August 2, 2006

The Big Scoop Series #14: The Insanities of War

Hello everyone!

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Jean Hudon
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"War is the only game in which both sides lose." 

— Walter Scott


"If you want to take revenge on somebody, you better dig two graves."

— Chinese proverb


"If you have to resort to force, you have already lost."

— Tokugawa, Japanese Shogun


"It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is to human hunger."

— Bruce Kent International Peace Bureau President at centenary reception, Berne, 1991
(The 4 quotes above were recommended by "Stan Penner" stanp@mts.net>)


"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way."

- Unknown


Neo: "I know what you are trying to do!"

Morpheus: "I am trying to free your mind Neo. But I can only show you the door. You are the One that has to walk through it. You have to let it all go Neo, Fear, doubt and disbelief. Free your mind!"

Morpheus: "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."  

- The MATRIX: The movie. 1999 - Recommended by "Stephanie" stephaniejillrudd@btinternet.com> who wrote: "As many struggle at present between what they see physically happening in the world and what they know deep in their hearts to be the truth of higher consciousness, it is perhaps an apt time to remember these lines from the Matrix. The difference between knowing the path and walking the path is the small jump we are asked to make. That's all it takes. Hold in there everyone, the heat is about to rise in the kitchen and you'll need inner strength and solidity to get through without resorting to fear."

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (A breathe of fresh air!)
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072606EC.shtml
"In these turbulent and often frightening times, it is important to remind ourselves that we are privileged to live at the most exciting moment in the whole of the human experience. We have the opportunity to turn away from Empire and to embrace Earth Community as a conscious collective choice. We are the ones we have been waiting for," writes David Korten.



Worthy of Your Attention

August 5: National emergency demonstration
http://www.stopwar.org.uk
On Saturday 5 August there will be a national emergency demonstration in London calling for an immediate, unconditional ceasefire in Lebanon and Gaza, the end of Israel's attacks and the end of Tony Blair's support for George Bush's wars. Israel says no ceasefire and launches a full scale invasion. Bombs and rockets rain down on women, children and other innocents as they huddle in their homes, in refugee shelters, or while they flee holding white flags. How can we stand by and let this go on?...

Intergalactic Peace Corp
http://helenerothschild.com/IntergalacticPeaceCorp.html

Global Peace Vibration and Healing program on 12 August 2006
http://pranashakty.net/pages/peace_healing.html

Connecting Women for Peace
http://www.peacexpeace.org/
PEACE X PEACE (pronounced “peace by peace”) empowers women as the most effective means to enrich lives locally and promote peace globally. We connect women’s groups (“Circles”) in the United States with women’s Circles everywhere in the world—directly via the Internet—for the exchange of information and personal experiences that typically result in mutually supportive actions.

C-Span video: Alex Jone's 911 Conference (1h 46m)
rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/ap072906_theories.rm?mode=compact>rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/ap072906_theories.rm?mode=compact

Webster G. Tarpley wrote: "It would appear that a faction of the ruling class may actually desire to turn back from the catastrophic abyss of thermonuclear World War III -- let us exploit this opportunity with all our energy. The official 9/11 Big Lie is collapsing around the ears of Bush, Cheney, the neocons, and the invisibles who run them. The worldwide 9/11 truth movement is in the ascendant -- now let us drive the neocon fascist madmen from public life once and for all. The impeachment of Bush-Cheney & Co. for their 9/11 crimes has never been closer. Here is the link to watch the C-Span coverage of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth Symposium from the archives online: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4258946892514662399&q=9%2F11

Downloadable William Rodriguez Speech! Astounding Testimony
http://www.tapley.org/commander/Rodriguez.wmv

If you want to know more about Scholars for 9/11 Truth and their featured articles, go to
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org/

ON 16 SEPTEMBER 2006 IN MORE THAN 250 LOCATIONS IN 50 COUNTRIES CELEBRATE THE 10th ANNIVERSARY OF EARTHDANCE — THE GLOBAL FESTIVAL FOR PEACE
The highlight of Earthdance on the weekend of 16 September - where nearly half a million world citizens in over 50 countries join together - is a simultaneous link-up, when every event across the world plays the 4-minute Prayer for Peace track at 12gmt - morning in the Australian rainforest, midnight in London, and sunrise over the Himalayas, honouring this Prayer of Peace globally is a profound and powerful unifying moment — 2am South African time. Dubbed "The Dance Aid for the New Millennium" (The Evening Standard, London), the mega-event's mission is to foster an environment of peace and harmony throughout the global sphere while supporting non-profit humanitarian and peace-related causes. In the spirit of "Think Global, Act Local," each local Earthdance event donates at least 50% of their profit to a local charity. Earthdance — the Global Festival for Peace encourages music and entertainment that is culturally inclusive. This year, Earthdance events will also honor the universal wisdom of elders and indigenous peoples. At the hub-event, in Laytonville, California, prominent music artists India.Arie, Ani DiFranco, Ozomatli and others will be featured alongside indigenous elders from around the world. To check out what is happening at Earthdance events around the globe and see the online video go to: http://www.earthdance.org/ -- In 1996, Earthdance founder, Chris Deckker, began organizing Earthdance equipped with only a fax machine, a telephone and a strong vision "to unite the world through the universal platform of music and dance to affirm peace and celebrate cultural diversity." Today, as the 10th Anniversary of Earthdance approaches, the event has grown into what is now the world's largest music and dance peace-celebration.
Recommended by "David" crystall@telkomsa.net> who wrote: "I have been to Earthdance for a few years now and last year was asked to take part in the prayer for peace. Five of us were asked to be light bearers, holding a candle each on the main floor during the prayer for peace. I raised the candle and closed my eyes. I felt something supporting my arms from behind, and lifting them higher. Just a gentle pressure but most definitely there. I have never before felt anything like it. I spoke to others there who had a similarly profound and inspiring experiences at that moment. No question. I had to get involved this year. Happening globally near where you are. Please come along and enjoy the fun." For updated info on Johannesburg and South African events, log onto: http://www.earthdance.org.za/

Listen to Meria Heller Show free in August
http://www.Meria.net
7th year and going strong! Tune in and find out what you've been missing - real news, great interviews 24/7!

IMPEACHMENT CHARGES: Conyers Report on Potential Bush Crimes (07-31-2006)
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/conyers-report/?resultpage=1&
Here is a litany of possible impeachment charges which will be raised by Rep. Jpohn Conyers should be Democrats win back Congress. It shows documentary evidence on how the Constitution was subverted so many times by Bush and gang of thieves. It's worth printing out! Recommended by "Isis Rich" atachaka@springsips.com>

Recently, the major television networks have given a platform to conservative hate merchants like Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and Melanie Morgan. One of the country's largest syndicates, Universal Press Syndicate, distributes Coulter's column. Beck was recently hired by CNN Headline News. Morgan broadcasts from a radio station owned by Disney. And all three -- and countless others like them -- are regularly given guest spots on cable-news networks. Add my name to a petition urging the media to stop spreading hate at http://mediamatters.org/hatefree. You can find other news and actions at www.mediamatters.org - Recommended by Rhys P rhys@sonic.net>

I've just signed an important petition for Jews and their non-Jewish friends and supporters who are outraged by Israel's attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, as well as by U.S. support for those attacks.I hope you'll go here (click on hotlink or paste address into your browser): http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/jvfp/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=323 to sign the petition too. Jewish Voice for Peace, a group I support, will present the petition to Condoleezza Rice, George Bush and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister. They will also release the number of signers to the media. We need to get as many people as possible to sign the statement.It goes without saying that we all deeply mourn the loss of Lebanese, Gazan and Israeli lives. But instead of negotiating and helping to reduce the violence, Israel's wildly disproportionate response has inflamed the situation. Massive bombing of neighborhoods, roads and even cars with people in them is not just illegal and immoral-- it feeds the forces of extremism. Please join me! Let's show the world the thousands of Jews and allies who seek an end to the settlements and occupation, and a just and fair peace in the Middle East. Check out http://www.JewishVoiceforPeace.org - Recommended by Sabine Stetson stetsa@mac.com> who wrote: "Our apathy is complicit... at least we have a chance here to speak up... the silence on this topic around me is becoming unbearable ..."


CONTENTS

1. Excerpt from the Satya Center newsletter and suggested meditation
2. The war goes on. So do the anti-war demonstrations
3. SHIN BET VETOED SECRET ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE AGREEMENT
4. Target: Multilateralism
5. UK Govt Sources Confirm War With Iran Is On
6. The call that tells you: run, you're about to lose your home and possessions
7. Palestinians open checkpoint by laying down on settler road
8. Casualties of War: Lebanon’s Trees, Air and Sea
9. End of Days?
10. Acid waters, dissolving shellfish
11. Heatwave shuts down nuclear power plants
12. Bush - Stoned? Drunk? Medicated? Retarded? Presidential Tester for the Pharmaceutical Industry? You Decide...
13. Peace prize winner 'could kill' Bush
14. Shifts - Solar - Early Sept?
15. Space ships, again (Confidences from a Contactee)


See also:

Europeans, Offering Peacekeepers, Call for End of Hostilities Now
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206K.shtml
The European Union's 25 foreign ministers called Tuesday for an immediate cessation of hostilities in southern Lebanon and expressed their "readiness" to serve in a multinational peacekeeping force there once Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt their fighting and settle their political differences.

‘No Hezbollah Rockets Fired from Qana’ by Dahr Jamail (August 1, 2006)
http://other-news.info/index.php?p=1586
QANA, Aug 1 (IPS) - Red Cross workers and residents of Qana, where Israeli bombing killed at least 60 civilians, have told IPS that no Hezbollah rockets were launched from the city before the Israeli air strike.The Israeli military has said it bombed the building in which several people had taken shelter, more than half of them children, because the Army had faced rocket fire from Qana. The Israeli military has said that Hezbollah was therefore responsible for the deaths. “There were no Hezbollah rockets fired from here,” 32-year-old Ali Abdel told IPS. “Anyone in this village will tell you this, because it is the truth.” Abdel had taken shelter in a nearby house when the shelter was bombed at 1 am. When the bombings finally let up in the morning, he went back to the bombed shelter to search for relatives. He found his 70-year-old father and 64-year-old mother both dead inside. “They bombed it, and afterwards I heard the screams of women, children, and a few men – they were crying for help. But then one minute after the first bomb, another bomb struck, and after this there was nothing but silence, and the sound of more bombs around the village.” Masen Hashen, a 30-year-old construction worker from Qana who lost several family members in the air strike on the shelter, said there were no Hezbollah rockets fired from his village. “Because if they had done that now, or in the past, all of us would have left. Because we know we would be bombed.”Qana had been a shelter because no rockets were being fired from there, survivors said. “When Hezbollah fires their rockets, everyone runs away because they know an Israeli bombardment will come soon,” Abdel said. “That is why everyone stayed in the shelter and nearby homes, because we all thought we’d be all right since there were no Hezbollah fighters in Qana.” Lebanese Red Cross workers in the nearby coastal city of Tyre told IPS that there was no basis for Israeli claims that Hezbollah had launched rockets from Qana. “We found no evidence of Hezbollah fighters in Qana,” Kassem Shaulan, a 28-year-old medic and training manager for the Red Cross in Tyre told IPS at their headquarters. “When we rescue people or recover bodies from villages, we usually see rocket launchers or Hezbollah fighters if they are there, but in Qana I can say that the village was 100 percent clear of either of those.” CLIP

Dozens killed in Lebanon air raid - Report from Qana (2006/07/30)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/5228224.stm
More than 40 people, including 20 children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Qana. Displaced families had been sheltering in the basement of a site which was crushed after a direct hit. (...) Witnesses said the early-morning strike flattened several sites on top of sleeping residents. One survivor said the "bombing was so intense that no-one could move". Reliable casualty figures are not yet clear, but reports said more than 40 had been killed, while sources in the Lebanese Red Cross said as many as 50 or 60 had lost their lives. Elderly, women and children were among those killed in the raid, which wrought destruction over a wide area. The BBC's Fergal Keane at the scene saw two small boys pulled from the rubble. Reporters spoke of survivors screaming in grief and anger, as some scrabbled through the debris with bare hands. (...) Correspondents say the town holds bitter memories for the Lebanese. Qana was the site of an Israeli bombing of a UN base in 1996 that killed more than 100 people sheltering there during Israel's "Grapes of Wrath" offensive, which was also aimed at destroying Hezbollah. Before Sunday's attack, the UN said some 600 people (Over 1000 according to the Lebanese government!) - about a third of them children - had been killed by Israeli action in Lebanon since their operations began 19 days ago. A total of 51 Israelis, including at least 18 civilians, have been killed in the conflict, sparked by Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers in a `cross-border' raid earlier in July.

Yesha Rabbinical Council: During time of war, enemy has no innocents
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283720,00.html
The Yesha Rabbinical Council announced in response to an IDF attack in Kfar Qanna that "according to Jewish law, during a time of battle and war, there is no such term as 'innocents' of the enemy." All of the discussions on Christian morality are weakening the spirit of the army and the nation and are costing us in the blood of our soldiers and civilians," the statement said. (Efrat Weiss)

Israel steps up ground offensive (August 1, 2006) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5233842.stm
Heavy clashes have been taking place in southern Lebanon between Israeli troops and Hezbollah fighters, after Israel vowed to widen its ground offensive.Both sides claim to have caused casualties, as Israeli warplanes and artillery pounded Hezbollah targets amid fierce resistance. An Israeli army spokeswoman said troops were operating in several locations, kilometres from Israel's border. (...) Israeli Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told Israeli Army Radio it would take the army 10 days to two weeks "to complete the job, and by that I mean that the area in which we want [an] international force to deploy is cleansed of Hezbollah". The Israeli security cabinet on Tuesday unanimously approved widening Israel's ground offensive in Lebanon, although it is not yet clear what the scope of the incursion will be. Israeli media said a decision had been taken to push militants back to the Litani River, up to 30km (18 miles) north of the border.(...) sraeli ministers said between 300 and 400 Hezbollah militants had died, while Hezbollah put the figure at 43, Reuters news agency reported. CLIP

Up to 10,000 Israeli Troops Push Into Lebanon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080106R.shtml
Up to 10,000 Israeli troops pushed into Lebanon on a wider front today after the Israeli cabinet decided to widen its offensive, aiming to push Hezbollah back from the border before a cease-fire is declared and a multinational force is deployed there.

Hezbollah is unbowed in Baalbek (August 1)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5233458.stm
Though Israel says it is temporarily suspending air strikes against Lebanon to investigate the latest Qana tragedy, its drones scarcely stopped buzzing like sinister insects high over Baalbek throughout Monday. Baalbek - home to perhaps the most impressive ancient Roman ruins outside Italy - is now very much Hezbollah country. As a result, the area has been heavily bombed by Israel in the last three weeks, though it lies more than 100km (60 miles) from Israel's northern border and poses no threat as a rocket launching area.

Depleted Uranium Situation Worsens Requiring Immediate Action By President Bush,Prime Minister Blair, and Prime Minister Olmert states Dr. Doug Rokke, PhD. former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project (July 26, 2006)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00452.htm
http://www.unobserver.com/index.php?pagina=layout4.php&id=2507&blz=1
The delivery of at least 100 GBU 28 bunker busters bombs containing depleted uranium warheads by the United States to Israel for use against targets in Lebanon will result in additional radioactive and chemical toxic contamination with consequent adverse health and environmental effects throughout the Middle East. Israeli tank gunners are also using depleted uranium tank rounds as photographs verify.Today, U.S., British, and now Israeli military personnel are using illegal uranium munitions - America's and England's own "dirty bombs" while U.S. Army,U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Defense, and British Ministry of Defence officials deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions, to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - depleted uranium. The use of uranium weapons is absolutely unacceptable, and a crime against humanity. Consequently, the citizens of the world and all governments must force cessation of uranium weapons use. I must demand that Israel now provide medical care to all DU casualties in Lebanon and clean up all DU contamination. CLIP

Days of Darkness
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106E.shtml
"In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying," writes Gideon Levy.

WHAT IS THIS CARNAGE REALLY ALL ABOUT ... ? Davic Icke (july 23, 2006)
http://www.davidicke.com/content/view/2346/47/
(...) The Illuminati/Israel nexus has spent decades taking over the government structure of the United States to ensure that (a) Israel has become the recipient of ONE THIRD of all US aid; (b) that it is funded to the tune of billions a year by the US to finance its military spending and build up; and (c) that the United States government pursues a foreign policy of unbelievable bias towards Israel and against the surrounding Arab states. The pathetic statements about Lebanon by Bush that blamed Hezbollah for everything, supported the mass murder of civilians, sorry 'Israel's right to defend itself', and showing no desire to secure a ceasefire, are typical of how Israel controls the US government through the Illuminati network. So is the mantra of 'Iran and Syria are to blame'. These are both on the Illuminati hit list and they need an excuse to target them. CLIP recommended by Phyllis Montague phyllism5@juno.com> who wrote: "David Icke has done more research and written more about the true story, the true history than anyone. He has been divinely protected during his extensive research. He is very spiritually aware and doing a great service for humanity. Bookmark his site. Read this article... you will learn why all this is happening...."

US Plans $4.6 Billion in Mideast Arms Sales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072906C.shtml
The Bush administration spelled out plans on Friday to sell $4.6 billion of arms to moderate Arab states. The announcement came two weeks after the administration said it would sell Israel its latest supply of JP-8 aviation fuel.

Kucinich Introduces Legislation to Abolish All Nuclear Weapons
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072706C.shtml
Today, Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich introduced legislation, HR 950, to abolish all nuclear weapons. The Kucinich resolution states: "That the House of Representatives calls upon the President to initiate multilateral negotiations for the abolition of nuclear weapons."

Where Were You When They Took Your Rights Away? (28 July 2006)
http://campdemocracy.org/node/44
Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation's capital in protest? If you said the United States, you'll be wrong on September 5th, when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, DC. At long last, Americans are preparing to say "Enough is enough," and to do what Ukrainians, Mexicans, or any other people not drugged into acquiescence would do when things got this bad: occupy the capital city to demand peace, justice, and accountability. The goal of the many organizations and individuals working to prepare for Camp Democracy is to provide a space for everyone who is fed up with lies and criminality to come and demand change. In fact, at the suggestion of Cindy Sheehan, who will come to Camp Democracy following Camp Casey (August 16 - September 2 in Crawford, Texas), we're calling it Camp Democracy at Fort Fed Up. Our demands will not be for anarchy or disorder, but for a restoration of the rule of law. This is a tough-on-crime movement. We just have a different notion of who the criminals are. And when we get tough, we use nonviolence. Camp Democracy will offer training in nonviolent protest, as well as in media production, activism, and PR. There will be workshops provided by top scholars and activists on a variety of issues - all of them connected by the democracy deficit, the shifting of resources against our will to war and away from useful endeavors. A schedule of events is posted on the right side of the web site www.campdemocracy.org and we'll be building toward the International Day of Peace on September 21, when the Declaration of Peace has pledged to begin civil disobedience. CLIP

Sheehan Purchases Crawford Land
http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=10240

Bush to Open New Maximum-Security Jail at Guantanamo
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073006Z.shtml
The controversy over the US-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks. Campaigners pointed to Mr. Bush's claim earlier this summer that he would "like to close" Guantanamo. The revelation that Camp 6 is poised to open is proof that he intends to keep using the prison.

Blair to attend Bohemian Grove This Weekend? (July 29 2006)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/290706Grove.htm
This weekend sees the finale of the annual gathering of the Bohemian Club in the secluded redwoods about 75 miles north of San Francisco. It just so happens that Tony Blair will be in San Francisco all weekend along with a whole host of other powerful elite luminaries.Whilst the world seems to be on the brink of major war, Blair is, as reported today by the London Independent, on a flying tour of California to meet and do private business with Rupert Murdoch. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:The tony, private event, a five-day management retreat for 250 executives of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is set to bring together a VIP guest list for the ages to chat about issues like volunteerism, technology and politics. Among them: Blair, Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres, former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers and even U2 lead singer and international do-gooder Bono.Introducing Blair to the crowd on Sunday evening will be California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Republican governor will be celebrating his birthday and is expected to be on hand with first lady Maria Shriver at the event sponsored by Murdoch, a generous donor to the GOP whose mega-corporation owns Fox News, 20th Century Fox, DirecTV and 175 newspapers worldwide --including the New York Post -- with a total circulation of 40 million. Whilst in San Francisco Blair will also dine with George and Charlotte Shultz, the former secretary of state and current state protocol chief, respectively, and he's also expected to meet with Democratic gubernatorial nominee Phil Angelides. Clinton, Shultz, Gore and Gingrich have all reportedly visited Bohemian Grove on previous occasions. The SF Chronicle also reported that Schwarzenegger was hand picked to become California Governor in 2003 at the Grove. Could Blair and his friends be popping by the Redwoods for a visit this year? The timing of the gathering with Murdoch is very convenient. The Grove hosts the Bohemian Club every year, members include George H.W. Bush, Charles Schwab and Walter Cronkite. It has been reported by major publications in the past that world policy is discussed at the Grove in between frolicking naked, urinating on trees and engaging in bizarre Paganistic rituals. In 2000 Alex Jones infiltrated the gathering and caught exclusive video footage of a bizarre mock human sacrifice ritual, known as "the cremation of care", under a 40 foot stone owl that the members refer to as Molech. Former President Richard Nixon is on record discussing homosexual activity at the Grove, whilst it is also documented that male and female porn stars and prostitutes are shipped in for the annual retreat. We have previously reported that Tony Blair and his wife are "obsessed" with new age practices and ceremonies and have in the past according to the London Guardian, attended Aztec Re-birthing rituals. Furthermore, according to the London Times, Blair has made major political decisions based on new age readings of a hidden force called 'The Light'.
Check also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqPowtmK2M&mode=related&search=

US rejects weapon flight concerns (July 27) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5221782.stm
The White House has dismissed UK concerns about the use of Prestwick Airport, in Scotland, by US planes carrying bombs to Israel.

Irish refused bombs sent to Prestwick airport (July 30)
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1104532006
BOMBS destined to be used by Israel are being flown via Scotland only because the Irish government refused to allow them to land on its soil. Scotland on Sunday can reveal that after the conflict in Lebanon began three weeks ago, Ireland turned down a United States request for planes carrying 600lb so-called bunker busters to refuel at Shannon airport in Co Clare. As a result, cargo planes carrying the bombs, which the Israeli army is using in its offensive against the Hezbollah, are being flown via Prestwick airport in Ayrshire. The use of Prestwick triggered a furious diplomatic row last week after it emerged that the US had broken aviation rules by failing to notify Britain about the flights. That row is intensifying this weekend as two further American planes carrying 'hazardous' material to Tel Aviv land at the airport. (...) One Irish official said that the bombs would never have been allowed on Irish soil. The source said: "There is absolutely no way that we would allow munitions or weapons to be shipped through Shannon to a location where there is an actual war going on. We would not allow it. It is correct that we allow the US to transport troops to Shannon, but sending bombs to Israel is another matter and completely out of the question for us."Opposition critics last night seized on the situation. Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond said: "It is highly significant that Shannon put its foot down and drew back from allowing the transport of bunker busters, which could become the tinder to escalate dramatically the Middle East conflict." He added: "It is absolutely appalling that we should allow Prestwick to become a stopover to death and destruction." Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell said the fact that more flights were now landing in Scotland was "adding insult to injury". (...) Residents and politicians in Ayrshire have voiced anger at the flights. The airport has been used by the US as a refuelling point for flights involved in the controversial 'extraordinary rendition' of terror suspects to countries where they are alleged to have been tortured. CLIP

I Was Israel’s Dupe
http://counterpunch/Hayden07202006.html
Hayden Revisits Sharon’s 1982 Attack on Beirut and His and Fonda’s Trip of Shame How do I read today’s news through the lens of the past? What I fear is that the “Israeli lobby” is working overtime to influence American public opinion on behalf of Israel’s military effort to “roll back the clock” and “change the map” of the region, going far beyond issues like prisoner exchange. What I fear is that the progress of the American peace movement against the Iraq war will be diverted and undermined, at least for now, by the entry of Israel from the sidelines into the center of the equation. What I fear is the rehabilitation of the discredited U.S. neoconservative agenda to ignite a larger war against Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. The neoconservatives’ 1996 “Clean Break” memo advocated that Israel “roll back” Lebanon and destabilize Syria in addition to overthrowing Saddam Hussein. An intellectual dean of the neoconservatives, Bernard Lewis, has long advocated the “Lebanonization” of the Middle East, meaning the disintegration of nation states into “a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and parties.” CLIP

Victor Ostrovsky on the Mossad
http://tinyurl.com/grfet
Victor Ostrovsky: (1) How Mossad Got America to Bomb Libya & Fight Iraq (2) Mossad's training BOTH SIDES in the Sri Lankan civil war; and on its support for Moslem fundamentalists, to derail the peace process; and on its plan to kill George Bush snr, in payback for the peace process he initiated (3) Victor Ostrovsky "the most treacherous Jew in modern Jewish history".

"Supporters of Hezbollah"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106A.shtml
Israeli Justice Minister Haim Ramon announced, "All those in south Lebanon are terrorists who are related in some way to Hezbollah. In order to prevent casualties among Israeli soldiers battling Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon, villages should be flattened by the Israeli air force before ground troops move in." Writing from Beirut, Dahr Jamail shows us these so called "supporters of Hezbollah," in the hospitals of Sidon.

Top US General Exposes War Agenda Based on Corporate Manipulation http://www.WantToKnow.info/060730warmanipulations
War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. In the World War [World War I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted huge gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows. CLIP

Banking on War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206Z.shtml
William Rivers Pitt writes: "It is, at bottom, all about profit. We sell the weapons, which create warfare, which justifies our incredibly expensive war-making capabilities when we have to go in and fight against the people who bought our weapons or procured them from a third party. This does not make the world safer, but only reinforces the permanent state of peril we find ourselves in."

Chicago Tribune Special: A Tank Full of Gas, A World Full of Trouble
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/broadband/chi-oilsafari-html,0,7894741.htmlstory
(...) It took Dunbar 29 minutes to empty his swimming pool-size cargo--a workaday chore that reveals the triumphs of our motorized civilization but also the seeds of its possible end. The diesel streaked past a tiny glass porthole on the truck's hoses in a smear of pale yellow, like beer, while the premium unleaded ran colorless as vodka. That particular night, according to one industry method of calculating the explosive energy locked away in crude oil, Dunbar dumped the liquid equivalent of 19.2 million hours of physical labor into the Marathon's storage tanks--or the power of a slave army of 2,200 men working around the clock for a year. This bonanza would be sucked dry by customers in 24 hours, a small, stark example of the nation's awesome petroleum appetite at a time when the planet appears to be lurching into an energy crunch of historic proportions. By now, most Americans realize that something is profoundly awry in the global oil patch. For the majority of motorists, like the "swipe and go" customers at the South Elgin Marathon, the evidence is painfully obvious: record-high fuel costs that have surpassed last year's infamous price spikes following Hurricane Katrina.Yet to truly grasp the scope of the crisis looming before them, Americans must retrace their seemingly ordinary tankful of gasoline back to its shadowy sources. This is, in effect, a journey into the heart of America's vast and troubled oil dependency. And what it exposes is a globe-spanning energy network that today is so fragile, so beholden to hostile powers and so clearly unsustainable, that our car-centered lifestyle seems more at risk than ever."I truly think we're at one of those turning points where the future's looking so ugly nobody wants to face it," said Matthew Simmons, an energy investment banker in Houston who has advised the Bush administration on oil policy. "We're not talking some temporary Arab embargo anymore. We're not talking your father's energy crisis."What Simmons and many other experts are talking about is a bleak new collision between geology and geopolitics.Below ground, the biggest worry is "peak oil"--the notion that the world's total petroleum endowment is approaching the half-empty mark, a geological tipping point beyond which no amount of extra pumping will revive fading oil fields. Peak oil theory is controversial. Many think it alarmist. Yet even Big Oil is starting to gird itself for possible fuel shortages: Chevron, the nation's second-largest oil company, has bluntly declared that "the era of easy oil is over" and is warning energy-hungry Americans that "the world consumes two barrels of oil for every barrel discovered." CLIP

US begins building treaty-breaching germ war defence centre (31 Jul 2006) /
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1833795,00.html
Construction work has begun near Washington on a vast germ warfare laboratory intended to help protect the US against an attack with biological weapon, but critics say the laboratory's work will violate international law and its extreme secrecy will exacerbate a biological arms race. The centre will have to produce and stockpile the world's most lethal bacteria and viruses, which is forbidden by the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.

U.S. biodefense lab raises concerns (30 Jul 2006)
http://www.arcamax.com/newsheadlines/s-99016-359542
The Bush regime is building a massive biodefense laboratory in Maryland that will simulate [stimulate?] calamitous bioterrorism attacks, it was reported Sunday. But much of what the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center in Fort Detrick, Md., does may never be publicly known because the White House intends to operate the facility largely in secret, the Washington Post reported. In an unusual arrangement, the building itself will be classified as "highly restricted space," the newspaper said. Not even nuclear labs operate with such secrecy.

Worst Ever Security Flaw Found in Diebold TS Voting Machine
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080106E.shtml
"Diebold has made the testing and certification process practically irrelevant. If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS - and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver," says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert.

Group identifies new flaws in Diebold evoting machines
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Voring_machine_grup_identifies_new_flaws_0731.html
GROUP: 'Vote counts can be changed with the flip of a a switch'

Bush Bids for Sweeping Detention Power
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072906X.shtml
US citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page draft measure is intended to authorize the Pentagon's tribunal system, established shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks to detain and prosecute detainees captured in the war on terror.

Audio: Rodriguez, Tarpley at 911 Scholars Symposium
http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=13
Two speeches from the American Scholars Symposium: 9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda, June 24th and 25th, 2006 at the Sheraton Downtown Los Angeles. First hour: William Rodriguez, stairwell janitor for the World Trade Center's North Tower on September 11th, and 9/11 hero. Webster Griffin Tarpley, author of "9/11 Synthetic Terror," "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography," among other books. Recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net> who wrote: "Rodriguez's harrowing tale of that day and his subsequent VIP treatment by the Venezuelan and Malaysian governments is absolutely riveting!"

Following Zakheim and Pentagon trillions to Israel and 9-11 (July 31, 2006)
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1047.shtml
Think of this as part two of Recherche du trillions perdu, my Online Journal article on Dov Zakheim, former Bush appointee as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. That story, as I mentioned, was buried under 9-11’s rubble. The two sums disappeared on Zakheim’s watch.Yet on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department of Defense. So the dark card was shifted to another part of the deck.Judicial Inc’s bio of Dov (linked below) tells us Zakheim was/is a dual Israeli/American citizen and an ordained rabbi and had been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. He is, as I described him earlier, the bionic Zionist. In fact, Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel’s armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their value. Judicial Inc also points out that Israel, a country of 4.8 million Russian and Polish Jewish émigrés, flies on one of the biggest Air Forces in the world, thanks to Dov. (...)“As the . . . diagram shows, all flights involved in the events traveled very near many military installations, and appear to have traveled in a manner suggesting guidance and possible transfer of the control of the planes among the bases.” Since the evidence from the World Trade Center site was quickly removed, there is little concrete evidence of the involvement of Dov Zakheim, who has since left his position at the Pentagon. However, the proximity of Eglin AFB to MacDill AFB in Florida and Dov Zakheim's work via SPC contracts and the Pentagon leasing agreement on both of these installations, combined with SPC's access to World Trade Center structural and security information from their Tridata investigation in 1993, is highly suspicious. Considering his access to Boeing 767 tankers, remote control flight systems, and his published views in the PNAC document, it seems very likely he is in fact a key figure in the alleged terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001.” CLIP - MOST REVEALING ARTICLE! A KEY ARCHITECT OF 9/11 HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED!

9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206Q.shtml
How did the US Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, Michael Bronner reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day - and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.

Pentagon Suspected of Lying About 9/11
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206J.shtml
Some staff members and commissioners of the September 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.

After Decades of War, Millions of Congolese Seize Chance to Vote
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106F.shtml
25 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo finally got a chance to choose their leaders for the first time in 40 years. They came in the thousands, to more than 53,000 polling stations dotted across a country the size of western Europe.

Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080206N.shtml
It appears that the US media has become so enamored with the construct of the "anti-democratic" left in Latin America that they are incapable of fulfilling their basic mandate to inform their readers when it comes to the political landscape south of the border. But back in the real world, a growing body of credible evidence from mainstream Mexican journalists, independent election observers, and respected scholars indicates that an attempt was made to deliver the presidency to Calder˜n. It includes a pattern of irregularities at the polls, interference by the ruling party, and some very suspicious statistical patterns in the "official" results.

Silicon Valley Takes On Detroit (July 22, 2006)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/22/eveningnews/main1826843.shtml
At a glittering Los Angeles party, an ambitious new car maker declared the electric car alive and well. The Tesla Roadster, which can go from 0 to 60 mph in 4 seconds doesn't come from Detroit, but from high tech Silicon Valley aiming to do what Detroit couldn't ˜ make a commercially successful car that doesn't burn gas. "Electric cars don't have to be little, pathetic commuter cars," says Martin Eberhard, CEO of Tesla Motors. "They can be quick and they can be desirable." Eberhard made millions in the computer industry, then convinced other high tech investors like Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal, to put in big money. Musk expects huge rewards if Silicon Valley can break Detroit's grip on the U.S. auto industry. "It's batteries, it's drive electronics, it's electric motors," says Musk. "Those are skills that are present in Silicon Valley and not present in Detroit." There's a quick charger for the Tesla's lithium batteries but the car can be plugged in anywhere. It'll go 250 miles on a single charge - at a cost the company says, of just 1 cent a mile. Tesla expects to quickly sell its first 100 cars for $100,000 each. But, don't give up. The company also has plans for a car for the rest of us. Tesla promises a less expensive four-door family car within three years. For now, however, it's the rich and famous who are getting a charge out of this electric car, such as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who tried out the car and had two words to say: "Very Nice." Note: Don't be surprised if this technology inexplicably disappears as so many others have, like the once heralded 100 MPG http://www.WantToKnow.info/newenergyinformation
TO REVIEW several other such news items compiled by Fred Burks, go at http://www.WantToKnow.info/060726newsarticles

IS THERE HELP FOR THE MIDDLE EAST?
Statement by Dieter Duhm and Sabine Lichtenfels

War wages in the Middle East. We, who are involved internationally, have to ask ourselves ever more urgently: What is there to do now? Do we have an answer that could also be helpful to the ones who are affected? The people of the Middle East now need the protection of an alert public which breaks the international silence and has the courage to call the injustice taking place there by its name. Why is Israel so generously supplied with weapons and money? Could it be that a long planned, more comprehensive political strategy is behind all this? Is it a “calculated war” after all? Is it meant that Israel becomes a base for the American dream of this large “free trade zone” from Algeria to Pakistan, which they call “Greater Middle East”? Is it the same power political concept of the Pentagon which today, in parallel, prepares the war in Iran and secures Israel with the necessary military equipment?

When we criticize a derailed government and a derailed military we do not mean “the Israelis”. A new peace movement has been forming for a long time in Israel and Palestine. A human is a human is a human, is a creature of God and the world, s/he does not belong to any nation, nor government, nor system. As long as these attachments exist, conflicts will persist. Not the craving for power or guns has brought us about but the love between a man and a woman. Why continue to live in a system committing such injustice? Why not fully participate in the work to surpass all these systems? Millions are migrating already towards a new existence beyond states and systems. Can we not build up a large model of reconciliation together?

Please find the whole text under: http://www.igf-online.org/?id=436

Farmers Use as Much Pesticide With GM Crops
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/072706EB.shtml
One of the major arguments in favor of growing GM crops has been undermined by a study showing that the benefits are short-lived because farmers quickly resort to spraying their fields with harmful pesticides.

More than 60 percent of U.S. in drought
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060730/ap_on_re_us/northern_plains_drought&printer=1;_ylt=AhVidhW6wqS1rnraYHjtUmxH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
More than 60 percent of the United States now has abnormally dry or drought conditions, stretching from Georgia to Arizona and across the north through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana and Wisconsin, said Mark Svoboda, a climatologist for the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. An area stretching from south central North Dakota to central South Dakota is the most drought-stricken region in the nation, Svoboda said. "It's the epicenter," he said. "It's just like a wasteland in north central South Dakota." Conditions aren't much better a little farther north. Paul Smokov and his wife, Betty, raise several hundred cattle on their 1,750-acre ranch north of Steele, a town of about 760 people. Fields of wheat, durum and barley in the Dakotas this dry summer will never end up as pasta, bread or beer. What is left of the stifled crops has been salvaged to feed livestock struggling on pastures where hot winds blow clouds of dirt from dried-out ponds. Some ranchers have been forced to sell their entire herds CLIP

Better Get Used to Killer Heat Waves
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/28/D8J599UG1.html
In Fresno, the morgue is full of victims from a California heat wave. A combination of heat and power outages killed a dozen people in Missouri. And in parts of Europe, temperatures are hotter than in 2003 when a heat wave killed 35,000 people. Get used to it. (...) In the past 25 years, most of the world has seen summer nights getting much warmer with far less evening heat relief, according to a study published earlier this year in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Geophysical Research."Another study this year by the Climate Research Unit in East Anglia, Great Britain, concluded that European summer heat waves "have increased in frequency at most stations since 1880" and will continue to increase with man-made global warming.In the current U.S. wave, more than 150 people have died. Feltgen ticks off a few statistics from the hardest-hit state, California:"One hundred twenty-six degrees in Death Valley last week; Sacramento had 11 days at or above 100 degrees, their old record was nine. We're seeing some impressive records out there to be sure and unfortunately this is taking a human toll."George Luber, an epidemiologist who studies heat wave deaths for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the current situation is on track to be "the most active one that I can recall" in terms of heat deaths. CLIP

A Primeval Tide of Toxins (VERY SERIOUS WARNING!!! MUST READ! BUT VERY DISCOURAGING!)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106G.shtml
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-me-ocean30jul30,0,952130.story
Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This "rise of slime," as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people. (...) Even in modern times, when oil spills, chemical discharges and other industrial accidents heightened awareness of man's capacity to injure sea life, the damage was often regarded as temporary. But over time, the accumulation of environmental pressures has altered the basic chemistry of the seas. The causes are varied, but collectively they have made the ocean more hospitable to primitive organisms by putting too much food into the water. Industrial society is overdosing the oceans with basic nutrients - the nitrogen, carbon, iron and phosphorous compounds that curl out of smokestacks and tailpipes, wash into the sea from fertilized lawns and cropland, seep out of septic tanks and gush from sewer pipes. Modern industry and agriculture produce more fixed nitrogen - fertilizer, essentially - than all the Earth's natural processes. Million of tons of carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide, produced by burning fossil fuels, enter the ocean every day. These pollutants feed excessive growth of harmful algae and bacteria. At the same time, overfishing and destruction of wetlands have diminished the competing sea life and natural buffers that once held the microbes and weeds in check. The consequences are evident worldwide. Off the coast of Sweden each summer, blooms of cyanobacteria turn the Baltic Sea into a stinking, yellow-brown slush that locals call "rhubarb soup." Dead fish bob in the surf. If people get too close, their eyes burn and they have trouble breathing. On the southern coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands, high tide leaves piles of green-brown algae that smell so foul condominium owners have hired a tractor driver to scrape them off the beach every morning. On Florida's Gulf Coast, residents complain that harmful algae blooms have become bigger, more frequent and longer-lasting. Toxins from these red tides have killed hundreds of sea mammals and caused emergency rooms to fill up with coastal residents suffering respiratory distress. North of Venice, Italy, a sticky mixture of algae and bacteria collects on the Adriatic Sea in spring and summer. This white mucus washes ashore, fouling beaches, or congeals into submerged blobs, some bigger than a person. Along the Spanish coast, jellyfish swarm so thick that nets are strung to protect swimmers from their sting. (...) Many of the same forces have wiped out 80% of the corals in the Caribbean, despoiled two-thirds of the estuaries in the United States and destroyed 75% of California's kelp forests, once prime habitat for fish. Jackson uses a homespun analogy to illustrate what is happening. The world's 6 billion inhabitants, he says, have failed to follow a homeowner's rule of thumb: Be careful what you dump in the swimming pool, and make sure the filter is working. "We're pushing the oceans back to the dawn of evolution," Jackson said, "a half-billion years ago when the oceans were ruled by jellyfish and bacteria." CLIP THIS IS ONLY PART 1. TO SEE THE 4 OTHER PARTS GO AT http://www.latimes.com/news/local/oceans/la-oceans-series,0,7842752.special and read also "Acid waters, dissolving shellfish" below

Sentinels Under Attack
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/073106EC.shtml
Toxic algae that poison the brain have caused strandings and mass die-offs of marine mammals - barometers of the sea's health. These blooms of toxic algae are part of a worldwide pattern of oceanic changes that scientists attribute to warming waters, excessive fishing, and a torrent of nutrients unleashed by farming, deforestation and urban development.

Omega-News Collection 29. July 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2453303/

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