US now 'the common enemy'
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,9231678%255E2703,00.html

Iraqis Insist On Expelling Occupation
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-04/09/article04.shtml

Now it is America that desperately needs rescuing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1188858,00.html

Scholars Condemn U.S. ‘Genocide’ In Iraq
http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2004-04/09/article03.shtml

Imam calls for strike to protest against US offensives
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/09/1081326934698.html?from=storyrhs

U.S. DOESN'T WANT TO GIVE UP POWER
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6021.htm

Losing touch with reality
http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1188852,00.html

Ex-British foreign secretaries Cook, Hurd blast US policy in Iraq
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/79576/1/.html

Our New No-Can-Do Nation
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/opinion/11DOWD.html?th

Bush Was Warned of Possible Attack in U.S., Official Says
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6022.htm

US 'al-Qaeda memo': Full text
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3617289.stm

War on Iraq is a Nuclear War
http://www.awakenedwoman.com/moret_nuclear.htm

Uranium Weapons Cover-ups - a Crime against Humankind
http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/background.htm

Army ignored uranium poisoning complaints
http://www.diario.com.mx/nota.asp?notaid=b7c09a4dfcaf70e51b0f8c4bd133313c

War Lords to Their Critics: "Just Shut Up"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6027.htm

The War's One Simple Truth - Iraqis Do Not Want Us
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6023.htm

Answers sought on US 'private armies' in Iraq
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1084967.htm

North Korea says standoff with US at "brink of nuclear war
http://www.spacewar.com/2004/040409115806.6oukxw6z.html


From Information Clearing House

Quelle: http://berg.heim.at/anden/423254/wtc/

Informant: Andromeda-Newsletter vom 11.04.2004

09.04.2004

Phthalate sind allgegenwärtig: Bei der Herstellung von Körperpflegemitteln genauso wie bei Textilien. Doch meistens werden sie als Weichmacher für PVC eingesetzt. Sie gelten als höchst gesundheits- gefährdend. Wissenschaftler der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg haben festgestellt, dass die Menge, die Menschen unbewusst aufnehmen, größer ist als vermutet.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/4582.php

09.04.2004

Das grönländische Inlandeis droht komplett zu schmelzen. Ursache ist die Klimaerwärmung durch Treibhausgase. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine neue Studie, die in der britischen Zeitschrift "Nature" veröffentlicht wurde. Bis zu drei Kilometer dick ist die Eisschicht, die Grönland bedeckt. Sie enthält zehn Prozent der globalen Süßwasserreserven.

http://www.sonnenseite.com/fp/archiv/Akt-News/4669.php

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Als das Netz nach Grönland kam
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1174798/

By Lorna Thackeray
Billings Gazette / Mont. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
April 8, 2004

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8388980.htm

Early snowmelt has become a hallmark of Montana's prolonged drought.

Some scientists are beginning to think that it may be much more than that.

Full-fledged climate change, which could mean shorter winters and drier summers, is already under way across the Western United States, said Steve Running at the University of Montana.

"We have every reason to believe that it will continue or even accelerate," he said. "Absolutely, we are in a multidecadinal change in climate."

Running is director of UM's Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, which makes software for NASA's environmental satellites. The group operates the Montana Climate Center, which opened last fall in Missoula.

Evidence collected over the last 50 years suggests that rising temperatures have fostered a decline in springtime snowpack of 15 to 30 percent in Montana and that springtime peak river flows now come an average of two weeks earlier, he said.

The snowpack, which holds about 75 percent of the West's water supply, acts as a reservoir that keeps streams flowing in the summer months. If the melt continues to recede earlier into spring, resulting summer water shortages could affect everything from agriculture and hydropower to fish habitat, the professor said.

It's a fear that he shares with Belgrade native Kelly Redmond, Western regional climatologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Climate Center in Reno, Nev.

The degree of change in spring melt varies, Redmond said, but the trend toward earlier melt is widespread across the West. Yellowstone Basin snow begins to melt five to 15 days earlier than it did 56 years ago.

The trend becomes more pronounced as waters flow west. West of the Divide in Montana and into Idaho, Washington and Oregon, spring melt comes 15 to 25 days earlier, Redmond said.

"It's kind of taken us all aback," he said in a telephone interview. "It's kind of hard to see this happening right under our nose without us noticing."

Only in the last few years has early snowmelt drawn much interest, he said, but he expects to see research and public information on the trend accelerate.

Evidence for earlier melts is strong on a lot of fronts, Redmond said.

At the top of the list are temperature statistics. Records indicate that America is warming, especially in the West, and especially in February, March and April. For most of the West, Montana included, temperatures during that critical period have increased a half-degree to a full degree every decade for the last 30 to 40 years.

March 2004 stands out as a prime example, Redmond said. It was an
"exceptional" month, the climatologist said.

All across the West, it was warm and dry. For south-central Montana, 2004 produced the fourth-warmest March since 1895. It was also among the driest.

"Normally, March is a snow production month," he said. "But this year it was a deficit month."

Montana wasn't alone in its lack of snowpack. Utah started the month expecting near average spring runoff for a change, Redmond said. By the end of the month, the state was bracing for one of the lowest runoffs ever.

Statistics from Natural Resources and Conservation Service snow surveys show that snowpack declined 16 percent in Montana between March 1 and April 1. The losses were more severe elsewhere in the West, including Nevada, 54 percent; Arizona, 51 percent; New Mexico, 43 percent; Utah, 39 percent; and Wyoming, 19 percent.

A warm March and a warm winter worked together. In Montana, the average temperature from October through March was 3 degrees above normal -- the 11th-warmest winter on record. Even winter-ravaged northeastern Montana surpassed its winter average by 1 degree.

Running said that studies of the Missoula area showed the number of frost-free days has increased 15 days there in the last 50 years and that annual snowfall has fallen from an average of 55 inches to 40 inches.

Related, but separate evidence of earlier snowmelt comes from studying peak spring flows for more than 1,000 streams in the Western states, Western Canada and Alaska over the last 50 years, Redmond said. Those studies show snowpack disappearing from one to three weeks earlier in the spring.

What researchers measured was the "spring pulse" of all those streams.

Snowmelt begins after the pack has ripened, Redmond said. It accumulates enough heat that the entire pack reaches 32 degrees, before it starts to melt.

"When the snow begins to melt, it does it in a fairly abrupt fashion,"
Redmond said.

Scientists can go back through streamflow records and mark the date when the water starts to come down -- that's its spring pulse. Records show that the pulse happens almost simultaneously throughout the region. The pulses kick in usually within two or three days of each other, he said.

Research shows that, from New Mexico to Alaska, the pulse is getting earlier, Redmond said. This spring a river gauge in California's Yosemite National Park recorded the spring pulse on March 6, the earliest ever in 87 years of monitoring.

A third body of evidence originated more than 40 years ago when then-Montana Climatologist Joe Caprio began collecting data on the life cycles of lilacs and honeysuckle, Redmond said. Caprio recruited 500 observers in 11 states to record when the plants first showed signs of life in the spring and when they blossomed.

Analysis of the information indicated that the plants are blooming seven to 10 days earlier now than they did 40 years ago, Redmond said.

"They all kind of give a consistent pattern," he said of the temperatures, spring pulses and blooming dates.

Warmer springs and earlier melts mean a longer growing season and that plants will be using more water, Redmond said. It may also mean that more moisture will go directly into the atmosphere, he said.

"The major thing to sort out here has been whether this is a natural
variation in climate or if it is something else," he said. "There is strong evidence that a good part of it is natural."

For Running, the debate has already been resolved. He said human activity is clearly playing a significant role in climate change.

"We'd better start getting serious about energy that's not based on
petroleum," he said.

If the world community doesn't find some solutions, consequences will be dire, Running said.

"People are going to have to face up to it head on or get used to less and less snowpack and more and more drought," he said.


Informant: NHNE

The Department of Defense is aggressively pursing a uniform government wide standard for RFID technology that they would like incorporated into all deliverables shipped on pallets or is cases by manufacturers who also supply a great many products found in local grocery and home improvement stores. Their plan is to following the same technology blueprint for RFID technology as the one announced by Wal-Mart. To coordinate the government wide effort for a uniform RFID policy they are recommending the development of an intergovernmental council.

Defense pushes for a single RFID standard, Government Computer News, April
7, 2004
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25517-1.html


Informant: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 5

Methode taugt nur zur Überwachung der Bevölkerung

Wer in Österreich kürzlich die Talk-Sendung "Zur Sache" gesehen, als es um das Thema Überwachung ging. Musste selbst die FPÖ-Abgeordnete Partik Pablé eingestehen, die sonst für Überwachung eintritt, dass das Überwachen mit Kameras bestenfalls der Bekämpfung der Kriminalität hilft aber keinesfalls dem Kampf gegen Terroristen.

So hat das ARD-Magazin "Panorama" aufgedeckt, dass man bis heute mittels Rasterfahndung noch keinen einzigen Terroristen enttarnt hätte.


Schilys Rasterfahndung ohne jeden Erfolg gegen Terroristen
Methode taugt nur zur Überwachung der Bevölkerung

Die von Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September forcierte Rasterfahndung hat auch nicht einen einzigen Terroristen enttarnt. Wie das ARD-Magazin 'Panorama' heute berichtet, sammelten die Landeskriminalämter mehr als 8,3 Millionen Datensätze. Daraus habe man ca. 19.000 "Prüffälle" extrahiert, die sich aber alle als unbegründet erwiesen hätten. Ein einziges, in Hamburg eingeleitetes Ermittlungsverfahren, war wieder eingestellt worden.

[...]

Monatelang haben die Ermittler Millionen von Personendaten überprüft. In das Fahndungsraster fielen alle in Deutschland lebenden Moslems, die jünger als 40 Jahre sind und studieren. Ein gigantischer personeller und finanzieller Aufwand. Einziges Resultat ist eine gewachsene Überwachung der Bevölkerung. "Die letzte Rasterfahndung nach dem 11. September hat unterm Strich nichts gebracht, außer viele, viele Kriminalbeamte von der täglichen Arbeit abzuhalten", zitiert 'Panorama' Wilfried Albishausen vom Bund Deutscher Kriminalbeamter.

[...]

Dennoch hält Schily unverdrossen weiter an seiner Rasterfahndung fest - und empfiehlt sie jetzt sogar für ganz Europa. Albishausen dagegen vertritt, dass das uneffektive System auch in Europa nicht funktionieren kann, bedingt durch unterschiedliche Rechtssysteme und unterschiedliche EDV-Anwendungen.

[...]

Quelle: http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2027725&section=Marketing-News


aus: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 5

From an airline mechanic

"For reasons you will understand as you read this I can not divulge my identity. I am an aircraft mechanic for a major airline. I work at one of our maintenance bases located at a large airport. I have discovered some information that I think you will find important.

First I should tell you something about the "pecking order" among mechanics. It is important to my story and to the cause to which you have dedicated yourself.

Mechanics want to work on three things. The avionics, the engines, or the flight controls. The mechanics that work on these systems are considered at the top of the "pecking order". Next come the mechanics that work on the hydraulics and air conditioning systems. Then come the ones who work on the galley and other non-essential systems. But at the very bottom of the list are the mechanics that work on the waste disposal systems. No mechanic wants to work on the pumps, tanks, and pipes that are used to store the waste from the lavatories.

But at every airport where I have worked there are always 2 or 3 mechanics that volunteer to work on the lavatory systems. The other mechanics are happy to let them do it. Because of this you will have only 2 or 3 mechanics that work on these systems at any one airport. No one pays much attention to these guys and no mechanic socializes with another mechanic who only works on the waste systems. In fact I had never thought much about this situation until last month.

Like most airlines we have reciprocal agreements with the other airlines that fly into this airport. If they have a problem with a plane one of our mechanics will take care of it. Likewise if one of our planes has a problem at an airport where the other airline has a maintenance base, they will fix our plane.

One day last month I was called out from our base to work on a plane for another airline. When I got the call the dispatcher did not know what the problem was. When I got to the plane I found out that the problem was in waste disposal system.

There was nothing for me to do but to crawl in and fix the problem. When I got into the bay I realized that something was not right. There were more tanks, pumps, and pipes then should have been there. At first I assumed that the system had been changed. It had been 10 years since I had worked on one. As I tried to find the problem I quickly realized the extra piping and tanks were not connected to the waste disposal system. I had just discovered this when another mechanic from my company showed up.

It was one of the mechanics who usually works on these systems. I happily turned the job over to him. As I was leaving I asked him about the extra equipment. He told me to "worry about my end of the plane and let him worry about his!"

The next day I was on the company computer to look up a wiring schematic. While I was there I decided to look up the extra equipment I had found. To my amazement the manuals did not show any of the extra equipment I had seen with my own eyes the day before. I even tied in to the manufacturer files and still found nothing. Now I was really determined to find out what that equipment did.

The next week we had three of our planes in our main hanger for periodic inspection. There are mechanics crawling all over a plane during these inspections. I had just finished my shift and I decided to have a look at the waste system on one of our planes. With all the mechanics around I figured that no one would notice an extra one on the plane. Sure enough, the plane I choose had the extra equipment!
I began to trace the system of pipes, pumps, and tanks. I found what appeared to be the control unit for the system. It was a standard looking avionics control box but it had no markings of any kind. I could trace the control wires from the box to the pumps and valves but there were no control circuits coming into the unit. The only wires coming Into the unit was a power connection to the aircraft's main power bus.

The system had 1 large and 2 smaller tanks. It was hard to tell in the cramped compartment but it looked like the large tank could hold 50 gallons. The tanks were connected to a fill and drain valve that passed through the fuselage just behind the drain valve for the waste system. When I had a chance to look for this connection under the plane I found it cunningly hidden behind a panel under the panel used to access the waste drain.

I began to trace the piping from the pumps. These pipes lead to a network of small pipes that ended in the trailing edges of the wings and horizontal stabilizers. If you look closely at the wings of a large airplane you will see a set of wires, about the size of your finger, extending from the trailing edge of the wing surfaces. These are the static discharge wicks. They are used to dissipate the static electric charge that builds up on a plane in flight. I discovered that the pipes from this mystery system lead to every 1 out of 3 of these static discharge wicks. These wicks had been "hollowed out" to allow whatever flows through these pipes to be discharged through these fake wicks.

It was while I was on the wing that one of the managers spotted me. He ordered me out of the hanger telling me that my shift was over and I had not been authorized any overtime.

The next couple of days were very busy and I had no time to continue my investigation. Late one afternoon, two days after my discovery, I was called to replace an engine temperature sensor on a plane due to take off in two hours. I finished the job and turned in the paperwork.

About 30 minutes later I was paged to see the General Manager. When I went in his office I found that our union rep and two others who I did not know were waiting on me. He told me that a serious problem had been discovered. He said that I was being written up and suspended for turning in false paperwork. He handed me a disciplinary form stating that I had turned in false paperwork on the engine temperature sensor I had installed a few hours before. I was floored and began to protest. I told them that this was ridiculous and that I had done this work. The union rep spoke up then and recommended that we take a look at the plane and see if we could straighten it all out. It was at this time that I asked who the other two men were. The GM told me that they were airline safety inspectors but would not give me their names.

We proceeded to the plane, which should have been in the air but was parked on our maintenance ramp. We opened the engine cowling and the union rep pulled the sensor. He checked the serial number and told everyone that it was the old instrument. We then went to the parts bay and went back into the racks. The union rep checked my report and pulled from the rack a sealed box. He opened the box and pulled out the engine temperature sensor with the serial number of the one I had installed. I was told that I was suspended for a week without pay and to leave immediately.

I sat at home the first day of my suspension wondering what the hell had happened to me. That evening I received a phone call. The voice told me "Now you know what happens to mechanics who poke around in things they shouldn't. The next time you start working on systems that are no concern of yours you will lose your job. As it is I'm feeling generous, I believe that you'll be able to go back to work soon" CLICK.

Again I had to pick myself from off the floor. I made the connection that what had happened was directly connected to my tracing the mysterious piping. The next morning the General Manager called me. He said that due to my past excellent employment record that the suspension had been reduced to one day and that I should report back to work immediately. The only thing I could think of was what are they trying to hide and who are THEY!

That day at work went by as if nothing had happened. None of the other mechanics mentioned the suspension and my union rep told me not to talk about it. That night I logged onto the Internet to try to find some answers. I don't remember now how I got there but I came across your site. That's when it all came together. But the next morning at work I found a note inside my locked locker. It said, "Curiosity killed the cat. Don't be looking at Internet sites that are no concern of yours."

Well that's it. THEY are watching me.

Well you already know what they are doing. I don't know what they are spraying but I can tell you how they are doing it. I figure they are using the "honey trucks". These are the trucks that empty the waste from the lavatory waste tanks. The airports usually contract out this job and nobody goes near these trucks. Who wants to stand next a truck full of sh--. While these guys are emptying the waste tanks they are filling the tanks of the spray system. They know the planes flight path so they probably program the control unit to start spraying some amount of time after the plane reaches a certain altitude. The spray nozzles in the fake static wicks are so small that no one in the plane would see a thing.

God help us all,

A concerned citizen."

Courtesy Henry Makow, Ph.D.
Exposing Feminism and the New World Order
http://www.savethemales.ca

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1669


Informant: George Paxinos

Microwaves are a hazard to life
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189655/

Microwave–ovens cause cancer after all
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189666/

Man turns the Earth into a Microwave–Oven
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189645/

Still 'Cooking' With Microwaves?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/209635/

Food prepared in the microwave oven leads to changes in the blood
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/microwave_cooking.pdf

Microwave oven info
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491151/