From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 01:57:58 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 01:57:58 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Protest war & election theft / Vietnam Lessons Message-ID: 1st announcement: Say NO to the war agenda of whichever presidential candidate is elected! And don't let Bush steal another election! MASS PROTEST AGAINST THE WAR AND ELECTION THEFT 1:00 PM Westlake Park (4th Ave & Pine St) March to the Federal Building at 2nd and Madison Join the next wave of resistance and deliver a resounding "NO" to war and repression here and abroad. No matter which pro-war candidate is elected, Bush or Kerry, we still need to build a massive movement against the occupation of Iraq until the troops are brought home. We'll march through downtown and surround the Federal Building with orange netting in an arrest for this illegal war for oil profits and empire. Also, there are reports even in the corporate media from across the country that widespread voter fraud is already occuring. If Bush steals another election, we need to engage in massive, nationally coordinated actions to defend the limited democratic rights our electoral system currently affords us. Many groups across the country are planning actions. Sponsored by Not In Our Name, International A.N.S.W.E.R., Socialist Alternative, American Friends Service Committee and others ============================================================================= 2nd announcement: Next Socialist Alternative branch meeting HOW CAN WE STOP THE IRAQ WAR? LESSONS FROM THE VIETNAM ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT Tuesday, November 2 6:30 pm Seattle Central Community College Room 3200 1701 Broadway (at Pine St.) With rising Iraqi resistance and mounting U.S. and Iraqi death tolls, more and more Americans favor a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops. Months ago, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 40% of Americans support bringing the troops home. With reports leaking out of U.S. soldiers refusing to carry out orders, the scene is being set for a resurgence of mass protests against the occupation of Iraq, just like the protests against the Vietnam War. What lessons can we learn from Vietnam and other anti-war movements? Join anti-war activist Nicholas Baptiste at the next Socialist Alternative branch meeting for a discussion about how we can build a massive anti-war movement to stop U.S. imperialism's latest war for oil profits and empire. After the branch meeting, you are invited to the house of Ramy, Philip, and Greg for an election party to watch the election results roll in and possibly plan for protests against Bush's attempt to steal the election. For more info: www.SocialistAlternative.org * (206) 526-7864 * Seattle at SocialistAlternative.org ============================================================================= Highly recommended article for branch meeting THE POWER OF PROTEST: LESSONS FROM THE MOVEMENT AGAINST THE VIETNAM WAR By Tony Wilsdon and Philip Locker Justice #31, September 2002 Thirty years ago in Vietnam, the US government was defeated for the first time in a major war. With the revival of the anti-war movement, and a possible new US war on Iraq, what can we learn from the anti-Vietnam War movement? In August 1964, following decades of US support for the French occupation of Vietnam, Democratic President Lyndon Johnson manufactured a fake attack on US forces, known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident, in order to create political support for a massive US assault on Vietnam. The US intervened in Vietnam to prevent a corrupt capitalist government in South Vietnam from being overthrown by the popular National Liberation Front (NLF) guerillas. The NLF was linked to North Vietnam, where capitalism had been overthrown and replaced by a stalinist system which was politically ruled by a privileged bureaucracy. Although the NLF had a Stalinist leadership and did not base itself on a genuine Marxist policy of workers' democracy and international socialism, they did challenge capitalism and landlordism. The US feared that the victory of "communism" in Vietnam would spur socialist revolutions throughout Asia. By 1965, 200,000 US troops were stationed in Vietnam, growing to 500,000 in 1968. During this war the US dropped 8 million tons of bombs, more than twice the total dropped during World War II. 20 million tons of the toxic defoliant Agent Orange were sprayed, destroying vegetation and spreading dioxin throughout Vietnam's food chain, leading to a massive rise in birth defects. Altogether, the US government used $150 billion and 2.8 million troops fighting in Vietnam, 57,000 of whom died there. On the other side was a desperately poor country with a guerilla army that used weapons from a previous era. Its only supply line through North Vietnam to the Soviet Union was bombed every day by the US and rebuilt every night. The massive bombing destroyed 70% of North Vietnam's villages, leaving huge areas barren and the capital, Hanoi, completely destroyed. The US was defeated largely by the Vietnamese people's heroic determination and fighting spirit. At least two million Vietnamese died in wars against Japanese, French and US imperialism between 1945 and 1975. The NLF's program of national liberation from imperialist domination, land to the peasants, and a decent life for workers inspired the most astonishing support, self-sacrifice, and willingness to fight to the death. This determination could not be defeated by all the military hardware the US could rain down on Vietnam. The result was that the US found itself bogged down in a costly, drawn-out war. The Emergence of the Anti-War Movement The earliest protestors against the war came out of the civil rights movement. Malcolm X and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, for example, came out against the war in 1965. The anti-war movement started as a small minority, with student sit-ins and demonstrations. But as the war dragged on, its social and economic consequences triggered a much larger, more effective opposition. When the bombings began, a Boston Commons protest attracted 100 people. This grew to a massive 100,000 by October 15, 1969, with 2 million in total protesting across the country. By 1969, there were 500 underground newspapers in high schools, and protests had been held on 232 college campuses across the country with 3,652 people arrested and 956 suspended or expelled. The existence of the draft, where all young people could be randomly selected to serve in the army, led to mass draft dodging. Many middle class students were able to dodge the draft, leaving working class and African American youth to be the majority of those forced to fight. By early 1968, 40,000 soldiers were dead and 250,000 were wounded, with the numbers growing daily. The media has attempted to portray the anti-war movement as being mainly made up of well-off students. However, with working class youth on the front lines in Vietnam, opposition to the war was actually strongest in working class communities. A University of Michigan poll in June 1966 showed that 27% of people with a college education favored immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, compared to 41% of those with only a grade school education. Revolt in the US Army Eventually, mass opposition developed within the armed forces themselves. With no confidence in the goals of an unwinnable war, rank-and-file soldiers (essentially workers in uniform) revolted. With African Americans disproportionately represented in the army, the effects of the civil rights movement was a key factor. Black soldiers saw little reason to risk their lives fighting a racist war, in a racist army, for a racist government. In 1970, there were over 50 underground newspapers on military bases. By 1971, 17.7% of US soldiers were listed as AWOL. In 1972, a quarter of US soldiers had mutinied or defied military orders. Units refused combat, fragging (soldiers killing their officers) was widespread, and almost a quarter of US troops had become heroin addicts. Over 700,000 soldiers received less than honorable discharges. The anti-war movement was strengthened by the thousands of veterans who returned home radicalized by their experience in the war. Driven by anger at the US government's lies and the atrocities they witnessed, they moved to the forefront of the anti-war movement - in their uniforms, many on crutches or in wheelchairs. This process was summed up by Col. Robert D. Heinl Jr. when he wrote "The morale, discipline and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at any time in this century and possibly in the history of the United States. By every conceivable indicator, our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near mutinous." ("The Collapse of the Armed Forces," Armed Forces Journal, 6/7/71) The most powerful army in the world disintegrated. This is an important lesson for activists today, as the ruling class attempts to make its massive firepower appear unstoppable. In reality, the US military is not immune to wider social and political processes. Any major wave of radicalization and revolt in US society will inevitably find an expression within the rank-and-file of the US armed forces, who are mostly working class, thus tending to undermine the military's effectiveness as a tool for repression by the ruling class. Mass Anti-War Movement The war also hit people in the pocket book. At first, increased war spending boosted the economy, but the cost of the war and increased social programs at home (to stem an uprising of African Americans) forced the government to print excess dollars to pay for it. This led to a spiral of price increases, inflation, a ballooning budget deficit, and the erosion of the purchasing power of workers' wages - which triggered an increase in strikes and opposition to union leaders who refused to fight the bosses in order to win decent contracts. At this point, the anti-war movement developed into a truly mass movement, cleaving society in two. After national guardsmen, recently coming off a Teamster picket line, shot dead four students at a Kent State University protest, mass occupations of colleges erupted. By 1972, one million blacks considered themselves revolutionary. Millions began to see clearly through the rhetoric of a "war against communism", and saw the naked aggression of the US ruling class in its pursuit of profits and imperialist domination. By this point, important sections of big business concluded that it was better to end the war rather than suffer further social explosions at home. They feared the civil rights movement, the growing threat of ordinary workers going out on wildcat strikes, and the youth movement all coalescing into one giant movement against the government and the capitalist system. Lessons for Today In 1973, Nixon was finally forced to withdraw all US troops. Two years later saw the complete victory of the NLF. Suffering such an embarrassing defeat, and terrified of provoking new social upheaval at home, US imperialism held back from major military interventions abroad for almost 20 years. Only in the last decade have they been confident enough to contemplate starting wars that risk a serious loss of US lives. Since then, the spokesmen and politicians of big business have been trying to re-write history. The right wing argues that the US never really lost the war, but just failed to conduct it energetically enough. These same elements believe that their quick victory in Afghanistan has shown that determined military action can overcome all obstacles. This is a completely wrong conclusion. As New York Times correspondent C. L. Sulzberger wrote: "The US emerges as the big loser and the history books must reflect this...We lost the war in the Mississippi valley, not the Mekong valley. Successive American governments were never able to muster the necessary support at home." The distinguishing mark of the Vietnam War was that the US waged a war against a social revolution. The majority of peasants and workers in Vietnam were fighting for their national and social liberation and were therefore prepared to make great sacrifices. There is no comparison between the war in Vietnam and the war in Afghanistan, where the reactionary Taliban was hated by the majority of the population. As soon as the ground war began, the Taliban was isolated with no social base and quickly collapsed. It became a conventional war of armies in which the US had a huge advantage. This was the key factor that led to the swift US victory. The terrorist outrage of 9/11 and the reactionary nature of the Taliban also meant that there was no social support for the Taliban in the US, making it much easier for Bush to win public support for his war. The enormous worsening of social conditions in the semi-colonial countries, due to neo-liberal globalization, will force the workers and peasants in the 3third world2 into struggle in the coming years. As the main global policeman of corporate interests, the US will attempt to throttle these movements. But any military intervention in a revolutionary situation, like in Vietnam, would force the US once again to put hundreds of thousands of ground troops into the field of battle, risking significant US casualties. The US would be forced to restore the draft, opening up the potential for revolt among the armed forces. September 11th represents a turning point in history, ushering in a new period marked by great instability, crises, and wars. The tremendous anti-Vietnam War movement is rich in valuable lessons. In the more turbulent and violent epoch we have entered, these lessons can be of great use in building a powerful, effective anti-war movement, which contains the seeds of a new world. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... 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IBB Bin Laden: U.S. security depends on policy New tape aired on Al-Jazeera (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden delivered a new videotaped message in which he told Americans their security does not depend on the president they elect, but on U.S. policy. He also claimed responsibility for the attacks of September 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3,000 people. "Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al Qaeda," bin Laden said in the video aired on the Arabic language network Al-Jazeera. What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ? CNET Editors' Choice 2004. Tell them what you think. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 09:53:24 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 09:53:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fight Global Warming with Your Knife and Fork Message-ID: <20041101175324.16878.qmail@web13602.mail.yahoo.com> http://www.greenbiz.com/news/columns_third.cfm?NewsID=27338 Fight Global Warming with Your Knife and Fork Everything about global warming seems big and overwhelming. Perhaps that?s fitting, considering the dimensions of the problem. A recent U.S. Energy Department report predicts global warming will soon cause more flooding and severe droughts across the Western United States. Many blame it for last year?s deadly summer in Europe, which claimed more than 19,000 lives. Even Hollywood sees the grand scale: Last May, a film from 20th Century Fox filled the big-screen with images of eco-horrors tied to global climactic change. So how can we as individuals do anything meaningful about such a massive issue? With Earth Day approaching on April 22, the question is particularly timely. The problem is that most of the advice about how to fight global warming revolves around things we do occasionally, if at all: insulate our homes, buy a hybrid car, switch to compact fluorescent bulbs. These are helpful steps that taken together can make a BIG impact. But what can we do each day that will really make a difference? Look no further than your plate. We can help fight global warming three times a day by making a few simple changes in our eating habits. Eat local. Eat less meat. Eat organic. Eat Local Did you know the food you eat travels an average of more than 1,500 miles to reach your plate? Transporting food burns fossil fuels, which create tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases -- the primary cause of global warming. Brian Halweil of Worldwatch found that a typical meal bought from a conventional supermarket chain uses four to 17 times more petroleum for transport than the same meal using local ingredients. Support your regional economy, beginning with the food you eat. At home in New Rochelle, NY, I relish my weekly visits to the Friday farmer?s market. There Amish farmers sell fresh broccoli, red ripe tomatoes and juicy peaches. Further north my friend Beth has joined a CSA -- Community Supported Agriculture -- to share with others in a local farm?s production for the season. These local alternatives feed the soul as well as the stomach. Eat Less Meat We feed more than half the grain grown in the United States to livestock. That greatly compounds the climactic impact of our oil-dependent food system. According to noted ecologist David Pimentel of Cornell University, it takes on average 28 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of meat protein for human consumption. Grain production requires only about 3.3 calories of fossil fuel energy to produce one calorie of protein. Large, confined livestock operations also generate vast amounts of manure, which releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas with 20 times the heat trapping power of carbon dioxide. Health experts recommend you eat more whole grains, fruits and vegetables. What better time to start than if you?re concerned about global warming. Eat Organic Our industrialized food system -- the collective growing, processing, packaging, shipping and cooking of our food -- accounts for a whopping 17% of the fossil fuel energy we consume as a nation. According to the EPA, the agricultural sector alone generates almost 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Agricultural chemicals -- synthetic fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides -- account for more than half of all on-farm energy use. Organic farming uses no synthetic chemicals, greatly reducing our dependence on fossil fuels to produce food. As an added bonus, organic farming significantly cuts emissions of nitrous oxide, which is produced when soils interact with chemical fertilizers. An extremely powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide has 310 times the heat trapping power of CO2. What?s more, organic farming can actually help undo global warming. Soils farmed using sustainable, organic methods absorb CO2 from the air and lock it into the soil as fertile humus. This makes organic farmland a sink rather than a source of CO2. Paul Hepperly of the Rodale Institute estimates that if all the corn and soy cropland in the nation converted to organic production, some 580 billion pounds of excess CO2 could be captured from the atmosphere and stored in the soil annually. Our world is heating up and we need to take action. Armed with our knives and forks, we wield a lot more power to affect change than we realize. Be part of the solution, three times a day. Eat local. Eat less meat. Eat organic. Not just because you?ll help fight global warming, but because fresh, locally grown, organic food tastes better, too. --------- Elysa J. Hammond is the staff ecologist of Clif Bar Inc., a maker of all-natural energy and nutrition foods. In addition to her work at Clif Bar, Hammond is an honorary research associate at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, N.Y., and a member of the Greenhouse Network, a grassroots movement working to stop global warming. She holds a Master of Forest Science from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies with a specialty in the ecology of food production systems. More Columns... What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ? CNET Editors' Choice 2004. Tell them what you think. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 10:06:28 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:06:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] 6 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE ON TUESDAY! Message-ID: <20041101180628.12655.qmail@web13626.mail.yahoo.com> DEMOCRATS FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE 6 WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE ON TUESDAY! Even as you read this, Republicans are waging an all-out attack on your rights as a voter. This makes it more important than ever that you get out and vote! To ensure that your voice is heard, you need to understand the "rules of the road" for casting a ballot. Here are 6 key things to do and keep in mind when you go to vote Tuesday: 1. LEARN YOUR VOTING RIGHTS. You can get the facts about voting in key states by going to http://www.ourvote.com/. It sets out detailed information on voting rights for each of 19 states - including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, the states where problems and abuses may be most prevalent. You can get more information (such as information in other languages) at http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/politics/myvotemyright.cfm. 2. FIND THE RIGHT PLACE TO VOTE. Don't be denied your right to vote just because you are at the wrong polling place! Go online to http://www.mypollingplace.com/find.php to find out where exactly you should go to vote. 3. TAKE I.D. TO THE POLLS. Different states have different laws on who needs to show ID and what type of ID is acceptable. To be safe, take ID to the polls with you. Take your driver's license, or a paycheck, utility bill or government document that includes your name and street address. 4. WHAT IF YOUR NAME ISN'T ON THE LIST? Don't panic if you registered to vote but your name is not on the list. Get help from a poll worker to make sure your vote is counted. You should do the following: (1) check to see if you should be at another polling place; (2) as a last resort, you can fill out a provisional ballot at your polling location. What is a "provisional ballot"? These ballots are intended to make sure that voters whose eligibility is in question on Election Day can still cast a vote and have their vote be counted. You would use a provisional ballot if you're having I.D. problems and/or appear to have been purged incorrectly. The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) requires that provisional ballots be counted if the voter is eligible to vote by state law, but some election officials have applied standards for counting provisional ballots that are unrelated to voter eligibility. Voting by provisional ballot should be your last resort. The state must notify you as to whether your ballot was counted. 5. ONCE YOU'RE IN LINE, YOU'RE GOOD. Once you are in line, you will get to vote - even if you show up just before the polls close. Just make sure you are actually standing in line before your polling place closes. To find the polling hours for your state, go online to http://www.newvotersproject.org/polling_times. You probably won't have to wait too long. Even if the line is long, don't leave without voting. If you are worried about long lines, try go to the polls during off hours: 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. 6. IF YOU THINK YOU'VE BEEN CHEATED OUT OF YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE, SPEAK UP! Print out the wallet card at http://cdn.moveonpac.org/content/pdfs/ep_card.pdf and take it with you to your polling place. It contains national contact numbers to report voting problems and to get help. If you need immediate legal assistance, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE. FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT DEMOCRATS FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE! What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail ? CNET Editors' Choice 2004. Tell them what you think. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 10:24:46 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:24:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Text of Osama's message to US Message-ID: <20041101182446.49680.qmail@web13609.mail.yahoo.com> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/904780.cms -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Text of Osama's message to US AFP [SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2004 11:34:59 AM] DOHA: Following is a translation from Arabic of the text of a message to the Americans by Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in which he threatens fresh attacks on the US, days before the US presidential election, as aired by Al-Jazeera TV on Friday night. "O American people, this is what I have to say about the causes and results (of the September 11, 2001 attacks) and the way to avoid another Manhattan. I tell you that security is a major pillar of human life. Free men do not renounce their security, irrespective of (US President George W) Bush's claims that we hate freedom. Let him (Bush) tell us why we did not attack Sweden, for example. It is obvious that those who hate freedom cannot have the pride of the 19 (September 11 suicide hijackers), God rest their souls. If we fought you, it is because we are free men, we do not ignore values, we want to return freedom to our nation. If you play havoc with our security, we play havoc with yours. You astonish me. Despite the fact that we are into the fourth year after September 11, Bush is still misleading you and hiding the real reason from you, which means that the reasons to repeat what happened remain. I will tell you about the reasons of these events and about the moments in which the decision (to attack) was taken so you will ponder them. I swear we never thought of attacking the towers, but when we saw the injustice and arbitrariness of the US-Israeli alliance against our brethren in Palestine and Lebanon, it became too much and the idea came to me. The events which affected me directly go back to 1982 ... when America gave the Israelis the green light to invade Lebanon, with the backing of the US Sixth Fleet. It is difficult to describe what I felt in these painful moments, but it created an overwhelming feeling of refusal of injustice and a compelling determination to punish the unjust. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me that the unjust should suffer the same, that the towers in America must be destroyed so that America gets a taste of what we went through, so that it will stop killing our children and women. We did not find it hard to deal with Bush and his administration given the similarity with the regimes in our countries, half of which are governed by soldiers and the other half by the offspring of kings and presidents. We have a long experience with those. Both categories count people who are arrogant, greedy and embezzle (public) funds. The similarity began at the time of visits by Bush the father (former US president George Bush) to the region. At a time when some of our kinfolk were impressed by America and hoped that these visits would impact on our countries, it turned out that he was the one affected by these monarchies and military regimes, envying them for keeping their posts tens of years, embezzling public funds without being held accountable or monitored. He transferred tyranny and repression of freedoms to his son and they called it a national law (US Patriot Act, introduced) under the pretext of combating terrorism. Bush's father thought it was a good thing to put his sons to govern states. And he did not forget to transfer (election-) forging skills from the presidents of the region to Florida to use them in critical times. We had agreed with (suicide hijacker) Mohammad Atta, God rest his soul, that he finishes all operations in 20 minutes before Bush and his administration take notice. It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone at a time when they were most in need of him. He reckoned that it was more important to preoccupy himself with the talk of the little girl about her goat ... than with the planes and their strike on the skyscrapers, giving us three times the time required to carry out the operations, thanks be to God. Your security is not in the hands of (Democratic presidential candidate John) Kerry, Bush or Al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands. Any (presidential) mandate which does not play havoc with our security would automatically ensure its own security." What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. - www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The study is accompanied by more in-depth case studies on specific company and government actions, including San Diego and California's. Download Report Now (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) --------------------------------- Feedback Comment on this program What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. - www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 11:41:58 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:41:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] New Report Documents Profitable Corporate Actions To Slow Global Warming Message-ID: <20041101194158.28034.qmail@web13603.mail.yahoo.com> http://www.greenbiz.com/news/news_third.cfm?NewsID=27328 New Report Documents Profitable Corporate Actions To Slow Global Warming Source: GreenBiz.com NEW YORK, Oct. 27, 2004 - A new report from the World Resources Institute highlights corporate actions to slow global warming at today's Consolidated Edison's Environmental Excellence Forum. In 2003, nine diverse northeast-based U.S. corporations -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Citigroup, Consolidated Edison of New York, Eastman Kodak Company, General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, Northeast Utilities Service Company, Pfizer, and Staples -- teamed up with WRI to form the Climate Northeast initiative. Climate Northeast focuses on climate change management strategies for energy use, emissions tracking, and innovations such as green power purchasing. Today's event marked the release of WRI's findings -- featuring case studies from each of the companies -- in a report entitled A Climate of Innovation: Northeast Business Action to Reduce Greenhouse Gases (click here to download). "Companies can position themselves to be successful in a carbon-constrained world and capture new markets for products and services," noted WRI and all nine corporate partners in the foreword to the report. They added that business has a role to play in bringing about technological solutions to climate change because its resources and focus on innovation can drive a clean energy future and deploy new technologies on a global scale. "Forward-thinking companies can be proactive on climate change in a manner consistent with growing their bottom lines," said Jonathan Lash, WRI president. "These business leaders recognize that taking action on environmental issues is more than being a good corporate citizen; it is also good business." According to the authors of the report -- Andrew Aulisi, Jennifer Layke and Samantha Putt del Pino -- examples of the efficiency and financial returns seen by these nine companies include: Citigroup invested $2.5 million to upgrade centralize its lighting, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning at 270 retail branches in the New York City-Connecticut-New Jersey metropolitan area. With a half-million dollars in efficiency rebates, it was able to pay back this investment in a single year. Electricity and natural gas use were cut by 15% and the number of service calls to these branches was reduced by 30%. Staples decreased its energy use by 12.3% since 2001. In 2003, Staples took the money it saved from this $6.5 million energy-efficiency gain and used it to buy renewable energy -- and at no additional cost Staples was able to green 10% of its energy use. General Electric continues to diversify into clean power technologies. In addition to its higher-efficiency appliances and turbines, the company has made major investments in solar power and wind power -- and is bringing world-class design and manufacturing skill to these smaller-scale technologies. "We are undertaking these projects because they make business sense" said Randolph Price, vice president for environment, health and safety, Consolidated Edison Company of New York. "We hope our experiences will be useful for other businesses interested in getting started with greenhouse-gas management programs." The new report says that global warming is a long-term global challenge that can be addressed by starting today with practical, cost-effective actions. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are emitted into the air from every sector of economic activity, and each year these emissions continue to rise. Energy use in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions represents 25% of the United States' greenhouse gas emissions. These emissions contribute to a pattern of global warming that could change weather patterns, raise sea levels and cause salt contamination of water supplies in coastal areas, among other impacts. Policymakers are moving forward under the leadership of New York Governor George Pataki to develop a greenhouse gas registry and emissions-trading program in the northeast region. More News... What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. - www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 18:59:52 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:59:52 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] (Coalition of the Misled) Cheney Misleads on Halliburton Message-ID: <20041102025952.73454.qmail@web13604.mail.yahoo.com> =============================== THE DAILY MIS-LEAD < www.Misleader.org > =============================== CHENEY MISLEADS ON HALLIBURTON Vice President Dick Cheney has insisted that criticism of his former company Halliburton is unwarranted and politically motivated. On October 5th, at the vice-presidential debate, Cheney said, "the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smokescreen. They know the charges are false...there's no substance to the charges."[1] The FBI isn't so sure. It was revealed Thursday that "the FBI has expanded its investigation of Halliburton's work in Iraq to determine if the Pentagon improperly awarded no-bid contracts."[2] In June it was reported that, according to an Army Corps of Engineer's email, a multi-billion dollar no-bid contract for Halliburton "had been 'coordinated' with the office of Vice President Cheney."[3] Sources: 1. "The Cheney-Edwards Vice Presidential Debate," Commission on Presidential Debates, 10/05/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1813853&l=66122 . 2. "FBI expands Halliburton probe - report," CBS, 10/28/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1813853&l=66123 . 3. "E-Mail Links Cheney's Office, Contract," Washington Post, 6/2/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1813853&l=66124 . Visit www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion. ? =========================================================== What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 20:12:18 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:12:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Energy Transition and Final Energy Crisis Message-ID: <20041102041219.77589.qmail@web13622.mail.yahoo.com> Looks like Iraq will be our 51st state. IBB http://www.petroleumworld.com/SunOPF103104.htm Energy Transition and Final Energy Crisis By Andrew McKillop World commercial energy demand, overall, is well over 90% based on non-renewable and environmentally damaging fossil fuels (only 8% is hydropower based, while capital intensive nuclear power depends entirely on non-renewable uranium, thorium and other minerals). The current ?oil price crisis? in reality reflects an emerging and permanent supply crisis for oil and gas (which currently provide about 65% of world commercial energy). Initially, this will concern ever slower net additions of world production capacity in the face of strong demand growth, and will manifest itself as continued oil price rises, and continued gas price rises. For oil, the myth of OPEC always being the ?supplier of last resort? has in 2004 already been discredited if not finally destroyed. Soon after the present and short-term ?price crisis?, which can only intensify in the 2005-2008 period, and within at most 10 years, both oil supply and natural gas supply will enter into constant and terminal decline, due to physical depletion. This is to some, small extent admitted in a grudging way by so-called ?leaderships? of the business and political, financial and economic ?communities?. Opinion formers and policy makers in late 2004 now admit that ?oil prices will remain high? because of fast demand growth and slow growth of supply, but add brave claims that oil prices ?will fall to normal levels?, perhaps by the end of 2005, without explaining which normal levels and why! In fact only two factors can bring down oil and gas prices (which in any case are interdependent and related through same-market trading): increasing supply or falling demand. For the first, increasing supply, the outlook is bleak. Worldwide oil depletion is now running at about 1.25 ? 1.5 Million barrels/day (Mbd) of capacity lost each year, and net additions to world oil production capacity are small, slow, high cost, and irregular. On the demand side, because of strong industrial growth in China, India, and also in East Europe, West Asia and Latin America, oil and gas demand is growing at its fastest percentage rate since 1975-80. In many nonOECD countries experiencing fast industrial and economic growth, typical annual growth rates of demand are 5%-9% for oil, and 8%-12% for gas. World demand growth is admitted by the IEA to be running at 3%/year or more and will stay strong unless world economic recession is triggered through OECD countries racking interest rates to double-digit highs, or by runaway oil price rises to well over 100 US dollars/barrel (USD/bbl), equivalent to gas prices at 16 USD/Million BTU, causing an inflation outburst, first and mostly in the OECD countries. This ?price crisis? could occur at almost any time, especially due to further and more intense destabilization and conflict in the Middle East, or through stoppages, accidents, or weather-related damage to very large oil and gas production, refining or transport systems anyplace in the world. We can note that current oil prices, at around 50 USD/bbl, are in real terms equivalent to only about 60% of the peak price they briefly achieved in 1979-80, over 24 years ago. Oil crisis then and now The ?oil crisis? of 1979-80 was due to the Iranian revolution cutting supply to world oil markets. The physical supply shortage or undersupply was equal to about 5% - 7% of daily needs, for a period of over 4 months. In today?s terms, with world oil import demand running at around 46 Mbd and growing very fast (at over 3 Mbd per year), an equivalent supply cut would be about 2.5 to 2.75 Mbd. This assumes that ?normal? levels of spare supply capacity exist, but in fact today?s margin of spare capacity has been deeply cut with the loss, or effective sabotage of Iraq?s oil export capacities (around 2.4 Mbd prewar) through military invasion and destabilization by the US and UK, in what UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan describes as an illegal war. When this illegal war was decided in 2003, Iraq?s export capacities of around 2.4 Mbd were likely equivalent to 60% or 65% of world ?spare? capacity. Today, 18 months later, this spare capacity margin has dramatically shrunk to probably less than 1 Mbd, because of demand growth and effective loss of Iraqi oil export capacities, ongoing depletion losses, and slow growth of new oil production capacity at the world level. Relative to current oil demand, this 0.75 - 1 Mbd margin is equivalent only to about 4 months of world demand growth, or 3 months of world import demand growth. Any supply cutoff, of not much above 1 Mbd and for any reason will in these conditions rapidly lever up oil prices ? and by ?contagion? effect gas prices ? in a very short period of time. Iran attained its ultimate peak oil production more than 20 years ago. Since 1975 its population has nearly tripled, and today it has one of the fastest growing car fleets in Asia (after China), leading Iran to become a large and growing importer of refined products, and a declining exporter of crude. When or if Iran?s so-called ?illegal? nuclear installations are of course ?surgically? bombed by Israel or by US forces stationed in Iraq, another Iranian oil crisis, this time by Iranian embargo, would very surely and rapidly drive oil prices well beyond 100 USD/bbl. This would again be through political decision, but the emerging and short-term prospect is of near-simultaneous peaks for world oil and then world gas production being attained in the 2008-2018 period. This will bring structural physical shortage and permanent undersupply. We are in fact entering a terminal energy crisis for ?cheap and abundant? oil and gas supplies, and recognition of this requires urgent attention and immediate action for energy transition. In this new and emerging context, there is ever less need or reason for political action, embargo, or war damage - that is ?geopolitical risk? - to be considered the sole cause of oil and gas prices attaining ?extreme? levels. This is due to the ?pincer action? of increasing depletion losses and slower annual additions of new capacity in a context of fast energy demand growth. This first limit concerns oil, but within a period no more than 10 years after ?peak oil? is attained, the same will occur for world gas production capacities. In addition, and because of ?peak oil?, world gas demand will increase very fast through massive demand shift from oil to gas. Faced with structural undersupply until and unless economic restructuring and energy transition are implemented on a worldwide basis, the final energy crisis will surely test leaderships of the big consumer and importer nations and groups of nations, now including nuclear armed China, India and Pakistan as well as the EU and USA. Action and goals for energy transition The Kyoto Treaty and ?Kyoto process? for implementing fossil energy saving, reduction of CO2 and other climate-changing gas emissions, and development of renewable energy-based, sustainable infrastructures ? that is ?clean development? ? will in theory and by about 2012 bring falls in oil and gas demand of some ratifying countries. Other ratifying countries, such as Germany and Denmark, which have developed large wind electric capacity and are slow growth/high unemployment economies, will not need to target large falls in their fossil energy burn or purchase of tradable licenses to pollute. These licenses or permits essentially transfer nominal responsibility for oil, gas or coal burning from richer, oil- and gas-intensive economies to low income, presently energy-lean or energy-extensive economies. This effectively ?exports oil and gas demand?, entraining faster conventional or ?classic? economic growth in the recipient country. Overall and in fact, Kyoto Treaty implementation starting in about 2008 will result in only marginal, or no total and overall reduction of world fossil energy consumption by 2020-2030. In the near-term, certainly to 2010-2015, world total fossil energy demand will likely increase even faster than today, because of accelerated ?conventional? economic development by the newly emerging industrial superpowers, China and India, and several other large population, fast growing economies such as Brasil, Pakistan and Turkey. This creates nearly sure ?trends continued? outlooks of world demand for oil and gas continuing to expand, perhaps as fast as today, until physical rationing and allocation of fossil fuel supplies becomes the last option and only solution, because of physical depletion. Oil and gas price rises are totally sure, and the ceiling prices needed before the presente market trading system is abandoned is hard to estimate. Extreme prices for oil and gas will in fact first impact the world?s most oil-intensive and gas-intensive economies ? that is the OECD group of countries. This will surely start causing severe economic difficulty within the very short-term near future, in the 2004-2006 period. This makes it of strict national interest for OECD countries to set plans for physical rationing and supply allocation, and start implementing programmed cuts in oil and gas consumption, and development of renewable energy output capacities over and above any Kyoto process requirements, which in any case will not start being applied much before 2008. By 2015, it will be urgent to consider ways and means to reduce world total oil and gas demand on a year-by-year basis. Given the vast scope of such a programme, and the need for the OECD countries to act in the immediate short-term of 2004-2008, the action and goals of a world energy transition programme should be proposed, discussed, decided and start being applied from 2004-2005. Currently there is almost no movement towards to setting frameworks and agendas for this very urgent task. Geopolitical risk In the mid-term and long-term there is recognized need to cut oil and gas burning to limit climate change. More importantly in the short-term there is an increasingly urgent need to limit and head off oil and gas price explosions able to trigger ?great power rivalry?, that is armed conflict for remaining reserves of oil and natural gas between the world?s economic superpowers, motivated by ?national economic survival?. World regions most exposed to this risk are evidently the Middle East and Central Asia, and to a lesser extent Africa. We can note that threats of using military invasion, or actual invasion ? of Iraq in 2003 ? did not in any way ?facilitate and improve? oil supplies to the large consumer countries and groups of countries. In fact the exact opposite: the US-UK invasion of Iraq has effectively sabotaged or neutralised Iraq?s oil export capacity for many years. Any international plan and programme for energy transition, perhaps modeled on or incorporating the Kyoto Treaty, must ensure that oil producers are not exposed to military invasion, nor catastrophic falls in the oil price and their export revenues, when or if they choose to husband or conserve their non-renewable resources, and cap their oil or gas production before reducing it, instead of waiting for resource depletion and exhaustion to do the same job. No ?obligation to supply? a depleting, non-renewable resource exists. The risk of great power rivalry for remaining oil and gas reserves is high. Even the most unconditional believers in ?unlimited oil and gas reserves? accept that covering depletion loss, and adding net production capacity takes time and is increasingly costly to develop. The risk, or threat of large nations or groups of nations ?jumping the queue? and taking oil and gas production capacity wherever it already exists ? leading inevitably to armed resistance, as in Iraq - is real. Certainly since 1973, political deciders in the US have considered that any embargo or ?unreasonable? reduction in supplies of oil, by exporters, is hostile to US vital interests - opening the way to retorsion or revenge by military invasion, to restore the ?free flow of reasonable priced oil?, as it was called by G. Bush-1 at the time of the ?liberation? of Kuwait in 1991. Any other large oil-importer nation, or group of oil-importer nations with nuclear weapons capability can adopt the same ?oil supply security? doctrine. Participation in faster development and construction of non-oil, non-gas renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels, and especially substitutes for oil, will therefore reduce invasion risks for oil and gas exporter countries. The same effort will also reduce ?threats to economic security? of the large oil importer nations and groups of nations. As noted above, current and future oil and gas ?supply gaps?, causing undersupply to markets, will become structural. This will raise the risks from failed attempts at obtaining oil reserves or production capacity through military invasion, as in Iraq. Logically, this should lead to renouncement of the ?military option? for obtaining oil and gas production capacities. The non-option of military invasion as a ?respose? to declining supply and rising prices should urgently be replaced by international cooperation and action for energy transition, featuring concerted near-term multilateral action to first limit growth, then reduce world total oil and gas utilisation, while rapidly developing larger-scale renewable energy systems. The double-edged sword of oil and energy prices On the one hand higher oil prices increase world oil demand until very high prices are attained, as is very simply verified by checking world oil demand growth, and growth of oil prices through 1999-2004. On the other hand, much higher oil and energy prices are obligatory for rationalizing and justifying replacement and substitute energy sources, systems and strategies in the energy economy. Neither of these two propositions are accepted. The so-called financial community, notably the presidents of the US, European and Japanese central banks, and the IMF?s Chief economist have in 2004 repeatedly claimed, without presenting any coherent evidence, that high or ?extreme? oil prices can only depress economic growth. If this happened, it would lead to a fall in world oil demand growth, or even to zero growth of world oil demand, with actual contraction of demand being possible if the ?hard landing? continued. In fact the real world, real economy does not operate this way. Increasing oil prices tend to reinforce and increase economic growth at the world level, leading to further oil and energy demand growth. Through the period 1999-2004, as oil prices have increased, world oil demand growth rates have consistently increased ? not decreased. To accommodate this distressing ?reality gap? between official mythology, and measurable economic reality, so-called ?experts? now add that ?extreme priced oil? will not hurt economic growth until about 12 months have elapsed, enabling the ?real but delayed action? negative impacts of high priced oil to work through the economy. This fantasy economics is unlikely to translate to reality unless interest rates in OECD countries are hiked to double-digit rates. Higher priced oil will almost certainly continue to drive world economic growth until oil prices attain at least 75 USD/bbl. In addition, the first slowing impacts on economic growth of much higher oil and energy prices will occur not in low income oil-importing countries, as repeatedly claimed by official economic mythology, but in the most oil-intensive economies and societies of the OECD group of countries. Oil saving is therefore of basic interest, concern and utility to the most oil-intensive, oil-wasteful economies and societies. Development of renewable energy systems has in general been slowed first by derisorily low and volatile prices for competing fossil energy sources through 1986-99, ?hidden? infrastructure subsidies for fossil-based energy and nuclear power, and by high capital costs and long lead times for proving, then developing large scale renewable energy systems. In addition, renewable energy is often low-intensity and needs wide area conversion, making necessary the integration of energy-only production and output with other forms of local or regional economic development (e.g. agriculture, sylviculture, mariculture, horticulture etc). For all of these reasons, high and stable fossil energy prices are needed to make renewable energy systems competitive and feasible using conventional cost-benefit analysis. For the oil and gas exporter countries, whether OPEC members or not, there is also at least mid-term, and surely long-term national interest in developing and proving substitutes and alternatives to fossil fuels. One major reason (apart from reducing invasion risk) for their active participation in oil- and gas-saving and fossil energy replacement by renewables is to conserve their non-renewable economic resources and limit environment damage, and economic resource misallocation caused by maximising extraction. Oil saving and personal oil consumption Annual personal or per capita oil demand (PCOD) rates are entirely dependent on economic development, urbanization and personal consumption. Rates vary in the OECD developed, high consumption, oil-intensive economies, where car ownership rates range from about 40 ? 75 cars/100 population. The ultimate peak for the OECD group is about 25 barrels/capita/year (bcy) in the USA and Canada, and is around 10 ? 12 bcy in the EU nations, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Conversely, the low income but fast growing, high population, industrialising countries including China, India, Pakistan and Brasil, with under 5 cars/100 population, currently use only about 1.25 - 2.5 bcy. Due to extreme consumption in the OECD nations, world average PCOD (about 4.7 bcy and increasing, albeit slowly) is well above per capita oil demand in the new and emerging industrial superpowers, and over 8 times the average PCOD of rural populations in the low income countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. Total commercial energy demand is in general 2 ? 3 times the above rates for oil-only demand and consumption, depending on development and utilisation of pipeline gas and LPG, the use of domestic and imported coal, and the size and output of installed non-oil electric power capacities. In many low income countries, so-called ?non commercial? energy, that is biomass source energy specially in rural areas, contributes up to 30% or more of total national energy consumption. Urban migration and urban industrial development, driven by and causing further rural-urban migration, inevitably shifts energy demand from ?non-commercial? to commercial energy. The net result is to increase national average PCOD, making it necessary to prioritize sustainable rural development not only to assure food supply and conservation of bioresources, but also to limit national oil and gas demand growth. Current and conventional urban-industrial economic infrastructures are close to 100% dependent on oil and gas energy, thermal electricity, and hydrocarbon based raw materials, as well as derived products (for example gas and oil-based fertilizers and insecticides for food production, materials utilised for building, and energy needs of operating ?conventional? habitat and transport systems). Economic growth, worldwide, is at present entirely dependent on increased oil, gas and electric power consumption. This results in potential world oil and gas demand being effectively close to ?unlimited?. If for example the world was able, by miracle, to attain the extreme heights of US oil consumption (about 25 bcy) world oil demand would run at around 445 Mbd. This production capacity ? very simply ? will never be attained on this planet. No energy agency, data source or ?expert?, however optimistic or illuminated, will provide claims that world oil production capacity can ever exceed about 120-150 Mbd before ?peak oil? is attained. Despite this reality, US politicians claim that US-style ?prosperity and wellbeing? are global objectives and can be attained for example in militarily invaded and occupied Iraq: if this occurred, Iraq?s current 25 Million population would require about 1.75 Mbd, or well above Iraq?s present total, war damaged oil production capacity ! Energy transition imperatives The first imperative can be understood from the above: with the world?s current population of around 6.4 Billion, and maximum likely oil production capacity of around 90 Mbd, world average PCOD will probably never attain more than a short-term peak of around 5.25 bcy. After this peak, average PCOD will decline at about 3%/year, as oil and gas depletion sets in after 2008 while world population continues to grow, albeit at ever shrinking rates. The decline rate of 3%/year for average PCOD can be split as around 1.5%/year for the fall in net oil production, and about 1.5%/year due to remaining population growth. From about 2010-2015, depletion will accelerate the annual decline of world oil production to 3.5% or more, and world gas output will at that time peak out, before starting to decline. Current rates of oil and gas demand on a per capita basis in the OECD group, especially the US and Canada, are therefore impossible to sustain and must be reduced by large amounts in a short period of time. Conversely, the low and medium income nations and economies can target some small increase in their national average PCOD, during transition. In all cases the role of oil and gas prices will be significant in entraining and directing economy restructuring for energy transition. It is necessary and urgent to consider ways and means to reduce world oil demand growth to zero, and then reduce world oil demand, at latest from the date world oil production peaks, and preferably well before. This requires the OECD countries to set targets for oil demand reduction able to accommodate short-term increases in the PCOD of the emerging industrial powers, still in demographic transition and rapidly developing their economic infrastructures. Overall, this results in targets for OECD national oil demand cuts, and within a short period gas demand cuts, at rates up to 10%/year, depending on national demographic trends. For evident geological and environmental reasons, the fossil fuels will phase out, and must be replaced by reduced overall energy needs, and by increased supply of renewable energy. The second imperative, therefore, is for large-scale multilateral programmes for rapid, cost-effective development of sustainable economic infrastructures based on renewable energy sources. Conclusions The strengthening likelihood is that oil prices will easily exceed 75 US dollars/barrel, in the absence of any war, sabotage or hostile action, solely because of ?structural undersupply? and almost certainly by 2008. This itself will powerfully draw attention to study and action for firstly slowing the growth of oil and gas demand, then reducing demand for these fossil fuels. Only at genuinely ?extreme? oil prices, well above USD 100-per-barrel, will there be a rapid and uncontrolled fall in fossil energy demand, firstly in the OECD countries, triggered by economic crisis. This will come too late to offer any chances of organized and efficient economic and energy restructuring, especially in the OECD economies and societies, which are the most oil-dependent due to their high or extreme average per capita rates of oil demand. Laisser-faire scenarios will necessarily include a new ?Great Depression? to a backdrop of already serious tension and low-level but increasing international conflict and warfare focused on the Middle East (?war against terror? and ?war for oil?). De-globalization, or increased self-reliance will necessarily feature in longer-term restructuring of the world?s energy and economic systems. The sooner that internationally agreed targets, frameworks and structures for managing energy transition can be set, the greater is the chance of avoiding endgame energy resource conflicts, and achieving long-term sustainability. The likely, near-term oil shocks due in final analysis to emerging supply deficits will be ?salutary crises? if they bring coherent action to head off irremediable crisis. Andrew McKillop is a Founder member, Asian Chapter, Internatl Assocn of Energy Economists and Former Expert-Policy and programming, Divn A-Policy, DGXVII-Energy, European Commission. Author of several books on energy, environment and development published in UK, Canada and USA. His forthcoming book ?The Final Energy Crisis? (ISBN 0745320929) is to be distributed by Pluto Press,London,before the year end. Its views are not necessarily those of PETROLEUMWORLD. Andrew McKillop e-mail address xtran04 at yahoo.com . 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URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 09:52:12 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 09:52:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Sea Shepherd E-News Message-ID: <20041102175212.65803.qmail@web13605.mail.yahoo.com> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } October 30, 2004 Dear Friend of Sea Shepherd: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is pleased to introduce a regular e-newsletter to update, inform and involve all of our supporters in the issues affecting our oceans and the survival of marine species worldwide. E-mail has enabled us to react faster to problems, and we would like to cultivate this technology to help us be more effective in responding to concerns and emergencies. The primary purpose of our new e-newsletter service is to bring action items to you as quickly as we can to keep you informed and enable you to respond timely to targeted opponents and allies. We will also be able to bring you immediate updates from campaigns and inform you immediately of our results in the field. Of course we welcome your feedback, participation and suggestions to the Sea Shepherd E-News. We hope you join us in taking action today! Thank you for your support. Captain Paul Watson Taiji Dolphin Campaign Each year, from October through February, in small towns across Japan, thousands of dolphins and small whales are confined and brutally killed. Over 23,000 dolphins will be needlessly killed this year alone. Sea Shepherd is mounting an intense worldwide publicity campaign to bring pressure to bear on the Japanese to end this abhorrent and unnecessary slaughter. Visit our new campaign pages; read about how the Japanese are poisoning their people; see how ?Swim with Dolphin? programs help fund this slaughter; hear the story as told by Susan Sarandon and find out exactly how vicious these dolphin killers are. Furthermore, learn how you can become involved to stop the slaughter. Read about the dolphin slaughter in Japan http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji.html Watch the new Public Service Announcement narrated by Susan Sarandon http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji_video.html Learn about the Taiji $10,000 Documentation Prize offered by Sea Shepherd http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_040921_1.html TAKE ACTION! YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Print and sign the International Petition asking the Japanese government to stop this slaughter http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji_petition.html Get involved in the Worldwide Protest ? come join us in cities around the world http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji_worldwide_protest.html Send emails and letters of protest http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/taiji_letters_addresses.html Contact Sea Shepherd for other ways you can become involved Email us at: info at seashepherd.org ******************************************************************************** Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the U.S. Founded in 1977 by Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd?s mission is to defend, conserve and protect marine wildlife and their ecosystems. 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Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 11:20:46 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:20:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech Message-ID: <20041102192046.88804.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/79C6AF22-98FB-4A1C-B21F-2BC36E87F61F.htm Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech above is right next to the asp:img closing tag with -->Monday 01 November 2004, 16:01 Makka Time, 13:01 GMT Following is the full English transcript of Usama bin Ladin's speech in a videotape sent to Aljazeera. In the interests of authenticity, the content of the transcript, which appeared as subtitles at the foot of the screen, has been left unedited. Praise be to Allah who created the creation for his worship and commanded them to be just and permitted the wronged one to retaliate against the oppressor in kind. To proceed: Peace be upon he who follows the guidance: People of America this talk of mine is for you and concerns the ideal way to prevent another Manhattan, and deals with the war and its causes and results. Before I begin, I say to you that security is an indispensable pillar of human life and that free men do not forfeit their security, contrary to Bush's claim that we hate freedom. If so, then let him explain to us why we don't strike for example - Sweden? And we know that freedom-haters don't possess defiant spirits like those of the 19 - may Allah have mercy on them. No, we fight because we are free men who don't sleep under oppression. We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation. So shall we lay waste to yours. No one except a dumb thief plays with the security of others and then makes himself believe he will be secure. Whereas thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again. But I am amazed at you. Even though we are in the fourth year after the events of September 11th, Bush is still engaged in distortion, deception and hiding from you the real causes. And thus, the reasons are still there for a repeat of what occurred. So I shall talk to you about the story behind those events and shall tell you truthfully about the moments in which the decision was taken, for you to consider. I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind. The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others were terrorised and displaced. I couldn't forget those moving scenes, blood and severed limbs, women and children sprawled everywhere. Houses destroyed along with their occupants and high rises demolished over their residents, rockets raining down on our home without mercy. The situation was like a crocodile meeting a helpless child, powerless except for his screams. Does the crocodile understand a conversation that doesn't include a weapon? And the whole world saw and heard but it didn't respond. In those difficult moments many hard-to-describe ideas bubbled in my soul, but in the end they produced an intense feeling of rejection of tyranny, and gave birth to a strong resolve to punish the oppressors. And as I looked at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children. And that day, it was confirmed to me that oppression and the intentional killing of innocent women and children is a deliberate American policy. Destruction is freedom and democracy, while resistance is terrorism and intolerance. This means the oppressing and embargoing to death of millions as Bush Sr did in Iraq in the greatest mass slaughter of children mankind has ever known, and it means the throwing of millions of pounds of bombs and explosives at millions of children - also in Iraq - as Bush Jr did, in order to remove an old agent and replace him with a new puppet to assist in the pilfering of Iraq's oil and other outrages. So with these images and their like as their background, the events of September 11th came as a reply to those great wrongs, should a man be blamed for defending his sanctuary? Is defending oneself and punishing the aggressor in kind, objectionable terrorism? If it is such, then it is unavoidable for us. This is the message which I sought to communicate to you in word and deed, repeatedly, for years before September 11th. And you can read this, if you wish, in my interview with Scott in Time Magazine in 1996, or with Peter Arnett on CNN in 1997, or my meeting with John Weiner in 1998. You can observe it practically, if you wish, in Kenya and Tanzania and in Aden. And you can read it in my interview with Abdul Bari Atwan, as well as my interviews with Robert Fisk. The latter is one of your compatriots and co-religionists and I consider him to be neutral. So are the pretenders of freedom at the White House and the channels controlled by them able to run an interview with him? So that he may relay to the American people what he has understood from us to be the reasons for our fight against you? If you were to avoid these reasons, you will have taken the correct path that will lead America to the security that it was in before September 11th. This concerned the causes of the war. As for it's results, they have been, by the grace of Allah, positive and enormous, and have, by all standards, exceeded all expectations. This is due to many factors, chief among them, that we have found it difficult to deal with the Bush administration in light of the resemblance it bears to the regimes in our countries, half of which are ruled by the military and the other half which are ruled by the sons of kings and presidents. Our experience with them is lengthy, and both types are replete with those who are characterised by pride, arrogance, greed and misappropriation of wealth. This resemblance began after the visits of Bush Sr to the region. At a time when some of our compatriots were dazzled by America and hoping that these visits would have an effect on our countries, all of a sudden he was affected by those monarchies and military regimes, and became envious of their remaining decades in their positions, to embezzle the public wealth of the nation without supervision or accounting. So he took dictatorship and suppression of freedoms to his son and they named it the Patriot Act, under the pretence of fighting terrorism. In addition, Bush sanctioned the installing of sons as state governors, and didn't forget to import expertise in election fraud from the region's presidents to Florida to be made use of in moments of difficulty. All that we have mentioned has made it easy for us to provoke and bait this administration. All that we have to do is to send two mujahidin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al-Qaida, in order to make the generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for it anything of note other than some benefits for their private companies. This is in addition to our having experience in using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers, as we, alongside the mujahidin, bled Russia for 10 years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat. All Praise is due to Allah. So we are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah. That being said, those who say that al-Qaida has won against the administration in the White House or that the administration has lost in this war have not been precise, because when one scrutinises the results, one cannot say that al-Qaida is the sole factor in achieving those spectacular gains. Rather, the policy of the White House that demands the opening of war fronts to keep busy their various corporations - whether they be working in the field of arms or oil or reconstruction - has helped al-Qaida to achieve these enormous results. And so it has appeared to some analysts and diplomats that the White House and us are playing as one team towards the economic goals of the United States, even if the intentions differ. And it was to these sorts of notions and their like that the British diplomat and others were referring in their lectures at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. [When they pointed out that] for example, al-Qaida spent $500,000 on the event, while America, in the incident and its aftermath, lost - according to the lowest estimate - more than $500 billion. Meaning that every dollar of al-Qaida defeated a million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs. As for the size of the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars. And even more dangerous and bitter for America is that the mujahidin recently forced Bush to resort to emergency funds to continue the fight in Afghanistan and Iraq, which is evidence of the success of the bleed-until-bankruptcy plan - with Allah's permission. It is true that this shows that al-Qaida has gained, but on the other hand, it shows that the Bush administration has also gained, something of which anyone who looks at the size of the contracts acquired by the shady Bush administration-linked mega-corporations, like Halliburton and its kind, will be convinced. And it all shows that the real loser is ... you. It is the American people and their economy. And for the record, we had agreed with the Commander-General Muhammad Ataa, Allah have mercy on him, that all the operations should be carried out within 20 minutes, before Bush and his administration notice. It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would abandon 50,000 of his citizens in the twin towers to face those great horrors alone, the time when they most needed him. But because it seemed to him that occupying himself by talking to the little girl about the goat and its butting was more important than occupying himself with the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers, we were given three times the period required to execute the operations - all praise is due to Allah. And it's no secret to you that the thinkers and perceptive ones from among the Americans warned Bush before the war and told him: "All that you want for securing America and removing the weapons of mass destruction - assuming they exist - is available to you, and the nations of the world are with you in the inspections, and it is in the interest of America that it not be thrust into an unjustified war with an unknown outcome." But the darkness of the black gold blurred his vision and insight, and he gave priority to private interests over the public interests of America. So the war went ahead, the death toll rose, the American economy bled, and Bush became embroiled in the swamps of Iraq that threaten his future. He fits the saying "like the naughty she-goat who used her hoof to dig up a knife from under the earth". So I say to you, over 15,000 of our people have been killed and tens of thousands injured, while more than a thousand of you have been killed and more than 10,000 injured. And Bush's hands are stained with the blood of all those killed from both sides, all for the sake of oil and keeping their private companies in business. Be aware that it is the nation who punishes the weak man when he causes the killing of one of its citizens for money, while letting the powerful one get off, when he causes the killing of more than 1000 of its sons, also for money. And the same goes for your allies in Palestine. They terrorise the women and children, and kill and capture the men as they lie sleeping with their families on the mattresses, that you may recall that for every action, there is a reaction. Finally, it behoves you to reflect on the last wills and testaments of the thousands who left you on the 11th as they gestured in despair. They are important testaments, which should be studied and researched. Among the most important of what I read in them was some prose in their gestures before the collapse, where they say: "How mistaken we were to have allowed the White House to implement its aggressive foreign policies against the weak without supervision." It is as if they were telling you, the people of America: "Hold to account those who have caused us to be killed, and happy is he who learns from others' mistakes." And among that which I read in their gestures is a verse of poetry. "Injustice chases its people, and how unhealthy the bed of tyranny." As has been said: "An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." And know that: "It is better to return to the truth than persist in error." And that the wise man doesn't squander his security, wealth and children for the sake of the liar in the White House. In conclusion, I tell you in truth, that your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No. Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn't play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security. And Allah is our Guardian and Helper, while you have no Guardian or Helper. All peace be upon he who follows the Guidance. What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 11:32:54 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:32:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Israel Destroys Home of Suicide Bomber Message-ID: <20041102193254.74089.qmail@web13622.mail.yahoo.com> Israel Destroys Home of Suicide Bomber By ALI DARAGHMEH, AP NABLUS, West Bank (Nov. 2) - Israeli troops on Tuesday destroyed the homes of a teen suicide bomber and two men who dispatched him to a crowded Tel Aviv market where he killed three Israelis and wounded 32. AFP/Getty A Palestinian walks amid the ruins of the family home of Eli Amer Al-Far the suicide bomber who killed three others Monday in Tel Aviv. The relatively muted response came after Israel pledged to show restraint in the wake of Yasser Arafat's illness. The usual signs of an imminent Israeli military counterstrike - the hurried high-level security meetings and troop movements - were absent this time, and it appeared that Israel would not hit back as it has in the past. Troops razed the home of the bomber, 16-year-old Eli Amer Alfar, and damaged four neighboring houses in the crowded Askar refugee camp near Nablus, witnesses said. Alfar's family of 12 had already removed belongings, knowing that Israel as a deterrent routinely destroys the homes of those involved in attacks against Israelis. The army also destroyed the homes of two senior members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The radical PLO faction claimed responsibility for Monday's blast, and the Israeli military said the two had dispatched the bomber. In Nablus, Israeli undercover troops late Monday killed three Palestinian militants affiliated with Arafat's Fatah movement in a gunbattle in the Casbah, the city's crowded center. Witnesses said some of the soldiers disguised themselves in the head-to-toe coverings of Muslim women and carried trays of sweets as they approached the militants sitting in a coffee shop. Palestinian witnesses said the soldiers opened fire without warning, killing two wanted men. The army said the fugitives had drawn pistols before they were shot. Three other militants joined in the battle and the army brought in reinforcements, killing a third gunman. One man was seriously wounded and a fifth escaped, the army said. The troops later raided a Red Crescent clinic looking for the wounded man but failed to find him, witnesses said. Military officials said the target of the raid was Majdi Murai, a leader of the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades, a violent group with ties to the Fatah movement. Murai was responsible for recruiting a number of teenage boys for suicide attacks, they said. Murai survived an attempt on his life last month. Frustrated by Israeli security measures that have greatly reduced their effectiveness, militant groups have turned to using teenagers and women to transport explosives and carry out attacks, hoping they would raise less suspicion at the dozens of Israeli checkpoints designed to capture bombers. The Tel Aviv bomber was only 16, one of the youngest Palestinian suicide bombers, and his parents lashed out at the militants who recruited him. "It's immoral to send someone so young," said Samir Abdullah, 45, Alfar's mother. "They should have sent an adult who understands the meaning of his deeds." Monday's bombing was the 117th suicide bombing since the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in 2000 and was the first since Arafat left for France last week. In all, 494 Israelis have been killed in the attacks. Arafat condemned the bombing from his hospital room outside Paris, and Palestinian leaders in the West Bank joined in, but the bombing undermined their efforts to show that despite the absence of their longtime leader, everything is under control. "(Arafat) appealed to all Palestinian factions to commit to avoid harming all Israeli civilians and he appealed to Sharon to take similar initiatives to avoid harming Palestinian civilians," Arafat's spokesman, Nabil Abu Rdeneh, said in France. Arafat was flown to France last week, suffering from an undisclosed ailment that left him in serious condition. Doctors there have not yet announced results of medical tests. Using general terms, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon denounced the suicide bombing and pledged action. Sharon said Israel "will not stop its war against terrorism" and repeated his commitment to unilaterally disengage from the Palestinians, pulling out of the Gaza Strip next year. "I'm not changing my policy until there are changes in the Palestinian administration and until it stops its incitement and its terror," Sharon said. Israeli officials had said they would show restraint in military operations to give the Palestinian leadership a chance to maintain order. 11/02/04 05:25 EST Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL. --------------------------------- More World News Headlines Next Story: U.S. Warns of Terror Threats in Philippines What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Mon Nov 1 15:36:31 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 15:36:31 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: China threatens to sue Wal-Mart, other foreign investors Message-ID: China threatens to sue Wal-Mart, other foreign investors ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Looks like the outsourcing of American jobs is coming back to bite these greedy corporations in the @ss. Not mention they shouldn't be doing business with communist China anyway. One more reason to hate Wal-Mart. http://www.dailycamera.com/bdc/tech...3285650,00.html Quote: China pressures Wal-Mart, other foreign investors to set up Communist Party-controlled trade union By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press October 28, 2004 SHANGHAI, China- China's official Communist Party-controlled trade union is threatening to sue foreign companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Dell Inc. and Eastman Kodak Co. if they don't set up union branches in their China operations. Quote: Unlike past unionization campaigns, this one appears to come with teeth and if enforced could oblige foreign-invested companies to give the Communist Party a say in the running of their companies' China businesses. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 20:27:45 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:27:45 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] burma Message-ID: President Bush's recent decision to extend sanctions against Burma for another year is emotionally satisfying but ineffective as a means of promoting democracy in the military-ruled state, argues David I. Steinberg, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Although US allies like India or Southeast Asian nations share its concern about the junta's continued repression of democracy and imprisonment of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, rather than isolating the state they have chosen to engage with it. The US should do the same, argues Steinberg, in order to assuage Burma's humanitarian crisis and counteract China's growing influence in Burma and the region. Because Burma is a strategic nexus - it flanks both China and India and provides access to major waterways - China has focused much of its recent regional diplomatic drive on Burma. The result has been growing economic and diplomatic ties between the two countries. In order to counter this influence, argues Steinberg, the US should drop its ill-considered and ineffective sanctions and launch informal discussions with the Burmese regime. Doing so will ease the Burmese citizen's growing poverty and "allow the US to resume its interest and influence in that society," concludes Steinberg.-YaleGlobal Burma: Feel-Good US Sanctions Wrongheaded In punishing the brutal junta, the US hurts Burmese people and its own strategic interests David I. Steinberg YaleGlobal, 19 May 2004 Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi arrives in the Burmese capital, March 2004: The US sanction makes the welcome warmer. WASHINGTON: When the military leaders of Burma (Myanmar) convened a constitutional convention on May 17 without the participation of the country's opposition party, they lost an opportunity for progress. Although the ruling junta called the convention the first step on a "road to democracy" their refusal to release democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi led to her party to boycott the convention. President Bush also lost a chance for influence when he extended political and economic sanctions against Burma for another year in response to "large-scale repression of the democratic opposition." While emotionally satisfying, such sweeping sanctions may hurt the US, its allies, and Burmese civilians. By isolating Burma, the US has neglected humanitarian concerns and driven Burma closer to China than might otherwise have been the case. To understand why the US policy is counter-productive, consider the wider context. Burma is a strategic nexus. It flanks the two greatest regional powers in Asia - China and India. Although their present relations are benign, these two countries fought one war in 1962 and the Indian Secretary of Defense has indicated that China is India's potential enemy. Burma links India to the rest of ASEAN, and for China it provides access to the Bay of Bengal and potentially to the Malacca Straits, the most important natural waterway in the world. This has obviously been of concern to Delhi, which tests its missiles on the Bay. Key Japanese have also indicated that a Burma closely allied with China is not in Japan's national interest. If it hopes to balance Chinese influence, the US should reconsider its policies. China has been engaged in a most effective diplomatic and economic initiative in Southeast Asia. It has close trade, investment, and diplomatic relations with the region's collective - the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Individually, it has improved relations with each of the region's nations. Nowhere has this relationship been closer than with Burma. China has supplied about US$ two billion for armaments that have made the Burmese military, the second largest in Southeast Asia after Vietnam, much more technically sophisticated. It has helped the construction of roads, railroads, airfields, ports, and dams throughout the country. In 2003, China provided Burma with US$200 million in economic assistance. Equally important are unrecorded Chinese influences: Chinese investment - probably the largest of any foreign country - is not found in international statistics. Border trade is also vastly underreported, and illegal Chinese immigration has been extensive. Mandalay, the seat of Burmese culture, is reported to be about 20 percent Yunnanese Chinese, Lashio-the most important city of northern Burma-about 50 percent Chinese. Since the 1988 military coup, India has worried more than any regional power about the China-Burma connection. A Burmese state dominated by China would place India at a distinct disadvantage: China to the north, China's ally Pakistan on the western flank, and a Chinese-influenced Burma to the east. Yet rather than seeking to isolate Burma, in recent years India has offered economic and strategic support in order to counter China's influence. Japan has also been anxious to provide assistance. ASEAN itself, concerned with the extent of Chinese penetration in Burma, admitted Burma in July 1997 to mitigate that influence. In contrast, United States policy toward Burma since 1988 has been consistent but narrowly focused. Immediately following the 1988 coup, the U.S. cut off military and economic assistance. A few years later it refused to nominate an American ambassador to Burma. The U.S. has demanded that the military leave power and honor the results of the May 1990 election, which was swept by the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). Aung San Suu Kyi, the secretary of that party, received the Nobel Peace Prize and remains an international icon. She has been under house arrest on three separate occasions since 1989. Her current confinement has lasted almost a year. In 1997, the U.S. Congress passed legislation banning all new U.S. investment. As a result of a government-sponsored ambush of Aung San Suu Kyi's motorcade on May 30, 2003, in which a large number of people were killed, the Congress banned all imports-consisting mainly of textiles--from Burma (over US$ 350 million annually). President Bush issued an executive order freezing all Burmese assets, effectively preventing financial exchanges involving the U.S. banking system, and prohibiting visas to the U.S. of higher level Burmese associated with the regime. Bush's recent announcement extends these policies. The intent of sanctions has been to isolate Burma and force the military from power. But no other country has approved an isolation policy as strict as that of the U.S. Essentially, the U.S. has called for 'regime change' in Burma, as a means of promoting democracy and human rights. Yet this strong anti-government stance neglects other policy problems. Humanitarian concerns are growing. The U.S. Congress has passed legislation allowing for some humanitarian assistance to be provided in-country, although not directly to the government, but this is minor compared to the needs where about half the population is at or below the poverty line. In addition, the dire political and economic situation in Burma (which has become one of the world's least developed countries in spite of its natural resources) negatively affects the U.S.' ally, Thailand. One million illegal Burmese workers have fled to Thailand, and there are about 120,000 in refugee camps along the border. Page: 1 2 Page: 1 2 Burma: Feel-Good US Sanctions Wrongheaded What possibility is there for reform on the Burmese side? A truncated National Convention - initiated by Burma's new prime minister General Khin Nyunt - began on May 17th, with the goal of drafting a new national constitution. All political parties and major minority groups with which the regime has cease-fire agreements were invited, in what was probably the most important chance for change in many years. But the NLD's refusal to participate - because of the continued house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi and what it regards as military dominance of the planned procedures - has stripped this week's convention of international legitimacy. In 2006, Burma will host ASEAN. It must assuage that group, for without change Burma would be an embarrassment and could be suspended or even expelled, although the latter seems unlikely. The Thai prime minister and the Malaysian foreign minister have both expressed concern about the situation. Whether there will be a new election and government with a multi-party system by that time is doubtful, although the military has eventually promised one. But even the military realizes that by 2006, there needs to be a new constitution ratified through the polls. The U.S. sanctions policy has failed. Instead of promoting the 'unconditional surrender' of the Burmese military, it has strengthened Burmese resolve to stand up to U.S. pressure, as any government must do in a highly charged nationalistic environment. It has thrown Burma increasingly closer to China. The U.S. needs to rethink its policy, now essentially made in the Congress and not in the Department of State. The anticipated renewal of the ill-considered sanctions has been announced... But informal, private discussions between the U.S. and Rangoon with a carefully calibrated set of benchmarks might move the regime and allow the U.S. to resume its interest and influence in that society, which badly needs U.S. humanitarian aid. David I. Steinberg is Distinguished Professor and Director of Asian Studies, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. His latest volume on Burma is "Burma: The State of Myanmar." Rights: Copyright 2004 Yale Center for the Study of Globalization Related Articles: Transcript of 'Global Challenges' Bush, in Africa, Promises Aid but Offers No Troops for Liberia Arab World Risks Missing its Development Goals Crisis Puts Burma Back in the Spotlight Page: 1 2 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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"Khin Nyunt was removed from his position," Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters. In recent months diplomats have spoken of a power struggle between Khin Nyunt, number three in Burma's hierarchy, and the hard-line Senior General Than Shwe. The dispute appears to be more about business than politics, analysts say. Khin Nyunt's reported ouster would be a blow to those hoping for reform in Burma, says the BBC's South East Asia correspondent, Kylie Morris. KHIN NYUNT'S POSITION Number three in junta hierarchy Appointed Prime Minister in 2003, in perceived demotion Sponsored "roadmap" for democracy and freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi But power struggle with senior leader Than Shwe hampered progress Khin Nyunt's fall from grace Burma's hardline generals He was at least prepared to discuss the release from house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Witnesses have told the BBC they have seen soldiers taking up position outside Khin Nyunt's house in Rangoon. "We can confirm that Khin Nyunt has been removed from the position of prime minister and is being detained under house arrest," said Thai government spokesman Jakrapob Penkair in Bangkok. "The person who signed the order said Khin Nyunt had been involved in corruption and not suitable to stay in his position," he added. The secretive military government in Burma has yet to confirm or deny the reports, which have come from both Thai officials, Indian intelligence sources and other unofficial sources inside Burma. Khin Nyunt was also head of military intelligence, and several companies run by the intelligence service have been shut down in recent days, amid reports that intelligence officials have been arrested. There was an increased troop presence outside military intelligence headquarters in the city, witnesses said. Losing grip on power As Prime Minister, Khin Nyunt has relied upon Burma's secret police to shore up his power. But Senior General Than Shwe and his number two, Maung Aye, hold the loyalty of the key factions within the army. Amid mounting signs of disagreement within the high echelons of Burma's military hierarchy, a cabinet reshuffle last month promoted so-called hardliners at the expense of others who - like Khin Nyunt - took a more open stance. Consequently Khin Nyunt's position has weakened of late, and it now seems like hard-line forces have prevailed, according to our correspondent. Khin Nyunt was seen as favouring talks with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and soon after his appointment announced a seven-point roadmap to democracy. But Than Shwe remains strongly opposed to any role for the Nobel laureate. Her release was widely expected prior to the resumption of the National Convention in May but Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the high end, Congress offered hundreds of thousands of H-1B and L-1 visas that displaced 890,000 American high tech workers out of jobs while importing cheap labor from overseas. To add insult to injury while displacing American workers--meatpacking, chicken processing, paving, construction, hotel, roofing, landscaping and other trade jobs were insourced to millions of illegal alien workers. America's manufacturing base and ability to sell products to the world diminished with the rising power of corporations to control taxes, tariffs and commodities markets. These huge corporations, run by American CEOs, took advantage of their American roots and benefits enjoyed in a First World country - while giving millions of jobs to people in other countries. For what? Obscene profits! It's why you hear of their $125 million annual paychecks. They are the Ken Lays of Enron crowd who don't get caught. Why not? Because what they do is legal, but then again, they paid enough money into Political Action Committees and other organizations to make sure they gained tax breaks and other benefits from Congress. It's a hell of a rich man's club, but it's turning America's Middle Class into the Working Poor Class. Who are these giants? You'd be surprised. They are some of our most time-honored companies who built their empires on the backs of America's working class heroes. According to Arianna Online, "Bank of America shouldn't be allowed to have 'America' in the name of the company." One of America's largest banks eliminated 5,000 jobs while outsourcing 1,250 jobs to India. It announced it would cut another 12,000 jobs in the next two years. Employees were given severance pay on condition they train their replacements. Affiliated Computer Services offers business processing technology--outsourced 1,300 jobs to India in the past three years. They multiplied their profits by paying half the wage rate in a Third World country of 1.1 billion eager workers. According to Arianna, "The company chairman is known as Darwin 'Survival of the Richest' Deason." General Electric built its empire on American soil. However, it is known as the father of outsourcing. It outsourced 12,000 jobs to people in India who perform at phones answering credit card inquires and give IT technical assistance while handling network security. The three leading executives of GE make untold millions in salaries while American citizens stand in unemployment lines. Halliburton, formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney as its CEO, enjoys 45 subsidiaries in offshore tax havens. Halliburton is helping reconstruct Iraq with $73 million in equipment and services. The only caveat stems from working as a civilian employee with Halliburton in Iraq might find you with your head on a platter. However, stockholders make millions. The Bank of New York, run by Thomas 'Pioneering the Loss of American Jobs' Reny, in March 2003, sent 250 computer software jobs to Mumbai where it already employed 670 workers. It plans to open a software development center in the Philippines. American Telephone and Telegraph, or what we used to call Ma Bell - which is about as ALL-AMERICAN a company you could ever find - outsourced 500 customer service jobs to India in 2003 in addition to another 3,000 jobs outsourced before that date. Dell Computers employs 3,000 Indians in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India. Sprint cut 21,000 American jobs in 2001 through 2003 and sent those jobs to Third World countries. American Flyer, the makers of the little red wagon we all pulled as kids, outsourced to China this year. Maytag in Pennsylvania shut its plant while displacing 1,500 workers and set up shop in Mexico. "Congress, the President and journalists sit around like outsourcing is some incurable disease and they cannot fix it," said Paul Streitz, an industry watchdog. "It is not. They say outsourcing is driven by the need for firms to stay 'competitive.' But to stay competitive means lowering costs and raising profits for stockholders and key executives. The additional savings are not passed on to customers. No study has ever shown that those companies using outsourcing are charging lower prices. A chief justification for this abomination." If this trend is any indication, and it is, the best days of America's working class fade in the rearview mirror. Americans compete with 1.3 billion Chinese and 1.1 billion Indians whose medium income teeters at $2,000 a year. They will work for $5.00 a day whereas Americans must make at least $15.00 an hour to maintain a decent standard of living. You have to ask who will have enough money to buy the goods and services those companies market when the American Middle Class slides down the tubes? What's in store for Americans? It means America's Middle Class races to the bottom of the 'standard of living' barrel as its jobs outsource, insource and offshore. It means millions work from paycheck to paycheck with few benefits and no job security. It means the American Dream drops from achievable for the vast majority in the past to a pipe dream for the new Working Poor Class. _____ Frosty Wooldridge is a teacher and author who has bicycled 100,000 miles on six continents to see overpopulation up close and ugly. His explosive new book is: IMMIGRATION'S UNARMED INVASION: DEADLY CONSEQUENCES. Copies may be obtained: 1 888 280 7715 >www.frostywooldridge.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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But with the latest research pointing to vegetable oils as the main culprit, it's possible we may be able to fend off this disease by simply changing our diets. You might not cook with vegetable or canola oil but take a look at the ingredients in any sauce, dip, bread, margarine or biscuit - any processed food for that matter. Vegetable oil is hidden in all of them. Most of us have been consuming these processed foods from the time we could walk. Dr Paul Beaumont from the Macular Degeneration Foundation has been studying the link. "The research showed that people eating vegetable oil got the disease twice as commonly as the people who didn't," Dr Beaumont said. "Even more convincing was a prospective study where they looked at patients with the disease and those eating too much vegetable oil progressed at 3.8 times the rate of those eating a little vegetable oil. You look at bread, they make it on margarine, you look at currants and they've gone and sprayed vegetable oil on them to stop them from sticking, you go and try and get tinned fish and they've put it in vegetable oil. So yes, it's become ubiquitous, it's crept right into our food chain and you hardly know you're eating it." Gwen Oliver was diagnosed with macular degeneration two years ago. She was astonished when Dr Beaumont told her to steer clear of vegetable oils and only cook with extra virgin olive oil. "I was surprised about diet and all the products that we've been eating in the past," Ms Oliver said. "We've always had it advertised that vegetable oil was far better for us." The macular sits at the back of the eye. It's made up of many different nerve cells. The oils that you eat become part of your eye but normally they're used and flushed out. When you're eating vegetable oils, researchers believe the eye can't seem to biodegrade the oil and it ends up blocking the cells and causing macular degeneration. "In the 1920s and 30s they started to get big presses that produced hundreds of tons of vegetable oil," Dr Beaumont said. "In 1957 margarine outsold butter so we've had this massive infiltration of our food chain by vegetable oils." Dr Beaumont says he doesn't envisage vegetable oil being removed from all foods, but says there should be a consumer health warning. "I think we have to have a warning on the packages similar to a warning of a cigarette package: 'vegetable oil can lead to macular degeneration'," he said. The major reason for blindness in Australia 30 years ago was diabetes and it was rare to find macular degeneration. Today the condition has overtaken diabetes five-fold and is now the leading cause of loss of vision in Australia. Two-thirds of those who lose their vision are blind due to macular degeneration. "I've seen an exponential rise from the early 1970s through to the 1990s," Dr Beaumont said. "If we look at Japan 40 years ago the disease was rare, now it's common. I don't think there's any doubt we have an epidemic." Dr Paul Beaumont is horrified at the rate macular degeneration has multiplied. He's seen a tenfold increase in the last 30 years. "I think we could halve the number of people going blind with macular degeneration if we could change their diet, cut out the vegetable oil," Dr Beaumont said. When macular degeneration strikes, patients like Gwen Oliver are first given laser therapy to help stem the bleeding. They're also told to look at a chart daily and if they see any difference in the lines on the charts -such as a straight line looking bent - it's back to Dr Beaumont for treatment. But for Jillian Price, laser therapy didn't work. Her last chance is a cutting edge treatment called photodynamic therapy. It doesn't look like much but it causes plenty to happen inside the body. "You inject a chemical that slowly accumulates in that blood vessel and doesn't accumulate in normal tissues," Dr Beaumont said. "And then you shine a light on the eye and it selectively activates that chemical that shuts down the abnormal tissue and [does] not damage the normal." For Jillian Price, the disease has disabled her life as an active woman. "Two months is very fast to lose so much sight; I've lost a lot of my independence," Ms Price said. "The distance, everything is distorted, getting on the buses, shopping is very hard, I can't read labels any more. One day I was doing crosswords and the next day I couldn't." A specialist told Colin Noble he'd be blind within 18 months. Luckily Colin sought a second opinion and today he's one of the lucky 10 per cent who regain vision after having photodynamic therapy. "Usually the treatment merely stops or slows down the degeneration. It's a miracle, I'm so grateful for this man," Mr Noble said. "It's had a big effect on my life and my family's life ??? it's allowed me to do so many things. I can still tie a fish hook, important things like that ??? I'm a very lucky bloke." Dr Beaumont has lobbied the federal Health Department to help fund this huge problem, but to date nothing has happened. "I think they should move fairly urgently," he said. "I don't think we can afford to delay in informing the public about something which can be affecting their vision." The federal Health Department is looking into this massive problem but wouldn't tell us any more than that. As for the Australian Food and Grocery Council - the voice of the food manufacturers who use vegetable oil - they had nothing to say, except that they were waiting to hear more evidence linking vegetable oil and macular degeneration. "There are hundreds of thousands of Australians waiting for that advice," Dr Beaumont said. "And I think the government has to move quickly." For more information please contact the Macular Degeneration Foundation on 1800 111 709 or visit www.mdfoundation.com.au BROADCAST DATE: July 5, 2004 Channel 7, Today, Tonight Further Resources Need an eating plan to get you out of trouble? Health Wars by Phillip Day Food or Thought by Phillip Day *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] To those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath! To those who have not and believe in the Constitution, Take a similar Oath now to the Constitution! 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CLAIR George Bush, the man whose prime campaign plank has been his ability to wage war on terror, could have had Osama bin Laden's head handed to him on a platter on his very first day in office, and the offer held good until February 2 of 2002. This is the charge leveled by an Afghan American who had been retained by the US government as an intermediary between the Taliban and both the Clinton and Bush administrations. Kabir Mohabbat is a 48-year businessman in Houston, Texas. Born in Paktia province in southern Afghanistan, he's from the Jaji clan (from which also came Afghanistan's last king). Educated at St Louis University, he spent much of the 1980s supervising foreign relations for the Afghan mujahiddeen, where he developed extensive contacts with the US foreign policy establishment, also with senior members of the Taliban. After the eviction of the Soviets, Mohabbat returned to the United States to develop an export business with Afghanistan and became a US citizen. Figuring in his extensive dealings with the Taliban in the late 1990s was much investment of time and effort for a contract to develop the proposed oil pipeline through northern Afghanistan. In a lengthy interview and in a memorandum Kabir Mohabbat has given us a detailed account and documentation to buttress his charge that the Bush administration could have had Osama bin Laden and his senior staff either delivered to the US or to allies as prisoners, or killed at their Afghan base. As a search of the data base shows, portions of Mohabbat's role have been the subject of a number of news reports, including a CBS news story by Alan Pizzey aired September 25, 2001. This is the first he has made public the full story. By the end of 1999 US sanctions and near-world-wide political ostracism were costing the Taliban dearly and they had come to see Osama bin Laden and his training camps as, in Mohabbat's words, "just a damn liability". Mohabbat says the Taliban leadership had also been informed in the clearest possible terms by a US diplomat that if any US citizen was harmed as a consequence of an Al Qaeda action, the US would hold the Taliban responsible and target Mullah Omar and the Taliban leaders. In the summer of 2000, on one of his regular trips to Afghanistan, Mohabbat had a summit session with the Taliban high command in Kandahar. They asked him to arrange a meeting with appropriate officials in the European Union, to broker a way in which they could hand over Osama bin Laden . Mohabbat recommended they send bin Laden to the World Criminal Court in the Hague. Shortly thereafter, in August of 2000, Mohabbat set up a meeting at the Sheraton hotel in Frankfurt between a delegation from the Taliban and Reiner Weiland of the EU. The Taliban envoys repeated the offer to deport bin Laden. Weiland told them he would take the proposal to Elmar Brok, foreign relations director for the European Union. According to Mohabbat, Brok then informed the US Ambassador to Germany of the offer. At this point the US State Department called Mohabbat and said the government wanted to retain his services, even before his official period on the payroll, which lasted from November of 2000 to late September, 2001, by which time he tells us he had been paid $115,000. On the morning of October 12, 2000, Mohabbat was in Washington DC, preparing for an 11am meeting at the State Department , when he got a call from State, telling him to turn on the tv and then come right over. The USS Cole had just been bombed. Mohabbat had a session with the head of State's South East Asia desk and with officials from the NSC. They told him the US was going to "bomb the hell out of Afghanistan". "Give me three weeks," Mohabbat answered, "and I will deliver Osama to your doorstep." They gave him a month. Mohabbat went to Kandahar and communicated the news of imminent bombing to the Taliban. They asked him to set up a meeting with US officials to arrange the circumstances of their handover of Osama. On November 2, 2000, less than a week before the US election, Mohabbat arranged a face-to-face meeting, in that same Sheraton hotel in Frankfurt, between Taliban leaders and a US government team. After a rocky start on the first day of the Frankfurt session, Mohabbat says the Taliban realized the gravity of US threats and outlined various ways bin Laden could be dealt with. He could be turned over to the EU, killed by the Taliban, or made available as a target for Cruise missiles. In the end, Mohabbat says, the Taliban promised the "unconditional surrender of bin Laden" . "We all agreed," Mohabbat tells CounterPunch, "the best way was to gather Osama and all his lieutenants in one location and the US would send one or two Cruise missiles." Up to that time Osama had been living on the outskirts of Kandahar. At some time shortly after the Frankfurt meeting, the Taliban moved Osama and placed him and his retinue under house arrest at Daronta, thirty miles from Kabul. In the wake of the 2000 election Mohabbat traveled to Islamabad and met with William Milam, US ambassador to Pakistan and the person designated by the Clinton administration to deal with the Taliban on the fate of bin Laden. Milam told Mohabbat that it was a done deal but that the actual bombing of bin Laden would have to be handled by the incoming Bush administration. On November 23, 2000, Mohabbat got a call from the NSC saying they wanted to put him officially on the payroll as the US government's contact man for the Taliban. He agreed. A few weeks later an official from the newly installed Bush NSC asked him to continue in the same role and shortly thereafter he was given a letter from the administration (Mohabbat tells us he has a copy), apologizing to the Taliban for not having dealt with bin Laden, explaining that the new government was still setting in, and asking for a meeting in February 2001. The Bush administration sent Mohabbat back, carrying kindred tidings of delay and regret to the Taliban three more times in 2001, the last in September after the 9/11 attack. Each time he was asked to communicate similar regrets about the failure to act on the plan agreed to in Frankfurt. This procrastination became a standing joke with the Taliban, Mohabbat tells CounterPunch "They made an offer to me that if the US didn't have fuel for the Cruise missiles to attack Osama in Daronta, where he was under house arrest, they would pay for it." Kabir Mohabbat's final trip to Afghanistan on the US government payroll took place on September 3, 2001. On September 11 Mohabbat acted as translator for some of the Taliban leadership in Kabul as they watched tv coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Four days later the US State Department asked Mohabbat to set up a meeting with the Taliban. Mohabbat says the Taliban were flown to Quetta in two C-130s. There they agreed to the three demands sought by the US team: 1. Immediate handover of bin Laden; 2. Extradition of foreigners in Al Qaeda who were wanted in their home countries; 3. shut-down of bin Laden's bases and training camps. Mohabbat says the Taliban agreed to all three demands. This meeting in Quetta was reported in carefully vague terms by Pizzey on September 25, where Mohabbat was mentioned by name. He tells us that the Bush administration was far more exercised by this story than by any other event in the whole delayed and ultimately abandoned schedule of killing Osama. On October 18, Mohabbat tells us, he was invited to the US embassy in Islamabad and told that "there was light at the en d of the tunnel for him", which translated into an invitation to occupy the role later assigned to Karzai. Mohabbat declined, saying he had desire for the role of puppet and probable fall guy. A few days later the Pizzey story was aired and Mohabbat drew the ire of the Bush administration where he already had an enemy in the form of Zalmay Khalilzad, appointed on September 22 as the US special envoy to Afghanistan. After giving him a dressing down, US officials told Mohabbat the game had changed, and he should tell the Taliban the new terms: surrender or be killed. Mohabbat declined to be the bearer of this news and went off the US government payroll. Towards the end of that same month of October, 2001 Mohabbat was successfully negotiating with the Taliban for the release of Heather Mercer (acting in a private capacity at the request of her father) when the Taliban once again said they would hand over Osama Bin Laden unconditionally. Mohabbat tells us he relayed the offer to David Donahue, the US consulate general in Islamabad. He was told, in his words,that "the train had moved". Shortly thereafter the US bombing of Afghanistan began. In December Mohabbat was in Pakistan following with wry amusement the assault on Osama bin Laden's supposed mountain redoubt in Tora Bora, in the mountains bordering Pakistan. At the time he said, he informed US embassy officials the attack was a waste of time. Taliban leaders had told him that Bin Laden was nowhere near Tora Bora but in Waziristan. Knowing that the US was monitoring his cell phone traffic, Osama had sent a decoy to Tora Bora. From the documents he's supplied us and from his detailed account we regard Kabir Mohabbat's story as credible and are glad to make public his story of the truly incredible failure of the Bush administration to accept the Taliban's offer to eliminate Bin Laden. As a consequence of this failure more than 3,000 Americans and thousands of Afghans died. Mohabbat himself narrowly escaped death on two occasions when Al Qaeda, apprised of his role, tried to kill him. In Kabul in February, 2001, a bomb was detonated in his hotel in Kabul. Later that year, in July, a hand grenade thrown in his room in a hotel in Kandahar failed to explode. He told his story to the 9/11 Commission (whose main concern, he tells us, was that he not divulge his testimony to anyone else), also to the 9/11 Families who were pursuing a lawsuit based on the assumption of US intelligence blunders by the FBI and CIA. He says his statements were not much use to the families since his judgment was, and still remains, that it was not intelligence failures that allowed the 9/11 attacks, but criminal negligence by the Bush administration. ============================================== -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 20:52:55 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:52:55 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Valerie Plame needs to know: Should Google index telephone numbers? Message-ID: Valerie Plame needs to know: Should Google index telephone numbers? LEAK-GATE: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LEAK-GATE/join This White House Scandal Finally Tips the Scale! http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate.htm Post message: LEAK-GATE at yahoogroups.com Subscribe: LEAK-GATE-subscribe at yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: LEAK-GATE-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com List owner: LEAK-GATE-owner at yahoogroups.com "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism" - Thomas Jefferson "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be... The People cannot be safe without information." -- Thomas Jefferson "I think Google is the biggest privacy invader on the planet, no doubt about it." -- Richard M. Smith, former officer, Privacy Foundation, as quoted by the Associated Press, 2004-03-21 Should Google index telephone numbers? This isn't about spies, it's about the rest of us . . . by Daniel Brandt October 8, 2003 This page isn't about how naughty it is to expose spies. A spy is someone who deceives friends and enemies alike, and breaks the laws of other nations, in order to further the interests of those who are already too powerful. These powerful people are elitist politicians, and the corporations and financial interests behind them. U.S. spies have a sordid history of overthrowing governments, including democratic governments such as Greece in 1967 and Chile in 1973. Many of the non-democratic governments they've overthrown, or tried to overthrow, were doing a better job of providing for their people than the governments preferred by the CIA. Our media's spin machine -- itself guilty of too cozy a relationship with intelligence agencies -- would have us believe that spies put their lives in danger for the rest of us. That's not true. Being a U.S. spy is safer than working in a coal mine.* They need secrecy because this is how they avoid accountability. Speaking of feeling safe, everyone in the world would sleep easier at night if we dismantled the CIA entirely. This page isn't about exposing spies. It's about Google's disrespect for privacy. It's about Google being the only search engine that does reverse lookups of telephone numbers listed in the white pages, and offers you two maps to locate the address. This number can also be used to latch onto other pages that would normally be difficult to find. I use Valerie the Spy as an example, because I have no respect for her privacy. She doesn't represent me. Rather, she represents powerful interests in the government and corporate America that I find objectionable, and which in the past have worked against me. (I have documents from the CIA that prove they spied on me illegally in the late 1960s.) Secret agents of powerful interests have no right to privacy, but millions of ordinary citizens do. Using Valerie the Spy as an example is a good way to demonstrate what ordinary people should find objectionable about Google's indexing. Ms. Wilson joined the CIA right out of college, which would have been around 1985. This was when William Casey was illegally consorting with death squads in Central America. Did she find this amusing or inspiring? This was at a time when there were widespread demonstrations against the CIA. I don't care if supermom, as the Washington Post brags, can handle two toddlers, a career, participate in church groups and community social activism, and sling an AK-47, all at the same time. She can probably bake big apple pies in the kitchen too, for all I care. This is the very same Post that has CIA connections everywhere you look, and you can bet that they have an agenda. Her husband since 1998, Joseph C. Wilson IV, thinks of himself as a liberal, but his record is mixed. By the way, Mr. Wilson, why don't you go on TV and tell us who forged those documents you supposedly investigated? Doesn't that matter to you? Could it have been - gasp - the CIA ? Washington is watching too much TV! "Mr. Wilson proudly showed off photographs of Ms. Plame, calling her a real-life Jennifer Garner, the actress who plays a spy on Alias on ABC-TV and whom the C.I.A. has enlisted as a spokeswoman to appeal to recruits." -- New York Times, October 2, 2003, p. A23. You can look up Valerie Wilson (also known as Valerie Plame) at switchboard.com or any other white-pages web site. So far, no problem. But once you have a number, put it into Google and see what you get. Here is a screen shot taken on October 8: Valerie the Spy could ask Google to delete her number so that the first line, with her address and those map links to her house, would not show up. Google will want her email address before they do this. But this doesn't solve the problem of those other links to her telephone number, which would still appear. The point of all this is that millions of people, when they contemplate whether they should pay their telephone company for an unpublished listing, aren't even aware of what Google will do with their telephone number. Many aren't even aware of Google. They certainly aren't likely to opt out of Google's reverse lookup in the white pages. And even if they do, there's no telling where that number may end up on the web, to be discovered by Google's crawlers. I believe that Google should not index telephone numbers at all. Their reverse lookup in the white pages should be discontinued, and their algorithms for indexing web pages should identify and discard anything that resembles a telephone number. You don't even have to be a spy to agree with me. ____________ * The CIA memorializes 71 who died in the line of duty since it was founded over 50 years ago. According to the Department of Labor, mine fatalities averaged 92 per year during the 1990s. Total miners number 557,000, and total full-time CIA run about 22,000, which when factored in, means miners are three times more likely to get killed on the job. Moreover, CIA employees can resign and find another job, but miners don't always have this option. The other thing that miners lack is a propaganda network of gullible journalists and script writers, who constantly depict CIA people as risking their lives to save the world. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 20:59:16 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 20:59:16 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] "people smile by day - and launch deadly projectiles by night" Message-ID: U.S. Marines Can't Easily ID Enemy in Iraq Mon Nov 1, 1:36 AM ET By EDWARD HARRIS, Associated Press Writer NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - Scouring turnip patches and dimly lit homes, U.S. Marines on patrol outside the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah search for guns, mortar rounds and rockets in villages where the Marines believe people smile by day - and launch deadly projectiles by night. In a fight without front lines against civilian-clothed enemies, Marines in central Iraq can't easily identify enemies called "The Muj" - short for mujahedeen, or Muslim holy warriors - who boobytrap roads and fire into U.S. bases from nearby hamlets. "They're watching us right now. They're everywhere, but you can't tell who they are," says Sgt. Alexander Munoz as he leads a 1st Marine Division patrol through one town. "They wave and salute - then they bomb you." The Marines have stepped up activities in Iraq's restive Sunni Triangle and are laying plans to attack Fallujah, whose rebel leadership is believed a leading force behind the insurgency as well as the hostage-takings, bombings and beheadings. An attack, if ordered by Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, would likely be led by Marines now patrolling near Fallujah, seeking to clear weapons caches as well as prevent the kind of rearguard action the U.S. forces faced during an aborted attack on the city in April. U.S. forces hope to cut down the rebellion and boost security in Iraq ahead of nationwide elections scheduled for January. But as the Marines try to calm the area around Fallujah, they say they face a foe who mixes with the local population, threatening unsympathetic civilians into supporting their goals. And collaborating with the Marines can be deadly. "The people here are against a wall. They help us and they help the Muj," says Munoz, as the Marines look for roadside bombs - which the troops call improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. "Sometimes they tell us about the IEDs, sometimes they don't. They're scared," says the 28-year old from San Sebastian, Puerto Rico. Civilians escaping Fallujah - with some rebels likely among them - are taking refuge in abandoned houses and schools shuttered during the fighting. "There has been a large influx of refugees fleeing Fallujah. Overnight, we usually go out and stay in abandoned houses and now we're competing with refugees," says Lt. John Jacobs. "They're definitely out there in numbers," the 31-year old from Santa Cruz, Calif. says. Food shortages are beginning to show up among the displaced, he says. The Fallujah displaced provide the Marines an opportunity to ingratiate themselves. "We came from Fallujah a month ago. We have no money," one Iraqi woman, Nazha Ahmed, tells patrol leader Munoz, speaking through an Iraqi translator. "This is our family here, but we don't have anyone to help us," says the wizened, middle-aged mother of four. "Okay. Tell them I'll send this upstairs and the Marines will bring them food," Munoz says to the translator. A Marine attack on Fallujah in April was called off after widespread Iraqi protest at reports of civilian casualties, but not before insurgents sneaked around and attacked the Marines' rear, touching off a dayslong battle outside the city. So the Marines are showing their force this time before any upcoming attack on Fallujah, walking through turnip and tomato fields and looking for weapons buried in irrigation ditches as rebel rockets crash in the area. Children scamper nearby with wide grins, shouting "Give me, Give me." "'Sup homies! Salaam, Salaam," shouts one Marine as he hands out candy. The Marines are on constant lookout for the roadside bombs, often connected by wires to a mobile phone, which when dialed sets off the blast. Rebel spotters are presumed to be watching. The bombs can also be mounted on telephone poles or put in trash, and the Marines suspect the townspeople often know where the bombs lay. "Another way you know of an IED is that the people run away when we pass by," says Munoz. "Especially the kids." The Marines quietly enter families' walled compounds, shining their flashlights in corners and looking on rooftops. Adolescent Iraqi boys hold their empty palms to the Marines, indicating they're hiding no contraband. "Yeah, yeah, I know you don't have anything," says Lance Corporal Brian Davis. "A lot of these people are very respectful, they give you water," the 27-year old from Kelseyville, Calif. says later. "But you always have to ask yourself who they really are." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 21:00:03 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 21:00:03 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: URGENT! Message-ID: Subject: URGENT! THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NEWSLETTER I HAVE SENT; PLEASE READ AND PASS ON-NOW!!! Good friend Jack Wheeler, who is really a plugged-in guy, has broken the biggest story of the entire campaign in his "To the Point News" e-letter. Jack has personally spoken with former Secretary of the Navy William Middendorf, who was SECNAV from April 1974 to January 1977 and who would have "presided" over the other-than-honorable (OTH) discharge of Lieutenant (Junior Grade) John Forbes Kerry. Ambassador Middendorf is prevented by the Privacy Act from providing specifics about what happened, but he insists that retired Navy JAG officer Captain Mark Sullivan, who pieced together the real story about Kerry's dishonor is one of the finest officers the Navy had on its rolls and that his deductions have the ring of truth. That story is at http://www.nysun.com/article/4040. Jack Wheeler is still working the story and will update me as he obtains further information. I strongly recommend that you go to www.tothepointnews.com and subscribe to his outstanding newsletter, which provides outstanding commentary on politics, the military, the economy, and the information world. At less than a hundred bucks per year, it's a bargain. This blockbuster story is already on WorldNetDaily, and it is being picked up by various media outlets, courtesy of Jerry Corsi, co-author of "Unfit for Command." It should be all over the internet in the morning. PASS IT ON!!! 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URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Wed Nov 3 09:16:47 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 09:16:47 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Mark Morford: Wallow In Chaos, And Laugh Message-ID: <20041103171648.94359.qmail@web13624.mail.yahoo.com> ===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== SFGate.com - November 3, 2004 --------------------------------- Wallow In Chaos, And Laugh A Bush-leaning outcome and one enormous bitter pill and you without your vodka By Mark Morford Oh dear god please not again. Oh dear God please don't let it be all convoluted and depressing and messy and stupid and please don't let it all embarrass us on an international level all over again even more than it already has and even more than it already is and even more than we've endured lo these past four debilitating and soul-crushing years. Hello? Please? Is it already too late? Why yes, yes it is. And lo and behold, it's apparently another completely tortuous and entirely knotted presidential election, still not finished and still not all ironed out and as of this writing Ohio is headed for a recount and Kerry still has a glimpse of a chance, and hence we still don't really know the outcome, even though it appears to be leaning toward the utterly appalling notion of another four years of Bush and another Republican stranglehold of Congress and repeated GOP chants of "More War in '04!" Which is, well, simply staggering. Mind-blowing. Odd. Gut-wrenching. Colon-knotting. Eyeball-gouging. And so on. You want to block it out. You want to rend your flesh and yank your hair and say no way in hell and lean out your window and scream into the Void and pray it will all be over soon, even though you know you're an atheist Buddhist Taoist Rosicrucian Zen Orgasmican and you don't normally pray to anything except maybe the gods of really exceptional sake and skin-tingling sex and maybe a few luminous transcendental deities that look remarkably like Jenna Jameson .... (click here to read the rest) (Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/11/03/notes110304.DTL&nl=fix ) --------------------------------- All contents (tm) (c) 2004 SF Gate Have a lovely day What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Tue Nov 2 22:44:53 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 22:44:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] US soldier kidnapped in Iraq Message-ID: <20041103064454.34563.qmail@web13621.mail.yahoo.com> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1340911,00.html -->World News November 02, 2004 US soldier kidnapped in Iraq By Times Online, and agencies in Samarra An American soldier has been captured in the Iraqi city of Samarra, north of Baghdad, an Iraqi police spokesman said today. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Ahmed of Samarra police told reporters the soldier was seized on Monday night by gunmen in two Opel cars. He said United States troops were out in force in the streets of the Sunni Muslim city today. NI_MPU('middle');American military officials could not immediately be reached for comment on what is believed to be the first abduction of a United States soldier in Iraq since April, when two soldiers disappeared after an attack on a fuel convoy. The abduction follows the kidnapping of an American civilian in Baghdad yesterday. The American, so far unnamed, was taken along with a Nepalese, a Filipino and an Iraqi from the compound of a Saudi Arabian company in the Mansour district, where British hostage Ken Bigley was captured last month. A military policewoman who became the first British female soldier to die in Iraq since last year?s US-led invasion is thought to have killed herself. Sergeant Denise Rose, 34, died from a gunshot wound at an army base at the Shatt al-Arab Hotel in the Basra area in southern Iraq on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement. "The incident is being investigated but is not thought to have been the result of hostile action," it said. Rose went to Iraq on September 27 as part of a small team of specialist investigators. Her commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Silk, described her death as a "tragic loss". "This is a terrible shock for all her many comrades in the unit," he said in a statement. "She was doing so well in the Army, and had a bright future in front of her." What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To view an on-line version of this newsletter, please visit http://www.RenewableEnergyAccess.com/assets/newsletter/ Wednesday, November 3, 2004 REInsider A Look At Bush Administration Policies Regarding Renewable Energy This Week's Top News China Endorses 300 MW Ocean Energy Project 2005 Expected to be Record Year for U.S. Wind Power World Sales of Solar Cells Jump 32 Percent New Hampshire Begins Coal Switch to Biomass Canada Looks to Boost Renewable Energy Use National Solar PV Installer Certification Moves Ahead Southwest Windpower Enters the Grid Tie Market Ethanol to Hydrogen, A Double Duty Fuel Arizona Solar Incentives Pay Up to 9K Biomass Crops Fill-in for Wood Waste Wind, Bioenergy Mix for Nova Scotia Power Briefly Noted, PR, Around the Web Briefly Noted... From the World of Renewable Energy Recent Press Releases from Our Premiere Partners Renewable Energy Events and Jobs Coming Renewable Energy Events Latest Job Opportunities in Renewable Energy RE Marketplace World PV Market: 1975-2003 PV Technology, Performance and Cost: 1975-2010 REInsider A Look At Bush Administration Policies Regarding Renewable Energy The Bush Administration's first term has been a very mixed bag regarding renewable energy policies. Administrations are not monolithic, and are composed of conflicting actions, personalities, and reservations (or inactions). The attempt of this article, is to have a frank review of the statements, activities, nuances and voids by the Administration. ... ...read the complete RE Insider at RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP This Weeks's Top News China Endorses 300 MW Ocean Energy Project Thanks to China's insatiable appetite for energy and their increasing determination to add renewable energy to the mix, the ocean waters off the coast of China are on their way to gaining a large-scale ocean energy project. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- 2005 Expected to be Record Year for U.S. Wind Power With the extension of the federal wind energy production tax credit in September, capacity installations in 2005 look likely to beat all previous records, AWEA said in its quarterly U.S. market outlook. The previous high for new wind power capacity installations in one year was 1,696 MW in 2001. Most industry participants agree that 2005 will be a better year, with some predicting installations to exceed 2,500 MW. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- World Sales of Solar Cells Jump 32 Percent World production of solar cells soared to 742 MW in 2003, a jump of 32 percent in just one year. With solar cell production growing by 27 percent annually over the past five years, cumulative world production now stands at 3,145 MW, enough to meet the electricity needs of more than a million homes. This extraordinary growth is driven to some degree by improvements in materials and technology, but primarily by market introduction programs and government incentives. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- New Hampshire Begins Coal Switch to Biomass After its official groundbreaking, the Northern Wood Power Project, New Hampshire's first non-hydro, commercial-scale renewable energy project, is now underway at the Schiller Station in Portsmouth. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Canada Looks to Boost Renewable Energy Use The Honourable Stephane Dion, Canada's Minister of the Environment, has outlined his perspective on renewable energy, including Canada's accomplishments and challenges. Speaking last Thursday at a meeting organized by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Minister Dion indicated that Canada's future is closely linked to the development of renewable energy. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- National Solar PV Installer Certification Moves Ahead As solar photovoltaic (PV) projects become increasingly popular throughout the United States, the need for national standards and certifications for installers has become apparent to many in the industry. North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) is chief among these efforts. The organization is gradually building their certification program, having recently announced the overall results of its September 18, 2004 Solar PV Installer Certification exam, and reflecting on their current progress. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Southwest Windpower Enters the Grid Tie Market Southwest Windpower, which specializes in the production of small 400-3000 watt wind generators unveiled a utility tie, or grid-tie version of its 1000 watt Whisper turbine. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Ethanol to Hydrogen, A Double Duty Fuel Ethanol is commonly touted as an alternative fuel suitable for any vehicle. Researchers from the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) have produced hydrogen from the corn-based product, however, and that could shift ethanol into a whole new fuel market. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Arizona Solar Incentives Pay Up to 9K Salt River Project (SRP) utility customers in Arizona who want clean and emission-free electricity for their homes and businesses can now receive a financial incentive to invest in solar energy as part of the new SRP SolarWise Energy program. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Biomass Crops Fill-in for Wood Waste Willows will soon sprout up in well ordered fields on the Didcot countryside since RWE and ESD Biomass finalized a biomass energy partnership. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Wind, Bioenergy Mix for Nova Scotia Power Power from renewable energy is something Nova Scotia will soon have in abundance. Nova Scotia Power approved 17 proposals totaling 28 MW from renewable energy sources that answered a request for proposal to help diversify the utility's power portfolio. Read the full story on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Briefly Noted : A selection of this weeks's News Briefs Nevada Geothermal Acquires Project Land RFP Release for 900 kW Solar PV Project Biomass Technology Starts at the Pulp Mill Kyocera, Outback Team up on Large Off-Grid Project Elkem Invests in Silicon for Solar Cells Hydrogen Processor Tests in Antarctica Microturbine Sales for Biogas Industry Fuel Cell and Solar Power at County Jail Clean Energy Fund Propels Two Proton Projects BACK TO TOP Recent Press Releases from our Premier Partners GT Equipment Technologies, Inc. Announces President/COO GT Equipment Technologies, Inc. (GTi) of Merrimack, NH announced today that Thomas M. Zarrella, has assumed the new position of President and Chief Operating Officer at GT Equipment Technologies. Mr. Zarrella joins the GTi executive team already in place, reporting directly to Dr. Kedar Gupta, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Zarrella, the former Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and a Director of RWE Schott Solar, Inc. of Billerica, MA, will oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of the company. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- GT Equipment Announces Record Bookings GT Equipment Technologies, Inc., an industry leader in design and manufacturing for the solar and materials processing industries, announced today that it is ending the 3rd quarter with new and record bookings from its world-wide business in excess of $21.2 million. The new bookings are for state-of-the-art capital equipment used in the solar manufacturing industry and represent more than a 500 percent improvement in bookings over the same quarter of 2003. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- NABCEP Announces Results of 9/18/04 Exam, Notices Trends/Responses, Sets Next Exam Date The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) announces today the overall results of its September 18, 2004 Solar PV Installer Certification exam. The exam was administered to 81 candidates in 21 sites across the U. S. and resulted in 37 new NABCEP certified solar PV installers. This brings the total number of NABCEP certified installers in the U.S. up to 143 in 30 states. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- ACORE Announces Speakers for Policy Forum The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE), in conjunction with the Environmental and Energy Studies Institute (EESI) and the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucuses of the US Senate and US House of Representatives, announce the schedule of events and slate of speakers for the national conference to take place December 6-7, 2004 in Washington, DC, calling for "Phase II" of renewable energy in America. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- SMALL WIND ENTERS THE GRID TIE MARKET Flagstaff Arizona based Southwest Windpower, a world leader in the production of small 400-3000 watt wind generators announced today the introduction of its utility tie version of its 1000 watt Whisper turbine. "Our markets have traditionally been for the off-grid application such as a remote cabin or mountain top telecom system" says Andy Kruse the company's Vice President. "The grid tied systems simply hook directly up to the house and reduce the user's monthly electrical bill" says Kruse. There are no batteries to maintain and the systems are virtually maintenance free. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- NHA Responds to Washington Post Article NHA today sent a letter to The Washington Post concerning its front page article on the Department of Interior's proposed rulemaking on an appeals process for mandatory conditions. The text of the letter is below. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- CARMANAH ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH LANDSCAPE FORMS (MI, USA) Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX Venture: CMH), a worldwide manufacturer of solar-powered LED lighting, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a marketing alliance with Landscape Forms of Kalamazoo, MI (www.landscapeforms.com), a leading manufacturer of commercial outdoor furniture and accessories. Under the agreement, Carmanah will provide the technology to integrate solar-powered, light-emitting diode (LED) lighting into the design of selected Landscape Forms' products. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Kyocera Solar, Inc. Deploys Largest OutBack Power Panel in North America Kyocera Solar, Inc. announced today that it has shipped the largest OutBack power panel built to date in North America. It is installed at a new 4,000 sq. ft. off-grid residence in Cabo San Jose, Mexico. The system contains ten 2.5-kilowatt OutBack inverters (FX2548T), 120 Kyocera 125G modules and thirty-six 1350 amp hour batteries to supplement a 42-kilowatt propane-powered electrical generator. Full Press Release on RenewableEnergyAccess.com BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Learn more about the Total Access Marketing Program Renewable Energy Events International Solar Cities Congress 2004 The event will enable the world to meet for the purpose of developing major policies for sustainable urban development. Event Details BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- European Wind Energy Conference This event will bring together a network of international wind energy experts from each and every sector of the wind industry. Event Details BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Renewable Energy in America -- Phase II To be held in conjunction with other leading organizations, the conference will call for a new and bold "Phase II" of developing and deploying renewable energy. Event Details BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- Energy Outfitters RE Dealer/Installer Tech Expo Energy Outfitters Las Vegas RE Dealer/Installer Tech Expo at Ceasar's Palace. December 9, 10, 11, 12. Event Details BACK TO TOP --------------------------------- H2PS: The 2004 Hydrogen Production & Storage Forum This event is a forum for developers, producers, and users to discuss the long-term and commercial opportunities for production and storage hydrogen technology. 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What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being the president. Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody an explanation." (Aug 20, 2002 - interview by Bob Woodward, Crawford, TX) --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Wed Nov 3 21:42:54 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 21:42:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] RIP Common Sense Message-ID: <20041104054255.83619.qmail@web13622.mail.yahoo.com> THE DEATH OF COMMON SENSE http://www.distopia.com/wake/ What Bush says...."I'm the commander - see, I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say things. 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Karzai, who headed an interim government set up after U.S. and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban militia three years ago, polled 55 percent of the vote against 16 other candidates. Reuters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Thu Nov 4 23:32:26 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 23:32:26 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Karzai: AFGHAN WARLORDS HISTORY Message-ID: AFGHAN WARLORDS HISTORY: Karzai FROM: http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/31737.htm November 5, 2004 -- KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday there was no future for the warlords or drug barons who flourished during three decades of conflict in Afghanistan. Making his acceptance speech a day after being officially declared winner of the country's first-ever direct presidential election, Karzai said his vow to eliminate private militias had clearly won the support of the people. "There will not be any private militias forces," he said. "There will definitely not be any drug thing in Afghanistan." Karzai, who headed an interim government set up after U.S. and Afghan forces overthrew the Taliban militia three years ago, polled 55 percent of the vote against 16 other candidates. Reuters -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The U.N. accord aimed at curbing global warming is already backed by 126 countries. But it needed Russia's support to make it internationally binding after the United States, the world's biggest polluter, pulled out in 2001. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol obliges rich nations to cut overall emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2008-12 by curbing use of coal, oil and natural gas and shifting to cleaner energies like solar or wind power. To come into force, the pact needed to be ratified by countries accounting for at least 55 percent of developed nations' greenhouse gas emissions. Russia, which accounts for 17 percent, became the key to Kyoto after Washington pulled out saying the pact was too costly and unfairly exempted large rapidly industrializing countries such as China and India. Russia signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1999. But it agreed to ratify only in exchange for European Union agreement on terms for Moscow's admission to the World Trade Organization. Putin signed the bill into law just days before he was due to meet leaders of the EU, which has urged Russia's ratification, at a summit in the Netherlands. Rising global temperatures have been linked to extreme weather including droughts, flooding and higher sea levels, which some see as possible sparks for regional conflicts. But critics of the pact say it will cost trillions of dollars and have scant impact unless countries like China get involved. ? Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Then their sympathizers overseas will throw in their support," he said. "We know what they've been doing and what they've planned to do," he said, but stopped short of saying who was behind violence in the largely Malay-speaking region which erupted in January with an army camp raid in which around 300 assault rifles were stolen. At least 15 people, most of them Buddhists, have been killed by militants since last week's deaths of 85 protesters, 78 of whom suffocated or were crushed after being crammed into army trucks for a long journey into detention. One of the victims was a Buddhist monk who was shot and severely wounded after a religious ceremony in nearby Songkhla on Thursday and died later in hospital, police said. Another was a Muslim Marine guarding a Buddhist temple who was shot and killed by suspected militants. Armed with M-16 assault rifles, the gunmen attacked the temple compound in a Buddhist village in Narathiwat province's Ruesoh district around midnight on Thursday and killed the 22-year-old Muslim private in a short firefight, police said. More than 450 people -- mostly security men and officials -- have been killed in the raid on the army camp in the remote south bordering Malaysia in which four soldiers were killed. The mainly Buddhist government in Bangkok is showing few signs of getting any closer to coming up with policies or answers to resolve the unrest. Thaksin said the unrest may prevent him from joining re-elected President Bush and other Asia-Pacific leaders at a summit in Chile this month. "If the situation is still unabated, I won't go," Thaksin said when asked whether he would attend the November 20-21 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Santiago. "I am obliged to take care of the situation," said Thaksin, host of the 23-member APEC summit in Bangkok last year and who sees himself as the emerging leader of Southeast Asia. He was likely to send Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh to Santiago instead, a government official told Reuters. The killings in the south prompted a group of 200 Buddhist villagers to demonstrate at the Narathiwat provincial government headquarters on Friday, demanding security guarantees. They also demanded the return of Lieutenant-General Pisan Wattanwongkeeree, suspended from his post as commander of the southern army while a government-appointed panel investigates last week's 85 deaths. The investigators have been given a month to determine what exactly happened on Oct. 25 at Narathiwat's Tak Bai police station as protesters demanded the release of six villagers accused of handing government-issued weapons to militants. Police appear to be carrying out their own investigation. ? Reuters 2004. 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"We've decided to allow Iraqis abroad to vote, and the mechanism will be worked out in the coming days," said Adel al-Lami, a supervisor for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, charged with organizing the country's first democratic elections, scheduled for January. "The voting will take place in those countries with a large number of Iraqis." Those 18 and older will be eligible, he added. The United Nations and the United States had recommended strongly against allowing expatriate voting because such polling is notoriously difficult to organize and because the process is more prone to irregularities and charges of fraud. Such problems arising could threaten the legitimacy of the election, United Nations and American officials said. But leading Shiite and Kurdish politicians, as well as Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq, strongly supported expatriate voting. Carlos Valenzuela, the leader of the United Nations electoral advisory team, said the dangers had been made clear to them. "We've told them from point one that it's a very risky business,'' he said. "People don't realize the potential implications of this. They're huge - practical, logistical, political. And all this has to be done in the time frame allotted." The commission must still determine the procedure for expatriate voting, as well as where it will be allowed, which is a politically charged issue. It must also secure a relatively large budget for the polling. Many Iraqis fled in the 35-year rule of the Sunni-dominated Baath Party and Saddam Hussein. Two million to four million are now living abroad - about half of them over 18 - with some of the biggest concentrations in Britain, the United States and Iran. Those voters could account for up to 15 percent of the total in January, when Iraqis are to elect a 275-member national assembly. The assembly will then install an executive government and draft a permanent constitution. Direct elections for a full-term government are planned for the end of 2005. The big Shiite political parties lobbied hardest to allow expatriate voting, with Ayatollah Sistani issuing strong statements of support for the idea in recent weeks. After hundreds of years of minority rule by Sunnis in the region, leaders of the Shiites, who make up 60 percent of Iraq's population, are jockeying for maximum advantage in the elections. The main Kurdish parties and some leading former exiles, including the interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, also supported expatriate voting. They have distinct constituencies abroad and are more secular than most Iraqi parties, which could allow them to appeal to expatriate voters across ethnic and religious lines. The challenges involved in setting up polling outside Iraq will be formidable and, by some accounts, overwhelming. The United Nations strongly advised the Iraqi electoral commission over the summer, during training in Mexico City, that out-of-country voting should not be permitted, Mr. Valenzuela said. The United Nations even flew in experts at the time to comment. The decision of where to allow voting will almost certainly be seen as highly political, and there will probably be accusations of discrimination in many cases, Mr. Valenzuela said. For example, although many Iraqis live in Shiite-dominated Iran, the idea of allowing expatriates there to vote is likely to draw sharp criticism from many corners, particularly Sunni Arabs, who lost their power with the fall of Mr. Hussein. American officials say one of the goals of holding elections is to dampen the Sunni-led insurgency by getting Sunnis to take part in the process of creating a government. Many Iraqis also hold a strong distrust of the Iranian government because of the bloody eight-year war Iraq fought with Iran in the 1980's, a sentiment that will no doubt cast a shadow on votes from Iran. But powerful Shiite parties like the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq will almost certainly lobby for the inclusion of expatriate votes from Iran. That group was founded in 1982 by an Iraqi ayatollah who had fled to Iran. Financing the vote and organizing a system for the voting present serious logistical problems. Mr. Valenzuela said out-of-country polling costs considerably more per voter than in-country polling. A Western diplomat, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity, estimated that organizing expatriate voting would cost "millions and millions" of dollars and said that American officials here had relayed their disapproval to the United Nations. Mr. Lami acknowledged that the commission did not have financing yet for the outside polling. He said the 40 or so Iraqi Embassies now open could help organize voter registration and polling, and the United Nations could help in countries without embassies. Hoshyar Zebari, the Iraqi foreign minister and a senior official in the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which supported expatriate voting, said in an interview he was ready to throw all the resources of Iraq's embassies into the effort. "I lived many years abroad, and I believe it's critical," he said. But Mr. Valenzuela and the Western diplomat said the embassies were underequipped. Besides, they argued, it would be politically suspect to use the resources of the interim Iraqi government. The United Nations also has no mandate to help conduct expatriate polling, Mr. Valenzuela said. Out-of-country voting has taken place in elections in nations like Afghanistan and East Timor. But in those cases, the outside polling was limited to only a few countries because, unlike Iraqi, expatriates were clustered more tightly. Expatriate polling took place in Pakistan and Iran during the recent Afghan elections, and in a mere half-dozen countries, including Portugal and Indonesia, in the case of East Timor. Mr. Valenzuela said the Iraqi commission might outsource the job of setting up outside polling to a group like the International Organization for Migration, which has ties to the United Nations. In recent weeks, the two biggest Shiite parties here, the Dawa Islamic Party and the Supreme Council, both in exile during Mr. Hussein's rule, made intense pleas to the electoral panel to allow expatriate votes. Adnan Ali, a deputy in the Dawa Party, said in an interview that Shiite officials had threatened a boycott of the elections. "The Shia might withdraw completely," he said. "That's a serious threat. We said, 'If you don't include those votes, you're pushing us to the red line.' " It was unclear what role such threats played in the commission's decision. 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WORTH Published: November 5, 2004 EAR FALLUJA, Iraq, Nov. 4 - The marines crept forward, glancing warily at each other as they approached a bomb-scarred building covered with Arabic lettering. Suddenly, one of them shouted "Sniper!" and another dropped to the ground as if wounded. But instead of firing back, the men raised their guns and trilled their tongues to imitate the sound of machine-gun fire. Within a few seconds, one of them called out "Sniper neutralized!" and they lowered their weapons. It was one of the many urban warfare drills taking place in and around this bleak desert encampment in recent days, where the Marines expect to lead an all-out attack on Falluja soon. Peace negotiations continue between the Iraqi government and delegates from the city, but American commanders seem convinced that it is only a matter of time before the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, gives the order for them to retake the city, which has been held by insurgents since the Marines withdrew in April. For many marines here, that order cannot come too soon. After a long summer of cat-and-mouse games with shadowy insurgents, they are hungry for a decisive battle. "Locked, cocked and ready to rock," said Lance Cpl. Dimitri Gavriel, 29, who left an investment banking job in Manhattan 18 months ago to enlist, using a popular Marine expression. "That's about how we feel." In the meantime, preparations continue at this makeshift military base. Tanks rumble through a barren landscape littered with shrapnel and husks of old vehicles, while helicopters throb overhead. Detonations shake the ground at all hours - artillery units firing on guerrilla positions, or other military units blowing up old explosives. Occasional enemy mortars explode nearby. American jets soar overhead on their way to and from bombing runs, and at night fires glow on the horizon. Many of the young marines expected to lead the attack have not yet been part of a major battle. Most of those who took part in the operation in Falluja in April have been sent home. And though some of the commanders here fought the first phase of the war last year, many of the rank and file arrived here for the first time in June. All of them, though, seem eager to prove their mettle and at last confront the insurgency head on. "It's kind of like the cancer of Iraq," said Lt. Steven Berch, a lanky platoon commander, speaking of Falluja. "It's become a kind of hotel for the insurgents. Hopefully getting rid of them will help to stabilize the whole country." Others point to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian militant who is said to be using Falluja as a base. "We're doing the right thing here," said First Lt. Christopher Wilkens, pausing for breath during a drill. "These guys are terrorists, there are connections to Al Qaeda, and fighting them is what we came here to do." The marines are housed in a network of bomb-scarred barracks once used by Saddam Hussein to train an Iranian exile opposition group. Arabic slogans meant to inspire the trainees remain on the walls, and a mural of Mr. Hussein's face still stares down from the wall of a converted mess hall. Commanders would not reveal any details of how or when an attack might happen. But the invading force will certainly be larger than the one that struck at the insurgents here in April, and marines will be backed up by Iraqi troops as well as Army units. Iraqi soldiers are already training here alongside the marines, and officers said their discipline has improved in recent months. After the Marines withdrew from Falluja in April, the Iraqi security forces there quickly collapsed. "We are improving day by day," said Major Abdul Jabar, executive officer of one of the Iraqi companies that will take part in the attack, as his men practiced disembarking from armored personnel carriers in the hot afternoon sun. Before the fighting ends, American civil affairs units will move into the city to begin working on health and reconstruction projects, for which at least $20 million has been set aside, American officers said. Marine lawyers will be ready to handle compensation claims for battle damage and to help verify any violations of the laws of warfare. The goal, commanders emphasize, is to hand over control of the city to Iraqi security forces. Commanders say they expect the insurgents to use plenty of terrorist-style tactics like suicide bombs in cars or trucks. Last Saturday, nine marines were killed and nine wounded when a suicide bomber in a car rammed their convoy near here, in the deadliest day for American troops in more than half a year. The marines also expect heavy house-to-house fighting once they enter the city, and they are fully aware of the risks. During drills they do test runs of their arrival in Falluja, running out the back of the armored personnel carriers that will bring them into the city while carrying all their weapons and a 45-pound pack. None of the dangers seem to rattle their confidence. Between drills, they do pull-ups and play touch football. In the evening, laughter echoes around the barracks, along with heavy metal music blasting from CD players. "I don't think about it," said Pfc. Anthony Mells, a 20 year-old marine from Queens, when asked about the risks of battle. "It's all about motivation. Getting wounded is not in my job description." 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Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to redeploy the soldiers to a more dangerous part of Iraq was already unpopular; the soldiers' deaths are likely to increase criticism of the beleaguered British leader. Meanwhile, American and Iraqi government forces continued to prepare outside the city for what could be the largest battle in the war since the invasion last year. A senior U.S. intelligence officer last night said that American forces have observed rebels making their own preparations, digging fortifications in the city and forming fighting groups of about 20 men. The officer, Maj. Jim West of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said the greatest threat in the city came from the foreign fighters who have come to Fallujah to prove their commitment to jihad and gain influence in their hometowns or villages. A convoy of American armored vehicles heads for Fallujah, Iraq, Thursday. U.S. jets were in action again late Wednesday in Fallujah, to strike insurgent targets in the northeastern and southern parts of the city where American forces are said to be gearing up for a major assault.(AP) What the U.S. military does not pretend to know, however, is either how many insurgents there are in the city or how many foreigners make up their number. "It's really difficult to say," West said. "They come and go at will. One day there might be a lot more than another. They're looking to take their war stories back home." West said the military has not sealed off the city, even for men of fighting age, and so insurgents may be moving out of Fallujah before a battle without being intercepted. He said he had indications that Jordanian-born militant, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, may be moving in and out of Fallujah. Zarqawi's group is believed by American forces here to be responsible for many kidnappings, at least six beheadings, and numerous attacks on American and Iraqi government forces. If the battle were to begin, he said, the military would seal off the roads leading from the city in order to prevent insurgents from escaping. But it would be impossible to seal it completely, he said. "You can't contain people," he said. "It's an open desert out there." Assuming an American victory, the power vacuum in the city will be filled by new Iraqi leaders, West said. "The IIG (Interim Iraqi Government) is establishing a government to take over Fallujah," he said. There was fighting Thursday between Marines and insurgents in the nearby town of Ramadi, the U.S. military said. Homepage (as of NOV-01-2002): http://www.SeattleActivist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 00:02:14 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:02:14 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] What Bush Can Do to Salvage Iraq Message-ID: What Bush Can Do to Salvage Iraq By David Ignatius Friday, November 5, 2004; Page A25 FROM: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26835-2004Nov4.html As George Bush said in his victory speech, "a new term is a new opportunity." Unfortunately, it will begin with the same old wretched problem of Iraq. I hope the president will take time to ponder the Iraq conundrum anew, now that he has won the freedom to craft a true strategy rather than a slogan. His "stay the course" rhetoric may have energized the Republican base, but it didn't answer the question of the typical soldier on the ground: How do we win this thing, and, if we can't, how do we get out? _____Today's Op-Eds_____ After Arafat, What? (Post, Nov. 5, 2004) Using All of a Mandate . . . (Post, Nov. 5, 2004) Democrats In a Divided Land (Post, Nov. 5, 2004) . . . He Didn't Get (Post, Nov. 5, 2004) What Bush Can Do to Salvage Iraq (Post, Nov. 5, 2004) _____What's Your Opinion?_____ . Share Your Views About Editorials and Opinion Pieces on Our Message Boards About Message Boards _____More Ignatius_____ The Real 'October Surprise' (The Washington Post, Nov 2, 2004) After Arafat, Upheaval (The Washington Post, Oct 29, 2004) A Gaddafi Cover-Up (The Washington Post, Oct 26, 2004) About David Ignatius Add David Ignatius to your personal home page. _____Free E-mail Newsletters_____ Today's Headlines & Columnists See a Sample | Sign Up Now Breaking News Alerts See a Sample | Sign Up Now The irony is that Bush can make bold decisions about Iraq now in a way that a victorious John Kerry could not have done. It's the Nixon-to-China phenomenon. Bush doesn't have to prove he's tough on Iraq. His only obligation is to do what makes sense. But what is that, exactly? Iraq has become a Catch-22: The definition of victory is a stable Iraqi government that can maintain security without depending on U.S. troops. But a viable Iraqi government, again almost by definition, will be one that can claim it ended the U.S. occupation and restored Iraq's dignity and independence. Ayad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister, is caught in this double bind. The more he depends on U.S. help, the less legitimate he appears in Iraqi eyes. For that reason, Allawi has been pushing to accelerate the training of Iraqi security forces -- especially two armored divisions he thinks are crucial. I'm told the Iraqi leader was so upset about this issue that when Donald Rumsfeld visited Baghdad last month, Allawi briefly suggested he might not run in January's elections. After a strong start last summer, Allawi knows he is losing the confidence of Iraqis. In a poll completed a month ago, the percentage of Iraqis who said the interim government was effective had fallen to 43 percent, compared with 63 percent in July. A frustrated Allawi sent a letter to Bush in October complaining that the training of Iraqi forces wouldn't be completed until well after the elections scheduled in late January, "which is simply too late," according to excerpts published in the New Yorker. The locus of the Iraqi Catch-22 is the city of Fallujah. In addition to being the center of the anti-American insurgency, it's a symbol of Sunni Muslims' resistance to what they fear will be future domination by Iraq's Shiite majority. Fallujah may be the decisive battle of the war, but it's an especially delicate one. An American-led "victory" that razes the city could further alienate the Sunnis and poison the chances for political reconciliation. That's why Allawi wants the armored units so badly -- so that Iraqi tanks can lead the way into Fallujah and make it look less like an American operation. U.S. Marines, joined by about 4,000 Iraqi troops, are poised to attack the city. U.S. commanders in Baghdad believe the troops are ready to roll, but the attack isn't likely until after Ramadan ends in about 10 days. Allawi and the Americans will probably make a last effort at negotiation; they know military victory in Fallujah might come at the cost of political defeat. So what's the right course now in Iraq? As is so often the case in the Middle East, the trick is riding two horses at once. America must keep faith with the Shiite majority, which rightly expects to play a decisive role after decades of oppression. But at the same time, the United States must reassure Sunnis that they have a place in the new Iraq. Allawi and his American advisers sensibly have been reaching out to Sunni leaders; Jordan, with U.S. support, will be hosting a quiet gathering of Iraqi Sunnis next week. The Sunnis may account for only 20 percent of the population, but if they aren't included in writing Iraq's new constitution, the violence will continue. Thus administration officials should give up their hope that they can rely on Iraq's other two ethnic groups, the Kurds and Shiites, to make January's elections a success. The key to stability is regaining the support of Iraq's silent majority -- the long-suffering, secular-minded Sunnis and Shiites referred to by some U.S. and British intelligence analysts as the POIs, which is short for "pissed-off Iraqis." These POIs are angry at American occupation, and they want it to end. So here's my recommendation for President Bush: He should announce that when a new Iraqi government is elected, he is prepared to negotiate the terms and timetable of American withdrawal. 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When CSC constructed this facility, they pounded large metal pilings into the sub-surface. This effectively created a large dam or diverting feature directly into the underlying water table. In the summer of 2003, the EPA identified a plume of toxins headed toward the Foss Waterway. Little was done to look into this issue at the time and one wonders if the toxic soup now found there is from the Tacoma Tarpits site. The mix of chemicals sure looks the same. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/198132_detention04.html Immigration prisoners allege guard abuse Thursday, November 4, 2004 By PAUL SHUKOVSKY SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER Two people are suing a private corrections company, saying one was viciously beaten and the other sexually harassed while they were being held in Tacoma on federal immigration charges. Dozens of inmates witnessed the allegedly unprovoked beating in July of Jose Mancilla Gutierrez, 22, at the Northwest Detention Center, according to his attorney, Gwynne Skinner. Correctional Services Corp., which operates the detention center on the Tacoma tide flats for the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is named as the defendant in the suit along with five of the company's guards and officials. Skinner and her partner, Daniel Gross, filed suit in U.S. District Court last week for Mancilla and Marisela Manzo Torres, 27, who contends that officers sexually harassed her. The warden of the detention center, who works for Correctional Services Corp., could not be reached for comment about the lawsuit. Mancilla and Manzo both faced deportation. Mancilla was determined not to be deportable and was released. Manzo's case is pending. Mancilla told his attorneys that on July 5, guards ordered detainees to return to their cells. As he was doing so, a guard identified only as Lt. McIntyre, "yelled at him to stop." "For no justifiable reason, defendant McIntyre then handcuffed plaintiff (Mancilla), threw him to the floor, and forcefully put his knee into plaintiff Mancilla's back," the lawsuit says. McIntyre then walked Mancilla to the exit and slammed his face into a wall. The impact chipped a tooth, split his lip and caused him to bleed. The lawsuit says McIntyre "repeatedly without justification shoved plaintiff Mancilla against the wall." McIntyre is alleged to have taken Mancilla into a hallway still visible to many cells, where he "violently threw plaintiff (Mancilla) to the ground." Then, joined by a guard identified only as Portillo, both officers "attacked plaintiff, beating and kicking him and repeatedly hitting his head against the floor," the lawsuit says. As the handcuffed Mancilla begged for mercy, the beating continued and blood pooled on the floor, the lawsuit says. Several other detainees yelled for the guards to stop. One detainee contacted the Post--Intelligencer, was interviewed in the detention center and provided an account of the event that closely corresponds to that described in the lawsuit. The detainee, who feared retaliation, asked not to be identified. He said some of the detainees filed grievances documenting what they had seen. On July 8, according to the lawsuit, warden George Wigen and Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in charge George Morones responded to the grievances, saying that the "force was not excessive or abusive." Morones said yesterday that he can't comment on the issue because of the lawsuit. Wigen could not be reached for comment. After the incident, Mancilla was given medical treatment, then put in solitary confinement without a proper hearing, the lawsuit says. Manzo also says in the lawsuit that she suffered mistreatment at the hands of McIntyre and other officers. The lawsuit accuses McIntyre of brushing against her "so that his arm or other parts of his body would touch her breasts." McIntyre passed her cell at night, "shined a flashlight over her body" and repeatedly said "show me." She complied, lifting her blanket, out of fear, according to the lawsuit. Manzo says that a guard described only as officer Twogood worked in a control room during the night shift and would engage in sexual banter with Manzo over an intercom in her cell. Morones, the immigration officer in charge, said yesterday that the inspector general's office of the Department of Homeland Security is investigating Manzo's complaints. He would not comment further. Manzo has been moved to the Federal Detention Center at SeaTac. Correctional Services Corp., which operates 13 adult detention centers and prisons for government agencies and 19 juvenile centers around the country, has been the subject of several lawsuits surrounding its operations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Virginia Kice said yesterday that the agency "has worked very hard to ensure that its detention facilities operate at the highest standards. We want to ensure that our personnel and contract personnel conduct themselves in a professional and appropriate manner." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- P-I reporter Paul Shukovsky can be reached at 206-448-8072 or paulshukovsky at seattlepi.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Hours after the explosion, firefighters were still battling the pipeline blaze near the city of Kirkuk, where pipelines run from oil fields west to the country's largest refinery in Bayji and north to Turkey. An Iraqi oil official in Baghdad told The Associated Press that the amount of crude oil in storage at the port of Ceyhan in Turkey was down to four million barrels, half of the port's storage capacity. The attacks on oil pipelines near Kirkuk and around Basra in the south, where the oil fields are much more extensive, have sharply cut into Iraq's main economic hope. American and Iraqi officials are relying on steady oil exports to help revive the stagnant economy in a country where the unemployment rate hovers at 60 percent. The Arab news network Al Jazeera reported Tuesday night that it had received a new videotape in which the kidnappers of a British-Iraqi aid official, Margaret Hassan, threaten to turn her over to the group led by the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi within 48 hours if Britain does not withdraw its troops from Iraq. In the first of the bombings on Tuesday, insurgents drove a car bomb up to the Ministry of Education offices in northwestern Baghdad in the morning, killing at least six people and wounding dozens more, said Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman, an Interior Ministry spokesman. The blast took place in the Adhamiya neighborhood a Sunni-dominated area generally hostile to the Americans. People at the scene said two ministry guards in the parking lot, a father and his son, died immediately in the blast. In the volatile northern city of Mosul, a car bomb aimed at a military convoy near the police academy killed one person and wounded at least seven security officers, hospital officials said. The target appeared to be Maj. Gen. Rashid Flayeh, the commander of a special security force who had arrived in the city just days ago to assist the local police. He was unhurt in the blast, police officials said. At 1 p.m., another car bomb exploded by a convoy of Iraqi National Guardsmen in Mosul, killing two civilians and wounding seven others, hospital officials said. Clashes between insurgents and Iraqi guardsmen in the city's Widha neighborhood left three civilians dead, the officials said. The latest attacks came about halfway through the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. During the holiday, the number of attacks in Iraq per day has spiked by 30 percent, and suicide car bombs appear to be an increasingly common weapon, American military officials say. Since April, when a two-front uprising convulsed the country, American-led forces have been unable to dampen what appears to be a growing insurgency, much of it led by disenfranchised Sunni Muslims ousted from power with the toppling of Saddam Hussein. In recent weeks, American military officials have been gathering their troops for a planned invasion of the insurgent stronghold of Falluja, 35 miles west of the capital, in the hopes that crushing that sanctuary will break the backbone of the insurgency. Thousands of rebels are believed to have dug into positions in the city, awaiting the assault. Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has said he is ready to call for a sweeping offensive in order to bring Falluja into his fold before elections scheduled for January. But Iraq's president, Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, a leader of one of the largest Sunni tribes in the country, said in an interview with a Kuwaiti newspaper on Monday that he absolutely opposed any military action. ------- Jump to TO Features for Thursday November 4, 2004 Today's TO Features -------------- Marc Ash | The Road Ahead Expected Assault on Fallujah Carries Risks for U.S., Allawi Ronald Brownstein | The National Fissure Remains Deep and Wide Sidney Blumenthal | Bush Unbound 11 U.S. States Outlaw Gay Marriage Black Voters, Newly Energized, Flock to Polls and Back Kerry Joel Connelly | To the Progressives: Don't Surrender to Cynicism Corine Lesnes | Guantanamo, the Subject Candidates and Reporters Avoid For Chirac and Others, a Close Eye on Returns U.N. Says Sudan Denying Refugees Access to Aid Hungary Will Withdraw Troops from Iraq Now with Bill Moyers | Election and the Future Howard Dean: The Work Doesn't Stop on Election Day John Kerry | 'Don't Lose Faith. 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While the office of British PM Tony Blair took notice of The Lancet report and, not surprisingly, denied its findings, the two American presidential candidates carried on with their campaigning without expressing the slightest concern for the findings of the Lancet report. No 10 challenges civilian death toll by Patrick Wintour & Richard Norton-Taylor http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7506 When asked about Iraqi casualties in the early phases of the occupation, US General Tommy Franks famously replied, "we don't do body counts." As with so many other criminal actions in this atrocious war, the mighty US/UK coalition forces have not deemed it important to assess the extreme human devastation they have inflicted on Iraq. In four weeks, a small team of 4 public health researchers and 7 interviewers, with very limited resources and no security escorts, completed the Lancet survey. The explanation for the alleged dismissal of "body counts" may be simpler--The US Army, having learned from "the controversy over body counts in Vietnam," does collect numbers of civilian casualties, but its policy is not to make them public (as if this could shield it from public criticism): Pentagon suppresses details of civilian casualties, says expert by Raymond Whitaker, U.K. Independent http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7535 Saddam Hussein, by some accounts, was responsible for the killing of about 300,00 of his subjects, although no one has been able to verify more than a small fraction of the figure. If it is correct, former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter notes, "it took Saddam decades to reach such a horrific statistic," while the US/UK coalition has "reached a third of that total in just 18 months." In the face of such an abomination, where is the U.S. public's shame and rage? The war on Iraq has made moral cowards of us all by Scott Ritter http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7545 PLANNING FOR SLAUGHTER IN FALLUJAH Preparations for an all-out attack on Falluja are under way. Having learned nothing from past imperial adventures, "The logic is: You flatten Fallujah, hold up the head of Fallujah, and say 'Do our bidding, or you're next.' " Behind Fallujah strategy The US hopes a hard strike on the city will send a message to other militants. by Scott Peterson http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7534 In spite of overwhelming opposition from its public (and its soldiers in Iraq), the British government is all too eager to provide a helping hand to its senior American partner: British Troops Move North Toward Baghdad Washington Post/Associated Press http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7473 Poll shows public opposes Black Watch move in Iraq by Alan Travis, The Guardian http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7460 'Nervous and angry', the Black Watch arrive in the Triangle of Death by Colin Brown, U.K Independent http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7509 For the hapless inhabitants of Fallujah the choice is harrowing - either abandon their city, or stay put and face death. Borzou Daraghi and former Occupation Watch director Nermeen al-Mufti report from inside Fallujah: Lives uprooted inside Fallujah Many have fled besieged city by Borzou Daragahi, Boston Globe http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7413 Who are the terrorists in Falluja and how are they terrorising the civilian population? by Nermeen Al-Mufti, Al-Ahram http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=7406 SIGN UP FOR OUR EMAIL BULLETIN: To sign up for the Occupation Watch Center's weekly email bulletin, go to http://www.occupationwatch.org/email.php _____________________________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 00:26:31 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:26:31 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: A Pop Quiz for all of you Constitutionalists and history buffs.... Message-ID: A Pop Quiz for all of you Constitutionalists and history buffs.... Who was the very first President of of America? Scroll Down to see if your answer is correct... George Washington is your answer? YOU ARE WRONG. George Washington was NOT America's first President. He was our eleventh President. Betcha you didn't know that. "Contrary to the thinking of the public today, the United States of America was not formed in 1789 with the adoption of the Constitution after the ratification process had been successful. Yet, this is what we have been taught or led to believe. Along with that teaching we were taught of the greatness of George Washington, who was alleged to us to be the first president and the Father of our country. Why (were we) misled in grade school? When the information below was relayed to some of my friends, they seemed upset with me. Some simply did not believe what I told them...." (The Barnes Review, A Journal of Nationalist Thought and History - November/December, 2004. www.barnesreview.org, article "George Washington wasn't our First President by Vance Beaudreau.) (article excerpted. Be sure to subscribe to TBR and get the real deal, or reference their website, above.) P.S. "Samuel Huntington assumed the office of president when the Articles of Confederation were ratified March 1, 1781, thereby becoming the first U.S. president to serve in office. On July 10, 1781, Thomas McKean was elected and accepted, becoming the second president of the United States in Congress Assembled. John Hanson was the third president of the United States in Congress Assembled. Hanson was the first president to serve the prescribed full one-year term (1781-82) under the Articles of Confederation. The first president of the Continental Congress of the United Colonies of America was Peyton Randolph. The first president of the Continental Congress of the United States of America was John Hancock. Hancock served from July 2, 1776 to October 29, 1777. John Jay was chosen by his peers to succeed Henry Laurens as President of the United States serving a term from December 10, 1778 to September 27, 1779. Laurens served from Novermber 1, 1777 to December 9, 1778. Cyrus Griffin was the 10th President of the United States in Congress Assembled, serving from January 22, 1788 to March 4, 1789." (TBR) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 00:29:12 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:29:12 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: Just Enough Rope Message-ID: THE HOFFMAN WIRE Dedicated to Freedom of the Press, Investigative Reporting and Revisionist History Subscribe: HoffmanWire-subscribe at topica.com Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor November 3, 2004 Just Enough Rope by Michael A. Hoffman II Copyright 2004 http://www.revisionisthistory.org/wire7.html Well, the "people have spoken." Or maybe Jim Condit, Jr. of votefraud.org knows that they have not, and that it was the rigged voting machines that spoke, and not us. Either way, the result is the same, four more years for the puzzled chimp. Bush didn't win, of course. Kerry lost. The "Massachusetts liberal" carried the baggage of "gun control" and abortion-on-demand. I don't need to tell you that Bush, like his father, favors disarming the American people, or that the police state King George is imposing under the "fighting terrorism" rubric eventually will lead to the most draconian gun control of all. And as for abortion, well, Arab and Muslim kids are not safe from Bush's bombs and bullets in or out of their mothers wombs, but the media have ruled them Amalek, so their murder is not an issue. Bush's victory, even in the face of Kerry's liabilities, can only be explained in terms of mind control--human alchemy-- the deliberate processing of Americans that has occurred in the last few decades. No sane person votes for his executioner. No slave with an ounce of self-preservation approves of his slavemaster. Where insanity and suicide prevail, mind control is a culprit, and it starts with dehumanization, the loss of our humanity. Mind control is no accident. It is imposed by secret societies. America was not masonic from its beginnings. Only the historically ignorant and the Freemasons proclaim--as I am told Dan Brown of "Da Vinci code" infamy is going to do in a new book-- that "America was founded on masonic ideals." America was predicated on Biblical ideals, including some of the ideology of early Catholic theologians, as I hope to show in an essay I am preparing for a Los Angeles publisher. America was up for grabs and could have gone either way, from its inception until the War Between the States ended in 1865, after which Freemasonry rose to an ascendant position, with millions of Americans hogtied and hornswaggled to some masquerading version of the Kabbalah, whether it was the aptly named "invisible empire" of the Ku Klux Klan, the Shriners or the Scottish Rite. Their ascendance institutionalized political corruption and cronyism throughout the American body politic, especially in the south and the midwest. Deep-seated poison like this is not rooted out in one year or one election, as evidenced by the fact that both Bush and Kerry are brethren in the same secret society, "Skull and Bones." The prophesied "October surprise" did indeed occur, with last Friday's intervention by the Ghost of Osama bin Laden, in a videotape that my 12-year-old son using Final Cut Pro could have pieced together on his iMac, but which the media and government certified as authentic. We have no way of knowing how much of a role this last-minute video played in ensuring King George's continued reign, but it had to have helped the incumbent war president, because fear does that. A holographic bogeyman is handy in this regard. In past wars, the US government had to account for a belligerent's official press agency. The spectral al-Qaeda has no such standing, except as a stage dummy, into which ventriloquist U.S. intelligence agencies may put any words they like, without much fear of contradiction. Did you notice that there were no high priority terror alerts from Tom Ridge in the final weeks of the campaign? Presumably, Karl Rove judged they would have hurt rather than helped his boss, after "cynics" had charged that these alerts were politically-motivated. All was calm-on-cue on the domestic terror front, as a prelude to Osama's All Hallows' weekend shockbuster. Of course, mind control is not the only determining factor. I am unwilling to make an idol out of, or grant absolution to "the American people" themselves. Any nation of people is capable of slipping into a mindset of pandemic evil; the ancient Israelites being most notorious in this regard. To some extent a vote for Bush reflects the evil, greed and unholiness of millions of Americans themselves. There's no getting around it. Bush validates their conspicuous consumption, gas-guzzling Hummers and buck-worship, all in the name of the homeless man from Galilee who said, "What you do to these the least of my brethren, you do to me" (that guy must have been a wimp). There is another America, however. One that still harkens to populist commonsense and revulsion toward war, and the corporate profiteers and big banks who engorge upon it. It crosses party lines. It is the America of the statesmen of yesteryear, Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin, Rep. Charles Lindbergh Sr. of Minnesota and Thomas E. Watson of Georgia. More than 50 million people voted against Bush and millions of them are populists, even if they don't know it or understand the term. It is our duty to educate and organize this fertile multitude and form them into a dynamic populist movement. The battle has only just begun. Millions of Americans are on the alert as they have not been since the days of Watergate, and are more aware than ever of government conspiracy and treachery. They despise the ground Bush walks on and know him for a fraud and a felon. They have an inkling that "terrorism" is in some way US government-driven, and that our foreign policy appears to be for the benefit of "Israel," and not America. Bush has squandered the good will and sense of national purpose and unity that came in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. He will preside over a polarized nation in which tens of millions of our countrymen view him as an evil cretin and potential dictator. Fear not. Despair not. National elections give us the illusion of "Decision, 2004" but in reality the future is decided by the "votes" we make every day of our lives; in the truths we uphold in spite of the risk of public opprobrium, in the stand we take without regard to our career; in the degree to which we do His will in our lives. Ours is a witness, a faith-keeping and a watch. There is a living God and He is in control. Let us light our candles and take the long view, seeing in the hand of Providence a power that far surpasses the stratagems of Bush and Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rove. 32 years ago, President Richard M. Nixon was re-elected with a "mandate," but his second term ended in resignation and ignominy, and the Establishment was discredited. Be of good cheer and know that God gives evil men just enough rope with which to hang themselves. This column is online at: http://www.revisionisthistory.org/wire7.html >>>>>>> The HOFFMAN WIRE is a public service of Independent History and Research, Box 849, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83816 USA 24 Hour Revisionist News Bureau: http://www.revisionisthistory.org/news.html Subscribe: HoffmanWire-subscribe at topica.com Disclaimer: The Hoffman Wire is a controversial and politically incorrect e-mail letter intended only for those who have requested it. We have a strict anti-spamming policy. The views expressed in the Hoffman Wire are the sole responsibility of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of advertisers or the transmitter. Freedom of the Press: A hallowed right. Responsible Dissent: A contribution to understanding and dialogue. --^---------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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To be sure, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), which has launched a public relations campaign against Wal-Mart over the firm's refusal to let its Chinese workers unionize, does not much resemble unions in the United States (where Wal-Mart is the target of almost forty lawsuits alleging forced overtime without pay; a class-action lawsuit claiming gender discrimination; and, most recently, charges by federal prosecutors that the company has violated immigration laws by hiring undocumented workers). It is, rather, a virtual extension of the Communist Party and the government, and the fight with the antiunion Wal-Mart does as much to showcase the labor group's own shortcomings as those of the corporation. The labor federation is threatening to sue Wal-Mart unless the US company agrees to establish unions in its stores. Wal-Mart, for its part, maintains that officials in the central government have assured the company that it's not required to do so. Which seems a bit odd, because Article 10 of China's Trade Union Law clearly states that a union "shall be set up" in any enterprise with twenty-five or more workers. The explanation for the apparent contradiction may be that the government's desire for foreign investment and jobs trumps any concern for workers' rights. That wouldn't be surprising in the Chinese environment, where strikes are forbidden and the official labor grouping actively supports the government's efforts to block the rise of independent unions." Homepage (as of NOV-01-2002): http://www.SeattleActivist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 00:34:11 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:34:11 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] How Wal-Mart Is Remaking Our World: Walmart Slavery Message-ID: How Wal-Mart Is Remaking Our World Wal Mart a tool in NWO Slavery By Jim Hightower The Hightower Lowdown AlterNet.org 4-26-2002 FROM: http://www.geocities.com/osram007/walmart.htm Bullying people from your town to China... Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to matching the power that the 500 biggest corporations have amassed over us. The clout of all 535 members of Congress is nothing compared to the individual and collective power of these predatory behemoths that now roam the globe, working their will over all competing interests. The aloof and pampered executives who run todays autocratic and secretive corporate states have effectively become our sovereigns. From who gets health care to who pays taxes, from what's on the news to what's in our food, they have usurped the people's democratic authority and now make these broad social decisions in private, based solely on the interests of their corporations. Their attitude was forged back in 1882, when the villainous old robber baron William Henry Vanderbilt spat out: "The public be damned! I'm working for my stockholders." The media and politicians won't discuss this, for obvious reasons, but we must if we're actually to be a self-governing people. That's why the Lowdown is launching this occasional series of corporate profiles. And why not start with the biggest and one of the worst actors? The beast from Bentonville Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest corporation, having passed ExxonMobil for the top slot. It hauls off a stunning $220 billion a year from We the People (more in revenues than the entire GDP of Israel and Ireland combined). Wal-Mart cultivates an aw-shucks, we're-just-folks-from-Arkansas image of neighborly small-town shopkeepers trying to sell stuff cheaply to you and yours. Behind its soft homespun ads, however, is what one union leader calls "this devouring beast" of a corporation that ruthlessly stomps on workers, neighborhoods, competitors, and suppliers. Despite its claim that it slashes profits to the bone in order to deliver "Always Low Prices," Wal-Mart banks about $7 billion a year in profits, ranking it among the most profitable entities on the planet. Of the 10 richest people in the world, five are Waltons - the ruling family of the Wal-Mart empire. S. Robson Walton is ranked by London's "Rich List 2001" as the wealthiest human on the planet, having sacked up more than $65 billion (??45.3 billion) in personal wealth and topping Bill Gates as No. 1. Wal-Mart and the Waltons got to the top the old-fashioned way-by roughing people up. The corporate ethos emanating from the Bentonville headquarters dictates two guiding principles for all managers: extract the very last penny possible from human toil, and squeeze the last dime from every supplier. With more than one million employees (three times more than General Motors), this far-flung retailer is the country's largest private employer, and it intends to remake the image of the American workplace in its image-which is not pretty. Yes, there is the happy-faced "greeter" who welcomes shoppers into every store, and employees (or "associates," as the company grandiosely calls them) gather just before opening each morning for a pep rally, where they are all required to join in the Wal-Mart cheer: "Gimme a W!'" shouts the cheerleader; "W!" the dutiful employees respond. "Gimme an A!'" And so on. Behind this manufactured cheerfulness, however, is the fact that the average employee makes only $15,000 a year for full-time work. Most are denied even this poverty income, for they're held to part-time work. While the company brags that 70% of its workers are full-time, at Wal-Mart "full time" is 28 hours a week, meaning they gross less than $11,000 a year. Health-care benefits? Only if you've been there two years; then the plan hits you with such huge premiums that few can afford it-only 38% of Wal-Marters are covered. Thinking union? Get outta here! "Wal-Mart is opposed to unionization," reads a company guidebook for supervisors. "You, as a manager, are expected to support the company's position. . . . This may mean walking a tightrope between legitimate campaigning and improper conduct." Wal-Mart is in fact rabidly anti-union, deploying teams of union-busters from Bentonville to any spot where there's a whisper of organizing activity. "While unions might be appropriate for other companies, they have no place at Wal-Mart," a spokeswoman told a Texas Observer reporter who was covering an NLRB hearing on the company's manhandling of 11 meat-cutters who worked at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jacksonville, Texas. These derring-do employees were sick of working harder and longer for the same low pay. "We signed [union] cards, and all hell broke loose," says Sidney Smith, one of the Jacksonville meat-cutters who established the first-ever Wal-Mart union in the U.S., voting in February 2000 to join the United Food and Commercial Workers. Eleven days later, Wal-Mart announced that it was closing the meat-cutting departments in all of its stores and would henceforth buy prepackaged meat elsewhere. But the repressive company didn't stop there. As the Observer reports: "Smith was fired for theft-after a manger agreed to let him buy a box of overripe bananas for 50 cents, Smith ate one banana before paying for the box, and was judged to have stolen that banana." Wal-Mart is an unrepentant and recidivist violator of employee rights, drawing repeated convictions, fines, and the ire of judges from coast to coast. For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has had to file more suits against the Bentonville billionaires club for cases of disability discrimination than any other corporation. A top EEOC lawyer told Business Week, "I have never seen this kind of blatant disregard for the law." Likewise, a national class-action suit reveals an astonishing pattern of sexual discrimination at Wal-Mart (where 72% of the salespeople are women), charging that there is "a harsh, anti-woman culture in which complaints go unanswered and the women who make them are targeted for retaliation." Workers' compensation laws, child-labor laws (1,400 violations in Maine alone), surveillance of employees-you name it, this corporation is a repeat offender. No wonder, then, that turnover in the stores is above 50% a year, with many stores having to replace 100% of their employees each year, and some reaching as high as a 300% turnover! Worldwide wage-depressor Then there's China. For years, Wal-Mart saturated the airwaves with a "We Buy American" advertising campaign, but it was nothing more than a red-white-and-blue sham. All along, the vast majority of the products it sold were from cheap-labor hell-holes, especially China. In 1998, after several exposes of this sham, the company finally dropped its "patriotism" posture and by 2001 had even moved its worldwide purchasing headquarters to China. Today, it is the largest importer of Chinese-made products in the world, buying $10 billion worth of merchandise from several thousand Chinese factories. As Charlie Kernaghan of the National Labor Committee reports, "In country after country, factories that produce for Wal-Mart are the worst," adding that the bottom-feeding labor policy of this one corporation "is actually lowering standards in China, slashing wages and benefits, imposing long mandatory-overtime shifts, while tolerating the arbitrary firing of workers who even dare to discuss factory conditions." Wal-Mart does not want the U.S. buying public to know that its famous low prices are the product of human misery, so while it loudly proclaims that its global suppliers must comply with a corporate "code of conduct" to treat workers decently, it strictly prohibits the disclosure of any factory names and addresses, hoping to keep independent sources from witnessing the "code" in operation. Kernaghan's NLC, acclaimed for its fact-packed reports on global working conditions, found several Chinese factories that make the toys Americans buy for their children at Wal-Mart. Seventy-one percent of the toys sold in the U.S. come from China, and Wal-Mart now sells one out of five of the toys we buy. NLC interviewed workers in China's Guangdong Province who toil in factories making popular action figures, dolls, and other toys sold at Wal-Mart. In "Toys of Misery," a shocking 58-page report that the establishment media ignored, NLC describes: * 13- to 16-hour days molding, assembling, and spray-painting toys-8 a.m. to 9 p.m. or even midnight, seven days a week, with 20-hour shifts in peak season. * Even though China's minimum wage is 31 cents an hour-which doesn't begin to cover a person's basic subsistence-level needs-these production workers are paid 13 cents an hour. * Workers typically live in squatter shacks, seven feet by seven feet, or jammed in company dorms, with more than a dozen sharing a cubicle costing $1.95 a week for rent. They pay about $5.50 a week for lousy food. They also must pay for their own medical treatment and are fired if they are too ill to work. * The work is literally sickening, since there's no health and safety enforcement. Workers have constant headaches and nausea from paint-dust hanging in the air; the indoor temperature tops 100 degrees; protective clothing is a joke; repetitive stress disorders are rampant; and there's no training on the health hazards of handling the plastics, glue, paint thinners, and other solvents in which these workers are immersed every day. As for Wal-Mart's highly vaunted "code of conduct," NLC could not find a single worker who had ever seen or heard of it. These factories employ mostly young women and teenage girls. Wal-Mart, renowned for knowing every detail of its global business operations and for calculating every penny of a product's cost, knows what goes on inside these places. Yet, when confronted with these facts, corporate honchos claim ignorance and wash their hands of the exploitation: "There will always be people who break the law," says CEO Lee Scott. "It is an issue of human greed among a few people." Those "few people" include him, other top managers, and the Walton billionaires. Each of them not only knows about their company's exploitation, but willingly prospers from a corporate culture that demands it. "Get costs down" is Wal-Mart's mantra and modus operandi, and that translates into a crusade to stamp down the folks who produce its goods and services, shamelessly building its low-price strategy and profits on their backs. The Wal-Mart Gospel Worse, Wal-Mart is on a messianic mission to extend its exploitative ethos to the entire business world. More than 65,000 companies supply the retailer with the stuff on its shelves, and it constantly hammers each supplier about cutting their production costs deeper and deeper in order to get cheaper wholesale prices. Some companies have to open their books so Bentonville executives can red-pencil what CEO Scott terms "unnecessary costs." Of course, among the unnecessaries to him are the use of union labor and producing goods in America, and Scott is unabashed about pointing in the direction of China or other places for abysmally low production costs. He doesn't even have to say "Move to China"-his purchasing executives demand such an impossible lowball price from suppliers that they can only meet it if they follow Wal-Mart's labor example. With its dominance over its own 1.2 million workers and 65,000 suppliers, plus its alliances with ruthless labor abusers abroad, this one company is the world's most powerful private force for lowering labor standards and stifling the middle-class aspirations of workers everywhere. Using its sheer size, market clout, access to capital, and massive advertising budget, the company also is squeezing out competitors and forcing its remaining rivals to adopt its price-is-everything approach. Even the big boys like Toys R Us and Kroger are daunted by the company's brutish power, saying they're compelled to slash wages and search the globe for sweatshop suppliers in order to compete in the downward race to match Wal-Mart's prices. How high of a price are we willing to pay for Wal-Mart's "low-price" model? This outfit operates with an avarice, arrogance, and ambition that would make Enron blush. It hits a town or city neighborhood like a retailing neutron bomb, sucking out the economic vitality and all of the local character. And Wal-Mart's stores now have more kill-power than ever, with its Supercenters averaging 200,000 square feet-the size of more than four football fields under one roof! These things land splat on top of any community's sense of itself and devour local business. By slashing its retail prices way below cost when it enters a community, Wal-Mart can crush our groceries, pharmacies, hardware stores, and other retailers, then raise its prices once it has monopoly control over the market. But, say apologists for these Big-Box mega-stores, at least they're creating jobs. Wrong. By crushing local businesses, this giant eliminates three decent jobs for every two Wal-Mart jobs that it creates-and a store full of part-time, poorly paid employees hardly builds the family wealth necessary to sustain a community's middle-class living standard. Indeed, Wal-Mart operates as a massive wealth extractor. Instead of profits staying in town to be reinvested locally, the money is hauled off to Bentonville, either to be used as capital for conquering yet another town or simply to be stashed in the family vaults (the Waltons, by the way, just bought the biggest bank in Arkansas). It's our world Why should we accept this? Is it our country, our communities, our economic destinies-or theirs? Wal-Mart's radical remaking of our labor standards and our local economies is occurring mostly without our knowledge or consent. Poof-there goes another local business. Poof-there goes our middle-class wages. Poof-there goes another factory to China. No one voted for this . . . but there it is. While corporate ideologues might huffily assert that customers vote with their dollars, it's an election without a campaign, conveniently ignoring that the public's "vote" might change if we knew the real cost of Wal-Mart's "cheap" goods-and if we actually had a chance to vote. Much to the corporation's consternation, more and more communities are learning about this voracious powerhouse, and there's a rising civic rebellion against it. Tremendous victories have already been won as citizens from Maine to Arizona, from the Puget Sound to the Gulf of Mexico, have organized locally and even statewide to thwart the expansionist march of the Wal-Mart juggernaut. Wal-Mart is huge, but it can be brought to heel by an aroused and organized citizenry willing to confront it in their communities, the workplace, the marketplace, the classrooms, the pulpits, the legislatures, and the voting booths. Just as the Founders rose up against the mighty British trading companies, so we can reassert our people's sovereignty and our democratic principles over the autocratic ambitions of mighty Wal-Mart. More of Jim Hightower's writing can be found in his monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown. For more information, see www.jimhightower.com. ?? 2001 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved. http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12962 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Bush will continue to promote investment and trade, especially with a collective push from big companies, he said. China and other countries are expecting a more stable trading relationship with the United States, he said. "It is favourable for Chinese companies to have a situation unchanged by a Bush victory, which may bring less friction," Zhao said. Daniel Griswold, director of the Centre for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, said President George W. Bush speaks often of the benefits of trade for the US economy. The Bush administration strongly supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization, and has worked constructively with China on a range of trade issues, he said. It rejected a string of Section 421 requests by US industries to restrict imports of Chinese-made wire hangers, pedestal actuators and brake parts. The Bush administration also dismissed two Section 301 petitions that would have imposed tariffs on Chinese imports in retaliation for alleged labour abuses and currency manipulation. During the administration's tenure, two-way trade between the United States and China has continued its spectacular growth, from US$74 billion in 2000 to US$126 billion in 2003, according to Chinese statistics. This year the number is expected to hit US$150 billion and the trade volume in the first three quarter has surged by 34 per cent to US$122 billion, according to Chinese estimates. As the world's most-developed country, with the best high-tech production capabilities and abundant capital, the United States has developed closely interdependent relations with China, which is the biggest developing country, and which has a vast market and great desire to receive foreign investment, said Wang Youli, an expert from the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Co-operation. Different economic structures have made the bilateral trade ties a win-win game, Wang said. However, that is not to say that there will be no friction between China and United States, Wang said. Just before the election, the Bush administration decided to re-impose quotas on Chinese socks and agreed to consider safeguard measures on Chinese cotton trousers. Griswold said Bush had not been immune to protectionist pressures. His Commerce Department has rejected arguments to recognize China a "market economy" for purposes of anti-dumping calculations. His administration has also retreated from free trade principles in the face of political pressure, casting a cloud of uncertainty over the trade policy of a second Bush term, he said. But analysts all agreed that it does not really matter who becomes president of the US, the impact on China will be minimal. Sino-US relations are shaped by the mutual interests shared by the two countries under a giant framework, rather than by individuals, Wang said. Neither Bush nor Kerry can weaken, let alone cut off, existing bilateral trade relations, he said. The trade deficit with China is always a problem for the US government. The Chinese Government is seeking to resolve the imbalance and China's capability to import from the United States will further grow with its economic development, Wang said. The US export control against China also represses full play of its comparative advantages, leading to a trade imbalance between the two countries. Homepage (as of NOV-01-2002): http://www.SeattleActivist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Over the next few days we will be expanding it's features. Please check in and give us some feedback on the new site. GNN --------------------------------------------------- or visit the website at http://gnn.tv -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 00:42:15 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 00:42:15 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: A time of hope, a moment of growth and an opportunity to vote with your feet Message-ID: Dear Friends, Here at SOA Watch, in spite of grim election news, we continue to ride high on several historic victories. As you know, SOA Watch won an important ruling in the 11th circuit court that found the metal detectors that Columbus City officials used to illegally search demonstrators during the annual November Vigil over the last two years to be unconstitutional. The 11th circuit ruling reaffirms the First and Fourth Amendments and has the potential to be used to overturn aspects of the Patriot Act. And again, in the past days we found that we have another victory to celebrate. Last year at Fort Benning, as we gathered to protest the SOA/WHINSEC, military police blared music at us in an attempt to disrupt our nonviolent, permitted gathering. Because of the pressure that you put on the base challenging their use of noise to try and silence dissent and the threat of lawsuits against the base by the SOA Watch Legal Collective, Fort Benning was forced to agree that they would not interfere with our gathering at their main entrance in any way this November. In the face of this presidential election, we at SOA Watch believe the time is ripe to not only continue to build our growing movement to challenge the SOA/ WHINSEC, but also for us to broaden our movement to confront growing US militarism in Latin America. The SOA is not an aberration of US foreign policy but rather a clear illustration of that policy. Our movement continues to grow to challenge this school and all US foreign policy that attacks the poor and those who are working for human rights. This is an important moment. Some people were turned away at the ballots yesterday, but we will not be turned away from our struggle for justice! Join us at the gates of Fort Benning this November 19th through the 21st to confront the SOA/ WHINSEC and US militarism in Latin America. Your vote counts and your presence counts as we build a movement to create the world we know is possible, the world that we know is coming. In Cucuta, Colombia this November tens of thousands of people will march against war and violence in a town where there were two thousand political assassinations over the past year. This year in solidarity, we hope you will join us at the gates of Fort Benning to march against war, violence and the continued training of assassins at Fort Benning. Please join us this November 19th through the 21st to rally against war and terror and to promote the world where all can live in human dignity. Visit www.SOAW.org or call 202-234-3440 for more information about this year's gathering. See you in Columbus, Jacqueline Baker, Roy Bourgeois, Eric LeCompte, Sarah Mertz, Christy Pardew, Josh Raisler Cohn and Kristine Werthwein The SOA Watch Team ________________________________________ If you have received this email by mistake or if you don't wish to receive updates from SOA Watch, send a blank email to soaw-unsubscribe at lists.mutualaid.org. 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ZNet | A Community of People Committed to Social Change The morning after ZNet Top U.S. Home Most Recent From U.S. Drowning Santa Eve of Elections November 3 Bush and Science Most Recent From Justin Podur Crossing the Lines Getting Beyond Hypocrisy on Humanitarian Intervention Revolutionary University Venezuelan Community TV The Disappeared Mayor Other Sections 2004 Election Activism Afghanistan Watch Africa AIDS Alternative Media Anarchy Animal Rights Anti War Argentina Asia Audio Australia Balkans Biotechnology Bolivia Watch Book Watch Brazil Watch Campus Canada Central America & Caribbean Watch Chiapas China Colombia Corporate Globalization Criminal Justice System Cuba Culture Debates Disability_ Rights East Asia East Timor Watch Ecology Watch Economy Ecuador Education Electoral Politics England Enron Europe Feminism/Gender Foreign Policy France Gender Germany Global Government Guatemala Haiti Watch Human Rights Imperialism India Information Technology Instructionals Interviews Iran Iraq Ireland Israel/Palestine Italy Japan Korea Kosovo Labor Latin America Literature Mainstream Media Mexico Mideast Miscellaneous Multiculturalism Mumia Native Nicaragua North America Pacifica Parecon Peltier Site Politics Puerto Rico Queer Race Reading Lists Repression Research Reviews Russia Science Watch Sexuality South Africa South Asia Syria Watch Terror War Third Party U.S. Venezuela Vision & Strategy Web Web Links WSF Youth Zimbabwe ZNet InterActive by Justin Podur November 03, 2004 U.S. The last time I spent a late night biting my nails watching an election, I was in Venezuela observing the referendum. Like the US elections of November 2, the outcome was important not only to the people who voted, but to the whole world. There were, however, some differences. In Venezuela, the voting machines were the same in every polling station. In Venezuela, the voting machines had a redundancy: voters used a touchscreen to pick YES or NO. The touchscreen then produced a printed ballot, which the voter could check, before folding the ballot and putting it in the ballot box. The manual counts could then be checked against the computer voting system. A simple, difficult-to-defraud system. In Venezuela, the side with the most votes won. But tonight it looks like even if the United States had the simple, elegant voting system of ?authoritarian? Venezuela rather than the bizarre labyrinth of the ?democratic? Electoral College, George W Bush would still be the winner. It looks like even if the United States electoral system was capable of expressing the people?s choice, the people would choose George W Bush. It looks like voters in a dozen states decided to ban gay marriage, by huge margins, deciding to ruin other people?s lives with no benefit to themselves. That means that it is time to admit something. The greatest divide in the world today is not between the US elite and its people, or the US elite and the people of the world. It is between the US people and the rest of the world. The first time around, George W Bush was not elected. When the United States planted cluster bombs all over Afghanistan, disrupted the aid effort there, killed thousands of people, and occupied the country, it could be interpreted as the actions of a rogue group who had stolen the elections and used terrorism as a pretext to wage war. When the United States invaded Iraq, killing 100,000 at the latest count, it could be argued that no one had really asked the American people about it and that the American people had been lied to. When the United States kidnapped Haiti?s president and installed a paramilitary dictatorship, it could be argued that these were the actions of an unelected group with contempt for democracy. With this election, all of those actions have been retroactively justified by the majority of the American people. The first time around the Bush people acted without a mandate. Today, the only constituency that could have stopped them has given them a mandate to go beyond what they have done. In recent years, elections in every country have created media noise that drowned out radical voices. They were contests between weak liberalism gutted of most of its progressive economic and social content against hard reaction that promised to use every term in office to erode the institutions of liberal government and culture. Presented with such a stark choice, potentially radical progressives don?t have much time for radical arguments. The hole is too deep, the potential losses too great, to gamble on radicalism. It seems that the liberals fought very hard this time. Radicals tried to tell Americans that the world was full of other people who were being devastated by America?s policies. Liberals tried to tell Americans that they were being deceived, bamboozled, swindled, and sacrificed so that a small elite could rule and plunder. The radicals are silenced, the liberals are routed, and the field is clear for the fundamentalists. Who is left but bin Laden? ?Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, nor Bush, nor al-Qaida. No. Your security is in your own hands. And every state that doesn?t play with our security has automatically guaranteed its own security.? When Bush made his response, talking about terrorism and unity and enemies and intimidation, one could dismiss it as a fundamentalist reply to a fundamentalist threat. When Kerry did his own posturing, calling the terrorists barbarians and saying he?d stop at nothing to kill them, it was, perhaps, just cheap electioneering. But today the American people have answered as well. They lined up behind their killer leaders when they could have rejected them. Two years ago, as the Afghan war was starting, before the Iraq war began, Pakistani American activist Zia Mian told an audience of Americans: "People now will not tolerate the United States behaving like the British and the French conquering countries and creating new colonies. The people of the Third World did not fight for independence for 200 years against the British and the French and the Dutch and the Belgians and every other little European country that thought it had the military and economic power to push brown and black and yellow people around because they had something that they wanted. Well, that period of history is past! The Vietnamese should have taught everybody this. You do not go and take over somebody else?s country." "There are two ways for George Bush and Washington to learn this lesson. One will be a slaughter in Iraq and then decades of violence, where there will be people who will step off the sidewalk when they see an American, because they are so afraid. Or Americans will realize this is not the world that they want. It is a choice between wars of conquest, wars of colonization, things of the past, or the future based on a common, shared respect for everyone." 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After wittnessing what the Waco Killers did to the Branch Davidians, hoping that the Texas rangers would step in and help their fellow citizens ( they wre effectively pussywhipped by the Feds) I prayed to God that some elements of ANY MILITIA anywhere in the states would have heard their call to arms and mobilized towards Texas and engaged the sonsabitches.We all know it didn't go down that way for a myriad of reasons; I am hoping that if the shitstorm from hell does rear it's ugly head, Patriots from all over America will lock and load, and at least ATTEMPT to repel these Domestic Enemies. I guess time will tell -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In Nicaragua, these foreign-owned plants are referred to by the Spanish word for bird, with the implication being that they are not expected to be there for long. ndeed, these vultures have now lit in southern China, where clothing workers receive as little as thirteen cents an hour. Young women, ranging in age from 18 to their mid-twenties, are working 60 to 96 hours per week for thirteen to twenty-eight cents per hour with no benefits. Overtime is mandatory, with severe fines for any worker who refuses. Migrant workers are housed in dirty cramped dorms with as many as twelve workers to a room. They are fed a thin rice gruel for breakfast and often have to dip into their own money in order to have enough food to survive. U.S. companies may even be lowering the wages and working conditions of clothing workers in China. Work is being shifted from large, publicly owned and regulated factories in the north, to a growing sector of private, foreign-owned, low-wage, unregulated factories in the south. In the north, wages average about 50 cents an hour. In the south, workers not only toil longer hours for less money but are denied work contracts as well. A worker without a work contract in China basically has no legal rights. You may be surprised to learn which U.S. designers and retailers are benefiting from such conditions: Liz Claiborne, Wal-Mart, Ralph Lauren, Ann Taylor, J.C. Penney, Esprit, Casual Corner, Sears, Structure, Nike and our old friend Kathie Lee Gifford. What is especially galling is that after it was brought to the attention of Ms. Gifford that her clothing line was being manufactured by children working in Honduran sweatshops, she pledged never to let it happen again. Now, it comes out that her handbags are being made in Chinese sweatshops. Adding, insult to injury, Kathie Lee handbags are sold in Wal-Mart, the store that brags about its "Made in the USA" policy in its commercials. Having learned a lesson (the wrong one) from the successful Gap campaign, some of these retailers are now employing a for-profit consulting firm, Cal-Safety, to check conditions in their contractor's facilities. Cal-Safety's job is to protect the reputation of their clients, not to expose human rights violations. To illustrate, the owner of Cal-Safety, Carol Pender, publicly stated that it was the sweatshop workers in California who were violating wage laws, since "some workers are requiring the factories to keep double sets of books." It is Ms. Pender's belief that workers resent having to be paid according to federal overtime laws. Here is what you can do: Write to: David Glass, CEO Wal-Mart Home Office Headquarters 702 SW 8th Street Bentonville, Arkansas 72716 Tell him that you are appalled that Kathie Lee handbags, which are sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, are made in China under substandard and illegal conditions. Demand that Wal-Mart use a truly independent human rightsmonitoring group, such as Asia Monitor Resource Center or the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee, to immediately review factory conditions to guarantee respect for internationally recognized human and worker rights. Ask that Wal-Mart join with other North American companies in assuring that wage rates are tied to the actual cost of living in each society as established by local, respected, religious and human rights non-governmental organizations. Ask for a reply to your letter. With sales of over $113 billion during a twelve month period, and profits of over $3.3 billion, Wal-Mart can afford to pay a living wage in China, which human rights groups in Hong Kong was estimated to be as low as 87 cents an hour. Here is what else you can do: do not shop at stores sell apparel made in sweatshops. If you have a credit card from one of these stores, send it back and tell them why you are doing it. Local stores include Wal-Mart, J.C. PENNY, Sears, Esprit and Structure. Also, do not buy Anne Taylor, Liz Claiborne, Ralph Lauren, Ellen Tracy, Bugle Boy, Nike, Adidas or Reebok. Metro Justice, 36 St. Paul Street, Room 112, Rochester, NY 14604 716-325-2560 May 1998 Index Metro Justice Home Page http://www.ggw.org/MetroJustice Homepage (as of NOV-01-2002): http://www.SeattleActivist.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As loyal followers of this list know, I steadfastly have advocated voting against all Republicans and Democrats during tomorrow's election (with the possible exceptions of Tancredo and Paul, but then I haven't checked to see if they voted yes on that unanimous Global Anti-Semitism Act abomination or were conveniently absent during the roll call) and for every Constitutional Party candidate (Libertarian or independent if there is none for a given position), starting with Peroutka for President. I've read a few articles by others arguing that not voting is our duty. That voting amounts to collaborating with the enemy. Somehow, not voting is supposed to show our disdain for the system. Proves we won't play along...or something. These people miss the point altogether. By even participating in the discussion, they "play along." Those who say "Don't vote" seem not to understand that the meatballs who assume office will wield power over nonvoters as surely as they will over the people who voted them in. You may not be interested in voting, but the results of voting are interested in you, to paraphrase one of our oppressors' heroes: Leon Trotsky. One could, and should, as easily say that those who urge others not to vote are, themselves, "collaborators." Like it or not, they do the very thing about which they complain: use the system in a vain attempt to change the system. And the action they urge - inaction, actually - aids the opposition! If they truly meant what they say, they would be out blowing up transmission towers, not trying to win hearts and change minds. They are hypocrites. Voting, I have argued, is a duty, since not voting actually helps our oppressors legitimize their victory. Not voting increases their margin of victory, you see. Lessee now. The US population officially is about 290 million people. The Census Bureau says that 111 million voted in the 2000 Presidential election, which means that 38% of the population voted last time around (the rate goes way down in all other elections). More importantly, only 59% of those eligible to vote (185 million), actually did so. Now, Bush didn't even get the majority of votes, as some may recall - Gore did (Bush - 47.9%, Gore - 48.4%). Bush's 47.9% times the 59% who are eligible to vote is 28%, which means that something over 50 million people voted for Bush. 17% of Americans decided who got to be President last time. 17%. Think about it. Of all those eligible to vote, substantially more than twice the number of people who gave us Bush don't even bother to vote. Do you see why minority blocks, such as Jews, Blacks and Hispanics, get such lavish attention at election time? They vote cohesively, early and often. We - descendants of those who gave so much to establish this country - can't be bothered. "It doesn't make a difference." We "make a statement" by not voting. What crap (rhymes with "splat" - I love words that sound like what they describe)! What boobs we have become! If you haven't yet rented and seen both "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "911 In Plane Site," you must do so tonight. Since "911 In Plane Site" is so hard to come by, click here to download a copy. Nobody who watches these two videos will ever vote for Bush. Given how great is my antipathy for Bush, it will be interesting to see if I can keep FROM voting for Kerry tomorrow once my hand is on the levers. Of course, I would never admit that I did so. After all, it took me years to admit that I voted for Reagan (both times!), but that was when I viewed politics as a way to meet girls. For balance, here's an on-line link to "Stolen Honor," the video that exposes John Kerry's record of betrayal during and after the Vietnam era: http://www.buttondepress.com/BostonManifesto/stolenhonor.wmv. Nobody who watches this video will ever vote for Kerry. Warning: Watching any of the three videos just mentioned can be extremely hazardous to your preconceptions. If you haven't or won't watch the foregoing, rent "Pacific Heights," starring Michael Keaton as the tenant from Hell. Imagine America as the unsuspecting couple that rents out the downstairs apartment. Guess who the tenant represents? For extra points, also rent the low-budget "They Live," starring Rowdy Roddy Piper (yes, the wrestler) and guess who "they" are. Then go vote. Vote like your son's life depends upon it. My son's life does depend upon it because he will be draftable in less than two years. Believe me when I say the inevitability of a draft under either Bush or Kerry dictates the way I vote. For an extended and graphic explanation, listen to my speech to the Sacramento Zundel Revisionist Conference this past Spring by clicking here for streaming Real Audio or here to download and listen to it via Windows' Media Player - some in the audience were openly weeping during the guided imagery portion. If we all got out and voted our true conscience tomorrow, rather than opting for the lesser of two evils, we could change America overnight, despite the rampant vote fraud that will take place. They would have to install the guy we agreed to vote for, despite the inevitable and widespread vote fraud. But, I agree - we won't. Can you say, "Baaaaaaaaa?" Sounds like "Baaad," boys and girls. Tomorrow we will work on "Aiieeeeeee," which sounds like "die." New America. An idea whose time has come. ----------------------------------------------------------- For an extended discussion of why and how we got ourselves into this mess, see my just-released book, Defensive Racism, which now is available through www.Amazon.com (please consider going there and posting a review if you already have read it), though you can get a $5 discount by ordering directly from the publisher. Some comments that came in from List members since I wrote you last week: "I have been reading your book, and can hardly put it down. You are doing a magnificent service for those of us who are struggling to understand what is happening in this republic." -- Doug, 10/30/04 "I have just finished reading your book. It is excellent...I think your book is the book for the current times for anyone wanting enlightenment." -- Kenneth Wade, 10/29/04 "It's grand and everyone in this country ought to read it, that is if they want this country saved." -- Hazel Poole, 10/28/04 "Got your book and loving it." -- James Seumas, 10/28/04 "...Steele has written a book that explains what racism really is, and if it is natural, and what is in store for America. I highly recommend this book. I found his writing style very easy to read and understand, and basically, I believe that he speaks and writes the truth...something not heard in the mainstream media..." -- Bob Stewart, posted on Amazon.com 10/27/04 These unsolicited comments illustrate how this book can help you to bring others around to your point of view (which is at least similar to my own, else you wouldn't have found your way to this post script). I regret the seemingly-high cover price ($29.95), dictated by the reality of finding a printer to handle such a politically-incorrect book and, particularly, by a small-quantity printing forced by limited funds. Again, buy direct from the publisher for a $5 discount per copy. If I can raise enough funds from this edition to get the print volume up and eventually (very eventually, incidentally) produce a second edition in paperback, the cover price probably will end up at about the current case lot price of $18. No reason to wait for the paperback edition, is there? Just get together with 17 others and place a single order. Tell me that's what you are doing and I'll sign every single one of them for you. This book works. It reaches people. Consider loaning your copy to others once you have read it. Or, if you can afford to, buy extras for family and friends. I have created what I call my "bread on the water" special, so that anybody can buy an entire case of the first edition of these books for exactly the same price that bookstores and other resellers pay (40% off, or $18 per copy, in case lots of 18). In the words of reviewer Mark Farrell: "If you read just one book this year, let it be Steele's. You won't regret it...Go out and buy a case of this book, and give a copy to everyone you know." Now shipping: Defensive Racism - An Unapologetic Examination of Racial Differences. Visit www.DefensiveRacism.com for more information and on-line ordering information. Or, simply click here: Quantity: Quantity discounts are outlined at www.DefensiveRacism.com and automatically are applied during the order process. I will be honored to sign copies of my book for faithful members of this list: On the screen where you select the type of shipping and enter credit card information (if that is the payment method you choose), enter "Sign my book" into the "Customer Comments" blank, otherwise I have no way of knowing you are a list member. -ed "I didn't say it would be easy. I just said it would be the truth." - Morpheus Copyright ?2004, Edgar J. Steele Forward as you wish. Permission is granted to circulate among private individuals and groups, post on all Internet sites and publish in full in all not-for-profit publications. Contact author for all other rights, which are reserved. 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Despite the legal prohibition, Army plans already have included such collocation of women-men units in blueprints for a lighter force of 10 active divisions, according to Defense Department sources. An Army spokesman yesterday, in response to questions from The Washington Times, said the Army is now in discussions with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's staff to see whether the 10-year-old ban in this one area should be lifted. The ban prohibits the Army from putting women in units that "collocate" with ground combatants. "When that policy was made up, there was a different threat," said Lt. Col. Chris Rodney, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon. "We imagined a more linear combat environment. Now, with the nature of asymmetrical threats, we have to relook at that policy." Col. Rodney cited the fighting in Iraq as typifying the new threat whereby all soldiers, support or combat, face attack by rockets, mortars, roadside bombs and ambushes. "Everybody faces a similar threat," he said. "There is no front-line threat right now." Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the Army has suffered 793 combat deaths, including 24 female soldiers. The Army is not seeking to lift the ban on women in direct combat units, such as infantry or armor. What is being examined is the part of the exclusion rule that says mixed-sex support companies may not be positioned with ground combat teams. In the disputed instance, the transformation plan of Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, calls for creating Forward Support Companies, which are made up of men and women. These companies would collocate with reconnaissance squadrons, which are combat units and are part of larger brigade "units of action." The problem is a 1994 ban signed by then-Defense Secretary Les Aspin that excludes women from land combat units. Mr. Aspin added an additional restriction. Women could not serve "where units and positions are doctrinally required to physically collocate and remain with direct ground combat units that are closed to women." Some Pentagon officials, who asked not to be named, said the proposed Forward Support Companies are at the least "skirting" the existing ban if not violating it. They suspect the new units are a way to inch women closer to land combat despite Congress' prohibition against it. Elaine Donnelly, who leads the pro-military Center for Military Readiness, says Congress needs to be informed of the Army's plans. "There is a law requiring notice to Congress that has not happened, and there are regulations that forbid the Army from taking infantry units and collocating gender-integrated units with them," said Mrs. Donnelly, who opposes women in combat. "If they are doing this, putting women in land combat units would be a violation of law and policy." The Pentagon long has banned women from combat roles. In the early 1990s, the new Clinton administration changed the rules by allowing women for the first time to serve on combat ships and pilot combat aircraft, such as jet fighters and helicopters. But the Pentagon retained the ban on women participating in direct combat and issued the new Aspin rules. Mr. Aspin said in a January 1994 memo to the services that "women should be excluded from assignment to units below the brigade level whose primary mission is to engage in direct combat on the ground." The policy then defined direct combat as "engaging an enemy on the ground with individual or crew-served weapons, while being exposed to hostile fire and to a high probability of direct physical contact with the hostile force's personnel. Direct combat takes place well forward on the battlefield while locating and closing with the enemy to defeat them by fire, maneuver, or shock effect." Mr. Aspin then went further in denying collocation of mixed-sex and combat units. The Army accepted the limitation, documents show. The 3rd Infantry Division, which played a major role in the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, is scheduled to return to Iraq early next year. It would be the first division to be reconfigured into "units of action" that would contain the new mixed-sex Forward Support Companies. In all, Gen. Schoomaker is increasing the number of combat brigades from 33 to 48, and naming them "units of action." The brigades are being married up permanently with support units so they can move out more quickly to war zones, instead of waiting for the additional personnel to arrive. Early in the Bush administration, Mrs. Donnelly successfully persuaded the Pentagon to restrict female soldiers from certain reconnaissance units after Army planners had penciled them into those new units. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 01:01:47 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 01:01:47 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: WHY KIDNAPP AND KILL FRIENDS? Message-ID: Axis of Logic WHY KIDNAPP AND KILL FRIENDS? Dutch also claim and use 'Licence to Kill' By Henk Ruyssenaars Oct 28, 2004, 20:10 Email this article Printer friendly page It simply does not make sense - unless many of the kidnappings and bombings, as I think too, are designed to foment chaos and portray all resistance as 'murderous nihilists and cold-blooded criminals'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- The Netherlands - 23 Oct. 2004 - In Berkely, last October 8th, Pullitzer Prize-winning american journalist and writer, Seymour Hersh*, spilled the secrets of the US-Iraq quagmire, and the so called 'War on Terror'. Which according to Seymour Hersh, is a 'US-War OF Terror'. Hersh was quite clear in what he said: according to him 'the Iraq war is not winnable'. One of the reasons he mentioned, was the existence of secret american (CIA/Mossad) 'terror squads', of which he pointed out one which he said 'has been 'disappearing' people since December 2001'* In Hersh opinion, the warmongering managers and the ill-informed people of the United States, 'have absolutely no idea about how irreparably its torture of Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison has damaged its image in the Middle East'. And obvious is too, while checking Arab and other non-US mainstream news sources, that many people believe that a lot of the kidnappings and beheadings are done by those special US- and other terror squads. LICENCE TO KILL, LICENCE TO LIE The Netherlands may be a small country on the map, but as one of the the best partners of both the warmongering United States and Israel, it has for decades taken part in the illegal operations. [http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v] It has to be said - and taken into account on behalf of the dutch 'sheeple', that the Netherlands is one of the last feudal monarchies on earth, with an easy controllable population of 16+ million mostly badlyinformed inhabitants. All mainstream media are owned by the people at present 'running' the servile country. The - payed with taxes - public broadcasting services and others for the most have turned into commercialized state-radio/TV. Also the so called 'National News Agency' - (ANP)* is in the hands of the industry, and has openly turned into "His Multinational's Voice". There are many dutch journalists doing their utmost, but there is no place in the sun for honest products. That is why the majority of the people, via the media in the Netherlands, is so easily controlled, and news about Special Dutch Forces with a licence to kill was scarce. In a recent court scandal however, some of the 'secret operation actions' of the present 'managers of the Netherlands' became known in a murder case which was a farce, and another sham by the dutch juridical system. One has to keep in mind, that also the war in Iraq - even according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan is an illegal war. All suffering and damage is a compilation of warcrimes by all involved. That of course includes the present dutch 'christian neo-conmen', the so called 'gov't', which for decades already has slavishly followed US/Israeli orders. Schiphol Airport: the Dutch-American-Israeli & Contraband 'Warport'. The 'Dutch National airport Schiphol', strategically situated close to Amsterdam, has been a vast turntable for mostly illegal American and Israeli contrabande for decades. And is - according to what Dutch Attorney General Vrakking said Jan. 29, 1999: "that the El Al security detachment at Schiphol is a branch of the Mossad".* It is not difficult to conclude that all armed personel - including the Dutch - in Iraq, and with or without a licence to kill, kidnapp and behead, are warcriminals, according to all international law and Warfare Conventions. In a court case - ending in a politically motivated disgracefull verdict of 'not guilty', a dutch marine, Erik O, had to spill some of the beans, and via his counsel let it be known that he was one of those members of the secret squads with 'a licence to kill'. Some journalists woke up, but in the Netherlands this news disappeared as fast as is possible in the giant 'memory hole', in concerted action and after an initial news burst. Later on it was hardly ever mentioned again in the government- and mainstream media. But it still can be read in the onlin news service of 'Expatica', one of the 'expat' websites for people living abroad*. Expatica published an item on the suspect dutch marine 'given licence to kill' last June 15th, reporting that 'Investigations into Dutch marine Erik O. who was accused of murdering an Iraqi looter in December < have revealed he was previously involved in top secret "licence to kill" missions. As a member of the Special Support Unit (BBE) of the Royal Marines, O. was involved in anti-terrorism operations which carried government approval to use violence that might result in fatalities. The military past of O. has been uncovered during investigations the military police has conducted into the death of an Iraqi looter on 27 December last year. The victim was killed after O. allegedly fired a warning shot while serving on peacekeeping duties in southern Iraq. He was arrested and flown home to the Netherlands to face murder or manslaughter charges, but was later released and provisionally cleared of any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, sources close to the investigation have confirmed to 'news agency ANP' that O., a sergeant-major, was in the past involved in State-secret operations. The conclusions about O.'s military past are noteworthy: because dossiers over secret missions are normally destroyed within six months. Why do they suddenly appear to exist now? On the possibility of faked kidnappings and killings, colleagua/journalist Kurt Nimmo* did an interesting and informative article on this, questioning the kidnapping of the humanitarian helporganisation Care's Margaret Hassan, and describing it as a possible CIA-Mossad Op. According to Nimmo there are "more than a few of the kidnappings in Iraq which appear to be CIA, military intelligence,or Mossad operations. For instance, when Simona Pari and Simona Torretta of the Italian humanitarian organization Bridge to Baghdad were kidnapped recently, witnesses described the kidnapping as ?extremely professional? and said a well-dressed man wearing a suit and tie had led the operation, according to the Guardian. And in this case it should be remembered there being one of them answering 'Yes Sir' when he got an order. In Hassan's case they were professionals too. Of course, it is possible the Iraqi resistance, or a criminal gang interested in ransom, pulled off the kidnapping of Pari and Torretta, but the question remains: why are so many kidnappings directed against humanitarian organizations, obviously not the preferred target of a resistance determined to drive the United States out of Iraq? It simply does not make sense designed to foment chaos and portray the resistance as murderous nihilists and cold-blooded criminals. Is it possible Mossad and the CIA are also responsible for the creation of the elusive super-terrorist al-Zarqawi and have planned and executed suicide, car bombings, and beheadings? For those who harbor doubts the United States would organize, front, and unleash terrorist groups against innocent civilians, consider 'Operation Northwoods'*, a terrorist operation against Cuban civilians designed to be blamed on Castro, as proposed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1962. The terror campaign could be pointed at Cuban refugees seeking haven in the United States,? suggests the declassified memo sent to then Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara. ?We could sink a boatload of Cubans enroute to Florida (real or simulated). We could foster attempts on lives of Cuban refugees in the United States S Harassment of civil air, attacks on surface shipping S Hijacking attempts against civil air and surface craft.? SHADES OF VIETNAM In Berkely, a moved and angry Seymour Hersh told the auditorium: "It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts," And he also said "My parents were immigrants, they came here because America meant something: "the Statue of Liberty and all that stuff, because America always was this bastion of morality and integrity and a place for a fresh start. And it's right in front of us, not hidden, that they've taken this away from us." One can only agree with Seymour Hersh, and with the hundreds of millions of people all over the world, thinking that all the suffering and global damage, done to so many people, in so many countries, by the United States 'managers' and their ilk, will take generations to repair. If ever possible... Henk Ruyssenaars FOOTNOTES: Seymour Hersh - Url. story: http://tinyurl.com/5wjwq US 'Death Squad Protection Act' Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6xdfw 'Operation Northwoods' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6lv6z Secret Task Force 121 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6pzpo Sweden-expulsion-Url.: http://www.statewatch.org/news/ 'Black' Gulfstream jet N379P : http://tinyurl.com/6gswg +picture It is supposed to be owned by: PREMIERE EXECUTIVE TRANSPORT SERVICES INC 339 WASHINGTON ST STE 202 DEDHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, USA US companies that often flies/operate the plane: Aero Contractor Ltd Johnson County Airport - Smithfield, North Carolina, USA STEVENS EXPRESS LEASING, INC. - 8130 COUNTRY VILLAGE, DRIVE S101, CORDOVA, Tennesee, USA. French source: another 'Black Jet': http://tinyurl.com/7x22n -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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At the same time, people-smugglers - using the costumed trick-or-treaters as decoys - mixed illegal entrants in with the crowd. They then began to cross some of the group, which grew to about 400 people, through holes they had cut in the border wall east of the downtown Nogales port of entry. The incident started about 4:30 p.m. when Border Patrol agents noticed people cutting holes in the fence and pulled in to try and stop those running through them. A welding crew made up of agents moved in to seal the holes as other agents stood guard, said Tucson Sector spokesman Andy Adame. At that point, "they started throwing everything - tires, eggs, wooden pallets and 40- to 50-pound rocks with some kind of projection device," Adame said. An agent on a bicycle was hit so hard his bike helmet cracked in two, Adame said. A mob of parents and children then went to the downtown port of entry and officials decided to close the north and southbound lanes when they became "upset or angry that they were not allowed entry into the United States to participate in traditional Halloween activities." The closure started about 6:30 p.m. and lasted nearly an hour. "Get off your ass and take your government back." ~Rocky Ward www.federalobserver.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Allen Roses, a GSK vice president admitted something many of us have known in one way or another for sometime; that "the vast majority of drugs- more than 90 per cent- only work in 30 or 50 per cent of the people." The public might be surprised to hear this, especially if they're still visiting M.D.'s and leaving with their hands full of little white slips. Roses, an academic geneticist from Duke University wasn't saying anything his colleagues didn't already know. GSK, one of the most profitable of all the drug companies, has relied, as have the others, on selling as many drugs as they can to the widest group of people. Doctors have typically used the trial and error approach when prescribing for their patients. Try this, then that and see what chemical cocktail "seems" to "work". In what is the typical modus operandi, Western medical practitioners will consider a drug has "worked' if the symptoms are gone. The underlying dis-ease of the organism hasn't been healed, but the outward appearances of the ailment have been masked. Add to this the damage done by drugs on the body's other systems and you have the reason so many people are sick and getting sicker. Now that the president has pushed the massive socialist scheme called a "Drug Benefit" it appears the only ones benefiting will be the drug companies. We would all do well to listen-really listen- to what Dr. Roses admits concerning the efficacy of drugs. Consider that, according to him, drugs for Alzheimers work in only one out of three patients, cancer drugs are only effective in one in four patients and drugs prescribed for migraines , osteoporosis and arthritis work only half the time. With doctors working in concert with pharmaceutical companies, most people who enter a doctor's office rarely leave without pills, scripts for pills or the promise of different pills on the next visit. "if those don't work". Ozzy Osbourne, that mumbling, aging rock star who invited America into his home week after week just had surgery for injuries sustained in an accident. No wonder. The addle-brained performer was taking 42 different physician-prescribed drugs at the time of the accident. His daily intake of chemicals included antidepressants, antipsychotics, opiates, tranquilizers and amphetamines. Drugs like Valium, Adderall, Dexedrine and Mysoline got Ozzy through the day. The drugs were prescribed by a physician. While we tend to believe that only celebrities like Ozzy or Rush Limbaugh wind up being "over-served" by their high-dollar doctors, consider that with fewer than ten minutes to spend on each patient, many, if not most physicians simply prescribe something just to move on. Take the flu vaccine. You're being encouraged by your doctor, the media and the federal government through all points "sky is falling" flu news bulletins to get a flu shot- a chemical mash including formaldehyde, aluminum and mercury cultivated on chicken embryos. The animal byproducts in vaccines carry the risk of viral contamination. Vaccine companies cannot guarantee the purity of animal cells used in vaccine culture. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny cites research done by an immunogeneticist named Hugh Fudenburgh who's been studying the flu vaccines and reports that if someone has five consecutive flu shots his or her chances of getting Alzheimer's disease is ten times higher. FluMist, a live-virus nasal vaccine is being pushed in a $25 million dollar ad campaign. You may have seen the tv commercials for FluMist. Oddly, the very same symptoms the vaccine is supposed to prevent are mentioned as side effects of taking the highly contagious vaccine. The package insert warns recipients to "avoid close contact with immunocompromised individuals for 21 days". The number of those considered "immunocompromised" is huge-people on steroids, cancer drugs, folks with eczema, who've had organ transplants or who have HIV are considered at risk. I think it's safe to say that shooting a foreign substance into your nose can usually elicit a sneezing response.the very response that could serve to spread the LIVE VIRUS that is contained in FluMist. Could this be a self-fulfilling prophecy? No wonder they're predicting a worse than usual flu season! Fear Factor Headlines scream "Flu Bug Worse This Year: Vaccines Limited". For months we've been warned to get our flu shots. The CDC, physicians and the media have been bellowing about the severity of this year's strain and the potential scarcity of the vaccine. Brilliant marketing I say- just make people think they can't get something and they'll line up for hours to get a toxic fluid shot into their arms that DOESN"T EVEN CONTAIN THE VIRUS THAT"S GOING AROUND! That's right. This year's vaccine doesn't completely match the virus that's supposedly going to make this a record-breaking flu season. Each year between 20,000 and 40,000 people die from "flu-related" illness. These are people who are already immunocompromised. In other words, they're sick already, even if they're not showing symptoms. It is disingenuous to attribute all these deaths to the "flu". My recommendation is to sit down with your doctor or pharmacist or the stern tv news anchor -all of whom have been pushing this insane public health policy and ask them to read the list of ingredients in the vaccine vial. Then ask them what sense it makes to introduce these chemicals into the human body when more and more research shows severe damage occurs as a result. Ask him. Then roll down your sleeve and go home. Make sure you wash your hands a lot and stay away from people who've had the shots in their arms and up their noses. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] To those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath! To those who have not and believe in the Constitution, Take a similar Oath now to the Constitution! Remember that those who make laws contrary to the Constitution, Those who enforce laws contrary to the Constitution, And those who give orders contrary to the Constitution, Have become domestic enemies of the Constitution! It doesn't take a Judge or a lawyer to know the difference! "I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR (OR AFFIRM) THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC; THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; AND THAT I WILL OBEY THE (CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL) ORDERS OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE (CONSTITUTIONAL AND LAWFUL) ORDERS OF THE OFFICERS APPOINTED OVER ME, ACCORDING TO REGULATIONS AND THE UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE. SO HELP ME GOD." Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey. -- Pat Buchanan Vote for Michael Peroutka,Constitution Party, for President http://www.peroutka2004.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Janey outlined his position on key issues regarding the troubled system: Management Policies Course Schedules Superintendent's Role School Facilities _____D.C. Schools_____ 5-Year-Old Dies After Hit-and-Run (The Washington Post, Oct 30, 2004) 5-Year-Old Dies After Hit-and-Run (The Washington Post, Oct 30, 2004) D.C. Schools Fire 23 Bus Drivers Who Were AWOL (The Washington Post, Oct 29, 2004) Survey Gives D.C. A Banner Victory (The Washington Post, Oct 28, 2004) More D.C. Schools News _____D.C. Government_____ Baseball Debate Plays On (The Washington Post, Oct 31, 2004) Suspense Is Scarce In Most D.C. Races (The Washington Post, Oct 31, 2004) Out of the Comfort Zone (The Washington Post, Oct 30, 2004) 5-Year-Old Dies After Hit-and-Run (The Washington Post, Oct 30, 2004) More Stories _____Free E-mail Newsletters_____ Today's Headlines & Columnists See a Sample | Sign Up Now Breaking News Alerts See a Sample | Sign Up Now Throughout the morning and afternoon inside Judge Robert E. Morin's courtroom, the adults stood nervously before the bench alongside their court-appointed attorneys and entered pleas of guilty or not guilty. "This is something new to me," said Tina Smith, 32, who added that she did not know that her daughter, a freshman at Anacostia Senior High School, needed a tuberculosis shot. "I just wish it'd be over with." The charges were part of a recent push by schools, courts and health officials to compel parents and guardians to get their children immunized and to cut down on truancy. Students who have not received their shots or booster doses against tetanus, chickenpox, hepatitis B and other diseases are prohibited from attending school. The 41 parents and guardians were charged with violations of the Compulsory School Attendance Act. Under the 1990 law, parents who fail to make sure that their children attend school regularly can be fined as much as $100 and jailed for up to five days for each offense. After their hearings, some parents took their children to a third-floor conference room inside the Superior Court building, where the Department of Health set up an immunization station. About 10 students received shots there, officials said. Several parents complained that they had, in fact, gotten their children properly immunized, and they blamed the school system for losing or mishandling the records. "I know there are neglectful parents, but I'm not one of them," said Daniel Logan, 41, who said his 15-year-old son, a student at Coolidge Senior High School, was immunized. Michael Taylor and his wife, Matilda, said their 18-year-old son, a senior at Coolidge, also had obtained the necessary shots. They said the school mishandled the records. "They should have had their records up-to-date," Matilda Taylor said. Ralph Neal, assistant superintendent for student and school support services, said that school officials "stand behind the fact that parents had not come forward to present their information to the school so that the school nurse could clear them." Some parents said they were rattled by the experience of appearing before a judge under the threat of fines and jail time. After their names and cases were called, the parents and guardians stood next to their attorneys and listened quietly while a clerk told them: "You have the right to remain silent, and you have the right to an attorney." "It was humiliating," Susaron Simms said after her hearing. Simms said she received a notice to come to court after she had gotten her 16-year-old son, a sophomore at Spingarn Senior High, immunized. "It's really not fair to all the parents, because all parents are not alike," she said. Of the 41 parents and guardians ordered to appear in Family Court, 34 showed. Assistant Attorney General Rachele Gaines said authorities would obtain warrants to arrest those who failed to appear. By the end of the day, about three bench warrants were issued against missing parents or guardians; the others had their hearings rescheduled. "This is not about being vindictive," Gaines said. "The onus is on the parent to take responsibility and do what they need to do in order to make sure their child is enrolled and attending school." Last school year, city prosecutors filed 98 cases against parents for a range of violations under the school attendance law. The office offers eligible parents enrollment in a deferred sentencing program to avoid jail time. Of last school year's 98 cases, two parents were sentenced to three days in jail after failing the program. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Iran's oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh, who is on a two-day visit to Beijing pursuing closer ties, said Iran is China's biggest oil supplier and wants to be its long-term business partner. Official figures show that China imported 226 million tons of oil in2003, about 13 percent of which coming from Iran. Beijing expects to secure foreign energy supplies by the deals for its economy, which has turned China into a major oil importer but suffers severe power shortages. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/30/content_2157826.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"We did cases and operations for people we thought posed national security concerns. We didn't arrest anyone who had a bomb." For example, ICE agents arrested a 23-year-old Pakistani man in late October who had illegally entered the United States through Mexico in 2000 and was working as a fuel tanker truck driver with access to a major U.S. seaport. The man, who was not further identified, is charged with making false statements about how he entered the country and remains under investigation for any links to terrorism. He was one of the 237 people arrested in October alone on immigration violations, for a total of over 700 since the enforcement effort began last year, Garcia said. "It was a broad approach that led us to have a very disruptive effect, we believe," he said. Although the election season passed without an attack, officials say al-Qaida remains a dangerous foe intent on striking the United States again. The day after the election, Attorney General John Ashcroft told his senior staff to not let their guard down. The Jan. 20 presidential inauguration heads the list of upcoming high-profile events that officials say could draw terrorist interest. Others include the Feb. 6 Super Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., and the December holiday travel season, which last year saw several threats against trans-Atlantic flights. There still is concern the Osama bin Laden videotape aired last week could be a signal for an attack. And despite asking for help from the public, the FBI still has not identified a man calling himself "Azzam the American," whose lengthy videotape aired last month promised attacks that will make U.S. streets "run red with blood." The FBI interviewed about 10,000 Muslims and Arab-Americans in the months prior to Election Day in an effort to gain intelligence about people who might pose a threat and to build bridges to those communities. Many of those interviews led officials to individuals in the United States who might be linked to terrorism but had previously escaped government detection, said a senior Justice Department official speaking on condition of anonymity because of national security concerns. The official did not provide any details. Still, there were reports of heavy-handed tactics in some places. The Council on American-Islamic Relations provided several examples, including a young Pakistani man who was held for five hours in Las Vegas after books on the Muslim holiday of Ramadan and Arabic grammar were found in his possession. "This was viewed as an extension of the ongoing policies that have been targeting Muslim and Arab-American communities," said CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. "These communities view themselves as law-abiding and contributing to society in a very positive way." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Anderson Jr., Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael C. Anderson, Spc. Michael Andrade, Pfc, Spc. Yoe M. Aneiros, Lance Cpl. Levi T. Angell, Army Spc. Edward J. Anguiano, Chief Warrant Officer Andrew Todd Arnold, Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, Spc. Richard Arriaga, Staff Sgt. Jimmy J. Arroyave, Spc. Robert R. Arsiaga, Sgt. Evan Asa Ashcraft, Pfc. Shawn M. Atkins, Maj. Jay Aubin, Capt. Matthew J. August, Lance Cpl. Aaron C. Austin, Spc. Tyanna S. Avery-Fedder, Lance Cpl. Andrew Julian Aviles, Pfc. Eric A. Ayon, Sgt. 1st Class Henry A. Bacon, Sgt. Andrew Joseph Baddick, Staff Sgt. Daniel A. Bader, Staff Sgt. Nathan J. Bailey, Spc. Ronald W. Baker, Spc. Ryan T. Baker, Sgt. Sherwood R. Baker. Pfc. Chad E. Bales, 1st Lt. Kenneth Michael Ballard, Maj. Spc. Solomon C. Bangayan, Lt. Col. Dominic R. Baragona, Pfc. Mark A. Barbret, Pfc. Collier E. Barcus, Sgt. Michael C. Barkey, Spc. Jonathan P. Barnes, Command Sgt. Maj. Edward C. Barnhill, Lance Cpl. Aric J. Barr, Sgt. Michael Paul Barrera, Maj. Carlos Barro Ollero, Sgt. Douglas E. Bascom, Spc. Todd M. Bates, Sgt. 1st Class Michael Battles Sr., Gunnery Sgt. Ronald E. Baum, Spc. Alan N. Bean Jr., Spc. Bradley S. Beard, Spc. Beau R. Beaulieu, Capt. Ryan Beaupre, Spc. James L. Beckstrand, Sgt. Gregory A. Belanger, Cpl. Christopher Belchik, Sgt. Aubrey D. Bell, Pfc. Wilfred D. Bellard, Staff Sgt. Joseph P. Bellavia, Sgt. 1st Class William M. Bennett, Spc. Robert T. Benson, 1st Lt. David R. Bernstein, Spc. Joel L. Bertoldie, Staff Sgt. Stephen A. Bertolino Sr., Staff Sgt. Marvin Best, Cpl. Mark A. Bibby, Sgt. Benjamin W. Biskie, Sgt. Michael E. Bitz, Sgt. Jarrod W. Black, Chief Warrant Officer Michael T. Blaise, Capt. Ernesto M. Blanco, Command Sgt. Maj. James D. Blankenbecler, Spc. Joseph M. Blickenstaff, Spc. Nicholas H. Blodgett, Sgt. Trevor A. Blumberg, Lance Cpl. Jeremy L. Bohlman, Gunnery Sgt. Jeffrey E. Bohr Jr., Lance Cpl. Todd J. Bolding, Sgt. Dennis J. Boles, Sgt. 1st Class Craig A. Boling, Petty Officer 3rd Class Doyle W. Bollinger Jr, Sgt. 1st Class Kelly Bolor, Staff Sgt. Stevon A. Booker. Chief Warrant Officer Clarence E. Boone, Capt. John J. Boria, Pfc. Rachel K. Bosveld, Spc. Mathew G. Boule, Staff Sgt. Elvis Bourdon, Pvt. 1st Class Samuel R. Bowen, Staff Sgt. Hesley Box Jr., Pvt. Noah L. Boye, Lance Cpl. Aaron Boyles, Spc. Edward W. Brabazon, Cpl. Travis J. Bradach-Nall, Staff Sgt. Kenneth R. Bradley, Staff Sgt. Stacey C. Brandon, Spc. Artimus D. Brassfield, Pfc. Joel K. Brattain, Pfc. Jeffrey F. Braun, Chief Warrant Officer William I. Brennan, Staff Sgt. Steven H. Bridges, Spc. Kyle A. Brinlee, Staff Sgt. Cory W. Brooks, Sgt. Thomas F. Broomhead, Sgt. Andrew W. Brown, Tech. Sgt. Bruce E. Brown, Lance Cpl. Dominic C. Brown, Cpl. Henry L. Brown, Pfc. John E. Brown, Spc. Larry K. Brown, Spc. Lunsford B. Brown II, 1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown, Spc. Philip D. Brown, Pfc. Timmy R. Brown Jr., 1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown, Cpl. Andrew D. 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Jason L. Dunham, Staff Sgt. Joe L. Dunigan Jr., Spc. Robert L. DuSang, Spc. William D. Dusenbery, 2nd Lt. Seth J. Dvorin, Petty Officer 2nd Class Jason B. Dwelley, Pfc. Sheldon R. Hawk Eagle, Staff Sgt. Richard S. Eaton Jr., Cpl. Christopher S. Ebert, Sgt. William C. Eckhart, Spc. Marshall L. Edgerton, Pfc. Shawn C. Edwards, Spc. Andrew C. Ehrlich, Sgt. Aaron C. Elandt, Spc. William R. Emanuel IV, Lance Cpl. Mark E. Engel, Spc. Peter G. Enos, Senior Airman Pedro I. Espaillat Jr. Pfc. Analaura Esparza Gutierrez, Sgt. Adam W. Estep, Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, Pfc. David Evans, Cpl. Mark A. Evnin, Pfc. Jeremy Ricardo Ewing, Sgt. Justin L. Eyerly, Pvt. Jonathan I. Falaniko, Sgt. James D. Faulkner, Pfc. Raymond J. Faulstich Jr., Capt. Brian R. Faunce, Capt. Arthur L. Felder, 2nd Lt. Paul M. Felsberg, Spc. Rian C. Ferguson, Master Sgt. Richard L. Ferguson, Master Sgt. George A. Fernandez, Staff Sgt. Clint D. Ferrin, Spc. Jon P. Fettig, Cpl. Tyler R. Fey, Sgt. Jeremy J. Fischer, Sgt. Paul F. Fisher, Lance Cpl. Dustin R. Fitzgerald, Pfc. Jacob S. Fletcher, Spc. Thomas A. Foley III, Sgt. Timothy Folmar, Gunnery Sgt. Elia P. Fontecchio, Spc. Jason C. Ford, Capt. Travis A. Ford, Chief Warrant Officer Wesley C. Fortenberry, Sgt. 1st Class Bradley C. Fox, Spc. Craig S. Frank, Lance Cpl. Phillip E. Frank, Staff Sgt. Bobby C. Franklin, Pvt. Robert L. Frantz, Pvt. Benjamin L. Freeman, Sgt. David T. Friedrich, Spc. Luke P. Frist, Spc. Adam D. Froehlich, Pvt. Kurt R. Frosheiser, Pfc. Nichole M. Frye, Sgt. 1st Class Dan H. Gabrielson, Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Gadsden, Capt. Richard J. Gannon II, Spc. Tomas Garces, Lance Cpl. Derek L. Gardner, Cpl. Jose A. Garibay, Spc. Joseph M. Garmback Jr., Sgt. Landis W. Garrison, Sgt. Justin W. Garvey, Spc. Israel Garza. 1st Sgt. Joe J. Garza, Pfc. Juan Guadalupe Garza Jr, Spc. Christopher D. Gelineau, Lance Cpl. Cory Ryan Guerin, Cpl. Christopher A. Gibson, Pvt. Jonathan L. Gifford, Pvt. Kyle C. Gilbert, Command Sgt. Maj. Cornell W. Gilmore, Petty Officer 3rd Class Ronald A. Ginther, Pfc. Jesse A. Givens, Spc. Michael T. Gleason, Cpl. Todd J. Godwin, 2nd Lt. James Michael Goins, Spc. Christopher A. Golby, Spc. David J. Goldberg, Lance Cpl. Shane L. Goldman, Cpl. Armando Ariel Gonzalez, Lance Cpl. Benjamin R. Gonzalez, Cpl. Jesus A. Gonzalez, Cpl. Jorge Gonzalez, Lance Cpl. Victor A. Gonzalez, Cpl. Bernard G. Gooden, Pfc. Gregory R. Goodrich, Sgt. 1st Class Richard S. Gottfried, Spc. Richard A. Goward, 2nd Lt. Jeffrey C. Graham, Sgt. Jamie A. Gray, Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael J. Gray, Sgt. Tommy L. Gray, Lance Cpl. Torrey L. Gray, Cpl. Jeffrey G. Green, Lt. Col. David S. Greene, Pfc. Devin J. Grella, Spc. Kyle A. Griffin, Staff Sgt. Patrick Lee Griffin Jr., Cpl. Sean R. Grilley, Pvt. Joseph R. Guerrera, Chief Warrant Officer Hans N. Gukeisen, Pfc. Christian D. Gurtner, Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, Pfc. Richard W. Hafer, Staff Sgt. Guy S. Hagy Jr., Spc. Charles G. Haight, Lance Cpl. Michael J. Halal, Pfc. Deryk L. Hallal, Pvt. Jesse M. Halling, Pfc. Andrew Halverson, Chief Warrant Officer Erik A. Halvorsen, Capt. Kimberly N. Hampton, Sgt. Michael S. Hancock. Pfc. Fernando B. Hannon, Sgt. Warren S. Hansen, Sgt. James W. Harlan, Sgt. Atanacio Haro Marin, Staff Sgt. William M. Harrell, Sgt. Foster L. Harrington, Pfc. Adam J. Harris, Sgt. Kenneth W. Harris Jr., Pfc. Torry D. Harris, Pfc. Leroy Harris-Kelly, Pfc. John D. Hart, Sgt. Nathaniel Hart, Sgt. 1st Class David A. Hartman, Sgt. Jonathan N. Hartman, Staff Sgt. Stephen C. Hattamer, Staff Sgt. Omer T. Hawkins II, Sgt. Timothy L. Hayslett, Chief Warrant Officer Brian D. Hazelgrove, Sgt. David M. Heath, Spc. Justin W. Hebert, Pfc. Damian L. Heidelberg, Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, Spc. Jeremy M. Heines, Staff Sgt. Brian R. Hellerman, Staff Sgt. Terry W. Hemingway, Cpl. Matthew C. Henderson, 1st Lt. Robert L. Henderson II, Staff Sgt. Kenneth W. Hendrickson, Sgt. Jack T. Hennessy, Spc. Joshua J. Henry, Pfc. Clayton W. Henson, Spc. Armando Hernandez, Spc. Joseph F. Herndon II, Pfc. Edward J. Herrgott, Spc. Jacob B. Herring, Sgt. 1st Class Gregory B. Hicks, Spc. Christopher K. Hill, Spc. Stephen D. Hiller, Sgt. Keicia M. Hines, Pfc. Melissa J. Hobart, Sgt. Nicholas M. Hodson, Sgt. 1st Class James T. Hoffman, Spc. Christopher J. Holland, Staff Sgt. Aaron N. Holleyman, Staff Sgt. Lincoln D. Hollinsaid, Spc. James J. Holmes, Spc. Jeremiah J. Holmes, Cpl. Terry Holmes, Airman 1st Class Antoine J. Holt, Pfc. Sean Horn, Master Sgt. Kelly L. Hornbeck. Staff Sgt. Jeremy R. Horton, Capt. Andrew R. Houghton, Lance Cpl Gregory C. Howman, Pfc. Bert E. Hoyer, Spc. Corey A. Hubbell, Pfc. Christopher E. Hudson, 1st Lt. Doyle M. Hufstedler, Staff Sgt. Jamie L. Huggins, Spc. Eric R. Hull, Cpl Barton R. Humlhanz, Lance Cpl. Justin T. Hunt, Spc. Simeon Hunte, 1st Lt. Joshua C. Hurley, Lance Cpl. James B. Huston Jr., Lance Cpl. Seth Huston, Pvt. Nolen R. Hutchings, Pfc. Ray J. Hutchinson, Pfc. Gregory P. Huxley Jr., Spc. Benjamin W. Isenberg, Spc. Craig S. Ivory, Pfc. Leslie D. Jackson, Spc. Morgen N. Jacobs, Chief Warrant Officer Scott Jamar, Cpl. Evan T. James, 2nd Lt. Luke S. James, Spc. William A. Jeffries, Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert B. Jenkins, Sgt. Troy David Jenkins, Spc. Darius T. Jennings, Pfc. Ryan M. Jerabek, Sgt. Linda C. Jimenez, 1st Lt. Oscar Jimenez, Capt. Christopher B. Johnson, Spc. David W. Johnson, Pfc. Howard Johnson II, Spc. John P. Johnson, Pfc. Markus J. Johnson, Spc. Maurice J. Johnson, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael Vann Johnson Jr., Spc. Nathaniel H. Johnson, Staff Sgt. Paul J. Johnson, Chief Warrant Officer, Pfc. Rayshawn S. Johnson, Pvt. Devon D. Jones, Capt. Gussie M. Jones, Staff Sgt. Raymond E. Jones Jr., Spc. Rodney A. Jones, Lt. Kylan A. Jones- Huffman, Sgt. Curt E. Jordan Jr., Sgt. Jason D. Jordan. Staff Sgt. Phillip A. Jordan, Cpl. Forest J. Jostes, Spc. Spencer T. Karol, Spc. Michael G. Karr Jr., Spc. Mark J. Kasecky, 1st Lt. Jeffrey J. Kaylor, Spc. Chad L. Keith, Lance Cpl. Quinn A. Keith, Lance Cpl. Bryan P. Kelly, Cpl. Brian Kennedy, Chief Warrant Officer Kyran E. Kennedy, Staff Sgt. Morgan D. Kennon, 1st Lt. Christopher J. Kenny, Spc. Jonathan R. Kephart, Cpl. Dallas L. Kerns, Chief Warrant Officer Erik C. Kesterson, Capt. Humayun S. M. Khan, Spc. James M. Kiehl, Pt. Jeungjin Na Kim, Staff Sgt. Kevin C. Kimmerly. Spc. Levi B. Kinchen, Staff Sgt. Lester O. Kinney II, Pfc. David M. Kirchhoff, Staff Sgt. Charles A. Kiser, Lance Cpl. Nicholas Brian Kleiboeker, Spc. John K. Klinesmith Jr., Sgt. Floyd G. Knighten Jr., Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, Spc. Joshua L. Knowles, Staff Sgt. Lance J. Koenig, Cpl. Kevin T. Kolm, Pfc. Martin W. Kondor, Chief Warrant Patrick W. Kordsmeier, Capt. Edward J. Korn, Sgt. Bradley S. Korthaus, Cpl. Jakub Henryk Kowalik, Sgt. Elmer C. Krause, Pvt. Dustin L. Kreider, Pfc. Bradley G. Kritzer, Capt. John F. Kurth, Sgt. 1st Class William W. Labadie Jr., Sgt. Joshua S. Ladd, Sgt. Michael V. Lalush, Lance Cpl. Alan Dinh Lam, Spc. Charles R. Lamb, Spc. James I. Lambert III, Pfc. James P. Lambert, Sgt. Jonathan W. Lambert, Capt. Andrew David Lamont, Staff Sgt. Sean G. Landrus, Gunnery Sgt. Shawn A. Lane. Pfc. Moises A. Langhorst, Spc. Tracy L. Laramore, Spc. Scott Q. Larson Jr., Chief Warrant Officer Matthew C. Laskowski, Staff Sgt. William T. Latham, Pfc. Karina S. Lau, Cpl. Jeffrey D. Lawrence, Staff Sgt. Mark A. Lawton, Lance Cpl. Travis J. Layfield, Staff Sgt. Rene Ledesma, 2nd Lt. Ryan Leduc, Cpl. Bum R. Lee, Pfc. Ken W. Leisten, Staff Sgt. Jerome Lemon, Spc. Cedric L. Lennon, Pfc. Farad K. Letufuga, Spc. Justin W. Linden, Spc. Roger G. Ling, Spc. Joseph L. Lister, Staff Sgt. Nino D. Livaudais, Sgt. Dale T. Lloyd, Sgt. Daniel J. Londono, Spc. Ryan P. Long, Spc. Zachariah W. Long, Pfc. Duane E. Longstreth, Sgt. Edgar E. Lopez, Lance Cpl. Juan Lopez, Sgt. Richard M. Lord, Staff Sgt. David L. Loyd, Capt. Robert L. Lucero, Pfc. Jason C. Ludiam, Lance Cpl. Jacob R. Lugo, Pfc. Jason N. Lynch, Pfc. Christopher D. Mabry, Lance Cpl. Gregory E. MacDonald, Lance Cpl. Cesar F. Machado-Olmos, Pfc. Vorn J. Mack, Lance Cpl. Joseph B. Maglione, Spc. William J. Maher III, Staff Sgt. Toby W. Mallet, Chief Warrant Officer Ian D. Manuel, Pfc. Pablo Manzano, Pfc. Lyndon A. Marcus Jr., Staff Sgt. Paul C. Mardis Jr., Cpl. Douglas Jose Marencoreyes, Master Sgt. Jude C. Mariano, Spc. James E. Marshall, Sgt. 1st Class John W. Marshall, Pfc. Ryan A. Martin, Staff Sgt. Stephen G. Martin. Sgt. Francisco Martinez, Pfc. Francisco A. Martinez Flores, Pfc. Jesse J. Martinez, Spc. Michael A. Martinez, Pfc. Oscar A. Martinez, Spc. Jacob D. Martir, Sgt. Arthur S. Mastrapa, Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo, Spc. Clint Richard Matthews, Lance Cpl. Ramon Mateo, Cpl. Matthew E. Matula, Staff Sgt. Donald C. May Jr, Pfc. Joseph P. Mayek, Spc. Patrick R. McCaffrey Sr., Lance Cpl. Joseph C. MacCarthy, Pfc. Ryan M. McCauley, Cpl. Brad P. McCormick, 1st Lt. Erik. S. McCrae, Spc. Donald R. McCune, Spc. Dustin K. McGaugh, Pfc. Holly J. McGeogh, Sgt. Brian D. McGinnis, Spc. Michael A. McGlothin. Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott R. McHugh, Hospitalman Joshua McIntosh, Spc. David M. McKeever, Spc. Eric S. McKinley, Pvt. Robert L. McKinley, Staff Sgt. Don S. McMahan, Sgt. Heath A. McMillin, 1st Lt. Brian M. McPhillips, Cpl. Jesus Martin Antonio Medellin, Spc. Irving Medina, Spc. Kenneth A. Melton, Cpl. Jaygee Meluat, Petty Officer 3rd Class Fernando A. Mendezaceves, Gunnery Sgt. Joseph Menusa, Staff Sgt. Eddie E. Menyweather, Spc. Gil Mercado, Spc. Michael M. Merila, Spc. Christopher A. Merville, Sgt. Daniel K. Methvin, Pfc. Jason M. Meyer, Sgt. Eliu A. Miersandoval, Spc. Michael G. Mihalakis, Pfc. Matthew G. Milczark, Cpl. Jason David Mileo, Pfc. Anthony S. Miller, Pfc. Bruce Miller Jr., Staff Sgt. Frederick L. Miller Jr. Sgt. 1st Class Marvin L. Miller, Sgt. Joseph Minucci II, Sgt. First Class Troy L. Miranda, Spc. George A. Mitchell, Sgt. Keman L. Mitchell, Sgt. Michael W. Mitchell, Spc. Sean R. Mitchell, Pfc. Jesse D. Mizener, Staff Sgt. Jorge A. Molinabautista, Pfc. Anthony W. Monroe, 1st Lt. Adam G. Mooney, Lance Cpl. Jason William Moore, Pfc. Stuart W. Moore, Sgt. Travis A. Moothart, Spc. Jose L. Mora, Sgt. Melvin Y. Mora, Pfc. Michael A. Mora, Master Sgt. Kevin N. Morehead, Capt. Brent L. Morel, Petty Officer 3rd Class David J. Moreno, Sgt. Gerardo Moreno, Spc. Jaime Moreno, Pfc. Luis A. Moreno, Spc. Dennis B. Morgan, Staff Sgt. Richard L. Morgan Jr., Pfc. Geoffery S. Morris, Pfc. Ricky A. Morris Jr., Lance Cpl. Nicholas B. Morrison, Sgt. Shawna M. Morrison, Sgt. Keelan L. Moss, Spc. Clifford L. Moxley Jr., Sgt. Cory R. Mracek, Sgt. Rodney A. Murray, Sgt. Krisna Nachampassak, Spc. Paul T. Nakamura, Spc. Nathan W. Nakis, Pvt. Kenneth A. Nalley, Chief Warrant Officer Christopher G. Nason, Maj. Kevin G. Nave, Spc. Rafael L. Navea, Spc. Charles L. Neeley, Staff Sgt. Paul M. Neff II, Pfc. Gavin L. Neighbor, Spc. Joshua M. Neusche, Cpl. Dominique J. Nicolas, Lance Cpl. Joseph L. Nice, Spc. Isaac Michael Nieves, Lance Cpl. Patrick R. Nixon, Spc. Allen Nolan, Spc. Marcos O. Nolasco. Sgt. William J. Normandy, Spc. Joseph C. Norquist, 1st Lt. Leif E. Nott, Staff Sgt. Todd E. Nunes, Spc. David T. Nutt, Cpl. Mick R. Nygardbekowsky, Spc. Donald S. Oak Jr., Pfc. Branden F. Oberleitner, Lance Cpl. Patrick T. O'Day, Spc. Charles E. Odums II, Spc. Ramon C. Ojeda, Cpl. Terry Holmes Ordonez, Cpl. Brian Oliveira, Spc. Justin B. Onwordi, Spc. Richard P. Orengo, Lt. Col. Kim S. Orlando, Lance Cpl. Eric J. Orlowski, 1st Lt. Osbaldo Orozco, Pfc. Cody J. Orr, Staff Sgt. Billy J. Orton, Sgt. Pamela G. Osbourne, Lance Cpl. Deshon E. Otey, Pfc. Kevin C. Ott, Sgt. Michael G. Owen, Lance Cpl. David Edward Owens Jr, Sgt. Fernando Padilla- Ramirez, Pvt. Shawn D. Pahnke, Spc. Gabriel T. Palacios, Capt. Eric T. Paliwoda, 1st Lt. Joshua M. Palmer, Staff Sgt. Dale A. Panchot, Pfc. Daniel R. Parker, Pfc. James D. Parker, Pfc. Kristen Parker, Cpl. Tommy L. Parker Jr., Sgt. Harvey E. Parkerson III, Sgt. David B. Parson, Staff Sgt. Esau G. Patterson Jr., Master Sgt. William L. Payne, Sgt. Michael F. Pedersen, Staff Sgt. Abraham D. Penamedina, Spc. Brian H. Penisten, Sgt. Ross A. Pennanen, Staff Sgt. Gregory V. Pennington, Pfc. Geoffrey Perez, Staff Sgt. Hector R. Perez, Sgt. Joel Perez, Spc. Jose A. Perez III, Pfc. Luis A. Perez, Lance Cpl. Nicholas Perez. Spc. Wilfredo Perez Jr., Petty Officer 1st Class Michael J. Pernaselli, Staff Sgt. David S. Perry, Pfc. Charles C. Persing, Staff Sgt. Dustin W. Peters, Spc. Alyssa R. Peterson, Staff Sgt. Brett J. Petriken, Staff Sgt. James L. Pettaway Jr., Staff Sgt. Erickson H. Petty, Pfc. Jerrick M. Petty, Lt. Col. Mark P. Phelan, Pfc. Chance R. Phelps, Sgt. 1st Class Gladimir Philippe, Sgt. Ivory L. Phipps, Capt. Pierre E. Piche, Pfc. Lori Piestewa, Capt. Dennis L. Pintor, Spc. James H. Pirtle, Pfc. Jason T. Poindexter, 2nd Lt. Frederick E. Pokorney Jr., Staff Sgt. Andrew R. Pokorny, Spc. Justin W. Pollard, Spc. Larry E. Polley Jr., Sgt. Darrin K. Potter, Pfc. David L. Potter, Sgt. Christopher S. Potts, Spc. James E. Powell, Lance Cpl. Caleb J. Powers, Cpl. Dean P. Pratt, Pfc. James E. Prevete, Pvt. Kelley S. Prewitt, Sgt. Tyler D. Prewitt, Pfc. James W. Price, 1st Lt. Timothy E. Price, Lance Cpl. Mathew D. Puckett, Sgt. Jaror C. Puello- Coronado, Staff Sgt. Michael B. Quinn, Staff Sgt. Richard P. Ramey, Sgt. Christopher Ramirez, Spc. Eric U. Ramirez, Pfc. William C. Ramirez, Pfc. Christopher Ramos, Spc. Tamarra J. Ramos, Pfc. Brandon Ramsey, Pvt. Carson J. Ramsey, Sgt. Edmond L. Randle, Pfc. Cleston C. Raney, Capt. Gregory A. Ratzlaff, Spc. Rel A. Ravago IV, Spc. Omead H. Razani. Spc. Brandon M. Read, Pfc. Christopher J. Reed, Pfc. Ryan E. Reed, Sgt. Tatjana Reed, Staff Sgt. Aaron T. Reese, Spc. Jeremy F. Regnier, Sgt. 1st Class Randall S. Rehn, Sgt. Brendon C. Reiss, Staff Sgt. George S. Rentschler, Sgt. Sean C. Reynolds, Lance Cpl. Rafael Reynosa- Suarez, Sgt. Yadir G. Reynoso, Cpl. Demetrius L. Rice, Sgt. Ariel Rico, Spc. Jeremy L. Ridlen, Pfc. Diego Fernando Rincon, Cpl. Steven A. Rintamaki, Sgt. Duane R. Rios, Capt. Russell B. Rippetoe, Pfc. Henry C. Risner, Sgt. 1st Class Jose A. Rivera, Cpl. John T. Rivero, Spc. Frank K. Rivers Jr., Sgt. Thomas D. Robbins, Sgt. Todd J. Robbins, Lance Cpl. Anthony P. Roberts, Lance Cpl. Bob W. Roberts, Spc. Robert D. Roberts, Staff Sgt. Joseph E. Robsky, Sgt. Moses D. Rocha, Pfc. Marlin T. Rockhold, Pfc. Jose Francis Gonzalez Rodriguez, Cpl. Robert M. Rodriguez, Spc. Philip G. Rogers, Sgt. 1st Class Robert E. Rooney, Cpl. Randal Kent Rosacker, Staff Sgt. Victor A. Rosales, Pfc. Richard H. Rosas, Sgt. Scott C. Rose, Sgt. Thomas C. Rosenbaum, Sgt. Randy S. Rosenberg, Spc. Marco D. Ross, Sgt. Lawrence A. Roukey, Capt. Alan Rowe, Spc. Brandon J. Rowe, Sgt. Roger D. Rowe, 2nd Lt. Jonathan D. Rozier, Spc. Isela Rubalcava, Pfc. Aaron J. Rusin, Sgt. John W. Russell. 1st Lt. Timothy Louis Ryan, Chief Warrant Officer Scott A. Saboe, Spc. Rasheed Sahib, Cpl. Rudy Salas, Cpl. William I. Salazar, 1st Lt. Edward M. Saltz, Capt. Benjamin W. Sammis, Spc. Sonny G. Sampler, Spc. Gregory P. Sanders, Pfc. Leroy Sandoval Jr., Spc. Matthew J. Sandri, Staff Sgt. Barry Sanford, 1st Lt. Neil Anthony Santoriello, Spc. Jonathan J. Santos, Pfc. Brandon R. Sapp, Staff Sgt. Cameron B. Sarno, Staff Sgt. Scott D. Sather, Lance Cpl. Jeremiah E. Savage, Capt. Robert C. Scheetz Jr., Spc. Justin B. Schmidt, Spc. Jeremiah W. Schmunk, Pfc. Sean M. Schneider, Cpl. Dustin H. Schrage, Maj. Mathew E. Schram, Lance Cpl. Brian K. Schramm, Spc. Christian C. Schulz, Master Sgt. David A. Scott, Pfc. Kerry D. Scott, Spc. Stephen M. Scott, Spc. Marc S. Seiden, Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert, Pfc. Dustin M. Sekula, Lance Cpl. Matthew K. Serio, Sgt. Juan M. Serrano, Staff Sgt. Wentz Jerome Henry Shanaberger III, Spc. Jeffrey R. Shaver, Maj. Kevin M. Shea, Spc. Casey Sheehan, Sgt. Kevin F. Sheehan, Sgt. Daniel Michael Shepherd, Sgt. Alan D. Sherman, Lt. Col. Anthony L. Sherman, Pfc. Harry N. Shondee Jr., Lance Cpl. Brad S. Shuder, Capt. James A. Shull, Pfc. Kenneth L. Sickels, Lance Cpl. Dustin L. Sides, Cpl. Erik H. Silva, Pvt. Sean A. Silva, Sgt. Leonard D. Simmons. Pfc. Charles M. Sims, Lance Cpl. John T. Sims Jr., Spc. Uday Singh, Spc. Aaron J. Sissel, Pfc. Christopher A. Sisson, Pfc. Nicholas M. Skinner, Petty Officer 3rd Class David Sisung, 1st Lt. Brian D. Slavenas, Pvt. Brandon Ulysses Sloan, Lance Cpl. Richard P. Slocum, Lance Cpl. Thomas J. Slocum, Pfc. Corey L. Small, Sgt. Keith L. Smette, Capt. Benedict J. Smith, Sgt. Benjamin K. Smith, Pfc. Brandon C. Smith, 2nd Lt. Brian D. Smith, Chief Warrant Officer Bruce A. Smith, Cpl. Darrell L. Smith, 1st Sgt. Edward Smith, Chief Warrant Officer Eric A. Smith, Pfc. Jeremiah D. Smith, Lance Cpl. Matthew R. Smith, Lance Cpl. Michael J. Smith Jr., Spc. Orenthial J. Smith, Sgt. 1st Class Paul R. Smith, Capt. Christopher F. Soelzer, Sgt. Roderic A. Solomon, Cpl. Adrian V. Soltau, Maj. Charles R. Soltes Jr., Sgt. Skipper Soram, Pfc. Armando Soriano, Cpl. Tomas Sotelo Jr., Pfc. Kenneth C. Souslin, Spc. Philip I. Spakosky, Pfc. Jason L. Sparks, Cpl. Michael R. Speer, Staff Sgt. Trevor Spink, Maj. Christopher J. Splinter, Sgt. Marvin R. Sprayberry III, Pvt. Bryan N. Spry, Sgt. Maj. Michael B. Stack, Pfc. Nathan E. Stahl, 1st Lt. Andrew K. Stern, Staff Sgt. Robert A. Stever, Maj. Gregory Stone, 2nd Lt. Matthew R. Stovall, Pfc. William R. Strange, Sgt. Kirk Allen Straseskie, Pfc. Brandon C. Sturdy. Spc. William R. Sturges Jr., Spc. Paul J. Sturino, Lance Cpl. Jesus A. Suarez Del Solar, Spc. Joseph D. Suell, Spc. John R. Sullivan, Spc. Narson B. Sullivan, Lance Cpl. Vincent M. Sullivan, Staff Sgt. Michael J. Sutter, Pfc. Ernest Harold Sutphin, Chief Warrant Officer Sharon T. Swartworth, Spc. Thomas J. Sweet II, Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Swisher, Maj. Paul R. Syverson III, Sgt. Patrick S. Tainsh, Sgt. DeForest L. Talbert, Sgt. 1st Class Linda Ann Tarango-Griess, Spc. Christopher M. Taylor, Maj. Mark D. Taylor, Capt. John R. Teal, Staff Sgt. Riayan A. Tejeda, Lance Cpl. Jason Andrew Tetrault, Spc. Joseph C. Thibodeaux, Master Sgt. Thomas R. Thigpen Sr., Cpl. Jesse L. Thiry, Sgt. Carl Thomas, Staff Sgt. Kendall Thomas, Spc. Kyle G. Thomas, Sgt. Anthony O. Thompson, Spc. Jarrett B. Thompson, Sgt. Humberto F. Timoteo, Capt. John E. Tipton, Pfc. Joshua K. Titcomb, Spc. Brandon T. Titus, Spc. Brandon S. Tobler, Sgt. Lee D. TodacheeneCpl. John H. Todd III, Sgt. Nicholas A. Tomko, Master Sgt. Timothy Toney, Pfc. George D. Torres, Lance Cpl. Michael S. Torres, 2nd Lt. Richard Torres, Spc. Ramon Reyes Torres, Lance Cpl. Elias Torrez III, Sgt. Michael L. Tosto, Spc. Richard K. Trevithick, Pfc. Andrew L. Tuazon, Staff Sgt. Roger C. Turner Jr., Pvt. Scott M. Tyrrell, 2nd Lt. Andre D. Tyson, Spc. Eugene A. Uhl III, Lance Cpl. Drew M. Uhles. Rick A. Ulbright, Pfc. Daniel P. Unger, Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, 1st Sgt. Ernest E. Utt, Sgt. Michael A. Uvanni, Staff Sgt. Gary A. Vaillant, Lance Cpl. Ruben Valdez Jr., Sgt. Melissa Valles, Spc. Allen J. Vandayburg, Spc. Josiah H. Vandertulip, Chief Warrant Officer Brian K. Van Dusen, Lance Cpl. John J. Vangyzen IV, Lance Cpl. Gary F. Van Leuven, Staff Sgt. Mark D. Vasquez, Spc. Frances M. Vega, 1st Lt. Michael W. Vega, Staff Sgt. Paul A. Velazquez, Cpl. David M. Vicente, Sgt. 1st Class Joselito O. Villanueva, Cpl. Scott M. Vincent, Staff Sgt. Kimberly A. Voelz, Staff Sgt. Michael S. Voss, Spc. Thai Vue, Lance Cpl. Michael B. Wafford, Sgt. Christopher A. Wagener, Sgt. Gregory L. Wahl, Staff Sgt. Allan K. Walker, Sgt. Jeffery C. Walker, Sgt. Donald Ralph Walters, Pvt. Jason M. Ward, Pfc. Nachez Washalanta, Lance Cpl. Christopher B. Wasser, Pvt. David L. Waters, Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Waters-Bey, Maj. William R. Watkins III, Petty Officer 2nd Class Christopher E. Watts, Chief Warrant Officer Aaron A. Weaver, Spc. Michael S. Weger, Staff Sgt. David J. Weisenburg, Spc. Douglas J. Weismantle, Pfc. Michael Russell Creighton Weldon, Lance Cpl. Larry L. Wells, Chief Warrant Officer Stephen M. Wells, Spc. Jeffrey M. Wershow, Spc. Christopher J. Rivera Wesley, Sgt. James G. West, 1st Lt. Alexander E. Wetherbee, Spc. Donald L. Wheeler, Sgt. Mason Douglas Whetstone, Pfc. Marquis A. Whitaker. Staff Sgt. Aaron Dean White, Lt. Nathan D. White, Sgt. Steven W. White, Lance Cpl. William W. White, Pfc. Joey D. Whitener ,Spc. Chase R. Whitman, Spc. Michael J. Wiesemann, Cpl. Joshua S. Wilfong ,Sgt. Eugene Williams, Lance Cpl. Michael J. Williams, Spc. Michael L. Williams, Sgt. Taft V. Williams ,1st Lt. Charles L. Wilkins III, Sgt. 1st Class Christopher R. Willoughby, Spc. Dana N. Wilson, Command Sgt. Maj. Jerry L. Wilson, Staff Sgt. Joe N. Wilson, Lance Cpl. Lamont N. Wilson, Lance Cpl. Nicholas Wilt, 1st Lt. Ronald Winchester, Spc. Trevor A. Wine, Lance Cpl. William J. Wiscowiche, Spc. Robert A. Wise, Spc. Michelle M. Witmer, Pfc. Owen D. Witt, Spc. James R. Wolf, 2nd Lt. Jeremy L. Wolfe, Sgt. Elijah Tai Wah Wong, Sgt. Brian M. Wood, Capt. George A. Wood, Spc. Michael R. Woodliff, Spc. James C. Wright, Pfc. Jason G. Wright, 2nd Lt. John T. Wroblewski, Lance Cpl. Daniel R. Wyatt, Pfc. Stephen E. Wyatt, Sgt. Michael E. Yashinski, Sgt. Henry Ybarra III, Pfc. Rodricka A. Youmans, Sgt. Ryan C. Young, Lance Cpl. Andrew J. Zabierek, Spc. Nicholas J. Zangara, Spc. Mark Anthony Zapata, Pfc. Nicholaus E. Zimmer, Cpl. Ian T. Zook, Lance Cpl. Robert P. Zurheide Jr. May they rest in peace. And may they forgive us someday. -- Michael Moore www.michaelmoore.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 10:13:57 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 10:13:57 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists Message-ID: <20041105181357.13115.qmail@web13622.mail.yahoo.com> Dear Friends, Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election. Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists: 1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again. 2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916. 3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them. 4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.) 5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one. 6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes! 7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan. 8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age. 9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now. 10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't. 11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up! 12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away. 13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided. 14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass. 15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office. 16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!! 17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008. Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'" But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow. Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint at aol.com www.michaelmoore.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Message-ID: <20041105191337.16188.qmail@web13626.mail.yahoo.com> ===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata ===== SFGate.com - November 5, 2004 --------------------------------- Hello, Pluto? Any Room? Must. Move. Away. Cannot endure more Bush. Soul about to implode. Right? Not so fast By Mark Morford I said it, you said it, pretty much anyone with a brain larger than a grape or a soul more nimble than a rock said it maybe a thousand times over. And you probably weren't even all that drunk when you said it and maybe you were even a little more than half serious and maybe you said it just like this: If Bush somehow snags another election, if the unthinkable comes to pass and the Dubya neocon nightmare refuses to end, well, that's it. I'm outta here. Done. Over. Gone. Moving away. To Canada. Or France. Latvia. Uranus. Anywhere, really, that doesn't have Bush as leader and which doesn't make me openly ashamed to be a citizen and which doesn't make me feel like a sickened disillusioned ulcerated outcast in my own happily divisive country every damn day including Sunday .... (click here to read the rest) (Full URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/11/05/notes110504.DTL&nl=fix ) --------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 14:28:02 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:28:02 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Announcing next Tacoma Peltier Marchand Rally Message-ID: PLEASE POST WIDELY From: TACOMA LEONARD PELTIER SUPPORT GROUP P.O. BOX 5464 TACOMA, WA 98415-0464 Tacoma-lpsg at ojibwe.net bayou at blarg.net ANNOUNCING 12TH ANNUAL NORTHWEST REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH LEONARD PELTIER MARCH AND RALLY FOR JUSTICE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2005. TACOMA, WA MARCH FOR JUSTICE: 12:00 NOON Portland Ave. Park (on Portland Ave.between E. 24th and E. Fairbanks Ave. Take Portland Ave. exit off I-5 and head east) RALLY FOR JUSTICE: 1:00 PM U.S. Federal Court House, 1717 Pacific Ave. Program (more to be added later) Harold Belmont: Elder, Native People?s Alliance With Friends and Allies Dorothy Ackerman: Lakota Elder, Portland, OR Aztec Dancers Matilaja: Yu?Pik/Yakama Pete Sanchez: Ktunaxa (Kutenai), Drummer Jim Page: Folk Singer/Activist Michael One Road: AIM, Portland, OR Kerwin Hemlock: Drummer Juan Jose Bocanegra: Community organizer and long time Peltier supporter. Steve Hapy, Jr: Tacoma LPSG Arthur J. Miller: Tacoma LPSG NW AIM DRUM Leonard Peltier is an American Indian Movement Activist who was framed-up by the government after a firefight on the Pine Ridge Oglala Reservation that happened because of an illegal government operation to steal Oglala land for uranium mining. The head of the local FBI office at the time, Norman Zigrossi, defended the illegal actions by saying: ?Indians are a conquered nation and the FBI is merely acting as a colonial police force? He went on to say, ?When you?re conquered, the people you?re conquered by dictate your future.? ?I have no doubt whatsoever that the real motivation behind both Wounded Knee II and the Oglala firefight, and much of the turmoil throughout Indian Country since the early 1970s, was?and is?the mining companies.? Leonard Peltier In 2003 the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals stated in their ruling, ?Much of the government?s behavior at the Pine Ridge Reservation and in its prosecution of Mr. Peltier is to be condemned. The government withheld evidence. It intimidated witnesses. These facts are not disputed.? The Oglala People were never conquered and Leonard Peltier will not give up the fight for justice. In today?s world it is even more important than ever to stand-up to political persecution. The last two years the City of Tacoma has tried to stop our march and last year the city tried to intimidate us with a massive show of police force. It was the support of many good people and a legal team that won us the right to march in Tacoma. Though our focus has been for 12 years to hold a peaceful march of solidarity with Leonard Peltier, we will not stop marching, we will not be intimidated and we demand the right to come out in public in support of Leonard Peltier without persecution. We ask you to join us at our Annual Regional Tacoma March and Rally in Solidarity with Leonard Peltier as we send the message, we will not give up, we will not surrender, we will continue to stand for justice for Leonard Peltier for how ever long it takes! This action is in support of the important legal efforts of Leonard?s legal team (for more information of to: www.leonardpeltier.org). . In The Spirit Of Crazy House Steve Hapy, Jr Arthur J. Miller Tacoma LPSG FANANCIAL DONATIONS ARE GREATLY NEEDED: We need to raise money for printing fliers, posters and for our mailings. Please send donations to: Tacoma LPSG, P.O. Box 5464, Tacoma, WA 98415-0464 (make checks out to: Tacoma Leonard Peltier Support Group) HELP NEED: We need supporters to pass this message on to e-mail lists, news web sites and to groups, organizations and to your friends. Also we need people to get out fliers by passing them out and/or posting them. You can either make your own flier out of the information in this message or send us a message with your address and we will mail you fliers. CARAVANS FOR JUSTICE (CARPOOLS): You can help by organize transportation for your friends, families and or people in groups that you are involve with to the march and rally. We will again try to organize caravans for justice from the north and the south. If you can help with that please let us know. We will need to have meeting points for the caravans soon. PORTLAND: Last year people in the Portland area talked about organizing a caravan/car pool. Is there anyone who would be interested in organizing one this year? If so please let us know. Those who wish to sign up on the NWPeltierSupport e-mail list can do so by sending an e-mail to: nwpeltiersupport-subscribe at lists.riseup.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 14:28:44 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:28:44 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] upcoming massacre Message-ID: Some 10,000 GIs Ring Fallujah's Outskirts By JIM KRANE, Associated Press Writer NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - More than 10,000 U.S. soldiers and Marines have taken positions around Fallujah for an expected assault, as U.S. jets pummeled insurgent targets Friday and troops blocked key roads. Iraq's prime minister warned the "window is closing" to avert an offensive. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20041105/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_041105202904 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com ============================================== List Rules: http://www.lefthook.org/Rules.html [Please clip all unnecessary text if you are replying to a previous e-mail.] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 16:56:28 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:56:28 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fwd: [Political_Sanity_Main] Failing the Test of Citizenship - http://www.mikehersh.com/Failing_the_Test_of_Citizenship.shtml Message-ID: <20041106005628.53442.qmail@web13624.mail.yahoo.com> Failing the Test of Citizenship - Mike Hersh (c) 2004 Millions of voters failed the test of citizenship, in part because Republicans lie so effectively and the media refuse to do their jobs. For example, Dick Cheney went around saying a vote for Kerry was a vote for a devastating, even nuclear attack in our cities. Oddly, those most familiar with al Qaeda attacks rejected Cheney's indefensible threats. Ground Zero for 9/11 - New York City, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia and even Northern Virginia supported the Democrats. But in a massive vacuum created by Republican immorality and media irresponsibility, the Democrats failed as teachers. The Bush Republican method rests on manipulating misinformed people, and making sure they remain misinformed and pliable. While Democrats try to educate the electorate, Republicans try to trick voters and failing that to deny voting rights. Too many Americans just don't know the basic facts, and many don't even care about the facts. That's why Democrats face serious problems in elections. Those who reject reason - the right wing base - may remain beyond reach. However, well-informed people should reach out to the rest of the Republican voters who would have voted better if they knew better. Republicans enjoy an advantage because it's easy to manipulate people through fear and loathing. It's easy to appeal to the worst in people, enflame resentment and appeal to bigotry and fear than it is to convey sometimes complex facts to people overworked, overstressed, and deprived of sleep. Continued: http://www.mikehersh.com/Failing_the_Test_of_Citizenship.shtml ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com/a -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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"It has become impossible for MSF as an organization to guarantee an acceptable level of security for our staff, be they foreign or Iraqi ," said Gorik Ooms, the general director of the Belgium-based group. The three medical aid centres in Baghdad, being run by about 90 Iraqi nationals in the mainly Shia Muslim neighbourhood of Sadr City, had seen more than 100,000 patients since January. RELATED STORY: Fate of CARE worker Hassan unknown Last month, CARE International ended its operations in Iraq after militants kidnapped its director in the country, Margaret Hassan. Her captors have threatened to kill her unless Britain pulls its troops out of Iraq. Written by CBC News Online staff ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 21:30:23 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 21:30:23 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Links to Information on Election Fraud Message-ID: <20041106053023.75518.qmail@web13604.mail.yahoo.com> Here are some links that I hope prove useful and informative. www.votescam.com a site created before the recent elections with lots of well-researched data http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604Z.shtml The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/3/52213/1921 Florida numbers vs 2000 - something is wrong http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/04/11/ana04025.html Why Did CNN Change Their Exit Poll Data for Ohio After 1:00 AM? The CNN Exit Poll data on the CNN web site was later changed. Why? Please note the time stamp of 1:05 AM. http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0131-01.htm "If You Want To Win An Election, Just Control The Voting Machines" http://www.ecotalk.org/AP.htm Could the Associated Press (AP) Rig the Election? (Check updates at bottom) by Lynn Landes 10/22/04 http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ Black Box Voting has taken the position that fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines. We base this on hard evidence, documents obtained in public records requests, inside information, and other data indicative of manipulationof electronic voting systems. What we do not know is the specific scope of the fraud. We are working now to compile the proof, based not on soft evidence-- red flags, exit polls -- but core documents obtained by Black Box Voting in the most massive Freedom of Information action in history http://www.alternet.org/story/16474 The Theft of Your Vote Is Just a Chip Away By Thom Hartmann, AlterNet. Posted July 30, 2003. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Sat Nov 6 10:15:29 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 10:15:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] Jesus and the FDA , The Assult Has Started! Message-ID: <20041106181529.76109.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,361521,00.html W E B E X C L U S I V E Jesus and the FDA By KAREN TUMULTY Saturday, Oct. 05, 2002 A quiet battle is raging over the Bush Administration's plan to appoint a scantily credentialed doctor, whose writings include a book titled As Jesus Cared for Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. Though his resume describes Hager as a University of Kentucky professor, a university official says Hager's appointment is part time and voluntary and involves working with interns at Lexington's Central Baptist Hospital, not the university itself. In his private practice, two sources familiar with it say, Hager refuses to prescribe contraceptives to unmarried women. Hager did not return several calls for comment. FDA advisory panels often have near-final say over crucial health questions. If Hager becomes chairman of the 11-member Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee, he will lead its study of hormone-replacement therapy for menopausal women, one of the biggest controversies in health care. Some conservatives are trying to use doubts about such therapy to discredit the use of birth-control pills, which contain similar compounds. The panel also made the key recommendation in 1996 that led to approval of the "abortion pill," RU-486?a decision that abortion foes are still fighting. Hager assisted the Christian Medical Association last August in a "citizens' petition" calling upon the FDA to reverse itself on RU-486, saying it has endangered the lives and health of women. Hager was chosen for the post by FDA senior associate commissioner Linda Arey Skladany, a former drug-industry lobbyist with longstanding ties to the Bush family. Skladany rejected at least two nominees proposed by FDA staff members: Donald R. Mattison, former dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, and Michael F. Greene, director of maternal- fetal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. Despite pressure from inside the FDA to make the appointment temporary, sources say, Skladany has insisted that Hager get a full four-year term. FDA spokesman Bill Pierce called Hager "well qualified." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Sun Nov 7 23:11:17 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 23:11:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: [Shadow_Group] BBC: Falluja hospital destroyed by USA Message-ID: <20041108071117.72405.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3988433.stm US strikes raze Falluja hospital A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja. Witnesses said only the facade remained of the small Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the centre of the city. There are no reports on casualties. A nearby medical supplies storeroom and dozens of houses were damaged as US forces continued preparing the ground for an expected major assault. UN chief Kofi Annan has warned against an attack on the restive Sunni city. It is the third time since the end of the US-led war that US and Iraqi forces have tried to gain control of Falluja. They say militants loyal to top al-Qaeda suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi are hiding there. Zarqawi's supporters have been behind some of the worst attacks on coalition and Iraqi forces as well as dozens of kidnappings. Some of the hostages - foreigners and Iraqis - have been beheaded. 'Ruined' US troops using 155mm howitzers pounded a number of pre-planned targets in Falluja on Saturday. Along with air strikes - one of the heaviest in recent days - this is all part of what appears to be a steadily increasing pressure on the insurgents, says the BBC's Paul Wood, who is with US marines outside Falluja. Overnight, a column of armoured vehicles and humvee jeeps carried out attacks in the outskirts of Falluja designed to draw out the rebels and provide fresh targets for the air power and artillery. These are the kind of preliminary operations which would be carried out before a full-scale assault on Falluja, our correspondent says. The air strikes reduced the Nazzal hospital, run by a Saudi Arabian Islamic charity, to rubble. Hospital officials quoted by Reuters news agency say all the contents were ruined. More people were preparing to flee the city - more than half of the city's estimated 300,000 people have already left. US marine officers say the full-scale attack will go ahead only once Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has given the order. "The window really is closing for a peaceful settlement," Mr Allawi said on Friday after meeting EU leaders in Brussels. In a letter to the leaders of the US, UK and Iraq, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned that the use of force risked alienating Iraqis when their support for elections was vital. But Mr Allawi called the letter "confused". He said if Mr Annan thought he could prevent insurgents in Falluja from "inflicting damage and killing", he was welcome to try. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/3988433.stm Published: 2004/11/06 13:14:28 GMT ? BBC MMIV ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am confident that the future brings restitution for Sherman Austin. The U.S. GOVERNMENT demonized Sherman and used threats and coercion to convince him to sign a plea for a crime that he DID NOT COMMIT! Sherman will be speaking on Nov. 18, 2004 at the Southwestern College of Law in Los Angeles. ________________________________________________________________________ USA Patriot Act ? Three Years Later Panel Discussion Thursday November 18, 2004 Southwestern University School of Law 675 S. Westmoreland Ave, Los Angeles, 90005 Bullocks Wilshire Bldg., Room 330 6:30 ? 8:30 pm A retrospective look at the implications of the Patriot Act on our rights, civil liberties, privacy, freedoms and safety as a nation following the third anniversary of the passage of the USA Patriot Act. Steven Rohde, Former ACLU President, Los Angeles Chapter Katherine Darmer, Chapman University Law Professor and Author of National Security and Civil Liberties in a Post 9/11 World Sherman Austin, Los Angeles Activist Incarcerated under the Patriot Act Mark Gonzales, Spoken Word Performance following the event Refreshments will be provided Sponsored by: Southwestern Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Southwestern Latino American Student Association Southwestern Black Law Student Association Southwestern Public Interest Law Society If you are interested in Sherman speaking at an event, please email: jmi46 at sbcglobal.net. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++STOP THE WALL++++++++++++++++++++++++++ www.stopthewall.org www.nad-plo.org www.hrw.org www.pal-arc.org www.endtheoccupation.org www.sustaincampaign.org --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thank you again for your wonderful contributions. _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.08 William Rivers Pitt | Worse Than 2000: Tuesday's Electoral Disaster http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804A.shtml Iraqi Resistance Kill 50, Mostly Police http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804B.shtml U.S. Ready to Put Weapons in Space http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804C.shtml French Foreign Minister: Arafat Alive, But in Complex State http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804D.shtml Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America ... http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804E.shtml Los Angeles Times | Democrats and the God Gap http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804F.shtml Bush, Oil Batter Clean Energy Stocks http://www.truthout.org/environment.shtml Eric Leser | The Big Companies Will Be Repaid http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804H.shtml Christian Right Moves on "Moral Issues" http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804I.shtml European Catholics Join Battle on Gays and God http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804J.shtml Republicans in Congress Warned Not to Gloat http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804K.shtml Guantanamo Bay Justice: 3 Hours Behind Closed Doors http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804L.shtml The Costs of War - Letters from the Home Front http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804W.shtml Pelosi Says Democrats Will Protect Social Security http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804X.shtml Iraq Declares Martial Law, 23 Police Killed http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Y.shtml Thom Hartmann | Evidence Mounts that the Vote Was Hacked http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110804Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.07 House Dems Seek Election Inquiry http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704A.shtml U.S. Ignores Sunni Peace Offer http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704B.shtml Europe Ponders Blocking Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704C.shtml Progress Cited in Iran Nuclear Talks http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704D.shtml More Battles Likely on Bush Judge Picks http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704E.shtml J. Sri Raman | Bush Return is Bad News for South Asia http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704F.shtml Sunny Lewis | Enviro Victories and Losses http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704G.shtml Patrick Jarreau | George W. Bush Free to Apply His Ideas http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704H.shtml Under 30's Back Kerry http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704I.shtml Mark Levine | We're All Israelis Now http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704J.shtml Anti-Gay Marriage Bans Boosted Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704K.shtml Dennis Burke | Learning from Granny D http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704L.shtml Voting: Electronic Miscounts Multiply http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704V.shtml Rebels Unleash Wave of Attacks in Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704W.shtml Norman Solomon | Elections and the Specter of Things Unseen http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704X.shtml John Cory: The Election - My Two Cents http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704Y.shtml Fallujah Death Toll to 'Rival Those Seen in Vietnam War' http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110704Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.06 Kelpie Wilson | What Moral Values? http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604A.shtml 2 Marines Killed, Annan Warns Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604B.shtml Analyst Raises Prospect of Strikes on Iran http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604C.shtml 2 U.S. Soldiers Charged with Murder of Iraqi Youth http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604D.shtml Bush Economic Plan: Too Much Deficit, Not Enough Revenue http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604E.shtml Democrats Need New Electoral Strategy http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604F.shtml Michael Moore | 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604G.shtml France Makes Do in Spite of George Bush's Reelection http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604H.shtml Questions about War: How Many Killed and Why http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604I.shtml Bush Hints of High-Profile Departures http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604J.shtml Chalmers Johnson | Abolish the CIA! http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604K.shtml U.N. Envoy: Darfur is Sliding into Anarchy http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604L.shtml 10,000 Troops Ring Fallujah, Prepare for Massive Battle http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604V.shtml Voting Machine Error Gave Bush Extra Ohio Votes http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604W.shtml Scott Galindez | Winning Back the Heartland http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604X.shtml Paul Krugman | No Surrender http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604Y.shtml The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110604Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.05 William Rivers Pitt | Still Standing, Still Fighting, Still Here http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504A.shtml U.S. Jets Pound Parts of Fallujah http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504B.shtml Elizabeth Edwards Diagnosed with Breast Cancer http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504C.shtml Joel Achenbach | A Victory for 'Values,' But Whose? http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504D.shtml U.S. Job Cuts Top 100,000 in October http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504E.shtml Maureen Dowd | The Loonies Have Taken Control http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504F.shtml Grist Magazine | Array of Hope http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504G.shtml Jean-Marie Colombani | A World Apart http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504H.shtml 2nd-Term Agenda Will Not Come Easy for Bush http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504I.shtml Joe Conason | The Voiceless Victims of Bush's Misadventure http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504J.shtml Jury Convicts 5 Involved in Enron Deal with Merrill http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504K.shtml The Nation | Stand and Fight http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504L.shtml Greg Palast | Kerry Won http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504V.shtml Ashcroft Expected to Resign http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504W.shtml Arafat Reportedly in 'Irreversible Coma' http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504X.shtml New York City Bewildered by Election Results http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504Y.shtml U.S. Soldiers Describe Looting of Iraq Explosives http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.04 Marc Ash | The Road Ahead http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404A.shtml Expected Assault on Fallujah Carries Risks for U.S., Allawi http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404B.shtml Ronald Brownstein | The National Fissure Remains Deep and Wide http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404C.shtml Sidney Blumenthal | Bush Unbound http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404D.shtml 11 U.S. States Outlaw Gay Marriage http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404E.shtml Black Voters, Newly Energized, Flock to Polls and Back Kerry http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404F.shtml Joel Connelly | To the Progressives: Don't Surrender to Cynicism http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404G.shtml Corine Lesnes | Guantanamo, the Subject Candidates and Reporters Avoid http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404H.shtml For Chirac and Others, a Close Eye on Returns http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404I.shtml U.N. Says Sudan Denying Refugees Access to Aid http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404J.shtml Hungary Will Withdraw Troops from Iraq http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404K.shtml Now with Bill Moyers | Election and the Future http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404L.shtml Howard Dean: The Work Doesn?t Stop on Election Day http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404V.shtml John Kerry | 'Don't Lose Faith. What You Did Made a Difference' http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404W.shtml Mark Tran | What a Bush Win Will Mean for America http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404X.shtml Iraqi Oil Pipeline Blown Up http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404Y.shtml Ohio Goes into Overtime http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110404Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.03 Eyes of the World on U.S. Election http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304A.shtml Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul Kill 12 http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304B.shtml Sense of Dread Hangs over Fallujah as Battle Looms http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304C.shtml Group Challenges Sinclair Licenses http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304D.shtml U.S. Will Borrow Record $147 Billion in January-March http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304E.shtml Scott Ritter | The War on Iraq Has Made Moral Cowards of Us All http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304F.shtml Queen Backs Fight on Global Warming http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304G.shtml Patrick Sabatier | Surprise http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304H.shtml More Concerns about Missing Weapons, Expertise of Iraqi Insurgents http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304I.shtml J. Sri Raman | India's Far Right Drops Its Mask http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304J.shtml Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304K.shtml Cancer Keeps Rehnquist Home, Prolongs Concerns http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304L.shtml Jesse Jackson | GOP Attempts to Keep Minorities from Voting http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304V.shtml Massive Voter Turnout Reported on Election Day http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304W.shtml 'We Will Vote, No Matter What' http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304X.shtml GOP Can Challenge Voters at Ohio Polls, Court Rules http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304Y.shtml Florida Judge Nixes GOP Suit over Early Voters http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110304Z.shtml Click to SUBSCRIBE -> mailto:join-three-to at news.truthout.org Or go directly to our home page: http://www.truthout.org _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ t r u t h o u t | 11.02 Marc Ash | An Honest Election http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204A.shtml Rebuffing the GOP, Two Judges Bar Challengers in Ohio http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204B.shtml GIs in Iraq Lack Armor, Radios, Bullets http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204C.shtml Top Iraqi Official Assassinated http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204D.shtml Marjorie Cohn | Bush and Bin Laden http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204E.shtml Bob Herbert | Days of Shame http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204F.shtml Bush's EPA Uses Kids as Guinea Pigs http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204G.shtml The Observer | Democracy Must Triumph, Not Fear http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204H.shtml Palm Beach County Bracing for the Electoral Storm http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204I.shtml Granny D | First Battle in War for the 21st Century http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204J.shtml Right on the Edge: Interview with Paul Krugman http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204K.shtml Roberto Vargas | Harnessing the Latino Vote http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204L.shtml t r u t h o u t | Election Blog http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204P.shtml Kerry: U.S. on Verge of a 'Magical Moment' http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204U.shtml Greg Palast | 1 Million Kerry Votes Already Stolen http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204V.shtml James Goldsborough | America's Voting Process is on Trial http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204W.shtml Michael Moore | One Day Left http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110204X.shtml John F. 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The shipment was relabeled and five pallets of boxes were shipped alongside pallets of legitimate juice boxes, the agents said. The pallets were intercepted at an undisclosed location in Miami and federal agents are working to track the drug dealers responsible, customs agents said. In 1990, a 25-year-old man died after drinking a cocaine-laced Colombian soft drink that was part of a drug smuggling scheme. It went awry when burglars broke into a warehouse, stole cases of the drink not knowing what they contained, and sold them to local grocers. The FBI discovered at least 45 contaminated bottles of Pony Malta, some on store shelves. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 14:32:46 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:32:46 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: FDA Lists 92 Symptoms from Nutrasweet (Aspartame) Message-ID: Molon4labe Email News List Molon4labe at AOL.COM The Bald Eagle, The Bird of Freedom Glides , gazing, calm and sure! http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=8804 FDA Lists 92 Symptoms from Nutrasweet (Aspartame) (including Death!) By Mark Gold Please Note: Nutrasweet is in Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi Note: This information required a Freedom Of Information Act request to pry it from the reluctant hands of the FDA. Nutrasweet (brand name for Aspartame) was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: "Do not approve aspartame". Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry. Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm. Long-Term Damage. It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. METHANOL (AKA WOOD ALCOHOL/POISON) (10% OF ASPARTAME) Methanol/wood alcohol is a deadly poison. People may recall that methanol was the poison that has caused some "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead. Methanol is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounter the enzyme chymotrypsin. The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 86 Fahrenheit (30 Centigrade). This would occur when aspartame-containing product is improperly stored or when it is heated (e.g., as part of a "food" product such as Jello). Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic." The recommend a limit of consumption of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing products consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 times the EPA limit. The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects. Due to the lack of a couple of key enzymes, humans are many times more sensitive to the toxic effects of methanol than animals. Therefore, tests of aspartame or methanol on animals do not accurately reflect the danger for humans. As pointed out by Dr Woodrow C. Monte, Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory at Arizona State University, "There are no human or mammalian studies to evaluate the possible mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration of methyl alcohol." It has been pointed out that fruit juices and alcoholic beverages contain small amounts of methanol. It is important to remember, that the methanol in natural products never appears alone. In every case, ethanol is present, usually in much higher amounts. Ethanol is an antidote for methanol toxicity in humans. The troops of Desert Storm were "treated" to large amounts of aspartame-sweetened beverages which had been heated to over 86 degrees F. in the Saudi Arabian sun. Many of them returned home with numerous disorders similar to what has been seen in persons who have been chemically poisoned by formaldehyde. The free methanol in the beverages may have been a contributing factor in these illnesses. Other breakdown products ofaspartame such as DKP, may also have been a factor. In a 1993 act that can only be described as "unconscionable", the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 86?degrees F (30?Degrees C). Much worse, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods. The truth about aspartame's toxicity is far different than what the NutraSweet Company would have you readers believe. In February of 1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the listing of adverse reactions reported to the FDA (DHHS 1994). Aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS). By the FDA's own admission fewer then ONE PERCENT of those who have problems with something they consume ever report it to the FDA. This balloons the almost 10,000 complaints they once had to around a million. However, the FDA has a record keeping problem (they never did respond to the certified letter from the WEBMASTER of this site a major victim!) and they tend to discourage or even misdirect complaints, at least on aspartame. The fact remains, though, that MOST victims don't have a clue that aspartame may be the cause of their many problems! Many reactions to aspartame were very serious including seizures and death. Those reactions included: Abdominal Pain Anxiety attacks arthritis asthma Asthmatic Reactions Bloating, Edema (Fluid Retention) Blood Sugar Control Problems (Hypoglycemia or Hyperglycemia) Brain Cancer (Pre-approval studies in animals) Breathing difficulties burning eyes or throat Burning Urination can't think straight Chest Pains chronic cough Chronic Fatigue Confusion Death Depression Diarrhea Dizziness Excessive Thirst or Hunger fatigue feel unreal flushing of face Hair Loss (Baldness) or Thinning of Hair Headaches/Migraines dizziness Hearing Loss Heart palpitations Hives (Urticaria) Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Impotency and Sexual Problems inability to concentrate Infection Susceptibility Insomnia Irritability Itching Joint Pains laryngitis "like thinking in a fog" Marked Personality Changes Memory loss Menstrual Problems or Changes Migraines and Severe Headaches (Trigger or Cause From Chronic Intake) Muscle spasms Nausea or Vomiting Numbness or Tingling of Extremities Other Allergic-Like Reactions Panic Attacks Phobias poor memory Rapid Heart Beat Rashes Seizures and Convulsions Slurring of Speech Swallowing Pain Tachycardia Tremors Tinnitus Vertigo Vision Loss Weight gain Aspartame Disease Mimics Symptoms or Worsens the Following Diseases Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Birth Defects Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Epilepsy Fibromyalgia Lupus Lyme Disease Lymphoma Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Parkinson's Disease How it happens: Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin (Stegink 1984, page 143). Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 86 degrees F. also within the human body. The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde converts to formic acid - ant sting poison. Toxic formic acid is used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues! (Note from Stephanie Relfe - Even the Australian Cancer Council says that there are NO safe levels of formaldehyde). Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids normally used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids we use [there are 20], they are neurotoxic. That is why a warning for Phenylketonurics is found on EQUAL and other aspartame products. Phenylketenurics are 2% of the population with extreme sensitivity to this chemical unless it's present in food. It gets you too, causing brain disorders and birth defects! Finally, the phenyalanine breaks down into DKP, a brain tumor agent. In other words: Aspartame converts to dangerous by-products that have no natural countermeasures. A dieter's empty stomach accelerates these conversions and amplifies the damage. Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, damage that causes headaches, mental confusion, seizures and faulty balance. Lab rats and other test animals died of brain tumors. Despite the claims of Monsanto and bedfellows: 1. Methanol from alcohol and juices does not get converted to formaldehyde to any significant extent. There is very strong evidence to confirm this fact for alcoholic beverages and fairly strong evidence for juices. 2. Formaldehyde obtained from methanol is very toxic in *very small* doses as seen by recent research. 3. Aspartame causes chronic toxicity reactions/damage due to the methanol to formaldehyde and other break down products despite what is claimed otherwise by the very short, industry-funded experiments using a test substance that is chemically different and absorbed differently than what is available to the general public. "Strangely enough", almost all independent studies show that aspartame can cause health problems. 4. A common ploy from Monsanto is to claim that aspartame is "safe" yet a few select people may have "allergic" reactions to it. This is typical Monsanto nonsense, of course. Their own research shows that it does not cause "allergic" reactions. It is there way of trying to minimize and hide the huge numbers of toxicity reactions and damage that people are experiencing from the long-term use of aspartame. Summary Given the following points, it is definitely premature for researchers to discount the role of methanol in aspartame side effects: 1. The amount of methanol ingested from aspartame is unprecedented in human history. Methanol from fruit juice ingestion does not even approach the quantity of methanol ingested from aspartame, especially in persons who ingest one to three liters (or more) of diet beverages every day. Unlike methanol from aspartame, methanol from natural products is probably not absorbed or converted to its toxic metabolites in significant amounts as discussed earlier. 2. Lack of laboratory-detectable changes in plasma formic acid and formaldehyde levels do not preclude damage being caused by these toxic metabolites. Laboratory-detectable changes in formate levels are often not found in short exposures to methanol. 3. Aspartame-containing products often provide little or no nutrients which may protect against chronic methanol poisoning and are often consumed in between meals. Persons who ingest aspartame-containing products are often dieting and more likely to have nutritional deficiencies than persons who take the time to make fresh juices. 4. Persons with certain health conditions or on certain drugs may be much more susceptible to chronic methanol poisoning. 5. Chronic diseases and side effects from slow poisons often build silently over a long period of time. Many chronic diseases which seem to appear suddenly have actually been building in the body over many years. 6. An increasing body of research is showing that many people are highly sensitive to low doses of formaldehyde in the environment. Environmental exposure to formaldehyde and ingestion of methanol (which converts to formaldehyde) from aspartame likely has a cumulative deleterious effect. 7. Formic acid has been shown to slowly accumulate in various parts of the body. Formic acid has been shown to inhibit oxygen metabolism. 8. The are a very large and growing number of persons are experiencing chronic health problems similar to the side effects of chronic methanol poisoning when ingesting aspartame-containing products for a significant length of time. This includes many cases of eye damage similar to the type of eye damage seen in methanol poisoning cases. Note: It often takes at least sixty days without any aspartame NutraSweet to see a significant improvement. (Note from Stephanie Relfe: Drink plenty of good water. Preferably water filtered by reverse osmosis. If not that, spring water. Not tap, distilled or mineral water). Check all labels very carefully (including vitamins and pharmaceuticals). Look for the word "aspartame" on the label and avoid it. (Also, it is a good idea to avoid "acesulfame-k" or "sunette.") Finally, avoid getting nutrition information from junk food industry PR organizations such as IFIC or organizations that accept large sums of money from the junk and chemical food industry such as the American Dietetic Association. If you are a user of any products with aspartame, and you have physical, visual, mental problems take the 60-day no aspartame test. If, after two months with no aspartame your symptoms are either gone, or are much less severe, please get involved to get this neurotoxin off the market. Write a letter to the FDA, with a copy to Betty Martini (for proof of how the FDA doesn't keep proper records). Write your congressmen. Return products containing aspartame to the point of purchase... for a FULL refund. Make a big stink if they WON'T give you a full refund! Tell all your friends and family... and if they stop using aspartame and also "wake up well"... get them involved in the same way. Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who place profits above human life and well-being. With the FDA and our Congress culpable, only an INFORMED and ACTIVE public will affects its reclassification from "food additive" to TOXIC DRUG, and removed from the human food chain. >From Stephane Relfe: Note that Michael J. Fox, who was spokesperson for Pepsi, has an old man's disease (Parkinson's Disease) at only 30 years old. Also Note: Aspartame has one use that I know of - it makes an EXCELLENT ant poison. Put a few tablespoons on a nest of fire ants and see how long before they disappear. Article courtesy of: Mark Gold (researcher for twenty years on such subjects), who may reached for comment at mgold at tiac.net. For more information: www.dorway.com www.aspartamekills.com www.nexuxmagazine.com/Aspartame.html http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame http://www.trufax.org/menu/chem.html#aspartame Addresses: Commissioner Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, Maryland 20857 Mrs. Betty Martini Mission Possible International 9270 State Bridge Road Suite 215 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Internet E-mail: bettym19 at mindspring.com NOW... that you are aware of the 92 FDA recognized symptoms (that required a Freedom Of Information Act request to pry from their reluctant hands) and HOW aspartame does its dirty work, change to Dorway's Official Dogma page. www.dorway.com/offasprt.html On this page Mark Gold has taken the IFIC "Official" aspartame safety myth and shot it full of holes using all of the smoking guns that were used by the FDA to approve this poison as a food additive, along with information they either ignored or discounted. This excellent debunking of the official FDA/Monsanto/Searle/Nutrasweet/Nutrasweet Kelco/AMA/ADA/IFIC/??? chain of lies and half truths includes a long history of this "product's" sordid trail to the marketplace and the sweet tooth. Other great Aspartame / Phenylalaine links: www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/phenylalanine.htm www.heall.com/body/askthedoctor/nutrition/artificialsweeteners.html *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] To those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath! To those who have not and believe in the Constitution, Take a similar Oath now to the Constitution! 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URL: From shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca Fri Nov 5 14:34:04 2004 From: shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca (shadowgroup-l at lists.resist.ca) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 14:34:04 -0800 Subject: [Shadow_Group] Fw: FDA Lists 92 Symptoms from Nutrasweet (Aspartame) Message-ID: Molon4labe Email News List Molon4labe at AOL.COM The Bald Eagle, The Bird of Freedom Glides , gazing, calm and sure! http://www.federalobserver.com/archive.php?aid=8804 FDA Lists 92 Symptoms from Nutrasweet (Aspartame) (including Death!) By Mark Gold Please Note: Nutrasweet is in Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi Note: This information required a Freedom Of Information Act request to pry it from the reluctant hands of the FDA. Nutrasweet (brand name for Aspartame) was not approved until 1981, in dry foods. For over eight years the FDA refused to approve it because of the seizures and brain tumors this drug produced in lab animals. The FDA continued to refuse to approve it until President Reagan took office (a friend of Searle) and fired the FDA Commissioner who wouldn't approve it. Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed as commissioner. Even then there was so much opposition to approval that a Board of Inquiry was set up. The Board said: "Do not approve aspartame". Dr. Hayes OVERRULED his own Board of Inquiry. Shortly after Commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., approved the use of aspartame in carbonated beverages, he left for a position with G.D. Searle's Public Relations firm. Long-Term Damage. It appears to cause slow, silent damage in those unfortunate enough to not have immediate reactions and a reason to avoid it. It may take one year, five years, 10 years, or 40 years, but it seems to cause some reversible and some irreversible changes in health over long-term use. METHANOL (AKA WOOD ALCOHOL/POISON) (10% OF ASPARTAME) Methanol/wood alcohol is a deadly poison. People may recall that methanol was the poison that has caused some "skid row" alcoholics to end up blind or dead. Methanol is gradually released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounter the enzyme chymotrypsin. The absorption of methanol into the body is sped up considerably when free methanol is ingested. Free methanol is created from aspartame when it is heated to above 86 Fahrenheit (30 Centigrade). This would occur when aspartame-containing product is improperly stored or when it is heated (e.g., as part of a "food" product such as Jello). Methanol breaks down into formic acid and formaldehyde in the body. Formaldehyde is a deadly neurotoxin. An EPA assessment of methanol states that methanol "is considered a cumulative poison due to the low rate of excretion once it is absorbed. In the body, methanol is oxidized to formaldehyde and formic acid; both of these metabolites are toxic." The recommend a limit of consumption of 7.8 mg/day. A one-liter (approx. 1 quart) aspartame-sweetened beverage contains about 56 mg of methanol. Heavy users of aspartame-containing products consume as much as 250 mg of methanol daily or 32 times the EPA limit. The most well known problems from methanol poisoning are vision problems. Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen, causes retinal damage, interferes with DNA replication, and causes birth defects. Due to the lack of a couple of key enzymes, humans are many times more sensitive to the toxic effects of methanol than animals. Therefore, tests of aspartame or methanol on animals do not accurately reflect the danger for humans. As pointed out by Dr Woodrow C. Monte, Director of the Food Science and Nutrition Laboratory at Arizona State University, "There are no human or mammalian studies to evaluate the possible mutagenic, teratogenic, or carcinogenic effects of chronic administration of methyl alcohol." It has been pointed out that fruit juices and alcoholic beverages contain small amounts of methanol. It is important to remember, that the methanol in natural products never appears alone. In every case, ethanol is present, usually in much higher amounts. Ethanol is an antidote for methanol toxicity in humans. The troops of Desert Storm were "treated" to large amounts of aspartame-sweetened beverages which had been heated to over 86 degrees F. in the Saudi Arabian sun. Many of them returned home with numerous disorders similar to what has been seen in persons who have been chemically poisoned by formaldehyde. The free methanol in the beverages may have been a contributing factor in these illnesses. Other breakdown products ofaspartame such as DKP, may also have been a factor. In a 1993 act that can only be described as "unconscionable", the FDA approved aspartame as an ingredient in numerous food items that would always be heated to above 86?degrees F (30?Degrees C). Much worse, on 27 June 1996, without public notice, the FDA removed all restrictions from aspartame allowing it to be used in everything, including all heated and baked goods. The truth about aspartame's toxicity is far different than what the NutraSweet Company would have you readers believe. In February of 1994, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the listing of adverse reactions reported to the FDA (DHHS 1994). Aspartame accounted for more than 75% of all adverse reactions reported to the FDA's Adverse Reaction Monitoring System (ARMS). By the FDA's own admission fewer then ONE PERCENT of those who have problems with something they consume ever report it to the FDA. This balloons the almost 10,000 complaints they once had to around a million. However, the FDA has a record keeping problem (they never did respond to the certified letter from the WEBMASTER of this site a major victim!) and they tend to discourage or even misdirect complaints, at least on aspartame. The fact remains, though, that MOST victims don't have a clue that aspartame may be the cause of their many problems! Many reactions to aspartame were very serious including seizures and death. Those reactions included: Abdominal Pain Anxiety attacks arthritis asthma Asthmatic Reactions Bloating, Edema (Fluid Retention) Blood Sugar Control Problems (Hypoglycemia or Hyperglycemia) Brain Cancer (Pre-approval studies in animals) Breathing difficulties burning eyes or throat Burning Urination can't think straight Chest Pains chronic cough Chronic Fatigue Confusion Death Depression Diarrhea Dizziness Excessive Thirst or Hunger fatigue feel unreal flushing of face Hair Loss (Baldness) or Thinning of Hair Headaches/Migraines dizziness Hearing Loss Heart palpitations Hives (Urticaria) Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) Impotency and Sexual Problems inability to concentrate Infection Susceptibility Insomnia Irritability Itching Joint Pains laryngitis "like thinking in a fog" Marked Personality Changes Memory loss Menstrual Problems or Changes Migraines and Severe Headaches (Trigger or Cause From Chronic Intake) Muscle spasms Nausea or Vomiting Numbness or Tingling of Extremities Other Allergic-Like Reactions Panic Attacks Phobias poor memory Rapid Heart Beat Rashes Seizures and Convulsions Slurring of Speech Swallowing Pain Tachycardia Tremors Tinnitus Vertigo Vision Loss Weight gain Aspartame Disease Mimics Symptoms or Worsens the Following Diseases Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Birth Defects Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Diabetes and Diabetic Complications Epilepsy Fibromyalgia Lupus Lyme Disease Lymphoma Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Parkinson's Disease How it happens: Methanol, from aspartame, is released in the small intestine when the methyl group of aspartame encounters the enzyme chymotrypsin (Stegink 1984, page 143). Free methanol begins to form in liquid aspartame-containing products at temperatures above 86 degrees F. also within the human body. The methanol is then converted to formaldehyde. The formaldehyde converts to formic acid - ant sting poison. Toxic formic acid is used as an activator to strip epoxy and urethane coatings. Imagine what it does to your tissues! (Note from Stephanie Relfe - Even the Australian Cancer Council says that there are NO safe levels of formaldehyde). Phenylalanine and aspartic acid, 90% of aspartame, are amino acids normally used in synthesis of protoplasm when supplied by the foods we eat. But when unaccompanied by other amino acids we use [there are 20], they are neurotoxic. That is why a warning for Phenylketonurics is found on EQUAL and other aspartame products. Phenylketenurics are 2% of the population with extreme sensitivity to this chemical unless it's present in food. It gets you too, causing brain disorders and birth defects! Finally, the phenyalanine breaks down into DKP, a brain tumor agent. In other words: Aspartame converts to dangerous by-products that have no natural countermeasures. A dieter's empty stomach accelerates these conversions and amplifies the damage. Components of aspartame go straight to the brain, damage that causes headaches, mental confusion, seizures and faulty balance. Lab rats and other test animals died of brain tumors. Despite the claims of Monsanto and bedfellows: 1. Methanol from alcohol and juices does not get converted to formaldehyde to any significant extent. There is very strong evidence to confirm this fact for alcoholic beverages and fairly strong evidence for juices. 2. Formaldehyde obtained from methanol is very toxic in *very small* doses as seen by recent research. 3. Aspartame causes chronic toxicity reactions/damage due to the methanol to formaldehyde and other break down products despite what is claimed otherwise by the very short, industry-funded experiments using a test substance that is chemically different and absorbed differently than what is available to the general public. "Strangely enough", almost all independent studies show that aspartame can cause health problems. 4. A common ploy from Monsanto is to claim that aspartame is "safe" yet a few select people may have "allergic" reactions to it. This is typical Monsanto nonsense, of course. Their own research shows that it does not cause "allergic" reactions. It is there way of trying to minimize and hide the huge numbers of toxicity reactions and damage that people are experiencing from the long-term use of aspartame. Summary Given the following points, it is definitely premature for researchers to discount the role of methanol in aspartame side effects: 1. The amount of methanol ingested from aspartame is unprecedented in human history. Methanol from fruit juice ingestion does not even approach the quantity of methanol ingested from aspartame, especially in persons who ingest one to three liters (or more) of diet beverages every day. Unlike methanol from aspartame, methanol from natural products is probably not absorbed or converted to its toxic metabolites in significant amounts as discussed earlier. 2. Lack of laboratory-detectable changes in plasma formic acid and formaldehyde levels do not preclude damage being caused by these toxic metabolites. Laboratory-detectable changes in formate levels are often not found in short exposures to methanol. 3. Aspartame-containing products often provide little or no nutrients which may protect against chronic methanol poisoning and are often consumed in between meals. Persons who ingest aspartame-containing products are often dieting and more likely to have nutritional deficiencies than persons who take the time to make fresh juices. 4. Persons with certain health conditions or on certain drugs may be much more susceptible to chronic methanol poisoning. 5. Chronic diseases and side effects from slow poisons often build silently over a long period of time. Many chronic diseases which seem to appear suddenly have actually been building in the body over many years. 6. An increasing body of research is showing that many people are highly sensitive to low doses of formaldehyde in the environment. Environmental exposure to formaldehyde and ingestion of methanol (which converts to formaldehyde) from aspartame likely has a cumulative deleterious effect. 7. Formic acid has been shown to slowly accumulate in various parts of the body. Formic acid has been shown to inhibit oxygen metabolism. 8. The are a very large and growing number of persons are experiencing chronic health problems similar to the side effects of chronic methanol poisoning when ingesting aspartame-containing products for a significant length of time. This includes many cases of eye damage similar to the type of eye damage seen in methanol poisoning cases. Note: It often takes at least sixty days without any aspartame NutraSweet to see a significant improvement. (Note from Stephanie Relfe: Drink plenty of good water. Preferably water filtered by reverse osmosis. If not that, spring water. Not tap, distilled or mineral water). Check all labels very carefully (including vitamins and pharmaceuticals). Look for the word "aspartame" on the label and avoid it. (Also, it is a good idea to avoid "acesulfame-k" or "sunette.") Finally, avoid getting nutrition information from junk food industry PR organizations such as IFIC or organizations that accept large sums of money from the junk and chemical food industry such as the American Dietetic Association. If you are a user of any products with aspartame, and you have physical, visual, mental problems take the 60-day no aspartame test. If, after two months with no aspartame your symptoms are either gone, or are much less severe, please get involved to get this neurotoxin off the market. Write a letter to the FDA, with a copy to Betty Martini (for proof of how the FDA doesn't keep proper records). Write your congressmen. Return products containing aspartame to the point of purchase... for a FULL refund. Make a big stink if they WON'T give you a full refund! Tell all your friends and family... and if they stop using aspartame and also "wake up well"... get them involved in the same way. Aspartame is an "approved sweetener" because of a few greedy and dishonest people who place profits above human life and well-being. With the FDA and our Congress culpable, only an INFORMED and ACTIVE public will affects its reclassification from "food additive" to TOXIC DRUG, and removed from the human food chain. >From Stephane Relfe: Note that Michael J. Fox, who was spokesperson for Pepsi, has an old man's disease (Parkinson's Disease) at only 30 years old. Also Note: Aspartame has one use that I know of - it makes an EXCELLENT ant poison. Put a few tablespoons on a nest of fire ants and see how long before they disappear. Article courtesy of: Mark Gold (researcher for twenty years on such subjects), who may reached for comment at mgold at tiac.net. For more information: www.dorway.com www.aspartamekills.com www.nexuxmagazine.com/Aspartame.html http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame http://www.trufax.org/menu/chem.html#aspartame Addresses: Commissioner Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, Maryland 20857 Mrs. Betty Martini Mission Possible International 9270 State Bridge Road Suite 215 Duluth, Georgia 30097 Internet E-mail: bettym19 at mindspring.com NOW... that you are aware of the 92 FDA recognized symptoms (that required a Freedom Of Information Act request to pry from their reluctant hands) and HOW aspartame does its dirty work, change to Dorway's Official Dogma page. www.dorway.com/offasprt.html On this page Mark Gold has taken the IFIC "Official" aspartame safety myth and shot it full of holes using all of the smoking guns that were used by the FDA to approve this poison as a food additive, along with information they either ignored or discounted. This excellent debunking of the official FDA/Monsanto/Searle/Nutrasweet/Nutrasweet Kelco/AMA/ADA/IFIC/??? chain of lies and half truths includes a long history of this "product's" sordid trail to the marketplace and the sweet tooth. Other great Aspartame / Phenylalaine links: www.mercola.com/article/aspartame/phenylalanine.htm www.heall.com/body/askthedoctor/nutrition/artificialsweeteners.html *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] To those who have taken the Oath, Remember the Oath! To those who have not and believe in the Constitution, Take a similar Oath now to the Constitution! 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