseffectivenesstravelersdata
These news articles include revealing information on the purge of religious books in U.S. prisons, questions about the effectiveness of flu shots for the elderly, the collection of personal data about U.S. travelers, and more.
Omega-News Collection 15 September 2007
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4261615/
Omega-News Collection 22. September 2007
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4282837/
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Date: 15 Sep 2007
From: Kelley Elkins elkins_delgado@yahoo.com">
Subject: People's reaction to the ERN newsletter
Thank you, Jean, for the Earth Rainbow Network newsletter. I always take the time to go through it... sometimes I read a lot of it, sometimes I do not.... However there are always awesomely good articles/stuff in it...
With regards to people being shocked by the contents, I say good. I feel like people need a little shock simply to wake up and/or to be reminded there is personal work to do. Unfortunately, many people tend to be so very asleep that the horror and terror movies sell the most tickets because it takes that for these people to feel anything. This is why mainstream news, be it print or radio or tv, will continue to put out the most horrendous pictures, stories and footage.
Those people who (think they) are in control spend a lot of money and time to keep many people asleep and insecure...so that these same controllers can be there for them. This allows the sleepers to successfully pretend to feel safe and loved. I remind myself daily that this is so, every time I see a sticker supporting any aspect of our present regime and its insanity.
And this is what I know:
1) Mother Goddess IS in control;
2) Ignorance is not bliss, it is slavery;
3) I can only change myself and if I am not changing my programs/tapes in my subconscious then I have only myself to blame;
4) I am the only person responsible for MY freedom, MY sovereignty and My peace of mind. And no one can take that away from me unless I give my authority away. A government cannot "give" me freedom. Freedom cannot be fought for. Freedom is a personal experience. If a person feels that the freedom they wish to have is not available where they live, then move.
And yes, there are a large number of people who do not want this responsibility. There are even failings of this in our currency, the medical system, our drivers license and every form of "license"...and in most of our present governments/religions/state and many corporations.
We live in a nation where our personal authority has been given away decades ago. However, I am choosing to let go of control and be in charge of my life. Moving those tapes/programs that do not support my aliveness, my freedom , my sovereignty.
I release the need to interact with any and all authorities outside of myself and I replace this with the loving Light of Source... I AM my own free agent.
Thanks Jean...and do rave/love on.
In Truth, Simplicity and Love,
Rev. Dr. Kelley Elkins
'Nam 1970-71
PO Box 429
Dona Ana, New Mexico 88032
http://www.anextstep.org
A Next Step...light center for emotional healing
elkins_delgado@yahoo.com or kelley@anextstep.org
Visit us at http://www.anextstep.org/html/NL_Archive.html where you can now read all our newsletters from our archives.
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From: David Fiske (fiskedavid@hotmail.com)
Subject: Not in Sydenham
Date: 16 Sep 2007
Dear Jean, your energy is inspiring. Below a response on how I deal with the stress of the negative news.
Love,
David
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Not in Sydenham
For long it has amazed me that there aren’t more critical comments on the size of the human population. Few people it seems have read Daniel Quinn (“Ishmael” and “The Story of B”, amongst others).
So many of our societal troubles come exactly from too many people competing for too few resources. Where I grew up in South Africa (Western Cape ) the population has increased 10 fold since 1947. 400,000 to 4 million. It is now the murder capital of the Western World and is a place I will be happy never to see again as I prefer my happy memories of childhood to remain intact.
How does one deal with the rapidly changing conditions in the world? In 30 years the Arctic will be ice free and the polar bears will be extinct in the wild. This is cause for tears. Nothing can stop this.
Humans next.
Humans will be beset by one crisis after another for we have chosen catastrophe as our way of change.
Read: http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=281
So my question is how do we emotionally survive as this happens?
I’ll tell you what seems wise to me and it came to me some months ago when I started my usual rant on there being too many people to a technician during a bone density test.
She said, "Too many people? Surely not in Sydenham."
And there aren’t. I look out over a lake and see forest to the horizon.
This then is what I do when I get emotionally charged by all that goes on. When talk of bombing Iran, Bush declaring martial Law, this conspiracy that conspiracy depress me I remind myself of where I live.
Here, right now I can see “paradise”. I have harvested 113 garlic bulbs, am digging red, white and blue potatoes (my French wife enjoys these colours). My garden is bountiful, full of birds and I live in harmony with my environment. I feel blessed by my situation.
I contribute to Greenpeace, Green Party, David Suzuki and PETA. I send out loving thoughts. The expansion of my Light Body causes itching. I scratch. Meditation takes me to no “I”. There is a vast Joyous Space beyond me. Nothing to do, nothing to gain.
The future will be chaotic, but here, in Sydenham, right now, today, it is a beautiful world.
I hope I have done with enduring the downward spiral the negative, tragic news gave me. Humans have made their choice. Suffering will come. Getting depressed before the event doesn’t help. In my heart I know peace and joy. Now I would like to be a tonic of good cheer for the world. I have ranted about what is wrong long enough.
There are little miracles. Twice this summer I have heard the most musically charming song from a blue jay. Yes, a blue jay renowned for its unpleasant raucousness sat once in my pear tree and once on the bird feeder and sang so sweetly to me. It was lovely. I thanked it.
So I do my Chi Kung. Circle my hands over my head connecting earth, sky and planets and run the energy down to my feet.
Where I am, where I stand, energy and power are in balance, my heart is at peace, birds sing, the world is beautiful. There is nothing more to be done.
We can sing raucously or we can sing sweetly. A choice.
Isn’t it all a marvel?
Even our choices.
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Date: 24 Sep 2007
From: Paul Hilder (avaaz@avaaz.org)
Subject: Burma: People Power Rising - They're shooting monks in Burma
Dear friends,
After decades of brutal dictatorship, the people of Burma are rising--and they need our help.
Peaceful protesters numbered 20,000 on Saturday, 30,000 on Sunday, 100,000 today. By the end of this week, they could win a new life for their country. In the past, Burma's military rulers have massacred the demonstrators and crushed democracy. This time it can be different--but only if the world stands with the Burmese. We're launching an emergency global petition demanding that the UN Security Council (and key Burmese ally China) press the Burmese generals to negotiate with the demonstrators, not crush them. Click below to sign the petition, we'll deliver it every day that this crisis lasts:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/d.php?cl=20006103
Hope is hanging by a thread in Burma. Please act right now, tell everyone you know, and show Burma's rulers that people power is rising, on their own streets, and around the world.
AND THEN ON SEPT 27, THEY SENT THIS:
Clicking below will add your name to this petition to Chinese Premier Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council:
"We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and democracy in Burma. We pledge to hold you accountable for any further bloodshed."
http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_burma/i.php?cl=21005160&signup=1
The Burmese protests are widening, the international response is building--and the Burmese generals are panicking. Today the Burmese junta banned gatherings of more than 5, and sent thousands of troops to take control of the street -- but still the monks and protesters march. Desperate officers have beaten, tear-gassed and fired on their own people, reportedly shooting five monks in Rangoon.
The next 36 hours are crucial. Leaders have called an emergency session of the UN Security Council--but only a decisive initiative will prevent a massacre like the one from 1988. Already 85,000 people from 192 countries have signed our emergency global petition.Please click the link below to sign (a single click will add your name), then send this email to others so they can too--we'll send the updated petition to the Chinese government and the UN Security Council members every day:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iy-MfhLN9Q7MwtQ1VlrvexLjr2dA and http://www.uscampaignforburma.org/.
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Related article:
Myanmar monks' three demands (SEPTEMBER 27, 2007) http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6164D6D9-E42A-4A96-8305-F7AC526A56BC.htm
Uppekha is Buddhist monk and member of the All Burma Buddhist Monks Alliance, one of the groups that has led the wave of anti-government protests in Myanmar. Based at a monastery in the northern city of Mandalay, Uppekha said he and other monks at the monastery wanted to join the protests, but that their monastery had been surrounded by soldiers. Speaking by telephone from inside the monastery, he told Al Jazeera of the measures the monks were calling for: "There are three steps that we want. "The first step is to reduce all commodity prices, fuel prices, rice and cooking oil prices immediately. "The second step – release all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and all detainees arrested during ongoing demonstrations over the fuel price hike. "The third step – enter a dialogue with pro-democracy forces for national reconciliation immediately, to resolve the crisis and difficulties facing and suffered by the people. Uppekha said he had expected more help from the UN and emphasised that all the protests had been peaceful.He said: "We have a chance to create our own rights. We have a chance to create our own freedom. "We are peaceful demonstrators but the government is taking this violent crackdown. We are suffering violence from a military junta. "We dont understand why the UN aren't helping us. They are just talking, talking, blowing in the wind."
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Recommended by Michael Wong (mlwong@jps.net) who wrote: "This is the time for us to take bold action, not to be afraid of the forces of darkness and their fear manipulations!"
From: http://tinyurl.com/yppzhb
The Sept. 15 March on Washington: A New Movement is Emerging
By Brian Becker
The Sept. 15 March on Washington was unique.
The energy, the youth, the multitude of new people who were joining a protest for the first time; the large number of Iraq war veterans as well as active duty service members; the determination of Gold Star family members to unite together in the streets against the war that stole the lives of their children and the inspired willingness of thousands to die-in and risk arrest—these were the features that made Sept. 15 somewhat more akin to the militant marches and actions that became a characteristic feature of the movement that helped end the Vietnam War.
The people who attended knew this to be true. This was not the same crowd strolling down the street. What the people saw and felt and experienced and knew to be true could not be easily erased by the typically bad, cynical and misleading corporate media coverage.
Tens of thousands of people, led by Iraq war veterans, Gold Star families whose loved ones were killed and other veterans, marched shoulder to shoulder across eight lanes of Pennsylvania Avenue. The police suddenly locked together barricades which were taken down just as quickly as the Iraq veterans led the march straight up the broad sidewalk leading to the Congress where they were again violently blocked by platoons of riot clad police.
People marched forward towards the steps of the Capitol determined to carry their anti-war message as the heavily armed police attacked and blocked peaceful protestors. Thousands joined a Die-In and symbolic funeral for the US Servicemembers and the legions of Iraqis who have perished in this criminal endeavor. Police reinforcements with shields and helmets marched down the steps of the U.S. Capitol building with guns and sticks in hand.
Iraq war veterans and the family members of soldiers and marines, joined by thousands upon thousands of high school and college students, stood face to face with a line of armed force that prevented their forward march to redress grievances for an illegal war and occupation.
Police forced Iraq War veterans and elderly veterans of other wars face into the ground and tied their hands behind their backs. Men and women in fatigues, students, mothers of soldiers and members of the American Muslim community were taken away in handcuffs and marched or dragged up the long Capitol steps.
More than 190 were arrested in all and when they were brought to jail together it was obvious that their spirit and solidarity was a testament to their determination to resist the war machine. Throughout the demonstration, and among those who were detained too, a collective spirit was crystallizing. Almost everyone could sense that something was new.
People were held on busses, many in tight cutting handcuffs, until the early morning hours. When finally processed at the police vehicle garage where everyone was held, people were directed to a door leading to an alley uncertain where they were, what they were to do or what would happen next as the door closed behind them. But as each person stepped outside a few yards and was seen a great cheer went up and across the street they saw people on the grassy embankment waiting for them. ANSWER organized hundreds of supporters and a legal team that stayed outside the jail all night long and greeted each newly released person with coffee, food, rides to the bus station or home if they lived in the DC area.
Before the action the government undertook significant efforts to try to suppress and repress the organizing efforts. The ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) was slapped with $38,000 in fines for putting up 194 posters that were legally wheat pasted announcing the Sept. 15 action. ANSWER was told they had to be taken down immediately, and refused. Instead, we filed a suit with the Partnership for Civil Justice challenging the constitutionality of the government’s actions.
When ANSWER held a press conference in front of the White House to protest the fines, the police from the National Park Service arrested the speakers and organizers—and horse-mounted police charged into the assembled media.
Ironically, this police attack in front of the White House came hours after Laura Bush gathered the media together inside the White House to condemn the police crackdown of “pro-democracy activists” in Myanmar.
If anything, the government’s attempts to suppress these efforts not only failed but also drew additional thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands, of angry people to the streets.
CLIP - Read the rest at http://tinyurl.com/yppzhb
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Related article:
AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN REFLECTS ON THE SEPT. 15 MARCH
http://tinyurl.com/22kkky
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From: Larry Stell (lstell@glasgow-ky.com)
Subject: The Silence Is Deafening In The Warcast Press
Date: 16 Sep 2007
September 16
Thousands march in D.C. war protest
By MATTHEW BARAKAT - Associated Press Writer
War of Words: Protestors Take on Iraq War
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Several thousand anti-war demonstrators marched through downtown Washington on Saturday, clashing with police at the foot of the Capitol steps where more than 190 protesters were arrested.
The group marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war. Their numbers stretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and they held banners and signs and chanted, "What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now."
Army veteran Justin Cliburn, 25, of Lawton, Okla., was among a contingent of Iraq veterans in attendance.
"We're occupying a people who do not want us there," Cliburn said of Iraq. "We're here to show that it isn't just a bunch of old hippies from the 60s who are against this war."
Counterprotesters lined the sidewalks behind metal barricades. There were some heated shouting matches between the two sides.
The arrests came after protesters lay down on the Capitol lawn in what they called a "die in" - with signs on top of their bodies to represent soldiers killed in Iraq. When police took no action, some of the protesters started climbing over a barricade at the foot of the Capitol steps.
Many were arrested without a struggle after they jumped over the waist-high barrier. But some grew angry as police with shields and riot gear attempted to push them back. At least two people were showered with chemical spray. Protesters responded by throwing signs and chanting: "Shame on you."
The number of arrests by Capitol Police on Saturday was much higher than previous anti-war rallies in Washington this year. Five people were arrested at a protest outside the Pentagon in March when they walked onto a bridge that had been closed off to accommodate the demonstration, then refused to leave. And at a rally in January, about 50 demonstrators blocked a street near the Capitol, but they were dispersed without arrests.
The protesters gathered earlier Saturday near the White House in Lafayette Park with signs saying "End the war now" and calling for President Bush's impeachment. The rally was organized by the ANSWER Coalition and other groups.
Organizers estimated that nearly 100,000 people attended the rally and march. That number could not be confirmed; police did not give their own estimate. A permit for the march obtained in advance by the ANSWER Coalition had projected 10,000.
Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan told the crowd is was time to be assertive.
"It's time to lay our bodies on the line and say we've had enough," she said. "It's time to shut this city down."
About 13 blocks away, nearly 1,000 counterprotesters gathered near the Washington Monument, frequently erupting in chants of "U-S-A" and waving American flags.
Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson, speaking from a stage to crowds clad in camouflage, American flag bandanas and Harley Davidson jackets, said he wanted to send three messages.
"Congress, quit playing games with our troops. Terrorists, we will find you and kill you," he said. "And to our troops, we're here for you, and we support you."
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Associated Press writer Christine Simmons contributed to this report.
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Related article:
At Least 100,000 Converge in DC to March Against Iraq War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091607Z.shtml
Matthew Barakat reports for the Associated Press that an estimated 100,000 antiwar protesters "marched from the White House to the Capitol to demand an end to the Iraq war" Saturday. "Their numbers stretched for blocks along Pennsylvania Avenue, and they held banners and signs and chanted, 'What do we want? Troops out. When do we want it? Now.'"
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From: phyllism5@juno.com
Date: 16 Sep 2007
Subject: Bring light to the slaughter
I once heard the scientist Machio Kaku state that we are one of the few planets that still kills its own species! He said it keeps us at zero (out of nine levels) so we can't move up and join the federation. I pray that more and more of us will wake up and become conscious so we can let go of our barbaric ways and become humanitarians to all.
Phyllis M
What Bush's invasion would look like in the United States
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/Miasmaya/iraq_costs-2.gif
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq 1,044,607
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html
Sign the Petition to Congress
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 3781
http://icasualties.org/oif/
Cost of U.S. War and Occupation of Iraq
$452,066,326,580
See the cost in your community
http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182
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Related article:
Is War Between Humans Always Inevitable?
http://www.fathom.com/feature/122508/index.html
From long before Homer wrote the Iliad right into the twenty-first century, war appears to have been an ever-present feature of the human landscape. Some have theorized that the natural human instinct leans towards peaceful coexistence, and that the prevailing state of affairs is the byproduct of male aggression. In this extract from his book War and Gender, Joshua Goldstein holds that there is no empirical evidence to support the idea that war is a latter day phenomenon.
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From: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/bush-s14.shtml
Bush calls for permanent US military occupation of Iraq in nationally televised address
By Barry Grey
14 September 2007
President Bush’s nationally televised speech, delivered Thursday evening from the Oval Office, was the low point of a week of lies and absurdities designed to justify the United States’ bloody colonial war in Iraq. The ugly farce began with the congressional testimony Monday and Tuesday of Gen. David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, and US Ambassador Ryan Crocker.
Bush cited their fraudulent assessment of the “success” of the military “surge” to outline a perspective for continuing the American occupation of Iraq and transforming the country into a permanent American protectorate, whose vast oil resources will be exploited by US oil companies, and whose territory will be used as a staging ground for military attacks on Iran and a strategic base for American domination of the Middle East.
Bush was, as usual, shameless in his piling up of lie upon lie, beginning with his portrayal of a gradual reduction in the 30,000 additional combat troops sent to Iraq in the military escalation he announced last January as a “new phase” in the war that could see a significant decline in fighting and troop levels. As is well known, the phasing out of the surge is dictated by the lack of additional forces to replace troops whose tours of duty will be coming to an end.
Once again, Bush portrayed the US occupation as a struggle for “freedom” against “terrorists and extremists,” denying that the real enemy of US imperialism is the broad mass of the Iraqi people, who form the backbone of the popular resistance to the hated American occupiers.
The surge, he said, was aimed at “securing the Iraqi population” and bridging “sectarian divides.” In fact, recent studies have shown that the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has doubled since the surge began, and the country has become far more polarized along sectarian lines, with ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods in Baghdad and elsewhere proceeding at an accelerated pace.
Bush spoke of peace and security breaking out in regions, such as Anbar and Diyala, which have been “cleared”—a euphemism for bloody repression and military violence. He gave an absurd picture of an almost idyllic Baghdad, with schools and markets reopening and sectarian violence receding. In fact, large parts of Baghdad have been turned into virtual concentration camps, enclosed by high concrete walls, patrolled by US armored vehicles, and kept under permanent curfew.
The so-called “security” of the Iraqi people has taken the form of tens of thousands of additional people rousted from their homes and thrown into prisons. So hellish is the situation that a recent poll of Iraqis reported 79 percent favoring the withdrawal of US troops and 59 percent supporting violent attacks against them.
Bush again warned that the withdrawal of American troops would result in a “humanitarian nightmare,” an apt description of the social destruction and human horror that US is perpetrating every day it remains in the country.
At times Bush’s pronouncements seemed delirious, as when he thanked the “36 nations who have troops on the ground in Iraq.”
Perhaps the greatest absurdity is the claim, made by Petraeus and Crocker and repeated by Bush, that Sunni Anbar province proves the success of the surge and vindicates the US strategy in Iraq. In fact, the US has achieved a fragile peace with Sunni sheiks in the province by bribing them with tens of millions of dollars in “reconstruction” funds.
If anything, the turn to an alliance with Sunni forces is more a sign of desperation and perplexity than of strategic foresight. Less than a year ago, US strategy in Iraq was based on an alliance with Shia sectarian forces, who continue to dominate the puppet government in Baghdad. When that policy collapsed, the US turned to its opposite, laying the basis for a further division of the country along sectarian lines and an intensification of civil warfare.
Just how stable the US position in Anbar really is was demonstrated by the assassination only hours before Bush’s speech of the Sunni sheik who had led the tribal leaders aligned with the US, and with whom Bush had met ten days previously.
The heart of Bush’s speech was an allusion to the perspective of permanent US military and political control over Iraq. Iraqi leaders, Bush said, “understand that their success will require US political, economic and security engagement that extends beyond my presidency. These Iraqi leaders have asked for an enduring relationship with America.”
The speech was punctuated by threats against Iran, pointing to the growing danger that the war cabal in Washington will expand the conflict, with incalculable and tragic consequences. Bush spoke of “Iranian-backed militants” and “the destructive ambitions of Iran,” and declared that the “efforts by Iran and Syria to undermine [the Iraqi] government must end.”
The fact that Bush feels himself in a position to even make such a speech is due, above all, to the cowardice and complicity of the Democratic Party. Ten months after congressional elections in which the electorate voted against the Bush administration and the war and brought the Democratic Party into power in both houses of Congress, troop levels are substantially higher and all talk within the political establishment of an early end to the war has virtually ceased.
In his speech, Bush made a calculated appeal to the Democrats, knowing that their opposition to the war is fraudulent and that sections of the congressional Democrats are looking for a way to back the administration. Addressing “members of the United States Congress,” he said, “Let us come together on a policy of strength in the Middle East. I thank you for providing crucial funds and resources for our military. And I ask you to join me in supporting the recommendations General Petraeus has made and the troop levels he has asked for.”
In the Democratic response, Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed failed to even mention the November 2006 elections. He spoke of “redefining” and “changing” the US mission in Iraq, not ending it. This is in line with the decision of the Democratic congressional leadership to drop any demand for deadlines or timetables for withdrawing troops.
As one CNN commentator aptly noted, the actual difference between the Bush administration and the Democrats comes down to whether troop levels by the end of the current administration should be 130,000 or 100,000.
The Democratic Party, which provided Bush with the votes he needed for congressional authorization of the war, has supported every request for war funding, and is preparing to support another $190 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Democrats have worked deliberately and systematically since gaining control of Congress to divert, contain and exhaust popular opposition to the war.
On the eve of Bush’s speech, the Democratic-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $459.6 billion Pentagon funding bill, including a $40 billion increase in military programs. Combined with the $190 billion in supplemental war funds, the total military budget for the new fiscal year will be $650 billion—an 11 percent increase over current levels and, in real terms, far higher than total defense spending at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Related article:
British polling agency: More than one million Iraqi deaths since US invasion (15 September 2007)
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/sep2007/orb-s15.shtml
As part of its campaign to justify a long-term US occupation of Iraq, the Bush administration has increasingly resorted to warning of chaos and even genocide in the wake of a withdrawal of American troops. But a new report suggests that something akin to genocide is already taking place, under American auspices.The British polling agency ORB reported Thursday that the death toll in Iraq since the 2003 US invasion has passed the one million mark. According to ORB, US-occupied Iraq, with an estimated 1.2 million violent deaths, has “a murder rate that now exceeds the Rwanda genocide from 1994 (800,000 murdered),” with another one million wounded and millions more driven from their homes into internal or external exile. (...) The survey found that 48 percent of the violent deaths were due to gunshot wounds, 20 percent to car bombs, 9 percent to aerial bombardment, 6 percent to other ordnance or explosions, and 6 percent to accidents.The figure for aerial bombardments is particularly noteworthy since such deaths—numbering well over 100,000 according to the ORB study—go virtually unreported in the American media. This is doubtless because such killings are entirely the work of the US and British occupation forces, the only ones equipped with helicopters and warplanes. CLIP
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From: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18393.htm
The Nightmare Is Here
By Bob Herbert
09/15/07 "New York Times" -- -- We've heard from General Petraeus, from Ambassador Crocker, and on Thursday night from President Bush. What we haven't heard this week is anything about the tragic reality on the ground for the ordinary citizens of Iraq, which is in the throes of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.
President Bush may not be aware of this. In his televised address to the nation he warned that a pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq could cause a "humanitarian nightmare."
A trusted aide should take the president aside and quietly inform him that this nightmare arrived a good while ago.
When the U.S. launched its "shock and awe" invasion in March 2003, the population of Iraq was about 26 million. The flaming horror unleashed by the invasion has since forced 2.2 million of those Iraqis, nearly a tenth of the population, to flee the country. Many of those who left were professionals marked for death - doctors, lawyers, academics, the very people with the skills necessary to build a viable society.
The Iraq Ministry of Health reported that 102 doctors and 164 nurses were killed from April 2003 to May 2006. It is believed that nearly half of Iraq's doctors have fled. The exodus of health care professionals in a country hemorrhaging from the worst kinds of violence pretty much qualifies as nightmarish.
While more than two million Iraqis have fled to other countries, another two million have been displaced internally. According to the Global Policy Forum, a group that monitors international developments:
"Most of these internally displaced persons, or I.D.P.'s, have sought refuge with relatives, or in mosques, empty public buildings, or tent camps.... I.D.P.'s live in very poor conditions. Public buildings are particularly unsanitary, often overcrowded, without access to clean water, proper sanitation and basic services, in conditions especially conducive to infectious diseases."
Iraqis are enduring most of their suffering out of the sight of the rest of the world. International relief organizations and most of the news media are largely kept at a distance by the insane levels of violence.
Access to safe drinking water is a problem in much of the country. (The World Health Organization was asked to help with a recent outbreak of cholera in parts of Kurdistan that is believed to have been caused by polluted water.) Sanitation facilities are routinely crippled by violence and sabotage. The economy, like the country's infrastructure, is in shambles.
The worst aspect of the nightmare, of course, is the rain of death that has descended on Iraq since the U.S. invasion. Controversy has surrounded virtually all attempts to estimate the number of civilian casualties, but no one disputes that the toll is staggering.
The U.S. government has behaved as though these dead Iraqis were not even worth counting. In December 2005, President Bush casually mentioned "30,000, more or less" as the number of Iraqis killed in the war. The White House later said there were no official estimates of Iraqi deaths.
We shouldn't be so cavalier. Based on all available evidence, it seems unreasonable to believe that fewer than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed thus far. Many very serious scholars believe the total is much higher.
As for the number of wounded and disabled Iraqis - men, women and children who have lost limbs, or been paralyzed or otherwise maimed in air, rocket and bomb attacks - no one has a real grasp of the size of the problem.
"Just considering the number of the dead and the number of displaced, this is probably the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world," said James Paul, the executive director of Global Policy Forum, which recently compiled an extensive report on the war and occupation. "This is the biggest displacement of people in the Middle East in a very long time."
The effect on children of the carnage, the dislocations and the deteriorating quality of daily life has been profound. Conditions in Iraq were dire for children even before the war. One in eight died before the age of 5, many from the effects of malnutrition, polluted water and unsanitary conditions.
Now, more than four years after the invasion, huge numbers of Iraqi children are finding themselves orphaned, homeless, malnourished, and worse.
According to Unicef, the U.N.'s children's agency: "Many children are separated from their families or on the streets, where they are extremely vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. Most children have experienced trauma but few receive the care and support they need to help them cope with so much chaos, anxiety and loss."
These are just a few of the things you won't hear much about from the American officials in Washington who profess to care so deeply about the people of Iraq.
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Dick Cheney’s Song of America (October 2007)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1544.htm
The Plan is for the United States to rule the world. The overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the United States to maintain its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful.
The president's real goal in Iraq (29 September 2002) http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions. This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were. Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled? Because we won't be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran.
Alan Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil (September 16, 2007)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece
AMERICA's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was widely admired, will also deliver a stinging critique of President George W Bush's economic policies. However, it is his view on the motive for the 2003 Iraq invasion that is likely to provoke the most controversy. "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil,"' he says. Greenspan, 81, is understood to believe that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of oil supplies in the Middle East.
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Forwarded by Alfred Webre (alfred.webre@gmail.com) on Sept 16
Subject: FYI: CONFIRMED DEATH - Minot Base Officials Say Airman Dies While On Leave
From: CLG News (clg_news@legitgov.org)
Date: Sep 15, 2007
Subject: Minot Base Officials Say Airman Dies While On Leave
Minot Base Officials Say Airman Dies While On Leave
12 Sep 2007 - The Minot Air Force Base said an airman has died while on leave in Virginia. Airman First Class Todd Blue, who was 20 years old, died Monday while visiting with family members. The statement did not say how he died. The base said Blue was a response force member assigned to the 5th Security Forces Squadron. [The primary mission of the 5th Security Forces Squadron is to 'provide 24-hour law enforcement and security services for the 5th Bomb Wing and all tenant units assigned to Minot AFB.' "Guardians of the Upper Realm" --The host wing on Minot Air Force Base, the 5th Bomb Wing operates the B-52H Stratofortress aircraft to provide global strike and combat-support capabilities to geographic commanders. B-52 Stratofortress - Mission --Air Combat Command's B-52 is a long-range, heavy bomber that can perform a variety of missions... It can carry nuclear or precision guided conventional ordnance with worldwide precision navigation capability.]
AF Secretary Visits MAFB 14 Sep 2007 The top civilian in the Air Force spent the afternoon at Minot Air Force Base today. Michael Wynne, the Secretary of the Air Force, arrived at the base about 1 PM to get a personal look at how nuclear weapons are stored, protected, and handled. His visit comes two weeks after a B-52 bomber loaded with six nuclear warheads was flown from Minot to Barksdale Air Force Base.
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From PATRIOT Radio stations - Unconfirmed. RE: recent nuclear missile "accident" - allegedly-sudden, curious deaths of the USAF service members who were responsible for disclosing this incident to the public
Subject: Negative sign of the times
This isn't verified yet, but to me anyway, it isn't unreasonable either - presumably we'll know more in the next few days.
Most of you know, on this small list of blind CC recipients, about the nuclear weapon "mistake" in which five nuclear tipped cruise missiles left Minot AFB in North Dakota, and flew to Barksdale AFB in Louisiana, a totally unauthorized portage of nuclear weapons.
This information was leaked by four members of the USAF to either the Army Times or the all-service Military Times, according to a number of commentators on the various U.S. Patriot shows.
On this evening's John Stadtmiller "National Intel Report" show on Republic Broadcasting Network, John has received word that all four of the whistleblowers are now DEAD.
One died while visiting family. No details. (Missed the name.)
Airman Steven Garrett died when his car left a curve and crashed.
1st Lt ----- died in a motorcycle crash.
Those of us in the organized stalking/ electronic harassment community know that such things can now be caused by remote control, either by manipulating the vehicles or the drivers.
If this is true, and I'm guessing it is given all the recent government crimes on so many fronts, this paints a picture of a Sovietized government in operation, no matter how pretty a picture the media paint.
I'll let our members know if this is further confirmed.
Eleanor
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From: Nance (planetnews8@gmail.com)
Date: Sep 16, 2007
Subject: AIRMEN THAT EXPOSED THOSE NUKES ARE DEAD..........
Five military members that were "possibly" involved in helping to expose the "accidental" movement of 6 nukes August 30th from Minot air force base (AFB) in North Dakota to Barksdale air force base in Lousiana are dead.
In case you missed it, 6 nukes were flown between these two air force bases. The last time nukes were flown in the sky was over 40 years ago (and I'm sure you can figure out why they don't fly nukes). CNN just said it was a "mistake".
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/05/loose.nukes/
Now, ironically, 3 airmen from Minot AFB and 2 from Barksdale AFB are dead. Two died before this incident (therefore could have nothing to do with it but still rather odd that this many are dying from the same AFB):
Adam Barrs, navigation for the 5th squadron, dead July 3: http://www.minot.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123059778
Weston Kissel, B-52 pilot for 23rd squadron, dead July 17: http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070915/BREAKINGNEWS/70915012
And there's a lot of talk around this John Frueh guy from the USAF that flew many missions in Afghanistan that last talked to his family - on August 30th. They just found his body September 8th.
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/9679367.html
Could be something, could be nothing. Just seems like a lot of airmen falling all of a sudden.
In my opinion, I think these brave souls have possibly held off "9/11 the second - attack Iran " by bringing this nuke issue to the public. I don't think people were supposed to find out about these nukes. I figure they were heading to Iran. Either way, Friday went off without a hitch (with no air force in the sky ALL DAY) without any false flag "terrorist attacks" (nuke a city in the US so that they have an excuse to go nuke Iran ) so that's good news. All we need now is to make it through September 21st when those put options on the stock markets end. Then someone's out $1 billion.
Feel free to form your own opinions on this. I just wanted to pass on the info.
10.
Date: 16 Sep 2007
From: Daniel Stafford (aqmstaffo@mailbag.com)
Subject: Be careful, talk to your friends in the military
Jean - this is coming in from a member of the Longhouse Coalition and former Congressional candidate - clearly speculation, but in these times not so unbelievable.
Regards,
Dan
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Mysterious deaths are on the rise. Remember the nuclear- tipped cruise missiles which were illegally flown across the US from Minot AFB on August 30th 2007? Turns out 4-6 young airmen from the base have died, separately, under mysterious circumstances while on leave, all since July 1st, 2007. One, pilot, Todd Blue, has died since August 30th. These are healthy young men in their 20's. http://geronimomanifesto.blogspot.com/
Then there's the case of Congressman Paul Gillmor:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20649320/
Updated: Sept. 8, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio - U.S. Rep. Paul Gillmor, who was found dead in his apartment in suburban Washington earlier this week, died of blunt head and neck trauma consistent with a fall down stairs, according to a medical examiner’s report released Friday. This death was first reported as (mysterious) "natural causes", seemingly plausible for someone 68 years old.
Then, a couple days later, the blunt-force head and neck trauma involved came out. This was immediately claimed as above, "consistent with a fall down stairs", though one should expect to see trauma to more than the head and neck in such a fall. Rep. Gilmor was investigating the recent "put actions" placed upon the market, gambling that there would be a 50% drop in the market between Sep.14 and Sep. 21, like the put actions placed preceding 9/11/01.
What about the fact that 3/7 of the brave young sergeants in Iraq who dared publish the truth about what is going on there in an NYT op-ed on Aug. 18th, 2007 have since experienced deadly assaults? Two died in a motor vehicle accident, one was shot in the head but survived. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/091307O.shtml
If you know anyone in the military, point out these "accidents". Ask them whether they are serving the American people or a tyrant who has stolen our government. Ask them what happens to those who criticize Bush or Cheney. Ask them how they feel about Blackwater and the other mercenaries.
Ask them what they would do if they were ordered to fire on American civilians. Don't use email, and if you can talk on the phone, be discreet.
Do this quickly. Something is supposed to happen by next Friday, or the people Rep. Gillmor was investigating will lose billions of dollars.
One possible scenario- the internet is buzzing with rumors of a missing nuke. Supposedly 6 took off from Minot and only 5 arrived at Barksdale. This could be used to create a false flag event, and lead to martial law THIS WEEK.
Spread the word throughout the services, especially the Air Force, which is most heavily indoctrinated by the Bush people. Spread the word that these servicemen are serving ruthless killers who won't hesitate to kill their own people if they fear exposure. Spread the word that Bush and Cheney are satanic, not godly, and should be disobeyed. Spread the word that We the People need protection from our own government.
And be careful. Bush and Cheney are growing more ruthless as they grow more desperate.
The truth will set us free.
In the name of the God of truth,
Carol Wolman
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From http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Find-Freedom.htm?At=024110
September 23, 2007
Secret US air force team to perfect plan for Iran strike
Sarah Baxter, Washington
THE United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with “fighting the next war” as tensions rise with Iran.
Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War’s air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June.
It reports directly to General Michael Moseley, the US Air Force chief, and consists of 20-30 top air force officers and defence and cyberspace experts with ready access to the White House, the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Detailed contingency planning for a possible attack on Iran has been carried out for more than two years by Centcom (US central command), according to defence sources.
Checkmate’s job is to add a dash of brilliance to Air Force thinking by countering the military’s tendency to “fight the last war” and by providing innovative strategies for warfighting and assessing future needs for air, space and cyberwarfare.
It is led by Brigadier-General Lawrence “Stutz” Stutzriem, who is considered one of the brightest air force generals. He is assisted by Dr Lani Kass, a former Israeli military officer and expert on cyberwarfare.
The failure of United Nations sanctions to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which Tehran claims are peaceful, is giving rise to an intense debate about the likelihood of military strikes.
Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, said last week that it was “necessary to prepare for the worst . . . and the worst is war”. He later qualified his remarks, saying he wanted to avoid that outcome.
France has joined America in pushing for a tough third sanctions resolution against Iran at the UN security council but is meeting strong resistance from China and Russia. Britain has been doing its best to bridge the gap, but it is increasingly likely that new sanctions will be implemented by a US-led “coalition of the willing”.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who arrives in New York for the United Nations general assembly today, has been forced to abandon plans to visit ground zero, where the World Trade Center stood until the September 11 attacks of 2001. Politicians from President George W Bush to Senator Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner in the 2008 race for the White House, were outraged by the prospect of a visit to New York’s most venerated site by a “state sponsor” of terrorism.
Bush still hopes to isolate Iran diplomatically, but believes the regime is moving steadily closer to obtaining nuclear weapons while the security council bickers.
The US president faces strong opposition to military action, however, within his own joint chiefs of staff. “None of them think it is a good idea, but they will do it if they are told to,” said a senior defence source.
General John Abiza