MAY UNITY PREVAIL ON EARTH
February 3, 2008
The Cornucopia Series #7: The Mother of All Contrasts
Hello everysoul!
Since I undertook to network information on things of vital interest to all, there has never been a compilation so full of extreme contrasts between examples of the best and the worst things men can do.
Reading through - yes I actually read all of it! - the more than 49,000 words contained (and exploring many of the 270 links provided) in this extra-super-large cornucopia of all kinds of stuff, I was at times dizzy with the sheer enormity of the significance of all I was learning. If you can make time to read through some of this really heavy-duty material I found - much of which was recommended by various ERN subscribers - I bet the same will happen to you. Now the challenge is to make sense of it all...
We do indeed live in VERY interesting times!
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com
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THE QUOTES
"It has been a while since I last wrote and this focus of meditation is as good an excuse as they come. Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart for all that you do and for inspiring so many of us around the world to be and to do better. I thought that it would make you even more aware of the LOVE that YOU ARE to tell you that you are behind the prayer/meditation group that I have started six years ago. My meditation/prayer group is only held once a month and believe it or not people can't wait for it to happen every month - feeling as they tell me - that it has become a place of sanity and love and healing in their lives. We often share in your focus of meditation especially when it has a Peace or Healing focus for the beloved planet at large and the group keeps growing - slowly but surely. From my humble website statistics I see how many you have guided to read my messages and hear my radio programs and I am humbled and eternally grateful to feel part of the Light that you so lovingly weave for us all. Indeed we are blessed to have you in our awareness and I am this day just sending you all my love and light as always."
- Lou BOGNON (lou@LOUBOGNON.COM)
"Millions are taking bold steps and bringing about positive change all the way from small communities to international movements. Expansion of the light that is permeating hearts and minds throughout the world CANNOT be stopped! Please do not think that only the ones in leadership positions are important—EVERY soul is essential, and simply by radiating your own light, each of you is contributing to the transformation of your world. That is how it must be because it is your world."
- Matthew - Taken from his latest message below
CONTENTS
1. Message from Matthew
2. Message from Ker-On
3. A Fable of Planetary Transformation
4. Creating a Culture of Peace
5. Gaiafield Times: A call to meditate for "Super Tuesday"
6. Japan's "Bali Shock"
7. Stopping Iran Why the case for military action still stands
8. The End of Privacy
9. Operation Desert Slaughter - Thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day
10. The War that did not make the Headlines: Over Five Million Dead in Congo?
11. Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
12. Dual Citizenship -- Loyal to Whom?
13. Shell chief fears oil shortage in seven years
14. THE NEW CHILDREN – ARE THEY REALLY INDIGOS?
15. UFO Guide for the Spiritually Handicapped
16 The Empty Jar
WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Middle East Undersea Cable Cutting A Zionist-NeoCon Covert Operation?
http://www.rense.com/general80/mid.htm
The 911 Truth Movement is being targeted for criminalization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5NJoZRYOJk
Earlier this month, special Brasscheck TV correspondent Goodman Green posted a short video about HR 1955. In just three days over 100,000 people downloaded and viewed it. Now the bill is in the Senate under a new name S 1959. This bill makes it possible for the government to criminalize free speech, by declaring it a form of "terrorism." Who does this bill target? Congressional hearings show they're painting a bulls eye on the 9/11 Truth Movement by likening it to violent terrorist groups. We can stop this and this video shows how. Please visit this video, view it often, comment on it, rate it and favorite it - and ask others to do so too. This bill and the motivations behind it can be defeated if enough people speak up.
NYT's Reporter Claims Rove Influenced 9/11 Commission Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013108N.shtml
Max Holland, of Washington Decoded, reports: "in a revelation bound to cast a pall over the 9/11 Commission, Philip Shenon will report in a forthcoming book that the panel's executive director, Philip Zelikow, engaged in 'surreptitious' communications with presidential adviser Karl Rove and other Bush administration officials during the commission's 20-month investigation into the 9/11 attacks.
Scientists See WTC - Hutchison Effect Parallel - PHOTOS
http://www.mediaforfreedom.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=9368
(...) Dr. Wood's work on the 9/11 event found that the experimental evidence at the World Trade Center (WTC) site was consistent with the the footprint of a high-energy electromagnetic or laser weapons which had transformed 80% of the mass of the WTC towers into nanoparticles within seconds. (...) The article by Wood and Hutchison (http://drjudywood.com/articles/JJ) documents effects and events seen in the vicinity of the World Trade Centre and compares these with observed characteristics of the Hutchison Effect. The observed effects include: "Weird Fires" - The fires seen near the badly damaged cars do not seem to ignite nearby office paper. Some photos show firefighters walking very close to or even through the fires. A video by John Hutchison shows similar looking "fires" on a model metal boat. Bent Beams and "Jellification" - Samples that Hutchison produced show very unusual effects on metal. Sometimes the metal "jellifies," turning soft and losing form, leading to severe bending or fracturing of the sample. Sometimes samples erupt from the centre and sometimes they turn to dust, similar to what happened to the WTC on 9/11. Ongoing reactions - Hutchison's samples often show an ongoing reaction, even after the energy field is removed. This "non-self-quenching" reaction seems to occur at the nuclear level. This also appears to be happening at Ground Zero (GZ). Dr. Wood's study suggests that the WTC site is still being "decontaminated," with trucks moving dirt into and out of the site, while "hosing down operations" continue, which Dr. Wood and Andrew Johnson photographed and recorded on video in January 2008. Transmutation - Sometimes materials subjected to the Hutchison Effect seem to change at a molecular or even atomic level. This could be the explanation for the apparent rapid rusting at GZ, where steel rusts like iron. Also, some photographs show unusual effects on the aluminium cladding used on the twin towers that look similar to effects produced on Hutchison's aluminum samples. CLIP
How Did Israeli Spy Software Get Onto Critical FAA Computer By Christopher Bollyn (28 January 2008)
http://www.bollyn.com/index/?id=10797
The deathly precision of the attacks and the magnitude of planning would have required years of planning. Such a sophisticated operation would require the fixed frame of a state intelligence organization; something not found in a loose group, like the one led by the student Mohammed Atta in Hamburg.
- Eckehardt Werthebach, former president of Germany's Verfassungsschutz intelligence service, comments on the sophistication and complexity of the 9-11 attacks; from a conversation with Christopher Bollyn, December 2001 (...) The dependence of the U.S. government and military on computer systems, which run on software provided by outside vendors, is the Achilles' heel of the world's most powerful nation. 9-11 was clear proof of that fundamental weakness and vulnerability. 9-11 was a computer crime. Apart from being a monstrous crime of mass murder and false flag terrorism, 9-11 was also a sophisticated computer crime, carried out through long-term foreign infiltration of the most sensitive U.S. military and government computer networks. This infiltration, carried out by a foreign intelligence agency, gave the perpetrators of 9-11 "real-time" access to all the data on the computers of the U.S. government and military. On 9-11, this "super-user" access to the data of the most critical government computer networks gave the terrorists the ability to thwart the military response to the emergency as it developed. Most importantly, the terrorists who committed 9-11 through their "super-user" access to the most critical computer networks of the U.S. government still have that access. The evidence indicates that this infiltration was carried out by the military intelligence agency of the State of Israel. CLIP
MTV Canada Plugs " Loose Change: Final Cut"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7hyaxiRpE
State of the Union
http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/2008/01/28/
Many more such comic pictures through http://wpcomics.washingtonpost.com/client/wpc/po/
The Beginning of the End
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012908A.shtml
William Rivers Pitt, writing for Truthout, says: "If Bush's lips are moving, it means he must be lying; so it has been for all those days, and so it was again on Monday evening. Some 75 percent of the citizenry believe this country to be 'on the wrong track,' and since the gomer giving the speech last night is seen as being largely responsible for putting us all on this 'wrong track' to begin with, a vast American majority pretty much didn't give a fig about what he had to say. All that most people cared about was the historic significance of the night itself. It was The Last Bush SOTU Speech Ever."
CLIMATE ALERT: Just Say No to Oil Shale, Leave the Carbon in the Ground (25 Jan 2008)
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=oil_shale
Oil shale production in Western U.S. with Department of Energy subsidies will prolong dependence upon filthy fossil fuels while destroying the climate, water and land Oil shale deposits across 17,000 square miles of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming hold an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil, more than three times Saudi Arabia's stated reserves. Mining, processing and final use of oil shale involve a variety of environmental impacts. The process produces four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions compared to normal oil production. Vast amounts of water are required in the mining process, up to 4 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. It would be a reckless and short-sighted to allow full-scale commercial production of synthetic crude oils from oil shale and other non-conventional sources. Wide scale use of such oil will result in decades of further carbon emissions from dependence upon fossil fuels, making it impossible to stop climate change. Please send a message today to the U.S. Department of Energy noting that a sustainable energy future does not include oil shale. TAKE ACTION NOW
The Amazing Sham of the NH Recount (6 min. 19 sec.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQEQ7qHvgM
They decided NOT to put the ballots in the vault and the "Seal" does NOT seal the box. Smoke and mirrors in New Hampshire recount. Recommended by Kathy Roberts (weerkhr@pacbell.net) who wrote: "Make sure you see the whole farce, climaxing with the tragi-comic testing of the "seal" at the end. Bravo to Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting!"
GREAT Orbs Link - MOST AMAZING PICTURES OF ORBS I'VE EVER SEEN!
http://www.celticgardens.com.au/spheres_of_light.html
MANY Additional Links
http://www.celticgardens.com.au/links.html
Dolphins make Air-Rings
http://www.eatmyshorts.net/videos/1867/Dolphins+make+Air-Rings.html
The Ten Nastiest Fish of All Time
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/26/the-ten-nastiest-fish-of-all-time.aspx
Some of these fish are rare, others are near extinction, but they all have the look of something from another world!
A wonderful resource for making homes, sustainable living at its best!
http://www.greenworkscompany.com/
Recommended by Carolyn Thompson (zaobarthh@yahoo.com)
Ten Tricks to Using Google You Probably Don't Know
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/1/26/ten-tricks-to-using-google-you-probably-don-t-know.aspx
A smile from God
http://photosandvideo.blogspot.com/2007/12/one-in-million-photograph.html
What The #$*! Do We Know!? - Part 1 of 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpCSk7WC4GI&feature=related
Music by ERN subscriber Nathan Stevens (nathancstevens2@yahoo.com)
http://www.myspace.com/natestevensmusic
Highly recommended - make sure you listen to (or watch) "Seeds of Unity"
The Presidents UFO Web Site
http://www.presidentialufo.com/
A Tale of Extraterrestrial Politics in the White House - In the pages of this Web site you will hopefully be led on a journey that will show you the entire known history of how the most powerful man in the world has dealt with the most highly classified secret of the last century. In short, this is the story of how the President and the White House have dealt with the mystery of UFOs. - Grant Cameron is a Canadian author, researcher and expert on the ET/UFO aspects of the US Presidents. In the past few years Cameron has turned his research interests to the involvement and actions of the President of the United States in the UFO problem. He has made 20+ trips to the National Archives and most of the various Presidential archives looking for presidential UFO material. One highlight his presidential UFO research was the chance to question Vice-president Dick Cheney on his knowledge of the UFO subject. Another highlight of the presidential UFO research was a FOIA to the White House Office of Science and Technology which yielded 1,000 pages of UFO documents from the Clinton administration. Many of these findings have been written up on The Presidents UFO Website.
Forget crop circles - now we've got a mysterious SHEEP circle (25th January 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510372&in_page_id=1770
The crop circle mystery (20th July 2007)
http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1559662.0.the_crop_circle_mystery.php
The strongest evidence so far that some crop circles are not man made was presented to a choice gathering at the Coronation Hall in Alton Barnes yesterday. Norwegian film maker Terje Toftenes presented the DVD he has made of the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the creation of a massive crop formation in East Field, Alton Barnes, on July 7. Most formations are discovered the morning after and some have even been created in fields with observers sitting on overlooking hills. But on the morning in question, dedicated UFO hunter Winston Keech had a battery of cameras, from CCTV to state-of-the-art digicams, trained on the field on the off chance that something might happen. He was joined by Gary King and his partner Paul Presdee-Jones, who had also decided to climb to the top of Knap Hill, near Alton Barnes, on a spur-of-the-moment whim. They had already met the previous evening at the "croppies" cafe at Cherhill, near Calne, when Mr Keech had become rather excited about a DVD that was being shown about lights that sometimes accompany the appearance of crop circles. He had explained that something similar had happened to him in 1990 when he all but witnessed the creation of a simple circle in crops in East Field. Little did he know he would witness the creation of something a lot more complex. At around 1.35am on July 7 Mr Keech, helped by Mr King, completed the last sweep of the area using a camera equipped with night vision. No formation was visible in the field. Then it became intensely dark and nothing was seen. But at 3.13am there was a flash of what Mr Keech described as sheet lightning. It appeared on the video footage and lasted four microseconds. Twenty minutes later, at 3.20am, there was enough light to make out the formation in the field below. It was one of the largest ever seen. It measured 1,033 feet long and consisted of 150 circles, the largest of which was 164ft across.Ms Presdee-Jones said: "We all went mad. Gary was dancing a jig." CLIP
Three significant events in the astronomy of Comet Holmes from 2007 were shown in English crop pictures from two years ago (in the summer of 2005)
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2007h.html
Recommended by Alfred Lambremont Webre (peace@peaceinspace.org) who wrote: "On October 24-25, 2007, an obscure comet known as "17P Holmes" suddenly outburst or exploded between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers still have no good idea why that happened, because most comets outburst when they approach the heat of the Sun. In any case, many of us who are familiar with the crop-messaging phenomenon saw immediately that newly-taken photographs of that comet matched a famous crop picture that had appeared at Garsington near Oxford two years earlier on July 15, 2005"
DOES THE VATICAN HOLD YOUR MORTGAGE? By William Thomas -- MOST REVEALING!!
http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Vatican_Mortgage_Part_1.html
It was time for another check-in with a well-informed military man who never fails to astonish me with revelations that never seem to appear on Fox or CNN. “What's new?” I asked Hank. “Oh, dude.” My friend and deep source for more than 16 years sounded tired. And shaken. This veteran of the Gulf War, and personal intrigues and interventions at all levels of the U.S. government and military, does not rattle easily.
(...) “The Vatican has surfaced again,” Hank informed me. According to his Vatican source, “They have been purchasing a large amount of storage and online storage space. They are taking a lot of pictures, a lot of documents and a lot of scans and putting that information together in a large vault of info. And they're wanting more.”If so, this project will take tons of terabytes. The “Vatican Secret Archives” - as a London newspaper tagged them - contain almost two-million items. Forget the DaVinci Code. Squirreled away in 50 miles of catacombs shelving, this volatile stockpile of scandals dating back over 1,000 years is the real deal. (...) With so much at stake in copying and moving documents that could go astray and blow up the Roman Church, I wanted to know what had precipitated the present papal panic? According to Hank's Jesuit source, the Vatican is on the verge of being “outed “for one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of all time - bilking its followers and victims for trillions of dollars while convincing believers worldwide that their suffering and exploitation is “God's will.” The catalyst for this threatened exposure? U.S. Presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. I didn't get it. Romney is a Mormon, Hank quoted his Jesuit insider. “It's kind of making the Vatican nervous as people learn more about Mormonism, which considers Jesus and Satan brothers - the light bearers, the sons of God - and start to ask questions of their own religions.”
(...) “The United States has been ransacked and pillaged…The truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. It controls everything here… to supply financial power to an international super state - a super state controlled by international bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world.”
(...) As Eustace Mullins helpfully explains - and Aaron Russo's DVD “America: Freedom To Fascism” demonstrates - “The IRS is actually a private collection agency for the Federal Reserve System. It originated as the Black Hand in mediaeval Italy, collectors of debt by force and extortion for the ruling Italian mob families. All personal income taxes collected by the IRS are required by law to be deposited in the nearest Federal Reserve Bank.” In other words, into the pockets of the Rothschilds, Warburgs, Schiffs, Rockefellers, Harrimans, Morgans and other elite families. Slick, eh? But don't try to buy any of this hot Fed stock. “The Federal Reserve Act stipulates that the stock of the Federal Reserve Banks cannot be bought or sold on any stock exchange. It is passed on by inheritance as the fortune of the 'big rich',” Mullins relates. “Almost half of the owners of Federal Reserve Bank stock are not Americans.” These “foreign” owners include the Fed's originators, the Vatican Jesuits.
(...) Today, the largest bank in the world today, the Federal Reserve “is one of the greatest contributors, or players, in international trading,” Mullins observes.The Fed gets its orders from the Queen Mum of All Banks, the Bank of England - aka, the Bank of Rothschild. Considered by many to be the world's most powerful institution - the power behind all presidencies, dictatorships and thrones - does the Bank of England answer to any other bank? Well, yes, actually. The Bank of Rome began opening branch offices in Venice in 1587. Bank of Rome = Vatican Bank controlled by the Jesuit General, aka the “Black” (hidden, shadowy) Pope. The Jesuit's Bank of Rome opened its Bank of England branch in 1694. The first bank to be named after a country, the Bank of England had nothing to do with the British government - except to own it through privately held, interest-compounded debt. Unaccountable to either the Queen or Parliament, the misleadingly labeled “Bank of England” finances the throne, the British prime minister, parliament and much of the planet out of “The City” located in central London. All major British banks have their main offices in this “Square Mile” - as well as 70 U.S. banks. Throw in the London Stock Exchange, Lloyd's of London, the Baltic Exchange (shipping), Fleet Street (publishing and newspapers), the London Commodity and Metal exchanges - and you are looking at Earth's financial axis. [Descent into Slavery] The City operates as a sovereign state, just like the Vatican. Since 1820, the Rothschilds have traditionally chosen The City's Lord Mayor. Back in the USA, as author Eric Phelps explained in an interview just before publication of his secrecy-shredding Vatican Assassins, (which was held up to include corrections by sympathetic Jesuits) - the Vatican's Black Robes “own and control” the Federal Reserve Bank “by proxy, through the Knights of Malta, with their various trusts and so on. They never own anything outright; they always own it through a trusted third party.” Including the Vatican-home mortgage connection. CLIP
Read also PART II at http://www.willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Vatican_Mortgage_Part_2.html
which includes these eye-popping facts...
The Vatican likes to point out that it's going broke running Vatican City. But Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the Vatican's unofficial finance minister, told Money Week that the Vatican's assets total some $5 billion. Vatican City “has a separate financial statement,” he added.According to Baron Manhattan's research: "The Vatican has large investments with the Rothschilds of Britain, France and America, with the Hambros Bank, with the Credit Suisse in London and Zurich. In the United States it has large investments with the Morgan Bank, the Chase-Manhattan Bank, the First National Bank of New York, the Bankers Trust Company, and others. The Vatican has billions of shares in the most powerful international corporations such as Gulf Oil, Shell, General Motors, Bethlehem Steel, General Electric, International Business Machines, T.W.A., etc.” A nationally syndicated Catholic priest has stated, “The Catholic Church must be the biggest corporation in the United States. We have a branch office in every neighborhood. Our assets and real estate holdings must exceed those of Standard Oil, A.T.&T., and U.S. Steel combined. And our roster of dues-paying members must be second only to the tax rolls of the United States Government.” [The Vatican Billions] “But this is just a small portion of the wealth of the Vatican, which in the U.S. alone, is greater than that of the five wealthiest giant corporations of the country,” Baron Manhattan explains. “The Catholic church is the biggest financial power, wealth accumulator and property owner in existence.” [Vatican Billions]Don't forget to throw in more than 18,000 works of art. [Fortune Dec 21/87]The Vatican's gold treasure alone has been estimated by the United Nations World Magazine to amount to several billion dollars. The Independent has independently confirmed that “the Vatican Bank - Istituto per le Opere di Religione - manages more than $4 billion in assets. It does not reveal its profits or dividends, which are paid directly to the Pope. It enjoys the status of a central bank and has a dealing room adorned with crucifixes and papal portraits where 20 traders work .” [Independent Apr 19/02] According to Hank's Jesuit Vatican informant, the world's ultimate Vatican bankers “wanted to make sure there was enough confusion, and enough information going all over the place that no one would pay attention to” their current cover-up in the catacombs. So they fomented the mortgage mess.
(...) The Big Solution, of course, is abolish the Federal Reserve. On June 15, 2007, Rep. Ron Paul introduced the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act HR 2755 "To abolish the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal reserve banks, and repeal the Federal Reserve Act." As govtrack.us noted on December 9, 2007: "Introduced bills go first to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. (HR2755 went to the House Committee on Financial Services.) The majority of bills never make it out of committee. Keep in mind that sometimes the text of one bill is incorporated into another bill, and in those cases the original bill, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned." Hold tight. Hank's Jesuit contact from the Vatican advises: “There will be a couple more bumps in the road."
CFR - The Secret Government [2/3] (10 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ56hkKOlk&feature=related
The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve. Owned by a corrupt group of International Bankers, it is a privately owned monopoly, largely responsible for creating America's National Debt. It is also a parasitic and unnecessary entity that literally creates American currency out of nothing and then collects interest on the backs of taxpayers for doing so. LOTS of useful info through the About This Video (More info) on the right.
CFR / NAU & 2008 Presidential Candidates (10 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo5CZvD3-QM
What Presidential Candidates are part of the CFR? What are they trying to accomplish? Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Jim Gilmore, Newt Gingrich, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson, Who Opposes the CFR? Ron Paul
Will secret clubs pick next prez?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58425
CFR, Bilderbergers, Trilateral Commission insiders usually run for, win White House, shows new book. Nearly every person elected as president of the United States since then – and nearly every opponent – has belonged to a secretive, globalism-oriented organization known as the Council on Foreign Relations. CLIP
Sibel Edmonds: 'Buckle up, there's much more coming.'
http://snipurl.com/1yjkn
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds stumbled into a world of espionage, nuclear black market, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and corruption at the highest levels of the US government.
“We Can’t Afford to Let Them Spill the Beans” - Sibel Edmonds on Marc Grossman (January 28th, 2008)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/“we-can’t-afford-to-let-them-spill-the-beans”/
I am not one to easily embrace conspiracy theories, and in particular have found the idea that 9-11 was somehow an inside job too incredible for serious consideration. On the other hand, there are some very fishy aspects to some officials' behavior pertaining to the attacks. CLIP
New Public Online Forum for New Earth & New Community
http://www.newearthsummit.org/forum/
There is a new free public discussion forum that includes various thematic boards including: • Special Articles to Consider• Spirituality and Transformation• Dreams and Visions and Future Viewing• Awakened Conscious Community• Health and Harmony• World and National Events• Predictions of Future Events• Changes in Planetary and Space Environments• General Discussion• Sites of Special Interest – Weblinks Anyone can read what is posted.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/opinion/27kennedy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama Speaks - 01 / 30 / 2008
http://ustream.tv/recordedvideo/sfuVEe2T.UvmR.5fvFyuxLF2pLttiKm7
Obama raises $32 million in January (Jan 31, 2008) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080131/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_money;_ylt=Aj443z_jJxLaPwTqhspoFtKs0NUE
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raised $32 million in the single month of January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising to states beyond the sweeping Feb. 5 contests, aides said Thursday. The amount was the most raised in one month by a presidential candidate who still faced a primary challenge. Obama is now advertising in 20 of the 22 states in play for next week's Super Tuesday and plans to begin advertising in seven more states that hold primaries or caucuses later in February. Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is advertising in 12 Super Tuesday states, including her home state of New York. CLIP
Clinton, Obama, JFK, and the next terrorist attack
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/02/01/18476217.php?printable=true
Zbigniew Brzezinski now is Obama’s chief policy advisor (WWIII) - Bush Sr's involvement in JFK assassination - U.S. did nothing to stop the killing in Rwanda
Obama, Clinton and the War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/013108K.shtml
Truthdig's Robert Scheer writes: "Ted Kennedy was a rare sane voice among the Democrats in strongly opposing the Iraq war, and it is no small tribute when he states: 'We know the record of Barack Obama. There is the courage he showed when so many others were silent or simply went along. From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that truth.' But that is precisely the truth that Sen. Hillary Clinton has shamelessly sought to obscure. Her supporters have accepted Clinton's refusal to repudiate her vote to authorize the war, an ignominious moment she shares with other Democrats, including presidential candidate John Edwards, who at least has made a point of regretting it."
ABC News: Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions (Jan 31, 2008) http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218509&page=1
In six years as a member of the Wal-Mart board of directors, between 1986 and 1992, Hillary Clinton remained silent as the world's largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers. Clinton has been endorsed for president by more than a dozen unions, according to her campaign Web site, which omits any reference to her role at Wal-Mart in its detailed biography of her. Wal-Mart's anti-union efforts were headed by one of Clinton's fellow board members, John Tate, a Wal-Mart executive vice president who also served on the board with Clinton for four of her six years. Tate was fond of repeating, as he did at a managers meeting in 2004 after his retirement, what he said was his favorite phrase, "Labor unions are nothing but blood-sucking parasites living off the productive labor of people who work for a living." CLIP
Eight More Years? by Ralph Nader (Jan 26, 2008)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/26/6641/
(...) Bill Clinton's presidential resume was full of favors for the rich and powerful. Corporate welfare subsidies, handouts and giveaways flourished, including subsidizing the Big Three Auto companies for a phony research partnership while indicating there would be no new fuel efficiency regulations while he was President. CLIP
The Evolution of Evil (01/02/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19260.htm
Perhaps a global political apocalypse has already arrived. Activists and dissidents should understand that evil forces and tyrannical governments have evolved. Just as human knowledge and science expand, so do the strategies and instruments used by rulers, elites and plutocrats. By learning from history and using new technology they have smarter tools of tyranny. The best ones prevent uprisings, revolutions and political reforms. Rather than violently destroy rebellious movements, they let them survive as marginalized and ineffective efforts that divert and sap the energy of nonconformist and rebellious thinkers. Real revolution remains an energy-draining dream, as evil forces thrive. Most corrupt and legally sanctioned forms of tyranny hide in plain sight as democracies with free elections. The toughest lesson is that ALL elections are distractions. Nothing conceals tyranny better than elections. Few Americans accept that their government has become a two-party plutocracy run by a rich and powerful ruling class. The steady erosion of the rule of law is masked by everyday consumer freedoms. Because people want to be happy and hopeful, we have an epidemic of denial, especially in the present presidential campaign. But to believe that any change-selling politician or shift in party control will overturn the ruling class is the epitome of self-delusion and false hope. In the end, such wishful thinking perpetuates plutocracy. Proof is that plutocracy has flourished despite repeated change agents, promises of reform and partisan shifts. (...) The New World Order is getting what it wants: a stable two-class system, with the lower class serving the elitist upper class. The paradox is that along with rising economic inequality and apartheid is mounting consumerism and materialism that is used to pacify, distract and control the masses. That’s where easy credit and cheap products from low-wage nations are critical. The poor can have cell phones, 24-7 Internet access and increasingly cars, while the bejeweled upper class travel in private jets and yachts, vacation on private islands, and have several gated mansions maintained by servants and guarded by private police. We have a technologically advanced form of medieval society. It is working in the US and China and most other places. Elections just mask economic tyranny and slavery. The ruling class knows how to maintain stability. Keep the masses distracted, fearful, brainwashed, insecure, and dependent on government and business sectors for survival. Train people to see themselves as relatively free consumers. Maintain the myth that ordinary people can become wealthy and join the ruling class, which theoretically is not impossible, but of no statistical significance for the masses. There are no easy paths to restore power to the people. But here are three strategies worth considering. CLIP
American Justice - To the Dark Side - We are all torturers now (4 min 25 sec.)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19259.htm
This is the America that our leaders want us to be proud of? This is the America we have built. This is who we are. - Who is accountable? You Are! This is who we are. - Clips from Academy Award Doc "Taxi to the Dark Side," produced by an independent filmmaker, for Information Clearing House.
British Soldiers ‘Tortured and Killed’ 22 Iraqis (02/01/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19253.htm
BRITISH soldiers have been accused of torturing 22 Iraqi citizens to death.They are also said to have abused nine others held in their custody. The allegations of brutality, dating back to 2004, can now be made public after a gagging order was lifted by a High Court judge yesterday.The order had prevented any details of the alleged torture being reported by the Press or broadcast media. It is alleged the abuse happened after British troops were ambushed on the road from Amara to Basra. Following a firefight, a 31-strong band of Iraqis are said to have been seized by soldiers and taken into custody. They were held at British headquarters in Abu-Naji in south-east Iraq. Out of the 31 people detained only nine survived and they claim they were subjected to torture. Iraqi death certificates are said to state that the corpses of the Iraqis who were rounded up showed signs of "mutilation" and "torture". Now the bereaved Iraqi families and survivors are fighting for compensation. They will seek a High Court ruling that the Government is legally obliged to set up an inquiry into the alleged abuse. The gagging order was imposed last December by Lord Justice Thomas, sitting with Mr Justice Silber. Lord Justice Thomas said "adverse publicity" arising from the case would be "highly undesirable". But yesterday, another senior judge, Lord Justice Moses – also sitting with Mr Justice Silber – overturned the ban. He ruled that the proceedings should be "in the public domain". Lawyers representing the Iraqis say statements from the alleged victims are some of the most disturbing they have heard in 30 years. NOTE: It is worth reading the comments posted in response to this news, which include these ones: "**Action Needed Urgently** Please take several minutes to call your Senator [immediately] and tell them that you do not support the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act. (ICH ran a story about this a few weeks ago). This bill passed with flying colors in the House and is now headed on a fast track to the Senate where it is poised to pass. Unfriggin believable. This bill will be the end of our freedom of speech here in the U.S. that we cherish so much. Inundate your Senator with preferably phone calls, fight this tyranny and dictatorship or we will become just like the Zionist-Jewish created governments of: Russia, Eastern Europe, China, Middle East, South America. Thanks and peace - 02.01.08" -- "All this has been going on continuously in the Middle East since the time Britain invaded Palestine and Iraq in the First World War. The British authorities kept it up for 30 years until they handed it over to the US authorities who have carried it on with increasing determination and cunning for the last 60 years. Since it is all satanically inspired and directed, you will not prevail against it until you know how to "put on the full armour of God".
McCain win would mean war with Iran (January 28, 2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7924
"More wars" could prove to be the oddest of all presidential campaign slogans. Especially if it works. Presidential candidate John McCain shocked observers on Sunday when he told a crowd of supporters, "There's going to be other wars. ... I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars."MSNBC's Joe Scarborough asked old-line conservative Pat Buchanan about McCain's remarks, saying, "He talked about promising that more wars were coming. ... Is he so desperate to get off the economic issue?" Pat Buchanan replied that McCain never used the word "promise" but simply said there would be more wars, and that from McCain's point of view, "that is straight talk. ... You get John McCain in the White House, and I do believe we will be at war with Iran.""That's one of the things that makes me very nervous about him," Buchanan went on. "There's no doubt John McCain is going to be a war president. ... His whole career is wrapped up in the military, national security. He's in Putin's face, he's threatening the Iranians, we're going to be in Iraq a hundred years." "So when he says more war," Scarborough commented, "he is promising you, if he gets in the White House, we'll not only be fighting this war but starting new wars. Is that what conservative Republicans want?
John McCain is Dr. Strangelove - 1 Minute video by Robert Greenwald
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19263.htm
Thanks to the casting sensibility of Arianna Huffington, we learned that John McCain has been channeling Dr. Strangelove!
Ron Paul 2008: RICO suit filed against ABC, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, CBS,...
http://www.bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?article16541
What the public needs to understand is that FOX, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and the other established *mainstream " mass media"/news sources [*see definition qrV Wikipedia.org] are perpetrating criminal fraud (via omissions, distortions and outright lies) and a deliberate censorship of Dr. Ron Paul in 2008 Presidential race—with malice and aforethought and evil intent to control the 2008 presidential elections. This is an outrage and "We the People" need to organize against this dangerous plot and TAKE ACTION by filing "class action" criminal charges and civil suits against the owners and executives of these news sources. This illegal censorship is not only harming Americans because they wield the power to control the outcome of elections via the quantity and quality of the news coverage they provide the candidates; it constitutes an unAmerican and anti-American criminal enterprise; not to fail to mention a violation of the first amendment/freedom of the press. These accused individuals—the elitist media executives—exercise monopolized and Fascist-control over media/news sources with intent to get the candidate preferred by them elected while simultaneously wrongfully hiding and/or playing down the true facts, popularity and success of the Ron Paul campaign. (...) Here is Ron Paul's Preface to the book: Every election cycle we are treated to candidates who promise us "change," and 2008 has been no different. But in the American political lexicon, "change" always means more of the same: more government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, and more centralization of power. Real change would mean something like the opposite of those things. It might even involve following our Constitution. And that’s the one option Americans are never permitted to hear….With national bankruptcy looming, politicians from both parties continue to make multi-trillion dollar promises of "free" goods from the government, and hardly a soul wonders if we can still afford to have troops in – this is not a misprint – 130 countries around the world. All of this is going to come to an end sooner or later, because financial reality is going to make itself felt in very uncomfortable ways. CLIP
In opposition to the Protect America Act Statement of Ron Paul on H.R. 5104
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19254.htm
The mis-named Protect America Act allows the US government to monitor telephone calls and other electronic communications of American citizens without a warrant. This clearly violates the Fourth Amendment the US Constitution. CLIP
Ron Paul's "Revolution Manifesto" Storms Into Amazon Top Five (eb 1, 2008)
http://www.infowars.net/articles/february2008/010208Manifesto.htm
Presidential candidate Ron Paul's as yet unreleased book The Revolution: A Manifesto has stormed into the Amazon top five today rising from number 629 in a matter of hours. The book, published by Grand Central, is not due out until April 30th, yet is already selling in the thousands, giving a stark indication of how popular the Congressman's message has become.The Manifesto is Ron Paul's first original book in over twenty years and contains all his now familiar policies on the economy, war, terrorism, civil liberties and the restoration of the Constitution. The phenomenal rise of the book in the amazon bestsellers list has been assisted by a new grassroots effort at the website http://www.RonPaulBookBomb.com. The site is aiming to help Dr. Paul's manifesto debut at number one on the New York Times bestseller list in addition to reaching #1 on Amazon and on BarnesandNoble.com, as well as reaching 1 million Americans with Dr. Paul’s message.The publicity gained from such achievements will be invaluable to the Ron Paul campaign, whether that still be on the Republican ticket or as a independent come April 30th. CLIP
Ron Paul biggest GOP fundraiser last quarter
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/02/news-shocker-ro.html
Rep. Ron Paul, the 72-year-old Texan who hardly ever gets mentioned in Republican political news and the one-time libertarian who always gets the least time on TV debates if he isn't barred completely, was, in fact, the most successful Republican fundraiser in the last three months of 2007.
Ron Paul wins CA Republican Debate, Super Tuesday Surge? (January 31, 2008)
http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2008/310108Surge.htm
The last televised Republican Debate before Super Tuesday took place at the Ronald Reagan Library in California and once again Ron Paul won. BodogLife.com has Ron Paul listed at 50 to 1 odds to become the President of the United States in 2008. Paul wanted to get more airtime for his “anti-war” and “change” message in the Republican debate and he was getting just a little irritated that Anderson Cooper kept the McCain/Romney ping pong match going on for so long. Does Anderson Cooper realize Paul has outlasted Former New York City Mayor and Senator John Edwards in the quest of the 2008 White House.Once he finally got a chance to speak, the Texas Congressman stated, "You can keep borrowing from China and printing the money to stimulate the economy.”McCain agreed with Ron Paul about borrowing money from China but did not say how he would continue to fight the wars abroad. Huckabee did not like that Ron Paul was sitting between him and the two media darling front running candidates. With only 4 people left in the race, Ron Paul was able to get a little more attention on center stage but the media still gave the majority of the questions to McCain and Romney. (...) There are 21 state primaries up for grabs on Super Tuesday (February 5th, 2008). BodogLife.com has posted political betting odds on which Republican candidate will win the majority of primaries on Super Tuesday (Feb. 5)? John McCain: 2/11 - Mitt Romney: 5/4 - Mike Huckabee: 35/1 - Ron Paul: 60/1
Audio: "Criminal Enterprise" at Work in NH Recount, Says Bev Harris
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2008/012908_recount_fiasco.htm
Fresh from her confrontations in New Hampshire during which public officials were grilled about slapdash chain of custody and ballot box tampering issues, Bev Harris told the Alex Jones Show that a "criminal enterprise" is running the primary recount and has called for Secretary of State William Gardner to resign and his assistant to be fired. CLIP
Israel bars aid convoy to Gaza (Jan 28, 2008)
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BE7095BF-0E93-4AAB-A2CA-42B17264D16A.htm
The Israeli military has prevented an aid convoy organised by Israeli human rights organisations, peace activists, and former military personnel, from reaching needy families in the besieged Gaza Strip. Israeli groups braved dipping temperatures and the unusually rain-sodden grounds of the Erez border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hoping that Israeli authorities would allow five tonnes of food through. As of Monday, the Gaza-bound supplies, comprising non-perishable goods, are still warehoused at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom on the southern border of the Gaza strip, awaiting army clearance to cross into the strip. Adam Keller, of Gush Shalom, an Israel-Palestine peace bloc, said: "We are still in negotiations with the army and are trying to mobilise Knesset members. We have an appeal to the supreme court that is ready to be lodged. We hope it will not come to that, but will use it if necessary." The Israeli supreme court is already considering a wider appeal made last week by Israeli humanitarian organisations, asking that the court compels the government to lift its blockade on Gaza. Israeli, Palestinian unity The Israeli and Palestinian peace activists first arrived at the Erez crossing in a convoy of about 100 cars and 20 buses that wound its way from Israel's main cities to the border on Saturday. Travelling under the "End the Siege!" banner, the convoy brought about 1,000 demonstrators and five tonnes of food aid to the border. Saturday's peace protests came from what in Israel is known as the 'radical left' [AFP]In the past 10 days Israel had tightened a seven-month blockade of the strip, halting supplies of foodstuffs, medical equipment and fuel. CLIP
Israeli High Court okays reducing fuel and power supply to occupied Gaza Strip
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/949679.html
Several human rights groups had challenged the sanctions, but Wednesday's ruling denied their petitions. Palestinian officials say the cutbacks have harmed Gaza's already impoverished residents by causing power shortages and crippling crucial utilities.
UN Security Council won't condemn Israel
http://snipurl.com/1ymjx
The United Nations Security Council will not discuss the proposal to condemn Israel over the siege imposed on the Gaza Strip by the Jewish state, following an adamant battle held by the Israeli delegation to the UN and backed by the United States.
Israeli occupation killed 108 Palestinians, three Israelis, UN says
http://snipurl.com/1ymjr
The military conflict between Israel and the Hamas-led Gaza Strip resistance has killed 108 Palestinians and three Israelis in the past month, the United Nations said Wednesday in summing up the explosive situation that has exacerbated a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Collapse of Water, Sewer and Public Health in Gaza (2008-01-28)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7938
A stream of dark and putrid sludge snakes through Gaza's streets. It is a noxious mix of human and animal waste. The stench is overwhelming. The occasional passer-by vomits.Over recent days this has been a more common sight than the sale of food on the streets of Gaza, choked by a relentless Israeli siege. Hundreds of thousands of Gazans, almost all of its able male adults among a population of 1.5 million, crossed over into Egypt last week to buy essential provisions - and a new lease of life. That has staved off starvation. But streets continue as sewers. The rain has not helped. The sludge has spread, and the stench with it. Starved of timely income and essential supplies, municipal services have all but ceased. "The smell," says Ayoub al-Saifi, 56, grimacing as he holds a handkerchief over his nose and mouth. "The stench of the sewage…my wife has asthma, and she can't breathe." Saifi lives next to what has become a newly formed pool of waste. This used to be the street leading to home. "It's getting worse day by day," says neighbour Said Ammar, an engineer, and father of four. The sewage treatment plant in al-Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza City requires 20,000 litres of fuel a day. Last week Israel ceased delivery of all fuel and supplies to Gaza. The consequences have been catastrophic. Without fuel to pump it away, the waste backs up, flooding the streets and clogging the plumbing. The local ministry of health has declared this an environmental catastrophe. Doctors have warned that a medical catastrophe could follow by way of spread of cholera and other diseases. That is at a time when not even life-saving medical services are on offer any more. "We have to choose between cutting the electricity on babies in the maternity ward, cutting it to heart patients, or shutting down our operating rooms," says Dr. Mawia Hasaneen, director of emergency at al-Shifa Hospital, the largest in Gaza. (...) Israel has blocked off fuel and supplies to Gaza because it says it faces rocket attacks from the Palestinian area, which elected Hamas, the Palestinian party that does not recognise Israel. Official Israeli sources say that about 150 homemade rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel since Israel commenced this latest raid. Two Israelis have been slightly wounded and several others treated for shock. Israel has retaliated with firing from tanks and attacks by F-16 aircraft firing Hellfire missiles into Gaza's neighbourhoods. At least 76 Palestinians have been killed, and another 293 injured since Jan. 1, officials here say. Through the suffering, many Palestinians still do not blame Hamas. CLIP
'Breakout into Israel' ahead
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23111166-2703,00.html
A SENIOR Hamas official warned yesterday that the next breakout from the Gaza Strip could be into Israel, with 500,000 Palestinians attempting to march towards the towns and villages from which they or their parents fled or were expelled 60 years ago.
Gaza blockade 'is collective punishment
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23142493-23109,00.html
ISRAEL'S blockade of Gaza denies 1.4 million Palestinians the food, fuel and medicine they need to survive, Human Rights Watch said today, calling it collective punishment and a violation of international law.
Egypt pledges to seal Gaza border
http://archive.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10184401.html
Egypt has assured the US that it will soon close off it's border with the Gaza strip to prevent Palestinians from desperately trying to enter the country to access goods they can't afford or gain access to in their closed-off territory, said Arab and US officials.
Worse Than a Crime - By Uri Avnery
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19189.htm
Sderot is only a pretext - much like the two captured soldiers were a pretext for something else altogether. The real purpose of the whole exercise is to overthrow the Hamas regime in Gaza and to prevent a Hamas takeover in the West Bank.
Jordanians rally in support of Hamas in Gaza
http://africa.reuters.com/country/EG/news/usnL25762332.html
Chanting slogans urging Islamist Hamas militants to resume suicide bombings against Israel, thousands of Jordanians marched in the capital on Friday to protest against Israel's blockade of Gaza.
The Gaza 'tea party' ( Jan 26, 2008)
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JA26Ak01.html
DAMASCUS - The Arab world is infuriated by the continued blockade and seizure of Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Anti-Americanism is on the rise, even in capitals that are loyal to the United States, like Amman, Riyadh and Cairo. "This is the doing of America," most Arabs believe, in harmony with its "war on terror" against Hamas, the military group that has been in control of the Gaza Strip since June 2007. The Americans have decided to wipe out Hamas, via Israel, while the Arab world is watching. That is the feeling in Arab capitals from Casablanca to Baghdad. For one thing, the Gaza events were a rude awakening for the Arab street, after sugar-coated promises for regional peace were made at the Annapolis "peace" conference in the United States last November. To understand the magnitude of what is currently happening in Gaza, and how it backfires on the reputation of the US throughout the Arab and Muslim world, Americans must look back in history, searching for a certain injustice - done to them - that mirrors what is currently happening to the 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza who are being collectively punished for being in the wrong place, at the wrong time, with the wrong people. CLIP
Obama Says, Israel Was Forced To Starve Palestinians In Gaza (!!!)
http://snipurl.com/1y96i
The presidential hopeful urged the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to either condemn Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel or remain silent about events in Gaza.
Obama speaks to Jewish voters, backs Israeli positions in talks
http://snipurl.com/1yjkd
Barack Obama wooed Jewish voters and skeptical Israelis in interviews published Tuesday, voicing support for key Israeli demands in peace talks with the Palestinians.
END THE SIEGE OF GAZA: CEASEFIRE NOW (Petition to sign!)
http://www.avaaz.org/en/gaza_end_the_siege/
The years-old blockade of Gaza is at crisis point: with the humanitarian crisis growing, the southern border has been breached and 350,000 Palestinians are pouring across. The situation is out of control -- the world must step in.To prevent catastrophe and protect civilians on all sides, your voice is needed urgently: we’re running an emergency global campaign to international, European and Arab leaders, calling on them to stop the siege, oversee open borders and help broker a ceasefire. We’ll deliver the petition when we reach 150,000 signatures - (99,142 have signed the petition so far!) lease add your name (at the URL above), then spread the word: To the United Nations, the European Union, the Quartet, the Arab League & Israel: We demand that you end the blockade and growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, ensure the free flow of supplies by land, sea or air, and help to broker the ceasefire which civilians on both sides desperately need.
Orthodox Jews Condemn Zionist Atrocities in Gaza
http://snipurl.com/1ys6f
There is a vile lie which stalks the Jewish people across the globe. - It is the lie which declares that Judaism and Zionism are identical. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Hamas leader outlines conditions for peace and offers truce
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1833751297
"If Israel withdraws, recognises Jerusalem [as capital of a future Palestinian state] and the return of our people [refugees] and dismantles settlements that occupy our land, we are ready for at least a 10 year truce," said the leader of the Islamist movement.
All power to Hamas ...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/JB02Ak01.html
By sharing all power with Hamas, Israel could force the group to share responsibility and probably keep it too busy with governance to lead a proper resistance. Israel could thereby tame one of its deadliest enemies by giving it the power its been asking for.
Four major Internet cables cut without explanation are spurring suspicions (February 2, 2008) IMPORTANT!!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7976
Middle East Internet Blackouts Spur Geopolitical Suspicions - Unprecedented mass Internet outages throughout the Middle East and Asia after no less than four undersea Internet cables were cut without explanation are spurring suspicions that a major event of geopolitical proportions may be just around the corner.Internet blackouts are impacting large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa after four undersea cable connections were severed. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain, Pakistan and India, are all experiencing severe problems.According to InternetTraffic.com, Iran has been completely cut off from the Internet, though Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blog can still be accessed.Most notably, Israel and Iraq are unaffected by the outage."Stephan Beckert, an analyst with TeleGeography, a research company that consults on global Internet issues, said the damaged cables collectively account for the majority of international communications between Europe and the Middle East," reports CNN. Officials say that the cause behind the severing of the cables remains unknown, but United Arab Emirates’ second largest telecom company said the cables were cut due to ships dragging their anchors. Is this a pre-cursor to throw a veil over an imminent staged event in the Middle East? "What are the odds? Who benefits? asks the Crimes and Corruptions blog. "Let’s see. Iranian rapprochement: "Recent months have brought signs of a growing rapprochement between Iran and Egypt.""What nation would not like this and has subs which could cut the cables? Why do it? Payback as over the net business is badly damaged. Or is this a setup for more? Note the internet is working just fine in Israel." Over at WhatReallyHappened.com, Mike Rivero points out that the mysterious cable sabotage could portend another imperial Neo-Con crusade in the works."The biggest problem the Bush administration faced during Iraq were images coming over the internet that showed the horrors being visited on the Iraqi people, and exposed the government’s lies about Saddam," he writes."I am greatly concerned that these undersea cable cuttings are intended to prevent the world from seeing something that is about to happen, other than through the government-controlled propaganda/media."MORE ON THIS DISQUIETING DEVELOPMENT IN Middle East Undersea Cable Cutting A Zionist-NeoCon Covert Operation? AT http://www.rense.com/general80/mid.htm
NATO and Israel: Instruments of America's Wars in the Middle East (January 29, 2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7837
(...) After returning from his trip to Western Europe and conferring with NATO Headquarters the former Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Avigdor Lieberman, said on early-July, 2007 that he received the tacit blessing of the E.U., the U.S., and NATO to initiate an Israeli military strike on Iran. "If we start military operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the U.S. will support us," Avigdor Lieberman told Israeli Army Radio, in a message geared towards Israeli servicemen, following his European tour and his meetings with E.U. officials, José María Aznar of Spain, and the Deputy Secretary-General of NATO.Avigdor Lieberman also asserted that because of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq the U.S., Britain, and their European allies were unable to initiate a war with Iran and its allies, but were willing to allow Israel to attack Iran. Avigdor Lieberman also affirmed that the U.S. and NATO would intervene on the side of Israel once the war with Iran and its allies were started. The message conveyed to Lieberman by NATO and E.U. officials was that Israel should "prevent the threat herself," which means that Israel must launch the war against Iran and its regional allies. CLIP
NATO Genocide in Afghanistan (30/01/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19235.htm
Ali Khan argues that the internationally recognized crime of genocide applies to the intentional killings that NATO troops commit on a weekly basis in the poor villages and mute mountains of Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban. Sloganeers, propagandists and politicians often use the word "genocide" in ways that the law does not permit. But rarely is the crime of genocide invoked when Western militaries murder Muslim groups. This essay argues that the internationally recognized crime of genocide applies to the intentional killings that NATO troops commit on a weekly basis in the poor villages and mute mountains of Afghanistan to destroy the Taliban, a puritanical Islamic group. NATO combat troops bombard and kill people in Taliban enclaves and meeting places. They also murder defenseless Afghan civilians. The dehumanized label of "Taliban" is used to cloak the nameless victims of NATO operations. Some political opposition to this practice is building in NATO countries, such as Canada, where calls are heard to withdraw troops from Afghanistan or divert them to non-combat tasks. DehumanizationIn almost all NATO nations, the Taliban have been completely dehumanized — a historically-tested signal that perpetrators of the crime of genocide carry unmitigated intentions to eradicate the dehumanized group. Politicians, the armed forces, the media, and even the general public associate in the West the Taliban with irrational fanatics, intolerant fundamentalists, brutal assassins, beheaders of women, bearded extremists, and terrorists. This luminescent negativity paves the way for aggression, military operations, and genocide. Promoting the predatory doctrine of collective self-defense, killing the Taliban is celebrated as a legal virtue. To leave the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, says NATO, is to leave a haven for terrorism. CLIP
Afghan reports offer bleak assessments
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7219156.stm
Exactly two years ago, the Afghan government and its many international backers met in London to plot a plan for the future, but the progress reports do not make for pretty reading.
How Kenya's Election Was Rigged
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020108P.shtml
Shashank Bengali, of McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "the spark for Kenya's firestorm of ethnic violence was lit inside a cavernous meeting hall in downtown Nairobi, where election officials over four days doctored vote counts, dismissed eye-popping irregularities and thwarted monitoring by independent observers to deliver a razor-thin victory to President Mwai Kibaki. Observers who were allowed into the vote-tallying center on Dec. 29-30, hours before the results were announced, said there was so much systematic fraud by Kenya's government-appointed election commission that it's impossible to know who really won."
U.S. Accused of Overlooking Rights Violations
http://snipurl.com/1ys68
The Bush administration is giving lip service to promoting democracy by endorsing suspect elections in Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan while allowing human rights violations in those countries to go unchecked, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
The Other Victims of Kenya’s Post Election Violence (STOP KENYA'S GENOCIDE)
http://www.stopkenyagenocide.com/
Rural Kenya has been out of focus in post election violence. Images tear gas, water canons and youth running from heavily armed general service units have commanded television screens and news coverage. The thousands of Kenyans who are arriving from Eldoret and other places in the Rift Valley are now telling the story of what is happening in rural Kenya for the first time.Those fortunate to have left Eldoret are telling harrowing stories upon arrival in Nairobi. In the meantime, bodies are lying in the smoking farms of Kikuyus, Kissis and Kambas. This website tells the individual stories of Kenyans who have been evicted out of the Rift Valley and Eldoret in particular. The stories in this website tell the outlines of what one of the interviewees Hon. Mutula Kilonzo says is evidence of massive crimes against humanity and genocide. What is very worrying is that the ethnic cleansing happening in the Rift Valley is a repeat of from 1991 and 1992 in terms of geography and in victims. This means we are likely to see more of these in future unless the root causes are addressed. In cases such as Rwanda and Darfur, occasional violent flare ups were reported before major/catastrophic attacks. CLIP
'Clear ethnic cleansing' in Kenya
http://snipurl.com/1ymk1
The violence in Kenya's Rift Valley is "clear ethnic cleansing", the most senior US official for African affairs has said.
African Union warns of Kenya 'genocide' (31/01/2008)
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mheygbqlqlgb/rss2/
Africa is facing a genocide in Kenya and must make resolving the crisis a priority, the head of the African Union told the continent’s leaders today at the opening of a three-day summit.“Kenya is a country that was a hope for the continent,” African Union chairman Alpha Konare said.“Today, if you look at Kenya, you see violence on the streets. We are even talking about ethnic cleansing, We are even talking about genocide. We cannot sit with our hands folded.”Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki listened from the front row. CLIP
Kenya: This will not explode into genocide
http://snipurl.com/1ymk3
As the situation in Kenya grows worse by the day - and the worst is almost certainly still to come - many people are drawing parallels with the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Pictures of gangs of young men carrying spears, clubs and machetes to cut down strangers in their area look like Rwanda '94. But the cause is very different.
Kenya rivals agree peace plan (01/02/2008) A GLIMMER OF HOPE!
http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/mheyqlaugbcw/
Rival parties in Kenya said tonight they had agreed to take immediate action to end violence after a month of deadly clashes over a disputed presidential election. The two sides signed a four-point agenda that said they would complete talks within 15 days on measures to end the political crisis.
US Propped Up Suharto Despite Rights Abuses: Documents
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19232.htm
The United States declassified documents Monday detailing how Washington propped up ex-Indonesian leader Suharto, who died at the weekend, at the expense of democracy and human rights.
Survivors Detail Suharto-era Massacres
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19229.htm
Survivors Describe Mass Killings Under Indonesian Dictator Suharto.
US Hails Suharto as "Historic Figure"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19228.htm
THE United States hailed former Indonesian president Suharto as a "historic figure" who "achieved remarkable economic development", in a statement released by its embassy in Jakarta.
Leaked UK gov't doc reveals plan to "coerce" Brits into national ID register (January 29, 2008)
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/29/leaked-uk-govt-doc-r.html
UK campaigners NO2ID this morning enlisted the help of bloggers across the world to spread a leaked government document describing how the British government intends to go about "coercing" its citizens onto a National Identity Register. The 'ID card' is revealed as little more than a cover to create a official dossier and trackable ID for every UK resident - creating what NO2ID calls 'the database state'. NO2ID's national coordinator, Phil Booth, exhorted bloggers, freedom lovers and anyone who gives a damn about personal privacy to mirror the annotated document on their site. "The charade is over. While ministers try to bamboozle the British public with fairytales about fingerprints, officials are plotting how to dupe and bully the population into surrendering control of their own identities." "Biometric ID cards are a sham; a magician's flourish to cover the biggest identity fraud there has ever been."
Kucinich puts off effort to impeach Bush (January 28, 2008)
http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/01/kucinich_puts_off_effort_to_im.html
After promising last week that he'd mark President Bush's final "State of the Union" speech today by introducing articles of impeachment against Bush, Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich announced he's postponing the effort. Kucinich said he met with members of the House Judiciary Committee after making last week's impeachment pledge on the House of Representatives floor, and came away "hopeful there will be an inquiry by the Judiciary Committee." "I will give them the opportunity to proceed before introducing articles of impeachment," Kucinich said in a statement issued by his office. CLIP
Casey blasts Bush's Iraq signing statement
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/29/casey-blasts-bushs-iraq-signing-statement/
In signing the DOD authorization bill into law, the President declared his right to ignore several important provisions, including the establishment of an important special commission to review wartime contracting. This provision was an initiative of the Senate Democratic freshmen class, led ably by Senators Webb and McCaskill. The President also declared his right to ignore a provision prohibiting funding for U.S. military bases or installations in Iraq that facilitate the "permanent stationing" of U.S. troops in Iraq. Let me translate that into plain language: this provision sought to prevent the United States from establishing permanent bases in Iraq. Every time a senior Administration official is asked about permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq, they contend that it is not their intention to construct such facilities. Yet this signing statement issued by the President yesterday is the clearest signal yet that the Administration wants to hold this option in reserve. Mr. President, that is exactly the wrong signal to send, both to the Iraqi government and its neighbors in the region. Permanent U.S. military bases gives a blank check to an Iraqi government that has shown no evidence it is ready to step up and accept its responsibility to take the training wheels off and demonstrate real leadership and governance for the Iraqi people. Permanent U.S. military bases feeds the propaganda of our enemies, who argue that the U.S. invasion in 2003 was carried out only to secure access to Iraq's oil and establish a strategic beachhead for the U.S. military in the region. Permanent U.S. military bases means that U.S. troops will be in Iraq for years to come, ensuring that the great strain on the U.S. military we see today will continue indefinitely. CLIP
Stimulus Gone Bad
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012508N.shtml
Paul Krugman writes for The New York Times: "House Democrats and the White House have reached an agreement on an economic stimulus plan. Unfortunately, the plan - which essentially consists of nothing but tax cuts and gives most of those tax cuts to people in fairly good financial shape - looks like a lemon." In related news, David Cay Johnston, of The New York Times, reports: "President Bush‚s plan to send payments to 117 million households to stimulate the economy would impose major strains on the Internal Revenue Service ... Nobody has authorized the agency to hire extra workers to reprogram computers, enter new data, issue checks and answer calls. The agency will divert resources from serving taxpayers and enforcing tax laws."
US Banking System Teetering on the Brink of Collapse (2 Feb 2008)
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article3570.html
Graphs show the banking system is broke. Somebody goofed. When Fed chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates to 3% yesterday, the price of a new mortgage went up. How does that help the flagging housing industry? (...) So, why did Bernanke cut rates when he knew it would just add to the housing woes? Some critics say that he just wanted to throw a lifeline to his fat-cat investor buddies on Wall Street by providing more liquidity for the markets. But that's not it, at all. The fact is, Bernanke had no choice. He's facing a challenge so huge and potentially catastrophic; that cutting rates must have seemed like the only option he had. Just look at these graphs and you'll see what Bernanke saw before he decided to cut interest rates. (...) The pace at which money is currently being destroyed will greatly accelerate as trillions of dollars in derivatives are consumed in the flames of a falling market. As GDP shrinks from diminishing liquidity, the Fed will have to create more credit and the government will have to provide more fiscal stimulus. But in a deflationary environment; public attitudes towards spending quickly change and the pool of worthy loan applicants dries up. Even at 0% interest rates, Bernanke will be stymied by the unwillingness of under-capitalized banks to lend or over-extended consumers to borrow. He'll be frustrated in his effort to restart the sluggish consumer economy or stop the downward spiral. In fact, the slowdown has already begun and the trend is probably irreversible. The financial markets are deteriorating at a faster pace than anyone could have imagined. CLIP
Darker Days Ahead?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012608F.shtml
According to Robert Reich in Newsweek, "Think the last few days have been bad for Wall Street and the rest of the world's markets? Hang on, things are probably going to get worse, says Robert Reich, President Clinton's former secretary of Labor and author of the recent book 'Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life.' According to Reich, who currently teaches public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, the United States might even be headed toward a depression."
Stagflation is Here (January 31, 2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7951
Last summer, I observed that there was a "solvency crisis" underneath the ongoing subprime mortgage liquidity squeeze. Central banks can alleviate a "liquidity crisis", but they cannot solve a solvency crisis. Last year also, before the events, I warned that the U.S. was heading toward stagflation. This was due to three fundamental factors. First, the structural fiscal imbalances of the federal budget in a period of prosperity, as a result of the Bush-Cheney administration's continuous deficit spending linked to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and to its large tax cuts; Second, the over-indebtedness of the overall U.S. economy coupled with an overall saving rate close to zero (in 1981, it was 12 percent), and, as a consequence, the rapidly increasing foreign debt of the U.S.; and, Third, the required decline in the U.S. dollar to reverse and correct the deteriorating American balance of payments. The second factor was a harbinger of less consumer spending in the coming months while the third factor would stoke the fire of overall inflation. And with already high budget deficits, there would be less leeway for an aggressive fiscal policy to sustain economic activity. The table was thus set for a bout of stagflation, i.e. slow growth and rising inflation.Now, stagflation is here. CLIP
The Great Credit Unwind of '08 - By Mike Whitney
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19227.htm
The financial system has been handed over to scam-artists and fraudsters who've created a multi-trillion dollar inverted pyramid of shaky, hyper-inflated, subprime slop that they've sold around the world with the tacit support of the ratings agencies and the US political establishment. (wink, wink) Now that system is about to collapse and there's nothing that the Federal Reserve can do to stop the Great Credit Unwind of '08.
U.S. slump spreading around the globe, IMF warns
http://snipurl.com/1ymkn
Financial turbulence is carrying the U.S. slump to the rest of the world, and now the global economy is in the midst of a serious slowdown, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday
US recession will dwarf dotcom crash
http://snipurl.com/1ymko
The views of Stephen Roach, one of the world's leading economists, now heading the Asian wing of Morgan Stanley, would have seemed outrageous at last year's World Economic Forum.
US House passes stimulus package
http://snipurl.com/1ymkp
The United States House of Representatives has approved an economic stimulus package worth $150bn in a bid to prop up the nation's faltering economy.
America's meltdown
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/30/opinion/edlet.php
Once again, the health and happiness of the average American is being sacrificed so that those in power can continue to make poor choices.
John Edwards: Message From Third Place
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012508G.shtml
Truthdig's Eugene Robinson reports from Lancaster, SC, "Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys took the stage at a rally for John Edwards here Wednesday, and out of a clear sky it started raining metaphors." And, Robert Scheer reports for Truthdig: "It was smart of the top Democrats to cut presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich out of that South Carolina debate, where they lamely attempted to deal with the dire consequences of the banking meltdown without confronting the banks. They made all the proper concerned noises about millions of folks losing their retirement savings and homes, but none was willing to say what Kucinich would have said: Bankers are crooks who will steal from the public unless the government holds them accountable."
Starving Haitians eating dirt cookies (Jan. 29, 2008)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5496676.html
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti's worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti's poorest can't afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies.Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country's central plateau. The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal."When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day," Charlene said.Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. "When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too," she said.Food prices around the world have spiked because of higher oil prices, needed for fertilizer, irrigation and transportation. Prices for basic ingredients such as corn and wheat are also up sharply, and the increasing global demand for biofuels is pressuring food markets as well.The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places. CLIP
Navy Resumes Use of Sonar off California
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/012508EC.shtml
The Christian Science Monitor's Gordon Lubold reports "The Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its accompanying ships began an exercise Wednesday that allows the aircraft carrier's strike group to use sonar to practice detecting submarines in the waters near San Diego before the ships deploy overseas.... Environmental groups expect a federal judge to rule against the Navy in the coming days, nullifying an exemption signed by Bush last week that environmentalists believe was unconstitutional."
Navy Aims to Break Record With Next Test of Railgun (January 29, 2008)
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/navy-aims-to-break-record-with-next-test-of-railgun/
(...) Displaying a photograph of the splintered booster, he said the test demonstrated the antimissile potential of the electromagnetic railgun, an experimental kinetic-energy weapon that could be based in space. The audience, made up of hundreds of Pentagon officials, military industry executives and reporters, broke into applause at the sight of the crumpled booster. CLIP Comments posted there: "Billions for this nonsense and continuing billions to fight illusive Islamic enemies, build a country (Iraq) up, support economic competitors and ignore the needs of America. The US as a declining latter-day Roman Empire!" - "It will be exciting to use these fantastic weapons against people making less than $2000 per year! Boom! Boom! Then when we partially incinerate children we can bring them to the US and use MRI and all sorts of modern surgical techniques to give them new faces. We can broadcast this on cable news as a testament to our kindness and generosity.We can use our invisible, supersonic, and atomic-armed planes against countries without air forces as well. Take that for not loving freedom! Boom!" - "I have an idea, if they get the 16 megajoule version running by later this year, they can use it in January of 2009 to fire Bush, Cheney and his whole administration out of the city….." - "Finally, the advent of the “green” missile. It doesn’t use fossil fuels to kill our enemies." - "If the Navy is not out trying to kill whales with sonar waves it’s out trying to fire the equivalent of Buicks by means of electromagnetism. Someone needs to step in and straighten out the captains of this military-industrial canoe club." - MORE on this dismally stupid and certainly very lethal new technology through http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4657177/
Large Majorities of Americans and Russians Oppose All Space Weapons (January 23, 2008)
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/444.php?lb=hmpg1&pnt=444&nid=&id=
Strong Bipartisan Support for Unilateral RestraintLarge Majorities Favor Treaty Against Attacking or Developing the Capability to Attack Satellites -- Most Americans and Russians agree that their governments should work together to prevent an arms race in space. Large majorities in both countries favor unilateral restraint and a treaty that would keep space free of weapons.A United States Air Force Defense Support System satellite used for infrared detection (Photo: USAF)Americans and Russians also support treaties that would prohibit countries from attacking or interfering with each others’ satellites and from testing or deploying weapons designed to attack satellites. These are among the key findings of a WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 1,247 Americans and 1,601 Russians developed in conjunction with the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM). Knowledge Networks in the United States and the Levada Center in Russia conducted the interviews. Majorities in both the United States (78%) and Russia (67%) say that as long as no other country puts weapons into space, their own governments should also refrain from doing so. Most Russians (72%) and Americans (80%) also favor a new treaty banning all weapons in space. Support for such a ban was strong among Americans even when they were presented counter arguments about the potential military advantages of deploying such systems. The US poll revealed strong bipartisan consensus on the issue. Majorities in both the Republican and Democratic parties believe the US government should refrain unilaterally from deploying space weapons. There is also bipartisan backing for a treaty to ban these weapons, though support is higher among Democrats. CLIP
The Peak Oil Crisis: The Future Of Our Cars – Part 2 (31 January 2008)
http://www.fcnp.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2465&Itemid=35
Within the next ten years the size, shape, efficiency, fuel and numbers of private automobiles is going to undergo a radical change. The nine million barrells of gasoline we currently use in the U.S. each day simply will not be available in the quantities desired at any price. If a transition to a more abundant fuel source than gasoline and diesel does not take place on a widespread basis before the shortages begin, there will be troubles. It is virtually certain that at some point the government will have to impose rationing that will keep functions vital to our society such as food, water, utilities and public safety functioning. The rest of us are going to have to find alternative means of transportation. (...) There are other candidates to power vehicles, such as hydrogen, compressed air and solar panels and there is no reason why one or more of these might not become viable someday. However, given the current technology, it is likely to be decades before they could come into widespread use. Our remaining candidates require little in the way of technological improvements. Except for buses, natural gas vehicles are virtually unknown in the U.S. although there are about 7 million of them in operation worldwide. CLIP
Many shark species are in peril of extinction. Every year, tens of millions of sharks suffer painful deaths to supply the cruel and wasteful shark fin trade. The fins are used in dishes such as shark fin soup, which may be served by Chinese restaurants and during banquets, weddings and other events.As the global shark fin trade approaches its annual peak during the Chinese New Year in February, Humane Society International needs YOUR help to end this cruel practice. Sharks’ fins are often removed when the animals are still alive; the sharks are then thrown back into the water to endure a painful death from suffocation, blood loss, or predation by other species. By keeping only the fins and throwing away the bodies, boat crews aren't hampered by space constraints. This means that massive numbers of sharks can be caught and finned to supply the unsustainable shark fin trade. Despite alarming declines in shark populations, hundreds of tons of shark fins will be changing hands this Chinese New Year for astronomical prices, as restaurants and hotels stock up to meet anticipated demand for the upcoming celebrations. Your donation will support Humane Society International's efforts to: discourage the consumption of shark products in all countries, pass international bans on shark finning, and strengthen the enforcement of existing regulations. Become a Humane Society International supporter now - Sharks aren't the vicious killing machines they've been made out to be. They are living beings who feel pain. They are essential to a healthy ocean ecosystem, but they're rapidly disappearing at an alarming rate because of humans!
Stop Distribution of Shark Fins - Online Petition to sign
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/400108473
Alibaba.com is one of the largest online traders of seafood and other products, especially shark fin - without regards to source or sustainability. The practice of shark finning, where a shark is captured, the fins removed, often while the shark is still living and the body discarded, is a brutal practice that is decimating shark populations worldwide. This lucrative market for shark fin is creating huge incentives for poor nations- as represented by scores of businesses on Alibaba.com- to remove the ocean's shark populations. Without any control, it is likely that endangered and threatened shark species are traded in great volume at great profit. As a web based business gateway, Alibaba.com is collusive and partner to this criminal and wasteful practice.
Why use a harpoon... when you can use a Canon?
http://members.greenpeace.org/action/start/175/
Canon is the world's number one digital camera company, and a major sponsor of wildlife initiatives, environmental groups, and efforts to save endangered species.The CEO of a company that attracts support to its brand by associating itself with environmental issues ought to oppose lethal research whaling in the Southern Ocean. Tell Mr. Mitarai, head of Canon Japan, that you want him to express Canon's disapproval of whaling in the Southern Ocean, and to call upon the government of Japan to use only non-lethal research methods.
US Herbicides Exact High Toll
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020208Y.shtml
For Truthout, Thomas D. Williams writes: "Despite years of ongoing, critical public health controversies in Colombia and Ecuador over the US-assisted aerial herbicide spraying of coca and poppy crops while trying to reduce illegal cocaine and heroin production, US State Department officials are pursuing that very same spraying strategy today."
Wars Dwarf Warming in US Budget
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020108EA.shtml
Jim Lobe for the Inter Press Service reports, "Despite growing recognition in the Pentagon and the intelligence community that global warming poses serious national security threats to the United States, Washington is spending $88 on the military for every dollar it spends this year on climate-related programs, according to a new study released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)."
Population Growth Pales Against Greed of the Rich
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020108EB.shtml
George Monbiot, The Guardian UK: "It's easy to blame the poor for growing pressure on the world's resources. But still the wealthy West takes the lion's share."
Big Business Says Climate Change Low on the Agenda
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020108LA.shtml
Tricia Holly Davis, Geoffrey Lean and Susie Mesure report for The Independent UK that a poll of 500 major firms reveals that only one in 10 regards global warming as a priority.
UN: Climate Change May Cost $20 Trillion (January 31, 2008)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/31/6751/
UNITED NATIONS - Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report. Ban’s report provides an overview of U.N. climate efforts to help the 192-nation General Assembly prepare for a key two-day climate debate in mid-February. That debate is intended to shape overall U.N. policy on climate change, including how nations can adapt to a warmer world and ways of supporting the U.N.-led negotiations toward a new climate treaty by 2009, U.N. officials said Wednesday.The treaty, replacing the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012, could shape the course of climate change for decades to come. The Kyoto pact requires 37 industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by a relatively modest 5 percent on average.
The Ocean's Biological Deserts Are Expanding (25 January 2008)
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/125/1
The Sahara, the Gobi, the Chihuahuan--all are great deserts. But what about the South Pacific's subtropical gyre? This "biological desert" within a swirling expanse of nutrient-starved saltwater is the largest, and least productive, ecosystem of the South Pacific. Together with the subtropical gyres in other oceans, biological deserts cover 40% of Earth's surface. But their relative obscurity may be about to change. Researchers are reporting that the ocean's biological deserts have been expanding, and they are growing much faster than global warming models predict. (...) All of the biological deserts had grown, except the South Indian Ocean's. The total expansion was 6.6 million square kilometers or 15%, and it happened as the shallow waters of the gyres were warming. "We're seeing this pattern in each of the four ocean basins," says Polovina. That suggests to him that global warming could be the ultimate cause of the observed desert expansion. Gyre waters are already strongly layered, so stirring by the wind brings little of the nutrients stored in deep waters to the surface to fuel plant and ultimately animal growth. Warming further strengthens this stratification, making such nourishing mixing all the more difficult. Climate-ecosystem models predict that global warming will exacerbate ocean desert expansion, but not this quickly, Polovina notes. During the past 9 years, gyre deserts expanded 10 to 25 times faster than modeled. CLIP - NOTE: As life and oxygen-producing planktons disappear from oceans, so disappear a vital element of our sole life-support system...
Iceless Arctic seen by summer 2013 (01/28/2008)
http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_8098407?nclick_check=1
The Arctic Ocean could be entirely ice-free during the summer months as soon as 2013, said two scientists at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey who have been studying the polar ice cap. (...) A combination of factors could cause the ice to disappear altogether in summer, they said.If and when that happens, "the world will change, quite dramatically," Maslowski said.The Arctic Ocean is caught in "a positive feedback loop," he said. Ice reflects sunlight and solar heat, while water absorbs it. As the ice disappears, the Arctic Ocean gets warmer.At the same time, warmer water — zero degrees Celsius but still liquid — hasAdvertisementbeen flowing into the Arctic from the north Pacific and Atlantic oceans, Kinney said.All of these factors point toward a meltdown of arctic ice as much as 15 years sooner than the previously "bold" prediction of an ice-free polar ocean by 2030."We'll still be working — and alive — in 2013," Maslowski said. "I'm confident it will happen, not only in our lifetime, but in our career time."Warming of the polar ocean will likely spin off into glacier melts in Greenland and Scandinavia, as well as disruption of the ocean currents that regulate much of the globe's climate. The Arctic will still freeze in winter, Maslowski said, but the ice cap won't be thick enough to survive the following summer. CLIP
Sun Blamed for Warming of Earth and Other Worlds (12 March 2007)
http://www.livescience.com/environment/070312_solarsys_warming.html
Earth is heating up lately, but so are Mars, Pluto and other worlds in our solar system, leading some scientists to speculate that a change in the sun’s activity is the common thread linking all these baking events. Others argue that such claims are misleading and create the false impression that rapid global warming, as Earth is experiencing, is a natural phenomenon.While evidence suggests fluctuations in solar activity can affect climate on Earth, and that it has done so in the past, the majority of climate scientists and astrophysicists agree that the sun is not to blame for the current and historically sudden uptick in global temperatures on Earth, which seems to be mostly a mess created by our own species. CLI¨P
Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming
http://www.livescience.com/environment/top10_global_warming_results.html
You've probably heard about the global warming song and dance: rising temperatures, melting ice caps and rising sea levels in the near future. But Earth's changing climate is already wreaking havoc in some very weird ways. So gird yourself for such strange effects as savage wildfires, disappearing lakes, and freak allergies.
Fluoride Poisoning Us and our CHILDREN in FOODS and WATER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNtTctC_7qc
Your children’s real future: what future?
http://www.telluridenews.com/lifestyle/x142937493
Chuck Burr has written “Culturequake,” a (mostly) secular and environmental version of the Book of Revelation, in which he puts on his oracle’s robe and prophesies his visions of times to come. The subtitle of the book is “Your Children’s Real Future,” and if I had to summarize, in a single word, what Burr believes to be your children’s real future, that word would be “screwed.”Burr, a local retired software developer, is riding a recent wave of end-of-times literature, a wonky believer in enviro-apocalypse. And his basic point is clearly right: eventually, everything’s gonna run out. We can’t keep sledgehammering the Earth. But the book reads like a horror movie: “Water shortages! … Tropical diseases! Mosquitoes! Global species loss!” Burr’s pessimism is limitless. “The world is approaching the point of death,” he writes. “Our culture has literally gone mad. … The world has no plan B.” (...) You want to ask: Chuck, buddy, everything all right at home? You sleeping okay? Burr admits he doesn’t know what the future holds, (although he knows the future is bleak).
After outlining all the ways we’re going to wither on the vine, he also trots out the old “abrupt ice age” theory, in which climate change comes in the form of cold, and we die the old fashioned way, in an ice age, the way our ancestors did. Either way, solutions are futile, since climate change and monoculture and erosion are already on an unstoppable path, and we have finally arrived at the scientific version of the doomsday predictions of St. John and Nostradamus. Burr reminds us that change is coming, either when we see the errors of our ways, or when change is forced upon us by catastrophe, scarcity, war, and the seven-headed beasts of Revelation are coming.
Empire State Building car zap mystery (January 27th 200)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/01/27/2008-01-27_empire_state_building_car_zap_mystery.html
In the shadow of the Empire State Building lies an “automotive Bermuda Triangle” - a five-block radius where vehicles mysteriously die.No one is sure what’s causing it, but all roads appear to lead to the looming giant in our midst - specifically, its Art Deco mast and 203-foot-long, antenna-laden spire.“We get about 10 to 15 cars stuck near there every day,” said Isaac Leviev, manager of Citywide Towing, the AAA’s exclusive roadside assistance provider from 42nd St. to the Battery. “You pull the car four or five blocks to the west or east and the car starts right up.” (...) The 102-story building, at Fifth Ave. between 33rd and 34th Sts., has been home to broadcast equipment since its opening in 1931, when RCA installed an experimental TV antenna.Since the 9/11 attacks destroyed the twin towers, the building has regained its status as the leading transmission site for commercial broadcast outfits, with 13 TV and 19 FM stations mounting antennas on its spire. CLIP
Digital TV Will Make More People Sick
http://groups.google.com/group/mobilfunk_newsletter/browse_thread/thread/7a4b006fb3c51008
The change from analog TV to digital TV is now in progress. U.S. broadcasters are being force to change to digital signals by February 2009. This will mean that extremely powerful digital signals will be broadcast over very large areas by large antennas. This is expected to be a very dangerous development which could cause a great danger to health. There are two links below which may help you to understand the danger. A very important scientific document by Hallberg and Johansson is also attached to this message. When reading the document, note the year and note that digital TV started broadcasting at that time. It is quite clear that 'over the air' broadcasting is dangerous and should be stopped. Television and many other wireless services could be delivered to the consumer much more safely by wired connections than by wireless. Governments should be implementing widespread wired / fibre optic infrastructure now!
PDF: US Fish & Wildlife On Cell/ EMF Dangers
http://tinyurl.com/3drrqj
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Concerns Over Potential Radiation Impacts of Cellular Communication Towers on Migratory Birds and Other Wildlife
EMF-Omega-News 26. January 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4650017/
EMF-Omega-News 2. February 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4668743/
Omega-News Collection 2. February 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4668750/
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From: Suzanne Ward (suzy@matthewbooks.com)
Subject: Message from Matthew
Date: 27 Jan 2008
From: http://www.matthewbooks.com/mm/anmviewer.asp?a=84&z=2
US primaries; the economy, changes; Illuminati group, control crashing; ethanol; Internet; importance of sound; turmoil, violence in third density and universal contexts; other civilizations’ help in world transformation
January 27, 2008
This is Matthew greeting you in this first month of your calendar year 2008, and what a year of decisive revelations it promises to be! So let us get right to this.
The eyes and ears of the world are aimed at the nominating primaries in the United States, and it is a grand circus that these are providing. Although Hillary Clinton is the Illuminati's choice as the next US president—with good reason, as she is one of the most influential in that global group—they also have their reasons for rigging the voting process so that various candidates in each party come out on top in one state or another. As long as these "leading" ones remain hopeful of getting their party's nomination, they will stick to Illuminati-approved topics and avoid critical issues. This keeps the real state of the union under wraps in their speeches along with keeping voters uncertain about whom to believe, whom to trust with presidential power in what is relentlessly publicized as an Al Queda-terrorized world. And how much more obvious can it be that the only candidates who are not under the thumb of the Illuminati are all but excluded from media attention? Take heart in knowing that not only will the light disclose the truth about the candidates prior to the November election, but efforts are underway to have an accurate vote count then. Parallel to the Illuminati's nefarious efforts to put still another of their own in the White House, in a collaborative effort between Earth humankind and benevolent extraterrestrial family, there is a strong movement afoot to derail that dark plan. Eventually all leaders of all nations will be honest, wise and capable souls.
The same kind of joint effort is true about the economy disaster in the United States, which is reverberating around the globe. When your mainstream media use words like "economic downturn" and "recession"; banks are reporting gigantic losses; home repossessions are mounting; credit card debt is astronomical; stock market trading suspiciously rises and falls and rises and falls; mortgage lenders are going under; retail sales are down; small companies die and large ones send jobs to other countries where wages are at bare subsistence levels; you know that major changes in current business methods must occur.
The facts are, the United States has been bankrupt for some time—there is no foundation for the amount of currency in circulation and no means to repay the national debt—and financial turmoil will increase, not get back on a firm footing as the administration proposes will result from pouring a small amount of money into personal pockets and more into business pockets. That "spending stimulus" and the measures being taken in other countries are the Illuminati's frenzied attempts to keep the lid on the global economy, which they are desperate to keep under their control, but none of their ploys will work. The ever-increasing light will blow that lid right off and expose the root of deepening problems: the corrupt banking system, private ownership of the Federal Reserve and its Internal Revenue Service collection agency, manipulated stock markets, and exploitation of nations‚ natural resources. Their long era of worldwide economic domination is crashing around them.
For the benefit of readers who may not know who the Illuminati are, I shall digress a moment to explain that this name meaning "illuminated," or "enlightened," was chosen by the darkly-inclined ones who generation after generation have oppressed your world and suppressed many truths. Also known as the secret government, the dark cabal or the elitists, it is not a membership society as such, but rather a large group of powerful individuals around the globe who essentially run governments; legal systems; royal families; religions; mainstream media; banking; education; medical field; entertainment venues; international corporations—in short, every business, organization and institution that profoundly affects life on Earth. The scope and tenacity of this dark web is why the peoples have been so easily controlled for so long. Earth, who is a sentient being, no longer is willing to tolerate the suffering of her human and animal life and her planetary body that is caused by the dark ones‚ abuse of free will, and she asked for universal assistance so her residents can break free of the deeply entrenched deception, corruption, greed and tyranny. In a nutshell, that freedom process is what is happening in your world.
To return to the financial topic, the next several months can be likened to "the darkness before the dawn." Many will experience hardships for a while, but those will be mild compared to what is on the Illuminati agenda, to plunge your world into such dire economic straits that billions would starve while those dark ones further enrich their unconscionable fortunes of illegally amassed wealth. US President Bush's push to produce ethanol rather than renewable energy sources to reduce dependency on oil is part of that insidious plan—corn production would go for that fuel instead of consumption by people and animals raised for food—remember, Bush does what he is told by the more powerful in the Illuminati ranks. That plan won't get off the drawing board either. Spiritually evolved souls well experienced in economic and business management are ready to step in, so there will be no vacuum in the conduct of those affairs as the present system is replaced by a return to a basis of precious metals.
We see that many who used to take at face value political hopefuls‚ promises and the rosy spin put on the economy still want to feel hopeful, but they are becoming wary. We greet this awakening process that will become what you could call a very rude awakening as truths continue to come out, especially when the origin and purpose of religious dogmas is revealed. Despite the ever-increasing light intensity that is enabling higher consciousness and greater spiritual clarity, not all people who will believe the disclosures about the centuries of Illuminati control will be able to accept the truth about the millennia of religious control.
In reference to both authentic history and "breaking news," the most trustworthy source today is the Internet. For all its capacity to convey the false along with the factual, nevertheless it is the most reliable source of reports that cover what is omitted in mainstream media or is in conflict with that information. When the volume of facts on the Internet reaches a crescendo, so to say, newspapers and the air waves are forced to report the tip of the iceberg to maintain any credibility, and ones who still believe those sources do get glimpses of truth. Although the dark minds' intention to use Internet communication to complement their other forms of mind control was swiftly compromised by soul-searching users, this means also is serving their purpose of disseminating false information, so be very discerning about all its material just as with all other sources.
A related subject for your discretion, at least insofar as radio and television, is sound. The sounds from every source emanate frequencies that are beneficial or detrimental to your psyche and body, and in the higher frequencies now prevailing on Earth, you are correspondingly more greatly affected by the sounds around you. The dark minds are keenly aware of this and their skullduggery extends to bombarding you with damaging inaudible sound waves—those you can't avoid. But in most instances you can choose sounds from radios, TVs and stereos. A great deal of modern music and programming teems with dissonance or harmful decibels or both, and you can avoid those noises. Scientific experiments with classical works by Mozart, Beethoven and other masters have proven their calming, nurturing effects on very sick patients, the flourishing of plants, and the gentle receptivity of animals. We understand that symphonic music is not everyone's cup of tea, but you would do well to keep in mind its great benefits. Whenever you can, venture into Nature—delight in the sounds it offers and revel in the essence of BEing at One with All. And please don't overlook the soothing sound of silence—it is golden indeed!—and as often as possible, treat yourselves to the restorative upliftment of stillness.
Now then, if you are thinking that despite all our contentions that the light is increasing, there is little evidence of this as you observe more outbreaks of violence, from civil wars to individual acts of assault and murder, please put these in the context of what we have said about the higher frequencies magnifying all characteristics and behavior—simply put, now "good" is better and "bad" is worse. The killings of those who held or were vying for prominent leadership roles anywhere in the world are part of this exacerbated energetic force, and so is the brutality within families and acquaintances and indiscriminate killings. Those kinds of incidents will continue until the energy with dark tentacles that initiates them runs its course. Do not fall into fear, that most pernicious tool and the fuel of the darkness! A magnified energy at its core and correspondingly stronger now, fear forms cracks in the psyche that become entryways for dark tentacles. Keep foremost in your thoughts that always the light is stronger—light is the same as love and it is the most powerful force in the universe. Keeping your light steady is your fortress that the darkness cannot scale.
Although from our vantage point of observation and our knowledge of soul contracts in general, we are joyfully astounded by the amazingly rapid progress of the light, we also empathize—yes, empathize, not only sympathize—with the souls who are experiencing trauma, grief and confusion during this stage of Earth's transition. While many are leaving according to their pre-birth agreements, many others are choosing to amend their contracts and leave early so as to forego the pain of their intolerable living conditions that adds negativity, and they are joining in the light-beaming from souls in spirit to help Earth rid herself of negativity. And I hasten to say that the "better good" is happening in far greater abundance than the "bad worse"!
I shall speak first in a third density context about the countries with the most media attention: Iraq and Afghanistan, with on-going combat, turmoil and US-installed puppet regimes; Iran, the next nation on the dark ones‚ agenda, thus the rhetoric about the need to stop its potential to develop nuclear weaponry; Pakistan, with its serious political unrest; the Zionist-led 60-year conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians; and now Lebanon. Very few of the violent incidents in that entire area are the work of the "Muslim radicals" who are blamed for them—this is part of the propaganda to instill the idea that the new enemy of peace and freedom is the Islamic religion. The "insurgents," the political label given the ones trying to free their people from foreign occupation, in previous times were "patriots" fighting to liberate their countries from foreign oppressors. Most of the death and destruction, including many of the suicide bombings, are "black-ops" activities implemented or directed by the Illuminati-controlled faction of the CIA, often using mind-controlled individuals.