August 14, 2006

The Moment of Truth Series #2: Daring to Be Optimistic

Hello everyone!

As usual, one thing leading to another, preparing this compilation has taken me into all kinds of directions, twists and turns, the final addition being Matthew's latest message which brings us many confirmations to various other elements included below, except with regard to Alex Jones' recent strident warning about what he sees as a high likeliness that the Cabal will try to pull another big False Flag 9/11 style operation before the end of October. On that one, I prefer to side with Matthew's view that they will be prevented from achieving any such plan. Yet what I also see is an increasing momentum in the 9/11 truth movement in the U.S., which if properly - and actively - supported, can be instrumental in precipitating the downfall of the rotten ones from their increasingly precarious hold onto power.

With the ever more blatant deception used by the Bush team of criminal impostors and usurpers, and their ever lowering approval ratings, it would seem farfetched to imagine that they could credibly trick the voters again into believing they have a legitimate claim to a win in the November US elections. Yet again, as Matthew points out, there is no clean alternative as the politicians on the other side of the aisles are nearly just as corrupted and controlled by the same Illuminati people. So where does this leaves us in term of effecting a clean slate change of political operators? To me the key is with what we, as citizens of this planet, really aspire for and thus deserve. If we set our eyes on true, global change and find a right balance within us between inner spiritual work and outer political/social/environmental/peace activism, I'm confident seemingly miraculous outcomes can be achieved.

But as with the wonderfully inspiring ho'oponopono story featured in the previous compilation, it all begins within us. When we truly heal ourselves and grow into the mighty Being of absolute, unconditional Love that we are by the very nature of Who We Are, and when we reach out from within to all those of us - all the soul kins forming our vast collective Being as one indivisible whole, we then set in motion the true juggernaut of blissful perfection that this living planet is ascending into at this very moment Now.

And on that note, I wish you all a very enlightening and positively empowering week ;-)

Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator

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"Dear Jean, I have been regularly reading your compilations for about three years now. I have gleaned so many beautiful nuggets from them, such as the ho'oponopono.org article today, that I must say thank you from the bottom of my heart for this service you provide for everyone."

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"It is becoming clear that there is a new superpower growing around the world, and that superpower is the people's movement, people liking hands across the entire world to save this planet and to save humanity. (...) We need to wrestle the Earth from these fools that are driving us down the roads of nuclear weaponry and global warming. The risks are too great at this time not to act. If you can, get involved with any grass root organization, fighting for the future, and we can take the planet back."

- Excerpted from the credits of the movie "Return of the Whale Dreamers"


"There is a sense of universal responsibility that touches every aspect of modern life. Nowadays, important events which take place in one part of the world end up having consequences all around the planet. For this reason, we have to consider that every major local problem is of global concern as soon as it appears. It is no longer possible to invoke the national, racial or ideological barriers which separate us, without destructive repercussions. In this context of our new interdependence, taking care of the interests of others is the best form of selfishness..."

- H.H. the Dalai Lama


"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love."

- Mahatma Gandhi's Prayer for Peace


ERRATA

Lawrence Schumacher 777paladin@sbcglobal.net> wrote on August 8: "Hi Jean, Just so you know... in your latest newsletter (The Moment of Truth Series #1: Final Assessment of our Choices) you have a link to supposed flag pictures done by a Norwegian diplomat... NOT SO... there is no diplomat by that name. The flags were done by a Brazilian artist: Icaro Dora http://www.brazilianartists.net/home/flags/index.htm


Worthy of Your Attention

RED ALERT - Video - Alex Jones Warns of Major Terrorist Attack
Alex Jones is the man who predicted the events of 9/11 in July 2001.
He is now predicting another 9/11 style false flag attack in the U.S. before the end of October. Listen to it at http://youtube.com/watch?v=zAHqSfDNjaI
Here is his July 2001 prediction of 9/11:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8kk9WdwtrM
Recommended by "Kathleen Roberts" weerkhr@pacbell.net>

A Call To Action
Alex Jones Warns of a New False Flag Attack. Get involved at
http://www.911blogger.com/2006/08/alex-jones-call-to-action.html
Read the numerous comments through this URL above, such as... "I listened to Alex's show yesterday. Any doubts about him being a bloviated ass should be dispelled after listening to him yesterday. The guy practically broke down crying when discussing how disgusted he is about what is happening to our country. He cares, You care. I care. And I do believe that Alex's prediction is correct about a major "terrorist attack" occurring in the U.S. before the end of October." AND "I was listening to the Dianne Rhem (sp?) show on NPR this morning before work, and what do you know, the first caller they take plugs Loose Change and starts talking about how 9/11 was an inside job and the latest terror alert was probably fake too. The panel members tried to say that such beliefs are the result of distrust of the government or some crap like that, and I'm sitting there thinking "no, such beliefs are based on the mountain of irrefutable evidence that it was an inside job."Anyways, the point is, someone took Alex's warning to heart, and I think more of us need to do the same. Think, instead of just one, if half the callers today had said something about 9/11 being an inside job, they would have to pay attention. The key is not letting the screeners know exactly what you are going to say, though." AND "Let's do it guys and gals, we could save lives. Hit up all radio talk shows, tell everyone you now, and GET THE WORD OUT. WE are the reason Showbixz Tonight aired 4 days of 9/11, WE are the reason C-SPAN played the symposium 4 times. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE! NOW GO OUT THERE AND SAVE SOME LIVES!"

Lou Dobbs from CNN Wakes Up to 9/11 Lie (AMAZING TO WATCH!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahv3VdknyZ4

Go read what is at
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2006/uffington1/uffington2006aa.html
Quite interesting speculations...

Amazing ad from a bank you'll never use
http://www.glumbert.com/media/turkishbank.html

"The Gathering - Return of the Whale Dreamers"
http://whaledreamers.com/presskit/index.php
Ten years in the making, this full-length feature documentary is an experiential film for our times. It is a story of Dreaming and interwoven Dreams taking us on a deep global journey into a forgotten magic that connects us all. The wisdom of Indigenous Elders from around the world permeate the film, offering up the all too familiar warnings of where humanity seems to be going but it also reflects back to us that we collectively can also come back from the edge of extinction it is not too late. People around the world are waking up. For the first time on film Aboriginal Whale Calling ceremonies are being shared. The Gathering is an invitation for us all to come back to the Fire... the Dreaming... and the Natural World. Recommended by "Adi Gaia" adigaia@moose-mail.com> MAKE SURE TO WATCH THE "OPENING INTRODUCTION" VIDEO CLIP AND THE 3 OTHER PREVIEW CLIPS...


CONTENTS

1. Message from Matthew
2. Red Alert For Staged Government Terror Attack
3. U.K. Airline Terror Plot Poll
4. The Mad Emperor disease
5. War intensifies, protest widens
6. Open Letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
7. Gore isn't quite as green as he's led the world to believe
8. Message from Ker-On
9. Message from St. Germain
10. The Earth College
11. Message from Suzanna Sjogren


See also:

Israel and Hezbollah Approve Middle East Cease-Fire
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306Z.shtml
Israel's Cabinet approved the UN cease-fire plan Sunday, clearing a key hurdle to ending the month long Middle East war. The 24-0 vote, with one abstention, came a day after the Lebanese government approved the agreement. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his grudging consent but warned "the war has not ended.

Israeli Leaders Fault Bush on War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306A.shtml
Robert Parry reports that amid the political and diplomatic fallout from Israel's faltering invasion of Lebanon, some Israeli officials are privately blaming President George W. Bush for egging Prime Minister Ehud Olmert into the ill-conceived military adventure against the Hezbollah militia in south Lebanon. Bush conveyed his strong personal support for the military offensive during a White House meeting with Olmert on May 23, according to sources familiar with the thinking of senior Israeli leaders.

Seymour M. Hersh: Watching Lebanon (BRIEF EXCERPTS ONLY - SEYMOUR REVEALS A LOT!)
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306Y.shtml
(...) According to Seymour Hersh, President Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney were convinced, current and former intelligence and diplomatic officials told me, that a successful Israeli Air Force bombing campaign against Hezbollah's heavily fortified underground-missile and command-and-control complexes in Lebanon could ease Israel's security concerns and also serve as a prelude to a potential American pre-emptive attack to destroy Iran's nuclear installations, some of which are also buried deep underground. (...) The White House was more focused on stripping Hezbollah of its missiles, because, if there was to be a military option against Iran's nuclear facilities, it had to get rid of the weapons that Hezbollah could use in a potential retaliation at Israel. Bush wanted both. Bush was going after Iran, as part of the Axis of Evil, and its nuclear sites, and he was interested in going after Hezbollah as part of his interest in democratization, with Lebanon as one of the crown jewels of Middle East democracy." (...) The United States and Israel have shared intelligence and enjoyed close military cooperation for decades, but early this spring, according to a former senior intelligence official, high-level planners from the U.S. Air Force - under pressure from the White House to develop a war plan for a decisive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities - began consulting with their counterparts in the Israeli Air Force. "The big question for our Air Force was how to hit a series of hard targets in Iran successfully," the former senior intelligence official said. "Who is the closest ally of the U.S. Air Force in its planning? It's not Congo - it's Israel. Everybody knows that Iranian engineers have been advising Hezbollah on tunnels and underground gun emplacements. And so the Air Force went to the Israelis with some new tactics and said to them, 'Let's concentrate on the bombing and share what we have on Iran and what you have on Lebanon.' " The discussions reached the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, he said. "The Israelis told us it would be a cheap war with many benefits," a U.S. government consultant with close ties to Israel said. "Why oppose it? We'll be able to hunt down and bomb missiles, tunnels, and bunkers from the air. It would be a demo for Iran." A Pentagon consultant said that the Bush White House "has been agitating for some time to find a reason for a preemptive blow against Hezbollah." He added, "It was our intent to have Hezbollah diminished, and now we have someone else doing it." (...) Earlier this summer, before the Hezbollah kidnappings, the U.S. government consultant said, several Israeli officials visited Washington, separately, "to get a green light for the bombing operation and to find out how much the United States would bear." The consultant added, "Israel began with Cheney. It wanted to be sure that it had his support and the support of his office and the Middle East desk of the National Security Council." After that, "persuading Bush was never a problem, and Condi Rice was on board," the consultant said. The initial plan, as outlined by the Israelis, called for a major bombing campaign in response to the next Hezbollah provocation, according to the Middle East expert with knowledge of U.S. and Israeli thinking. Israel believed that, by targeting Lebanon's infrastructure, including highways, fuel depots, and even the civilian runways at the main Beirut airport, it could persuade Lebanon's large Christian and Sunni populations to turn against Hezbollah, according to the former senior intelligence official. The airport, highways, and bridges, among other things, have been hit in the bombing campaign. The Israeli Air Force had flown almost nine thousand missions as of last week. (David Siegel, the Israeli spokesman, said that Israel had targeted only sites connected to Hezbollah; the bombing of bridges and roads was meant to prevent the transport of weapons.) The Israeli plan, according to the former senior intelligence official, was "the mirror image of what the United States has been planning for Iran." (The initial U.S. Air Force proposals for an air attack to destroy Iran's nuclear capacity, which included the option of intense bombing of civilian infrastructure targets inside Iran, have been resisted by the top leadership of the Army, the Navy, and the Marine Corps, according to current and former officials. They argue that the Air Force plan will not work and will inevitably lead, as in the Israeli war with Hezbollah, to the insertion of troops on the ground.) (...) The surprising strength of Hezbollah's resistance, and its continuing ability to fire rockets into northern Israel in the face of the constant Israeli bombing, the Middle East expert told me, "is a massive setback for those in the White House who want to use force in Iran. And those who argue that the bombing will create internal dissent and revolt in Iran are also set back." Nonetheless, some officers serving with the Joint Chiefs of Staff remain deeply concerned that the Administration will have a far more positive assessment of the air campaign than they should, the former senior intelligence official said. "There is no way that Rumsfeld and Cheney will draw the right conclusion about this," he said. "When the smoke clears, they'll say it was a success, and they'll draw reinforcement for their plan to attack Iran." (...) The crisis will really start at the end of August, the diplomat added, "when the Iranians" - under a United Nations deadline to stop uranium enrichment - "will say no." CLIP

Israel Loses 19 Soldiers, Helicopter Crew
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306D.shtml
Nineteen Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday during an expanded offensive in Lebanon, the army said, making it the highest one-day toll for the Jewish state since the war against Hezbollah erupted. The deaths, which occurred in several battles in Lebanon throughout the day, brought to more than 100 the number of Israeli troops killed so far.

Subject: CNN: Washington Post Pentagon Reporter Says Israel Purposely Leaving Hezbollah with Rocket Caches (9 August 2006) !!!!!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0608/06/rs.01.html
CNN: Washington Post Pentagon Reporter Says Israel Purposely Leaving Hezbollah with Rocket CachesKURTZ (CNN): Tom Ricks, you've covered a number of military conflicts, including Iraq, as I just mentioned. Is civilian casualties increasingly going to be a major media issue? In conflicts where you don't have two standing armies shooting at each other? THOMAS RICKS, REPORTER, "THE WASHINGTON POST": I think it will be. But I think civilian casualties are also part of the battlefield play for both sides here. One of the things that is going on, according to some U.S. military analysts, is that Israel purposely has left pockets of Hezbollah rockets in Lebanon, because as long as they're being rocketed, they can continue to have a sort of moral equivalency in their operations in Lebanon. KURTZ: Hold on, you're suggesting that Israel has deliberately allowed Hezbollah to retain some of it's fire power, essentially for PR purposes, because having Israeli civilians killed helps them in the public relations war here? RICKS: Yes, that's what military analysts have told me. KURTZ: That's an extraordinary testament to the notion that having people on your own side killed actually works to your benefit in that nobody wants to see your own citizens killed but it works to your benefit in terms of the battle of perceptions here. RICKS: Exactly. It helps you with the moral high ground problem, because you know your operations in Lebanon are going to be killing civilians as well.

UN Lebanon Force Could Start Deploying in 7-10 Days
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081206A.shtml
The United Nations expects Israel's ground offensive to wind down within 48 hours and an expanded international force to begin deploying in southern Lebanon in a week to 10 days, the UN's envoy said on Saturday.

IDF Causes Serious Head Injury to Israeli Lawyer (12 August 2006)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0608/S00184.htm
Press Release: International Solidarity Movement Israeli Army Cause Serious Head Injury to Israeli Lawyer at DemonstrationEarlier today, August 11, the Israeli Army and Border Police shot an Israeli demonstrator with rubber bullets from close range in the head and neck, causing serious injuries. The man, who is a lawyer, was taken by the army to Tel Hasomer hospital from where he is reported to have suffered brain damage.In total 9 people were shot with rubber bullets in a non-violent demonstration in Bil'in. Those shot included 2 villagers of Bil'in as well as citizens of Denmark, France, USA, Japan and Israel. Other people from United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark were beaten, struck with rifle butt or injured by sound grenade fragments. About 200 demonstrators joined the peaceful march from the Bil'in mosque to the Apartheid Wall about 1 km away. The purpose of the march was to demonstrate against the 'New Style of Killing' where even children are targeted by Israeli military forces. The marchers carried 5 mock bodies symbolising an entire family killed by Israeli military action. Before the marchers were able to leave the village soldiers blocked their route, announced the demonstration illegal and then immediately fired sound grenades and rubber bullets from close range. The solders' commander claimed the demonstration was illegal although an Israeli court has previously confirmed the right of Bil'in villagers to hold demonstrations. - The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led non-violent resistance movement committed to ending Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian land. We call for full compliance with all relevant UN resolutions and international law.

Sixty percent of Americans now oppose Iraq war (August 10, 2006)
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/content/2006/08/sixty_percent_o.html
Sixty percent of Americans oppose the U.S. war in Iraq and a majority would support a partial withdrawal of troops by year's end, a CNN poll said on Wednesday.It was the CNN poll's highest number opposing the war since fighting began in March 2003, a figure that has risen steadily since then, according to the Opinion Research Corp. survey conducted last week on behalf of the cable network.

Baghdad Morgue Tallies 1,815 Bodies in July
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081006Z.shtml
Figures compiled by the city morgue indicated Wednesday that the number of killings in the Iraqi capital reached a new high last month, and the US military said a new effort to bring security to Baghdad will succeed only if Iraqis "want it to work." The Baghdad morgue took in 1,815 bodies during July, according to the facility's assistant manager, Abdul Razzaq al-Obeidi. The previous month's tally was 1,595. Obeidi estimated that as many as 90 percent of the total died violent deaths.

Life in Hell: A Baghdad Diary
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080806Z.shtml
In the Red Zone (the name given to the rest of Baghdad by Green Zoners too nervous to venture outside the walls), the sporadic spurts of violence between Shi'ites and Sunnis have given way to a steady stream of blood. Partisans on both sides are arming themselves for battle, and ordinary folks are looking for ways to defend themselves.

Sickened Iraq Vets Cite Depleted Uranium
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081306B.shtml
There is something massively wrong with Herbert Reed, though no one is sure what it is. He believes he knows the cause, but he cannot convince anyone caring for him that the military's new favorite weapon has made him terrifyingly sick. Reed believes depleted uranium has contaminated him and his life. He now walks point in a vitriolic war over the Pentagon's arsenal of it - thousands of shells and hundreds of tanks coated with the metal that is radioactive, chemically toxic, and nearly twice as dense as lead. A shell coated with depleted uranium pierces a tank like a hot knife through butter, exploding on impact into a charring inferno. As tank armor, it repels artillery assaults. It also leaves behind a fine radioactive dust with a half-life of 4.5 billion years. Depleted uranium is the garbage left from producing enriched uranium for nuclear weapons and energy plants. It is 60 percent as radioactive as natural uranium. The U.S. has an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of it, sitting in hazardous waste storage sites across the country. Meaning it is plentiful and cheap as well as highly effective. (...) "The Department of Defense takes the position that you can eat it for breakfast and it poses no threat at all," said Steve Robinson of the National Gulf War Resource Center, which helps veterans with various problems, including navigating the labyrinth of VA health care. "Then you have far-left groups that ... declare it a crime against humanity." Several countries use it as weaponry, including Britain, which fired it during the 2003 Iraq invasion. An estimated 286 tons of DU munitions were fired by the U.S. in Iraq and Kuwait in 1991. An estimated 130 tons were shot toppling Saddam Hussein. Depleted uranium can enter the human body by inhalation, the most dangerous method; by ingesting contaminated food or eating with contaminated hands; by getting dust or debris in an open wound, or by being struck by shrapnel, which often is not removed because doing so would be more dangerous than leaving it. Inhaled, it can lodge in the lungs. As with imbedded shrapnel, this is doubly dangerous - not only are the particles themselves physically destructive, they emit radiation. A moderate voice on the divisive DU spectrum belongs to Dan Fahey, a doctoral student at the University of California at Berkeley, who has studied the issue for years and also served in the Gulf War before leaving the military as a conscientious objector. "I've been working on this since '93 and I've just given up hope," he said. "I've spoken to successive federal committees and elected officials ... who then side with the Pentagon. Nothing changes." CLIP

How to Detox Your Body of Depleted Uranium Residues, the Effects of Radiation, and Radioactive Contamination (THIS MAY BE GOOD TO KNOW...)
http://www.radiationdetox.com/depleted-uranium-detox.htm
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20050826.htm
According to what "Irene Haughey" reenie@sti.net> forwarded to me, the "Background Radiation" levels are going UP. "Since 1991, the U.S. has released the radioactive atomicity equivalent of at least 400,000 Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs." - Leuren Moret, depleted uranium expert... There has been continuing DU bombing in Iraq and now massive DU bombing in Lebanon by Israel. This DU contamination is blowing around the entire planet. I have been Monitoring the "Background Radiation" Level (average level over time - counts per minute). It has about DOUBLED (here), in the last 4 weeks."

Cindy Sheehan Hospitalized in Crawford
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081206Z.shtml
Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has been taken to a hospital in Waco Texas. Sheehan who has been on a liquids-only fast for 37 days was suffering from dehydration and exhaustion. Sheehan is in Crawford, again pressuring George W. Bush to meet with her regarding the death of her son Casey Sheehan, a US soldier KIA in Iraq.

Fascists of All Varieties
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106Z.shtml
Marc Ash writes: "Since, Mr. Bush, you have chosen to put the issue of fascism before the public, it begs a broader dialog on fascism's role in our lives today. I accept the challenge to enter that dialog. Frankly Mr. Bush, many Americans refer to you as a fascist."

Israel Asks US to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106L.shtml
Israel has been using illegal cluster munitions in populated areas of Lebanon. Human Rights Watch researchers working on the ground confirmed that an attack with cluster weapons was carried out on the village of Blida on July 19, killing one and wounding at least 12 civilians, including seven children.

101 Uses of Chaos
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106M.shtml
Mark LeVine writes, "With George Bush still insisting on the need to fight 'Islamic fascism' to the bitter end, Labor Party Defense Minister Amir Peretz imploring Israeli soldiers to turn southern Lebanon 'to dust,' and Iran's Mahmud Ahmedinejad declaring the need to wipe Israel off the map, the hubris, arrogance, and utter disdain for human life that has brought the Middle East to its latest precipice continues to harden the hearts of leaders and peoples alike. And all will be the losers because of it."

Mercenary Jackpot
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106N.shtml
"While the Bush administration calls for the immediate disbanding of what it has labeled 'private' and 'illegal' militias in Lebanon and Iraq, it is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into its own global private mercenary army tasked with protecting US officials and institutions overseas. The secretive program, which spans at least twenty-seven countries, has been an incredible jackpot for one heavily Republican-connected firm in particular: Blackwater USA," writes Jeremy Scahill.

White House proposes retroactive war crimes protection (August 10, 2006) http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/08/10/white_house_proposes_retroactive_war_crimes_protection/
The Bush administration drafted amendments to the War Crimes Act that would retroactively protect policy makers from possible criminal charges for authorizing any humiliating and degrading treatment of detainees, according to lawyers who have seen the proposal. At issue are interrogations carried out by the CIA and the degree to which harsh tactics such as water-boarding were authorized by administration officials. When interrogators engage in waterboarding, prisoners are strapped to a plank and dunked in water until nearly drowning. One section of the draft would outlaw torture and inhuman or cruel treatment, but it does not contain prohibitions from Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions against "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment." Another section would apply the legislation retroactively. The initiative is "not just protection of political appointees, but also CIA personnel who led interrogations." Interrogation practices "follow from policies that were formed at the highest levels of the administration."

Ashcroft Profiting as National Security Lobbyist
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081206X.shtml
Former US attorney general John D. Ashcroft has emerged as the highest-ranking former Bush administration official to lobby for and invest in companies involved in homeland security. Privacy experts and civil libertarians warn that these types of businesses are fast becoming a de facto branch of the government, beyond traditional oversight.

Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities went far beyond My Lai (August 6, 2006, 2006) http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-vietnam6aug06,0,92368.story
Kill anything that moves. Moments later, the 19 villagers lay dead or dying. Back home in California, Henry published an account of the slaughter. Yet he and other Vietnam veterans who spoke out about war crimes were branded traitors and fabricators. No one was ever prosecuted. Now, nearly 40 years later, declassified Army files show that Henry was telling the truth. The files are part of a once-secret archive...that shows that confirmed atrocities by U.S. forces in Vietnam were more extensive than was previously known. The Times...obtained copies of about 3,000 pages -about a third of the total- before government officials removed them from the public shelves, saying they contained personal information that was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act. The documents detail 320 alleged incidents that were substantiated by Army investigators. Many war crimes did not make it into the archive. The archive...includes investigative files, sworn statements by witnesses and status reports for top military brass. The records describe recurrent attacks on ordinary Vietnamese. Hundreds of soldiers...described a violent minority who murdered, raped and tortured with impunity. Abuses...were uncovered in every Army division that operated in Vietnam. Ultimately, 57 [soldiers] were court-martialed and just...fourteen received prison sentences ranging from six months to 20 years, but most won significant reductions on appeal. The stiffest sentence went to a military intelligence interrogator. He served seven months of a 20-year term. Many substantiated cases were closed with a letter of reprimand, a fine or, in more than half the cases, no action at all.

FBI says, “No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11”
http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html
(...) On June 5, 2006, the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” (...) It shouldn’t take long before the full meaning of these FBI statements start to prick your brain and raise your blood pressure. If you think the way I think, in quick order you will be wrestling with a barrage of very powerful questions that must be answered. First and foremost, if the U.S. government does not have enough hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to “smoke him out of his cave?” The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” Bin Laden and the Taliban. Through the talking heads in the mainstream media, the Bush Administration told the American people that Usama Bin Laden was Public Enemy Number One and responsible for the deaths of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001. Yet nearly five years later, the FBI says that it has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11. CLIP

New Zogby Poll Reveals Critical Mass Call for Truth
http://www.ny911truth.org/
On May 22nd, a new Zogby Poll release shows that 42% of adults believe that the US government and its 9/11 Commission concealed or refused to investigate critical evidence that contradicts their official explanation of the September 11th attacks, saying there has been a cover-up. This amounts to 70 million people!Additionally, 45% believe Congress or an International Tribunal should re-investigate the attacks, including whether any US government officials consciously allowed or helped facilitate their success.

Was 9/11 an 'inside job'? (August 3, 2006) http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/279827_conspiracy02ww.html
More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll. Suspicions that the 9/11 attacks were "an inside job"...quickly have become nearly as popular as decades-old conspiracy theories that the federal government was responsible for President John F. Kennedy's assassination and that it has covered up proof of space aliens. Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks...or took no action to stop them. "One out of three sounds high, but that may very well be right," said Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman of...the 9/11 Commission. "A lot of people I've encountered believe the U.S. government was involved," Hamilton said. "Many say the government planned the whole thing," he said. The poll also found that 16 percent of Americans speculate that secretly planted explosives, not burning passenger jets, were the real reason the massive twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed. Twelve percent suspect the Pentagon was struck by a military cruise missile in 2001 rather than by an airliner captured by terrorists. "We know that there are a lot of people now asking questions," said Janice Matthews, executive director of 911Truth.org, one of the most sophisticated Internet sites raising doubts about official explanations of the attacks. "We didn't have the Internet after Pearl Harbor, the Gulf of Tonkin or the Kennedy assassination. But we live in different times now."

Albany Times Union -'Loose Change' showing set on 9/11 - 8/2/06
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=504807

Albany Times Union - Web movie takes flight - 8/6/06 (Loose Change showing packed with aisles overflowing)
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=506008

NPR - Sept. 11 Conspiracy Belief Draws Attention to Teacher - 8/2/08 (Audio)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5600145

To vote in recent 9/11 polls, click on the links: AOL News, CNN News

9/ 11 Conspiracy Theorists Thriving (August 6, 2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2279963
Kevin Barrett believes the U.S. government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners. These men aren't uneducated junk scientists: Barrett will teach a class on Islam at the University of Wisconsin this fall. Jones is a tenured physicist at Brigham Young University. The movement claims to be drawing fresh energy and credibility from a recently formed group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Publicity over Barrett's case has helped boost membership to about 75 academics. Some are well educated, with degrees from elite universities such as Princeton and Stanford and jobs at schools including Rice, Indiana and the University of Texas. Members of the group don't consider themselves extremists! . They simply believe the government's investigation was inadequate, and maintain that questioning widely held assumptions has been part of the job of scholars for centuries. Daniel Orr, a Princeton Ph.D. and widely published retired economics chair at the University of Illinois, said he knew instantly from watching the towers fall that they had been blown apart by explosives. David Gabbard, an East Carolina education professor, acknowledges this isn't his field, but says "I'm smart enough to know ... that fire from airplanes can't melt steel." Judy Wood, until recently an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Clemson University, has been cited by conspiracy theorists for her arguments the buildings could not have collapsed as quickly as they did unless explosives were used.

Note from Fred Burks fredburks@earthlink.net> (who networked several of the 9-11 related items above: This article was published on the website of more than 140 media outlets. People are waking up all over!

Make sure to review also what is at http://www.ny911truth.org/news.htm

Recap: The Modern History Of Staged Terror In The United Kingdom http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/110806stagedterror.htm
Excellent audio clip on the current air terror alerts in UK - Recommended by "Stephanie" stephaniejillrudd@btinternet.com>

Speakers at the 9/11 Citizens Court Dr. Brian O'Leary Author, Scientist, Former Astronaut, International Speaker to speak at the 9/11 Citizens Court http://www.911citizenscourt.com/ --- http://www.brianoleary.com
September 11, 2006 Washington DC Restore the Republic

How To Pre-empt a "November Surprise" (07.17.06)
http://tinyurl.com/znmzk
If the GOP should lose the House and/or the Senate on Election Day, they will pick out a handful of the "closest" races--as many as they need to hang on to majority control--and start to scream like hell about ELECTION FRAUD. That's right: the major perpetrators of such fraud will cast themselves as victims of the very crime that put them where they are, and charge the Democrats with having used the very tactics that the Bush Republicans have now perfected: legal/bureaucratic disenfranchisement, e-voting manipulation, hostile challenges to would-be voters, covert efforts at disinformation, countless ballots thrown away, and so on.This is what we'll hear non-stop from Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter; Hastert, Boehner, Sensenbrenner, Graham and Coburn; even Bush and Cheney and Karl Rove himself. This, of course, is how the Busheviks routinely operate; and yet I'm basing this prediction not just on their history as war-propagandists, but on the blunt admission of a certain high-placed GOP insider, who recently told Thom Hartmann that this is the party's plan, if they should lose control of either side of Congress. (...) In other words, the Bush Republicans will certainly succeed--unless the Democrats, and others to their left, start working to pre-empt that strategy right now. The only way to foil that plan is to define the conflict truthfully and clearly, and to begin to do it now. However low the Bush regime may sink in the opinion polls, the Democrats, and all the rest of us, are simply cooked, if they do not stand up like vertebrates, and speak as patriots, and tell the nation the unpleasant truth: that these Bush-Republicans are where they are today because they have committed vast election fraud, in 2000, and in 2002, and in 2004; and that they lately have committed it again in San Diego, and have more planned in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Pennsyvania, California and Virginia, and wherever else they have the system rigged, whether at the state or county level. In short, it's time to cut the crap, stop worrying about the epithet "sore losers" (the Republicans would never let that stop them), and trot out all the evidence that the Establishment has thus far largely waved away.

Spain warns of new jellyfish invasion (Aug 8)
http://tinyurl.com/gxdqc
MADRID, Spain - Spanish authorities Tuesday warned of a massive invasion of jellyfish along the country's eastern coast over the coming days and advised bathers on the best ways to treat stings.ADVERTISEMENTOver the past month, swarms of jellyfish have plagued many coastal areas stretching from the northeastern region of Catalonia and down to Murcia and Andalucia in the south, leading to temporary bans on bathing on many beaches. The latest alert, posted on the Interior Ministry's Web site, was issued after coastal guards said they spotted new banks of jelly fish several miles off different areas along the coast in recent days.Environment Minister Cristina Narbona said Tuesday the increase was due to rise in water temperatures and pollution of the sea. Ecologists blame the increase on a decline in natural predators such as tuna fish and turtles in the affected areas as well as an increase in plankton owing to the sweltering summer temperatures.The Spanish Red Cross has reported treating some 12,500 people for stings in Catalonia alone so far this summer. Along with the usual green, yellow and red flags advising on how safe it is to swim at beaches, Red Cross posts have also begun flying white flags with jellyfish drawings on them to warn bathers. The Civil Protection alert on Tuesday urged people to treat stings only with salty water and not to rub the affected area of the body so as to prevent a spreading of the poison.

Is the BP Prudhoe Bay Shutdown More Serious Than It Appears? http://cryptogon.com/2006_08_06_blogarchive.html#115500836133128568
(...) G sent in a short email telling me to start Googling Prudhoe Bay whistleblowers, and that BP is running the operation there into the ground (no pun intended!) because the fields are running dry. Why sink more money into a drying up hole? (...) Production at the 24-year-old Prudhoe -- North America's largest oil field -- peaked 13 years ago. (...) BP has approached the Japanese firm JFE Steel Corp. and other steel producers about buying 18-inch pipe to replace the corroded sections at Prudhoe Bay, said David Belvin, senior technology manager of sales and service at JFE's Houston office. The new pipeline diameter will be nearly half the size of the original. Previous analysis confirmed. CLIP

Documents Show BP Ignored Pipeline Woes for Years
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081106J.shtml
"Hundreds of pages of documents highlighting BP's nearly decade-long neglect of its Prudhoe Bay pipelines, its internal safety regulations, and the company's alleged cover-up of past oil spills that resulted from severely corroded pipelines are archived on a little known web site maintained by a former oil industry analyst who also acts as a spokesman for BP whistleblowers," writes Jason Leopold, "The documents showcase the genesis of a corporate scandal that parallels the financial machinations that brought down Enron Corp."

Pacific "Dead Zone" Worse Than Thought
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/081206C.shtml
The oxygen-starved "dead zone" along the Pacific Coast that is causing massive crab and fish die-offs is worse than initially thought. Weather, not pollution, appears to be the culprit, scientists said, and no relief is in sight. Strong upwelling winds have pushed a low-oxygen pool of deep water toward shore, suffocating marine life.

Greenland ice cap may be melting at triple speed (10 August 2006)
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9717-greenland-ice-cap-may-be-melting-at-triple-speed.html
The world's second largest ice cap may be melting three times faster than indicated by previous measurements, according to newly released gravity data collected by satellites.The Greenland Ice Sheet shrank at a rate of about 239 cubic kilometres per year from April 2002 to November 2005, a team from the University of Texas at Austin, US, found. In the last 18 months of the measurements, ice melting has appeared to accelerate, particularly in southeastern Greenland. "This is a good study which confirms that indeed the Greenland ice sheet is losing a large amount of mass and that the mass loss is increasing with time," says Eric Rignot, from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, US, who led a separate study that reached a similar conclusion earlier in 2006 (See Greenland's glaciers are speeding to the ocean). His team used satellites to measure the velocity of glacier movement and calculate net ice loss.Yet another technique, which uses a laser to measure the altitude of the surface, determined that the ice sheet was losing about 80 cubic kilometres of ice annually between 1997 and 2003. The newer measurements suggest the ice loss is three times that."Acceleration of ice mass loss over Greenland, if confirmed, would be consistent with proposed increased global warming in recent years, and would indicate additional polar ice sheet contributions to global sea level rise," write the University of Texas researchers in the journal Science. CLIP

Cities, States Act Alone to Thwart Global Warming
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/081106EA.shtml
With Washington lawmakers deadlocked on how best to curb global warming, state and local officials across the country are adopting ambitious policies and forming international alliances aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. The initiatives, which include demands that utilities generate some of their energy using renewable sources and mandates for a reduction in emissions from motor vehicles, have emboldened clean-air advocates who hope they will form the basis for broader national action.

America's Drought Predicament
http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty177.htm
More than 60 percent of the United States suffers abnormally dry or drought conditions this summer. I’ve traveled through 35 states thus far this summer. I’ve seen burned up corn and pigmy crops from the lack of water. This drought stretches from Georgia to Arizona and from Montana to Wisconsin.....

Super Computer Predicts Rising Temperatures as Escaping Gas Bubbles Up Through the Sea (August 4, 2006)
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2491795/
(...) The leading climate scientists now generally agree that earth in the coming decades will warm another 2 degrees Fahrenheit no matter what we do -- partly because carbon dioxide, the major manmade greenhouse gas, stays in the atmosphere about a hundred years. That's in addition to the average of 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit the Earth has already warmed from manmade causes -- which though it doesn't sound like much (remember, it's a single-number average for the entire planet) has already, say most scientists, given us disappearing glaciers worldwide, drought and famine, increasingly frequent and more intense heat waves and millions of species in ecosystems everywhere scrambling for cooler ground but often running into uncrossable highways and ever-expanding human development. Even scarier is the other sight, about 20 meters down off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif.: bubbles, millions of bubbles of methane -- 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. The methane is bubbling up naturally from some of the enormous natural undersea reservoirs of the gas mostly locked into the frozen mud under the sea floor. Scientists have just released video showing how, for the first time, they have been able to measure these natural up-wellings to tell whether, if large amounts of this methane ever thawed out from its deep sea beds, it would reach the atmosphere, rather than being absorbed in the water, and thus make the earth even hotter. The findings of oceanographer Ira Leifer et al, published in a strictly peer-reviewed scientific journal, are that it would do just that. In other words, all that undersea methane is a potential "positive feedback" of catastrophic proportions. If warming currents, such as those already detected by scientists at depth, begin to thaw these methane beds, it will make the atmosphere, and consequently the sea currents, even warmer, and melt out more methane. A number of scientists tell me that would take the Earth up into temperatures humankind has never experienced -- and probably could not survive. They believe it's happened for natural reasons before -- before, for example, the Jurassic age, when dinosaurs, but no humans, roamed the earth. That's why they insist we must stop the unnatural burning of fossil fuels -- oil, coal and gas -- which risks giving such a methane mega-burp an artificial kick that could -- hard as this is to take in -- end civilization. CLIP

Aspartame - The World’s Best Ant Poison
http://www.proliberty.com/observer/20060612.htm
We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep them under control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewhere that aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison and only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant poison, I decided to give it a try. I opened two packets of aspartame sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. That was about 2 years ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 to 12 months. It works better than the most deadly poisons I have tried. Any time they show up again, I simply dump another package of Nutrasweet in a corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again. Since posting this information I have had many people tell me of their success solving ant problems with this substance, when nothing else worked. (...) As with any poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas that come in contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, despite anything the labeling may indicate. CLIP

Omega-News Collection 12. August 2006
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2517953/

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