MAY LIGHT AND LOVE PREVAIL ON EARTH
June 30, 2008
The Writing on the Wall Series #58: Doom and Gloom Aplenty!
Hello everysoul!
Among the numerous news articles and other info in this compilation there is one that stands out quite freakishly - if we are to believe its source. It appears that on June 20, we had a very close thermonuclear call as you'll see in At the Brink of Nuclear War-U.S. vs. Russia below...
As usual - sadly - there is much disturbing information and - thank God! - some bright shining glimmers of hope in this compilation.
What matters in the end though is to remember that it is all maya - an illusion! - and that the only reality which will endure and thrive, no matter what happens on this plane of existence, is the spiritual bedrock of our soul connection with All That Is. If you are more attracted to this line of thinking/feeling about your Self, then I recommend you read first Rise Up Powerful Human, Rise Up! at the very end of this compilation.
Rise and shine! A new era is coming... soon!
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com
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THE QUOTES
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix
"The possibility of a planetary-wide ascension, the dramatic evolution of the human species into higher dimensional beings, has long been a dream of true Creation. Until recently, this possibility was rapidly waning. There is now an energetic up-shift occurring, simply represented by the simple expression, “raising all boats”. This is occurring in the upper realms as well as in earth 3-d density and human physicality. As the entirety of the earth-human reality system is up-shifted, more people are afforded access to higher-self free-will choices, where before there was only a distorted and twisted parody of it at the personality level. A new wave of transformational energies is now incoming and further changes are anticipated for July this year. This is expected to have corresponding physical changes in terms of planetary and human changes – and non physical in terms of energy shifts and corresponding new awareness."
- Alex Kochkin and John Crawford -- Taken from Transformation and Ascension: As Above – As Below
"Life expectancy in Zimbabwe has gone from 64 to 27. We should care, we should not support or aid Mugabe. But what we can really do something about is the malignancy right here in the USA! The Constitution is in shreds with the collusion of both Dems and GOP. Citizen apathy is allowing our country to be plundered and our freedoms to be abandoned. We are well on our way to being voluntary peons, enslaved by a Corporate State."
- Claudia - One of the 20 comments posted in reaction to A Totally Lawless Regime included below
"To the United Nations Security Council and the Southern African Development Community:We cannot remain silent while the political violence gripping Zimbabwe continues to claim thousands of innocent victims. We urge you to do everything in your power to help put an end to the horrific bloodshed and to restore peace and the rule of law.The wave of political violence has taken a high human toll with over 200,000 people internally displaced, over 86 opposition supporters killed, 10,000 people injured and maimed, and about 500 women and girls sexually abused an raped. Zimbabwe's recent ban on international aid groups and NGOS in the country has left up to half a million Zimbabwean children without health care and food. The Mugabe regime is distributing food mostly to its supporters and if the situation continues, it could lead to massive starvation. We urge you to keep the pressure on the Zimbabwean government to hold free and fair elections and to immediately open the doors for international groups and non-profits providing aid.This man-made disaster will not stop unless the international community gets involved. The people of Zimbabwe need your help right now. Please do not wait any longer to help put an end to Mugabe's violent crackdown."
- Please go HERE sign this petition - More on this crisis through Full Coverage: Zimbabwe and in Save Zimbabwe from Mugabe
"The price for willful ignorance and "BS" (Belief Systems that deny Love) is death of conscience. Only the power of conscience will free us."
- Christopher Rudy (geonotes@mcn.net) -- Taken from Enlightened Choice and the Parable "Catching Wild Pigs
"While many eyes are focusing on the housing meltdown and its hugely negative effect on an economy clearly moving into recession, few are paying attention to the next bubble expected to burst: credit cards. Combined with the subprime losses, such a credit card nightmare has the potential, experts say, of bringing down the entire financial system and global economy. You and your credit card have become key players in the highly unstable financial crunch. (...) Financial analysts say that in the U.S. alone more than $850 billion in unpaid credit card balances is at stake and fast approaching $1 trillion, roughly the same amount as in the subprime market. (...) “Charging it” on yet another new credit card is for many the only option to meet their budgets or maintain their lifestyles, especially as gas prices rise. It’s become habit for many to spend more than they have. As a result, overall U.S. credit card debt grew by 435% from 2002 to year-end 2007, from $211 billion to approximately $915 billion."
- Danny Schechter -- Taken from House of Cards: You thought the housing crisis was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet below
CONTENTS
1. A New Way to Approach an Old Problem
2. Feedback on the use of the word "arsenal"
3. Comment on China
4. How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war
5. A Totally Lawless Regime
6. Emergency Official Witnessed Dead Bodies In WTC 7
7. These Wars Are About Oil, Not Democracy
8. We are doomed! Sort of!
9. Smart Security and the End of War
10. House of Cards: You thought the housing crisis was bad? You ain’t seen nothing yet.
11. Nuclear Explosion Occurred Near Epicenter of the Sichuan Earthquake, Expert Says
12. Suicides Linked to Phone Masts
13. Cities of joy
14. Rise Up Powerful Human, Rise Up!
WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
The Real Doomsday: December 21, 2012 by Dan Eden
http://www.viewzone.com/endtime.html
ViewZone asked me to write a story about the Mayan Calendar. There is a common belief that the calendar holds a prophecy that the world will end in 2012. I knew very little about the whole topic when I began doing the research. I like to think I had an open mind. My investigation began with mainstream archaeology and expert interpretations of the calendar. But it soon took a turn that made my hair literally stand on end. I am now convinced that these prophecies are true.To understand what is likely to happen to Earth and its people, you will need to remain calm and try to follow the facts. It's not as simple as some people describe. It requires an understanding of some fairly complicated science, but I think I can explain this in a way that you will easily understand. (...) December 21, 2012, is a special day. It represents the maximum possible influences for solar flares that the universe can provide. Undoubtedly the Mayans, or the civilization that influenced them, somehow knew about these things.Over the last decade, I have written a variety of stories about such things as underground cities and government actions that could only make sense if there were no future. I cannot help but think that maybe they, like the Mayans, know about these things. I'd specifically like to suggest that readers take another look at the underground complex at Yamantau that the Russians are building. Could this be a haven for surviving a solar blast? And the "doomsday seed bank" that's being filled deep inside an Arctic island. And what about past events? Did the Hopi go underground to survive a similar event thousands of years earlier? Should we be going underground also?It's also important to stress that December 21, 2012 is only the "solar maximum" but that the gravitational effects of the Galaxy have already started to assert their influence on the Sun. The drift towards alignment with the galactic equator is relatively slow and, in truth, has already started. But the precise culmination of this, plus the alignment of Jupiter and Saturn all make 12/21/12 an ominous date. CLIP Note: Since this article was first published, viewzone has received more information on "doomsday," including visual and scientific evidence that a solar "extinction event" happened in the past. See PART 2 below for details.
Part 2 - The Previous Doomsday of 12,950 BC: what was it like?
http://www.viewzone.com/endtime2x.html
(...) The recent data shows that dramatic and potentially deadly effects can result from solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Substantial data suggests that an event, similar to the one anticipated in the 2012 "doomsday" scenario, occurred about 14,950 years ago and was recorded by ancient humans. This event appears to have lasted for several years in duration and was responsible for the abrupt end of the last ice age as well as a substantial culling of the human population. The surprising findings of LaViolette, supported by other research, suggests that the extreme solar event corresponded to powerful radiation coming from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and was associated with gamma rays and cosmic dust. Recent observations have shown a dramatic increase in gamma ray energy in the Galaxy's equator which will be in maximum alignment with our solar system on December 12, 2012. The past records in ice cores (strata from 13,880 to 13,785 BCE) suggest that intense radiation from this last event could have lasted many years. It seems highly likely that this alignment will cause another extreme solar event since other factors precipitating a "solar maximum" (i.e. the opposition of major planetary barycenters) also converge on this exact date. CLIP
Run Your Car On Water Today: STAN MEYER KILLED Pt 1 and 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8stApCmxYEM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h75_TGiwg78
Stan Meyer invented a hydrogen fuel cell that converts any automobile to run on tap water. This conversion kit now made by HydroStar sells for $1500. Stan Meyer never saw his invention reach fruition as he was killed shortly after this documentary was made. DEMAND THIS TECHNOLOGY AND OTHERS LIKE IT FROM YOUR LOCAL POLITICIANS. THIS IS REAL. OBTAINABLE, and CHEAP OIL ALTERNATIVES. DEMAND ANSWERS, QUESTION. QUESTION, QUESTION.
Water powered car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ3juM6vHwg
In 1996, Stan Meyer gave oral testimony before the court demonstrating the WFC Fuel Cell "Mode of Operability" by using the Voltage Intensifier Circuit (VIC) to produce voltage of opposite polarity to separate and disassociate the water molecule into its component gases, hydrogen & oxygen. MUCH more on this in "A New Way to Approach an Old Problem" below.
Man invents car that runs on water
http://www.fastcar.co.uk/04570735436164115979/man-invents-car-that-runs-on-water.html
An inventor in Florida, USA has invented a car that runs on water, yes seriously!
Solar powered electric car (14 min 10 sec video)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/348.html
Not a dream, it works.
Solar-Powered 1975 VW (1 min 34 sec)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_lSxhTatUU
Hold on tight! The world's first unicycle MOTORBIKE (29 avril 2008)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-562726/Hold-tight-The-worlds-unicycle-MOTORBIKE.html
Algae fuel (Very interesting)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ToojK_MJd0
BlackLight's Hydrino Going Commercial
http://pesn.com/2008/05/29/9500481_Blacklight_commercially_ready/
Cranbury, NJ, USA The BlackLight Process is said to generate enormous amounts of cheap, non-polluting heat that will replace the thermal power in coal, oil, gas and nuclear power plants that is then converted to electricity.-- BlackLight Power Inc. announced Wednesday the successful testing of a new energy source. The company has successfully developed a prototype power system generating 50,000 watts of thermal power on demand. This 50 kW unit is ready for commercial production. The company is presently in discussion with various engineering and manufacturing firms to take this product commercial. CLIP
Lots of "hard news" headlines!
http://www.uaff.us/uaff_june_news_and_updates.htm
ACTION PLAN FOR SHIFTING PARADIGM and Saving Humanity from Extinction
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Archives2008/JerndalPlan.htm
Submitted by Jens Jerndal (jerndal@iplanmail.com.ar) who wrote: "I have given a lot of thought to figuring out the root cause of the problems the world is now facing, and what we ordinary people can do to address it. As a result I have come up with the attached Action Plan, which I hope you will include in your next compilation. We need to reach a critical mass that pulls the rug from under the feet of the military-industrial complex. People Power. For that we need to be as many as possible pulling in the same direction."
Dust Band Around the Nucleus of "Black Eye Galaxy" M64
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/04/image/a/
2008 Hampton Beach Sand Sculpting Competition (30 pictures!)
http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/summer/gallery/hamptoncompetition/
Stride Gum -- Dancing Matt 2008
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jWUrj22pRD0
More on Mat through http://www.stridegum.com/#/mattsplace/
Guitar - Views: 45,222,065!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8
Check also Vivaldi - the four season 'summer' : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxplDa3M5Io
Jean-Luc Bozzoli . Paintings
http://www.jeanlucbozzoli.com/Prints3.html
More through http://www.jeanlucbozzoli.com And watch http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/germany/Reinsdorf/Reinsdorf2008a.html
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/germany/Gifkendorf/Gifkendorf2008a.html
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/germany/Secklendorf/Secklendorf2008a.html
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/germany/Edendorf/Edendorf2008a.html
and near Avebury, UK
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/ridgeway/ridgeway2008a.html
See all June 2008 England formations at the following link:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2008/june2008.html
International crop formations
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/inter2008/inter2008.html
Part 1: Corrupt Federal Reserve - Robbing Americans Since 1913
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPU8w7Bxc0A
Part 2: CFR - The Secret Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZ56hkKOlk
Part 3: CFR Propaganda - The Media's Main Stranglehold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrGNNZnz8EI
Lou Dobbs exposes the truth about the NAFTA Super Highway (8 June 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etbGNLS8Yg0
While most other major national newscasters have blindly accepted the government’s line that the “NAFTA Superhighway” is a “myth,” Lou Dobbs has refused to be fooled. In search of the truth, Mr. Dobbs sent investigative reporter Bill Tucker to Texas to see for himself. The evidence Mr. Tucker uncovered was powerful, compelling, and shocking. It confirms everything we here at the NAU War Room have been saying about the government’s hidden drive to absorb America into a “North American Union” (NAU) with Canada and Mexico, anchored by a massive “NAFTA Superhighway” designed to speed cheap Red Chinese and foreign goods from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada. View the Lou Dobbs report today to see and hear this evidence for yourself. Once you do, you will see once and for all just how real the “NAFTA Superhighway” is. Much more through http://www.nauwaroom.org and many more revealing reports from Lou Dobbs through the Related videos column on the right at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etbGNLS8Yg0
Barack Obama CFR info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qy97pFDLig
Reasons to vote or not to Vote for Barack Obama. Your Choice! Watch the whole video before leaving comments. Very Important information. This May change your mind about Obama. Or maybe it won't.
Barack Obama: Panderer-In-Chief
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20129.htm
Ralph Nader: "It is Quite Clear He is a Corporate Candidate from A to Z" By Democracy Now! - Audio and Transcript -- Who do you think would be more likely to bomb Iran, to attack Iran, or have a surrogate do it: John McCain or Barack Obama? (...) RALPH NADER: Well, I think Barack Obama is in training to become panderer-in-chief. That was really a disgraceful speech. It didn’t further the peace process, the two-state solution favored by a majority of Jewish Americans, Arab Americans, a majority of Israeli and Palestinian people. He basically sided with the militaristic approach to occupying, repressing, colonizing, destroying the Palestinian people in the West Bank and Gaza. He hasn’t even spoken out against the international crime of the blockade of Gaza, one-and-a-half million people, from medicine or drinking water, fuel, electricity, food—lots of silent fatalities in Gaza because of that.
History Channel Admits Rockefeller's population control efforts http://www.truveo.com/History-Channel-Admits-Rockefeller-Population/id/2248239616
Sovereignty and globalisation
http://www.cfr.org/publication/9903/sovereignty_and_globalisation.html
Behind The Big News: Propaganda and the CFR
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=6632255652046262625
Help bring down the illegal Federal Reserve:
http://www.petitiononline.com/fedres/petition.html
Continuing The Revolution: Peacefully Restoring Constitutional Order http://www.givemeliberty.org/revolution/
The Government refuses to provide Redress to the People's First Amendment Petitions for violations of the Constitution. We've got a Plan to fight back. Recommended by David Harris (essencelovedavid@yahoo.com)
The Image mill - I saw this unique show in Quebec City a few days ago. Really beautiful!
http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/other_projects/
The Image Mill is a sort of animated mosaic that, moving from engravings to paintings and from photos to videos, creates an impressionistic portrait of the city over time.
Restoring Our Earth to Vibrant Health
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/restoringearth.html
You may have already consciously embraced your part in healing and restoring the Earth to a much higher state of health and vibrance but, if not, please consider this your invitation! This has been my main focus for 30 years while replenishing soils, planting gardens and orchards and teaching about the health of the Biosphere. While many socio-ecological problems have worsened over these 30 years, it appears that an ever higher percentage of our 6.6 billion population is waking up to the need to transform our ways of living, to truly go “green,” to make peace with the Earth and ourselves, to end the “war on Terra.” This Terra, the beautiful living Earth of which we are an essential part, needs each of us to become conscious contributors to personal/planetary healing. You are needed and invited and welcomed! Here are some views from my perspective as a health-oriented ecologist and organic grower. CLIP - Highly recommended by Pierre Cloutier (ameast@total.net)
Maya...Children of the Sun (6 min, 50 sec) VERY inspiring!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a2ua5DdMXY
Narration interwoven with music and singing on the legacy of time left to us by the ancient Maya. As ancient sky watchers and time keepers of the Earth, many believe the Maya reminded us of our Divine connection to the Universe and the importance of re-aligning with the natural cycles of the Earth, the Moon, the Sun and the Stars... so we can remember again that we are and always have been autonomous sovereign beings co-evolving with the Earth.
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4th Amendment: Rest in Peace By Cindy Sheehan (22/06/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20145.htm
The 4th Amendment to the US constitution is just one more thing that has been murdered since bloody Emperor George took office in 2001: Over 4000 US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan; over one million Iraqis and Afghanis and many of our brothers and sisters in this country who have been either killed or devastated by catastrophic climate change and other violence that has become rampant. Among the things that have been murdered in George's quest to be the emperor of a vast US corporate-military empire are many aspects of our constitution.The First Amendment has been obliterated with "free speech" zones; the arrests of thousands of activists trying to express their freedom of speech; the destruction of the "freedom of the press" clause began during the Reagan years and it's untimely demise was hastened during the Clinton regime; the US technically has no state religion, but Christianity has been informally shoved down our throats with the Emperor getting revelations from his demented God that tells him to go on crusades against Muslim countries. "Torture memos" written by law professors; torture camps; and extreme rendition slaughtered the 8th Amendment that prohibits "cruel and unusual" punishment. The Military Commission and Patriot Acts dealt the deathblows to the 8th Amendment.When Congress gave Emperor George the power to invade sovereign countries without a declaration of war from Congress---the Emperor's loyal and obedient servants destroyed two clauses of the Constitution: the Supremacy Clause (Art. VI, Clause 2) which states the treaties are the "Supreme" law of the land and the enumerated power of Congress to "declare war" (Art. I, Section 8). Art. II, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to remove a criminal administration, but the Queen of the Imperial rubber stamp arm of the empire, Nancy Pelosi, took that clause "Off the table." When I hear that phrase, I envision a long table with lords and ladies pigging out on a banquet while the peasants starve because justice is not on that table and economic equality is out of the question.Now, with the new law granting immunity to telecom companies and granting the federal government wide discretionary powers in spying on our communications (which has become far simpler in this electronic day and age), the Imperial rubber stamp arm of the federal government has brutally murdered another of our precious rights: the 4th Amendment which states: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." The centuries old right of habeas corpus which protected us from arbitrary state action through unlawful detention was also destroyed, so the US has returned to pre-Magna Carta "jurisprudence" and not one of us is safe from the arbitrary crimes of the police-empire that has replaced our representative republic. Even thought the 4th Amendment was 217 years old, it died a violent and untimely death. CLIP
Thousands of Californians Sign Petition to Rename Sewage Plant After George W. Bush (June 26, 2008)
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/89617/
The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is engaged in an effort to rename the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the "George W. Bush Sewage Plant." The group has been gathering signatures at local festivals, events and city parks and has already collected 8,500 signatures, about 1,300 more than is needed to put the question on the city's ballot in November. If the measure passes, the new name will become effective starting next January, when the new president is sworn in. Supporters plan to engage in a "synchronized flush" during the inauguration as a way to send a "gift" to the newly-renamed plant, saying they believe this will be a "fitting monument to this president's work." CLIP
Vidal: Bush ended US as a republic (June 28, 2008 )
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=61760§ionid=3510203
Gore Vidal, US novelist, historian and social critic says the Bush regime has killed all of the constitutional links that made the US a republic.On early Friday morning Iran time, in an exclusive interview with Press TV, Vidal said that President Bush has rid the country of the Bill of Rights, habeas corpus and the entire legacy of the Magna Carta in the name of war on terror. He also criticized the House of Representatives for not impeaching President Bush, over a wide array of subjects such as disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame's covert status. Vidal did however single out Rep. Dennis Kuchinich for drawing up articles of impeachment against the president.Vidal, long strongly critical of the Bush administration, said the administration has both an an explicit and covert expansionist agenda. CLIP
Democrats Legalize Bush's Crimes (June 20, 2008)
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/062008.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that a key positive feature of the new wiretap “compromise” is that the bill reaffirms that the President must follow the law, even though the same bill virtually assures that no one will be held accountable for George W. Bush's violation of the earlier spying law. In other words, in the guise of rejecting Bush’s theories of an all-powerful presidency that is above the law, the Democratic leadership cleared the way for the President and his collaborators to evade punishment for defying the law.So, why should anyone assume that the new legislative edict demanding that the President obey the law will get any more respect than the old one, which established the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 as the “exclusive” means for authorizing electronic spying?It wasn’t that Bush and his team didn’t understand the old law’s language; they simply believed they could violate the law without consequence, under the radical theory that at a time of war – even one as vaguely defined as the “war on terror” – the President’s powers trump all laws as well as the constitutional rights of citizens. Essentially, Bush was betting that even if his warrantless wiretap program was disclosed – as it was in December 2005 – that he could trust his Republican congressional allies to protect him and could count on most Democrats not to have the guts to challenge him.His bet proved to be a smart one. CLIP
Bush Behind Bars? Review of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi (June 23, 2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9435
In his new book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder (Vanguard Press, 2008), Vincent Bugliosi, the man who successfully prosecuted Charles Manson for murder, argues convincingly that President George W. Bush's conduct in taking the U.S. military to war against Iraq under false pretenses in March of 2003 qualifies him to be prosecuted for murder in any state in the nation. The victims in the case would be all the soldiers from that state that were killed in the war against Iraq. He lays out his case in a devastatingly logical and methodical manner, weaving together all the relevant facts to paint the definitive portrait of just how reckless and criminal was the behavior of President Bush in his push for war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Famous for his true crime books, such as the book about Charles Manson that launched his literary career, Helter Skelter, Bugliosi shows us that he is still in fine form. CLIP
Transcript of an interview with Vincent Bugliosi - about trying GWB for Murder
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/13/citing_iraq_war_renowned_attorney_vincent
Supreme Court condemns Guantanamo
http://tinyurl.com/6ok37o
Ruling deals a severe blow to Bush administration
General Who Probed Abu Ghraib: Bush Officials Committed 'War Crimes' (June 18, 2008)
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41514.html
The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account. The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices."After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account." CLIP
General Taguba Knew Torture Scandal Went to the Top
http://www.truthout.org/article/general-taguba-knew-torture-scandal-went-top
(...) He knew it reached to the office of then Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and likely beyond to the lawyers who served President George W. Bush and perhaps even to the president himself. CLIP
U.S. Holds 27,000 ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Around Globe (June 22, 2008)
http://dprogram.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/us-holds-27000-‘ghost-prisoners’-around-globe/
An estimated 27,000 “ghost prisoners” are currently being held in secret prisons around the world, including ships that have been re-fitted as prison hulks, according to recent reports. “When you look at Guantanamo Bay, 270 [prisoners], roughly . . . [are] in Guantanamo, but according to the most recent official figures, the United States is currently holding 27,000 secret prisoners around the world,” Clive Stafford Smith said to DemocracyNow! in a May 19 interview. “99 percent of these folk are not in Guantanamo Bay.” Smith is a lawyer for 30 of the Guantanamo prisoners, and author of Eight O’clock Ferry to the Windward Side: Seeking Justice in Guantanamo Bay. He spoke before Congress on May 20 regarding the prisoners, and works for the UK charity known as Reprieve. Several known prisons exist in Morocco, Afghanistan, Djibouti, and Iraq. Popular thought was that the prisons in Iraq were for Iraqi war prisoners, but Smith asserted that prisoners are being brought in from other nations so that “annoying people like you—I mean the media—and also annoying people like me—lawyers— away from the prisoners so they can’t get any sort of legal rights,” Smith said. The Bush administration said they have not tortured suspected terrorists, but rather used “alternative” interrogation methods that are “tough but legal,” a 2006 CNN report said. Smith described one such alternative method: “All they have on him is evidence that they extracted from him after taking him to Morocco and torture[ing] him with a razor blade to his genitals.”Smith said that his organization identified 32 prison ships, though the U.S. and Britain deny that ships converted into prisons are used in the Indian Ocean to hold people. “We’ve got pictures of them in Lisbon Harbor,” Smith said, “And this is a huge concern, because the world focus is on Guantanamo Bay, which actually is a diversionary tactic in the whole war on terror or whatever you would like to call it.” Bagram prison in Afghanistan, a prison that made the news in 2002 when two detainees were killed from wounds inflicted during torture, holds an estimated 680 prisoners. On May 17 the U.S. announced plans to build a 40-acre prison extension to the Bagram facility that will hold up to 1,100 prisoners. The bill for the new prison is estimated at $60 million.
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq (June 25, 2008) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9447
Shining Light on the "Black World"In January of 2002, the Washington Post ran a story detailing a CIA plan put forward to President Bush shortly after 9/11 by CIA Director George Tenet titled, "Worldwide Attack Matrix," which was "outlining a clandestine anti-terror campaign in 80 countries around the world. What he was ready to propose represented a striking and risky departure for U.S. policy and would give the CIA the broadest and most lethal authority in its history." The plan entailed CIA and Special Forces "covert operations across the globe," and at "the heart of the proposal was a recommendation that the president give the CIA what Tenet labeled "exceptional authorities" to attack and destroy al Qaeda in Afghanistan and the rest of the world." Tenet cited the need for such authority "to allow the agency to operate without restraint -- and he wanted encouragement from the president to take risks." Among the many authorities recommended was the use of "deadly force."Further, "Another proposal was that the CIA increase liaison work with key foreign intelligence services," as "Using such intelligence services as surrogates could triple or quadruple the CIA's effectiveness." The Worldwide Attack Matrix "described covert operations in 80 countries that were either underway or that he was now recommending. The actions ranged from routine propaganda to lethal covert action in preparation for military attacks," as well as "In some countries, CIA teams would break into facilities to obtain information."[1] P2OG: "Commit terror, to incite terror… in order to react to terror" (...) In September of 2003, months after the initial invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Iraq’s most sacred Shiite mosque was blown up, killing between 80 and 120 people, including a popular Shiite cleric, and the event was blamed by Iraqis on the American forces.[14]On April 20, 2004, American journalist in Iraq, Dahr Jamail, reported in the New Standard that, "The word on the street in Baghdad is that the cessation of suicide car bombings is proof that the CIA was behind them." Jamail interviewed a doctor who stated that, "The U.S. induces aggression. If you don't attack me, I will never attack you. The U.S. is stimulating the aggression of the Iraqi people!" This description goes very much in line with the aims outlined in the Pentagon’s P2OG document about "inciting terror," or "preempting terror attacks."[15]Weeks after the initial incident involving the British SAS soldiers in Basra, in October of 2005, it was reported that Americans were "captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad," as, "A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday. CLIP
Ron Paul: Osama bin Laden loves what we have done (June 18, 2008) RON PAUL AT HIS BEST!
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1308
MSNBC Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist talked with Ron Paul about how the United States is conducting the war on terror.
As America Collapses US Government Secret Plans Revealed (May 21, 2008)
http://dprogram.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/as-america-collapses-us-government-secret-plans-revealed/
On March 13th 2008 there was a secret closed door meeting of The United States House Of Representatives in Washington. In the history of The United States this is only the fourth time a secret meeting was held by the house. Even though Representatives are sworn to secrecy by House Rules XVII, some of the members were so shocked, horrified, furious, and concerned about the future of America by what was revealed to them inside the secret meeting, that they have started to leak this secret information to independent news agencies around the world. The mass media said almost nothing about the secret meeting of the House, mentioning only one of the items being discussed. (The new surveillance techniques that are going to be used by the U.S. Government to watch all American citizens). The story was first released in a newspaper out of Brisbane, Australia revealing the contents of the secret U.S. Government meeting and plans for America including all of it’s citizens. Shortly there after, David J. Meyer from Last Trumpet Ministries found it and made it more available for the world to see.Here is what was revealed: - The imminent collapse of the U.S. Economy to occur sometime in late 2008 - The imminent collapse of the U.S. Government finances sometime in mid 2009 - The possibility of Civil War inside the United States as a result of the collapse - The advance round-ups of “insurgent U.S. Citizens” likely to move against the government - The detention of those rounded up at The REX 84 Camps constructed throughout the United States - The possibility of public retaliation against members of Congress for the collapses - The location of safe facilities for members of Congress and their families to reside during massive civil unrest - The necessary and unavoidable merger of The U.S. with Canada and Mexico establishing The North American Union - The issuance of a new currency called the AMERO for all three nations as an economic solution. CLIP WARNING! The rest of this article is not for the faint of heart...
Techno-Fascism: Every Move You Make (19/06/08)
http://www.counterpunch.com/glendenning06192008.html
Surveillance of private calls and emails. Cameras documenting every move. No habeas corpus. Unimpeded entry into personal financial records. Voting machines changing election outcomes with the flick of a switch. Protest defined as terrorism. Many people hope that the loss of civil rights Americans have endured since the onslaughts mounted by Bush Administration II is a political reality that can be reversed through electoral will. (...) What are its mechanisms of control?The use of telecommunications technologies for surveillance is obvious. So are willful alteration of computer data for public reportage, manipulation of television news for opinion-shaping, and use of microwave-emitting weapons for crowd control.Less obvious are what could be called “inverted mechanization” whereby citizens blindly accept the march of technological development as an expression of a very inexact, some would say erroneous, concept of “progress.” One mechanism propagating such blindness is the U.S. government’s invisible role as regulatory handmaiden to industry, offering little-to-no means for citizen determination of what technologies are disseminated; instead we get whatever GMOs and nuclear plants corporations dish out. A glaring example is the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that, seeking to not repeat the “errors” of the nuclear industry, offers zero public input as to health or environmental impacts of its antennae, towers, and satellites – the result being that the public has not a clue about the very real biological effects of electromagnetic radiation. CLIP
US Border Agents Copying Contents of Travelers' Laptops
http://www.truthout.org/article/us-border-agents-copying-contents-travelers-laptops
Federica Narancio, of McClatchy Newspapers: "US border agents are copying and seizing the contents of laptops, cell phones and digital cameras from US and foreign travelers entering the United States, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee Wednesday. The extent of this practice is unknown despite requests to the Department of Homeland Security from the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution and several nonprofit agencies."
Don't Give Your Consent to Slavery – Fight Fascism! (27/06/08)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20184.htm
Normal folks do not want to believe that the human race is dominated by dark forces. But, there is a small group of people who know that it is true, the human race is considered to be livestock, cattle for the real owners of this world, the elite. CLIP A dispiriting rant with lots of related comments.
The Last Roundup (May 22, 2008)
http://dprogram.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/the-last-roundup/
Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
US Marine BOASTS of MARTIAL LAW TAKEOVER In USA by MARINES (May 24, 2008) http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php/montana-us-marine-boasts-martial-493187.html
(...) We discussed the BOXCARS AND SHACKLES and MILITARY DETENTION CAMPS under MARTIAL LAW issue. A knowing smile broke out on his face as I described to him my research on future MARTIAL LAW and the role of PRISONER BOXCARS WITH SHACKLES. CLIP NOTE: Is this a "nice piece of creative writing" as someone wrote, or is this for real? You decide... One thing sure it went widely around the web in May and had elicited lots of comments (like those at http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?p=778463)
Alex Jones - Prison Camps (7 min 37 sec) In which he describes lots of stuff related to the other post above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d_DpCsvw3o
Check also the related videos once there. If you want to dig this disturbing topic check also the 2 following items...
PREPARATIONS FOR MARTIAL LAW AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER
http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/new_world_order/news.php?q=1214372390
(...) Finally, so angry at how they were being deceived and brainwashed, he told me, "I will never go along with this NWO agenda! I am A Christian!I will contact my men in my platoon (64) and those I can trust who are Christians, I will tell them the Truth. I was supposed to go to Fort Hood for more Special Ops training next week, and then return to train my men in how to operate these guillotines! There is a special underground training center where the guillotines are. We are not allowed to bring in any cameras, cell phones, etc, because of high security and silence regarding these guillotines. They are six and a half feet high, with hand restraints and a place for a person's head as they stand. We were going to use dummies for practice, but now I am refusing this assignment and I will contact the men under me who I can trust...who will not go along with this NWO agenda and will come out instead with humvees, weapons and everything we can get our hands on to fight this NWO agenda!" We parted him the next day. He told me he talked to his sister and family and they were shocked. They were all military. They told him, "How did you know about this NWO Martial Law agenda? It is all highly classified!" CLIP
The COMING TIMES OF CRISIS to AMERICA
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-uGywZm4haKVqIRflSizLKbdh
OOPS! DID VERICHIP HAVE A "SENIOR MOMENT?" (February 12, 2007)
http://www.spychips.com/press-releases/verichip-ipo-omits-risks.html
Human Chipping Company Omits Salient Risks from IPO DisclosureVeriChip Corporation, the much-hated purveyor of the VeriChip human ID implant, is airing its dirty laundry this week. This is not by choice, mind you, but because the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) required the company to disclose its "risk factors" prior to launching its initial public offering of stock (IPO) Friday.The company lays out nearly 20 pages of risk factors in its Form S-1 Registration Statement, a required document for the IPO. But what the company failed to reveal in its filing may be even more eye-opening, say CASPIAN privacy advocates Dr. Katherine Albrecht and Liz McIntyre. The pair, authors of the "Spychips" series of books, have been vocal critics of VeriChip, dogging the company in recent years and facing down its senior executives on radio and national television."Potential investors should be told how a hacker can simply walk by a chipped person and clone his or her VeriChip signal, a threat demonstrated by security researcher Jonathan Westhues months ago," says McIntyre, who is a former federal bank examiner. "Omitting the cloning threat from its SEC documents is a serious oversight that could affect the value of VeriChip's stock. This is materially relevant information, considering VeriChip's claim that its product could be used to tighten security in facilities like nuclear power plants," she adds. CLIP Much more on this topic through http://www.spychips.com and http://www.antichips.com/ including Microchip-Cancer Report (Implanted radio-frequency (RFID) microchips cause fast-growing, malignant tumors in animals. Our study examines the research... and "Microchip Implants: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"
Microchips Everywhere: a Future Vision (January 29, 2008) Excellent and most comprehensive article !
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004151388_apchippingamericaiii29.html?syndication=rss
Microchips with antennas will be embedded in virtually everything you buy, wear, drive and read, allowing retailers and law enforcement to track consumer items _ and, by extension, consumers _ wherever they go, from a distance._A seamless, global network of electronic "sniffers" will scan radio tags in myriad public settings, identifying people and their tastes instantly so that customized ads, "live spam," may be beamed at them._In "Smart Homes," sensors built into walls, floors and appliances will inventory possessions, record eating habits, monitor medicine cabinets _ all the while, silently reporting data to marketers eager for a peek into the occupants' private lives.Science fiction?In truth, much of the radio frequency identification technology that enables objects and people to be tagged and tracked wirelessly already exists _ and new and potentially intrusive uses of it are being patented, perfected and deployed.Some of the world's largest corporations are vested in the success of RFID technology, which couples highly miniaturized computers with radio antennas to broadcast information about sales and buyers to company databases. (...) The problem, critics say, is that microchipped products might very well do a whole lot more.With tags in so many objects, relaying information to databases that can be linked to credit and bank cards, almost no aspect of life may soon be safe from the prying eyes of corporations and governments, says Mark Rasch, former head of the computer-crime unit of the U.S. Justice Department.By placing sniffers in strategic areas, companies can invisibly "rifle through people's pockets, purses, suitcases, briefcases, luggage _ and possibly their kitchens and bedrooms _ anytime of the day or night," says Rasch, now managing director of technology at FTI Consulting Inc., a Baltimore-based company.In an RFID world, "You've got the possibility of unauthorized people learning stuff about who you are, what you've bought, how and where you've bought it ... It's like saying, 'Well, who wants to look through my medicine cabinet?'"He imagines a time when anyone from police to identity thieves to stalkers might scan locked car trunks, garages or home offices from a distance. "Think of it as a high-tech form of Dumpster diving," says Rasch, who's also concerned about data gathered by "spy" appliances in the home."It's going to be used in unintended ways by third parties _ not just the government, but private investigators, marketers, lawyers building a case against you ..."
The Blue Pill People
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1543.htm
There are none so blind as those who will not look. If you are one of those who will look, take a look around. You are surrounded -- surrounded by millions who will not look. These are the blue pill people. Who are these blue pill people and why won't they look? “The Matrix” may be only a movie, but it presents some scenarios with much relevance to our current situation. (...) The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes; it is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”And Neo asks, “What truth?” “That you are a slave Neo, like everyone else, you were born into bondage; born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch; a prison for your mind. Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.” Those few humans who were either born into reality, or have successfully taken the red pill, become the focus of the movie's story -- their attempts to destroy the Matrix and liberate the mass of humanity that lives completely encapsulated in their pods and the illusions fed to them by the powers that be -- powers that will go to any length to maintain the illusion. Extreme, but not much different than our modern system of corporate government and capitalistic socialism. The governing powers need things from us, not the least of which is our consent. To obtain our consent we are fed all manner of benefits. We are programmed from an early age to believe that such benefits are necessary. To obtain these benefits, a number of conduits are attached to each of us. Adhesion contracts like Social Security, a driver's license; voter registration for a pretended choice of social masters, bank accounts where credit is manufactured for our use and other memberships, registrations, licenses, deeds and permits to insure the conduct of our affairs will be confined within the “matrix” of corporate governance. We are given our own numbered “pod,” a social net provided by the government. Educated according to mandates of the state, our belief system is further cultured by corporate media. CLIP
Terror Attacks "Big Advantage" to McCain
http://www.truthout.org/article/aide-terror-attacks-big-advantage-mccain
Edward Luce and Andrew Ward report for The Financial Times: "John McCain's right-hand man hit a raw nerve on Monday when he said another terrorist attack on US soil would prove a 'big advantage' to the Republican nominee's general election chances. The comments by Charlie Black, who is arguably Mr McCain's most experienced adviser, put into words what many Republicans and Democrats have privately been stating for months."
If Terrorists Rock the Vote in 2008 (29 June 2008)
http://www.truthout.org/article/if-terrorists-rock-vote-2008
Don't fault Charles Black, the John McCain adviser, for publicly stating his honest belief that a domestic terrorist attack would be 'a big advantage' for their campaign and that Benazir Bhutto's assassination had 'helped' Mr. McCain win the New Hampshire primary. His real sin is that he didn't come completely clean on his strategic thinking. (...) Unlike Hillary Clinton's rumination about the Bobby Kennedy assassination or Barack Obama's soliloquy about voters clinging to guns and faith, Mr. Black's remarks were not an improvisational mishap. He gave his quotes on the record to Fortune magazine. He did so without thinking twice because he was merely saying what much of Washington believes. Terrorism is the one major issue where Mr. McCain soundly vanquishes his Democratic opponent in the polls. Since 2002, it's been a Beltway axiom akin to E=mc2 that Bomb in American City=G.O.P. Landslide. That equation was the creation of Karl Rove. Among the only durable legacies of the Bush presidency are the twin fears that Mr. Rove relentlessly pushed on his client's behalf: fear of terrorism and fear of gays. But these pillars are disintegrating too. They're propped up mainly by political operatives like Mr. Black and their journalistic camp followers - the last Washington insiders who are still in Mr. Rove's sway and are still refighting the last political war. (...) Should there be no new terrorist attack, the McCain camp's efforts to play the old Rove 9/11 fear card may quickly become as laughable as the Giuliani presidential campaign. These days Americans are more frightened of losing their jobs, homes and savings. But you can't blame the McCain campaign for clinging to terrorism as a political crutch. CLIP
The Real McCain
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-real-mccain
Reporting for The Observer UK, Paul Harris writes: "But there is another, very different side to John McCain. Away from the headlines and the stirring speeches, a less familiar figure lurks. It is a McCain who plans to fight on in Iraq for years to come and who might launch military action against Iran. This is the McCain whose campaign and career has been riddled with lobbyists and special interests. It is a McCain who has sided with religious and political extremists who believe Islam is evil and gays are immoral. It is a McCain who wants to appoint extreme conservatives to the Supreme Court and see abortion banned. This McCain has a notoriously volatile temper that has scared some senior members of his own party."
Child Detainees Battle System Alone
http://www.truthout.org/article/child-detainees-battle-system-alone
"Undocumented children entering the US alone must confront barriers that extend far beyond the border. If apprehended, they're met with a sometimes-brutal detention period, followed by a trial under a legal system that treats them the same as apprehended adults, according to children's rights advocates and recent reports by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office (OIG) and the Government Accountability Office. OIG estimates that more than 10,000 unaccompanied and undocumented children will be detained this year, not counting children who are immediately deported upon contact with Homeland Security."
CNN: Army lobbying for new weapons ’shameless’ (CNN video)
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1327
Oil tops $142 a barrel
http://english.aljazeera.net/business/2008/06/20086277482707831.html
Oil prices reached a record high of $142 a barrel on Friday as world stocks fell to a three-month low.
OPEC chief sees oil at $150-170 in coming months
http://tinyurl.com/5ggsed
Crude oil prices could rise to as high as $170 per barrel in the coming months but are unlikely to hit $200 and should ease towards the end of the year, OPEC President Chakib Khelil said in an interview on Thursday.
World Economy Would Collapse If Oil Hit $200, Deutsche Says http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601072&sid=am42p9xBTXh4
June 25 (Bloomberg) -- The global economy would collapse if oil hit $200 a barrel, said the top energy analyst at Germany's largest bank.``Two-hundred dollar oil would break the back of the global economy,'' Deutsche Bank AG's Chief Energy Economist Adam Sieminski said in an interview today in Tokyo. ``Next step after $200 would be global recession and bad news for everybody.''Sieminski's comments come after Goldman Sachs Group Inc. forecast oil may rise to between $150 and $200 within two years as supply growth, especially from producers outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, fails to keep pace with demand. Deutsche Bank is due to release its oil-price forecast on June 27. CLIP
Senate Ratifies Massive War Bill 92-6
http://www.truthout.org/article/congress-passes-new-iraq-war-funds
Reuters reports: "The US Senate on Thursday approved $161.8 billion in new funds to continue fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the next year, without timetables for withdrawing combat troops."
Deals With Iraq Are Set to Bring Oil Giants Back (June 19, 2008)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/world/middleeast/19iraq.html
BAGHDAD - Four Western oil companies are in the final stages of negotiations this month on contracts that will return them to Iraq, 36 years after losing their oil concession to nationalization as Saddam Hussein rose to power. Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP - the original partners in the Iraq Petroleum Company - along with Chevron and a number of smaller oil companies, are in talks with Iraq's Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts to service Iraq's largest fields, according to ministry officials, oil company officials and an American diplomat. The deals, expected to be announced on June 30, will lay the foundation for the first commercial work for the major companies in Iraq since the American invasion, and open a new and potentially lucrative country for their operations. The no-bid contracts are unusual for the industry, and the offers prevailed over others by more than 40 companies, including companies in Russia, China and India. The contracts, which would run for one to two years and are relatively small by industry standards, would nonetheless give the companies an advantage in bidding on future contracts in a country that many experts consider to be the best hope for a large-scale increase in oil production. There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. CLIP
Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Spill by Greg Palast (June 26, 2008)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-spill/
Twenty years after Exxon Valdez slimed over one thousand miles of Alaskan beaches, the company has yet to pay the $5 billion in punitive damages awarded by the jury. And now they won't have to. The Supreme Court today cut Exxon's liability by 90% to half a billion. It's so cheap, it's like a permit to spill. Exxon knew this would happen. Right after the spill, I was brought to Alaska by the Natives whose Prince William Sound islands, livelihoods, and their food source was contaminated by Exxon crude. My assignment: to investigate oil company frauds that led to to the disaster. There were plenty. But before we brought charges, the Natives hoped to settle with the oil company, to receive just enough compensation to buy some boats and rebuild their island villages to withstand what would be a decade of trying to survive in a polluted ecological death zone. In San Diego, I met with Exxon's US production chief, Otto Harrison, who said, "Admit it; the oil spill's the best thing to happen" to the Natives. His company offered the Natives pennies on the dollar. The oil men added a cruel threat: take it or leave it and wait twenty years to get even the pennies. Exxon is immortal - but Natives die. And they did. A third of the Native fishermen and seal hunters I worked with are dead. Now their families will collect one tenth of their award, two decades too late. In today's ruling, Supreme Court Justice David Souter wrote that Exxon's recklessness was ''profitless'' - so the company shouldn't have to pay punitive damages. Profitless, Mr. Souter? Exxon and it's oil shipping partners saved billions - BILLIONS - by operating for sixteen years without the oil spill safety equipment they promised, in writing, under oath and by contract. The official story is, "Drunken Skipper Hits Reef." But don't believe it, Mr. Souter. Alaska's Native lands and coastline were destroyed by a systematic fraud motivated by profit-crazed penny-pinching. Here's the unreported story, the one you won't get tonight on the Petroleum Broadcast System: CLIP
Clever and Deceptive: The Oil Lobby’s New Ads (21 June 2008)
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/21/9789/
The high price of oil has given birth to a thousand solutions. They include such fantasies such as running cars on water and perpetual motion machines. And, they include sensible ideas for quickly cutting the consumption of oil and moving to electricity to power most of our transportation fleet. The American Petroleum Institute (API), the oil and gas industry’s lobbying arm, has its own proposals, of course, and not surprisingly they include opening up protected public lands and U. S. coastal areas to drilling. That API’s ideas might be more appropriately grouped with fantasy solutions is illustrated by the organization’s own recent television advertising campaign. The campaign includes four separate ads. Two of the ads offer a defense of oil industry profits. One touts the broad ownership of oil company shares by pension funds and implies that viewers’ pensions might very well be benefiting from the superb financial performance of the energy industry. The other ad suggests that oil companies really don’t make that much money when compared to other industries in America. This would presumably make oil companies poor investments for one’s pension fund. But no matter, to avoid confusion the two commercials are probably never scheduled to run back to back. CLIP
Ahmadinejad Says Oil Prices Are Faked (17 June 2008)
http://www.truthout.org/article/ahmadinejad-says-oil-prices-are-faked
Isfahan, Iran - The market is full of oil and the rising price trend is "fake and imposed," Iran's president said on Tuesday, partly blaming a weak U.S. dollar which he said was being pushed lower on purpose. "At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising and this trend is completely fake and imposed," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a televised speech. "It is very clear that visible and invisible hands are controlling prices in a fake way with political and economic aims," he said when opening a meeting of the OPEC Fund for International Development in the central Iranian city of Isfahan. Iran, the world's fourth-largest oil exporter, has repeatedly said the market is well-supplied with crude and blames rising prices on speculation, a weak U.S. currency and geopolitical factors. CLIP
Life, Liberty, Water
http://www.truthout.org/article/life-liberty-water
In YES! Magazine, Maude Barlow writes: "It's a colossal failure of political foresight that water has not emerged as an important issue in the U.S. Presidential campaign. The links between oil, war, and U.S. foreign policy are well known. But water-whether we treat it as a public good or as a commodity that can be bought and sold-will in large part determine whether our future is peaceful or perilous."
You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. - report on trends (June 20, 2008)
http://www.culturechange.org/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=179&Itemid=1
The empire of cheap food is crumbling - You. Will. Not. Be. Able. To. Get. Food. Need this be spelled out any more plainly? It is time to consider that the stage has been set for petroleum-induced famine. We have "innocently" accommodated rising population with greater and greater food production via technology and the profit motive. But now we have run out of room to grow, as biotechnology, for example, has severe limitations -- major ones being petroleum dependence and topsoil loss. The biggest wild card for our existence is climate change, as we see with floods and other extreme weather affecting our food supply. We are headed for massive shortages of food and other essentials, mainly brought about by the depletion of geological fossil reserves of cheap energy and water. The situation is demonstrated regularly with easy arithmetic based on statistical indicators from the United Nations, Worldwatch Institute, World Resources Institute, Earth Policy Institute, and numerous governments. (...) Meanwhile, with a 100-year flood on the Iowa corn fields -- where erosion on monocropped, depleted soil killed by petroleum pesticides and fertilizer and mechanical tilling -- we are in for a hell of a summer. Is your food secure? Are you gardening, saving seeds, and protecting precious land and water? The food price increases have something to do with oil prices that have doubled in a year. And the oil prices have something to do with peak oil. And peak oil has something to do with wasting the Earth headlong into deprivation and ecological destruction. And it's about civilization as a runaway train. If you don't agree with the metaphor, just try getting off. Crash must come, and come it will, and soon. I hope I'm wrong that CLIP
Hundreds of Tibetan exiles arrested in Nepal (June 19, 2008)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/19/nepal.protest/index.html
KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Nepalese authorities Thursday detained at least 650 Tibetan exiles protesting against China's policies in the province ahead of this weekend's Olympic torch relay in Tibet, security officials in Kathmandu said. Police also arrested and charged three local Tibetan community leaders with organizing the protest, after seizing them from their homes Thursday morning. It is the largest single-day round-up of Tibetan protesters in Nepal since the demonstrations broke out in March following China's bloody crackdown on protesters in Tibet. It is also the first time that Nepalese authorities have charged any Tibetan exiles in connection with the protests. CLIP
A Wide-Open Battle for Power in Darfur (20 June 2008)
http://www.truthout.org/article/a-wide-open-battle-power-darfur
El Fasher, Sudan - Five years after the Darfur conflict began, the nature of violence across this vast desert region has changed dramatically, from a mostly one-sided government campaign against civilians to a complex free-for-all that is jeopardizing an effective relief mission to more than 2.5 million displaced and vulnerable people. While the government and militia attacks on straw-hut villages that defined the earlier years of the conflict continue, Darfur is now home to semi-organized crime and warlordism, with marijuana-smoking rebels, disaffected government militias and anyone else with an AK-47 taking part, according to U.N. officials. The situation is a symptom of how fragmented the conflict has become. There were two rebel groups, but now there are dozens, some of which include Arab militiamen who once sided with the government. The founding father of the rebellion lives in Paris. And the struggle in the desert these days is less about liberating oppressed Darfurians than about acquiring the means to power: money, land, trucks. Though there are some swaths of calm in Darfur, fighting among rebels and among Arab tribes has uprooted more than 70,000 people this year, compared with about 60,000 displaced by government attacks on villages, according to U.N. figures. Although powerful countries such as China, which is heavily invested in Sudan's oil, have been criticized by human rights activists for not doing more to pressure the Sudanese government to end the conflict, some analysts say the breakdown of command lines on all sides has made the situation increasingly impervious to outside influence. Meanwhile, the proliferation of banditry has become the biggest threat to humanitarian groups undertaking the largest relief effort in the world and to a nascent U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force. Their trucks and SUVs are stolen almost daily, used as fighting vehicles or sold for cash to middlemen who haul them to Chad and Libya. Carjackings were once rare in Darfur, but 130 humanitarian trucks were taken last year, and the count so far this year is 140. Of those, 79 belong to the World Food Program, which sometimes recovers the trucks from the side of the road, abandoned by bandits who ran out of gas. The insecurity has crippled food distribution. Last month, the organization was forced to halve rations for millions of people in camps and villages. "This is a new dimension for us," said Laurent Bukera, head of the program's North Darfur Area Office. "This week, there's been a carjacking every day - every day." CLIP
Rape is a way of life for Darfur's women (June 19, 2008)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/19/darfur.rape/index.html
ZAM ZAM DISPLACEMENT CAMP, Sudan (CNN) -- Sudan's Darfur crisis has exploded on many fronts -- violence, hunger, displacement and looting -- but United Nations peacekeepers say the biggest issue now affecting the region is the systematic rape of women and children. Thousands of women as young as 4 caught in the middle of the struggle between rebel forces and government-backed militias have become victims of rape, they say, with some aid groups claiming that it is being used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing. "That is one of the biggest issues in Darfur: the rapes, and crimes against women and children," said Michael Fryer, police commissioner of UNAMID, the United Nations peacekeeping force deployed to try to tackle the violence. Relief workers say they are powerless to stop the attacks and say that if they do speak out, they fear that the Sudanese government will tell them to leave the country. Humanitarian group Refugees International said in a report last year that rape was "an integral part of the pattern of violence that the government of Sudan is inflicting upon the targeted ethnic groups in Darfur." Some relief workers say that almost every woman living in aid camps has been raped or become a victim of gender-based violence. Many teenagers, while out running errands such as collecting firewood, are raped multiple times by militiamen, the workers say. They say the situation has now become so bad that many women are now resigned to rape as a way of life and men are unwilling to accompany them because they fear that they will be killed if they try to defend them. But despite the extent of the abuse, the Sudanese government insists there is no problem, adding to the difficulties faced by the victims, who are often ostracized by their communities or fall afoul of a legal system seen as favoring their attackers. (...) Making matters worse, aid workers say scores of babies conceived through rape are being dumped by their mothers. "Abandoned babies are reported, but because of the stigma attached to it, there is no detailed report, because the women don't come forward," said Dr Naqib Safi of the U.N. children's body UNICEF. As many as 20 babies a month are being dumped in one camp of 22,000 people. CLIP - Watch women face dangers in Darfur
Don't look, don't tell, troops told (June 16, 2008)
http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/443954
Civilian sex assaults by Afghan soldiers ignored - Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan have been ordered by commanding officers "to ignore" incidents of sexual assault among the civilian population, says a military chaplain who counsels troops returning home with post-traumatic stress disorder. The chaplain, Jean Johns, says she recently counselled a Canadian soldier who said he witnessed a boy being raped by an Afghan soldier, then wrote a report on the allegation for her brigade chaplain. In her March report, which she says should have been advanced "up the chain of command," Johns says the corporal told her that Canadian troops have been ordered by commanding officers "to ignore" incidents of sexual assault. Johns hasn't received a reply to the report. While several Canadian Forces chaplains say other soldiers have made similar claims, Department of National Defence lawyers have argued Canada isn't obliged to investigate because none of the soldiers has made a formal complaint, says a senior Canadian officer familiar with the matter."It's ridiculous," the officer says. "We have an ethical and moral responsibility to pursue this, not to shut our eyes to it because it would make it more difficult to work with the Afghan government. "We're supposed to be in Afghanistan to help people who are being victimized." CLIP
U.N.: World refugees hits record (June 18, 2008)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/18/world.refugees.ap/index.html
(...) In its annual report released Tuesday, the UNHCR said 11.4 million people were forced to leave their countries in 2007, compared to 9.9 million in 2006. Another 26 million were displaced within their own countries by conflict or persecution, up from 24.2 million the year before. Nearly half the world's refugees are from war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq. UNHCR said there are 3.1 million displaced Afghans, most in neighboring Pakistan and Iran, and 2.3 million Iraqi refugees, mostly in Syria and Jordan. Another 2.4 million Iraqis are internally displaced, an increase of 600,000 since the start of 2007. The number of internally displaced people grew last year in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Yemen, as well as in the Central African Republic and Chad, where thousands of refugees have crossed the border from the Sudanese region of Darfur. Watch families forced to flee fighting in Afghanistan »Up to 300,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been displaced since ethnic African tribesmen took up arms against Sudan's Arab-dominated government five years ago. The government is accused of responding by unleashing the tribal militia known as janjaweed, which have committed the worst atrocities against Darfur's local communities.Around half a million Sudanese have sought refuge abroad, the UN report said, including some 300,000 in Chad, and violence has also spilled across the border from Darfur. "Darfur is like an earthquake," Guterres said. "It has an epicenter in Darfur itself, but then the waves spread and instability is created also in the countries around, as is the case in Chad and the Central African Republic. And that's why it is so urgent for the international community to be engaged to make sure there is a political solution in Darfur, to bring stability to the whole region." CLIP
Report Slams U.S. Over Iraq Refugee Crisis: Survey
http://tinyurl.com/6ostqr
500,000 Iraqis Fled Fighting In 2007: It said the United States accepted few, just over half the 3,000 it had promised to resettle by the end of September.
The Price of Hunger
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-price-hunger
The Los Angeles Times editorial board poses the question, "What would it really cost to end global hunger? The United Nations estimates that it would take at least $30 billion per year to solve the food crisis, mainly by boosting agricultural productivity in the developing world. Over the decade that it would take to make sustainable improvements in the lives of the 862 million undernourished people, that amounts to $300 billion. Three hundred billion dollars is a lot of money, and the U.S. government won't foot the bill alone. But it's less than half of 1% of the world's combined gross domestic products, not an unreasonable sum to invest in ending the misery and degradation of hunger. After all, Congress shelled out $21 billion last year for foreign aid and this week it approved $162 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for fiscal 2009. The U.S. spent $340 billion in 2006 alone on public and private research and development. Directing just one-tenth of that seed money to sustainable, high-yield agriculture in the developing world could trigger a second Green Revolution."
UK uses lung-shredder to kill rebels (22 June 2008)
http://quqnoos.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=954&Itemid=48
Britain’s defence ministry admits use of 'brutal' missile to London paper - BRITISH troops have used missiles in Afghanistan which suck the air out of human targets, shred their internal organs and crush their bodies, according to a leading British newspaper. The Hellfire missiles, also known as vacuum bombs, are condemned by human rights groups as "brutal". Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) admitted to the London Times newspaper that its soldiers had fired the controversial thermobaric weapons, used to kill fighters in buildings and caves, from Apache attack helicopters in Afghanistan. The MoD said the Hellfire AGM-114N, which creates a human-crushing vacuum with a second explosion, had proved so successful that the missile will now be fired from unmanned predator drones. The Soviet Union’s forces in Afghanistan were the first to test thermobaric weapons on the enemy. The world condemned Russia’s use of the weapon during its fight against Chechnyan rebels in the 1980s."We no longer accept the term thermobaric [for the AGM-114N] as there is no internationally agreed definition," said an MoD spokesman talking to the London Times. “We call it an enhanced blast weapon." Human Rights Watch says the weapons are "brutal" and that their blast "makes it virtually impossible for civilians to take shelter".
Israel starts easing economic blockade of Gaza Strip (June 22, 2008) http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10222964.html
Occupied Jerusalem: Israel said on Sunday it had begun gradually easing its economic blockade of the Gaza Strip as part of an Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas. Peter Lerner, spokesman for Israel's military coordinator for the Gaza Strip, said the army was allowing 90 truckloads of food and commercial goods into the Hamas-controlled territory on Sunday. Israel had let an estimated 100 truckloads per day through the border crossings of Kerem Shalom and Sufa until mid-April, when Gaza militants attacked Kerem Shalom, causing heavy damage. Since that attack, Kerem Shalom has been shut down and Gaza, home to 1.5 million people, has been receiving an estimated 60 truckloads of supplies a day through Sufa, Lerner said. Palestinian officials could not immediately confirm the number of truckloads entering the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Israeli officials said last week that the army would, as a first step, increase supplies by an estimated 30 percent over pre-truce levels. Under the ceasefire agreement that took hold last Thursday, Israel and Hamas have halted cross-border fighting. The truce appears to be holding for now, though officials on both sides remain deeply sceptical the calm will last long.
Gaza truce 'violated repeatedly' (27 June 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7478293.stm
Israel has blocked all other supplies including humanitarian and commercial goods.
Gaza rockets threaten ceasefire as Hamas blames Palestinian rivals (June 27, 2008)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article4224397.ece
Hamas today lashed out at militants from rival Palestinian groups, claiming that they were deliberately trying to wreck the fragile Gaza truce with Israel to "settle internal scores".As more rockets were fired from Gaza into the Jewish state, both Israeli and Palestinian officials expressed doubt over the likelihood of the truce surviving its intended six-month span. The total number of mortars launched at Israel now numbers seven since the week-long Egyptian accord began. CLIP
Haniyeh: Stop firing at Israel for sake of Palestinians
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/996694.html
Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday appealed to Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip to honor the week-long truce with Israel, and stop firing at the Negev, for the good of the Palestinian civilian population.
Red Cross: Somalia facing severe famine (June 4, 2008)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/04/somalia.food.crisis/index.html
(CNN) -- Somalia is facing life-threatening food and water shortages leaving millions at risk for starvation, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. "The Somali people are going through unbearable hardship," said Pascal Hundt, head of the ICRC's delegation for Somalia, in a written statement. "We are witnessing the worst tragedy of the past decade in Somalia." Somalia's last severe famine, from 1991 to 1993, devastated crops, killed between 240,000 and 280,000 people and displaced up to 2 million, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.Humanitarian workers view Somalia's food crisis as one of the worst in the world. With winds ripping though the country, hundreds of thousands of Somalis are finding their crops as dry as the surrounding landscape, preventing harvests, killing livestock and leading to a mass risk of starvation.The continual armed conflicts in central and south Somalia have aggravated the situation, hindering people from accessing shelter and medical attention. A growing percentage of the population has become dependent on humanitarian aid. The ICRC, World Food Program and CARE plan to deliver four months worth of food to 435,000 Somalis within the next few weeks. CLIP
The Global Crisis: Food, Water and Fuel. Three Fundamental Necessities of Life in Jeopardy (June 5, 2008)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9191
We are at the crossroads of the most serious economic and social crisis in modern history. The process of global impoverishment unleashed at the outset of the 1980s debt crisis has reached a major turning point, leading to the simultaneous outbreak of famines in all major regions of the developing World.There are many complex features underlying the global economic crisis pertaining to financial markets, the decline in production, the collapse of State institutions and the rapid development of a profit-driven war economy. What is rarely mentioned in this analysis, is how this global economic restructuring forcibly impinges on three fundamental necessities of life: food, water and fuel. The provision of food, water and fuel is a precondition of civilized society: they are necessary factors for the survival of the human species. In recent years, the prices of these three variables has increased dramatically at the global level, with devastating economic and social consequences. These three essential goods or commodities, which in a real sense determine the reproduction of economic and social life on planet earth, are under the control of a small number of global corporations and financial institutions. Both the State as well as the gamut of international organizations --often referred to as the "international community"-- serve the unfettered interests of global capitalism. CLIP
Report Says Severe Weather to Increase as Earth Warms (19 June 2008)
http://www.truthout.org/article/report-says-severe-weather-increase-earth-warms
As humans emit more greenhouse gases, North America is likely to experience more droughts and excessive heat even as intense downpours and hurricanes increase, according to a report issued today by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. The 162-page study, which was led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provides the most comprehensive assessment yet of how global warming has helped to transform the climate of the United States and Canada over the past 50 years, and how it may do so in the future. Warning that extreme weather events "are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate," the report finds that "recent and projected changes in climate and weather extremes have primarily negative impacts." Coming at a time when record floods are ravaging the Midwest, the new report paints a grim scenario in which unpredictable and severe weather will exact a heavy toll. While the Southwest is likely to face even more intense droughts, the scientists wrote, heavy downpours will become more frequent in some other parts of the country because of increased water vapor in the air. CLIP
Midwest Levee Breaks, Corn Price at New High
http://www.truthout.org/article/midwest-levee-breaks-corn-price-new-high
Floods and Droughts Make Mild Diseases Deadly
http://www.truthout.org/article/floods-and-droughts-make-mild-diseases-deadly
Reporting for Reuters, Julie Steenhuysen says, "Extreme floods and droughts brought on by climate change can turn normally harmless infections into significant threats, international researchers said on Tuesday."
Nature laid waste: The destruction of Africa (11 June 2008)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/nature-laid-waste-the-destruction-of-africa-844370.html
The massive scale of environmental devastation across the continent has been fully revealed for the first time in an atlas compiled by UN geographers. Michael McCarthy reports - It was long shrouded in mystery, called "the Dark Continent" by Europeans in awe of its massive size and impenetrable depths. Then its wondrous natural riches were revealed to the world. Now a third image of Africa and its environment is being laid before us – one of destruction on a vast and disturbing scale.Using "before and after" satellite photos, taken in all 53 countries, UN geographers have constructed an African atlas of environmental change over the past four decades – the vast majority of it for the worse. In nearly 400 pages of dramatic pictures, disappearing forests, shrinking lakes, vanishing glaciers and degraded landscapes are brought together for the first time, providing a deeply disturbing portfolio of devastation. (...) The "before and after" shots show vividly just how vast the changes have been, not only since the first Landsat satellite in 1972, but on much shorter timescales. Deforestation is shown not only as mass forest disappearance in countries such as Rwanda, but also as the insidious spread of logging roads through once entirely untouched rainforests in countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the replacement of natural forest by bright green rubber and palm plantations in Cameroon. (...) Put it all together and you have a picture that is hard to credit, so enormous is the destruction. Statistically, the atlas finds that deforestation is a major concern in no fewer than 35 African countries, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria and Malawi, among others. Africa is losing more than four million hectares of forest every year – twice the world's average deforestation rate.That problem is closely followed in significance by major loss of biodiversity [wildlife] which is occurring in 34 countries, such as Angola, Ethiopia, Gabon and Mali. Land degradation is similarly a major worry for 32 countries, including Cameroon, Eritrea and Ghana, with some areas across the continent said to be losing more than 50 metric tonnes of soil per hectare per year. The atlas shows that erosion, as well as chemical and physical damage, have degraded about 65 per cent of the continent's farmlands. In addition, slash-and-burn agriculture is adding to the number of wildfires which are naturally caused by Africa's high prevalence of lightning. Rapidly rising populations account for one of the principal pressures on the natural resource base. Between 2000 and 2005, the atlas says, Africa's population grew by 2.32 per cent annually – nearly double the global rate of 1.24 per cent per year. Twenty of the 30 fastest growing countries in the world are in Africa, including Liberia, which has the highest annual growth rate – 4.8 per cent – of any country in the world. In the next half century Africa will have twice the population growth rate of any other region.
Zimbabwe: This Is No Election, This Is a Brutal War
http://www.truthout.org/article/zimbabwe-this-no-election-this-a-brutal-war
Reporting for The Observer UK, Chris McGreal writes: "Zimbabweans have not seen anything like this since the Matabeleland massacres by Mugabe's army more than two decades ago. That violence was limited to the south. This time, as Mugabe, 84, fights for his political life, it is nationwide. If this is the endgame for his regime, the brutality of the tactics employed reveal his determination to win at any cost."
Mugabe presides over decline in Zimbabwe's wildlife parks (May 30, 2008)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/30/conservation.wildlife
Sophie Shaw in Harare reveals how Zimbabwe's national parks are experiencing the corrosive impact of the country's crisis (...) The father of the murdered Movement for Democratic Change activist Godfrey Kauzani said at his son's funeral: "He did not have a tongue, his eyes had been plucked out, he was half burned and had a wire around his neck. I do not know what sin my son committed to deserve such a painful death."And, with my mind still on the impact of Zimbabwe's collapse on animal welfare, a report from the human rights monitors Zimbabwe Peace Project leaps out at me. It recorded 4,359 human rights abuses in April and has heard of hundreds more incidents that cannot be readily verified. It reports: "In some cases, perpetrators kill livestock such as cattle and goats. In one cruel case, the eyes of goats were poked out before they were killed. The perpetrators believe that anything associated with the MDC should be killed."It is an indication of the degree of hatred instilled into Zanu-PF youth militias that their taste for torture extends even to the animals of opposition supporters.
NOTE: Let's hope the world will soon mobilize for real to rid Zimbabwe of the cancer eating it inside out and put its people and fauna on life support assistance!
Mandela condemns Mugabe 'failure' (25 June 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7474561.stm
Former South African leader Nelson Mandela has added his voice to the growing international condemnation of the political violence in Zimbabwe.In his first public comments about the crisis, he noted "the tragic failure of leadership" of President Robert Mugabe.Southern African leaders earlier called for Friday's run-off presidential vote to be postponed because conditions did not permit a free and fair election.Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has urged foreign help to end the crisis.Speaking at a dinner in London to mark his 90th birthday, Mr Mandela said:"We watch with sadness the continuing tragedy in Darfur. Nearer to home we have seen the outbreak of violence against fellow Africans in our own country and the tragic failure of leadership in our neighbouring Zimbabwe."Mr Mandela had held his silence until now, says the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Robbins, to avoid undermining South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki's efforts as chief mediator on Zimbabwe.Mr Mbeki's policy of "quiet diplomacy" has been criticised for its failure to resolve the crisis in Zimbabwe.Nelson Mandela spoke few words but they will carry immense weight simply because of who he is, says our correspondent.
World outrage over Zimbabwe's 'sham' elections boils over (June 25, 2008)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gTACNkmLPINuRxMHajiTJ7OcPvKA
HARARE (AFP) — Nelson Mandela and US President George W. Bush led mounting world outrage over Zimbabwe, where veteran leader Robert Mugabe is pressing on with what is seen as a "sham" presidential run-off vote.As pressure on the octogenarian Mugabe ratcheted, Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai called for armed peacekeepers to be sent to the country to stop terror attacks on his supporters. (...) Mugabe, in his first direct comments on Tsvangirai's withdrawal, defied international criticism and vowed that the election would go ahead, saying the opposition chief had pulled out because he was afraid of losing.But experts in South Africa said the run-off election with Mugabe the sole candidate may already be in violation of the country's laws."If we follow the Zimbabwe Electoral Act, legally, Morgan Tsvangirai is the winner, the regime having failed to organise a rerun within 21 days after the election result was released," said Ross Herbert of the South African Institute of International Affairs."This Friday's rerun is clearly outside the law and so, its outcome will be illegitimate," the researcher at the Johannesburg-based institute told AFP.
Israel backs Palo Alto man's electric car plan (June 17, 2008)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/17/MN1F112F1P.DTL
Shai Agassi, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, pledges that he can beat the spiraling cost of gasoline with the world's first mass-produced electric car. In January, Israel's government endorsed the Palo Alto businessman's ambitious joint venture between his startup company - Project Better Place - and Renault-Nissan. Agassi says he raised $200 million to get the $500 million dollar project, which will include a network of charging and battery-exchange stations by 2010, off the ground. Project Better Place also has signed an agreement with Denmark to begin a similar operation by 2011. In Denmark, a pioneer in developing wind power, batteries are expected to be recharged using wind-powered turbines. Agassi is banking on his electric-powered sedan revolutionizing life on the roads, cleaning up the environment and reducing dependence on oil. The cars are expected to have a range of up to 140 miles per charge and a top speed of 68 mph - the speed limit in Israel. Last month, he invited reporters to test-drive a prototype that looks a lot like the Renault Megane, a four-door sedan. The car is noticeably quiet and has no exhaust pipe, an electric socket in place of a gas cap and a dashboard gauge that measures the charge of the vehicle's 450-pound lithium-ion battery. In the United States, Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has said she is interested in her state becoming the first to embrace the electric-car network. Mayor Gavin Newsom also has reportedly expressed interest in making San Francisco the first U.S. metropolis to place electric cars on city roads. Note: For reports of many exciting breakthroughs in energy development and automotive design, click here.
Studies reveal climate change acts quickly, forcefully (June 20, 2008)
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=2980a2e6-50ae-4bf4-9d19-8d4d478bbb9d
Extensive spruce forests used to cover the southern half of Greenland, according to a Canadian study that gives a remarkable glimpse of the icy island's green past and possible future. (...) The pollen shows Greenland was much greener than it is today during several warm periods over the million-year span, with extensive fern-like vegetation 125,000 ago and widespread spruce forests 400,000 years ago."It was probably much like the forest in Norway is today, with a relatively mild climate," Ms. de Vernal said in a telephone interview.The journal also features a second report showing how North America's climate experienced two huge temperature spikes at the end of the last ice age -- one 14,700 years ago associated with a 10-degree rise in temperatures over 50 years. Then icy conditions returned before another abrupt warming about 11,700 years ago.It is not clear if such sudden changes could occur today, but scientists say there is a "pressing" need to find out if such abrupt change could be triggered by the greenhouse gases.
No ice at the North Pole (27 June 2008)
http://www.independent.co.uk:80/environment/climate-change/exclusive-no-ice-at-the-north-pole-855406.html
Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change - It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year.The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic – and worrying – examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer."From the viewpoint of science, the North Pole is just another point on the globe, but symbolically it is hugely important. There is supposed to be ice at the North Pole, not open water," said Mark Serreze of the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above. Seasoned polar scientists believe the chances of a totally ice-free North Pole this summer are greater than 50:50 because the normally thick ice formed over many years at the Pole has been blown away and replaced by huge swathes of thinner ice formed over a single year. This one-year ice is highly vulnerable to melting during the summer months and satellite data coming in over recent weeks shows that the rate of melting is faster than last year, when there was an all-time record loss of summer sea ice at the Arctic. CLIP
Study finds Arctic seabed afire with lava-spewing volcanoes (June 25, 2008)
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=81bb2fd3-63f1-476f-b0be-f48c0dc90304
The Arctic seabed is as explosive geologically as it is politically judging by the "fountains" of gas and molten lava that have been blasting out of underwater volcanoes near the North Pole."Explosive volatile discharge has clearly been a widespread, and ongoing, process," according to an international team that sent unmanned probes to the strange fiery world beneath the Arctic ice. They returned with images and data showing that red-hot magma has been rising from deep inside the earth and blown the tops off dozens of submarine volcanoes, four kilometres below the ice. "Jets or fountains of material were probably blasted one, maybe even two, kilometres up into the water," says geophysicist Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who led the expedition. (...) The scientists say the heat released by the explosions is not contributing to the melting of the Arctic ice, but Sohn says the huge volumes of CO2 gas that belched out of the undersea volcanoes likely contributed to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. How much, he couldn't say. There are no volcanoes exploding in the area right now, but they scientists say there appears to still be a lot happening on the sea floor. "I had the impression this whole central volcano area was oozing warm fluid," says Henrietta Edmonds of the University of Texas, who was on the expedition tracking the plumes of warm waters rising from the spreading ridge. She says they point to the presence of "gushing black smokers" as well as microbial and other forms of life that can thrive in scalding, mineral-rich waters that percolates out of spreading ridges.The scientists say they have explored just one small stretch of the Gakkel Ridge and hope to return in a few years.
Top of sea warming 50% faster than thought (18/06/2008)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/06/18/scisea118.xml
The top few hundred metres of the world's oceans have warmed 50 per cent faster than previously thought during the past half century, a discovery that has solved an enduring puzzle about the world's rising sea levels. Sea-level rise is a key consequence of of climate change but the actual change has been higher than scientists had predicted. CLIP
Citing Need for Assessments, US Freezes Solar Energy Projects
http://www.truthout.org/article/citing-need-assessments-us-freezes-solar-energy-projects
Dan Frosch reports for The New York Times: "Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years."
Expert says drought to continue 9 more year (06/25/2008)
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_9695200
Straighten your halo and conserve. Listen to the expert. We are at the end of a nine-year drought and the next nine aren't looking any better.
Heavy rains again soak parts of flooded U.S. Midwest (June 25, 2008)
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN25470517
CHICAGO, June 25 (Reuters) - A new round of storms dumped a half foot (15 cm) or more of rain across parts of the U.S. Midwest on Wednesday, dealing fresh trouble to a region already struggling with billions of dollars in flood damage.The bad news came as a key farm group estimated U.S. crop damage this year had hit $8 billion nationwide, most of it in the key Midwest growing areas of the world's biggest grain and food exporter amid the worst flooding in 15 years.The new storms that soaked Missouri on Wednesday closed roads and sent smaller streams out of their banks, pushing more water into the basin that feeds both the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, just as the Mississippi was cresting or about to in areas upstream from St. Louis. CLIP
Hope fades for flooded farmers http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/08_Photo_of_Day/080627.photo.of.day.html
Corn stands in floodwaters June 23, near St. Paul, MO. More than a week of flooding in the country's heartland may be the regions' biggest economic disaster in decades, with thousands of acres of farmland from Minnesota to Arkansas damaged for the season.
NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance (June 24, 2008)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3NLY5naFMJIsbKHNeiWIKMTsEiQD91G3IBG0
WASHINGTON (AP) — Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.James Hansen told Congress on Monday that the world has long passed the "dangerous level" for greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and needs to get back to 1988 levels. He said Earth's atmosphere can only stay this loaded with man-made carbon dioxide for a couple more decades without changes such as mass extinction, ecosystem collapse and dramatic sea level rises."We're toast if we don't get on a very different path," Hansen, director of the Goddard Institute of Space Sciences who is sometimes called the godfather of global warming science, told The Associated Press. "This is the last chance." (...) The year of Hansen's original testimony was the world's hottest year on record. Since then, 14 years have been hotter, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Two decades later, Hansen spent his time on the question of whether it's too late to do anything about it. His answer: There's still time to stop the worst, but not much time."We see a tipping point occurring right before our eyes," Hansen told the AP before the luncheon. "The Arctic is the first tipping point and it's occurring exactly the way we said it would."Hansen, echoing work by other scientists, said that in five to 10 years, the Arctic will be free of sea ice in the summer. CLIP
Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes
http://www.truthout.org/article/scientist-congress-oil-execs-commit-high-crimes
Ed Pilkington, The Guardian UK, says: "James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."
The Time Is Now, Climate Experts Warn (June 27, 2008)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/27/climate-change-warming.html
(...) While other scientists agree that 350 ppm is a safer target that increases the likelihood we will avoid many of the negative effects of climate change, some also think it's unrealistic. "Three hundred and fifty is impossible," said climatologist Stephen Schneider of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. "We're going to overshoot 350 and 450 and probably 550, though I sure hope not."Schneider's hope is that while it might still be 20 years before actions to reduce CO2 emissions really have an effect, innovations over the next two decades will make it possible to dramatically reduce emissions."My cynical scenario is that there will be more Katrinas, massive fires, melting of the Arctic, and people will say, 'Oh my God, what have we done. We'd better undo this,'" he said. Such catastrophes could finally spark the dramatic change that's needed, he suggests, if we don't take action sooner of our own accord.
Living on the Ice Shelf: Humanity's Melt Down (26 June 2008)
http://www.truthout.org/article/living-ice-shelf-humanitys-melt-down
Farewell to the Holocene - Our world, our old world that we have inhabited for the last 12,000 years, has ended, even if no newspaper in North America or Europe has yet printed its scientific obituary. This February, while cranes were hoisting cladding to the 141st floor of the Burj Dubai tower (which will soon be twice the height of the Empire State Building), the Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London was adding the newest and highest story to the geological column. (...) To the question "Are we now living in the Anthropocene?" the 21 members of the Commission unanimously answer "yes." They adduce robust evidence that the Holocene epoch -- the interglacial span of unusually stable climate that has allowed the rapid evolution of agriculture and urban civilization -- has ended and that the Earth has entered "a stratigraphic interval without close parallel in the last several million years." In addition to the buildup of greenhouse gases, the stratigraphers cite human landscape transformation which "now exceeds [annual] natural sediment production by an order of magnitude," the ominous acidification of the oceans, and the relentless destruction of biota. This new age, they explain, is defined both by the heating trend (whose closest analogue may be the catastrophe known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, 56 million years ago) and by the radical instability expected of future environments. In somber prose, they warn that "the combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. These effects are permanent, as future evolution will take place from surviving (and frequently anthropogenically relocated) stocks." Evolution itself, in other words, has been forced into a new trajectory. CLIP
Life Expectancy (!!!)
http://www.westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2006fa.html
What is the average life expectancy of Americans? For a long time it has been the low seventies for men and upper seventies for women. So it comes as a shock to learn that the average life expectancy for Americans has dropped to 69.3 years, according to the America's Health Rankings report, issued at the American Public Health Association's annual meeting. This figure is exceeded by 28 other countries, including Britain, France and Germany and is about five years less than the life expectancy in Japan. According to Dr. Reed Tuckson, this dismal number reflects increasing obesity, fewer people quitting smoking (although only 20.8 percent of Americans smoke today, down from almost one-third in 1990), and increasing numbers of people without health insurance. Officials made no mention of the increasing consumption of processed foods containing refined sweeteners, processed vegetable oils and toxic additives, and certainly did not allow even a whisper about the almost complete absence of nutrient-dense foods such as organ meats, shellfish and butterfat and eggs from grass-fed animals from the American diet (Reuters, December 13, 2005).
LIFE EXPECTANCY DROPS TO 69.3 YEARS IN THE USA (with lots of chemtrail pictures!)
http://imageevent.com/firesat/strangedaysstrangeskies?z=3&c=4&n=1&m=-1&w=4&x=0&p=14
HOW MUCH IS 8 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WORTH? In 2003 life expectancy in the USA was 77.6 years. The drop to 69.3 years since 2003, a drop of over 8 years is startling information. This period of time just happens to coincide with a time when there has been non-stop spraying of chemtrails coast to coast on an almost daily basis. There is plenty of scientific research proving that any increase in airborne particulates causes a corresponding increase in the death rate of the exposed population so imo the chemtrails are a glaringly obvious factor in this significant drop in expected life span. MUCH MORE on the chemtrail issue through http://www.chemtrailagenda.com/
Alarming Trends
http://www.westonaprice.org/causticcommentary/caustic-commentary-2006fa.html
News reports from a variety of sources paint an ominous picture of the health of America's children, starting with the growing problem of premature babies. One baby in eight is now born before 37 weeks, according to a recent report by the Institute of Medicine, a rate that has increased more than 30 percent in the last twenty years. Efforts to keep these fragile infants alive cost the nation at least $26 billion a year, and that doesn't include the financial burden for long-term health problems such as cerebral palsy, retardation, learning disabilities, asthma and other conditions that are more common in children born prematurely (Associated Press, July 13, 2006). Birth defects are also increasing, including a particularly horrible one called gastroschisis, a condition in which babies are born with their intestines outside their bodies. Since the early 1990s, the rate of gastroschisis has increased from one in 10,000 to almost five per 10,000. One doctor in Denver reported four babies born with gastroschisis at one time in the Children's Hospital intensive care unit. The rate is highest in babies born to mothers under the age of 20 (Denver Post, July 25, 2006). Learning disabilities and emotional problems have reached epidemic proportions. A report from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health found that one child in 200 is autistic and about 20 percent of all children have learning disabilities or attention deficit disorder. The consequences for these children and their families are catastrophic. "Children with developmental problems had lower self-esteem, more depression and anxiety, more problems with learning, missed more school, and were less involved in sports and other community activities. Their families experienced more difficulty in the areas of childcare, employment, parent-child relationships and caregiver burden" (Pediatrics Vol 117 No 6 June 2006). Other news reports describe children lining up for morning medications--including Zoloft for depression and a host of medications for attention deficit--while at summer camp (New York Times, July 16, 2006); bans on games of tag, touch football and soccer at elementary schools because children are getting injured too easily (USA Today, June 27, 2006); and a doubling of cheerleading injuries since 1990 (Associated Press, January 3, 2006). Vaccinations and calorie-counting are not going to solve these problems, only nutrient-dense diets starting before conception.
US issues health warning over mercury fillings (29 June 2008)
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/us-issues-health-warning-over-mercury-fillings-856582.html
They're in millions of mouths worldwide, but have been linked to heart disease and Alzheimer's. Now a report concedes they may have a toxic effect on the body
Lukewarm Meeting on Whaling in Chilly Chile
http://www.seashepherd.org/editorials/editorial_080625_1.html
“It’s like a living dead gathering,” said Dave Rastovich of Surfers for Cetaceans commenting on the boring monotonous ramblings of Japanese bought and paid for puppet nations.Skye Bortoli of Teens Against Whaling described the meeting this year as “pathetic, saying “this body will be known in the future as a small group of ecologically arrogant people who are condemning the world’s whales to agony and oblivion for petty politics and a few lousy bucks.”Hannah Fraser a professional mermaid from Australia described the meeting as having to endure, “disappointingly banal rhetoric.” There were many things that could come out of this meeting. Japan could withdraw from the IWC and become a renegade whaling nation along with their partners in conservation crime Norway and Iceland. Or a compromise may be brokered that will allow the Japanese to withdraw from the Southern Ocean without losing face or thirdly and most likely nothing will come out of this meeting at all. Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett was deaf to the screaming of the whales and somewhat vague about Australia’s position but he was exemplary as a politician. He apparently has mastered how to use the maximum number of words to say the least about anything. CLIP
Whales Revenge is trying to get a million people to sign a petition to stop whaling
http://www.whalesrevenge.com
Recommended by Estelle Myers (emyers20@scu.edu.au)
EMF-Omega-News 21. June 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5008447/
EMF-Omega-News 28. June 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5025201/
Omega-News Collection 21. June 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5008462/
Omega-News Collection 28. June 2008
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5025217/
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Date: 19 Jun 2008
From: Ben Noyes (banoyes2@yahoo.com)
Subject: A New Way to Approach an Old Problem
Dear Jean,
I see a lot about "OIL". This is the backbone of the Global Elite. Please look at this
There are NOW, today, 3 different automobiles that do not use oil
Three different technologies that are available, of course they are new, but people should be made aware of them, these technologies spell the end of the oil empire.
If you find this information worthy, please do as you want with it. I hope it will be to send out to your readership.
I have subscribed to your newsletters for a while now and I admire your work.
Love and Peace, may the Light Shine on All
Ben
The traitors to you and me and the world are becoming more transparent every day. Now Genepax a Japanese company is about to start producing a car that runs on water
Genepax http://www.genepax.co.jp/en/<BR>
http://uk.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561
This is an Americ