Protests Planned, Pressure Building
VoteCobb.org Daily Update
Tuesday, December 28, 2004

Blackwell on the Run

When Mahatma Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win," he could have been talking about Ohio in 2004. Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell, who presided so triumphantly over the granting of Ohio's 20 Electoral votes to President Bush on December 13 even though the recount had not yet started, has gone past ignoring and ridiculing the recount movement. Now that his house of cards is tumbling down, he is starting to fight back.

read article:
http://nov2truth.org/article.php?story=20041228103825500

Das "Traumland" geht in Flammen auf

100 Wehrmänner sind in Bad Honnef stundenlang im Einsatz - Ein Sendemast droht auf das Haus zu stürzen - Die Ursache für das Feuer ist unklar - Kein Hinweis auf Brandstiftung...

http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index_frameset.html?/news/artikel.php?id=83186

Truly, Uncle Sam wants you:

They are desperate. How else can I explain the fact that I am 54 years old and the military is trying to recruit me?

http://207.44.245.159/article7565.htm

Young men and women are fighting for us as I write, but who is fighting for them?

http://207.44.245.159/article7564.htm

Our soldiers are putting their lives on the line. - We see no pictures of the sacrifice. That is hidden, and our media is ordered not to show it. We see only words and videos of politicians speaking boldly about supporting our military, and honoring their service with all the best equipment, supplies, and motivation. We see nothing of the loss, the destruction: It is kept from us.

http://207.44.245.159/article7562.htm

Inside Falluja: 'Nothing to come back to' :

I was there, inside the city - about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and damaged, and not ready to inhabit at the moment.

http://207.44.245.159/article7561.htm

http://www.hermes-press.com/reich.htm


Informant: Friends

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/24/1731220


Informant: Laurel

ödp Rhein-Neckar für Gesundheitsvorsorge beim Mobilfunk

Moratorium zur UMTS-Technologie gefordert

Die Kreisvorsitzende der Ökologisch-Demokratischen Partei (ödp) Rhein-Neckar, Karin Becker, die in ihrer Eigenschaft als Stadträtin der Frauenliste Wiesloch auch im städtischen Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk mitarbeitet, hat eine Petition an den Deutschen Bundestag unterzeichnet, in der ein Moratorium zur UMTS-Technologie gefordert wird.

Da trotz mehrfachem Mahnen von verschiedenen Verbänden und Initiativen vor Einführung der UMTS-Technologie keine wissenschaftlichen Studien durchgeführt wurden und wegen der Kürze der Zeit bisher noch wenig Datenmaterial vorliegt, soll im Sinne von Prävention und Gesundheitsförderung dem Vorsorgeprinz Rechnung getragen werden und alle in Betrieb genommenen UMTS-Sender bis zur zweifelsfreien Feststellung der Unschädlichkeit dieser Technologie umgehend abgeschaltet werden.

Anlass für diese vom Bundesverband Elektrosmog e.V., Wuppertal entworfene Petition ist vor allem die kürzlich veröffentlichte UMTS-Studie des technologischen Instituts TNO, die durch die niederländischen Ministerien für Wirtschaft, Gesundheit und Telekommunikation in Auftrag gegeben wurde. Über die in der Studie festgestellten Beschwerden wie Schwindel, Kopfschmerzen, Brechreiz und Herzprobleme wird zeitgleich mit Inbetriebnahme der UMTS-Sender immer häufiger seitens der Bevölkerung geklagt.

In Wiesloch versucht zur Zeit ein Hochhausbesitzer in unmittelbarer Nähe des Altenheimes Kurpfalz die Erlaubnis für die Anbringung einer solchen Antennenstation zu erreichen. Der Arbeitskreis Mobilfunk hat diesen Standort in seiner letzten Sitzung erneut als unakzeptabel zurückgewiesen. Da es immer noch keine neutrale Clearingstelle/Schiedsgerichtsstelle für Mobilfunk-Standort-Streitigkeiten gibt und der zur Unterstützung von der Stadtverwaltung Wiesloch angerufene Städtetag auch nicht aktiv wurde, dürfte im Wohngebiet rund um die Albert-Schweitzer-Straße momentan nur noch der Widerstand der dort wohnenden Menschen diesen vorrangig aus finanziellen Gründen vom Hausbesitzer abgeschlossenen Mietvertrag mit einer Mobilfunkfirma unwirksam machen können.

„Zu berücksichtigen ist auch, dass der einen jetzt beantragten UMTS-Mobilfunkantenne auf diesem Haus in der Albert-Schweitzer-Straße weitere Antennen – auch von anderen Mobilfunkunternehmen - folgen“, so Karin Becker. „Dies ist in den Verträgen der Mobilfunkunternehmen immer fester Vertragsbestandteil.“

Nachricht von Karin Becker

http://www.rnz.de/01_regional/wiesloch/07_wiesloch.htm

Initiative kämpft für Frieden in der Nachbarschaft

Sie sagen "Nein" zu Mobilfunk

VON BARBARA SCHLOTTERER

Peiting - Dass von Mobilfunkbetreibern Unfrieden in ihrer guten Nachbarschaft gestiftet wird, lassen sie nicht zu: Rund 50 Anwohner des Suchkreises Peiting-Nord, wo Mobilfunkbetreiber einen Masten installieren möchten, haben sich jetzt zusammengeschlossen. Gemeinsam machen sie deutlich: "Wir sagen alle nein und muten unseren Nachbarn die Strahlenbelastung nicht zu!" Immer mehr Anwohner schließen sich der namenlosen Initiative an - darunter Mieter, Vermieter und Geschäftsleute. Petra Asanger-Strobl: "Wir sind keine Bürgervereinigung, sondern normale Leute mit einem gesunden Menschenverstand, die einfach sagen, was sie denken."

Diejenigen, die sich zusammengeschlossen haben, sind davon überzeugt, dass es eine Belastung durch Strahlen bei Mobilfunkantennen gibt. "Sonst gäbe es ja keine Gegenbewegung", macht Petra Asanger-Strobl deutlich. Das Büro der Architektin liegt am Mühlenweg - nur wenige Meter entfernt vom Eisen-Peter-Gebäude, dessen Besitzer bereits einen Vertrag mit T-Mobile unterschrieben hatte und überraschend wieder aus dem Geschäft mit dem Masten ausgestiegen war (wir berichteten). Petra Asanger-Strobl war es, die die Anwohner zusammengetrommelt hat, die jetzt gemeinsam für einen mobilfunkfreien Suchkreis Peiting-Nord kämpfen.

Erfahrungen

Einschlägige Erfahrungen mit den Mobilfunkbetreibern haben viele der Betroffenen bereits gemacht. "Die spielen die Leute hier gegenseitig aus. Jedem erzählen sie: Wenn du`s nicht machst, dann macht`s eben ein anderer", so Max Schweizer vom gleichnamigen Holzfachhandel, der auch im Suchkreis der Betreiber liegt.

Auch andere Anwohner berichten von psychologischem Druck. So argumentieren die Betreiber mit dem Sankt-Florians-Prinzip: "Wenn ein anderer die Antenne aufs Dach macht, sind die Auswirkungen schlimmer für sie, als wenn sie sich selbst dazu entschließen", lautet die Begründung derer, die als Aquisiteure für die Mobilfunkbetreiber bereits seit drei Jahren im Bereich Peiting-Nord unterwegs sind, wie die Anwohner berichten.

Bislang haben sich die Firmen die Zähne an den Peitingern ausgebissen. Und doch bleibt die Angst, "dass doch noch einer mitmacht", so eine Betroffene. Denn: "Die sind sicher weiter auf der Suche, und es sind nicht alle Leute informiert." Und schließlich kann ja auch der finanzielle Aspekt doch recht verlockend sein.

Die Verlockung

So verlockend, dass eine der Betroffenen sich einst schon intensiver mit dem Gedanken beschäftigt hat. Zum Scheitern kamen die Überlegungen, als die Dame vom Betreiber eine schriftliche Bestätigung forderte, dass eine Antenne dem Herzschrittmacher des Mannes nicht schade. "Ich komme in sechs Wochen wieder", soll der Mobilfunk-Vertreter daraufhin gesagt haben. Er sei bis heute nie mehr gesehen worden, weiß die Frau.

So wurde die Betroffene um eine Erfahrung reicher - ein Ziel, das die Anwohner-Gemeinschaft Peiting-Nord sich jetzt zum Ziel gesetzt hat. "Wir wollen, dass sich die Leute Gedanken machen - die große Masse denkt nämlich so wie wir, sagt aber nichts", so Petra Asanger-Strobl. Die Bürger sollen aufgerüttelt werden. Um des Friedens willen an der Münchener Straße. Dort ist man sich einig: "Wir wollen auch in Zukunft in Ruhe gelassen werden!" mm

http://www.marktplatz-oberbayern.de/regionen/schongau/art1609,235163.html?fCMS=eea9c29bace6beb0fcba148f53a12edc




Pressemitteilung:

Am Freitag, den 7. Januar 2005 findet das nächste Treffen der mobilfunkkritischen Initiativen aus dem Pfaffenwinkel statt. Man trifft sich dazu um 20 Uhr im Nebenzimmer des Hohenpeißenberger Gasthofs Schächen.

Ziel des Treffens, das diesmal von den "Besorgten Bürgern" aus Hohenpeißeneberg organisiert wird, ist es eine Vernetzung aller mobilfunkkritischen Initiativen und Einzelpersonen aus der Region voranzubringen. Das somit entstehende Netzwerk will ereichen, dass man voneinander lernt, Erfahrungen und Strategien austauscht und auch zu gemeinsamen Informationsveranstaltungen kommt. Die Treffen sollen jeweils vierteljährlich und an unterschiedlichen Brennpunkten stattfinden. Interessierte Gruppen oder auch Einzelpersonen sind willkommen.

Umweltinitiative Pfaffenwinkel e. V.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Smith/jeffrey2.htm


Informant: Andy Thames

Sunday, December 26, 2004

Pollution alters body chemistry
Substances in environment upset hormonal balance

By Brian H. Jensen
For the Poughkeepsie Journal
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo122604s6.shtml

Scientists have begun to recognize that chemical contaminants in the environment have far-reaching effects on the endocrine systems in living creatures. The effects are most striking in animals that live in the water, but there may be implications for human health.

The endocrine system is the group of organs, including the thyroid and pituitary glands, that produce hormones that regulate mood, growth and development, tissue function, and metabolism, as well as sexual function and reproductive processes.

Chemicals that may disrupt the endocrine system are present in the Hudson Valley -- and around the world. As open space is replaced by suburbia, we are more and more likely to be exposed to these chemicals, as are the animals that live in the environment around us. That's because the sources for chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system can enter water from many dispersed sources.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals are any chemicals that interfere with the normal function of endocrine glands. These chemicals can affect any gland, but most research has been done on chemicals that act as estrogen, known as environmental estrogens.

There are many known environmental estrogens, some of which are quite common. Some of the most common environmental estrogens are:

- PCBs (Polychlorinated Biphenyls) are a cocktail of many different chemicals that studies show can affect the thyroid and reproductive functions. PCBs were once used widely in industry as a fire suppressant, but were banned in the United States in 1977 and worldwide this year.

- PAHs (Polyaromatic hydrocarbons) form as a result of the degradation of petroleum products like gasoline and motor oil. Some of the effects that have been attributed to these chemicals include increased risk of cancer in mammals and inhibition of ovulation in fish.

- Some pesticides are also known to act as environmental estrogens. For example, the pesticide atrazine has been shown to have estrogenic effects in fish, and a byproduct of the banned pesticide DDT, DDE is know to be a potent environmental estrogen. Some of the effects that have been attributed to these chemicals include behavioral changes, feminization and malformation of the phallus in male reptiles.

- Pharmaceutical drugs like the birth control pill and estrogen replacement pills have been found not only in wastewater, but also in trace amounts in drinking water. Scientists have only identified trace amounts of these chemicals in recent years, and there have not been studies to determine what, if any, effect they have. Plastics contain chemicals that slowly leach out of the plastic and, some studies show, these chemicals in their pure form have biological effects very similar to estrogen.

These chemicals can enter the environment in a variety of ways. PCBs in the Hudson River are there largely because of General Electric Co.'s manufacturing plants north of Albany. Now-banned pesticides were used widely on farms. PAHs enter the environment whenever petroleum is burned. Plastics slowly degrade, leaching out chemicals. Pharmaceuticals originate in homes, and enter the environment through septic and sewage systems.

There have been some who suggest environmental estrogens are responsible for low sperm counts in men and earlier onset of puberty in females.

However, it is very difficult to say exactly what effect endocrine disrupting chemicals have on humans and there have not been any conclusive studies.

Although the effects of endocrine disruptors have not been demonstrated, there are some very clear examples of endocrine-disrupting chemicals having profound effects on other animals.

The most striking, but not only, of these examples is Lake Apopka in central Florida. In 1980 there was a chemical spill near the lake that included the pesticide DDT. The chemicals from the spill have been seeping into the lake and have had severe effects on the alligators living there. Male alligators in Lake Apopka are very frequently born with small malformed penises. In addition to the problems with their phalluses, they also have testes that are feminized and do not function properly.

Although less dramatic, but more relevant to the animals in the Hudson Valley, there have been several studies done that found that male trout caged in polluted streams produced a protein called vitellogenin that is normally only produced by female fish as part of the egg-making process. Laboratory studies have also shown a broad range of effects of low levels of environmental estrogens, including deformation of testes and behavioral changes.

Endocrine-disrupting chemicals cannot be classified based upon their chemical structure because there is so much variability between different chemicals. Therefore, scientists have been working to develop tests to determine if a chemical has an endocrine effect.

For environmental estrogens, one of the most popular techniques involves exposing male fish to the chemical in question and then determining if the males fish produce a female specific protein called vitellogenin. If they produce vitellogenin, it can be concluded that the chemical is having an estrogenic effect.

Other scientists are using model systems that only used cells grown in the lab, or single-celled organisms to try and identify endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Currently, however, animal models appear to show the most promise because the complexity of the endocrine system and the chemicals acting on it.

There is action being taken to limit the amount and number of endocrine disruptors in the environment.

DDT, PCBs banned

There have been some great successes in dealing with endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as DDT and PCBs, both of which are now banned, but there is still much to be done.

For chemicals that have been identified as endocrine disruptors, government intervention is needed. Maybe more importantly, scientists need to continue their work to identify potential endocrine-disrupting chemicals and better understand how they act.

Thankfully, local professionals, led by Pace University, have organized the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges to begin working together to find solutions to our many environmental problems.

Brian Jensen is an assistant professor of biology at the College of Saint Rose in Albany.

Endocrine system in humans

The endocrine system regulates a variety of bodily functions by secreting hormones into the blood stream.

Pituitary

The pituitary gland controls many functions of the other endocrine glands.

Parathyroids

Parathyroid glands regulate the body's calcium and phosphate.

Thyroid

The thyroid regulates metabolism and the body's calcium.

Thymus

The thymus produces white blood cells that fight infections and destroy abnormal cells.

Adrenal

Adrenal glands help the body to deal with stress, regulate metabolism, produce sex hormones, and regulate sodium and potassium.

Pancreas

The pancreas plays a role in digestion, as well as hormone production.

Ovaries (female)

The ovaries produce estrogen and progesterone.

Sources: World Book Encyclopedia; http://www.umm.edu ; http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu ; Journal research

Effects of environmental estrogens on male trout

Scientists have identified several ways certain chemicals affect the endocrine systems of aquatic animals, like fish and amphibians. Effects, if any, on the human endocrine system have not been proven.

- Brain: the trout's behavior changes and "sex drive" is reduced.

- Testes: become reduced in size, produce egg-like structures and sperm count decreases.

- Liver: the female specific protein vitellogenin is produced.

Sources: Brian H. Jensen; Journal research


Informant: Teresa Binstock

You might think that the debacle in Iraq would be enough for the Pentagon, that it would not be in the mood to seek out new routes to unnecessary wars for the United States to fight. But with Donald Rumsfeld at the apex of the defense establishment, enough is never enough.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/27/opinion/27herbert.html?ex=1261890000&en=2170fed723321962&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland
http://snipurl.com/bm9a


From Information Clearing House

http://www.hermes-press.com/restore1.htm


Informant: Friends

NEWS - 27 December 2004 - please forward
http://www.MindFreedom.org

"We Are Stepped On Daily."

Psychiatric Survivors Protest From *INSIDE* Montana State Hospital.

How You May E-Mail the New Governor of Montana to Support the Protesters!

Eight psychiatric inmates of Montana State Hospital have contacted MindFreedom asking for urgent help.

Most have even joined MindFreedom as members.

They all have united to protest and speak out about violations inside the psychiatric facility.

With a brand new Governor taking office next week, there's an easy way for you to e-mail your support for these protesters inside Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs.

These courageous psychiatric survivors report:

* They are locked up for no good reason.

* They do not have access to adequate advocacy.

* They are being forcibly drugged with powerful psychiatric drugs that can cause brain damage.

* They feel hopeless about ever getting out.

* And the food is lousy, to boot.

There is no known organization in Montana of, by and for mental health consumers and psychiatric survivors. None.

Here are quotes from these MSH protesters:

"I don't deserve to be locked up just because I didn't go to therapy. They gave me Haldol shots against my will. Please help me get out of here. I have been here too long, and am suffering for no reason." - Julia Weeks, a new MindFreedom member.

"We are stepped upon daily." - Susan Ann Green, a new MindFreedom member.

"They trumped up all these charges about me. So my therapist wrote all these trumped-up charges against me because I saw my case manager and not my therapist. I took my medication and they lied and said that I didn't take it." - anonymous

"I was just traveling through Montana. I have been locked up and heavily drugged here for months." Kathleen A. Johnson, a new MindFreedom member.

"I am fortunate to have come across your path. The conditions are deplorable. People are treated worse than animals. There is
over drugging, mis-medicating, shock therapy, and on it goes. I am enclosing a membership application." - Ana Valentine, a new MindFreedom member.

"I was forcibly drugged and held for months in MSH." - Robert Kay, a long-time MindFreedom member, finally released.

"I have been in mental institutions for the past 17 years. Warm Springs doesn't offer much in the way of healthy measures. Instead
they press medications. I am writing you in hope you could intervene and ease the burden." - Charles McCormick, a new MindFreedom member.



* ACTION * ACTION * ACTION *

NEXT WEEEK a brand new Governor of Montana takes office on 3 January 2005.

Please take a moment now to e-mail even a brief civil note to the transition team for:

Governor-Elect Brian Schweitzer
E-MAIL: govelectschweitzer@mt.gov
FAX: 406-444-9631
PHONE: 406-444.9600

SAMPLE MESSAGE (though your own words are best):

Dear Governor-Elect Schweitzer:

Please investigate allegations made by eight inmates of Montana State Hospital that they are being held without due cause and without adequate advocacy, and that they are being forcibly administered powerful psychiatric drugs.

Signed: ______[your name]____________



EXTRA ACTIONS:

YOU MAY WRITE TO any of the current psychiatric survivors quoted above at:

Montana State Hospital
PO Box 300
Warm Springs, MT 59756 USA

You may try phoning them on the patient ward phone at: (406) 693-9950.

Or you may try phoning and faxing these inmates, and/or Ed Amberg, administrator, via ph: (406) 693-7000 or
fax: (406) 693-7069.


YOU MAY ALSO copy your e-mail to Montana media:

bwilke@dailychronicle.com, editor@mtstandard.com,
editor@broadwatercounty.net, ajones@kbzk.com,
news@ktvm.com, ljulius@maxmontana.com, Pkonecny@kxlf.com

http://www.new-enlightenment.com/impintro1.htm


From: George Vye

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1103802174249&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795


Informant: George Vye

by Anthony J. Hilder

Who benefits from this atrocity? Is it those who wish to establish a NEW WORLD ORDER on the smoldering ashes of American Sovereignty?

There's been a greater assault on our Bill of Rights in the past 120 days than in the past 200 years. Who'll call for a police state? Who'll call for martial law? Who'll call for national ID cards to give us "security?" It won't be Bin Laden. Are we watching the Nazi-ization of our true nation? In this 86 - minute volcanic video, former FBI chief agent Ted Gunderson blows the lid off the "FBLies" involvement in the 1993 Trade Center bombing. THEY SET IT UP! Illuminati historian Jordan Maxwell, publisher Clayton Douglas at The Free American, Gunderson and Anthony J. Hilder are calling the attack at the U.S. an "inside job." America has been suckered one more time.

This video will shake and shock you into a reality check.

http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/december2004/201204illuminazi-911.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

"it could to follow an object chosen by the user."

Imagine a bank of cameras trained at different angles on many objects, such as people at an airport. It takes time for an operator to look at the images in each camera, see if a particular object of interest is in that image, then manually zoom in to take a closer look. Researchers from the University of Toronto have developed a system that allows the user to indicate an object in one view and automatically zoom to that object in all other views. The system sorts all the camera views according to the quality of the view and zooms into all the images that contain the object in about half a second in a system containing as many as 200 cameras, according to the researchers. The system can be used anywhere where multiple cameras are used for surveillance, such as airports or casinos. It can also be used to speed the process of parsing through a large number of still pictures of a scene, such as archeological and crime scene pictures. The researchers are working on adding real-time object tracking to the system so it could to follow an object chosen by the user.

The system coordinates the multiple views using the three-dimensional spatial location of the object of interest, which it finds using the visual input plus sound localization information from an array of microphones.

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=7487_0_6_0_C


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

Miami police say they used a Taser stun gun to subdue a wheelchair-bound man who threatened them with scissors. Police say they responded to a domestic violence all at a home where the man got into an argument with his girlfriend, then threw a soda can at her 13-year-old daughter. Police say the man resisted officers and threatened them. The man's name was not released. He was taken to jail, but no charges were immediately filed.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/miami_police_taser_wheelchair_man.htm


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

The government wants to expand a program that allows air travelers to avoid extra security inspections at airports by volunteering for background checks. Transportation Security Administration chief David Stone said Monday that the agency is looking to add new airports -- domestic and international -- to the registered traveler program, now being tested in five cities. Calling it "one of the most critical programs for TSA," Stone said he's keen to find international partners for it. Under the test program, people who fly at least once a week give the government their biographical and biometric information, which is checked against databases. Participants who pass muster receive a card that's checked at an airport kiosk, which then lets them into a special security lane. If they don't set off an alarm, they're whisked right through.

The program began in July and was originally scheduled to last 90 days. It was so popular that the TSA extended it indefinitely. About 10,000 frequent fliers are enrolled at airports in Boston, Houston, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Washington.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/12/14/registered.travelers.ap/


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

New security projects need common standards for exchanging data

Initial reports on the government's Registered Traveler program are promising. "The feedback from the airlines and the traveling public was that it was a program that everyone was happy with and didn't want to see stop," said Larry Zmuda of Unisys Corp., regarding the pilot project that is using biometric identifiers to screen travelers and speed them through security checkpoints at five U.S. airports. Unisys is one of the prime contractors on the project. But the project also faces a major hurdle if Transportation Security Administration officials decide to make it a national program and expand it to other airports. Currently, participants can use biometric kiosks only at the airports at which they registered. The next step for TSA is to adopt standards to make interoperable systems to allow rapid screening of Registered Traveler participants at all participating airports.

"Interoperability will be a big item, so a traveler entering one location can be transparent. ... Elsewhere around the world, similar programs are being explored," said Tom Grissen, chief executive officer of Daon Inc. of Herndon, Va., which supplies biometric identity management software for the program.

http://www.wtonline.com/news/19_18/cover-stories/25088-1.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

Creeping Big Brotherism

Los Angeles police are asking for federal funding to expand facial-recognition systems to help them identify people, it was reported today. "It's like a mobile electronic mug book," Capt. Charles Beck of the Rampart Station told the Los Angeles Times. "It's not a silver bullet, but we wouldn't use it unless it helped us make arrests." Jose Hernandez, an alleged 18th Street gang member, is one of 19 people recently arrested by officers using the gadgets on the mean streets just west of downtown, The Times reported. Officers Mark Hubert and David Nick recently stopped two young men on a bicycle on Alvarado Street to check them out -- doubling is illegal -- and senior lead Officer Mike Wang used a handheld facial-recognition device on the one who was pedaling. Ramona Ripston, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, is against letting police use the devices. "This is creeping Big Brotherism. ... There is a long history of government misusing information it gathers," she told the newspaper. Ripston said the devices might encourage racial profiling and lead officers to question any young people dressed in a certain way.

In the eight weeks that officers assigned to the Rampart Station have been testing the devices, they have used them about 25 times, resulting in 16 arrests for alleged criminal contempt of a gang injunction and three for felony warrants, The Times reported.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/122504_nw_facial_recognition.html


From:
Aftermath News
Top Stories - December 28th, 2004

by William Fisher

12/27/04

Daily Star [Lebanon]

Since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, millions of words have been written about the 'terrorists in our midst' and what law enforcement agencies are doing to fight it. However, few questioned whether an overzealous American government was compromising American civil liberties. In the days and weeks following Sept. 11, the FBI rounded up and imprisoned thousands of immigrants and visitors to the United States. Now, in a new report titled 'Worlds Apart,' the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has documented what happened to 13 of these 'other victims' of the Sept. 11 attacks, and to their families...

http://tinyurl.com/4smqh


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Jerry Rose

Common Dreams

12/27/04

Determined to destroy all evil, George Bush's God calls upon him to invade a country called Iraq. Because the American people could not have understood the higher purpose, the God of George Bush instructs him to lie and deceive his people so they will not oppose His will.

For the past two years, the occupying army of George Bush's God, has been battling the Iraqis (who follow the God of Islam) and the followers of Bin Laden's God who have come to Iraq fight their American enemy. The country that was the cradle of civilization is being dismantled and destroyed, while hundreds of thousands of its citizens are maimed and killed. As a result, the hatred between the followers of the different Gods runs deeper than ever...

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1227-31.htm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Syed Saleem Shahzad

Asia Times

12/25/04

The Iraqi military is riddled with members of the resistance, Asia Times Online has been told, and this is what enabled a suicide bomber to penetrate the heart of US security in Mosul. And whether they be Ba'athists, Islamists or jihadis, the insurgents are united behind a common goal: 'freedom from foreign occupying forces...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FL25Ak01.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ronald Brownstein

Los Angeles Times

12/27/04

Millions of Americans probably learned about last week's horrific attack on U.S. troops in Mosul while wrapping Christmas presents or stuffing packages into the SUV after a last-minute shopping blitz at the mall. That jarring juxtaposition may be the perfect symbol for the Iraq war. This grueling, grinding conflict is skittering through American life like a tornado that tears one house to the ground in every neighborhood, while leaving all those around it unscratched.

For the military personnel on the front lines -- and their families and friends -- the war is exacting bitter costs. For all other Americans, even for the officials whose decisions sent the troops into battle and shaped the conditions under which they are fighting and dying, the war is imposing no discernible consequences...

http://tinyurl.com/6nprg


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Ivan Eland

Independent Institute

12/27/04

Since the September 11 attacks, real (inflation-adjusted) spending on defense has increased 23 percent, even when the whopping $250 billion bill for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq is not included in the count. Even without those supplemental expenditures, the U.S. budget for national defense is an eye-popping $421 billion for fiscal year 2005, according to Chris Hellman of the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation. Many taxpayers assume that the ballooning budgets mean greater security, but the facts tell a different story...

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1444


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Phillip Carter and Owen West

Slate

12/27/04

Generational contrasts are implicit today when casualties in Iraq are referred to as light, either on their own or in comparison to Vietnam. The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, for example, last July downplayed the intensity of the Iraq war on this basis, arguing that 'it would take over 73 years for US forces to incur the level of combat deaths suffered in the Vietnam war.' But a comparative analysis of U.S. casualty statistics from Iraq tells a different story...

http://www.slate.com/id/2111432/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Sheila Samples

LewRockwell.Com

12/28/04

The price we are paying for national greed and lust for power is too high. American service members are not a ghostly, faceless mass of 'troops.' They are flesh-and-blood individuals; our sons, daughters, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, nieces, and nephews. They are America's children -- her present, her future. Those troops I have known -- artillerymen, engineers, infantrymen -- are dedicated to their mission. They will do as they are told. They are proud of their country, will go to great lengths to protect it and, if necessary, are willing to die for its freedom. Unfortunately, more of them every day are called upon to do so. Although the media steadfastly refuses to acknowledge it, 1,331 US troops have been slaughtered in Iraq. Tonight, 16 families will bow their heads and pray for the safety of their children, not knowing they are already dead...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/samples1.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Mike Whitney

CounterPunch

12/27/04

The role of the media in the siege of Falluja has been nearly as extraordinary as the battle itself. The siege began on November 8, but by Nov. 15 the military had declared 'victory' and the story disappeared from all the major media. It was as if the Pentagon had simply issued an edict forbidding any further coverage of the conflict, and the press left without protest. The fact is, the siege is ongoing and the final results are far from certain. A city of 250,000 has been evacuated; as many as 20,000 American servicemen have been engaged in the operation with 'the largest concentration of heavy armor in one place, since the fall of Berlin.' The military is proceeding with house-to-house searches and bombing raids are still being conducted on a regular basis. The siege of Falluja continues to be a huge story, despite the fact that the establishment media is nowhere to be found...

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney12272004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Minneapolis Star Tribune

12/26/04

[U]nder legislation signed by President Bush this month, those state-issued licenses will have to meet uniform national standards to be accepted as proof of identity for boarding airplanes, applying for federal benefits and other U.S. government purposes. Officials say the standards will reduce fraud and thwart terrorists. But civil libertarians worry the common driver's license is being transformed into a kind of national ID card that may allow authorities to follow movements and invade the privacy of innocent Americans. 'We are opposed to a national identification card because it creates a system where Americans must show their papers in order to travel,' said Marv Johnson, a legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. 'This is something characteristic of dictatorships...

http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5153380.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Diskussionsvorschlag für eine Abschlusserklärung des Treffens der Gewerkschaftslinken in Stuttgart am 14./15.1.05 von Helmut Schmitt, BR-Mitglied bei Freudenberg/Whm, Vorsitzender der Betriebs/Ortsgruppe Weinheim der IG BCE

http://www.labournet.de/GewLinke/vers/kongress7/schmitt.html


Gegenmacht aufbauen!
Vorschläge für eine kämpferische Gewerkschaftspolitik von Jakob
Schäfer vom 13.1.05. Diese Vorlage dient der Diskussion in den
örtlichen Foren in Vorbereitung des zweiten Kongresses der
Gewerkschaftslinken im Jahr 2005..
http://www.labournet.de/GewLinke/vers/kongress7/schaefer2.pdf


Aktion Agenturschluss ("AgenturSchluss") - Aktion "Hartz-Schluss"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/425353/

(excerpt)

It can be very discouraging when responses to one's letters are so uncaring and dismissive etc. and I often have to top for a while until the evidence of suffering in my own village reminds me of the true facts.

I agree with your views re the environment. The Russians are trying to tell the powers that be in the West of the dangers of non-thermal emissions (as they have been since the 1950s!) but they also are being ignored. I have read and been informed that the thermal, or microwave emissions, are not the ones causing our most serious health problems. Not being an expert, it has taken me a long time to realise that it is 'electromagnetic radiofrequency' which makes us ill. I also read that 'non-ionising radio frequency' causes problems - so many names!

Some years ago ( 70s or 80s) I saw or heard information from America which made a great impression on me regarding cases of spontaneous abortion in cattle and humans plus deformed foetuses and cancer near pylons and power lines.

The trouble is that those people elected to serve us only seem to serve themselves and will not listen to our wishes and needs.

We just have to keep on writing, telling and requesting and eventually we will gain attention.

Gill Lyden


From Mast Network

Derartige Aussagen der Betreiberfirmen "es bestünden bereits Gesundheitsprobleme, obwohl die Sendeanlage noch nicht in Betrieb ist" sind uns aus Deutschland ebenfalls bestens bekannt. Dies ist eine sehr beliebte Vorgehensweise der Betreiberfirmen, um bereits gesundheitlich betroffene Menschen öffentlich zu diffamieren und die gesamte Situation weiterhin zu verharmlosen. Uns sind jedoch zahlreiche Fälle bekannt, in denen Sendeanlagen (nachweislich durch Kontoll-Messungen) bereits in Betrieb waren, trotz gegenteiliger Aussagen der Betreiberfirmen.

http://www.mobilfunk-buergerforum.de/home/home_artikelshow.php?_aid=186

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Besuch von Pro 7: Vodafone stellte Antenne ab
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/2889789/

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Richtigstellungen von Unwahrheiten der Mobilfunk-Betreiberfirmen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/373389/

12/27/2004

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=517


Informant: Laurel

From Ray Beckerman--a very good compendium of links....

As a service to those who may be doing factual research on Ohio 2004 election issues of (a) fraud, (b) disenfranchisement and voter suppression, and (c) recount obstruction and tampering, I have started to compile the links to evidentiary materials which have been referred to on my blog. They are listed in reverse chronological order, by date of publication. So far I've gotten through December only. The permanent link to the compilation is:

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2004/12/evidence-of-fraud-and.html

Best regards,

Ray


Informant: Wpdanny

Posted on Fri, Dec. 24, 2004

Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of two minor-party presidential candidates who paid for a recount of the Ohio vote has asked a federal court to control access to voting machines and election records used in the recount.

Green Party candidate David Cobb made the request in U.S. District Court in Columbus on Thursday.

"It is time for the federal judiciary to step in and ensure the integrity of the recount in Ohio," Cobb said in a statement.

Ohio and its 20 electoral votes were the difference in the presidential race. On Dec. 6, Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell declared President Bush the official winner in the state by 119,000 votes over Democrat John Kerry.

The recount, for which Cobb and Libertarian candidate Michael Badnarik paid $113,600, began the week of Dec. 13. With 87 of 88 county boards of election reporting, Bush had picked up another 346 votes and Kerry an additional 494. Lucas County was expected to release its recount totals next week.

The court filing claims that "voting machines in multiple counties may have been tampered with during the recount."


Informant: Wpdanny

http://www.blackcommentator.com/119/119_cover_vote_thieves_pf.html


Informant: Wpdanny

Election Challenge likely on Jan 6th
http://www.BreakForNews.com/articles/KerryPreparingGroundsToUnconcede.htm


Informant: Wpdanny

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=271082#1


Informant: Laurel

Xmas Message to the Operators and Government

I would like to send this Xmas message to all the greedy, arrogant telecom spin-doctors, and those corrupt charlatan politicians that keep them in power - THE END IS NIGH!

For too long our lives have been governed by the effects of the pursuit of profit for the few at the expense of the many - the public are not stupid, and the more that image replaces substance, the more transparent it will become.

We are on the verge of the biggest breakthrough since the authorities were forced to accept that smoking is linked to Cancer and Asbestos to Asbestosis, and I, for one, feel very priveleged to be involved in such an important campaign, to be a member of such a dedicated team, and recipient of such valuable research!

With every day that has passed in 2004, the illegal and immoral activities of the industry have increased - from denying and undermining genuine research, to putting illegal masts by our schools and houses.

Have Mast Sanity given up? NO!
Have Mast Sanity broken up? NO!

They have, however, listened up, joined up, stepped up and swatted up! So, beware, Mr Mike Dolan, Ms Nichola Davies, Dr Evan Harris, and Prof Anthony Swerdlow, to name just a few. THE MORE YOU GENERATE LIES AND MISINFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC, THE MORE WE WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH!

As Sandi has already stated, we will not just disappear and fall silent because we are up against all odds:

Happy New Year - Let the onslaught begin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453690/

As this illegal activity grows, so does the resistance to it.

According to Michel Foucault, power flows in all directions, according to whoever harnesses it. No one person or organisation can ever be in a position to hold power, they can merely harness it and use it to their advantage. This applies to all, whether they be Microsoft, Macdonald's, MM02 or Mast Sanity.

Let 2005 be the year that power is harnessed by organisations like Mast Sanity and like-minded groups!

Seasons Greetings to all,

Amanda Wesley,
Committee Member,
Mast Sanity

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Niederintensive radioaktive Strahlung ist auch tödlich
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/464242/

Gedanken zur Flutkatastrophe in Asien
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/456294/

Verpasste Vorwarnungen und eine sich schneller um sich drehende Erde
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/456685/

Die Weihnachtsflut kam nicht wirklich überraschend
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/456696/

Happy New Year - Let the onslaught begin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453690/

A Wave of Questions
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/a_wave_of_questions.htm

Early data on Asian quake went unnoticed in Vienna
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/early_data_on_asian_quake_went_unnoticed_in_vienna.htm

William S. Cohen Warned of Earthquake "Weapons" in DoD
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/william_s._cohen_warned_of_earthquake_weapons_in_dod.htm

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UNKNOWN ENERGY SURGES CONTINUE TO HIT PLANET
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459059/

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Planetary alignment can devastate the world in next few months
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/455847/

Volcanic Eruption Could Unleash Giant Tsunamis on U.S.
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459062/

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How earthquake jolted the planet
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/455849/

Interview with American Tsunami Expert Walter Dudley
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459065/


Why there?

Well, it could very well be a couple of reasons: First, Sri Lanka. To quote a recent article by Jeremy Barnicle of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Sri Lanka Rides Wave from Bad to Worse "To make matters worse, the Sri Lankan garment industry, for years a source of steady employment in the area, will be gutted when its textile quota deal with the United States expires on Saturday. Chances are, the Banana Republic shirt you got for Christmas was assembled in Sri Lanka; next year's sweater probably will come from China." Full article: http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122904D.shtml

If we owe China a lot of money, wouldn't it follow that we can begin reducing that debt by purchasing our textile goods from them instread of Sri Lanka? Just a thought!

Why there? Indonesia: We have been "courting" Indonesia for the past 4 years....setting up bases there also. Were they planning on converting their US oil dollars over to Euros? That would be the first thing to look in to. Do they have a significant natural oil or water resource? That would be the second thing to look in to.

Why there? Southern Thailand: Muslims.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=56210&d=18&m=12&y=2004

Fact is, we can probably go country to country that was affected by this event and find solid reasons for each one that was hit hardest.

Why now? That should become apparent very soon if indeed this was an orchestrated event.

And - what was it used to cover? Well, it sure comes in handy to form "a coalition of aid" and pull countries together.

Just some thoughts...


India's last active volcano erupts on Andamans
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459067/

Maldives loses 42 islands as tsunami toll hits 117
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459069/


Informant: Anna Webb

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9.0 Earthquake Makes Earth Rotate Faster
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459071/

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Earthquake: Coincidence or a Corporate Oil Tragedy?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459072/

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55,000 Dead: The Role of U.S. Criminal Negligence on a Global Scale
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459073/

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Death toll reaches 100,000
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459076/

Scientific Background on the Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami:
Includes Tsunami Animation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459079/

Tsunami's Historic Devastation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459082/

5 Million Displaced By Tsunami:
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459083/

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Where are all the dead animals? Sri Lanka asks
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459086/

Did Animals Sense Tsunami?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459088/

Human Engineered Earthquakes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459090/

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In all our new age technology aren't we able to tell when tremors occur that foretell of a major quake? IF these Asian people did not have this equipment why didn't someone just pick up the phone and call them?

Jenny

Tsunami warning halted ‘for tourist industry’
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459092/

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Tsunamis and Nuclear Power Plants
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459094/

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The Great Wave
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459100/

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Tesla and the Asian Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/459113/

see also:

Kissinger, Eugenics And Depopulation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/406362/


All distant-destruction can be done from a control room, and to any point on earth. The destructive power of "men" has just increased by orders of magnitude. While the United States has experimented with electomagnetic weapons using ordinary transverse EM waves, the longitudinal [LW] weaponized waves are truly of another order altogether.

For one thing they do not have to travel through space, for they come from the time domain, which is everywhere. The energy of the blast, the heat or light or whatever, comes from the vacuum of space at the location of the target itself. This is astonishing. The weapons actually just trigger the release of immense energy from the vacuum at the target location.

"Here's how you initiate a very large earthquake with such weapons. Take a convenient fault zone or set of them. (Indian/Eurasian) Focus the interferometry on the fault zone, in the "diverging" mode, and deposit EM energy there in the rocks on both sides, increasing (slowly) the stress in the rocks by the reverse piezoelectric effect (deposit excess energy, get crystal mechanical movements).

"Do it slowly, and the stress will build up to large pressures well-above a plate slip minimum energy required. At some point, the rocks yield and one or both sides "slip" and move rather sharply, giving a very large earthquake in that zone. "Do the same thing down in the earth (remember, LWs easily penetrate right through the earth and ocean at will, and so the "interference zone" focus can be inside the earth or beneath the ocean, at will.

Tom Bearden


"Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations..."

Defense Secretary William Cohen, 1997



Quake rattled Earth orbit, changed map of Asia

This article goes along with the Telsa one.......

Annie:))


Pennyroad wrote:

Quake rattled Earth orbit, changed map of Asia: US geophysicist
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/asiaquakeusmapshift


Informant: Annie


Scalar Electromagnetic Weapons and their Terrorist Use:
Immediate Strategic Aspects of the Asymmetric War on the U.S.
http://www.cheniere.org/articles/Yakuza%20threat%20including%20tsunamis%20-%20final%20w%20edits%201%20website%20a.doc


Informant: Laurel

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Tsunami: Fear of disease rises with death toll
Houston Chronicle

12/27/04

Bodies washed up on tropical beaches and piled up in hospitals today, raising fears of disease across a 10-nation arc of destruction left by a monster earthquake and walls of water that killed more than 22,500 people. Thousands were missing and millions homeless. Humanitarian agencies began what the United Nations said would become the biggest relief effort the world has ever seen. The disaster could be the costliest in history as well, with 'many billions of dollars' of damage, said U.N. Undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of emergency r elief coordination...

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/2966032


Tsunami: Children the greatest victims
The Age [Australia]

12/28/04

In country after country, children have emerged as the biggest victims of Sunday's quake-born tidal waves -- thousands and thousands drowned, battered and washed away by huge walls of water that have decimated a generation of Asians. ... Children make up at least half of the population in Asia. Many of them work alongside poverty-stricken parents in the fishing or related industries in coastal areas, so they were in harm's way when the tidal waves came. Many children from more affluent families would also have been on the beaches for a stroll or for Sunday picnics...

http://tinyurl.com/3vnjl


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Asia Struggles As Death Toll Hits 44,000
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122904Y.shtml

2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake Update
https://twoday.net/static/omega/files/2004_indian_ocean_earthquake_update.htm

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Dramatic Images Of Tsunami Emerge

From NBC News and the Associated Press, new images of the South Asian tsunami disaster:

http://www.nbc5.com/news/4028888/detail.html


From Information Clearing House

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(excerpt)

VIDEO OF TSUNAMI DISASTER

I have posted some videos that show the devastation of the tsunami, up close and personal. Please view these videos to get a true sense of the urgent need. I post these not to encourage us to gawk at the pain and suffering of others, but to help share the message of urgent need so that more people will donate. My hope is that after seeing these videos, you will be motivated to help.

Here is where the videos are posted: (These are all .wmv video files for Windows PCs. They probably won't work on Mac.)

http://www.newstarget.com/tsunami.zip
http://www.newstarget.com/tsunami2.zip
http://www.newstarget.com/tsunami3.zip

Please forward this email to those who you think may be willing to help in this time of urgent need.

Informant: Mike Adams

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Hundredths of Thousands Literally Wiped of the Face of the Earth

Check out the link below.

Terry Melanson

http://www.rr.com/cnnfeeds/chinoy.ground.zero.sumatra.affl.cnnswf.swf
Taken from http://www.rr.com/flash/ in the CNN Video module for Dec 30th.

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Tsunamis, earthquakes and hurricanes

Living on a coastline myself, the one positive I can say for hurricanes is that at least there is advanced warning. Even with tornadoes there are advanced warnings. Stuff like this, not so much advanced warning. All of a sudden the surf is up like nobody's business. So, was this earthquake a natural event, or was there some people tampering involved? I mean, like, makes me wonder about all those secret underground nuclear test detonations. Set off a hydrogen bomb or two underground and somebody is likely responsible for destablizing tectonic plates somewhere. Kind of makes you wonder about the HAARP program designed for experimenting with the weather. It's not smart to try to fool Mother Nature....bigbro

It is the largest earthquake known to modern civilization with a reading of close to 9.2 in Richter scale. It started with a precursor near the coastline of Sumatra, a series of shocks happened one after the other and before all was done, 625 miles (1000 Kilometers) of Andaman thrust or fault line broke. The result was devastation never seen before in modern times. 45 feet tall Tsunamis (coastal tidal waves) originating from the epicenter of the earthquakes, crushed onto the shores of Sri Lanka, India, Maldives, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore and other countries in the region.

According to reports we are receiving, this is not a simple earthquake, it is the mega quake that happens once every thousand years. No one knows how much after shock will devastate the area. Never ever in the known human history in modern times, an earthquake happened that broke 1000 miles of fault line.

More than 25,000 people are dead or missing. The death toll eventually can rise to 100,000. The damage to economy and crops can be staggering.

No one is getting any information from Andaman Nicobar Islands, which is affected the most. Indian Air Force is flying sorties to help the affected in the region.

In addition, there is no information from many of the ships in the region at the time.

The survey now says the quake centered off the west coast of northern Sumatra, has been upgraded to a 9.2 magnitude, making it the one of the largest earthquake since 1899 and may be the largest since 1600. It was the largest quake in the world since 1964, Reuters reports Julie Martinez, geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey's Earthquake Hazards Program in Golden, Colorado, as saying.

That year, an earthquake struck Alaska's Prince William Sound. Sunday's quake, first struck at 7:59 a.m (0059 GMT) off the coast of Aceh province on the northern Indonesian island of Sumatra and appeared to swing north into the Andaman islands in the Indian Ocean. It triggered a tsunami that killed hundreds in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia and India.

"About 1,000 kilometers of the Andaman thrust (or faultline) broke, which is a huge area," Martinez said. "This doesn't occur that often. To have a break along that long of a faultline, that is more unusual."

As the Earth moves and its plates hit each other, the Earth breaks in one area and pressure is built up in a different area, Martinez said. When that pressure builds up, another earthquake occurs, she said. The quakes that follow, or aftershocks, are minor readjustments along the fault after the main shock or quake occurs, Martinez explained.

"Usually, aftershocks are in more or less the same area," she said. "Because of the size of this quake, you will see more quakes in a larger area because the break or the faultline is larger."

From Fred Call

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The time was ripe for the occurance naturally, but precipitating the occurance might have indeed been orchestrated. I guess the best way to find out if it was a natural verses "stimulated/natural" event, would be to study the geological signs leading up to the event. In other words, IF there were small quakes, or swarms of quakes indicating the sudden slippage, as it seems to occur naturally, that might indicate a completely sudden and totally natural genesis.

However, if the lead-up time to the event showed no signs whatsoever, we could assume it was stimulated to release the energy and slip at that point. If we care about the truth, we'll do the necessary investigation to prove either case. Let's post what the various geologists and non-conventional observer/scientists say. A well-known geologist in California, Berkland, I think it is, predicted that a major quake would occur at this time due to the moon aligning with several planets.

There was another earthquake within a thousand or so miles just hours later, from the Sumatra one. And this volcanic activity also points to an earthwide kind of condition. I wouldn't be too hasty in attributing earth changes solely to human interference or creation. Honestly. Let's take a breath and gather info. on it, OK? Our earth itself is heating up, as are all the other planets and the sun. The volcanic activity of recent years should be an obvious clue, too, as well as the melting of the polar ice caps which isn't necessarily caused by the atmosphere. Take a look at the Gulf Stream's behavior as well. Is that caused by man? It's a direct reaction to the ice caps' melting.

http://www.syzygyjob.org/ Berkland's site.

http://www.swvrc.org/cerupt.htm volcano watch page

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/tsunami/ tsumani information

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2004/s2357.htm tsunami report, information, and links


Russian volcano erupts in Kamchatka

Petropavlosk, Russia, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Russian seismologists said the Shiveluch volcano in the eastern Kamchatka peninsula began erupting Tuesday, sending hot ash up to 6,500 feet.

Seismic stations near the volcano registered underground tremors from a depth of up to 16,000 feet with spasmodic volcanic vibration, the Novosti news agency reported.

Scientists said it was impossible to conduct video observation of Shiveluch because of bad weather.

The 10,700-foot mountain first became active last May 10, sending up an ash plume more than 30,000 feet and triggering lava-ridden fragmentation avalanches. At that time, government officials closed the area to everyone but scientists.

The report said the main concern Tuesday was the threat to aviation, as the dense ash clouds can paralyze aircraft engines.


Interplanetary “Day After Tomorrow?”
http://www.enterprisemission.com/_articles/05-14-2004_Interplanetary_Part_1/Interplanetary_1.htm


Laurel

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Well, currently we have more questions than answers about the event.

1 - "The pressure of the tectonic plates was released."

2 - "The shifting of islands occurred and sealed the plates permanently."

3 - "The Earth wobbled but not enough to turn it upside down."

4 - "The rupture under the sea, something like 1,000 km, was the size of California."

Clearly Mother Earth is the big loser here, humanity is only beginning to get a taste of the stench of the death/murder of HER ocean/atmospheric/rainforest Womb.

The big question, institutionally-speaking, which has NOT been asked yet ...is ...

WHO benefited MOST (financially, politically) from this event?

WHO, which bankers and corporate states, raked in the trillions of dollars on the stock exchanges?

What WAS the result in the South Asian and global money markets on Monday, and continuing this week?

Were the corporate/banking beneficiaries the same power elite who run the aerospace/military institutions which could have trivially set off a nuclear device under the SouthEast Asian seabed?

What ARE their financial winnings this week??

[billions? or trillions? in comparison to the few hundreds of millions they will spend on reparations ...]

????

???????????


There are FEW coincidences, on Earth or under Heaven ...


VOLCANO BECOMES ACTIVE IN KAMCHATKA
http://en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm?prd_id=160&msg_id=5260533&startrow=1&date=2004-12-28&do_alert=0


Informant: MessiahTwain

Der Mensch verwandelt die Erde in einen Mikrowellen–Ofen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/189709/

Klimaerwärmung und Umweltkatastrophen nicht durch Industrieabgase?!
http://web.de/929440/
http://www.poolalarm.de/forum/index.html

Sendeenergie erwärmt die Luftmolekühle
http://www.klimaforschung.net/tsunami_welle/

Elektromagnetische Einflüsse als Ursachen für CFIDS
http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/cfids/elmag.htm

Es bleiben zehn Jahre, um die Klimakatastrophe abzuwenden
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/490348/

Happy New Year - Let the onslaught begin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453690/

Digital broadcasting is increasing the threat of global warming by pumping massive amounts of extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2949712/

Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Klima+und+Mobilfunk

I have sent a copy of this letter to most of the main national papers and a few local ones. I hope it gets printed, if not there will be more to get word out about the dangers of masts...and to tell the UK that Mast Sanity is alive and kicking!

Sandi Lawrence


Happy New Year - let the onslaught begin

You can all join in, too, because we need that BIG VOICE OF THE PEOPLE!

Let them know we are here and are not going away until our job is done!

Health and Peace to the people of the UK!


The Asian Tsunami and the Manmade Threat to the UK

The disaster in Asia, with the extent of the suffering and death as yet unfathomable, is enough to move even the coolest of hearts. It is more than enough to cause great fear and shock in all corners of the Earth. The tsunami gave us all a frightening reminded of the ferocity of nature and how it can affect millions of lives with no warning.

Being part Sioux Indian, I am aware that Mother Nature is now sick because the powerful and rich members of the human race have neglected and abused the human role of caring for all that Our Creator provided for us; the animal life of the land, sea, and air; our environment; and our fellow human beings of every race and culture.

Power, greed, and money have overridden almost every ethical and moral code that we have been brought up to respect and encourage.

The Asian tsunami is a natural disaster, but there are other practices of Mankind that are just as deadly and can kill or cause suffering in our societies.

The deadliest of these in our society at the moment has to be phone communication masts using microwave radiation. All microwave transmission harms human and animal life. This has been researched abroad more so than here, but even independent scientists in this country, such as Barrie Trower, GJ Hyland, Dr David Lane and Roger Coghill, all say that microwave transmission, and especially Airwave TETRA, is harmful to humans and animals.

At the moment “Sitefinder,” the Ofcom website showing details of masts up and running across the UK, is once again out of action. This happened before in October 2004 and more masts were put up with people being unaware, and little, if any, notification given.

As a committee member for Mast Sanity, I take calls and emails from across the UK. I therefore am more aware than most how quickly the new 3G and TETRA masts are being erected. Also, how the planning laws for such are just a mockery, which the Government backed when Prescott failed to appeal the decision of Harrowgate Inquiry and opened the floodgates for masts to be put up near our schools, hospitals, and residential areas with little or no planning permission.

If you have children or elderly relatives, or value your own health and well-being, please consider finding out about the effects of these communication masts.

There are cancer clusters etc around mobile phone masts after 10+ years, Airwave TETRA harms some people instantly, and Mast Sanity are now receiving requests for Health Survey forms in areas around 3G masts and clusters of masts.

You can find out all you need to know at:

http://www.mastsanity.org Advice Line: 08704 322 377


P.S. I have shortened and adapted my letter so that you can all send it to your local papers - don't worry, you will become familiar with Native American teachings as you go along because I live and breathe them!

There is no copyright so just add your own names and addresses.

Garry K of Brighton I have sent to all the address you gave me, so those publications are done. Thanks for given us more outlet locally!

Sandi


The disaster in Asia, with the extent of the suffering and death as yet unfathomable, is enough to move even the coolest of hearts. It is more than enough to cause great fear and shock in all corners of the Earth. The tsunami gave us all a frightening reminded of the ferocity of nature and how it can affect millions of lives with no warning.

Being familiar with Native American spiritual teachings, I am aware that Mother Nature is now sick because the powerful and rich have neglected and abused the human role of caring for all that Our Creator provided for us; animal life of the land, sea, and air; our environment; our fellow human beings of every race and culture.

Power, greed, and money have overridden almost every ethical and moral code that we have been brought up to respect and encourage.

The Asian tsunami is a natural disaster, but there are other practices of mankind that are just as deadly and can kill or cause suffering in our societies.

The deadliest of these at the moment has to be phone communication masts using microwave radiation. All microwave transmission harms human and animal life. This has been researched abroad more so than here, but even independent scientists in this country, such as Barrie Trower, GJ Hyland, Dr David Lane and Roger Coghill, say that microwave transmission, and especially Airwave TETRA, is harmful to humans and animals.

[ Add details of masts in your local area here]

The total number of masts cannot be accurately estimated due to the inaccuracy of the Oftel "Sitefinder" website and general misinformation.

If you have children or elderly relatives, or value your own health and well-being, please consider finding out about the effects of these communication masts.

There are cancer clusters etc around mobile phone masts after 10+ years, Airwave TETRA harms some people instantly, and Mast Sanity are now receiving requests for Health Survey forms in areas around 3G masts and clusters of masts.

You can find out all you need to know at:
http://www.mastsanity.org Advice Line:08704 322 377



Great Spirit, You Are the Life of Things

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer.

All things belong to you -- the two-legged, the four-legged, the wings of the air, and all green things that live.

You have set the powers of the four quarters of the earth to cross each other.

You have made me cross the good road and road of difficulties, and where they cross, the place is holy.

Day in, day out, forevermore, you are the life of things.

- Black Elk (1863-1950)



Hi Sandi,

Greetings and congratulations and heartfelt thanks for such a great letter.

I want to send it to my local paper and mags but they are unlikely to publish anything over 350 words so it will need reducing. I think the spiritual context in which you place the mast issue will strike a big chord with them and with readers where "dry" reporting may not (I have tried with letters for years)

You need to give a full name and address for letters to be published. If you rewrite, please send to:

1. "The Argus" newspaper (dist Sussex wide) at letters@theargus.co.uk

2. Wave magaxine wavemag@btinternet.com (monthly mag, South East coverage but very ethically concerned and spiritual)

3. "Hanover Herald" (local Brighton comm mag) at
hanover.association@ntlworld.com (may need to justify putting it in this eg there are well over 60 phone masts and at least seven TETRAS in Brighton and Brighton police are using TETRA already)

4. "The Whistler" comm mag whwhistler@aol.com (sic)(same as for Hanover Herald but there are a large number of masts in the Seven Dials area covered by Whistler and an active TETRA beaming right into most of this area from Theobald House in Blackman St, just down from the rail station).

If you send a letter would you also forward us a copy. I'll send you whatever is printed.

Best Wishes
Gary K
Brighton


From Mast Network

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Message to the Operators and Government
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453827/

It will have to take a BIG VOICE from the PEOPLE to really get some changes
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453534/

"Something" has altered Earth's Rotation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453438/

Seebeben - Tsunami - FLUTKATASTROPHE: Mikrowellentechnik heizt auch das Meer auf - Tesla and the Asian Tsunami
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453716/

My name is Sandi Lawrence and I am one of the new Mast Sanity committee members. If I communicate with politicians or phone companies (especially 02 Airwave) I make sure they know that I am in this to the finish i.e. healthy results for humans and animals, or scatter my ashes to the wind over the sea, whichever comes first! That is the way it is for me.

I think the Sioux Indian in me rises to any threat to Our Creator's wish, that we take care of this Earth; the animals of the air, land, and sea; and every human, whatever race or tribe.

I wouldn't let my brother kill woodlice when I was young, so sure as hell, I am not going to let those with power and money hurt humans, animals and the environment without a determined and lifelong effort to oust them! Even female part Native Americans can be warriors when the blood is up, you know!

Far from being dead and buried, Mast Sanity now has a new committee to propel it forwards and upwards and carry on the work Lisa and co started before we arrived on the scene. Sorry, but I cannot name the "and co" because we have been too busy trying to take over the reins temporarily for Lisa, and I did not think about what has been, only what must be done now!

I hope you, and all new mast campaigners to come, will benefit from what we are trying to achieve for you all. I also hope that we will have your support in return.

My personal opinion is that I think it will have to take a BIG VOICE from the PEOPLE to really get some changes, unless a miracle happens, so exercise those vocal chords everyone and join hands across the UK, incase a miracle doesn't happen!

(We are just normal, everyday people, you know, so we cannot do it all. We need you, too, and more help with Mast Sanity!)

Happy New Year - Let the onslaught begin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453690/


Sincerely

Sandi Lawrence


From Mast Network

Biometrie a gogo

Wie die Liste unten zeigt heisst das unbestrittene Haupttthema am morgen startenden 21. Congress des CCC: Biometrie. Unter diesen Vorträgen und Workshops sind auch ganz unten zwo der quintessenz - fröhliches Dataming in Beständen aus dem interessantesten Segment der .MIL-Domain. Am Mittoch wird dazu eine einschlägige neue Sammlung von doq/uments veröffentlicht.


Überblick über den Congress
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan.en.html

21C3: Biometrie als datenschutzrechtliches Problem
Elisa
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/313.de.html

21C3: Biometrie in Ausweisdokumenten
starbug
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/27.de.html

21C3: Biometrie überwinden
starbug
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/28.de.html

21C3: Crashkurs Mathematik am Beispiel Biometrie
Jule P. Riede
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/273.de.html

21C3: Hidden Data in Internet Published Documents
Steven J. Murdoch, Maximillian Dornseif
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/271.de.html

21C3: Radioaktive Pässe
Umberto Annino
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/182.de.html

21C3: RFID Technologie und Implikationen
Holger Ziekow
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/246.de.html

21C3: Suchmaschinenpolitik (inkl. Geheimdienste)
Hendrik Speck, Frédéric Philipp Thiele
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/153.de.html

21C3: The Art of Fingerprinting
Ilja van Sprundel, Maximillian Dornseif
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/13.de.html

21C3: Datamining the NSA: Hands-On Workshop
Adrian Dabrowski, Chris Jeitler Erich Moechel
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/48.de.html

21C3: Datamining the NSA: Introduction
Erich Moechel
http://www.ccc.de/congress/2004/fahrplan/event/47.de.html


relayed by Harkank


Aus: quintessenz-list Digest, Vol 21, Issue 15

http://babelogue.citypages.com:8080/ecassel/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

by Fred Barnes

The Weekly Standard

12/25/04

At his press conference just before Christmas, President Bush was George the Salesman, pitching Social Security reform. He failed to make the sale. He stumbled in his explanation of why the system is in trouble. He awkwardly ducked questions on the grounds that he shouldn't 'negotiate with myself.' Reporters hadn't asked him to negotiate, only to elaborate. Still, the president has improved at spelling out why Social Security is headed for insolvency and how investing payroll taxes in personal accounts will buttress retirement security. But he's hardly as effective as he could be...

http://tinyurl.com/55wxn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Arizona Republic

12/26/04

The makers of Taser electric stun guns say their claims of safety are backed by more than 100,000 police officers who have been shocked during training sessions without suffering a single serious injury. But a doctor working for Taser says a one-second burst from the stun gun was responsible for fracturing the back of a Maricopa County sheriff's deputy in 2002. The doctor, in a memo obtained by The Arizona Republic, tells Taser that he evaluated former Deputy Samuel Powers and found the officer 'sustained a T7 compression fracture as the result of the Taser incident.' Powers was the first person to file a product liability lawsuit against Scottsdale's Taser International, claiming that the shock during a mandatory training exercise forced him into medical retirement and has left him suffering permanent injuries. He has been joined by other police officers around the country who are coming forward with lawsuits and complaints about injuries they attribute to being shocked with a Taser...

http://tinyurl.com/3mw8w


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Dear Ms. Pelosi:

The following editorial, by Marjorie Cohn, a distinguished professor of law, expresses the traditional viewpoint of the founders of the United States, a viewpoint that came under attack by presidents in the 20th century to the great detriment of the nation and democratic government:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/122704A.shtml

This viewpoint is arguably held today by those who voted against George W. Bush in 2004 and by conservatives who feel that Bush has gone too far to the right of their political positions. This would suggest that a majority of the electorate feel that the nation is on the slippery slope, sliding toward fascism.

The work of Democratic Senators and Representatives for the next four years will be more difficult than ever before. The overarching goal is to stop a train wreck that, up to now, Congress has been going along with. If Congress does not show the backbone to fight this fight, there is little doubt that this nation will soon become a third world nation, an effective dictatorship, and a menace to the world.

Ms. Pelosi, this means unrelenting opposition to the Republican Party's every move, whenever, and wherever the attacks come. No fight is too small to tackle. This juggernaut must be stopped. The very survival of democracy requires it. Of recent years the Democrats have been as closely associated with corporations as Republicans, and that is why we're sliding toward fascism. This must cease if the Party is to survive. We are in a fight for the survival of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. You must lead. The future of our nation hangs in the balance.

Yours truly,

Jerry J. Lobdill

----- Original Message -----
From: CHEROKEE
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: MSNBC is now reporting that "something" has altered the earth's rotation.

MSNBC is now reporting that "something" has altered the earth's rotation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4125643.stm

METEOR IMPACTS???

The two 8 + quakes and resulting tsunamis (one south of Tasmania and the second in Indonesia) may have been the result of meteor impacts.

Indonesia has been experiencing waves of meteors - some striking the ground - for about the past two weeks.

The alleged astronomy insider "Aussie Bloke" stated that there would be 3 major impacts. The first would occur in the Pacific Ocean south of Australia (south of Tasmania - the location of the first "quake")

The other two would be:

1. In the Atlantic off the NW coast of France.

2. In the North Pacific near the Alaska coast.

In one of his quatrains, Nostradamus speaks of a devastating destruction of the French coast around the time of the New Year.

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Asian quake death toll nears 12,000
CNN

12/26/04

As dawn broke Monday across the Bay of Bengal, countries struck by tsunamis in the wake of the most powerful earthquake the planet has seen in 40 years focused on relief and rescue efforts, and said the death toll from the giant waves -- already nearing 12,000 -- is expected to rise further. The tsunamis also left thousands injured, thousands missing and hundreds of thousands homeless in Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Some of the tsunamis reached as far as 1,600 kilometers (91,000 miles) [sic -- 1,600 kilometers would be about 960 miles] from the epicenter of the 9.0 magnitude quake, which was located about 160 kilometers (100 miles) off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island at a depth of about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles)...

http://tinyurl.com/4rqhn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp


Happy New Year - Let the onslaught begin
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/453690/

Newsletter - Special Edition - December 26, 2004
http://www.iammagginkat.com/Newsletter.htm

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -– Harry S Truman

"When truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie."

Sick of the lack of attention from the media and Congress regarding Voter Fraud 2004? Here's one last chance to demand that Congress contest the election, especially in Ohio.

Remember the "Sudden Republican Surges" of the 2002 election? Those surges were shoved down our throats and probably 10 or more people from the 2002 election are seated in Congress who should not be there. Now comes the error-ridden "Touch Screen/Optical Scan 2004" farce and once again this country is supposed to roll over and not question anything about the legitimacy of this fraudulent election. The computerized voting equipment was designed with fraud in mind. We must have honest elections to overcome this Republican owned Fascist type government that is currently destroying this country from the inside out.

One last push - - PLEASE

800-839-5276 Capitol Switchboard - Call, email, fax, send post cards to Democratic Senators

Please tell your senators:

I am greatly disturbed to read of the suppression of vote verification in Ohio. The laws in Ohio clearly makes it a crime for any employee of the Board of Elections to knowingly prevent or prohibit any person from inspecting the public records. It's time Blackwell was charged with a crime for violating Ohio Revised Code Title XXXV Elections, Sec. 3503.26 that requires all election records to be made available for public inspection and copying. ORC Sec. 3599.161 makes it a crime for any employee of the Board of Elections to knowingly prevent or prohibit any person from inspecting the public records filed in the office of the Board of Elections. Finally, ORC Sec. 3599.42 clearly states: “A violation of any provision of Title XXXV (35) of the Revised Code constitutes a prima facie case of election fraud within the purview of such Title.”

Demand verifications of the vote records in Ohio and to see that all votes in Ohio are counted properly even if a new election is required to do so.

SENATORS Contact:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Regarding Florida Voting:
Clint Curtis has given sworn testimony to the Conyers Committee that he was solicited to write software modifications that would throw the election for Bush, and there were high decibel gasps, and many a wide open jaw, in the courtroom. Story at: http://bradblogtoo.blogsport.com

Rep. John Conyers, Jr - Correspondence regarding Voter Fraud
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/correspondence/letters.html

Goal > One million emails to Rep. Conyers regarding the Voter Fraud investigation. Send one for every member in your family! John.Conyers@mail.house.gov

"Was it God? or was it Diebold...?"
20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the U.S.
by Angry Girl, Nightweed.com
http://www.nightweed.com/usavotefacts.html

Ohio Election Investigation Thwarted by Surprise Blackwell Order
Dayton, Ohio, Friday December 10, 2004:
On Friday December 10 two certified volunteers for the Ohio Recount team assigned to Greene County were in process recording voting information from minority precincts in Greene County, and were stopped mid-count by a surprise order from Secretary of State Blackwell’s office. The Director Board of Elections stated that “all voter records for the state of Ohio were “locked-down,” and now they are not considered public records.”

The volunteers were working with voter printouts received directly from Carole Garman, Director, Greene County Board of Elections. Joan Quinn and Eve Roberson, retired attorney and election official respectively, were hand-copying voter discrepancies from precinct voting books on behalf of the presidential candidates Mr. Cobb (Green) and Mr. Badnarik Libertarian) who had requested the recount.

One of the goals of the recount was to determine how many minority voters were unable to vote or denied voting at the polls. Upon requesting copies of precinct records from predominantly minority precincts, Ms. Garman contacted Secretary of State Blackwell’s office and spoke to Pat Wolfe, Election Administrator. Ms. Wolfe told Ms. Garman to assert that all voter records for the State of Ohio were “locked down” and that they are “not considered public records.”

Quinn and Roberson asked specifically for the legal authority authorizing Mr. Blackwell to “lock down” public records. Garman stated that it was the Secretary of State’s decision. Ohio statute requires the Directors of Boards of Election to comply with public requests for inspection and copying of public election records. As the volunteer team continued recording information from the precinct records in question, Garman entered the room and stated she was withdrawing permission to inspect or copy any voting records at the Board of Elections. Garman then physically removed the precinct book from Ms. Roberson’s hands. They later requested the records again from Garman’s office, which was again denied.

Feel like kicking the a... of the two chief Bunglers in this shyster administration? Tell them what you think of their war and your wishes for them for the coming year. Yeah, I know we are overlooking Condi and others at this moment but these two are especially deserving at this year's end.

Rumsfeld, The Bungler

If his competence matched his confidence, Rumsfeld would not only have investigated but acted months ago to improve "force protection" in Iraq. It is amazing indeed that as the war drags on toward its second anniversary, and as the lack of planning for the occupation continues to take a terrible toll on our men and women along with the Iraqi people, this man remains in the job he has bungled so badly.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/12/14/rumsfeld/index.html

RUMMY UNFIT FOR COMMAND
- By his own admission he's "an old man who needs time to gather his thoughts". Let him gather his thoughts at his own expense, not at the expense of American soldiers lives. Put the old b... out to pasture.

Donald H. Rumsfeld
Secretary of Defense
1000 Defense Pentagon
Washington, DC 20301-1000

AND George The Righteous (according to him)

King George (Bush) [or your pet name for the village dimwit AKA America's embarrassment]
43 Prairie Chapel Ranch also 1600 Pennsylvania Av.
Crawford TX 76638 Washington, DC 20500

And looking to the ever optimistic Jane Stillwater:
Beyond Neverland: What to do AFTER we've deposed GWB Hook
By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

No, I'm not identifying with Peter Pan these days because America has become NeverNeverLand. I identify with Peter Pan because I'm just a little guy up against the Prince of Darkness. "Jane! Don't you know that all your efforts aren't doing any good? You are just one little person up against a 100-trillion-dollar mob. Give it up!" Never.

I'll just think happy thoughts, cover myself with pixie dust and keep dreaming of a better world. If accepting wholesale slaughter, corporate welfare corruption and the loss of democracy is the price of growing up, forget it! I'm never going to grow up.

I'm gonna crow and crow and crow.

So. Everybody knows that my short-range goal is to see George Bush in jail. I want to see a mug shot of him wearing an orange jump suit. But what is my long-range goal?

I want more good stuff for Americans -- and the rest of the human race as well -- than even Peter Pan could imagine. But, more important, I want to rescue the ONE BILLION lost boys of the world.

As a friend recently pointed out, "Jane, did you ever think that you might be obsessed?"

Oh yeah. Tinkerbell has nothing on me.

It's time for the human race to evolve beyond Captain Hook -- beyond the unbelievable cruelty and greed of the raider-killers, corporate welfare queens, blood-thirsty "Christians" who won't be happy until they have blown up the world and the ONE BILLION children who, according to UNICEF, are growing up in such grubby horror that we, the parents of the world, should be truly ashamed.

A vision of a world where all children are wanted, nurtured, protected and loved -- that's something to crow about. That's the magic pixie dust we need. Plus it's cheaper than depleted uranium -- and it allows us to fly.

How do we get there? Second star to the right? No. Read John Gray's book "Children are From Heaven", and apply what you learn.

Children come into this world as angels, wanting nothing more than to be of help. It's time we stop twisting them into pirates and crocodiles. It's time for GWB Hook to crawl back under a rock. And it's time for the Peter Pan in all of us to start demanding a better world.

I want the ideal world that is the dream of Jesus and Buddha. And it seems to me that, given our wealth and technology, ALL OF US can have it. Even the totally lost boys who are now running our Congress, White House and Penatgon.

One Billion 'Denied a Childhood'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/121004V.shtml

In this time when it is becoming increasingly dangerous to admit less than total religious zeal, I thought some might want to ponder this brief Atheist's Creed.

JDavid Morris in Progressive Alternatives Yahoo Group.


You won't hear me thank god for the good done by man;

You won't hear me blame the devil for the evil done by man;

You won't see me shrug off the disastrous results of poor planning as acts of god;

You won't find me asking people to wait until after they are dead to be treated decently;

You won't catch me using the words of dead lunatics to justify present lunacy;

And I'll never acquiesce to the cruelties of injustice, unfairness, or meanness by saying "god has his reasons."

How about you?

800-839-5276 Capitol Switchboard
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml

Looking forward to the end of an illegal and illicit war, the end of the illegitimate, lying, deceitful, thieving Bush regime and wishing you a Happy New Year!

We The People - - Taking Back Our Country Vote by Vote.

Source: http://www.iammagginkat.com/

*Please Forward*

This presentation was prepared by Peter Drekmeier and Amy Adams.
http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation/index.html

Last Updated: December 17, 2004

"The Electoral Count Act of 1887 allows a presidential election to be contested if at least one representiative and one U.S. Senator step forward prior to the inauguration. 14 representatives are ready to do so, but we still need one Senator. You can call your Senator at 1 800 839 5276

See Presentation at:
http://www.electionfraud2004.org/presentation/index.html

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing
Those who count the votes decide everthing".


Informant: Friends

"Out of these troubled times, our objective: a New World Order can emerge," President George H. W. Bush told the U.N. on September 11th 1990.

"Today, that new world is struggling to be born, a world quite different from the one we have known. If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched." President George H. W. Bush told reporter Sarah McClendon in 1992.

"The Moral and Constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our Liberty; not coddle the world, precipitating No-Win Wars, while bringing Bankruptcy and Economic Turmoil to our people." -- Congressman Ron Paul, 1987


Informant: John Johnson

The Military-Media Complex

Jim Lobe on how terrorism shaped the news agenda in 2004:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/ips/lobe173.html

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17630

Christopher Hedges on Generation Kill by Evan Wright:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399151931/lewrockwell/
and The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594200343/lewrockwell/


Informant: Lew Rockwell

What Foreigners Don't Like

The federal empire, despite its elections. Article by Charley Reese:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/reese/reese147.html

What Bush Can Learn From Nixon

Even for you, there comes a time to stop the killing. Article by Patrick J. Buchanan: http://www.lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan18.html

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/1038


Informant: NHNE

PLEASE CONTACT U.S. SENATOR ROBERT C. BYRD (Democrat - West Virginia) TO CONTEST THE JAN. 6, 2005 CERTIFICATION OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTE COUNT

Current data and affidavits documenting election irregularities and fraud--particularly in Ohio and Florida--indicate that Kerry may actually have won the 2004 election. On December 13 the Electoral College cast its votes based on fraudulent vote tallies. The Secretaries of State then transmitted their Electoral College vote counts to the president of the U.S. Senate, who will announce the national total on Jan. 6, 2005 before a joint session of Congress.

Congress will then certify the vote unless at least one
Please Forward

Representative and one Senator contests the election. Several Representatives stand ready to do this. Only one senator is needed now. Senator Barbara Boxer has refused. Please urge Democratic Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia -- currently our most outspoken critic of Bush administration policies in the U.S. Senate -- to stand against U.S. election fraud by contesting the Electoral College vote count. Be sure to contact Byrd's office before 5 PM Eastern, Wednesday, Jan 5, 2005.

To email Senator Byrd's Washington DC office, click: http://byrd.senate.gov/byrd_email.html or contact Byrd's Wash DC office by Phone: 202-224-3954 or Fax: 202-228-0002. Snail mail: Senator Robert C. Byrd, 311 Hart Senate Office Building, Suite 2630, Washington, DC 20510-4801.


Informant: sash