Hello everysoul!

There are so many comments from me interspersed in this compilation - the most ever certainly - that I will simply encourage you to dig this one and discover the amazing amount of information and views it contains.

Till next time, have a great day!

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator

P.S.  J'ai diffusé le 2 novembre une compilation de 30 pages que je recommande à votre attention...

La transe porcine collective

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"Dear Jean, I want to thank you for keeping me informed for the last 10 years. Each week, I wait patiently for your updates and I read every word. I have learned so much from you that the media, national news and local news has kept from the public airwaves. You are part of the enlightenment I have been able to share with all of my loved ones. Thank you so much for your heart of gold."

 

- Cathy (CAnne16560@aol.com) -- There is another email from Cathy below and my reply...

"Hi Jean, a deep thank-you for your soul. I think it is worth mentioning that Australia has just come out of the flu season. For a time the city where I live, Melbourne, had a very high infection rate of swine flu. In fact myself (a severe asthmatic) and my family all contracted swine flu as did many of my colleagues and certainly the students of the college where I work. Certainly swine flu like any other flu is not pleasant but it is NOTHING TO BE AFRAID OF. It is interesting that although there was a noted high infection rate, only about 12 people died because of related complications such as pneumonia, heart conditions etc and despite the high infection rate no more people died then is usually the case here in a flu season. So I guess I just wanted to pass on the message that catching swine flu itself is nothing to fear. As one, Rob."

- Message left in the ERN guestbook on 2009-10-28 by Rob Vincs (rvincs@unimelb.edu.au)

"VAERS is a passive reporting system, so the number of people believed to be hurt by vaccines is vastly underreported. According to Dr. David Kessler, former head of the FDA, "only about 1 percent of serious events-adverse drug reactions-are reported." This is confirmed by the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute, which receives unsolicited personal stories of vaccine damage every day. The families telling these dreadful stories rarely file official reports. Of course, these stories do not constitute "proof" of vaccine damage-at least no more than a child's cry after skinning his knee is "proof" of pain. However, patterns of adverse vaccine reactions are easily observed when unrelated families consistently report similar stories of healthy children prior to their shots, and hospitalized children after their shots. These patterns tell a larger story. A medical industry that errs on the side of denial rather than concern is backward and criminally negligent."

- Taken from Parents Shouldn't Have to Play Russian Roulette With Their Children

"The silence about vaccine deaths in media is due to the confidential contracts with the vaccine manufacturers. GSK secret contract binds Government to SILENCE!"

- Taken from HERE

"A report sent to the UN General Assembly by Dr Nawal Majeed Al-Sammarai, Iraq's Minister of Women's Affairs since 2006, stated that in September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 babies born, 24% of which died within their first week of life. Worse yet, fully 75% of the babies born that month were deformed. This compares to August 2002, six months before the US invasion, when 530 live births were reported with only six dying in the first week, and only one deformity. Clearly something terrible is happening in Fallujah, and many doctors suspect it's the depleted uranium dust that is permeating the city. But the real impact of the first heavy use of depleted uranium weaponry in populous urban environments (DU was used widely especially in 2003 in Baghdad, Samara, Mosul and other big Iraqi cities), will come over the years, as the toxic legacy of this latest American war crime begins to show up in rising numbers of cancers, birth defects and other genetic disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan."

- Taken from Depleted Uranium Weapons: The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all it's powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really EVERYWHERE... It is WITHIN EACH OF US."

- Black Elk - Sent by Zackoree Harrison (zackoree@gmail.com) who wrote: "Just read the intro to your Meditation Focus, it reminded me of this quote."

"Our moment has come! Thanks to your compilations, we are able to get an advanced peek at the glorious transformation and transfiguration that is about to take place. I believe we are in for quite a series of massive changes... Your work has been so important to lessen the impact of the shock waves that such will produce in those who are shut down to change, and to inspire others to rally for change. THERE IS AS YET NO REGULAR MAJOR NEWS OUTLET WHICH REPRODUCES THE BALANCED INFORMATION THAT YOU TRANSMIT.   I believe your work will gradually lessen in the years ahead however. I also believe that only work of lasting spiritual significance will survive the cleansing in information, and I was told this morning that my own work would serve a purpose-indeed will be promoted by the incoming forces for change-in the upcoming lesson-learning. I regularly question if it will not already be outdated the moment benevolent beings begin to spread their own messages. Apparently from what I am told, it won't be, and they will make it a purpose to point out existing works by established earth lightworkers who have contributed to the awakening now about to reach unprecedented levels. I have quietly waited for this moment all my recent life. What a joy we will witness. From darkness into Light."

- Pierre Cloutier (ameast@total.net) NOTE from Jean: Pierre has just written a fascinating self-help book about spiritual healing. The result of his many years of experience as a spiritual healer and professional chiropractor, it will offer invaluable information and guidance to those who are in the New Consciousness movement and anyone ready to reach true health and greater spiritual balance.

"Greetings, This is Ashtar. One of these days soon there will be mass decloakings of our Ships, all over the World, simultaneously. New developments recently have made this possible. When this takes place, you will know arrests have taken place. We cannot make the Galactic presence known on a worldwide scale until everyone is safe from any threat of danger, including world leaders, news media, and military officials. Many in the news media are prepared with specials already crafted that they will launch which will explain what mass decloakings means. When Ted Kennedy passed, there were several video tributes ready to go. This will be the case for mass decloakings. It will not be a surprise for the news media. KOS has talked to news media all over the world. Those news media who are penciled in for removal, already know they are leaving. Motherships, as you have already seen in China and Moscow film footage, will decloak in over 120 countries all at once. This will happen in different time zones, in day and at night. It will happen for millions of people at once. There will be film footage shot in all of these countries. This will go out over the internet as it is happening. YouTube and Servers will be supported by our technology during this time. Not only will there be Motherships in a large number of places, but millions of smaller ships will fill the skies in a shock and awe experience. ALL of these will have their lights on. Some will show in their Higher Dimensional forms as Light Ships and some will show up as metal discs. Some will show as a display of lights. There is an elaborate plan in place for this. Almost everyone who sees the mass decloakings, anywhere on Earth will be completely filled with universal love. It will be so moving that no one will miss the meaning. No one will be questioning if this is Our Family. Children especially, will be interested in knowing what is going on. They will help the older crowd assimilate the news. Everyone will instinctively be aware that this is something they have waited for a very long time."

- Lord Ashtar -- Taken from Ashtar has a Special Message: Declaokings are Seconds Away -- NOTE from Jean: For a stunning speech revealing MUCH about what the world secret government - under Majestic 12 - hides from us all watch this VIDEO  (More below on this). Meanwhile in the US, the campaign continues to condition people to be afraid of ETs, if and when they show themselves up, as exemplified by ABC's new show 'V' that premiered on November 3, 2009 - See their Upfront Trailer

"You have the ability to make a positive difference in the world. This has been a roller-coaster time of miracles and challenges. It seems as though these extreme experiences are being used to wake Humanity up at warp speed. No matter how hard people may try, their I AM Presence is not allowing them to push the snooze button in order to go back to sleep. It is time for people everywhere to remember who they are and why they are on Earth during this auspicious moment. Important changes are taking place, and in spite of outer-world appearances, we are beginning to see evidence of people in every walk of life reaching out to make a positive difference."

- Patricia Diane Cota-Robles -- Taken from Take Charge of Your Life (2 November, 2009)

1. Join the Evolution

2. Flu Scam Feedback

3. Not seeing any change in consciousness

4. ERN Guestbook comment about One Flu Over the Ukraine's Nest

5. Conflicts of Interest Permeate the Vaccine Industry

6. CDC and Swine Flu Deception: CBS News Reveals Numbers Greatly Exaggerated - AND MUCH MORE!

7. Profit Driven Swine Flu Propaganda - Pump Up the Volume - Part Five

8. 10 Facts about Swine Flu Vaccine: it cause neurological disorder and sometime paralysis

9. Happy World Vegan Day!

10. The Future of Climate Policy Could Be Found in Copenhagen

11. Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

12. Debating Man-Made Global Warming

13. Gore's Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor

14. Embracing the Divine Masculine

15. Food will never be so cheap again

16. The Pentagon's Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA

17. Report: Palestinians denied water

18. Funny Words

From: http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/10/without-vaccine-australia-shrugs-off-swine-flu.html

Without Vaccine, Australia Shrugs Off Swine Flu.

By David M. Burd - October 27, 2009

With no vaccine available for H1N1 flu, Australia recently ended its 2009 "Flu Season" (their Winter in our Summer), with 186 flu-associated fatalities of 36,991 Aussies confirmed having H1N1.
 
The Australia 2009 stats for regular 'seasonal flu' are not final yet, but their Health Dept literature cites annual flu-associated mortality historically has been between 2,500 and 3,000  in spite of universal  vaccination programs for regular flu long being established.  A logical review of these results strongly suggests next year Australia should initiate a "flu vaccination holiday," promote vitamin D supplements, long known to be effective for preventing Wintertime flu disease, and then compare the outcomes.  
 
Pertinently, experts have also stated that H1N1 was probably already in Australia for their 2008 flu season, but not tested for (which is the nature of the testing world; a great percentage of "flu" cases being presumptive, never tested).  In light of Australia clearly showing the pussycat nature of H1N1, can somebody explain why America's media willfully ignores the news from Australia?  However, despite the derelict media, I would think U.S. Health Generals would certainly be up on Flu news from Down Under, and certainly from Canada right next door.
 

Canadian front page news on flu vaccinations has transfixed Canada health authorities, prompting official suspension of regular flu vaccination programs until further notice.  This comes from a sweeping study of Canada by research Doctors Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre of Disease Control and Gaston De Serres of Laval University in Quebec concluding Canadians receiving flu vaccinations have twice the risk of coming down with the flu, compared to those who do not take the shot.

In a bizarre five-hour worldwide teleconference held by the World Health Organization October 4 on the Skowronski/De Serres Study, U.S. doctors offered the opinion that the Canadian doctors' flu vaccination study was certainly wrong and must have used flawed study parameters, though the U.S. doctors admittedly could not identify anything specific.  To paraphrase the U.S. attitude: 'Damn the vaccination studies, flu speed ahead!'

 
In view of all this, America wakes up Sunday, Oct. 25 to headlines of President Obama proclaiming Saturday that H1N1 Flu is now under a National Health Emergency.  Perhaps, Obama's rhetoric is no coincidence as it is well known most Americans have been rejecting their invitations to show up for their shots.  And maybe, American mothers and fathers realize there are indeed catastrophic risks associated with vaccinations, particularly since CDC says their kids should be marched in for shots, regardless of CDC admitting the shots contain full amounts of mercury preservative.  And, I am not making this up: CDC astonishingly insists that the mercury in vaccines brings no risk whatsoever to kids.
 
Three related conclusions come to mind:
 
(1) My hat is off to the public, thinking for themselves.  Huraah!!
 
(2) Obama's health advisor Harry Varmus, NIAID chief Tony Fauci, HHS Secretary Sebelius, CDC Director Thomas Frieden, CDC Commander Anne Schuchat are so zealously dedicated to Herd Control of Americans they willfully ignore the honest, financially independent, most available information on Planet Earth: Australia's just ended Flu Season, and the study in Canada by Doctors Skowronski and De Serres (and other studies that reinforce their conclusion). U.S. health officials promoting unwarranted epidemic fears and manipulation of H1N1 flu deserve permanent mail room duty on the international space station - at best.
 
(3) President Obama illustrates perfectly the medically-ignorant political animal, craving to be seen as a Medical Hero in the national spotlight, while willfully ignoring abundant proof of brain damage and other permanent disabilities to millions of children by vaccines' mercury and other toxic ingredients cavalierly injected in such as the H1N1 vaccine.

Swine Flu Government Data Scam - Government using fraud to generated flu hysteria (10 min)

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! THE REVEALING STATISTICS START AT 6:35 INTO THIS VIDEO

What if the government is lying about the number of Swine Flu cases to bolster its case for mandatory vaccination of school children and government employees? It appears they're cooking the books in a massive way and are actively obstructing the news media's attempts to get the real numbers. For example, in Alaska only 1% of all people reported as having Swine Flu actually had the disease when actually tested for it. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has this data, but flat out won't release it. Employees are being told they have to receive the Swine Flu vaccine or lose their jobs. Schools are giving children the vaccine against their parents wishes. Now it's been revealed that the federal government is withholding data that shows a large percentage of people who have been reported as having the Swine Flu did not in fact have it.

Brasscheck TV:  Vaccination reality check

First, they sold us a war - based on fraud.Then, the economy collapsed - thanks to government tolerance for widespread financial fraud. Now, these same people want you to roll up your sleeve and take an injection of something they have so little faith in they've already granted themselves legal immunity if - and when - it goes horribly wrong. Swine flu hysteria is more government/media/industry fraud. The so-called "science" behind vaccination is total garbage. More and more, doctors are willing to stand up and tell the truth. The people pushing this the hardest are the same criminals who brought you the Iraq War and the meltdown of the US economy through financial fraud. Just say "no" to being railroaded into allowing a dodgy set of chemicals, metals, and live viruses injected into your blood stream by venal idiots who have so little confidence in what they're doing they won't participate without getting total legal immunity in advance. If you or a loved one are crippled by this vaccine, you will shoulder the burden yourself. The pharmaceutical companies and the government have exempted themselves from all liability. Make sure you

read the warning at the end of this video...

Artificial scarcity and the anatomy of the 2009 swine flu pandemic - WILL OPEN YOUR EYES!!!

This video exposes how the corporate health industry met at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and expressed concern that Americans are refusing the unpopular H1N1 swine flu vaccines. This video also documents the strong case that the media is hyping an artificial scarcity of the vaccine to trick concerned parents into lining up like cattle for the flu shot.

Swine Flu Epidemic Dropping off (2 November 2009)
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2009/11/02/swine_flu_epidemic_dropping_off_newsgrabs_monday_2_november_2009.htm
Amid all the disastrous swine flu news, here is a different point of view to consider: "I would like to point out that S. and myself published on the effective technology of Washing hands about 3 years back. We also predicted the failure of all the "approved" technologies. Now! I have good news. The Flu epidemic is OVER folks. It will be a memory before the vaccinations get a chance to work. Within the next 3 weeks the epidemic will be reduced to a mere 15% fraction of its current level. It has already spiked over and is rapidly dropping off. You can get the facts by Google (Key Words: Flu, Map). Once the spike drops it is over folks. The Vaccine wagon has sailed into ineffective status. CLIP

Swine Flu, Dr. Peter Beter Reporting In 1976, Rockefeller, 2009 Obama, Depopulation (Oct 31, 2009)

Dr. Peter Beter in 1976 reported on the Swine Flu scare that hit the United States during the Ford Administration. The video mirrors the similarities of the Swine Flu panic in the Ford and Obama Administrations. According to Beter, the Rockefeller Cartel was the culprit behind the Swine Flu panic, and said it was a test run to see how fast hordes of people could be killed. That the Swine Flu in 1976 was being used as a cover to hide covert operations involving chemical poisons and biological viruses. THIS VIDEO REALLY HITS HARD AND SHOULD OPEN EYES BECAUSE OF THE EERIE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE 1976 SWINE FLU SWINDLE AND THE ONE GOING ON RIGHT NOW...

Ingredients in the Swine Flu H1N1 Vaccine; Resources, Risks and Dangers (October 29, 2009)

A trusted friend of mine who happens to work for a chiropractor sent me an email that disturbed me and piqued my interest into researching vaccines. In the email she stated that her employer wrote and asked for the list of ingredients in the H1N1 vaccine and received a list that was surprising to say the least.

INGREDIENTS LIST:

In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, here are the fillers:

- aluminum hydroxide

- aluminum phosphate
- ammonium sulfate
- amphotericin B
- animal tissues: (pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf (bovine) serum

- betapropiolactone
- fetal bovine serum
- formaldehyde
- formalin
- gelatin
- glycerol

- human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
- hydrolyzed gelatin
- MSG (monosodium glutamate)
- Neomycin
- Neomycin sulfate

- Phenol red indicator

- Phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)

- potassium diphosphate and monophosphate

- Polymyxin B
- Polysorbate 20 and 80
- Porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
- Residual MRC5 proteins
- Sorbitol sucrose
- Thimerosal (mercury)
- tri(n)butylphospate
- VERO cells (a continuous line of monkey kidney cells washed sheep red blood cells)

CLIP - Much MUCH more THERE!    Some of the potential health consequences of having those products in your bloodstream are listed HERE under Toxins in Seasonal Flu and Other Vaccines

BELL TOLLING for the Swine Flu (CAMPANAS por la gripe A) subtitled in English

TERESA FORCADES, doctor in Public Health, reflects on the history, and gives scientific data, of A type flu and lists all the irregularities related to this subject. She explains the consequences of the declaration of a PANDEMIC, the political consequences from this declaration and makes a proposal to keep calm. She calls for an urgent activation of all legal mechanism and the participation of all citizens in this matter.

Councillor Adrian Hicks - The Interview - LEAKED!!!!  --- IMPORTANT VIDEOS!!! REALLY!!!

The interview proposes challenging questions about what Councillor Hicks actually saw the day he claimed he saw a female humanoid character close to a well-known army base set in the heart of Hampshire, England. Visit his website at http://www.councillorhicks.co.uk/ for more details. But make sure to watch his speech Judgement & Democracy  - http://web.mac.com/jbthorp/AdrianHicks/judgement_%26_democracy.html - targeted at government and army personnel of countries such as England, America and the rest of the globe - in which he reveals MUCH about the ultra-secret Majestic 12 group and its attitude towards disclosure about the ET presence. A new video will be released on the 20th of  December 2009

I KNOW WHAT I SAW (includes a trailer)

http://iknowwhatisawthemovie.com/

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From: http://news.ronatvan.com/2009/09/20/health-warning-10-facts-about-swine-flu-vaccine-it-cause-neurological-disorder-and-sometime-paralysis/

Health Warning - 10 Facts about Swine Flu Vaccine: it cause neurological disorder and sometime paralysis

14 September 20, 2009

#1 - The vaccine production was "rushed" and the vaccine has never been tested on humans. Do you like to play guinea pig for Big Pharma? If so, line up for your swine flu vaccine this fall?

#2 - Swine flu vaccines contain dangerous adjuvants that cause an inflammatory response in the body. This is why they are suspected of causing autism and other neurological disorders.

#3 - The swine flu vaccine could actually increase your risk of death from swine flu by altering (or suppressing) your immune system response. There is zero evidence that even seasonal flu shots offer any meaningful protection for people who take the jabs. Vaccines are the snake oil of modern medicine.

#4 - Doctors still don't know why the 1976 swine flu vaccines paralyzed so many people. And that means they really have no clue whether the upcoming vaccine might cause the same devastating side effects. (And they're not testing it, either?)

#5 - Even if the swine flu vaccine kills you, the drug companies aren't responsible. The U.S. government has granted drug companies complete immunity against vaccine product liability. Thanks to that blanket immunity, drug companies have no incentive to make safe vaccines, because they only get paid based on quantity, not safety (zero liability).

#6 - No swine flu vaccine works as well as vitamin D to protect you from influenza. That's an inconvenient scientific fact that the U.S. government, the FDA and Big Pharma hope the people never realize.

#7 - Even if the swine flu vaccine actually works, mathematically speaking if everyone else around you gets the vaccine, you don't need one! (Because it can't spread through the population you hang with.) So even if you believe in the vaccine, all you need to do is encourage your friends to go get vaccinated?

#8 - Drug companies are making billions of dollars from the production of swine flu vaccines. That money comes out of your pocket - even if you don't get the jab - because it's all paid by the taxpayers.

#9 - When people start dying in larger numbers from the swine flu, rest assured that many of them will be the very people who got the swine flu vaccine. Doctors will explain this away with their typical Big Pharma logic: "The number saved is far greater than the number lost." Of course, the number "saved" is entirely fictional? imaginary? and exists only in their own warped heads.

#10 - The swine flu vaccine centers that will crop up all over the world in the coming months aren't completely useless: They will provide an easy way to identify large groups of really stupid people. (Too bad there isn't some sort of blue dye that we could tag 'em with for future reference?)

9.

WONDERFUL INITIATIVE ABSOLUTELY WORTH SUPPORTING!

Date: 1 Nov 2009

From: Elizabeth Kucinich (elizabeth@elizabethkucinich.com

Subject: Happy World Vegan Day!

Dear Friends,

HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY!!

Today is a day that the vegan community celebrates the vegan lifestyle and what means to our health, our world, our state of mind and most importantly, to the millions of animals who don't have to suffer a violent life and death in order to sustain us. - The ultimate personal expression for the capacity of peace and compassion in the world.

As many of you may already know, both my mother and my husband had Crohn's Disease which, independently, they have resolved through changing their diets. Over the coming weeks and months, I shall be working to promote the wonderful health benefits of a plant-based vegan diet.

This empowering vegan lifestyle choice can also prevent, manage and in some cases even cure some of the most debilitating ailments, including arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, ... and the list goes on!

Choosing a locally produced, organic vegan diet rich in whole grains, fresh fruit and vegetables is the easiest and also the greatest single thing that any of us can do to truly transform our personal health, the health of our nations and our world, our politics and our capacity and expression of peace and compassion.

As many of you are already aware, there are environmental, social and compassionate reasons why an organic, vegan plant-based diet makes most sense.

Climate Change: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) detail how the single largest contributing factor to climate change is animal farming! If we are serious about climate change then we will start thinking about what we eat. Disappointingly, last week the US Congress passed a law which contained a provision that disallows the EPA to research this!!!

Food Security: It takes around 36lbs of grain to produce 1lb of ground beef. Imagine how many more people could be fed, and also be healthier (!) if we chose to eat the grain rather than the meat ...

Environmental Pollution: Intensive animal agriculture is a major contributor to climate change, causes great harm to ground water and air quality, and is highly water intensive.

HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY!

Catalyze change in your life by signing up to join the January 21-day Vegan Kickstart here: http://support.pcrm.org/site/PageServer?pagename=21day_vegan_kickstart

If you would like to find out more about a plant-based vegan diet, how to optimize your own health, reduce your medical costs and save billions of lives per year, here are some links:

Preventative Medicine and Nutrition: http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/

The Cancer Project: http://www.cancerproject.org/

Delicious Recipes: http://www.pcrm.org/health/recipes/

Please forward this email to your friends.

Much love,

Elizabeth

10.

From: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=keys-to-copenhagen

From the November 2009 Scientific American Magazine

The Future of Climate Policy Could Be Found in Copenhagen

The U.S. can lead the world to a historic emissions agreement by committing to its own sweeping energy transformation

By The Editors   

In a few short weeks, world leaders will assemble in Copenhagen for the much anticipated United Nations Climate Change Conference. Their goal: to draft an agreement that will limit global warming, chiefly by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As the 12-day meeting gets closer, the chorus from jaded pundits and politicians gets louder: "It can't be done."

Nonsense. The naysayers have two reasonable concerns. One: Countries will never agree on limits because they are out to protect their own interests, which differ. Two: Even if they reach an agreement, it will never hold because it will raise energy prices, which people will resist. Fortunately, both worries can be resolved.

The path to overcoming the diplomatic hurdle is daunting but clear. Leaders from China, Japan, the European Union and elsewhere have stated plainly that the U.S. must prove it will clean up its own backyard before they will agree to international limits. In June the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill. Originally a dictate to reduce fossil-fuel use, the bill was weakened as it was hammered out, so much so that some leading supporters claimed it no longer did enough. A bill that the Senate took up in September, introduced by John Kerry and Barbara Boxer, aimed to fix many of the problems.

But the important point is that Congress is finally acting. In his influential blog ClimateProgress.org, policy expert Joseph Romm wrote: "The original Clean Air Act didn't do enough. And the 1987 Montréal protocol ? would not have saved the ozone layer. But [each of these measures] began a process and established a framework that ... could be strengthened over time." Commitment in Congress and President Barack Obama's personal attendance in Copenhagen may be enough to prompt nations to seek a meaningful agreement.

As politicians and diplomats begin to clear the first hurdle, scientists and engineers have been dismantling the second: the claim that an aggressive goal can never be achieved economically because developed countries will never cut back on their lavish existence and developing nations will never slow their rise in living standards. In fact, reducing emissions does not mean cutting lifestyles. It does not mean punitive strategies. Rather it means replacing fossil fuels with clean, sustainable energy sources.

This notion is not naive ideology; it is hard-headed pragmatism. As Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi show in their article "A Path to Sustainable Energy by 2030," starting on page 58, wind, water and solar resources could supply 100 percent of the world's energy by 2030. Step by step, the authors prove that more than enough sustainable energy exists, that the needed technologies are available now, and that they can produce power at the same or lower cost than traditional fossil and nuclear plants.

Wind power is already as cheap as coal power. Other renewables are not, but incremental improvements are steadily making them competitive. The key is to subsidize renewable sources, for a limited time, in a way that brings down their per-watt cost and hastens the day when they will be competitive on their own. Not all subsidies do that; in the U.S., a requirement that each state obtain a certain fraction of its energy from renewable sources, or a nationally mandated price for renewable power, could encourage builders to put up wind turbines in windless valleys and solar panels in sunless climes. A better approach would be a national renewable portfolio standard and state-by-state incentives to encourage renewables where they would be most productive, such as wind in North Dakota and solar in Arizona. An alternative is direct cash grants to boost installation of renewables, which the Department of Energy and other agencies have begun to make through the federal stimulus plan.

At the same time, the price of fossil fuels must be raised to account for their environmental damage. And existing subsidies for fossil energy should be eliminated. Some fossil-energy companies are shifting to renewables, but on the whole, the coal, natural gas and oil industries will not give up the government largesse meekly, so politicians will have to resist intense lobbying from them.

Now that the world has a plan to transform the global energy system economically, leaders in Copenhagen can commit to cutting emissions without diminishing their citizens' standard of living. The missing piece is leadership, which the U.S. can provide if Congress acts definitively.

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Countdown to Copenhagen: Despite doubts about treaty, 2009 shaping up as pivotal year for renewable energy ( Oct 28, 2009)

Beginning with the Obama administration's $70 billion commitment to ramping up the U.S.'s reliance of wind, water and solar power (not to mention hybrid vehicles) in February through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and ending with December's international climate conference in Copenhagen, this year promises to be pivotal in the worldwide development and adoption of renewable energy sources. Pivotal in the sense that 2009 could go down as the moment the green revolution gained substantial footing thanks to a swelling of political and financial support or as a colossal missed opportunity due to power grabbing and misguided policy. Controversy has been swirling around the proposed Copenhagen conference climate-change treaty (pdf) intended to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece on Wednesday, Janet Albrechttsen, a columnist for The Australian, criticizes the treaty as being "convoluted." She cites an address given by England's Lord Christopher Monckton earlier this month at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minn., in which he warned that the treaty's aim is to set up a transnational "government" with the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the proposed Copenhagen treaty.Even if the Copenhagen conference and its proposed measures aren't being met with optimism, the movement toward increased use of sustainable energy and decreased reliance on fossil fuels are. In the November issue of Scientific American, researchers Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi lay out an ambitious plan to deliver all of the world's energy via wind, water and solar resources by 2030. In fact, the researchers argue in their article, if the planet were powered entirely by wind, water and solar resources, global power demand would drop by about one third (from 16.9 terawatts to 11.5 terawatts) because in most cases "electrification is a more efficient way to use energy."  CLIP

EU leaders agree climate aid deal (October 30, 2009)

London, England (CNN) -- The European Union has agreed a conditional deal on how to help developing nations combat the effects of climate change.Meeting in Brussels Friday, at the conclusion of a two-day European Union (EU) summit leaders agreed that it would cost ?100 billion ($148 billion) per year by 2020 to help developing nations adapt to climate change.The EU has pledged to give up to ?50 billion ($74 billion) of that figure in public funds to help developing nations fight climate change.Commenting on the deal at the summit's closing press conference, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barrosa said: "Today, the European Council has fully endorsed the figures put forward some weeks ago by the Commission that by 2020, developing countries will need around 100 billion euros a year to tackle climate change. We have a clear, ambitious, and unified EU message on climate finance."Despite the agreement it remains unclear exactly how much the EU will pay and how that will be broken down between individual member states. CLIP

Important Study on Climate Change and Livestock Emissions (October 27, 2009)

http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/40631
A study by Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang of the World Bank looked at the relative importance of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gasses from oil, natural gas, and coal compared to the life cycle and supply chain emissions of domesticated animals raised for food. They conclude that greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the lifecycle and supply chain of animals raised for food account for 51% of annual emissions caused by humans and should be given higher priority in global efforts to fight climate change.

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From: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574500580285679074.html

Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?

U.N. plans for a new 'government' are scary.

OCTOBER 28, 2009

By JANET ALBRECHTSEN

We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media.

Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-a rough draft of what could be signed come December.

So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen.

The "scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18 contains the provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.

The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries to supposedly support climate change mitigation. Clause 33 on page 39 says that "by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range of $70 billion to $140 billion per year]."

And how will developed countries be slugged to provide for this financial flow to the developing world? The draft text sets out various alternatives, including option seven on page 135, which provides for "a [global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market [monetary] transactions to Annex I Parties." Annex 1 countries are industrialized countries, which include among others the U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada.

To be sure, countries that sign international treaties always cede powers to a U.N. body responsible for implementing treaty obligations. But the difference is that this treaty appears to have been subject to unusual attempts to conceal its convoluted contents. And apart from the difficulty of trying to decipher the U.N. verbiage, there are plenty of draft clauses described as "alternatives" and "options" that should raise the ire of free and democratic countries concerned about preserving their sovereignty.

Lord Monckton himself only became aware of the extraordinary powers to be vested in this new world government when a friend found an obscure U.N. Web site and searched through several layers of hyperlinks before discovering a document that isn't even called the draft "treaty." Instead, it's labelled a "Note by the Secretariat."

Interviewed by broadcaster Alan Jones on Sydney radio Monday, Lord Monckton said "this is the first time I've ever seen any transnational treaty referring to a new body to be set up under that treaty as a 'government.' But it's the powers that are going to be given to this entirely unelected government that are so frightening." He added: "The sheer ambition of this new world government is enormous right from the start-that's even before it starts accreting powers to itself in the way that these entities inevitably always do."

Critics have admonished Lord Monckton for his colorful language. He has certainly been vigorous. In his exposé of the draft Copenhagen treaty in St. Paul, he warned Americans that "in the next few weeks, unless you stop it, your president will sign your freedom, your democracy and your prosperity away forever." Yet his critics fail to deal with the substance of what he says.

Ask yourself this question: Given that our political leaders spend hundreds of hours talking about climate change and the need for a global consensus in Copenhagen, why have none of them talked openly about the details of this draft climate-change treaty? After all, the final treaty will bind signatories for years to come. What exactly are they hiding? Thanks to Lord Monckton we now know something of their plans.

Janos Pasztor, director of the Secretary-General's Climate Change Support Team, told reporters in New York Monday that with the U.S. Congress yet to pass a climate-change bill, a global climate-change treaty is now an unlikely outcome in Copenhagen. Let's hope he is right. And thank you, America.

Ms. Albrechtsen is a columnist for the Australian.

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Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty? (16 October 2009)

On October 14, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation in St. Paul, MN on the subject of global warming. In this 4-minute excerpt from his speech, he issues a dire warning to all Americans regarding the United Nations Climate Change Treaty that is scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul (1:35:33) Full conference

He is a Global Warming Denier

Survey Says: Americans Not Worried About Global Warming (OCTOBER 22, 2009)

A new poll out today on Americans' attitudes about climate change presents sobering findings for those that favor aggressive action to curb U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. The survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds a sharp decline over the past year in the percentage of Americans who see solid evidence that global temperatures are rising. According to the survey, conducted between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell phones and landlines, fewer respondents also see global warming as a very serious problem; 35% say that today, down from 44% in April 2008. The survey also points to a decline in the proportion of Americans who say global temperatures are rising as a result of human activity. Just 36% say that currently, down from 47% last year. Not everything in the poll is bad news for those that favor capping U.S. emissions. According to the survey, a majority (56%) of Americans think the United States should join other countries in setting standards to address global climate change, while 32% say that the United States should set its own standards. And half of Americans favor setting limits on carbon emissions and making companies pay for their emissions, even if this may lead to higher energy prices. On the other hand, more than half (55%) say they haven't heard about so-called "cap and trade" legislation being considered in Congress. (Then again, Sen. John Kerry says he doesn't know what "cap and trade" means, either.)  The poll's findings come just days before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is scheduled to hold hearings on legislation that calls for cutting U.S. emissions 20 percent beneath 2005 levels by 2020. They also coincide with the release of a new Government Accountability Office study that says most federal, state and local officials have not yet taken steps to adapt to the impacts of global warming that America can expect. Not surprisingly, opponents and supporters of carbon caps have very different takes on the poll's findings. "Perhaps the most interesting finding in this poll, aside from the precipitous drop in the number of Independents who believe global warming is a problem, is that the more Americans learn about cap-and-trade, the more they oppose cap-and-trade," says Sen. James Inhofe (R., Okla.), a longtime skeptic of climate-change warnings. Daniel Weiss at the left-leaning Center for American Progress, says the findings point to the effectiveness of "right-wing media personalities" in "distorting science while the mainstream media remains trapped in its 'he said, she said' narrative" about the science. Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, says he's a little surprised by the decline in the percentage of respondents who see solid evidence of global warming. On the other hand, Mr. Kohut said, "we have since the onset of the recession seen people giving lower priority to environmental issues" in polls. Overall, Mr. Kohut says the disposition of most Americans appears to be "to want to do something" about climate change, "but it's not as sharp as it would be in a different economic climate."

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Scientists Rebut Claim That Man Causes Climate Change (October 12, 2009)

As the world focused on President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a small group of determined scientists gathered in a Senate office building to present evidence backing their claim that climate change is caused not by man but by nature, and that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but the hope for a greener planet. CLIP -picture caption: Fred Singer, founder and chairman of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, holds up a book "Climate Change Reconsidered" that contains hundreds of scientific studies that dispute global warming and CO2 as a pollutant that causes global warming.

YET according to this Wikipedia entry: "Singer has been a consultant to various major corporations, including GE, Ford, GM, Exxon, Shell, Sun Oil, Lockheed Martin and IBM. A 2007 Newsweek cover story on climate change denial reported that: "In April 1998 a dozen people from the denial machine - including the Marshall Institute, Fred Singer's group and Exxon - met at the American Petroleum Institute's Washington headquarters. They proposed a $5 million campaign, according to a leaked eight-page memo, to convince the public that the science of global warming is riddled with controversy and uncertainty." The plan was reportedly aimed at "raising questions about and undercutting the 'prevailing scientific wisdom'" on climate change. According to Newsweek, the plan was leaked to the press and therefore was never implemented."

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NOTE FROM JEAN: On Oct 21 I received an email from an ERN subscriber who was saying that he became convinced that  ""Man-Made Global Warming" (MMGW) (sometimes referred to as "Anthropocentric Global Warming" AGW) is a political propaganda construct rather than a solid scientific representation of truth" and he challenged what he considered to be my support for the Man-Made Global Warming view in my compilations. So we had a most interesting email discussion on this topic, him trying to bring me in the camp of what I consider to be the Global Warming deniers, and me trying to show to him that when you dig to find if the scientists who oppose the large worldwide consensus that we ought to do something about this growing problem are totally independent from any oil industry influence, you generally find that ExxonMobil and the like are indeed behind those discrediting efforts - for obvious reasons since they make a living out of selling us their fossil fuels.  At first he didn't want me to include our discussion in a compilation but then he finally agreed when I told him he could put together a compilation of the material he feels demonstrates his view and that he would have the last word. However, when I saw that he was basing some of his criticism of Al Gore on material posted at http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html I became naturally curious to see what I could find on the Web about who is actually supporting this Science and Public Policy group. So I wrote back to him with the following comment:

Looking at who is behind this Science and Public Policy Institute it is clear to me it is a Republican effort to counter the scenario depicted by Al Gore's movie and since you cannot find anything there but material and viewpoints supporting their opposing perspective, it is hardly an objective source and therefore a dubious reference at best. I'm sure the Sierra Club or Greenpeace would quickly shred to pieces most if not all their contradictory "evidence"... If you give a look at http://www.spinprofiles.org/index.php/Science_and_Public_Policy_Institute you will see that their only goal seems to be to "Campaign to undermine scientific consensus on climate change"... You can also read there : "Former Boston Globe reporter Ross Gelbspan (who in 1997 wrote the book, The Heat is On, which details industry efforts to discredit climate change science), is reported to have said that the "conclusions that greenhouse gases are causing the planet to heat up are the result of the "most rigorously peer-reviewed scientific collaboration in history". He continues, "The contradictory statements of a tiny handful of discredited scientists, funded by big coal and big oil, represent a deliberate -- and extremely reckless -- campaign of deception and disinformation."

You can also read that "SPPI's Chief Scientific Advisor, Willie Soon, has clear corporate connections with the energy industry. In 2003, He authored a study alongside Sallie Baliunas and three others, which dismissed concerns regarding climate change. The study, called Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1,000 Years: A Reappraisal, was published in the British scientific journal, Energy and Environment. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer[24], The research was underwritten by the American Petroleum Institute, the trade association of the world's largest oil companies. They also reported that 'two of the five authors are scientists who have been linked to the coal industry and have received support from the ExxonMobil Foundation', whilst a further two of the authors are affiliated with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and are 'senior scientists' with Washington-based organization the George C Marshall Institute, which received support from ExxonMobil Corp. It is also worth noting that the Marshall Institute's President is William O'Keefe, a former executive of the American Petroleum Institute and President of 'the Global Climate Coalition, a now-defunct organization created by oil and coal interests to lobby against U.S. participation in climate treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol'. ... which is precisely the point I was making in an earlier email about the financing by Exxon of fake "scientific" research and opposing viewpoints.

So at this point I received an angry reply stating that I had revenged on my word to leave him the last word - which is true but I could not in good conscience let such a dubious source remain unexposed - and he told me he no longer agreed to have our full discussion networked. So of course I do respect his request and will not publish his emails. Yet I can certainly excerpt some of my comments just to let you know what I  found and what my view is on this whole debate... In case you are interested...

Since I know that other subscribers on this list share similar misgivings about the notion that the 93 millions tons of C02 emitted daily in the atmosphere by human activities are a main contributing factor in the rapid - relatively speaking - increase of mean temperatures worldwide - the natural sun cycle being of course another key source of variations, perhaps some of my perspective on this will be useful... Not that I wish though to engage into any further debate with anyone on this. As much as I love debating, extreme time constraints absolutely prevent me to further discuss this matter beyond what i share below with you.

ALL THE FOLLOWING EXCERPTS ARE FROM ME...

Now as to the controversy surrounding the human origin of global warming, it is true I network almost only stuff that supports this theory and avoid delving into supporting those who disbelieve it...

There are many reasons for it. First, basic common sense to me is that polluting the atmosphere as we have done and continue doing at an alarming rate is plain and simple NOT GOOD and I don't care to discuss the uncertainty in some people's mind that it could be some kind of elite conspiracy and ploy to impose their agenda. I seriously doubt it because it flies in the face of the fact that the powerful oil and coal lobbies have had their way quite a bit thank you under Bush/Cheney - not to mention the huge financing of corrupt scientists to create false science as part of their propaganda campaign to protect their bottom line.

With the kind of money the Exxons on this world have to buy the phoney science they want - as does the cell phone industry and so many other ones - like Monsanto for the GMOs etc - it is easy for them to create the kind of controversy that, in most part, feeds the doubts of people who see an elite conspiracy behind the global warming consensus - supported by MOST reputable scientists like David Suzuki and 100's of others who have no interest nor desire to support any kind of cabal ploy.

On the other hand, I fail to see - based on my common sense argument that such huge pollution is BAD for the environment - why I would oppose the efforts of anyone - big corporations like British Petroleum that now sees part of its future profits in solar energy and politicians of any stripe who see the green retooling of their country's economy as a way to jump-start an economic revival while doing some good for the environment - who is pushing the wheels of change towards shifting away from our dependency on a finite resource like oil. On that respect only, I find the arguments of the nay-sayers as rather regressive and against the flow of change.

Of course, I would like to see emerging some highly decentralized, totally local, sources of energy - ideally free zero point energy - as opposed to the current model of profit oriented centralized means of energy production by monopolistic cartels (governmental or private), and I think the people who now oppose the paradigm of man-induced global warming should instead invest their time, attention, creativity and energies towards pushing for such a more human-centered and not-for-profit model of future energy development. Access to non-polluting forms of energy (again zero point energy from the Void or other free sources of energy) should eventually become a sort of basic human right - like access to free un-polluted and safe water, food and shelter - and be universally free for everyone on Earth.

Finally, it is also very clear to me that the main source of global warming on Earth is our sun and that all the C02 and methane we foolishly add to the atmosphere mix are merely a fraction of the total global warming equation - a potent one albeit because if the sun starts pumping out more heat as is likely to occur in the next few years as it reaches it climax in its 11 year cycle, then we will really incur the consequences of our runaway economic "progress". Also another concern is all the soot currently blocking - especially in Asia - the sun's rays from overheating the planet. Once removed, if we stop emitting so much of it through coal burning and forest fires for land clearing purposes, it would allow for a much quicker warming of the atmosphere and that would be a highly disagreeable unintended consequence of global efforts to curtail pollution. Which does not mean we should not try urgently to reduce our global environmental footprint, but we must be aware that we ain't seen the end of the consequences of what we have done. The acidification of the oceans now absorbing way too much C02 for their own good will likely trigger a cycle of massive marine life dying - with all calcium-based form of life losing their protective shell due to the extreme acidity - which in turn will diminish the ability of all ecosystems to mitigate the imbalances we have created.

Frankly, I tend to look at those who stick their head in the sand and refuse to support the efforts to reduce our global impact on the biosphere as flat Earth believers - please don't take it personally - who are in deep denial and prefer to continue to let our planetary home to burn while they enjoy their contradictory stance against all the global warming evidence presented to them and their deep suspicion about the motives of those, like Al Gore, who do their utmost best to awaken the sleepers so we may see what's happening and take appropriate actions.

Since I know that others on this list have been likewise fooled in having significant doubts about the whole human-induced global warming roller-coaster, because there is always contradictory stuff - some of it well written with seemingly cogent arguments - circulating on the Web and they fall for it in their unrelenting refusal to accept that anything good can come out of big governments in the pocket of filthy rich Bilderberg Cabal elements, which do exist indeed, I've decided to include your letter and this reply in my next compilation, hoping it is OK with you... This way, subscribers will be able to make up their own mind based on our respective arguments and perspectives. I wish to mention though that I will not want to further debate this matter with others because of the limited time I have and because I feel my stance is now clear enough on this.

IN ANOTHER EMAIL I ALSO WROTE:

Aside from the obvious facts that BIG SCAMS do indeed abound, I'm far from convinced, despite what you allege, that the man-made global warming theory is purely the result of a well planned deception. And frankly, I'm not that much interested to explore a maze of conspiracy theories purporting that this is all another shenanigan to impose a new world order under the guise of Orwellian restrictions, new carbon taxes and a high-jacking of national sovereignties to transfer more powers to the UN so as to ultimately create an elite-controlled world government - which, in a nutshell, in the main running underlying motivation purported in this whole conspiracy theory. Even if it was the case, I see as inevitable the taking over, perversion and manipulation by the elite controllers - the Power That Be as some call them - of noble environmental aims, pushed initially by the hippies and first environmentalists, in their (the PTB) unrelenting drive to use whatever means at their disposal to reach their goals. What can you do? They will always do that as it is part of their scheming nature.

From my perspective, and with the very dim level of consciousness at the basis of most human motivations up to now - profit for oneself being a prime force - I can accept, for instance, that the whole Kyoto treaty deal cap-and-trade scheme initially pushed by Al Gore, was based on this lowest of human motivations to drive the changes towards lower C02 emissions. There is no point in trying to preach the gospel of selfless environmentalism to people - especially in the corporate world - who seem to give value and pay attention only to their own bottom line - forget about the 7th generation and their own kids. To me, and that's why I don't wish to dig up dirt on the MMGW theory, as long as it helps move things and everyone towards the direction of an actual reduction of pollution of all types, then I can go along with it.

And besides, I have not seen any cogent argument yet from the opponents to the MMGW camp to explain why past CO2 levels as shown in ice cores drilled up from to 100,000 years old ice in Antarctica have coincided with the overall mean temperature evolution over time, thus indicating its higher levels to be a key driver of higher world temperatures - and the current levels are way off all ancient historical scales! I know that some allege that CO2 level rises in trapped bubbled of air in ice cores did follow and not precede higher global temperatures and that therefore it is not higher C02 levels that drove global warming, but this argument has been put to rest with the explanation of the lag between the time compressed snow turns into ice and the onset of C02 triggered climate changes. Read The lag between temperature and CO2. (Gore's got it right.) and you'll understand.

Now regarding the scenario you project - that with the current dominating mind-set it will have to become much worst and everything our fossil fuel driven civilization depends upon will have to disintegrate before something new can arise - it is realistic insofar as it posits that we will remain ensconsed into our delusory sense of separation and have no significant overall spiritual awakening out of our ego driven, purely selfish level of consciousness. My sense on this is that the exponential curve of spiritual awakening is fast catching up - despite the apparent lack of strong evidence to the rational mind - and will soon allow a significant portion of humanity to prime the pump for a truly selfless-driven wave of changes that will help us to shift out of our current ecosuicidal path into a transition period that will hopefully enable us to assist - instead of resist - the healing of the fractured web of Life on Earth and eventually transform this planet back into the original pristine Eden it was.

Fostering that kind of deep spiritual awakening has been the key driving force throughout my whole life and I trust - for reasons that are beyond the grasp of rational mind - that it will all manifest as divinely planned - "divinely" in the sense that as intricately embedded fragments of the Universal Being we all stem from, we, as One with All That Is, are at the origin of this so-called "Divine Plan". If you have followed the Meditation Focuses over the past 3 years and actually delved deep into the realm of co-creative manifestation those collective blissful soul communions enable, then you "understand" what I'm talking about here.

So to conclude, if the elite-concocted dark plan you allege exists to use the MMGW theory as a ploy to implement their world domination plan is for real, then so be it as I see this as a mere stepping-stone in the right lowering of C02 direction during a short transitory period while global spiritual awareness catches up to (thanks to its exponential growth curve) and overcomes globally the skin-encapsulated ego mind-set. Just as in aikido, one needs to use the energy projected by one's adversary to one's own advantage and ultimately prevail through remaining standing while the adversary falls on his face...

AND THAT WAS THE GIST OF IT...

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In case you'd like to take come action towards helping to prevent runaway global warming, here is something you can do:

No to Copenhagen 'Carbon Logging'

Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative

By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal http://www.climateark.org/ - November 5, 2009

Copenhagen climate talks must not provide 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation' (REDD) carbon market funds for old, natural forest logging, or for conversion of natural or semi-natural forests and other ecosystems to plantations. Ending deforestation and degradation of old and relatively ecologically intact primary and old growth forest ecosystems, and the ecological restoration of late-successional old growth forests, are keystone responses to maintaining global climate, biodiversity, water and ecosystems.

TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:

Indications are that UN Copenhagen climate talks will allow selective logging and plantation establishment in primary and old-growth forests as a means to "fight" climate change. In draft texts, European and African negotiators have removed safeguards against the conversion of natural forests to forest plantations, and language ensuring first time industrial logging of primary rainforests are excluded from carbon finance has still not been included. This despite the fact no single international ecological policy initiative would protect global climate (and biodiversity and ecosystems) more effectively than protecting and restoring old forests wherever possible. 

Old forest logging must end -- to maintain climatic stability and achieve global ecological sustainability. This requires a rejection of the myth of "Sustainable Forest Management" in old forests, acknowledging that fully-intact, natural old forests both remove and store long-term, far more carbon than natural forests that are selectively logged or replaced by plantations.  Timber industry propaganda -- claiming logging ancient forests somehow saves them -- has been greatly aided by large NGOs like Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace, who continuously greenwash unknown amounts of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) "certification" of old forest logging as desirable and even sustainable.

MORE INFORMATION AND TAKE ACTION NOW:

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MANY GLOBAL WARMING DENIERS HAVE OFTEN TRIED TO PAINT AL GORE IN A NEGATIVE WAY BECAUSE HE STANDS TO PROFIT PERSONALLY FROM A GREENER POLICIES. THIS ARTICLE SHOULD PUT THOSE CLAIMS TO REST BECAUSE FRANKLY HE IS SIMPLY PUTTING HIS MONEY WHERE IS MOUTH IS... AND NOT JUST FOR PERSONAL GAINS!

From: http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/gores-dual-role-in-spotlight-advocate-and-investor/

Gore's Dual Role in Spotlight: Advocate and Investor

November 3, 2009

Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. It came to Mr. Gore's firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital providers, looking for $75 million to expand its partnerships with utilities seeking to install millions of so-called smart meters in homes and businesses, The New York Times's John M. Broder writes.

Mr. Gore and his partners decided to back the company, and in gratitude Silver Spring retained him and John Doerr, another Kleiner Perkins partner, as unpaid corporate advisers.

The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr. Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years.

Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Mr. Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes.

Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming skeptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiting from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in.

Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, asserted at a hearing this year that Mr. Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt.

Mr. Gore says that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is.

"Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it."

In an e-mail message this week, he said his investment activities were consistent with his public advocacy over decades.

"I have advocated policies to promote renewable energy and accelerate reductions in global warming pollution for decades, including all of the time I was in public service," Mr. Gore wrote. "As a private citizen, I have continued to advocate the same policies. Even though the vast majority of my business career has been in areas that do not involve renewable energy or global warming pollution reductions, I absolutely believe in investing in ways that are consistent with my values and beliefs. I encourage others to invest in the same way."

Mr. Gore has invested a significant portion of the tens of millions of dollars he has earned since leaving government in 2001 in a broad array of environmentally friendly energy and technology business ventures, like carbon trading markets, solar cells and waterless urinals.

He has also given away millions more to finance the nonprofit he founded, the Alliance for Climate Protection, and to another group, the Climate Project, which trains people to present the slide show that was the basis of his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Royalties from his new book on climate change, "Our Choice," printed on 100 percent recycled paper, will go to the alliance, an aide said.

Other public figures, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have vocally supported government financing of energy-saving technologies, have investments in alternative energy ventures. Some scientists and policy advocates also promote energy policies that personally enrich them.

As a private citizen, Mr. Gore does not have to disclose his income or assets, as he did in his years in Congress and the White House. When he left government in early 2001, he listed assets of less than $2 million, including homes in suburban Washington and in Tennessee.

Since then, his net worth has skyrocketed, helped by timely investments in Apple and Google, profits from books and his movie, and scores of speeches for which he can be paid more than $100,000, although he often speaks at no charge.

He is a founder of Generation Investment Management, based in London and run by David Blood, a former head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (the firm was quickly dubbed Blood and Gore). Mr. Gore earns a partner's salary at Kleiner Perkins. He has substantial personal finances invested at both firms, officials of the companies said.

He also serves as an adviser to high-profile technology companies including Apple and Google, relationships that have paid him handsome dividends over the last eight years.

Mr. Gore's spokeswoman would not give a figure for his current net worth, but the scale of his wealth is evident in a single investment of $35 million in Capricorn Investment Group, a private equity fund started by his friend Jeffrey Skoll, the first president of eBay.

Ion Yadigaroglu, a co-founder of Capricorn, said that Mr. Gore does not sit on the fund's investment committee, but obviously agrees with the partners' strategy of putting long-term money into promising ventures in energy, technology and health care around the globe.

"Aspirationally," said Mr. Yadigaroglu, who holds a doctorate from Stanford in astrophysics, "we're trying to make more money than others doing the same thing and do it in a way that is superior in ethics and impacts."

Mr. Gore has said he invested in partnerships and funds that try to identify and support companies that are advancing cutting-edge green technologies and are paving the way toward a low-carbon economy.

He has a stake in the world's pre-eminent carbon credit trading market and in an array of companies in bio-fuels, sustainable fish farming, electric vehicles and solar power.

Capricorn holds a major stake in Falcon Waterfree Technologies, the world's leading maker of waterless urinals. Generation has holdings in Ausra, a solar energy company based in California, and Camco, a British firm that develops carbon dioxide emissions reduction projects. Kleiner Perkins has a green ventures fund with nearly $1 billion invested in renewable energy and efficiency concerns.

Mr. Gore also has substantial interests in technology, media and biotechnology ventures that have no direct tie to his environmental advocacy, an aide said.

Mr. Gore is not a lobbyist, and he has never asked Congress or the administration for an earmark or policy decision that would directly benefit one of his investments. But he has been a tireless advocate for policies that would move the country away from the use of coal and oil, and he has begun a $300 million campaign to end the use of fossil fuels in electricity production in 10 years.

But Marc Morano, a climate change skeptic who until recently was a top aide to Senator James M. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said that what he saw as Mr. Gore's alarmism and occasional exaggerations distorted the debate and also served his personal financial interests.

Mr. Gore has testified numerous times in support of legislation to address climate change and to revamp the nation's energy policies.

He appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in April to support an energy and climate change bill that was intended to reduce global warming emissions through a cap-and-trade program for major polluting industries.

Mr. Gore, who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his climate advocacy, is generally received on Capitol Hill as something of an oracle, at least by Democrats.

But at the hearing in April, he was challenged by Ms. Blackburn, who echoed some of the criticism of Mr. Gore that has swirled in conservative blogs and radio talk shows. She noted that Mr. Gore is a partner at Kleiner Perkins, which has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in firms that could benefit from any legislation that limits carbon dioxide emissions.

"I believe that the transition to a green economy is good for our economy and good for all of us, and I have invested in it," Mr. Gore said, adding that he had put "every penny" he has made from his investments into the Alliance for Climate Protection.

"And, Congresswoman," he added, "if you believe that the reason I have been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed, you don't know me."

NOTE from Jean: Al Gore was on John Stewart's show this Wednesday night - to promote his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis - and had some very good things to say in response to John's really tough comments and questions.

 

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THIS DESERVES DEEP PONDERING. Getting our act - feelings, thoughts, words and deeds - in greater balance would contribute greatly to world harmony, true peace and love in action.

From: Harold W. Becker (hwbecker@thelovefoundation.com)

Subject: Embracing the Divine Masculine

Date: 15 Oct 2009

Dear Friends,

Life is a beautiful interplay of imagination and manifestation.  Known in other ways as feeling and thought, feminine and masculine, yin yang, each requires and adds to the other.  In an amazing dance that allows us to create and recreate our world, these energies continuously merge into each other to form a union that brings wholeness to our expression.  Inspiration held with determination is what creates our physical experience and when this process is conscious and balanced, great manifestations result that benefit all.

Identified simply as our feminine and masculine aspects, these forces combine to make up our innate creative potential. Although often exemplified by our gender, we must take care not to confuse this strictly with being male or female.  Both of these potent energies are a natural part of each of us and provide the very mechanism for our ability to exist.  They are our right and left brain functioning as one, with love and logic in perfect harmony.

For millennia, cultures have held a fundamental focus and tendency towards the masculine aspect having dominion, where physical manifestation is at the cost of suppressing our intuitive, holistic, and imaginative, feminine energy.  This ongoing and increasing imbalance has formed a great rift from our once splendid ability to create with wisdom, universal vision and magnificence.

Thus we find many men using their will to make things materialize regardless of cost to the whole, while subordinating their feminine equal into roles that ignore and trivialize the nurturing and imaginative aspects so vital to life.  Likewise, many women deny their ability to fully realize their creations in manifest form and perpetuate the dilemma of subservience to male domination.

In recent times, we have born witness to a re-awakening of the feminine energy.  For many females, this has been a necessary reclaiming of their "goddess" energy or divine feminine, which in reality is their embracing the fullness of both aspects essential to manifest, including the masculine will. In men, however, we often find confusion and frustration as this loving energy begins to percolate throughout their existence.  They are beginning to feel once again, and yet with so few examples as to what this means, there is a tendency to remain in the only perspective they have known for so long.

Life always seeks balance. With an increasing awareness of cause and effect, we are quickly seeing that what happens in one part of the world instantly affects the whole just as our thoughts and feelings work together in our personal experience.  We are coming to realize that it is up to each of us to embrace our true creative potential and ensure that we balance the feminine with the masculine.  Nowhere is this more evident than with the men who have been constantly using their unbridled will without regard to consequences.

It is time for the divine masculine to emerge through love.  What does this mean? It is a wakeup call for each to embody their highest potential of masculine energy.  Rather than perpetuating an imbalanced approach to creation that ultimately leads to destruction and chaos, it is our distinct opportunity to embrace and express our integrity, honesty, dignity and compassion.  It is allowing the rising feminine energy to blend with our masculine to make enlightened and loving choices.  By consciously acknowledging and incorporating our imagination, intuition and feelings, with courage, strength, and an open heart, we birth a new world where love, wisdom and power are always in balance.

Love, light and peace,

Harold W. Becker

President and Founder

The Love Foundation, Inc.

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Forwarded by Mark Graffis (mgraffis@gmail.com)

From: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6432538/Food-will-never-be-so-cheap-again.html
 

Food will never be so cheap again

Biofuel refineries in the US have set fresh records for grain use every month since May. Almost a third of the US corn harvest will be diverted into ethanol for motors this year, or 12pc of the global crop.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - 25 Oct 2009

 
The world's grain stocks have dropped from four to 2.6 months cover since
2000, despite two bumper harvests in North America. China's inventories are at a 30-year low. Asian rice stocks are near danger level.
 
Yet farm commodities have largely missed out on Bernanke's reflation rally in metals, oil, and everything else. Dylan Grice from Société Générale sees "bargain basement" prices.

 
Wheat has crashed 70pc from early 2008. Corn has halved. The "Ags" have mostly drifted sideways over the last six months. This divergence within the commodity family is untenable, given the bio-ethanol linkage to oil.
 
For investors wishing to rotate out of overstretched rallies - Wall Street's Transport index and the Russell 2000 broke down last week - this is a rare chance to buy cheap into a story that will dominate the rest of our lives.
 
Barack Obama has not reversed the Bush policy on biofuels, despite food riots in a string of poor countries last year and calls for a moratorium. The subsidy of 45 cents per gallon remains.
 
The motive is strategic. America is weaning itself off imported energy at breakneck speed. It will not again be held hostage by oil demagogues, or humiliated by states that cannot feed themselves. Those Beijing students who laughed at US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may not enjoy the last laugh. The US is the agricultural superpower. Foes will discover why that matters.
 
The world population is adding "another Britain" every year. This will continue until mid-century. By then we will have an extra 2.4bn mouths to feed.

 
China and Southeast Asia are switching to animal-protein diets as they grow wealthy, as the Koreans did before them. It takes roughly 3-5kgs of animal feed from grains to produce 1kg of meat.
 
A report by Standard Chartered, The End of Cheap Food, said North Africa and the Middle East have already hit the buffers. The region imports 71pc of its rice and 58pc of its corn. It lacks water to boost output. The population is growing fast. It will have to import, and cross fingers.
 
The UN says global farm yields must rise 77pc, which means redoubling Norman Borlaug's "green revolution". It will not be easy. China's trend growth in crops yields has slipped from 3.1pc a year in the early 1960s to 0.9pc over the last decade

 
"We've all heard the stark anecdotes: precious topsoil weakened by over-farming, dust clouds darkening the Asian skies, parched land becoming desert and rivers running dry," said Mr Grice.
 
Since 2000, China has lost nearly 1,400 square miles each year to desert. Urban sprawl is paving over fertile land in the East. Water supply from Himalayan glaciers is ebbing. The Yellow River has been reduced to "an agonising trickle". It no longer reaches the sea for 200 days a year.
 
Farmers are draining the aquifers. Environmentalist Ma Jun says in China's Water Crisis that they are drilling as deep as 1,000 metres into non-replenishable reserves. The grain region of the Hai River Basin relies on groundwater for 70pc of irrigation.
 
China's water troubles are not unique. North India lives off Himalayan snows as well. Nor can we take fertiliser supply for granted any longer since "peak phosphates" threatens.
 
One can be Malthusian about this. Grizzled commodity guru Jim Rogers certainly is. "The world is going to have a period when we cannot get food at any price, in some parts." He advises youth to opt for a farm degree rather than an MBA, if they want to make serious money.
 
Mr Grice remains an optimist, believing that human ingenuity will rescue us. You can trade the "Ag" rally by investing in exchange traded funds (ETFs), but this amounts to speculation on food. There are ancient taboos against this practice.
 
Or you can invest in the bio-tech, fertiliser, and land services companies that will both make money and help to solve the problem. Monsanto, Syngenta, and Potash are popular, but trade at high price to book values. Golden Agri-Resources, Yara, Agrium, and Bunge are at better multiples.
 
Kingsmill Bond at Moscow's Troika Dialog suggests the Baltic company Trigon Agri as a way to play the catch-up story in the Eurasian steppe. He likes sunflower processor Kernel, grain group Razgulay, and fertiliser firm Uralkali.
 

Strictly speaking, the world has enough land to feed everybody. The Soviet Union farmed 240m hectares in Khrushchev's era. The same territory now farms 207m hectares. Troika says crop yields could be doubled in Russia, and tripled in the Ukraine using modern know-how. Africa's farms could come alive with land registers, allowing villagers to use property as collateral for credit.

 
None of this can be done with a flick of the fingers. What seems certain is that the terms of trade between country and city will revert to the norms of the Middle Ages. Landowners will be barons again.

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Recommended by Kelley Elkins (elkins_delgado@yahoo.com)

From: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/405

The Pentagon's Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA

10/26/2009

The Nuclear Regulator Commission is considering an application by the US Army for a permit to have depleted uranium at its Pohakuloa Training Area, a vast stretch of flat land in what's called the "saddle" between the sacred mountains of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea on Hawaii's Big Island, and at the Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu. In fact, what the Army is asking for is a permit to leave in place the DU left over from years of test firing of M101 mortar "spotting rounds," that each contained close to half a pound of depleted uranium (DU). The Army, which originally denied that any DU weapons had been used at either location, now says that as many as 2000 rounds of M101 DU mortars might have been fired at Pohakuloa alone.

But that's only a small part of the story.

The Army is actually seeking a master permit from the NRC to cover all the sites where it has fired DU weapons, including penetrator shells that, unlike the M101, are designed to hit targets and burn on impact, turning the DU in the warhead into a fine dust of uranium oxide. Hearings on this proposal were held in Hawaii on Aug. 26 and 27.

Uranium particles, whether pure uranium or in an oxidized form, are alpha emitters, and can be highly carcinogenic and mutagenic if ingested or inhaled, since they can lodge in one part of the body-the kidney or lung or gonad, for example-and then irradiate surrounding cells with large, destructive alpha particles (actually helium atoms), until some gene is compromised and a cell become malignant.

Among the sites identified by the NRC as being contaminated with DU are:

Ft. Hood, TX

Ft. Benning, GA

Ft. Campbell, KY

Ft. Knox, KY

Ft. Lewis, WA

Ft. Riley, KS

Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

Ft. Dix, NJ

Makua Military Reservation, HI

Other locations identified as having DU weapons contamination are:

China Lake Air Warfare Center, CA

Eglin AFB, Florida,

Nellis AFB, NV

Davis-Monthan AFB

Kirtland AFB, NM

White Sands Missile Range, NM

Ethan Allen Firing Range, VT

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

An application for a 99-year permit to test DU weapons at the NM Inst. Of Mining and Technology claimed that that site's test area was "so contaminated with DU?as to preclude any other use"!

DU weapons have also been used by the Navy at Vieques Island off Puerto Rico (the Navy claimed it was a "mistake."

The Pentagon continues a long history of claiming that DU--which is the uranium that is left after the fissionable isotope U-235 is removed to make nuclear fuel and bombs--is not dangerous, although this official stance is belied by the warnings it has given to its troops (though not to civilians in battle zones), to stay well clear of tanks and other equipment destroyed by US tanks, which used DU weapons as the ordnance of choice in both the Gulf War and the current Iraq War. During both wars, DU ammunition was used by Army and Marine tanks, by the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the A-10 ground support jet, the Marine Harrier jet, and specially equipped F16 fighter jets. The Navy also switched from DU ammunition to tungsten ammunition in its Phalanx anti-missile ship defense system because of health and environmental concerns with the DU ammo.

In both wars, a high percentage of troops have returned with many physical ailments--auto-immune problems, cancers, and later, birth defects in offspring--which have been referred to as Gulf War and now Iraq War Syndrome. As many as a quarter of returning vets from the Gulf War have reported strange illnesses and cancers and the numbers are rising for Iraq War vets. As well, statistics from the National Institutes of Health show that counties hosting bases and test facilities where DU has been uses also show high cancer rates. This is certainly true for Hawaii's Big Island, which has the highest cancer rates for the Hawaiian archepelago. Meanwhile, the lung cancer rate for the Ft. Knox area is 105-127 per 100,000 for the 2001-2005 period, high by state and national standards. The rate is among the highest in the state of Washington for Pierce County, where Ft. Lewis is located.

The Pentagon denies that it uses depleted uranium in bombs, missiles and cruise missile warheads, but military personnel have reported their use in all three delivery systems, and reports exist of DU bunker-buster bombs, DU-tipped penetrator warheads on Tomahawk cruise missiles and on some air-to-ground missiles.

It's a good bet that all US munitions containing DU have been widely tested at various US military bases and testing grounds.

The bottom line is that at the same time that US government is continuing to warn about the danger of terrorists acquiring the materials to make a "dirty" bomb that could spread radioactive material in the US, the US military has for years been doing exactly that, and continues to do so, with no intention to clean up its messes, many of which are allowing depleted uranium to percolate into ground water or flow down streams to more populated areas.

Of course, it could have been worse. The M101 mortar that litters Pohakuloa was actually designed as a range-finder for the Davy Crocket mortar, which back in the late 1950s and the 1960s, and up until 1971 was designed to allow infantry troops to fire a small "tactical" nuclear mortar shell at targets just one to two miles distant. Some 700 of these "little nukes", that had a power of "just" several kilotons or less, were made and actually made their way into the arsenals of troops in Europe and elsewhere during the Cold War. Fortunately there are no reports of any of them having been fired off at any of the military's firing ranges--especially given that their radiation effect radius was larger than their firing range, meaning that launching one was an automatic suicide mission.

Then again, the Pentagon doesn't exactly have a sterling record about telling the truth where nuclear weapons and DU weapons are concerned. (You start to notice as you look into this stuff that with uranium weapons, the military's attitude towards troop safety is not a whole lot better than its attitude towards the people at the downrange end of the line.)

Nor is the NRC to be relied on to protect the American public. As an administrative judge wrote in a ruling on a case involving DU contamination at Jefferson Proving Ground in Indiana, the NRC exhibited a "more than casual attitude with regard to decommissioning of sites on which radioactive materials remain as a potential threat to public health and safety and to the environment."

In another case, involving cleanup of the ShieldAlloy Metallurgical Corp.'s site in Newfield, NJ, where DU weapons were made, a judge said, "at the very least, the (NRC) staff has countenanced?a situation that will leave the citizens in the area surrounding the activity site in doubt for close to two decades regarding what measures will ultimately be taken for their protection."

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Related videos and articles:

The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children (53:02)

An award winning documentary film produced for German television by Freider Wagner and Valentin Thurn. The film exposes the use and impact of radioactive weapons during the current war against Iraq. The story is told by citizens of many nations. It opens with comments by two British veterans, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, describing their exposure to radioactive, so-called depleted uranium (DU), weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman of the Uranium Medical Research Center (UMRC) traveled to Iraq, from Germany and Canada respectively, to assess uranium contamination in Iraq.

Outrageous Thought of the Day: Nuclear Hypocrisy (10/20/2009)

How absurd is it that we have the government on the one hand pulling back from using a hollowed out mountain in Nevada to store nuclear waste because of a remote fear (legitimate I grant) that hundreds or thousands of years hence, some earthquake or other catastrophe might cause the stored waste to leak into the water table, while on the other hand we have this same government deliberately taking some of the most dangerous waste--the actual uranium from the used fuel rods--and putting it into bombs, shells and bullets to be splattered and burned all across the landscape? And I should note that it's not just remote places like Iraq and Kuwait and Afghanistan that are being contaminated with super toxic and radioactive uranium dust--nor am I just talking about the stuff that gets picked up in the wind and carried around the globe, or the stuff that gets inhaled by our troops and carried home internally, bad enough as that is. The truth is that depleted uranium weapons are being exploded and burned right here in the USA in training operations. Who needs terrorists with dirty bombs!

(...) The simple truth is that our own government, besides committing an ongoing atrocity in the Middle East, is also doing Osama Bin Laden's job for him, poisoning our own country with uranium oxide.Our Nobel Peace Prize president should take note. President John F. Kennedy, whatever his faults, reportedly moved to halt open air testing of nuclear weapons after looking at the rain falling outside the window of the Oval Office and asking a science advisor whether it was delivering nuclear fallout to the rose garden where his two kids played (he was told that it was). Maybe President Obama should consider that the rain today is delivering uranium dust to his wife's and daughters' garden in the back yard of the White House. At least he should take a look at pictures of the horribly deformed babies being born to mothers in Iraq (and of the lucky babies that are stillborn), thanks to the radioactive warfare that the US military has been employing against both that country and Afghanistan--his "necessary" war. There is another irony here too. The US is expressing concern about Iran enriching uranium, and possibly creating a nuclear bomb, which in the unlikely event that it were ever used, might spread some radioactivity around parts of the Middle east, yet it is the US which already has spread close to 2000 tons of uranium dust all over Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 18 years--far more radioactive material than any small Iranian bomb could release.

Depleted Uranium Weapons: The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke (10/19/2009)

The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively--and in more urban, populated areas--in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War. (...) The big danger with DU is not as a pure metal, but after it has exploded and burned, when the particles of uranium oxide, which are just as radioactive as the pure isotopes, can be inhaled or ingested. Even the smallest particle of uranium in the body is both deadly poisonous as a chemical, and over time can cause cancer-particularly in the lungs, but also the kidneys, testes and ovaries.There are reports of a dramatic increase in the incidence of deformed babies being born in the city of Fallujah, where DU weapons were in wide use during the November 2004 assault on that city by US Marines. The British TV station SKY UK, in a report last month that has received no mention in any mainstream American news organization, found a marked increase in birth defects at local hospitals. Birth defects have also been high for years in the Basra area in the south of Iraq, where DU was used not just during America's 2003 "shock and awe" attack on Iraq, but also in the 1991 Gulf War.Deformed baby born in post-US Invasion Iraq: DU's legacy? Further, a report sent to the UN General Assembly by Dr Nawal Majeed Al-Sammarai, Iraq's Minister of Women's Affairs since 2006, stated that in September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 babies born, 24% of which died within their first week of life. Worse yet, fully 75% of the babies born that month were deformed. This compares to August 2002, six months before the US invasion, when 530 live births were reported with only six dying in the first week, and only one deformity. Clearly something terrible is happening in Fallujah, and many doctors suspect it's the depleted uranium dust that is permeating the city. But the real impact of the first heavy use of depleted uranium weaponry in populous urban environments (DU was used widely especially in 2003 in Baghdad, Samara, Mosul and other big Iraqi cities), will come over the years, as the toxic legacy of this latest American war crime begins to show up in rising numbers of cancers, birth defects and other genetic disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, as in the case of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the toxic effects of this latest battlefield use of toxic materials by the US military will also be felt for years to come by the men and women who were sent over to fight America's latest wars. As with Agent Orange, the Pentagon and the Veterans Affairs Department have been assiduously denying the problem, and have been just as assiduously denying claims by veterans of the Gulf War and the two current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who claim their cancers and other diseases have anything to do with their exposure to DU. The record on Agent Orange should lead us to be suspicious of the government's claims.The deformed and dead babies in Iraq should make us demand a cleanup of Iraq and Afghanistan, medical aid for the victims, and a ban on all depleted uranium weapons.

THE LEGACY OF GEORGE W BUSH: Deformed babies in Fallujah, Iraq ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!!!

Young women in Fallujah in Iraq are terrified of having children because of the increasing number of babies born grotesquely deformed, with no heads, two heads, a single eye in their foreheads, scaly bodies or missing limbs. In addition, young children in Fallujah are now experiencing hideous cancers and leukaemias. These deformities are now well documented, for example in television documentaries on SKY UK on September 1 2009, and on SKY UK June 2008. (...) Doctors in Fallujah have specifically pointed out that not only are they witnessing unprecedented numbers of birth defects but premature births have also considerably increased after 2003. But what is more alarming is that doctors in Fallujah have said, "a significant number of babies that do survive begin to develop severe disabilities at a later stage". CLIP - More through this LINK

Agent Orange in Vietnam: Ignoring the Crimes Before Our Eyes (10/15/2009)

On Oct. 13, the New York Times ran a news story headlined "Door Opens to Health Claims Tied to Agent Orange," which was sure to be good news to many American veterans of the Indochina War. It reported that 38 years after the Pentagon ceased spreading the deadly dioxin-laced herbicide/defoliant over much of South Vietnam, it was acknowledging what veterans have long claimed: in addition to 13 ailments already traced to exposure to the chemical, it was also responsible for three more dread diseases-Parkinson's, ischemic heart disease and hairy-cell leukemia.Under a new policy adopted by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, the VA will now start providing free care to any of the 2.1 million Vietnam-era veterans who can show that they might have contracted any of those new diseases by their exposure to Agent Orange. This is another belated step forward in the bitter decades-long struggle by Vietnam War veterans to get the Defense Department and the VA to own up to the American government's responsibility for poisoning them and causing permanent damage to them and often to their children and grandchildren. Dioxin, one of the most poisonous substances known to man, is known to cause many serious systemic diseases, autoimmune illnesses, cancers and birth defects. (This story is also a warning about the general Pentagon and government approach to other hazards caused by its battlefield use of toxins-most significantly the increasingly common use of depleted uranium projectiles in bombs, shells and bullets-an approach which features lack of concern about health effects on troops and civilians, denial of information to troops, and denial of care to eventual victims.) Missing from the Times article, written by military affairs reporter James Dao, which did include mention of the obstructionist role the government has played through this whole sorry saga, was a single mention of the far larger number of victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam-the people on whose heads and lands the toxic chemical was actually dropped, or of the adamant refusal by the US government to accept any responsibility for what it did to them. According to the article, the VA estimates that there may be as many as 200,000 US veterans who are suffering from Agent Orange-related illnesses. But according to a court case brought on behalf of Vietnamese victims, which was dismissed by a US Federal District Judge who, incredibly, ruled that there was "no basis for the claims," there are at least three million Vietnamese, and possibly as many as 4.8 million, who are suffering the same Agent Orange-related illnesses as American veterans and their children. It is estimated that as many as 800,000 Vietnamese in the country's south currently suffer from chronic health problems due to Agent Orange exposure, either to themselves, or to a parent or grandparent. Most of these victims, some of whom are retarded, and others of whom cannot walk or have no use of their arms, need constant care.Veterans for Peace, an organization whose membership includes a large number of Vietnam War veterans, has issued a call for the US to provide funds for health care, education, vocational education, chronic care, home care and equipment to clean up hotspots of dioxin in Vietnam-a call which Congress and the White House have consistently ignored. Tests have found dioxin levels around the sites of the three main former US bases in what was South Vietnam to be 300-400 times recognized safe levels. The US dumped huge amounts of Agent Orange for miles in the heavily populated areas around those bases to kill off jungle cover that Vietnamese fighters could use to approach the bases, but it was never cleaned up when the US pulled out. CLIP

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Forwarded by Mark Graffis (mgraffis@gmail.com)

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk:80/2/hi/middle_east/8327188.stm

 

Report: Palestinians denied water

Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.

In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

It says that in Gaza, Israel's blockade has pushed the already ailing water and sewage system to "crisis point".

Israel says the report is flawed and the Palestinians get more water than was agreed under the 1990s peace deal.

'Basic need'

In the 112-page report, Amnesty says that on average Palestinian daily water consumption reaches 70 litres a day, compared with 300 litres for the Israelis.

" Israel must end its discriminatory policies, immediately lift all the restrictions it imposes on Palestinians' access to water "
Donatella Rovera Amnesty International

It says that some Palestinians barely get 20 litres a day - the minimum recommended even in humanitarian emergencies.

While Israeli settlers in the West Bank enjoy lush gardens and swimming pools, Amnesty describes a series of Israeli measures it says are discriminating against Palestinians:

Israel has "entirely appropriated the Palestinians' share of the Jordan river" and uses 80% of a key shared aquifer
West Bank Palestinians are not allowed to drill wells without Israeli permits, which are "often impossible" to obtain
Rainwater harvesting cisterns are "often destroyed by the Israeli army"
Israeli soldiers confiscated a water tanker from villagers who were trying to remain in land Israel had declared a "closed military area"
An unnamed Israeli soldier says rooftop Palestinian household water tanks are "good for target practice"
Much of the land cut off by the West Bank barrier is land with good access to a major aquifer
Israeli military operations have damaged Palestinian water infrastructure, including $6m worth during the Cast Lead operation in Gaza last winter
The Israeli-Egyptian blockade of Gaza has "exacerbated what was already a dire situation" by denying many building materials needed for water and sewage projects.

The report also noted that the Palestinian water authorities have been criticised for bad management, quoting one audit that described the sector as in "total chaos".

"Water is a basic need and a right, but for many Palestinians obtaining even poor-quality, subsistence-level quantities of water has become a luxury that they can barely afford," Amnesty's Donatella Rovera said.

"Israel must end its discriminatory policies, immediately lift all the restrictions it imposes on Palestinians' access to water."

'Fair share'

Ms Rovera also urged Israel to "take responsibility for addressing the problems it created by allowing Palestinians a fair share of the shared water resources".

Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said "the idea that we're taking water away from someone else is simply preposterous".

He argued that Israeli fresh water use per capita had gone down since 1967 due to efficiency and new technologies, while the Palestinians' use had increased and more than a third of their water was wasted.

If there were allegations of military wrongdoing, those would be investigated, he said.

He also rejected the claim that Israel was preventing Palestinians from drilling for water, saying Israel had approved 82 such projects but the Palestinians had only implemented 26 of them.

"They have received billions of dollars in international aid over the last decade and a half, why have they not invested that in their own water infrastructure?" he asked.

The report also criticised the Oslo Accords, which the Palestinians agreed to in 1993.

It said that under them, the Palestinians gained the responsibility for managing an "insufficient" water supply and maintaining "long neglected" water infrastructure.

Also, the deal left the Palestinians paying Israel for half of the domestic water used in the West Bank, despite the fact it is extracted from the shared aquifer.

Mr Regev said Israel provides the Palestinians with more water than it was required to under the accord.

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Goldstone Challenges Obama on Israeli War Crimes (October 23, 2009)

Richard Goldstone, author of the UN report accusing Israel of serious war crimes and crimes against humanity during its assault on Gaza, has openly challenged the Obama administration to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased.  ISRAELI ASSAULT "DESIGNED TO TERRORIZE" - The UN fact-finding mission headed by Goldstone concluded that the Israeli assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip was "a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself, and to force upon it an ever increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability." Israel's criminal use of white phosphorus on civilian areas was blatant and obvious to television viewers around the world. The Israeli government is particularly worried because the Goldstone report concluded that the Israeli military, headed by Ehud Barak, committed serious war crimes that constitute a "grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions: From the facts gathered, the Mission found that the following grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention were committed by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, and extensive destruction of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly. As grave breaches these acts give rise to individual criminal responsibility. The Mission notes that the use of human shields also constitutes a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The Goldstone fact-finding report is extremely important because it puts every law-abiding government on notice that they are obliged under international law to consider the leadership of the Israeli government and military as criminal.  This means that people like Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak should be arrested as soon as they arrive in any country that upholds international law.  In the same way that Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland, the Israeli political and military leaders should be arrested and held for a war crimes trial.  This is what international law demands.  If these individuals were to be arrested and interrogated we would also find the truth about who carried out the false-flag terror attacks of 9-11.

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Typed from the Star newspaper in South Africa and sent by Lou BOGNON (lou@loubognon.com)

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