30
Okt
2005

The World Can't Wait

http://www.worldcantwait.net/


Informant: Jack Packard



The World Can't Wait

by Russ Baker, TomPaine.com

Bush's support is flagging. Indictments abound. And tomorrow, protests are scheduled around the nation. Could this be the start of something big?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051101/the_world_cant_wait.php



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=impeach
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Downing+Street+Memo

Libby case 'DNA' maps 'duplicitous culture of the whole'

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3564/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Congressman Bernie Sanders: Stop Oil Company Price Gouging

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1029-31.htm

Bush Administration as Dangerous Now as Before

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1030-24.htm

Bush: Treaty Outlawing Torture Doesn't Apply Beyond US Soil

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1029-03.htm

President George W. Bush recently promised to use his veto power for the first time ever to stop an amendment proposed earlier this month by Senator John McCain that would outlaw cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of people held by the U.S. military anywhere in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10835.htm



What The 'Torture Memos' Reveal:

In the Spring of 1941, as Nazi Germany was preparing to invade the Soviet Union, Adolf Hitler issued an infamous edict which has become known as the "Commissar Order," to govern the conduct of German armed forces on the Eastern Front. This order provides a largely-unnoticed precedent for the "legal" rationalizations found in a number of hitherto-secret Bush Administration legal memoranda, which have recently come to light.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6396.htm

'I Don't Recall'

Lawyer for Former Top Cheney Aide Signals Possible Failure-to-Remember Defense.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1029-04.htm

A Patriot Crashes the Party

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1029-06.htm

The Deadliness Below

Weapons of mass destruction thrown into the sea years ago present danger now - and the Army doesn't know where they all are.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-09.htm

Seeds of Leak Scandal Sown in Italian Intelligence Agency

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-02.htm

Statement from Cindy Sheehan on the Indictment and Resignation of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby



[ please forward widely ]

October 28, 2006:

''While the indictment and resignation of Lewis 'Scooter' Libby is a welcome development but, the responsibility for lying to the American people and targeting critics and dissidents needs to go all the way up the chain of command. Scooter Libby was clearly one of the administration's attack dogs unleashed on opponents of this fraudulent war, but he serves higher masters. This administration continues to wage a war based on lies, a war that has taken the lives of 2,000 Americans, including my son, and the lives of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis. This indictment reinforces the growing calls in this country and around the world to end the occupation, bring our troops home and hold those responsible accountable for their crimes. Let this serve as a springboard to put the war on trial and bring our troops home now.''

PRESS RELEASE:
http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1028-15.htm


Informant: John Calvert



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Antiwar Protesters March on Common



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1030-05.htm


Informant: John Calvert



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja

Forwarded Message:

From: Mark Manning Subject: Falluja Film Released as Fundraiser for Iraq Civilians Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:30:53 -0800

It is our honor to announce the release of "Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja." Caught in the Crossfire is a joint production of Iraqi and American filmmakers and is on sale as a fundraiser for relief efforts to aid civilians in combat areas in Iraq. You can order the DVD at http://www.conceptionmedia.net/

To make this film, we lived with the people of Falluja, and that was an experience that forever changed us, an experience that taught us the meaning of grace and compassion.

Our goal with this film is to bring to light the conditions of the innocent civilians who are suffering from combat operations in Iraq and to raise money for relief efforts there. The story of what is happening to the civilians in Iraq is missing from current debates on the war. We have brought that story to you through this film.

What is happening to the civilians in Iraq is the unreported story of the Iraq war. Together we can tell their story to the world.

Please forward this email announcement to your friends and your lists, and visit our website to find other ways you can help.
http://www.conceptionmedia.net/

Thank you, The filmmakers of Caught in the Crossfire


A FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI CIVILIANS Victims of combat operations in Iraq

ConceptionMedia presents: A Joint Production of American and Iraqi Filmmakers

CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE The Untold Story of Falluja A groundbreaking new documentary film

ON SALE NOW Proceeds go to ongoing relief efforts in Iraq. See the trailer, find out about the relief efforts, and purchase the DVD at:
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The plight of the civilians in Iraq is THE unreported story of the Iraq war. The refugees of Falluja risked their lives to bring this story to you.

"Caught in the Crossfire" details the conditions experienced by the civilians of Falluja as they endured the violent clashes and consequences of Operation Phantom Fury, the military siege of their ancient city, and became refugees outside the eyes and care of the international community.

"Caught in the Crossfire" was filmed entirely un-embedded, outside the protection or influence of the military or corporate media, in order to capture the unique and honest perspective of the civilians themselves.

ON SALE NOW AS A FUNDRAISER $24.95 BUY THE DVD at:
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Proceeds from the sale of this film go directly to aid the innocent civilians and refugees caught in the crossfire of combat areas inside Iraq. The refugees of Falluja risked their lives to bring this story to you. Help spread their message around the world. Please forward this to your friends, lists, and media groups.


Informant: John Calvert

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Video Clips from Fallujah:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/fallujah/


From Information Clearing House

One Step Closer to the Big Enchilada

Frank Rich: To believe that the Bush-Cheney scandals will be behind us anytime soon you'd have to believe that the Nixon-Agnew scandals peaked when G. Gordon Liddy and his bumbling band were nailed for the Watergate break-in.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/103005X.shtml

Fitzgerald indictment suggests how Cheney's office struggled with non-existence of WMDs

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3563/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Fitzgerald Threw a Softball

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1029-26.htm


Informant: John Calvert

Genveränderte Hühner als Schutz vor Ansteckung

Träumereien der Gentechnik: Britische Forscher wollen Hühner immun gegenüber dem Vogelgrippevirus machen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21242/1.html

"Ich habe versucht, den US-Präsidenten vom Krieg abzuhalten"

Auch treue Vasallen wie der italienische Ministerpräsident Berlusconi setzen sich mit Nigergate von der Bush-Regierung ab.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21243/1.html

Nano could be a huge future health crisis

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nano-could-be-a-huge-future-health-crisis/2005/10/29/1130400402062.html


Informant: binstock

'Lawlessness on a vast scale' accompanied by a conspiracy of silence

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3556/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Quietly, quietly, the US releases estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3561/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

How Has it Come to This?

On November 2nd, one year after an election that saw more 'irregularities' than any in recent history, I will be leading a march to the streets to drive out the Bush regime! For me, a 65 year old retiree, who has believed in the orderly transition of power and reasoned argument in the public forum, I can tell you that this is a radical departure from my pattern of support for and trust in our system.

When our vote is taken away or made meaningless, as has now happened, our reality in America is changed in a fundamental way. No longer can we, the citizens, hold those in government accountable for their actions. That is what has happened in America, I am now certain, after examining the many studies done following this election. We now must face the terrible fact that we are ruled by a regime that claims a mandate to do as they please, when in fact they represent an illegitimate and criminal tyranny over us.

And look what they have done with that unchallenged power: Established torture as a policy of interrogation; instituted concentration camps around the world where those simply accused are sent to languish with no defense or hope of exoneration; illegally invaded a country based on fabricated intelligence, killing many thousands of innocents and turning the entire world community against us; pillaged our treasury and transferred untold wealth to their cronies, supporters and our largest corporations; devastated our environment by removing all protections that guard the very life support system of our planet. The list is long.

We face huge crises in the near future as our oil runs out and global warming crashes down on us. Many feel we have only a decade during which we can face these great dangers squarely and still hope to save ourselves. This regime is wasting our much needed grace period by ignoring and exacerbating these threats.

The World Can't Wait! We cannot face the challenges of our times until this gang of unchecked zealots who are driving our country over a cliff to its doom are driven from power, and a new direction can be charted for our country and world.

If our votes no longer count, we are left with the one vote that does count, he vote we make with our feet. I implore you, join with me and the many millions in America who see this great threat to our common future, and come into the streets and the town squares on November 2nd across America, and, with one voice, say loudly to these illegitimate leaders in Washington: NO! HIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT! THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT!


Jim Oberg is a retired engineer who intended to spend his golden years with is friends on the golf course. He lives with his wife and two cats in Wilsonville, Oregon, and can be reached at worldcantwait2005@yahoo.com .


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Informant: C. Clark Kissinger

From ufpj-news

Aziz denies Galloway claims

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article323424.ece


Informant: Steven L. Robinson

From ufpj-news

IISS predicts escalating civil war, large US troop presence in Iraq for years

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3558/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Patrick Fitzgerald Brings No Joy to Bushville Tonight

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=94987;show_parent=1

Indictment doesn't clear up mystery at heart of CIA leak probe

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=94935;show_parent=1

The White House Criminal Conspiracy

Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega says the Bush administration engaged in intelligence fraud comparable to the accounting fraud of companies like Enron, but with far graver consequences. She examines in detail the evidence that the President and his aides conspired to defraud the United States by intentionally misrepresenting intelligence about Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/103005Y.shtml


For full coverage of the CIA leak investigation, go to our Special Coverage Page.

http://www.truthout.org/fitzgeraldcalling.shtml

A hint for political candidates everywhere

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/5591.html


© Virginia Metze

Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer

Notes Show

By DAVID JOHNSTON, RICHARD W. STEVENSON and DOUGLAS JEHL
October 24, 2005
The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 - I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.

Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby's testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said.

The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first time place Mr. Cheney in the middle of an effort by the White House to learn about Ms. Wilson's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was questioning the administration's handling of intelligence about Iraq's nuclear program to justify the war.

Lawyers involved in the case, who described the notes to The New York Times, said they showed that Mr. Cheney knew that Ms. Wilson worked at the C.I.A. more than a month before her identity was made public and her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003. [...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/8afb5


© Virginia Metze

Sitting on a Volcano

http://www.mytown.ca/zepp/


© Virginia Metze

Still Think Bush Is Doing a Great Job?

http://tinyurl.com/dt9ex


© Virginia Metze

The Net is anarchy: keep it that way

By Chris Berg
Comment
October 24, 2005
theage.com.au

The internet, long seen as a neutral realm free of government interference, is now hot political property. Not surprisingly, therefore, both the European Union and the United Nations are now trying to grab control of the internet. This has major consequences for business and for individuals.

Since 1998, a non-profit organisation named ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has been responsible for managing and coordinating the internet's domain names. ICANN ensures that what is typed in the address bar matches the site trying to be accessed. Such an organisation is necessary to ensure the stability and growth of the internet.

At the moment, the internet is an ungoverned, unregulated, anarchic medium — merely a mutual agreement between computer users all around the world to connect to each other in a certain way. Given this blank slate, business and innovation has thrived online. Business to business commerce has exploded over the past few years. In Australia, 31 per cent of businesses reported placing orders over the internet in 2004. This will grow as business uptake of broadband intensifies.

Until now, ICANN's role has been merely to facilitate and smooth this explosion of internet activity. [...] Read more about efforts to bring the internet "under control" at http://tinyurl.com/b4mwc


© Virginia Metze

Bernanke to head Fed

Market likes decision to appoint Bush adviser as Greenspan's successor. But he will face challenges

By Paul R. La Monica, CNN/Money senior writer
October 24, 2005: 3:03 PM EDT

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - President Bush on Monday nominated Ben Bernanke to succeed Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose term is set to expire at the end of January.

Bernanke, currently chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers and a former Fed governor, was widely considered one of the leading candidates for the job. [...]

"The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost," Bernanke said in remarks to the National Economists Club in Washington in November 2002.

"By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services," he said. [...] Holy moly -- These guys are REPUBLICANS? Read the excellent CNN money article at http://tinyurl.com/cot8o


© Virginia Metze

TAMIFLU GILEAD CHAIR WAS RUMMY

NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Friday, October 21, 2005
FreeMarketNews.com

Readers can be helpful, and one just wrote in to inform us of a link that we had never imagined - Donald Rumsfeld, until he resigned and joined the Bush Administration, was the chairman of something called Gilead which just happened to make something called Tamiflu.

Now anyone who hasn't been on Mars for the last month or two, knows that there were only two things that were going to stop the human version of bird flu. One was a bird flu vaccine (which probably would work better if you were a bird) and the other was something called Tamiflu. Yes, that Tamiflu. In such short supply that the hundreds of millions of orders that have been pouring into Gilead probably won't be filled for another 12 months or so. But everyone has got to have it because somehow or other it became established that Tamiflu really worked.

This was the party line, anyway, for about a week, until word began trickling back in that maybe Tamiflu didn't work. In fact, the word on Tamiflu has always been positive at first and then eventually negative. It's a kind of pattern. We even find corroboration of it here on the Democrats.com, in what appears to be either a chat room or news roundup as follows, "Rummy was CEO of Gilead Sciences until named to the Bush cabinet and, like Cheney, still has ties that bind to the 'old company.' Now isn't it an 'amazing coincidence' that the drug Tamiflu patented by Gilead Sciences is being pushed by the National Institutes of Allergies and Infectious Diseases as the NUMBER ONE choice for flu, which, wonder of wonders, is sweeping through in one epidemic after another." [...] Read it all at http://tinyurl.com/cgjzg


© Virginia Metze

President Bush said he would fire anyone found to be involved in the leak of Valerie Plame’s name

Moving the Goal Posts

Talking Points
American Progress Action Fund
October 24, 2005

In 2003 – and again in 2004 – President Bush said he would fire anyone found to be involved in the leak of Valerie Plame’s name. He didn’t say he would fire anyone who “committed a crime.” He said we would fire anyone found to be involved in the leak. [Bush Media Availability, 9/30/03 ] [...] Read how Bush has weakened his stand (moved the goal posts): http://tinyurl.com/drg5k


© Virginia Metze

Schluss mit der ewiggestrigen Energiepolitik

Verbraucherverbände, Gewerkschaften und Wirtschaftsverbände fordern von einer möglichen Großen Regierungskoalition, Deutschlands Spitzenstellung bei Erneuerbaren Energien zu behaupten.

http://www.franzalt.com/index.php?pageID=6&news:oid=n3932&template=news_detail.html

Urgent CLG Action: List of Senators pushing for Senate Bill 1873

Write and Call now
http://www.legitgov.org/action_biodefense_pandemic_vaccine_act_201005.html


Informant: Gomez

We have no democracy if our votes aren't legitimately confirmable with a PAPER trail

If it's true, I certainly think this news tops everything -- if even the government admits the electronic voting machines have changed our votes. We should all be writing to news sources to report this story!! We have no democracy if our votes aren't legitimately confirmable with a PAPER trail. Will we learn and enforce this before the next election?

Debbie

Write: evening@cbsnews.com, nightly@nbc.com, today@nbc.com, totn@npr.org, nightline@abcnews.com earlyshow@cbs.com, today@nbc.com, world@msnbc.com, hardball@msnbc.com, dateline@nbc.com, phil.boyce@abc.com,
2020@abc.com, 60m@cbsnews.com


http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1529

Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman October 26, 2005

As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.

The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from the General Accounting Office that has gotten virtually no mainstream media coverage.

The government's lead investigative agency is known for its general incorruptibility and its through, in-depth analyses. Its concurrence with assertions widely dismissed as "conspiracy theories" adds crucial new weight to the case that Team Bush has no legitimate business being in the White House.

Nearly a year ago, senior Judiciary Committee Democrat John Conyers (D-MI) asked the GAO to investigate electronic voting machines as they were used during the November 2, 2004 presidential election. The request came amidst widespread complaints in Ohio and elsewhere that often shocking irregularities defined their performance.

According to CNN, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee received "more than 57,000 complaints" following Bush's alleged re-election. Many such concerns were memorialized under oath in a series of sworn statements and affidavits in public hearings and investigations conducted in Ohio by the Free Press and other election protection organizations.

The non-partisan GAO report has now found that, "some of [the] concerns about electronic voting machines have been realized and have caused problems with recent elections, resulting in the loss and miscount of votes."

The United States is the only major democracy that allows private partisan corporations to secretly count and tabulate the votes with proprietary non-transparent software. Rev. Jesse Jackson, among others, has asserted that "public elections must not be conducted on privately-owned machines." The CEO of one of the most crucial suppliers of electronic voting machines, Warren O'Dell of Diebold, pledged before the 2004 campaign to deliver Ohio and thus the presidency to George W. Bush.

Bush's official margin of victory in Ohio was just 118,775 votes out of more than 5.6 million cast. Election protection advocates argue that O'Dell's statement still stands as a clear sign of an effort, apparently successful, to steal the White House.

Among other things, the GAO confirms that:

1. Some electronic voting machines "did not encrypt cast ballots or system audit logs, and it was possible to alter both without being detected." In other words, the GAO now confirms that electronic voting machines provided an open door to flip an entire vote count. More than 800,000 votes were cast in Ohio on electronic voting machines, some seven times Bush's official margin of victory.

2. "It was possible to alter the files that define how a ballot looks and works so that the votes for one candidate could be recorded for a different candidate." Numerous sworn statements and affidavits assert that this did happen in Ohio 2004.

3. "Vendors installed uncertified versions of voting system software at the local level." 3. Falsifying election results without leaving any evidence of such an action by using altered memory cards can easily be done, according to the GAO.

4. The GAO also confirms that access to the voting network was easily compromised because not all digital recording electronic voting systems (DREs) had supervisory functions password-protected, so access to one machine provided access to the whole network. This critical finding confirms that rigging the 2004 vote did not require a "widespread conspiracy" but rather the cooperation of a very small number of operatives with the power to tap into the networked machines and thus change large numbers of votes at will. With 800,000 votes cast on electronic machines in Ohio, flipping the number needed to give Bush 118,775 could be easily done by just one programmer.

5. Access to the voting network was also compromised by repeated use of the same user IDs combined with easily guessed passwords. So even relatively amateur hackers could have gained access to and altered the Ohio vote tallies.

6. The locks protecting access to the system were easily picked and keys were simple to copy, meaning, again, getting into the system was an easy matter.

7. One DRE model was shown to have been networked in such a rudimentary fashion that a power failure on one machine would cause the entire network to fail, re-emphasizing the fragility of the system on which the Presidency of the United States was decided.

8. GAO identified further problems with the security protocols and background screening practices for vendor personnel, confirming still more easy access to the system.

In essence, the GAO study makes it clear that no bank, grocery store or mom & pop chop shop would dare operate its business on a computer system as flimsy, fragile and easily manipulated as the one on which the 2004 election turned.

The GAO findings are particularly damning when set in the context of an election run in Ohio by a Secretary of State simultaneously working as co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign. Far from what election theft skeptics have long asserted, the GAO findings confirm that the electronic network on which 800,000 Ohio votes were cast was vulnerable enough to allow a a tiny handful of operatives -- or less -- to turn the whole vote count using personal computers operating on relatively simple software.

The GAO documentation flows alongside other crucial realities surrounding the 2004 vote count. For example:


The exit polls showed Kerry winning in Ohio, until an unexplained last minute shift gave the election to Bush. Similar definitive shifts also occurred in Iowa, Nevada and New Mexico, a virtual statistical impossibility.

A few weeks prior to the election, an unauthorized former ES&S voting machine company employee, was caught on the ballot-making machine in Auglaize County

Election officials in Mahoning County now concede that at least 18 machines visibly transferred votes for Kerry to Bush. Voters who pushed Kerry's name saw Bush's name light up, again and again, all day long. Officials claim the problems were quickly solved, but sworn statements and affidavits say otherwise. They confirm similar problems in Franklin County (Columbus). Kerry's margins in both counties were suspiciously low.

A voting machine in Mahoning County recorded a negative 25 million votes for Kerry. The problem was allegedly fixed.

In Gahanna Ward 1B, at a fundamentalist church, a so-called "electronic transfer glitch" gave Bush nearly 4000 extra votes when only 638 people voted at that polling place. The tally was allegedly corrected, but remains infamous as the "loaves and fishes" vote count.

In Franklin County, dozens of voters swore under oath that their vote for Kerry faded away on the DRE without a paper trail.

In Miami County, at 1:43am after Election Day, with the county's central tabulator reporting 100% of the vote - 19,000 more votes mysteriously arrived; 13,000 were for Bush at the same percentage as prior to the additional votes, a virtual statistical impossibility.

In Cleveland, large, entirely implausible vote totals turned up for obscure third party candidates in traditional Democratic African-American wards. Vote counts in neighboring wards showed virtually no votes for those candidates, with 90% going instead for Kerry.

Prior to one of Blackwell's illegitimate "show recounts," technicians from Triad voting machine company showed up unannounced at the Hocking County Board of Elections and removed the computer hard drive.

In response to official information requests, Shelby and other counties admit to having discarded key records and equipment before any recount could take place.

In a conference call with Rev. Jackson, Attorney Cliff Arnebeck, Attorney Bob Fitrakis and others, John Kerry confirmed that he lost every precinct in New Mexico that had a touchscreen voting machine. The losses had no correlation with ethnicity, social class or traditional party affiliation---only with the fact that touchscreen machines were used.

In a public letter, Rep. Conyers has stated that "by and large, when it comes to a voting machine, the average voter is getting a lemon - the Ford Pinto of voting technology. We must demand better."

But the GAO report now confirms that electronic voting machines as deployed in 2004 were in fact perfectly engineered to allow a very small number of partisans with minimal computer skills and equipment to shift enough votes to put George W. Bush back in the White House.

Given the growing body of evidence, it appears increasingly clear that's exactly what happened.

GAO Report

Revised 10/27/05

Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman are co-authors of HOW THE GOP STOLE AMERICA'S 2004 ELECTION & IS RIGGING 2008, available via http://freepress.org and http://harveywasserman.com. Their WHAT HAPPENED IN OHIO, with Steve Rosenfeld, will be published in Spring, 2006, by New Press.


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From ufpj-news

Mighty Amazon close to running out of water

http://www.climateark.org/articles/reader.asp?linkid=47723


Informant: NHNE

Prince Charles: Global warming is mankind's greatest challenge

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1846707,00.html


Informant: NHNE

Am I electrosensitive?

Hello Joanne,

I have most of the electrosensitivity symptoms and after searching in internet I found your mail and the letters from Dr. Johansson. I am asking myself does it means that I am electrosensitive too and if yes must I contact some specialists here in Quebec (Montreal)? I think if I speak with my GP he will think that I am crazy, because the people who do not suffer from this do not believe it to be true, right? Thank you for sharing your info!



Response to "Anonymous" re "Am I electrosensitive?"
by Joanne C. Mueller - 10-30-05:

Dear Anonymous:

The first thing I need to say is that "I am not an expert" and that any information I provide is based on 14 years of EMF/EMR research as well as "being a victim of EMR pollution" for over 30 years.

Having said that, however, I am very happy to share information about myself, my family, my guinea pig studies and the information and knowledge I have acquired. I am also glad to share "suggestions" that often come across as "recommendations." All such exchanges should be viewed as "friend-to-friend"/"victim-to-victim" as opposed to medical/legal advice. You are wise to search the net and evaluate the available information as it pertains to you.

Your question and your own conclusion about contacting specialists is pretty much "accurate." It does sound tho as if you may not have consulted with your GP and/or been treated for many of your "symptoms" whether promoted/caused by EMF/EMR or something else???

I can send you a list of 2-3 pages of our family's health problems -- several "rare and unusual" but as you already know, "a direct approach" of saying "I found this and that" along with stating "I am suffering this and that, what do you think? [to any doctor] will not normally be acknowledged by any medical person as being a meaningful or a legitimate medical concern.

We activists are waging a battle against the WHO (World Health Organization) to replace (Coordinator of Occupational and Environmental) -- Dr. Michael Repacholi -- a petition for removal because his work appears to be "biased" possibly due to industry involvement.

Omega see under: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/877606/

The EMF RAPID Interagency Report (U.S.) has never been presented to Congress and I am challenging and have been doing so, for the release of that information to the public. Until these things happen and the WHO designates an ICDM Code, medical doctors are not able to bill for a diagnosis of EHS and/or separate brain cancer, Leukemia or other diseases as to "chemically promoted," EMF/EMR-promoted," etc.

This means pretty much that "symptoms" are billed and treated one-by-one possibly combined with one or two others for a probable "misdiagnosis" in many cases.

I do not know what EMF/EMR exposure you suspect may be causing your ES/EHS symptoms although many appear to be affected just from overall exposures throughout homes and workplaces (what EMF Guru, Roy Beavers, referred to as "our Blue World" see http://www.emfguru.org for access to his website and blog).

If your concerns are primarily those of wireless and/or cell tower placement/proximity, you may want to check out information on http://www.energyfields.org If you type "Microwave Syndrome" on your search bar, you will bring up very important information. Likewise, typing "Robert Riedlinger" on your search bar will bring up information re his ES as it relates to comunications' antennae.

Problems with high frequencies on electrical wiring are explained, along with recommendations to reduce most of this problem can be found by going to http://www.electricalpollution.com . This site also has information re improvements in blood sugar levels, Multiple Sclerosis and more. You will be interested in the work of Dr. Magda Havas of Peterborough, Ontario in this regard.

Dr. Louis Slesin of "Microwave News," has an excellent site with lots of very important information. Go to http://www.microwavenews.com

There are many other important sources of information but I would need to know a little more about your situation in order to further direct you. In the Minneapolis, Minnesota area where I live, we do have Alternative Medicine Practitioners who are helping ES/EHS sufferers. Dr. Adiel Tel Oren http://www.ecopolitan.com/drteloren is one you may find helpful through information provided on his site.

In the meantime, you should make sure you do not have any electrical appliances/devices close to the head of your bed. Those who are qualified to make recommendations in this regard, suggest a distance of 3-4 ft. for anything like an electric clock, electric clock radio, power supply for cordless phone, other telephone equipment, fans, electric blankets and especially electric meters (be concerned about electrical items on walls opposite head of bed). I can tell you from my experiences that moving such items to the other side of the room yield significant, positive results that have been documented by medical tests (albeit, the "tests" do not acknowledge or refer to EMF/EMR exposures with the exception of my work re the guinea pig studies). Best wishes to you and take care - Joanne

Joanne C. Mueller Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W. Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55448-2127
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com [10-30-05]

Ärztekammern und Mobilfunk

Ärztekammer gegen Mobilfunk-Grenzwerte
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/1526057/

Wiener Ärztekammer warnt vor übermäßigem Handy-Telefonieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/881375/

Mobilfunkstrahlung: "Kinder nicht als Versuchskaninchen missbrauchen"
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2663135/

Ärztekammer fordert Handyverbot für Kinder
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/885047/

Wiener Ärztekammer warnt mit Plakaten in Arztpraxen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1122063/

Ärztekammer zu Handys: Schutzmaßnahmen bisher nicht ausreichend
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1335446/

Ärztekammer in Warnungen bestätigt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4311749/

Ärztekammer kritisiert Beschwichtigungsversuche der Mobilfunkindustrie
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5361415/

Handy, Schnurlos & Co: Ärzte warnen vor Langzeitfolgen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948639/

Ärzte warnen vor Langzeitfolgen von Handy- und Schnurlostelefonieren
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939911/

Ärztekammer für Wien: 10 medizinische Handy-Regeln neu aufgelegt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4894044/

Handyverbot für sensible Zonen gefordert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1126798/

Neue Untersuchungen bestätigen Gefahr von Mobilfunk-Strahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939195/

"Reflex-Studie": Wiener Ärztekammer warnt vor übermäßigem Handytelefonieren von Kindern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/892067/

Ärztekammer warnt vor Verharmlosung möglicher Gefahren durch Handystrahlung
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3000856/

Ärztekammer hält an Warnung vor Handy-Strahlung fest
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5198334/

Warnung vor Handystrahlen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/893134/

Handys für Kinder riskant
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/882660/

AUFSCHREI der Lehrer: Schüler unkonzentriert
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/948642/

Schulen sollen handyfreie Zonen werden - Schulärzte raten zu Verbot von Handys
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1078348/

Handy-Studie unterschiedlich beurteilt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1038373/

Ärzte und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/408385/

Ärzteappelle gegen Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Ärzteresolution Mobilfunkanwendungen und Gesundheit
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1309886/

ÄRZTEKONGRESS IN MURNAU FORDERT: BEIM MOBILFUNK BESTEHT DRINGENDER HANDLUNGSBEDARF
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2926731/

Strahlende Gefahr ausgehend von Mobilfunksendern
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1751333/

Handy: Lebensretter?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/4531589/

Wissenschaft zu Mobilfunk
http://tinyurl.com/93epp

Wissenschaft und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/293807/

Wissenschaftler mundtot gemacht
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3442019/

Vienna doctors group say children shouldn't have phones
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/903250/

Austrian doctor’s group warns of excessive mobile phone use by children
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/895483/

Italian PM Says He Warned Bush against Iraq War

After accusations that the Italian intelligence agency may have created the forged Niger yellow-cake documents at the center of the Libby indictment, and facing falling poll numbers, Italian PM Berlusconi says that he tried to persuade President Bush not to invade Iraq. Italy still has about 2900 troops in Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/103005Z.shtml

Hundreds of Howard U. Students Greet Laura Bush With Protest Threatened With Arrest, Students Refuse to Back Down

http://www.answercoalition.org
http://answer.pephost.org/site/News2?abbr=ANS_&page=NewsArticle&id=7247

On Thursday, October 27, hundreds of Howard University students greeted Laura Bush with a militant protest against the war in Iraq, the criminally negligent and racist conduct of the federal government in response to Hurricane Katrina and cuts in education.

Holding signs that read, "2000 Dead, End Occupation: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti…, Money for Education Not War," the students began their demonstration at 11am in protest of Laura Bush's presence on the Howard University campus.

The demonstration was led by Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. and Cimarrones, a progressive Black Student Union of Caribbeans, Central and South Americans, as well as various other campus organizations such as Howard University Student Association
(HUSA), Howard Amnesty International and Ubiquity.

The demonstration turned into a confrontation as university officials working with Secret Service and DC Police threatening to arrest the students unless they moved. "They are trying to force us to disperse or at least move back 30 feet, but we in the Black community have been told to move for 300 years," said Eugene Puryear, a coordinator of Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R and Howard sophomore.

The Howard University demonstration was one of hundreds that took place in cities, towns, college campuses and high schools across the country.

As the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq hits the 2,000 figure, A.N.S.W.E.R.

Coalition members and supporters and other organizations came out in local protests against the illegal and criminal war and occupation in Iraq. These local protests came on the heels of the September 24 demonstration, when more than 300,000 people surrounded the White House in a sea of protest. On September 24, the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition also held large-scale protests in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle.

The gruesome number of U.S. war dead paes in comparison to the loss of life suffered by Iraqis. Public opinion in the United States has decisively turned against the war in Iraq just as it turned against the war in Vietnam three decades ago. U.S. troops should be brought out of Iraq immediately. The people of Iraq should be paid reparations for the wholesale destruction of their country and the staggering loss of human life. Bush, Cheney and other officials in the Bush administration should be held accountable for their criminal conduct.

Youth and Student Strategy Session

Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R. organizers Caneisha Mills and Eugene Puryear - two of the main organizers of the Howard University protest - will be in New York City on November 6th to take part in a public strategy session for youth and student activism. Caneisha traveled to New Orleans with the ANSWER delegation directly following Hurricane Katrina, and will also report on her experiences there.


Informant: Carlos Rovira

From ufpj-news

Swedish Environmental High Court Judgment: Mobile masts and aerials for 3G constitute an environment dangerous activity

Swedish Environmental High Court Judgment: Mobile masts and aerials for 3G constitute an environment dangerous activity

Through the Environmental Court of Appeal (2005-10-12 case no: M 7485-04) it has now been determined that mobile masts and aerials for 3G constitute an environmentally dangerous activity according to the Environment chapter. Such activity will therefore have to happen in accordance with the chapter’s paragraphs and general consideration rules.

Background:

The question became topical in connection with the company Swedish UMTS-NET. Ltd appeal against an order from Miljönämnden in Landskrona about submitting information about the precise location of masts and aerials for 3G-mobiltelecommunication. According to the council’s view, aerials and masts for mobile telecommunication are covered by the environment chapter’s definition on environmentally dangerous activity. The council is then monitoring authority and can to prescribe an activity practical to submit all the information and documents that are needed for the monitoring.

The company appealed against the councils decisions to the County council for Skåne counties. The county council considered that aerials and masts for mobile telecommunication are an environmentally dangerous activity in the Environment chapter’s sense since it can not be said for certain that the electromagnetic radiation from the frequencies in question is harmless for people's health.

The company appealed against the County council’s decisions to The Environmental Court in Växjö district. The court considered, unlike the County council there was not a question of environmentally dangerous activity in the Environment chapter sense, since the radiation from base stations for mobile telecommunication is too weak, and according to current scientific findings, cannot harm the environment. That meant that aerials and masts for mobile telecommunication were not covered by the Environment chapter and that Miljönämnden in Landskrona did not have a right to conduct monitoring on the masts with the support of the Environment chapter.

The environment board in Landskrona appealed against Miljödomstolens decisions to Environmental Court of Appeal at Svea court of appeal. Environmental Court of Appeal established that an activity can be environmentally dangerous even if it is not dangerous for the environment. It is sufficient that the activity can mean a risk for harm to the environment, in order to be considered a environmentally dangerous activity in the Environment chapter’s sense. No actual effect needs to occur. It is enough if there is a risk for effect. Although the risk for harmful health effects caused by the radiation from mobile masts is small, it must be considered to constitute a risk for impact on the environment, the court stated. The court referred to experimental surveys of experiments on animal that, show that radio frequencies or non-ionizing radiation can cause behaviour changes and disturbances in body functions. Here, it is unclear which research was the court had in mind. The court referred further to a statement by Swedish Radiation Protection Authority in the script “Radiation from base stations for mobile telecommunication” (2001: 3), that accepted that threshold values are exceeded at a few meter’s distance straight in front of the aerial's beams. Environmental Court of Appeal considered further that there exists risk because mobile masts can give course to psychic dread at nearby residential homes. Causing dread as a result of an activity is a form of lawlessness (illegality) that is covered by the environment chapter’s definition of environmentally dangerous activity.

Conclusion:

The Environmental Court of Appeal has thus laid down the law, that mobile masts and aerials for 3G are a environmentally dangerous activity according to the Environment chapter. It should be pointed out that the installation and use of mobile masts and aerials are not a condition duty activity, according to the chapter.

For such activity’s a planning permission is required, according to the planning law.

According to the current Environment chapter each town or rural area council has the responsibility for monitoring of non-condition duty peak activity. The council has a right to request the information needed in order to conduct the monitoring. It is also important to remark that the decision does not give any lead as to which protection measures etc. will be required for masts and aerials or if any such are required.

Tomas Löfgren, utredare, 08-729 72 63
http://www.ssi.se/News/newsEntire.asp?ID=188


Radiation from mobile + telecommunications masts:

A base station for mobile telecommunication can concurrently work at several different frequency channels within its respective frequency band. For GSM-telecommunication the number of channels varies, normally between one and six, depending on how many members the station will serve. The “send-effect” is usually of the magnitude of 10 W/channel. One telephone call uses such a frequency channel less than 1/8 of the time. Such a base station sends thus with the biggest “send-effect” when it concurrently serves eight telephone calls on each of its frequency channels. The total “send-effect” amounts to a maximum of approximately 100 W.

Smaller base stations indoors, in sport halls, galleries and tunnels have in general low ”send-effect” and is not discussed more here.

UMTS will use two types of base stations, one with send-effect of 20W/channel, mostly in urban areas, and 20W/channel in rural areas.

In theory 3 channels can be used, but in real life only one channels will be utilized.

As the masts/aerials mostly send their radiation beams straight forward, the effect will not be uniform in all directions. Most of the radiation is sent in a straight forward direction, while only a small amount of radiation is sent from the side lobes.

It is important to take considerations for this when calculating the radiation around the mast.

Common for all directions applies that the radio frequencies intensity subsides quickly with increased distance.

At distances further than approximately 5 m from the aerial the radiation subsides (W/m2) with the square of the distance from the actual mast/aerial. If the distance f.ex is three times further away the radiation becomes nine times weaker. Radiation power on ground level near a mast with a high placed aerial is low because the aerial has strong direction effect. Such an aerial gives maximum radiation at ground level at a distance of 50-300 m from the mast. There the peak radiation there is low because of the W/m² of the distance.


Regards.

Agnes.

http://www.mast-victims.org


(From Zamir Shalita) Court Precedent in Sweden

Informant: Iris Atzmon

Freeze on all phone masts near schools

The attached article from today's Irish Sunday Times gives strong support to the view that the public are not unreasonable in having concerns about mast emissions.

You couldn't get more bang up to date with an official endorsement of public concerns!

Grahame


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-1849413,00.html

The Sunday Times - Ireland

The Sunday Times
October 30, 2005

Freeze on all phone masts near schools

JOHN BURNS

THE Office of Public Works has ordered that no more mobile phone masts be erected near schools until a review of radiation has been carried out by officials. The operators of a transmitter near St Mary's College in Rathmines, Dublin, have been told to switch it off until an inter-departmental committee examining the health effects of electromagnetic radiation has finished its work.

Tom Parlon, the minister in charge of the OPW, announced the measures in a letter last week to Chris Andrews, a Fianna Fail representative who had raised concerns about the transmitter on Ardee House in Rathmines, used by the Central Statistics Office. "Despite the fact that we are absolutely confident this installation complies in all respects with the relevant safety guidelines, the OPW is aware of a continued level of unease over such installations being sited in the vicinity of schools for young children," Parlon said. "Recently the cabinet approved the setting up of (the committee), which is charged with investigating all the scientific data available and, if necessary, (to) issue recommendations for revised guidelines for telecoms installations." Parlon has also told a telecom company not to proceed with a mast on a government building in Sligo. Up to 500 civil servants working there planned to go on strike if three antennae were erected, citing concerns about their own health and that of 37 children in a nearby creche. An OPW official said: "We granted a licence to a telecom operator for the mast but that's now on hold. That and Ardee House are the only ones we've had representations on." The government's move will be welcomed by campaigners who claim that people living close to masts can experience ill-health. They say electrosensitivity, a condition where people suffer headaches, nausea and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from masts or pylons, is becoming more common. Andrews said: "I would hope the committee will quickly issue recommendations for revised guidelines. Up to now masts were erected on public buildings without the need to apply for planning permission, provided they were under two metres and notification was sent to the local authority 28 days beforehand. This is crazy, particularly when many experts express caution. "I am happy that the phone companies are being forced to listen to the genuine concerns of the community. Comreg, the communications regulator, monitors only 40% of all sites. This isn't good enough. Residents and school children must be protected." Earlier this year a joint Oireachtas committee recommended that planning exemptions be examined with a view to ensuring that no electromagnetic emissions be allowed near health centres, schools, playgrounds, sports pitches or other sensitive areas. Two weeks ago a protest was mounted outside Cork University Hospital demanding the removal of O2 and Vodafone phone mast equipment attached to the building. Better Environmental and Safer Telecommunications, a campaign group, said it was highly irresponsible for a hospital to facilitate mobile phone operators by allowing antennae on their buildings. There are now over 5,000 dedicated mobile phone sites in the republic and this may double in the next decade. Mobile phone operators say the level of radiation emitted from masts is well below the international guideline. The government earns up to €500,000 a year by allowing transmitters on public buildings.

The Real George W. Bush

The best way to think of George W. Bush is as a beard for others. At every step in his career, individuals of wealth or power groomed him, and then used him as their front man.

http://www.alternet.org/story/27385/?comments=view&cID=51263&pID=51250


From Information Clearing House

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The Real George W. Bush
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/setliff1.html

Endless sunset

While you were, ah, distracted, Congress was quietly renewing every major provision of the Patriot Act.

http://alternet.org/blogs/themix/27501/


From Information Clearing House

What I Didn't Find in Africa

Did the Bush administration manipulate intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs to justify an invasion of Iraq?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4020.htm

Libby's Indictment

A Window Into the White House Cesspool:

If Libby goes to trial, you can bet that the potential witness list will include Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Hadley, Rice, maybe Bush, and a whole host of high-ranking neo-con underlings (Wurmser, Hanna, Feith, et al.). Libby -- and Cheney and Rove -- definitely would not want that to happen.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10809.htm

Indictment Gives Glimpse Into a Secretive Operation

Vice President Dick Cheney's suite in the Old Executive Office Building appears to have served as the nerve center of an effort to gather and spread word about Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, a C.I.A. operative.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10814.htm

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(The Bush administration seems to be disintegrating as we watch. The DeLay indictment was featured here on Cuban television, as has the Libby indictment, the Miers nomination and withdrawal and much more are being followed consistently in the Cuban media. All of this provides powerful educational material for the public in Cuba. Each days news lately features images of Bush flashing his copy of the Bush "transition" plan to bring capitalist "freedom" to the Cuban people. Cubans have plenty of reason to complain of life's daily trials and tribulations, of course. And while none of Bush's troubles put a single grain of rice on a single Cuban table, those who imagine that the Cuban government exaggerates when it talks about the blockade and the kidnapping of the five receive steady reminders from the US media of the nature of the regime in Washington campaigning to bring capitalism back to Cuba.

(While not central to the Libby indictments and the scandal about the outing of Valerie Plame, Cuba remains an element of continuing importance because of the way Washington continues to stubbornly use, and openly defend its use, of the US-occupied military base at Guantanamo as place where it has the LEGAL RIGHT to do things to its capitives which it wouldn't have the legal right to do if they were held on the territitory of the United States itself.

("Mr. Addington, still Mr. Cheney's counsel, has been a major participant in debates within the administration about the treatment of terror suspects, and whether those held at the American facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, should face military tribunals.")

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October 30, 2005 The Vice President's Office Indictment Gives Glimpse Into a Secretive Operation By DOUGLAS JEHL http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/politics/30indict.html

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 - Over a seven-week period in the spring of 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney's suite in the Old Executive Office Building appears to have served as the nerve center of an effort to gather and spread word about Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, a C.I.A. operative.

I. Lewis Libby Jr., the vice president's chief of staff, was charged Friday in an indictment that provides a rare glimpse inside a vice presidential operation that, under Mr. Cheney, has been extraordinary both for its power and its secrecy. The indictment also leaves unanswered some questions about the way the vice president's office responded to Mr. Wilson and his criticism of the administration's case for going to war in Iraq.

Mr. Libby is the only aide to Mr. Cheney who has been charged with a crime. But the indictment alleges that Mr. Cheney himself and others in the office took part in discussions about the origins of a trip by Mr. Wilson to Niger in 2002; about the identity of his wife, Valerie Wilson; and whether the information could be shared with reporters, in the period before it was made public in a July 14, 2003, column by Robert D. Novak.

The indictment identifies the other officials only by their titles, but it clearly asserts that others involved in the discussion included David Addington, Mr. Cheney's counsel; John Hannah, deputy national security adviser; and Catherine Martin, then Mr. Cheney's press secretary.

Mr. Addington and Mr. Hannah in particular were powerful forces within the administration, and like Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby, they had often been at odds with the C.I.A. before the war in Iraq.

Mr. Hannah, Mr. Addington and Ms. Martin have all declined to comment, citing legal advice. The fact that they were not named in the indictment suggests that they will not be charged, but all can expect to be called as witnesses in any trial of Mr. Libby, setting up a spectacle that could be unpleasant for the administration, in part because their own actions could be questioned.

That Mr. Cheney and his office sparred with the C.I.A. before the invasion of Iraq has never been a secret. Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby made repeated trips to C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va., in the months before the American invasion in March 2003, and Mr. Libby was often on the phone with senior C.I.A. officials to challenge the agency's intelligence reports on Iraq. A principal focus, former intelligence officials say, was the question of whether Al Qaeda had had a close, collaborative relationship with Saddam Hussein's government, an argument advanced publicly by Mr. Cheney but rejected by the C.I.A. intelligence analysts.

The antipathy felt by Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby toward Mr. Wilson, in the aftermath of the invasion, has also long been known. But the events spelled out in the 22-page indictment suggest a far more active, earlier effort by the vice president's office to gather information about him and his wife.

The indictment tracks a period in the spring of 2003, at a time when the American failure to find illicit weapons in Iraq meant that the administration's rationale for war was beginning to unravel, and when early reports about Mr. Wilson's 2002 trip, which had not yet identified him by name, raised questions about whether the White House should have known just how weak its case had been, particularly involving Iraq and nuclear weapons.

By any measure, the indictment suggests that Mr. Libby and others went to unusual lengths to gather information about Mr. Wilson and his trip. An initial request on May 29, 2003, from Mr. Libby to Marc Grossman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, led Mr. Grossman to request a classified memorandum from Carl Ford, the director of the State Department's intelligence bureau, and later Mr. Grossman orally briefed Mr. Libby on its contents.

Later requests appear to have prompted C.I.A. officials, on June 9, to fax classified information to Mr. Cheney's office about Mr. Wilson's trip, which Mr. Wilson made on behalf of the C.I.A. to investigate reports that Iraq had struck a deal to acquire uranium from Niger for use in its nuclear weapons program.

Mr. Cheney himself is alleged to have shared details about the nature of Ms. Wilson's job with Mr. Libby, on June 12. The indictment says that Mr. Libby first shared information about Mr. Wilson's trip with a reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, on June 23; but it also describes discussions involving Mr. Libby, Mr. Addington, Mr. Hannah, Ms. Martin and White House officials, about whether the information could be shared with reporters.

Among the discussions, the indictment says, was one in mid-June, in which Mr. Libby is said to have told Mr. Hannah that there could be complications at the C.I.A. if information about Mr. Wilson's trip was shared publicly. It is not clear how Mr. Cheney may have learned "from the C.I.A." that Ms. Wilson worked in the agency's counterproliferation division, a fact that meant she was part of the C.I.A.'s clandestine service, and that she might well be working undercover.

Lawyers in the case say that notes taken by Mr. Libby indicate that detail was provided to Mr. Cheney by George J. Tenet, who was the director of central intelligence at the time, but several former intelligence officials say they do not believe that Mr. Tenet was the source of the information.

Many questions remain unanswered in the indictment. The special counsel, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, said that Ms. Wilson's affiliation with the C.I.A. had been classified, but he did not assert that Mr. Libby knew that she had covert status, something the prosecutor would have had to prove to support a charge under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.

It is not clear, for example, what guidance, if any, Mr. Cheney gave to Mr. Libby about whether or how to share information about Mr. Wilson's trip with reporters. Among their discussions, lawyers in the case have said, was one on July 11, 2003, on a trip to Norfolk, Va., that preceded by a day what two reporters, Ms. Miller and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, have said were conversations in which Mr. Libby mentioned Mr. Wilson's wife.

Beyond Mr. Cheney's office, some of the government officials involved in the discussions have yet to be identified. It is not clear from the indictment, for example, who faxed the "classified information from the C.I.A." about Mr. Wilson's trip to the vice president's office on June 9, or which "senior C.I.A. officer" provided further information to Mr. Libby on June 11.

Another question is whether Mr. Libby made appropriate use of the top-level briefings provided to him by the C.I.A. The indictment says that Mr. Libby complained to a C.I.A. briefer on June 14 that C.I.A. officials were making comments critical of the Bush administration, and that he mentioned, among other things, "Joe Wilson" and "Valerie Wilson" in the context of Mr. Wilson's trip to Niger. Also still unclear is how Ms. Martin, the press secretary, may have learned in June or early July that Mr. Wilson's wife worked at the C.I.A. The indictment says that Ms. Martin learned the information from "another government official" and shared that information with Mr. Libby.

Mr. Grossman, who served under Colin L. Powell, left the government in January and is now a private consultant. Mr. Addington, still Mr. Cheney's counsel, has been a major participant in debates within the administration about the treatment of terror suspects, and whether those held at the American facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, should face military tribunals. Mr. Hannah, a Middle East specialist, was a main liaison between the vice president's office and Ahmad Chalabi, who as an Iraqi exile was a major force in urging the administration toward war.

Mr. Hannah and Mr. Libby were also the main authors of a 48-page draft speech prepared in January 2003 that was intended to make the administration's case for war in Iraq before the United Nations. The draft was provided to Mr. Powell before his speech to the Security Council on Feb. 5, 2003. But most of its contents were cast aside by Mr. Powell and Mr. Tenet, who ultimately rejected many claims related to Iraq, its weapons program and terrorism as exaggerated and unwarranted.

* Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company


Informant: Walter Lippmann

Fitzgerald's Libby High Five Puts the Focus on Iraq

The five counts against Scooter Libby is a high five for those of us who have been saying (ad nauseum, ad infinitum) that the heart of Plamegate has always been the way this administration did everything in its power to cover up the lies and deceptions it used to lead us into a reckless and unnecessary war.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/fitzgeralds-libby-high-f_b_9696.html


From Information Clearing House

Now it’s about the Niger forgeries

Expected to replace Libby as Cheney’s chief of staff is David Addington, a principal author of the White House memo justifying the torture of terrorism suspects.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10815.htm

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2005

Libby was a driving force behind Iraq war

In high-level policy meetings at the White House, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was often in the background, a deputy listening to the views of principals such as his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://tinyurl.com/coptn


From Information Clearing House

Open Letter To The "honorable" Dick Cheney

I am against torturing prisoners for any reason – for the simple reason that I have no interest in being considered as barbaric as those we label as terrorists.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10812.htm

Bush calls Iran and Syria 'outlaw regimes'

President George W. Bush on Friday called Iran and Syria "outlaw regimes" and said countries that support terrorism are just as guilty of murder as those who commit the violence.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10817.htm

Scooter Meet José Padilla

Suddenly, Bush Embraces Right of Fair Trials

By DAVE LINDORFF

When President Bush was confronted by reporters as he left the White House for Camp David following the announcement of the five indictments of, and the resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney chief of state I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, he offered up a lame comment, which at the same time exposed him as a grotesque hypocrite.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10810.htm

Indicting America

by Scott Ritter

The indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald provides the most cogent and visible evidence to date of the criminal mindset that exists inside the Bush administration regarding the decision to invade Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10820.htm
http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=94934;show_parent=1

Forging the Case for War

Who was behind the Niger uranium documents?

by Philip Giraldi

Information developed by Italian investigators indicates that the documents were produced in Italy with the connivance of the Italian intelligence service. It also reveals that the introduction of the documents into the American intelligence stream was facilitated by Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith’s Office of Special Plans (OSP), a parallel intelligence center set up in the Pentagon to develop alternative sources of information in support of war against Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10816.htm



Forging the case for war

The American Conservative
by Philip Giraldi

In January 2001, there was a break-in at the Niger Embassy in Rome. Documents were stolen but no valuables. The break-in was subsequently connected to, among others, Rocco Martino, who later provided the dossier to Panorama. Italian investigators now believe that Martino, with SISMI acquiescence, originally created a Niger dossier in an attempt to sell it to the French, who were managing the uranium concession in Niger and were concerned about unauthorized mining. Martino has since admitted to the Financial Times that both the Italian and American governments were behind the eventual forgery of the full Niger dossier as part of a disinformation operation... (for publication 11/21/05)

http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_11_07/feature.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Mexico Ratifies War Crimes Tribunal Treaty

Mexico became the 100th country to ratify the treaty founding the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, which the United States has opposed.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102905F.shtml

At Least 7 in Cabinet Knew of Plame's ID

At least seven Bush administration officials outside the CIA knew Valerie Plame was a CIA employee before the disclosure of her name in a column by Robert Novak in July 2003, according to the indictment Friday of I. Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102905B.shtml

Our 27 Months of Hell

Joseph Wilson, the diplomat whose wife's name was leaked by Bush administration officials, makes his case for feeling vindicated by Friday's indictment of the vice president's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Wilson goes on to describe the, "two-year smear campaign orchestrated by senior officials in the Bush White House against my wife and me."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102905A.shtml

Who's on First? The fight over who lied us into war

Maureen Dowd reveals the back story of this indictment, which is about the ongoing Tong wars of the CIA, the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon: the fight over who lied us into war.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102905Y.shtml

For full coverage of the CIA leak investigation, go to our Special Coverage Page.

Mr. Fitzgerald Calling
http://www.truthout.org/fitzgeraldcalling.shtml

War-Like or Liking War?

Outside of the United States and his fundamentalist Christian base, who doesn't now have complete contempt for George W. Bush? What foreign leader can feel the same way about America it once did? Why does the rest of the world fear us? And they do fear us. Once, not long ago, America was admired. Because of George Bush, they do not like or trust us. By proclaiming they are either for us or against us has now put them all firmly against us.

"He's poisoned alliances; he's torn up treaties. He has convinced foes they had better get nuclear weapons, and get them quick. He's made America the global enemy of law and order. No enemy of human rights, or of the environment, or of a realistic approach to dealing with the problems of living sanely on this planet is friendless as long as George W. Bush is in the White House." 1

"George Bush has destroyed belief in America's goodness and America's wisdom among hundreds of millions of people. Gratuitously, with his trademark smirk, he's turned a friendly world into a hostile world. Nations and people who once saw America as a global protector now see the United States as the greatest threat to civilized human values currently at large in the world."

http://pnews.org/ArT/WaR/CoP.shtml

Hunger in America rises by 43 percent over last five years

More than 38 million Americans go hungry, including nearly 14 million children.

Waltham, MA, Oct. 28, 2005 Hunger in American households has risen by 43 percent over the last five years, according to an analysis of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data released today. The analysis, completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, shows that more than 7 million people have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999.

The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, says that 38.2 million Americans live in households that suffer directly from hunger and food insecurity, including nearly 14 million children. That figure is up from 31 million Americans in 1999.

For full article see:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-10/bu-hia102805.php

To address this and other hunger related issues Valley residents and their friends are invited to attend a forum focusing on the crisis of hunger in the San Fernando Valley. The event is co-sponsored by Valley Interfaith Council (VIC) and other anti-hunger organizations and hosted by the Northridge United Methodist Church, 9650 Reseda Blvd. from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, October 30th. Featured speaker, Congresswoman Hilda Solis (32nd District), a member of the Congressional Hunger Caucus, will consider the problem, and possible solutions to it. For more information contact Rhetta Alexander by phone at VIC, 818/718-6460, ext. 3007 or by email at ralexander@vic-la.org.


Informant: Bob Nienhuis

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The analysis, completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, shows that more than 7 million people have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051029093925.htm

Localized Effects of Microwave Radiation on the Intact Eye Lens in Culture Conditions

I attach the study.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/lens_phones_technion_study.pdf


Iris Atzmon.


From: Robert Riedlinger
To: Iris Atzmon
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:10 PM
Subject: BLINDING PHONES? -

From FEB Sweden July 2 1998

BLINDING PHONES?

Aftonbladet (evening newspaper) reports that two men, one Anders Olsson aged 38, and another Krister Nyberg, both fom the northern town of Sundsvall in Sweden, became blind in the eye positioned closest to the cell phone. Both have used their phones extensiveley for many years. Krister Nyberg's problem started after eight years of extensive usage. He had intense pain in the one eye and had to stay in dark rooms. Doctors informed him that he had ulcers on the cornea, but could not explain why. Then his vision became blurred suddenly. It was discovered that he had a blood clot in the eye which could not be saved. He is now blind in one eye.

Nyberg later came in contact with Anders Olsson, who also had a blood clot in the eye due to extensive cell phone usage. Both men are convinced, according to the article that their partial blindness is due to the use of cell phones. Why else would only the eye closest to the cell phone be affected they say. In the same town, there are another two individuals who also supposedly have lost an eye due to cell phone usage.

(Reporter: Caroline Hougner, Aftonbladet, Stockholm).

Comment: We must be observant on the possible effects from microwaves from cellphones. It is in Sweden Norway and Finland one should be most observant. That is where we have most cellphones per person int he world and where they have been in use over a longer period than elsewhere. We in Scandinavia are apparently only too happy to be guineapigs for the rest of the world! We shall keep you informed! July 2, 1998


Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists
By Peter Zimonjic

(Filed: 07/08/2005)

Prolonged use of mobile phones can lead to permanent eye damage including cataracts, scientists believe.

Medical researchers have found that microwave radiation of the type emitted by mobile phones causes eye tissue to "bubble" - a precursor to the formation of cataracts - and can also interfere with the ability to focus. The risk of permanent eye damage from mobile phone use has been revealed by radiation tests on calves' eyes

Professor Levi Schächter, who led the Israeli team which conducted the study, warned: "Our results show that microwaves can cause irreparable damage. Our advice to people with mobile phones is not to use them if they have the option of using a land line until we can conduct more research."

The new findings will reignite the debate into the safety of mobile phones, after warnings from a Government minister earlier this year that parents should be "very careful" about how much time children spend talking on their handsets. More than 50 million mobiles are in use in Britain.

The new study, conducted by the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, found clear risk to eyesight.

Scientists exposed lenses taken from male calves - whose eyes, until they are two years old, have close similarities to humans' - to mild heat, comparable to the raised temperature caused by extended mobile phone use, and to microwave radiation no greater than emissions from mobile phones. After two weeks the lenses, kept in a culture medium, were compared with others which had not been similarly exposed, to identify biological changes.

Prof Schächter's team found that the exposed lenses were less able to focus clearly on a beam of light, which would cause an eye to record a blurred image - but found that over time, when exposure stopped, the damage healed. However the exposure also caused bubbles to form within the tissue of the lens, which did not disappear over time - an indication of development of cataracts, or permanent eye damage.

Prof Schächter said: "There has been much research to determine whether mobile phones cause cancer or brain damage, but until now very little on their effects on vision."

Shortly after the study was published in the Journal of Bioelectromagnetics the authors were invited to present their findings to the Israeli parliamentary health committee. The country's health advisory body subsequently urged the Israeli government to fund more such studies.

Last year a major review by the International Commission for Non-Ionising Radiation of all published research concluded that there was "no consistent or convincing evidence of a causal relation" between mobile phone use and any adverse health effects.

However, the new findings have provoked consternation in Britain. Dr Michael Clark, a spokesman for the Health Protection Agency, said British researchers should broaden the range of possible dangers being investigated.

"This is a good piece of work that is properly published and we are looking at it carefully," he said. "If future research delivers the same or similar results then public health practices may need to be re-examined."

Publishers wishing to reproduce photographs on this page should phone 44 (0) 207 538 7505 or e-mail syndication@telegraph.co.uk

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Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1085216/

Die Bush-Regierung stürzt in ihre bislang schwerste Krise

"Fitzmas in October"

Sonderermittler Fitzgerald erhebt erste Anklage gegen den Stabschef des US-Vizepräsidenten Lewis Libby, der bereits zurückgetreten ist - Die Bush-Regierung stürzt damit in die bislang schwerste Krise.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21240/1.html

The Libby Indictment Beginning of the End? Watergate 2005?

Gotterdammerung for the Bushies?

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

Scooter Libby was the lawyer who got the charges dropped against billionaire scamster Marc Rich back in Clintontime. But that had more to do with Rich's billions than with any legal talents Libby may have. On the evidence of the indictment brought by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on Friday, October 28, one fact stands out: SCOOTER LIBBY IS INCREDIBLY STUPID.

And this is what CounterPunch gets from the Fitzgerald indictment as a whole.

Special prosecutor Fitzgerald could have suggested that there is a cancer growing on the presidency, metastasizing out of Dick Cheney's suite. He could have stated, or even hinted that yesterday's indictment of Libby is the first drum roll in a mighty symphony of prosecutorial onslaughts on felonious conduct in high places.

But special prosecutor Fitzgerald did none of these things. He trailed his coat plenty of times. In his indictment of Libby he opens a couple of doors a few inches, so that the attentive reader can see footprints that head off towards the vice president's office. But then the door shuts and there's no evidence that special prosecutor has an appetite to prise it open again.

Despite all the enormous hopes vested in the Plame affair, that it is playing the same role in the downfall of the Bush administration as did the "third-rate rate burglary" that kicked off Watergate, this could be the end of the story, even if Fitzgerald has said there might have to be further investigation of Karl Rove, identified in the Indictments as Official A.

Back to Libby and his stupidity. Put yourself in his shoes. You are about to go before a grand jury and testify under oath. You know that the special prosecutor has successfully subpoenaed White House and CIA logs. Your lawyer whispers in your ear that the three most beautiful words in the English language are "I don't recall". He claps you on the back and, alone and unarmed, you enter the grand jury room. You raise your right hand and swear solemnly that you will testify to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God.

And here's nice Mr Fitzgerald asking you questions and you tell one staggering lie after another. Not sneaky little half truths. Not mincing little evasions. No, Sir! Not this Scooter! I work for Dick Cheney and I can really, really tell a lie. And you do! You fire off volley after volley of brazen falsehoods, stretchers so ripe with willful and considered mendacity that it's a marvel the words don't explode in the jury room like methane in an overheated pile of manure.

Fitzgerald: If you did not understand the information about Wilson's wife to have been classified and didn't understand it when you heard it from Mr. Russert, why was it that you were so deliberate to make sure that you told other reporters that reporters were saying it and not assert it as something you knew?

Libby: I want --I didn't want to --I didn't know if it was true and I didn't want people --I didn't want the reporters to think it was true because I said it. I --all I had was that reporters are telling us that, and by that I wanted them to understand it wasn't coming from me and that it might not be true. Reporters write things that aren't true sometimes, or get things that aren't true. So I wanted to be clear they didn't, they didn't think it was me saying it. I didn't know it was true and I wanted them to understand that. Also, it was important to me to let them know that because what I was telling them was that I don't know Mr. Wilson. We didn't ask for his mission. That I didn't see his report.

Basically, we didn't know anything about him until this stuff came out in June. And among the other things, I didn't know he had a wife. That was one of the things I said to Mr. Cooper. I don't know if he's married. And so I wanted to be very clear about all this stuff that I didn't, I didn't know about him. And the only thing I had, I thought at the time, was what reporters are telling us.

And of course there in the investigative dossier on the table in front of nice Mr Fitzgerald are all the records of Libby's urgent probes into Wilson and Plames' relationship and activities weeks and months before he talked to Russert or to Cooper. The grand jurors must have looked at Libby, thinking, This idiot spouting perjuries at us is Vice President Cheney's chief of staff? Our taxpayer money is paying this moron's salary.

This is what CounterPunch gets from Plamegate, and what we always got from Plamegate. The people in charge of the nation's destinies these last five years are very, very stupid. Only really stupid people could have thought that outing Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA employee was a good way of undercutting her husband, Joe Wilson. Cheney is stupid. Rose is stupid. Bush is stupid. Libby, about whom we now have a heap of useful material, is very, very stupid.

It's only because we have a lazy and venal press that this hasn't been conclusively rammed into the public's mind years ago. But the press is lazy, venal and complicit.

Tim Russert wasn't calling on Libby to probe for secrets. He was there, according to Fitzgerald's indictment, to listen to Libby's complaint that a staffer of MSNBC had been rude about him, Libby. Cooper of Time wasn't there to disinter the dark mysteries of the yellow cake scam. He was there to have a good gossip.

Now it could be that Scooter Libby's next lawyer will sit down with his client and tell him that he's going to the joint for a lot longer that Judy Miller's 85 days in prison unless he opens up for special prosecutor Fitzgerald some investigative avenues so promising, so sensational, that Mr Fitzgerald begins to see himself as a major star in the political firmament. Maybe.

Or he may say, Scooter, cop a plea asap, do some time and then let the President pardon you on his way out of Dodge, same way as Clinton pardoned your former client Marc Rich, and the same way Bush's Dad, as one of his last acts in power, on December 4, 1992, pardoned Caspar Weinberger, Duane R. Clarridge, Clair E. George, Robert C. McFarlane, Elliott Abrams, and Alan G. Fiers Jr., all of whom had been indicted and/or convicted of charges by Independent Counsel Walsh in the Contragate affair.

In fact Bush Sr pardoned Weinberger, though he was scheduled to stand trial two weeks later, so maybe Scooter will hang tough and just try to run out the clock.

So we somehow doubt that the Plame Affair still has legs, but even so, we have to go back to the early 1970s to find rubble so satisfactorily piled up around our imperial government.

In Nixon's case, top officials and aides forced into resignation and in many cases prison, included the vice president, the head of the FBI, two attorneys general and four senior White House staffers.

On March 1, 1974, a grand jury named President Nixon, among others, as an unindicted coconspirator, for obstruction of justice concerning suppression of evidence such as the White House tapes. In August of that year Nixon resigned.

Yes, it was quite a holocaust at the top executive level. But many imperial institutions sailed through the crisis supposedly ennobled. Kissinger's stature was not dented and indeed his sway over State Department and Empire was consolidated. President Ford had no option but to maintain him as the arbiter of America 's policies around the world.

The US Supreme Court sailed on, led by Nixon's chosen instrument, Warren Burger. Both the US Senate and House of Representatives gained an heroic aura as the tv cameras turned Sam Ervin and even Howard Baker into saviors of the Republic. The Democratic Party emerged with credit and huge majorities in November '74.

Most of all, the Fourth Estate was anointed (mostly by itself) as the vanquisher of despotism.

Contrast this to the inferno that now threatens the Imperial Establishment on every front. Since Nixon-time the Republic has had 31 years to run to seed, fatter and more corrupt.

Already the most powerful politician in Washington , House majority leader Tom DeLay, is under indictment and in consequence stripped of his official position. The future looks grim for Senator Bill Frist, who faces SEC and Justice Department probes for insider trading.

On Capitol Hill there's open warfare between various factions of the Republican Party, which this week climaxed with the conservative faction successfully rejecting Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the US Supreme Court, an incredible humiliation for the President. With midterm elections looming and Bush's public approval ratings tumbling, the collapse of discipline will only accelerate amid the general panic.

The Bush high command is in utter disrepute, openly attacked by Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, as a dictatorial cabal.

Bush's deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, has been distracted and -- so the Miers fiasco showed, offered poor counsel his boss, whose presidency hangs over the precipice of ruin.

Consider the gloomy vista from Bush the Unlucky's Oval Office, where even the birds in the Rose Garden are omens of yet another national crisis (which is scheduled to provide a bonanza to the drug companies, which a US Senate subcommitee just voted to hold free of any liability if their flu vaccines have the same lethal potential as they did in the swine flu panic a generation ago.)

In Iraq the war is faring disastrously and here in the Homeland it's increasingly unpopular. The hurricanes have blown away all remaining public illusions about the venality and incompetence of the President and his cronies. The economy is rickety and a long-feared end to the housing boom may be upon us. Symbolizing the sense that the jig is up, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is heading into retirement just before the roof falls in.

Internationally, the US has rarely been more despised. The armed forces are demoralized and the reserve system in ruins.

Is there any institution not compromised, not held in popular contempt? This crisis has no Woodward or Bernstein to lend it luster. There is no doughty popular hero at hand. The journalist's name on every lip is that of Judith Miller, named coconspirator in the fomentation of a war that has seen the deaths of 2000 Americans thus far. The New York Times is in a state of civil war, just like the Republican Party.

There's no sign that the Democratic Party is gaining any traction from the Republican collapse. With good reason. Never has a party been offered so many opportunities and taken so little advantage from them. So far as the war is concerned, powerful Democrats like Joseph Biden and Hillary Clinton are calling for more troops. Greenspan's long and pock-marked tenure as the bankers' bulwark draws tearful cries of gratitude from Democrats like Senator Paul Sarbanes.

In 2005 it is impossible to link the Democrats with a single courageous stand or even constructive idea. This week the party's top strategists -- mesmerized by the twenty-first century's answer to the Framers, Dr George Lakoff's childish nostrums -- were wrangling over two possible slogans, "Together, we can do better," or "Together, America can do better."

Meanwhile over 100,000 older Americans lined up in mid October to file bankruptcy before the old wipe-the-slate-clean Chapter 7 law expired. More than half of these bankrupts have been ruined by health costs. The new bankruptcy law, written by the banks and credit card companies, made it through the Congress only with the help of Democratic votes in the senate, which were duly forthcoming as they always are.

If a Democrat, John Kerry, had captured the White House in 2004, would this have made a difference? Yes. The imperial machine would be probably be running more smoothly. The war in Iraq would have been given a new infusion of malign energy. You doubt this? It's hard to keep up with his somersaults, but listen to Professor Juan Cole, liberal Democratic guru on Iraq . He now says (in an interview with the Nation Institute's Tom Engelhardt) that for the US to "up and leave" Iraq would be to become an accomplice in genocide. He counsels the heightened use in Iraq of "special forces and air power". In other words, assassinations and saturation bombing. Come home Robert McNamara, all is -- yet again -- forgiven.

It's not the role of radicals to call for the election of a more efficient strategist and engineer of a bloodthirsty and rapacious empire, Kerry's only claim on the voters' attention anyone remembers. So let us give thanks that Bush is in the White House, and holding the Imperial fleet on a steady course to the rocks.

Footnote: Portions of the second half of his column ran in the edition of the Nation that went to press last week.


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Informant: Dave Silver

From ufpj-news

Vaccine Ingredients - Be VERY Aware

Subj: Press Release*Send your own demands in truth on this one*Media addies at the end

Date: 10/29/2005 11:30:40 AM Eastern Standard Time
From: Mofmars3
To: TIME2TELLTRUTH

Most of you already know not to take vaccines, but here is another grim reminder. Forward to everyone you love.

Please forward everywhere for the sake of children everywhere.

Two email lists posted here...some are repeats...no time to combine yet...Send to both with two separate email addies if you have them.

Or both for that matter with your one.

Just don't forget to add>>>

"We The People United Movement"
We are many Political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help right the wrongs in America..."United We Will Stand"

From: Herb McKirgan
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2005 12:12 AM
To: abovethefog
Subject: IN - SIGHTS! - Vaccine Ingredients - Be VERY Aware!

Hello Everyone,

During this time of the year, especially, the fascist U.S. government and its pharmaceutical puppeteers work overtime in scaring the crap out of everyone so they mindlessly line up for their vaccinations so they don't "get sick." Yeah, RIGHT! Most people who get the Frankenstein flu shots GET the flu ... get Alzheimers disease from them ... or worse yet ... even DIE from them.

I wouldn't even wish this evil quackery on someone I didn't like. Would you WANT one of your loved-ones to be injected with these ingredients? If you care about someone, make sure you get this information to them immediately, BEFORE they follow the rest of the sheep over the cliff.

All we need is love,

Herb


-----Original Message-----
From: PLANETNEWS@aol.com
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 7:29 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Vaccine Ingredients

Vaccine Ingredients -
Formaldehyde,
Aspartame,
Mercury, Etc

11-11-4 This following list of common vaccines and their ingredients should shock anyone. The numbers of microbes, antibiotics, chemicals, heavy metals and animal byproducts is staggering. Would you knowingly inject these materials into your children? Acel-Immune DTaP - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum hydroxide, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin Act HIB Haemophilus - Influenza B Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463 * Haemophilus influenza Type B, polyribosylribitol phosphate ammonium sulfate, formalin, and sucrose Attenuvax - Measles Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372 * measles live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryo Biavax - Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800-672-6372 * rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue BioThrax - Anthrax Adsorbed BioPort Corporation 517.327.1500 * nonencapsulated strain of Bacillus anthracis aluminum hydroxide, benzethonium chloride, and formaldehyde DPT - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231 * diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and acellular pertussis adsorbed, formaldehyde, aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, and thimerosal, washed sheep RBCs Dryvax - Smallpox (not licensed d/t expiration) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins Engerix-B Recombinant Hepatitis B GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231 * genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal Fluvirin Medeva Pharmaceuticals 888.MEDEVA 716.274.5300 * influenza virus, neomycin, polymyxin, beta-propiolactone, chick embryonic fluid FluShield Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * trivalent influenza virus, types A&B gentamicin sulphate formadehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) chick embryonic fluid Havrix - Hepatitis A GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231 * hepatitis A virus, formalin, aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethanol, and polysorbate 20 residual MRC5 proteins -human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue HiB Titer - Haemophilus Influenza B Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * haemophilus influenza B, polyribosylribitol phosphate, yeast, ammonium sulfate, thimerosal, and chemically defined yeast-based medium Imovax Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463 * rabies virus adsorbed, neomycin sulfate, phenol, red indicator human albumin, human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue IPOL Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463 * 3 types of polio viruses neomycin, streptomycin, and polymyxin B formaldehyde, and 2-phenoxyethenol continuous line of monkey kidney cells JE-VAX - Japanese Ancephalitis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE * Nakayama-NIH strain of Japanese encephalitis virus, inactivated formaldehyde, polysorbate 80 (Tween-80), and thimerosal mouse serum proteins, and gelatin LYMErix - Lyme GlaxoSmithKline 888-825-5249 * recombinant protein (OspA) from the outer surface of the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi kanamycin aluminum hydroxide, 2-phenoxyethenol, phosphate buffered saline MMR - Measles-Mumps-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * measles, mumps, rubella live virus, neomycin sorbitol, hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue M-R-Vax - Measles-Rubella Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * measles, rubella live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin, chick embryonic fluid, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue Menomune - Meningococcal Connaught Laboratories 800.822.2463 * freeze-dried polysaccharide antigens from Neisseria meningitidis bacteria, thimerosal, and lactose Meruvax I - Mumps Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * mumps live virus neomycin sorbitol hydrolized gelatin NYVAC - (new smallpox batch, not licensed) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE * highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B, sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins Orimune - Oral Polio Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * 3 types of polio viruses, attenuated neomycin, streptomycin sorbitol monkey kidney cells and calf serum Pneumovax - Streptococcus Pneumoniae Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * capsular polysaccharides from polyvalent (23 types), pneumococcal bacteria, phenol, Prevnar Pneumococcal - 7-Valent Conjugate Vaccine Wyeth Lederle 800.934.5556 * saccharides from capsular Streptococcus pneumoniae antigens (7 serotypes) individually conjugated to diphtheria CRM 197 protein aluminum phosphate, ammonium sulfate, soy protein, yeast RabAvert - Rabies Chiron Behring GmbH & Company 510.655.8729 * fixed-virus strain, Flury LEP neomycin, chlortetracycline, and amphotericin B, potassium glutamate, and sucrose human albumin, bovine gelatin and serum "from source countries known to be free of bovine spongioform encephalopathy," and chicken protein Rabies Vaccine Adsorbed GlaxoSmithKline 800.366.8900 x5231 *rabies virus adsorbed, beta-propiolactone, aluminum phosphate, thimerosal, and phenol, red rhesus monkey fetal lung cells Recombivax - Recombinant Hepatitis B Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * genetic sequence of the hepatitis B virus that codes for the surface antigen (HbSAg), cloned into GMO yeast, aluminum hydroxide, and thimerosal RotaShield - Oral Tetravalent Rotavirus (recalled) Wyeth-Ayerst 800.934.5556 * 1 rhesus monkey rotavirus, 3 rhesus-human reassortant live viruses neomycin sulfate, amphotericin B potassium monophosphate, potassium diphosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) rhesus monkey fetal diploid cells, and bovine fetal serum smallpox (not licensed due to expiration) 40-yr old stuff "found" in Swiftwater, PA freezer Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE * live vaccinia virus, with "some microbial contaminants," according to the Working Group on Civilian Biodefense polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins Smallpox (new, not licensed) Acambis, Inc. 617.494.1339 in partnership with Baxter BioScience * highly-attenuated vaccinia virus, polymyxcin B sulfate, streptomycin sulfate, chlortetracycline hydrochloride, and neomycin sulfate glycerin, and phenol -a compound obtained by distillation of coal tar vesicle fluid from calf skins TheraCys BCG (intravesicle -not licensed in US for tuberculosis) Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE * live attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis monosodium glutamate (MSG), and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) Tripedia - Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE *Corynebacterium diphtheriae and Clostridium tetani toxoids and acellular Bordetella pertussis adsorbed aluminum potassium sulfate, formaldehyde, thimerosal, and polysorbate 80 (Tween-80) gelatin, bovine extract US-sourced Typhim Vi - Typhoid Aventis Pasteur USA SA 800.VACCINE * cell surface Vi polysaccharide from Salmonella typhi Ty2 strain, aspartame, phenol, and polydimethylsiloxane (silicone) Varivax - Chickenpox Merck & Co., Inc. 800.672.6372 * varicella live virus neomycin phosphate, sucrose, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) processed gelatin, fetal bovine serum, guinea pig embryo cells, albumin from human blood, and human diploid cells from aborted fetal tissue YF-VAX - Yellow Fever Aventis Pasteur USA 800.VACCINE * 17D strain of yellow fever virus sorbitol chick embryo, and gelatin http://www.informedchoice.info/cocktail.html Vaccine Liberation Information http://www.vaclib.org/pdf/exemption.htm
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Scooter Libby's role in the US national security state

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3553/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

The Case Against Scooter Libby

The indictment says Scooter Libby learned about Mrs. Wilson first from a senior State Department official, then from a CIA officer, and then from Mr. Cheney himself. Diplomat, Joseph Wilson, went to Niger in 2002 at the request of the Central Intelligence Agency to investigate allegations that Iraq tried to buy uranium to make a nuclear bomb. Mr. Wilson reported back that the uranium story was unfounded. But Mr. Cheney's team kept on pushing the claim.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102905Z.shtml

051029 - R - Mobilfunk - Newsletter

http://www.omega-news.info/051029_r_mobilfunk_newsletter.rtf

051028 - R - Mobilfunk - Newsletter

http://www.omega-news.info/051028_r_mobilfunk_newsletter.rtf

Omega-News Collection 29. October 2005

http://www.blog.de/main/index.php/omega_bloggt/2005/10/29/omega_news_collection_29_october~269053

EMF-Omega-News 29. October 2005

http://omega_bloggt.blog.de/main/index.php/omega_bloggt/2005/10/29/emf_omega_news_29_october~269039

Architecs of Torture

To: Media Email addies at the end
Hide all addies but O'Reilly's if you will.

Mofmars3


Click here: Architecs of Torture (Abu Ghraib) (Guantanamo) 'Nuremburg Reborn'

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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Col. Janis Karpinski, the Former Head of Abu Ghraib, Admits She Broke the Geneva Conventions But Says the Blame "Goes All the Way to The Top”

"We The People United Movement"
We are many Political and Patriot Groups joining together, to help right the wrongs in America..."United We Will Stand"


There's a second media list someone sent after the first..Some repeated emails...If someone had the time to combine and alphabetize so we know there's no repeats that would be great

Other wise if you have two screen names...Please send to both lists as they are for now

Let's blitz them into outer space...It's imperative we all use our "WeThe People United" Phrase...That's how they'll know we "are" many


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THE WAR OVER THE LEAK

http://tinyurl.com/9jcre

RESURGENCE OF THE WARFARE STATE: The Crisis Since 9/11

by Robert Higgs

A book that practically wrote itself and that will carry you at light speed through its impassioned pages.

Soon after the 9/11 terrorist assault, editors began ringing up Robert Higgs—world-famous for his insights into how the state exploits crises to expand its resources and reach—to solicit commentary on the attacks and the U.S. government's response. Higgs did not realize that the early post-mortems "would be only the opening chapter of a continuing engagement that has now stretched more than three-and-a-half years—and seems likely to go on indefinitely."

These concise, wide-ranging pieces, sometimes calm and musing, sometimes sardonic and satirical, offer a long-view perspective that is all too rare among pundits. They're nothing if not informative—and provocative.

* The moral status of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

* "Nothing works as well as a crisis, real or perceived, for bringing discredited, seemingly moribund ideas back to life." Case in point: the draft, now pitched as a means of social leveling.

* Has President Bush been reading the wrong book?

* The good-old-boy fraternity at the TSA: "80 contracts worth some $54 million without normal competitive bidding." The accounting mess at the Pentagon.

* Myths of U.S. national security. Myth #1: "That the Defense Department protects the American people in America."

* The new free-for-all in federal spending. "In the immortal words of Boeing vice president Kerry Stonecipher, 'the purse is now open.'"

* One author arrested for reading the Bill of Rights. Another for reading the Constitution. Who were they? During which war were they hauled away?

* Why the defense budget is almost twice as fat as officially reported.

* "Before I explain why it is imperative that President Bush nuke France, I should make clear that I harbor no ill will whatsoever toward the French."

* The power to make war: "[I]n our system the president has come to hold power of war and peace exclusively in his hands, notwithstanding anything to the contrary written in the Constitution or the laws. He might as well be Caesar."

Robert Higgs is a formidable foe if you differ with him, a formidable ally if he's on your side. Read these essays and be prepared to duck if need be... but read them!

Click this link to read an excerpt from the book:
http://laissezfairebooks.com/index.php?action=help&helpfile=resurgenceexcerpt.html


Informant: KeyzerSzoze

Do Not Work At Wal-Mart

A new confidential Wal-Mart memo provides a fascinating glimpse into the minds of those crafting its "benefits" policy.

http://www.tompaine.com/uncommonsense/index.php#6586

Faith In Fitzgerald

by TomPaine.com Readers

Suburban reality, Fitzgerald's chance and the justice of giving: Readers react in this week's letters.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051028/faith_in_fitzgerald_your_letters.php

With the first indictments filed, what can we expect from the Fitzgerald investigation?

What To Expect Next

by Elizabeth de la Vega, TomPaine.com

With the first indictments filed, what can we expect from the Fitzgerald investigation? A former federal prosecutor explains.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051028/what_to_expect_next.php

Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal that sold America an unjust war

Dick And Don's Cabal

by the TomPaine.com Editors

With Libby indicted, that's one down, 28 to go. Here's our official guide to the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal that sold America an unjust war.

http://www.tompaine.com/cabal/

Keep Investigating, Fitz

by Robert Dreyfuss, TomPaine.com

After two years, Fitzgerald must have the evidence to roll up the entire Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal. And he should do so.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051028/keep_investigating_fitz.php

How Workers Are Treated in Each State

Delaware, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa rank highest; Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Utah, South Carolina rank lowest. States that rate poorly in job opportunities, job quality and workplace fairness do not provide better economic climates.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/102805LA.shtml

White House Spin Doctor Is Ill

While indictment fever gripped the Washington press corps this month, the president's spin doctor was incapacitated. According to Norman Solomon, an ailing Karl Rove could not help the Republican search for a media cure.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805T.shtml

Speak Out, You Are Not Alone

"I believe the greater good for Justin and for all others in our Armed Forces is served by persistently and prominently placing the human, environmental and economic costs of this illegal war in the public eye. By all means, speak out. You are not alone." - Deborah Regal.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805S.shtml

Smoking Guns and Red Herrings

The grand jury, supervised by US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, has returned an indictment charging Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide and reputed "alter-ego" I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby with perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements to the grand jury. But this indictment does not end the story; rather, a close reading suggests that these charges are most likely merely a chapter in a long and tragic story.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805R.shtml

Deconstructing the Indictment

Stirling Newberry analyzes the Libby indictment. Stirling deconstructs the indictment and raises the questions that need to be asked.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805Q.shtml

Congressman Dennis Kucinich: The Buck Does Not Stop With Libby

Congressman Dennis Kucinich On CIA Leak Indictments: Not About A Single Aide, But Effort To Sell The War; The Buck Does Not Stop With Libby.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1028-03.htm

The Responsibility for Lying to the American People and Targeting Critics Needs to Go All the Way Up the Chain of Command



Cindy Sheehan: Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's Indictment is a Welcome Development but, the Responsibility for Lying to the American People and Targeting Critics Needs to Go All the Way Up the Chain of Command.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1028-15.htm



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Conyers asks: What Did the President and Vice President Know and When Did They Know It?

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/1028-12.htm

Comrades in Disarming

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1028-23.htm

Rove Unmasked

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1028-20.htm

Dems Can Revitalize Party

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1028-29.htm

The Criminalization of Criminals

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1028-21.htm

Katrina Survivors are Losing the Battle

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1028-26.htm

For Now: U.S. Congress Says No to Ground-Penetrating Nukes

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1028-04.htm

Humiliated Bush Forced to Retreat as Moral Right Turns its Guns on Him

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1028-02.htm

Is the United States Becoming Hostile to Science?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1028-06.htm

Big Rise in Profit Puts Oil Giants on Defensive

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1028-01.htm

VP Chief of Staff Libby Indicted on 5 Felony Counts, Resigns

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1028-21.htm

Indictment of Cheney’s top aide ‘plunges Bush administration into turmoil’

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3549/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

PROFILE: Irving Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3550/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Health damage to citizens in Israel from broadcast radiation

http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=273

From Martin Weatherall:

There is quite a lot of information here about the health damage to citizens in Israel from broadcast radiation.

Martin

http://www.iddd.de/umtsno/emfkrebs/israel.htm#us1802

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SERIOUS CONGLOMERATES OF CANCER AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES THAT HAVE BEEN TIE BY THE POPULATION NEXT TO ANTENNAS OF TELEPHONY http://omega.twoday.net/stories/466717/

BUSH ADMINISTRATION PUSHING DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE ENVELOPE

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin268.htm

A Prosecutor Considers Libby's Indictment

http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt124.html

What’s Happening in the Dugout?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski130.html

Mass Execution as Public Policy

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon12.html

Malevolent Hegemony

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff37.html

Organic Food Standard Ruined By Congress

Congress Rams Through OTA Sneak Attack On Organic Standards Despite Massive Consumer Opposition

From Organic Consumers Association
10-29-5

Changes Were Sought by Large-Scale Food Process ors to Cut Costs of Meeting Current Law. Congress voted yesterday to weaken the nation's organic food standards in response to pressure from large-scale food manufacturers.

The Organic Trade Association (OTA) and food process ors have been pressing Congress to change the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) to allow for the use of numerous synthetic substances in products labeled "organic" and to weaken organic dairy standards.

A recent court decision ruled that the OFPA does not allow synthetic (non-natural) ingredients to be used in foods labeled "organic" and that the act must ensure a strong standard under which dairy cows are converted to organic milk production. After rejecting eff orts by members of the public interest and environmental community to reach an agreement on these issues, major food process ors in the organic food industry, including Smucker's, Dean Foods, and Kraft, pushed Congress to "quietly" change the law to allow the use of such synthetic ingredients and potentially weaken the organic dairy standards.

"Congress voted last night to weaken the national organic standards that consumers count on to preserve the integrity of the organic label," said Ronnie Cummins, National Direct or of the Organic Consumers Association. "The process was profoundly undemocratic and the end result is a serious setback for the multi billion dollar alternative food and farming system that the organic community has so painstakingly built up over the past 35 years. The rider will take away the traditional role of the organic community and the National Organic Standards Board in monitoring and controlling organic standards. Industry's stealth attack has unnecessarily damaged the standards that helped organic foods become the fastest growing sector in the food industry."

As passed, the amendment sponsored by the Organic Trade Association allows:

Numerous synthetic food additives and processing aids, including over 500 food contact substances, to be used in organic foods without public review. · Young dairy cows to continue to be treated with antibiotics and fed genetically engineered feed prior to being converted to organic production. Loopholes under which non- organic ingredients could be substituted for organic ingredients without any notification of the public based on "emergency decrees." The amendment was vigorously opposed by consumer, retail and growers groups, as well as public health and environmental groups, including National Cooperative Grocers Association, National Organic Coalition and Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA, Beyond Pesticides, National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, Organic Consumers Association, and Consumers Union. Consumers sent m ore than 300,000 letters to Congress imploring members to stand up against industry's efforts to weaken the organic standards.

In October 2002, just days after the rules governing organic under NOP were implemented, Maine blueberry farmer Arthur Harvey filed suit against USDA claiming that the USDA regulations governing foods labeled "organic" contravened several principles of the OFPA. Having initially lost on all counts, Harvey prevailed in January 2005 when the Court of Appeals ruled in his favor on the three counts finding:

1. Synthetic substances are not permitted in processing of items labeled as "organic," and only allowed in the "made with organic" labeling categ ory.

2. Provisions allowing up to 20-percent non-organic feed in the first nine months of a dairy herd's one-year conversion to organic production are not permitted.

3. All exemptions for the use of non- organic products "not commercially available in organic f orm" must be reviewed by National Organic Standards Board, and certifiers must review the operator's attempt to source organic.


Informant: beefree

Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens

Bird flu

The Times
October 29, 2005

Scientists aim to beat flu with genetically modified chickens

by Mark Henderson,
Science Correspondent

THE long-term threat of an avian flu pandemic could be greatly reduced by a project to produce genetically modified chickens that can resist lethal strains of the virus.

British scientists are genetically engineering chickens to protect them against the H5N1 virus that has devastated poultry farms in the Far East, with a view to replacing stocks with birds that are not susceptible to influenza.

The technique should also offer protection against many other strains of flu with the potential to start a human pandemic, such as the H7 subgroup that was responsible for an outbreak in Dutch poultry in 2003.

If chicken populations were to be replaced with transgenic birds that were resistant to flu, it would remove a reservoir of the virus and make it much harder for it to spread to humans and trigger a pandemic.

The team, led by Laurence Tiley, Professor of Molecular Virology at Cambridge University, and Helen Sang, of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, has already shown that chicken cells can be protected against flu by inserting small pieces of genetic material.

The researchers are now ready to begin a similar procedure with eggs and the first experiments are expected within weeks. Any breakthrough, however, will come too late to have an impact on the present outbreak of H5N1.

Even if the technique works, it will be several years before it can be used to stock farms and it also faces important regulatory hurdles and a battle to win over public opinion. If these obstacles are overcome and farmers are willing to adopt GM chickens, the entire world stock could be replaced fairly quickly.

"Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world population," Professor Tiley said. "Developing flu-resistant chickens has clear benefits for human health and animal welfare, as we wouldn't have to slaughter chickens around the world. Chickens provide a link between the wild bird population, where avian influenza thrives, and humans, where new pandemic strains can emerge. Removing that bridge will dramatically reduce the risk posed by avian viruses."

The research team is following three parallel approaches. One involves inserting a working copy of a gene that makes an antiviral protein called Mx, which is defective in many chicken breeds, and should improve their ability to fight off H5N1 and other strains.

The second approach is to harness a technique called RNA interference, in which small fragments of the genetic signalling chemical RNA are used to disrupt the workings of the flu virus.

By engineering chicken cells to make small RNA molecules that confuse the flu virus, the scientists hope to confer resistance to a wide variety of strains. The third strategy is similar to the second, but involves using RNA molecules as decoys, which trick the flu virus into copying them rather than itself. All three could potentially be incorporated in the same GM chickens.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25149-1847760,00.html


Informant: beefree

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Now we finally see the bottom line regarding the bird flu and either the greed emerging OR the intended agenda....eliminate all natural chickens, and replace them with genetically engineered chickens. And, if THIS works - then what's to prevent scientists and governments from replacing everything natural with synthetic versions....including humans.

It's a stretch - but not really. How many of you out there ever thought you'd be reading an article of this nature? Remember, Monsanto owns over 60% of the world's seed...and there are other companies that own other percentages. Realistically, there is only about 5% of natural heirloom seed left in the world...and in some countries like Iraq, it's against the law possess natural seed.

Remain aware! Educate others! Post solutions and ideas. We are sitting back and watching this unfold. How can we offset the impact of this? This is about our food source - our basic sustenance. The studies are not conclusive that synthetic/GE/GM foods are healthy for us - and in fact point to them being harmful to us.

Anna


Begin forwarded message:

“Once we have regulatory approval, we believe it will only take between four and five years to breed enough chickens to replace the entire world population,” Professor Tiley said. “Developing flu-resistant chickens has clear benefits for human health and animal welfare, as we wouldn’t have to slaughter chickens around the world. Chickens provide a link between the wild bird population, where avian influenza thrives, and humans, where new pandemic strains can emerge. Removing that bridge will dramatically reduce the risk posed by avian viruses.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25149-1847760,0...

Congress Rams Through OTA Sneak Attack on Organic Standards Despite Massive Consumer Opposition

http://www.organicconsumers.org/sos/weaken102705.cfm


Informant: NHNE

Mobilfunk: Ärzteappell

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz und Mobilfunk

Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz -ein nützlicher Mobilfunk - Informant !

Mobilfunk-Kritiker erkennen verharmloste Fakten zwischen den Zeilen

Obwohl die Angestellten des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz sicherlich weisungsbedingt Rücksicht auf ihren Auftraggeber nehmen müssen, wagen sich dennoch einige ihrer Mitarbeiter in ihrer Meinungsäußerung weit hinaus, zwar mit nur vage umschriebenen Warnungen. Dies tun sie aber öffentlich z. B. im Internet oder durch Vorträge an Universitäten. Mobilfunk-Kritiker mit umfangreichen Kenntnissen der Materie, verstehen aber nicht nur die direkt ausgesprochenen Warnungen des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz, sondern sie sind auch in der Lage die indirekten Warnhinweise zwischen den Zeilen zu erkennen und richtig zu deuten!

In mehreren von mir veröffentlichten Artikel hatte ich auf den wissenschaftlichen Fakt des „MIKROWELLEN – HÖRENS“ hingewiesen, mit dem Vermerk, dass man dies im Internet beim Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz sehr gut nachlesen könne. Daraufhin verschwand dieser Hinweis über das MIKROWELLEN - HÖREN innerhalb von wenigen Tagen von der Internetseite des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz, und ich musste auf Grund dieser Tatsache mehreren Mobilfunk-Kritikern tagelang am Telefon Rede und Antwort stehen, wegen dem nicht mehr auffindbaren Hinweis.

Omega siehe BRUMMTON und TINNITUS durch MOBILFUNK-STRAHLEN unter: http://omega.twoday.net/stories/193948/

Sollte einmal ein endgültiger Nachweis der schweren Schädlichkeit der Mobilfunkstrahlen erbracht werden, so kann man dem Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz nicht vorwerfen, mit der Mobilfunk-Industrie gemeinsame Sache gemacht zu haben, denn man hat in vielen Artikeln und Vorträgen immer wieder im Umgang mit den Mobilfunkstrahlen zur Vorsicht gemahnt und darauf hingewiesen, Mobilfunk möglichst mäßig zu nutzen, bis bessere Erkenntnisse vorhanden sind, die die Unbedenklichkeit der verwendeten Technik beweisen. Damit hat dieses Amt seine Schuldigkeit getan und es kann niemand zur Verantwortung gezogen werden!

Leider hat das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz aber nicht an die Masse der Menschen gedacht, die rund um die Uhr bestrahlt werden, ohne ein Handy zu nutzen. Das Argument einer verminderten Strahlenbelastung durch einen Sendeturm gegenüber einem Handy zieht hier überhaupt nicht.

Dosis und Dauer sind die wissenschaftlichen Fakten! Eine kleine Dosis über Jahre summiert sich zu einem belastenden Faktor in der Zukunft! Wir leben inzwischen in einem Wellensalat von Strahlungen, der unvorstellbar ist und wissen bereits heute, dass man Strahlenbelastungen nicht nur einzeln betrachten darf, es erfolgt eine kumulative belastende Wirkung sämtlicher Strahleneinwirkungen über die Lebensjahre hinweg!Bildlich ausgedrückt werden Strahleneinwirkungen beim Menschen wie auf der Festplatte eines Computers gespeichert, bis die Platte gefüllt ist.

Eine Sonnenbrand-Schädigung im Kindesalter durch UV-Strahlen kann bereits die Zellschädigung für einen 25 Jahre später im Alter auftretenden Hautkrebs gelegt haben. Auf Grund der bisher bereits eindeutig vorhandenen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse fragt man sich jetzt mit Recht, welche Schäden uns die gepulsten Mobilfunkstrahlen heute schon setzen, die die Menschheit in Zukunft aber erst ausbaden muss !

Ein homöopathisches Heilmittel in einer kaum vorstellbar kleinen Menge, ja es ist wissenschaftlich kein Atom des Wirkstoffes mehr nachweisbar, wirkt evtl. nur noch durch die Information des Ausgangsstoffes, aber es kann wirken! Aus dieser Sichtweise sollte man auch die Mobilfunkstrahlen vorsichtig betrachten.

Wissenschaftlich fundierte Schriften sind beim Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz für jedermann oftmals sogar kostenlos erhältlich. Leider halten einige Mobilfunk-Kritiker solche grundlegenden Vorausinformationen für unnötig.

Im Umgang mit vorhandenen Messwerten und den gesetzlichen Grenzwerten ordnen Mobilfunk-Kritiker oft die Begriffe und Größen W/ qm oder W/ qcm,Picowatt - Nanowatt - Mikrowattoder Milliwatt falsch ein oder können mit den Werten nur wenig anfangen.

Damit die Menschen, die nicht täglich mit diesen Daten umgehen, aber entsprechende Infos weiterreichen, sich nicht unwissentlich peinlich blamieren, wenn sie ihren fachlich berechtigten Protest an weniger Informierte weiterleiten, sollten sie sich entsprechende technische Aufklärung doch vorab beschaffen, wobei das Strahlenschutzamt die richtige Adresse ist.

Vorsichtig spricht man beim Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz inzwischen bei der Hochfrequenzstrahlung von bekannten Effekten, die nicht oder nur schwer nachvollziehbar sind, und die daher noch der weiteren wissenschaftlichen Erforschung harren.

Dazu kann man aber dagegen halten, welches Medikament ist denn heute voll erforscht? Bei dem überwiegenden Anteil der Medikamente tappt man im Wissen über die Wirkungsweise oft im Dunkeln, daher spricht man ja auch heute von jährlich mindestens 20 000 Toten im Krankenhausbereich durch fehlerhafte Dosierung bzw. „unvorhergesehene“ Nebenwirkungen der Medikamente, die Dunkelziffer liegt noch viel höher, laut einer dänischen Studie sollen es fast 50 000 Tote sein.

Ein alter Mensch braucht eine andere Dosierung als ein junger Mensch, ein aufs Gewicht bezogene Dosierung wäre notwendig, wird aber nur bei wenigen Krankheiten in einem Krankenhaus oder einer Arztpraxis berücksichtigt. Eine 50 kg-Person wird behandelt wie eine 100 kg-Person, wobei sicherlich einer unterdosiert und der andere überdosiert werden kann! Im Beipack der Medikamente spricht man immer nur vom Jugendlichen oder Erwachsenen, als ob das Alter alleine die entscheidende Rolle bei der Medikamentenwirkung spielen würde! Hier besteht bei unserer pharmazeutischen Industrie ein erheblicher Nachholbedarf in der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung einer gewichtsbezogenen Medikamenten-Dosierung mit Hinweisen für die ärztliche Praxis.

Ähnlich ist es bei der Mobilfunkstrahlung. Die von den Mobilfunk-Antennen ausgestrahlte Energie wird von einem kleinen Körper anders aufgenommen und verarbeitet als von einem größeren Körper, nicht zu sprechen über die wissenschaftlichen Fakten der auftretenden Resonanz-Probleme!

Die Risiken niedriger ionisierender Strahlendosen hat man Jahrzehnte als kaum bedenklich eingestuft. Nach dem heutigen Kenntnisstand und den im Laufe der Jahre gemachten Erfahrungen weiß man inzwischen, dass geringere Strahlenmengen, die man vorher für kaum bedenklich hielt, vor allen Dingen genetische Schäden verursachen und Leukämie sowie Krebs induzieren können. Diese Defekte treten dann oftmals spontan auf und die Gefahr und die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass diese niedrigen Strahlendosen Krebs erzeugen,ist wesentlich größer als man bisher angenommen hatte.

Die Erkenntnisse und Ergebnisse darüber kamen nach 50 Jahren andauernder Beobachtung von über 100 000 Überlebenden der Atombomben-Katastrophe in Nagasaki und Hiroshima zustande.

In unserer Gesundheits-Politik werden statistische Erfassungen oftmals überbewertet, die Probleme des Einzelnen als Minderheit geht in der Masse der Statistik so lange unter, bis die Schäden ein Ausmaß angenommen haben, die sichtbar fatal sind.

Ein elektrosensibler Mensch zahlt bereits heute die Zeche an Krankheit und Leid, die bei vielen Unsensibleren erst in der nächsten Generation deren Kinder zu spüren bekommen!

In der Wirtschaft gibt es Vergleiche. Eine fehlerhafte Produktion wird aus Kostengründen so lange fortgesetzt, bis die Reklamationskosten an den Gewinn-Kosten fressen und aus diesem Grunde die Umstellung der Produktion erforderlich machen. Bedenken muss man hier, dass die gesamte Produktion mit diesem Fehler behaftet war, aber nur ein geringer Prozentsatz der Menschen aus Bequemlichkeit den Schaden monierte, so dass der Produktionsfehler dadurch erst verspätet zwangsläufig korrigiert wurde!

Öfters haben mir Menschen eingestanden, dass sie seit Inbetriebnahme des Sendeturmes nach einiger Zeit bestimmte Beschwerden bekommen haben, die evtl. mit dem Mobilfunk zusammenhängen könnten. Unternommen haben diese Leute nichts, sie akzeptieren was ihr Hausarzt sagt, nehmen sinnlos die verordneten teueren Medikamente, die nicht wirken können, da die Ursache der Erkrankung nicht abgestellt wird, der Funkturm bestrahlt sie Tag und Nacht rund um die Uhr weiter !

Nun können wir uns alle vorstellen, dass ein Unschädlichkeitsnachweis der Mobilfunkstrahlen in nächster Zeit kaum erfolgen wird. Es geht hier einzig um Profit. Die DM 100 Milliarden Gebühren - Ausgaben sollen sich um ein vielfaches an Gebühren - Einkünften für die Industrie vermehren, da müssen noch viele Handy-Gespräche geführt werden, bis alleine die Unkosten der Betreiber wieder eingespielt sind !

Dieter Keim <> Ilbenstadt

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Ärzte-Appelle gegen ungezügelten Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/1064751/

Neue Filzvorwürfe gegen Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/701415/

Schützt der Staat vor Mobilfunk-Strahlen?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/429187/

Die Taktik von BfS ist zu benennen
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/360218/

Verursacherprinzip und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/330464/

Skandal: betreibt das BMU illegale Werbung für die Handybetreiber?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/954290/

Getarnte Lobby: Wie Wirtschaftsverbände die öffentliche Meinung beeinflussen http://omega.twoday.net/stories/939891/

Kampf gegen Verdummungspolitik aussichtslos
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/866039/

Sie wollen das Ding, und wenn’s krank macht, macht’s das halt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/860246/

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Professor Dr. Jürgen Bernhardt
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/281108/

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bernhardt, (emeritierter Leiter) Institut für Strahlenhygiene, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz: „Die Forschungen berücksichtigen nur die Wärmewirkung durch elektromagnetische Strahlung.“ Und: „Wenn man die Grenzwerte reduziert, dann macht man die Wirtschaft kaputt, dann wird der Standort Deutschland gefährdet.“

"Ich halte den Grenzwert für ausreichend", sagt SSK-Mitglied Professor Jürgen Bernhardt. "Wir verdächtigen Magnetfelder zwar, Krebs zu erzeugen, aber wir kennen keinen biologischen Auslösemechanismus." (Focus 48-2001)

http://www.buergerwelle.de/d/doc/pranger/bernhardt.htm
http://www.tolzin.de/e-smog/bernhardt/
http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_newsletter_260204.html
http://www.das-gibts-doch-nicht.de/seite297.php

Quelle: http://www.buergerwelle.de/body_newsletter_120404.html

Judge Rules on Guantanamo Strike

A District Court judge ruled that lawyers for the scores of terror suspects on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay jail must be told before detainees are force-fed, an act which has been described as deliberately harmful to detainees. Judge Gladys Kessler also ordered the US government to release all necessary medical records one week prior to such force-feedings taking place.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805E.shtml

2,000 Dead: How Many Is Too Many?

Lance Corporal Mike Hoffman, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, discusses his combat with under-equipped Iraqi soldiers. Fueled by military justifications that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, had been assisting al Qaeda, was partly responsible for 9/11, and was an imminent threat to the United States and Iraq's neighbors, Corporal Hoffman went to war. Now he poses the question: How many more US troops are we willing to lose for such an unsuccessful war?

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805D.shtml

Stain on the White House

The Center for Victims of Torture called upon the Bush Administration to take an active roll in an international commission formed to investigate all acts of torturous, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. As the US publicly denounces torture, American soldiers continue to engage in such acts.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805C.shtml

Fitzgerald: "Investigation Is Not Over"

The CIA leak investigation is "not over," special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said Friday after announcing charges against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/102805A.shtml



'It's not over': Fitzgerald's probe into the cabal continues
http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/3552/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

GOP donor charged with illegal campaign contributions surrenders

A major GOP donor surrendered to authorities Friday in Orlando, Fla., on charges that he gave thousands of dollars to other people to contribute to President Bush's re-election campaign in an attempt to skirt a $2,000 limit on individual contributions.

http://tinyurl.com/affds


From Information Clearing House

Bribe Inquiry Looks at Sale of Field Gear to Military

In a widening scandal at the United States Special Operations Command, federal investigators are looking into a bribery scheme as well as accusations of improper influence involving millions of dollars in battlefield equipment used by Navy Seals and Army Green Berets and Rangers.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10798.htm

Defend Antiwar Veteran at Kent State

The administration’s blatant attack against the antiwar movement will not be tolerated. We can clearly see that the administration does not want its students and veterans practicing free speech on this campus.

http://www.traprockpeace.org/counter_recruitment/


From Information Clearing House

Culture of Collusion

Yes, we too would like to see the Democrats regain majorities in Congress and hope that becomes possible. But they--and the media as well--are partly responsible for the sorry state of affairs.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/editors


From Information Clearing House

Forgeries, Lies and Cover-ups

The Scandal isn't the Leak, But the Illegal War.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10805.htm

F.B.I. Is Still Seeking Source of Forged Uranium Reports

A counterespionage official said that the inquiry into the documents, had yielded some intriguing but unproved theories. One is the possibility that associates of Ahmad Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile who was a leading champion of the American campaign to topple Saddam Hussein, had a hand in the forgery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10802.htm

I cannot live freely in a country where people are allowed to commit murder



by Cindy Sheehan

I cannot live freely in a country where bereaved family members aren't allowed to carry pictures of their murdered loved ones into a national cemetery.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10800.htm



Cindy Sheehan
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Sheehan

Together, we made a statement for peace

From: "Peter Lems, American Friends Service Committee" actioncenter@afsc.org

On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people in hundreds of communities across the country gathered and showed the vitality and commitment of this nation’s pro-peace majority. Some of us stood silently as a quiet witness to the human cost of war. Some of us protested outside the offices of our U.S. Congressional representatives. Together, we commemorated the dead and wounded military service members and the Iraqi lives lost, while calling on Congress to stop funding the war, bring the troops home, and close U.S. military bases in Iraq.

And together, we made a powerful statement. Hundreds of local newspapers and TV stations covered “Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar” events. Most passersby showed that they, too, want the destruction to stop. We’re building up the momentum to end this war. You can help keep that momentum growing by supporting a bill about to be introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The 2000th U.S. military death in Iraq prompted Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Massachusetts) to announce that he would introduce legislation to defund the war in Iraq. Between now and November 3rd, those of you represented by a Democratic or moderate Republican representative are urged to contact your elected official and ask that he/she join McGovern as an original co-sponsor of this new legislative initiative.

The new bill would end all funding for the deployment of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq. It does not prohibit or restrict non-Defense funding for social and economic reconstruction in Iraq. Department of Defense funds could be provided for the safe withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq, and consultations with other governments, NATO and the UN regarding international forces to ensure Iraqi security, as well as financial assistance and equipment but not personnel to Iraqi security forces and/or international forces.

Please visit our online Action Center to email your Congressional representatives, asking them to co-sponsor McGovern’s bill.

You might also be interested to read some of the reports we’ve received from “Not One More Death, Not One More Dollar” events across the U.S. Reading through the short reports, from big events and small ones, has been moving. You can review them on http://www.afsc.org/2000/. Below is a quick sampling.

Clarksville, Tennessee Pictures of our vigil were on the FRONT PAGE of our local newspaper. …That's a miracle in this conservative army town. The spirit of Rosa Parks is still inspiring all of us to take a stand for our rights.

Debbie Boen

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Over one hundred people gathered for our vigil. …The tide seems to have turned in this basically red state...not one more death, not one more dollar is the basic feeling of the majority.

Darla Shelden

Albuquerque, New Mexico There were only 7 of us, but we read aloud the names of both Americans and Iraqis who have been killed so far. We asked God that we not find reason to return and hold vigil for the 3,000th American death.

Anonymous

Read more than 100 reports on our events and post your own at http://www.afsc.org/2000.

Thank you.

Peace,

Peter Lems, for The Wage Peace Campaign team


Informant: Martin Greenhut
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